Well...here it iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissss

Remember they are masked, and now since they are interacting directly I'll used their names without putting something like "Masked Petra" also Jetra is included soon! :P

To be honest, Jesse wasn't very fond of the floating island. And now that it was overflowing with mobs, everyone had to jump down the waterfall to the ground. Long story short, Jesse and Ivor managed to convince Isa to lay off on the strictness, and let people build freely for once. Jesse thought once they found the portal, they could just head home.

He was mistaken.

He ran into those 4 masked thieves again, and the chat was awkward.

"What do you expect us to do? Forget that anything happened between us?" Ivor cried out.

One female raised her arms to calm Ivor. "Yeah, I know, but I swear we have a good explanation."

Jesse for once in almost 6 months showed a bit of his old self. "Ivor, I think we should let them have a chance. ONE chance though. They helped us and the weirdo with a pumpkin mask take down Milo."

Ivor rolled his eyes. They did hurt him though, but that one didn't seem to be here.

"Alright...fffffiiiiiiine Jesse, if it makes you happy."

Jesse smiled. "Thank you Ivor."

30 minutes later...

They all tumbled down into the ground.

"Well...this looks promising," Ivor said sarcastically, remembering last time he was in a swamp.

Jesse shrugged. It isn't so bad, we might of taken the right portal!

Ivor whipped around to face Petra. "Then you should start explaining now that we're back!"

Petra was staring at the sky, unresponsive.

Ivor followed her direction and was also dumbstruck.

2 moons.

"Wow," Magnus said sarcastically. "Didn't see that coming."

Lukas whistled. "I guess we aren't home then."

Jesse then saw a dark shape in the corner of his eye. "Does anyone else see that?"

"Yeah, what is that?" Petra chimed in.

"That doesn't appear to be a person," Gabriel said in confusion.

Jesse narrowed his eyelids in suspicion, and slowly approached the object.

"It's, a book?" Jesse said out loud.

"Well read it!" Ivor called out impatiently.

Jesse rolled his eyes and breathed in to begin reading, and then...

"Urrrrrgh"

Ivor's eyes went wide in alarm. "What was that?"

Petra unsheathed her sword. "Zombies!"

Indeed, there were zombies.

But that wasn't the problem.

There were only zombies. Thousands of them.

The rest of the group (Excluding Ivor, he forgot to bring his) unsheathed their swords as well, ready to fight.

Jesse read off something about a invitation and coming to a mansion, and they had to fight there, taking a path. They had to build their way up, and bash in through a window.

They tumbled in, and saw that they were in a fancy kitchen.

Petra gawked at the size of the kitchen. "Nice kitchen, fancy too."

Jesse looked around. There were pictures and ovens lighting up the whole place.

They then heard voices coming from the other side of a wooden door.

Lukas frowned. "Think thats our host?"
Jesse's face narrowed. "Don't know."

The door burst open, and two strange looking men waltzed in, and froze.

The first one, a bearded man, immediately went off on the group

"Oh there you are, ha ha ha, making us wait hours, very funny of you all. That stuff is rude, don't do that!"

The second man, tried to calm him down. "Easy Torque,"

Jesse pulled out his invitation, "We got an invitation too! What the heck is going on?"

The second man huffed. "Darn! I was hoping you could explain some of these things."

Jesse just frowned.

"Oh, where are my manners? That's TorqueDawg, and I'm CaptainSparklez."

"Sup" was all Torque could muster.

"Though you probably know me already." CaptainSparklez said.

Jesse shook his head. "Never heard of you, until now."
His response made Sparklez frown in dissapointment? "Really? Ok then..."

Jesse simply shook the odd feeling off. Well, I'm Jesse, that's Ivor."

TorqueDawg narrowed his eyes. "And who are those losers."

"To be frank, I have no idea, we, uh, 'met' not too long ago."
Ivor just sneered at them. "They're a bunch of thieves, that's all they deserve to be called!"

Torque ignored the masked bunch, and immediately focused on Jesse. "Jesse? That's a girls name!"

Jesse raised his eyebrow.

Torque continued. "What are you guys anyway? Some sort of 'loser patrol?"

"Aiden?" Jesse said curiously, "Is that you?"

His response only gained a frown from Torque. "My name is Torque you dumbo."

"Relax Torque," Sparklez said. "We're all trapped in here, we might as well try to get along for once."

"So the sea of zombies isn't normal? Good to hear." Jesse said.

"What about those two moons? Those are normal right?" Magnus piped curiously.

Sparklez squinted his eyes in suspicion. "Yeah?"

"How do y'all not know these things? You from out of town or something?" Was all Torque said.

Suddenly, the entire room went pitch black.

A machine dispensing arrows was heard, and they heard Torque's cries of pain.

"What's going on?"

"What was that?"

"Dive for cover!"

The lights switched back on, and the group saw...

"TorqueDawg?"

Indeed, Torque was on the floor, colored a thin shade of green with arrows sticking out of him.

Everyone was too shocked for words. Excluding Torque himself.

"Jesse, cmere."

Jesse crouched down in front of Torque. "What? What is it?"
He leaned in. "Jesse...you got...a girls name." And he disappeared, leaving his items.

Jesse had a poker face. "Wow. Ok then."

Sparklez however, seemd a lot more traumatized. "T-Torque?"

Ivor walked up to inspect his loot. "So I guess going through his inventory would be-"

"Ivor!" Petra scolded. Even after 5 months and she still needed to scold him, he hasn't changed a bit.

"Meh, I wouldn't call it much of a loss," Magnus said sarcastically.

"That's a horrible thing to say," Gabriel admonished.

Sparklez however, was pacing back and forth.

"How? He was? Torque?"
Jesse shook Sparklez shoulders. "Keep it toghether Sparklez, you can pull through."

He noded. "Y-yeah..."

Jesse looked up, and noticed a dispenser. "Everyone stand back, lemme see what I can figure out."

He then got on one knee to inspect Torque's inventory, nothing worth much.

Suddenly the floor opened up, and Torque's inventory was sucked under.

Jesse then connected the pieces, the dispenser was right above it!

"Why take his stuff? Didn't seem like he had much worth killing for," Lukas said idly.

"Perhaps it is to cover up the evidence, maybe we weren't supposed to be here at the crime," Gabriel said idly.

Jesse's vision flicked over to the odd green arrows that had killed Torque.

He held it out to Ivor. "You know potions and magic, what do you make of it."

Ivor took it, and immediately began to sniff it, causing Petra and Lukas to idly scoot closer to Jesse, thankfully Jesse didn't notice.

"Hmmm...yes...smells like potion of poison?"

His discovery made Sparklez perk up. "O-oh, is it a tipped arrow? Those are still pretty new. Nasty Stuff."

Ivor however, was more fascinated than horrified. "The possibilities of potion arrows...amazing!"

"I could of sworn I remember someone making a tutorial on how to make these...I'm too frizzled right now though..."

That alone made Ivor already glance suspiciously at Sparkle's direction.

Jesse frowned. "Well let me know if it comes back to you."

Another voice came from the door which Sparklez came through. "Hello? Everything alright in there?"

A girl with pink hair stepped in. "Whoa! What's with the crowd?" She said confused.

Sparklez looked down sadly. "I was about to gather everyone to tell them." He said walking out the door.

The girl looked in confusion. "Okay?"

The girl then looked at the group. "Wait it's you! I recognize you!"

"Really?" Jesse said.

"How could that be? I've never seen you in my entire life!" Gabriel said thoughtfully.

The girl chuckled. "Follow me."

Petra shrugged. "Okay then."

They walked into a larger room, where a glasses wearing redhead waited. She spotted the pink haired girl and smiled. "Hey Lizzie! Did you see all of these new-oh, you have them with you."
Jesse then saw that there were portraits of Jesse and Ivor. Including the masked band of thieves.

"Well first there were portraits of the people already here, then poof, you guys."

Ivor for one, seemed to love it. "They're perfect!"

"This is so creepy..." Jesse thought out loud.

"Yeah," The red head butted in. "At first, I thought that it was cool fan art! But then it got creepy the more realized."

Jesse then spotted Torque's portrait.

Which had a giant red x crossed over it.

"Well," Jesse sighed. "That's not a good sign."

Magnus squinted his eyes at his "Portrait". Hmph. I'm sure they could do better for a guy as awesome as me."

The grand door opened, with Sparklez bringing 3 new people in.

"Wonder if he told them yet," Lukas whispered.

Sparklez herded everyone into a large dining room. The new people seemed very thrilled at the "Big News"

Sparklez sighed. "Here, let me introduce you all properly."

He pointed to the redhead and the pink haired girl. "You guys already met Lizzie and Cassie Rose."

He then pointed to the brown haired girl. "That's Stacy, the cat guy is Stampy."

The blue headed dude was next. "That's Dan."

Petra had a look of confusion under her mask. "Wait wasn't your hair just?..."

But she was cut off my Sparklez. "Funny thing is, we all knew each other before we got here."

"That's Jesse and Ivor, those others..."

"ARE THIEVES!" Ivor suddenly chimed in. "We're FORCED to work together! We have no alliance with these fools!"

"Hey, believe me squat, you can trust us," Magnus said.

That only earned him frowns.

Dan stepped up. "What about this news? Is it good news or bad news?"

Sparklez rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah...it's bad news. TorqueDawg is dead."

"Oh no!"

"Good heavens!"

Stacy looked down sadly. "But...he was so tough! Nothing could take him down! What happened?"

Jesse solemnly pulled out the poison arrows and showed them to the group.

"Tipped arrows?" Stacy said.

"Does that mean someone set a trap for TorqueDawg? That's nasty..."

Dan sank into a chair, emotionally spent. "I can't believe TorqueDawg is gone...just like that..."

"Well..." Stacy began, "What happened to his stuff?"
"Stacy!" Cassie said, mortified. "How can you say that at a time like this?"

Stacy shrugged. "What? It's a valid question. I just want to know, for curiosity's sake."

"Went down this weird hole," was all that Jesse could say.

"And we're just supposed to take your word for that?"

"It's true," Sparklez said. "Jesse was inspecting the crime but it got sucked into a hopper."

Lukas began to pace. "I'm more worried about bigger things. Is this just about TorqueDawg? Or something worse?"

Petra nodded in agreement. "Those portraits definitely give off some bad vibes."

"Knowing Torque, it's probably just about him," Lizzie said.

Petra let out a small chuckle. "Am I picking up on some old beef?"

Jesse shook his head. "The invitations that were for us says otherwise. Why invite us when you're after only one person?"

Lizzie rubbed the back of her head. "That's true, I didn't actually stop to think about that. Then that means someone brought us here for a reason."

Her theory made Dan unsettled. "What if that means...we're all in danger?"

Stacy then called over Stampy to a corner.

Dan did the same with Lizzie to the table.

Ivor narrowed his eyes in suspicion. "There's obviously something they don't want us to know," He whispered to Jesse.

Petra nodded absently. "One of them knows what's going on here..."

Jesse seemed to ignore the masked girl, but actually agreed. He wouldn't say it out loud though.

"Are you saying we should go detective on those weirdos?" Magnus said.

His question made Jesse nod. "Only option we got, we need to figure out whats going on here."

"Then shall we begin investigating?" Gabriel asked.

Jesse simply walked over to Dan and Lizzie, who were whispering to each other.

"Hey Dan, Lizzie."

They both looked up. "Hi there."

"If you don't mind, I've got some questions about this TorqueDawg situation."

Dan looked uneasy. "Yeah? Go ahead."
"Everyone seemed really interested in his inventory. Got any clue on that thing?"

Lizzie shrugged. "An adventurer like him? He could have all sorts of cool stuff.

Jesse sighed. "Uh-huh. Torque was cleared targeted with the trap, any idea why?"

"Well," Dan began. "Torque was bragging about having some type of 'rare item'."

"Wouldn't show anyone," Lizzie added. "Typical TorqueDawg."

Jesse involuntarily shivered a little. "That rare item? What can you tell me about it?"

Lizzie shrugged. "Don't know. Sorry."

The way she quickly answered made Jesse on edge. "Lizzie, you don't seem to like TorqueDawg fan. Whats the deal?"

Lizzie rolled her eyes. "Oh come on, you saw the way he acted. No one likes him! I'm just the only one who will admit it."

"Yeah..." Dan said. "He wasn't exactly the nicest person."

"Ok then..." Jesse began.

Jesse walked back over to Ivor.

"Well Jesse? What have you found out?"

"Apparently Torque had a rare item that everyone wanted."

Ivor raised and eyebrow. "But he had nothing of the sort in his inventory! Just the usual garbage."

"Yeah," Jesse said. "Something's not adding up."

Little did he know things were going to get much, much, worse.

IM BACK YALL, Hope you're hype as I am. And I already mentioned it before, but how are you guys at drawing? I'd love some fanart for the cover, it'll stick out if it has fanart! And how are yall doin? Hope you're great! This might take a few more chaps, since this episode is very dialogue heavy. Have a great day y'all.