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Jesse was still probably 75% asleep. Well, to him at least, he was barely aware of the physical world, being in the dream world was actually quite nice.

After the whole ideal with getting KO'd, that was pretty embarrassing, and his self esteem had positively plummeted basically back when he lived in the treehouse, but then at least he got held for a good time by that angel. He didn't know that he was qualified to have his own angel! Turns out he did! Besides, who else would have such gentle and caring nature? Whoever the angel was, she took good care of him.

Much to his dismay, she walked off in another direction, so he was left to his own dreamlike thoughts.

Not too long after that, he was being picked up, rather quickly, and kinda roughly. Not too much like it hurt, persay, but still noticeable.

He couldn't identify who, but after a bit of being carried, the person adjusted their angle of carrying Jesse, and he felt his head being pressed against their chest.

Definitely female.
Nice.

He couldn't help but giggle at his own childish thoughts, but was jabbed in the side in response to his giggling.
"Shut up, you brat."

Aww, that sucks. He felt himself being moved more, and felt something cold and maybe sharp? Press gently against his throat, and he heard shouting from people, he couldn't identify who, but the voices did make his head throb a bit, he shifted uncomfortably, and the girl holding him pressed the cold metal object against his throat again.

The shouting came again, even louder than last time. He was starting to think something might be a bit wrong. Just a hunch.

After he heard a more talking, he saw a shadow of movement through his barely opened eyes.

He felt someone being shoved against him, and felt his Flint leave his pockets.

Then his head hit the floor.

Ouch. Was the last thing he thought before everything went black again, and he drifted into unconsciousness.

Petra clutched her head, she had no idea where she was or what exactly happened. She remembered her heard momentarily stop when she saw the area where she left Jesse was gone. If she didn't wear a mask, you could see her face had gone pale.

Yes that's right... she'd ran out full blown panic mode to ask about him, then the ground suddenly collapsed?

Yep, from the aching in her ribs, she fell pretty hard.

"Augh, my head," Ivor said in pain.

"Where are we? What's happening?" Gabriel said, a tinge of panic barely rising.

"Everyone, stay calm." Lukas addressed the group calmly.

"Nice of you to drop in," A voice said from above.

Everyone looked up, and Petra was infuriated at the sight.

The White Pumpkin held a barely conscious Jesse hostage, axe to his throat.

"Really thought you could just walk away? Well, you thought wrong!"

Cassie held the dazed Jesse closer to the blade. "Give. Me. My. Flint and Steel."

"None of us had it!" Magnus said. "Stop being psycho and let us go."

"Let me think about it, nah. Now, you give me it and I let Jesse go, or I slit his throat, then feed you to the silverfish. Don't believe me? Look below you."

Cassie's words rang true, below the dirt island they resided on had tons of silverfish swimming around.

"What will it be? The clock's ticking, choose now before I lose my patience and drop you and fish it out myself."

"What do we do?" Ivor said in a panicked tone. "We don't have what he wants!"

"I know what we do." Petra said.

Everyone looked at her, but her gaze was looking at the poorly built obsidian "Walls"

Literal stepping stones would lead right to Cassie.

"Everyone!" Petra said under her breath, "Boost each other over to the stepping stone parts, it's our only chance!"

Everyone lined up, much to Cassie's confusion.

"Uh, what are you doing?" She dropped Jesse to get a better look over at them.

"Stopping you in your tracks White Pumpkin!" Ivor said.
Lukas boosted Petra right up to the same floor as Cassie, who in panic. Turned to grab Jesse to finish the job.

Only to be tackled by Petra.

All 3 of them tumbled to the ground, the impact knocking the Flint and Steel from Jesse's pocket.

Cassie looked blankly at the thing she had been after this whole time.

"You mean HE HAD IT THIS WHOLE TIME?!" Cassie screamed, grabbing her axe and attempted to get to her feet. She charged Jesse, axe raised.

However, as she brought it to his head, a sword was there to block it.
Petra stood shoved her away, again putting herself between her and Jesse.

Magnus squinted at the sight. "Anyone else getting deja vu?" He looked to the others, who gave him odd looks.

"Oh well," He continued, sword in hand. "Let's roll with it."

"Give it up Cassie!" Lukas said as the others advanced towards Cassie. "It's over!"

"Is it over?" Cassie said, reaching into her pocket, revealing an ender pearl.

Only to get kicked off the edge by a very fed up Petra.

Unprepared, she fell towards the small dirt island she prepared for her victims, only she was now the resident on it. The impact knocked the last of her ender pearls out of her pocket and into the silverfish swarm that currently resided below.

She threw her mask off and looked up.

"Well," cough "You got me. Stuck in my own trap."

Lukas looked down in dismay. "You could of never done this, you're here because of your choices."

He turned, but Cassie wasn't done.

"Wait! Don't leave me alone...my baby Winslow? Give him to me, please! I don't want to be alone..."

Something about that made Lukas's "Jesse logic" kick in. What would Jesse be without Reuben? He shivered. He didn't want to think about that.

He didn't even notice Winslow at the start, but he picked up the cat, and dropped him into Cassie's arms.

"Thank you!" She cried, nuzzling her cat. "Thank you!"

He walked back to the group.

"Wow." Ivor said, impressed at Petra's reaction time to the situation earlier.. "Admirable moves!"

"Well," Gabriel said plainly. "I guess it's over?"

"Seems that way," said Magnus. "How anti climatic."

"Well we got the Flint back," Lukas said, "But where's the..."

"Portal!"

Everyone looked at the direction Ivor was pointing.

The unlit portal stood right there, awaiting anyone who might have an enchanted flint and steel in their back pocket.

Lukas picked up the Enchanted Flint and Steel, while Petra picked Jesse up bridal style and carried him to the others who waited at the portal in anticipation.

"So, we going home?" Magnus said.

"Well, back to the portal room, actually." Gabriel replied thoughtfully.

Magnus arched an eyebrow, but relaxed. "Better that then here."

Gabriel nodded in agreement. "I second that."

Lukas held it over the portal entrance, and ignited it.

The light that shone was like heaven to them, they would finally be out of this crazy psycho killer world.

Without hesitation, they all stepped in.

One by one, they fell right into the portal network which connected all the portals.

They felt relieved for about 30 seconds, then the realization set in that they weren't home.

Magnus looked around at all the portals, then threw his hands in the air. "Welp now we're back to square one everybody, uh, what exactly did we accomplish here?"

Gabriel didn't seem to like his attitude. "Be grateful we survived the ideal."

That earned him a glare from Magnus. "But where's the progress?! None. We ran into people, some died, and another was a psycho pumpkin wearing killer? No progress. Ugh, this is hopeless."

"We're all frustrated Magnus," Lukas said leaning against a wall, not mentioning he swiped a book from the mansion during the whole investigation. He had a few ideas what he'd use it for.

Despite the basic failure of a journey that was, Ivor was somehow pacing around, thinking of a new plan.

"Perhaps we vote on the best looking portal? Nonsense, we couldn't agree on a single portal. Maybe we'll just, jump in random ones? Perhaps go through them in order and write it down so we don't use the same portal?"

Lukas rolled his eyes as Ivor continued rambling to himself, and saw Petra setting Jesse down against a wall.

"How is he doing?" Lukas hesistantly asked Petra, who at the moment was positioning Jesse to a more comfortable position.

"I uh, I don't know," Petra sighed. "I think he was kinda awake earlier, but I think me tackling Cassie and knocking him down too maybe hit his head a little. I hope not too hard."

Lukas patted Petra on the shoulder. "Relax Petra, he'll be fine, you did what you had to do."
Petra cupped Jesse's chin with her hand. "I hope so."

He didn't look to hurt at first glance, then the cuts that got wrapped up, and then the bruises. Maybe he wasn't so much as "not hurt," more like, "good enough".

"I hope I didn't knock him too bad," Petra said a bit ashamed. "He fell kinda hard. I should of figured out a different way to stop Cassie, not just charge her like Gabriel or, I dunno! Something..."

Lukas sighed. "Petra, you've saved his life twice! There are people who haven't done that much in a long time. We're lucky we came out of this alive."

Petra thought about it. "I guess you're right."

Lukas smiled under his mask. "See? We're all alive and okay, things definitely could of gone worse for us, we're lucky."

Petra had a small smile on her face, as she played with Jesse's hair a little.

"I guess. Luck has always been on our side, hasn't it?"

Lukas chuckled. She did have a point. "Well, at this rate luck is basically our secret weapon most of the time. And it always seems to play in our favor."

Petra nodded. She hummed thoughtfully. "You think the original order of the stone had this kind of luck? Or they just earned that skill after deleting the ender dragon?"

Well, that came out of no where.

Caught off guard, Lukas began to think. "Well, Olivia did say that Ellegaard almost recreated the command block by herself! And Axel said that Magnus was king of boomtown. Although, that place was filled with homicidal maniacs claiming it was "Griefing." Well, according to Axel, but he seemed to have fun fetching Magnus.

Petra honestly didn't know if she preferred the old days where Jesse was more cheerful, and had a courageous heart, or after. Maybe they would have been treated like Jesse did whenever he returned from a trip to get a treasure. The townspeople seemed to adore him. He was... something else now.

She remembered him snapping at an innocent civilian back when people wanted Ivor's town torn down. That wasn't the Jesse she knew in the treehouse. Not her Jesse.

"Petra?"

"Whuh, what?" Petra looked up at a concerned Lukas who was knelt down.

"You alright? You kinda just stopped talking and stared at nothing for like a full minute."

She shook her head. "No, I'm fine I guess. Just thinking to myself of the old times.

Lukas would have had a sad expression if it were not for the mask. "Yeah, at least Aiden and the Ocelots are doing pretty well. They seemed pretty alright with their flashy armor and stuff.

"Guess Aiden hasn't changed at all huh?" Lukas said trying to cheer Petra up.

She cracked a smile, she wouldn't let Lukas know though. "He does love attention doesn't he? I'm guessing he's doing pretty well with his diamond armor n stuff. Gill probably is in heaven right now with all that diamonds and enchanted stuff."

Gill was goofy, that was for sure.

"Yeah. I hope Reuben is doing ok." Petra said.

"I'm sure he's fine Petra. What I'm wondering is how Jesse made the Witherstorm docile as a puppy."

Petra couldn't help but nod. That was something she'd ask at some time. Not right now though.

"EVERYONE?" Ivor called from his area of pacing. "Can we please have a plan?"

"Well, I think we should just try portals in order, if we do randomly we could accidentally skip ours, and uh, I'm not willing to risk that. I'd really like to get home."

"I second that," Lukas agreed. "I'm fed up with portals already."

Petra sighed. "I guess we could that..."

Magnus shook his head. "Oh come on, we could totally choose, I'm sure our portal looks like an average portal. Not a whole 2 moons shtick."

Ivor stroked his beard thoughtfully. "Well, I guess I'm the tie breaker...Oh wait, it's two versus three, nevermind. Guess we do it in order."

"As soon as Jesse wakes up, we'll leave."

Yes, I know it's a bit shorter, but y'know how it is. I really don't like Cassie so I wanted her fight to be quick, and I got to focus on my own dialogue instead of copy and pasting from the game by watching a walkthrough. Ugh, that's a pain to do. Well, you know the whole drill, PLEASE REVIEW, it'll help the story continue onwards and such. Also gives me MEGA encouragement.