"Reuben!" Jesse yelled.

They'd just finished building their Enderman- Olivia looked very pleased about how it looked- and just set off the fireworks, which Axel was happy about, when suddenly a vehement squealing sounded, and Jesse had looked up to see Reuben's Ender Dragon cosplay on FIRE and him running off into the forest.

"Oh no- Reuben's on fire! Reuben, NO!" she yelled, dismayed, waving her arms furiously and ignoring the fear that they could see the bumps forming on her sides, "come back!"

Axel hissed angrily. "It was Aiden- that punk!" he nearly spat in anger, gesturing at the dark-haired boy standing near the now-flowing lava, and Olivia shouted out, "The lava's getting closer!"

"It's gonna destroy the build!"

"Reuben's gonna get lost!"

Jesse glanced at her female friend, who avoided her eyes a bit, as usual. "... you guys stay and save the build," she decided, before jumping off of the Enderman, and doing a parkour roll as she landed, plowing Aiden over as she ran into the forest.

"We'll meet up with you at Endercon!" called Olivia, as they also jumped down to place blocks down and block the lava.


Jesse walked through the forest, calling out Reuben's name. For some reason, even though it was getting darker, her vision seemed to be getting a little brighter. She waved it off- right now she had one task, and that was finding Reuben. "Reuben?" she called, holding out the carrot she found and wiggling it in the air, "I got a carrot for ya!"

Some tall grass shivered, and Jesse started, before leaning closer to the grass. Through the long strands of grass, she could see Reuben shivering with wide eyes. "Reuben! There you are!" she called out, relieved.

Reuben came out, whimpering softly. Jesse held out the carrot and leaned down. "Hey buddy, ya want a carrot?" she asked, softly, and Reuben let out a happy squeal and munched down on the carrot.

"Oh, I am so happy to see you!" Jesse sighed in relief, making Reuben grin up at her, "c'mon, we got a long way to-"

Moans interrupted her, and she looked up to see zombies blocking the way she'd come and lurching towards her.

"Reuben, run!" And the two of them took off like rockets, sprinting away from the monsters.

Jesse didn't stop, even as her sides began to prickle. Reuben let out an alarmed squeal all of a sudden, and Jesse looked down at herself. She gasped when she saw that the bumps were bigger and starting to poke out. It was noticeable.

She bit her lip as she slowed her pace for a second, and the bumps curled in on her sides, making the bumps less prominent. She let out a sigh of relief, before a loud hissing reached her ears and she jerked her head up to come face-to-face with a creeper. "GAH!"

And the two of them took off again, rushing away before Jesse jumped over a little ledge and said, panting, "I think... I think we're okay..." An arrow impaled itself into the dirt beside her, making her shriek and look up to see a skeleton aiming another arrow at her. She lunged sideways and the two of them ran-

Into a dead end.

"Oh no... oh no no..." Jesse mumbled, yanking out her wooden sword. "Stay behind me, buddy."

Reuben whimpered in fear and shrank down behind her, and she smiled encouragingly at him before letting out an angry yell and attacking the zombies. She managed to take out three, but on the last hit she hit so hard that the blade snapped cleanly in two, the blade doing a 360 in the air before clattering to the ground, exploding into smoke. The hilt followed suit a second later.

"Stupid- wooden swords!" Jesse snapped, before looking down at Reuben as they kept backing away. "I know it's bad... I'll- I'll think of something."

She hesitated, before leaning down a bit more and saying softly to her pig, "You're gonna have to make a run for it, okay? I'll meet you back at Endercon. I promise."

Reuben whined, shaking his head at Jesse, who said, more seriously, "Now Reuben! RUN!"

Reuben let out a terrified squeal and took off, galloping through the monsters, which grew ever nearer.

A spider landed on the ground in front of her, and then seemed to hesitate. It tilted its disgusting head as it looked at her curiously, and Jesse blinked at it in surprise, but then a zombie lurched forward, rotting hands grabbing her shoulders-

"Get off me!" Jesse yelled, pushing and kicking and thrashing, but the zombie's hands were like a vise on the front of her shirt.

So, Jesse thought, even as she kicked and screamed, this is how I die.


Petra was coming out of the Nether, stuffing her Wither Skull into her pocket with a slight, bemused frown on her face. For some reason, the Blazes had avoided her. Not, that she was complaining, but still- it was weird. At least she'd gotten the Wither Skull.

And then suddenly she heard a scream. "Get off me!"

That- that voice belonged to...!

Petra broke into a run, worry flashing through her as her hands practically strangled her pickaxe handle.

As she burst into a clearing, she saw Jesse in a zombie's grip, thrashing and kicking and yelling in fear.

Petra ran even harder, even faster, but she knew there was no way that she'd be able to get to Jesse in time before Jesse was killed by the zombie- the zombie reached down and opened its mouth, mouth poised only inches above Jesse's head-

"NO!" Both girls screamed the same word at the same time, and both stabbed their hands out reflexively.

A string of what looked like silk shot from Jesse's hand, and hit the zombie, knocking it backwards. Petra's left arm, the one she'd reached with, glowed red-hot, making her arm tingle rather than burn, and a fireball fired from the center of her palm, shooting like a cannonball or a bullet at the zombie, which had just been knocked away from Jesse.

The fire speared through the zombie and set it alight, making it grunt in surprise as the fire consumed its rotten flesh. Jesse scrambled backwards and away from the now-flaming zombie, back hitting the dirt wall behind her as she gaped at the zombie.

"Petra?" she asked, sounding shocked.

Petra was just as surprised, but she said, in a surprisingly steady voice, "Come on- let's get out of the open."

She extended her right hand, and Jesse grabbed it and let her heave her to her feet, before the two of them rushed out of the clearing, Petra slashing her way through with her pickaxe, her left arm still feeling uncomfortably warm.

What in the world had just happened?

A/N: Life or death situation. They're going to react reflexively. I guess that the powers just went, 'whoops, owner's dying, must save!' or something like that. I don't really know xD I'm writing this chapter on a schedule.

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