"Nice!" Jesse exclaimed, eyes wide. She HAD seen one before, when she was... she... was...

How old had she been in that flashback?

"Right?" Petra was grinning like the Chesire Cat. "There's this guy I'm meeting up with at Endercon. He's going to trade me a diamond for it," and she stowed it back in her pocket.

Jesse's lips twisted a bit, dubiously. "What's he gonna do with a Wither Skull anyway? Stick it on his mantelpiece and brag to everyone? I dunno, Petra, it sounds a little shady..."

"A lot of my deals are shady," Petra dismissed. "Don't worry, I'm pretty sure everything will be fine."

Jesse MEANT to say, "If you say so," but what came out of her mouth instead was a breathless, rather wondering, "Wow."

Petra twisted to look at Jesse and came to a stop, gold eyes furrowed in confusion. "Wow... what?"

Jesse hastened to explain. "It's just- in one day, you went to the Nether, and killed a Wither Skeleton- I mean, I DID build a pretty cool statue, but... it's pretty sweet being you, huh?"

Petra hesitated before saying, tentatively, "You know... you could come WITH me if you want..."

Jesse felt her eyes widen, and for a moment her worries of being a spider hybrid completely faded away. "You want me... to come with YOU," she said, a little shocked that Petra, the loner, the cool girl with the pickaxe, the girl who really didn't talk to many other people, wanted Jesse- Jesse!- to come with her on this deal. I mean, admittedly, it was a sketchy deal... but she'd take whatever she could get.

"Consider it my charitable act for the day," Petra joked, her lips twitching into a smile.

"I'll consider it whatever you want me to consider it," Jesse gushed a little, "so long as I get to come."

Petra smirked at the raven-haired female as they came to a crafting table with a chest next to it. Jesse blinked. "You just... keep a crafting table down here?"

"Comes in handy," Petra shrugged. "Since that wooden sword of yours got busted..."

Jesse looked at the crafting table, then back at the redhead, who'd trailed off. "I can make my own?"

"Yep- it's always better to make it yourself," and Petra smiled again. "Just get everything you need from that chest over there," and she pointed.

"Okay- thanks," and with a last smile Jesse walked over to the chest and opened it.

Petra was not too organized, but it was still pretty easy to see where the stuff was, so after rooting around in the chest for about a minute she managed to find everything she needed. She was juggling the stone around with the stick and trying not to drop anything. "You know, four extra arms would be really useful in this situation," she joked, making Petra snicker a little, weakly.

Finally, she managed to get everything in place on the table, and the ingredients shivered together before compacting and forming a stone sword, which hovered a little above the table. You know, there was probably some scientific-y mumbo-jumbo about how that worked, but Jesse didn't know it and therefore didn't really care about it.

Jesse picked it up off the table with a small smile, and Petra grinned at her friend. "See, isn't it better when you make it yourself?"

Nodding, Jesse sheathed her new sword and grinned right back at Petra.

"Hey, look," Petra noted as they exited the cave into the cool night air, "Endercon's all lit up."

Did she dare to hope? Jesse looked over in the direction of Endercon, and was pretty sure her own eyes lit up like fireworks when she saw the different-colored bursts of light over the convention. "No way- we won!" she cheered, "the Enderman was the right way to go."

Petra nodded at Jesse, smiling at her friend. "Good for you, Jesse," she said, sounding encouraging.

"It's about time we beat the Ocelots," Jesse continued, putting her hands on her hips. Screw the people who said she was too much like a tomboy, she could be feminine too!

"You know," Petra said tentatively, "Lukas can be kinda arrogant, but he's come through for me in some tough situations. I'm just saying, you may want to get to know him... just in case."

"I got that feeling," Jesse said softly, crossing her arms. "I just got this feeling that... I dunno..." Her shoulders rose and then slumped in a little shrug. "I trust him."

Petra's eyebrow arched. "... think it has something to do with us being hybrids?" she wondered, as they started walking again.

Jesse let out a nervous little laugh. "Lukas? A hybrid? Nah, he's the most normal person I know... of. I don't know him that well. There's no way-" she was cut off as they reached the center of the bridge by a loud hissing. Both of their heads snapped to face forward as they saw a crowd of creepers slowly approaching.

"Creepers!" Jesse hissed a little, backing up. Petra turned and groaned. "Crap."

Jesse turned to see zombies and more creepers emerging from the cave they'd come from, cutting off their route entirely.

"Uhh, well, there's only one way off this bridge," Petra said, a bit unsteadily. "Whatever we do, we do it together."

Jesse swallowed her fear and yanked out her stone sword. "The only way off this bridge, is through them!" she told the redhead, who smiled slightly and drew her own sword, before both turned to face their respective crowds.

Jesse lashed out with the sword and sent a creeper flying backwards, making sure not to let it explode in her face. There were too many, though. "There's too many!" Petra vocalized what she was thinking.

"I don't wanna DIE!" Jesse screamed as the creepers exploded, sending both of them flying off the bridge. As they flew through the air, Jesse watched the water rushing up beneath her, and then noticed something in Petra's eyes- faint panic.

"Can you swim?" Jesse called over the rushing wind.

Petra swallowed, looking down at the water below her. "Not- not well," she admitted.

"Neither can I," Jesse admitted in turn. The most she did in the water was stand near the shore. She'd never much liked swimming, but she could float decently well. Petra, though...

Could a half-Blaze die if they fell in the water? Whatever the answer was, Jesse didn't want to test it out.

So she yelled to Petra again, "Can't Blazes fly?" They could, right? They hovered, they didn't have legs, they could fly, right?

"What?! Jesse, you do realize I don't have wings, right?!" Petra screamed back. Yep, definitely panicked now. Jesse wasn't feeling all that confident about falling in the water, either.

"Blazes don't either! Just... I dunno how Blazes fly, just try to figure it out?!" Jesse asked desperately, looking around. What was SHE supposed to do?

Petra clenched her fists together and shut her eyes tight. It was obvious to see she was racking her brain the best she could.

Small, warm sparks started flying off of Petra, piecing together to form golden rods. They were only half-formed, but they were getting close to the water- now or never-

Jesse shot her hand out, and a long string of silk, like earlier, fired from the center of her palm, catching onto a ledge. It retracted a bit, kind of like a grappling hook, and Jesse's free-fall turned into more of a long swing, slowing her downwards momentum. Maybe she usually would've played around with her 'grappling hook' ability, but right now she was mostly a little in shock from the free-fall.

She still landed in the water, but it was closer to the shore- enough so that she could stand on her tiptoes and not get submerged, at least. Not like it really mattered- she was still soaking wet from splashing into the water. She managed to detach the spider silk from her hand by tearing it off, but she could still feel some of it inside her palm- kind of like pushing a small metal plate inside her palm, except without the pain.

Petra's downward descent had also slowed, but she still glided at a rather acute angle before hitting the water, the Blaze Rods evaporating into clouds of steam the moment she did and her arm also steaming.

Both girls panted heavily, looking at each other, goggling at one another, steam rising around Petra and a trail of silk behind Jesse, floating in the water, water dripping from their hair and clothes that were above the water.

"... so," Petra finally panted out, as they sort of paddled to stay in place, "that happened."

And suddenly the two of them couldn't stop giggling.

Yes, it was nice to not be alone in this, Jesse thought happily as they headed for the shore.

A/N: Since both of them have their abilities, I thought that it'd be more likely that they'd use them rather than just fall into the water. Petra can't fly yet, it's more like she's re-learning that ability and at this point can hover slightly and maybe glide a couple feet. Not too much, mind. And at first I was going to have Jesse swing into the wall (like, Spiderman fail) but then since she was already too close to the water I decided 'nah' and just had her fall in. I dunno, what do you guys think?

Toni42: I'll never tell (until that episode rolls around, at least) And thanks, fam xD

angelwings: I'm glad you found that funny, I guess? (shrugs) But I would love to have laughed with you about that. Laughter is contagious!

TheRealRedGaming: Misa I can see working out, so sure. Lukagaard (or whatever it is) I don't think makes sense, since they really don't interact with one another, so not really, and CaptainRose, once again, they don't interact with each other, so I don't have much of an opinion on that one.

Kaos Ruin: Would certainly explain why Axel doesn't really like Lukas at first, wouldn't it? xD

EchoWolfWinds: Seriously, I feel like some of my readers can read my mind 0-0 maybe you have hidden psychic powers! x3

RapidCrispy: That sounds cool! And thank you for the review :)

NoIt'sBecky: (spoiler for the story) Mayyybeeeee... (insert Lenny face here xD )

DemonCatLady: Nice to see that you're interested! I hope this chapter was up to par (is that a word? Is that how you use it? I think I've heard it before...)

NinjaCat: Did you read my mind?

rebekahtpe: The reason I mainly ship Lukesse is because I've only played with female Jesse and... I got more hints of Lukesse the way I played it personally, so, yeah. :)

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