Jesse put her hands on her knees as she panted, but then she heard a snigger. She looked up to see another griefer on the roof, waving an egg. Chucking it at her, she dove out of the way and it hit the ground, cracking an revealing a tiny baby chicken.

She scrambled into a nearby alley, heaving as she tried to drag air into her lungs. Axel doubled timed in, Reuben riding on his back. "Did you see that?" he asked, grinning. She looked out at the city, one of the ruined buildings having what looked like a dancing griefer throwing TNT off a tower. "Utter chaos, man."

Jesse let out a loud gasp in return, her heart still beating like a jackhammer. She was somehow not dead. That was... pretty good. But that didn't mean she was ready to say anything in response yet.

"Well, here you have it, Jesse!" Axel said with a big grin, taking Jesse's gasp as awe or something like that, "Boom Town in all it's glory! What do you think?"

Jesse just gasped again. Still not ready to answer.

"It's like I've finally come home. These are my people."

The sheer ridiculousness of that statement snapped Jesse's vocal cords out of their silence. "Augh! Axel!" Jesse cried out, "how does anyone LIVE here?!"

As if to prove her point, a loud BOOM went off somewhere in the background, sending tremors through the floor.

"They're adventurous, Jesse!" Axel said, putting his rather burly arms up in the air, "it's awesome!"

"Axel, you'd think a poisonous potato was awesome if it had TNT strapped to it!" Jesse responded, throwing her hands up in the air.

Axel developed a thoughtful look on his face. "... well, I can't deny that."

Jesse managed to giggle at that before spotting a banner of the amulet, and she tugged it out. The green gem... bar... well, whatever it was, was glowing.

"Dude, it's freaking glowing!" Axel exclaimed, Jesse's eyes widening. "Huh... I think I know what it means!" She turned around in circles. "And look! It glows brighter when I move it in a certain direction..." she began to follow the glow.

"Maybe a little to the left?" Axel suggested. "No, the right. I mean your left. Right. I mean, you're right. About left."

"What in the world are you articulating, Axel," Jesse joked, making him crack an even larger grin than the one he already had on his face. "And... hm!" She pointed the amulet, careful not to move the cloak too much. The green gem glowed especially bright when she faced a tall black spire with the middle part mostly missing.

"And I'm willing to bet money that that's where we'll find Magnus," Jesse said, with a hum.

A blue-haired girl with a pink t-shirt and a black mask on jumped from a building she'd been on, making Axel, Jesse, and Reuben turn to look at her. "Hey there, new people."

Jesse blinked as she landed. "You... ah, you said you know where Magnus is? All the griefers here in Boom Town wanna find Magnus, y'know."

Jesse surreptitiously slipped the amulet back into her pocket. "Do you really?" she asked mildly.

"Yep," said the girl, popping the 'p'.

"What's going on?" Another griefer appeared. And another one.

"Nohr found some noobs with a thingy that can find Magnus," another griefer responded, all of them starting to advance on the three of them.

Jesse was tempted to throw her hands in the air, but since she was being mindful of her extra arms, she just made a face and facepalmed.

Nohr twisted to the other griefers with a glare. "Bunch of scavengers! This drop is mine!"

Jesse sighed, drawing their attention. "Since we're new to Boom Town, I bet you think we're all scared and incredibly awed by your amazing griefing skills and expertise and expect us to be cowed into doing whatever you want. Well, we're not. We're in a hurry, and I would LOVE for something to be easy, just this frickin' once. And because of that, I have just one thing to say. Bye!"

She fired her palm under the cloak and a huge strand of string shot out and hit a roof of a house. Jesse grabbed Axel, who grabbed Reuben and retracted the string. She was really bad at controlling it, and did it so fast that when she released the string, they flew into the air, before slamming down onto the roof.

"Ouch!"

"Sorry, Axel-"

"Ow, that's my hand-"

Below them, Jesse could hear the griefers shouting, and she sighed. "Wonderful."

"Since when did you so snappy?" Axel asked, straightening up and dusting himself up.

"Since we're in a hurry to save the world," Jesse responded.

"Good point."

Jesse sprinted away from them, Axel following. However, the roof was obviously not a good place for Axel, since he tripped and fell to the ground. He managed to keep Reuben aloft, at least.

Jesse winced as Axel did an impromptu explosion to keep himself from hitting the ground and becoming a pancake. The explosion blasted him sideways until he slammed onto his back, holding Reuben up in the air. "Ouch," she called down. "You okay?"

"Yeah. Split up for now, you'll move faster without me on the roof."

"Got it!" And Jesse was off again.

She was pretty near the spire when suddenly the blue-haired girl- Nohr- popped out of a doorway. "Hey, know what the best time of year is to visit Boom Town?" she asked, grinning.

Jesse sighed and glared at her. Right now, she was kinda wishing she'd gone to Redstonia instead. "Lemme guess, fall?"

"Nope. Winter. Good idea, though!" And Nohr flipped a switch.

Jesse yelped a little as she fell into a deep hole. "No way out of there, dingus!" Nohr laughed, pulling a ladder out of her pocket.

"That's where you're wrong," Jesse mumbled under her breath, and fired another strand of silk to the top of the whole. She used it to haul herself up, flipped over the edge, and landed running.

"Hey!" Nohr yelled. Jesse stuck her tongue out at her. "Who's the noob now?" she yelled, rushing full tilt towards the spire, before running into Axel. Thankfully not literally.

"Axel!" Jesse was relieved to see her burly friend.

"Jesse!" he panted, "Quick, toss me the amulet!"

Jesse gave Axel a surprised look. He made a frustrated little sound and gestured his arms. "I mean, you're surrounded by griefers, they'll tear you apart to get it!" he explained. And, true to his word, there were griefers approaching, although they were still too far away to see them properly.

Jesse nodded, fished the amulet out, and slapped it into his hand. Gently. "Don't lose it, 'kay?" she asked, giving him a lopsided grin. He returned it. "Don't worry about me. I got this. You just worry about you, and keep 'em distracted."

"Gotcha. Good luck," and she gave him a thumb's up.

Axel sprinted off, Reuben following him after giving Jesse one last worried look. She saluted playfully to her pig.

"There she is!"

Jesse turned to see the griefers running towards her, and sighed. "Well, I did need to get some exercise..." That being said, she ran full tilt at a nearby wall and grabbed ahold of it, her fingers finding cracks that she wouldn't have known to look for before, her eight limbs propelling her up the wall rapidly.

"Hey! At the top!"

Jesse hopped over the ledge and nearly tripped over a small pile of eggs.

She grinned and swiped them up. "I love a good table turning. Egg-cellent."

She made a face a moment later. "Notch, I can't believe I just said that." Two griefers poked their heads over a staircase that also led up to the roof, and Jesse pivoted and hurled the egg at the nearest griefer. It smacked him square in the chest and sent him flying backwards into the other one, and they both fell off the side of the stairs.

Jesse poked her tongue out of her mouth as she threw eggs, and soon the griefers were more at bay, and Jesse was all out of eggs. Jesse ran for another set of stairs, and found herself standing next to a block of TNT that was placed near a small fire.

A grin formed on her face. Axel would be proud. "Well, hel-lo, opportunity," and she scooped up the TNT and held the string close to the fire. It sparked, and she ran back towards the stairs, looking at the long line of griefers running towards her.

She did feel a little sorry for blasting them off the roof... but it was for a good cause, in the end.

She shoved it down at the griefers, one in a white mask barely having time to look up at it and widen his eyes before it blew up, sending griefers flying everywhere and demolishing the staircase. She was also blasted backwards by the blast, feeling the explosion like a rough shove and smelling the acrid smell of burning gunpowder.

Getting to her feet, she began running towards the spire, before dropping to her hands and legs and scrambling across the ground rapidly.

She reached a bridge that lead straight to the spire, with two iron doors, and was immensely relieved to see Axel and Reuben standing there. Reuben turned around with a cheerful oink.

"Jesse, you made it!" And Jesse found herself getting enveloped in a bone-crushing hug.

"Whoa, good to see you too, big guy!" she laughed, patting him on the back. "You have the amulet?"

"'Course. Me and the pig, we totally rocked it!" He backed away, and Jesse frowned down at the arrow in his leg. "... one second." Kneeling down, she carefully pulled the arrow-head out, making Axel hiss a little in pain, before making some more silk and wrapping a small length of it around his leg.

She couldn't see it, but Axel had a warm, happy look on his face.

"And... there ya go, you should be good," and Jesse rocked back on her heels and smiled at the makeshift bandage.

"Thanks, Jesse."

Jesse grinned up at Axel and stood up, with a grin. "No problemo. Anyway, let's get in." Axel tried the door, but it just rattled a bit. "Huh," Axel hummed. "Maybe, it's... I dunno, locked or something. That's a thing people do to important doors, right?"

"Yes, people tend to do that when they want to keep people out," Jesse nodded, agreeably enough (internally, she was amused with her burly friend), before knocking her knuckles on the door, neatly.

She'd knocked the fourth time when the doors banged open, startling the both of them and making Reuben let out a vehement squeal. At least it was inwards and not outwards. Otherwise it would've made contact with Jesse's face.

"Fine," Axel agreed grudgingly, "knocking worked. For once."

"I guess so. Let's get inside."

Jesse stepped just inside the spire, peering into the darkness. Axel stepped into place right next to her, looking around as well.

And then the ground beneath them both gave way, and both of them screamed as they fell into the darkness, Reuben falling into her arms. She squeezed Reuben tightly as gravity disappeared, just for the moment.

A/N: I decided to have Jesse keep the amulet in my version of the story. So they got chased instead. x3

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