Jesse whistled at the architecture. Soren either had a lot of time on his hands, or he was really good at building. Probably a mix of the two.

"Soren really lived here?" Lukas wondered, looking around, "so far from... anyone."

"Enchanting, isn't it," Ellegaard mumbled, although whether she was being sarcastic or not was hard to tell.

Suddenly, coughing. Jesse turned to see Petra covering her mouth with her sleeve.

Petra's skin seemed a bit... paler than usual. Not to mention that she seemed to be a little quieter than she usually was, and she was already pretty damn quiet.

"You okay?"

Petra straightened up and nodded silently, before continuing on. Jesse's gaze followed the redhead with concern, but she finally walked after her friend.

Up a staircase, there was what looked like a large cavern. On the other side were two, illuminated gold doors. However, the floor that made up the cavern had huge parts of it missing, leaving a large drop into what Jesse felt like was a bottomless abyss.

"Wow," Jesse said, gaping at the thing."I- how- why?"

"Yeah, I'm not really feeling those columns," Lukas mumbled, looking at the columns.

Magnus sighed and did a huge jump over one of the parts that were missing, landing on a column. "See? It's fine?"

Axel got a running start and landed on his feet. The column didn't even shift.

"Fair enough," and Jesse did a huge jump and landed on the column, Reuben following. Olivia just bleeped into sight on the other side of the column. "I'll just... wait here," she called back to them, sounding faintly amused.

Axel made a face at her and got another running leap. "Hey, no fair!"

Lukas and Petra made it with no problem, since Petra was hovering part of the way, although it seemed like it was harder for her to actually hover.

Jesse made it a few more columns in, when she heard a squeal, and she whipped around. Reuben was teetering on the edge, about to fall in-

"Reuben!" Jesse ran back over, but her foot caught on the corner of the cloak- she tipped forward-

She wrapped her arms around Reuben as she did a flip over him and she toppled into the darkness, Reuben squealing in fear- only for Jesse's back to slam painfully into a stone floor not too far behind her, and for all the air in her body to be forced out like she'd been hit with a sledgehammer. She literally lay on her back and gasped for a few minutes, before she managed to sit back up, forcing air back into her lungs.

There was a bit of light around her, from a sea lamp on the floor. Jesse got to her feet, only to avert her gaze quickly.

Standing not too far from her, was a tall Enderman holding a block. It wasn't facing her, thank god, but she still looked at it out of her peripheral vision.

Jesse stepped to hide behind a stone column, looking at the Enderman, but the step revealed even MORE of the creatures, practically swarming the floor.

Jesse sucked in a breath. "Oh boy... we've got Endermen."

A yelp, and she turned to see Lukas landing on all fours on the sea-lamp, before overbalancing and falling. She winced a bit. "Lukas?" she asked in a whisper, approaching the ocelot hybrid, "You okay there?"

"Yeah," Lukas nodded, "I heard you, so I thought I'd come down to help."

Jesse looked back where he'd fallen from, but she couldn't see anything except darkness. "Well, thanks, Lukas," she said, feeling a bit bewildered.

Lukas glanced over Jesse's shoulder, his hair starting to rise on end. "Endermen," he breathed nervously.

"Yeah," Jesse nodded, "there's... a ton of them. I never knew they came in groups that big." She looked back at Lukas. "Thanks for coming back for me, Lukas- you didn't have to."

"You didn't have to come after me with that iron golem, or give me that cookie," Lukas pointed out to her with a warm smile. "I did say I owed you."

Jesse smiled back at Lukas, a small smile twitching onto her lips, but before she could say anything else she heard Reuben squealing.

"I think Reuben's trying to get my attention," and she turned- and came face to face with an Enderman that had been leaning down to look at her. "Gah!"

The Enderman screeched as Jesse jumped back, landing on Lukas and knocking him over. Lukas's hair was on end, and he was hissing in fear. Jesse was hissing as well, scrambling backwards as fast as possible.

"Run run run!" And Jesse lunged to her feet, scooped up Reuben, grabbed Lukas's wrist, and started running blindly, dodging out of the way of Endermen that teleported into her path-

Her foot stepped into thin air and the two of them screamed as they fell forward into thin air-

They splashed into something icy cold, making Jesse gasp as water flooded around them.

The Endermen thankfully didn't follow, and Jesse clung to Lukas's wrist and to Reuben tightly as the stream carried them along, away from the purple-eyed creatures. Lukas was kicking furiously to keep his head above water, as evidenced when he accidentally kicked Jesse in the shin. Jesse winced but said nothing in return.

After a minute or two, the water gave way, and they fell with shrieks into a larger body of water.

Jesse used all eight of her limbs to keep her head above the water, before they started swimming towards a statue of the amulet and two doors- one green, one red. They could hear arguing ringing out in the room. Magnus and Ellegaard, for sure.

"That's it! I'm going," Ellegaard snapped, before whipping around and storming through the red doorway, as Jesse managed to get herself out of the water and wrung out her now-soaking-wet cloak and some of her clothing.

"Oh, no no no!" Magnus snipped back, "You don't get to be the one who walks away. See! I'm going. 'Super TNT', here I come!" and he disappeared through the green one.

Olivia gave Jesse a long-suffering look. "It's hard to see this as 'glass half full' when they keep kicking the glass over."

"Well, I guess we should get going, then," Jesse sighed, raking a hand through her tangled, wet hair. Lukas was doing similarly, shaking out his Ocelot jacket and even doing a shake like a dog (and getting water all over Axel) to get some of the water out.

Jesse looked between the two doorways, and decided on the red one, walking towards it, when Petra came up to her, eyes fixed on the floor, and tapped her on the shoulder.

"Petra? Are you okay?" Jesse asked immediately, turning back to the redhead.

Petra gave a little shrug, shoulders rising and falling quickly, before she said, quietly, "I'm sorry, I don't... I don't mean to worry you. I have something I need to discuss with you in private."

The others were coming up to Jesse, who gave them a look, and said, apologetically, "Let's split up- we don't know which way's quicker."

They nodded, before sending Petra a worried look and turning back around to go through the green doorway.

Reuben looked up at Jesse, nudging her hand, before the two girls and the small pink pig went through the red doorway, into the darkness.

A/N: Aggh this chapter feels weird

Next chapter Petra's secret is revealed. And NoItsBecky finally gets her description of a Blaze Rod with Wither sickness xD

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