"They're meant to kill monsters," Olivia called out, "but the thing is that... they can't tell the difference between monsters and people."
"What's a grinder doing down here?" Jesse wondered, looking down at the grinder as it slammed together again.
"Not just any grinder," Olivia shook her head, "this is the craziest one I've ever seen. It has to be Soren's."
Hissing. They all turned to see some creepers approaching them, but with more curious looks than anything.
Petra whipped out her sword and ran towards them, Jesse following suit a second later. The two of them slashed their swords, Petra stumbling but still holding her own pretty well, before a creeper came charging at Jesse too fast for her to cancel it out and kill it. "DUCK!"
Jesse used her string to yank her out of the way, slamming her back into the ceiling painfully, as the creeper exploded and destroyed part of the tunnel with a rather loud boom.
Jesse dropped back to the floor, pulling out the amulet and holding it out over the hole, the white gem getting even brighter, "There he is, he's right down-"
The sound of rushing water hit their ears, and they all turned to see said water gushing towards them, pulling along more creepers towards the grinder.
Lukas lunged sideways, grabbing the edge of Petra's cloak to keep her from going over, Olivia bleeped to against the wall, Axel flattened himself against the wall and grabbed Reuben, but Jesse was caught off guard and the amulet toppled from her hands.
Jesse lunged for it, only realizing that it was through the hole made by the creeper as she fell forward, no time to turn around-
A pair of arms lashed around her torso, keeping her from doing a rather painful faceplant a rather good ways down.
She twisted to see Axel, and gave him a grateful smile, before whipping back around to check where the amulet was.
It had landed on a tunnel quite a ways down, and Jesse panted a bit as Axel pulled her back to safety. "Was that...?" Olivia asked, bleeping into sight next to Jesse.
"The amulet? Unfortunately," and Jesse raked her hands through her raven-black hair, squinting at the floor below her. Glancing at the floor of the hole, she shot a small thing of string, before jumping, feeding out the string as she went-
She landed on all eights (all eight of her limbs) a bit painfully, still a bit off-guard by how all of her hands could feel the wool, before turning to look back at her friends.
Olivia blinked and bleeped into sight a little behind her, Lukas hopped down and landed, Axel also hopped down and did a belly-flop (Lukas dodged this time) and Petra glided down before stumbling a little, but catching herself. Jesse found herself holding her breath a bit as Petra stumbled.
Petra then whipped out her sword, charging past Jesse and slamming a creeper off the wool-and-stone walkway they were walking on, which flashed at the contact before blowing up the edge of a tunnel, revealing some zombies that were inside.
The two females skidded to a stop as they reached a short staircase, where another creeper was. Jesse's eyes narrowed and she charged it, flicking out her sword and hitting it, the creeper flying into a wall and exploding on contact. Spiders crawled out of the hole that the creeper had created.
Jesse tumbled back from the force of the blast, doing a little flip before all of her limbs caught her and she straightened up, as Petra slammed a spider away and jumped off the edge of a tunnel, towards another walkway. Everyone followed suit, landing on the walkway.
Jesse twisted to see that it was almost literally raining monsters. Zombies let out moans as the water shoved them out of another tunnel or off the edge of a walkway, sending them to their second deaths below them. Creepers also fell from the tunnel they'd gotten out of earlier, hissing loudly.
An arrow nearly hit Jesse, who lunged backwards and did a crab-walk before pushing herself back to her feet. Jesse spotted Axel on top of a tunnel, his eyes narrowing as a zombie approached. He flashed white, and Jesse braced herself, but the blast from his explosion still sent her back a step or two.
"Jesse, get down!" Jesse obeyed and flattened herself against the floor, whereupon Axel charged forward and brought his fist into a zombie's face, making it fly towards Jesse. The zombie hit her back, but Jesse went ramrod straight and sent it toppling over the edge after its buddy.
"Who wants more?" Axel yelled.
Jesse gave her burly friend a look. "Why in the world are you asking for more? Don't ask for more! We don't want more!" she yelled.
Axel ran down some steps, but jumped to the side as an arrow flew past him and nearly impaled Olivia as it hit the wall, Olivia bleeping out of the way just in time. "Jesse!" she shouted to her friend.
Jesse waved her arms wildly at the skeleton, which was quite a sight and sensation- it tickled her sides. "Hey, ugly!"
The skeleton turned the loaded bow onto her instead.
"Watch out!"
Jesse threw herself backwards to avoid an arrow as it soared over her and vanished over the edge. Jesse raced down the stairs and was forced to stop as the skeleton raised another arrow at her.
"Hey, bonehead! I'm talking to you!" Olivia taunted.
The arrow flew at Olivia, who bleeped out of sight again and appeared twenty feet away. "Any time now, Jesse!"
Jesse raced down the rest of the stairs and charged the skeleton, which fired another arrow at her. Jesse proceeded to do a slider, and slid over before straightening up and slamming the skeleton full-force with her sword, sending it flying into the abyss.
The two of them jumped down to another walkway before racing along to where Lukas was doing his best with some spiders- Jesse shuddered a bit as he raked his claws across a spider's stomach and got greenish blood all over his claws- and where Axel was running down more steps.
Jesse ran towards Lukas, changing her path so that she was running straight for Lukas.
She then waved her arms and yelled... or, she... tried. What came out was a rather loud sounding hiss, and the spiders all turned to see Jesse, tilting their heads.
Until she sent a spider backwards and sent it plummeting to its death. Then the spiders retreated quickly.
Jesse looked back at Lukas. His mouth fell open, and Jesse turned, feeling her own eyes widen as thousands of spiders came creeping down the walls towards them.
The spiders began approaching the tunnel-top, although they seemed more confused than anything. Jesse stepped in front of Lukas, holding her sword out.
"You've got a saving-people thing," Lukas stated faintly.
Jesse looked back at him. "Um, thanks?"
"If you die because of said saving-people thing, I'm gonna kill you."
Jesse didn't have a chance to respond to that, because right then she looked up at the sound of rushing water, the holes they'd inadvertently created in the tunnels redirecting the water right at them.
"Oh crap," Jesse sheathed her sword, "Hang on!"
She grabbed Lukas and yanked him to her as the water washed them and the spiders over the edge, Jesse managing to latch onto the tunnel ledge with her fingers before it could send them to a watery death, clinging to her and her friend tightly. At one point he slipped a bit, but her lower arms also had a pretty good death hug on him, keeping him from dropping as well.
"Thanks, Jesse," and Lukas was panting heavily as the two of them clambered back onto the tunnel-top, dripping wet.
Jesse wrung out her hair and the front of her clothes. "No problem. I just wanna know why we keep getting soaking wet," Jesse joked a bit, before squealing rang out in the air, and her head snapped over to see her little pink pig running away and being pursued by a herd of zombies.
"Reuben!" Jesse shrieked out, running after her pig.
A/N: I just realized most of the mobs that these five are hybrid-ed with don't react well with water. Endermen and Blazes, but spiders and cats don't tend to do to well in water either. Huh.
Wow! Over THIRTY reviews and I can't read even one of them. (sigh) Well, I hope you like how this chapter turned out, regardless.
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