"We made it!" Jesse gasped in relief, water pouring off of all of them. Lukas had shaken it off, but Jesse and Petra had to actually work to swat off some of the frost off of Petra. Some of the water had actually turned to ice on Petra.
Olivia was shaking herself off as best as she could, and Axel was just wringing out his hoodie. Jesse shivered a bit. Was it really so cold in here before? How had Jesse not noticed?
"Making it is relevant," Soren responded, spitting out a little water.
Jesse turned, and then her eyes widened. "Ahhh, crap. Forgot about that."
More monsters were making its way towards her, skeletons and spiders and creepers and zombies. So many different types that it looked like Endercon or something.
Man, Jesse hadn't thought about Endercon for ages now. Felt like years, really.
Jesse whipped out her sword and slashed at the zombie, killing it with three hits, doing a crab-walk to avoid a couple of arrows and then straightening back up and slamming her sword full force into another zombie. "Not that this isn't fun or anything," she remarked sarcastically to Soren, "but can we just grab that Formidi-Bomb and get out of here?!"
"One... small problem," Soren remarked, drawing his own sword and fending off a zombie. "Tiny really." He slammed the butt of the sword into its face, before driving the sword through its body. He looked up at the raven-haired spider hybrid. "Miniscule."
"Get on with it, Soren."
"... I haven't actually built it yet."
Jesse and Lukas shared an incredulous look.
"That's a small problem?!"
"How is that a tiny problem?!" Lukas complained, "that's a huge problem!"
Soren let out a nervous chuckle, before his eyes lit up. Jesse recognized that spark in his eye. Although, she didn't recognize whether it was the 'I have a great idea!' spark or the 'I have an idea but you should probably run away before I blow all of you to smithereens by accident' spark.
"You two are people who appreciates cool stuff that's cool for no reason, right?"
Jesse and Lukas shared a panicked glance, as Lukas grabbed a bow and arrow from a fallen skeleton and shot a mob that was approaching Petra, who could barely hold the sword.
"Sure."
Soren jerked his head at the inside of the archway. "Go ahead and throw that lever behind you."
Jesse looked over her shoulder, and sure enough, there was a ladder on the wall. Jesse shrugged, stepped back, and one of her lower arms flicked up and smacked the switch.
"Hold onto your socks," called Soren's voice, as inside the monster-infested room (not counting the five hybrids, of course), pumpkins fell from the ceiling and landed on top of Ts of iron blocks, "'Cause they're about to get blown off!"
The iron blocks for each individual T shivered into an iron golem, leaving small shards of iron and dust all over the floor. "Go to work, boys!"
Axel blinked. "Holey cow."
A golem raised one of its arms and smacked a zombie out of the room. Another one kicked a skeleton into the wall, and the third took ahold of a zombie by the leg and brought it down on the floor, making it explode into a little pile of rotten flesh, the zombie's rotted brains splattered across the floor. (Oh dear, I really hope you weren't eating while reading that...) A spider jumped at another golem, which casually caught the spider and then tossed it over it's shoulder as if it were nothing more than a little wad of paper. The fifth one held a zombie as though it were some sort of bizarre, rotted baseball bat, and batted the spider with it, sending them flying at another group of monsters and bowling them over.
"That is cool," Jesse agreed.
"No kidding," Lukas nodded.
"Awesome!" Axel cheered.
A skeleton backed away as two iron golems advanced on it, and both slammed a fist into it at the same time, sending the skull soaring across the room and bounced across the floor before exploding into dust. Soren winced a little, before they ducked as a zombie went flying over their heads and blasted into the wall. Another skeleton met the same fate as the zombie. Another zombie was trying to back away, but one of the six golems knocked it facefirst to the floor. "Yikes," Olivia winced.
"When those golems are done with the monsters," Jesse said, tentatively, "they're not going to attack... us, right?"
Soren looked at the five hybrids and the pink pig, before shrugging. "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies."
"Um, that didn't actually-"
"Ask me no questions!"
"Speaking of asking questions," and everyone looked at Axel. He turned to Petra casually- and then grabbed her shoulders and started shaking her. "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED BACK IN THE END!?" he sounded rather panicked, and his eyes were as wide as Jesse had ever seen them. He looked like he was actually on her verge of a huge panic attack.
Jesse and Lukas let out twin shrieks and fled over to Axel, Jesse wrapping all six arms around the burly male to try to keep him away while Lukas tugged Petra away, his hair starting to stand on end. "Axel, Axel, don't!" Jesse yelped, "you don't shake a sick person!"
Axel stood there, taking deep, steadying breaths, as Petra held her head in pain. "But what happened?" Axel sounded as though he were starting to squeak, in both fear and anger.
"Petra has Wither Sickness," Lukas spoke up.
Petra's head snapped to look at Lukas. "You know about it?" she asked, looking surprised.
Lukas glanced at Jesse. It was only a glance, but it was enough.
Petra's head snapped around to look at Jesse, a glare in her eyes. And maybe a look of... betrayal, too. "You told him?! I thought I told you not to tell anyone!" she practically yelled, before dissolving into a coughing fit. "I thought- you promised!" she hacked out, glaring at Jesse.
Jesse frowned at Petra. "Sorry," she said softly.
"You promised you- you wouldn't tell!" Petra was coughing more fully now, but her glare did not abate in the least.
"Sorry," Jesse repeated again, softly.
Petra lunged to her feet, lunged forward and brought her hand across Jesse's face in a harsh slap, everyone letting out exclamations of shock as she did so, and Lukas wrapping his arms around Petra to keep her from lashing out anymore, yanking her back. Jesse didn't flinch, just stood there with a hand to her reddening cheek and a sorry look in her green and red eyes.
"Petra, what the heck's gotten into you?!" Lukas exclaimed in shock, as Petra kept thrashing around and trying to hit Jesse angrily.
"No, she's right," and everyone looked back at Jesse, who was looking at the floor. "I- I shouldn't have told you, Lukas. I should've just stayed quiet."
Petra's eyes relaxed, and a slightly embarrassed look came over her face. "I'm... I'm sorry Jesse. I don't know what came over me," Petra apologized, reaching up and rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.
"It's okay. It's my fault anyway."
The others couldn't have possibly been able to tell that Jesse wasn't just talking about Petra slapping her.
A/N: We're about to have the blame game start up soon, but not too soon, mind you!
Kaos Ruin: Haha thanks xD
DemonCatLady: I feel like since Jesse felt natural about it, while her joints did change a bit so that they bent backwards (same with Lukas), Axel remained the same. They just didn't notice because it felt so natural.
RapidSammiBackup: Hehe xD Thanks, and no problem!
slaybombinya: Well I don't see a point of writing a story exactly the same way it was written originally. xD
NoItsBecky: I combined the two xD Axel does get explode-y.
angelwings: Pffttt nice
rebekahtpe: MINE IS ANY TYPE OF FRUIT! AND I CAN HEAR YOU OKAY, I THINK (lol xD ) GOOD TO KNOW!
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