Jesse could only stare.
The warrior stood there, looking terrified and bewildered. "Where- where am I?" he asked, "what's going on? What is all of this? And what's that awful smell?"
Jesse shook her head. "Are you okay?" she finally managed. She didn't know what else to say.
Frankly, she didn't know what else she COULD say.
Gabriel gave her a long look. "I... I have no idea. Who are you?" And he backed away a step.
"Jesse! Jesse, where are you?!"
Jesse's head snapped around at the desperate scream, seeing the burly male looking around frantically through the flying debris, covering his head as he searched for the female. "Say something, Jesse!"
"AXEL!" Jesse screamed at the top of her lungs, pushing the sound out as loud as it could get, grabbing Gabriel's hand and practically flying across the ground towards him. "WE NEED SOME HELP OVER HERE!"
Axel's head snapped towards her, and he charged. "Then help is on the way!"
Jesse grabbed Gabriel in a one-armed hug, Reuben hopping into the warrior's hands, as Jesse fired a shot of string and then jerked them to the top, tossing Gabriel over the edge so he didn't get a mouthful of dirt. Axel skidded to a stop in front of them and stared at Gabriel with wide eyes. "No way! You found Gabriel?"
Gabriel frowned, confused. "Who's Gabriel?"
Jesse glanced at the Witherstorms, feeling her stomach sink like a stone in water as she saw that there were two new heads on each body. Now there were NINE tractor beams flying everywhere.
"We have to get out of here!" Jesse cried, spinning back to Axel.
Axel nodded and turned around, "Come on!" They all took off at a sprint, Reuben galloping along the best he could until Jesse scooped up the little pink pig, plopped him onto her back, and dropped to all eights, scuttling across the ground at a speed that no human could've ever achieved.
Jesse lunged after Axel to a large mound of dirt and stone, everyone skidding to a halt behind the makeshift wall. "Jesse, you made it!" the curly-haired Enderman hybrid practically jumped on her friend in relief, Jesse quickly switching Reuben around so she had the pig in a hug.
"And..." Lukas's eyes widened. "Gabriel?"
Petra looked up. "Did you say Gabriel?"
An indigo light shone down on them, making them all yell and sprint away, running away from the three Witherstorms.
Abruptly, an Enderman appeared right in front of Jesse, blinking into existence. Jesse put on the brakes, skidding to a stop so close to the Enderman that she could smell it's rotted cake stink.
The Enderman didn't acknowledge her at all, just walked calmly past her towards the Witherstorm. Jesse blinked, before deciding not to press her luck and running after her friends.
"What's up with these Endermen?!" Jesse shouted to Soren, who was staring at the Endermen. "I have absolutely no idea. Those Endermen are running the wrong way. They'll be killed!"
Lukas came back over, not able to stop in time and plowing him, Jesse, and Reuben to the floor. "Soren?!" he cried out, desperately disentangling himself from the pile of limbs.
"I can't just stand by and watch. I'd be condemning them to death!"
"They'll be fine!" Jesse assured him, even though she really was not at all sure about this, "they can just teleport away!"
Soren opened his mouth to protest, but he then closed it.
A fireball hit the tree they'd been under. Letting out startled screams, the three of them took off like rockets. Horses ran next to them, as well as monsters. In that one moment, monsters, humans, and other mobs alike all had the same objective: to escape the Witherstorm.
"Jesse, wait!" Jesse skidded to a stop and looked at Lukas, who pointed. "They're falling behind!"
Sure enough, Axel was trying to help Petra along, but he could only run so fast while frost was creeping up your back without dropping someone off your back. Rain was starting to come down now, but really all it was doing was slowing Axel down.
Jesse bit her lip, hard enough to draw blood, and Lukas shook his head in dismay. "There's no way we can make it, not on foot!"
Jesse looked around, and then grabbed one of the horse's reins. "Give the horses to Ellegaard, Magnus, Soren, Gabriel and Petra," she instructed Lukas as fast as she could without blurring her words together, "the rest of us will just have to make do without 'em!"
Lukas was nodding almost before she finished speaking. "Got it!" And he yelled to them, "Ellegaard, Magnus, Soren, Gabriel, Petra, get a horse! C'mon!"
They all ran over to the horses, Jesse catching four of the reins with her extra arms, yanking the fleeing horses to a halt. "Whoa there," she grunted, as her feet skidded over quickly-becoming muddy ground.
Lukas helped Petra onto a horse, the saddle and the horse armor hopefully being enough to keep the horse from freezing into an ice cube.
Jesse helped Ellegaard onto a horse as well, the other Order members practically launching themselves onto their horses in an effort to speed up.
Jesse looked up at Gabriel, who stared at her with a bewildered look. "Hang on- this... may be a rather bumpy ride." And then she shot a strand of not-sticky string, and flicked it in the air, making a loud whipcrack sound.
The horses reared up in shock, before galloping away, Gabriel letting out a loud yell and tightening his arms around the neck of his horse as it took off, Jesse dropping to all eights and scuttling across the ground rapidly. Petra was clinging to the reins as tightly as she could. Lukas was running as fast as an ocelot could, which was pretty darn fast, tail flapping in the wind. Olivia teleported around, occasionally next to one of them for a moment, before ahead to check if the way remained clear. Axel was running at full tilt, hugging Reuben to his chest as he took off.
"Whoo-hoo! This is awesome!" Magnus cheered. Ellegaard, who was riding next to him, shot him a glare. "How is this awesome?!"
Jesse whipped around a spider jockey, ignoring it as best as she could.
"We're not going to make it!"
Jesse glanced at Gabriel as the Witherstorms got ever closer. "Yes we are! Just- keep it together, Gabriel!" she called out to him, tearing across the ground at breakneck speed.
"That monster is chasing me!" Gabriel cried out.
"It's chasing all of us!" Jesse yelled back, feeling the journal and the amulet bounce around in her back pocket.
Tractor beams sucked up the dirt in front of them, Gabriel letting out a shout as the tractor beam ripped a section of the ground out from in front of Jesse. "Watch out!"
Jesse tensed her muscles, before launching herself forward. Her entire body dropped, before her hands slapped onto the edge and she scrambled up, feet slipping and sliding on the dirt as she scrabbled to get a good foothold.
"Don't let it come any closer!" Gabriel cried out, hugging his horse neck. Jesse felt pretty bad for him. All Gabriel really knew was that they were running from a giant monster. He didn't even know his own name.
"I'll try!" Jesse yelled back.
Olivia teleported in front of an Enderman, just as a tractor beam fell on it. Olivia stumbled back as the Enderman let out a screech of rage and then teleported out of sight. Olivia blinked, before throwing herself to the right and teleporting away as a tentacle came slamming down on top of where she'd been only seconds before.
Jesse dodged as tentacles stabbed the ground around her, some missing her by a hair and some actually cutting off little chunks of her hair.
"That was close," Jesse mumbled to herself.
Seconds later, a skull plowed into the ground in front of her, leaving a gaping crater, and Jesse instinctively jumped, barely clearing the jump and nearly falling in.
"HO-kay, never mind, THAT was close!" Jesse shrieked, double-timing it across the ground. They all tore towards a bridge that crossed a chasm. "There! We just need to get over that-"
A flaming skull demolished the bridge, several people coming to a screeching halt to avoid falling into the chasm and Gabriel nearly falling off of his horse, all of them gaping at the space where the bridge had previously been in dismay.
"-bridge," Jesse sighed.
A/N: HOH my god action! And I didn't totally botch it!
slaybombinya: ?
angelwings: I feel like that would make them too overpowered, so that probably won't happen :/ If it was, though, I'd probably do Soren or Ivor being half. xD
Kaos Ruin: After this and the next one... yeah. Emotional crap's going dooowwwwn.
Anyone excited for Chapter 50?
x.X. A.L. X.x.
