Jesse drew her sword rapidly as Olivia teleported, grabbing ahold of the witch, which turned threw a potion at her. Olivia teleported out of the way as Jesse charged forward. "Watch out for her potions!" Olivia warned.
Jesse ducked under one bottle before hitting the witch, flicking the blade and slicing through the witch's chest, which fell backwards before vanishing in a blast of smoke. Jesse let out a relieved sigh and drooped a bit. "See ya later, ya nasty old hag," she said, sheathing her sword, before an arrow impaled the ground, mere centimeters from her feet.
Jesse jumped back with a shout, and they looked up to see an army of skeletons firing arrows at them.
A loud series of neighs, and Jesse sighed as she watched the horses bolt in fear as they quickly ducked behind a makeshift wall to avoid getting impaled by the wave of arrows.
Another witch stepped into place among the skeletons, and Soren let out a soft sound of alarm. "Oh dear. Witches and skeletons... that's a deadly combination. Her potions and their arrows..." he trailed off, eyes widened. "We're all gonna die."
"We need to distract them!" Jesse said abruptly, looking back at the others. "Then we'd be free to run to the Far Lands!"
Olivia shook her head, eyes wide. "Yeah, okay, but how are we going to do that?"
Ivor made an annoyed sound in the back of his throat, making them all look at him. "The rest of you, go!" he shouted to them, "I'll hold them off!"
"What?! Ivor, no!" Soren protested, getting up.
"There's no time to argue!" Ivor snapped back, "just head for the corner of the Glitch Wall!"
"The what wall?!" Jesse cried out.
Ivor didn't respond, waving his arms as he ran towards the witch. "Hey, you witch!" he barked, "you're not the only one who can throw a potion!" And he chucked it as hard as he could at a skeleton, hitting it with the glass bursting on impact and killing it. Waving his arms again, he threw another one and ran off, arrows and potions following him.
Jesse turned to the others, who were staring after Ivor with wide eyes. "Run!" And they all took off, Olivia grabbing Gabriel and teleporting, Jesse scooping Reuben up, and Lukas yanking Soren along as fast as humanly possible without taking off Soren's arm. Which Soren probably appreciated.
The six of them practically exploded out of the swamp, sprinting until finally they came to a stop, panting loudly. "Guys, I think we lost them for-" Jesse froze, her eyes travelling up the wall they'd stopped in front of. "Wow."
"I take your wow," Lukas said, coming up to her, his own blue-green eyes wide, "and raise it to a wooow."
In front of them stood a MASSIVE wall made of stone, dirt, and who knows what else. There were twisting tunnels, holes, twists in the land, floating islands. Waterfalls cascaded down the sides, and the height. Jesse kept tilting her head back, but the massive wall rose so high it disappeared into the foggy clouds above them.
"Holy Notch," Jesse said, agreeing with Lukas.
"It's like we're at the edge of the world!" Olivia gasped, coming up on Jesse's other side, the three hybrids gaping at the huge wall.
"Actually, we seem to be at the corner of it," Soren remarked, before turning to the other five, "Welcome to the Far Lands, my friends."
"Is this the Glitch Wall?" Jesse asked the builder.
He bobbed his ginger head in a nod. "Yes; it's the entrance to the Far Lands." And he started leading them forward.
"I wish we'd had something else to eat," Olivia mumbled, "it'd make facing the wall of insanity a lot easier."
"At least Jesse found those potatoes," Lukas pointed out.
"That might be the saddest sentence ever uttered."
Jesse stifled a giggle. "Actually, I think the saddest sentence ever uttered was, 'He needs some milk'."
This prompted several giggles from the members of the group who were listening.
"Quite a sight, isn't it?" Soren hummed aimlessly, looking up at the wall, "stretching skywards, in all its glory... like a monument to chaos itself."
"Have you been here before?" Jesse asked, as the six friends clumped together for defense.
Soren shrugged. "Well, not HERE, specifically. But, I HAVE been to the Far Lands. The Order traveled far and wide in its heyday."
"Incredible," Gabriel said, looking around them with wide eyes.
Olivia nodded, watching trees rain fall sporadically through holes in the wall. "You can say that again."
"Incredible."
Olivia rolled her eyes, an amused smile playing on her mouth. "My bad. I should've seen that coming."
"How can Ivor live here?" Jesse mused. "I mean, it's one thing if it were Boom Town, or to build a wool world inside the End, but..."
Soren shook his head, looking curious. "Oh, I doubt he LIVES here. Most likely he just comes here for his most secretive research. Whatever Ivor's hiding here, it must be incredibly well guarded."
That did not especially help Jesse's optimism.
They approached one of the lower caves, redstone, torches, and other random things placed seemingly at random.
"This way, I suspect," Soren hummed.
Lukas sighed, making everyone look at the blonde curiously. "I'd feel better about this if Axel and Petra were here."
"I know what you mean," Olivia sighed agreement, rubbing her head and tousling her dark curly hair so that it was even messier than before.
Reuben let out a sad little whine, looking down at the ground. Jesse nodded, looking at the ground, before grabbing Olivia's hand, then Lukas's, and then grinning down at Reuben. "C'mon!"
And they all entered the cave, Soren leading the way, closely followed by Gabriel.
But the whole way in, the three hybrid's hands remained firmly intertwined.
A/N: Aww, friend fluff!
Kaos Ruin: (looks away with a faint blush) I'm glad you liked it! And lol, yeah xD Maybe later on when they go to the temple in Episode 5
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