A/N: The cover for Hybrid is up on DeviantArt! Just look up Ariza Luca on Deviantart and it's the newest deviation!
"Is this a maze?"
Jesse put her hands on her hips, staring up at the massive walls with a small area for the opening. Well, 'small' is relative. More like, narrow. "Looks like it."
The maze looked like a MASSIVE one, with vines covering it. There was a little pond near the entrance, flowers and saplings next to it.
"If Ivor used the Command Block to build this," Soren mused, touching his fingers to his mouth thoughtfully, "it could hold unspeakable peril."
Jesse raised an eyebrow. "So..."
"Maybe we shouldn't wander into the world's hardest maze without a guide?" Lukas finished, arching his eyebrow at his mentor.
"Unfortunately, this seems to be the only way forward," Soren sighed, rubbing his temples.
Jesse crossed her arms and shook her way. "Yeaahhhh, no, I'm not about to walk into a maze when we have no clue what we're getting into. Let's look around for another entrance first, and if all else fails, we'll just go in."
"Best decision of the day," Olivia waved her arms in the air, nearly hitting Gabriel by accident. Jesse snorted.
Lukas, Soren, and Olivia started examining the walls, walking along the length of the wall but not too far out. Jesse perched her lower arms on her hips and fingered some of the vines with her fingers. They were pretty firm, and even though she and Olivia could probably make it up with no problem, the others probably needed some assistance. These vines were the most promising thing she'd seen so far.
"We might be able to climb these," she hummed, before Soren's voice cut though her thoughts like a sword through butter. "Everyone, en garde!"
Everyone turned to see zombies lurching towards them.
"I think I've said this before at some point, but... oh, snapcrackers," Olivia groaned.
Jesse touched her lip with her top set of arms. "... there's no way we can fight them all. Climb the vines!"
And everyone did as she asked, scrambling to get to the vines, except for Olivia, who just teleported to the top. Jesse slammed all six of her palms against the wall and swarmed up it, arms propelling her up until she was able to keep herself on the top of the wall without falling off.
"Well," Soren said, voice sounding rather faint, "that worked, I suppose."
Jesse looked around, and then slapped a hand to her face.
She was standing on the opposite wall. The other five- including Reuben- stood on the other side, staring at Jesse. The narrow gap that was the interest might as well have been a thousand miles.
Jesse waved to her friends, before looking down. "Um... let's split up," she sighed, "we'll cover more ground that way. Just head for..." Jesse perched as high on her tiptoes as she could without falling, pointing at what looked like a house in a spotlight. "- that house, right over there."
Soren nodded, and began to walk along the top of the wall. Everyone shared a look with each other, before they reluctantly kept going along the wall. Jesse watched them go. "Sure hope they don't get lost." She sighed and looked down at her portion of wall. "Sure hope I don't get lost."
Continuing on top of the wall, Jesse spotted her friends on the ground at one point, but they didn't see her. She kept going, although she kept hitting dead ends. Whenever she did, she measured the distance to see if she could lunge over it, and if she could, she made the jump.
She stopped near a waterfall, smiling fondly at it. "I met Reuben at a waterfall just like this," she said, looking at the clear blue water, "I hope he's okay."
Continuing along, passing some floating islands, Jesse was intercepted by a spider. It tilted its head, more curiously than anything, and Jesse stepped back and managed to utter out a hiss.
The spider crept towards Jesse, still looking curious. Slowly, Jesse reached back, and put a hand on the hilt of her sword, drawing it slightly.
The barest motion of the sword snapped the spider's curiosity, and it lunged at her. Jesse let out a yell, whipped out the sword, and slashed it through the spider instinctively, so roughly that her sword, the gold one that Petra had taken from Ivor's basement so long ago, broke in half, vanishing in a puff of smoke as the spider carcass vanished.
Jesse sighed and looked at her empty hand. "Of course. Juuust peachy."
Jesse glanced down at the maze as she kept going. Goodness, the TOP of the maze was probably just as complicated as the inside. She looked down when she spotted Olivia and Reuben continue through the maze. "Olivia!"
She was too quiet- Olivia didn't hear her and kept going. When Jesse looked up again, she gave an audible groan and put her head in her hands. A witch let out a high pitched laugh from where she was on the wall.
Jesse pulled out her bow and fired arrows, but she was running out fast. Ducking under a potion, she fired another arrow that DID make contact with the witch, but wasn't enough to knock her off the wall. And Jesse was out of arrows.
She let out another groan. "You've GOT to be kidding me." Looking at the bow in her hands as she ducked another potion, she ran towards the witch and swung it, hitting the witch as hard as she could and knocking the witch off the wall, the bow cracking and breaking in her hands as she did so. The witch puffed into smoke.
Jesse crawled down the wall when she spotted some sort of machine, walking towards it and the crafting table and chest next to it. Ivor's lab could also be seen not terribly far away.
I mean, save for the fact it was across a gaping chasm.
Jesse sighed and put her head in her hands again. "Couldn't saving the world be easier?"
A/N: Haha, poor Jesse xD And now she's weaponless. And the end of Episode 4 gets ever closer. (le gasp)
angelwings: Is the song Unaligned by NateWantstoBattle? If not, which one is it?
TheRealRedGaming: Olivia kept Ellegaard from dying, but the tentacle still hit Ellegaard pretty hard. You can assume it either hit her leg, or when the two of them rolled Ellegaard still hurt her ankle.
NoItsBecky: Lol xD
Kaos Ruin: Indeed xD
x.X. A.L. X.x.
