"There we go, a lever!" After five more minutes of searching, Jesse had found some wooden planks and used them to make sticks, which she then used to make a lever.

Putting it in the hole with the redstone, Jesse flicked the lever, and pistons started firing. The fire in the fireplace vanished, and the back part vanished to reveal a staircase leading down into darkness.

The others crowded around, staring down the long staircase. "Why would you build a secret passageway in a house nobody visits?" Lukas wondered.

Jesse shrugged. "More like why wouldn't you. Secret passageways are cool."

"Good point."

Soren, Jesse and Reuben started down the staircase, slowly, when suddenly a loud clicking sound was heard. The three of them looked down to see Soren's foot on a tripwire.

The builder and the spider hybrid turned to each other, panic in their eyes, before they whipped back around.

Sounds. Both of them turned to see the walls closing, Lukas running towards them, but the walls slammed shut right in his face. Jesse put her hand against the stone, feeling heat through it, meaning the lava and the fire had come back on.

"Is everyone okay?" she shouted through the wall.

The sound of something toggling sounded. "We're fine, but the lever isn't working anymore!"

Jesse looked down at Soren, who shrugged helplessly.

Jesse turned back to the wall. "Stay there: we'll head down and see what we can find!"

With that, she and the builder turned around and kept walking down into the darkness.


"Whoa," Jesse said, blinking as they entered a room with several pedestals on the sides. "What IS all this?"

Soren shook his head, a slow grin coming across his face. "Incredible! He's gathered them all in one place!"

Jesse looked over at Soren, puzzlement in her eyes. "Gathered... what exactly?"

At the head of the room was a large, black object shaped like an egg. On the left side, there were white drops and a strange ice block, and on the right, a blue shard and a brightly glowing block. Soren turned to Jesse, his face also brightly glowing. "These, my dear, are the treasures of the Order of the Stone! The stories I could tell about these dusty old things." He went up to the black egg, a sad little smile on his face.

Jesse looked around, a small frown coming over her face. "I... don't see the enchanting book. Maybe through the doors?"

Soren went over to the doors and gave them a yank. He turned back to Jesse, shaking his head. "Locked. Of course."

"There must be a way to open it," Jesse mumbled, going over to the white drops. She leaned rather close to the drops, squinting, before her eyes widened. "H-hey, Ivor taught me about these!" she exclaimed, "these are Ghast tears! He said they're super hard to get."

"You don't know the HALF of it," Soren chuckled, "it was our first official mission as the Order of the Stone. We fought those Ghasts for hours... and the tears were our reward."

Jesse blinked at them, before reaching out.

"What are you doing?"

"They're sitting on some sort of... pressure plate," Jesse responded, carefully lifting them off the pressure plate. Besides the pressure plate clicking as it came up, nothing much else happened.

Jesse traipsed over to the glowing block next, frowning a bit. "Why does Ivor have all the treasures of the Order of the Stone, by the way? Did he... steal them?" She was reluctant to use the last two words, and said them as fast as possible, as if spitting a nasty taste off her tongue.

"No, no!" Soren shook his head, to Jesse's relief. "We... we let him keep them, after we split up."

Jesse looked around at the treasures, before tilting her head at Soren. "Why?"

"It's a long story, Jesse." Was it just her, or did Soren look guilty?

Jesse turned to the glowing block, tilting her head. "... is this a Sea Lantern?" she asked him at last, looking up at Soren. For a moment, she seemed like she had turned back into a little kid, her hands on her knees as she knelt down to look at it.

"Yes," Soren nodded, "the very one the Order built, all those years again. We were so green back then... looks just as bright as the day as when we crafted it."

Jesse reached out and carefully lifted it off as well, being careful not to drop it, before walking over to the blue crystals shards in interest. "These are Prismarine crystals.. you can only get them underwater, right?"

"Precisely! We nearly ran out of oxygen getting these." He chuckled a bit. "Ellegaard had to use a spare bucket to grab a couple extra breaths. We used most of them to craft the Sea Lantern. This is what was left."

"Cool," Jesse said, interested, reaching out and taking the crystals carefully, releasing another pressure plate, "Prismarine is such a cool word."

Walking over to the ice block, she poked it with one of her lower arms before looking at Soren. "Where'd this packed ice come from?"

"We brought it back from the Ice Plain Spikes biome," Soren answered, "it was colder there than anywhere we'd ever been. But Magnus slipped so many times, our laughter kept us warm. After that, we knew we were ready to face the Ender Dragon."

Jesse let out a soft laugh, realizing with a soft jolt that Soren and the others had never really TALKED to them about their adventures. I mean, sometimes they'd disappear on week or month long expeditions, but the hybrids had never asked, and the Order had never really volunteered that information. Jesse and her friends had always been happy just to see the Order.

Reaching out, Jesse took the packed ice, releasing yet another pressure plate.

They walked up to the big black egg, looking at it. "Is this the actual Ender Dragon egg?" Jesse asked Soren.

Soren looked at it, sadly. "Yes. The only thing that remains of our last adventure together."

"Well, we can't forget it." And Jesse reached out, picking up the egg, releasing the last pressure plate.

Two things happened almost simultaneously- the pressure plate released, and ten hoppers appeared. Five on the floor, five on the ceiling above the five on the floor.

"Huh," Jesse said, staring thoughtfully at the puzzle.

"Why was Ivor hiding a hopper in the basement?" Soren pondered.

Jesse didn't answer, looking closely at the hoppers. It seemed hooked up to some redstone circuitry, and the hoppers were numbered one through five. Jesse looked through the treasures, before withdrawing the Ghast Tears and placing them in the first hopper. "Okay, this goes here..." And she went over to the last one and put the rather heavy Ender Dragon egg in, being careful not to drop it. "That's two."

Number four was the packed ice, which Jesse nearly fumbled and dropped, and then Jesse tipped in the prismarine crystal and then the sea lantern into hoppers 2 and 3, respectively.

The five items got sucked in, and the iron doors flew open.

Soren looked at Jesse, startled. "You solved it? But how did you know what order to put them in?! There were one hundred and twenty possible combinations!"

Jesse blinked at that. "I'm.. not going to ask how you know that. But, to answer the question... your stories gave me the answer," and she smiled warmly at Soren.

Soren stared at her, before his gaze softened. "Nice work, Jesse. You know, I often give Ivor a hard time... but for all his complaining, his time in the Order meant a great deal to him."

Jesse smiled at the builder and her little pink pig. "Well, come on. Let's go find that enchanting book."

And they walked through the iron doors.

A/N: In ONE DAY, I put up TEN chapters. We are now at chapter SIXTY.

HOW?!

Kaos Ruin: Hah, yep xD

Choy of Bonk: Haha, thanks! (to both)

angelwings: Do you mean on Fanfiction in general or in the MCSM fandom?

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