Soren's mouth was so wide open Jesse was fairly certain she could chucked an apple into his mouth and it would've gone right in. "By the stars!" he breathed, "the Ender Dragon!"
Jesse's mouth was also pretty wide open at the sight in front of her. In the room was a huge Ender Dragon replica, glowing redstone lamps for each eye, and behind it, there was no wall, but it extended into what seemed to be a pretty accurate representation of a fake End. "With replica Ender crystals and all!" Soren finished, going into the room and looking around.
"Wow," Jesse breathed, "wow, wow, wow! I'd always wondered what it looked like."
Walking in, the three of them traipsed in and had a look at the four obsidian towers with banners and buttons on them, objects decorating the banners. Lit redstone lamps stood on top, and more redstone traveled down the backs. "Soren, what is this?" she wondered, as she looked at the green banner with TNT on it, yellow with a loaded bow, red with a piece of redstone dust, and blue with a diamond sword on it. Soren seemed to be admiring the Ender Dragon replica, but he turned to look at the spider hybrid at her question.
Soren turned back to the replica of the dragon, putting his hands on his hips. "It appears to be a homage to our battle with the Ender Dragon. Despite his anger, Ivor never stopped being fond of us. He was a big part of our team. He knew his days in the Order were his finest."
Jesse looked at Soren, a sad look in her eyes. "So why did he quit?" she asked, softly, cupping her elbows in her hands.
Soren's face grew more somber, and he looked away. "It's a long story," he uttered in response.
Jesse waited for the architect to elaborate, but Soren didn't seem like he wanted to say anything else, so Jesse subtly averted the subject. "So... how did you beat the Ender Dragon, anyway?" she wondered, looking around the room.
Soren turned to Jesse, a funny look in his eyes. He was quiet for a moment, before beginning, a slow smile beginning to come over his face,"If you'd only been there... it was a fight for the ages. You might remember, but we spent weeks preparing for our greatest battle ever. But even so, the Ender Dragon was stronger than even I had imagined. I realized that it was drawing energy from the Ender crystals, and that the crystals had to be destroyed.
"I hit the first with a perfectly placed arrow. The second, by launching myself on a shockwave of Magnus's TNT. Using only my strength and my wiles-" Jesse had to roll her eyes a bit at that, "I steered the dragon towards the third crystal. Ellegaard destroyed that one, though- she made a redstone machine that shattered the crystal. I flew the dragon directly toward the final crystal, and it flew straight into the crystal. Only then did Gabriel deliver his famous final blow.
"We became heroes, and eventually, legends. The greatest the world has ever known," Soren finished, with his smile not fading at all.
"Wow," Jesse said, eyes widened. "That... wow. You did all of that?"
"Indeed we did. They didn't call us the Order of the Stone for nothing," Soren said, grinning at her warmly.
Jesse turned back to the four pillars thoughtfully, before looking up at the replica. There was a lever there on the back of the Ender Dragon's head.
Jesse raised a palm, shot a strand of string, and retracted herself so that she hit the back of the Ender Dragon, did a flip, and landed neatly on her feet. She was really getting good at it, even being able to control how fast or how slow she retracted it.
Flipping the lever, she waited for something to happen. She heard a thunk from behind the iron doors that were immediately in the room, and looked down at the iron doors. Those doors hadn't budged one centimeter.
"Okay, so I opened something BEYOND the first set of doors," Jesse muttered, jumping back to the ground, "now to find the thing that opens the first set of doors itself."
She looked at the four pillars, before going to the yellow one and hitting that first. Then she trotted over to the green one and smacked that button, then the red banner, which she also hit. Finally, she went up to the blue banner and touched that button, each redstone lamp atop the pillar going dark as she hit the respective button.
The doors sprang open quickly, nearly hitting Reuben, who'd gone over there to sniff around, in the face. Reuben let out an alarmed squeal, jumping back
"Oh Notch! Are you okay, Reuben?" Jesse hurried over to the pig, who let out a little squeal and nodded. She grinned and fondled his ears a bit. "That's good. I wouldn't want you getting hurt."
Reuben smiled at her, bright brown eyes practically glowing in the purple light.
"Bravo! You did it!" Soren smiled at her.
Jesse smiled back, before walking in, a relieved sigh coming out of her lungs at the sight of of the book resting on a quartz block in the center of the room, purple runes floating off of them. "There's the book!" Jesse exclaimed, walking towards it, feeling relief flood through her.
Reuben let out a confused oink, and Jesse looked up, tearing her eyes from the book. She gasped and took a step back, hands flying up to her lips in shock, green and red eyes widening in confusion.
Because right there, right in front of them, floating on their own respective quartz blocks were the Ender Crystals.
The real ones.
A/N: A bit shorter this time, but I wanted to end on this note xD
TheRealRedGaming: Haha xD Well I can't help it in the story
Kaos Ruin: (rubs hands gleefully)
ChoyofBonk: Aw, thanks! :3 And nice xD
rebekahtpe: I have no idea if there is a record, but if there is, I think I can break it! And aww :)
angelwings: Oh. I think there are stories with over a hundred chapters, so I'm definitely not that high up on the list xD But yeah! Go punch Aiden!
Guest: Lol, I might do a bit of each, actually xD Then again, might not... depends on if I remember the idea by the time I get to writing that chapter.
NoItsBecky: Lol xD Well, when you're feeling sick as a dog from ALLERGIES, your throat is itchy like hell, and talking sounds like a dead frog, you don't really have anything else to do xD
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