Jesse poked her head out from behind a tree, checking around for any mobs. She carefully, quietly, started moving, creeping along, before a creeper suddenly walked over and Jesse quickly dropped to all eights, rapidly crawling around the tree before lunging to her feet and unsheathing her new enchanted sword, rushing at the monsters. Mostly zombies. Everyone had gotten much better at asking their specific mobs for favors, but not zombies.
Jesse whipped out her blade and charged forward before slicing through the zombies, knocking crowds of the them back at a time. Jesse was walking forward, when Petra's voice suddenly rang out, "Look out!"
Jesse turned to see some skeletons, and she flicked out her sword to block, even as Petra leaped down from the top of a tree and stomped on one zombie, before sending the other one flying at Jesse. Jesse grinned and let out a yell as she slammed it, the skeleton bursting into dust and smoke upon impact.
"Thanks!" Jesse said, beaming at the redhead.
"Hey Jesse, check this out!" called Axel, and the two girls turned around to see the burly male squeezing two zombies under his arms by the neck. "And, three, two-" He squeezed, and the two zombies exploded into dust.
Jesse smirked at the boy's display of strength- which really was impressive- but her eyes widened as another one came up behind him.
"Duck!" she barked, charging at him with sword in hand. Axel leaned down, crouching, and Jesse vaulted over his back and flicked the sword with all her might, making the zombie explode into more dust and smoke.
"Dude, you're getting pretty good at this!" and the creeper hybrid ruffled Jesse's hair, making her pout playfully at him before letting out a little laugh and adjusting her hair again.
"You guys are working way too hard," Olivia said, leaning against a huge assortment of arrow dispensers, before straightening up and jogging her elbow into the button, sending arrows flying everywhere and impaling a huge crowd of monsters.
Jesse rolled her eyes at the Enderman hybrid, a smile still playing on her mouth. "You're always looking to one-up us, aren'tcha?" she asked, as a zombie lurched towards her. Jesse tossed the sword blade, catching it with one of her lower arms, before reversing the blade and jabbing it into the zombie, making it explode into smoke inches behind her.
Jesse looked up at the temple that Ivor had pointed out. Glowing with torches, tall, built out of stone, it was one of the most aesthetically impressive temples Jesse had ever seen.
"That," she said, putting her hands on her hips, "is one of the nicest temples I've ever seen."
Petra nodded as she came up behind her friend. "Yeah, points for Ivor, I guess. This was a good tip."
Jesse glanced at her Blaze hybrid friend. The rest of the Order- both old and New- still didn't trust Ivor that much. Jesse did, but then again, Jesse was Jesse.
The four of them, without much else, walked into the temple. The three walls that didn't have the door had structures with lava being bottled up, pistons that were blocking the lava, and levers. The three structures were identical, save for being on different walls. The center of the floor had a sort of indent to it made of stone.
Logically, there must be some sort of secret passageway.
Or... well, logically since every other place they'd gone to had SOME sort of puzzle or secret to it.
Jesse walked forward without a word, looking around the room at the buttons, before flipping the lever. The lava came out, flowing through the channels, although where it went was anybody's guess.
Through about ten minutes of trial and error (by the end of which Jesse got rather frustrated), she managed to flip in what she assumed was the correct order. She actually had to backtrack at one. Who knew THAT was the answer?
The floor opened up, slowly, revealing three trails of lava that combined in the middle and poured down into the darkness. A set of stairs lead down into the dark tunnel.
"Think I actually would've been DISAPPOINTED if the floor didn't open up into a dark, creepy passageway," Axel said, looking down at said dark, creepy passageway.
Petra looked around as she hovered down, next to the lava. Through a few mishaps in the Nether, the hybrids had learned that Petra actually was immune to lava- she could literally stand under it for ten minutes straight and nothing would happen, except for Petra complaining that the 'water' was too hot. "This kinda reminds me of when we first found the Order's temple." A chuckle. "We were such a scared bunch of noobs back then."
Jesse gave Petra a look. "Petra, that was two months ago."
"Exactly- things have changed a LOT since two months ago," Petra responded, giving the spider hybrid a grin.
Olivia teleported in front of Jesse, who didn't even blink at that. She'd long since gotten used to Olivia's 'disappearing' act. "And to think, that was just the beginning," she said thoughtfully, before disappearing and reappearing on the stairs far, far below.
"Yeah!" Axel chimed in, grinning, "that was before we'd fought Witherstorms, hung out with Endermen, reunited the Order... so crazy."
Jesse looked around cautiously as they came towards the bottom of the tunnel, because if she'd learned ANYTHING from watching action movies as a kid and in her time adventuring, it was "don't walk into the creepy passageway without expecting booby traps."
Reaching the bottom, Jesse looked as the lava disappeared into a hole in the ground, before walking into a sort of cavern- that was really the only way to describe it.
Jesse looked about before spotting four chests, lined up in a little circle. "Bingo!" she said, rather cheerfully, walking over to the chests and leaning down to look through one. Everyone else knelt down at a chest, rooting through it. "Alright, let's see what we've got... hey, it's a cake!"
Axel's eyes lit up. "Man, you're lucky," he said, staring at the cake.
Jesse looked down at the sweet treat, before going over to him and holding it out with a cheery smile. "Hey, you can have it!"
Axel's face lit up. Jesse discreetly checked to make sure his entire body wasn't flashing- sometimes when Jesse surprised him with something like a cookie or cake he'd start flashing white. She was secretly worried that he would blow up right now. Thankfully, he wasn't flashing, so she handed over the cake. "Oh man, oh MAN, oh man, thank you!"
Jesse shot Axel a beaming grin before going back to her chest, and kept looking through the chest. "Hmmn... pumpkin. Not bad. And... looks like we've got one more thing in here... it's..." she trailed off, looking at the flint and steel, before reaching in and pulling out the flint and steel.
This flint and steel was different, though- it glowed a beautiful shade of azure blue, and illuminated Jesse's face as she stared at it in wonder.
"What'd you find?" Olivia asked, as Jesse went over a couple steps, holding the flint and steel.
"What are you talking abouuwoah! That's super cool!" Axel said, grinning at Jesse, who was still looking at the flint and steel with a bemused look.
"That glow... Is that an enchantment?" Jesse asked, staring at the blue flint and steel.
Olivia shook her head, crossing her arms. "I don't know. I've seen people put an Unbreaking enchantment on flint and steel before... but that's not Unbreaking."
"You could give it a shot and find out," Petra suggested.
Jesse shrugged and clicked the flint and steel together.
A white hot spark formed between the two, making a shockwave of energy ripple through the cavern, shivers shooting up Jesse's spine as the glow from the spark lit up the room for a moment, before fading. "Whoa! Well... I have DEFINITELY never seen a flint and steel do THAT before," she said, looking down at the find with wide eyes.
"Uh oh."
Jesse turned to see what Petra was talking about. And then she sighed and put a hand to her face.
Surrounding the four hybrids was hordes and hordes of zombies.
A/N: Sorry I haven't updated (in, like, several hours xD ) School's a jerk. Also, drawing cards is a jerk.
Toni42: (thumbs up) That's probably pretty likely, but... if it comes to it, I can't promise no spoilers xD
Kaos Ruin: Yep!
NoItsBecky: I did, it's quite cool. And thanks, friend xD
Guest: Yep! And don't worry, Ariza to the rescue! (strikes heroic pose. Falls over.) Ow.
Guest: Ahaha sorry xD
rebekahtpe: Hug Aiden. Axel and Magnus would kill me if I took their explosives.
TheRealRedGaming: Yep. And you'll see~
Luna96: Thanks! I'm glad you like it!
angelwings: That'd be cool, yep :) It might not play that much of a role in the future, but it will probably still play a pretty big role in the whole thing. And don't worry, I always mix genders up online xD
slaybombinya: No problem, and thanks!
Guest: What is an imator? If you mean imitators, then maybe, maybe not... as long as people give me credit, I suppose I'm alright with it, but I'm covering a ton of stuff in the sidestory, so there might not be much to do.
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