Jesse climbed up onto the dirt surrounding the dirt tower. "We've got a city to save. Ready?" and she smiled down at Isa.
Isa nodded, firmly. "I believe so. And when I get up there I am going to tear those Blaze Rods limb from limb."
"That's what I wanna hear!" Jesse joked. Well, half. Yes, she was half joking.
Half.
The two of them started to turn to the dirt tower, when Isa paused. "Oh, and... Jesse? I appreciate what you did up there. Trying to save me, I mean."
It started to rain, water pouring down from the heavens as Jesse gave Isa another smile, before they started stacking dirt blocks, stacking them as fast as humanly possible, the rain getting heavier and heavier as they stacked dirt, before reaching the same level as the bridge. Jesse shot a web, grabbed Isa (who yelped in surprise) and swung themselves onto the bridge, next to Ivor's lava head.
Jesse let out a gasp. Great sections of the city were destroyed. Water poured off the edges. Ghasts (ohh how much Jesse hated ghasts) were floating around the city, as thunder boomed in the sky. The rain was REALLY pouring down now- so much that it actually made seeing a little different.
"We have to get over there, now!" Jesse shouted to Isa, who nodded back even as her dark black hair was glossy and flattened against her head from the rain, and the two of them charged down the bridge.
"Go go go! Don't stop!" Jesse yelled, as a ghast let out an angry cry and shot a fireball at them. "Look out!" Jesse added, dropping to all eights to scramble away from the fireball, as Isa ducked and they rushed to Sky City, the bridge now rather demolished behind them. "That was insane, you okay?" Jesse added, looking at Isa.
Isa let out a soft crying sound, her hands going to her face. "What have they done?" she whispered, frightened.
Jesse turned... and then wished she hadn't. Fire was consuming several areas of the city, zombies roaming, creepers running, citizens fleeing left and right for their lives...
Jesse turned as a guard was knocked down by a zombie, more zombies approaching.
"He needs our help!" Isa shouted, dark green eyes narrowing, and Jesse drew her sword in agreement, Isa yanking out two of her own swords as Jesse charged, lashing out with her sword and cutting through it, Isa jumping over Jesse's head and landing in the crowd of zombies with a flip, slicing through one, whipping around in a circle and cutting down another, turning back to the guards as Jesse finished off another one.
"What is going on here?" Isa asked, sharply.
The guard threw his hands up in the air. "The city is under attack by monsters, ma'am! Everywhere! They seem to be coming from inside the palace itself!"
Jesse's eyes narrowed as she spotted the Blaze Rods chucking spawn eggs into the city. "Aiden. C'mon, we need to stop him."
Isa shook her head, despair in her eyes. "I'm sorry, Jesse, but I have to save my people," she apologized.
Jesse nodded seriously, meeting Isa's eyes. "Take care of yourself out there, okay?" she asked, firmly.
"And to you as well," Isa said, worriedly.
Thunder smashed through the sky, as Jesse started out- and then she heard a shout. "Jesse, you're alive!" And she turned to see Milo waving a sword furiously. "Please, can you help us?"
"Hang tight, Milo!" Jesse agreed, before charging a bunch of skeletons and in two swift slashes brought them both down, exploding into smoke upon death.
Milo came out, holding his sword, as a spider jockey came towards them. Milo drew his sword and charged the skeleton, smashing his blade into them and knocking the creature to the floor, while the spider approached Jesse, more curiously than anything.
Jesse lowered the sword. "Go and tell your friends to stop attacking, all right?" she hissed to the spider, feeling the strange hum that her chest started to reverberate with whenever she spoke in Spider.
The spider nodded, before rapidly creeping away.
"Good to see you're quick on your feet," Milo said, rushing over to Jesse, his sword covered in skeleton dust, "but with all seriousness, how are you alive? I saw you go over the edge... both of you!"
"Quick version. You all thought how it's the big white void beneath you? Turns out there's land," Jesse said, deciding to cut right to the chase.
Milo's blue eyes, reminiscent of Lukas's, widened. "You speak truthfully, my friend? That... that is amazing."
A fireball soared over their heads, and Milo said, hurriedly, "I can't wait to hear all about it later."
"I have to get to the palace," Jesse told him, shaking some water out of her hair.
Milo nodded, his hand tightening on his sword. "Thank you, my friend. I will see you on the other side. That's a promise."
Jesse nodded, and veered back around the corner, charging towards the steps- before a rather large zombie spawned in front of Petra, who-
Jesse shook her head a little bit. Petra was standing in the center of her very own little firestorm. Her eyes glowed with heat, and a circle of flames surrounded her, burning through most of the monsters that were trying to get to her. Her sword was wreathed in flames, and her armor looked as though the whole thing glowed with a heat so intense Jesse could feel it from ten feet away.
The zombie stepped into the flames and burned right up.
"Jesse!" Petra yelled, having spotted her friend. "You're alive?"
Jesse dodged sideways as a ghast fired another fireball at her, before turning and seeing three at the same time.
Well slime blocks.
The three of them fired fireballs at the same time, and Jesse was plowed sideways by a tackle from Ivor, who knocked her several feet to the left, thereby saving her life. "I'm so glad you're all right," he practically shouted to be heard, staring at Jesse with shining eyes, before his face went serious, "Aiden has taken over the palace- he's holed up in the throne room tossing those damned spawn eggs everywhere! No one can get inside!"
"We have to stop him!" Jesse said, but Ivor's dark blue eyes had lit up. He reached into his pockets, nearly fumbling several of the glittering bottles as he held them out. "I know- Jesse, take one of these! I made all of them!"
Jesse's eyes lit up, and she looked through them, before looking up at Ivor. "Lemme try a Potion of Speed!"
"Here!" And Ivor chucked said potion to her, Jesse reaching out with her lower arms and catching the bottle, before swallowing it.
Ivor had been blinking, but his gaze suddenly slowed down. Jesse looked around her, as everything moved so slowly that she could've gone, crafted six swords, and come back, and everything would be in much the same position as it had been earlier.
Jesse walked through the fighting, the crowds, the sounds she could no longer hear, walked up the steps and past the Blaze Rods- she debated stopping them, but she really didn't have time, since Aiden was the main problem.
She came into the room to see Aiden sitting on the throne, Reginald (the main guard) and Aiden yelling at each other.
"This is between you and me, Aiden!" she shouted, "leave Reginald out of it!"
A/N: Eeee final showdown's next ohhh I'm so excited xD
Toni42: Uh, no, Isa's not their mum, she just looks very, very similar to them xD And thanks? I'm sad it was heart-wrenching but glad you liked it. Didja get Episode 8 yet?
DemonCatLady: Lol, yep xD And that'll be explained later on in the story, Episode 7 or 8
Spacey: (wiggles eyebrows)
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