"Counting us... seven?" Sparklez estimated, scratching his head.

"Mmhm. Most of them useless," TorqueDawg scowled. "I tell you what, the minute all them weird zombies are gone, TorqueDawg is outta here!" and he shoved Jesse aside as he strolled off randomly.

Jesse arched her eyebrow as she caught herself quickly. "Okay. The sea of zombies isn't normal. That's nice to hear."

"Two moons IS normal though, right?" Petra questioned, brow furrowing in slight concern.

Sparklez blinked, looking as though Petra had just asked whether the sky was up. "The... moons? Yeah."

"Why don't you know about this stuff?" TorqueDawg sneered, "you from, like, out of town or something?"

Before anything else could be said, all the lights went out. Even the furnaces stopped glowing, and Petra's inner glow was just faint enough that she illuminated a small patch of floor and not much else. The darkness was unnaturally dark, so dark that even Jesse's night vision couldn't see worth beans, just some moving shadows. Everyone let out loud yells of alarm.

The sound of something dispensing suddenly engaged, and TorqueDawg let out alarmed yells as the dispenser fired several times, loudly, everyone starting to talk loudly as they milled around, trying to get their bearings.

"What in the name of Notch is going on?!" Jesse asked, bewildered, before the lights went back on- and everyone gasped.

TorqueDawg lay on the ground, chest impaled with an arrow, arm impaled, and an arrow sticking out of his leg as he lay on the floor. Jesse's mouth fell open. "What the ffffffffffffreaking heck!" Jesse changed her words quickly, mouth hanging open in dismay at the sight of the rude male lying on the ground with his mouth open.

TorqueDawg exploded into a puff of smoke, leaving the arrows and other various items behind. Sparklez let out a gasp, hands going to his mouth. "TorqueDawg?!" he exclaimed.

Jesse sucked in a huge breath of air. "O...kay, this just got really worrying really fast," she mumbled, thoughtfully.

Sparklez flailed his arms in the air in a huge panic. "All those arrows! His inventory! Everywhere! How did that- who- what-!? One minute he's alive, the next-!" And he covered his face with his arms.

Jesse crossed her arms, looking down at the ground. "Yeah, what the heck even happened? Did anyone see?"

Petra shook her head, frowning. "I have pretty good night vision... but-"

"You couldn't see anything?" Jesse finished.

"Yeah," Lukas agreed, "it's... it's the first time I've been scared of the dark since... since we..." His ears quivered.

Jesse looked up with a sigh- and then started. "Oh... hello, there, little dispenser. I think we know what you dispense now."

Lukas followed her gaze up. And then he started. Jesse could tell because his tail bushed out so much it looked like a cactus. He then proceeded to swear so badly that Jesse's ears probably censored it out.

"And I thought I sweared badly," Jesse said, chuckling faintly, before leaning towards the floor. "Hm, let's... see what we can figure out, here." She looked at his inventory, eyes narrowing. "Gunpowder, redstone dust, leather... pants... um, looks pretty much like one would expect, I suppose."

A loud thunking sound, and Jesse stepped back hastily as the section of floor holding the inventory sank into the ground... before dropping entirely, leaving a gaping hole in the floor.

Jesse blinked, before reaching out and peeking into the trapdoor cautiously. "Hmm, looks like a matching set with that dispenser up there..." she hummed.

"But you saw his stuff," Petra said, one hand on her hip and the other on her chin, "he didn't really have anything worth stealing."

Jesse'd stopped paying all that much attention. Something strange was striking her about the arrow, but she couldn't tell what. Reaching out cautiously, she pulled one of the arrows out of the ground, and peered at it cautiously. "Something's... off about this arrow," she mumbled, before looking up at her d- mentor. Mentor, not dad, why did that thought keep crossing her head. "Ivor, you know potions and enchantments better than all the rest of us combined. What do you think?" And she handed it over.

Ivor reached out, took the arrow, and examined it carefully. After a moment of examining it, he sniffed it, before sticking out his tongue and barely touching the tip of it to his tongue.

He immediately spat it out. "Yes. Smell and taste is almost synonymous with Potion of Poison, though nowhere as near as strong as the ones I can make with your venom, Jesse," he said, hand tight on the arrow.

"Oh, is it a t-tipped arrow?" Sparklez asked nervously, eyes flicking from the hybrids to the arrow with the strange green tip. "I've heard of those. They're... they're still pretty new."

"Ever seen them used before?" Jesse asked, curiously.

"In a trap like this? No way," and Sparklez shook his head pretty furiously, before putting a hand to his chin. "Could've sworn I saw someone doing a tutorial on how to make those not too long ago..."

Jesse raised her eyebrow as Ivor handed the arrow back to her, looking as though he was standing tauter than a bowstring at full draw. "But my nerves are too shot to remember who right now!" Sparklez huffed.

"Hello? Everything okay in here- GAH!"

The four hybrids and Sparklez jumped as a girl with pink hair wandered into the room, and then jumped back a couple steps.

Jesse looked down at her four extra arms, then at her friends. Lukas had darted behind Sparklez and his hair was standing up on end again, hissing softly, while Petra had actually hovered into the air from her jump. Then she looked back at the girl, who was staring at Jesse and her friends with an open mouth.

Petra finally, sheepishly, waved a bit. "Ah... hello."

A/N: Yay we're gonna meet the YouTubers next chapter!

DemonCatLady: Yes indeedy

ChoyofBonk: You're telling me... and I'm the one writing this story! xD

LittleAngelBun: I'm not telling you anything until we've reached that point ;) No spoilers, chica.

GuestPerson13: Probably I can fit something in ;) And eat burned food. I really like burned food, for some reason xD

NinjaCat: Three more!

A Person: Lol to both reviews xD

Toni42: (has a grin like the Chesire Cat's)

pensuka: (wiggles eyebrows)

Choco: Actually, the cookie was an oatmeal raisin one. Jesse managed to get the ONE odd cookie in the whole group xD

NoItsBecky: Lol, nope sorry xD That'd be so funny tho

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