Chapter 7: In Headquarters

Anna woke up early the next morning to find Lukas wasn't there. She sat up and saw he had covered her with his jacket, but where was he?

Anna quickly got up and exited the house, looking around for him. She was next to a tree when she heard a crunch, then Lukas fell into her arms.

"Oh...Hi..." Lukas said. Anna quickly dropped him.

"What where you doing?" asked Anna. "Gathering apples from a despawning tree?"

Lukas looked up at the tree and saw it didn't have any wood on it.

"How did you even get up there?"

"Honestly, I have no idea." Lukas responded. "I just started climbing and before I know it I'm in your arms...then on the ground."

"You gave me a heart attack! I thought you ran off! Don't do that to me again!" Anna scolded him, helping him up and walking back inside the hut.

Hm... thought Lukas I sounded like, for a minute, she cared about me...


Twenty minutes later, everyone was awake and ready to go.

As they walked, Anna talked to Lukas a little.

"I rember going to the Order's temple. I was only five when the Order got separated, but I went here alot with my dad. For meetings and that stuff." said Anna "I don't remember much of it now, but I remember a good part of it. Everyone was so nice and friendly to me... they where like an extended family. It broke my heart when they left."

Suddenly, the friends came across an old, moss covered temple.

"Woah." Jesse said. "The Order's temple."

"Fourteen years sure takes its toll." Anna said.

The group climbed up a tall wall of vines to get to the top.

"This is amazing." said Olivia in awe once the group got to the top of the small hill.

The group headed in, looking around. There was stone brick walls, a floor, and a celing covered with moss. There was also a row of dispensers lined up against the wall.

"Isn't it weird how dispensers look like faces?" asked Axel.

Suddenly, there was a loud creaking noise. It startled Ruben so he took off running. Anna quickly caught him before he could run over a pressure plate.

"Phew! That could have been ba-" Anna said, turning around and accidentally stepping on a pressure plate.

"Oops."

There was a crackling noise coming from the dispensers.

"Aw, come on dispenser faces! I thought we where friends!" exclaimed Axel.

"Run!" yelled Jesse as arrows shot out at the group.

The group made it to a small portion of the hallway that wasn't being plummeted by arrows.

"We're trapped!" exclaimed Olivia.

"Wait... if those pressure plates activated the arrows..." said Lukas. "There might be a wag to shut them off if we activate them again!"

"There's a crafting table!" exclaimed Jesse, pointing to a crafting table in the corner.

"But all of our supplies are back at home!" exclaimed Olivia.

"I got a bow!" Anna exclaimed, holding up the bow she got from Ivor's base. "All we need is an arrow!" She grabbed one that landed on the floor of the small hallway, aimed, and fired the arrow at a pressure plate. It hit it perfectly, and the arrows stopped.

"I've been shooting arrows since I could hold a bow." Anna said.

"You're good." Lukas said.

"Let's go!" Jesse quickly added as she and the others ran to the other room.


The doorway led to a small room. It was just like the basement: bookshelves, potions, and a set of stairs in one corner.

"Is it just me, or does this remind me of Ivor's creepy basement." asked Axel.

"Same." Olivia responded.

"Let's see out what we can find on where the temple's located." Jesse told them.

Anna walked around, pulling books off shelves, flipping through them, testing for secret doors, and poking around inside chests.

"Guys, take a look at this!" called Jesse. Anna walked over and gathered with Acel, Olivia, and Lukas where Jesse was in a corner near a book sitting on a table.

"Although the battle was feirce, the Order of the Stone emerged triumphant. These five friends would earn so much to earn their rightful place as five heroes... Ivor was a member of the Order of the Stone!"

"Five?" asked Anna. That would explain some things... but why did dad lie to me? she thought.

"Ivor was a member of the Order of the Stone!" exclaimed Jesse.

"They lied to us!" exclaimed Olivia. "They lied to the whole world!"

"Why would they though?" asked Anna, still in disbelief.

"I don't know. Let's keep searching." Jesse replied.

Anna continued to poke around until Jesse found a set of stairs. The group went up them to find a top floor. There was bits and peices of the walls missing, a large map on the wall, and a weird redstone contraption in the middle of the room.

"Wow. I never thought I'd be back here." Anna said to herself. It was almost like yesterday the walls where fresh and new, and Gabriel and the Order was right in that room.

While the others where walking around, trying to find some sort of tracking device, Anna noticed Axel standing near the map.

"Find anything?" she asked him.

"No, not yet." Axel told her.

"Axel... are you okay?" asked Anna.

"Yes! Well... sort of... it's just... Petra is still out there. I should have done more to help her when I had the chance. She could be out there, hurt..." Axel replied. "...or worse."

"Axel... I know you really care about Petra. And I'm worried about her too. But she's strong. She'll make it." Anna told him. "And I know you like her."

"I do not!" Axel exclaimed.

"You've been telling me how pretty she is since fifth grade." Anna told him. "Just saying..."

Jesse put the amulet in a frame near the redstone contraption and hit a few switches. The sunlight shone through the amulet and on the map on two separate places on the map. A red light shone on a spot on the left, a green on the right. The light gray shone on the floor, and an aqua blue somewhere in the middle of the map.

"Woah... this must be like a tracking device for the Order!" exclaimed Olivia.

"The green light is for Magnus, the red for Ellegaard, light gray for Soren, the dark blue for Ivor," Anna exsplained. "And Gabriel is-" Then Anna realized her father's light wasn't even shining. She took a deep breath to hold back her tears. "Well... either way, we need either Magnus or Ellegaard to help us."

"We should go to Ellegaard's. She might know how to make a command block or some sort of machine to destroy this storm." Olivia suggested.

"We should go to Magnus's. We need to blow this thing up, and he's the person to go to." Axel responded.

"Well, what do you think Jesse?" asked Lukas.

"Hope you're ready Axel... we're going to see Magnus." Jesse told Axel. Axel smiled approvingly.

"I'll stay back here to make the place safe... get it ready for if Petra shows up."

"I'll stay with you. Don't want to get minecart sick again." Anna told him. "That way, Olivia can go to Ellegaard's." Olivia smiled at her.

Suddenly, a loud noise was heard.

"Jesse..." Lukas told her. "Please hurry."


"Dear Journal, Anna has a great aim with a bow. I think she's even better at archery than Jesse. I think that I'm-"

"Hey Lukas!" exclaimed Anna. Jesse, Ruben, Axel, and Olivia had already gone. The hideout was more secure and cleaner too.

"What- I wasn't writing in my journal!" Lukas blurted out, stuffing his journal in his jacket pocket.

Anna looked at him oddly before walking to one corner of the room to get a spot she missed cleaning. She silently peered at him as he continued writing in his journal.

Don't worry Lukas... she thought. I love you too.

WE'RE DONE WITH LEVEL 1! FINALLY!

Haven't uploaded because of school and other stories. Still, yet his was my first ever story, so it has a special place in my life.

This is Summer saying Sayanora!