"Nice!" Jesse exclaimed, eyes wide.
"Oh, wow," and Lukas sat up a bit straighter, blue eyes flashing with interest, "you went to the Nether?"
Ivor's eyes were fixated on the screen. He glanced at everyone else quickly.
"Right?" Petra's grin could've been compared to the Chesire Cat's. "There's this guy I'm meeting up with at Endercon. He's going to trade me a diamond for it." She put the skull back into her back pocket.
Jesse's lips twisted together a bit dubiously at this, slowly crossing her arms. "What's he gonna do with a Wither Skull, anyway? Stick it on his mantelpiece and brag to everyone about it?"
"Ooh, if we had a mantel, we could totally do that," Axel said, perking up. "That'd be a cool design thing."
Maya let out a noncommittal hum at this suggestion. "Mmm."
Jace raised his eyebrow at Maya. He leaned over to Olivia. "Did Maya just kind of agree with us? Or was that just my imagination?" he whispered.
"If it was just your imagination, then it would be mine, too."
"I dunno, Petra," Jesse was saying onscreen, "it sounds a little shadoy..."
"A lot of my deals are shady," Petra dismissed this.
Real-Petra snorted. "That's true enough."
"Don't worry, I'm pretty sure everything will be fine."
"... wow." This soft utterance came out in a breathless, rather admiring way.
Petra turned to look at Jesse and came to a stop, gold eyes narrowed at her in confusion. "Wow... what?"
Jesse put up her hands in mild surrender, eyes widening as she hastened to explain. "I-it's just- in one day, you went to the Nether, and killed a Wither Skeleton- I mean, I did build a pretty cool statue, but... it's pretty sweet being you, huh?"
Petra hesitated for a moment, before saying, tentatively, "You know... you could come WITH me, if you want..."
"Awesome, dude!" Axel cheered, making Jesse start a bit and twist to look at him, "say yes, say yes!"
"You want me... to come with YOU," Jesse said, pointing at herself and then at Petra in utter astonishment.
Petra's lips twitched into a smile. "Consider it my charitable act for the day," she joked.
"I'll consider it whatever you want me to consider it," Jesse gushed a bit, eyes sparkling, "so long as I get to come."
The two of them came to a stop near a crafting table. Jesse blinked a bit at this before looking over at Petra. "You just... keep a crafting table down here?"
"I wish we could do that," Milo muttered quietly. Isa overheard, though, and narrowed her eyes at the blonde. "And what in the world is THAT supposed to insinuate?"
Petra shrugged. "Comes in handy. Since that wooden sword of yours got busted..." The redhead trailed off.
Jesse looked at the crafting table, then back at the redhead. "I can make my own?"
Petra smiled at Jesse again. "Yep- it's always better to make it yourself. Just get everything you need from that chest over there," and she pointed at said chest.
"Wow, thanks, Petra," Jesse said again, turning to look at Petra. "I mean, you saved my life, and now you're letting me make a sword..." She trailed off, before smiling slightly. "... thank you."
"Like I said, I'll always help out a friend in need," Petra said, grinning back at her.
"Okay- thanks." Jesse trotted over to the chest and open it. Rummaging through it for a few seconds, she lifted the stones and the sticks out of the chest, juggling it a bit to keep herself from dropping it on the floor. "Y'know, four extra arms would be really useful in this situation," she joked. Petra snickered a bit at that.
Finally, she managed to get everything in place on the table, and the ingredients shivered together before compacting and forming a stone sword, hovering a little above the table.
"You know, I always wondered how that worked," Jesse mused, tapping her lip. There were murmurs of agreement from all of the younger people in the room.
"There's a lot of scientific-y mumbo jumbo about how all that works, but I don't know it so I don't care," Magnus responded lazily. Ellegaard opened her mouth, probably to explain exactly how that worked, but right then Jesse was lifting her sword off the table and giving it a good look as Petra grinned at her. "See? Isn't it better when you make it yourself?"
Jesse nodded as she sheathed her new sword, grinning back at Petra.
The screen cut to them trotting out of the cave. "Hey, look," Petra pointed, "Endercon's all lit up."
Jesse turned to look, her eyes lighting up as the screen cut to Endercon, fireworks going off above the convention.
"Awesome! We won!" Jace exclaimed, high-fiving Axel and Olivia and Jesse in excitement. Jesse grinned and fondled Reuben's ears, her own eyes sparkling with excitement herself. Aiden and the other Ocelots scowled a bit at this.
"No way- we won!" Jesse jumped up and down in place and pumped her fists, making Petra grin at her in amusement. "The Enderman was the right way to go."
"Good for you, Jesse," Petra responded, sounding encouraging.
Jesse put her hands on her hips. "It's about time we beat Lukas and his gang of jerks," she said, determinedly. "I was sick and tired of losing every diddly-darn competition we entered to them."
"What? I don't like swearing," Jesse said, when everyone turned to stare at her. She rubbed her head awkwardly as she glanced over at Lukas. "Um, sorry about calling you a jerk."
"It's fine..."
Petra hesitated, before tentatively saying, "You know, Lukas can be kinda arrogant, but he's come through for me in some tough situations. I'm just saying, you may want to get to know him... just in case."
Jesse's expression faded to a more thoughtful one. "I got that feeling..." she crossed her arms a bit. "I just got this feeling that... I dunno..." She raised her shoulders and then let them slump in a little shrug. "I trust him."
Lukas blinked. "Oh... thanks, Jesse."
The black-haired girl shot him a thumbs-up and a grin, which he returned a moment later. (The grin, not the thumbs up.)
Petra raised her eyebrow as the two of them started walking again. "Think it has something to do with us being hybrids?" she wondered.
Jesse let out a little laugh at that. "Lukas? A hybrid? Nahh, he's the most normal person I know... of. I don't know him that well."
Jesse smothered a sound that could've been described as a snort at this. She wasn't the only one to do so.
"There's no way-" She was cut off as she reached the middle of the bridge by a loud hiss. Both female's heads snapped forward to see a crowd of creepers approaching them.
Olivia let out a groan and covered her eyes. "Oh, no, not again...!"
"Creepers!" Jesse hissed as she backed up. Petra turned around to face the other way and let out a loud groan. "Crap."
Jesse turned to see zombies and more creepers emerging from the cave they'd come from, cutting off any escape routes.
"Uhh, well, there's only one way off this bridge..." Petra said, unsteadily. "Whatever we do, we do it together..."
Jesse swallowed, before pulling out her new stone sword, unevenly-colored green eyes hardening. "The only way off this bridge, is through them!" she told the redhead, who smiled slightly and pulled out her own sword, both of them turning to face their respective crowds.
Jesse smacked a creeper away several times before it puffed into smoke, but even as the smoke rose into the air another creeper seemed to materialize in its place. "There's too many!" Petra shouted out.
Olivia let out a little gasp and buried her head in her hands. "Oh Notch no."
"I don't wanna DIE!" Jesse screamed as the creepers got too close and exploded, sending both girls flying off the bridge. Jesse looked down to see the water rushing forward to meet them, before looking up to see Petra. Petra's gold eyes were faintly panicked.
"Can you swim?" Jesse called out to Petra over the rushing wind.
The redhead swallowed, looking down again. "Not... not well." Her voice seemed to have gone an octave higher.
"Neither can I," Jesse admitted in turn, looking back down again.
"If Petra is half-Blaze," Cassie murmured thoughtfully, "could she die if she fell in water?"
Jace looked extremely uncomfortable at the thought of that. "I don't think I want to know." Petra's facial expression said much the same thing.
"Can't Blazes fly?" Jesse shouted to Petra after a moment of thought.
"It's more like hovering, honestly, but- yes, Blazes can technically fly," Soren murmured thoughtfully.
"What?! Jesse, you do realize I don't have wings, right?!" Petra screamed back, her voice definitely an octave higher and definitely panicked.
"Blazes don't either! Just... I dunno how Blazes fly, just try to figure it out?!" Jesse asked desperately, looking around in a hot panic herself.
Petra squeezed her eyes tight, fists clenching. It was evident to see that she was trying to rack her brain the best she could. Slowly, sparks started flying off of Petra, piecing together to form golden rods around her. They were only halfway formed, but they were getting pretty darn close to the water-
Jesse shot her hand out again, and a long string of silk fired from the center of her palm, catching onto a ledge somewhere on the cliff. Jesse's free-fall turned more into a long swing, slowing the downwards momentum. Jesse's eyes widened in surprise.
She splashed into the water, sending an impressive wave of water flying, before coming back to the surface, the water only coming up to about the bottom of her ribs now. Not that it really mattered; seeing as she was soaking wet. She reached out and tore off the spider silk that seemed to be coming from her hand.
Petra hit the water at an extremely acute angle, tripping into the water with a yelp and making the Blaze Rods evaporate into clouds of steam.
The audience winced at this.
Her torso popped above the water as well, although the water reached more to her waist, her left arm also steaming.
"I seriously envy tall people," Jesse mumbled, leaning her cheek on her hand as she watched the screen.
The two girls were panting heavily, staring at each other, steam rising from around Petra and a long floating trail of silk behind Jesse, water pouring from their hair and their clothes that were above the water.
"... so," Petra finally said, still panting, "that happened."
The two girls kept staring at each other for a moment, before a funny sound came out of Jesse, and the two girls suddenly couldn't stop laughing, Petra slapping her hand over her eyes and Jesse covering her mouth as she giggled.
"I think they might be in a bit of shock from what just happened," Jace murmured musingly. "I mean, they both found out they were hybrids, got blown off a bridge, and used their 'powers' to keep from becoming a grease spot in the river."
"I know I would be!" Stampy contributed.
The two girls headed for shore, still laughing, as the screen faded back to black.
"This is kind of cool," Petra mumbled, "but I don't really see why we need to be showed this. I mean, besides the whole hybrid thing, it seems like any other day. Except, well, Jesse's a girl-"
"Technically I should be called Jace, now-"
"And she's tagging along. And none of the other people here have showed up yet."
Jesse hummed thoughtfully. "Well, we will find out. Although I still have to wonder why anyone would want a Wither Skull in the first place."
"Maybe it's like Jesse suggested and the guy's putting it on his mantel," Axel suggested.
This prompted snorts from the audience.
A/N: Hehehe xD
RQTC: Would you rather live in the MCSM world, or slap Donald Trump? xD
The first one, since I don't think Trump would exist in the MCSM world so I wouldn't have to deal with all of his bs.
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