"Soren!" Gabriel, Magnus, and Ellegaard chorused. Ivor's eyes widened in surprise.

"Soren!" Ellegaard exclaimed onscreen. "There he is. Soren's fortress was pretty deep inside the mountains. After the Order... broke up-"

Onscreen-Magnus developed an interest in the ceiling on the words 'broke up'. Jesse glanced at him but didn't actually say anything.

"That's where he went to keep doing his experiments," Ellegaard finished.

"Look," Magnus spoke up, "he invited me a couple times, but it always seemed a bit..."

"Weird, right?" Ellegaard finished for him, "it always seemed a bit weird."

Soren raised his eyebrow at the two of them, the two Order members developing a fascination in the screen in front of them.

Magnus nodded in agreement with that. "Glad we can agree on that, at any rate," he muttered.

Jesse interrupted, clapping her hands together. "Well, then, let's stop hanging around here and go get that super TNT!" she exclaimed.

Abruptly, another light flickered on, this one dark blue and emitting from the center of the amulet.

"Wait, what?" Harper asked, looking a bit startled. "It didn't do that before..."

"No... no it didn't," Lizzie mumbled, touching the corner of her mouth thoughtfully.

Onscreen, their eyes all widened in surprise.

"Whoa," Ellegaard said, a bit taken aback. The blue light was moving towards the white light at a rapid clip now.

"It didn't do that before," Olivia frowned, crossing her arms and squinting at the screen. "Is it working?"

Jesse's eyes had been narrowing at the light thoughtfully, before they widened again, the green and red irises shrinking to pinpricks in the whites of her eyes. "Oh, crap!" she cried out. "That's Ivor!"

"That's Ivor?!" Petra exclaimed. "He must've just gotten out of the Nether!"

Onscreen, everyone's head snapped around to look at the map in shock as Jesse continued, pointing at the amulet and then at the map again, "The part on the amulet that has the light is the same as the thing on Ivor's belt."

Everyone automatically looked at Ivor's belt, which did indeed have the same thing as the center of the amulet. He simply scowled at them all a bit. "If you would all please stop staring at my midriff..." he said pointedly. Everyone looked away and back to the screen.

"I- how did we never see that sooner?" Jace asked, tapping one finger to his temple. "That... wow."

"Holy crap, you're right!" Petra agreed, her gold eyes widening as well as she thumbed the corner of her mouth.

"Ivor's going to Soren's!" Ellegaard stared intently at the map. "We need to move."

Jesse touched her lip thoughtfully, squinting at the map a bit. "Hmm... I don't think we're too far. We could probably make it on foot," she said musingly.

"Perfect," and Ellegaard put her hands on her hips, "we can wait until morning and travel with a full day's sunlight-"

"NO."

The screen switched to show Petra, her fists clenched, eyes wide, and a perfectly freaked out look fixed on her face. "No. We are NOT letting that Witherstorm catch up with us."

Magnus nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah, I think I've had enough for one day."

Ellegaard's lips pinched together. "Right, because getting caught in the dark is so much better," she replied, although there wasn't much bite to her voice.

"Why are we worried about monsters? We ARE monsters, or, well, most of us are half, anyways. We would probably be fine," Jesse pointed out to them.

There was a momentary silence, before Lukas facepalmed. "I can't believe I just forgot..."

"Yeah, let's- let's go now," Jesse shuddered. "I don't want that thing catching up to us."

"Jesse here's talkin' a lot of sense. Let's just go with that plan."

Ellegaard rolled her eyes at the Rogue, who was next to her. "You're just saying that because it's your plan, but fine."

That said, the group started splitting up to go look through the temple, the screen going up to show the four lights on the map, before the screen faded to black.

"Honestly... it's probably a good thing you just left immediately," Em spoke, making a lot of them look at her. "With monsters you can always fight them off. But it's hard to do anything with that Witherstorm."

"Yeah..." Jesse was staring at the screen anxiously. "I just hope nobody gets hurt." Jace didn't say anything, but it was obvious from his facial expression that he agreed wholeheartedly.

Lukas gave her a comforting pat on the back, while Petra put an arm over Jace's shoulders.

It was dark when the screen faded back in to show the group of eight walking through the woods, all clumped together for obvious reasons.

"Hi, Jesse."

Jesse started a bit as Ellegaard came up next to her. "Oh- hi."

"We haven't had the chance to acquaint ourselves properly," Ellegaard replied, "well, seeing as... you don't remember anything from the lab, right?"

Jesse thought about this for a moment, tilting her head to one side, before shaking it at the woman again. "Bits and flashes, but nothing concrete yet. Yeah, I don't."

"Ah. I heard you saved Petra from the Witherstorm. Sounds like you're a pretty impressive person, nowadays."

Jesse's expression softened, and she looked over her shoulder. "Thanks, but... I just..." The screen switched to show that Lukas was walking next to Olivia, Axel on the other side with Petra next to Lukas, Axel animatedly waving his arms around with Olivia's facial expression being one of mixed horror and amusement, Lukas having a faintly similar expression. Magnus was nodding a lot and talking, but none of it was audible. "... I just want everyone to be safe," Jesse finished.

"Aww, you love us," Lukas teased, poking Jesse in the cheek. She made a soft whining sound and batted him away, but she was smiling anyway.

Petra coughed something that sounded vaguely like "Ishipit". This made the members of the audience who'd heard the comment snigger, Jesse blinking innocently at them and Lukas just raising an eyebrow at Petra questioningly.

"I can always appreciate humility. I like you," Ellegaard stated, making all of the Jesses blink slightly at the comment, "innnn any case, I sort of wish you'd taken my side earlier, but... water under the bridge and all that."

"Honestly, if I'd seen the Witherstorm for myself, I probably would've said we should leave immediately, as well," Ellegaard mused, tapping her lip.

Magnus pointed at her. "Ha! See? I told you!"

"Don't be so full of yourself, you idiot."

"Yeah... anyway," Jesse said, putting her lower arms behind her back, "you and Olivia seem to get along really well."

Ellegaard shot a warm smile back in Olivia's direction, the girl grinning back upon spotting it. "Yes, she's very nice. She really hasn't changed much since your days back at the lab."

Jesse tilted her head for a moment, thinking about it. "... she used to be more of a prankster," she hummed thoughtfully, "I think I remember that much about her back then. But, I may be wrong, so you can take that with a grain of salt."

Ellegaard nodded at the comment, although it seemed a bit absentminded. "Mm, I see. Incidentally, why didn't you listen to her plan to come and recruit me?"

"Awww, are you jeawous, Ellie?" Magnus asked, in a baby voice as he leaned over.

Soren had to actively restrain Ellegaard from slapping the Rogue in the face.

"Not to make it awkward or anything. Or to demand why didn't you want to recruit me?" Ellegaard gave an extremely awkward laugh for not making it awkward.

Onscreen Jesse simply shrugged. "Nothing against you. It's just that Olivia's pretty good with redstone and building, so I thought it'd be better for her to fortify the walls and stuff. Besides, you've seen how Axel and Lukas get along. If I'd left those two together there's a fair chance the temple would've been demolished by the time we got back, especially with Axel's being half-creeper and tending towards the griefer side of things, like Magnus."

This prompted a round of giggling from the watchers. Axel sent Lukas a sheepish grin, which the blonde returned.

Ellegaard snorted a bit, covering her mouth when Jesse looked at her. "Yes, he DOES seem rather like Magnus. And Magnus does know how to blow things up with reckless abandon, that's for sure. I'll do my best to not let it hurt my feelings." The woman chuckled. "Joke. That was a joke."

"A terrible one," Magnus declared. Ellegaard shot the Rogue an acidic glare.

Suddenly, there was a loud groan, and Lukas turned around, followed quickly by everyone else. The screen changed to show monsters approaching them. Thousands and thousands of them. Jesse casually moved and stepped in front of the two Order members, everyone quickly moving so that they were surrounding the two Order of the Stone members protectively.

"See, this is why I said we should go in the morning," Ellegaard hissed.

"You just agreed that it was better to leave immediately, you can't just go back on it now," Dan pointed out. Ellegaard shot him a disgruntled look.

"Why are you telling me that? Onscreen-me can't hear you!"

"Oh yeah..."

"I'd rather deal with these small fires than the big one," Magnus whispered back sharply, before sucking in a breath as Lukas, the nearest one to the Rogue, elbowed him in the ribs to shut him up.

A creeper wandered extremely close to the group as said group slowly walked through the monsters. Real-Olivia's head was buried in her hands again, peeking through her fingers timidly, as Onscreen-Olivia practically chanted, "Don't look don't look don't look." Not that she actually had to say it; none of them were looking at her.

The creeper wandered over to Axel, who swallowed nervously but didn't do anything otherwise, staring into the creeper's empty eyes. The creeper wandered away a moment later as Lukas started coming closer to it, his tail bristling in fear.

The screen faded to black as the whole group continued walking through the monsters, all holding their breaths and in perfect silence.

Jesse let out a loud sigh of relief and flopped into Lukas, making him wobble unsteadily as he caught her by the shoulders, keeping them both from flopping sideways onto the floor.

"So... none of us- you- whatever- are dead yet," Jace sighed, leaning into Petra. The redhead grinned and patted him on the head, which he didn't even blink at. "That's... pretty good."

"Although that was ever so close," Jesse breathed in relief. There was a general murmur of assent from the rest of the audience.


A/N: Next chapter will be shippy xD

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