Olivia let out a loud shriek of shock as a zombie's rotting hand grabbed her wrist. In a violent spray of purple-pink sparks, she reappeared to several feet away, just as a skeleton fired an arrow at them. The arrow pierced the zombie and fell over, and another one that had started lumbering over tripped over the body of the first zombie before it burst into smoke.

"That," Ellegaard said, breathing a long sigh of relief, "was extremely lucky."

Olivia nodded mutely in response.

Axel flashed white, eyes narrowing, before an explosion blasted through the monsters, incinerating a few on the spot and blasting most of the other ones back away from the hybrids, smoke curling off of the creeper hybrid.

"That was awesome!" Nell cheered. Axel grinned at her.

There was a pregnant pause where the hybrids were just panting heavily, trying to catch their breaths, before the whole group ran for the archway as fast as possible, Petra and Jesse automatically drawing their swords and warding off some of the monsters that were approaching.

"Axel, look out!" Olivia shouted. Jesse whirled around to see a spider land on Axel's back, where the creeper hybrid couldn't reach it. He squeezed his eyes shut, but only a few sparks shot off of him.

Harper hummed, rubbing her chin. "Hmm, it appears that his explosion ability has a bit of a cool-down time..." she murmured thoughtfully.

"That," Sparklez said, "is incredibly inconvenient."

Soren nodded in agreement at this.

Jesse opened her mouth to yell at the spider. What instead came out of her mouth was a loud hissing sound. The spider turned its head to look at Jesse, tilting it curiously.

"I guess you can talk to other spiders? Y'know, since you're half?" Lizzie asked, looking at Jesse.

Jesse simply shrugged in response, looking just as bewildered as the pink-haired girl. "I- I guess?" she replied. "I'm- I'm just as in the dark with all of this as you are."

Subtitles popped onto the screen as Jesse hissed again, eyes narrowing at the spider angrily. "Leave him alone!" is what all the hissing meant, apparently.

To the audience's relief, and the onscreen hybrid's surprise, the spider hopped of Axel's back and crawled away. There was a long pause where they were all blinking at what had just happened, before Jesse suddenly spun around, lashing out with her sword and knocking the head off of a zombie before it could get to her. "Run!" she barked at them.

They sprinted through the archway, pulling a tight turn to get inside without running into the wall. "There's two things I hate," Axel grumbled, "it's running and monsters."

They ran up a small flight of steps, before they all skidded to a stop, staring at the thing in front of them.

"Holy crap," Olivia gasped, "an End portal."

The screen zoomed out to reveal that it was indeed an End portal, with the delicately elaborate surrounding structure and the night sky studded with stars inside of the portal. Olivia leaned towards the portal a bit, dark eye and glowing violet eye reflecting the stars.

"Wait!" Lukas gasped, the whole group turning to see Lukas staring over his shoulder at something with wide blue-green eyes. "Wha- look!"

The screen changed to show Petra in her red cloak, still fighting off monsters furiously. A zombie knocked into her, making the Blaze hybrid flash red as she fell backwards, the blow knocking her to the floor.

"Oh my Notch," Olivia practically whispered, every person who knew Petra staring at the screen with wide eyes. Never had the redhead been taken down like this before.

All four of them suddenly hissed. Olivia's eyes widened and she gritted her teeth to reveal that they'd all sharpened, Axel's eyes dilated to huge proportions, Lukas's hair and tail stood on end as his pupils shrank to slits, and Jesse's red eye flashing angrily.

"GET AWAY FROM THEM!" Jesse yelled to Petra, before lunging to all eights and springing straight back into the battle, slamming into the zombie and doing a flip to land back on her feet before driving her blade deep into the zombie's chest, making it explode into smoke. Petra scooted backwards rapidly, eyes wide as Lukas skidded into the room. His claws unsheathed again and he uppercut a skeleton, actually snapping a few of the bones from the force of the hit.

Olivia bleeped into sight and seized the cloak, dragging Petra to her feet and away from the mobs flooding into the room. Axel charged right into the middle of the monsters and clenched his fists. He started flashing white again, and Jesse seized ahold of Lukas's arm and started to run away, before the explosion hit them both and sent them flying forward before Jesse rolled and slammed into the base of the staircase, Lukas lying on top of her. Both of them let out a groan of pain, before Jesse managed to gently push him off of her and get to her feet.

Jesse looked back at the monsters started following them towards the End Portal, and her eyes hardened. "JUMP!" And, dropping back to all eights, she catapulted herself forward into the portal. The screen momentarily went black.

It came back on to a seemingly deserted landscape, with an vibrantly purple sky, tall towering black structures made of obsidian, and a white-yellow ground. A strange, little high-pitched noise sounded, and Jesse suddenly appeared, back slamming violently into a block. She let out an gasp, green and red eyes wide as she tried to breathe, her hands shaking as she desperately tried to inhale.

"You get to meet the Order of the Stone, go to the Nether, AND go to the End," Jace hummed, before patting Jesse on the back. "You're super lucky."

"I think you guys get to do this stuff, too," Jesse pointed up, poking Jace. He grinned at her in response.

Onscreen, Jesse slowly got to her feet, breathing heavily as she looked around, taking in her surroundings. She didn't actually have time to say anything, though, because a moment later Lukas appeared, landing from a two-foot fall. His hand was squeezing the amulet so tightly that Onscreen-Jesse looked a bit worried that it might break. "Oh- oh boy. This is- this is terrifying. This just gets better and better, doesn't it?" He let out a high-pitched, nervous laugh, ears and tail twitching anxiously.

"What's with him? He looks like he might puke or something any second," Stacy wondered, frowning.

"He's probably just a bit high-strung right now," Mevia spoke, making everyone look at her. "After all, they did just fight off a whole horde of monsters and jump into an End portal."

Olivia bleeped into sight a second later, her hands holding Reuben as though he were a block. Her arms were ramrod-straight, and her body was perfectly stiff. Onscreen, Jesse actually had to crane her neck back to get a good look at Olivia's face. Olivia's arms quivered, before slowly setting Reuben down, her muscles relaxing. Petra appeared a moment after that, staggering sideways a step.

The redhead looked around onscreen, looking a bit alarmed. "Hey, where's Axel? He was right behind me!" she exclaimed.

The weird noise sounded again, and Lukas barely had time to start and look up before Axel flattened him to the ground again. This made several members of the audience wince visibly.

Lukas threw his hands into the air at this. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" he almost shouted at Axel, voice rising into a higher pitch.

Axel put his hands up in surrender and winced a bit. "Okay, okay, maybe alternative-universe me is doing this on purpose!"

"C'mon, man! Come on!" Lukas eked out in pain onscreen, as the amulet rolled away out of his grip back to Jesse's feet. The spider hybrid shot a strand of silk, getting a direct hit on it, before flicking her hand back up like one would do with a yoyo. The amulet slapped neatly into her open palm.

Axel hastily rolled off of Lukas, jumping to his feet with an apologetic look on his face. Lukas sat back up, an annoyed look on his face. Suddenly, his eyes widened, and he put his hands over his face. "Oh, jeez..."

"Are you crying?" Aiden sneered at Lukas.

Jace slowly swiveled to look at Aiden with a blank face. "Would you like me to start throwing things at you again?" he asked patiently. This was enough for the bully's head to snap back around to face the screen, lips pressing together nervously.

Jace turned back to the screen, satisfied, only to spot Petra giving him a raised eyebrow. "What?"

A short silence as she gave him that raised-eyebrow stare and he blinked back at her innocently.

"Oh, c'mon, he deserves it!"

Onscreen-Axel and Real-Axel frowned. "Did I break something...?" Onscreen-Axel mused, although this was the exact though that Real-Axel was thinking right now.

"Oh, man- wh- I- I-" Lukas was stuttering through his hands, which were covering his face.

Jesse put a hand on his shoulder, brow furrowing. "You okay?" she asked, sounding concerned.

Lukas removed his hands, showing his wide blue-green eyes to reveal that he was not, in fact, crying. "What- no, I'm not- I'm not crying or anything, just-" His breath hitched in panic, "look!"

Jesse slowly started to turn around, but only getting halfway there before snapping back to face Lukas, her own eyes widening. "Well, rather... don't look..." she joked, feebly.

Because behind the group, were thousands and thousands of Endermen.

"Oh," Lukas let out a little sigh of mingled frustration and something akin to relief. "Well, um... I wasn't crying."

Axel let out a loud sigh of relief and gave Lukas a sheepish grin. "Oh, good. I thought I broke something when I landed on you."

"Don't sound so relieved, Axel," Jesse said quietly, making a lot of the audience glance at her, "this part isn't quite over with yet."

With that rather ominous note, they slowly turned back to face the screen again.


A/N: The chapters are all getting to about the same length now. I don't know why; I honestly thought that they'd be longer. Welp; maybe they will. Who knows, right?

RQTC: Which is your favorite Order of the Stone member?

I'm not sure if I've said this before, but... Ivor. By a landslide.

Kaos Ruin: xD / (looks at ceiling)

LittleAngelbun: Awesome!

MissyMattingly: Cool :3

Emily The Avenger: (laughs)

AquaK13: x3

Darkbeast Dend: It's fine; but please don't do it again. x3

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