Jesse wandered over to a chest and started poking through it. "Hmm... wooden planks. Those'll come in handy," and she pulled out the two blocks.

"Oh, there you go. You can make that lever now," Sparklez said, pointing at the screen.

Jesse grinned onscreen as she headed over to a nearby crafting table. "Alrighty, let's get crafting. First some sticks..." She put down the two blocks, the two wooden planks shivering together into four sticks. "'Kay, got the sticks..." She now took the cobblestone and stuck it under one of the sticks. The whole thing shivered together before compacting into a lever.

Heading back over to the hole with the redstone, she popped it into place. The redstone started glowing, indicating that the circuit was completed. "Hey, there we go, like it was made for it." She paused, a funny smile coming over her face. "Actually, I suppose it was made for it." She reached out and flipped the lever.

Pistons fired, the lava in the fireplace slowly disappeared, and the back of the fireplace slowly descended into the ground, revealing a staircase leading down into darkness.

Ivor hummed. "You know, I expected you to find that a lot slower. Good job."

The others crowded around, staring down the long staircase for a moment. Lukas finally crossed his arms and tilted his head, ears flicking slightly. "Why would you build a secret passageway in a house nobody visits?" he wondered.

Jesse shrugged at him in return. "More like why wouldn't you. Secret passageways are cool."

"Good point."

"I wonder if there are secret passageways in this house," Ellegaard mused, narrowing her eyes at the screen.

Cassie's lips twisted together thoughtfully. "Hmm... well, there was that hidden library. And that, uh, 'Redstone Heaven' place hidden in the basement. For all we know, there might be."

"Let's spend some time exploring this place after the episode," Isa suggested, shifting from where she was perched on the sofa- her back was starting to smart from sitting in the same position for the longest time. "After all, it's not like the note said we have a time limit to watch all of them."

"That sounds like a sound idea," Otto agreed.

"So then, after the episode, we'll take a break and just explore this place for a bit," Soren spoke up, looking around at the audience to confirm what he was saying. When there were a lot of affirming sounds, they all turned back to the screen.

Onscreen, Jesse, Soren, and Reuben started walking down the staircase, slowly, looking around. There was a sudden, loud, clicking sound, and Soren and Jesse both looked down in perfect sync to see that the ginger architect was standing on a tripwire.

"Crap," Dan vocalized what many members of the audience were now thinking.

Soren and Jesse looked back up at each other, panic in their eyes, before they whipped back around.

The walls slammed shut behind them, the screen showing Lukas skidding to a stop as he nearly ran straight into the walls. The sound of something disengaging, and he jumped back as the lava started flowing again.

"Is everyone okay?" Jesse shouted through the wall.

"Why," Em exclaimed, looking over at Jesse and spreading her arms out expansively (nearly smacking Nell in the face by accident), "do you keep getting separated from everybody?"

Axel leaned over Olivia, Petra, and Jace to pat Jesse on the shoulder. "I'm starting to think you have the worst luck of all time."

"I don't think you're the only one there, Axel."

The screen switched back to show Olivia toggling the lever back and forth. "We're fine, but the lever isn't working anymore!" she called through the wall, trying the lever one last time as if to confirm it wasn't going to work.

Of course, it didn't.

Jesse turned from the wall to give Soren a confused look. He shrugged helplessly.

She turned back to the wall. "Stay there- we'll head down and see what we can find!" she called through the wall. That said, she and the builder turned around and started walking down into the darkness, Reuben trotting down beside the spider hybrid and the architect. The screen went black.

"At least Jesse's not by herself this time," Stampy said, in an attempt to stay positive.

"True. But I wonder what else is down there?" Petra leaned over Jace to see Ivor, making the mocha-haired boy whine a bit playfully. "I highly doubt that it's just 'craft a lever and stick it in the hole' easy."

"Of course it isn't," Ivor said dismissively, "but since Soren's with her, it'll be easy."

"Good!" Jesse declared, turning back to the screen.

The screen faded back in to show Jesse and Soren coming into a brightly lit room from the staircase, Soren's eyes widening. Jesse simply blinked, looking around her. "Whoa," she said, looking around her. "What IS all this?"

Soren shook his head, a slow grin coming over his face. "Incredible! He's gathered them all in one place!"

The screen switched to show the room from Jesse and Soren's backs, a long red carpet with pedestals on the sides. Items rested atop each of the pedestals. "Gathered... what exactly?"

The Order all gasped simultaneously.

"Is that...?" Ellegaard said slowly, turning to look at Ivor.

A faint smile came over his mouth, although he didn't turn to look at her. "It is."

There was a short pause, before Magnus let out a soft laugh and shook his head a bit. "Honestly, I kinda expected him to sell 'em or something."

"Sell what? What's all this stuff?" Maya asked, sitting up from where she was essentially perched in Gill's lap.

At the head of the room was a large black object shaped like an egg. On the left side, there were some luminous white drops and a strange, ice-looking block. On the right, a blue shard and a brightly glowing block.

Soren turned to Jesse, his eyes also brightly glowing. "These, my dear," he spoke to Jesse, "are the treasures of the Order of the Stone! The stories I could tell about these dusty old things." A sad little smile formed on his face as he went up to the black egg, staring at it.

"Why does Ivor have the Order's treasures?" Sparklez wondered, glancing over at the Order.

Real-Soren's nostalgic smile faded. "It's... complicated," he said after a moment, returning his attention to the screen.

Jesse tilted her head to one side as she glanced around, a perplexed frown forming on her face. "I... don't see the enchanting book, though. Maybe through the doors?" She pointed at a set of iron doors at the end of the room.

Soren trotted over and gave them a yank. He turned back to Jesse with a shake of his head. "Locked. Of course."

"Well, there's gotta be a way to open it," Jesse murmured.

"I bet all of you six iron that this is a puzzle," Axel spoke, pointing at the screen to illustrate his point.

"I don't think anyone's taking that bet, Axel."

Onscreen, Jesse looked around the room again before trotting over to the white drops and giving them a cursory glance. She leaned closer, eyes narrowing, before they widened. "H-hey, I think Ivor taught me about these!" she exclaimed, "aren't these Ghast tears? He said they're super hard to get."

"You don't know the half of it. It was our first official mission as the Order of the Stone. We fought those Ghasts for hours... and the tears were our reward," Soren said with an amused chuckle.

Gabriel crossed his arms with a nod. "Yes, I remember that. Didn't we upset several Pigmen while we were at it?"

"No, Soren upset several Pigmen. We had nothing to do with that," Ivor chimed in, seemingly despite himself.

"Yeah, he's the one who knocked that fireball at them," Magnus pointed out, pointing jokingly at Soren.

"Yes, because when a Ghast is shooting fireballs at you, you have time to figure out how you're going to aim where you hit those fireballs-" Soren began to argue back.

Ellegaard elbowed him in the ribs to make the builder be quiet, making him let out a very unmanly squeak and wince a bit, giving the redstone engineer a playful glare.

Onscreen, Jesse blinked at the tears again, before reaching out.

"What are you doing?" Soren asked, sounding faintly alarmed.

Jesse reached out, taking ahold of the Ghast tears carefully, a puzzled look coming over her face. "They're... sitting on some sort of pressure plate," she replied, very delicately lifting them off said pressure plate. Besides the pressure plate clicking as it unpressed, nothing much happened.

"Oh. Good eye, Jesse," and Petra reached out and clapped Jesse on the back, nearly knocking her into the table again.

The black-haired girl gave a nod as she quickly backed away from the coffee table. "Thanks, Petra," she said, sounding slightly out of breath from basically having the breath knocked out of her.

Onscreen, Jesse traipsed over to the glowing block next, frowning at it a bit. "Why does Ivor have all the treasures of the Order of the Stone, by the way?" she asked the glowing block, refusing to meet Soren's eyes.

"There we go," Sparklez mumbled.

"Did he... steal them?" She said the last two words as quickly as possible, almost as if spitting a nasty taste off of her tongue.

"No, no!" Soren quickly shook his head, and Jesse sagged slightly in relief. "We... we let him keep them, after we split up."

Jesse looked around the room momentarily, before tilting her head at Soren. "Why?"

"It's a long story, Jesse." Soren glanced away from the dark-haired girl awkwardly, a strange look coming over his face. One might've even called it guilt.

Jesse looked back at the glowing block, before back at Soren, who was still looking away from her awkwardly. "Is this a Sea Lantern?" she asked after a few more moments of silence, pointing at the glowing block and abruptly changing the subject.

Soren nodded, looking relieved for the way out she'd just provided him. "Yes. The very one the Order built, all those years ago. We were so green back then... looks just as bright as it was the day we crafted it."

"Yeah, I remember that thing," Magnus said musingly. "I mean, we nearly died getting the stuff to make it, but, you know."

Ellegaard rolled her eyes at him with a huff.

Axel and Olivia exchanged raised eyebrows and a small grin.

Petra leaned over to whisper something to Lukas. Lukas listened, before nodding. "You're on."

Onscreen, Jesse reached out and carefully lifted that as well, another pressure plate giving a loud click as she raised it off gingerly, before placing it in her pocket and then going over to the blue crystalline shards with an interested look. "These are Prismarine crystals. You can... only get them underwater, right?" And she glanced at Soren for confirmation.

"Precisely! We nearly ran out of oxygen getting these." He paused and then chuckled nostalgically. "Ellegaard had to use a spare bucket to grab a couple extra breaths."

"Like I said," Magnus smirked at the audience, "nearly died."

"We used most of them to craft the Sea Lantern. This is what was left."

"Cool," and Jesse reached out and took the crystals carefully, releasing yet another pressure plate, "Prismarine is such a cool word."

Real-Jesse hummed, tilting her head. "Actually, I think it might be a bit of a play on words as well."

"How so?" She wasn't the only one that was surprised when Aiden was one of the people asking her this question, the other being Lukas. The two former friends exchanged a glance with one another.

"'Marine' means water," Jesse said obliviously, not noticing the byplay between the two, "and 'prism' is like a crystal. So putting that together, it's like saying that the 'Prismarine' shards are 'water crystals'."

There was a long pause where everyone tried to digest this, before Mevia let out a humming sound. "Hm. Not a bad observation."

Onscreen, Jesse was now standing next to the ice block, giving it a gentle poke before glancing at Soren. "Where'd this packed ice come from?" she asked.

"We brought it back from the Ice Plain Spikes biome," Soren replied. "It was colder there than anywhere we'd ever been. But Magnus slipped so many times, our laughter kept us warm."

Soren, Gabriel, Ellegaard, and even Ivor sniggered at this. Magnus glared at them, trying to not let them spot the pink tint coming over his face. "It wasn't that funny."

"You're right," Ellegaard said soothingly, giving him a pat on the back. He relaxed a bit, and had just turned back to the episode when she finished, grinning at him, "It was even funnier."

Jesse couldn't stifle the small explosion of laughter that had been building up in her throat in time. Magnus gave her the stink eye. She gracefully ignored it, Lukas biting his lip and trying not to burst out laughing himself.

"After that, we knew we were ready to face the Ender Dragon."

Jesse let out a soft laugh, a strange, musing look coming over her face. She paused for a minute, before turning back to the block of packed ice and taking hold of it. She fumbled it for a moment, which was slightly distracting but not enough to distract the audience from hearing the click of the pressure plate as it came back up. "Ahh- it's slippery," she said, hastily putting it into her pocket before she could drop it. Regaining her composure, she walked up to the big black egg, looking at it steadily. It was easily as tall as Jesse's waist. And it probably weighed more than she did, too, both here and onscreen.

Lukas frowned at Jesse a bit, the frown going unnoticed by the black-haired girl. Now that he thought about it, this Jesse was surprisingly light, considering her age. Although, perhaps it wasn't such a surprise... she looked incredibly thin. Enough that he had to wonder how much she actually weighed, and maybe what her body mass index was.

"Is this the actual Ender Dragon egg?" Jesse asked Soren, looking from him to the egg.

Soren looked at it, a sad look coming over his face. "Yes. The only thing that remains of our last adventure together."

She paused, giving it a long look along with the ginger builder next to her, before reaching out and taking ahold of it carefully. "Well, we can't forget it." And she lifted the egg.

Two things happened nearly simultaneously- the pressure plate released, and ten hoppers appeared. Five on the floor, and five on the ceiling above the ones on the floor. Her brow contracted curiously as she carefully stowed the Ender Dragon egg away. "Huh."

"Why was Ivor hiding a hopper in his basement?" Soren pondered, furrowing his brow at said hoppers.

Jesse didn't answer, staring at the hoppers. They were definitely hooked up to some redstone circuitry that looked fairly complicated.

"I'm starting to get what you meant when you said that you used this book quite often," Ellegaard mumbled, arching her eyebrow at Ivor. (Not that she was actually able to pull it off properly, the other eyebrow moved with it, but that's not my point.)

"I don't think I would've been able to accomplish half the things I did without your sarcastic little notes in the margins," Ivor replied, still watching the screen intently. Only Harper noticed the ghost of a smile that was forming on his face.

Ellegaard rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, an odd grin coming over her face. "Ah... well-"

Jesse withdrew the Ghast Tears onscreen, drawing her attention, and trotted over to the first hopper, which was simply labeled '1'. She gently placed them inside. "Alright, this goes here..." She then moved over to the last one and carefully set the Ender Dragon egg inside, being supremely careful not to drop it. "That's two."

Packed ice went into number four, which Jesse actually nearly fumbled and dropped.

"Oh-!" Stampy blinked, eyes widening. "I see what he's doing!"

He wasn't the only one to have a slight epiphany, Jesse and Olivia had both straightened up, Ellegaard's eyes had widened, and Harper and Cassie were both nodding with a rather impressed look. Isa had a thoughtful expression on her face as she nodded slightly.

Everyone else looked almost completely lost.

Onscreen, Jesse popped the prismarine crystals into the second hopper, before setting the Sea Lantern into the third hopper.

The five items were sucked into the hoppers, and the iron doors flew open with a bang, making Reuben let out a squeal in surprise.

Soren looked around at Jesse, looking startled. "You solved it? But how did you know what order to put them in? There were one-hundred and twenty possible combinations!"

Jesse blinked at him, looking faintly startled. "I'm... not going to ask how you knew that. But, to answer the question..." A warm smile came over her face as she crossed her arms, all six of them locking together over her torso. "Your stories gave me the answer."

Maya mumbled, so softly under her breath that Gill had to lean over to hear it (and she was pretty much sitting in his lap), "That's so sweet..."

He smirked slightly in agreement and patted her on the back.

Soren's gaze softened as he looked at Jesse. "Nice work, Jesse. You know, I often give Ivor a hard time... but for all his complaining, his time in the Order clearly meant a great deal to him."

"It meant a great deal to all of us," Gabriel said quietly, glancing at his friends. "It's... a shame that it turned out the way it did."

The King of Boom Town watched the screen before letting out a sigh. "Yeah..."

Ellegaard reached out and squeezed his hand.

Onscreen, Jesse placed her lowest set of hands on her hips, green eyes sparkling as she smiled a bit. "Well, c'mon. Let's go find that enchanting book, shall we?"

And with that, they walked through the iron doors.


A/N: Ummm! Holy crap, wasn't expecting this chapter to be as long as it was to write... I hope it turned out okay!

RQTC: Did anyone notice Mevia's being nice this chapter?

Also, note to everyone who's talking about how it's technically not foreshadowing... (grins) I wasn't quite referring to what you're thinking of...

Oh. Right. News. Nearly forgot about that. xD

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the indecisive bird: (grins) Uh, no, actually. It was sort of foreshadowing in a different way. Hence why I was like 'sort of?'

Emily The Avenger: (laughs) I would like to see Soren and Ivor's library, actually. I love reading, so they'd have so much reading material for me.

NoItsBecky: (grins) That's not what I was foreshadowing...

Beli0304: It's not that exciting, now that I think about it xD

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Darkbeast Dend: He really doesn't, you should see how many we have in our house. I think half of the house is made up of books. Seriously xD

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