Jesse sighed and passed the flint and steel to her lower arms. "Looks like some zombies have a death wish," she said mildly, grabbing her sword and flicking it out of the sheathe on her back. The way her left eye started glowing red belayed the calm tone of her voice, though.
Petra whipped out her own sword, flames dancing across the enchanted blade, Blaze Rods blinking into existence around her and her gold eyes beginning to glow dangerously. The gold armor she was wearing with silver edges began to heat up until it was almost blinding from how red-hot it was.
Axel grinned and tensed up a bit, his eyes dilating so that his the whites of his eyes were almost totally eclipsed by dark gray irises and black pupils. Green mottled skin began to creep into more obvious places, creeping up his neck and down his hands.
Olivia went ramrod straight, her height shooting up a few inches and both eyes brightening as her arms sprang perfectly straight. A grin that showed suddenly knife-sharp teeth crept over her face.
"That looks awesome!" Nell crowed.
There was a moment of silence where the four hybrids regarded the hordes of zombies around them, before Jesse suddenly broke the frozen tableau as she flung an arm up. A strand of silk shot out of her hand and attached itself to the ceiling. She retracted it as she charged forward at the hordes of zombies, flipping herself in midair so that she landed on the ceiling. Tensing her knees again, she shot at a zombie and did another flip, landing right on it and stamping it into smoke. Without a single pause, she lashed out with her sword and separated a zombie from its head.
"THAT- WAS- AWESOME!" Nell nearly screamed, jumping up and down and making Em bounce a bit on the couch. Em shot her a scowl, but there was a small smirk twitching at the corner of the brown-haired girl's mouth.
Jesse was bouncing too, eyes gleaming with excitement. "I know!" she nearly squealed in excitement.
"Duck!"
Jesse flung herself down to all eights, and an arc of lava went soaring over her head, splashing onto a crowd of the zombies and making about a fourth of them at least burst into flames. Petra then vaulted over Jesse's head into the fiery mess and began to wreak even more havoc among the zombies, making wreathes of flames shoot out from the group and shoot outlying zombies.
"That is awesome!" Stacy exclaimed, grinning.
Axel charged in a different direction, flashing white, and Petra flung up a huge wall of blazing flames that flared up right in front of Jesse, the spider hybrid letting out a little yelp and rolling away to avoid getting charbroiled. Half a second later, she was nearly knocked straight back into the flames as a white-hot explosion blasted outwards, sending zombies and rotten flesh everywhere.
The wall of flames Petra had thrown up vaporized many more of the flying zombies on the spot, before dying down to show Petra slicing off the head of some hapless zombies.
Olivia bleeped into sight in a group of zombies, grabbing a zombie and throwing it behind her into the lava. Bleeping out of sight again, she lashed out with her long arm and bowled over a few more.
Jesse stood up and backed straight into Petra, Axel dashing back several steps so that his back was up against theirs, his body sending curls of smoke floating everywhere. Olivia bleeped into sight right next to him and Petra, looking around at the approaching zombies. Even with at least a third of their numbers devastated, there were still thousands of zombies approaching.
"That is- that's a lot of monsters," Isa mumbled, wincing a bit as she scooted away a step or two. Reginald gave her a comforting pat on the back.
"So what's the plan?" Axel asked, the camera beginning to circle them, "if you ask me, it's about time we use a secret handshake."
Lukas was not the only audience member to blink at this. "What?"
"Yeah- so let's use the Redstone Rap. Obviously!" Olivia exclaimed, sending another zombie flying as she swung one of her long arms.
"The Redstone- what now?" Stampy asked, blinking a bit.
"Uhh, I think Olivia meant the Warrior Whip, there!" Petra said, kicking away a zombie and setting it on fire as it tried to grab her.
"Do that one! That sounds awesome!" Gill called, pointing at the screen.
"Oh come on, it was my idea!" Axel complained, "so let's do the Griefer Grab!"
"No no no, go for that one!" Magnus shouted, nearly knocking him and Ellegaard off the couch.
Jesse paused, before glancing back at Petra. "Warrior Whip, go!" she shouted.
Magnus, Axel, and the gladiators all let out disappointed groans.
Onscreen, Jesse grabbed ahold of Petra's arms. Petra gave the black-haired spider hybrid a grin. "C'mon, Jesse, make this good. Just like we practiced-"
Jesse started spinning around, the speed of the spin lifting Petra's feet off the ground. "- whoooooaaaaa!" Jesse released Petra after a moment, and the Blaze hybrid went flying. She spun in midair and killed several zombies using her sword, flipping around and landing on another zombie, killing it by stepping on it, before lunging forward and sending her weight into the next blow, killing the last zombie.
"You guys get really good at this!" Nell cheered. "You could almost be as good as Tim!"
Jesse glanced at Jace. He shrugged.
Jesse sheathed her sword again and raced for the stairs, straightening up when Petra blasted back over. The two of them high-fived, before Petra blasted up the shaft as fast as she could, making a wind ruffle Jesse's hair. Jesse braced herself for a moment, before running up the stairs, Olivia teleporting up at random intervals as quickly as possible.
A doorway that none of them had noticed before opened up on the staircase, more zombies lurching out from the doorway.
Jesse let out a loud groan. "Oh, come on!" she complained, before whipping out the sword again and charged up the staircase. Olivia pulled out a bow and shot a few zombies that were following them, a few fireballs from Petra taking out zombies before they could reach the group on the stairs. One zombie lurched towards Jesse from above, and Jesse lashed out with the sword, chopping straight through its legs and then sending it over the edge and into the lava, before the group continued bolting up the stairs.
An arrow impaled the ground in front of Jesse from the side, making the spider hybrid skid to a halt rapidly, before twisting and looking up just in time to see two skeletons get taken out by a lavafall, the lava burning the bones and bows into oblivion.
"Ha! The lava took them out!" Axel cheered.
"And... there go the stairs," Olivia added, watching the lavafall set the wooden stairs on fire.
Jesse rubbed her forehead. "With a lavafall, having a wooden staircase may not have been the best idea... we're lucky it didn't get set on fire before the monsters came to attack us."
"We need to get out of here!" Onscreen-Jesse barked, "now!"
Olivia bleeped out of sight, and Jesse and Axel started double-timing it up the stairs.
"Look out!" Petra yelled.
Jesse looked up to see a lavafall heading her way, and dropped to all eights, shooting forward like a bullet and lunging for a stair. Her fingers slapped into the edge of the stairs as the stairs she'd just been standing on disappeared, more and more lava taking out more and more sections of the stairs, trapping Axel in a corner of the tunnel.
"Ooooh boy," Stampy groaned, grabbing at his stomach. He looked a wee bit pale.
"The vines! Climb the vines!" Jesse shouted to Axel, before jumping on herself and slamming all eight of her limbs onto the wall. With that, she started crawling up the wall rapidly while Axel clambered up the vines and Olivia teleported to the top, Petra hovering in the tunnel in case Jesse or Axel fell off and she had to catch them.
Yet another opening in the wall opened up, and cave spiders started climbing out.
Petra let out a groan from where she was hovering. "Cave spiders... why did it have to be cave spiders?"
"What's wrong with cave spiders, exactly? I mean, you know- besides being a cave spider," Dan said quickly, looking around at Petra.
Petra rubbed her forehead. "Cave spiders, when killed, apparently have the tendency to pop like a balloon and splash blood everywhere, despite being smaller than regular spiders. They have a surprising amount of it, too."
"Glad I asked," Dan murmured, turning back to the screen with a decidedly queasy look on his face. Lizzie was looking a bit green, too.
Onscreen, Jesse's eyes narrowed, and she hissed loudly- "Hey, back off!" - subtitles popping across the bottom of the screen to show what she'd just said to the spiders.
The cave spiders regarded the spider hybrid for a moment, before moving out of the way of both the creeper and spider hybrid.
"That was awesome!" Nell exclaimed.
Onscreen, Jesse gasped as the tunnel opening began to eke shut, piston by piston. "The tunnel's closing!"
"Not so awesome!"
Olivia bleeped out of sight, throwing blocks into place to try to block the progression of the pistons, but the tunnel walls were persistent and simply smashed right through the blocks.
Jesse's eyes suddenly lit up, and she drew her sword again, hauling it back in a preparatory motion before winging it right at the tunnel's opening. Just before the floor clanged shut, the sword flew into place, keeping the tunnel open as the walls made odd grinding sounds, trying to shut itself again.
"THAT- WAS- AWESOME!" Nell screamed again, actually jumping out of her seat again and doing some sort of war dance.
"So cool!" That was Axel.
"I can't believe you just pulled that off!" Lukas nearly shouted, leaping to his feet and twirling the black-haired girl around in a hug in his excitement, making her squeak as he actually lifted her off the ground. When he realized the entire audience was now staring at him, he blushed and set her back on the ground, sitting down with a soft cough.
Harper and Ivor exchanged amused looks with one another.
Hadrian and Mevia exchanged glances too, though neither actually said anything.
"I can't believe I just saw that!" Onscreen-Axel exclaimed, his voice having gone a pitch or two higher in excitement. "That was amazing! Why is no one freaking out?"
"Freak out on the inside, Axel," Petra called, lowering as every muscle in her body tensed in concentration, a smirk making its way across her face, "we gotta move!"
With that, she shot through the opening of the tunnel like a bullet, Axel squeezing through a moment later. Jesse drew her arm back and shot a strand of string through the quivering opening, and launched herself through. Doing a flip in midair, she landed on the ceiling, before dropping herself a bit and grabbing the hilt of her sword. She tugged at it, retracting the string at the same time, and the sword slipped out of the crack and allowed the floor to slam shut hard enough to make the temple's floor shake.
The screen switched to show the four hybrids emerging from the temple, panting heavily and grinning like a maniac from the adrenaline rush they'd just gotten. "Holy crap, that was fun!" Jesse said, grinning at Axel with wide eyes.
"I know what you mean. Fighting off monsters, finding sweet treasure," Petra said, grinning slightly, bouncing on the balls of her feet from the adrenaline rush.
"Like that flint and steel thing- you have to try it again!" Axel exclaimed, flailing his arms at the spider hybrid.
Ivor make a soft sound that was something akin to a squeal, making everyone look at him as he bounced up and down, eyes sparkling. "I can't believe you found it!" he nearly whispered in excitement.
"The last time Ivor got this excited was when Soren got him that super old potion tome for Christmas," Magnus said lazily, leaning back on the couch.
"In his defense," Soren spoke up when he saw Ivor turn around to glare at Magnus, "it was extremely old and extremely rare. I think there might be only three or four copies left in the worlds, not that that many existed in the first place."
Most people seemed satisfied, although Harper, Otto, Mevia, Hadrian, Cassie, Isa, and- surprisingly- Jesse noticed the way he said 'worlds' instead of just 'world'. (She let it go, though- probably was just a slip of the tongue.)
"Oh- I wonder if that Ariza girl would have that book, then," Jesse suddenly spoke up, tapping her chin thoughtfully.
"Why would she have it?" A short pause. "Or, um, why would she have had it?" Petra wondered, looking over at the black-haired girl.
Jesse was about to explain when Olivia interrupted, "Maybe we should watch the episode so we don't miss anything."
"Oh. Yeah. That'd be bad," Jesse said sheepishly, quickly turning around to face the screen again, grinning sheepishly at the dark-skinned girl.
Onscreen, Jesse shrugged and pulled out the cyan flint and steel, the glow making her red eye turn purple and her green eye appear the same shade of green-blue that Lukas's eyes (in the episodes) were.
Going over to a nearby tree stump, Jesse knelt down, extending the flint and steel out, before clicking it together carefully.
A pillar of blue flames shot up within inches of Jesse's face, making her yelp and jump to her feet to hop away a step or two in surprise, all of their mouths wide open as they gaped at the blue flames. "WHOA!" the four hybrids chorused, eyes widen.
And then a voice spoke up, Jesse's excited grin falling into a surprised look as she turned to look in the direction of the voice.
"Well, well." The screen switched to show the enchanted sword, travelling up the armored legs and the enchanted blade to show the hand resting on the hilt of the sword. "Where'd you get the new toy?"
A/N: (sighs) I'll just post the rest of the chapters to DeviantArt and Wattpad later. Like... a lot later. ... maybe not until after Spring Break is over. Those two are more inconvenient. (Although AO3 is also rather inconvenient...)
But whatever! We'll worry about that later. :3
Eeeeee I'm so excited to write the next chapters x3 (bounces around)
RQTC: What ships do you vote for? (I find it amusing that absolutely no one voted for Gilya this time around xD)
So far, the voting goes like this:
Aidassie: 10, Danzie: 8, Stampcy: 7, Misa: 13, Hadrevia: 8, (Bromance!)Maiden (Maya x Aiden): 6, Friendly!Jaiden (Jesse/Jace x Aiden): 6, (Friendly)Jesse/Jace Rose (Jesse/Jace x Cassie): 4, Bromance!Pexel: 5, (Friendly!)Jaclivia: 5, Dancat: 8, Bromance!Axesse: 5, Bromance!Ivoren: 4, Friendly!Soregaard: 3, Friendly!Regisa (Reginald x Isa): 4, Sibling!JessexJace: 5, Reubenedict: 1
The parentheses just mean that someone voted for romantic and not just platonic :3
So far, the ones being considered are Aidassie, Misa, Danzie, Stampcy, Hadrevia, and Dancat.
People- VOTE. (Keep in mind that I will probably include some of the platonic ships as well, but that depends.)
pensuka: (grins)
S4SH4L4SH4theGaMeR101: (laughs) Oh yeah. Completely forgot about that. xD
RapidSammi: (laughs) / (squeals with you)
NinaNaranja: (laughs) Don't worry, we're all a bit crazy.
LunarStarsMoons: Yay! / Oh, that's- that's a lot of friendly votes xD
Emily The Avenger: Good god, a lot of people want Hadrevia xD / YEET YEET!
Kate's a cat: That's just the voting so far. xD / Okay! :3 / I have no idea, but I ship it too. xD
AquaK13: Woot! (steals your popcorn) / (laughs) That's a new one! Sure. / (laughs) True. Okay, I'll add your vote.
Coral: Okay :3
Guest: Sure!
LittleAngelbun: (sticks my head into magical vortex) Ooh! Potatoes. (grabs one and zips back out)
CrystalTearsofFaith: (laughs) I couldn't stop laughing while writing that part.
Darkbeast Dend: Why are Hadrian, Mevia, and Otto in trouble?
DarkPrincess2001: (grins)
J.M.M.: That's good to hear!
homeworkoverload: xD / Okay! / Nope. Never watched it xD
RebekahTPE: OH GOD xD (pops in and starts voting) / (laughs) Good to hear. / (laughs) / I DUNNO EITHER! xD / Yes. I can always buy another pillow xD
Flwer: Okay! :3 Thank you for voting!
Rabbits rule: No spoilers xD / (stunned silence) (bursts out laughing) Aboun, that was- wow, I never realized that! xD
Guest: Thank you!
Guest: Okay!
Cool: Um, okay!
Snuffles: Alrighty!
x.X. A.L. X.x
