Chapter 4 - Magmus (Steve POV)
I woke up with Tom, Papart, and the scientist next to me. We were in a different room than the one hidden behind the painting. It was made of nether brick, giving off a dark purple haze. There were redstone torches along the walls, giving off a dim glow. In the middle of the room was a platform raised above the ground, and there was a thing standing on it.
It gave me the image of a zombie pigman on four legs, but with a gnarly face with four eyes. It's body was also a deep mix of red and orange. The mouth was in a twisted grin, teeth sharp as a diamond sword. On its head were two horns, both curling into menacing points. It's legs were muscular, and there were claws on the end of the toes. It's back had spikes coming out in a straight line down the middle. Overall, it looked to me like something way worse than I had ever faced before.
"Hello," the thing spoke, "I am Magmus, the king of the nether."
"Um, hi!" I replied, nervous.
"Now, I see that you have stumbled into the nether," Magmus explained. "But somehow you have done it without triggering the reaction yo create a portal here. There is no other way to get here. So, please tell me how you did that."
"You idiot!" Papart shouted. "You don't know what you did yourself?"
"I am confused, young villager," Magmus replied. "I don't have the slightest idea of what you are talking about."
"The geysers," Papart replied. "The lava geysers that go through bedrock and up to the surface. We used potions to protect ourselves, and swam down here."
"WHAT!" Magmus screamed. "How DARE they!"
"As I was saying, we swam down here to stop the lava. Could you stop it please?" Papart asked.
"Oh, I'd be happy to," Magmus sounded enraged.
"What's wrong?" I asked, really confused. "Being the ruler of the nether, wouldn't you of been the one to open the holes up?"
"No," Magmus replied. "It's those ghasts. They have been defying me for years. They are trying to overcome me, and to get the other mobs in the nether to join them. They're opening up those holes because they want to get to the overworld. There they can raise an army to stop me. The reason that they are using lava geysers is because between the nether and the overworld, in the bedrock area, the chemicals that bedrock releases is harmful to ghasts and other nether creatures, unless they are in lava."
"That makes sense," the scientist explains. "To us, the chemicals make everything seem hazy."
Papart face palmed himself, "Mr. Scientist, that's not the point. We're trying to stop the ghasts here."
"All right guys, here's the plan," Magmus explained. "You guys go figure out the ghasts' plans, and distract them while I go plug up the holes. It's a win-win here."
"Sounds good," I replied. "And just for reference, I'm Steve, the creeper is Tom, the young villager is Papart, and the scientist is Mr. Scientist."
"Thank you, and good luck," Magmus nodded, flicked a lever opening a doorway, and let us out, with him close behind. But before I could help him, I had to know whose side I was on.