Last time on The Awakening: Light and Flaria had made it into the Minecraft word, only to find all sorts of new experiences! They fought off zombies in the night, and made it to the village before sundown. What challenges await them now? Find out now!
Light had woken up to yelling outside. By the looks of the sky outside it was very early morning, or late night. The sun looked like it was rising or setting, so either they got a full night's rest, or they only have slept for 5 minutes. He got out of his bed, and looked out the window, to see a bunch of that demon's lackeys. They were mostly monsters he didn't recognize; most likely because they were in the mod instead of normal vanilla Minecraft. He couldn't tell what they were saying, but he knew they were looking for him… or Flaira. One of them looked as if he… or she was the grim reaper. It had a scythe the width of at least 3-4 blocks; he couldn't see down too well. Another one looked like a normal villager, had pure white eyes. He sort of looked like Herobrine from the creepy pasta he heard about. The last one looked sort of like an assassin; he had daggers in hand, as if he was ready to kill anyone who got in his way. He had a red cape over his head, so you couldn't see very much of his facial features Of course, some of the villagers were outside of the inn, guarding entry from them. Light knew that the villagers were strong, but he didn't know if they could handle them for much longer. Light had watched them for a bit, seeming like they were about to attack the villagers, when suddenly, a woman came through the door.
"Are you the ones who the people outside keep wanting to see?" The lady asked, as she started to wake up Flaria.
"Yea, but we aren't with them; we're trying to get away from them-"
"We know sweetie, you're with us. We're not stupid, anyways, pack your things, and come with me. We need to get you out of the village before they find us here." The lady said, as she went out the door.
"Meet me downstairs in 10 minutes, we can't hold them off for much longer, and please wake up your friend…" And that's all she said, she headed downstairs, and he started to pack his things. He still couldn't believe that Flaria was able to sleep through all of this. He just started to shake her gently.
"Flaira...Flaira, wake up!" Light whispered, as he shook her more violently.
"Just give me 5 more minutes' mom…." Flaira groaned, as she turned away.
"Flaria, if you don't wake up, I'll take off these sheets and pour cold, cold water all over you." Light said, as he shook her even more violently.
"YOU WOULDN'T IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU." Flaira said, as she instantly perked awake.
"I'm glad you're so understanding. Now pack quickly, we've got company... that we're trying to get away from." Light smiled.
"Ok… but I already packed the night before. I knew they were right on our trail, so I packed just in case they came."
"And you were going to tell me this...WHEN?" Light asked, as Flaira and he started to head downstairs.
"I guess I forgot… sorry about that…" Flaria said, as she took a bite of cooked chicken from yesterday. They had never realized that so many people were sleeping at the inn, or they were all villagers. There were at least 50 different people in the small room. They looked around at all the people until the lady came to Light again.
"Do you have everything? We're just about to leave-"
"OPEN UP! WE KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE LIGHT AND FLAIRA! COME OUT, OR FACE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES!" One of the lackeys said, as he banged on the door.
"Well, looks like you came down just in time, let's go...open up the hatch." suddenly, the entire room started to rumble, and Light saw that a giant passage opened up in front of them. Once the hatch was done opening, the lady started to go downstairs. At first, Light and Flaria were hesitant, but after a couple of seconds, they went down after her, into the darkness below. Just as the hatch was closing, he saw a small glimpse of the lackeys, until it closed...and then followed by the sounds of screams filled the air, and it was coming from above. The lady continued to walk ahead of them, but he saw that she was crying.
"Hey, how far does this tunnel go? We've been walking for at least a half an hour now!"
"Not much farther, look, there's light up ahead." The lady said, as she started to walk faster.
"So, where exactly does this lead to?" Flaira asked, as she ate a piece of cooked beef.
"Surprisingly enough, it leads to the City of Hex, or at least a village not far from there. This passageway is used for trading goods, or if one of us wants to go to the city to get supplies." The lady said, as she quickened her pace even more. Soon they were out into the day. Apparently, they built the passage in a cave, which was a creative place to put a secret passage like that. She led Light and Flaria to a nearby inn, where she paid for their rooms, and started leave.
"If you ever have trouble, ask around town, and ask for a person named Alice. She'll help you out." And just like that, she left, and Light and Flaria were alone once again.
"So what do we do now? We're close to the city, but we shouldn't let the lady's money go to waste; she DID pay for our room after all."
"I guess so, but we can't say for long. I'm almost positive that those lackeys are going to be coming to this village anytime now or at least on their way here. But for now, let's just have a look around." Flaria said, as she headed out the door. "Hey, you still need to get you're item bar attacked don't you? Let's go find a blacksmith then, he or she will be able to… well, you'll see." Light and Flaira looked around for a while, until they finally found a blacksmith. Light looked around at the blacksmith's shop, and it looked amazing. It looked like a normal blacksmith shop that he saw in vanilla minecraft, but it looked… different. Frist off, it had a second floor, and most of it was made out of glass. It had a chimney, made out of bricks, and smoke was coming out of the top, most likely from the furnaces in there. Plus, the lava and furnaces that were usually outside the blacksmith shop were replaced by different types of ores that he didn't recognize. Whoever was the blacksmith here must take pride in his or her work. They entered the blacksmith shop to see a person working on smelting something in some sort of machine. It had all sorts of different blocks on it, but most of them were black. He could see from a distance that it was some sort of green substance.
"Hey, welcome to my shop! Just go ahead and have a seat anywhere, I'll be with you in a minute." The person said, as they raced off upstairs. After a couple minutes of waiting, they finally came back downstairs, and sat right next to them. Light had finally had been able to get a good look at the person, to find out they were…. a little boy?
"Wait, you're just a little kid? You seem only 12 or 13!" The boy looked to be only about 4 inches tall, but he had blue scarf on, with an orange t-shirt, and tannish pants. The boy had brown hair as well, along with a pair of glasses.
"Hey, don't judge a book by its cover, I'm actually 11 just so you know, and my name is Cooper!" He said, as he took the iron he had, and put it into the smelter thing.
"So then, do you live here alone?" Light asked, as he went over to the smelter.
"And what exactly is this thing?"
"Oh, this is a smeltery, where I can break down all sorts of different things to make different types of metals; armor, ingots, ore bushes, even obsidian can be broken down into this, and yes I live alone here, but I'm one of the best blacksmiths around here, I'm so busy all the time, I barley have time to sleep at night."
"Ok, so are you qualified to put item bars on people? We need him to have a bar so we can travel easier." Flaria asked, as moved over by the two of them, and looked into the smelter.
"Hey, don't get to close. That stuff is extremely hot, it's even hotter than lava, and yes, I'm qualified, but I don't like to do it very often."
"Good, and also I'll be just fine in front of this, ever since I was little, I was able to withstand any sort of heat; so I could jump into this, and I wouldn't burn alive… are you able to do it right now? If you don't mind we're in sort of a rush."
"Sure, most of my orders are smelting right now, plus I just had one made…. so, if you could come with me Light…" Cooper said, as he grabbed Light's arm.
"Hey wait a minute! Flaira, what's going on!?"
"You wanted an Item bar on right? Well, you're getting on one right now! But just as a warning, don't try to look, ok? I promise I'll get you something while you get it on!" Flaria said, as she left the shop, and ran off.
"HEY WAIT!"
"Oh, stop being such a baby! It won't hurt a bit… it will hurt a lot." Cooperr said, as he had him sit in an Iron chair, and strapped his arms and legs into the seat.
"Uh… what's going on? What do you exactly do to get in on…?" Light asked, as the back of the seat went backwards.
"Oh, nothing much, just have the code on the back of the iron plate, so the items will go into the bar instead of into your skin, nothing major, what color o you want the outline of the item bar to be? I can do blue, green, red, yellow, orange, purple, white, black, and Turquoise. Choose wisely though, you only get one color, and you're stuck with it for the rest of your life. I got mine in orange, which looks pretty cool." Cooper showed Light his item bar, and he had to admit, it did look pretty cool. He never saw that in normal minecraft, but he wished it was.
"Uh, I guess… hey, can you do a combination?"
"A combination? Sure I guess which two colors?"
"I would like white and gray please. "
"Alright then, you ready?"
"Let's get it over with." Cooper came over with the item bar in a giant claw, and the bar was red hot, it almost looked like molten lava.
"Alright then, this is going to hurt more than getting your arm sliced off!"
"Ok, but I've never had my- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Light screamed, as the bar was pushed on to his bare skin, he tried to flail around, but he couldn't because of the iron bars.
"I told it was going to hurt!" Cooper said, as he poured cool water over the bar, making it cool, and stick to Light's arm.
"Ok, don't move your arm, I'm goanna put it in a cast, so that it doesn't hurt as much as it would if you would be swinging around your arm. " Cooper said, as he wrapped Light's arm in bandages.
Light winced a bit, but he was right. It didn't hurt as much. Once Cooper was done, he helped Light up, and helped him to the door. Flaria was waiting by the door, and came up to Light.
"Are you ok? I was really worried… even though I can resist fire, I when I got that attached, it hurt like heck!"
"Yea, I'm fine, but you shouldn't worry so much, I did fine!"
"Oh…" Flaria blushed and turned away in embarrassment. "Sorry about that… I don't know what came over me… how much did it cost? I don't have very much money left…"
"Oh, it's fine. I don't usually have people pay me for having their item bar attached on."
"Hey, I was wondering, do you ever forge weapons Connor? We could use someone like you on our journey." Flaria asked, as she came by him.
"Not usually, but if I ever get a request, I usually do. Why?" Cooper asked, as Flaira whispered something in his ear.
"REALLY!? THAT'S HIM!?" Cooper yelled, as he rushed upstairs, sounding like he was rumbling through his things.
"Well, it looks like we have a new ally!" Flaria said, as she walked outside. Cooper came back downstairs with a giant hammer; at least 5 block long, and the entire mallet was covered in spikes.
"I've been wanting to use this baby for a long time, one of my finest creations, made out of copper, and its spikes are made out of cobalt." It was true; the hammer was pure orange, and the spikes were a cool blue. "Flaria told me we were going to the City of Hex, so I grabbed the supplies I needed, like a spare smeltery, tools, armor, and other things. So then, let's go!"
"Alright then, let's go!" Light said, as Cooper and he ran to catch up with Flaria.
What did Flaira say to Cooper that made him want to come with them so badly? Why is Light so important to Flaria? Why does Gias want him so badly? Find out in the next chapter of The Awakening!
