building an empire
chapter 3
Crane woke up just before raptor though in the nether the room he was in did not remind him of a
room he would find in the nether. the room reminded him him of his room on earth. this caused
him to be confused.
"Hey Dan what time is it, we got to start the forge up."
shockingly he did not hear the change in his voice. it did however wake raptor up, who did
remember the events of the prior day.
"Dan isnt here crane hes dead, i'd like to say if you looked hard enough you could find his
soul burning down here, but unfortunatly he probobly ended up in the ather because he was to
good for the nether."
Hearing raptors voice caused all the memorys of the previous day to return to Crane.
"Oh notch its you."
Crane slowly sat up, it was odd he could still move but he couldnt feel the bed he was on, at
least not in the way he used to, it was like he detected the touch but in his mind his hands
did not however, it was as if he was just remembering the feeling and not really experiencing
it.
"Weird."
"What about it?"
"About what."
"Well you just got turned inta wither skeleton and are currently being housed by one, and you
havnt attacked me yet out of anger. your whole situation sucks, so when you say weird you have
to specify or i wont have any idea what your talking."
"thanks for that recap, i said weird because i cant feel the bed and at the same time i can."
"what is it diffrent for humans."
"yeah, we feel things with our hands witch regesters the touch, lying here im not feeling that
its more like im remembering the feeling in my head."
"humans are weird, are you gonna tell me now that humans limbs arent removable."
"they are not removable... did you think they w-
"NOPE just saying dumb stuff."
"...Anyway."
"Right ive been ordered to take you to the training grounds where splater one of the only other
monsters that know of your true orgins shall train you."
"Counter offer, you leave and I take those two swords over there and use them to try to escape."
"HA HA HA your funny, lets go."
and with that raptor got out of bed grabbed a cloak threw it to Crane and grabbed another one and
put it on then he grabbed both swords and put the sheiths on his sholders
then oppened the door and left.
"... you know i wasnt kidding."
Crane put the cloak on and followed raptor.
"Should i put the hood on."
"Why."
"so no one sees me."
"It wont matter everyone will think your just another monster, and we arnt even going to interact with
anyone. not that theres many to interact with."
"Why."
"well our section of the nether fortress is built onto a sort of island serounded by lava and the
bit of the fortress on our island has broken off from the rest of it by that i mean the bridge is
gone. so only about 14 monsters live in this section, on the plus side though we are the smallest
fragment in the nether."
"Fragment?"
"well actually its district, but ours is so small everyone calls it the fragment."
"and whats a district i mean i get the idea just explain."
"Well a district is a section of the fortress or the city or wherever in the nether you are. not
everywhere is part of a district but most folks down here have enough sense to live in one."
"theres citys."
"Yeah after a while we started bulding these citys out of quarts and what bits of fortress we could
find laying around. later after your training we could go to the top of our island and look, we have
a great view, you can see the four major citys that surround us, Rack, new nether, glowstone and the
fortress."
"Hold up glowstone, and arnt we on the fortress."
"well glowstone chunks hang around the place but to the north of our island witch is called spire, is
the great lava sea, above that the many glowstone chunks have been built into and eventually houses and
buildings were built hanging above the sea. its called glowstone because the glowstone chunks have been
magiclly enchanted to regenerate stones if taken, so its our source of glowstone down here. then we sell
it to monsters on the surface who sell it to humans in a black market who give a cut of the cash. we also
call the place the hanging city."
" ah and the fortress."
"well the fortress is broken up into tons of peices and district but the largest portion had buildings added
onto it in the early days of the treaty, and now to the south of our island is the city the fortress, dumb
name i know.
"Anything else."
"the other two citys to the west and east are the quartz citys because every building is made out of nether
quartz give or take a few. also throughout the nether are sentry stations wich have teleporters wich are
used to get around the nether. thats also how we get off our island."
"Why are they gaurded."
"... oh i see why your asking me quiestions."
"oh you do."
"well just so you know if you did escape you wouldnt last a second without me."
"... i just want to go home."
"then dont leave because this is you home now."
"its not fair. why did i get chosen for this... i dont even know what this is."
"well... have you ever heard of Herobrine."
"yeah he's the king of the end."
"Wrong the endor dragon controls the end."
"herobrine controls this place the nether."
"Oh."
"well believe it or not before being banished here, he fell in love. you know back when he was still human.
he and his brother steve, fell in love with the same girl, her name was alex, eventually herobrine and alex
were married and had children, later herobrine was banished, alex then married steve but neither had kids.
the child of herobrine also married and had one child, this child did the same only having one child, the
cycle continued on for about 9 bloodlines."
"why are you telling me this."
"Crane you are the only living member of this bloodline besides herobrine himself, and you are the only
one to be sent to the nether albeit through no fault of your own."
both stopped walking by this point they were deep within spire island right outside the training grounds.
crane seemed shaken.
"So your telling me that.."
"yep you are the great great great great great great great great grandson of herobrine."
"great so im the devils spawn."
"well actually no your great great great great great great great grandfather was the
devils spawn and he was born befofe herobrine became immortal and also herobrine isnt the devil hes
an immortal who was banished here for sideing with the monsters durring the great war. he was made
immortal by the very witch you did this to you, because the first leader of the monsters was killed
in battle. herobrine isnt unstable, and not really evil either, honestly you cant believe everything
you read in text books."
they stepped into the training
"yeah that only makes me feel a little bit better, didnt he kill 1400 humans with a sword during the
war."
"Actually it was 17932 humans exactly but you know whats the diffrence."
"Oh my your majesty."
Raptor imedidiettly kneeled down.
in front of him was a tall man wearing a light blue shirt, dark blue jeans, he had stubble, and blach
hair, and both his eyes where pure white.
crane looked down at raptor.
"Where i cant see him all i see is a hobo."
there was silence for a moment
"... nah im kidding im staring at death itself right."
"Your magesty with all due respect i didnt know you would be here."
"you didnt need to, i sent the creeper home... i suggest you do the same raptor."
"of course sir."
Raptor ran off as if he had grown wings.
"no offense to the hobo joke right."
"no i was deeply offended in fact i have to kill you now."
"really."
"No your fine, just dont say it again."
"How much of our conversation did you hear."
"all of it and yes you are my grandson."
"really grandson, you dont look a day over 30."
"Im severl hundred years old."
"... you dont look a day over-
"you can stop."
"thank you."
another moment.
"why did this happen to me."
"we need you for somthing."
"ah yes the ever mysterious somthing i keep hearing about. appearently i was going to be turned into an
endermite originally so whats up."
"we need you to-
"by the way was it you you told them to turn me into an endermite and why."
"yeah it wouldnt have been permenant after i might have turned you into a creeper or cave spider or a
wolf."
"a wolf, yeah no turning me back into a human because whos that mercifull."
"as i was saying we need you to do somthing for us."
"AND THIS SOMTHING IS..."
"we are tired of being trapped in the nether, and we plan to break out."
"you didnt seem very trapped you have a portal back there and everything."
"well if we all went up there it would be mass panic and war. so we will send a small group to carry out our mission
and then we will cause mass panic and war that we would win. we will send you raptor the creeper splater, and a
few others to the surface, you will then find the end portal and go to the end, there you will all kill the
leader his name is endor."
"the dragons name is endor, i that it was called the endor dragon, as in dragon of the end."
"no his name is king endor the dragon, people just call him the endor dragon. anyway after you kill him you will
go to the end city and find the elytra armor and use its great power to kill the king of the overworld,
upsetting the peace and allowing us to take the city and then the charted world."
"ah classic bid for world domination, whats going to happen to me and the others you mentioned, also still waiting
to figure out why i was to be turned into a mite."
"the mite was for you to distract the enderman and allow the team to kill the dragon, and hopefully save you.
if you survive the mission now though, after we take over i might turn you into a wolf."
"still confused why a wolf."
"well we cant have any humans i dont think youd enjoy being a zombie so wolf is a living being and isnt a zombie."
"still confuesed. anyway are you here to train me."
"yep. sword play first then maybe some magic."
"Kay im not one to fight."
"but you said you would take those swords and escape."
"that was a lie."
"come on lets get started."
"perfect."
end of chapter 2 cool right.