"I'm going."

GrailMore looked at Ant in disbelief. "You don't even know who this person is and you're going to follow their directions!? Ant, you're insane!"

The black haired Minecraftian turned towards the blonde female. His dark chocolate colored eyes gave her a stubborn, determined look, as if to say his mind was already made up. She returned the glare with an upset expression, confirming her worry for Ant. He only gazed off into space, absorbed in his own thoughts. He felt a gentle hand rest on his left shoulder.

Ant came back into reality and slowly directed his attention to it, still not making eye contact with Grail. Her unused hand carefully tilted Ant's head so that he was looking at her. She dropped her hands to her sides after doing so. "Ant, why do you want to find this person so badly? I mean, you're living a perfectly good life, so why would you want to leave?"

He gazed into Grail's crystal blue eyes. "Grail," he began, "what if there was something you never knew about yourself and you discover it one day? You would want to dive deeper into it and find out more, right?"

She thought about Ant's statement for a moment, then gave a small nod. "I guess I would..."

"That's exactly my point. If there really is something more to my real family, then-"

Grail cut him off, confusion obvious from her expression. "Wait, what do you mean by 'real family'? You mean you never met your real parents before? Ant, I never knew..."

Ant stared at the ground in silent anger, mentally cursing at himself. Notch damn it! Why did I have to go off and say that out loud?

Grail, noticing Ant's reaction, sighed. "I won't tell anyone else if you don't want me to, I promise."

It was only about a minute before Ant looked up from the floor, but to him, it felt like hours. "But you understand why I'm leaving now, right?"

A faint smile appeared on Grail's face. "Yeah, I see how it's so important to you, but return home safely, okay?"

Ant lightly kissed her on the cheek. "Don't worry, I will."

As he walked out the door of his house, Ant noticed Cave talking with a few other people, which he recognized as SkythekidRS and CaptainSparklez. He began to walk over to the group, Sky spotting him before anyone else. "Hey Ant, what's up?"

Ant explained the previous day's events, from the mysterious note to his decision to leave. When he had finished, he asked if any of them would come with him. Sky scrowled in annoyance. "I would go, but I have to travel to one of the Sky Army's storage facilities. Some of our spies have found out that the Squids are planning to ambush it sometime this week, and I have to make sure that they don't take almost all of the Army's weapon supply. I was planning on leaving later today."

Ant gave his friend a brief nod, understanding the importance of the situation. "So, anyone else willing to come?"

Before Cave could say anything, Sparklez stepped forward. "I'll go. Cave hasn't fully recovered yet, so I'll go in his place."

"I guess he has a point," an annoyed Cave mumbled.

Sky turned to Cave, a smirk evident on his face. "'Ya know, after you fully recover, we could have a contest to see who's better at parkour."

Cave gave Sky a confident expression. "You're on!"

Sparklez, amused from the sudden turn of events, changed his focus from the two Minecraftians to Ant, who was also watching the other two. "So, when are we leaving?"

Mildly surprised by the sudden question, Ant raised his head to look at the slightly taller male. "Whenever you're ready to leave is fine with me."

In reality, Ant wanted to leave immediately, but he didn't want to rush the Captain. He had wanted to go solo, but his gut feeling telling Ant was to bring another person along, since this journey now felt even more dangerous then it first seemed. The suspense was starting to get to him, and it only made Ant want to set off into the wilderness as soon as possible.

After what seemed like hours, Sparklez had returned with the supplies he had found suitable for the journey. As he had returned to where Ant was waiting, the Captain had noticed his comrade constantly glancing in the direction of the gates. "Well, someone's ready to head out."

Ant ran a hand through his silky black hair. "It's just the suspense of it all is what's bugging me."

Sparklez silently gave a quick nod, then followed Ant through the gates, where they soon entered a forest, not too far from the cave where the Enderman had attacked. A while later, the sound of thunder was audible in the distance. The sky had already changed to a dark ash gray, and the sunlight had diminished as faded gray storm clouds covered it. Feeling light raindrops land on him, Ant's attention was directed to the clouds above. Sparklez had also noticed this, and frowned. "Great. Looks like a storm is coming in."

In search for a place to stay for the night, the two Minecraftians began to head towards a nearby giant-sized oak tree, with leaves that were thick enough to block out most of the rain. Only a few tiny raindrops penetraited the abundance of vivid green leaves. The tree was tall enough so that if they were careful, it wouldn't catch on fire if they set up one. Sparklez began to set up a fire, but to his annoyance, he didn't have anything to light it with. Observing Sparklez, his back resting against the large oak trunk, Ant sat down on the bright green grass and searched through his inventory bag for a flint and steel. He didn't have one with him either.

The air was too humid to even try to create a spark via other methods. Sparklez looked at Ant expectingly. "I don't have a flint and steel either, so why are you looking at me like that?"

"Well, if you set that Enderman on fire yesterday, then who says you can't do it with an unlit campfire?"

Ant sighed. It wasn't like he had purposely tried to set the Enderman on fire, he just did it without knowing. But of course, he hadn't actually tried to summon fire on purpose before. Well, there's always a first time for everything... Ant tried to get the surge of energy to happen again, but to no avail. "C'mon, Ant, focus," he muttered to himself.

Sparklez noticed his friend's growing frustration as Ant tried- and failed- summon up a flame, or at least a small spark. Sparklez turned away and continued to set up camp. "You don't have to push yourself so much, it's fine if we don't have a fire."

Ignoring the Captain's prompt, Ant calmed himself down and tried yet again. This time, he felt the energy surge and guided it towards his right hand. He could suddenly feel the intense heat of fire, the light illuminating a small area around him. Knowing that his attempts were fruitful, Ant grinned in success. "What do you mean by that I'm pushing myself too hard?"

Surprised by the flickering light behind him and Ant's remark, Sparklez slowly looked behind him. There was Ant, smirking at Sparklez, a steady flame floating slightly above the skin of his right palm. Bewildered, Sparklez could only watch as Ant threw the fireball into the unlit campfire. "That's friggin' amazing!"

Ant looked away from the now burning campfire to face the Captain, "Yeah, but the only problem about it is that it kinda tires you out..."

"I could already tell, since your face gets slightly paler afterwards."

The two talked for quite a bit before turning in. The sound of thunder continued to rumble from the sky above, as if there was an immense battle obscured within the clouds. The storm raged throughout the entire night, as watchful storm-gray eyes carefully observed the two before vanishing into the darkness.

The warm sunlight filtered through the leaves, signaling the start of the next day. Sparklez had awoken about a hour or so earlier than Ant, so he decided to let the other Minecraftian sleep for a little longer as he went off to get a few extra items they might need later on. When Sparklez returned, however, Ant was still fast asleep, probably due to the use of magic. "Ant, get up. It's morning."

Ant turned away from the other's voice, moaning a 'Five more minutes...'. Sparklez only rolled his eyes at the reply. It took some effort, but eventally Ant was awake, wiping the sleep out of his eyes in the same fashion of that of a young child. After getting all his supplies together, Ant caught up to Sparklez, who had gone up ahead to check for any mobs. There were a few zombies who were stupid enough to stay out in the sun, but they were too distracted as the sunlight burned the undeads into nothing but piles of dust.

The two continued towards the looming Dusk Mountains in the distance, as the very eyes from the night before silently watched from behind the bushes nearby. The hiding figure quietly spoke into a comlink, as to not be detected. "Target acquired. Sending coords..."

Gray Eyes shut off the comlink, and continued to cautiously watch them. The person then murmured to themselves, "...It would seem that history is repeating itself..."

(A/N: Sorry for the shorter chapter! I was kinda done with this chapter and didn't know how exactly to continue w/o making it too long. Then again, there really isn't such a thing as too long with the length of the chapters I write. UGHH! I really have to write MUCH longer chapters... Meh... I promise you guys I'll write a longer chapter next time! Oh yeah, and please send me reviews! It makes me know that I should continue writing Fire Within! Thanks! ETERNALDRAYGON, OUT!)