Chapter 2: With water, time, and a lot of sunlight...
The materials we are creating... these nether bricks that we stack to form these gargantuan structures, they're kinda resistant. I've never seen one of them fall after we built them, one time a ghast even shot a wall once and it wasn't even scratched. Zisteau's luck was that... our cells weren't made of the same material, they were just dug into the netherrack, but we didn't have any tools to be able to escape...
But Zisteau was smart... He took a brick that he melted and broke it into a sharp end, and poured gold over it to make it a tool. He then used it to dig a tunnel inside his cell.
After our work shifts are done we're not allowed to walk freely in the fortress, we just have to sit in our cells, but our guards do not know our pig dialects, and there are a lot of workers in a fortress so there are people that know the way.
So one day after our shift was over, zisteau ran out of his cell, sneaked past the guards and into the portal prototype...
We do not know what happened, but I know that a riot started. They never noticed him missing, and we fought back against them, managed to take one down... but we were put back into our places...
Other pigmen escaped in time, and there were rumors of a giant structure that Zisteau made, a ship that could fly, and it was so massive that it could be the home of many... It was called The Lens, and it wasn't like anything we'd imagine, they said it was made of materials that are unknown to us, something that burns and disappears, instead of forever burning like Netherrack...
Either way... the things that were told by the survivors that managed to escape and return, they returned to be imprisoned again, and tell us stories of the other world.
The other world is something we never even dreamed of, and none of us wanted to destroy it. It's said that there was a blue lava, that instead of burning you would cool you down, and would not spread flames.
There was lava as well, but only deep within the bowels of the earth, which had different materials than ours, gold was the only thing that we have in common when it comes to materials.
There were other living beigns, and pigs as well but they were not as intelligent as us, and their dialect was really young...
There were other creatures as well, tiny ones, white as the ghasts but that couldn't fly much, and some bigger than the pigs there, a lot bigger and brown of colour...
In the water there were creatures that had tentacles like the ghasts, but would not shoot anything and would only live in that blue lava...
Some pigmen said that this blue lava fell from the sky from time to time, and in other areas it was really cold, it would turn solid, and white things would fall from the sky instead, covering the landscape, and the weird things that appeared from the ground...
Some pigmen even met Zisteau himself, and learned about the "plants" and "animals" of the world... We were terrified to hear that it wasn't bright every time, and there were times when "night" would appear and hostile creatures, and white skeletons would appear at night...
We heard so many stories, and that only made us to hate the black skeletons more... why would anyone want to destroy such a beautiful world, so different from ours, so young...
And the fact that this world was as well endless, it stirred our curiosity... more of us wanted to see on their own, taste and feel this blue lava... "water" themselves...
Each story, each small thing that would bring us more hope. The seed of hope grew, it's roots entering deep in our hearts, but the completion of the quartz portal prototype was coming soon to an end... what would happen... if we didn't succeed to stop them?