"M-Mom?" Steve stared at what he was told was her.
"Stevey?" The woman looked up. He could hardly recognize her. Her heart-shaped face was covered in scars and bruises. Her dark brown hair had rose petals in them, as well as drops of blood. There was a scar on her lip, and her eyes were golden, wide, and terrified. In a dark place that looked like a jail cell, she sat on weak knees. Around her there were bloody roses everywhere. On the floor, painted on the wall, even one imprinted into her arm.
"What in the Nether did he do to you?" Steve walked closer, and held out his hands towards the lock.
"Don't touch the bars!" Her raspy voice made him freeze. It sounded like she'd tried to scream for too long. "They'll burn the skin off your bones." Steve's mom, Susan, pointed to a skeleton in a corner, who only had skin in certain places. In it's leg, a part of it's head, it's chest. "Literally."
"How long have you been in here, mom?" Steve whispered, and his clenched fists began to shake.
"I don't know."
"I'll be right back." Steve promised, and then stepped out of the dark tunnel. He glanced around at the group, who had moved to where Herobrine had directed so that they could get Steve's mother. "Where's Herobrine?" He asked, noticing that the white-eyed monster was the only one missing from the group.
"He, uh, ran away, as fast as he could go." Ashley replied.
"Maybe he's not stupid, then." Steve growled. "How do I get the jail open?"
"I can do it. Well, without dying, that is." Kristina said. "But it'd be better if my dad did it."
Zeus nodded, and then shrunk himself so he would fit in the hole, and came out with Steve's mom, Susan. Steve embraced her immediately.
"I'll kill him for this." He vowed.
"Heh, uh," Ashley glanced nervously at her papers, "It looks like the readers want to give you a chance to do so."
"You're kidding!" A voice said from behind her. "Aw shit. No, no, invisibility potion, please don't-" Herobrine flickered into view and he took one glance at Steve, and then turned around and ran.
Steve was instantly following him.
"Guys, guys, you'll have the chance to do this later! Can we please just get this chapter over with so that we all don't die?!" Ashley called after them. "As Enderwan rather correctly put it, we're f*cked. No, really, I hope you all wrote your wills."
"Oh, I did." Enderman said.
"Good, then- wait, Enderman?!" She stared at the place he was sitting in. It looked sort of like a throne, and two more next to him for Vi and Electric Elements, but it was made out of just about every block you can name. Not only that, but it even had a place for cups and snacks, which Enderman had served out. It was decorated, and they stood higher than anyone else. "I see you did my dare." Ashley muttered.
"Yeah, sorry, couldn't resist."
Ashley sighed as Herobrine got stuck at a dead end and Steve finally got to him. The adventurer was doing what looked like a choke hold. "Zeus, could you please?"
"Fine." Zeus grumbled, grabbed the two boys like kittens and setting them far apart, and putting Steve back next to his mom.
"Thank you. Now, to get this chapter of the Minecraft Interviews over with. First, we gotta finish Fryusfairy's review, so. Last time we turned Steve and Herobrine into kids and gave 'em cookies. That was fun. Now, uh...Tyler, Kristina, you two have to go on a date. Like, an actual date. (No killing, no soul sucking.)"
"As in, alone?" Tyler paled. "Uh, sorry, but I'm not good with that sort of-...okay." He was staring at Kristina's hair, his eyes glassy, as she laughed and pulled him along and out of sight.
"This dare was that Herobrine had to help Steve get his mother back, but that's already accomplished, so." Ashley went onto the next one, as Steve and Herobrine competed in a fierce glare battle, and at the moment, it was a tie. (Then Enderman stepped in and they both looked away; nobody could beat Enderman at a staring contest.) "Zeus, your dare is, unless you want a happy shot, you cannot say a word throughout the entire interview, unless asked a question or given a dare."
"Given a dare doesn't involve speaking." Herobrine complained.
"It might." Ashley shrugged. "Creeper, a question for you, 'why do you always kill me when I try and keep my distance? You come after me for the sole purpose of killing me when I do nothing.'"
Creeper rolled his eyes. "I'm so sorry that I got just the tiniest bit pissed off when I see Minecraft Players (in general) killing not only my family, but plenty others, too. I'm so sorry, because it makes no sense that the sight of them would make my blood boil."
"Alright, that's it from Fryusfairy. Next, hopefulheart108. We got a dare to change everybody to the opposite genders. There's also another dare that says the same thing, but for the rest of the chapter."
"The rest of the chapter?" Steve repeated.
"Yeah, but I'm not gonna have it last that long. Gonna give it, say, fifteen minutes. Oh, and to spice it up, Enderman, I have a special potion made just. For. You." Ashley grinned.
"Uh, I'd like to know what's in it first." Enderman said, holding the shiny black drink. "Although I'm loving the color."
"Oh, what did I put in it..." Ashley stared at the sky. "A death demon soul, hot sauce, uh, a little more hot sauce, a lot of hot sauce, seven daises, twenty three gems, a couple of shrunken shadows...and some other stuff I can't remember."
"What exactly is this gonna do to me?"
"You'll see." Ashley grinned. "Now, drink it. Zeus, switch us all, please."
"Haha, this is gonna be fun." Zeus snapped his fingers. In a burst of light, they all changed.
"Whoa." Female Steve stared at his-uh, her- body. "Jeez, even as a girl, I look awesome!"
"Yeah, yeah, sure you do." Everyone stared at Enderman, who was somehow still a man. Enderman stared, his his purple eyes having no emotion in them, and then teleported multiple times until he was right behind female Steve. Steve whirled around, and everybody's eyes turned to him.
Enderman began to mutter in an ancient language that sent shiver's down Steve's spine.
"What in the world? Dad, why don't I know what in the heck he's saying?" Herobrine asked.
"I can't be sure." Zeus said as Enderman continued to teleport around. "That tongue is almost older than me, no clue how he knows it."
Then Enderman stared at them. "Wanna have a staring contest?" Then he grabbed Ghast by his weird legs and threw him miles away.
Then he continued to speak in the weird language before teleporting out of sight, and coming back with a solid gold block.
After some more of scaring everybody else, the timer finally went up and Enderman fell, his purple eyes closed. He then shook his head and got up. "Whoa, Mother Minecraft." He muttered. "Who put fire in my mouth? Jeez! And where's Ghast?"
"Over here." Ghast groaned, looking scratched up. "I hate cacti."
"Sorry, Ghast, it looks like I put way too much hot sauce in that potion." Ashley apologized. About that time, Kristina and Tyler came back from their 'date', Tyler stammering like the words had been ripped out of his mouth.
"Uh, now for stuff from Corona." Ashley said. "Like I said last chapter, all OCs shall be added in at the last chapter. (I have a feeling it will be a long one.) Herobrine, Steve, a question. Would you guys rather babysit the mobs again or get the hanging while the ropes on fire while being stabbed punishment?"
"Hanging." They both replied instantly, which caused them to glare at each other.
"Uh, well, what this dare says is that you two have to do both, while listening to nyan cat on loop for ten hours." Ashley said.
Herobrine groaned. "You have got to be kidding me."
"I don't think I'm gonna have you guys do that, though. But only if you do a dare from Baby Mooshroom. Your guy's choice." Ashley shrugged.
"Oh, what's the worst a baby mob could come up with?" Steve shrugged. "Better than hanging."
"I don't know..." Herobrine looked cautious. "I guess I'll do Baby Mooshroom's dare, too."
"Uh, you know what a dare is, right?" Kristina asked.
"'Cwourse I do." Baby Mooshroom replied. "Swteve, Hewobrine, you have to..." She stared into space a moment, and then started at them, grinning devilishly. "You have to pway my game."
"What game?" Herobrine asked.
"I will expwain it." She whispered in Kristina's ear for a few minutes.
Kristina was grinning. "Alright, first of all, Herobrine, you lose your powers."
"Of course." Herobrine muttered. "Should've seen that coming."
"You and Steve both get golden armor and an iron sword. Everybody else, pick your favorite weapon, and go inside the forest! Daddy, you have to go to the end of the forest, by the lake." Kristina said. Then she whispered in his ear.
Zeus smirked. "You got it." With that, he disappeared into the trees.
Soon, nobody but Herobrine, Steve, Kristina, and Baby Mooshroom were left.
"Alright, now, you guys have to get to the lake, where Dad is, by sunrise. Which means that Dad's gonna have to make it night." As soon as the words left Kristina's mouth, the sun set at a fast rate and then the stars came out. "Perfect. If you make it to the lake by sunrise, there will be a box, your reward for getting to the lake in time. If you don't make it by sunrise, you lose, and all the other mobs get what's in the box. By the way, they will be informed of this, so they'll be trying hard not to let you get to the lake. And they all have their weapons, and it's not against the rules to use them. But no killing anybody. Once someone is disarmed, they have to stay where they are until the game is over." Kristina said.
"What's in the box?" Steve asked.
"You'll have to wait and find out." Kristina said. "I'm going to be in the forest, too, but I won't have my powers, either." She turned around and went into the forest.
Baby Mooshroom grinned. "Good luck. You gonna need it." And then she went into the forest.
Herobrine glanced at Steve and sighed. "I really hate how they keep throwing us together."
Steve scoffed. "You think you're the only one? And I think that's why they do it, because we hate it."
"I guess, somehow, that makes sense to them." Herobrine shrugged. The moment the sun disappeared entirely, they both ran into the forest, only to be greeted by a flurry of arrows, and Spider screaming "Hiyah!" He was holding eight daggers, one in each hand.
"Whoa!" Herobrine fell over as Spider jumped on top of him. Steve swung his own sword and three of Spider's daggers fell out of his hand, and then Herobrine fought with him until Spider was entirely disarmed, and then he sulked off, muttering about them being lucky and something to do with bright orange confetti and snakes.
The two still had to worry about the shower of arrows that seemed to come endlessly, and then they had to worry about the mobs that were armed with just a sword. Steve clashed swords with Blaze until her sword flew out of her hand, and then blocked an arrow that was aimed at Herobrine's shoulder, while Herobrine bounced an arrow right back at its sender, Tyler, and ducked as Steve's sword swung past him and into Zombie Pigman's. Steve tripped Zombie, (who groaned about brains) and then an arrow sent Herobrine's sword from his hand, but then he punched the launcher of the deadly accurate arrow, who was unfortunately Skeleton, firmly in the stomach. Skeleton groaned and fell to the ground. The two fought until they were ready to drop with exhaustion, and that's when Creeper strolled in, huge spikes attached to his shoulders, back, and chest.
"You have got to be kidding me." Steve gasped for air.
"You only wish!" Creeper charged at him.
Herobrine glanced at the sky that was beginning to brighten, the first signs of pink on the horizon. "Steve, get him over here!"
"Uh, sure, whatever you say!" Steve ran towards Herobrine, while being chased by Creeper. "Dude, did you eat a speed potion or something?"
"No..." Creeper grinned, and hiccuped a pink bubble.
"Steve, jump!" Herobrine cried. Steve did so, and sailed right over Herobrine and into a tree. Creeper didn't jump as high, but it didn't matter. With one swing of his blade, Herobrine had all the spikes cut off.
Herobrine and Steve then kept going, but they were at the lake, just as the first slivers of the sun was coming up. They had fought all the mobs but Baby Mooshroom, Kristina, and Zeus, who were all at the lake, waiting.
"Okay, maybe Baby Mooshroom isn't so pathetic after all. That was actually one of the few dares that was more fun that torturous." Herobrine huffed as he tried to catch his breath.
"I wouldn't say that, yet." Zeus smiled.
"Good, you made it!" Baby Mooshroom grinned. "Now you chwoose." Before her was three boxes.
"Choose?" Steve repeated.
"Yeah." Baby Mooshroom said.
"One of them has a bunch of prizes in it that you guys will love, one of them has something very deadly in it, and another has absolutely nothing." Kristina explained. "Herobrine, Steve, you guys get to pick one first, and then the other mobs get to pick from the last two. You two get to split whatever's in your box."
Steve and Herobrine glanced at each other. The middle box sort of glowed, the right box made a weird buzzing noise if you listened closely, and the left box seemed to collect shadows.
Herobrine whispered something to Steve, and Steve seemed hesitant, but then they both said, "The middle box."
The other mobs picked the left box.
Herobrine opened their box, while Steve shielded himself for a moment, but nothing happened, other than that he smelled chocolate chip cookies. And in their box, under the warm cookies, were many glowing items.
"Whoa. I'm gonna assume this is the good box." Steve said. "We got armor!" He held up one of them.
"Power armor, from Voltz, it looks like. I don't remember the name of the mod, though." Herobrine said.
"Dude, there's like five stacks of sixty four cookies in here." Steve said. "And what's this thing?" He held up a power fist.
"Don't play with that thing, you'll shoot somebody." Herobrine rolled his eyes.
Steve played with it and aimed it at him. "Yeah, I know. Not doing it, though. Guess I'm not that lucky."
Herobrine snorted. "I'm assuming you still hate me."
"You assume correctly, for once." Steve retorted.
The mobs opened their box, to find it empty. Steve tossed some cookies at the other mobs, because there was way too much for just the time of them.
"So, that one's the 'bad' one? What's in it?" Skeleton asked, as Magma went over and started to peek inside it.
"Stwop it, you let them out." Baby Mooshroom said.
"Daddy, can you hide that box somewhere?" Kristina asked.
"Why? What's in it?" Zeus asked.
"I don't know, but Baby Mooshroom said it's really bad." Kristina said.
"Only if them see light. Them hate light." Baby Mooshroom said.
"Uh, okay." Zeus picked up the box and put it behind him.
"Back to the interviews. A question, has anyone ever used a command block before?" Ashley asked.
"I tried to, once. I think I was trying to teleport, but that's not what happened at all." Steve shrugged.
"Creeper, is it true that you guys are related to pigs?" Ashley asked.
"Um...in a way, I guess." Creeper shrugged. "Sort of like someone being related to a step-cousin."
Ashley read her paper for a moment. "Oh, jeez, you guys are just gonna love this one. Everybody, love shot time!"
"Love shot? What?"
"Nether mobs, can you get to and from the Nether without a portal?" Ashley asked.
"A portal?" Zombie Pigman asked.
"Yeah, you know, the obsidian portals, that have a purple inside, they make a weird sucking up kinda sound." Ashley said.
"Is that how you guys keep getting to the Nether?" Wither Skeleton growled.
"Annoyingly smart Minecraft players." Ghast muttered.
"How do you guys get to the Nether, then?" Steve demanded.
"Like this-y!" Magma said, and she and Blaze both disappeared in a flash of purple sparks, not unlike Enderman's, and came back a couple moments later, Magma playing with glowstone.
"What everyone got/wants for Christmas?"
"Villager, is Squidward one of your ancestors?"
"For the last time, I don't even know who this 'Squiwar' person is!" Villager groaned.
An older one beside him shook his head. "You haven' been taught de' teachins'! De' Squidward kind evolved into havin' only two arms an' two legs, an' then walked on land! Then they lost their holy blue color and became Villagers! I tell ye, tis true!"
"Sure it is, Gramps." Villager rolled his eyes.
"That would explain why Villagers are always grumpy, tired, and annoying all of the time." Ashley said.
"Squidward ain't annoyin'!" The Old Villager growled.
"Then maybe they're also part Spongebob." Ashley mused. "Anyway, Spider, how come you don't attack people in daytiem but you do at night?"
"One word; camoflague. Nobody can see me too well at night. But in the day it's easier to be found. Plus, the sun hurts my eyes, and I'd rather be in a cave." Spider replied.
"Snow Golem, would it be possible for there to be a Snow Golem with a melon for a head?"
"Oh, there is." Snow Golem scowled. "They hate us with pumpkin heads because we're 'impure' and 'despicable' but really, they're just afraid of us because our faces are scary, and won't let us go to their 'Palace' that they have hidden. But I wouldn't go if they paid me all the snowballs in the world!"
"Enderdragon, how come you are hurt by snowballs but nobody else is?" Ashley asked.
"Don't know, but jeez, those things are annoying." Enderdragon replied.
"Enderman, are you related to Slenderman?" Ashley asked.
"Not a single clue how anyone sees the slightest resemblance, but no, thank the Father of Feathers." Enderman replied.
"Ghast, are you related to Squid?" Ashley asked.
"Nope. We are kind of opposites, though. They live underwater, they're dark colored, they're stupid, (or derpy or whatever) they're small, stuff like that." Ghast replied.
"Iron Golem, could there be a Stone Golem, a Gold Golem, a Diamond Golem, etc?" Ashley asked.
Iron Golem paled. "Uh. Maybe, maybe not."
"Steve, what's your favorite biome?" Ashley asked.
"Grassy plains. Plenty of animals, flat so it's good for houses, good chance of finding horses or a village, and water's usually somewhere nearby." Steve replied.
"Alright, a dare. Two, actually. Steve gets Herobrine's powers and Herobrine loses his, and then they fight. I don't think we're gonna do it, though...Steve, could you settle for having a pillow fight?"
"A pillow fight? Are you serious?" Herobrine stared at her.
"Yup. Except not with pillows, but with pillars, boulders, or whatever else you want. And you both get Herobrine's power. Does that work?"
"Fine with me." Herobrine let out a sigh of relief.
"Ugh. Fine." Steve groaned.
They both armed themselves with thick pillars, holding it in a way similar to how they would hold a baseball bat. Steve had a glint in his eyes.
"Alright, we'll do this for fifteen minutes, or until one of you has knocked the pillar out of the other's hands." Ashley said. "Ready, set..."
Steve whacked Herobrine in the head, nearly knocking him over.
"Dude, she didn't say go!" Herobrine growled, rubbing his head.
"Oh, oops, I'm so sorry." Steve's voice was flat.
"Guys, you have to wait until I say 'go'!" Ashley groaned.
Herobrine hit Steve in the stomach, causing the adventurer to double over.
Ashley stared at him. "Herobrine!"
"What? You said go!"
"You are so annoying." Steve growled, and hit him in the head.
"You're supposed to wait until-" Ashley began, but Steve and Herobrine had already started. "Oh, whatever." She rolled her eyes, started the timer.
Both with Herobrine's power, they began to hit each other so fast they became blurs. The minutes ticked by, and after nine minutes, they both started to tire. Steve put the remains of his strength into one last blow, but Herobrine did the exact same thing. The pillars collided, and crumbled. Steve and Herobrine both huffed on the ground, Steve still glaring at the white eyes that glared right back.
"Stevey! How many times have I told you," Steve's mom pursed her lips, "aim where it's gonna hurt!"
"Right, right, how could I forget?" Steve grinned, standing up and walking over to her. She gave Herobrine a look of deep loathing, while the White-Eyed-One was having trouble hiding his grin.
"Alright, now stuff from Skull Raiser. Herobrine, Tyler, you two get to write your wills. Just gotta say, you both are probably gonna need it." Ashley said.
"Oh, that's reassuring. I'm glad that this Skull Raiser somehow already knew that." Herobrine grumbled, and scratched out his will on a piece of paper.
Ashley stared at her paper for a long time. "Um...wow, that's all I really have to say to this one. It says that Herobrine gets to be tied up, and he has to choose between Kristina or Steve."
"Kristina." Herobrine blurted out. "I don't think I even wanna hear the rest."
"Heh. Uh, then whoever he picked gets to do anything to him, besides killing him, for an hour." Ashley said.
"It counts if he's barely alive, right?" Steve asked. His mother gave him a look.
"Kristina." Herobrine repeated.
"Yeah, I don't think we're gonna do this one." Ashley said. "I can't think of a good substitute for it, though..."
Steve's mom grinned. "I got one."
"Mom, you're the one who always said revenge isn't nice." Steve said.
She smiled. "Who said anything about revenge? I just thought I'd treat to dinner."
"Sounds great! Herobrine, you go ahead and go with her." Ashley said.
"Are you insane?" Herobrine stared at her. "She's gonna poison me or something."
"Me?" Susan put a hand to her chin in mock surprise. "A damsel in distress? Poison the white-eyed vampire? Do you think I'm stupid?"
Herobrine snorted and mimicked, "'Damsel in distress,'" as she pulled him out of view. When they came back, Herobrine was trying to rip a bib off his chest. "It's stuck, get it off!"
"That's the point, moron." Susan rolled her eyes. "Oh, you got a dab of baby food on your cheek. Let me get that..."
"Nether to the no!" Herobrine yanked the bib off and strolled away from here, muttering about pacifiers and hot dogs.
"Well, wasn't that interesting." Ashley said. "Tyler, Kristina, you two get to hug for ten minutes. Herobrine, you have permission to shoot blunted arrows at them. Tyler, Kristina, you two get ten healing potions, in case Herobrine does something he'll regret." She glared at him.
"Oh, but why shoot them?" Herobrine grinned, admiring his bow. "I'd rather watch Tyler get extremely uncomfortable. Kristina, why don't you amuse us?"
Kristina stuck her tongue out at him, and then kissed Tyler, who turned the color of the roses that Susan had finally managed to get out of her hair, though the smell of them was far from gone.
"Well then," Ashley cleared her throat and looked down at her paper, "Steve, for this one, you'd better hope that Blaze and Enderman aren't the vengeful type. You have to destroy sixty four grass blocks and Minecarts in front of them."
Steve winced. "Oh, yay me." He did as the dare said, and then looked fearfully at Enderman and Blaze, but they weren't looking at him, but at each other. They had both been twitching as they watched Steve destroy their obsessions, but now there was no emotion on their face.
Blaze nodded, and Enderman turned to Steve, smiling. "Steve, how much do you like minecart rides?"
"Uh...Enderman, Blaze, it was a dare..." Steve paled.
"Blaze has been working on a new amusement park, and I think that the ride 'Memory Lane' will really interest you."
"She named a ride 'Memory Lane?'" Steve stared. He didn't have time to say anything else, because Enderman teleported behind him, grabbing his shoulder, and then they both disappeared in a burst of purple sparks.
Blaze was smiling, a satisfied look on her face. "If you'll excuse me, I have to go make sure his ride is...enjoyable." With that, she took off.
Minutes later, they came back, Enderman and Blaze smiling, while Steve groaned and winced occasionally.
"I didn't think you were serious when it said 'Ghost Rider.'" Steve muttered. "I just wanted to get 'Memory Lane' out of my head!"
Blaze smiled. "You were the one who wanted to go on it."
Steve just groaned.
"Alright, sent straight from Skull Raiser, Blaze, you get a large chest full of sixty four stacks of minecarts." Ashley said. "And Enderman, you got a dirt block that cannot be picked up by anyone but you, can't despawn, and is immune to fire, lava, and explosions."
Enderman and Blaze gaped for a moment, before they both started doing something that Ashley only knew as fanboying/fangirling, where the feeling really couldn't be expressed much through words other than 'oh my gosh,' but it still shone on their faces.
"Next, Zeus, 'what if I took over Herobrine's mind and made him lose it?'" Ashley asked.
"Hey, that's my job." Zeus grinned. "Although, I wouldn't complain. He'd probably be less annoying without his mind."
Ashley stared at her paper for a long time, and then at our green, exploding friend. "Creeper, you are about to be extremely grateful to Skull Raiser. As he calls you, 'For the Almighty and Supreme Creeper, (a Creeper once exploded a Zombie in full diamond armor for me, so you're my favorite mob,) I give to you...arms!'"
Creeper gaped. "What? Dude, that's not funny, it's rude to taunt people, ya know-"
"Take a look." Ashley said.
Creeper squealed at the arms that now stood at his sides. "In the name of The End..." He flexed them, and stared at it. "Nobody pinch me. No, seriously, if this is a dream, I will wake up and explode whoever pinches me." And then he started fanboying, too. "Holy Father of Feathers, arms! Oh my Gold, I have arms!" He looked a little worried for a minute. "How long will they last?"
"Well, it's only changed in the fanfic, so...until the story's over." Ashley replied.
Creeper went back to enjoying his new body parts.
"Zeus, this is from Electric Elements. 'If you are the real Zeus, then I'm pretty sure you heard the prophecy that your son will over throw you one day? Or that you are only the fifth most powerful being, right after your son and the three fates, and finally, that to be with mortals, you have to present yourself incognito, specifically a rock and cow.'" Ashley read.
"Mortals finally using their brains, wow." Zeus muttered. "Yeah, it's true, though I really doubt that you'll be able to 'over throw' me if you can't find your mind anywhere." Herobrine just rolled his eyes.
"Wow, Steve, I think some other people want revenge on Herobrine, too. This one, from Derp, says, 'Steve, you and Herobrine swap powers, and then both of you get locked up in a bedrock room for an hour.'" Ashley said.
Herobrine just stared. "I have two things to say. One, I really hope that was some kind of joke of yours. Two, are you seriously going to do it?"
"Um...maybe, I guess..." Ashley bit her lip.
Herobrine turned to Zeus. "What's the quickest way to Antartica?"
"Go to Europe, and then make a right." Zeus replied.
"Cya!" Herobrine started running.
"Fine, fine, I won't do the dare!" Ashley called after him.
"Aw." Steve sighed. "Why not? I wouldn't hurt him, really, I just wanna, um, talk to him, yeah." Steve tried to keep a straight face, but ended up chuckling behind his hand.
"Yeah, that's why." Ashley replied. "Uh, now there's this dare...I have to fight Zeus."
Zeus grinned. "I think people want you dead."
"I know, right? What'd I ever do?" Ashley sighed.
"Throw us all into an interview that's overfilled with torture and horror for each and every one of us, though mainly me." Steve replied.
"Oh, that." Ashley shrugged. "It's called being a writer."
"I don't like it."
"You're a character, I don't think you have very much reason to like it." Ashley rolled her eyes, and then stood up, holding a bow and arrow, with a diamond sword at her back, and with a sigh, looked up to Zeus. "Can you please at least go back to regular size?"
"Fine, fine." Zeus said, and then shrunk until he was only an inch or two taller than her. He had a silver, gleaming sword in his hand.
Ashley held up her sword. "Alright, fighting until somebody knocks the weapon out of the other's hand. Ready, set, go!"
No sooner than the words had left her mouth, and Zeus charged. One lunge and her sword was flung away.
"Come on, you have to at least try." Zeus rolled his eyes.
"I did!" Ashley called back, going back to retrieve her weapon.
"Wanna try again?" Zeus asked, grinning.
"Sure." Ashley said. "Ready, set, go!"
Zeus lunged at her again, but this time she was ready. She dodged and rolled...straight into a tree. She got up dizzily, holding one hand to her head. "Ow, okay. Not doing that again."
Zeus chuckled as he charged at her, but all he hit was solid wood, as Ashley had moved out of the way. With a look of pure annoyance, he slashed at her again, and Ashley decided to try blocking it with her sword, which was her mistake. Zeus's silver sword clashed against her diamond one, and Ashley's flew out of her hand, and dug deep into a tree.
"Oh, great." Ashley sighed, and went over to it. She pulled on it with all her might, but it didn't budge.
"Allow me." Zeus strode over, and with one twist, grabbed her sword. The wooden block was too damaged, though, and it popped out, too. "Here ya go." He handed both to her.
"Uh, alright then." Ashley went back to her paper, placing the wooden block and using it as a foot stool. "Zeus, this is to you, a note from Derp. 'I stole the Emerald of Time. And should I or should I not give it to Steve or Herobrine?'"
"First of all, you mean if you stole the Emerald of Time." Zeus growled. The said item was still glowing in his pocket. "Second, if you did have it, I don't care whom you give it to, because I'd probably just kill all three of you, anyway. I would prefer if you gave it to Steve, though, because Herobrine's bound to lose it, again."
"It's not my fault!" Herobrine burst out.
"Sure, sure it's not." Zeus rolled his eyes.
"Now, for stuff from DIE, are there any extinct mobs?" Ashley asked.
"Um." Iron Golem looked at Snow Golem. "Should I...?"
"Well, they're pretty darn dead now, so it won't matter." Snow Golem shrugged. "And yeah, there used to be Diamond Golem, Gold Golem, Redstone Golem, Emerald Golem, and even Lapis Golem."
"There are rumors, just rumors, that there was Dirt Golem, too. Though I doubt he survived even if he was real...I doubt anyone could've survived that explosion..." Iron Golem said.
"Well, we did." Snow Golem pointed out.
"Yeah, but that's just because you could disappear in the snow, and I was fast enough..."
"Alright, uh, now for stuff from iluvpb22, a note, 'Herobrine, Steve would be alive, probably a bit weak. However, Steve, I would only give you to Herobrine in desperate circumstances.'"
Herobrine smirked. "I wonder what you're referring to when you say 'desperate circumstances'. Because I'm pretty sure I can make them happen." Steve grunted and rolled his eyes.
"Now, for some dares." Ashley looked at her paper. "Um, there's this dare that has Kristina changing your guys's wardrobe again, Steve and Herobrine, and she would get to make you guys look girly. But, since you guys already had a makeover last time, I think this time you guys should get to pick whatever you want, as long as you're not wearing the usual green shirt and blue pants."
"Sweet!" Steve grinned, and he and Herobrine walked off, coming back a little later wearing very different outfits. Steve was wearing a t-shirt that had a picture of a diamond hoe that read 'never waste your diamonds on a hoe,' jeans, and sneakers. He had a baseball cap with a wolf face on it, and the golden sword enchanted with Herobane on his back, as well as the Power Fist on his hand. Herobrine had a biker's jacket on, over his black shirt that a picture of a bloody rose, along with black jeans and gray tennis shoes. A diamond dagger hung on his belt.
"Alright, now, Kristina, you get your own makeover, too." Ashley said.
"I'll be back in two minutes." Kristina got up, grinning. She came back, at exactly one hundred and twenty seconds later, wearing a bright red tanktop, a red and black skirt, and sneakers. A bow and arrow was around her back.
"Now, Herobrine, uh, you have to sit next to Jessica for the remainder of the chapter, and if you haven't kissed her by then, Kristina gets your soul." Ashley said.
"Oh. Wonderful." Herobrine muttered, and then stood up and started screaming, "Demon, demon!"
Jessica appeared, looking around, and then saw Herobrine. "If you want to call me, just start screaming 'Jessica'."
"Mind if I call you Jessi?" Herobrine asked.
"Um. Sure." Jessica turned pink as Herobrine sat down next to her and scooted closer.
"Ghast, how many smores can you make? Because iluvpb22 wants a year's supply of them." Ashley said.
"Well, that depends on how many iluvpb22 could eat in a year. For me, I wouldn't be able to make as many as I eat in a year all at once, the number's too big. But I can start with three thousand." Ghast replied, and held out five marshmallow sticks, all of which had twenty marshmallows on it, each.
"Alright, Blaze and Enderman, you two get gifts, sent straight from iluvpb22. Have at 'em." Ashley said.
Both of them squealed when they saw the contents of their gifts.
Enderman tore his open, and found a stack of grass blocks sitting there in all its glory. He gaped at it, and then, grinning, placed one on the ground, and a yellow daisy began to grow on it. Enderman began to chuckle as he placed them around his 'castle,' and added flowers on top.
Meanwhile, Blaze was placing and sitting in her new stack of minecarts, looking relaxed, but, as Ashley began to continue the interview, the sparkle in her eye was far from gone, and the grin didn't want to leave her face.
"Zeus, if iluvpb22 told you that the Emerald of Time was at her house, ('it's not,') what would you do?" Ashley asked.
"I would hope iluvpb22 likes surprise visitors." Zeus replied.
"Steve, 'Could you teach your secrets to holding your breath underwater so long?'" Ashley quoted.
"Not in front of White Eyes, only way I've ever been able to hide from the freak." Steve muttered.
"Hey, I'm not that freaky, unless I want to be." Herobrine retorted.
"Really? I thought you of all people would see just how much of a monster you are."
"There's a difference between monsters and freaks." Herobrine said.
They went on talking, but Ashley cut them short. "Uh, Tyler..."
Her said cousin didn't like the look on her face. "What is it?"
"You have a question. Not at all in not an answer. Would you rather make out with Kristina in plain sight, behind a tree, or up in a tree?" Ashley asked.
Kristina and Tyler both went scarlet.
"This is a question, not a dare...right?" Tyler asked fearfully.
"Right."
A little of the color came back to his face. "Uh...god." He put his face in his hands, and through him he muttered, "Behind a tree."
"Creeper, who do you want to hug right now?" Ashley asked.
Creeper looked around the group like he didn't enjoy his options. "Um..." The cat in his lap meowed, and he grinned. "Midnight."
"Alright, Midnight, you have to hug him." Ashley said. "Oh, um, I mean, meow, meow, meoww."
Midnight climbed on Creeper's neck and hugged him, purring, Creeper looking very happy.
"Alright, guys. We have a surprise fun activity. Everyone gets to (cough, cough, has to,) participate in a glitter fight. Here's how it's gonna work. Everyone has their own pouch of glitter, and a sticky target on your forehead. The whole point is to throw glitter at the target, and if any sticks, then that person's out. Also, I'll have glitter guns, for those who'd rather use that. It's a free for all battle, and the winner gets a gift, and everybody else gets a cookie."
"A glitter fight? Are you serious?" Zeus asked, adjusting the target on his head.
"Yup. Now, on your mark, get set, go!" Ashley declared.
It didn't take long for glitter to be splattered everywhere, and multiple people were walking out of the chaos, muttering and trying to rub the glitter off of them.
No one is particular seemed very good at the glitter fight, and, in the end, the only four left standing were Jessica, (who had been talked into playing by Herobrine,) Herobrine, Tyler, and Kristina.
Kristina shot a burst of glitter and sparkles at Jessica, who ducked and sent one back. Kristina tried ducking, too, but the glob of pink landed on her target with a splat.
"Dang, I'm out." Kristina said, but she couldn't wipe the grin off her face. Tyler was having serious trouble shooting sparkles at Herobrine and Jessica at the same time, so it wasn't too much of a surprise when Tyler got a glob of sparkles on his forehead.
"Just you and me." Herobrine grinned.
"Think fast!" Jessica called back, shooting a glob at him. He ducked and shot one back, but then she shot three in response, and the middle one landed on his target. "Annddd you're outta there!"
"Alright, then, Jessica. You get a slice of angel cake, while everyone else gets a cookie." Ashley said.
"Yay, my favorite!" Jessica grinned,
"Alright, now, from stuff from Kingdom Lover123123, who really doesn't appear to like Herobrine too much. Herobrine, you have to hug Steve for fifteen minutes. If you don't, you have to eat a large forest, as well as go on a date with him, and-"
"Alright, alright! Jeez, I'll hug him." Herobrine growled, and he went over to Steve, (who didn't look too happy) and Ashley started the timer.
"Uh, stuff from Amber. 'What happens when I find a creeper kill it (chasing an enderman) and the enderman becomes my friend? Because I befriended them (6 at least)and save them from the rain.'" Ashley said.
"Oh, that was probably when Enderman was getting pissed at me for exploding all of his precious dirt blocks, so I started sizzling, and he backed off pretty quick, but it was fun to chase him." Creeper said.
Enderman rolled his eyes. "Yeah, if you could. Problem was, I can teleport! It's awesome."
"It's annoying." Creeper corrected.
Ashley looked back at her paper. "Wow. We got some serious reviews here. Jeez. If we did these dares, we'd have three less people to interview. Yeah, sorry, we're not killing anybody. Let's stick to the somewhat safe ones. Oh, and, lucky me, Steve, you have to kiss me for five minutes. Sorry, but uh, that's a little too long for me. Ten seconds sounds a little better."
"What'd you mean, 'lucky me?'" Steve got up and walked towards her.
"I was being sarcastic."
"I know." Steve said, and then kissed her.
It took Ashley a moment to recover. "Ahem, uh, we're gonna skip the deadly dares that come right after that, and then, for stuff from Daebak Fai. Tyler, Kristina, and Baby Mooshroom, you guys all get to have a group hug."
"Yay!" Baby Mooshroom hopped up and down, and then looked at Tyler. Her eyes searched him a moment, and she was looking through the grin on his face. "Hey! I know you!"
"Huh?" Tyler looked at her, and he paled. "Um, no you don't..."
"Yeah, I do! You the one wif the Lens of Sight!" Baby Mooshroom grinned.
"Sh!" Tyler put a hand over her mouth.
"Wait, you have what?" Kristina stared at him. "What's the Lens of Sight?"
"You have it?" Zeus stared at him. "I thought that thing was destroying years ago."
"Heh, it was supposed to be." Tyler rolled his eyes. "They were morons."
"Correction; are, they are morons." Zeus said.
"Herobrine, 'as punishment for scaring pwoor pwoor wittle Baby Mooshroom and making Kristina cry, you have to have ten happy shots, listen to nyan cat, and sing a love song.'" Ashley said.
"Revenge is so sweet." Kristina smiled.
"Rewenge is bwad! And I not pwoor and wittle!" Baby Mooshroom spoke up.
"You're very right." Kristina said. "And you deserve it, Herobrine."
"Yeah, yeah, I guess I do." Herobrine said, and looked at the potion that had ten happy shots in it. "This is gonna be a happy overload..." He sighed and drank it. He blinked and stared around for a moment, and a wicked grin spread across his face, and he tried to stand up, but he nearly collapsed. "Room...spinning...looks...like...carosel ride...dizzy is fun! Dudes, why's the the tall thing turning blue?" He pointed at Enderman, and then jerked, skipped, hopped, and twirled his way towards him. Enderman had to move to avoid getting slammed into Herobrine's falling body.
"Shhhhhhhhhizzzz and peanut butter...at the top of the world tonight baby ooh..." Herobrine sang quietly. "Fruit salad, yummy yummy..." He hopped on top of a tree. "Oohhh, I believvveee that I can flyyy!" He jumped, and landed on his head. Then he hopped up, and started to literally bounce off the walls- or, uh, trees. He had nyan cat blaring in his ear, and would occasionally mutter, 'na na na na.' Then he sang a love song, which, even in his deranged state, Jessica somehow found cute. Finally, after a lot of what seemed like torture, hurting himself, laughing like a maniac, and an accident that involved the spawning of a witch, sunflower-flavored corn, and a lot of angry screaming, the hour was up, and Herobrine woke up and looked around at the faces of the people around him, at the bruises on his head, and at the angry witch that kept on trying to get her disappearing potion to work.
"Do I even want to know what I did?" Herobrine asked.
"No, I don't think so." Ashley replied. "Now, for stuff from AnakTebet. Since we still have our TV, we now get to watch Paranormal Activities."
Everyone sat down and watched, and afterwards, the only ones still looking was Zeus, Herobrine, and Kristina. Ashley was peeking, horrified, through her hands, and Tyler had stopped looking long ago, and Jessica was wincing.
Herobrine looked around. "They find this scary? These guys are amateurs."
"The one with the creepy eyes wasn't too bad, though really, they could've done better." Kristina remarked.
"Meh." Zeus shrugged.
"Well," With trembling hands, Ashley turned off the TV, and held up her paper, "wasn't that interesting. Here's a question; if you guys have Morph mod installed, what mob would you turn into? By the way, this is not for mobs, and you guys can't say Wither Boss or Enderdragon."
"Creeper." Herobrine said. "Those guys are so quiet it's annoying."
"I'd probably be Creeper as well." Kristina replied.
"Probably a cow. Those dudes always seem so care-free." Steve said.
"I wanted to be an Enderdragon." Zeus frowned. "Oh well. Uh, probably Enderman, then."
"Chicken." Jessica said. "Or a bird."
"Steve, do you like AnakTebet's gifts?"
"Of course." Steve replied.
"Then you get a cookie. A question, Creeper and Skeleton, how come whenever a skeleton shoots a creeper, a music disc comes out?"
They both winced.
"The Skeleton Tribes and Creeper Tribes used to be at war." Skeleton said. "After...how many years was it?"
"Forty three, I think." Creeper replied.
"Forty three years or so, and they finally decided to call it quits. They signed a Peace Treaty for forever, basically. And when that Peace Treaty is broken by a skeleton, a 'Music Disc,' as you call it, a sacred artifact, is lost from the Skeleton Archives. And when a creeper breaks the Peace Treaty..."
"A skeleton is allowed to entire the creeper's domain without being attacked, and usually steals some kind of golden gunpowder or something." Creeper replied. "It's supposed to keep the Peace Treaty from being broken, but it's been broken countless times."
"Uh, Zeus, you get to have a little fun by thunder zapping everyone. Please, make it weak ones, we need everybody alive, thank you."
"That's like saying you'll give me a feast and then giving me a slice of bread and water." Zeus complained, but his face lighted up a bit when he shocked everyone, and Herobrine didn't take it as a mistake that he hurt, jerked, and twitched the most, or that there was a small spark on his hair.
"Steve, you have to go Slender Forest and find the eight pages. And, since I've decided not to put Slenderman in this, you'll have someone else stalk you." Ashley said.
Herobrine and Steve exchanged a glance, and Steve groaned. Steve was then teleported into a dark forest. He glanced around, and walked a bit, but couldn't see Herobrine anywhere.
After wandering around for a long time, he found one of the pages. And another one was well. But then, as he was picking up the second one, something told him to turn around. And, ever so slowly, he did so. But nothing was there. Telling himself to stop being paranoid, Steve turned around and saw two white eyes staring back at him. He froze, blinked, and they were gone.
He walked ever so slowly away, his eyes scanning a trees, the only thing he could hear being his heart hammering in his ears. And just as he was picking up the third page, Steve looked up to the see the white eyes again, this time right in front of him. After that, his body became rigid, something painful pierced his neck, and was surrounded by the dark.
"Steve, earth to Steve, you there?" Ashley called to him.
Steve woke in a cold sweat, and shook himself awake. "What in the name of Minecraft..."
Herobrine, sitting a couple seats away from him, was smirking. "Fun thing about that game, you can kill somebody without really doing so. Can we go a couple more times, Ashley?"
"Uh, no. Kristina, Tyler, a dare. You two get to go have some fun time at the beach." Ashley said.
Tyler and Kristina got up, Tyler looking relieved, and Kristina grinning.
"Alright, Herobrine, now that they're gone, you have to go ruin their fun time."
Herobrine smirked. "Ruin, or spoil? And, I know if I killed anybody I'd definitely get my soul sucked out, but what about maiming, or seriously injuring?"
"Lay a finger on Tyler's head and I will make you wish you were dead." Ashley said through a big grin. "Now, go have fun."
Herobrine trotted away, muttering about happy fuzzies.
"Zeus, you get to clean all of the windows of the Empire State building, from the bottom to the top, and then get to act like king kong." Ashley said.
"Too easy." Zeus replied, and snapped his fingers. "Do you want it sparkling clean, or just soaked?" Storm clouds formed over the Empire State building, and began to fall hard in a constant downpour. "And do I seriously have to act like king kong? Really?"
"Yeah, that's what it says."
"Ugh." Zeus groaned, and went to the Empire State building and started to act like a rampaging monkey.
Just then, Herobrine, Kristina, and Tyler came back. Tyler and Herobrine were soaking wet, and Kristina was trying to wipe the sand off of her.
"I'm gonna kill you, and then re-kill you, three times." Herobrine growled, glaring at Tyler.
Tyler was grinning. "That's nice."
"And then I'm gonna suck all of the blood out of your dead body."
"Uh huh."
"And then I'm gonna burn your body, and find a way to turn your ashes into something edible, and try to sell it to pathetic humans."
"You do that."
"If you don't wipe that smirk off your face, I'm going to tell everyone." Herobrine threatened.
That made Tyler's face drop. "You wouldn't dare."
"Try me." Herobrine grinned. "And since when is your guys's version of fun sitting down and having absolutely no idea what to do?"
"Since you decided that's its fun to drag somebody under water until their lungs burst." Tyler glared at him.
"How was I supposed to know you're part mermaid?" Herobrine scowled.
"I've been swimming since I was three, okay? I swim better than you. Get over it." Tyler muttered.
"Get over you somehow being to repeatedly punch me in the face?" Herobrine growled at him.
"I'm so very, very sorry, that I was trying to get away from the freak who was drowning me." Tyler said.
"Both of you, knock it off." Kristina rolled her eyes. "Ashley, do the interviews before we get a fist fight."
"Alright. Herobrine, it looks like we forgot to do your manly test earlier. So you have to go in a pink room with Jessica, for, say, fifteen minutes." Ashley said.
"Lucky me." Herobrine muttered, and went into a pink room with Jessica. Fifteen minutes later, they both came out, and Herobrine looked dazed.
"If that was a manly test," Jessica said, "he passed."
Herobrine snorted. "How would you know?"
"Because angel love charms only work on tough men." Jessica shrugged.
"Isn't that good to know." Herobrine muttered.
Ashley was staring at her paper. "Okay, am I allowed to say no to a dare that includes me?"
"After I see it." Zeus muttered, snatching the paper from her. "'Ashley; kill. A. Horse.'"
"That's not happening." Ashley folded her arms. "Sorry, you're trying to have a girl whom, as a kid, cried when watching all the Flicka movie's and watching Artax die in the Neverending Story, okay? It's not happening. I'd rather..."
"...Kiss Herobrine when he's really pissed off?" Zeus grinned. "Do that, or you'll have to kill a horse."
Ashley sighed, and looked at Herobrine, who was wearing a wicked grin.
"Fine." Ashley groaned, and went and kissed him.
"By the way, Jessica's a better kisser than you." Herobrine said.
Ashley held up her sword. "I will use this."
Herobrine's best response was a face of mock horror.
"Alright...we have a dare I don't think we're gonna do...we get to live in a mansion full of creepypasta for five days." Ashley said.
Tyler gaped at her. "We wouldn't last two minutes!"
"Yeah, which is why the person who did it wants to give everybody a gem of respawn...but, I'm not sure if this dare is a good idea, for three reasons. One, this chapter is already really long, and five days is a long time to be stuck with creepy pasta characters. Two, I'm not sure if my mind could imagine up that kind of horror without exploding. Three, because Herobrine would be joining the creepy pasta gang and doing his best to scare the crap out of everyone."
"Oh please. A lot of them are worse than me." Herobrine rolled his eyes. "You wouldn't believe some of the things they come up with, almost makes me jealous."
"Back to the interviews. Now for stuff from Enderwan. Herobrine, you get a ninja outfit, and you have to stalk Steve everywhere, though I thought you already did that anyways." Ashley shrugged.
"He does." Steve muttered.
"Can I have ninja stars?" Herobrine asked.
"I'm not that stupid, Herobrine." Ashley rolled her eyes. "Steve, you have to turn on nyan cat and we all have to listen for thirty minutes."
"Okay." Steve shrugged, and turned on the ipod. Everyone looked annoyed to listen to nyan cat, but Steve looked just fine.
"Hey! You're wearing earplugs!" Skeleton poked him.
"What? No, I'm not." Steve hid his ears from view.
"Yeah, sure."
"Um...Kristina, Tyler, you got a dare to kiss for two minutes." Ashley said. "So, have at it. I'll set a timer. Um, this dare isn't happening. It says, 'Blaze gets to burn Baby Mooshroom, and Kristina can do nothing about it.'"
Baby Mooshroom whimpered and hugged Kristina's legs, and Blaze shook her head.
"Over my dead body." Kristina growled.
"Again, it's not happening. Neither is 'Zeus gets to squish Steve with his finger.' Enderman, you get thirty two diamond blocks to add to your...castle thing." Ashley said, and Enderman began to squeal again. "Blaze, Slime, you two get to fight Enderman and Wither. Uh, all I got to say is no killing, and have fun."
Slime hopped over to Blaze, looking sour. "Just don't let 'em cream me, okay?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'll protect your sorry hopping butt." Blaze rolled her eyes.
Enderman and Wither Skeleton exchanged a glance, and they nodded, turning to Blaze and Slime.
"Ready, set, go!" Ashley said. No sooner had the words left her mouth that Slime got a flaming arrow to the face. (I guess he's really just six faces, so...)
Skeleton loaded his bow with five arrows. "You ready, Enderdragon?" He called, and then let it fly. Enderdragon set them all on fire with a blast of purple heat, and they landed at Slime, who then hopped around wildly, trying to get the flame on his head to go out, and it only grew bigger.
"Oh, for Creeper's sake." Blaze rolled her eyes, and waved her hand, the fire on his hand came to her, and Blaze shot it at Enderdragon and Wither Skeleton. "Slime, try being useful for once and help me out, here!"
"Fine-y!" Slime called back, throwing slime balls back at them. It continued on for a while, Enderdragon and Wither Skeleton winning, until Slime made his slime balls into miniature slimes, and sent them at Wither Skeleton, who fell over with so many on him. But Enderdragon soon discovered that tiny slimes were afraid of fire, and that got them off Wither Skeleton quick.
After twenty minutes, all four of them were too tired to fight. Wither Skeleton was panting and out of arrows, Enderdragon's throat was getting too hot and his legs were aching, Slime had used up so much of himself that he was half his original size, and Blaze's fire was dangerously small.
"It's a tie! Alright, there's a dare here I don't think we're gonna do. 'Creeper's cat must be thrown into the void.'" Ashley said.
Midnight hissed and Creeper stood in front of her. "One, her name is Midnight. Two, not happening."
"Yup. So, now there's gonna be a joust between Zombie and Skeleton with wooden swords and on horses. We'll watch from the sidelines." Ashley said.
"Brainzzz." Zombie grunted, mounting his horse and adjusting his sword.
"Um...can't I just use my bow? I'm not good with swords. With an arrow I could just shoot him before he could get twenty feet." Skeleton held his sword awkwardly.
"Nope. So, on your mark, get set..." Ashley began.
"Boo! This is so boring! Boo, hiss! Lame, so lame!" Herobrine yelled, throwing tomatoes at Zombie and Skeleton.
"Herobrine, what are you doing? Of course it's boring, it hasn't even started yet." Ashley said.
"Exactly!" Herobrine said, reloaded his arms with the red vegetable. "Boo!"
"I told you the tomatoes were a bad idea." Kristina said.
"Yeah, I'll listen to you next time." Ashley replied. "On your mark, get set, go!"
Zombie and Skeleton's horses started off, gaining speed until they were at a canter. Zombie muttered "Brainzz," and aimed his sword. Skeleton closed his eyes, and the only thing he could hear was the wind in his ears and Herobrine's distant calls, 'This is so lame I'm gonna be sick! Eat tomatoes, you potato sacks!'
Then Skeleton flew through the air, Zombie's sword having hit him in the chest bones, and he landed in a nearby tree, dizzy and dazed, and a couple of his bones fell apart. "Aw crap, not again!" He tried to put himself back together. "I told you guys I'm not good with a sword!"
"Alright, Zombie won, so he also earned the right to kick Steve in the ass." Ashley said.
"What? Since when?" Steve asked. Zombie crept up behind him and went to kick him, but then his leg fell over. He hopped a couple times, and then lost his balance and fell over.
"Boo! That was the lamest thing I've ever seen! Boo!" Herobrine called, hitting Zombie with a tomato.
"Alright, then, Herobrine, that's enough. Jeez. A dare, Magma Cube, you get to jump on Zeus's head." Ashley said.
"Oh. But that could lead to really bad brain damage..." Magma Cube grinned, as she hopped on Zeus's head in an annoying rythm.
"Remind me who gave her that dare, so I can punch them in the face." Zeus growled.
"A dare, Enderman, you have to wear diamond armor for the rest of the chapter, to protect you from any dares that might come your way." Ashley said.
"Um...I don't think it'll fit." Enderman replied, staring at it.
"Allow me." Herobrine said, and easily stretched the blue gleaming material out. "There ya go."
Enderman put it on. "It's a tight fit, but wow, this thing is heavy. How do you wear this all the time, Steve?"
"I don't, it'd slow me down too much. Unless I'm planning for something really dangerous, I go with a lighter armor." Steve replied.
"Alright. Steve, you gut a lightsaber."
"Yes!" Steve swung the green light sword around. "I've always wanted one of these things. They're actually heavier than they look." He played with it for a moment, it fell out of his loose grip and onto the ground, where it dug deep into the ground.
"Oh my gosh, you're screwing up the environment, stop!" Enderman yelled as Steve pulled it out, looking down into the small, circular hole he'd created.
"Sorry, sorry, jeez." Steve muttered. "How do you put these things off again?" Ashley pushed the button for him. "Oh."
"Alright. Ghast, you have to have five dares directed at you. No specific instructions, so guys, have at it." Ashley said. "If its too much, I say no."
"I have one." Snow Golem spoke up. "I could stand on top of a tree, and throw marshmallows at Ghast. He has to try and eat a hundred of them."
"And I dare him, if he gets to a hundred, to keep going for as long as he can." Herobrine added.
"Alright, that's two dares. Can you handle it, Ghast?" Ashley asked.
"Are you kidding? That's like asking if I can handle the recommended serving size. Far too small, hardly satisfying, and leaves you craving more." Ghast replied.
So Snow Golem stood on top of a tree, and threw marshmallows at Ghast, who ate each and every one of them. When he got to a hundred, he kept on going until they got to six hundred and thirty three.
"Couldn't take anymore?" Herobrine asked, and yawned.
"No, but you guys were all looking bored, so I figured we'd just go on to the next dare." Ghast replied.
"Alright, anybody else?" Ashley asked.
"Oh, I know!" Blaze grinned. "Ghast has to brave one of the rides I made."
"Bring it on!" Ghast grinned.
Ghast later regretted having eaten so many marshmallows. It was hard to hold them all in while his stomach churned as the ride took him upside down.
"Holy Son of Spiders!" Ghast exclaimed, his head spinning, as the ride did another loop.
"You might wanna close your eyes, see if that helps." Blaze suggested, on a minecart behind him.
He closed his eyes, but gasped and opened them quickly. "That makes it worse!"
At long last, the ride was over, and Ghast spun a moment, as he tried to get his multiple feet to stop shaking. "You weren't going very easy on me." He muttered to Blaze's doubles as he tried to readjust his vision.
"Of course I wasn't." Blaze replied, shrugging. "I don't ever go easy on anybody."
"Alright, guys, another dare." Ashley said as Blaze sat down, and Ghast steered himself towards his seat.
"Ooh, I know." Kristina grinned. "Herobrine, Steve, and Ghast all get turned into kids again, and then you all get to play hide and seek."
"Good one, Kristina." Zeus grinned, and then waved his hand, and the three were turned into tiny versions of themselves.
"Alright, so you guys are gonna play hide and seek. And whoever is the last to be found, gets..." Ashley thought for a moment, but couldn't come up with anything.
"My secret marshmallow cookies!" Ghast grinned.
"I guess that works. Alright, Herobrine, you be it." Ashley said.
"You'll never find me, Hero!" Tiny Steve grinned.
"Don't bet on it, diamond lover!" Herobrine yelled back, and started counting. "One! Two! Three! Four! Five!..." He kept on counting, and Herobrine and Steve disappeared, trying to find a place to hide among the trees. "Eighteen! Nineteen! Twenty! Ready or not, here I come!" Herobrine called, and then started to sneak around, looking through the leaves of trees, the branches of bushes, and under every single pebble he found.
They all stared at him as he picked up a penny sized one.
"What?" He asked, putting it back down and looking at another one. "Mommy always said 'Leave no stone unturned.'" He got up and looked around, and then Steve fell on top of him.
"Drat! I knew that branch was too thin." Steve muttered.
"Haha, found you!" Herobrine laughed. "Now, let's go find Ghast. I bet he's hiding underwater or something."
So Herobrine and Steve were looking in the water, when they saw Ghast, but a reflection of him. He was holding up something that looked a lot like green paint.
Steve squealed and jumped out of the way, but not in time. Herobrine and Steve were both soaked in green paint.
"Haha, gotcha!" Ghast hopped down.
"Ooh, when I get my hands on you!" Herobrine growled at him, trying to get the paint off. "Just you wait."
"This was my favorite shirt!" Steve groaned, and pulled out a bunch of other green shirts, all identical to the one he was currently wearing. "I'll have to wear one of these ones!"
"Don't worry, it won't stain." Ghast replied. "Um. I think..."
Herobrine scowled at him.
"Ooh, I get to eat my own secret recipe now! I think I'll make some for everyone, actually." Ghat said, and then ran off, muttering about thirty cups of marshmallows and six pounds of star dust. After ten minutes he came back, holding up a bunch of white, sparkling cookies. "Alright, who wants one?"
"I'd rather jump off a cliff." Herobrine muttered, folding his arms and pouting.
"More for me." Ghast replied, and munched on a cookie. He closed his eyes sand chewed slowly. "Oh mh gos!" He said with a full mouth, and swallowed. "Oh, so good, still so good."
Everyone who dared, (in other words everyone but Herobrine,) had one of the cookies, and did not regret it. Everyone tried to figure out what the taste was, but all they could get was that it tasted like bits of edible heaven and they wanted more. Herobrine, who had decided that if it had poison in it everyone else would be dead by now, finally took a small bite of one, and his eyes widened.
He waited, but he didn't die, so he took another bite. At that moment, he, Steve, and Ghast all turned back into bigger forms of themselves. "What in the name of Minecraft did you put in this stuff?"
"Can't tell you." Ghast shrugged. "Family recipe. Top secret."
"What, did you write it down somewhere?" Steve found himself glancing around.
"I did, when I was little, but after I memorized it I burned it." Ghast grinned. "Nice try."
"Alright, next dare and last dare to be directed at Ghast." Ashley said.
"I got one." Herobrine grinned.
"If it's too much, I say no." Ashley warned, noting the fire in his eyes.
"I know. Ghast, I dare you, and two other people randomly chosen, to fight." Herobrine replied.
Ashley seemed to think it over a moment before replying, "Okay, fine. I got a spinner right here, so I'll flick it, and whoever it points to has to fight Ghast." She spun it, and then it landed on Baby Mooshroom.
"I don't think so." Kristina stood up.
"I can do it!" Baby Mooshroom told her.
"Uh, he can shoot fire balls..."
"I can too! You haven't sween me yet..." Baby Mooshroom said, and grinned. Chwoose the other pwerson."
Ashley flicked the spinner and it landed on Steve's mom, Susan.
"No way." Steve said instantly.
"Why not, Stevey?" Susan asked.
"You can't fight Ghast!" Steve stared at her. "You don't even know how to fight."
Susan laughed, and Herobrine was laughing with her.
"She doesn't know how to...haha, good one, Steve." Herobrine held his sides, and wiped a tear from his eye.
"She doesn't." Steve said, not looking totally sure now.
"Yeah, and I just imagined it, then." Herobrine rolled his eyes. "Death was at her door and she slammed it in his face. Multiple times."
"And I wish I could've done the same to you." Susan glared at him.
He held up both hands and took a step back. "I'm not asking for a fight."
"You'd better hope you're not." Susan said, and then drew a shining pink sword. "Let's get this party started."
"Mom...since when do you have that?" Steve stared at it.
"There's a lot of things I didn't tell you, Steve." Susan stood up. She pressed on the orange gem on the sword, and a pink and orange armor covered her body. And she hesitated before saying, "And...I'm not entirely human."
Steve just stared at her. "Wait...what?"
"Alright, you three, have at it in three, two, one...go!" Ashley said.
"Baby Mooshroom, I really don't think this is a good idea..." Kristina tried one more time.
"I can handle it." Baby Mooshroom replied.
"I think that the soul sucker has a point." Said someone from behind her.
Baby Mooshroom froze and turned around. "Oh...hi, mommy."
ANNNNDDD there it is. No, that is not all of the reviews, but this is part one, and I've already posted part two as well. Go read it, and thanks for reading!
-ihearthorses6000