YAY! SUMMER VACATION! I'm so excited! I'll have more time to type and will probably be posting longer chapters! Thank you to everybody who reviewed, u readers are awesome! Sorry for my lack of updates, my family's selling the house and we're moving (again). Also-

DISCLAIMER:I do not own Minecraft (though sometime I wish I do:) or Steve or Herobrine. Honestly, I don't know who owns Herobrine. Maybe Mojang, or The people that created the Herobrine Mods? Or maybe Herobrine owns himself...

Okay, enough with my blabbing. On with the story!

Aurora stretched and stepped down from the slightly elevated wooden stage where she had fought the gigantic horde of monsters. Herobrine just stood there, gaping. She snickered at the sight, she had never seen that look on anyone's face before. The White-eyed one seemed to notice this, and quickly turned his expression blank.

Blazer, still wearing her pajamas, which were slightly smoking from her accidentally setting her bed aflame when she had a nightmare the last night, was next to fight the newly spawned monsters on the platform. She simply walked up, built a four-block-high pillar and blasted the mobs with fire. However, the Ghasts were immune and she was originally from the Nether, so she let the Nether mobs go, along with most of the blazes. She kept one Blaze as a pet, as it was a baby and couldn't survive in Minecraftia on its own.

Aurora had never seen a baby Blaze before. It's head was so big and it's body so tiny, it was so cute! However, if anyone except Blazer touched it, they would get badly burnt, so she stayed fairly away. She noticed that it only had two Blaze rods-would it get more as it grew up, or had some been smashed?

The next few people who fought the monsters failed epically. Two were killed by skeletons, and one was turned into a zombie. Aurora saw their souls fly towards the respawn point, which was about a day's walk away. She winced. It must've hurt to die. She didn't know, she had never died before.

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After everyone in the army had fought the monsters, most had been overwhelmed, some had died and respawned, but only a handful succeeded in killing all the mobs. The ones in the handful were Aurora, some guy named Nick, and Blazer. Blazer didn't technically kill all the mobs, she let the Nether mobs go, but Herobrine accepted that since she had grown up with the mobs and couldn't kill them after all they had done for her, even though he took that as a weakness and wrote something on a piece of paper on his clipboard. Aurora snuck up behind him, ignoring Blazer's silent warning, and noticed a half-finished crossword puzzle on the clipboard, with a paper with their names and progress in the army under it. She hadn't known Herobrine was taking track of that...Then again, she hadn't known that he played crossword either.

In all the time she had been in the army, she had noticed odd little quirks about Herobrine, like the fact that he couldn't play the bugle, but insisted on waking up his army with the brass instrument every single day. Or the fact that he did crosswords. Or that every once in a while, he took a trip to the army's spa... She had actually seen him sneak in there once.

Or that he watched documentaries in his basement about Adolf Hitler, Herobrine seemed to idolize the ruthless dictator... maybe they had known each other? It was certainly possible, she had heard rumors that the White-eyed-one was thousands of years old.

Another quirk about The Nether King was that he wore reading glasses. Yes, reading glasses. Maybe having his eyes glow like that was bad for his vision? She had noticed them during a test he had given the recruits, which was to watch paint dry (he said it was for when waiting for a surprise attack "you have to be alert to your surroundings at all times", but Aurora suspected that he forgot to plan anything that day.), when Herobrine had pulled them out of his pocket along with a book titled 'Herobrine's origins'. As he read it she heard him murmur "Lies, all lies" several times. And oddest of all, he was scared of bunny rabbits. Herobrine was very, very weird.

Herobrine's superior hearing picked up the almost-silent sounds of Aurora's footsteps echoing on the grass. She was looking at his clipboard. He frowned at the crossword puzzle. How was he supposed to know how many blocks were in a mile? He flew everywhere! He never kept track of that kind of stuff! That was the only thing left blank on the crossword puzzle. On a regular day he would've checked his phone, but someone (cough, cough, Aurora) had drained its power, and he'd left his redstone charger in the Nether.

Blazer silently warned Aurora not to sneak up on Herobrine, but her best friend was already tiptoeing behind him to see what was on his clipboard. The White-Eyed-One's ear twitched, he had obviously heard her coming, even though Blazer heard nothing from Aurora's feet.

Just another typical day in Herobrine's army, she thought. When your best friend sneaks up behind the leader and just stands there. What is she thinking?

Meanwhile, from the shadows of the forest, a player watched the legendary monster train an army of demigods, humans, and...others, to kill and not to be killed. The white-eyed legend's ways. The players would win the upcoming war. They were the good side, and good always won...right? At least that's what always happened in the tales he had heard of the white-eyed monster, god, whatever he was.. At the end of each tale, the large army of players won and defeated the great evil known as The White-Eyed-One, the Daemon of the Nether, The Creature of The Void, and the name he was most famous for-

Herobrine.

Sorry it's kinda short, I wrote as much as I could and then I came up with a sort-of-cliffhanger. I think I'll reveal Aurora's origins in the next chapter or so... Yes, I am evil *laughs maniacally*. See? My evil laugh is red, at least that's what it looks like to me... I think I have synesthesia...

Peace, cupcakes, and fanfiction-

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