Hi, mini Herobrines! I AM NOT DEAD. My family finally moved and the new house had no wi-fi! I was finally able to type this up today when we had a brief visit to our old house, which still had wi-fi. the unknown voices at the end of chapter 10 were the same voices as in the end poem, in case you were wondering:) I added Aetheris, Aurora's mom, and lots of mysteriousness. Also, the song at the end of chapter 6 is not mine, it belongs to Credessia Cowell. If you want the details, you can PM me :). Oh, right, you're here to read the story! I'll just stop blabbing now...
Merlin narrowed his eyes in concentration, sprinkling some redstone powder into a potion of regeneration, the pinkish color darkening slightly. He grabbed a cork from a nearby shelf and carefully twisted it into the mouth of the bottle. The wizard placed the finished potion aside, sighing as he started another one. How had he gotten himself into this mess? Oh, right. Herobrine had threatened the lives of the people in his village...
Aurora gagged as another potion of regeneration was poured down her throat. It was pink, it even tasted like pink. And the dragon/goddess hybrid despised the color pink. She definitely preferred potions of health, because they didn't taste like sugar, sugar, and more sugar stuffed inside a dirty sock that had been left in a cardboard box with a moldy tuna sandwich. Nasty.
She slowly eased herself upright, grimacing at the white-hot spike of pain from her right wing. She took off the tiny clasp around her finger that connected to the heart monitor, wincing at the sight of the motionless red line running across the otherwise black screen. She swung her legs over the side of the bed, noticing that her left foot was in a splint. That would make it a little harder to walk... Aurora limped towards the door, eager to actually walk for the first time in a month. Maybe she would stop by the obsidian wall and see how close she had come to breaking it.
...
The dragon/goddess hybrid paced around the obsidian wall, examining every tiny crack in the rock. A tiny fleck of gray caught her eye, and she limped closer, noticing the wide network of cracks that spread from it like a spiderweb. Several jagged spikes of obsidian protruded around it. She reached up, feeling the spike with her hand. A small pain stung her palm, and she pulled it back, examining the cut that was leaking a warm liquid, neon purple with gold and black swirls dancing through it. Oh, she had just cut herself on the sharp rock. Aurora carefully plucked a small fragment of obsidian out of the cut. Wait a second... It was in fragments? The dragon/goddess hybrid knocked a fist on the rock, the area around it crumbling into a dark powder. What the...
Merlin picked up the potions, accidentaly dropping one in the process. The red liquid from the potion of healing spread out, and the wizard winced at how much it looked like blood. It was definitely going to leave a major stain on the spruce wood floorboards. He sighed, then carefully tiptoed around it, careful not to step on any broken glass. Leather boots would definitely not protect his feet, and he didn't exactly enjoy not being able to walk due to wounds on the bottoms of his feet.
An alert flashed on a tiny redstone device in his pocket, telling him that the heart monitor had flat-lined.
Oh no.
Aurora kept knocking her fist on the hard rock. It kept crumbling into fine powder, as if it had been held together by the same glue they used on post-it notes. Or...
Or magic.
Very, very, very weak magic.
But magic nonetheless.
As more powder fell away, a tiny splotch of gray, just like the one in the center, was revealed. What was that?
She kept knocking...
and knocking...
and knocking...
and knocking...
Until more gray was revealed. The dragon/goddess hybrid reached up and grabbed one of the obsidian spikes protruding from the center, wincing as more cuts appeared, but continuing to grip the sharp edge tightly. She pulled downwards, the obsidian that held it in place crumbling to powder. As she suspected, the rock that made up the spike was solid and not crumbling to dust. She stabbed the sharp spike into the stone, wishing she had brought her obsidian gauntlets to the army camp, or at least her diamond ones. The rock that the spike hit crumbled into more obsidian powder, eventually revealing the gray and black rock underneath.
The spike had revealed... bedrock.
Now she wished she had used gloves with obsidian spikes instead of diamond, since it could break bedrock. Such a small mistake could lead to such a huge injury... Aurora doubted she would be flying anytime soon.
The dragon/goddess hybrid limped urgently back towards the infirmary, eager to deliver the shocking news.
...
Blazer yawned, throwing the singed tennis ball against the stone wall, and it bounced back into her hand, bursting into flames once it touched her fingers, only to be thrown against the wall once again. The tiny redstone device in her pocket beeped loudly, and she pulled it out of her pocket, reading the large message, seeming cramped and out of place on the tiny screen.
Heart monitor in room 27 has flatlined.
The Blaze hybrid jumped out of the chair she had been sitting on, tipping it backwards from the abrupt movement. She raced towards the infirmary, her onyx metal boots leaving blazing fires wherever she stepped. Good thing the army cabins weren't flammable...
Right?
...
Aurora burst into the infirmary, her good wing folded to her back, with the broken one hanging limply, dragging behind the dragon/goddess hybrid on the cobblestone floor. "Hey, you guys gotta see this!" she shouted, waving her hand in a 'come here' motion towards the door. Blazer raced out of room 27, and tackle-hugged her best friend.
"I thought you had been kidnapped or something! What did you want to show us?"
Aurora raced out of the room, Blazer following close behind.
...
"What the... Is that bedrock?," Blazer asked, her amber eyes widening as they caught sight of the gray and black stone.
"Yep," Aurora replied, nodding her head.
"How..."
"I have no idea."
"Who..."
"I have no idea."
"Why..."
"I have no idea."
"What..."
"I have no idea."
"Are you gonna say 'I have no idea' to everything I say?" Blazer asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I have no idea.," Aurora replied, then suddenly burst into a fit of laughter.
"Yeah, yeah, it's hilarious."
Yay, I finally got this chapter finished! The next one will probably be up sometime next week, because that's when our new house gets wi-fi:)
Bye, mini Herobrines!
Peace, Cupcakes, And Fanfiction,
Mayanmoustache (::)