Oh man! I'm so proud of last chapter. That thing was 8 pages long! It took forever to write that. You guys have no idea how hard I work on this thing, but I enjoy it so I'm okay with that.

Anyways, I'm still accepting OC's, but if you have already sent me an OC you can't send in any more. Since Cheetah is the only one that has though, I might consider stopping the OC's completely. I don't know though. As of right now though, you can still send OC's in.

Without further delay, onto the chapter!

Chapter 3

Turtlelove POV

I get out of my bed and we start picking up our camp. We have to keep moving if we're going to outrun Herobrine's demons sent to kill me.

When it's all picked up, Amanda leads the way out of the glen, and we are once again, walking through the forest. I ask Amanda, "Not that I don't want to keep going or anything, but where exactly are we going?"

Amanda doesn't even turn around to look at me when she answers. "Well, if I'm right, then you two feel the same way I do about Herobrine. So eventually, we're going to find the Dark Dimension portal, and take our revenge."

I don't want to seem rude, but the question slips out anyways. "What's your reason for wanting to kill him?"

Amanda thinks a minute before answering, as if considering whether or not we're worthy of knowing. I guess she thinks we are because she says simply, "He killed my parents."

I ask what happens but Amanda doesn't answer so I let the conversation drop.

As we walk through the forest, I notice that it isn't as quiet as it seemed. While we had been talking, I didn't notice the sounds of birds, wolves, chickens, cows, pigs, and the other animals. Now that we are silent, I hear it all. It's like the forest has it's own song, and I'm just now hearing it. It isn't like something you would hear at a concert, but it has it's own natural beauty to it.

I didn't know Amanda had stopped until I had almost run straight into her back. She quietly turns to us and whispers, "We need to get out of here right now. I know of a city not far from here we can hide in for at least a day. Follow me."

I wanted to ask her why we were in such a hurry, but she had already taken off running. So I had no choice but to follow her. I don't know how she expected me and Kit to keep up though because she's already twice as far as we are into the trees. She doesn't stop so I stoop down and let Kit climb onto my shell and carry her. She isn't exactly the lightest thing I've ever carried, but I can manage. Now that I'm not waiting on her, I can go a little faster but not nearly fast enough to catch up to Amanda. I'm still able to keep her in my sight though as we run through the seemingly endless forest that I can't find the edge of.

Suddenly, a man dressed in a simple, black jumpsuit, comes out of the trees above me and lands right in my path. I try to get around him, but realize that won't work. He has the insignia of Herobrine on his suit, and about five of his friends surrounding me.

He speaks with a sudden authority directly to me. "By order of Lord Herobrine, you are to come to the Dark Dimension with me." He smiles a truly wicked smile, and commands his friends to attack. They don't get much of a chance to touch me though because Amanda must have heard the commotion and has come back to start sniping each and every one of them. One of the younger ones I see, hasn't even tried to attack me yet. In fact, he had ducked behind a tree as soon as the guy in charge gave the order to grab me.

Amanda hasn't seen him yet, and is done killing the rest of them, so I know we are about to go. Then he says quietly, "Wait."

Immediately, Amanda is on him. She yanks him out from behind the tree, throws him into the center of the circle of bodies surrounding all of us, points an arrow at him and yells, "Who the hell are you, and what do you want with Turtlelove?"

No that I get a good look at this boy, I notice that he wasn't as young as I thought. He looks like he's about sixteen, like me. He has jet black hair, and deep blue eyes. It's a beautiful color and I find myself staring at them longer than I should. He's wearing the same jumpsuit the rest of the dead men are. A simple, black jumpsuit that's skin tight on him which only highlights his broad shoulders and thick muscles. The insignia on his chest suggests that Herobrine owns him, but by the way he looks at Amanda with pure fear, he doesn't want to kill us.

Amanda asks again, "I'm only going to ask one more time, boy. Who are you, and why were you trying to kill her?" She's practically yelling with barely contained anger.

The boy answers slowly. "I'm Shade." He says. "And I wasn't trying to kill her." He gestures to the dead men on the ground. "They were."

Amanda wasn't buying it. "Bullshit!" She yells. "You are wearing their clothes, in their group sent here to kill her, and you're telling me you don't want anything to do with it?!"

"Yes." He says simply.

Well that wasn't going to fly with Amanda because she was about to kill him when I said, "Wait!"

Amanda stops mid-shot. "What?"

"Don't kill him. He's telling the truth."

She looks at me like I just grew a second head. "Are you insane? He just tried to kill you! You're telling me he's innocent?!"

"He is innocent. He didn't try to kill me; he hid behind that tree the whole time." I reply.

Amanda trusts me more than him so she says, "Fine." Then she turns on him. "You can come with us, but if you so much as look at her in a threatening way, don't think I won't shoot you." With that, she stalks away in the direction we have been traveling.

The boy, Shade, gets up off the ground. "Thanks. For sticking up for me I mean."

"No problem." I reply. "Sorry about Amanda. She doesn't trust many people that come out of the trees to kill us."

I meant what I said as a warning. He gets the message and says, "Well, I didn't really want to kill anyone. I don't even know why they brought me actually."

He gives a meek sort of smile and I ask, "So, not that I wanted you to, but why didn't you attack like the rest of them?"

"Well, I know it must sound weird considering I came from that dimension, but I've never liked violence. I actually wasn't born there either. At least, that's what I've heard. They say that during one of Herobrine's raids," He makes a face at the name. "they say he found me and decided that he wouldn't kill me, but rather take me back with him and train me like the rest of his army. I've never felt quite at home there, and I've never liked anything he did. I always knew it wasn't right." He shakes his head, as if to clear it.

I'm stunned that he would tell me all of this considering we just met, but it's his choice to tell me or not. "Let's go. I'm sure that Amanda is probably tired of waiting on us." I walk away expecting him to follow, but he doesn't. I turn around and see him standing there with a puzzled expression on his face.

He turns to me, "Didn't you have a little girl on your...," He pauses, probably because he isn't used to seeing a girl with a turtle shell on her back. "shell, when we-they, attacked?"

I turn my head to look, and he's right. I don't have Kit on my back. Where is she? I think. Where could she have gone during that attack? A million terrible scenarios start tumbling around in my thoughts as I run blindly around the area searching for any sign of her.

As I look, Amanda comes back out of the woods, clearly pissed. "There isn't a single thing that could be taking you this damn long! Are we going or not?"

I ignore her as I keep looking. I hear Shade telling her what I'm doing and pretty soon, she's just as frantic as me.

We're both looking around like insane people when Shade calls us back over to the bodies. "Look," He says when we're both over there.

"What?" Amanda says.

"There are only five bodies here." He says.

That obviously means something, but Amanda doesn't get it. "So? I killed all of them except you. What do they have to do with it?"

I realize exactly who is missing though before Shade even has a chance to say anything. "It's the leader." I said. "He isn't here."

Herobrine POV

He's pacing in his study when his scout finally returns. "Well?"

"We weren't able to capture her sir. The wolfgirl is still following her and protecting her."

"So, you have come to tell me that you've failed for a second time?"

Herobrine hasn't turned around yet. He's contemplating how he will kill this insolent scout when he speaks up again. "Sir, everyone died except for Shade and I, but I brought back this one." The scout throws down in front of Herobrine, a small girl.

When he turns around finally to face his scout and sees her, he asks, "What's this? Why did you bring me this child?" The girl has been beaten. Brutally. She lays in front of him, unable to get up even if it meant she would save her own life.

"This girl," The scout hisses, "has been traveling with the turtle for some time now. I feel that-"

"She has information." Herobrine finishes. He picks up the girl, and holds her by the shoulders. When she opens her eyes and she him, she whimpers. "So, tell me. Where were you girls heading on this fine day?"

The girl, though badly beaten, still has a bit of life left in her. So in response to his question, she looks him straight in the eyes, and spits in his face. Immediately, he flings her to the ground with so much force, that she screams in complete and utter agony. "Take her to the cell with the kitsune." Herobrine commands the scout.

The scout picks up the girl and starts to drag her away when he turns to Herobrine and says, "She calls herself Kit."

Herobrine doesn't respond as this, Kit, is dragged out of the room. She didn't go willingly, that's for sure. He stayed where he was listening to the kicking, screaming, and pure hatred behind him. Before they left however, he spoke one last thing that made the girl practically radiate fear. "Don't worry Kit. We'll take good care of you here." Even though she can't see it, he smiles a wicked smile as the door shuts and he is alone again.

Turtlelove POV

I sit down on the forest floor crying my eyes out. I no longer care who sees me cry. Amanda sits next to me, trying to comfort me. Shade, however, stands to the side, waiting. He never knew her. That's why he doesn't care. This is what I tell myself over and over again, but every time I turn and see him just standing there against that tree, I want to smack him.

When I finally stop crying, I'm numb. I've cried so much recently that it's amazing that I have any water left in my body. I'm emotionally numb as I follow Amanda out into the forest toward town. Something inside of me broke today. Something that no one will be able to replace. I know now that no matter what I see, I won't cry. I have done enough crying. Everyone that I have ever gotten close to died. My mom, Kit, and Kitsune almost did. She however, is suffering a fate probably way worse than death at the hands of Herobrine. So, no. I have no more tears left to shed.

Shade has been silent since the discovery of Kit being missing, and he didn't try to comfort me back at the clearing like Amanda did, but now he walks next to me silently as we make our way to the city.

Amanda is the first to break the silence. "So I figure since you aren't evil," She turns to Shade. "that we should get you some new clothes when we get to Spawn City because that thing has got to go." She makes a face at the hideous black jumpsuit. "We'll find you something nice to wear, don't worry." She gives a sort of half-smile to Shade which he returns.

Shade then turns to me. "So, exactly what are we going to do when we get to the city? What's the plan here?"

I turn to him. "Well," I say. Notch his eyes are beautiful. "we're all going to get new clothes pretty much, and stay there for a while so that we can hide from Him, and figure out where the Dark portal is so that we can go kill Him."

"So, wait. You're just going to parade into his dimension, storm his heavily-guarded castle, and attempt to murder one of the most powerful beings in Minecraftia?"

Amanda pipes up. "Well no, silly! We're going to have a plan, duh."

Shade is silent after that and so are me and Amanda. She giggles though, probably at the way she told off Shade.

Now that I'm closer to Shade, I'm staring at him way more than I should be. I notice the way his hair flops in his left eye as he walks, and I notice the muscles that ripple on his arms and legs as he walks too. I know he doesn't like Herobrine, and that he would never attack us, but I have to say, he got ripped in that dimension. His skin has a natural tan tint to it, and his eyes. I can't stop looking at his eyes. They're a deep blue; like the ocean after a storm.

It's a beautiful color and I'm captivated by it. So I'm embarrassed when he catches me staring. "What?" He asks.

"Nothing, nothing." I quickly drop my eyes, and feel my cheeks get warm with a blush that I know he can see. He keeps walking though, and we both let it drop. I peak glances though every now and then just to see if I was wrong and they aren't that blue.

When we make it to the edge of the forest, the city is only a few yards away. I can tell though that they haven't had any attacks from Herobrine lately because it's completely unguarded, and the path to it starts right at our feet.

"Odd that they don't have any guards around. Don't you think?" Shade asks no one in particular.

Amanda urges us on. As we step onto the path, I feel like something isn't right. I stop and realize what it is a second before Amanda does. She jumps off the path and I grab Shade and we all tumble onto the ground around the path just in time. The gravel we had been on moments before, fell into an abyss hidden underneath it filled with lava.

Amanda stands, dusts herself off and says, "Well, I think we know why it isn't guarded.

Shade and I nod in agreement. I realize that I haven't moved since we fell and I'm still laying on top off Shade.

"Sorry." I say. I get up off of him quickly, and again stare at the ground, blushing.

"Don't be." He says, smiling. "If you hadn't pushed me, I would have been fried by now."

He chuckles a soft, light laugh, and I laugh too.

We then make our way to the city, every now and then jumping or diving to avoid another trap. Several times, I end up on top of Shade, but I get off and we move on.

By the time we reach the city, we're all tired. We don't stop though because we need new clothes and new looks before the day ends. We can't be caught off guard by one of His patrols.

Within the city we find a blue jacket with a creeper face on the back for Shade that matches the blue of his eyes. We also find him light brown pants and black shoes. For Amanda, we find a black tank top, brown pants (darker than Shade's pants), and red shoes that match her pelt color. For me, we find a dark green tank top, and skin-tight jean shorts. I insist on keeping my boots because they were one of the last gifts I got from my mom before she died.

After we are all dressed, (both Amanda and Shade were amazed that I could take off my shell to get dressed, but I explained that it wasn't attached to me because I wasn't full turtle. If I were a real turtle, I wouldn't be able to do that.) we find a hotel a little ways into the city to sleep at. We go in and the lady at the desk seems positively bored by our presence. She hands us our room key, and we make our way there. Once we get to the room, Shade takes off his jacket and I can't help but stare. All he has on underneath is the white undershirt we got him with the jacket, so his muscles couldn't get much more exposed unless he took off the shirt.

Amanda gets down to business. "So, I'm going down to the library tomorrow to see if they have any maps that will lead us in the right direction. What are you two going to do?"

"I'm going to get as much information on Herobrine as possible so we know what we're up against." I say.

Immediately, Shade speaks up. "I'll go with her." He says, a little too quickly. "Y'know, to help make sure she doesn't read any myths or something."

"Well then it's settled." Amanda says smiling. "I'll get useful information while you two lovebirds kiss it up."

Shade and I both blush and Amanda looses it. She falls onto the floor laughing uncontrollably. Shade and I eventually start laughing too because we can't help it. It's an amazing feeling too because for a while I can believe that we're all just friends hanging out together in the city and not three people thrown together by fate to go try to kill the most evil person in the universe.

Kitsune POV

I'm awoken by the sound of my cell door opening. Time has lost all of its meaning to me so I don't know if they have come to beat me, feed me, or just drag me to another visit with Herobrine. So I sit and wait for whatever is coming, but instead of doing something normal, like Mr. Strong calling me a bitch, they open the door to reveal a man I don't know dragging a small girl behind him. I almost loose it for a minute thinking it was Turtle and start hissing, spitting, screaming pure rage at this man.

He throws me back against the wall and says, "Relax. It isn't that freaking turtle."

With that, he throws the girl inside and shuts the door. She gets up, runs over to the door, and starts pounding on it, screaming her head off. I'm surprised by her force considering that she's covered in bruises and cuts, and the fact that she isn't very big, She's thirteen at most, and she looks like she hasn't eaten in a while, but yet she pounds on the door with all of the strength her little body can muster.

When nobody comes, she sinks to her knees in defeat. She sits, leaning against the door, but to my surprise, she doesn't cry. In fact, she doesn't make a single sound even though she was just taken from Notch knows where, to a whole different dimension, by an evil mad-man that will probably kill her within a few hours.

When she finally notices me, her face lights up with what looks like recognition, but I've never seen her before in my life, so I don't know how she could know me.

"Hi." She says. "I'm Kit."

"Kitsune." I say. My voice comes out raw and scratchy. It feels like I just swallowed sand paper.

"I know you." She says. She gets very excited and proud when she says, "You're best friends with Turtlelove."

Well that did it. I go insane, grabbing the girl and holding her against the wall. They brought her here to torture me. That's what this is! This girl probably doesn't even exist. Herobrine created her and gave her things to say that would break me. She's probably just going to evaporate when He tells her to. She'll be gone, and there won't be anything left of me because she'll suck it all out of me. She'll get me to talk about my deepest thoughts and feelings, then tell Him everything so that He can use it against me. To get to me! How dare they try this trick? Could they stoop no lower?

The girl tries to speak through my tightly clenched fingers around her neck and shoulders. "P-Please, stop! I c-can't breathe!"

"Shut up! Just shut up! You can't break me you little freak! You understand me? I don't care what purpose He created you for but you won't be used against me, that's for sure!"

She tries again but her lips are turning purple now so it's a lot harder for her this time. "Please, stop...He didn't..." Her last few words are a whisper. "Didn't...create me..."

I let her neck go and she falls to the floor, chocking and sputtering, trying to catch her breath.

"What did you say?" I asked.

She coughs and says, "He didn't...create me. I know you because Turtle-"

I shout with anger. "Don't you say her name. Don't you dare say her name!"

"Okay, okay. I won't say her name. Anyways, I've been traveling with her now for a few days and she told me about you after we met Amanda. She said that you died though, so I don't know why you're here." The girl seems genuine, but I can't say I trust her yet.

"I sent her a dream." I say simply. "She knows that I'm alive."

"Oh, so that's why we were headed to-"

I tackle the girl, putting my hand on her mouth tightly, so that she can't say where they were going.

She on the other hand, didn't see her error and starts fighting me with all the strength she has left in her body. She's kicking, screaming, and slapping anything she can get a hand on, but I have a higher pain tolerance now, so I hardly feel a thing.

Eventually, she stops and I let her get up. "What the hell is wrong with you?! If you say where you were going, and you're telling the truth, they'll hear you, take the information to Him, and she'll be dead within the hour!" My voice has risen louder than I thought it could, and she's cringing in the corner, terrified. I calm down a little bit before I speak again. "You're here now so any information you have, they want. They'll try to beat it out of you, starve it out of you, anything to get you to tell them what they want. You can't tell them any of it or we're all going to die. Please, just try to keep your mouth shut."

"Fine." She huffs. Even if she doesn't believe me now, she would.

Turtlelove POV

When I wake up, I find Shade sleeping next to me and I almost fall out of the bed. "What are you doing?!" I yell. This wakes up Shade, and Amanda who doesn't look too happy to be woken up by my yelling for the second time.

Shade asks sleepily, "What do you mean 'what am I doing?' I was sleeping."

"In my bed! You were sleeping in my bed!"

"So?" He says. He shares a look with Amanda, and they're both smirking.

Now it's my turn to be confused. "What?" I ask.

"Well," Amanda starts. "You fell asleep before us and there were only two beds in here. Since there was no moving you, and I wanted my own bed, Shade here, agreed to bunk with you. Oh and by the way," She turns to Shade. "You owe me."

"For what?" Shade asked.

"You said she wouldn't care. I said she would. We made it a bet so pay up."

Shade laughs. "Fine." He says and flips a coin out of his pocket into her hands.

I'm still standing next to the bed when Amanda finally says, "Well there's no sense in standing here any longer than we have to. I'm going to the library, so you guys have to figure out where you're going to look for Herobrine information on your own." She waves a goodbye and leaves the room, shutting the door behind her.

Shade looks at me and smiles in a way that only a teenage boy would when he's looking at a girl he was teasing. Then, humor aside, he says, "I know exactly where we can go to get the information we're looking for."

"Aright. Lead the way." I reply.

Instead of leading though, he takes my hand in his, and we walk out together. As soon as he grabs me though, I feel the blush taking over my cheeks. He just smiles and we walk out, without a care in the world.

When we make it to the outskirts of the city, just before the booby-traps start, he lets go of my hand and begins to climb a ladder on the side of one of the buildings. As I follow, I notice that we haven't made a move toward any of the bookstores or libraries. Before I can ask him why though, we're on the rooftop and he's holding my hand again. I look out, and the view is breathtaking. I see the forest we came from yesterday, but more than that. On the right side of the city, I can look over and see the ocean stretch as far as I can see. On the left, I turn and see a field full of wild flowers, and off in the distance, sitting on the horizon, I see mountains, big and beautiful, framing the exact spot where the sun will set in a few hours.

"Wow." I breathe. There aren't any other words to describe the beauty of what I see.

Shade is looking out too, but not nearly as awed. Probably because he's been here before now. "Yeah." He says. "It's beautiful, isn't it?"

I can only nod in reply as I try to memorize every last detail.

"I found this during one of the raids I was brought on by Him. Of course, I was up here. Not down there killing innocent people."

"It's incredible." I say.

"Yeah." He says again. Then he turns me to face him. "I have to go for a while so that I can get the books we need. You going to be okay up here?"

I nod and he lets me go, climbing down the ladder and disappearing into one of the many stores surrounding this building. I sit down on the rooftop and gaze out onto the mountains, waiting for Shade to return.