Sorry for not updating- I have four reasons. A) First weekend since the update, I was real tired from camp. B) Second weekend- I caught a cold and had a headache every time I stood up. C) Bob decided to pay me a visit and stayed for much longer than anticipated.

I've gone and edited the first two chapters, they're a LOT better now.

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Just a quick thanks to my reviewers- | Mellifluousness: Gosh, I can't spell your penname to save my life. Thanks for the review, it made me happy. :) | Skagui the Sniper: Arret is in! I was a bit annoyed at first, then I realised that it would be cool to have a mysterious guardian angel in there. Don't double-review, please. | ABoxOfCrayons- I'm back. I think my eleven-year-old sister can write better than me, which is why you died. DX *sobs* She made a stupid mistake, thanks for pointing it out and I've gone back and corrected it. | Hondo- Turn on your computer- it helps. A lot. Anyway, there's no cave part because there isn't, for several reasons- I'm the author, the Minecraftian trio wouldn't want Attila and Will in danger from the cave creatures, and because of the message the Minecraftian trio were carrying. | iPinkNinja- Will is an optimist, his creator wrote him like that, and I wanted to bring it out a lot. | Sparkgirl64- He doesn't use an Enderdragon because they're nothing but myth in Minecraftia (unfortunately. I would've liked to meet one, minus the dying part.) |

I own nothing except the plotline and Attila- even Ethan belongs to my brother, it's so sad. DX

Apologies for the repeated 'you're dead's in the first bit, but that's basically what's going on in Attila's mind right now.

After Will had uttered those two words, Attila had immediately nearly fainted. As it was, she spent several seconds completely still, staring dumbly into the tablecloth.

We're dead.

We're dead we're dead we're dead.

We are SO dead.

Attila turned her head towards the blonde, repeated flatly, "We're dead," before resuming her staring contest with the table. It seemed so unreal. Israphel, the ancient evil in the fable of the Yogscast, back? Right when Attila and her Canadian acquaintance fell through that portal? It seemed like a dream, like a fantasy story.

"Yeah. At least we get to see Heaven." Will's attempt to lighten the mood only made it worse and made him look like a complete idiot.

"You believe it exists?" Tilly asked sceptically, raising an eyebrow. Will didn't answer. "This sucks," she complained, finally looking away from the table and staring at the ceiling. She pulled her soup bowl towards her as if that was a shield from Israphel, but she didn't drink any soup. She'd lost her appetite.

"I know…"

"I'm going upstairs," Attila snapped, her previously good mood disappearing. Even as a country girl in a dangerous town, she had had a safe childhood and war was a completely new experience to her. She stood up from the table, leaving her soup there. She definitely didn't want it right now.

Plus the tone of voice which Ethan had said that- dark and yet casual, as if he didn't care that him and his group of nomads were probably going to die fighting for this stupid, stupid world. And Israphel probably hadn't risen yet- there was no proof. Suddenly, Ethan just turned up and said that he'd risen. She didn't think it was April Fools, that was a while ago.

And she and Will just had to get caught up in all this…

"Attila?" Eris said a tad coldly from the end of the stairs.

"Yeah?"

"Well… it's true, y'know."

"What's true?" Tilly did know what Eris was talking about and why she'd stomped halfway up the stairs entirely out of character, but she didn't really want to talk about it, least of all with Lady Skylord Moonchild.

"Israphel. There's proof. You know the Yogcave Ruins? There's a portal there. Get Will and I'll show you. It's dangerous though, so you'd want to bring Selene soon as her shift's over. The portal and the Sands around it- someone bad's around, or some dangerous mad scientist, but it's almost definitely Israphel. He didn't die when Honeydew and Xephos locked him in the Nether, his minions could still respawn in Minecraftia." Eris had a very blunt and direct way of talking, which didn't help people with 'memory loss' like Attila and Will.

"What's the Nether?" Attila asked, confused.

"You know, it's frustrating, your memory loss. Minecraft dimensions. Minecraftia, or the Overworld- here. The Nether- hell. Apparently ruled over by Herobrine, the god of death," like Hades, "but don't believe that. Load of rubbish. Then we have the supposed Aether, which is really just a fairytale. It's like Heaven, except a lot deadlier. Apparently that's where the wonderful, magnificent creator of Minecraftia, Notch, lives, but again, that's rubbish. It doesn't exist. It's just part of Minecraftian fables."

"Okay. So Xephos and Honeydew locked Israphel into the Nether," Attila said. "And apparently he's escaped, just when Will and I got stuck in here."

"Poor you," Eris said sarcastically. "We've been hunted down by Israphel's minions for totally smashing every portal his Bosses have tried to make."

"Including Spark?"

"Definitely including her. She's, like, Israphel's head assassin right now. Shame, she used to be really nice until she decided that all Templars were evil."

"Huh?" Will had joined the two at the top of the stairs. "Spark what?"

Eris rolled her eyes. "Spark. Everyone knows how one rogue Templar made her believe that all Templars are bad. That's not true."

"What are Templars?" Will queried.

"Think of them as peacekeepers of sorts."

"Will," Attila turned towards the Canadian, "Eris wants to take us to the Yogcave Ruins with Selene once her shift is over. You reckon that's a good idea? In the dark, with Creepers?"

"Does it have to be now?"

"Yes," Eris grumbled. "Besides, it would give you a whole lot of experience battling those monsters. Now, could you two please go and ask Selene when exactly is she going to be off her stupid shift? I asked her an hour ago, and she's still there."

Attila and Will scampered off like frightened mice.

Selene was still in the kitchen, hard at work. Will called her name a few times, but Selene didn't seem to hear.

"We'll shout together," Will said. "One, two, three… SELENE!" The eighteen-year-old turned, her face red from working over a fire, and saw the two. She smiled.

"Hey," she said. "Could you two please tell Eris that I'll just be a minute? I've got to finish this dish then I'm free to go."

"Sure thing," Will replied. He dashed off, Attila in pursuit, which was kind of unusual.

Eris caught sight of them when they thundered up the stairs. She pretended to yawn.

"Eris says she's going to be a minute," Attila panted.

"Well, she said that last time. Tell her that I'll kill her if she doesn't come here immediately."

A flurry of voices responded. At the same time Will yelled, "I'm onto it!" Attila complained, "I'm not your messenger!" and Selene, who had just arrived, crossed her arms and smirked, "Who's going to kill me now?"

"What?" All four exclaimed simultaneously. They stared at each other for a few moments before Attila giggled a bit.

"Are we ready yet?" Eris grumbled.

"We sure are. Will, do you have your new-style sword? Attila, do you have your bow? Eris-"

"Yeah, I have Blaster. Can we just go already?"

Attila rolled her eyes. "Do we really have to go in the middle of the night?"

"Yeah, to give you guys some experience fighting monsters."

"And… have you talked to Ethan and Hugo about this?"

"Maybe." Eris waved her hand in a dismissive gesture. "Let them worry; we'll all be back here safe and sound in the morning… hopefully."

Attila couldn't resist stomping back down the stairs again- she was still grouchy from the whole Israphel-awakening thing. Will whacked her on the arm, and she sped up ahead of him and continued stomping.

"Tilly," Selene warned, "you'll attract the mobs."

About a hundred metres out from the Skeletal Arms, the group saw a black giant off in the distance. "Don't look at it," Eris warned, "that's an Enderman. They come from the End, another dimension, but we know it exists, we just need to be able to teleport to get in, which we can't. If you look at it, as soon as you look away…"

"Nobody's lived to tell the tale," Selene finished. "They do give out Ender Pearls though, which we use to make stuff like really, incredibly expensive jewellery. They're so rare that only millionaires own them, and there are only about a hundred in the whole of Minecraftia. Anyone who kills an Enderman gets really famous."

"So the only way to kill Enderman is through ranged attacks with your eyes closed?" Attila asked.

"That's pretty much it, yeah."

"Darn it," said Will, who'd been staring off into the distance as soon as he heard the words rare and expensive. "I suck at archery."

The foursome spotted a spider in a tree, and Attila especially watched it warily as it looked at them with beady red eyes. Then it lost interest and turned away, thankfully.

An arrow whistled past Will's ear, and he yelped as he twisted and dodged. It embedded itself in the ground not too far from Eris's foot.

"Skeleton," Eris and Selene muttered. The three people with ranged weapons loaded up their bows and, in Eris's case, arm cannon.

"I bags killing shot!" shouted Eris as she squinted down her arm cannon. Two arrows and a bullet arched into the night sky, looking extraordinarily like it did the night Will and Attila were discovered by Ethan, Hugo and Eris.

Attila's arrow barely grazed the skeleton, but Selene's arrow thudded straight into the skeleton's ribcage. It made a pained sound before Eris's bullet put it out of its misery. Compressed arrows lay on the ground along with a bone and three glowing orbs.

As Eris strutted towards the orbs, they floated off the ground and straight into Eris's palm and dissolved there. Tilly and Will watched it happen with wide eyes, but decided not to question.

"Good loot," commented Selene as Eris gave her some compressed arrows.

"Hey, who's that?" Will asked. "That girl over there, walking around."

"Yeah, who's that?" Eris and Attila chimed.

Selene squinted for a moment then decided, "That's Ruby. A bit of an oddity. She lives a few kilometres from Terrorvale, always alone. She's weird."

"Oh, so that's Ruby. I've heard talk of her," Eris said. "Everyone's saying how she'll choose to side with Israphel since someone discovered the portal at the Ruins."

"Should we go after her?" Will asked.

Selene shrugged. "She might side with us, or she might step out of the war altogether. Knowing Ruby, she'll be neutral. Let's just go and say hi. Hey, Ruby!"

The girl stepped into the torchlight. From what Attila could see, the girl had very long dark brown hair- what Attila was realising to be a prominent Minecraftian hair colour- and green eyes. She was wearing some kind of orange tunic.

"What do you want?" she snapped.

"She wants information," Selene muttered as Will attempted to strike up a conversation. Attila and Selene listened for a minute. The conversation was mostly an interview with Ruby being the interviewer and Eris and Will being questioned.

"Hey, what side are you going to be on?" Ruby asked casually. "For the war."

"What do you expect?" Eris drawled sarcastically. "We totally smashed every portal Israphel's mobs made, and we don't seem like the type to step back from something, don't we? Unlike some people," she added with a pointed look. Ruby shrugged.

"It won't benefit me if I join either side, and it's safer just to step back, anyway. Thanks," she threw over her shoulder as she walked away.

"She was really… I can't find the word… subtle? She was really subtle about the whole information thing," Attila commented.

"That's Ruby," Selene said with a roll of her blue eyes. "She never talks to anyone unless they're really annoying her, or if she can get information out of them. Kinda annoying, really."

"Does she have a backstory?" Will inquired.

"According to gossip, her village burned down when she was little," Selene recounted.

"Poor her," Will said.

"That doesn't give her an excuse to be mean!" Attila snapped. "Sheesh. No wonder nobody likes her. Creeper!" she warned. "Up on that ridge there."

"Let's shoot it," Attila suggested. "Wait for it to come to us first so we can actually see what it drops."

Killing mobs turned out to be simple- shoot them a few times, and they were gone. Will felt a little left out, as he was a melee-orientated fighter, so Eris suggested they attack a group of zombies not far away.

"This may not end well," Selene warned. "Attila, stay back."

Tilly rolled her eyes and fitted an arrow to her bowstring, and aimed it at a zombie. Around her, her friends charged at the zombie pack. They seemed incredibly outnumbered, and Attila desperately hoped that they were skilled enough to take on the mobs.

She shot her arrow and closed her eyes, praying it would it a zombie. A thunk confirmed it had.

Her friends were slaughtering the zombies, which didn't seem incredibly skilled, until a skeleton came along and nearly shot Eris. Attila couldn't even aim an arrow at the fray below without being sure of not shooting one of the fighters by accident. She would just have to wait out the fight.

Waiting was not one of Attila's favourite things to do.