A/N: I've decided to reply to all reviews made by people with accounts via PM, so I won't be using heaps and heaps of space replying in the chapter. Anonymous reviewers won't get replied to unless I need to answer some good questions (remember- I have a plotline planned out, and I won't have anyone altering it.)

What happened to 'way frequent updates in the holidays'? I got sidetracked by heaps of things. Sorry. :/ And I had no inspiration whatsoever.

Also, at Chapter Ten, following TMD's lead, I'll be celebrating, but NOT with more OC's. Instead, I'll be going back and doing a superedit of the story, so it'll generally flow more than it does now, and there are a few things I need to point out more, like Tilly's inability to handle the knife.

Chapter Seven- The Yogcave Ruins

A few minutes of the fight, Attila was starting to get extremely itchy. She had a grass allergy, and she sure didn't want to inflame it by sitting on the grass like she was doing then.

Standing up and rubbing her arms, she looked towards the fight. There seemed to be even more zombies now, and Tilly swore she saw a Creeper explode. She could still see three weapons fighting the mobs off though, so that was alright. Will, Selene and Eris didn't seem to be tiring much.

Carefully pulling another arrow from her quiver, she, out of boredom, aimed it at a spider close by, and waited for its reaction. Reconsidering her move, she remembered that she didn't like creepy crawlies much, and that it would've been much, much better to aim at something like a creeper.

It hissed and started slowly approaching her, step by step, like one of those phantom people from your nightmares. She glanced quickly at the fighting trio, then back at the spider. Will, Eris and Selene were all busy fighting the zombies, generally having a blast beheading the undead, and Ruby was nowhere to be seen.

The square Minecraftian moon was pretty high in the sky by then, and its creepy reflection on the lake nearby was making Tilly creep out. She looked at the spider again, then made a weird kind of yowl as her brain started to freak out.

The spider got closer and closer, ready to pounce at any second.

"Woah-" she started to scream, but clamped her mouth shut to stifle the yell. She did not want to look like a coward.

Okay. No need to panic. I can do this, I can do this… Slowly backing away, she fired another arrow and hit the spider in the leg. Her arms were wobbling so much that her aim shook like crazy, and it was a miracle that she could actually hit the spider at all. The arachnid leapt back, flashing red. She fired a few more arrows nervously.

Much to her relief, the spider poofed into smoke, and, copying Eris, Attila crept up to the orbs, and then yanked her hand back as they started to rise. Then she extended her arm again, and kept it there, breathing heavily. The orbs lazily floated up to her hand and dissolved there, leaving a warm feeling.

The spider had dropped what looked like one of its eyes, and some string. She collected the string carefully, avoiding the eyeball, and inched towards the fight. The wild flurrying of weapons had stopped by now, replaced by more careful combat, which meant Attila could actually shoot. She nocked an arrow, carefully aimed it at a zombie, then watched in satisfaction as the zombie began to shuffle towards her instead.

Taking out her knife, she started to try to stab the zombie with it, then gave up when she began getting tired. Half-leaping, half-running back, she flicked her wrist, causing the knife to whiz out of her hands and kill the zombie. It made a hideous sound before evaporating. Tilly snorted at the compressed items now on the ground.

Zombies drop feathers…? She giggled, bending to retrieve her knife, which hadn't disappeared like the old-style arrows she had used previously.

"Attila!" The teenager heard Eris shout, "Creeper behind you!"

The green-skinned thing was slowly advancing on her, block by block, within blasting distance. Eris tried to shoot at the creeper, but missed, and whacked her arm cannon into an attacking zombie.

Sssss…

Attila jumped, twisted around, then let go of her knife, which thudded into a tree just behind the creeper. Frozen in shock for a moment, she didn't immediately register a twang of a bowstring, followed by an arrow knocking the creeper back. It exploded, knocking the brunette back and dumping her onto the ground, making her feel like she'd just had a cannon fired at her. Attila fled, then cursed as she realised she was out of arrows.

There were only a few zombies left, and Selene, Eris and Will demolished them easily.

"Selene!" Attila shouted. "Did you just shoot that creeper?" The older girl tucked a strand of blonde hair behind her ear before shrugging.

"Didn't see any creeper. Heard Eris shouting though, I thought you'd killed it."

"No, I missed. Someone shot it though."

"I saw this guy up in the trees," Will supplied. "He could've shot that creeper."

"Didn't see any guy. What'd he look like?"

"Dunno. Just saw him. He has short hair, that's all I could see." Will shrugged. "I definitely heard an arrow though. Sure you didn't shoot them? Selene was using her melee weapons."

"I threw my knife. Oh, I killed a spider and it dropped an eye. What should I do?"

Eris, who'd been trying to clean her Blaster, spoke up. "Those are, like, really valuable. Used in potion-making. Collect it, we might be able to sell it later on."

Scrambling up the slope and cursing the metre-high blocks, Tilly made her way to the eye, and picked it up squeamishly. Holding it between forefinger and thumb, she dropped it into her magic compressor, and watched it poof into one of the spaces there.

"You sure you got the right item?" Tilly asked.

"Pretty sure," Eris replied. "I used to be an expert at potioneering, you know, until I decided to run away." As soon as Eris's back was turned, Attila facepalmed.

"C'mon," chided Selene, "if we want to be back before the boys realise we've gone, we'd better hurry."

The Yogcave Ruins were only a short walk from where the group was standing, and after carefully avoiding the mobs around the place, within five minutes the foursome had made it to the famed landmark.

"Creepy," Will muttered.

The area had obviously been blown away by some kind of Minecraftian explosive, because the ground was ugly and jagged. There was a big, gaping hole in what must've used to be a cliff in the pretty forest beyond, and only a little bit of wooden floor remained. An old cobwebbed mineshaft could be seen from where the group was standing.

"Honeydew and Xephos's first base. Blown apart by Israphel with TNT after the two got transported to Survival Island." Eris sounded like she was reading some student's notes.

"TNT?" Will cackled. "Sweet."

The idea of TNT in Minecraftia was a bit absurd. These guys had swords, bows, had never heard of computers, but invented a deadly explosive?

Selene had a kind of crazy grin on. "You're right. I remember one time, my friends and I dared each other to set off a TNT trap with pressure plates and stuff. Don't worry, the fuses take a while to light, so you'll be okay if you just run as fast as you can once you set off one of those."

"But what if you trip or there's a hill in the way?"

Eris shrugged. "Then just run the other way and try to build a wall as best you can. Easy as that."

"Where's the nether portal?" Tilly asked. She was starting to get a little creeped out.

"It's a little deeper. Around where the wooden planks are."

Instead of bothering to go all the way over the uneven Yogcave floor, the group went around, where a rotting door stood. Tilly and Will peeked through the door, then recoiled.

The thing was way larger than the portal in the Derider Forest, and its aura was more powerful. Even from a few metres away, terrible wailing and screeching sounds could be heard, like something from your worst nightmares.

The wood around the purple obsidian portal was caked with sand and mossy cobblestone. It contrasted with the old, yet smooth, wood a few blocks away from the portal. The sight was creepy, and it made Attila more determined to avoid this war.

"Seen everything?" Eris asked. "We'd better be going back now. And Tills, you'd better shut your mouth." Without her knowing it, Tilly's jaw had dropped. She quickly snapped it shut.

The four quickly waked back to the safety of Terrorvale. Will looked pale and troubled, and Attila shook her head. She was still creeped out, and she was sure she wasn't going to get much sleep that night. She tried not to glance behind her too often. She felt sure something was watching her from behind. She was pretty certain that a sand block was going to drop on her head any time soon.