"Petra!?" Jess and Jesse nearly yelled. "Hey guys." Petra said. "Last time we saw you, you were too sick to move!" Olivia said, dazed. "I can explain in detail later." Petra said, determined as she explained how I had healed her.
I blinked, before looking over at Axel, who glared back at me. I quickly looked back over to the group, feeling very out of place. Soon everyone was staring at me, and I shifted my feet in discomfort. "The Ender Dragon created a... an..." The ginger bearded guy was stuttering. "Actually, the Ender Dragon is dead." I stated, looking at him. He seemed to not believe me, but I really didn't care. I had a feeling that this guy was someone I should hate. "That's not true if you are here!" He snapped at me. I rolled my eyes. "Oh, so then a someone can't be an orphan because it does have parents, dead or not." I said, staring at him. "We do not have time for this Soren." Jess snapped, glaring at the guy with the ginger beard. "If he's willing to help us, then let him help." Jesse agreed, getting off his white horse.
I realized that Jesse was they guy that was wearing the red and gold armor before, though now he was wearing purple armor, just as Jess was wearing gray and blue armor.
Jess jumped off her black horse, just as determined as her (what I assumed, based on their looks) brother. "From here, it looks like we have enough Endermen on that thing." Jesse said, looking at the three Witherstorms. "Yeah, way to go guys!" Olivia said happily. "Now we just have to get you two up there so you can use your weapons!" The guy with the green robe said, sounding very grumpy.
All of us began to run back into what was once apparently Soren's place. The Witherstorms were still very distracted, but once they noticed we were there again, tried to attack us with those stupid purple tractor beams. (That's what Jess called them when one got way to close to Jesse and Petra.)
"We need to make a huge distraction so you two can get into that hole in the main one!" A blond guy yelled through the panic. I looked around to see that we were missing two people now, Soren and Ivor (the guy with the robe). I turned around just in time to see them run away like cowards. "Axel!" Olivia yelled, and I turned again to see that he was caught in a tractor beam, too high for anyone to reach from the ground. Without thinking, I flew into the air, and grabbed him right out of the beam, then safely set him down on the ground. "Thanks." He said, sounding shell-shocked. "No problem." I said, looking up at the Witherstorms. The two smaller ones were crowding around the biggest one, the one with the most Endermen on it.
It looked like there was now a hole big enough for a few people to get in, but with the two smaller and faster Witherstorms in the way, it would be a risk to try and get inside without flying in. I blinked. Duh!
"Hey! I have a plan!" I said, looking for Jess and Jesse, who I found with their pet pig, diving around the beams. "What is it?" They shouted back, trying to head over to me. "I can fly you guys in there, and you can take it out!" I shouted back, my voice breaking from the sudden excessive use. They nodded as we weaved our way through the tractor beams to get to each other. I grabbed onto their hands, and quickly flew up just in time to miss a tractor beam. "Hang on tight." I whispered to them as I flew as fast as I could with two people holding onto me, and eventually made my way inside the main Witherstorm.
I set them down when we were inside far enough, and looked around. Everything was either an pinkish-purple or black, and everything about this was creepy and practically shouted 'you are in danger, you should run'. I mentally slapped myself. Now was not the time to get scared. "Can you go make sure nobody else gets into those tractor beams?" Jess asked. I nodded, I was the only one able to fly after all, and flew back out of the Witherstorm, just in time to see that Lukas, Petra, Axel, and Olivia were stuck in a beam, all of them trying to make sure Lukas, who looked to be the one who had been picked up first, didn't get killed. I charged towards the Witherstorm's eye, and quickly slashing at it with my claws. It let out a pained roar, and the tractor beam for that eye went away, dropping everyone to the ground.
"You okay?" I tried to shout, but I broke out coughing. I must have used my voice a bit too much. I growled, my voice now lower and darker then before. Take out the eyes to stop those beams, and then they can't defend themselves! So I charged, dodging tentacles, fireballs, and tractor beams, before slashing another eye of the same Witherstorm. It let out another roar of pain, before doing it's best to protect it's last eye, and now even the main Witherstorm was focusing on me.
Needless to say, I was feeling very scared now.
The Witherstorms had teamed up on me now, trying to bash me out of the sky in one way or the other. I was surrounded!
Suddenly, the Endermen seemed to notice I was there, and they all let out cries of pure anger. With no idea on what was going on, I was honestly scared. I had never seen an Enderman act like this before, let alone this many of them changing how they were going to act. The white coated people always said that Endermen were consistent all the time in how they acted!
The Endermen suddenly focused entirely on pulling blocks away from the area I was trapped in, quickly making a ton of exits for me to flee. I guess I was too dazed to move fast enough for the Endermen's liking, because I was soon jumped on, and teleported back to the ground. Disorented for a moment, I could only watch as the main Witherstorm let out a loud wail that made me cover my ears. Parts of the Witherstorms began to fall to the ground in chunks, water and other blocks were crashing to the ground, people were falling... I raced into action to make sure people were only falling into the water, Jesse almost didn't. Soon the Witherstorms were no more, the Endermen had teleported away, and everyone was safe. I looked around at some of the people who were thanking Petra's group, and I noticed that some of them were those white coated people who had kept me trapped.
One of them wasn't even thanking them, he was wearing one of those white coats with white pants, he was looking around at the sky, his brown hair flowing in the wind to reveal his hazel eyes. He was looking right at me as I stayed airborne...
"Dad, when can we go home?" I asked as he continued to work. "After I finish this one thing Kyle." He snapped, glaring at his work. I backed off, looking around his office for what seemed like the millionth time. "Where's mom?" I asked him. "Your mother did not agree with my plans, and so she left." Dad said, getting up and walking over to me. Instead of saying something that would calm my nerves, he grabbed my hand. "Come with me." The demand rang in my ears as I followed him through the dark hallways of his lab.
"Where are we going?" I asked, trying to be quiet as some of dad's workers were busy with 'extremely important work'. "Shut up and follow me." He spat in anger. I quickly shut my mouth and tried to walk faster to avoid getting dragged along and dad's anger. It didn't work, because soon I was getting dragged and he was now grumpier then normal. "Dad, that hurts." I whined a bit, trying to pry his hand off of my own. Suddenly I was being thrown down. "Do not call me 'dad'!" He nearly snarled, as he turned around, and locked me in a room.
I was trapped, and all alone. My dad didn't want me anymore. My mom had left me alone. I had nobody... I began to cry in my new room, hoping my dad would change his mind and come back to apologize like he normally would.
I mentally slapped myself out of those memories as I felt tears welling up in my eyes. I stared at him as he glared at me. "Monster!" He shouted, trying to get everyone's attention onto me.
"Woah! He's cool! He's not a monster!" Petra yelled as the people around them began to beg them to attack me. "He helped save you people!" Jesse yelled out over the sudden cries of outrage. Jess and Jesse were doing their best to talk the crowd out of trying to kill me as I landed right next to Petra, looking over at her for guidance. I had no idea what to do with the information I had just remembered. "He's just a kid!" Petra snapped as someone got a bit too intense of describing on how they should kill me (it actually made me want to shiver based on how descriptive they were now getting).
Suddenly, one member of the crowd reached out to grab me – one of the scientists. "Let go of me!" I tried to shout, but I could only manage to get half of that out before being pulled away from the grip by Axel. I blinked at him – he was one of the last people of Petra's group that I would have expected to save me. "Everyone back off!" He yelled out. Some people seemed to realize that he didn't have a weapon, and they did the exact opposite of what he had told them.
I heard the sound of a few swords being drawn as Jesse, Jess, and Petra had made a defensive circle around me. "Okay, before this gets violent, why doesn't everyone back off, so we can tell you what's going on!" Jesse yelled.
The mob now seemed to realize that they had no weapons of their own, and slowly backed down. "Thank you." Petra said, sardonically. "Now maybe we can explain why you should listen to us?" Jesse said, though none of them put their swords away until after the story was finished, and most of them seemed like they were still scared, but a little more accepting of me. "Now that that is over, maybe we can get you home?" Olivia asked, sounding very annoyed. The now calm mob of people nodded, though the scientists only very reluctantly.
We began to walk them home, Jesse sending me to scout ahead to make sure none of the Endermen were going to be trouble. When I began to walk beside Jesse and Jess to tell them there was literally nothing in the way, someone grabbed my shoulder and whispered to me in a very familiar voice. "I knew you had it in you, Kyle." The person let go of me, and when I turned around to see who had told me that, there was nobody that was even close to me. I blinked, turning back around.
I would find out if that person was important or not later, I had to tell the leaders what I had seen.