It was now around midnight, and Petra was up in the trees of a jungle biome. I could barely notice her, if it weren't for my good night vision in my magenta eye. Jesse and Jess walking on the ground, stealthily avoiding as many monsters as he could. Olivia and Axel were flanking him, following slightly behind them. I looked back over to Petra, whose path was just blocked by some zombies, a few creepers, and a few skeletons that were getting ready to fire.
Knowing that Petra could have just waved her arms around at the zombies and creepers and still be okay, I dived down at the skeletons, before very quickly pulling out my sword, and slicing them up, not giving them the chance to fire. "Thanks." Petra said, seeing me. "No problem." I said, sheathing my sword.
"Come on, let's go kick some more butt!" I nodded, flapping my wings with a burst of energy, before diving back to the ground just in time to see that more skeletons were getting ready to fire at Jesse. Before I could react, Petra let out her war cry, and jumped from the tree, and landed right next to the skeletons, slicing one and sending the other one flying right to Jesse, who whacked it aside with his sword.
"Hey guys, look at this!" Axel boomed, causing us to look over at him, to see that he had two zombies in headlocks, and was slowly killing them. "One, two and.. pop!" He yelled, killing both of the zombies at the same time. "Nice" Me and Petra said, at the same time, just as Jess yelled out ,"Duck!" before running over to Axel, jumping over him, and slicing a zombie that had snuck up on him. The zombie crashed into a wall, before disappearing in a puff of white smoke.
"You guys are working way too hard." Olivia said, calmly. I looked over to see that she had set up a wall of dispensers. Olivia chuckled a bit, before elbowing the dispensers, causing them to fire arrows at a group of monsters, effectively killing them all. "You are always trying to one up us, aren't you?" Jesse asked. I was about to warn him about a zombie that was creeping up behind him, when he grinned, and stabbed it without turning to look at it, the zombie going down with a puff of smoke.
"Alright." Jesse said, when there was finally no more monsters within sight. (Or from a bird's eye view.) "For the glory of the Order of the Stone!" Jess yelled, with the everyone agreeing with her.
We all ran inside the temple, which was very cool looking, both inside and out. Everyone had gone on to do their own thing, some of us just needing to rest from the long walk and fight. Jess and Jesse were trying to flip some levers in a certain order to open something, Axel and Olivia were sitting by one of the levers, talking quietly to each other. Petra had gone to a different lever, and was talking to Jesse and Jess, trying to give them some helpful hints about the puzzle. I walked over to Axel and Olivia.
"Maybe we should tell them?" Axel was asking Olivia. "No, we can't do that right now... Maybe later..." Olivia cut herself off when she saw me walking over to them. "Oh, hey Kyle!" Olivia said. "IS something wrong?" I asked, confused. "No, everything's fine." Axel replied. In a brilliant moment, I decided to ask. "Oh, are you two finally getting together?" "What-" "No-" "There's no way-" "She's like my sister-" I chuckled at their reactions. Olivia glared at me. "You did that on purpose." "I would hope so." I replied with a smirk, before walking over to Petra, who was grinning.
"So, decided to ask them the big question huh?" She asked, looking up to me. "Oh yeah, as you can see they are still denying it." I said, in my best impression of Axel, which caused Petra to laugh and for Axel to exclaim "I do not sound like that!" I laughed a bit, before watching intently as Jesse and Jess worked on the puzzle. "Maybe you have to start at one of them, then go around to the next one, then flip the first lever again?" I speculated. "I mean, based on how Redstone normally works, that would make sense." Jess said. "But right now it's a matter of trying to find out which one to start with." Jesse finished, flipping the lever on the left.
"So, how are you doing?" I asked Petra, who was back to leaning next to one of the levers. "I'm fine, Wither Sickness free!" She said, before lowering her voice. "Don't tell anyone, but I am still getting used to the whole 'teammates' thing. And having 'people who care about me'." I chuckled. "Yeah, it's new alright." I said, looking warmly around at the group. "It's nice though." "Yeah, even when they are being knuckleheads." Jesse said, as he walked over to flip the lever, just to watch as the lava flow from the left lever stopped. Jesse blinked, before going back over to the left lever.
We watched in silence as Jesse and Jess finally figured out that they had to flip the left lever first, go the one in the middle, then back to the first, before flipping the one on the right.
"Woah, you guys did it!" Olivia exclaimed as we watched as the floor opened up to reveal a secret passageway. "I think I would have been disappointed if the floorboards didn't open up to a creepy secret passage way." Axel boomed, as we followed Jesse down the stairs. "Kind of like Ivor's creepy basement." Olivia asked. Petra laughed. "Yeah, we were a bunch of scared little noobs back then." "And to think it was only the start." Olivia said, still in wonder. "Yeah, all of that was before going through the nether, reuniting the Order, hanging out wither Endermen." I smiled.
"Woah." Axel said, noticing that there were 6 chests right in front of the end of the staircase. All of us went over to one, and opened it up. Jess had given the cake he had found to Axel, and I looked in my chest. Some TNT, Redstone, some Ender Pearls, and a diamond sword.
I grabbed it, and making sure there was nothing else in there, I closed the chest again. I looked up to see that everyone but Jess and Jesse were sharing with everyone what they had found. Instead, they were looking in wonder at two flint and steel, but they were also enchanted weirdly. Soon, the others noticed. "What is that weird enchantment?" I asked, looking at the blue and yellow glows of the two enchanted flint and steels. "I don't know" Jess and Jesse replied. "Well, try it out!" Axel boomed. I looked around, before noticing something that nobody else could see. Monsters were everywhere, mainly zombies. Suddenly, two glows, one blue and one yellow, mixed around and lit up the area, mixing to create a green glow. "Woah that is so cool!" Olivia said. "Uh, guys." I said, trying to get their attention, because now I was sure that they did not need night vision to see the zombies.
"Woah!" Jess and Jesse let out identical yelps of surprise, before running towards the stairs. Only for us all to be cut off. "You know, I think this calls for a secret handshake." Axel said, looking over at Jess and Jesse. "Yeah, like the Redstone Rap!" Olivia said, as she pulled out her bow. "I think you mean the Warrior Whip." Petra said, jokingly. "Warrior Whip!" Jesse said "And the Redstone Rap!" Jess shouted. Me and Axel nodded, before doing our best to distract the zombies, and protect them as they all got ready.
Jesse had locked hands with Petra, and had begun to spin her around, before throwing her. Petra pulled out her sword, and began to spin around, killing 7 zombies before she landed. Olivia had built another wall of dispensers, and had filled them with arrows, and once we got out of the way, Jess lightly punched one of the dispensers, causing them all to fire. We began to run back up the stairs, and I was getting ready to fly up and stop some of the mobs that had gotten onto the stairs, when suddenly, and I let out a small groan of pain.
An arrow was sticking out of my left wing. I growled, running up the stairs just as everyone else was. "Look!" Axel yelled. "Haha! The lava took them out!" I looked up to see that lava had indeed gotten into the staircase. 'Oh crap.' I thought, as I ran faster. I ran past one part, following Petra closely, before watching as lava began to take out the stairs above us. "Jesse!" Petra yelled, as he rolled to avoid the lava, only just making it through in time. It was getting harder and harder to climb up the stairs, because everything was slowly burning away. I jumped over another burning stair, before turning around a sharp corner, before stopping. There was no where else to go.
"Oh shoot!" I looked back, to see that Jesse was stuck, there was nowhere for him to run, and there was a fire quickly making it's way to him. "Climb the vines!" Jesse shouted, before jumping and grabbing the vines that were littered along the walls of the staircase. Okay, things were going good.
"Oh man, cave spiders!" Petra yelled out, causing everyone with a sword to pull it out. Now we were sitting ducks until all the spiders were dead! "The top is closing!" Axel yelled out in shock. Before anyone could do anything about that, Jess had thrown her sword, and had gotten it stuck between the two sides of the closing door, leaving a big enough space that all of us could fit out of. "That was so cool!" Axel shouted. "Freak out on the inside Axel!" Petra yelled, trying to kill all the spiders that had swarmed mainly around her and Jesse.
… But now she was defenseless. I growled, jumping up the best I could while bleeding from my wing, and slowly made my way up to her, and quickly killed a spider that had been close enough to knock her down into the lava below. I gave her my sword, and pulled out my new diamond one, knocking a spider to the lava with it, just as Jess was able to kill a spider with mine. We were slowly making our way up, and once we got to the hole that the spiders were coming from, we put our swords away, and climbed as fast as we could, Jess climbing out before me, and grabbing her sword out of the way of the closing floorboards just in time to kill a spider that had almost climbed out.
We were all panting, and I grinned. We had made it out alive. "Here's your sword back." Jess said, handing me my enchanted sword back. "Thanks." I said, taking it back. "Thanks for saving my life." She replied, grinning at me. "Oh man, you're bleeding!" Jesse said, worriedly. I shrugged. "It's just an arrow." "Well, you couldn't fly with that in your wing, so it's a big deal." Petra scolded. I nodded as Petra and Jesse walked over to me, one of them pulling out the arrow. I winced and let out a low growl.
That had fudging hurt. "Did anybody bring any supplies to heal wounds?" Olivia asked, looking around. Nobody responded. "Well, that's just great." Axel said, sarcastically. "I'll be fine." I said, looking at their eyes. "You are bleeding from your wing, and it isn't stopping." Petra said, putting her hand on my wing. I tried to not flinch. "We will have to make sure that does not get infected when we get back." Jesse said, not looking happy at the turn of events. "We can at least show Ivor those weird flint and steels." I tried to bring up the mood. It didn't work, and we began to walk back to town - only to get interrupted before going 10 feet.