Discoveries: Chapter 6
By TitianiumBlossom
(A/N:The end. May be picking up a new series, like Advance Wars. A friend of mine started a series, but never managed to get it anywhere and ended up deleting it. Hope you liked what I did here. This chapter is really just to provide a bit of closure.)
After their short tryst, they lay dazed on the bed, bathing in the light coming in from the windows.
Then Miner sat up. She looked at the bare chested Archer next to her in the bed. He was absentmindedly moving his toes and dazedly smiling lightly. She got up off the bed and jumped into the waterfall, heading to the pool at the bottom. Sweat had already dried to her skin, not to mention a few other things.
She submerged her head under, and was washing her hair when she felt the splash next to her and a wave wash over her. It was Archer.
She resurfaced. He smiled.
"You know I love you, right?", He asked, already knowing the answer.
"Yeah. And you know I do too?", She asked, following his precedent.
"I never doubted it for a second."
They finished up the bath and went back to the living terrace, where they sorted through their clothes and put them back on. Archer helped Miner make bread from the wheat that they had, and then she brought the loot from the Nether.
The red rock didn't do anything. The glowing powder, however, could be compacted into a cube just like the glowstone it had been harvested from. She immediately took it upstairs to the farm area and affixed it on a pole near a field.
In many ways, they returned to life as usual. It was just that now they slept in the same bed and were happier.
Miner never questioned why the one in a million chance happened. Archer never dared to mention it. After all, the best luck is usually followed by the worst.
It couldn't be said that they grew old together, but certainty, they grew up for a while in this pattern, going on trips by boat, or building summer houses when they got tired of the pattern. The farm on top of the mountain was supplemented by one underground, the mine carts became coal powered ones. They went back to the netherworld, and made a fortress, and sometimes went out at night and killed the monsters and put down torches and glowstone.
They dug a moat around the mountain, making a sort of island, so no monsters could get near them.
A few days later, they made a tower, with an alternating pattern of glowstone and flaming netherrack.
They almost forgot about it, but then one day, Miner vomited. She didn't want to call it morning sickness, but Archer kept a closer eye on her from that day forward. It continued, but it could have just been food poisoning, or a disease or something else.
And then one afternoon as they were relaxing in the afternoon, they saw something at the horizon. Maybe it was a ship, maybe it was an island formed by volcanic eruption, but there was something out there...
And just knowing that made everything better.