Chapter 5: And I'm the Queen of England!

After the usual daily routine of the next day, it was thankfully Friday, which meant the weekend was finally here! Scarlett had been anxiously waiting the whole day to get back and stuff her face back in front of the laptop to play Minecraft. She couldn't believe how excited she was to play again with the stranger that referred to himself to the Minecraft urban legend of Herobrine. For another reason, Red had also not brought up the fact she met this guy to her older sister. She probably thought it was for the better though. She could see Big Blue using it as a source for teasing. Jumping back onto her comfy couch she brought her laptop back onto her lap. Blue watched her and scowled loudly, "Again with the game, Red?"

"Yes, Blue. Again with the game. You can play with me if you'd like."

"No thanks, I'm not going to fuel your addiction. Do I need to admit you somewhere?"

Red sniggered at that and grinned like a manic at her sister, "WHAT? YOU THINK I'M CRAZY?! IS THAT IT? - IS THAT IT!?" Red yelled like a mad-woman, which was able to ignite a faint smirk and eye roll from Sapphire.

"You're such a tard'."

"I know! Thank you, thank you!" Red chirped goofily and began laughing in hysterics as she logged into Minecraft and rebooted her session. When she calmed down from laughter and began to play, she was surprised to find her character was no longer in the snowy village where she had murdered the players' characters. Instead she was safely back inside her brick house. "Huh, that's strange… curiouser and curiouser." Red murmured, before having her character exit outside and into the radiant sunlight of the Minecraftian day time. "Wonder how I'm gonna' find Hero this time? He owes me answers."

To keep herself distracted for the time being, Red was going to craft some sheers with the last of her iron bars. She determined that having a bed would be a nice step in the right direction. Sleeping out the nights on Minecraft could be very useful when not wanting to deal with the monsters prowling in the night. Right after she completed her sheers with one of the crafting tables she had outside her home, she began her search for any sheep roaming around in close proximity. She went into the grassland biome that was close and she had only side-grazed that one time before. She found many variety of animals in that biome, typically because they loved grass. She found a group of sheep and sheered their wool blocks for her soon to be made bed. It was a pretty simple task, not really that exciting. She'd have to find the time to actually go down into the caves to find the precious jewels that Minecraft held in its depth - waiting for someone like her to arrive and carry them away to the surface. Now that was where the true fun came from.

Sighing, she was somewhat frustrated as she head back towards her home to make a bed from the crafting bench. How was she going to find Hero? He told her he'd see her tomorrow. Maybe, he really did decide to ditch her in the end.

How… disappointing. Red feeling somewhat glum about the situation, crafted her bed from the wool she had received, and then went inside to go place it into her home. Her house wasn't big by any means and there weren't really rooms yet to make it an actual house. She'd just have to get more brick… Wonderful. Why did she decide to make a brick house again? It could have had been simple if she just stuck to the basics of either wood or cobblestone like everyone else similarly did. Then again, she wasn't a simple girl, of course… So simple wasn't too acceptable in her mind.

"Miss me?"

Red's eyes widen in excitement as she noticed the text appear at the side of her screen. Herobrine was back online! But where was he?

"Up here." he typed, it almost felt like he read her mind, but she didn't even care! He was back! Her boredom was finally over! She looked up to see him above her. He had so very 'kindly' made a hole in her ceiling to look down at her from.

"You came back! I thought you ditched me! You proved me wrong, though! Oh and you're gonna fix that right?"

"I told you tomorrow. Did I not?" he replied back to her in his usual creepily instant way. It made her seriously wonder how he could even read that fast, let alone type back in response… Another mystery it seemed. Suddenly the 'Herobrine' impersonator jumped down inside her home from the hole above, filling it with a replacement block, before she had the chance to start whining for him to do so.

"Uh welcome to my shitty abode. Its small and cramped, but its got a lot heart! So how're doing? Having a good day? I sure hope so! I can't tell you how excited I was to play with ya' again! :D" Red typed in her sometimes over-affectionate ways to her most newly acquired 'friend'.

Though he seemed the type to be bothered by that kind of approach, he wasn't. At least not by her. "I'm fine but better now that I'm here with you." he typed which made Red blush again.

'Oh shit! He's totally flirting with me! Oh my gosh… What do I say?' Red thought to herself while having the over the top feeling like a giddy school girl as she tried half-heartedly to fight the stupid grin that was appearing on her blushing face. "I'm really glad! You know… since I did that thing yesterday with those players. How about you tell me what you really wanted me to help you out with?"

"Ah. Yes, I'm glad you brought that up. I feel like I can trust you now with how you handled yesterday. I'll overlook the fact you needed my intervention. Only because you were without proper equipment." he typed back to Red, which surprised her slightly. Was that really a test for her, so that he could trust her? Kinda strange.

"Well uh thanks for overlooking that. So what do you need me to do?"

"I want you to come with me to find very special and extremely rare jewels. I need your assistance alone to help me track them."

"Rare special jewels? You can totally count me in!"

Herobrine stayed remarkably silent for a moment again, before replying, he seemed to be very thoughtful over what she had said, "You accept that easily? You don't even want to hear details or ask questions?"

"Huh? Oh well, I mean - yeah! Sorry, I sometimes get ahead of myself. Here… What are these jewels called? Where can we find them? And uh - what exactly do you need them for? There… is that better?" She typed back to him, feeling super silly for being so blind and willing to do just about whatever this guy asked of her. It was so reckless, it had even surprised him… that's pretty sad.

"Yes, I had a feeling. The precious gem is called black opal. It's color varies as they are multicolored in appearance. Where to find them would be in the deepest depths of the caverns below, even deeper than diamond typically occurs. And as we both know, diamond alone is a tough jewel to find. And the purpose… Well - I need them to make a unique portal that only can be made with the blocks of black opal."

"Oh wow. It sounds really beautiful. I would like to help you but I still don't understand. Why do you need this portal? Where does it go? And… why me? I mean! Not that I mind helping you! I'm just curious as to why you would want me to assist you, when you could have picked anyone else with possibly much more skill and better equipment than myself."

"You have to be the the only one to assist me on this trip because that is simply what I desire. You are capable, if not a bit clumsy and reckless. You're still capable enough. Now, for your other questions. I cannot tell you. The portal's secret must remain a secret to everyone but myself, until it is complete. But I promise you more than anything else, you will know… within time, of course."

"More secrets, eh? You sure are hush-hush about stuff. I guess, that's you trying to be all Herobrine like, right?" Red typed back in amusement to her cryptic friend. Though for some reason, she didn't feel like he was very enthused by her words the moment she typed them. She tried to brush it off as mere insecurity, since she was trying rather hard to impress him, for reasons even she couldn't fathom.

"I am Herobrine."

"Sure you are! And I'm the Queen of England! lol ;)"

"….."

Red noticed he wasn't laughing or in a bit amused by his rather patronizing line of dots he replied with. It had only successfully made her feel stupid again. She kept forgetting this guy was way far too into his Herobrine role-play to willingly turn it off and on. She could not help but wonder what his name really was in real life, or what he looked like, or where he lived, or if he was single or not…. - She really needed to just stop there.

"Uh sorry! Didn't mean to make things awkward. So moving on... What do I need to do to be prepared for our little adventure together?"

He watched her in a moment of silence before responding to her, "Don't worry about it. I will supply you with whatever it is you need. Just accompany me and do not die. That is all you need to worry about." he responded to her, before suddenly walking out of her house in his classic abrupt way. Red not having the time to even bother getting any kind of materials, just followed after him, figuring he'd just stick with his word and give her free shit on their expedition for the black opals together.

"So where we gonna' start?"

"Where anyone would... from the top." he replied in a way that made Red roll her brown eyes in amusement at his smart-aleck remark.

"Right! Never would have thought of that! That would be the wisest of places to start, when one wants to dig down."

"We don't need to dig if we just travel down through the caves. Come." He replied before going over to one of the nearest openings in the ground. Red watched him and then followed closely behind, not wanting to lose track of him (especially hard to do considering he was so fast!)