Chapter 8: The Red Queen?
(Author's Note: I just want to stop and say thank you to everyone who is reading my silly little story. I'm trying my best to write it well. Please feel free to give me feedback, but stay respectful! I'm sure you all will... I hope! Thank you again and enjoy this next chapter!)
Scarlett felt a sudden rush of air and couldn't see anything due to the blinding flashing colors of light that surrounded her. When the light finally began to fade, her eyes had to readjust. Rubbing her eyes with her hands, she blinked to find herself in front of the same black opal portal she had created with Herobrine. She could only gawk with wide eyes, completely speechless from what she was actually seeing.
"Finally that troublesome issue has been dealt with. I've been waiting for this for a long time." The familiar voice of Herobrine said, while literally standing at the backs of her heels and pressing his body into her lightly from behind. Wrapping his strong well-toned arms around Red's waist possessively, he placed a kiss the top of her head red head.
Red feeling him grabbing her and kissing her head, she instantly swung around and tried to land a fierce punch right at his face. Herobrine frowned in annoyance and without much effort caught her fist in his hand.
"I HATE YOU! How dare you do this to me! You took me away from my sister!"
"Your sister is insignificantly irrelevant unlike myself. It is in your best interest to let yourself understand that. You will want me soon enough and you will beg for it."
"Never, you fucking creep! …. I-I can't believe this is happening…" Red yelled at him and then backed away from him and wrapped her arms around herself defensively. She gazed down at the wooden floor and shivered fearfully. She must be dreaming, she couldn't actually be in the game Minecraft. It was illogical and totally impossible! This man couldn't truly actually be Herobrine, right? She wasn't so sure anymore…. She wasn't sure about anything anymore.
"Watch your tone with me, Scarlett. I've been nothing but civil with you. If you truly saw my bad side, you would not want to make me angry." He warned in a harsh tone as he watched her with his eyes streaming those white glowing wisps of solid light. Red clenched her fists tightly and shot her head up to give him her darkest glare she could make.
"How do you know my name and what do you want from me?"
Herobrine stared at her blankly and was completely calm as he answered, "I've been watching you for some time, Scarlett. You were so innocent and naive when you first entered my world. I waited for a time, watching you from the shadows where you would never look. I was going to kill you, like I have done to so many before you. Yet, something about you made me delay my hunt. I watched you for far too long and soon unintentionally became fascinated with you, rather infatuated. I wanted to deny it at first, but found it pointless. Why should I have to deprive myself of something I want? I always get what I want, Red. This is MY world after all and I rule as King. What I want from you is to me by Queen." Finishing his words, he smirked at Red and extended his hand towards her, "You will be my Queen. Come to me."
Red kept staring him on with narrowed eyes, her face fell into uneasiness. Shaking her head at him, she spoke but not as confidently as before, "What if I don't want to be your Queen?" She shuttered at his cold gaze, his eyes intensified in a way that scared her.
"Do you really want to know?"
"Will you kill me?"
"I don't at all wish too. I will force you every step of the way if I must, but the defiance will grow old even for you. You can't fight what you truly want deep down inside, my dear Scarlett. You'll want me soon enough. And when you do… You and I will rule all of Minecraftia as supreme rulers and smite our enemies until it is just us to revel in our own spoils."
"You're crazy, you know? All you are is just a creepy stalker! I will never be your Queen and I WILL find a way back to my sister." Red said and then looked back at the portal to see it still ignited. Getting an idea, she started to run to the portal, but Hero stopped her when he put out his hand and froze her like he did with Sapphire. She tried struggling to move but her legs weren't budging. "What did you do!?"
"Do you honestly think leaving will be that simple? Even if by the slightest chance you went back, I would only find you again. You can't escape me, Scarlett. You won't want too. You did choose to ignite the portal yourself, after all." Hero said and began walking forwards towards her, still having her held down. Red grunted and tried to move against the magic but it was no use. Herobrine clasped roughly onto her arm and began pulling her away from the portal's entrance.
"You never told me that this portal would be a connection to my world! You also left out the little itty-bitty important detail that you were planning on kidnapping me for your own selfish reasons!"
"I had to leave out those details or you would be acting as you are now." Herobrine answered sarcastically, while he started dragging her away from the portal and outside the wooden door. It was really strange how everything wasn't blocky looking anymore, instead it looked like normal reality.
"Where are you taking me!?" Red hissed. Herobrine looked back at her, still holding onto her arm.
"We're going home." He simply told her and began directing her outside, where they were beside her brick home. Red glared him but couldn't help but gawk at her house in peaked interest for a moment. It was just plain weird to see it look so life-like!
No longer struggling in Herobrine's grip but nothing close to being happy. She could on watch as he turned around to look at her. Though still holding onto her arm tightly, he stared at her in a prolonged moment of silence until speaking up.
"Hold on to me." He blatantly put it as waited for her to do what he asked.
"You're already holding onto me. So we're good. Now what?"
"How very funny." He muttered in a rude sarcastic tone, "No... I want you to hold onto me closer."
Red looked at him strangely and stuck her nose up at him, "I'm not damn-well doing anything you ask." She snottily retorted but was brought out of her defiance as Herobrine glared her. Suddenly, he grabbed onto her other arm and pulled her in extremely close to him. Her face was literally pressed up against his rigid toned chest, she could smell his scent that had a very earthly smell. It wasn't surprisingly that bad…
NO, she can't be thinking something like that! 'Come on Red, are you seriously smelling your kidnapper? You really are a sick freak.' Red thought to herself in annoyance while mentally kicking herself.
Red involuntarily was blushing almost as red as her own hair. He gently rested his chin on top of her head as he embraced her. Feeling a sudden strange tingly rush, she could only blink her eyes once before she found herself in a brand new and much warmer location. Had they teleported!? She certainly wasn't doubting this guy was Herobrine anymore, this was all too insane… even though it didn't make any sense!
"We're home. Welcome to your new and most humble abode." Herobrine said while smirking as he let her go to show her where she was. Red's eyes scanned the location around her in shock.
"This is the Nether!"
"Correct. My kingdom resides here, where I can be away from nuisances like Notch and his band of fools."
"I see…" She murmured and stared distractedly at the white chandelier that was reflecting bright beautiful lights from above them. "Does Notch know about me even being here?"
"No, and I don't plan on him knowing until I deem necessary. For now you will remain with me here in my kingdom, until you acknowledge that you belong to me alone, as my Queen. And don't go trying to think you can escape or try and find Notch and his little friends, because you won't. I'll certainly make sure of that." He warned with that intense glow in his eyes, making Red nervous under their harsh gaze. Those eyes of his could send chills down anyone's spine, they were much more freighting to look at in 'real life'.
"So what am I going to do? Just sit around and gather dust until I keel over? I don't plan on giving in, you know."
"That is what you think." He answered in reply, "As for what to do, you can either join my side or you can just idle around and think about your choices."
"So your way to make me scum to you is to use boredom against me? How terribly maniacal of you. You are certainly one true dastardly evil villain." Red spat back sarcastically and rolled her eyes. Hero narrowed his eyes and took a step near her.
"I could use many different and most unsavory methods to change your mind. Be very grateful I'm giving you this chance to get over your pointless rebellion. Once you just adhere to me, your life will drastically take a turn for the best. Don't you want to be a Queen, Scarlett? What in your old world draws you near to keep it? When you could have everything you could ever want here. All you have to do is accept what I have placed down at your feet, free for the taking." Hero said while intensely staring into her eyes as he spoke. She could actually hear the desperation in his usually calm and rich tone of voice. He really did seem like he wanted her here… A little too much.
Red glancing down at her feet uneasily, she thought about it for a moment. What did she have back in her world that is so great anyways? Life back in her actual reality is rather boring and mundane. Here in Minecraftia, life would always be an adventure and being a Queen, getting what she wants, and ordering others around does sound rather enticing to her. But there was one aspect that she knew that this world did not have… and that was her big sister Sapphire. 'Just what are you doing right now, Blue?' Red thought grimly as she pictured her heart-broken sister, confused and at lose as what to do. Sapphire has always been like a mother to her, even though she was just her sister. They had no parents they knew or relatives. They just only ever had each other. It has been that way ever since they were children. They fought for each other and promised never to stray apart.
"I want my sister…" Red replied quietly, glancing up from the Nether stone floor to look him back in the eyes. Blankly he stared back for a brief moment and then deeply frowned with a following scoff of breath.
"You don't need her when you have me. She could never want you as much as I do! I do love you, Scarlett Chandler."
Red instantly shuttered, her eyes widening at his sudden extremely serious assertion to her. "You don't love me, Herobrine. You hardly even know me."
Suddenly grabbing onto her shoulders, he pinned her to the Nether brick wall, while holding her hands over her head as he looked down at her fiercely, "I know you better than your sister could ever know you! I've watched you long enough to know every slight detail that I took all to memory! Each and every single thing! Your sister only cares for you because you are blood related. I care for you because I love who you are and everything about you. Don't you understand that?! What do I have to do to make you understand?! I'm offering you the world at your fingertips! All you must do is give me a chance!"
"Please, just let go of me!" She struggled against his agonizingly tight grip. Herobrine gazed at her, falling into pure silence, before squeezing her shoulders lightly and yanking his hands away from her and back to his sides. He sharply turned away from her and began pacing away, staring down at the ground as he walked to the other side of the room. He remained deathly quiet, Red could only watch him finally pause in his step and stare out a window for a minute or two.
"Just…Just think about it…" Was all he said before suddenly teleporting away before her very eyes. Scarlett's eyes remained fully open, her mouth falling slightly agape. She stood there by herself in nothing but silence as she kept watching where he had once been. Clenching her fists until her knuckles were white, she finally broke down.
"Why me?" Red muttered lowly and glared the floor as she fought the tears that wanted to escape from her eyes. "WHY ME! JUST WHY!?" Red shouted out to the open air and was left to deaf ears. Scarlett abruptly spun on her heel and roughly slammed her fists into the nether brick wall and began repeatedly beating it in frustration. "I just want to go home!" Hitting her fists continuously into the brick and hurting her hands, tears finally poured down her face and to the ground. Leaning now up against the wall, she let herself slump down against it until she was sitting there with her face buried into her hands as she started sobbing uncontrollably.
"I hate him… I hate him so much…" she gravely murmured in her tears and continued to cry in solitude for hours alone.
Sapphire Chandler now sitting on the couch with her head placed on her hand, she silently had tears streaming down her face. She thought deeply of her little sister and what had just transpired hours ago. "Who was that man?" she murmured to herself in the quietness of her home. "He looked so familiar, somehow." She turned to look at Red's laptop that laid open on the couch next to her. There on the screen, she saw the login screen to Minecraft. Blue frowned and reached over to take the laptop onto her lap. Staring at the screen blankly for a moment, she narrowed her icy blue eyes and then typed in Scarlett's login information before clicking enter.
'Did that man somehow take her into this game?' she wondered, even though the logic of it was completely off. Yet, she saw with her own eyes her sister being sucked into the laptop with her captor right behind. 'Scarlett where are you?' Sapphire looked for her most recent world and tried entering into it, but when she tried, the login screen froze and then shut down, going back to her computer's home page.
"Damn it." She cursed and then harshly shut the lid of the laptop with a slam. She wanted to cry again, but instead she tried to compose herself as she ran her hand through her long dyed pastel blue hair. Staring in front of her in thought, she had to think of a way to get her sister back from that evil man. It would be different if she would had been kidnapped by an actual kidnapper that wanted something for ransom, but this guy wasn't someone she could call the police on. He had vanished into a video game with her sister for God's sake! She could only imagine the police's reaction if she actually tried convincing them of that. She would surely be put into a mental institution in no time flat.
"What do I do? It's not like I can just magically warp myself into a computer game!" Big Blue glared over at the laptop and tried painfully hard to think of what to do. She stared and reopened the laptop back open and clicked back onto the Minecraft login screen, she retried her previous attempt, though it only failed again. It wasn't until suddenly she got an idea that formed into her head. Shutting Red's laptop once more, she stood up and rushed upstairs to her room. Entering into her bedroom, she grabbed onto her own laptop and then laid belly down onto her bed with the laptop. Clicking onto her own Minecraft game, she typed in her own login information and brought up her game's contents.
"If only I could just find her through my own game. I doubt it would be that easy though…" Blue sighed heavily and pushed back some of her own hair, then entered into her own most recent world on the game. Blue's similarly identical character that Red helped her mod, appeared on the screen in a snow biome during the day. There she had her own snow block built home that was made out to look like a small snow castle. She also had some random snow golemns (that she she had built) sliding around in the snow and protecting the area from monsters with their snowballs. Running her character into her snow castle, she went through her main entrance and through a hallway to her bedroom that held her chest with her belongings. Opening up the chest she took her iron sword, iron armor, iron pickaxe, bow and arrows, and a lot of cooked pig meat.
Putting on her armor and taking out her sword, she readied herself to start looking around. She didn't know if she could find her in her own server but she had to start somewhere. Clicking onto her dog to start following her in the living room, she sped out of her castle and then took out her map to begin her search.
"Come on, boy. I have a little sister to find." With that said, she went darting ahead with her dog and began her uncertain search for Little Red.