Chapter 27: The Great Deception

Steve and Blue stood awaited Herobrine as he walked down some steps and approached them from affront with his hands behind his back. "Well, well, what a shame. Not such a fairytale ending for the hero and heroine of our story. They run blindly into battle and captured as soon as the said 'villain' appears. Now they are locked away forever in my personal dungeons to be forever forgotten from everyone that once said to care." Herobrine shook his head with a cruel taunting smirk as Blue and Steve glared him down silently. "How should I punish you first? Placing you in a cage right away just doesn't seem adequate for all your distasteful crimes against me and my supreme rule."

"Where is my sister?" Blue spoke up boldly, uncaring of Herobrine's irritating monologuing. Herobrine narrowed his white wispy eyes and glared straight at Sapphire in annoyance.

"That hardly is any of your concern." He replied and took steps forward, nearly very close to Blue's face.

"It is! Where is she!?" She yelled in his face with seething anger.

"Here with me, where she belongs. That is all you need to know. Why you keep trying to 'save' someone who doesn't want to be 'saved' is beyond me. Why don't you just give up? Look where it has gotten you doing what you have." Herobrine didn't waver from her outburst to his face. He only remained calm and unmoving from his spot as he stood face to face with Red's furious eldest sister.

"She doesn't belong here! She never did. You only keep filling her head with your lies! You're a monster…" Blue growled and was shaking in anger, trying to will herself not to throw a punch at the arrogant man's face. He only made it more difficult as he smirked at her with that look the said, 'I'm better than you'.

"Am I? Is that what you think? Very well then." Herobrine nodded and backed away from Blue, "I'll show you just how much of a monster I really can be." Turning on his heel, he began speaking in an ancient foreign tongue that only the dark monsters he domineered over knew. A wither skeleton nodded and went over towards Blue and shoved her down onto her knees. Steve rushed forward to help Blue but two wither skeletons grabbed him from behind and began tugging him away from getting near Blue. Herobrine chuckled at Steve's reaction and with the flick of his wrist he summoned out a leather whip. "See this? This is what I'm going to do to you." Herobrine told Blue with a dark gleam in his eyes as he brought his arm up and with a loud crack, the end of the whip hit the nether brick ground as he whipped it forward near Blue. Blue winced at the loud noise and thought that Herobrine was actually going to torture them. She didn't actually expect him to do this!

"Do it. Just prove to me how you don't deserve my sister." Blue though terrified of the merciless monster of a man before her, she had to stay strong, even in the face of horrible bloody torture.

"I don't think I have to prove anything to you, wench!" Herobrine hissed while Steve cried out Blue's name and struggled against the wither skeletons as Blue was lashed at with a loud sickening crack of the whip. Blue screamed at the top of her lungs as the whip sliced through her back and left a fine trail of blood where it hit. "Taunt me again! I dare you! It seems you need to be taught some respect!" Herobrine whipped her again and finally Steve broke through the skeletons' grip and threw himself on top of Blue as Hero's whip came down and shredded right through Steve's back.

Herobrine rolled his eyes as Steve flinched at the pain but didn't make one notion of moving away from Blue, who was staring into his eyes wide and full of fear for him. "Steve…" Blue whispered to him softly in concern. Steve only smiled at her even through the terrible pain.

"I'll protect you, Sapphire." Steve whispered back with his smile never fading from his face.

"How sweet… but pointless. If you were so anxious to join in Steve. You should have just asked." Herobrine chuckled and lashed the whip again and again and repeatedly began violently whipping Steve's back. Blue gasped and watched in absolute horror from under Steve as he was continuously lashed at by his own big brother.

"STOP IT!" Blue screamed at Herobrine but he only continued to whip and even harder as she kept screaming at him to stop. Steve closed his eyes tightly and with every snap of the whip, he seethed and cringed at the pain but never once moved off of Blue.

"Oh really this is too pitiful. Move over!" Herobrine hollered at Steve and whisked his free hand and threw him off and away from Blue. He tumbled to the side and screamed at the pain from being thrown and on top of that his bloodied wounds on his back. Blue's eyes widen and she began crawling backwards and away from Herobrine as he prowled forwards near her. He cracked the whip beside her to purposely scare her and he laughed while doing so.

"Y-Y-You're a m-monster!"

"Yes, yes I am." Herobrine grinned widely with his sharply pointed teeth as he brought back his whip and now began whipping Blue from on the ground, hitting across her torso, her black tank top began ripping at every strike of the whip. Blue could only lay on the ground in a fetal position and scream and cry as Herobrine went into a steady rhythm of hard and heavy lashes on the eldest Chandler sister. It wasn't until Herobrine felt Steve charge into his back and begin aimlessly punching Herobrine with all his strength.

"LEAVE HER ALONE, HEROBRINE!" He hollered in an enraged fury as he began throwing punches right at Herobrine's face. Herobrine growled deeply like a vicious animal and grabbed onto his little brother and began wrestling him on the ground.

"Get off me this instant!" Herobrine hissed back and blocked some of his punches but some of them got through his hold and were able to leave some damage across his face. Steve wildly as if he was seeing red just continued to bash on Herobrine, until Hero had enough and intervened with magic. Holding his hand up from under Steve, he began choking the twin miner. "I'll kill you now!" He tightened his hold and made Steve begin to sputter as he was choking more than Hero had ever choked him before with his telekinesis.

"P-please! Don't kill him!" Blue sobbed so hard her tears were making the all too terrifying scene blurry to her. Steve twitched and was struggling very hard to breath under the magic hold on him. The side of Herobrine's face was swollen red from Steve's assault on him. He suddenly released his choke hold but threw him backwards, making him slam up against the wall so hard he fell into unconsciousness. "STEVE!" Blue wailed miserably and began only wailing harder as Herobrine stood up and rushed over and grabbed a fist full of her long pale blue hair, dragging her with her hair, and then suddenly threw her into he closest dungeon prison cell.

"YOU STAY HERE!" He roared in a blind rage as he slammed the barred cell door closed right as he had threw her inside. He stormed over to Steve and extended his hand to lift him up with the telekinesis. Whisking his hand in the other direction, he flung Steve like a limp lifeless rag-doll straight into the prison cell that was adjacent from Blue's cell. "AND YOU HERE! NOW BOTH OF YOU CAN REFLECT ON WHY YOU'RE HERE TO BEGIN WITH! ENJOY YOUR STAY!" With one more tremendously loud slam of Steve's barred cell door. Herobrine gave Blue the deadliest of glares from his blazing white eyes before teleporting away in the blink of an eye.

Blue weakly from the ground crawled over to the bars of the cell and extended her hand through the bar's small opening. "Steve!" She cried but there was no response as he laid there in his cell completely unconscious. "I-I'm so sorry! T-this is all my fault! I should have never planned this! I-I'm so s-sorry! Please wake up, Steve!" Blue wept as she pulled her hand back and instead put her hands to her face and began loudly sobbing to herself in the tiny dimly lit cell room.

Red stood in the hallway where she had left Herobrine to 'deal' with her sister and Steve. She reflected on what Herobrine would do to the two with her away from them. What would be the one logical reason Herobrine was keeping her away? She figured it was to keep her away from seeing something gruesome. Red shuttered at the thought of her big sister being relentlessly tormented by the very person she loved with every part of her being. But it wasn't right… Nothing seemed equitable about what Herobrine could possibly be doing to Blue and Steve. She attempted to ignore her badgering thoughts of right and wrong as she started walking down the quiet red-stone lit hallway by herself, the only sound in the hall was the sound of her heels on the ground.

"I'm sorry, Sapphire." Red whispered to herself, feeling nothing but guilt expand within her. She went to a library that she had found on one of her many explorations around the colossal fortress. She stepped inside and found it empty of any of Herobrine's mobs. The room was dead silent and nothing but books as expected surrounded her. Sighing she went over to the many aisles of bookcases and began absent-mindedly browsing though its selections. All the books were rather dusty and she would occasionally have to blow off a few of them to see the title. "I can see Herobrine does a lot of reading…" Red tried joking to herself but it did nothing to lighten her bleak mood she had unfortunately fallen into.

Taking a random lengthy book into her hands, she didn't even bother to look at the title this time as she went over and sat down on an armchair nearby. Setting the heavy leather bound book down on her lap, she stared at the dust ridden novel blankly before finally blowing on it. The dust particles glided swiftly into the air, which made Red slightly choke up and cough from it. Swishing her hand back and forth to scatter the dust away from her while coughing. She dispelled enough of it to finally look down at the title of the book that wasn't even in English. "Seriously?" Red grumbled and opened it anyways, just to not be surprised by the endless paragraphs of text that were all in a strange foreign looking language she had never seen before.

"No wonder Hero doesn't read much. He needs some better books. I know Blue has a ton of good ones at home that maybe he would like…-" Red cut herself off as she brought up her sister again. 'Damn it, stop thinking about Sapphire. She's probably fine!' Red thought to herself irritably. 'Then again this is Herobrine we're talking about. Blue could be in a lot of danger right now and you will be to blame for not stopping it.' Red quarreled in her mind with herself. 'But it is her fault for coming back to kidnap me from the man I said I clearly love and want to stay with!'

'But she doesn't deserve to be tormented or maybe even killed by Hero. She is still your big sister, who you also love!'

'She's smart though, she can save herself!'

'No! You promised to be there for her and the last thing you would want is to see your sister harmed in anyway!'

Red growled under her breath from her waging thoughts and taking the heavy book into her hands, she tossed it across the room or at least as far as she could throw it. It slammed against another bookcase and made the whole thing rock back and forth slightly from the hefty impact. "Just stop thinking! It's their own fault! I told them to leave me alone! I-I…" Red dawdled off and stared hard at the fallen book with stirring opposing thoughts that wouldn't stop running though her mind. "I-I just wish you would listen to me for once, Blue… Just accept that I want this more than anything. I know what I'm doing. He's going to be the Father of my child for God-sakes and… I can't leave. I don't want too, but I don't want him to hurt you either. I can't stop him… But I can stop you. I have too." Red stood back up from her spot on the armchair and rushed out of the room as quickly as possible. She didn't spare a glance at any of the zombies or wither skeletons she passed as she beelined straight for the torture chambers. She didn't care if Herobrine would be livid at her, she couldn't let her big sister be tortured for her own misunderstanding. Red would just have to try and convince her once again that she belongs here with Hero. She just had to try…

Opening the creaky door that lead down into the fortress's dungeons. She could hear the distant pained wails and cries of the prisoners that were kept within the torture chamber's dominion. Red shuddered at the unpleasant noise as she carefully made her way down some stairs and finally down in the first sector of the chambers where she had first met Wolfgang. She could hear the mad outcry of some prisoners when they had taken sight of her. They rushed to the front of their cage and rattled the bars with their hands, while shouting out profanities and obscenity at the Queen of the Nether and soon to be Minecraftia. She tensed up and looked on at the prisoners with wariness, that was until she saw Blue sitting on the ground of a cell by herself. She had her knees up to he chin and was staring with a broken look in her eyes. The most disturbing part was the fact she was covered with long deep cuts and was still bleeding from them.

"S-Sapphire!?" Red uttered in bewilderment as she looked down on her beaten sister with terrified eyes. Blue's cut up face, glanced up from the nether brick flooring and up at Red with tear-strained blue eyes.

"S-Scarlett?" Blue murmured and stared at her sister with widening eyes. Red rushed over to the front of her cell and kneeled down to Blue's level on the ground. Placing a hand to her mouth, she inspected her older sister from top to bottom. Shaking her head with her own tears wanting to escape, she looked through the bars at her sister seriously.

"What happened, Blue!?"

Blue looked down at her beaten body and shook her head grievingly, "Herobrine happened. He took out a whip and lashed at us for a good while. Steve got angry and attacked Herobrine, which only made him furious and slam Steve into a wall with his telekinesis, making him go unconscious." Blue told her solemnly and then pointed over at Steve in the neighboring cell in front of hers. Red furrowed her brows and looked back behind her at Steve who was laying there on the ground looking almost lifeless as he laid there without moving. You could still tell he was alive though because of his leveled breathing. Blue stared at the ground and didn't bother to look up into her sister's eyes. She felt absolutely crushed and humiliated to even look so weak in front of her little sister. Red stared back down at her and frowned sadly.

"Herobrine did this to you?" Red murmured and glanced down in thought.

"Yes, he did." Blue replied in answer and then finally looked back up at her through serious eyes, "He did this to us and would have went further if Steve hadn't intervened. He was going to murder me in cold-blood." Blue told her and watched her reactions closely. Red frowned even more and shook her head quickly.

"I told him not to kill you!"

"Well, that's thoughtful of you but I don't think a monster like him gets that concept very well." Blue replied and scoffed at the imagery of Herobrine in her mind. Red kept shaking her head in disbelief.

"He wouldn't of! I made sure of it! This is wrong too but…-"

"But what? You're going to flock over to his side and somehow justify this as 'okay'… Because you love him, of course." Blue retorted sarcastically with a scowl and rolled her eyes. Holding onto herself with her hands, she tried everything in her to not bare mind of the pain she was feeling.

Red looked very conflicted and didn't know what to say to that. All she could do was keep shaking her head, "I-I do love him but doing this to you is not okay! He could have killed you with these wounds!" Blue was about to respond until another familiar voice spoke up before her.

"He also said he was going to do you off after he was done with us. Saying something about you out-living your usefulness to him." Steve spoke rather darkly from the other cell. Red tensed up and looked over at him in shock. Blue also looked at him weirdly but soon caught on to what he was attempting and went with it.

"He would never say something like that!" Red turned sharply to glare at Steve, though part of her was feeling somewhat insecure at this allegation.

"Whether you believe it or not doesn't matter. He did and that is the number one reason Blue and I are trying to get you away from him. He's used you, you were nothing but a sexual object for him to toy with until he got bored. Now that you have a child he wants to get rid of you as soon as possible. Do you really think my brother would want to deal with some child? No, he wants to rule and rule for himself and himself only. You were only a mere pastime to go to for his sick enjoyment but now that time has passed. He wants you gone, he doesn't want a Queen to get in his way. When Herobrine says he wants to rule he means by himself. Don't you see, Red?! We're trying to save you before its too late. Keep stalling and Herobrine will kill you and your unborn child."

"N-No! He… He wouldn't! He loves me! He's told me he would never abandon me! He even told me that having my child will be an acceptable thing! He loves me! He would never dare kill me!" Red shook her head and felt tears stream down her face. Steve shook his head and sighed at her words.

"He doesn't love you, Red. He's deceiving you, its all a big deception! That is what my brother is good at, using others to get what he wants. What he wants is all that matters to him and you are not part of that. All he wants is Minecraftia! You have to know that is what he cares for most! He'll say anything to you to make you believe him. I'm sorry, Red… but this whole love story he's fabricating for you is nothing but a farce. I don't want him to murder you and I certainly don't want him to keep treating you like a piece of meat he can go to when he feels like it. You must listen to us. We want the better for you!" Steve tried to break Red who actually didn't look that far from breaking. She shook and was once again battling her constant conflicting thoughts. Was this man Steve right? Was her sister right for trying to save her? Had she been wrong this whole time?

Red was sitting there crying next to Blue's cell. Blue reached out of the bar's opening and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "It's okay, Red. This is not over. We can still take you back home before this man kills you. You just have to trust us. He's a bad man, Red. I'm not just saying this to try and control you or something. I'm saying this as your sister who loves and cares about you more than anything. You have to listen to us, you must. I won't be able to live with myself if I find out your dead because of him."

Red tore herself away from Blue's arm and stood up suddenly. Steve and Blue looked at her in shock as she began rubbing her eyes with her hands. "I'm only doing this for my child. I don't want to be killed, tortured, or just used. I don't know if what you are saying is true but I have to put my baby first. It absolutely kills me on the inside at the thought of leaving Hero… But I don't know if what you're telling me is true or not but it does scare me. So…" Red paused and began quickly walking over towards a wall that held prison keys to this sector of the dungeons, that Herobrine had carelessly left when he had fled away in a rage. Taking the keys into her hands, she most silently walked over to Blue's cell and put the right key into the lock. Twisting it open, she backed away as the cell door creaked open. She headed over and did the same for Steve until both of them were free to go.

Blue looked surprised by Red's actions as she stood up from her spot on the floor. Steve too stood up but much more shakily from his wounds that deterred him. "You believe us?" Blue asked hopefully. Red shrugged and shook her head as she took a brief glance down at the ground.

"I'm not sure… I don't know if I should leave or not. I'm going to let you go but I know Hero will only find me if I actually did try to run away." Red replied with the shrug of her shoulders. Blue shook her head and grabbed onto her little sister's shoulders.

"We'll go home and that man will never bother us again."

"I'll make sure of it!" Steve added with a weak smile as he stumbled on over to the two girls. Red glanced from Blue and Steve and had a feeling of doubt. Every part of her screamed to stay where she was with Hero but the uncertainty of what Hero might have actually said worried her. What if Hero had found her to be nothing but a mere toy to play with until he got bored and killed her? He told her differently but still seeing her sister and Steve in such a bloody state, in made her doubt. She had to protect her child no matter how much she wanted to stay with Herobrine. She couldn't put her child in jeopardy, she already fell in love with her unborn child and she certainly wasn't going to gamble her son or daughter's life. Maybe, she should just go… Herobrine could live without her, right?

Red stood there conflicted with what she should do. Blue brought Red into a tight hug and didn't break away for a couple of moments. Steve watched the two and then glanced over at the exit of the dungeons. "We better get going. If Herobrine finds out we have Red with us, he'll defiantly get much more riled up than he already is." Steve warned the two embracing sisters. Blue let go and smiled lightly at her little sister before glancing over at Steve and nodding.

"You're right. Are you ready to leave, Red?" Blue asked anxiously.

Red looked down at her feet and furrowed her brows, "I love him so much though… Its so hard to believe he would want me dead… What if I'm making the wrong decision?"

"Scarlett, you are making the smartest decision of your life by not putting your child in harms way. Herobrine is too unpredictable and its only a matter of time until he has enough and does away with you. Steve is right. Herobrine said those things to us when he was torturing us. He wants you dead, Red. His rule is much more important to him than you. I'm sorry…" Blue continued relaying the misleading information that Herobrine had never uttered once from his mouth. It seemed like her child was Red's most of impotence and thankfully she was able to see through her love for Herobrine that her child's life was much more far-reaching than her love for Hero.

"Like I said… I'm just doing it for my child. Let's go." Red stated solemnly and began walking towards the exit, leaving the keys tucked back into its place on the wall. Blue and Steve glanced at each other in concern but didn't waste anymore time as they sped forwards to Red's side and began walking alongside her.

Hastening through the maze like halls of Herobrine's fortress. Red led them as she was more familiar with the fortress than Steve and Blue were. "We have to hurry." Red said quietly as they stopped at a corner when Little Red saw a patrol of armored zombies and wither skeletons walking on by. "Its going to be difficult to leave without any of the mobs seeing us." Red told them in a whisper as she watched the patrol head off into a different room.

"We can do it! I have this to protect us!" Steve replied and reached under his shirt with both hands to unsheathe the daggers that he still had on him. Red glanced back at him and the weapons and nodded.

"I'm not going to ask how you got that but come on." Red waved them on and began hurriedly heading in the one direction she knew the exit of the fortress was. The three of them hustled through the fortress without being seen until they got to the castle's exit. "There's bound to be guards. Get ready." Red said and then opened the door open and ran out with Steve and Blue behind her. Steve took his daggers and bolted at the two zombie guards from behind like a ninja. Stabbing his two daggers into each zombie, they groaned and fell down face forwards as Steve took the blades out of them.

"Good job, Steve." Blue complimented which earned a sheepish smile and blush from the miner. Red glanced down at the zombies and could hear them talking to her through her mind.

"H-help us!'

"W-why?'

Red shuttered and looked away from them with closed eyes. This was harder than she thought it was going to be. Red didn't waste any time to keep advancing forwards and away from the zombies, she was rushing until she came in front of the bridge and suddenly froze. Blue and Steve almost ran into her back and looked questionably at her when she stopped. "What's wrong?" Blue asked with worry.

"I-I'm … I'm scared." Red said and suddenly doubled over in pain. Blue and Steve gasped and ran forward to hold onto her from each side. Steve momentarily saw Red's eyes turn black which made him instantly worry. "I… I don't feel so good." Red groaned and suddenly fell down to her knees. Steve and Blue looked at each other in alarm as Red fell in front of them.

"Not now, Red! What's wrong!?" Blue questioned urgently and tried to bring her back up to her feet but she wasn't budging.

"H-he.. He knows… He knows I'm here. The black magic it… JUST RUN!" Red yelled at them to flee but they both wouldn't budge.

"No! The point of coming here was to save you! Get up! He can't stop you!" Blue tried with all her strength to get Red to move but Red only shoved her off and glared her, her eyes once again momentarily turning completely black.

"GO!"

"NO!" Blue yelled furiously back.

"I-I can't leave… Just go before he-" Red yelped in pain and began holding her head, her veins could be seen turning to a black color again. Steve noticed this and grabbed onto Blue to pull her back out of harms way.

"Be careful, Blue! She's being affected by the black magic! Herobrine must be purposely releasing it!" Steve told Blue urgently and wouldn't let her get near her sister even though she tried breaking from Steve's grip on her.

"She's my little sister and I'm not giving up on her! I will protect my sister! I WILL!" Blue broke out of Steve's hold and ran over to Red and down onto her knees to hug her as tightly as possible.

"Fight it, Red! Fight it! You can do this! All my life you have been so strong, so show me now that you can fight this! This is nothing to you! You can do it!"

"I-I can't… I can't! It h-hurts… I-I..." Red sputtered as Blue kept hugging her and trying to get her to fight off the black magic that was corrupting her as they spoke. Red clenched her teeth in agony for trying to fight it but it was a loss cause.

"Yes, you can! Just fight it! Come on, Little Red!"

"… No… I c-can't… I-I don't w-want too." Red muttered as her hands began to start glowing the ominous eerie black aura that had appeared before. Blue's eyes widen as she saw the scary black shadow that was radiating from her hands. Red turned her head to look at Sapphire in the face and Blue almost screamed when she saw her sister's eyes pitch black.

"Get off of me." She growled deeply and suddenly Blue somehow was lunged backwards and right into Steve. Steve gasped and caught onto Blue as she flung right into him at a great force. He was able to hold onto her but stumbled a bit from the impact. Red chuckled darkly from on the ground and continued to sit there as a strange black shadow surrounded her body.

"RED!" Sapphire cried out and quickly regained her composure in Steve's arms. She tried running back at Red but Steve caught onto her arm.

"No! That black magic will kill you, Blue! I'm not letting you go near her!" Steve shouted as Blue kept trying to break away again.

"Come here, big sister. Don't you want me? I'm so alone over here." Red said in a eerie dark tone that was on the verge of laughing wickedly. Blue did everything in her power to break out of Steve's hold but this time he had her gripped on much more tightly than before.

"She's lost her mind again, Blue. She wants to kill you! That black magic is absolutely pouring off of her! If you touch it, it will kill you! I'm not going to let that happen!" Steve tried to get Blue back to her senses, which she did with much reluctance.

"I-I just want my sister back." Blue whimpered and looked at her sister in defeat.

"I'm right here, dearest big sister." Red stood up from her spot and turned sharply to stare at Blue with blackened eyes that weren't turning back to its original normal colors. "Come here and let us go back home, together." Red smirked cruelly and extended a black glowing hand to her older sister. Steve glared Red and pulled Sapphire closer to himself.

"She's not going near you like this, Scarlett! Get a hold of yourself!" Steve hollered which only received a snigger from the magically corrupted woman. Red pretended to hug herself mockingly.

"I am a hold of myself!" She cackled and then brought out her hand again to throw a blast of black magic right at Steve and Blue. Steve gasped and roughly held onto Blue as he threw themselves out of the way of the pulsing black magic that shot at him like a blast of inky blackness. "Oops, did I do that?" Red feigned a gasp and worried expression as she watched the two now laying on the ground from the dodge. Steve painfully looked up at Red who stepped over and smirked down at them. "Nice dodge." She complimented and then smirked wider as she reached out to place her hand onto him with her blackened hand.

Steve panicked and grabbed onto Blue again and made them roll away from Red, making Red pout. "What do I have cooties or something? Give me a hand! I thought you were here to help me?" Red said and laughed again as Steve began pulling himself up along side his companion Blue.

"Red! Snap out of it!" Blue begged her sister who merely rolled her black colored eyes.

"I LOVE this! Why would I ever want to snap out of it?! I feels fucking amazing, Big Blue! I'm so glad Hero let me have this- this POWER! Its better than anything I've ever experienced or could ever imagine! All I want to do is let myself give into it! Of course, you wouldn't understand! You never do!" Red replied mockingly and shook her head as she began prowling forward with a menacing look shining in her black voids that were her eyes.

"Stop this, Red! We don't want to hurt you! You're pregnant after all…" Blue tried to convince her sister but obviously there was not talking to her in this state of delirium she was wrapped up in.

Red snorted out a scoff, "So!? I can't wait to have my child and let him or her also savor in this raw ultimate dark power! Which, I'm sure we both share. After all, my child is inside me and so is this magic I own. I hope he or she gets to experience this damn well amazing power like I do! Plus, honestly what are you going to do to me? You're weak! This power will over come you in seconds!" Red boasted and giggled like a maniac. Steve glared Red and ran at her with his daggers out. Blue looked aghast as he ran to assault her pregnant sister with the sharp daggers.

Red stopped giggling and soon smirked at Steve as she at last minute blocked the blow of the daggers with her sword the Starless Gale that summoned within her right dominant hand. "Pitiful!" She spat out and with deep concentration she intensified her power into her blade and tried to break through his daggers completely. Steve did notice this and soon pushed off the sword and stepped away from the evil Scarlett.

"Be careful Steve! She's pregnant you could hurt the child!"

"I'm not trying to hurt her. I'm just trying to make her go unconscious!" Steve yelled back to Blue. Red stared at him and shook her head and began making 'tsking' noises with her tongue.

"Good luck with that. You can't even get near me, blockhead." Red insulted and chuckled darkly before slashing her sword and making a wave of black magic go forth towards the two. Steve gasped and backed away quickly and with just enough luck he was able to shove Blue out of the way and just barely make it out of the wave's proximity. Red rolled her eyes and frowned as the two were able to once again dodge her attack.

"Scarlett! Look what you are doing you're trying to kill us! You don't want that, wake up Red!" Blue once again tried to talk to Red's normal self rather than the monster she had turned into because of the black magic's corruption.

"There you go again! Telling me what to do or not to do! You know what?! Fuck you, Sapphire and your pathetic boyfriend! I've never felt better and if I have to kill you than so be it! I think I'll actually enjoy it!" Red suddenly rushed forwards with her sword at the ready. She was just about to slash through Blue when Steve put himself in front of her and blocked the heavy blow with his daggers in a 'X' position as the black opal sword was trying to break his hold.

"You won't touch her!" Steve hissed and stared at Red's crazed black eyes.

"You're right! I won't touch her! Just kill her!" Red began madly cackling but this was just enough distraction for Steve to push her sword off and make a clean cut right across her right shoulder. Red's wound oozed black blood that poured from the deep cut. She howled in pain and her black eyes actually began to glow black. She stumbled backwards and was infuriated. Steve was about to slash at her again but his daggers came clashing with another extremely powerful sword.

Steve gawked in confusion as Herobrine had teleported right in front of him and had his sword out. Herobrine shoved his sword off of their hold and made two good slashes across Steve's chest. Blue screamed in horror as Steve stumbled backwards and was groaning loudly from the wicked pain of his wounds. "S-Steve!" Blue cried out and held onto him from behind. Steve only glared into Herobrine's white enraged eyes that were flaming white wisps brightly in the dimness of the Nether's atmosphere.

"I don't know how you dare escape and try to kidnap Scarlett from me, but just know that each feeble attempt on your part will always end in this tragic way. I've had plenty of your interference, especially yours, brat." Herobrine said furiously glaring both Steve and Blue down. Steve was so disoriented he was practically limp in Blue's embrace from behind that was basically the only thing keeping him held upwards.

Red silently glared them all from behind, her tainted mind thinking of many thoughts at once, most of it with violent intent. Herobrine stepped forwards, the side of his face was clearly slightly bruised from Steve's punches that he assaulted him with. Herobrine paced forwards with his sword out, "Time to die by my hand. Both of you. I will have Scarlett to myself!"

"Says who?!" Red shouted from behind him and totally brought him off guard as she placed the tip of her sword to Herobrine's back. Herobrine's eyes flashed as he glanced back with his eyes at Red who was deeply glaring him with her frightening blacken eyes.

"What in the hell are you doing, Scarlett!?" Herobrine ordered with a look of betrayal as she held the blade firmly into his back, just close enough if she were to go any further he would bleed.

Steve and Blue gasped at the situation that was forming in front of them. Red had actually turned on Herobrine! Was her mind truly that corrupted!? Or had her heart truly changed to show no loyalty to him from the fear of him killing her and her child?! "What does it look like, Hero? The tables have turned! I'm so done with playing the puppet to your little degrading sick schemes! I don't belong to anyone but myself! You won't kill me because I have the power to destroy you and your rule all together, right now. All I have to do is push this sword a little closer and its all over!" Red threatened, the crazed look in her eyes never once ceasing from her glowing black eyes.

Herobrine lowered his sword from Blue and Steve and began to focus only on Red. "What is this!? Where have you gotten such daft ideals? I know that magic I have dwelling within you is not blinding you that much! Have you actually listened to these fools?!" Herobrine retorted while he kept his gaze over his shoulder and straight on Red very carefully.

Red kept her sword firmly in its place, "These 'fools' told me you are out to kill me and our child. That I have lost my usefulness to you now that you've had your way with me. I should have known you were to abandon me like everyone else! You even assaulted my sister to the brink of death when I told you to keep her alive! Just how trusting are you!? I should've known I was nothing but some kind of fucking pawn to you! Well, I'm not going to let you get me first. I-I thought you loved me… I guess I was wrong."

"Scarlett! I do love you! For God-sakes listen to yourself! I would never harm our child! I've told you plenty of times that I love you and would never in my life put a hand on you with ill intent! I would never use you as some pawn because I love you! And I certainly did not say any of this bullshit that these two have falsely formulated to deceive you! Clearly, this is all a deception to turn you away from me! Scarlett, don't listen to them. You know whose side you are truly on."

Red shook her head as her eyes flickered from normal and back to black. Herobrine was trying to conceal her powers to help her think more clearly without the afflicting effects of the black magic that he had first used to stall Blue and Steve when he found out she was missing from the castle.

"No! You just keep spewing sweet lies to me! You're nothing but a dirty disgusting liar! You don't love me, you never did! You abandoned me just like everyone else in my life has! I won't be wronged again!" Red shouted and shakily began very slowly moving the sword closer to piercing through his back. Hero tensed up when he felt the blade edging closer to the point it was causing pain. "Its over Herobrine… I wish it didn't have to end like this! I wish I didn't love you so much… Goodbye." Red's eyes flickered normal one last time with genuine sadness before she plunged forwards with the Starless Gale, right into Herobrine's back.