Chapter 29: Bewitched

Steve and Blue had to end up retreating the day before once Herobrine had took over the fight and was beginning to best Steve. Herobrine only let them run away as his only concern was on Scarlett at the moment. He knew they would be back and then he could do what he willed with them later. For now he had to find Red before they did. He would make sure when he found them again to make their punishment 10x worse for convincing or rather lying to HIS Little Red that he was not to be trusted. Red was many things to Herobrine but sometimes she was rather gullible and her big sister knew this was an advantage they could use over her. Herobrine had taken another healing potion for his wounds that he recieved from his little brother and their fight together. He was still bothered he let them off free but he knew he'd get his vendetta soon enough.

He tried concentrating on his magical connection to see if he could track Red, a little advantage he had over Steve and Blue. He could find Red easily with his magic or so he hoped. He was not sensing her within the Nether, she must have found a portal and left through it. Herobrine scowled and teleported to one of his portal rooms that had an obsidian portal that would lead him to the Overworld. Walking into it he appeared at the other end and was in one of his hidden bases throughout the Overworld of Minecraftia. Some of his minions watched him nervously as he skulked out of the portal and had a deadly look in his eyes. He merely glanced at his mobs who stepped away as he stepped near. He went directly for the door but paused before he opened it.

"Tell all my men that if they see Scarlett. I want them to retrieve her by any means except anything harmful towards her. I want her back with me in the Nether, understood?" He told the mobs in the room with an ominous tone that was defiantly threatening. They all nodded quickly at the same time and continued to watch restlessly as Herobrine finally opened the door to the outside where he was in a jungle biome.

Closing his eyes, he focused again and tried to feel around for Red's presence. It was more difficult to do this in the Overworld considering it was such a gigantic place and there was forms of other magic around in the world that could tamper his hunt for Red. He felt like he was getting some sense of where she was but was somewhat confused by how it wasn't giving him a direct location. "Damn it. Why can't I pick her up?" Herobrine teleported to a location that seemed closer to her own but he still didn't feel like he was close enough to find her. "What keeps blocking me? She has to be around some kind of magic but how?" Herobrine began aimlessly walking forward in the snowy biome he was now in.

"I will find you, Scarlett… If I have to look throughout all of Minecraftia. I will…" Herobrine frowned as he walked and swore he felt some sense that Red had been in a cave nearby at some point but no longer.

Hours went by and Red was surrounded by these brainless witches that just wouldn't leave her alone. They apparently considered her ultimately sacred because she had the black magic from the black opal portal dwelling inside of her veins. She was beginning to think going nuts on them with the black magic wouldn't be a terrible thing. Typically, one probably would be thrilled to have a horde of witches to do practically anything you asked of them. Just not when they are this damn annoying! Hell, Red even got pissed and told one to jump off a cliff which she thinks that one witch actually did. They chanted creepy spells and incantations around her and some other stuff in a language she didn't know. All she could do was sit there cross legged on some stupid rock slab and let them kneel down and basically worship her. If only, she could tell Herobrine the freaky situation she was in. He'd never believe it…

'… Hero…" Red thought glumly and sighed as she looked away from the chanting and praying witches to stare at a moss covered rock wall blankly. It wasn't until Maud walked over from behind and began pouring some strange liquid onto her head, "What the hell are you doing?!" Red snapped irritably and looked up at Maud as she began rubbing and lathering in that strange smelling liquid into her short red hair.

"Its a special blessed scent made specially by me for when the Black Queen separates from her mortal body! All things must be made to absolute perfection for when you descend into your spirit Goddess form to rule over Minecraftia with all your mighty black magic powers from the stone!"

"For the millionth time I don't have a spirit Goddess form! How many times do I have to tell you, idiots!? Get that gross weird shit out of my hair!" Red hissed aggitatedly but the green eyed witch only smiled as she always seemed to do.

"Oh, a funny one you are! Always with the jokes! Let me go get the other supplies and things I will need to prep you for the grand ceremony! You will look absolutely gorgeous when you pass on and transcend! I get to be so lucky to be the one to sacrifice your petty mortal body!" Maud sighed dreamily and went off down a nearby hallway she had been to get more bizarre materials that she deemed worthy for the ritual.

'I'm not being scarified, not a chance in hell! I gotta get out of here.' Red thought to herself and was tempted to stand up and dart for the exit. Unfortunately, these witches could fly as she has seen and that would never give her the opportune moment to escape. They would always catch up to her before she could actually get away. She only hoped Herobrine would find her or she could somehow find another way of escape from these crazy ritual obsessed witches. Red was about to stand up but she was shocked when some more witches flocked up to her and had all different types of things in their hands. Red was dragged upwards by the witches and suddenly taken to down the hallway and into a different room where Maud was.

"Sorry, I just thought it would be easier if you were here with me! Now let's get to work!" Maud chirped joyfully and adjusted her witch hat on her head before walking over to grab a giant gaudy light pink ball-room styled dress that was decorated in many different flowers and unfamiliar plant herbs.

"You don't expect me to wear that right?" Red cringed and didn't quite understand why they would call her the Black Queen when they planned to dress her in a humiliating frumpy pink dress that was rather puffy and smelled odd from more of those 'special scents' Maud probably had drenched in it.

"I call it the dress of transcendence! We have blessed this dress with our most blessed and special incantations for the ceremony! Once you leave your old frail human body behind, this dress will look nicely on what remains. Then again… there probably won't be much that remains but it will make you look pretty before you become our spirit Goddess!" Maud merely shrugged and grinned with a airy giggle before going over and practically reaching out and ripping off her red dress that she had on.

"HEY! What the hell are you doing!?" Red yelped in embarrassment and was highly disturbed by this witch's nerve to just go over and tear at her clothes!

"We must get rid of this old unworthy to pass on and transcend dress you are wearing. Please let me change you!" Maud begged and looked at Red hopefully.

"Oh no! I can do it myself! Just don't get near me! AND no peeking!" Red snatched the hideous dress away and as much as she despised the thought of wearing it. She would only comply because she literally ripped a giant tear in her red dress that was highly immodest. She never thought she would be hoping Herobrine would pop out of nowhere and save her from these idiots that were going to sacrifice her and undeniably kill her in the end!

"Uh well… We could do that for you but if you say so…" Maud shrugged and waited for her to change as she turned away with the other female witches in the room. Red sighed heavily and tore off the rest of the remains of her dress and changed into the other disgusting pink dress that smelled of so many different unexplainable fragrances it was reeking with.

"I'm done now what-" Maud cut her off as she sped over and began inspecting her from head to toe in excitement.

"You look wonderful, my Queen! Let me just take that-" Maud tried to take the diamond tiara out of her hair but Red slapped her hand away immediately.

"No! I'm keeping that." Red stated firmly, she wasn't going to let go of something so special that Herobrine had given her. Maud put her hands on her hips and sighed heavily.

"Well er… Its not blessed by us.. So um it really shouldn't be there, my Queen…"

"Its not going anywhere." Red retorted irritably to the eccentric witch, who only very hesitantly nodded.

"I suppose so… but uh- we're going to need some more blessed scents then." Maud said and took out her stinking concoction in a bottle and began pouring it over her head again. Red growled as the other witches began parading around her and putting more colorful flowers around her and on top of her head like a crown of flowers.

'If these witches don't get away from me, I will show them the true wrath of a goddess… if that's what they want to consider me.' Red grumbled mentally in her mind and looked far from thrilled as the witches continued to adorn her with whatever this strange ritual called for. Somehow, Red imagined this Maud character just made up this ritual up at the top of her head. Transcending from her human body to a spirit goddess? What a joke…

Blue and Steve had taken shelter back at the Rebel base from where they had first gone through the portal to the Nether. The rest of the day before they had spend tending to the critical damage they had been inflicted by Herobrine and his torture and fight against Steve. Steve in which took the most harm from the two since he had to go and fight Herobrine when he was already in poor condition. They were more than damn lucky that Herobrine let them off but it also confused them as to why he did. He was obviously with murderous intent but something kept him back from pulling the finishing blow on each of them. Blue chalked it up to his mind being more on Red as much as it bothered her to admit it. Even so, it saved them in the end when they had to retreat. Their plan didn't completely go the way they had first imagined it would. Scarlett was now doubtful of Herobrine's intentions and she had runoff on him but she still didn't trust her or Steve fully either. So now she could be out in the Minecraftian wilderness by herself and possibly in even more danger from being alone by herself and pregnant on top of it. Defiantly, not how Sapphire intended this to go…

"We need to get going as soon as possible. Herobrine is most defiantly looking for Red as we speak… He could find her faster than us too because of his magic aiding him." Steve brought up as Blue was kneeling in front of him and replacing his bandage dressings with brand new clean ones. Tying the bandages around adeptly, she made a soft sigh and nodded dully in agreement.

"I know… but where will we begin? She could be anywhere." Blue answered with a grim look in her eyes as she looked up into Steve's eyes. Steve made a thoughtful expression and then frowned in confusion.

"I'm not entirely sure but we better start somewhere rather than not looking at all."

"Do you think she is still in the Nether?"

"I doubt it. Herobrine would have her by now if that was the case." Steve replied and then examined his bandaged arm gratefully as Blue finished her work on it. "Thank you, Sapphire."

"No problem, just be more careful next time, Steve. We can't go charging at Herobrine the way you had before. We're more than fortunate we had him distracted enough over Red to let us go alive when we retreated." Blue said in her chiding parent voice that she typically would use with her younger sister. Steve nodded sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.

"Yeah, I guess I was a little over my head. I can't think straight when I see his face. All I do is want to stop him dead in his tracks. He's caused everyone so much pain and hardship. Its difficult to just stand in front of him and stand idle. Everyone would be better off if he was gone…" Steve said and glanced down briefly as he thought about his older brother and all the gruesome things he had done in the past for his own selfish reasons.

"I know its hard to keep your self-control. I want to do more than nothing than run up to him and punch him across the face but I know better. He's powerful and I'm beginning to think we need to something about that magic of his. As long as he has his proficiency in magic, we will never have a chance. You truly were never taught any magic, Steve?"

Steve sighed and stood up from where he was sitting with Blue also standing up and looking at him with curiousness. "I never was any good with magic like my brother is. My Father had attempted to try and teach me it but I think I'm more of a danger to everyone around me then anything. I don't know why I just can't get a hang of it. I even managed to almost set the village on fire one time. It was horrible, if not extremely embarrassing on top of it."

"But you do know some of it?" Blue asked on as Steve began walking over to reclaim their good weapons that they left at the base, so they wouldn't have been taken by Hero. Steve made a face of uneasiness as he passed over Blue's decorated lapis lazuli sword into her hands.

"Well… I guess I do know some of it. I just told myself I was never going to use it because of how destructive I tend to be with it. I don't want to accidentally hurt someone with it, especially you." Steve said as he took his own diamond sword and then looked at Blue with concerned eyes.

Blue smiled lightly at his words and glanced down with a slight blush, "Thank you for your concern but maybe you could try using your magic again? I know you say you're not very good at it but if you could perhaps hone yourself in it and give it another try. You could maybe try and use it against Herobrine, especially when he is using it against you. You do have some kind of warding spells, right? Maybe, you could figure out a way to ward off his telekinesis or paralysis spells."

Blue and Steve were heading for the exit of the base to begin looking for Red. Steve remained quiet from thinking for awhile before speaking again to Blue, "… I-I guess, I could… But Herobrine is so much more powerful than I would ever be when it comes to magic. He could easily find a way around any ward spells I could conjure up."

"You don't know that! It could possibly give us an advantage!" Blue encouraged, her fully thinking that using magic against magic would be a much smarter approach than magic verses sword, which obviously has not been working for them in the past.

"I don't know, Sapphire. You really don't know how bad I am when it comes to magic…" Steve drawled out and made a squeamish look from his own lack of ability. Blue shook her head as they arrived outside and paused as they looked at each other.

"I believe you can do it, Steve. You just have to believe in yourself. If Herobrine can do it, I certainly think you can too. You are his brother after all." Blue implied and tried her best to gather back his usual confidence that defiantly sunk at the mention of magic wielding. Steve smiled nervously at Blue's attempts to make him feel better about the concept but he still felt highly unconvinced by the whole thing, but still he didn't want to damper on Blue's belief in him. So he tried to smile more and give a reply back that still wasn't the most certain sounding.

"I suppose you're right…" He nodded slightly and then decided to change the topic, not wanting to talk about his humiliating inadequacy with his abilities in the arcane anymore. "So we should start looking for your sister…"

"Yeah, before Herobrine does." Blue nodded and grimaced at the mentioning of the white eyed man that has been a rather big thorn in their side through all of this. Steve nodded and made a sheepish expression as he looked around him.

"So where to begin?"

"…."

Blue paused and also looked around and shrugged with a frown, "I have no idea… like I said she could be anywhere…- Wait!" Blue turned to look straight at Steve as if a light bulb flicked on inside her mind. "Who says Herobrine is the only one who can track her with magic? Maybe, you can too!"

Steve instantly looked uncomfortable at this and smiled sheepishly at his anxious looking girlfriend, "Uhm… Blue, really I don't think I can-"

"Just try it! What's the worst that could happen?" Blue clasped her hands in front of her and gave him her best puppy eyes, which wasn't something she would usually do. Unless, she absolutely was certain of something like she was now.

Steve not being at all capable of escaping the pleading eyes of Sapphire's big light blue eyes. He sighed uneasily and shrugged his shoulders, "I-I guess I could try… Just.. uh stand back a little."

"Great!" Sapphire nodded eagerly and did as he asked of her. Steve looked truly nervous as he took a couple deep breathes and closed his eyes to attempt taping into the arcane, which he hadn't done in years.

"This might not work, Blue." Steve murmured in warning as he tried his best focusing on Red's whereabouts. Blue shook her head and made a reassuring smile towards him that he didn't see because he still had his eyes closed and was concentrating.

"You can do it! I know you can!"

Steve was enjoying her confident praise toward him but still couldn't shake off the shadow of doubt that was in his mind. He tried with everything he had and wasn't getting anything but a slight headache. 'Come on, just give me something…' Steve thought and clenched his fists tightly as he kept trying very hard, mostly not to disappoint Sapphire. 'Anything… This can't be that hard…' Steve finally just let his mind clear and with just a spark of hope. He actually began picking up on something, like a gut feeling almost.

The more he focused the worse his headache became but he was actually picking up on something! He just hoped this something was actually Red and not something else that they weren't even looking for. Steve started putting up his hand and pointing it in a certain random direction with his eyes closed. Blue grinned and watched as his hand moved just slightly to the left before remaining in place.

"I-I think… I think it might be in this direction." Steve said unsurely and then opened his eyes as his mind began to fuzz up and his concentration quickly was lost after he picked up the very slight possible whereabouts of Scarlett.

"Are you sure?" Blue questioned as he put his hand down back to his side. Steve shrugged and made another sheepish look towards Blue.

"Its the best I'm going to get."

"Well, I think its better than nothing. Let's go." Blue rushed forward in the direction he had been pointing. Steve sighed shakily and prayed in his mind that he wasn't wrong about what he had merely felt was right. Steve nodded uncertainly and rushed to her side and began traveling with her while repeatedly trying his best to sometimes reconnect back with his magic to figure out Little Red's location.

Many hours went by and the sun was setting in the distance. Red was now outside with the witches enclosing her from every direction, leaving her just a small aisle to walk along in. "Where are we going?" Red questioned for the trillionth time as they were heading through a dark eerie forest that was surrounded by many mountains in the distance.

Maud was ahead of the group and holding a magically lit torch in her hand that glowed green instead of a normal glow that came from fire. "We are nearly at the location of the great passing on! There you will pass on from your weak mortal body and transcend into your all mighty goddess form, my dear Queen. You should be so very excited! I know I am!" Maud finally replied in an overly chirpy and dreamy tone of voice that was bordering on obnoxious.

"What!? I'm not ready for this! How about we wait a while?! I'm sure I can uh transcend later? I'm not in the passing on into a goddess form kinda mood today! Or ever…" Red muttered the last part and was wishing more than ever she could make a run for it. There was not a chance in hell she was going to let these witches sacrifice her to who only knows what!? She didn't care! She just knew she had to get away and soon!

"Of course, you're ready! You have come upon us which means you are ready for the great passing on! Such a silly Queen you are." Maud 'tsked' as she began to start walking up a pathway that led up towards what appeared to be a small mountain. Red wasn't too sure it was just a normal mountain though as they got closer, she swore it was getting hotter which was not common when one goes up.

It was a couple minutes until Red noticed ash and the scenery of the mountain was beginning to look blacker as the scent of sulfur was everywhere. It finally occurred to her they were walking up a volcano when she saw the black smoke rising into the even blacker sky that held many stars. 'Oh shit, they're going to toss me into a volcano aren't they!?' Red reasoned not so calmly in her head. Red finally halted in her step and shook her head, the witches behind her almost running into her from the sudden stop.

Maud noticed the witches asking her why she stopped from behind and turned around to look at Red. "Whatever is wrong?" she asked.

"That's it! I'm done! You're all are bat-shit insane! I'm not going any further! I'm not being sacrificed while tossed into a volcano for your stupid ass beliefs! Forget it!" Red finally worked up the guts to try and dart backwards and roughly push through the hordes of witches but they kept her crowded tightly in her tiny little spot in the middle. Maud frowned and adjusted her hat on her head.

"There is no need to be frightened! You won't even notice the pain! The second you die you will be reborn anew in your true form!"

"Fuck you all! Not happening!" Red spat out venomously and tried pushing through again like a terrible game of Red Rover, that she was not winning. Maud crossed her arms and was actually beginning to look agitated with Red's attempts to get away from them.

"She is frightened, my fellow witches. Make sure she does not escape. Her human body is crying out in rebellion but it won't be long until that all changes." Maud brought up her hand and flickered her wrist at Red. A surge of green and purple energy shot from her hand and enveloped Red entirely. Red only had the chance to scream as she fell down and was paralyzed. "I do apologize my Queen but I cannot have you run away." Maud said and then gestured for the witches to pick her up. Red could only stare with wide eyes and not even speak as they picked her up by each limp and began carrying her up the smoking volcano instead.

'This cannot be happening! It can't end like this! I have a baby!' Red thought in terror from within her mind. The witches finally carried her up to the very top of the volcano where in the middle was the large crater that held the cracking scorching hot lava down deep in its depths.

"Ah, we're finally here everyone! Let the great passing on begin!" Maud inspired as she lifted up her arms in praise. The witches started cheering on this announcement which made Red begin to panic even more inside her mind. She had no way to get out of this now! She didn't want to be thrown into a volcano and burnt to death! This was all too insane!

The witches set down Red into a sitting position and began all murmuring incantations or prayers around her again. All Red could do was sit there still as a statue and pitifully watch while she began to feel strange this time from the muttered incantations. Her eyes momentarily turned black and her veins began to change back to black and there was nothing she could do to stop it. 'Shit not this again!' Red thought miserably as her black magic was back to attempting to overtake her body and mind. This was unfortunate for Red but little did her and the the witches know, it was also a beaconing for Herobrine as he would feel her dark magic stirring inside of her, especially without his consent.

Red struggled inside her mind but the struggle was fruitless. Her mind began to quickly unravel from the insertion of spells that were purposely trying to stir her magic up inside. Red fell victim to her own power and soon her eyes turned completely solid black as she sat there for them to toy with until the actual ritual of the great passing on commenced.

Herobrine growled lowly to himself and had already lost his patience. He had been searching for Red for hours and had still not found her. This was so unlike him to be unable to grasp on to where she was. He kept getting bits and pieces but not fully getting a location. He had come across a temple and had gone inside but found no one within. There appeared to be people living here though and Herobrine was smart enough to know these people were witches by the vast amount of arcane energy and objects around him. "Red was here…" Herobrine muttered to himself as he glanced around himself with a glower. "Witches… No wonder I cannot pick up on her. They're probably imbuing her with warding magic if they have her…" Herobrine ran his hand across a stone slab where he could feel Red's presence once was. "I'll find you, Red. Now that I know what I'm dealing with." Herobrine closed his eyes and concentrated and began muttering under his breath spells in a different language that he knew could bypass through weaker warding magic that most likely was cast upon his Scarlett.

His mind focused on her location, which was becoming more distinguishable to him. It wasn't until he felt another unexpected and sudden rush of Red's black magic surge through his own body when his eyes snapped open wide. He knew where she was now and he wasn't liking it one bit. "They're doing something to her… I have to get there now." Herobrine began rushing out of the temple and suddenly disappearing into thin air as he teleported to Red's now unmistakable location.

Herobrine appeared not far from Red's location. He was standing on top of a volcano and on a pathway that led up to its very top. There he could see a whole mass of black cloaked witches standing near the mouth of the volcano, where its lava resided in its depths. He could see his Red finally but wasn't at all pleased by the sight. She was being held at the side of the volcano and he could tell she was paralyzed by magic from the witches from sensing it all around her. He was about to dart forwards when a witch with wispy black hair and green eyes spoke from the front of them. She appeared to be the leader of them.

"My dear brothers and sisters! On this sacred day I bring you here to where the Black Queen shall take on the great passing on where she will arise from this weak husk of a mortal human body and rise on as our transcended spirit goddess from the sacred black opal stone! Let us sacrifice this old body and let our goddess free to rule us and all of Minecraftia with her great almighty power! Blessed is the Black Queen! Blessed be this day of the great passing! Now let us begin the rite!" Maud shouted in near ecstasy at the sacrificial ceremony that they were about to perform on Red. Herobrine was not going to lose Red and his child to some insane witches that thought Scarlett as one of their divinities.

He didn't wait for them to proceed any further as he teleported in front of the crowd of witches and grabbed on to Scarlett's arm tightly as Maud was about to push her off and into the smoking pit of lava below. Maud gasped in horror at the sight of the white-eyed devil that anyone who lived in Minecraftia couldn't help but know very well. "By the great divines, it's Herobrine!" Maud uttered in shock and then glared deeply, "Get away from our goddess, unclean devil!"

"That won't be happening nor will this whole deranged ritual." Herobrine replied intensely with a deeper glare that was blazing wildly from the white wisps that came from his eyes.

Maud's bright electric green eyes flashed at the man in front of her as she took our her wand and pointed it at Hero threateningly. "Unhand her now!"

"You dare fight me? Don't you know who I am, witch? My power succeeds yours and every one of your followers combined. This ritual will not be taking place. Scarlett is not one of your pathetic divines."

"How dare you delay the great passing and insult the divines! I don't care who you are! Die devil!" Maud unleashed a blast of her purple and green magic that soared straight at Herobrine. Hero grabbed onto Red's waist and dodged his way from the incoming blast of harmful magic. Maud was about to send another wave of magic while the other witches took our their wands to help their leader.

Herobrine would never do this under any other circumstance but knew it would deter them if he did it this once. Herobrine brought Scarlett in front of him and Maud screeched at this and waved her hand to dispel her magic from hitting Red. All the witches held their wands out and ready for the attack but wouldn't cast out a spell with Red in possible harm's way. "LET HER GO, DEVIL! YOU ARE RUINING THE RITUAL!" Maud screamed and flew forwards, trying to grab onto Red. Herobrine put Red back to his side, who was still paralyzed during all of this. He brought out his hand and send off a blast of white magic that collided with her own as she flew forwards. Their magic began pushing on each other but Herobrine's was much more powerful and pushed all the way through, ripping right through Maud in collsion.

The head witch hollered out in pain and stumbled backwards in the air. The other witches saw this and began sending blasts of their own magic towards Herobrine. Hero in reaction waved his hand out and summoned up a wall of white wispy magic that shielded him and Red as the other offending magic clashed into the wall loudly. Herobrine took this time short time to break through Red's imbued spell that had been casted on her to restore her back to normal or at least back to being mobile. Red gasped and stumbled forwards as she began blinking quickly, her eyes going back from normal to black repeatedly. Herobrine was trying his best to keep the witches under control while also keeping Red under control with her black magic. It was working better than before and Red's eyes went back to normal as did her veins. She turned to Herobrine and looked at him with wide eyes as he kept holding up a shielding wall of magic to block incoming magic.

"Hero!?" Red uttered and didn't care much about what she thought or said before about Herobrine as she clung onto him for a prolonged amount of time. Hero briefly glanced at her and couldn't help but smile faintly to see her back to normal and not appearing angry at him. Herobrine took the giant shielded wall and pushed it forwards at the witches. All the witches gasped as the giant wall sped forward and crashed into all of them, making some fall over dead and others fall back to the ground but still alive.

Maud recovered from the spell that had burst on her, blood now running down her mouth, she flew back up in the air and swooped down at Red in a crazed outrage. Scarlett gasped again as she looked at Maud, "Hero! Witch!" Red yelled and pointed at Maud who was hollering in a fury as she came rushing down towards her. Herobrine turned immediately to where she was and formed a large fireball in his hand. Pulling back his hand and tossing it forward, the witch was so busy targeting Red that she wasn't expecting the fireball that crashed into her and threw her backwards. Herobrine and Red could only watch as Maud flew backwards and became shaky in the air. She soon began screaming and falling straight down and into the volcano's pit as she already was burning in midair from the fireball. The remaining witches screamed at the fall of the leader that kept plummeting down until she hit the lava with a splash from below and sunk into its fiery abyss.

The witches began instantly mourning and quickly backed down to Herobrine once Maud was burnt to death in the volcano's lava. "You filthy devil!" They cried and all began sobbing at their leader's untimely demise. Herobrine stared hard at them and then turned to Red, uncaring of the rest of the witches who were obviously triumphed over by him and weren't going to attempt to outdo him any longer. Red stared at the witches before turning to look at Hero's stare that was somewhat unreadable. He didn't say anything as he brought out his hand towards her for her to accept. She stared at his hand unsurely and then back up into his calmer white glowing eyes. She should she trust him? Anything seemed better than where she was at, he also just saved her life…

Extending her hand slowly and somewhat hesitantly, she placed her hand into his own. Herobrine glanced down at their intertwined hands and then brought Red into a tight loving embrace. "I love you…" was all he softly whispered to her until he teleported away from the smoking volcano and weeping witches with her in his arms, where she truly belonged.

(Author's Note: Still looking for ideas, I'd rather not end this too soon but I'm having idea issues as of late. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it.)