Chapter 30: Truth Hurts
Author's Note: Thank you everyone for sharing your ideas if you had. I really appreciate them! I hope you still enjoy my story as I enjoy writing it for you all. :)
Cheers to my 30th chapter!
Back in the Nether once again, Hero had teleported them on top of his highest tower of the fortress. Mostly, because he wanted to talk to Red about some serious matters that they needed to speak about. Red letting go of Hero, she watched him closely as he stared back at her in gathering silence. Red was the first to break the rather uncomfortable silence that the two had produced after a few moments. "You saved me…" Red murmured softly and glanced down at her hands that were in front of her as she spoke. Herobrine nodded his head and took a step towards the nether brick railings to look out into the distance of the Nether's volcanic terrain.
"Yes, I did…" He replied and sighed after another moment of some more awkward silence between the two. "Scarlett…" Herobrine brought up her real name and turned back from the railings to look at her as she stared back at him wordlessly. "We need to talk."
"Hero.. I am more than appreciative you saved me but there is nothing to say-" Red began to reply but was immediately cut off by Herobrine's slight raising of voice at her unsatisfactory response he was getting from her.
"No, there is and it must be said. You have been deceived by your own sister and I must make this understood by you. All those things they said about me harming you or our child is nothing but false slandering on my name to make you turn against me. This is what they want to happen, they want you turn away from me like this. I would NEVER hurt you on purpose, Scarlett, and to hurt our child is even more absurd. You should know this." Herobrine exclaimed to her and scoffed at the very thought of hurting either her or his own child. The whole great made up deception was nothing far from outright cruel, to not just himself, but for her own older sister to attempt to put the wool over the eyes of Red like that.
Red crossed her arms and looked eminently insecure as she shook her head, "How am I supposed to know you are not lying to me?"
"Because I would have killed you a long time ago if that were true. I would have not wasted my time bothering to save you. I would not be bothering to waste my time trying to convince you that I care. I don't ever act desperate about anything because its weak but here I am acting in such a way because I do care about something important to me. I just want you to understand that you can trust me with your life, Scarlett. I don't have any prove but by the way I've been treating you from the past and up until now."
"But Blue was right! You were deceptive towards me when you first brought me here!" Red argued back.
"And I admitted already my actions were deceptive in nature! I only did it so I could have you here with me because there was no other way! You would have ran away from me if I told you my true intentions at the time. I couldn't bare to have you run away! Especially now… even before these feelings I have for you weren't as painfully evident as they are now. Please Scarlett, you are making me beg and I really hate that." Herobrine reached out for her with his hand extended towards her. He was so frustrated this was even happening in the first place. If only, those two interfering idiots were not in the picture, things would be so much simpler. Even Notch seemed less intrusive than Blue and Steve right now and that was saying a lot.
Red stared at him hard and kept her arms crossed. She felt teary eyed again and it was bothering her to no end. He might of really hated begging but she really hated crying so much! Yet, there she was almost in tears and every part of her was screaming for her to just give in, hug him, kiss him, and let it all be okay again. She seemed physically unable to stop herself from reaching out back towards him and taking his hand into her own. Was she making the right choice? Would this be not just the end of her but the end of her precious child? What reason would Big Blue have to deceive her like this? It hurt her so much!
Red in mere seconds found her tearful face buried straight into his firm chest, breaking down into raking loud sobs. She was so confused and wanted nothing more than for it to go away. Herobrine wrapped her protectively enraptured in his strong arms, she could feel him gently place a kiss on the top of her head as he always had a habit of doing. "Trust me, Scarlett. I'm not abandoning you. Remember what I promised?"
"I remember… I'm sorry, Hero! I'm sorry for everything!" Red cried and comforted herself in his warm presence that held her so close, so snug, and safe.
"You have no need to apologize. You've just been wrongly misled is all…"
"Why would my sister do this to me!? I thought she loved me, Hero! I thought she could just give one single damn that I love something deeply and I don't want to let go of it! I want you, Hero. I do… I'm so sorry for doubting you." Red shuttered as he hushed her in her despair.
"Shhh…" He whispered to her and kissed the right side of her jaw before laying a kiss onto her soft lips gently. Placing a hand on the side of her face and looking her straight into her deep chestnut brown eyes, he replied back. "Your sister believes what my brother Steve and the rebels have fed to her to believe. She believes me a monster as many others do, but I say let them. I will not change who I am for the pleasure of others. Once I rule those who claim me a monster will have to live with whatever they believe me to be. I do what I must because it is what must be done for 'our' rule, together."
"But is your… or even our rule above me?" Red questioned him with complete seriousness as her eyes looked up at him from under her black eyelashes.
Herobrine listened and remained quiet for a short moment and thought intently on what Red had asked.
…..
Red kept staring at up into his calm faint glowing white eyes searching for an answer to her question, until he soon began to gradually shake his head slowly while in thought, "No… It's not."
Red's lips tugged upwards with meaningfulness at his sincere answer. She instantly leaned upwards towards his face and while titling her head slightly sideways, she kissed him deeply. The moment her delicate soft lips brushed up against his own, he kissed her back hungrily, sliding his tongue into her own mouth. He tasted every inch of the insides of her mouth with his own tongue, loving every taste that was his Scarlett's own sweet honeyed flavor. Herobrine's hands now resting behind Red's neck, he began to raise them to run through her soft short locks of bright red hair. They continued to kiss, breaking away a few times for quick breathes of air before kissing back even more fervidly than before.
The two remained holding one another for the longest of times once they both pulled away from kissing. Red had the side of her head rested against his chest where she listened to the steady rhythmic sound of his heartbeat, a sound Red favored amongst others. Herobrine kept his chin rested on the top of her head and took a deep breath of her hair only to take in a scent that was far from Scarlett's usual aroma. Making a strange face, he took one more inhale of her hair and tried to distinguishing what the odd smell was from. It was a flowery scent but it had other unfamiliar earthly scents mixed within, it didn't smell horrible but it wasn't delectable either.
"New shampoo?" Herobrine muttered strangely which made Red back away from the hug, enough to look at him peculiarly at his rather random inquiry. Red then remembered the witches, mostly Maud, who had lathered in that vile 'blessed' potion she had dumped onto her head.
"Ah shit, I forgot all about that." Red replied and rolled her eyes with a frown, "No, not shampoo. More like nasty stank ass potions that were supposedly blessed by the witches. Sorry, I must smell awful… and look awful. I mean! Can you believe they put me in this fashion disaster?" Red exclaimed dramatically as she spread her arms out and looked down at herself in disgust from not just the odd fragrance of her hair but the unsightly frumpy light pink dress she was forced to wear for the ritual. Herobrine couldn't help but smirk and bring a hand up to his lips to stifle a laugh from escaping.
"Darling, I didn't even notice until you pointed it out… but now that you did. You probably should go change." Herobrine inquired and couldn't help the slight amused chuckle from escaping this time. Red playfully glared him down as she put her hands to her hips in mock defense.
"Didn't notice? Yeah right! I'll believe that one once Creepers stop being sneaky explosive assholes. Which is NEVER." Red stormed passed him and swung the door open to reveal the stairwell that had literally thousands of steps all the way down to the very bottom. She groaned in laziness and glanced back at Hero, "Okay, I was going to storm off like a badass but I change my mind. I'm not going down ALL those stairs. Could you teleport me?" Red asked with a sheepish smile rising on her lips. Herobrine who was staring at her the whole time, shook his head with a teasing roll of his eyes.
"I might need some form of persuasion." Herobrine answered back with a taunting naughty smirk. Red's eye momentarily twitched as she began heatedly glaring him again.
"To get me out of this horrid dress should be persuasion enough." Red insisted but Hero wasn't buying in, just yet anyways.
"Really? I think its actually rather amusing." He replied with a uncaring shrug and turned away from her with his impish smirk never going away. Red growled under her breath in aggravation and began clomping her shoes on her way over to his back.
"Hero!"
"Its a rather pleasant evening in the Nether is it not?"
"Don't you ignore me, jerk!"
"Hm, did you say something?" Herobrine merely glanced at her from the side of his eyes as he pretended to be fully occupied with staring out into the Nether's scenery once more. Red wasn't having it as she prodded her pointer finger into his back roughly.
"Yes, I did! Come on, Herooo! I wanna get out of this stupid dress and take a well needed shower! Stop tormenting me!"
"Tormenting you? Is that what I'm doing?" Herobrine said thoughtfully as he brought a hand to his chin as if he was thinking hard on what she was accusing him of. Red stomped her foot and nodded vigorously.
"Yes! Now would you-" She cut herself off when she noticed Hero disappeared from in front of her, "OH NO, YOU FUCKING DID NOT! HEROBRINE!" Red squealed in anger and pretended to kick him from where he was at. "Prick! How dare you leave me to walk down tons of stairs! I'm too pregnant for this for goodness sakes!"
"Is that your excuse?" Herobrine who was now leaning up against the wall behind her next to the door quipped with that impish smirk still evidently lingering on his face. Red growled and sighed in annoyance as she turned herself around to glare at him.
"Not funny." Red pouted
"You know it is." Herobrine let out a low chuckle and walked over to embrace his pouting Queen. "Stop sulking, I was just teasing you."
"I was just kidnapped by a bunch of insane witches that wanted to sacrifice me to be their spirit goddess. I'm hardly in the mood for jokes." Red grumbled as she held onto Hero who finally got around to teleporting her and himself from the top of the tower and back to his room.
"Happy now?"
Red nodded and let go of Herobrine once they were back in his chambers. "Not until I get a shower and new clothes!" Red said and made a beeline right for the shower in the bathroom. Herobrine shook his head in amusement and was more than elated to have his good old Little Red back home where she belongs. Now if only, he could determine a way to keep it that way without anymore interruptions by Steve or Blue and even Notch. He has been quiet for some time now and that made Herobrine wonder if he was planning on something. He knew for sure he had to hear of Herobrine's recovery and that he was never actually dead to begin with. He could only mentally smile in delight at the look on his Father's face at the thought of him hearing that all so 'grim' news. Herobrine breathed out a chuckle and sat on the side of his bed as he listened to the sound of the shower's running water and Red's constant grumbling on how 'hard it is to get this shit out of my hair' speech throughout the entire bathing period. It seemed things were back to normal for a time. Herobrine only hoped it would stay that way for a good while.
"Steve, we've been looking forever…" Blue sighed heavily and paused in her step from becoming tired of walking for literally hours around for Red. Steve's brows furrowed as he scratched the the back of his head and also sighed.
"I'm sorry, Blue. I really did try. I told you I'm awful when it comes to magic."
"Its okay, Steve. Have you tried seeing if you could catch another glimpse of the way we should go?" Blue questioned as she leaned up against an oak tree with her arms crossed as she stared at Steve questionably. Steve shrugged and tried concentrating to see if he could pick up just another tiny glimpse of where they should be heading. Unfortunately, now it seemed he wasn't getting any kind of read, like she had completely disappeared. At least before he was getting some kind of an idea but now he kept getting nothing.
"I'm having a bad feeling. I can't pick up anything, its like she's not even in the Overworld…"
"You don't think Herobrine already found her?" Blue brought up and sighed at Steve's forthcoming frown on his face. Blue ran her hand through her long hair and glanced up at the dark evening sky, she was about to speak up until suddenly a small band of Rebels ran up from out of nowhere from within the forest.
"Prince Steve your presence has been requested by King Notch. He also requested you bring the woman named Sapphire along."
"What!?" Steve blurted out in shock at the head young male Rebel that was cloaked in gold and red tight fitting armor that covered his mouth with a red mask, showing only his narrow light green eyes in the light of their torches. "My Father knows about Sapphire being here!? How?"
The head Rebel of the group got down on to his one knee and bowed his head in respect to his Prince. "Our Scouts have informed the King of her presence when you were sighted at the Northern base with her. He demands your presence at once alongside her."
"Oh boy, my Father is not going to be happy." Steve sighed and turned to look at Sapphire who was looking on at him with concern. "My Father found out about you and probably about our… mission. He's probably not going to be thrilled to find out your back, especially with your sister."
"Well, if he knows, he knows. Let's just go and see what he has to say."
Steve nodded glumly and looked back to the other Rebels, "We'll be on our ways."
The head Rebel nodded as he stood back up to his full height, "Indeed, the King awaits. Do not be late, my Prince. Farewell." With that said the Rebel bowed his head in respect to Steve once more and then rushed back off into the woods with his scouting squad members running silently behind him.
"I didn't think they would report your presence at the base. I guess, I misjudged. My Father tend to keeps tight reins on our bases and has swarms of his men snooping around them."
"Lets just go see him and see what he wants. I don't want him to be any more angry with us. Plus, I'm not believing we're going to find Red tonight. We might as well go back to your Father." Blue replied as she stared with a blank expression at Steve, who was staring back at her.
"Good thinking." Steve nodded agreeably and began walking off in a direction that was much more familiar to him.
Upon appearing back at Notch's kingdom, Steve walked down the throne room with Blue walking beside him as they approached Notch who was sitting on his throne awaiting them. "Steve…" Notch brought up first as he eyed the two like a hawk as they now stood in front of him.
"Father, I can explain…"
Notch put up his hand to silence him, which Steve did so very begrudgingly. "There is nothing to explain I already heard. I just wonder why you bring Sapphire back into this? She does not belong here, Steve."
"She just wants her sister back! You must have heard of Herobrine's return!"
"Yes, I have. I should have known it wouldn't have been so simple. It never is when it comes to Hero."
"Sir, please do not take Steve into blame. If anyone it should be me. I wanted to come back for my sister. Once Herobrine had come back to my world and kidnapped her again, I had to have Steve bring me back to Minecraftia. I just wanted to save my sister." Blue spoke up and tried to level out the situation as she typically tried to do during stressful scenarios.
Notch shook his head and sighed as he began to repeatedly stroke his black beard thoughtfully, "Have you considered that your sister might be too long gone now, Blue? Was she willing to go back with him?"
Blue tighten her fists into two tight white balls and glared Notch. How dare he imply that her sister is too long gone to be saved! Yet, it worried her that it might have rang true. What if Red WAS too far into this to back out now? What if she never changed back to the Little Red she once knew? That pained Blue more than anything to think she would never have her little sister back.
"So you are saying, sir, I should just let my sister remain under the clutches of Herobrine? I-I can't do that… My sister she's… she's pregnant. I can't leave her..."
Notch's brown eyes widen at this in bewilderment and quickly he stops stroking his beard as he sits up straighter on his throne. "What!? Your sister is of child? With my son?!"
Steve glanced at Blue nervously as she nodded back to the King with a worried gleam in her crystal blue eyes. "I'm afraid she is, sir."
"… I see…" Slumping back into his seat, he looks past them in pondering of the situation. "I never would have expected this."
"You can see why I want my sister back then. If she has a child with Herobrine that child could be in intimidate danger. That or the child could become a danger in the future if kept under the ideals and beliefs that Herobrine carries. I'm trying to have the better of both sides, having my sister back and keeping Minecraftia safe from another possible tyrant." Blue explained which caught the look of Notch staring back at her from pondering about the urgent situation at hand.
"Indeed, this would be appalling. Almost as appalling as your two decision to partake on a suicide mission without my consent. Do you know you could have gotten yourselves both killed in the process by what the two of you did? I understand you want your sister back but to take such lengths… You should be happy to still be alive. I am disappointed with the both of you, I am glad you are safe but I am also frustrated by your actions."
"Father! We knew you would protest to it but we truly believed it would work-"
"And did it?" Notch sternly cut off Steve with a disheartening glance in his direction.
Steve shut up and looked down shamefully as he shook his head as Notch stared down at him with piercing eyes. "N-no … not exactly."
"We were successful to make Red angry with Herobrine but still she doesn't have enough trust for us. She ended up running off and away from all of us. I don't know where she is right now… I'm worried Herobrine has her again." Blue spoke up to Notch as she thought hard on where Red could possibly be. She hoped more than anything it wasn't with Herobrine but now she wasn't so sure. Especially, when Steve wasn't able to pick up on anything of her whereabouts when they were searching for her.
"I know more on what is happening than I let on. I can tell you that Red is no where in the Overworld with us currently. Her black magic presence is still presently strong and can be traced by me almost as well as Herobrine can. I knew of Red's presence back here the moment she arrived, I could sense that dark power emitting from somewhere in Minecraftia. That's when I knew she was back and Herobrine was not defeated. Herobrine I knew about once I heard the base had been gruesomely assaulted by him from my informants. I have never seen Herobrine so ardent about another. I ask you again was Scarlett willing to come back?"
Blue and Steve glanced worriedly at each other before looking back at Notch and both nodding solemnly. Notch frowned and shook his head, "She has chosen her path, Blue. It pains me to admit it but I do not believe you will ever retrieve your little sister back or at least the way she once was. The darkness has consumed her and Herobrine is only bringing her further down with him into that blackness as we speak. The only thing we can do now is stop Herobrine's reign. Bringing down my son will in the end leave Red alone and she will have no choice than to come back to you."
"So Herobrine must die or it'll all be pointless…?"
"I wouldn't say pointless but yes his death is necessary for the good of my people and for the retrieval of what if left of your sister. You should never expect to have the same sister you once knew. Herobrine has left his mark on her and it certainly won't simply go away. It will take time…"
Blue looked down and fought the urge to cry at this. Even Notch was basically telling her that her efforts were all for naught. Steve placed a comforting hand on her shoulder from behind as she laid her hands on her face and tried to control her emotions. Steve tried whispering to her telling her it would be okay but would it? Blue didn't want to be alone… She just wanted her little sister back. Was that too much to ask?
"Then please Notch, I ask that you let me stay here in Minecraftia until Herobrine's rule is taken down and I am able to have Red back. I will do anything you ask of me, just please let me stay."
Notch sighed again and thought hard on what Blue was asking of him. He stared over at Steve who was giving him the most pleading of looks. He could tell his youngest son was also smitten by the oldest of these two Chandler sisters that have been running around in their world causing quite the commotion. If if wasn't for these two sisters from the Otherworld, things would be a lot more normal than they were now. Notch supposed there was no changing the situation though, he closed his eyes briefly and made a hesitant nod to Blue.
"Fine… You may stay for now but only until Herobrine has been vanquished from our lands. I just ask you to be a willing contender into all of this, to go by my rule only, and to not fall victim to Herobrine's rising tyranny."
"I promise. If anything I want him dead more than anything else." Blue replied with clear seriousness in her eyes as she stared back at the older King in front of her. Notch nodded to Blue and glanced at Steve.
"Alright then… Steve I want you to show her our ways around here and keep her safe. I'm sure this won't be too much to ask of you."
"Of course, Father." Steve quickly replied without skipping a beat. He glanced over at Blue and smiled brightly. He was absolutely overjoyed at the thought of having Sapphire with him for such a long period of time. Even, if there was a possibility in her leaving, now he would at least have a certified longer amount of time with the woman he accidentally fell for through all of this.
While Blue, Steve, and Notch were speaking to each other a man cloaked in dark violet robes with a hood covering his face, listened to the whole conversation from in the shadows, sneering to himself. He readjusted the many heavy books of the arcane he was carrying in his arms and began heading away once the conversation between them began to lose his interest. 'So my little pupil has reconciled with some mere pitiful human from the Otherworld. Oh, how I thought I taught him better than this.' The man thought to himself as he rushed down into the dark corridors that led down into the lower sectors of the castle where his research laboratory was stationed at. Setting down his lengthy arcane books down onto a dark wooden desk that was covered with many hand written papers.
The hooded man who was known as the castle's personal chief sorcerer, took phials of different strange colored concoctions and began mixing them within a basin that began to send of smoke as he added the ingredients. Mixing occasionally and emptying the last ominous looking phial into the basin, he finished up the catalyst of varieties of potions and watched as the liquid inside the basin began to swirl and form a clear picture. There in the liquid he could see Herobrine and his pitiful human that he had snatched away for his own. They appeared to be talking happily about something together as they laid there in bed, it was when Herobrine put a chase kiss onto her lips when the hooded man growled under his breath.
"When did you succumb to something so weak like love, child? I taught you better! Where is this part of our agreement!?" Slamming his fists into the liquid that showed the present picture of Herobrine and Red, it rippled faintly but continued to show them together in bed. The sorcerer growled under his breath and began pacing back and forth, "You knew our deal and a Queen was never part of it. She is an interference to our plans! She must be rid of… Maybe, I should have a little chat with him to refreshen the brat's mind. This is an outrage!"
Brandishing his arm outwards and with a high pitched whistle of his lips. A pure white owl flew down from outside the wide barred windows of his laboratory and onto his arm. Magically summoning out a rolled up piece of parchment that was branded in his name, he placed the paper into the owl's talons. "Take this to Herobrine of the Nether. We have some urgent matters to discuss about his reign over Minecraftia and how he's screwing it all up as we speak." The owl hooted in reply and flapped its wings as it took off from on the sorcerer's arm and flew back into the air and through the barred window.
The sorcerer only watched his owl take flight before angrily going over and sending a blast of a small fireball into his fireplace, which he did a lot when frustrated. Pacing back and forth in front of it, he held his chin with his hand and thought intently on the situation at hand. 'Not only in love with some woman from the Otherworld but now with a child. They both must be quickly removed at once. Just when I thought you were a true disciple of the dark arts, Herobrine. You sicken me with your moment of perpetuating weakness. I will make sure to cut off this affair and make you remember your place and who has brought you as far as you have come. Even if I have to rid of the woman and child myself." The hooded man glared into the crackling fire inside his fireplace, his narrowed burnt golden colored eyes reflecting back the bright flames from within with a fiendishly wicked looking gleam.
Three days went by and everything seemed to remain calm throughout the Nether. There was no trace of Steve, Blue, or even Notch meddling in their own affairs. Everything was just the way Herobrine preferred it, with him being with his Red when ever he could. The two currently were strolling alongside each other outside down a very long nether brick bridge that led up to another part of the fortress. It was very high up where they were and occasionally the bridge would have openings where the blazes would be resting and waiting for intruders to scotch with their fire.
Red was now wearing a stunning long black dress that fit every curve of her body in just the right place. She also had her diamond tiara still placed delicately in her hair that finally smelled back to its normal scent and also didn't have a crown of flowers sitting awkwardly on her head. Red was smiling to herself as they kept walking in a comfortable silence. It wasn't until Red got bored of the silence and decided to dive more into Herobrine's personal life, which she honestly didn't get to hear much of.
"So Herobrine…"
Herobrine briefly glanced at her and raised an eyebrow, "Yes?"
"So I was just thinking. I know you know a lot about me, but now that I think of it. I don't really know that much about you. Care to elaborate a little?"
Herobrine's lip twitched with disfavor to the topic choice. He merely shrugged and paused as Red did in their walk. "It is not a tale much worth speaking of. What matters is now…" He tried to avoid the topic but Red wasn't giving in that easily.
"The past matters, Hero. It is what brings us to the now. I care enough to want to know about you. You can open up a little, I promise I won't tell a soul." Red pleaded with a gentle smile which made Herobrine scoff and shake his head distastefully.
"What would you want to know?" Herobrine asked even though he wasn't certain he was going to answer her at all. His past he didn't talk about with anyone for good reason. He'd rather never talk about it if it were up to him.
"What was life like growing up?"
"Poor…" He murmured and glared off into the distance, seemingly in deep thought. His calm glowing eyes were brighter now and more fierce than before. Obviously, he was uncomfortable but Red really wanted to hear what he had to say, so she pressed on.
"Poor? How so?"
Sighing, he ran a hand through his short brunette hair that was slightly hanging in his face. He knew Red wouldn't give up on the topic now that she was on it and fully curious as to what he had to reveal. He wanted to just ignore her and it was a temptation to do so. "Poor as in it's not worth bringing up, Red." He tried to finalize as he glanced down at her pleading eyes that bothered him to no end. Backing up and grabbing onto the nether brick railings from the bridge, he stared at Scarlett and sighed again. "You're not making this easy."
"Its okay, Hero. You can tell me anything! I just want to know more about you. Can't I least know? Its just me.. Please?"
Herobrine remained quiet before staring at the ground intensely, "I know… its just not a favored topic of mine. I was weak and pathetic back then, especially as a child. Before Steve was born things were different…"
"How so?"
"I was anointed to be King of Minecraftia then… when I lived with my Father. I was revered by others as this great and almighty king to come, which of course never happened. My Father had taught me everything he knew, especially magic since I was so interested in it even at a young age. Once, Steve was born that all began to change. The people I thought once cared about me and praised me, suddenly left, and turned over to Steve. Even my own Father treated Steve like the better one… I was… forgotten. I tried getting along with my brother and I suppose sometimes we did, but most times we didn't. I couldn't see what everyone saw in my younger brother that I didn't already possesses. Once my Father decided to change his mind one day and reassign Steve as the new official heir to the throne. I was livid, it was supposed to be MY birth rite as the older son. No, Notch didn't think I was worthy of it. He considered me lower than dirt and repeatedly would tell me why I wasn't fit to be the king of Minecraftia. I would try SO hard to prove I was better than my younger brother but I always failed and he always came out on top. It was a lost cause from the beginning. I was a lost cause…" Herobrine shook his head and chuckled lowly, "Or so my 'Father' thought I was. Too bad he didn't expect me to be the one to figure out that he was the truly the weak and pathetic one. I told him he was not fit to be king and on my eighteenth birthday I ran away. I ran away to soon become the king that truly deserves the throne, not my dimwitted brother, but me! And I wouldn't let anything stop from getting in my way." Herobrine was glaring at the ground furiously by the end of his speech.
Red stared at him with wide eyes as she took in all that she was now hearing from him. She should have seen him as evil and selfish for his actions but she could only look at him with pity, that she was sure he didn't want. He was very faintly shaking, glaring down at the ground as he had reopened wounds from the past. It made Red feel slightly bad for pushing him to bring it up. She walked over to him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder that she could feel the trembling from. He was angry and if she wasn't mistaken he was also somewhat grieved.
"So you ran away to become who you are now. You are the King of the Nether and some day Minecraftia. I just don't understand how I fit in the picture. If gaining the throne was so important to you. Why would you have needed me?"
"I don't need you to be King of Minecraftia. I need you in a different way. When I first saw you I had every intent to kill you as I did with any other person from your world that intruded onto our world without a second thought. The only problem was I became fascinated with you, which I had never felt for another. I did what I told myself I would not do and hesitated to kill you. That was my downfall and I waited too long, I fell more intrigued by you, until I needed you. I can't explain it or fathom why. Love is a strange and cruel thing and will happen upon anyone. I'd never think I would be where I am now with you but that is what happened and here we are." Herobrine inquired and reached out to grab onto her hands. Red glanced down at their hands and then back into his calm white eyes.
"So you stalked me?"
"… Must you call it that?"
"… Well, that's what you did, Mr. Stalkerbrine." Red pointed out with a bit of a toothy smirk. Herobrine looked annoyed and rolled his eyes. Red's smirk pulled into a smile as she leaned forward and kissed him on the lips with a peck. "That's okay, I prefer you over a Creeper any day."
"How sweet…? " Herobrine replied sarcastically and glowered playfully at Red's laughing face that he so honestly loved to see.
"But really… thank you for opening up to me. It wasn't that hard now was it?"
"Not hard, just bitter. I don't like recalling my childhood." Herobrine said as he stared into Red's warm brown eyes.
"I'm sorry.." Red replied with a sad smile that was interrupted when an unfamiliar white object in the sky came swooping at them. Red and Hero turned from each other to look up at what appeared to be a white owl that had a violet ribbon tied around it's neck. "An owl?" Red muttered and looked at the animal strangely as it landed on a railing in front of them. Herobrine appeared to tense up at the sight of it, as if it would fly at him and try to attack. "What's an owl doing here in the Nether?" Red questioned as stared at the beautiful white feathered animal in front of them, who was staring back at them with wide golden eyes and a slightly titled head.
Herobrine noticed the message the owl was holding in its talons and swiftly went over to grab it from the bird, "I don't know but it must go." Herobrine said in a rather hurried voice as he began stuffing the message into his pockets as quickly as possible. Red noticed this but didn't think much of it as she was too busy staring at the odd appearance of an owl. She cautiously strolls up to it and extends a hand over to pet it. The owl in reaction hoots loudly and flares up it wings, startling Red as it flew back up into the Nether's sky and away from her. Red watched as it flew a circle around them before flying away into the distance just as quickly as it had come.
"That was strange…" Red inquired while scratching the back of her head in confusion. Herobrine only nodded faintly and was looking fidgety all of a sudden. He glanced away from Red and spoke up.
"I must deal with something. I'll be right back."
Red turned from the owl in the sky to look back at Herobrine, only to find that he already vanished from sight. "Hero…?" Red murmured and brought her hands together in front of her and stared in puzzlement at the spot Herobrine once was standing. "Well… see ya later then, I guess." Red muttered unsurely and felt very lonesome the very moment he had left her side so abruptly.