Chapter 31: Caught in the Web
Herobrine reappeared inside his personal studies after departing away from Red. Stuffing his hand inside his pocket, he took out the rolled up sealed message that had been delivered through the white owl that he knew all too well. "Why is he contacting me now out of all times?" Herobrine glared heavily at the seal on the message before opening it up to reveal the contents of it. There in black heavily curly cursive writing was the message from a man that Herobrine knew from a long time ago. His name was Nicholas Haysenworth and he had been an important person within Herobrine's past life when growing up. He was the chief sorcerer of Notch's kingdom, that had been the one to not just develop his skill in the arcane, but he was also the one to show him glimpses of the art of forbidden magic. It was all kept under lock and key, of course. Notch was always none the wiser about Herobrine's first place of knowledge when it came to black magic. It doesn't surprise him that he was still working under Notch while still practicing the dark arts at the same time. If only, Notch knew of this, he would have exiled Nicholas a long time ago.
'Dear Herobrine, it has been ages since we have last spoken but that does not mean I am negligent to what is happening in this present time. I am sure you are still cognizant of our dealing even after all this time. However, I'm not so certain you are still devolving on its finer details, as I have noticed something that deeply concerns me. As a fellow disciple of the dark arts, we both know that our main interest must remain well intact. We both devoted ourselves to this dark practice and both pledged that we would rise above with such a forbidden art over our parallel point of argument, which is King Notch, if you have forgotten. The issue which is of concern to me is the one that has been quite a topic of gossip around all of Minecraftia and its people. This topic is of the one you have been calling your Queen. I do not recall us in our dealings ever fitting in such a person. My concern is that you might have found yourself much too enthralled with this 'Queen' and have forgotten your true standings as a fellow of the dark arts. Herobrine, this is of much importance and it must be dealt with as soon as possible. I request that for our future goals to be fulfilled one day for you to be rightful King of Minecraftia and for my part for the forbidden magic to be once again authorized to practice openly. I simply request you eliminate this 'Queen' you have gathered from the Otherworld. She will be nothing but a future menace in our ongoing plans. Please, dispose of her swiftly or I am afraid I might have to step in and take action. I hope this is not an issue. - Of sincerest regard, Chief Sorcerer Nicholas Haysenworth
Herobrine's grip on the message became more rigid as he read through the letter. How dare he make this an issue! Having Scarlett as his Queen would produce no complications in him becoming King of Minecraftia what's so ever. That dried out sorcerer had some real nerve to contact him after all this time! Herobrine's hand that held the message grew hot as he began burning the message right in his hands with a blaze of fire from being infuriated.
"That fool! It is none of his damn business what I choose to do! Why does he come out of the shadows right when he finds something unfitting in his eyes that I choose to do? I am to be King not him! My decisions are final! Just because I agreed to let the practice of the forbidden arcane black magic become legal once more does not mean he can dictate other factors. He is not my supervisor nor is he going to tell me what to do. I will have Scarlett here as I do and he can resent me for it all he likes! My rule goes and no one else's!" Herobrine growled and snatched his own piece of parchment from his desk before sitting down and beginning to write a letter back to Nicholas.
Herobrine deeply glared the letter hatefully as he wrote furiously on it, so much that it could have ripped from the pressure he was putting on it. Writing clearly that he was not going to give up Red for the sorcerer's pitiful and pointless demands. It was not very long but very to the point and somewhat hostile. Nicholas would defiantly get the point across that Hero was not playing games with him. Finishing up the letter, Herobrine signed his name in elegant cursive handwriting before sealing it up with his own sealing. Standing back up and gripping the sealed letter ever so tightly in his fist, he made it magically disappear in a flash of white wispy magic. There it should arrive at Nicholas' in not time flat.
"You're not in charge of me any longer. We have our dealings but Red has nothing to do with this." Herobrine grumbled under his breath and glared in front of him at a random wall in deep thought. He hoped that what he said would scare Nicholas away from actually taking action and doing something. Unlike, many others he actually could be a foe worth noting unlike others before him. He had powerful magic that Herobrine would not compare to his own but it still was powerful enough to do something horrible to Red. He was a tricky one that sorcerer and Herobrine would be damned if he let him do something to hurt Red or their unborn child.
Herobrine stood silently in the room and looked over to a picture he had on his desk of Red's smiling face. He couldn't tell her about Nicholas, no, it would cause more unneeded stress for her. She already has gone through so much and she hasn't been pregnant that long. She didn't need to have any difficulties with the child from stress. Herobrine would deal with this and make sure that Nicholas stayed far away from Scarlett. For now, he just had to hope his ex-tutor would get the point across and leave him and his Queen alone. Scarlett wasn't going anywhere.
Walking back into his personal research laboratory, Nicholas noted that his white owl Athena was back perched on her wooden stand and there was a newfound sealed message found on his desk. Nicholas strolled over to the desk and picked up the message into his hand. Observing that the message was from Herobrine, he quickly took the letter and opened up the sealing on it so he could read it. His deep golden eyes scanned over the letter and soon began narrowing darkly at its reply.
"CURSES! You fool!" Nicholas yelled out in a rage and threw the letter across the room. Athena titled her head at her master as he began pacing back and forth in the large room in a heated fury. He took a fireball into his hand and pulled back his arm to throw the fireball right at the message from Herobrine that was lying on the cobblestone ground. He watched as the fire crackled and began burning the edges of the message on the ground. He stared with enraged narrowed eyes and cursed its very existence.
"What a weak pathetic fool he has become, blinded by his own irrational desires! This little insignificant 'Queen' will only be a hindrance in our plans! How does he not see this? Fine, then if he wants to defy me and our agreement then I will just take matters into my own hands. Everyone wants this Queen gone anyways, I will only look like the noble hero for ridding of her and I know exactly how I am going to do it." Nicholas stormed over past Athena and went over to go open a dusty closet, in which he hadn't gone through in forever. Coughing and whisking the dust away with the wave of his hand, he began scavenging through the old closet. Running his finger along different labeled phials of different ingredients he would use for his potions. He found the one that he was looking for that held an Eye of Ender inside. He would need a few more of these to finish a summoning ritual that he was going to perform. Of course, he would need that and the Queen herself.
"Herobrine can't keep a constant eye on her but I can." Nicholas chuckled darkly to himself as he took the glass phial with the Eye of Ender inside and placed it on a table next to Athena's perch. Going back over to his basin in the middle of the room, he projected a picture of where Red was in its liquid. There in the liquid's picture he could see Red walking alone down a hallway in Herobrine's Nether fortress with a somber look about her. "Just wait dear Queen of Herobrine's, I will give you something truly to frown about once I find just enough Eyes of Ender. You and your precious baby will be locked away forever in the End and out of my way of bringing the forbidden dark art back out into the open. Your little insolent King just needs a little wake up call and then you'll see how fast he'll choose his reign over you. And you'll be GONE FOREVER!" Nicholas cackled wickedly to himself as he ran his extremely thin fingers through the liquid's picture of Scarlett, making it ripple and swirl into a pool full of blackness.
Taking out some potions from a pouch at his side. The dark sorcerer threw the colorful concoctions into the basin. Bright colors flashed vividly from the basin in the room as a black cloud of smoke swirled upwards from the mixture of potions and into the air. Nicholas continued to cackle maniacally, causing Athena to cry loudly in the room as she flailed her wings from on the perch. "Its the end of the line, my dear! Come my minions, rise for your master! Find her now! Yes, find her an bring her to me! She'll be all mine!" Nicholas rose his hands into the air in a fit of laughter as abnormally gigantic poisonous black spiders began appearing in puffs of black smoke from the basin in the middle of the room.
They crawled around the room and soon started crawling outside the barred windows to the outside where they would go searching for Red in the Nether to bring back to their master. Nicholas grinned widely as he watched his personal spider thralls that appeared the same as cave spiders, begin making their ways throughout his research laboratory and out to go and do his dirty deeds.
"See you soon, dear Queen." Nicholas smirked from ear to ear as he waved his spiders farewell before swooshing the dark violet cape of his cloak behind him and rushing out of the laboratory so he could find more Eyes of Ender for his nefarious scheme to do away with Red her child forever.
That night Red had gone to bed early without Herobrine. She was slightly confused by his actions earlier that day, ever since then he had been acting funny. He had come back to her not to long after he said he had to leave, but his mood seemed volatile, almost like he was teetering on the edge of snapping furiously at any moment. She had tried asking him what was wrong but he wasn't giving her the answer she was looking for. Rather, he would keep denying anything was wrong in the first place. Now he was out dealing with personal affairs again that he, of course, never bothered to tell her of.
Feeling somewhat depressed and ill from her pregnancy, she laid in the dark of the room by herself in bed. She traced shapes with her fingers onto the bed's soft sheets as she laid there in thought. Her mind was fully on Herobrine and whatever he was currently doing at the moment. Something about that owl had really put him off and she was beginning to wonder if it had to do something with the message the owl had in its talons. Who would message someone like Herobrine though? She couldn't quite think of anyone he associated with kindly other than herself. Were the messages from Notch?
Red frowned to herself and sighed heavily as she attempted to rest her eyes closed for the night. Her thoughts only seemed to be making things worse. 'Just stop thinking about it, Red. Its probably not worth getting all worked up over anyways. You worry too much. You're acting like Sapphire…' She tried chiding to herself. Red frowned and tried remaining quiet and blocking out her thoughts. It took some time until her breathing leveled out and she was finally asleep in the comfortable bed that she usually shared with Herobrine.
Unknowing to Red, there were spiders crawling on the sides of Herobrine's fortress's nether brick walls. Every one of them were undetected as they made their move across the walls of the castle. Red shifted her body in her sleep and was dreaming of herself with Herobrine in a quiet tranquil meadow in the Overworld. The sweet dreams continued even as the eight legged venomous arachnids creeped their ways towards the window that was connected to the bedroom that Scarlett was sleeping in. Her sleeping form smiled blissfully as she dreamt of laying in the meadow's lush green grass next to Herobrine, there he was holding onto her tightly and kissing her with such a deep fervidness. She felt wanted, protected, and secure as he trailed the kisses up her neck, up to her jaw, and then finally her red-painted lips. Sighing softly in content, she was unaware of the arachnids that crept through the open windows that she had left open that night.
The horde of them began crawling around the room and positioning themselves all around her as she slept. They made hissing noises as they watched with their beady glowing red eyes that covered their faces. The largest black spider made its way into the room and inched its way across the room and onto the bed until it was merely inches from Red's face. Its jaws snapped a few times as it watched its victim laying so still in front of it. Once the spider was ready in position with the other smaller ones. It hissed and Red was beginning to become aware of her physical surroundings as she was being torn away from her sweet dream. Red's eyes tighten as they were closed as she fought to keep her wonderful dream going but it was already long gone. Red's face scrunched up and she gradually began to wake up as her eyes began to flutter open in the darkness of her room.
A hiss from the spider in front of her was all she had to hear for her brown eyes to finally snap open fully wide. She could only scream at the top of her lungs as the massive fat spider in front of her hissed much more loudly and turned around to have its spinnerets pointed at her. Red panicked and tried ripping her sheets and blankets off of her as she attempted throwing herself out of the bed. The blankets and sheets were still wrapped around her legs as she fell and soon she came face to face with the other smaller spiders that were on the ground waiting for her. Her eyes were still wide as can be as she screamed again as loud as possible, "HERO!"
The spiders all hissed and all began turning around pointing their spinnerets at her as they soon began shooting their sticky cobweb at her. Red flailed her arms and legs as she tried to escape the webbing and blankets she had been trapped within. The largest spider crawled down and began aiding its fellow arachnids as it shot an even heavier stream of cobweb at her. Red's twisting and turning was only making it worse as she was wrapping the cobwebs around her even tighter as she did. "HELP! OH MY GOD! FUCKING SPIDERS!" Red hollered but was soon silenced as the cobweb went to cover over her mouth like a gag. She continued to severely panic and try ripping it off of her as she screamed out in muffled shouts of terror.
The massive poisonous spider crept over and crawled on top of her which made Red scream even louder if possible. She squirmed with all her might as the webbing around her began cocooning her in a tight snug encasement of cobweb. 'GET THESE THINGS OFF OF ME! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?' Red thought in her mind as the spider on top of her began carefully taking her and rolling her on top of its giant abdomen to take with it. Red tried struggling in the entanglement but it was too late, she was too heavily stuck within the sticky substance that they had encased her in. The hulking fat spider that held her soon began crawling back towards the window with her on top of it. Red tried screaming for Herobrine but her cries were muffled, she could feel tears prick in her eyes as she was actually being kidnapped by overgrown spiders.
It wasn't until the door slammed opened even after it was held shut by cobwebbing that the smaller spiders had try to put up for defense. Herobrine came running into the room and was left in shock by all the spiders that were gathered inside. "Scarlett!?" Herobrine shouted for her and looked frantically for her as he summoned out his diamond sword within seconds. He only caught a glimpse of Red's short bright red hair from out the window as the massive spider was taking her through it. "SCARLETT!" Herobrine yelled furiously and soon began slashing at the spiders in the room. They hissed and tried biting back at Herobrine but he was able to smite through the incoming leers at him with their tiny jaws without getting bit. The ones that were killed puffed up into clouds of black smoke which indicated that these spiders were certainly no normal spiders from the Overworld. Herobrine gritted his teeth and took his sword and jammed his sword through heads of the spiders as he raced to the window. Reaching it, he looked out from outside it and up to see the giant spider that had Red was crawling on the sides of his castle's walls.
Herobrine formed a large blazing fireball in his hand and threw the fireball at the spider, while being careful not to hit Red in the process. The fireball sped forwards towards the kidnapping spider but the smaller ones quickly jumped in the way of it to take the blow. They burned and fell off the sides of the castle as the one that had Red was able to crawl out of view. "Shit!" Herobrine cursed and teleported to the outside of his fortress's hold to see if he could get a better look at the spiders location from the outside and stop them before they found an Obsidian portal to the Overworld.
He could see from a distance that the spiders were making a beeline towards another section of his castle that held his portal rooms. 'These spiders are too intelligent. They must be thralls being commanded by something… or rather someone.' Herobrine thought and glowered when he realized this was most defiantly the doings of Nicholas. 'He will pay dearly for this. I'm coming for you Red, hold on.' Herobrine commanded his mobs to take out any spider in sight inside the fortress while he tried desperately trying to search through the smaller spiders to find the one that had Red.
He figured the best way to find the one that had Red was to meet it at its destination. Teleporting to his portal room, he slaughtered some more spiders that came swiftly upon him the second he appeared. He lashed his sword through their bodies and made them turn into puffs of black smoke that dispersed away quickly after it appeared. It didn't take that long until the abducting spider with Red came crawling through the doorway from the hall. Herobrine lifted up his sword and pointed it towards the spider and cast out an energy blast of white light that charged at the spider the moment in appeared. Like before, the smaller spiders that remained in the room in clusters jumped in front of the blasts, killing them off instead of the lead one that had Red.
"Damn it!" Herobrine rushed towards the spider but was suddenly halted when the remaining smaller thrall spiders began shooting cobwebs at his arms to deter him from movement. Herobrine struggled in the confinements of the sticky web and could clearly see Red also fiercely fidgeting in the gigantic cobweb cocoon she was unfortunately entangled in on the top of the abdomen of the spider.
"LET GO NOW!" Herobrine roared as his eyes flared wild white fires from his eyes. He tightened his arms against the web and tried pulling through but it was becoming harder and harder as more web was shot at him and encasing him. The large spider took not time to proceed to the active Obsidian portal that was just merely feet in front of it. It hissed tauntingly at Herobrine as it passed by and before Herobrine could yell for Red. The spider speedily crawled through the portal and ended up on the other side in the Overworld. Herobrine's eyes burst even brighter in white flame as he shouted enraged to the wind. He began pulling his arms from the web with all his power and within seconds Herobrine cast a spell that began to rain fire down onto the spiders that were holding him down.
The spiders hissed and were ignited in scorching hot flame as it rained down only on the spiders that were there in the room with him. Herobrine also burnt through the cobweb that was holding him and took no time to run past the hordes of sizzling dying thrall spiders and through the ominous shimmering violet portal. It wasn't a surprise when he got to the Overworld to be greeted with more bands of arachnids waiting for him as the largest one was much further away. They were in one of Herobrine's hidden bases in the Overworld and his mobs were fighting off some of the ones that were inside. Herobrine let his mobs stay a distraction as he charged through the base's hold and outside to see the spider with Red crawling out one of the windows since the doorway had been heavily guarded with zombies that held golden swords and armor.
"Nicholas! I will kill you for this!" Herobrine bellowed deeply and like a game of cat and mouse, he chased after the large spider that was quicker than one would expect it to be for its size. Herobrine attempting throwing balls of fire at the spider that was using the trees to maneuver back and forth through to make it tougher to keep up with. The trees in the forest lit up in fire as Herobrine ran past them and soon a whole trail of flaming trees could be seen left in his wake as he continued the wild chase for his Red and the spider.
The lesser spiders that were left guarding the large spider, began to slow down and soon go straight after Hero. They leapt at him with their fangs bared and ready to bite down on Herobrine. Hero threw some away from himself with his telekinesis but there was unfairly a large amount of them, making it too difficult to control all of them at once. In a panic to kill them all at once, Herobrine was so focused on the ones in front of him, he didn't notice one zip down on a line of web from above him. It jumped on him and made him tumble to the ground with it on top of him. Herobrine cringed from the impact to the ground and began wrestling the spider on top of him with his diamond sword to its fangs. He couldn't let it bite him or it would poison him instantly!
"I don't have time for this!" He shouted and roughly struggled with the spider on top of him. Unfortunately, there we're still many other spiders around him that began to group up on him and crawl all over him in a giant dog-pile of the crawling eight-legged creatures. Herobrine could only stare at the blackness of the spiders before suddenly he felt a sharp painful nip bite him in his right arm that held his sword. He screamed from the pain as blood began seeping down his arm that was tainted by the venomous spiders. Herobrine felt overwhelmed by all of them that were on top of him. He could feel the poison running through his bloodstream and contaminating everything it touched. He closed his flaring white eyes for a moment and concentrated to stay focused but the venom was extremely fast acting. His vision was already blurring and he could see nothing but the faint blurs of black spiders that ran all over on top of him.
Herobrine weakly took his sword even through the overbearing pain, with one heavy slice of his blade, the sword cut straight through a few of the spiders but it wasn't enough. His free hand extended out of the pile of spiders and scratched at the dirt of the ground towards the direction where Red was carried off. Herobrine coughed painfully and felt like he was losing consciousness as he laid there under the overwhelming horde of poisonous spiders.
'I won't… lose… N-not now. I-I'll save you… Red…" Herobrine thought as he was slipping away into true blackness from the venom's diseased ill afflictions on his entire body.
The Sorcerer Nicholas was back inside his research laboratory with phials full of Ender pearls that he had collected from Endermen around Minecraftia. Hunched over his desk with a wooden bowl full of blaze powder that he was crushing up more finely to coat over the Ender pearls. He prepared the blaze powder and soon commenced taking the Ender pearls and layering them into the yellowish orange powder once he was finish crushing it up. Nicholas watched as the Ender pearls he blanketed with the blaze powder began to shine a brighter green color and the pupils in the pearls began to dilate at the same time. They started changing into Eyes of Ender, which was just what Nicholas would need for his upcoming plans.
The man smirked arrogantly to himself as he busied himself with the Ender eyes. It wasn't until his owl Athena began crying out loud screeches as she flapped her wings harshly while still on her perch to alert her master of the incoming spiders that were crawling back into the laboratory. "Ah, so they return!" Nicholas says aloud as he dramatically turns from his work on the Ender eyes to look over at his eight-legged thralls. "And at the perfect time! Good, I expect you have her with you." Nicholas inquires as he watches the smaller spiders spread throughout the room, their beady little red eyes all staring at him at once. Nicholas' deep golden eyes widen in delight at the sight of the Queen of the spiders finally creeping carefully through the wide barred windows, that were just big enough to let her squeeze through. On the top of her abdomen, he could see the giant cobweb cocoon that entangled Red within its sticky base. Her small thin body was wrapped around in web as her mouth was also covered with the sticky substance, keeping her from making too loud of noises as it acted as a gag.
"So we finally meet in person, dear Queen of Herobrine. Our meeting has been long over due." Nicholas walks over to the Queen spider as she not so gracefully throws Red off of her back and down onto the cobblestone ground roughly. Red could barely look up from her cobweb prison to see the violet cloaked sorcerer standing right in front of her with his hands on his hips. She glared up at him viciously and yelled out incomprehensible curses at the man in front of her to be freed. Nicholas merely chuckled and kneeled down to her level while extending his hand to reach out and grab her chin to look him straight in his golden eyes. "I can see why Herobrine has picked you. What a pretty pitiful little thing you are." The man chuckled some more as she shook her head and glared him even more darkly if possible.
"Ah, don't look at me so indigently. You don't even know who I am, my dear." Nicholas let go of Red's chin and brought back his arm to his side as he stared at her in amusement. "My name is Nicholas Haysenworth, chief sorcerer of King Notch's fair little kingdom here in Minecraftia. I welcome you to my humble abode here in the lower chambers of the castle. The only place where I can work in peace and, of course, with my knack in the dark arts. I sense you are tainted with such splendid magic. My sorry excuse of a pupil must have done this to you. What a shame to waste such a glorious and powerful dark magic on such a weakling human girl… and from the Otherworld nonetheless. See my dear, we see your people as a nuisance coming into our lands and doing as you please. That is why we exterminate your kind, not let you actually come freely into our world to play a game of royalty like you are doing now. You Otherworld types just have this mysteriousness about you and just so happened you were the one to captivate my student who had so much going for him. It saddens me to see he would throw it all a way for some lost little girl. A waste of such true talent…" Shaking his head, Nicholas stood back up and smirked down at her as Red continued to glower up at him.
"I'm sure you have much to say, child. Your intense glaring eyes penetrate into my very soul. Though, I could let you speak, I do not want to hear your shrills of protest. I detest having a headache on such a glorious day, like today. So if I let you speak… will you be a good little girl and not scream?" Nicholas awaited her not so surprising reply back which was silence. She could only convey it through her face that she wanted release from her cobweb gag. Nicholas chuckled breathlessly and bend over and tore the cobweb away from her mouth. It hurt like tearing off a bandaid that was sticking to your skin for a long amount of time. Red hissed from the suddenness of it and never stopped glaring at the magician in front of her.
"Who the fuck do you think you are!? Let go of me, you asshole!" Red spat out hatefully and struggled again under her confines.
Shaking his head, Nicholas rolled eyes eyes, "Language fit for such a vexing little vixen. I think your answer is quite obvious. I do not plan on letting you go so soon, my dear. I will in time but not here. No, I plan on dropping you off where you will never be a nuisance ever again." Nicholas told her with a mocking expression as he began walking back over to his Eyes of Enders that were waiting for him to use for his own deeds.
Red shook her head and glared him, "Why not!? Who the hell are you? What do you want with me!?"
"I told you who I am already. We're far fast that discussion. I'm not at all surprised though if you hadn't heard of me before this. Your insufferable 'King' tends to leave out the finer important details, I'm sure you've noticed. I was Herobrine's tutor when the boy was much younger than he is now. I taught him not only magic but the basics of any normal education. If you were led on to believe Notch was the only one who taught him, you are very much misinformed. I was the one who taught Herobrine much of what he knows. I am the one who has gifted him with the knowledge of not just the fundamentals of the arcane but I taught him the forbidden part of it too. The boy hungered for endless knowledge, much greater and farther than his foolish younger brother Steve. I only did my part and taught him what he wanted to know. He had such potential… Its a shame he threw it all away for something as fickle and weak as an affectionate petty emotion as love. Honestly, I never thought the boy would ever be taken by such a concept. It seems his lack of it in his life has brought him reaching out and clinging to it when he first finds himself coming upon it. Such a true shame but I will not be hindered by such. I will get what I want, even if I must work for it!"
Red's eyes widen at this sudden new awareness. Why would Herobrine keep something like that from her? Red frowned and thought hard on what he had said before speaking up again. "Wonderful but that didn't answer my other question, old man."
"Hmph, old…" He scoffed and began pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back as he stared at Red on the ground. "I have you here because I want one thing and one thing only. I want the dark arts to be once again acknowledged through the lands of Minecraftia as a valid legal study."
"What does that have to do with me!?"
"Very much! Such a thing would never be allowed by Notch! He is the one to banish it from open practice in our world! That is why before Herobrine had left the kingdom on his eighteenth, we both had made an agreement together. I pledged I would do everything in my power as the chief sorcerer under Notch's reign to bring Herobrine into power as the true King of Minecraftia. On his part, he promised once he was in power he would rid of this ridiculous ban on the dark arts and let me once again study freely into the forbidden magic! We were working so well together until YOU came into the picture! Suddenly, the focus of Herobrine's was not on our arrangement and goal but instead he found himself enchanted with you as if he was under some uncanny powerful love spell! I thought it would be a passing weakness for him but it only grew worse when he decided to bring you back with him from your world! His focus was no longer fully on becoming King but now has been contaminated with this of you being his 'Queen'. Absurdity! I don't even want to bring up the fact he had willingly tainted himself and is now expecting a child from you! There will be no child and there will certainly be no Queen of Minecraftia… I must purge you from OUR world! You will be banished and left to the End!"
"You're going to kill me and an innocent baby because you are SO stuck up with this stupid agreement to practice dark magic that you think I'm going to somehow complicate your agreement with him!? You are the one that's out of your fucking mind! Its not like I even asked to be here in the first place! I want to be here now because I love Herobrine, but before this even happened, I was the one who was kidnapped by force! This isn't my fault!"
"Silence! It is entirely your fault! Whether you were forced here or not! You came to our world daily and were the cause of his attention to be drawn away from what really matters to us!"
"Oh okay…I get it… So you're mad at me because I played Minecraft too much?" Red replied in a deadpan kind of voice. The sorcerer's eyebrow twitched as he glared down at her, not quite understanding what she meant by 'playing' Minecraft.
"Now you're not even making sense. I've had enough of this senseless chattering, anyway. Its time to take you to your final resting place, dear girl. There you can speak as much nonsense to yourself as you wish." Nicholas said and went over to grab onto the rest of his phials that now all held Eyes of Ender. Red watched him in annoyance as he began putting the phials into a rucksack that he carried at his side.
"You're not going to get away with this. Herobrine will stop you." Red warned as he turned from the desk and put out his arm for Athena to fly over and swoop down to perch on his arm. The white owl crawled up to his shoulder to sit as he placed his arm back down and looked over at Red again as she spoke.
"Herobrine should know I'm the stronger one, no matter what he claims. I've been studying much longer than he has and to be truthful with you, my dear. Not to sever your hopes but your little King has already fallen. Of course, I will not kill him because I need him... but he will not come to save you."
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM, YOU BASTARD!" Red hollered and only got a 'tsking' noise from Nicholas as he gestured for the massive Queen spider to put Red back on the top of her abdomen.
"Hush, child. He has been poisoned by my minions. The poison will not kill him. It will only prevent him from ruining my plans for a time. He lays now in the forest, poisoned, and alone. You could say this is your fault." Nicholas chuckled which earned the nastiest of scowls from Red.
"NO! ITS NOT MY FAULT, YOU DIRTY MONSTER! HOW DARE YOU! Even if you get rid of me, you'll never persuade him to work willingly with you ever again!"
"You'd be surprised, child. Herobrine still wants the throne more than anything but when you're out of the picture. He won't have anything obstructing his view." Nicholas chuckled menacingly again as he took out a single phial with an Eye of Ender. Taking off the cork of the phial and putting the eye into his hand. The man muttered a spell under his breath and the Eye of Ender came to life. It started to magically hover above in his hand and zip into a certain direction. Nicholas watched the Eye fly by and then glanced at his Spider Queen minion.
"Follow me and keep her still. I don't want her getting away. The fun has only just begun." Nicholas cracked a wide wicked smile and began to follow after the floating Eye of Ender that waited for him to follow after. Red gasped and began screaming at the top of her lungs as the Queen Spider had her lifted back up on her and began to crawl back out of the laboratory to follow after her master Nicholas.
Author's Note: I'm going to admit Nicholas' character is heavily inspired by the character Rasputin from the animated movie, 'Anastasia'. You might even notice I used a few words quoted from the song, 'Dark of the Night'.
Now will our Herobrine make it out of the clutches of the many spiders' poison and webs!? What exactly does the evil sorcerer Nicholas have in store for our Little Red? Find out next chapter! Thanks for reading as always, loves! :D