Chapter 33: Dragon Slayer

Breathing heavily, Little Red was becoming exhausted and felt helpless against the Ender Dragon. As long as those crystals kept healing it, her attacks were basically pointless other than to keep it distracted until she could think of a real plan. 'I can't just rely on Herobrine. I have to do this myself.' She told herself as she gazed intensely up at the mighty black dragon of the End. The dragon was circling around her again and was attempting to open its mouth and emit a purple hued fire that blazed wildly at her. It wasn't the first time it attempted this and Red hardly made it the first time it did. She could only do as she did before to block to the attack by placing her sword upright in front of her and summoning a large black wall of magic that reflected the attack off like a mirror to light.

The dragon roared loudly from above and once again came skydiving down towards her with its horns ready to smash into her. Scarlett growled under her breath and with what energy she barely had left, she ran out of the way from the collision. She accidentally tripped and fell down to the hard surface that scraped her up from its sharp edges. Groaning on the ground, she weakly pulled herself up into a sitting position. Red had to think of something! This just wasn't cutting it! Red gripped tightly onto her sword and concentrated on her power. She was not quite aware that using so much of her power was making her teeter on the edge of losing her mind to the dark magic she had inside. Her veins were already showing signs of turning black as they were darker than normal. Red sat there and stared up at the dragon as it resurfaced back into the night sky above.

"What can I do..?" Red murmured as she awaited the dragon to commence its next plan of attack. Standing back up to her feet shakily, she took the Starless Gale that was at her side and rose it back at the dragon. She was going to shoot another blast at it but suddenly felt a shooting pain surge through her. Red gasped and felt the same feeling she would get whenever the magic was taking over her body. 'No, no, no! Not now!' Attempting to fight it, she put her sword back down to her side and squeezed her eyes tightly shut. Her veins were fading to black as her eyes were too. Red clenched onto her chest with her free hand and then suddenly fell back to the ground on her knees. Her head hung low as her red hair's bangs dangled in front of her closed eyes. 'I won't give into it.' She thought repeatedly to herself. It was when she heard the Ender Dragon let out another powerful loud earth shattering roar that sounded very close to her when she reopened her now fully black eyes. "I won't give in!" She shouted and with the help of her sword, she leaned up against it as she picked herself up from the ground.

Looking straight forwards as the Ender Dragon who was flying back down after her to crash into her with it's sharp horns. Red caught glimpse of the crystals again from onto of the towers and then glanced down at her sword. An idea suddenly arose in her mind. Why didn't she think of it before!? Speeding out of the way of the dragon's path, she ran as fast as her legs could take her to get closer to the sky-high obsidian towers. Her once normal brown eyes turned to a pitch black color as she flung out her sword and pointed it at the closest crystal near her location. Her sword glowed black and emitted a dark shot of black energy that hit directly on the crystal. Red watched as the white crystals began to become corrupted by the black magic. It didn't take long for the crystal to erupt into a miniature black explosion as the crystal imploded from her magic entering inside it.

Red's black eyes widen in awe and soon a smirk played on her lips. She had a way to stop this dragon! "Fuck yeah! Take that! I killed you before when playing Minecraft! I'll kill you again in real life!" Red shouted confidently and like a cheetah she pounced forwards and started running for the next crystal. Red's veins and eyes were completely black but amazing she was remaining in control. She felt the rush of the black magic inside and it felt so damn good. It was a temptation to give into it but she needed her mind to focus only on eliminating the rest of these crystals. Once the crystals were finished off, she could focus her attention back on the dragon. She could only imagine the look on Nicholas' face when she comes back from the Nether with an Ender dragon egg in hand as a trophy of her successful feat of slaying the dragon that was said to be immortal. Red smirked widely to herself and shot another blazing black wave of magic at the next crystal. Like the other one it imploded from the magic. Now there were only three more left.

She had to deflect a couple of the Ender dragon's attacks but with careful precision she was able to liberate the remaining crystals. Now that they were gone, she could focus on the Ender dragon that was mightily pissed off at her. "No more healing for you, Ender. Time to finish this!" Red exclaimed in triumph as she brandished the Starless Gale towards the dragon. Her eyes glowed black as Little Red slashed the air with her blade and sent a magical wave racing towards the dragon that was still in the sky. The dragon roared in pain as the magic directly hit it and began to travel inside the dragon's body, damaging it from within as the magic typically did. "Strike! Take that you overgrown lizard!" Red grinned and kept up this wave of attacks that was gradually weakening the dragon down and harming it.

Without its Ender crystals to heal it the dragon was left vulnerable to Scarlett's attacks on it. Her black magic from within coursed through her tainted veins and she felt incredible as she threw out more magic attacks. The Ender dragon came darting for Red. This time taking her off guard as it desperately came soaring at her even through her magic's attacks. "Oh no…" Red tried running in the opposite direction as it came swooping down. The black dragon's horns rammed into the ground in front of it as it came straight for Red. Within just a split second, she was able to jump and roll out of the way of the collision. Red gasping for air, she glanced over at the dragon that was now on the ground. Red didn't know the dragon would land but it gave her just the opportunity to totally kick this dragon's ass Skyrim style. Taking her sword, she stood back up and ran at the dragon that was dazed from the impact it took to the End's rocky surface. Like a crazed woman that wasn't all mentally sound because of her corruption, she jumped onto the dragon's head and began stabbing repeatedly through the dragon's head. Her black eyes made her eyes look like eerie hollow sockets that held no mercy. Stabbing without stopping, she laughed loudly as the Ender Dragon roared and tried shaking her off. "I'm the mighty Dovahkiin! TAKE THIS, DRAGON!" Red cackled wildly as she took the sword and sliced through its head and down its snout. Jumping off the dragon's large head, she turned to watch with a wicked smirk as the dragon stumbled around on it feet before falling down to its side with a loud thump that shook the ground.

Red's black eyes widen in glee. The Ender dragon had been defeated… by her, all by herself! "Herobrine is never going to hear the end of this one!" Red cheered and began jumping up and down in excitement of her near impossible victory against the Ender Dragon. "Defeated by an angry pregnant woman! You should be ashamed, dragon. That's just sad." Red said cockily to the corpse of the dead dragon. Flickering her wrist, she made her sword disappear as she headed back towards the fountain portal in the middle of the End. There on top of the portal was the black and purple dragon egg that she was defiantly going to be taken for bragging rights. Also, glancing down she could see that the fountain portal began to reactivate now that the Ender Dragon had been vanquished. "Looks like I saved myself. I can't wait to find Nicholas and tear him a new one." Red carefully climbed up the portal and took the fragile egg into her hands. It was rather large so she would have to hold it in both hands and be careful not to shatter it.

Taking her price, she grinned to herself and then jumped into the portal's black abyss. She felt like she was falling through the Alice in Wonderland's rabbit hole as she fell through darkness until she appeared outside the End temple's portal. Glancing behind her down at the End portal, she didn't have words to express how lucky she was to get out of there. Analyzing her egg for a moment, she looked back up and started walking down the steps to leave the temple. "Now, I just need to find Herobrine… or Nicholas. Where ever that sorcerer asshole went too." Red grinned from ear to ear as her black eyes gave her excellent vision in the darkness, she was able to follow out the same way she had been taken into the temple.

Herobrine was walking with the pig in a certain direction when he suddenly felt a vibe that Red was close by. Her dark magic was active, he could tell it wasn't far away. Perhaps, the pig did know where it was going all along. "She's close…" Herobrine murmured and began to pick up his pace. The pig pressed along by his side until Herobrine's eyes caught sight of his Scarlett just feet away from him. "Scarlett!" Herobrine called out which caught the attention of the red-haired woman. She paused from where she was walking out of some kind of cave and looked at Herobrine. There he could see her eyes had turned fully black and so were her veins.

"Herobrine?" the voice of Red rang out as she excitedly started to run towards Herobrine to cling onto him in a tight embrace (while being careful with her egg that was now under her arm). Herobrine instantly wrapped his strong arms around her and held her closely to himself.

"Scarlett, you're okay!" He said and pulled her back to examine her from head to toe for injury. Other than the fact her black magic was affecting her body she seemed only a little scraped up but mostly unharmed. What was odd was the strange egg that Scarlett was holding the whole time. "Where were you? And what is that?" Hero questioned her as he eyed the purplish black egg. Red started to grin widely, her eyes were faintly turning back to their normal color as she took the egg back into her hands and showed it off to Herobrine.

"Long story but guess what this is!"

Herobrine rose an eyebrow at her and stared at the egg blankly," … An egg…"

Red gave him a sarcastic ' no, really?' look and shook her head with an eye roll, "Obviously, its an egg but not just any old egg. This is the Ender Egg!" Scarlett exclaimed and held up the egg triumphantly.

Herobrine's eyes widen at her comment in bewilderment as he stared at the egg, "How did you…?-" Red cut him off as she glanced down at the pig that snorted from below them.

"Porkchop!? Is that you?" Red gasped and kneeled down to the pig's level. "How is it going there, little buddy!?" Red pet the pig on the head as Porkchop leaned into her hand and relished in the attention from his long lost friend. "I haven't seen you in ages!" The pig oinked happily and nuzzled its head into her hand before she stood back up and looked at both Herobrine and Porkchop. "What are you two doing here?"

"I could ask you the same. How in the name of Minecraftia were you able to retrieve an Ender Egg? Last I saw you were being carried off by a spider. I came looking to rescue you but had certain… spider related issues along the way." Herobrine told her while Red passed off the egg over to him for him to examine more closely. Red grinned and then glanced down at her veins to notice that they were back to normal. Hero must have been calming her powers while she was with him, too much of her relief.

"This asshole sorcerer named Nicholas had kidnapped me with the giant creepy spider. He took me to the End temple by using an Eye of Ender to direct him there. He wanted to get rid of me because apparently he's SO jealous I have all your attention and he doesn't like that. So he thought that dumping me off into the End would get rid of me. Obviously, his little plan didn't work too well because I defeated the dragon all by myself and here I am." Red explained to Hero who was amazed at her for being able to take out such a ferocious beast.

"You killed the Ender Dragon? You do know that the dragon is rumored to be practically immortal! How did you manage that? Not that I should be surprised that my Queen could attain such a feat… but you're pregnant! You shouldn't be doing things like this! I could have been there to stop-" Red cut him off again as she glared him lightly while bringing her hands to her hips.

"I am perfectly capable of saving my own ass, sometimes. I don't always need to play damsel even while pregnant. I'm a big strong independent white girl." Red began snickering at her own comment while Herobrine titled his head and stared at her quizzically from her weird sense of humor. Her wide white smile towards him was somewhat contagious though and he found himself smiling back at her and shaking his head.

"I'm just glad you're safe." He said sincerely as he handed her back the egg that she had rightfully won for herself to keep. "If it weren't for this pig right here I might have never found you so soon. I was… poisoned by the spiders. This pig somehow had an antivenin potion with it and knew that I was in need of it as it gave it to me."

"Aw, really!? Porkchop, you're such a smart little pig!"

"I'm guessing you know this swine…?" Herobrine muttered skeptically and glanced down at the pig that was watching the two of them with a snort or two every so often.

Red nodded enthusiastically, "We met way back around that time I killed that priest at the chapel in the desert. The one you set on fire?" Red said.

"Ah, right." Herobrine nodded in remembrance before falling into silence. Red stared at her egg and narrowed her eyes as she spoke up again after a brief period of not talking.

"I want revenge on that sorcerer for what he did." Red brought up as she turned her eyes up from the egg to look at Herobrine seriously. Herobrine frowned unsurely and glanced off into the distance as the two stood there. "Why are you making that face? I thought you would be equally as livid at him as I am." Red stated pointedly and looked somewhat annoyed that he even seemed hesitant about killing Nicholas. Herobrine looked back at her calmly but was also still frowning.

"We had arrangements…"

"I don't care about some damn arrangements. He tried to kill me and our child! He deserves to die!"

Herobrine's eyes flashed angrily, flickering away and narrowed more as he thought deeply about what Red was saying to him. "I suppose you're right. Committing such a crime against you and espesially our child is only rightfully justified by death. I wish it wasn't this way."

"Did you look up to him or something? Why so hesitant about this?" Red asked with furrowed brows as the two finally began strolling along together in a random direction, Porkchop following after then from behind as they talked. Herobrine stayed silent and shrugged his shoulders after a couple moments of silence.

"I used too… when I was a child. Unlike my Father he willingly taught me things that Notch would never dare show me. He was my teacher from the very beginning… much of the basics of what I know are because of him. However, that does not excuse him of his actions presently and I will not let him get away with it. I don't know what I would have done if he actually would have harmed you or worse. I'm sorry, Red. I failed you…" Herobrine looked away shamefully and Red shook her head firmly and paused in her step as she placed the egg down to the side and went over and gave Herobrine a more proper hug than before.

"I love you. You didn't fail me. It wasn't your fault what happened. What matters is I'm here now and I'm fine. I just want things to go back to normal for the two of us. I want to wait around in the Nether with you until I finally have my child. Speaking of which, do you want a boy or girl?" Red asked with a warm smile as she released herself from the hug, though Herobrine still had his hands wrapped around her waist, holding her close but not so much that they couldn't look at each other in the eyes. Herobrine glanced down at her stomach and smiled gently at her.

"I'm content with whatever…"

"Really? No preference at all?"

"None." Herobrine leaned in and placed a sweet kiss onto her soft lips. Scarlett smiled and leaned upwards towards his face to deepen the kiss as the two held on two each other. They both explored each others mouths with their tongues, each savoring in the honeyed taste that each specially had. In the middle of their heated moment, Porkchop snorted loudly and shoved his snout into Red's leg to get her attention away from Herobrine. Red broke from the passionate kiss and glanced down at the annoyed looking pig that was below them. Clearly, he didn't like being the awkward third-wheel.

"Oh, sorry Porkchop." Red apologized and chuckled lightly to the pig that was staring up at her. Herobrine glared down at Porkchop for interrupting them from their shared kiss together. Making a 'humph', Herobrine backed away, clearly annoyed with the pig.

"So now what?" Red questioned as she looked from Porkchop to Herobrine. Herobrine brought up a tight-lipped frown as he glanced away in thought.

"We rest for now back in the Nether. Then I'll deal with Nicholas once and for all."

"You mean 'us'. I have a bone to pick with that prick for what he did to me." Red said to Hero determinedly. Hero glanced back into the her brown fiery eyes and sighed in doubt.

"Its too dangerous, Red. You must wind down a bit. You're doing too much. The last thing I want is there to be any complications with our child because of all the stress and strife you have been enduring."

Red shook her head firmly and pointed at herself with her thumb, "I just bested the Ender Dragon all by myself. I think I can take some stupid sorcerer and his pet spiders!"

Herobrine was unsure as he stared into her eyes. He knew Nicholas was not stupid nor an opponent to be taken lightly. Of course, neither was the Ender Dragon that amazingly Red was capable of defeating all by herself. Herobrine watched as Red leaned down and grabbed her egg back into her hands before looking at Porkchop. "Do you think its possible we can taken Porkchop with us?" Red asked hopefully.

Herobrine broke from his thoughts and glanced down at the pig who was also matching his gaze. "Must we?" Herobrine complained, not liking the idea of bringing back the swine to his Nether Fortress. Red gave Herobrine big bright puppy-dog eyes alongside Porkchop. Herobrine remained there in silence for a moment before growling under his breath and giving in. "Fine… But you're in charge of him." Herobrine begrudgingly said, making Red fist pump in happiness while saying quick, "Yes!"

"Want to go home with us, Porkchop?" Red asked the pig that nodded its head and let out a affirmative oink as it loyally sat down next to Red's feet. Red giggled until Herobrine held back onto her and focused enough magical energy to teleport Red, Porkchop, and himself to the Nether.

The very next day came and Herobrine was preparing himself to confront Nicholas face to face. Red was sitting with Porkchop resting on her lap on the bed as she watched Herobrine strapping on his red cape. "Where will we find Nicholas?" Red asked curiously, while Herobrine checked himself in the mirror before watching her reflection from in the mirror.

"In Notch's kingdom. He still works under Notch as the chief sorcerer of the castle. Nicholas has kept his secret of engaging in the dark arts away from Notch this whole time. This only proves how gullible my Father is to what is happening around him and how he is undeserving to be King. It has been this way for years yet he is too blind to see it occurring as it is." Herobrine explained and turned from the mirror to keep his calm gaze on Scarlett.

Red appeared surprised by this. How could someone hide something so large for such a long time? This sorcerer has been in that castle ever since Herobrine was a child. This magician really had the wool pulled over Notch's eyes for that to happen. "I'm coming with you." Red brought up and set Porkchop to the side of the bed as she stood up. Herobrine frowned at this.

"Its not safe. We are entering enemy territory, the very heart of it."

"Then we face danger together. I can take care of myself… Remember, dragon?" Red exclaimed and pointed to the giant egg that was sitting on the nightstand of her side of the bed. Herobrine glanced at the egg and sighed heavily.

"I don't want you to be hurt…" He trailed off. Red smiled sadly and stepped up to him and laid a gentle kiss on his cheek.

"I don't want to see you hurt either. Please, Hero… We can do this."

Herobrine remained quiet before wrapping his arms around her and looking down at her face in seriousness. "You stay close to me, understand? You must be very careful, Scarlett. This is going to start something very serious with my presence being there."

"I promise, I'll try to be careful."

Herobrine nodded and kissed her lips before using his magic and teleporting away with her to the front entrance of Notch's castle.

Author's Note: Sorry, I feel this is not one of better chapters. My writer's block is really bad. Hopefully, my next one will be better and much longer! Thanks for reading!