Chapter 24
Dankxneja
My grandfather Elder Brine begged me not to go. He says I am not myself, claims that I have lost my mind to paranoia.
"He has always been alive my child," he told me, "He is the secret we must never speak of lest he gain power to destroy this world."
I told him I could not live in such a place where lies are kept.
"The First and the Healer will fight him; they will always beat him,"
Bah, what does my grandfather know? He is well respected by the community, but he clings on old ways. He clings on lies. I have seen Him, I have seen him here in the First World and still the Immortal's claim he is not here.
They would sense him.
He's coming, and I will not risk my life waiting for battle between gods.
The First even begged me not to go, claiming if the Lost One was truly appearing before my eyes, then he must be after me. He can't protect me and my family if I leave.
How can he protect mine when he and the Healer wish to start their own?
No.
I have to leave, I cannot stay here.
I am the patriarch of my family now, I have access to my entire families books. I have spent months, years, going through them all. I tore out all of the articles on the Dark One, the Lost, and Him. I will figure him out; I will see what he is planning.
This world is no place to raise a future child. This world is no place to live. I have said goodbye to my grandfather, I wish him a long and prosperous live. But nothing he can say will keep me from leaving.
I cannot stay here.
He's coming.
A storm was rolling through Ground Town, but Aiden and Ivor were too busy to really notice the thunder and the lightning cozy and warm in Aiden's living room.
Aiden stared at the last journal entry.
That's depressing. Aiden thought, She just left...
Aiden closed the journal and set his pencil down, running his fingers through his hair with a sigh.
Ivor glanced up from his recliner across the living room, peeking through his specs, "Tired already are we?"
"Nope, done." Aiden tapped the book.
Ivor looked fully up, "You decoded the entire encrypted section?"
"Yeah, just finished the last entry."
"And?"
"She lost her mind Ivor," Aiden said, "She thought she saw your Dark One and she was afraid. She tore out everything she could find on him from her family's previous journals and then she left the First World, I don't think she ever went back."
"I wonder if she ended up in Sky City somehow." Ivor mused, "Because the collective journal came into Isa's hands."
"Who knows? You think someone would have noticed a stranger popping up in such a tightly packed community..."
"Whatever the case, let us hope that her fears were not based from a truth," Ivor said.
Lightning flashed and the thunder that followed after was so loud it made Ivor jump. The older male looked uneasily around the house, "Are you sure we're safe?"
Aiden looked up from his translated notes, "I'm almost insulted you asked that." He frowned, "I've won a few building competitions remember? I think I know what I am doing Ivor."
"As long as we don't burn down."
"We're not going to burn down-"
Lighting flashed again, filling the living room with a temporary but blinding light. The thunder roared, rattling the shelves on Aiden's walls.
"That was close," Ivor observed eyeing the torrential down pour beyond the windows.
Aiden got up and closed the curtains in the living room. He then flicked on a redstone switch, his glow stones lighting up the room. He made a personal note to thank Lukas for bringing them with him from a First World visit.
"Have you read all of her pieces yet?" Ivor asked.
"I'm going to go through them again, see if I can find anything good," Aiden answered.
He had been on a deciphering frenzy for the past few days. The last of the pages had all been in the same code. Once Aiden had cracked it, it didn't take him long to memorize which letters were meant to be what. He had been on automatic mode till the last entry so anything previous to that was kinda fuzzy.
He picked up the book and his notes, thumbing through the pages:
My ancestors were liars...
The First says...
I see Him in my dreams, Notch why won't it stop...
I have to leave, I have to leave...
Poor girl, Aiden couldn't help but think-
There was a deafening boom and Aiden jerked in surprise, dropping his papers and the worn journal on the floor. The papers scattered everywhere, and the book bent back on its spine, "Sweet Notch!"
Ivor looked up from his work, "Careful with that, that's old."
"Says the man who threw in on my table not two weeks ago," Aiden scoffed kneeling down to pick up his papers and the book. He cringed when he noticed the inner cover was torn, "Shit..." he grumbled.
"Pardon?"
Aiden sat down on the recliner, "Nothing," he inspected the tear, wondering if it could be fixed when he noticed something.
An envelope.
At least he thought it was.
Curious, Aiden gently peeled back the tear and pulled out the envelope. It wasn't sealed shut; it looked like most of the papers had been shoved haphazardly inside. They were bent and out of shape. He tugged them out, smoothing them out to the best of his ability.
It was covered in writing; he recognized the style as the last owner of the journal. But unlike most of her writings the script was clear, and she seemed to be sane...
I have spent most of my life in fear, blindly assuming things that I knew no knowledge to. I look back through my writings, I see my insanity, all my years wasted.
I was struck with madness...
My poor husband all of these years' faithful and he never left my side. But now I look back and I see all of my mistakes. I left my home; I left my family, for a fear of someone who was never after me, after us.
I understand all those whispers; I now see all of those lies.
Those struck by the corruption of the Dark One can hear his thoughts. And by some grace of Notch alone I have regained my sanity and now understand what it was the Lost was truly after.
He seeks his brother; he seeks to strike the ultimate blow.
For so many years I feared that he meant to destroy my people, us mortals of the First World. I was stricken with nightmares of my child dead in my arms, but it isn't mine he seeks.
The First has started a family, and his Brother knows.
He is after our protector, his is after our healer, and he hunts their child. All these years blinded and he drove me mad for his own entertainment! But he was never after me, and this whole time I have been a stark raving fool!
I think of my own husband, my own child. He's getting bigger by the day, and was the only light in my darkness...To lose him.
The First, should he lose...
I am informing my husband as soon as he returns with our boy. I will tell him what I have learned. We have to go back.
I only pray that the First is still in Notch's original creation somewhere, I have to warn him. I have to tell him what's-
The writing stops, Aiden stares at the bottom of the page. It is blocked, covered and destroyed by a copper red stain.
Confused, Aiden flips the next page hoping the author picked up again where she left off- his heart skips a beat.
The new page is splattered in the same stains as the previous, but Aiden can smell the iron scents wafting off the old paper, it smells like blood.
Scrawled across the paper in thick red - a darker shade than the stains - were crude harsh lettering as if someone has used their fingers instead of a quill.
S H H H, WE DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE SUPRISE DO WE? ? ?
Feeling a little sickened and unusually scared, Aiden turns the pages after the entry, only to find them all blank and thoroughly soaked through with the stains. He flips back to the creepy writing, his heart pounding. There is a signature in the corner, of a finer writing but still the same gruesome stains.
Dankxneja
Catching on immediately that it is coded, Aiden yanks out a pencil. It doesn't take him long to figure out it is a twenty two shift Caesar Cipher, and he writes down the new word-
"Aiden?"
Aiden jumps a little and looks up, to seeing Ivor staring at him. The elders eyes are scrunched in worry, "Are you alright? You've gone a little pale."
"Yeah..." He looked back down at his completed word.
Herobrine,
"Herobrine?" Aiden mumbles, not liking the weird sensation that washes over him.
"Pardon?"
"Ivor, I think you should take a look at this-"
There was a thunderous sound, so loud and strong they felt the ground shake.
"What was that?" Ivor exclaimed.
"I-I don't know."
"That couldn't have been thunder, I didn't see any lightning."
"No, I didn't either-"
The bang came again, followed by a second sound. It traveled over the storm all the way from Ground Town.
Screaming.
People were beginning to scream.
"That's Ground Town!" Ivor gasped.
Aiden was already pushing off the chair, dropping the journal and the hidden pages onto the couch, "Something must be attacking!" He ran to the front door and hastily began pulling on his boots.
"What could be attacking? The town is too well lit for spawns and we have the wall!"
"With the storm it could be anything," Aiden pulled on his arm guard, only giving himself time to barely put on the coat over his armor. Lightning flashed outside, temporarily disorienting him "There could be a building on fire, or a field."
"But what about that noise?"
"I- I don't know."
The sound came again, making them freeze. Aiden grabbed his sword, "Shit!" he pulled open the door, immediately met with torrential rains and howling winds. "Don't let anyone in here unless they are knocking or screaming!" he said to Ivor, having to hollar over the winds.
"Aiden wait!"
Aiden paused at the door, "What?"
Ivor looked solemnly at him, "Please be careful."
He nodded to the older male, "I will,"
Then Aiden was out the door.
The rain pelted him like small chunks of ice. The drops were thick and heavy, and very cold- courtesy of the cooling weather. The wind wailed nearly knocking him down several times. It was nearly impossible to see a few feet beyond the lighted path. The torches whipped and shuttered in the gale, struggling to stay lit.
It seemed to be Mother Nature's final fury, before Old Man Winter moved in.
Aiden heard it before he saw it,
Vvvvp! Followed by the trademark screech.
He rolled away just as the enderman shot out of the howling dark. It's eyes were wide, jaws open, like all angry enderman.
But Aiden was startled regardless. The spawn's eyes were borderline wild, foam and saliva frothing from the mouth. It screeched and howled, swinging wildly at Aiden with little to no coordination.
He had never seen an enderman like this.
Aiden dodge again and again, unable to get a better advantage, the monster just kept coming.
"Shit!" he dived to the side, mud splashing up in his face as the enderman tried to body slam him.
Then was promptly stabbed in the head.
The enderman exploded in a puff of smoke, quickly swept away in the winds.
Gill lowered his sword, "Figured you need help." he stuck down his hand
"Shut up Gill!" but he accepted the gesture, Aiden got up, "Seriously though, I owe you."
Maya was with the larger male, her hair wet and plastered to her face, "We came to get you, there is something wrong in Ground Town." she had to yell to be heard over the storm.
"I could hear the noise from the house," he joined them in a fast paced sprint towards town, "What's going on?"
"We don't know, but there are spawns showing up inside the wall!" Gill explained.
"Don't we have torches up?!"
"Yes, but they're still showing up!"
The village was chaos, people were running everywhere, screaming panicking. There were three buildings on fire. Spawns kept appearing everywhere, guards fighting to keep them back. Reggie was struggling to get everything under control.
"Hold the line!" He yelled to his men, "Don't let them get to the bunker!"
Aiden stabbed a frenzied zombie before it could reach the guard captain. "Reg!"
Reginald turned to face them, relief washing over his face, "Oh thank blocks you three are here."
"Do you have any idea what's going on?!" Maya asked, shoving wet hair out of her eyes.
"Not a clue, didn't catch on till one of the building's caught fire." He pointed to the inferno, "Gill I'm going to need your help getting my men down here together, we need to put out these flames. Maya get with Milo, help him get the people to safety, we've already got wounded! Aiden," he looked at the teen, "Isa is on the wall, she needs you up there!"
"On it!"
"Be careful man!" Gill yelled as Aiden sprinted towards the battlements.
"You guys too!"
He raced through town, dodging screaming locals and angry spawns. He was almost trampled by a horse, the poor animal driven into a panicked frenzy.
What was going on?
He raced up the wall's stairs onto the battlements, finding Isa drenched, armed, and screaming orders.
"Get me archers! Spread out along the wall! Don't let those blighters get close!"
"Isa!" he called as he ran up to her.
She whipped around, hair snapping like a whip as she turned, "Aiden! They're attacking the wall!"
"What is?!"
"Spawns, they're surging the wall, they've seem to have gone stark raving mad!"
Aiden looked over the edge of the battlement, able to see flashes of creeper explosions in the dark. With each flash of lightning he could see spawns, dozens upon dozens smashing themselves against the fortifications.
"Get torches down there!" Aiden said, "We need to see them coming!" He turned to the nearest archer, "Get down to the store rooms, grab all the torches you can find, we need to see them!"
The man, nervous and pale managed to squeak out an okay, and then raced towards the stairs.
"Aim for the creepers!" Aiden hollered to the archers, "They do the most damage don't let them explode!"
The barrier was four layers thick on its outer wall. With some hollow interiors for hallways and store rooms, followed by the inner part of the wall being four more blocks thick. It was designed to make it near impossible for spawns to break in.
But here they were trying anyway.
"What is wrong with them?!" Isa cried, "Do you think it's the storm?"
Aiden flinched as lightning cracked down, "I don't think so! We've had storms before!"
"I've never seen a storm like this!" the woman countered, she picked up a spare bow and quiver, aiming into the dark.
Aiden didn't answer, he looking uneasily out into the gale the beasts and monster's numbers seemed to grow with each flash of light.
Something race by rapidly in the corner of Aiden's vision, and he looked down just enough to see something aim for the middle of the wall. It was coming hard, it was coming fast.
It was on fire.
"Everyone away from the-!"
The midsection of the wall exploded and the upper half collapsed caving in on itself. Aiden, Isa and a few others unfortunate enough to be close to the cave in screamed as they toppled from the fortification.
Aiden hit the ground hard, covering his head as rock and iron tumbled down upon him pelting him in the back and shoulders.
He looked dizzily up, his ears ringing and his sight disorientated. The wall hadn't collapse completely, thank Notch, the lower half still stood, damaged but standing. He had landed on the outside of the wall, with most of the debris. He couldn't see any other archers that had fallen with him, they must have landed inside the barrier.
"Where are they?!"
"Get some lights down there!"
"Milady! Milady?!"
Torches started falling down from above the wall, lighting up small patches of area around the disaster zone.
Aiden struggled to get up, some section of his right leg was killing him. A torch landed next to him, and he looked back, able to see a bloody tear through his jeans and on his calf.
Isa groaned from somewhere to his left.
"Isa?" Aiden staggered up, just barely able to dodge a screeching creeper as it lunged at him from the voice. His leg was aching, but it wasn't broken. He dodge the creeper again, kicking it back, cringing as his leg protested. It came again, and he stabbed it in the skull.
The monster toppled over, disappearing in a puff of black smoke.
"Isa?!"
The female moaned again, and Aiden moved toward the sound.
He found her under a support beam, half of her face covered in red. "ISA!" Aiden dropped down next to her, shoving the beam off, "Isa, can you hear me?!"
The beam and debris had merely cut skin and cloth, the majority of her body was barely damaged, but as the rain washing the blood away revealed a grisly gash on the side of her head.
Aiden tried to lift her, but unable to do so cradled her on his lap, "Isa, Isa, I need you to get up! Isa!"
She hissed in pain, eyelids fluttering, "A-Aiden?"
"Yes it's me! We need-"
An armored zombie moaned as it staggered towards them. Aiden gently lowered Isa down on to the ground, "Hang in there, I'm not going to let them get you." he whispered urgently.
His sword was gone; he lost it in the fall. So Aiden picked up Isa's weapons; wielding the two iron blades menacingly. He stepped over the fallen woman planting himself firmly between her and the oncoming spawns.
"Come and get it you bastards."
There were three zombies now, the first one screeched, swinging it's arms. He pivoted around it, swinging towards the exposed neck. But the zombie was fast, faster than most, it spun around to face him, the blade glancing harmlessly off the chest piece.
"Shit!"
The second made a lunge for Aiden's outreached arm, mouth red and full of rotted flesh. This one wasn't protected; he brought his second sword up, impaling it into the skull.
One down.
He flipped forward as the third lunged for his legs, groaning and staggering as his leg sent shots of pain up and down his body.
The armored one hissed, swinging its fists, the making contact with the side of his head.
"Ugh!" He fell back crashing against the third, it grabbed onto him trying to bite.
Isa moaned, and the armored one turned, lumbering towards her.
"No!"
Lifting up both his feet and using the zombie to support his weight, Aiden slammed his feet into the back of the undead monster. It staggered forward, tripping over Isa. Unable to stop from the momentum, the zombie fell into a jagged support beam, the armor no match to the sharp wood. The beam impaled the zombie clean through the middle.
That's two.
Landing back onto his feet, Aiden flipped the last one over him, landing it on its back. Then with a furious yell, he brought down both his swords, stabbing the zombie in the throat and chest.
Three.
"Aiden?" Isa moaned.
Chest heaving for air, Aiden got up, "Hang on Isa, I'm coming!"
A sound cut through the storm, it almost sounded like...like a chuckle. But it couldn't be, because it was clear, and it was close, like someone had laughed right into Aiden's ear.
"R'm fxaah vxan jkxdc hxdabnuo cqjw qna..."
He swiftly turned around, heart stopping as he stared at the monster before him.
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The storm wailed on, and no one on the other side of the wall heard Aiden's screams.
The last night of the festival had lanterns. Hundreds, no, thousands, of paper framed lights floating up into the sky.
It was beautiful.
But Jesse found little happiness in it. He was too busy wishing he could go back, forget the Immortal's Gate, and forget Herobrine. He wanted to go back and just be satisfied, happily dancing the night away with his friends.
A what if...
But here they were, at the temple to the portal and getting ready to leave the First World for good.
It had taken Steve and Alex longer to prepare than they had preferred. The night after Herobrine's reveal, they packed up the horses and then led the teens up to the abandoned village and its temple.
There hadn't been so much of a word, not even a conversation. Alex would occasionally say a few things to Steve, always in the old tongue, and Steve's answers would always be short. But he would never speak to Jesse.
He didn't even look.
The plan was they would escort them all the way to Ground Town, and leave them there, never to speak again as it were.
Petra and Lukas had tried speaking to Jesse a few times, but he didn't feel like talking.
Jesse sat solemnly on a broken pillar, waiting as Steve and Alex debated by the exit.
Steve inspected the portal, "I don't like it."
"He usually makes a peep by now," Alex admitted.
The male immortal let out a growl, "He's planning something Alex, we just need to figure out how he's going to do it."
"Steve, he probably knows that-"
"We can't talk about that." Steve's voice cracked slightly.
Alex bit her lip, and Jesse watched as she glanced his way. "Perhaps if we went ahead and made sure the Hallway was clear?"
"And leave them here unguarded?"
"We'll be faster if we both go, and if they just run through the Portal we'll know..."
Steve sighed. He turned to the trio, "Alex and I are going to go ahead and make sure the path is clear. You three stay here with the horses till we get back."
"Kay," Lukas said quietly.
"If Herobrine does come here, run through the portal, and just keep running." Alex said, "We'll be able to get to you."
"Alright..." Petra answered.
Steve looked at Jesse, almost like he was about to say something, but Jesse looked quickly away. He watched from the corner of his eye as Steve's and Alex's expression switched briefly to one of immeasurable grief, and he struggled to fight down the awful sensation in his stomach.
"We'll be back soon," Steve said quietly.
Lukas waited till the adults had gone through the portal, he looked to Jesse, "Are you alright?"
Jesse hadn't told either of his friends about the 'discussion' he and Steve had, "No," he said bitterly.
"Look I know we screwed up," Lukas encouraged, "But we'll think of something, and then we'll come back-"
"They said we can't come back," Petra cut in.
"And there is no point in it anyway," Jesse said.
"That's a pessimistic view for someone so young."
All of three of them leapt up in horror, looking to see Herobrine leaning against a pillar at the entrance.
"Run!" Lukas yelled, firing an arrow at the demigod.
"I'm not physically here," Herobrine said, casually inspecting his nails as the arrow phased through his forehead.
"Don't listen to him, just run!" Petra hollered.
"Whatever, its blood on your hands..."
Jesse stopped running right at the magical exit, he looked back, "What do you mean by that?"
"Jesse!" Lukas hissed.
Herobrine looked up, "I mean, what I say."
"Forget what he says!" Petra snapped, "He's bluffing!"
"I never bluff. If Steve and Alex were here they would agree."
Ignoring his friend's pleas, Jesse pulled his foot out of the portal, "What do you mean blood on our hands?"
Herobrine stood, walking deeper into the temple, his legs passing through all the rock and rubble. Jesse noticed with growing unease that the male had fresh blood staining his hands. "I'm giving you an option Jesse. You and your friends can leave right now, and luck being in your favor I will only find you till you are at the end of your lifespan. The Hallway is vast and even I have trouble navigating it sometimes. But if you leave now, it's blood on your hands."
"Jesse don't listen to him please!" Lukas begged.
Jesse remained silent.
Herobrine smiled. "I'd knew you'd see it my way."
"I never said I did,"
"Oh, but you will." Herobrine pointed to Mt. Incendia, "This has now become a life or death matter Jesse. If you don't meet me at the volcano by the time the moon peaks at midnight, someone will die."
"WHO?!" Jesse's heart skipped a beat.
"That village has a lot of people don't you think?" the other answered, "Who'd miss one or two."
"You bastard!" Lukas yelled.
"It's only business," Herobrine huffed, "You will come up to the mountain Jesse, alone. Or you will leave, I don't care, but one path ends up in someone dead. Or...if I'm really bored..." he rubbed his jaw glancing at the village and the lanterns, "More than just one..."
Jesse growled, "Hero-"
"Those are my terms, leave and live, but also live with the thought that someone died at your hands. Or...come see me. You can only come alone, either of your little friends follow and I'll kill on your behalf. Remember." He pointed up, "Moon's peak."
Then in a flash of smoke and fire the spectral Herobrine vanished.
"We need to go get Steve and Alex!" Lukas said urgently.
"He's bluffing, he has no one up there!"
"But what if he isn't?!"
"Steve and Alex would have sensed him attacking someone wouldn't they?"
Jesse stood there, his heart pounding, blood racing. This was a confrontation, Herobrine intended to get what he wanted, and he wanted it tonight. He crossed the room.
"What we need to do is-" Petra spotted him unloading Titan, "Jesse wait! What are you doing?!"
"Going to face Herobrine," he stated.
Lukas ran over and grabbed his arm, "We'll come-"
"No! You heard him! Someone will get killed if you do," his heart started pounding faster, thinking of what happened the first time Herobrine attacked. His arm was around Lukas's-
They can't come. He won't let them.
"You can't be serious!" Petra argued, "It's a trap, probably to kill you! You face him and you'll be killed. We don't even know what he wants from you!"
"I know that!" Jesse snapped, "But I can't leave with someone dying!"
"He could be bluffing!"
"Do you really think Herobrine is a bluffer?! Because when he had Lukas it didn't seem like he was bluffing to me!"
His brain was going a thousand miles a minute. They'll get hurt, they might die...all he needs to do is get one of them-
"You don't even know how to get up there!"
"Mt. Incendia is kinda hard to miss it Petra! Besides, I've seen the old maps in Steve's study. There is an entrance to the volcano interior a mile away from the village."
"You cannot go alone!" Lukas pressed, still holding Jesse's arm, "We can't let you do this!"
I can't let them do this. It'll be just like Rueben, they'll die, just like him. They'll die helping me!
"Lukas let go..."
"We can come up with a plan Jesse-" Petra said.
"We'll get Alex and Steve," Lukas added.
"We don't have the kind of time! Now, let go!" Jesse said again.
"Just listen-"
I can't do this! No! NOT AGAIN!
"Lukas, I said, LET GO!" Jesse snapped, he shoved the blond away from him.
Lukas stumbled back, eyes wide with shock.
Petra was gaping, "Jesse what the hell-"
I have to say this; I have to do this-
His next words hurt him down to his very core. He knew he would regret it for the rest of his life, but he had to say it. He had to keep them away.
"I don't need your help!" Jesse yelled, "I never have, I never will!"
The hurt on their faces was immediate, spreading across their expressions like a virius. Lukas actually took a step back away from him. Jesse's heart clenched painfully, he wanted to stop, he wanted to say he was sorry-
"I can handle Herobrine!" He said, struggling to keep his voice from cracking. "I don't need you! You'll just be in my way!" He finished unloading the supplies from Titan and got on the horse.
"Jesse wait-" Lukas began.
"I don't need your help, and I don't- I don't need your friendship!" he choked on the last word. But he swallowed his pain and managed to get it out. Jesse glared at them, "Just go away! No one else is going to die! Go home!" then he kicked Titan forward.
"JESSE!"
He didn't listen, already beyond the temple and halfway through the ghost town. Titan could sense something was wrong, and Jesse could tell the animal wanted to turn back. But Jesse wouldn't go back, he couldn't now...
He was alone now.
He had to do it; he had to say what he said. Herobrine would have-
Herobrine.
Jesse's blood boiled.
He'd face Herobrine, and he'd take strength knowing that despite the cost he had kept his friends safe and alive.
Heart broken, and anger rising, Jesse urged Titan forward and headed for the volcano.
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