Minecraft Ender-wars
Book 3: Under Earth, Over Fire
The last few days have been nothing but digging. Nothing but hard, back breaking work, and looking for large chunks of obsidian. But when it was finally done, Steve and Endyra admired the fruits of their labor. It was a tall rectangular black frame about 5 meters tall and 4 meters across. Steve looked at it in disbelief and said, "We did nothing but bust our backs and risked our lives battling monsters in the caves to build a fancy doorway? These better lead to something pretty damn good." Endrya wordlessly took out a flint and steel from a pouch on her waist and struck them in the frame. Then a thick inky purple fog filled the frame. If Steve listened carefully enough, he could almost hear the portal, or something on the other side of the portal, calling to him. Endyra put away the flint and steel and asked, "Are you ready?" Then Steve nodded and he walked through. Endyra then walked in after him.
When Steve walked through the portal he immediately found himself regretting walking through as soon as he saw the other side. The world forever expanding before him could only be described as Hell. It was a massive cavern, with stalactites and stalagmites the size of entire mountains. The rock looked mostly fake, like something took all of the rocks and mashed them together. They seemed to be covered in blood. On the ceiling of the cave he saw massive coral like chandeliers of glowing rocks. The air stank of sulfur and rotting corpses and below them seemed to be an endless sea of magma. But Steve kept looking up, looking at the high ceiling of the massive cave. "I can't believe it…" Steve said. "This whole time there really was a Hell. But… Where are the dead people?" At that moment, he heard what sounded like a dead pigs oink.
Steve turned around to see Endyra smiling at what looked like a rotting corpse of some sort of pig creature. The thing was as tall as Steve, it has tusks most like a wild boar and walked on two legs. It had a horrid stench about it and had decomposed severely. In its right hand it carried a large golden broadsword. When it spoke, it took a short pause in between each word as if to think of what word comes next. It said to Endyra, "I dun sent here to take yous to da castle." Steve looked both disgusted and horrified at the creature but Endyra smiled at it as if it was an old friend and followed it. Steve followed it too, making sure to stay out of range of the creature's stench.
They traveled a long distance, or at least it felt like it. They went around the edges of cliffs, across bridges over seas of lava, even over patches of strange, sand like substance that appeared to have faces in it. Steve could have sworn he heard the sand say "Ouch!" when he stepped on one of the faces. But eventually he saw the castle the pig man spoke of.
It was a true feat of architecture. Made of a muddy dark red brick, yet with massive arches and columns that came out of the very seas of lava and stretched all the way to the ceiling of the cavernous Nether. Lightless windows dotted the sides of the building and the ramparts were lined with hundreds if not thousands of the pig men. Steve thought he would be sick from the horrid stench they were emitting.
As they were led into the fortress by the pig man, several guards wearing ornate golden armor came in behind them. This is about the time Steve decided things were getting a little too weird for him and whispered to Endyra, "Can you fill me in on what the hell is going on here?" Endyra once again spoke with the words appearing in Steve's head, "These people used to live in the over world. But their insatiable lust for gold and war wiped them out, so now their undead forms roam here for all eternity. They have been down here for thousands of years and have learned to work out problems peacefully, but all too late. But…" Endyra's eyes flickered and then her voice screamed out in Steve's head, "RUN!" But just as they turned around the guards drew their massive golden swords and a deep metallic voice said behind them, "Well well well, been a while since I had an Ender come through here. I wonder what your pitch black skin looks like burned to a crisp?"
Steve turned around to see three beings that seemed to be made of fire. Their bodies a column or fire and smoke with odd glowing crystals levitating around them. Their eyes a bright yellow with a charred brown and black pupils. The being in the center said again, "And I see the Ender brought a human. Well… I already know what they look like burnt. But I still like watching them flail about as their flesh cooks under my flames." The way the being before Steve said that made him think of something that would be far less enjoyable than being burned alive. Endyra's mouth came back and she actually spoke normally, saying, "Blazemen… What are you doing here? I thought you were supposed to be protecting the pig-men. Not enslaving them!" The Blaze just laughed and said, "Haha… My stupid little Ender. Don't you remember? Your 'God' gave us the right to do with the pig-men as we please. If we see that slavery is best for them so be it." The blaze looked at the pig-man that took Endyra and Steve to the castle and said, "You, Take the Ender fool to the dungeons. We burn the human tonight…"
The Pig-men grabbed Steve and Endyra and dragged them into the lower levels of the castle. By the fact the bricks were partially melted and the air seemed sticky with sweat, decomposing bodies, and the very smell of heat Steve can tell he was close to the magma layer. The cell they were kept in was small and hot. "Ugh…" Steve groaned as he looked out the window to see the floor of the cell was only a few feet away from the magma. "Of all the places a portal could lead to, it had to be Hell!" Then Steve saw something strange out the window. It was large and very pale which made it really easy to spot against the red and yellow background of the Nether. It had a domed bell body like a jellyfish and nine tentacles. Even from a distance Steve could hear it making odd yet somehow adorable whimpering and purring noises. The creature kept drawing nearer. Then Steve noticed some of the noises were coming from right next to him. He turned to see Endyra with her mouth open and her tongue rolling as she purred and whimpered like the creature in the window. As the thing grew nearer Steve saw more details. The creature had gills, two big round eyes, and a wide slit for a mouth.
After the creature was rather close, Steve turned and asked Endyra, "What is that thing?" Endyra stopped purring and said, "A Ghast, they are quite common here. But you can find them in the Overworld near the older portals." Steve, still confused, looked back out the window and then Endyra let out a piercing shriek and blew out all the air in her lungs through her mouth. The creature shrieked in response and when it opened its mouth, a fireball the size of Steve's head shot out and when it impacted the wall exploded, throwing Steve back but Endyra stood there unshaken by the blast. Then Edyra looked at Steve and said, "Somebody order an escape?"
If you were to approach Steve before he arrived in Minecraftia and say, "Hey Steve. One day you are going to go to Hell and, with the help of a relatively attractive nine foot tall trans-dimensional alien woman, would ride a giant flying fire-breathing octopus and escape an army of zombie pig-men." Steve would say you were crazy. But surprisingly enough, that is just what Steve and Endyra were doing. Steve looked carefully around at the Nether for the first time. Flying above the magma, amongst the mountain sized stalactites and hanging glowing rocks. His attention was stolen away by Endyra tapping his shoulder and pointing to the fortress. "Look."
She was pointing to the hole in the wall they just escaped from, in the cell a blaze was yelling at a pigman and then the blaze burned the pigman to ashes where he stood. Then Steve noticed the direction in which they were flying in. "Ummm… Why are we flying towards the fortress and not to our portal?" Steve asked. "We still have not gotten what we came here for. Hang on." Endyra replied, and with that she commanded the ghast to bring them in lower.
When they landed, the pigmen were already surrounding them. Endyra looked to Steve and asked, "Got that sword I told you we wouldn't need?" Steve then looked to see that he did in fact bring it. It was strange Steve didn't notice it until now. But he drew the blade and Endyra got into her normal attack stance and they charged into the legions of pigmen. Hacking and slashing their way through then that is when the blazes took notice to the commotion.
There was only one of them. But it was still dangerous in the sense it only takes one match to burn down a forest. It hovered just above the heads of the pigmen and let out volley after volley of flaming projectiles that would set the ground around them on fire when they impacted. Mostly missing Steve and Endyra but burning several of the pigmen alive. Then for a split second Steve seemed to be alone, the blaze searched for Endyra with his eyes all over the fray. It searched everywhere but behind him.
Endyra raised her scythe blade like fingers and brought them down heavily on the blaze's head. There was a loud CLANG as the molten iron head of the blaze split, then the fire went out. Then the lifeless crystals and the split head fell to the ground. She picked up one of the crystals as if she did nothing that spectacular and smiled at Steve and said, "We have what we came here for."
Sorry this one took so long folks. I was kind of uninspired to continue this but considering it is one of my most popular works I shall continue on it. I hope you enjoyed Book 3: Under Earth Over Fire.