Minecraft Ender-Wars
Book Four: Plague Tusk and Ender Pearls
All of the pig men stared at Endyra and Steve for a good minute before bursting into celebratory oinks and yells. Some were even singing.
When dem blazes came about "You pigman are our slaves" they said,
Da pretty girl with dem eyes of fire just strikes em on da head!
Da hero man who we thought was dead fought brave with iron blade,
So we celebrate dis day with dis pigman drinkin song! Hey!
Now, the parties Steve used to go to usually always ended with all of the guests half naked and sweaty, but they never started that way. But Steve knew one thing for sure. For people that died centuries ago, pig men knew how to party. There was drinking and a fighting tournament and even the best mushroom stew Steve ever tasted. Sure the party could have used more women in Steve's opinion but at least everybody was having fun.
Finally Endyra came up to Steve with a pigman and said, "This is fun huh? But we should get back to the Overworld. Also, meet Plague Tusk. I used to know him when my kind visited the Nether often." The Pig man standing next to Endyra was rather short and chubby in build, almost like a child. But when it spoke it had the same gravely and gruff voice as the others. "Good to be meetin you Steve" the pig man said, "I dun want to be joinin ya on your quest. Ya see? I got a bone to be pickin with da guy who put dem blazemen in charge."
Endyra looked at Steve with big sad puppy eyes, or at least as close as she could get to sad puppy eyes. It was more like her eyes became two big ovals of soft purple glow. But Steve still got the point and said, "Sure. He can come." Endyra and Plague Tusk chest bumped, which was strange to watch, it was a lot like watching a rotten pumpkin bump against a dead tree. Endyra was unshaken but it sent Plague Tusk tumbling onto his back. Steve and Endyra laughed and they bid the other Pig men farewell and headed back to their portal.
When they arrived back in the Overworld it was midday. Endyra teleported over to the shady overhang where she left her umbrella and Plague Tusk was squinting as he looked around. "Hmmmm…" Plague Tusk said, "Overworld not like I be rememberin. But, a lot can be change in 300 years." Steve thought he might as well ask, "What was it like when you died?" To this, Plague Tusk thought for a while and finally said, "Very different, back when first redstone was bein mined. It fueled our wars, and our homes. Come to be thinkin of it, I not remember this much green everywhere either." Steve was left with even more questions after that statement that he had when he asked the question, so he decided it would be best just to get moving.
They all returned to the camp where Steve and Endyra first met and sat around for a while. Steve looked at the crystal Endyra held so delicately in her skeletal hands and asked, "So, why do we need it?" Then Endyra wordlessly went into her tent and came back out with an apple sized round orb. It glowed faintly and was a dark shade of turquoise. Then while she shattered the crystal and ground it into a powder, Endyra said, "We need this to find an Ender-Portal. Only one was ever made and to this day we do not know how. We must find it, step through it, and face him."
"Face who?" Steve asked, "That dragon? And why do we need the portal? Couldn't you just poof us in?" Endyra looked at Steve like he was an idiot and said, "When I phase between locations I travel through the End like it was a river leading to where I want to be. I can't just stop while I am in the End. It doesn't work like that." Steve was slightly annoyed by the strange laws of physics and even the laws of what appeared to be magic in this bizarre world, but he just sighed and about five seconds later Endyra held up what looked like a glass dragon's eye. "This will lead us to the portal" she said, as the eye floated out of her hand and floated about 5 feet off the ground near the northern edge of the camp. Steve looked in disbelief at the strange orb and stepped towards it. The orb moved about twenty feet away then stopped and hovered, still bearing north.
Steve smiled and said, "I guess we are heading north. Guys, pack up camp. We have a world to save."