Hello, this is Pastrinator64 with another chapter from VOiD. I have been waiting a long time for this chapter (well, really not that long) for a special and revealing reason. In this chapter we learn something interesting about Mark's friends... But first, let's get on with some replies to reviews!
Replies To Reviews
clubby789: Oh no, I wasn't annoyed, that was the Glitch talking. The Glitch was angry for being compared to anyone, that wasn't me talking. I took it as a compliment while the Glitch answered the question like it was an insult.
Somebody10101: You know, you're asking a lot of revealing questions that I can't yet answer. And no, Mark was not on crack when he saw all that. -_- But with the avatar thing you asked about, that'll actually be answered in this chapter.
Enderdude: Yeah, Tobyturner is a boss. I watched his very first Happy Wheels episode and it was hilarious! He was NOT expecting anything like that! XDDDD Also, why are you bored? Do you mean my chapter is boring?
MyLittleMuffinZ: Yeah, "wow" is how a lot of people described THE GLITCH.
CSICreeper: Are you... Bowing down to me? I'm flattered. :3
Enderblazehybrid: Well, to answer your first question, everyone in Invacuo City was too busy paying attention to the ERB Tournament. Secondly, when Mark fell in the mushroom soup and splattered everyone, some got on the gametag above him that shows his username, plus no one was really paying attention to that anyway. Thirdly, I will have a chapter a few chapters from now that'll show what's going on back on Earth, don't you worry.
Well, how that I've got THAT all done, let's get on with chapter five!
Hello, this is Pastrinator64 with another chapter from VOiD. Last time on VOiD we watched as Tobyturner and everyone around him praised Mark for his fame that, for some reason, he didn't understand fully yet. After receiving a good-luck Nugget In A Biscuit charm from Tobyturner he was sent to the ancient fortuneteller named Rexum, who told him all the steps to restoring the all-powerful Balance Core that he held. But then, after almost dying at night due to the strangely-mutated landscape, Mark and Rexum fled Invacuo City, for some unknown source was bombing them with black explosions. They picked up Mark's new friend Pikapika on the way, and the three of them ran far away from the city, setting up a small cottage off in the distance on the border of a desert. Now we watch as they meet another new face, this one able to get them out of the hole of helplessness they are stuck inside.
Now, let the story commence!
Chapter 5: The Undead Knight
They stayed by the log cabin for the rest of the day. Mark and Pikapika punched down trees with their fists while Rexum meditated silently in the sand with his Eyestone in front of him. They spent three days that way...
Finally, after three days they found something interesting. Really, actually, something and someONE. The morning of that day, Mark and Pikapika woke up from lying in the grass, again surrounded by Rexum's force field, which he used every night. Mark awoke to the sound of Pikapika's breathing, and he stood up, and went out to the forest of replanted saplings in front of their hut. He walked out of the empty doorway and was about to start chopping down trees when he noticed something dart through the forest quickly.
He quickly ran back inside and shook Pikapika awake. He grumbled and looked up.
"Mark, we have enough wood already."
Mark shook him again and said,
"C'mon! I saw something move in the forest!"
"Coolio..."
Mark grumbled, and then flicked Pikapika's dark red tail to get his attention. Pikapika grabbed his tail and said,
"Don't touch the tail."
"Then come on!"
The two of them walked back to the forest and entered into the trees that sat past their saplings. Mark cupped his blocky hands to his mouth and shouted,
"Hey! Anybody there?"
His echo answered him, and only his echo. He shouted again and again, but no one answered. Pikapika sighed and said,
"Come on, let's just go back to bed."
Mark shook his head and went further into the trees. Suddenly, he turned a corner and was instantly smacked into something smelly and green. He fell backwards onto the ground and looked up, finding two dead black eyes staring down at him. His first thought was zombie, but then the creature rose up on two hind legs and let out a gurgled neigh like a horse.
In fact, it was a horse! It was the rare undead horse! It looked just like a regular horse only all of its skin was green and clammy. Also, Mark checked to see if it was tamed or not, and sure enough, it was tethered to the tree next to it and there was both a saddle and a chest attached to it. There was even a nametag pinned to its neck, which Mark thought might hurt since it was directly attached, but probably didn't hurt it considering it was undead. The name "Felix" floated above the undead horse's head.
"Hey, you there!"
Mark and Pikapika turned around and saw a person approaching them through the trees with a sword that looked like it had the pattern of rotten flesh. As the man got closer they could see his skin. It was a regular zombie, only with a knight helmet and chestplate.
"We were just admiring your... Uh... Horse."
The zombie knight dude froze for a moment, looking extremely epic in his knight-like appearance, and then just shrugged.
"Alright, then." he extended a hand towards Mark, then Pikapika. "My name is Zombiesorbust, what's yours?"
He had a British accent, too.
"I'm Mark Cobweb, and this is Pikapika." he pointed towards their log hut. "In there is our, um, guardian, or whatever, his name is Rexum."
They all shook hands, and then Zombiesorbust walked over and stroked Felix the undead horse's s chin, and said,
"Where did you two come from, eh?"
Mark told his story about how he had been teleported from Earth to Minecraft and all the ordeals he had to go through. Although, Pikapika seemed a little reluctant to share his past, but Zombiesorbust didn't really seem to care.
"Well, I am a former knight from the Knights Of The Blocky Table—a league of extremely skillful Minecraftian knights who defend all of the Minecraft Dimension from, well, it used to be Herobrine, but now that he's a ruler of this dimension and the Glitch is more of a threat, we defend all of the Minecraft Dimension from the Glitch. But while suddenly meeting a small army of the Glitch's evil viruses roughly twenty years ago we were disbanded, and now I am on my own with just Felix here to accompany me." he concluded.
"Gee, that seems like a lonely way to live." said Pikapika.
"Ah, I can't do anything about it anyway."
Mark had an idea and said,
"Why don't you just come with us? We have a whole quest to fulfill!"
That seemed to get his attention, and his head turned to look at Mark.
"A quest, you say? A noble one?"
"Yes, and it's one that will defeat the Glitch once again!" he declared in a dramatic tone.
Zombiesorbust thrust his zombie flesh sword with his head held proud and high and he declared,
"Then I shall join you on this noble quest! I shall dedicate my life to this journey and I shall protect all that is blocky and gravity defying!"
The three of them kind of stood there for a moment in awkwardness, and then Pikapika clapped his hands together and said,
"Uh, can you do us a favor?"
"Ah yes, what shall it be?" Zombiesorbust swung his zombie flesh around in a circle looking super dramatic. "Slay a monster? Save a princess? Climb to the top of a mountain? Retrieve an ancient treasure?"
"We need three Blockpacks."
Zombiesorbust's shoulders sagged, but he still walked over to the chest equipped to Felix. He pulled out three extra Blockpacks for them and handed them to Mark.
"Thanks, we've been without them for a while. All we had were hotbars for three days straight."
Mark gave a Blockpack to Pikapika and then headed back to their hut to deliver the third to Rexum. He walked in the door and saw Rexum still meditating in the same place he had been for three days, always remaining silent. Mark slowly approached and then raised a hand.
"Rexum? I have a Blockpack for you."
For the first time in three days, Rexum stood up from his Eyestone slowly and turned around to face Mark. His face looked even more aged than he had before.
"No need, Mark." he pulled at the sleeves of his tattered green robe, revealing countless pockets hidden in the cloth and a small crafting grid. "I have a much easier inventory and crafting grid."
Mark wished that Rexum had said something earlier, but he didn't complain or anything. So instead he went back to his two friends in the woods, who were talking to each other about something. While he was walking up to them he saw Pikapika laughing and looking at Zombiesorbust, and he said,
"Hey, what's so funny?"
Zombiesorbust just smiled and said,
"Nothing, chap."
Mark rolled his eyes at how British his way of speaking was, and then he said,
"Well, if you're going to come with us you'll have to help us. We're traveling to find the Temple Of Day And Night, and some guy named the Mastermind lives there, and apparently he knows how to get to the center of this planet where that Void Transport is. The Void Transport will teleport us up to Salutem's Void Palace where we will have to enter and search inside for the portal room. Once we find the Aether portal and enter it, we can get into the Aether, which at the moment is being renovated, but should be finished up once we get there. We just have to put this," he held up the Balance Core in its bottle. "Back on the alter in the center of Notch's Aether Palace."
Zombiesorbust raised his rotten flesh sword and said,
"Then it shall be done!"
Mark looked again at his strange sword and said,
"Hey, what kind of sword is that?"
The zombie knight looked at his sword for a moment before saying,
"It's a mod weapon: the zombie sword. It poisons any mob it touches, so it's a tad bit like a Wither blade, only smaller and lighter to use." he took out a crafting table from the chest equipped to Felix and set it on the ground, and then took out a stick and two pieces of rotten flesh. "Here's the crafting recipe I used; I can only use it once though, it's kind of an unstable recipe."
He put a piece of rotten flesh on the top middle and very middle compartments, and then a stick in the bottom middle compartment. Instead of his zombie sword appearing in the output box, the whole grid began to shake violently, and Zombiesorbust quickly took out the ingredients to stop the shaking.
"I don't know why it does that, I just avoid craft more of these." he said, putting away the supplies in Felix's equipped chest.
Mark clapped his hands together and then pointed towards their log hut.
"Well, since we've all got Blockpacks now I guess it's time to redo our house! Before we go out to find the Mastermind we'll have to get our resources back, since... I lost ALL of mine..."
They spent the entire day recreating their house. Rexum had gone back to meditating on the floor, so everyone just built around him as soundlessly as they could. They chopped down their old log house and converted their several stacks of wood to wood planks, which they used to build a small one-story mansion. It had a grand front gate that would open at their command—Zombiesorbust had some redstone materials to offer—and a small moat. Once they were finished putting all of their things back in their chests in the main room they stood outside and marveled at their creation.
"It's beautiful." said Pikapika, his hands on his hips, and he nodded.
"Agreed." said Zombiesorbust.
But then the night fell and they fled into their mansion. As they were watching through the window at the mutating plants and creatures outside Rexum spoke from behind.
"Do not worry, you three. I have been meditating here on this floor for a reason." they turned around to see him still sitting in front of the Eyestone. "I have been focusing my power on the Eyestone. Just a few more hours of meditation and there will be enough power in the core of the Eyestone to keep a protective field around us 24/7. I will no longer need to use my own power, but the Eyestone can only hold the field for three more days before it runs out of energy, so please, scavenge for any supplies you can in that time limit, and then we must be off."
As the three of them were walking towards Rexum to stay in his small field for those remaining hours, Pikapika leaned over and muttered,
"That old guy really seems stressed. He needs to loosen up a bit or something."
Zombiesorbust shrugged with his hands up and said,
"The old man can do what he wants, do not question his methods, he is our guardian for now. Maybe one day it will be us protecting him."
The three of them stayed huddled with Rexum and his Eyestone inside the force field for a few more hours into the night. Then finally, three hours later Rexum put his hand into the core of the Eyestone and the top hole shot out a beam of light that passed up through the glass ceiling. Mark watched in awe as a huge golden force field stretched its way around their small mansion like a bubble. Rexum stood up and walked to the window, looking out into the spooky night.
"I suggest that you all get some rest, you will be getting supplies all day tomorrow and then two days after as well."
Nobody objected to the old man's request, and Zombiesorbust quickly got out three beds. Rexum never slept in a bed—maybe he didn't sleep at all—so they only needed three. Before the zombie knight went to bed he walked outside and tethered Felix to the side of the mansion on the edge of the moat, all of which was underneath the force field.
As Mark crawled underneath his own covers he thought to himself,
"Man, I still wish I knew where Vanessa and Lucas and Bonbon ended up. I so hope I actually see them again."
The next morning the three boys woke up extra early so that they could get their supply-scavenging finished as early as possible. There was a piece of paper set at the foot of Mark's bed, and when he woke up he saw the paper and picked it up. This is what it said...
Dear Mark, Pikapika and Zombiesorbust,
I have gone to the nearby desert temple for a much quieter meditating session. I will be there for these three days, and will return upon the night of the last day. By then you must have the following...
1. Two full stacks of cobblestone
2. One full stack of stone
3. One full stack of sand
4. Three full stacks of wood planks (any type)
5. Nine buckets of water
6. Two buckets of lava
7. 32 pieces of leather
8. 32 blocks of wool (any color)
9. A full stack of either steak, porkchop, cooked chicken, or cooked fish
10. A full stack of coal
11. A full stack of iron ingot
12. A full stack of redstone
You have these three days to get it done. Split the jobs evenly among you three. Good luck, I will see you on the ending night.
~Rexum
Mark groaned and slapped the list on the ground in front of him. Pikapika woke up and shuffled on his knees over to him, also looking a bit tired from the early wake-up call. When he got a good look of the list he said,
"Is that all the stuff the old guy wants us to find? And in three days? Geez, he's tight."
Mark sighed and picked the list up again.
"Well, we'd better get started; we have a lot to find. Plus, if we finish early we can do whatever we want."
Pikapika shrugged and then stood up, walking over his bed to Zombiesorbust's. He shook the zombie knight awake and said,
"C'mon, rise and shine, Mr. Green Face!"
Zombiesorbust sat up in bed and rubbed his head.
"What's going on, eh?"
Mark showed him the list. He sighed and then stood up on his bed, then stepped off onto the wood plank floor.
"Well, we'd better get started. No use procrastinating, correct?"
So they got to work. They didn't need anyone to chop down some trees for the wood planks, so he assigned Pikapika to get the leather, wool, food, sand and water. Then he told Zombiesorbust to come with him underground for mining. Mark made some wooden pickaxes to start out with and grabbed some torches and a crafting table. Once they were mining they crafted better pickaxes. As they were heading down into the mine Zombiesorbust said,
"Ah, this shall be a quick mine, it will not be too hard to find the needed supplies, will it?"
"Honestly, here in the mine time seems to zoom by, so I sure hope that's true." answered Mark.
Mark and Zombiesorbust mined a huge flight of stairs down into the ground, and after a while they found an abandoned mineshaft. Then the song "Mineshaft" started to play from an unknown source. Mark looked around in the mineshaft and saw plenty of ores lining the walls.
"Hey, we hit the jackpot!"
"Let us mine these ores with lust, Mark Cobweb, with lust..."
"Uh, sure."
Mark ran over and quickly mined a vein of coal. He jumped up out of the area and moved along the wall towards an iron vein, which he also mined. Then he looked down and a red glow met his eyes. Redstone! He grinned and laughed a little while mining the crimson gemstone.
"Man, I've never seen so many ores in one place!"
They continued to mine the ores lining the walls and floor, and then Mark found the ultimate treasure. Diamond. Mark turned the corner of a mineshaft and instantly met a small ledge. He looked down and saw a lava pool below, and sitting directly in the center of the lava he saw a block of, you guessed it, diamond ore. His eyes lit up and he called for his friend.
"Hey, Zob! Come over here! I found diamond!"
Zombiesorbust came up to him a few seconds later and said,
"What is Zob?"
"It stands for Zombiesorbust. Anyway, look at that! Diamond! Plus lava, we'll be able to get our two lava buckets as well!"
Zombiesorbust went to work and built them a set down their crafting table and built a furnace. In a matter of minutes he had six of their iron ores smelted into iron ingots, which he used to craft two empty buckets. Mark made a path down to the lava path and crouched down over the edge. His block-placing reach didn't make it to the diamond ore block, so Mark just placed his cobblestone on the edge of his platform. Slowly he made his way over to the diamond ore.
Once he had reached it, he held his hand back and took an iron pick and two buckets from Zombiesorbust. First he placed cobblestone all the way around the diamond ore. If his Minecraft logic was correct the diamond ore would pop up into the air for just enough time for him to grab it. Mark took a deep breath and broke the diamond ore block, and the diamond item flew up into the air. He grabbed it just in time, and then saw a glint below. More diamond was underneath the surface of the lava. Then, there in his mind formed two words...
"Challenge accepted..."
Mark took the bucket and filled it with the lava. More lava just flowed in, but not enough to be a source block.
"Mark, just leave the diamond. If we find two more diamonds we'll make a diamond pick and bring down water buckets to turn all of this molten rock into obsidian. We are wasting precious time. We have finished our cobblestone and coal quotas, but we still have to find enough iron and redstone. Soon we'll have our stone, but that can wait for when he get back to the surface, young chap."
Mark whirled around and said,
"Ok, you can stop saying "chap"."
"'Tis the way I speak, Mark."
Mark sighed and went back up the staircase and away from the lava pool. They continued to mine for the day, and by the time it had ended they only had half of their iron quota and a quarter of their redstone quota. Thankfully, they now had their two buckets of lava, which they had expected to take a while.
Mark and Zombiesorbust met Pikapika up at the top of their tunnel. He was holding a bunch of stuff in his hotbar.
"Hey guys! I got all my stuff! You want me to help mine?"
Mark waved his hand.
"Nah, you can just relax for the next two days. We can split up to find the rest of our ores."
Pikapika pumped his fist and ran off and out the door. Mark slowly turned to look at Zombiesorbust.
"Don't you think Pikapika sounds a bit girly?"
Zombiesorbust shrugged and said,
"Yes, that is true. Some boys will have feminine personalities, it is not impossible."
The next day Mark and Zombiesorbust headed back down into the mine to finish their quotas. Mark went left and he went right. As Mark was walking down the mineshaft tunnels he looked all around for redstone ore. Thankfully, he was able to find plenty of it as he went lower towards the bedrock layer. It was interesting, because the mineshaft even touched down to the bedrock, a rare occurrence. Finally, after about three hours he had obtained a full stack. (Remember that time in Minecraft goes by much quicker.)
Mark headed back up to the surface where he found Zombiesorbust waiting for his iron ingots to smelt in the furnace. Mark clapped his hands together and said,
"Well, that was easy! We didn't even use up three days! We have half of today yet and all of tomorrow to rest! So, should we, I don't know, do something?"
As Zombiesorbust was pulling out his brand new iron ingots he said,
"Well, Pikapika said something about going to the beach and... I think he said "hang", though I'm not sure what that means.
Mark slapped his hand on his forehead and dragged it along his face.
"Dude, you really need to get out more. He meant that we should go over there and rest or have fun or do something."
Zombiesorbust raised his eyebrows.
"That is much nicer than how I interpreted it. I thought that he was asking me to lynch myself." he murmured.
Mark rolled his eyes and muttered something under his breath.
"There's a beach nearby, he probably went there. Let's go, might as well!"
Mark had been waiting for an opportunity to have fun ever since he arrived. Now was his chance to actually show Zombiesorbust what fun actually was, if at all possible.
The two of them headed out of their hut and walked about forty blocks to the nearby beach. They saw Pikapika sitting in the sand with his pitch black feet dipped in the water. He turned and saw them as they were approaching and said,
"Hey, it's about time! Let's do something!"
Mark was excellent with coming up things to do. It was a specialty.
"Alright, let's do some swimming! Everyone loves swimming!"
Zombiesorbust raised his hand and pointed a finger like he was about to say "Eureka!".
"Actually, only 46% of the human population can swim."
"Zob, it's an estimate."
"No, that was not an estimate. It was a biased statement."
"Both of you shut up already!"
Mark was about to launch himself into the water when Pikapika stood up and got up onto the sand.
"Hold on a moment, I need to change into something more comfortable."
As he was walking off towards the trees nearby Mark looked sideways at Zombiesorbust.
"Uhhh... He's a black Pikachu. What does he mean by changing into something more comfortable?"
Mark looked back at the trees and saw Pikapika standing behind a tree looking at him. He waved his hand and said,
"Hey, keep your eyes away!"
Mark raised his hands and turned around. Barely five seconds later he heard Pikapika speak again.
"Ok, I'm good."
Mark turned back around.
"Dude, how are you supposed... Uh..."
He was no longer staring at a guy with an evil black Pikachu skin. Instead, he saw standing before him a girl about his age. She had long golden hair, a perfectly white smile and a pair of playful green eyes. She was wearing spaghetti straps, blue short-shorts and sandals. Her hands were elegant and nimble, and her nails were painted lime green like her eyes. She was absolutely... HOT... Mark started sweating on the spot.
"You're a... A... A... A... A..."
Pikapika flipped her hair and smiled.
"Yes, I'm a girl. Sorry, that's just my skin. And you can call me Kelsey.
Mark wiped his brow with his shirt and said,
"Um, how did you change your skin?"
She started walking towards them and then stopped, then pulled off her Blockpack and showed Mark the inside.
"See that little button there?" she pointed to a very small and almost-invisible button right next to the small crafting grid inside. "That little doohickey changes your skin. This is what I looked like on Earth."
Mark looked at her and raised his eyebrows.
"You got transported from Earth too?"
"Well, kind of." she zipped the Blockpack up again. "I had no idea, but you know how... Well, if you're a Christian like me, you know how when you die your soul goes to Heaven or Hell? Well, your Minecraft soul—the person that you played as during your life—stays in the Minecraft Dimension. So, I still stay alive in the game with my own duplicate soul. I'm kind of in two places at once." Kelsey explained.
Mark almost didn't hear her; he was too busy staring at her every time she flipped her hair in that adorable way. Despite the fact he had thought that she was a guy he still couldn't get over how... How...
"Oh Jesus, I can't get over how cute she is! Dang it, if only I wasn't so darn sweaty right now, I might actually give off a good appearance!"
Kelsey looked over at Zombiesorbust and said,
"What's your human self look like?"
Zombiesorbust sighed and said,
"If you insist, I shall show you. I need not privacy, just the gadget of my Blockpack."
He zipped open his Blockpack and located the small button inside, and he pressed it with his ring finger. Suddenly, Zombiesorbust's image flickered and turned transparent, showing the code flowing inside of him. After a second his zombie looks dissipated away to a new form.
Zombiesorbust stood up, letting the two of them get a good look at him. He was now a tall and muscular boy about the age of eighteen or so. His skin was tan, his arms rippled with muscles. He had a chiseled complexion, very handsome, black hair with a tinge of swampy green and murky blue eyes. He was wearing a gray T-shirt with the words "THIS IS SPARTA!" printed bright white on the front. He also was wearing black jean shorts and gray hiking boots.
Zombiesorbust crossed his ripped arms and said,
"Yes, I know, I do not look like the gentleman my personality portrays. If my username is too long then you may address me as Gabe."
Mark gawked at both Kelsey and Gabe.
"Wow! You guys look amazing, but I still look like a total dweeb!" he muttered in sheer amazement.
Kelsey raised her small fist and said,
"Well, it doesn't matter now, does it?"
Kelsey took off her spaghetti straps and shorts, leaving her in a sexy bikini. She kicked off her sandals and jumped into the water. Mark just continued to stare at her beauty. After a few seconds she turned around while neck-deep in the water and waved for them to come in.
"Well come on! Are we going to swim or not?"
Mark looked over to see that even Zombiesor... I mean, Gabe was pulling off his T-shirt. He had a massively epic twelve-pack lined down his stomach, if that's even physically possible. He dove into the water surprisingly gracefully, drenching Mark, who was still standing on the beach sand. He sighed and pulled off his own shirt, and then looked down at his scrawny torso.
"Crap, I really do look like a dweeb. Zombiesor... Dang it. I mean Gabe could crush my body up and season a porkchop with me if he wanted..." he thought.
Mark dove into the water himself and instantly met a splash from Kelsey. She laughed and swam away just as Mark was taking another breath. Thankfully, the water wasn't too cold. He looked at Kelsey swimming away and remembered that he was supposed to be having fun. He grinned and said,
"You're going to pay for that!"
He swam after Kelsey, who unfortunately was a bit faster than him. Despite his scrawny limbs and chest, Mark had a high amount of stamina, so after a while he caught up with her and grabbed her leg. She squealed and screamed,
"Hey! Let go!"
Mark wrestled her into the water, but finally she broke free and splashed him again. Mark laughed and splashed her back, and soon they were in an all-out splash war. He dove under the surface and grabbed her leg again. He used to have a previous girlfriend back at school—of course, he still couldn't remember much—so he always had something that could make a girl squeal for mercy.
Mark put his arm around her leg and grabbed her ankle with both hands. Kelsey was stuck floating there in the water on her back, and her free leg couldn't kick Mark away.
"No fair!" she cried.
Mark grinned and got a good look at her feet. Clean, delicate, barely tread on. He put a finger on her sole and started scratching, running his finger up and down the length of her foot, and she squealed.
"Work's like a charm." he thought to himself, his mouth curled into a mischievous smile.
Kelsey giggled and tried to pull free, but failed at doing so.
"Gee, Kelsey, I have not seen such soft and ticklish soles in my life!" he commented, still barely stroking the plushy and pale skin of her sole.
Kelsey begged and squealed and laughed.
"C'mon! You're a... Heheheheheh! Cheater! Quit it! Heeheeheeheheheheheh! Uncle!"
"Doesn't look like you've walked more than a day on these, they're immaculate." he said playfully.
After another minute he let her go and she chased him around in the water for a long while, trying to get back at him. After another few hours they saw the sun beginning to go down, and Mark heard Gabe shout from the beach.
"I suggest that we head back inside!" he declared, pointing back to their small mansion in the near distance.
Mark noticed him sitting there on the sand with all his clothes dry and put back on. As he and Kelsey were swimming over he said,
"Wait, have you been sitting here the whole time? Were you even in the water at all?"
He didn't answer, but instead stood up and started walking for home. Mark and Kelsey dried off and then put their normal clothes back on. As they were walking towards home they stayed in a somewhat awkward silence. Finally, Kelsey said something to Mark.
"You really know how to have fun, don't you?" she commented.
Mark's cheeks turned crimson and he looked down at the ground. He was nervous beyond compare. He held up one finger and said,
"Um, can you give me a moment?"
"Sure."
Mark walked quickly behind a tree and looked to make sure that Kelsey was turned away. Then he smashed his fist up against the tree, just pounding it to the death.
"What's wrong with me?! How could I have been so playful?! I knew that Pikapika was a girl for barely an hour! WAY too early! WAY, WAY, WAY TOO FREAKING EARLY! I look like such a loser! I look desperate! I'm approaching... Kelsey, Pikapika, whatever, WAY too aggressively! I'm such an idiot! AAAAGGGGHHHH!"
He continued to smash the tree, kick it, ram into it, and do whatever to express his anger while he continued shouting at himself. Finally, he paused and looked back at his home. He could just see Kelsey watching him near the moat. His cheeks reddened even worse and he turned around. Sighing, he leaned up against the tree and wiped the sweat off his forehead. Now he had to deal with the stress of being in competition with a guy who has muscles like a boss for the girl who he originally thought was a boy. All he had was... Nothing. Nothing except his weak ambition.
Tut, tut, Mark. You gotta take a way slower approach than that...
Now, how about some more QAA?
To Salutem and the Glitch: Why didn't you both take the same path of good?
Salutem: Well, I am not surprised that my evil counterpart stayed where it was banished to, it had no intentions of being good whatsoever.
The Glitch: Take the good path?! You must be joking! I am sickened by good, the only thing "good" enough to satisfy my appetite is EVIL! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
To Rexum: How did you know that Mark was being attacked?
Rexum: You remember the Spirits In Between, correct? I receive many important visions from them, and I received one about Mark, and when I opened my eyes and looked outside I saw him being dragged into the mutated pavement and attacked by the eyeballs swimming inside. I am psychic; a gift I am grateful for.
To the Glitch: You are the best how can I be in ur army? Why did you kill Skull and Crossbows though?
The Glitch: I care not about flattery! You shall never be in my army, especially not a... A Guest! I must know who I am working with! Then again, I can find you just as easily... Also, that dried-up pile of calcium was about to kill Norman Cobweb those twenty years ago, and if I didn't do anything it would have, and I was the one to kill him, not Skull and Crossbows. Another reason could be because I am EVIL and SADISTIC beyond COMPARE! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
To Vanessa Why the f*ck don't you get your butt out of that stupid BOOK and at least TALK TO SOMEONE FOR FIVE MINUTES!
Vanessa: No! I cherish this book more than my family AND my... *tries to think of friends that she doesn't have*
Alright, but for next time, how will Mark be able to show Kelsey (and Gabe) that he's not a total loser? Will they all survive for the rest of the quest? They should be better off now that they have supplies, but what about the strangely mutated landscape that unfolds at nighttime? Find out NEXT chapter in VOiD!
But for now, this is Pastrinator64, and I'll see you later with chapter numbah six!
*throws sugar bomb, disappears in a cloud of fine white sugar*
Byyyyyeeeeee...
~Pastrinator64 [~]