The song for this chapter is: Vida la Vida by Coldplay.

Now back to Jordan.

"I'm leaving. Fury is my brother. He's my responsibility."

Kitty spun around toward the trees and took a deep breath.

"But I've been with you for so long. You now tell me that I can't help?!" I nervously asked her. She faced me once again.

"Jordan, I need to find Fury. I don't want to lag behind…"

"I'm causing you to lag?! This is absurd!"

"So glad I met you. Now I must go." She kept a straight face while beginning her journey into the trees. If I raced up to meet her, she would tell me to go away. There was no way I could stay with Kitty. So I let her leave, like all my other potential friends.

Once Beatrice noticed Kitty was gone, she slid her way over to me, "Need some more help?"

"No," I annoyingly replied.

"I know a place besides the Illusionists that you can go for support."

I started to gain interest, "You do?"

"Yeah. The only problem is that the only way you can get through over to their camp is blocked by a battle-to-the-death arena. All people who want to visit them need to survive the "hunger games" type battle."

"Why do you want to send to a group that I may not make it alive to?"

"Cause they're the best of the best."

"You so sure?"

"Yep." She charmingly nodded and pushed me towards the woods to the right of their camp, "Straight that way and you should hit the arena."

I glanced back and saw her eyes turn from dark teal to mint green. They became sky blue for a split second, causing me to think about Sierra.

"I'm not so sure…"

"Trust me." Beatrice grinned in a devious Herobrine way. Like father like daughter.

She waved me off and smiled as I left. Once I could barely make out the Illusionists' camp, Beatrice had turned her back and strut into the conference room.

"Think about it. Maybe you can find someone you know and team up with them," I whispered to myself. Strolling through the now-peaceful forestry, my mind was able to relax and think of other incidences where I didn't lose a friend. At this moment, I realized why Beatrice sent me to this "new" group. She knew that I would win the battle-to-the-death and actually make it across to the other side. And once I arrived, the new group would appreciate my accomplishment and give me more respect on their first impression.

My thoughts were interrupted by an arrow zooming past my head. Surprised, I spun around to watch it fly by but another one nearly hit my elbow. Nervous and shocked, I returned to face the direction I was recently in and spotted a girl with rainbow hair and brown eyes wearing a black hoodie with smily face creeper on the back, and white shorts. Her ears were covered by black headphones. She held a bow in her right hand.

"You gonna fight back or not?" she unwelcomingly asked, "This is a one-man standing battle."

"Uh… yeah. I guess." I replied. Struggling to grab my diamond sword out of my bag, I noticed the girl, who looked only seventeen, roll her eyes and walk over to help me.

Once I had out my sword, she returned to her position and aim her bow at my face, "Okay, now this is going to be a fair battle. Only I'm going to win."

I smirked and ran in towards her but when she shot the arrow, it almost hit me. I jinxed the girl and ran around, leading her to believe I was in her back. As she pulled out an iron axe, she swung into thin air. To trick her, I had ran to her left side and knocked her down with the handle of my sword.

"Alright," she gasped for air, "You got me there. You're good." The girl stood up, "But please don't kill me. If we team up, there will be a better chance that we can both get out of here alive."

"I didn't want to kill you anyways."

"Oh… well… good. I'm iEcho by the way." She put out her hand for me to shake and I took the offer.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Jordan."

"Wait a minute… you're not CaptainSparklez… are you?"

"Yeah, I actually am."

"Oh my Notch! I had no idea! I'm sorry I ever tried to kill you in the first place!"

"It's okay, it's okay. All we have to do is get rid of everyone else. I'm trying to get to this group across from the arena. I'm not sure what it's called but I heard about it from my friend Beatrice of the Illusionists."

"The Illusionists?"

I nodded and glanced around for any possible enemies. Finding no one, I concealed my sword, "So why are you here? And how do you know me?"

"Well, it's a long story."

Searching our surroundings once more and spotting no one, I chuckled, "I think we have time."

iEcho grinned and continued, "See, I technically still am a recruit of the Sky Army. I was on the front line of the final battle. Ant and Jason were fighting next to me. To escape the grasp of about four squids, I ran over to Sky's location. I noticed he was struggling against a larger, superior squid with Mitch. Trying to help him, I rushed over and beat down the squid with my budder sword. Sky thanked me but did not catch a eye on another squid that grabbed him from the back. I attempted to chop off one of the squid's tentacles, and that I was able to do. Unfortunately, he had about six left. Mitch ran at the squid but was knocked down. He eventually stood up yet again and daringly rushed at it. The squid's friend, who was hiding in the shadows, slashed Mitch with his own sword. Devastated at Mitch's dead body lying at my feet, I tried once again to free Sky but was caught myself."

I already was shocked at her story but it seemed she was not finished.

"Everyone who had not fled or died was sent to the squid dimension, including myself. We were put in prisons of around sixteen people each. Sky, of course, was the only one who got a private cell. Hopeless and without any freedom, a friend of mine in the same cell as me spotted a hole in the wall which would easily free the smaller people. I volunteered to leave and get help, which was successful. Well, I left, but… I came back a minute later and peeked through a crack. From what I saw, the rest of my cellmates were being transported by the squids into another area, or even possible death. I don't know. What I do know is that the squids knew that someone had escaped. They could't have found out it was me though. That would have been impossible. I exited the squid dimension with only a few minor injuries. I've been wandering these forests ever since."

"So you were a captive of the squids and you survived?"

"I guess that's what you can call it."

We suddenly heard leaves crackle in the near distance. A trio of archers surrounded us within fifteen seconds. They were packed with iron armor and seemed arrogant with power. What did we do then? I ran at one of them with my diamond sword and iEcho rushed at another one with her bow and arrows. Those two were easily defeated. The last one, a young man, however was still standing. A loud bong rang out with sound, which hurt our ears. Seconds later, we were transported to final death-match.