The song for this chapter is: Quiet from Matilda the Musical (By the way, this certain song choice was inspired by Lilkinny's Choices We All Need to Make series because she used a lot of Matilda songs in it).

"Jordan!" Mat leaped up from his chair and ran to greet me. He glared at the teenagers, "Endercreeper, Enera, you can release these two." They untied us. I rubbed my wrists to relieve myself of the pain. iEcho just took a look around the interior of the building.

"How'd you get here?" Preston asked us.

"Well, I was searching for your neighboring group…"

"We don't have any neighbor groups," Mat quickly responded, "It's just us."

Speechless, I glanced over at iEcho, who had also heard this comment.

"Why are you not with the Sky Army?" I asked.

"Shh…" Ian hastened to my location and hushed me, "We prefer not to say that name in this territory."

"Who? Sky?"

All three shushed me this time.

"What is the problem with Sky?" I angrily whispered to them.

Mat explained, "After the final battle, Jerome came to Ian and I. He said that Mitch, Ant, and Jason were dead and you-know-who was kidnapped by those damn squids. Frightened that they may come after us, we fled the battlefield like chickens and ran into the woods. I am not proud of that. Luckily, we came across four friendly people not involved in the war who took us in and healed our wounds. Eventually we gained their trust enough to create a separate new group called the Enderdragons. We're not really Endermen or dragons, but it scared lots of invaders. They gathered more people to join the Enderdragons. To keep our area safe, we send recruits to secure the boundaries and make sure that no one sneaks in with anything that could harm us. We haven't told anyone about our pasts so they don't know about you."

"How did Preston get here then?"

"I noticed these two cactuses were missing," Preston elaborated on Mat's story, "So I wandered into the woods looking for them and finally detected Ian and Mat with some guys they found. I decided to stay out of their way for a little while and waited in the forest for two weeks. It was on the recruits' first intruder search that they found me and turned me in. Since I was friends with their new commanders, I joined in on the Enderdragons as well. All three of us share the same position as leaders of the rest of them."

"You never told me why you won't say you-know-who's name."

"Sky, Ty, Kermit, Seth, Noah, and Ryan were hated by these people. Years ago, replicas of them stormed the village that our followers lived in and took over everything. In reality, the real ones were fighting the battles against the squids," Ian told me.

"Strange. Like a trick?" I queried.

"Exactly. But who would do such a thing like that to innocent people?"

Those words triggered my short-term memory. I came to the realization that I knew who the tricksters were. The Illusionists.

Mat had told me there was no other group neighboring them. I believed him more than a girl that I had only known for three hours. Why would I ever have trusted her? She most likely was leading me to a trap for her father. If this was true, she would never gain my trust back again.

A small black cat with gray paws and tail crept over to Preston and rubbed its head against his leg. Another cat, black with gray spots, followed the first cat and repeated its actions.

"These two… I've named them Mistey and Night… have been stuck to me the whole time I've been here. It's crazy!"

Mistey, the one with the gray tail, started to climb Preston like a tree. Ian and Mat laughed hysterically. iEcho and I eventually giggled along.

"Not funny!" Preston cried. One of the recruits pulled Mistey off of him and another one took Night. He punched Mat and Ian on their arms.

"Ow!" they touched their sore arms in unison.

"That's what you get!" Preston couldn't hold in his laughter so all three of them were on the ground holding their stomachs. iEcho and I just looked down with giant smiles on our faces. We were glad that we found someone who we could finally trust.

Later that day, Mat introduced me to all of his recruits and showed me around the camp. iEcho seemed to be getting together well with Preston. Ian just ran around, as the group's source of entertainment.

"Mat!" a girl who wore a purple leather jacket and black trousers hurried to him. She had black hair with purple and red highlights. She was scared for her life.

"Void? What's wrong?"

"They're back! The invaders!"

"What!" Mat led me back into their personal building and met back up with iEcho and Preston, "We have a little bit of a problem."

"Huh?" iEcho asked, "What kind of problem?"

Mat pointed outside the window. I realized what was happening. Replicas of Sky, Ty, Kermit, Seth, Noah, and Ryan scorched the roads of the camp with fear. They started beating up the innocent villagers and burning down the wooden buildings. Shocked, I spotted the replica of Sky. He created a grin on his face that I could recognize anywhere and on anyone. Beatrice.

Ian finally ran into the building, shivering, and held tightly onto Preston.

"Dude, what's wrong?" he asked Ian.

"There's a spy here!"

Mat shot up, "Who?!"

"Vo… Void!"

"Damn it. She must have told them that we were here!"

I still couldn't believe that Beatrice would have been that mean. Furious, I quickly rushed outside.

"Jordan!" iEcho called out. She advanced to join me, but Preston held her back.

Outside I passed the replicas of Seth and Ty and made my way to Beatrice. I tapped her on the shoulder.

"Uh…" she gaped her mouth open and tried to ignore me.

"How could you do this!" I screamed at her, "I honestly thought I could trust you."

"Why are you here?" she asked in Sky's voice.

"The bigger question is: Why the Nether are you here?!"

"It's my father… he…"

"He what?"

"Wanted you dead. From our spy, Void, we got information that two new people had joined the Enderdragons and she described you and a girl. Herobrine doesn't want you to succeed in your mission. He only wants the squids to kill the real Sky and the One with the Golden Necklace."

I remained silent for a few moments, trying to figure out my surroundings, "Why should I believe you?"

"When I told you about that group across the way, it wasn't true. I knew that my father was going to be visiting the Illusionists so I wanted you as far away as possible."

"So you were protecting me?"

"Yes. I hopefully was."

"I have a solution. If you stop invading this village disguised as my friends, then I'll… go back to the Illusionists with you."

"My father will catch you."

"I know. That's the point."

Beatrice thought about this, "Fine." She motioned a signal to regroup the Illusionists, "We're heading out."

Looking inside the building, I saw iEcho, Preston, Mat, and Ian anxiously stare at me as Beatrice tied my hands together. They led me away from the camp of the Enderdragons and into the forest.

Two questions still lingered in my head: How would I rescue Sky if there were so many distractions along the way? and Who is the One with the Golden Necklace?

Who is good? Evil? Trustworthy? And who the Nether is the One with the Golden Necklace?! Use the past chapters and try to figure this tricky situation out before Herobrine does! Muahaha! All will soon be found out...