Ch.16 Damned from the Beginning
Ananon's Life Part 3
It's been Several months now since the race had been held and Ananon had taken control over the village plus taken Pride from her father. A month after taking over the village her father and mother got their divorce. Of course a huge fight ensued between them. That was to be expected. Lyrena allowed Hatos to take his winnings and things that he had obtained here and there.
He took them all, as to be expected. It's been a few months since then and no one had heard nor seen Hatos. One day while riding from the village to the city on Pride, her friends Dric and Hinn riding next to her on other horses that Ananon had gotten from trade. Leaving the glass tunnel they came to the busy intersection. To the left was the docks, forward was the park and the markets, to the right was to the city.
"Let's head to the docks. I want to check things out there," Ananon said turning Pride towards the traveling path.
The other two didn't mind and went along with her. Pride leapt unfolding his wings and took off into the air. The other two, riding pegasus's followed her one after another. In a line they flew over the Minecraftian's heads casting shadows below them. Birds from the park flying next to them enjoying the ocean's breeze.
Pride nickered and snorted falling into a gradual dive to the docks. Ananon chuckled as she held onto the horse's mane. Several gallops later she was on the docks with Pride and the others. Ananon recognized a man standing at the end of the dock talking with another man as the ship was unloading a huge black rectangular object off its deck. The man that was talking to the ship's owner looked very familiar.
It's father.
Ananon maneuvered Pride and the others behind a great fishing net laden down with fish from that mornings catch.
"What are we doing?" whispered Dric.
"Father's doing something." Ananon replied back looking past the fishing net. "I want to know what that object is that they just unloaded."
"I've never seen such a thing before. Have you Dric?" Hinn asked the young man who shook his head.
"Nothing. It's new to me as well."
Ananon slid off Pride and told them to wait. She snuck off onto the dock hiding behind boxes and crates getting closer to her father and the ship owner.
"Lord Hatos, are you sure you want to buy this? It's quite dangerous." The ship owner warned. His whole body was covered from head to toe in heavy clothing. All black.
Hatos nodded. "It's exactly what I want. There's something I want to go find."
The ship owners red eyes narrowed wondering what he could be after. "If you find anything, contact me. I want to see it as well."
Hatos nodded. "I will. Have a safe return, Lord Dom."
The man that Hatos had called Dom nodded briefly and boarded his ship once more. Looking over the side of the boat as the crane on the dock had just placed it on the unloading zone. The crane beeped at the ship saying it was safely unloaded. The anchors went up and the boat began pulling away from the dock slowly, the boards creaking as the waves sent it on its way. Hatos walked over to the odd looking black stoned rectangle and grinned. "Now the legends are to be tested."
Ananon's eyes narrowed as she wondered what he was talking about. What legends? She sat behind large crates as her father examined what he had just bought. She felt like it was time to head to the library. Maybe she could find clues on these things? She slipped away without being noticed and had them take flight back to the village.
As the horses were settled in their pastures and the tack was put away Ananon sat on a hay bale thinking.
"Ok, you've been thinking hard ever since we returned from the dock. What's up?" Dric asked crouching in front of her.
She met his eyes and got to her feet. "Take me to the library. We're going to be looking in the rare section. The section that only my mother is allowed to go in."
"If we're going there why not just ask your mom whatever you need to ask? You know the librarians…" he trailed off standing and putting his hands in his pockets. "They are so snooty."
Ananon smiled at him. "They're like that for a reason."
He watched her walk past him off towards his Jeep. "How would you know that?"
"I'll tell you when you're man enough." She replied over her shoulder.
He caught up to her in a few short strides, bending over slightly to her level. "What were you implying by that?"
Of course it would be natural for him to not pay attention where he was going. She watched him run smack into the side of the Jeep and fall backwards clutching the side of his head. "Heads up, Jeep is there."
"Little smart ass," he grumbled up at her with a closed eye. "Could've warned me sooner."
"Where's the fun in that?" she asked with a grin and climbed into the passenger seat.
"I swear she's becoming like her dad in a few ways," he muttered to himself getting up and climbing into the driver's side.
The Jeep cranked up and sped off through the tunnel towards the city where the library was nestled.
"What are we going to do to get past the librarians?" Dric asked but was not answered. "Ana, you do have a plan right?"
She only smiled at him and looked away. "You'll see."
The Jeep came to a stop outside the library on the side of the road. Ananon took one of Dric's unholy books that adults are supposed to only have and handed it to him. "You can read that while I'm dealing with the librarians."
He took the book and stared at her with curiosity. "Ok. Why am I going to be reading something like this in a public place such as the library?"
It suddenly dawned on him and he threw the book in the back. "Absolutely not! Ana!"
Her face jabbed into his. "You've got to do this, Dric. You've got to be my diversion! If you don't how else am I to get the pass key to that damned room?"
He gritted his teeth at her. "I use the library to study though. Why are you going to fuck up my schooling for your fathers shit?"
"Dric, You can study at my building. We have every book that's in the library." Ananon replied and slipped out of the Jeep.
"No wonder you don't hang out." He muttered and sighed running a hand through his black hair. "Damn it all! The shit I go through for her!"
He grabbed the book from the back and jumped out of the Jeep, running up the steps after her. "I can't believe I'm doing this! Of all crazy schemes she chooses the most fucked up one!"
"I can here you," she says in front of him as she reaches the top of the stairs. "Don't think I won't beat you senseless when we get out of here, Dric."
"What exactly are you going to do?" he asked with his eyes narrowed.
She ignored him and went into the library. She immediately strode off to the back where the mystery books were located and began browsing. A little bit later in walked Dric with the book under his arm looking casual, striding over to the fiction section. After a few moments Ananon came up to the desk and bent over to whisper to them. "There's a guy in the fiction that's got an adult rated book and is putting pages in other books."
The librarians gasped and stood up. "Thank you, young lady! We'll handle this matter!"
They strode away from the desk briskly into the fiction section. While they were away Ananon leapt over the desk and went through the drawers and found the key to the restricted section. She leapt over the front desk once more and took off into the dark corner at the back where the key told where the button on the wall was. No one could've known there was a button that looked exactly like the stone itself. She slipped through the iron door and heard it clunk behind her.
Hope they didn't hear that. Now to find what dad was talking about.
She went from row to row looking for whatever she could on the odd looking rectangular thing that her father had bought. There was nothing there that told anything about it. She punched the wall out of frustration. "Damn it! It has got to be in the restricted area!"
"Whatever you're seeking it might be in the book that went missing a month ago."
Ananon spun around to the voice to see one of the librarians standing there looking at her. Ananon gasped.
"It's ok,Princess. Your mother has informed us that you might be stopping by here to get information. You might also need access to this room. All you must do is ask."
Ananon sighed leaning on the end of a bookshelf and sighed. "I'm sorry."
The librarian waved her hand. "It's ok. No harm no foul. So, what were you looking for?"
Ananon described the object that she had seen and what had gone down at the docks. The librarian pondered this for a moment. "That would have been in The Creator's Creations; Book two."
Ananon perked up at that. "Where is that?"
"It went missing a month or so ago." The librarian replied. "I'm sorry."
She looked away and narrowed her eyes. "I'll bet you he has it somewhere."
Ananon briskly walked up to the front desk where the other librarians were at talking to Dric, having him fill out paperwork on his bad behavior. She grabbed his shirt by the front and hauled him over the front counter. "Come on. We've got someone to find."
The librarians stood there calling out to her. Ananon ignored them and dropped Dric at the bottom of the steps. "Drive."
Dric stood up brushing himself off. The librarians came out and yelled at them from the top of the stairs. Dric leapt across the hood of the jeep and got into the driver's seat. Cranking it up the jeep sped away making a U-Turn and striking off towards Ananon's family's tower. The jeep slid to a stop in front of the tower where Ananon stepped out and stared up at the top of the building with the sun glaring down at her from above.
Please have the information I seek, mom.
She began walking through the doors and stepped onto the elevator that a man held for her. Dric came in too late and saw the elevator begin its journey to the top of the tower with Ananon on it.
"Stay there." She ordered before disappearing heading upwards behind the wall.
Dric sighed and collapsed into a chair. "I hate my luck sometimes."
The elevator door opened for Ananon to step out into the front room of the office. The doors opened allowing a secretary to leave. She stopped and nodded her head to Ananon before going on her way. Ananon strode in the room and stood there staring at her mom behind the desk as the door clicked shut.
"Ananon," her mother said not looking up. "Having a productful day at the village?"
Ananon strode forward until she was two steps from the desk before stopping. "You know there's a book at the library in the restricted section missing?"
"I hear you and Pride went about to the docks. How is it down there?" her mom asked writing on a piece of paper like she didn't hear her.
"The Creator's Creations: Book two is missing from the restricted section." Ananon stared hard at her mother's head. "Where is it?"
Her mother pointed to a stack of paper at the end of the desk. "Can you get me another sheet. I'm about to run out of space."
Ananon slammed her fists on the desk making her mother rise up just a hair.
"He has the book, doesn't he?"
Her mother sighed removing her glass and placing them on the desk. She looked up into her daughters face with tired eyes that had slight bags underneath. "Yes. He has the book. Why?"
"He's still going by his title as Lord, King and whatever else he used to use. He has not told the other lords that he's not in power any longer!" Ananon spat. "You haven't sent out notification letters yet, have you?"
Her mother flinched and sat back rubbing her eyes with her left hand. "Ana…"
"No! Don't Ana me!" she snapped. "You know how much dad spent down at the docks just now?"
Her mother raised her brows at her. "What? Bought something?"
Ananon stared at her mother and face palmed herself. "How is it that I know more about what happens in the city and such than you?"
Ananon explained to her mom what all she saw and what she had dug up in the library on the missing book. Her mother placed her chin on her interlocked fingers that were propped up on the desk listening to her. Ananon sighed at the end of the story and sat on the couch on the side of the room. She watched her mom spin her chair around to face the newly built glass window that went seven blocks high.
"Ana, head down to a building at the end of Velvet Blaze road. Your father is living there."
Ana cocked her head at her mom. "Now?"
"Yes, now." Her mother turned to her with seriousness about her. "He has obtained a portal to Hell. Only fools would travel there. Plus he owes me pay on you and your brother. Go!"
Ananon got to her feet. "So, it's called an Obsidian Portal?"
"Yes. Very dangerous it is because once opened things can leak out into this world." Her mother rose to her feet looking grim. "Whatever happens, don't let him open that portal!"
Ananon stepped off the elevator biting her fingernails when Dric saw her. "What's up?"
He stood walking towards her. "Ananon?"
"Father has an Obsidian Portal. It's what we saw on the dock."
He froze then. "What? An O-Obsidian P-Portal?"
She nodded looking up at him with dread. "From what I've been told by mom it isn't anything good."
Dric stumbled backwards and collapsed onto the couch. His eyes stared wide at the floor where his faint reflection stared back at him on the floor. "Ananon…That thing is the most dangerous item there is in Minecraft! Your mom is right about it. There are these creature's called Ghasts that live there."
"I thought you didn't know anything about this portal or what it was?"
He flinched and put his head between his knees of his lap. "I do but I didn't want to believe what I was seeing then!"
She strode over to him and knelt in front of him. "Dric, what my dad has can't be here any longer. He could unleash Ghasts on the village and the city and only Notch knows what will happen to them all if that happens!"
Dric started shaking and sobbing. "I do! I know exactly what will happen to everyone!"
"Dric." Ananon whispered. "What will happen?"
His head rose up so their eyes locked. "Possession. Every single person will be possessed. Flames, oh Notch, the flames that rage up!"
He grasped his head whimpering. "I don't want to see that dream anymore! No more!"
Ananon rose up slowly and placed her hand on his head. "You're older than me and already know the future outcome for the city and the inhabitants. It's all because of my family. I'm sorry."
He wept into his lap as she strode out of the tower.
"I'll do this myself. It's going to be me who has to stop this anyways."
She climbed into the Jeep and cranked it up. Shifting the gears she floored it and squealed away towards the place her mother told her to go. No one will suffer any more from his mistakes! I'll see to that!
The Jeep slid to a stop outside the building that she was told about. Looking up at it chills went down her spine. Her gut clenched at an odd feeling that crept over her. Slipping out of the Jeep she strode into the building taking the elevator up. He was either here or not.
Something inside of her knew he was there in the building. Father…
The elevator doors opened allowing her to step out. Her father was there sitting at his desk looking at something. His eyes slowly looked up to her. "If it isn't my dear daughter who took everything from me. What do you want?"
"Don't blame me for your fall out, father. You dug your own grave." She said stepping from the elevator." Who was that man at the docks?"
"A Lord from a far." He replied quietly. "He made me this portal for being such a valued customer."
"Such bullshit!" she spat." That thing was sold to you. Not given! Mother is highly upset that you bought something like this!"
"She knows?" he asked with his eyes narrowed. "You told her I assume?"
"Damn right!" she growled. "I'm set on putting your evil deeds in the ground where they belong! No one needs to be corrupted by them!"
"Such an annoying little pest of a daughter I have." He muttered. "Why are you here really?"
"Tell me about that Lord from a far. Why would he want you to tell him what you found there?"
Her father cocked his head at her. "I don't know. Maybe there's something valuable there?"
"It's got to be a trap, father." She said taking a step forward. "I don't like the looks of him."
"Because you don't know him." He said icily. "I don't like the people in the village or in the city that you hang out with."
"You don't know them," she retorted. "I don't use them like you do. We help one another out."
"You're wasting my damn time, child! Why are you here?"
"I'm here on business. The business that could harm the city and its inhabitants from what you have bought."
He glared at her standing up. "You nosy child! Get lost! I can get what I want!"
"Not something that can leak evil through the lands!" she spat back. "Destroy it or I will!"
"It will not be destroyed!" he barked coming from behind his desk. "It is the monument of historical venturing from the past adventurers! They all strive to find such an artifact when the knowledge of how to obtain one is in one book."
"The artisans who made the book and the ones who manufacture the portal are two different people!" Ananon growled. "What you have is either real or fake."
"It's real." He said quietly turning his head towards the Obsidian Portal that stood tall on the side of the room. "I know how to activate it too."
"You're not activating anything!" she snapped stepping towards him.
"I will do asI please because I'm your father and King!" he roared advancing on the portal.
She sprang from where she was to stop him as she saw the lighter. The two clashed with one another just a block away from the rectangular object. Her father, lighter in hand, reached out to light the obsidian on fire while Ananon pushed him back with all her might. "I'm not going to let you bring Hell upon these lands! You understand me, father? I will not let this happen!"
"It's the destiny of this hell bent place!" he yelled out using all his weight against her. "Get out of my way, daughter! Hell's Throne is mine!"
He tossed the lighter over her at the portal. She gasped letting him go and spinning around. "No!"
Her hand reached out to grab it as she took a step before leaping after it. Her father reached out for her waist to grab her back. "Ananon, no!"
Tink! The sound of the lighter hitting the side of the portal. Her hand grabbed for it but missed. The lighter fell down to the bottom of the portal, a faint flame being jostled by the wind. She was pushed by her father through the mouth of the portal and into the wall. Tink,Tink. Was the lighter hitting the bottom of the portal on a corner and leaping up to turn in midair and hit the portal on another corner. A flame jumped from the lighter and hit the obsidian. Fwoosh!
Ananon looked over her shoulder pushing away from the wall to race the flaming purple wall that was rising up to form the gate of the portal. She leapt through the claring above the rising flames to push back her father. "No! You won't go!"
He grabbed her by the front and flung her away. The flames adhering to the top of the portal making a swirling gate that made hellish voices and sounds. Ananon clawed down his arm and gripping his wrist to stop being thrown away.
"Bastard! I said I wouldn't let you and I meant it!"
Her father and her battled with one another; one forcing her away while the other forcing him to not go. Dric arrived just in time to see Ananon and her father having a great struggle with one another just a step away from the portal. "Ananon!"
He rushed in grabbing her. That extra weight was enough to throw Ananon's father off balance and into the portal where they were all sucked up.
"Father!" Ananon yelled.
"Ananon!" yelled Dric.
All three landed on top of one another onto a solid stone platform. Her father climbed out from underneath them and crawled away. Dric opened his eyes to see Ananon's father walking away across the red ground. Above them came cries of something that wasn't human. Dric peered up and saw huge white creatures flying about with angry faces.
"No. No! No!" he screamed out attracting their attention.
Ananon awoke to see Dric grabbing her up and sprinting away from fireballs that were coming down around them. "Dric!"
He flinched and leapt behind a wall that hid them from view. The Ghasts moaned and cried flying about trying to find them. She peeked out from around the wall to get a better look at them and gasped. "Are those Ghasts?"
Dric nodded. "They are great demons within ghost forms. They have offspring that are smaller and look different."
Her eyes looked around her and saw a huge cavern that stretched out around her with waterfalls of lava falling from the ceiling down to a great lava ocean below. Caves could be seen in the walls and in the distance as the cavern they were in snaked away. The lava bubbled and churned with hissing sounds. She shrank back into their small hiding place. "How do we get back home?"
"Go back through the portal." He replied.
"Ananon!" cried out a voice that echoed throughout the cavern. "Ananon, my dear daughter! You have failed them all!"
Ananon sprang from the hiding place looking around for the voice. The Ghasts cried out flying towards the source of the voice.
"Ananon, watch me!" the voice cried out. "I'm going to be all the more powerful than your mother! Then she won't be able to boss me around nor disobey me!"
Ananon spotted her father as he raced up a hillside. "Father! Stop!"
Dric scrambled from behind the wall to see her race off. "No! Stop, Ananon!"
The Ghasts spat fire balls down around her blowing up the ground making her stumble as she went. A fireball exploded right at her heels making her fly up and tumbled across the sharp rocks. She rolled to a stop before pushing herself up and continuing running after her father. Her father stopped on a cliff that over looked the lava ocean below. He grinned down at her and reared his head up at a Ghast that was hovering above him.
"Take me unto you! Take me and have the ability to rule over all that have followed me!"
The Ghast stared down at him as it lowered slowly. "Minecraftian. Is it truly what you seek from us?"
"You know of the Throne," he retorted. "It's what I seek!"
The Ghast narrowed its eyes as its mouth grinned evilly. "So be it then."
Ananon's father opened his arms wide with a smile on his face as the Ghast dove into his body. Ananon froze staring up at them. "Father, no!"
A bright light enveloped everything in the cavern. The Ghasts cried out being wiped away by the power. Strong sheer winds whirled around the cavern making some of the cavern crumble and fall. Ananon shielded her eyes and felt the ceiling falling around her.
"Ananon!" Dric cried out blindly. "Ananon!"
Ananon lifted her head over her protective arms staring through the light at a figure that had been transformed. The form turned its head towards her, its red eyes glowing brightly through the bright light as its transformation still proceeded. Father…!
"The future of Minecraft has been chosen. Minecraftian's will bow to the new Lord and give their lives to our brethren to create a whole new world and life style!"
Ananon gaped at him as the light began fading at last. Her father was no more but a skeletal figure who stood high with a red tattered cloak whipping behind him that had a hood over his face, hiding its skull from her. A rod that was made from bone and whatever else materialized in his right skeletal hand.
"Ananon!" screamed Dric as he saw Ghasts materializing above them and shooting down a hail of fireballs.
Ananon looked up then to see the fireballs closing in on her. The skeletal figured appeared wiping out the fireballs in one wave from the rod. She took the chance and sprinted for the portal.
"Dric, go!"
Dric scrambled down the ledge towards the portal as she instructed. He dove through the gateway to the other side. Ananon paused before going back. She turned back to her father with one last gaze that they held before she leapt through the gateway and disappeared. She and Dric landed in a heap on the other side gasping.
"Dric!"
"Ana!"
"You ok?" they asked one another at once and nodded to answer each other's question.
Ananon dragged herself off him and flopped onto her back staring at the ceiling. "Damn him! I was too late!"
A skeletal hand came through the portal. They gasped as the hand was connected to an arm and then the shoulder; her father was coming through! They sprang away from the portal and watched him stand where they had just been. He grinned at them.
"We meet again."
"Go back!" Ananon barked.
The skeletal figure shook its head. "Can't do that. I already promised that Hell could take over Minecraft."
"Bastard! How could you promise such a thing?" she screamed at him getting to her feet. "You are not my father that I once knew!"
The skeletal figure chuckled making his robes shake. "Funny child I raised. Now, stay put the both of you. I have a meeting with my ex-wife."
Ananon was about to protest when she and Dric were tied up and thrown into a far wall. The figure broke the glass window and flew out over the city. Ananon struggled to get free but finally gave up. There was a sound that made Ananon look over her shoulder at Dric.
"Don't worry, I'll get us free," he muttered cutting the bindings that were dead vines. He held a small shard of glass that had fallen near him.
Ananon laid there waiting. In her mind she began thinking of a plan to stop her father. "I've hardly done anything right."
"That's not true. You've done everything I would've," Dric replied as a vine snapped apart. "Look, there will come a time when someone will defend us from the evil. Right now, it's you. In the future there will be someone greater though. Someone that will exceed your father and all the rest."
Ananon looked over her shoulder at him.
"We're relying on you at the moment, Ana. We'll come together and help you stop him!"
The vines snapped apart letting Dric move freely. He worked quickly on Ananon's vines. Every minute wasted was a minute he got closer to her mother.
"Have we received word from Ananon?"
"No, ma'am. Nothing yet."
Ananon's mother sighed staring out the window at the city below. Ananon…
"Aren't you a lucky bitch?"
Ananon's mother spun around to see a figure in tattered clothing and skeletal parts. "Who are you?"
The skeletal figure chuckled. "Hatos ring a bell?"
"Hatos!" hissed Lyrena. "I thought you'd do something like this."
"And yet you still couldn't stop me from doing such a thing?" he purred striding towards her.
Lyrena glared at him. "Where's our daughter at?"
"Sitting tight somewhere while we talk." He replied. "I have a proposition for you. Will you hear me out?"
There was silence between Ananon and Dric while she sat on the floor wrapping the vines up to reuse again if possible. Dric sat against the wall staring at the ceiling.
"Well? You're going to kill him?"
"Yeah."
"How?"
"Somehow. It'll hit me."
"Not much of a plan."
"Like I got a choice right now!" she snapped and stopped what she was doing.
Dric stood stretching. "You'll figure something out."
A whinny cried out and Pride soared into the room through the oversized broken window to touch down. Ananon got to her feet smiling. "Pride!"
A second horse glided in and also landed. Hinn on its back.
"Yo!"
"Hinn," exclaimed Dric. "What are you doing here?"
"Pride here wouldn't be calm so I decided to let him come see how Ana was doing."
Pride nickered nuzzling against Ananon. "I'm glad you came, the both of you. I need your help to stop my dad."
She told them what all happened. Hinn braced himself against the white Pegasus. "Oh dear!"
Ananon mounted Pride and turned him towards the shattered window. "I got to go face him before something happens to mom. Dric, you know what to do from here on. Right?"
Dric nodded. Pride galloped out of the room and leapt out the window. His wings spread out and allowed him to glide off on the wind. Soon the Pegasus soared past the great window that was the face of her mom's office. Pride dove to the entrance and pulled out of the dive swiftly to gallop into the building and head into the elevator.
Please, Notch! Let mom be ok! She prayed inside her head as Pride stepped into the elevator and was taken up to the top. The elevator dinged and allowed them off. Pride stepped off the elevator slowly, carefully stepping into the office. Ananon looked about the room for her mom and brother. "Hello?"
"Good evening, daughter. I see you got away." A deep hissing voice replied from the dark corner of the room where a pile of ashes lay.
"Where's mom? What did you do to her?" she asked walking into the room.
Her mother's desk was no longer there but its charred remains lay there in piles. The black office chair that her father had made out of wool turned around to face her. Her father's hood rose as if to look at her. He stood with grace and strode step by step towards her. "Daughter. It has come! The revelation for the Ravendon's! All of my work in the city will be glorified!"
"What are you talking about?" she asked taking a step back, her left shoulder rubbing on Pride's right side. "It's a bit too late for planning this sort of thing, dad. You're not a Minecraftian anylonger."
"I don't have to be a Minecraftian to do something like this," he replied. "I was possessed by a Great Ghost! I can make anything and everything mine! Your mother just couldn't stand that."
"What the fuck are you talking about? If you hurt mom I'm going to kill you!" she snapped at him.
"That storm that hit made me want power like it had. Power is what I want more than anything so that all will see how great I am!" He hissed. "Since you're so determined to stop me I guess I'll let you in on my ambition. What do you say? Or do you still want to kill me?"
"Where's mom?" Ananon asked.
"Stop worrying about that wench, daughter. You can be even more powerful than her! Come with me and let's rule together." Her father rose from his seat striding towards her. "You and Pride will be rulers of the underworld with me. My greatest enemy can be my best friend."
"Fuck off!" she snapped. "How dare you ask me this when you know where my heart lies! Mother stood up for what she believed in! I will do the same! You are in the wrong and always will be until I strike you down!"
"When will that be, hmm?" he asked chuckling.
"When you see me come to Hell for your head." She replied taking the vines from her shoulder. "For now, go back to Hell where you belong!"
Her father laughed. Pride sprang from where he was and blew fire at him. Hatos leapt away and landed near the window. He looked at his robe to see it had been singed. "Fucking horse!"
Pride nickered whipping his tail side to side and stood tall. Ananon grinned.
"Afraid of fire?"
"These are nice robes, I don't want them burnt!" he hissed. "I knew I should've taken that horse far away from here."
"Too bad." She grinned. "He now protects me."
"Sister!" Nain cried out coming from the steps. "Who's that?"
"Father has gone to the dark side, brother. Stand back!" ordered Ananon.
"What?" Nain exclaimed not believeing it. "How?"
"Possession."
Nain gasped going into shock. Hatos looked from Ananon to Nain.
"Such an atmosphere. What's with all the hate?"
"Ana!" cried out Dric from outside.
Ananon looked past her father to see Dric holding something in his hand. Dric through it past Hatos to Ananon. Ananon caught it and stared at the rod. "What is this?"
"It's called a Bam Stick! Smack him with it!" Dric yelled out.
Hatos flung his own rod at Dric who was sent flying away with the Pegasus. "Silence, brat! She doesn't need your help!"
Hatos suddenly felt himself get hit in the back. He gasped as a huge explosion took place. Ananon cried out as she and her father were sent flying apart.
"Ana!" Nain cried out croutching on the floor.
Ananon got to her feet grasping the rod in her hands. "I won't fall so easily from my own attack. Stay there, Nain."
Laughing could be heard within the dust and rubble. The floor began to shift and break apart as a skeletal hand broke through the rubble. The rest of the body followed and stood within the dust.
"That hurt you know? Daughter, how could you hurt your father like that?"
Ananon narrowed her eyes. "You were once my father but you are no more! I told you that!"
Hatos chuckled turning to her. Ana could see his skeletal form was now taken out in two places but still moving about. "You're no better than your mother. At least you actually landed a blow to me."
Ananon's eyes widened. She ground her teeth and sprang at him. "You bastard! She loved you!"
"Did is the word to focus on," her father said and met her in mid-advance. "She used me to make heirs for her lineage."
Ananon yelled out attacking her father with the rod and causing huge explosions that began to destroy the building. Nain and Pride leapt out of the gaping hole that used to be the window but wasn't anything of the sort. Ananon and her father dropped from one floor to the next as the building was destroyed by the Boom stick. Ananon landed on the thirteenth floor panting. Her father floated down with only some of his spine, left arm, partial of a skull and almost none of a cloak left.
"What's the matter? Getting tired?"
She pointed the rod at him panting. "You're not going to touch these people! I won't stop until you're gone!"
"Now!" shouted a voice making Ananon and her father turn to see an Obsidian Portal get thrown through the air, through the great glass window behind her father and fall forward taking her father through the portal, transporting him back to Hell.
A group of miners came through the window by rope and began to destroy the Obsidian Portal with diamond picks. Ananon fell to her knees completely exhausted. The rod rolled from her grasp and stopped a block away.
"I got them here in time." A voice said over her.
Ananon looked up to see Dric standing there looking relieved. "You saved me."
"No, you saved us from a future that would've ruined all of Minecraft. It still can once another portal is opened. Your father can go and come as he pleases then."
Ananon closed her eyes falling forward onto the floor. "I don't want to think about that right now. I want to rest."
With the Obsidian Portal destroyed the city and the village was in peace. Nain and Ananon were left to carry on their mother's roll of ruling it. Dric was now Ananon's head Scientist. With Dric's help they learned all they could about the Nether and its inhabitants. A ban was placed on the use of an Obsidian Portal and the ban was made world wide soon after.
A few years after the studies on the Nether were complete, the village had been up to date and now operational like the city Ananon saw it was time to go on a journey. Something she had to do somewhere. She told Nain good bye, who was sad to see her go, and Dric. They escorted her to the docks where Hinn and Pride along with his brother were waiting.
"I hope to see you return soon my lady." Hinn said looking sad by her leaving.
"I'll return once my journey is done." She smiled hugging each and every one of them.
Boarding the ship that had been prepared for her she set sail to the unknown hoping to uncover something else that her father had kept hidden. For starters she wanted to find that man that had sold the portal to her father. Waving good bye to her friends and brother the ship sailed out of the port and out into the sea becoming a spec in the distance before fully disappearing over the horizon.
From there it's history what happened afterwards.
Ok, guys! Ch.16 and the end of how the skeletal race began! Ch.17 is where we'll pick up with Sell once more. Before I can type that up I've got classes starting up so it'll take me awhile to upload chapters. Do not worry though; I'll be submitting them as often as I possibly can. It'll just take longer. Also if I can get your feedback on the story so far I'd appreciate it greatly!