"Well then." Raven said, staring desolately at the unlit portal. "I don't suppose you brought a flint and steel?"
"If I brought a flint and steel, we wouldn't be in this mess."
"If you didn't jump through the portal on a wild adventure, I would of noticed I didn't have a flint and steel and gone back to get one."
"Well... I wanted to see the Nether." Rex muttered.
"Now you have plenty of time to admire the Nether." Raven pointed out as she scanned the landscape.
"Won't someone from the town come after us?"
"Not for about a week. I told them we would be fine. We're on our own." She had told Mystery and Blizzard they were in charge and not to leave no matter what anyways, and no one else was prepared to mount a rescue trip.
Rex pondered this for a little, then said, "If it takes fire from a flint and steel to light a portal, can't we use lava or something?"
"Maybe you're onto something. We can use a fireball from a blaze to relight the portal, I'm not using a ghast. But we need to find one first."
"And we find one where...?
"A nether fortress." She stared at the three tunnels on the ledge." I think it's the far left one. Come on!" She began sprinting across the netherrack, Rex following.
"So how exactly-" Rex jumped over a lava pool, narrowly avoiding burning the tail of her dinosaur suit."-are we doing this?"
Raven brushed a lock of her purple hair out of her eyes."We find a blaze and lead it over, then use one of its fireballs to light the portal. Then we leave and never come back."
"After we find some soulsand."
"After we find some soulsand." Raven corrected, then drew ahead of Rex.
She reached the end of the ledge and looked out. A lava ocean stretched across the massive cavern. There was a steep hill with a lava waterfall pouring down onto it that lead from their current position down to the floor, where there was only a narrow strip of land on the right side that would allow them to get across. Above, the roof extended far above them, and was dotted with clumps of glowstone. Raven could see zombie pigman strolling below, and the occansional magma cube.
Rex finally caught up, munching a porkchop. "Wow." She breathed, her astonished gaze traveling to the building on the other side. "Is that it?"
"The nether fortress? Yep." On the far side of the cave, a dark red nether brick building clung to the wall like vines to a tree. Some of its passages poked out into the air above the lava, while others burrowed into the netherrack. Overall, it produced an ancient, dreadful aura.
"Race you to the bottom!" Rex yelped, running down the slope. Raven was about to follow her, when a flicker of movement appeared in the corner of her eye. She turned around, but nothing had changed on the blood red landscape. She shrugged it off and jogged after Rex. Raven kept an eye out for ghasts, but nothing eventful happened other then a speck of lava landing on her snow white hoodie. It suddenly occured to her that her hoodie and matching shorts and boots must stand out more then Rex's orange dinosaur suit. Actually, she mused as she caught up with Rex, who appeared to be fascinated with the zombie pigman, that eye-scorching orange must stand out anywheres.
"Pigs walking on two legs? And they look like some kind of zombie, but a pig. Did a zombie bite a pig?" The dinosaur suit wearing girl wondered, green eyes glimmering like emeralds so close to lava, which gave off a nasty sulphur-like smell.
"If you accidentally make one of them hostile, I'm not saving you. They're vicious."
"Oh shush." But Rex backed away from the pigman and started heading towards the fortress, keeping a safe distance from anymore of the mobs. Raven resisted the urge to laugh as she and Rex continued their trek.
They walked in silence until Rex suddenly shouted."Look!Is that soulsand?" Raven followed Rex's gaze to where 10 or so of the blocks that were the cause of this whole adventure lay.
"At least some part of this is worth it." She walked over as Rex watched.
Raven could feel her feet sinking in and her strides slowed as she mined some of the soulsand. She took all of the soulsand, which totaled 14. "And now to get that blaze." She turned around and found Rex was no where in sight. "Uh Rex?" Silence. "Hello?" The ever-present gurgle of lava. "This isn't funny." Probably went ahead to the fortress she thought. Yet she could see no dinosaur girl near the fortress, no green eyes shining with excitement, no sign of movement anywhere.
She was alone.
Crunch.
On second thought, she wasn't alone.
They really do have a habit of getting into messes don't they? Well thanks for the support, you might not think it is much, but I can't explain how happy I was when I saw that people have actually read this. And we now have an actual cover that you can see! Whoooo!
Raiden the OC: Yeah I'm Ravenstar, I finally got an account. Just imagine Rex is barney after accidentally getting covered with orange paint. And turned into a girl. Also,I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted Raven to look like, so I held off on that until now.
Also, I lied about this being a two shot. Whoops.This is also going to be like four short chapters because I wrote it in roughly a day, but we should have a much longer sequel with an actual plot that won't change halfway like this one. Yay! Anyways, see you next chapter awesome people, Bye!