Raven whipped around and drew her bow, but no one was there.

Another flicker of movement, and she leaped towards it, pinning the person to the ground.

"Whoa hold up!" A familiar voice yelped, and Raven sprang up, placing her bow back. The girl on the floor sat up, fiddling with her now crooked gray scarf and matching beanie.

"Oh come on!" she whined, flipping light brown hair out of her chocolate brown eyes. "It took me forever to get this scarf right this morning, you don't even know."

"And what are you and Blizzard doing here Shadow?" Raven asked.

The girl, Shadow, froze in the middle of adjusting her beanie. "How did you know Blizzard is here?"

"Because you never get into a mess without dragging him into things. That, and you just admitted it."

A boy with a gray shirt and dark blue jeans moved from his position behind a small netherrack hill, a sheepish grin on his face. "Sorry."

"I thought I told you to stay at the town."

"Mystery has everything handled, and we were just going to go barely five blocks away from the portal to see if we could see you and Rex. Then we saw the deactivated portal, and the ghast craters, and went after you."

"But didn't show your faces."

"Shadow said we would only show ourselves if you two got into trouble."

"And look! You do need our help. We can help you find Rex, and us going into the Nether created another portal." Shadow blurted, as she rolled up the sleeves of her black jacket, then rolled up the sleeves of her light gray shirt under that.

"But you still didn't listen." Raven pointed out, secretly relieved that they could go back to the town soon.

"And you would be stuck here alone if we did." She glared at Shadow, who glared back, until Blizzard mumbled "Shouldn't we be looking for Rex?" as he ran a hand through his silver hair, the royal blue streaks in it shimmering in the lava light.

Raven cast one last look at Shadow before turning to Blizzard. "Yeah we should. Did you happen to see where she went?"

"I think she was heading towards the fortress."

"Shouldn't we think about this?" Shadow asked suddenly.

Raven stared at her. "Think about what?"

"Saving Rex. I mean, it's not our fault she wandered off. Why should we risk going after her? If she wants to come back she can do it herself."

"You just want to leave Rex? Alone?" She hadn't even considered the option. "If she hasn't come back already, she must be in trouble."

"Exactly. She could be dead for all we know. And whatever killed her could kill us."

Rex? Dead? She didn't want to imagine the innocent dinosaur suit wearing girl burning in lava, or falling off one of the sheer cliffs, or in some other terrifying lethal situation. She looked up as she felt a hand on her shoulder and met Blizzard's golden eyes.

"We'll find her. And Shadow, you don't necessary have to come. I mean it's dangerous-" Blizzard began.

"Oh I'll come. I was just listing options." She blinked innocently at Blizzard, then shot Raven a less friendly look when Blizzard turned and began jogging towards the fortress.

This feels short. Next chapter is so long it had to be divided in two though, so I think we're good with chapter lengths.

StressOfWriting: Okay! I'll work on it for future chapters.

That's really all I have to say, so see you later awesome people! Byeee!