Gweniver squinted as the sun rose over the newly built walls of their base.
She grumbled and rolled over, landing on a very sharp piece of rock, which caused her to grumble even more. With a sigh, she gave up trying to sleep, it was no use with the sun glaring down on her anyway, and sat up. The morning mist off of the lake had creeped up around the black walls of their new home and created an eerie feeling of being trapped on an island.
As Gweniver stared into the mist, she began to make out shapes. A flower, a tree, a crown, a lizard, and more and more. However, soon the mist began to show her shapes that chilled her. A face, all too familiar, and the vague shapes of endermen flitted around the corners of her vision.
Shaking the images out of her head, she turned and shook the sleeping Zach, trying to wake him.
"Come on Zach. We have a lot of work to be done."
Zach's only response was to roll over and mutter "No, I don't like pancakes! Stop it!".
"Zach! Come on! Wake up!" She shook his shoulder harder, but with no response. She could not understand how he could still be asleep with the brilliant sun overhead, but he seemed to be doing just fine.
After a couple of more attempts at trying to shake him awake, and failing each time, she decided it was time for her last resort. She grasped the underside of his bed firmly with both hands and heaved it to one side. As the bed began to flip, she lost her grip and landed squarely on her butt, and on the painful shard of rock.
The pain was worth it, however, as Zach was tumbled from his bed.
"Ahhh!" he yelled, as he hit the ground and his bed landed on top of him. "Help! Gwen, help me! The pancakes! They have come for me!" he cried as he flailed around with the covers tangled around him.
Gweniver couldn't help but breaking down in laughter as she watched him struggle to free himself.
"Why are you laughing?!" Zach cried from the ground, "The pancakes are trying to eat me!"
"It's not a pancake, Zach, it's your covers!"
Zach stopped rolling around quite as much, but was still unable to free himself from the confines of his covery prison.
"Gweeennn," he whined, "Help me!"
Gweniver, who hadn't ever really stopped laughing at him, came over and pulled the covers off of his face. However, she couldn't do much more than that, because as soon as she saw his disheveled hair and wide, dazed blue eyes, the laughter took over again.
Zach manged to pull the rest of the covers off by himself, as Gweniver sat laughing, and then turned to look at his flipped over bed.
"What happened? Did I do that?"
"No," Gweniver said, wiping the tears that had formed in her eyes from laughing so much, "You wouldn't wake up so I had to improvise."
Zach pouted at her "That wasn't very nice. You scared me to death!"
"Evil pancakes? Really Zach?"
"Hey! I don't tell you what to dream, thank you very much!"
"Fair enough. Anyway, now that you are up, we have a lot of things we need to do today!"
"Are you finally going to teach me magic!" Zach asked, his blue eyes lighting up in excitement.
Gweniver nodded and headed to the chest. "Yes, today I will be teaching you how to make a Philosophers stone!"
"Ohhhh! That is so cool! What does it do?"
"Basically, it is a portal crafting table. Also, it has certain properties that allow you to change the form of things. Like, take this dirt for instance, with my Philosophers stone I can change it to sand! Also, it works on mobs as well. I can change spiders into Zombies and pigs into cows or villagers or mooshrooms or..."
"WHAT IS THAT?!" Zach exclaimed, causing Gweniver to jump.
"What is what?" she asked, whipping around with her sword half drawn.
"A mooshroom!" he said, his voice full of wonder.
"Oh, it is like a cow combined with mushrooms."
Zach lunged forward and grasped her shoulders. He leaned close to her face and whispered "Is that true?"
Gweniver leaned away from him, unable to escape the steel-like grip of his hands. "Um yes?"
Zach dropped to his knees in front of her. "Oh great magician! Please make me one of those magical philosophical stones so that I may meet this wonderful creature!"
Gweniver rolled her eyes before stepping back to the chest and grabbing the things she needed to make the stone.
"Alright," she said, moving to the crafting table, "Now, first you want to-"
"Yeah yeah, blah blah blah magic stuff. Can I have the stone now?"
"Zach! How are you ever going to learn magic if you don't understand how the thing you're using is made?"
"But, but, mooshrooms." he said, giving her huge puppy dog eyes.
Gweniver sighed and quickly made the stone. Zach let out a huge whoop and gave her a quick side hug.
"Thanks Gwen!" he said, flashing her a wide smile "You're the best!"
"My name is Gweniver!" she called after him, as he bounded off to go find a pig to turn into a mooshroom.
Gweniver shook her head and sighed. With Zach running around the hill side, trying to turn things into mooshrooms, it looked like it was up to her to try and sort out some things with the house.
She took a quick stock of all the items she had just to see what she was working with. She knew they needed a floor and a roof before anything else so she decided to focus on those two things.
Taking a quick stock of how much time was left in the day, Gweniver decided that she would go ahead and try to finish the floor before nightfall.
She once more shuffled through the building blocks in her bag, trying to decide what to make the floor out of.
Interior design was not really her strong suit though, so she glanced around, trying to find Zach to ask his opinion, but he was still out trying to turn pigs into mooshrooms.
Annoyed at once again being left alone to try and sort out the mess, she settled on marble bricks. Yet out of all the blocks Gweniver had, marble was one she was lacking.
Gweniver wasn't sure where to even find marble and couldn't remember seeing any on the way to the hill or in the short time they had spent exploring it, so she picked a random direction and started walking.
She climbed up the hill and began searching for any ravines that she thought the marble might be in. The climb was long and when she reached the top, she couldn't see anywhere that looked like it might have marble in it.
Gweniver trudged along the side of the hill, when suddenly, the rocks gave way from underneath her, causing her to skid down the side and land on her already sore behind.
With a small curse, the mage stood up and, after dusting herself off, began to search again.
The fall seemed to be a premonition of the rest of the day, however, and soon the sun was beginning to travel down towards the edge of the sky without Gweniver finding any marble. The mage was hot and tired and ready to go home. Her feet hurt from walking all day and she just knew that Zach was still running around back at the base without a care in the world.
"Well, if he gets to have the whole day off, I should at least get to enjoy the evening!" She thought and, with a huff she began to head back home, muttering to herself about how she would just use something else until she could find the marble.
However, almost as soon as she turned around, she ran straight into a cave filled with marble.
Gweniver stared at the cave with equal parts disbelief and hate before rolling her eyes and collecting the marble.
Her dark-matter pickaxe would have made short work of it, but it turned out that it did the job a little too well. The first couple of pieces she tried to mine simply broke into small unusable bits and she had to start on a whole new piece.
After a few tries, she got it pretty much down and was able to collection enough so that she could head home.
Her bad mood only increased as she made her way home. She was tired and her back ached from sleeping on the hard ground the night before and annoyed that Zach had done almost nothing since they had started working together.
Once she stumbled in the door, she threw the marble brick into the condenser and set to work.
She laid the marble out in clear and even lines, making sure it was all placed in a pattern. As she worked, she saw Zach wounder up to the door.
He looked so crestfallen that she had to ask "No luck with the mooshrooms then?"
"No, your stupid stone doesn't work."
"Hey! It's not my fault that you didn't listen when I was trying to tell you how to use it!"
"I did too! Kind of. Anyway, if you're sure you know how to use it, you try!"
"Fine!" Gweniver snapped, "I will!" With that, she stormed past him and out onto the hill.
She quickly located a pig on the top of the hill behind their base and stared it down.
She called upon the magic within her, as well as the stones own magic, and willed the animal to change shape.
With the small flash, the pig changed into a cow. Zach, who was standing off to one side, lifted an eye brow at her.
Feeling even more annoyed now, she willed the animal to change shape once more. This time, the cow changed into a sheep.
"Ugh!" with a final flash, the sheep changed into a mooshroom.
"There," she said proudly, turning to Zach. "See, I knew I could do it."
Zach slowly walked up to the pinkish creature and patted its head gently. It mooed in response and rubbed its head against his hand.
Zach turned around and smiled so widely at Gweniver that she could barely see his blue eyes. He then rushed up to her and scooped her into a twirl hug.
"Thank you so much Gwen! You are really the best."
Gweniver felt her heart give an uneven thump that came from the feeling of being swung around in the air and grasped onto his arms so that she wouldn't fly away.
When he finished swinging her around, he gave her a big squeeze. Gweniver found her face shoved into his chest, which smelled faintly of something sweet, before he released her and stepped back.
She fixed her face mask absentmindedly, secretly happy that she had made him smile, and said.
"There, now you have your mooshroom. Can you come help me finish this floor now?"
"Sure!" he said, smiling at her once more before rushing off to grab some marble.
Author's Notes!
Hey guys! Luka here dropping a new fic!"The Darkhold Chronicles" is a collab fanfic series between myself and ShadowDragonia ( ) over on DeviantART
The Darkhold Chronicles is a genderswap fanfic based around The Blackrock Chronicles
Basically, Shadow will write one chapter and then I will write the other! I will be posting both sides on here since she doesn't have a FF. So, so follow her on DA if you have one! She also made the cover art so you should really show her some love :3