Thanks to Girlthatreads for Dynamite! She's a cool character :)
I finally get to write about Dragon. Score! Dragon is cool.
Nether never slept. Never. But she wanted to, so she did. She figured she may as well. She had nothing else to do. No Nether mobs had come. None at all. Her eyes burned and she opened them.
Pale blue eyes stared inquisitively into her own.
Furiously, Nether lunged out and struck the girl in the stomach. Unprepared, she sprawled backwards. Her wolf snarled.
Nether was already on her feet. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" she yelled.
The girl lay on the dirt. Her face closed over, shutting out all expression. A grey scarf was knotted around her neck. It was bloodstained.
She shoved the long, wildly swinging brown hair out of her eyes. "I want to know who you are," she said. She raised her scarred chin and stared, almost daring Nether to attack.
"Why should I tell you who I am?" Nether asked.
"Why shouldn't you?" the girl responded.
"Well, who are you?" Nether could hardly believe she was having this conversation with a human. She glared. "Other than just another boring, unimportant Over-dweller."
"So sick of it," the girl muttered. Then she looked straight into Nether's eyes. "I'm Dynamite." She snapped. "Orphan from Aston, griefer of Point Pass. That enough information for you? Oh, I forgot to add the ma'am on the end. My bad."
Nether scowled. "Yes, you did forget the ma'am."
The girl- Dynamite- laughed out loud. Then she stopped. "So who are you?" she questioned, rocking on her feet.
Nether smiled grimly. "Only your pet saved you from death at my hands last night." Her smile disappeared. "Now you are asking who I am."
Dynamite bit her lip, her face closing over again. "I want to know." She whistled softly and the wolf pushed its nose out of bushes.
Nether gave her a scathing look. Flames danced in the middle of her eyes. She flicked her hand and the bushes exploded into flames. The wolf whined, or yelped, or something (Nether couldn't tell what) and ran to Dynamite. Dynamite peered at Nether. "I didn't see the fire charge."
Nether sneered. "Ignorant brat."
Dynamite raised her chin. "Arrogant goose."
Nether scowled. How dare this-
Then she finally smiled. "You need to find my place before you can put me in it."
"Well where is it?"
Nether raised an eyebrow. "Here's a clue."
Obsidian snaked along the ground and grew up into a black-purple portal. Nether ran her finger along it. For a moment the space inside the rectangle flared, flickered purple-
And Nether knelt down to help Dynamite up from the ground.
Dynamite's sky blue eyes rested on the spot where the portal had exploded, shooting thin jets of obsidian into the air and turning the forest floor near it to rubble. "Wha…?"
"My name is Nether, you brat!" Nether hissed irritably. Would this idiot ever wake up?
The wolf whined, scared by the noise. Nether kicked it, taking savage pleasure in its yelps of pain.
"Don't do that to Kym!"
"Your stupid wolf is nothing." Nether yelled.
"You sound like a little girl, whingeing like that and throwing temper tantrums," Dynamite said. She rolled her blue eyes and knelt by Kym, gently pressing the wolf's belly to see if she was hurt.
For once Nether didn't have anything to say. She stomped away.
Behind her, Dynamite gasped and scrambled somewhere. Nether turned on her heel and raised her eyebrows. "I'm surprised Sun let you in."
A circle of grass had wilted slightly around Dragon. The dark ridges on his back stood out against the green and his eyes shone purple. He was totally out of place here. Usually Nether, Sun and Dragon met in the star- studded empty space between dimensions no creature but them could ever see.
Dragon stared at her. He would. "He didn't. I got round him."
"Too easy, isn't it?" Then Nether groaned. "But why are you here?"
"Because Sun is insane. You told me that yourself."
"Soo… you want to help me?"
"Because that's not conspicuous at all." Dynamite broke in. Nether hadn't even realised she was listening. "A weirdo that looks like a dragon, a freak who wants to kill everyone and a griefer with a wolf? No-one will ever know who we are."
Nether whipped her head around and bored into Dynamite with her sharp white-hot eyes. "Who invited you? Either of you?"
Dynamite glowered and retreated into the trees.
Dragon cocked his head and just looked.
