"Good to see you finally decided to join us," Hunter mused as the group saw Stitcher, Monet, and me approach the waiting group.
"We would have come sooner if she did not need so many breaks to catch her breath," Stitcher did not seem too pleased with me.
Gameknight walked up to the four. "Just as long as you were not pushing her to do something, you did well," he looked at me. "Are you alright?" He asked. There was a faint concerned tone, but it seemed like he was trying to hide it.
I nodded my head. "F-fine," I reassured him.
Gameknight nodded as well. "Good," he then turned to the rest of the group, speaking in a much more informative voice. "We will rest here till Morgana has collected what she needs," he looked over the tired group.
I looked relieved and sat down on the warm ground. It did not help with the hot Nether around them. I watched as Morgana started collecting the Netherwart. I had no clue what potion they were going to use that for. Heck, what I know of, there is no potion to cure this sickness. Well, if it was poison, then would they not need milk from a cow? Maybe it was worse than poison. Something a normal potion or milk could not cure. I shook the horrid thought away.
Looking away, I saw Gameknight walking around, talking to the other NPCs. I could not make out what they were saying; but that did not matter because I heard a loud squeal of a pigman. Everyone looked over to see a large pigman, with an army of pigmen behind him. It looked like just one small wave. 'Oh no,' I thought in dismay. 'So that is why he did not want me going into the Nether.' I scrambled to my feet, almost collapsing from seeing stars.
"I want you helping Morgana collect the Netherwart," I heard Gameknight order me. "That will be the safest place you can be." He left my side to get to the army of NPCs. I watched as Monet and Stitcher abandoned my side to get orders from him.
I slowly stood again, this time not seeing stars. I made my way toward the Netherwart farm. Along the way, I could see the NPCs making hasty setups for the charging herd of pigmen. "Gameknight told me to help you," I told Morgana.
"Great," she did not seem pleased. I only guessed that was because of the battle going on. "You do that half, and I will do this half."
I nodded getting straight to work with collecting the large amount of Netherwart. Not too long into collecting the item, I could hear the battle. This caused my heart to race, and because of this, I made sure Morgana could not see how terrified I had looked. I did my best to keep to my task. That was until I saw another wave with another large pigman charge. I looked over to see that no one has noticed. This wave was much more silent.
I heard the sudden splash of potions and looked over to see Morgana was being attacked by second wave. This horrified me. What should I do? Let her get possibly killed, or help her? The guilt rose inside me. This caused me to unsheathe my iron sword and charge, striking at the first pigman I could reach. Worst idea ever as half of them looked at me and started to charge. "Gah!" I gasped as I had to continue the attacks. They all tried to attack me, but Morgana splashed some red colored potions on them, which caused them to flash red. I helped finish them off.
It did not take to long to fight off ten pigmen. "Thank you," Morgana seemed grateful of my help.
"Anytime," I gasped, looking exhausted. The pigmen had lended me some successful hits.
"You might need this," she handed me the same red potion she had tossed at the pigmen. I looked surprised. Was she trying to kill me?! She seemed to notice my fearful look. "Do not worry, it is healing potion. It only hurts the undead."
I slowly took it, and consumed the bottle. Within moments I was feeling rejuvenated. "Thanks," I gave her a faint smile.
"No problem," she said then spoke a bit harsher, "now go help them." She looks at the NPCs who were now struggling. Due to the second wave doing a surprise attack.
"But I cannot go against Gameknight's orders," I looked anxious.
Morgana looked angry. "That is his orders. Mine is for you to help the others fight that army."
"But I cannot fight, I just got struck a couple times already," I pointed out.
Morgana handed me a few healing potions. "Then use these. Now ho help them, I can handle myself here," she nudged me toward the fight.
I looked reluctant. "A-alright," I finally agreed, running straight for the battle that went on. My iron sword at the ready. A few hundred blocks and I clashed into my first pigman from the large battle. With one strike, I was soon surrounded by ten pigmen. I looked at them fearfully as they charged at me. "Oops," I whispered under my breath. I struck out at each pigmen the best I could, getting attacked myself. I had gotten down to half of them before I had to back away a bit to drink one of the ten health potions I had gotten. When I was fully full, I struck out at the rest of the pigmen. They were decent other than the, all wielding gold swords. Some even having enchanted swords. This was what made it more difficult.
As soon as I finished up with the pigmen, I had to drink another potion. I looked over to see Gameknight overwhelmed with pigmen. Could he e able to kill them all off? I saw that the other NPCs were busy with their own pigmen group. 'Might as well help,' I thought, charging to Gameknight to help him out a bit. He seemed too busy to notice me, nor the pigman who was about strike from behind him. I gave a quick swipe at the pigman, causing it to squeal with pain and flash red.
Gameknight looked over to see that I was fighting off a pigman. How I know was because he got really angry. "I told you to help Morgana!" He growled as he attacked some of the pigmen.
"She told me to help you guys out," I told him. " And you did say to help out whoever needed it." I finished off the pigman.
"But you will get yourself killed!" Gameknight pointed out, anger in his voice.
He was right, I could be killed if I continued fighting. That was until I remembered that I had health potions. "Morgana gave me health potions," I told her.
"Then help someone else other than me," Gameknight growled. "I am not as important as any other NPC."
Did he just tell me to fight?! I stated at him with shock, not noticing a pigman about to strike. An arrow shot passed my head, scaring me half to death. The pigman squealed and was killed on the spot. Turning, I saw an enchanted golden sword bobbing up and down. I looked to where the arrow was shot at to see Hunter grinning. I looked relieved it was not a skeleton. I nodded my thanks, and she turned to fire enchanted flaming arrows at the army of pigmen. Stitcher following suite in striking the same pigmen. Then I realized that NPCs were in pillars, firing arrows at the army. Pigmen were falling faster than before.
I took this chance to fight off other pigmen to finish them off. That included helping any NPCs that needed it. I knew Gameknight would be fine after how many arrows where shooting at them. That meant he only needed to finish them off. What I have just realized, was that he had been using two swords. That had given me an idea. I went ahead and picked up a random golden sword. Going into another battle, I struck out with my iron sword, then immediately with the golden sword. This made it quite easy as the golden sword ended up having sharpness on it, making it easy to kill a pimen in two swipes. No wonder Gameknight loved using two swords. You could kill a mob quite fast this way.
It took a while, but the pigmen were dwindle to only a few left where at least two NPCs were needed to kill one pigman. Our hopes were up, that was until the third wave charged at them. "How many of them are there?!" I heard Hunter growl at the tops of the archer pillars. She is right, how many did Herobrine make? Was there a fourth wave. I noticed all the NPCs hopes all disappeared seeing the large army. Even my hopes were crushed by the size. I was already exhausted. Right then and there, I nearly through a fit. What was Herobrine thinking?!
Speak of the devil. I noticed him watching us, in the haze. It was really difficult to see him, so anyone could miss him. From what I could see, he was not pleased at all, but he seemed hopeful with the third wave. I narrowed my eyes at him, but ignored the thought of anger at what he was doing. I prepared myself to fight more pigmen as we all rid the first two waves.
Instantly the archers struck at the oncoming wave. They killed only a few, while others were rendered to low health. The rest we had to do close-combat, but the archers kept firing nonetheless. The NPCs were all exhuasted, I could tell in the lack of skill compaired to when they fought in the first two waves. Only Gameknight seemed to on his feet, helping them. This gave me only little hope, but I followed into the fight. When the NPCs saw him duel wielding, they all seemed to have new hope. Instantly they all fought harder, killing off the mob. I too fought harder, or at least tried since the heat of the Nether was still effecting me.
With the new hooe, the wave was slowly becoming smaller and smaller. I noticed Herobrine becoming really angry at the result. I sighed as I fought off about five pigmen, needing to consume another potion. I was going to be scolded for helping Gameknight and his group, but Herobrine did say I needed their trust, and this was one way to do so. As I consumed the health potion, I noticed that I had funked shaped healing potions.
I looked around the battlefield to see the third wave was almost killed off. There seems to be no more waves. 'That is good,' I thought with relief. What I also noticed was that the large pigmen were staying out of the battle. The three watched with outrage as their comrads died at the NPCs' and users' weapons. Why were they not fighting? Gameknight seemed to have noticed the large pigmen staying out of battle as well.
Not too long later, the last of the pigmen were killed by Hunter. She seemed pleased at the final blow; but notched her bow, aiming it at the three pigmen. "What are they doing just standing there?" She hissed as if ready to fire the arrow.
"I have no clue," Gameknight responded, his diamond and iron sword at the read. "But I do not like the feel of this."
He was right. I could feel it too. What has Herorbine told them? What if the pigmen revealed my secret right then and there? No... Herobrine would not do that. He needed me to spy on Gameknight and his group for him.