Chapter 2: Negotiators

A/N – Yay for me getting 1,000 words last chapter! I hope your excited for the next chapter because here it is! Please thank Geia Akyama for allowing me to use some ideas from one of his fan ficitons "The Secret Lives of Endermen" you might even go so far as to go and read it! On a different note... I am a bit sad that I don't have any reviews to answer... I like answering reviews, it makes me feel all fuzzy inside. Well good luck and enjoy the chapter!

-VerinSedai

The Banes(1) were working together... finally. The effect on the group of Endermen they were with was both obvious and immediate, they were relieved. The effects were also noticeable, if barely, in the Banes and, thought they were still tense, they were dealing much better with each other.

This of course meant that something bad simply had to happen and, it did.

Shyr found herself running quickly through the Forest biome searching fervently for a way to up to the treetops. She knew that if she could get up there she would be safe. Hopefully she would be able to find the rest of her group and help them get away. Finally she spotted the perfect place to get on a tree and be able to jump on a few others to get to the perfect tree. she quickly angled towards the past spot to get up and jumped onto the tree.

Arril lobbed a poison pearl(2) into the group of Minecraftians and rolled out of the way to watch as an arrow pierced the air where he had been only heartbeats earlier.

He came out of the his roll and performed a quick scan of the area around him. He didn't start to panic until he noticed that Shyr wasn't with the main group anymore. He threw himself into another roll to avoid another arrow and aimed to finish rolling near the position of a small group of Endermen. He had to take a second to calm his breathing before he could speak but finally managed to calm his breathing enough to ask them if they knew where Lily was. They told him that she had run somewhere to the North-East and he began sprinting swiftly in that direction.

I caught sight of Arril from my tree and caught his attention with a thrown rock. I waved my arms for a moment so that he could see where I was and then signed him(3) the directions of how to get up to the tree I was standing on. After a few moments of watching Arril follow my directions to make sure he made it up safely I turned to watch for any Minecraftians that would be able to see them. A few minutes later Arril was sitting next to me panting softly. "We have to stop this" he finally managed. "I know" I answered quietly "but how?" "There has to be some way" he said as if trying to convince himself as well as me. I thought for a few minutes and a plan began to formulate in my mind, it was pretty risky but, hopefully,it would work. "I have an idea" I said watching Arril immediately perk up "the Endermen like you more than they like me," I started "But that's not tr-" Arril protested but I continued without letting him finish "so you should go talk to them, try to calm them down give them good reasons and tell them that I am going to try to talk to the Minecraftians as w-" "You can't do that! They'll kill you!" Arril said his voice rising with every word. "They wont and we have to stop this remember!" I said shaking him. He fell silent and let me explain the rest of my plan providing only short answers whenever I asked him if he understood or what he thought of it. When we were ready we each headed our separate ways, him to go talk to the Endermen, and me to go talk to the Minecraftians. We would meet later in a valley not far from here where, hopefully, everything would be worked out.

Her plan is insane but it just might work, we will have to wait and hope. I continued walking towards the extreme hills biome that the Endermen had chosen to meet in(4). I suppose I should probably get thinking about what I am going to say to the Endermen to possibly convince them that we need to stop this. I never was as good at public speaking as Shyr.

After about 20 minutes of silent contemplation I had my 'speech' I knew it was not going to work as the Endermen were certain to interrupt me and ask questions. I am not quite as... highly regarded as Shyr thinks.

Stepping into the small valley that the Endermen were meeting in I was welcomed by them and asked them all to gather as I had something to say. Eventually they all gathered and told me that whatever I had to say I ought to say it quick. And so, I started my speech.

Well, I hope that this plan of mine works... I gave Arril the easy- well easier job. I have to talk to the Minecraftians and hope they don't just shoot me on sight. To try to keep myself from getting shot on sight I have decide how I am going to approach the enemy. Would directly with hands up work better? Or should I capture one of their leaders and force them all to listen to me or I kill him? I have only a few minutes until I reach the last known site of the Minecraftians' main camp.

(1) - More details on Banes later, all you need to know right now is that they are, for some reason, traveling with a group of Endermen.
(2) - Once again more details later, the poison pearl would have nearly the same effect as a splash potion of poison in Minecraft. Thus it would probably be very painful to those poor Minecraftians, hopefully, painful enough to make them stop trying to beat up on the group of Endermen.
(3) - Bane sign language of course. Convenient eh?
(4) - Sorry if my shifting of view points hurts your brain, or your eyes, or even your fingers (though I don't know why it would hurt those) if it does please tell me and, if possible, give me a suggestion on a way to fix it