This is a longer chapter, cause I haven't given you one in a while. Here it is!

Song for this chapter: Wings by Little Mix.

Beatrice raised up her hands to silence the chaos within the group. I glared at her with a grin on my face, expecting her to make the right decision.

"Guys, we have to decide whether we're gonna stay to get killed by Cliff or leave! I will go one by one and take a vote. I vote that we leave. Pixel?"

Pixel looked at Beatrice in shock, "I have no idea who Cliff is, so I say we get rescued and taken back to HQ."

"I doubt that will happen, but okay. Harry?"

Harry piped up in his small mousey voice, "I'm with Pixel. I trust her."

Beatrice rolled her eyes and moved on to the next person, "Alright. Bro?"

"Whatever is best for you, Beatrice," Ray smiled.

"Thank you. Finally, someone who agrees. Yosh?"

"Snowy and I need to stay away from Cliff, so we'll be off after the voting. It doesn't matter how the results come out, we need to leave," Yosh replied.

"And Jordan?"

I barged up to Beatrice, crossing my arms, "Mat, Ant, and Jerome are with her! If I can't trust Cliff, they could get hurt! No way I'm taking my chances on leaving them!"

"That's entirely your choice, Jordan. I wish you luck."

"Jordan! I found you!" a voice which was obviously Sky's rang out from the forest. He rushed out of the trees, Ty following him, "Jordan…"

"Sky! Are you alright? What are you doing here?" I asked, confused and worried.

"Ty, Sierra, and I went after you. We lost Sierra and been trying to look for her…"

"You lost Sierra?!"

"Uh… sorry…"

"What about iEcho? Any luck?"

"Haven't even tried. We've all forgotten, attempting to look for you and everything."

"Dammit," I growled, turning away from Sky to contemplate.

"We need to go," I heard Snowy say.

I faced the group once again, staring blankly at Snowy and Yosh, "Go then. If you really need to. We would do better with you here. I would never let anything hurt you, but… if you insist, I wouldn't try to stop you."

"Thank you, Jordan," Yosh finished for Snowy, "For everything."

"Don't thank me. Not yet. Not until that son of a bitch Herobrine is dead for good!"

Yosh straightened up, took charge, and led Snowy away from the rest of the group.

"Where are they going?" Ty asked.

"I have no idea," I replied.

"Well, Ray and I are off too," Beatrice mentioned.

I glanced over the siblings, "Again, don't thank me…"

"Oh, I don't. I only thank you for saving me that one time… not even then…"

"I won't miss you…" I growled, looking directly into Beatrice's eyes.

Beatrice stormed off, Ray quickly following her. I stood there, watching her leave.

"What now?" Harry queried.

"We wait."

A few hours had gone by. Each of us had drank at least three bottles of water. The air turned very humid and the sun had been colored bright shades of yellow, orange, and red. No one, including Cliff, was in sight, until…

"So, where do you suppose he is now, you imbecile!" Cliff's voice echoed off a small distance.

"I… I… don't know," Ant responded, scared. I had never heard his voice shake so much.

"Guys," I whispered.

"Yeah?" Sky replied.

"Cliff is here… with Ant. He must have Mat and Jerome with him."

"Sierra could be with them," Ty interrupted.

"That's what I'm thinking…" I tiptoed closer to where the voices came from, "Hello? Ant? Jerome? Mat? Sierra? Cliff?"

"Who's there?" Cliff shouted. I could see the glare of an iron sword.

"It's Jordan."

"Jordan… Is Sky with you?"

"Yes…"

"Reveal yourself!"

I stepped into the sunlight, noticing Cliff, holding her iron sword, Ant, shivering, Jerome and Mat, glaring at me with surprised expressions on their faces, and Sierra, ready to jump into my arms.

"Now," Cliff continued, "Take me to Sky."

"Okay." I led them to Sky, Ty, Pixel, and Harry.

"So, I suppose Beatrice, Ray, Yosh, and Snowy have run off, huh?" Cliff smirked.

"Because of you… yes."

"This is Cliff," I heard Pixel whisper to Harry. I hoped she wouldn't catch it.

"Sky…" Cliff grinned and walked towards the Budder King. She glanced down at his amulet, "I see you have your necklace again."

"How do you know I lost it?" Sky questioned.

"I know these things."

"What do you want?" Ty stared at her.

"Ty. It's been a while."

"What do you want?" he repeated.

"I only want Sky and Jordan to travel to the Aether with me."

"The Aether? That isn't what…"

"I know! I don't care what you say! He gave me orders…!" Cliff paused. She glared evilly at Sky and I, "Come on. Off to the Aether we go."

"No way I'm going!" Sky protested.

"Well," Cliff chuckled, "You don't have a choice." She had a bow pointed at Sky's amulet. It would crack and he would lose his power. Not good.

"Fine."

"Jordan? Have any complaints?"

I glanced over at Sierra, attempting to release herself from Jerome, who pulled her back from running over to me.

"No. None at all." Ashamed, I looked down at my feet and slowly followed Sky and Cliff to the stone temple.

Once we reached the temple, Cliff spun to face the others, "Wait. You should go to HQ. Safer there."

Ty was the first one to object, "No! I'm not leaving Sky!"

"Ty, Ty, Ty, I knew you would be the one to go against me…"

"She's right," Ant interrupted, "We should go to HQ."

"Jordan…" Sierra whimpered, tiny tears streaming down her face, "I don't want to lose you."

"I promise I'll be back…"

Cliff snapped in my direction, "Shut up!" I stood in shock, my mouth open. Sky's was as well. She turned back to the others, "Now go!"

Ant led Sierra, Jerome, Mat, Harry, Pixel, and hesitantly, Ty, back through the desolate trees. Cliff grinned and opened the door to the temple.

Again, I traveled down the narrow hallways to the main room. The budder blocks were there, as usual. Sky did not seem happy about being close to budder. He kept his eyes fixed on Cliff.

She pushed us towards the Aether portal. Cliff put a hand on my shoulder, "Goodbye Jordan…" The last thing I saw was Sky's shocked face and Cliff's evil grin.

Sky POV

"Who do you think you are?!" I yelled. I backed up until I hit a budder block and sat down on it. Cliff came up closer to me and stared me down.

"Cliff. Your worst enemy." She held out an iron dagger at my throat.

"Stop right there!" a male voice boomed through the walls of the giant room.

Cliff spun to find two men, standing right next to each other. I recognized one: Paul. The other wore a black cape to cover his face and clothes.

"Sky is essential. You cannot hurt him," I could tell that the black caped man was talking.

"And who are you?" Cliff questioned.

The man lifted off his hood.

"Fury!" I sighed, "Where's Kitty?"

"She's dead. By the hands of Herobrine." He stared directly at Cliff.

"Is Cliff Herobrine?"

"No, but she works for him. Don't you?"

"You… you… you're a god! How else could you know?!" Cliff burst.

"Maybe I am. Maybe I'm not. Cliff, do not bother Sky again or I will put three billion years on your banishment rather than one billion." Fury snapped, and Cliff vanished.

"Fury…" I stuttered, "How…?"

Paul, shocked, rushed outside of the room. Fury did not bother to look. All he did was glance over at me, smile, and snap again to disappear.

I remained in the budder room, scared, but yet relieved.