A/N: Hey guys, chapter six is finally here! Sorry it's late but I wanted to make it extra long cuz I just passed 1,000 views! Thanks ya'll for dat and the reviews, follows, and favorites! Enjoy!
'~ CHAPTER 6 ~'
~~~East Building~~~
Hope's POV
I stepped down the stairs, awake and refreshed…unlike the one who looked bushed out on the couch, who looked exactly the opposite his eyes begging to be closed.
"Aver, have you been up all night?"
"I-"
"Did you even go to bed last night?" I continued my interrogation, if it could really be called that, "You very well know we need all the rest we can get, and-"
"Hope," Aver stopped my…possible soon-to-be rambling, "I'm fine. I was…I just had the urge to be on the look-out, as you and the others slept. I couldn't risk anything happening especially with guests here."
"I see…" I mumble, the schedule we four put together suddenly coming back to me. I was supposed to do last night not Avernus, who actually did the night before, "Why don't you head up to bed, and by the afternoon I'll have some steak whipped up for ya, ok? Go on up to your bed."
"Don't have to tell me twice," I heard Aver softly say once he was halfway up the stairs, making me roll my eyes as my back was turned to him.
"Looks like I need to get some more beef," I sighed to myself after I had looked inside our food chest in the kitchen. I opened the door and took a deep breath, filling my lungs with the fresh air. The morning air was being enjoyed peacefully, until I looked to my right. DJ was there under the birch tree that we had planted a long time ago; it was one big birch now.
"DJ, wake up," I lightly shook her, but gave more force with each tug. And suddenly before I could even touch her a third time, she jumped at me, pinning me against the front wall of the house. I held my breath, my eyes moving down to see the sword's blade right there. Once she saw my face though, she calmed and lowered her sword which threateningly was, just a moment ago, held against my throat.
"I'm sorry…I thought you were someone else," DJ shamefully says, putting her sword away. As quietly as I could, I caught my breath, trying to not make DJ feel any guiltier.
"It's…ok, DJ. You were just being on alert," I pat her shoulder assuredly, "I was about to go out for some beef, but go ahead and make something for yourself. Tell Twister when she awakes that I'm out."
"Sure," she nods, her countenance happy again. I watched, as DJ headed inside before going my way. My mind still dwelled on what just happened. It was in all of our instincts to watch our and each others' backs…but I had never seen someone defend so fiercely. Question is why did she act that way?
~~~North Building~~~
Kitten's POV
"What are the chances of those two coming out before the next sunset?" MinecraftUniverse asks in a joking tone, as the short laugh at the end gave it away.
"Not much, if we don't interfere," I grunt, pushing myself up from my comfortable spot on the couch, as did TrueMU as well. We both tip-toed to the kitchen's entrance, finding Jerome and Catalin just…watching the furnace, as the last of the chicken cooked. Jerome stood behind Catalin, his arms wrapped around her his hands over Catalin's and his chin resting on her shoulder. I mouthed an 'aw' seeing the scene, as I folded my hands together and tilted my head slightly to the right. Sadly, I couldn't see TrueMU's expression because of his helmet. But I was sure that his jaw went down as far as it could, if not then it should be.
"Aw, Catalin," I finally speak, not being able to contain myself anymore. The two cuddled pair jumped at our surprise visit to the kitchen and broke apart. For a moment, I saw Catalin's eyes change from a soft pink to now a bright red.
"K-Kittens, wh-what are you doing here?" Catalin stutters, her body tensing a bit.
"Uh, I live here," I chuckle back, "TrueMU and I wanted to check on you, only for me to say that you and Jerome look so cute together!" I smile from ear-to-ear, making the two blush.
"Oh look, food's ready," Jerome breaks the ice, walking over to the furnaces and getting said pieces of food, "Let's eat!"
"Wait, where's BajanCanadian?" I ask, just realizing that the one in the checkered hoodie wasn't with us.
"He's still sleeping," Jerome responds, "I think he was the most tired out of all of us five. It was no wonder, I can even get out of my bed without him waking up, usually he's up before me."
"Ok, um, then why don't you three eat first, and I'll go wake Benja up," I suggest already walking out of the kitchen area.
"Go ahead. I'm pretty sure biggums won't mind," Jerome waves off, a smirk tempted to come on his face.
"O-k," I sang going up the stairs, "Hey Charity," I pause halfway up the stairs, "The other three are down eating already if you want to go and join them."
"I'll do that, and morning!" she greets, hurriedly making her way down, "Guys, save some for me!" I just shook my head chuckling to myself, as I continued my journey up the stairs. Finding the wanted door, I slowly opened it to indeed see Bajan still sleeping. Careful of where I stepped, I entered inside closing the door once I was in. I smiled, walking over to his occupied bed. He just…looked so cute when he's sleeping. Too bad I had to wake him up.
"Bajan…Benja, wake up sleeping beauty," I gently shook his shoulder, holding back my giggles.
"Benja, wa…" I pause, noticing is breathing was choppy, "Benja?" I muttered, turning him, and there was a slick, straight cut across his side. And the next second, I was out on top of the stairs.
"Charity, get two healing potions, wake Ronan and get him to the guest room. Bajan is injured."
~~~Town (center)~~~
Hope's POV
"Thanks much," I say to the shop's owner, as I had just traded some gold and silver ingots for the needed beef.
"No, thank you," he winks at me, making me smile, "See you next time!"
"I definitely will!" I yell back, walking out the opened entrance.
"Hey Hope!" a voice calls out to me. I turn around to see Jinx, a friend from the west building.
"What's up, Jinx? You know, usually I'd bump into Ray out here," I chuckle walking towards her, as she did the same.
"I was just down at the pier just getting some fish, I'm heading back to my place," She casually shrugs her shoulders, "Thought I'd do it for once."
"There's no way you'd do that, not that I'm calling you anything. But I'm pretty sure this was a returned favor," I snickered, walking over to a wall so I could lean on. Jinx followed me to said wall, considering it was also a busy day out here. It was not really a strange sight, but definitely uncommon.
"Yeah," she sighed dramatically, "I asked Annabel to be on the look-out last week, and when I thought she had forgotten about, she brought it up."
"Ha, lucky you," I fakely laugh, "Say before you go back to the west building, can you go and visit Catalin and her group? Yesterday we bumped into some new people and one of them needs housing."
"Totally," she cheerily replies, "How many were there?"
"Five total," I start, as we both made our way to the north building, "Two named SkytheKidRS and Deadlox are at my side which is the east, another two named ASFJerome and BajanCanadian are at the north, and I the one that will be staying in your side is MinecraftUniverse or TrueMU."
"Wait, Hope…this isn't that-"
"No, it is not," I cut her off, "This group is definitely new. They were nice to us, unlike the other Sky and his gang," I venomously spat.
"Don't you think that they might be playing us with these fake pleasant personalities, or even planning something?" Jinx questions, as we started seeing the building afar off, but within range.
"Well, by this point I am really doubting it's a trick," I release a deep sigh, thinking back to the moment I first met them, "Catalin pulled a sad, teary show on him. So, he went to apologize to her, and he did. If this dimension's Jerome can do that, who knows what other tricks they could have easily played on us."
"I guess you're right," her eye brows moved with each word, "Now I'd have to see this for myself."
"I guess you'll have to," I huffed playfully, opening the door to the north building, "Hey Catalin! It's Hope and Jinx!"
"Oh, thank Notch it's you," she dramatically says, hurrying down the stairs, "What is it?"
"Geez, Catalin, first what's got you so hyped up?" Jinx furrows her eye brows at the worried-looking girl.
"It's BajanCanadian, he was somehow injured last night," she dreadfully replies, "Ronan and Jerome are with him right now. I'm just glad he's still alive."
Charity's POV
"Sounds like company," I flatten my lips, getting up from the bed which Kittens and I sat on. Once we were alerted about the guest's status, we both immediately offered to help. But, of course, we got declined by Ronan. That was my one shot…wasted. If I could have gone in there and gave Bajan the potion, the special poison potion would be halfway done with him by now. But those stupid people had to get in my way.
"Hm, who would come here?" Kit wondered, as we both walk out the door, "We didn't make another meeting did we?"
"Hi Hope; hi Jinx," I casually greets, stepping down to the ground floor, "What brings you guys here?"
"Oh, I heard there were guests here, and that one of them needs a place to stay," Jinx smiles, looking at me. Though, I knew it wasn't just for that purpose.
"Ah, yes," I sheepishly chuckle, realizing I haven't said anything for a few seconds, "TrueMU is currently in the guest room if you want to meet him."
"I'll visit him later. But, Charity, may I talk to you outside for a moment?"
"Sure, Jinx. Say, since Ronan won't let us in, why don't you, Kittens, and Hope tell the others in the other stations and tell them about their friend's condition. I'm sure they'd appreciate it." I face Catalin. She turns to the others, and they all nod.
"We'll do that. I'll leave a note in the kitchen."
Not much later, Jinx and I were in the forest behind the north building's house, everyone already having left the property.
"So, what was that, Charity? Did you do that to Bajan?" Jinx raises an accusing eye brow at me.
"Yes, I did. This BajanCanadian is not the one we know. He's from a different dimension," I cross my arms in annoyance, "DJ made me make a pact with her in helping to get ASFJerome and BajanCanadian on our side. If Herobrine finds out, I'm sure you know what'll happen. And now I'm dragging you with me."
"What?! No wa-"
"Help me, or suffer Herobrine's wrath," my eyes glowed for a moment at her before turning back to their purple color.
"Holy Herobrine, sheesh! Fine, I'll help you, ok?" I held my arms in that 'what the heck' position, "Didn't have to be so pushy about it."
~~~Back in the Overworld…~~~
Third Person's POV
"Hey Seto…Seto are you home?" SSundee calls out, pounding on Seto's door for the third time.
"Coming! Coming!" Seto's loud voice yells back, as he opens the door, "Impatient are we? Couldn't you like wait for me to at least place a few of my potions back?"
"Sorry about that, buddy," Husky apologizes, and the two steps inside Seto's house, "It's just that something terrible has happened."
"Well, don't leave me hanging!"
"So, yesterday, Sky and I we're supposed to do a parkour map, and he didn't show up," SSundee starts.
"So…?"
"And we haven't seen him since that last hunger games we did, remember from the day before yesterday?"
"Have you checked his house?" Seto tilted his head in a curious manner.
"Checked? We stayed there for almost a whole day and he hasn't returned there either," came Husky's sarcastic response, earning a small glare from Seto.
"Well, do you guys know if Sky planned to do anything before Sky scheduled his and SSundee's parkour day?" Husky and SSundee looked at each, both realizing that they…haven't thought that far yet.
"On the way back from the hunger games tournament, Sky started rambling about…an adventure he was going to do behind his house on the outskirts of the city," Husky replies more so in a questionable tone. He was used to Sky rambling about either stupid and silly stuff or his favorite moments in the games, that he'd usually tune out his friend's voice. He totally regretted that now.
"What are waiting for?" SSundee stands upright from leaning on the wall near the door's entrance, "Let's head to Sky's house."
A/N: And the journey starts for Husky, SSundee, and Seto...will they find and survive?! ;) STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER!
~Henderschmidt11