A/N: Here's da next chapter! Sorry for the delay, but I have been busy with my IRL life. And this is no excuse. I had just finished a bunch of tests and a book report this past week, and I have plans to prepare for these two upcoming weeks, leaving me to write in the late night hours. Not that I'm not used to doing that already, but I have gotten tired alot faster letting me write for about an hour a day. Enough of my pointless rambling! Hope you enjoy dis chapter!
'~ CHAPTER 7 ~'
~~~East Building~~~
DJ's POV
"Hey guys, I'm back," a person, Hope, greets closing the door after…randomly walking in the house. Though I really feel it's like a hotel seeing that most of us don't know each other that much, at least for this goody-two-shoes Sky and his friends alike, "And I got the raw beef...and some bad news."
"What's wrong, Hope?" Aver asks, as he stops fiddling with the edge of his red cloak from his spot on a single-seater. He had his legs swung over the arm rest clearly seeing that he sat sideways. Of course, Hope's appearance in the room grabbed Sky's, Deadlox's, and Twister's attention, which were also in the living room seeming to do nothing in particular either.
"Well…BajanCanadian somehow got injured last night," she worriedly sighs, making Sky's and Deadlox's eyes grow wide, "Ronan, one of my friends in the north building, and Jerome are watching over him as we speak. He's still alive, and we are sure to keep him that way. He just has a diagonal cut along his waist line going a bit to his stomach. But he should be fine."
"So you're saying Bajan just has a small injury?" Sky sarcastically asks putting over-exaggerated quotes around the word 'small'.
"Uh…"
"And you didn't even find out what caused it in the first place?!" Sky infuriates, "You couldn't just walk up to him and ask?"
"Sky, you've got to calm down," Hope steadily says, setting the two stacks of sixty-four beef down on the nearest table, "No, I couldn't just waltz up to his bed and ask. Sky, he couldn't come to open his eyes. I didn't want to push him." Sky looked like he was about to say something, but he held his tongue. Suddenly he looked shameful. But for some reason, I had this uneasiness, as I tuned out the others. I had to go find Charity and Jinx.
Jinx's POV
"Hello?" I softly called out through the, what I presumed to be, the second or Jerome's guest room. All I knew was that Catalin said that MinecraftUniverse was in here.
"Who is it?" a dull and depressed voice replies, but I heard no movement or any other sound.
"It's Jinx," I reply slowly opening the door, "I'm sorry, but…I'm afraid that I haven't met you before. My name's Jinx."
"TrueMU," he responds in a darker tone, "Forgive me for sounding like a jerk, but why are you here? I'd like some time alone, please."
"Sorry about intruding, but a girl named Catalin told me that you needed a place to stay. And I hope to take you to my place," I leaned on the space between the room and the hall way, keeping the door as closed as I could. My human side wanted to come out, wanting to show compassion for the saddened spaceman, but my demonic side came out stronger, showing nothing more than a somewhat bored expression.
"Ok…" TrueMU finally says after a few solid moments of silence, "Just…give me some time to tell Jerome and Bajan."
MinecraftUniverse's POV
"Sure, just come down to the kitchen when you're ready," Jinx tells me, and I nod in response. I push myself up from my spot, as Jinx walks out and down the stairs. Somehow I managed to catch the door before it closes, but stop in my tracks. How was I going to tell them? I didn't want to suddenly tell Jerome, or especially Bajan, that I was going to leave for somewhere else while Bajan is in this condition. That's just lower my friendship rank to…I don't want to think about it. Finally, I sucked it up, and knocked on the closed door, where behind lied my injured friend.
"Hey Ronan, Jerome, it's TrueMU," I say through the door loud enough for them to hear, but not too loud so the girls down stairs would hear.
"Something you need, TrueMU?" Ronan asks, making a crack through the door, but big enough for me to see his full face.
"Um…I needed to talk to Benja and Jerome," I nervously say back, rubbing the back of my neck, "Like a moment, please?"
"Go ahead," he responds, stepping out of the room. I send a small 'thank you' smile his way, and he sends the same smile back before heading into a different room.
"Hey Jerome," I softly greet, not wanting to disturb Bajan that much.
"Hi, MCUniverse, where'd Ronan go?" Jerome furrowed his furry eye brows, looking behind either side of me, thinking that he'd just be behind me or something.
"He just went for some food, he'll be back," I dismiss fully wave, sitting down on what I presumed to be the chair Ronan sat on, 'cause it felt a bit warm, making me knit my own eye brows together…not that Jerome or anyone could see that.
"Oh…"
"So, how is Bajan doing?" I ask, looking at him.
"Bajan is doing just fine," Benja croaks out, turning his head to look at me. And he finally opened his eyes!
"What's going on, guys? What's happened?" Bajan confusingly asks, sitting up.
"Whoa, biggums, you can't just get up and walk around. I'm not sure if the potion is working just yet," Jerome stops him. Surprisingly, with just his words, he stopped Bajan in from moving any more.
"Wait…what?" he furrowed his eye brows, leaning in towards Jerome a bit.
"You were injured last night by something or someone and whatever it was left a nasty cut on your stomach, dude. Are you in pain or-"
"Really?" he asks even more confused, "I feel nothing. Did you or whoever made this potion add something to it?" Then he lifted his shirt, as his jacket was taken off, and saw the wound.
"Holy mother of Notch! I have no idea how I can't feel this, but I sure as Nether am glad I don't," he humorlessly chuckles, as Jerome and I glance at each other, sharing the same puzzled, more of disbelieved, expression.
"So, you're saying you can't feel the wound. Not…at all?" I ask once more, making sure I wasn't hearing things or hallucinating, if I even could in the first place. I didn't even bothering answering Benja's question.
"No, absolutely nothing," Bajan shakes his head, "I mean, I can still feel my arms and legs and face, but it's as if the wound is not there."
"Well, thank Notch it's a miracle," Jerome exclaims, in a reasonable volume, "This is awesome and…weird at the same time!"
"What's the commotion up here?" Ronan questions, storming through the door and freezing in his place, when he saw Bajan up and out of the bed, "What the Nether do you think you're doing out of bed?"
"I feel fine, Ronan," Bajan smiles, "I can't feel anything. Did you change something in the potion that made me feel numb or something?"
"Uh…no?"Ronan quirked his eye brow, "But how?"
"I don't know?" Benja loosely lifts and drops his shoulders, smiling.
"Well, I'm not sure if Hope has told the others yet, but we should get going to the east building to Sky and Deadlox and tell them that you're ok," Jerome suggests, getting up from his chair.
~~~Line Break~~~
Jinx's POV
I was surprised, as I had seen Bajan walk down the stairs a few minutes after I had left TrueMU in the room. It made me wonder if the wound was made my kind, as I can do that too if I wanted to. Now, I don't mean that each time we hurt someone, it doesn't hurt concerning feeling. It is by choice, but only the one who hurts the subject can change that. All I can tell from Bajan's condition alone is that whoever did this was gracious to this Minecraftian, as with a cut like that, he could be on his knees right now.
As I thought about these things, I was walking towards my building on the west side bringing MinecraftUniverse with me. I guess now after having some assurance that his Canadian friend will be fine, he seemed to come more willingly now. Was a bit calmer and more…submissive. Then again I couldn't do anything without my friends Charity and DJ's approval.
"Thinking 'bout something, Jinx?" he halfheartedly chuckled, "Maybe talking will help."
"Nothing worth talking about," I muttered in a soft volume. Noticing this, I coughed changing it, "Sorry, I don't know," I pretended to sigh, hoping he'd stray from the subject.
"I know how it is. You feel like you're one way in a moment and the next thing you know you're in another," TrueMU responds. And to be honest, he was in a way right on my terms, but then again I couldn't care less about what he or anyone else says.
"So, this is where you and I will be staying," I open the door to said building, "This is known as the west side or building whatever the Aether you want to call it." 'Oh crap!'
"I'm sorry?" he asks in a clearly confused tone.
"This building is called the west side or building…whatever you'd like to call it," I repeat. But before TrueMU could say anything, two arguing residents came walking down the stairs, luckily saving my ass from anything else.
"I am going to the tournament and there is nothing you can do about it," my close friend Katz complains, stomping down the stairs, her brother Ray following closely behind her.
"No, you are not, Katz," he firmly disagrees. Unlike any other time that Ray had disapproved of something in that tone, usually kept us wanting to stay on his good side. But the only one who couldn't care less was Katz, "Stop walking!"
"Look, Ray, nothing bad is gonna happen," she turns to him once they have reached the bottom of the stairs, "I'm gonna have a respawning device with me throughout the whole survival games tournament, so if someone shoots or kills me I'll be alive. How many times do I have to tell you?!"
"And what if this 'device' you're talking about doesn't work and you die?" Ray shot back…I never thought about that. Remembering last week, when Katz, Jinx, and I sneaked out and did a tournament. Of course, I came out on top thanks to my sniping skills.
"A-HEM," I fake coughed into my fist, crossing my arms afterwards.
"What?" they both ask simultaneously, making me take a deep breath and sighed, as I pinched the bridge of my nose.
"TrueMU this is Katz and Ray, you two…meet our guest MinecraftUniverse or TrueMU," I, for an unknown reason, smirk as I greeted the three to each other.
"Hey," he sheepishly waves once the siblings turn around, and spot him, which wasn't too hard.
"Hey, name's Ray," he greets holding his hand out to TrueMU, and he accepts. Meanwhile, Katz had already sneaked out the door, "And this is-Katz!" he unintentionally yells her name, "Excuse me a moment, nice to meet you."
And he was out the door, chasing after her, "Katz, get back here!" I just shook my head and laughed at the two, heading over to the opened door and closing it. Despite how they act, we all knew they'll always be close.
"So, that's them," I half smile at the spaceman, "And I'm pretty sure A-"
"Oh, Jinx, there you are," the last resident came rushing down the wooden stairs, "Are Katz and Ray doing it again?"
"Just like yesterday, Annabel…just like yesterday," I playfully huff at her, "Hey, Annabel, I'd like you to meet MinecraftUniverse or TrueMU for short."
MinecraftUniverse's POV
"Oh hi, I'm Annabel!" the girl cheerily greets, waving at me. Her blue eyes shone at me just as much as her blond hair was waving down about the elbows. She wore a soft pink tunic with black skinny jeans and slip-on heels. Unlike the other Minecraftians I have met here, she was pretty well dressed up. 'So hot…'
"MinecraftUniverse," I smile, sending a short wave, "So, I heard I was going to stay here?"
"Oh, are you really?" Annabel asks, "I'll be happy to show you to our guest room." I looked to Jinx, who just nodded her head in an approving way.
"Sure, that'd be lovely."
A/N: So, this chapter turned out longer than I expected. I literally wrote this in about an hour, and I am glad I got the rest of the OCs in! And apparently, for me, listening to "Wide Awake" by Katy Perry, is actually keeping me awake enough to write...weird I know. So, now we know there is an East, North, and West side. And as a little 'recap' here is a guide you could say:
East side: Twister, Hope, DJ, Avernus - Sky & Deadlox
North side: Catalin, Kittens, Charity, Darx, Ronan - Jerome & Benja
West side: Annabel, Katz, Jinx, Ray - MinecraftUniverse
