A/N: Hey guys, I'm back with another chapter! As...you can tell...BUT aside from that, hope ya'll enjoy dis one! Would have updated earlier, but forgot about a few family plans. Nevertheless, here it is, and enjoy!
'~ CHAPTER 12 ~'
~~~East Side~~~
Twister's POV
"Something wrong, Twist?" Avernus asks me from across the table. The sky grew dark just recently, as Hope, DJ, Aver, and I were having dinner.
"I don't know, Aver," I sigh, continuing to pick at my food, "I guess I'm just worried."
"Worried for what?" Aver questions, as he stops eating, "You know you can tell us, Twister…you can tell me." I took one more glance down at the floor before looking Aver in the eyes.
"I'm worried about Sky," I admit, my gaze wavering, "He's not taking Deadlox's disappearance very well, and I'm sure if we wait long enough without finding Deadlox that he's going to do something that he's probably going to regret later."
"But Twister," DJ jumps in, "We have nothing to go by; no clues as to where Deadlox would have gone off to." It was right then that I couldn't take or hear anymore, as I calmly got up from my seat and headed to the stairs leaving my unfinished cooked chicken on the table.
"DJ, when I looked through the room, I found specks of glow stone dust and a small piece of Netherrack in Deadlox's headphones," I hear Hope's fading voice say, as I had just reached the top of the stairs, "There should be a good possibility that he's in the Nether."
"Now why would someone from the…" I knocked on the guest room's door, waiting for Sky to answer. Nothing. I knock again, and I still get no response. After giving it a good ten seconds, I turned the door knob and slowly opened the room door. I sighed quietly to myself, seeing that Sky was still here, but sad that he was still like this, still as sad as he was this morning. I walk in closing the door behind me and for some reason trying to be as quiet as I could be.
Sky was sitting on his bed facing Deadlox's tidied-up bed. His eyes though glued to Deadlox's still broken headset, which I assumed was where Hope put it after looking at it. His hands were folded resting on his angled legs and his shoulders were slumped. He may not have joined us for any meals today, but we were just glad he didn't refuse it when we brought some up for him.
"Hey…Sky," I finally take a few steps towards him, "Is there something I can do for you?"
"No," he softly replies, "Only Notch can give me what I need."
"Sky," I sit to his right on his bed, "I know this is…hard for you, but I don't think Deadlox would want you sulking around but going out and finding him. He's not dead."
"And what if he is?" Sky snappishly asks, "Then all this planning and soon-to-searching wouldn't be worth anything. For all I know he's up in the Aether with Notch right now and I wouldn't know."
"Sky-"
"And what about my friends back home?" Sky continues, "What are they gonna think?"
"SkytheKidRS will you please listen to me," I raise my voice a bit, but not too loud for the others to hear from downstairs, "Deadlox is not dead, and we will find him…ok?" Sky takes a deep breath, looking me in the eyes as he does so.
"Ok."
~~~Back in the Overworld…~~~
…It was either save Husky's life or the rest of Minecraftia's. Seto bit his inner cheeks, knowing that he was going to regret his decision…as he grabbed Husky's left upper arm.
Skar smirks slyly his eyes dimming down, as he places a pair of sunglasses, much like the ones Sky has, on his face, pushing it up the bridge of his nose.
"Make a way for Husky to come out," he Skar orders looking at Lavalox, "This should be fun." Skar briefly rubs his hands evilly, watching Lavalox burn two block-sized bars into nothing with his lava make-shift hand before cooling it down back to normal. Husky nervously made his way to the opening crouching, and as he is doing this, Seto is discretely reaching inside his cape where he had two splash poison potions. And right when Husky was at the entrance to freedom, Seto threw the two, one in each hand, at the general areas of where the evil versions of their friends stood.
"GO!" he yells, letting Husky and SSundee go first. Husky and SSundee dashed out the door, but Seto was left in the house, as BONJerome threw his axe at the sorcerer pinning down his purple cape to the wood-based floor. The evil Jerome jogged over to his axe and easily released the weapon from the ground. Seto tried to sprint off again, but BONJerome grabbed a hold of his arm first and sent him flying to the remains of the west wall. Seto clenched his teeth, as his back made contact with the wall his body sliding down till he was in an upright sitting position…and then Skar came up to him.
"Did you think it would be that easy to escape me, SetoSorcerer?" Skar snarls in Seto's face, forcing him off the ground. The sorcerer just kept his lips shut and blankly stares back at Skar. He himself knew it wouldn't be too easy, but that was just the risk he was willing to take, if it meant SSundee and Husky will be safe. "That's what I thought. You were just being plain stupid." Skar literally spat in Seto's face, making him wince.
"Lavalox and BajanNethernian, go find the fish and SSundee and bring them to me. Jerome and Netherverse, take SetoSorcerer to the outskirts of the city where the portal was. And I'll grab a few potions that suit my interest. We can continue our testing there, and maybe even try some on him." Seto somehow managed to swallow the lump in his throat upon hearing those last words. But he was soon distracted from that thought, as pain suddenly rushed up his right arm because of Netherverse's death grip tugging Seto to 'willingly' follow him.
~~~Nether~~~
Deadlox's POV
"Anyway guys, as much as I'd love to stay in the warm and cozy Nether, I have to go. It's my turn to watch tonight," DJ informs Katz and Charity.
"Ok, see ya DJ," Charity replies not even looking at her, as she shoots down a scorcher with her bow out of boredom. Usually an accurate shot like that wouldn't scare me too much, but right now it does. It is surprising and scary at the same time when any of these girls holds a weapon compared to a few pig men coming at me at once.
"I'll be back after everyone's asleep, don't worry," DJ lightly chuckles heading to the convenient portal a few blocks away from where we four were 'camped'. I just sighed, as I was currently sitting in the center of my space. They have been watching me like vultures with their prey, and it's only my first full day here. I was just glad that they were kind enough to give me at least one meal since I got here, "Are you sure you guys will be fine?"
"Yeah, we'll be fine," Charity waves off just as casually, "Right, Katz?" And she nods in response. DJ warily looked once more at the two before going through the portal leaving us three there. 'Come on, Deadlox, think' I talked to myself 'There has got to be some way out of this cage.' I took a glance around myself, all of it being iron bars. Then I look up, all iron half slabs, and there was Netherrack below me. 'Probably should have made something for the bottom' I sang in my head 'Now, I just wait.' It's gonna take a few extra seconds to break the Netherrack with my fist but…it will have to do.
~~~Line Break~~~
Later that night, DJ was still out –thank Notch-, and Charity and Katz were sleeping. 'Now is my chance.' I tip-toed over to the bottom left corner of the cage (bottom right for Charity and Katz), where there was a shadow and started breaking the Netherrack. While waiting I had counted and triple-checked how many blocks away and subtracted a few so I wouldn't end up right below the portal. I had just finished making the staircase down, but before I went down the three block entrance I took one more look at the two half-demonic girls, who were still undisturbed. I jumped down the small hole, closing my eyes as I went down.
"I better block my way down," I whisper, placing the first Netherrack block back which closed up my way back. When I was about half way through digging and placing back, a familiar voice rang through my ears…
"Charity…Katz…?"
"Come on dig faster, Deadlox," I bit my bottom lip, mining as fast as I could.
"Charity! Katz!" DJ yells, making me and, what sounds like, the other girls jump too, as a giant thump was heard somewhere close above me. 'Just a few more blocks…'
"Wha-oh…DJ, you're back," I hear Katz say next, as more vibrations are felt; probably from them getting up from the ground.
"Of course, I'm back," DJ scoffs, "I told you I would be soon. So, any problems?"
"No," I hear more clearly this time after I had gathered the last of the Netherrack, covering up my tracks as I went, "Any with you?"
"Same luck here," DJ sighs. I hold my breath while softly placing the last block of Netherrack. I knew it was a big risk, but I have no choice besides staying in the literal Nether, which I do not intend on doing, "How about you, Deadlox?"
'Time to go!' And I stepped into the Nether portal.
"Deadlox?" DJ asks again, and then she turns around…"Get back here!" I gasped while crossing my fingers behind my back, as I luckily started transporting back to this out-of-the-ordinary dimension…or at least it's not as crazy and demented as their Nether. I finally reached the somewhat normal Overworld of this dimension and stumbled a bit, trying to regain my composure…and balance.
DJ's POV
I sprinted as fast as I could to Deadlox, only to watch him teleport through our portal. And the thing with this dimension's portals, as I have found out, is that we have to wait till the transporter has reached their destination, so we couldn't just jump on in and be there the same time as Deadlox.
"How did Deadlox get out?" I ran a hand through my black hair, letting my purple tips fly as I sorted it back, "You know what? I don't want to hear about it. Katz I will give you a warning just this once, but I expect more from you Charity. Now, we better find Deadlox and get him back before any of the others or his alternate dimension friends find him. If any of them do, Herobrine will have our heads."
A/N: AND stay tuned for da next chapter! If you haven't so already, go and check out MinecraftUniverse new (somewhat new) song 'Criminal'. It's not dubstep like 'Eclipse' but it's still pretty cool. Thanks for reading!
~Henderschmidt11