Ninja: Hey, throwing stars! Sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up... I have been extremely busy with school and all. But I managed to get this chapter up. Hope you enjoy!

CaptainSparklez's POV-

"Come on, Pixel, Wolf, don't be party-poopers!" I cried out, walking backwards across the dark beach, feeling the cool night breeze blowing across the ocean and through my hair. I was at the beach with Bodil, Ryan, Gizzy, Kermit, Noah, Pixel, Wolf and Spade, even though technically the beach was closed at this time of night. The sun had barely gone down over the horizon, and I could still see remnants of the golden sunlight above the surface of the water. It was beautiful.

Pixel, Wolf and Spade were still on the beach, standing nervously in place. Everyone else had run right for the water, and they immediately began to splash around in the water like little children. It was actually a funny sight to see. I examined the three friends as best as I could. Pixel was five years younger than I was, although she appeared to be around Sky's age. She had light purple curly hair that barely passed her shoulders, a white beanie, light skin and icy blue eyes. She is wearing a blue plaid shirt with the sleeves rolled up, black jeans, and black Converse shoes. She was looking at me nervously, and I could tell why. She was really shy, and normally never did everything that everyone else did. Wolf is three years younger than I am, although most people think that he is older than I am. He had ash colored hair, tan skin, and dark grey eyes. He wore a black trench coat with the hood pulled over his head, grey shirt and pants, goggles and black shoes. He just had his arms crossed over his chest, appearing to want nothing to do with playing on the beach with the rest of us like little kids. Spade is the youngest out of us all, being the same age as the other youngest in our group of friends Jen. She has light brown hair with crimson tips, light skin, and red eyes. She wore a black jacket with a dark grey undershirt, blue jeans, and grey shoes. She just stared at the rest of our friends in the water, running her hand across the bow that she always kept by her side. Spade rarely ever talks, unless she is needed to. I have only heard her speak a couple times in the past. She is very much like Ethan, excepting a couple factors, including the most obvious one: she's a girl.

"Just let them be, Sparklez. They can watch us mess around in the water if they want to," Ryan then said, looking back to me. I sighed, and then I turned back around to head towards the water. But something stopped me. Something caught my eye. I cocked my head slightly, and squinted my eyes to see clearer. It appeared to be a moving mass of water… but it didn't look like waves.

"What the Nether?" I heard Bodil then said, apparently having seen the strange mass as well. Everyone was now looking towards the ocean, watching with curiosity towards the mysterious thing coming out of the water. Looking around at my friends, I then saw that they each took out their weapons that they never left without, and that they were stancing themselves in a fighting position. Whatever that thing was, it definitely wasn't normal.

All of a sudden, one of the things lunged right for Kermit. The Frog fell backwards on the beach, screaming beneath the thing that had latched onto his face. "What the Nether?! GET THIS THING OFF OF ME!" Kermit screamed, thrashing around as he attempted to get the thing off of his face. I ran up to my friend, and quickly sliced off the thing that had latched onto his face. After a moment, I realized what it was. It was a Squid, but this one looked different. It looked to have wings on its back… it was a Flying Squid.

"RUN!" I screamed, then turning to my friends. The Hybrid Squids poured onto the beach, their eyes thirsting for blood. All of my friends took off from the beach, running as fast as they could to the city to warn them. I pushed Kermit ahead of me, making him go faster. He kept on jumping up, trying to get higher than the Squids. This didn't help him go faster, which actually annoyed me.

"I will find Sky and warn him: the Squids have returned!" I screamed, then running off in the direction that the Arcade was located.

Sky's POV-

I laughed with my friends, as we were recounting the time that Jerome had fallen into a cave when Ssundee had pushed him in there. It wasn't funny unless you knew the real reason for it: Jerome used to have a huge fear of Spiders, and Ssundee had purposely pushed the Fluffy in there with a bunch of Spiders. Jerome was terrified about everything from then on for about a week, even accidentally kicking Bajan in the balls when Bajan came up behind him to surprise him.

The sun had gone down about an hour ago, and we were just finishing up a great day at the Arcade. After The Bridges, we had played Cops 'N Robbers, having Jerome and Bajan as the first cops, Sierra and Jen as the second round of cops, and me and Ssundee as the final round cops. It was just a fun day of games with my friends. We hadn't had that much fun in several months. Since we were so busy, we hadn't had much time for fun all together. It was almost impossible to find times to get together as buddies and just have a blast.

We walked outside of the Arcade, and froze when we were met with screams of terror. Looking around, I then saw many Minecrafters running around in panic, their arms thrown in the air as they ran all around the streets.

"What the Nether?" Husky muttered, looking around in confusion. We all looked around, and then we froze in shock when we saw what the cause of the chaos was. About a meter away from where we were standing, groups of what appeared to be mutant Squids were slithering down the street, attacking every person that was in its reach. My whole body was frozen in terror. This couldn't be happening again. The Squids were trying to attack CubeCity once more? When would they learn to stop?

"I probably shouldn't have had that plate of calamari for lunch…" Bashur then said, staring in shock towards the group of Squids that were literally a couple feet away from us. I heard Jerome, Bajan, Husky and Ssundee chuckle in amusement when they heard that, barely suppressing their laughter.

I growled deep in my throat, anger beginning to fill my body. How could they be here again? I thought that they would have learned their lesson the last time that they had decided to attack CubeCity. My hand immediately went to my budder sword, which was strapped to my back. If I was quick enough…

Without thinking about it, I then immediately charged for the Squids. "Sky, stop!" I heard Dawn cry out behind me, but I completely ignored her. I couldn't believe that the Squids would have the audacity to come back to CubeCity. I raised my sword high above my head, ready to slice the closest Squid to me, which looked slightly red instead of the normal blue. But as I was doing so, the Squid saw me coming, and his tentacle immediately came for me. Moments later, I felt the tentacle slam into my face. Right then, a pain unlike any other that I have ever felt erupted from my jaw, and then I felt my feet lift off of the ground. I flew backwards, quickly hitting the ground and sliding painfully across the pavement. When I tried to get up, I couldn't. It was physically impossible for me to get up, because of how much pain I was in. I knew for certain that a couple ribs were broken when I hit the ground after the Squid punched me, and I believe my bottom jaw was either dislocated or completely broken. I groaned in pain, my world around me spinning around and around in circles. I couldn't focus on anything. Finally, I felt someone run up to me.

"It's going to be OK, Sky," I heard Dawn's comforting voice groggily say, although I could barely understand what she was saying. I rested my head back on the ground, my head pounding in pain from the rough landing. Hearing the Squids around me scared me, as I could tell that they planned on attacking every citizen of CubeCity and I could do nothing to stop them. All I could do was wait and watch from afar to see if the city could protect itself without its hero to protect it.

Jerome's POV-

I watched in horror as Sky ran towards the Squids, his enchanted budder sword gripped in his hand. I knew his intentions were to attack the Squids, and I so badly wanted to help him, but I was frozen in place from shock. Everyone gazed at Sky as he ran towards the Squids, but then, one of the Squids that were tinted red instead of the normal blue turned to Sky, his tentacles flailing everywhere. All of a sudden, one of the tentacles on the Squid flew towards Sky, hitting him square in the jaw. Sierra gasped when we watched Sky fly backwards, hitting the pavement hard when he landed. I held her back as she tried to run to her brother's aid, Bajan helping me on the other side. Dawn, though, ran to Sky's side, barely managing to get to his side without the Squids launching arrows at her.

"Guys, grab a weapon!" I cried out, immediately running down the street past the Squids. It was very difficult to get past all the panicking Minecrafters, as they were all over the streets trying to run from the attacking Squids. Bajan was right behind me, following me as we tried to find any sort of weapon that we could. Breaking into the closest store that supplied weapons, Bajan and I then jumped in through the window, running to the far end of the store. We grabbed diamond Betties, one for each of us. I grabbed several other swords and bows, while Bajan grasped onto some more axes and pickaxes.

Running back out of the store, we were immediately met with half of our friends that came with us to the Arcade, along with a horde of Squids. Throwing my friends weapons, I then grasped Betty in my hand, swinging it in a large arch in front of me. Moments later, three Squids dissolved into particles before me.

Everyone began to fight back, wanting to get rid of the Squids and see what happened to Sky. Dawn was protecting him as we stood around him, fending the Squids from getting to him. For some reason, Sky was who they were trying to get the most… why did they want him? They never wanted him before… they always hated him because he almost completely annihilated their race completely. I sliced through some Squids heads, Bajan and Sierra fighting by my side. Bajan and I fought with the most bravery, knowing that if we, even for a second, showed our fear of the Mutant Squids, we would be defeated in more ways than one. Taking a quick look around, I then saw that every single one of my friends were fighting alongside us. As far as I could tell, Bajan and I were fighting the bravest, while Bashur was teasing the Squids from afar. Even though he was just being annoying with the Squids, he was actually helping us. When he would make fun of their tentacles or saying "Your momma so ugly when they took school pictures, they had to edit out her face because it would scar too many people" jokes.

"Bajan, behind you!" I cried out, spinning in place and obliterating a Zombie Squid that was trying to bite me. Bajan took Betty, spun ninety degrees, and then he buried the axe head in the skull of the Mutant Squid that was trying to sneak up on him.

"Thanks, biggums!" Bajan then said, flashing a quick smile in my direction. I nodded, and then I turned back around to assist Jen in killing a Swift Squid.

"Sky, Sky!" A voice cried out, and then I turned around, trying to find who the source of the voice was. After a moment of seeing nothing but Squid heads and my friends killing them, I saw a couple Squids fall together. Once the Squids collapsed on the ground, I saw CaptainSparklez standing there, an enchanted diamond sword in hand. Behind him, Bodil, Ryan, Gizzy, Kermit, Noah, Pixel, Wolf and Spade were standing there, obviously scared by something that they saw. It most likely was because of the Squids, because Mutant Squids are really scary and frightening to see wandering around the streets.

"Jordan! Why are you guys here?!" I cried out, looking over at my friends. On the outside, I probably looked a little angry seeing that they were there. That could be the case, as I didn't want to endanger my friends anymore than we already were. But, on the inside, I was extremely grateful. When the Squids started coming, they kept on coming. There were a lot of them… I was surprised that none of us have gotten injured. Well, excluding Sky, that is.

Jordan ran up to me, and then he looked around urgently. "Where is Sky? Is he OK?" He asked, his eyes frantic to find his close friend.

I put a hand quickly on his shoulder, making sure that we weren't going to be attacked by Squids immediately afterwards. "Sky is going to be fine… I hope. He went to attack the Squids right as we saw them advancing on the pedestrians, but one of the Strength Squids hit him in the jaw, sending him flying backwards. Of what I could see, his jaw is completely broken. But Dawn is with him, protecting him from Squids that attempt to get to him." I then looked up behind Sparklez. "Jordan, duck."

Listening to me immediately, Jordan then ducked, and I swung my arm out, slicing clean through a Squid's head with Betty. Straightening up, Captain then nodded to me. "Thanks, man."

"Don't want my friends to die, that's all," I then said, giving him a quick, teasing smile afterwards. "Come on… let's kill these sons-of-Herobrine until all that is left of them are Squid corpses."

The battle was long and exhausting. I was actually surprised that Betty didn't break from how much I was using her and with how long the battle was lasting. With just the couple of friends that I had fighting alongside me, it took us longer than normal to gain the upper hand in that battle, but eventually, we found the weak spot on the Squids. They seemed to freak out the most when we smashed where their torsos would be located, and when we discovered that, it was considerably easier to defeat the dreaded Squids. Pushing them away from the pedestrians that took cover in the large buildings surrounding us, we eventually pushed them to the point where they were on the avenue next to the beach. At that point, the sun was beginning to rise in the east, beautiful shades of orange and yellow painting the dark sky and the clouds that covered it. Obviously realizing that they had lost most of their troops, the remaining Squids retreated, fleeing back into the water. Spade, Deadlox and Bodil began to run after the Squids, shooting them with the bows. Others began to go forward as well, but I threw my hand up, motioning for them to stay still.

When the last Squid disappeared into the gentle waves of the ocean, everyone seemed to collapse from exhaustion. We had fought all night against those cursed Squids, not resting once because if we did, we most likely would have gotten our heads sliced off by an unsuspecting Invisible Squid or a Flying Squid. I dropped Betty onto the sand, falling to my knees. Mitch collapsed to the ground completely beside me, his Betty having dropped where he was standing not even a couple seconds before. I smiled over to Mitch. "You did pretty well in that battle, biggums," I then said, smiling in his direction.

Managing to pull up enough energy to push his body off of the sand slightly, Mitch then smiled back to me. "Thank you, biggums. You did well as well," He responded, immediately falling back to the ground afterwards. He had a black eye, and I could see many tears and scratches on his arms and legs from lucky swipes the Squids had managed to get in. Everyone had that, either having some form of an injury or cut. The worst that I could see right at that moment was Seto, whose arm was completely bent backwards. I could clearly distinguish the pain in his eyes, but he was taking in some potions to help heal that broken arm up. Jen was right at his side, assisting him in bandaging it up and applying the healing salves to where it was most needed. Everyone else was in good condition compared to the sorcerer.

All of a sudden, I got tackled fully to the ground. I heard a squeal of laughter, and I immediately recognized it as Sierra's laughter. I had known her most of my life; I could easily distinguish her laugh from other girls' laughs. It was very addictive, and I smiled every time that I heard it. "We did it! We defeated the Squids!" Sierra then cried out, giving me a full hug, although my face was squished into the sand below me.

"Uh, Sierra, can you please get off of me?" I asked, my voice slightly muffled from being pressed into the beach.

"Oh, sorry! I didn't mean to do that, Jerome!" Sierra then cried out, helping me up afterwards. I laughed.

"It wasn't your fault. I'm just glad that everyone is OK…" Right then, I remembered about Sky. I had completely forgotten about him, because I was too busy preoccupied by the attacking Squids. Dawn had moved him into a lobby of one of the closest buildings, protecting him by the counter in the main lobby. "Sky," I then said, looking down to Sierra.

My best lady friend immediately lost her smile, her beautiful face creasing into a worried expression. Obviously she had forgotten about her adopted brother as well. "Come on, we have to get to him!" She then cried out, immediately taking off in the direction back to the Arcade. All of my friends followed close behind, although we were having problems with having to clamber over leftover Squid corpses that didn't dissolve down into particles immediately. It took us a good five minutes to run to where Sky was located.

Running into the building that Dawn had dragged Sky into, I immediately saw Dawn kneeling down on the ground. I could see that she was crying, as there were distinct tear stains on her cheeks. She was caressing Sky's hand, giving him comforting words while he was in pain. I ran up to my best friend's side, immediately wincing when I saw the injury that he had sustained. His jaw was slightly bent to the left, and it looked painful just to see.

"Ty, call the paramedics, right now," I then said, turning back to Deadlox. Nodding slowly, Deadlox then pulled out his phone, immediately getting to work on locating the paramedics.

Sierra dropped to her knees, kneeling down beside her brother. "Oh, Sky, I can't believe this happened to you," Sierra said, her voice cracking several times. She began to shake slightly, obviously trying hard to not break into tears right at that moment. Sky looked over to his sister ever so slightly, not being able to answer because of his broken jaw. His sunglasses were completely shattered from the impact, so I could see part of his right eye behind the missing lens of his broken sunglasses. His eyes, very similar to Seto's, was pained, he being in so much pain that it was hard to deal with. I was in that kind of pain once before… but that was so long ago that I can barely remember the experience. All I knew was that it was a prank that Sierra and Mitch had planned, and when they proceeded to go with the plan, it didn't go as it should have. I ended up with a broken leg and a broken hip, having landed on both of them hard when I tried to catch myself. If I was correct, though, that was back when we were eight or so. That was twelve years ago.

Dawn put a comforting hand on Sierra's hand, and then Bajan put a gentle hand on her shoulder. Standing up, Sierra then buried her head in Bajan's shoulder, expelling her sorrow into Mitch's red and black checkered jacket. I walked up to Mitch and Sierra, and I began to comfort Sierra as well. Everyone else stared down at Sky, worry lacing in their faces. All we could do now was wait for the paramedics to show up. The Squids were going to pay for injuring my best friend, and they would be stopped, no matter the cost.

Kitty: The Squids attacked CubeCity... Sky barely made it out alive... and thousands of Squid bodies litter the streets of CubeCity. What is the exact reason that the Squids need Sky for? Why do they continually try to attack the city?

Ninja: Well, we can't answer that right now! I guess you guys will have to wait. Oh, btw, check out my new story Renewed Lives, and also check out Kitty's story that she is continuing, Sky Legends! I will see you recruits later :)