Hey guys! Sorry for the delay of this chapter... again. I was busy with school work, trying to do YouTube and also trying to have fun with my family. Can't do all things, which sucks. Anyways, here is the next chapter! Enjoy!
Sky's POV-
We all approached the portal of the End dimension, another one of the scared weapons having been retrieved. When we get to the portal, one by one, each of us dive in through the spacey-looking material that allowed us to escape the dimension. I get myself to the edge of the portal, walking up and joining beside me is Sierra. I glanced over to her and give her an reassuring smile. She looks doubtful for a moment, but smiles afterwards and nods. I hold my hand out for her, she gently grasps my hand with hers. Together, we both dive in through the portal, leaving behind us The End dimension and the no-longer living dragon within it.
Moments later, I open my eyes and find myself in a forest. I look over and Sierra is still grasping my hand. She opens her eyes and looks around. She breathes a sigh of relief as she lets go of my hand. I look around and see everyone safely together. "Well, it looks like we're all here. The last weapon we need to get is in the Nether. I can't guarantee that we'll all make it out alive, but we can only hope that we will succeed in at least contact Notch and asks him of assistance," Ant stated out as he starts walking to the center of us.
Suddenly, I hear Demented let out a deep sigh as he steps out in for of the others. "I don't know about that, Ant," he said unsurely.
"What do you mean?" Ant questioned in confusion.
Demented replies with, "Well, haven't you all ever thought that maybe... just maybe that Notch will deny us help and just leave us to rot on the ground?" Everyone gasps in shock as they look at each other with worried expressions on their faces and mumbled scared statements. I look around in worry as everyone is beginning to look uneasy and less determined.
I glare over at Demented and ask him, "Why would you even think those sorts of thoughts? It is those thoughts that make it so that we fail at what we are trying to achieve."
The man shrugs, and then he adjusts his cloak. "At least I am thinking realistically. Sometimes the truth hurts," Demented said, and then he turned around and walked to the edge of the little clearing we had entered in.
Exhaling, I then rubbed my hand against my face, trying to control my anger. Every second it felt that it was getting harder and harder to control it. "Demented is probably right. We can't guarantee that Notch would even help us, we can only hope," Ray said, folding her arms across her chest as her wings folded behind her as well. I looked over to Ray, and saw the look of worry in her eyes. That didn't happen often, I knew that much. "Even if we manage to get this last weapon from the Nether, and we somehow make it to the top of Mount Blockrest with enough time to save Minecraftia, he may reject our proposal to fight against his brother. They have always hated each other, but at the same time they have been unable to beat the other since their powers are about the same. Now that Notch has lost control of Minecraftia, Herobrine has more power than his brother. I know my boss very well. He still may try to help us, but he often doesn't meddle in the affairs of Minecraftians, even if it is against his evil brother."
"Then why are we even trying to save our world?" Seto asked, anger getting the better of him.
"We have to save our world. It is the only place that we can truly call home, and if we lose it, well, we may as well kiss our chances of survival goodbye," Sierra said, gripping her hands tightly together, trying not to let her anger come out.
I, however, couldn't control my anger. The voice of Skotch, the future good version of me, saying, "The evil is growing. As long as you continue to get the weapons to summon Notch, your evil will grow. By the last weapon, the evil might take over your body completely. But that is something that has to happen sadly. I had to go through it, and so did Skybrine. Either way... you will have to go through this phase."
Gripping onto my sword to try and not lash out at my friends, I then hissed, "Shut up, just SHUT UP."
Immediately, everyone around me fell silent, shocked by what I said. I could feel the evil side coming out, and not matter what I did, it wouldn't be held back. "This is the stupidest thing to fight about! Notch will never help us, he doesn't have the guts to help us. If he was willing to help us, then why did he allow us to go through this hard journey, for us to lose many close friends of ours? He could have taken care of the problem at the beginning, and we wouldn't have had to go through this: lose friends, lose our faith in Notch. There is no God if he didn't save us from going through this," I said, seeing the white returning to my eyes from the reflection of my sunglasses and dominating the main source of light in the forest that we were in.
Husky bites his lip, and then he takes a daring move to step forward and address to me. "Sky, Adam, don't let the evil take over."
"YOU HAVE NO COMMAND OVER ME, FISH!" I exclaimed, and immediately he pulled back. My friends all looked shocked at my exclamation of anger. Quentin looked hurt, and I knew that saying that would offend him. He absolutely hated being called a fish, and it offended him more than any other offense did.
"All of you are idiots if you think you can control me and command me. Nothing commands me, nothing ever will. So what if my anger is getting the better of me? You guys can't do anything about it," I hissed, feeling the power of evil pulse through my veins.
By this point, as I looked around, I didn't recognize a single person around me. It was as if I completely had forgotten who I was and who my friends were. I could feel the evil moving around in my mind, finding the deepest parts of my brain to take control of me. I couldn't do anything to stop it though. At the same time that I felt completely afraid, I was happy. It was the strangest feeling ever to have. A woman maybe around the age of twenty walked up to me, and the first thing that I noticed about her was her very interesting looking hair. The right side of it (from my perspective) was a darker shade of pink, and the left side was dark blue. That was very strange. Her eyes were the next most interesting, saying one was dark blue and the other was emerald green. Another thing that I noticed was the lava streams that seemed to flow around her arms. They constantly moved, but seemed to stay in place against her arm. The very last thing about her was that she had an inflamed stomach. It was very rounded, and she had to hold a hand against her stomach as she approached me.
"Adam, come on, I know you are in there somewhere. Don't let the evil take over. Remember who I am, please," the woman said, a desperate look in her eyes.
Suddenly, her name came rushing back to me. The evil seemed to flush out of me, and I felt weak from not having that power inside of me. "What... Dawn... what happened..." I said, looking at the frightened looks on my friends faces.
"The evil is getting stronger," Sierra said, her eyes glazing over slightly as she looked to me. I closed my eyes, and then she said, "You will have to learn how to control it more, Adam. Or else... something bad might happen."
I shook my head, and I looked to my friends. "You know what? Let's just forget this happened and just get back to our goal: finding the closest Nether portal around here. The sooner we get this mission finished, the sooner I think the evil will leave."
"Um, guys, you might want to see this first," Demented said, turning around with a shocked look on his face.
Walking up to him, I then looked out of the forest where we were standing. I stopped breathing for a second when I saw the scene before me. I didn't recognize this place at all. I knew that the city that I saw before me was CubeCity, but everything around it and in it was different. Everything seemed to have been made and changed to look like it was from... the Nether. The ground outside of the forest was dead and turning into Netherrack, the water had been turned to lava, and the light sources were all changed to glowstone blocks. The sky was blood-red and everything felt like it was the middle of summer even though it was the beginning of spring. But that wasn't the only bad part. Ghasts flew all around in the air, Zombie Pigmen patrolled the streets with their butter swords raised high in the air, Wither Skeletons were busy watching the outside edges of the city, and Blazes flew all around in the air. Everything looked like it had been transferred from the Nether, which I knew was not true.
"Oh my Notch..." Jen muttered, covering her mouth with her hand as she tried to stop her exclamation of shock from coming out.
"It appears to me that the Wither Skeletons are watching out for something, as if they are expecting something to happen," Mitch said, kneeling down to get a better look of the outside skirts of the city.
Bodil gulped, and then he said, "Herobrine took over the city... possibly the entire Overworld."
I exhaled, trying to control my anger. But I wasn't doing a very good job of it. I was angry that Herobrine had turned our beautiful world into this realm of darkness, and that he had taken over our city as his home. It was wrong and sick. I looked over to the Withers and noticed that Mitch was correct: they were scanning the edges of the forest surrounding the city as if they were expecting something to come out of them. They were waiting for something. Suddenly, realization came rushing onto me. "Herobrine set them up here to protect the city from us. I... I think he is trying to hunt us down and trying to stop us from getting the last weapon. The closest Nether portal is underneath the Minecraftia Trade Tower, and that is under the city. He knows that all we need to do it to get to his realm to get the weapon. He wants us to stop completing our goal of this whole journey."
"Which must mean... which must mean that he is afraid," Jerome said, putting a hand to his chin and looking back to the city quickly.
"If that is the case, then he must know that something about is can stop him, which means we would have a chance of defeating him once and for all!" Eagle cried out, hanging from the branch she had managed to climb up to.
"Maybe we can distract Herobrine by giving them some of Ian's cakes. We have no need for them anyways," Bashur said, laughing soon afterwards.
Ian glared over at Bashur, and then he said, "Why don't we instead give them a peace offering of a talking watermelon? That might appease them more than my cakes would ever do."
"You won't know unless you try. Good luck trying to catch me, crazy man!" Bashur took off running out of the edge of the forest, which immediately made all of us scream at him. But he wouldn't turn around. In anger, SSundee ran after Bashur, close behind him being April, Bonkers, CaptainSparklez, Gizzy and Brotato.
Dawn held me back as I tried to run after him, and I watched in helplessness as those friends ran out into the open. Immediately as they stepped out, they had gotten spotted by the Wither Skeletons watching the forest. They ran forward, and quickly sniped Bashur and Ian with their arrows. It surprisingly didn't kill them, which was what I was worried about, but instead they quickly went down, not moving afterwards. It didn't take me long to notice that they had tipped the arrows with a stunning potion that would immobilize anyone hit by the arrow. The four Skeletons that were there quickly shot at the others, and they all went down with a thud.
"Get these Minecraftians to the boss. He will be glad to know that they have been captured by us instead of proceeding to get to the portal by going through the underground rail system that leads directly to the portal," one of the Wither Skeletons said in a language he surprisingly understood. None of his other friends seemed to understand except for Ray and Demented.
"Thanks for the tip, dude," I muttered, and then I stepped back to turn to my friends. I looked in shock as I then saw Demented walk casually out from the trees.
"Demented, what in the Nether are you doing?!" Ray hissed, trying to stop him but failing to do so.
Demented shook off Ray's arm, and then approached the Wither Skeletons. I knelt back down, signaling for my friends to do the same. The Nether man walked forward, and began casually talking to the Wither Skeletons. "Hey guys, what's up?" he exclaimed, holding his arms high up in the air.
The Skeletons looked to him as if he were a freak of nature. "Demented. I thought that you were on an assignment for Herobrine to follow these humans," the leader of the group said, gesturing with his bow down to Brotato, who was lying in an awkward position from landing after being hit by the arrow.
"What? He was working for Herobrine?" Deadlox exclaimed, his red eyes enraged by the information that we had just learned.
"I was, but then I found them and brought them to you guys. I thought that I would please Herobrine if I brought him right to where he wants them," Demented said, forcefully kicking Jordan's side. I could easily hear a grunt of pain escape from his body, but he couldn't move from where he had landed.
I was enraged. He was a traitor and he was going to give my friends to Herobrine willingly? The lead Wither Skeleton didn't seem to really trust Demented, but then he grunted, "Fine then. If you brought them in, then it would be best if you helped us haul them in. Are there others? Where is Sky and his other group of friends?"
"They don't matter. Let's just get these prisoners to Herobrine as quickly as possible so you can get back to your dreary jobs of watching the outskirts of the city," Demented said, and then he knelt down to pick up April, who was lying on her side.
"Guys, follow me," I said, noticing that Demented had left us a good opportunity to sneak past the Wither Skeletons. I was mad that Demented had betrayed us, but at the same time I couldn't believe that. He had just told the Wither Skeletons that we didn't matter, but we were really close to them. That had to mean that he was trying to help us. I got up, and soon, so did the rest of my friends. We made our way through the edge of the forest, until we hit the spot where we wouldn't get spotted by the Wither Skeletons. We quickly darted to the cover of the small buildings at the edge of the city, and quickly passed the main gate that leads into the city.
We all grouped back up together in an alley as we hit main street, and I looked to my friends in the dark of the buildings. They all looked enraged from just being betrayed, but they all looked ready for battle. They all knew the risks, so did Bashur and the others, but they were still willing to fight. "OK, guys, look. I know this city like the back of my hand, so it should be easy for us to get to the Nether portal. Now, as the Withers have just informed us, the underground rail system is open to easily access the path to the portal. That, sadly, is about four blocks from here due east. As we saw, there are hundreds of Zombie Pigmen here, and unlike normal ones, I think these ones are going to get provoked just by seeing us. I may not be correct, but it is a good think to assume. There are also Ghasts in the air. The main problem will possibly be those Ghasts. Mitch, Jerome, Sierra, Ray, Dawn, Seto, Kermit, Noah, Cliff, Blue Monkey and WeedLion, I need you guys to shoot down any Ghast that you see. We will do our best to get rid of any creature that flies in the sky. The rest, take out your weapons and follow behind me. We will cut down any Zombie Pigman, Zombie, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton, Blaze, Creeper or Squid that dares to stop us from reaching the underground rail system. If any one of us falls behind and gets captured, we have to continue on. As long as we have a couple that make it to the portal in safety, we are good. I know that it is hard to leave behind friends, but we have to do this in order to even accomplish our goal of getting the Wither Falchio from the Nether. Do you all swear upon your swords that no matter the cost, that you will leave behind a comrade to get captured so that one of us can make it to the portal in safety?"
My friends each looked upset, but they all nodded. I quickly drew out my Rugged Rapier instead of my butter sword, and immediately the power of the weapon seemed to flood into my body. "Then, to the portal we go. For Minecraftia!" I exclaimed, holding up my weapon into the air. My friends did the same exact thing, all yelling their response. We then charged out of the alley, and began tearing towards the east.
It only took moments for the first wave of enemy to come charging forwards. This first wave consisted of Ghasts in the air, Zombie Pigmen (which I knew would immediately attack us no matter if we hit them first or not), and normal Skeletons. Our forces clashed together, and as this happened, the battle officially began. I swiped my weapon at the closest Skeleton, which cleanly split through the bones of the creature. The Skeleton tumbled to the ground, but was replaced by three more. I continued pushing forward, not letting these enemies stop me. Mitch ran by my side, and on my other side ran Jason, who was swiping at every Pigman that came running towards us. I didn't know where Dawn or Sierra was, but I had made a promise to not care for the welfare of others for this fight. Mitch constantly fired at the Ghasts in the air, and occasionally we had to dart to the side to miss getting blasted by the fireballs.
When we hit the next block, we were met with another group of enemies about three times as big. This time every single evil creature was in this mix, and that angered me. Witches threw their potions of poison, slowness, and harming at us, and a couple times one of my friends would fall to the ground, being hit by one of the potions. I watched in sadness as Bodil went down when a Skeleton shot him in the shoulder, Alix went down when a horde of Zombies enclosed upon him, Logdotzip fell to the ground with a fireball blast by the Ghasts, and Blue Monkey came down trying to fight against a Wither Skeleton. Many of my other friends fell, I knew that much, but those were the only ones that I saw. I continued to let the power of the Rugged Rapier fill my body, and it fueled me to fight even more than before. Nothing survived my weapon when it came towards them. Several times I noticed that Dawn would be using her lava power, along with Preston, to summon lava to burn up the creatures that were in their way. Lava streams resembling snakes flew through the air, splashing into major opponents all around me. Only by the next block when those lava streams in the air stopped did I know for sure that both Preston and Dawn were either captured or dead. I hoped for the captured part the most. Arrows flew all around in the air, and the main thing that I could hear was the clashing of swords, the grunts of the dying creatures, the pained cries of my friends going down and getting captured by the enemy.
We finally managed to hit the underground rail system, which was also filled with creatures. I stopped by the entrance, and ushered my friends through, at least the ones that had managed to survive. When I saw Jerome and Sierra run through, I was relieved. But many of my friends didn't run through the entrance like I wanted them to. In total, we only had Mitch, Jerome, Sierra, Jen, Ray, Brice, Quentin, AntVenom, Emeraldear, Seto and Kermit. The rest had been captured while on the way to here. But the battle didn't stop when we hit the underground rail system. Yes, it was a lot easier to run through, but there were still enemies trying to stop them. We pushed our way through the darkness, and occasionally I could hear the pained cries of another one of my friends falling to an injury. As we ran, I felt an arrow rush past me, and it has sliced my shirt open on my arm. I could feel blood seeping from the wound, but I couldn't stop. If I stopped, then I would get captured by the enemy as many of my friends had.
The battle seemed to last forever. Finally, the last enemy had fallen in the rail system, and we had managed to make it to the Minecraftia Trade Tower. We quickly entered the bottom, and I realized with great sadness that our numbers had dropped once again. This time, the only ones that were left were me, Sierra, Mitch, Jen and Brice. Sierra looked especially pained, tears staining her cheeks as she came into the light of the building lights. I knew that she was mourning over having to leave Jerome behind. Jen looked sad as well, she having to leave behind Seto when he got injured. I closed my eyes, and cursed myself. I thought that more of my friends would have made it to this point. I was terribly wrong.
We five gathered together in a corner of the building, securing ourselves in there so that nothing could get to us. I looked to my friends, and saw the blood that covered them and the injuries they had sustained. Mitch had multiple cuts on his face, and a large cut stretched across the front of his chest, which had ripped open his shirt. His once previously white shirt was not partially stained red. Brice had about the same amount of injuries, and small bits of blood coated his face. Jen and Sierra were the same. I immediately got to work on cleaning up my friends, despite the fact that I knew that we were going to get injured again later, and I talked with my friends.
"So, who did you guys see go down?" I asked, dabbing a cloth against Mitch's face and trying to clean up his cut on his chest.
Brice leaned up against the wall, wiping his hand against his forehead. "I saw Dawn go down. She was doing really good, but when a giant group of Blazes came and knocked her down, she couldn't get back up. I also saw Deadlox go down. He went down when he got tackled by a group of Zombie Pigmen. The rest I really didn't notice."
"I saw Seto go down in the dark. He was running through the dark with a strange aura of light around him, but he ended up falling when an Electric Creeper exploded and shocked him. I also saw Ray go down. A group of Wither Squids had captured her, knocking her out unconscious. That's basically all I really noticed," Jen said, closing her eyes and taking off her glasses to try her best to clean them off from the soot that had gathered on the lens.
Mitch was next, and he breathed in deeply. "Earlier I saw Bodil go down. I also saw Quentin go down, as well as Noah. All I can't really explain right now how they went down. It... is still hard for me to deal with."
Sierra was the last. She seemed the most silent, and then she managed to open her mouth and speak. "The only one I really saw go down was Jerome. I was trying my best to hold onto him, trying to keep him with me, but we got rocked around when a Creeper blew up. I lost grip of him, and he went flying into the darkness. I turned around to go after him, but saw that Wither Skeletons had gotten a hold of him. That... that was the hardest thing I had to go through in this whole mission." She let out a teary sob, but managed to keep silent the rest of the time.
I stood up after cleaning up Mitch, and then I said, "Well, at least we survived. We can't stop now, though. The portal should be up here soon. Let's go and find it, quickly, before more creatures come to stop us."
My friends nodded, and then they got themselves up. They all followed behind me, their respective weapons pulled out ready to strike. Mitch had his Katniss out, an arrow ready to fire at any moment. Sierra had her diamond sword up, Jen had her iron sword out, and Brice had his butter sword at the ready. We made our way through the building, and climbed many sets of stairs before we came to the level which I knew held the Nether portal.
We turned a corner, and lowered our weapons when we heard the soft twinkling of the portal. I glared at the portal, angry at it that it had to be so hard to get. But at the same time, it looked so relieving. We had reached our target, and that was all that mattered. Sheathing the Rugged Rapier, I then approached the portal. I then turned back to my friends. "Well, here it is. Now all we need to do is go in, grab the Wither Falchio, and save our friends. You guys ready to do this?"
"No, but let's do this anyways," Sierra said, looking to me with a soft smile on her face. I smiled to her, and with one quick intake of a breath, I then leapt through the portal, passing into the real Nether dimension.
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