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Chapter 11: a new surprise

My eyes fluttered open to a dimly-lit forest. Was I dead? Was this what the void was like to dead souls? Then the pain kicked in, and I realized I was VERY much alive. There was a faint noise in the distance, but it quickly faded, and I blamed it on hallucination.

"Hiya Alex!"

I jumped as Elda appeared right in front of me "god, you scared me" I said.

"Sorry!" Elda said "how are you feeling?"

"Like I could pass out at any moment" I said.

"Here, drink this" she said, giving me a blue potion. I drank it, and warmth filled my body. You know that warm feeling when you eat something hot on a cold day? It was kind of like that, except it felt ten times more comforting.

"Thanks" I said. I felt better in no time, and I got up "where are the others?"

Elda's normally cheerful nature immediately became grim "well…after we got through the portal, I took you over here, so the light wouldn't wake you up…" she started.

"So we're in Twilight Forest?" I asked. It made sense, being so dimly lit.

"Yea" she said "but after I brought you over here, we decided to find some shelter or some materials…"

"And…?" I prompted.

"Well…" she hesitated "after a few moments, we saw a couple of blazes…but Blazette couldn't get them to respond, and they attacked Aqua. In a moment, the blazes were accompanied by what must have been at least a hundred other hostile mobs, including endermen. None of the endermen listened to me, and none of the blazes listened to Blazette. After a few moments, the endermen took them, I barely got away"

"Where'd they go?" I asked, trying to keep my voice calm.

"There was this big ship" Elda continued "must have been 300 blocks long, and it had this balloon with it. It rose from out of nowhere and sailed into the distance. I tried to save them, but it was too fast!"

I sighed "well…I know what we're doing first" I said "come on, let's go after that ship"

She led me in the general direction, and we headed off. Apparently, her teleportation didn't work very well in the Twilight, so she wanted to use it as little as possible.

We got to an open field and saw the airship hovering, a ladder leading down.

"It's almost like they expect us" I said

"Worse comes to worse, we can just teleport away" Elda said.

"Whatever, let's make this quick" I replied. We climbed up, and the moment we were on, the ship took off.

I looked around. The ship was MASSIVE! 300 by 50 blocks, with 4 decks below this one, an estimated 70 blocks deep. Above, the balloon was 300 blocks long and 100 by 100 blocks wide and tall.

"They're probably on the lowest deck" Elda said.

"Maybe" I replied.

"There's no maybe about it" a new voice said.

Before we could do anything, we were surrounded by zombies holding diamond swords and wearing diamond armor, no way to kill them with our weapons.

"Well…I guess you were right" Elda said.

A girl jumped down from somewhere above us. She had brown hair that went to her shoulders. She wore an aviation jacket and cargo shorts that matched, with a beige shirt.

"So, you're the rescue crew?" she asked "a little girl and a teenager?"

"Speaking of which, why did you capture them?" I asked.

"Not important" she replied "my name is Maillie Night, airship woman. I take interest in people who I think could benefit me and my crew"

"So, you're not a mob princess?" I asked

"No, I don't even know what that is" Maillie said "also not important. Who are you?"

"Why does that matter?" I asked. I was probably more hostile than I should have been, but I didn't care.

"Because your friends threatened mine" she replied "now, we can talk, and you and your friends can go…or you can fight, and stay as a prisoner until I decide what to do with you"

"I'd prefer not to be help at sword point" I said.

She seemed to think for a moment, as if contemplating something "give up your weapons" she said.

"What weapons?" I asked.

She rolled her eyes "look, if we can't be honest, there's no point in being friendly" she said.

"But, you haven't told us why you captured our friends" Elda said.

She sighed "go back to work zombies" she said. They walked off "there, now are you willing to talk?"

"Not really" I said.

She sighed "why are humans so infuriating?" she asked herself. She turned back to me "look, I'm trying to be friendly, but you're making it VERY hard to not have my crew knock you out and take you to a cell"

"I'll fight you if I have to, I just want my friends back" I said.

She thought for a moment "I don't think you want to fight me" she said.

"Why?" I asked "you don't think you can beat me?" I don't know where this attitude came from, but all I wanted was Aqua and Blazette back.

She threw a snowball at me, knocking me back "oh please" she said "I can take you"

"Prove it" I challenged.

I barely got my sword out before she attacked me with hers. I rolled back, getting to my feet, and saw an enderman take Elda.

"Might as well make it fair, right?" Maillie said. I lunged at her, but she easily deflected it "don't you know anything about using a sword?"

She slashed at me, and I quickly rolled back, then I blocked her "no, I'm more of a technology kind of guy"

She flicked her wrist, disarming me, and put the sword to my neck "a lot of good THAT did you, huh?"

"I tried at least" I said

"Good luck being a prisoner" she said, she flipped the sword and hit me with the hilt, knocking me out.

Yay! Another chapter done! I couldn't finish this yesterday, so I uploaded it today instead. In response to "SimonPaige", I made Maillie Night, and thank you! I tried to make it as interesting as possible, with a few twists I made up! Also, I realized I didn't show the friendly side of Maillie in this chapter, but I will in future ones…sorry if it's not what you wanted. Remember: I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Bye for now!