DarkMaster98: Hello there, it is me again! Hades and I have returned to bring you a new chapter! I don't really have much to say, so I'm just gonna pass the microphone to my friend Hades. But yeah, enjoy the chapter!

Nether Lord Hades: Let the action commence!

I walked through the thick jungles of Glow Wood trees. Recruits were chopping down trees to help with supplies and strengthen our HQ. We set up our main base in a old Nether fortress used as an archers' tower and a bomb shelter in the Great Ender/Nether war with Glow Wood jungles surrounding our base. We had basic things to survive, it was very easy to set traps, plus our HQ was safely hidden in the jungle leaves and trunks. It was an ideal place to live in, though it was also dangerous for us. Testificates could also come in and out of the Nether as they please and set traps that were safely hidden in the ground, so we were always careful.

"Creepers came though the portal!" Bleh11 shouted.

I rushed over. "Time to get some gunpowder," I muttered.

Bleh11 was fighting about five of the green explosive creatures, taking them out with his specially modified double bladed Lavacrystal infused diamond sword. He was skillful enough that he rarely triggered a creeper to explode, which was always useful. I started to help, stabbing a creeper through the heart from the back with my Pyridium sword. No creepers blew up, which was good. I collected the gunpowder. "Hey, Bleh11! How are the lumber jacks treating ya, man?"

Bleh11 shrugged. "As long as they collect what we need, and don't get killed by the Testificates, they're doing great!"

I smiled. "You're doing fine, man. Need an upgrade on your weapon?"

Bleh11 raised his sword and shook his head. "Nah. I just need it to be Cursed soon, but it will be fine for the time being." He looked at me. "How's Dubbleuu doing?"

"Fine. He was fed a butter apple and put into recovery. Lexie used several healing potions, but Dubbleuu keeps saying 'Testificates…'"

Bleh11 blinked. "Okay. Tell him I'm sorry I couldn't come over."

I nodded. "Alright, Bleh. Bring back more gunpowder if you kill any more creepers. We're gonna need them for TNT bows."

He grinned. "No problem."

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I visited Dubbleuu in the recovery dorms. Lexie was still trying to bandage the wound, attempting to make Dubbleuu hold still, but he just flailed around.

He was looking feverish and shivering at the same time, swatting away Lexie's caring hands. "Testificates…Testificates…Testificates…"

"We're not the Testificates, Dubbleuu! It's LexieLol, remember?"

Dubbleuu closed his eyes and sighed in fear. "Testificates…"

I sat next to my friend and held his hand. "Come on, Dubbleuu. It's me, Hades. Your friend! Hold still."

Supercalifrag, Connorwillson11, Bran42163 and MaltyCrab were sitting near his cot, sadly looking at their injured friend. They had all abandoned their shifts to support their friend. Before, Connorwillson11 was developing new traps to kill our dumbass friends, Malty was hunting for food, and Bran42163 was just entertaining everyone by yelling: "I won the Hunger Games! I won the Hunger Games!"

Dubbleuu cut his nails into my hand, making me let go. "Testificates…"

His eyes turned into a tinge of emerald green, and I realised what was happening.

"The arrow had Testificate blood on the tip! He's turning! He was trying to tell us!" I leaped to my feet. "Get a bucket of milk!"

Supercalifrag was the first to react. He stood and tossed me a milk bucket. Lexie snatched it from my hands and fed it to Dubbleuu. Nothing happened at first. Then Dubbleuu let out a blood-curdling shriek. We plugged our ears as Dubbleuu began to flail around, swatting at invisible illusions only he could see. He stood, trying to run out of the recovery dorm.

"Dubbleuu!" I tackled him and pinned him to the cot. "Dubbleuu!"

"Testificates! Testificates!"

Bran42163 helped push down Dubbleuu's kicking legs. Malty placed a hand over my friend's mouth and Dubbleuu went silent. Supercalifrag was shaking as he placed down another sign: [Wut da fudge was that?!] Dubbleuu slammed his head repeatedly on the ground, until he was unconscious. Bran42163 fed two more milk buckets to Dubbleuu, then we all let our friend go.

One of my recruits burst inside, his Inferno bow notched with a Fire Charge ready to shoot. "Where? Where are the Testificates?!"

I shook my head. "There were no Testificates. Dubbleuu was delusional."

He loosened the grip on his weapon. "Oh…"

Lexie was breathing hard as she checked Dubbleuu's pulse and breathing. "Sorry for what we did to you…"

I walked out of the room. Though I was worried for my friend, I had to check on my recruits and everyone else. Every recruit knelt and bowed down when they saw me arrive into the mines, but I waved them off. "Continue your work. We're on high alert."

There was an uneasy whisper that passed through the miners, but they shrugged and went back to mining through the Netherrack.

I strode through the mineshafts until I found my friend. "Aquashade! Head miner and one of the leaders in the resistance!"

Aquashade turned and nodded. He always wore his Crystalline helmet, no matter what. The recruits were starting a rumor that he was like Darth Vader, not willing to remove his helmet and hiding a destroyed face beneath.

"Hades, the almighty Nether Lord. How can I help ya, buddy?" Aquashade did a mock bow.

I laughed. "Aquashade, did you hear about what happened with Dubbleuu?"

Aquashade shook his head. "No, why? Is he okay?"

I told him what happened with Dubbleuu, and Aquashade sat down. "Well, the little Testificate scums. I wasn't aware they were getting that intelligent. Should we move locations? If they have agents in the mines, we need to move."

I nodded. "If someone else is injured, we'll move. For the mean time, stay on very high alert. We can't afford to lose anyone else to the enemy."

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I sat down in the cafeteria. It was ration time. Ration time was when everyone came out of their shifts to get their food. They only had the usual choice from what the hunters shot down and what the fishermen caught, which was a selection of chicken, steak, pork chops, rotten flesh apparently from Zombies (not Zombie Pigmen), fish, and apples from the Overworld. We were running low on food, so everyone was allowed one choice for rations. It wasn't the best, but at least we weren't starving. I decided on Rotten flesh just as everyone (except Dubbleuu, for obvious reasons) sat at my table. Supercalifrag placed down a sign like normal: [Bran42163 in defensive lines. Spider jockeys and creepers though the portal like usual…]

"Thanks, Supercalifrag." I turned to LexieLol13. "Potions and sick bay?"

"64 healing potions; a mix of splash and drink. 55 harming potions, though we need more ingredients for the harm. The sick bay has a mix of hostile mob injuries and accidents setting off both our traps and the Testificates' traps, one dead." Lexie took a bite of her apple.

I nodded. "Better than yesterday."

"What about the hunting, Malty?"

"20 pigs, 35 cows, 26 chickens, 50 zombies and about 20 apples." MaltyCrab was eating a porkchop not a usual chicken. Maybe he was worried about the rations amount.

We went around the table: Bleh and the lumber jacks got 150 blocks of Glow wood, and managed to take out five villager tree bases with TNT, fire charges, Inferno Bows and lava. Aquashade and the miners got 60 iron, 410 coal, 15 diamond, 42 butter, 67 obsidian blocks, 14 Pyridium, 45 Lavacrystals, 10 Nedirum and 7 Nether-quartz. Bran42163 was entertaining people by screaming "We won the Hunger Games! We won the Hunger Games!" Lexie was cooking and helping with potions. Supercalifrag was helping Connorwillson11 craft more traps and weapons. Bleh11 was helping with the defensive lines until an Enderman who had somehow got though the portal broke his bow and his diamond infused Lavacrystal sword.

A recruit ran up to me. "L-lord? The workers are requesting an update on supplies and conditions…"

The recruit nodded, then walked back to his table. I stood on the cafeteria table. "Okay, Nether Warriors! I will review our conditions and supplies with you all! Food is running low, as usual. Lumber is becoming scarce, ingredients for potions are running dangerously low, and… well… Bran42163 won the Hunger Games!" Recruits laughed and cheered.

I sighed at what I was to say next. "But we may have to move locations. The mines are crawling with villagers, food and lumber are going to run out very shortly, and our mines are running low on resources. Plus…" I swallowed. "Dubbleuu was shot in the mines. The arrow that shot him was tipped with villager blood. We managed to stop him from turning, but they are getting smarter."

Before an uneasy feeling had the chance to pass through the crowd, a recruit ran in, carrying a stretcher. On it was a fighter with arrows sticking out of every possible spot in his armor. He was barely breathing, gripping a small piece of paper in his hand. The recruit placed down the stretcher in front of our table. "Seven villager archers in emerald armor on horseback. This guy tried to take them out on his own."

Trying to take out seven villager archers at once, especially ones riding horses, on your own was practically suicide. As I quickly sliced through the arrows with my Pyridium sword, LexieLol used some potions. The injured recruit grasped my hand, and I looked into his dying eyes. "Message… Testificate Kingdom… move locations… failed you…"

I shook my head. "You didn't fail me. You will be remembered as a hero."

The fighter's deep red eyes closed, and his body faded away with a puff of smoke into nothing but Nedrium armor, some Lavacrystal tools, and a note. I took the note, and read it:

"Dear Hades, it is time that your little Nether Empire along with you shall fall, so we are plucking off your men one-by-one. Unless you surrender and let yourself become a sacrifice to our army, you and everything you have cared about will be destroyed completely. You have one week to comply."

I crumpled the paper and tossed it behind my shoulder, anger boiling inside me. I strode to the announcement wing, ignoring whatever people tried to say to me. I grabbed the microphone and flicked the switch on. "All recruits, please grab as many supplies as you can carry. The Nether Empire is moving locations into the Overworld for supply reasons."

It was no problem to find a new place to set up the new HQ in, it was just moving everybody out of the Nether without setting off any traps. 1,000 recruits were injured from the villagers' traps and our traps, as well as two fatalities. We kept moving for three days before we came to a plains biome. It was full of resources and places to set traps. The second we stepped in, the hunters, lead by MaltyCrab took out 34 cows, 72 chickens, 42 pigs, and we even got 38 apples. Supercalifrag, LexieLol, Bleh11 and Bran42163 set out to build a main HQ building out of obsidian, with a block of burning Netherrack to represent us all. Connorwillson11 and Dubbleuu (who was now better, though he inexplicably went into a panic attack several times) crafted multiple anvils, cursing tables, brewing stands and enchanting tables for our enchanting and brewing purposes. Aquashade and Bodil40 started a new hidden mineshaft inside a nearby Jungle Temple and looked for supplies. I turned to a recruit who was injured from a TNT trap. His friend had been killed by a Emerald Golem in the desert as we were coming here, and he seemed gloomy after it happened. He held a Level 30 double-bladed Cursed Lavacrystal battle-axe designed by Connorwillson11 himself, and offered it to me.

"This was my friend's, RENZINDEEVIL. He died saying that he wanted you to have it…"

I stared at him in disbelief. His friend's last words were that he wanted me to have his weapon. The warrior that died didn't tell his friend to keep his weapon, but that he wanted me to have his weapon.

"I…"

"Please, Lord Hades. My friend died for you in the Nether Empire. The least you could do is have it." The warrior's eyes started to twinkle like he was going to cry.

I smiled. "Thank you." I grabbed the axe's hilt. "What's your name, recruit?"

The recruit stood up straight proudly. "MlgHwnt, sir!"

I nodded. "I'll fight for your friend, MlgHwnt. Just promise that you'll fight for him too."

Another recruit walked up to me, a guy who called himself Aviatorgaming. "Lord! There's a dungeon about 210 blocks away! And Lord… we've found a Testificate Army captain that we're holding hostage..."

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