Chapter 3: A night in the wizard's house

Location: Cupa' house

Time: Around Sunset

Roy's POV

When I walked into the girl's house and it was fairly normal. It was had a white carpet floor and the walls were made out of wooden planks. The structure of the house was a "L" shaped and had a 2nd floor. The blinds on all the windows were closed (of course they would be closed) and the only light we had were glow stone lamps here and there.

I saw the girl in the green hoodie sitting on a brown wool couch on the right side of the house. She was staring at the ground trying to avoid eye contact, leaving me only able to the creeper face on the top of her hoodie. I decided to sit on a wooden chair across from the couch about 5 blocks away. Keeping my distance would be the best choice or else she will probably flee her own house if I eat any closer. I looked out window and saw the sun setting.

We sat in awkward silence for like 10 minutes doing nothing but avoiding contact. Things were getting a little too awkward so I decided to break the silence.

"Ever since I met you I didn't get your name. What is your name?" I asked trying to at least know her name.

"Its…..its….Cupa." she replied stuttering and speaking like a whisper, still staring at the ground

"That's a cute name." I said to her with a smile on my face.

That made Cupa blush and turn red all over again as she started to cover her face with her hoodie even more. We didn't say anything for the next 5 minutes and went back to the awkward silence until we heard a loud BOOOOOM. The suddenly blast of sound was enough to knock me of the chair and push Cupa on to the floor on her hands and knees. I rushed over to her trying to help her up.

"Cupa you okay?" I asked concerned for her as I help her up.

"Ya….ya…..yes." she replied stuttering

"Stay close to me." I said to her

We walked over to the door and opened it only to see the town was on fire. House were burning down to ashes, cobble stone paths blown to craters, and civilians almost already deserted the town. Some houses were even in ruins. I then saw a giant group of skeletons, creepers, and zombies on our left not too far away and ready to charge at us. It was weird, minecraft logic mobs shouldn't in such a big pack at this time. I grabbed Cupa's hand and rushed down what's left of the cobble stone path, fleeing the horde forgetting about logic.. Passing through burning houses and jumping over craters we came to a stop when Cupa started to run back to the mobs

"*panting* Why are you going back?" I said trying to regain my breath.

"I…I..we need to help, we….we…can't let those monster destroy the town." Cupa said with a face of determination but still stuttering

I thought to myself, is this the same girl I was talking to earlier? I thought she would run from the face of danger but sometimes people can fool you. I summoned my stone sword into my right hand and I look at her.

"Are you sure you want to go through with this?" I asked her.

Cupa looked straight into my eye and nodded. This is the first time Cupa made eye contact with me without being scared half to death. She was like a different person. I was looking at a side that seemed locked away to be forgotten.

We dashed back to the horde of mobs and luckily for us they didn't notice our return. I held my stone sword with 1 hand and went to a single-handed sword stance but Cupa on the other hand didn't pull out any weapon instead she went into a boxing stance with her. I look at her with confusing, wondering what good will punching do.

We dashed down the path towards the mobs, Cupa and I prepared our first strike. I slashed a zombie in the head instantly killing it. The mobs took notice but Cupa punched a skeleton that had just turned towards in the face and let out a bright light coming from her fist. I blocked with my sword and BOOOOOOOOOOM!

My sight blurred out and I all I saw was white for a minute. When my sight came back there was a giant crater as big as 10 TNT blast was standing where the horde of mobs use to be, two blocks from me. The fires that were burning everywhere in the town was reduced to small embers from the blast. I then turned to Cupa and saw her panting on her hands and knees. She looks at me and smiles, showing a stream of blood coming from her nose before collapsing on to the cobble stone path.

"Cupa!" I yelled and ran over to her

I put two fingers on a her wrist trying to look for a pulse and listened if she was breathing.

Luckily she was breathing, I grabbed Cupa's right hand with both of mine. I prayed that help will come and it did. As the town's people came back and trying to put out the remains of the fire. A group of the town's were passing by. A woman among the town's people passing by to put out the fire saw me with the collasped Cupa on the ground. She was in a purple cloak, had tanned skin, and had dark brown hair. She walked up to us and gave me a blue round gem with rocks surrounding it.

"Take this, it is anchor stone. It will take you to our local healer, he will shall be a assist. This is all we can do for you two for defeating the monsters." She said with worry

"Thank you. So how does this…." I replied with gratefulness in voice before being cut off by a light. The anchor stone let out a bright blue light as I grabbed it with my right.. I flinched from the light and when I opened my eyes I was in front of a big hut that stood on the in the middle of the swamp.

Location: Somewhere in a swamp not too far from town

I was greeted by a guy who is about 18 years old wearing a dark purple cloak and a black wizard hat with emerald in the middle of the hat. He had pale yellow skin, black hair hair that completely covers his right eye, and a dark red eye. He took us inside the hut and had me help get the knocked out Cupa to a bed in a room which appeared to be a guest room. He walked in the room and he took a quick look at me.

"I will get Cupa a healing potion, stay here." He said with a emotionless face and was heading out the door.

"Wait how do you know her….." I asked before being cut off when closed the door.

I looked at Cupa on the bed and saw her still with the bloody nose so I ripped a piece of my shirt and wiped off the blood. I thought about that explosion back in the town and how it emerged from Cupa's fist. What was with that explosion, it would have blown me up but it looked like it was concentrated right on that spot but I don't care how she did that. I just care about if she will be okay.

The guy in the wizard clothes came back with a glass bottle with pink liquid inside. He walked up to the other side of the bed and opened Cupa's mouth with his righ hand. He slowly flowed the pink liquid in Cupa's mouth using ¼ of the bottle. While he was doing his work I looked out the window above the bed. The moon had just came out and was shining bright a little above the horizon. When he was done he then closed Cupa's mouth and sat down in a chair across from me.

"What is your name? he asked with his emotionless face and serious voice.

"It's Roy and how do you know Cupa?" I replied hoping to find out who this guy is.

"I am Mark, I am one of Cupa's friends who gave her creeper manipulation. Assuming you already saw it. He said

"Creeper manipulation? I asked extremely confused, I would assume that it would mean Cupa made a creeper explode but from the explosion I didn't hear a single hiss.

"Cupa is one of the few who was a success in a procedure called "Project Infusion". If the procedure succeeded it would grant the person manipulation over of a mob and sometimes give the person a sub power. Cupa can create and manipulate explosions in radius, power, and heat but exhausts her extremely fast. Her sub power is to move silently without making a sound." He said, starting to clear up how Cupa let out such a powerful explosion without blowing us up too.

"Yea giving your friend who is afraid of other people the power to blow up people to Timbuktu was a great idea doc." I said sarcastically.

"The procedure gives what is best compatible to the person. We have no way of knowing what the person abilities are until the procedure is done." he said.

"What happens if the procedure fails?" I asked curiously.

"The procedure has no consequences, safety was our biggest priority, I myself tried it and was given witch manipulation. It gave me knowledge and the ability to perform many forms of magic and alchemy. Every power is very different compared to each other. He replied

"One last question. Why did Cupa under go the procedure? I asked because Cupa doesn't look the person who wants to take it.

"I don't know ask Cupa. She just came over to take the procedure when she heard about it." He said still emotionless as a rock.

"I will ask her that when the time is right or she probably just ignore my question and pull down her hoodie." I said, thinking when that time would be.

"Pull down her hoodie? No running away? Normally she would flee away from people the first 5 minutes, even if was her own house." He said with his emotionless voice but had a surprised look on his face (well at least I know this guy is human).

"She ran away the first time we met but the second time we just sat in awkward silence for about half an hour." I said, wondering why am I the only one Cupa didn't run away from.

"WHAT…..HALF AN HOUR! He shouted extremely surprised.

The sound of Mark yelling had made Cupa start waking up. She slowly started to rise up and rubbed her eyes and looked around. Realizing that me and Mark was in the room she turned all red and hid underneath the blankets.

"Nice job Mark, you woke her up." I said sarcastically. I honesty I thought Cupa was cute when she is asleep. Wait why am I thinking about Cupa sleeping and I started to blush in the inside. I started to mentally slap myself trying to get my head straight.

"I am gonna leave you two alone now." Mark said with the world's smallest smirk on his face

Mark headed for the door and closed the door like he wanted to give us privacy. Why do I feel like Mark was in my head. Forgetting about that thought I leaned over to the bed with Cupa still hiding under the blankets.

"I am glad your okay Cupa." I said with a smile

"Ro….ro….Roy are you afraid of me? She asked me with her whisper like voice

"Why would I be?" I replied, why would she think I am afraid of her.

"You….you…saw the destruction I can cause." She said

"And I know you would use that power wisely." I said, trying to comfort her

Cupa stuck her head out of the blankets and revealed her usual blushing face. Cupa tried to avoid eye contact but slowly started to shift her eyes on to mine. We were looking into each other's eyes for a full minute that felt like an hour. I started to feel a feeling I never felt before but that feeling disappeared when the door flung opened.

A woman with pale skin, white long flowing hair, and dark brown eyes was standing at the door. She was around 20 years old and was wearing a white plain dress with a light brown rimming at the bottom and light brown gloves.

"Cupa are you hurt I ran here as fast I can when I heard the town was attacked." She said with a urgent but soft voice.

The woman scanned the room and saw me next to Cupa. The woman suddenly calmed down and put a smirk on her face.

"Who is this…. your boyfriend." She said teasing Cupa and that made Cupa hide back under the blankets.

"No no I am just a friend." I said blushing but the thought…I mentally slap myself trying to think who this woman was.

"So who are?" She asked with curiosity

"My name is Roy, I ran into Cupa around noon when I found myself here in this world." I replied

"Ummm…I can already tell you just arrived here because everyone new who gets dragged into this world starts out with the clothing your wearing now. Now time for me to introduce myself. I am Lisa, a master clothes designer." She said trying to show off her title.

Mark walked into the room with a gray glove in hand. He mumbled some kind of spell with his hand out facing Lisa. A box of light appeared around Lisa and floated up about 1 block off the ground. Suddenly Lisa fell asleep in the box of light and dispersed leaving the sleeping Lisa on the cold wooden floor

"That is what you get for your breaking my door and knocking me down." He said to the sleeping Lisa with his cold voice

I looked out of the guest room door and saw the doors that led outside were on the ground. I don't want to mess with Lisa or Mark at this point. He picked up the sleeping Lisa off the ground (princess style) and carried her to another room identical to the room me and Cupa was in.

"Get to some rest now Roy and Cupa, it is almost midnight already. You two need to share this room I am out of guest rooms." Mark said

I nodded and Mark closed the door. I look at Cupa who was still underneath the blankets from Lisa's break in. I pulled the blankets off Cupa and small she was sound asleep. I smile at the sleeping Cupa and tuck her in the bed.

"You make the weirdest friends, you know that. Good night Cupa." I said to the sleeping Cupa.

I sat back in the wooden chair next to Cupa. First day in this new world and I have already feel like I have been here for week I thought to myself. I began to close my eyes and fall asleep.

I reread the last 2 chapters and I saw so many things I could have added to improve the story. I put way more time into this chapter, the power of extreme editing. Soon I will go more in depth about "Project Infusion" and speed up time in the story because 3 chapters for single day is too much thinking over about. Chapters will be coming in from a range of 3 day – 1 week.