FIVE
"How much longer? We've been walking for hours!" "Oh put a sock in it Jordan. It's not that far from here." sneered John. They were deep in the jungle, and John was about to lose it. "John, calm down. Jordan is heavily impatient, that's all" broke in Dan. John let out a deep sigh. "Hey, look over there, it's the end of the jungle." "Yeah, only like, twenty minutes away." "Shut up Jordan!" Little did the group know, that there was an old person hiding in the trees. "Hey, do you hear that John?" "What is it Jordan?" said John annoyed. "No, seriously, I thought I saw something in the trees." Out of nowhere, a large spear came crashing down into the earth. "What the?!" said John alarmed. "You five! Surrender!" "Surrender my butt" John snapped back. The figure jumped from the tree and landed on the ground. He was wearing full enchanted diamond armour. He was also wielding an enchanted, strange diamond sword. "Wait! Guys! It's Norab!" said Dan. "Dan? Jordan? What are you two doing here?" "Wait, your Barry's friend!" said Alex. "Yep, and my question is, what are all you doing here?" "We are looking for the Sacred Cube." said Dan. "You mean the myth? Yeah, uh, only Barry knows that stuff." "No kidding. He's a Minecraft god." "Now we just need to meet Blaze, and, well, Ace" said Alex. "Um, Ace is evil and all, but you don't want to meat Blaze." "Why not?" "Because she's Barry's, er, um" "Girlfriend?" said Dan finishing Norab's sentence. "Uh, yeah. But she's, well, you know right Dan?" "What? What's so bad about Blaze? Sure, she's Barry's girlfriend but I don't see anything wrong about it." said Steve. "You see, that's the thing, she's not, well…" "Human?" said Dan, again, finishing Norab's sentence. "What do you mean she's not human? Is she a mob or something? That would be funny." said John. "No, she's not even from your realm. She's, well, an anamorphic cat." Steve and Jordan burst out laughing. "A...cat?" giggled Steve in tears of laughter. "That's, weird. If she was a full blown cat I would be throwing up right now, but you said she's anamorphic right?" asked Alex. "Right." said Norab who was struggling to keep himself from laughing. "Oh man, a cat! Out of all the things, a cat! Hahahaha!" gurgled Steve. "I already knew that, but to get reminded of it made me laugh again." joked Jordan. "Jordan, stop fooling around. You too Steve. For your information, she's a princess where she's from and has pyrokinesis, which she uses to create fire." explained Dan. "A, princess?" Steve looked like he was going to die of laughter any minute now. "Now, um, anyway, Barry told me that the Sacred Cube was in Shamar in a place called Arid Sands." announced Norab. "That's where we're going." assured John. "Careful, Shamar is a unpredictable place. Thats where this realm merges with another realm." warned Norab. "We'll be fine." John acknowledge. "Very well. Good luck." "Wait, you're not coming with us?" asked Alex. "No, I have things to do. Barry and I are working on a plan to stop Ace. Blaze however, is missing." "By the way, you never told us why you were-" and just like that, Norab was gone. "Well then, let's get going before the Great Decay catches up to us. The end of the jungle, if I remember correctly, is just two miles away. We'll then be in a forest, then a savannah, and from there a desert. That desert is Shamar." recalled John." "Great, more walking." said Jordan in disgust. The group walked for a few minutes, when they spotted an ancient structure of some kind. "Hey, look!" exclaimed Steve. "I don't remember that being there. It's a jungle temple by the looks of it." A red block of some sort fell from the temple, and came crashing down on them. "Look out!" yelled John. The block had a hissing noises coming from it, and that's when they saw the big bold letters written on the block. "It's TNT!" screamed Alex. More TNT blocks began falling from the jungle temple, as if they were being shot from a cannon. Boom! Bam! Bop! The sounds of the blasts echoed through their ears, and so John perfectly timed his trident, and shot it right into the TNT opening. A voice screamed in pain. "There's someone in there! Get them!" yelled John. Alex took out some wooden planks from her inventory and began towering up to the temple, dodging TNT as she did it. More explosions were heard throughout the land. Something wasn't right. The smell of gunpowder and explosive residue filled the group's noses with a terrible smell as they tried to reach the jungle temple. Alex was the first to jump in through the TNT hole, and pinned down what looked like a soldier of some sort. She was wearing red dyed leather armour and had a stone sword. "Halt...by..by...the order of...King Marson" trembled the girl. "I ain't stopping nothing." sneered John. "Please don't hurt me" said the girl. She had long black hair, brown eyes, and looked absolutely petrified. "What's the big idea? You almost killed us!" John raged. "I'm...sorry! I was...ordered...to" quavered the girl. "By who? King Marson?" asked Alex. "Yes. We're at...war right now with the Tribulans. They wear...blue." explained the girl, her voice raspy. "Huh, and you are?" asked Steve. "Emma. I'm a Tritanal." "A what?" asked Jordan confused. "Our nation, you know? It's who we are." "Ok then. So, good luck with your war. We have to get going…" "What he meant to say, was that we're gonna talk to King Marson." interrupted Alex. "We'll what?!" fumed John. "We have to find the Sacred Cube now! Or else every one of your kind will perish to the likes of the Great Decay!" "The Great Decay?" asked Emma, confused of what was going on." "Listen, this guy named Ace created a Great Decay. It is eating up the world as we speak, and we all need to get to Shamar and then to the center of the world." explained John, impatient. "What?! What are we going to do?!" "Simply, warn your people. If they don't believe you, show them this." John pulled out a golden pole from his inventory. "Place it on the ground, and they will see Barry's warning." "Ok, I'll do it." "Good, now let's get going, we're getting delayed as it is. Save yourselves, and head towards the center of the world. You'll know how to get there with that pole. Now, go!" Emma jumped from the temple, and ran as fast as she could. "Ok then, that was, unexpected" said Alex. They all jumped off the temple, and continued to walk through the jungle.
"Everything is going according to plan. How's the progress on the reactor Cole?" "It's almost done charging. Just a little more to go." "Good. Has our newest recruit woken up yet?" "Speaking of which, here she is." "Ah, Flame. How are you?" "Ready for orders, sir." "Great! No more Blaze, it's time to make room for Flame." Ace laughed an evil, menacing laugh. "Destroy those brats that got rid of Sonikku!" "Yes sir." Blaze, now Flame, walked to the gate of the pocket realm, and flew to the Gaia Gate. She found the right realm, and went right in. "Oh, Barry. You'll regret everything you have done to me!" bellowed Ace.