Herobrines POV:
I looked blankly at the map. I couldn't figure what the words were saying, and I showed it to Ssundee. "Can you read Latin?" It was one of the languages I never bothered to learn. Ssundee shook his head, and Deadlox came over. I think his eyes turned red as he looked at the page, but he was human...I think.
"Antiqua munda, et reducam in anima contrita peice (Pure Ancient, bring back a peice of broken soul.)" Said Deadlox, and a dark shadow started to come out of the map. I felt drawn to it, my mind turning off as I stared silently at the shadow. It had a blue glow in the middle, and I caught a small hint of vanilla in the air. I felt a tug in my chest, and my eyes started to turn red again. In a bright light, The shadow started to swirl around me. Team Crafted was saying something, trying to get my attention, but all I heard was voices of my past. I heard someone talking about the best way to mine, a little girl laughing about some sort of flower, and I also heard myself laughing as well. Images filled my head and a warm feeling spread in my chest. I remembered something the night that I was cursed.
-Flashback-
I was sitting in a chair, listening to the Elder speaking about what we were going to do in the mines today. He was short, but not even big brother, the best warrrior in the village, could beat this man in a fight. People say that he had once gotten Wither Sickness and didn't even need to respawn. I was turning seventeen tomarrow, and that means that I get to finally help dig for diamonds and gold. Aside from big brother, I decided to be a miner. Fighting wasn't my forte, but mining for ores was.
"You know Herobrine, one of these days when you sneak away from the group, your going to get lost." I shrug, grabbing my iron pickaxe. Elder sighed and he tried to stand, only to flop back down on his bed. I walk over to him, sadness in my voice.
"Elder, you know your time is limited. You can't even perform your warrior duties anymore. I'll take big brother, you need to rest." The elder looked at me silently before talking.
"Ever since I took you two in, when you were only two and your brother seven, I've never heard you call him by his real name." sighed the Elder. Truth is, big brother doesn't really like his name, and I didn't want to call him by something he didn't like. Elder had taken care of us ever since father died. Mother disappeared long ago, and I don't know where she could be. "What are you going to do if something happens in the mines?"
"We'll be fine. Big brother and I are able to use our auras in case our weapons break." I explain, my blue aura shimmering around me, the smell of vanilla filling the room. My amber eyes glowing a little with a white light. Elder nodded, but then looked as though he wanted to say something. The world faded to black.
-end of flashback-
I gasp, and sit up quickly, magic crackling with electricity all around me. I somehow went unconcious, and I saw seven worried faces staring at me. I groggily look at them, my vision blurry, and Sky spoke up.
"Are you okay Hero?" I nod, a warm feeling growing in my chest, and I put my hand to where my heart would be. There was no thumping of a heart, but there was a small thrumming feeling, almost as though something was moving within my chest. I used my magic, calling out to it, and a small blue glow shined in my hand. It was faint, but it was still there, along with the smell of vanilla. I felt some sort of relief and tears in my eyes, making my vision even more fuzzy.
"T-tha-thats..." I couldn't speak clearly. The words hung on my tongue, but I couldn't say anything. All I did was break down crying, both happy tears and sad tears.
Jeromes POV:
Herobrine fell unconcious as the shadows and small blue orb circled him. The blue orb expelled the shadows, and it shimmered, the area started to smell of vanilla.
"Is that an aura?" Ssundee gasped, clearly knowing what it was. I noticed that the feeling given off of this orb was almost like earlier when I had that laughing fit. It was relief mixed with some happiness. It slowly dissapeared into Herobrines chest, and I smiled. Maby now he can feel something.
"What did I do?" Deadlox asked himself, panicking a little. Husky put a hand on his shoulder.
"You did nothing bro, I think it was just a spell to give back a part of his soul." I was a bit surprised, Husky acted as though he had no idea how auras work, but I guess hanging out with Seto allowed him to learn the different spell types.
"Is that even possible Ssunde?" asked Mitch. His expression was full of worry, and I pat his back a little to calm him down.
"If it is, I never heard of it. I thought that if you broke the soul, you broke the very spirit of the person, making them emotionless...that actually makes sense now." I gasp as I realize what he meant. Maby it was not a curse, but a broken soul. We hear a groan, and look over to Herobrine, and he sat up with a gasp. We look at him with worried expressions, and he opened his eyes, causing everyone of us to look surprised. His eyes were human, amber in color, but unfocused. It started to slowly dissapear back into his regular eyes, and I wonder if it had something to do with the fact that a peice of his soul had returned.
"Are you okay Hero?" Sky asks and Herobrine nods. He then looks down, and puts a hand on his chest. He seemed to concentrate for a second, and a blue mist appeared around his hand. Tears formed in his semi-white eyes that were starting to glow again. He looked shocked, and opened his mouth to speak.
"T-tha-thats..." He paused, although he looked like he was trying to talk. Tears started to spill from his now white eyes. He had a sad smile on his face, and he looked at Deadlox.
"T-thank you D-Deadlox..." He wiped his tears, standing back up and the glow dissapeared from his hand. He was obviously fighting back tears as he chuckled a little. "I can feel again!" He basically sreamed, hugging Deadlox, who tried to get away from the crushing hug. After a few minutes of Deadlox basically sufficating, Herobrine let him go.
"Sorry, I just...I feel happy and relieved...why can I feel some emotions again?" There was a small bit of panic in his voice and I laughed, knowing full well what he meant.
"It must have something to do with the fact that mabye it wasn't a curse, but instead a broken soul that made you lose your mind. Did something happen that night that could have caused it to weaken enough for it to be ripped away and taken?
"I don't know...all I remembered was before I went mining that day, long before the attack at night. I also remember a little girl laughing about flowers..." His hand went to his head as he tried to remember more, only to sigh in defeat. He took the map from Sky, studying it.
"We should head back out, we never know if those squids will try to find us once they know that their main general is dead. I guess another day at the most." Jason said, and Herobrine nodded, looking towards Sky.
"Alrighty then, let's get going-" Before he could finish his sentence, the area in front of us lit up in a flash of white light. Once it cleared, someone was standing there, and he was looking straight at Sky.
"I felt an odd magic, Sky is your group alright?" He looked at us quizically, chocolate eyes staring at us. He didn't notice Herobrine behind him, now sitting on a rock. He had his head down, eyes closed and covered in shadow. "Hello, did I accidently leave invisibility on again?" He asked waving a hand in front of my face, and I waved back, slowly. My focus was still mainly on Herobrine.
"Big brother..." He froze, eyes going wide. A confused expression between relief and anger on his face. He turned to face his younger brother.
Herobrines POV:
"Big brother..." My voice was small and I was too overcome by fear to continue speaking. He stiffened, and I noticed my friends had worried faces, and I was halfway thinking I should not have talked. He slowly turned to me, his eyes wide. I looked towards the ground, and set my jacket down on the rock. I kept my eyes closed, but I could easily see the surprised and confused expression on his face. I had no expression on my face, and he was silent.
"Herobrine." Brother said, and I had to keep myself from cowering. My friends stayed quiet, probably knowing that this was between me and him. He sighed lightly, looking at me with sad eyes. I could tell he wanted to say something, but something was stopping him. We stood there silent for who knows how long, until he finally spoke.
"I thought you would have made a move by now. Possibly a lightning bolt or fireball. Or are you just using a new tactic and waiting for me to attack?" I had to stop myself from looking at him, I wanted to tell him I was finally okay, but what if he didn't believe me. "You have tried calling me big brother before, you lost badly that time, why are you trying it again?" I could hear the hurt in his voice, and I didn't know why he wasn't yelling at me, it was almost as though he was worried of hurting me. My hands curled into fists and I briskly walked up to him, before promptly slapping him.
"Get your head out of the gutter big brother!" I yell at him, and he looks at me with surprise, one hand going to the spot where I slapped him. I heard Sky chuckle, probably from the fact that I was using what he used on someone else to try and get them to see straight. "I hurt you more than how I was hurt that time." I took a deep breath, ready to explain, but brother got into a fighting stance. I glared silently before continuing.
"I was insane then brother-." I was all I said before I was punched into a tree. I fell to the ground, and quickly got up. I teleported away from his next attack.
"Likely story Herobrine." I instanly felt hurt, my chest went from warm to ice cold, and I stopped moving and only stood there as my vision went red. He looked confused, and I teleported behind him, kicking him in his head, and sending him to the ground. I stayed in the air, floating. My chest started to feel warm again, and I noticed what I did and landed. I walked over to my brother, whos head was bleeding as he stood. Golden light surrounded him, and so did the smell of cinnamon, as he healed himself.
"I'm sorry. I didn't-" He shot a light ball at me, and I instanly coughed up black blood. That attack only hurts the inside. I stumbled backwards, my magic coming alive around me, and making a sheild.
"How did you get your eyes to turn red?" He sent a shockwave through the sheild, destroying it.
"I briefly lost my mind." I growl at him as I tried to shoot him with a fireball. I don't know why I was fighting him, maby it was helping us in some way. He deflected it, and it hit me instead as I tried to dodge. My arm was badly burned, and I swear I can see the bone. He sends another light ball, that is a darker color, at me while I try to heal my arm, and my legs give out from the electricity. My muscles refused to work, and brother came near me, diamond sword in hand. I remembered the handle to it.
-brief flashback-
I snuck as silent as possible to my brothers training grounds in the middle of the night. I was only six, but I wanted to be strong too. On the way there I saw that the woodmakers door was open, and I spent the rest of the night on something else that came to my mind. I had tooken my brothers heavy diamond sword and dragged it all the way to the woodmakers house to put designs on the hilt. Come morning time, brother was barely mad at me, he was mostly proud that I had done something that didn't include blowing something up.
-end of brief flashback-
I was snapped back to reality as I saw the blade moving. I teleported behind him, throwing a fire ball, which he blocked easily. I landed on the ground, my eyes on the sword.
"I didn't know you still had that sword. Although it took all night to put those designs on it." Brother froze again, tears in his eyes.
"Y-you remember m-me? And not as a foe?" His sword fell from his hand when I nodded.
"Brother, for a melenia my mind has been broken. A few days ago it was fxed, and even now, my mind isn't completely stable. I joined Team Crafted on their quest, and I even owe them for returning a peice of my soul. I don't know if I'm human or not, but I am trying to undo what I did while insane." My brother looked torn. He didn't know what to say, and I could see that he also wanted to put his kingdom into consideration. I had killed so many of his people, and forgiving me might hurt the families that lost someone to my hands. He looked to the ground with a pained expression.
"Herobrine...Trust takes years to build, but seconds to break..." He paused, looking at me with tears in his eyes. "But it can take forever to mend." He looked as though he wanted to forgive me, but he was a king, the ruler of Minecraftia, so he couldn't.
"Big brother, if that is what you say, then I shall go and make myself known as someone who has changed his ways. Some will be fine with me here, others not so much. But I will work to the point where they can forgive me, even if it takes another melenia." My brother gives me a proud look.
"I haven't seen you so focused to do something drastic since since Lenia died." I froze, my mind going foggy, before turning to black.
-another flashback to answer a question-
I stared at the little girl in front of me. We were the same age of eight, although we were not twins, nor related. She had long white hair and magenta eyes. She was currently on a hospital cot, her albino genes slowly killing her permenantly. Her voice was always happy, even though she knew she was going to die since birth.
"Herobrine, will you promise me something?" she asked, her normally happy voice tipping into that of seriousness.
"What is it Princess?" It was the nickname I made up for her since we were three. I first saw her in crutches, wearing a beautiful dress and a little golden tiara. It was her birthday, and the last day she was ever allowed to walk, and I built up my strength mining since then so I could carry her wherever she wanted to go, although she was always light.
"Promise me that when I go, spread my ashes out by the funny flowers you take me to." She laughed happily at the memory, before coughing a little. I had found rare flowers far away from the village, and when my aura stores enough energy, I teleport us into a jungle to the flowers. They were red in the center with white petals, and she laughed because of how they would blow in the wind, the long petals going everywhere, but never getting tangled. I nod, her coughing had gotten worse, and the doctor warned me that she could stop breathing and die at any cough. I was shaking with fear, and I didn't wan't her to die. She showed me how to make fire with her powerful orange aura, that we found out, smelled exactly like the funny flowers. We were best friends, but she was going to die, and there was no way to stop it. I didn't notice, but my blue aura shimmered sadly around me, and she looked at me with curiosity.
"Careful Herobrine, you don't want to have a magical breakout, do you?" She sounded to mature for her age, and I pushed back tears and made my aura dissapear. An idea came to my mind.
"How about I put them in a bottle, and plant it with a seed, that way you'll be a flower." I suggest, and she nodded happily before gasping and her hand went to her heart. I became scared as she started to look pale, a sad smile on her face
"It's been fun Herobrine...Remember me please?" She asked with her bubbly and happy voice, and I knew what she meant, hugging her and telling her about all of the many things she would see as a flower, my aura crackling to life, and making a small golden tiara on her head. I didn't want her to go, and I started to cry. "Don't cry while I am awake please, I want to see you smile.
"Of course my dear Princess Lenia, you have fun ruling your kingdom of funny flowers." I smile brightly at her, even though I didn't want to. She nods before dying and not respawning. It was her time, and I hugged her tighter as the doctor villager came in, and Elder had to take me home because I had cried to sleep beside her corpse. The next day, I put some of her ashes into a locket, while her parents took the rest. Big brother put a hand on my shoulder, trying to comfort me.
"It's alright now Herobrine, she wont be in pain anymore." I hugged the locket to my chest, starting up my aura. Big brother looked surprised, and I noticed something new. My eyes had a small white glow to them, and I noticed that I could see her, standing and smiling, wearing an actual diamond dress and the golden tiara I had somehow made her with my aura. Her hair seemed to float around her, and she waved happily before dissapearing. I instantly teleported away from my brother, and into the jungle. I probably scared him, because only the most experienced sorcerrors could do something like this. I found the patch of flowers, and they looked a little wilted. I found a seed and planted it beside the locket, and when I looked at the flowers again before leaving, they seemed to be bright and happy. I turned back, and not hurting the flowers, I made a quartz cross and put it in the ground close to where the locket was planted. The flowers curled around the cross, almost like vines, and I teleported home.
-End of sad flashback-
The world around me came back, and I noticed that this time I didn't pass out. My friends and Notch were staring at me worriedly, and I noticed tears were streaming down my face. An idea came to my head, and I readied my teleportation magic.
"Herobrine, what's wrong? Did I say something?" Big brother asked, but I teleported us into a clearing. Beautiful red and white flowers were in a cirlce in the middle with petals dancing wildly in the breeze, a white quartz cross in the middle, with a large flower on the top of it. The large flower had the same coloration, but it was more of a rose. The tears didn't stop as I walked up to the patch of flowers, kneeling in front of the gravemarker.
"Where are we?" Asked everyone, including big brother.
"The same place I teleported to every year since my dear Princess Lenias death, not counting the last melenia." I touch the smooth surface, and I swear I can hear her laughter again. Probably reminding me that she wasn't really a princess.
"This is far away from our old home... YOU TELEPORTED HERE SINCE YOU WERE EIGHT?!" brother scolded me. "If I knew it was this far away I wouldn't-" I cut him off with a sad look on my face.
"I've been teleporting since I was four..." He was going to continue, but I cut him off again by talking first. " My dear princess wanted to see the flowers as often as possible." I was sure I saw something out of the corner of my eye, but I didn't pay attention. "It was her wish to be buried beside these beautiful, yet funny and fragile flowers...They're kind of like her." I hear an aww from Mitch as he hugged Jerome with tears in his eyes, and Sky walks forward, looking at the flowers.
"You speak as though you loved her." The wind around us seemed to carry her laughter, and I shrugged.
"I don't know what love feels like anymore, but possibly I did. I was only eight when she died, but we spent so much time together, laughing or doing something she would want to do. If I wasn't there to break her out, she would have been in the hospital all the time, never being able to do anything. There was always a big risk when I took her somewhere, but it was worth it to see the smile on her face when she saw something new. I wish I could hug her again..." I didn't know where the last part came from, but I didn't care, I missed Lenia. Sky pats my back, and the tears on his face seemed to shine the color of butter slightly. Brother walks to me, and puts a locket in my hand. It was golden, with a white quartz stone.
"I have to go and do something little brother, if you need any help, just wish on the locket." I nod and he teleports away in a flash of light. Next thing I knew, I am getting hugged by everybody, even the wind seemed to hug me. They soon let go, when Deadlox pretends to fall asleep, everyone laughing. I took one more glance at the flowers before we headed out, and I saw her standing amonst the flowers with happy tears in her eyes. I gasp, she was older, probably as old as twenty. She walks closer, and my friends don't know what I am seeing.
"My dear Princess, are you a ghost?" She giggled, nodding her head before speaking. Her words carrying in the wind. I payed no attention to my worried friends.
"I cannot stay long, I only wanted to congratulate you for becoming sane again. This could be the last time we see each other, so no tears while I'm here. I want to see the smile I missed for so long." I nod, giving her a large smile, one that always made her laugh when she was feeling down. She slowly dissapeared, and when she was gone, my smile wavered. She asked the same thing from when she died. I put on my borrowed jacket, hiding my face in the shadow of the hood as more tears spilled.
"Are you okay dude," asked Ssundee, and I shrugged. I informed them as we walked about my ability to see the dead at times, although it mainly happens in the Nether. We saw a city beacon close by, and I remembered my promise to big brother.
I apologize for spelling errors, for some reason I can't fix the spelling. I wrote this as I got an idea from Endstone, one of the BEST songs I have ever heard. If you want Lenia to appear again, please tell me. I apologize if I made anyone sad, have a cookie (::) (::) (::). Next, we will learn something about Husky's past. If you have any suggestions, please tell me.