Deadlox POV:
I froze, staring it straight in the eye. It stared at me with an odd expression and narrowed its red eyes. They were different from Endermen on earth because they didn't need to be stared at to be provoked, and most likely weren't afraid of Herobrine like the ones here on earth. They were also quite larger, mabye eight feet tall. These things were dangerous, especially if my powers were off. I heard more in the distance, and became worried for my friends. They stared in shock at the creature, yelling different things to it, but it was no use, they were like me, and wore something to block any if not all of the sound. A rock hit its head and it turned slowly towards Herobrine, keeping me pinned in the air. He threw another one, right into it's eye and it howled for help. The others tried to slice at it, but to no avail. These things had wicked transparency so they cannot be hurt easily, the thing didn't even see the rock coming. We would need fire or water but Herobrine is out of commission.
"No, guys the things want me. You need to go they're from the End. We can't defeat them so Gosh darn it...RUN!" I yelled the last part as more entered the room, headed for my friends. Herorine tried to use magic, but he was still too weak, it only crackled around him weakly. They were surrunded, looking at the ground. I had to do something, but I didn't know what. They started to attack the things with swords or arrows, but they kept going through. Husky was throwing daggers, hitting but not doing much. Mabye theres some water mixed into the blades, but some isn''t enough. Hero was slashing with an iron sword, trying to kill one. Some of them noticed who he was, but seeing as though he had no magic at the time, they weren't scared of him. An Endermen walked up, and started to choke Sky, holding him over the large hole.
"Sky!" Everyone including me yelled. Herobrine had an odd look on his face and tried his magic again, but was unable.
"T-Tight grip.." Sky was struggling, gasping for breath as he kicked at the Endermen. It looked at him growling before promptly dropping him into the hole with a scream. I let my teeth grow sharp, and I bit the creature holding me. It yelped, accidently dropping me, and I ran to the edge to grab hold of Skys hand.
"Deadlox, pull me up..." Sky yelled, and I winced. My headphones were gone, and I couldn't cover my ears because I was trying to pull Sky up. "...Is your eyes red?" I tried to ignore what he said by turning them back to brown, and and Enderman came up behind me, grabbing me and pulling me away from Sky. I yelled for the creature to let me go, acutally sounding loud without my headphones, but to no avail, Sky fell into the dark void. I thrashed, trying to get out of the grip, and I noticed that my friends were also trapped.
"Did Sky just..." Jason didn't finish his sentence as a creature knocked him in the head, hard. It cracked his helmet, but it wasn't that bad of a crack. I winced again as I heard a thud in the distance along with a crack. Sky should've shouted, he should have yelped or something. He was silent, and I felt tears in my eyes. I let my eyes turn red and teeth grow even sharper. My wings appeared on my back along with my tail. My hands turned into claws and I growled at the creatures. The Endermen froze, dropping my friends. My hearing became ten times better when in this form, and I could hear a faint breathing where Sky fell. I sighed in relief, glaring at the Endermen.
"Enderlo...x..Prin..prince.." It came from the tallest Endermen, the one that threw Sky down the hole. I grabbed my headphones on the ground and put them on. The green shine turned to purple as I stared at the Endermen. My friends were silent with shock.
"I knew you weren't human..." Herobrine gasped at me, some panic in his face afterwards. "No offense." I sighed, walking over to them, my tail curling around me.
"I don't take any offense to it Hero, I'm am part human though, and I still have a human soul." I explained. Ssundee gave me an odd look.
"Do you have magic?" He asked and I shook my head. I couldn't do what it took to get Ender Dragon magic, one of the strongest magic.
"Do you want me to kill all my friends to get it?" I deadpanned, hearing them all whisper no. I sighed turning towards Jason. "You okay Jason, that creature hit you hard..." He nods, and I'm relieved.
"You have good hearing, is Sky alive?" I nod solemly.
"I heard a crack so he's probably in bad shape, but I can hear his breathing." I turned towards the silent Endermen. The truth of who I was...It was shown so I didn't have to hide anything anymore. I was still scared of them regecting me for not being human, and my tail curled around me tighter.
"Why are you here?" I say towards them. They looked surprised. They gurgled amonst themselves. I was getting impatiant, Skys breathing was slowing, and I didn't know what to do. Ssundee wasn't the best at healing and Hero couldn't do anything. My red eyes flashed a dark purple at the Endermen, a warning tone my kind uses, and the tall one stepped forward.
"Enderlox...Prince...find." I growled at the creatures. Of course they would try to find me again. I shook my head, pushing back the fact that I could no longer hear Sky breathing, and I hoped it was my imagination.
"I am not Enderlox, that creature is dead..." I say. It's basically why I changed my name to Deadlox, the creature that ruled the End with mother is no more. I feel a little sad thinking about mother. She had fallen in love with a human, but had to kill him anyways, even if that meant heartbreak. For some reason, I was made into existance while my near dead father kissed my mother for the first and last time, appearing in his arms. Somehow, though, mother turned evil as I grew up, probably from obtaining true Ender magic after killing father. She seemed to lose her mind, and forget that I was ever the son of a human. Once I saw that the portal had opened again on my sixteenth birthday, four years ago, I gave up who I was susposed to be and left the End. "I am no prince, now leave before I kill you for trying to kill my friends." My wings stretched out, each five feet wide, as I stared at the endermen. My tail was lashing furiously, and I could see their fear. "My eyes flashed another warning tone, and they seemed to huddle in fear.
"Queen...Dead..." I paid no attention as I started to walk towards them. They had pleading eyes, but I didn't look at them as I drew closer. I readied my claws to attack, but then they teleported away. Silent tears ran down my face, mother was always a good dragon at heart. At least she wont be dead for long. Ender Dragons are like the mythical Pheonix. She will die, turn into an egg, and be born again. I looked over the edge into the shadow, I couldn't hear anything down there. No breathing, no heartbeat...did Sky have a heartbeat earlier?
"How do we get down there?" Mitch looked down into the darkness. I chuckle a little, and turn to the group.
"Husky, Mitch, and Jerome...You stay up here. Jason use you jetpack and carry Hero down there. Ssundee, your riding with me." My wings flap a little, urging to fly. "Sky could be almost dead." Ssundee backed away from the cliff, giving me a time-out symbol with his hands.
"No way, I am not flying." Herobrine pushed him forward and I grabbed his arm as he protested. The three we were leaving behind nodded, wishing me luck. I pushed off the ground, gliding down the hole with Jason and Herobrine following behind me. Ssundee was screaming about heights and gliding down to fast but I ignored him. I couldn't hear anything as we landed into inch deep water, it was all silent. Herobrine looked around, his eyes casting a glow on a figure in the water. We gasped running to what was in the water. I thought it was Sky, but he didn't look like him. It was a skeleton with a broken rib cage within the water, old cloth warapping around it. We walked around, trying to find Sky. I turned back to normal as we walked since the water was starting to hurt, clutching my headphones that I took off my head, searching for any sort of sound from Sky...anything. It was silent, Sky was never silent. He always yelled and laughed. Once, we told him not to attract the zombies, and he basically sacrificed himself running past the mobs and screaming where he was, laughing all the way. I remembered when we first met, not long after I left the End.
-Flashback-
I stared at the beautiful sky, I've never seen so much color before. I saw some humans, and I found that I could change my appearance to look like them. I looked at the water, knowing that if I touched it, I could get hurt. I decided to try and touch it, feeling the cool liquid in my hand. It didn't hurt and my eyes accidently flashed red, then it burned me. I decided to walk around, making headphones out of the soft obsidian I had, and I worked quickly with it. Soft obsidian was rare and only found in the end. It was used for those of us with such good hearing, it hurt. Although, you only had a certain amount of time to mold it. I saw two clear stones and molded them into the headphones. After it hardened, I put them on, all of the loud sound was normal, but I could still hear quite far. The clear stones shimmered a light green. The gravity was different, so I stumbled a little. I was getting a hang of the overworld, but then I tripped, falling down a cliff. I was too scared to make my wings appear, but someone caught me. I looked up at someone with sunglasses. He had brown hair and a caring smile. He set me down, and I saw that he had an amulet, one that I could tell held power.
"Hi, I'm Sky, what's your name stranger?" He held his hand out to me, and I took it.
"I am En-I mean...Deadlox." We became best friends after that. I taught him swordfighting and he taught me the goodness of butter. Then the squids came, killing everyone in their path. Sky and I made up the Sky Army to rid the world of the squids. Some called Sky the butter god, and he slaughtered many evil squids with a butter sword that seemed to never break. He was fair to the squids who were nice, making a sanctuary so they could survive without the war. Notch soon caught wind of the growing Sky Army, and made us the protecters of Minecraftia. As we grew in numbers, we made Team Crafted. Ssundee was the first to join, Jason only joined at first because we offered him a home, but he soon came to love the group. Husky was basically...well...he asked if he could hang out with us, and we became great friends within a day. Jerome and Mitch litterally fell onto Sky during a Hunger Games, and they joined as well. One of Skys childhood freinds, Seto, also joined but he didn't like the battles all to much. He didn't leave the army, but he became a messager to Notch instead.
Sky led us through many battles, fighting with his fists against weapon if he had to. At first, it was easy to take out squids, but then the new Emporor came into power. They became smarter, faster, and harder to kill. I was beside Sky the whole way along with the Team, and I promised him on day one of the Army that he wouldn't die from something stupid...That I couldn't let him die.
-end of odd jambled all in one flashback-
We were searching for who knows how long when something caught my hearing, a ragged breath. I ran towards the area, the others following me. There on the ground, barely breathing, was Sky. He was facing up, his eyes closed and his sunglasses beside him. His arm was bent the wrong way, and he had some blood seeping from his head. Hero and Ssundee ran up to him, Ssundee using an advanced healing spell while Hero told him what to do since his magic was shot.
"Sky..." He started to move, and looked as though he was going to open his eyes. As much as I would like to see them, I respected his decision about it. I put his sunglasses back on him, Ssundee pouting at me. Sky groaned in pain, moving his good arm to cover his head.
"What happened?" He asked, voice small and nearly a whisper. I laugh a little, and he instantly looks at me, a bemused smile on his face. "Did you drop me?"
"No, and endermen dragged me away dude," I flipped him off, earning a small laugh from him. Herobrine grabbed Skys arm, snapping it back into place, and he let out a yelp of pain.
"Hero, that hurt." Pouted Sky, but Herobrine only shrugged, his magic fizzling a little before it finally worked, as he started to heal the bone. Ssundee gave him a warning glare.
"You go overboard and you will be grounded." he stated, making Herobrine laugh.
"Fine, you sound like my brother sometimes..." his words trailed off as though he was lost in thought. "What was your mothers name?" Ssundee had a small look of sadness on his face.
"Her name was Eclipse, and she always swore that she was as old as Minecraftia, even joking that her son was Notch..." Herobrine and Ssundee stared at each other in silence. They did have the same hair color and Ssundee is stubborn as a mule sometimes. Not to mention they both have an eye thing and have electric auras. Sky burst out laughing, trying and failing to stop.
"Oh my gosh! Someone put me out of my misery this hurts, but I can't help it! The coincidence!" he laughs harder, and I put a hand on his shoulder, the other two still silent.
"I have an idea to get you to stop laughing." He looks at me with an odd expression, and I laugh. "Remember when we first met?" I ask and he nods.
"Yeah, you were falling down a cliff...don't tell me you jumped, cause if you did you get no desert once we're home for a week." I pouted at him, flipping him off before continuing.
"I tripped. I came from the End and the Overworlds gravity was something I was still trying to figure out." I transformed again, but quickly turned back because of the water. He stared at me, and I'm sure I saw something behind those dark glasses.
"That explains quite a bit..." He turned to the silent Ssundee and Herobrine. "Are they okay. They have the same shocked expression?" A flash of light came from behind me, and I turned around. It was Notch, and he didn't look all that happy. He walked over to Herobrine, looking as though he was going to scold him.
"Did you just use your magic Herobrine? How are you going to heal if..." Sky waved from where he was on the ground, and Notch looked sorry. "Oh...sorry brother, I thought you were goofing around." A golden light surrounded Sky, and he was healed. "Good thing you didn't move him, his spine was snapped...Herobrine are you listening?" He poked his little brother in the shoulder. "Did he break...correction, did they break?" Herobrine and Ssundee then yelled at the same time.
"Are we related!?"
"Your my brother?!" I couldn't tell who said what, but they looked as though they were freaking out. Notch looked between the two with a worried face.
"What?" Sky started to chuckle sitting up and watching the three. Hero didn't seem to have anything come to his mind while Ssundee was sputtering trying to put a sentence together to explain to Notch.
"My mother is your mother which makes your mother my mother. I have two big brothers and now you have three little brothers and you have two and...and" Ssundee nearly fainted he was talking so fast and hyperventilating. Herobrine also started to try to explain, but Sky shut them up by slapping them both.
"Enough!" He looked at the three. "Your mother is Ssundees mother." The look of surprise on Notchs face was halarious, even though everything became quiet.
"That makes sense. I'm...going to go and do something." Notch dissapeared, probably from the extreme awkwardness that followed with silence. I walked up to a wall seeing a button and pushing it. A large door appearing, the next map on a petastol behind it. Jason walked towards it, and slowly picked it up. Nothing happened, and I sighed.
"Well, this is going to get hard..." He trailed off, looking towards us. "The next one is under a village.
Herobrines POV:
With the initial shock over, from both Deadlox being part dragon and having two little brothers, everything went back to normal. We started camp close to the village, and everyone started to fall asleep. I felt odd...almost as though we were being watched. I looked at the sky, seeing the beautiful stars shining. For some reason the stars brought tears to my eyes as I start to drift asleep.
-quick dream sequence-
I stood in front of a lake, trees bending softly in the trees. I saw two little kids beside the water. One was stoic, the other crying his eyes out. It only took me a second to know this was a human memory.
"Herobrine, it's alright. Father is fine now, he didn't hurt in the end, so please stop crying." Notch put a hand on the younger me. The crying only became louder.
"Everyone I care about is going to die.." I stare in shock at younger me. The voice was too mature, and Notch didn't even notice it. I was kind of right, princess and the village had died, so did Notch in some way to make him immortal. The scene faded to black, and I became worried. I cared about my friends...didn't I? I didn't know what caring felt like anymore, I woner if it has something to do with the urge to protect. I'll have to see if another spell is on that other map later.
Another world materialized. I saw my insane self killing people withou mercy. I remembered this. It was ten years ago. I wanted to see how many dead it will take in order for Notch to show himself so I could try and kill him. I killed mabye around sixty until I became bored and teleported home. I also burned quite a few homes. I didn't like seeing my old self destroying things with no mercy, I had really became a monster...I felt something poking me, and I focused on waking up from the lucid dreams
-end of dream sequence-
I opened my eyes, finding that Jason was poking my cheek. I noticed how I had fallen asleep, curled up and hugging my knees to my near empty chest. I sleepily looked at their worried faces, and yawned, rubbing my eyes. I also notice that I had been crying. "Huh?"
"Are you okay Hero, you weren't answering and we thought something happened." I stood, stretching and hearing my shoulder pop. I sigh as I look at them.
"Just a dream. A dream that included something about the death of my father and knowing at a young age that everyone I cared about was going to die. And that eventually did happen." I turned to Sky, "could I see the map, I think I have a bad feeling about this village". Sky nods and hands it to me. I scanned the map, and I inwardly groan at the fact that I had attacked this village. "Yep, they are going to HATE me." I see some words written on the page, in odd writing. I showed it to Deadlox. "Is this Latin?" He shook his head and Ssundee looked as though he had an idea.
"Mabye you have to make peace with the village, and they'll tell you." I look at the sky, the clouds rolling lazily.
"You go ahead, I think I hid something here long ago." They nodded and headed to the village. I walked through the trees, slowly. I soon found what I was lookng for. Underneath a cobblestone triangle, was an orb. It held the color of my soul, but I wondered if it would do anything. As I inspected it furtnur, and accidently dropped it. A shadow came from it, and I took a step back as Is it rushed at me, painfully digging into my chest. Blood came through my mouth as I coughed, the dark soon gathering. It seemed to trap my small soul, and I could barely think straight. I heard a dark voice in my head.
"Stop fighting it Herobrine." It sounded like the voice I had in my dream. I gulped, fear gripping at me. I did something really bad, and I felt as though my soul was starting to burn. "This is your chance for power, take it." I knew it was lying, trying to get me to fall. I had to get rid of it. I saw my friends, they had horror on their faces, but I felt nothing, only tired and pain. I heard something about black eyes, but I was slipping. The monster started to take control, my vision blurring from tears and the pain that grew on my soul. Then I felt something warm engulf me. My head became less murky as I remembered things.
"What is done in the past cannot be undone, that is true."
"Well, its a nickname."
"You knew you could've lost your mind again, but you still did it?"
"You remember me, and not as a foe?"
The memories flooded through my mind as I started to gain control again I felt someting odd, something as though I had to help my friends, that I didn't have time to go nuts. I growled at the black magic, gaining control over my mind. I saw someone in front of me, smiling. It was Sky, the others appearing around me as well. My chest felt light as I saw Notch. I felt something towards all of them, and I knew what was going on. I made friends with each of them on my way. I was gaining peices of my soul, I don't know how, but something tells me that there was close to no chance of this happening. The shadow dissapeared, slowly turning into peices of my soul. I remembered what caring was and I could feel the power that the soul had given me. It was some sort of test, one to see if I would go mad with power, but I didn't. I laughed at the black magic dissapearing in my head, wondering if I am going to have to keep the madness at bay each time a peice of my soul returns. My vision started to clear, I was in the clearing, lying on the ground and staring at the slow moving sky. I could hear muffled whipsers and blurry faces, then the world jolted, and I sat up, nearly vomiting, although I didn't.
"Hero!" I slowly turned to Sky who put his hands on my shoulders and started to shake me. "Stop going nuts man, you scared the fudge out of us!" I couldn't help but laugh as he shook me and I decided to hug him.
"I'm sorry, I had to fight with myself to keep from going insane." I explained everthing that happened, and Husky gave me a look.
"So, your going to hug us all?" I snickered evily, my eyes glinting brightly. I jumped at Husky, hugging him while he screamed for me to let go of him.
"Not until you do something for me." I ask in a fake sweet voice. He sighed, giving in.
"What?" His voice was a little annoyed, but I could tell he liked hugs. I walked towards the village, smiling a little.
"Cook lunch later," I laughed as he whined, the others catching up to me as we neared the towns gates. Two gaurds stood at the entrance, glaring at me.
"Why are you here, monster?" One said, pointing a spear at me. I play the only card I have to get into the village. I throw my hands into the air, laughing a little as they looked confused.
"I surrender." It was all I said before they jumped me, putting me in chains, although I could've gotten out of them. I look at the chains, my aura glowing strongly around me as they melted away. I never remembered my soul this strong before, and the gaurds stared at me. I stared with a straight face at the melted pile on the ground, my vanilla scented aura dissapearing. "Opps, sorry. I didn't know that would happen." The gate opened, revealing a town. The elder stood there, and he reminded me of the one from my village, mainly the white beard.
"Why are you here? You already tore us apart." I sigh as I walk past the old man and into the village. People instantly started to run into their houses screaming. I looked solemnly at the town. I felt something like regret running through me. Team Crafted walked in after us, the old man glaring at me. I walked up to the fountain in the middle of the road. It was new, and I noticed names on the smooth stone, dated ten years ago. I then feel a sharp tip to a blade behind me, pressed to my back.
"You murderer!" It was a girl, her voice full of vengance. I turned my head to her, gasping. S-she had white hair. Her eyes were magenta and tears in her eyes made them sparkle as though stars shone through them. I couldn't think of anything to say, she looked so much like my princess.
"I-I mean no harm t-this time..." my voice was uncertain, and she pressed the knife more into my back and I felt blood trickle from a cut.
"You said that you meant no harm to mother before you killed her. I was eight, I barely remember her smile!" I looked away, not wanting to see her crying. I never thought about that. I killed not caring about their family, never wondering if they had a child they needed to hug. I was a monster who allowed so many to die with possible regrets, never seeing the smile or warmth of a family again. I felt tears in my eyes as well as I stared at the names on the stone. How many here had homes? How many had family that never saw them again?
"Do it then..." My voice was unwavering, and I heard my friend yelling something from behind the girl. I let the tears fall. "I was insane ten years ago. Your right I'm a murderer. If stabbing me makes you feel better, than do so..." I turned towards her, ignoring the small cut the knife made on my back as I turned. I felt a new spell and focused on it, and I felt my eyes turn human, and she took a step back, gasping. "I can't die though, so take as many shots at it takes." I spread out my arms, the townspeople started to gather, wondering why I wasn't killing anyone. "I'm not insane anymore, I wont kill innocents ever again."
"You are insane!" Yelled someone from the crowd, but I ignored them. I wonder if I phyched her out, made it so she didn't want to hit me. She looked at the ground. "Sixty" she mumbled. Next thing I know, I'm getting stabbed in the chest where my heart would be. The pain was horrible, and it took all of my control to not teleport to safety, heal myself, or fall unconcious. Almost black blood stained the concrete as she kept stabbing at me, crying. I closed my eyes, not watching the horrified faces of my friends as she stabbed me. It stopped, and I fell to the ground, clutching my hurting chest, blood seeping from my mouth. I shakily looked up at the girl, my vision swimming.
"W-why did you let me stab you sixty times?" I understood now, I killed sixty people. I clutched my chest harder as I coughed, stopping my aura from healing me. "Y-y-your not like the monster that killed m-mother." I sigh, standing up, my aura starting to heal myself. "That was something else that killed her, and insane me who didn't care. Heh, you know.." she looked at me with an odd expression. I stuck my hand out to her, smiling even though she had tried to kill me.
"What's your name, princess?"
Thank you so much for explaining what was up with Mitch. This was supposed to be two chapters, but I made it one. Just to say, the red-eyed endermen are persistent and wont stop trying to get Enderlox back, so their staying in the story for now. I know at the end it got a bit...stab happy. I figured that since her mother was killed, she could have some sort of closing. What should the next trial be, maybe Jason since his helmet is already cracked...I had to make Ssundee and Herobrine half brothers. I was in the middle of typing this, and I notice, hey, I could do that. Also if you squint REALLY hard, you will see one sentence that hints at SKYLOX. If anyone wants this to be a thing, please tell me. If you can tell what will happen next, you get double cookies (::) (::) (::) (::) (::)