Ross' POV:
"Its me." Stated Sky. I could tell that he was serious because of his ridgid posture, but I don't think Deadlox noticed. He chuckled, patting Sky on the back lightly.
"Thats a good joke Sky, but I don't think now is the time for-" He was inturrrupted.
"It wasn't a joke Deadlox, I'm pretty sure it means me." Deadlox gave him a confused look.
"How are you so sure?" Sky shrugged half-heartedly, I don't think he completely knew either.
"Only I can read the sign out of all of us and I just have a feeling its me. I haven't really done anything to make me an enemy, so maybe its reffering to what I am or what I can do."
"Maybe your love for butter is criminal?" said Barney, making us laugh. I did my best to stop laughing, since it was a serious situation, but I only snorted on accident. It made Max smile though, something I love to see. Soon, we finally stopped laughing. I don't think Ssundee laughed at all, that worries me.
"No, my love for the delicousness of budder isn't criminal." Sky then became serious. "We wont know what this is about unless we start taking guesses." Notch spoke up first. I nearly jumped, I didn't see him appear.
"You said something about what you were. How does that make you an enemy?"
"Well, I'm suprised no one put the peices together yet. I can read Squid Langauge and Torrent calls me a traitor. I think those are good hints." He explained.
"Your a squid?" Jin basically yelled in surprise. I wasn't surprised at all. I could always sense he was something aquatic, but I would never have guessed squid. Sometimes I wished I was more of a land creature, instead of a narwhal that has legs that can form a tail, like a squirrel.
"Part squid actually. I am more human though, so I don't have a squid form like Torrent does."
"How does this make you an enemy? We are friends with Squid Nugget, and he's also part squid." Started Seto. Sky nearly yelled in surprise.
"Squid Nugget is part squid? I thought he wore a squid hoodie because he liked them."
"Did you pay attention at all when we visited them? Squaishy Duck wears a duck hoodie because she is part duck and Stampy Cat wears a cat hoodie because he is part cat." Sky shook his head.
"I thought it was just their favorite animal. Now I feel bad for teasing Stampy and Squaishy." I remembered that. Sky was making jokes about how they were together, because a cat and duck were natural enemies. "Also if I knew that, I would have told you what I was earlier. So, that can't be what it is." Ssundee spoke up.
"I know what it is." His voice was cold and he glared at Sky. "He was correct it is him, but it isn't because he's part squid."
"Why am I a hidden enemy then? I have a feeling its something bad by the way your glaring at me, but I don't think I did anything-" Ssundee shouted.
"You can steal emotions from us!" It grew silent. I was confused, what did he mean by stealing emotions?
"Only those with pure grey aura can do that, but he has a golden aura." Herobrine said. He still sounded sick. I don't know if it's because he caught a cold or if his body is punishing him for using too much magic far too many times.
"He does have some grey aura mixed in the golden. Tell me Sky, have you used this ability on us, and if you have, when did you last use it." Sky gulped a little, glancing at Deadlox.
"W-Well..." He drew out the word as long as possible. "yes." What? He can steal emotions from people? I don't know how he can do it, but I notice Max is getting a little mad...make that a lot mad. He has his hands in fists and he is glaring at Sky as well. I knew he was going to start ranting again, but I had to calm him down. I had a feeling he shouldn't be the one to confront Sky on this. I hugged him, making him calm down. He liked hugs, he just wont say it. "And the last time I used it, was when Deadlox was blaming himself for the death of Caveman Films.." Why would Deadlox blame himself? I wasn't there when it happened, and I don't want to ask about it.
"What?" Deadlox said, rather calmly. "Explain Sky."
"I took some of your sorrow away so you could calm down." Deadloxs eyes turned red.
"So being sad was going to slow you down, so you ended it as fast as possible?! Thats just selfish."
"No, that is not why I did it." Sky looked like he was trying his best not to yell.
"Then why would you do that? I had a perfectly good reason to blame myself. If I had heard him soon enough-"
"Your wrong Deadlox!" He snapped. "Even if you had heard him soon enough, there would have been no way to save him. You saw his wound, if his heart was already being pulled out when he screamed, it would have been too late anyways."
"Then why didn't you let me deal with it by myself instead of just solving it like that?" He was suddenly hugged tightly by Sky, who was...crying.
"I c-couldn't bear to see you like that! You were s-so down, and the look in your eyes was..." He didn't finish his sentence. Deadlox tried to push him away, and not because he was mad anymore. The wound in Skys side had reopened, and he was starting to bleed badly.
"Sky let go, your hurting yourself trying to hug me." He only hugged tighter.
"Your right, I should have let you deal with it, I was a jerk trying to make it better with a spell. I-you must hate me for manipulating your emotions." He sounded dejected. Deadlox tried to get his attention again.
"No, I don't hate you, but you need to let go. You were doing what you thought would help." He finally let go. He looked tired, and Jason found a few bandages in his bag. When he was fixing the reopened wound, Ssundee spoke up. He looked a little regretful, probably because he caused this. I don't blame him, if I had suddenly got information like that in a magical vision, I would also be mad.
"Are you alright? You zoned out when you hugged him." Sky nodded, smiling a little.
"Yeah, I'm fine. The question, though, are you okay?" Ssundee looked surprised.
"What? Why would I not be okay?" Sky quickly moved forward, earning a curse from Jason, who wasn't done wrapping up his wound. He took off Ssundee's sunglasses. It took me a second to notice that something wasn't right. No sparks flew from his eyes, they looked dull, almost as though he was dead. Did he die when they were in the Nether?
"I noticed when you yelled at me. Your eyes look...blank." Husky lightly pushed Sky to the side so he could look. "Hey!"
"Don't whine Sky, get your wound fixed before you black out again." Ssundee frowned some.
"Does anyone have a mirror?" I looked in my pack, finding one. I always have a mirror, I don't know why though. I held it up to Ssundee, who seemed to be surprised, but his eyes did nothing to convey emotion. He took the mirror from me.
"Gosh fudge, that could be a bad sign." He stated.
"How?" Asked Jason, who finally fixed the wound in Skys side.
"It could mean many things. I could be using too much magic and aura-"
"Shadow demon lion dog thing." Husky said. I had no idea what he meant by that.
"Or its an effect of dying for awhile."
"You were out for over fifteen minutes." Hero sighed. Ssundee facepalmed.
"I was dead that long? Its alright though, it should be temporary. If it isn't, then something is wrong." He grabbed his sunglasses back from Sky, putting them back on. I looked over at Deadlox. He had a sad look on his face.
"Why didn't you let go when I told you?" He asked, and Sky shrugged.
"I didn't hear you. I zoned out, if I had known that I reopened my wounds I would have...no I would still sit there and hug you."
"Why would you do that?" He asked.
"Because, my friends matter more to me than anything, even budder. I felt so horrible, I thought that using that ability would help, but it was stupid of me to think that."
"Well, I forgive you Sky. You had a good reason. Plus, true friends don't care about a small problem like that. Do it again though, and I get to slap you." He said the last part with fake seriousness.
"Deal." Next thing we know, there is a movement in the area we are in. I heard stone grinding against stone as the door opened. Sky stood up, ignoring the protesting form Jason and Husky. "I completely forgot about that." He said, smiling. He walked into the room after the door, and we followed. Inside were redstone torches surrounding a quartz pedastal. On it was the next trial area map. There was also random redstone strewn around.
"Ross, look at the Redstone, what kind of mechanic could it have." Max said, and I instantly looked around the room. It was poorly done, so sloppy, I could easily disarm what seemed to be a fiery trap. It was rigged to make the paper burn before you touched it.
"Heh." I chuckled some at how easy it would be. I took out a red pair of gloves from my pack. They were made with redstone dust, making so I could tell where the current leads. "This will be easy. Its a simple flint and steel trap. Looks like the creater was better at falling floors, this is noob level." I gained a odd stare from Red. He didn't know that I was an expert at redstone. I started to follow the trail through all of the redstone. I swore I heard something, and I put my ear to the wall.
"...N..ver...sets...for...er..." I shook off the feeling of dread that followed. I finished looking for the main line of redstone, and I broke it. I looked back at the pedastal, the torches had gone out, which was good.
"It should be safe now." I said, and Sky reached out for the page. He quickly took it, and luckily, nothing happened. I smiled.
"Great job Ross." Max patted me on the head, and I hugged his arm. He whispered to me when Deadlox was talking with Sky about something, so he wouldn't hear. "I saw the look on your face Ross." he had a worried tone in his voice. "I'm going to remind you, it did set, your safe." I nodded, and stopped hugging him when the other looked at me. Red looked rather surprised.
"I didn't know you knew redstone like that." I chuckled mirthlessly.
"More than you will ever know." I said silently. He didn't hear me though. Sky was looking at the page, a happy look in his eyes.
"Hey, this is Stampys place. It looks like its just a mile to the west of what hes been building, in a snow biome." We all looked at the paper, and I wonder how Stamy is doing. He hasn't written back in awhile, maybe he forgot. "I say we head out-" Before he could finish, the paper disappeared. Sky panicked until he saw that Notch was holding it.
"Your going to rest for a few days before you go on your adventure again. You have been through a lot, so its well deserved." Sky whined.
"But Notch, what if the squids-"
"No buts Sky. The squids won't be able to keep themselves from freezing for long. It will take them awhile to figure it out." He had the final word when we were suddenly teleported into Team Crafteds house. I fell over a chair as I landed. Sky sighed, he was standing on a bookshelf. Notchs ability to teleport was not as good as Herobrines it seems.
"Well, looks like we'll be stuck here for a few days."
Howdy. For the past month I have had horrible writers block. I knew how I wanted the chapter to go, but I just couldn't get the argument right. I've rewritten this over ten times, and this is the one my big sister thinks is okay. There has also been bad internet for awhile now, but its working a little at the moment. I was on youtube last week, and I found something. Ross is a squirrel now :). Max has also started uploading on his channel. I guess they left the offices, but at least its to persue their own things. Also, who else likes Vocaloid? Because of listening to Heat Haze Days and Reboot, I made a very sad picture of the chapters where Jerome died on DeviantArt. If you can find the references and tell what the voice said to Ross in this chapter, you get COOKIES! (::)(::)(::)(::)
P.S. Which minecraft youtuber do you think I should add?