A/N Hello internet! Soul here, bringing you guys the next chapter of The Reborn King! I'm finally giving you guys the name of our villain, and I've once again managed to slip an FMA reference into a fanfiction! Now to do that in Entwined Worlds…Alright, onto the announcements!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: *shouts into megaphone* Poll! Vote now! Guests leave votes! *clears throat* Aria named her puppy Koga. Anyone who knows what that is referencing gets to name Alex's puppy!
Disclaimer-*throws megaphone at Levi and hits him in face* I don't own Minecraft. The company known as Microsoft does. And Aria's wonderful and epic skin belongs to the Legend of Zelda video game series, owned by Nintendo. I love LoZ. Like really love. 'Specially Twilight Princess because I got the farthest on that one. Skyward Sword is epic too.
Reviews are appreciated, like always. Same thing with questions for all the characters-Myself included. Now onto the guest review!
Ravenstar-I've named them all except Alex's. She's a tricky one. But there's some joke involved with pretty much all of them. You'll find out Orphy and Pandora's in this chapter. And Aria named hers Koga. And yeah, sudden topic change. That kind of thing happens in this chapter. Orpheus was a bit of an idiot in this one.
Chapter 18:
Liar
As Pandora continued to play with her new companion, Orpheus continued to eye the house with suspicion. He still didn't trust Kane. And from the way Alex kept fingering something underneath the cloak she still hadn't taken off, she didn't either. But Gwen seemed to trust him. From what he had overheard (Alright, he was eavesdropping. But he had a reason!), Gwen was going to talk to him about the visions she had.
He didn't agree with her decision at all. Despite his distrust of Kane, he knew that he was only one person. He couldn't get Gwen to not talk to Kane about the visions.
"Orphy, come play with me and Cerberus!" A small grin tugged at the enderman hybrid's lips at the name. He had to admit that he was proud to have come up with it. Orpheus glanced one last time at the house before turning to his best friend.
They played fetch for a while until Aria suddenly said, "Do you hear that?"
Everyone lifted their heads to look at her, but none seemed to hear what she was. "It sounds like there's some kind of army marching through the forest."
"You must be hearing things, Elf Boy-" Levi stopped mid-sentence as every single one of them felt the ground vibrate underneath their feet.
Gwen and Kane exited the house the minute the vibrations started. When the sound of marching reached all their ears, Kane paled.
"She shouldn't have regenerated yet." Kane spoke with disbelief in his voice. But Orpheus picked up on something else.
Fear.
"Who?" Steve questioned, getting to his feet. The rest of the group followed his lead. Wolf wisely shooed her puppies inside while Voices went back into the depths of the forest.
"Mitéra." The teenager replied.
"Mitéra? Who in Minecraftia is that?" Alex asked.
Kane turned to look at the rest of the group. "The same goddess who killed Levi in his past life."
"The goddess of light." Orpheus said slowly and quietly. "The one that we all have to defeat."
"Yes." Kane nodded before pointing at the house. "All of you go grab weapons." The group stood silent, all shocked at the thought of an attack. "Hurry! Her army will be here soon!"
Orpheus glanced at their ragtag assortment of weapons. He knew that they didn't have enough diamond swords for everyone-He had counted the collection on his first night there. There was only four of the most powerful swords. Alex had finally shown them what she had hidden underneath her cloak-A collection of daggers, poisons, and needles. While Steve had stared at his sister with a collection of shock and amazement, the rest of the group had realized that one of them would have to fight with the only other weapon left.
A stone sword.
As Orpheus stared down at said weapon, he was already starting to regret his decision to be the brave one. He had given a small, confident grin and said that he would be alright. He was the Dark Mage, so he knew magic.
He had lied.
He didn't know any magic spells. He didn't have a familiar or anything like that. The only time that he had every performed magic was when he had become an enderman hybrid-An he had stared at the book for what seemed like hours before he had done it all.
So how did he expect himself to fight against whatever horrors that were in Mitéra's army? He glanced back at the window to the house and saw Pandora watching him with worry. She's smart. He thought. None of the adults or older teenagers had noticed his lie, but she had, hadn't she? She wasn't just worried because he was going to be fighting. She was worried because she knew he had never held a sword in his hands before.
As trees fell and the army was finally visible, Orpheus readied his sword. The army marched into the cleared area in front of the house.
The soldiers were tall. Tall and broad and decked out in full diamond medieval knight style armor. Orpheus' heart sank down to the bottom of his feet. How was he supposed to defeat them? How were any of them supposed to defeat them? He wasn't a warrior. Only Steve, Levi, Alex, and Kane knew how to use a sword. The rest of them were useless with one-He took a deep breath and faced their opponents.
Think Orpheus. Focus on the enemy. How many are there? His quick estimate was about a hundred. Even so, that number was terrifying. There was seven of them. So that meant that each one of them would have to kill more than 10 people each.
The word repeated itself in his head. Kill. He was going to have to kill an actual person, wasn't he? His legs started to shake, and he lost the steady grip he had gained on his sword. Orpheus didn't have time to think any more about it. The enemy army was finally right before them. On Kane's signal, the reborn ran straight into the army's masses.
Orpheus swung a sword at one of them-In his original body he would have never been able to swing a sword easily. But in this older and stronger body, he could do it with less effort. The helmet went flying off.
And he was horrified to see the empty inside. All around him he could hear everyone shouting in surprise and yelling that the armor was empty.
How where they supposed to defeat the army now?
"Look for a blood seal!" Came Aria's suggestion from someone close by. "If it's anything like Fullmetal Alchemist, we could destroy them that way!"
"Ari, this isn't like an anime!" Gwen replied.
They were back to where they had started.