Hello my friends!

Ah...sweet, sweet updates...

Anyway

You seemed to enjoy the polished demo, so I made sure to update quickly! Now then...I'll discuss anything else I need to say at the end of the chapter so as not to keep you from the desired chapter any longer.

Enjoy~

Waves charged this way and that, the salt water stinging Charlie's eyes and overwhelming his tastebuds. All around him, he could hear Sky Army recruits crying out for help, but they were quickly disappearing, their once joyful cries now ending in a depressing 'glub glub glub'.

The storm sent water everywhere, and a strange mist covered everything in sight. And far off, one voice raised high above the others, the signature sound echoing in Charlie's ears. Realization hit him like a hammer as soon as he learned that he was now alone, as there were no more voices calling out.

Ignoring the constant hum of thunder, Charlie swam against the hard waves towards the lone voice, diving underneath the water so as to avoid the cranky and wild wind. Despite being under the waves, everything was seemingly clear, and the lone voice wasn't even distorted in the slightest. It was strange; everything was terribly confusing and at the same time, completely clear and still.

Charlie breached the surface, the owner of the voice now evident.

Janet held on tightly to a few stone backs, the waves slamming her against the blocks, before ripping her from them then slamming her back against them. She was clearly in pain; her cries were laced with pain, and the water around her was tinted red.

Suddenly, a massive wave crashed into Janet, and finally her tired fingers let go.

"Janet!" Charlie dove under water again, swimming against the current. Not far off, he could see the female's body slowly sinking into the dept slowly. If he went a little bit faster, he could possibly the save her...!

It seemed like hours when he finally reached her body. But, before he could do anything, everything began to fade to black, signalling he was waking up. The last thing he saw were two glowing dark blue eyes, and heard a voice whisper, "Sky Army will fall..."

(:: :: ::)

Charlie sat up quickly, his heart pounding from within his chest. It was just a dream, it wasn't real.

Once he finally wrapped his mind around this thought, Charlie sighed in relief, and swung his legs over the side of the bed, unintentionally pushing the sheets off the bed in the process. As he leaned over to put them back in place, his stance became more careful, his senses now awaking.

Now having a (kinda)made bed, Charlie sloppily walked to his bedroom door, and pushed open the door to his bedroom, closing it as he made his way down the hallway.

Upon passing Minty, Charlie greeted her groggily with, "G' morning, Minty..." he yawned immediately afterwards, completely ignoring whatever Minty replied.

Ever since Janet had disappeared, the squids' activity had almost stopped, with only a few minor attacks every other week. Because of this, all Sky Army recruits were sent home, as the surviving generals and higher-ups seemed to be the only targets. However, in case of an attack, everyone was forced was be roommates with another recruit. Charlie had been with Minty when everyone was choosing, so she and him had been stuck together. The only problem was-

"Um...Charlie? Hello, nya?" That. Minty constantly said 'nya' after most sentences, and it was driving him crazy!

"Hm? Oh yeah, what is it?" Charlie asked, sluggishly turning around to face the pink and white haired hybrid.

"Toadsworth got into the house again, nya~" Upon this news, Charlie was suddenly filed with anger and energy.

"What?! Again?"

Minty smiled at Charlie's reaction, "Yup, nya!" She said cheerfully.

Charlie sighed, and took off down the hallway, his bare feet slapping the wooden floor.

"Charlie!" Minty called after him, "Your clothes, nya~"

"OHRIGHT!" Charlie yelled, making it to the stairs, before making a sharp U-turn and accidentally slamming into the wall. Despite this, he pulled himself from the wall, and ran back to his room. Narrowly opening the door in time, he ran inside, and slammed the door shut after him, then jogged over the dark blue carpet to the chest against the double beds. No, he didn't sleep with Minty. She smelled weird.

Charlie went through the chest, until he found his signature lapis blue shirt. He slipped off his pajama top, and put on the dyed T-shirt. Next, he pulled out some dark brown jeans, and swapped those out as well. He didn't bother with his usual armor, because that was downstairs from the last squid attack.

Now properly dressed, Charlie pulled open the door to his bedroom, and quickly closed it, then took off running again, his feet hitting the floor with many loud thumps.

Charlie arrived at the stairs, and without warning, vaulted the banister, and slid down it, using his sense of balance from years of parkour to his advantage. Now at the bottom of the stairs, he thundered to the kitchen, where he turned the corner and immediately saw two soulless, black eyes staring back at him.

"Toadsworth!" He scolded, "Back outside! Go!"

The mooshroom made no hint to moving, so Charlie pushed the cow-like creature outside, where it rejoined the dozen other mooshrooms that were wandering around.

Indeed, Charlie and Minty lived on a mushroom island, which was one of the key squid watching points. Every so often, Charlie or Minty would climb up the watchtower, and count how many squids they saw. If there were too many, they were allowed to slay them, and if there was a threatening amount, they were supposed to light the netherrack that was in the tower. The netherrack could be seen from the main land watchtower, and the recruits there would light their own pile of netherrack as a signal to Minty and Charlie, and to signal another tower more inland of the news. That tower would light it's pile, signaling the one before and after, etc.

The tower was actually called Fort Minty, because A) The two found it important to name important things, and B) It was annoying to everyone and anyone that didn't live there. Anyway, Ft. Minty was composed of stone bricks, about thirty blocks high, and had a wall-less room on top with a pile of netherrack for lighting. To get up, there was a ladder, and stairs surrounding it in case of falling. There were also two-by-one windows with white stained glass in them for natural light(because torches are totally not an adequate source of light(despite how abundant they are)).

Ft. Minty was built on the North side of the island, and house was in the middle of the island, built into a now leveled hill. It had taken some time, but Charlie and Minty had successfully made a mushroom island version of the Overworld Skyblock set up. They had a tree farm set up, and two of the main animals in a pen. They also had a potato farm, but that wasn't functioning right now, because Toadsworth invited all the other mooshrooms onto his turf, and they had trampled everything.

All of that was on the east part of the island, and the west side held the main mine and some other miscellaneous things.

As said before, the house was in the middle of the island. It was composed of different woods, each type being used in some major part of the house. For example, Spruce logs were used for the corners, Oak wood planks for the floor, Birch wood planks for the walls, etc.

Oh, and then there was also the mushroom trees everywhere. Literally, the mine was surrounded by them. It was kinda funny, because back when the squids used to attack often, they would get so lost in there that you couldn't go ten blocks without picking up an ink sack.

Now back in the house, Charlie walked back into the kitchen to see Minty munching on a potato, which she had probably had stolen from Charlie's supply of taco ingredients.

Crouching low, he snuck up behind her, and jumped up, grabbing the potato back. Minty let out a strange, metallic, ear grinding shriek, and she tried to bite Charlie.

"GIVE ME BACK MY POTATO, NYA!" She yelled at him, clearly annoyed that her breakfast had been interrupted.

"YOU STOLE IT FROM ME FIRST!" Charlie yelled back.

"I WAS HUNGRY, OKAY?!"

"Hey, that's a first."

"What, nya~?"

"Nevermind it came back." Charlie deadpanned, then walked out of the kitchen back up the stairs, taking them two at a time, until he reached the top. When he realized he still had the potato in his hand, he threw it somewhere behind him. He turned into one of the side rooms, which was the bathroom, and glanced at himself in the mirror.

Fair skin, blue eyes, light chocolate brown hair that covered his right eye, no mouth...yup, he was still him.

Charlie walked from the bathroom to the stairs, and again went downstairs, but slipped on the potato and tumbled down the stairs.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Charlie ended up head over heels on the floor, but quickly got up and went to one of the chests at the base of the stairs. In there, he found his armor; an Iron chestplate with chainmail sleeves, and on the back was an iron shield with a blue cross on it. Also on the back was a blue stripe going the width on the chestplate at the base of it, and for his legs, he had black knee pads with chainmail over them as well. He also had on brown leather boots, and light grey fingerless gloves.

But that wasn't all. He also had an iron helmet, with grey outlining on top accompanied by mini spikes, kinda like the ones of a king's crown. On the back of it was an electric blue cross that was surrounded by grey, and the underside of the sides of the helmet were electric blue as well. And then, to top it off, on the front of the helmet was an electric blue gem, surrounded by the same light gray as the gloves. The gem was situated in the middle of the helmet, right above his forehead.

Honestly, he looked more like a knight, rather than a Sky Army recruit. But, the blue helped him fit in with the squids, tricking them into thinking he was on their side, and had saved his life on many occasions.

Charlie smiled at his ensemble, and closed the chest. He then walked back into the kitchen, and found Minty eating an apple. As Charlie entered the room, his armor clinked a bit, alerting her of his presence, though she seemed to have calmed down.

Minty turned around to acknowledge Charlie, and when she did, Charlie could see that she was dressed appropriately for a days work.

She was wearing a noodle strap crop top, which split between pink and white at the shoulders, the front was white, while the back was pink. A long her arms sat a white long sleeved jacket, the top button done, and the rest undone. Around the collar of the jacket was a ruby red ribbon, tied into a bow.

For her legs, she wore shorts, with the same pattern as the crop top, and had a grey belt securing it in place. Under her shorts were tights, with light an d dark grey stripes. One of the legs had horizontal stripes, while the other had vertical stripes. On her feet were light pink dress shoes, with straps of white white leather wrapping around her ankles.

Many parts of her were mechanical, as she was constantly getting hurt and usually lost some part of her body in battle. Her skin was deathly pale, and her eyes heterochromic, one of them being yellow, and the other being black. Her hair was long, pink and white, and always messy for some reason.

Another odd thing about her was that she always, and I mean always, had at least five wounds on the parts of her that was still flesh. What the wound was could be a small scab, to a pulled muscle, to a broken bone, or even showing bone. And despite this, Minty walked around like they weren't even there. The same went for her fox ears and tail, which were pink and white as well.

Actually, it seemed as though Minty couldn't feel pain at all...

"Charlie, nya?" Minty asked, snapping her fingers in Charlie's face.

"Huh?" Charlie was pulled from his thoughts when Minty questioned him.

"Ready to go, nya?"

"Go where?"

"Sky Hub! I just got a message, nya!"

"Okay..." Charlie trailed off, sharing a glance with Minty, before...

"TO TOADSWORTH!" The two chorused together, and ran to the door, trying to be the one who rode in front.

(:: :: ::)

It's always terrifying to be an animal, just wandering around, not having any means of defense. It's even more terrifying to be a mooshroom, on a secluded island, with two possibly insane players that are obsessed with you. Well, that's exactly what Toadsworth felt when he saw those two players appear from over a mound of Myselium.

Charlie and Minty raced head-to-head over the purple tinted landscape, until they both saw the tagged mooshroom, and then they started to get pushy. Minty was the first to make a move, but Charlie's balance helped him stay up, and he shoved Minty. So, being the sane player she was, she pounced on Charlie, and got them both down.

Charlie quickly got up, and ran at the mooshroom, finally making it to him and was abut to get up on him, when he saw Minty looking sadly at him. He sighed, and stepped aside, making a motion for Minty to get on. Minty smiled happily, and quickly jogged to the mooshroom, before hopping on and grabbing the reins.

Charlie himself got onto another nearby mooshroom, and winked at Minty before setting his mooshroom into a moderate pace. Minty followed in suit, and the two rode their mounts to the mine, where they descended into the caves that led underwater.

They didn't dare use boats, knowing how tricky the slippery squids could be, so they linked their mine to the one on the mainland. This was something the squids didn't know of, and so as Minty and Charlie rode through the torch-lit cavern, they were relaxed, knowing that no harm was to come their way for a good chunk of time.

Our heros, our heros, the mooshroom borns come~

On the outside: Huh. I can write really well...

On the inside: WHAT HOW DID I DO THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I COULD DESCRIBE APPEARANCES THAT WELL WHAT THE NETHER HOOOOW

Anyway...

I have permission from the Ckbrothers to use Charlie again, and to use Minty. I have permission to reuse all the OCs from the owners so far, and I'll alert you if I don't have permission.

Sorry, I just don't feel like being reported-.-

I have a question: when I write about the mooshrooms, do I use the terms used for horses? (such as canter, gallop, etc.)

About the OCs. For those of you who haven't submitted an OC, if you'd like to, tell me. For those of you who have submitted an OC(in SB), if I haven't already pmed you about that, tell me.

Because what is Sky Army without it's recruits?

Sky. It's just...Sky.

Terrible pun that's not even a pun is terrible.

I need a life.

BIII