Chapter Three: Why Won't You Trust Me
The whole night, Petra couldn't sleep; it wasn't just the everlasting pain from earlier, but what Lukas had said about Jonathan. Why didn't he trust him? Did he really tamper Lukas's drink? She tried to stop thinking about it, she really wanted to get some sleep; Lukas, on the other hand, forced himself to stay awake. He wanted evidence to prove why he's so suspicious of Jonathan. He was about to doze off, until he heard a noise coming from the upstairs hallway. He slowly and quietly opened his bedroom door to see what it was. He looked down the hallway to see someone coming out of Olivia's room with the dark skinned girl tied up and unconscious, resting on the kidnappers shoulders. Lukas hoped the kidnapper was Jonathan; he really wanted to bust him. He wanted to attack the person, but he was intrigued by what the person was doing. The person created a purple transparent key out of nothing and locked the door to Olivia's room. The person turned around to go down the stairs, but standing across the hallway from him was Lukas. He assumed the kidnapper was a male. The last thing Lukas could remember of that night before randomly falling unconscious, was the mans unnatural sinister smile.
"Lukas!" Lukas was shook awake by Jesse and Petra after hours of laying unconscious on the floor.
"Ugh," Lukas moaned and rubbed his head as he sat up, "What… where's… where are they?!"
"What are you talking about?" Asked Petra.
"I saw something last night!" Exclaimed Lukas, standing up and looking around.
"What did you see?" Asked Jesse, standing up as well. Before Lukas could answer, someone jumped into his arms.
"Yo, wad up dawgs?!" Exclaimed Jonathan. Lukas's face went red as he dropped him onto the ground. Jonathan immediately jumped back up and looked up at Lukas. Lukas's face reddened even further as he grabbed Jonathan at the throat and squeezed him tightly. Jonathan's face was starting to turn purple as Lukas squeezed tighter and tighter.
"You piece of shi-"
"Lukas!" Jesse and Petra tried to pull Lukas's hands off of Jonathan, and they luckily succeeded.
"What is wrong with you?!" Exclaimed Petra.
"He's a kidnapper!" Lukas exclaimed, pulling his bow out.
"I am not a kidnapper!" Exclaimed Jonathan while Jesse helped him up from the ground, "You've been so against me ever since I arrived here, I'm starting to think that you're trying to make me look bad to cover up for YOUR bad doings!"
"What are you talking about?" Asked Jesse.
"I'm saying that maybe you're the one who's doing everything that you're blaming me for!"
"I am not!" Exclaimed Lukas, letting go of the string holding the arrow back on his bow. Jonathan grabbed the arrow when it was one inch away from his face and snapped it in half with one hand. Jonathan then ran into Lukas and tacked him to the ground. Jesse and Petra tried to separate them. Jesse dragged Lukas on the floor to try and get him away from Jonathan, and Petra did the same with Jonathan.
"Why don't you both just take a chill pill and leave each other alone?!" Exclaimed Petra, picking up Jonathan as he started throwing a tantrum.
"What did you see Lukas?" Asked Jesse.
"I saw someone coming out of Olivia's room and they kidnapped her." Lukas Replied. Everyone looked at him like they had all just saw a ghost. They then all heard a knock on the front door and went down to open it. Jesse unlocked the door and opened it to be met with Ivor again, but he didn't seem right; his face was completely white almost and gray and he was breathing faster than the natural rate.
"Ivor, what's wrong?" Asked Jesse.
"Have you seen the outside of the temple?!" He replied. Everyone stepped outside to be met with a very disturbing site: right outside their door, hanging by a lamppost, was Soren.
"Holy crap!" Exclaimed Petra, she had seen many things in her life, but she was quite disturbed by this. Jesse walked up to Soren and felt his hand.
"He's cold, and there's no pulse." He said.
"There's a note tied to his foot." Petra pointed out. Jesse walked up to it and pulled it off and read it out loud.
"Beware my power, I don't know where it came from. I am much stronger than The Wither Storm. My violet eyes may turn black. Once you're gone, there's no going back."
"What?!" Exclaimed Lukas, stepping back a little.
"Is this a threat," Asked Petra, "Or is it a warning?"
"Could be both." Replied Jonathan. The sight before him didn't seem to disturb him nearly as much as it disturbed everyone else. Lukas then looked over to Jonathan, his face as red as, well, the reddest thing you could think of.
"Is there anything else that happened Ivor?" Asked Jesse, looking up from the piece of paper.
"You really don't know anything do you," Replied Ivor, "It's The Wither Storm all over again!"
"But, how, Jesse destroyed the Command Block." Said Petra.
"Either way, people are getting wither sickness and amnesia, multiple land points are just craters, and fire! Only this time, we don't know where it's coming from!"
"I'm pretty sure it's coming from this little man." Said Lukas, pushing Jonathan up in front of Ivor. Ivor thought it was a little ridiculous that someone as small and scrawny as Jonathan would be able to do this all in one night. Jonathan then turned around and yelled at Lukas.
"Little man?! LITTLE MAN?! Next time you call me that, I'll make sure you disappear next!"
"Your threats don't scare me." Said Lukas, crouching down to Jonathan's height. Jonathan then grabbed the rims of Lukas's jacket and pulled him in closer.
"Oh you will be scared, believe me, I know." He said as his eyes darkened a little.
"Wait, where's redstone girl and TNT guy?" Asked Ivor, he never really calls them by their real names.
"Axel's in Boomtown with Magnus and Lukas said he saw her get kidnapped." Replied Jesse.
"What do you mean Axle's in Boomtown!" Exclaimed Ivor, "At a time like this?!"
"Well, yeah, that's what Jonathan said." Said Petra.
"And Lukas, you saw Olivia get kidnapped?"
"Yeah, and this guy did it." Lukas replied, once again, blaming Jonathan.
"You blame everything on me you Butthead!" Exclaimed Jonathan, "Why don't you trust me?"
"Why does everyone else trust you?!" Exclaimed Lukas. Jonathan just stared at him while smirking.
"Ivor, who are some still living victims?" Asked Petra. Ivor looked down at the ground and then back at her.
"Everyone." He replied. It was then that they realized that he looked the same as Petra did in one of the last stages of wither sickness.
"It's attacked everything in the village. Everyone who isn't missing, has either wither sickness or amnesia." He said, grabbing his left shoulder and holding it tightly.
"And all this happened in one night?" Asked Lukas.
"Precisely." Ivor replied after a small coughing fit.
"I'll go with you to look for clues of what's going on," Said Jesse," And Lukas, I don't trust you with Jonathan so you're coming with me, and Petra, you stay here."
"Okay." Replied Petra. Jesse then walked over to Petra and kissed her on the cheek, which made her blush.
"I'll see you when we get back." He said before he walked off to follow Ivor and Lukas down the steps of the temple. Petra and Jonathan were silent for a few seconds after they all left. Jonathan then looked up at Petra, who was still blushing.
"Can I kiss you?" He asked.
"No." Petra replied, walking back into the temple. Jonathan followed her and closed the door behind him; although, he somehow slammed the door hard enough that he pulled it straight off its hinges.
"I-I can fix it!" He exclaimed as Petra turned around and face-palmed. Jonathan spent the next five minutes trying to put the door back, and he finally succeeded.
"I'm bored!" He exclaimed, joining Petra on the couch.
"We've got some board games?" Petra suggested.
"Board games are boring!"
"Well, what do you want to do?"
"Let's go create chaos throughout the village!"
"What?!"
"Yeah, let's go do that!" Jonathan then got up from the couch and was about to put his hand on Petra's shoulder, but once she got a glimpse of his hand, she grabbed it and looked directly at it in shock. Half an arrow tip was stuck in the palm of his hand with dried up blood surrounding it.
"What the hell?" Petra was a little weirded out by this sight. Jonathan immediately retracted his hand.
"Um… y-you saw nothing." Jonathan said, his face starting to sweat. Petra grabbed his hand again and looked up at him directly in the eye.
"Jonathan, why do you have one of Olivia's handmade redstone arrow tips stuck in your hand?" She asked. Jonathan pulled his hand back again and answered.
"I don't know, why don't you ask Lukas?!" He exclaimed, "He shot that arrow at me earlier and the tip of it got stuck in my hand!" Petra didn't entirely believe him, but it did make sense. Petra got up from the couch and ran upstairs, and Jonathan followed. He got up there to see Petra trying to ram Olivia's door down.
"You gonna help me with this or not?" She asked, stopping for a second to look at Jonathan. He hesitated for a second, but went to help her with the door. They were able to knock the door down, and what they saw inside was not the sight you should see in someone's bedroom. All over the floor, walls, and ceiling was blood, some sort of black goo, and the same particle dust from yesterday. Petra's heart was starting to speed up as she looked at this unnatural sight. She stood in the middle of the room, terrified of what may have happened to her friend. She turned around as Jonathan lifted the door up and leaned it against the wall, and what they found on the other side of it were ginormous and deep scratch marks. Everything in the room was not left untouched by this 'thing' that attacked Olivia. Petra all of a sudden got the worst headache that she had ever gotten and her left arm started to hurt. She slowly lowered herself to the ground in absolute pain.
"Petra, are you okay?" Asked Jonathan, walking over to her. She didn't reply. Jonathan could see blood starting to come out of Petra's mouth, and at that moment he realized something very wrong was going on. He picked her up and brought her out of the room and put her on the ground outside in the upstairs hallway. As he lowered her to the ground, her body started shaking furiously.
"Petra?!" Jonathan shook her shoulders to try and snap her out of it. It didn't work.
"PETRA!" He screamed at the top of his lungs. This time it worked and Petra eventually stopped. She looked up at him with a face of extreme fear.
"Holy crap Petra, what happened?" Asked Jonathan, running his fingers through his hair.
"There's something going on, something more than we thought." She replied, trembling in fear.
"What do you mean?"
"I saw something."
Half an hour later, Petra laid curled up on the couch with a blanket over her as Jonathan attempted to make her some hot chocolate. She was in a state of shock and refused to tell Jonathan anything.
"Petra, please tell me what you saw," Said Jonathan, sitting down on the coffee table and putting the almost evaporated hot chocolate next to him, "You can trust me."
"I'm waiting 'til the others get back." Replied Petra, not moving from her position on the couch.
"Why don't you trust me?"
"I do, it's just, I saw something."
"I know you did, I just want to know what you saw."
"I can't tell you!" Petra sat up on the couch, still holding the blanket over her.
"Petra please! I need to know!" Jonathan grabbed her face and held it close to his face. They both started blushing, "Please trust me."
"I can't tell you."
"Can you at least tell me what happened to you?"
"Okay." Petra pulled her face out of Jonathan's hands and spoke:
"Well, you've heard of wither sickness before, right?" She asked.
"Yeah, I was one of the people who had it back with The Wither Storms." Jonathan replied.
"Well, I had it two years ago."
"Yeah, I know."
"How do you know, I never told you about that." Once again, Petra was starting to feel skeptical of her friend. Jonathan put his hand on Petra's shoulder.
"That doesn't matter right now." He whispered. Petra continued:
"I was cured when The Wither Storm was destroyed, and for some reason, after not having it for years, something triggered it in there… and it showed me something."
"What did it show you?"
"…You." Jonathan felt like his heart skipped a beat. What does she mean she saw him?
"In a bad way or a good way?" He asked. Petra didn't answer, she just looked away from him in disappointment. Jonathan then sat down on the couch next to her and put his arm around her.
"You know you can trust me." He said. Petra grabbed Jonathan's arm and took it off of her shoulders. Jonathan thought that was a sign to leave her alone, so he left the room. Petra was so distraught and scared of what she saw, Jonathan almost felt sorry for her. Almost.
About an hour later, Jesse and Lukas came back from the investigation.
"Hey, we're back!" Jesse exclaimed as he walked through the door.
"Hey guys, how'd it go?" Asked Jonathan walking up to them.
"Well, besides Ivor passing out twice and throwing up blood four times, we found something." Replied Lukas, staring at Jonathan with bloodshot eyes.
"What did you find?" Jesse threw a small plastic bag at Jonathan.
"A strand of your hair." He said.
"How do you know it's my hair?"
"It's the same color."
"Lukas has the same colored hair as me!"
"I do not!" Exclaimed Lukas.
"Yeah you do!" Jonathan threw the plastic bag back at Jesse.
"Either way, it still might be a step further into the investigation." Said Jesse. Then he realized that Petra wasn't there to great him at the door.
"Where's Petra?" He asked.
"She's in the living room." Replied Jonathan, pointing the the room the was in. Jesse ran straight in there to see her curled up on the couch. He didn't think this was right of her, so he knew straight away that something was wrong.
"Petra?" Hearing him, Pera raised her head, and seeing Jesse, she jumped up from the couch and gave him a big hug.
"Petra, what's wrong?" Jesse asked.
"You need to see this." Petra replied as she let go of him and grabbed his hand. Petra pulled Jesse up the stairs and into Olivia's room.
"Woah," He gasped. He turned around to see Petra backing out of the room, "What is it?"
"Jonathan and I bashed the door down and when we found this, my wither sickness was triggered." She replied.
"What?!"
"It triggered and then it showed me something." Jesse ran up to Petra and held her close.
"What did you see?" He asked.
"I think there's something up with Jonathan." She whispered in Jesse's ear.
"What do you mean?"
"I saw him, and he had no eyes, and… he was attacking Olivia." Jesse immediately remembered the note from earlier and what it said.
"What?" Petra nodded. Jesse didn't know what to say about that; he didn't know if what Petra saw was true or not.
"It's getting late, maybe we should talk to Jonathan about this over dinner." He said.
"It's only twelve."
"Then over lunch." Jesse and Petra went out of the room and back downstairs to the kitchen where they found Jonathan on top of the fridge again.
"Jonathan, what're you doing?" Asked Petra. Jonathan was facing the wall, so when he heard her voice, he raised his head and accidentally banged his head on the cabinets above.
"I-I found something." He said, rubbing his head and turning around to face them.
"What did you find?" Asked Jesse.
"There's an air vent here that leads to Olivia's room." He replied.
"It's too small for someone to fit in." Said Petra.
"Well, if this is The Wither Storm all over again, then it probably could deform it's body to make it small enough to fit in there." Said Jonathan, climbing down from the fridge.
"I guess you do have a point." Petra admitted. Jonathan then walked out the room, not looking at Jesse and Petra once. He walked upstairs to his room. He walked in and locked the door. He took his jacket off and threw it onto his bed and then looked at his left arm. He spat on it and then wiped it dry to reveal a tattoo of The Wither Storm.
"I will make you proud." He said, an unnatural smile on his face.
Authors Note: Well, looks like there's more to this than they thought. First it was a missing person, and now it's history repeating itself. Also, if you feel like it, please put a review telling me if think what Petra saw was just her imagination or real. See you soon.