Chapter seven: Chicken feathers
(Hi there, surprise I made chapter 7 very quick. But other then that, let's get started.) [...] super whispers
Jesse walked towards Lukas and greeted him, "'Sup?"
"'Sup?" said Lukas.
"Nothing," Jesse said with a smile, "'Sup with you?"
"Nothing. 'Sup with you?"
"I just said... nothing." Jesse said with a deadpan look on her face.
Lukas looked back at her, rubbing the back of his head. "Hey, umm... congrats on the win."
Jesse smiled at him before he continued, "I mean, I still think our beacon was amazing, but... you did a pretty good job. I mean, I thought the whole monster thing was pretty cool, but... fireworks too?"
"Your build wasn't too shabby." Jesse grinned kindly to him.
"You don't have to do that, okay?" Lukas smiled at her again. "You guys won, fair and square."
Jesse smiled nervously before asking him. "Umm, did you see a creepy-looking beardy guy [who's super nice] around?"
Lukas thought for a second. "Hmm, I don't think so," he finally said, "why?"
Jesse rubbed the back of her head. "Long story short, he... kinda scammed Petra out of a diamond earlier," she replied.
Lukas's eyes widen in shock. "Whoa- everyone knows you don't mess with Petra. Not if you know what's good for you."
"Thanks Lukas." Jesse gave him an awkward smile.
There was a small awkward pause, before Lukas tilted his head at her. "So... we're cool?" He asked, sounding faintly nervous. Jesse nodded. "Yeah, we're cool," she agreed.
"Cool, cool," Lukas responded.
Jesse hesitated for a couple of seconds. "To cool for school." She replied finally.
"Coolness." Lukas answered, cracking a small smile.
Jesse chuckled at that, "Ha! See ya later, Lukas." She turned around starting to walk off, Lukas smiled before slightly saying, "Yeah, see ya."
Jesse then found Axel right by the chicken torture machine again, or whatever it was, and walked up to him, "Hey Axel."
Axel noticed her and greeted, "Oh, hey Jesse." Jesse smiled before asking, "Hey, umm have any chance you saw Ivor around?"
Axel shook his head, "No, but Petra told me all about it. Don't worry, I'm looking for him."
Jesse looked at the machine then at him, "By watching a chicken torturing machine?" she questioned.
Axel sheepishly chuckled before facing her, "I-I was looking, I just got a little distracted."
Jesse raised her eyebrow before remembering something and announced, "Oh yeah, Axel. I have some news. It's umm... Ivor also remembers."
Axel's eyes widen as he asked, "Wait. Really?" Jesse nodded her head before Axel mumbled, "Oh boy. That going to be tough for him because... he has to make the Witherstorm."
Jesse sadly nodded, "Ya... he's not looking forward to this either." She then asked Axel, "By any chance did you see Reuben anywhere? I was hoping that he had make it to town, while I was... occupied."
Axel shook his head, "Nope, haven't seen hide nor hair. But don't worry, he's a tough little ham; And also you did found him before." Jesse nodded slightly, before Axel looked back at the the machine. She looked at him with a deadpan look, "Axel." She groaned.
"Alright, I'll look. As soon as I watch one more chicken got owned." Axel explained to her. Jesse rolled her eyes before heading out and spotted someone that looked like Ivor. "Ha, I see you now." She whispered to herself.
She walked towards the person before Aiden blocked her path. "Well, if it isn't team Trash-bag." He growled.
Jesse frowned at him, leaning from side to side trying to see if the person was still there. With Aiden blocking her view and continued to taunt her, "How's your stupid pig? I heard intense heat causes brain damage."
"Not now, Aiden," Jesse groaned in annoyance. "I'm kinda busy right now, man."
Aiden smirked at her and continued, "What? Busy trying to get a life? Busy trying to make some friends?"
Jesse rolled her eyes before shoving him out of her way and continued on. "Hey!" Aiden growled.
Jesse walked up to the person who she first thought was Ivor, but was someone else. She decided to tap on their shoulder instead of forcefully pulling her. "Umm... excuse me?" She asked timidly.
The woman turned around to face her, Jesse swears that the woman looked like him from the back. "Yes?"
Jesse rubbed the back of her head. "Oh, s-sorry, I thought you were someone I was looking for." She apologized sheepishly, sounding immensely relieved that she didn't go up and confront her.
"Oh, okay." and the lady turned away again.
Jesse let out a deep sigh, still embarrass about the situation. Then a loud, terrified squeal rang out in the area. Jesse quickly looked in the direction where the squeal was coming from. "Reuben?! Is that you buddy?" she called out, hopefully.
She walked up to a butcher stand hearing a man yelling out, "Get your pork chops here! Fresh off the bone!"
Jesse looked at the butcher before he lifted a pig out and set him on the counter. This pig happened to be Reuben. Jesse skin went pearl white as the butcher got out his axe. "Nothing quite sticks to your ribs like a juice pork chop!" He called out.
"REUBEN!" Jesse screamed as she ran towards the booth, eyes widen in utter horror.
The butcher turned and glared at her as Reuben jumped around to face Jesse with a desperate squeal. "What's the big idea? I'm trying to run a business here." Jesse, who was shaking in anger and fear, pointed at Reuben and snapped at him, "That's my pig!"
The butcher raised his eyebrow at her and explained, "Oh really? Well, I found this guy wondering out in the woods, so technically that makes him MY pig."
Jesse looked back at the butcher, her expression becoming desperate. "Please?" she asked pleadingly. "He's my friend."
The butcher looked at her deadpan before looking at Reuben, "To me, he's inventory. I might be amenable with some kind of trade," he hinted, glancing back at Jesse.
'That's it!' Jesse thought before getting out her stone sword, pointing it at him. Her eyes narrowed with determination, and fire, and let out a growl. "Give. Me back. My pig." She threatened him, sounding very dark and serious.
"Alright you little maniac. Take him, he's yours." The butcher growled pushing Reuben off of the counter.
Jesse smiled in victory and put her sword away, she then sass flip her hair to the side and started walking. "Come on, Reuben."
They walked together before apologize to Reuben, "I'm sorry Reuben. I shouldn't have let you run off in the wood."
Reuben grumbled a bit, but it was proof that he wasn't really upset. Jesse then spotted Olivia, she jogged over to the girl before tapping her shoulder. Olivia immediately turned to look at her. Jesse kept her voice low, making sure that no one else can hear, "Hey umm... I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Ivor remembers about us being the new Order of the Stone."
Olivia looked at Jesse a little happy about the fact that someone else remembers, but then she raised her eyebrow at her and asked, "Let me guess, the bad news is that he's really not looking forward to this, because he needs to make the Witherstorm again." Jesse nodded, "Ya, basically, yes."
"Did you find him?" Petra asked, racing to them with Axel hot on her heels.
Jesse sighed disappointedly, "No, I thought I saw him either, but it was a false alarm, wait there he is!" She blurted at the end, swinging her arm to point at him.
Everyone swiveling to see Ivor at the entrance of the Keynote, panting. He glanced backwards, not seeming to spot them, before rushing into the building.
"We have to follow him!" Petra announced and the whole group ran over to the usher. He gave them all a bored look.
Jesse grinned at him sheepishly. "Um... hi." Petra then asked him, "What would it take, to get us inside tonight?"
The usher blinked, "Uhh... tickets." He started laughing really hard, as if he'd just made the greatest joke of all time.
"Here's the thing," Jesse said, fiddling with her fingers awkwardly, "we had tickets, but then we lost them."
The usher winced sympathetically. "Oh man. I hate when stuff like that happens." Jesse quickly nodded. "Me too, feel like such an idiot."
He smiled apologetically at her, rubbing his head as he apologized, "I'm sorry, but... no tickets, no show."
Suddenly, a chicken fluttered by then the usher quickly cowered away with an extremely high-pitched shriek. "Chiiiicken! Chicken! Chicken!"
The chicken wandered away, and the usher quickly straightened back up. "I-it's okay, it's gone, your a totally cool dude..."
The four of them walked back down the steps, "We got to find another way to get past him." Petra muttered trying to think of something to help them.
Jesse then looked at the chicken,blender-thing, machine then she grinned at her friends and suggested, "How about we use that guy's chicken machines to create the mother of all distractions."
Olivia nodded at her before she pointed out, "But you'll going to have to break that pane of glass," pointing at a certain pane of glass up high on the machine, "you're going to need a slime block to be able to reach it."
Jesse nodded and headed to the booth with a slime block right beside it. She noticed that the woman she meet was running it. "Oh... hey, we meet again." she said, sounding nervous.
The woman, herself looked a bit surprised. "Oh... hello. Did you find the person you were looking for, by the way?" She asked, casually.
"Hm? Oh- yeah, I did. Thanks f-for asking," Jesse said, sounding a bit surprise. "Um... one slime block, please."
The woman shook her head, "Sorry, we don't sell slime block here. Just slime balls, but we've got a limited supply today, and we're only giving out two per costumer." She then tilted her head thoroughly. "You could craft a slime block if you had nine slime balls..."
Jesse nodded before Axel walked by her and requested, "A round of slime balls for everyone please."
After that, everyone had gotten two slime balls. Olivia looked at them before saying, "Guys, these are only eight slime balls, we got to find one more to make a block."
"We got to find a way to get more slime." Petra announced. Everyone nodded and head out to find some more slime. Jesse noticed Lukas by a booth, tossing a slime ball in the air.
Jesse walked up to him and asked, "Hey... Lukas? Could you do me a favor?" Lukas caught the slime ball, before looking at her. "Anything's possible." He said lightly, with a small smile.
Jesse smiled back. "I need slime balls... I swear I have a REALLY good reason..."
Lukas gazed at Petra, Olivia, Axel who had came up behind Jesse. He smiled at her, holding out the slime ball. "Whatever you guys are doing, count me in."
"Thanks, Lukas," Petra said, before adding in a small whisper to Jesse, "told you he was useful."
Jesse rolled her eyes playfully, Axel smiled at her before she went up to the crafting table, "It's crafting time." Jesse mumbled to herself.
Jesse then heard Lukas and Axel having a conversation behind her. Lukas then asked them. "So, uh... you guys been working together long? You've got good chemistry."
"Are you jealous?" Axel asked him.
"I'm just saying, I think it's cool that you have a team that works so well together," Lukas responded. Axel chuckled at that, "You're totally jealous."
Jesse placed the slime balls down on the table, then all of the slime shivered together into a solid, green block. "Ta-daaaa! One slime block." She grinned at it, before her face fell at the sight of it. "... gross."
"I'll take that." Olivia informed her as she grabbed the block and looked at the ground to place the block in the right place. "Let's put it riiiight..." and she placed the block down. "Here."
Jesse turned to Axel, "Gimme a boost." Axel nodded and helped her up the top of the booth roof, she got up and looked at the distance from the machine to the slime block.
She took a deep breath before starting to jump onto the block, her feet landed on the block before rebounding into the air. Jesse let out a small 'wheee' before drawing her fist back in midair and slamming it onto the pane of glass, shattering it and allowing the chickens to flood from the opening.
She landed safely on her feet, as the booth owner ran past her seeing the chickens escaping. "My poultry! My precious poultry!" He wailed.
The usher charged forward as well. "Keep your eyes closed! They'll peck out your eyes!" he warned, just as a chicken bowled him over, hopping all over him... including his face.
Jesse blinked at the sight of this. "Vicious chickens. Never thought I would be saying that." she joked, before running to the Keynote, followed by her friends.
The six of them got inside, before they stopped to look around trying to find Ivor. But he was nowhere in sight.
"Where'd he go?" Petra demanded.
Jesse looked around, before spotting the door that leads to Ivor's creepy basement. "I think he headed over there."
They all rushed for the door, but Lukas stopped a few meters away. "Wait. What do we do once we catch him?"
Everyone looked at one another, as Lukas continued, "there are a million ways to play this."
"I wouldn't mind a little payback." Jesse suggested. Lukas nodded at that, "He deceived it for crossing Petra."
Jesse smiled at him before going down the steps. She just hoped that Ivor still keep up with the plan.
She hoped.
Started: 4/23/17 Finished: 4/24/17
(Hope you guys like the story, and big thanks to 'CamronXTheXGamer' and Emily The Avenger for commenting on my story. We'll see what happens in the next chapter. Bye.)