Chapter nine: Iron Golem troubles
(Hi, and... Yes, I do ship team Jes-vor or Jesse x Ivor[but only in my version]. Sorry, I have weird ships, but it's cool. I still ship Magnus x Ellegarrd, but other then that lets get started)Everyone eyes widen at the thought of it. Building a Wither? That's crazy!
"A... Wither?" Petra gasped at the chest, before looking back at Lukas. "But... that's-"
"One of the worst monsters there is!" Lukas burst out, light-blue eyes widen with horror.
Jesse stared uncomfortably down at the skulls for a moment. "Well, we came here to find the skull... we found it." Petra stared at them as well before suggesting, "Maybe we should just grab it, and go. While we still can."
Too late, a sound of footsteps clacking on stone steps could be heard.
"Scatter!" Petra hissed.
Jesse was quick to react and ran as Reuben flipped the lever again, the bookshelf rising to block the Wither setup from sight, everyone fanning out into the shelves. Jesse jumped over a shelf and hid into a small niche, ducking down as far as she could.
"Don't you recognized me?!" Ivor shouted to himself, and everyone for a moment thought that Ivor had spotted them.
Until he continued a moment later, "Or, wait... surprise to see me?!" He passed Petra as he shouted the last two words, making her flinch a bit.
Jesse rolled her eyes and smiled sweetly, "Still practicing cliché villain lines." she whispered.
"No, wait, that not good... 'thought you were rid of me, didn't you?!'... THAT'S better."
Ivor continued walking around the room before Olivia straightened up to get a better look, but as she put her hands down on the shelf to help herself up. Her hand bumped a potion bottle and knocked it to the floor, making it clink as it hit the floor.
Ivor whipped back up and around, with narrowed eyes. "W-what was that? W-w-who's there?" he asked, warily.
Ivor made his way to where Olivia was hiding, spotting the potion bottle on the floor. Olivia had swapped and picked a new hiding place, and she was hiding in the same way Petra was, pressing her back against the bookshelves.
Ivor walked towards Olivia spot and Jesse jumped from her spot to save/warn her, "Olivia look out!" she shouted.
Ivor spun around, eyes widen in surprise. "W-what are you d-doing here?!" he demanded, before a look of honor crossed his face, and he asked, in a quieter voice. "What did you see?"
"Leave her alone!" Petra shouted, rushing out from her hiding place. Axel did the same, stepping out and crossing his arms with a semi-sharp glare at Ivor. "Y-yeah, back off, pal."
Ivor looked at Petra and Jesse, shock and sad at the fact that he's really doing this. "You two! Did you follow me here?"
"You thought you could just screw us over and get away with it, didn't you?!" Petra demanded to know.
"Well... yes," Ivor admittedly mumbled quietly to himself. "Yes, I did."
"We're here to prove you wrong," Jesse finished sharply, she was still pretty good at acting this out.
Ivor sneered at the two of them, trying to seem angry, "What are you going to do about it? I have what I want, and you have exactly what you earned."
"We know what your doing down here." Jesse said in a evil, suductive tone in her voice. Walking slowly to him before explaining, "Soul Sand, and three Wither Skulls- you're building a Wither!"
Ivor's eyes widened for a moment, Jesse was way to good at acting, his face slightly turned pink before regaining his composure. "Huh. S-s-smarter than you l-l-look."
Axel stepped forward, literally towering over Ivor as he glared at him. "Hey, nobody talks to my friends like that. Now shut your mouth, or else... again."
Olivia palm-faced herself and shook her head. Ivor growled and threw his hands into the air. "Enough! You're wasting enough of my time already," and he turned on his heel and sprinted off into the bookshelves, Jesse and the others quickly followed him.
They reached the spot near the stairs, looking around rapidly. Ivor seemed to have vanished from sight. "Where'd he go?!" Petra asked, searching around.
Ivor was standing behind four iron blocks stacked in a T, holding a pumpkin, "If you won't leave of your own volition," the black-haired man try to snarled at them, showing regret in his eyes.
Jesse turned around, a gasp tearing out of her throat as Ivor tipped the pumpkin into place, "I'll happily remove you myself!" He then faced Jesse and muttered to her, "I'm so sorry."
The iron golem raised up to life as Ivor looked at the meddling kids, "Show our friends the door, would you?" he sneered at them, and the iron golem swung one of its massive arms at them. Screaming, all of them ducked out of the way and quickly ran up the stairs.
They went up from the basement and saw that the keynote was starting, they went through the crowd as the two announcers announce that Gabriel is here. The crowd clapped and cheered as he was on the stage.
Jesse's group stand in the back, panting heavily, "I-is everyone okay?" She asked over Gabriel's distant voice, gasping for breath.
"I-I think so," Petra agree. Olivia however, had straightened up and looked around, alarm registered in her eyes.
"Umm... guys?" Olivia said sounded frightened. "Where's Lukas?"
Jesse looked behind her then back at the basement door, she groaned in annoyance, "You got to be kidding me. He still down there!"
Petra bit her lip, eyes widening. "Ivor has an iron golem, and all the ingredients to make a Wither down there! If he was to unleash it on this crowd of people..." her eyes went a bit wider at the thought in horror. "We have to act fast!"
Olivia jerked her head at Gabriel, who was talking about feeling pressure about coming to the keynote or whatever. "It just so happens that the greatest warrior of all time is in the building- we can ask Gabriel for help! This is the smartest way to help Lukas."
"Lukas's tough," Petra agreed, "I just hope he's tough enough to hold out for a bit longer."
"I'm going after Lukas myself," Jesse decided, looking at her friends.
Petra's eyes widen, "By yourself? Are you sure, Jesse?" she asked, sounding slightly admired.
Jesse nodded with determination in her eyes, "Yeah..." she said after a moment, turning back to her friends. "The rest of you, go get Gabriel."
"We got it Jesse." Olivia agreed instantly. Petra piped up with her own smile, "We'll find a way to warn Gabriel and then we'll meet you back here."
"Let's crash this party," Axel nodded enthusiastically.
Jesse nodded before her and Reuben headed down, she opened the door back to the basement, starting down into the darkness, "... here goes nothing," she said finally, before beginning to descend the staircase.
Jesse stepped off the stairs and cut herself off abruptly as she immediately whipped back around the corner, slamming her back into the wall and kept her mouth shut as the golem looked in her direction, eyes widen. Reuben also remained silent as well.
After a few seconds, Jesse slowly poked her head back around the corner, and tiptoed into the bookshelves when she was no sigh of the iron golem. "Lukas! Can you hear me? Even though I'm... whispering." She whispered loudly.
"Jesse?" Jesse looked back at the chest and saw Lukas's light-blue eyes peeked over the lid of the chest, one hand keeping the lid lifted up. "Is that you whispering super loudly?" he asked.
A relieved smile came over Jesse's face. "Lukas! Over here!" and she gestured towards her.
Lucas smiled before his eyes shifted, his eyes widened, and he let the lid shut over his head.
Just see you smile fell into a frown, "it's right behind me, isn't it." She twisted to see the golem glaring down at her with blazing, glowing, red eyes.
Jesse dodged out of the way as it swiped clumsily at her, but the space she could move in was limited-
"Hey!" The golem looked away as the lid of Lucas his chest shut, Jesse longed into the nearest niche and the crouching down so it couldn't see her. Upon seeing that Jesse was no longer standing there, and being too dumb to look around, it lumbered away.
"You okay?" Jesse whispered to Lukas. Immediately she winced at her choice of words.
Lukas's eyes peeped though the crack between the lid and the actual chest. "I've... been worse," he whispered back. "Of course, I can't say this is the best situation I've ever been in..."
"I'm gonna go in swinging." Jesse announce to him to which he responded, "With what?"
Jesse smiled and showed him her stone sword and Lukas shook his head and said, "Jesse. Don't take this the wrong way but... don't. Just... just don't." Jesse sighed before she picked up a potion near her, and tossed it at the golem's head.
"Now Lukas! Run!" Jesse shouted at him as he got up from the chest and ran for it. The golem recovered from the knockout and started attack Jesse, but she luckily dogged it. Reuben let out a small squeal to distract it for Jesse to escape. They got away and Jesse thanked Reuben, "Nice one, Reuben."
"Thanks for coming back for me, Jesse." Lukas thanked her, "I didn't know if anyone was going to."
"'No man left behind.' That's my motto." Jesse replied, smiling at him.
The blonde blinked at her, before a small smile formed on his own face. "I guess I owe you one."
Jesse smiled before heading up to the door and knowing that, the time is coming for the Witherstorm.
Started: 4/29/17 Finished: 4/30/17
(I had made is too quick again. Hope you like the chapter and we'll see what happens in the next chapter, bye.)