Chapter ten: Wither born again
(Sorry for the late chapter, I couldn't think of what to write or something. Now let's get started.)
Lukas, Reuben, and Jesse opened the door from the basement, looking around. "Where are the others?" Lukas asked, before they heard Axel's voice. They looked over and saw him slightly failing his arms in attempt to convince Gabriel.
"Dude, I dunno how I can be any clearer! Weird guy! Doing weird stuff! Freaky with a side of strange! Why won't you believe me?"
Jesse rolled her eyes and sighed at him, 'Well, you're not being very clear, there.' Jesse thought in her head.
"What do you want me to do, tell you charades-style?"
"I promise you," Gabriel said, sounding exasperated himself, "that's the LAST thing I want you to do."
"How can I make this more clearer. Four words. Six syllables. Sounds like: 'schmonster in the schmasement'." Axel said, trying a different method. Olivia rolled her eyes at him.
Gabriel face-palmed and sigh. "Next," he said tiredly.
Olivia spoke up, quickly. "Wait, just-"
She was interrupted by the voice of Ivor, "I-I have a question for you."
Gabriel looked in Ivor's direction, clearly not noticing that it was him. "Excuse me, sir. You'll have to wait your turn."
"Just tell me this- do you really believe that ANYONE can be great?" Ivor asked, trying to sound ticked off, moving through the crowd. Gabriel simply shrugged and put his hands on his hips. "With enough hard work, yes."
"Was that where I went wrong?!" Ivor literally spat, shoving past a few members of the crowd and coming to the base of the stage, "I simply didn't work hard enough?!"
Gabriel's eyes widened. "Ivor?" he gasped. "Is that really you?"
Jesse looked from Ivor to Gabriel, "How do you know who he is?" Jesse asked, acting like she doesn't know how he knows him.
Gabriel glanced down at the girl with the yellow hair clip and green eyes, making eye contact with her. "I don't know if I ever really knew him. But what I did know... I didn't like." He shot Ivor a glare.
"The feeling is entirely mutual," Ivor snarled, walking onto the stage, "why don't you tell them the real story, Gabriel?!" He spit out the name like if it were poison.
"I see time has made you bitter," Gabriel responded to Ivor's accusations calmly. "And it's made you- an ever bigger fool." Ivor shot back, right up in Gabriel's face now. "Now these people were promised greatness, and I'm here to deliver."
He started walking towards the back of the stage, tears filling up in his eyes but Ivor quickly dried the tears. "Nothing built, can last f-forever."
Ivor was still very pale, but now he was muttering at a million a minute under his breath, hands shaking- even though it was from the rage of the lie, and the fear of creating the Witherstorm again.
"This can't be good!" Jesse shouted, sounding a bit scared.
Ivor flipped the lever, and the Wither setup rose and clicked into place, but this time it had one skull at each end of the T. Ivor pulled out a skull- probably Petra's skull- and turned to try and glare at Gabriel. "I'm sorry this is how they had to learn the truth." Ivor then looked at Jesse and mouth-out, "I'm really sorry."
Gabriel's eyes widened as Ivor turned back to the Wither and tipped the skull into place. "Ivor, NO!"
Too late. An explosion sent the both of them flying off the stage. A Wither rose from the stage, the Command Block was resting in its ribcage.
Ivor stood up as people started screaming and running, fear and terror filled his dark-blue eyes. "C-c-creature- attack!" he ordered, his voice cracked in fear.
The Command Block seemed to glow at the order, and the Wither growled and started flying around the keynote, making people panic and start to flee, screaming in terror. Jesse looked around, before up at the monster, which was shooting a flaming skull-
Jesse quickly dove out of the way, the fireball blasted a crater where she'd been standing only seconds before. She then saw a another one and dogged it as it soared over her head, barely missing her shoulder, and blasted apart the floor.
Parts of the floor, the walls, a few posters, a flowerpot, anything and everything, started soaring towards the Wither, compacting with it and making it start to grow, making it bigger than it had been before.
"Everyone, stay calm!" Gabriel shouted, drawing his sword, "This foul beast is no match for me!"
Ivor looked at Gabriel, at bit annoyed and concern for the former warrior, "You can't go up against the Command Block, it won't do anything!" he mumbled loudly and trying not to get the people who don't remember notice this.
Gabriel leapt up and hit it with his sword but- BOOP. The Command Block didn't had a scratch, and he rebounded and slammed into the floor. Very hard actually. His sword skittering out of reach.
"Gabriel-" Jesse began, stepping forward to help, but Gabriel scrambled to his feet, whirling around. "No! Stay away!" he ordered her, making her stop in her tracks, fear showing in his eyes, "It's after me, not you!"
"L-l-look at him, the mighty Gabriel!" Ivor tried to mock, and also hiding the fact that his voice was cracking and that his eyes was filling up with tears. "Look's like true greatness is far out of his reach. He might not be able to stop this creature, but I-I can!"
Olivia looked up at the Wither, getting bigger by the second, before looking back at Ivor. "We know that's highly doubtful."
"Creature- retreat!" Ivor commanded the Wither.
The Wither just turn to look at him. The center head was black, with a single, glowing indigo eye. It was a living nightmare to everyone, especially for Ivor. Ivor cleared his throat.
"Uh- umm-" he shouted again, enunciated this time, "Creature- retreat!"
"He's lost control of it!" Jesse explain in fear.
Ivor glanced at her and back to the Wither. "Uh, no need to be alarm, my friends. I have an elixir to disposes this creature."
"That potion-" Jesse's face went snow white. "Wait-wait, is that the real one?!"
Ivor took out a potion- the one that could destroy the Witherstorm.
Axel looked at her with a nervous look. "Uhh- opps." he mumble, knowing that he made a mistake.
Ivor chucked the bottle at the Wither, which the monster quickly covered the Command Block with a ink-black shin over it.
Ivor stared, realizing that this part shouldn't happen at this moment. "W-what?! Impossible... h-how did this happened?!" He looked at Jesse and she pointed at Axel, telling him that he did it.
Ivor stared back at the Wither, tears forming back in his eyes. His skin went pure white. "It's protecting itself!" Ivor cried out. "Without the Command Block expose, t-that potion was.. useless! I-it wasn't supposed to happen like this..." He backed away one step. Two steps. Before turning tail and sprinting away, tears finally running down his eyes and face.
Jesse looked at Ivor, with a sad expression. He is really not taking this well, at all.
Ivor continued sprinting out of there, the tears were still streaming down. "Not again not again not again not again." he cried to himself, his voice cracks and had small hiccups as he ran.
"Ivor! You coward, come back here!" Gabriel roared after him, but Ivor was already gone. Jesse and Olivia looked back at each other with a concern look, and they both shook their heads.
Then, a purple beam of light fell on Gabriel, lifting him into the air. He let out a yell of shock as he started to rise into the air.
Olivia ran forward, grabbing onto Gabriel trying to get him down, but it wasn't enough. "Jesse, help me!" she screamed as she was slowly being lifted in the air as well.
Jesse nodded, recovering from the potion situation, and helped her out and grabbed Gabriel's other leg. They yanked him from the beam and got him back on his feet.
"Thank you," Gabriel thanked them. "Ivor was right about one thing... I can't defeat that thing. Not on my own." He looked up at the Wither, which was about the size of Jesse's treehouse, before he looked at the group, as if just realizing they were still there. "Everyone's running away... except for you. Will you help me?"
Jesse stared at him, looking surprised about this offer. "Help, how?" she asked him.
"Follow me!" Gabriel announced to them, and the five of them ran out of the building. Jesse took a small glance back at the Wither, knowing that the adventure has only just begun.
Started: 5/1/17 Finished: 5/5/17
(Oh no, the Witherstorm is here again! (0.0) I'm going to edit chapter one and two a bit. Now one more ship that's in this story is Gabriel x Soren, sorry. We'll see what happens in the next chapter. Also the first chapter question; If you were in MCSM, what group would you like to be in: Old Builders, the Order of the Stone, the new Order of the Stone, Blaze rods, or your own group? Bye.)