Chapter eleven: Hero vs Friends
(Sorry it took forever for this chapter, but the action parts were hard for me to write, but I did. Yay me. So anyway, I like the responses that you guys said on chapter ten. One for New Order and One for Old Builders. But, with that said, let's start.)
Everyone was screamed as they ran out onto the stone bridge, a few were jumping over people that fell over. Jesse was in the back of the crowd, because her path was block by chicken.
"Outta my way, chicken!" She growled at them, trying to get them out of her way.
The glass dome on the top of the hall shattered, as it collapsed a few ink-black tentacles swayed into the air. The Wither flew out, it's one purple eye glowed in a sort of tractor beam, giving off a vicious roar. And to make matters worse, two other tractor beams appeared, as well as two other heads, giving off roars of their own.
Reuben briefly look at the monster before running with the crowd. The Witherstorm looked around, and started making its way after the screaming people.
Jesse slightly screamed and ran past the chickens. Two of the tractor beams going along the front of the crowd sucking up objects and even a few people.
Jesse ran along the bridge, only to get caught by a tractor beam. She screamed, grabbing onto a large part of the bridge that the tractor beam was lifting up. "Hey, I'm up here! Somebody, help me! Guys!"
A chicken that had also been caught in the beam flapped its wings and floated forward, coming out of the light and landed back to the ground, unharmed.
Jesse notice this, and she used the stone to pull herself forward, grunting from the effort of not slipping. She reached the end and pulled herself out of the purple light. She fell forward with a yell, landing on the stairs and falling down it painfully, coming to a stop where the slime block had been earlier.
Jesse quickly pushed the pain to the back of her mind and climbed to her feet, she looked over to the guy still bouncing on a slime block with his hands on his hips, not have a care for the chaos around him. Then the tractor beam went over him, and he and a few others went flying up with yells of fear, he was also not moving his mouth either.
Jesse ran forward, jumping over a bunch of chickens and spotted Lukas, "Lukas!"
Lukas came to a stop and, upon seeing Jesse, ran towards her. "Holy crap!" he said, "Oh, man, if I was still in that basement... Thanks for coming back for me, Jesse. I wouldn't be here without you."
"Jesse!" Petra called out, and they turned to see her, Olivia, Axel, and Reuben taking shelter under a tent. Jesse and Lukas were quick to make their way over to them, but not a minute later a tractor beam light the area purple and the tent was lifted up into the air.
They started running and scattered to different directions. "Wait-guys!" shouted Jesse, as the others ran in random directions, "We have to stick together!"
"Jesse!" Petra shouted, and Jesse turned to see her floating towards the Witherstorm, "Help me!"
Jesse ran over to her and jumped up, grabbing her hand and holding onto a single fence. But the tractor beam didn't move, seemingly determined to suck them both up. Jesse's feet began to leave the ground and the fence started to shake, "I... can't hold on!"
Petra screamed in fright, her fingers were slipping from Jesse's. The fence broke, and Jesse gave out a scream as well. Then, a hand reached out and grabbed Jesse's foot, and it was Gabriel.
It was just enough time for the tractor beam to go search for something else, leaving the three to fall to the ground with yells. Olivia, Axel, Lukas and Reuben ran up to them.
"Do we have everyone?" asked Jesse, doing a quick headcount. Gabriel started running.
"We must set out for my fortress. We'll be better protected there." They began running after him, the Witherstorm was starting to move forward, before its purple lights went to the Dead Enders wool creeper, and it swirled up into the tractor beam. Petra, Reuben and Jesse were running alongside each other.
"Thanks for that just now." Petra thanked her.
"Yeah, well, now we're even right?"
The Witherstorm roared, starting to chase the crowd, snapping its three huge jaws. A burning skull fell from the sky. "Incoming!" Petra yelled, tackled Jesse to the ground to avoid the blast.
They quickly got to their feet and continued running, Petra and Reuben were ahead of Jesse. She quickly swerved to the right to avoid a hole probably made by another burning skull, then to the left as yet another burning skull fell down and blew up another part of the street.
As she came to a junction, a group of people ran past screaming, a tractor beam was chasing them. Jesse dogged left to avoid it, and she was only a few feet away from the gate, Petra and Reuben are already out. But it was rapidly closing, as though they'd thought it would be enough to slow the Witherstorm down.
'You got to be kidding me!' Jesse yelled in her mind. She rolled under the gate, barely making it as it slammed onto the ground behind her. She got to her feet and ran after the others into the woods.
The Witherstorm can be seen in the distance, as Jesse and Petra run along with the crowd, hovering over the town and sucking up all the buildings and anyone who had been unlucky enough to get trapped inside. Screeching, it turned to face the woods.
"Stick together everyone!" Gabriel yelled to the running crowd, "We'll be safe as soon as we get to my temple."
Jesse was in the back of the group, looking over her shoulder at the advancing monster. It began shooting burning skulls from its mouths, and Jesse screamed and ran a bit faster.
The skulls set the tree's ablaze, which spread to set even more tree's on fire. Jesse give out another scream, ducking her head and ran to her friends. The Witherstorm continued to set things on fire, and it was as if they were being chased through a fiery path.
Jesse ran past a hole created by one of the burning skulls, but she quickly came to another one and jumped over it with a yell, landing in a roll and quickly continuing her run. They came to the actual part of the forest and were forced to go either left or right. Gabriel yelled over the chaos. "Everyone, keep going! We'll meet up on the other side!"
Jesse saw that Axel, Reuben, Olivia, the butcher and a stranger going to right; and Petra, Lukas, Gabriel, and what appeared to be Aiden and Gill going to the left.
She then ran right after Gabriel's group, and the tractor beams began to move across the forest floor. Ahead of her, Lukas barley dogged one. They came to a wall of fire, Gabriel, Petra and Lukas already jumped over it, Jesse was quick to do the same.
They exited the forest, meeting up with the second group and they continued running. Thankfully, all of Jesse's friends were there, but Jesse herself was falling behind.
"The temple is just up ahead!" shouted Gabriel, "Follow me!"
Jesse ran past the last burning tree, but as she looked to the side she spotted a black tentacle. One tried to reach for him, but she dodged it, quickly doing the same with the other one with a yell.
In front of her, a tentacle smashed into the ground, blocking her path to the temple that was seen up ahead. Jesse jumped over the tentacle with a yell, quickly chasing Gabriel up the steps to the temple.
"Hurry!" said Gabriel, glancing back at her, "Inside the temple!"
They ran inside and they ran down the stairs. Gabriel started speaking, "The inner chambers built entirely of obsidian. We should be untouchable in there." He pulled a lever, and a stone wall split to reveal the inner chamber in all its glory, where an unlit Nether portal sat on a raised platform.
Before anything else can be said, a purple light flooded the room and, screaming, they all ran into the chamber and straight towards the portal. A tentacle reached down the steps.
"Hurry!" Gabriel drew his sword, batting away the tentacle, "If you get through the portal, you'll be safe!"
They ran up the steps, Axel was the first to ran through the obsidian archway. But he didn't appear in the Nether, only on the other side of the platform. "Uh, something's not right here."
"It's not lit! We need flint and steel to start it!" Olivia explained.
Jesse drew out the flint and steel, and clacked them together inside the portal. A moment later, a see-though purple glow appeared in the center.
"Everyone, get in!" said Petra, "Now!"
Olivia was the first to run through, while Axel picked up Reuben and quickly followed her. But before Petra, Lukas and Jesse could follow them, a scream cut though the air.
Jesse looked behind her, and saw the tentacle had grabbed Gabriel by the leg and tugged him on his back. Jesse ran towards him, Petra followed her, "Gabriel!"
Another tentacle burst through the roof, but Jesse jumped over it while Petra drew the gold sword to attack it. She grabbed Gabriel and did a sort of tug of war with the tentacle, but was thankfully able to pull the warrior free. The tentacle retreated, instead knocking down the two people that were trying to make their way inside.
"Thank you." said Gabriel, climb to his feet. He looked at the entrance, where a woman was running from the tractor beam. "There are so many of them... I-I can't save them all." he turned to Jesse, Petra was still fighting in the background, "I can't stop this by myself. We need to find the others."
Jesse looked behind her, and saw Petra hitting the tentacle, before she turned back to Gabriel, "Others?"
"Soren's been missing for years." Gabriel continued, as though he hadn't heard Jesse, "But the others... you must seek them out." he pulled out the amulet, the very same one that the Order had. The turquoise gem was glowing. "Take this amulet. And guard it with your life."
"You can do this," he said, when Jesse hesitated, "You must!"
"How am I supposed to find Magnus and Ellegaard?" asked Jesse.
"The amulet will guide you." he pushed it into Jesse's hands, "Take it thought the portal, and then-" But before he could finish, the roof was torn open and one of the monsters heads peered inside, a tentacle separating Jesse and Gabriel. Petra yelled behind her, and Jesse looked over just as the tentacle hit her away.
She immediately drew her sword and rushed to help her, dropping to the floor as the tentacle tried to hit her. Already on her feet, she hit it, but it didn't seem to do much.
Still on the platform, a defenseless Lukas yelled as the tentacle came towards him, but Petra jumped up in front of it and cut it with her sword. The tentacle retreated.
"You two," she said, turning to Jesse and Lukas, "Go through the portal and meet up with the others. I'll stay here and do whatever I can."
She ran forward, stopping when neither of them moved. "Go on, Jesse, go! Go through that portal, now!"
"I'm not leaving without you!" said Jesse.
"The gang needs you, Jesse." Petra said, reinsuring her that she'll be fine, "Go through the portal." Jesse glanced back at Lukas, and he was already right beside the portal. Petra continued, "If anything happens, I'll meet you guys at the temple."
Before Jesse could say anything, Gabriel yelled and they turned to see him caught up in a tractor beam. Petra and Jesse ran towards him to help, but another beam appeared and captured Petra, lifting her too into the air.
On the platform, Lukas gasped. Jesse dodged a tentacle and looked over her shoulder to see Lukas ducking to avoid another one, "Lukas!"
But Lukas let out a terrified scream, backing away. Realizing that he is to scared to help, Jesse turned to the two caught in the tractor beams and, sheathing her sword so her could use both hands, she jumped up and grabbed Petra's leg, pulling her out of the beam.
"Thanks, Jesse." sighed Petra, "Gabriel's still up there!"
Jesse looked over at Gabriel, who was now sideways and a foot above the ground, "Jesse! Go!"
"No!" screamed Jesse, scrambling to her feet and ran towards Gabriel. 'I will make it, I will make it, I will make it.' Jesse thought in her head.
A tentacle came down and she ducked to avoid it, but as she straightened, it came back and it hit her, throwing her towards the portal with a yell. Lukas screamed as Jesse slammed into him, and they both went through the portal.
Started: 5/6/17 Finished: 5/13/17
(The Witherstorm has been unleashed, and Jesse didn't manage to save Gabriel D: . Hopefully they will get to the temple safely and if Magnus or Ellegaard will remember about the Witherstorm from before. Tell me what you think about this chapter in the comments. And we'll see what happens in the next chapter, Bye.)