Chapter thirteen: Fights that can't be won

(Here is the new chapter, I did it really fast. Now to point this out; in my playthrough of MCSM I went to Boom Town, and took Ellegaard armor. Also I choose Magnus to remember because of his depression for the lose of Ellegaard is more challenging for him to go back and do it again. I have noticed that there aren't as many comments during the last four chapters. Now let's get started.)

The minecarts finally got to a small fight of steps. "Can you throw up like- inside your body?" Jesse asked as she climbed out.

Olivia nodded. "Uh huh. I know, because I just did. About five times."

The group reached the top to see a circle of land, multiple minecart tracks leading to and from it. Archways were looping over each other above them, and Jesse looked around, her eyes practically shining. "Wow!" she breathed, "Just look at this place."

Olivia nodded at her, also impressed by the area. "All of these tracks converge at this point," she said, looking around. "You could probably get anywhere in the world from here!"

"There's the portal!" Lukas called out, pointing at the Nether portal in front of him. It was lit up, so that one less thing they need to worry about.

"This is what Gabriel was talking about," Lukas said with a nod.

Axel started walking towards the portal. "That's our way out!" he exclaimed.

"It would lead back up to the surface..." Olivia mused, crossing her arms.

Lukas then had a worried look crossed his face. "The surface is also where that creature is."

Axel then came to a sudden halt, only two feet away from the portal. "Thanks for being so brave, Axel." Lukas told him.

He bit his lip and turned back to the portal. "Okay... I guess I have to go through now. I'm going. I'm... going right now," he said, sounding nervous. He didn't even move one inch though.

"You can do it Axel." Jesse cheered for him. Axel then looked at her and smiled, "Yeah, I can do it."

"Yep, whatever's on the other side. Has no idea what's coming to them."

Axel nodded and his smile brightened before he went through it. Olivia looked at her and told her, "You do know there is a zombie on the other side, right?"

"I wanted to be nice and let him go first. Also to boost his confidence." Jesse explained. Olivia stared at her deadpan before looking at the portal, "But he is not that strong anymore like when we were the new Order of the Stone."

"But... confidence." Jesse weakly said, before sighing and walking towards the purple stuff in the portal.

Meanwhile, in Boom Town*

Magnus was jumping from rooftop to rooftop, going back to his fortress after he just finished a death bowl two hours earlier.

He smiled to himself for another victory from the Boom Master. He finally got to his hideout and avoided all the traps that were around the place.

Magnus chuckled to himself, "Another victory for the King of Boom Town!" then he spotted a picture sticking out for a box in the corner, he walked towards it and picked it up.

It was the old group photo of the Order of the Stone. Their was him, Gabriel, Soren, Ellegaard, and even... Ivor.

Magnus looked at the photo sadly, remembering that they split the group a few years ago. Even though he doesn't get why Ivor would just... leave like that, sure they lied about the Ender Dragon, but he could've tell them that he quit.

And Ellegaard was the queen of the nerds. They have nothing in common, she was a nerd with redstone and he loves blowing things out. 'I-'

His thoughts were stopped when his eyes sparkled and he held his head in pain. Magnus groaned as he opened his eyes, and his expression had changed to confusion.

"Wh-what? Where am I?" Magnus breathed out, before hearing some explosions from outside. He looked through the window and saw the chaos and distraction of Boom Town.

"Wha- why am I in Boom Town? Also I thought that the town was destroyed by the..." he stopped himself as he looked at the calendar by his bed and saw that this is the day of Endercon. "I... I'm in the past?! Which means that the Witherstorm is out there, and-"

His eyes widened as he realized that Ellegaard is also alive in this time. "Ellie..." he mumbled sadly, as he remembered that Ellegaard had died from the monster. He hope that someday he will save Ellegaard from the Witherstorm before it attacked her.

"I will try to save you, my Ellie." Magnus decided, but he realized that if Ellegaard doesn't remember either that they would bicker like old times... but he doesn't want to do that any more. He loves her, and he really regrets about their arguments when she died. "I will save you, Ellie."

Meanwhile, back with Jesse*

Jesse walked out of the other side and stepped on the water. It was up to her ankles and it was night, a smaller waterfall forming in the pool of water she'd stepped into, which flowed over a cliff into two separate waterfalls which went who knows how far.

Jesse looked around the place before she saw Axel on the ground with a zombie trying to bite him, he screamed out, "AAHHH!! Get off of me!"

Jesse yelled in fright as she pulled the zombie away from him and got out her sword and with two or three swings, the zombie was dead. "That was too close." she mumbled.

Axel was hiding behind a stone block before he came out, "I'm never going first again."

Olivia and Lukas followed through the portal a minute later, all of them climbing back onto the grass and looking around at the trees and grass surrounding them. "Where are we?" Olivia finally asked.

"In the dark. In the middle of nowhere," Jesse said finally, looking around at their landscape.

"Maybe we should bed down for the night," Lukas suggested, "it's dangerous to be out when it's this dark."

"Thought we were heading towards the temple," Axel retorted.

Olivia simply shrugged at the faintly accusing tone in his voice. "We're looking for a giant building. It should be pretty obvious."

"Ivor said that the minecarts will lead to the temple, maybe it's somewhere around here." Lukas suggested. Axel slightly shrugged, "We'll probably have a better chance of finding it in the morning."

Jesse nodded, "Yeah, all that track has to lead to the temple. The only question is, where it could be. Still we need to build a-"

"Aaaa"

"Shelter." Jesse finally said, Axel nodded, "Shelter. I was going to say shelter."

"We should build a treehouse." suggested Olivia.

"That'll take forever," argued Axel, "And we'll be exposed while we do it. We just need a quick and dirty hut."

"Look, whatever it is," Lukas cut in, "We gotta do it fast."

"Yeah, we got that don't rush Lukas. Greatness doesn't happen overnight... well, except for right now." Jesse told him.

"In a hut," continued Olivia, turning back to Axel, "We won't know what's coming until it's knocking on our door."

"A treehouse is going to be spider town." said Axel, "I hate spiders."

"Let's build a hut. It won't take nearly as long." Jesse told everyone, They nodded and began to start grabbing some dirt blocks.

After an hour, it was done, Olivia turned to the group. "All that work and we're still eye level with monsters that are going to try to kill us."

"It's done." said Axel, "It's over. We aren't talking about it anymore."

"We could have maybe done like a multi-level thing, but..." Lukas suggested, "It's too late now, I mean, it's... it's cool."

They all sat by a fireplace. Jesse, Olivia, and Reuben sat around it, Axel was standing leaning against the wall and Lukas was a little ways away in the corner.

Jesse looked over at Lukas, who was clutching his stomach.

Axel's voice cut through the awkward silence. "Oh man!"

"What?" Olivia asked him. "I'm going to tell you something, but you have to promise not to freak out," Axel said, still not facing any of them.

Jesse blinked and tilted her head, "What is it?"

He turned back around to show that he had a handful of cookies. "I have cookies."

Axel trotted over to the group, giving one cookie to the others, "One for me. One for Olivia. One of Jesse."

"Thanks, Axel," Jesse said gratefully, and raising the cookie to her mouth. She paused when she saw Lukas looking at it. His eyes flickered back up to Jesse's, and he glanced away awkwardly.

"And one for Reuben." And Axel put the last cookie in front of Reuben, who started to nibble on it hungrily.

"Sorry, Lukas, I only had four," Axel really apologized to Lukas.

Lukas shook his head, looking away from all of them. "Oh no, it's- it's okay. I'm not that hungry anyways. I'll just... grab something in the morning. Or something."

Jesse got up immediately and walked over to him, holding out the cookie slightly. Lukas stared at her blankly, not understanding what she was doing. "Take it."

Lukas's eyes widened, as he shook his head slightly. "Oh... no, no, I-I can't do that-"

Jesse reached down, took his hand, and set the cookie in it gently. "I insist." Her voice got quiet but firm.

Lukas then slowly smiled at her, gratitude shinning in his eyes. "I... thanks, Jesse, "he thanked her.

She grinned at him, before going back to her stop by the fire and sitting back down.

Axel looked back at her and quietly asked, "Aren't you a little hungry, Jesse?"

Jesse shrugged, "I nearly survived a week without much food when I went to the Far Lands. I think I can survive one night."

Another silence filled the air, before Olivia looked over to Lukas, having finished her cookie. "If you had to, which would you rather fight: a hundred chicken-sized zombies, or ten zombie-sized chickens?"

Lukas gave a small chuckle. "That's a good one. Let me think about it."

"How could you guys joke around at a time like this?" Axel asked them. "Petra's still out there. She's all by herself. There's nothing funny about that."

"We gotta stay positive, we can't just mope." Jesse told him. "Also, she will make it. Remember?"

Axel remember that and nodded, "Oh, right."

Lukas looked at Axel in confusion, "Aren't you going to yell at me? For freezing up when I could've saved Petra." Axel shrugged and answered, "I knew you were scared up there, and I knew that anyone could have been done the same thing that you did. Also, you are not as bad as I first thought of you."

Lukas stared at him before he lightly smiled, "Thanks, Axel."

A long silence stretched out, before the sound of thunder boomed, and then heavy rain interrupted it. Finally, Lukas told the answer of Olivia question, "Zombie-sized chickens. That's who I would fight."

Olivia raised her eyebrow at him and asked, "And why's that?"

"Because I'm starving." Lukas weakly answered. He then looked at Jesse, "Thanks for letting me be here."

"No problem." She smiled at him, before she laid down on the ground and drifted away to sleep.

Started: 5/30/17 Finished: 5/31/17

(Magnus remembers and he's planning on saving Ellegaard from the Witherstorm(0.0)! Will Ivor try to help the others more this time and will something change with the Witherstorm and the story? Hope you like the chapter. Tell your thoughts. :3)