Chapter Fourteen: Temple madness
(Hi, chapter 14 is here. Now let's get started :).)
It was morning, Olivia checked outside to see if any mobs, like creepers, are around... and there was nothing. She sighed in relief and walked to the others and lightly shook Axel. "Axel, Axel, wake up."
Axel opened his eyes and slightly moaned, "...It wasn't a dream, was it?" he asked her, and she shook her head. "Darn it."
Olivia chuckled at that then she woke up Lukas, who was slightly having saliva on the side of his mouth. "Woke up, sleepyhead."
Lukas opened his eyes slightly yawning, and looked at Olivia, "That Witherstorm wasn't a dream, was it?" he asked, she nodded her head before she was going to woke up Jesse. But then she noticed that she was mumbling somebody's name as she breathed in and out.
Olivia got confused by this; what name was she mumbling? She lightly poked Jesse's shoulder and she woke up and nearly jumped forward. "AAHHH! I wasn't thinking about-!" she screamed before stopping herself, and looked to her right and saw Olivia.
"Umm... How much did you hear?" Jesse asked her, she shook her head, "I didn't hear that much sense you were so quiet."
Jesse sighed in relief, "Oh, thank goodness." she gotten up and looked outside. She signal everyone that it safe and they made their way out of the hut and continued on in search of the temple.
Lukas looked around the area before he stopped. Jesse stopped as well, turning to him.
"You okay?" she asked him.
"Hey I'm fine, it just, really worried about Petra." Lukas admitted, Jesse sighed, "She will be okay, I just know it."
Lukas chuckled and smiled, "Probably, thanks for not giving up hope on her."
"Cool beans." Jesse said.
Lukas smiled at her before going around to help find the temple. She walked over to Olivia, who gave her a small shrug.
"Hey!" explained Lukas, and they turned to see him on a hill and pointing to the distance, "There's something over that way!"
They all, except for Reuben, knows what he spotted, it was the Temple. But they had to act for him and Reuben. Olivia called up to him, "What is it?"
"Some kind of building, I think."
"Let's get a closer look." said Jesse, and the group walked up to some vines on the walls. They started climbing them, pulling themselves up onto the hill, and getting a good view at the building Lukas had spotted. It was mostly in ruins, and above the entrance was a bunch of stained glass.
"We should head in," said Jesse, "But let's be careful."
They all jumped down, Reuben landing with a squeal. They walked towards the entrance, looking at the ruins.
"What is this place?" asked Axel.
"That's what we're trying to figure out." said Olivia.
Lukas looked up at the stained glass, "It's the temple of the Order of the Stone."
Jesse pulled out the amulet Gabriel gave her, holding it up and comparing it to the stained glass, which looked just like it.
"He right, it is." said Jesse, "Look."
"Holy crap." Axel said. They began walked forwards.
"If you spot anything," Jesse continued, "Call it out. We don't have a lot of time."
Axel looked over at the wall with a raised eyebrow, "Isn't it weird how dispensers are carved to look like spooky little faces?"
"What do you dispense, little guy?"
"I-umm... get the feeling that we don't really wanna find out." said Olivia. A hissing sound cut through the air, and Jesse came to a stop, holding her arms out to make sure the others don't keep walking.
"Get behind me." said Jesse. She walked forward, looking around for whatever had made that noise. The place was dotted with spiderwebs.
They stopped again when a creaking sound filled the silence, Reuben was shaking and looked around in fright. With a terrified squeal, he ran forward and Jesse ran after him, the others followed her. They all ran right over two pressure plates.
A fence closed down behind them, stopping them from going back.
"That's probably not a good thing." said Axel.
The dispensers began making noises, indicating that they were about to fire. "Aw, come on, dispensers faces!" said Axel, "I thought we were friends!"
"Run!" Jesse shouted, and they all started running as the dispensers began to shoot arrows. Jesse jumped up to avoid one, ducking down into a roll to avoid another and momentarily stopping as one flew past her, before she and Axel arrived to where the others were waiting.
Jesse put her hands on her knees, panting, but she quickly caught her breath and straightened. She gasped, and saw that there was even more arrows were being fired in front of them. It seemed endless.
"We're trapped!"
"We activated the dispensers with that pressure plate." she pointed to the pressure plate, way over by the gate, "If we can figure out a way to trigger it again, I bet that'll shut 'em off."
She then spotted a table right by her, "There's a crafting table." said Jesse, pointing to the crafting table, "Maybe we can make something useful."
"Out of what?" Olivia asked, "We don't have anything. All of our tools and materials are back home."
"Alright everyone," Jesse told them, "Empty your pockets. Let's see what we've got to work with."
Lukas pulled out a bundle of sticks, "I have a few sticks left over from building the shelter last night."
"I've got some flint and... a piece of string." Olivia said, pulling them out.
"All I have are some chicken feathers I picked up after that chicken machine exploded." Axel pulled them out.
"Let's see..." muttered Jesse, "I've got some flint and steel. The Amulet from Gabriel. A sword. Oh, and some string from a spider that I fought in the woods earlier."
They put all the useful items in the of their little circle. "Alright, String, sticks, flint and feathers." said Olivia as she list down the items.
Jesse picked them all up and took them over to the crafting table. She placed down a stick, flint, and a feather, and they mixed to form an arrow. Then she put down three sticks and three bits of string, and they formed together to make a bow.
Jesse then picked up the bow and a single arrow, she held them up. "Let's do this."
She drew the string back and took aim, letting it fly a moment later. The arrow hit the pressure plate and the dispensers shut off.
The gang grinned at each other as Jesse turned to face them.
"All right." cheered Lukas. They continued down the hall.
"The Dead Enders' luck is changing." Axel said.
They came to a library- the very same library that Jesse knows was from the beginning, but this time it was covered in cobwebs.
"This... must be their enchantment room." breathed Lukas.
They made their way deeper in and split up to do some exploring, Axel speaking up with a raised eyebrow. "Doesn't this look like Ivor's creepy basement?"
"I... guess so." Mumbled Jesse, she then walked over to Lukas, who was looking through the bookshelves. "Find anything useful?"
"Not sure about useful," said Lukas, "But... defiantly interesting. There is a lot of history in this room."
Jesse left him to his searching, spotting an enchantment book sitting on a obsidian table.
She walked over to it, reading it out loud. "The battle was fierce, but the Order of the Stone emerged triumphant, saving the land and assuring that peace prosperity would reign forever."
"Well," said Lukas, coming up behind her, "Not exactly forever."
Jesse turned back to the book and continued reading, "These five members. Five friends. Together. Would give so much to gain, Their rightful place as, Five heroes."
"They," continued Jesse, "Would author their own end. They would slay a dragon."
"Ivor was a member of the Order of the Stone?" asked Olivia, even though she knows that already, "The stories never mentioned him."
"This is so... crazy." said Lukas. Jesse nodded. "That might explain why Ivor had such a grudge against Gabriel."
"They lied to us!" explained Olivia, "They lied to the whole world!"
"Why would they do this?" asked Axel. He then started chuckling, "Oh man, I can't believe that you punched a member of the Order of the Stone."
Jesse blushed slightly and looked away, "Don't-don't push it, Axel. I was just mad at him."
"This is so crazy." repeated Lukas, turning to the book. Jesse put her hands on her hips.
"The Order might not be what we thought they were, but Petra is still out there. That monster is still out there."
"Where do these stairs go?" asked Olivia, looking up at a white staircase. The others walked towards her, Lukas had taken the book to look at it for further info. Jesse looked up at the staircase.
"Hopefully to a place with less flying arrows." She hopped down and began making her way up the stairs, the others quickly follow her. She emerged in what must have once been a large room, but now the walls were crumbling and there was holes in the floor. The sun was setting.
"Wow." Jesse breathed. Axel walked over to where the entire wall had been demolished.
"What happened to the walls?" he asked
"More like what happened to this whole place." Jesse corrected, noticing that the area was the same as the last 863,592 times she saw this place.
Olivia turned to them, "This must have been where they met."
"So where are they, then?" asked Axel.
"Gabriel said that once we find the temple," explained Jesse, "The amulet would lead us to the Order of the Stone."
Jesse pulled out the amulet as the others gathered around her, she stroked her fingers on the item and stopped at the dark blue gem in the middle, "Well, holding it out won't actually help. Let's look around and see if you can find anything." They split up to take a look around.
Jesse walked over to Axel, who was looking up at the giant map on the wall. "Watcha looking at?"
Axel turn to look at her, "Oh, Jesse. I was just thinking about all of this."
Jesse tilt her head and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"I was thinking, maybe that Ellegaard or Magnus will remember about all of this. Or even, sadly, Soren." he told her, "Also, do you think that Lukas and Petra will remember someday?"
Jesse shrugged sadly, "I have no idea... but I hope so." Axel gave her a smile before returned to the map.
Spotting Lukas setting on some steps underneath the map reading the book about the Order, Jesse made her way over to him, "Find anything interesting in that book?"
"Not sure interesting, but, the only thing I've found so far is that the amulet was used to track the positions of the members of the Order."
"And dose it mention how?" asked Jesse.
"It's less technical... and more historical." he told her.
Jesse nodded and made her way to Reuben, who was standing to the side, "Hey, Reuben, find any clues?" Reuben looked down with a sad little noise.
She gave Reuben's head a quick rub, before going over to Olivia, who was examining the amulet pedestal. Upon seeing her, she said, "We're really in the past aren't we... reliving our adventures. The Witherstorm, the temple of the Order of the Stone, and... the up coming disasters that are yet to come."
"Yeah.. it's pretty insane." Jesse rubbed the back of her neck, "I just hope we all come out the other side in one piece." She looked over at the pedestal, moving in front of it. On it was a banner, which had a drawing of what could only be the amulet on it.
She stepped closer to it and took out the amulet, placing to on top of the pedestal. It sat perfectly on the spot. She then saw the levers sitting on a long white table on the other side of the other side of the hold where the staircase was, Jesse walked over to it.
She pulled the levers in this pattern; first, last, second, forth, and third.
When all of the lights turned on the glass block. The redstone block on the table began to glow itself and shot a light right towards the amulet.
"Wow." breathed Lukas.
On the amulet, the two side gems were glowing, the left one, red, and the right one, green. They shot lights of their own, straight towards the giant map in front of them.
"It's absolutely incredible!" exclaimed Jesse. The red and green light directed themselves at the map, the red one going to a little island to the East and the green light going to the middle of a country to the West. "How did they build this?"
"Okay," Olivia said, "Now I'm impressed."
"What do the colors mean?" asked Jesse, Lukas answered, "The different colors represent the different members."
"It's the Order, it's showing us where they are right now!" Jesse explaining.
Lukas stepped forward, "Look, we don't know enough about how this thing works. Maybe the amulet only tracks them when they're on the surface. Or maybe it doesn't work when they're in the Nether. We have to go off what we do know."
"There's only two lights on that map." Jesse said, "If there are only two heroes left, then we know what we need to do. Petra's relying on us. That Witherstorm is still out there."
Jesse looked around at the others, "We know that Gabriel was trying to tell us something. We've got to find the Order of the Stone."
"But there are only two lights," said Axel as Jesse walked forward to get a closer look at the map, "There are only two members of the Order left?"
"He said Soren was missing." Jesse remembered, looking up at the green and red lights. Lukas spoke up. "That leaves Magnus."
Olivia finished for him. "Or Ellegaard."
"Let's head out." said Jesse.
"I'm not going with you guys." they turned to Lukas with startled eyes, "I have to stay here. If I know Petra, she's probably doing everything she can to find this place. She's still out there. She has to be."
"Just... stay safe okay." Jesse told him.
"If there even a small chance she's alive. I have to stay." Lukas explained to her. "Go. Get help. I'm gonna focus on making this place safe before nightfall." he looked around at the ruined walls, "This temple is pretty big though. If we're gonna have a chance at fortifying it, I'm going to need some help." he hesitantly turned to them, "If, uh, maybe one of you could hang back with me?"
"Sounds like Olivia will have you totally covered," said Axel, "While me and Jesse are out finding Magnus."
"'Finding Magnus'?" asked Olivia with a raised eyebrow, turning to him, "You really think that's how it's going to go? We need Ellegaard. She's the worlds greatest engineer. She'll out a way to stop that thing."
"We trying to destroy it." said Axel, turning to the map, "And when it comes to destruction, Magnus is the master."
"You're a smart person, Jesse," said Axel, standing under the green light. Olivia stood under the red. "And obviously, the smart thing to do is to go get Magnus."
"I," Olivia laughed, "Think Axel meant Ellegaard there, Jesse."
"Uh, no, I don't think I did." explained Axel, "Pretty sure Axel meant Magnus."
"Jesse, the point is you should be going to Ellegaard. It's the clear choice to make."
"You gotta come with me." insisted Axel.
"You're my best friend, Jesse."
"It's you and me. Like always."
"Think about it, Jesse." said Olivia, "We need to make sure we get this right. We're not going to get a second shot at this."
Axel sighed, "Whatever decision you make, I'll be cool with it. As long as it's me."
"Come on, Jesse," said Olivia, "This is a easy call."
Finally, Jesse turned to Axel, "Get ready to roll, Axel. We're going to find Magnus."
"Let's do this." cheered Axel. Jesse turned to Olivia. "Olivia, you stay here with Lukas and get this place ready for when Petra comes back, okay?"
Olivia sighed, "Fine. But I'm only doing this for Petra."
Jesse smiled at her, "I'll take it." She, Axel, and Reuben began making their way to the stairs, when a noise that sounded a lot like thunder cut through the air. Lukas looked over at the giant hole, "Uh, guys?"
They all looked towards the distance, their eyes widened. For in front of the setting sun, far into the distance, was a black mass of tentacles and screeching. It was the Witherstorm.
"Please hurry."
Started: 6/3/17 Finished: 6/4/17
(Jesse going to Boom Town and the Storm is getting closer. Finished Episode one. Hope that you like the chapter. Tell me what you think about it, and we'll see what happens in the next chapter, bye.)