Chapter Sixteen: Amulet hot potato
(I'm back! :3 Sorry for the long wait, I had some trouble with the Shadow's scene and the action parts. But I'm here And let's get started.)
She jumped up out of the ditch she'd landed in, "You... ah, you said you know where Magnus is? All the grievers here in Boom Town want to find Magnus, y'know."
"I think so, you see we're looking for him." Jesse told her, Axel nodded, "Yeah, we're on important business."
Nor looked at the two of them then said, "I hope it's not to give a fashion consultation cause... yeesh."
"What's going on?!" another griefer asked, he had a sort of blue and green mask. Another one appeared on a building to the masked griefers' left.
"Nohr found some noobs with a thingy that can find Magnus." said a red masked griefer, he was standing on some stone steps that was cut off halfway down. More grievers jumped down from their hiding places and started to advance on the two noobs.
"Jesse?" Axel said, sounded uneasy.
Nohr turned to the other griefers with a glare, "Bunch of scavengers! This drop is mine!"
"Everyone just back off, all right?" Jesse snarled at them, "We need this to find Magnus and-"
"Hey," the griefer in the red mask cut her off, "We all wanna find Magnus, friend-o."
Nohr grabbed the amulet, holding it out of Jesse's reach as she tried to grab it back, before quickly running away.
"Get back here with that!" shouted Axel. He and Jesse shoved past the other griefers, as Nohr jumped up onto a porch and held the amulet over her head. "Oh, Mighty Magnus! I have to you this offering-!"
Then a griefer on the roof above her yanked the amulet out of her hands with a fishing rod. "No!" Nohr screamed, as the griefer ran away with a laugh. She was quick to run after him.
The three of them ran up the steps, coming to Nohr and the fishing rod griefer, who was standing there, laughing.
"Bunch'a noobs!" said Nohr with a smirk and, upon spotting them, she and the fishing rod guy ran off.
"So, they're working together?" asked Axel, Reuben under his arm. Jesse lightly growled. "Yes. Apparently."
She ran and jumped over the gap, following the two griefers.
"This is just how we go it in Boom Town!" said the fishing rod griefer. He ran up some steps to the left, while Nohr ran right.
"Which one took the amulet?" Jesse asked under her breath, she eyed at the two before finally deciding on who should she follow. " I'll take the one with the fishing rod. You get the little blue-haired creep."
"Got it!" said Axel, and they went their separate ways. Jesse went up some stairs and she was right behind him.
"Think fast!" yelled the fishing rod guy as he threw an egg at her. "Whoa!" She screamed as she dodged it, continued her way up.
"Your training is coming along nicely noob." He teased her as he threw another egg at her.
"Just give mE THE AMULET!!" Jesse screamed at him, the last few words she said; her voice turned demonic and her eyes turned purple for a few seconds. (The Wither Jesse)
The griefer's eyes widened at this, holding the amulet in his hand. "Geez pal, no need to shout. Here-" He was interrupted by an explosion on the steps he was on, he fell with a scream.
"-OUR REASONABLE CONVERSATION!!"
"My turn!" A griefer below said as he grabbed the amulet and started running with it. Jesse was quick on her feet and jumped on the guy, the amulet rolled out of his hands then Nohr showed up and took the amulet again and started running away.
Reuben walked by Jesse as she saw him, they started making their way to find her. They ran before Axel noticed them, "Jesse. Did Nohr come this way?" he asked. Jesse nodded, "Yeah, and she took the amulet again."
Nohr appeared a few feet behind Axel, the green gem of the amulet glowed in her hand. "Stop right there!" shouted Jesse. Nohr did stop, looking over her shoulder at Jesse.
"How about 'no'?" she laughed, and as Jesse started to ran after her, she ran into a building and slammed the iron door shut behind her, placing two obsidian blocks in front of it before running off.
Axel tried to punch the wall, but nothing seemed to happen, "Augh! These bricks will take forever to just punch through!"
Jesse looked up and saw the vines alone the side of the wall, "Luckily, I think I found us a punch-free entrance." she just up onto the vines, but she just got a foot off the ground. Then Nohr poked her head out a open window.
"Sorry guys, but I've been trying to find Magnus for way too long for you to stop me now!" she told them, holding a block of TNT above her head.
"Oh, bad." Jesse winced, Axel ran away from below her. "Jesse, look out!" he shouted to her.
The TNT flashed white and Nohr dropped it, just as Jesse jumped to the side and grabbed onto the vines. It exploded, tearing a hold in the wall, "Way too close!" Jesse breathed out.
She continued climbing up, and as she was near the roof, Nohr showed up again. "You know what you remind me of?" she asked, "This song I had stuck in my head once. I just couldn't get it to go away!" she held another block of TNT and threw it. Jesse jumped to the right with a scream, barely getting on the vines as the TNT exploded. "Oh, man!"
She pulled herself up onto the roof, taking a few seconds to catch her breath. Nohr was at the very top of the roof, holding the amulet up trying to figure out how it works.
"Okay, little amulet. Show me the way." she talked to herself, "Of course, not sure what I'll do when I get there... but that's Future Nohr's problem-"
She was interrupted as Jesse grabbed her with a yell. The both of them had a hold on the amulet and were now playing a small game of tug of war on the roof of a half destroy building, a TNT block was just a little ways away.
"Give it back!" said Jesse, "This is more important than you know!"
Nohr tripped on the TNT block, sending both her and Jesse to the ground. The amulet clattered to the side and the TNT flashed white.
"Uh oh." said Nohr.
"Not again!" shouted Jesse, as her and Nohr turned onto their stomachs to get to their feet and run, but they weren't fast enough. The TNT exploded and both Jesse and Nohr flashed red as they were hurt, the blast sending them flying off the roof.
Jesse tried to grab the amulet as it flew by her, but sadly, gravity took it's course and the amulet fell to the ground below, Jesse herself flying through a window.
"Ow!" she yelled, as she hit the wall upside down and slid to the floor, feet in the air.
Jesse got to her feet with a groan, making her way over to a hold in the wall to look below her, but sadly the amulet was no where in sight.
"Ha!" a voice cut through the air, gaining Jesse's attention, "Nice. What did I tell you about teamwork?" she walked to a small home in the ground below her, where two griefers stood, the one with the black hood from before standing with a female griefer with bright green pigtails, who was holding the amulet.
"What?" the Green Pigtails snapped, "But I'm the one who said we should work together,"
"No you didn't," said Hood, "Give me that!" he grabbed the amulet and they began tugging over it. Jesse reached down through the hold and grabbed it, the two griefers looked up in surprise.
"Got it!" she laughed, "I actually got it."
"Quick!" the griefer in white said, "Flush 'em out!" TNT was thrown out the hole, flashing white.
Jesse gasped and turned to the gaping hole in the wall, looking over at a stone building near by. She jumped over to it just as the TNT exploded, the shock-wave from the blast send her all the way across.
Jesse leaded against the wall, panting and holding her heart trying to calm down. Shouting met her ears and she walked by the edge, looking down to see a large group of griefers under her and starting to make their way up the stairs towards them, an explosion going off from left and right.
Jesse winced at this before looking over at the spire that Magus was in, the sun was starting to go down.
Pocketing the amulet, Jesse made her way towards the stairs leading away from the griefers, she then spotted Axel and Reuben at the bottom of them, "Axel! We're so close to Magnus! We just need to get these griefers off our tail!"
"Than quick!" said Axel, "Toss me the amulet!"
Jesse nodded and pulled out the amulet, "Here you go, buddy! Just... please don't lose it!" she threw it to Axel, who caught it.
"Hey, don't worry about me. You know I got this. You just keep them distracted." with that, Axel ran off, Reuben followed him with one last look at Jesse.
"At the top!" a griefer shouted, and that was Jesse cue to start running. "Yeah!" another griefer shouted, "That's where I saw 'em."
Jesse jumped through a small archway and came to a sudden stop on a roof, a large group of abandoned eggs having caught her eye.
"Oh, I love a good table-turning," grinned Jesse, "Excellent!" She slightly chuckled at her accidental pun. She grabbed the eggs as two griefers, Green Pigtails and Fishing Rod Guy, appeared from where she'd just jumped through.
"Oh, no you didn't!" yelled Green Pigtails, "Get back here!" Jesse ignored her, sprinting up some stairs. Halfway up, she turned around and raised an egg, the Fishing Rod Guy was just a few steps away from her.
She hit him square in the chest, knocking him backwards into another guy with a green mask, and they both went soaring off the edge of the stairs.
Jesse raised another egg and hit Green Pigtails, knocking her into a chimney, where she got stuck. Another griefer, this one was in a red mask, began making his way up the stairs, but Jesse was quick to take him out with a well place egg. Off to the side, a griefer in a white mask was stacking up blocks to get to her, but an egg to the head had him falling to the ground.
The griefers at least held back, Jesse ran up the rest of the stairs, but far too soon from her liking they were right behind her again. As she reached the top of the stairs, Jesse came across a single block of TNT sitting next to a fire.
"Well, hel-lo, opportunity." grinned Jesse, making her way to the TNT. Picking it up, Jesse held the flashed TNT above her head, looking down at the long line of griefers running up the stairs towards her, yelling and shoving each other in an attempt to get to her first.
She threw it down, straight towards the griefers. One in a white mask looked up as it approached, and he barely had time for his eyes to widen before it exploded, sending griefers flying and destroying most of the staircase.
The force of the blast sent Jesse slamming against the wall with a grunt. She slowly climbed to her feet, looking over the edge to see that there were no more griefers left to chase her.
She then faced to the direction of the spire, She began running towards it, till a familiar voice came from behind her. "Why hello again, Jesse."
Her eyes widened and turned away to see... the shadow!
"So, enjoying this route that you chosen?" The shadow smirked. Jesse narrowed her eyes in anger and yelled out, "You-you tricked me! You sick monster!"
"You got tricked all the time, Jesse." The shadow smiled like this was no big deal, "Remember all the times and schemes that I tricked you with?"
(Flashback)
Reset #5
Male Jesse #2 was looking at the treasures in their treasure room, when the shadow came by. "My my, you look board."
Jesse yelled in surprise and turned to see him. "W-what do you want?"
Shadow just shrugged and smiled, "I'm just here to tell you that you miss some stuff in your play-through." Jesse raised an eyebrow at shadow before grabbing his sword. "No, I don't.. I can't do that."
Shadow frowned at him, "Aww, that's to bad. Because if you do reset... you may or may not be Petra's boyfriend in your next life."
Reset #257
"In your next life you can be in love with Gabriel."
Reset #749
"Next time you can change PAMA to be good."
Reset #1460
"Your next life you can be an Enderman."
Reset #7631
"You can change the world by stopping the Witherstorm early.~"
(End of Flashback)
The shadow smirks evilly at her as her eyes widened and watered up. "See, I tricked you so many time it's funny. But this time... you somehow broke the chain of the game. But still, you choose to stay quiet and do some of the same choices. Why's that?"
Jesse looked away from him, not saying anything to shadow. The shadow widened his eyes and laughed, "Haha ha ha ha, oh oh I see why you do this... your scared that the world will break, aren't you?"
Jesse stay silent for a moment before looking at her feet. "You can't face the truth, Jesse." He smiled, "You are entitled to your role for so long, you are afraid of stepping out of the controller of the Gamers." He started laughing maniacally.
"B-but I can change the story, I CAN!" Jesse yelled as her voice cracked, "Remember that time that I was a spider, or Ivor, or even a human from the place called Earth!"
"That's a multiverse you know." The shadow said bluntly. "Those don't count."
Jesse frowned sadly at that fact, "Also, if you really want to change the game," the shadow told her, "You could even try... kills."
Jesse eyes filled with fear as she heard that suggestion. She started to cry as the shadow just stared down at her, "Well, if you want to... you can always reset this glitch out timeline. Just tell me when you want to, Bye.~"
The shadow chuckled as he vanished from thin air. Jesse looked around confused and scared by the creature's encounter. But she try to get the visit out of her memory, and quickly ran to when the spire is. That person was always by her side... like her Pride.
Jesse reached to a slightly destroyed bridge, with dispensers shooting arrows at the wall one by one.
Jumping down into a hole and climbing back up on the other side, Jesse spotted Reuben and Axel standing in front of two iron doors, their backs to her.
Reuben turned around with a happy oink. Axel did the same, smiling when he saw his friend, "Jesse, you made it!"
"You don't need to sound so surprised. But, yeah I did took a long time to get here." said Jesse, as she began walking towards them, "Do you have the amulet?"
Axel grinned as he pulled it out, "Of course. Me and the pig, we totally rocked it!"
Jesse had noticed that the arrow wasn't on his leg. "Well, I'm glad everyone's safe." Jesse said, walking over to Reuben to rub his head, "Good boy, Reuben." said Jesse, the pig gave a happy oink, while she turned to the iron doors, "Magnus, here we come!"
Jesse tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. They looked at each other, shrugged. "Huh," said Axel, "Maybe it's, I don't know, locked or something? That's a thing people do with important doors, right?"
Jesse stepped closer to the door and banged her fist four times against the door.
She stepped back to stand next to Axel, who was rubbing the back of his head. After a few seconds, the doors abruptly swung open, startling them. There was nothing but blackness beyond it.
"Fine." said Axel, "Knocking worked. For once."
"Yup. So it seems. Let's get in there." Jesse said, leading the way through the doors.
"Right behind you."
They stopped just inside the spire, peering through the dark to see if there was anything- or anyone- there. "Wait," Jesse said, "I have a feeling that we're forgetting somethi-" But the trapdoors beneath them opened and they fell with startled yells and screams.
Started: 6/9/17 Finished; 7/3/17
(Well.. that took a long time.(0.0) But the Pride line was a clue to who the shadow is. And we'll see what happens in the next chapter, bye.)