Disclaimer: I don't know. I dislike the regular Minecraft, but oddly got into Story Mode (shrugs). So you should know I definitely don't it XD
Story: Jesse hadn't been looking to be a hero, but now was her time to save the world, and she's just wondering when she and her friends became people who mattered and weren't losers. She also wondered why Lukas was weird around her, why Axel was acting differently, and why the men of the Order were such kicked puppies, while she was at it.
Set as fem!Jesse of the gameplay.
Spoilers: Yeeeessss. Yes, yes, yes. Beware?
Warnings: Age difference, poly relationship ("triangles" for a while though), possible sexual situations, dark/perverted/silly humor present…
Pairings: Jesse/Lukas, Jesse/Axel, Jesse/Magnus, Jesse/Gabriel, Jesse/Soren, Jesse/Ivor…(basically reverse!harem)…

The Road is Long
Chapter Three: And So It Starts…

Jesse's eyes struggled to open, but she made herself pry them apart so she could reassess her surroundings.

"Jesse, you okay?"

She groaned and moved off the person she'd landed on, catching a glimpse of Axel and Olivia looking at her in worry. Glancing at where she'd been, she saw Lukas slowly sitting up, grunting at the effort.

"Wha…what happened?"

"You and Lukas practically flew through the portal," Olivia explained anxiously. "You were out for a bit and we tried to get you guys to wake up, and it took a few seconds. What happened to you two?"

Jesse remembered what happened and looked hard at Lukas, who looked down and was biting his lip. She sighed to herself. It wasn't his fault. People get scared. It was only natural, and Lukas reacted the way any normal person would.

"Gabriel and Petra got caught by the Witherstorm. It was pulling them up with its light beams, but I managed to get Gabriel down before heading to Petra. I…I couldn't get to her fast enough," Jesse's voice faltered, and she hated recalling that moment. She'd been so slow.

"And you," Axel looked at Lukas accusingly. "Where were you? Why weren't you by Jesse's side?"

Lukas's cornflower blue eyes widened and he took a few steps back. "I-I froze. I got scared –"

"Scared? So you just stood there like a coward while Jesse –"

"Axel, come on," Jesse cut in tiredly, giving Axel a pleading look. "It's not his fault. Everyone gets scared."

Axel quieted but kept giving accusing looks towards Lukas that made the other boy look down. Still, Lukas managed to give Jesse a grateful look and a small smile, which Jesse answered with a nod. She was just more worried about figuring out what to do now and how to get back to their dimension.

Just then the portal gave a shake and they looked at it anxiously. It gave another shake before someone tumbled through it. The Witherstorm's tentacles followed through, before grabbing onto the portal's entrance and then collapsing it and disappearing.

Jesse only had a moment of hope before it was dashed as she realized just exactly who it was that had tumbled through the portal.

"Ivor!" Olivia yelled, sounding just as angry as the anger that was boiling up in Jesse.

"Oh, you all made it," he sneered at them. "I saw your little friend earlier. She was running towards the Witherstorm! Stupidity or bravery, who knows, but I don't envy her position right now –"

Jesse saw red and stormed over, punching Ivor in the face and he fell back. "You're a coward! And Petra is a hero –more than you ever will be!"

He flinched for some reason, but Jesse didn't care. How dare this jerk go and insult Petra (even if it was just implied)?

Ivor glowered at them all from his place on the ground, slowly getting up.

"Ha! It was all your fault! If you little brats hadn't interfered, then everything would have gone according to plan and that thing wouldn't have escaped my control."

Disgusted, Jesse looked away from him. Of course he couldn't see anything passed himself.

"Whatever," Jesse grumbled. "We need to figure out a way out of here."

"This place is full of mine carts," Ivor suddenly said. "The Order of the Stone once created and used to navigate this place with a system of mine carts."

"How can we trust you or what you're saying?" Lukas gave him a narrowed-eyed look.

"You fools have more things to worry about than myself anyway," Ivor answered instead, sounding ominous. "See you around."

He took out a potion and drank it, disappearing from their sight. Looking around, they found no sign of Ivor. But, as Jesse saw it coming into view, she choked back a scream and instead warned the others.

"It's a Ghast, guys!"

They took out what weapons they had, with Jesse scooping Reuben up and carrying him as she ran with the others. They found some of those mine carts Ivor mentioned and leaped into one each. The mine carts started moving, going down the rails and ending up separating the group.

"Oh great! We're lost and the others aren't with us! Can this get any worse?" Jesse screamed.

She just had to say that, didn't she?

"OINK!"

Reuben made her pay attention as all of a sudden, three Ghasts appeared and attacked her and Reuben. She fended them off and killed them, before hectically continuing the mine cart ride and shockingly finding herself joining the others again at a turn and her mine cart connecting with everyone else's. They traded looks.

"Thank goodness everyone's alright," Jesse sighed, looking over everyone.

"That was crazy!" Axel shook his head.

Soon enough, the mine carts began slowing down before stopping in front of another portal. They got out of the mine cart and headed to the portal, before stopping and looking at each other.

"We don't know where this will lead us to," Olivia said warningly.

"It's still a way out of here," Lukas pointed out.

Jesse bit her lip. "We can't just stay here. We'll have to risk it and go through the portal. Even if that Witherstorm is waiting for us out there."

"Um, I-I'll go first. Yeah, I'll go," Axel said, standing in front of the portal.

He hesitated a few more times, before Jesse went to go next to him and laid a comforting hand on his shoulder. She gave him a reassuring grin.

"I got this, Axel. Let me go," she said and Axel nodded, though he hid his disappointment and shame. Ah, he was no better than Lukas…

Jesse took a deep breath before going through the portal, finding herself on the other side and standing in ankle-deep water and a waterfall behind her. She looked around, seeing it was night and taking a second to herself to enjoy the sight and the peace. Then it was shattered as a Zombie appeared, coming towards her. She grimaced and took out her sword, lashing out at it and then killing it. A few moments later, the others began appearing and were with her finally.

"So what'd we miss?" Olivia asked.

"Not much," Jesse said dryly, her lips exasperatedly pulling up. "Anyway, we need to make camp for the night."

They traveled down from there and dried off a little, before they started to discuss what to build to stay in for the night.

"We don't have much time," Axel was arguing with Olivia. "We just need to make a quick and dirty hut to stay in."

"We need a little more protection than a hut!" Olivia scowled at Axel. "A treehouse would be much better!"

Jesse glanced back and forth between her two friends, and thought deeply about the protection. They did need something to stay in quickly, but it was already night. A hut couldn't really protect them or give them ample opportunity to spot danger, and they were already in danger since it was nighttime. Might as well make something quick and easy in the trees, while they had the time to be safe enough away from mobs.

"A treehouse," Jesse decided. "We need to be able to spot danger before it spots us. Let's just…be quick about it. We don't need anything fancy."

So, quickly, all four of them began working hard and fast to create a crude but stable treehouse that they could stay in for the night. Jesse spotted the critical eye Lukas was giving the place, as well as the frown, but she didn't have time for his snobby building critiques. She was tired, dirty, and in a little pain after everything. Not to mention that stupid Witherstorm was still out there, and she was worried as heck about Gabriel and Petra. Where were they and what was happening…

"We'll be heading to this place Gabriel mentioned, right?" Olivia spoke up.

"Yeah," Jesse said tiredly. "As soon as the sun's up, we'll keep going."

"Hey! I've got something to cheer us up," Axel tried to lighten the mood. "Cookies!"

He handed one to Olivia, to Reuben, to then Jesse and kept the last one for himself. Just before Jesse was going to enthusiastically bite into hers, she noticed that Lukas was looking down in the corner and hesitated. She looked at her cookie before making a decision and heading over to Lukas.

"Here," she held out her cookie.

He looked up in surprise at her and then the cookie. "A-are you sure?"

She gave him a small smile. "Yeah, take it."

"But Jesse, that was for you –" Axel was protesting and Jesse looked at him and shook her head. He huffed, but didn't say anything else.

"Let's split it," Lukas suggested and Jesse was surprised by his suggestion. She broke it in half and handed half to him, and started to nibble on her own piece as she sat down by Lukas.

Jesse was feeling warm, partly because of Lukas' body warmth. It made her want to scoot closer, try to keep warmer in this cold night. She was feeling a little sleepy and nearly was dozing off, which made her miss a few seconds of what was happening around her. Her lack of attention made her miss the fact that sometime in her light half-doze, Axel and Lukas had gotten into an argument and she'd only been made aware when Lukas stood up angrily.

"You know, I don't know what your problem with me is, but maybe it's just best if I left."

That horrified Jesse and she stood up quickly.

"Everyone, just calm down!" She rubbed her face in frustration. "Can we just…the Witherstorm is out there, alright? We need to be together in this, guys. Lukas…please stay," she gave him a pleading look.

It took him aback and he fidgeted in place, a light dusting of the color pink rising to his cheeks for some reason. Jesse pushed further.

"You're staying with us," Jesse said firmly, and Lukas' head jerked into a nod.

"Why don't we all go to sleep?" Olivia suggested, breaking up the awkward silence. "You look like you were about ready to pass out right before all…that," she teased Jesse, awkwardly referencing the fight.

Jesse laughed in embarrassment. "I kind of actually was. Er, didn't almost notice what was going on until the end there," she ended up mumbling.

"Sleep sounds good," Axel said as well, giving Jesse a guilty look. "Let's just sleep it off and we'll be ready to go for the morning."

Thankful, Jesse nodded and everyone made themselves comfortable where they were and went to sleep for the night, or doing their best to with all that was happening around them and their thoughts bothering them all through the night.

Morning dawned bright and early, and Jesse not only felt refreshed but determined to do everything she could to help. She would rise up.

"You're broken down and tired of living life on a merry-go-round, and you can't find the fighter. But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out~" Jesse sung aloud to herself, feeling herself grin widely.

Reuben nudged her leg with his nose and she grinned down at him.

"You have a pretty voice," Lukas complimented her as he went to walk by her side, with Axel and Olivia already up ahead of them.

Jesse gave him a grin as well. "Thanks, Lukas."

He bit his lip before giving her one of his smiles, a bit shy of it. "Thanks for keeping me around last night."

She blinked at him, before reaching out and grabbing hold of his hand and squeezing.

"What're friends for?" she said, surprising him. "I'm really glad you stayed."

Lukas' shy smile appeared again and Jesse beamed back at him, before they look forward and continued to walk. Though Jesse didn't pay it any mind, they had continued to hold hands right up to the point where they all finally made it to the temple Gabriel had told them about.

Lukas, however, didn't stop thinking about it the entire away, even if he didn't say a word about it.

He was also a bit afraid that if he did, she would let go.

Started 4/2/16 – Completed 4/3/16

A/n: Haha, that was surprisingly heavy on Lukesse…I hadn't meant to, but oh well. It is not hard to do that, considering the episodes make it really easy to with the scenes the two are in. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter (which should have, but didn't finish episode 1)! Please remember to review!

Anon Reviews:

1. LizzyTheKitty: Thanks! I'm definitely adding more to this. And yeah, I like Lukesse too :)

2. a fan XD: Thank you! I hope you continue to read and enjoy!