Based on the animatic by Casserole :D
Heres the link to the og animatic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Iua0I5_X4
Phil could've sworn Techno said he'd be back by noon, it was just a routine nether trip there was nothing to worry about. Right?
The hoglin dropped him off at the nether portal and walked away quickly, Phil was extremely tired and he knew there was no way he was going to make the walk back to his house from the nether portal and the walk to the cave was quicker and easier so he decided to head that way.
The hoglin was already asleep by the time Phil got there so he decided he would just go the corner and hope the ground was soft enough to fall asleep on.
He woke up in a field with crows surrounding him, they were all freaking out and it took Phil a moment to hear what they were saying. "When do you think he'll realize" "Idk I bet we could tell him right now and he would deny it" Phil had no idea what the crows were arguing about this time but he figured he should just ignore it. He looked at the more sensible crows for answers, normally when he had this sort of dream there was a reason for it. One of the crows finally piped up, "You need to go to the fortress" Phil was taken back by their bluntness, normally they would dance around the subject for a few minutes with "2/4" or "E" or some other thing Phil didn't understand. (He'd tried to get them to explain it but they just called him old and laughed for a few minutes before going back to their chants) Apparently, Phil had gotten all he needed from the crows because as quickly as the dream had come it had left.
Phil woke up and saw the hoglin was already up so he gave it a nice wave and hoped that it made up for the whole crashing in its cave thing. Luckily the hoglin seemed fine with Phil being in his cave. Something about this hoglin was different, it looked like it understood him. He figured it was just his morning brain playing tricks on him, but it gave a reason to the words that came out of his mouth. "I need your help"
The hoglin gave a slight nod of his head and Phil assumed that it was just some sort of coincidence. Either way, it didn't hurt to keep talking to the hoglin. "Can you take me to the nether fortress?" A crow lands on his shoulder, "Wow your losing sanity quickly" Phil shooed the bird away and got on the hoglin. When he got on the hoglin started walking towards the fortress.
It was going to be a long ride to what could be his doom. For the most part, no one ever went into fortresses because it was practically a suicide mission, but he needed to find Techno. On the bright side, he still had his gold boots so the piglins wouldn't perceive him as a threat. What he was really worried about was the blazes and wither skeletons. Blazes could burn thru bones without batting an eye, and if the wither skeleton didn't stab you to death the poison would take care of the rest. He hoped he could just find Techno and get out of there asap.
After roughly an hour he saw the fortress. Sure he'd been to a few here and there over his life but he always had a lot more resources going in. Phil waited for the right moment when he could sneak into the fortress and wouldn't be seen, and the hoglin followed his every step. Phil searched every corner of the fortress and still nothing. Luckily they hadn't encountered and serious mobs they couldn't take care of so he figured he would just have to go home and figure it out tomorrow.
Phil scanned the fortress one last time looking for Techno and still found nothing so he started heading towards the exit. In his sulking, he forgot to check the corner for mobs, and it happened to be the time he needed to check. A whither skeleton dashed down the hall and was ready to fight. Phil was caught off guard and couldn't even grab his sword by the time the wither skeleton got to him. The skeleton held its sword above its head, he closed his eyes and prepared for impact but it never came. He opened his eyes and saw the hoglin fighting with the wither skeleton. He tried to help but he couldn't swing his sword in fear of hitting the hoglin.
Phil quickly checked to make sure there weren't any more mobs headed their way, luckily there weren't any so he went back to the hoglin. He saw the battle was almost finished and thank god the hoglin was winning. It fought like it had been doing it for years, the skeleton couldn't even land a hit on it. The hoglin turned to look at Phil and that was his mistake... The wither skeleton took the opportunity to strike...
Thinking about putting major character death on the tags...
Also just...
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That wasn't even including A03 and all the time I spent writing on my laptop... Maybe I have a problem lmao
