6.3: A Loss And a Gain

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Sabre looked up at the dark hooded figure that was floating slightly above the houses' maple carpet, directly in front of the Green Leader, who was backed up against his emerald-green bed trying to get as far away from the destructive steve as possible. Void Steve whirled around at the sound of his name, his surprised face instantly turning to a smug one. "Ah, Sabre, what a coince- ", Void didn't get the chance to finish words as a ball of ice suddenly encased him. Sabre and the Green Leader looked at the now frozen Steve, at each other and then at the Element controlling Steve behind Sabre. Elemental's crimson hand was still held up from using his ability, traces of a scowl on his face, then looked up at the Steve and the player in confusion.

"What? His voice was annoying...", Elemental defended while shrugging, which had both Sabre and the Green Leader, who was now inching towards the door, stuck between laughter or confusion to the Steves' silly antics in such a dangerous situation. The moment was short lived however, as a lightning bolt struck next to the frozen Steve. There now stood the same hooded figure they had seen at the Violet Kingdom. None of the three entities had any time to react as the figure swiftly placed their hand on the ice encasing the darkness' leader, the ice melting away into steam the moment his skin made contact. Sabre quickly grabbed Elemental and Green Leaders' hands as Void shook his head in a daze, the hooded figure waiting there patiently for their associate to come back to their senses. Sabre with the two steves in tow were halfway out the door when Void gained his bearing, setting his eyes on the childish steve that had frozen him with a look of pure hatred.

"Time to go!", Sabre yelled as he started running down the hill, still holding the two steves' hands to drag them with him as Void's hands lit a diamond blue fire. There was a faint 'get them!' in the distance as they ran, Sabre no longer dragging the steves as they had gotten the hint of urgency in this situation. Their feet tread heavily as they bolted down the winding mossy cobble walkway, darkness seeming to be leaching off the plants on and near the path. They were nearing the dock, Sabre almost being able to make out a rainbow-coloured figure when green steves that had been infected by the darkness as well as normal darkness started going after them, jumping out from behind buildings and bushes, some almost getting the trio but barely missing. Elemental started striking lightning at the attackers, much to the horror of the Green Leader as a few of his infected people were struck. Sabre winced at this. 'Oh, come on Elemental, why did you have to hit the steves...'. They soon made it down to the dock where their colourful hero was waiting along with the two leaf-coloured steves they had found.

"Are you guys okay!? What happened!? Wait- WHAT ARE THOSE!?", Rainbow said panicking, now looking behind the three who had run down the hill. Sabre looked to see some sort of blackened creature that looked oddly like oversized skeletons- wait were those wither skeletons!? A look of dismay fell on the chicken-hoodie wearing players face as he realised that they were, indeed, wither skeletons. The steves with him were still looking on with fear and confusion, probably never having ever seen a with skeleton before. Sabre looked again and now noticed that many charcoal skeletons were coming towards them, some with swords, some without. 'Okay Sabre, don't panic, just get them out of here before they find out what being withered feels like...'. Just as he thought it couldn't get any worse, he spotted the steve of darkness floating closer to them, with the mysterious hooded figure watching from the top of the hill, holding his hand out as if they were the one commanding the darkness.

 "||𝙹⚍'∷ᒷ ∷ᒷᓭ╎ᓭℸ ̣ ᔑリᓵᒷ ╎ᓭ ⎓⚍ℸ ̣ ╎ꖎᒷ. ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ ↸ᔑ∷ꖌリᒷᓭᓭ ∴╎ꖎꖎ !¡∷ᒷ⍊ᔑ╎ꖎ ℸ ̣ 𝙹 ʖ∷╎リ⊣ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ ᒷリ↸", the figures' voice boomed down the hill towards them, speaking again in that language that they couldn't understand. Sabre couldn't help but notice that Void Steve shot a confused and annoyed look at the figure behind him before shaking it off the turning his attention towards the group of steves and player again. Seems that even the steve of the darkness didn't understand the language in which the entities they worked with spoke.

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