The Adventurous Adventures of Michael and Shroud

chapter two :)

Shroud's POV

"Have you ever been to the Nether?" Michael asked. 

It was a totally random question if I was being honest. 

"No. Have you?" I asked

"Shroud," Michael said, "I was born in the Nether." 

"OH YEAH-" 

I have asked many stupid questions in my life and that one, has by far, been the dumbest. I keep forgetting Michael's a baby piglin; PIGLINS COME FROM THE NETHER.

Michael started to tell me what our plan to find Wilbur was.  "We gotta pass through the Nether to get to the main area. Then we can find our way from there."

"...Can't we..die in the Nether?" I asked; though I kind of already knew the answer.

"Yep! But we should be fine-" Michael responded.

"WHAT-"

Look, I'm all for adventure and stuff, but I'd rather not die today, or even in the next 10 years. I have a lovely spider life to live.

"Stay close to me and don't fall into the lava. The piglins don't hurt me, so if you stay near me you should be fine." 

"Still, If  I die, you're going down with me." 

After a series of events of me almost dying multiple times, we finally made it across the Nether. 

"Sooooo," Michael said as soon as we got out of the portal, "How was that?" 

"Well, you see, I almost died-" 

"-Twice." Michael chimed in. "But you're fine." He patted me on the back which I couldn't tell if it was sarcastic or empathetic. 

"Thanks, but where do we go next?" I asked Michael. 

"Hm.." He said,  "I don't know." 

He pointed to a green guy with a blob of slime on his head. He was wearing dull green suspenders and rectangular glasses that also had slime on them.

"..Maybe that guy knows," Michael said. 

Michael and I ran up to him and Michael tapped on his shoulder (well, his back. he's pretty short,). 

"Hello?-" Michael asked. 

"Oh! Hello! Who are you?" The green man politely asked. 

"I'm Michael," He responded. "Uh, my friend and I were wondering if you knew where Las Navadas was...?"

"Oh! Yes, I do! I could take you there if you would like?" The green man offered. 

"Yes, that would be great." I accepted his offer.

"Of course little ones! Just follow me!" Then the green man started walking towards what was apparently Las Nevadas. 

I really appreciated how nice the green man was because there's a chance we could've run into the wrong person out here, and possibly gotten hurt, or kidnapped, or killed. We're both mobs, also children. Alone. Anything could happen to us out here.

"Hey, Shroud?" Michael asked. 

"Hm?" I responded. 

"What do we do when we get to Las Nevadas again?" Michael questioned. 

"Find Wilbur. Then give him the declaration of Independance." I said. 

"Then what?" Michael asked, "We go back?" 

I honestly haven't thought about what would happen when we give Wilbur his independence paper back. Would we stay in Las Nevadas? No, we're not trying to run away- 

"Oh my god." I realized something, "What if our parents notice we're gone? We would get in so much trouble-"

"We could stay with that guy, maybe?" Michael pointed to the green man. 

"We don't even know his name- wait oh my god we don't even know his name! What if this is a trap?!" I started to panic, it was a bad habit of mine. 

"Dude, we'll be alright, trust me," Michael said, "I could go ask him his name if that would make you feel better?-" 

I took a deep breath. That's what Tommy told me to do whenever I start panicking. I also did the five senses thing in my head. 

Five things I could see? Michael, me, the green man, sand, and the sky.

Four things I could hear? My breathing, footsteps, sand rustling, and the slight wind.

Three things I could smell? To be honest there weren't many things to smell but I could smell flowers, faintly. 

Two things I could taste? The air. I wish it was water and food. 

One thing I could touch? Again, the sand on my feet.

"Sure-" I said.

"Hey, sir?" Michael asked the green man, and he turned around to face us.

"Uh," I said, "We were curious as to what your name was?" 

"Slimecicle!!" The green man said very cheerfully. He gave Michael and I a nice smile, and we smiled at him back. 

"Nice to meet you!" I said, "I'm Shroud, by the way, I don't think I mentioned my name either." 

I introduced myself. Now felt sort of bad for thinking that Slimecicle could lead us into a trap or something like that. He seemed really nice. 

"Oh, I know you!" Slimecicle said suddenly, "Tommy from everywhere mentioned you!" He continued. 

"You knew Tommy?" I asked Slimecicle. 

"He's Quackity's boyfriend's brother," Slimecicle explained, "Also business partner."

I honestly didn't know that Tommy had a brother or any siblings. I knew he kept some things from me for my 'safety' but now I was curious if he was hiding anything else...thinking about the fact I had uncles was weird. I thought Tommy was an orphan.

Slimecicle stopped in front of the Las Nevadas sign. The sign was bright. It had red letters and a deep blue and gold border. The sign also had a red star with a gold centre on the top. 

"And we're here!" Slimecicle said, "I can go see where Quackity is. He and his boyfriend are around here somewhere..."

Then Slimecicle disappeared. He might have literally poofed away, or maybe just slipped away when I wasn't looking-

"Where'd he go?" Michael asked. 

Michael seemed confused as well. 

"I don't know," I responded. "C'mon let's look for Wilbur!" 

"Okay," Michael agreed. 

We both started looking around Las Navadas to find Wilbur. It had been about 10, 15 minutes and neither I nor Michael had found any trace of Wilbur. That was until someone tapped on my shoulder. 

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A/N

YOOOOOOO sorry this chapter's kinda short :/ this book has 20 reads, which isn't a lot but still is cool B] 

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- ollie 

hello!! other author here! edited this chapter so that the grammar n stuff is better :D uh, I'm gonna plug my Wattpad because I didn't publish this and I write some of it and yeah. Thank you all for all the reads! This story is a new and fun concept for me, and I'm glad many enjoy it :D

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