Minecraft: a Redemption

Chapter 35

  Herobrine shivered. "You don't know what you've done," he hissed, looking like he couldn't breathe.

  I felt the same way. It was as if someone had knocked the air out of me. Steve and Alex. They were the first people created by Notch when he first made Minecraft. How were they back?

  "What?" Asked Alex. "What have we done?"

  "You have released something far worse than you could've imagined."

  Steve chuckled. As he did, it was like winter came out of his voice. "Another one of your prisoners, Hero?"

  Looking terrified, Herobrine muttered something I almost couldn't hear. But as the morning began to dawn deep in the mines, I was able to catch it. "The Enderdragon has been released on Minecraft."

  Terrified, I woke up.

...

  Stevia showed them the command block. It was a strange shade of orange with complicated looking buttons all over it. "A squadron from the Warriors of Notch has another one in a temporary base set up near Herobrine's castle. Got it?"

  Gregor thumbed the hilt of his sword as it sat on his waist. "So we travel there and get geared up to lead a raid on him?"

  Stevia nodded. "We have everything for you guys there. Potions, armor, weapons, ender pearls. Everything you'll need to take the battle to him."

  Gregor saw Jane's eyes light up with excitement and a smile creep onto her face. The second she saw him watching her, it dissapeared.

  "To make it work, you just have to look at it as I type in the coordinates of where we're going," instructed Stevia.

  Along with the rest of the Warriors of Notch, the HH fixed their eyes on this new block. For a second, nothing happened. Then a swirling feeling arose in Gregor's gut. It grew stronger and stronger, and he wanted to close his eyes, but he knew he couldn't.

  Then he felt like he was on air. He was flying. His body felt like it was being tossed among the winds. He didn't know where he was. Was he in that alleyway? Was he by Herobrine's palace? Gusts of flurries chilled his bones as he was thrown up, down, left, and right.

  And then it stopped.

...

  I blinked my eyes open. Above me, people were walking and talking. From the feeling below me, I could tell I was on the floor of the cave outside the Resistance HQ. 

  "What happened?" I groaned.

  "He's awake!" Braden exclaimed, rushing over to pull me up.

  My friends were all there. Rax, Bradley, and Braden. But two other people were too. Steve and Alex stood with them, staring at me with a sinister purpose. Like they knew I had been listening to them.

  "Steve, Alex?" I asked.

  "How do you know who we are?" Asked Alex, soundig taken aback for the first time. 

  "I heard you guys with Herobrine. He killed you? And now you're back?"

  Alex nodded. "But we don't have time to talk. We need to go to Herobrine. It's time to kill him."

  None of my friends looked surprised. They must have discussed it before I woke up. 

  "They know where Herobrine's palace is. We're going to lead a raid on him."

  "Just us? How are we going to get past all of his men?" I asked. My hand fiddled with my bow, which was slung across my chest. It was a thing I'd found myself doing often.

  "That's not going to be a problem. We know the palace inside out," Alex said confidently. Her blonde hair was pulled up and a sword was hanging on her back.

  "And how is that?"

  Steve spoke up, hs voice quiet and cold. "Because we helped build it."

  After leaving the Resistance HQ before they could kill us, we made our way across several biomes. Even though we knew it could be nowhere near us, we were all still worried about the Enderdragon.

  "Do we have a plan?" I asked Alex.

"A plan," she repeated. "Well, Herobrine's still possessing you, so the only way to kill him would be to kill you." She spied the look on my face. "Sorry."

"Uh, nah, you're good," I told her, avoiding the eyes of my friends. For some reason, Steve was looking at me with a curious expression, like he felt bad for me. I hadn't known him for long, but he didn't seem like the kind of person to take pity.

"We're going to see if we can blackmail him at his palace," Alex explained.

"So does he have a body during the day?" I asked, afraid even when he wasn't possessing me, he was still lurking somewhere in the back of my mind.

"We think so. Steve's done his fair amount of research, and that would seem to be correct."

For the next hour or so, we tried to avoid the subject of blackmailing Herobrine or killing me. Instead we told our adventure to Alex and Steve, about how Maria and Art were captured and how we'd traveled through the mountains and how the Warriors of Notch wanted to kill us and Herobrine.

Of course, when I talked I evaded certain topics, like me freaking out the night I'd been hunting all those mobs and how Maria'd watched me and. I also didn't tell them about Motir and finding his body in a tree. He was the only attachment I had left to my life before the Resistance.

We were walking through a plain when we found it. It rose up on a hill, deep black against the warm red sunset.

A cow mooed near us, and I thought about how it had nothing to worry about, but I did.

"Here we are," said Alex, although we'd all noticed the massive fortress on the hillside.

"Herobrine's palace," said Steve. He hefted a sword and we continued onward.

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This book's coming to a wrap, and the next few parts will be:

-Preparing for War

-The Beginning of the End (probably several parts)

-{some kind of epilogue}

What are you favorite parts of this book?