The Story of WonderCraft..

Chapter 35

"I knew I'd find you here." Somebody else was here, with me. And they sounded familiar.. way too familiar.

"Who's there?" I drew out my axe in instinct. Guess that's what having trust issues and being a major part of a load of wars does to a person.
"It's me, calm down." Oh, phew. It's just Arnold. I thought it was Samuel. "About what just happened in the festival area-"

"It's no big deal. I'm used to it." I shrugged it off. No one had to know.
"Really? Looks like you've seen the world as you know it destroyed."
"You're partially correct here, though. T-" he looked at me in the eyes. I instantly looked away, feeling a strange need to attack him. Meh, maybe it's just those trust issues again. (A/N: Enderian arc time hehe)

"Can you please not look at me in the eyes again? It's really awkward and I'm not all that comfortable with it." I said finally, breaking a silence that lasted for 2 minutes.
"Yeah, that's alright. Moving on.. where were you?" he replied.

"They don't believe James, according to what I heard. I don't know if they'll ever trust me again with this happening."
"Just so you know, Gwen, Noah and Kevin believe you. So do I. Yashi, though.."
"Really?"

"Really. Diana's absolutely foul for thinking it was your fault." he held out his hand. "I've got to show you some things we built. They're really cool."
I took his hand and got out of the panic room, feeling less like there was no hope.

We found Roman and Tom still at Luana Bay, sitting on the sand and fishing.
"Does Niki like flowers, by any chance?" Roman asked Tom.
"I guess so, it's still up for debate. She isn't your usual ordinary girl. She's different, she's not like them. A bit of a tomboy at times, if I'm being honest."

"I knew something was up with you and Niki!" I said in triumph. "Mate, I'll be happy for you if she ends up actually liking you."
"When did you get here?" Tom asked us.

"Just now, we were going to the Prismarine Castle." Arnold explained, as we went over to another island that had a castle-like structure made of prismarine.

"It's beautiful." I exclaimed in awe. The castle wasn't massive, but it was still good looking in terms of interior. It was good looking and functional at the same time.
"I know, right? Gwen built it." Arnold said. "I still get over how cool this is."
"She said yes!" Roman screamed as he ran into the castle.

"What on Earth are you talking about..?" I grinned, looking at how childish he was acting.
"I asked Niki out to the live theatre.. and she said yes."
"That's nice. April and I are actually going to the live theatre tonight, maybe it can be a double date?" Arnold nudged me. Despite being a bit confused, I played along.

"Okay, I'll see you guys tonight!" he ran after Tom, muttering someone about relationship advice.
"Gotta admit, though, that was unexpected. Like, good for him, but that just happened out of the blue." I said. "Wait. What are we gonna do tonight? Surely you weren't expecting that to happen."

"We'll just play along, I guess."
We spent the rest of the day building a really cool Statue of Liberty made of copper on an island which was part of Luana Bay.
And then, evening came.

I went into my house and got ready in a cute bear outfit. I then checked in on Arnold, who was wearing a frog outfit.
"Cute!" I remarked.

"Let's go, then?" he put on a gentleman act and took my hand. I smiled and we made our way to the live theatre.
"Where are Roman and Niki..?" I said uncertainly. I suddenly heard a sound coming from the woods. "That's a goat horn. They must be in the woods." We got our weapons ready and tried to find the source of the sound.

We did find them, thankfully, but there was another problem.
"Did you make a trail to home?" I looked at Arnold.
"No.." he admitted.
"We're lost now, aren't we?" Tom sighed.
"Where did you two come from?!" Roman pointed a torch at Tom and Hailey, who also happened to be lost. Roman himself let out a small dolphin-like squeal before accidentally transforming into one and nearly dying. "I didn't mean to do that, sorry."

"We were here looking for the Nether Portal, and couldn't find it, so we tried to make our way home. And we're stuck here with you guys now." Hailey explained, before looking around. "Which way did you guys come from?"

"We shifted the portal, you two didn't notice? We might've come from that side, but everything looks the same." I squinted, pointing directly south to us.
"We should split up, we'll cover more ground faster." Tom suggested.

"Are you serious? That just makes the odds of us getting even more lost higher!" Hailey yelled.
"That's rubbish."
"It's not!"
"Is!"
"Is not!"
"Will the two of you shut up for a minute?!" Niki snapped. I'd never heard her scream like that. She was always so calm and cool.

"Moving on.. I say we go south, if that doesn't lead us home then we meet up back here. How's that?" Arnold said.
"Sounds good to me." I grabbed my sword out, hearing a howl. "What was that..?"
"That's a wolf, it's got to be. We're dead if we don't get out of here."

I looked up at the sky. A full moon. It was also freezing cold.
"Wow, it's cold. If we don't get back home, we might end up in bed with a cold or something." I swinged my axe around in boredom. It hit a tree and almost sent the tree crashing directly at us. The axe left a small mark on the tree. We managed to stop it from falling, though.

Tom led the way, going south to us and we went in a line, holding each other's hands to not get lost. After a while, though, we were just going around in circles.
"We've been here before, Tom." Hailey pointed to a tree that looked oddly familiar.
"And how do you know that?" he demanded.
"This tree has a mark on it from April's axe! Remember?"
"Maybe a panda or something else just did that."
"How would that even work?! We're going in circles!" I groaned in frustration.

"She's right, we're going in circles."
"Noah?" Arnold looked up.
"How did you guys even get stuck here?" he landed down on the grass.
"Long story. Which way's home, though?"
"Go south, then when you reach an area with no trees, go west. You should be somewhere close to April's house." he flew off into the midnight sky.

We followed his directions, but still didn't reach until sunrise since Tom and Hailey were still arguing over whether he said west or east.
"We're home."