Foxjin and Colder

Traveling

“Well, I'm DNAx nice to meet you Amber” DNAx says to her as they sit in the treehouse hideout.

“Listen uh... DNAx” Amber says hesitantly, “I don't know why you're here in this desert other than you are looking for a friend.”

“Yeah, her name is Foxjin” DNAx replies.

“Ok... tell me the story” she leans forward to listen to him.

DNAx sighs, “well... I joined the Resistance because I decided I wanted to be a part of something more. We had a base in the forest at the time when I joined and one day on a patrol looking for Villager Knights I saved someone from zombies... she decided to come with me to join the Resistance, some miracle that was, she's very… I don't know... antisocial, but anyways... That was Foxjin and that was how we met.”

“So, you saved her?” Amber wrinkles her nose slightly seeming unimpressed.

“Well Foxjin doesn't really like being helped or anything” he smiles slightly, “I like to think she let her guard down for me though... we grew closer in the Resistance, at least I thought we did. But our leader X_Grave_X we all call him Grave, he decided that he wanted to expand so we packed up all our riches and moved to the desert. While we were there, we were attacked by the herobrines!”

“Herobrines... as in multiple?” Amber asks.

“Yeah, apparently, he possesses people and turns them into copies or something, one of them attacked Grave once and killed his best friend Burrito, but he was kinda annoying anyway... he respawned a long way away and Grave hasn't found him yet- at least I don't think he has, by now they all could be anywhere, but Foxjin isn't with them I know it.”

“Then where is she?” Amber asks.

“During the fight I left her alone for a moment, I lost her... then I think the herobrine possessed me because I can't remember anything else, I think it possessed her too, all I know is I left her and now I'm lost and she's also lost out there somewhere and I have a duty to find her… y’know? because she was special to me...”

“Special to you...?” Amber eyes him.

“Well… I mean... I did sorta... like her, but I knew she wasn't that sort of person… to like me back.”

“Hmmm” Amber looks thoughtful, “well do you have any idea where she would have gone?”

 “No” DNAx says looking down, “but she is smart, and she would know not to try and survive in the desert.” His face feels warm, embarrassed... he’d never told anyone about his feelings for Foxjin like that before although people at the Resistance had assumed they were a thing and always asked him about it.

“Ok well let's try the acacia forest first,” Amber says finally breaking the silence.

“You'll help me?” DNAx asks.

“Well yeah I'm not that coldhearted" she replies rolling her eyes with a laugh.
He relaxes slightly, he still knows nothing about her but knowing she’s willing to help him is enough to make him trust her.

“Ok let's get going,” He gets up to follow her to the acacia forest.

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Colder stares down at the floor as they walk worried about Nico, they’d just found each other again after all and now Nico is gone.
Foxjin eyes him seeming to know he's still worried about it.

“Colder...” she hesitates, “I'm sorry.”

He stares never thinking those words would come out of her mouth ever.