The two heroes

The Volcano

Ryan's POV

I was slipping and sliding until I fell through a snippet of space into a mineshaft, it was torch lit but still abandoned looking. The surfaces were cold, but I'd been way deeper underground and this would have looked like a little heat. I walked along the smooth tunnel until I reached a fork in the road, each path became jagged and uneven, the right path ended off into ravine flooded with lava, funny, it was a circular ravine. I decided it was best to ignore it and go through a different path. I continued straight, I managed my way through the uneven path and back onto smooth tunnel. I came to a fork in the road, each path became jagged and uneven, the right path ended off into ravine flooded with lava. I'd just been here! I must have went in a giant circle, I shrugged it off. There was no magic that could do something like that. Not that I knew of at least. I went left instead of straight and the same thing happened! I found myself at the exact same fork in the mineshaft. I looked to the right and then behind me. I guess there was magic like that. Maybe that's why this section of the base is abandoned? I reluctantly walked along the right path and looked down: Lava lake. I looked up: A hole leading to the surface. The walls were all made of stone, sloping inwards to meet at the top to make the small hole in the top. Almost like it was planned..... There was a rumbling noise and an avalanche of rocks came tumbling down from the darkness above, crashing down and blocking off my exit back into the mineshaft. Great, now I'm stuck in a hot, dangerous ravine. There was a distant laughing somewhere below me. It was deep and taunting, it was enough to make anyone's skin crawl. I looked over the edge of the one block I had to stand on and saw two large white spots in the lava below. Herobrine. How had he gotten into the lava? It was like he was the lava, you could see a huge version of his face down there. It was laughing maniacally.

"Ryan," It droned, "I have you in the palm of my hand." Lava shot from below at me, I dodged it and it hit the stone wall behind me. "Good luck." Was all he said. And guess what his lava began doing.

It was rising.
I only had one block to stand on, I looked up and saw a number of obsidian platforms, rising and rising to the top. Parkour, I figured this was no time to sit and pick my nails, so I jumped and barely got a firm hold over the obsidian. My body was slipping and my legs dangling, I pulled myself up, sweat dripping from the fear, heat and strength I was using. I got onto the obsidian but that wast stopping the lava, I jumped onto the next one and continued the process and I was doing pretty well, I thought I could smell saltwater but wasn't sure, but I could definitely smell fresh air. Until I missed a jump, I hit the side of the platform and went tumbling back down into the smoke and hot air. I grabbed the most firm grip as possible on the obsidian platform there was a crack and pain shot up my arm, it made me want to let go and fall, but I was burning, the lava wasn't even a block below me. It was only millimetres away from my feet. I hauled myself up and jumped following the same route and technique as last time. But the sweat on me was slippery and I knew full well that the lava was right below me, burning up the obsidian I just jumped off. This didn't help, but what did is that I could smell fresh air again. Herobrine was still here however and I doubted he would let me escape. I snuck a peek down back into the abyss and saw the lava about a block below the obsidian I was standing on, I was almost at the top though! If I could jump a little more... But the pain in my wrist was overwhelming and I was forcing myself to ignore it, and that was very hard. Then there was he sweat and fear of getting burnt to a crisp and lost in the lava to burn forever. But I had so much to complete, I jumped onto the next platform and grabbed hold of the edge of the hole, I jumped over, not onto land but onto a steep stone hill. I was in a volcano. I slid swiftly and painfully down and down the side of the volcano, and the fact I'd escaped wasn't stopping Herobrine rising the lava, I could see it pouring down the edges of the volcano and could feel it burning through the stone. I reached the base and bounced off, splashing into the water. The lava soon reached this point too and forced me to roll away as it fused into cobblestone and more obsidian, not that I wanted to become embedded and suffocated in it or anything. When the lava finally dried up and I assumed Herobrine admitted defeat I climbed out of the water and rolled onto the island. The pain in my wrist was blinding and made my vision blurry, I was forcing them to stay open. It didn't end well all the same,

Because I eventually fainted.