The Undiscovered Raelo: a Shiloh and Bros Fanfiction

Chapter 16: The Summoning (Daniel POV)

*Daniel POV*

Things weren't looking too great for us at the moment. We just found out that Herobrine could potentially be stalking us, which could end up in a disaster if we screwed up. On the bright side, we had finally found all of our siblings now. The next step now is to find whatever Beacon caused us to enter this Raelo and use it to get back home.

I'm most worried about Shiloh. She hasn't experienced Minecraft as much as her brothers have, so she doesn't know a whole lot about the Overworld. But thankfully for us, she is a fast learner, and can adapt to new environments pretty quickly.

Right now, we were all sitting at the table that we made in our house last night, trying to think of how to find the Beacon to get back home.

"Oh! Maybe we can use our Holo-messenger to check in with the others back at HQ?" Elijah suggested.

He whipped out a little gadget that looked like a pocket watch and opened it up. He pressed a button on it and waited. Nothing happened.

He pressed it a second time. Still nothing.

"Ugh. No good," he said as he put it back in his pocket.

"Just great!" complained Shiloh.  "No communication, no idea on how to get back home!  We're stuck!"

"Well, on the bright side, at least we're all together," Judah pointed out. "We can figure this out by ourselves if we just keep thinking."

"But what do we do in the meantime?" Josiah asked. "How do we prevent Herobrine from rising to power?"

"Maybe we could go back and destroy the summoning altar?" I suggested. I figured that if the person/people needed that to summon Herobrine, we could at least stall them for a while.

"That might work. If only we remembered the way we walked from last night," Micah said grumpily.

Elijah smirked. "Who needs to remember if we have a map?" he said as he pulled out his locator map.

"But Elijah, how do you plan on finding that specific cave with that specific altar?" Shiloh asked him.

"I used a banner! Just before we left, I thought it might be a good idea to remember where that was. So, I placed a named banner and it appeared on my map right about... here," he explained, pointing to where the banner was marked on his map.

"Minecraft just doesn't make any sense sometimes..." I just barely heard Shiloh whisper.

"Alright guys, let's do this.  We're going to destroy that altar and stop Herobrine!" Judah exclaimed.

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After a long walk back to the cave, we managed to rediscover the summoning altar.

The good news: it was still in the same location when we found it.  The bad news:...

The Netherrack was lit.

"No!" I rushed to put the fire out, but the damage was already done.  I banged my fist on the block, discouraged.  Ow! I thought, shaking it off.

"Herobrine is now stronger than ever," Josiah said.  "Once he is summoned, there's no going back."

"Wait Josiah, didn't the book say it needed four offerings or something?" Micah asked.  "What if they haven't given them yet?"

"I... think they already have..." Judah pointed to another room behind the altar.

"Oh no," Elijah said, slightly afraid.

"We're not alone in this world," Josiah pointed out.  We walked into the room and saw four players that I knew from somewhere, but couldn't exactly pinpoint how.

"Dream?!  GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap?!  No, not BadBoyHalo too!" I heard Judah and Micah exclaim in despair.

The four Minecraft YouTubers were found hung to the wall, shackled.  Unable to move.

"This explains why they haven't uploaded in months," Elijah muttered, depressed.

(A/N: Now play the song "Bad Dreams" by Mary Riddle from 0:09 seconds to 0:30 seconds in.)

"We have to go. NOW!" I said as I ran out of the room, my siblings right on my feet. I didn't get very far, however, when someone stopped me in my path, knocking me to the floor.

"And where do you think you're going?" I hear a voice smirk above me. "The fun's just getting started!"