You Tried

Chapter 16- Imprisonment

-Rob's POV-
When the man teleported away from my friends, I knew it was a hopeless fight. The man had my collar, and held my collar tight, to the point where it started to choke me. He teleported me into a small cage, and tossed me to the cement floor. I scoot into the corner, and hug my knees. He wants Ty and Anthony in exchange for me. I don't understand why I'm such a big deal. I'm just a kid.
I'm just a 6 year old boy. I'm nothing special. The only special thing about me is my dad and his little crown thing. I never wanted to be a King, and yet, here I am. A kidnapped King being held for ransom. But not any ransom, a trade.
This man wanted two very powerful Enders, for me in exchange. His exact words were:
"If you want the Flower King returned, you WILL bring me the twins by midnight. Or you can say goodbye to your Flower King forever."
What he meant by forever, I don't want to know. But I most certainly don't want to live and die here. While I cower in the cage, the man locks the door, and pulls out a needle from a cabinet nearby. I don't care for needles, but they don't bother me either. I notice that he's filled it with a clear- something, like water. He handles the needle carefully, and pulls my hand out of the cage.
He had wrestled my hand away from my body, and had it splayed in front of him. He took the needle and stuck the tip into my wrist. I flinched, but stayed silent as the stuff he put in my wrist burned like fire. The feeling fled my hand and entered my lungs and ribs. Soon, I was barely breathing, because it hurt so much to breathe. My ribs felt tight, and my lungs felt like they'd burst.
The man sat back, and watched me. "How does it feel, Robert? To feel true pain? The pain I felt as a child? How, Robert, does it feel?"
I felt like I needed to respond, but my chest gave out, and I couldn't breathe. As I struggled, the man found joy in watching me. He pulled a second needle, and this one had a blue liquid. The blue stuff went into the same wrist, and my vision instantly blurred, making it impossible to see. He smirked.
"You're 'friends' won't have the nerve to come get you. I bet you. Even my son won't have the guts. Don't get your hopes up. If I don't have the twins, you get to stay here forever."
I stuffed myself back into the corner, and I started to cry. Don't leave me here. Please. I knew the wouldn't in my heart, but I feared they might. My vision was blurry and unfocused, and my chest hurt, making it hard to breathe.
The man started to move, and stood up. He looked at me. "It's time Robert. You're friends aren't coming. If they do, they'll never find you." And with that, he tossed a black blanket over the cage. I felt him pick up the cage, and it moved me.
I could plainly hear a Nether portal, and I knew he had gone through it. I could hear fires, lava, ghasts, blazes, and zombie pigmen. The man carried the cage down what I assumed was several flights of steps, and put the cage down. He lifted the blanket, and said, "Hope you enjoy the scenery."
In front of me, I saw an open faced cliff in the Nether. Below me was a glass floor, and below that, lava. Behind me was a Nether fortress. The Nether bricks stood out to me. I know all this stuff because of my mommy. She taught me this stuff and gave me my ad-van-ced vo-cab-u-lary. It helps sometimes.
Then, it clicked. The man. The Nether. Teleportation. White eyes. The man is Herobrine.
He notices I've caught on, and he kneels next to me. "So, you figured out who I am. Wonderful. Now- how do you think you're friends will find you here? Magic? I know you have the sorcerer boys and my son. Good luck with theories."
With that, Herobrine left the room, leaving me with nothing but the cliff to stare at. But the Nether had other plans, and an elemental storm began. There was red lightning, and loud cracks of thunder. No clouds came in the heat of the Nether, but acid rain fell from the stalactites they stuck to. I could hear Herobrine's booming voice above me.
"GET THE BOY SECURE. I DONT WANT HIM ESCAPING." A wither skeleton appeared on the staircase, and it lifted up my cage. It put me down in a room with no windows, and closed a door with only an outside lock. It was pitch black in this room, but even if it wasn't, my vision was still incredibly blurred. I couldn't see for the life of me.
A few minutes passed, and I heard the storm die out. But no one moves me from this dark room. So instead of being a lunatic and calling for help, I was so tired, I just fell asleep.

-Sky's POV-
We had finally figured out a respectable plan. Now it was time to teleport. But everything stopped when Brice cried out. He'd tried to memory link with Rob, so we could find his location easier. Brice looked at me, and I knew it was bad.
"He's injured, and he's no longer in the Aether. Herobrine moved him to the Nether." Brice's words dashed my hopes. "Injured how?" "A serum. He can't speak, because it has his lungs near the point of bursting. He also can't see, I'm guessing by another serum. We need to move fast." I realize how quickly we need to move, and I shift into high gear.
"Let's go! Now!" Ty and Anthony come and Ty grabs my hand, while Anthony grabs his. Everyone seems afraid to touch Anthony, but Jerome braves it and grabs Anthony's hand. Everyone is in a circle, and I give Ty and Anthony a location to teleport to. They nod, and the three of us teleport, taking everyone else with us. We land in my room of Herobrine's Aether castle.
I lead the group downstairs, and we circle up again to teleport to the cell block. Once down there, I lead them to the portal, and they leap through one by one. I go through, only to find an elemental storm. The castle is right there, but the acidic rain between us and the castle will hurt. We have to wait out the storm. These storms can last anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 weeks. But it's a short one thankfully.
It stops after about 5 minutes, so it had probably been the shortest one ever. We speed to the gate, and jump through. In his castle, it's more dangerous to walk around aimlessly. There are wither skeletons, and they can kill you with their curse. They have swords, and so do the pigmen.
But I had lived here for 6 years of my life. I know my way around and how to be sneaky here. The guards are stupid, and they don't check shit. You could torch the kitchen, and only the cook would react. Torch the throne room, and everyone but me would get beaten for it. Trust me, I've done it.
Brice tries the link again. After some tears, Brice nods. He's got it. "Rob is on the south side, three stories down. He's asleep, so it was a bit hard to get to him. Let's go. I'll lead with direction, Sky leads for safety and knowledge of the location." We start to move.
I can sense my dad in the west wing of the castle, and I know he senses me. If he doesn't, he's an idiot. We make it to where Rob is, and a spike of pain hits me. I drop to my knees, and I know my dad has figured it out. Everyone struggles to open the door. Just as they wake up Rob and get him out of the cage he'd been in, Ty cries out behind me.
I turn to find Ty facing my dad. His left wing has a rip in it, but he doesn't seem hurt, just angry. Anthony streams over and shoves Herobrine backwards. Unaware, he flies back, and hits the wall. Anthony goes back to his brother.
"What did he do?! Tyler, what-" Ty stops him mid-sentence. "I'm fine Anthony. Forget it. We need to save Rob right now." He took his own injury and shoved it aside like it was no big deal. It takes a strong heart to do that. Brice did that, but in a different way. He didn't have to push his away, and he did.
Without anyone noticing, Herobrine had stood back up, and started to stalk me, making my head hurt more. When I finally realized, it was too late. He was practically on top of me, and he wrestled me to the ground. "YOU ARE A FAILURE. YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE THE NETHER. IT WAS A MISTAKE I LET YOU OUT AT ALL."
And with those words, I felt the curse fall on me. He'd banished me here. I would never leave. Portals won't work for me, so I'll be stuck here forever. Then as I lay there in shock and pain, Herobrine grabs Ty and Anthony's wrists.
Heavy chains envelop them both, and they disappear. My dad disappears with them, and his voice echoes all around us, making my head hurt like crazy. "Thank you for he payment. You may take your Flower King, but my son will stay with the payment. Go, before I keep you ALL here."
The boys look at me desperately, and I wave them away. "Go. YOU NEED TO GO. We'll be fine." I urge them to leave, and they finally listen. They run, and then I can hear the portal break like shattered glass. It will no longer work.
Ty, Anthony and I are trapped here in the Nether. And my dad has the twins. The one thing he couldn't have. I can hear Anthony screaming and Ty shouting and cursing. I have a massive headache, and I pass out on the floor.
I wake up in my room. But it's my room in the Nether castle. I can see a chain cemented on the ceiling. The other end of it is around my right wrist. The chain is loose enough so I can move around freely, but the end of the chain stops at the walls, so I can't leave my room.
The shackle also glows a faint blue, warning me its enchanted. I know the enchantment. Unbreaking is so I can't destroy it and escape. I know where I am in the castle though. I'm on the top floor of the East Wing. Then, I hear a curse come from Ty somewhere to my right. They're in the North Side.
I need a way to get from my room to the North side of the castle. This chain needs to go, but I can't break it. So I'll have to slip it. Dad forgot that I'm a very good with chains. I always played with them, so I know how to easily slip a chain like this. It's the simplest thing.
I pull my fingers together into a small half cone shape, and pull my thumb into my fingers. It makes the size of my palm smaller, and I slip right through the shackle. I'm free of the chain. Now all I have to do is find if there's a teleportation field block, and then I just have to find the twins. I have a rough idea, so it won't be hard.
Let's go!