You Tried

Chapter 55- Endangerment

-Sky's POV-
I knew something bad had happened when I saw Anthony. Ty was still MIA, so I didn't know what happened. Ty was no longer in the Aether, and it worried me. Was he okay? But my answer was distributed by Anthony's broken expression. He was very upset.
While Mat kept Mitch busy, I took Anthony aside. "Is Ty-" I didn't even have to finish. "No. He committed suicide off the island. He is lost to the void." "Oh. Anthony, are you gonna be okay?" "Probably not." "Stay low, keep it together. I'll be back."
I teleported to my Dad's Nether portal, and straight to the End portal from there. I found the dragon, still flying around aimlessly, and Ty. The endermen had laid him out carefully, and he looked peaceful. I walked over, and found that he wasn't there anymore. He just wasn't there, he was lost to the void.
I sat beside the motionless body, and just thought. What had traumatized him this bad? The last capture? Anthony did say they snuck up on him... Then I thought, what if I could bring him back? Could I? Yes. I can.
I took Ty's wrist, and held it in my hand. There was no pulse, only cold skin. I felt his wrist get warmer under my touch, and I suddenly felt his energy. It wasn't here, but far below. I screamed, just for him to hear me. "Ty!" The energy looked up, and floated up to me. "What, Sky? I'm not coming back. I can't. The crystals are gone."
"But I can. So you can come back. I have the energy and will to do it." "Fine. Try. But before, how did Anthony handle it?" "He's a wreck. That was kinda rude and unexpected." "Sorry, but it was my only option."
In a few short minutes, I had Ty sitting up, getting used to everything again. I pulled him to his feet, and he led me to the portal. It was underground, hidden by a chameleon curtain. He put the last eye of ender in its pedestal, and dunked himself in the water. As he disappeared, I walked up, and fell in.
I found myself in the meadow by my dad's castle. Ty was in the grass next to me, kneeling over, breathing heavily. I helped him up, and saw the problem. Ty had somehow sustained a wound to his side. It wasn't deep, but it was big. It looked like a bite.
But nothing was here, or in the portal room in the End. But there must've been something dangerous, because Ty's bite widened without warning. He kept gasping for air. "Endermite. Sky. It's an endermite. It was invisible."
"Why'd it bite you?!" "I don't. Know. But it hurts. Find. Anthony. Leave me here." I teleported to the Flower Kingdom, and found Anthony. I didn't tell him, but I grabbed his hand and teleported back to Ty. "How?! Wha-?!"
"Anthony. He's dying. Again." "Anthony! Endermite. Help." Anthony sprung into action, and assessed the wound. It now spanned the whole side of Ty's rib cage, and had gradually gotten deeper. His shirt was drenched in blood, and he couldn't focus his eyes.
Anthony found water, and slowly poured it over the wound. It steamed, and Ty cried out. But Anthony didn't stop, and kept it up with the water. He looked torn about intentionally hurting Ty, but he knew he had to to save him, and kept going. Finally, Ty stopped.
The wound had stopped growing, and Anthony pressed his hand on the space where the wound was. "Tyler, you need to relax. Remember what happened last time?" "Last time? He's had this before?" "Yeah. But the last time, he nearly lost his leg. When you get stung by an endermite, the wound never stops growing until it either consumes you, or you dilute the poison with water."
Ty relaxed as Anthony asked, but was very edgy about it. We heaved Ty to his feet again, and he stumbled. Holding him steady, I teleported us to the castle. I laid him on his own bed, and Anthony shooed me out. I walked up the steps, and was reminded of the fantasies when I saw Mitch.
He looked at me expectantly, waiting mercilessly for Jerome. I teleported back to him, to complete chaos.

-Preston's POV-
The second Sky left, things went wrong. Mat had gone too, but the rustling of the bush when Sky disappeared, it notified the humans. A net came barreling at my face, and I tumbled down between the two trees painfully. I was tangled in the net, and couldn't escape.
"Preston!" Pete cried. One human tied the ends of the net together, and got me tangled even more. They took Jerome at sword point, and kept him at bay with the swords. One appealed to Jerome's carnivorous instincts, and threw raw, dead- something into a steel box.
Jerome ran, instincts overrunning all logical thinking. The door to the box slammed shut, and Jerome slammed into the door, denting it. Pete stared at me, horrified. He mouthed, 'Is Kara safe?' I nodded. I'd turned back a moment before Sky left, and had hidden Kara in my old cove while Mat had gone to the castle with Sky.
They pulled my tangled net to another box like Jerome's. But the top and sides were glass. The bottom was metal, but the rest was glass. I pushed me in, cutting the netting away as they did. The door shut, and sound was cut off.
I could only hear myself. Nothing else. Pete screamed and cried, but I couldn't hear him. I could see Jerome's box rattle as he pounded on it, but I. couldn't. hear. it. I hated it.
Sky reappeared, and his face morphed from mildly being okay, to shock, to anger, to confusion in a matter of milliseconds. He lowered himself deeper into the brush, and watched the humans as they moved around the cages. Pete was in tears, slowly falling asleep to exhaustion. I couldn't see Jerome, but he'd stopped moving as far as I could tell. I could see the glow from my skin through my own containment, on the ground.
The humans drooped their heads and fell asleep. Sky didn't help us, because he couldn't seem to figure out how. He held up his finger, and mouthed, 'Wait.' And disappeared.
I fell asleep quickly, after I'd watched as Pete exhausted himself to the point where he slept. The next morning began with the sun glaring through the glass of the cage and blinding me. I blinked several times and looked at my surroundings carefully. We were moving, and I saw Pete in front of me, in his small cage still. Jerome was still blocked off in the steel trap of his. Sky hadn't saved us.
He'd left, and hadn't come back. We were doomed, unless the same miracle from childhood repeated. I hadn't even told Pete the whole truth. I hadn't just been let go. I'd been starved, and then proved useless to the humans holding me. I couldn't process anything big, and refused to speak my own language.
They only wanted to steal it from me, and humanize me more than Sky already has. They wanted to keep me away from the pocket forever, and give me to a human family to live until my death. I'd spit at them, and actually burned one of them to the point where he went blind in one eye. My hopes and dreams crashed when I saw where we were headed. It was the awful place again.
Ahead of me, Pete scrambled as far as he could from it, but considering he was confined, he didn't get far. They took us in, and it looked nothing like I remembered. There was technology galore, and twice as many humans as before. Pete was curled in a ball near the back corner of his cage, somehow still with his regular slime looks. But now it hurt.
The enchantment Seto had on us, was gone. It hurt like pins and needles constantly, everywhere. I looked down at myself, and I knew why. The enchantment really was gone. I still saw bright lava, and no humanoid hands as I had with Seto's enchantment. Oh no, I thought. What about Rob? And Mitch?
Oh god. What happened to Kara?! She might still be hiding in the cove unless Sky found her and took her to Rob's. Maybe she was safe. I had no clue, and bothered me terribly.
They took my glass case, and moved it, with me still in it, with a technologically powered claw arm. It swept the box easily into a cold room, and the frost crept onto the glass instantly. I melted it just as fast, making steam, but I was overpowered by the cold, because there was just way too much. The door was shut, and I lost sight of Pete.
All sound was still cut off, but all I cold see was a dark, frosted freezer room. I sat in the bottom of my container, and hugged myself for my own infinite warmth. Something in the container clicked, and a cold mist came from the top, slowly covering me in ice cold air. I started to shiver, for the first time in my entire life. I was actually cold for the absolute first time in my life.
The door opened, and a man came in. His head was dipped, and he faced a small board in his hand. He marked it in several places with a pen, and I could see the blue ink of the pen on the page, but not the writing. He glanced up every now and again, and wrote down more every time he looked at me. Was he taking notes on me, or what?
With my confidence thrown to the cold, I asked him a question. "What are you doing?" His head snapped up, and he frowned. "What language was that?" "Language? English." "What are you saying. Speak English, creature!" "I am!" "Do you understand me?" "Of course. I know English. Do you?" "I give up. I guess you don't speak English."
What?!?! I just spoke English. Did I not? Then it dawned on me. I just exposed my language to a human. Without noticing. They have recording devices everywhere here.
Oops.