Dragons, Enders, Attack! A Minecraft Story [WARNING: OLD AND CRINGEY]

Chapter Twenty Seven

Ender POV

I stood beside Queen Black Mist while she was seated in her throne. I held my obsidian sword face down so the tip was resting on the ground. We were waiting for any news from the Enderguards. Black Mist was seated on her amethyst and obsidian rimmed throne with no sign of armour at all. I was terribly confused at this. I mean, we were expecting an attack from those players any minute now. Also, there were no Enderguards here on the throne room protecting Black Mist as well. She had motioned them all off and out of the throne room.
It was tearing myself apart. I had to ask.

"Um Queen Black Mist." I said trying not to sound too scared or nervous.

The Ender Queen raised her head to look at me. Her glowing violet eyes piercing through mine and almost seemed to read my mind.

"Yes?" She wondered. Her voice made me tremble slightly.

I gulped. "Why don't you have any guards here to protect you? The players could show up any minute and you don't have any protection or anything."

Without a twitch of her expression, Black Mist answered. "I have a plan for when they get here. As you know, I have taken three hostages that some of the players in the group know and care about. Listen Ender, I don't want to drive them away, we wish to murder those hostages in front of them and cause them pain. That way we can smite them with our mighty army. Those players will not stand in our way in any way. We have an army, they don't. We have some of the most precious dragons, they don't. We have a plan, they don't. You see? They won't cause any trouble." She explained.
"Now do I make myself clear?" She asked.

I knew how to answer. With a slight nod of my head the Queen's expression softened. She then changed the subject. "Now, go check on those prisoners. Try and get some information out of them or just stab them a couple of times. I want to hear screams coming from down the halls." Ordered Black Mist.

I nodded. I took a deep breath and walked steady, echoey steps on the hard obsidian floor and out of the throne room.

Honey POV

For the past half an hour, Tatum explained how she could touch lava and stuff, Betty read us the prophecy, and we all discussed a plan.

Skella stood up from where she had been sitting for the past twenty minutes. She was sore and had to stretch her legs.

While trying to touch her hands together behind her back, Skella gave us all a question.

"Okay, who here is good with a bow?"

I raised my hand and so did Cree. Tatum kinda half put up her hand and the others just didn't at all.

"Now who's not scared of placing TNT around a place and lighting it?"

Betty raised her hand and so did Tatum.

"So I guess the rest of you wouldn't mind it if you just did sword to sword combat." Finished Skella.

Both Jade and Affinity nodded in response.
Tatum stood up beside Skella.

"Uh why are you asking us these questions?" She wondered.

"I need to know who will do what in order to defeat Queen Black Mist. So some of you will stand at a high area and shoot explosive arrows at Enderguards, a few more will place TNT all around the castle and light it when I give the word, and the rest will help kill Queen Black Mist." Skella explained.

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Cree jumped on. "Since when are you the boss?"

"Well no one else has been saying anything is I decided to be the one that would explain the plan." The skelogirl answered a little on edge.

"Well could we at least tweak the plan a bit? Like some parts I'm not approving much of." Wondered Cree sounding a little on edge as well.

Skella sighed. "Alright! So what's you idea?"

"Well we gotta train a bit first. I can't fire explosive arrows just like that." Cree said while snapping her fingers once.

Betty piped up. "Oh! And by the way, where in the Nether are we gonna get redstone torches to light the TNT?"

Tatum joined. "Guys, remember, I'm the one that has special powers! If I can summon an army, wouldn't I be able to shoot fireballs?"

That got us all quiet for a few minutes. The only thing that we could hear on the silence was the bubbling of the lava pool that we had landed in earlier.
Finally, Betty broke the silence.

"But Tatum, you don't know how to do that. You don't even know how to summon an army for crying out loud."

Tatum's face fell at that. Then after a while, her expression hardened into a deep thinking look. She walked away from the rest of us and faced the wall. I was really confused. What was Tatum doing? I finally spoke up after an eternity.

"Tatum, what are you doing?"

Without turning around Tatum answered.

"Something just came to my mind. It's like I already know how to do these things but I just can't put my finger on it." She answered.

"So you think you know how to shoot fireballs, but you just can't remember?" Betty jumped in.

"Yeah." Tatum said.

We were left in silence for about thirty seconds until Tatum broke it.

"I think I know!" She exclaimed.

She put her hands out in front of her like she was holding onto something. I saw her with her eyes closed and a deep thinking expression on her face once again.
I saw her put her foot out behind her and I saw a small glowing thing form in her hand. It grew bigger, and bigger, and bigger. Until it was the size of my head. It was a giant fireball! I gasped and so did everyone else.
Tatum opened her eyes and she gasped as well. She made that strange yell thing again as well.
Tatum whirled around to look at us. Her expression had a huge smile on her face and her eyes were wide open in happiness and surprise. I felt happy for her.

"What do I do with it?" Tatum asked.

Everyone shrugged. Suddenly, I saw the fireball get even bigger than before. It was growing so much that now it was three times the size as it was before.

"Tatum, you have to get rid of it!" Said Betty.

"But I don't know how." Tatum answered while the fireball grew bigger.

Her expression suddenly changed into an 'I have an idea' face. She closed her eyes again and her eyebrow furrowed into a concentrated face.
In a few short seconds, the fireball stopped growing and it got smaller. It shrunk down for about two minutes until it was just a small speck in her hand.
Once we couldn't see the fireball anymore, Tatum didn't open her eyes. Instead, her expression softened and she collapsed.
Betty, Skella, and Affinity ran to her. Tatum hit the ground with a CRACK. I guessed it wasn't very nice to land on straight Netherrack.
In a few seconds Tatum groaned. That meant that she was in a lot of pain from the fall.
Everyone (But Cree) ran towards her and crowded around. I did as well.
I caught a glimpse of Tatum's eyes fluttering open. I didn't see what came next but everyone else did. Everybody gasped and stood back from Tatum.

When Tatum had opened her eyes, they were a crimson red!