SHADOW KNIGHT'S REVENGE: A Minecraft Diaries Fan-Fiction

Chapter XII: The One to Blame

Both Laurance and Aphmau were at a loss for words. They only stood stock-still in their previous positions.

"Miss me?" Arabella rolled her eyes. "Gee, I hope I'm not talking to statues."

Laurance blinked. "Irene, is that really you?"

"You seem disappointed to see me alive."

"Arabella," started Aphmau, but she didn't know what to say. No one would know what to say when their dead friend shows up out of nowhere with an attitude. "I--we--the wedding--it--" Aphmau looked around wildly and had no idea what to focus on. This was already too much for her. At last, she noticed the werewolf Prince's trauma over the death of his father and people. "Ylva! Fenrir!"

Arabella crossed her arms, watching her run over to him to try and console him. She then turned to Laurance, who was still in shock.

"This--This has got to be a dream," he muttered to himself.

"Do you want it to be?" asked Arabella, with no apparent emotion in her voice. "That's a shame."

Laurance looked extremely guilty, but more than anything, he was horrified. "You--you've seen--I--what?"

I've done more than just see the wedding, Arabella wanted to say, but she kept her mouth shut. "I've been here for a few days, trying to get you guys out. So yeah, I've seen everything, from Fenrir postponing your execution to Aphmau walking down the aisle to you going full-on Shadow Knight." And kissing Aphmau.

Laurance stared at the ground. He had nothing to say. Of course--he's in a mix of too many unhealthy emotions: anger, guilt, love, sadness, shock and horror. Anyone in their right mind would be, and if they weren't, it was because they were in a mental asylum. He shut his eyes tightly and opened them again. He was acting like Arabella was Medusa and looking at her would turn him into stone.

Finally he looked at Arabella again. With a shaky voice, he said, "B--But you were dead. I saw Garroth--"

"I never died. I was just badly wounded," explained Arabella, letting out an exasperated sigh.

Laurance was still utterly confused and astonished, but at last, he shook his head. "No, I saw--"

"We need to go, now." Aphmau returned to Laurance and Arabella with a key in her shaking hands. The urgency in her voice put a pause to the latter two's conversation.

Aphmau sped off into the direction of the dungeons. Laurance looked at Arabella one last time, disbelief in his eyes, before following Aphmau.

Arabella followed them, but unlike Laurance and Aphmau, she was in absolutely no rush.

The second they reached the cellars, Aphmau climbed down and instructed, "Laurance, we'll go get Abby. Ar--" She bit her lip. She just wasn't used to saying that name anymore. "Arabella, go get Katelyn in the third cellar. Try to find that exit. There's no time to waste."

Arabella nodded disinterestedly and headed to find Katelyn while the other two went to search for this stranger known as Abby. Just like the others, Katelyn, too, was startled to find Arabella.

"Arabella?" she asked with a very shocked voice. "Is that really you?"

"Yeah, yeah," said Arabella idly, opening the cell door, "I'm supposed to be dead. I'll explain later. We need to leave. There's some sort of fissure in the wall that's supposed to be an escape route."

Unlike Laurance, Katelyn didn't ask any more questions. She simply nodded, exited her cell, joined Arabella in the fourth cell and started groping the walls.