Into The Game [FINISHED]

32 ✣ Soren The Architect

"I don't think it'll bruise, your face I mean," a voice said and I opened my eyes to see Reuben "These suits were built with durability in mind" I glanced around and saw a man sitting on the ground. He had curly red hair and had a mustache, a beard and bushy eyebrows. He looked to be rather short and thin, he had a large nose and wore almost identical armor pictures had depicted him with, minus the hat and the goggles that sat on top of it.

"You must be Soren" I said, pushing myself off the ground.

"I am, but must I be?" Soren raised his eyebrow "I'm not sure if I want to be sometimes, sometimes I want to be anything but Soren, ooh! Like a donkey for example" Soren replied enthusiastically.

"Why did you hit me?" I asked, walking over to the architect.

"There was strategic reasons and a personal one..." he narrowed his eyes "You are trespassing after all."

"You hit me, hard, in the face" I told him.

"You upset the Enderman, and I got you to safety" Soren got up off the ground "By the way, as far as introductions are concerned, this is not going very well."

"We're in danger" I told him.

"Oh what else is new?" He walked over to the window. "Whatever your issue is, whatever your problem, it has occurred before, and has been solved before, even so what do you need me for?" Soren asked "I've gone out of my way to avoid these types of problems, I don't even remember what it looks like up there..."

"We need you to be a hero" I murmured, the architect scratched his chin and squinted his eyes.

"Hmm, I see, and what would a hero do in this situation?" He asked.

"A hero would give me his Formidi-Bomb" I said, Soren looked out the window at the Enderman and stayed silent for a few long moments. "There's a Wither Storm on the loose and it's eating up the entire world" Soren burst in suddenly.

"Ah, I see, you misspoke, you don't need me, you need my stuff" Soren crossed his arms. "I've found that when you give people what they want, they turn on you... they become resentful" Soren walked over to the dying plants.

"Who turned on you?" I inquired.

"All of them!" Soren answered in a snap. "It's why I prefer Enderman, they always do what you expect, almost to a fault" He calmed down. "You're a stranger, and what you're asking for is too dangerous..." He sighed. I reached into my pocket.

"I have the amulet" I said, pulling out the amulet. Nothing glowed.

"What?" Soren looked at the amulet in shock.

"Gabriel gave it to me" I told him.

"Gabriel?" He asked.

"Gabriel asked me to reassemble the Order of the Stone" I said.

"The Order of the Stone? They asked for me?" Soren gave a small smile. "I've always known they've needed me but, I never knew if they wanted me..."

"Gabriel is your friend" I told the architect.

"Hmm, I don't know" He squinted again "Does he ever talk about me?"

"Uhh, sure" I said.

"What kinds of things do they say? Specifically, give me an example"
Soren questioned.

"That you were the best of them"
I told him.

"Well that's very nice to hear," Soren smiled "What about you? Are you my friend? As long as we're on the subject" He asked.

"Yeah, sure" I smiled.

"Hah, that's the best thing I've heard in years! Admittedly it's not a very high bar..." Soren smiled "Don't worry, I'm going to help you because that's what friends do, but before we leave, I'm going to give my old friends a gift" Soren walked over to a juke box. "The gift... of song!" I exchanged glances with Reuben. Soren set a record on the juke box.

Gary may seem scary but he's a swell guy!
Sally, dilly dallies, give her credit she tries.
They might look the same to the untrained eyes-

"Don't do that" I interrupted Soren's song dryly.

"Quite a buzzkill, a bit of a blue nose, hmm?" Soren looked at me angrily and crossed his arms. The door quickly swung open and Lucas burst in.

"Wait is that... are you...?" Lukas walked over to me and grabbed my hand. Olivia and Axel walked in.

"Soren..." Olivia murmured under her breath.

"Woah..." Axel gaped. Petra pushed past Axel and Olivia.

"Nice to meet you, Soren" Petra burst into a coughing fit and then looked up at the architect.

"You look... terrible" Soren walked up to Petra. Petra looked behind Soren in shock. I turned around to see Enderman in the lab, everyone covered their eyes. "Seems a bit odd" the Enderman screeched at each other.

"What's happening?!" I questioned frantically.

"You've upset them! You've altered they're behavior!" Soren exclaimed.

"Okay let's go!" I didn't care if the Enderman were upset or not, behavior altered or not, we had to get out of the End.

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