End

Chapter 6

Steph groaned as she opened her eyes, everything on her hurt, and it pained her terribly to even move her mouth.

"End?' She said weakly, but stopped as her jaw ached too much for her to talk.

"Shhh. Don't say anything, your jaw is broken." End's shape loomed over her, her left eye was swollen and hard to see out of.

Purple dust gathered around End's hands, then he touched a hand to her jaw, and Steph felt it slowly slide back to place.

"I just sped up the healing of your jaw by 2000%. You should be able to talk again about....now."

"Why didn't you heal me before?" Steph asked.

"Number one rule of Enderman magic, the victim has to be awake." End said, now putting his hand over the stinging wound on her back.

"Victim?" Steph said 

"Figure of speech," her replied, rolling his eyes.

Steph felt a nearly unbearable itching as the wound healed. Then over her gut, which was aching horribly, was now healed.

"You are going to have cuts and bruises until they heal normally. So you will be in a lot of pain, I can't heal everything." End said, he looked tired after he healed her.

"What about your wounds?" Steph asked.

End chuckled, "My wounds are not nearly as bad as yours."

Steph gasped as he saw the dried blood all over her body.

"What happened? All I remember was crawling towards you...a voice," Steph squinted as she tried to recall the fuzzy details.

"You tried to help me, the king yelled at the guard to hurt you, then take you back to their base, I wouldn't let them. I grabbed you and teleported away." End said, staring out of the cave. It was raining again. End was farther in the cave, he sat next to Steph.

Steph pondered what he had said. Finally she asked End,

"What do we do now? We can't just keep living in fear of them."

"I know. I had thought about something, but it would be nearly impossible for us to do this."

"What is it?"

"Well," End said, readjusting himself, " After I got banished, I helped humans survive and stuff. I've helped a lot of humans the past 2 years, and had a lot of free time. In their free time, we would talk. One told me, now I don't know if this is true, she heard it from a friend, that there was a man. "

"This man spawned a world, and would hunt out mineshafts and strongholds. This guy, he was very determined and patient. He would dig out a huge bowl of space in them. When he was done, you'd see an entire floating mineshaft in this huge cavern. "

"Over the course of his life, he had found many mineshafts, and cleared out each one. One time, he mined the stone in a mineshaft, and behind it, was a 10x10x15 room. In the middle of it, was a pedestal. The pedestal held a sphere of water. They say it was used by Notch himself as he made rivers and oceans."

"The sphere of water spread fast, and never stopped growing, You could flood an entire Minecraft world if you left it for a few years. It goes through any block, seeping through it. If you shake the sphere, the water you placed disappears."

"The man told everyone, and word spread fast. Minecrafters everywhere searched for it, but few were successful. Only 5 more spheres were found in existence, leaving a total of 6 ever found. Ever. Rumor has it that a sphere is in every world, hidden behind a mineshaft, always at level 19. But in a world, there are hundreds of mineshafts. "

"The main reason because so little were found, is was because nobody could ever find a mineshaft so fast. But, our problem is solved. I can teleport you to any mineshaft." End said.

Hope blossomed in Steph, "So you are saying we find this sphere, and use it against the clan?"

"No! I'm saying we put the sphere on display in a dirt hut! Yes we are going to use it against them!" End laughed, playfully punching Steph in the shoulder.

"Sorry." End said as Steph gasped, clutching her shoulder.

"Your playful hits are like full loaded punches to me." Steph said through teeth.

End chuckled.

"So, when do we leave?" Asked Steph, eager to get going.

"In a day or two, you're in no shape to travel yet. Much less mine all day." End told her.

"Awww." Steph crossed her arms and puffed out her lip.

"Oh come on, we both know you are too tired" End said, smiling.