End

Chapter 12

  Steph and End went into the room, careful not to fall into lava. Steph picked up the sphere of water, it was moving in her hands. Water currents in her hands, foam slightly moisturizing them. It felt soothing, like a massage. She placed a block of water, and it instantly started shooting out in all directions, changing the lava to obsidian in mere seconds.

End yipped and teleported to the entrance of the room. "You have to be careful with that!"

"Sorry," she said, shaking the sphere so the water disappeared, and putting it away.

"So, what do we do now?" Steph asked End.

"We find out what time it is." said End, and teleported away.

An instant later, he was back, and let out a breath. "About dawn."

"Alright, so what now?"

"We wait until night. They'll be sleeping, so we have the element of surprise. Go craft your armor and weapons with all the diamonds we found, along with a watch."

"Do you need a sword or armor?" Steph asked, puzzled.

"Your armor is too small for me, and Enderman skin is tough, blades don't cut well, I use fists."

"Okay."

"Right. It's nighttime, we place the water directly outside the base, and the water seeps through the stone. All Endermen but the king and guards die, they don't have permission to teleport anywhere outside of the clan. We fight away the king and the guards."

"Okay," Steph said, crafting. It seemed like a pretty good plan.

When Steph finished crafting, End told her to rest, they had hours before night.

"I'll wake you when it's time," End told Steph.

Steph reluctantly lied down and fell asleep, and dreamt just random things, mining, cutting trees, finding mushrooms on water, and so on.

When End finally woke Steph up, fear and dread nearly choked her.

"You ready to go?" End asked Steph.

"Yeah....wait...let me eat." Steph shakily replied, getting out a few apples.

As she ate, End gazed off around the mineshaft. Steph couldn't tell, but she thought End looked nervous.

"Alright," Steph yelled when she finished her apples.

End whipped his head at Steph when she tore him away from his trance, but then relaxed.

"Oh, okay. Grab my hand," End replied.

When Steph did so, End said, "It's a little far from here, I'll need a minute to recover," and teleported.

The feeling of teleporting almost felt familiar, barely nauseating anymore. When it stopped, she only felt slightly unbalanced. End, on the other hand, stumbled forward, and caught himself on a nearby tree.

They were in a forest, which was on the borderline of a plains biome. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until her eyes passed over - Steph gasped.

What she saw in the plains was breathtaking. A wall of smooth stone blocks, nearly reaching the clouds shaped in a rectangle, lay before her. It was bigger than anything she had ever seen built before. All by Endermen!

She would've stared at it all night if she could have, but they had to flood it. All of it. Steph didn't want to ruin this amazing structure, but she remembered what the beings inside of it did to End, and other humans like her.

End stood upright, removing his arm from the tree, and gazed at the building with dismay.

"It's bigger and taller since I was here last. It'll take longer to flood, thus giving the guards a chance to teleport fighters out. Great..."

The sun was just disappearing over the horizon, stars beginning to appear.

"Alright, your job is to go up to the wall, then place a block of water from the sphere. But while you do that, you must concentrate the water to move into the wall. Understand?" End explained.

"I-I think so." Steph replied.

"Once you do, run back over here, and wait for the king with me, I can't get too close to the water," End finished.

Steph ran out to the wall, End watching at a close distance from the trees. She just wanted to shrink into her armor and stay there until it was over. But she couldn't. She was the one who had to kill the king.

Steph looked at the wall, then back to End's glowing purple eyes. End urged her on, "Just place the water!"

She placed the water, focusing with all her might to go into the wall. Most of the water seemed to flow into the direction of the wall, but some still traveled the other way. Steph bolted back to End, and closed her eyes. That was so scary....

"And now," said End, "we wait for him to teleport out."