My Last Hope (Truth Series 4)

21: Dinner Conversations

A/N: I'm running out of prewritten chapters... I gotta get moving on the rest of this story... Dang, I have to start writing again. Lol XP

Third Person POV

It has been an hour since Sierra told her family how she was taken by Herobrine. Now everyone is gathered in Notch's dining room. Everyone being Notch, Ridgedog, Sierra, Gunnar, Star, Clash, Double, Chimney, Sparklez, Ant, Ryan, Bodil, Sly, Spoon, and Seamus. They all sit at the long dining table in the center of the room. They're having a feast to celebrate the rescue of Star, Sierra, and Sparklez. The room is loud with laughter and mindless chatter. Everyone seems to be having a different conversation. It's unusual but the chaos is welcome in Notch's normally quiet castle. Although there is one person who is oddly quietly. Star stares down at her food pushing it around her plate. Her lack of appetite and things to say goes against her usual loud and carefree demeanor.

"Are you alright?" Sierra asks the female were-lion. The were-lion doesn't answer. "Star." Sierra gently places her hand on the were-lion's shoulder. Star looks up from her plate and into the eyes of Notch's daughter. "Is something bothering you?" Star stares at her for a few moments before looking back at her plate.

"I'm sorry," she mumbles.

"What for?" Sierra asks kindly.

"I- I didn't mean to!" The young girl stumbles over her words in a slight panic. "It was an accident I swear! I-"

"Star." Sierra interrupts the girl's nervous rant. "What are you talking about?" Star continues to stare at the untouched food in front of her not saying a word. "Star, please tell me." Still nothing. "Star, I'm not going to get mad at you."

"Promise?" Star asks timidly.

"Yes. I promise."

"I overheard you talking about your son." Star admits.

"That's nothing to be upset about."

"Really?" Star looks up at Sierra.

"Yes."

"His name is Soro isn't it?"

"So I've been told."

"I think I've met him before."

"Really?" Sierra is taken aback. She never expected her young friend to have met her son. "Why do you say that?"

"Herobrine isn't the first person to kidnap me. Once when I was very very young I was kidnapped by a man who called himself a scientist. He wanted to experiment on mixed breeds, whether they be part human or all animal. While I was there I met a boy a few years older than me. He said his name is Soro. But..." Star trails off trying to find the right words.

"But?" Sierra pesters wanting to hear the rest of what she has to say.

"He didn't look the way Ridge described."

"What did he look like?" Ridge joins the conversation.

"He was tan with brown hair and eyes." Star tells him.

"That's definitely the same Soro." Ridge confirms.

"How are you so sure?" Sierra questions him.

"He used a spell to change his appearance. He used it to hide from Herobrine because the only thing the bastard really knew about him was his appearance." Ridge explains. "So his disguise was tan skin, golden brown hair, and chocolate colored eyes."

"But surely the Whitefire crystal would have given him away."

"He didn't start wearing it until he was eleven. He also kept it tucked under his shirt when he started wearing it around."

"I see." Sierra redirects the conversation to Star. "Do you know why he was there?"

"He said he was camping with his brothers and a friend. They went to sleep for the night and he woke up in the lab with his brother, Rythian." Star explains to her what she remembers from her short time with the boy.

"What did this scientist want with them!?" Sierra exclaims.

"I don't know. Soro said that they were kidnapped because he's a witherborn and Rythian's an enderborn."

"Do you know how they escaped?"

"No. I got out before they did."

"How did you get out?"

"I don't know. That's something you'd have to ask my dad."

"Gunnar?" Sierra turns to the older were-lion.

"Maybe another time," Gunnar replies. The look in his eyes says that there's something he doesn't want Sierra to know.

"Alright," Sierra accepts his answer anyway.

After another half hour or so dinner ends. Everyone parts from the dining room going to the rooms Notch provided for them to sleep in or exploring parts of the castle on their own. Notch's only advice to those that are exploring is 'if you get lost it's your own fault'. Which basically means that if one of them gets lost they have to find their own way back. Such a helpful god.