My Last Hope (Truth Series 4)

33: Messenger of Death

A/N: This chapter deals with a group known as the Creatures. I am aware that some of those mentioned in this chapter are no longer a part of the Creatures. I am basing this on the old members as the group as that is who was in the group when I watched the Creatures. Unfortunately, I have not watched them in a while so I am not up to date on exactly who is a member and who is not.

Also, and I know I'm going to regret saying this, rather than posting one chapter every weekend I am going to post a chapter shortly after I finish it. That means updates will be random but hopefully it will still equal out to about one update a week.

Third Person POV

Notch stands in front of the giant treehouse known simply as the Creature House. On the ground beside him is a wooden coffin. Inside the coffin is the deceased body of Eddie SlyFoxHound. The god composes himself and knocks on the door. A man in a pineapple suit opens the door.

"What do you want!?" He demands no paying attention to who's there. Upon the realize that the man at his door is the almighty Notch he takes a step back. He rubs the back of his neck and chuckles awkwardly. "Sorry 'bout that. Please come in."

"It's quite alright young one. I appreciate your invitation but I think it would be easier if I spoke to you and the rest of the Creature's out here." Notch replies cautiously not revealing his abrupt reason for coming here.

"Alright." The pineapple, Spoon, leaves the door open and ventures back into the treehouse. Notch stands of to the side making room for them to exit. A few minutes later Spoon returns with several others. Those being Steven ZeRoyalViking, Jordan Kootra, James Nova, Alecs ImmortalHD, Dan Newz, and Seamus SSoHPKC.

"We're not sure where Sly is. He went off with some friends a few days ago and hasn't returned yet." Kootra explains his friend's absence.

"Actually he is why I am here." Notch derails Kootra's reasoning.

"What do you mean?" Seamus asks, arms crossed in front of his chest.

"You have all heard of Herobrine, yes?" They all nod.

"He's your brother isn't he." Seamus states more than questions.

"Unfortunately, yes."

"I thought you said this was about Sly." James accuses.

"I'm getting to that part."

"Sorry about him." Kootra bows slightly to the god, still awed by his presence here. "Please continue."

"My brother has declared war on the world. And in doing so he launched his first attack. A group of four friends was his target, they were ambushed on a parkour map. Sadly two of them were killed. They did not respawn as they should have. The other two were left barely alive with a message from my brother declaring that he would take over the world."

"What's this got to do with Sly?" James demands.

"I regret to inform you that your friend is one of the deceased." Notch gestures to the wooden coffin. The group stands unmoving. They're all staring at the coffin shellshocked. Kootra gulps and shakily makes his way to the coffin. Kneeling down beside it he carefully removes the lid. He stops with it partially open, just enough to see the deceased's face. Kootra swallows the lump in his throat and looks away.

"Has anyone gone after Herobrine or have made plans to?" Kootra stands up and faces Notch. His gaze is strong and a fire seems to flicker in his eyes. His hands form fists and shake violently at his sides. "There has to be!" He declares in a half shouted growl. "How can anyone stand by and let him do this!"

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Elsewhere, Seto makes his way into the area in which the Yogscast has gathered along with Clash, Star, and Sierra. They are in a large clearing in the middle of a forest not far from the town a certain young woman, Kim, has been building with the help of many others. Rythian is the first to notice the exhausted sorcerer emerge from the treeline.

"Seto!" He calls to his brother. "What took you so long?"

"Sorry. Something came up." Seto's voice is even and unrevealing.

"What happened?" Rythian demands. He knows the man before him well enough to know when he's hiding something.

"I was attacked. But that's not what matters now."

"Are you hurt?"

The younger man sighs. There is no avoiding Rythian's interrogation. "Yes but I am healing fine." Rythian looks Seto over from head to toe. His gaze hard and studying. Finding nothing obviously wrong the older man nods approvingly but doesn't speak award. Seto rolls his eyes at his brother's behavior. "As I was saying before we have more important matters to attend to."

Sensing something bad, Ridge steps forward from the rest of the group. "What is it Seto? What's going on?"

"Brine has made an attack. One on me. And another on Chim, Double, Sly, and Bodil."

"Are they alright!?" Clash demands as he takes a step forward so he's standing at the demigod's side.

"I'm afraid Sly and Bodil are dead. Chim and Double were left barely alive with a message from Brine. He has declared war."

Shadowy figures move through the forest surrounding the group in the clearing. One notches an arrow on his bow, aims it at the back of a blonde haired girl standing behind a male werelion, and releases.