Beyond The Courtyards

Chapter 3

Chapter 03 - Who Knows?

Days running, searching, fighting monsters that lurk in the night and resting passed.

"We're getting nowhere." Tyler groaned, sitting down to take a breath after running for so long. "Sub, are you sure that we're going the right way?"

Sub nodded, having to sit down to let his pixels recharge.

"We're actually... here." Chris said, lowering his daggers after fighting a Creeper and looking at a certain direction. Carlo finished a spell, and looked the direction and gasped in awe.

There was a circle, made of mountains, as green as ever with snow covered tops. A flag, colored yellow with a red cross that was torn from the sides could be seen from the regluar elevation.

"We made it." Jorge said.

"Jesus, finally... we've been running for a week..." Tyler sighed. "But do we have to climb that giant ass mountain?"

"I'm not doing that." Carlo whined.

"Exactly. Hold still, all of you." Sub said, getting up and his body disappeared.

"What?" The other four chimed, echoing as their bodies started floating, seeing pixels flying around them.

"SUB!" Chris yelled, shocked as they disappeared and made it to the top of thr mountain, covered in snow with Sub lying on the floor.

"Oh my god!" Carlo exclaimed, running to him. "Are you okay!?"

"I-I'm fine..." Sub coughed out. He tried getting up, but fell back down.

"Let's camp out for the night. Thank you, Sub." Jorge said, getting wood for a fire.

Sub gave a weak thumbs up, putting his head to rest in the cold snow. Chris used his scarf Lasata gave him to give sub warmth of a blanket, Carlo's green hat as a pillow stuffed with Tyler's jacket.

The sun started setting over the horizon. The warm fire blazing on the fire place. Jorge looked over the mountain, seeing the castle. The ruins of it, anyway. Flags tattered, concrete and stone fallen over villager houses. Explosion marks from Creepers and a horrifying view of the laid, rotten and destroyed corpses.

"What happened...?" He muttered. Chris came from behind and saw the sight.

"From research, they say someone, some powerful being invaded with a crap load of mobs. Alot of people died. Some say the king of this kingdom lived. Most say he did. The queen died to protect her son, who lived and was found by villagers..."

"Shit, that's sad." Tyler said, taking a seat next to Jorge. "Who knows though... what can we find that others didn't?"

"Maybe something scary..." Carlo said, tending to Sub for company.

'Who knows...'

...

Mitch and Seto walked out of Jin's cellar and back to the throne room.

"Took you long enough." Jerome said, laughing in between his sentence.

"Sorry... Jin was being off." Mitch apologized.

"Of what?" Jason asked, curious.

"I-It's personal to me... I-I'd rather not say." Seto stuttered out.

"Mm... I see." Ty said, looking up at him. "You don't have to say if we're persistent." Seto smiled and sat down next to him.

"Who knows? He might have some juicy secrets!" Quentin joked.

"H-hey!" Seto exclaimed, ready to pounce but Adam stopped him.

"It's okay. He was kidding." Alesa said.

"I hope so..."

"Well, now what?" Ian asked.

...

Lasata, Krisalee and Ashley was helping out around the house of Tiffany, cleaning and helping.

"Girls, you don't have to help me all the time!" She said, the genuine smile plastered as usual.

"Please, let me! Cleaning has been my occupation for the longest time. Who knows, it's fun." Krisalee said.

"We find this okay, ma'am." Lasata agreed.

"Heh, if you say. Just, be careful."

"SHIT!" Nathan's voice echoed in the halls.

"Nathan! Swear jar!" Pipers voice rang. The others giggled.

"It must be nice."

...

hello yes how is all of you

sorry for the giant ass hiatus holy shit im a fucking freshman now and im on summer break.

these chapters are just the beginning.

also ive noticed i have so many spellings for "tifanny" or "tiffany"

idk.

enJoY!