The Mark Of the Nether (A Minecraft fanfiction)

Broken Dreams

Piper's POV:

Everything was dark. The green faded away and now I was surrounded by darkness.

"Ugh, not again." I groaned. It reminded me of the 'space between in between the universe' of whatever the spirits called it. Except I could actually feel the ground. I moved to the side and my hand touched something cold and hard. Smooth stone. "Merlin?" I called out but my voice refused to go louder than a whisper. I slowly turned around to get a better look of my surroundings, my eyes were finally adjusting to the darkness, when, once again, I came face to face with a pair of pale green eyes. Merlin.

"Hey!"

"AH!" I screamed and fell back. Merlin teleported and caught me before I hit the ground, though.

"Woah, you okay?" I shook him off and got to my feet.

"No. What the nether Merl, you scared me!" I glared at him.

"Oh, sorry!"

"Where did you teleport me to?" I looked around but still couldn't see much.

"I'll tell you, but first I should probably light this place up." He held up his staff and a lime green trail zipped along the sides. Lighting up each of the torches that were hung up on the walls. Now I could see that we were in some sort of tunnel. "These are the catacombs." He explained and started walking. I followed. "They're underneath the castle."

"Okay, but why'd you bring me here? And where are we going?" I still didn't understand.

"Well, there's something I wanted to tell you. Actually, it's more like something Notch told me and the other long-term residents, that he didn't want to tell you and your friends but Echo, Ace, Quinn, Donnie, Eli and me all decided we should without Notch knowing and-"

"Merl." I cut him off.

"Yeah?"

"Your point?"

"Oh! Right!" He smiled sheepishly. "Just gimme a second. He held up a hand as we turned the corner, coming to a dusty staircase. "After you," Merl playfully bowed.

"Oh please," I rolled my eyes and smirked. "Ladies first." I copied him.

"HEY!" He shouted. I laughed and ran up the staircase before he could get me back. We had been walking for a long time, and I started getting tired. I began leaning sideways without realizing and ended up squishing Merlin between me and the wall. "Oof! Uh Piper?"

"Hmm?" I responded, my eyes drooping.

"I'm kind of squished here."

"I know." I smiled. "I didn't get much sleep last night."

"So what do you want me to do? Carry you?" I managed to crack on eye open and grinned at him. "How am I supposed to do that exactly?"

"Hmm." I nodded my head towards the staff. I was struggling to stay awake. He sighed and glance at my sleepy state.

"Alright, c'mere." I felt my feet rise above the ground and lightly into someone's arms. "Heh, you're so.." Merlin said something I couldn't make out as I slowly started to slip into unconsciousness.

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Darkness. Darkness surrounded me as far as the eye could see. I turned in a full circle and sighed.

"Why does this keep happening to me?" I groaned . "Ah well, third time's the charm. Where am I now? Spirits? Merl?" I called out but nothing happened.