The Shadow WIthin (Book 2)

Chapter 31: Betrayal

Sparrow's POV

I ran fast, pulling the clock up around my shoulders and rushed out the Nether portal. If I ran just fast enough, I might be able to get to him.

"Notch, I'm here." I said, my voice quivering. "Where's my family?"

"They're here." Notch said, walking up to me. "And I presume you have the battle plans for the war coming up."

"Yeah.."I said, my voice trailing off. "What happens if your brother finds out about this....incident."

Notch shuckled. "Oh, I assure you..he won't know about this in the slightest." He handed back the battle plans to me.

"Huh, but..don't you need these?" I asked, holding the plans in my hand tightly.

"Nah, I was just confirming my idea." Notch said. "Looks like my brother's going back to his 'secret' plan."

"His secret plan?" I asked. "How would you know beforehand."

Notch smiled. "Well, we discussed this plan with each other when we were kids. We'd play fight each other with these plans; I wondered when Herobrine would would fight back."

"Uh, where's my family?" I asked, my voice quavering.

"Oh, about them." Notch said, his voice trailing off. "They're at your home. Though they might appear a little, different..."

"What did you do to them!" I shouted, nearly ripping my sword out of it's scabbard.

"Well, let's just say it's going to leave a mark." Notch said, sticking his hands into his pockets.

"WHAT DID YOU DO!" I shouted yet again, grabbing a potion from my back pocket. "If you've done anything to them..I'll."

"Don't worry Sparrow, it'll be fine." Notch said. "And that potion of yours wouldn't have done anything to me. In the meanwhile, you have a bigger problem to deal with."

Just like that, Notch disappeared, and I was left to hear the sound of footsteps approaching. 

"Sparrow, is that you?" Fawn asked as she peeked around an oak tree. "What are you doing with Hero's master plans?"

"Umm, nothing!" I said quickly. "These aren't his master plans, just uh..something I picked up." 

"Well, you might as well be coming back to the Nether." Fawn said, gesturing to the sun which was on the brink of rising. "It's almost the sunrise, and we've got to make sure Notch doesn't see us."

"Can you umm, teleport me somewhere?" I stammered. "I just want to check on my family."

"What, you mean Seto?" Fawn asked. "Why'd you need to check on him? I'm sure he's capable of defending himself."

"I just wanted to check on my sister Daisy." I said quietly. "I just want to make sure she's safe."

"Ok, that's sounds like a valid reason." Fawn said. "I'm assuming the treehouse?"

I nodded, and Fawn smiled back. She flicked her fingers and we found ourselves staring at the treehouse, or in my case, my home.

"Daisy?" I shouted, climbing up the ladder as fast as I could. "You there?"

I opened the door, and it creaked. I flinched as the sound penetrated my eardrums, and I took a glance around.

It looked like a wild animal had been through the lab. Test tubes were  shattered everywhere, and there was more than one pile of steaming liquid on the floor. In his bed, Daisy was sleeping, and there was slash marks over her arms.

"Umm Daisy, you ok?" I asked, prodding Daisy in the arm. 

"Uhnn, I feel awfuwl." Daisy said, wincing as she got up from my bed. "Notcfh, he told me you were helping him."

Before I could stop Daisy from talking anymore, I heard footsteps walking toward me and I sighed. Busted...

"Did I just hear you right?" Fawn asked, staring into my eyes intently. "Are. You. Working. With. Notch."

  "Uh, it's not what you think." I said, my voice quavering.

"Sparwow said he woked with NOtfch and NOtfch told me the same thing." Daisy said, spitting out a cotton swab. "I literally can't talk with cotton swabs in my mouth.

"I knew it." Fawn whispered to herself. She turned to me. "I'm not going to let you do this to us any longer."

Before I could do anything, Fawn had teleported away.

Then I collapsed on the ground.

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Like always, sorry I'm such a LAZY writer. I blame Sans for this.