Aqua [Yogscast]

Chapter 11

Chapter 11 (Yay! Everyone loves the number 11, cuz it's our fave Yogscast-related band! And 11 is also awesome at being a number. I mean seriously, look at it! IT'S A DOUBLE 1. TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! Hahahahaha! Bad not-even-jokes are hilarious! Uh, and yes, it is 11:00 at night, so I have a sleep deprived brain again. Wait... it's... wow. Chapter 11 at 11pm on the... no, it's not the 11th... shoot. Oh snap! I should totally deploy smooth jazz! Not that I have any... but I shall use my mind and remember Martyn's 'Smooth Jazz Screw The Nether' livestream highlight, which was... just wow.)

(Still Martyn's POV)

I led Toby up the kind-of dangerous staircase, and by kind of I mean it was crumbling and some parts had completely gone. At one point, he stumbled, his foot going through a gap, but I managed to steady him and we continued more cautiously upwards. Then I recognised where we were, and stopped on this floor.

"It doesn't look like it's been touched by anyone... just time." I commented, stepping forwards.

The splintering of wooden planks reached my ears, and pain spiked up in my ankle before I looked down to see my foot embedded in the floor. I moved my foot a little, regretting only wearing sandals as the sharp shards of wood stabbed at my bare skin, but instantly stopping when I heard the creak you might hear when a tree branch is bending and about to break. Toby made to move torwards me, but I shook my head hurriedly as the floor groaned under more weight.

"How are gonna get you outta this then?" He asked softly, and in reply I slowly and carefully twisted around, and passed him Infinity, giving me more dexterity.

I carefully leaned backwards a little, attempting to pull out my foot, and in the process the floor around my other foot gave way, increasing the problem. There was a constant cracking sound, and I felt the broken floor begin to move beneath me. The whole thing went silent, and we both breathed a sigh of relief.

"That was lucky." I said, continuing to move my ankle around and try to get free.

Not a good idea. The wooden planks splintered around me, and I fell through, my flesh being scraped pretty badly as I passed the floor. Trouble is, there's no level below us, just the ground floor, and I was heading straight towards it.

"Martyn!" Toby screamed, and I turned around in the air to see his crying face.

I was about to reply, but the floor that I fell through came apart, and being a heavier object, it came faster towards me. The chunk of floorboards slammed into me, knocking my breath away, and we both plummeted the remaining distance to the ground. I hit the solid quartz floor, only having enough time to register the horrendous pain that rocketed through me before I blacked out.

(Toby's POV)

"Martyn?!" I called out, but there was no reply.

Only the eerie silence, a bad feeling, and the dust were here to keep me company. I decided to take a risk, and ran back down however many flights of stairs, back to the ground with Infinity in my arms. The dust hadn't settled yet, and there were still a few pieces of rubble that came apart from the chunk and fell to the floor.

"Martyn?" I whispered hopefully, putting the girl to one side and beginning to pull away debris, intending to dig my friend out.

"Toby? Is that you?!" The shout of a familiar voice reached my ears, and I looked to the doorway.

"Strippin'!" I exclaimed in shock.

He came over, a crowbar in his hand. "Hey... why're you crying?"

"Martyn, he's trapped under here! He fell through the floor up there." I nodded above us, then began to pull away more.

"Oh Notch... you do realise that there's no way he could've survived falling that far, right?" He explained softly, putting a hand on my shoulder.