Romeo's PoV
I sat down on the floor and picked at the helm of my grey shirt. It has been so long since I was stuck in the Terminal Zone with its scary glowing lights and random machinery. Why did I ever think the sounds were so peaceful to my ears.? Now all I felt was the scare. The death of a mortal. Me. I was afraid of death itself. But I had risked everything for Jesse and his gang. For everything I've done in the past, this was nothing.
I've been sitting in here, ever since the giant colossus had tried to kill me by punching me to death. I could see Jesse's face as he thought I had died while saving him and his gang. I drew cubes in the dust, looking up to where Fred's hologram was. How did Fred even plan this? Before I took his and Xara's powers away? I finally knew what it felt like to be useless.
I sighed and curled up on the floor, trying to sleep. It was so long since I slept. I was longing for my bed. Now I knew how Xara felt when she found out that I destroyed her bed. I had been watching from the shadows, pained, but still looking out for Xara. Jealousy got the better of me, back when I killed my old friend, Fred.
I closed my eyes, my back against the wall and the colossus still storming outside. The girl, Petra was wrong. This place didn't collapse. It just trapped me in here. Which was even worse. I missed my powers but as Jesse said, I had abused them so many times. Killing people, bedrocking things and destroying builds.
I sighed, bored out of my mind. I deserved to rot here. Forever. I had designed this place myself, programming it so that anyone who entered and stayed, would never run out of stamina, sleep or anything any normal mortal would have to do.
And now I had weaved the trap myself and stepped into it. "Romeo." I continued to close my eyes, knowing that I was going crazy because of the voice in my head. "Romeo, come on, are you awake?" I was going senile. Seriously. My mind just wouldn't shut- "ROMEO!" My eyes shot open as someone pushed me rather hard.
Xara. She was here, standing right in front of me. "X-Xara?" I answered, my voice barely audible as I have never used it for so long. "Come on, we gotta get out of here." Xara said impatiently, as if repulsed that she was saving me. "But-." I said when Xara punched my arm, hard.
"Wake up, Romeo. We gotta go!" she said again, taking my arm and pulling me along. I wasn't used to walking as I had always been flying around so much, my legs gave way to my weight. We were already out of the archway and the portal was so close... yet so far. "Xara. Why did you come back?" I gasped, holding onto her as I tried to stand again. Xara blew a hair away from her face and glared at me.
"I didn't want to lose my friend, duh. You've grown dumber even after five years in here." she said, pulling me up and towards the archway. "Xara, the colossus." I said, tugging on her arm. She rolled her eyes. "Since when did you turn into a wimp? I see being mortal made you soft."
I knew Xara was trying to encourage me, but I yanked my arm away from her. "Can you stop picking on me? I've been stuck here for eternity." I said angrily. Xara looked back at me and folded her arms, her mouth twitched slightly, as if she was going to laugh. "Do you want to get out of here or not?" she asked coldly, making me inch back a bit. "F-fine." I said, walking a bit to get used to the feeling.
"Then we gotta-." Xara looked up and turned a little pale. I looked up too just in time to see the colossus's giant hand come crashing down upon us. "GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Xara yelled, pushing me to the side and making me fall to the right. I gasped when I looked down all the way, the endless bottomless pit. I shakily stood up and looked around, "Xara?" I waved away the dust as the colossus raised another hand, its eyes glowing evilly. "XARA!" I yelled, looking around, a feeling of dread in my heart.
I looked down at the broken bridge which linked the place where I had been and the new portal that Xara had built when she came to save me. "Xara- no.." I looked up, angrily. "NO!" I ran up to the stonefaced colossus and remembered how Jesse had done the same to me when I controlled the colossus in BeaconTown.
Climbing up to the colossus's head, I raised my hand and punched the back of its head, remembering that it's weak spot was there. I barely hung on as the colossus roared, throwing it's head back and trying to grab me. For Xara and Fred and everyone else I had killed, I had to do this.
One more time. I told myself, and raised my arm to give it one good punch in the back of its head. When I did, the colossus roared and bent down, breaking the bridge and sending me flying. "Ugh-." I gasped, holding onto a one block space as the colossus blinked out of existence and vanished into a whirl of colour and particles.
I looked around again as the dust settled. And there, nearby, was the portal back home. But now I had other things to do besides going through. I had to find Xara... I couldn't believe she was dead. Jumping to the next block, I parkoured my way towards the portal, hoping she would be there. But all I could find was emptiness without any trace of Xara anywhere.
"Xara..." I looked at the broken bridge and wondered what happened to her. I couldn't bring myself to say that she had died. After all she had done for me... sighing, I turned away from the Terminal Space and entered the portal, hoping she would be on the other side.
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Now, as I wandered through the small valley, hidden beneath the bedrock, I stood next to the tree I had planted for Fred and took out a sapling. "Xara always liked the Mesa..." I laughed a little sadly. I remembered how the Terminal Portal was made of gold, birch and chiseled red sandstone. I placed a acacia tree for Xara, right beside Fred's birch tree.
"Xara..." I said quietly and placed a few flowers around the tree and used bonemeal to grow grass and beautiful flowers and to make the tree grow faster. "I'm sorry." I said, turning away to leave the two trees, and I silently thanked Xara for saving me till the end.
-End
Any other ships? *whispers* I'm kinda getting lost here.
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