Fallen (MCSM Fanfic)

Chapter 4: The Past

This chapter was written by the original writer, @petraXfied
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"The Past." Aiden had screamed, those awful words ringing through the walls of the tree-house. Gill and Maya grinned in such a sinister way that it sent a chill down Petra's spine. Petra fell to the ground as a table leg crashed into her side.

This is all my fault, Petra thought as she backed up, siding with Axel and Olivia. I should have killed him when I had the chance!

Reuben began floating into the air squealing, being sucked into the portal, along with pieces of furniture and food from the cabinets. Olivia quickly pulled him down and held him close to her chest.

"Aiden!" Axel barked, furrowing his eyebrows dangerously. "What are you doing?!"

"Why," Aiden traced the glowing book's cover with his fingers, "You haven't seen the best part!"

Aiden stared smugly at the three friends and the terrified pig, "Soon, you'll all be dead. And I'll be in your place!" He swiftly took a tiny vial of a potion out of his pocket. A purple, evil looking concoction that seemed to emanate a sickly withering aura. Aiden uncorked it and threw it into the spiralling portal.

Petra felt her body being lifted up into the air. And being thrown toward the portal, and... she couldn't fight it. She couldn't move. She saw that both her friends, and Reuben seemed to have the same problem. They were floating in the air and towards the portal.

As soon as even come close to the portal, Petra felt herself being thrown in. She felt herself disappear, slowly, as if one atom at a time. She felt herself falling.

Then everything went black.

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Petra woke up on a dusty road. As she opened her eyes, she identified a painful ringing in her ears. Her head hurt. When she tried to move her limbs, they didn't obey. She could do nothing but lay on the ground, breath knocked straight out of her. She saw stars, night sky and tall skyscraper buildings tracing up to the moon. She heard a strange noise, like... screaming?

She pulled herself to her feet, half asleep still. She turned her head and gasped. The huge black cloud that was the Wither Storm. It was tearing apart something. A temple. Gabriel's temple.

"But that was destroyed!" She said to herself.

Terrified people screamed as they were picked up into the monster's tractor beams.

She was here? Again? How was she here? How did the Wither Storm come back?

Wait, she thought to herself. Aiden said something about the past.

How was she in the past? This was impossible! How could Aiden do this?

Petra's head swam with flashbacks. Questions hammered in her head. But her natural instinct to get out of danger overcame her need for answers. She knew how this went, she knew that Jesse and the others-

Jesse. Jesse was at the Temple of the Order. Was she? She was dead wasn't she? Petra was in the past, why couldn't Jesse have been brought back too?

Petra's train of thought was abruptly broken by a stabbing pain in her left arm. Of course. How could she have forgotten? Wither Sickness.

Petra was back, and so was it. But her Wither Sickness was supposed to show up after she got to the temple. At least, that's what happened the first time.

The Wither Storm roared and Petra heard crashing buildings against the pavement, so she decided it was time to go. Petra was pretty fast, she was a warrior, so she had to be able to run hard.

But each stride of her run sent pain up her spine. And her arm was definitely not getting any better. But she kept going, pacing herself as well as she could.

Petra had been going for only a few miles, and she was exhausted. The Wither Storm was out of sight, so she started walking, still swiftly, until she saw forest. She drew her sword, though she could barely hold it, and started into the woods.

Suddenly Petra heard a familiar noise, one that could only be explained as 'Whoosh, Whoosh'. She went further as the sound became louder. Then she saw it; a nether portal. Petra remembered finding this. She knew the Nether Portal network well, for she had been to the Nether many times. If Jesse and the gang went into the portal in Gabriel's temple, they would come out here. Now she just had to go east and find the Temple of the Order. That seemed easier said than done.

Still in front of the portal, Petra then heard another noise that she knew all too well, the hissing of creepers, as they came out from behind trees; surrounding her.