Fallen (MCSM Fanfic)

Chapter 6: The Temple

This chapter was written by the original writer @petraXfied
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Left, right, left, right, Petra repeated over and over in her head. She needed to keep herself awake somehow.

Repeating these words and focussing on the rhythm of her walking just seemed to do the trick. Though, she hardly thought she could fall asleep with her arm growing heavier each minute.

Now she wasn't just miserable and sick, she was miserable, sick and bored. Petra despised being bored. She had warrior instincts, so she had always had trouble with sitting still. She had to do something.

Petra was dozing off, half asleep already. Then a yell of irritation jolted her to full awareness.

"Aw, man!" A voice shouted, startlingly loud, causing birds to flock off of several trees.

Petra was confused at first, she cocked her head to one side as if to help her better hear the distant noise. Petra realized that she recognized this voice. "It couldn't be Lukas?"

Petra was unsure of how to find her friend. Could she find him? Was he real? Was this just an illusion? Was she just hearing things? Was her Wither Sickness causing this?

An idea then popped into her head; she would climb a tree. If she saw the temple, she'd keep travelling in that direction, if she didn't see the temple, well, she didn't exactly know. It wasn't a great idea. It wasn't even decent. But what choice did she have?

Petra knew she could scale a tree, but she didn't know if she could scale a tree in her condition. She didn't let that stop her. Petra half-heartedly placed a foot on the lowest branch, pulling herself onto the second. Just as she was about to think that this was easier than she had previously thought, the branch started to crack and Petra plummeted to the ground. She stayed there on the ground for a second, then got up.

Petra didn't stop there. She walked over to a smaller OK tree to the other tree's right. She repeated that process, and got up to the forth branch, very close to the top. She jumped, and then she was on the very top torrent of the tree.

There was no time for her to celebrate, and she didn't have the energy either. She stood up and waved away the fog in front of her face.

At first, she saw nothing in the distance, and her hope dimmed. Then, and just barely, she saw the outline of the Temple of the Order. She'd found it! She saw the bright sun rising to its peak in the sky just behind the building, the sudden sunlight fell to her face.

She scrambled back down, feeling as if the pain in her arm had become a little less. Maybe, her confidence had just grown upon seeing her saving grace.

She had no time to lose. She ran towards the temple, not caring that her arm was throbbing and sapping her strength. She skidded to a stop in front of a stone wall covered in jungle vines. She knew from experience that she'd have to clime those vines in order to get to that temple. She scaled the wall without much difficulty. Petra took a deep breath after climbing the mossy wall, her hands resting on her knees.

She then lifted her eyes to the huge building Though the place was crumbling and dilapidate, she thought it still quite magnificent. And Petra wasn't one for being a connoisseur for other people's builds.

"Who goes there? Petra?" Asked a familiar voice from high in a window, belonging to a blonde-haired boy. "Is that you?"

"No, I just have her appearance, voice and personality. Of course it's me." Petra snapped dryly. She was not in the mood to talk.

"I know you'd be back! At least, your sarcasm certainly is." Lukas's face disappeared and she heard him sprint down the steps to open the door for her.

Petra turned to face Lukas as they walked down a corridor within the temple.

"I'm really glad you're okay." Lukas said, taking a left and directing Petra to do the same. "We all thought something was delaying you from coming."

"So, Aiden took you back here." She summed up. "So Axel and Olivia must be-"

"What do you mean Aiden?" Lukas cut her off, confused. "I travelled here through the portal with Jesse and the others."

Petra turned to face him confused. She thought for a minute. "You don't know what I'm talking about, do you?"

"Afraid not." Lukas furrowed his eyebrows. "Petra, are you alright?"

He's completely clueless! Petra thought to herself. Did Aiden wiped his memory or something? Or did he not force Lukas through the portal? Then how was she talking to him now? Was there two different Lukas's? This was all too much for her mind to take!

Just thinking about this made her head hurt. She gave a tired and irritated sigh and hoped that it wouldn't attract Lukas's attention.

But it did. "Petra, are you okay?"

She didn't want to tell him about this sickness now, she would tell him after she found out what was going on.

"Petra?" Lukas narrowed his eyes, stopping to look at her.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"So, what happened out there?" Lukas asked, leaning against a wall to face Petra completely.

"It's a long story." Petra snapped and turned away.

"We have time."

Petra reluctantly turning back to him. "Do you want the short or the insanely long version?"