Fallen (MCSM Fanfic)

Chapter 14: The Formidi-Bomb

Soren was just as crazy and nuts as Petra remembered him, if anything, she disliked him even more. The only thing he did that made her feel incredibly satisfied, was the large bruise resting on the side of a very grumpy looking Jesse's face.

Everything were starting to pick up again rapidly, as they were forced to flee Soren's fortress while it was crawling with Enderman. Petra and Lukas barely got a moment to speak two words with each other, much less plan out their next step of action.

So they had silently went along, allowing things to play out the way they should. Everything was slowly going the way it should – not that that was going to last for very long.

"Quick! In the water!"

As the bridge's fence railing shattered, everybody leaped into the tiny river. Immediately water seeped into their clothes, thoroughly drenching them. Petra shook a string of wet hair out of her eyes, gasping slightly as it took nearly all her energy to keep her tired body above water.

The hissing from the enraged enderman drowned out everybody else's anxious talking. Petra only briefly caught onto Soren telling Jesse about the lever she'd have to pull.

"Come on, hurry... hurry." Olivia pleaded beneath her breath as Jesse began heaving herself up the wooden tower.

It was only seconds before Jesse pulled the lever, that the awful memory came flooding back to Petra. With a jolt remembering what was going to happen.

"I don't know how much water this thing is going to kick out!" Jesse said anxiously as she splayed out her arms and legs to keep her balance. "So everybody just- ah!" She let out a cut short shriek as the building shook again, knocking her off of the tower.

The water rose, a few people's heads going under before they managed to break through the surface again. Soren called out a praise to Jesse, before gesturing with his hands in the direction they had to swim. They were already metres above the trapdoor.

Everybody began to furiously swim across the room, their heads disappearing beneath the waves one by one as they dove down. Before she too could duck beneath the surface, Jesse glanced back at Petra who was swimming a few feet behind her.

And then she smirked. "Good luck."

With those words, Jesse dove beneath the water as well, disappearing from sight. Petra took in her own deep breath, diving down after Jesse – determined to prove her wrong.

Petra soon realised she needed way more than just determination. The water's strong currents pulled her back as she tried to swim downwards, despite how much effort she was putting into her movements. Physically not strong enough to hold her own against the currents, her muscles already beginning to cramp with strain, her lungs screaming for air.

The others were reaching the trap doors one by one, slipping through the gap. At the last second before going through, Lukas glanced back, his eyes widening at seeing Petra.

Ignoring the fact that he barely had any oxygen left himself, Lukas kicked himself back upwards, allowing the currents to push him closer to the struggling redhead.

Petra's desperate movements were growing more and more sluggish. Her eyes were wide as she began raising her hands to her throat.

Lukas reached out a hand, wrapping his fingers around Petra's wrist and pulling her downwards. His muscles throbbed as he began to swim against the current again with an added weight. Petra could do nothing to help propel them towards the trapdoor, barely able to move her exhausted limbs and forced to leave the swimming up to Lukas.

Almost there, almost there. Lukas tried telling himself as he fought against his body's desperate desire to gasp for air. Feeling Petra's hand start to slip from his grasp, he simply wrapped his one arm around her body and gave another firm kick to propel them downwards.