The Other Survivor

King Naeus

Hi. So I just finished making Iris and her armor into a skin in Minecraft, so you can have a look on what she really looks like. Here's the link:

https://www.minecraftskins.com/skin/12945119/iris--ender-watcher-armor-/

~Iris

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NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE DO NOT CHECK OUT THE SKIN! IT'S BAD AND IS CURRENTLY BEING REMADE!!!! DO NOT CHECK IT OUT UNTIL I TOLD YOU SO!

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"You okay back there?" I asked Rain, who was lacking behind. We have been stuck here in the Nether for an unknown period of time. In fact, I don't want to find out exactly how long we were stuck here. All I know is that we didn't die of hunger, yet.

"So far," Rain replied. I glanced backward. Rain isn't faring much better than before, we have to get out of this place. The quicker the better. We ended up outside of the fortress this time, and we saw something we never thought we're going to see.

"Is that..." I trailed off.

"A pigman murdering a wither skeleton?" Rain finished for me. We certainly don't want to get involved with that.

We then traveled a little closer to the lava sea and realized a few wither skeleton skulls were floating on the lava.

"Let's get back to the fortress," I whispered, "At least we won't be tangled in... whatever's going on here."

"Yeah," Rain agreed, "And I think since I killed their king, they started a civil war." A figure appeared out of the corner of my vision somewhere near a netherrack cliff.

"Rain..." I said, voice trailing off and pointing at the netherrack cliff. We're close enough to see that it's Naeus holding a body. Notch... The body's Abigail.

"That... that monster! What is he doing!" Rain snarled. I held him back from charging straight at Naeus. He'll get us seen this way. I let loose a small and slightly quiet scream.

Naeus tossed Abigail's body off the cliff and into the lava.

"That bit**!" Rain fought to be let go.

"Rain listen to me!" I was tempted to run at him too, but I know we'll never win.

"We can't win! Not with your wound and me out of arrows!" I pleaded, "Listen! Don't charge in there now! We can come back in better circumstances, like bringing a flint and steel, more arrows and first aid kits!" Rain's eyes flashed with irrational anger, and I was afraid he'd kill me.

But luckily he gave in to reason.

"I will come back," Rain said, furious at Naeus, "And I will take revenge."

"That's right. We will come back. And now we retreat to the fortress," I said. Rain nodded reluctantly. We ran back in the fortress.

We killed the guards, I'm forced to use my sword. Luckily I got some time to sharpen up my skills on the sword with the Ender Watchers and the Frostbourne. (Haha? That wasn't even intentional)

We ran ahead and stopped when we're certain the coast is clear. Rain sat down.

"He threw her body off the cliff and into the lava," Rain growled, "How could he?"

I might make this worse, but I said, "Naeus wants her Nether Star. That would make him king."

Rain focused on me, "How do you know this?" I looked down.

"I forced it out of Librarian and retired adventurer Callum?" I said, shrinking away. Back when I was younger, I threaten Callum for forbidden lore. If that fails, I dig up everything I could in any source I could. So basically I scare Callum and he goes out of his way to get away from me. I was quite an insane little kid back then.

"What else did you force out of him?" Rain asked, lips twitching. I thought hard.

"Hm... I think about the End too, the Woodland Mansion and the Ocean Monument. I'll need to drill deeper for others," I answered, thinking deeply. I then flashbacked to my time in the End. Matriarch Ceris saying something about an idiot explorer not filling up the tunnel leading to the end portal.

And Callum mentioned something about finding the End Portal.

Could that idiot explorer be Callum? It isn't too hard to imagine Callum not filling up the tunnel.

The thought became my new form of entertainment.

We wandered through the Nether Fortress for a little while more, until Rain suddenly drew his sword.

"Rain?" I asked him, but then there's no need. I saw a squad of Wither Skeletons holding something like a head. As they came closer, I realized its the head of Herobrine.

"So he's dead?" I whispered unbelievably, "Dam, I don't get to kill that bastard."

"So are they going to do something with it?" Rain asked.

"I don't want to find out," I said, hinting we should hit the squad.

"Careful, Wither Skeleton blades can cause withe-" he winced and removed a bit of the "bandage" over his wound. To my horror, I saw that it's blackened.

"Notch... we need to get you back," I said in horror. Rain shook his head.

"Get Herobrine's head first," he said. I nodded and I threw a knife at the skeleton holding the head. I charged in to retrieve it. Rain as my support.

"Agh dammit NOOO!!" The last skeleton screamed before I cut him down. I took the head and without a second thought, threw it as far in the lava the window of the fortress faced. I saw it sink.

"Serves him right," Rain commented. I dragged him along until we reached another platform. Strange.

"Crap," Rain said. I raised an eyebrow, he never swears or says anything of this sort, except at Naeus. But I see why.

A disgusting giant zombie pigman is dueling Naeus. And Naeus won. We arrived rather late into the battle.

Naeus put on the crown the pigman wore.

"He's king now," I whispered.

"Let's get out of here, we can't beat him here," Rain said. I'm surprised he of all people is saying this.

"Yeah," I said. We fled.