The Other Survivor

Wings of Salvation

"Hang in there!" I yelled at Rain who was holding his own against a few zombie pigmen. I went out to for some scouting and when I come back, boom! Rain is being attacked by pigmen! Unfortunately, some pigmen seemed to be deliberately trying to stop me. I thought they were no-brains!

We finally cleared them out when Rain stabbed the last pigman through. He knelt wearily as I checked for wounds.

"It's not bad if you ignore the big one," I said, referring to the one that Abigail gave him. He winced.

"I'm not sure how long I can hold out," Rain said, looking up. I looked back worriedly.

"You'll make it," I tried to reassure him. He looked to the open window, I looked as well.

Crap, is that Azura? Flying and gunning down the massive skeleton thing? And she said she couldn't fight.

She's too modest, I thought. I was tempted to scream at her, but she can't afford to be distracted, not now. But just then, the giant skeleton thing fell. Azura looked like she's going to fly for the midair portal.

"Azura! Over here!" I screamed at her. She turned towards us, she looked like she can't believe what she was seeing. She flew to us.

"Thank Notch you two are here!" Azura almost collapsed in relief, "I gotta get you back." Rain allowed a small smile. But then Azura caught something at the edge of her vision. Rain readied his sword.

"No, let me handle this," Azura said, readying her gun. Bullets flew out of her gun non-stop. But at a horrible moment, she ran out of ammo.

"I'll get him," Azura said as she grabbed Rain and flew away. I teleported after her. Just when I'm about to hit the floor, I teleported back up again, a useful trick that I learned. We went into the portal.

I nearly had a heart attack when I began falling after I exited the portal. Then I remembered my armor before I hit the ground. I teleported next to Azura and found her sitting down, looking at me in amusement.

"That way you use teleportation is... strange," she settled for that. I shrugged.

"It's useful, so you're planning to fly us all the way back?" I asked. She nodded.

"I think you can keep up quite well," she said. 

"Azura you should get Rain back as soon as possible," I said, wanting to bring notice to his wound as soon as possible. Azura grinned.

"What happened?" She asked, concerned.

"Check him over," I said. Azura frowned and Rain backed away.

"It's no big deal," he protested. I shot him a glare.

"Oh, so getting withered by who-knows-what-Abigail's-staff-is-made-of is no big deal?" I glared at him. Azura frowned.

"Rain, stop trying to be noble and let your friends help for once," Azura said while frowning. Rain sighed.

"I just don't want to be a burden, that's all," he said. I sighed.

"Rain, sometimes you are denser than a rock. Seriously? You think I see you as a burden?" I demanded, "Come on, if you're simply a burden to me, I wouldn't even be here. Even if you are, I'm not just going to leave you behind."

"That is what I was trying to tell you," Azura said. Rain looked down.

"Even you got to admit you're being an idiot," I said. He sighed.

"If you're withered, then we should get you back quickly," Azura said, changing the topic. I nodded and stood up.

"Yeah, we gotta hurry," I said, helping Rain up in the process.

"You wanna teleport or fly?" I asked, he raised an eyebrow.

"I can?" He asked hesitantly.

"Sure, the armor teleports whatever it touches," I said, Rain looked queasy.

"No thank you," Rain said, "I'll stick to flying." I shrugged.

"Personally prefer teleporting," I said, "If you don't like how it feels like, well I got used to it. It's quite interesting once I got used to it." Rain looked at me strangely.

"You have a strange taste," he decided to say. I shrugged.

"Ready?" Azura asked me once she had Rain in her arms.

"Ready," I confirmed before teleporting after her.