(Herobrine X Reader)...'s Sister

Chapter 4, Gone

     "How peculiar.." Steve looked closely at little trinket sitting on the livingroom coffee-table. The mud coating his skin was all crusty and getting all over the couch, and Lyla was nowhere to be seen.

     "Your turn to wash up, stinky." Steve was suddenly attacked by a clean towel to the face. He grabbed it as it was dropping to the floor and looked up to see Lyla with her clean clothes on and hair that was even worse after getting wet. "And don't mess with my amulet thing." She told Steve, noticing his interest in her little light blue gem tightly wrapped in an iron webbing that was made to look like vines growing all around it.

     "Where did you get it?" Steve asked.

     "I don't know. Now get up so I can clean the couch you messed up already." She was obviously not in a talkative mood. Steve got up and walked towards the bathroom. "Wait, you have spare clothes with you, right?"

     "Yeah." Steve answered simply, picking up on Lyla's anti social attitude. Steve was in and out of the shower much quicker than Lyla and also came out wearing the exact same looking outfit he had on before, but just a cleaner set. At the time, Lyla would have preferred he wear something that maybe didn't resemble the man who just kidnapped her sister, but she had sold all her father's outfits long ago and her clothes would be much too small.

     When Steve came out he right away sat in a chair across from the couch Lyla was now claiming as her throne just by the way she sat on it.

     "So what's the plan Stan?" Steve asked with no joking expression whatsoever. Lyla just looked at him as if he should already know.

     "Simple. You go where you were planning on going and do what you were planning on doing, and I help." Lyla laid out as simple as possible. Steve didn't exactly look like he liked that idea.

     "Listen, I will be going further north for this, where it is even colder and the villages are few and far between. Coming along is basically a death wish." Steve stated.

     "Excuse me but is that a challenge?" Lyla perked up.

     "Hhhh, no, it isn't." Steve dropped his head into his hands and shook his head.

     "Well, I accept this quest of yours. You'd better know that I am tougher than most people, maybe even tougher than you; and I am already used to walking far distances and whatever hard work might come our way." Lyla huffed.

     "You gotta be kidding me.. This isn't some sort of challenge or endurance game! If you lose, you die! Do you not see the severity in that?!" Steve raised his volume, trying to make a point.

     "And do you not see why this is so important to me?!. My sister is in the freakin' NETHER. Who knows how long she'll last without my help?! She's only eighteen after all! You can't expect me to just sit around and wait, do you know how nerve wracking that would be?! I am pretty sure if you had a sibling you would do whatever it takes to help them out, now wouldn't you?!"

     "....." Steve only lowered his head with a hint of sadness for him. "...Yeah.. I would do anything for him..."

      "Well then let's get going already!" Lyla, in excited mode, stood quickly to leave.

      "Hold up, battle princess! It's midnight outside. We should stay here tonight and prepare for tomorrow. We'll leave first thing in the morning." Steve devised a plan, and Lyla was glad she was a part of it. She walked over to the bottom of the stairs before turning around to look Steve directly in the eyse.

      "Promise, that you won't leave me along the journey, no matter what comes our way?" She asked with sincerity that caught Steve off guard.