The Nether Queen - Herobrine x Reader

Chapter Seven

WHAT I have one reader now??? that's awesome. I guess I should update
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"I'm bored." You complain. Manfred chirps something at you, and you groan, draping yourself over a log. "Maybe I'm lonely! There's no one else here but you!" Your babysitter mutters something else. "Steve left a while ago!" Gibberish. "Well, what if I do??" Manfred just sighs and looks off into the distance. "Fine. Coward." You tilt your head back, staring up at the clouds. "I mean, it's nice here, and I feel great, but..." You trail off, noticing Manfred has gone still. "What?"

You hear him teleport, and he's behind you, a hand on your shoulder. You follow his gaze off into the distance to see... what looks like a wave of darkness. Just a solid mass of shadow.

"W-whoa, what is-" Manfred interrupts you with a screech, and the outside vanishes, replaced by the master bedroom of Herobrine's mansion. The Enderman points a stern finger at you as you fall over, snarls something, then disappears. Quickly, you scramble to your feet and run to the balcony, pushing your way through the doors and leaning against the railing. What in the world...?

As the thing gets closer, you start to see individual figures in the fog. Skeletons, zombies, creepers, even Endermen... all walking inside the cloud of darkness, that had to be protecting them from the sun. But how-?!

The railing shifts under you and you back away. It would be a shame if you died of falling off a balcony after all the nonsense you've gone through so far.

You turn around, and you don't even jump when you see Manfred standing behind you. You get used to it. He hands you a note, and you hurry to the mirror to decipher it.

"We're going back to the Nether. Collect anything you want to bring with you." Must be bad. You hurry off to a chest to grab one of the wooden logs you collected, stuff it in your pocket, then come back - only to find Manfred gone.

"Manfred?" You call, looking around. He probably popped back into the Nether for a minute, so you sit on the edge of the bed to wait,

And then a creeper walks through the door.

You let out a shriek, and it looks up at you. Oh no. You'd run into them before, and never gotten caught in an explosion - thanks to Manfred - but he wasn't here now, and creeper explosions at close range could easily kill without armor, and-

A hand grabs your arm and you teleport into the basement.

"Where did you-" You start, spinning to face your rescuer, but instead of a 8-foot-tall creepypasta there's a 6 1/2 -foot-tall husband behind you. "Oh."

"Where is Manfred?" He snaps.

"That's what I was gonna ask you!" You throw your hands up in the air. "I thought maybe he went back to the Nether?"

"Not since I was there." Turning to the Nether Portal built against the wall, Herobrine snaps his fingers and one of the blocks shrinks, the portal disappearing. "Come with me. We have to abandon this building."

"What? Why?"

"In case you hadn't noticed, we're being attacked." His voice was uncharacteristically rough, he sounded mad.

"I- okay. Fine." He takes your wrist, and the house vanishes around you. You stumble on the Nether bricks you find yourself on, but he pulls you upright.

"Stay here." He orders. "If they make it to the Nether we could have a battle on our hands." Then he vanishes. You let out a breath, and glance around, finding yourself in your bedroom. Pulling the wooden log from your pocket, you place it in a corner, and look out the window. Amazingly enough, the Nether is still as dull and lifeless as you remembered it. With a sigh, you plop down on your bed. Nothing to do, but, once again, wait.

"I'm not sure if you're aware, but you have two choices." The entity fingers the tip of his blade, glancing at his prisoner. "One, die. Two, submit to me and join my cause."

".snoog ruoy fo tsom sa deyaws ylisae sa ton m'I dnif ll'uoY" Manfred quips back, bound with cobweb to stop him from teleporting. ".nemrednE fo ytnelp evah ydaerla uoY ?uoy ot I ma esu tahw ,sediseB"

"Simple - you have a bond with our enemy. None of mine could simply resume life there as normal, and feed information back to me. No- they would be found out and slaughtered very quickly." Null scoffs. "And I don't need you, no, not in the least. You would simply be a very convenient asset."

".no sdnah ruoy teg ot elba eb t'now uoy diarfa m'I taht enO"

"Unlike your master, I am not the impatient type." Null gestures to a pair of skeletons standing nearby. "See to it that he doesn't escape, or I'm taking your skulls to add to my collection." The skeletons rattle nervously as the entity slams the door shut in his wake, then heft their bows in an attempt to intimidate their prisoner. Manfred only tilts his head. The trio stands in heavy silence for a few moments before the Enderman attempts to make conversation.

"?yletal skoob doog yna daer ...oS"