The Enderdragon's Baker (A Minecraft Story)

Poking A Dragon

"Anna?" I knocked.

I heard a muffled voice tell me to come in and wasn't too surprised to see her hunched over her desk again. She's been like this for three full days now. It's midnight and she's still up looking over all the information. Propped against her hand, her head hung limply over the papers. She looked ready to pass out at any moment but shook her head slightly to stay awake. All I could do was sigh.

"You need sleep."

"My brother is gone." I paused. "Endie, I've been looking through this for three days and I'm almost through the whole thing. I can't find him."

I- have no idea what to say to that. I'm not good with this stuff, damn it! She turned to me, looking dead to the world. Now that I think about it, she hasn't slept for longer than we've been here. How long has she been postponing this?

"We'll find him, Anna."
"It's been a month."

"Yeah, A month they didn't have the most determined person in the world." Her expression softened. "We're going to get him back, but you need sleep to do that. You can't figure anything out like this and if you find out where he is, how do you expect to do anything like this?"

"I... Don't know. I just, don't want to sleep." She was falling as we speak. I rolled my eyes and scooped her up, lying her in her bed.

"Their nightmares, hun. They'll go away, but running from them will do nothing but hurt you."

"Since when are you a doctor?" She pouted and I smiled.

"I have to be with a friend like you." I teased, pulling the covers over her. "I'll stay here and look over the files. You probably missed something being like this."

"Thanks, Endie."
"No problem. Now go to sleep."

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"Anna!" The trio cheered.

"M-Mornin'." She mumbled, swaying. H didn't even take his eyes off the paper he was looking at, pulling her slightly towards him to keep her from falling over. The boys laughed, Leland leading her to the table where she just lied back down on her arms. Zach placed an already made tea in front of her and sat on the other side of her. "Thanks, Zach."

"You look deader than me, Ann." He chuckled.

"She's been up fooor-" Endie counted on his hand. "Five days straight?"

"Yep." Brine confirmed.

"Why?" Leland asked. He and Ken were cooking while Andy brewed more teas and potions.

"Half of it was here looking at Freddy's case, the other half was just in general. She doesn't sleep well." Brine answered.  He looked up from the map in his hand. "Arin." Said brother jumped and looked over his shoulder nervously.

"Y-yeah."

"Calm down, I've just got a question." Despite his words, he snickered. Anna opened her eyes and gave him a look, but he just chuckled and waved it off. "Anyway. Do you have a bigger map? The three of us are going to map where all these sightings are from." That woke her up. She sat up and looked at the enderman beside her.

"Me nor Brine could find anything in the file, but these sightings make no sense." He answered. She and Zach nodded.

"Mind if I help for a while, Queenie?" Zach asked. She nodded, drinking her netherwart tea. Brine smirked.

"So I know these six but not you." He said, sharing a look with Endie.

"Awe, she didn't even talk about me? I'm hurt, Anna." She rolled her eyes but smiled. Brine snapped a picture. He was absolutely ready to piss of Ed. "Why do you keep taking pictures of me?"

"She's got a protective friend I want to piss off." He answered. Zach smirked, loving a challenge, and threw an arm over Anna. He posed and she laughed, Brine snapping the picture. "Ed's going to love that one."

"Leave my dragon alone." She giggled. "At this rate he'll find a way out and kill him."

"Oh, did you finally get a boyfriend?" Zach asked, leaving his arm there.

"No, and what do you mean finally?" She asked, smuggly. "Last time I checked, your still single as hell."

"Well of course I am, I'm busy worrying about you. That is a life time job, my friend."

"Like your any better, Mr. I'm-Invincible. I'm the one dragging you to the infirmity everytime I get back because you went and got yourself 'poked' by a few dozen swords."

"Hey! It's not that much."

They continued playful bickering for the rest of breakfast, the brothers joining in every once and a while to make a jab at one of them. Endie and H just listened and laughed. It never showed around them but she really is just like them, and maybe that's why they became so close so quick. Among everyone here, she is the 'Endie'.