Heart Above Subzero

Tough Love

(A/N: Tèa: The queen of cliffhangers has returned to fuck some shit up. Let's do dis...)
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It was about an hour and a half later when Seto looked at the closed wooden door. A small frown sat on his face. 'Where are they? Ty should've been back by now...' He thought.

The sun was starting to rise. The distant bleeting of sheep and his own thoughts were the only things occupying him right now. "It's been a long night." He muttered. He didn't feel like sleeping. "Can't imagine how it is for Ty..."

Everyone in the house was asleep. Mitch, Jerome, Tèa, Rookie, and Brice, the blonde having his head nuzzled in Seto's lap. He rested his head on the back part of the couch, letting his eyes rest close. He was falling asleep himself when there was a sudden rapping on the door.

"O-open up! I-I need help!" The voice called. I recognized it as Ty. He sounded frantic, so Seto jumped up, waking up Brice. The door flew open and it revealed a tired Ty and a hurt-looking Riot. "OmiNotch! What happened?!" Brice exclaimed, getting up.

"What do you think?" Ty sassed. He quickly heaved Riot onto the couch. Riot was asleep due to being weak. "Wh-wha?" Seto started.

"They attacked the house. They took Sky! I need you to look after Riot while I save Sky!" Ty stated, ready to leave once again. But Seto stopped him by putting his hand out in front of him.

"Wait! You can't go alone." Seto said. "And why shouldn't I? He has my boyfriend, Seto! I need to save him!" Tears were literally brimming his eyes. He had almost lost Sky not once but twice. He couldn't let anything happen or else he'd never forgive himself!

"I know, but you can't go alone! Let us gather some people and gear up."

"We're wasting time!" Ty tried again, purple tainting his eyes. He was desperate and scared to be honest. He didn't want to think what could be happening to Sky while they were here, chatting away.

"And we'd waste energy just going in there unprepared." Brice cut in. "Let us help. Sky is our friend too, ya know." Ty narrowed his eyes and thought for a second. Did he want to be self righteous, or did he want to save Sky?

"Fine. Let's go then." Ty said with a nod. "Question." A female voice suddenly called in. "Do you guys even know where you're going?" All heads turned to see Rookie, leaning against the doorframe for support. She had a bandage wrapped tightly around her waist for her wound.

Téa showed up next to her, hair deshelved. "Rookie wanted to get up. I told her to lay down. But she got up anyways." She sighed. "Why do I even try...?"

Ty and Brice glanced at each other. "Actually..." Ty wondered. "-We don't know where he is." Brice admitted. Ty nearly smashed his own face with the palm of his hand. "We kinda need that bit of information..."

Seto stepped forwards. "Rookie, you should really lay down." He suggested. "Well track them. Trust me, it's possible."

But a proud smile lit up on Rookie's face. "But I know where they would take Sky!" She exclaimed. All eyes were focused on her now. She took it upon herself to explain.

"When Herobrine had me, he said he wanted to take me back to the Nether with him. What if that's where he took General Sky?!"

Téa gave her a weird look. "That... Actually makes sense...." she mumbled. Rookie puffed her cheeks out. "Did you expect me to say something that didn't?" She asked. But Téa chose to be quiet.

By this point Mitch and Jerome had entered the room, wide awake. "What's this I hear about going to the Nether?" He asked, some kind of determined smile on his face.

Jerome followed suit, leaning his weight on Mitch's shoulder. "We gonna bash some skulls in today?" The bacca asked. Of course the two were always up for some good fighting.

"We're gonna do more than that." Ty said to himself mostly, his headphones starting to glow purple as well. He could feel his transformation start again at the mere thought of Sky possibly being hurt.

"Ooooh, we got some dragon-action going on here. Alright, let's get ready!" Mitch whooped.

Rookie had a determined smile on her face too after hearing Mitch's words. Téa sighed to herself. She knew what that look in her eyes meant. "Notch save us all, Rookie's got a plan..."
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SKYS POV

I had woken up to a loud click from the iron door. I lifted my head to look and see who it was. Not that there was really any question to it. "Sub..." I whispered, seeing the once-mute brunette. My former friend. My enemy.

Brown eyes wide with victory, Sub closed the door and looked down at where I was huddled up. I had sat down in a corner and fell asleep with my head uncomfortably on my shoulder the night before. I glared up at him.

"Sky... I'm so sorry for this. I told him I wanted to get you myself. He said he destroyed your house in the process of retrieving you. I'm sorry. B-but I promise-" He babbled. I didn't want to listen. Why couldn't he have just let us be?!

I stood up and clenched my hands closed. "Sorry?! You're sorry?!" I spat. "You guys kidnapped me! You hurt Jason! You tried to kill Ty! And you're teamed up with the most evil villain in all of Minecraftia! And after everything you did, you're just sorry?!"

Sub looked at me for a moment, letting his smile drop. He took a cautious step forwards. "Sky, I don't want you to hate me. Can't you see I did this for us? You don't need Ty anyways, he's a freak."

That got me mad. "Don't talk about Ty like that! He's much better if a person than you ever will be! And if he were a freak, what would that make you?" I said. "You're just a monster bingeing off of someone else's power."

Finally Sub got upset at me. "Don't say that! I worked my ass off trying to prove to you how much I love you! And if you won't accept me, then I'll just make you!" He threatened. "You can't make me do anything." I stated.

Sub gave me a challenging look. "Oh, can't I?" He raised a hand up at me and suddenly a searing pain traveled up my legs, causing my knees to buckle and I dropped to the floor. This is the kind of power Herobrine gave him?

The muscles in my legs cramped up sickeningly. I seethed in pain for a few agonizing seconds before it died down to a slight tingle.

I let out a sob, thinking for some reason the pain would return. Oh god, don't let the pain come back. That was terrible!

Sub knelt in front of me and lifted my head up so that I looked at him. "That was just a taste of what I can do now that I have power. And if you don't cooperate, I'll let your friends have what you just had tenfold." He cooed.

That got my attention. "And maybe I'll let Deadlox have a special front row seat to my power. Maybe it'll completely obliterate him." He continued, stroking a piece of my hair.

I nervously rubbed my shins, wishing for that lingering pain to leave. "You know, y-you have a weird way of trying to show love.... I'm pretty sure you don't torture the ones you l-love like that..." I couldn't let Ty get hurt. I couldn't let anybody get hurt.

I bit my lip before nodding, deciding. "I'll be good, I swear. Just don't let anybody get hurt." I said with a cracking voice. I refused to look up at his face.

Here was the man that took my trust and emotions and mixed it all up. He hurt Ty. He tried to take my base. He tried to make me love him. And now, he was threatening my recruits. Basically my family....

I could tell Sub smirked and he stood up. "I can't make any promises. Herobrine does whatever he wants. I'm just along for the benefits." He said. I watched sadly as he started walking away. He stopped when I spoke up.

"Sub... I might be cooperating... But I will never love you." I hissed. It didn't seem to phase him much. He turned and looked at me lovingly. "We'll just see about that, love."

With that, the iron door clicked once again and he was gone, leaving me to mutter apologies into my sweater collar. "Please get here soon Ty..." I sobbed.
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(A/N: Téa: A little bit of drama? Eh, why not? A bit of character pain? Sure. Here you go Rook, have fun.

Peace<3)