MCSM Stories

Aetherman (9)

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I let out a sigh, trying to get the feathers on my back to lay flat. There had be be some way to tell them what I saw, but I didn't think charades would work. I tried t get up on two legs, but I found it awkward and difficult, so I switched to four. I silently headed towards where my friends' voices were coming from. As soon as I saw them, I crouched in the bushes out of sight to see what they were talking about.

"Are you sure Lukas went this way?" Petra asked.

"No, I'm not." Jesse replied sarcastically. "We're heading this way for no reason."

"Now is not the time to needle each other." Ivor growled.

I hesitated before stepping out of the bushes as they passed.

"What is THAT!?" Petra gasped, pulling out her sword as soon as she saw me. At the sight of the weapon I backed up a little and let out a hiss.

"Put that away, that's Lukas!" Jesse snapped.

"Ohh..." With that, Petra put her sword away. This was way too familiar.

"Hmmm.... I expected bigger." Ivor shrugged. "But what shall we now now?"

"I say we head back to the temple." Jesse said. "We can't really do much at this moment."

"I had other ideas, but fine." Petra crossed her arms.

It took about ten minutes for us to get back. Jesse was in the front, Petra following closely behind, then Ivor hanging back, with me lagging far behind. I had continuously tried to stand on two legs, but it still proved difficult. I had no idea how Jesse managed to walk around when he was an Enderman. I even face planted once, which got Ivor laughing pretty hard. I had to stop myself from even hinting a lunge at him.

"We'll rest here for the night and start out again in the morning." Jesse announced once we had finally gotten back. Nobody objected.

Feeling out of place, I slinked behind a crumbled wall at the temple and took a seat. I looked up at the sky. The sun was setting, spreading a bright orange streak across the sky. Something about it made me want to run towards it and never go back...

Get ahold of yourself.

I shook my head. I knew the instincts were getting to my head, if they already weren't there. I stood up, my tail twitching with annoyance. For now at least I had to keep my instincts under control. I was about to get back with the others, before pain flooded over my in an instant.

I didn't scream, or make any sound. I was use to it by now. And the pain had lessened each time it happened. Within a few moments, I was human again, laying on the ground. After standing up and brushing myself off, something suddenly came to my mind. I need to warn them about Eerste!

I rushed to the part where my friends had started a fire. Jesse was defying a fretting Ivor who was trying to bandage his arm, and Petra absent-mindedly poked at the fire with a stick. She looked up when she heard my heavy breathing.

"You're back to normal?" she asked.

I nodded my head quickly. There was no time for chatting?

"Eerste is alive!" I blurted out.

There was silence for a second.

"What!?" Jesse burst out, jumping to his feet. His eyes were burning with shock and anger. "This had better be a joke!"

"It's not!" I put my arms up in defense. "He's the one who made the temple collapse!"

"Who is this "Eerste" person again?" Ivor asked.

"Einde's son. My half-brother. Crest's dad." Jesse explained quickly the fight at the True End.

"The guy who brought an evil god back to life-"

Jesse interrupted Petra to correct her. "Woke him up."

"Whatever." Petra shot a glare at him. "He's in the Overworld now? Alive?"

"He didn't look to good." I told her. "He looked like he just got back from a fight, and this orb in his chest was showing."

"I believe that could have been his Ender Pearl." Ivor spoke up. "A vital organ for Endermen. It allows them to teleport. Of it's broken, well, adios to them."

"That's how I killed Einde..." Jesse muttered.

Even though I didn't want to put the next part in, it was necessary.

"I... fought him." I confessed, looking away from the stares of my friends. "I didn't know what came over me. I... clawed the Ender Pearl in his chest, and it cracked. That's when he flew away."

"So Eerste is alive... and he wants to kill us." Jesse sighed. "I think we'll have a hard time collecting those shards."

"Oh yeah! Ivor! This thing..." I pulled out the relic. "Apparently shines when it's pointed to shards."

"Oh, well isn't that convenient?" Ivor looked at the relic. "Too bad Crane and the others won't have one of those."

Jesse was holding in his laugh, probably from the way Ivor said Crest's name wrong. I couldn't help but smile.

"Are we going to get back to finding a crap ton of blue pieces of rock scattered all over the world before we get mauled by a giant Enderman or Lukas turns into a mindless beast?" Petra asked us. Somehow I wasn't set off by the last part.

Jesse elbowed her. "Stop trying to take over my job."

She elbowed him back. "Well, you'll have to beat me to it to say it!"

In a moment there was a short squabble between them- not that they were mad at each other. But within a few moments, Petra had won easily thanks to Jesse only having one good arm.

"Ladies, you're both gorgeous. Now stop trying to mutilate each other." Ivor pushed the two away from each other, I couldn't help but laugh.

"We should get back to the situation at hand." I told them.

They took a moment to get off of each other.

"Can that thing work over long distances?" Petra asked.

"There's only one way to find out." I pointed the relic in one direction.

It glowed faintly. When I pointed to the left, it got slightly brighter. I turned to more, but it got dimmer. I pointed it to where it was brighter, and it lit up again.

"Well, I guess we're going this way." I said.

Jesse nodded. "Let's go."