* Sabres pov *
I wake up well rested from my nap.
Welp, it's a quarter before midnight.
Time to get ready.
Oh. It's storming outside... Meh, that won't stop me.
"Time to get ready to rob someone! :D" I say to myself and start walking down the stairs.
I grab a bite to eat from the kitchen and head back up to my room.
I go to the closet and pick out my assassin robes.
My dark green robe that's splaterd with dried up blood. It almost looks black dark-red ish... should be perfect for the job.
This assassin outfit is enchanted with protection and thorns so... I should be good.
I never really put many enchantments on this... Except the boots. I have a bunch of useful enchantments on those.
I put on my assassin robes and get my bags equipped and secured, so they'll stay in place while parcouring.
Okay... Now weapon storage.
I walk down to the cellar and grab all the stuff I'll need.
I grab some blocks, two daggers, two short swords, my pocket knife that I can put into the holster on my boot, and check my enderbag for more weapons.
I grab my reality-bow and my netherite sword.
I go to another chest and take 32 enderpearls.
I also grab a normal crossbow and ready an ender arrow in it.
Another thing I grab out of my enderbag is a special crossbow that's enchanted with Quick Shot III, Multishot, Mending and Unbreaking III.
I also grab some very colourful rockets.
I ready three rockets in the crossbow and put it in my inventory.
Hm... oh! I need some invisibility potions.
I walk over to the potion section of my cellar and grab 6 invisibility potions to drink and 2 to throw.
I should take some extra potions with me.
I grab several throwing potions like Multiple strength potions, regeneration potions, instant health potions, some fire resistance, slow falling, resistance, withering, jump boost, speed and levitation.
Okay... That's pretty much all the useful potions I have...
Ooooooo~
Withering arrows :).
I'm taking these.
I sort my inventory making sure everything is where it's supposed to be.
Okay... Now I just need some food.
I walk back up the stairs and get to the kitchen.
I grab a stack of steak and a flint and steel from the kitchen and decide to get ready to go.
Hm... Should I take the end crystal with me?
Im gonna take it with me.
If that imposter brings me to his leader and they find me... Then I'll need something to intimidate them.
It's now midnight...
I quickly climb on my houses roof and parcour over to the citadel in the pouring rain.
I climb up to the balcony and head over to the side of the tower where yellow leaders room is.
I climb up the wall until I reach a familiar window with a yellow glow inside.
I pull myself up on the window sill and look inside.
Bingo. The yellow leader-uh... The impersonator.
He's awake.
Alright, let's see if he leaves the room anytime soon.
I hang myself on the windowsill so if he does look out the window he won't see me.
Although it's rather slippery with the rain and the weight of my clothes... I can manage to not plummet down to my death.
I spare a look into the window every two minutes or so.
After 15 minutes he grabs a book and quill and leaves the room.
I knew it. Time to see where he goes.
He leaves through the door.
I quietly climb through the window and take out an invisibility potion.
I drink it and taste that strange apple-like taste.
It tastes like an sweet apple but with a bitter aftertaste.
6/10 taste like apple. A tiny bit bitter. Makes me invisible. Good potion :)
Now invisible, I walk over to the door and find the yellow leader walking down the hallway.
I follow him, quietly closing the door behind me. Making sure I always stay 8 blocks behind yellow.
He stops at the entrance hall of the citadel
And turns to the left when he steps down the last step of the stairs.
I silently walk after him and watch as he presses one of the stone bricks in the wall.
The Wall opens up.
Woah, a hidden door...
He walks in and I hurry to get in after him.
The door closes narrowly behind me.
The entrance leads down to a long staircase.
We walk down those stairs for a good 5 minutes until we reach the end.
There resides a portal frame made from cobblestone.
The imposter ignites it and then steps in.
I make sure I have everything I need and then head into the portal as well.
~~~~Puple Swirrles ~~~
As soon as my vision recovers I spot the impersonator 5 blocks ahead of me.
We're in the nether.
My before really wet clothes are now completely dry.
They already dried the moment I stepped through that portal.
The disguised steve summon lightning on themselves and the disguise falls.
Where once stood a steve that looked like a friend of mine... Now stood a... Red steve? No... He only slightly resembles a red steve.
He looks more like a mix between a red steve and a demon steve. Huh.
So... He's not faceless.
It looks like a red steve with those fire- and magma-like markings and cracks that the demon steve's had... There's some darker spots on the steve... Almost like the darkness... Just not as dark
...Kinda just dark red spots...like something used to be there.
The red demonic figure starts walking down a path.
We walk through the hellish landscape for a little and eventually I see a structure in the distance.
What is that?
I follow the figure.
We reach something like a castle.
Whoa... This thing is quite big.
I wonder...
So... He has to be connected to the demon steve's.
The wierd Steve walks into the entrance of the castle-like structure.
I follow suit.
As soon as the figure and I are inside, the entrance closes.
I decide to walk along the walls in the shadows... Just in case.
I keep on walking close to the walls but staying near the figure I was following before.
Eventually after some twists and turns we reach a rather big meeting room...?
There's a window that leads to a huge lava lake. That's good to know.
I direct my attention back to the room itself.
There's someone sitting in a big throne...
By a table...
This room... Reminds me of the darkness' base...
The meeting room looked similar to this one.
Wait.
Thats-
"... Void..." I mumble under my breath.
As soon as I let his name escape my lips he seemed to look around confused.
"ah... Faceless. Did... Did you just whisper my name?" void says.
WAIT, THAT'S FACELESS?!!?
Oh my gosh.
I lean against the walls and put my hands on my mouth just in case... So I don't let any other words slip.
"no? I came to report, I have some information about weak spots with the colorless guards." the apperant faceless says.
Now that I look closer... Void... Looks different.
He also looks like a mix of a demon steve.
He's also got those wierd cracks and marks...
"well. That's good. But did you get any information about the new threat?" void says while scanning the darker spots in the room.
Good...he didn't see me...i think...
"I was trying to find sabre... But I couldn't find him. And when I finally got a trace of him, the guards around his house said that he went to sleep early. Which is... Strange... It was 5 pm. But... I didn't wanna wake him." faceless says ans sits down in a chair.
I move closer, slowly and carefully.
What I realized is that... The closer I got, the more paranoid void seemed to get.
Hm... Hehe... I sneak behind voids chair and wait for him to calm down...
I think he can feel the presence of multiple beings in this room.
"Void... I hope I don't seem rude... But... Are you alright...? You keep on looking around the room like you're looking for something." faceless asks the corrupted hooded figure.
I'll cut him off and make him more paranoid... Might as well still enjoy myself while the invisibility lasts.
"... Right.... I-" void gets cut off by me.
"voooooooid~~~~" I whisper, he immediately snaps his head around, looking from where the sound came from.
Faceless just watches him confused.
They both stay dead silent.
I have to try really hard not to burst out laughing.
Void trys leaning back in his chair, but as soon as he does I whisper: "they're coming."
Void jumps up from the throne-like chair and wips his head around.
He starts walking around the room.
I walk behind him. Stopping when he stops.
So he hears double footsteps >:)
Making him even more paranoid.
Is this how vengeance seeking ghosts feel?
Wow...
Awesome!
Wish I could die and do that.
"void are... Are you alright? You should calm down, there's no one here except for the two of us." faceless says while standing up and walking up to void steve.
I wonder...
I walk behind faceless, so void won't see it, take out my flint and steel and ignite faceless' pant leg.
I quickly put the flint and steel away and watch as it goes down.
Faceless seems confused but not concerned.
Looks like he's fireproof.
Huh.
"did... Did you just set me on fire?" the figure who's now burning on his whole body asks.
"no... There's someone here with us... I have a sneaking suspicion that someone followed you here." Void concludes and snaps his fingers.
The fire immediately dissapeard.
"followed... Me? But... There was no one following me. I made sure of that." faceless says in disbelief.
"... No one you can see followed you... But I think there was someone following you that you couldn't see. I know they're here... I could tell there are more than just the two of us. " void answers the imposters confusion.
" oh... Wait. You think that... They, followed me here. " faceless concludes.
" if with 'they', you mean the red raven... Then yes. " void says while walking back to his throne still looking around. Multiple demon steve's now walk in through the door and stand guard.
Hehe... Okay. Enough fun. The invisibility will run out any minute.
Ooooo~ there's a nice little ledge above the entrance of the room.
I quickly and silently climb up there and make sure my face is hidden in the shadow of my hood.
Oh, I just got an idea.
I still have a minute left.
I check my inventory and find that I still have a red flower and some squid ink on me.
I make some dye out of the flower and put two drops of ink into the mixture. It's now dark red dye.
I take off my hood and blindfold and store the cloth into one of my little bags.
Then I dye My hair dark red and let the rest of the dye I have left runn down the front of my face... Making sure that especially the space where my eyes should be is completely covered in dye.
Okay.
This should do.
I quickly put my hood back on and wait for the invisibility to wear off.
I let out a little giggle.
"who's there, show yourself, coward." void commands in a stern tone.
Now I'll just have to do something I hate doing.
Lowering my voice.
"Awe, is our little mind game already over?" I answer in the deepest voice I could use that sounds like it's natural.
It's really deep. But it still sounds like someone talking normal, it's not straining at all...
I just don't like changing my voice.
Void looked around. Just then the potion wore off.
Alright... Time to change character.
"where are you. " void steve demanded.
"right here." I say letting a small giggle escape as well.
Faceless and Void Steve looked in the direction they heard my voice come from.
Surely enough they saw me.
I keep an innocent smile on my face.
"you should already know who I am... My little Note...! It should have reached you by now. :)" i say, my smile growing while realization seems more clear on the two's faces.
"what wrong Void? You're so quiet... This is so unlike you..." I tease him but get no reaction.
He just answers me with silence.
"could it be... Is the strong and terrifying void Steve scared...? you normally have a plan for everything, you're always five steps ahead of your enemies... so what's wrong now? Were you not expecting me to come? hehe~... how disappointing... I expected more from you... :/ " I say trying my best to tease him... But still no reaction.
I thought this would anger him but... No reaction. He's just sitting there.
Is he... Actually weary of me?!
Hah! what a burnt Kentucky fried Chicken lookin' idiot!!!!
I start smiling like a madman and I can sense him tensing up the more I start smiling.
"what... Are you...?" faceless asks out of nowhere.
I almost forgot he was here, huh.
"your worst nightmare? A madman? A mistake? Heh... People used to see me and my kind as sooo many things... Once they called us 'the angels of death'... Later they called us 'a symbol of peace' then they called us 'an army of demons' ...I've been reffered to as many things... One side used to call me 'the devils left hand' ... The other side called me a 'symbol of justice' ... Yet another called me 'Revenge' ... And others called me a 'terrorist' ... A 'traitor' ... A 'God' ...A 'Savior' :) " I said with a smile.
" they never saw me as what I truly was... A person...I guess it all drowned in the slaughter and beneath the masks I wore. " I continue and feel as the rooms atmosphere grew thicker...
I've noticed a lot of those demons guarding inside the room have started backing away from where I sat.
" but to answer your question.. . I am what you call... A monster. :) " I answer his question and start laughing quietly.
The room stays silent the only thing that can be heard is my quiet laughing and the demons uneasy growling...
Come on say something.
Anything?
Nah?
K.
I drop down from the ledge and land sturdy on the ground.
"so... Let's get to the reason I came here for... Where's... Sabre's 'friend' " I demand more than I ask.
I had to hesitate for a moment... I can't just say my friend... I could have said yellow leader... But that's too specific.
Faceless and some of the demons just looked at Demon Void Steve expectantly.
He seems to be thinking.
I can hear someone coming.
I pull out my netherite sword and point it to the door, not taking my eyes-eh... View... off of Void.
Someone opens the door and walks into the room, stopping as soon at the tip of my sword touched their chest.
"my apologies, I'm late some-ah. What? Huh??" it's another demon steve mixed looking person...
They sound just like... Someone familiar... I take one look out of the side of my view to check. Is that nightmare Steve...? Yup. That looks like a corrupted yellow steve... He also has darker spots on him... Is that what the darkness left behind?
"... Greetings nightmare. I feel you should sit down." void says hesitantly.
Hahahah I can't believe this. Void steve! The one and only. Is scared of ME! little old chicken boy!! Hehe...
Oh. Well... He's scared of the red raven... But still!!!
Wait... Why would he be scared of me...?
Can... Can he sense the end crystal?
I only smile and lower my sword as nightmare carefully walks past me and sits down in a chair.
" so... Who's the new guy :)?" nightmare asks.
Does he not realize I broke in?
"that's the red raven, they're the one who slaughtered one of our rather large groups on the outskirts." faceless says.
He doesn't sound panicked at all... I guess he trusts in Voids decision.
Can they not see how panicked void is right now...?
I guess they are a bit oblivious.
"now... I'm waiting for your answer void... Either you bring him to me... Or I'll have to get him out with force." I start getting impatient.
"... No. We still need him, so either leave peacefully or die in this place." void sighs, I can already see him preparing for a fight.
"hmpf... Bad choice bud. " I say with a smile and walk towards the Window of the room.
"... I have one question for you... If you don't mind... " void says staying in his sitting position not even daring to take one look at me.
"ask away." I tell him while looking out the window.
"...Are you alive? Cause that head injury seems like it's fatal... " void Musters as he continues to look at the table.
Right.seems like he cought on...
Nightmare only seems to notice now since it was mentioned.
Faceless... I feel he's surprised.
I take a look back and see him with a slightly worried look.
I redirect my attention back outside the window.
"well... I've died many times... But never could I find the rest I desire..." I answer his question and step up on the open window, leading to the lava lake.
"well then... You'll regret denying my request." i say annoyed at his decision and get ready to fire my crossbow.
I just turn to look at them while standing on the edge of the window and get ready.
I have everything ready.
I need to do this as quick as possible.
I pull out my rocket crossbow and hold a throwing potion of levitation. I throw the potion on the ground beneath me and fire the rockets at my enemies at the same time.
I then grab a throwing withering potion and my other crossbow that has the ender arrow in it, doing all this within a second.
The rockets explode and the entire room is filled with colourful smoke. The explosion of the fireworks knocked out the demons but void, faceless and nightmare are probably fine just got knocked back.
I can hear coughing and aim exactly where I heard it.
I throw the withering potion.
I hear people taking damage and jump out window.
The last think I see is Void in the smoke.
I aim my arrow and shoot.
It lands on top of the structure I was previously in.
I put away my crossbow and drink an invisibility potion.
I take a few seconds to recover and reload two crossbows.
"okay... Time to rob some people..." I whisper under my breath and quietly make my way back into the castle.
I sprint around the structure quietly, looking for a treasure room or at least the yellow leader.
I sneak down some stairs and find myself in front of a vault.
" bingo...! " I whisper and decide to just sneak my way in.
If I break the door the demons upstairs might notice.
I take out an enderpearl and step back.
I haven't used this trick in quite a while... Let's hope it still works.
I take the enderpearl in both my hands and sprint full speed towards the door, enderpearl first.
I crash into the wall while at the exact same time the pearl teleports me.
I get teleported into the door and then use this advantage to cheat myself through.
I stumble out of the door and regain my balance...
Not the most graceful way to get in... But efficient.
I look around and find myself surrounded by gold, emeralds, diamonds and most importantly... Netherite!
Hehehehehe
I take all the blocks I can get.
Mostly focusing on the netherite.
Hehe.
I got...
4 stacks gold blocks,
2 stacks diamond blocks,
5 stacks of emerald blocks,
And most importantly...
9 stacks of netherite blocks.
I put the netherite in my enderback. And just stuff in as much as possible.
Not everything fit... But most stuff is in there.
Okay... Now to get back out.
Same method.
I take the enderpearl and yeet myself into the door to teleport through...
I safely get through and check my invisibility.
Okay... 2 minutes left.
I head up the stairs and continue to look for the prison...
-----time skip-----
It's been 20 minutes. >:/
I had to waste 2 bottles of invis. And one bottle of speed.
I'm mad.
Well... At least I found the prison.
Well... It's kinda like prison...?
There's a bunch of steve's in glass tubes...
Thankfully most aren't corrupted... I hope yellow is alright...
Now just to find him.
I sneak along the cells looking for my friend.
I finally find him. Oh thank goodness...
He's not corrupted.
Now... Hm...breaking the tube will probably alert someone...
I walk up to the glass and check how thick it is.
Actually surprisingly thin.
I can just teleport through this no problem :D
I take out an enderpearl and a bucket of milk.
I drink the milk and wait for my invisibility to fade.
I knock on the glass.
The leader looks up and then seems startled. Oh... Right... I'm in my assassin outfit...
He can't recognize me...
Oof.
I throw the enderpearl against the glass and hold my breath, just in case there's liquid in there.
I easily teleport through and hug the yellow leader.
There's no liquid in the tube, I can breath.
I hold on to the leader and smash another enderpearl against the glass. We both teleport through.
"Hey... Okay...! Don't freak out. I'm a friend of sabre's... He sent me to come and get you out of here." I whisper to him quickly so he won't even get the chance to freak out.
"are you one of sabre's assassin friends?" the leader Whispers back.
"y-wha-...how-... Did... Did he tell you about the creed...?" I ask quietly.
"no... He never said anything about a creed... But he told me when he was an assassin he found loyal friends and family." the yellow leader Whispers back.
Oh right. I told him about this past profession before... He got curious where I learned to sword fight like I do.
"oooh ok... Yeah. I'm a friend... Here, take my hand... I'll make us invisible...don't want to lose you... You're gonna have to be as quiet as possible okay?" I tell the leader while pulling out another invis. potion.
The leader nods and holds my hand.
I throw the potion on the ground and we both become invisible.
Good. 8 minutes.
We start sprinting back to the entrance when I abruptly stop.
Oh no.
There's void.
I pull the leader to the wall with me and give him a quiet 'shh'
We hug the wall whilst void walks past with an annoyed yet somehow worried expression.
Oh... He's heading for the prison. We have like...at his speed...Five minutes before he finds the tube, that yellow was in, is empty.
Okay. We're taking a shortcut...
I walk over to a window. There's a fence which purpose is that no one can jump out.
This is just fine.
The window is by the path where I first came from.... Just... 50 blocks higher. No lava. That's also good.
I take out my crossbow with the ender arrow already in place and tell the leader to hold on to me.
He does as I tell him.
I aim between the fence and shoot. The arrow flys down and lands on the path. We teleport.
"hey okay... You can stop hugging me so tight now. We're down... But I suggest we start booking it to the portal." I say and grab yellows hand again.
"wh-" the yellow leader gets cut off by me dragging him.
We run pretty fast.
I think the yellow leader had it pretty easy anyway. He's the fast one.
We reach the portal after just 3 minutes.
I tell the leader to hold on to me cause he might get extremely dizzy from going through there.
We step through the portal.
The purple swirrles blind my vision, as usual.
I notice the yellow leader leaning on me quite a bit... Right... He probably never went through one of these...
I wait for a few more seconds and then pull yellow out the portal with me.
"uuegghhhh... I feel like I'm gonna puke..." the yellow leader slurs.
"eheh... Yeah... Let's get going...we're almost there." I say and take the leaders hand again.
We walk up the many stairs and finally reach the top.
I look around the dead end at the top of the stairs trying to find a button to open the hidden door.
Eventually I find it at the right side wall.
I push the button and the hidden door opens.
I bring the leader back upstairs to his room.
He seems extremely weak at the moment...
I put him to bed and make sure the room is okay.
Then I go back downstairs to my house...
Hey I can finally use my normal voice again! The deep voice is annoying... But I can't risk them recognizing me.
I should get all these materials somewhere safe...
Hehe... I'll bring them into the vault tomorrow... Today?
What time is it???
Huh.
It's 0:32 am...
I'm goin to bed.
Great. It's still pouring rain like crazy.
Ugh... I need to clean myself up anyways.
I walk through the rain, back into my house.
There I clean myself up and hang the robes to dry.
I wash myself off some more so all the red dye gets out of my hair.
I'm still soaked.
"finally...! Time for bed!!! :D" I exclaim happily and jump into the soft welcoming surface of the bed.
Yeeee this is great...
I lay there for a bit but eventually fall asleep.
- - - - meanwhile :) - - - -
*3rd pov*
Void sits on a couch in the living room.
"Ugh... Great...now I have to come up with a new plan..." void murmurs and leans back to relax.
"hey... Void? You good?" faceless asks and sits down on an armchair next to the couch.
"yeah... Yeah... I'm fine. Just... Annoyed." void says.
Faceless just nods and relaxes.
"so...why didn't we just attack that person?" faceless asks while looking into the air.
"well... You see... When the red raven came into the room... I checked for presences... Making sure it's just us... But when I did..." void stops for a moment to figure out how to word it.
"well... It felt like... There was a God in the room... The power... It resembled an end crystals power... You already know what that is right?" void asks faceless. Faceless nods and continues to listen with interest.
"if we attacked them... There's a good chance this entire dimension could have been destroyed within a second... Now... I don't know if they just had an end crystal on them... But one things for sure... The red raven... Has got to be one of the most dangerous threats I've met my entire life. " void says and goes back into his thoughts.
Faceless decides to do something about this situation...
He gets up and leaves the room.
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Hey! Hope you enjoy pissbaby void. :)
Void and Nightmare have officially been added to the hight chart.
Hope you like their heights... I enjoy the differences between a smol assassin and big demon lord being scared of said assassin.
Well. Enjoy yourselfs.
Next chapter will be absolut fluff :3
Including faceless fluff.
Have an absolutely wonderful day please. :)
And if it hasn't been a good day... I hope the story cheered you up a little. :DDDD