I've come to the decision to make a sequel to my first Minecraft fan fiction, End, because it seemed you all liked it a lot. If you haven't read book 1, I'd suggest you do, or a lot of things probably won't make sense in book 2. For book 1, click here.I'd like to thank Strechout for the name Enderpeace, and all my fans and readers for supporting me Anyway, enough with the boring stuff, here's the story you've all been waiting for!
Chapter 1 The sunshine of Minecraft shone through Steve's glass pane window, waking him up. His room was illuminated with the bright sun, shadows reaching out gently, but warmly. It was about 8:30 AM, but Steve knew that End would already be up. Steve yawned, gently pushed his bed covers off him, and rolled out of bed. He looked out his window, which was next to his bed. A small lake lay in front of their house, and beyond that, plains. His eyes, still blurred from sleep, mistook a figure for a cow. Steve yawned again, and made his way to the door, across from the window. He opened the door, and made his way down the hallway, passing End's room on the way. He peered into the 3-block-high door, but as he expected, End's room was clean and bed made. The stairs were next to End's room, and he slowly made his way down them. To his left was another window, in front was a door, which was a pretty neat contraption. End did not want to teleport into the house every time he entered and left, but they needed a door so hostile monsters couldn't get in.So, with major help from End, Steve had installed a mechanism with Redstone and pistons . Whenever you step on the pressure plates in front of the door, a third block retract, allowing End to pass through. And once you pass, it extends again. Steve slouched down the stairs, yawning again, and looked around the right corner. Sure enough, there was a tall, friendly Enderman. "'Mornin' sleepy head!"said End brightly . "Hi End," said Steve, smiling. "How is omelets for breakfast?" asked End. "I'm in the mood for waffles." "Well, too bad, the omelets are almost done." "I was just kidding about waffles." chuckled Steve. "I know, " laughed End. Not an instant later, the front doors swung open, along with the top blocks retracting, and a scared "Eep!" "What was-" said Steve, whipping his head around to look at the door. Standing on the outside pressure plates on the porch, was a girl with bugged out eyes, and shaking horribly. She had brown hair with streaks of blonde, but it was snarled and messed up horribly. Her black pants were ripped, dirty and tattered. Her gray hoodie was full of mud, dirt, blood, and was ripped. Especially that back, which just had a few pieces of black hoodie remaining. She looked as if she hasn't eaten anything in days. Her purple eyes were scared and frightened, and her silver sunglasses were cracked. "Who are you?" Steve asked. End appeared behind him, causing the girl to scream and cower. "Ah, maybe I should....err....." End said awkwardly. "Err...he won't hurt you... I promise." Steve told her. The girl made a noise that sounded like a dying cow, but she cleared her throat, and spoke again. Her voice still sounded very, very hoarse. "Are-are you sure?" "Yeah. End's cool." said Steve. "I-I'm ... Dani."
Chapter 2
"Ah, no offense but, aren't I in a single player world?" Steve asked. "Single player....?" Dani croaked. End looked at Steve, and Steve looked and End. "Why don't you come inside? We've got about a billion questions, and you look pretty exhausted." Dani reluctantly stepped inside, and looked longingly at Steve's chair. "Take it, I don't need it right now." Steve said, laughing. Dani sighed as she sat down. "Okay, first things first," said Steve, "how did you get here?" "I...uh...went into a multiplayer world...from The Spawn..." "Don't you mean Choosing Grounds?" "No...I mean The Spawn..." "Huh." Steve said, stumped. "What does The Spawn look like?" "It....it has dir-" Dani began, but was interrupted by the oven. "Omelets are done." End laughed awkwardly, and strolled to the oven ."Dani can have mine, she needs it a lot more than I do." Steve said. "It...um...has dirt paths, blue skies, trees, grass, birds singing, sun shining...holograms, flowers..." "Weird....and you went into a multiplayer world? And that's this world?" "Yeah..." "I'm guessing..." Steve began, but was cut off as End slid Dani an omelet. She began tearing it like a wolf. "I'm guessing...you come from a different world than me. Like, different Minecraft....factions, I'd guess." Steve said. "So....uh....what happened after you entered?" Steve asked. "I-um, I.... I spawned in a tundra....and...my fr-..... I explored a cave until I found a mineshaft for wood.....I survived off zombie flesh and spider eyes. I found a mineshaft and gathered the wood and made tools....and I survived...... I've been living off spider eyes and zombie flesh, occasionally eating an apple or bread I found from a chest as a treat....." Mineshafts! I should have went for the mineshafts when I spawned..... Steve thought, giving himself an inward face palm. "I just collected all the wood, and then I went back up to find trees....I've searched for months....deserts, plains, mountains, tundras...no tree biomes...." Dani shuddered."Finally.....finally I found a jungle.... as I came out of a desert.....I found a small house in an alcove with a farm next to it...." Steve looked at End, who was awkwardly eating at the other end of the table. End looked back. She was talking about The Jungle. "I took the wheat, and traveled through the jungle....I don't know what I was looking for really....then I travel through a forest.... and then a plains, I see this house....and...here I am..." she finished. "Wow....that sounds terrible.... you can stay here...shower....get new clothes....." mumbled Steve. "I think you need some new clothes too..." Dani said, looking at Steve's shirt, which has a giant bloodstain on his chest. "Oh, I never cleaned that up..." Steve laughed, remembering how he got it. Dani laughed nervously. "So....where are the new clothes?" "Oh! Let me get some wool from my room, go take a shower, it's behind End." "Haha okay." she said.
Chapter 3 Steve went upstairs to his room, grabbed some wool and leather, and crafted it into a new grey hoodie and black pants. He even made new socks and black and purple shoes. Steve exited his room with the new clothes, only to get stopped by End as he turned around from his crafting table. "Gah! End! Don't scare me like that." "You like her, don't you?" he said. "Wh-what?" "Admit it. You like her." "No-no I don't!" said Steve. "You do! Stop lying." End said, poking Steve. "H-hey! S-stop! That tickles!" laughed Steve. End stopped and leaned back, giving Steve the are-you-going-to-tell-me-now look. "Okay...maybe I do...a little...." "Haha! I knew it!" "Shhh! Don't tell her!" said Steve, looking around, as if Dani was in the room. "Okay...." said End, looking to the side mischievously , "STEVE LIKES DANI! STEVE LIKES DANI!!!!" he sang, prancing around Steve's room. "SSSSSSH!" Yelled Steve, reaching for End's mouth. "STEVE LIKES DANIIII!" End said, now teleporting around his room. "END!!!" Steve yelled, very red in the face, trying to grab End. "HAHAHAHA" End laughed as he teleported into the hallway. "End, NO!" he yelled, running out of his room.End continued to sing and teleport down the stairs, into the dining room, to in front of the bathroom door. They could hear the shower running. End was directly in front of the door, hardly able to contain himself from giggling. Steve was behind him, extremely red in the face. "End...no....not...here..." he whispered. "Ooooohhh Dannniiiiiiiiiii," End sang, in front of the door, giggling. "You....wouldn't...dare...." Steve sputtered. End giggled again and said, "Widdle Stevie here wuvs youuuu!" and burst out laughing. If possible, Steve grew even redder, ears included. "ENNDD!!!" yelled Steve, tackling him. There was a thump as they hit the ground, Steve trying to strangle End as he laughed hysterically. End was laughing so hard, Steve could see tears in his eyes. End was hitting the ground from laughter, while Steve was very unsuccessfully strangling him, still very red in the face. "Oh Notch, I can't breathe!" laughed End. "GOOD!" Yelled Steve, which made End laugh harder. Just then, the shower stopped. End still was laughing and crying, but Steve scrambled off him and refolded Dani's new clothes. "Dani....err...I have the new clothes...." Steve said to the door, End still rolling on the floor laughing. "Just....stick your hand through the door....I'll grab the clothes.... and don't look..." she said from the inside. "Don't look inside, Steve! Don't be a pig!" said End, whose own joke made him laugh even harder. "I wouldn't do that!" said Steve. He opened the door, and stuck his hand in, not looking. Dani grabbed the clothes and closed the door, which caused End to howl. "Just shut up, End..." Steve muttered, face burning hot. End steadily began to calm down, but he was still giggling when Dani came out. It caused Steve's jaw to drop. All the dirt from her face was gone, and she was in her new clean clothes . Her hair was brushed straight and wet. "How do I look?" she asked. "Amazing.....I mean, better!" said Steve. End burst out laughing again. "What's his deal?" Dani said in an undertone to Steve. "He's on.....Redstone dust! Yeah, major addict." he lied.
Chapter 4
"By the way..... I never got your names...." said Dani.
"Oh! Um! I'm Steve, and that laughing maniac is End."
"Haha okay."
Steve gulped. He thought it was really cute when she did that little laugh.
"H-hey End! Stop laughing for a second." Steve said to End, who was still struggling to stand up from giggling.
"Wh-what do you want?" he said, finally straightening.
"What are we doing today?"
"Well, I have an idea on who, I mean what, you would like to be doing today." snickered End.
"End!"
"Anyway....I think we should try and find some more Endermen to convince. Most hostile ones will probably be in the tundra you spawn in. No one knows the exact place where you spawn, only the tundra."
Dani looked confused, but she didn't ask anything.
"So, we start bringing peace to Endermen today?" Steve asked hopefully.
"No, I'm saying we find them and kill them! Yes we bring peace!"
"Okay, so do we leave now? And to the tundra?"
"Yeah, but the tundra is really far, and teleporting both of you will cause even more exhaustion, but it's not far enough to put me into a coma." said End.
"Well, what are you all waiting for? Grab my hand!" said End.
Steve stepped over and latched on, but Dani reluctantly grabbed on.
"Steve's probably used to it by now, but you'll have to brace yourself." End told her.
She nodded weakly, pale.End teleported, a haze of shades of purple and a whooshing feeling, but Steve was used to it by now. As suddenly as it started, it stopped. End fell to the ground, out cold, while Dani fell out of dizziness.End was hardly breathing, his chest making quick, shallow breaths, eyes closed. Steve watched him, worried. Dani on the other hand, scrambled up and said,"Oh dear, is he okay?"
"Err, I think so. The longer the distance, the more tired he is. The longest I've seen him like this was 2 minutes ..."
End was lying on a snowy hill, while Steve and Dani nervously wait for him to open his eyes, or even start normally breathing.Ten minutes pass, then End finally gasps and opens his eyes, now breathing heavily. His pupils nervously flitted around.
"How long....was I out......?"
"About ten minutes" replied Steve.
End closed his eyes and continued to relax a little. He took another five minutes before he stood up and said, "I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Okay, I suggest we start looking."
End, Steve and Dani trudged around the tundra, for a few hours, sun slowly sliding across the sky. It was afternoon before End finally spotted a tall black figure.
"Alright, we are going to try different tactics at this. The first one, I convince them, just me. You two stay hidden behind this hill. Sound like a plan?" End asked.
"Yeah." replied Steve.
"Alright, you two don't have too much fun alone." End snickered.
"End!" Steve scowled at him.
End laughed and teleported away.
"What does he keep hinting towards?" Dani asked
."Nothing. He's delusional from the Redstone Dust."
"Are you sure it's safe to be around an Enderman high on Redstone Dust?" she said quietly.
"It's uh....fine. Really."
Chapter 5
Steve sat next to Dani for about 10 awkward minutes. They crouched, hidden by a low hill, Dani in front of Steve. Finally, when End returned, he looked frazzled.
"Just a neutral mother, who wanted to keep her child safe. Told her to spread the word about peace, she was fine, though I think she tried to get with me," he smiled slyly.
They continued to search for a little while, until the sun started to set.
"I think we should get back now. If we are going to have a bonfire." said End.
"We are having a bonfi-?" Steve asked.
"Yes, to warm up the bones! Now let's go." he said and grabbed both of their hands. Why is End rushing everything? Steve wondered. When the teleportation stopped, both Dani and End fell over, Dani rather green in the face. Sure enough, they were on top of the large hill/mountain, with their campfire setup. The hilltop was rather large. The hill itself was beyond the forest behind their mansion.Steve started the fire while he waited for End to wake, and helped Dani onto his usual bench. The bench was long enough for both of them to sit comfortably.When End was better, the sun was already gone. End took his usual place at the other end of the fire, across from Steve and Dani.
"So Dani," End said, a little winded yet, "What happens when you are first spawned, or born, or however you exist?"
"Well....you are put into an intense training course, where you learn everything. You take this huge test, where there is like, 500 questions. It tests you everything you need to know. It drills into your mind. You can only go when you have answered all 500 correct, because you cannot die."
"Notch....that sounds hard..." murmured Steve.
"Who's Notch?" asked Dani.
Steve looked at End, and End back.
"You-you don't know who Notch is?" Steve asked, dumfounded.
"No....should I?"
"He's the creator of Minecraft! He puts care and delicately selects each block in every world and seed, nurtures every being , and greets each and everyone to the afterlife." Steve explained.
"Creator of Minecraft? That's Herobrine. He is a blood-thirsty, torture seeker. He wants to torture everything and make their lives miserable. But he couldn't do that without giving them a fair chance. He created the Overworld, where everyone stays alive. But...if you die, you get sent under the Nether, to his fortress.....He rips your soul away, until you are a mindless slave...."
"What does Herobrine look like?" Steve asked.
"Nobody knows for sure, but all we know is his glowing, soulless white eyes...."
Steve shuddered. That sounded horrible. He looked into her eyes. Purple, gleaming, full of life, yet shy. He couldn't imagine her to be soulless.End noticed Steve staring into her eyes, and quickly stood up.
"Ah, I think I'm going in for the night. Pretty tired after all this teleporting,"
Steve raised an eyebrow. Usually End is last asleep, almost as if he didn't need sleep.
"Don't have too much fun up here. It's pretty secluded, under the stars, but anyone can hear you if you are too loud."
"End!" Steve said, embarrassed.
End snickered and teleported away.
"Err, Steve, why does End keep making these sly jokes?" Dani said, looking up from the fire.
"Truth is....End isn't on Redstone Dust. Neither of us haven't even thought about using it."
"Then.....what does he keep hinting?"
"I-I think it's best if I show you, rather than tell."
"What do you me-" Dani began, but was cut off as Steve pressed his lips against hers.
Chapter 6
End did a silent fist pump as Steve kissed her. He was watching from below the hill. This was his plan all along. He wasn't tired at all, he just gave Steve an opportunity to make a move. Best. Wingman. Ever! He thought to himself smugly, teleporting to the house. But a small voice rang in the back of his head. Now that Steve loves someone.....what about you? but he ignored it.End went behind the dining table, to the left of the bathroom, where the couch and TV was. It was a two-seater couch, which was shaped a bit odd. The right side of the couch back was a bit taller than the other side, so End could sit comfortably.
He flopped onto his side of the couch, grabbing the TV remote. He flipped through the channels, nothing too good on at the moment because of the time, which was midnight, just some reruns of Man Vs. Minecraft and NoxCrew Game Show.
"Notch darn it!" End cursed himself.
He missed his favorite shows, which were on earlier that day. He would always watch SkyBlock, Season Two with NFEN and AllShamNoWow and Shadow of Israphel with Steve.
He just settled with a Man, Woman, Minecraft rerun. Steve and Dani still weren't back after that, but he didn't bother to look, just in case they need privacy.End was happy for Steve, but he also felt something else in the back of his mind he desperately tried to ignore. No! I am not jealous of Steve! he groaned.
Steve and Dani finally came in a little after 1 AM, while End was dozing off at trying to watch Hunt For The Golden Apple.
Dani was giggling nonstop, looking rather small compared to Steve, and Steve had a silly smile on his face, blushing.
"You two had fun together?" End said, smirking with his hand on his hips, staring down at them.
"End!" Steve chuckled, blushing harder.
"Yeah, we just joked around." Dani said, still giggling a little.
"Mmhmm sure you did." End said, poking both of them.
"Okay, um Dani, do you want to sleep on the couch for tonight? I think I'm going to bed." Steve said.
"Sure, um, can I have some blankets?" she said.
"Yeah, they're in my room. I'll go get them." Steve said, running past them and up the stairs.
"Okay, I'm going to bed. Goodnight Dani." End said, quickly teleporting to Steve's room.
Steve just walked in as End teleported.
"GAH END!" Steve jumped.
"So how'd it go?" End said, ignoring Steve's remark.
"What do you mean?" he said.
"I saw you kissing! What is your relationship status now? Did she like it?"
"I-I think so. She didn't pull away or anything, just a little shocked at first. She just kind of...eased into it I guess."
"Into it?" End said, smirking.
"No! We just uh, stopped and starting joking around after that..."
"Aww, no action?" End joked.
"End, please!"
"I'm just joking!" he said innocently.
"You better be." Steve replied.
"Alright, get the blankets and go back downstairs, I bet she's getting cold without those blankets."
"Okay. Goodnight End" Steve yawned
."And don't be too loud! The house is made of planks, which aren't soundproof!" End joked and teleported to his room.
End climbed into his extra long bed, listening to Steve walk down the stairs. He lied there, tense, listening as well as he could to them. He heard the TV go out, and Dani giggle. Oh Notch no, thought, hoping that Steve didn't take him seriously. He felt relieved as he heard the planks squeaking as Steve walked up the stairs.
After he heard Steve crawl into bed, End turned over and thought, Well, a lot of things have happened today.
Chapter 7
When Steve woke up the next day, he felt content as ever. A faint smell of bacon drifted into his room, so he knew End was cooking.He yawned, rising out of bed. He made his way down the hallway and stairs, and when he looked in the kitchen, there stood End cooking and Dani on the couch watching TV. Her hair was messed up, as were the covers on the couch. End was wearing a rather small(on him, at least) "Kiss the Cook" apron.
"We-ell, look who could join us finally!" End chuckled, turning to look at Steve."Steve!" Dani said, scrambling off the couch to hug him.
"Good morning both you." Steve said, smiling and yawning.
"Is bacon okay for breakfast?" End asked.
"Sure," they both said.
"What's on TV?" Steve asked.
"A movie. Survival Games 1 it said."
Dani explained
"Oh yeah, End and I watched that."
"I think CaptainSparklez should've won." End chimed in.
"No way, Paulsoaresjr only lost because of the mob spawnage!" Steve argued.
"Well, you just spoiled it for me." Dani pouted.
"Oh! Sorry!" Steve said,
"Well, we can still watch it."They went back to the couch, Steve on his side, and Dani on End's.
"It's only a few minutes in," she said.
Not long after, End brought the bacon to them and pulled up a chair to watch it with them. Once that was over, they went back to the tundra to look for more Endermen to persuade. Once the sun started to set, they went back to their house to have another bonfire.
"So....." Steve said.
"Soo....." End said.
"Um....I've been meaning to ask. Steve, where'd you get that bloodstain on your chest?" Dani said.
"Oh, that!" Steve said, looking down at it, memories returning to his mind.
"It's a really long story." he said, looking at End.
"Enough to be 17 chapters!" End chuckled.
"We have all night," Dani said.
"Well, it all started with End." Steve said.
Steve and End went into a long explanation about how End was born with Endermen cultists who would kidnap and torture humans. End saves Steve before they catch him, but they had to battle, where Steve got bloodstains. After Steve healed, they searched all day and night through countless mineshafts to find a water sphere that gives off endless water. After flooding their base and killing off their leader and most Endermen(and unfortunately the humans), including End even, End came back to life to bring Endermen to peace.When they were done, it was getting pretty late.
"Wow...you've...you've done a lot," Dani said, looking at the ground.
"Yeah," Steve yawned, "Geez, that took awhile."
Chapter 8
"Dang," End said, "it must be 1 AM. "
"Welp," Steve yawned and stood up," I'm packing it up for the night,"
"M-me too," Dani agreed.
Steve grabbed End's hand, while Dani grabbed the other. End teleported them to the house, where Steve nearly smashed into the wall from exhaustion. He quickly said goodnight and staggered up the stairs. End also said goodnight and followed Steve.End crawled into bed, not very tired. He tossed and turned for awhile, then he thought he heard something. Was that....was that wooden planks creaking from downstairs? I didn't hear Steve getting out of bed! End's first thought was, but then he heard the faint snoring coming from Steve's room.
Besides, the creaking sounded like it was moving from the couch towards the stairs. Is Dani coming upstairs? But then End heard the sound of doors opening and pistons retracting. Why is she going outside?!
End sat up, legs swinging over the side of the bed. He rose, trying not to make too much noise. He tiptoed out of his room, down the hallway, down the stairs and tiptoed across the room to check to see if Dani was still on the couch. Sure enough, it was empty.End then teleported onto the porch, so the pistons wouldn't make their loud noise. Where is that crazy girl? End thought as he looked around.
He looked and listened hard, no visible trace of her, but he thought he could hear something behind the house.End sneaked around the house, listening as hard as he could. When he made it to the side of the house, the noise was clear. Sobbing.End continued into the forest behind their house, quiet as possible, listening and looking. His heart was beating fast, he could feel the purple Enderman blood pumping through his veins.Finally, End found her, sitting, legs pulled close, head-in-knees and sobbing, back to a tree.
"D-Dani?" End said, coming into view.
"St-Steve?" she said, sniffling and looking up.
"Oh," Dani said, eyes turning cold as she realized it was End, "it's you."
"What's wrong?" End said, crouching next to her.
"Get away from me," she whispered.
"What?" End asked.
"I said," Dani whispered, "get away from me!" she yelled the last part, hitting End.
End stumbled back, "I don't understand," he murmured, puzzled.
"Nothing your kind would understand," Dani said, hatred dripping from her voice like venom.
"What do you mean?" End said, looking at her.
"Can't you see that I don't want you here?!?" she said, almost yelling.
"Fine, I just-"
"Go!" she yelled, voice cracking and tears leaking from her eyes.
End teleported back into his room. He heard a faint wail coming from the forest. Am I dreaming?
Chapter 9
End awoke at his usual time he wakes up, around 5:00 AM. He watched the sun rise from the nice open window in his room, to the left of his bed. Why can't Steve get up early to watch the sunrise too? It's quite beautiful.He thought.
Steve always got up so late. Humans are weird sometimes.
He neatly made his bed and strolled downstairs, opening curtains as he went. He could hear the faint snoring of Dani on the couch. She got up earlier than Steve, but that won't be for awhile yet. End quietly tiptoed past the couch and opened the blinds.He frowned, he would usually watch TV for awhile before making breakfast. But he can't, Dani was sleeping there. Maybe I can get her to start sleeping in Steve's room. He thought of the double bed in there and cringed. Or set up a cot....
End went back up into his room to get a book. He pulled out a random book on his shelf. The Enderman's Game. Why not?He lied on his bed for awhile, reading it. He went back downstairs and started to cook breakfast. By now it was 8:00AM, Dani was still asleep.
End began clanking around the kitchen, starting up waffles.Not long after, he heard Dani gasp and jerk up. She stills thinks she is alone in the wild when she wakes up...poor thing.
Suddenly, the memories of last night flood into End's mind. Relax, End. It was probably just a dream. He reassured himself.
"Good morning!" he called to her.
No reply. Or...was it?The TV turned on, and End didn't even have to turn around to know what was playing. From the laugh, he could tell it was Shadow of Israphel.
"Steve and I love that show, we would watch it when a new episode is released on Fridays" End said, trying to start a conversation.
"Just shut up," Dani muttered under her breath.
Even though it was faint, End's Enderman hearing could hear it. Oh.... he thought, hurt. Maybe it's best if I don't talk to her....Even though I don't know what's wrong with her.
It was around 9:00AM when Steve plundered down the stairs.
"Good morning!" End and Dani called in unison.
Steve smiled, "Hi guys!"
"I've got waffles baked up," End said, flopping one onto a plate
."I love waffles!" Steve yawned.
"Want to make a chair for Dani?" End said.
"Sure, I have some wood blocks in my room," Steve said, still groggy.
"I'll help," End said, and ushered Steve up the stairs.
They got to Steve's room and End went in front of Steve, blocking him from his chest.
"Can you ask Dani something?" he asked Steve.
"Uh, sure?"
"Why is she being so hateful to me? Last night I saw her crying outside and I asked her what's wrong, and she yelled at me to go away. This morning she told me to shut up," End said.
"Wait, she was crying last night?" Steve said, alarmed.
"Yeah, she wouldn't tell me anything...Just to go away." End said, downcrest.
"You should've told me!" Steve said, looking faintly angry.
"I'm sorry Steve, I wasn't really thinking, and she did seem like she didn't want to be bothered anyway."
"Agh forget it. I'll ask her why later." Steve said, waving off, looking annoyed.
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It was late afternoon now, and End had made the suggestion of going mining. They were getting low on diamonds. They were mining just above bedrock, branching out. They had barely gotten farther than 10 blocks out when there was a cry of
"OH SH-" and a clunkclunkclunk from Steve's tunnel.
"Steve?!" End and Dani yell in unison, flying out of their tunnels.
Steve's tunnel ended abruptly at fallen gravel, in which he was under.
"STEVE!" They yelled, Dani racing towards him. End, on the other hand, couldn't get in, due to the fact that the tunnel was only 2 blocks tall. Dani was scraping away at the gravel, trying to get him free. End frantically mined at the blocks above, creating a path.He started scraping at the gravel next to Dani.
"The first thing he will see will be me, so back off!" She hissed at End.
End stumbled back, surprised. "Wh-wha-"
but was cut off as Steve gasped and Dani revealed him.
"Don't just stand there End, help him free!" she said.
"I just was-"
"Help me!" Finally, they got Steve free, who coughed
"Are you okay?" Dani asked.
"Yeah, I think so," he coughed.
"Don't worry Steve, I've got you." Dani murmured.
Chapter 10
Steve looked at End as Dani helped him up. End was behind Dani after she pushed him. He stood there, shocked at what she said.
"C'mon," she said, "let's go home early,"
End nodded, grasping both their hands and teleporting. But where he did teleport, was not the house.
"End?" Steve asked.
End was breathless from the teleport, but he barely gave notice to it. He said nothing as he walked across the ground in brisk steps.
"End....." Steve said, looking around, he recognized this place.
End stopped as he hit a dirt wall, which blocked off the entrance to a small cave. It was dead silent, except for the cold wind of rolling, treeless, tundra. He stared at the wall, Steve and Dani behind him a few blocks. End's mouth was slightly open, eyes wide, but betraying nothing as he eyed the wall.
"What's he do-" Dani said,but Steve interrupted her.
"Shh."
End removed 3 blocks of the wall, and entered the small cave. Steve followed, so Dani followed Steve. Steve stood in the entrance to the cave, which went no more than 10 blocks back. The only light that was filtering in was from the entrance End made, and a one block opening at the top. Steve watched End from the entrance, Dani from his shoulder.End walked over to the wall, and removed a block from it. He set it down on the floor, and sat on it, stretching his legs. He stared at the wall across from him
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As End sat, he felt no emotions, only compelled to do this. Nothing else. As he bent his legs, Steve and Dani faded away from their places, and the entrance replaced with dirt. Steve reappeared on the wall opposite from him, except much weaker, scared, cold, and confused. He was in a ball against the wall. It was nighttime, and now it was raining.
End's memories of the everything disappeared. He felt as there is someone who needs him right now, but he couldn't quite place a finger on it. "C'mon, who is he?"something in his life was missing.
He looked at the human curled up in a ball, covering his eyes from him.
"You don't know how good this feels. Being on your legs all day, they get stiff from being so straight." he said.
End was feeling a sense of deja vu, but he ignored it. This happens all the time. Help this human, don't be scary, don't fail like the other times.
"So," he stopped, and extended a hand.
"What's your name?"End could almost tell what he was about to say.
His name was on the tip of his tongue! Stue? Stephen?
"Oh geez, where are my manners? I'm End." he said, hand still out ,"This is the part where you tell me your name."
The nagging feeling of deja vu never left his mind. The back of his head screamed at him to get back to the people. There is no one! Stop feeding lies to yourself, End, this human needs you!
"I-I'm St-Steve." he said weakly, voice hoarse from not using it. "Steve!" End said in his mind, gasping as the memories, feelings, surroundings, and knowledge flooded back to him.He looked around frantically, Steve and Dani at the entrance to the cave, late afternoon sunlight spilling in. His hand was extended to where the past Steve sat. A jolt went through him as he remembered something. That's where the deja vu ended all those months ago, after he told me his name.
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"End? Are you okay?" Steve asked.
"I'm fine."
Steve looked at Dani. She looked confused, but Steve wasn't. End just reenacted the whole scene of where he first met Steve. He had said and done everything out loud, just as if Steve was actually in that corner of the cave. The last few seconds of it though, is what chilled him.
"This is the part where you tell me your name." End had said, arm extended to empty air. He looked at the spot with the same reassuring smile he had worn all those months ago. He went silent, then his face contorted into pure shock as he snapped back to reality.
"What happened?" End asked.
"No, let's go back to the house." Steve said.
End nodded without arguing.
Chapter 11
A few hours had passed, which consisted of Steve and Dani watching TV, while End sat at the table, dead silent. Soon after, they headed up to the bonfire pit. End sat on his usual log, across from Steve and Dani. He stared into the fire hardly listening to what they were saying. He remembered when he met Steve, he had felt so much Deja vu, just like he experienced earlier. But he had felt the similar experiences so many times before in his life. Am I going to reenact each scene?
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"So, in our world, we first spawn, we are about 7 years old. We get put into school, where we learn every single detail about religion, worlds, and most important, surviving." Dani explained.
"The school is intensive. It's 12 hours long every day. 6:00 AM To 6:00 PM. We sleep in small, one roomed shacks that have heating and stuff, so it's nice. We go to school for about 6 months. They really drill the knowledge into you, so we have a smaller chance of dying."
"Ohh, for us, we just spawn, go to an hour long presentation on the basics, then we are sent off. I guess that's why I just stumbled around the land when spawned, but you looked for mineshafts."
"Yeah, haha." she said, looking down. Was she....hiding something?
"What about you, End?" Steve said.
"Wha- huh, oh, umm..., yeah, sure." he said distractedly.
"I mean, what happens when you spawn?"
"Ah, no, it doesn't work like that. When I was born, I lived a different life than other Endermen. Each time is different. My parents loved and cared for me, but what I hated about them is how they went along with our King on the human slaughter. Yeah, they were against it, but they didn't want to get banished."
"I, however, when I learned about this in school, I was different. I immediately became an outcast for being so against the idea, everyone hated me. They called me things like, "Human Worshipper" and "Scum Listener"
"No one ever found out that I helped the humans. Ever. Up until that day 2 years ago...." he paused, cringing.
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Flashbacks of small Endermen circling End calling him names, hitting him. An image of himself appeared, in a ball against a wall corner, surrounded by people picking on him. End tried to look strong, but you could see the fear and hatred in his eyes. This happened often in his childhood, starting from as early as he can remember to the week he got banished.
Then came his parents. He could hear them talking late at night. Worried about him. Each day he would come from school with a bruise, a limp, a swollen eye, a cut. They grew more concerned each day. As he got older, the bullying grew steadily worse. End cared less and less as he got older. Only dwelling on the physical damage.
"Who cares if they insult me with words? I'll be working against them one day, anyway." he always told himself.
He had no friends, always last to be picked in games, activities, anything. Teachers hated him, neighbors hated him. End had always stayed strong, the 38 years (19 at mind, Endermen live as twice as long as humans) that everyone hated him.He thought of when he was banished, his mother, all her life, going against this idea, but trying so hard to blend in, to be normal with other Endermen, all gone to waste because of End.
"Please! Don't kill End! My baby!" tears streaming down her face. His father looked at him sadly. He went up to his mother and said with much more certainty than he felt,
"I will get revenge one day, I will get revenge on him."
He remembered the attack with Steve, how the King yelled at End how his mother insulted him, pleading to stay alive just before they were beheaded.
"Certainly she wouldn't say those things....he was lying.."
His flashbacks ended, returning back to the campfire in front of End and Steve.
"2 years ago, I was banished" he said.
"You just told us?" Dani said.
"What?" End asked.
"Yeah, you told us everything about your life just now, do you not remember?" Steve said.
Had End said all that in his flashback? Why was he doing this? Was he going insane?
Chapter 12
"You know what, I'll just go to bed...." End said, standing up.
"Okay, good night End." Steve said, giving him a hard stare.
End looked down at him, and teleported away.Steve sighed and put his elbows on his knees, hands on his face, and gazed into the fire.
"I'm worried about End."
"I'm sure he's fine," Dani said, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"But blacking out and not remembering it isn't normal!" he protested.
"He's lived a hard life, up until now where he has you. But then there's me...."
"What do you mean?" Steve said, looking at her.
"I don't...I don't think he wants me here. He just glares at me. And when I saved you from the gravel, he was getting frustrated he couldn't get to you, and he said 'back off, Steve is my friend, not yours'" Dani confessed.
"He wouldn't have said that!" Steve retorted.
"He did...." Dani said, looking down.
"I'm sorry," he said, gaze softening, "but...End is a real nice guy....I just can't picture him saying something like that."
"But...End is an Enderman, a hostile monster, and you're human...
"Steve tensed, "What are you trying to say?""Maybe....it's what's causing him blackouts. It's not natural, humans talk to humans, Endermen talk to Ender...." Dani said, but trailed off as she saw the hostility in Steve's eyes, and the look of disgust on his face.
"End saved me in a time of need, and I helped him fulfill his promise, we know each other too well! He hates every Enderman!" Steve said, nearly shouting.
Dani cringed and said softly, "He needs to get over it. It's not normal, talking to humans when you are an Enderman. I don't care if he's around other Endermen or not, he shouldn't be around humans."
Steve scowled, "It's perfectly fine. And I'm his only friend..." he said the last sentence softly, relaxing and putting his face in his hands.
Dani wrapped an arm around Steve, pulling him close, "I understand...but if it's tearing him apart, it's best if he goes...."
Steve sniffed, memories of when he first told End to go rushing back into his mind. His emotionless eyes glaring at him before teleporting.
"I thought you were different! I thought you accepted me, that I'm an Enderman, and I don't want to hurt you!" he had yelled.
He remembered the grief and sadness and regret he had felt afterwards.
"I've sent him out once....I-I can't do it again..." he said, feeling hot tears well in his eyes.
Dani sighed, leaning her head on his shoulder.
"You have to, for his sake."
"I-I'll think about it" he said, breaking off into a sob.
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End stumbled in the house, gasping for breath. He staggered toward the bathroom. He gripped the sink, looking up at the mirror, gasping as he saw streaks of blood coming from his eyes and his nose. He blinked, and the blood was gone. His hands were shaking violently.
"What's wrong with me?" he groaned out loud.
He teleported into his room, sitting on his bed, putting his face in his hands. He begged for it to stop, over and over. Its seemed like hours before it finally did. End collapsed into his bed, asleep, suddenly so exhausted.
Chapter 13
Steve and Dani came back to the house not long after that night, discovering End already asleep. Steve went up to his room, and Dani on the couch. End had a fitful sleep, twitching, feeling blood all over him, drowning in blood, spirits screaming next to him.
"Why? What is wrong with me?" He yelled to the spirits, but as soon as he yelled it, they disappeared.
He heard creaking floorboards from all directions, thumps and bumps, giant monsters looming over him. He stumbled over, pulling his long skinny legs into a tight ball up to his face. He threw his head up in a silent wail of desperation and fear. Where is Steve? he thought. The shadowy monsters towered over him, spitting in rage. The spittle burned his skin. Plit, Plit, Plit, it kept going on.
He groaned, squirming from under the burning saliva. He sat straight up in his bed, heart racing and panting. But why did it keep burning? He looked up. Is that.... he thought, but his thoughts were interrupted as a droplet hit his face, causing him to shrink back, off his bed. It is water! Why is there water above my bed? Teleporting onto the roof, he discovered someone had placed water directly over his bed, causing the water to drip through and onto him. He teleported down below, picked up a grass block, teleported back up, and covered the source block. He teleported back down, replacing the block. Now exhausted once again, he trudged into the house.
He could hear Dani faintly breathing once again as he struggled up the stairs, Finally reaching bed, he lied back down, and fell asleep.
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"End?"End woke up to Steve at his door.
"Steve? Whattime issit?" he mumbled.
"Like, 10AM, I woke up and you weren't up yet, I was worried."
End groaned, he was always up early!
"hey, are you feeling okay?"
"Yeah..."
"Are you sure?" Steve pressed, walking in his room and sitting next to him on his bed.
"Well, no," he confessed, "I have been having nightmares blackouts, hallucinations..."
"Do....do you think it's because you are around humans?"
"What are you saying?" End said fiercely.
Steve cringed, "I....what if, Endermen aren't supposed to be around humans for long amounts of time, and....and you are feeling bad because you have been hanging around Dani and I too long...."
"Where did you get such a stupid idea?" he spat in disbelief.
"D-Dani suggested it to me....."
"Pff, Dani, she hates me," End laughed cruelly.
"What? She told me you hate her!"
"What?! What did I do?!?" he said in disbelief.
"Well, she said, when I was stuck under gravel, you were trying to reach me and you yelled, 'back off, Steve is my friend, not yours'" Steve said.
"What!??! She said that to me! She gives me dirty looks, yells at me for being an Enderman..." End sighed.
"Are you sure? Or are you just hallucinating?"
Growing fierce again, End said, "I've been around humans two years, no problem."
"I don't know, just...I don't know. Let's get breakfast," Steve ended the conversation.
End nodded, mind whirling. Is this why he was hallucinating? Certainly not, he has been around humans for two years! He threw 2 pork chops into the oven, not hungry himself. Steve went into the bathroom. He waited around the table, the crisp smell of pork chops starting to waft over them.
"How was the shower last night?" Dani asked casually, from watching TV.
"What show-" End stopped abruptly, remembering the water above his bed, horrible suspicion crawling over him.
"It was you-" he started to mutter, but was cut off as Steve opened the door.
"Mm, pork chops smell great!" he commented.
End straightened, and pointed at Dani, hardly aware of what he was doing.
"She poured water over the roof above my bed last night!" he said.
"What!?" Both Steve and Dani said in unison.
"You stop playing dumb!" He yelled, a faraway look in his eye.
Steve was taken aback. He had never seen End yell, only raise his voice, in complete control. But now, he was yelling, in no control whatsoever.
"You...you climbed the roof and poured water all over the area above my room! You knew the water would drip onto me!" He yelled, voice becoming shrill.
"Look at these burn marks!" he screeched, pointing desperately at marks all over himself.
"End! Calm down! You are being unreasonable!" Steve said.
"It rained last night, the water was just soaking through," Dani said lightly.
"Stop LYING for once in your miserable life!" he shrieked, outraged.
"End, it rained, stop blaming Dani!" Steve reasoned.
"So you believe her? Her and her pathetic lies!" he laughed, a manic laugh, which chilled Steve, "This was your plan all along wasn't it? Drive me out, leaving Steve all to yourself!?!?" he said, turning on Dani again.
"End please!" Steve plead.
End was about to spit another insult at her, when he looked at Steve, the faraway look in his eyes disappearing.
Regaining control of himself, he said, "Right. I'll be in my room, for........for I don't know how long." he turned and stalked off, leaving Steve and Dani dumbfounded.
Chapter 14
End had spent the next few days shut up in his room, not leaving to cook breakfast or even say “hi” to Steve or Dani. He had gone outside and picked up some dirt blocks, just to block the entrance to his door. Steve had tried to build a pillar of dirt up to his room, but he saw that the window was also blocked with dirt.
“He’ll come around,” Dani had said encouragingly, but Steve had his doubts. “He needs to get himself out of that Notch-cursed room!” Steve thought.
“There’s no use, he’s not coming out and, he needs time alone.” Dani tried to persuade him.
“He’s had three days, it’s time to come out,” he retorted.
Dani shrugged, “Whatever you say.”
Steve reluctantly stopped and the three dirt blocks that covered End’s door. He couldn’t really knock, it was dirt.
“End?” he called.
“Go away,” the muffled groan came from his room.
His voice sounded gravelly and hoarse.
“End, it’s not healthy to stay shut up in your room like that for so long. Have you eaten?”
“No, and I don’t care,” he groaned.
“Do you need me to come in there?” he said, mischievously.
“No.”
Steve sighed, braced himself, and barreled through the dirt, shoulder bared.
“I told you to go away,” End mumbled, sitting on his bed, head in his hands.
The room was dark, little light escaped through the dirt, but just enough to leave a dim, gloomy light. The room had a musky smell, and traces of dirt were all over the floor. End’s bed looks like it had not been made in days, but then again, it probably hasn't.The smell nearly choked Steve, but he plunged in anyway. He stalked right over to End, and tried to seem tall, but it didn’t work too well.
“What do you want,” he muttered.
“C’mon, it’s time to stop sulking. Get out of bed, and come say hi.”
“No,” he said, turning so his face was in his pillow.
Steve sighed.“We both miss you, it’s lonely without you.”
End gave a dry chuckle from his pillow.
“Dani doesn’t miss me, she’s probably enjoying me gone.” he said, muffled by the pillow.
“That’s not true,” Steve lied.
“Come on, be a big boy.” He said, trying to grab End.
“No,”
Steve tried tickling his sides, and End said, “You know Endermen aren’t ticklish.” Wow, stupid idea. He thought, grateful End couldn’t see the embarrassment on his face.
Next he tried pushing End, but that didn't work either, he was like a mountain, refusing to budge.
“End please! You are my best buddy, I can’t stand to see you like this,” he tried pleading.
End sat up, and for the first time in 3 days, he saw his face. It was tear stained, Steve could see the faint purple traces coming from his eyes. His eyes were also darker purple than before, bloodshot. Steve tried to hide his shock, but he didn’t think it worked too well.
"Best buddies don't try to convince best buddies to leave." he spat.
Steve was going to say something, but was interrupted again,
“You prefer Dani over me,” he rasped.
“No, End, I like you equally, now please come downstairs," he pleaded.
"....Fine...." he mumbled.
"Let's clean this mess up," Steve said, gesturing towards the dirt all over.
Once the dirt had been cleared from End's room, they made it downstairs. Dani had been sitting on the couch the whole time, seemingly not caring.
"Oh, hey, you are finally done skulking," she said, rather aloof.
"Right...I'm gonna go...umm..yeahh..." Steve said, heading towards the bathroom.
End pulled out a chair and sat in it, and sighed. His eyes were heavy and bloodshot. My life is a living Nether, he thought, rubbing his face.
"So, the big, tough, Enderman, End, skulking in his room, crying. When will you leave?" Dani sneered.
"Wha-" Was he hallucinating again?
"Honestly, I'm sick and tired of Steve being so worried about yo-" she kept going on, but was interrupted as Steve opened the bathroom door.
"Dani?" he said, looking from Dani's accusing finger, pointed at End.
Chapter 15
All was silent for a moment, but Dani quickly recovered."Steve! You wouldn't believe it! End tried to murder-" Dani tried to lie, but was interrupted.
"End," Steve said, ignoring her, "can you tell me what happened?"
End looked at him for a moment, swallowed, and said, "Dani tried to insult me again,"
"Again?" He asked quizzically.
"Y-yes, she's done it be-"
"NO! Don't listen to him, he's LYING! Hallucinating!" She yelled, frantically.
"Dani. Why are you insulting End?" Steve asked, remaining unusually calm.
"I wasn't, he's ly-"
"Dani,"She went silent, the frantic look in her eyes disappearing, turning to hatred and calming.
"Alright, it's about time you should find out," she said, much more calmly now, leaning back against the table.
Steve leaned back against a wall also, but End remained upright, gazing at the two of them with a confused look in his eyes.
"I've been trying to get revenge on both of you," she stated calmly, looking at her fingernails.
"What have we done?" End asked, outraged.
"You killed my best friends. My family. The reason that I live." she replied coolly.
"No we didn't!" Steve retorted, leaning forward.
"You drowned them! On that day you overwrought the Enderman clan, you also killed hundreds, if not thousands of innocent human beings!" She said loudly.
Steve was about to retaliate, but he closed his mouth and leaned back, looking shocked.
"Yeah, think about it. All dead because of you,"
"Then why were you being so rude to me?" End said, looking at her.
"I could easily trick Steve, he's a human male, just by using feminine charm," she said, Steve turning a little red, "but I know Endermen. They are smarter, and I couldn't trick him. Just by getting Steve to fall in love, then to betray will hurt him the most. Just being flat out rude to End and dragging Steve away was as much pain as I could inflict on End."
"I used to love Endermen, with all my heart, I really did. I had one on the back of my old clothes. But," she blinked away some tears, "after that group captured my friends and left me....I tore it off..." she made a small choking noise, but looked back up with more defiance. "You were part of that guild. I needed revenge. You helped Steve murder all those humans. I swore to get revenge."
"I-I didn't know about the hu-" Steve stuttered.
"Of course you didn't know about all the lives you killed! They all had normal lives like you, family, friends! You didn't think a second about them before you killed them all. You thought you were doing the right thing, But you were wrong."
"Dani,I-" he choked.
"No, I don't want to hear it." Dani interrupted him, "I-"
She was cut off by a small squeaking noise from the door.
"What-" End began to say, but was cut off as a loud chorus of squeaks came from underground, in the walls, and the ceiling.
"What is-" Dani said, looking around.
Suddenly, the door burst down, dozens of holes appeared in the floor, and millions of small silverfish streamed through.
"Wh- NO!" End realized what was happening, and the other two stared at him for a moment, just before they were sweeped off their feet as silverfish appeared beneath their feet.
"Brace yourselves," he said, but was hardly heard over the squeaks.
He gazed sadly at the other two as the silverfish tripped him, knocking him the ground, unconscious.
"End!" Steve yelled, but he and Dani soon met a similar fate.
Chapter 16
Hours later, when End regained consciousness, everything was blurred. Where am I? he thought.
He tried to sit upright, but his body shrieked in pain, he grunted, relaxing back on the ground. He heard a faint squeaking. Silverfish... Did they see me? he thought.
When he was younger, he learned nearly every language in Minecraft. Silverfish, on the other hand, were harder, because no one could ever find them to learn their language fluently. End had tried to learn as much of the language which was recorded, and it wasn't much.Many words he could not understand, for they were too accented and too fast to comprehend, or he just didn't know the word, but he picked out things like, "Kill, prisoners, lunch, hidden"
"Enderman, separated" one said, and he felt himself blacking out again.
This time, when he awoke, things were clearer, and he could move without as much pain. He seemed to be in a dark corner, and when he sat upright, he found he was in a dark, dank cell, light coming from outside in iron bars.Two other Endermen sat on a bench, to the right of him, talking in low undertones, in heavily accented voices.
"Wh-" End stopped himself. I have too much of a human accent, they might recognize me!
Clearing his throat, and mustering his best Endermen accent, he asked, "Where am I?" in Ender.
The two stopped talking and looked at him, "Silverfish jail. Deep underground. There's no teleporting, we tried. There's no way out."
"Why are we in jail? How long have you been here? Are other species here?"
They didn't seem to intent on starting a conversation, just answering questions."They kidnap everyone they see, Notch knows why. Eclipse has been here for 3 months," he said motioning towards him, "and me for 5. They keep species from any kind."
"What about humans?" End asked.
"Kept 3 cells down, opposite side, end of hall. Women of every species are killed though. Dunno why."
End almost choked on the last 2 sentences. Is Dani...dead? But...why should I care? She tried to hurt Steve and I! Still, she doesn't deserve to die...
End sat on the bench to his left, and let Eclipse and the other talk again. He put his face in his hands. How will I get out of this one?
He must've dozed like that, for the next thing he remembered was numbness in his elbows, hands and legs. He tried wiggling, but it didn't work. Sighing, he found that the wall across from him had a bunk bed, which was occupied.For the first time, he went up to the iron bars. Across from his were a few lonely creepers. To left was another pair of cells, a glowstone block on the floor, and a pathway which we could not see. His right had 3 more cells, and more glowstone in the floor.He tried to peer into the third one down, but it was too dark to see
.Don't worry Steve, I'm trying my best....he thought tiredly, muscles aching from sleeping like that.He trudged back to the bench, and lied down, trying to curl in a ball. The hard plank was uncomfortable and cold, but it would have to do, for now. I'm going to get you out of here, even if it's the last thing I do. This bed isn't going to be mine for long. He thought, falling asleep, once again.
Chapter 17"
Oh Dani, I love you," Steve said, holding her hand.
They were standing in a meadow, with flowers everywhere, sunshine shining bright down onto them. A gently breeze was blowing, causing her hair to be pushed back slightly.
"I love you too, but it's too bad the only way to get back at hating Endermen is to kill you," she said, the same note of happiness never leaving her eyes.
"Wha-" but it was too late. A massive, dark ravine opened up beneath his feet, with thousands of shrieking silverfish below. He looked up, seeing Dani with a doleful, but happy look on her face.
He woke with a cry, and in cold sweat. He was shaking all over, but he couldn't see anything. Steve pulled his legs close, curling in a ball. It's not real, you are fine... you are in bed at home...shhhh.He opened his eyes, and realized he had been wrong. Where am I? He tried to remember what happened, but everything went fuzzy, the last thing he remembered was End yelling "No!" and squeaking.
He adjusted his eyes, and realized he was alone in a dim jail cell. No one was around him, from across him, he could see the glowing eyes of two spiders. But instead of the normal, bright, malicious blaze, it's more of a dim, weary light. Am I still dreaming? Steve thought.He pinched himself on the arm, and felt a jolt of pain. Guess not. Alright, then why am I here.....Steve stood up, from the dark corner he was in.
He had dirt and blood all over his body, and he was quite sore. Wounds stung all over his body. There was a bunk bed on the wall to his right, and two benches on the wall he was in. Where's End? Where's Dani? Then, he remembered everything she had said. He felt tears well in his eyes I thought she actually loved me...
He tried to call out, but his voice was hoarse and weak. The spiders from the jail cell across hissed at him.
"End..." he murmured helplessly. Where was his friend? He paced around the cell. Thinking, and growing frustrated. Then sad. But most of all, helpless. He started muttering angrily. Steve's mutters turned to talking to himself. Then yelling. He banged his fists on the bunk beds, screaming in frustration.
"END!" He yelled for his friend. I've got to get out of here. He continued beating his bunk bed, until he heard some squeaking coming down from the hallway. He heard some skeleton bones rattling in cells, creepers and spiders hissing, until the silverfish got in front of his cell. There was about ten of them. They squeaked angrily, and one slithered into the cell. Steve screamed and tried to hop away, to climb on the bunk bed, but the silverfish easily slithered to him.The creature bit into his leg, rather deep. Then, it slid out of the cell as if nothing happened, it's cronies behind him.
Steve was breathing heavily, standing atop the bunk bed. Suddenly, aside from the stinging in his left leg, he felt sudden fatigue. His eyes drooped, and he fell forward, onto the bed, out cold.
Chapter 18
End was awoken not too long after, or at least felt like not too long after, by squeaking and hissing. The bunk bed groaned as Eclipse and his friend turned over, trying to block out the noise.
"What's hap-," he said in English, but then quickly switched to Ender, "What's happening?"
"Just the silverfish taking care of a prisoner who is causing too much racket. Go back to sleep," Eclipse grunted.
But End got up, and went up to the bars. Silverfish were streaking past the cells, going toward his right. He listened closely, but...was he imaging it, or was that Steve yelling? The silverfish got to the end of the hallway, and stopped. He heard a shrill scream. Steve's scream.Well buddy, now I know where you are. The silverfish started to make their way back. The creepers across from him were grumbling and hissing angrily. An idea creeped into End's mind. Maybe.....
He waited a few minutes until the silverfish were out of sight. Then, he called out.
"Hey, hey creepers! Yeah, you guys!" he said, as the creepers turned their heads to look at him, hissing.
"Why are you locked up, you maggots? Why don't you just blow up? Ya filthy, dirty, rotten...."
A creeper exploded, making a hole in their cage. The other two filtered through, closer to End.
"What are you doing?" Eclipse yelled.
The other two exploded, knocking End back, but also made a hole in their bars. Eclipse and his friend jumped down from their beds, went through the hole, and instantly teleported away. Must have only shut off teleportation in this cell...he thought, struggling to get up. All the other prisoners were going mad.
End heard faint squeaking coming from the passageway to his left. He scrambled through the hole, instincts telling him to teleport NOW. Instead, he ran to his right. Monsters shrieked at him to let them free also. He ignored them and ran to the end of the corridor, and he looked into the last cell on the left. In it, he saw the dim figure of Steve, half off the top bunk, blood spilling from a wound in his leg.
"Steve!" he yelled.
No movement. End's heartbeat was beating so fast, he thought he was going to explode.
"STEVE!" He yelled again.Looking to his left, he saw swarms of silverfish rushing down the corridor. The deep hole between the Enderman and Creeper cell slowing them down.
Voice full of desperation, he closed his eyes, and bellowed, "STEVE!"
It was so loud, his vocal chords hurt. Every monster stopped making noise. Even the silverfish stopped momentarily. He breathed heavily for a few moments, then Steve moved.
"Steve come on, get over here!"
The monsters started shrieking, louder than before, and the silverfish were now moving faster. Steve practically fell off the bed, and crawled over to End.
"Grab my hand! Reach through the bars!" End yelled.
End glanced over, silverfish just 5 blocks away, and moving quicker than ever seen. Then he felt Steve's fingers clasp around his hand, and in that moment, they were gone.
Chapter 19
End had thought of the only place. Up. He had teleported them directly upwards. The night sky twinkled above him. Steve was gasping in pain. End stood next to a deep pit, with, where those....bodies?He squinted. They were bodies. And among them, was Dani's body. Broken, bloody, and dead. He stumbled a bit, and he was still holding onto Steve. Steve was still gasping, eyes closed. I need to get Steve out of here, before he sees. He was still laying on the ground.End took a deep breath, and teleported again. Far, far away, in a cave. The farthest teleportation he has ever made. He was instantly out cold.
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Hours later, End was awoken by Steve shaking his side."End! Wake up buddy, please!" the desperation in his sore voice hit End like a wave.
"Wha-, Steve-" he stopped and looked at his surroundings.
End had teleported them into a cave that was under a swamplands. He looked out from under the cave, and it was nighttime, so he couldn't have been out for too long.
"You've been passed out all day End. A day has passed," Steve said with worry.
" A day?" End gasped, almost choking.
"I was real worried.."
"Wait, Steve, your leg?" End suddenly remembered.
"Oh, it's fine..." End looked down at his leg, which wasn't very fine.
There was dry blood caked around a rather deep bite wound. Dried blood was on the floor around Steve's leg. The wound itself was still oozing. Steve looked rather pale. End positioned himself closer to Steve's leg, and he found out that his muscles were sore and stiff, he groaned slightly. Steve was to his left, father into the cave.
"No End it's fine...you need to rest..." Steve gasped as End put a hand to his leg.
"Once more I sped up the healing process, so it should be healed in about a half hour," End sighed as the fatigue washed over him. He leaned back and rested his head against the wall.
"You teleported us right outside here, right into a pit under the sky. I had to drag us into here," Steve reported.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry for this and for everything I've done,"
"No, it's fine. It should be me that's sorry, I wouldn't listen to you, and I got us in this mess. " Steve said sadly.
"I'm sorry for Dani," End said.
"What happened to her?" Steve asked.
"Oh, I don't know. She may still be alive, I'm not sure...But two Endermen in my cell told me that they killed females..." End said, leaving out the full truth.
"Oh." Steve replied shortly.
"I'm sorry,"
"She deserved to die anyway," Steve muttered.
End, for the first time, had trouble reading Steve's emotions. He stared blankly at the ground, unreadable. Were his eyes shining?He quickly snapped out of it, looking back at End, "So, do we go home now?"
"Well, from what I picked up, Silverfish don't remember stuff well. And they live a short lifespan, so they probably won't remember where our house is. And, their jail is very far from our house. So chances are we'll be fine. "
"We will go home in the morning," End concluded.
Steve nodded, and fell asleep next to End.
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When they both awoke, End teleported them to their old house. No blocks were broken, for all the silverfish managed to slip between each block. They decided to watch TV, as usual.
"So, Steve, what have we learned from all this?" End said, as it went to a commercial break.
"Umm..."
"Don't fall in love,"
"What, you can't be that cruel," Steve said, punching End on the shoulder."Fine. Don't fall in love with lying, dirty girls,"
"Girls? What if I fell in love with a lying, dirty guy?" Steve said, looking up at End, who had risen an eyebrow quizzically.
"Hah, kidding,"
"You sure? I'm always here for you, Steve!" End said, smirking, "But in all seriousness, I really hope you didn't consider that I'm being driven insane because of human contact," End said.
Steve looked down.
End turned to look at Steve,"Every time I look at a human, my instincts tell me to attack. The impulse has gotten lower the more I was around humans, and it's especially low with you. But it's still there. A tiny, tiny, insane voice in the deep recesses of my mind. I have, to this day, never listened."
"I have been around humans since the very first day of my existence. And hated every other Enderman in sight. Do you really think that I was going insane for lack of Endermen? When I've grown so accustomed to you?"
"No..." Steve mumbled, he felt ashamed.
"Good!" End said, smiling, and looking back up to the television. Steve smiled again, and the two of them proceeded to watch the TV, like a normal afternoon, like two best friends.
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WHY! I was literallly waiting a month for this or the movie (when is it gonna be done) and after two minutes, its over D:
Wow...lol...I see how you got Dani's name.
WHY! I was literallly waiting a month for this or the movie (when is it gonna be done) and after two minutes, its over D:
Wow...lol...I see how you got Dani's name.
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Great start! I thought you had totally forgot about those girls in the Epilogue in Book 1, but you totally brought them back in a cool, but weird fashion. Great! Spoilers to whoever didn't read the Epilogue or Book 1, but I never knew that the girl who wasn't taken away by the Endermen was you. Kudos to you!
This is Dani (my skin) before the the attack. Steve gave her almsot exactly the same clothes, except for the back of the sweatshirt is all grey. http://imgur.com/pTfjm
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Crappy romance plot is CRAPPY. How people can consider this sophisticated is nothing but dumbfounding to me. It's a sequal only made due to popular demand, the writers doesn't care about the story itself. (I am not flaming however, as these are my actual thoughts. Meh, the first one wasn't really that good either. It's like a grammically and creative writing adept five year old wrote this.)
Crappy romance plot is CRAPPY. How people can consider this sophisticated is nothing but dumbfounding to me. It's a sequal only made due to popular demand, the writers doesn't care about the story itself. (I am not flaming however, as these are my actual thoughts. Meh, the first one wasn't really that good either. It's like a grammically and creative writing adept five year old wrote this.)
little did you know that dani had planned to make a sequel all a long, the romance I think is cute and funny. plus you're basically implementing you're flaming in just the first few words. and there's only one writer and she very much cares for the story itself
Chapter 1
The sunshine of Minecraft shone through Steve's glass pane window, waking him up. His room was illuminated with the bright sun, shadows reaching out gently, but warmly. It was about 8:30 AM, but Steve knew that End would already be up. Steve yawned, gently pushed his bed covers off him, and rolled out of bed.
He looked out his window, which was next to his bed. A small lake lay in front of their house, and beyond that, plains. His eyes, still blurred from sleep, mistook a figure for a cow.
Steve yawned again, and made his way to the door, across from the window. He opened the door, and made his way down the hallway, passing End's room on the way. He peered into the 3-block-high door, but as he expected, End's room was clean and bed made.
The stairs were next to End's room, and he slowly made his way down them. To his left was another window, in front was a door, which was a pretty neat contraption. End did not want to teleport into the house every time he entered and left, but they needed a door so hostile monsters couldn't get in.So, with major help from End, Steve had installed a mechanism with Redstone and pistons . Whenever you step on the pressure plates in front of the door, a third block retract, allowing End to pass through. And once you pass, it extends again.
Steve slouched down the stairs, yawning again, and looked around the right corner. Sure enough, there was a tall, friendly Enderman.
"'Mornin' sleepy head!"said End brightly
. "Hi End," said Steve, smiling.
"How is omelets for breakfast?" asked End.
"I'm in the mood for waffles."
"Well, too bad, the omelets are almost done."
"I was just kidding about waffles." chuckled Steve.
"I know, " laughed End.
Not an instant later, the front doors swung open, along with the top blocks retracting, and a scared "Eep!"
"What was-" said Steve, whipping his head around to look at the door.
Standing on the outside pressure plates on the porch, was a girl with bugged out eyes, and shaking horribly. She had brown hair with streaks of blonde, but it was snarled and messed up horribly. Her black pants were ripped, dirty and tattered. Her gray hoodie was full of mud, dirt, blood, and was ripped. Especially that back, which just had a few pieces of black hoodie remaining. She looked as if she hasn't eaten anything in days. Her purple eyes were scared and frightened, and her silver sunglasses were cracked.
"Who are you?" Steve asked.
End appeared behind him, causing the girl to scream and cower.
"Ah, maybe I should....err....." End said awkwardly.
"Err...he won't hurt you... I promise." Steve told her.
The girl made a noise that sounded like a dying cow, but she cleared her throat, and spoke again. Her voice still sounded very, very hoarse.
"Are-are you sure?"
"Yeah. End's cool." said Steve.
"I-I'm ... Dani."
Chapter 2
"Ah, no offense but, aren't I in a single player world?" Steve asked.
"Single player....?" Dani croaked.
End looked at Steve, and Steve looked and End.
"Why don't you come inside? We've got about a billion questions, and you look pretty exhausted."
Dani reluctantly stepped inside, and looked longingly at Steve's chair.
"Take it, I don't need it right now." Steve said, laughing.
Dani sighed as she sat down.
"Okay, first things first," said Steve, "how did you get here?"
"I...uh...went into a multiplayer world...from The Spawn..."
"Don't you mean Choosing Grounds?"
"No...I mean The Spawn..."
"Huh." Steve said, stumped.
"What does The Spawn look like?"
"It....it has dir-" Dani began, but was interrupted by the oven.
"Omelets are done." End laughed awkwardly, and strolled to the oven
."Dani can have mine, she needs it a lot more than I do." Steve said.
"It...um...has dirt paths, blue skies, trees, grass, birds singing, sun shining...holograms, flowers..."
"Weird....and you went into a multiplayer world? And that's this world?"
"Yeah..."
"I'm guessing..." Steve began, but was cut off as End slid Dani an omelet. She began tearing it like a wolf.
"I'm guessing...you come from a different world than me. Like, different Minecraft....factions, I'd guess." Steve said.
"So....uh....what happened after you entered?" Steve asked.
"I-um, I.... I spawned in a tundra....and...my fr-..... I explored a cave until I found a mineshaft for wood.....I survived off zombie flesh and spider eyes. I found a mineshaft and gathered the wood and made tools....and I survived...... I've been living off spider eyes and zombie flesh, occasionally eating an apple or bread I found from a chest as a treat....."
Mineshafts! I should have went for the mineshafts when I spawned..... Steve thought, giving himself an inward face palm.
"I just collected all the wood, and then I went back up to find trees....I've searched for months....deserts, plains, mountains, tundras...no tree biomes...." Dani shuddered."Finally.....finally I found a jungle.... as I came out of a desert.....I found a small house in an alcove with a farm next to it...."
Steve looked at End, who was awkwardly eating at the other end of the table. End looked back. She was talking about The Jungle.
"I took the wheat, and traveled through the jungle....I don't know what I was looking for really....then I travel through a forest.... and then a plains, I see this house....and...here I am..." she finished.
"Wow....that sounds terrible.... you can stay here...shower....get new clothes....." mumbled Steve.
"I think you need some new clothes too..." Dani said, looking at Steve's shirt, which has a giant bloodstain on his chest.
"Oh, I never cleaned that up..." Steve laughed, remembering how he got it.
Dani laughed nervously. "So....where are the new clothes?"
"Oh! Let me get some wool from my room, go take a shower, it's behind End."
"Haha okay." she said.
Chapter 3
Steve went upstairs to his room, grabbed some wool and leather, and crafted it into a new grey hoodie and black pants. He even made new socks and black and purple shoes. Steve exited his room with the new clothes, only to get stopped by End as he turned around from his crafting table.
"Gah! End! Don't scare me like that."
"You like her, don't you?" he said.
"Wh-what?" "Admit it. You like her."
"No-no I don't!" said Steve.
"You do! Stop lying." End said, poking Steve.
"H-hey! S-stop! That tickles!" laughed Steve.
End stopped and leaned back, giving Steve the are-you-going-to-tell-me-now look.
"Okay...maybe I do...a little...."
"Haha! I knew it!"
"Shhh! Don't tell her!" said Steve, looking around, as if Dani was in the room.
"Okay...." said End, looking to the side mischievously , "STEVE LIKES DANI! STEVE LIKES DANI!!!!" he sang, prancing around Steve's room.
"SSSSSSH!" Yelled Steve, reaching for End's mouth.
"STEVE LIKES DANIIII!" End said, now teleporting around his room.
"END!!!" Steve yelled, very red in the face, trying to grab End.
"HAHAHAHA" End laughed as he teleported into the hallway.
"End, NO!" he yelled, running out of his room.End continued to sing and teleport down the stairs, into the dining room, to in front of the bathroom door. They could hear the shower running. End was directly in front of the door, hardly able to contain himself from giggling. Steve was behind him, extremely red in the face.
"End...no....not...here..." he whispered.
"Ooooohhh Dannniiiiiiiiiii," End sang, in front of the door, giggling.
"You....wouldn't...dare...." Steve sputtered.
End giggled again and said, "Widdle Stevie here wuvs youuuu!" and burst out laughing.
If possible, Steve grew even redder, ears included.
"ENNDD!!!" yelled Steve, tackling him.
There was a thump as they hit the ground, Steve trying to strangle End as he laughed hysterically. End was laughing so hard, Steve could see tears in his eyes. End was hitting the ground from laughter, while Steve was very unsuccessfully strangling him, still very red in the face.
"Oh Notch, I can't breathe!" laughed End.
"GOOD!" Yelled Steve, which made End laugh harder.
Just then, the shower stopped. End still was laughing and crying, but Steve scrambled off him and refolded Dani's new clothes.
"Dani....err...I have the new clothes...." Steve said to the door, End still rolling on the floor laughing.
"Just....stick your hand through the door....I'll grab the clothes.... and don't look..." she said from the inside.
"Don't look inside, Steve! Don't be a pig!" said End, whose own joke made him laugh even harder.
"I wouldn't do that!" said Steve.
He opened the door, and stuck his hand in, not looking. Dani grabbed the clothes and closed the door, which caused End to howl.
"Just shut up, End..." Steve muttered, face burning hot.
End steadily began to calm down, but he was still giggling when Dani came out. It caused Steve's jaw to drop. All the dirt from her face was gone, and she was in her new clean clothes . Her hair was brushed straight and wet.
"How do I look?" she asked.
"Amazing.....I mean, better!" said Steve.
End burst out laughing again.
"What's his deal?" Dani said in an undertone to Steve.
"He's on.....Redstone dust! Yeah, major addict." he lied.
Chapter 4
"By the way..... I never got your names...." said Dani.
"Oh! Um! I'm Steve, and that laughing maniac is End."
"Haha okay."
Steve gulped. He thought it was really cute when she did that little laugh.
"H-hey End! Stop laughing for a second." Steve said to End, who was still struggling to stand up from giggling.
"Wh-what do you want?" he said, finally straightening.
"What are we doing today?"
"Well, I have an idea on who, I mean what, you would like to be doing today." snickered End.
"End!"
"Anyway....I think we should try and find some more Endermen to convince. Most hostile ones will probably be in the tundra you spawn in. No one knows the exact place where you spawn, only the tundra."
Dani looked confused, but she didn't ask anything.
"So, we start bringing peace to Endermen today?" Steve asked hopefully.
"No, I'm saying we find them and kill them! Yes we bring peace!"
"Okay, so do we leave now? And to the tundra?"
"Yeah, but the tundra is really far, and teleporting both of you will cause even more exhaustion, but it's not far enough to put me into a coma." said End.
"Well, what are you all waiting for? Grab my hand!" said End.
Steve stepped over and latched on, but Dani reluctantly grabbed on.
"Steve's probably used to it by now, but you'll have to brace yourself." End told her.
She nodded weakly, pale.End teleported, a haze of shades of purple and a whooshing feeling, but Steve was used to it by now. As suddenly as it started, it stopped. End fell to the ground, out cold, while Dani fell out of dizziness.End was hardly breathing, his chest making quick, shallow breaths, eyes closed. Steve watched him, worried. Dani on the other hand, scrambled up and said,"Oh dear, is he okay?"
"Err, I think so. The longer the distance, the more tired he is. The longest I've seen him like this was 2 minutes ..."
End was lying on a snowy hill, while Steve and Dani nervously wait for him to open his eyes, or even start normally breathing.Ten minutes pass, then End finally gasps and opens his eyes, now breathing heavily. His pupils nervously flitted around.
"How long....was I out......?"
"About ten minutes" replied Steve.
End closed his eyes and continued to relax a little. He took another five minutes before he stood up and said, "I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Okay, I suggest we start looking."
End, Steve and Dani trudged around the tundra, for a few hours, sun slowly sliding across the sky. It was afternoon before End finally spotted a tall black figure.
"Alright, we are going to try different tactics at this. The first one, I convince them, just me. You two stay hidden behind this hill. Sound like a plan?" End asked.
"Yeah." replied Steve.
"Alright, you two don't have too much fun alone." End snickered.
"End!" Steve scowled at him.
End laughed and teleported away.
"What does he keep hinting towards?" Dani asked
."Nothing. He's delusional from the Redstone Dust."
"Are you sure it's safe to be around an Enderman high on Redstone Dust?" she said quietly.
"It's uh....fine. Really."
Chapter 5
Steve sat next to Dani for about 10 awkward minutes. They crouched, hidden by a low hill, Dani in front of Steve. Finally, when End returned, he looked frazzled.
"Just a neutral mother, who wanted to keep her child safe. Told her to spread the word about peace, she was fine, though I think she tried to get with me," he smiled slyly.
They continued to search for a little while, until the sun started to set.
"I think we should get back now. If we are going to have a bonfire." said End.
"We are having a bonfi-?" Steve asked.
"Yes, to warm up the bones! Now let's go." he said and grabbed both of their hands.
Why is End rushing everything? Steve wondered. When the teleportation stopped, both Dani and End fell over, Dani rather green in the face. Sure enough, they were on top of the large hill/mountain, with their campfire setup. The hilltop was rather large. The hill itself was beyond the forest behind their mansion.Steve started the fire while he waited for End to wake, and helped Dani onto his usual bench. The bench was long enough for both of them to sit comfortably.When End was better, the sun was already gone. End took his usual place at the other end of the fire, across from Steve and Dani.
"So Dani," End said, a little winded yet, "What happens when you are first spawned, or born, or however you exist?"
"Well....you are put into an intense training course, where you learn everything. You take this huge test, where there is like, 500 questions. It tests you everything you need to know. It drills into your mind. You can only go when you have answered all 500 correct, because you cannot die."
"Notch....that sounds hard..." murmured Steve.
"Who's Notch?" asked Dani.
Steve looked at End, and End back.
"You-you don't know who Notch is?" Steve asked, dumfounded.
"No....should I?"
"He's the creator of Minecraft! He puts care and delicately selects each block in every world and seed, nurtures every being , and greets each and everyone to the afterlife." Steve explained.
"Creator of Minecraft? That's Herobrine. He is a blood-thirsty, torture seeker. He wants to torture everything and make their lives miserable. But he couldn't do that without giving them a fair chance. He created the Overworld, where everyone stays alive. But...if you die, you get sent under the Nether, to his fortress.....He rips your soul away, until you are a mindless slave...."
"What does Herobrine look like?" Steve asked.
"Nobody knows for sure, but all we know is his glowing, soulless white eyes...."
Steve shuddered. That sounded horrible. He looked into her eyes. Purple, gleaming, full of life, yet shy. He couldn't imagine her to be soulless.End noticed Steve staring into her eyes, and quickly stood up.
"Ah, I think I'm going in for the night. Pretty tired after all this teleporting,"
Steve raised an eyebrow. Usually End is last asleep, almost as if he didn't need sleep.
"Don't have too much fun up here. It's pretty secluded, under the stars, but anyone can hear you if you are too loud."
"End!" Steve said, embarrassed.
End snickered and teleported away.
"Err, Steve, why does End keep making these sly jokes?" Dani said, looking up from the fire.
"Truth is....End isn't on Redstone Dust. Neither of us haven't even thought about using it."
"Then.....what does he keep hinting?"
"I-I think it's best if I show you, rather than tell."
"What do you me-" Dani began, but was cut off as Steve pressed his lips against hers.
Chapter 6
End did a silent fist pump as Steve kissed her. He was watching from below the hill. This was his plan all along. He wasn't tired at all, he just gave Steve an opportunity to make a move.
Best. Wingman. Ever! He thought to himself smugly, teleporting to the house. But a small voice rang in the back of his head. Now that Steve loves someone.....what about you? but he ignored it.End went behind the dining table, to the left of the bathroom, where the couch and TV was. It was a two-seater couch, which was shaped a bit odd. The right side of the couch back was a bit taller than the other side, so End could sit comfortably.
He flopped onto his side of the couch, grabbing the TV remote. He flipped through the channels, nothing too good on at the moment because of the time, which was midnight, just some reruns of Man Vs. Minecraft and NoxCrew Game Show.
"Notch darn it!" End cursed himself.
He missed his favorite shows, which were on earlier that day. He would always watch SkyBlock, Season Two with NFEN and AllShamNoWow and Shadow of Israphel with Steve.
He just settled with a Man, Woman, Minecraft rerun. Steve and Dani still weren't back after that, but he didn't bother to look, just in case they need privacy.End was happy for Steve, but he also felt something else in the back of his mind he desperately tried to ignore. No! I am not jealous of Steve! he groaned.
Steve and Dani finally came in a little after 1 AM, while End was dozing off at trying to watch Hunt For The Golden Apple.
Dani was giggling nonstop, looking rather small compared to Steve, and Steve had a silly smile on his face, blushing.
"You two had fun together?" End said, smirking with his hand on his hips, staring down at them.
"End!" Steve chuckled, blushing harder.
"Yeah, we just joked around." Dani said, still giggling a little.
"Mmhmm sure you did." End said, poking both of them.
"Okay, um Dani, do you want to sleep on the couch for tonight? I think I'm going to bed." Steve said.
"Sure, um, can I have some blankets?" she said.
"Yeah, they're in my room. I'll go get them." Steve said, running past them and up the stairs.
"Okay, I'm going to bed. Goodnight Dani." End said, quickly teleporting to Steve's room.
Steve just walked in as End teleported.
"GAH END!" Steve jumped.
"So how'd it go?" End said, ignoring Steve's remark.
"What do you mean?" he said.
"I saw you kissing! What is your relationship status now? Did she like it?"
"I-I think so. She didn't pull away or anything, just a little shocked at first. She just kind of...eased into it I guess."
"Into it?" End said, smirking.
"No! We just uh, stopped and starting joking around after that..."
"Aww, no action?" End joked.
"End, please!"
"I'm just joking!" he said innocently.
"You better be." Steve replied.
"Alright, get the blankets and go back downstairs, I bet she's getting cold without those blankets."
"Okay. Goodnight End" Steve yawned
."And don't be too loud! The house is made of planks, which aren't soundproof!" End joked and teleported to his room.
End climbed into his extra long bed, listening to Steve walk down the stairs. He lied there, tense, listening as well as he could to them. He heard the TV go out, and Dani giggle. Oh Notch no, thought, hoping that Steve didn't take him seriously. He felt relieved as he heard the planks squeaking as Steve walked up the stairs.
After he heard Steve crawl into bed, End turned over and thought, Well, a lot of things have happened today.
Chapter 7
When Steve woke up the next day, he felt content as ever. A faint smell of bacon drifted into his room, so he knew End was cooking.He yawned, rising out of bed. He made his way down the hallway and stairs, and when he looked in the kitchen, there stood End cooking and Dani on the couch watching TV. Her hair was messed up, as were the covers on the couch. End was wearing a rather small(on him, at least) "Kiss the Cook" apron.
"We-ell, look who could join us finally!" End chuckled, turning to look at Steve."Steve!" Dani said, scrambling off the couch to hug him.
"Good morning both you." Steve said, smiling and yawning.
"Is bacon okay for breakfast?" End asked.
"Sure," they both said.
"What's on TV?" Steve asked.
"A movie. Survival Games 1 it said."
Dani explained
"Oh yeah, End and I watched that."
"I think CaptainSparklez should've won." End chimed in.
"No way, Paulsoaresjr only lost because of the mob spawnage!" Steve argued.
"Well, you just spoiled it for me." Dani pouted.
"Oh! Sorry!" Steve said,
"Well, we can still watch it."They went back to the couch, Steve on his side, and Dani on End's.
"It's only a few minutes in," she said.
Not long after, End brought the bacon to them and pulled up a chair to watch it with them. Once that was over, they went back to the tundra to look for more Endermen to persuade. Once the sun started to set, they went back to their house to have another bonfire.
"So....." Steve said.
"Soo....." End said.
"Um....I've been meaning to ask. Steve, where'd you get that bloodstain on your chest?" Dani said.
"Oh, that!" Steve said, looking down at it, memories returning to his mind.
"It's a really long story." he said, looking at End.
"Enough to be 17 chapters!" End chuckled.
"We have all night," Dani said.
"Well, it all started with End." Steve said.
Steve and End went into a long explanation about how End was born with Endermen cultists who would kidnap and torture humans. End saves Steve before they catch him, but they had to battle, where Steve got bloodstains. After Steve healed, they searched all day and night through countless mineshafts to find a water sphere that gives off endless water. After flooding their base and killing off their leader and most Endermen(and unfortunately the humans), including End even, End came back to life to bring Endermen to peace.When they were done, it was getting pretty late.
"Wow...you've...you've done a lot," Dani said, looking at the ground.
"Yeah," Steve yawned, "Geez, that took awhile."
Chapter 8
"Dang," End said, "it must be 1 AM. "
"Welp," Steve yawned and stood up," I'm packing it up for the night,"
"M-me too," Dani agreed.
Steve grabbed End's hand, while Dani grabbed the other. End teleported them to the house, where Steve nearly smashed into the wall from exhaustion. He quickly said goodnight and staggered up the stairs. End also said goodnight and followed Steve.End crawled into bed, not very tired. He tossed and turned for awhile, then he thought he heard something. Was that....was that wooden planks creaking from downstairs?
I didn't hear Steve getting out of bed! End's first thought was, but then he heard the faint snoring coming from Steve's room.
Besides, the creaking sounded like it was moving from the couch towards the stairs.
Is Dani coming upstairs? But then End heard the sound of doors opening and pistons retracting.
Why is she going outside?!
End sat up, legs swinging over the side of the bed. He rose, trying not to make too much noise. He tiptoed out of his room, down the hallway, down the stairs and tiptoed across the room to check to see if Dani was still on the couch. Sure enough, it was empty.End then teleported onto the porch, so the pistons wouldn't make their loud noise.
Where is that crazy girl? End thought as he looked around.
He looked and listened hard, no visible trace of her, but he thought he could hear something behind the house.End sneaked around the house, listening as hard as he could. When he made it to the side of the house, the noise was clear. Sobbing.End continued into the forest behind their house, quiet as possible, listening and looking. His heart was beating fast, he could feel the purple Enderman blood pumping through his veins.Finally, End found her, sitting, legs pulled close, head-in-knees and sobbing, back to a tree.
"D-Dani?" End said, coming into view.
"St-Steve?" she said, sniffling and looking up.
"Oh," Dani said, eyes turning cold as she realized it was End, "it's you."
"What's wrong?" End said, crouching next to her.
"Get away from me," she whispered.
"What?" End asked.
"I said," Dani whispered, "get away from me!" she yelled the last part, hitting End.
End stumbled back, "I don't understand," he murmured, puzzled.
"Nothing your kind would understand," Dani said, hatred dripping from her voice like venom.
"What do you mean?" End said, looking at her.
"Can't you see that I don't want you here?!?" she said, almost yelling.
"Fine, I just-"
"Go!" she yelled, voice cracking and tears leaking from her eyes.
End teleported back into his room. He heard a faint wail coming from the forest.
Am I dreaming?
Chapter 9
End awoke at his usual time he wakes up, around 5:00 AM. He watched the sun rise from the nice open window in his room, to the left of his bed. Why can't Steve get up early to watch the sunrise too? It's quite beautiful.He thought.
Steve always got up so late. Humans are weird sometimes.
He neatly made his bed and strolled downstairs, opening curtains as he went. He could hear the faint snoring of Dani on the couch. She got up earlier than Steve, but that won't be for awhile yet. End quietly tiptoed past the couch and opened the blinds.He frowned, he would usually watch TV for awhile before making breakfast. But he can't, Dani was sleeping there.
Maybe I can get her to start sleeping in Steve's room. He thought of the double bed in there and cringed. Or set up a cot....
End went back up into his room to get a book. He pulled out a random book on his shelf. The Enderman's Game. Why not?He lied on his bed for awhile, reading it. He went back downstairs and started to cook breakfast. By now it was 8:00AM, Dani was still asleep.
End began clanking around the kitchen, starting up waffles.Not long after, he heard Dani gasp and jerk up. She stills thinks she is alone in the wild when she wakes up...poor thing.
Suddenly, the memories of last night flood into End's mind.
Relax, End. It was probably just a dream. He reassured himself.
"Good morning!" he called to her.
No reply.
Or...was it?The TV turned on, and End didn't even have to turn around to know what was playing. From the laugh, he could tell it was Shadow of Israphel.
"Steve and I love that show, we would watch it when a new episode is released on Fridays" End said, trying to start a conversation.
"Just shut up," Dani muttered under her breath.
Even though it was faint, End's Enderman hearing could hear it.
Oh.... he thought, hurt. Maybe it's best if I don't talk to her....Even though I don't know what's wrong with her.
It was around 9:00AM when Steve plundered down the stairs.
"Good morning!" End and Dani called in unison.
Steve smiled, "Hi guys!"
"I've got waffles baked up," End said, flopping one onto a plate
."I love waffles!" Steve yawned.
"Want to make a chair for Dani?" End said.
"Sure, I have some wood blocks in my room," Steve said, still groggy.
"I'll help," End said, and ushered Steve up the stairs.
They got to Steve's room and End went in front of Steve, blocking him from his chest.
"Can you ask Dani something?" he asked Steve.
"Uh, sure?"
"Why is she being so hateful to me? Last night I saw her crying outside and I asked her what's wrong, and she yelled at me to go away. This morning she told me to shut up," End said.
"Wait, she was crying last night?" Steve said, alarmed.
"Yeah, she wouldn't tell me anything...Just to go away." End said, downcrest.
"You should've told me!" Steve said, looking faintly angry.
"I'm sorry Steve, I wasn't really thinking, and she did seem like she didn't want to be bothered anyway."
"Agh forget it. I'll ask her why later." Steve said, waving off, looking annoyed.
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It was late afternoon now, and End had made the suggestion of going mining. They were getting low on diamonds. They were mining just above bedrock, branching out. They had barely gotten farther than 10 blocks out when there was a cry of
"OH SH-" and a clunkclunkclunk from Steve's tunnel.
"Steve?!" End and Dani yell in unison, flying out of their tunnels.
Steve's tunnel ended abruptly at fallen gravel, in which he was under.
"STEVE!" They yelled, Dani racing towards him. End, on the other hand, couldn't get in, due to the fact that the tunnel was only 2 blocks tall. Dani was scraping away at the gravel, trying to get him free. End frantically mined at the blocks above, creating a path.He started scraping at the gravel next to Dani.
"The first thing he will see will be me, so back off!" She hissed at End.
End stumbled back, surprised. "Wh-wha-"
but was cut off as Steve gasped and Dani revealed him.
"Don't just stand there End, help him free!" she said.
"I just was-"
"Help me!" Finally, they got Steve free, who coughed
"Are you okay?" Dani asked.
"Yeah, I think so," he coughed.
"Don't worry Steve, I've got you." Dani murmured.
Chapter 10
Steve looked at End as Dani helped him up. End was behind Dani after she pushed him. He stood there, shocked at what she said.
"C'mon," she said, "let's go home early,"
End nodded, grasping both their hands and teleporting. But where he did teleport, was not the house.
"End?" Steve asked.
End was breathless from the teleport, but he barely gave notice to it. He said nothing as he walked across the ground in brisk steps.
"End....." Steve said, looking around, he recognized this place.
End stopped as he hit a dirt wall, which blocked off the entrance to a small cave. It was dead silent, except for the cold wind of rolling, treeless, tundra. He stared at the wall, Steve and Dani behind him a few blocks. End's mouth was slightly open, eyes wide, but betraying nothing as he eyed the wall.
"What's he do-" Dani said,but Steve interrupted her.
"Shh."
End removed 3 blocks of the wall, and entered the small cave. Steve followed, so Dani followed Steve. Steve stood in the entrance to the cave, which went no more than 10 blocks back. The only light that was filtering in was from the entrance End made, and a one block opening at the top. Steve watched End from the entrance, Dani from his shoulder.End walked over to the wall, and removed a block from it. He set it down on the floor, and sat on it, stretching his legs. He stared at the wall across from him
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As End sat, he felt no emotions, only compelled to do this. Nothing else. As he bent his legs, Steve and Dani faded away from their places, and the entrance replaced with dirt. Steve reappeared on the wall opposite from him, except much weaker, scared, cold, and confused. He was in a ball against the wall. It was nighttime, and now it was raining.
End's memories of the everything disappeared. He felt as there is someone who needs him right now, but he couldn't quite place a finger on it.
"C'mon, who is he?"something in his life was missing.
He looked at the human curled up in a ball, covering his eyes from him.
"You don't know how good this feels. Being on your legs all day, they get stiff from being so straight." he said.
End was feeling a sense of deja vu, but he ignored it. This happens all the time. Help this human, don't be scary, don't fail like the other times.
"So," he stopped, and extended a hand.
"What's your name?"End could almost tell what he was about to say.
His name was on the tip of his tongue! Stue? Stephen?
"Oh geez, where are my manners? I'm End." he said, hand still out ,"This is the part where you tell me your name."
The nagging feeling of deja vu never left his mind. The back of his head screamed at him to get back to the people. There is no one! Stop feeding lies to yourself, End, this human needs you!
"I-I'm St-Steve." he said weakly, voice hoarse from not using it.
"Steve!" End said in his mind, gasping as the memories, feelings, surroundings, and knowledge flooded back to him.He looked around frantically, Steve and Dani at the entrance to the cave, late afternoon sunlight spilling in. His hand was extended to where the past Steve sat. A jolt went through him as he remembered something.
That's where the deja vu ended all those months ago, after he told me his name.
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"End? Are you okay?" Steve asked.
"I'm fine."
Steve looked at Dani. She looked confused, but Steve wasn't. End just reenacted the whole scene of where he first met Steve. He had said and done everything out loud, just as if Steve was actually in that corner of the cave. The last few seconds of it though, is what chilled him.
"This is the part where you tell me your name." End had said, arm extended to empty air. He looked at the spot with the same reassuring smile he had worn all those months ago. He went silent, then his face contorted into pure shock as he snapped back to reality.
"What happened?" End asked.
"No, let's go back to the house." Steve said.
End nodded without arguing.
Chapter 11
A few hours had passed, which consisted of Steve and Dani watching TV, while End sat at the table, dead silent. Soon after, they headed up to the bonfire pit. End sat on his usual log, across from Steve and Dani. He stared into the fire hardly listening to what they were saying. He remembered when he met Steve, he had felt so much Deja vu, just like he experienced earlier. But he had felt the similar experiences so many times before in his life. Am I going to reenact each scene?
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"So, in our world, we first spawn, we are about 7 years old. We get put into school, where we learn every single detail about religion, worlds, and most important, surviving." Dani explained.
"The school is intensive. It's 12 hours long every day. 6:00 AM To 6:00 PM. We sleep in small, one roomed shacks that have heating and stuff, so it's nice. We go to school for about 6 months. They really drill the knowledge into you, so we have a smaller chance of dying."
"Ohh, for us, we just spawn, go to an hour long presentation on the basics, then we are sent off. I guess that's why I just stumbled around the land when spawned, but you looked for mineshafts."
"Yeah, haha." she said, looking down. Was she....hiding something?
"What about you, End?" Steve said.
"Wha- huh, oh, umm..., yeah, sure." he said distractedly.
"I mean, what happens when you spawn?"
"Ah, no, it doesn't work like that. When I was born, I lived a different life than other Endermen. Each time is different. My parents loved and cared for me, but what I hated about them is how they went along with our King on the human slaughter. Yeah, they were against it, but they didn't want to get banished."
"I, however, when I learned about this in school, I was different. I immediately became an outcast for being so against the idea, everyone hated me. They called me things like, "Human Worshipper" and "Scum Listener"
"No one ever found out that I helped the humans. Ever. Up until that day 2 years ago...." he paused, cringing.
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Flashbacks of small Endermen circling End calling him names, hitting him. An image of himself appeared, in a ball against a wall corner, surrounded by people picking on him. End tried to look strong, but you could see the fear and hatred in his eyes. This happened often in his childhood, starting from as early as he can remember to the week he got banished.
Then came his parents. He could hear them talking late at night. Worried about him. Each day he would come from school with a bruise, a limp, a swollen eye, a cut. They grew more concerned each day. As he got older, the bullying grew steadily worse. End cared less and less as he got older. Only dwelling on the physical damage.
"Who cares if they insult me with words? I'll be working against them one day, anyway." he always told himself.
He had no friends, always last to be picked in games, activities, anything. Teachers hated him, neighbors hated him. End had always stayed strong, the 38 years (19 at mind, Endermen live as twice as long as humans) that everyone hated him.He thought of when he was banished, his mother, all her life, going against this idea, but trying so hard to blend in, to be normal with other Endermen, all gone to waste because of End.
"Please! Don't kill End! My baby!" tears streaming down her face. His father looked at him sadly. He went up to his mother and said with much more certainty than he felt,
"I will get revenge one day, I will get revenge on him."
He remembered the attack with Steve, how the King yelled at End how his mother insulted him, pleading to stay alive just before they were beheaded.
"Certainly she wouldn't say those things....he was lying.."
His flashbacks ended, returning back to the campfire in front of End and Steve.
"2 years ago, I was banished" he said.
"You just told us?" Dani said.
"What?" End asked.
"Yeah, you told us everything about your life just now, do you not remember?" Steve said.
Had End said all that in his flashback? Why was he doing this? Was he going insane?
Chapter 12
"You know what, I'll just go to bed...." End said, standing up.
"Okay, good night End." Steve said, giving him a hard stare.
End looked down at him, and teleported away.Steve sighed and put his elbows on his knees, hands on his face, and gazed into the fire.
"I'm worried about End."
"I'm sure he's fine," Dani said, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"But blacking out and not remembering it isn't normal!" he protested.
"He's lived a hard life, up until now where he has you. But then there's me...."
"What do you mean?" Steve said, looking at her.
"I don't...I don't think he wants me here. He just glares at me. And when I saved you from the gravel, he was getting frustrated he couldn't get to you, and he said 'back off, Steve is my friend, not yours'" Dani confessed.
"He wouldn't have said that!" Steve retorted.
"He did...." Dani said, looking down.
"I'm sorry," he said, gaze softening, "but...End is a real nice guy....I just can't picture him saying something like that."
"But...End is an Enderman, a hostile monster, and you're human...
"Steve tensed, "What are you trying to say?""Maybe....it's what's causing him blackouts. It's not natural, humans talk to humans, Endermen talk to Ender...." Dani said, but trailed off as she saw the hostility in Steve's eyes, and the look of disgust on his face.
"End saved me in a time of need, and I helped him fulfill his promise, we know each other too well! He hates every Enderman!" Steve said, nearly shouting.
Dani cringed and said softly, "He needs to get over it. It's not normal, talking to humans when you are an Enderman. I don't care if he's around other Endermen or not, he shouldn't be around humans."
Steve scowled, "It's perfectly fine. And I'm his only friend..." he said the last sentence softly, relaxing and putting his face in his hands.
Dani wrapped an arm around Steve, pulling him close, "I understand...but if it's tearing him apart, it's best if he goes...."
Steve sniffed, memories of when he first told End to go rushing back into his mind. His emotionless eyes glaring at him before teleporting.
"I thought you were different! I thought you accepted me, that I'm an Enderman, and I don't want to hurt you!" he had yelled.
He remembered the grief and sadness and regret he had felt afterwards.
"I've sent him out once....I-I can't do it again..." he said, feeling hot tears well in his eyes.
Dani sighed, leaning her head on his shoulder.
"You have to, for his sake."
"I-I'll think about it" he said, breaking off into a sob.
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End stumbled in the house, gasping for breath. He staggered toward the bathroom. He gripped the sink, looking up at the mirror, gasping as he saw streaks of blood coming from his eyes and his nose. He blinked, and the blood was gone. His hands were shaking violently.
"What's wrong with me?" he groaned out loud.
He teleported into his room, sitting on his bed, putting his face in his hands. He begged for it to stop, over and over. Its seemed like hours before it finally did. End collapsed into his bed, asleep, suddenly so exhausted.
Chapter 13
Steve and Dani came back to the house not long after that night, discovering End already asleep. Steve went up to his room, and Dani on the couch. End had a fitful sleep, twitching, feeling blood all over him, drowning in blood, spirits screaming next to him.
"Why? What is wrong with me?" He yelled to the spirits, but as soon as he yelled it, they disappeared.
He heard creaking floorboards from all directions, thumps and bumps, giant monsters looming over him. He stumbled over, pulling his long skinny legs into a tight ball up to his face. He threw his head up in a silent wail of desperation and fear.
Where is Steve? he thought. The shadowy monsters towered over him, spitting in rage. The spittle burned his skin.
Plit, Plit, Plit, it kept going on.
He groaned, squirming from under the burning saliva. He sat straight up in his bed, heart racing and panting. But why did it keep burning? He looked up.
Is that.... he thought, but his thoughts were interrupted as a droplet hit his face, causing him to shrink back, off his bed.
It is water! Why is there water above my bed? Teleporting onto the roof, he discovered someone had placed water directly over his bed, causing the water to drip through and onto him. He teleported down below, picked up a grass block, teleported back up, and covered the source block. He teleported back down, replacing the block. Now exhausted once again, he trudged into the house.
He could hear Dani faintly breathing once again as he struggled up the stairs, Finally reaching bed, he lied back down, and fell asleep.
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"End?"End woke up to Steve at his door.
"Steve? Whattime issit?" he mumbled.
"Like, 10AM, I woke up and you weren't up yet, I was worried."
End groaned, he was always up early!
"hey, are you feeling okay?"
"Yeah..."
"Are you sure?" Steve pressed, walking in his room and sitting next to him on his bed.
"Well, no," he confessed, "I have been having nightmares blackouts, hallucinations..."
"Do....do you think it's because you are around humans?"
"What are you saying?" End said fiercely.
Steve cringed, "I....what if, Endermen aren't supposed to be around humans for long amounts of time, and....and you are feeling bad because you have been hanging around Dani and I too long...."
"Where did you get such a stupid idea?" he spat in disbelief.
"D-Dani suggested it to me....."
"Pff, Dani, she hates me," End laughed cruelly.
"What? She told me you hate her!"
"What?! What did I do?!?" he said in disbelief.
"Well, she said, when I was stuck under gravel, you were trying to reach me and you yelled, 'back off, Steve is my friend, not yours'" Steve said.
"What!??! She said that to me! She gives me dirty looks, yells at me for being an Enderman..." End sighed.
"Are you sure? Or are you just hallucinating?"
Growing fierce again, End said, "I've been around humans two years, no problem."
"I don't know, just...I don't know. Let's get breakfast," Steve ended the conversation.
End nodded, mind whirling. Is this why he was hallucinating? Certainly not, he has been around humans for two years! He threw 2 pork chops into the oven, not hungry himself. Steve went into the bathroom. He waited around the table, the crisp smell of pork chops starting to waft over them.
"How was the shower last night?" Dani asked casually, from watching TV.
"What show-" End stopped abruptly, remembering the water above his bed, horrible suspicion crawling over him.
"It was you-" he started to mutter, but was cut off as Steve opened the door.
"Mm, pork chops smell great!" he commented.
End straightened, and pointed at Dani, hardly aware of what he was doing.
"She poured water over the roof above my bed last night!" he said.
"What!?" Both Steve and Dani said in unison.
"You stop playing dumb!" He yelled, a faraway look in his eye.
Steve was taken aback. He had never seen End yell, only raise his voice, in complete control. But now, he was yelling, in no control whatsoever.
"You...you climbed the roof and poured water all over the area above my room! You knew the water would drip onto me!" He yelled, voice becoming shrill.
"Look at these burn marks!" he screeched, pointing desperately at marks all over himself.
"End! Calm down! You are being unreasonable!" Steve said.
"It rained last night, the water was just soaking through," Dani said lightly.
"Stop LYING for once in your miserable life!" he shrieked, outraged.
"End, it rained, stop blaming Dani!" Steve reasoned.
"So you believe her? Her and her pathetic lies!" he laughed, a manic laugh, which chilled Steve, "This was your plan all along wasn't it? Drive me out, leaving Steve all to yourself!?!?" he said, turning on Dani again.
"End please!" Steve plead.
End was about to spit another insult at her, when he looked at Steve, the faraway look in his eyes disappearing.
Regaining control of himself, he said, "Right. I'll be in my room, for........for I don't know how long." he turned and stalked off, leaving Steve and Dani dumbfounded.
Chapter 14
End had spent the next few days shut up in his room, not leaving to cook breakfast or even say “hi” to Steve or Dani. He had gone outside and picked up some dirt blocks, just to block the entrance to his door. Steve had tried to build a pillar of dirt up to his room, but he saw that the window was also blocked with dirt.
“He’ll come around,” Dani had said encouragingly, but Steve had his doubts.
“He needs to get himself out of that Notch-cursed room!” Steve thought.
“There’s no use, he’s not coming out and, he needs time alone.” Dani tried to persuade him.
“He’s had three days, it’s time to come out,” he retorted.
Dani shrugged, “Whatever you say.”
Steve reluctantly stopped and the three dirt blocks that covered End’s door. He couldn’t really knock, it was dirt.
“End?” he called.
“Go away,” the muffled groan came from his room.
His voice sounded gravelly and hoarse.
“End, it’s not healthy to stay shut up in your room like that for so long. Have you eaten?”
“No, and I don’t care,” he groaned.
“Do you need me to come in there?” he said, mischievously.
“No.”
Steve sighed, braced himself, and barreled through the dirt, shoulder bared.
“I told you to go away,” End mumbled, sitting on his bed, head in his hands.
The room was dark, little light escaped through the dirt, but just enough to leave a dim, gloomy light. The room had a musky smell, and traces of dirt were all over the floor. End’s bed looks like it had not been made in days, but then again, it probably hasn't.The smell nearly choked Steve, but he plunged in anyway. He stalked right over to End, and tried to seem tall, but it didn’t work too well.
“What do you want,” he muttered.
“C’mon, it’s time to stop sulking. Get out of bed, and come say hi.”
“No,” he said, turning so his face was in his pillow.
Steve sighed.“We both miss you, it’s lonely without you.”
End gave a dry chuckle from his pillow.
“Dani doesn’t miss me, she’s probably enjoying me gone.” he said, muffled by the pillow.
“That’s not true,” Steve lied.
“Come on, be a big boy.” He said, trying to grab End.
“No,”
Steve tried tickling his sides, and End said, “You know Endermen aren’t ticklish.”
Wow, stupid idea. He thought, grateful End couldn’t see the embarrassment on his face.
Next he tried pushing End, but that didn't work either, he was like a mountain, refusing to budge.
“End please! You are my best buddy, I can’t stand to see you like this,” he tried pleading.
End sat up, and for the first time in 3 days, he saw his face. It was tear stained, Steve could see the faint purple traces coming from his eyes. His eyes were also darker purple than before, bloodshot. Steve tried to hide his shock, but he didn’t think it worked too well.
"Best buddies don't try to convince best buddies to leave." he spat.
Steve was going to say something, but was interrupted again,
“You prefer Dani over me,” he rasped.
“No, End, I like you equally, now please come downstairs," he pleaded.
"....Fine...." he mumbled.
"Let's clean this mess up," Steve said, gesturing towards the dirt all over.
Once the dirt had been cleared from End's room, they made it downstairs. Dani had been sitting on the couch the whole time, seemingly not caring.
"Oh, hey, you are finally done skulking," she said, rather aloof.
"Right...I'm gonna go...umm..yeahh..." Steve said, heading towards the bathroom.
End pulled out a chair and sat in it, and sighed. His eyes were heavy and bloodshot.
My life is a living Nether, he thought, rubbing his face.
"So, the big, tough, Enderman, End, skulking in his room, crying. When will you leave?" Dani sneered.
"Wha-" Was he hallucinating again?
"Honestly, I'm sick and tired of Steve being so worried about yo-" she kept going on, but was interrupted as Steve opened the bathroom door.
"Dani?" he said, looking from Dani's accusing finger, pointed at End.
Chapter 15
All was silent for a moment, but Dani quickly recovered."Steve! You wouldn't believe it! End tried to murder-" Dani tried to lie, but was interrupted.
"End," Steve said, ignoring her, "can you tell me what happened?"
End looked at him for a moment, swallowed, and said, "Dani tried to insult me again,"
"Again?" He asked quizzically.
"Y-yes, she's done it be-"
"NO! Don't listen to him, he's LYING! Hallucinating!" She yelled, frantically.
"Dani. Why are you insulting End?" Steve asked, remaining unusually calm.
"I wasn't, he's ly-"
"Dani,"She went silent, the frantic look in her eyes disappearing, turning to hatred and calming.
"Alright, it's about time you should find out," she said, much more calmly now, leaning back against the table.
Steve leaned back against a wall also, but End remained upright, gazing at the two of them with a confused look in his eyes.
"I've been trying to get revenge on both of you," she stated calmly, looking at her fingernails.
"What have we done?" End asked, outraged.
"You killed my best friends. My family. The reason that I live." she replied coolly.
"No we didn't!" Steve retorted, leaning forward.
"You drowned them! On that day you overwrought the Enderman clan, you also killed hundreds, if not thousands of innocent human beings!" She said loudly.
Steve was about to retaliate, but he closed his mouth and leaned back, looking shocked.
"Yeah, think about it. All dead because of you,"
"Then why were you being so rude to me?" End said, looking at her.
"I could easily trick Steve, he's a human male, just by using feminine charm," she said, Steve turning a little red, "but I know Endermen. They are smarter, and I couldn't trick him. Just by getting Steve to fall in love, then to betray will hurt him the most. Just being flat out rude to End and dragging Steve away was as much pain as I could inflict on End."
"I used to love Endermen, with all my heart, I really did. I had one on the back of my old clothes. But," she blinked away some tears, "after that group captured my friends and left me....I tore it off..." she made a small choking noise, but looked back up with more defiance. "You were part of that guild. I needed revenge. You helped Steve murder all those humans. I swore to get revenge."
"I-I didn't know about the hu-" Steve stuttered.
"Of course you didn't know about all the lives you killed! They all had normal lives like you, family, friends! You didn't think a second about them before you killed them all. You thought you were doing the right thing, But you were wrong."
"Dani,I-" he choked.
"No, I don't want to hear it." Dani interrupted him, "I-"
She was cut off by a small squeaking noise from the door.
"What-" End began to say, but was cut off as a loud chorus of squeaks came from underground, in the walls, and the ceiling.
"What is-" Dani said, looking around.
Suddenly, the door burst down, dozens of holes appeared in the floor, and millions of small silverfish streamed through.
"Wh- NO!" End realized what was happening, and the other two stared at him for a moment, just before they were sweeped off their feet as silverfish appeared beneath their feet.
"Brace yourselves," he said, but was hardly heard over the squeaks.
He gazed sadly at the other two as the silverfish tripped him, knocking him the ground, unconscious.
"End!" Steve yelled, but he and Dani soon met a similar fate.
Chapter 16
Hours later, when End regained consciousness, everything was blurred. Where am I? he thought.
He tried to sit upright, but his body shrieked in pain, he grunted, relaxing back on the ground. He heard a faint squeaking.
Silverfish... Did they see me? he thought.
When he was younger, he learned nearly every language in Minecraft. Silverfish, on the other hand, were harder, because no one could ever find them to learn their language fluently. End had tried to learn as much of the language which was recorded, and it wasn't much.Many words he could not understand, for they were too accented and too fast to comprehend, or he just didn't know the word, but he picked out things like, "Kill, prisoners, lunch, hidden"
"Enderman, separated" one said, and he felt himself blacking out again.
This time, when he awoke, things were clearer, and he could move without as much pain. He seemed to be in a dark corner, and when he sat upright, he found he was in a dark, dank cell, light coming from outside in iron bars.Two other Endermen sat on a bench, to the right of him, talking in low undertones, in heavily accented voices.
"Wh-" End stopped himself. I have too much of a human accent, they might recognize me!
Clearing his throat, and mustering his best Endermen accent, he asked, "Where am I?" in Ender.
The two stopped talking and looked at him, "Silverfish jail. Deep underground. There's no teleporting, we tried. There's no way out."
"Why are we in jail? How long have you been here? Are other species here?"
They didn't seem to intent on starting a conversation, just answering questions."They kidnap everyone they see, Notch knows why. Eclipse has been here for 3 months," he said motioning towards him, "and me for 5. They keep species from any kind."
"What about humans?" End asked.
"Kept 3 cells down, opposite side, end of hall. Women of every species are killed though. Dunno why."
End almost choked on the last 2 sentences. Is Dani...dead? But...why should I care? She tried to hurt Steve and I! Still, she doesn't deserve to die...
End sat on the bench to his left, and let Eclipse and the other talk again. He put his face in his hands. How will I get out of this one?
He must've dozed like that, for the next thing he remembered was numbness in his elbows, hands and legs. He tried wiggling, but it didn't work. Sighing, he found that the wall across from him had a bunk bed, which was occupied.For the first time, he went up to the iron bars. Across from his were a few lonely creepers. To left was another pair of cells, a glowstone block on the floor, and a pathway which we could not see. His right had 3 more cells, and more glowstone in the floor.He tried to peer into the third one down, but it was too dark to see
.Don't worry Steve, I'm trying my best....he thought tiredly, muscles aching from sleeping like that.He trudged back to the bench, and lied down, trying to curl in a ball. The hard plank was uncomfortable and cold, but it would have to do, for now.
I'm going to get you out of here, even if it's the last thing I do.
This bed isn't going to be mine for long. He thought, falling asleep, once again.
Chapter 17"
Oh Dani, I love you," Steve said, holding her hand.
They were standing in a meadow, with flowers everywhere, sunshine shining bright down onto them. A gently breeze was blowing, causing her hair to be pushed back slightly.
"I love you too, but it's too bad the only way to get back at hating Endermen is to kill you," she said, the same note of happiness never leaving her eyes.
"Wha-" but it was too late. A massive, dark ravine opened up beneath his feet, with thousands of shrieking silverfish below. He looked up, seeing Dani with a doleful, but happy look on her face.
He woke with a cry, and in cold sweat. He was shaking all over, but he couldn't see anything. Steve pulled his legs close, curling in a ball.
It's not real, you are fine... you are in bed at home...shhhh.He opened his eyes, and realized he had been wrong.
Where am I? He tried to remember what happened, but everything went fuzzy, the last thing he remembered was End yelling "No!" and squeaking.
He adjusted his eyes, and realized he was alone in a dim jail cell. No one was around him, from across him, he could see the glowing eyes of two spiders. But instead of the normal, bright, malicious blaze, it's more of a dim, weary light.
Am I still dreaming? Steve thought.He pinched himself on the arm, and felt a jolt of pain. Guess not. Alright, then why am I here.....Steve stood up, from the dark corner he was in.
He had dirt and blood all over his body, and he was quite sore. Wounds stung all over his body. There was a bunk bed on the wall to his right, and two benches on the wall he was in.
Where's End? Where's Dani? Then, he remembered everything she had said. He felt tears well in his eyes I thought she actually loved me...
He tried to call out, but his voice was hoarse and weak. The spiders from the jail cell across hissed at him.
"End..." he murmured helplessly. Where was his friend? He paced around the cell. Thinking, and growing frustrated. Then sad. But most of all, helpless. He started muttering angrily. Steve's mutters turned to talking to himself. Then yelling. He banged his fists on the bunk beds, screaming in frustration.
"END!" He yelled for his friend.
I've got to get out of here. He continued beating his bunk bed, until he heard some squeaking coming down from the hallway. He heard some skeleton bones rattling in cells, creepers and spiders hissing, until the silverfish got in front of his cell. There was about ten of them. They squeaked angrily, and one slithered into the cell. Steve screamed and tried to hop away, to climb on the bunk bed, but the silverfish easily slithered to him.The creature bit into his leg, rather deep. Then, it slid out of the cell as if nothing happened, it's cronies behind him.
Steve was breathing heavily, standing atop the bunk bed. Suddenly, aside from the stinging in his left leg, he felt sudden fatigue. His eyes drooped, and he fell forward, onto the bed, out cold.
Chapter 18
End was awoken not too long after, or at least felt like not too long after, by squeaking and hissing. The bunk bed groaned as Eclipse and his friend turned over, trying to block out the noise.
"What's hap-," he said in English, but then quickly switched to Ender, "What's happening?"
"Just the silverfish taking care of a prisoner who is causing too much racket. Go back to sleep," Eclipse grunted.
But End got up, and went up to the bars. Silverfish were streaking past the cells, going toward his right. He listened closely, but...was he imaging it, or was that Steve yelling? The silverfish got to the end of the hallway, and stopped. He heard a shrill scream.
Steve's scream.Well buddy, now I know where you are. The silverfish started to make their way back. The creepers across from him were grumbling and hissing angrily. An idea creeped into End's mind. Maybe.....
He waited a few minutes until the silverfish were out of sight. Then, he called out.
"Hey, hey creepers! Yeah, you guys!" he said, as the creepers turned their heads to look at him, hissing.
"Why are you locked up, you maggots? Why don't you just blow up? Ya filthy, dirty, rotten...."
A creeper exploded, making a hole in their cage. The other two filtered through, closer to End.
"What are you doing?" Eclipse yelled.
The other two exploded, knocking End back, but also made a hole in their bars. Eclipse and his friend jumped down from their beds, went through the hole, and instantly teleported away.
Must have only shut off teleportation in this cell...he thought, struggling to get up. All the other prisoners were going mad.
End heard faint squeaking coming from the passageway to his left. He scrambled through the hole, instincts telling him to teleport NOW. Instead, he ran to his right. Monsters shrieked at him to let them free also. He ignored them and ran to the end of the corridor, and he looked into the last cell on the left. In it, he saw the dim figure of Steve, half off the top bunk, blood spilling from a wound in his leg.
"Steve!" he yelled.
No movement. End's heartbeat was beating so fast, he thought he was going to explode.
"STEVE!" He yelled again.Looking to his left, he saw swarms of silverfish rushing down the corridor. The deep hole between the Enderman and Creeper cell slowing them down.
Voice full of desperation, he closed his eyes, and bellowed, "STEVE!"
It was so loud, his vocal chords hurt. Every monster stopped making noise. Even the silverfish stopped momentarily. He breathed heavily for a few moments, then Steve moved.
"Steve come on, get over here!"
The monsters started shrieking, louder than before, and the silverfish were now moving faster. Steve practically fell off the bed, and crawled over to End.
"Grab my hand! Reach through the bars!" End yelled.
End glanced over, silverfish just 5 blocks away, and moving quicker than ever seen. Then he felt Steve's fingers clasp around his hand, and in that moment, they were gone.
Chapter 19
End had thought of the only place. Up. He had teleported them directly upwards. The night sky twinkled above him. Steve was gasping in pain. End stood next to a deep pit, with, where those....bodies?He squinted. They were bodies. And among them, was Dani's body. Broken, bloody, and dead. He stumbled a bit, and he was still holding onto Steve. Steve was still gasping, eyes closed.
I need to get Steve out of here, before he sees. He was still laying on the ground.End took a deep breath, and teleported again. Far, far away, in a cave. The farthest teleportation he has ever made. He was instantly out cold.
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Hours later, End was awoken by Steve shaking his side."End! Wake up buddy, please!" the desperation in his sore voice hit End like a wave.
"Wha-, Steve-" he stopped and looked at his surroundings.
End had teleported them into a cave that was under a swamplands. He looked out from under the cave, and it was nighttime, so he couldn't have been out for too long.
"You've been passed out all day End. A day has passed," Steve said with worry.
" A day?" End gasped, almost choking.
"I was real worried.."
"Wait, Steve, your leg?" End suddenly remembered.
"Oh, it's fine..." End looked down at his leg, which wasn't very fine.
There was dry blood caked around a rather deep bite wound. Dried blood was on the floor around Steve's leg. The wound itself was still oozing. Steve looked rather pale. End positioned himself closer to Steve's leg, and he found out that his muscles were sore and stiff, he groaned slightly. Steve was to his left, father into the cave.
"No End it's fine...you need to rest..." Steve gasped as End put a hand to his leg.
"Once more I sped up the healing process, so it should be healed in about a half hour," End sighed as the fatigue washed over him. He leaned back and rested his head against the wall.
"You teleported us right outside here, right into a pit under the sky. I had to drag us into here," Steve reported.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry for this and for everything I've done,"
"No, it's fine. It should be me that's sorry, I wouldn't listen to you, and I got us in this mess. " Steve said sadly.
"I'm sorry for Dani," End said.
"What happened to her?" Steve asked.
"Oh, I don't know. She may still be alive, I'm not sure...But two Endermen in my cell told me that they killed females..." End said, leaving out the full truth.
"Oh." Steve replied shortly.
"I'm sorry,"
"She deserved to die anyway," Steve muttered.
End, for the first time, had trouble reading Steve's emotions. He stared blankly at the ground, unreadable. Were his eyes shining?He quickly snapped out of it, looking back at End, "So, do we go home now?"
"Well, from what I picked up, Silverfish don't remember stuff well. And they live a short lifespan, so they probably won't remember where our house is. And, their jail is very far from our house. So chances are we'll be fine. "
"We will go home in the morning," End concluded.
Steve nodded, and fell asleep next to End.
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When they both awoke, End teleported them to their old house. No blocks were broken, for all the silverfish managed to slip between each block. They decided to watch TV, as usual.
"So, Steve, what have we learned from all this?" End said, as it went to a commercial break.
"Umm..."
"Don't fall in love,"
"What, you can't be that cruel," Steve said, punching End on the shoulder."Fine. Don't fall in love with lying, dirty girls,"
"Girls? What if I fell in love with a lying, dirty guy?" Steve said, looking up at End, who had risen an eyebrow quizzically.
"Hah, kidding,"
"You sure? I'm always here for you, Steve!" End said, smirking, "But in all seriousness, I really hope you didn't consider that I'm being driven insane because of human contact," End said.
Steve looked down.
End turned to look at Steve,"Every time I look at a human, my instincts tell me to attack. The impulse has gotten lower the more I was around humans, and it's especially low with you. But it's still there. A tiny, tiny, insane voice in the deep recesses of my mind. I have, to this day, never listened."
"I have been around humans since the very first day of my existence. And hated every other Enderman in sight. Do you really think that I was going insane for lack of Endermen? When I've grown so accustomed to you?"
"No..." Steve mumbled, he felt ashamed.
"Good!" End said, smiling, and looking back up to the television. Steve smiled again, and the two of them proceeded to watch the TV, like a normal afternoon, like two best friends.
Please! Continue with this story! :3
Let your anger be as a monkey in a piñata... hiding amongst the candy... hoping the kids don't break through with the stick!
We are what we eat and we are who we meet. These are not mutually exclusive.
Wow...lol...I see how you got Dani's name.
don't expect me to be on much.
orly
Make what less obvious?
> I am not flaming.
> CRAPPY romance plot is CRAPPY.
XD
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little did you know that dani had planned to make a sequel all a long, the romance I think is cute and funny. plus you're basically implementing you're flaming in just the first few words. and there's only one writer and she very much cares for the story itself
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