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Heyyy all :D

Chapter 2 is out! I’ve written about 8 chapters into the fanfic so far, but I’m going to release chapters one by one :)

Chapter 2

“Why the hell did you push me?! You just made an undesirable enemy!”

That evil leer of hers snaps me back to my senses. I have extremely quick reflexes, and so I manage to take a wild snatch at a root pushing its way out of the rock. Unfortunately, I bang my head in the process, but miraculously, I’m holding on, dangling precariously. The common death cliché. And while I’m dangling there with a massive headache, wondering vaguely why Yeet isn’t helping me, I see this, in response to Just:

 I don’t have a pick

So she’s underground after all! Which means I’m alone. Alone and helpless.

Then I get this.

JustHereForNothing whispers to you: -225 19 634

Like I’m able to come to the pretty, shiny blue diamonds tantalizingly waiting for me.

But suddenly, as Yacmef is waiting impatiently for me to lose my grip and fall to my death so she can watch and give her most infuriating smirk yet, I’m saved the trouble of wasting my breath and energy of calling for help - I’ll need every bit of it I can get, if I’m to hang on for long - Yac inexplicably swerves to the left, trips, and falls into a cave opening below us. I hear a bone crack and reflexively wince. She blocks the cave entrance up quickly as soon as she can stand, and an arrow quivers right where she was standing. I have to give the girl some credit, she’s pretty agile for a jerk.

And suddenly I understand what saved me. I see a face lean over the edge of the cliff I thought I would never see again if I gave up hope: my beloved Yeetmoi.

When she hauls me up, she says, “You didn’t actually think I left you here, did you?” The endearing smirk on her face is almost enough to make me angry again, but instead I settle for pinching her lightly and hugging her until she can’t breathe.

“I thought you left me here!” I cry, half crying, half scolding.

And then of course Just ruins it by typing this.

 Yeet, get down here and I’ll get you a pick.

 I found more diamonds this way!

Yeet starts to head down through Just’s strip mine, but I tell her I’m going to take care of Yacmef first. She agrees and leaves for Just’s cozy little diamond vault.

I notice a small hole in the blocked-up cave wall that Yac built, and I swing down there. The cave entrance is lodged in the ground, so I’ll need to get her out before she loses me. I knock a hole through her barrier and attack her while she’s trying to recollect her senses and set her broken ankle, and so a duel begins. Eventually I manage to back her out of the cave, up a trail (on the opposite canyon side of the trail that Just, Yeet, and I were going up when Yacmef found us), and onto a cliff. I mean to push her off, like she did to me, but she somehow swung the duel around and backed me against the cliff. There’s only one thing for it - I leap for the other side.

The distance is shorter than I had guessed, so my plan would have failed anyway. But the important thing was that Yacmef and I were now on separate sides of the canyon, wedged in between the two sides, which happened to be extremely close together. I also noticed that we were essentially standing on the same piece of rock. Just as I’m thinking oh no oh no this is not good, she cries, “Don’t trust anyone!” yet again and fires her gun at the rock we’re standing on.

It gives way.

Fortunately, I land in water - I don’t see where Yac went, and frankly I don’t really want to deal with her right now - and I retreat.

I know that Just and Yeet went strip mining and caving, but my fall twisted my sense of direction, and it’s hard to tell where I am from down here. So I just pick a direction and hope I get lucky; from what I could tell in Just and Yeet’s chat messages, I deduced that the cave system they were in was fairly large.

Click here for cookies has made the advancement [DIAMONDS!]

While I’m mining, I mine into someone else’s tunnel - or no, not tunnel. More like a small hidey-hole. And crouched in the hole, a block of cobblestone in the ceiling, is… Orchifly?!

I spring forward and crumple into a ball of sobs on top of Orch, who was obviously crying out of fear and exhaustion until she heard me mining towards her. Her eyes are sodden and red and she seems to want to just give up.

“What’s happened to you, Orchid?” I’m saddened by the lack of light in her eyes.

“Oh, I missed you so much, Click!” she says shakily. “It’s been so lonely down here, and there’s no light and I’m starving, but I don’t want to leave. To leave means certain death, and I don’t want to die!” And she dissolves into another fresh round of sobs, despair wracking her body and shaking her shoulders. All I can do is look on helplessly and try to hug her, although she’s so unsteady it’s hard to hold on. I was never the best at comforting people.

“Orchifly, my beloved-” Prepared to launch into a support speech (with a little pep talk mixed in for good measure, and blended in with emotional sympathy), I open my mouth, but as soon as I call her my nickname for my closest friends, she looks up at me with such desperate hope that I feel a lump in my throat and cannot continue.

But the moment is interrupted by an alarming message from Just.

''JustHereForNothing whispers to you: Uh, pretty sure I killed NONAME on accident. But he was trying to kill me and Yeet so, I'll come.''

Immediately I’m shaken with a fresh wave of anger for the lack of details and context. Clearly they had just been in a fight! I send a message asking if they’re okay, and in the meantime explain what my allies and I have been up to the whole Games to Orch while also arriving at the conclusion that Just and Yeet have just fought NONAME, and possibly his allies as well. But it was most likely only him, since I knew of his weapons, strength, and skill; they weren’t likely to have defeated both him and one or more of his allies. So it was probably just him, since they could easily deeply wound him with two of them. It’s not that I’m not confident in their abilities, it’s just that he’s a very powerful fighter - but then again, so are they.

I’ve finished the explanation to Orchid, who is now my ally, and now she knows that we need to regroup with Just and Yeet and form a strategy. We’ve headed back along my strip mine and we’ve just come out into the (presently) night air when we see Just and Yeet racing out of Just’s original strip mine on the face of the cliff above us. I’ve spent the whole day in the same ten chunks, geez.

“Yeetmoi! Just! Down here!” I cry happily. We reunite, but then I notice the shape that my friends are in. “Oh, no. What happened to you?”

“Well, we were fighting NONAME-” Yeet started.

“No, I know that part,” I say impatiently, and the other three look at me in slight surprise. “How’d you get that bullet in your arm? I can see that it’s not deep, but it looks like it hurts. Do you need anything for….” I trail off as I notice the three of them staring at me. “What?”

“Nothing. And yes, please, my arm hurts hecking bad,” says Just. “Also, we have to go. I think we’re being chased.

As we start to run, I explain what happened from when I first heard Yacmef coming, and Yeet animatedly tells the “Epic Story of JustHereForNothing and Yeetmoi Against the Idiot NONAMEMANBRO”. Now that I’m caught up, my brain feels much more organized and I sort my inventory for good measure. I’m much calmer now, despite the running away we’re doing. Note to self: Organize brain more often.

Yacmef has made the advancement [Diamonds!]

Ugh.

Orchifly sees Just’s arm wound and heals her with a Golden Apple, and Just gratefully takes it, but still reminds us of NONAME’s M16, propelling us ever faster forward.

After about a mile of running, we stop and rest, even though we’re almost at the top of the canyon. It’s well into midnight by now and we’re all exhausted. I’ve been running on autopilot physically for the last twenty-eight hours or so, and now I desperately need to sleep, but I can’t. Even though we’re definitely not being chased by now (I don’t know if we ever were in the first place, which really frinks me off), we’re extremely exposed, and anyone could kill us now, here out in the open. Yeetmoi voices my tired thoughts by saying,

“Guys, our odds aren’t looking good. We need to find somewhere to hole up in, I’m figuring it’s going to come down to who can defend the best to protect us.” Personally, I think that might be either Just or me.

Yacmef found an Enchanted Golden Apple!

Really?

“True, but first let’s restock on everything,” I say wearily. Orch closes her mouth, and I’m sure she was about to ask for armor. Her jaw drops when she sees what our allies have managed to mine out.

Turns out Yeet and Just have what seems to be infinite amounts of iron. (I think that the spawn rates of the ores in this game have been altered, they have so much from that one cave system. They say there was also a mineshaft, the one that Just was about to explore when she saw Yeetmoi and me, but I’m still suspicious.) So everyone replaces their nearly useless armor, tools, and shields until it’s all good as new. We also go ahead and make a couple anvils and a lot of iron blocks to split among us, just because we can. We also have plenty to smelt, but we’re practically rolling in metal by now, so we just burn it all while in tinyblock state.

NONAMEMANBRO found an Enchanted Golden Apple!

Well, crap. Lucky.

Orchid also changes everyone’s bandages - turns out she’s handy with medical stuff - and I say,

“We need to take down Yacmef. That’s the game plan here, is that okay?” Murmurs of assent from everyone. “But first… diamond armor.”

“Diamond armor. I like the sound of that,” agrees Orchifly.

Just smiles at us. “One second.” She takes out a crafting table and does something with it. Suddenly there are four full sets of diamond armor at our feet, and an identical grin on my two little expert miners’ faces when they look at Orchid and me.

“You hit the jackpot!” exclaims Orch.

Yeet grins. “We really did, Orch. We really did.”

Author’s notes -

1) The canyon featured in the arena is inspired by the St. Aegolius Canyons from the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series.

2) “Tinyblock state” refers to the state items in Minecraft are in when they’re thrown onto the ground as floating entities with, might I add, circular shadows.

References:

- None right now -v-

Members/pings:

Click here for cookies (Click, Cookie)

Maki is magic (Maki)

JustHereForNothing (Just)

Yeetmoi (Yeet)

Blursedimages (Blursed)

StarShadow2 (Star)

Yacmef (Yac)

ThEtBe (ThEtBe)

LemonStickersXOXO (Parker)

Winged Lizzarrd (Lizard)

DONTFEEDMYBEESCOCAINE (Tele)

NONAMEMANBRO (NONAME)

Orchifly (Orch, Orchid)

DreamsWorstKnightMare (Knight)

SimpWasFoundUwU, I didn’t include you because you joined when we were extremely deep into the roleplay.

Graynotfound, I didn’t include you for the same reason.