Chapter 27. End of volume 1

POV: Bobby

Trader jumped into the crowd of skeletons before I could comment on his remark.

"He has guts I'll give him that. Let's go then, the quicker we get out of this place the faster hell come back."

The Blue Flame said.

I nodded at his comment and got ready to jump down. We didn't have to wait for too long because our hero decided to run towards the heart of the structure, taking almost all the enemies with him.

We both jumped and carefully navigated through the remaining skeletons not to alert them.

We moved quickly but had to stop in our tracks once we saw that the exit was guarded extremely well by monsters, and they somehow started to block the exit.

"That doesn't look good, any plans on how to get through them?"

I could feel Blue looking at me.

"If we only had the exploding arrow, maybe we could've blown them."

As we got more frustrated and thought of more desperate ideas, the monsters suddenly stopped.

A taller monster appeared between the skeletons and just picked one up and threw it over the bridge.

The skeletons looked stunned at the sudden turn of events before attacking the new enemy.

But even with their numbers, nobody could hit the attacker. Because the attacker was an enderman.

"I'm I seeing things wrong or is an enderman fighting with a group of withered skeletons?"

"I'm confused as you my friend Bobby, this is the first time in my life I've seen something like this."

We looked as the skeletons were completely trashed by the constant teleporting monster. Once it was finished it just looked in our direction, screamed, and teleported.

We started to panic and looked around us in case it could somehow see us and decided we were next.

But after moments of nothing happening, we took a sigh of relief and run towards the now empty exit.

The rest of the way was easy to run since there were no monsters on our way and even if they were, they couldn't see us.

"Maybe we should stop for a bit and see if there are any changes at the fortress, we're far enough that they won't ever catch us even if they somehow see us."

I said that out loud since I didn't know where Blue was.

"Where are you?"

"Follow my voice, I'm beside the blue tree."

After a few moments, I felt a hand on my face which I quickly slapped down.

"You found me, now stop searching, and let's look at the fortress."

I then turned my head towards the enemy base where my friend was distracting the enemy so we could escape.

We waited a few minutes without much to see, until all of a sudden the air started to vibrate, it was not a noticeable difference, but we saw that something happened at the fortress.

"We have to check out."

I didn't wait for Blue to respond and ran back toward the enemy base.

I arrived quickly at the entrance we just run through.

It was still the same, but something felt different, I went a bit further and saw a skeleton, but he didn't act normal, it felt different.

The skeleton just looked confused, and then walked into a wall like a mindless monster.

"Bobby! Where are you, Bobby? I'm at the entrance and you better get here before you get us both killed!"

I looked one last time at the confused skeleton and then run towards Blue location.

"Blue the skeletons are acting weird, I think Trader managed to somehow defeat whoever controlled them."

"I'm glad to hear that Bobby, let's go to the meeting place as was originally planned."

Blue responded with an angry tone. I don't think he liked when I made him follow and find an invisible person, but he was right, we had to get back to our last stop.

And after a few minutes of running towards the place, we finally arrived and sat down and relaxed.

An hour passed and no sign of Trader nor another invisible person. We started to get worried.

Another hour passed and the invisibility effect finally wore off, and neither of us looked too good.

After another hour Blue was the first one to brake the silence.

"Bobby... I think we should leave."

"No! The plan was stupid but not impossible, he has to come back! He even defeated the one controlling the monsters."

Blue looked at me with a sad look.

"Ok, well wait for one more hour."

And another hour passed without any sign of our friend coming back.

Blue told me something, but I couldn't hear him. We started to walk, everything went beside me in a flash.

And all of a sudden I was at my portal. I don't even remember how I got here, I think Blue tried to talk with me through the journey but I don't remember anything.

I thanked Blue for bringing me here and went through the portal to my world.

I went to the surface and the light of the sun washed all over me, this made me stand in place and accepted the warmth of the sun.

Then I went to my house with heavy steps.

"Bobby! Where were you!?"

All of a sudden I was ambushed by someone. I looked confused at the attacker that held me in his arms.

It was my old friend Toby.

"Where were you? I've been looking for you for the past few days. And what happened to your village, you did tell me that it's gotten better but I thought you exacerated with your stories."

"Wha-Why are you here Toby?"

"Oh yes, well I bring good news, my friend, your exile was revoked! I also bring bad news I think, now you're called to the palace for unspecified reasons."

"What, what do you mean my exile was revoked?"

"Well, a few days ago a knight come to my village looking for you. Once I asked what was the reason, he told me that you are free to get back to society and that you are summoned to the crown as quickly as you can. I was surprised by that, so I asked if I could bring you the information since I was a good friend of yours. He seemed pretty tired and didn't want to go any further to serch for you, so he accepted it."

"That knight was either the most unprofessional person I heard, or this is someone that wants to get me in more trouble by making me commit a crime of coming back."

"I don't think it was a fraud. He also gave me this book."

He then headed me a book, which had a text written in it that said that I was excused by this unfair punishment, and summoned to the palace.

But what caught my attention was not the text, it was the person that sign it.

"Elizabeth Mending... This is the princess, the candidate for the throne!"

That meant that this was serious business and I had to quickly get to the capital.

I thanked Toby for everything that he's done and went running towards the capital.

Once I get there, maybe I'll find a way to figure out what happened to Trader.

Maybe I can find the Trader.

POV: Unknown monster

The world was boring, and being one of the most powerful monsters was fun until every villager ran from you.

They didn't know how to take a joke, and always called the ones in iron armor. And they were not too geared to play with me.

So I decided to retreat to the smaller villages which didn't have people with iron armor.

I also found out that most of my brethren were here. But they didn't seem too eagerd on doing pranks like me or exploring the world. They always wanted to find the perfect block that they can pick and treasure it.

I wasn't as obsessed as them with that, which maybe made me a bit isolated from them. But no matter, I could find my entertainment through making trouble for the humans.

One particular night I decided to take a fence block which allowed the dummer monsters to Infiltrate the village.

Panic was soon ensured through its inhabitants. That brought a smile to my face, but that didn't last for long since they started to push back against the sudden attack and even won.

I was mad at them for destroying my beautiful prank, so I teleported between them. They soon started to panic once they recognized me, which made me smile.

But not for too long, since another human in iron armor came to attack me.

I didn't like this village so I decided to just leave it, no point in playing here anymore. After a few teleports, I arrived at another village, this one didn't even have walls to stop the monsters.

And I already saw some of them attacking the houses. I decided to vent my frustration on some villagers, but I was interrupted again by someone in iron armor. This one looked even more stacked than the last human.

I looked closer at him and saw that he was a bit different from the others, he didn't have a funny nose, and he also felt different from the rest.

I decided to retread for now and observe him from distance.

And I'm glad that I did that, for the next few days I've been shocked by what the human did.

He built a wall around the whole village in just a few hours. This is an impossible feat even by my standards.

And he didn't stop there, he created a monster, or something similar with blocks. It was fully made of iron and just patrolled the village. I tried to say hello, but his eyes told me that he wanted me dead, and I didn't want to try my strength with him.

This human was different the anything that I'd ever seen. He kept doing some new stuff and then just went underground for days.

One day I decided to go into his hole to see what kept him so long underground.

And oh boy I was not disappointed, tunnels besides tuneless that went deep in to the heart of earth.

While I kept exploring the maze, I stumbled upon a room that had a frame made of one of a few blocks that I couldn't pick up.

But in the frame was like a door to somewhere else, I went through it and found myself in another world.

It was a fascinating place, nothing as I had ever seen before, new blocks, new monsters, and surprisingly I even saw some of my brethren.

But once I tried to communicate with them they seemed even less interested in me than the ones from home, so I couldn't talk with them too much.

But they did tell me about a place where people that hunted us lived, and I should stay away from there.

The warning was in good intentions, but that only fueled my curiosity.

You could see the surprise on my face when I found out that the weird human was there as well once I decided to check the place out.

"This guy is always where the fun is."

So for the next few days, I decided to follow him again.

And I was not disappointed with that decision. I saw a fight between the humans of this world with the humans from my world, I even saw an exploding arrow.

After this, I follow his little group to a huge structure filled with black skeletons. They got found out once they got too deep.

It was fun to see them run in panic with a group of skeletons behind them.

But then realization struck me. If the human died, I couldn't see more fun stuff, so I quickly went beside the room they decided to barricade in and found out their escape plan.

I didn't like it, I didn't care about the two normal humans, they could die for all I cared but I wanted my favorite human to live. But the two boring ones had to get out safely so my human could leave.

The plan started great, and as I expected from my favorite human he defied all odds and survive against a sworm of skeletons.

I stuck with the two humans though, and it was good that I did since I had to beat up a few skeletons that blocked the exit.

Once I did that I announced that they could continue their running while I teleported in search of my favorite human.

But after a few minutes, I felt a distribution in space. It didn't feel good, and it didn't last for too long before disappearing, I quickly teleported to the source only to see another portal but this one was not working, it just had a half skeleton with blue armor laying in it.

The other skeletons just looked confused and lost.

Fortunately, I didn't see the corpse of my human, he must've gone through the portal and closed it.

I didn't know how to open it, but I knew one thing.

I had to find my human.