DE Ch.13: Terror in the Territories

~Martyn~

Martyn had been busy sorting items in IntheLittleCorp when it happened. Toby came running down the stairs, gasping for breath. Martyn turned around, a beautiful specimen of lapis clutched in his hand. He asked, "Toby, what's wrong, friend?"

Toby panted, "The forest is in flames!"

Martyn withdrew his sword, Greta the Green Goddess, and whispered, "Someone's going to die."

Toby frowned. Martyn was very protective of his woods. He complained, "Martyn, let's get what we can and run! It's bad!"

Martyn grabbed a few things from the chest, and exclaimed,"Fine! I'm still killing whatever did this!"

Outside the base, flames lapped at the trees hungrily, one leaping to the tent and setting it ablaze, a fireball of their first shelter. Martyn yelped in fear. Toby, seeing how he was lagging, grabbed his hand, and sprinted away, dragging Martyn with him. He exclaimed, "We have to get to Honeydew Inc!"

Martyn whispered in dismay, "My home. My trees. Who would do this?"

Toby ignored his friend's dismay to try to get him running faster, "Come on Martyn! We'll fix it! We can't though if we die!"

Martyn sighed and rocketed away, Toby at his heels. The two burst out of the forest onto a plain, Honeydew Inc on their right. Something soared over their heads, giving a horrible roar. The two boys looked up, a dark shape wheeling away on dragon wings. Toby asked in a fearful voice, "What is that!"

Martyn's eyebrows furrowed, "I have no clue but let's get out of the open or that thing will snatch us up!"

Toby nodded and the two sprinted off to Honeydew Inc., the winged creature leaving them alone gone off to terrorize someone else.

~Lewis~

Lewis heard a knock at the door, a frantic pounding. He opened it, only to be bowled over by Martyn and Toby who were screaming, "Close the door! Close it!"

Lewis closed it with a frown. He asked, "What's wrong, Martyn? Toby?"

Martyn choked, "My forest...its on fire! Something with horrible dragon wings did it!"

Simon and Duncan both came to the main room. Duncan asked, "What's wrong Martyn! You're distraught!"

Martyn whimpered, "My forest...it's on fire. Something did it."

Duncan was already using a jetpack upgrade on his suit to scout out from atop the building. He peered out to see a man wheeling about on dragon wings, a long black tail streaming behind him. Duncan held back a yelp. The other had already nerd-poled up and Duncan turned to them and said, very slowly, "Do not be alarmed but there is a enderdragon hybrid outside."

After a long moment of silence Simon screamed, "What the bloody hell Duncan!"

Duncan nodded solemnly as Martyn yelped, sounding a great deal like a girl while Toby stood beside him, Derek the sword at ready. Only Lewis held his composure, even as the hybrid scored a hole in the base, causing rubble to land on them. Martyn shrieked and Simon hefted his pickaxe on his shoulder. Duncan murmured, "I'm gonna try to contact someone but I believe he damaged our signal tower. "

Duncan resigned to the corner where he fiddled with a communicator. He muttered as he did so then groaned, "I can only get ahold of Rythian but he's busy. I'll break through."

After another few seconds, he screamed at the communicator, "Rythian! Come back now! We're being attacked by a winged creature! Everything's on fire!"

The communicator buzzed and Duncan complained, "I lost connection."

Like a rocket the dragon-hybrid swooped into the building screaming at Duncan, "Who did you call?!"

Duncan answered in a low voice, "Rythian."

The hybrid cocked his head and muttered, "I have no clue who that is but I can't have you screwing anything up." and he punched Duncan.

Duncan slumped over, unconscious and the hybrid shot away again. Lewis crawled over to Duncan, inspecting him. He stated, "He's fine but he was VERY close to having his neck broken."

Simon echoed, "Broken?"

~Sjin~

Meanwhile the Butterfly was rushing to the Tekkit- I mean Yogcraftia as fast as it could, anxious for the lead to their target. Sky held his compass in his hands, his eyes trained on its needle, shaped and colored like a diamond sword and pointing west, to Yogcraftia. He sighed.

Sjin was sorting through dirt when he saw the golden airship soar over them. He gaped at it, yelling at Sips, "Look at this! A giant golden ship that flies!"

A voice far off called, "Butter!" but the two dirt traders didn't listen but still gaped.

~Sky~

Meanwhile Sky scanned the skies for his foe...who sadly was once his friend. Sky wasn't returning to land so he'd have an advantage of home field. At once the dragon-hybrid circled closer and closer to the ship and farther and farther the recruits fanned away from their commander. Deadlox landed softly as a cat upon the ship, wings folding behind him. Sky made no move to draw his weapon, standing at attention, hands at his sides. Deadlox's forked tongue passed over his lips in anticipation and Sky had to ignore his body's screams to draw his sword and attack. If he did that the fight would begin and Deadlox he would have the upper hand...I mean claw. Not like he needed any more since he could fly and do probably many other things.

With a roar, he charged, claws extended and eyes aflame. Sky pulled his sword out of the sheath effortless and met Deadlox with a clash. Deadlox snarled, "You let me die!"

Sky was quiet, pondering this. He quietly said, "Deadlox, I didn't and you know that."

Deadlox snarled again, "You could have saved me but you didn't! You just wanted me out of the way."

Sky leaped back, "Why would I want to do that?"

Deadlox snarled at him charging, "And I'm NOT Deadlox. I'm Enderlox and I'm he one who will kill you, COMMANDER Sky!"

He sneered as he hissed the word, "commander". Sky's blood ran cold. Something about that startled him beyond belief. Sky whimpered, "You're a commander too."

He sneered, revealing pearly sharp fangs, "I'm not a mere commander anymore...I'm Prince of the End!"

Sky deflected another slash by Enderlox, swiveling out of the way once he could. He cried, "Who told you I didn't try to save you!"

Enderlox chuckled, a startling noise, "The Lady of the End, the one who DID save me. If you don't remember Sky, I was being choked so I can't prove any of you true. I'll just go with the person who cares more."

A recruit started to run forward but Sky commanded, "Don't come any closer."

The recruit froze, fear in his eyes and he backed off, whimpering like a kicked dog. Enderlox grinned and countered, "See? You care about your precious "recruits" than you do me!"

Sky whispered, his sword holding back the cursed claws, "I don't want this to happen again."

He swung at Enderlox but he caught the sword in his claws, holding it from his face. Sky frowned. He was too fast and Sky could only make sure he didn't get hit. It would stay at a stand still until Enderlox took to the air. Then Sky would have three options. He could either try to continue to fight and he'd proably die. He could give up in which case he would die. Finally he could make a mad dash for his jetpack and probably put the ship, the recruits, and Dawn in the line of fire. Why didn't he keep the jetpack on him? With a shocking suddenness, Herobrine was behind Enderlox, holding onto his shirt and saying, "Stay still and we'll get that corrupted soul out of you, Enderlox."

Enderlox wailed horribly and broke out of Herobrine's clutches, spiraling upwards in shaky circles until he was just a faint dot. The dot continued to circle until it fell northwards, still shaky. Sky asked in an equally shaky voice, "W-what did you do to him?"

Herobrine frowned, "I had his soul but he broke free. Pity. We'll have to do this the hard way."

Sky frowned as he echoed, "Hard way?"

Herobrine held an Eye of Ender high and exclaimed, "Okay, kiddies! Time to grab your Eyes of Ender because we're going on a road trip!"

-Insert line of break-

AN: I hate thinking I had so much more to put in this chapter but I love the ending so much. See you next chapter then!