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     If you don't know what you're looking for, how are you supposed to find it?

That was the only question in the young enderman's head as he traveled through the End to his probably be demise.

He knew his sister didn't want him to go, but he had no other opinions. He wasn't able to resist his queen's calling, there wasn't other opinion.

"She's no good! She'll kill you!"

His sister's voice rang through his head as he remembered something she had once told him years ago.

"You shouldn't go, she'll only hurt you!"

He shook his head. He knew his sister was right, but he didn't have opinions. He had to go, keep going, deeper and deeper. The queen was like a drug that he wasn't able to resist. Her words were a spell, a trap. He was only a puppet on her strings, a toy.

"She is just using you and everyone! She has you under her spell, you have to break free from it!"

The memories hurt, but he kept going. There wasn't anything for him to do.

"Shut the fuck up already!" A voice in the distance made him turn around.

"You're the richest of us! It won't hurt your bank account to pay us all a bit!" Another voice spoke to the voice before.

"That doesn't mean anything!" The first voice screamed.

"Weren't we supposed to be looking for someone?" Third voice asked.

"There's someone!" The second voice exclaimed.

The boy was glaring at the sky and soon three people landed in front of him. They all had weird suits on, reminded him of the Avengers.

"Ay, are ya Ranboo, or something like that?" A male, who looked like Iron man, asked.

"Sly! You can't just talk to a child like that!" The second voice, who seemed to be a lady in a Thor suit, exclaimed.

"I'm not even getting involved to this, I'll just tell The Council we found him," The third voice groaned. He was behind the two others so it was hard to see him.

"C'mon Katz! You're just gonna leave the child to us? What the fuck?" The Iron man, apparently Sly, exclaimed.

"DON'T SWEAR IN FRONT OF A CHILD!" The lady screamed.

"You two have children on your own after all, don't you?" The third voice, Katz?, mentioned.

"That doesn't change anything!" Sly groaned.

"Stop being a bitch Sly!" The lady snapped.

She turned to look at the boy and smiled softly, "Hey, what's your name?"

"R-Ranboo..." He hesitatedly answered.

"Nice to meet you Ranboo! My name is Aphmau, but I'm also known as Lady Thor," The lady, Aphmau, introduced herself. "This is Sly, the son of Iron man. Behind us is Katz, the son of Cyborg."

"Our job seems to be to take ya to The Council," Sly explain sighing.

"Can you come with us?" Aphmau asked carefully.

Ranboo hesitated and looked behind him, but ended up nodding.

[Grian]

     Xavier finally returned and I was able to just casually sit up.

Chet and Haylie just started at me trying to figure out how I was up. Seemed like they were both a bit broken.

"How the fuck is he sitting up?" Chet asked quietly.

"I don't know, honestly I don't know," Haylie answered.

"Don't we have something to do?" I asked standing up.

"I mean that there's a situation going on in the HQ with some members of the Dream Smp," Chet explained. He wasn't still done processing what had just happened.

"Let's go see it then, shall we?" I tilted my head.

{The HQ after some explaining}

     Mao and Jaylee with Niki and Dream had explained the whole situation to me. It seemed like Niki's brother Ranboo was being controlled by Jean, the Ender dragon and had no control over himself.

"So, someone is trying to get him back?" Chet inquired

"Yes," Mao nodded and as he finished the door opened.

Ranboo was pushed into the room followed by three others. Niki screamed her brother's name and rushed to him with Tubbo. Ranboo seemed a bit sad and confused, but also happy as he wrapped his arms around the two.

Everyone seemed relieved that the boy was safe, temporarily. The conversation started right away about what we should do, but I wasn't focusing on that.

I was staring at the raven haired female in Thor's armor, who was one of the people that had brought back Ranboo. She was staring back at me. We were just staring at each other for around five minutes until we were finally noticed.

"Xel, what're you doing?" Mao inquired. He wasn't using Galactic through the fact that our visitors didn't speak it.

"Jess?" The Cyborg looking male shook the ravenette.

Now everyone noticed us, so I decided to finally speak up.

"I'm pretty sure I sacrificed you," Was the first thing I said.

Everyone just turned their eyes on me with like 'What the fuck did you just say?!'

"You opened that one weird portal and we had to close it. I sacrificed you without hesitation," I continued.

"I can remember that pretty clearly," Aphmau sighed tilting her head.

"How are you here then?" I asked. "I'm pretty sure you got eaten by some monsters."

"Managed to escape to another dimension, but at least it was a pretty interesting experience," Aphmau laughed.

"I can believe that," I laughed.

Everyone was just staring at us with blank stares. They had no idea what was going on and what we were talking about.

"Well, at least I had a better dead that the rest of the school," Aphmau shrugged.

I laughed, "Yeah!"

"Do you two know each other?" Sly inquired glaring at me.

"Yeah, Aphmau became friends with him in an anime chat room or something like that and hung out with us for a day. She accidentally opened a portal to a demon realm and the only way to escape was to sacrifice her, so I did that," I casually explained while Aphmau was laughing.

"Let's just ignore that," Jaylee suggested.

"Yeah, let's continue with the plan," Mao nodded.

"If you'll excuse me, I want to have a small chat with Aphmau," I spoke out and nodded to her.

"Alright," Mao nodded.

I led Aphmau out of the office to the living room and we sat down.

"I heard everything Sam did.." Aphmau started, now her voice was serious.

"He did a lot of horrible things..." I hummed sadly, looking at my hands.

"He killed the previous 3rd in command, didn't he?" She asked with a cold tone that was for Sam and not me.

"It technically was her own fault, but yeah..." I nodded quietly.

"Now he has a way to the Overworld even though his host is dead... He has found a hole in the system..." Aphmau whispered quietly making me freeze.

"W-what..?" I managed to whisper.

"I've been keeping an eye on him ever since he went crazy.. Seems like making a deal opened him a way to the Overworld..."

"What are you trying to say..?"

"He has a plan... Someone or something to control..."

"No way you're talking about..."

"You know who I mean, we know him... He would do that... And that gives him so many things to do..."

"But he was still-"

"This started happening just a few months ago, after he had died."

"There's no fucking way..."

"We both know that it's true... We both know he would do that. We can't lie about it because there's no other opinion..."

"That means he is behind this too..?"

"Yes..."

"Then we have to redo the plan... It won't work..."

"We have to tell the others.. Otherwise we're gonna lose many lives," Aphmau whispered placing her hand on my shoulder.

I nodded slowly and hesitatedly. I didn't want to tell them, but we had to.

"Let's go tell them.." She sighed and stood up.

I stood up and started leading her back to the office. I placed my hand on the door handle, but a voice behind us stopped us.

"Wait..."

I turned around to see a hologram behind us. We were both shocked to see him because we both recognized him.

"Taurtis..?" Words fell out of Aphmau's mouth.

I was too shocked to say anything.

"I'm not psychically here, or even alive.. But I was invited from the Twilight Forest.." Taurtis answered quietly.

"You know what Sam's doing, don't you...?" I managed to whisper from my shock.

Taurtis hesitated, but ended up nodding slowly. He knew too.

"I wanted to come tell them with you.. I heard your conversation before.." He explained.

"Alright," Aphmau nodded. "We should go before they finish their whole plan."

"Yeah..." I nodded and opened the door.

Everyone turned to look at us. They looked curious, but weren't going to ask anything.

I looked at Aphmau and Taurtis, they both nodded. I sighed and spoke out.

"We have to rethink the whole plan.." I started.

"What do you mean?" Mao inquired raising his eyebrows.

"We have information..." Aphmau added. Her friends, Sly and Katz, looked at her.

"You better listen or we'll all get killed," Taurtis hummed.

"We know that someone is back, and controlling the Ender dragon..." I started hesitatedly.

"Who can even do that..?" Ranboo whispered.

"There's only one person.." Aphmau whispered.

"We know for a fact that he's doing it.. And has a perfect plan.." Taurtis added.

"Who is that person?" Katz inquired. He had never heard anything like that.

"They have to be pretty strong to control the Ender dragon.." Niki added hesitatedly, but quietly. She didn't like talking about her.

"You all won't know this name.. But some of you know... Very well..." Aphmau spoke quietly.

"What're you talkin' 'bout Jess?" Sly asked.

"He's a horrible person..." Taurtis mumbled.

"Can't you just say the name..?" Mao asked, he was getting worried.

"Sam..."

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