I'm just laughing at the fact that people were annoyed with me saying 'stuff'

XD

I'm not having a go at you guys.

It just amuses me... XD

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Mitch's POV

I stared at the dark blue water of the lake as Jerome and the others wandered around behind me, trying to find the hole, he and Jason had first climbed out of when the squids first kidnapped Adam.

It felt like years had past since then, when it'd really just been a little bit over a week.

"Found it!" Jerome shouted after a while, I turned and walked over to him, the others doing the same, and smiled. Right next to him was a large hole, the same one he'd made so long ago.

Several groans and chatters could be heard from inside the hole signalling to us that some zombies and skeletons were down there.

Ryan just smirked and hopped into the hole before any of us could say anything. Soon all the groans and clatters stopped and Ryan poked his head out "The coast is clear."

"Did they even see you?" Ian asked, causing Ryan to smirk.

"No, well... They didn't until they felt my knife."

"Remind me never to piss you off..." Quentin said chuckling "You're like a fricken ninja."

"I'm not a ninja." He said before deepening his voice and saying "I'm Batman." and disappearing back down the hole. "Well come on!"

I just chuckled before hopping down the hole after him.

When I landed I could see we were in a small dungeon area, with moss hanging off the cobblestone walls and iron bars in a several places, there were newly placed torches along the walls no doubt put there by Ryan and no mob spawners.

But I was mainly staring at the large broken nether portal in the centre of the room.

The others climbed down and looked at the portal along side me.

The portal looked almost complete, but a piece of the obsidian had fallen out of place. Seto and Ian walked over the the obsidian and with several grunts, pushed the stone back into place.

Jerome drew Betty and a Flint and Steel "Ready guys?"

Everyone, except me, drew their swords and nodded. Seto pulled out a potion of strength and handed it to me.

I smiled "Thanks." I said, quickly drinking the potion. Immediately, I felt stronger, my weariness and pain fading.

Seto nodded and took the bottle back "No problem"

I turned to Jerome as I drew my own sword "Ready G."

Jerome nodded and smacked the flint and steel together, creating a small spark that landed on the obsidian, but instead of catching fire, the spark turned and the familiar swirling portal appeared.

"Well, lezz go!" Jerome shouted before jumping through the portal. I could only chuckle as Ian, Ryan and Quentin followed. I looked at Seto and frowned, he didn't look to great,

"You ok Seto?" I asked him.

Seto looked at me and gave a weary smile "Yeah, I'll be fine, I just have a lot on my mind..."

I scoffed "Don't we all..." But I could tell it was something else, but he clearly wasn't going to share it. "Come on, let's go..." I said stepping through the portal.

For a moment, I felt dizzy and all I could see was purple swirls, before the image melted away to reveal a large throne room made of Nether brick.

Iron bars lines the windows along with a large throne made of nether quartz and diamond that sat near the back of the room, a large set of iron doors stood opposite the throne at the end of the room. Strangely enough, there were no mobs, probably because they were up in the Overworld, preparing to fight.

Seto soon came out of the portal after me, and frowned when he looked around, "I'd like to think there'd be at least a few guards..."

Quentin went over to one of the windows and looked out "I can see some Magna cubes and the occasional Ghast and blaze, but that's it..."

Jerome shrugged "Maybe we got lucky and everyone's in the Overworld..."

Ryan frowned "Or its a trap..."

Jerome sighed "Sorry for being optimistic..." He said sarcastically.

Seto closed his eyes and murmured something under his breath, when he opened them, they glow bright purple. A small glowing purple ball of magic formed in his hands and rose up, slowly drifting towards the door.

Seto's eye returned to brown and he nodded at the magic "Tracking spell... It'll take us to the amulet."

I smiled "That's good."

Seto nodded again and followed after the magic as it drifted through the door, the rest of us close behind.

We followed the amulet for a while, it drifting down one corridor then another, completely ignoring several doors. I couldn't see any mobs which was beginning to worry me. 'Where are they?!'

Finally the orb stopped suddenly, before turning and floating through a door that appeared to be made of obsidian. I shrugged and followed after it, opening the door and walking inside, the others close behind me.

The room we were in appeared to be a library with fewer shelves, so the aisles were much larger than your average library. It floated down one aisle that lead to and area that seemed to be lead out like an arena, a large circular clearing with many aisles, leading off.

The orb then seemed to freeze in place in the centre of the arena, just floating in midair.

I looked at Seto, who was frowning "That shouldn't have happened..."

I turned back to the orb and watched as it began to give off a reddish glow.

Seto seemed to pale immensely, swearing under his breath and waving his hand, causing the orb to disappear in a puff of purple smoke.

"Seto?" I asked cautiously "What's wrong?"

Seto just looked at the door, "Well... We're here... And I know who the guardian is..."

Ryan sighed "That doesn't sound good..."

"It's not..." He said bluntly.

"Yay..." Quentin muttered sarcastically "So what should we do?"

"Quentin, if my magic is being counteracted like that, then he already knows we're here, he was leading us here..."

"Right you are Seto..." Laughed a voice.

Everyone froze at the voice while it continued to laugh "I must say, you took longer than I thought you would to arrive, I was beginning to think you'd gotten lost..."

I looked around, I couldn't see anyone else beside us, Seto stood rigged, worry and fear showing in his eyes.

Ian held his sword tightly, "Where the hell is he?!"

"I'm right here..." The voice chuckled.

Immediately, I felt movement all around us, creeping down the aisles. I looked at the others and I could tell they felt it too.

I held my sword tightly as I turned to face the one of the aisles. I watched as two figures appeared into view, Seto turned and glared, at the two, his fear slowly giving into anger.

One was a man in a black cloak lined with blood red silk and pricing red eyes. He reminded me of the man in my fear. Around his neck hung Sky's amulet, glowing brightly.

The other one was... Bella...

She had several cuts and bruises on her arms, legs and face, she held a diamond sword, that seemed to be lined with obsidian tightly and stared blankly ahead. Her eyes were bright red instead of hazel and glazed over.

I turned to the man and shouted "What did you do to her?!"

The man turned and smirked "Who? The hybrid? Simple possession spell, nothing to big."

Seto growled at the man "Let her go. She has no part of this!"

The man smirked "I could... But right now it leaves me with the upper hand..." As he said that, he raised his hand towards Seto, causing the sorcerer too wince in pain and hold his hand tightly.

"And I always prefer to have the upper hand in a fight Grandson..."

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Yeah, it's short and not very good I know...

But I wanted to get something out to you guys...

I just didn't want to make it too long, and I if go on, it will...

Also

I have changed the name of this book to 'Brines'

It's just so it's a little more original than Skybrine.

So yeah, do you guys like the new cover I made for this book?

I made it with help from sketchbook pro on my iPad with help from another app called Weave Silk.

It took a while... but I like it.

Anyways, thanks for reading and be sure to leave a comment or vote if you enjoyed it. :D

Or not, I don't really care.