To Die was an Art

Aim

Helsknight thought back to when Evil Xisuma appeared. He had left on a high, got back to the base. Something changed inside him and the voice spoke. Angry.

"Hels?"

Hels jumped up. "Who's there?" He didn't need the answer though. He recognised the voice.

"What did you do?" The voice shaking.

Hels fist went through a wall. "How are you here? You can't be here!"

Welsknight yelled so loud it gave Hels a headache. "You got rid of me! When you took over it was all black, I saw nothing, felt nothing. Now I'm here. What is happening?"

Hels was lost for words. "I-I don't know. This isn't right."

"I can see now. Looks like we have some catching up to do."

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Later, Iskall gave them all instructions. Hels had nothing to do, so after a while of waiting he decided to go in a mission. As he walked outside Wels was still annoying him.

"Wow. Now I really know what it's like to be you. This sucks."

"You bet it does. I'm in control now."

Hels walked into a underground tunnel and followed it for a while. He arrived at the agreed meeting spot and waited until a familiar face appeared.

Evil Xisuma nodded at him. "Hels."

"Evil."

Evil Xisuma took of his helmet and lit a cigar. "Looks like we're going to war."

"Yeah. When are you guys gonna attack?"

Evil shrugged. "They don't tell me that much."

"Can you tell me this? How do you get rid of annoying voices?"

"Wels back?"

Hels looked surprised. "Yeah, how did you know."

Evil Xisuma took a puff of the cigar. "Just do. And no, I don't."

"Why did you want to meet up?"

"We're going to have to fight soon. For real. Everyone else will be there so I can't spare you. You better be ready."

Hels nodded. "I will. Don't you worry." And with that he walked off. When he arrived home he trained. He trained until everything hurt. But that wasn't enough. He had to train his powers. He walked outside, aimed his hands up and pushed fire out. He willed it to keep going. To get hotter. Finally he collapsed on the couch a rested. After a few hours everyone met back in the room.

Iskall looked at the exhausted hermits. "Ok Grian, how's the castle going?"

"Good, shouldn't be too long."

"Great. Mumbo and I have finished the weapons. Come try them."

The six of them walked into the basement where many metal weapons awaited them.

Iskall grabbed some sort of backpack like thing made of metal. "Grian this is for you."

Grian took off his elytra. "Sweet." He put it on and it extended into large metal wings. "Awesome!"

"That's not all." He instructed Grian on how to attack. Grian swung one of the wings and metal feathers flew out and stuck into the wall. Then they returned back to the wings.

"Now Mumbo, try yours."

"But I already know what it is. I made it."

"Test it."

Mumbo put on two silver gauntlets. He pointed one at the same wall and fired a plasma blast. A massive impact crater appeared where it hit.

Iskall smiled. "Nice. Now Grim and Stress. You have similar things. When you kill someone with these weapons it will instantly absorb their soul. Then you can eat it or whatever." He passed Grim a scythe and Stress a whip. Both were metal with purple laced into it.

"Now Hels has something special." He placed a red crystal on the chest of Hels armour and it attached. "This will makes your fire stronger. It will also help prevent your fire from overheating your body."

Hels looked at it. It was perfect. He couldn't afford to lose. That would destroy his plan.

"And finally I have this." He picked up a sword. The blade was black. Not like a netherite sword, but something else. "It's a spirit sword. Very rarely a special metal forms in soul sand. This is it. The strongest sword to every exist. It's connected to my soul." He threw the sword then held his hand out. It flew back into his grip.

Mumbo looked amazed. "That is so cool."

Iskall put down the sword. "One thing left to do before we go to war."

"And what's that." Stress asked.

"Team building activity's."

"Lame." Hels stared to leave. Iskall grabbed him.

"I don't think so. We're just sharing our back story's. It's not that bad."

The knight looked at him. "It really is."

"You go first."

Hels sighed. "I came from a race if warriors. As did Evil Xisuma. Mighty people that lived in a beautiful realm. One day we fell into war. I joined the ranks as I watched my people tear themselves apart. At some point I don't know what happened. Perhaps a deadly weapon was made but it destroyed the very fabric of existence. I watched my world burn and it became the nether you know today. I died. Some god spoke to me. Gave me a second chance inside Wels mind. But there was something about this god. He was just so lazy, informal. This god I devoted my entire life to. All a lie."

Grian processed that. "Evil came from there? I thought he was Xisuma's brother."

"He is. It's complicated. I'm not even completely sure Xisuma's from here."

Mumbo turned to Grim and Stress. "What about you guys. What happens that makes you guys like that."

Hels laughed. "You don't want to know."

Grim looked at him. "How would you know? I'll show you. Check my memories."

They hooked him up to the machine and started it. It showed Iskall slitting his throat and everything going black. He then appeared in a room. All of his dearest friends were there. Ren picked up a sword and was made to kill them all. Over and over. At first his closed his eyes. It hurt him to do this. But after hundreds of repeats of this, there was nothing left inside of him. No compassion. He became heartless. He even enjoyed it. He then woke up.

"Woah." Grian stood back. "That was dark."

Grim sighed. "You bet. What about you three? What's up with you."

Iskall paused. "I don't know. I just woke up like this. This is just what I want now. It's like there's something deeper behind this. Sometimes I worry I'm a puppet. Like I'm being controlled."

"Same." Mumbo said. Grian nodded along.

Hels stood up. "Well that was dumb. What now?"

"Now. We launch our attacks."

"Where?"

"The shopping district, of course. We can take out their resources."

Grim stood up. "Let's go."

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That was fast.
I am very excited for the next few chapters.
Also worried.

Next chapter: Declaration of War

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