"Behold, my enchanted diamond sword!" I joked and raised my weapon above my head. Reuben squeled with excitement and ran in circles around me before stopping and rubbing his head against my leg.

That definitely cooled me down a little bit after what happened...

"Aw" I kneeled down to pet reuben when petra came to mind, and then I remembered why we were here.

I petted reuben and then stood up. "Come on, reubs" I said.

"Let's go destroy that command block!..."

I was about to walk out when ivor stopped me.

"Wait, if you really want to against those monsters head on, you'll want better armour" he pointed out.

I turned around to look at the different sets of armour.

"I enchanted them for the order, they're as strong as it comes, even able to withstand tnt!... any preference?" I looked at ivor.

"I...I think I actually want to keep the armour I'm already wearing..."

Ivor blinked at me "really?"

"Well... yeah... I mean... Ellegaard died so I could have it, ya know..."

I could see the regret in his eyes as he looked away. "Oh, come to think of it, she would have liked that, very well... but at least take some for your friends" Ivor offered.

"Sounds good to me!" I accepted the offer and took a few sets for the others before we headed out.

"Nice weapon, jesse!" Olivia complemented.

"Thanks! Now let's get back, check on petra and see how those wither storms are holding up against those endermen"

I gave olivia a d lukas their sets of armour and lead the way out, towards the fight that waits for me...

*Le time skip*

We were almost at the fortress and all that I could think about was petra, that strange girl and destroying the command block...

"Guys, I'll be right back! I have to check on petra!" I said.

"What!? We can't do that now! It will slow us down!"

"It will be quick and I just need to know if she's okay!"

Lukas scratched his head. "I'm sure she's okay... she's tough..." he said sadly.

"She will be okay if we kill the wither storms!" Soren snapped.

I heard reuben oink behind me.

"It's okay reuben, it will all be over soon..." I reassured. "That command block is toast"

That seemed to cheer him up a bit as he oinked in agreement.

"I'll all just be right back..."

After a small argument, I finally managed to convince them and went off to the cave.

My jaw nearly dropped as my eyes met the once fortified cave.

The cave looked completely different from how I last saw it, it now had cobblestone walls and the front with what appeared two doors so we could enter... the thing was...

The doors looked almost burnt... destroyed... and surrounding them were a bunch of claw marks...

It was as if someone... or something had gotten out...

And I feared what might have happened to her...

"Petra!" I rushed inside with reuben following me, only to see an even more disturbing sight...

Petra was nowhere to be seen...

claw marks covered the stones walls and floor...

A small bit of dried blood on the floor...

Reuben whined, scared.

"I know, boy... I'm scared too..." I admitted.

Suddenly, pain struck through my head again and I sank to my knees.

"I'm sorry, Jesse... you need to destroy that command block..."

My blood began to boil as memories of me and petra flashed through my mind and then the events leading to wither storms creation...

I opened my eyes, sadness filling me...

"Come on reuben... we have to do this... for her..." I stood up as the pain faded.

Reuben whined once more...

"Petra would want us to keep going..." I sniffed.

"She wouldn't want us to cry and hold everyone back..."

Reuben nodded. I kneeled down and gave him a little hug before standing back up...

"What ever happened here though... we gotta figure that out..."

And that was true... I don't know what might have happened to petra in this cave... and I will get to the bottom of it... but for some odd reason... I felt like either the strange girl who looked like me or the withers had something to do with it...

And I was going to figure out if weither or not one of them having anything of them to do with it...

*time skip*

it's only been about a half hour since our disturbing discovery, and now only three goals were in my mind at this point.

Destroy the storms and find the look alike and find petra...

I was snapped out of my thoughts by the loud growling and rawrs of the withers.

My lips twitched into a smile as I began to feel uncomfortably warm.

"These f***ers are going down..."

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I'm just using my powers for evil at this point...