The Fish Tank

Forest of the Witches
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"We need to hold them off!" Cat said to us as she swung her sword around, cutting open the guts of an approaching zombie. Gross! The zombie made it's final growl before it slumped down to the ground, vanishing around puffs of smoke.

Following Cat's lead, Marek and I swung our sword towards a creeper heading towards cat. Unleashing all our strenght, we brought down our swords with such great force, leaving two holes on it's head. The creeper sizzled before dissapearing in a puff of smoke as well.

Cat switched her weapons from a sword to a bow, aiming it at Marek."Duck!" She commanded before unleashing the arrow towards Marek.

He sidestepped to the side, missing the arrow which hit the head of an ordinary witch. The witch was about to throw a potion at an incoming zombie before breaking into a million cubes sinking down to the ground.

"Did you see that?" I asked them while having a sword fight with a zombie. Cat stared at me with the 'I don't know what you're talking about' face, so I told her."The witch was fighting a zombie!" I said as I stabbed the gruesome creature on the neck.

"It did?" Cat asked with an amazed tone in her voice. I nodded. Rhelms appeared behind me, spanking a zombie's head off with his shovel."This can be our chance to make a run for it!" Rhelms said as he ducked just in time to miss an arrow.

"Fall back!" Cat ordered as she ran towards the horses who were panicking as arrows and potion bottles flew around them. I called out to my two dogs, who were taking down a zombie. The two dogs turned their heads towards me then teleported on the brown horse. I looked over at Marek, who was having trouble with choosing a horse.

"There's only three!" He exclaimed. Rhelms ran past Marek, pulling him towards the black horse.

"Climb on it's back!" Rhelms commanded. Marek obeyed and hopped on the horse. I sat on top of my horse, throwing potions of harming at both witches and mind controlled mobs, hoping to slow them down. Rhelms sat behind Marek, pushing back approaching zombies with his shovel.

"Which way do we go?" I asked hurriedly while I dodge a flying zombie head the flew out of nowhere. The sense of dread is creeping up quickly on me and I'm worried that if one of the two groups defeat the other, we'll be next in line to our doom.

Rhelms was checking his map, looking at the compass, then back at the map."I am running out of arrows to throw at 'em!" Cat said worriedly.

Finally, after a few moments, Rhelms looked away from his map and compass."That way!" He pointed towards the east. I felt shivers on my back. Uh oh. That feeling tells me we are going to face something deadly, but our navigator says so. Plus, if he is leading us to a trap, Happy and Harpy would know.

Cat rode on her horse and galloped off, taking the lead. I followed behind her and Marek followed last. The visions of the mob fight were beginning to fade from view. All we could see now we're trees, more trees, and puddles.

"Don't worry guys, in a few minutes, we'll be beneath that tower." Rhelms encouraged us as he threw his spade away, switching to an iron sword. Hopefully we'll get there soon, I am so aching for my bed back at home.

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"Um... Rhelms, I think when you said minutes, it's actually hours!" Cat complained. I nodded in agreement. I have to say, it has been a long time since the last time our feet touched the ground. It's already morning. Although we are inside a forest that barely has any light, I could feel the sense of warmth across my paws. Wait, wasn't that from holding the rope thingy for too long?

"Come on, guys! We are almost there!" Rhelms said as he looked at his map.

"Long before I was imprisoned, I've been to the towers." Marek said as he overtook my horse."As a greifer, you are required to remember the exact locations of these towers to hide in if there are people chasing you."

"But why do you hide from them? Didn't you kill them?" Cat asked.

"Before we were ordered to kill players, we just... well, greifed them." Marek answered. I know they are greifers but I still have no idea what do they do."Define greif." I said, making my horse gallop faster. Rhelms turned around to face me from a meter far.

"Um... destroy their precious stuff, I guess..." Rhelms' voice trailed off. I cocked my head to the side."So you are a greifer, but you don't know what it means?" I asked. Rhelms nodded. I want to test these two out. I want to see how far they knew about their past as greifers.

"But why would you dedicate yourself to this... destruction thing if you don't know what it means?" I asked. I felt the the air turn dark."Vengance." Marek said. He didn't face me. Was it because he was trying not to get his face off the path or is it because of something... serious?

"Why?" I asked.

"Because it happened to us. That is why we're giving it back." Marek replied in a low voice. I gulped. I still wanted to know more but the air felt chilly.

I decided not to continue this conversation. Marek was back to being creepy and it sent chills down my spine. I stayed quiet for the whole trip.

It was a long ride. My butt felt very painful after sitting on a horse for a long time. Ouch. But I felt that the pain was worth it. If it means saving this server-- possibly all servers from destruction, well it's all worth it.

"We're here!" Rhelms exclaimed as we halted our horses. In front of us was a big and tall tower made of stone. We got off our horses an how it felt so good!

"Oh my goodness! I missed you land!" Marek exclaimed. Rhelms shushed him."Keep you voice down, Marek." He said, watchfully. Marek sighed.

"We need to go find a way around the tower without being noticed." Cat said, looking around our surroundings.

Before we could agree, I felt a loud thump behind us. Something gigantic. A machine. Something pistony.

"Way ahead of you, little girl - cat weirdo." The thing mocked Cat. I looked at her and realized she was turning red. No, not in embarrasment. In anger.

I heard trees break down as they get crushed by the mechanical thing behind us. We turned our heads around. And in front of us stood...

"A fish in a fish tank that is on a tank with tnt cannons on it?!" I shreiked. Man, I did not see that coming.

"Weren't you that freak I threw off the waterfall?" Cat shouted. The fish laughed."I knew you were smart, kitty!" The fish said.

"Gills?!" Marek and Rhelms exclaimed, looking at the fish glaring at Cat. The fish turned to them.

"Marek." The fish giggled."They said you would come. Perfect."

"We needed you, Marek, so we tried to take you, but it seems you came to us instead." The fish gazed at him.

"What do you mean needed me?" Marek asked. The fish didn't reply. The fish just turned to Rhelms.

"Ah... Rhelms." He said, in a mocking tone that is annoying me."I expected better from you." He sneered.

"You knew what the boss was doing." Rhelms replied."I'm here, helping them to free every single player across the severs from what they don't know is coming."

"Do you realize that what you have done could kill more?" The fish said angrily, pointing the redstone cannon at him."He can kill everyone, and he will! Try to stop him, see if anything happens. NOTHING WILL WORK!"

"It's worth to try." Rhelms retorted, smiling. The fish glared angrily at him. He placed some tnt on the cannon."You won't and can't be able to free them!" The fish said, flicking a switch that activated the tnt.

"RUN!" Cat shouted. We ran every where, scattering. Our horses were galloping away. I knew we wont be able to get back home without them, so I threw a slowness at them.

Sure enough, the horses were slow down. Then again, it caught the fishes attention to my hiding spot. He pushed a button with sprayed arrows in front of my hiding spot. He kept shooting them even though he knew he can't hit me.

"Come now, little doggy." The fish taunted me from behind the tree."Don't you want to play?"

Just as soon as he said that, it gave me a chance to say what I wanted to say for a long time, for some reason.

"Sorry! I don't really like to play with my food! I eat them directly!" I said, plucking out a strength potion from my belt.

I felt his taunting face turn angry."So you want to eat me, huh?" He said, preparing a tnt cannon. I knew this would happen, so I drank the strength potion and waited for him to throw it at me.

I heard a boom. Now's my chance! I quickly left my hiding spot, caught the tnt with the strength I got from the potion, and threw it back at him.

"Wanna play a dog game? It's called CATCH!" I said as the tnt blew up a tnt cannon of his. Wow. My best comeback ever plus some explosions. Neat!

The fish tank slightly went back. Well, the fish didn't see that coming, huh?

"How on earth was that possible?" The fish stammered, regaining control over the tank. I shrugged as I went back into hiding.

I kept crawling across the grass, trying to track down my friends.

I finally got to them, using my nose to track them. They were behind a big rock. My dogs were there too, suprisingly.

"Good job, HapPy." Cat whispered as she patted me on the back."You just bought us enough time to formulate a plan." She said.

"So, what is the plan?" I asked them. My two dogs tilted their heads.

"Cat, I want you to sneak up behind the tank and steal as much arrows as possible while HapPy distracts it and tries to knock back the tnt to the cannons." Rhelms said quietly. I could hear the sentence, 'Come out' from afar.

"Marek and I will try to take down the tank itself once it's disarmed. Now go." Rhelms said as the party splits up into three groups. I ordered my dogs to follow me, because first of all, they can be useful for annoying things. Second, they can teleport away from danger. And because it's kinda lonely to be by myself, blocking tnt away.

I felt adrenaline inside me. I feel like making fried fish with this fish tank tbing. Man would that be tasty!

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Life is hard these days...