Chapter 12

Herobrine stood with no expression outside the city gates, his eyes seemed to flashing from an internal thunderstorm. Ty turned to me. "You know you don't have to do this right?" He said looking at me worriedly, we had bonded like brother and sister. "I have to, who knows what he'll do if I don't." I reply trying to sound unafraid but failing, Ty hugs me and I hug him back. I pull back and smile weakly at him. "I'll try to stay in contact." I say and start walking towards the glitch, I don't look back otherwise I would've burst into tears. But if I had I'd have seen Ty stopping the others from running to me, even Seto who seemed to be even more of a wreck than me.

I stop in front of Herobrine about to speak but he beats me to it. "Take out those contacts, you won't need them where we're going." He says, his voice deep and slightly rough but somehow lilting. I nod and take them out, placing them in their container and slip it back into the bag I had quickly grabbed. Acually Ty had made me grab and get the essentials. "You know who I am and I know what you are, and you don't know the full story about me or my brother." Herobrine said. "What do you mean?" I ask, but he had already turned away and started walking along the plains. I ran and caught up to him just as he stopped behind a large hill, Herobrine grabbed my arm and I felt a tingling sensation running from where he touched me along my body and then I was in a large black space then it vanished and I was facing a huge castle made out of netherrack and netherbrick. "Here we are, the Nether. My home." He said walking up to the castle and opening a door and walking through, I hurried through as well.

Herobrine seemed to be completely ignoring me as we walked through the castle to his throne room, I watched as the wither skeleton guards bowed to him. And to me as we walked past, when we reached the throne room I gasped. The architecture, it's amazing the roof is is quite tall with netherbrick, quartz and netherrack lining the floor and walls. "It is pretty impressive, I guess." Herobrine said as he made his way to a side door leading off from the throne room, I followed him and inside was another corridor. But we weren't in it long, just long enough to walk to a door which he then opened to reveal an almost pitch black room (Which I could see fine in) that was filled with books, pillows littered the floor along with the bed which was gold and black canopy, some posters about my favourite books and shows were on the walls, the Hufflepuff crest hung above my bedhead. "I-I don't know what to say." I mumble, staring at the room.

"I tried to get it as close to your room in the castle, also I'll send someone to come get you when I'm going to explain everything." He says, I nod and step into the room. Herobrine closes the doors behind me and I'm left to my own thoughts as company, I hear a soft mewling sound and spot a small tiger cub on a pillow. I crouch down and pet it gently wondering what it wanted, I pick it up and gently turn it on it's back to determine it's gender. The cub is female and I turn her back over and walk over to the bed, setting her down and stare at her wondering what a good name would be. "Meriddian, Raceesh, Isabelle?" I mumble watching her try to stand up on her feet, I can't determine her coat colour thanks to the darkness I light up a glowing orb and let it float and light the room while I watch the cub. She seems to be on a light amber colour with the normal stripe coloration. "I guess I'll name you Amber then." I say sitting down on the bed and laughing when Amber stumbles over and noses her way into my lap.

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I sit up hearing a knock on my door, I gently move Amber off my lap and stand up but placing a bookmark in the book I'm reading 'Sherlock Holmes' and walk over to the door. I open it and see a creeper standing in front of it, one of his feet posed to knock again. "Hi, I'm Cooper and Herobrine's this way." He says, mumbling slightly. "Okay." I nod to him to show me the way, he obliges and I follow him back into the throne room and out another door into another corridor. We walk for a bit down a few more corridors until we reach a door that Cooper stops in front of, he knocks and opens revealing an annoyed looked blaze who the softens seeing who it is. "Come in come in." She says, the blaze sounded female but I wasn't sure. Cooper enters and I follow, giving the room a glance it can be said this room looked very much like a study. Presumably Herobrine's who seemed to be throwing darts at a painting across the room with Notch's portrait on it, he looks up after hearing the door open. "Thank you Matilda." He says to her and she floats behind his chair then out the window that had been hidden. "You, uh wanted to tell me something?" I asked timidly, he nods then clears his throat.

"You know the story of Notch, Steve and me?" I nod. "Well it didn't happen exactly like that, basically I was with them on a hunting trip for a few days and I had just helped them bag a couple endermen for the pearls when one enderman who teleported behind us, grabbed me because I was the slowest then teleported away. I blacked out then I awoke to the sound of lava deep underground in a flimsy cage, I tried all I could to escape it but it had seemed I had lost my touch at breaking things.
I don't know how long I was in there for, but after an age I heard shouting and then Steve and Notch came bursting through the door, they gasped when they saw me but let me out all the same and told me what happened after I had been grabbed. They also told me my eyes were now glowing white, a few months after that Notch somehow got his own powers and resolved to make this world a better place.  By destroying the mobs I had become friend with in secret, I tried to stop him then it got worse until I fought him and lost. Notch then threw me down here until I managed to escape several times until he allowed me out unless I started blowing stuff up.
Which I did quite a lot eventually he got sick of me exploding things and locked me down here where I tried to remove my powers and failed but creating what turned you and the volunteers into brines, the first tests came out as halfbloods. Savage animals that sort of thing, until I realised I had to use my own DNA in it then it worked and I led a revolution which ultimately failed.
Notch then locked me down here until I found out the brines were still alive and creating their own civilization, only a few brines live topside the others are deep underground. and never come up. The ones topside died out ages ago and you're the only one who managed to live a fairly normal life, also I'm presumed to be dead up there so if you go up don't blurt out I'm alive okay?" Herobrine says with a light grin.

I stare, it's all I can possibly do. "Also, I want to train you on brines and how their magic works. You're aloud to leave at anytime, I won't hold you here. The myths about me are false, I'm a nice guy though my brother begs to differ." He adds still smiling. "I'd love t-to be trained Herobrine." I murmur, a smile started to grow. Not many people can say the met Herobrine without fainting I can guarantee that.