Fawn's POV

"Well, that took a bit longer than expected." someone said, and I opened my eyes to see everyone staring at me.

"WHat?" I mumbled.

Sparrow counted off his fingers, one by one. "Well, to begin with, you were the first one to go into the Wither Kingdom, and here we are, waiting for you, mind that detail, for what is it now?"

"Umm, I think it's been an hour." Kai whispered. 

"An hour!" Sparrow finished triumphantly. "Where have you been?!"

"Uh, I really can't remember anything at the moment." I replied, scratching my head thoughtfully.

"Nothing?" Angel asked, flapping his wings agitatedly. "Seriously, nothing?"

"Nothing!" I said quickly, wishing to hurry up the conversation. Honestly, who want's to talk about memory, when you could go talk to the famed Wither King! "For the last time, I don't know!"

"Okay!" Sparrow muttered. "Fine, fine, fine, whatever."

"Well, you kinda started off this." I muttered. "But whatever.."

"Hmmm.." Leo said, fiddling around with phone and playing Flappy Zombie. "Oh what now?"

"You should feel ashamed, pure shame..." Cara said, slapping the device out of Leo's hands.

"Wha-t!" he exclaimed. "That was my new Skelly-Phone 3! The new edition comes out in a loooooong time!"

"You get a new one, deal with it." Cara muttered.  

"Oh..." Leo said dejectedly. "Fine. The Wither King requests you all wears tuxedos before entering the throne room.

"Wut." we all said together. "In. The. Nether."

"Well, we are in the Nether, so what are you supposed to say?" Sparrow stated, making a point.

"Seriously?" I exclaimed. "Seriously!"

He went into a local store and pulled up a bunch of tuxedos, even one that Angel could wear. Which, made Angel hiss in hatred and blow torched the tuxedo, and the remains of black ashes swirled in the hot air of the Nether.

"I am not going to wear that." Angel choked out. "No. I am perfectly content with staying outside. Besides, it's not like I have anything now."

"Well, I'm not going to spend another 300 diamonds for a suit that large again, so I suppose you can stay outside."  Leo said slowly. "But, you'll have a couple guards supervising you."

"Sure." Angel said, and trotted toward the front of the palace.

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We were all in our tuxs, and boy did we look absolutely ridiculous in them. It made us look like businessmen, which in a sense we were, and honestly, did the Wither King have something about us he didn't like or something, because I was so sure he made us wear these, things to make him laugh at us and mock us.

"Well, I guess you are all ready to go in." Leo said, trying to put a straight face on, but couldn't manage and laughed at us. "You guys all look so ridiculous!

"I am aware of that fact." I said, glaring at Leonard. "Are we going in, or do we need to take you to the paramedics so you won't die of laughter?"

"Ok, ok.." Leo said, wiping the remains of laughter away from his face. "I'll take you in."

He nodded to the palace guards, with their iron helmets and red feathers. Long, iron-edged swords stood by their sides, and they didn't seem to fooling around, just keeping their faces straight.

"He's waiting for you." the wither skeleton said gruffly. "Good luck."

Angel stood with the guards, and watched as we went in, whispering us good luck and complimenting us on our new looks. Not like we needed to be reminded anymore, and I playfully shoved him away, and threatened to force Leonardo to get another suit tailored for him, and immediately shut up.

The nether brick fortress was massive on the outside, and looked amazing from the inside as well. Lava poured alongside the corners of walls, patches of netherwart in patches in between. Dozens of blazes, pigmen, and wither skeleton walked along the pathways, holding assorted objects. Some took a glance at us, and burst out laughing. If only I had my powers right about now, I'd love to wipe those grins off their faces. Argh, why that Vortex have to assign this quest, why!

We walked up to a massive iron door, inlaid with treasures of Minecraft, such as emeralds, diamonds, redstone, gold, and so many more minerals. Obviously, that was probably only an ounce of the treasure the Wither King had, and that did sound like something I would like to do in spare time, but right now, we had to speak to the Wither King, now. 

Ever since we destroyed the Nether Portal, I had that ounce of fear. I had felt like Notch was coming. Before we blew the Nether portal, I saw a glimpse of Notch running toward the portal in hopes of catching us. Obviously, we had made it out, but it was still a bit worrisome especially since it was Notch. There was no telling of what he would do.

"Well, it's time to go in." Leonard said. "Any last words?"

All of us held our eyes were opened wide in shock until Leo laughed at us again. 

"Oh, your faces!" Leo laughed. "Oh well, good luck talking to the King. I've heard he's very hard to convince."

"Well, we'll take our chances." I said, and we walked into the open doors into the hall of the Wither King.