WhoOooo ik this is short, but I need to get it outtttt

School can suKK

(I recommend looping le above music, I listened to it on loop whilst I wrote lol... Don't know if it really fits and I might use it again ok don't judge me it's heckin gOod)

Enjoy!!

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RECAP

          My eyes locked with another man's. He was tall, his head shaven, and a black beard framed his mouth. Dark eyes filled with...concern...bored into my own. His form radiated power, it far outlasted my own, and caused dread and crushing guilt to fill my mind, my very soul.

          He...was so familiar...

          A searing headache seemed to split my head in two, and then all sight vanished from me as I swept Ava and myself away from the fortress, landing in a cool, dark cave.

          I immediately twisted, feeling my legs give out, forcing myself to land on my back so as not to crush Ava. She yelped, but I barely heard it as a static noise filled my ears, forcing my eyes shut. Ava's panicked voice, sounding as though coming from behind a door, reached me only moments before I blacked out.

          And then...the visions began.

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Shattered Memories

Far away, underground in a cave with no entrance...

HEROBRINE'S POV

          I was asleep...and yet all the sensations my body felt screamed that I was awake. I heard tall grass brush my legs as it waved in the warm breeze caressing my skin. Vast stretches of impossibly bright grassland stretched before me, all rippling with life. Dotted in the grass were strange trees, under which wandered animals I had never seen before...and yet...I knew exactly what they were.

          The sky above me was a rich blue, and the sun seemed to hang still in the sky, glowing with a pure, warm yellow. In the distance was a massive building of white stone, with pillars stretching taller than the trees.

          This place...I knew this place...

          The answer flashed upon me in an instant, and it rocked me, so I nearly fell.

         It was the place...the place of my birth...my creation...

          A warm hand settled on my shoulder, and I jumped, glancing down at it. Oh...that's right...

          The hand turned me, and I found myself face-to-face with the man that had appeared in the Fortress...only now did I realize he was no mere man.

          Dark eyes bored into my own, holding me still with their intensity. His dark brows creased a little when he caught sight of my eyes, and a feeling of insignificance, of guilt and fear, washed over me. No...that wasn't right...I should have felt nothing...I remember now, I should be feeling nothing!

          The man murmured, "Strange...", his deep voice banishing all feeling away, drawing me back into this memory. However, he smiled, the black beard framing his mouth waving gently in the breeze when he noticed my expression, "Worry not, young one...I will explain what happened soon enough."

          Turning and keeping a hand on my shoulder, he gestured to a huge building of gold and white and oak in the distance, "Come...I will tell you everything you wish to know...and more about your home. There is no need to run off."

          And then, though I suddenly knew exactly what was about to happen, what should have happened, everything faded to black, consuming me, shredding away this place of warmth and safety.

          Now...another memory was beginning.

          This memory...judging from the fear pounding through my heart, the guilt buzzing into my mind, the sickness pooling in my stomach...this memory would not be a pleasant one to endure...

          Oh no...oh no no please not this one again...not this nightmare...

          The scene, so familiar, and so dreaded, burst upon me. Just like all the other times, I found myself standing in a small room, lit in gentle yellows from the afternoon sun peeking through the windows...

          But the scene it lit up so calmly was one of horror... Blood splattered on the walls and floors told of the struggle that surely happened here... Against my will, my eyes flicked to where I knew the body was, where it would be... Again, I felt the weight in my hand...the weight of a bloodstained pickaxe.

          Shock struck me in the chest like an avalanche of boulders as I focused on the face...a face that was always blurred...

          But...now...

          ...the face...was no longer indistinct...

          It...it was...

          ...his...

          I crumbled to my knees, a wail of terror, of pain and regret and angered guilt tearing from my throat in a ragged scream of agony. This wasn't how it was supposed to be!!

          And yet...it was... Everything the old nightmare had lacked...was here...

          Spiraling into the dark, cold abyss again, I began to beg for relief from this grief, began to understand why I longed for ignorance over this knowledge... What had I done...

          What had I done...

          Reality cracked and broke around me, thin air shattering like glass, dark void peering through the breaks. Like tendrils, the darkness reached out to me, and dragged me under again...dragged me away from the scene I now remembered...one I had tried so hard to forget for so, so long...

          I was pulled under, torn away from that place of pain...and thrown into a new place that I recognized, though I begged not to.

          No...I would not be allowed to rest...not for a long time...

          For my memories had found me again.

          And there was no escaping them now...

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AVA WOODS' POV

          Tossing and turning, the all-powerful, feared legend, Herobrine, cried out again in his sleep, uttering indistinguishable pleas under his breath. Grimacing, I again tried to press a bit of cloth, torn from my tunic and soaked in a small puddle, to his heated forehead, which now lacked that royal-looking band I had seen him wearing several times. Thrashing a bit, he bared his teeth, arching and growling like some cornered wolf.

       It had been...several hours at least since he'd dragged us both here...I hadn't been counting. He'd...teleported us somehow, making me feel a bit sick and dizzy, and as soon as we arrived here, he'd collapsed, barely managing to turn midair so he didn't land on me...for which I was grateful. He was...really heavy.

          Now, hours or maybe a day later, I still sat here, trapped in a dark place with...him. I was cold, terribly hungry, forced to drink water from a puddle fed by a tiny, underground stream...and completely alone with the powerful man who had nearly killed me so long ago...yet had saved me from certain death when I least expected it.

          It was dark. Completely, and utterly dark...I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. The only light source was dim and flickering...a pale, white light peering out from under Herobrine's eyelids. It lit up his face in a moon-like silver, barely illuminating the harsh lines etched into his face, the sweat glistening off his skin from his inner torment. Despite the fear and slight nausea induced by his state...I was...curious to see what he saw. There was so much he never explained...so much hidden in his mind...

          However, I would trade a chance at seeing every little secret for at least a promise to get out of this dark...what I thought was a cave...alive. I had explored it a little with my hands, going as far as I dared from the shaking, muttering man before me, patting the stones, looking for loose rocks, anything to point to a way out. I forced myself to look for at least fifteen minutes in each spot, despite the pains in my spine, going over and over the same places, looking for any little clues. There was fresh air here...there should have been an opening nearby...but nothing gave it away.

          Uttering another groan, the man responsible for bringing us here tried to force himself onto his side, curl up and protect his head with his arms. Sighing, my hands trembling from hunger, I tried to force a calming tone into my voice, laying a hand on his upper back, trying to soothe him by rubbing his tensed muscles with little, circular motions. Praying quietly that he wouldn't lash out, I scooted closer, wincing at the pain in my spine, once again reminding me of how truly helpless I was.

          He relaxed, if only a fraction, still panting raggedly as he slept on. I would need to formulate a plan to wake him soon...I wouldn't survive long with nothing to eat...

~~~~~Hours later~~~~~

HEROBRINE'S POV

           I shot awake with a gasp as the void pulled me under again, after what felt like the thousandth memory. This one had ended...on a happier note...though the guilt that still clung to me drowned most of it out. So, this is what a memory relapse felt like...I was a little surprised that I knew what it was.

          Panting, shivering a little, my scattered, panicked mind scrambled for answers as I lay there, paralyzed, flat on my back. Where was I? Oh, right...I had fled here. How long have I been out? No way to know... What was that noise?

          Blinking, I turned my head a little, towards the source of the soft, regular sounds of a heartbeat, coupled with the deep, even breaths of a sleeping human. Right...I had taken her with me...

         A little fear wracked me, subsided. She could be starving... Her memory relapse had taken days...and I could feel mine was only beginning. Soon, I would be dragged into my mind and forced to accept all the wrongs I had done...

          Shuddering, forcing the thoughts away from me, I held out a shaking arm, forcing myself to use as little energy as possible and summon some food and water for her. Using up large amounts of energy could alert others of my whereabouts...others I did not want to face...not yet...not in this state...

          She didn't even stir as I laid the food beside her, so deep was her slumber. It was...probably better she did not wake... She was trapped in here with me until my memories had all been awoken within my own head...it would be best if she thought herself safe...it would lessen her chances of killing me to ensure her own survival... Then again, I was the only one who could get us out of here...buried as we were in a branched-off place in an undiscovered cavern...she wouldn't hurt me...without risking her own life.

          Groaning softly, I lifted my hands to my head, squeezing my temples, dimly noticing my diamond and metal circlet was gone. Agh...why did I think this way? She could have...should have...killed me when I collapsed before her, after being beaten within an inch of my life, after I'd nearly torn myself apart to flee those hunters. Why would she kill me now...after refusing to do so at the most opportune moment?

          No...this human...had mercy...something I was just beginning to remember... She gave me mercy when I least deserved it...and still gave it freely here and now. I would have no need to fear her...

          ...perhaps...instead...I could begin to trust again.

          As my thoughts wandered in a more pleasant direction, that old darkness began to have other thoughts. Before I was ready, it again appeared in the corners of my vision, preparing to force back the memories I had blocked out of pain and fear, out of guilt and anguish. Quickly spreading over my sight, enveloping my body and chest, my heart with cold, it again forced me into unconsciousness, opening again into another place I remembered...one I did not want to remember...

           Steeling myself, I gave up my body and mind to the memories. No matter how I resisted...I could not escape... Until I had remembered everything from my past...

          ...I would be trapped...captive in my own mind...

          ...until I awoke, burdened with every last ugly detail of my former life.

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wOOooHOo

I am sO excited for mOar aCtion, but we gotta gEt there ay?

(ah heck don't I have another short story? Aaaghhhh I gotta focussssssssssssssssssssss)

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