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By the time the sky began to lighten, we could hear waves crashing against rocks and smell the salty air of the sea. I smiled. We kept walking next to the river until it ended in a waterfall over the side of a cliff, falling into the sea far below on our right.
I walked to the cliff edge and looked over carefully, crouching, feeling my stomach plummet although I hardly had my head over the edge. The sun was just peeking over the horizon, a sliver of light reflected in the water, and it was beautiful.
Stre came next to me and looked over, smiling. "You say you're a coward?" she asked, eyebrows raised.
I nodded mutely. So I could look over a cliff. I had still abandoned the village and left people there to die.
"Okay, are we just gonna stand here and stare at the water or are we gonna keep going?" asked Thomas.
I looked up. "Sorry. Yeah, let's keep going."
Dark, Cool, and Ang were riding, while Thomas, Stre and I walked. The clop-clop-clop of the horses' hooves against the stone and the soft, distance sound of waves crashing on rocks far below formed peaceful background noise, at odds with the idea of fighting stronger-than-should-exist monsters.
I frowned, noticing movement near the base of one of the mountains. For a moment, I thought I saw someone jogging up it, but the person paused and disappeared almost immediately. Maybe it was my imagination?
Then I noticed something else, on the side of the cliffs. It looked like there were narrow steps leading from a piece of cliff jutting out from the rest of the land, passing near that ledge, going down to the waterfall. It was hard to tell if they were really stairs, since they appeared carved into the stone, but they were a bit too even and uniform to be natural.
Ang must have noticed them too, because she pointed and asked, "Cool, Dark, are those steps on the cliff?"
The others all looked where Ang was pointing. After a bit of explaining where to look when they didn't see the steps at first, Cool turned back to her and said, "Looks like it. But I dunno, it's not like we've been over there before."
"Oh," said Ang. "Hm, I wondered if maybe you'd made them."
Dark shook his head.
"So... are we going to check them out?" I asked.
"Sure, why not?" said Stre, and began walking towards the little cliff peninsula.
When we got there and could see the steps more closely, it was obvious that they were manmade and not natural. We had to wedge a post into a pile of rocks near the top and tie to the horses to it, because the steps were far too narrow and steep for them to walk on. In fact, we had to go in single file. I was second, with Ang in front and Thomas behind me. Well, Max was between us, with Thomas gripping his collar. I'd gotten about six or seven steps down when an unfamiliar girl's voice said, "Okay, stop."
We all looked up. Dark was at the back, high enough to look across on top, but he only shrugged and shook his head. Max growled at the edge of the cliff.
The girl sighed. "Just... just give it a few seconds."
We waited there awkwardly for some time. I counted the seconds in my head. When I reached twelve, a cream-coloured sweater and denim shorts appeared hovering over the cliff, positioned as if someone was wearing them. A moment later, the wearer became visible as well. She had long, wavy black hair and indigo eyes.
"Alright, there," she said. "Stop. Nobody was supposed to notice the steps. And I've never even seen people here before. Who are you?"
After a quick round of introductions, the girl said, "Call me Cheesy."
"How were you invisible?" I asked. "And were you watching us?"
She held up a glass bottle. "Potion. Know what, I'll show you. Let me get in front."
Dark, Cool, and Stre went up on top to let Cheesy pass, while Thomas, Ang and I just pressed ourselves back against the cliff wall.
"And no, I wasn't watching you," Cheesy said as we walked. "I just think it's safer to use the potion when I go out, with all the weirdness going on with monsters, and then I saw you guys coming over here so I had to come too. I was keeping an eye on you, but it's not like I was following you around."
The steps went down far, nearly to the water. The spray from waves crashing against the rocks made them slick and slippery. We kept going... and then we reached the waterfall. The steps just ended there, a few paces before, becoming a straight path instead. The water pounded on it and rushed over it with such force and speed that trying to go further could only be suicide.
Cheesy turned back and smiled, then felt along the cliff face with her hand. Then she pressed down on whatever it was she had found. There was a sudden sound of pistons working, and a piece of the cliff face stuck out to block the waterfall, like a small roof. Cheesy hurried to the other side, turning to face us just as the stone roof retracted into the cliff face again.
"Press the button," she called, over the noise of the waterfall beating on the path. "Probably best if you come over one at a time."
Ang felt around where Cheesy had pressed the button, and when the waterfall was blocked again she hurried across. I looked closely at the button. It was small, rectangular, and made of stone, so it blended in with the rest of the cliff. I pressed it and dashed across, as much as anybody could dash on a slippery stone path from which she could fall into rough water.
One by one, the others followed, until we were all on the other side. Then Cheesy pressed another button, and a hidden entrance like the one to Ang and Stre's bunker opened next to it.
Inside, it had the feeling of what had once been a natural cave, but the floor and ceiling were too flat. Cheesy must have done that. The ceiling was low enough that no Endermen could teleport in, and there were no tunnels leading from the cave that I could see. Either this was all there was to the cave or they'd been blocked off. At the back there was a counter covered with potions and brewing equipment, and in one of the corners by the front was her crafting and smelting area. Around a corner in the cave, I could see a row of chests, and her bed was probably back there too. Neat and organised, unlike my own house had been.
"So, why are you here?" Cheesy asked bluntly.
We all launched into the explanation. By now, the protocol was obvious. We say, Hi, we're crazy people who think we can put an end to the monster weirdness. And then Cheesy would say, Oh, cool, I'll join you. And then we'd all get back to traveling to our deaths.
When Thomas finished up the explanation, Cheesy nodded and said, "Well, I'd like to help. I can come too, right?"
Yep. Knew it.
"Sure," Ang said.
"Great," Cheesy said with a smile. "By the way-" She paused to pick up two bottles full of bright red liquid. "You two should probably have these," she said, giving one to me and one to Ang. "Potions of healing. For the burns."
"Thanks," we said, simultaneously, and drank them. Immediately my shoulder felt weird for a few seconds and then normal again, no pain. I tried to look back to see it but couldn't, and probably looked like an idiot as I did.
Cheesy smiled. "No problem, she said. "Anyway, I think I'll bring my potions stuff, since you guys don't have any, do you? We'll probably need it. I'll pack what I can and then I guess we get going. Or you could take a break here if you guys want." She began to shove the potion bottles and one of the brewing stands into a pack, and put on armour over her clothes.
"You don't mind if we stop here for a bit?" Thomas asked.
"That's what I said," Cheesy replied.
And we got back to traveling to our deaths once the sun had risen.
-----
There wasn't much happening in this chapter or the last one, really, but the next few chapters are pretty important... we learn about what's causing monsters to become stronger. :O And Cheesy, I don't know how you are with potions in Minecraft normally, but you're the potions expert in this story. It will be this way. Also, yes, we just trust you immediately when you give Ang and me potions to drink, which for all we know are poison. Psh, everybody's a nice kind person in this world and everybody can be trusted because who would ever betray people they met that very day?
...'Course that's not a hint of something to come.
Concrit welcome, blah blah blah, proper concrit, I say this every time I don't think I need to say it again.
Same goes for being tagged: if you want an alert when new chapters are posted, just say so and I'll tag you! And hopefully the alerts don't ditch everybody again, like last time. I think only DARKDRAGON532 and Strelitzia got an alert last chapter, and I can't figure out why that happened.
If you haven't seen the previous chapters, you can read Chapter 1 here > https://brokenlens.xyz/forums/threads/our-world-begins-to-fall-chapter-1.24551/
People in this chapter > @angsk8 @Strelitzia @XThomasXPlayzX @CoolGuy81 @DARKDRAGON532 @cheesyunicorn
People who asked for an alert > @MagicMiner684 @LightningFire96 @Ice_Hatake
And here's Chapter 8 >
https://brokenlens.xyz/forums/threads/our-world-begins-to-fall-chapter-8.26901/
I walked to the cliff edge and looked over carefully, crouching, feeling my stomach plummet although I hardly had my head over the edge. The sun was just peeking over the horizon, a sliver of light reflected in the water, and it was beautiful.
Stre came next to me and looked over, smiling. "You say you're a coward?" she asked, eyebrows raised.
I nodded mutely. So I could look over a cliff. I had still abandoned the village and left people there to die.
"Okay, are we just gonna stand here and stare at the water or are we gonna keep going?" asked Thomas.
I looked up. "Sorry. Yeah, let's keep going."
Dark, Cool, and Ang were riding, while Thomas, Stre and I walked. The clop-clop-clop of the horses' hooves against the stone and the soft, distance sound of waves crashing on rocks far below formed peaceful background noise, at odds with the idea of fighting stronger-than-should-exist monsters.
I frowned, noticing movement near the base of one of the mountains. For a moment, I thought I saw someone jogging up it, but the person paused and disappeared almost immediately. Maybe it was my imagination?
Then I noticed something else, on the side of the cliffs. It looked like there were narrow steps leading from a piece of cliff jutting out from the rest of the land, passing near that ledge, going down to the waterfall. It was hard to tell if they were really stairs, since they appeared carved into the stone, but they were a bit too even and uniform to be natural.
Ang must have noticed them too, because she pointed and asked, "Cool, Dark, are those steps on the cliff?"
The others all looked where Ang was pointing. After a bit of explaining where to look when they didn't see the steps at first, Cool turned back to her and said, "Looks like it. But I dunno, it's not like we've been over there before."
"Oh," said Ang. "Hm, I wondered if maybe you'd made them."
Dark shook his head.
"So... are we going to check them out?" I asked.
"Sure, why not?" said Stre, and began walking towards the little cliff peninsula.
When we got there and could see the steps more closely, it was obvious that they were manmade and not natural. We had to wedge a post into a pile of rocks near the top and tie to the horses to it, because the steps were far too narrow and steep for them to walk on. In fact, we had to go in single file. I was second, with Ang in front and Thomas behind me. Well, Max was between us, with Thomas gripping his collar. I'd gotten about six or seven steps down when an unfamiliar girl's voice said, "Okay, stop."
We all looked up. Dark was at the back, high enough to look across on top, but he only shrugged and shook his head. Max growled at the edge of the cliff.
The girl sighed. "Just... just give it a few seconds."
We waited there awkwardly for some time. I counted the seconds in my head. When I reached twelve, a cream-coloured sweater and denim shorts appeared hovering over the cliff, positioned as if someone was wearing them. A moment later, the wearer became visible as well. She had long, wavy black hair and indigo eyes.
"Alright, there," she said. "Stop. Nobody was supposed to notice the steps. And I've never even seen people here before. Who are you?"
After a quick round of introductions, the girl said, "Call me Cheesy."
"How were you invisible?" I asked. "And were you watching us?"
She held up a glass bottle. "Potion. Know what, I'll show you. Let me get in front."
Dark, Cool, and Stre went up on top to let Cheesy pass, while Thomas, Ang and I just pressed ourselves back against the cliff wall.
"And no, I wasn't watching you," Cheesy said as we walked. "I just think it's safer to use the potion when I go out, with all the weirdness going on with monsters, and then I saw you guys coming over here so I had to come too. I was keeping an eye on you, but it's not like I was following you around."
The steps went down far, nearly to the water. The spray from waves crashing against the rocks made them slick and slippery. We kept going... and then we reached the waterfall. The steps just ended there, a few paces before, becoming a straight path instead. The water pounded on it and rushed over it with such force and speed that trying to go further could only be suicide.
Cheesy turned back and smiled, then felt along the cliff face with her hand. Then she pressed down on whatever it was she had found. There was a sudden sound of pistons working, and a piece of the cliff face stuck out to block the waterfall, like a small roof. Cheesy hurried to the other side, turning to face us just as the stone roof retracted into the cliff face again.
"Press the button," she called, over the noise of the waterfall beating on the path. "Probably best if you come over one at a time."
Ang felt around where Cheesy had pressed the button, and when the waterfall was blocked again she hurried across. I looked closely at the button. It was small, rectangular, and made of stone, so it blended in with the rest of the cliff. I pressed it and dashed across, as much as anybody could dash on a slippery stone path from which she could fall into rough water.
One by one, the others followed, until we were all on the other side. Then Cheesy pressed another button, and a hidden entrance like the one to Ang and Stre's bunker opened next to it.
Inside, it had the feeling of what had once been a natural cave, but the floor and ceiling were too flat. Cheesy must have done that. The ceiling was low enough that no Endermen could teleport in, and there were no tunnels leading from the cave that I could see. Either this was all there was to the cave or they'd been blocked off. At the back there was a counter covered with potions and brewing equipment, and in one of the corners by the front was her crafting and smelting area. Around a corner in the cave, I could see a row of chests, and her bed was probably back there too. Neat and organised, unlike my own house had been.
"So, why are you here?" Cheesy asked bluntly.
We all launched into the explanation. By now, the protocol was obvious. We say, Hi, we're crazy people who think we can put an end to the monster weirdness. And then Cheesy would say, Oh, cool, I'll join you. And then we'd all get back to traveling to our deaths.
When Thomas finished up the explanation, Cheesy nodded and said, "Well, I'd like to help. I can come too, right?"
Yep. Knew it.
"Sure," Ang said.
"Great," Cheesy said with a smile. "By the way-" She paused to pick up two bottles full of bright red liquid. "You two should probably have these," she said, giving one to me and one to Ang. "Potions of healing. For the burns."
"Thanks," we said, simultaneously, and drank them. Immediately my shoulder felt weird for a few seconds and then normal again, no pain. I tried to look back to see it but couldn't, and probably looked like an idiot as I did.
Cheesy smiled. "No problem, she said. "Anyway, I think I'll bring my potions stuff, since you guys don't have any, do you? We'll probably need it. I'll pack what I can and then I guess we get going. Or you could take a break here if you guys want." She began to shove the potion bottles and one of the brewing stands into a pack, and put on armour over her clothes.
"You don't mind if we stop here for a bit?" Thomas asked.
"That's what I said," Cheesy replied.
And we got back to traveling to our deaths once the sun had risen.
-----
There wasn't much happening in this chapter or the last one, really, but the next few chapters are pretty important... we learn about what's causing monsters to become stronger. :O And Cheesy, I don't know how you are with potions in Minecraft normally, but you're the potions expert in this story. It will be this way. Also, yes, we just trust you immediately when you give Ang and me potions to drink, which for all we know are poison. Psh, everybody's a nice kind person in this world and everybody can be trusted because who would ever betray people they met that very day?
...'Course that's not a hint of something to come.
Concrit welcome, blah blah blah, proper concrit, I say this every time I don't think I need to say it again.
Same goes for being tagged: if you want an alert when new chapters are posted, just say so and I'll tag you! And hopefully the alerts don't ditch everybody again, like last time. I think only DARKDRAGON532 and Strelitzia got an alert last chapter, and I can't figure out why that happened.
If you haven't seen the previous chapters, you can read Chapter 1 here > https://brokenlens.xyz/forums/threads/our-world-begins-to-fall-chapter-1.24551/
People in this chapter > @angsk8 @Strelitzia @XThomasXPlayzX @CoolGuy81 @DARKDRAGON532 @cheesyunicorn
People who asked for an alert > @MagicMiner684 @LightningFire96 @Ice_Hatake
And here's Chapter 8 >
https://brokenlens.xyz/forums/threads/our-world-begins-to-fall-chapter-8.26901/
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ur a fast type I guess and KEWL STORY
