The Nexus - Chapter 2

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"These things... they don't exist. They shouldn't be here. They're not from our world..."
== Chapter 2: The Path of Stories ==
When Jill had ran back, scared out of her mind at what she had seen, she had told many of the villagers. Most of them had laughed and dismissed it. But some had believed her. Some even told her similar stories of their own that had happened within the past month. And that was what scared Jill most.
On the seventh day since the Moobloom incident, Jill was awakened by a sound on her door. Standing there was Abe, one of the boys whom she had told her story to. "You need to come outside," he said. "I saw a ripple in the sky-just like the ones we both saw last month." Upon hearing that, Jill jumped up, racing outside, and indeed, there was a small ripple in the air above the mountain village, slowly growing. For a second she saw the shape of her Moobloom pass through and gasped. More shapes began to appear as the ripple grew even more, and eventually one fell-a tiny purple shard with a small glow. It looked like it had been cut off from something.
More and more things began to fall: Animals, shapes, blocks... the chaos began. A bell rang from the town square. "Take cover!" Screamed a villager as a fireball hit the ground right next to him. Jill and Abe rushed back towards her house, but turned around as they saw it was blocked by a horde of blue, armored creatures. "Find a cave," Abe yelled while running from a piece of the blue ripple. "We need to get to a-" the ripple touched him. His body turned into the same blue pixels that the Moobloom had before disappearing. He began to disappear, and out of his mouth came a voice that was not his: "Find the Path of Stories. Fix this. Fix it-" He was gone.
After that, the world was a blur to Jill. She ran from the rippling barrier and dodged another fireball, hiding behind a stone house and then darting to the nearest cave. Her eyes still partially blurred from a mixture of tears and explosions, she ran down as far as she could, not caring about darkness or monsters or zombies or ripples or stupid fireballs... she wandered into a Dripstone Cave, by now far away from the commotion, but that did not stop her. She continued running, no longer even scared, just running to run away from everything. Running to whatever seemed to be calling her.
Running to the light at the end of the cave, the unnatural light that grew brighter as Jill ran. To the pedestal that held a glowing shard of Diamond, rippling, whispering to her, find the Path of Stories. Walk the Path of Stories. You can fix this.
Walk the Path of Stories. Complete the diamond at the Nexus and seal the broken bonds. Seal what was opened. Mend the broken stories. Find the Path of Stories.
Not knowing what she was doing, Jill touched the diamond. The world exploded into light around her.
And she found herself in a dark hallway, doors on either side, lit by dim Prismarine lamps.
A villager walked through the Mystery Area. It was nightfall, and he was to guard the place for a few hours. He walked along the corridors...
Category:Stories
Category:Withering Heights