The Nexus - Chapter 3

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Hunters - 6 years after the Herobrine War - The Mystery Area
== Chapter 3: Through Time ==
Jill stood up and looked around frantically, searching for any hint of where she was. She turned to a door which said "PORTAL," then another one reading "EXPERIMENTAL CRAFTING - PENDING." Still no clue what had happened. All she knew was that she was to "find the Path of Stories" and "fix the broken bonds." Whatever that meant.
A villager walked through the Mystery Area.
Footsteps sounded in the hallway, getting louder every second. Jill panicked, opening her mouth to yell for help...
An ethereal hand grabbed her, pulling her up into the air and putting a hand over her mouth before she could scream. "Aren't you supposed to be fixing the broken stories? You looked like you were trying to destroy them!"
"Huh?" she replied, looking up at the person who had grabbed her. He slightly resembled Pete, who she had only seen in pictures, but Jill could tell he was a Player. What was a floating Player doing in this place?
"Do you even know what you're doing? The Path of Stories? The shards? The broken Diamond at the Nexus?"
"Um... no... what is it? And what is this place?"
"Okay..." the Player sighed. "I probably don't have enough time for this, but I'll try to tell you. The stories-each and every person's stories-they've always been connected. Feeding off each other. Intertwining with each other. But there have also always been boundaries. Bound together by the Diamond of Stories at the Nexus. But the Diamond is shattered, the pieces flung into all different stories. The bonds are broken, and stories are leaking into each other, causing havoc. I have no idea why, but you must be one of the ones chosen to fix the Diamond. You need to walk the Path of Stories, collecting Diamond pieces to eventually bring them together at the Nexus. I have the same task, and I've already collected seven shards, including the one from your world. Here, you can take it. For reference, I guess.
Oh yeah, and don't show yourself to anyone. That'll only break the bonds more"
"..."
"But I have to go. We'll meet again soon, I hope. So go. Find this story's shard. Bye."
"Wait... who are you? Where are you from? And you never told me where I am..."
Jill fell back down onto the stone floor. Time seemed to have slowed down when she was up there with the Player, for the person walking had only just passed her spot and was now examining a door with a label she could not read from that distance.
It was nightfall, and he was to guard the place for a few hours. He walked along the corridors...
Slowly, Jill crept along the strange floor, moving towards the door and the figure.
He stopped at a door that read 'PENDING"...
The stranger went inside, and Jill continued to walk through the hall. She could now read the label, and it said 'PENDING.' Looking inside, she could see all sorts of objects and shelves. One of the objects, which the person seemed to be interested in, was a strange, glowing purple cube that reminded her of the cubes from the Herobrine War that she had heard about in stories.
...to examine the new addition to the section...
As Jill came even closer she could see the person was a man, wearing a strange uniform with a symbol on it. A symbol she thought she had seen before. What was it? Not the Hunters... not anything from her village... it was something from around Ironstand. What was it?
Wait... could it be...
Whoosh. The sound coming from inside the room, although it was barely audible, seemed to stop her thinking entirely. Stunned, Jill looked towards where it was coming from, in doing so creeping right up to the "Pending" door itself. And what she saw, she could barely comprehend.
Category:Stories
Category:Withering Heights