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As Michaelmillion soared towards the ground below, he realized that this was the end.

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Michaelmillion watched helplessly as clouds passed him by.Another roar echoed from the dragon above him. As the ground grew ever so closer,Michaelmillion's fears became more real. Just a few more meters until the worries and pain were over.
Suddenly, only a few feet from the ground, a large crack suddenly appeared, ripping the main capitol road in two. As Michaelmillion came closer, he realized that this was not a random earthquake. As he started to descend further, Michaelmillion looked up to find the top of the opening starting to close up. As He was thrown down even farther, Michaelmillion saw that the sides of the chasm were starting to come closer also. As he tried to flip around to get a better look of the situation at hand.
Sudden confusion and terror overwhelmed Michaelmillion gazed into a large hole filled with lava. As he began to enter the chamber, Michaelmillion realized that this was no ordinary hole. At the bottom was a large circle of obsidian. It seemed to be a Nether portal on it's side. But this made no sense, Michaelmillion's old wizard friend Reeber had told him that all of the portals had been destroyed to keep pigmen from taking over. But, even worse, this one seemed to be activated. Michaelmillion started to draw close when suddenly he heard the portal sounds. He had only heard a portal once, and that time was when he was destroying it. Not going through it!
Michaelmillion had never been to the Nether, but he had heard frightening tales about giant ghost-like creatures called Ghasts that shot giant flaming fireballs. And then there were the pigmen, horrible mutations of the common zombie and a pig. Then, to make it worse, the fiends actually could handle a sword! What kind of monster uses a weapon besides, of course, the skeletons that were actually starting to rebel against the kingdom. Or, at least whats left of it now that the dragon was on a terrorizing rampage.
Suddenly, Michaelmillion came into contact with the purple stuff that was held withing the black obsidian rocks. As Michaelmillion flew forward, he noticed that his surroundings had changed and he was in a long tube that was made out of the matter in the box that he had just gone through. It had only lasted a few seconds when suddenly he was launched sideways into the liquid-like material. As Michaelmillion twisted around, he was suddenly thrown out into a dim room. All of the walls, floor, and ceiling were made entirely out of a rock that looked like flesh but felt like stone. Michaelmillion turned around to try and go back through the portal when out of thin air, a high pitched scream followed by an explosion knocked him backwards.

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THE NETHER

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Michaelmillion flew through the hazy air for a second until he was thrown into one of the rocks. Trying to get the air back into his flattened lungs, Michaelmillion studied the room after what had just happened. Most of the portal was still intact, but a single piece was missing, making the liquid-filling disappear.