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Warning: This is how far I am. Ok? Another warning: Very long. So long it may fry your brains. Final Warning: BlackRoseO is not responsible for possible brain fry-ance. ----------------------------------------------Long ago in Minecraftia there was a young wizard named WhiteRose. She was brilliant. She could cast many different spells masterfully. One day when she was fourteen, two friendly, young strangers came to her tower seeking help. You see their friend had fallen ill and his condition was worsening. So WhiteRose brewed a cure all potion real quick and went with the two young strangers to their friend. The friend was in his bed and WhiteRose could feel his life essence slipping away. She quickly sat the man up and had him drink the potion. He sat bolt upright and she knew that it had worked. After that the two strangers introduced themselves. The eldest was a 15 year old named Ire. He was skilled with swords and preferred sneak attacks. The younger boy was a 14 year old named Sparrow. He was skilled with a bow and arrows and loved to go head to head combat. Ire and Sparrow were cousins, too. So WhiteRose introduced herself. She told them, "My name is WhiteRose, but you can call me Rose. I use magic as is clear. I do battle magic and healing magic." So the three new friends formed a small group to end the plague in anyway they could.So they set off. They first came to a city underground. They did some errands for the dwarves that lived there. Then they came to a giant city. It was a capital city of Minecraftia. They first went to the castle as WhiteRose was White Mage to the king of her land. The king there had heard of her amazing powers and sent her and her friends on a quest to find the golden orb of his city. The small group found it in a spider's mineshaft not far from town. The orb did look a lot like an apple, though no one said a word. The three friends ran towards the castle and gave the king the golden orb/apple. The king decided to let them stay the night. So trudging towards their rooms they all fell straight to sleep. But sleep is not a good thing when the land is plagued. That night all of them had nothing but nightmares. Sparrow dreamt that his cousin and his new friend were being consumed by monstrous black gunk. They were dying in front of his own eyes but he couldn't move at all. Ire dreamt that he was in the warlock's castle standing over the defeated warlock. Then he turned and saw his cousin and Rose on the floor, dying. But what WhiteRose dreamt was the most horrible. Because she could see the future. Well more like she could see the possibilities of the future, very rarely ever, but there was that chance. Anyway so that night she saw the only three strands of the future; horribly wrong, delightfully good, and a good world with a bad situation. The first strand she saw was the good one. She saw beautiful skies, and a clean fresh forest. In the distance she saw a giant floating city. She knew she and her friends would be the ones to build it. The world was beautiful and clean. Perfectly amazing. The second one she saw was horrid. She saw red firestone everywhere with lakes of lava. That wasn't the worst part. The worst part was the people. There were people in chains everywhere. She glanced over at a tall castle structure. At the top she could see four figures. One was a female with a dirty white robe; the two others were guys, one with a shortsword and one with a bow and arrows. With a shock she realized it was her and her friends. The fourth figure she couldn't quite make out. She saw his staff and knew it was the warlock. She was watching her own death sentence. The future her was going to jump off the top into lava. She looked down as she heard a female screaming on her plummet down. The third strand she saw was almost as happy as the first. Rose saw children having snowball fights and she saw that same sky city only up closer. And it was magnificent. Yet there was a disturbance in the air that only a wizard or mage could sense. Then she was in a mage tower in the clouds. She saw this as the house she would build. She saw a young lady about 13 at the desk in this room. She was quite tall with brown hair and a silver strip in front. She was not wearing a proper Mage cloak but instead was wearing a starry night sky mage shirt and charcoal skinny jeans. This must be one of her descendants! WhiteRose saw the nameplate on the girl's wall and read her name. "BlackRose." WhiteRose liked that name. White heard a knock on the door and so did BlackRose. BlackRose shouted "Come on in guys!" Her music was really loud. Then two young men stepped through the doorway. The tallest shouted "Turn that music down Rose!!! Seriously!!!" So BlackRose turned down the volume. BlackRose said, "Hey guys! It's been a while! What brings you here?" The other one stepped in now and said "We have seen horrible things starting to pop up around Minecraftia. I think we may need to read the scroll from your great grandmother, WhiteRose. The answers to what is coming might be in there." So he walked over to a shelf full of scrolls and picked up the most recent one. He set it on BlackRose's desk and BlackRose read it out loud: 'Granddaughter if you are reading this then your friends have seen the signs and begged you to read this.' She paused for a moment and said "Geez that's creepy how accurate it is." She continued 'Well if that is true then you might want to prepare for a long and epic journey. Because when I and my friends defeated the evil warlock he turned to green slime that sank into the ground. My friends rejoiced, but I knew then what was coming. I knew he would eventually reform and try to conquer Minecraftia again. But now this time, you must defeat him. Good luck, and if you need any help, use the whistle enclosed, me and my friends will come forth, as we are in hiding by the time you read this, and are not dead. Sincerely, your loving great grandmother, WhiteRose.' WhiteRose heard every word of that letter and then she knew what to look for if they killed the warlock. BlackRose looked at the floor and said "If she's still alive, why didn't she come here after my parents died?" WhiteRose saw light blue tears hit the floor and suddenly felt terrible. But as she wasn't really there she couldn't comfort her granddaughter at all. Her friends took care of that. They both sat on the floor with her and they comforted her. They also wept with her as they had no clue their great grandparents were alive also. WhiteRose woke up feeling cold yet sweaty. She felt upset. So she snuck downstairs to get a nice cup of holy water. (Since she was a mage.) She was in the kitchen when she heard some people talking in the dining room. She heard a gruff man's voice say "So where's the master's new portal at, eh?" A young lady's voice said "4 days to the north, under a town called Yatengale." WhiteRose couldn't believe her luck. It was amazing and horrible at the same time! She couldn't get caught now. And yet she knew where the portal was so she and her friends could set off in the morning! Then she heard something horrifying. The man said "Should we kill them now?" The lady said "No the master wants to deal with them himself. He says he has plans with the Mage but I think he should let me keep the archer." At this WhiteRose puked in a nearby trash can. The young lady continued "So all he wants us to do Lrek, is capture and bind them. Ok?" The man said "Ok Deirdre." WhiteRose drunk a little more holy water to charge her magic then destroyed the kitchen door. "Well, well, well what do have here?" Deirdre said. WhiteRose saw that she was about 16. WhiteRose gathered her confidence and said "One, that's a pretty deep well lady. And two I am the White Mage, WhiteRose." The man said "Rose? That's a flower, flower's are harmless!!!! Hahaha!!" So WhiteRose decided to show them both what that flower could do. She thought the spell in her mind and pointed her staff, which had a carved rose on top, at the two fiends and fired. They flew back and through the wall. Rose didn't dare look back as she ran. She ran up to the boys' room and woke them up saying "We've got to go, NOW!!!" Just the tone of her voice woke them up and they ran to get stuff packed. Rose ran across the hall to pack her stuff. Deirdre and Lrek were walking down the hall to Rose's room. She can't be dead but she can be severely hurt. They got half way then heard a voice behind them. "Looking for us?" The three young warriors were waving as Rose muttered a spell. They disappeared in a flash of white light. Deidre swore madly. WhiteRose used all the energy she gained from the holy water on that one teleport. So upon arrival she collapsed from exhaustion. Sparrow carried her to a small village nearby. Ire talked with the village's mayor and he got a small house for free. He also found out they were 2 days north of the castle. He wondered why, but he knew Rose would tell them when she woke up. Rose had a dreamless sleep, which she was thankful for. She woke up and it was daytime. She was in a bed in a bedroom with two other beds. She was shocked to see that Sparrow was in the chair next to her bed, wide awake. He shouted "Ire!!! She's up!!! Bring her some food!!!" She was very hungry so she yelled "Yeah, and get me a buffet while your at it!!!" At that, she and Sparrow both laughed. Then Ire came up with a tray full of delicious food. There was steak and cooked pork and even a cookie. He brought a glass of holy water, too. She gobbled it down and after she was done she tried to get out of her bed. She wobbled then almost fell on the floor, but thankfully Sparrow caught her. Rose said "Oh no! I can't walk and have barely enough magic to simply sharpen a pencil! How are we going to get anywhere?!?!" The two boys silently agreed on something. "One of us will have to help you walk." Sparrow said. "Ok then, help me walk now." Sparrow went to her side and wrapped his arm around her neck. "Ok now walk." Rose took a first test step and didn't fall so she kept going. The stairs were a problem though. She had to let Sparrow carry her down. The first floor was better than the small bedroom. It was bigger and had more furniture. She went over to the couch with Sparrow and sat down carefully. She sighed. Sparrow asked "What's wrong?" She answered "1. I can't walk fast even with your help, we would take twice as much time and time isn't what we have most of, 2. We have two full days of walking to get to Yatengale where the portal is, and 3. I feel horrible, I need at least another day till I have half power. Having holy water reduces that time a little but I would need 50 buckets to get to full power by tomarrow." "Well then," Sparrow replied, "I guess we'll need some other type of transportation." Ire butted in then and said "Already ahead of you cuz!" He took both of them outside and to a small railroad. "Been up all night building it!" Rose was excited, "Oh my gosh!! I've never ridden on a minecart before!! It's going to be so fun!!!" Fifteen minutes later... "GET ME OFF THIS DEMON CART!!!!" Ire and Sparrow spent the rest of the ride laughing. 12 hours later, they arrived at Yatengale. Rose had barfed around three times, so she needed rest. They checked into a hotel and rested. ----- That night WhiteRose went down to the game room after a 30 minute nap. She challenged someone in air hockey and the other person lost 9-0. That led to another match then another then another. They all lost 9-0. After she had beaten everyone, she proclaimed "Anyone else want to have a try?!?!" Just then a boy about Rose's age walked in. He said "Sure, I'll try. I doubt you'd be that good anyway." Everyone gasped. Rose, who was getting sort of.. vain, replied "Oh yeah? Well, you'll just be another to my record! Now let's start!" Rose swiftly hit the puck towards the other goal. "Oh no you don't!" The boy deflected the puck then shot it towards Rose's goal. "Oh it's on!!!" Rose put a spin on the puck and it sailed through the goal. The boy looked impressed. "Wow. But you're still not as good as me though!" He shot the puck as fast as he could and Rose missed it by a mile. "I.. I meant to do that!" "Yeah, o..k...!" "I'll show you that I meant to do that!" Rose slammed the puck as hard as she could, making the puck literally fly into the opposite goal. "Heh, showed you." The boy was steaming. He focused his full attention on the game now. He couldn't lose! Rose maintained a smug look on her face. She was just warming up. They continued in a pattern. He'd score then she'd score. Until it was 8-8! The mysterious teen boy was closer to beating her than anyone had even dreamed of! The last round both of them were sweating and panting because of the effort they put into every shot. By now almost everyone in the hotel had heard of the champion air hockey mage and the boy who was close to beating her, causing a huge crowd around them. They had to have the guards come in and push the crowd backwards. Rose shot the puck once again full force. The boy, who had learned her tricks, shot it back spinning wildly. Rose hit the puck to the side making it bouncing back and forth, side to side. When the puck hit around 20 miles per hour, she hit it towards the wall hoping to blind side him. When he hit it back, she instantly hit it forward. She caught him off guard when it bounced off the wall, and it sailed into the goal! Half of the crowd went crazy, the other half gave disappointed sighs. Rose, who was still kind, offered him a dinner. "Winner has to buy loser dinner." Someone came up and placed a hand on Rose's shoulder. It was Ire. "How 'bout we all go to dinner." Rose nodded. So they all changed into nice clothes and went to a nearby restaurant. Rose was wearing a long white dress with a silver sash. Sparrow had a green dress shirt and black dress pants. Ire had on a grey button up shirt with black dress pants. The mysterious boy had on a navy blue tux, that looked out of character with his relatively long hair. Ire paid for the meal, even to Rose's objections. After they ordered and were waiting for the food, they decided to talk. Rose started the conversation, "Ok mysterious dude, what's your name?" Sparrow facepalmed. "My name's NightingGale." Now that the air hockey match was over Rose noticed that NightingGale was less arrogant and foolish and more shy and kind. Sparrow continued the conversation, "Rose, why didn't you ask his name before or after the air hockey duel?" Rose replied, "Because.. Err, I don't know." She was blushing. No one noticed that she blushed though which was a relief to her. Rose asked NightingGale, "So what do you do?" He thought whether to tell her for a minute, then he answered, "Um I'm a ...Skylord..." "KYA!! Really?!?!" Rose was excited. She had never met a Skylord before. She started bouncing. Ire had to calm her down. After that failed, NightingGale had to calm her down by saying, "Yes, now calm down before I use my Skylord powers on you!" This made Rose calm down. Even though, she had no clue that skylords didn't have magic powers. Sparrow silently noted that this guy was good at exaggerating and making people believe him. "So," Sparrow asked, "Do you have any jobs you really need to do?" NightingGale found this question suspicious, but answered, "No. I am free to come and go as I please." Rose caught on to what Sparrow was thinking. "Wanna come on our quest with us?!?!?!" She squealed. He was shocked, "....What....?" Rose squealed again, "Wanna come with us on our quest?!?!?!?!" He processed it, then smiled nervously. He replied, "Ah, ok. You got me. I get the joke, haha haha." Rose frowned and tilted her head. "What joke?" Then NightingGale saw that she was serious. "Umm.. You were serious?" "Of course silly!" She smiled again. NightingGale couldn't resist this good hearted, smiling girl. "Ahh, ok. I'll join in on your little group." Rose was now so excited she glomped him. "KYA! OMG THIS IS GONNA BE FUN!!!!!" The poor victim tried to pry the beaming girl off of him. Ire laughed. Sparrow just watched silently. (Jealous bro?) NightingGale finally managed to pry her off as their food came. Rose had ordered a medium rare steak with some holy water. Sparrow had asked for some chicken legs and had some soda. Ire also had soda but he wanted pork instead of steak or chicken. NightingGale ate anything you put on his plate so he ordered one of each, a chicken leg, half a steak, and a piece of a pork chop. Rose, the skinny glutton, stuffed her face the moment the food got there. She finished in about 5 minutes. She said "I'm going to go for a walk while you slowpokes eat." She got up and left the restaurant. NighingGale sensed something was wrong, so he ate quicker to catch up with her. Sparrow noticed that so he raced to out-eat him and reach her first. Rose was walking fast to escape the civilization. Once she reached the border of the city she darted into the forest. After she ran for 5 minutes she discovered a small lake. She sat down and took off her socks and her shoes and started wading into the water. She got knee deep and then stared up at the moon and thought. Then she heard a faint cry. She heard it again and realized it was saying her name. One of the boys had tracked her down! Sparrow came running up to the lake. Rose looked at him with no feelings shown. He called her name again. She turned back to the moon. He thought, what's happened? After she turned back, he took off his socks and shoes and waded in after her. He stood next to her and although the water should be rippling it was completely still and it looked like glass. It was peaceful. Serene. And she just stared at the moon. He stared at the girl. They had been traveling for monthes on end. He loved her the whole time. "Rose, I have two things for you." He said, carefully breaking the silence. She looked at him. "What are they?" He dug in his pocket. He pulled out a small gift wrapped box. "First open this." She took it from his hand and unwrapped it. It was a small carved rose, painted white. "I love it." She said quietly. "Second, look at me." She did this and after she did he scooped her into his arms and kissed her. After 5 seconds, she kissed back. They both heard a gasp and turned to the source. It was NightingGale. "...oh..." he said silently. Rose splashed toward him and asked him, "NightingGale, how much did you see?" He said "Just the second gift." By this time Sparrow was caught up with Rose, standing behind her. "Just come back to the hotel when you two are done, Ire's worried." He said as he turned and left. But as he left he turned and shot a death glare at Sparrow. Rose whirled around and looked at Sparrow. Her look was one of utter defeat. He pulled her towards him and she sobbed into his chest. This night could have gone better. Then he remembered a potion he had at his room at the hotel. It would make people remember only the best memories short term. He would slip some into Rose's holy water and some into NightingGale's juice. Then NightingGale would forget the kiss and not be mad at Rose. Rose would remember the kiss and Sparrow and her would probably start dating. That would be the best part. "Hey Rose we'd better get back to the hotel." They walked in silence with Rose's head buried in Sparrow's shoulder. He loved the way her hair felt against his cheek. They arrived at the hotel and right once they walked in the hotel room, which split into separate bedrooms, Ire made them feel guilty for leaving him to pay the check by himself. Rose looked barely able to keep herself from crying. She slunk into her bedroom and shut the door. Ire was confused, "What happened with you guys?" Sparrow replied quickly, "Nothing." Then Sparrow made both Rose and NightingGale drinks and slipped a bit of the potion into each. First he gave NightingGale his juice. NightingGale looked up at him sullenly then sipped at the juice. After, Sparrow crept into Rose's room. By now she had changed into her night clothes. She was standing at the giant window, looking at the moon. He silently walked up beside her. He made her hands grip the holy water. "You should keep recovering magic, we need to find that portal." She slightly nodded. He kissed her forehead and backed off. He watched as she drank the magic liquid. "Want me to stay?" He asked, wanting to comfort her. "I don't care, but your staying on the floor." She whispered. She tossed him two blankets and several pillows. He made a makeshift bed on the floor. She sat on her own bed for awhile until she heard snoring. Good, she thought, he's asleep and won't try anything. She laid down on her bed and tried to sleep. She couldn't. She moved herself to the floor. Then she went and lifted Sparrow onto 'her' bed using magic. She thought it was a good thing that he didn't wake. But she didn't know that he was awake. And he remembered that he was supposed to stay on the floor. So as soon as he heard her breathing steady out and she was asleep, that's right where he went. He laid down next to her and wrapped her in a protective embrace. He was surprised that she didn't fight him, she actually settled deeper in his hug. This was his beautiful Rose. The one flower that wouldn't wilt. The next morning NightingGale was up first. He got dressed, but didn't eat breakfast. Strangely he didn't remember what had happened after Sparrow had fled the restaurant chasing Rose. Oh well, he thought, it probably wasn't important. Rose woke up next. She realized that she was being cuddled. She turned and saw Sparrow's sleeping face. She blushed deeply then raged. She thought he was asleep when she put him on her bed! Then she felt guilty because she had told him to remain on the floor. He was only doing what he was told, she shouldn't be mad. Then she remembered the kiss they had shared. It was wonderful. She smiled at her sleeping boyfriend and wanted to do something special for him. In fact, she was in such a good mood, she was going to make breakfast for everyone! She carefully slipped out from between the archer's arms to not wake him. She came out of her room and was a little surprised to see that NightingGale was up. Aw, that ruined the surprise a little. Oh well. She beamed at him and he smiled back. Rose went straight to the little kitchen and magicked up some raw eggs, some sausage, and flapjacks. She cooked the eggs to be scrambled then fried the sausage. She multitasked and also flipped the pancakes, too. NightingGale watched intrigued. He saw that there was enough breakfast there for all four of the young adventurers. She was making them breakfast! They smelled heavenly and he bet they tasted even better. Rose saw him watching the food. She finished the food thirty minutes later, in which time Ire woke up. Rose went to her room to wake up Sparrow. She saw his sleeping form on the floor and he looked so peaceful. She came down beside him and kissed his forehead gently. His eyes fluttered open, and he saw the young mage above him looking down at him with those beautiful ocean blue eyes. He could smell something heavenly and sat up. "Breakfast is served!" She explained excitedly. He jumped up with a hungry grin. They raced back to the table where Ire and NightingGale were waiting to be served. Rose gave each of them two pancakes, two scrambled eggs, and three sausages. None of them had ever tasted her cooking before. After the first bite the three boys looked at her wide-eyed. She smiled a knowing smile and remarked, "The king would often have me cook him meals, too. He loved the cakes I baked." She was done first as usual and went to change. She came back wearing an unusual shirt, a long sleeved starry night shirt, with a long flowing grey skirt. The boys were stunned. She usually wore her Mage cloak, but now here she was looking like a regular teen. "What do you think? It's something I thought of and then it conjured itself into existence." She asked about her new apparel. The truth was she had dreamt about her eventual granddaughter again, and that made her see that BlackRose HAD to have gotten that outfit from somewhere.