I wake up on a bed in a sort of hospital “wing” with a few other beds in the room, with only like two other people in the room with me. I try to sit up, but something is holding me back, I raise my head to see what's holding me back and see that I'm strapped to the table.

I try to loosen my restraints by moving as much as I can, but after a few minutes with not even the slightest change I give up and just lay there waiting… waiting for whatever I need to.

“I am terribly sorry about the drama between you and your teammate, I truly am. Oh wait, that's not why I'm here! I am here to make sure nothing is severely damaged.” the doctor told me.

“It's not just ‘drama’ with him, he tried to kill me!” I said.

“Yeah, teammate drama, that's all it is.” he replied.

“Wait… if that's only teammate drama, what's cut-throat competition?” I asked him.

“Heh… you don't want to know…” he responded.

A few minutes later he clears me to return to the arena and I am escorted back to my cell with Herobrine in it.

“OuR n3xt roUNd stArTs so0n.” Herobrine told me.

“Oh… great!” I said sarcastically.

“Th3 sOnEr we cOMpl3tE thiS, tHe sooN3r we cAn l3Ave.” he responded.

“Ok, fine…” I reluctantly agreed.

Guards walk to our door and open it, then escorted us to the arena’s gates. The gates opened to reveal the arena’s sand covered floor.

“Still normal? Isn't it supposed to change?” I asked one of the guards.

“Not this time, it was a challenge. So it stays in default mode.” the guard responded.

“From who?” I queried.

“From the champion of the arena.” the guard replied.

“Uh… against who?” I asked.


“Herobrine himself.” he said.

“W3 acCepT the1r cha1LeNge.” Herobrine tells them.

Herobrine walks into the arena and the gates close behind him as I am escorted to where all the other gladiators watch the battle. I find an opening down there and see Herobrine standing there as a gilded gate opens up to reveal an enderman.

“Seriously? An enderman is your champion? I have been countless amounts of those, so no wonder you're all so weak!” I proclaim to the other gladiators.

Then the enderman looks up and stares Herobrine directly in the eyes, but just stands there unmoving and staring at him. Herobrine readies his sword, then the enderman appears next to him and kicks him on the side of the head, and Herobrine stumbles to the side.

“Wait what? No enderman can move THAT fast!” I exclaim.

“Heh… you're in for a surprise then.” the gladiator tells me.

Herobrine gets back up, but is kicked back down, thrown in the air, caught, spun around, tossed into the ground, landed on, grabbed by the leg, repeatedly slammed into the ground, pummeled into the ground, then tossed into the air and lands on the sand hard.

“H3h… yoU pAck qU1te a pUnCh, buT caN y0u taKe on3?” Herobrine asked.

The sky turned dark as storm clouds appeared overhead, then a lightning storm started. The rain fell down in sheets as lightning also struck outside the arena, but the enderman stood there not even flinching. When Herobrine saw this, all the lightning in the cloud striked the enderman in a massive bolt which turned the whole floor of the arena into glass, it stumbles to the ground.

All the gladiators keep shouting “Finish him! Finish him!” as I was smiling watching Herobrine walk over. Then the enderman gets back up, grabs his head and slams him into its knee and Herobrine crumples to the ground. Then it picks him up and throws him at the arena’s wall right in front of me.

“Seems he's as ‘weak’ as the rest of us.” the gladiator from earlier says.

I see the enderman walking towards Herobrine, I turn around and grab one of their axes, then I break past the guards and sprint towards the gate as I begin hacking away at it. But before I had finished, a guard pulled me back and away from the gate.

I wrestle with the guard trying to get free, but I get dragged back downstairs and hear a door crash behind me. I look back and see the enderman standing on Herobrine punching him into the ground repetitively.

It stops and Herobrine just lays there unmoving as the enderman looms over him, then turns around and walks off. After it's gone they take all of us back to our rooms and later Herobrine is put in my cell.

“How were you beaten by an enderman? I've beaten plenty of those.” I tell Herobrine.

“It wAs n0 noRmAl enD3rmaN. It waS muCh faSteR anD knEw hoW we foUghT.” he replied.

“Even if it's fast and knows how you fight, you should have won that!” I said to him.

“Do nOt ev3r ov3rEstiMat3 yoUr fr13nds oR elSe theY mAy diSappoINt you!” he retorted.

He steps towards me as I take a step back, he glares at me as I back up against the wall.

“You need to calm down, I just said it wrong.” I told him.

“W3 d0n’T N33d t0 cALm d0Wn!” he responds.

“P-Please don't hurt m-me.” I begged.

He punches the wall behind me and the wall shatters, I then turn and run out of the cell to try and get away from him. He appears in front of me and I run right into his arm, his arm hits my neck and I land flat on my back.

“Do nOT ruN AgA1n.” he told me.

“O-Ok, I won't.” I replied.

“Go0d…” he said.

I walk back to my cell and sit on the floor, staring at the wall contemplating what just happened. I don't even know when Herobrine entered, but later he stirred me from my thoughts to tell me that we're leaving now.

“Why now?” I asked him.

“BeCaUse soMeonE we kNow is In daNgeR, s0 we ne3d to gO proTeCT h1m.” he replied.

“Who? Who is it?” I queried.

“Som3One.” he responded.

“Wow… thanks, a lot.” I said.

“ThAt’s a1l we’LL saY.” he stated.

“I know, I know that it's all you'll say.” I relented.

“AcTua1ly, yoU ne3d to gET eveRy0ne ouT of h3rE." he told me

It takes me a second to understand what he was telling me. But when I figured it out, I sprinted as fast as I could towards the champion's quarters with a sword in my hand. When I reached there, the guards came after me, but I cut them down and opened up the gates to its room.

When it saw me, it looked shocked then happy, and it started running at me until I pointed my sword at it. It stopped almost instantly and looked at me with wounded eyes, then turned around to walk away.

“I need your help.” I told it.

It turns to face me with wonder in its eyes.

“Herobrine sent me to save as many people as I can from him." I stated.

It nods and vanishes, I realize that it hadn't made a sound and then I ran and opened as many cell doors as I could while telling then to run as fast as they can out of here. After I've done that, I reach Herobrine again and see him inside of a swirling black cloud, with cracks all over him that aren't going away, then it breaks apart and shows binary with his white eyes, but then the binary flashes and vanishes, to leave a black figure with glowing white eyes and the black cloud is still swirling around him.

Then a sword forms in each of his hands that are pitch black as he walks towards me. I turn and run as fast as I could to get away from him, I get out of the underground area and jump out a window. When I land I start running again, I see someone walking towards the arena in a brown cloak with armor underneath it, I stop to watch the figure pick up their pace as they ran towards the arena.

As I looked back from a short distance I saw the light contorting and not only moving in straight beams, but… like a smooth arch. I walked closer wondering what was happening, when the arena exploded and fragments of stone, wood, glass and metal went flying everywhere.

After the blast I saw a smoking husk of the building that used to be there and two figures standing alone in the remains, I walked towards them when something behind me tugged at my arm. I turned and saw that enderman from earlier trying to pull me away from them and gesturing for me to follow it, I saw actual worry in its eyes.

I complied and followed it, but a metal post shot from behind us and impaled it, going straight through it, it drops onto its knees, it then stood back up and pulled the post out of it. It put its hands over the gaping hole in its chest where a Minecraftian heart would be, then it takes a sheet off the ground from a banner and wraps it around its chest, covering the hole.

It stumbled towards a tree then uses the tree for support, it slams its arm into the tree and cracks the bark, I walk over to it and reach out my hand to touch its shoulder, it slaps it away and teleports off to somewhere.

“Tch, why'd I expect anything different from one of them? It was an enderman after all, actually… it could have been an enderborn.” I said to myself as I walked back towards the two figures in battle.

When I got close to the two figures I saw one was what Herobrine had become and the other was a knight in glistening steel armor with a brown cloak around him and a sword just as long as he was tall clashing with Hero’s blades, he had a green mark on the left side of his helmet, a shield with a hammer surrounded by green light as its crest.

They kept slashing, jabing and blocking each other's attacks, not hitting each other in their lightning fast battle, they shot lightning, fireballs, and other projectiles at each other as they fought. They destroyed more and more of the arena as they fought, projectiles barely missing me as I tired to watch their battle.

Their blades hit once more and they were both thrown backwards, they quickly recovered and they ensued their battle. Except this time the knight’s movements were slightly slower than Herobrine’s attacks, and eventually the sword was knocked out of his hands and broke the stone right beside me.

I looked back to the two and saw the knight with his back against a wall and Herobrine with his sword raised high to cut him down and end the battle. I picked up the knight’s sword and hauled it over to him, Herobrine saw me and was taken back, then in one last burst of adrenaline I swung the sword at Herobrine and sliced his shoulder. He retaliated by swinging at me and I barely dodged it, then the knight gave himself speed, haste, regeneration, resistance, fire resistance, blast resistance and strength all level 255 for 10,000 seconds, probably to make sure that it lasts more long enough.

“A bit excessive isn't it?” I asked him.

“Nope, it should be long enough now.” he replied as he kicked Herobrine backwards and into a pillar.

“Wait… Striker?” I asked.

Herobrine flies back towards the knight as he grabs his sword from me and blocks Herobrine's attack, I was thrown back by the excess force from the weapons colliding. I landed on my left leg and heard my hip pop as I dislocated it and yelped in pain.

I crawled to behind a fallen stone beam and watched the battle from it, Striker knocked Herobrine’s swords out of his hands but two more appeared in them and he kept fighting.

Striker dived at Herobrine and slices his calf, he goes down onto one knee and hits Striker to the ground and embeds one of his swords into his shoulder. He shouts in pain, but then he stands up with the sword in his shoulder and keeps on fighting Herobrine.

Herobrine closes his fist as the blade of the sword widens till it takes him arm off, as Striker is stumbling backwards Herobrine swipes at him, but he dodges as he hurdles a fireball at Herobrine, he blocks it, but he is then impaled with his massive sword and flung into a pillar. Striker brings up a panel and flips a few switches on, then a flash of light blinds me for a second. When the light dies down, I see Striker standing tall as his armor repairs itself, his arm rebuilds and his cloak is fixed as a hammer forms in each of his hands.

He repetitively smashes the hammer on Herobrine’s face till he stops moving “I am tired of you always winning against me, so that’s why I won’t let you win this time.” he told Herobrine, then a sword shoots from Herobrine and rips through Striker’s gut, he drops to the ground “Cheapshot.” he states as he covers the hole in him.

Herobrine stands up and smirks at Striker saying “YoUr fLaw, y0u caN’T sTOp tA1kiNg.” he jumps and kicks Striker in the face, Striker stumbles backwards and falls over. Herobrine doesn’t relent, and instead starts attacking more, he rips off his arms, throws him across the arena, catches him on the other side with his sword, drops a pillar on him strikes lightning on him and tosses him around like a ragdoll.

“Stop! Can’t you see you’ve done enough?” I asked.

He just turns to me and raises his sword as readies to fly at me, he launches at me and right before he hits me I close my eyes and hear Shink and when I open my eyes I see Striker standing in front of me with a sword protruding from his chest.

“Y-You bet- cough -ter run, I c-can’t pro- cough -tect y-you anymore…” Striker said to me.

I get up and start running away, but when I nearly make it out my foot catches on a ledge and a sprain my ankle and land on the outside of the crater. I turn around to see how Striker is doing, what I see is him kneeling in front of countless arrows made of light aimed at him and Herobrine standing a distance to the side, he opened his arms as he waited for the arrows to hit. I watched as every arrow ripped through him and after which his body collapsed to the ground

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