POV: Stress

Stress was flying over Hermitland, thinking about the rumors about Demise Dares, a new minigame.

"Woah, is 'at it?" There was a pillar that looked like an aquarium, a long strip, a tiny dot that looked kinda like a sign, and some scattered bits. As she got closer, she saw that there was a chest, a dispenser, and a bed. 

"Demise Dares." Stress read from the sign. She quickly finishes reading the sign.

Does this have somethin' to do with the hand? She thought, glancing over at the skeleton hand holding the diamonds.

But one thing had changed.

Ren's head was on the other side of the chests, and it was monochrome. (I guess in this world it changes with your appearance I dunno I made this)

Wha's that about? Stress wondered.

She decided to just ignore it for now.

"Well i betta' check out dis!"

"Press this button to get a dare."

And out shoots a piece of paper that says, "I dare you to exit the aquarium. Go into the aquarium and punch the ice on top with your fist. If you die, you lose. Remember to put all of your items into the chest."

Better get on wif it, she thought, and walked into the aquarium.

And immeditately started to take damage.

"Won't the players just crouch to get away... and leave? There's no rule saying that you can't just leave...that Stressmonster is smart, she'll notice, won't she?

*Bubble columns do not work for Stressmonster101. Let her swim to the top, and never drown. Burns will leave scars, and she must be as whole as possible to carry out my plan.*

"Like Renthedog here...or should I say Renthedead?" the limp form on the floor shook a bit at the mention of Stress.

"Don't worry, your friend will be here wil you as soon as possible."

"Wait wha? How can I go up the magma column?" Stress swims up the column and doesn't get dragged down. She seemed to also have Conduit Power; she could breathe underwater.

She punches out of the aquarium, and leaps onto the lava tunnel. "Wooh! I did it!" Stress cried. But how did I travel up the bubbles?

She takes the 50 diamonds from the chest, and then Grian passes by. "Hey Stress! Are you trying Demise Dares?"

Stress squeezes out the water from her sleeve. "Yea, and somehow I swam up the magma bubbles?"

Grian stares at the aquarium, and then at the magma at the bottom. "How? T-there are bubbles!"

Stress laughs. "I'm a pro, Grian!"

They smile, and then Grian asks, "Have you seen Ren? He said a few days ago that he would check out Demise Dares."

"His head is on the other side and its monochrome now," Stress said.

Grian looks over at the skeleton hand, and sighs. "What is it about though? It must have some sort of magic, since the second I read the Armor Sign my armor was traded out, Ren's missing and his head is now on the other side of the board when no one would touch it, and this appeared just a few days after the hand did.

"Well I should probably go ask the others about where Ren's gone. Bye!" Grian flew away.

Once Stress watched Grian leave, she decided to do another dare.

"I dare you to do the Void Jump. Stand on the edge of the platform in the End, take off all of your items except for your elytra and some rockets, and fly down to y= -65, and then fly back up."

Stress just grabbed her elytra and a stack of rockets. Good thing the End Portal isn't that far away, she thought, preparing for take off. But then, she was already in the End, on the platform.

"Huh. So my rocket took me here? Like there was an invisible portal?" She decided to disregard it.

"Okay," Stress mumbled. "If I change the alert to y= -65 instea' -50, then I don't needa check the communicator every second after it beeps."

Once she was done fiddling with the communicator, she dived down, her communicator beeping once she got close to the void.

Stress then quickly turned around and flew back onto the platform. Phew! Well, that's another 50 diamonds!

She flew to the portal, and this time nothing strange happened. She appeared back at the Demise Dares bed, and then took another 50 diamonds from the chest.

This time, without thinking or considering anything, she pressed the botton for a new dare. "Fly through the tube." It read. "get your elytra and some rockets and fly through the tunnel without touching the lava.

"Oh no, I'm terrible and flying through small tunnels!" Stress looked at the long tunnel made out of stained glass.

She gathered herself, flew past the tube and into the air past the dock, and zoomed through the tunnel with ease.

"Yes! I did it!" Stress cries.

She gildes down next to the chest and takes another 50 diamonds.

"Well there is only 50 more diamonds left, so I should probably do that dare."

On the inside, she was elated. She was 150 diamonds up!

The button seemed to press itself, a piece of paper shotting out. "Catch the totem. Make a scaffolding tower, put on your elytra and grab a totem, then climb up the tower. Throw the totem, and wait 2 seconds, then jump down onto the totem."

Stress followed the instructions, and took a deep breath.

She threw the totem, and counted. "One, two!" She then leaped off of the scaffolding tower.

Where's the totem?! She thought, panicking.

*Whoosh!* Stress falls down far from the totem, and dies.

Augh! She thought, and waited to respawn.

"Huh? Why am I not back at the bed?" Stress' eyes then seemed to break, and she could only see black.

Stress wakes up, but not in the bed. She was on the floor, on the carpet that seemed to be made out of-

"Parrot feathers?!" It was just bright enough to see red, yellow, and blue feathers, woven into a layer of bamboo strips.

"S-Stress? Is that you?" Someone whispered.

"Y-yea, who're you?"

"Ren, and I think-"

"Hello, Stressmonster101. I have been waiting for you."

Stress glares at where she hears the voice coming from. "Who are you, and what have you done with us?"

"Ah. You are Dead now."

The response just makes Stress sigh, and say, "I know that, I fell! But why are we here?"

No response. The voice seemed to have gone.

"Ren, we have to get outta here!" Stress says, getting up.

"I tried, there's no way to leave."

"B-but how did that voice thingy leave?" Stress says, confused.

"I don't think the voice is a person, I think its like a spirit." Ren gets up and looks at the carpet. "The spirit seems to like murder, maybe its like" Ren took a deep breath. "A Demise spirit?"

(1168 Words)

It's a slightly longer chapter! HoOrAy!

This was an attempt qwq 

-Lily :p