POV: Xisuma

X looked at the message.

<Renthedog> Hey dude, wanna check out the Raceway?

X started typing.

<Xisuma> Sure, tomorrow? I have to finish my project.

<Renthedog> K, see you.

There was something slightly suspicious about the way Ren immediately asked him after Ren had come back.

The Next Day...

Xisuma flew over to the raceway. Ren was already there, but-

"Your black and white!" X exclaimed.

"Really?" Ren said, glancing at his shoes, which were monochrome.

Can he not see it? X wondered. "Y-yea," he said, slightly confused.

"Well anyway, have you played this before?" X shook his head.

"Well you start by getting in the boat, then after I press this button, the sides will retract and you can follow the course-" Ren starts to explain, and then ends on, "Once you reach the pressure plates, you should be done!"

There was something in Ren's eyes X was slightly suspisious about. They seemed to shine a bit, but if you looked at it closely, it seemed to be slightly red. Not evil red, just stressed-out, I've-just-been-forced-to-do-something red. I wasn't something you saw that often, especially on a normal day like this one.

"Are you ready?" Ren asks.

"Yep," X responds and takes a deep breath.

"Go!" Ren flicked the lever and X rows the boat onto the ice.

Turn, twist, sign- "I see you've got the Sahara signs in place," X said, glancing briefly at the grey, white, and yellow sign, with the sea lantern in the middle.

"Oh, yes," Ren replied absent-mindedly.

"Oh, this is a terrible lap, mate," X said.

After X reached the finish line, Ren said, "Well done, brother! You did it-"

X looked down to see the redstone blocks.

"No-no-no! Oh, hang on, the totem kept me alive!" The totem particles splashed into his eyes, with all of the water everywhere. TNT lined the edges, and he looked up to see 2 blocks above himself, and Ren's face, leaning over.

"Ren, I trusted you!" X desperately tried to get out, trying to get a grip on the rough stone

Ren laughed. A cold, hollow laugh.

But in a second, just after the particles flew everywhere, X saw something in Ren's eyes.

"I'm sorry X, I just had to get you, I'm really sorry."

X was confused for a moment, but then he fell.

There was another room full of TNT and water, almost identical to the other one. Tripwire and string lined the walls.

The TNT exploded, and X died.

But instead of respawning, X woke up somewhere else.

Somewhere completely different.

"X! X, wake up!" Someone was shaking him, whisper-yelling.

"H-huh?" X got up, and realised he was on the floor. Or more specifically, on a carpet.

"Hi," another voice sounded from the sofa. It was Stress, fiddling with a bit wool in one hand, and dye in another.

"Get up," the first voice said. X saw it was Ren. "I think it's coming-"

"Hello, Xisuma." another voice said. Ren and Stress stiffened, and Stress hastily stowed the dye into her pack.

"Who are you?" X said. The voice didn't say anything, but X could imagine, if it was a human, it would be smiling.

"Not a very nice greeting, I would think." At that moment, X realised that everything was monochrome. Is this place why Ren and Stress are monochrome?

"Who are you?" X asked again, a bit more frustratedly.

"Your friends can explain."The voice seemed to drift out of the room- can voices even drift out of rooms?

"Don't go into the attic." X looked at Ren. "That's... ominous."

Ren looked at Stress, still experimenting with the dye and wool. "it hasn't told us that yet," Stress mumbled.

"Okay, so..." Ren starts to explain.

Stress stopped tinkering with the wool, sighing. Ren ended his explanation with "We either have to follow the voice's orders, or kill him, which is probably impossible."

X stared out the window. "What's outside?"

Stress got up from the couch. "There's a garden, where we planted some carrots and wheat we got from our venture past here."

"Oh. What were you fiddling with?"

"I've been testing whether we can see black and white, or whether this world is just black and white. Turns out there's no way to get color here," Stress replied.

"What do we do?" Ren shrugged.

"Maybe-" They heard a voice outside.

"Is that-" Ren immediately threw open the door, and bolted outside, with X and Stress following.

(776 Words)

I had to watch the death over and over again to try to match up the words qwq

Also, who do you think is that new person? (Who died next ;-;)

-Lily :p