Wake up.

Wake up.

Wake up.

"We have completed our mission, bring in the Guard," a voice spoke through my foggy consciousness.

"What about the mother?"

"Sky has taken a liking to her, we keep her protected for her own health."

"Why are we doing this?"

"So maybe she'll reconsider her point of view on us,"

"So we butter her up? And then get her to fight for us?" The other voice I began to recognise was Seto.

"The prophecy is coming to pass, we need them on our side,"

"We have them in our possession, but not on our side,"

See? They just see you as nothing more than a tool which they'll wield to their use. The voice spoke again.

I'm not denying that they only want to use me for their games, but I want to know how I'll be used. I replied.

I can tell you, the voice offered, for a price.

Who are you anyway?

I can tell you, I can give all the answers you ask for.

Where do I meet you?

No need, I'm coming for you on the tomorrowth midmoon. Then the connection stopped.

I slowly blinked awake, Erik was at my side. "Are you ok?" He asked, I winced.

"Define ok," he chuckled.

I looked around, my mother was on the other side of my bed. Tears were in her eyes, "Don't cry mum, I can't afford that right now,"

"I'm sorry," she said and a few more tears slipped out and I brushed them away. Sky walked in, he comforted her, then he turned to me.

"Thank you Mineral for saving her," Anyone who wasn't my mother or Erik then left.

"Where's Tom?" I asked into Erik's ear.

"Not sure, he kind of disappeared," he whispered back.

I'm coming for you on the tomorrowth midmoon.

Notch entered and I bit my lip, "Glad to see your awake Mineral, it'd be a shame to see someone who had fallen victim to another of my brother's rash decisions," he said, "Erik, can you come with me? We have some things to discuss,"

Erik squeezed my hand, then left. "I should leave as well, you need your rest," My mother said, standing up and leaving.

The pain began to buzz, a tightness around my stomach meant that I had been bandaged up. I waited until the pain subsided, my hearing instinctively expanded in a quiet place. Erik's conversation began to filter into my mind.

"You must understand-"

"I don't, you've paraded me around in your little army, chased us across Minecraftia, controlled us, kidnapped and drugged us. Your efforts are beginning to become worthless. In your blind rage to find us, to make us join you, you pushed us away, in a way that can never be changed. Your also forgetting that we ran away in the first place, and your forgetting why,"

Notch was silent for a moment, I could almost imagine him thinking how to gather the words. Fury stirred within me at the thought of Notch controlling Erik. It rose to my head where I was sure that I felt weightless. A series of numbers and characters flashed before my eyes. Anger pulsed through me again, but not as strong as last time. My hand twisted, changing one of the characters, abruptly, as my anger dissolved, it disappeared.

I blinked awake, to the sound of a scream, Erik rushed into my room, sword drawn. "Are you okay now?"

"Yeah," I said, Erik passed me my sword, "what happened?"

"Something happened," he answered grimly, to himself he whispered, "Herobrine must've figured out how to access the codes again,"

"What?" I asked confused as we walked through the Budder halls, guards rushing ahead of us.

Erik rolled his eyes, "The universal access codes, of our very existence, they make us up. Occasionally a really powerful person could access the codes, and sometimes even change them. Notch blocked that ability from Herobrine when he used it to seek revenge once,"

"Have you ever gone into the codes?"

Erik bit his lip, "Once, and I screwed up really bad, but I managed to control it, and eventually the power cut off,"

I thought about the numbers and characters flashing before my eyes before. How I changed one of them, what had happened instead?

"Anyway, there's been a breach in the castle courtyard, a Nether portal has appeared. Monsters are streaming out of it like there's no tomorrow,"

"I can control it, just get me to the front lines," Erik nodded grimly and we entered the courtyard. Mobs of all types were causing destruction. However I noticed there was no strategy, monsters would appear at random. I looked to the night sky above me, they were spawning as a part of their coding. "This isn't Herobrine's doing," I said to Erik. "Which means I'll be able to control them,"

I ran into the battle, and pushed my way past the mobs, to the portal.

Doing this will reveal your identity, the voice in my head warned.

They already know anyway, or at least have high suspicions.

I thrusted my sword into the air, a wave of energy radiated off it. All the mobs turned to me and made their way towards me. My eyes began to glow and I could sense my primal instinct began to take over. I could sense the aura of death, how the flowing of their blood would satisfy my thirst to kill.

But I fought it, knowing my eyes were glowing as I did it. Mobs returned back to the portal. I caught the eyes of one of the soldiers, whose were open with fear. Good. A thrill of power coursed through my veins as the monsters returned through the portal.

Once they were all through I swung my sword in a deadly arc and the portal collapsed. I fell to one knee, feeling it's control ebb away. Erik rushed to my side, "Eva! Are you ok?"

I barely managed the words, "Define ok," before I lost consciousness.

A/N: So I've been doing some stuff (ahem school) and now my extra-curricular activities are piling up. So not only do I have school, work, and Wattpad, but now I'm also doing Callanetics, Cardio, Goat Track (which is a typed of drama company), another production (which will get me spending most of my weekends acting but I between that it might free up some times to write), horseriding, tutoring, tutoring my sister and probably some other stuff I forgot to mention. Comment, if you want, your super squashed up schedule.

Please comment any questions you have about the book so I can incorporate it into the storyline. I am currently getting to the climax in writing ahead.

Thanks for reading!