I'm back, suckaaaaas!

I have decided on a goal. An upload goal, to be exact.

I will update in around one week, and if I can't, two weeks. If I go any higher I'm screwed.

The goal starts from...now!

Probably going to break this deal on like my first try, but hey, at least you guys have a sorta vague idea of when I'm going to update!

Also, petition for FanFiction to allow people to put periods, exclamation marks, and various other symbols in their chapter names.

*trombones start playing a festive tune* REVIEWWWWS!

r0t013 the username issue: FINALLY! A WORTHY OPPONENT! OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!

A Random Kid: Cobalt Acid? I don't think anybody remembered this before I mentioned it, but remember the potion that this guy named Tres made in chapter 10, AKA 'The Archery Tournament Is Not Worth It'? Yeah, it's that. To be honest, that moment felt pretty out of place and kinda un needed, and probably could have been executed better.

Also, it worries me that you like yourself some burning humans. That's kinda weird. Not gonna lie.

And that marks the end of reviews. Kinda disappointed there weren't more, but hey. I'll take what I can get.

On a different note, if you don't remember all of the bounty hunters in Dan's group, that's okay. Occasionally I don't even remember.

Anyways, excuse me while I think of different ways to say 'enjoy the chapter' in ways I think are funny but they're really not.

Not that one, not that one, not that one...

(Also, they need to let you have longer chapter names. Like, come on.)

Krios

Look Out! He's Armed And Dangerous!

Metal arms are cool. I mean, sure, they're way overdone. They pretty much scream 'bad guy'. (And occasionally 'good guy'.) But that doesn't change the fact that they're pretty cool to look at. They're effective, too. Hypothetically, if you pitted a metal arm against a fishing rod, there is a 99.9 percent for the metal arm to win.

However, there is always the .1 percent.

"Okay. How are we going to play this?" Seu asked. "We don't even know if our...wanted posters...have been put up around town yet."

"True." Dan acknowledged. "But...there is a fifty fifty chance, right?"

Orca scoffed. "More like a twenty five to seventy five chance."

Ender sighed and adjusted her white-and-magenta checkered scarf. "Okay, sunshine. Look. Why don't I go in there, check if there are any posters, and come back."

"Super." Nikai's tone was sarcastic. "It's not like you'd stand out with your white and pink scarf of yours."

"It's magenta, Nik." Ender scowled at Nikai. "So shut your mouth before I shut it for you."

Nikai rolled his eyes. "First, typical of you to know the difference between magenta and pink—"

"What is THAT supposed to mean?" Ender shouted.

"—and second, do NOT call me that."

"What, Nik?" Ender put her hands on her hips and pierced him with her gaze. "Got something against—"

"This isn't going anywhere." Dan interrupted with a sigh. "Cal, you go."

"What!?" I yelped. "Why me?"

"Because you're the most inconspicuous out of all of us." Dan reasoned.

"What about Ben?" I protested, gesturing to him. "He's the more normal looking guy!"

We all looked at Ben, who blinked as if to say, 'hey, you're not the one with a broken leg.'

Turns out that Ben actually broke his leg at some point. Whether it was during the fight with the bounty hunters, when Shell literally picked us up, or when we were dropped into the ground like a sack of potatoes, his leg had been broken. Orca attempted to reset his leg, and there was quite a bit of screaming until Orca was done. We weren't sure if it would be safe to have Ben walk yet, so we made him a makeshift crutch for him to walk around on.

Ben claims that it still hurts, but I get the feeling he's just enjoying being babied. (cough, Seu, cough)

And so, they decided to send me, who has the highest bounty, mind you, to check. Nice.

We were in a regular sized town called Hiemx, and it was absolutely filled with snow. Unfortunately, the only clothes I was wearing were a long sleeved shirt, and a rain jacket, so I was pretty cold, yeah.

You might be wondering what we're doing in Hiemx. Well, we hadn't had much time to pack when we were chased out by the bounty hunters, which basically meant that we'd left all of our essentials back at the base. So, we came here to get the usual: potion ingredients, materials and crafting aids, and deadly weapons.

I sighed and creeped out of the abandoned alleyway we were hiding in, looking left and right before quickly walk-running away.

Unfortunately, everyone seemed to be on high alert for whatever reason, making me a little nervous. I looked around, and there didn't seem to be any wanted posters. There was a bunch of wooden debris on the ground.

What happened here?

I stopped upon seeing a certain wanted poster.

On the wanted poster was Fisherman.

I glowered, remembering the time Fisherman had stabbed me in the back. I hated how even on the poster he looked so smug.

Muttering under my breath, I turned...

...and ran into someone. More specifically, a police officer.

My blood froze, and I mumbled, "Sorry." I tried to move past, but the officer stuck out an arm, blocking my path.

"Hold on a moment...you look a little familiar."

My heart started pounding triple time, and I paled. "Um...I think you've got the wrong person."

The officer inspected me, and I was being torn between bolting and clocking this guy across the face when he said, "My mistake. Thought you looked like someone else. Move on."

I sighed in relief. "By the way...what happened here?"

A forlorn look went onto his face. "A disaster, that's what. Fisherman came here. Fisherman. And him and some little girl started fighting, demolishing so many things and causing hundreds of dollars worth damage. And on top of that, arson!"

...there's no way.

"What did this girl look like, exactly?" I asked casually.

The officer frowned. "According to witnesses, she had brown hair, gray eyes, was wearing a winter coat, and blue pants. Apparently around ten to twelve years old. Why, you think you know her?"

I tried to keep my expression neutral, but it was probably the exact opposite of neutral.

"I...don't think so." I responded. I mumbled a hasty 'goodbye' to him and quickly walked away before he could get too suspicious.

"Back so quick?" Dan asked me. Upon seeing my expression, he assumed the worst. "So there are posters."

"No, no." I shook my head. "It's perfectly fine. In fact, I ran right into a police officer and he didn't recognize me."

Dan frowned. "Then what's with the expression? You look like you've just seen a ghost."

Maybe not, but it's just as disturbing. Hundreds of dollars worth of damage? Fisherman? Arson?

Oh, Toni. What have you gotten yourself into?

"Hello? Cal?"

I blinked, snapping out of my thoughts. "Yeah?"

"We lost you there for a moment. Why don't you and Ender accompany Seu to the shop? You know, as a lookout." Dan jabbed his thumb towards Ender, who eyed me like I was a stranger who'd just been partnered with her in a group project.

I honestly shared the sentiment, but oh well. It wasn't like it would kill me.

"Wait wait wait." Nikai frowned. "You want to send the two of them to be guards? Are you—"

Dan subtly made a few gestures with his hands. It wasn't sign language per se, but I could have sworn I could have seen the words 'probably a bad idea' conveyed in his gestures and his expression, but that's just a guess.

Sending a mixed message here, Dan.

So all three of us girls went off towards the street. We mostly followed Seu, who took multiple twists and turns until we came to a shop about the size of your average Walmart.

Seu turned to us. "Okay, guys. If you see anybody who looks suspicious coming towards you, warn me with your PT." Seu pulled out something that looked like a mix between a walkie talkie and a phone.

Ender rolled her eyes. "Okay, okay. I'm not a baby, Seu. I can handle things."

"Uh huh. Oh, and also...DON'T CAUSE ANY TROUBLE THIS TIME. GOT IT?" Seu aggressively said.

"What do you mean!?" Me and Ender said at the exact same time. Ender blinked at me. Seu sighed like she was regretting her life choices and walked into the shop.

So we just awkwardly stood outside the doorway while people walked in and out.

"So..." I said, attempting to make small talk. "I assume you're the troublemaker of the group?"

Ender snorted. "If it wasn't obvious already, pretty much. Nikai calls me the Lightning Rod. As in, I attract trouble."

"Ah." I said. A bit of a stupid response, but at that point I wasn't sure what to say.

Ender leaned against the shop's wall, and wrapped her scarf around her hand. "I've never been the subtle type, so I won't beat around the bush. I don't trust you."

I blinked at her bluntness, and she continued.

"I mean, you've only been with us for, what, two or three days?" Ender continued on. "Dan obviously fancies you. Seu and Ben have always been quick to trust, and the others? Eh. They...don't trust you yet either, but they see you as a colleague. An acquaintance at best. And suddenly we're on a quest to go and raid the Nether Prison because...what, your mother is trapped there or something?" Ender continued. "If you remember, I only agreed to this because I have nothing better to do. And no offense, but I don't remember you doing anything for the team, so..."

I frowned at her. "So you don't trust me?"

"That's the gist of it." Ender crossed her arms. "And I don't intend to anytime soon, at least not until—"

Before she could finish, Seu ran out. Upon seeing her urgent expression, Ender snapped to attention. "What happened? Where's the—"

"Carlos." Seu interrupted.

We both stared at her.

"What?!"

"SEUU!" came a shout.

It was Carlos, the ferocious bounty hunter with a metal arm.

We all started running at the same time as Carlos's shouts came closer.

"Go go go!" Seu urged, and we turned a corner right into an alleyway.

We twisted and turned everywhere, but where ever we went, he seemed to follow.

Seu beckoned us to follow her, and we ran into an old, run down building.

The stench inside was horrible—smelled like mold and something like curdled milk, but still we kept running. I could tell Carlos was behind us, so I was surprised when Seu suddenly halted and ran backwards, ramming her shoulder right into Carlos's chest and knocking him down.

"Keep running! Go, go, go! Get out of here NOW!" Seu waved us away, and we ran.

Ender pointed to a dirty window. "There!"

Behind us, there was a loud CRASH and some sort of crumpling sound, like someone balling up paper.

I turned my head, and saw that cracks were running through the ceiling and Seu running like her life depended on it, which it did.

I turned back towards the window, which Ender got to. She pulled out a baton, the kind that police use, and slammed it into the glass, shattering it. I heard Carlos bellow in fury, and Ender jumped out of the window, landing on the low ground and frantically beckoning to me.

I jumped out and landed gracefully on my face. Ender probably would have made a sarcastic comment had Seu not shouted "GET AWAY FROM THE BUILDING!"

we scrambled away, and I turned to see Seu jump through the window as cracks spread through the wall and the roof started to cave in.

The building collapsed in on itself, walls folding inwards with a sound like someone setting off fireworks.

A large cloud of dust washed over us, making us cough as we blindly ran away from the building.

We stopped a safe distance away and stood before the wreckage, as columns of dust spiraled into the air.

"Well, I mean...the building was probably going to be torn down anyways, so if you think about it, we just did the people a favor." Seu worried. "Right?"

Ender rolled her eyes. "Yeah, sure. Okay, listen. Best case scenario, Carlos was knocked out and will be unconscious for at least an hour. Worst case scenario, he blasts his way out of the debris right now, assuming he kept that laser in his arm."

"The what in his arm?" I repeated.

"Either way, we can't take any chances. Let's go." Ender quickly beckoned to us, and we started running.

?-V-?

"What happened?" Dan asked us when he saw us. "Where's the supplies? We needed—"

"What we need is to leave, now." Ender interrupted. "It's Carlos. He's here."

Dan looked stunned. "What? How'd he find us? We're so far away from base!"

"Come on, let's go!" Ben urgently shouted, and we all quickly ran out of the alleyway.

We started to casually speed walk down the street and out of Hiemx to the lonely path in the forest where we'd tied up our horses, which had been found in a plains biome we'd gone through.

Until someone behind us shouted, "HEY!"

Of course it was Carlos.

"Go go go!" Dan urged, and we all started running.

"How'd he get out so fast?" Seu yelped.

"Hopefully not with a laser!" Ender called back.

We were almost there. The number of houses we were running past seemed to be shrinking, which meant we were getting close, but obviously Carlos wouldn't let us get away.

I heard the smash of a splash potion, and the next thing I knew I'd been thrown backwards right into the ground.

I groaned, the wind in my lungs forced out of my chest in an instant.

"CAL!" Dan turned to fight, only for Carlos to punch him in the chest. Dan staggered backwards, and Carlos delivered a spinning kick right into the side of Dan's neck, sending him crashing to the ground.

I got to my feet and noticed pale blue swirls emanating off of his body.

Speed potion.

He proceeded to dash in front of the remaining people, blocking their path. He pulled out an axe made out of some shimmering white-grey metal and swung it at the nearest person, Durham.

The axe caught Durham in the chest and threw him backwards, despite the axe only taking up a small portion of his chest.

"Look out! The axe is enchanted with Stun and Knockback!" Seu shouted.

I got to my feet, drawing my iron sword.

Carlos swung at Seu, and she blocked the blow with her sword. An arrow from Orca slammed into his leg, making him grunt. Nikai sneaked up from behind and swung his sword at Carlos's head.

Carlos grabbed the sword and pulled it, swinging both the sword and Nikai right into Seu's chest, knocking them down.

Carlos pulled out a second axe and threw it at Orca, who got hit in the face and was knocked into the ground. At the same time, Carlos raised his other axe and slashed outwards, stopping a strike from Ben, who wasn't balanced very well and was easily knocked down.

Carlos stood there for a moment, and not even a bead of sweat had popped up on his forehead. "I'm taking all of you in."

I raised my sword and swung it at Carlos's head as hard as I could, only for Carlos to grab the sword, twist it in half and throw it away.

I laughed nervously. "Uh, we can talk about this, right?"

Carlos's face twisted in a cruel smirk. "Talk to the fist."

Suddenly arms the size of tree branches wrapped around Carlos, and there was a brief look of shock on his face before he was lifted into the air and thrown off the path right into a tree.

Durham stood there, rubbing his chest. "Come on, let's go. He won't stay unconscious for long." he said, and he then ran to the others.

Soon enough we were all back on our feet, albeit a little bruised up. Already Carlos was beginning to move, and so we started to run.

We heard a whinny and found our horses standing there hidden in the foliage off-road, just calmly loitering around a safe distance away from Shell, who was yawning and revealing his razor sharp teeth the size of kitchen knives.

"Come on, let's go!" Dan shouted, and we were all getting on our respective horses when suddenly there was a shout that didn't belong to anyone in our group, or Carlos.

"Uh oh." Ben said, which perfectly summed up the situation.

I swung myself onto Shell's back, and Shell quickly got to his feet.

"Quick, follow me! I have a friend near here who has a boat that goes straight to Cratre! Let's go!" Seu shouted, and sped off.

Just as Carlos burst through the greenery behind us, we sped off, following Seu.

Shell burst into the air with a wing beat that threw up dust and made the trees sway, and we were away, following Seu and the others to a beach that seemed a short ways away.

You'd think it'd be hard to see a full grown enderdragon at night, considering their scales are literally pitch black, but apparently not, looking at the crowd of bounty hunters following us.

Soon, we could see the dark, endless ocean in front of us, and Dan shouted, "We're here! Shell, think you can stave them off till we get in the boat?"

But right after he finished his sentence, there was a loud snapping sound, and all of a sudden I saw something like a spider web spiraling towards us.

By the time I noticed it was a net, it was too late.

It wrapped around Shell, entangling and snaring his wings. Shell let out a bellow, and we started to plummet towards the ground.

It was like déjà vu as wind whipped my hair around, blinding me as I blindly held on to Shell.

"No, no, no!" Dan somehow managed to take out his obsidian scimitar and was trying to cut through the net, but his scimitar shook like a branch in the wind, so it would probably result in him cutting Shell's wing instead.

I shook my hair out of my face only to see that we were headed straight towards the horses our friends were on.

I shouted, and one of them must have heard, because they looked up and yelled in shock.

A split second later, Shell plowed directly into the ground.

After flapping in the air like a banner for the duration of the fall, I was instantly slammed into Shell's back, forcing all of the air in my lungs out. Shell went into a roll, and suddenly the entire world flipped upside down as my hands slipped and I was sent spiraling into someone who grunted as I knocked them off their horse.

We both rolled away and into a ditch with some weeds and plants, and I slammed into a bush.

The branches of the bush were sharp, thorny, and generally a bad time. It felt like someone was stabbing me with a bunch of needles all over my body.

I struggled out of the bush, groaning at the pain.

I found that I'd slammed into Ender, who laid on the ground winded.

And all the while, the screaming of the bounty hunters were getting closer.

Get up.

I struggled to my feet, still slightly disoriented. I noticed Durham and Nikai sawing away at the nets that entangled Shell's wings. I noticed some of the horses were gone. I noticed that there were cuts where the net had dug into Shell's wings, drawing purple luminescent blood.

I took all of this in in a split second, and suddenly there was shouting and screaming, and I watched as Seu dragged a groaning Dan away into a boat.

Shell was like a huge wall between us and the boat. Apparently everyone had been getting off their horses when we crashed into the ground in front of them.

"Oh, crap." Ender groaned.

"Go go go!" Seu frantically beckoned us.

Some of us all piled onto the boat, but before the rest of us could get on, the boat suddenly moved with a jolt, and started to drift away.

Ben had been knocked off his horse into the ground, and was stumbling towards the boat, but he apparently still wasn't stable enough, because he tripped and landed on his face.

I climbed out of the ditch I'd been standing in and ran for the boat, but the boat started up with a whirring sound and started to float away. Nikai managed to jump in, but by the time me, Ender, and Ben got to the boat, it was too late.

And now the bounty hunters were here. We turned to face them, but turns out we didn't have to.

Apparently the bounty hunters hadn't taken Shell's fire breath into consideration, which is kinda stupid when you consider you're up against a freaking dragon.

Some of them were smart and held up shields, or quickly placed down blocks in front of them to avoid the stream of flames that burst from Shell's mouth, but most of the others weren't so lucky.

The people in the front were practically covered in fire, with the people in the back being lucky and only having certain parts set on fire.

There was a lot of screaming and panic, and everyone ran around like you would when you're on fire. Some actually ran past us and jumped into the water.

The people who weren't on fire shot arrows, threw tridents, and tossed all sorts of stuff at us.

Suffice to say, it was pretty insane. And once again, we got on Shell's back.

Most may not know, since dragons spend most of their time in the air, but dragons can actually run pretty dang fast when they need to, and Shell was no exception.

Shell sped off, charging through the bounty hunters (and maybe trampling some) out of the beach and into the forest ahead. Unfortunately, we had one unwelcome stowaway.

Carlos was hanging from Shell's tail, and despite being dragged across the ground and probably getting all types of burns, he hung on and started pulling himself towards us.

Ender glanced backwards at Carlos and tossed a well aimed kick at his face.

Her combat boot hit him in the face, and blood spurted from his nose. And by the way he howled, I'm going to guess that it was most likely broken.

But still he hung on, and suddenly in one swift move he pulled himself onto Shell's back and tackled Ender.

One inch to the side, and both of them would fly off. Plus with Shell jumping and weaving through the forest, the odds weren't good.

They both slid to the side, and suddenly Ender was hanging on with one hand to the saddle on Shell's back.

Ender snarled pulled out a potion of poison and waved it at Carlos.

"Heeeeeey," she growled. "Guess what IIIIIII have."

Carlos's eyes widened in alarm, and Ender threw the potion.

The fragile bottle burst, and Carlos howled in pain. The glass shards probably didn't help later.

With poison and blood mixing and running down his face, he had no choice but to let go.

Carlos was quickly lost in the foliage, I pulled Ender back up, and we sped away into the night.

?-V-?

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Dan shouted at the unfortunate driver. "We just left three—no, four of our crew behind!"

The driver stammered, "W-well, the bounty hunters were coming, you see, and—"

"You panicked and left? Even though we still had time to get them on?" Dan's voice was stone cold.

"Well, what would we have done about the dragon? From what I saw she wouldn't have been able to fly anyways!" the driver argued. "And even if we got her on the boat, she would have weighed us down anyways!"

"We would have figured something out!" Dan yelled. "We're going back! And by the way, Shell is a BOY!"

Seu put a calming hand on Dan's shoulder. "Dan. You know we can't do that."

"Why not?" Dan said, turning to Seu. "They could be dead by now!"

"They have a dragon, Dan." Seu reassured. "I'm sure they'll be fine."

"A dragon who can't fly!" Dan ran his hand through his hair.

"Dan." Orca sighed. "We wouldn't have been able to do anything anyways. The man is right. We just have to hope that they find their own way to Cratre."

"Then we're going to have to be doing a lot of hoping, Orca."

?-V-?

Ender paced back and forth in the darkness. Shell had stopped in a clearing and plopped down, and that was the end of it. We agreed not to make a campfire, because although we were a long ways away from the rest of the bounty hunters, we couldn't risk drawing attention to ourselves with too much smoke.

"Well, this is great." Ender grunted. "We've been abandoned by the others, and we're supposed to meet them in Cratre, which sucks because it is a twenty-four trip, and that's only if we keep going without resting, which is not likely, as we have a wounded dragon, a boy with unsteady legs, and a girl with horrible stamina."

"Hey!" I shouted. "I'm not that—"

"Ender, they didn't abandon us and you know it. If you want to blame someone, blame the driver of the boat." Ben said tiredly.

Ender made a frustrated noise. "I know. I'm just pissed right now."

"All of us are pissed in some way." Ben sighed. "We just have to deal with it."

"Oh, super advice." Ender groaned. "Let's go. I'm sure the bounty hunters aren't far behind us."

"Shell still needs to rest," I said to Ender. "He's going to collapse if we keep forcing him to move, and then it'll take even slower."

Ender huffed and turned away.

Ben looked at me apologetically. "Sorry, Ender gets a little touchy when something like this happens. She has a bit of a bad temper."

"I can still hear you," Ender yelled, and Ben went silent.

Ben sighed again. "Let's get some rest, and then head out."

I laid down on the grass and closed my eyes, and drifted off into an uneasy sleep.

It was not my intention for this to be an action chapter.

Before you complain that 99 percent of 'Herobrine Reborn' is action, I can't help it! It just happens!

And also...god, autocorrect sucks.

Here's a list of thing I've had people's names autocorrected to:

Shell: She'll

Seu: See, Sue, Seuss, Set

Enderdragon: Endear dragon

Nikai: Nikki, Nokia

Yeah, Seu's name is confusing the heck out of autocorrect.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter that should not have taken as long as it did. Hope you have a good day/night.

Peace out.

Krios