Fic - The Villages Epilogue

[mewbladexxx]

Yay! Finally! The end! Maybe I might write an omake. Maybe. But - enjoy.


It's been three years since that event.

Three, surprisingly short, very eventful years.

... It's been a wild ride, honestly.

I didn't really know what to think when I woke up in a sharp smelling, white walled room. Was I suppose to be surprised? Happy? Disappointed, even? Upset? Angry?

Turns out, I was a bit of everything.

~*~

"... Waking..."

"... Doctor, they're..."

"... Yes, I see..."

Mew blinked, the first thing greeting her vision being some kind of white wall.

"Am I dead?" She tried to say, but found she couldn't. Her mouth was abnormally dry. Was this what happened when someone died?

"Heh, no, you're not dead, Mew." Hearing the familiar voice to her left, she twisted her head around, seeing Archeo. Archeo grinned lopsidedly, handing Mew a small cup of water. Slowly, Mew sat up, taking the cup with a shaking hand.

Is this limb mine? Sipping the water, her eyes roved the sunny, white walled room she was in. It was very large, almost like a really wide hallway. She frowned at the number of strange people in the room with her, and she inched closer to Archeo.

Speaking of her best friend, she turned her gaze back to her. Archeo was very thin, and her hair was shorter than she remembered it. "Your hair was cut," Mew said hoarsely, lowering the cup. "What...?"

Archeo chuckled, touching a strand of her wavy hair. "Yeah. They had to, I guess."

"Where are we?"

"A hospital, idiot. Duh."

Mew rolled her eyes, looking down on her own hands. She could tell, just by that, she was just as thin as Archeo was. Gaunt. Not quite as thin as she thought she might have been, but that was just as well.

"So..."

"We're alive," Archeo cut in. "Obviously. I woke up a bit before you did." She glanced out the window. "Happy late birthday, by the way. It actually hasn't been that long. Maybe just under a year?"

Mew glanced out the window as well. A bird was perched on a tree branch right outside the glass. A crow, perhaps. But a bird nonetheless. She smiled, before going into deep thought.

"... Minecraft days are a bit longer than I thought," she mused. Archeo shrugged, her hospital gown slipping a bit. She pulled up the shoulder, scowling at the faded teal gown.

Mew chuckled. "Where are we?" she repeated again. "Location."

Archeo shrugged. "Beats me. All I know is that whenever we fell over, or whatever happened, they eventually carted us all here."

"They?"

"I dunno. Hospital people, I guess."

"... So..."

"Yeah. The Salad. Mindcrackers. Whatever. They're just people, like us."

Mew grinned at Archeo's bluntness. She hadn't been a really big fan of the Mindcrackers anyway. That was okay.

Mew scanned the room again. And now, things made more sense. There were only females in this room, but she wasn't surrounded by strangers. Not anymore.

No.

These people were family.

~*~

Guude sighed, throwing down his cards. "Sheesh guy, you're too good at this. Are you ever gonna loose?"

Amd smirked. "Not for a while," he said lightly, leaning back against the wall. "Hm... They haven't let us see the girls yet." A frown marred his face, as he gently tapped the wall behind him. "Really irritating too, knowing they're in the room over there."

Guude shrugged, then nodded in agreement. "Say, who's the chick over there then? With Pakratt." He motioned at the black haired man, who was sitting talking with a brown haired woman. Every now and then, she would look up, blush slightly, before lowering her gaze again.

"Eh? Oh, that's Antiloquist. Anti, or Ant, for short." Amd grinned, but didn't say anything more.

"Alright..." Guude shrugged again, turning his head as he heard the door open. "... Mhykol!" He got up out of his seat, eyes widen in surprise and confusion.

Mhykol grinned at Guude, acknowledging Amd with a nod of his head. "That's me," he said agreeably. "Did you guys forget my name again?"

"How're you alive? We thought you died!"

"I could say the same, I guess."

"... I suppose." Guude cuffed Mhykol on the shoulder in a friendly 'manly' gesture.

Amd chuckled. "Hey, we're alive, and that's what matters, for now." He smiled, eyes fading into a more distant look as he trailed off in thought. "Alive."

"Yeah."

~*~

It was rather ironic, all considering. After some research, it seemed that if we hadn't died, we would have never have 'lived'. Really wonky, how that worked. The harder we worked to stay alive in Minecraft, the more we were killing our physical bodies.

So honestly, the Ender Dragon had done us a favor by killing us. Lily's strategy, as it turned out, was successful in getting us back home, although not in the method that was intended. But it worked nonetheless.

Life had returned back to normal. The Mindcrackers went back to making videos and gathering together their fans again. We, the Salad, continued to write fanfiction, normal as always.

Life was good.

But we could never really forget what exactly we had forged in the real time months, or Minecraft years that had passed.

No, we could never forget that.

~*~

Nannyn logged on

Squid strode over to Nannyn, putting a hand on her hip impatiently. "Where have YOU been, missy?" she said, in an extremely exaggerated sassy voice. "We've all been waiting for you!" After finishing the sentence, she burst out laughing, stifling her giggles with a hand. "Ah, that was too good to resist," she sighed, still laughing.

Nannyn frowned, then grinned at Squid. "Hey, hey, who was the one that managed to mess up all the fancy Redstone that Doc worked so hard to make?"

Squid frowned, good mood dented. "That was an accident," she said, waving away the matter. "Anyways...?" She gestured at Guude and Amd, who cleared his throat.

"Now," Guude said, stabbing his sword point into the ground. He pointed to a small, stone brick structure behind him. "In that building, is a drop shaft." He grinned. "It goes down pretty far, y'know... To a Stronghold. With an End Portal, I might add." He held up an Ender Eye, which glowed a mystic greenish blue in his hand. "This is the last Eye required to activate that portal." He gestured to Amd to continue.

"As you know, our last attempt to slay the Ender Dragon failed - which was a good thing for us, in fact. But we're not content with that. No." Amd smirked. "Now that we're in a normal game, heh, how about we kill that dragon, aye?" He thrust his sword into the air, to a roar of approval.

"Let's do it proper this time!"

~*~

I am really tempted to write an omake of this Ender Dragon fight. It'd be funny, derpy, idiotic, and silly. Overall, silly, grinning, fluffy stuff. :3 Maybe?

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