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In this world filled with all known realms from the aether to the nether, to the farlands and to the main point where everything was connected aka the overworld there is one place that is known for its full isolation and secrecy and security, that would be the end.
The end is a massive wasteland with broken down castles, cities, and ships left abandoned by whatever once existed there ages ago before the current shulkers, endermen, and every once in a while, a voidling.
But even those sometimes after being found by outsiders are considered to be dangerous enough to stay in the end by the guardian of the realm.
If you finally leave the inner circles of the islands, you wouldn't even find any chorus fruit there, let alone barely any islands. Just small rocks that are barely big enough to support a player.
And if you even look down, there will be a deadly void ready to catch you. Well, if you're not captured by the guardian first.
The guardian of the end, minutetech, is a strict guard. If even one conscious end player is met with an outsider that might have fed them information of the outside, the guard would gently but firmly make sure they were out of the end.
His fierce loyalty to his homelands as a voidling made it practically impossible for any nether born, aether born, farland wanderer, or an overwolder to even look for the elytra, a mythical item allowing any being to fly with just a boost of a windcharge or rockets. Let alone walk further into the realm.
No one dared to step into the end to cause trouble for the man from fear, and probably the chance of getting embarrassed.
Sure minute might not be number 1 in fighting on the server, but he had the upper hand when it came to being in the end. He knew it far better than anyone else did or could know.
It was also incredibly difficult to avoid the guardian without planning for months, and even after that, it will only be a few minutes before he finds an intruder. He knows the end like the back of his hand.
But most wondered what makes minute so overprotective of the end? The dragon has been slain already, and the egg is hidden away.
There's nothing except ruins in the end, and yet he stays loyal to keeping all out.
Well, to explain his loyalty to the end is to speak of the unknown. You see, underneath the end islands, there is only a black dark void that eats all that falls into it.
Nothing could be in it, as it is deadly, but perhaps something underneath it could survive, maybe even thrive. But that's just silly, isn't it?
But the truth was that it was not a silly theory. Underneath the void thrives an entire group of civilizations that left the wastelands of the accessible end or have been existing underneath it for centuries. They were older than any player to exist.
This place was named the underend. The lands were filled with many creatures from stray voidlings, endermen, shulkers, spirits, dragons, and many other different species. But the biggest civilization of the underend was the kingdom to the south of it all.
The kingdom of obscura the kingdom that minute was devoted to his life. It is rules by a family of dragons that lived for centuries.
Their kingdom welcomes all end beings, and yet, they are the ones who have been keeping the second layer of the end hidden from mortal eyes. The royals and their closest allies knew how to traverse through the void to the surface and back.
As of currently, the ruler of the kingdom was the queen dragon prime, a dragon who's been ruling for a mere 150 years compared to her ancestors, yet she's the only ruler in a long while to have an heir prepared in such little time.
The heir of the kingdom, the beloved crowned prince, the twilight of the void, prince wemmbu. One of the few dragons who was born to be able to transform into a humanoid form whilst still able to connect back to a dragon's body.
The young man is the most beloved person in the kingdom, after the queen, of course. Most know that he will take over after his mother retires or dies, but currently, wemmbu is in charge of the nation as his mother is away.
Currently, the dragon was sitting in his room on the balcony, watching over his kingdom in the silent air. His crown laid gently on his head over his dark purple horns.
It was silent as most residents of the capital were sleeping quietly under the protection of the kingdom's knights. Wemmbu let out a small sigh before looking behind him to see a figure behind the veiled entrance to the balcony.
"Egg." Wemmbu addressed his friend and there stepped out eggchan, the only outsider to live in the underend, the only being of the aether to reside in the underend and wemmbu's right hand man and head archivist.
Egg shifted to his other foot, carefully moving the veil to the side to let his face be seen. His bright blue eyes shined with curiosity.
"Hey, wemmbu. You don't usually sit out here. Did something happen?" The angel's voice held a small inkling of concern towards wemmbu.
Wemmbu just shook his head. "Nah, just bored. Minute has been gone for over a week. Mother has been gone for about a month now, and nothing interesting has happened yet."
"Bro, you're literally a prince."
"I know, and you and I know I have ' responsibilities'. But literally everything has been taken care of." He whined, his tail thumping onto the tiles of the balcony. He looked over at Egg and frowned.
"Where's your jacket, Mister archivist?"
Egg froze, seemingly remembering he did, in fact, not have his jacket. "Oh, I probably forgot it in the archive room. I can just ask the other archivist to give it back to me next time they see me."
The air grew heavily silent, and then wemmbu let out a huff of air before throwing his own fluffy cloak at the angel. "Nope, you are not getting cold because you were being a stupid chungie."
Egg caught the cloak, glaring at wemmbu, but his eyes didn't hold any anger towards the dragon. "This is basically treason for me to take your cloak."
"You call me wemmbu around me and my mother instead of Highness, and I haven't seen your head in a basket yet."
He joked, walking past eggchan back into his room, picking up a small purple end bat. The bat let out a small squeak, hustling into his hands.
Eggchan followed right behind him, summoning a book in his hands with a letter, too.
"By the way, your mother delivered a letter, I assume an update on the trades deal."
"Read it out loud, rather not waste anymore time." Wemmbu brushed the bats' head, careful of its ears. They continued walking, now out of the wemmbu's bedroom and into the hallway whilst egg reads out the letter sent to wemmbu.
"Dear wemmbu, it's been quite a long while, and from your previous letter, I can answer that. Yes, I do know that minute has left to the upper levels of the end."
"Of course she knew." Wemmbu's shoulders tensed, a frown crossing his face as he grumbled. He never liked when things were hidden from him, even if it was unintentionally.
Eggchan continued on with a small smile at the sight. Everyone knew wemmbu was the queen's favorite child.
"I do hope the other guards have been keeping you safe. But that is not why I wrote the letter to you. The current status of the deal with the neighboring kingdom of aeye has been going.
The queens of the kingdom and their child Crown Prince ranboo have given a delightful offer, but I do have to add a few more things, so I might be gone for a bit longer."
Wemmbu looked over at Egg with a raised eyebrow. "Again? I'm starting to think she likes the aeye more than her own kingdom."
"Oh shush, you're her only heir. She would come back here no matter what."
"My sisters and brother still exist, ya know." Wemmbu pointed out his other three siblings who were away for a bit into a few cities in the kingdom.
"Only heir legible for the crown. Besides, she loves your siblings just as much. Like you have named your weapons after them to honor those three."
"Because gambit, crucible, and pearl are adopted, they could get the crown if I would step down as heir."
"And none of them want that, now let me continue." Eggchan shifted to continue reading the rest of the letter, and wemmbu just rolled his eyes, letting the bat in his hands go for it to fly back to his room.
Egg continued reporting what the letter said from the queen talking about the views of the neighboring kingdom, to how the traveling across the places were making her grow tired.
The hallway they were in slowly changed into a grand hall of the palace.
The curtains shifted to show the outside to the gardens, and the outside the walls were the sleeping civilians were. Some night shift servants were keeping watch with a few guards walking nearby. It was a peaceful sight to see. Wemmbu felt an itch in his shoulder. Clearly, he was itching to do something interesting instead of just walking around his home.
"Maybe we could head to the training grounds?"
Egg looked at him, confusion on his face with a bit of worry. "Wemmbu, you need to rest after this. Also, they're closed for a few hours, so the knights and guards could rest."
"Rest is for the weak!" The prince turned around and grinned at his best friend, who was putting the letter into his book. The angel laughed and shrugged. "Minute might think otherwise. Maybe you'll even get grounded."
"WHAT!?"
Wemmbu crossed his arms over his chest and shook his head. He didn't believe that, even if Minute might be somewhat of a father figure ain't no way he's grounding wemmbu.
"He's not doing that. He might be the royal general but he does not have authority over me."
"Her majesty literally put him in charge of making sure you don't break your neck or deprive yourself of things you need. For example, sleep."
"It's fine! I'm fine." The only thing egg could do is frown and just put away his book.
"Fine, but we're not going to the training grounds. Neither of us has the key to it, and none of the other generals or if minute would return now would give it to you."
"Whatever, we can just walk around the castle, head to the archive so you can get your jacket, and i can have my cloak back. Maybe go to the roof?" Wemmbu grinned to himself, but Egg noticed the bright mood his friend was in and snorted.
"Whatever you say, bro. But you do need to have more cloaks than the event one and your common use one."
"Nope." he popped the p before he seemed to have an idea light up his mind. "Whoever gets to the archives first gets to choose a snack from the kitchen."
And he was off, running farther than egg who practically tried to sprint after him, but even with his long legs, egg was a lot slower than the dragon.
The hallways changed, and stairs were climbed as the duo ran through it all, going up and up to the towers where the archive room rested.
The awake servants gave amused smiles to the two. Some even tried to help one or the other by being ever so slightly slower from moving out the way.
Unfortunately for egg, that did not help at all as wemmbu arrived first into the archive room. He spread his wings in victory with a smug look. "I win."
"Not fair, dude!"
Somewhere near the kingdom's boarders, screaming could be heard as a group of 6 overworld players were dropped onto the ground of the enderend. Their yelling startled the wildlife nearby, and they rushed off, the movement of the animals alerting the guards nearby.
Parrot sat up with the help of Theo and frowned. "What the... where are we?" Theo gave him a simple shrug, and the other looked around him to see spoke face down on the ground, groaning in pain whilst zam seemed to have landed straight onto spoke's back. She was pretty much just sitting there.
Then there was Jaden and flame, who, as soon as they landed and got themselves together, started trying to fight each other, over who pushed them into the void.
Which was Spoke as he had pushed both flame and Jaden whilst Parrot and Theo fell there because they were trying to get the other two away from the void.
Zam was the one who pushed Spoke down and jumped in herself as if he didn't care. "Can you two shut up." Theo called over to Jaden and flame.
Jaden promptly closed his mouth, but he had raised his eyebrow to give Theo a look of annoyance. Whilst flame just huffed. "It's not my fault he pushed me down."
"Spoke pushed you two down, parrot and theo fell after you, i pushed Spoke, but he grabbed me in time to pull me in." Zam explained. Looking over their nails, careful of any of them being even slightly chipped.
Fixing a siren's nails is really hard and expensive, so he felt justified with looking over them. Flame immediately turned to Spoke with a harsh glare that the voidling could not see from where he was laying.
"Theo and parrot had wings, I thought they would catch Jaden and flame." He grumbled, face mushed into the ground, then his form dissipated into the shadows and reappeared sitting beside zam. "Also, you didn't need to push me."
Zam just hummed, not caring enough to give Spoke a proper response, making the other turn to parrot and Theo. "Why didn't you catch them?"
"Our wings were freezing in the void. Also, we were a few seconds too late to notice them falling." Parrot answered carefully, but Theo spoke up before Spoke could respond.
"Shouldn't we be dead? And back on the hub?" Parrot snapped back into realization, and so did the others.
They looked around them. Instead of just void or endstone, the ground was covered in soft off-white grass. Weird purplish and gray teal bugs crawled around them.
There were even trees there, bigger than anything in the overworld and a very deep purple or black. The leaves were distinctly iridescent.
So many weird plans grew, even the regular chorus flowers came to heights unknown to anyone, and they were fully blooming stunning pale violet and white flowers.
Then the wall of obsidian and purpur far away from them did catch their eyes, and the fact that buildings stood behind them, barely visible to them, did help. "The fuck?" Theo raised his sunglasses up his head to get a clearer look at the place.
Zam picked up a fallen chorus petal and a leaf, looking over them with a raised eyebrow before tucking them into his crown.
"Woah." Spoke muttered, just as bewildered as the others. Parrot's eyes shined with curiosity, and Jaden with flame looked suspicious of the place.
"We're definitely in the end, but I'm unsure where." Zam called out. She was looking at the giant tree, bewilderment troubling her quite a bit. She never liked it when she did not know where she was in.
"Maybe we're hallucinating."
"No Theo. This is real, and it's definitely the end." Parrot quickly corrected Theo's assumption.
But the parrot hybrid just looked over at the wall, eyes squinting, quietly trying to figure out what this place was and why they hadn't died in the void. At this point, everyone in the group was back up on their feet, trying to underrated their surroundings and situation.
Suddenly, they heard loud thumping of metal boots getting closer and closer to their location. Flame, Theo, and Jaden whipped out their weapons, getting ready for a fight.
The air grew tense as the noise got closer, making everyone realize that there were definitely more than 20 people approaching, but when the cause of the noise appeared from behind the chorus flowers, parrot froze up.
Those weren't just some random players who might have trapped them or wanted to fight them. No, these were knights and some sort of royal guards of various known and unknown mob combinations.
Their armor looked pretty similar to netherite but seemingly more silvery and scaly. All of them carried various different weapons from spear, sword, and axe to crossbow. The one leading the group froze at seeing 6 overwolders.
Spoke leaned over to zam to whisper to them. "Zam, do you know these guys? They're wearing a uniform, are they part of your empire?"
"No??? They're clearly end creatures. Shouldn't you be the one to know them."
Spoke shrugged. "They look familiar, but I'm unsure."
The knight leader gave an enderman near them a signal, and they teleported away. The leader walked closer, pulling out their sword and pointing it at them, specifically at parrots neck. "Outsiders."
They addressed the group, Theo tried to push away the sword from parrot but was stopped by his friend. "Calm down Theo, I'm fine."
He looked back at the knight that was leading the others. "Hello sir -"
"You are under arrest for trespassing into the underend. You'll speak in front of his Highness for your fates to be determined." The tone was stone cold. No argument could be made against this statement. The group of 6 players felt like cold water was dumped onto them.
Back in the castle of the kingdom, wemmbu and eggchan looked through the kitchen for anything remotely intriguing for a snack at this late hour.
"Do you think there's any more snacks from the overworld that minute had brought us?" Egg asked wrmmbu, pushing some boxes aside whilst looking through a few more.
"Maybe, bigger chance that not, but it doesn't hurt to check." Wemmbu pushed a door open to see another layer to the pantry. It was mainly some end snacks, but to the side, he did see what looks to be overworld bread.
"Oi, I think I found some bread, I think it's the garlic one."
"Really?" Eggchan shifted his attention to where wemmbu was looking, and a bright smile spread across his face in absolute joy and delight. "Finally! We've been here for over an hour and we found something interesting!"
Wemmbu patted eggchan's shoulder, his own body vibrated with happiness at seeing something more interesting than what they can regularly get from just asking a servant for something.
"Mighg as well, grab it, and clean up before a cook has our heads in the morning -" wemmbu was cut off by egg grabbing the bread, but he let out a loud laugh at his friends actions.
After cleaning up the area, they snuck back out into the hallway, bread in one hand, and a few other things they took from the kitchen. The angel and dragon carefully navigated across the hallways and hid their treasures inside of wemmbu's cloak, which was back on his shoulders, keeping him warm after egg got his jacket back.
They were mainly silent, only sharing knowing looks of their great feat of not getting told off by any servants or cooks for sneaking around the kitchen at this hour of the night.
Until suddenly, an enderman knight teleported in front of the two, clearly frantic by how rapid their breathing was. "Y-... your Highness, out- outsiders, here!"
The angel's and dragon's shoulders tensed. And wemmbu could only shakily whisper something soft under his breath.
"What?"