#osmp jack

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(fun fact there is flower symbolism in the Karlnapity moodboard, if you want me to talk about it I can because I am sooo proud of myself for it-)

Story

Jack dove through the nether portal at the back of Ranboo’s base, his heart beating a mile a minute. He quickly looked around and hid behind the massive dark boulder on the otherwise incredibly flat bedrock floor.

He peeked out, above the rock and watched as the lanky dark form of his Enderian pursuer emerged from the purple glow. He held his breath, praying that he wouldn’t be spotted.

The Enderian slowly looked around, his eyes narrowed before he turned away from where Jack was hiding. A green glow appeared between his hands, and he pulled back his hand and flung the glow out across the bedrock.

After a second, they vanished, a trail of purple particles marking out where they had gone. Jack frowned, and made a decision.

He moved as quickly as he could, and fortunately, the path the Enderian had taken was very clearly marked. It wasn’t a long trip and to Jack’s utter surprise, he found a second portal. The particles lead into it, and Jack only hesitated for a moment, before he decided to enter.

He emerged into a dark stone interior. Lava glowed behind iron bars across the walls, and before him was a strange white frame that hung suspended by dark metal chains.

There was rustling down below the portal, and Jack hurriedly floated upward, plastering himself against the ceiling, just in time to watch the Enderian walk up from down below. Jack held his breath, his eyes wide, paying that he wouldn’t be noticed.

Luck was on his side this time, and the Enderian walked into the nether portal without looking up. Jack waited another minute, not even daring to breath, until the squeezing feeling in his lungs finally got the better of him and he took a gasping breath.

He dropped to the ground and decided to take a look around. There was a doorway leading out of the room, but there was also the stairs down. Jack headed around and peeked into the space down below. It was darkened; candles scattered around, barely illuminating the space. He backed up and decided to head out of the room.

He wandered the dark stone halls for who knows how long, before he found his way back. Aside from candles scattered around, there was nothing interesting.

Jack slowly descended the stairs back in the nether portal room.

The room was dark and dry. The candles barely illuminated the spaces coming out from the main area. Directly in front of Jack was a large dark chest that emitted the same purple particles that followed the Enderian wherever he went.

Behind the chest was a large heavy sheet of fabric covering something. Jack glanced quickly to the left and right, but decided to go directly to the fabric.

He reached up and grasped the cloth, which felt heavy and expensive in his hand. He pulled down, praying that it would be easy to move.

The cloth tumbled down easily, revealing a massive painting of a very familiar figure.

Jack felt a shiver down his spine as he gazed up at the painted figure. It wasn’t how they were posed, but the environment in which they stood.

At first glance, it was various shades of dark, but as one looked carefully, certain familiar shapes began to form.

But if you looked away for a moment then looked back, the shape had changed.

It was unsettling.

Jack was so mesmerized that he didn’t hear his approach.

The light around Jack dimmed suddenly, and purple particles began swarming around the painting frame.

Jack blinked and stiffened, feeling a presence behind him. “Jack-” a deep voice hissed behind him.

Large dark shapes reached into his vision, and Jack’s fight reaction kicked in and he scrambled to grab his sword and whip around to swing.

The long, lanky figure grasped Jack’s arm with his oversized paw, his jaw unhinging.

A sound like a cross between an angry whine and a furious hiss emerged from his open, glowing mouth, and Jack felt his eyes widen in fear. His sword slipped out of his hand as his vision went dark.

When he awoke, he was tucked into his warm bed. He looked around, seeing nothing out of place. His sword was resting against the back of a chair, exactly where it had been before he went to sleep. The rest of his usual gear was scattered about the space.

Jack stood, and headed to the opening to his balcony. He looked out across the darkening world. It was quiet.

The presence. It was back.

“You know your not the first blaze I’ve ever met.”/Niki quitetly said her blue and pink tail floating lazily in the river behind her.

“Is that really so?” Jack exclaimed the rods around him glowing ever so slightly brighter. “I didn’t know you knew anyone really besides our group at the pub(e) let alone another neather dweller like myself.”

“Yeah… yeah I did…” she said eyes glowing with sadness as if she was remembering a time now far gone. “He was truly someone special… his name was Ori and from what I can assume you and him are the exact same species.”

“Is that so?” Jack said giving her an incredulous look.

“Yeah… yeah you are…” she said looking off into the distance and holding a piece of what looked to be yellow glass tied around a loosely made necklace before adding. “Him and I went through quite a lot together. I got him out of the nether and we both ended up learning quite abit about both the over world and even the nether that one time he took me.”

“You went to the nether!?” jack exclaimed

“Yes I did!” Niki laughed. “Now let me finish my story!”

“So anyways him and I went and explored all we could finding many a things before well one day him and I got into a pretty big fight that stars knows now what was about and he got upset over it and just left…”

“Wow” jack said eyes burning a deep red. “How could he just get mad at you over a silly little thing that you can’t even remember and just leave like that! Not even a goodbye!”

“Yeaahhh…” niki hesitatently said. “Though now that I think about it more I never think he was mad at me… I think he was just mad at himself and just in the end never knew how to communicate his feelings with ether me or himself…”

They sat their in silence for a long while before she finally said.

“You know if he’s still out their I hope he’s finally happy. I by the stars I hope that one day our cross roads will join together just at least once more so I can tell him that whatever he’s done he’s done amazing and I bet Shy would be proud of us both…” niki quitely said looking up at the stars clustered in the cool night sky.