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Jeremy poofed through the nether portal after the other lads. Stepping onto the heated floor of the nether, he looked around to make sure there were no immediate threats nearby. Ryan came out after. “I think Geoff and Jack are gonna notice if we're all out.”
“Don't be a little sausage Ryan,” said Gavin as he grabbed a hold of Michaels shoulders. “We’ll be back after we get nether wart for Jeremy's potions.”
“Yeah don't be a sausage Ryan, we've got like an hour before Geoff realizes anything's different,” Michael agreed as they all headed towards the nether castle.
“Besides, Geoff still thinks I'm helping Lindsay and Trevor fix the redstone in one of the new builds,” Jeremy added.
“Alright, but if he gets mad I am immediately putting any and all blame on Gavin.”
“Wot?!?! Ryan?!?!” squawked Gavin, “Boi, you'll back me up right boi?”
“Fuck no this was your idea.”
As they bickered Jeremy noticed slight movement out of the corner of his eye. He stopped to try and follow it and realised that it was... part of the wall moving? On closer inspection he realised it was actually the scales of a dragon! It was sniffing near the nether portal, seemingly trying to find something. “Uh guys!?” called Jeremy. “Guys! Run!” he yelled as he raced towards the nether castle. “Oh fuck!” screamed Michael as the others began after him.
They started running to the entrance of castle. The dragon seemed to notice a commotion and flew over them and in front of the entrance. It laid down and curled its tail near the lads, effectively cutting off any escape they could have. It lowered its body to appear as non-threatening as possible. They all froze as Ryan slowly began pushing the boys behind him. The dragon was huge; bigger than the entrance. Half of it was covered in scales that matched the nether around them, and the other half appeared to be feathers that were darker and much closer the brick of the castle. It lowered its head and began sniffing at Ryan. Ryan for his part held the boys closer as he locked eyes with the dragon. The dragon let out a small whine sniffling at his legs. “I think it's just confused about us. It's probably not used to humans, just don't provoke it.” said Ryan.
The dragon started to sniff at all the lads, pushing them around. They all were tense, scared to make any sudden movements as it pressed its warm nose to them. As it got to Jeremy it began to perk up as it sniffed him. It pushed him farther away from the others. Michael began to reach for his sword but Ryan held his arm. The dragon opened its mouth and gently began to nip at his bag. Jeremy pulled off his bag and held it toward the dragon, assuming that's what it wanted. The dragon pushed at the bag whining. “What does it want?” Jeremy said in a low voice to the others.
“Something in your bag, maybe? What do you have, maybe it smells food?” Ryan responded with.
Jeremy quickly opened the bag. “All I have are my tools and left over redstone?” he said, pulling out a diamond pickaxe and a handful of the redstone. The dragon pressed his snout to the redstone covered hand and let out a happy trill.
“... does it… want redstone?” questioned Gavin.
Jeremy, as calm as he could manage, pulled out all of his redstone and put it on the floor in front of the dragon. It gave out another happy trill as it curled a paw around the redstone pile. It slowly raised its wings and with a big burst of air it flew over them, into a cavern above the nether castle.
Stunned they stood in silence for what felt like hours, processing what happened before Jeremy finally broke the silence. “What the Fuck was that! Holy shit a dragon just fucking like… robbed me?!”
“Oh my god, we almost fucking died because of redstone. That would have been a shitty reason to die haha holy fuck!” Michael started laughing.
“Wot kinda dragon was that?! Why did it just flipping take all your redstone that's mental!” squawked Gavin.
“It must have smelled the redstone, maybe it was collecting it for its hoard? Either way it was surprisingly civil for, ya know, a goddamn dragon,” said Ryan as he finally lowered his arms.
“So this is Jeremy's fault is what you're saying?” said Michael. “What I didn't do this!” yelled Jeremy, getting back up. “Yeah yeah sure… but it was totally Jeremy's fault.”
“Whatever fuck you,” muttered Jeremey, “Let's just head back, I don't know about you guys but I'm think I'm done with the nether for now.”
They all agreed and headed back towards the portal. Before going through Jeremy took one last look at the nether castle to see the cavern the dragon had gone through. As they made it back they came face to face with Geoff and Jack, standing in front of the nether portal. Michael was the first to say anything. “Well shit.”