Luka's Part

"So, where are we gonna build our new house, huh Gwen?" Zach asked, as they started off together.

"Gweniver!" The mage snapped back, and after taking a steadying breath said, "I was thinking we could build somewhere around here." Gesturing to the grassy slope they were standing on that ended just before a large lake. "We will need to mark out a space that will be big enough with dirt first and then we can get on with building the actual thing. I was thinking about making it out of Nether brick, but seeing as I don't have any, we might have to rethink that.

She walked forwards a few paces and held up her fingers, mapping out the house in her mind. "What if we start-"

"Mushrooms!" Gweniver was pulled from her train of though, as Zach raced down the hill towards a patch of mushrooms that were growing underneath a tree.

Gweniver stared down at the boy with amazement. With a shake of her head, she turned back around and started to clear the space she had mapped out in her head.

Some time later, after most of the clearing was done, Zach jogged back up beside her, his arms full of mushrooms.

"Sorry about that," he said, flashing her an easy grin, "When I saw these little guys I just felt the urge to grab some. What were you saying, Gewn?"

"It is GWEN-A-VER! I was saying we could make it here, if that is ok with you?"

"Sure! Sounds good to me!"

"Good, now go take this dirt and make us some walls so we don't get killed by creepers when it gets dark."

"Wait, didn't you just dig that up?"

Gweniver glared at him, "I mean if you want to get eaten by a spider tonight, be my guest. I, however- Zach what's wrong?"

At the word 'spider' Zach had grown unnaturally pale and had begun to look around nervously. "Did you just say sp-spiders?"

"Yes, you don't remember the giant spiders that spawn at night?"

Zach shook his head violently, "No that is something I don't remember at all."

"You don't need to be scared, they are pretty weak when it comes to fighting them."

Zach shivered, "Spiders are evil. Besides, I don't have anything to fight them with!"

Gweniver sighed, "Here, let me set up my condenser and I will make you a sword or something."

"What is a condenser?" Zach asked, as the mage set down the blue and green marked box in front of her.

"The condenser is a magical box that can use the energy of one item to transform it into other items. It is very handy because with it, you can basically mass-produce anything you want after you gather the base items. Different items require different amounts of energy. Like if I wanted to mass-produce a stick, it would be really easy to do and I wouldn't have to collect a lot of items to use for power. However, if I wanted to mass-produce say, a diamond, I would have to gather a lot of stuff to throw in there to give it the high amounts of energy it would require. We are lucky though because," she fished around in the small black bag at her waist, "while with S- well with my former 'employer', I was able to gather a lot of very useful items. So we basically have enough stuff to mass produce anything we want!" Gweniver finished proudly, expecting to hear Zach's excited exclamation but all she got was silence.

She whirled around and saw that he was working on a dirt wall. "Zach!" She snapped.

He looked over his shoulder at her while trying to place a block "Oh hey, are you finished explaining all that stuff? I didn't want any spiders attacking me while you were too busy to defend me, so I decided to go ahead and build this wall."

Gweniver ran her hand through her hair wondering how anyone could be that much of an airhead, before turning back to the condenser and putting the iron into, starting the compressing process.

After obtaining the amount of iron she needed, she quickly fashioned a crafting table and set about making him a sword.

"Here Zach," she called over her shoulder, "I've made you a sword. "

Zach placed his last bit of dirt in the wall, completely closing in their little camp and came trotting over.

"Here," Gweniver said, and held the sword out carefully.

"Thanks, Gwen," Flashing her a smile as she glared at the use of her shortened name, and took the sword.

"There, now you can go defend the camp while I start setting up a some -what decent camp. We also need to decide what we are going to build our house out of. Do you have any preferences?"

"Nope! Just pick something awesome!" He called over his shoulder, already half way to the wall.

Gweniver sighed, "Does this boy have any cares at all?" Shaking her head, she began to set out a furnace and started cooking some food.

Her quiet cooking session was interrupted, however, by a yell that she was now becoming very familiar with and the sight of Zach scrambling to get over the wall he had made.

"Gwen! Help! There is a spider that is trying to eat me!" he gasped in panic, flopping against the wall.

"Kill it then." She called; turning back to her food to make sure it didn't burn.

"With what?!"

"I made you a sword! Use it!" She said, irritated.

"Oh yeah!" Zach dropped down behind the wall and she heard him give a wild battle call before seeing his sword wave up above the wall and charge away.

She listened as he battled the spider and smiled slightly when she heard his whoop of delight and the sounds as the spider died.

"Gwen! Gwen look! I did it! I killed the spider!" Zach vaulted over the wall and raced towards her.

When he reached her, he shoved a little piece of string in her face, his eyes shining bright with excitement. "Look! It even dropped this and an eye too! But I didn't want to hold that 'cause it's kinda gross! But still! I killed the spider!"

His child-like happiness stopped the sarcastic comment that had been perched on her tongue and instead she said "Good job Zach. Now I know we will sleep safely tonight, protected by our mighty spider slayer."

His grin got even bigger and he walked back towards the wall, holding up his string like a victory trophy.

Author's Notes!

Hey guys! Luka here dropping a new fic!"The Darkhold Chronicles" is a collab fanfic series between myself and ShadowDragonia ( ) over on DeviantART

The Darkhold Chronicles is a genderswap fanfic based around The Blackrock Chronicles

Basically, Shadow will write one chapter and then I will write the other! I will be posting both sides on here since she doesn't have a FF. So, so follow her on DA if you have one! She also made the cover art so you should really show her some love :3