Short Story #2
It had been two months since my last encounter with Herobrine. During that two month period there was a large explosion in our town. We barely managed to escape with enough supplies to make a new town... and our lives. It would never be the same. We managed to throw up a small wall and simple houses a day's walk away before night fell completely. I didn't know if we would ever have a town quite like Boom-Town. The houses we had to throw together were five meters wide and long, each block being a meter. Since we were 1.5 meters tall in our Minecraft form we made the houses 3 meters high so we could jump around. Jumping around indoors is fun! By the time we had the walls and houses set up it was midnight. We set down the beds we salvaged and slept, hoping the morning would be better.
I slowly woke up the next day, the morning light slipping through the holes in my door. I didn't want to get up but I knew I had to. I jumped out of bed and opened my door. The others were still sleeping. I guess they built their doors facing the other way or they were heavy sleepers. Didn't matter to me. I decided to take a short walk around, maybe even try and salvage the ruins of our town. I managed to find a carrot while walking around outside of the walls. I took out my fishing pole and attached the carrot. I got an idea. I remembered playing with saddled pigs. If I could find a pig I could quickly ride to the old town and salvage a lot of items! After a moment of searching I managed to find a good pig. I slapped a saddle on its back and hopped on. "All right pig. Let's do this!"
It was a short trip on pig to the ruins. Upon arrival I built a small barricade to put the pig in so I could return to the new town quickly. I walked in through a hole in the wall and looked around. It looked like someone detonated a nuke in the place. Everywhere I looked, buildings were in ruin. Normal Minecraft physics didn't seem to apply anymore as the buildings were toppled over. I managed to find a few chests of food, which I grabbed and looked for more supplies. I found a couple mismatched suits of armor. Hopefully it will be useful for us. I scavenged that too and walked more. I heard a groan of a Zombie and hid behind a wall. His green body walked by. He was wearing the standard light blue shirt and dark blue-purple pants. He groaned again and stopped. He turned his head towards me and I thought I might have to dispatch him then and there. Thankfully I didn't as he walked away. I looked up at the sky. It was still day time. How did a Zombie manage to spawn? Let alone survive in the daylight? Something was seriously wrong here and I intended to find out. I then heard a voice in my head. Wasn't my voice. It was Alexis' voice. How on earth? The voice was asking where I was pretty irritably. I'm at the ruins I thought and sure enough I got an answer from her. Why are you there? What good is it going to do? We can't live there now. It's destroyed. Came the response from Lex. Yeah we couldn't live here anymore could we? I came back so I could scavenge some supplies for our new home. I thought back at her. I heard an irritated sigh and a Fine. Just don't kill yourself. With that I began my renewed search throughout the town.
It was nearing sunset and I had managed to loot two complete Iron Armor sets, Some Diamond tools like an Axe, Shovel, Hoe and Sword, and one mismatched set of Iron and Diamond, as well as twenty Cooked Chickens which stacked nicely in my inventory. I also gathered sixty-four logs in a stack and a Flint and Steel for making a fire at home. Abandoning caution, I drew my Diamond Sword I had used during the siege on the Nether Fort we built and ran back to my pig. I had to slay a couple Zombies on the way there but I made it alive. I released my Pig from the makeshift cage I made for it, mounted, and rode off to home.
I arrived just before Nightfall and slowly walked in the front gate on my pig. I hopped off and shouted, "Guys, I'm back!" No response. "Guys?" Nothing. Where were they? I walked around for a minute before finding a tunnel dug down into the dirt. I quickly ran to the gate and sealed it and returned to the hole. I shouted down, "Guys! I'm back! I brought stuff!" I waited for a response. "...True but I found the first Diamond Seth." I heard Brooke gloating. "Yes, but I found the MOST!" Seth shot back. Then Alexis chimed in, "Actually, I found the most. I didn't say anything because I wanted to shock you all. Hahaha!" I missed a mining trip. To scavenge. I frowned. "Alexis broke over the line of earth separating the mines from the overworld. "Well, look who's back. Anything good?" I listed off the supplies I found and got a nod from Alexis. I hesitated for a second and then said, "I also saw Zombies. Not hiding in the shadows, but walking around in broad daylight. Normal Earth physics applied there. Some ruins had toppled over. I think something bad is about to happen." It was Alexis's turn to frown. She looked irritated for a second and said. "Well that could be a problem. We should probably set up traps around our walls to kill any unwanted visitors then." I nodded and was about to reply when I heard a voice.
"Hello? Anyone there?" I ran to the top of the wall and drew my bow and aimed at the newcomer. "Yeah, who wants to know?" The person looked startled but quickly regained their composure. "I am Anthony. Me and my friends, about nine of us total, arrived here a month ago. We didn't know anyone else was here in this world." I frowned. A month and we didn't know? "Ok. Go on." I said without dropping my bow. "We have a small little kingdom set up about six kilometers from here to the east." He said. I was trying to see if he had a smirk on his face or not. Hard to tell at night. "Ok. But why did you come here?" Now I could see it. "Me and a couple friends have been watching you for the past month. Surprised you didn't see us. We saw your home explode. Before that we were afraid of you. But since your bastion no longer exists, it is your turn to be afraid of us. The land you have settled on is claimed by us. My king demands that either you surrender the town and leave, or we take it by force. I lied when I said we had nine of us. There's more like twenty of us. So As you can see the answer is simple. Leave our land or be slaughtered." I turned to Lex. "Get up here." She climbed the wall and the same thing was repeated to her. She laughed. "You think we are afraid of you? You come here and threaten some of the best Archers, Swordsmen, Builders and Explorers in Minecraftia with war? Heh... Good luck taking it from us. We will fight to the last PIXEL to defend our home from you. Now I suggest you leave," The others sprung up on the wall, bows drawn, "Before your 'King' loses a man." Anthony was visibly angry. "Fine, I'll leave for now, but in a week's time you had better be gone or our army will attack." With that he stalked off. I fired an arrow at him and nearly hit him. I wished I would have hit him though. He continued to stalk off, towards the east. "So, we are threatened with war eh?" I said with a calm face. "Yep. Looks that way." Lex said. I laughed. "Seth, think you can set up some TnT cannons?"
It had been four days and you couldn't recognize the town we built in a day. All the walls were six high with crenellations so we could fire arrows and hide when we were shot at. We had two TnT cannons set up on each side of the wall and arrow turrets hidden behind walls of lava that spewed flaming arrows at anything that came within twenty blocks. We had a couple old friends join us such as SkyJohn, and Jay. They were immediately set up with armor and briefed on the situation. Regardless of how lazy SkyJohn was, he was willing to fight with his friends.
It was three days later. We all sat on our positions on the wall. All twelve of us looked out searching for movement. Sky shouted out that we has people advancing. About fifteen people. We were outnumbered. Oh well, we had come out of worse. As they got closer I recognized Anthony in front of the army. We all moved to where SkyJohn was and loaded the TnT cannons. Bows drawn we waited. Anthony called out a warning, demanding our surrender and evacuation of the land. I sent him his answer by firing an arrow at his feet and yelling something quite rude. His face was bright red in anger. We all laughed at it. That made him more angry. "ALL ARCHERS, ATTACK THOSE FOOLS! KILL THEM WHERE THEY STAND!" Ten of the attackers drew bows and fired at us. Their aim was bloody horrible. We laughed harder and drew back our bows, twelve of us firing arrows into their ranks, injuring five of them but not injured enough. We pressed the button for the TnT cannons and sent the payload soaring overhead into the group. Most got away in time but three were killed from the blast. But after they died three more replaced them. "What? They must have beds nearby that we didn't notice!" They unleashed another volley, hitting a tnt canon before it was completely ready to fire, triggering the explosives. We all ducked out of the way in time but the cannon was rendered useless. They then started charging at us, swords drawn. I flicked a lever, stopping them from getting to close. Two were riddled with arrows and collapsed, but were yet again replaced. The arrows wouldn't last long. The army had a stroke of brilliance and started placing blocks in the way of the oncoming arrows and managed to continue the advance. We tried to pick off a few but they were well hidden behind the ever advancing barricades.
They gradually got closed and one got close enough to start laying ladders. He got the ladder halfway up before we shot him in the head multiple times. The others got close enough too and began climbing. It wasn't before long that we were pushed off the wall by their numbers. We didn't lose anyone, thanks to our armor, but they were getting close to hitting our weak points. We triggered the failsafe system on the wall and it detonated as soon as we got off killing those on it. But yet again, they respawned and attacked again. The battle kept up for the entire day before they were called off to camp for the night. We kept a good watch and discussed a plan to end the battle soon. We discussed many possibilities such as spawn camping them, but the idea we decided on, was sabotage. We planned to sneak under their camp and rig up a giant TnT bomb and destroy their beds so that they couldn't spawn there again. We were going to talk about invading their castle but decided it was too far off. I volunteered for this mission and so did Seth. Alexis came along because the three of us with TnT was a VERY BAD THING. We brought some of our precious supply of Redstone so we could set it on a timer so we could escape in time from the blast.
It was now midnight, the perfect time. We put on dark clothing so we blend in with the night and began our advance. When we got ten blocks from the camp we began to dig under. We carefully dug a cavern underneath the entire camp and began setting up out TnT bomb. We set it underneath each tent they had set up. Four TnT per tent, connected with Redstone all around. When we felt we had enough we placed even more to be sure. We set the Redstone timer for enough time so we could get back to the town and watch the fireworks with everyone else.
We managed to make it to town without incident or injury. I attached a note to an arrow and fired it in the middle of their camp. The note said, Your guards are pretty bad. We snuck into your camp last night and rigged a bomb. It should detonate right about no- A massive explosion resonated. The tents and army blew up right before our eyes. The enemy camp was torn to pieces by our brilliant planning and TnT. We cheered loudly and began to plan for the next part of the war: The end of it.