Hello, here I am again with the second chapter. Something I forgot to mention earlier is that this is just the rough draft of the first book. If some parts are shorter than they probably should be, its because I just wanted to share what I am working on right now. If all goes right, you will be reading the paperback version someday. :D

If not, then I guess I'll just post the finished version here later or update it or something. Bleugh. Whatever. I appreciate the time any of you take to read this. Reviews would be much appreciated. I need someone to tell me if this is good so far or what. Give me any criticism you all have. Good or Bad. I guess i'll shut up now so you can just read the story. :)

Chapter 2: Zoey

Well, now that I've done it, I am pretty sure there is nothing more awkward than punching a tree. But it is efficient.

It had been about an hour since Leo had walked off to find a suitable spot to build, and in that time I had went to the back of the book and researched a few of the crafting recipes. So far I had built two pickaxes, axes, and shovels. I couldn't believe that all you had to do was put the items in into a certain order and out popped an item, but yet it did. Since it said that you can exchange the wooden planks for stone to make better tools, I figured I could do that while waiting for him to get back. I started digging a staircase downwards and soon found stone. Simple enough. I then made us some stone tools and discarded the wooden ones.

I felt pretty proud of myself, when I saw Leo dashing back from exploring. "How did your little exploration go?"

He smiled and said, "I found the perfect place for us to start building. There is large grassland beyond the jungle." He looked down and saw me holding my pickaxe. "I see you have been making good use of your time. Where did you get the stone to make those?" I pointed to my staircase going down into my little mine. He nodded in understanding.

"Can you bring me to this amazing area? It is getting late, and the book warned to make sure to have shelter by the time it was night."

"Follow me, I'll lead the way. Grab anything you want to take with you."

After going through the forest and Leo denying the idea of building a tree house around 100 times, we emerged from the trees into gigantic grassland. It was amazing. You can see for miles in all directions. There were mountains, rivers, swamps, deserts, and even areas where it was always snowing. It was defiantly the perfect spot for our home.

"What do you think? Isn't it just perfect? We can go anywhere from here, and I also saw a cave over in the distance. We should be able to find some useful materials in there." I nodded, but then noticed somthing. The sun was almost set. We had about a half hour before it changed to night.

"Leo! We have to hurry! It's almost night. What are we going to do?"

"Well, we don't have to build our real house right now. We can just build a little shelter for tonight, and then start on the real house tomorrow. I agreed. We rushed to set up a small shack that would suffice for the night. Just as the sun set, I placed the wooden door that I had crafted, and ran inside. I then placed down two beds I had crafted on the beach.

Leo looked at me in amazement. "Where did you get the wool to make the sheets?"

"There were some sheep grazing by the edge of the forest. Don't ask me how I got the wool off of them. Let's get some sleep so that we can build a real house tomorrow." We both collapsed onto our beds from exhaustion. I fell asleep almost instantly. Right before I passed out, I thought I heard something moaning from outside. It was probably just my imagination. Hopefully.

While I slept like a rock, that doesn't mean that I enjoyed it. I had an awful nightmare that I was being scratched and pummeled by undead zombies while being shot repeatedly by living skeletons with bows. I awoke the next morning screaming with Leo at my bedside telling me, "It's only a dream, it's only a dream..."

"You were rolling and tumbling around in your sleep", he said with concern in his eyes.

"I'm fine", I told him.

"Bu-"

"I said I'm fine." He didn't look convinced, but I changed the subject. "Is it still early in the morning, or around midday?"

"It's still early. We should still get up and start working on our home. It's going to be a lot of work." I nodded and started to rise. It was a beautiful day outside. The sun was shining bright, and the sky was a brilliant blue. I breathed in the cool morning air and prepared myself for the day ahead.

We both argued quite a bit about how the house would be built. We were still talking after about an hour. It would be two floors high, with wooden planks for the floor. Paige started to glow as we were talking, and when I opened it up, there was new text written. I started to read; "You two should probably make a furnace, with this, you can make some charcoal by smelting wood. With the coal you can craft torches. These are needed to have any light, and burn infinitely. You can also smelt cobblestone back into stone. That can then be crafted into stone bricks"

We then spent another half hour discussing what the walls would be made of and all of the other features that would be built. When we were finally done with our plans, it was almost mid-day.

Leo went to collect some stone and darker wood for making coal and building the house. I decided to build a furnace with the remaining stone I had. I then went and used the wood that I hadn't turned into planks to make some charcoal. Leo came back from collecting, and we started to build.

Now, we both thought building the house would be a ton of work, even with the messed up physics that this place has. But it was not nearly as hard as we expected. Each type of material stacked into groups of 64, and was easily connected together. Nothing had to be nailed, or glued, or anything of that nature. With the two of us working together, we were like a well-oiled machine. By the time dusk came, we had finished the structure of the entire first floor. We were still exhausted, but the amount of work we had accomplished for only two people was somewhat of an amazing feat. We walked back into our shack to get a good night's sleep.

Leo was still worried about me and my dream. "Are you sure you wouldn't like to move the beds together in case you have another nightmare? Maybe you would feel less afraid." I shook my head. I didn't exactly feel comfortable with the idea of sleeping with him. We were very good friends, and it would feel too awkward. I yawned and got into bed. Just as exhausted as the last night, I drifted straight to sleep, and for the second time, I could swear I heard moaning coming from outside. I was starting to doubt it was just my imagination.

I dreamed this night that I was inside an enclosed chamber, strapped to a machine. I could hear Leo struggling next to me. I had no idea what was going on, except that I was in danger. Then came the pain. I felt it come in huge surges, like lightning going through my body. I felt as if my entire body were changing, morphing into some kind of mutation. I could hear some kind of madman laughing in the background.

Leo shook me awake. He held out his arms and I accepted his embrace. I just cried for what seemed like forever. When I finally gained control of my emotions, It was still night outside. "You were screaming in your sleep. Did it happen again?" I nodded. He sighed. "Why don't you just tell me what you are dreaming about, so that I could try to help you?"

"I just don't want to talk about it. It's really unpleasant for me to even think about. Here; move the beds together. I'm willing to try it if I could stop these awful nightmares."

It was a bit awkward laying so close to him, but I will admit I feel safer. Less vulnerable than when alone. When I fell asleep this time, I slept with no problem at all.

"Now wasn't that better? Did you have any more horrible dreams?"

"I didn't dream at all. I think this is what we should do from now on." He smiled.

"Well I'm glad that you are feeling safer." He stretched and started to get up. "I can't wait for the house to be done, so that we don't have to live in this cramped little shed."

I was ready to get things done. I lifted myself out of bed, and prepared myself for another hard day of work. We walked outside and got right back to building. This is pretty much how the next few days went. Wake up, build, and go to sleep. After that night, my dreams had stopped haunting me. I slept peacefully, and it felt good. When it was finally completed, we stepped back to admire our handiwork. It was a decent sized home, with two wooden hardwood floors, two bathrooms, a farm (we had been learning new things as we went along. Paige was continually supplying us with new information), A bedroom, a kitchen, and just a relaxation room. We had built up a decent amount of wood, stone, and food over the time that we were building.

"Well, I'm glad that it is finally done. Now what should we do? I shrugged.

"I don't know. I guess we can just relax now. We have been working nonstop for days now. It would be nice to just take a break." And that's what we did. We lazed around the house for the remainder of the day. When night finally came, we weren't really able to sleep, because we hadn't done much all day.

"Well, I can't sleep, and I'm pretty sure you fell just the same as me. Want to go do a little exploring?" I was still a little uneasy about going out at night. I remembered Paige's warning.

"Are you sure that it is really the best idea to go against her advice? Paige has been right about everything so far." He had a mischievous smile on his face.

"Hey, what's the worst that could happen? He jumped out of bed and said, "Well I'm not just going to sit here and do nothing."

"Then I'm coming with you. You shouldn't go out alone,"

"I guess we're going on an little adventure then, aren't we?.