Hey everyone I know I haven't updated in a while. So here is another chapter, due to the awesome influx of updates and patches in minecraft, I probably won't be updating for a while longer. (Also because I'm busy a lot now, and because I like to stock up on my writing.) So yeah, also footer thingy at bottom of chapter. I know this chapter is not +5000 words but it is like 2100 words of story so, yeah. Sorry about that.
THE NEXT DAY
John looked up, he had gone to the beach where he had first gotten the sand for the glass, he had collected quite a bit of sand, when he heard it. The sound that spiders made, but there where no spiders around. Where they hiding underground? No, that couldn't be possible, but he heard it again. The sound however seemed to come from below him and a little to his right. He climbed out of the three by three by two pit, he had made and walked a couple step over. Yep, the sound was definitely coming from below him.
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER
John had excavated a large pit. And what he had found at the bottom of said pit, surprised him very much. There seemed to be a wall of cobblestone right there. But not just any old cobble stone, MOSSY, cobblestone. And, the sound of the spiders was still very much there.
Now, John knew for a fact that he had not placed cobblestone around this area, and he also knew for a fact that so far the cobblestone, that he had placed, had not grown moss. So, the question remained – how did it get here? Taking out a pick, he destroyed a two by two hole in what seemed to be a ceiling. When he had looked inside the room though, he was astonished at what he saw. Inside the room was a small cage with a rotating spider in it, several spiders, and finally two chests. Quite frankly, John didn't know how to respond to any of it. There were spiders down there! How did they get there? And what was the cage all about? The chests, how did they get there? He had too many questions.
One of the spiders seemed to have spotted him and was beginning to climb up the side of the wall. Taking out his bow he fired a shot down into the room, the arrow hit the spider and knocked it back down. But now all the spiders seemed to notice him, and they all charged up the wall.
Quickly, John placed one of the cobblestone blocks at one corner and stood up.
Since the spiders were about two by two meters, they wouldn't fit past the hole anymore. But he would still be able to hit them.
FIVE MINUTES LATER
After about a minute of hitting the spiders he realized that the cage thing, was actually producing more spiders, because it seemed to be spawning the spiders, John decided to call it a 'Spawner'. It seemed appropriate, because of what it did.
He just killed the eighth spider when he noticed that the sun was starting to set.
John didn't know if he wanted to go home or not, after all this cage seemed to have a limitless supply of spiders. He decided to stay the night.
Quickly getting out of the hole he dug, he moved five blocks away and began to dig a four by four hole two blocks down. Then around the outside of the hole, he placed cobblestone blocks two blocks high. Once that was done, he made a flat roof at the second layer of cobblestone. Then he chose one wall facing away from the other hole, and dug out a one by two long crevice that was two meters tall. He then proceeded to dig up like stairs. Once he finished the stairs, he placed a little shack like thing around where the stairs came up, and then placed a door facing down the stairs. John put one torch above the door outside and one in the little shack. Then another torch in the larger room.
Then he laid down and went to sleep.
THE NEXT DAY
John woke with a start; he had forgotten to feed the dogs!
Rushing home, he noticed that the door to his house was open, worried that something had gotten in he took out his sword and began to creep closer.
Hearing a bark from behind he spun around; there were his three dogs… "But how…" he wondered out loud. Calling them over he quickly jumped inside the door, ready for anything that might be lying in wait. There was nothing, and everything was exactly how he left it.
Turning back to the dogs he questioned "What?... Did you guys open the door?"
But both the dogs just tilted their heads to the side, "Guess that was a redundant question."
Having no other option than to assume that the dogs had somehow managed to get the door open, he sat down to think. The dogs, (which he still hadn't named) had not opened the door when he was there to feed them, the door was not very strong or heavy and nothing had been wrecked or moved inside.
That left only one option, when hungry enough, the dogs would open the door and look for him.
Which to John, was very interesting, "So, if you guys are that smart, then I wonder what else you can do? I guess I'll find out later, right now I think I should name you guys."
They all looked pretty similar, all had blue or brown eyes, the main colour in all of them were black, white and grey, and they all had bushy tails.
Looking at one, he noticed that it seemed to have a silver-ish marking on its front right paw. "You'll be 'Silver-Paw'." He proclaimed. Next he looked at the one with mis-matched eyes, " And you can be 'Blue-Eye', hmm, you like that?" John said as 'Blue-Eye' wagged his tail at him. "And last, but not least, you can be 'Shadow'." He said, looking at the only female.
Once he had finished feeding them and eating something himself, John headed back over to the spider spawner. Before he had left he had read in the book about it. Just like always, the next page seemed suited just for the occasion at hand. It had said that if it was bright enough, then the spiders would stop spawning. That bit of information itself was very useful. Armed with the knowledge on how to stop the spawner, he headed out to defeat the spiders.
SIX DAYS LATER
John had managed to get a lot done, he had managed to finish the farm, the small building next to it, a underground passage way to his house, he had discovered mushrooms and now had a mushroom farm. He had also built a small swimming pond, for exercise and bathing, a look out tower, a branch mine, and the start of a four-meter high wall, all around it.
But he was tired of all the farming, mining and building. However on the plus side, he had noticed that he had gotten stronger, faster, had more endurance and was healthier in general. He had also found another female dog, which he named 'Bright-Eyes'.
Packing up his bow, lots of arrows, two iron swords, picks, shovels, torches, wood, food, and other necessities, he called all four of his dogs and began to walk away heading north ward. This was going to be an adventure, he would not return until he discovered something new.
After about five minutes walk he got to a slow moving river, looking around, John decided to just build a bridge of dirt, he would not be able to take all the dogs across on a boat, and he didn't want to get wet. Taking out an iron shovel, he began to dig a square hole. When he had finished digging ten by ten by five deep, he dug a ramp out. (110 dirt blocks) Then he proceeded to dig a single lane wide bridge across the water. (42 blocks) Then he widened it out to two and then three blocks deep. He expanded the hole to get some more dirt. With the left over dirt blocks, he covered most of the hole so it was not as likely that he would fall down it. Once he was finished he looked up. He had set out in the middle of the morning, and now it was just after noon. Finally he kept going, but just before he got to the other side of the bridge he saw a skeleton. It was standing in the shadows of a tree, just looking at him.
He saw it pull back on the string, before throwing himself onto the ground. When he looked back up he just barely saw the arrow go flying over his head. Jumping back up, he scrambled to pull out his own bow and fired a shot at the skeleton. The arrow, hit the skeleton in the ribs and the four dogs charged at it. John had just enough time to fire another arrow before the dogs got to the skeleton. They surrounded it and took turns charging at it. When the skeleton was about to fire on one, the next dog would leap forwards and tear one of the bones off. It went on for about fifteen seconds before one of the dogs was shot and the skeleton was dead. Through out the entire time, John could not have fired a shot with out hitting one of his dogs, so while he waited he took out his sword and moved closer.
As soon as the skeleton went down, John gave all the dogs some meat, (extra to the hurt one) and then salvaged what he could from the skeleton.
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER
John gazed around in amazement, he was at the end of the forest, there was a cliff, not more than one hundred meters in front of him. However that was not the only thing that had surprised him.
Between the cliffs and the forest there was a building, wrecked yes, but obviously man-made. It was made of stone bricks and had a cobblestone wall all around it. There were two torches that glowed dimly, as if embers, on either side of a metal door. Moss and vines were growing up the side of the building and wall, and the path leading up to the door had grass poking through the cracks. Parts of the building's walls had crumbled away and there was no roof.
The trees surrounding the building were over grown, and humongous, and some of them were dead. All the grass had grown about a foot high and as he carefully made his way through it, he noticed snakes and insects crawling around in it.
There was a button next to the door, underneath one of the torches, pulling out his sword, John pushed it and then jumped back. The door swung open with a groan, and a sound like a church bell sounded inside. Before John could go further in, the door swung shut again. Again John pushed the button, but this time he didn't jump back, he jumped forwards… into the building.
Inside there were more torches lining a short hallway, on either side of the door were pictures, hard to make out with all the dust that was covering them. With a slam, the door had closed again; only on this side there was a lever and a button. Underneath the lever there was some writing. John wiped the dust off with his sleeve and read: "Lever Down = button normal
Lever Up = longer effect"
After he had read the message twice, John flicked the lever up and pushed the button again. This time, the door stayed open twice as long, long enough for all four of the dogs to get inside.
Continuing down the hallway, John noticed that every ten meters there was a door on either side. And at the end of the hallway there was a staircase, leading up to two different flights of steps. At the top of each flight, the stairs opened up into a balcony of sorts. Parts of the banister were missing and the floorboards creaked as he climbed up the stairs. Even though there was no roof, it was still dark and gloomy where he was. Just as he was about to get to the top of the stairs, he heard a creaking sound. It wasn't the type of creak that small things made either; it sounded like a person was moving somewhere on the top floor. John readied for whatever it was, if it was hostile to him, he wanted to be able to get the drop on it.
As he crept towards one of the doors, he heard another creak, from the door he was going to. Very slowly John put his hand on the door and swung it open, it opened halfway before it creaked and got jammed.
Inside the room, was a figure with armor on.
John stared at it for a few seconds, confused, he said, "Hello? Are you a person?"
The figure turned around and lurched towards him – it was a zombie…. with armor on. Jumping forwards, John decisively struck at the zombie, but his sword just clanged off the armor. All the dogs surrounded the zombie and took turns lounging at it, like with the skeleton earlier. However their attacks did not do any good, as they too only hit the armor. Finally, 'Shadow' managed to rip of one arm, which she threw back over her shoulder. However, this only seemed to anger the zombie, and now it began to lumber over to John. Then just before it got to John, 'Silver-Paw' jumped up and tried to bite the zombie on its neck. But it just swung its arm and knocked 'Silver-Paw' back. With a whine, the dog fell back against the wall. Turning the zombie began to lumber over to 'Silver-Paw' to finish him off.
Seeing this, John jumped forwards with a yell and swung his sword horizontally at head height.
The zombie toppled over as its head fell from its shoulders.
Rushing over to 'Silver-Paw' John took out some pork and fed it to him. Then he felt over 'Silver-Paw's ribs and legs – checking for any broken bones, or cuts. The rest of the dogs formed a protective circle around both of them.
Slowly 'Silver-Paw' put one foot under another and got up, smiling at 'Silver-Paw' John said, "Its good to see you're okay boy."
Ok, so what's up?
I won't be updating, blah, blah, blah. I am sorry, but I am busier now then before. Also if this chapter seems a little weird it's because it was written on/off over a 1-month period. So it is kind of all over the place. Anyways, I can't promise when I will update again, but I think that I am not done yet, so maybe sometime soon.
(Sorry I'm really tired, so my thoughts are erratic.)
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