Fun Fact: Minecraftian humans do not have ears. This is because they hear things differently from how real humans do, so if they were to have ears, they would be completely pointless. They detect sound from their hitboxes.
It was dark, and I swear I could hear monsters all around us. The woods rustled in the wind, and we could barely see through all the dark.
"You guys got any torches?" Andy asked.
"I do." I replied as I pulled out three unlit torches and gave one to both of them, keeping the last one for myself.
"Do you know how to light them up?" Emma asked, waving it around and trying to get it to ignite.
"You just gotta find a hard and rough surface and slide it across it. That's how I was able to at least." I explained as I slid the torch roughly against a nearby tree trunk. The tip immediately caught on fire and began to cast light throughout the darkness. The others did the same and their torches ignited. Our collective light shown across a wide distance.
Suddenly, I heard the moaning of a zombie as it appeared from the woods behind us, arms out and ready to attack. Quickly, I drew my wooden sword, but then another zombie appeared.
"Uh, guys..." I stammered, backing away from the monsters. I turned back to see them with their own swords out as well. Fear shown across their faces, which didn't reassure me whatsoever.
"I think the light's attracting them. We need to get out of here!" I gasped as something tackled me to the ground. "AH!" I felt a bite and my body flashed red with pain. The sound of a giant spider hissing as it tried to get in another bite filled the air.
"David!" Andy shouted and within moments, the spider was pushed off of me. I grabbed Andy's hand and he pulled me up. Then, we both looked over at Emma to see her backing away from a four-legged green monster was approaching her, an angry look in its eyes.
"EMMA!" we both shouted and bolted to her as fast as legs could manage. Andy pushed her away while I swung my sword at the creeper, knocking it back for a second before it turned to me and began to swell. Realization filled my eyes and I quickly turned to run back just as the monster exploded, the blast pushing me down onto the ground with a grunt.
"We need to find a safe place to hide, it isn't safe anymore!" I heard Andy shout as he helped me back up.
"What about that cave over there?" Emma asked, pointing ahead. I tried to look for it in the darkness, and after a second I could see a hill a couple chunks away that had a cave opening. I had no idea how she was able to see it, but I didn't care at the moment.
"That's a good place, let's go!" I responded and we each ran as fast as we could for the safe place, dodging past trees and spiders. Once I managed to make it, I saw Emma had made it with me, then turned to look for Andy. When I didn't see him, I looked back into the woods and saw him struggling as a spider was close behind him. He needed help now or he was going to be tackled. I looked at Emma before going after him.
"You need to seal this cave with as many blocks as you can!" I told her. She nodded in understanding and began to pull out dirt blocks. I turned back and ran for Andy.
"Be careful!" she called after me. As I charged ahead, I noticed the spider take him down and try unsuccessfully to bite him. Then, I saw two zombies catching up to them, and increased my pace even more.
As soon as I made it, I let out a panicked cry and slammed my wooden sword at the spider with enough force to knock it away from my friend, then let him grab ahold of my hand. "One for one." I said as I lifted him up.
"Thanks David." he said and began to back away from the zombies, same with me. "What do we do about these guys?"
"Run, Emma's covering up the cave. You need to go now!" I said as an arrow flew from behind the zombies. I watched as it landed into Andy's side and he flashed red with pain.
"Andy, go!" I shouted and he turned and ran. I quickly turned and ran behind him, looking ahead to see that Emma had covered up most of the cave entrance with dirt, leaving only a small one block opening that we could fit into.
We finally made it into the cave, gasping in exhaustion from everything that had happened. I noticed that Emma had placed her torch on the wall, so it wasn't dark. Then, suddenly I heard a sharper snarl as a zombie jumped in through the hole after us, this was much smaller than any zombie I had seen. It looked like a child version, and it lunged at Emma, tackling her and pinning her to a wall. She cried out in shock before pushing it off of her. I tried to get up, but I was too hurt and exhausted, and could only watch as Andy got up and tackled the baby zombie to the ground and swung his sword down at it twice before it disappeared with a final snarl.
Emma immediately went over to the opening and placed a final dirt block down, sealing us inside and the monsters outside. I moved myself over by the wall to support myself and went through my backpack to pull out some bread, then began eating it. Then, I looked at the cave and saw that it led down somewhat before closing off at a dead end. I could see some dark specks in some of the stone walls, and pinkish specks on others, but I wasn't sure what either were, so I didn't think too much about it.
"Are you guys okay?" Emma asked, still panting from her terrifying encounter with the zombie.
"I'm..." Andy winced as he pulled out the arrow from his side, "I'm fine. I could go all day with those monsters!" he said, probably trying to impress Emma.
"I'm going to be honest, we shouldn't have left the village..." I groaned.
"Well, now it's too late. We can't leave this cave until those monsters go away in the morning, and by then your parents and my aunt'll know what happened, and they'll kill us if we go back!" she pointed out.
"We just need to go to sleep. Then, we'll find out what to do in the morning." Andy said.
"But how will we even know when it's morning? We can't leave a block open to outside or another of those small zombies will come in here." I explained.
"Don't worry about that, I brought a clock!" Emma exclaimed as she pulled a clock out from her pockets and held it high. It was showing that it was between midnight and dawn, which seemed like enough time for a short sleep.
"Okay, I guess we can sleep." I sighed as I finished off my bread. My body started feeling better in response to eating. The others sat down and started laying on their sides, so I did the same and tried to get some sleep. But it was hard to feel comfortable sleeping on cold stone ground. I missed my bed. After a long time of trying to relax, I finally managed to fall asleep.
