A/N:
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR REVIEWS! I LOVED READING THEM! XD
Okay, one day, me and my brother had a lengthy conversation about food chains, while I was doing my art homework. I had a picture of a blu-tack spider that time, and I started to have a simultaneous shout-out of food chains starting from the blu-tack spider ending up to a chain-reaction between communism and imperialism. I don't know how on EARTH I progressed that far, but it definitely involved a blu-tack poacher, sparrow, eagle, Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin, some Russian farmers, Csar Nicolas the Second, grizzly bear, KGB, FBI, CIA, and some police officers who all seemed to attack each other, finally reaching communism and imperialism. It was SO random. I'm saying this because I don't want to forget this moment how I explained to my brother about the chain reaction between communism and imperialism.
As the exams are approaching, I guess I'll have a hiatus for that period, but I'll also try my best to write some more chapters.
P.S. You can see images of characters I drew in my wiki, which the link is on my profile page. I changed Alpha and Omega's appearance from the Author's Note in Chapter 4, so please note that. Feel free to contribute, but please do not grief it. And no spoilers.
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Alpha198
It had been three days since Rho joined the group. He was awesome, since he was much older than us, and more experienced. But sadly, there were negative sides too.
"He was stupid, really. I mean, who would barge into a skeleton dungeon completely unarmed?" asked Delta. We were in another shelter made somewhere in the woods, and Rho and Delta were having a heated discussion about this random character from Dungeon Encounter Part 1, who bravely went into a dungeon without a weapon and died.
"Exactly my point! The idiot didn't even last a whole minute!" Rho agreed.
"Come to think of it, are these stories even fiction?" said Delta.
"I'm positive that the Dungeon Encounter series are all real."
Omega was staring into empty space, mindlessly fiddling with what looked like a very old stone pick. Thanatos had his ears down, and was silently eyeing Pluto, who kept scratching himself for the past few hours. And me? Well… I was playing with a piece of Holystone in my hand.
About an hour passed from that point, and it was probably the first time I was ever glad to hear a shriek from the woods.
Omega impaled the floor with his pick, and leapt from his seat. "All right, let's go beat some arthropods up!" he yelled, pulling out a stone sword. Honestly, I never saw this guy using tools made out of diamond, or at least, iron.
Pluto stretched his body, and wagged his tail, his eyes shining with anticipation. Thanatos stood up, and looked at Omega expectantly.
Delta swung a diamond sword in his hands. "Well, gotta kill more, I guess."
Rho nodded, pulling out his glowing weapon as well.
With the zanite sword in my hand, I promptly went up to the door, and opened it.
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The first word that came out of my mouth was: "DAAAAMMMIIIITTTTTT!"
Nobody in their right mind would just stand there quietly and say "Why, hello there, you bright fellow," when a hideous black spider lands on their head, screaming for bloody murder. So, I did the obvious thing: I yelled my head off, detaching the spider from my head and causing it to fly away, snarling and snapping its pincers. It pounced on me, but was quickly killed by Rho's dangerous diamond sword.
"Thanks man!" I said, grinning. He gave me a thumbs-up.
About four more spiders crawled out of the woods. Not bad, I thought, there are less of them today.
The spiders jumped towards each of us, and we started to battle one separately. Rho simply destroyed his opponent with that sword of his, but me and Delta managed to receive a bite each.
Spider Number 3 dissolved into white particles, leaving us with heaps of experience orbs/strings/spider eyes. We entered the shelter to continue our peaceful night, which was again, seeing Delta and Rho complaining/the wolves writhing in their sleep/Omega swinging his battered pickaxe.
I slumped on the floor and fished out a piece of cooked chicken, mournfully thinking about my moa while chewing on it. That poor bird must be wondering where the hell I was, standing in the light angelic stone house all by himself. Man, I even left all those eggs he produced in that chest of mine (oh, did I mention moas produce offspring no matter what sex they are? I guess not)
I watched in dismay as Omega pulled out a stone AXE, which seemed a lot more dangerous than a pick. He twiddled with the handle, wearing the same expression he did previously. Rho and Delta were sitting on the floor, pulling out and reading two suspiciously similar books, occasionally cursing under their breath - but this peace (should I call it peace?) didn't last long.
"SSHHEEEAAAAAAAKKK!"
I sighed, face-palming myself. What was I thinking? Every attack had more than ten monsters each time.
Omega tossed the axe and stabbed the floor, scaring the Zephyrs out of Pluto, who happened to be snoozing one block away from where the tool landed. What had gotten into him anyway?
"Can't we just barricade the door?" I asked. I really hated going out there, nothing but my zanite sword in hand.
Rho shook his head. "The spiders seemed to attack at daylight nowadays, and you wouldn't want a hairy spider sitting on the roof."
I sighed. "I suppose not."
With that, we got out into the dark world AGAIN.
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This time, I didn't scream or even thrash around wildly. I just gasped, "Cackling cockatrices, what in the name of Silver Dungeon IS THAT?"
The spider sound wasn't a false alarm, which I can't say is relieving. But the biggest problem was the dude sitting on it.
A skeleton was probably taking its pet spider on a joy ride or something, because that guy was just sitting comfortably on its arachnid automobile. I've never heard of this kind of mutation before, but an equation started forming in my mind, and it didn't help a bit: Spider + Skeleton with bow=Real ugly monster mutant with attack power x2.
"A Spider Jockey," Delta gasped. I turned around, giving the what's-that look.
"A rare combination, but it's basically a skeleton sitting on a spider. It can climb and shoot, which I say it's pretty bad."
Since the skelly was sitting on the spider, it was slightly taller than us, but still, it was terrifying to watch that skeleton aiming its arrow at us, while its irritating live-cart snapping its pincers.
The skeleton turned his arrow point at ME, and grinned, as if saying "Had a nice life, buddy? Shame it's gonna end now." But before it could skewer me, it was hit by surprisingly fast multiple arrows and crumbled; its companion looked a bit confused.
Rho lowered his bow, and said, "We still have to kill the spider."
The very monster turned its hatred-filled eyes, probably screaming mentally "That dude sitting on me was going to a tea party, and you ruined our days!" Then pounced.
If I didn't have my zanite sword ready, I would have already died. I impaled the spider and hurled it away from me. It attacked again, but died with a satisfying "SLASH" from Omega's sword. I hoped the spider would have an Underworld tea party with its buddy, and the monsters from the Place of Eternal Damnation.
I turned around to congratulate my buddies, when another shriek came out from the dense woods. A jiggling sound followed immediately afterwards.
"Uh oh," muttered Delta. He gripped his diamond sword tightly. Rho raised his glowing weapon in a defensive way, and Omega looked as if he'd rather take 10 furious Endermen on his own than to face more Spider Jockeys.
From the woods came three (yes, exactly three stupid skeletons riding three stupid spiders, with three stupid bows in their hand) Spider Jockeys, probably furious with us for killing their tea party friend. They shot arrows at us, which we dodged easily. Rho impaled a spider from under, leaving the skeleton quite alone. That dude was slayed by my awesome purple sword a bit after it set foot on the ground.
The two of them charged with their battle spiders screaming for blood. Delta and Rho took care of a combination, while Omega and I defeated the last one. Omega sighed in enormous relief when the spider died.
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The next day, we kept travelling. We ran into some of those bright creatures wanting to have our blood, but easily defeated them. Delta collected some woods, Rho made a new bow, and I killed a chicken during our journey, so I can't say it's exactly fun.
The sun was high up, and it was when Delta announced they were near the end of the woods. Omega looked really optimistic from that point.
But when we got out of the forest after so many days, I cursed, and said, "Oh, Notch, why?"
The forest stopped from that point; thank Jeb, but a flat plain covered of snow stretched endlessly over the horizon. No trees, no monsters, just a flat tundra biome.
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A/N:
Just wanna say, sorry for the late update, and HUNGER GAMES MOVIE IS AWESOME. :DDDDDD