Chapter 14: The Second Jewel
I was injured badly, but I felt strong.
I felt confident.
I felt free.
I turned around to spot a diamond, in my surprise.
"Two down, one to go!" I muttered as I inched over to it.
It felt satisfying mining the diamond.
I fought out a hoard of cave spiders and journeyed home.
It was a long way home.
I smiled at Notch as I limped through the door.
"I got another one!" I yelled.
"Great!" Notch yelled back.
He opened up a book.
"Diamond tools are the strongest in Minecraftia." He says.
"They are also the hardest to obtain.
"Diamonds are usually found very deep underground."
"Lets make some arrows!" He says.
Notch puts down a workbench and I watch closely.
"First, put down a stick." He says.
"Next, place a flint on the top, and feather on the bottom."
"Now you have an arrow!"
I copy his example and craft 256 arrows.
"I probably won't run out for a while." I say with a chuckle.
Notch and I share a small laugh.
"That's a lot of arrows you've got there." Notch said.
"We still need one more diamond though." I said.
"Once we have a diamond pickaxe, then what?"
"Well, we have to mine obsidian." Notch said.
"Obsidian is a pain to mine."
"It's very difficult to break."
"With the obsidian, we make a portal."
"Then we set the portal on fire to go to the nether."
"We are so close!" I said.
"We will start mining at the brink of dawn." Notch said.
"Actually, I wanted to challenge you to fight again." I replied.
"Last time you went easy on me."
"This time do your best."
We marched to the backyard.
"Do your worst!" I yelled at Notch.
"As you wish!" he muttered back.
"Fight!" he yelled.
I was already firing an arrow at him.
He jumped to dodge it and hit me hard with a telekinetic force.
I struck him near the lower ankle, but it was as hard as rock.
"It will take more than that to defeat me!" Notch cried out.
I was clearly impressed, but I did not show him that.
I lunged at him and dove my sword into his chest.
He threw his blue orb at the ceiling and appeared there.
What was that blue orb?
Notch and Herobrine both used them.
I fired a volley of arrows at Notch.
He threw an axe covered in flames at me.
I flinched as the burning projectile hit me hard.
I fell to the ground, but Notch did not stop here.
He raised the earth and made a coffin of dirt around me.
Since I came to Minecraftia, I had learned the skill of weapon use as well as body skill.
He did not know this.
I forced energy into my fist and broke through the wall of soil.
"Not bad." Notch said impressed with my progress.
He rose his pickaxe and split the ground.
Fire erupted around me.
I leaped from rock to rock and once again struck Notch.
This time, it was a clean hit and Notch was sent flying in the wall behind him.
"You have certainly gotten better." Notch said.