Minecraft VR chapter 28: Control

We stepped out of the portal and onto an island devoid of all trees. On top of the island was a village made out of logs, but it looked human made, not like an NPC village usually did. And that wasn't even accounting for the gates, or the guards surrounding the central tower. Nobody had on any recipe parts though, and all they had was leather armor and stone tools, neither of which do the job they are supposed to do very well. Compared to the players here, our ABS iron-cloth-diamond hybrid armor was very out of place. Adding to that, the portal we went through had sunk under the water, and encased itself in Bedrock, preventing us from getting back to our world.

"well then, I guess we have to ask the guards what's happening that they need to do so much." Kira voiced what everyone was thinking even though nobody wanted to say much, this definitely wasn't like our world.

We approached one of the guards, black hair, brown eyes, all items iron, several steps above the rest of the locals. "Hey, are you guys having Iron troubles or something?" I asked, thinking that they might not know how to mine underwater safely.

"I'm sorry, but you will have to proceed to the deposit area with your finds on your trek citizens." The guard spoke the words like he had so many times before now.

"Deposit area?" Liam spoke the words like he didn't understand what they meant, or maybe like me he didn't want them to mean what we thought.

"yes, the deposit area, the place where you go whenever you come back to this island after a trip to give what you found to the collective bank, understood?"

"Well, not really" I answered "you see, we keep what we find, and we rather enjoy playing the game this way, so why should we give it up?"

"All who do not give up their possessions when they encounter an officer of the collective will be eliminated" the guard replied, apparently not getting the idea that he was telling us what we needed to know.

I sheathed my sword and walked away "sorry, but I'm not into organized gangs, I'm leaving, if these two want though, they could join with you" Kira and Liam both started following me towards the ocean.

"no, I'm the one who is sorry, by the authority of the king, you must be destroyed, my apologies for not making that clear." At his words, several other guards appeared from various posts located around the island, and charged at us.

"So much for avoiding trouble" Kira muttered, but at the same time, I got the feeling she wasn't all that disappointed by the fact we would need to fight an entire village worth of guards at once.

"Sorry kid, but I'm going to be helping you out this time" it was the Wolf spirit again.

"Don't be sorry about it, I was about to ask if you could help anyways." I responded to him (at least I thought it was male, but I couldn't tell)

I got out my Wolf blade, its wolf calling ability wasn't very helpful here, but I wanted to even out the score as much as possible. Liam and Kira got themselves ready as well, our respective armors showing the fact that we were not going to go down easily, I let the wolf take over again, but he kept me partially in our body. "You need to learn how to fight like a wolf; the enemies won't be easy from now on."

The guards charged, and we waited, letting them move closer, and let my blade hang a little closer to the ground than usual, as if I was going to let them hit me. When they came close, I snapped ahead, moving my blade in an arc, as if it was a claw, knocking the sword aside and dealing a massive blow to the guards who were around me at the time. When I got behind the guards, I pivoted on one leg, bringing me behind them, and let my blade cut through them a second time, taking out most of them. One of the guards beside me lunged, hoping I was off edge from the attack, my blade was too far away to hit him, so I sidestepped, kicked his leg out, then slashed him, letting the ABS system launch him straight into the cliff. By this time, the guards were getting smarter, and sounded the order to retreat. The wolf spirit retreated again

The three of us jumped into the ocean, and set up a ladder in an area so we could breathe at least, nobody wanted too, but once again it looked like we would have to go underground for a retreat while we gathered our own strength. We were good, but we all knew that inside that tower, someone probably held the peoples recipe collection, and with the addition of the ABS system, they were probably even harder to beat then Alex, so we couldn't go into the area during the day.

The area we were in this time was even more restricting then when we left during the Alex incident, and had the added disadvantage of literally being on top of our enemies base, so we couldn't expand it very well, and the amount of Ores we could find was very limited. Kira and I were used to having a lot of freedom though, so we did set up an area where we could fight and all that without damaging our base, and destroying what little we could find. That did mean though, that we could happen upon the stronghold, and use our few remaining eyes to activate it, allowing us to leave this area behind.

Kira, Liam and I each built a house again though, and with Kira's wool, we were able to each have a bed, which was going to be a lifesaver, as we all were going to start summer break, we would be able to deal with VR far more often, and still have time to visit Coach. Last time I was at his gym, he was getting several people back, the police having took a statement from him that said that yes, we did in fact train at his gym, and as such, he was getting a form of popularity, although the no-light thing still caused problems for some people, he was at least able to continue on for a bit longer, while we were busy trying to clear the game.

-End of Chapter 28-