Minecraft VR Chapter 29: Wooden Hope

We had been living under the enemies base barely a week, and already we were reaching the proportions of legends for the base. The villagers hid when we were around, and never seemed to report our location right. The guards called us living nightmares, because the rumor went that if you saw one of us, you wouldn't last longer than a week. All of this was of course encouraged by us, seeing as it made sneaking around areas a lot easier. The guards weren't very happy though by the looks of things. Apparently a lot of their control revolved around their food bank, which was losing food a lot.

We had found enough materials to make sets of armor that let us blend in decently, while using enchantments that gave us a major advantage against the standard guards they still sent out against us. There was the occasional guard who had slightly better equipment, but even that wasn't a match for us, and so they frequently suffered from armor breakage, which was probably not very fun for them. I'm still wondering how the guards reported in that a guy in iron took out an entire squadron with a stone blade.

We didn't spend all our time annoying the so called leaders up top though. Only one of us would invade the village, the other two would search the area we had mapped out in search of a village, as one of the things we agreed on was that if we could, we would like to avoid the Nether this time around, even though the others didn't seem to enjoy looking for the Nether, we got the feeling they preferred the sea to an ocean of Lava. On that though, I couldn't exactly fault them, seeing as I didn't much like it either.

Eventually we did find one, and this time it was large enough that a priest who was selling a stack of eye of ender, at 8 emeralds per piece. We didn't have anything at the moment though, so we had to trade with the local villagers to get the needed eyes to access our third world. When we got the eyes though, we were met with an annoyance, the stronghold was underwater, and surrounded by four towers similar to the one Alex used back in World 8. The open segments on them were at sea level though, so we managed to get inside.

Once we were through, we were met by armed guards, this time using recipe weapons and armor. They were also using ABS, so they were going to be a lot more annoying than we had time for. They were using black armor with dark blue highlights, but aside from that, it wasn't anything flashy. They weren't even good enough to get the spirit to say anything. In the end though, we had to leave when our armor broke. We were careful to leave as much of a trail as possible, maybe the guys above us would figure it out. When we got back and changed our weapons though, we found our usual exit spot blocked by a group of guards in what looked almost like suits.

"The collective will not wait much longer, surrender your items or we will use deadly force to take them." The captain was wearing a red variant of the uniform.

"sorry, but we have better things to do then entertain guests" I hadn't noticed, but wolf had snuck up, and taken control of the body.

"Sorry kid, but this guy is even more dangerous than your old friend Alex." Wolf was on edge for sure.

"alright then, we might have to switch though, if he is that bad, we should try to confuse him." I answered.

We made the plan in an instant, and Kira looked like she had made her plan with help from the swords master as well. When the grunts attacked, we retreated, luring them into the water. When they got there, their Recipe bonus activated, boosting their speed higher than our own. We kept going though, and burst back into our base. The grunts were moving too fast, and destroyed the ladder as they fell. When they reached the ground, Wolf used our blade and knocked the enemy to the ground, dealing massive fall damage. We still hadn't seen any sight of the leader by the time we had finished off half the grunts. When there was barely any left, the leader finally showed up. He had his eyes covered by a head band, and a helmet protected his sides. Hi armor was black like the ones from the tower earlier, and he had two spikes clipped onto his back. The worst part though, was that he had two swords on him as well, dual wielding them as well.

"Told you it was a trap." The voice of wolf echoed through my mind, but it wasn't really there, I was watching from outside my body, watching as he set his back spikes into his blades, extending their reach.

I snapped back "yeah, you did, but after all, we aren't sure who got trapped yet"

The figure in front of us moved just like it did while I was out of my body, extending his blades with the spikes. "Well then, it looks like you did a number on my toys, so why don't you be nice little brats and disappear."

"sorry." I replied "but I would rather be dead then be with a freak like you"

"Well now, that wasn't very nice now was it? I guess I'll have to teach you how easily I can break that wooden hope you have as punishment." The figure readied his weapons, and for once I could say that I was looking forward to tearing someone to shreds.

He moved towards me, like Kira wasn't even around, and swung one sword down, keeping the other one back. I side stepped, and used his momentum to force a higher collision with my blade, increasing knockback. When he went backwards, his blade nearly hit Kira, who moved out of the way just in time. I switched with Wolf, letting him handle the next portion. When the little freak moved forwards, Wolf used the rebound off the first blade to block the second one, and ripped through the chest plate, shattering it, then scored three hits in succession, and let the downwards momentum shatter his remaining armor on Impact with the ground. At this, Wolf let me continue. I ran up to him, and let my blades point almost touch the ground, then ran at him, using the pendulum like motion of the blade to launch him one last time into the wall. Instead of dying though, he sunk into the rocks, like it was some sort of illusion.

When we got back to the base, I asked Kira what he thought that guy had meant by our hope being wooden, she wouldn't answer though, and when I logged off and asked Coach about it, he said that that figure was probably trying to get me mad at it, which was annoying, because it really worked. He also said though that I would need to watch Kira closely from now on, because something like that would likely affect her more than me, something about me being too thick skulled for it to have any lasting damage to me.

Liam was pissed when I told him about the incident, mostly because it meant that someone knew where we were at now, and we didn't want to leave the base undefended. He also said something about me needing to calm down during fights, but I wasn't really listening, seeing as he wasn't around when that guy was, so how could he know why I wanted that guy gone so badly.

Wolf wasn't much help either, seeing as he kept saying that I needed to keep the pack together, despite the fact that I bet he knew that if we ever wanted to do so, we would be able to take on the entire army above us. But still, there was a small part of me that said that I should relax, maybe take it easy a while, and get rid of the tension I felt. Too bad nobody else wants to talk, I think I'm going to head out for a walk, maybe clear my head a bit, try to find myself a new group, yeah, maybe that's what I needed right now.

-end of chapter 29-