Steve and the twins arrived in the woods to search for Reuben.
Jesse said, "I don't see him anywhere - Reuben?!"
Steve told everyone, " The sun's going down - we've gotta find him, fast."
"He could've gone anywhere..." Jessica said, "and this part of the woods is huge."
"Guys," her brother began, "We stand a better chance of finding him if we split up."
"If either of you get lost," Steve began, "just use the lights from Endercon to make your way back to town."
"Got it," the twins said in unison.
With that said, everyone split up, Steve going his own way and the twins using the same path, but different from Steve's.
The twins stopped in a section and called for Reuben.
"Reuben?!" Jessica began.
Her brother finished, "Where are you? Just give us an oink if you can hear us."
The both of them noticed 2 different paths. Jesse noticed pig tracks on the left.
"Hmm, pig tracks," he said, them took that path.
Jessica noticed rising smoke on the right in the distance.
She asked herself, "Could that be Reuben?" then walked forward.
Jesse kept walking until he noticed more pig tracks.
"These definitely belong to a pig," he told himself, "Hmph. There's no way Reuben made these on his own."
He continued forward and found a carrot.
He whispered, "Hey, Reuben. I got a carrot for you. Where are ya, buddy?"
He continued forward.
Jessica took the path that the rising smoke was coming from, and continued forward.
"He must have run by here," she said to herself loudly.
She saw a tree on fire and examined it.
"Doesn't look like this fire will spread," she then placed her hands on her hips, "I bet Reuben started this." She then continued forward.
The twins met up with each other while noticing for pigs. The downside was that none of them were Reuben. After asking in unison if Reuben was in there, they got no response and continued forward. They noticed a small cliff and jumped down, calling for Reuben and saying that it's getting scary out there. They noticed a pile of smoke and ran closer to it, thinking it was Reuben. They lifted a wing and found nothing inside, causing them to give "phew"'s. They continued forward and noticed a river and a cave. Jesse took the river and fought through the water, while his sister took the cave and wanted nothing to do with the monsters inside. When they got to the end of the paths, the twins noticed a moving shrubbery and looked closer to find Reuben inside.
"Reuben! There you are!" Jessica said happily.
Reuben came closer to them.
"Hey, buddy. You want a carrot?" Jesse asked Reuben, offering the carrot. Reuben ate it.
Jessica joked with Reuben by saying in an angry tone, "You're in big trouble, Reuben! Do you have any idea how worried we were? You know you're not supposed to run off by yourself." Her tone was pleasant at the last sentence.
"Really, sister?" her brother asked, he and the pig not knowing she was joking, "Of course he knows that, he was too scared to come up with ideas on how worried we would be. Aiden setting him n fire traumatized him. Why would he be in trouble?"
"I was just joking," Jessica said, giggling, "still, 1, he should always remember those."
"Right... and 2," Jesse said, then turned his attention to Reuben, "Oh, we're so happy to see you. And 3, Let's get outta here, Reuben. Hope you're ready for some more walking, we gotta hurry back to town if we don't wanna run into-"
Zombie moans were heard as Reuben squealed. The twins looked in Reuben's direction to find several zombies coming from a cave.
Everyone backed to a wall and stayed there until Jessica shouted, "Reuben! Jesse! Run!"
Both of them ran from the zombies.
The twins were panting as they made a stop. "Whew," Jesse said panting, "I think- I think we're good."
Just then, a creeper came from their left, scaring them into shouting, "GAH!", and they ran before it exploded.
"I think we made it," Jessica said, but it took an arrow to prove her wrong, causing her and Jesse to yelp and Reuben to squeal.
A skeleton shot them with a bow and arrow, causing them to run from it. Jesse made it safe, but his sister got shot in the shoulder with an arrow, causing her to say, "Ow!" They kept running until they ran into a wall, and to make things worse, a horde of zombies slowly came to them. As Reuben backed away, the twins got their wooden swords out and fought the zombies with the swords, telling the zombies to back off, and Reuben to stay behind them under their protection. However, they weren't so lucky, because after fighting six zombies, three for each, their wooden swords broke and vanished. Cursing wooden swords by calling them stupid, and with nothing to fight the zombies, they backed to a wall behind them.
Reuben kept squealing, but the twins told him their knowledge on how bad it is, and that they'll think of something. Jessica wanted Reuben to run back into town, but she and her brother feared that Reuben will encounter more danger if he did so, and told the pig to not leave and that they'd protect him. However, a zombie hit his face, giving the pig a black eye on his left eye. They were worried that the zombie got them, and noticed a spider jump from behind them to be in front of them and the wall. The spider launched itself on them, and the twins wrestled it off. It worked, but the spider latched itself on them again, and as they wrestled it off, they noticed a stone pickaxe knocking it off, allowing the twins to notice Petra killing it with the pickaxe.
"Come on," Petra said, "let's get out of the open."
They evacuated the area and collected string from the spiders as Petra killed a zombie with her pickaxe.