Chapter 1 - Heat Wave (Steve POV)

It was a relaxing spring day in the village. Everything had gone back to normal, and the village was rebuilt. Guards surrounded Herobrine's mansion, in case Herobrine was to return, and Tom had confiscated Herobrine's lab.

I left my house to go to the forest, which was a few chunks away from the village. I went to a typical tree, which was somewhat larger then the others, and found the secret lever that resided below it. I flicked it, and the tree trunk opened to reveal the staircase that I had built inside of it. I walked inside, and shut the other lever, closing the trunk. I ran up the staircase to he inside of the tree, where I had built my new, awesome fort.

It had everything: a jukebox, a self serve cafe, a ton of lounge chairs, a working toilet, and much, much more. It was my definition of amazing. I sat down on a lounge chair, and pulled out a book. I read up on strategies, finding out new ways to do things more efficiently.

Then, I felt a strange fluctuation of warmth spread over my body. I looked around for signs of fire, but saw none. Then, another wave spread over my body. I ran down the staircase, and flicked the switch, running out of the tree as a third wave hit. Sweat dripped down my arms. I swung my head around, looking for signs of a fire. Finally, I saw what I was looking for, but not in the form that I expected it to come in.

There was indeed a fire, but it wasn't an average forest fire. No, it definitely was not average at all. Everywhere in the forest, geysers of lava spurt out of the ground, and spread across the ground, blazing through every plant in the woods. I was surrounded by lava.

I placed down a block from my inventory, and hopped onto it. I kept this pattern going until I had gotten out of the forest. I ran to the village, and saw that they were already getting buckets and buckets of water. I saw Tom, and stuck with him. He threw me a water bucket, and we ran to the forest. The team of villagers successfully put out the lava, but more blasted out of the ground.

I turned around, and ran back to the village. Tom followed me, and I ran into the scientist's house. I stole a couple of his fire resistance potions, and handed one to Tom. We drank them up, and grabbed tons of blocks. Once we arrived back at the burnt up forest, we plunged into the lava and slammed blocks down everywhere. We plugged a lot of holes, but more appeared everywhere. Heat waves powered over us, and I saw several villagers die from the mix of the two problems.

But, the important thing now was to figure out what this was, why it was happening, and how to stop it. I ran out of the lava as my potion wore off, and Tom was a teeny bit late, but pruning one of his four feet lightly. I grabbed Papart and the scientist, and told them to follow Tom and me.

I led them to my house, and showed them my rack of potions that I had been tending to. I told them to take several, and we lengthened the duration of all of them. We grabbed several tools, weapons, and sets of armor, and ran back outside as I told them my plan.

We were going to get to the bottom of this problem. And when I said bottom, I meant bottom. I slammed the fire resistance potion down, and jumped into a spout of lava.