Chapter 12 – Skeleton Kingdom
Tom put away his map as he and I reached the large, quartz tower. We climbed the stairs to the door, and pushed it open.
The first room was well lit, with glowstone pillars lighting the whole place with its bright body. I looked around for signs of skeletons, but I saw no bones or bows. Tom and I continued to the next room.
The next room was tight, and had parkour blocks to the top, where I saw the Skeleton King on a throne. There were also skeletons in holes in the walls, waiting to shoot us down.
I stepped on the first block, found the next one, and jumped. I landed successfully. Then, the skeletons started shooting. I swung at one close to me, and killed it, but then its pile of bones came back to life. The skeletons were unstoppable.
Then, I saw Tom starting to fly up through the middle using his tie. The skeletons saw what the tie was doing, and shot at it. An arrow split a hole in it, and then more destroyed it. Tom's tie fell off of his body, and Tom fell to the ground. I looked down at him to see if he was okay.
"I guess I'm coming with you this time!" He yelled, since the sound of shooting arrows was so loud.
I nodded at Tom and focused at the next block. I looked at the skeletons arrows, and when they stopped firing to reload, I jumped. I had perfect timing. I tried the same strategy on the next block. It worked again. Eventually it was just a motion to me, and Tom did the same. When we finally reached the last platform, Tom and I saw that glass, almost invisible, blocked us from getting to the skeleton king. I saw the hallway that we had to jump into, and leaped across to the other side, and landed safely. Then, skeletons started forming in huge piles of bones, shooting us backwards. I hacked and slashed and pushed, but more skeletons came out of the piles.
Tom and I just gave up fighting and started to run through the crowd of skeletons. I put my sword out right in front of me and simply ran through the pile of bones. We eventually reached the stairs, but my boots had broken by then. I was pelted with arrows, and my armor was badly damaged.
Tom and I ran up the stairs. Once we reached the top, we both stepped on a pressure plate that cut us off from going back down. In front of us was the Skeleton King.
"Well, well, well," he chuckled in a booming voice. "I seem to have some visitors."
He picked up his scepter and stood up. He was very tall, about twice the size of a normal skeleton. He pulled a sword out of his robe.
"I found that I fight better with a sword," he explained. "And I'm sure that a sword or a bow won't matter. Whatever I use, I always win." He chuckled again.
"AAAAA!" I screamed, and ran at the Skeleton King with my sword, ready to strike. But, he kicked me away.
"No no no," he said. "You can't hurt me. I'm the Skeleton King. And what are you going to do? Oh yeah, DIE!"
I screamed at the top of my lungs and jumped between his legs. I hit him hard, cracking his pelvis.
"I WILL NOT DIE!" I SCREAMED. "I AM STEVE!" Then, the battle really started.
Tom and I attacked from opposite sides, confusing the King. Tim struck with his feet, and the King winced. Then, I realized that we would have to crack his bones until they broke, but first, I had to make him tired. So, I focused on fighting with his sword, not going after his body. I kept steady with his swinging and slashing.
The Skeleton King had had enough of my constant, steady swinging, and pulled out a bow. It shot so fast that I couldn't even see him reload. I got pelted with arrows and my helmet broke. Then, I understood his strategy. He wanted to break all of my armor and then kill me. It was a nice strategy, but since I figured it out, it wasn't going to be a nice one anymore. I ran towards him and slashed at his chest plate. I split through it and cracked his ribs. He screeched in pain. I then went for his legs, then his arms, and Tom finished him off at the head. The Skeleton King fell to the ground, and died. We now had control of the skeletons.
I explained to the skeletons my plan, and they agreed to not aggravate the spiders in any way. We left the castle and set off to find the endermen. I asked Tom how we were going to get control of the endermen. He pulled out a stack of Eyes of Enders.
"We go to the End," he told me, smiling. He threw the first eye, and we followed it, until it fell down. This process was going to take a long time.