Adventures in Minecraft: Chapter 3:
Nice Everything You Got there
In the few weeks she had lived in her new home Stephanie had been using her carpentry skills to her advantage replacing the grass floor of her house with bricks she had made out of stone, glass windows from sand she found at the shore of a lake and smelted in her oven, making a fence with some enclosed livestock for food, and a farm where she planted the seeds she had found, which turned out to be wheat. The farm was framed by logs and lined with dirt and water for the wheat to grow, the water flowing in from a nearby pond. She had to find a better material to make tools out of than stone, already she had broken more tools then she could count. It was getting rather annoying. There was a small cave digging into the ground by her house where she got stone from, but never mustered up the courage to go deeper seeing as that's where the monsters seemed to be coming from maybe if she was a little more protected it wouldn't be so bad. A sudden idea popped into her mind. She had a lot of leather left from the cows why not make armour out of it like they did in medieval times (a flash of memory coming back from the practice of history where she used to live) she used some strips of leather to take her approximate measurements. And started cutting and stitching away using web from a giant spider she had killed while trying to get back to her house as the thread. Soon enough she had made a suit of brown leather that was rather awkward and not very form fitting because of the bad measurements she had taken. But it would protect her well enough it wasn't like she had to look good out here anyway, there were no people. The next morning she headed out of her house bringing cooked steaks, torches and tools as well as her suit of leather armour. She awkwardly clambered down the entrance to the cave and lit a torch. As she walked deeper down into the cave she saw some stone with chunks of some kind of ore in it. She wasn't exactly sure what it was, but she thought it might be useful. It was a metallic reddish pink; she knocked out the chunks of ore and stored them in her backpack. She saw a figure approaching her from deep within the cave and unsheathed her sword. When suddenly she heard a whizzing sound and saw a projectile coming towards her. Before she could react an arrow hit her in the bottom of the knee and caused her leg to kick and her to fall flat on her back, searing pain shooting through her leg. She couldn't remember why but for some reason the situation of an arrow to the knee seemed comical and ironic to her. She got to her feet as fast as she could bare and limped behind a corner in order not to be hit again. What kind of monster uses arrows? She thought to herself. She dislodged it from her knee with great effort and pain. She wrapped a strip of leftover wool around it to stop the bleeding. She could hear the figure's footsteps coming closer she readied her sword and with a sickening crunch brought it down onto the monster as it rounded. She was horrified to see what looked like a human skeleton on the floor, a light like fire slowly fading from its eye sockets. In its hand were a crude bow and a leather quiver filled with arrows slung across its back. She took these things and bolted back outside. She sprinted to her house in a sort of limping run and closed the door looking out the window into the night and seeing the figures on the horizon. She put the ore into her oven lit it and went to bed hoping to be less freaked in the morning. As the morning light poured into her windows she stepped outside to see a small green creature coming towards her it was about the height of her knee it had three legs and was covered in scraggly fur that looked more like leaves and made the same crunching sound as he stepped it had a face with black beady eyes and a frowning mouth. It was really cute. As the creature came closer she patted it affectionately "hey little guy!" and then the creature started to get bigger expanding like a balloon until she could see green rubbery skin between the fur. She found this threatening and backed way. Apparently just in time as the creature burst in a fiery explosion taking about half of her house in the process and leaving her leather and curly brown hair singed. "Great. Just Fucking peachy".
Author's notes: so as you can see I ended on a comedic note this time, as well as including an overused video game reference (I just had to ok?). Anyone who plays Minecraft can relate to Stephanie's plight right now. As for the swear, that's why I changed the rating to teen. Get over it ok? I'm sorry it took so long to get this chapter out I've just been procrastinating but hey I know I'm loved. So please give me your feedback and we might see some changes in the next chapter.
Playing: Monster hunter tri, Minecraft, worms Armageddon
Listening: Blindside, Underoath, Robert Benfer,
Reading: The lost civilisation (by dashboardgecko), unfinished tales (by J.R.R Tolkien)