Legends of Old: Chapter 3 – Left and Met With
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Days passed and the competition kept getting more and more fierce and more violent. Two people would find the same thing and fought for it and eventually the other would be rendered unconscious.
Only a few teams were peaceful and fair and that included Death by Fall.
"Guys, what do we have?" Yuro inquired, worried.
"A lot, since we got to work early. But, about a large chest full of minerals; half of it is about iron, three fourths of half is gold and the rest is emerald and diamond," Mari replied, skimming through a manga book.
"What about food?" Dexter asked, walking towards the food chest.
"A normal chest; a little less then half of the chest filled with pig meat, the rest of that half of it filled with cow, the rest holds vegetation," Mari replied again, now reading the book.
"Geez, Mari. What are you, a computer?"
"Not that I can think of, no. You?"
"No… why would you say that?"
"No reason. Anyways, night is falling and I'd like to get some sleep so we can get more stuff later, so good night."
Mari took out the teleported device and changed it to music mode and put on some DJ headphones and fell asleep to some music.
Nicholas just shrugged and turned to Yuro, "Do you mind if I look at the news?"
"No, just don't break the TV. But, I'm gonna sleep, too. 'Night, y'all."
The fighter slid his hood on and fell asleep.
Nicholas turned the news on and slowly exited the tent and the night passed with much activity in the camp.
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Yuro woke up and slowly opened his eye in a slow manner and slowly let himself wake and look around himself before he finally realized that the TV and two of the sleeping cots were missing.
He looked around and saw Mari still asleep and shook her wildly to wake her and she bolted up and looked around, eyes wide.
"What? What? Are there monsters attacking?"
"No, Nicholas and Dexter aren't here."
"Oh, well, why would they? I'm at home, right?" the camper started to lay back down to sleep.
Yuro looked at the girl weirdly before she sat back up, "Wait, what?" she yelled very loudly.
"They're, uh, gone…" Yuro replied, hesitantly and knowingly that Mari can be in a horrible mood when angry.
"Oh, my, Notch, they'd better have good reason! And, Yuro, we're either in the wrong tent or you TV's gone."
Yuro slowly looked around and then ran outside and saw nothing but their tent, the licking camp fire, and the canopy for picks and swords.
"Nicholas!" Yuro raged in anger, running around the tent for the boy.
Then, soon after, Mari excited, looking at her teleporter device.
"Tch, Yuro, they took of the warps and internet connection program on my teleport device. We can't go anywhere except for each other and anyone else within a 200 foot radius."
"Dammit! What the heck happened! Why'd they abandon us!"
"Yuro, calm down for one, OK? And, also, I think you should've not brought your TV. Plus, I think they left us 'cause they don't like us a lot."
"Well, just because they don't like us doesn't mean they can do that. Besides, did they get Ingo to agree or did they knock him out?"
"Well, let's worry about that later, we need to find a cave with minerals. After that whole competition with the other teams it won't be easy to fine minerals along with the animal massacre. We have to have that before we complain. I still have the chat program on my teleporter and the radius teleport, so we can communicate."
Yuro took out his own teleporter and flipped through the programs and nodded with his mouth pursed.
"Alright, you should go mine, I'll hunt. Is that fine?"
"Yeah, I guess…" the hunter murmured, still angry about being ditched.
"Yuro, just lighten up. I'm sure that we can mope around later."
Mari ran off while Yuro just sat and frowned in annoyance.
Then, slowly turning, he slowly started to gather wood.
Mari readjusted her backpack, making sure that all the precious and needed found items were secure and she trudged back towards camp, quickly typing on her teleporter and sent a message to Yuro.
How're you doin'?
She kept her stare at the electronic, with a occasion of her eyes peeking up.
Yea. Stl angry, thou
Well, you should let it go and hurry up with finishing your mining. We should head back to camp.
Yea fine 1 sec*
Mari continued to walk and she reached the campfire. With a heavy sigh, she dumped the bag on the snowy ground, causing a few clumps of white to fly into the air and sat on the log, resting for a bit while humming.
The hunting girl just looked around, humming and she heard the sound of compacting snow.
Turning, she saw Yuro who looked rather annoyed.
"What?" she laughed, "Still not happy?"
"No. What'd you find?"
"I found some pigs and a few cows along with some carrots and potatoes for vegetation. I'll start cooking it."
"Yeah, thanks," Yuro watched as his other abandon companion started to cook a bit in a iron cooking pot.
"I found a bit of iron and some gold. There were diamonds too, but I couldn't get it yet."
Mari nodded, cooking some pork, "At least we can survive. But, we need to know where to go for now. I mean, it's not like we want to stick around and wait for-"
"Mobs," Yuro breathed out, hearing the sound of grass being stomped on.
Mari stood and looked around, holding a sword.
"Yuro, take my sword. I hid it before they took out stuff away."
Mari threw it to Yuro and he grabbed it, and looked at it.
"A diamond sword that's got an enchantment?"
"No, it's something I found while I went on a trip. I brought it just in case. It's got a fire and it's been sharpened twice as sharp."
"Sweet."
Mari nodded and pulled a sword that was stuck in the edge of the log.
The two looked around and then heard a zombie make a growling noise.
Yuro then turned around and pulled the sword up just as a zombie started to come towards him. He pulled back and then stabbed the zombie in the chest and pulled it out but the zombie just sagged a bit before starting to stalk towards him. He made a slash at it's face and the head made a bit of a crunch and it turned backwards yet the zombie continued to walk. The boy then stabbed it's head and it fell to the floor slowly, with a loud growl of anger coming from him before he died.
The victory, while sweet, was short lived for he was attacked again by another zombie and Yuro slashed at it's head and chest before it fell against Yuro and he grunted and looked at his shirt to see a slight blood stain. Before he could complain, another wave of zombies started to lumber over to him, their groans and hunger for brains loud and clear.
Then, while he fought the zombies, Mari was attacked by spiders whose eyes glowed in the night and the jumped at her. They bit her skin as they were stabbed but, she ignored the small pain and stabbed the monster in the chest, her stone sword poking out of it's chest. Mari inched closed to Yuro to ensure they wouldn't get separated in the midst of the battle.
The moon seemed to glow down eerily upon the two Minecrafters and more and more monsters kept coming. Yuro and Mari both fought the wave yet Mari eventually saw no end. She turned to Yuro who was now starting to tire from the fight.
"Yuro! We need to get away! They won't lighten up any time soon and the moon still has a long way to go!"
Yuro paused and looked above and nodded before asking, "Which way?"
"Go in the dangerous direction. They aren't coming from that side."
Yuro nodded and he and Mari turned that direction and Yuro went first and then Mari followed shortly after. Monsters were scattered about on the ground. Red blood coming from some zombies and bluish blood from spiders. They ran through, deeper into the dark snowy forest. The two campers were pursued by the spiders and zombies who lingered behind.
The sky above dimmed and the two looked up and noticed that clouds started to pull in. Wind picked up as if a storm was nearing. Running, the two made it to a plain where someone who was least expected waited.
It was the fairytale every Minecrafter had been told. A ghost story during sleepovers. He appeared exactly as it was told in the books. A man who was tanned. He wore a teal tattered shirt that gave the appearance of rough. He wore jeans that had dirt all dried as if mud had splattered and the last, and most notable features, were the eyes.
The eyes that every child and adult in Minecraftia feared. They glowed, white as if they were two flashlights that seemed to look into your soul. Pulling out fear and waiting for you to slip and let your guard drop. They searched for anything that you would fear. If you looked into them they looked like they would even play that event.
Yuro and Mari stood still, watching the legend stare at them. The stars were gone, almost as if fleeing from the nightmare. He seemed to look into their eyes and then he snapped his head, almost scaring the two, and looked at the mobs and then looked back at the two. He rose an arm and pointed at them and the swords became heavy and they dropped from their hands.
"You, Minecrafters," his voice was very quiet but it broke the silence and almost made Mari wince as he continued, "You have wandered into the domain of monsters. Unwise, that was. I give none a chance of living. My servants attack wanderers until they are too weak to fend them off. Then, I finish them off, driving my sword into their eyes, taking their means of sight while I use my special ones. That is why I am feared and why I am told to scare children. However, you amuse me. Maybe you are the special ones of Notch. Perhaps, for the sake of his little game, I'll let you live. Maybe I'll even let you have your swords if you convince me."
Yuro and Mari remained silent, scared to utter a word until Yuro let a shaky breath out and spoke with a hoarse voice, "What do we have to do."
"Simple, play a game of chess. One of you watches and the other plays. If one of you let our a sign of anxiousness, whether it be the person playing or not. My monsters will be my chess players and you will have your pieces be those frolocking nuicenses, pigs and sheep, those things."
Mari then nodded and stepped up and spoke with her voice under a whisper, yet heard by the dark legend, "I'll play the game."
His lip upturned into a devious smirk and from the ground came a chessboard and around them the ground erupted. The two looked down and saw that between the grass cracks started to form and some of the squares became red, almost the same as the blood the killed zombies spilt.
The mobs behind Mari and Yuro started to clamor around and rushed past Herobine and they all stood. In the front were zombies, then at the back there were skeletons, spiders, silverfish, a creeper, and a rare witch.
Then, behind the two young Minecrafters, the ground erupted and from it came chickens in the front and behind were cows, sheep, bats, a cat, and a pig.
All of them were formed and Herobrine seemed to summon a small sliver of diamond ore and sat on them with Yuro and Mari sitting on stone. The small grassland piece flew above and the two campers saw how the monsters and gentle animals were positioned.
The zombies and chickens were the pawns, skeletons and cows were the rooks, spiders and bats were knights, silverfish and sheep were bishops, the witch and cat were the queens and the major pieces were the creeper and the pig, who were the kings of the game.
"Let's play. We play until one or the other loses. That doesn't matter as much. If you show that you can stand the fierceness of the battle field without showing a hint of fear, you're free. If you win, you get your swords back. Simple, yet oh so deadly."
He laughed and the small piece of land rumbled, "Now, let the game begin!"
Yay! I'm done! I am so, so, so, so happy!
I got this chapter done after stalling for, what, two or more months? Ha, I forget! But, I am really excited for the next chapter. I'm not sure if I can actually instruct the chess game, however. Maybe Death by Fall will do a video of us doing a chess game! :P
But, yeah, I can honestly imagine Herobrine sitting at a chess board and challenging you to a game in a dark creepy place. I don't know why. But, I think that the next chapter might come more soon, but I'm only hoping. It'll probably end up coming out in a few months! XD
Anyways, for the sake of this note not going too insanely long I'll stop talking.
Thanks for reading!
~Eien M.
* - I put Yuro speaking like that because it's his text talk. If you ask my Death by Fall friends, though, they will say the I often use proper grammar in chats. So, that's why I had Uro speak in text talk and I spoke with proper grammar. Heh.