Chapter 2- Annoying Pests
He knelt down next to the sapling and sprinkled the bonemeal in the soil around it.
"Now this should work. Come on yellow meranti" Then as if by magic the tree grew before Sjin's eyes, making him jump onto his feet. It towered way above his head. Sjin gasped.
"Mahogany!" He squealed. He loved its striped bark which alternated between light and dark brown. He loved the texture of the lush green leaves that were almost out of sight. But most of he loved the dark red inside of the trunk that made all the other trees look lame.
Anyway there was a reason for growing this tree, to get mahogany. Sjin rummaged through his backpack to find his axe but he must have left it in the store barn.
"You wait here my yellow masterpiece." Sjin said then skipped across the field to reach the barn. He had made stone paths which led you all over the farm but he never used them.
Sjin walked under the giant arch which was the entrance to the barn. He stared at the rows and rows of chests each labelled and contained different treasures. He walked down the aisle and read the labels carefully, trying to spot the one containing tools. It was hard to think in the barn because of the thousands of pipes constantly transporting blocks just inches above your head. Sjin was quite poor when he installed these pipes so the quality of them wasn't the best, meaning they produce an awful racket when transporting goods. But Sjin didn't mind. The pipes still did their job and sorted the blocks correctly.
Sjin noticed the sign labelled tools. He walked to the chest next to it and opened it. Its hinges creaked with age. Even more grafters, buckets, hoes and pickaxes were laid out in the chest but no axes. Sjin looked puzzled at it. Earlier in the week he had made an iron axe and put it in the sorting chest where you put all the objects that you wanted to be sorted in. Well at least he thought he did.
If the pipes had failed to transport it to the right chest, Sjin wasn't going to check every chest; there were just too many.
"On well. You know what this means now?" He said rolling up his sleeves "Time to get splinters."
He closed the chest and strolled out the barn. A purple ball flew past his face, making him jump back. The wisp was his arch enemy. They had met several times before and sadly Sjin got electrocuted by it most of the times. Out of all the places to set up a farm, he had to pick the field next to a wisp temple. Well this time he was determined to not get electrocuted and to end this wisps evil rein once and for all. After all this was his farm and it was trespassing, it didn't matter if the wisp lived right next door and it was already occupying the land when he came. It didn't deserve to live.
"Where's my shotgun?" He muttered to himself. He turned around and ran down the barn to the chest labelled weapons. He swiftly grabbed his shotgun out of it along with some ammo.
"That wisp doesn't stand a chance!" He stroked the guns metal structure. It had helped him so much against zombies trampling on his crops. Thank goodness there was a weapons mod. Oh and feed the beast! He wouldn't be able to do half the things he did without mod packs. No feed the beast meant no mahogany which means the end of the world!
Sjin put some ammo into his shotgun and ran towards the archway door. The wisp was hovering outside. He slammed his back against the wall and peered around the corner. The wisp hovered towards the yellow meranti. Sjin crept out of the barn and followed the wisp.
"Eat lead you son of a gun!" He shouted whilst realising a silver bullet which dug its way into the wisps ghostly figure. He wisp was half frightened to death by this encounter. It looked weakened and flew behind the tree. Sjin waited. No way was the wisp allowed to take cover behind the most precious tree in the whole of Yogcraft. No way.
Sjin ran round the tree and spotted the wisp above him. He shot a bullet at it but it missed by a few centimetres. That made the wisp angry. If someone tried to shoot you, you would be angry and want revenge wouldn't you. The wisp floated down to Sjin and shot a bolt of energy in his direction. A buzzing noise filled Sjin's ears. His hair stood on end and his skin was covered in a thin layer of black stuff. He pointed the gun at the wisp again, his hands shaking from the electrifying experience. He pulled the trigger.