Here it is the 5th chapter of my first fanfic! So now, let's begin part 2 of the Great Mine Adventure! Also, I think from now on I'll type this story differently than before. Just a heads up
Chapter 05: The Great Mine Adventure continues!
Part 1: Moving on!
Matt waited for Cody to come back from Mandy's private room. He was in there for about like fifteen minutes? That was his guess. Although he would really wants to know is what the heck is going on in there. Cindy the skeleton was in the far side of the mineshaft organizing items in crates. Darren was sitting down, deep in thought about something. This troubled Matt, but somehow he figured it was about Cindy. Darren did seem to keep taking quick shots at her. Did he like her? Then Matt's face twisted into a wicked smile. 'Is Darren a perv?' He thought to himself.
Just then, the door to Mandy's 'secret room' opened, and she stepped out of it. The cave spider had a big smile on her face. Everyone jumped to attention.
"Mandy?" Cindy asked, "You seem happy. What's going on?"
"Oh, nothing," Mandy replied, "My new best friend is just getting ready in there."
New best friend!? Matt and Darren were shocked. But before they could say anything, Cody had finally emerged from the secret room. The young teen was decked out with a full set of diamond armor. He also carried a diamond sword in one hand along with a proud smile.
"Cody…?" Darren had asked.
Cody said to his friends, "So, what do you think?"
"What do I think?" Matt said, running up to him, "You're totally decked out Cody! It's awesome!"
Cody grinned. "Thanks"
"So bestie," Mandy said, putting an arm around him, "What do you think about the armor? It's my best work so far."
"It looks great!" Cody said to her.
Mandy rubbed the bridge of her nose. "Ha! I knew it. No one knows how to make better armor than I do!"
"Hold on a minute!" Matt said furiously, "Since when were you Cody's best friend!?"
Mandy glared at him and said, "Since now. He gave me a ton of gold for my collection. He also gave me some other valuable ores that you can't lay your hands on, because they're mine."
"Well, for your information, you're not Cody's best friend! I am!"
"Actually, I'm his best friend" Darren pointed out.
"Guys, guys" Cody said, "Let's not fight over something like this. You're all my friends. Let's just get along, okay?"
Mandy crossed her arms. "I guess"
"Whatever you say" Matt said
"I'm cool with it." Darren said.
Cindy walked up to Cody and said, "You seem to be well liked by the people around you."
"I know" Cody said, "But it's good to have friends in general."
"By the way Cody, how did you get all that diamond armor?" Matt asked him.
"Mandy had a lot of diamond ores in her collection. She had furnaces too. She let me use the diamond and a crafting table to craft all this armor. I have some for you guys too." He took out a piece of armor and gave a set to Matt. Then he did the same thing with Darren.
"Gee, thanks man" Darren said.
"Make the best use of them," Cody said, "We'll need them to find our way out of the cave"
"What do you mean, 'find our way out of the cave?'" Matt asked cautiously, "Can't we go back the way we came?"
"Actually, no" Cindy said to him, "We use the glowstone blocks to find our way here. But Mandy and I are afraid that if we take the same route to the outside world, we'll run into some monsters following us"
"That's why we blocked off every entrance with glass blocks, to keep them out" Mandy chimed in, "But we have an alternate exit so we can get out of the cave with a lesser risk of attack or ambush by monsters. But we don't really use it much."
"Well, show us where it is." Matt insisted. Cindy walked over to a spot on a wall that had a gray block on it. She placed a lever on it and flipped it upwards. A secret entrance opened in the wall, and Cody, Matt and Darren were surprised. "A secret entrance!" Matt exclaimed, "That's a pretty smart idea!"
"Yep" Cindy said, "So, you guys ready to embark on a daring journey?"
"We're already on it right now" Cody joked, "It's just on pause."
After supplying everyone with enough food and weapons, the group entered the hidden entrance, and Cindy destroyed and collected the lever once they went through. The door closed, and a long path with torches lighting the way was shown.
"Follow me" Cindy said, and began walking down the path, with everyone following behind. A few minutes passed, and Cindy and Mandy were walking way in the front. Matt and Darren were in the back, and Cody was walking between them. However, he didn't really focus on their conversations. He just kept thinking about Cupa, wondering if she and the others were safe back home.
Mandy and Cindy's conversation
"So, Cindy" the cave spider said.
"What is it?" Cindy asked.
"Do you like any of them? You know, the guys walking with us?"
Cindy put a hand to her chest and said, "Me? Oh no. I hardly even know them."
"Come on." Mandy said, "What about Cody? You seem to like him a little."
"Cody? I don't really like him in THAT way."
"Is that it?" Mandy asked, "Boring!"
Cindy gave a slight shrug, and Mandy asked her, "Is there anyone else you like, Matt or Darren?"
"Matt. No way" Cindy told her, "Do you like him?"
"Ew! No" Mandy said, "And Darren? I don't like him, but what about you? What do you think of him so far?"
"Well," Cindy said, thinking for a moment. Then she smiled and said, "He is kind of cute."
Darren and Matt's conversation
"Matt?" Darren asked.
"What is it?" Matt replied.
"Do you think that Cindy likes me?"
Matt thought for a second, and then he told him, "Can't say for sure. She might have a thing for Cody, though."
"You think so!?" Darren said.
"Yeah. Knowing Cody, heh I tell you that guy is like a chick magnet. Give him a few days and he'll make any girl fall head over heels for him."
"Oh no!" Darren cried out, grabbing both sides of his head. He then thought of something and said, "Hold on a minute. Isn't he dating Cupa?" he gasped. "That cheater! He's going to cheat on Cupa with Cindy! Well I'm going to put a stop to that!"
"Wait!" Matt said right before Darren marched out there.
"What is it?" Darren asked. "It might be true."
Matt glared at him and said, "Dude, what the fuck is up with your head. Cody would never do that do a girl! Ever! Now what the hell is going on with you? Don't tell me that you're jealous!"
Darren was silent for a few seconds.
"Dude," Matt said softly, "Are you jealous of him?"
"I'm sorry bro" Darren said, "It's just that I really, really like Cindy. And for Cody to take her away just like that is too much for me to bear."
Matt put a hand to his shoulder and said, "I understand bro, but that doesn't mean you have to accuse him of anything. But you know I wanted to ask you something about Cindy."
"What is it?" Darren asked.
"Do you like her for real, or are you just a pervert?"
"W-What?!" Darren exclaimed.
"Dude, that girl is practically naked. Just be happy that neither Cody nor I is staring at her."
Darren's cheeks turned bright red. "I am not a pervert." He said sternly, "I was just taken off guard by her enchanting beauty."
"Enchanting beauty my ass" Matt muttered under his breath.
Darren sighed and asked, "Matt, what do I do bro? I never got involved in stuff like this."
You were always a tough one to win over. Matt thought. "Okay. What I think is that you should ask her out. You know, to try to sort this thing out."
"I don't know bro. What is she rejects me?"
"Ah don't worry about it!" Matt said reassuringly, "With your fine looks, I'm sure that she'll say yes faster than you can say 'Whoops'"
Darren was suddenly filled with confidence and said, "Yeah, yeah I think I can do this!"
"That's the spirit!" Matt exclaimed.
Once their conversations were over, the girls looked back and saw that the boys were falling behind. Mandy yelled at them to hurry up, and they did.
Part 2: A spider's and skeleton's story
Darren, full name Darren Velosky (ve-las-ki). He was a sports player on his way up. His favorite sport is football. He's Cody's best friend ever since they were little. Usually, girls would come to him asking him out on dates and whatnot. Not once in his life has he ever seen a girl who he truly got to see what they were really like. But all of that changed when he first saw Cindy. There was just something about her curves and her beautiful face that made Darren want to melt. But he hardly knew her. What he did know is that Cody had a much higher percentage of getting girls to like him than he did. He couldn't take the chance that Cindy would fall for him. Darren remembered what his father told him: If you see something and you wanna fight for it, so then fight for whatever that thing is. Never give up to no one. Now Darren wasn't going to give up on this. He was going to take Matt's advice, to ask Cindy out. However the game turns out depends on how you play it. He just needed the right moment to make his move…
And he got his wish. After the group walked for a good fifteen minutes and made a left past a small entrance with a light blue shine coming from inside, they were taken to a dark opening. Cody took out a torch and held it in one hand as they continued forward. After a half hour of walking passed, the group decided to take a break. Cody, Matt and Mandy sat together around Cody's torch. Darren looked around for Cindy. He spotted her sitting in front of a river. He walked over to her.
"Hey" he said. Cindy looked up at him and said "hey" back.
"Whatcha doin' here all by yourself?" Darren asked.
"Nothing" Cindy replied, "Just thinking."
"About what?"
"You wouldn't understand even if I told you." She went back to looking towards the river.
"No I would understand!" Darren said, taking a seat next to her. "Just tell me what the matter is. You can't keep bottling up your feelings you know."
Cindy sighed and said, "I'm starting to wonder."
"Wonder what?"
"I'm starting to wonder, if this was all a mistake."
"! mistake!?" Darren said, "But, how?"
"I'm sure that you know as well as I do that the monsters are becoming more and more abundant and ferocious." Cindy said.
"What does that have to do with anything? You're a great fighter. I'm sure you can take them." Darren suggested.
"I'm not worried about me!" Cindy blurted out suddenly, "I'm worried about Mandy."
"Mandy?" Darren asked, "Why her? I mean, why are you so worried about her?"
Cindy looked at Darren squarely in the face and told him, "Look. There's no reasoning why I'm worried. She likes to act tough and cool at times but in reality, she can't fight. She doesn't know how to."
Can't fight? Doesn't know how to? Darren thought.
"That's how she was raised," Cindy went on, "And I know. I raised her ever since she was little." She quickly covered her mouth.
Raised her!? Darren thought. Cindy stayed silent.
"Cindy," Darren said after the silence had lasted too long, "Tell me, what your story with Mandy is? Don't tell me you actually…"
"It's not like that!" Cindy said. She took a deep breath, and explained everything.
Flashback
It dated back a couple of years ago, when Cindy was just a little girl. She was about eight years old. And the skeletons were always ready to go off into the world on their own at that certain age. She was walking through the caves one day, until she saw a little girl crying on the floor. Curiously, Cindy walked up to her. She stared at the girl sitting and crying on the floor. She looked younger than Cindy. About 4 years old maybe? She was crying streams of tears. Sympathetically, Cindy bent down and said "hey"
The little girl kept crying. Cindy tried again by saying, "hey, what's the matter? Stop crying." Somehow, the little girl had listened to her and stopped crying. She looked at Cindy with big tear-filled red eyes.
"Why were you crying?" Cindy asked.
"M-my mommy a-and daddy…" the little girl could hardly speak a word through the tears.
"Your parents?" Cindy asked, "What happened to them?"
"T-they died. They were e-eaten by z-zombies"
Cindy was shocked. "Eaten!? how!?"
"We were *sniffle walking together one day, and then the zombies attacked us. Mommy and daddy got me to s-safety, but it was too late for them…" She was about to cry again and Cindy sat down and hugged her.
"It's okay." She told her, "I'm sure your parents would be very happy that you're alive. Their sacrifice was not in vain. I'm sure that they would want you to become strong and live on."
"But," the girl said, "I'm too young to go out into the world on my own. I n-need my mommy… and my daddy…"
That's right! Cindy thought. Skeletons were made to be brave. Even when they were little, they could live their lives on their own. They were made to be tough, hard like their bones. But this girl was the opposite. By her looks and what she said, Cindy guessed that she was the spider. And not just any spider, she was the cave spider. All spiders, regardless of which type they are, weren't like skeletons. They needed to be taken care of by their parents. Until spider was full grown, they needed the care and nurturing of their mother or father or both before they could set out into the world on their own. And this spider was still very young. Unless she had someone to take care of her until she was an adult, who knows what might happen to her. Cindy couldn't allow that to happen. She just couldn't.
She said to the little girl, "Say, until you grow up to be an adult, why don't I take care of you." The little girl stopped sniffling and looked at her with big eyes.
"You'll… take care of me?" She asked, "Like you're my mother?"
"No," Cindy said, "As a guardian. I can take care of you until you're ready to take care of yourself."
"Would you really be my guardian!?" the girl looked at Cindy with big hopeful eyes.
The skeleton girl nodded her yes. The little cave spider wrapped her arms around Cindy, saying, "Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!"
Cindy giggled and said, "It's okay little one. You're welcome." She wrapped her arms around the little girl and hugged her back. Cindy broke the embrace and asked her, "What's your name?"
The little girl told her, "I'm Mandy. Mandy the cave spider" She stood up and, pointing at Cindy, said to her, "And don't think of me as some small fry! I could be bigger that you can imagine!"
"You were crying just now." Cindy said. Mandy sweat dropped.
"Well that's… um…"
Cindy laughed, and Mandy felt even more embarrassed. Then Cindy told her, "its fine. I won't think of you like some small fry if that's what you want."
Mandy smiled pride fully and said, "Alright." Cindy stood up in front of her. She looked down at the younger girl. Most people would be like, oh my god what am I getting myself into? But Cindy wasn't like that. She was confident that she could raise Mandy into growing up to be a big and strong spider. In her own way.
"What's your name?" Mandy asked.
"I'm Cindy, the skeleton girl." Cindy replied. She then smiled warmly and said, "From now on, let's be sisters."
"Sisters!?" Mandy said, surprised.
"Uh huh. You and me"
Mandy wrapped her arms around Cindy again and said, "A sister! I can't believe it! Thank you!"
Cindy stood there for a second, until she smiled and hugged Mandy back.
"You're welcome."
End of flashback
"Wow…" an amazed Darren said, "So that's what happened."
"Yes." Cindy said, "And ever since that day I swore to protect Mandy from harm. However this adventure is risking her life and everyone else's. Perhaps we should turn back."
"No way!" Darren said. Cindy was surprised. "Being a sports player, I learned one very important thing. And it's to never give up. Think of it like a game."
"A game…?" Cindy asked.
"Yeah, a football game" Darren explained, "We are all part of it, every one of us. Our goal is to get to the other side of the field. Sure there are a bunch of big baddies in the way. There are even times that you would want to run away from them. But you can't give up. You have to push forward no matter what! Besides, if we're all playing the game, then that means that we're a team."
"A team?" Cindy said.
"Yes. A team. And as a team we stick together. We look out for one another. All of us."
Cindy took in Darren's words, thinking about Cody, Matt and Mandy.
A team…
"We work together." Darren went on, "And only through working together, that's when you realize… that we can win the game, no matter what!"
Cindy looked at him in awe.
"So you won't have to worry about Mandy or anyone. As long as were together, we can do anything. And that honestly is the best thing anyone can ever have. To have someone standing by your side the entire period and more" He stooped to Cindy's level and said softly, "Now do you understand that we're all in this as a team?"
Cindy stared at him for a moment, until she put on a passionate smile and said, "Yeah, you're right! Silly me, having to worry about protecting one teammate when we all have each other's back!"
"That's the spirit!" Darren said with a grin. He stood up, and Cindy did too.
"By the way Darren" Cindy said to him.
"Hm? What is it?" Darren asked.
"That football game you were talking about sounds pretty interesting. Maybe you can teach me how to play sometime?"
Darren was overfilled with joy, and his cheeks didn't hesitate to show his blush. "Of course! We can all play!"
"Sounds great!" Cindy said.
Although I wasn't able to make my move now, Darren thought, I at least was able to find something that we have in common. And that not only boosts my confidence, but it makes me feel that Cindy and I could become really great friends!
Darren was surprised when Cindy held a hand out to him. She was smiling brightly. Darren, filled with affection, took Cindy's hand and shook it. They weren't 'boyfriend-girlfriend', but 'just friends' is good enough for the footballer.
Part 3: Under the cave
The group continued walking through the secret exit. They walked, ate, and collected valuables on the way. Eventually, the team found themselves walking across an open path. Zombies moaned behind the walls.
"Cindy?" Mandy asked. She was close to freaking out. But of course she wouldn't show it.
"Don't worry about them" Cindy said to everyone in general, "They can't get us from here." She was almost sure of that.
Cody looked down and saw a diamond ore in the floor. "Guys, look!" he said, "diamond!"
Everyone gathered around the ore.
"Awesome!" Darren said.
"I'll mine it." Cody said. He took out his iron pick and mined the ore. The ore turned into a tiny block, and it fell into the ground. Everyone stared at the hole in the floor for a long time.
Finally Mandy said, "Where'd it go?" An arrow whizzed past Cody's head. He looked back and saw skeletons and creepers approaching them.
"Uh, guys?" Cody said.
"What is it?" Matt asked.
"Run!" Mandy yelled. The group ran away from the monsters turning left and right, this way and that way down the path. They hid behind a wall, but everyone could still hear the monsters.
"I thought you said that the monsters wouldn't get us!" Mandy said to Cindy.
"…" the skeleton girl didn't know what to say.
"Okay, let's calm down for a moment." Cody said to the group, "I know it seems bad. But I think that we're going to have to fight these monsters if we can't get away."
"Cody…" Matt said. The orange-haired teen took out his diamond sword.
"Remember, we have armor on" Cody said, "I'll hold them back while you guys run."
"I'm fighting too!" Darren said. "Me too!" Matt said. They both took out their swords.
"Good." Cody said, "Girls, you run if things begin to look bad. The rest of us will stay and fight."
"I can defend myself and Mandy," Cindy told him, "I think we can handle our own." Cody grinned. Then he went around the wall with Matt and Darren following. When they left, Mandy planted herself on the ground. Cindy patted her head, and the cave spider moved her hand away. The skeleton girl smiled, and looked away from Mandy's annoyed face. Cindy looked down at the floor. Could it be?
She took out a pickaxe and mined a block in front of her feet. It turned small and fell down a dark hole in the ground.
So that's where the diamond went! Cindy thought. There was no ground under the one they were standing on. They were literally standing above a bottomless pit!
This isn't good. Cindy had to tell the guys what she found. She ran past Mandy and went around the wall. She found them fighting off the skeletons and kicking away the creepers.
They're not bad. Cindy thought. She saw a creeper approaching Darren and shot it down. Darren looked back as the creeper died and gave a thumbs up to Cindy. She returned it. Meanwhile, three creepers blew up around Cody and Matt.
"Man, these guys are serious!" Matt said. "Keep an eye out," Cody told him, "there's bound to be more coming"
"Guys!" Everyone looked at Cindy as she addressed them. "Be careful to not mine underground! There's-"
"Lava?" Matt asked while he sliced a skeleton with his sword.
"No, not lava" Cindy said. She shot two skeletons approaching her and said, "There's nothing there!"
"Huh?" Matt asked, genuinely confused. He was suddenly jerked away and fell to the ground. There was a sound of an explosion. Cody had his arms crossed in front of his face to protect himself. He had pushed Matt out of the way and took the brunt of the creeper's suicide. Miraculously unharmed, Cody put his arms down. It took him a moment to realize that he was standing above a dark pit. He fell in, screaming as he did.
"Cody!" Darren yelled. He ran and literally slid on his belly to catch his friend, but Cody's hand fell too quickly. Down, down, down he went into the pit. "Cody!" The footballer's voice echoed in the darkness.
Everyone else ran to the hole and looked down. It looked deep and scary.
"Cody…" Darren said, his hand still reaching but couldn't grab a thing.
"How did this…?" Mandy asked, surprised.
"Cody pushed me out of the way and a creeper blew up and, well, this happened." Matt explained.
"This is what I was trying to tell you!" Cindy said, "You can't mine the floor because there's nothing underneath. I mean literally nothing."
"So we're basically standing right on top of a bottomless pit?" Matt asked.
"It would seem."
That sent a terrible chill up Matt's spine that he didn't need.
"What do we do now?" Mandy asked.
"We have to find him." Darren said, standing up. "I don't know if he fell out of the world or not, but the chat screen didn't say that he died in any way, now did it?"
"That's right!" Matt said, "So that means he's already reached the ground or he's still falling to his death."
Darren called Cody's name into the pit. There was no answer. He called again, but the only response he got was his own echo.
This isn't good.
"So what now?" Mandy asked, "I'm not sure that ladders can get us down there."
She has a point. Matt thought. They had a limited supply of wood after all. If only there was just one person there who was in creative mode, then they could fall down there after Cody, and fly back up. But perhaps there was another way…
The group heard zombies nearby. As if they didn't have enough to deal with. "Run!" Cindy yelled.
"Wait!" Darren said, grabbing Cindy's hand.
"…!"
"What about Cody?" Darren asked.
"He'll be fine for now." Cindy told him.
"But…"
Cindy grabbed him by the shoulders. "Listen to me." She said, "I understand that you're worried about him, but I'm sure that Cody would want you to stay alive."
"Cindy…"
"We'll all look for him. Every one of us. But right now we have to get to safety. We have to hurry!" The skeleton girl pulled Darren by the arm and ran away with him. Matt and Mandy followed, leaving the zombies behind. Cody however, was a different story. Would they ever see him again?
Darren placed a torch down. The group was sitting in a circle in a small room. They managed to get away from the monsters. They were all safe, for now.
Everyone was quiet. The only thing that made any noise was the torch flickering on the wall. Finally, Matt broke the silence by kicking away a dirt block and saying, "This is shit."
"Matt…" Darren said, "I understand how you feel but…"
"If you understood Darren," Matt said, "Then we would be in those caves searching for Cody right now!"
"Didn't you see all those mobs out there?" Mandy said, "The second we step out of here, we'll get mauled."
"I know, but…"
"I understand that you want to find Cody, and believe me we all do." Cindy said, "But we can't go out into the caves just like that. That cave Cody fell in was really deep and dark. We need to find a safe route below this place so we don't end up in lava."
"Well, you girl have been here longer than me and Darren have," Matt said, "Don't you know any way to get below the cave?"
"It's not that we don't know," Mandy told him, "It's just that we never been below where we live, so we're a little unsure of how to get there."
Darren spoke up and said, "Whether you know or not, we need you now more than ever. You're our only hope into finding Cody from down there."
"Can't you just TP him to you?" Mandy asked.
"I tried," Matt replied, "It's not letting me do it for some reason."
"Please," Darren pleaded to Cindy, "Isn't there any way to reach the lower level of this cave?"
Cindy thought for a second. And then she said, "I think I may know a way…"
The group is seen in front of a waterway. Water flowed in a river in front of them, and then it turned out of sight.
"This river leads to an underground waterway below this cave level." Cindy explained, "I've traveled down here a few times, but I always stopped halfway."
"Why did you stop?" Matt asked.
"I was going too far from where Mandy was," Cindy explained, "Besides, I wasn't too sure where I was going either, so I turned back."
"Where does this river lead to?" Darren asked.
"It takes you around a few turns," Cindy said, "and once you go in deeper, the water will start to speed up. It leads you to another cave and then…"
"And then what?" Darren asked.
"I don't know. I always turned back at that point."
"Well, I guess that we have no other option than to go there," Mandy said, "It could lead to where Cody is, after all."
"It's our only option," Matt said, "We need boats though."
Cindy walked to the wall and stepped on a pressure plate. A hidden chest was revealed behind a few blocks. She opened it, and said, "I have boats here. There's just enough for the four of us to ride in."
She handed a boat to the rest of the team. The skeleton girl told them, "Remember, I don't have any more wood to craft any boats. We all get one and only one, so be careful."
Everyone agreed and they all placed a torch at a ledge on their boats. Wooden boats splashed in the cave water, and everyone got in their own boat. With a quick shove, they all took off down the river. They went straight forward for a few short seconds, and then the boats turned in an alternate direction. The group continued like this, going forward and changing directions, when they finally began to move in a completely straight path.
"Did you notice it?" Cindy asked.
"Noticed what?" Darren replied.
"The water is moving faster…" It was true. The current was becoming stronger than before. After drifting for about a minute, the path slowly turned to a large opening. Cindy told the others to stop and they did. The entrance was pitch-dark.
"Is this the cave you were talking about?" Matt asked.
"Yes," Cindy answered, "wherever this path goes from here, may lead us to Cody. Get ready."
With that, the boats began to move again. As they drew closer to the entrance, a cold gust of wind blew past them, blowing out their torches. It's as if the cave itself didn't want them to enter. But they still went in. And in seconds, there was zero visibility.
"Keep moving straight everyone," Cindy said, "And try not to bump into each other." A few minutes passed of quiet, cold, and frightening drifting. Then there was loud thud, and Darren screamed.
"What happened?" Matt asked. Cindy pulled her skeleton hat down to her eyes and they turned green. This was a special feature skeletons have that no other human mob has: natural night vision. She scanned the passage, until she spotted Darren splashing in the water nearby. She grabbed him by the arm, and pulled him up into her boat. Darren was freezing from the cold water.
"Brr…" Darren said.
"What happened?" Cindy asked.
"I don't know. I was drifting normally and then I crashed into something." Darren explained, "It's so dark, I can't tell whether I bumped into a block or what."
"Just hang on." Cindy said, "The current's gotten stronger again, and I'm not sure where it will lead us now." They drifted a little further, and the river took them to a light at the end of the tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, was a cave of lava. Streams of lava poured from the ceiling, making the entire bottom floor a lake of lava. The only way that the group was able to sail across it was through a bridge made of obsidian. The river flowed across it, making a straight waterway over a boiling lake of lava.
"What is this place?" Matt asked.
"It looks like a lava cave," Cindy replied, "We must be getting close to the center of the world."
"I've read stories about that." Mandy said, "They say that there were humans who were brave enough to dig all the way to the center of the earth. The people who survived, which were one or two of them, said that there was nothing there. All there was in the center was lava and that's it."
"So basically there's nothing in the planet's center?" Matt asked, "No core or anything? just lava?"
"That's what they said." Mandy answered.
"Then…" Matt wondered, "How does this planet still even exist?"
Little did the group know, a lone woman was watching them from the far side of the wall. She wore all black clothing, her brown hair over her shoulder. She watched the group with glittering black eyes as they sailed across the lake of lava through the obsidian trail that separated them from it.
The woman chuckled and said, "Those kids… really don't know what they're getting themselves into."
A ghast made noise behind her, and the woman rubbed its head, saying, "Patience Gist, you'll get your chance… I know how much you hate humans… I dislike that inferior race too…"
Still, she thought, I sense some human mobs down there as well. I suppose they can be spared, once they learn to serve the superior race.
The woman cackled, said, "Oh, how master Herobrine will get a kick out of this! And what's even better, that dumb Claudette went missing a few days ago. I haven't seen her since. Oh happy days are near!"
She glared at the ones sailing across the obsidian passageway in an evil way, and said, "Enjoy your lives while you still can pitiful humans, because soon, the overworld… will become the underworld!"
She laughed evilly at that statement.
Meanwhile, the team was still drifting calmly on the obsidian path.
"This place gives me the creeps…" Darren said.
Darren has a point there, Cindy thought, still though, I can't help but feel that something's off. We can't be that close to the earth's core yet. I wonder, if Cody had fallen all the way to the core, he would have fell in lava and burned to dead. If not, he might have fallen to his death. But the chat box didn't say anything about Cody dying. Is he still alive, or is it something else?
The group sailed until they reached the end of the path. The sound of rushing water filled their ears.
"Did the current get stronger again?" Matt asked.
"Seems like" Cindy responded, "But for some reason, the water is too loud and the current is moving too fast. It's almost as if we're headed straight for a…"
"Waterfall!" Mandy yelled.
Everyone screamed when they went over the waterfall. They fell down with their boats falling next to them. One by one, they all splashed into the river at the bottom.
Everything was quiet, except for the sound of the river. Then Cindy emerged from the river, gasping as she did. Darren went out after, and then pulled Matt out once he got to shore.
"Where's Mandy?" Cindy asked.
"Right here" A voice said. Everyone looked and saw the cave spider walking towards them.
"Jeez." Darren said, looking up the waterfall, "I always wondered what it would be like to fall down a waterfall. Now that I know, I kinda wish I didn't. Where are we anyway?"
"I think we're even more below the cave." Cindy said, "But I can't tell where we are. If we keep going this way, I'm sure we can get to Cody. Do you guys still have torches?"
"Yes." Matt said.
"Use them to light up the cave," Cindy ordered, "This place is showing more surprises than we can handle. Keep moving, and stay alert." With that, Cindy walked down the river, followed by Matt and Darren who took out their torches, and Mandy who stayed close behind. From this point on, nobody what would happen next.
Hang on Cody, Darren thought, we're coming to save you!
And that was Chapter 5 of my first fan fic of minecraft. If you guys liked this style of typing better that the old one, write a review letting me know. Or you can just write a review in general. Until the next chapter, Later!