"Hello?" An old woman answered the door after Daryl knocked on it. She looked bored, like she didn't want us to be at her house at midnight.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Wrong house." Daryl said, and closed the door. We started walking through the village again.
"So you have no idea where these people are?" Rainbowcreepers asked.
"No," Daryl said, annoyed. "But it shouldn't be too hard to find them. There aren't many houses in this village." Well, if there's one thing Daryl didn't know about, it's this village. I could clearly see that there were more than a dozen houses, so I knew this would take longer than I first thought.
Daryl knocked on another door.
"Bob's Enchantment Shop. What do you need?" The man at the door asked us. He was tall, and wore a black apron.
"Sorry, wrong house." Daryl said. Afterwards, we tried knocking on the doors of a few more houses without finding any luck. We were thinking about giving up on finding these people, but Daryl wanted to keep looking.
"We've already searched almost every house." I said, sitting on a doorstep.
"We just have to keep looking." Daryl told me. He knocked on another door loudly. A brunette male answered the door. He was wearing a striped shirt and black pants.
"What do you want?" He yelled.
"Tommy!" Daryl hugged the guy forcefully. The guy tried to escape his grip.
"Tommy?" We all asked.
"Don't call me that." The guy said. "It's GummyWarrior."
"What kind of name is that?" Daryl looked disgusted at his username. "You disgust me. I'm calling you Tommy."
"Fine, whatever. Why'd you knock on my door? I haven't seen you in months."
"Tommy, meet Rainbowcreepers, Little Notch, Sarah, and Steve. I'm helping them get back to their main city, and we need your help."
"Hey," Tommy waved at us. We waved back. "And no. I will not help you."
"Come on!" Daryl desperately yelled. "We need all the help we can get."
"What's in it for me?"
Daryl hesitated for a moment. "I'll give you a new diamond sword." He asked.
"Two diamond swords."
"Fine, two diamond swords."
"We have a deal." Tommy nodded his head, and shook hands with Daryl. We started heading to the next house.
"So, Tommy." Sarah said. "Why'd you separate from Daryl?"
"He was just giving me a bit of a hard time." Tommy sighed. "He acted like I would never be able to survive on my own. So I moved out into the village, where I thought he would never find me."
"Thank goodness I did." Daryl said.
"Yeah, but I've been pretty good at surviving on my own. I'm almost an expert." Tommy stood tall.
"Oh, yeah?" Rainbowcreepers said. "Really? How long have you been out on your own. I bet you haven't even been out here for six months!"
"Two years." Tommy said. Rainbowcreepers stared at him for a second and didn't say another word. Daryl knocked on another door. A girl with blonde hair in a white hoodie answered the door.
"Hey, Bridgette!" Daryl yelled and hugged her.
"Hi, Daryl." Bridgette was happy to see Daryl too, unlike Tommy. "I haven't seen you in months. What brings you here?"
"I have a request for you. These young people behind me – Little Notch, Rainbowcreepers, Sarah, and Steve – need to go back to their own city through the nether. Will you help us get there?" He pleaded.
"Sure." She said. "I'll get my stuff."
"That was easy." Little Notch said as Bridgette walked back into her house. It was an average village house, but still very small, just like Tommy's. We waited for a few minutes, and then Bridgette walked out with her stuff.
"Let's go to the Nether." She said with a smile. I wondered if these people were going to be helpful.
We took the trip back to Daryl's apartment, which wasn't as hard as when we went to the village, mostly because by the time we had gotten Bridgette to come with us, it was daytime. We walked back to Daryl's apartment. Tommy and Bridgette didn't need a tour of his apartment, so I assumed they were familiar with it.
"Now what?" Rainbowcreepers asked as soon as we walked in.
"We'll probably go to the Nether in two days." Daryl said. "For now, get some rest, get your stuff ready, and train."