Day 8
Like usual, I started my day by having some berries and water after waking up to an empty room. The sun had barely risen when I awoke, but that didn't stop Ari from going off alone again. Since I don't know the land as well as her, I decided to stay put until all the mobs had cleared up, and then set out to look around.
After wandering around aimlessly for a few minutes, I stumbled upon a small cave entrance that was lined with torches, leading almost straight down into the earth. Maybe this belonged to the legendary seventh player? Or maybe it was a secret Ari was hiding from me? Only one way to find out.
I quickly grabbed a torch from outside and headed into the cave. Since I had my club and tools with me to stay safe, I figured I would have a little adventure and scrape together some valuables while I'm at it.
My first observation of it being a cave was a bit off; it was more like a crooked tunnel leading into the Earth, with only a few small extra areas branching off. Also most of the inside had torches all over, and there were almost no mobs, so I though maybe the culprit was still at the very bottom. I continued my decline ever so carefully.
Once I got to the bottom, a huge surprise awaited me. There wasn't a person there, but instead I found a massive lava pool with diamonds, iron, and some strange red powder smacked into the walls all over.
At first I froze in utter amazement at how beautiful the gems and metals looked together. All around the pit of lava, the walls sparkled and shined with multitudes of colors.
Right away I knew that I should take as much of the materials as I could. I stuffed my coat full of diamonds and loaded my shoes and pant pockets full of the red powder. Doing this put a massive weight on me, but it was definitely worth it. Now all I needed to do was get back to the tree house, and we could put this stuff to good use.
Very luckily, on my way up and when I left the tunnel no one was around to see me. If someone caught me like this, I wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight since I was weighed down so much.
When I got back to the tree house(around noon), Ari was still out exploring, so I started working by myself. Using some wood from outside and the diamond I gathered in the cave, I managed to make a sword for me and a spear for Ari. Also, since I didn't know what the red stuff was, I decided to make a ring for Ari out of it. Pressuring it down against the table and bending it into a ring-shape, I attached the two ends to a diamond. This made a bright red ring that flashed and sparkled in the sun, connected to a large crystalline diamond. When I held it up to inspect, the sunlight danced around and through it, creating multiple rainbows that shined and shattered everywhere.
Admiring my work and wanting to give it to Ari right away, I decided to go out and find her. Since she still wasn't back, I figured she would be out gathering berries in her favorite berry bush spots, so I checked those first. However, I couldn't find her.
Now getting worried that something might of happened to her, I frantically ran around to all the places she showed me the other day, but she wasn't there either. Making one last desperate attempt, I scanned the areas around the the other players' territories, with no luck.
Now having checked every single place she showed me, I just decided to give up. The sun was mere hours away from setting, and I couldn't find Ari anywhere in the entire forest. I even spied on the others' camps for a bit, and found out they had nothing to do with her disappearance.
Having been completely exhausted from running around, I went back to the tree house to write in my entry for the day and get some sleep. The way I see it, there are just two possible events that could of taken place.
1) She's exploring new areas that I don't know, of or
2) She was discovered by the seventh player.
The chance she was discovered is probably below 1% since she knows the forest so well, so I'm sure she's just running around having fun somewhere. If she still isn't here when I wake up, I'll go out looking for her again, but right now there's nothing I can do besides waste my sleeping time away by worrying about her.
Well she did always say I worried too much, and it's probably true after all. I'll just try to change my course of mind and get some sleep so I'm ready for whatever is going to go on in the morning. Good night to Ari, and I pray she's safe.
A/N: And so the dramatic craziness begins. Also I bet you guys though I wasn't going to upload an entry for today :p. No matter how addicted to Minecraft and anime I am, I'll always love writing about our red-eyed friend, and I don't plan on taking a break any time soon(even though I haven't started my summer homework yet...) Anyways I hope you're all ready for some pretty amazing stuff going on tomorrow!