LOCATION: UNDERGROUND

TIME: 3 DAYS AGO

VANESSA'S POV

It was about 9 in the morning when the earthquake struck. Then again, I could be wrong. I cant really tell the time exactly ever since I moved underground into this mineshaft, and I swear my ability to has been getting worse over time. But anyway, that's not the point. The point is I felt a huge earthquake today. They are getting bigger and bigger, but I don't know why. I went down a tunnel, and washed my hair in an aquifer. I changed out of my pyjamas into my normal clothes, a navy blue top, a darker navy miniskirt, and a pair of heavy cargo boots. I tied my hair back into my usual style, two spiky pigtails, and headed down to inspect the damage. Three or four tunnels had collapsed, but I never used them anyway. I walked away from the piles of gravel the tunnels now were and went to the minecart area of the mineshaft. I've been down underground in a maze of tunnels for years now, and I really have nothing much to do. I took out a steel pick, and hit it against the wall until I found some iron. I took it back to my furnace room, and smelted it into iron, then put some into my Blast Furnace, and turned it into steel. The remaining iron ingots I had, I crafted into an Iron Hull, and put it beside a Cart Assembler. It's hard running Railcraft and Steve's Carts, but hey, I've got to do something with my life. Then, when I was walking back to the tunnel I sleep in, I noticed something that wasn't there before. A block of stone bricks. Funny, I never put stone bricks on anything. I noticed there was gravel around it, so I dug it out a bit. There were more bricks around it, some were cracked, and some were covered in moss. I had to think, do I dare to break it open and see what was in there? I remembered what my sister told me, to take care of myself. I am, after all, the last cave spider. I don't know what happened to them beyond what Stephanie told me, but I'll know everything one day… I decided to check if it was safe, and maybe build something I could get out with if it wasn't. After doing so, I broke a hole with my pick and jumped down into the dark. I could see tunnels lined with stone bricks, with iron doors and buttons leading off into different directions. Then I heard a noise, like someone talking. I jumped back into my mineshaft and hid. After a little while, the sound disappeared and I wondered. Has this place been here the whole time? Maybe the earthquake pushed a few tunnels of this place and my mineshaft together? Maybe there's more places where whatever was down there can get into here… I decided to investigate, and jumped into the tunnel again. There was nothing here, so I went further and further down into the structure. It was a real maze, with rooms that split off into more tunnels, among other things. I saw a fountain, a library, and a prison cell. By now, I was lost. I turned down another corridor, and got the fright of a lifetime. There was a room with small lava pools to the side, and had stairs leading to a ring of end stone-like material. It looked broken. But what really made me nervous was the young girl sleeping on the top of the stairs. She seemed to be wearing a large silver dress and a silver tube top, it made me wonder why such a mob would ever wear that. Her hair was short and silver, and she wore a hat that looked like an insect. I instinctively tried to tiptoe out of the room, but my heavy boots made such a huge noise that the girl did indeed wake up. I ran out of the room before she could see me, but quickly got lost. I just kept running and running until I ran around a corner, and ploughed straight into the girl I had seen before.

(Me) "Ahh! Don't hurt me, I was just lost!''

(Silver Girl) ''I wont, but what the Nether are you doing in my Stronghold?''

(Me) ''Stronghold?''

(Silver Girl) ''Yes, that's what this place is. And how did you get in here? There's no entrances or exits here!''

(Me) ''There is now, thanks to that earthquake. I never introduced myself, my name is Vanessa, and apparently, I'm your neighbour.''

(Silver Girl) ''Well, Vanessa, I'm Shara, the last silverfish here.''

(Me) "Here? What do you mean? Aren't there more of you?''

(Shara) ''Well, yes, but they're all gone now, and they left me behind…''

(Me) ''Notch, it must have been terrible living here all by yourself.''

(Shara) ''Oh, I'm not alone. I have my pet bees!''

(Me) "Bees? This is the weirdest day ever…''

I took Shara to my mineshaft, and she was astounded at how they had lived side-by-side for so long, yet never met until now. We talked and talked, and soon became friends. I taught her about Railcraft, and she taught me about Extrabees, the mod in which her family had studied. There was a lot of work to do, and with two people, this seemed easier. And much, much, more fun. For the next few days we just did what we normally did, but we now sleep in the same room, and sometimes we liked to talk about our families. Then, a mysterious visitor came, and our lives turned even crazier…

Authors note:

Sorry again for the lack of uploads, I will try my best to get this story up for you. I am not ever cancelling or stopping, so don't worry

-Goldie :)