AN: Oh wow. This chapter sure took a long time for some reason...
I wake up to the sound of laughing and cheering. I open my eyes slowly. The villager who had allowed me to stay here is around in the kitchen, pulling various things out of a chest. I tilt my head and see apples, loafs of bread, and bits of cake.
He turns to face me. "Good, you're awake." He smiles as I sit up. "What's going on outside?" I have absolutly no idea, is anyone is danger? The villager laughs. "Oh, just the young ones like you are playing about." I tilt my head again. "You can play here? There's no worry about any attacks or anything?" The villager shakes his head. "Or course not! This place is safe to all!"
I widen my eyes like I did when I saw the night sky for the first time. I had never been able to play or do anything before! I grin as I think about what I would do later! I climb out of the bed and run to the door. "Ah! Not so fast!"
I turn around. The villager is standing, holding a loaf of bread and an apple. "I don't know what kind of life you had before, but you need to eat before you leave the house!" I nod. But inside, I'm excited. I've never had a proper breakfast before, like I've never had anything good before.
I rush towards the villager and grab the food out of his hands. "Thank you so much! For everything!" I smile as I shake his hand. He smiled back. "Your welcome. Now eat and go have some fun!" I cherish every bite that I take of the tasty food. But not for long, because I hurry out of the door as soon as I'm finished.
The village is the daytime is so lively! Children are playing with each other, adult villagers are conversing with each other, and workers are farming and managing their shops. I smile when I remember what the villager had said last night, that there were humans like me around my age. I can't wait to meet them so I won't feel alone! I run off around the large village to see what it has in store for me.
After a while, I find two people talking near a small house. One is sitting on the steps while the other is standing up next to the other. They seem happy enough, so I break down my run into a walk. As I approach the humans, they stop their conversation to look at me.
"Whoa! Another human? Sweet!" The person, who I can now see is a boy, stands up. The other, who is a girl, smiles at me. "Good! Now I can get a break from Mr. Talky here!" My smile doesn't stop. But I can't think of anything really cool to say, so I just go original. "Hi!"
"What's your name?" Asks the boy. "Mine's Erwin!" I pause for a second. I just have to say the simple name given to me, right? "Hero." I say. "Cool!" Responds the girl. "I'm Alex!" "Cool!" I say. "So where did you come from that gave you those awesome eyes?" Asks the boy. "Erwin! If he wants to say that, he can on his own!"
I blink a couple of times. How can I respond to that? "Um, what?" Erwin doesn't follow Alex's advice. "You ever looked in a mirror? You have a rare pale blue eye color! Never seen anyone with it, and it's awesome!" That doesn't really help. "Um, I don't know how I can answer that." I respond. Well, so what if I have pale blue eyes anyway? Erwin shrugs. "Alright."
"So, um, I'm nine." Says Alex, trying to change the subject. "Really? Me too!" I remark, suprised. "Aaand, I'm ten. Guess a year older than both of you." Says Erwin awkwardly. He shakes his head. "Yeah, no matter."
"So do you want to see the woods?" Alex asks me. "They're awesome!" I nod happily. "Yeah!" Erwin gives Alex a strange look. "The woods? Don't you only go there once a week? And that's two days from now?" Alex laughs. "Erwin, does that really matter? Hero is new here, and he's got to see the woods!" She pulls on my hand. "Come on!"
Erwin sighs. "And you seemed so serious about your schedule..." I give in on the tugs from Alex and started walking in the direction she wants to go in. She runs off so I change my pace so I get to keep up with her. I smile as I think about how amazing this day has been so far. I don't think I'll even have to think about that old nasty lab again!
The journey outside of the village and into the woods doesn't take as long as it did to travel into the village from the other side. We are traveling in a different direction, and I can see that the woods that Alex talked about are more vibrant than the woods on the other side of the village. I look up at one point to see where the sun is in the sky. It's close to noon, but that's not late at all.
When we enter the maze of trees, Alex gives out a sigh. "This place is truly amazing! Depper in, there are more mushrooms and flowers and lakes and trees and..." She trails off. She gazes at the fields of flowers in front of us. She quickly pickes some roses and lavender. "I love these types of flowers!" I give a half smile, knowing that she wouldn't see it anyway. "Cool. Are you going to show me everything that you said was here?"
Alex nods as she stuff the flowers into her pockets. "Yeah, follow me!" She runs off again. I sigh. My hunger bar is halfway gone.
It doesn't take long for me to see the giant mushrooms. And the dark oak trees. And for the woods to get thicker. "Whoa!" I shout as I manage to spot the first red and white mushroom. "Those are the mushrooms you're talking about, right?!" I yell to Alex. "Yeah! You likey?" She calls back. I grin and stop in front of it. It's so big that is appears that I could live in it! I only wish it was somewhere in the village.
I'm stopped in my train of thought when I hear an abnormal groan. The color drains from my face as I turn to my left to face three zombies. I should have grabbed a sword or something before I left the village. I yell and start to back up like I had done the night before. Like last night, I have nothing to fight with.
"Here!" I hear Alex yell. I turn my head just in time to see an iron sword flying it's way towards me. My reflexes kick in and I catch it as the zombies pick up their pace. I turn back to face them. Alex starts to get into her battle position while I try to find out how to hold my newly acquired sword.
Just as one of the zombies reaches out to hold me in place, I thrust the iron blade into its chest and toss it aside. My eyes open wide when I realize what I had just done. I stare as the blood on my weild. "You can handle this?" I call out to Alex, amazed. She takes out the other two zombies and and toss the sword back to her. She sighs.
"Well I've just gotten used to it, being out here so often..." She trails off again. I nod and turn to look back at the sun. It's crazy how things can happen so quick, and that it's impossible to redo them. They just happen so fast. The sun is just on the horizen and the sky is red.
"Let's get back..." I say to Alex as I face her. She nods and leads the way back to the village. I'm happy to do so, for I have no other ways of getting back to the village. I shudder as the tempreture drops suddenly as I run. Or maybe it's because I remember the terrifying moment that will scar me forever: that I had killed my first monster.
AN: Yes, Alex as in the new skin for Minecraft. :)