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Chapter 2: survival night

Aqua held me tightly, obviously terrified. I had to remind myself she didn't even know what most farm animals were, Zombies and Skeletons? She had every right to be terrified, they scared me the first time I saw them.

"I want to get out of here!" she complained.

"Here, use this to defend yourself" I said, giving her the wooden pickaxe. She took it, but still clung to me.

"I'm scared" she said, stating the obvious.

"Just relax, and follow my lead" I said, taking out a wooden pickaxe for myself.

She nodded, and we started walking. Nothing came near us for a while, but I could tell they were starting to notice. Something was different about them though…none of the archers shot at us, the creepers that were near us just watched, and the spiders would just climb stuff to look at us. It was like they knew we were a threat, but only if they engaged.

"I don't like this" Aqua said, clinging to me more.

"Just relax" I said, trying to stay calm myself.

Then a zombie attacked, and that was the end of the peace. We spent hours trying to fight off the seemingly endless wave of creatures; luckily they didn't attack in groups.

At around midnight, the battle finally came to the turning point when a creeper attacked. Everyone knows creepers explode…and that's just what it did. Me and Aqua were sent flying, and everything else died. Cards were everywhere, and I got most of them, but Aqua had started crying.

"it's ok Aqua, they can't hurt you now" I said soothingly.

"I never want to do that again!" Aqua said, still crying.

"It's ok, I'll protect you" I said.

"Ok…" she said shakily, calming down. She picked up a card, and it turned into a piece of greenish meat.

"Let's keep going" I said, not noticing it.

"Ok" she said, eating the meat. It took me a moment to realize what it was, but I decided it didn't do anything, and we kept walking.

A couple moments later, Aqua stopped, clutching her stomach "Alex! It hurts!" she said. I quickly looked in my pouch to see what I could give her as she screamed in pain and collapsed.

I quickly grabbed an apple card, which turned into an apple, and I gave it to her. She immediately ate it, and soon she slowly got up

"I suggest you don't eat rotten flesh again" I said.

"Not my fault it looked tasty" Aqua mumbled.

After a bit more walking, we found a village…though it looked abandoned.

"I don't think anyone is here" I said

"Maybe they're all asleep" Aqua suggested. Then I heard rumbling, and soon, a large metal golem stomped into view, causing Aqua to yelp in surprise.

"Entities detected" it said in a metallic voice "hostility…unknown. Continuing patrol…" it stomped away.

"w-what was that?" Aqua asked, fear obvious in her voice.

"It's an Iron Golem" I said "they usually appear near villages with lots of villagers, which probably means there are some here, just not out"

"Oh…ok" she replied.

I heard more stomping, meaning another one was coming…but I also heard a loud moaning. I turned around just in time to see a zombie hit Aqua. She yelped in surprise, and pain, before she collapsed, clutching her stomach, where the zombie hit her.

"Hostile entity detected" the Golem behind me said "removing threat"

Before I could react, the golem stepped over us, running at the zombie, and hit it hard, killing it instantly.

I blinked as it turned towards me "uh...thanks" I said, shocked.

It looked at me, then at Aqua "hostility identified, entity is friendly" the golem said. It then gave Aqua an apple, and walked off.

Aqua ate the apple immediately, and then got up slowly. "Wow…I want one!" Aqua said.

"Well, we need material, but it's possible" I said.

"Ok!" she said excitedly.

We walked past the village, nothing interesting was there anyways. A zombie attacked, but a few hits with the pickaxe and he was dead. I noticed we had a few bones from the skeletons, and I thought about maybe going to find wolfs.

"I hear barking!" Aqua said excitedly.

Listening, I could hear it too "let's check it out in the morning, when we won't be attacked" I said. She nodded in agreement, and we continued.

Night was boring, especially since I had to be careful with the monsters. At one point, me and Aqua took down a tree, getting 4 blocks of wood and a couple of saplings. I planted a sapling and started heading off again.

"Why did you want to take the tree down?" Aqua asked.

"I wanted the wood" I replied. I needed wooden planks for a crafting table, but I didn't know how to craft it yet, so I just left it for morning.

We kept walking, with Aqua talking about the scenery every once in a while.

"Look at all the flowers!" "Oh! A cave!" "That glowing stuff looks cool!" she was talking about lava, and I had to pull her away. Besides that, she'd talk about some of the monsters too.

"Eep! Spiders!" "Oh my god, the skeleton just shot at me!" "What's that shadow thing?"

I looked up and saw what I had hoped to avoid: an enderman. Luckily, he just looked at me and disappeared…though I found that strange, but I kept walking. Eventually, I became exhausted.

"Let's sleep now" I said, digging out a 1 by two hole we could stay in.

"Ok!" Aqua said, jumping into the hole.

I put a torch card on the wall, and it turned into a torch, which surprisingly didn't burn to touch. I could hear the noises of the monsters outside: the moaning of zombies, the chattering of skeletons, the hissing of creatures, and however you'd describe the noise spiders make. It was scary, but I ignored it, knowing we were safe down here. Soon, we both fell asleep.

Wow…two in one day! I had to REALLY over explain this chapter due to the fact that there isn't a lot to do at night, so…yea… remember: I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Bye for now!