Chapter Eight
Guys, I have to apologize for not updating this book as much as Minecraft Dragons Attack. I've just been so determined to finish that one and get to the sequel, that I've, kept forgetting about this one. I know lots of you love this book and I hope you continue liking it.
Anyways, back to the book!
Aella POV
I came to with a throbbing headache and ragged breathing. I felt warmer than before, and was laying on something soft. It had a smoother texture than dirt but a rougher feel than wool. I opened my eyes and immediately started coughing up what seemed like gallons and gallons of water. I eventually stopped and my breaths became slightly more even.
I rolled over and saw what I was sprawled onto. It was sand. But rougher than the kind you get in the Aether. I picked up a handful and felt it in my hands. It was warm against my cold, wet hand and it stuck thanks to the water still layered on my skin.
I sat up and looked around. I was sitting on a small beach close to the ocean I was just encountered in. The other side of me held, a forest? But it didn't look anything like the ones like in the Aether. The leaves were a rich green and the logs were a chocolate brown. Some of them had white trunks dotted with black and slightly paler leaves.
The Aether trees were a pale blue-ish while the leaves were a more pale blue. It was much different from this. Though something that I was enjoying so far was the warm air. It felt like I was being surrounded by blazing furnaces.
But the closer I got to the ocean, I shivered more and clutched my arms attempting to stay warm.
After a while, my brain had finally processed all these strange things and I did my first attempt to stand up. My legs were extremely wobbly and they had been enjoying laying on the smooth sand. I rose up higher which involved in me flapping my arms trying to stay standing (actually I was in the middle of a squat but oh well).
I straightened my legs even more which resolved in a sore pain to come to my hamstrings. I groaned at the feel but then realized I was fully standing. I wanted to jump up and down on excitement but decided to save the energy for later.
After a little while of getting used to walking around again (I felt like a little Aetherbaby trying it's first steps), a thought crossed my mind.
Wait! What time of day is it? How long was I out? I thought it myself.
I walked around the beach with my head held high to the sky trying to find where the sun was. My eye finally caught sight of something bright orange sinking down into the ocean. The sun was setting!
I sighed. Well now that I know where the sun is, now I gotta survive the night. I reached down to my waist feeling for my battle-axe but then another thought hit me like a wave. My belt and battle-axe are gone. I mentally facepalmed for my stupidity.
So that means I have no weapons or food. So now you're probably wondering how I'll survive this. I decided to do the first thing that came into my mind. Punch a tree!
I walked off the beach and onto the thick lime green grass. My feet seemed to have sunk in a bit into the earth which felt quite calming.
I went up to the first tree my eye caught sight of and I started swinging my fists at the chocolate brown bark. The log eventually shattered and landed in my inventory with a POP! I created it into planks hurriedly and made a crafting table. I placed it down and kept punching the next tree. I didn't have much time, that's why I was rushing. Who knows what types of mobs could spawn here.
When I had finished pounding the third log, my hands were scraped and throbbing. Swiftly, but surely, I made more planks and a wooden axe just to make the job slightly easier.
I walked under the tree and started chipping away at the log above me. While I was doing so, the light from the sun slowly evaporated and I couldn't see what I was breaking. I kept swinging at the tree and the dull blade of the wooden axe broke off and diminished into little bits of code. My heart was beating rapidly now.
Soon, I had chopped down the whole tree (which happened to be twelve logs). I was going to have plenty of planks to make a wooden sword.
I was in the middle of crafting it when I felt a cold, gooey arm grab my shoulder and shove me to the ground. I shrieked and looked up. Standing above me, with raised fists, was what looked like a green dead monster wearing a tattered blue shirt and torn off from the knee jeans. His mouth let out groaning noises which made me shiver when they bubbled through my eardrums.
It brought it's fist down on my stomach and I felt a terrible pain. I shrieked again at that when it did it again.
Before the green thing did it once more, I stopped the fist with my hands and I shoved him to the ground while getting myself back up. I started punching the odd thing until it disappeared into little bits of code but left behind two things. A piece of rotten flesh which I gagged at, and a carrot. I was curious about the carrot but held onto it.
I ran over to my crafting table again and crafted my sword. Well three actually. At least I knew how breakable these wooden tools were.
I whirled around at the sound of hissing and miniature footsteps coming to me. It had eight legs, eight glowing red eyes, and two pairs of fangs dripping code. I ran at it (while making a strange battle cry) and stabbed it with my sword. The creature flashed red. It seemed infuriated by that gesture because it lunged at me but I dodged it.
I spun around again and I got a good hit on it again.
In a few more hits, the red eyed creature disappeared and dropped three string and one of it's eyes. I gagged at the sight of it but still kept it.
I then remembered the recipe of a bow, and because I had three string and plenty of wood, I could make one.
Soon, with a few placings and forging together, I had a brand new bow ready for battle.
Now I just need arrows. I thought to myself. I suddenly saw something whiz through the air and just miss my arm. My heart started beating crazily once again and I whirled around. About five blocks away was a creature made completely of pure bone. He had no flesh, no eyes, and no skin. Just bones! In its cold white hands held an old rusty bow with an arrow magically knocked onto it. It raised the bow and released the worn, dirty string. Another arrow sailed through the air at a lightning speed as usual, but missed me by the slightest once again. But it did cut through the top layer of my skin which made me wince slightly.
I ran at it once again and swung at it with my almost broken sword. The dull blade dug into its socket and the arm of the creature popped off and disappeared into code. Unfortunately, that was the opposite arm the mob was holding so it still has access to the bow.
It attempted to knock another arrow onto the string but I made a blow to the other arm. The bow was released from the creature's bony clutches and fell to the ground with a small THUMP!
I used this as my chance to use the final durability left on this sword. I clutched the handle so hard my hand was starting to hurt, and I swung at the creature's head. It came clean off and suddenly landed in my inventory with a POP! At the same time, my sword shattered into millions of pieces which slowly sunk into the ground.
I sighed a huge breath of relief that the mob was finally gone. I almost felt like collapsing again but remembered it was still the middle of the night.
Something caught my eye suddenly. I looked down and saw three arrows resting on the ground beside some old bones. I picked them up and examined the arrows. The tips were unusually sharp and the feathers were smooth against my worn, scraped fingers.
I placed them in my inventory when I heard more hissing and groaning. I took out my second sword and clutched the handle with both hands ready for my next opponent to strike.
Two of those gross green creatures went up to me with their green hands out throwing some swings at me. I dodged them all and killed them in no time. Two red eyed creatures ran and pounced on me but I got them as well without barely breaking a sweat. I was getting used to these types of attacks but my sword sure wasn't. It was crumbling away like there was no tomorrow.
Mobs and mobs came and went. I was starting to get tired and my sword's blade had just split in half but I still used it. I eventually started using my bow before I used up all three of my arrows. Luckily there were lots of boney creatures to fight off which meant more arrows.
More strange creatures attacked and my sword finally gave up. I got my final one out and wished this wouldn't last any longer but when I looked up at the sky, the moon was only a quarter of the way through. I shivered at the thought of green creatures feasting off my flesh and red eyed monsters playing with my bones.
No! I can't let that happen! I have to survive. I'm a royal Aether being! I replayed those words in my head several times while I killed off more mobs.
The more I fought, the more there seemed to spawn. Now my heart was beating rapidly again. But not in fright, in exhaustion. I swung at another boney creature and the tip of my blade chipped away. The mob toppled to the ground and into a pile of bones and I fished out some arrows for my bow.
Countless minutes went by and my sword was at three more strikes. I now had five arrows left over but I was extremely tired of pulling the string back and releasing.
I'm a royal Aether being. I'm a royal Aether being. I repeated in my head. It made me slightly more confident but it didn't help at all with my exhaustion.
Suddenly, out of the blue appeared a mob I had never seen yet. It was different shades of green and walked on little stubby legs. No arms or even sockets were placed on its sides, and the face, the face was the most terrifying. Those soulless black eyes has little slits of red in the centre. The black 'mouth' was thin at the top but poured into two opposite directions. Both of them twisted down and stopped abruptly. It was like an upside down Y. I shuddered when I saw it's details but I still clutched my almost dead sword.
The green creature walked towards me with it's eyes piercing into mine without even blinking. When it got close enough, it started expanding and getting a lighter shade of green. I stepped back a bit but kept watching.
During it's expansion, the creature made a slow hissing sound, and then, the most strange thing happened. It exploded! I was thrown back into a nearby tree trunk and I screamed in pain. My chest burned from the explosion and the back of my head was throbbing uncontrollably. Little white dots crossed with my vision for a few seconds but then black ones danced across while making my vision blurry and my eyelids heavy.
I eventually slipped away from Minecraft and into consciousness.
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