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Chapter 15 - The Husk Temple

Chapter 15 - The Husk Temple

Lucy realizes that this is the Minecraft world, not the world that she used to live in until now, but a world that sometimes appeared on her computer screen.

"I still don't get it... what now?" Lucy asks herself. "Is this really not a dream?" She starts walking around inspecting the ground.

She then starts punching the ground and a chunk of it dissapears, she picks it up and her inventory appears.

"This is actually real..."

Lucy gathers some more dirt and enters the temple.

If I want to survive the night I am going to need a weapon or a bed and sleep through it, if this is the Minecraft world then it should work like that.

She enters the temple from the same entrance which the husk came charging at her. There are two torches right beside the entrance and the hallway ahead is dark.

Lucy takes one of the torches and starts walking through the path ahead. She can see a light at the end of the tunnel, it's the other entrance. Lucy starts walking towards it. Before reaching the center of the temple she finds two doors.

The doors are opposite to eachother, one of them is on her right and the other one is on her left. Lucy comes up to one of the doors and starts listening. She can't hear anything. She then comes up to the other door and hears growling inside.

She enters the door from which she didn't hear anything. The room seems to be some kind of armory.

"Lucky!" She shouts in excitement. The zombie from the other room hears her. She quickly takes a sword in her hands and prepares for the zombie's attack. The zombie opens the door and Lucy instantly thrusts her sword through its head.

"I hope there are no other zombies nearby..." Lucy says as she goes around the armory. There are a bunch of Iron swords, axes, pickaxes and more. There is armor too. Lucy tries wearing it, but it's too heavy. She could move around with it but she prefers to be agile rather than durable.

Lucy ends up taking a bunch of items and putting them in her inventory. She takes all the tools needed, and a few spares if she needed them.

She enters the room which the husk came from. It's a smithery, the husk was smithing what seemed like a sword.

"Why was he smithing and not crafting? Do they not know about crafting?" Lucy asks herself. "Or maybe he was smithing a sword that can't be crafted... guess we'll never know."

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(Growl, growl)

Lucy starts hearing more growling coming from the hall. She slowly peeks out of the room and sees five armed husks coming towards her. One of the husks notices her and starts charging towards her. Lucy starts running in the opposite direction, which is where she came from.

What now? There's multiple of them and they have weapons too... Do I try to lose them by outrunning them? The island didn't seem to have a forest or anything like that, I don't think I can hide from them.

Maybe I turn around now and start fighting them here in the hallway? That's probably the best option right?

Lucy keeps running for about three more seconds and then turns around. She pulls out an axe from her inventory and throws it at the front husk. She hits its shoulder. Lucy then pulls out second iron sword and starts fighting the husks.

She defeats them with ease, they can only fight her two at a time because of the tight hallway.

"What now? More of them will keep coming after me, that's for sure. What can I do?"

(Back to present)

"And that's how it started for me." Lucy says.

"What happened after? Mikey asks.

"More husks came, I defeated them, I tried exploring the temple more and found an entrance into a huge underground area, I saw them building ships there." Lucy says. "More husks came attacking me from time to time. But they never launched a full out attack on me... thankfully." She adds.

"So, the ships that they were building. It was those three that attacked us?" Mikey asks.

"No, definitely not. They wouldn't be able to build them that fast. They weren't building the same way you would in Minecraft. By placing block after block. No, no, they were literally constructing them, which seems strange doesn't it? Considering that we are in the Minecraft world."

"We still don't know a lot of things about this world. Maybe only we humans are allowed to craft and build the same way it's done in Minecraft." Mikey says.

(The next day)

Mikey and Lucy are about to disembark on one of the islands. Searching for another human or something useful. Mikey is looking at the island through the telescope.

"Where did you get that telescope?" Lucy comes up to Mikey and asks him.

"It was in the quarterdeck, along with a note." Mikey hands the note to Lucy.

[This telescope is probably the only thing that I still own from back when I was still a human and not this monster. If you come across it, please take a good care of it. PJ]

Lucy quietly hands back the note to Mikey. Mikey stops looking through the telescope and gives it to Lucy.

"Where are you going?" Lucy asks.

"I need to position the ship so that we can leave right away. The same way I did when I rescued you." He responds.

Mikey start slowly steering the ship. Eventually Mikey and Lucy reach the island and get prepared to disembark.

"Did you see anything?" Mikey asks as Lucy hands him back the telescope.

"Nothing interesting." Lucy answers.

"Meeeeeeehh" A sheep makes a noise behind them.

"Why did you save that sheep in the first place?" Lucy asks.

"What do you mean why, it saved my life and your life too. Quite literally."

Mikey summons three spectral pirates and orders all of them to watch the ship while he's away.

Mikey and Lucy land on the Island and go into the forest.

"What's up with all the cobwebs and stuff." Lucy says.

"It seems like this Island is a jungle biome." Mikey says as he inspects the trees.

"You might be right, this texture, and this leaves too, this is exactly like a jungle biome from Minecraft." Lucy says.

"With that said, Lucy, did you see any spiders in this world up until now?" Mikey asks. Mikey hasn't seen any, he even mentioned it after the first night.

"No, now that I think about it, I haven't... weird." Lucy answers. "What are you suggesting?" She asks.

"Well, at first I thought that there might just be no spiders at all in this world, but I just proved myself wrong. With those cobwebs... and with that." Mikey says as he points his finger ahead.

"What are you talking ab-" Lucy slowly turns her head and sees a HUGE spider about fifteen meters in front of them.

The spider is atleast three meters wide and looks insanely dangerous. It has red eyes that shine brightly, it's completely black and it seems to have acknowledged Mikey's and Lucy's presence.

"I hate spiders." Lucy says with a terrified look.