MINECRAFT: The Story of Steve the Hermit: How It All Began (The Book 1) by Steve Ranger Jr. - HTML preview

Chapter 11: Steve's Spider

He dreamt of the forest and the pig that he had tried to drive to his farm, but the pig was disappearing all the time and reappeared in a new place each time, as if teasing him, trying to make him go deeper into the thicket. Steve couldn’t catch her, but then she appeared once more, this time on a small mountain, and Steve went after her. Climbing the mountain was easy at first, but it got harder and harder. Steve was suffocating, and, after making a serious effort…he woke up. All the torches in the room were extinguished, except for one, and Steve had to use it as a “lighter” to light them again. Afterwards, he began crafting weapons and armor but he had some trouble with the helmet; while trying to find the right size, he either made it too big or too small to actually wear. After finally finding the right size, Steve, clad in iron armor from head to toe, went outside his shelter. It was early in the morning – not all the stars were gone from the sky yet. Steve’s first order of business was taking care of food: he carefully avoided the places abundant with creepers and other fauna and slowly moved forward, looking for suitable prey. He pitied the poor pigs and cows, but such was life. In order to avoid getting lost in the unknown area, Steve left marks on the trees. Sometimes he encountered marshy ground on his way, which made it harder to move forward; falling down into the quagmire meant certain death. After gathering a lot of meat, he started harvesting wood by cutting down trees that were overgrown with wild vines. From time to time, Steve would find a mushroom or two; he put them with the meat. He enjoyed the mushroom soup that he made before and wanted to cook it again and again. Steve was a great cook, in fact, and knew many peculiar details and tricks when it came to making food. The process itself brought great joy to him, as much as actually eating the food. He was enjoying himself while cutting the trees, and didn’t notice how his clothes got stuck to one of the branches. A sudden rustle made him look around – “What the-?” The answer came from behind the bushes, with exceptional agility and speed: it was a spider. Steve recoiled and started stepping back slowly, getting stuck in the wild vines more and more. As it was approaching Steve, the implacable spider was snapping his jaws, and Steve couldn’t take it anymore; he panicked and somehow managed to free one of his arms and started looking for his sword, which turned out to be right under his feet. After reaching his sword, Steve quickly sliced through the vines and switched to a defensive stance. The moment that the spider jumped, aiming his sting at him, Steve pointed his sword upwards, impaling it. The spider, still convulsing and rattling in agony, began dissolving.

He had never felt such fear and terror, as it is now. It feels like everything around turned upside down and the world will never be the same. He stood for a long time like this, with a sword in his hand extended, until finally he came to his senses and realized that we should move on. All that was left of the spider were a few web pieces and a red bloody eye that was still looking in his direction. For an unknown reason, he decided to take it as a trophy. He adjusted his helmet on his head and continued to move through the swamp, stopping from time to time to catch their breath. Moving through these kinds of places was hard, especially with such a load on my shoulders but what could he do? He had to get used to the harsh conditions that literally unsettle.

And Steve went step by step toward a new life, towards new adventures, because it was waiting for so many interesting things in this exciting and unusual World of Minecraft!