The Legend: The Mystery of Herobrine Book One - The Start of a Quest



  The Legend: The Mystery of Herobrine, Book One - The Start of a Quest

  By Mark Mulle

  Copyright 2014 Mark Mulle

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  This short story is for your reading pleasure. The characters in this "Minecraft Adventure Series" such as Steve, Endermen or Herobrine...etc are based on the Minecraft Game coming from Minecraft ®/TM & © 2009-2013 Mojang / Notch

  Other Books in The Legend: The Mystery of Herobrine Trilogy

  Book Two: The Truth about the Myth

  Book Three: Herobrine versus the World

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  The Legend: The Mystery of Herobrine, Book One - The Start of a Quest

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  The Legend: The Mystery of Herobrine, Book One - The Start of a Quest

  There were two of us in the beginning: my friend, Jerry, and me. My name is Mike, by the way. We spawned in this forest biome, on top of a big mountain. The mountain was so high that snow tiles covered the top of it. We could see far away, across a giant sea of dark green trees.

  My friend, Jerry, knew a lot more about Minecraft than I did, so naturally, I followed his lead in everything.

  It was the middle of the day, from what I gathered. The giant yellow square that was the sun was right above us.

  “We should get to the bottom of the Mountain and start gathering some resources. We’ll probably make it safely down before the sun goes down and monsters start crawling around the place,” said Jerry.

  “You’re right. But don’t get too far ahead,” I told him.

  “Don’t worry, I won’t. Just try to stay close to me. Don’t go jumping down without looking ahead first. We don’t have any food yet, so try not getting hurt. Okay?”

  “Sure thing, Jerry,” I told him.

  “Right, let’s go!”

  Jerry turned around and started climbing down the mountain, jumping down one square at a time. I followed him closely.

  As we were climbing down we began to see sheep. They were in small groups of three to five sheep, huddled together. As we walked past them they turned their small, square-shaped heads and looked at us. Jerry went close to one and started punching it. I quickly did the same and started bashing the sheep that was closest to me. As I hit the sheep, it started turning red with each hit. I know what you’re thinking, but sheep are a valuable resource in Minecraft. They provide both meat and wool, two important resources that a player needs in order to survive. So, in a matter of minutes, the two sheep each turned into meat and two squares of white wool. The other sheep ran away, scattering in every direction. Jerry and I gathered the items that the sheep dropped.

  “We best let the others go. Let’s focus on getting to the bottom of this mountain and harvesting some other resources,” said Jerry.

  “You’re the pro,” I told him.

  And so we kept going down the mountain. Jerry was getting pretty far ahead from me, running and jumping. I noticed that when you run and jump at a certain angle, not only can you jump further but you can also reduce the damage that you take when falling. But don’t get carried away, though, I’m talking about a distance of a few blocks that are not at a big angle.

  We got to the bottom of the mountain just in time. As the sun went down, the sky turned different shades of red and purple.

  Jerry walked up to a tall tree, an oak I think. It must have been ten or fifteen blocks high. Jerry started punching the base of it with his bare hands. The wooden block started splintering into small brown particles. After a few seconds we heard a popping sound and the tree block disappeared and reappeared as a smaller block, spinning on the ground. Jerry turned to me after picking the small block.

  “Look. You smash the tree and get the block. You then pick it up from your inventory and turn it into wooden planks.”

  “Okay, I’ll give it a go,” I told him.

  I did exactly as I saw him do it. It seemed that it took forever to destroy the wooden block.

  “Don’t worry, Mike. Chopping down trees will get much easier once we craft the proper tools, you’ll see,” Jerry assured me.

  Finally, I managed to chop down the tree. Gosh, it took quite some time. I collected the block and turned it into some wooden planks.

  “What now?” I asked Jerry.

  “Well, now we use four planks in order to create a Crafting Table,” said Jerry.

  I did just that.

  “Now take the Crafting Table, and set it right here on the ground,” said Jerry.

  “Okay.”

  I created the Crafting Table and put it right next to the tree that I just started chopping.

  “Cool, just like that. Now let’s gather another block of wood. I’ll show you how to craft an axe,” said Jerry.

  Again, I started punching away at the oak trunk. I finally managed to chop down yet another block of oak wood with my bare hands and I walked up to Jerry. His tree was already gone. The leaves from the tree still hovered around the space that was once occupied by the tree itself. Jerry had a wooden axe in his hand.

  “How did…you…” I mumbled.

  “What? The axe? Come on, I’ll teach you how to do it. It’s so simple, you’ll see. Walk up to your Crafting Table and craft some wooden planks. That’s right. Now use two planks, one on top of each other and craft some sticks. That’s it. Now use two sticks and the rest of your wooden planks and this extra one. Here! Use your imagination. The sticks form the handle and you make the blade out of three wooden planks. It will make sense after you see it, trust me.”

  I followed his instructions and on the third go at arranging the planks, I managed to craft myself my first Minecraft tool – a trusty wooden axe.

  “There you go,” said Jerry. “Now get to chopping some more wood. You can never have enough wood. Trust me. I’ll tell you when to stop. We still have a lot of crafting to do.”

  So I equipped my wooden axe and started chopping down trees left and right.

  The night came quickly and after what seemed as few minutes, darkness fell over the forest. We could hear the groaning of zombies. Jerry came over to where I was working on chopping a small tree.

  “Come on! Follow me”, said Jerry. “First, use your axe and chop down your Crafting Table, collect it and let’s get out of here. Quickly!”

  I ran over to my crafting table and in a matter of seconds my Crafting Table was inside my inventory.

  “I’m ready. Let’s go,” I told Jerry.

  “Good. I think the zombies might be closing in on us,” said Jerry.

  The both of us ran to the side of the mountain that we had climbed down from and Jerry took out his wooden pickaxe. He then started using it to dig into the mountain. Within minutes he had dug a tunnel that was just two blocks high, enough for us to go inside. He suddenly turned around.

  “Here! Take this. Two diggers are faster than one,” he said.

  “Let’s do this!”

  So I picked up the pickaxe and started expanding the tunnel into a small room. I even managed to find a block or two of coal and so did Jerry.

  “Okay, that should do it,” said Jerry as he set his Craft
ing Table next to a wall.

  He then used the table and crafted some torches. He then set two torches on opposite walls.

  “Torches, Mike. Never leave home without them. Remember that,” he said.

  “I’ll make sure to remember it,” I told him.

  “Good. Now you craft a wooden door, okay? It’s the simplest thing: just six wooden planks, two columns, three blocks high and put it over there, so the monsters don’t come in,” said Jerry.

  I followed his instructions and crafted the wooden door. I then walked up to the entrance of our small shelter and placed it on the ground and presto! We now had a wooden door to keep us safe from the monsters that roamed the forest at night.

  As I turned around, I saw that Jerry had already constructed a furnace.

  “We will use the furnace to cook our food, but we can do loads of other things with it, though. We can melt iron blocks into ingots with it, we can melt gold…Remember that, too. As a matter of fact, remember these things: Crafting Table, axe and pickaxe, furnace and torches,” said Jerry.

  “Got it!”

  As the night went on, Jerry showed me how to craft a lot of things including torches, swords, shovels and he even taught me how to craft a bed, although we didn’t have enough wool to do that, unfortunately. By the way, a bed is kind of an important thing in Minecraft. Not only can you sleep in it, in order to make the night go by faster, but you can also respawn there after dying; well you actually spawn next to it, not in it. Also, if you happen to get your hands on a compass, it