But then I remembered: Piotiana! The potion of weakness and the golden apple! With relief, I realized I didn’t have to go to the zombie-village just yet.
When I got to the hut, there was still no one outside. I shrugged and went in.
The musty smell of old herbs and potions long forgotten hit me in the face as I emerged into a small room. Piotiana was nowhere to be seen.
“Piotiana?” I called.
Suddenly I saw a gray haired villager laying on the ground by her bed. I gasped and ran to her. “Piotiana!” I called to her. Her eyes were closed, and the poisonous particles were almost obscuring her body.
Obviously, this was something stronger than a potion of poison. “I… I’m going to find you some food.” I said to her, though she obviously couldn’t hear me.
But then I noticed a bottle at her feet, alongside a golden apple. The potion of weakness and golden apple!
I glanced around. There was nobody in sight. Could I just take the potion, apple and run for the zombie village? Time was crucial to saving Chassidy.
Not knowing what to do and angered because of it, I ran out of her hut and knocked on the nearest villager door. The blacksmith answered the door.
“Oh, hi Alex.” He said. Almost everyone in the village knew me. “What’s up?”
“Piotiana is very sick.” I told him. “Wha…” he started. “Just trust me and go help her. I have to go.” I interrupted, and ran off, feeling a little better because I didn’t just leave Piotiana to die.
I got to the edge of the village and stopped. Where on earth would a zombie village be? Underground, probably. I started to head for a huge cavern in the earth that was near my house, and stopped. Where underground?
Suddenly, I heard the growls and moans that signified a zombie. I, relieved and terrified at the same time, headed for the sound.
The sounds joined together and made one moan as I neared a huge mountain.
I noticed a large block of cobblestone at the mountain. Fearfully, I broke that. It revealed a door, which I opened.
My whole body shaking, I headed towards the strongest growl I’d ever heard from a zombie.
And then, it opened up into a room.
There were two zombies in the room. But each one was literally FIFTY OR SIXTY BLOCKS HIGH! AND ANOTHER TWENTY WIDE!
I felt like I was going to pass out, but managed to hide in one of the nooks in the room to listen.
The first zombie growled to the second one. But oddly, it made something sounding like the words, “How many did you get?”
The second zombie, which oddly looked like a (huge) zombie villager, and was shorter than the first, responded with, “Only one, sir. A girl. She’s one of us now.”
My heart stopped beating for a moment. Chassidy?
“The villagers have started getting iron doors, sir.” said it. “The one girl we got just waltzed out of her house like she wanted to be taken, sir. There was a Minecraft resident just behind her, sir. But she had a diamond sword so we left her alone, sir.”
In spite of the situation, I was proud of myself. Power to the Minecraft residents!
“WHAT?” the first roared. “ONLY ONE? HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO ELIMINATE THE VILLAGERS, RESIDENTS AND USERS FROM THE FACE OF MINECRAFT WITH ONLY ONE NEW RECRUIT?”
“It was your fault too! We’re the ones that poisoned that old lady.” said the zombie-villager angrily. (Piotiana! I thought.) “The regular zombies led the attack. The zombie villagers just backed it up. Um. Sir.”
The regular zombie responded too quietly for me to hear, anger shaking his voice. In an attempt to hear, I shuffled forward.
And then it saw me. “INTRUDER!” bellowed the huge zombie villager. In an instant, the huge monsters evaporated, and hundreds of zombies took their place, zombie villagers flowing from the huge zombie villager, and normal ones flowing from the huge normal.
I was shocked so badly I couldn’t move. Which zombie villager was Chassidy?
They were coming, about to attack, and then I had an idea.
“You cowards!” I yelled. This stopped the attack for a moment. “You won’t even stand and talk? You just rely on your army to protect you!”
In an instant, the two huge zombies were reassembled. “How dare you call us cowards!” the normal zombie said, marching towards me.
No, no, no! I needed the villager zombie to talk to me. “Speaking for the villager zombie? Afraid he might mess up and spill all your secrets?” I taunted.
The villager zombie stepped forward. “We are loyal to our master! We would never spill his secrets!”
The solution dawned on me. “Oh yeah? Then how do I know that you’re planning to eliminate all villagers, users, and residents from the face of Minecraft? How do I know that the Ender Dragon takes half your health points you earn from killing us? How do I know that you only found one villager in the village last night to turn into a zombie?”
The zombies were shocked to silence.
This gave me a chance to continue. “Because your newest recruit told me. As soon she as was turned to a zombie villager, she told me all your secrets!”
There was a moment’s pause, and then a zombie villager fell from the huge one, literally detaching itself from its own body. “Sir, I did not do such a thing!” said she. And at once, I knew it was Chassidy. I just recognized her voice.
“Then how does she know that?!?” bellowed he to Chassidy, and started attacking Chassidy, turning her red over and over.
Now was my chance! I ran up to the battle, threw the potion of weakness on her, and then fed her the golden apple.
She didn’t turn back right away, so I just dragged her out. The huge zombie villager roared and tried to follow, but he couldn’t get through the doorway, so he started to disassemble.
“No!” the huge normal zombie roared. “No! Let the traitor escape! She’s not worth our trouble. And she won’t remember anything once she’s turned back.”
My hands were shaking so badly I could hardly open the door, but once I managed to, I ran for my life, dragging Chassidy, in a random direction as fast as I could.