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JOURNAL ENTRY: DANGEROUS DESERT

Trip 6: The Ender Dragon War

I had never summoned anything with command blocks. Julian helped as we worked on summoning several Ender Dragons to spawn in the desert.

“How many should we spawn?” I asked.

“As many as we can,” Julian replied.

We summoned four Ender Dragons and sprinted to the desert to watch our attack take place. Our plan was enter the outskirts of the desert, dig a hole into a dune and watch from there. We wanted to make sure we won, but we didn’t want to have to fight. As we reached the sandy biome, Julian pointed to the winged beasts that flew overhead. We could hear Charles shout, “Oh no! Not the Ender Dragon!” We could hear the dragon let out a loud roar.

“There are more than one!” Thao shouted.

We couldn’t see very much from inside the hole that we had built, but we heard an explosion, and then we heard Charles order his troops to start throwing snowballs. We waited until the sky began to grow dark.

“What are we going to do?” asked Oliver. “We need to find a place to spend the night.”

Julian suggested that we keep digging and set up an underground bunker similar to the one they had in the ice biome. We both agreed that was a good idea and began to work on constructing it.

As we dug deeper, I noticed a door.

“What’s that?” Oliver asked.

“We’re in luck,” Julian told us. “We’ve found a strong-hold. We can probably craft beds in there.”

I opened the door to the stronghold. The first room was very large and filled with silverfish. Oliver and I destroyed the silverfish, as Julian searched for the spawner.

“Found it!” he called out. A moment passed. “It’s destroyed!” he shouted.

I couldn’t concentrate. Even though there was a quiet room to craft beds, I wanted to know what was going on above us. I wished we had a periscope, like on a submarine, to see the battle between Charles, Thao, and the Ender Dragons.

When we awoke, I made my way to the exit, climbed to the top of the hole, and peeked out. There was nobody outside. A lone Ender Dragon flew through the sky, and the desert temple was partially destroyed.

“I think we won,” I told the others.

We put on armor and went to explore the desert temple. It was eerily quiet. I entered the temple, readying myself for an attack, but it was abandoned. There was no sign of Charles, Thao, or their blue soldiers.

“This is fantastic!” Julian was thrilled that we had won the battle.

The Ender Dragon swept down and one of its scaly wings hit the side of the temple.

“I think we’re going to have to destroy that Ender Dragon now,” said Oliver.

Julian, Oliver, and I hurried outside and threw snow-balls at the beast. It took about seven hits, but together we destroyed the dragon. It dropped an egg, and a portal to the End spawned by the desert temple. We chose not to travel to the End though. Not yet. We wanted to explore the temple.

Oliver spotted a large chest in one of the temple’s many rooms. He opened it. “It’s filled with diamonds.”

“I’ve never seen that many diamonds,” Julian marveled.

“I found another chest,” Oliver called out. “And this one is filled with enchanted books.”

We were about to distribute all of our newfound treasures, when I came up with another plan.

“This is a lot of stuff. I think it would be best if we bury it here and come back to get it later. Oliver and I are about to start our official exploration of the Overworld, and once we’re done, we’ll want these valuables.”

Everyone agreed, and we began to bury the treasure deep inside the temple.

“I’m going back to my town to live on the wheat farm,” said Julian. “When you’re done with your first exploration, come find me, and we can travel back here and dig up the treasure together.”

We said good-bye to Julian and began our first exploration. During the first few days of the exploration, we were convinced that Charles and Thao would return and stop us, but after a few weeks, we had almost forgotten about them. And after a few months, we felt safe enough to believe they wouldn’t return. The Overworld was a happy place again, and everyone was able to live the lives they wanted. We kept exploring and made many discoveries.

Once Oliver had put together a collection of his maps, and I completed my notes, we began to present them to the people of the Overworld. The people were excited to hear about our adventures. They studied Oliver’s maps and began to take their own journeys. The entire Overworld began to refer to our maps and notes, and we became a trusted source of information.

Whenever we traveled around the Overworld, people would treat us with respect. They were gracious and opened their homes to us when we visited a new town. People who wanted to hear about our explorations constantly surrounded us. It was an exciting time. It seemed as if we were always on the move, and visiting new towns. But although it had been a long time, we hadn’t stopped by Julian’s town.

We stopped at the top and I looked in the direction of his town in the landscape. I knew that would be our next trip.