A Fault in the Code

Chapter 15

Faster than you could bink, the scariest mob I have ever seen flashes in front of me where the sand and head structure used to be.

The creature has three heads, 2 smaller ones on the sides and 1 bigger one in the middle. It's body looks like a giant, dark grey ribcage, and the spine ends a couple feet below the body, looking like a tail. The thing overall looks to be about 4-5 blocks tall.

And then it starts to fly. It looks around, and as if its looks weren't enough to make someone faint, things get worse.

It drops something from the air, making a weird swooshing sound. The thing it drops looks kina like its head, although all three of them are still on its body. When the grey cube hits the ground, it lands on a nearby sheep, and explodes. The sheep is immediately dead. And then I am scared.

It turns toward Jeff, then fires. I start to yell to him, but it is too late. The bomb is inches away from him, but just as it is about to touch him, Jeff teleports away and reappears next to me. And then the flying creature's middle head looks at me, and its body turns to face me soon after. And then it shoots.

I push Jeff out of the way and dive to the side. The bomb misses me by just a couple blocks. Before the mob is able to shoot again, I run to the tree cluster that I slept in last night, and am lucky to find just what I am looking for. A skeleton.

I hide behind a tree and take out my sword. I peek around the tree at the skeleton, who has its back to me. It hasn't seen me yet. I run as fast as I can to it and slice the blade through its bones. I hear the bones click together and plunge the blade onto it once more, and hear the bones crack this time. The skeleton has turned towards me, pulling back its bow. Before it can release, I slice off the arm, and the bow along with the arm falls to the ground, and I snatch it up. But there are no arrows.

I am confused. What do they shoot? Do they only pull back the bow to stall? I mean, how are they that smart? They don't even have a brain. But then I remember what that strange man told me in my head. This is a world made of "code". I am no exactly sure what that means, but from my understanding of code, which I'm guessing he meant computer code, you can make a computer do almost anything with the right combination of letters, numbers, and phrases. So technically, this skeleton could be shooting with arrows that don't exist until they release the bow string. Well that's just great. I have something to shoot with, but nothing to shoot.

I sigh, but quickly turn back to where Jeff and the bomb creature are. I do not see Jeff. I exit the tree cluster and look all directions, but cannot see him. He is not there, and neither is the other mob.

"Jeff!" I call out. But then I hear the creature's swooshing noise. But before I can turn around, I feel an explosion, and am falling to the ground with the wind knocked out of me. I raise my arms as I was taught, and my lungs soon fill with air. I get up, and run back to the trees. I scream Jeff's name as loud as I can.

Then I feel something touch my shoulder. I jump and turn around. Jeff is standing there, showing me the book, and I read it.

I think I have a plan.

I continue reading the words on the page, explaining the plan Jeff has, and go through each step carefully in my head. Then, I prepare.

I run back out to the clearing, my sword in my right hand and a few ender pearls in my left. The monster has gone a ways away, bombing innocent pigs and cows.

"Hey!" I scream.

The creature hears me and turns my direction. It immediately starts throwing bombs, all missing terribly because it's so far away. But when it gets about twenty blocks away, I get an ender pearl ready to throw. When he's ten blocks away, I throw it directly at the monster's middle head and close my eyes. When I open them, I am on the thing's left shoulder. And then I instantly regret my decision and pray that this thing can only shoot downwards.

I swing my sword at the middle head, but when it hits, nothing happens. The bone is too hard. Without looking down, I scoot over to the left head and swing my sword. Still nothing. I do the same to the last head but the bone won't budge.

No bombs have come up my way, so I am not as nervous. But I have another idea. I start to climb down its ribcage like a ladder until I reach the tail. The tail is a thick, rectangular piece of bone that is connected to the spine with a slight gap between the two. I take my sword and slice through the gap, and the tail falls to the ground below. The creature let's out a loud shriek, then starts letting out more bombs. This thing is mad now.

I repeat this process with one of its ribs. I continue for about 2 more ribs when all of a sudden, it starts to glow a light purple-blue-ish color. It looks a bit like it was truck by lightning and the lightning is collecting and revolving around its body. I wonder what it's doing, but I start my process again.

I try to cut off the next rib, but it feels like I am clanging my sword against a metal rod, and the rib doesn't budge. I try again on several more ribs, but they all feel the same. That brings me to one conclusion: this lightning thing must be a force field. And I hope and pray that it won't last forever.

Sitting on its shoulder, I try to stay calm as I wait for the force field to disappear. Thankfully, it doesn't take long, and I can get back to cutting off its limbs. After cutting off all the ribs, the force field appears again, making it impossible to cause damage. Then after a while it turns off, and I only have a few things to crack open now.

The heads are the only bones left, besides the collar bones which hold the heads together, and I don't want to take the chance of cutting the collar bones apart and the heads becoming three separate souls for me to kill and spreading out across the land. So I go directly to the heads.

Right one first. I position myself so that I can easily hit the head with my sword, and then swing the sword down. Somehow, I hear more cracking of bone, and the head has fallen down to the ground with all the other bones. I guess the more it's damaged, the weeker it gets. Left next. I do the same thing. Then I cut off the collar bones on each side of the middle head, and they luckily don't become separate souls. Since the collar bones are both gone, I only have the middle collar bone to hold on to. I don't get how this thing is still alive.

Then, with one huge swing of my sword, the middle and biggest head is sliced clean off the middle collar bone, and they both start falling to the ground, me going along with them. I get another ender pearl in my hand and throw it on the ground before I tragically fall and die, and I teleport back to safety.

I travel to the spot where the final bones lay and see something shine under the sunlight. I get closer and see that it's in the shape of a four pointed star, white and sparkling. I pick it up, thinking I may need it. I mean, I couldn't have just slain this monster for no reason, could I?

Then another poem pops into my head.

You've found the most important things.
Now I grant you a rod for fishing.
With luck of the sea level 50,
You're guaranteed to find what you need.
Now with the fishing rod in your hand,
Find a bottle and a brewing stand.

Suddenly my backpack feels a little heavier. I pull it off my back and look inside. There's a fishing rod, just like it said, but it was shining and gleaming with a purpley tint, kind of like the star I found from the giant creature I just slayed. I lift it out of my backpack and make my way over to the nearby pond. I cast the line, and sit and wait for something to tug on it.