Complete Minecraft Book Series (9781311830654) Read online

  Minecraft Books For Kids Collection –The Full Series:

  4 Exciting Minecraft Novels

  (4-in-1 Minecraft Series Boxed Set Bundle)

  This Boxed Set Includes:

  Trapped in Minecraft

  Stories from the Skylands

  Escape From Minecraft

  Herobrine Invades the Overworld

  Brock Netherward

  Published by GrassRoot Books at Smashwords

  Copyright 2014 – Brock Netherward

  Minecraft Boxed Set - Table of Contents

  Book 1: Trapped in Minecraft - Spud’s Thrilling Adventure in the Overworld

  Book 2: Stories from the Skylands

  Book 3: Escape from Minecraft: Buck’s Quest into the Caves

  Book 4: Herobrine Invades the Overworld

  Trapped in Minecraft - Table of Contents

  Part 1: Meet Spud, Your Normal 6th Grader

  Part 2: Trapped In Minecraft

  Part 3: Day 2 In Minecraft

  Part 4: Spuds Terrifying Run-In

  Part 5: The Creeper Awaits

  Part 6: Spud Escapes The Cave

  Part 7: Spud Goes Fishing

  Part 8: Back To The Dungeon

  Part 9: Spud Finally Builds His Castle

  Part 10: The Final Battle

  Part 1: Meet Spud, Your Normal 6th Grader

  Spud was a mess. Dirt covered his face and arms and hands and even his legs. This wasn’t just any kind of dirt, though. This was the kind of dirt moms hate. The dirt that covers you head to toe and mixes with sweat because you’ve been out playing all day. You have to scrub and scrub to get it off, but who has time for that? Why take the time to scrub it off when you’ll just get dirty again tomorrow!

  You see, Spud had just got home from a soccer game and was very upset. His team lost 2-0 and all of his teammates were mad at him because he wouldn’t pass the ball. He could be very selfish at times. The only thing he wanted to do was score. Sometimes he was good at it! But other times, he was pretty bad. And when a player has trouble scoring, that player should learn to pass the ball; that way everyone is happy.

  Spud wasn’t that kind of player, though. He was only concerned with being the best. Everyone should give him the ball so he had more chances to score. The more shots he could take, the more goals he could have! But, the world doesn’t work that way. Being a part of a team means that he needs to help his teammates. In return, they will help him. Spud simply didn’t think things this way.

  As soon as he got home and through the door, Spud sprinted upstairs. He jumped in his bed, still filthy from his game. He didn’t care. Tears burst from his eyes and streamed down his face.

  His whole team had yelled at him during the game. They said some pretty nasty things too. It hurt Spud a lot.

  “Spud!” his mom called from downstairs. “You need to take a shower. You’re filthy!”

  Of course, Spud wasn’t his real name, but that’s what all of his friends called him. It should be his real name because his mom uses that name when she’s mad, and we all know moms only use your real name when they mean business. He kept his real name a secret because it was cooler that way. Besides, it doesn’t get much cooler than Spud.

  Anyway, Spud didn’t like being told what to do either. First, his teammates kept telling him to pass the ball when he clearly wanted to score all by himself. Now his mother was yelling orders. He didn’t want to shower. He was upset! Why can’t he have just five minutes to be alone and sad?

  “No!” he yelled back with defiance.

  “You have five minutes to get yourself in the shower!” Mom yelled.

  Oh! The five minutes he was hoping for, not that he ever listened to her anyway. He was going to pout and pout and put off bath time until she forgot about it. He already decided he wasn’t going to take a shower, but doing nothing only reminded him how sad he was. His friends and teammates were mad at him, mom was giving orders, and he had no way of making himself feel better other than to cry.

  Then he had an idea.

  “I know!” he thought. “I’ll go somewhere that nobody can bother me!”

  He jumped out of bed with a burst of energy as though he just scored the game-winning goal and crossed his room. He leaped over piles of dirty laundry, narrowly missed the dog (that he didn’t even see), and vaulted into his computer chair. Spud crashed into his desk which sent his action figures flying across the room. He clicked the button on his computer to turn it on and rubbed his hands like an evil doctor from his cartoons.

  The screen brightened. There it was, the answer to his problems. He moved the cursor to the middle of his screen where he had placed the icon. Everything was in slow motion. His eyes grew wide and he breathed in the biggest breath he ever breathed.

  “Minecraft,” he whispered to himself. He double clicked.

  Everything turned to fast forward in his excitement. He opened the game, created a new world, and BAM! He was starting over.

  “I’m going to go somewhere nobody can bother me,” he said to himself. “I’m going to build the biggest castle ever and have it all to myself! I don’t need to share with anybody. I don’t need to take a shower. It will just be me and my giant castle of awesomeness!”

  Spud created a new character on Hardcore difficulty, meaning that if his character loses all its life, the character and the world are lost forever. That’s what Spud wanted - he wanted a challenge! He wanted to prove to everyone that he could create something magnificent without anyone’s help!

  Spud waited as the game created a world. The loading bar filled up all the way, the screen went black and lit back up inside the world. He was ready to play.

  His character was created in a jungle biome. Sky-scraping trees went on forever, both in the sky and as far across the horizon as he could see - not that he could see much because there were so many trees in his way.

  He ran around the jungle floor for a minute or two, but with every turn he made, he got more and more lost. This wasn’t going to slow Spud down! He made a mad dash straight ahead, only avoiding any trees or hopping up small hills directly in front of him. He ran on and on hoping to find a clearing out of the jungle but it never came. The only thing he saw other than green grass and tall trees were the occasional duck... or chicken... or whatever they are. He must be in the very center of a giant jungle on a gigantic world.

  In fact, he was.

  “This doesn’t make for a very fun world,” he thought. He paused for a moment and spun his character around once or twice as he contemplated his next move. That’s when he saw it, the answer to his prayers, the one thing he needed to explore the world – A vine.

  He sprinted to the tree and looked up, climbing nature’s ladder. To make this find even luckier, the vine went straight up to the tippy-top of the tree and no leaves were in the way to slow him down.

  “To find a fine vine in a straight line is a fine find of mine,” he said to himself, and then chuckled at the tongue-twister.

  As he reached the top, his mother’s voice called from below. Not from below the branches and leaves, but from the bottom of the stairs.

  “Spud!” she yelled, “You better not be playing that game again! You need to shower and do your homework!”

  Spud thought about ignoring her but decided to make some trouble instead.

  “I’m not! I’m, umm… I’m preparing my clothes for tomorrow!”

  As we know, he wasn’t getting his clothes ready. Spud was never prepared! But this little lie would surely fool her into letting him play longer.

  Spud looked back to his screen and saw the most majestically square sight he as ever see
n. There, from atop the tallest jungle tree in all of Minecraft, he saw a single, giant mountain that stretched toward the sky. It eclipsed the sun behind it, giving the mountain a radiant glow. Spud’s jaw dropped to the floor.

  “That’s where I’m going,” he whispered to himself.

  But something about the mountain was off. In fact, a lot was off. Like, the whole top was off! The mountain didn’t come to a peak, but instead looked like a giant plateau. It rose up in an almost perfect pyramid but became flat at the summit. This intrigued Spud even more. What was at the top of the mountain? He had to know! Was it a volcano? What if the whole mountain was a giant volcano!

  The sky was growing dark, making it hard for Spud to see so he inched his character closer. This fascination inched him closer and closer until he forgot that he-

  “Ah!” Spud screamed.

  Spud forgot that his character was on top of a tree! Well, actually, it was no longer on top of a tree because it was falling. Falling! From the tallest tree ever! Spud latched onto his keyboard and braced for impact. His character flailed through the air. What would happen to his character? He couldn’t take all this fall damage! He would have to respawn! He couldn’t lose this position now! He had no clue where he was. That mountain! He would need to find that mountain all over again!

  Just before his character hit the ground, Spud closed his eyes. For a second, everything was black.

  Part 2: Trapped In Minecraft

  Spud opened his eyes. He was alive, but with only one heart left. It was a close call, but maybe today wasn’t a completely rotten day. Or maybe it was. It surely wasn’t getting any better yet.

  Spud tried to move the mouse but it wasn’t there. He moved his hand to the keyboard, but that was gone too. Spud looked down to see where they could have gone but was overcome with a sight more fascinating than his mountain and scarier than a night in Minecraft.

  Spud was in the game!

  He stretched his arms outward. He had no fingers, or hands, or even elbows! His arms were rectangular and cube-like. His arms were cuboid! He looked down. His body was the same way. The same with his legs!

  “Oh no,” he thought, “I’m in Minecraft!”

  This horrifying thought quickly turned to excitement. His wish had come true. He was now alone in his own world. Nobody could tell him what to do. He didn’t have to shower. He didn’t have to share. He could build his giant mountain-castle with nobody to bother him! He was going to get to work straight away!

  Spud wasn’t in the world for very long at all before his plans were disrupted. Something didn’t seem right. Spud had that feeling like something was there that shouldn’t be. It felt like something was watching him. Then he heard it. That hiss.

  Spud turned his cubed head around to see what was behind him, but he already knew. He almost couldn’t see it because it was black as the night, but its ruby-red eyes gazed into his soul; all eight of them. From its sides were eight cuboids that all moved independently and brought it closer to Spud. It paused and hissed again, which gave Spud just enough time to jump up a block of dirt behind him. It lunged in the air at Spud.

  It was a spider!

  Spud hated spiders in real life. They were fast and icky and built disgusting webs that he would always find in the attic. He was bit by one once and it burned for days. He even had to take a certain medication to make it better. Spiders are dangerous in the real world, and now he was facing one in the Minecraft world! He didn’t know if these spiders were poisonous too, but they were huge! These spiders were almost as big as Spud himself, and one was coming for him!

  The spider nearly hit Spud but he evaded it just in time. He jumped up a few more blocks to avoid the creature, but for every block he climbed, the spider jumped two. He couldn’t outrun the spider, especially with so much foliage in the way. He turned and kept switching directions to avoid being hit. The trees became a maze to him. Maybe they were a maze to the spider too. He hoped to lose the spider, but he got lost himself instead. Every time he stopped to catch his breath, he heard it hissing around him again.

  He could fight the spider! Then he wouldn’t have to worry about running anymore and he could find a safe place to hide. It hissed again and crawled to the edge of a branch in front of him. He took a step forward and prepared to end the spider but realized one crucial bit of information – he only had one heart of life.

  What would happen if the spider hit him? What happens if he loses all his life in the game? Would he respawn? No he wouldn’t. He was on Hardcore! Oh no!

  “Help!” Spud cried, but nobody could hear him.

  A small chat box popped up in the bottom-left corner of his vision. He couldn’t even talk, only a stupid chat box popped up! And he realized, even if he could talk, there was nobody that could help. He was in a single-player game.

  Spud turned and ran, his little cuboid legs barely even touched the ground with every step he took. The spider landed a block behind him and lunged again. Spud jumped to the side and it missed. A small clearing opened up ahead, he needed to get there! Spud sprinted toward it but stopped at the edge as quickly as he got there. Spud halted his movement in awe.

  There he was, standing in front of the mountain he claimed as his. The only thing between him and his future castle was a crevice that surrounded the entire spire. The crag was at least twenty-five blocks deep and six or seven across. He could never make it across. And with the spider hissing behind him, he couldn’t turn around and look for another way. He moved to the side and the icky creature landed right next to him. Spud panicked for a moment until he saw exactly what he needed to escape.

  Only a few blocks down from him were two that stretched into the open abyss and on the other side was a tree five blocks tall that, at the top, was only a few blocks below his position. Spud would have to hope he could make calculations on the fly because that’s what he was going to do. Actually, he wasn’t going to do math at all. He was going to hope for the best.

  Spud ran toward the dirt plank and leapt over the fissure. His body fell hopelessly through the air, which seemed to last forever. He waved his arms in the air and realized without fingers, he couldn’t grab on to the side of the cubes of leaves if he missed. Spud closed his eyes as tightly as he could and felt his feet touch cube. It didn’t feel like leaves, but it made a noise and felt a little different than the grassy dirt, so he knew he was safe. He turned around and saw that the spider had followed him. It was waiting at the blocks of dirt, gearing to jump.

  Spud’s quick thinking took over. He made a swinging or punching motion with his arm and cleared out the block of leaves he was on, and then another to make sure. The spider vaulted over the canyon wanting to make Spud his prey. The boy stood motionless as he watched the spider come closer and closer in the air. Spud’s square little heart stopped as the spider approached the block in front of him, but there was no block there! That second block of leaves was the spider’s landing pad and Spud took it away. The creature hissed as it hit the side of Spud’s block and fell to the darkness below.

  Spud needed to rest. He was tired and it was still dark as ever. Distant moans and hisses filled the eerie night, which spooked Spud more than usual. He wasn’t just playing the game, he was in it. He cleared out more leaves around him, leaving only a trail to the adjacent mountain that he would climb in the morning. He waited all night unable to sleep because of the noises coming from all around him – and not that he could anyway because he didn’t have a bed.

  Part 3: Day 2 in Minecraft

  Daylight broke across the tree-lined horizon. Spud could finally get to work building his castle, but this time he needed to be prepared. He still had only one heart of health left and he couldn’t be caught off guard. The first thing he planned to do was make some basic tools. Then, once built, he would use them to make a hut to sleep in at night. The sun was high enough to warrant his safety and he wasted no time.