My Scary Life

(Chapter 4)

We head back up the ladder that is somehow fixed, Eve or Test Steve must have done it. Once we're out Eve takes the lead while Test Steve and I follow close behind. We walked out of the village and over to a hill that had some weird kind of table, and a lever? I wonder what that's for? Eve walks up to the lever and pulls it, and some training dummies and a large chest pops out of the ground!

"Ok boys, it's time to train!" Eve exclaims with glee. I approached the chest with Test Steve and when we looked inside it had a bunch of diamond swords and bows 'n arrows! Instinctively I reach for the sword, and Test Steve grabs a bow and a couple of arrows as we line up in front of a dummy. I rush at the dummy and take a few swipes, then I plunge the sword deep into the dummy's chest. Nice, just like dad! I try to pull out the sword, but quickly realized I couldn't. I kept on pulling but it didn't budge, I pulled so hard that I completely fell backwards! I looked over to Test Steve to see how well he's doing, and it's just as bad as me. He loaded the bow, took aim, and fired his first arrow, and missed, he tried to more times, but also missed miserably.

"Hmmmmm," Eve hums while looking at our failed attempts of attacks. "This won't do." I got up and me and Test Steve walked over to where Eve was standing. Suddenly she lights up, "oh I know!" She runs over to the two of us and takes my sword and Test Steve's bow and switches them, so now I have the bow 'n arrows, and Test Steve has the sword. "Go on, try again." Me and Test Steve shared a quizzical glance but did as we were told. I took aim at my dummy again and Test Steve lined up with his, then we attacked. But this time things went much better than the first time around. When I aimed my bow and loosed my first arrow, it hit a bullseye, I cheered, I had no idea I was that good! I know mom had said my bow practice was good but to think I was THAT good, even though it's been a few years since I last held a bow. It's incredible! I stole a glance at Test Steve, He seemed encouraged at my success and Swung at his dummy. It was like he already knew what to do, he quickly slashed it across the chest and then a second time in the opposite corner, and to finish it off he stabbed it in the chest, right by the neck. And slid the blade out effortlessly. We were both glowing at our success, and Eve congratulated us, and we resumed our training all day, and long into the night. After 3 days of consecutive training, I could hit a creeper that was far away with 100% accuracy, and Test Steve could slice and dice any mob that came too close. We were ready, we all knew it, only problem was, where was this villain, they never told me his name yet, and how do we stop him?