Tales of Minecraft: The Curse (Remake)

15: Just bad luck?

Fury's POV
We looked through all of those books for the rest of the day, with Atyi dropping down to give us some lunch and more books halfway through. Even with those extra books, and some more that Alex found, we found nothing on how the mobs became strong or how to reverse it. Well, they found nothing. I actually just looked at the pictures, which I kinda regretted doing since some of them were kinda terrifying and one of them that looked a lot like me, just older.

Atyi picked us up at night and we slept in the nearby hotel, which was very happy to get visitors at last. The rooms were very neat, although I didn't sleep much. I never slept well when I was around others, even around my..... friends, I think? I don't know, I haven't really had friends before. Ever. We woke up with the sun and had breakfast. The group went to go back down to the cave, but I refused to go through the door.

"There is no way I'm going down there again," I said firmly.

"Why, are you scared of caves?" Luke asked curiously.

"If we were meant to go underground, we would have been given the ability to see in the dark," I told him. "And no, I'm not scared, I just don't like the idea of being in a place where there's tons of rock above me that can bury me alive."

"You didn't do much reading yesterday anyway," Alex said in his soft, gentle way. "You... can read, right?"

I crossed my arms. "I grew up in a jungle alright?" I said shortly. "There wasn't much to read."

Alex looked like I had just slapped his face and Tim and Zip were almost as shocked. I just shrugged.

"I'll wander out here, see if I can find anything useful. Have fun reading." I whistled to Wolf to call him from where he was playing with butterflies and walked off, leaving them standing there. I didn't entirely get the big deal. Yeah, I couldn't read, but I had never needed to. I didn't need to know how to read to survive, so what was the point? I walked around the village for a little while before sitting down at the edge of the small field beside the library, watching Wolf as he played in the long grass.

"What are you doing?"

I jumped, one of my hands automatically going to my swords that I always wore but meeting a warm hand instead of cool metal.

"Sorry, probably shouldn't sneak up on you like that," Dax apologised.

I stood up, feeling my cheeks grow slightly warm. "It's fine."

Dax tilted her head slightly. "You have very fast reflexes," she said, "and you have somehow tamed a wild wolf. Where did you grow up?"

I shrugged, not wanting to tell this person I had met only two days ago about my history. She shrugged at my lack of response and looked out the village gate.

"You want to come monster hunting with me?" she asked.

"Just me and you?" I asked suspiciously.

"Yeah. There's not a lot of monsters during the day, I usually go out alone, just for some private time," Dax said.

"Alright then." I called Wolf to my side and we walked out of the village.

The woods were a lot like the ones at home, but the trees were shorter and the leaves were a lighter shade of green than my trees. They cast ripples of shadows on the ground that made you constantly change your focus from light to dark.

"So this is what you do every day, huh?" I asked. "Hunt mobs alone in the forest and save random people in the middle of the night?"

"I used to have lessons," Dax corrected, "but not since I turned 22. Now, I just help around the village and try to avoid my dad."