Tales of Minecraft: The Curse (Remake)

17: Anyone home?

Hey guys!
I've been feeling pretty slack with you guys cause I've been updating my To Be A General book and Even More Quick Stories where I can, but I've been semi-ignoring this one (In my defence, this is technically my side book project). But here it is, in all it's worded glory! Enjoy!

Luke's POV
"So, what's first on the list?" Tim asked the next morning. We had woken up with the sun (Thanks Fury....), removed every piece of evidence that we had ever stayed at the tree house (except we left the tree house up so everyone would know someone had lived there, go figure) and were now standing at the base of the tree, our iron armour on, diamond armour somehow folded into the packs (I need to remember to ask Fury how she did that) and the packs on our backs.

Zip took out the piece of paper. "Alright, we've got enough ender pearls, so that's fine. Sugar comes from sugar cane, and I know that that grows at the edge of rivers. We have enough bone meal and we have an enchantment table. So all we need apart from sugar is the Zombie King's axe, an Ender Crystal and glowstone."

"Well, finding a river should be pretty easy," Fury said. "All we need to do is find some animal tracks and follow them until we find a river. Animals need to drink after all."

"Okay, so-"

"Oh, wait a minute, I've just realised something," I said suddenly as something dawned on me. "You need something called an 'Eye of Ender' or something to activate an End portal, which we need to find to get the Ender Crystal, right?"

"Yeeeah?" Zip said slowly.

"And you need Ender pearls and blaze powder to make the Eye of Ender right?"

"Yeeeah."

"And you get blaze power from the Nether, right?"

"We need more ender pearls to active the End Portal and we need to go to the Nether to get blaze powder, which means that we need to make a Nether portal, which means that we need obsidian, which is going to take us a long time to get, and then we need to kill blazes to get blaze power and they're hard to find and then we can find an End portal," Alex said quickly.

"So we have several extra things to do," Tim summed up.

"We'll start with the simple things first," Fury said. "And that's finding a river to get sugar cane. After that, we can get the Zombie King's Axe and then we'll worry about the rest."

With a set course in mind, our group set off, Tim scouting around the animal tracks as he was the best tracker in our group. I wasn't sure whether Fury was better than Tim at tracking, but she seemed content to let him lead. Either way, Tim soon found animal tracks that led to a river only a few minutes walk away. We took a quick drink from the clear flowing water when we arrived before heading downstream, looking for the thin clumps of sugar cane that we needed. There was a sizeable clump only just around the bend of the river.

"Well, that was lucky," I said as we collected the sugar cane.

"Yeah, but now we need ender pearls," Tim reminded.

"I think we should focus on getting the Zombie King's Axe first," Zip said. "After all, if we can't get it then there's no point in getting more ender pearls."

"Where are we meant to end up anyway?" my brother asked.

Zip shrugged. "Wherever the curse was cast. That's another reason why we should go to the Zombie King's first, he might know where that is."

"Alright, we'll go to the Zombie King's place, good plan," I said. "Now, how the heck are we meant to get in?"

"I've been thinking about that," Fury said. "The best way would obviously be by stealth."