Bacca and the Riddle of the Diamond Dragon by Jerome ASF

Author:Jerome ASF
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

After a considerable amount of cardio, Bacca finally arrived back at the top of the long, bony staircase. The run should have been exhausting, but he was far too excited to be tired. His plan for Gargantua filled him with new reserves of energy and excitement.

Bacca left the staircase behind and exited through the mouth of the cave. Then he stopped. Falling to one knee, Bacca reached down and ran his fingers through the red sand in front of him. It must have been the leavings of some long-lost mesa biome that had once existed here.

“Perfect,” Bacca said to himself, examining the grains of sand. “This will do nicely.”

Bacca began gathering all of the red sand and crafting it. For every four blocks of red sand he gathered, he was able to make one block of red sandstone. Then, when he had four blocks of red sandstone, he could craft those into one block of smooth red sandstone.

There was lots and lots of sand at the mouth of the cave. Which was good, Bacca realized. He was going to need all of it.

While Bacca crafted, a small group of curious villagers approached from out of the maze.

“Hello,” one of them said.

“Hi there,” Bacca said back, continuing to work away.

“We heard that somebody had opened up a new part of the maze,” the villager said. “It looks like we heard right!”

“You gotta do what you gotta do,” Bacca said, trying to ignore them and focus on his work.

Then a familiar voice asked: “What are you crafting?”

It was the yellow haired boy.

“Something important,” Bacca said. “And big. Very big.”

“Neat,” the boy said. “Can we do anything to help?”

“No,” Bacca said, crafting away. “I don’t need any—”

Then an idea occurred to him.

“Wait,” Bacca said. “You can help, actually.”

“Oh good,” the yellow haired boy said. “How?”

“I’ll need you and a couple of your friends to come with me,” Bacca said. “We’re going to go down the longest staircase you’ve ever seen, to a dark place fully of scary bones. And there, we’re going to see a skeleton that’s as tall as a castle.”

The yellow haired boy’s eyebrows arched in fear, and he began to open his mouth to object.

“But it’ll be a lot of fun!” Bacca quickly added. “I promise.”

“Oh,” the boy said. “Okay. As long as it’s fun.”

“I almost have enough smooth red sandstone,” Bacca said. “But there are two other things I’m going to need for this plan to work. Two other things I’m going to need a lot of. Maybe you can help me find them.”

“Sure,” said the yellow haired boy. “What are they?”

“The first is torches,” Bacca said.

“That’s no problem,” the boy replied. “We’ve got plenty of those in our village. If there’s one thing you need to have plenty of lying around in a subterranean village, it’s torches!”

“Good,” Bacca said. “The other thing is gold. I will need quite a bit of it.”

When Bacca said this, the faces of some of the villagers turned to frowns.

“What?” Bacca asked, feeling confused.

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