The Dragon: An Official Minecraft Novel by Nicky Drayden

Author:Nicky Drayden [Drayden, Nicky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2021-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Who needs grass when you’ve got sand?

With cactus growin’ ’cross the land?

The desert sun, she burns so bright.

Our days are hot, but cool’s the night.

Oak trees are rare, and so’s the rain.

I’m never leavin’, what’s the gain?

Life mightn’t go the way you planned,

But who needs grass when you’ve got sand?

Zetta bobbed her head as she continued to dig through the chest. It was completely crammed, and since there wasn’t a torch in the closet, it was difficult to see the stuff down at the bottom. So Zetta pulled the chest out into the living room where she could get more light. Stone buttons. A bunch of crumbly coal. Some dried-up beet root seeds. A lead that had lost its stretch. A pile of lime green dye…

No notebook. Just a bunch of useless stuff.

Zetta sighed, then started humming to herself as she dragged the chest back into the closet. “Who needs grass when you’ve got—”

The closet’s wood floor creaked loudly as she stepped on it. It was odd enough that the floor was made from wood—most of the house had sandstone flooring, with patches of carpet for softness and warmth. But then Zetta noticed that one of the wood blocks was different from the others, more like a little door than flooring. She jiggled at it, pushed it, tried to pull it, but it wouldn’t open. She remembered seeing a button in the chest, so she dug through and found it and then placed it next to the little wooden door.

She pressed it. It opened.

Zetta stepped back. Why did her father have this secret door? She gathered her courage and peeked down inside. There was another chest, and of course Zetta had to open it. Her eyes lit up when she saw her brewing stand. Her father would be furious if she took it and he noticed it was gone, but she could remove the blaze powder to use back at her aunt’s place.

Zetta emptied the powder into her pack, but as she put the brewing stand back, something else in the chest caught her attention—a notebook with the word “Inventions” scribbled across the leather cover.

Zetta knew it was her mother’s handwriting. This had to be what she’d been looking for. She took the book out and slowly flipped through the pages. Written in very delicate script were instructions for building various mechanical contraptions. Intricate diagrams accompanied the writing, including depictions of the whole contraption as well as up-close details and cross sections. There were several designs for piston doors, a device for automatically sorting stored items, a slime block catapult…

She stopped when she got to the page titled “Wither Destroyer.”

It was huge, much larger than she’d imagined. The instructions went on for sixteen pages, starting with an inventory of each and every block needed for the construction.

“My mother was a genius,” Zetta whispered to herself.

Seconds later, she heard the front door open. Her father was home early. Zetta stuffed the book into her pack, then hit the button so hard the trapdoor snapped with a loud crack that echoed through their house.

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