Attack on the Overworld: An Unofficial Overworld Adventure, Book Two
6 Attack on the Overworld It’s called a message board Maison was explaining Someone put the video on top of the message board for people to talk about Look at what they wrote But I was already reading it DestinyIsChoice123 Maison thinks she’s so hot She makes me sick She’s no hero She’s not even that good at baseball TheVampireDragon555 Just a misunderstanding Wow that Maison’s stupid Can’t believe that stupid newscaster bought it too They’re both stupid Frankie_the_Squidking You guys shouldn’t be say ing bad things about Maison I’m a sixth grader at her school and I know her personally She’s the real deal She helped my friends Jeremy Dalton Tobias and me fight off the zombies We couldn’t have done that without her TheVampireDragon555 Frankie_the_Squidking You’re stupid I know Maison’s hiding something and I’m going to prove it In fact I hope she’s reading this right now Hey MAISON We’re coming for you We know where you live DestinyIsChoice123 She’s not going to think she’s hot stuff for much longer is she TheVampireDragon555 When we’re through with her she’s going to regret ever getting out of bed in the morning Hear that Maison Tick-tock count the clock we’ll see you soon I scratched my head I’m confused Why do they have names like DestinyIsChoice123 or TheVampire Dragon555
Attack on the Overworld 7 Those aren’t their real names Maison said They’re made-up names so they can post anonymously That means you don’t know who they really are So they could be anybody typing this anywhere in your world I asked Well yeah she said But they said they know where I live Don’t you want people to know where you live I asked Everyone around us knows where my dad and I live That’s how you get friends Well that might have been a little much on my part The truth was Maison really was my only good friend Sometimes I played with the other kids in the village when Dad and I went to visit but I never really felt wel comed by them Maison sounded pretty upset now No Stevie she said Don’t you get it Two people are threatening me online Well have they shown up I asked No she said But I’m scared they’re going to I don’t get it I said What’s so scary about this Then I thought I understood One of them really is a dragon I exclaimed thinking of the Ender Dragon Of course I’d never seen the Ender Dragon but Dad had told me tons of stories So this message board is proof that a dragon got out of the portal and is trying to contact you I could see why Maison would be scared of that I was scared of that I’d never dealt with a dragon before What’s a Vampire I asked because that part was still confusing me Is that some kind of mob in your world
8 Attack on the Overworld I really was trying to be helpful but Maison was looking at me as if I couldn’t be more clueless and it seemed to bother her Even after knowing each other for a couple months sometimes we still got mixed up on something that was normal in one of our worlds but not in the other For instance she couldn’t understand why I loved mushroom soup so much she said it tasted nasty and a cheeseburger was better And I couldn’t understand why so many people in her world were scared of spiders The spiders they had were so tiny I’d fought against giant spi ders from the Overworld so the little spiders in Maison’s world made me want to laugh It’s not a dragon she said And vampires are mon sters that suck blood in old stories But stuff like that isn’t real It’s a person threatening me People aren’t dangerous like dragons or uh vampires I said What’s a person going to do People couldn’t turn you into a zombie They weren’t going to suck your blood either like that vampire mob from the stories in her world It’s called cyberbullying Maison said It’s like bullying but it’s done online My mom gave me a talk about cyberbullying awhile ago and she told me cyber bullies were just sad kids trying to get a rise out of me She said I should ignore them I haven’t told her about this but now I’m starting to wonder if I should I don’t think it’s anything to worry about I said We’d run into some tough kids at Maison’s middle school They were mean but they never physically hurt
Attack on the Overworld 9 us or anything And after Maison saved their lives during the mob attack they’d stopped being bullies Plus it seemed to me those bullies were much more threatening than anyone typing on a computer Zombies giant spiders those are scary I went on And you showed you could take care of them It’s not just this message board though Maison said Any time there’s an article about me I find them writing comments underneath DestinyIsChoice123 and TheVampireDragon555 They’re following me online And there’s something else Did you see how DestinyIs Choice123 said that I wasn’t that good at baseball You’re great at baseball I said That’s not the thing Maison said How do they know I even play baseball It doesn’t say that in any of the news reports It’s not information I have online If they know I play baseball they must have seen me play at the school or at the park I think they really do know where I live I didn’t have an answer to that But I said I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about How about we go to our tree house in the Overworld and build some things
