Last Stand on the Ocean Shore: The Mystery of Herobrine Book Three
I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free Michelangelo
CHAPTER 1 THE ORACLE T he speckled creepers flowed out of the jungle like a green angry flood the singular thought within their tiny brains echoing over and over again explode explode explode Herobrine stood atop the cliff that overlooked the Jungle Temple and watched his creatures move out of the tree line and across the open clearing Huge gouges torn into the landscape marked where TNT had exploded the red and white blocks had been detonated by the desperate villagers in their defense against the spider queen and her vicious army of eight-legged monsters Infant blades of grass were just starting to cover exposed dirt with a fresh velvety green coating erasing the brown pockmarks that made the terrain around the tem ple look like the cratered surface of the moon The NPCs and Herobrine’s arch-nemesis Game knight999 were gone It was Herobrine’s plan to pounce on the villagers right after the spiders fin ished their initial attack smashing down on them with his army of creepers and zombies But somehow yet again they had escaped
2 MARK CHEVERTON Rage and fury boiled within him his eyes glow ing bright but then fading as he regained control I’m done underestimating you User-that-is not-a-user Herobrine grumbled to himself Our next encounter will be our last Standing with his arms outstretched Hero brine yelled down to the black and green spotted creatures Come my children give this stone structure your loving embrace The massive group of monsters approached the temple A lone creeper scurried out ahead to the stone side of the structure its little feet moving in a blur Stopping right next to the wall it started to hiss and glow its body swelling with explosive intent In an instant it BANG The creature exploded against the mossy cob blestone wall It should have been enough to destroy it but strangely it hardly scratched the rocky partition Another stepped forward and obeyed Herobrine’s command giving the last mea sure of its life Again it exploded but barely hurt the wall Herobrine growled He could feel the old hag laughing at him from down in her underground chamber So Oracle you’re using your magic to hold this place together Herobrine said Well let’s see what you do with this Reaching his hands up into the sky fingers curled and extended like a dragon’s claw Hero brine gathered his crafting powers and projected them into the dark clouds overhead A satisfying rumble echoed across the landscape followed by another and another until
LAST STAND ON THE OCEAN SHORE 3 CRACK A bolt of lightning streaked to the ground strik ing one of the creepers Instantly a sparkling blue charge of electricity surrounded the explosive crea ture giving it an almost magical appearance as sparks danced across its green skin Another bolt slashed down at the monsters then another and another creating more of the charged monsters the electrical energy magnifying their destructive potential Three of the super-charged creepers moved silently toward the building the hissing of their internal fuses filling the air This time their horrific explosions tore a gash into the side of the building the electrical boost from the lightning magnifying their strength Cobblestone blocks rained down across the landscape the cubes of stone bouncing off the heads of nearby monsters Excellent shouted Herobrine The rest of you ATTACK LEAVE NOTHING STANDING A wave of charged creepers scurried forward each exploding and taking with it another chunk of the jungle temple Slowly the upper level dis appeared one creeper at a time The green spotted monsters erupted with hateful fury as they climbed across the structure looking for any piece of the building they could destroy satisfying their pur pose in life with a violent exclamation point Once the surface of the temple was destroyed the charged creepers moved into the underground passages blasting away until there was not a sin gle cobblestone left In minutes any evidence of the jungle temple’s existence was completely erased from the surface of the Overworld Teleporting to the now-smoking crater Hero brine looked down into the hole A large pool of lava
