The Legend of Dave the Villager 17

***Spoiler warning:** Plot summary will follow.*

## Overview

**The Legend of Dave the Villager 17** is the 17th book in the Legend of Dave the Villager Series and the 7th in Series 2. In this book, Dave and his friends visit the town of Normalton, where Dave meets some old friends.

## Plot

Note: This book had two types of chapters, one following Arsalan (Ancient History), the other following Dave (chapters). To avoid confusion, they have been separated.

**ANCIENT HISTORY ONE**

Arsalan asks his father why he has to be a leatherworker. His father tells him that he and all of his ancestors were leatherworkers, hence he has to be one too. He asks why he can't be a hero or an adventurer but his father tells him only Steves do those things. However, Arsalan dreams about being a hero and wakes up with a smile on his face.

**CHAPTER ONE**

Dave and his friends walk along the beach, looking for a ship to take them where they need. After nearly a week, they reach the town of Normalton. However, a guard informs them that no hostile mobs are allowed, so Dave decides to go in their, hire a ship and come back for them.

Before he enters, the guards confiscate his weapons. They say that the Weaponsmith will watch over the weapons, in case Steve ever needs them. He asks if he will get them back and they say that he would not; they were being saved in case Steve ever came there. He was annoyed but knew that he could build more. In the village, he hears familiar voices and sees his parents.

**ANCIENT HISTORY TWO**

Arsalan leaves a note for his parents on the table and then slips out. He learns to survive in the outside world; crafting, mining, building and more. He sells materials he obtains and realises he wants to be a trader. Soon, he meets a woman (whom he later marries) who accompanies him on his travels. One day, they decide to go to Villagertropolis. However, they had heard of illager attacks, so they hire a bodyguard Steve. Life was going great, and then he met Dave.

**CHAPTER TWO**

Dave has a tearful reunion with his parents. They tell them about their life and about Normalton. They say that the leader of the village was called the Cleric, and he made the village much safer by making walls, iron golems, stopping illager trade and confiscating all weapons. Soon, he meets all the people from his old village. After talking for some time, they go to the church to pray.

Dave sees a statue of Steve next to the church, and all the villagers say 'Praise Steve' as they pass it. He was confused but said nothing. Soon, the Cleric enters and gives his sermon. He says that the only purpose of villagers is to serve Steve and trade, not adventure.

Dave was unable to stand it and rises. He says that he disagrees and tells them about the feats he had accomplished. He tells them about the type of people he had met. The Cleric tells him to sit down and tries to explain that everyone must serve Steve. He disagrees and was about to walk out when some villagers say that the iron golems caught a creeper in diamond armor and a talking chicken sneaking into the village.

**ANCIENT HISTORY THREE**

Arsalan feels Dave is very strange, as he claims that there was a city made of diamond blocks where they were standing, and diamond ore in the ground. Out of curiosity, he mines a few blocks and finds tons of diamond ores. He realizes that he and his wife should hire workers to mine the ore and go and look for some, leaving Steve and Dave to protect the area.

However, they were captured by illagers. Dave and Steve free them but Steve dies. Arsalan is devastated and decides to build a statue of Steve. Dave claims that Steve would respawn but he thinks Dave has gone mad. Soon, Dave decides to leave. Arsalan tells him that he was planning to build a city and he could stay but he denies. That night, a man walks into his camp and Arsalan is shocked upon seeing that it is Steve.

**CHAPTER THREE**

A crowd gathers in front of the prison to see the prisoners. Dave slips through the crowd and talks to Spidroth and Carl. Just then, the Cleric comes there. He says that Dave is also guilty, for not worshipping Steve and friending abominations. He says all four of them will be executed the next day.

Dave's parents try and reason with Dave and say that if he worships Steve, he alone will be spared. He refuses and they sadly walk away. The next day, the Cleric tries one last time to change Dave but he refuses to. He says he leaves him with no choice and takes them to a pit of lava. Just as they were about to be thrown in, they hear a sounds from above and see a diamond dragon.

**ANCIENT HISTORY FOUR**

Arsalan and his wife question Steve but he seems to have no memory. He does, however, agree to stay with them and protect them. The village they build keeps growing until it becomes a city. He invites his parents but they disapprove of it, saying there is no need for it to be so big and say he is simply meant to trade. He furiously bans them from his city.

**CHAPTER FOUR**

The Cleric tells the villagers not to fear, as the golems will protect them. Dave says that if he gives him and his friends their armor, he can defend them. He refuses to, saying that the golems were enough and that villagers are not meant to fight. Just then, Old Man Johnson knocks him out with his stick. He supports them and Dave's parents say they were wrong. They run towards the weaponsmith's building.

Dave tells the villagers to extinguish fire with water buckets. He runs into the building and gets his armor. Carl and the golems hold cobblestone blocks, ready to throw and Dave tells them to shoot when they are sure they will hit. He stands on the roof of a building as bait and the Ancient lands on a building next to him. Dave greets him and Arsalan says that it is good to meet him after such a long time.

**ANCIENT HISTORY FIVE**

Arsalan and his wife live a happy life in their city. They grow old and he tries to forget his parents. However, Steve comes to visit them one day. He does not seem even a day older and does not remember any of them. As Arsalan sleeps that night, he feels jealous as he would eventually die but Steve would not. He decides to look for a cure for death.

**CHAPTER FIVE**

Dave asks Arsalan what had changed in seven hundred years, why he had become evil. He says it is because of Steve- everyone worshipped him and he was immortal, which he disliked. Dave said that he agreed with him and Arsalan asks him how he was immortal.

Dave tells him that it was because of time travel- he had travelled back seven hundred years to save his friend. He looks stunned and asks himself what he is going to do. Dave says that he is going to go to jail for murdering villagers and orders Carl to shoot.

**ANCIENT HISTORY SIX**

Arsalan pays reputed doctors large sums of money to find a cure for death. They claim that they had found it but he could tell they were lying. He hears about a group of witches and visits them. He gives them money and a year later, they tell him that they have found a way he can live forever.

**CHAPTER SIX**

Carl and the golems throw the cobblestone blocks on the dragon. Arsalan tries to fly away but the golems and Carl throw some more blocks and take him down. Dave and Arsalan duel but Arsalan wins using his quartz and obsidian blade. He prepares to finish him off.

Just then, Dave's parents sneaks up behind Arsalan. They use blocks of cobblestone to knock him out. The dragon comes back, picks up Arsalan and flies away. They celebrate and the villagers admit they were wrong. They offer him a room in their inn but they say they must leave.

**ANCIENT HISTORY SEVEN**

Arsalan funds the construction of a diamond pyramid in the Far Lands. When it was complete, he visits it and asks the witches how to be immortal. They tell him the terrible truth that they would need to kill villagers to make it work. He was tempted to tear it down and kill the witches when he hears his father's voice in his head, saying he is just a villager. He decides to do it.

He talks to his wife, Jennifer and tells her about it. She was disgusted at first but later agrees. The two of them fake their deaths and go to the Far Lands. The witches had already procured villagers and Arsalan tells them to do it. They get a hundred more years of life.

**CHAPTER SEVEN**

Dave and his friends go to the Normalton harbor and see if a ship would take them west. All the captains but one say no, claiming there are only the ruins of Laboratory 303 to the west. However, one captain, Captain Nitwit agrees. They talk to him and realize he is mad but knowing that he is their only option, go with him.

**ANCIENT HISTORY EIGHT**

After hundreds of years, just before they were going to perform the ritual, called the Harvest again, Jennifer tells Arsalan that she feels too guilty and cannot participate that time. She nearly convinces him to stop it too but just then, the pyramid is attacked by Steve and an army. They are slaughtered and this strengthens Arsalan's resolve. The next Harvest takes place without Jennifer and everyone starts to call Arsalan the Ancient.

**CHAPTER EIGHT**

Dave bids a tearful farewell to his parents and Old Man Johnson. They have one last chat, where Dave's mother mentions Spidroth's name. Johnson asks if she is really Spidroth, as his mother had read tales about her to him as a child. This gladdens Spidroth as she realizes that she has not been forgotten.

Dave and his friends board Captain Nitwit's ship, the HMS Nitwit. They ride west for some time but suddenly hear a crash. Dave sees a beach and sees a sign on the beach. Carl looks at the sign and says that 'Laboratory 303' is written on it. Captain Nitwit says that is not good.

## Epilogue

Arsalan sits in an inn, eating pumpkin pie. He ponders about what to do when he hears two villagers say Diamond City was destroyed. He moves closer to them and hears that Herobrine had been captured there. He gets an idea and thinks that he should visit Herobrine and force him to tell him his secret of immortality. He walks out of the inn and gets on his dragon and sets off towards Diamond City.