The Legend of Dave the Villager 22

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

Dave in the Aether

## Overview

**Welcome to PVP Island!** is the second book in Season 2 and the 22nd book in the series. It is about Dave, Carl and Spidroth freeing everyone from the Aether.

## Plot

Spidroth wakes up and finds a robot who serves her a cocktail. After drinking it all, the robot asks Spidroth who she is and whether or not she has paid the entrance fee. Spidroth says she has, but before the robot can check, she breaks the robot's device. Then, some more robots come and try to apprehend her, but she takes all their swords, and they run away. Suddenly, a hologram appears, and more robots also appear, who put a helmet on her head.

Meanwhile, Carl is in the ocean, and sees a big tower on an island. He swims over and goes into a building. He finds a room, and sees a helmet on top of a shelf. Suddenly, the helmet falls off the shelf and lands on Carl's head, and everything goes black.

Dave finds himself on an island, and a robot greets him and asks him if he wants a cocktail. Dave asks where his friends are, but after scanning the island, the robot says he cannot find them. Dave tries to find his friends himself, and walks into the tower. He sees the robots putting VR helmets onto the others and one is on his head too. He tries to take it off, but it is forced onto him. He is greeted by a hologram who asks him for his name. Dave tries to answer, but is finding it hard to, as he is quickly losing his memory for some reason. He manages to tell the robot that his name is Dave before he loses the memory of his friends and his adventure, plunged into the world of VR.

The chapter starts with Dave waking up and eating a breakfast of a blueberry salad (which is not a thing in the real Dave universe). He then polishes and admires his armor and sword (as depicted on the book cover), thinking back to how he got his gear. Apparently, to Dave, he has been living in "The Aether", a series of connected floating islands his entire life, leveling up, forming a team, and winning minigames that are likely based off of real Minecraft servers you can play in real life. Suddenly, some people knock on his door, and Dave opens it, finding his teammates in front of his house, calling him to come out so they can prepare for a day full of competitive games and training. We are introduced to his four teammates, who he met "early on" and became friends with. Dave shows his "team" the voice command function on his armor, which his "friends" praise, impressed.

When they are about to play a game of "The Walls", one of Dave's teammates point to the sky, gesturing at a flying whale, called an "aerwhale", which is supposedly good luck. The captain of another team sees Dave's fancy armor and reminds him that he can't use it in the game because in "The Walls", everybody starts off with nothing. Dave tells him he knows this and the announcer tells them to get ready for the game.

Mr. Personality (a hologram) leads them to some changing rooms where they take off all their armor and gear. Mr. Personality begins telling everyone to get ready and the audience to begin watching. The four teams have fifteen minutes to gather resources, then the separation walls are taken down and they fight to the death (in The Aether, people respawn when killed (which includes falling off one of the floating islands)). After fifteen minutes of gathering resources, the team is ready. They have full iron armor and have set a trap for enemies. When the walls come down, the group splits into groups of one, two, and two. Dave and his wizard teammate take out an enemy but his friend gets taken out. Another enemy appears and almost kill Dave, but his two other speedy teammates save the day, also reporting that their fifth member was killed but took out a good amount of enemies. Suddenly, Mr. Personality says there are only five players left, including Dave and his mates. A huge enemy lumbers forward and kills both of Dave's friends, but Dave takes him out in the end. He begins searching for the final enemy, but she jumps out and ambushes Dave, killing him.

After respawning, Mr. Personality announces that "Spidroth and the Slayers" had won. Dave finds something familiar about the name Spidroth but can't remember what. Spidroth and her team move on to the finals and Dave sits down, disappointed that they failed. However, Mr. Personality says that their was a mix-up in the scoring system and Dave's team still gets to move on. Confused but overjoyed, Dave leaves the arena and heads home.

The next chapter starts with Carl falling down a huge pit, playing a game where he must land in a tiny water pool one block wide and long. In the Aether, Carl is a huge golem that looks like normal Carl, but the suit is merged with his body and his entire body is made of a black and red metal called Zanite(Dave's fancy aether armor is made of Zanite too.). Since Carl is a huge, bulky golem, he misses the pool and dies. Then he respawns and tries again. If he fails this attempt, his team, the Creeps, do not move on to the finals. If he succeeds, they do. Luckily, Carl pulls through and his team move on to the finals.

We will write the rest of the plot later.