The Legend of Dave the Villager 14

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

## Overview

**The Legend of Dave the Villager 14** is the 14th book in the Legend of Dave the Villager Series and the 4th book in **Season** **2**. In this book, Dave, Carl and the Ninja Squad track down the Ancient and try to stop the evil ritual called the harvest.

## Book Description

The third and final part of the Ninja Saga! Can Dave, Carl, and the Ninja Squad defeat the Ancient's evil forces?

## Plot

Dave, Carl and the ninjas follow the zombies to the Ancient's base. At nighttime, the zombies kill cows to feed the evil ninjas they had captured and feed them water. They keep doing this for almost a week. At last, they reach an area where it is extremely glitchy. Blocks seem to vanish and people get randomly teleported. Finally, Dave sees a huge wall touching the clouds and tells the ninjas and Carl that they are in The Far Lands.

Dave explains to the others that the Far Lands are the edge of the world. Reality glitches and people can even fall into the void. Seth says it is the perfect place to build a hidden base as nobody would ever come there. Dave agrees and they keep walking. However, after a few days, they start to forget who they are. Dave sees Carl on a cow but does not recognize him. He starts to feel tired and passes out.

Dave wakes up and sees a female villager. She introduces herself as Winefred and says he is in the village of Last Hope. She then feeds him a golden-yellow liquid and he starts to regain his memory. He asks her what it is and she says it is honey. He asks her if it is a potion and she says it isn't, just a sweet liquid that helps beat the memory loss.

She says she originally thought he was from another reality. He asks what that means and she explains that in the Far Lands, realities blend into each other and people can get transported between them. Just then, a yellow-black insect lands on Dave. He asks her what that is and she says it is a bee, an insect that makes honey. She also says that if they are attacked, they sting the attacker.

Dave quickly moves away from the bee. He drinks another honey bottle and remembers he was tracking the zombies. Winfred asks if he was tracking them to find the Ancient. Dave says yes and she says that that wouldn't be a problem. She takes him outside the building, where he sees more of the village of Last Hope. She shows him the Ancient's base, a giant pyramid made entirely of diamond blocks.

Winfred asks Dave if he wants to stop the Harvest. He says yes and asks her how she knows. She says that many heroes had come to stop the Harvest (which took place every 100 years) , but they had all failed. She advises him to turn back. He asks her if her village is working with the Ancient and she says that they condemn his work, but they have a deal with him. As long as they provide him with food, he does not attack their village.

Just then, Carl and the ninjas walk out of the building. They do not see the giant pyramid and Seth asks Dave if they should get back on the trail of the zombies. He tells them to turn around and they gasp upon seeing the pyramid. Dave explains to the others about Last Hope and the Harvest. Seth angrily yells at Winfred for not doing anything to stop the Harvest and she says that the Ancient had golems, zombies, ninjas and more.

The mayor of Last Hope, Tes, comes and talks to them. He explains that Last Hope was founded 800 years ago, by refugees who had run from war. Eventually, the Ancient arrived there and they made a deal. He says 7 Harvests had happened and the 8th was about to happen. Seth says that they could sneak into the pyramid through the food deliveries that were regularly made. The mayor tries to discourage them but they do not give in and he agrees.

Dave and the ninjas discuss the plan for some time. After that, Mayor Tes explains to them that if they are caught, the village of Last Hope will deny any involvement. They agree and soon go to bed. The next day, Dave wakes up and hears a horn. He asks Seth if he has the Elemental Block but he says he doesn't.

They see a hole in the roof through which someone could have entered and realize it must have been a ninja. One of the ninjas asks that if someone had been able to sneak in, why he hadn't killed them all but Seth explains that killing one could have alerted everyone else. Just then, the horn rings again and they hear a voice calling the ninjas out to battle her and be killed. Dave recognizes it as Wex.

The ninjas argue among themselves as to how she had gotten free. Just then, Wex yells for them to come out and says that if they do not, the diamond golems will raze the village to the ground. They reluctantly come out and see Wex and 10 diamond golems. She tells the villagers of Last Hope to get out of the village and also says that if they do so, they will not be hurt. Tes says his first responsibility is his people and they walk out.

After the villagers exit, Wex says that the village will be razed to the ground as a punishment for harboring criminals. Tes says they are criminals and Wex hits him with a staff she uses to control the diamond golems. Just then, a villager with an eyepatch named Neil says they are criminals. He uses a large crossbow to attack a diamond golem and kill it.

The ninjas start to fight against the golems. Seth uses his magical wooden swords to damage them. Dave battles Wex and loses. She orders a diamond golem to kill him when Tes starts to fight with her. Dave takes the opportunity to get up and go away.

Just then, a diamond golem attacks another one. Dave sees Carl was in it and he happily says he got a new suit. With Carl's help, they easily beat the golems. Dave sees that the Elemental Block was lying a few blocks away from Wex. He sighs in relief and passes out.

Wex is locked up along with E4, whose head Dave had chopped off. She says she will get out but Dave just ignores her. After that, he meets up with the Last Hope villagers and the ninjas in a building. He says the plan of sneaking in would not work since Wex would have told the Ancient about them. They decide to go for a frontal approach. Before leaving, they all touch the Elemental Block and gain powers. Some of the Last Hope villagers also decide to join them and they, too, get powers.

Dave, the villager and the ninjas walk for three long days. After that, they finally reach the pyramid. Dave says they should first sneak in and get some basic information about the pyramid. Everyone agrees. A team of 8, including Seth and Dave go towards it. They see a giant dragon who looks for intruders and decide to wait for night. At nighttime, two of the ninjas with shadow-like powers hide the others. They split into teams of 4 and sneak in.

Dave's group sneak into the pyramid. They enter a room where a witch and an illager chat. The witch says that she and her sisters had designed the Harvest and the pyramid. She also says the Ancient's wife had designed the mob spawners. They talk for some more time and Dave tells the others that he thinks they should leave.

Just then, the illager looks at the shadow they are in and says it looks weird. He pulls out a torch and thrusts it into the shadow. This causes all of them to be ejected from it but they easily defeat him. They blend into the shadow again and silently slip away. They wait for Seth and the others for some time and when they do not come, Dave guesses they have been captured. He tells the others that they must attack, as the Harvest was that day.

Dave and his group explain to Carl and the other ninjas that Seth and the 3 other ninjas had been captured. He says that they must attack the pyramid in two groups- one distracting the enemy by fighting and the other sneaking into the pyramid. Dave and a few others decide to sneak in as a shadow and Carl , with most of the people, decide to distract.

Carl gives an uninspiring speech to his group. Then, they charge into battle. Meanwhile Dave and his group climb the pyramid. They sneak in through an open window and then quickly attack a guard. They ask him where Seth's group is and where the button to push all the villagers into lava is. He tells them and they tie him up and continue.

Carl and his group fight enthusiastically against the Ancient's army. Carl destroys loads of enemies when suddenly, he gets hit by potions. He starts to go down but someone saves him. He continues battle and soon, nearly all of the diamond golems were dead. Carl says that they had almost won but just then, he hears a huge roar.

He looks up and sees a dragon. Some of the ninjas attack it but it doesn't even harm it. Carl tells everyone to run into the pyramid. As they run in, the dragon prepares to breath fire on them. They run even faster and barely make it in. One of the ninjas says it is a fake dragon as he saw redstone circuitry in it. Carl says that they should forget it and go look for Dave and the others.

Dave's group reaches the room with the button. The ninja with shadow powers says that he is too tired and can only take Dave with him. The rest of them agree to stay back and the duo sneak into the room. They see the Ancient who talks to his allies.

He orders his minions to open a hatch. They do so and it reveals a giant hole with villagers all around the walls and a pool of white liquid at the bottom. He then ignites the elixir with a redstone torch. Dave and the ninja sneak around the hole with the villagers when they are noticed. An illager places a torch into the shadow and they are flung out of it.

Dave calls the other ninjas. They rush in and start fighting. Dave rushes towards the button but is met by the Ancient. The Ancient disarms him but is then shocked. He recognizes Dave and gets confused by how he is there but says nothing must stop the Harvest. He presses the button with one hand and throws him into the hole with another hand.

Carl's group reaches the prison of Seth and the other ninjas. He knocks out the guards and then frees them. They continue on until they reach the room with the pit of elixir. They look around the room and just then, the villagers get pushed off the walls into the hole.

Mayor Tes uses his power of levitation to keep the villagers in the air. He starts to tire from the effort and one of the ninjas with super speed quickly covers the lava in blocks. However, Carl sees the fall is still fatal and tells some of his comrades, with the powers to create honey and shadows to do so. This cushions the villager's fall and they are saved.

Dave, who had also fallen down the hole tells the ninjas that he needs to go up and stop the Ancient. One of them turns into a dragon and they fly up. They reach it and see the Ancient, but he takes off on his fake redstone-operated dragon. Dave tells the ninja to pursue.

She flies far above the Ancient's dragon. When they are right above it, Dave jumps off her and onto the other dragon. He sneaks up to the Ancient but he punches him just as he is about to strike. He says that for someone who is 700 years old, he's not very smart. Dave then realizes who the Ancient is and then gets punched off the dragon.

Dave wakes up after quite some time. He says his head hurts and Carl says that's what happens when one falls hundreds of feet of a dragon. He steps out of the room and sees that Master Cowbagio had turned the whole pyramid to grass. He asks Carl what happened to the Ancient's forces and he says they had all been captured.

E4 is adopted by the blacksmith Neil who starts repairing him. Dave and Carl also give the Elemental Block to the Ninja Squad. After doing so, they leave Hay Bale. After exiting the Far Lands, Dave throws an Eye of Ender. They continue in that direction.

While walking, Carl asks Dave about the Ancient. He remembers who he is and says that the Ancient is Arsalan, one of the four founders of Diamond City. Dave says he wish that he had stopped him but Carl says he has almost nothing, no pyramid ,army or ninjas, just a dragon. They stop thinking about it and continue walking.

## Epilogue

Wex receives a bottle of honey from her prison warden. She quickly drains it as she plans on walking out through a glitch that might appear. Soon, her room starts to glitch out. She goes into extreme pain and tries to ask for honey but just then, she finds herself free in a plains biome.

She sees two zombie pigmen on horses. They say she is violating the law by staying out there and try to put handcuffs on her. She tries to kick them but they use their swords' electric bolts to stop her. One of them says that she is probably an interdimensional exile, and that the emperor would want to see her. The other one puts handcuffs on her and says he is really excited to meet Emperor Steve.