The Legend of Dave the Villager 23

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

## Overview

**The Legend of Dave the Villager 23** is the 23rd book in the series and the 3rd book in Season 3. In this book, Dave, his friends, and a cowman named Jean-Cowphio travel to the house of a witch to attempt to lift a curse from a cowman village.

## Plot

Dave, Carl and Spidroth reach at an island with the yacht Professor Nerdmeister gave them. In the soaking, cold, rain, they built a shelter, and sleep in there. While sleeping, Dave has a nightmare about monsters and Heroprime.

When they set off once again in the morning, they encounter a wooly cow. They also come across a ruined cobblestone building covered in moss without a roof, which Spidroth says was from the Old People.

Later, they encounter a whole herd of sheep with horns, which they regard to be horned sheep. But upon one being accidentally killed by Spidroth's crossbow, they are angered and send the trio running.

After losing the horned sheep, they rest by a stream until Carl spots something. Dave says they are phantoms, and Carl says phantoms are just a story that parents tell to make children go to bed. However, Spidroth says that phantoms *are* real and appear when someone hasn't slept in three days.

They watch the phantoms attack, and when Dave questions if they should help the villagers, a cat scares off all the phantoms. After that, Dave, Carl and Spidroth go to meet the villagers, but they see the villagers aren't villagers, they are cowmen! The cowmen are terrified of them at first, calling Carl a "monster" and Spidroth a "red witch". But eventually, they warm up to them and introduce them to Chief Udder, the leader of the village. Dave realizes that the cowmen all look tired, as if they haven't slept for days.

They all learn that the village had been cursed, due to the Chief's son marrying the witch and ditching her. In anger, the witch made all the cowmen unable to sleep, and the son left the village to attempt to mend his relationship with the witch. They also learn the cat's name is Kedi, and they used to have two cats but the Chief's son took one of them while going to the witch's house.

ave offers to go up the mountain and rescue her son, and Carl also gives the little cowmen issues of Seth the Elf. After staying at the Chief's son and his ex-wife's old house, they leave.

Dave, Carl and Spidroth spot some red creepers, and Carl says they're more dangerous than normal creepers. Luckily, the creepers ignore them, and at nighttime, they build a shelter. Suddenly, they hear a cry of help from a cowman wearing stylish clothes up in a tree. After rescuing the cowman, he introduces himself as Jean-Cowphio, Chief Udder's son.

After introductions and some chatting, they are attacked by phantoms, which the trio battle. After the battle, they meet Jean-Cowphio's cow, Mr. Whiskers. They walk back to Jean-Cowphio's house, and he shows them his ender chest. Dave figures out how to craft his own, and they all go to sleep while Jean-Cowphio works on his raps.

The next day, Jean-Cowphio tells Dave, Carl and Spidroth about the witch and where the witch lives, and he also says that the witch is named Vee, and she hates him. Jean-Cowphio puts on gold armor, and they all head towards the witch's house.

Along the way, they encounter a statue that is apparently left behind by The Old People. After a while, they all stop for lunch. Dave, Carl, Spidroth and Jean-Cowphio spot a lot of red creepers on a slope above them. Jean-Cowphio says the red creepers have a Red Creeper Queen, and Carl says Red Creeper Queens are worse than Blue Creeper Queens.

Suddenly, Mr Whiskers chases a rabbit, and the red creepers attack everyone. Carl gets knocked out, and Dave, Spidroth and Jean-Cowphio escape by digging straight down. However, they end up in a cave, where more red creepers are. They get brought to the Red Creeper Queen, and Dave sees one of the red creepers in Carl's golem suit, with him next to the creeper.

Dave comes up with a plan and kills the red creeper in Carl's golem suit. Carl gets in it, and starts attacking all the red creepers. Dave and Spidroth attack them too, and Jean-Cowphio digs up to let phantoms inside. The phantoms attack the Red Creeper Queen, and meanwhile, they all escape.

They go up the mountain towards a house, and meet a witch with purple skin and white eyes, who is Jean-Cowphio's ex-wife. Spidroth and the stranger reunite, and Spidroth later reveals that the witch is her sister Vioroth.

## Epilogue

While the Ninja Squad train with Seth, Herobrine attacks with the Ancient's diamond dragon. He says he has come to destroy the Elemental Block. The Ninja Squad try to stop him, but fail, and Herobrine destroys the block, giving him powers. Because he depended on the block to survive, Seth slowly fades away and dies. While the squad mourn, they hear someone come and ask for cake.