The Legend of Dave the Villager 19

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

## Overview

**The Legend of Dave the Villager 19** is the 19th book in the Legend of Dave the Villager series and the 9th in Series 2. In this book, Dave and his friends try to escape Strays who have captured them in an Icy Biome in the middle of the ocean.

## Plot

While the submarine sinks, Dave and his friends try to think of plans. They start getting colder, and Spidroth pulls out her heat-providing inferno sword. Carl jokingly says that he wished the sword had enough heat to boil the whole ocean, but Dave gets an idea from that.

He says that if they were to put Spidroth's sword in the ocean bed, it could create enough bubbles for them to breathe in until they reached the surface, and the others agree. Little Billy carries Carl's suit, Spidroth carries Captain Nitwit and Dave takes Carl. and break a hole in the submarine to escape, embed Spidroth's sword in the ocean bed and start to swim up.

Everything is going well until they notice that there is ice on top of the water. Luckily, Little Billy manages to break it and everyone crawls out. However, some drowned zombies grab on to Dave's leg. Little Billy fights the off and Dave escapes, but Little Billy gets carried into the ocean.

The others get onto land, and since it is cold Dave builds a fire. However, the ice beneath them melts, so they make a fire at an area with packed ice. They build a shelter around it and say a few words in remembrance. Then, Dave throws an Eye of Ender and they follow it.

While walking, they come across polar bears. Captain Nitwit says he is scared of them. After some time, they come across the ruins of ships and Carl suggests that they rebuild the ships. The others agree and set up a shelter. That night, just as they were about to sleep, they hear a noise. They see hundreds of polar bears trying to break in, and Captain Nitwit screams.

Everyone pulls out their weapons and start fighting, even Captain Nitwit. They fight all night and Dave supports everyone with strength potions. However, they get tired, but luckily lots of arrows fly by and kill all the polar bears. They see that many strays had shot the arrows.

Dave tells the strays that he is thankful for their help and he can give them rewards. However, one of the strays, who could speak villager language, say that they must follow them or they will kill them. So they do.

They go past an iceberg shaped like a skull and soon reach a giant castle. They see many statues around it and even see strays fishing. One of the strays say that they were going to meet their Queen. They then herd them into the castle.

They go through many corridors and reach a throne room made of wood, with carpets and even a fireplace. They see a throne on which a female villager sits. The strays then leave the room and the female villager introduces herself as Doris, the queen of the strays.

She says that she had been sailing with her family on a ship but suddenly, they hit an iceberg. She was the only survivor and the strays found her, but she made a deal with them and they did not kill her. She then says that they were all going to be sacrificed to a giant polar bear. Shocked, they turn to leave but see an army of strays behind them. They hit them with arrows of slowness.

The strays drag them out of the castle and onto a cart. They tie them to it and then a polar bear drags them away. Since they had not removed Carl's suit, he breaks the bindings on all of them but they were still surrounded by nearly a hundred strays. Dave then has an idea.

They set the cart on fire and stay on its edges to avoid it. The fire burns through the cart and Dave waits for it to burn through the ice so that they could swim to safety but to their horror, it doesn't. They see it is packed ice and Dave pulls out a pickaxe to break the ice but the strays notice. They restrain them and knock them out.

When Dave wakes up, he sees that he has been bound and the strays were carrying him up a mountain. He sees that they were also carrying his friends (but Carl and his suit were being taken separately). Just then, he hears a voice from behind. He sees Doris and angrily talks to her for some time.

He suddenly has a hunch and asks Doris if in the deal she made with the strays, she sacrificed her family. She says that many of her family survived, whom she sacrificed. He is shocked but she says that they had arrived. He sees a giant stadium with many seats for strays watching them. In the middle of the stadium was a pit with the giant polar bear in it, which Doris called the Giga Bear.

Doris takes her seat and then talks to the strays using an ice-horn to amplify her voice. The strays then prepare to shoot them into the pit and Spidroth says that a magnificent creature like the Giga Bear should not be restrained in the pit. This gives Dave an idea and he takes out some strength potions and throws it on the bear.

He then insults it and it roars and tries to escape the pit. Becuase of its increased strength, the stadium and the mountain start to break. Dave and his friends start to escape but Dave says that he was going to rescue Doris. He quickly gets to her and carries her away to safety. He says that after they escaped, she was going to go to prison.

Dave rushes down the mountain but halfway through, the Giga Bear escapes and chases him and Doris. He runs as fast as possible and even rides an ice block that had been dislodged and reaches the ground right before it. When it reaches the ground, the ice cracks and they fall into water and then get back on surfthe ace. The Giga Bear snarls at them, ready to eat them and Doris abandons him and runs away to safety.

Carl, Spidroth, and Captain Nitwit come to Dave's aid but they know that they cannot beat the Giga Bear. However, many polar bears appear and bow to it. It roars loudly and runs off towards them. Their problems do not end as Dave sees an arrow appear in the ice. He sees many strays aiming their bows at them and they run.

They run as fast as possible but then reach the end of the frozen biome. Trapped between the ocean and the strays, Dave asks them to speak to Doris and sort the mess. She comes there and Dave asks her to stop the strays from killing them but she says that she would not, since the strays still wanted to see someone sacrificed.

Just then, a large drowned zombie appears in between them and the strays. They realisezit is Little Billy and Doris orders the strays to kill him but the ice below them is broken by many drowned and they are all killed by the drowned. Dave heaves a sigh of relief and tells Billy that they must continue but they realisezthat he wants to stay with the drowned. They bid him a tearful farewell and then make wooden rowboats to cross the ocean.

## Epilogue

Dave and Carl ride in a boat and Spidroth and Captain Nitwit in another for two days. Finally, they see a small island and stop their to take a break from sailing. They watch the sunset and then Captain Nitwit goes to bed. Suddenly, a mysterious portal appears and Trotter steps out of it. Dave gasps at him, saying he is dead. Trotter says he is sorry and then uses a device on his arm to incapacitate the three of them.

He carries them through the portal and takes them to a cobblestone building in which there were villagers and pigmen, aiming arrows out of windows. They feel the building shake and a villager says that they were under attack and that the enemy had TNT cannons. Trotter asks the villager who the Emperor had sent to lead the army and the villager nervously says that it was General Porkins.