The Legend of Dave the Villager 9

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

## Overview

**The Legend of Dave the Villager 9** is the ninth book in the Legend of Dave the Villager Series. In this book, Dave, his friends and their new companion Alex go on an adventure to the Nether.

## Book Description

Dave teaches Alex all about crafting, as he and his friends replenish their supplies after the events of the forest fire.

## Plot

Dave teaches Alex about crafting. When they sit down for a lunch of cooked rabbit, Alex tries to feed the rabbit to "hoppers", which are just what Alex calls rabbits. Carl tells her that Porkins had killed rabbits to make the food. Shocked, she decides not to eat the rabbit. After that, they go mining and make diamond armor for Dave, Alex and Robo-Steve. Porkins wears leather armor instead of diamond armor, as it is his preference. Then, they use the obsidian they mined to build a nether portal, and Dave, Porkins, Robo-Steve, and Alex go through, leaving Carl behind as he has no golem suit.

Carl felt sad that he could not accompany his friends into the Nether. He decides to make an iron golem and make a suit out of that. After placing down 4 blocks of iron, he looks for a pumpkin and sees one outside his house, beside a lake. Even though the sun was beginning to set, he decides to go and get it.

Meanwhile, Dave and his companions walk through the Nether. They do not see any zombie pigmen and Robo-Steve asks Porkins how his race had survived in the Nether. He says they lived off mushrooms. Some time after that, they come across many ghasts. One of them shoots a fireball at Porkins, who rolls down a hill towards a lava lake. However, at the last second, Robo-Steve saves him. Their relief is short-lived, as a fireball hits Robo-Steve's head.

Back in the Overworld, Carl takes an iron sword and breaks some pumpkins. He was about to take them back to the house when a skeleton aims a bow and arrow at him. He places down a pumpkin to block it and while the skeleton reloads his bow, he charges at him and kills him. However, 10 more skeletons appear and aim their bows at him.

In the Nether, Dave and Alex hide in a cave in the Nether. He talks about his quest to beat the dragon and says he should have brought a bed so they could rest. However, Alex says you cannot use beds in the Nether, though she does not know why. She suspects it must be a memory from when she was Steve. After some time, they go outside and walk, looking for Porkins and Robo-Steve. Soon, they find a fortress and decide to go in it

Meanwhile, Robo-Steve dreams of his past selves. He sees himself in Ripley's basement, with three of his past selves, one when he was Ripley's servant, another during the Cool Dude Battle Royale, and a third while he was king of Villagertropolis. They say what he is doing is wrong and attack him, but he slays them. Finally, he sees Ripley, who talks to him, saying that he is nothing but a mindless robot. He then opens a pitfall, and Robo-Steve falls into some lava.

He wakes up from the dream and sees he is in a cave with Porkins. He tries to move but cannot. Porkins tells him he is just a head. He asks how, but Porkins says he will explain later. He also seems some skulls and bones and asks Porkins why they were there. He says he had killed many wither skeletons when a horse of theirs returned.

Meanwhile, Carl decides to go out fighting, and charges towards the skeletons. However, the plan fails and he is about to be killed when a pack of wild dogs decimates the skeletons. He slowly backs away when a wolf comes in his path, He sees the skeletons had dropped a bone and gives it to the wolf. It quickly eats it, seemingly asking for more. Carl picks up another bone and throws it far away. The wolf runs towards it, leaving Carl alone.

In the Nether, Porkins and Robo-Steve run from the wither skeletons. While doing so, Porkins feels sorry for Robo-Steve and thinks about how all his parts had survived after the ghast fireball but were separated. Eventually, they run into a cave where Porkins reassembles Robo-Steve. After doing it, they realize they are surrounded by wither skeletons.

Meanwhile, Dave and Alex run across wither skeletons in the fortress. They quickly kill them and proceed. Soon, they come across a blaze spawner. After killing many of them, they decide to leave. On the way out, they find a patch of nether wart growing on soul sand and collect both. After doing so, they go towards the exit when they find out they are trapped by wither skeletons on both sides.

Back in the Nether, Carl had nearly reached his house when a pack of wolves came in his way. Luckily, he is saved by the wolf he had fed a bone. He takes the wolf with him and names him Bark. He decides to keep him out of the house as he would have eaten him if he hadn't fed him a bone. However, he gives the wolf a piece of cooked steak.

Dave and Alex are captured and stripped of their possessions. They see that Porkins and Robo-Steve have also been captured. Porkins asks Dave what to do, as he regards him as their leader. Just then, a horde of wither skeletons walk in. One of them, wearing a crown, says they will be sacrificed to their champion.

Carl tries to teach Bark tricks. He uses a piece of steak to try and make Bark lie down. However, it fails as he snatches the steak and runs away with it. He abandons the dog and makes some baked potatoes for himself. Later in the night, he sees Bark holding a bone. That gives him an idea.

The wither skeleton lead the four of them to an arena. There, they create a wither to kill them. When the wither shoots at them, it leaves holes in the arena. Seeing this, Dave tells the four of them to come together. This causes it to blow up a huge portion of the arena, through which they escape. Porkins leads them to the portal but just as they were about to reach it, the wither skeletons come there.

Just as the wither skeletons get ready to kill them, they hear some wolves. The wolves attack the skeletons and they see Carl is riding on them. The wither skeleton king orders his forces to attack the wolves but just then, an iron golem comes. They quickly decimate the wither skeletons.

Dave, Porkins, Robo-Steve and Alex reclaim their possessions. They get ready to leave the Nether when the wither returns. Alex tries to fight it but the wither knocks her out. They decide to flee and go through the portal but Dave is hit by its attack. Just as it gets ready to kill him, he runs through the portal and tells Porkins to destroy it. After it is done, he faints.

He wakes up after four days of rest. The others are relieved to see him awake. He apologizes for his folly of not making a plan and says he will always make a plan. They go Endermen hunting and kill them from a 2-block tall shelter, where Endermen cannot teleport. After making eyes of ender, Dave, Porkins, Carl, Robo-Steve, Alex, the iron golem and sixteen wolves set out in pursuit of an End Portal.