The Legend of Dave the Villager 25

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

Meet the Meeps!

## Overview

**The Legend of Dave the Villager 25** is the 25th book in the series and the 5th book in **Season** **4**. In this book, Dave saves Carl and Spidroth from dying in the Phantom Realm.

## Plot

Dave and the old Cowman, who is called the "Farmer", walk through the moobloom field. They have a staff which makes the mooblooms ignore them. When they reach a cave, Dave leaves the Farmer and arrives at the underground village of the Meeps: a group of villagers who are shorter than normal villagers and have blue skin. A meep named Kayla says that Father Meepo is expecting him.

After asking for the Meeps' help, he learns of the Phantom Realm, which is apparently where his missing friends are. Kayla leads them to Tyler, who mistakes Dave for a Meep, like all the other Meeps they meet while walking through the market. Tyler gives Dave a ram to ride to the Dark Portal, which is the entry portal to the Phantom Realm.

After the scary ride above the chasm, they finally reach the Dark Portal. There, Kayla leaves Dave to go by himself, but before he enters she pours a strange rainbow-colored liquid before he can enter. And so, Dave enters the Phantom Realm, unsure if he'll return.

When he arrives in the Phantom Realm, he meets a talking cow, who points him in the direction of his friends. Suddenly, it turns into an old villager lady. She yells to Dave, "*It's coming soon, the apocalypse! But when hope is lost, look for the ships!*" and attempts to kill him. Luckily, Robo-Steve shows up and saves Dave.

Robo-Steve leads Dave to his friends, and also warns him that Herobrine is free again. Then, they see a horrendous mix of the cow and old woman, with two heads, eight limbs, and four are glowing eyes. Both of the head's mouths have razor-sharp teeth and long red tongues. As they battle, the creature shrieks the words of the old fortune-teller, such as "*SHALL I TELL YOUR FORTUNE"* and "*LOOK FOR THE SHAPS*" They eventually defeat the monster by cutting off its heads.

They soon arrive at a river, where an oarsman in a dark hood stands. After pushing his boat in the water, the three travel down the river, and Dave learns of how Robo-Steve died. They are suddenly attacked by Phantoms, and as they shoot them down (Dave and Robo-Steve) the oarsman dodges the phantoms attacks with the boat, swerving left and right. The oarsman tells Robo-Steve that they need to go faster, but as they do, Dave loses his grip on the boat and falls into the river. Dave sees strange visions about the Nether, the End and Herobrine. He is then pulled out of the water, and arrive at the doorway. Then, Dave hears voices chanting "*The Shadow Man! The Shadow Man! The Shadow Man! The Shadow Man!*"

A spider with a villager's head, a vider, crawls out, and hundreds more follow it. Dave and Robo-Steve battle the viders, when suddenly, a big one, with eight villager heads replacing the spider's red eyes appears. The big vider manages to swallow Robo-Steve, but he Robo-Steve slices its stomach open from the inside, killing it. They then continue through the Phantom Realm.

Soon, they arrive at a field of yellow flowers, with a yellow tree in the middle. Robo-Steve talks to Dave, telling him these flowers used to be people, and reassuring Dave and his fear of not being able to protect anyone. While they continue to talk, a portal appears, and Arsalan steps out. More of Dave's past enemies appear, such as the Entities, Nexus, and Skar. Dave's enemies from the Mirror Universe don't appear, proving Robo-Steve's point that the Phantom Realm in the Mirror Universe was also wiped out.

Robo-Steve and Dave fight, but get overwhelmed, when suddenly portals appear behind them, and out of them step their deceased good friends, such as Elder Crispy, the Blue Creeper Queen and Seth the Elf. Dave and his group battle the evil group. Eventually, all the enemies are defeated except Arsalan. Robo-Steve kills him, and Dave picks up the Shadow Blade, the blade Arsalan was holding.

They return to the yellow tree and rescue Carl and Spidroth from it. Suddenly, they see more viders. Dave and Robo-Steve build towers to escape, and Robo-Steve also makes Carl a cobblestone suit. Viders start to climb up the towers, and they fight them off. They escape, and use the Oarsman's boat to sail back to the other side of the river.

As they reach the exit of the Phantom Realm, Robo-Steve says his goodbyes to the trio, and also tells them Ripley might not be dead. They leave the Phantom Realm on the backs of horses with wings. When they exit, Dave takes a moment to introduce his friends to Kayla, who is happy to see that he survived. While Spidroth and Carl take a look around the Meep marketplace, Dave goes to the Meep council to see if he can arrange something so he can complete his mission of defeating Herobrine and the Ender Dragon before he becomes the next Farmer. Father Meepo grants his request, and the trio leaves the underground Meep city, going back to the surface.

As they decide what to do next, a working nether portal appears.