Bow

**Bow** is the second book in Minecraftia Arc 3. It was published on June 10, 2018.

## Plot

### Chapter 1: Let's Roll Just Like We Used To

I was fast asleep in bed. It was the middle of the night. Then, I was awoke. Someone was shaking me.

"Amber!" the person whispered to me.

"Taylor?" I whispered back.

"Someone left the gate open! Mobs are invading!" Taylor whispered.

I got out of bed.

"What?" I asked.

Taylor gave me a diamond sword.

"Ryland gave them to me. We need to defend the city!" Taylor replied.

We both left my house. Zombies were breaking down doors, spiders were climbing up walls, and skeletons and creepers roamed the streets.

But then me and Taylor exited. Ryland and Louis were already up and fighting. Natha was up too, but had no weapons and was being attacked by a skeleton.

Ryland saw, and shot the skeleton with a healing arrow.

"Heal is poison to skeletons!" Ryland shouted.

Nathan ran to the gate and closed it.

"We have to kill all of them or they'll attack more people!" Louis yelled.

The Mayor walked out of the city hall, and spotted us.

"The Mayor won't like us breaking curfew!" Nathan exclaimed.

"Maybe we should all go to Elliottown's apartments tonight," Taylor suggested.

"What?" Ryland asked.

"I have an apartment there. You can all stay," Taylor replied.

"But Leo!" exclaimed Ryland.

"Get him! Quick! We'll meet you there!" Louis replied.

Ryland ran towards his house, and we ran to the apartment complex.

"They call it an apartment complex, but the design isn't complex at all," Louis said to us.

"Now's no time for jokes, just go in!" I told him.

We al ran inside and entered Taylor's apartment.

"All we have to do is wait for Ryland," Nathan said to himself.

"Does the mayor even realize we were helping the town?" I asked.

"That guy doesn't care about anything except power," Nathan replied.

"He sucks," Louis added.

Ryland came in with Leo in his hands.

"The mayor wants to see us tomorrow," Ryland told us.

"For helping the town? Seriously?" Taylor asked.

"It's dumb, I know," Ryland replied.

"We still have time to go to the Citadel, right?" I asked.

"Yeah. It's only in the evening. But someone left that gate open on purpose to frame us," Ryland informed us.

"Three guesses who it is. And they all start with 'The Mayor'," replied Louis.

"Look. We should go to sleep ready for the Citadel tomorrow," I suggested.

Ryland nodded his head, and we all fell asleep on the carpet.

### Chapter 2: Running Battle

We woke up the next morning, greeted with the smell of burning flesh.

"Ugh. That smells so bad," Nathan groaned.

"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the b- I mean, carpet," Louis replied.

"We really need to go to Gerald," I reminded everyone.

We all left the apartment complex.

"Is the Citadel good?" Ryland asked.

"It's historic. So historic it was built before the volcano, before all of that," Louis replied.

"So like Elliottown?" Ryland asked.

"Nah. The Citadel's way older," Louis replied.

"It's so cool!" Nathan exclaimed.

"Might as well have fun before the Mayor gives us hell," Louis suggested.

We opened the Elliottown gates, and made our way to the Citadel.

Louis walked closer to me.

"I actually can't wait to see the Citadel. I heard you have to prove you're worthy of it," Louis told me.

"They make you do some kind of trivia contest," I replied.

"That sounds easy. I've read almost everything about Elliottown and Gerald and the Citadel," Louis said confidently.

"What's Gerald's zodiac sign?" I asked.

"Uhh... Aquarius?" Louis replied.

"Not even close," I told him.

"What kind of questions do they ask on the trivia?" Taylor asked me.

"Questions about Gerald and the Citadel," I replied.

"Do you know what Gerald's zodiac sign is?" Louis asked Taylor.

Taylor stopped.

"Uhh..." she said.

"No wonder no one enters the place," Louis told us.

### Chapter 3: Heroes

We arrived at the Citadel's gate. Randy and Kyle were doing their usual patrol.

"HALT! NONE SHALL ENTER THE CITADEL WITHOUT- Oh wait never mind you already did the trivia contest," Randy said.

The gate opened and we entered.

"Welcome to The Citadel! I'm Von and I'll be the tour guide for the Minecart trip," Von told us.

"A few questions: 1: Von, as in, Gerald's Von? 2: Why weren't you here yesterday?" Nathan asked.

"I was on strike for the Paragon Day festival. I'm back now," Von explained.

We all hopped into the Minecarts. The feeling as the Minecart slowly moved forward, as we waited for the impending doom. We were edging towards the powered rails, then it happen. The Minecart moved at speeds ten times faster than the start of the journey as we slowly moved off the ground, and into the air.

"This is awesome!" Louis yelled.

"As you can see here, the courtyard is right below us," Von explained.

Taylor felt the urge to throw up.

"This rules!" Ryland yelled, putting his hands up.

"We are now approaching the historic spires. These have survived many attempted Citadel destructions," Von continued.

"WOOO!" Nathan yelled.

"We are now approaching the Treasure Room," Von finished.

The Minecart came rushing down at full force, and almost crashed into the ground.

"This place rules," Louis panted.

Von hopped back into the Minecart and left. Kenney and Sonar were talking outside the Treasure Room before spotting us.

"Amber and Nathan! I see you brought friends?" Sonar asked.

"Yeah. If I remember, they're called Ryland, Louis, and Tyler," Kenney replied.

"Taylor," Taylor corrected.

"Yeah. No idea who the cat is, though," Kenney added.

"That's Leo. He's Ryland's cat," I told him.

Gerald left the treasure room and saw us.

"You're here! Kenney, Sonar, if you don't mind, I have to talk to the Elliottowners about something important," Gerald told Kenney.

We all entered the treasure room. Dragon egg, Nether Star, prismarine, sponges, diamonds, everything.

"I understand you need help with this volcano issue," Gerald told us.

"Yeah. You were kinda there," I replied, confused.

Gerald opened a chest and pulled out several enchanted diamond pickaxes. He gave us all two each.

"We need to mine as much obsidian as we can. I invented something right before I lost my powers when I was working on storm shelters, after the first volcano incident," Gerald explained.

"What is it?" I asked.

### Chapter 4: Helter Skelter

"You want to know?" Gerald asked.

"Uhh... yeah?" Louis replied.

"Come here a sec. All of you," Gerald commanded.

We all approached him. He then pushed us all into a hole in the ground. A waterfall flooded a spiral staircase, created a waterslide effect.

"Great! First rollercoasters, now waterslides!" Ryland exclaimed.

We all landed on the hard ground. It was all made of obsidian.

"What is this place?" Louis asked.

"It's just a city made of obsidian," a voice told us.

We turned around. It was Gerald.

"I have a personal Nether portal that I rigged while I had powers. It leads to this place," Gerald explained.

"Couldn't we have gone through that?" Ryland asked.

"Nah. It's rigged. A bug that causes users to explode when more than one person enters every 20 minutes. Never got around to fixing it," Gerald explained.

"Explode? Rigged?" Taylor asked.

"I have God powers. It happens, y'know?" Gerald replied.

"God powers sound truly awesome," Taylor replied.

"Geez, you get one hug now you're all over me. You do realize I have a girlfriend right?" asked Gerald.

Gerald picked up a diamond pickaxe and smashed an obsidian block with it. He scooped up the obsidian.

"Get to mining. We literally haven't got all day," Gerald ordered.

We all got out our pickaxes and started to mine the obsidian.

"Okay... I can't carry anymore..." Louis panted.

"We all good?" Gerald asked.

"Yeah. This should do," I replied.

Gerald pushed us into several minecarts. The track went really fast and straight up, and we were already tired. We eventually arrived back at the treasure hall.

"How was your trip, Townheads?" Gerald asked.

"Awesome," Louis replied.

"I never thought I'd have to carry so much obsidian," Nathan panted.

"We better get back to Elliottown," Gerald told us.

### Chapter 5: Stuntman

We arrived in Elliottown.

"So, how much has it changed? Didn't get a good look at it yesterday," Gerald asked.

"A lot," Ryland replied.

"I can tell. You guys made love to this town!" exclaimed Gerald.

"About as much as you did," Taylor replied.

"Hey, I've not seen the Cannibal Holocaust, alright?" Gerald told Taylor.

"What?" asked Taylor.

Gerald went down the alleyway.

"Is that Witherstorm's house? It looks as awesome as I can remember," Gerald said.

He looked down the other alleyway.

"That Diner's making me hungry. Wanna go inside?" Gerald asked.

"We should probably cover that volcano first," Nathan suggested.

"Forget that! I wanna explore! I barely get out of the Citadel!" Gerald replied.

Gerald entered the Diner, and we decided to follow him. He walked up to a table.

"Yo, who am I making this out to?" Gerald asked.

"Stevie and Leopold," one of them said.

"Who's Stevie?" Gerald asked.

"Me," Stevie replied.

"And you're Leopold?" Gerald asked.

"Yeah," Leopold replied.

Gerald walked to another table with a girl sat at it.

"What up? How are you?" Gerald asked.

"Wow, it's really you!" the girl exclaimed.

"Who do I make this out to?" Gerald asked.

"My name's Annie," she replied.

"'Annie'. How long you lived here?" Gerald asked.

"A year. I'm such a huge fan of the Citadel and Elliottown and..." Annie tried to say.

"Look, I've not seen the Cannibal Holocaust, okay?" Gerald replied.

Annie raised an eyebrow.

Gerald walked back to us.

"Your chat-up session done?" I asked.

"One more table," Gerald replied.

"Go and chat up Apollo and Ophelia over there," Louis suggested.

Gerald walked up to the third and final table.

"Apollo and Ophelia right?" Gerald asked.

"Yeah," Ophelia replied.

"Weird names, but, what up?" Gerald asked.

"Just... chilling," Ophelia told him.

"Just a heads up: I've not seen the Cannibal Holocaust," Gerald replied.

Gerald walked back to us.

"Now, the volcano," Gerald said.

"You're... sociable," Ryland replied.

"More like they want me to sign their forehead or something," Gerald replied.

"You don't like them?" Taylor asked.

"It's not that. It's just... It's hard to even think about this place without flashbacks from what I did to it," Gerald sighed.

"Look, we should really go to the volcano now," Louis said.

Ruth entered the diner.

"Ryland, Louis, you have your duties now," Ruth told us.

Ruth saw Gerald.

"I've not seen the Cannibal Holocaust," Gerald told her.

"I'll just... leave you to it then," Ruth finished.

She left the diner.

"Okay, for real, the volcano," Gerald said.

We all left the diner.

### Chapter 6: Fuel My Fire

Our next destination: The volcano. We pulled out our obsidian.

"Remember, the inside of a volcano is the hottest place known to man. Be careful," Gerald warned.

We started to cover up the volcano. It was huge, and by the time we covered a quarter up, I had almost ran out of obsidian.

My heart skipped a beat when the ground rumbled.

"What was that?" Louis asked.

"You heard that too, right?" Taylor asked.

A fire charge spat out of one of the openings.

"Guys! Run!" Gerald yelled at the top of his lungs.

"What?" Taylor asked.

"This thing is about to blow. I'll try to do whatever I can to stop Elliottown's destruction. Just go," Gerald ordered.

"Uhh... YOU'LL DIE," Louis yelled.

"Why do I deserve to live? Look at everyone I hurt," Gerald asked.

"You're not staying!" I told him.

"Go! JUST GO!" Gerald yelled.

"No!" Ryland replied.

"I could've patched this thing up by now! Just go!" Gerald yelled again.

I sighed, and climbed up the volcano. Everyone else followed, except for Gerald.

We returned to Elliottown, and saw the explosion from the volcano. Ryland and Louis had their hands over their mouths. Taylor and Nathan just stood in shock.

Annie came over.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Gerald... died," I told her.

"What? How?" Annie asked.

"That damn volcano," Louis replied.

"He wanted to fix his mistake, so he did. He killed himself the way all his friends were killed," Ryland said.

### Chapter 7: Flammable

I sat at Ludwig's memorial. It was surrounded by red tulips. It was then I felt a tap on my shoulder, and I turned around. I was hallucinating... right? Gerald was stood there.

"Gerald?" I asked.

"Amber, how many times do I have to say... I've not seen the Cannibal Holocaust," Gerald replied.

"You're alive? How?" I asked.

"I did what I said I'd do. Prevent a severe eruption," Gerald replied.

"So, the eruption didn't kill you?" I asked.

"Once I got pushed into the void, and you know what I did? I threw an ender pearl before the lack of air killed me," Gerald explained.

"You threw an ender pearl before you got incinerated?" I asked.

"Yeah. I even told Kenney, Brooke, and Sonar: That ender pearl will save my life someday, you watch," Gerald explained.

Louis and Ryland came over. Ryland was holding Leo.

"Gerald? You're alive?" Louis asked.

"Yep. I'm alive," Gerald replied.

"I thought that was the end of your story, man," Ryland told Gerald.

"When you've literally been friends with Death himself, it's hard for some lousy eruption to kill you," Gerald explained.

"So, we saved the town. That's great!" exclaimed Louis.

"The Mayor won't see it as that," I replied.

"Forget him. He just wants all the power to himself," Ryland said.

"Okay, I should probably get back to the Citadel. Meet me tomorrow?" Gerald explained.

"Bye," replied Louis.

### Chapter 8: Under The Bridge

We were all sat on top of the prismarine house, watching the sunset.

"When do you think the Mayor will give us hell?" Nathan asked.

"I'm sure his golden girl Olivia will come soon," Louis replied.

"I can't believe he's punishing us for defending Elliottown. It's not fair," Taylor added.

"He's a dirty spy," Ryland told us.

"What does that mean?" I asked.

"It's pretty obvious he left the gate open, allowed the monsters to flood Elliottown, and then get us busted," Ryland explained.

"How is he a spy though?" Louis asked.

"Think about it. His rules make no sense. He doesn't care about Elliottown, so why is he here? I bet he's a spy for someone who wants to turn Elliottown to glass," Ryland continued.

The roof to the house opened, and Olivia emerged.

"The Mayor wants to see you in 20 minutes," Olivia explained.

She left again.

"Nasty spy," Ryland commented.

"You think they're all spies?" I asked.

"All of them. The Mayor, Olivia, and Ruth. They both hang on the Mayor's every word," Ryland explained.

### Chapter 9: Don't Look Back

"If a volcano destroyed this place, I'd want it to be with the Mayor inside," Louis commented.

"Knowing him he probably has about 15 private storm shelters," Taylor replied.

"I'm gonna go get a fish for Leo. There'll be hell to pay when I come back," Ryland told us.

Louis and I followed him, however. We were bored of sitting on the house, so we roof-hopped to the seafood house, which was right next to the prismarine house.

We entered, and picked up a raw salmon for Leo. Ryland put it on the floor, and Leo started to eat.

"You really think he's evil?" Louis asked again.

"Not just think. I'm certain," Ryland replied.

"We'll catch him. Even Gerald despises him, so we can get rid of him," I explained to them.

"You sound so persuasive Amber, but this guy has the power to ruin our lives," Louis replied.

We returned to the roof. Taylor and Nathan were still there, but so was Olivia.

"The Mayor would like to see you," Olivia told us.

We all followed Olivia. I could even see Louis roll his eyes.

"What the hell does he want with us?" Nathan asked.

"About you breaking curfew," Olivia replied.

"It's bull! We were defending this damn town!" Louis explained.

"Save your appeals for the Mayor," Olivia replied.

### Chapter 10: Goodbye Kiss

The Mayor's office. Where do I even start on describing the city hall? Oh yeah, it's so poorly designed. The Mayor clearly has no taste in architecture.

"So, why are we here?" Ryland asked.

"In Elliottown, we have several rules put in place to protect our citizens. When those rules are ignored, punishment is put into place," the Mayor explained.

"This has to do with us because?" Louis asked.

"Because you are convicted of the following charges: Curfew violations, disturbing the peace," The Mayor explained.

"You're joking right? We defended the town!" Nathan told the Mayor.

"That's one way of explaining it," the Mayor replied.

"No, that's literally what happened!" exclaimed Taylor.

"I've had enough! Did you, or did you not, break curfew?" The Mayor asked.

"Yes," I replied.

"Did you fight off monsters instead of simply waiting them out?" The Mayor asked.

"We did what you're supposed to do when mobs show up, yes," Louis replied.

"That settles it then. Ryland, you will no longer be Elliottown's District Attorney," The Mayor told Ryland.

We were all shocked.

"Louis, Taylor, Nathan, none of you are in charge of future Paragon Parties. And due to the allegations of conspiring against Elliottown, you will have a much more serious punishment," the Mayor continued.

"What are you on about? Conspiring?" Nathan asked.

"I've had enough! You're the one conspiring! Your rules make no sense, your system is flawed, you don't know what you're doing, and you clearly don't care about Elliottown!" Louis yelled.

"Olivia, Ruth, please restrain Nathan, Louis, and Taylor," the Mayor ordered.

Olivia grabbed Taylor and Nathan and Ruth grabbed Louis.

"Amber, you are hereby banned from Elliottown. You are no longer allowed on the premises," The Mayor concluded.

I was also dragged out of the Mayor's office by Ruth.

## Characters

### New Characters

* Amber
* Ryland
* Nathan
* Louis
* The Mayor
* Leo
* Taylor
* Ruth (minor role)
* Sonar (minor role)
* Olivia (minor role)
* Stevie (minor role)
* Leopold (minor role)
* Annie (minor role)
* Apollo (minor role)
* Ophelia (minor role)

### Returning Characters

* Gerald
* Kenney (minor role)
* Kyle (minor role)
* Randy (minor role)
* Von (minor role)

### Mentioned Characters

* Ludwig
* Brooke

## Locations

* Elliottown
	+ Amber's House
	+ Elliottown Apartments
	+ Jayden's Shop
	+ Ludwig's Memorial
	+ Ludwig's House
	+ Ryland's House
		- DA office
* The Citadel
	+ Gerald's House
	+ Treasure Hall

## Trivia

* All the chapter names are names of songs.
	+ Let's Roll Just Like We Used To by Kasabian.
	+ Running Battle by Kasabian.
	+ Heroes by David Bowie.
	+ Helter Skelter by The Beatles.
	+ Stuntman by Kasabian.
	+ Fuel My Fire by The Prodigy.
	+ Flammable by Biffy Clyro.
	+ Under The Bridge by Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
	+ Don't Look Back by Boston.
	+ Goodbye Kiss by Kasabian.
* Gerald-XR-Donovan has confirmed that Sonar and The Mayor will return.