Deep Dive! (Minecraft Woodsword Chronicles #3)

Deep Dive! (Minecraft Woodsword Chronicles #3)

The first official chapter book series based on Minecraft! The adventures continue in the third official Minecraft chapter book based on one of the most popular video games of all time. As Ash, Morgan, and three of their fellow Minecraft players, who can actually enter the game, take a deep dive into the Aquatic biome, they find a world filled with beauty and wonder. A treasure map promises adventure and the opportunity to explore--but it could also be a trap set by the mysterious Evoker King. With air running low, will they survive to find out? © 2019 Mojang AB and Mojang Synergies AB. MINECRAFT and MOJANG are trademarks or registered trademarks of Mojang Synergies AB. Nick Eliopulos is a writer who lives in Brooklyn (as many writers do). He likes to spend half his free time reading and the other half gaming. He cowrote the Adventurers Guild series with his best friend and works as a narrative designer for a small video game studio. After all these years, Endermen still give him the creeps. Luke Flowers is an author/illustrator living in Colorado Springs with his wife and three children. He is grateful to have had the opportunity to illustrate forty-five books since 2014, when he began his lifelong dream of illustrating children's books. Luke has also written and illustrated a best-selling book series called Moby Shinobi . When he's not illustrating in his creative cave, he enjoys performing puppetry, playing basketball, and going on adventures with his family. Five figures floated in a vast sea of blue. Below them was a strange structure. It was unlike anything that existed on earth. Part pyramid and part fortress, it squatted on the seafloor and stretched far into the distance. The structure was a gross shade of green. It looked almost poisonous. But the structure was also grand. It all but dared them to enter. The figures hovered quietly before it. They couldn’t talk underwater. But even if they could, the massive monument might have awed them into silence. The only sounds came from the air bubbles quietly purring, popping, and gurgling around them. One of them held up a map. The map showed a big red X. They all looked from the monument to the map and back again. The figure with the map put it away and nodded in the direction of the structure. Colorful sea creatures drifted past. The five kicked their legs and swam deeper. The monument and all its many mysteries awaited.   Harper Houston held her breath. She strained her eyes in the moonlight. She knew the white-and-green-speckled eggs sitting in the sand would hatch soon. And she didn’t want to miss a moment of it. Harper had seen many amazing things over the last several weeks. That’s how long she and her friends had been using special VR headsets to visit a virtual world. They weren’t playing Minecraft anymore. They were living Minecraft.  It was all so real. She could feel the sand beneath her feet. She could hear the snap and crackle of her torch. And she could see cracks appearing on the sea turtle eggs they’d found on the beach. “I wish I could take a picture of this,” her friend Po Chen said. “Can you say ‘seashore eggshell selfie’ five times fast?” Po liked to change his appearance in the game. Tonight he was dressed for the beach, with swim trunks, snorkeling gear, an inflatable float wrapped around his waist, and a shirt that only a dad would wear. “I wish I could bring a turtle home with us,” said Jodi Mercado. “I just know they’re going to be adorable.” Jodi was the youngest member of the group. She had a soft spot for animals. “I wish they’d hurry up and hatch,” Ash Kapoor said. “We can’t stay on this beach forever.” Ash loved exploration. She wanted to see everything there was to see in this digital land. She didn’t do a lot of standing around, either here or in the real world. “I wish you would be quiet,” Jodi’s older brother Morgan said, shushing them. “It isn’t safe at night. Anything could be out there.” Morgan played more Minecraft than any of them. His knowledge frequently came in handy. And he was very serious about keeping the others safe. Harper smiled to herself. All of her friends were wishing for something. She didn’t have anything to wish for, though. To her, this moment was perfect just as it was. The eggs hatched, one after another. Tiny baby sea turtles emerged to crawl along the sand. The friends all took a step back. “That way, little guys,” Harper said, pointing to the ocean. “Go swim!” Harper knew a bit about real-life sea turtles. She knew that hatchlings immediately made their way across the sand and into the ocean. She assumed Minecraft sea turtles would do the same thing. “I was right,” said Jodi. “They are one hundred percent adorable.” “But they sound weird,” Po added. Harper strained her ears. She heard a low growl nearby. “I don’t think that sound is coming from the turtles,” she warned. Morgan hopped in alarm. “Zombies!