Twilight woke up the next morning to the sound of thunder. 'So now we have to deal with more weather problems?' She asked herself. 'Why can't Minecraft be more like Equestria and let Rainbow move the clouds away?' However her complaining thoughts were interrupted by the rest of her friends waking up.
"Good morning Twilight!" Pinkie happily greeted. "Lovely weather we're having!"
"Pinkie, did you even hear the thunder outside?" Twilight asked. "If it's not already, then it'll be raining soon."
"More rain? Oh no, I don't want my hair to get messed up like last time..." Rarity complained.
"The rain ain't that bad." Applejack told Rarity. "It helps the plants outside get water and grow."
"It'll still rain for the rest of the day." Rainbow said. "There's also thunder, which means lightning. And if there's lightning, then I can't fly around before we leave for the End Realm."
"I kinda like the rain......" Fluttershy whispered. "But what about leaving for the End Realm? If we can't bring everypony, does that mean we have to wait until tomorrow?"
"Fluttershy has a point." Spike pointed out. "I guess that means we will have more time to get prepared for the journey. We should probably get ourselves adjusted to using the bows and weapons I made. Same for the iron armor Rarity created."
"That's a good idea Spike." Twilight said. "I'm going to flip through my book and see what else we can do to get better at combat in Minecraft."
"I'm gonna open a hole in the wall over here." Rainbow told them while pointing to the wall opposite of their beds. "Because the Mobs can't reach us, we can practice using our bows on any Mob that's outside. I don't think the rain can hurt them."
Ah think ah'll finish up some farmin' outside." Applejack said to all of them. "Ah might even be able ta start some other types o' farms out there. Like sugarcane, potatoes, and carrots."
"I am going to stay indoors." Rarity told them. "I might be able to get some bow practice, but I'm mostly going to stay and help everypony else here."
"I ummm.... I think I can help others too......" Fluttershy whispered. "That is, if you don't mind."
"I think I might be able to help all of you too." Spike said.
"I'm going to have fun with a sniper duel!" Pinkie yelled ecstatically.
Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Spike, and Applejack just stared at Pinkie. Her front hooves were in the air because of sheer joy, but the room was very silent. "What?" Pinkie asked. "We all have to have one eventually. It's in the rules of the story."
Once again the room fell to dead silence. Eventually after staring at Pinkie, all of them walked away to start performing their last-minute preparations for the End Realm.
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Rainbow finished taking out the wall and stared out at the Mobs waiting in the dark rain. There were spiders, creepers, skeletons, and zombies, but no Endermen for some reason. 'Maybe Twilight scared them off.' She thought before getting a bow. She took out an arrow she picked up after she killed a skeleton earlier and rested it on the side of the bow. She picked a target that was close and couldn't fight back. A zombie. Rainbow pulled the string on the bow back with her teeth, aimed, and let the arrow fly.
The zombie just stared at the arrow that was in front of it's feet. It looked up and saw a cyan creature with a bow in it's mouth that was aimed toward it. Feeling enraged, the zombie walked over to the wall below the creature and tried getting to it.
'Stupid zombie.' Rainbow thought. 'Don't they know that they can't reach somepony by trying to walk through walls?'She decided to try again with long-ranged attacking, and pulled another arrow back. She aimed the bow straight at the zombie and let the arrow loose.
This time the arrow hit the zombie and got stuck in it's head. Rainbow shouted with happiness before preparing another arrow. She aimed for the zombie, pulled the string with the arrow back, and released the string. The arrow struck the zombie on the head again and killed it. "Awesome!" Rainbow cheered. "Maybe I should aim for Mobs farther away, and not ones pressed against the house wall."
Rainbow took out another arrow and began to pick the unlucky Mob. There was a skeleton far off in the distance, so she decided to practice on that Mob. She took out an arrow and carefully aimed so she wouldn't miss and alert the skeleton that she was there. Rainbow shot the arrow and watched it fly through the air, and hit the skeleton. She cheered before taking out another arrow to try and hit it again. Because the skeleton didn't move too much, she aimed in the same direction and the the arrow free.
The skeleton got hit again and died, which was when Rainbow heard a ding sound. 'YES! A new Achievement! I have to get the others!' She thought before running downstairs. "Hey Twilight!" She called while halfway down the steps. "I got an Achievement!"
"Really?" Twilight asked. "What exactly did you do?"
"I killed a skeleton from really far away with my bow." Rainbow answered.
"I'll join you in a minute. Right now Rarity and I are busy trying to find something for us to make it easier to fight. Why don't you get the others? I think they're outside."
Rainbow said goodbye before stepping out the door into the rain. Most of the Mobs were further out and wouldn't cause too much trouble, but some were closer to the house and needed to be either scared off or killed. Maybe I can shoot at them later while showing the others the Achievement.' She thought while quickening her pace to the farming area.
Eventually Rainbow reached the farming area and saw Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Spike already there. She walked up to them and asked if they were ready to earn another Achievement.
"Of COURSE I wanna earn another Achievement!" Pinkie shouted. "I think I forgot about getting one earlier, but it looks like I can get it now!"
"I ummm.... I think I would like to earn the next one too..... That is, if you don't mind..." Fluttershy nervously told Rainbow.
"Ah think it'll be in mah best interests to do so as well." Applejack confidently said.
"I don't get Achievements because all of you already beat me to it, so I'm going to stay here and continue farming." Spike told them.
Rainbow nodded and began leading her friends back to the house to try and get the Achievement. They didn't encounter any problems along the way, and the Mobs were staying far back for some reason. Soon enough all of them reached the house and walked in to find Twilight and Rarity waiting for them.
"Hey Twilight! Hi Rarity!" Rainbow greeted. "Are you two ready to get the next Achievement?"
"Yes we are." Rarity told Rainbow. "We were just finishing up with some preparations for the End Realm."
"We think that we found something to help with our armor and tool upgrades." Twilight said. "Enchanting them. However we will need a lot of books, which means a lot of paper, lots of wood, and plenty of space. But I guess we can halt our studies to get the next Achievement."
"Great! Let's go!" Pinkie shouted before jumping up the stairs.
Twilight followed Pinkie up the stairs with everypony else behind her. When she reached the top of the stairs she saw Pinkie with a bow in her mouth and an arrow attached to it.
"Cmh anf gfh one off fhese!" Pinkie told everypony while the bow was in her mouth.
"Pinkie, I can barely understand you." Rarity said. "Please spit the bow and arrow out before speaking."
Pinkie spat the bow and arrow out on the ground and repeated what she said. "Come and take one of these!"
Rainbow took her own bow out and checked to see if everypony had a bow and some arrows. Once everypony was ready, she showed them what to do and pointed to some skeletons to shoot at. "All you have to do is kill one from all the way over there. It's not too hard, but feel free to practice a bit over here."
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Eventually everypony got the Achievement and practiced a bit on the Mobs that weren't able to fight back. Twilight decided to finish up reading about Enchanting, then she would do her best to upgrade every tool they would use in the End Realm. She made it back to the spot she was reading at and levitated her book up to read the last bit of information.
Enchanting Table
The Enchanting Table is one of the most expensive blocks to craft. Using your experience levels, you can enchant your tools, weapons, and even armor with the Enchanting Table. Bookshelf blocks can increase the enchantment levels the Enchanting Table can bestow, which means better upgrades. To craft the Enchanting Table, you need five obsidian blocks, two diamonds, and a book. The recipe for the Enchanting Table is below this paragraph.
Twilight walked over to the chests to grab the materials to build the Enchanting Table. She levitated the obsidian, diamonds, and the resources nessecary to make a book over to the crafting table. First she crafted the book, then she placed everything in the right place to make the Enchanting Table. Once she finished crafting it, she heard a ding to signal that she got another Achievement.
Twilight cheered before checking her materials to see if everypony could make an Enchanting Table. 'Let's see, there is enough obsidian and sugarcane, but only eight diamonds left.' She frowned after thinking that. 'There aren't enough diamonds. I'm going to have to somehow find more or multiply them. I think my safest bet is to multiply them. But I'm going to make two extra, just in case.'
Twilight began the Multiplication spell for the diamonds and focused as hard as possible. The spell was one of the more difficult spells to learn, and it took her months to perfect it. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead as she tried to finish the spell. However she just poured more energy into multiplying the diamonds, and soon enough four more were created due to the success of her spell.
Twilight felt extremely tired, but she still smiled. Now all of them were going to be able to create an Enchanting Table and get the next Achievement. She slowly levitated everything into her saddlebags and started walking upstairs to where the others were busy practicing. "Girls? I found another Achievement that you can get right now. Come on downstairs with me, and Rainbow? Will you go get Spike for me? It's dangerous to leave him outside alone."
Twilight watched Rainbow fly off before heading downstairs with her friends following her. When she got downstairs she quickly explained how to make an Enchanting Table before levitating the materials to each of her friends. Once Rainbow came back she repeated the process, but told Spike to reorganize the chests.
Pretty soon the house was filled with cheers from the ponies that recieved the Achievement. Once the noise quieted down Twilight began creating the bookshelf blocks to help enchant the tools and armor. She told her friends to search for sugarcane, cut down more wood, and (much to the horror of Fluttershy) even kill a few cows to get leather.
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Eventually Twilight created all of the bookshelf blocks needed to fully power the Enchanting Table they would use. Even though the weather was still pretty wet, she led her friends outside to a location that was secure and dry. She placed down some bookshelf blocks in the pattern her book said, and placed the Enchanting Table in the center. She then asked her friends if they had anything they'd like to enchant.
"I know something should enchant." Rarity told her. "While everypony was making their Enchanting Tables, I used the last two diamonds to create the most powerful sword. I know it will be useful, and enchanting it will only make it stronger." Rarity then levitated a blue-colored sword out of her saddlebags and told all of her friends what it was called. "This here is a diamond sword, and it is the best weapon in Minecraft."
Twilight's eyes widened as she levitated the diamond sword over to the Enchanting Table. The floating book on the black and red block opened up and began flipping pages as she went closer. She scanned the pages and looked for a specific enchantment for the diamond sword. The Smite enchantment, it's highest level if possible. The strange writing on the pages looked like something impossible to read, but it was pretty easy for her. 'I guess learning all of those languages paid off.' She thought while looking for the enchantment.
Soon enough Twilight found the enchantment and it's price for experience. 'The cost will wipe out all of my experience levels, but it's worth it.' She thought before casting the enchantment. The enchantment book glowed purple and white as it began the enchantment process. The experience she gained from all of the Mobs poured into the Enchanting Table before the diamond sword began glowing purple. Once the light died down all that was left was a glowing diamond sword, a surprised dragon, and six shocked ponies.
"That was awesome!" Rainbow finally shouted. "Let's go test this sword out!"
"That's a good idea." Twilight told Rainbow. "The Smite enchantment makes it easier to kill zombies, zombie pigmen, wither skeletons, withers, and skeletons. I think it will be able to kill most of those Mobs in one hit."
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Eventually all of them found a lone zombie that didn't see them. Twilight levitated the diamond sword over to Rainbow, who was the most excited to use the sword. She watched Rainbow fly silently over to the zombie and swing the sword at it. The zombie instantly fell to the ground, and a ding was heard.
"Yes!" Rainbow cheered with happiness. "Another Achievement!"
"LEMME TRY! LEMME TRY!" Pinkie yelled before running over to Rainbow. She quickly took the sword and ran over to one of the skeletons that was waiting underneath a tree. She thrusted the sword into the skeleton and watched it die. She heard a ding, then ran over to Twilight to give the sword back. "It's super fun to be nearly invincible! Now you try!"
"Alright, here I go." Twilight said before making her way over to a zombie that was farther away.
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After a little while everypony got the Achievement. Just as they all got to the front of the house, the rain stopped and the clouds parted. They watched the sky as the sun came rising over the horizon.
"That's simply beautiful." Rarity said.
"Yeah, it's awesome." Rainbow agreed.
"I actually think this is the last sunrise we will se before we travel to the End Realm." Twilight said. "We're just about ready, and I'm sure whatever is hiding there will stand no chance against us."