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cries grew louder and the gang realized he was on the other side of the wall.
    â€œHenry?” Lucy called out.
    â€œHelp!” His voice boomed through the wall.
    â€œCan you hear us?” Lucy asked.
    Henry didn’t answer. He just kept repeating “Help.”
    â€œAt least we’re getting closer,” said Lucy. “Even though he doesn’t know we are trying to save him.”
    â€œOh no!” screamed Steve. As he put his pickaxe down, he realized he didn’t just break through the dirt wall in this tunnel of terrors but he’d also cracked open a monster egg and silverfish were slowly making their way out of the cube.
    â€œWatch out!” Adam shouted as a silverfish crept close to his feet.
    â€œJump up on that pile of dirt,” Steve told him. “They can’t reach you at that height.”
    Adam took out a splash potion to kill the silverfish. “Stop!” yelled Max, “Splash potions will attract the other silverfish. Throw gravel on it instead.”
    Adam took a handful of gravel and threw it at the black-eyed silverfish and instantly destroyed the evil insect.
    â€œThere are two more!” Lucy said looking at the silverfish that were creeping toward them. “We have to kill them without waking the others in the egg!”
    Max took out his diamond sword and struck one of the silverfish; with one hard blow the silverfish was defeated. Lucy destroyed the other with her diamond sword.
    â€œGood job!” Steve said, sad that he couldn’t help. Without his diamond sword, he was unable to fight off many of the hostile mobs they’d encountered. He wanted his sword back, and the quicker they got to Henry, the sooner they would find the griefer and get to the bottom of this chaos. But with a monster egg in front of them which could unleash an infestation of silverfish at any moment, the group had to navigate carefully.
    â€œI’m too afraid to move,” Max told the group, as he tried to make his way past the monster egg.
    â€œWe have to move further down the tunnel,” said Steve.
    The group tiptoed past the egg and held their breath as they silently made their way deeper into the dark tunnel.
    â€œWe need a torch,” said Lucy.
    Nobody in the group had one and they all knew this made them incredibly vulnerable.
    â€œI’m scared,” said Kyra as the tunnel grew darker and the possibility of being attacked by a creature of the night grew more realistic every second.
    â€œI can’t see an inch in front of me,” said Steve.
    â€œBut I can hear something!” Max called out in terror.
    â€œHenry?” asked Lucy.
    â€œNo! Listen!”
    Click! Clack! The sound of some creature hopping and landing on the ground echoed through the walls of the tunnel.
    â€œIt sounds like slime!” cried Adam.
    As they inched their way farther into the tunnel, the sound grew louder.
    â€œGet your stone swords out!” Steve told the group. “We have to battle slimes!”
    â€œI can’t see where they are or how many slimes are there,” said Max. He squinted in the dark, but without a torch, he felt like this was a fool’s errand. “How are we going to fight them if we can’t see them?”
    â€œJust listen!” said Steve. “Use your sense of hearing. When we hear them get louder, we will have to lunge at them with our swords. It’s our only hope!” Steve held onto his stone sword with both hands.
    Click! Clack! The sound of the slimy creature’s gelatinous body landing on the dirt ground was growing louder.
    â€œIt sounds like there are two slimes. If there were more, it would be even louder,” Max said as he walked slowly toward the sound.
    â€œI think I see light!” Lucy called out.
    â€œThat’s not light,” said Kyra, “it’s the reflection from the green slime!”
    â€œThey’re here!” Max screamed out and struck one of the