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Hoglins.
Why is Jeb's name Did it have to be Hoglins?
Whiver ran as she heard squishy giant hoof steps from behind. Mud sticking to the bottom of her black boots and robe as scarlet hair followed behind.
She didn't want this mine to have hoglins, pigs maybe, but not THESE mammoth swine. They are supposed to be in hell for a reason. But no, the gods thought, "Hey, you know what would be fun? To have a bunch of giant pigs in the overworld for a bit! Doesn't that sound fun?"
Well, at least it wasn't swarming with creepers like that one time...
Suddenly, another large brown snouted face appeared from behind a tree, causing her to let out a mew in surprise, bright golden eyes meeting cold black ones. A second one seriously!
Instinctually, she jumped into the air as she spread her leathery red wing. If the weight of this world wasn't so great she probably would've flown away right then and there. But no, instead, she landed straight into the cold, murky water of the swamp.
Normally, you would probably think that Whiver hates water, with her being half cat and half dragon, two creatures known for hating the stuff. But really, she doesn't mind it too much, especially in her human form, where there is less fur to hold the water in.
When the initial shock of the water quickly wore off, she immediately started swimming away. Her ears swiveled as she heard splashing from behind, causing her to swim faster away.
After she was sure she had lost them, which surprisingly wasn't too far, she hopped onto a lilypad not too far from shore.
She rang out her robes to get out a lot of the water, which unfortunately left all the mud and grime on it covering the golden seams. She is definitely going to have to take a nice warm shower as soon as she comes back to the hub. She was not going to lick all that nasty swamp water up.
She then promptly collapsed onto the lilypad as she poofed into her normal, small cat body with only the robes on her back. Why did she have to deal with hoglins now? Especially when the "Small but Mighty" challenge round she gone threw recently had her dealing with a ton of Zoglins along with the silverfish? She failed that challenge by the way.
Whiver then heard some small snorts coming from the water's edge. She looked over to see a small hoglin running to her location and hopping into the water, sinking to the bottom.
The hoglin piglet sinking to the bottom wasn't too surprising, she would expect that. What was surprising, however, was that they made no effort to hold their head over the water. She would've thought that maybe they were holding their breath. However, they started coughing shortly after they went into the water.
Whiver tapped her tail on the lilypad Silly child, didn't you ever learn how to swim from your mom before...
She stopped tapping her tail for a second. Did hoglins know how to swim? Sure they had lava in the nether, but they weren't exactly fireproof either.
She hopped off the lilypad and swam through the murky water over to the direction she had just come from. She stood, or well, treaded, in shock as she saw two dead adult hoglins lying in the water, mains swaying in the water like sea grass.
Oh my God.
Hoglins can't swim.
Hell, they don't even seem to know anything about how dangerous water can be; they literally just ran in after her, no question asked. They didn't even turn around for air when they started drowning!
Whiver let out a small predatory rumble as she submerged herself in the water. Oh, she was going to be eating well tonight...
...
Hunting hoglins became easy after that.
She didn't even need to get onto land, they would just jump into the water as soon as they spotted her.
Two hoglins jumped in after her and started sinking into the deep ocean somewhere close to the mine exit. As soon as they sunk deep enough, Whiver then struck one of them with her wooden sword.
All the stone was andesite, ok. She couldn't make a better sword. Not that it mattered since the hoglin couldn't reach her anyway.
After the hoglin was rendered motionless, she then went out for the second one, who also was rendered helpless. She stared at it triumphantly before clutching her neck and swimming back up to the surface, gasping for air. She was going to have to be a little more careful there.
She then went back and grabbed the giant pigs and dragged them to an island where she was camping out for a bit. She climbed out of the water with the hoglins in tow and sat next to the furnace cooking their brethren's meat.
She purred as she started skinning one of the large hogs. As soon as she was all stocked up, she was going to go back to the hub and get all of the sweet exp from a hunt well done...
And then finally take a fucking shower!