The Slaves of the Desert Mine

by SuperFire131

A revolutionary software allows players to play on a server as if they were in the game themselves. After the server is hijacked by hackers Fire, a close friend of the admins, is imprisoned in a slave mine by said hackers. Now he and four other players from the mine must escape and collect the fragments of the Ban Hammer to liberate the server. Of course, nothing is ever that easy.

1. Prologue

Author's Note: This is a story I have been working since October of 2012, up until now I posted this on the Minecraft Forum and am still doing so, I just decided to branch out a bit.

If you like this story, I am part of a collaboration Minecraft fanfiction project with several other talented authors from the Minecraft Forum writing community:

s/11610291/1/The-Convergence-Book-1-Shattered-Dimensions

s/13264446/1/The-CONVERGENCE-Book-2-Tangled-Fates

Enough about that though. Let's get right to the ominous prologue.

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Who are we… who am I? This is certainly new. This… everything.

A minute ago we were many, now I am one. I feel… whole. I only felt like this once before, long ago. Or was it a short time?

My eyes remain closed, my vision is full of darkness. My memories slowly come back to me, as if struggling to adapt to their new vessel. It can't be the vessel struggling against me. The vessel is dead.

Something is different. This is much more than we were. The headaches are getting worse. There is only so much this vessel can accept.

Will we die before we live? No. I must remain whole.

Just stay sitting here. Wait for it to be over. The vessel's body won't obey until it's over regardless.

Unable to open my eyes I let the memories pass through me. I see a world of conflict, of advancement, of intrigue. A world of limitless possibilities.

An even deeper darkness washes over me. In the distance a light appears.