I slowly opened my eyes, and took a moment to let them adjust to the blazing sun. Once I could see I sat up in the grass, and looked around at the tall trees surrounding me. After some time I slowly and shakily stood up, feeling like it was the first time I ever had. "Where... am I?" I said quietly to myself as I started to walk forward. "I can answer that" a voice said from behind me.

I quickly turned around, a bit surprised. A man who looked to be about seventeen with long, fluffy brown hair was standing behind me. "This is terraria. You're probably confused, right?" He said to me. "Uh... yeah, what's going on?" I asked, realizing how confused I really was. "I'll explain later. For now, you should probably take this" he said as he handed me an axe with a shiny orange-ish blade. I took it in both hands, and examined it. "What am I supposed to do with this?" I asked him, puzzled. He chuckled a bit "It's an axe, what do you think you should do with it?" I stared at him in disbelief. "What, am I supposed to chop down a tree? Why?" He rolled his eyes "if you don't, how are you going to build a shelter? You'll need someplace sturdy if you want to survive the night."

Still confused, I glance around a bit. "What do you mean... survive the night?" He seemed to be getting frustrated with me at this point. "Just try to chop down a tree. Trust me, you'll need it" I ponder the legitimacy of this man for a moment, but finally give in. "Fine. I'll try, I guess." I say as I hold up the axe in both hands. I turn around and walk up to a tree, and from behind me he said, "go ahead, take a swing at it. It's easier then it seems, trust me" I look back at him "I know, I know, just hang on" I stare at the trunk of the tree for a moment and hold the axe above my head, before hitting it against the bottom. The whole tree shakes, and a small crack is visible at the base. I turn around to look at the puffy-haired man, and he nods. I turn to the tree again and start hitting the trunk again, until the tree finally falls, and breaks into multiple chunks of wood against the ground.

Feeling proud, I turned to the man again. He smiled at he, and I smiled back. "Nice work," he said "now go ahead, gather that wood and do it again" My expression shifts into frustration again. "What? How many trees am I supposed to chop down?" He chuckles a bit. "Oh, roughly ten or twenty" I glare at him silently. "Look, you'll understand later. But it doesn't seem like you have much else to do, huh?" After a few more moments of silent glaring, I finally sighed. "Fine. But this better be worth it" I said as I started to gather up the wood

After chopping down a few more trees, I turned to the man again. "Okay, that should be enough" he said with a smile. "Okay, so now what?" I asked him. "Well, you should try to build a workbench, so you'll be able to make things easily" I looked at him with one eyebrow raised. "Yeah? And how am I supposed to do that?" He shrugged. "However you want. Just put together some of that wood, and try to make a little table." I sighed "alright, I can try..." I began to piece together some wood, and made a little bench in a surprisingly quick amount of time. "Is this good enough?" I asked him. "It'll do" he responded. "Now, I suggest you try to make yourself a wooden sword. You'll need it to protect yourself." "Protect myself? Protect myself from what?" I said as I looked around. "Well not much yet. But when night falls, you'll be in serious trouble. All kinds of monsters come out from who knows where, and prowl the surface looking for something to kill."

"WHAT?" I said, shocked. "Why didn't you tell me that sooner?" He shrugged again. "Because if I did, you would have been too freaked out to do anything. Now go ahead, try to make a sword." I looked down at the workbench "Fine... I guess I should" I kneeled down in front of it, and started to try sharpening a piece of wood against a rock I had picked up. Once I got it to a point, I attempted to attach it to a stick, which was easier then I thought it'd be. I held up the sword, and showed it to him. "Nice work. Now, why don't we try to find a cave or something. We may not have enough time to build a shelter today" he said, and gestured to the sun, which was already close to the horizon. "Alright. If what you said about monsters is true, I guess that's a good idea"

We began to walk through the forest, and after some time, I started hearing a squishing sound. I stopped, and asked him, "Uh... hey, what's that noise?" He stopped as well. "Oh... sounds like a slime" he said, a small smirk on his face. "Now would be a good time to try out that sword of yours" I looked around us, and spotted a green blob, bouncing toward me "oh, weird..." I said, and started to back away from it. "Well? Go ahead, take a swing at it" he said to me, and reached into his bag for something. "Alright... whatever you say, I guess" I said nervously as I advanced toward it, and swung the sword over my head, and sliced right through the slime. "Woah... cool" I said as I wiped the goo off my blade. "Hey, look out!" He shouted, as the two halves of the slime started to stick back together. He quickly pulled a bow out of his bag, and shot a few arrows at it, and it finally stopped moving. "Thanks" I said to him. He looked at me with his arms crossed "you can't let your guard down that easily. Now come on, lets keep moving" I nodded, and we started to walk again.