Readers: I made a MASSIVE amount of updates to the whole story. if you want to read it all again feel free. review if you like.
Author's Note: I know this isn't my Love Series or my Game series, but honestly I'm against walls on both of those. I had this idea today and decided to write a first act for it. I really didn't want to start another series but I couldn't rest until I got this idea out there. So without further ado, here's LuckyCraft.
LuckyCraft
Disclaimer: All rights to Lucky Star and any characters from it go to Kagami Yoshimizu and any companies that worked with him. All rights to Minecraft go to Mojang, Notch, and any person or company that worked with them. Rights to the image go to thydemone's account on Planet Minecraft.
Chapter 1: Into the Unknown
"Onee-chan…?" Tsukasa asked.
"Yeah, Tsukasa?" I answered, seeing the worry in her voice.
"Did you see Konata at all today?" Tsukasa asked in a worried tone. We were just walking home from a normal school day. It's rare we get these, usually Konata is there to weird up the place, but today…
"No, I didn't see her, I thought she was with you and Miyuki" I said. I didn't eat lunch with them today, Ayano and Misao invited me to eat with them so I just assumed the three of them ate without me.
"Do you think she's okay…?" Tsukasa asked.
"Yeah, maybe she's sick or something," I said. To be honest, I think she faked something to stay home and read her manga.
"Then we should check on her and make her feel better…That's what good friends do, right?" Tsukasa asked in a way that implied she was stating it.
"Sure, we can check on her," I said, thinking to myself 'Maybe I can pay her back for making me uncomfortable when I was sick.'
We walked over to Konata's house when we ran into Miyuki-san on the way. "Miyuki-san? What are you doing here? Your house is the other way, right?" I asked curiously.
"Oh greetings Tsukasa-san, Kagami-san, I was just visiting our good friend Konata-san. She wasn't in school today, so I brought the homework she missed." Miyuki-san said.
"Oh, makes sense," I said.
We walked the rest of the way to Konata's house and were greeted by…no one. This is very weird, Konata's dad loves to greet us when we get there. It makes me feel uncomfortable, but him not being there made an even worse feeling: all I can describe it as is dread. Eventually I tried the doorknob to find it unlocked.
We walked in. There was one thing in Konata's house that stood out: A cold cup of tea sitting on the table. That must've been Konata's dad's tea, but where is he? Better yet where is Yutaka? Or Konata? I didn't see either of them in school, and I didn't talk to Yutaka's friends so I don't know if they saw her. We proceeded to Konata's room, and opened the door, hoping to find her.
The room was dark except for the computer screen, which glowed with a very bright white light. No one was here to be found. We walked over to it and something popped up in the light in jet black letters. It read: Touch the screen. That's it. Nothing else.
Well we all just stood there reading those letters. Tsukasa, being the more curious of us, stared entranced at the screen and touched it. It glowed brightly, even though it isn't a touch screen monitor and touching it should do nothing. It kept getting brighter and I had to close my eyes to not be blinded. The light flashed and I felt myself pulled for some reason. Then it started to become dimmer and dimmer. My eyes stayed closed until I realized that it wasn't getting any darker.
As I opened my eyes up I could tell right away that something was very, very wrong. The world looked like a computer image stretched out to see every single pixel. What was weird is not only did it look like this, it was also three-dimensional. I looked down at my hands and realized that they were block-pixilated like everything else. Then I looked at Miyuki and Tsukasa, who were next to me and also had the same pixilation.
"Onee-chan…what's going on…?" Tsukasa said, obviously very worried. Miyuki-san looked worried to.
"I have no idea…" I said, and I'm serious. I have absolutely no idea. I decided to look around again as we all stood there in silence. It looked like a block-style forest of some sort, considering all of the trees. Suddenly a realization came to me. "This is all her fault!" I said loudly, emphasizing 'her'.
"Huh?" Tsukasa asked while Miyuki-san asked "Excuse me?"
"Konata! She probably brought us in here with some weird otaku power or something!" I said, punching one of the trees in anger. Suddenly that portion of the tree was gone and I was holding it.
"Onee-chan, what is that?" Tsukasa asked. I was stunned. How did this get from there to my hand? I'll give this strange place credit; it knows how to distract me.
"I think it's…" I started when out of nowhere I heard a monotone robotic voice say "Achievement Get: Getting Wood"
"What was that?" I asked.
"What was what?" They both asked me. It must've only happened to me. Wait…Maybe I can make them hear it too.
"Quick, both of you punch a tree!" I said franctically, Miyuki-san walked to a tree, but she tripped and hit her head on it. Somehow this broke the block and she looked around confused. "Who said that to me…?" She asked confused yet politely.
Tsukasa looked at me confused, and said, "But trees are too strong to be broken with a punch, Onee-chan…"
I replied, "Just do it, Tsukasa, I promise you won't get hurt." That's entirely true, actually, I felt nothing punching that tree other than the surface disappearing. She walked over to a tree, lightly touched it, and nothing happened.
"Why didn't it break?" She asked.
"You probably have to hit it harder," I replied. Tsukasa shut her eyes tight, pulled her arm back and pushed her hand through the block of wood. She opened her eyes and looked around frantically afterwards.
"You heard it too, Tsukasa?" I asked.
"Yeah, what is that…?" Tsukasa said in a worried tone.
"Well, the voice said it was an achievement. If Konata is truly behind all of this, that term probably has something to do with something she likes," Miyuki-san said.
Luckily I am familiar with gaming terms from my shooters. "An achievement is like a goal that a character completes in a video game. Other than that I don't know any other use of the term in Konata's interests." I said.
"So…We're inside of a game…?" Tsukasa asked now shocked. We were all shocked, me mostly because of an idea I just had.
"Oh god…" I said, leaning against a tree and hanging my head in a feeling of dread, "If this is an eroge..."
I stood there dreading that idea for awhile, knowing how Konata can reference maniac behavior, that worries me as to what situation I would end up in during one of her eroges. I looked over and saw Tsukasa off somewhere, Miyuki-san was standing watching her.
"What's she up to…?" I asked with a deadpan look seeing her walk around looking at the ground.
"Oh, she wanted to try picking some flowers." Miyuki explained. That's the thing about Tsukasa. No matter what, she can retain her innocent, distracted nature. It's actually a huge relief to see, and makes me smile knowing she's okay. She came to us holding a red flower that looked kind of like a rose.
"Look, I found this one red flower around a bunch of yellow ones," Tsukasa said with a smile.
"That's cool, Tsukasa." I said honestly cracking a smile. At least one of us can be happy during this weird situation.
"I also found a few animals out there, but when I tried to pet them, they turned red and ran away." Tsukasa said. That's strange. I guess that means she hit them. I've had that happen in some of my shooters, but it usually happens when the character gets hit by something rather than an enemy.
"Tsukasa, did any of them attack you?" I asked, worried now that I know the wildlife are enemies.
"No? They just ran away when I touched them..." Okay, maybe they aren't enemies, just passive creatures.
"Um...is it just me, or is it getting darker…?" Miyuki-san asked, pointing to the sky.
"Yeah it is getting darker…" I replied, and Tsukasa nodded. We all looked at each other, wondering what will happen now that night has fallen.
