Chapter 1: Little Red and the Big Bad Wolf


Scarlett Chandler, A.K.A, Red had always had a passion for video games, whether it be on a gaming console, cellphone application, or her own personal laptop. In Scarlett's eyes there was no better escapism from the stresses of life than through a little good ol' gaming. Of course, anyone who typically enjoyed video games as their pass time and hobby would every so often find that one game that you just couldn't get enough of. And as for Scarlett, she had so happened to find that one special game that had turned into a rather unhealthy addiction. The culprit…

Minecraft.

The red-head with a short pixie styled hair-cut sat criss-cross on the couch of her dark living room. She had her slightly over-heated laptop laying on her lap as she stared at the screen of her Minecraft world with brown unblinking wide bloodshot eyes. It almost appeared she had become so completely detached from reality, she looked like she had lost her soul to her fictional world in Minecraft for good. Red now fighting the urge to heavily yawn and ignoring the fact the sun was almost up. She was about to finish up her Minecraftian home with the last couple blocks of brick she had left in her inventory. She placed down three blocks of brick with her custom-modded character, but found out that she had counted wrong and there was not enough to finish up. Regrettably, now only one block of her house was missing.

"Damn it! You gotta' be kidding! Its getting dark and I don't freaking have anymore clay on me to make bricks. Wonderful." Red grumbled grouchily and glared at the unfinished space where one more block of brick was needed. "I've been working on this stupid thing for near forever. I don't even think there is any more clay left in my lake to finish it." Grumbling some more to herself she began debating whether she should take the risk and search for more clay during the Minecraft night or just wait for morning; since she had been so busy working on her house, she had forgotten to get wool to make a bed for herself. "Well, I don't have any armor on me, but I do have an iron sword, so maybe I can just go look around for some clay. I just have to watch out for mobs, specially' Creepers. I haven't really explored much of the map, anyway, so maybe it's a good idea." Red said to herself somewhat confidently as she went back into her almost complete brick Minecraft house to put away important objects. Once she did that, she ran back out with the few objects she did have on her that consisted of: an iron pickaxe, iron sword, stone shovel, map, fishing rod, four pieces of cooked cow meat, and a few torches to keep certain areas lit up.

Being in the middle of the darkening little forest she had been building her Minecraft home in. Red had her character glance down at the map, though it didn't serve very helpful, as the only parts that were visible on it were the forest she was already in, the small lake by her house, and an inconsiderable side portion of a grassland biome she had unnotably grazed the side of when she had been scavenging around for raw materials. Thinking about it very briefly, she decided to go west, it being the opposite direction of the grassland biome. Red's almost fully identical Minecraft character of herself, sprinted through the forest and soon came up to a new biome, which happened to be the desert biome. "I could probably find an ocean or some ponds around here. I hope there's clay. Maybe, if I'm lucky I'll even find a village and I can steal their stuff, muwahaha."

Red laughed maniacally to herself and then began dodging some mobs, but every so often she was forced to occasionally fight off zombies, skeletons, or spiders with her iron sword. Which in case, wasn't anything that overwhelmed her too severely. She was able to snag some bones from the skeletons, several portions of string from the spiders, and rotten flesh from the zombies (though being as she hated rotten flesh, she always discarded it off to the side as useless to her). Sprinting along the desert felt tedious as it seemed to go on forever, it wasn't until she finally found a small pond randomly out in the distance. Her character ran to it and she looked through the water to see if there were any traces of clay. Unfortunately, all there was to be seen was a lily pad and tons of sand blocks under the water. "Typical." Red rolled her eyes and turned her character away from the pond, only to find something much more interesting in the distance.

"Oh, wicked awesome! Did I just really find a temple?!" Red grinned at the thought as she charged forward, leaving the pond behind like it had never existed to begin with. She ran to the temple without sprinting to conserve stamina, but when she did arrive in front of it. It was hardly what she expected it to be, as it was only a strange looking sand formation that had looked like a temple from the distance but defiantly not up close.

"I don't really remember seeing anything like this before. The chunks here must had loaded weirdly or something. Strange." Red murmured and circled her character around the odd formation. She glanced up to the top of it to see something even more out-of-place, "Whoa, is that a red stone torch? How the hell did that get there?" Red narrowing her brown eyes at the off-putting presence of a randomly placed red stone torch, began hitting down the blocks of the sand formation to grab the red stone torch at the top. "I guess, I can use this later on for some kind of contraption." Red mused to herself before shrugging off the weird construction that she assumed had been randomly generated by mere chance. "Okay, well lets keep looking around."

Red's character ran aimlessly around the desert, trying to make out anything worth noticing or scavenging through. It wasn't until she noticed another red stone torch placed very randomly in the distance next to a few cactuses, when she stopped. Her face fell into outright confusion as she stared at the object that glowed dim in the darkness of the Minecraft world. "Another one? Okay, this is getting weird. Blue must of had trolled my server when I wasn't around." Red grumbled in annoyance as she determined that the strange occurrences had to be cleverly elaborated by her older sister, Sapphire (or Big Blue), who was asleep in her room upstairs, unlike herself. "She's not going to scare me off that easily," Red smirked to herself and was going to wander away, but noted the fact, that there was not just one red-torch there, but actually a whole trail of red torches leading in a certain direction. "What the? Blue had to do this. This is too weird to just happen by itself - but what the fuck, man! Let's see where this goes!" Red said in a "why not" tone, before following the trail. This time not bothering to pick up all the red stone torches, since there were a lot of them. "I sure, hope this stupid thing doesn't just lead me into a trap to kill me. Blue would do something that evil. I haven't died on this server yet and I'm certainly not planning on doing so any time soon."

Red pursed the mysterious trail of red stone torches, until she saw a village in the near distance that was right next to an ocean. The red stone torches went up to the outskirts of the village and came to an abrupt halt, where a sign was stuck in the dirt in front of the village. Red's character ran up to the sign. It simply read, "I'm watching".

"The fuck? That's disturbing." Red muttered and then looked back up at the village to see there was something wrong. The village was completely on fire and most of the remaining villagers were either running around or seen dead lying on their side, but they weren't disappearing away like they usually did when they died. Red sped towards the center of the burning village littered with dead villagers. There was no presence of any iron golemns around to protect them, oddly another bizarre incident, considering the iron golemns were pretty tough. "How could this happen? It hasn't even rained at any point I've played on this server. So it couldn't be a lightning strike that lit up this fire. It had to be Blue, but… I didn't even think she could do something like this unless she was currently playing the game at the same time as me - since the fire is still burning. God, this is just disturbing. How did she get the villagers to not de-spawn and just lay there like that?" Red shook her head and continued to carefully walk around the burning village. In some kind of sick and twisted way, she was kinda amused by the situation. It wasn't typical of something like this to happen, it was disturbing, sure, but the villagers were just fake video game characters with big noses. This was kinda bizarre yet… funny.

"Alright, I applaud you, Big Blue. This is quite the prank." Red sniggered and decided to go look for the blacksmithing area that always held a chest with a few supplies. 'Hopefully, the fire hadn't burned down the chest yet.' Red thought prior to finding the blacksmith half floating over the ocean. The fire was burning down the blacksmith, as well, but it looked like there was still enough left of the wooden building, that the flames had not yet scorched the chest. Red wishing she had a bucket of water to put out the fires, ran into the opening of the blacksmith and took a turn to see the chest was thankfully untouched by the occurring fire. She quickly opened it to check the inventory, but when she did, the findings were not quite what she had expected. The chest was literally maxed out full of bones and rotten flesh. "That's fucked up!" Red closed the chest and backed out of the blacksmith before the flames could reach her.

"Man, I thought I was the one with the screwed up mind. Blue has really out done herself. I'm not going to let her hear the end of this! She's a real sicko! … Huh, guess the apple actually really doesn't fall far from the tree." Red shook her head again with a small grin and shrug. "Oh, well. Hopefully, she didn't freaking burn down all the villages on this server. I'm gonna be so pissed at her if she deprived me of all my free stuff." Red now not finding much use of the village, that was surely disappearing before her eyes, continued to examine the similarly identical villagers lying dead around her. It was pretty gruesome. "She must have used some kind of mod to do that. Creepy shit, man. Why do people even make stuff like that?" Red mused to herself and never ceased to keep smirking. She went over to check to see if there were any remains of possible farming items she could still harvest in the farming beds. But they were too, all gone, all fully charred away by the wildfire. "*Why am I not surprised?" Red sighing and rolling her eyes at the loss, decided to probably head off and try and actually find materials that weren't mercilessly being burnt to oblivion.

"Onwards then. Hopefully, I won't find anything else wonky going on," Red continued to talk to herself as she had her character run off away from the village inferno and into the distance, where a jungle biome could be seen waiting anxiously for her to explore.

Though completely oblivious to our Little Red, she was from the very beginning, being stalked by her own Big Bad Wolf with ominous glowing white eyes; solely focused on her and her alone. The Big Bad Wolf remained hidden back in the depths of black shadows and billowing smoke from the massacred village. To which, she had so naively and carelessly fled away from without a morsel of hesitance or second-thought.