Authors Note: This story is rated T primarily for (somewhat) serious violence. There is NO cursing or suggestive themes. Also, understand that the words spoken by players are occasionally and deliberately misspelled, since they are real people typing what their characters say. This is told from the characters points of view, not the players. The characters may know what usernames are, but they do not know they are in a game.

I will try to update this story as often as I can. Now that my ramblings over, I give you:

The Blocky Tale of Blake

[-I-] Chapter One [-I-]

A rush of colors, a blinding flash of light, and then… Darkness.

This is how the player called XBlakeDanceX spawned. XBlakeDanceX stood still for a moment, and then slowly turned around, making a full 360. This particular multiplayer server seemed to be mostly comprised of forest biomes. Far off to the west was a vast desert, but aside from that XBlakeDanceX couldn't see any variety in the biomes. Perhaps a change in perspective would assist him.

XBlakeDanceX began walking further into the forest and noticed another player chopping down an oak tree. The players' skin was very interesting: The player appeared to be a brown eyed "Steve" with black robes. XBlakeDanceX could easily see by the floating name that the players name was "Willkill". XBlakeDanceX walked over to the new player, and tapped Willkill on the shoulder.

"Hello their. How r u?" XBlakeDanceX said.

Willkill turned around, noticed XBlakeDanceX and replied: "I'm quite fine, thank you. Are you new to the server?"

"I am nuss." XBlakeDanceX said, and then quickly realized his mistake. "I mean I am, yes."

Willkill smiled knowingly. "Typo?"

"Typo."

Willkill laughed, and picked up two wooden logs. "Do you mind if I call you Blake? XBlakeDanceX is a bit long."

Blake nodded his approval. "And can I call you Will?"

Will nodded as well. "You may. Nice skin by the way."

Blake looked at himself and had to agree. Blake wore a skin he made himself, and was justifiably proud with the results. Blakes skin was that of a long haired man with green eyes and light chainmail armor. Attached to the right side of his body was a sheathed throwing knife.

Will placed the wooden logs into his inventory, and put away his hatchet. "Alright, now that we're done, do you mind if I take you to our spaw- I mean stronghold?"

"Sure as shurikens" Blake said joyfully.

And so Will walked through the dense forest with Blake following. Will cast a look over his shoulders every few minutes to make sure Blake hadn't fallen behind. After about six minutes of walking they arrived at the top of a relatively tall hill. Directly below them was a huge, enclosed spawn area.

Blake couldn't believe his eyes.

The spawn area was filled with wooden villages, cobblestone walls and towers, and perhaps the most intricate castle he had ever laid eyes on.

Will saw Blakes shocked face and laughed. "Our forest stronghold is pretty impressive, but it's even better up close. Come on, I'll show you!"

Will began sprinting down the hill and towards the clearing, with Blake in close pursuit.

Several npc villagers wandered aimlessly around the village, while even more real players performed a variety of activities. Blake saw several players fishing, cutting trees, building houses, and farming wheat.

Oddly enough, the majority of the players were instead surfacing from a gargantuan mining entrance, and handing cobblestone to a second team of players. The second team ran towards the walls and beefed them up with even more cobblestone, so that the most complete walls were twenty blocks thick and thirty blocks high.

Blake wondered about this phenomenon for a moment, but his thoughts were cut short when Will spoke up.

"Alright Blake, we're at the portcullis. You're a new player so the guards don't know you yet. Don't worry though, I'll get us inside."

Will and Blake arrived at the portcullis, which in reality was a gate filled with gravel. Blake noted with some interest the gravel wall had to be at least twenty blocks thick to match the rest of the wall.

"Where are the guards?" Blake wondered aloud.

"We're in here!" Said a disembodied voice.

Blake turned around wildly to see where the voice had come from. Will grabbed Blake by the shoulders and gently turned him back towards the portcullis. Blake scoured the area for a moment, and then realized where the guards were.

Next to the portcullis was a very short watchtower that stuck out from the wall. The structure was built out of cobblestone, and was completely enclosed from the outside, were it not for one missing block.

Blake looked through the gap in the structure, and saw a guards face.

The guard wore a sack over his head with only two slits for his bright blue eyes to peer out of. The guard tried to give him an annoyed look, then realizing he was wearing a mask, spoke instead.

"Look buddy, you can't enter the stronghold. It says here that you literally just spawned, and what's even worse it looks like you didn't even spawn in the correct spawning area. You know what that means don't you?"

Blake shook his head "no".

"Well it means that you ar-

"Hey buddy look its will i need to get in plz." Will shouted. Blake noted that Will had spoken so fast he hadn't even managed to spell correctly.

The guard looked past Blakes head and saw Will. The guard looked over to the lever on his right, and then looked back at Will.

Will shook his head from behind Blake and made a "Try it and you're dead" gesture by drawing his thumb across his neck.

The guard sighed, pushed a button to his left instead of pulling the lever.

Blake heard the sound of pistons pushing back and forth and the faint buzz of redstone, then watched in astonishment as the gravel wall fell into the earth.

Will gave Blake a friendly shove towards the spawn area.

"Alright Blake," Will said, "Go on into the spawn area. Try to find a building made of purple and dark blue wool. Stay inside the building. I have a few jobs to take care of, then I'll join you at the place I just mentioned. See you soon."

Blake nodded his understanding, and then sprinted into the spawn area.

After Blake left, Will turned back towards the guard.

"Listen to me and listen well. If you screw up again, I'll make sure you have a nasty little "accident". It would be a shame if you were to trip and fall into the Spider pit…"

The guard shuddered and nodded. "It won't happen again Prince William!"

The prince nodded, and walked into the spawn area as the gravel wall behind him rose back up, and hit the cobblestone frame with a resounding CLINK.

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