~Enderman 1~

It's cold. It's dark. Where am I? I feel like the air in my lungs is being squeezed out, yet I don't feel out of breath. Even when I open my eyes I see nothing. I tried waiting for my eyes to adjust to the dark but no matter how long I wait it's still as dark as when I first arrived.

This feeling is...? Water? No, it's air? It feels like a soft substance is enveloping me. After feeling my body(if what I feel can be considered as a body), I found that I can kind of swim around this substance. Since I have nothing else to do, I'll do one of the only things I'm good at: swimming.

To stave of my boredom I tried swimming around in this dark space. Even though I have no sense of up or down, left or right, front or back, over time I was able to navigate in this space. Slowly I'm becoming more and more proficient in swimming here.

After a while, I started to notice something weird. I noticed that in the area I was swimming towards, there were darker spots. How is it possible? In this pitch black room, how can spots be even darker? No, orbs or balls might be a better way to describe them. No matter how impossible I think it is, the black orbs floating around me are still there. They pop out like a light gray spot on a white canvas, not much different but still discernible.

I tried to avoid these dark balls as much as possible, but I still get hit by a few. Surprisingly it doesn't hurt me, on the contrary it actually give me a sort of energy boost. With this in mind I started to eat more and more of these dark balls.

Whenever I've eaten everything in the area, I swim away and look for more balls in another area. After some time I notice that some balls are darker than others. It made me curious as how could it get even darker than that.

At one point I figured out that there was a direction of the source the dark black balls. It seems whenever I swim closer here the balls around me get darker. So with eating higher quality darkness in mind, I swam towards the source.

Even after swimming for a long time, it seemed like the source is still quite far from me. After a while, I saw the source in the distance, probably the darkest orb I've seen in my life. I stopped eating the orbs around me and quickly swam to the darkest orb. The darkest orb must be even more delicious than the ones around me.

Swimming frantically, I tried to catch up with the orb, but whenever I thought that I got closer, it seemed farther instead. I didn't give up, instead I swam even faster. I found that when I tried swim faster than my limit, I shoot forward a long distance. Whenever I did this it depleted the dark energy I stored inside me. I decided in an instant that getting there in exchange for all of my accumulated dark energy is completely worth it.

With that I shot forward, with speeds that I felt was humanly impossible. As I shoot forward, I felt the energy within me draining. I don't know why, but I could even somehow gauge how much I have left. Even after a half of my energy used, the orb is still far away. But when I had a quarter of my energy left, I noticed that this time I really was getting closer! Getting excited I went even faster. With an eighth left I closed the distance. With a sixteenth left I felt for the first time my body being hurt. It felt as if it was ripping apart. With an even smaller fraction I felt that my body was destroyed, yet I'm still moving forward. With a hundredth of my energy, I saw it. The darkest orb I've seen, in front of me. All of this realistically happened in a second, but to me it felt like an eternity. With on last push, I reached out my hand to touch it.

In an instant everything went an even deeper black. It felt as if all this time my eyes were opened, and now they're suddenly forced closed. It was as if I was being blindfolded, yet also it felt like chains were being broken. It felt like I was falling asleep.

For how long I was kept "asleep" I don't know, but the first change I saw was color. Suddenly my field of view flashed a bright purple, or rather a dark pink. Within another second it faded away, and everything returned to darkness. But this darkness was different. It was as if my eyes were closed.

With a little bit of effort, I tried opening my eyes. When I opened them, I received a flash of white light. It took my eyes a bit to adjust. When I got back my vision, I found myself looking at a bright white ball surround by dots of white sparkling beside it.

"It's the moon..."

With a low mutter, I said those words.

After a while my hearing started to return to me. The first thing I heard was rushing water, more likely the sound of a waterfall. Then I heard leaves rustling, wind whistling, and the far away squeaking noises of bats.

I looked around and found myself at the base of a waterfall, with a wide forest covering the whole area. I walked towards the river, hoping to wash my face. The moment I touched the water, my hand felt like it was melting, as if it was burning inside of a furnace. I quickly pulled out my hand out of the water and took a few steps back.

It was just now that I noticed my hands. Pitch black, and extremely thin. I looked at my body and legs and it was the same, pitch black and extremely thin. I went near the water and looked at my reflection. A head, a pitch black head. It had glowing purple eyes, and a mouth that seemed to extend to the back of the head.

I laughed while asking myself. "An Enderman?"

I couldn't hold back my laughter. It was too funny! To think that I would become an Enderman! I've transported into Minecraft! And as an Enderman at that!

But slowly, while I laughed, my memories came back to me. I was a swimmer, and it the competition was just around the corner. It was gonna be my chance to become another record holder. Even if it was just for the high school division it still meant a lot to me. But just a week before the competition I had a seizure. Without me even realizing what happened, it all just suddenly ended.

My hysterical laughing slowly turned into hysterical screaming. I died just like that? Without even accomplishing a single thing? Despair slowly filled my mind. When I tried calming myself down, my experience in that dark space suddenly became more vivid than ever before. It was only now that I sensed how really long I was in that place. Only now I felt the despair that I should've felt when I first died. After I died I was sent to that place to wander aimlessly. The emotional burden of being alone for hundreds of years finally broke me.

That night, only the agonizing screams of a rabid Enderman could be heard throughout the forest.