Author's Note: This is the first story that I have published, please leave a review if you notice something off with my writing so that I can have a second opinion :) I hope that you enjoy the story, nothing is set in stone plotwise, so if you have an OC or an idea that you would like to see in the story please leave a review or PM me.

I held my breath as the character in my most recent read approached a very climatic scene, yes it was a scene because my vivid Imagination could tell exactly what the words on the page meant, their emotion, their meaning, and even the details that weren't on the page were all brought to life in front of my very eyes. I hurried to move my mouse cursor to the "Next Chapter" button, eager to continue my vivid delve into the world that was on the screen before me.

But there was... nothing, no button to click, no author's note saying that they were tired and needed a break for a bit.

I quickly scrolled up to the top of the page, mentally cursing myself for not checking before I started. My face paled at the site in front of me, the words that I had grown to fear:

LAST UPDATE: 1+ Years Ago

Another story in which the Author had left his/her audience hanging...

Even though it was becoming frequent theme in my recent reads since I started reading Fan Fiction, every time I was torn out of a story like that it messed with that part of me that tried to fill in every last detail in the story, making my own little world where I could escape and dive into the words on the page.

I sighed, suddenly fed up with the thought of searching for another story to sink into. Now don't get me wrong, I wasn't upset with the creators of these stories, I realized that they had lives of their own to attend to, and a fan base on a site where people post everything from their own original characters in a videogame-based universe to lemon-filled stories about unrelated youtubers hooking up probably wasn't necessarily on their top list of priorities. But I at least wished that they could have said something to ease the transition between awesome story and blank silence.

I sighed again while searching for something else to do on my computer, watching a couple of short youtube videos before noticing something, a strange pop-up in the bottom right-hand side of my screen:

"Mojang has released a new update for Minecraft, would you like to download the update?"

I pondered the question in my head, while Minecraft was definitely one of my favorite games, it usually got boring pretty quickly... what with me already have completed the game on the hardest difficulty several times, even trying to make it more difficult by adding challenges such as no health regeneration or not being allowed to make a permanent base it still eventually ended up with me having beaten the ender dragon and killed the wither, leaving not much else to do except complete the advancements and dick around with Redstone, building random automation machines or complex mob grinders.

"Sure, why not, they usually add some pretty neat things in a new update, and it HAAAS been a while since I last played," I said while moving my cursor over to the notification.

I saw three options at the bottom of the notification, "Download", "Download and launch", and "Maybe later". I chuckled, noticing that there wasn't an option to simply refuse the update, before clicking on the "Download and launch" button in the middle.

I watched as the Minecraft Launcher popped up at my screen, displaying a progress bar at the bottom that displayed how large the update was. I glanced at the update size expecting to see a number along the lines of a couple hundred Megabytes or at most a Gigabyte or two. That's why my eyes widened when I saw the status above the progress bar:

"10 MB / 500 GB downloaded, 0.00002% Complete"

I analyzed the Letters on the screen carefully, making sure that I wasn't confusing a G for an M, after a couple of seconds, I came to the realization that this was going to take a while even with my high-speed connection. This was the point that my stomach started to complain about a lack of food with a loud growl.

"Guess I had better go make something to eat while this downloads... it will probably take at least an hour or two," I said while getting up from my chair and walking toward the kitchen.

I walked into the kitchen and caught a glimpse of my self in the reflection of the sliding glass doors that lead outside... I was a mess. I pondered when the last time I left the room was, trying to think back to when I started the story that I had just been cut off from. Finding that I could not remember when I had first entered my computer room, I stopped to reconsider what I should do before hopping back into the computer chair for probably another long time.

Making a decision I headed to my bathroom instead, as being rid of the sudden growing awareness of how greasy my hair was slowly becoming the top priority in my list of basic bodily cares such as eating and sleeping. I turned the faucet on in the shower to let it warm up before stripping out of my however long it has been since I got on computer-old clothes and taking a look at myself in the mirror.

I am a 5'11'', white male, I have always been little self-conscious about my appearance so I did work out every once in a while, not enough to actually gain wash-board abs mind you, but enough that I had a slightly muscular physique and was by no means overweight, I moved my view upwards to take note of my face, finding two green-brown eyes staring back at me on what was apparently a decently attractive face (or so I had been told, I personally didn't see it) with about 10 days worth of unshaved face, looks like it was time to shave as well. I took a final look at my dark-brown hair, which was just about due for a trim as it was starting to touch my ears, before hopping into the shower.

After the shower, I shaved with my shaving cream and razor(since electric razors always made my break-out) slipped on a pair of sweatpants and a short-sleeved shirt and headed back into the kitchen to fix myself something to eat.

Looking into the fridge, I noticed that I had eggs, ham, bell peppers, onions, cheese, and several other ingredients to make one of my favorite things to cook, an omelet. After cutting up the bell pepper, onion, and some ham, I cracked three eggs into a large bowl and beat them with a fork with a practiced motion that I had done many, many times over the years. I pulled out a large frying pan and buttered it up with a stick of butter before pouring the egg in with a satisfying sizzle. After letting it sit for a bit, I picked up the pan and jerked it so that the now half-cooked egg flipped to the other side, I quickly used my knife and scraped the ingredients onto the middle of the egg-shell, also adding a bit of cheese, before using a spatula to fold the egg over on itself, trapping the chopped ingredients in the middle. Once the ingredients in the egg were nice and toasty, I used the spatula to pass the omelet onto the waiting plate and walked back to my computer room.

With a now half-eaten omelet on my plate, I checked on the progress of the update, making my screensaver vanish by jiggling the mouse a little bit, before noticing that the lock screen was enabled because I had been away from the computer for a while. Silently reminding myself that I needed to change that setting since I was no longer living with others, I entered my password and was greeted with the title screen of Minecraft.

I quickly finished my omelet, surprised that it had downloaded in the time I was gone, and clicked the Singleplayer button. I saw a long list of worlds that I had loaded up in the past, several of the named something along the lines of "Messing around in " since I mostly created world nowadays to see what was introduced in the new updates. All of the prementioned worlds had the words, "outdated version" on them, confirming that I was indeed in a new version.

I clicked Create New World and scrolled through the game modes, trying to find Hardcore but stumbling across a new one:

"Diehard mode huh?" I said to myself, surprised that such a game mode was added into the game, though after reminding myself about the 500 Gig update I figured that this was probably a small change. I quickly read the description below the game mode:

"A new mode in which the player must use all of their Survival knowledge to survive, with a difficulty beyond Hard, and with several slight changes to the graphics, mobs, and game mechanics, only the most prepared Minecrafters should choose this difficulty"

My eyes lit up as I read the description, this was exactly what Minecraft needed for my interest in the game to be rekindled. I quickly clicked on the "More World Options" button at the bottom, only to be met with completely locked options:

Generate structures: ON

World Type: DieHard

Allow Cheats: OFF

Bonus Chest: ON

I blinked, surprised at the lack of options presented to me, and clicked back the main "Create New World" screen. I paused to think of a name, deciding that in respect to the new game mode I would at least try to be original when a name popped into my head:

"My Demise" It seemed fitting since the new difficulty appeared to have quite the buildup, I really hoped that it wouldn't disappoint me. I clicked the "Create New World" button and waited for the program to begin generating the terrain... I watched as the percentage slowly went up, surprised that my computer was taking this long to load.

25%

40%

68%

89%

99%

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The game window closed, showing me my desktop. I blinked for a moment and assumed that the game crashed, I began to move my mouse cursor back toward the Minecraft launcher icon when something strange happened:

The Minecraft window reopened and displayed a single message with two options:

"ARE YOU READY?"

YES-NO

Me, frustrated that the game developers would add in this type of confirmation just for creating a world, quickly pressed the YES button. I watched as the purple nether portal image began to spiral out from the center of the screen, slowly expanding toward the edges of the monitor, before continuing past the edge a little bit.

"What the hell?" I questioned as I took a closer look. It looked like the portal was actually 3 dimensional and sitting on my monitor, rather than being an image on the screen. Me, being the stupid and curious person that I am, decided to attempt to stick my hand through the portal slowly.

As soon as my fingers touched the swirling purple mass, I felt a strong pull and a wave of nausea caused me to fall out of my chair and onto the floor consequently pulling my fingers back out. It took me a moment, but I finally got my bearings and stood up.

Now, most people would take this as a situation to turn off the computer, call the government, or simply chuck the thing out the window, I, however, became excited at the idea to enter into a Minecraft world just like the Fan Fictions that I had become such a fan of. I quickly ran to my room and packed a few essentials, I put my toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, shaving cream, shampoo, conditioner, and body wash into a travel bag, which I stuffed into a small duffel bag that I had put a couple extra sets of clothes into. I walked back into my room, ready to go on an adventure when I was greeted by the sight of the now larger portal still slowly expanding as if it was hungry for something to enter its gaping maw. I happily obliged, hesitating only for a few seconds before grabbing a kitchen knife and a couple cooking utensils from the kitchen and dolphin diving through the portal to another world.

Author's Note: I hope that you enjoyed the first chapter of my story, I am sorry if it seems a little short, but I hope to counter-act that by releasing chapters more often than your average story. Please leave a review if you liked, and feel free to give some supportive criticism if you didn't, I hope to improve my writing so that the people who read can better enjoy it after all :)

Till next time, I hope you have a wonderful day/night *Bows out*