Chapter One: It's Only the Beginning. (edited)
Author's Note: I've been editing everything about the story, I wrote it… I don't even know how long ago, and there were a lot of grammatical errors in it. I hated it, so much. But you know what? I thought to my self- "Hey, if I hate it so much, why not edit it when I get my laptop?" And so I did, adding better separation so you know which of the characters are talking/thinking/doing. I'm really sorry to all the people who were reading this and didn't get to finish it. I'm just fixing up a lot of things. I was using the computers at my school for a while to type it out, but now that I'm in college and have to earn money to pay for the electricity, phone, food, water, and especially internet (biggest one), I've had NO time for anything. But now, I hope you all enjoi the "new" Minecraft Fault. You're author: Buddy
Maurice
I love summer! Maurice thought to himself. He'd been up for maybe a day and a half playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. His friends of course, were probably spending most of their time outside, being the flirts they were.
Much to his amazement, he got a text from his from one of those friends asking him to come over. Maurice punched in keys asking "why?". although he didn't have much to do, he still wondered.
Instead of waiting for a reply, he pulled on his shoes, grabbed his keys, and headed for the door when someone stopped him.
"Where you headin'?" asked his dad, smiling. Maurice had recently gained a girlfriend and was actually just a little surprised. Danelle, or Dee, as he took to calling her, didn't shoot him down as expected when he'd asked her out. The reasons for that expectation; he was a little on the heavy side, short, smart, and a little asocial. Though he has two things going for him, he was nice and he knew how to make someone feel good. "Heading over to Wills house, why?" he finally replied, although he already knew why. From his dad's playful smirk on his face, it wasn't hard to tell what he was implying. "Okay, have fun! Just stay out of trouble and don't die." His dad said with a smile.
Maurice simply rolled his eyes and turned, earning a scolding look for the action, or so he assumed as he walked out the door.
Maurice, Will, and Lauren
He was at Wills place, the usual smell of his moms baking filled his nose. It wasn't a very long drive, but the traffic plus the lack of sleep of the previous day, it agitated him just a little.
As usual, before he could even knock on the door, Wills mom opened the it.
"Hey! Will's upstairs." Wills hyperactive mother (given the nickname "pinkie pie") shouted in his face. Even more usually, the excess happiness and energy that radiated from Wills mom stuck to everything in the room, including people. "Hey, how's it goin' Ms. Anna?" he asked, feeling slightly more energized and less agitated. "Great! Oh you're here to see Will, right? If so, just head upstairs." she finished with a big smile on her face and a finger pointing to the stairs. "Okay, thanks." Maurice replied with a slight smile on his face while climbing up the stairs. Something felt… off about the hallway as Maurice walked down it, compared to the usual sound of video games or him talking on the phone, but the feeling of something wrong diminished as he stepped in.
Of course, as mentioned earlier Will, being the flirt he was, was busy having a tongue of a girl shoved down his throat. Maurice cleared his own and their eyes shot open out of surprise of being caught mid-action. The girl was the firs to recover. "Hi, I'm Lauren. I'm sorry about the… situation that you had to walk in to." She said, head down and face red with embarrassment, she looked back up, regaining some of her composure. "And you are?" she finished, trying to force an awkward smile.
"Umm… hey, I'm Maurice, Wills friend-" Before he could finish, she stuck her hand out and Maurice shook it. "I've heard about you, you're one of his best friends, apparently." she said shocking Maurice.
Maurice was impressed, Will had actually mentioned him, apparently. He must have shown the impressed look on his face, because she looked like she was going to say what he was thinking.
"Anyways," Maurice started before she could, breaking the awkward silence. "what'd you need me for, it seemed as if you were all set." he said, pulling a sly smile towards Will, who had shot him an embarrassed glare. "well, since you so kindly want to know. I sent an invite to Lauren, Josh, Steve, you, and Dee to play Tech-it." he said, clearly embarrassed. "But somebody started hacking me and sent a file called 'The Minecraft Fault', and I wanted to see if it was safe to open, and if you could stop the hack."
He looked to his computer, nodding. Maurice, as always when something like this happened to one of his broskys, walked over to the hacked machine, ready to reverse hack the person who is hacking his bro. Unfortunately, the pointer started moving on it's own, making Maurice jump and worry. He'd never seen that kind of hack before, except in movies and stuff like that.
He'd have to stop it by key combinations. After awhile of trying, nothing was working. The other two from inside of the room were watching the event go down from behind his shoulder.
As the event was occurring, the pointer had ended up clicking the open file button, it was a download file. Maurice had tried everything, from using the key combinations to turning the computer off, even by the plug. Maurice was pissed. Nothing was working!
What is this person doing! They can't possibly know how to do this if I can't! I've made my own hack styles for Christ's sake! Maybe the file isn't that bad at all-. Maurice didn't get to finish his thought at all. The file had finished downloading and a white flash filled the room, as the feeling of his body contorting painfully made him black out.
Dee, and Steve
Dee and her brother, Steve, had gotten an invite from Will. There was a download file that was entitled "The Minecraft Fault". They had come to a conclusion that it was a map Will had made.
"We should eat dinner first, then we can play it." Dee suggested, Steve just shrugged and went to the table. Their parents were to be so kind as to have left spaghetti for them before they went to work.
They sat down the spaghetti already have been heated, and started eating. I wonder what Maurice is up too? Dee asked herself, feeling a little heat in her cheeks for thinking of skipping the game for her boyfriend. He probably got invited, too. She nodded in affirmation to the thought, which didn't go unnoticed by Steve.
"What's up?" he asked, snapping Dee out of her little trance. "Oh…" she said, feeling a little more heat pecking at her face, which also, Steve noticed.
"It's okay, he probably got invited, too." He said blankly, surprising Dee. To her relief, he didn't push it any further. He probably didn't want to, considering he had to be carried to the hospital after dislocating his knee practicing the French art of running away.
"How'd you know I was thinking that?" Dee asked in complete and utter confusion. He is her brother, but surely he didn't care about that part of her life.
"Well, first of all…" He started, one finger in the air giving he best drunk look. "…you stared into space, and second, you blushed, thirdly, given the recent events in your personal part of your life with… Maurice, right?" He paused, gaining an approved nod from his confused sister. "I put two and two together given that the game might not be his style is concerning you, and how you blushed after looking up, too. You were worried he might be playing." He finally finished with a triumphant smile and the drunken expression with a finger pointed at her sloppily.
The impressed yet confused look pleased Steve to no extent, and they finished their spaghetti without much more to say to each other.
After they finished their dinner, Steve grabbed his laptop as did Dee. They both clicked the open file button to bring it up and download it. Then they noticed that the pointer was moving on it's own towards the download file button.
"Dee, my pointer's moving on its own…" Steve said, fear creeping into is voice. "Mine, too…" She replied.
The way she and Steve knew it, they were being hacked, but before they could do anything about it, the file was downloading. They sat there in shocked silence, then the worst came to the worst. There was a flash and the two disappeared.
They had no idea that the pain from the contortion of their bodies would be the absolute least of their problems.