Chapter 1: The New but Familiar World

It's eight o'clock in the morning and I'm doing my usual routine of playing games on my computer or consoles. Sometimes I play them all at once. Today I decided to get away from the competitive play for a bit and play on survival mode Minecraft. I got a phone call from my childhood friend Sally.

"Joseph, why don't you ever go outside of your apartment and hang out once in a while." Said Sally on the other sue of the line trying to get me to go outside in that world full of lies.

"I told you before not to call me by that name and use my screen name, Helcomec. I threw that life away on graduation day."

"But we never hang out anymore. We used to play a lot with each other when we were little." She said like she was about to cry.

"Sorry, but I already decided to be a shut in with these things that will never betray me. Also, didn't I give you a key to my apartment to hang out whenever you felt like it." I told her focusing on playing Minecraft.

"I don't want to hangout in your apartment I want to hangout somewhere outside. And I'm coming over right now to make you some breakfast." She said as she hung up the phone.

I put my phone in my pocket and continued to play on Minecraft. While I was playing a pop up screen appeared. The pop up screen read that there is a new game up for some testing. It said that they wanted the top 5 gamers in the country to test it. If it's a new game that is worthy of my expertise then I wanted to try it out, so I clicked on the link and the screen turned all black. I got up from my desk and went to get my laptop and when I got back to my desk. There was a flash of light on my monitor and there was this white circle in the centre of the screen.

I wondered what it was and with all the anime that I watched I thought about this. I decided that this was a portal to somewhere but I didn't know where so I got my backpack and filled it with things I might need like weapons, food, clothes, my phone and laptop with their chargers.

I put my backpack on and went back to my desk. I clicked on the white circle on the screen and my whole room was blinded in a flash of light and the next thing I see is that I was in the middle of a plain with the sun shining in my eyes. My eyes started to burn since I was in a dark room looking at my computer screen for one whole year shut away from the rest of society. This place has a lot of blocks in it. It seems so familiar to see things like this.

I walked around for a bit and I end up at a hill where I see a full blown war going on. I don't want to be a part of this. I knew that I was going to end up somewhere but in a middle of a battlefield. There seem to be a lot of monsters fighting with humans. The humans look like they represent a clan of some kind with the way they dress. Seeing the scenery, the blocks, and the humans there I concluded that I am in the world of Minecraft. But this is not the world I remember Minecraft to be. The monsters must be invading this world from another world. I wanted to help and the thought just occurred to me what if this is a video game where I can only have one life with no game overs. This is the game of war and I am living the life of this game.