Hello fellow readers, Deverell22 here with a brand new story to add to my list of ideas. This time, I'm tackling Minecraft, one of my favorite games to play when I'm bored. Hope you enjoy.

The Eyes Watch

Video gaming in our society nowadays is one of the most acknowledged past times of any teenage kid. From action shooters to role-playing, games of all sorts of genres are being released. However, a certain genre that isn't normally focused on too much is a genre called 'Sandbox'. Sandbox games primarily consist of games where you can build whatever you like and complete the game at your own pace. One of the most well known games with this genre is Minecraft. A game made completely in a pixilated, blocky animation, it lets players literally do whatever they want. For my friends and I, it was a great past time.

My name is Ian Evans, and if I wasn't on the computer, I could normally be seen playing Minecraft with either my friends or my girlfriend. Today was no different. It was a quiet Saturday afternoon. My girlfriend Analisa and our two friends Tia and Nicole were sitting on the couch in our living room. Me and my friends Eli and Alan were glued to the TV, deep into our world. We were down in the caves below the surface when our friend Chandler grabbed our attention over Xbox Live.

"Hey guys, have you been to the surface lately?" Chandler asked.

"Nah man, we've been underground for the past hour." I responded, mining a block of iron ore. "Why?"

"Well, I left my house and all the trees are missing leaves. I just thought someone was bored."

"That doesn't sound like something we'd do, bro. Besides, we've been down here the whole time."

"Well, maybe Eric loaded the map and tired to be funny." Eli said.

"Possibly." I said, noticing that Chandler left the game and party.

I headed down a corridor to the right and began to make another turn. When I turned right, I stopped dead. My sudden jolt caused Alan to look over to my section of the screen.

"Ian, you ok? Find diamond?" he asked.

"No, but I don't like what I found either." I said, pointing to the screen.

"What did you find?" Eli asked, looking over as well.

On my small screen was a seemingly normal corridor, except it was already lit, with Redstone torches.

"H-Herobrine?" Alan asked, terrified.

"Get out of the cave." I declared, turning my character around.

We had our characters take off towards the entrance of the mine as fast as we could. When we reached the cave entrance, we came to a stop when we saw someone ahead of us.

"Hey, Chandler, log out now." I said to the person, not noticing his missing nametag.

"Ian, Chandler's been offline for 5 minutes. He left after the trees incident." Eli said.

Suddenly, a deep, evil laughter came from the TV as the 3 screens became one. The person at the entrance looked towards us, his glowing white eyes sending shivers down our spines.

"Herobrine!" Alan yelled.

'You cannot escape me.' Herobrine said, causing us all to freeze. 'Now, you will see what I can truly do.'

Almost as quickly as it had happened, our TV went white and the Xbox shut off. The 3 of us were shivering while the girls looked at us like we were crazy.

"Ian, what was that?" Lisa finally asked, breaking the silence.

"Herobrine. A seemingly mythological code in the Minecraft database. He appears in the world and creates things that nobody has seen before. I should've figured something was off when Chandler mention the trees." Alan explained, standing up.

"Either way that was terrifying." I said, walking into the kitchen. "I never thought that he existed on Xbox or that he could talk."

"I figured he'd be on Xbox, but the talking is new." Alan said.

Suddenly, we all heard a knock on the front door. I headed out of the room and went to the door, expecting to see either my friend Austin or Eric. When I opened the door, I immediately slammed it shut, startling everyone. Eli walked out, looking at me.

"Who was at the door?" Eli asked.

"Nobody. No one is here. Don't worry about it." I said, putting my back against the door.

"Are you alright, dude?" Eli asked, everyone else walking into the room.

"Yeah, I'm just fine. Nothing to worry about."

"Who was at the door?" Tia asked, walking towards me.

"Nobody, as I said, don't worry about it." I said, laughing.

Eli, not believing me, pushed me aside and opened the door, the other 4 looking past him out the door. When, he didn't see anyone, he turned around, forgetting to close the door.

"Ian, I think you're crazy." He said, glaring at me.

Alan was looking past Eli when his eyes went wide in horror. He began to shake as he looked towards Eli.

"Hey Eli, do you happen to have any diamonds on you?" he asked.

"No, why?" Eli asked, confused.

"Good."

Before Eli could retort, all of us went dead silent when we heard a sound we never thought we would ever heard. From behind Eli came a low hiss, which slowly grew louder as it got closer. Eli turned back to see the green, pixilated Creeper standing at the door, glowing bright white as it was about to blow.

"God dammit."

-BOOM! -

Well, it was short, but it was crazy huh? Next chapter, we follow our first person in the world of blocks as they try to survive. Who will it be and who will be next? Read and Review please and let me know.