Disclaimer: I don't own Minecraft or any of it's works, only my charcters.

A/N: Hey guys, been long since I updated something on the site, well I got a gripped by Minecaft and quickly set off to write one fic. Well, R&R.

There and Back

Chapter 1

Out of Service

Eric sighed as he looked beyond. Zombie Pigmen with golden swords kept groaning in pain far off in the distance beneath the large stalactites of Glowstone and Netherrack. His body sore, Eric decided to take a seat on one of the many ledges of the Nether. He tried to peer into the distance in an attempt to find something but found only more rising smoke and red fog.

He reached for something in his backpack. Shortly after, his prohstetic metal arm, took out a gleaming cyan diamond. Faint streaks of red formed it's core. Eric couldn't help but grimace at the precious gem in his metal hand and swiftly threw it into the large sea of lava underneath the ledge just a few metres down.

"Go to hell." Eric grumbled before picking up his backpack and continued forward in search of a way out.

"Eric! Cmon man!" Jake waved with his iron pickaxe in anticipation while sitting in the minecart. His black curly hair swayed at the motion.

"Coming!" Eric moaned as he finally found what he was looking for and walked towards his friend. What many people found strange about the young man is his metal left arm. It didn't bug him that much when people whispered about the reasons why he has a prosthetic, many stories were so bogus that he even laughed.

Despite the horrible fact the his arm is gone, Eric still carries a youthfull smile. Several streaks of gray spanned across his short brown hair.

"We have finally reached the 16 level! I bet there is just a motherload of those little bastards just waiting for us to pick em!" Jake squealed in delight as the picture formed in his mind. Eric and Jake have been prodigy prospectors ever since they could wield a pickaxe right. A passion they shared, in a mine you wouldn't find one of them alone without the other. The townspeople called them The Iron Pick Twins.

Eric just rolled his eyes at his friend's childishness and climbed into the small minecart. After several months of digging through several layers of hard stone and several caves filled with various denizens, the two friends finally reached the fabled level 16 that is supposed to contain the most diamonds and other riches. It took them another half a month to set up a plausible railroad to the bottom of the large underground mine that is safe from being derailed. Jake readily released the break and held tight as the cart started to make it's way across the rail. With each second they passed several metres, Jake enjoyed the faint wind in his hair while Eric barely kept his stomach at ease, he was never a guy for great speeds.

Signs flashed by their heads; 30, 29,28,25,20... The two friends neared their destination with smiles, well with Jake smiling. Eric looked ahead and saw two long black hands reach from one of the crevices of the wall and rip the metal tracks like it was made of paper. His face turned into horror as his mind realized that their route is broken and they are approaching it fast. The only thing the young man could do is grab his friend and await their fate. Jake gaped at the hug, his jaw went slack as he saw the reason, something is missing. That is the only thing that passed through Jake's mind as he felt himself being pulled upward as the cart fell into the abbys.

A/N: Its quite short, but they will come in slightly larger packages and their updates will be almost everyday. Depends on my writing mood. The last sentence "...he felt himself being pulled upward as the cart fell into the abbys." meant that the force from the fall pulled him upward, I only realized tthis after reading it several times. Sorry for the confusion.