MINECRAFT: THE PURPLE ORE AND THE SHAPE-SHIFTER

By: 1up2275

NOTE: I DO NOT OWN MINECRAFT, OR ANY OF IT'S ELEMENTS, INCLUDING STEVE. THE ONLY THING I OWN IS THE STORY.

CHARACTERS (MOST ARE MADE UP):

STEVE, JOHN, TRENT, AND MYSELF. (I am a Minecraft Player. :D)

(NOTE: This is my attempt at POV fiction; in reality, it's just all the guys telling a story from my view, they're just telling it in an incredibly in-the-moment way.) (Double Note: Bolded words are meant to be vocally emphasized, such as in sarcasm or in excitement.)

Now, let's get on with the Fan-Fiction!

Chapter One: A Trip out in the Woods

(JOHN)

I was actually the first one to suggest a small trip out in the woods. We had actually just come back from a large mining expedition, if I can recall correctly, and we had discovered a large chasm with crap-loads of diamond and redstone and who-knows-what-else inside. So, we crafted some pickaxes, made some armor, stocked up on food, and got busy. Our inventories were practically about to burst when we came back, tired and low on health from all the mining and monsters. We clearly undercompensated when it came to storage when we got back; we had to construct a whole other chest room just to accommodate our findings. And, eventually, I placed our last stack of gold inside our last chest, and we all just collapsed onto our beds and plunged into a deep sleep that we had been deprived of for the past 5 Minecraft days. After that, our lives were pretty much normal again, or, normal enough, anyway; we always had SOMETHING to talk about over a dinner of pork chops and steak. Then, eventually it came up: "Hey, guys?"

Steve replied to me, "Yeah, John?"

"How about we take a little trip into the woods? Like, a camping thing, maybe?"

Trent then butted in, like usual, saying "It would give us an excuse to build another base in the woods."

1-up decided to jump in too; "True."

And so, after a bit of consideration, we were off again, and this time, we planned to make it good.

(╯°□°）╯︵)

(1-UP)

At first, I couldn't believe my ears when John of all people suggested we take a trip. I mean, maybe Trent, but John? But, then I realized...this would be a perfect time to test out my...ability, to put it nicely. You see, ever since the expidition, things have gotten a bit weird for me.

(╯°□°）╯︵*Giant Flashback*)

(╯°□°）╯︵*Flashback-Ception Flashback*)

I, foolishly, got a bit bored of listening to John's and Steve's conversations on boring things, like the explosion factor of Obsidian, or the height of Soul Sand, and decided to go off on my own for a while. Without telling the guys. I know, what was I thinking? Maybe it was that Rotten Flesh I had eaten earlier that screwed up my mind to that amount that I thought that was actually a good idea. But, back to the point, I basically started to mine a tunnel down towards layer 12, since I was mainly looking for diamond. As it turns out, I found something much more interesting. After some time mining, I got really tired, so I started to head back, sulking from my nonexisant finds, and my exhaustion. Or, I was heading back, until I saw something strange. Imbedded in the wall of my tunnel was a strange, purple ore that I had never seen before until now. How did I pass it by without noticing it? And, I never recalled the others saying anything ever about a strange ore, much less a purple one. So, out of my curiousity, and my eagerness to impress the guys with my find, I mined it. Having a diamond pickaxe, it mined relatively quickly, and was out of the wall in no time. But, what made it strange was that there was only one block. Puzzled by this new find, I held the purple stone my hand, observing it, wondering what in Minecraft this was. Suddenly, a strange, deep violet smog began oozing it's way out of the block in my hand. Startled, I quickly tried to drop the stone, but I found I just couldn't, partially due to the fact that the gas was making its way up through my nostrils, into my mouth, and inside of my system; pulling me into the darkness and making my world go black, and partially due to that I was frozen in fear. Blackness surrounded me as I finally gave in and slipped under.

(╯°□°）╯︵*Later*)

When I awoke, I found the faces of my friends above me, anxious expressions plastered on all of their faces. "Ugh...Oh, hey guys, what's up?"

"What's up?"

I gulped when this explosively came out of Steve's normally calm and straight face. I knew I was screwed, right there and then.

"Where have you been?"

"Mining..."

"Why?"

I clearly did not want to say to Steve I was bored of his talking, so I thought up a quick lie:

"Umm...I needed another diamond pickaxe, so I went to get diamond."

"You do realize that we have a stack of 13 at the base, right?"

"...Oh, uh...hehe."

Steve had a look in his eyes that simply screamed 'You are so dead' when I looked him in the eyes.

"I did find something cool though."

"What could it possibly be?"

"Well..."

I reached into my inventory, and, after a bit of fiddling around, pulled out the small purple gem, and quickly set it away from all of us.

Steve's eyes widened, and he asked "What is that?"

"I have no idea, but that's what caused me to pass out."

"Well, we'd better take it back to base and label it."

"Alright then...but be careful."

And so, we packed away the gem, and continued our expedition deeper into the ground back at the main tunnel. I thought of the gem the entire time, though. What was it?

(）╯︵*End Small Flashback and Chapter One*)