Chapter 1: The Hero
I feel an evil presence watching me, a horrible chill goes down my spine as I try to traverse through the dark cave. I can already tell that this is going to be a terrible night... the vibrations from deep below seem to support this theory. I can feel the air getting colder... screams are echoing around me. I knew this day would come... my time is up... I can only hope that some finds this message after my passing. Terraria needs a Hero.
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He slowly opened his eyes, the sun blinded him as he did so, he grunted and put his hand up to shield him from the bright light. As his eyes slowly adjusted to the brightness, and he began to make out some of the objects around him, like the trees, the flowers and... was that another man?
Indeed it was, a man with messy orange hair, a greyish green shirt, blue pants and black shoes to be exact. He did not know this yet, but this man would change his life forever, probably for the best or maybe even for the worst, nevertheless, one thing was for certain, this other man was known by all around Terraria as a Guide, he was a rather intellectual individual, but was shrouded in mystery. He knew everything there was to know about Terraria, of course knowing this made him feel a little conceited, which wasn't always a bad thing; The Guide was facing away from the man lying in the field, admiring the scenery.
The man got to his feet slowly, his body was sore, there was a sharp pain in his arms, he looked down at them, noticing the bloody scratches all over them. He rubbed his head in confusion, what had happened? Where was he? And more importantly, why was he there? He struggled to remember something, anything, but nothing came to mind other than his own name, Matt. Matt's thoughts were interrupted when the Guide noticed he was awake and ran up to greet him.
"Oh good! You're finally awake!" exclaimed the Guide excitedly; he ran up to Matt and put his hand out for a handshake.
"My name is Daniel! Your Guide!" said Daniel with a big smile.
"My... what?" asked Matt in confusion.
"Your Guide!" repeated Daniel.
"Uh... okay. Well, my name is Matt." Matt shook Daniel's hand, and immediately noticed that it was extremely sweaty. Matt quickly retracted his hand in disgust upon realising this and wiped it on his shirt.
"Oh, I apologize! It's just that you're my first Player and I'm just really excited!" explained Daniel.
Matt was getting frustrated now, "What? Your first Player? What are you talking about? Who are you? And speaking of which, where am I?!" asked Matt, starting to lose his patience now.
Daniel gasped as he realized what was going on, "Oh my! I apologize, you must be new here!"
"Again, where exactly is here?" replied Matt.
Daniel smiled and began to walk up a tall hill nearby, Matt quickly followed suite. When they reached the top, Matt was almost out of breath.
"Hey what's the deal?" gasped Matt. Matt looked up, and was immediately taken aback by the beautiful scenery.
"Welcome to Terraria," said the Guide, proudly.
Down below, flowers below bloomed in their vibrant colors, the lush, green trees shook ever so slightly in the pleasant breeze, the water seemed to glow under the sunlight, it was breathtaking; however, as Matt looked closer he noticed something strange. In the distance, he noticed the sky went from it's pleasant light blue color, to a dark purple, in fact, everything in that general area was purple, the grass, the trees, everything! Except for some flying, gray abominations he saw soaring in the purple sky. Matt was once again taken aback, not by the beautiful scenery but how it just seemed to... end there. As if there was an invisible line between amazingly beautiful landscape and the sickly purple terrain; when Daniel noticed what Matt was looking at he sighed.
"Horrible isn't it?" asked Daniel.
"Yeah, what is that place?" inquired Matt.
"The Corruption," answered Daniel.
"Huh? What's that?" repeated Matt.
"It's hard to explain... basically it's an area of pure evil that is ruled by the Eater of Worlds which slowly spreads the surrounding areas every day, turning everything it touches into more land for it's inhabitants of even purer evil," explained Daniel.
"Oh... that's bad isn't it?" asked Matt.
"Yeah, but it's okay though, because legend says that one day a Legendary Hero will arrive, put an end to the corruption, and finally bring peace to this land," continued Daniel.
"Oh, well that's a relief, and who might that be?" asked Matt.
Daniel turned to Matt, smiled, and said, "Why you of course!"
"Wait what?!" yelled Matt.
"Yup! You're the Legendary Hero! Congratulations!" exclaimed Daniel. He gave Matt a pat on the back before going back down the hill.
"Hey wait up! This has to be a mistake!" yelled Matt before chasing Daniel back down the hill.
"I don't make mistakes!" yelled Daniel from below.
Matt managed to catch back up with Daniel at the bottom of the hill, out of breath again.
"Could you not do that again?" said Matt in between breaths.
"Geez, I don't know why you're so tired, new Players are usually full of energy the first time," said Daniel.
"Look just tell me more about this Legendary Hero thing, and how you know that I'm the guy you're looking for," said Matt.
"Well, it's all right here in this book," said Daniel as he pulled a dusty, almost ancient black book out of his back pocket and began flipping through the pages, stopping once he found the page he needed to read.
Daniel cleared his throat, "It says here that 'the Legendary Hero will wake up in the middle of a field surrounded by trees not remembering a thing about his previous life except his name, the only thing remaining of his past adventures will be his scared arms, massive fatigue, and a headache'," explained Daniel.
Matt only just then managed to notice the headache he had just as Daniel mentioned it.
"Well... maybe it's just a coincidence," Matt said, in denial.
"The book also says that 'when the Hero is first told that he is the Legendary Hero of Terraria by his extremely intelligent and incredibly handsome Guide he will be in complete denial of this until the Guide in question reads him an ancient book that is pulled out of his left back pocket'," continued Daniel.
"No way it says that"
"'The Hero will then say 'no way it says that' after the guide reads him the prophecy from the ancient book. The Hero will then snatch the book from the Guide in disbelief and-'" Daniel was interrupted when Matt grabbed the book from his hands.
"'The Hero will then snatch the book from the Guide in disbelief and read these exact words before the Guide steals the book back from the Hero'," Matt sighed and gave the book back to Daniel, now knowing that he would steal it back anyway.
"Thank you," said Daniel as he took the book back from Matt.
Matt sighed and sat down on a tree stump nearby, he looked up at Daniel, who had a small smirk on his face. This guy must be insane, thought Matt. I may as well play along until I can find out what happened. Matt took a look at his surroundings; and why I'm here.
Matt got up and faced the Guide, "Okay fine, I believe you, I'm the Legendary Hero, woohoo" sighed Matt. "What should I do first?"
"Oh, I thought you'd never ask!" said Daniel excitedly, as he took out another, slightly newer, book with a light green cover and began reading from it. "Uh huh... okay, our first main objective should be to build a house," said Daniel.
Before Daniel could continue he noticed something behind Matt and smirked.
"But uh, first you should deal with the evil green jellies headed this way," said Daniel.
Matt turned around and noticed the two bouncing green blobs headed in his direction, he stepped back in horror and heard Daniel's voice behind him.
"There's a Copper Shortsword in your inventory, just so you know," said Daniel.
Matt looked back at Daniel in confusion.
"Oh sorry, I forgot you don't have your memory, just press ESC to open your inventory," said Daniel.
"What the hell is ESC?!" yelled Matt as the slimes got closer and closer.
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Welp, that's my first chapter for my first Terraria fan fiction and my first fan fiction overall! I hope you enjoyed! Sorry if it was a little short. I'll try to add more comedy in the next chapter, this one was just a starting point for my story. Hope you enjoyed!