Hello again! I am back with the second chapter of the story. I hope this one will be better than the first, because it had too much dialogue, and I think this one will have less. Let the reading begin!

- THE ISLAND -

Something wasn't right. The tingling sensation was overwhelming me. I felt cold and something was near me, like a person. I couldn't wake up, but support the falling and the tingling.

Suddenly, I stopped, like a reached ground. I knew I didn't, because I didn't feel any pain, until I could clasp my hands. It felt like… sand? And my feet? It was like water was touching them. Suddenly, I could sense something near me. And then… I opened my eyes.

I couldn't believe it. I was on an island. I pulled myself back up and I looked around. It was… Minecraft? I was in Minecraft? I am… on an island… in Minecraft. Alone… or not!

In my left was… Iulian! He was staying on the ground with his eyes closed. But it was strange… Everything was made out of blocks, except us and the water. I ran to him and I shook him.

"Iulian! Iulian! Wake up!" I shouted.

"Wha – what?" He asked while he was rubbing his eyes.

"We are in Minecraft! On an island!" I said, panicked.

"Ha ha, nice –" He stood up and looked around. "What the heck? What? How? Where are we?" He started asking.

"In Minecraft… I suppose. I don't know more than you do, I just woke up here 2 minutes ago." I told him.

"Did you feel that sensation? That tingling and cold?" He asked me while looking around.

"Yes. How did we get here? And why?"

"I don't know. Let's see what we have. I think that we'll have to stay a bit on this island… even, maybe… forever." He said while searching his pockets.

"Strange, we wear the clothes we wore yesterday, or today, I don't know. If this is right, then here… " I said while a I got out a coin from my pocket.

"We have all the things in our clothes!" I said.

"What? A coin? In Minecraft?" Iulian asked, puzzled.

"Yes. And even better, I have…"

"What?" Iulian quickly asked.

"A seed!" I told him.

"What were you doing with a seed in your pockets?"

"Long story. Anyway, have you got anything?"

"No, absolutely nothing."

We looked at the island. We were on a long beach that was stretching all around the island, I supposed. In our front was a oak and birch forest and some plains, followed by a tall mountain in the middle of the island. Everything was sunny and green. I saw many rivers and lakes, and even more animals, which was good.

"Ok, now, we are in Minecraft. We have an inventory, I think?" I broke the silence.

"Yeah, but how do we access it?" Iulian asked.

I clenched my fist and I punched a block of sand. After some hits, it just broke and became a miniature.

"Look at this!" I said.

I neared the block of sand and it… flew inside of me.

"Umm… open inventory?" I said.

Suddenly, something obscured my vision and I saw the inventory of Minecraft! It was magic! I used my hand to click on the block of sand and it appeared in my hand.

"Wow! How did you do that? Open inventory?" Iulian said and the suddenly gasped.

"Whoa! How do I close it?" He asked.

"Well, just think about it." I answered.

"Cool, it works!" He exclaimed.

"Ok, now what? I think we should go to the mountain and see what this island offers us." I told him, and he nodded.

We started walking toward the highest point on the supposed island, because we didn't know yet if on the other side of it is more land. After 5 minutes of walking on the hot sand of the beach, we entered the much cooler forest. We heard a chicken in the distance, but didn't go after it. We both looked for melons, pumpkins or mushrooms.

After the forest, we entered a plain. It was a bit hard to walk through all the tall grass, but at least we could. We stopped to destroy the grass and take 10 seeds, after we proceeded to walk. The mountain was getting closer and closer, and we could see the snow-less taiga that was covering it very well. We entered in it after 20 minutes of walking through the plain. It was a bit coder there, but not very cold.

We started climbing. It was easy. Even if a normal block in Minecraft is a cube meter, these blocks were just half a meter long. We almost got to the top, when Iulian said:

"Yep, this is an island."

"How do you know?"

"Look there." He said, while pointing me the other part of the mountain.

It was, surely, an island. I was right; the beach circled the entire island. There was, again, some taiga, plains, a total birch forest, and a big lake. We could fish there. Near the like was a short portion of jungle. It was great. We had cocoa beans.

We climbed up for 5 minutes more, until we got to the top. It was flat, and we had an area of 25 square blocks to spare.

"We could build an observation post here." I told Iulian.

"Yeah, great idea. Let's search for food." He said and then turned his face to the plains.

I looked around to see the cows and chickens. I spotted them on the plains we went on. I could see some melons in the unexplored part of the island, and even some cocoa beans on the tallest jungle tree. I told Iulian about them and he told me that we could fish in the lake or in the sea, once we had a fishing rod.

"You know what we need for it?" I said, suddenly realizing something.

"String and sticks, why?" He said, puzzled.

"Monsters. Are they here?" I said, afraid.

"Oh, I didn't think about this yet. Well… we'll have to fight them, for sure. This night will be spent here, I think, digging a hole. But tomorrow, we should start mining and preparing for the worst. I don't know why we are here, but I am sure that this will not be a pleasuring stay." He said while looking in the distance.

"I don't know if I am just dreaming too much, but I would like, if we will spend more time, to take over the entire island. To make more shelters, big farms, and keep monsters away. To live a life like we would be the gods of this world. Like we control everything that's here. And ultimately, to get out of here by any means. I don't want to spend an eternity here. But I neither want to die here. And I don't want to lose you. We are alone here, and we must cooperate to survive. To claim this land. This island. We must survive." I said.

Iulian nodded. He almost cried, and me too. We had to survive; we couldn't live one without the other. We, together, could do impossible things, but alone, we had no chance. We had to go back.

"I already miss my family." Iulian said.

"I miss mine too. We have to do anything to go back. But firstly, we must discover why we were sent here. There is someone behind all of this." I said.

We proceeded to dig a big hole in the ground with our fists. It was easy, like we punched a mattress. Tonight, anyway, we'll sleep on the ground. I heard some sheep, but they were far away. Luckily, we still had some daylight to enjoy after we finished the primitive shelter.

"I am afraid of the monsters." Iulian whispered.

"Me too…" I told him.

"I wasn't afraid of the monsters in the game, but I think these ones will be horrible." Iulian said.

"Go and get some wood. Quick." I told him.

"Why?"

"Because monsters will spawn in our shelter if we don't get torches!"

After 10 minutes, Iulian came back with 20 logs in his hand.

"Look at how strong I am, I am carrying 3 entire trees in my hand!" He laughed.

I made a crafting table using the mini one in the inventory, and I placed it on the ground. I made a pickaxe and 2 swords, I mined some coal and then I made 4 torches. They were burning without any sparks or something, and we couldn't extinguish them, which was good. I placed them on the walls of the so called "bunker" and Iulian closed the gap that led outside.

In just 5 minutes we heard terrible moans, hisses and footsteps. We were very scared, so we didn't even move. I put another layer of dirt on the ceiling, so the spiders couldn't sense us. We stayed down and tried to sleep.

"Sebi?" Iulian requested my attention.

"Yes?"

"Are you sleeping?" he asked.

"Yes, I am sleeping now." I said a little irritated.

"Ha ha, so funny. I was wondering where we should make a house."

"By the lake or on the beach. It is very beautiful there." I answered.

"Yes, good idea. Should we make defense systems?"

"Of course. Sleep now, we'll need to be rested for tomorrow."

We both closed our eyes and fell in a deep sleep. We woke up the second day, and we didn't hear any monsters or footsteps.

"Cool, they are toast." I said and we both laughed.

We dug our way out and explored the surroundings. There were some zombies burning, and they looked completely horrible. They were just as tall as us, with torn clothes, many scratches, much blood and a disgusting face. We also saw a spider under a tree.

"You know that, during the day, spiders will attack you only when you attack them." I told Iulian.

"Cool, then, let's kill it."

We walked towards the spider with our swords in our hands. It looked like a normal spider, but it was much bigger, hairless and it had 6 red eyes. We ran at it and stabbed him as hard as we could with our wooden swords. After more consecutive stabs, it fell limp on the ground and disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving 2 miniature strings floating on the ground.

"Cool, we have 2 pieces of string." I told him. "We can make a fishing rod."

"Are you hungry?" he asked me.

"A bit. You?" I answered.

"Yes."

"So we should get something to eat, I suppose?"

We both started walking towards the plains. There, we managed to kill a chicken in one simple blow. Then, we killed another one. After we got to the beach, I made a fishing rod and started fishing. Iulian was watching it very carefully so no fish will escape. After 2 hours of fishing, we got 12 delicious fish.

"These will be enough for a long time." I said.

"Ok, now let's make a furnace and cook them." He said.

I used the pickaxe to gather some cobblestone from the ground. I made 2 full sets of cobblestone tools and swords and furnace. We cooked the fish using some coal left from yesterday night and ate 2 of them. They were delicious.

"Ok now, we should start making the first house." Iulian said when he finished his fish.

"We need lots of cobblestone and wood. I will mine and you will cut some trees, ok?"

"Ok. If I find any apples I will bring them here."

We made 2 more pickaxes and axes and went to gather supplies. Iulian went in the forest and I started mining some cobblestone in a small cave. I didn't dare to go down, it was too dangerous. I broke 2 picks and I gathered 264 pieces of cobblestone, or 4 stacks and 8 pieces. When I came back, Iulian was waiting for me.

"Hey, how much did you get?" I asked him.

"3 stacks and 40 of wood here, what about you?"

"4 stacks and 8 pieces. It is very good." I said.

We made a big, but very simple house. It was made of cobblestone, had a wood plank floor and a solid fence around it. We made more axes and got more wood, to increase the fence's size to 3 blocks tall and 2 blocks wide. We dug a trench around the house too keep the spiders and creepers away. We also mined 8 coal ores and made 32 torches that we placed around the house and on the fence.

"All good now. Tomorrow we'll make a farm and we'll add rooms to the house, it is almost night now." Iulian said.

"And make some beds. My back hurts." I added.

"For sure. Let's get in, monsters are already spawning."

We saw a creeper, and it was… creepy. It was green, had 4 disgusting legs, a slim body and a horrific face, with a permanent grin on it. We entered and tried to find a comfortable position to sleep.

We could hear moans again, but we were safe. We had to make more torches and to improve our living. We couldn't stay with the permanent fear of mobs running in our house and killing us.

"Good night, Sebi." Iulian said.

"Good night, buddy." I answered.

We closed our eyes and tried to relax. The monsters were too dumb to get to us. We had to make sure that we'll find the one that is responsible for all of this. We had to live.

That was the second chapter of the story. I hope you liked it. The next chapter will be posted tomorrow. I hope I will make them longer. Have a good day!