Minecraft – Survival of the Fittest
Chapter 2 – The Disease
Steve sat down next to the hearth inside. He moved Ender's bed close to it and put him in. 'Now tell me, Ender, what's up with you?' he asked. Ender's eyes seemed distant. 'Well, I'm fine now thanks to your help. But you're going to have to finish me off soon enough, though,' he answered.
Steve frowned. 'What in blazes are you talking about?' he asked. Ender's eyes now narrowed. 'The Endermen… They infected me. One of them put his pearl inside my mouth and made me swallow it. Now I'm turning into one of them.' Steve nodded. And that's why they call you Ender?' Ender looked at him. 'Who does?'
Steve swallowed. Everyone in this land must be dead, he thought. 'Are there any people here?' he asked. Ender shrugged. 'Don't know. Might be some people further down the south, but I'm the only one living in the mountains for as far as I know.'
Steve nodded. 'Right. We should get some sleep, though. I'm going to try and get some food tomorrow.' Ender agreed and they both went to sleep.
The next day, Steve woke up first due to horrible sounds from outside. When he looked he saw zombies and skeletons burning in the sunlight. 'What the hell kind of a world is this?' Steve said. 'Notch's world,' he heard Ender say.
Steve turned around. 'Who the hell is Notch?' he asked. Ender laughed. 'I forgot that you've never been here before. Notch is the one who Created this world. He is the Maker. He even has a Temple, but we'll get back to that later.'
'Right,' Steve said. 'Well, I'm going to get some materials to build with. Your house is quite a mess.' But Ender shook his head. 'Don't stay in my house. Dig out a mountain and make a home in there. It's the safest thing you can do if I turn.'
And Steve went out. Everywhere he looked, there were more mountains around. He himself was at the base of the highest mountain around. He rubbed his hands together. 'Right, time to get to work!' he said.
Next to Ender's house was a little shack. Steve figured he could just take tools from there. When he entered, he immediately saw an iron pickaxe, an iron axe, an iron sword and an iron hoe. He also saw some armor, but it looked more blue. He decided to take all of it and put it to good use.
When he came out of the shack, he was wearing the armor with the iron axe in his hand. The armor was light, but harder than steel. 'This is going to be easier than I thought,' Steve said to himself.
He started walking in the direction of the forest in front of the house. 'Let's hope there's no surprises for me waiting in there this time,' Steve said to himself. The first thing he did was go inside the forest where he started chopping wood. Steve left with Ender's massive bag, so it was no problem stacking all that wood in it.
Then he decided to get some stone. He went out of the forest, to the mountainside. Then he remembered what Ender said about making a home in a cave. So Steve started freerunning up the trees, over their branches, and then he jumped towards the mountain and grabbed a ledge.
From there, he kept pulling himself up until he reached a small plateau. He decided that this was where he wanted his home to be. The crafting table in his bag would come in handy for this. Steve set it down on the ground, took some tools and used the saw to turn the wood into planks.
Then he grabbed his pickaxe and started hacking away at the mountainside. Lucky for him, the stone wasn't very tough, so he managed to dig a cave of ten by ten meters in no time. He decided it would be nice to have a wooden floor, at least. So he dug out the floor and replaced everything with the wooden planks. Lastly, the cave needed to be shut and get an entrance.
Steve went back outside, picked up the crafting table and put it inside. Then he used the stone around him to make a small entrance with just enough room for a door to be placed. He took some planks and turned them into a wooden door, which he then set into the cave opening. His home was complete, for now. But he still needed a way to get down the mountain to collect resources…
He went back outside onto the plateau and took a look around. Then he saw the plateau had an area where he could easily carve out stairs. And so he did. It took him a full hour to complete all the steps, but he finally had a place he could call his own.
But now it was getting dark once again. He went back to Ender's place. When he knocked on the door, it opened. The inside of the house was empty, but Steve saw a note lying on the table in the corner.
He picked it up and started reading it. It said: 'Steve, if you're reading this, then my transformation is complete. I've turned into an Enderman and I'm now roaming around the mountains. When it rains, it hurts like hell and I have no place to stay. I don't know if I will kill you on sight or recognize you, but be prepared at all times. I've left you my bed and my flint and steel. Take them and make your cave that much more comfortable. And thank you again for saving my life. Ender.'
Steve folded up the letter and put it in his pocket. He took the flint and steel and the bed and went back to his home. He went inside just in time, because night was falling again. And he knew what happened during the night. He went out of the house and quickly sprinted to his own.
Once there, he crawled under the sheets and closed his eyes. It was time to wait out the horrors below the plateau… and to face the horrors in his mind.
That's it for chapter 2! Hope you enjoyed reading it, please leave a review and I'll see if you guys keep reading it