Hello people! I finally got Ch. 2 done! It's pretty much just a filler, the action will come later, probably in Ch 4 or 5.
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jetray790- Thanks for being my first reviewer! I'll try to keep up with it as much as I can! Pokémon Platinum will probably slow me down, though; I just got it for Christmas and it's really fun.
EDIT: Changed a bit of Ch. 2, deleted the fact that she can't remember life on Earth anymore. She still can now.
Chapter 2: A HorrENDous Discovery
"Ugh..."
A faint breeze blew on my face, and I heard the sound of waves somewhere in the distance. Where was I? I opened my eyes, and realized I was laying in sand, because my face was right in it. Knees wobbling, I stood up, brushed the grains out of my eyes, and looked around. There were hills in the distance, and there was a forest behind me. The trees were made out of... cubes?
Was I inside Minecraft?
"Mooooooooo!" I turned around and saw a rectangular cow turn its rectangular snout toward me.
"Moo?" It mooed, tilting its rectangular head.
...I guess I was.
I sat down, trying to get this through my head. If I was in Minecraft, then I would have to learn how to live in the world and survive in it. I would have to learn how to gather food and water, and get supplies to build a shelter. Not to mention hunting animals to eat, and cooking them long enough to not get poisoned.
Now that I thought about it, I didn't feel thirsty. I was definitely hungry, but I really didn't feel thirsty at all. Odd.
So... what was it that you needed to do first? Claire's tutorial of how to play Minecraft went through my head.
"Now, the first thing you want to do is collect wood. Wood is the base of all things in Minecraft."
But how would I do that? I didn't have an axe, or anything! I couldn't seem to remember how she got the wood! "Argh! Why me?" I yelled in frustration, punching a square tree out of anger.
The block I had punched popped off and shrunk, levitating a few inches above the ground. I looked at it, and it zoomed toward me.
"GAH!" I shrieked, jumping back and flailing my arms wildly so it wouldn't attack me. It flew over my head and... into my back? I turned around, and realized I was wearing a black backpack. Why didn't I see that before?
I opened one of the zippers and found the tiny wood cube sitting inside. Getting an idea, I set the backpack on the ground and began punching the tree as hard as I could. More blocks rained down, so I kept punching it until the entire trunk was in my backpack. It would've taken a lumberjack almost 15 minutes to do what I just did! I didn't know whether to feel proud or feel like a superhero.
I ran around in circles, punching every log in sight, and eventually, I had about 10 blocks in my bag. So how do you craft them into wooden planks? I opened up the front zipper of my bag, and there was an odd marking, like a 4x4 grid with a square to the right of it. Was that the little crafting window Claire showed me? I decided to test it by taking my block of wood and...
Huh? There was a little white "10" to the right of it. What did that mean; log to the 10th power? I thought for a moment, then I remembered. It meant I had 10 blocks of wood. But how would I split them? I took my hand and flicked it, making a log burst out of the cube and land on the grid. I did that twice more, so the number on the log became a 7. A picture popped up on the square next to the grid; it looked like wooden planks. Claire's tutorial coming back to me, I made sticks, and a bunch of tools: a sword, an axe, a pick, and a shovel. A hoe (ha ha.) wouldn't be much use to me now.
My stomach rumbled, and I swallowed, realizing how absolutely starving I was. Licking my lips, I looked around for something to eat.
"Oink!"
My head whipped around, and I spotted a lone pig trotting around next to the water. I was never a really sensitive person; I would fry ants with a magnifying glass if I was bored, or squish a spider if it bothered me. So I took my wooden sword, and hid behind a tree, waiting for the pig to stop looking at me.
Eventually, the pink animal grew bored with watching me hide and began to bounce away, carefree and clueless. Before it could go far, I leaped out and stabbed it in the back. Back in my carefree days on Earth, I had never actually held a sword, let alone used one, so I didn't know how to kill things swiftly and painlessly.
Because of that, the pig screeched in pain, writhing around on the grass like a dying animal, because, well, it was one. I stared at it painfully, feeling bad that I had to cause it this much agony. I tried to finish the job by slashing my sword across its throat like the assassins I saw in movies. It worked; the pig's eyes glazed over, blood oozing out of the thin cut around its neck. It disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving behind a porkchop.
I didn't care that it wasn't cooked. I was so hungry I would've eaten the tree I cut down. I dug into it, ripping off every chunk of meat I could wrap my mouth around. Even though it was raw, it didn't taste half bad.
I finished eating the porkchop, then I looked at the sun, and realized I couldn't see it anymore. It was too late to make a shelter! I was going to get eaten if I didn't do something!
I grabbed my shovel and dug a hole three blocks down. I jumped into it, and grabbed my small block of dirt. I flicked it up, and a cube of dirt flew up and grew, filling in the hole. Just in time too; I could hear groans from the zombies, and spidery hisses.
I wrapped my arms around my legs, now too scared to go to sleep. I couldn't see worth beans, and the zombies only made it worse.
Suddenly, I felt footsteps on the block on top of me, then a frantic patter of feet. I immediately knew it was a creeper. I've never actually heard their hisses before, but I guess my brain had gotten tuned to this world.
Anyway, it sounded like the creeper was trying to dig through the block atop of me. I could feel dirt beginning to fall into my eyes as it got closer to me, closer to killing me...
WHOOOOOOOOSH!
Suddenly, I heard what sounded like a burst of energy and a loud crack. With a hiss, I heard the creeper die. Had something, or someone, killed it to save me? I broke the block above me and peeked out of the hole. The moonlight lit up the forest, and for a split second, I saw a flash of purple.
Then, it was gone.
I longed to chase after whatever it was, but I heard more zombies coming curiously to my hole, so I ducked back down, closed up my little hidey-hole, and fell into a nervous, jumpy sleep.
~(|)~
"Is she going to be okay, Auntie?"
Claire and Cameron stood above the limp body of their cousin, who was sitting in a hospital bed, unmoving.
Their aunt said nothing, her face still lined with tears. Her daughter, according to the bewildered doctors, was in a coma; how it had happened was unknown. When Claire explained that she collapsed while she was playing Minecraft, the doctors only said that was irrelevant and had nothing to do with her symptoms.
How very wrong they were.
Claire sat down and opened her laptop, not saying anything. She started up Minecraft and clicked on Adeline's world with shaking fingers. Would she go into a coma too? Or worse? The game began to load and...
...Nothing happened. In fact, a popup appeared, saying that the world was corrupted and could not be opened. It asked if she wanted to close the game or restart it. Losing all hope to save her cousin and be the hero, Claire gave a shaky sigh, closed Minecraft, and logged into her Facebook...
Like my little marking/break thingy? It's an Eye of Ender! :D
So...There! Ch 2 is done! I don't think it's as long as Ch 1, but again, it's just a filler. It's pretty obvious what the flash of purple is, but you won't see it again for a while. I might put it briefly in Ch 3, but other than that, it won't appear for a long time.
Give me some suggestions, faithful reviewers! (Or, currently, reviewer). What kind of stuff should I put in TMD? She WILL have pets, I already know that, and she's going to meet another person or two. I have a lot of plans already. I might make a sidestory or two about her doing a bunch of mods. Like the Aether and such. Because the Aether is awesome.
See you guys in Ch. 3!
~FMF