Hello readers! I have not been able to post the second chapter due to personal reasons and also please excuse my grammar. I am still bad at it but eventually I will get better. also, I plan to add a chapter weekly and I have a goal for a thousand or more words per chapter. but for now, enjoy the story! also I will have a special guest, but for now I will have to do the disclaimer.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own terraria or its occupants... except jack.
Before long the first rays of sunlight streaked through the forest lighting up the house and woke me up. I sat up, stiff as a board but, still had my flesh on my bones. I looked around the house and saw that all the torches went out during the night though, still smoldering. I also saw that the guide was still asleep, snoring away like he was in a bed. I got on my feet and went outside to explore the woods. I opened the door and sunlight beamed into my face and I squinted my eyes and headed out. Before long I found a small cave and I found myself heading for it. I went through the cave and found many clay pots. I was not sure what to do with them so I left them there. I kept walking through the cave until it became too dark to see. I drenched a stick with some gel and I scrapped it against the wall until it sparked and the torch caught fire. I kept walking through the cave and I found a strange, brown-ish orange-ish ore on the floor of the cave. I brought out my pickaxe and I started mining the ore on the ground and put it in my backpack. "That's one more question for the guide." I thought to myself.
I kept walking through the cave and I hit a dead end but, I saw a chest covered in dust. I walked up to the chest and I tried to open it but, with no luck. On the chest was a key lock but, since I had no key, I tried something else. I pulled out my axe and I brought it over my head and chopped down on the lock. The lock shattered and broke into many pieces so, I opened the chest without delay and saw a few things in it. In the chest was fifty silver coins, some light grey sticks I identified as glow sticks, and a curved stick. I put all of the items I found into my backpack and headed out of the cave.
When I reached the mouth of the cave, I saw that over the hill was an area of the forest covered in a sickly purple. I wandered into the purple forest and I saw that purple briars and mushrooms grew everywhere in the forest. I had to whack at the briars with my sword and I picked a few of the mushrooms. The strangest thing about the area was that it smelled like something died, like a dead animal rotting. I had enough of the area so I was about to walk back into the regular forest and that's when I saw it. It was a giant floating monster, the size of half my house. It had many eyes and giant pinchers near its mouth. It was a sickly grey like the forest and its skin was scaly and rough looking. It came out of a chasm I thought was a cave and it flew towards me with a speed faster than I could have thought of it flying. The only thing on my mind then was escape. So I ran as fast as my legs could carry me. The monster was soon catching up and I had no other option other than to fight the beast. It came towards me with a blood-curdling scream and bit down on my leg. I screamed as I pulled out my sword and stabbed it in one of its many eyes. The monster screamed as I pulled out my sword with one of its eye still impaled on my sword. It tried again and again to bite me in half but to no avail. Every time it got into range I swung at it with my sword but, the beast never quit and soon I was tiring down. The creature started getting more hits on me than I did on it. "Why does it still fight me? There must be easier meals then me." I thought to myself. Soon I was covered in blood of the monster and my own soon. I was tiring with my blood draining out of me and my muscles screaming at me to stop swinging my weapon. The monster sensed this and became cockier, coming in closer to bite me and bring death upon me. When the monster charged once again, I noticed that in the middle of it was a giant eye, which closed every time it charged. When it charged once more, it made a mistake, it left its eye open and I brought down my sword into the giant eye, splattering blood everywhere. The creature shrieked horribly before biting into my stomach, splattering my blood on it. I yelled in pain and twisted my sword in the monsters eye, causing it to fall to the ground in pain. I backed away from the demon and I grabbed my axe and swung it at the creature's head, chopping it off. The green gore and blood of the monster splattered all over me and I picked up the creature's body and threw it into the chasm where it came from. I then picked up its head like a grisly trophy and put it into my backpack. I prayed that the blood did not bleed through the fabric and stain it, and then I headed home.
I made it as far as the bottom of the hill of my house and blacked out. When I recovered I saw that I was in the house, on top of the table. I saw the guide sitting down in the chair a few feet away from the table, his back to me. I croaked out: "hey." And the guide turned around in the chair. "Guess you found the corruption huh?" he said. "What's that?" I asked. "The corruption is the thing that you're fighting against." He answered. "Cut the crap and tell me what it really is." I said angry. "Sheesh can't take a joke can you? The corruption is basically the evil of this world. The gods of terraria choose you for some unfathomable reason to stop the corruption and bring peace to terraria. Your basically the hero but, I'm not sure why. That's the only thing I don't know." He said with a smirk. "Wait a minute, how did you know I was in the corruption?" I said. "this." He said as he pulled the monster head out of my backpack. "Oh yeah I remember now." I said. "What was that thing anyway?" I added. "That "thing" is an eater of souls. They populate the corruption trying to kill everything in its way. Its main goal is to corrupt all of terraria and please its master." The guide said. "Wait, wait, what is its master?" I asked. "That's for me to know and for me to tell you about later." The guide said. i sighed in response and jumped off the table and collapsed to the floor. "You're still not in good enough condition to walk out there now. You need a healer." The guide said. "Then where do I get a healer?" I asked annoyed. "You can't get one now but, if you find a healing potion you can recover quickly." The guide said. "AND WHERE IN HELL DO I FIND A HEALING POTION!" I yelled at him. Instead of the guide sarcastically answering me, a knock to the door answered for him. I used my pickaxe as a crutch and answered the door. "I heard someone had fifty silver coins." A voice from a shadowed figure in the doorway. "Who are you?" I asked. "Why, I'm the merchant." The merchant said. "May I come in?" he asked. I nodded and he followed me in. "I heard that you needed some help getting around and I have just the thing for you." The merchant said. The merchant pulled out a glass vial full of a suspicious red liquid. "Ta-Da! A lesser healing potion!" he said. I grabbed for the potion when the merchant pulled it back and held out his hand. "Seventy five copper." The merchant said. "I don't have change." I said. "Don't worry I'll take one silver coin and I'll pay you the twenty five copper later. Deal?" he said. With no choice other to trust the stranger, I gave him one silver coin and he handed over the potion. I popped the cork off the vial and chugged the potion in one go. The potion tasted more like a sweet strawberry flavor than a potion brewed by a cheap-skate merchant. I began to immediately feel results from the potion.
All my deep cuts and snapped tendons in my leg began to tingle. At first it was subtle but, after a minute or two I felt myself shaking uncontrollable and had to sit down. At first I thought the merchant poisoned me and I was having a seizure but, I began to stop shaking and my wounds started sowing themselves back together. I gasped as my entire body started to heal. Only my biggest wounds were still there but they were feeling much better. "Give me another." I demanded holding out a silver coin. The merchant and guide started shaking their heads. "No can do." The guide said. "Why not?" I asked. "You'll have potion sickness." The guide answered. "What does that do?" I asked. "if you drink another potion after drinking one a few minutes before, you will suffer potion sickness, which could cause you to go into a coma or worse." The merchant answered. I shuddered as he said this and leaned back into the chair.
A few hours later it became night time. I looked out the window and saw for the first time what happened at night. I saw many undead creatures. Most of them were humanoid in shape but, I could not tell. What surprised me the most was that at midnight, these giant eyes come out, killing some of the zombies and started looking at the window. I stepped out of the window and set up a spot on the floor to sleep on. Just as I was about to go to sleep, I heard a huge banging noise on the door. I looked out the window and saw that the eyes flew over to the house, banging against the door. It was going to be a long night.