I Don't Own Minecraft
I blinked as I looked up at the ceiling, well I wasn't sure if it was a ceiling, after all, all I could see was darkness. Did I open my eyes at all then? Because I can't really tell a difference. Sitting up, I blinked again but nothing changed, everything was still dark. Ok now I'm becoming a bit freaked out, I mean I would notice if I had a blindfold on or something.
My last resort was to look down and I was very glad to see my body, well that was until I noted that I could see my body and nothing else, including clothing, aka, I'm trapped in a fucking void without clothes. What kind of nightmare is this? Getting to my feet, I raised a hair to my head and sighed as I shifted my shaggy dyed grey hair out of the way a bit to look around the area. Turning around in a full circle, I slumped my shoulders as I noted there was nothing around me.
I was tempted to just start walking off in a random direction but the clear lack of clothing kind of made me want to stay here in case of me finding someone and then I'll have to find a way to explain this some how which I don't think I'll be able to do convincingly. I was about to say screw it, as it was either a bit of awkwardness or being lost, but before I could do anything more, a voice spoke up behind me.
"Oh, you're up. Took you long enough" I spun on my heels to face the... average looking man? He looked normal enough, very normal in fact. A bit of a bland face with a plain pair of glasses, and simple clothing, just some jeans and a t-shirt, the only thing that looked a bit weird was the fact that his hair was long and being kept in checked by a beanie. Looking those clothes over made me very aware that I was naked at the moment. My hands shot down to cover myself and I was about to say something, but before I could he just continued on.
"Well lets get started then. You obviously have questions, don't bother asking them yet, I'll get to that in a moment. First let's just start this off by saying what this is is a cliche. You died somehow, no idea really, could have been a hit and run, murder by lover, or a heart attack for all the difference it would make, but basically the important parts are that you're dead and when you were alive you didn't have much of a life to begin with"
I just looked at the harsh man, a bit angry at his bluntness, because I mean really, no life? I wasn't that bad was I? Of course not, I had friends, sure I don't talk to them as much as I probably could have but it's not like I'm an outcast or anything, just a bit antisocial...Wait did he say I'm dead? Well shit, that's a bummer. Wait, once more, did he say this was a cliche? Does that mean what I think it does? Apparently so as the man just sighed like this all was just a hassle as he continued.
"And second, I'm the obligatory all powerful figure that will be sending you to some nice fantasy world for you to do whatever the fuck in. Now then, I'm sure you're lack of a life means you've seen and read enough about this stuff to know what you're mostly in for so I'm not answering any idiotic questions like why you're naked, or what this means for you...Alright you can ask your questions now. Please be quick, I didn't exist five minutes ago and I already feel like I'm being over worked"
Damn this guy is a bit of a dick isn't he. I wonder what he means by not existing a couple minutes ago, well if I ask he'd probably consider it a stupid question, no reason to ask when I can just think about it later, I already have an idea after all. But that wasn't really important to me, no the more important fact is that I'm going to another fucking world! That's freaking awesome!
"What kind of world is it?" That was the most important question to ask, sure I might be freaking the hell out in excitement but that doesn't mean I want to go into this unprepared. The man in front of me just shrugged and seemed to think on it for a moment, like he was trying to decide something. Wait, did he not think about this before hand? Damn, his level of unpreparedness is almost insulting.
"Uh, let's see...well...why not that. I'm sure you've heard of minecraft, it's this big game. Anyway, that'll be the bases of the world but that's just so I don't have to do all the ground work with the creatures and some lore. Everything else you know about the world you might as well get rid of now. No lone survivor bullshit, this is going to be much more new with stuff like magic and other fantasy shit than what the original had"
Oh, well I would be excited for that answer because I know a decent bit about minecraft but this sounds like something completely different that what I know it to be. Oh if this is going to be like a proper story then it would have to be different wouldn't it? Well whatever, that answer doesn't really help me if only the basics are going to be the same. So next question then.
"I see. It's a bit annoying that I won't be able to rely on what I know. Um, next up, what will I start with? Because I kind of don't have anything on me, like at all" I really didn't want to get plopped down in a city stark nude in front of everyone, that would just be a bad first impression. The man just hummed at that and tilted his head, looking to me like a bit like a fox for some reason. As if he had heard what I had thought of him, he turned to look at me with an interested look in his eye, oh no, I don't think I'm going to like that.
"Well of course you can't go in with nothing, I'll give you some basic stuff, though in turn I want to make a small change to your appearance in exchange" I just blinked in confusion at that. Does this count as blackmail if it's have him play character customization with my body or have me placed in a world I know nothing about with literally nothing to help me along with it. I'm not sure I like the look in his eye but I know for a fact that I also don't like being naked. I feel like this is a situation of being between a rock and a hard place.
"It's not going to be anything crazy, just something to make this a bit more entertaining for me to watch. I'm not going to make you deformed or anything, you're kind of my only source of entertainment at the moment, so making you're life unplayable would just ruin my fun...Just to speed this up, I'll also give you a nice little bonus as well, nothing crazy mind you, I'm not that interested in messing with your appearance that much"
Well damn, I kind of hoped I could bluff him into giving me something really cool but he just wants to mess with me because he thinks it's fun not because he really wants to so I have no leverage here. I guess I can't have everything, a bit sad, but what I can have is some bloody clothes at least so I might as well.
"Fine, just don't do anything crazy" He just hummed at that and suddenly I just blinked as I felt something drape over my body. Looking down, I just blinked again before tilting my head, which I wasn't sure why I did at all, as I looked at the neat outfit I was wearing. It didn't really have any color to it to be fair, it was an interesting mix of white, black, and grey. But it looked cool. I even had a traveling cloak which was grey.
"Done. You'll see all the differences and get the rest of you're stuff later, but for now we should be wrapping this up...let's see, you get two more questions, that is of course I don't get bored of your first one" Well isn't that a nice thing to say, I just frowned at that before wondering what else I should ask about. Well the most obvious question first then.
"What's the world like, from like a warring stand point?" I'd like to know if it's going to be like classic with a war against the hostile mobs like zombies and skeletons, then I would like to know what I'm getting into before hand. The man just hummed again, giving off that impression once more that he really was just making it all up on the spot rather than giving any of what would be the rest of my life much thought. It really was bugging me, just something about this guy just really bugged me.
"I'd say passively hostile, and a bit fucked at times, the humans of your world are a bit worse than the ones in your original, the mobs for the most part are normally evil but between you and me, it really isn't their fault as much as people make it out to be. And the demis aren't really in the good graces of everyone in general so be careful of that as well" Wait demis? Like demi-human? That must be one of the big differences then between this world and the original game. Plus it kind of sounds like there are some real civilizations in this world. Interesting. Well it doesn't really effect me much, though I'm going to try to be a nicer human than everyone else, if the rest are as bad as this man seems to think they are.
"Alright then, final question time. Why are you doing this? Because you really don't seem like the time that would enjoy this since you have nothing planned out obviously" He just looked at me for a moment, it was unnerving, much more than you'd think it would be for just some staring. Still, I just looked him on, not letting him know it was bugging me any. After a moment he just smirked a bit and said.
"I was bored" I glared at him for that but before I could say anything else, the floor under me, that I couldn't see with it being the same color as everything else here, seemed to disappear from underneath me and with that I was falling.
I got bored of screaming after about a minute of falling, now I was just bored looking around the darkness as the wind whipped around me. I just blew out air aimlessly as I continued to fall, really you'd think it would be a bit faster than this. I wonder if that man, whoever he is, is busy at the moment making the world and that's the reason why this is taking for ever. If so, then couldn't he have done that before I left? Honestly this is just mean.
Thinking about it, I crossed my arms and huffed to myself at that. Really, I was so ready to jump in and explore but now I'm forced to wait and that's just rude. Though it did give me a good bit of time to reflect what was happening to me. I mean really, this is just strange all around and I feel like I'm accepting this way to easily, but then again, I don't really have a choice, that bad tempered guy seemed a bit to OP for me to be able to get him to send me back to my world.
And besides, I'm already dead there, and while it's a bit sad, I'm not really leaving all that much behind. I'll totally miss my friends and family and all that but I mean I'm not exactly good at being close to people so it's not like we all ever had the strongest connection. My fault really, but that's besides the point. No point in worrying about it, besides it's not like I haven't thought about dying before. Though I do wish this might have happened a bit later in life.
Twenty-two is a bit early to die in my opinion. Though I guess this is better than other's in a situation much like this one, I don't feel like being underaged or something like that to deal with along with dealing with a whole new world and whatever culture I'm going to have to learn. Really all I know is the creatures that I'm more than likely going to fight against. Zombies, spiders, skeletons, creepers, etc.
But that's all I know about this world, as for all I know everything is different. Damn whoever is doing this is lazy, he couldn't even bother being a bit more original and just copy and pasted this as a template. Well it gives me a small advantage, or maybe it'll be a disadvantage to be honest. I might have a lot of misconceptions about this world as a whole. For all I know everything is different. Well no matter what happens, this most certainly is going to be interesting.
Damn it, I really don't want to continue to wait like this! I really want to see what he was talking about when he was mentioning magic. Because I mean come on, obviously I'm going for that out of everything. Why? Because magic is fucking awesome that's why. Though of course I'm going to look into more before I do anything, because for all I know, this world will actually require a lot of effort into gaining spells or combat experience. Hopefully not though, because that sounds like a lot of extra work.
Well nothing comes from nothing I guess but I'd much rather be able to jump right into the cool stuff. Of course it doesn't matter about how long it takes to become antiquated with magic when I'm fucking falling now does it! I'm just hyping myself up for disappointment I feel like. Well only one way to find out and that way involves apparently a lot more waiting.
"Oh fucking shi-" That was as much as I could get out before suddenly color surrounded me as I smacked into the ground face first. Groaning, I got up onto my feet and sighed as I looked around for a moment, and blinked as I noted a number of people looking at me. Looking past them, I just hummed to myself as I looked around the area I found myself in, for some interesting reason, the pain seemed to already be fading away, even though I totally should be dead from that fall.
Sitting up more as I looked around, I noted I appeared to be in a pretty medieval looking place, not to mention everything had a small bit of a blocky feel to it, it was interesting to see to be honest, it was obviously based on a cube world but it wasn't only that. I have no idea how I could explain it so I just gave up on that and instead got up onto my feet, though I wobbled a bit, doing my best to hide my reaction to that with all the people still looking at me.
Looking down, I noted I was still wearing the same outfit, fun, and I also saw I had a small bag, more of a satchel. at my side as well. I hope this is the bonus that guy was talking about. I was about to move to open it when something out of the corner of my eye caught my attention. It was something that was behind me, spinning around I shook my head trying to see it but it wasn't there anymore, catching it again from behind my leg, I spun around but nothing was there. I tried two more times but gave up as I got a bit dizzy.
After a second I shook my head before frowning, a moment later I just huffed before bending forwards and looked in between my legs, more interested in whatever this was then the weird reaction the people around me were having. That's when I saw it, blinking in confusion at the sight, I reached out behind me and grabbed the fluffy thing that seemed to be floating and yelp a bit as I felt it, and not only from my grip. It would seem that I have a tail now apparently, what the fuck did that man do to me? Because this isn't exactly a small change in my opinion.
What, if I have a tail, looking at it I do believe it's a cat tail by the way, then would it make sense that I would have something else? Straightening my back up, I reached up and patted around the sides of my head and frowned a bit more at the fact that I couldn't feel any ears there. Moving my hands up a bit more, I tensed a bit as I felt what could only be my new ears on my head. What fucked up shit was that guy into to make me a fucking neko? Wait can a guy be a neko or is that a girl only thing?
Thankfully it doesn't matter because I'm still clearly a guy, I'm pretty sure I would be able to tell if something was missing or more specifically if something was added onto my body. Shaking my head at those thoughts, I pulled my hands away, only to notice something else, my hair was still grey, but it didn't look the same anymore, well sort of, I don't think it's dyed anymore. It almost looks natural, huh, of course the one time I let someone convince me to dye it this happens.
Doesn't change that this is certainly a weird thing for him to add onto me, is it because I thought he reminded me a bit of a fox? Because if so then that's just spiteful as hell to be honest. Whatever, it's not like this is all that crazy, in fact it might even be kind of cool actually, I'm a cat person now, that must come with some perks after all, it's probably what he gave me a bonus for doing this in the first place, in fact this is probably what he meant by 'demi' when he mentioned them so their are demi-humans here, and I happen to now be one of them. It's not like it's that big of a dea-
I yelped as I reached up as something smacked into the side of my head. Rubbing sore spot a bit, I turned to face the direction of whatever hit me only to notice what looked like a rock on the ground, blinking at it, I looked up to see something that made my heart stop and my eyes widen. A group of teens, from the looks of it, all were holding stone in their hands. I backed up a bit from the sight, not really understanding what was happening before another had been thrown as I yelped again as it hit me on the forehead.
Rising my arms up, I winced as I listened to the adults all seem to sneer at me as some started to yell out that I was a freak. Before I knew it everyone had picked something off the ground. Backing up, my heart had done a full one-eight as I felt it pump hard in my chest as I didn't get what was happening. I knew things were a bit hostile from the guy but I thought it would only have been to the monsters that really felt it, I hadn't even done anything.
After a moment, one of the older men pulled back a hand which had a bigger stone, I thought about trying to talk to them but that was stopped as a pebble smacked into a wall behind me. I just grimaced before turning and rushing out of the street, trying hard to ignore the yelling from behind me as a few rocked pelted against my back. Ok then, maybe this might be a bit more of a deal than I thought. Well shit.
At some point I had started to run a bit, and after a while lost the mob of people that was trying to hurt me. Looking around, I noted I was in an alley at the moment, sighing I just dropped to the floor without any grace only to winced as I landed right on my tail. That's going to take a while to get use to. Adjusting myself, I took a few deep breathes before shaking my head as I ignored the small shake in my hands as I reached forwards and pulled the small bag up into my lap then opened it up.
Pulling the flap off, I just tilted my head as I looked into it for a moment before blinking as I didn't seem anything in it at all. It was just an empty bag. I sighed as I closed it up and set it next to me, what a waste. Did he even keep his word and gave me a bonus of any kind? Because being on the end of rac- well more speciesism than anything, whatever, still being on the receiving end of this can't be a bonus no matter how messed up you are in the head. Though that guy did seem a bit crazy to be fair.
Damn it, I wanted my first day here to be a lot of fun, not me being chased, that's not cool at all. Well, I guess it is a bit stupid of me to think that everything would just happen to go my way from the start. That guy probably knew this would happen actually, he said I was his only form of entertainment, and what kind of person likes to watch a guy just win everything from the start, that's not a good story if there isn't any struggling. Still, I wish I wasn't the one that has to struggle. Winning is a lot more enjoyable in my opinion.
"U-uh, h-hello?" I blinked out of my thoughts as I looked to the right of me and nearly shielded myself away from the girl before I noticed she didn't have any rocks or makeshift throwables in her hands. After a moment, I figured why not, it's only been a day after all, it would suck if my faith in people got destroyed because of a couple of assholes, besides, sure this isn't the nice start but I'll be damned if I can't enjoy myself while I'm here, so with that I gave the girl, from the looks of it, a teenager on the older side, a smile and said happily.
"Hi! Nice to meet you, um, what are you doing in a place like this? A dark scary alley isn't really a place for a young woman with some of the people I've seen so far being in this town" She seemed put off from my cheeriness, but after a moment she just looked at me in confusion and asked me.
"But you're a girl and you're here as well" I just blinked at that an instantly looked down at my chest to make sure I didn't miss something very important, only to note I was still looking the same. Moving my eyes back up to meet her's my head tilted again, something I wasn't sure why I was doing so much, and said.
"I'm a guy though" She looked almost as confused as I was with this whole situation. Now in fact she seemed to get over her shyness as she stepped forwards to look me over before saying.
"But all the books I've read say that all feline demi-humans are all female, just like how all canine demi-humans are male. And you're a feline right?" Wait that's a thing here? Talk about stereotypes honestly, still, that doesn't really change anything really, I'm still a guy, parts in all, so clearly she must be wrong about whatever those books she read says.
"I don't really know what to tell you, but I'm a guy and I'm also part cat, maybe you just got it wrong" She was looking really seriously at me now, looking me up and down, it was a bit creepy actually. After a moment she just huffed and turned away before telling me.
"Well I know my books would never lie to me so obviously you're lying. I knew I should have trusted my parents when they said all demis are nothing but liars" Oh she's a bit of a bookworm then, nothing wrong with that, but clearly she's supporting her world views from books that are clearly misinformed. Someone should fix that.
"That's really rude of you, I'm not lying to you. It isn't my fault you aren't listening to me" I totally pegged her as a bit shy before but I think that might have only been because of the fact that she probably didn't know what to do with the demi-human in the alley. From the reaction the towns? people were having to me being there, it's a bit clear that demi-humans probably don't stay in this place for long so she would only have her books to know what they would look like.
"No way! I refuse to believe you!" I just sighed at that as I looked at her as I leaned back against the wall behind me as I thought about just how crazy the last half an hour or so has been for me. Honestly I'm only like half human now, I've been chased by a mob and now I'm auguring with a chick that refuses to believe that I have a dick, Honestly my life has become so weird so unbelievably quickly. Still, I guess this is a good as a time as any to talk to someone that doesn't seem to hate me instantly.
"Whatever, just call me Max then, I don't really care all that much about pronouns anyway. So hey, listen, do you happen to know where some work could be done around here by chance? Because I'm kind of broke" I did care a bit but I'm in a situation that what she calls me doesn't really matter all that much in the full scope of things. Though she still seemed a bit angry, I think she was a bit pleased that I gave up on auguring in that losing battle. I think the only way to have convinced her was to drop trowel and I'm not doing that for anyone. It's what got me into this cat like mess in the first place after all.
"Max? That's a weird name, but if you're going to be all formal, then you can call me Eline, Eline Insino in full" I just nodded to that as I waited for her to continue on to answer the question I asked, though I couldn't help but wonder in which order the names were placed in, I mean which one was her first and which one was her last name, it's different depending on the culture and I don't know the culture so I have no idea. Whatever, I'll just go by Eline, it's what she said first which is good enough for me.
"As for you're question, well, I don't really know, I don't get to explore as much as I'd like of the town, I was actually heading back home from the nearby library when I saw you, and I kind of just wanted to see what a demi-human is like...To be honest you don't seem as bad as what my Mom and Dad tell me, but you are a liar so there is that" She's never going to believe me is she? Well that was a bit of a bust I guess, of course I had to ask the shut in for job advice. To be fair the only reason she seems to be talking to me is because she's a shut in but that's besides the point.
"Well that's to bad. I guess I'm just going to have to go look for a part time job on my own. Thanks for helping me at least, well as much as you could have. See ya" I straighten myself up and had already turned away, a bit more ready to stop sitting in my angst and go out and be a productive member of society when I felt a pull on my cloak, I choked a bit as the strap tugged on my windpipe. After adjusting it so I wasn't dying of suffocation, I turned back around to face Eline again and looked at her confused at what else she wanted.
"U-uh, well, I don't know if you'd want to but you could come back to my home and talk to my parents to find something. At the very least you don't seem to have anywhere to stay tonight, so you could, I don't know, sleep out back" I just blinked at the sudden turn around once more in her personalty. Is she bipolar or something? Still, I most certainly wouldn't mind a free place to stay but-.
"I wouldn't mind but it seems that your folks wouldn't like me all that much" I said it nicely, almost pleasantly, not showing how it annoyed me a bit that people are idiots, but Eline seemed to wince at that as she clearly seemed to know that her previous words were having a bit of a negative effect on her offer. Still after a moment she said.
"I can convince them. It's just that you don't seem to have anything else, nothing was in that bag anyway, and I don't feel right to just leave you out in the cold" Why do I feel like I'm more being adopted as a stray cat more than her wanting to help out a homeless man? Well I'm certainly not complaining, though I do hope she'll be able to at least get me a pillow. She said out in the back and while I don't mind sleeping on the ground, I hate it when I get cricks in mt neck.
Ok I know this has like almost nothing to do with Minecraft but I needed a base world and Minecraft is a sandbox game which is practically made for this sort of thing. As for why I'm making a story like this well. In the past two weeks, I've binged watched: Re:Zero, Danmachi, Shield Hero, and Assassination Classroom. That last one isn't relevant but I just wanted to mention that I fucking loved it way more than I think is healthy. Anyway, needless to say I'm on a weird Isekai genre kick at the moment so I figured why not throw my own hand into the mix a bit, well more than I already do. Plus this allows me to write in a story that I control almost everything about from lore to purely original characters , it's a lot of fun to do after the very canon focused story I just finished writing, and this is a good enough playground for me to test out a new type of character as well. Anyway, See ya.