Chapter 2

Attempting Collaboration with an Administrator

Steve's life has always been full of action, mystery, and adventure. He lived with the wind and lighting whirling around him, the cries of the monsters and villagers in the far distance, the feeling of a smooth, powerful diamond sword in his clenched hand...he just lived in that way. That was his job after all. To protect the Overworld and adventure.

There are times, however, when adventurers need to rest and empty their thoughts, extending their arms into warm water while basking in the sun. This, was Steve's favorite part about community servers. The scenery and sacredness.

Currently the player Steve from the Alpha days was sitting in a warm lake, surrounded by many other players who lay on the hot sand, chatting for ages about each other and the drama in Minecraftia, of course. Steve liked to eavesdrop on their conversations, curious on how other players were feeling and what they were doing with their lives...it made him happy to be around other players, for he used to be the only one who existed long ago in the Overworld.

"Steve! This guy gave me some salmon, want some?" An excited voice shouted from behind him.

"Ah, okay! Bring it here, maybe?" Steve cheerfully hollered back to his best friend and wonderful teammate, Alex from Beta.

Steve's gentle eyes watched Alex grab her salmon from a handsome player who stood over by the tropical food shop, smiling at her coolly. Steve didn't feel jealous when he saw the boy smile at his teammate, instead he felt nervous that she'd leave his side and alliance for the boy's.

Alex sprinted back to Steve and sat beside him in the warm water, leaning against his side as she handed him a cooked, crisp salmon. Steve thanked her and quickly bit into the skin of the fish. He personally preferred the old meats such as beef and porkchop, but his immense, never ending hunger allowed him to eat just about anything he came across in the Overworld without complaining much.

"You're looking tan." Alex muttered through her fish and flashed him one of her devilish but cute looking smiles. "I saw some girls looking at you, I bet they're super duper jealous I'm sitting right here next to youuu." She said and gave his side a rough bump to show her way of affection.

Steve shook his head disapprovingly and smiled, making his friend giggle and poke his shoulder teasingly. Steve couldn't ever see himself falling in love. In all of his futures he's dreamt about and even prophesied about, he never saw himself with anyone. Never. Instead he sees something different in his future, something unexpected and odd. He sees himself flirting and teasing with another, but never allowing himself to be taken under their wing and loved immensely.

"I'm sure they're just looking at the waves in the water, or maybe their own reflections." Steve replied to Alex dismissively.

Alex rolled her bright, lively green eyes and gave him a huff. "Whatever, Steve. Not my problem if you never get a girlfriend because you don't even try."

"I'm fine, Alex. I'm not lonely." Steve quickly responded to her comment to cover up the truth. He looked at her with a small, reassuring smile, but on the inside he was lonely. Steve has never known what he is lonely for, but he is always lonely for some unknown reason to his mind.

"So," Alex sighed while taking the last bite of her fish, "I was thinking that maybe after this we could pay the administrator a visit. You said that you wanted to talk with him about the server watchers and rules, right?"

Steve nodded, swallowing a bite of fish. "I need to discuss with him the players who are helping watch this server. They are doing poorly at their job and need to be trained better. I have seen...one?...no two...three hackers! I saw all of them just today! This beautiful server cannot have hackers slipping from their grasp so easily like that!" Steve exclaimed, looking into Alex's eyes, seeking her agreement.

Alex studied Steve's face and wrinkled her nose in disgust. "Yep! No one needs those pesky hackers, especially not in this place."

The player from Alpha sighed and swished water over his bent knees in the warm lake. He wished he could get rid of hacking forever...he wished it never existed or had come into existence. Ever since Entity303 came into existence years ago in the Beta days, hacking has become extremely popular among the younger players. They often try to mimic the Entity303 or Null, using the old legends of Minecraftia to try to create their own. Most of the hackers nowadays are luckily not as strong as how Entity303 or Null had been. Instead they tend to do little things and little griefs that don't cause too much damage to the Overworld. Steve is thankful that they aren't too powerful, but he still doesn't agree with what they're doing.

"Have you met with the administrator before? Do you know his name?" Alex questioned and tipped her head.

"I haven't met him before, but I have seen his picture online and I know his name."

"What is his name?" Alex asked and giggled. "Is it Henry or Bob or something?"

Steve gave her a playful smile. "No, no, his name is a little more dignified. His name is Jorgensen."

"Hmph." Alex huffed and flickered her eyes away, looking disappointed. Her reaction only made Steve smile more in amusement. Alex was always the type of player who loved to make fun of others and tease them but love them at the same time. She was a little more war-like and feisty compared to Steve, but she had a loving side to her as well that took care of others and pampered them, which is what she occasionally does to Steve when he gets hurt.

"Maybe we should head up to the main building now and go meet him, he does know that I'll be seeing him today, he might be waiting for me right now." Steve said and slowly stood up, letting the water roll off of his dark blue swim shorts. Alex hopped out of the water and leaped to his side immediately, grabbing her shirt and pulling it over her bikini.

"Okay. Let's do it." She said and clapped her hands together.

So Alex and Steve walked around the main spawn point in the city of the server, using maps and papers to try to scout out the easiest way to get to the office. They both suspected that it would be a heavily protected place with little to almost no access allowed. They tried asking a few players if they knew how to warp to the building, but none knew of the command to. Some pointed out the place the building was in on Steve's map, but it looked very hard to get to because of the heavy security surrounding the building.

"UGHHH. It would've been NICE if he had told you how to even GET INTO his office!" Alex groaned and slumped against Steve's shoulder dramatically, rolling her eyes. "We're NEVER going to find him!"

"Oh don't say that! I'm sure there's just a pathway we haven't noticed yet..." Steve mumbled and bit at his lower lip in doubt. The server was so large and packed full of so many players that it made finding a specific person nearly impossible.

Steve tried a few more warps and looked at a few more maps, but turned up with no luck once more. He was ready to call it quits and just go back home with Alex, but suddenly a strong hand was placed on his shoulder.

"You are Steve, aren't you? The administrator is expecting you." A male player spoke from behind Steve, his voice full of loyalty and obedience. Steve thought of him to be some type of guard or co-manager, or maybe a watcher of the server based off of his colors and clothing. The player's clothing was black and gray with an outer layer of black cloth draping over his shoulders. The only bright color on his body was reflected off of the white and black bracelets on his wrists that glinted in the sunlight.

Steve looked at him hopefully and nudged Alex so she turned to see him as well. "Yes! That is me. I have been looking for Jorgensen for the last few ticks but we can't find any way to get to the administrator building!"

The ominous looking player hummed, his gray eyes piercing through Steve's face. "Yes, it is best that way. Now we know that we have been doing our job well."

"Yes, well, I guess it's good because then those little hackers can't fly over to you, huh?" Steve said and chuckled.

The dark player gave him a dangerous look and suddenly wrapped his large arms around both Steve and Alex, holding them tightly. "Speaking of hackers..." he murmured, his stern voice making Steve feel a little uneasy.

Alex wiggled around in his grasp and hollered, "Let me go! What are you doing?! Put me down!"

The dark player didn't reply, instead little ender specks started surrounding them. Steve knew what they meant, they were going to teleport momentarily. He saw Alex still struggling out of the corner of his eye when the purple colors washed over his vision, teleporting him to a new place.

Their teleporter was already a few blocks ahead of them when Alex and Steve arrived at the new place, standing on some quartz stair steps. "Come." He beckoned and started walking up the large staircase. Alex grumbled beside Steve and furrowed her eyebrows defiantly.

"It would've been nicer if he didn't just grab us like that..." She whispered madly and grabbed Steve's hand, walking with him up the staircase. Steve understood her anger and agreed with it inside him, but his thoughts were washed away when he took in his surroundings. The building they were in was absolutely gorgeous. There were huge windows full of different colors of glass and glowstone lamps. The building was made of many different types of stone, all in patterns and designs. Steve couldn't believe how enormous it was too, the ceiling was practically one hundred blocks above his head.

The quartz staircase they walked on led the two adventurers to a large platform with red carpet covering the stone floor. There was a huge, stone throne of some sort and a large, dark wooden table in front of it. The dark player was leaning against the table next to Jorgensen, the server administrator. Steve released Alex's hand and walked over to the table quickly, trying to greet the admin.

Steve noticed how stressed the administrator looked when he got closer though. Jorgensen was scattering papers and maps all over the large table, lifting each of them to his eye before throwing them back to the table. The administrator looked like a...nervous wreck. His lime green eyes were frantic and his blonde, normally wavy hair was plastered to his head and messy looking. What was causing the administrator to be so messy looking? What was going on?

"Er...administrator Jorgensen? It's me, Steve. I came here to talk? Um..is it a bad time for you?" Steve stammered, still shocked in seeing Jorgensen look this way.

Jorgensen looked up quickly from his papers and his beady eyes spotted Steve, lighting up in surprise, or something like that.

"Steve! Oh Steve I'm so glad you came!" Jorgensen cried out and sprinted towards Steve with outstretched arms. Steve gave him a friendly smile, trying not to look awkward and confused. The administrator returned the smile and put an arm around Steve's back, leading him over to the table quickly. "Come, come. I need to tell you many things before we run out of time. This is urgent, Steve."

"Jorgensen, I scheduled this meeting so I could talk to you about your server and the hackers that are-"

"HACKERS! YES! Hackers, Steve! That is what I want to talk about too! Now just be quiet and listen, I don't have much time, you don't either." Jorgensen ranted quickly and started rampaging through the maps and papers on the table.

Alex had started to slowly make her way towards the table as well, her curious eyes locked on the papers that filled the table top. Steve sighed and shook his head, not understanding any of this. He thought that whatever Jorgensen was trying to tell him was nonsense and not important to him. It was probably just showing Steve that his rate of capturing hackers had gone up this month. It probably wasn't worth his time...

"STEVE! Look!" Jorgensen cried, holding up one of the papers and practically shoving it in Steve's face. The paper had a player on it with white eyes and there was a huge, bold, red circle surrounding the player furiously, it was clear that whoever made the circle was maddened.

"Jorgensen, I don't understand. Please explain what is going on!" Steve hollered, feeling extremely frustrated at it all.

"What is this? Why do you look so crazy?" Alex chimed in, staring at the administrator with an angry gleam in her eyes. "We don't want to hear about nonsense or something that wastes our time. So, if this is actually worth our visit, then start explaining."

"He is here! There is an entity that was captured here! On our grounds! It is Him!" The administrator hollered, shoving the paper into Steve's face more, to which Steve batted it away.

"I don't see anything! I don't know who that is!" The player from Alpha said quickly, scrunching his eyes as the admin flailed the paper in front of him.

Jorgensen finally lowered the paper and threw it back into the pile of papers on the table, almost looking pouty. Steve was even more confused. Who was this player? This entity? "Flintshadow, hand me the paper and the map in front of you." Jorgensen said, looking up at the dark player standing beside Alex.

"Yes, my admin." Flintshadow responded obediently and grabbed the two works, passing them over to Jorgensen. As soon as Jorgensen got a hold of them, he held them up to Steve so he could see.

"This is the map of spawn, the city of the server. This is where we saw Him. He was there, a little left of spawn with no name tag. It was Him!" Jorgensen cried and furiously pointed to the red circle that was around a dark, blueish blotch of a player in the map. "We didn't believe it at first because he hadn't been seen in years, but then the other workers started running tests on him and we found out that he was an entity with power beyond belief! He could build and destroy wherever he wanted! He had no name tag, it was Him!" Jorgensen ranted and threw Steve a few papers full of code, translations, commands, and server results on them. "Notch said that you HAVE to run! You need to hide! He thinks that he was here looking for you! He thinks that there is something Herobrine is looking for! He thinks that it wasn't a coincidence that Herobrine was on the same server that you are always on! Because Herobrine never goes on servers! The last time he was seen on one was years ago!"

Steve stared at Jorgensen, unable to speak. Only one thing flashed through his mind. Why?

"You can't come on this server anymore, Steve! You aren't safe here! Notch ordered me to tell you that! You have to run! Hide! Hide until Notch figures out why Herobrine is searching for you! Herobrine is coming for you, Steve! HE'S COMING FOR YOU!"