I turned on my computer, unsure what to do. I had earlier known, but it slipped my mind.

I connected - whatever I had in mind with an online story I had just read called 'Herobrine'. But I still couldn't fill that blank.

I searched up 'Herobrine' on Google to see if I could remember. "Herobrine is a rumored Hostile Mob found in Minecraft-" Got it! Minecraft was what I had in mind.

I quickly signed into my world and noticed everything was different. No desert village, which I raided and stole sandstone from to make a house, only a world made of bedrock. But soon, the old, familiar village loaded into view and I saw it was made of bedrock as well. Even though there seemed to be no life, I ran over and looked around.

I went into a cartographer's house to see what was there. I recalled a chest there having an empty map and a compass.

When I opened the door the yellow and white carpet was a grainy grey, not much lighter than the bedrock-y wood next to it. The cartographer's table was a block of bedrock and the chest held it's old shape, but had the texture of bedrock.

I tried opening it over and over again. It glitched and lagged for a bit once it finally worked, but eventually it loaded.

There were mine bedrock blocks all scattered in the chest, all in stacks of one. One by one, I collected them and placed them in my hotbar. To still have some room, I tried stacking them, but it didn't work. To check(I don't know, maybe at the moment I thought they weren't) if they were really bedrock, I hovered over the first one on the far left. As if it was named by a name tag, it was - in italics - titled 'H'. I went over to the next block to the right of it. 'E'. And the next one. 'R'. 'O'. 'B'. 'R'. 'I'. 'N'. 'E'. Herobrine.

I stared in shock at the screen in front of me. Herobrine? I tried to press 'esc' to exit out of Minecraft to see if the file was corrupted or something, but when I did, the screen blacked out and a tab popped up saying 'Minecraft: Java Edition isn't responding' above the choice of closing the app, waiting for it to reload, or sending feedback to the game. I clicked 'wait'. My computer shut off and in the middle of the screen was a loading symbol. Once it went away and my computer was officially off, Steve's face with no pupils popped up on the screen, staring into my soul.

The End