Chapter 6

Perspective Shift

POV: ?

I wake up and start panting, it's dark and damp and I hate it! On instinct I begin digging my way through what I can feel is dirt with my bare hands until I finally emerge from the ground. It's raining and the rain is making me even more wet as I take a look around and can tell that It's dark and must be night...how do I know what night and rain are? I don't recall...I know things but how do I know...Who...am..I? What am I? I trust my instincts again and start looking around the area as the shy shakes with the sound of thunder that makes me wince but then I notice a flash of lightning that illuminates the place for me for a brief moment. During that brief moment I notice some things laying on the floor not far from the hole I just dug myself out of, I walk over and collect them and find that they are an Enchanted Trident as well as a book and a totem of undying...it's happening again, how do I know what these are but don't know how I know?!

I decide to focus on that later because it hurts my head to think about, I open the book and see something written in it...a spell? Also how do I know how to read? I focus back on the book and try reading out the words "I...I sum...summmon t-the oone wwhhho w-w-w-w-w-w-wi.l.l" I stop myself there, I know how to read as I'm clearly thinking to myself fine but It appears I can't use my vocal cords very well, almost like they need more practice being used...something else I know but shouldn't know? I look at the trident which I don't know how but I can tell it has an enchantment on it so on instinct once again I life the trident in the air and throw it but I don't actually let go of it and suddenly the trident starts soaring and taking me with it as if it and me we're swimming through the rain! In a spinning motion me and the trident quickly come back down as I start trying to calm myself down from the sudden scare.

I then notice a nearby cave and begin to walk into it as I find myself in a destroyed room, whatever happened here must have been destructive. I start looking around the room and another flash of lightning makes me wince again as the room is illuminated a tad by it, in that moment I then notice a mirror on the wall and a lantern next to it. I turn on the lantern which flickers a bit before finally turning on thankfully and it's then that I look at the mirror and take in my appearance.

I have pale skin and light brown hair as well as ocean blue eyes, I'm also wearing a hoodie with a blue hood and blue stripes on the arms as well as symbols which look like either crystals or snow on the hoodie. Suddenly as if seeing myself was the key to jumpstarting my memory I begin to recall in flashes my life and who I am...not? No expect it's not who I am, I have the memories of someone I'm pretty sure I'm not as well as some bits and pieces missing from some memories...I'm not Jonansions but I look very similar to him? Almost exactly like him in fact, my hair, eye and skin color are a little off and I don't recall him ever wearing a hoodie like mine although I can recall a more space themed one that's close but...what am I and why do I have his memories?

I take a few minutes to filter my thoughts while sitting down to rest myself before I recall that Jonansions has a base somewhere to the west of where I am... yes, I'm starting to recall his more recent memories...I recall he made a tower and then read the book I have and... that's it, that's where the memories stop as the next memories are me waking up and all this happening? That spell...that spell he used must have something to do with it, but what...wait...it's then that I come to a realization as I think back to what the spell said and my current situation. "I'm...a...c-C-Cllon-ne?" I try saying to myself, I have a hard time believing it at first but it's the only thing that makes sense when I put all the pieces together, it's why I have all these memories from him and know things I shouldn't know otherwise...I'm his copy...his Doppelganger.

I'm still confused on the little differences in our looks though but besides that I begin to wonder to myself...now what? What do I do now, I've been given life and basically was just born but what do I do now? I don't know, Jonansions doesn't appear to be in the area anymore...I have no purpose. Suddenly I hear creepy moans as I look behind me and thanks to another flash of lighting, I see what I can tell are zombies moving towards me, I raise my trident and on instinct stab it at one and then using muscle memory that I shouldn't have I jump over to the left while swinging the zombie I stabbed in the direction of the other one slamming them into each other. I take my trident out and with a few more swings to their heads I finish them off.

I take a moment to collect myself again, it's dark out and I'm vulnerable while out here so I need somewhere to stay till day...I don't have anywhere to go through...unless? I know where Jonansions house is, I don't have any better alternatives so I'll head there, I begin my trek there as I dodge a few more mobs before I leave the area and head off.

Eventually after a long time of traveling the rain stops and the sun rises, I kill some pigs I come across along the way to eat some pork I'll have to stomach raw. I even come across a village but decide to avoid it for now as they might question why I look like Jonansions and I continue on. Finally...I'm here, it's a basic wood house but works and I can see his horse that I believe was named Buddy outside the house just eating some grass, I sneak past the horse while it's distracted and make my way into his house. I find some basic stuff like a bed and chests that while I look through them, I decide against taking anything besides a bit of the food just in case.

I find a book in one chest that piques my interest and the cover reads "Minecraft Monster guide", I open the book and find that in his spare time Jonansions must have been writing information about the different mobs he's come across and his experiences with them. I use this chance to also try to work my vocals and I get a tiny bit better...I think? Either way It's a start and as I'm reading about these creatures, I get memories from Jonansions memories about the look of some of them...it's also then that I get a strange instinct too...well I don't even know what to do but I decide to see what it is so I step outside the house and go behind it and do...whatever it is I'm doing.

Suddenly I feel myself getting taller as my limbs darken and get very slim and my vision begins to shift as I start seeing the colors of things differently than normal...I also see strange particles begin to float around me? I try walking around when I step in a small puddle as-THAT BURNS! I quickly move away from the water that burns before I realized how far away from that spot I am... did I...teleport? that's when it clicks for me, I'm an Enderman...I shapshifted into an Enderman?!

I try that trick again as sure enough I teleport just like a Enderman to another spot again...this is...SO COOL! But wait...if I could turn into an Enderman then could I...I decide to test my theory and focus on the imagine of a spider mob as my mass begins shifting again as I feel more limbs forming from me and my vision even gets multiplied. I did it, I'm a spider mob now! I start testing this forms ability's and crawl up Jonansions house and I even spin some web over the roof, one more test. I jump into a nearby pond for this one as I feel myself turning more human but not quite, I then look at myself as I had turned into a zombie, the water is keeping me from being burned alive by the sun but I'm a walking corpse now...this form isn't as fun as the others so I turn back to myself quickly.

I then get an idea as I rush back into Jonansions house to use his Mirror as I decide to see if I can change my features to look closer to his and...I can't? I try and try some more but I can't change anything about my human features or looks...I'm stuck looking like a discount Jonansions! This angers me, for all the cool stuff I can turn into my real and human form is stuck like this, I then punch the mirror in rage making it shatter as some glass gets stuck in my hand...to which I make a quick shout of pain before I notice...I'm not bleeding? I pull the shards out and sure enough while that still hurt, I'm not bleeding, and to my amazement the wounds begin to heal up till they look good as new! I can heal...it takes me a second to process that before I grin as I shout "I H-Haeve a Heeal-ling f-f-factor!" although my true form is stuck looking like someone made an OC of Jonansions I don't care anymore, In fact I think I'm an improvement over him as I can shapeshift and even have a wolverine-like healing factor...yes I'd say I'm much better than him, better than the original.

That's when I make a decision, I know what I'm going to do now, what my purpose will be. I'm going to prove I'm his equal, no I'll prove I'm his better, I'LL PROVE I'M NOT A MISTAKE OF SOME SPELL THAT IDIOT WAS MESSING AROUND WITH! Jonansions from what my memories from him tells me, He's trying to find a way to the end right now and from what I last recall he's about to start heading to the nether after getting some more resources...that's it then. I'll track him down and fight him, I'll prove I'm nothing like a mob or even that fool Maxwell that he fought, I'm going to be the one making a name for myself NOT HIM!

Jonansions had the power to go to all these different worlds and what does he do with them? He uses them for fun and adventure, he treats it all like a game! I can understand why but he could do so much more with a power that's wasted on him...well if he sees this all like a game then...I'll have to be his player 2-No! I'll be Player 1 and the better player between us, I'll defeat him and then humiliate him as he'll see once and for all the extent of his failures...though I suppose he did do one good thing in creating me even if it doesn't know it.

Well, for now I am Doppelganger, but I'll show him that there's a better one soon enough, there's only one thing to say now..."G-Game on."

End of Chapter 6

Jonansions Lonely Journey Playlist Track 6: Moon Trance - Lindsey StirlingMusic used for Doppelganger's theme: Spooky Waltz Music – Dance of the Shadows