"Greensters, my friend… this has to be the absolute DUMBEST idea you've ever dragged me into." "Hang on, Red. I thought that was when I thought we were in creative and jumped off that huge bridge! Holy cow, that was funny!" "Yes, Greenlets, it was. The fact that we lost all our diamonds, that was most definitely not!" A pair of players stood looking at the faction base that one of them had erected.

More like a misplaced pile of dirt with the odd oak plank.

"We're meant to survive zombies, walking cucumbers, skellies and overgrown tarantulas in this? Plus there's players trying to raid us as well! People will think we're noobs and an easy target!" Greenlets raised one blocky dragon eyebrow. "In case you didn't know, we are noobs." Red really couldn't argue with that; on the last server she'd been on, she rage quit 'cause she couldn't figure out how to craft a pickaxe. Greenlets couldn't stop reminding her about it. "Ok. We're gonna do it. But, on a few conditions. One, we don't act like noobs. Two, if we're raided and get killed it's your fault. Three, if our base blows up or something stupid like that I get to build the next one. Ok?"

As you can probably tell, Greenlets was a bit 'Up-and-at-em', a bit ruthless and not to mention enthusiastic. Red had the power of foreseeing the consequences for her actions.

The pair got on like a house on fire.

Oh, and did I mention they only got Minecraft a week before they joined the Factions server?

They'd been best friends since they were three years old, but the one who played as Greenlets moved away when they were eight years old. They'd still kept in touch, though, but then one day Greenlets discovered Minecraft.

To put things simply, their lives would never be the same again.

Ever.

Especially now that 'Red Dragon' faction had been created. Red looked at the lopsided junk pile of a 'base' and sighed. Was Greenlets' faction going to be as good as she made out? Things weren't looking promising at the time. Especially the dirt mound that they would be gathering supplies and stuff in. She rolled her blocky eyes and reluctantly walked inside where Greenlets was waiting. "Hey, Redster! You decided to come in after all!" Red tutted and set about making a crafting table – was it a 3x3 square or a 2x2? She found out soon enough, satisfied, and began to see what kind of starter kit they'd been given.

To a professional gamer it wouldn't have been much – but to the pair of noobs it was a treasure trove! They had each received:

One boat, a stack of wood, a stack of stone, 32 coal, full iron Protection I armour, a Sharpness I iron sword, an Efficiency I iron pickaxe, axe and shovel, a stack of cookies, 32 porkchops, a crafting table, a furnace, 8 ender pearls and two chests.

Noob heaven.

"We can't really sleep tonight, right? We don't have beds and there's a guy with a sword running around. If he's not in bed we can't be, right?" Greenlets pointed out merrily. Red leapt to her feet and scanned around outside the window. Nobody in sight. "Green… Can you stop pulling jokes like that?!" She was interrupted by a jet-black player with glowing red eyes rushing through the gap left for a door. On his chest was an image of a bucket full of lava. "Hey, what're you do -"Red began, but a flash of white on red caught her attention. TNT.

Her next – and last – thought was that she'd had all the air punched out of her lungs. Her body was thrown outwards and the pressure of the blast shredded her into pieces.

'You Died!'

"Fantastic. Great idea, a completely unlit, obvious and ugly base. Why, Greenlets, why!? We lost our stuff and everything. Why?!" Greenlets smiled. "We join a faction that someone else made. Simple!" "Why do I have a bad feeling about this…?" Red sighed through a facepalm. "Don't worry! The worst that can happen is we end up with Lava Bucket and his clan of Bucket Heads!" That was Greenlets' new nickname for the guy who exploded our shelter. "I guess we can give it a shot, then…" Red reluctantly agreed. And with that the unlikely pair set off to find a faction willing to take a bunch of completely unprepared noobs.

A/N: So here we are. The noobs made a dirt base and it blows up when Lava Bucket strikes. But who is Lava Bucket really? Which faction is he a part of? And what faction will our nooby crew end up in? Find out next time, maybe in a few days, maybe next week. Who cares, as soon as I get round to it really. J