MineCrash

Chapter 2: Save and Destroy

Steve found himself screaming for a large fraction of the fall, despite falling head first and having air forced up his throat. In fact the drop seemed to last a lot longer then he thought, almost like he wasn't falling in the first place but he could feel a strong and strange force drawing him towards the bottom so he had to be getting close to the end of the Void- if it had one that is.

"When is my life supposed to flash before my eyes?!" The miner thought aloud, watching as the trees, grass, and rolling hills slowly close the distance between them.

"You don't remember your past, so you are unlikely going to have one." Herobrine mused.

"Well geeeze, thanks for making me feel better!" Steve replied sarcastically. "When I asked for a way out of this place I didn't have THIS in mind!" He shouted as they came to the edge of the darkness.

They fell out of the black ring and it slowly sealed up behind them and faded away. They plummeted into a world with a thicker atmosphere, the air was more heavier and the temperature much warmer. Steve could see the sky and all of it's dispersal of warm colors, the morning sun beautifully painted the landscape in a soft golden glow. And as much as he wish he could enjoy the clear view he just couldn't, not with an open flat land about to meet him head on.

"You lied to me! You said you'd make me normal again but you can't if I'm dead!"

"I don't make promises, and no- I didn't lie. We still have a deal, if you die then 'you'd' be the one breaking it."

"Ahhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa!" Steve screamed again, throwing his arms up in front of his face and squeezing his eyes shut, preparing for impact.

The sword shined brightly as they neared the ground and enveloped him and his wielder in light, a large bolt of lighting then jumped from the blade and shot for the dirt beneath causing the two to bounce back from the force and fall onto the grass a few feet away.

…

"Owww!" Steve groaned and hissed. "Ah, my head." Laying flat on his back he leaned up and rubbed his aching temples, cringing a little from the unexpected feel of cool and rugged fingers. He pulled his hand back down to notice a bit of crimson flowing between the creases of his cracked flesh. Either his skin was too sharp or he sustained some damage but he didn't feel like he broke anything considering he fell from the sky. Which lead him to wonder how did he survive and not end up splattered all over the ground?

He quickly scanned his area and spotted the sword lying several feet away in some tall grass, still slightly glimmering with tiny sparks. "Herobrine!" He quickly crawled foreword and took the sword in hand again.

"I hope keeping you alive isn't as much trouble as it's worth." It irately complained.

"So you saved me then?"

"Indeed, I used some of my power to counteract the fall and changed our velocity from the drop. This way you fell as if you were falling only five feet instead of five-hundred. You'd be deceased otherwise."

"Wow, thank you!" He smiled widely. "And to think you were going to be cruel and let me di-"

"But do not once think I did it as an act of kindness!" Herobrine quickly interrupted. "You'd be useless to me if dead, I have no other reason of wasting my power on you other then to slay you or any human for a little entertainment. Only for those two reasons, nothing more."

"Oh." Steve felt a little dejected from such cold words. He couldn't possibly imagine why Herobrine was so callous and unfriendly and he seemed a bit too upset to ask why at the moment. But who knows, maybe this adventure could change him or so the miner hoped with the threat still fresh in mind. "Well I can still thank you whether it was done for the good will of it or just to use me-, I guess. I'll try not to be a bother."

"That, you better remember well! I have little patience and tolerance of your pathetic kind."

"Uh- Will do my best?" Steve could practically imagine the sword scowling, if it could.

Steve pulled himself up on his feet and surveyed his surroundings, everything seemed perfectly normal for the most part, well except for his arms. But during his gaze something didn't seem right, he could see perfectly into the distance with one eye and the other was not quite up to par. It amazed him that he didn't realize this at first but now that he had everything to look at he could definitely tell the difference. His right eye could make out details of a tree's bark from nearly half a mile away and when he closed that eye he couldn't even tell if the tree had any bark at all with the other. "That is strange." He blinked.

"What is it?"

"I'm not sure." He blinked again. "I think my vision is either deteriorating or improving, I can't really tell. I see very well with my right eye but my left just makes distant objects blurry."

"Hmmmhmmhmm," The blade quietly snickered. "Maybe you should take a look at yourself with my reflective surface, that should explain your 'abnormal' eyesight."

The miner brought the blade up and close to his face and he freaked out from the shocking sight of a discolored eye in the reflection staring back at him. His left eye was a beautiful light blue; perfectly normal and natural looking, but his right was a radiant mauve color the seemed to glow as he focused on it. "Wha- what is this?!" He raised a hand up to it but was too afraid to rub his eye with his tough textured skin. "Either I have a serious case of pinkeye or I'm turning into an Endermen!"

"Don't feel bad, if it's an improvement then I'd suggest you be happy to have it. Your normal human eyes wouldn't even compare in efficiency. Actually, being a freak makes you better than any other human out there."

"Is this also part of my bizarre change?"

"It is."

"Then am I becoming a monster?" He glanced once more into the refection then moved the blade away, refusing to look at it anymore in disgust.

"No, not really. You are not altering any further… well as long as you aren't caught up in another white rift anyways."

"White rift?"

"Another name for the world's shuffling lines of code. I gave it a name since I knew you'd eventually ask. When I was changed the last I saw was a white and silver wave, then I ended up in the Void with you. Now if you ever get caught up in one like you had before then you'll know what I'm talking about."

"So these white rifts are jumbling everything up and creating something new?"

"From what I can tell, yes. Before my transformation I had watched the land shift and change too, some stone blocks broke in half and turned black and the land parted as the creature drifted by; creating a large blackened crevice. I don't know too much about the changes yet or how to fix them, only that I saw that abomination before all of this happened. I know 'it' had something to do with our alterations so that thing is our target. That is the order I am giving to you, we will find it and eliminate it."

"So we're going to hunt this thing down huh? But where do we even start? What does it look like? How powerful is it? I don't remember any land marks and I know for sure that I don't remember this place! I don't know anything about this 'thing'."

"I won't go into detail- but the creature is repulsive, we'll leave at that because once you see it then you'll know that IT is it. As for any leads of it's whereabouts? None. This place isn't familiar to me either, we'll just have to come across it or find a way to track it."

"That could take some time for a small creature in a big world."

"Unquestionably."

"… I meant me."

"As impatient as I am to be unbound from this cursed confinement I have but no choice to wait. You're only lucky that you're my way back to normality, otherwise I would of let you die."

"Thanks for the reminder, I'm sure I won't forget that." He said blankly.

Steve started his walk eastward through lush open fields, still trying to make out an answer for all of this mess while trying to adjust to his new eyesight. So many questions filled his head as he began to think but one in particular came up and he didn't even know how to explain it, only that Herobrine could since he still had his memory intact.

"So-." Steve began, taking a second to carefully choose his words. "You said you'd answer some questions for me if I help you right? Well I have one that is really bugging me right now."

The sword lightly growled seeming quite irritated. "Very well, but only one for now."

"Okay, you said earlier that our situations were connected and even that you ended up in the Void with me, this leads me to believe that you were with me before all of this mess happened. Is this true? If so, then why? And why are you so aggressive towards me?"

…

There was an awkward moment of silence but the sword broke it before Steve had the chance to speak again.

"This is one question you may not want me to answer yet," Herobrine warned. "You wouldn't like the reply I have in store for you. In fact, you wouldn't even dare help me that is for certain."

"But why?!" Steve stopped and eyed the blade.

"If you could remember me from before the powerful rift that tore through this world then you would be trying to destroy me instead, like you were trying beforehand."

"I wouldn't do that!" He hastily defended, clearly shocked in disbelief by what he heard.

"Oh, but you wouldn't even waste the slightest opportunity to dispose of me now if you remembered."

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A/N: Thanks for the views and reviews! Glad someone likes this idea, I got it from a special and awesomely talented MC writer with awesome stories that everyone should read (If you haven't read them already). I tell ya who later (I plan to finally get over my laziness and go review all their chapters first since I've been holding them off for quite awhile now), but for now- Peace!