Chapter 2: Red vs. Blue
The Minecraft sun was rising on the horizon through the cracks of the tall jungle florae that covered everything in the biome. 'Alright sweet! I can get a cat here if I just pick up some fish. Good thing, I brought my fishing rod.' Red thought cheerfully as she climbed and skulked through the maze of jungle trees and green shrubbery, which was slightly aggravating to navigate around. She found herself on a giant hill, that led down to a vast river, which flowed across the whole entire biome. Carefully, climbing down the landscape so she didn't fall to her death, she got down to the side of the river. There she decided she was going to start fishing and inspecting for any trace of clay, in which she had originally intended to get on this little trip away from her partially incomplete Minecraftian brick house. Taking out her fishing rod from her inventory, she casted out the line and waited for the fish to take the bait. It felt like an overly-exaggerated long millennium or two until she got a nibble. Perking up she watched the red and white bobber get nibbled a couple times, until abruptly going under. Red frantically, as if her life depended on it, tugged the fishing line back, with the hooked fish being brought back with it. "Whoo! One fish down, uh, probably a lot more to go. Damn ocelots are gluttons, if I recall, correctly." Red continued to fish for a few more minutes, gaining five more, which added up to six in total. "Should be good enough or I freaking hope so." Red murmured darkly as she pulled back her fishing line again and then tucked away her fishing rod back into her inventory.
"Okay time to find some ocelots to tame to carry out my evil Creeper diverting deeds!" Red said as she began feeling confident, and trailing the side of the bank, all the while keeping a close eye out for any emerging ocelots that were prowling around through the jungle's somewhat obscure vegetation. She walked around eating her third piece of cooked cow meat that she had been storing for herself. She only had one left until she was wiped clean of all her cooked delicious cow meat. 'Better make this quick or I'm gonna starve out here, and all this will be for absolute nothin'. Red thought bitterly, until she saw what she had been looking for wandering around in a treetop. "Ah-hah! I see you~!" Red sang in a sing-song voice before rushing over to get near it, but not too close to spook it. Getting closer the unaware ocelot she crouched down her character and began very gradually approaching it with a raw fish at hand. The ocelot turned around noticed her sudden appearance, and most importantly the raw fish in her hand. The painfully timid ocelot began moving towards her at a speedy turtle-like pace. 'Come here, kitty. Momma's not gonna hurt ya'. Momma wants you to fend off Creepers for her. Mama loves you~! Come here, sweetie, just a bit closer…"
"NO, NO, NO! FUCK YOU, CAT!"
Red literally in real life screeched like bloody murder on her couch as the ocelot, for some reason, darted off and away from her at the very same moment she was about to feed it the raw fish. "Stupid cat! I didn't even freaking move! UGH." Red grumbled obnoxiously and had her character chase after the scared ocelot in a rather ironically paradox game of 'cat and mouse'. As Red clumsily rushed through the jungle's obstacles she was terribly annoyed by the fact, she had lost sight of the ocelot, though she had a feeling she knew the direction it ran in. She did a quick look-around and didn't understand why she didn't even hear the meows of the ocelot anymore. Had it gotten away that quickly? Sighing Red was about to give up on this ocelot and look for another until she finally found it…
"It's dead…" Red mumbled with her brown eyes wide in shock. "H-How could it be dead!? I didn't kill it! They don't take fall damage! How? That's impossible!" Red uttered and shook her head in disbelief. The ocelot was just laying there on it's side dead and it wasn't de-spawning away. It just laid there, completely limp and lifeless. She got closer to the poor ocelot and examined what could have possibly killed it. It was then she noticed there was one single arrow dug into the ocelot's torso.
"An arrow? But I don't have a bow. Was it… a skeleton?" Red frowned and felt much more disturbed by this then the village, for some reason. It was maybe possible that her older sister somehow messed up the village, with the dead villagers that wouldn't de-spawn, and the strange sand formation and red stone torches that led to the sign with the creepy 'I'm watching you' message. But this wasn't something Blue was capable of doing. Red in real life suddenly felt like she didn't really want to play Minecraft, anymore. It was probably the first time in her life to admit to that feeling. She hoped it would be her last.
"Uh, I need to get some sleep, anyways. It's really late err - I mean early. So yeah…" Red murmured, still frowning to herself, saved and then logged out of her server and Minecraft session all together. Red stared blankly at her desktop picture that displayed a photo taken of her older sister Sapphire and herself wearing Mickey Mouse hats and side-hugging each other with large excited grins on their faces, as they stood in front of the famous Disney World castle in Orlando, Florida. Red running a pale hand through her short-cut hair, nervously sighed and turned off the laptop all together, before heading off to go get some very well needed shut-eye.
The next morning came and Little Red was sitting in her kitchen at the dining table, forlornly swirling her spoon repetitively around in her bowl of colorful and sugary Fruit-loops cereal. Blue was sitting at the other end of the table, busy reading a Star magazine and eating her own cereal at the same time. "I swear, these girls must only eat like a cube of cheese a day to stay this thin." Blue casually brought up as she glanced away from her magazine to look over at her unusually spaced out younger sister who only answered with an uninterested 'Uh-huh'.
Blue raised an eyebrow at her sister's strange behavior, "Is something wrong?"
Red didn't reply right away as she glanced up blankly, at the suspicious looking sky blue eyes of her sister, "I'm fine. Why?"
"You're acting, funny. Usually, you're happy, laughing, and talking my ear off about something. Not staring at your cereal like it is the ultimate bane of your entire existence."
"I'm just tired. I didn't sleep well last night."
"Really now? Why is that? Did you stay up the whole night playing Minecraft again?"
"Well yes, but - You! You messed with my game didn't you Big Blue?" Red brought up accusingly while suddenly looking a whole lot more lively than she did a brief second ago. Sapphire narrowing her brows at her sister, shook her head in confusion, "What in the world are you talking about? I didn't touch your silly game."
"Bullshit! You totally invaded my server! Come on, Blue. I saw the weird sand formation, the randomly placed red stone torches, and- And I saw the trail of them that led to the creepy sign and the burning village! Come on, Blue! At least own up to it. You got me! I'm admitting it!"
"Scarlett, I didn't touch your dumb game. I have no idea what you're talking about. You sure, you didn't just dream this stuff up?"
"No, I didn't dream it up! It happened! The villagers, they were dead, and they weren't de-spawning, they just laid there! And the chest with the bones and rotten flesh! I saw that too! A-and…-"
"Calm down, Red! Gosh! I think you should lay off the Minecraft. You're acting psychotic."
"But I'm not just making this up! Don't make me feel crazy, Sapphire! I know you did it!"
Blue now rolling her eyes, scoffed in agitation, "For the last time, Red. I promise… WITH - my life. That I did not touch your game in any sort of way, shape, or form. Now do you believe me?"
Red narrowed her eyes but couldn't find the words to say, for once in her life. 'She had to have done it! How in the hell could that happen? That stuff doesn't just spontaneously happen for no reason! Its unheard of!' Red thought feeling befuddled and frustrated that her sister wouldn't just own up to hacking into her game. Though honestly, Blue wasn't one to lie much and she certainly wasn't one for holding back, but Red just couldn't understand how it could not possibly be her sister. It just didn't make sense.
"Well?"
Red stared intensely at her sister, before sighing heavily and glaring back down at her hardly touched bowl of cereal, "I believe you." she murmured lowly, though sounding least from convinced.
"Good. Now let's drop this topic. I'm gonna go get ready for our college classes. I'll see you then," Blue said and nodded to her sister as she stood up with her empty bowl, placing it into the sink and walking off without another word. Red sat there continuing her glaring match with the bowl of cereal in silence. Perhaps, her sister was right. Maybe, she should just let it go. What point was there into keep letting some silly little video-game on the computer bother her? It was all fictional nonsense, anyways. Red sighed heavily one last time, before also standing up from her spot at the table and discarding her own bowl of cereal that had barely been eaten.