Chapter 3: Role-Play?

The complementary colored Chandler sisters went throughout their normal daily routine, from attending their University classes, to working their part-time job over at the movie theatre as concession workers. Red had gradually readjusted herself back to her usual chirpy happy-self throughout the day. The thought of the strange occurrences in her Minecraft session were left dwelling in the back of her mind. It wasn't until they got home to their shared condo from a busy day of activities, that the once forgotten thought began to remerge from its suppression. Red sitting there with her laptop on her lap again on the couch, glanced up from her school work she had been distractingly spending her time on. She looked at Blue who was also doing her own work on her own laptop, whilst sipping every so often on a warm cup of Earl Grey tea.

"Hey, Blue…"

"Yes, Red?"

"Wanna play some Minecraft with me?"

"…."

Blue flashing her ice-like eyes up from her school work, looking at Red in disinterest. "I doubt you finished your homework yet." Blue accused,which only made Red roll her brown eyes, "Ya? And you're not my parent. I'll finish the rest later. Let's have some fun!"

"Not happening, Red. Unlike you, I want to finish, so I don't have to worry about it anymore. I still have to cook dinner too, because you're certainly not going to do it. I don't have the time… Plus, didn't I tell you to lay off that game?"

"Uh well, - yeah. But… I really want to play it now." Red replied with a stupid sheepish grin rising on her face. The elder sister rolled her eyes with an exaggerated sigh, "Do what you want. Just don't come crying to me when you get lectured by the school board for not completing your work."

"Yeah, yeah. I'll be fine!" Red blew off, eagerly clicking out of her school work and clicking back into Minecraft's login screen. Blue could only shake her head at her sister's immaturity, before she glanced back down at her screen and began typing away once more.

'Well, she might not want to play with me, but that doesn't mean I can't play with someone else online. Hopefully, I don't get some dumb whiny little runt.' Red thought as she went back to her game's server but this time she set it availably open for anyone to join in on. Her game began from where she was before in the jungle biome. She noticed the dead ocelot was no longer there to much of her relief. She had another assumption that maybe that game was just really glitching up, even if that excuse seemed really overused. Still, it seemed the only other logical explanation for what she had experienced in her previous session. So she would just have to stick with that for the time being.

Red went back down to the riverside and began hunting for clay blocks. She skimmed around for a short while until she did come across quite a few randomly in the river. 'About time,' Red thought irritably as she began mining the clay out from their places in the ground with her iron pickaxe. It was somewhat a dull task, but it would be useful if she ever intended on ever finishing her Minecraft home. Upon, receiving her clay and finishing up she decided to go back to her house, seeing as she could come back to the jungle anytime to reattempt to tame an ocelot for her own. While on her way back home with the guidance of her trusty map, she killed off a few pigs for their meat, and finally made it back to the location of her home in the forest biome.

She looked at her brick Minecraftian home and thankfully nothing seemed out of place. Feeling relieved, she briskly entered through the wooden doors of her home and over to her furnace that was next to a crafting bench. She began to place her newly acquired clay inside the furnace and waited for it to cook up and turn into bricks that she could turn into blocks of brick for her remaining wall. Once it was finished, she made what she needed and rushed back outside to go finish the wall, only to find that it was already finished.

'What?! Now I know for sure that was not finished. H-how?' Red thought in bewilderment, her eyes trailed upwards to look at Blue, who was not paying the slightest iota of attention to Scarlett as she was still typing frivolously on her keyboard. Raising an eyebrow, she glanced back down at her screen and almost had a miniature heart-attack when she saw another person standing right in front of her character. "What the hell," Red muttered quietly as she narrowed her eyes at the strange character in front of her own. It was a male with what looked to be the default character skin called "Steve". Only massive difference was the fact that his eyes were fully white in color, they almost seemed to glow. It then suddenly occurred to her that she did in fact leave an open invitation into her world's server, she thought she'd at least be notified of this fact, but apparently not.

She was about to type to the person in front of her, she found it really odd he didn't seem to have a name tag above his head like players typically did. She didn't quite know what to call him. She was soon enough interrupted by him as he spoke before she did.

"Hello there." he had said to her through the text on the side of her screen. It was a simple greeting, nothing strange about that. Silly, she'd get so worked up over another player on her map, when she so deliberately inclined she wanted someone else to play with her. Staring at the strange version of Steve, she could only answer back in the simplest of ways.

"Hi. I hadn't realized you joined this server with me. You startled me for a second! Were you the one to finish my house for me?" She typed and waited for a response from him. Surprisingly, he responded almost immediately after she clicked the enter key.

"Yes, I did."

Red felt comforted by that answer, she had enough strangeness happening in her game, instead she had received kindness from a stranger. In which, she always welcomed with open arms. "Oh thanks! I was just about to finish it but it seems you got it before I did!"

"You're welcome, Little Red."

Red smiled at the that for a brief second, until she once again realized something. How did he know her nickname?!

"I appreciate what you did for me, but uh, how did you know my name?" Red typed back with a suspicious and uneasy feeling settling upon her.

"Little Red is your game tag." he replied once again almost immediately. He was a damn well fast typer!

Feeling extremely stupid for even mentioning that, Red wanted to bang her face against the keyboard in embarrassment. It took her a moment to regain her bearings until replying again, "Oh, so it is! Sorry lol. I'm a bit paranoid, I've been having a lot of weirdness going on in this map for some reason."

"Weirdness? ... Like what?" he asked.

"Just stuff like, you know, weirdly made formations and random red stone torches, and creepy signs. I even saw a village caught on fire and the villagers there were acting strange and stuff. But it seems like everything is starting to get back in order, somewhat. I think this server is slightly glitched out. But anyways, what is your name? For some reason, your gamer tag isn't showing up. I'm guessing it's the glitchyness again."

"Herobrine." He typed back. Red sat there with a puzzled expression, she swore she heard that name somewhere before. She reflected on it for a few before replying. "Herobrine? Hold up. You're kidding, right? Did you mod your character to look like Herobrine!? I can't believe I didn't notice that right away!"

It took him a few more seconds to respond than he had been before. It was as if he was being more apprehensive this time to what he would say, "Of course. So I'm assuming you know who I am?"

Red smiled in humor and chuckled to herself. This guy couldn't be serious? He seemed like he wanted to actually pretend he was THEE Herobrine of Minecraft myth. She knew precisely who he was, or at least who Herobrine was. Anyone who played Minecraft had to have some knowledge of him. Being as he is the infamous spooky evil undead brother of the game maker, Notch. Who went into people's game and wrecked havoc in both there game and by some reports, real life.

"I know exactly who you are! Haha, that's awesome! I just hope you're not here to trash my game and kill me! lol"

The guy who called himself 'Herobrine' took much more time to reply again but it did come eventually, "I won't… only if you are willing to help me with something."

"Well, I don't have much of a choice then... now do I? lol okay! Color me intrigued, what is it?"

"Follow me and do what I ask without question. Then I will tell you. Deal?"

Red read his response and snorted loudly in laughter, which briefly drew in a strange glance from her older sister. Red ignoring her sister's look could only grin in amusement from this guy she was talking too. He was very mysterious and she couldn't help but feel drawn to him and whatever it was he had in store for her; she sure had a hunch it was going to be a lot of fun.

"Sure thing! Lead the way… 'Herobrine'. ;)" Red typed back while having the most difficult of time concealing the giggle-fit she wanted so badly to fall into.

"Good. Follow." he replied once again in his immediate ways. Red saw his Herobrine lookalike character finally rush off in a certain direction, he seemed much faster than her own. Must have been another mod he added to play up this 'Herobrine' persona, that he seemed so determined to come across as. Red obviously fascinated by him and fully honest in her reply to follow and listen. She chased after him with her character, even though she was very unsure in what to expect from this strange man and his hidden agenda.

Author's Note: I'm only using text chat like 'lol', because Scarlett is speaking through typing. Same goes for the smiley faces like ;) ... I don't ever use that in my stories, unless it is necessary for the story like this one. Thank you for reading. See you next chapter~! *smiles warm at you and waves goodbye*