Chapter 4: No Questions Asked
Scarlett's character tailed behind 'Herobrine' for quite awhile. The scenery was becoming dark and that meant the creatures would be coming out to play. Red frowned and decided to bring up her distressed thoughts, "Hey, its starting to get dark out here. Should we camp somewhere for the night?"
"No. Keep following." he replied without a second in delay. Red made a face at that suddenness of his reply, not believing in the slightest that would be the smartest of decisions, especially when both were without armor. She'd rather not have to die on her server at all if possible. He was very persistent, never once slowing down, which was a bit of a frustration, considering how much faster his character was than her own. Deciding to not ask questions like he had originally told her, she followed after him, not having much time to think about it, anyways. Seeing as she had to keep her undying focus on him because of his constant speed. It was not long until the night filled the sky, Red could see the Minecraft monsters spawning around the two. It was strange though, no matter how close they seemed to get to them, they never pursed after them. Actually, it was quite the contrary, she swore they were actually retreating away in fear of them. How could that be? Was this another mod of his? Or was it just her imagination acting up? She wasn't too sure, anymore.
"We're nearly there. It is just up ahead."
Red not in the least sure what 'it' was, just went with the flow. It wasn't until, he all of sudden, stopped dead in his tracks from within a swamp land biome that Red also paused, but with curiousness towards his actions.
"What is it?" she asked finding it impossible of herself to not at least ask him that. He thankfully didn't seem bothered by her question, because he acted like she never had said anything to begin with. He stared off in the distance before turning his 'Herobrine' character to look back at her. She felt chills literally go down her spine as she saw him. Something about those eyes even while being pixelated, they were so damn creepy. They actually were faintly glowing in the darkness of the night, it was, for a lack of a better word, oddly… captivating.
"Down here." he typed to her and gestured his character towards a rather tiny hole in the ground. Curious as ever, Red went over to look down into the hole he was wanting her to go down. She couldn't really make anything out though because of how dark it was.
"It looks dark. Are you sure about this?"
"No questions. Remember?"
"Oh… yeah. Right." Red typed back in glum reply and was highly unsure, but decided to keep going since she had gotten this far with the stranger. Hoping it wouldn't lead straight into a pit of lava, she without anymore hesitation had her character jump forwards straight into the ominous black hole. Her character fell at an alarmingly far distance, she was sure she was going to die from impact! Red watched the screen nervously and was paralyzed with shock when her character fell to the ground but took not a single point of fall damage.
"No way… How in the world?" Red muttered in real life with complete disbelief. Thankfully, Blue was not there anymore to hear her talking to herself, but rather was now in the kitchen making dinner for the two instead. The cave or wherever she was now standing in was pitch black, other than some red stone torches that were placed throughout an entire hallway that led into, surprise, more darkness.
"Herobrine, you there?" Red typed but she didn't need much of a reply as her question was answered by the sudden appearance of the man running past her and forwards through the dark hallway of red stone torches.
"Follow." was his blunt reply and it was more than enough for Red to keep blindly following. The dark hallway was lengthy, but did come to an end. At that very end was an obsidian portal that looked a lot like the portal to the Nether. The only diversity between the two was the fact that this portal was not purple in color- rather it was red. Even though it was her obvious color of choice, it still made her feel uneasy. Herobrine paused in front of the portal's entrance as he turned back to look at her, "Go in."
She wanted to ask so badly where the portal led, but she knew he wouldn't answer her. He'd probably just get annoyed at her for asking questions again, which he was apparently against her doing. Sighing to herself Red did what he asked of her, rushing into the foreboding blood-red portal without a second thought. Red's screen didn't blur like it did when you entered Nether portals, instead, it started glitching to the max with pixelated colors scrambling and meshing into each other. Red was sincerely beginning to worry if following this stranger was a terrible idea. She had thought her game crashed, but was taken back on that thought as the colors began to slowly return to a normal picture. And there her character was, standing in the middle of a dark snow-covered biome with this 'Herobrine' guy standing eerily in front of her, waiting and watching.
"Whoa, that was really weird! I've never seen a portal like that before! I thought it crashed my game for a second!" Red typed to the Herobrine impersonator. He didn't seem interested in her words as he glanced away from her and back into the distance wordlessly. Red watched him, waiting for him to say or do something, because she was now at complete loss as to what to do or where in the hell she even was for that matter.
"Up ahead there will be players. I want you to slaughter them."
Red's eyes practically bulged out of her sockets at that rather abrupt if not disturbing demand of her. "What? What are you talking about?" she typed back, once again forgetting that questions were exclusively off-limits.
"No. Questions. Just do it." he typed back in a way that somehow felt intimidating, she couldn't explain it. She felt like now, if she decided to back out on him that something horrible would happen. Of course, she was probably just being paranoid. He was obviously just WAY too into this Herobrine thing. He actually wanted her to kill people? Was she in another server? It didn't make much sense, but seeing as this was just a video game, she decided that killing off some random Minecraft characters wouldn't be that huge of a deal. It was all pretend anyways, no harm done.
"Uh well, I guess. But what if they fight back? I don't have any armor and I only have an iron sword. What if they have diamond stuff? Or maybe even enchanted items?"
"I said no questions. You'll do fine without. Just go, do it, and then we'll talk."
"Alright, if you say so. I'm just gonna assume you're some kind of troller in Minecraft aren't ya? Don't take that offensively though! It just seems that way." Red brought up to the 'Herobrine' lookalike. He didn't reply right away again, instead he stared for an awkward amount of time.
"… If you want to put it like that, then sure. Now get going, no more stalling."
"Alright, alright, jeez. I'll do it, but I'm gonna be honest and admit that I'm not too confident I'll make it out alive doing this." Red typed back fore-warningly, until finally running forward with her character to wherever he had gestured her to go beforehand. She didn't get anymore messages from him, so she didn't bother to keep pestering him with more of her own. She just wanted to do what he asked of her and get it over with. The intense curiosity of what he really wanted out of all of this was her true motivation that was keeping her submissive to his nefarious demands.
It wasn't far at all when Little Red came across a group of four male players in a small and rather poorly made Minecraftian town. They were all talking to each other via typing, while calibrating together on building a shitty looking watch-tower made out of cobblestone and some blocks of oak wood planks. 'I have a feeling these guys are either really young or just fucking terrible at building. Oh well, at least it doesn't seem like they have that strong of equipment. Except, that one there with the character skin of a cow, he has full golden armor. If I had to guess, he probably doesn't have a shitty weapon either. Let's hope my assumption about him is wrong.' Red thought to herself in her planning as she observed them carefully, while making sure in staying completely still in a crouched position. She certainly didn't want her gamer-tag making her visible to the ignorant players from the place she was plotting and hiding amongst the snowy forest landscape.
Taking a couple deep breathes, Red did the only thing a person of no concept or intelligent understanding of guerilla warfare tactics would do.
CHARGE!
Red's character ran straight forward into battle with her iron sword out and ready to take out the four innocent Minecraft players (who all sucked at building). The players didn't even begin to become aware of her, until she slashed at the one player in the golden armor. She wanted him gone first, being as he could possibly be the most dangerous of the four. The players were defiantly panicking by this unexpected wild ambush, by this wild red-head Minecraft woman that was attacking them mercilessly without one dash of reason. The players were typing alarmingly fast back and forth to each other. Not a single one knowing what the hell was going on. The only thing they knew and could do was fight back. Just like Red had expected, three of them had weak weapons, all consisting of stone. The only shocker was that the golden armored player was not the one with the powerful weapon, instead, it was a different player that had weak leather armor and the character skin that resembled a zombie from the video game, Left-for-Dead.
Red had to very carefully block and dodge the oncoming blows from the diamond sword he did possess. If she got hit by that even once, her health would drastically go down. The only good thing was the fact, it was not enchanted to be any more powerful than it already was. Little Red fought viciously and was able to take out the golden-armor wearing player to much of her surprise. She was about to dodge another coming blow, but just by mere milliseconds, she was too late. He hit her and her health, just as she had expected, dropped down to six hearts out of ten total.
"Fuckin' asshole! I'm not gonna' lose to you!" Red growled lowly to herself as she glared daggers at the diamond-sword wielding player. As she became so focused on him, she wasn't paying enough attention to the other two players. Even though they had weak stone swords, they were still capable of putting a considerably large dent on her health, mostly because of her complete absence of armor to protect herself from the incoming blows. Before, she knew it, her health dropped all the way down to two hearts, though she was finally able to take out the diamond wielding player. Now, it was just down to the two of them and she was feeling very anxious. All it took was one more hit and she was a goner.
The two charged her directly at the same time, making it completely impossible to block them both at the same time. She had to back off and that's exactly what she did as fast as possible. The players were getting overly-confident that they would succeed to avenge their two other friends' death. Red backed up into a wall of one of their shitty dark oak wood cabins.
She was totally cornered. It wasn't until she saw something suddenly fly straight towards her that she wanted to scream out in rage, but instead she was utterly amazed. It wasn't an arrow like she had first thought, but a splash health potion that hit her, and not by any mistake did the other two enemy players get a single drop of it. Her health was raised significantly and the mighty pride of the two other players fell miserably fast as she regained a second-wind from the potion and slashed them both down, all in a matter of a few seconds.
"YES, I DID IT!" Red cheered at the top of her lungs in real life, causing her sister to yell, 'shut up!' from the kitchen. Red didn't care though as she was now grinning like she had just won the lottery. Little Red was going to look for 'Herobrine' to tell him the good news, but she didn't have to look far as he was suddenly right behind her… which happened to startle her a little bit.
"Whoa, there you are! I did it! Did you see me?! :D" Red typed excitedly to the white-glowing eyed character in front of her.
"Yes. I did. Though if I hadn't intervened, you would be dead by now." He typed back.
Red's face felt warm in embarrassment by that comment, "You were the one to throw that splash potion?" she typed.
"Yes. Who else?"
"Well, I don't know but thank you for doing that. I told you before, I wasn't too sure I'd make it. But your potion saved my ass. So yeah. Thanks."
"…. You're welcome. I would not do that for just anyone." he replied, which again, made Red blush, but this time not for the same reason as before.
"Oh… You wouldn't?"
"No," was his only response, but it was enough to have many different possible meanings come attached. Red wasn't one to get tongue-tied, but she really didn't know what to say. This guy was so… mysterious - and she was just dying to unravel his secrets! She thought about what to type for an awkwardly long amount of time in silence. They just stared at each other... Not a word spoken.
"I need to go. I will see you another time."
Red's eyes widen as his words. He was ditching her... after all of this!? "But what about us talking and me helping you with whatever?"
"Tomorrow. Then we'll talk. Goodnight, Red." and just like that in the blink of an eye his character disappeared completely from view. Leaving poor Little Red left in the dark and completely confused and yet… She wanted more.
"Damn. That guy is seriously weird. I can't help but like him though. He better be online tomorrow." Red murmured to herself aloud, before being brought rudely out her thoughts as Blue stormed over with a heated expression.
"This is like the tenth time I called you to come and eat dinner. Do you enjoy stone-cold food?"
"Huh?" Red blinked twice as she looked up at her older sister who was looking down at her through narrowed eyes.
"Oh uh sorry! I got kinda distracted!"
"Apparently. Come on and eat. I didn't make a warm home-cooked meal for the hell of it."
"I'm coming, whiney! Hold your horses!" Red replied dramatically with an eye roll before saving her game and logging out of her session for the night.