My brother and I play Minecraft Xbox, and a couple years ago in TU8 when we first got our hands on the game, we were the biggest noobs ever. A few months later after our first survival world fail (I'd rather not talk about it) we called ourselves pros.
We were 100% wrong.
On our second co-survival world called "New World" since we had no idea how to name worlds, we were okay, just lacked common sense. We lived in a village church with a backyard full of really big trees. Beside the village was a desert we never torched up to go "hunting" for mobs at night time. Because of our terrible skill of fighting, it was covered in creeper explosion craters and death markers we made for no reason.
That one particular night of our first endermen encounter, we had leather armor, iron helmets (or boots, I'm not quite sure), and stone swords. Mine was about to break. Even though it was dark, we saw two endermen in the distance. We've seen pictures and watched videos of them, but never saw one face to face.
We got to close.
I smacked both of them and my sword broke. In seconds my hearts were shaking which always freaked me out so I screamed and ran, falling into holes, and away from the nearby ocean, not knowing water hurt them.
The endermen chased me around the desert and several times I nearly avoided death because they teleported. Me nor my brother saw them teleporting, we just thought they ran really fast.
Eventually I ran into the backyard forest, thinking I lost them, but they literally popped up in front of me and I was oneshotted. Right after they turned around and killed my brother in three hits. And our respawn wasn't even ten blocks from the endermen so they teleported IN OUR HOUSE and killed us AGAIN so quickly chat read:
"PrincessLyoka was slain by enderman."
"IronEJ ya! was slain by enderman."
"PrincessLyoka was slain by enderman."
"IronEJ ya! was slain by enderman."
After many failed attempts at fleeing our captured house, we had to wait dead until morning for the endermen to teleport away. Our stuff had despawned by then but we thought the endermen stole them. I've had a fear of endermen since.