One to One Thousand

The next two or so days until the 'others' would come were somewhat calm; I mostly spent the time planning what I would have to do for what I could only assume was the arrival of the rest of my entire freaking school.

That mostly included getting food for the people who would inevitably seek me out for help, or on the other hand, try to raid me and fail because they don't know how to play Minecraft. I ended up harvesting everything in my underground farms, and breeding and culling all my animals, which was actually kinda nerve-wracking having to do that last part for real, but I got used to it. Eventually.

I noticed Herobrine watching me at times; we even talked a little more.

I had found out that 'the impact' was what he was calling the thing that happened in the server room with all of the light that had brought us in here.

He had also said that the others weren't going to spawn at the world's spawn point (where I had spawned), rather, they would be spread out on the opposite side of the river to my base, each about four square blocks (wow redundancy at its finest) away from each other, as putting them all in one spot would crash the world and the servers it ran on, killing everyone inside. I guess that made sense, after all, PE worlds are really only supposed to handle like five people at once. I figured that because of that, the machines must've scanned my phone or something, and overwrote the existing data on the servers with my world, so it was capable of fitting more people. At least the other students don't have to clean out their old documents and other files anymore.

Even after telling me all of that, he still wasn't explaining why he was doing any of this.

"Seriously, what's the point? If you really couldn't care less about the people you trapped in here, why bother spreading them out?" I had asked him while breeding the chickens on day three. I had noticed him looking at me from behind a birch tree from the part of the other bank's grotto where the river narrows into a shallow rill.

Killing a few chickens in the process, he warped over behind me. I hate it when he does that, "It's fun to fuck with people. Can't fuck with them when they're dead."

My face went red at how bluntly he had said that; I always get kinda nervous when people swear. I wasn't believing his bullcrap, though. I turned around and spoke in a hushed voice, careful not to tick him off again, "Oh please, I doubt that's the reason."

"Yes, but I really don't feel like explaining myself to you Rafi, it would be useless information anyway."

He had taken up this annoying habit of calling me 'Rafi' in a condescending tone, although I guess I can't blame him; he didn't exactly know my real name, and I didn't plan on telling him.

I replied, "Well, what's the harm in knowledge for the sake of knowledge?"

He just stared and squinted at me when I said that. He was getting irritated again.

"Ok, ok, I won't ask anymore, but you can't stop me from wanting to find out."

He calmly answered, "We'll see about that," as he disappeared again; he probably just went to find another place to watch me from.

I swear, he's gonna give me paranoia.

The morning of day four finally came. I sat on the roof of my house with my legs hanging off the edge and watched as the sun rose in the sky and the moon set, thinking about everything that was about to go down.

"Now's probably a weird time to tell you this," I jumped in my skin as I realized Herobrine had been up in a tree, "but if anyone dies, they're dead for good."

"Are you kidding me?! That would've been some good information to have before I almost caught on fire trying to put out your stupid blaze the other day!"

"But you didn't catch fire, and at least I said anything. You could've had the chance to find out the hard way if I hadn't."

I sighed deeply, screamed internally, and rubbed my eyes with my fingers, trying not let him get me worked up, "Well I guess thanks then, you sarcastic ass."

I jumped down from my house, taking a little damage in the process. The only way down was the tree Herobrine was on, and I didn't exactly feel like getting all that close to the guy still staring daggers at me. I walked towards the spruce bridge when I started hearing him speaking again.

"...ve…"

"Hm?" I faced him.

"Four…three…"

"Damn it!" I threw myself to the ground.

"Two…one…"

I shielded my head and prepared for the lag of the others coming.

The last second passed and nothing happened, but I heard him laughing up in the tree.

"Pffft, ha! Oh...oh, that's a good chuckle right there, you're so gullible!" oh my god he snorts when he laughs. "You should see your face right now!"

He was holding his sides and kicking while I picked myself up off the grass, my hair drooping in front of my red face. "Keep kicking like that and you might fall out of that tree, asshat!" I shouted up at him.

"Do all of your insults revolve around the word- augh!"

I had shot an arrow at him that struck him right in the middle of the forehead, which I think surprised him more than hurt him, but it was still satisfying to hear the solid thunk, "I didn't know 'augh' was an insult," I smirked.

"Why you little-" his attention was drawn away from me, however, and he whisked himself away in black smoke again.

"Uh?" I raised an eyebrow as the ground started shaking.

Everything in motion had slowed down as if moving through jello (I miss jello), and I lost my balance as the world started stuttering. I faceplanted hard, as if I was ten times heavier from the lag, and tried to push myself back up to my knees like an idiot. Any movement I tried to make didn't register, and backed up with other attempts until they caught up to each other and all happened at once, throwing me to the ground again, this time onto my back.

Then it all stopped, and as I laid down, dizzy, out of breath, and still on my back, I saw nametags popping up on the other side of the river in the grotto and the dark oak forest behind it. I rolled over onto my stomach weakly.

"I hope they don't touch my shit," I squeezed out, and dunked my head back into the grass while I calmed down.

Can you tell I had fun with this one? My silly fangirl humor is off the charts *pushes up shades* *tips fedora*