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The Story:Book Zero-Prologue:
Prolouge Parts: Part One:
Prologue-Part 1: Ten Years Before
From the haze of my emotions rose one simple, impossible fact; I had no idea who I was. The only possible clue in the formless place to my past was the strange, bearded man who stood across from me. His strangeness came mainly from his shape; he was made completely out of rectangles and squares, which struck me as somehow wrong. But who was I to judge? For as I raised my arm, I realized that I too was nothing but lines and boxes.
"Who are you?" I asked. "Why is everything square? Where am I? What do you want? Why can't I
remember my past?"
"You ask too many questions." the bearded man said, without moving his mouth, "I don't have much
time to answer you. I am known as Notch. I will not reveal my true name to you, not until you complete the only request I ask of you. Everything is square because that is how I made it. Everything is...simpler."
"Simpler?" I asked. "There's no such thing as a circle here! Or a triangle! Nothing is making sense! How do you have the power to create an entire world?"
"You will realize later. I need you because you are destined to be a hero, Steve," the man called Notch answered. Steve. So that was my name. It saddened me that I couldn't remember even that much. I was still confused.
"But why did you have to wipe my memory?"I asked.
"Your past would get in your way. You would focus on your friends and family and getting back to them rather than finding away to complete my request," replied Notch. "which is to slay two great foes. The first is known as the Wither. It has incomprehensible powers. In one of the paintings that will be shown to you, you will see how to summon it. Be careful, you must get far away quickly after you summon it, or it will mean certain doom."
"How will it cause my 'certain doom' if I get too close?" I said to him.
"You'll blow up due to its protective blast," Notch answered. "Anyway, the next foe I ask you to defeat is the Ender Dragon. It is no ordinary dragon. It is a dragon with powers that can destroy almost everything that is of any world besides its home dimension, known as the End. To get there, you must find a Stronghold. If you have the 12 keys required, you can enter the End. You must do it, in ten or eleven years from now, it will break into our world and destroy everything I have made."
"How will I know how to find the Stronghold? Also, what's in it for me?" I shot at him.
"If you must have a reward other than not dying, you will return to your home world with all your
memory and you'll be the same age and you will wake up on the night after you left," replied Notch. "Everything you will need to know about the world I am sending you to can be found out at the village. It will be very close to where you arrive."
"Okay, that sounds fair enough. Uh...when do I leave to do this task?" I said questioningly.
Notch answered by saying, "Actually, right now." Immediately after he said that, I got very dizzy and couldn't make out what was in front me anymore.
Suddenly, the world went black.
Part Two:
Prologue-Part 2: Proving my Worth...This Should be Fun
Once again, everything seemed hazy when I woke up. Once again, everything was square. But I realized what Notch meant. Everything was simpler. It was amazing. I was in an amazing forest. Trees big and small surrounded me. There were pigs and sheep all around me. To my right, a river was flowing. Notch made everything look special in it's own way. I guessed it would be easier to collect materials like this. But I didn't have time to admire it all. I had a mission. What had Notch told me? It was something about a village.
That was pretty easy. It was right behind me the whole time. It was in the middle of the clearing I woke up in. All the villagers had their arms in quite an odd position. They had stuck their arms into their sleeves on the opposite arm. I slowly walked towards it, looking in both directions.
Of course, my new life had to be cruel to me. A villager hurried over and stopped me. He said, "You there! Do you have emeralds? Have you come here to trade? Are you injured in any way?"
"No, no, and obviously no," I said in reply. There was something odd about this guy. He was very nosy, to describe him ironically. All of the villagers had huge noses. It was very disturbing and disgusts me to mention.
"Then I can not permit you into the village," the villager said, "unless you can prove your worth by killing the witch of the dark swamp!" He pointed to a swamp that was very ominous indeed.
"Well, that doesn't seem so hard," I said. The villager than said, like he would regret saying it, "If you do this, you will have to borrow a few things or you will be killed in the process of doing this."
"Now it seems kinda hard."
"Well, it should be. You're killing a witch, after all."
"Why do you need me to kill her. What's so wrong about her?"
"She cursed our village. Throughout the whole summer, every year, we are stuck in an eclipse. She did this when someone was journeying in the swamp and she didn't want her swamp to be disturbed," The villager answered, "Give me a minute. I will be back with your supplies."
He ran off quickly into one of the houses. Through the window i saw him open a chest and take out what looked like armor, a sword, a bow, and a quiver. I hoped that's what it was. All of these things were pixelated so it was hard to tell. When he returned, he came with the items. Indeed it was what thought it was. I put on the armor with ease. It was chain mail armor and fit very comfortably. That was surprising since it felt so stiff. He then gave me the weapons and the quiver.
He told me, "Now go on, outsider. We do not want an eclipse this summer. It begins in five days." I already knew that i would need only 30 minutes. However, I left without a word. This wasn't going to be fun.
I approached the "dark swamp" quickly and ran towards a hut that I saw in the distance. I climbed up the ladder and banged open the door. The hut was made of dark planks and ordinary logs. Inside was a workbench, a cauldron, and some mushrooms in some pots. There was also a chest by the workbench. The witch turned around. She looked just like the villagers except she had paler skin and a black hat on.
"Hmm..." she said curiously. "I thought one of the villagers would challenge me in order to break the curse. A human may be a bit harder to kill but it doesn't matter to me."
From the chest she pulled out many green, red, purple, and pink potions out of the chest. She threw a purple one at me. It shattered and the liquid hurt me in a way I couldn't describe. I ran out side and jumped off the porch. The fall hurt me a bit, but I was mainly okay. I turned around, pulled out my bow, and nocked an arrow while I recovered from the potion and the fall. When she came out of the door I released the arrow. It went flying and hit her right in the nose. She fell backwards and blocked the doorway. I climbed up the ladder and pulled out the rocky sword I had been given. Then, I stabbed her and she disappeared in a puff of smoke.
A few green orbs and a potion laid where she had just been a moment ago. Is that how things died here? The green orbs flew towards me and I seemed to absorb them. In my mind a bar appeared and filled up completely. Then it reset and filled up again a little bit. A number 1 was now on top of it. I don't know how it did that. I picked up the potion and examined it. Once I picked it up, I seemed to know what it was. It was a regeneration potion. How did I know that? This day just kept getting stranger and stranger. I headed back to the village, feeling a mixture of victory and confusion.
Part Three:
Prologue-Conclusion: The Reaper Of Souls Really Creeps Me Out
Three Years Later...
You might be wondering why I skipped ahead three years. It's because nothing really interesting happened. Once you prove your worth to the village, they make you feel welcome. They taught me everything from mining to crafting (yes I see the irony in what I said) to simple stuff like fishing. I forgot about my mission for three years. When I remembered it, I rushed over to the librarian and asked him to explain everything I needed to know about the Wither. First he had to explain the Nether to me.
First I had to build a 4x5 frame of obsidian. Then I had to light it and step into the purple substance that appeared. After a few seconds, I would find myself in the Nether. I would then find myself in a fiery dimension. I would see walking pigs everywhere (by "walking" I mean on their hind legs. It's downright creepy) carrying gold swords. It would be best not to hurt them, because if I did, every single one for as far as I could see would be after me. Then there were Ghasts, floating white squids that shot fireballs at you. If you killed them, you got one of their tears (they're not liquid. If they froze, the impossible would have happened. It must be at least 100 degrees there), which could be used for potions. If I found a nether fortress, I would run into Blazes, these weird yellow rectangles with spinning rods around them. They also shot fireballs (but they were much weaker than Ghast fireballs) at you. They dropped their rods, which were required for making brewing stand and strength potions. Then there were the Wither Skeletons. Taller versions of skeletons equipped with stone swords. Downright scary, but I would need three of their heads (along with four soul sand) to call the Wither into the world. It would probably take a while to do that, because it's hard to kill a monster without slicing its head into pieces.
So, as you can tell, I made the portal. After I got in, I was in a living nightmare. The second I got in, I saw a Ghast. They look friendly until they shoot their flaming balls of death at you. I quickly deflected it's fireball with my sword. I sadly missed. I deflected the next one, and it hit! Its tear fell into lava, though. After traveling for a while and fighting Ghasts, I found a group of Wither Skeletons. I was in trouble now. I did a quick sword spin (no one taught me that, which I think is sad) and hit all of them. One fell to the ground, but it clearly wasn't dead. I chopped of one's head. That was good news. I stabbed the other in the chest, then did a quick uppercut and killed it. The last one finally got up and I kicked in down again. Then I jumped onto it and stabbed my sword into its head. I had one head from it, but I was almost dead from the fight. I ate a few steaks and turned around to see a Ghast. Just another day in the unlucky life of me.
There was no way I could deflect the fireball in time so I rolled over to my left and barely dodged it. It hit a couple Pigmen (as they were called) and I'm surprised they didn't get all mad at it. I deflected the next fireball, and then a few more, but kept missing. I got out my bow and shot a few arrows at it and it finally died. I ran over and picked up the tear and some experience. Now to find more Wither Skeletons.
Ironically, one came up behind me and stabbed me, hard. I turned around and gave it a good chop to its side. I did an uppercut but it never hit because it hit me again. I knocked its sword out of its hand with my sword and chopped of its head. Victory! I traveled some more and saw in the distance a dark structure. It must be a Nether Fortress, I thought. What seemed to be guarding the entrance was a group of five Wither Skeletons. Before I could get any closer, I had to fight another Ghast. It must be so much easer to attack from a long distance, I thought. Then I mentally facepalmed myself because I remembered my bow. I shot three of them down and the other two came after me. After a brutal fight that almost killed me, they were both dead. After regenerating some, I went over to the corpses of the Wither Skeletons I had shot earlier. Two had been shot in the head, but one had been shot in the chest. I chopped off its head and emerged victorious.
I decided not to explore the Nether Fortress because I really didn't want to deal with blazes after what I had Just been through. I just dug through a wall to my portal because I had traveled in a "U" shape. Now I had a shortcut to the Nether Fortress. I approached the portal and exited the nightmare.
Once I got back, I realized I had forgot the soul sand. I quickly went back and got some because there was a patch behind the portal in the Nether. When I returned, I went over to the librarian. "Okay," I said, "I've got the materials, now what do I do?"
He looked up from what he was reading and told me, "You can see how to build it by looking at that painting to your left."
Notch had said something about the Wither and a painting. So when I looked to the left there was a painting that showed the 4 soul sand in a "T" shape. The Wither Skeleton Skulls were on top of each of the three highest pieces of soul sand on the structure. "Thanks," I said to him and left. I informed the mayor (or whatever you would call the leader here) about what I was doing. I venture off a long way, leaving minecart tracks behind me as I went so I could get back quickly. I was about seven hundred blocks away when I finally set up the powered rails and button to get back. I walked about ten blocks away and began building the structure.
After I had placed two of the skulls, something weird happened. I heard a voice in my head. It was an ominous voice that would probably send shivers down your spine if it was discussing plans for world peace with you. Yes! Yes! Place the last skull! The Reaper of Souls shall live again, it said, I will destroy all the living and the world will be mine. But if you do kill me, you'll get the Nether Star. What are you going to do? The decision was easy. I placed the last skull down without hesitation.
Immediately after that, there was a blinding flash. I remembered Notch telling me to run. While I was running, I heard the voice again. Foolish mortal! You don't know the magnitude of the mistake you've made! You've given up the world to try and get a Nether Star! Good luck killing me, it said. Behind me, there was a tremendous explosion. It destroyed some of the minecart track. Wither, the Reaper of Souls is about to claim the world, the Wither said to me. I turned around and saw it. It was a giant Wither Skeleton skull with a snake-like body. It had short arms with Wither Skeleton skulls for hands. It was entirely black except for the faces of the skulls.
It created a Wither Skeleton skull out of nothing and launched it at me. I dodged it, and it exploded once it hit the ground. It was flying in the air, so I launched a volley of arrows at me. I hurt it, and a health bar marked "Wither" appeared in my mind. It took a good bit of damage because of my enchanted bow, but it would take a while to even get it even halfway dead. After dodging many more exploding skulls, I got another volley of arrows on it. After repeating this pattern until half of its health was gone. Then a flashing white coat of armor appeared around it. My arrows kept bouncing off of it. Luckily, the armor weighed it down. It was time to go melee on it.
It was a lot harder to dodge the skulls now that I had to fight with my sword. I kept hitting it and hitting it. Finally, it was almost dead. It was the same with me. I quickly munched on a normal golden apple and kept dodging the skulls until I was fully healed again. I charged at it and slashed numerous times and it died. I collected the Nether Star and tons of experience. Well, Notch, I thought, Looks like I'm gonna have to do some dragon hunting.
END OF BOOK ZERO
Book One-Strange Enderman Behavior:
Chapter 1:
Chapter 1: Pure Luck
In The Present...
You know your life's pretty bad when the world's about to end and it's technically your fault. That was, sadly, the case with me. After ten years, I still couldn't find a Stronghold. Now, in less than six months, the dragon would break out from the End into our world and devour us all. The whole six months thing I know of because I got another message from Notch (if you somehow forgot, he sent me here) into my head.
You have six months, Notch said, Six months until everything I have made and you are destroyed. You must kill the dragon or I shall be nothing. I don't have the strength to rebuild this world.
That was a few days ago. Notch really bummed me out there. When I first heard him, I didn't recognize him. Seven years (Do the ten years I've been here minus the three years it took to kill the Wither, and you get seven years) of aimless searching for a Stronghold kind of makes you forget a voice you haven't heard in ten years.
Now, I was wandering the streets of the village when I saw a villager put a flyer up on one of the black torch-posts. They never used flyers in the village because paper was so rare. This must be important. I quickly began reading it.
The Eye Project!
Are you a good fighter? Have you ever wanted to go to the End dimension? Do you want to obtain a dragon egg?
If your answer is yes to any of those questions, you are already eligible to join the Eye Project. We have already found a Stronghold and we are looking for people to obtain the 12 keys that are needed. Go to the observatory for more information.
This was my chance! I couldn't believe it! Could I actually be able to complete my mission? It was impossible, but it happened. I ran to the observatory faster than I thought possible. I kept leaping four blocks at a time and my hunger quickly depleted. I didn't care at that point. When you've been looking for something for years, nothing else matters once you think you've found it. It seemed like it was automatic as I ran towards the observatory. I really needed a life.
The observatory was bigger than I remembered. I didn't remember any construction going on. Above the doors was a sign that read: "Village Observatory: Home of the All-New Eye Project!" I opened the double doors and walked in. Inside was what appeared to be a screen that showed another part of the world. It was made of old stone bricks. It moved like they were seeing through someone else's eyes. Somehow this reminded me of something from the past. I heard many of the scientists talking to each other.
"He still hasn't found the portal room. If we can't get to the portal room, then this entire project is doomed!"
"We're fresh out of ender eyes, too. There's no way to locate the portal."
"Meanwhile, no one's volunteered to help. We could just send him an ender eye through an ender chest. But we don't have anyone who can fight endermen with us."
I was tempted to clear my throat in rude matter, but right after he said that, they turned around. "How ironic," the scientist who hadn't just talked turned around and noticed me, "you must be here to volunteer for the project. Before we fill you in, we need you to get us an ender pearl. It's almost sundown and we need one as soon as possible."
"Okay," I said, "I've always wanted to see the End. I'm a pretty skilled warrior, so I was thinking I could help fight the dragon."
"Splendid!" said the other scientist, "You better get started quickly. The sooner, the better!"
I quickly hurried out. It was about sundown, so it was good that I had just left. In a minute or two, monsters would start spawning. I had fought a handful of endermen, but sold all of my ender pearls. It's amazing how much they pay for those. I could see why the scientists couldn't just buy one. I got 20 iron each pearl. I realized that I should be hunting and not thinking about these things.
Once it got to night time, I saw some purple particles in the distance. I killed a few zombies before heading for it. Score! I got an iron axe. Behind me, I heard the notorious hissing sound. I turned around and slashed the creeper with my new axe. I headed for the enderman, but a spider dropped down from a tree. I quickly stabbed it in the eye and ripped out its other one. And since it was blind, it was fairly easy to kill.
Finally I charged at the enderman's legs and got two hits on it. It attacked me once and knocked me over. It teleported away and I couldn't find it. When I got up, it hit me from behind. I was pushed forward but leaned back and regained my balance. I turned around and did an uppercut and a sideslash on it. It hit me again, but before it could teleport away, I jumped into the air and sliced down on its head. It disappeared into the could of white smoke like what happened with the other monsters. I picked up the ender pearl it dropped and headed back to my house. If my job was just to hunt endermen, I could get used to it.
Chapter 2:
Chapter 2: Zombie Invasion!
Good news. Finally a new major character is coming into the story. But not exactly in the best scene...
This was not good. The village was surrounded by armed zombies. I saw some fighters come out of their houses trying to save the defenseless. There was once called Max (he claims it's not short for anything, but I'm pretty sure he's lying) who only used a wood sword that never broke for some reason. It had ridiculously high enchantments on it and could take out skeletons in one hit. I couldn't recognize the other people, but some appear later in the story.
Anyway, it looked like I had work to do. I rushed towards the zombie horde. "You want me?" I shouted, "Come and get it!" I charged at the zombies at full speed and swung my sword and knocked two of them out. One in leather armor with a stone sword came from my right and I only saw him out of the corner of my eye. I quickly turned to the side and got in a fierce duel with him. Surprisingly, the other zombies backed off. They just stood there, watching. He actually knocked my sword out of my hand. It it flew over and went straight through a zombie. I kicked the one in leather armor to the ground and picked up my sword. When I picked it up, that zombie got revenge by kicking me to the ground. He was about to make the fatal blow when an enchanted wood sword was stabbed through him.
"Thanks," I said to Max, "You saved my life over there. But I guess we don't have much time to talk. Zombies to kill, after all." He nodded, and we rushed over and began fighting the rest of the zombies.
Sometimes we even stole their weapons and attacked them with it. I'm not kidding; they were really that stupid. Sadly, one of the zombies got to a kid. It turned into a baby zombie. Max threw a splash potion of healing at it. At least it was cured. Traumatized, but cured. I fought off the zombies who has infected the kid. It was still only midnight. We may have to fight off the whole armada, I thought. Finally we got to the stronger troops. These guys were decked out in gold-chain mixes and chain-iron mixes of armor. They were all armed with iron swords. Some of their swords were enchanted. My life was really unlucky these days, because I realized that I would need to protect the observatory if I wanted to save the world. It was on the other side of the village. I burst through the crows of zombies and went over to the observatory. The zombies were banging on the doors. I threw a snowball at them so they would stop banging on the doors and they wouldn't get in.
It looked like I messed with the wrong group of zombies. One of them was in similar gear to mine. Decked out in full diamond with a diamond sword. All of it was enchanted. This must be the leader of the pack. If I took him down, maybe the the zombies would wander aimlessly instead of going for the villagers. I shot an arrow at the diamond zombie. He switched weapons to a bow. He could do that? When did zombies get smart enough to use their inventory. I ducked out of the way before he even fired. Even if he was smart enough to switch weapons, he couldn't be smart enough to change aim that quickly. I went in the back entrance of the observatory. It had an iron door with buttons. I went in and headed for the main doors. The observatory was in panic. I really didn't have time for this. I headed for the main doors and opened them. The zombie leader was still trying to find him. I opened the door, closed it quickly, then kicked the leader down. I really needed to stop doing that. He rolled over, and I stabbed him in the nose. He was stunned, but got back up quickly after he recovered. However, while he was still down, I took out the rest of the zombies.
Now for the final battle. But before it started, I saw Max running over. Whatever it was, it wasn't important right now. Unless the dragon came here early or the Wither came back to life, I didn't care. Now, the final battle started. I slashed down on it, giving it a good bonk on the head. It got dizzy, and I sideslashed it. It got back up and got a few hits on me. I gave it an uppercut to the face. It was best that I kept hitting there, since it was its only weak spot right now. What happened next, thought, will shock you. He pulled out a poison potion and threw it at me. How did he have that? It must have been brewed with some glowstone, because it was really hurting me. Max shot an arrow at its back, though it wasn't much good to a zombie in a diamond armor. Quickly, I tore off its helmet and slashed down on its head. The thing was dead, and it was about to be the same with me. I almost fainted, but drank a health potion at the last second. That was close. I hobbled back over to Max, still aching from the poison.
"Looks like I saved your life twice today, huh?" Max laughed, "But you've done the same for me before, so I guess we're even." I couldn't help but smile.
"I guess we should head home and rest. We just fought off like a hundred zombies. I think we deserve a break, huh?" I told him. So that's what we did. My house was basically three of the librarian's house stacked on top of each other without the roofs except on the top floor. I kept all my valuables in a secret basement that I hooked a password lock to. I taught myself redstone because the villagers considered it trash. Little did they know, it was the land's greatest tool. My bed was on the top floor of my house. I was originally going to put a spiral staircase in it, but it was too small and I didn't want to rebuild. So I just stuck with a ladder.
After a good night's sleep, I headed back over to the observatory. I almost dropped my pearl in battle, but I checked my pocket to make sure I still had it. When I got inside, it looked like nothing happened. They really cleaned up good. Maybe that's why the villagers were so greedy with emeralds. I gave the scientists in front of the screen the ender pearl.
"Perfect! Walter, we're sending you an ender eye. Use it to find the portal room." the scientist said. A voice that didn't come from anyone in the observatory said, "Great! I'll be famous for discovering the End Portal!" And I'll be famous for killing the Ender Dragon, I thought to myself. The scientist pulled out some blaze powder from a chest and sprinkled it on the ender pearl. The coating on the pearl burned away and it revealed to be something that looked like an eye. That's when I realized why they called it an ender eye.
If they knew about this and the librarian didn't, how much did they know?
Chapter 3:
Chapter 3-Part One: The Three Volunteers
What the man they called Walter on the screen placed down the ender chest (I had learned about them, but never learned what was used to make them) and took out the ender eye, he threw it. It went the direction he flew it at first, but some unknown force drove it a different way. It went through a wall. Walter took out a pick and mined through the wall that the eye went through. What he didn't know was that he unleashed a silverfish armada. I had a spare diamond sword, and I knew what I had to do.
"Give him this," I said, handing them the sword. They looked at it, nodded, and put it in the ender chest. "Walter," one scientist said, "take this. Get back to the ender chest. There's too many silverfish!" Walter ran over to the ender chest, took it and pulled out the sword. The silverfish were ganging up on him. He began slashing them like crazy. They were all dead in seconds, and he went into the room. Inside was a 5x5 horizontal outline of weird blocks with the corners missing. Walter saw the silverfish spawner and broke it with his pick. The librarian had shown me a picture of those green-and-yellow blocks. They were pieces of the End Portal Frame.
"That's where he needs to put the eyes," I said to the scientists. The other scientist told him this. "But we have another problem," the first scientist said, "We don't have any ender eyes left." Just then, Max and a guy I had seen running out of the houses last night walked in.
"Hey," the unnamed man said. "Is this the place where the eye project starts?" Then Max explained to me, "I saw you walk in here last night before the zombies came. I remembered reading about the Eye Project and thought I should help out. Then Bruce here said he was willing, too. So here we are." Well, that made sense.
"Well, okay. We need six blaze rods and twelve ender pearls. Get them as soon as you can because after all, this is for science!" the other scientist replied, "Which one of you is best with a bow?" I shook my head, and so did Max. Slowly, Bruce raised his hand, unsure. "We'll need you to head into the Nether. You'll have to kill six to eight Blazes," the scientist said. "You can use my portal," I told Bruce, "Though I haven't been in the Nether for a while. I marked a path to a Nether Fortress the last time I was there. Just don't destroy the spawners. It may take a long time to find another fortress."
"Gotcha," Bruce said. "Now, you two need to hunt some endermen tonight. Probably tomorrow, too. If you can get us twelve ender pearls by Friday (today was Tuesday), we'll be ready to go," the other scientist told us.
"Sounds like a plan," Max said eagerly.
Chapter 3-Part Two: Pure Luck Turns Into Bad Luck
So, as you can see, things don't turn out too good at this part. But, you know, I had a world to save in six months, so I was stuck with this. Let's just say that endermen bite back. I better stop giving things away. For some reason, Max really enjoyed hunting endermen. He charged at them, killing them in three hits each. His sword must have had looting on it, because one time he got three pearls from an endermen. What was going on? He had six pearls quickly, so I knew something bad was about to happen.
Sure enough, something did. We had 9 pearls, and there was a group of three enderman, which I thought was impossible. So we started fighting them as usual. But what happened was impossible. One enderman teleported away and came back with an enchanted diamond sword. I tried to stop it, but for some reason, he didn't try to kill Max. The enderman just took his pearls. Now we were down to the three pearls that I had.
"Max!" I shouted, "If they keep getting swords, we'll never defeat them! Just come back to the village!" He turned around and ran towards me. The other two endermen grabbed bows and started shooting at us. What was happening? This was not enderman behavior at all. Maybe somewhere in the End, the dragon was gaining power. So the endermen would, too. I realized they must have stole a sword from somewhere in the village unless they knew how to craft.
We ran back. One came up to us holding obsidian. That wasn't possible. It said so in the librarian's book. He whacked me with it and fell over. I threw an arrow at it because I couldn't pick up my bow. As I got up, Max slashed down on it. That's when I noticed it had a helmet on. It was made of obsidian. Max's sword would explode into pieces! I lunged over and knocked the enderman down. Max's sword hit its chest. Well, at least we had a victory on one enderman. This was insane. We would be overpowered soon. That's when I decided I would go ballistic. I charged at the endermen, swinging blindly. I knocked all of them out and got two pearls. There was no way they would stop me now. One more appeared, armed with a diamond sword. I took his sword and stabbed him between the eyes. He spun in circles for a moment, then opened his mouth and bit me.
That surprisingly hurt a lot. I didn't care at all and you could tell that because I got three sideslashes on it. I didn't even notice that Max was already back at his house. The enderman opened his mouth again and I slashed downwards after putting my sword in his mouth. This must have been the one that took Max's pearls, because it dropped three pearls. That brought us to eight pearls. That should teach the endermen to mess with me. Who cared if they did the impossible?
Chapter 4:
Chapter 4-Part One:Ender Mages
That night, I couldn't get to sleep. I couldn't help thinking about how that enderman had an obsidian helmet. Obsidian was too brittle to mold together. Maybe they used some kind of magic. This was really driving me nuts. By the time I got to sleep, the sun was starting to come up over the horizon.
"Steve! Steve! Wake up! We're under attack!"
What? Under attack? I woke up to see a panicked Bruce in front of the ladder. Here's where the worst part came in. I hurried towards the door. Three blocks in front of it, fire circled my house in a ring. I turned around to Bruce. "I think I know what's going on," I said, "Lately, endermen have been holding weapons and wearing, though it sounds crazy, obsidian armor. I think some endermen found a flint and steel."
I turned back around, kicked open the door, and placed a piece of cobble in front of the fire and jumped on it and then over the fire. Whatever strange things were happening in the End, it was up to me to stop. But endermen with flint and steels was almost too much. But there wasn't a single enderman anywhere in the village. There were only mages wearing black robes. Their eyes were enderman eyes, though. I decided to call them ender mages.
Note to self: Do not use a sword on ender mages. If I swung my sword at an ender mage, they held both of their hands up and summoned a giant ender eye and threw it at me. It would shatter into bits and knock out five hearts. I went back into my house and got out my infinity bow. I hardly ever used it because this was the only one I had. It was also enchanted with flame, so it really packed a punch. They died each time I hit them. They were easy to kill, but did a lot of damage since they made rings of fire around peoples' houses. Suddenly, the rest of the mages retreated into what looked like a portal. I had to go in because it seemed like it would be an End Portal. Bruce appeared and followed me, and so did Max. When we got to the portal, I hesitated and stopped.
"What's wrong, Steve?" Max asked, "We'll be able to take whatever's in there. There's three of us, after all!" He did have a point, so I continued walking. We all jumped together into this strange unknown. Chapter 4-Part Two:The Secret of Obsidian
We flew through empty blackness, enderman particles flying everywhere. Suddenly, everything in the world was visible again, but we still moved and the particles still surrounded us. We suddenly went downwards, drilling through the ground. I picked up the ores that we broke on the way down and got four coal, thirty-four redstone, two iron, and three diamonds. Something told me I would need the diamonds.
We smashed through bedrock after only a minute or two after steeping into the portal. We zoomed through the void and wound up in the Nether, slamming right through it without any mobs noticing. We broke through the bottom layer of bedrock there and fell through the void for a while. We started approaching a floating dark castle that was so black, you could see it even in the void like we were. We landed on a platform about fifty blocks away from the castle.
Obviously, we had to go in. I placed a piece of cobblestone down on the edge of the platform. It then vanished into thin air. Where were we, and how was this happening?
"Maybe you were right to hesitate, Steve!" Max said, "There's no way out except down!" That was it! I approached the edge and looked down. There was a black block that I could distinguish darker than our surroundings. "There's another portal down there! It's only one block, so we'll have to go one at a time," I told them. To show them, I went to the other side of the platform, turned around, and ran as fast I could and jumped off the edge of the platform.
It was hard to move to my sides because of my velocity as I fell. I eventually lined myself up with the portal block and fell in. I was transported and turned right-side-up instantly and found myself right in front of the castle gates. I shouted over to Max and Bruce.
"Okay, guys! I can't do it alone!" I shouted. Bruce leaped off and teleported over about ten seconds later. Seeing that we were both safe, Max jumped off too. One we were all there, I opened the gates and walked in. In the center of the castle was a giant floating mass of obsidian. Once we stepped in, it flew straight towards us faster than anything I had ever seen
Chapter 5:
Chapter 5-Beacons: A Blessing and a Curse
The strangest thing possible happens right now. Because when the fatal blow was about to strike, time itself reversed. Suddenly, I was back with Max and Bruce in front of the gate.
"What just happened, guys?" I asked. "We all just jumped into a portal to the castle. You were the first one, so how do you not know?" Max said, clearly confused. I sighed and explained, "Okay, basically, I'm from the future. We had just opened the gate and this weird mass of obsidian flew towards us. But then time reversed and I came here. It's strange to me, too. But it's like I'm being told there's another way in."
They seemed to understand, so I walked around the castle. There were creepers that were black and gray instead of green and white with purple eyes and mouths. When they exploded, they would teleport away instead of dying. They took forever to kill. Finally I saw it. In the blackness, there was a piece of black wool about two blocks from the edge of the platform. I jumped onto it. I looked around and saw another one. I kept jumping onto these until I was on top of the castle. Bruce and Max got up quickly, too. There were glass windows that looked into the room with the obsidian mass.
"Okay, I'll have to break the window and get the heck out of there the second the glass breaks, or this time it may really be the end for me," I said. They jumped back down to the castle, going along the wool parkour course. I broke one piece of glass and jumped down to the castle without taking the parkour course. Instead, I just jumped off the platform I was on. I looked up and saw the obsidian thing bash through the wall and fly out into the void. I hoped that it would shatter once it hit bedrock.
We walked back around to the gate, fighting off more ender creepers. But this time, they dropped what looked like ender eyes except it was all black except a purple pupil. It felt just like obsidian. Were these used for the obsidian armor? I made sure I picked up every one. I would need the best gear I could find if I wanted to fight the Ender Dragon. I opened the gate, revealing the same room. I saw a throne fit for an enderman. Maybe the endermen had some weird ruler other than the dragon. I guessed this throne was a source of honor. So I took out my diamond pick and swung at it. The throne was made of a strange red substance that was easily breakable. It shattered in seconds, revealing something tat was told of in legends. It was a beacon. I didn't want the beacon itself, though. I wanted what was under it. I dug out a block that was two meters away from the beacon. I put water in it and went down. The whole time, Max and Bruce were staring at me, frozen in a confused look.
As I went down my water elevator I saw that the beacon's pyramid was made of diamond. Score! I mined it all up after a short time. I went back up and took the beacon. I turned to see Max and Bruce looking at me in the same glance as they were before. I punched both of them to make sure they weren't frozen like that because of some mysterious force. Sadly, they were frozen like that. Both fell over and broke into pieces. Did someone steal Max and Bruce? If so, that was just plain creepy. Something bit me and I felt a familiar pain. I turned around with my sword out, slicing the enderman. I hit him at least ten times but he never died. I saw that he had full obsidian armor on. The chestplate and pants looked stretched. It was boss battle time.
If this thing wanted a fight, I would give it one. I placed down a piece of TNT and ignited it. Hopefully this would do the trick. I ran as fast as I could but still was knocked back by the blast. I am such an idiot, I thought, that won't do a thing if he has obsidian armor. I was wrong on that one. The enderman flew back and crashed through a window, falling endlessly into the void. That was quite an easy boss battle. But right now, I had some friends to save.
There were no hidden passages, so I climbed to the top of the castle. It was a long time since there were hardly any footholds except a bit of space between blocks sometimes. Once I got to the top, I found this enderman king. Behind him, in midair, there was a cage with Max and Bruce in it. Next to the enderman king, there was a lever that would retract the floor under them. If I didn't make the right move, they would surely die. Why did these things always happen to me?
"Looks like I forgot one," the enderman king said, "the dragon will not be pleased unless I finish you off. But let me get into true fighting gear." He teleported away and came back wearing obsidian armor and a crown that was made of a mix of gold and obsidian.
"If you want to save your friends," he said, "you must beat me in battle. Yes, I mean it. You must defeat the strongest of all endermen." He laughed, and I heard static in the background while he did it. This was really creeping me out. The enderman king pulled out an obsidian sword. He lunged at me. It was do-or-die time.
I was not going down that easy. I rolled between his legs and stabbed him in the back of the head. I get that it was technically a cowardly move, but that and his face were the only weak spots. Suddenly, I had a realization that would help me win this battle. I backflipped off the edge and landed on a small platform. I shot more arrows than I could count up at his face. It didn't matter what armor he had. He would be dead. He pulled the arrows out of his face, but it was no use. He fell to the ground, and off the castle. I climbed back up and followed the redstone path to the cage. I broke it open and freed Max and Bruce.
"Nice one," Bruce said, "you're a pretty good fighter." Max looked pretty happy. "Told you you would save my life," he said, laughing. I looked back to where the enderman king had died. His crown had been left behind. I walked over carefully and picked it up. The second I touched it, a portal opened up right where the obsidian mass used to be. I put the crown on and took off my normal diamond helmet. It was dented from enderman bites. All three of us went into the portal, not realizing the properties of the portal until we had returned.
When we returned to the village, it looked like nothing had ever happened. That's because nothing had happened yet. We had traveled back in time. We could stop the mage attack before it started. Or was it too late? Because a minute after we got back, it changed again. The village was now a desolate wasteland. The Eye Project was ruined, and soon the world would be doomed. What had we done?
Conclusion:
Conclusion: What's the Internet?
"I should have hesitated back there. I shouldn't have went in! We never would've been in this mess if it wasn't for us going into that portal. We have changed history!" I screamed, probably sounding like I had gone totally insane. "Calm down," Max said, "There's got to be a way to fix this. That's how it always works in the books." I glared at him and said, "Yes, but we're not heroes. We're just idiots who didn't defend the village!"
A figure appeared in the shadows as I said that. He approached us. He was a figure in a black cloak with a hood that covered his face. He was taller than us, but not as tall as an enderman. "The Eye Project is not doomed. Because as your friend said, there has to be a way," the hooded figure said, "There is one way, but it is incredibly dangerous and most people say it is a myth. It involves the connection between our worlds and the worlds beyond."
"What? Worlds beyond? Our world is the only one inhabited in the universe!" Bruce said. "Not exactly. I forgot that I never told you about this," I told him, and then explained my story. You don't want to have to hear me explain it again, so I left it out. Anyway, Bruce understood and asked the hooded figure, "So, what are these other dimensions and how do we get to them?"
"They are all connected by one central object. They call it the Internet. If you get to it, you can access any world possible. Sadly, Steve, you can't get to your world from there. It is from a world much bigger than the Internet. There are devices in your world that can look into the Internet," the hooded figure explained.
"How do you know my name and where I'm from?" I asked. "I know many things. I am known for instantly knowing everything about everyone," the hooded figure answered, "Anyway, from the Internet, we can take something from it using a process called downloading. We bring this thing, which is called a mod, into our world and it will alter it. If we can find a time machine from the Internet and bring it here, you can go back and fix what has happened."
"Sounds complicated. How do you get to the Internet?" Max asked. "That is the only hard part," the hooded figure said, "because there is only one person in this world who knows how to get there."
"Who is it?" Bruce asked, "I think we can take him, whoever it is." He seemed pretty confident, which is what we would need. It will shock you when you hear who it is.
"He is the greatest evil of the Overworld," the hooded figure said, "He has power beyond imagining. He is only heard of in legends. He was legendary until someone brought him from the Internet into here. Sadly, that person never returned."
"Sounds pretty scary and all, but who is this 'great evil'?" Max asked.
The hooded figure answered by saying, "They call him by the name Herobrine."
END OF BOOK ONE
Book Two-The Ender Fortress:
Chapter Seven:
Chapter Seven: Storming the Castle
Herobrine? Make a deal with Herobrine? Was I crazy or something? But my only choice was to agree, so I did.
"Herobrine lives in a giant castle not too far from here. You can see it in the distance," the hooded figure continued. Sure enough, behind me, a dark structure could just barely be seen even with this thing called "render distance" I had learned about on the "far" setting. "I will go with you, as I am the only one who has ever ventured inside and lived to get out," the hooded figure said, "Herobrine will challenge one of you for the information. He will probably choose Steve, as he is the strongest."
"Hey!" Max yelled, "what about me?"
"I'm just stating a fact. Just let me finish."
"Okay."
"Anyway," the hooded figure resumed, "you are in this mess because of one of you killing an enderman with immense power, but we can't revive him." Max and Bruce looked at me. I was really embarrassed at that point, but I did have a good excuse. "We must hurry," the hooded figure said, "we can worry about who did what later! We are running out of time!"
The hooded figure held up his arm and it glowed with some weird essence. Instantly, we were in front of the structure. It was massive and made entirely out of nether brick. In front of the gate were five Wither Skeletons. Don't you just hate this type of unlucky life?
The hooded figure pulled out an enchanted iron sword. Whatever enchantment it had was incredibly strong. Each skeleton fell with a single blow. Of course now it was easy to kill those things.
I noticed a christmas tree by the gate. Merry Christmas! I have to fight Herobrine!
We headed through the castle, fighting mobs as we went. We eventually found the throne room. On a massive throne of gold and diamond sat Herobrine. I was ready, and so was he.
"Well, well, well," he said, "you want to kill me, don't you. If you do, you'll get the information. If you don't, then the world is doomed except for me and my eternal castle."
"Bring it on!" I shouted. He nodded and stood up. The others backed away. Herobrine pulled out an axe. It glowed with enchantments. It was lit on fire yet it didn't burn the handle.
"Come closer," Herobrine said, "and fight the master of this world." I approached and stabbed him quickly and did a backflip. He didn't even seem hurt. He got out another bow that shot flaming arrows. It must've had infinity, because every time he shot one, another arrow appeared, ready to fire. I got out my pickaxe and started bashing the walls down. The castle would crumble down on him.
"Get out, guys!" I yelled to the others, "It's not safe here!" Even as I said it, an arrow hit me in the back. I placed some water down to cool the flames. I kept hitting the walls with my pick. Part of the ceiling crashed down in front of me. I jumped onto the rubble and over towards Herobrine, stabbing my sword into his shoulder. I quickly removed it and sideslashed him multiple times. He still acted like he wasn't hurt. That was it.
I hammered down every single wall and mined out a block in the ceiling above me with my pick. The entire throne room fell down. Herobrine was dead. He had to be. A hand reached through the ruin. "Not yet," Herobrine said. He was some phantom now. He was black but with those same white eyes. He had a black aura around him and he could fly. An arrow whizzed by and hit him. I didn't even turn around. I knew it was Bruce who did it. Herobrine fell to the ground.
A health bar appeared in my mind again. It obviously said Herobrine. A tiny sliver was gone. This fight would not be over for a long, long, time. The others didn't care what that only one was supposed to fight him. They charged in, slashing at him. After what felt hours of slashing and eating golden apples, Herobrne had one sliver of health left. He seemed to summon the last of his strength to create a familiar snake-like body.
The Wither appeared before us, but the wither skeletons skulls on it were Herobrine heads. Instead of exploding, fire appeared around us. The hooded man threw his sword at the largest skull. The Wither crumbled to dust. A voice rung through the air. "The information you seek is contained inside the dust of the Wither. But be warned, adventurers. I shall someday return!" Inside of the dust was a book. Who knows what it contained?
Chapter Eight:
Chapter Eight-Part One: The Final Warning (no Maximum Ride series reference intended)
First, a question was biting at me. I turned around to the hooded figure. "Who are you?" I asked him. The hooded figure pulled off his hood. His face looked just like mine. It was just all grey. He looked at me and said, "I am Risugami," he said, "I am not you from any time. I have done the greatest things people have ever known to this world using the Internet. I created something that made it much easier. I called it Modloader. Sadly, people used Modloader for evil purposes. One person brought Herobrine into this world."
Risugami picked up the book and looked very stunned. I went over and looked at the pages. It read:
Internet Access by Herobrine
Well done, heroes. But you have it all wrong. That wasn't the real Herobrine. He was my decoy from the Internet. I am the real Herobrine, roaming endlessly through the Internet. This is your final warning. Do not go into the Internet or I will personally find and kill all of you. Minecraft used to be my realm until Notch banished me. I will love to see it destroyed. I would also enjoy killing you, though. So if you are stupid enough to go into the Internet, Take this book and place it on my throne. You will be transported to the Internet. I'll enjoy killing you.
Risugami closed the book. "T-this can't be happening. That guy was tough enough! Now we have to fight the real Herobrine?" he said. I took some of the stone bricks and tossed them away until I uncovered the throne, which was somehow undamaged. I took the book from Risugami and said, "There's only one thing left to do." I placed the book on the throne.
Chapter Eight-Part Two: Risugami's Story
"I remember it all! I remember my past!"
Yeah, it sounds like me talking. But it's not. It's our good friend Risugami. "Steve, Notch sent me on a mission, too! I know it sounds crazy, but let me explain," he said. I nodded in approval.
Let me put the story in these dotted lines:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"I come from your world, Steve. I used something called coding to do stuff to Minecraft. You can use it from our world, Steve. It's amazing! It was called Modloader. It was used as a gateway for people to alter Minecraft. Little did I know what could be done with it.
"One day I woke up and met Notch, only remembering that I made something called Modloader that people used for evil purposes. He sent me on a mission to fight Herobrine and his dragon, the Ender Dragon. I knocked Herobrine into the void and fought the dragon. When I killed it, it left behind an egg. When I tried to grab it, it teleported away, then teleported back. It was so weird. Notch never returned me to my world. The egg must have hatched into another dragon!"
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"What?" I asked at the end of his story. This was so shocking to me. But I knew it must be true. Risugami was the ancient Hero of Minecraft I had heard of s long ago. There was a statue in the village of someone who looked just like me who was said to have conquered Herobrine and killed a dragon. They called him the Hero of Minecraft. I couldn't believe it.
"You're the Hero of Minecraft?" I asked, "But why do you look like me?" He seemed to know the answer. "Because that is the Hero's image. All of the heroes look the same. I know this because Notch gave me the ability to know almost everything involving this world. But, sadly, we have bigger things to talk about right now."
I turned around and saw the last thing I wanted to see at that moment. You probably don't know who I'm talking about.
Chapter Nine:
Chapter Nine-Part One: We get the Last Ender Pearls (with a little help)
As you can see, it was Notch who we saw. Why was he here, I didn't know yet. He turned to us and said, "You have done well, heroes. Risugami, your assumption was correct. Another dragon has hatched. I was in the End about twenty years ago. Steve wasn't old enough, so I couldn't send him. I really suppose I could do it myself, but I am banished from the End. But I'll do two things for you. I'll turn back time to the night before you fought the ender mages. I'll also give you four ender pearls. But you must slay the dragon. We don't have much time!"
Max wasn't shocked. "We got this," he said, grinning. Most of us were all incredibly surprised. Notch was just giving us what we needed? Why hadn't he done this before? There was no time to ask. The next thing we knew, we were back in the village. We had no idea what happened. We headed for the observatory.
We bust the doors open and handed them the pearls and blaze rods. "Okay," one scientist said, "We'll send you over. We have to coordinates of the portal." He handed me a sheet of paper. "Just think of them in your head as hard as you can and you'll be there," the other scientist said. I realized that Max and Bruce has never signed up. Paradox, anyone? But we didn't have time to deal with that. I thought of them has hard as I could. 1330 13 237, I thought, making it the only thing on my mind. Instantly, me, Max, Bruce, and Risugami were at the stronghold. I heard a scientist shout, "Look in the enderchest! The ender eyes are in there!"
I looked to my right and there was an enderchest. Where was that Walter guy? That didn't matter right now. What I started, I would finish. I took out the twelve ender eyes and headed into the portal room. I slowly walked onto the portal frames. Carefully walking around it, I placed eleven ender eyes down. I turned to the others.
"You guys ready?" I asked. They nodded. Hesitantly, I placed the last ender eye in. The inside of the frame turned black. Through it, I saw a yellow platform with endermen on it. They looked too far away to see me. "Let's do it!" We all jumped in together into the unknown. Chapter Nine-Part Two:Not the End We Expected
We were in a dungeon of some sort. It was made out of obsidian. An enderman was in front of us. It was too late to look away. I hacked its head off. Another enderman walked in with obsidian armor. Instead of just killing it, I took its armor then killed it. So Endermen took blocks from our world to make dungeons? That was unexpected.
A booming voice sounded through the walls that could only be the dragon itself. Fools! Before I even kill you, it said, I have prepared a trial for you. A dungeon of sorts. If you make it through, you can try and kill me. Good luck with that. It laughed evilly. What had the dragon made?
A group of endermen surrounded us. I put on the obsidian armor but it would probably be no use. There was no way out. Or maybe there was...
I pulled out one of my eight obsidian eyes. I threw it to the ground and it shattered. We were teleported back to the overworld. We were going to need some backup. Fast.
Chapter Ten (New Characters!):
Chapter Ten: Backup Arrives
So this meant that we could only leave the End seven more times. We were in the observatory for some reason. A person walked into the room just then. He looked just like a creeper from the future. Max's reflexes got the best of him. He held up his sword to the creeper-man's neck.
"What sort of demented creeper are you?" Max said, "You have no right to blow us up!" Then Max realized that his sword had made a clink noise against the creeper-man's neck. This guy was a robot?
"That's just my armor," the creeper-man chuckled, "by the way, they call me Legendary." He pulled out an enchanted sword. It didn't look right for some reason. It glinted like gold. "I've got some work to finish with the commander of some weird monsters," Legendary said, "and I think he's in the End."
I caught Legendary up with the story. He nodded, understanding. I was about to give him the coordinates for the portal, but someone else walked in. He was very casual-looking. But his faced showed that he wanted something.
"Who are you?" Bruce asked, "and why do you want to go to the End?" Bruce got out a stone sword that I never knew he had. The new guy pulled out a rose, holding it like a weapon. "My name is Jack," he said, "and my mother is a hostage of the Ender Dragon. This rose is more powerful than you think."
I told everyone the coordinates to get back to the portal. We all teleported to the Stronghold. I stood in front of the portal, warning everyone, "we can only come back here seven more times. Then we're trapped unless we kill the dragon. So don't say you forgot anything!" We all jumped in together.
The sensation of traveling into the End is weird. It feels like you've only fallen for a short time, but you hit the ground with such force that you feel like you've traveled thousands of blocks downwards. Jack shuddered, as he had no armor on. The fall didn't hurt us, but that wasn't exactly on my mind.
"This isn't the End I read about," Jack said, "the End is supposed to be a large yellow island floating in the void." I chuckled and said, "I guess the endermen had some spare time. But seriously, for the past week or so, the endermen have been acting strange. They've been wearing armor and carrying swords. They even have obsidian armor like me. I actually stole this from one."
A large gate of iron stood before us. There was one of the fabled light sensors hooked up to it. I saw some glowstone high above us. If I could get it closer, maybe the light sensor would activate. It was apparently only sensitive to daylight, but we were in the End, so it would probably be different.
"I can almost reach it! But I can't place blocks for some reason!" Max yelled, jumping and trying to break the glowstone. I knew what to do. I climbed onto his shoulders and broke the glowstone. Luckily, it dropped four dust, which I molded back into a block. I placed it above the sensor, and it activated.
Something told me it would only get harder from here.
Chapter Eleven:
Chapter Eleven: DAT STINKIN' WITHER!!!!
I would say I told you so, but I just started the chapter. But I did tell you it would only get worse from there. The next room was big and empty. Well, not empty. It was filled with endermen. They all turned to face us. Risugami got out another iron sword (how many of those did he have?), but it was too late. All the endermen had teleported away.
Jack looked around. "I, for one," he said, "hate this place. But my mother is here. I know it." Max laughed and said, "I'm sorry Jack, but your mom is in another castle." We all gave him a look that said "Really? Of all the things you could've said..."
The endermen reappeared carrying soul sand and wither skeleton skulls. Of course. These guys were going to have us fight the Wither. We were in deep trouble. I dove in and slashed one of them carrying a piece of soul sand. It fell to the ground. I took the soul sand and whacked its original holder with it. Another one with a sword came up towards me and hit me with his iron sword, breaking against my tough obsidian armor. I still fell to the ground from the force of the impact.
The enderman took my soul sand and placed it down. Everyone was taking down the endermen and trying to take the skulls. All the soul sand had been placed. They had placed one of the skulls down. Just then an enderman came up to Legendary, who was carrying a skull and whacking endermen to the ground in one hit each time. I knew he was powerful, but I couldn't think of anyone who had the strength to do that.
An enderman placed another skull down. We were running out. There were nine endermen but six of us. Eventually the last skull was taken and placed. The statue erupted into sparks. "Stand back!" I shouted as the Wither appeared before us. It just stood there. Bruce tried shooting arrows at it, but they flew off, hitting the endermen. All nine were dead before the Wither even exploded.
A massive purple explosion appeared. Its blast went right up to our faces. Any closer and we would've been slammed against the wall. What fun. The Wither looked a lot different this time. First thing, it was on fire but not getting hurt. Second, it got an end makeover. Its faces was filled in with purple instead of white and it had purple particles floating around it. Third, it shot lightning, too.
Avoiding the first bolt, Bruce got right into action, pulling out his bow. Risugami got out healing splash potions and began hurling them at the Wither, who writhed in pain at the hit of each one. So you're fighting me again, mortal, it said to me, I'm a lot stronger in the realm of the dragon. Even with five other people, YOU CANNOT DESTROY ME! Its last four words rang in a distorted way. It was more creepy than menacing, but I didn't have time to worry about that.
I shot a few arrows at the WIther. Lightning came down right in front of me. The Wither shot a skull at me and I barely dodged it. Max jumped up and stabbed that demented snake with arms that was on fire. When Max pulled his sword out of the Wither, it gleamed with fire. The sword wasn't being destroyed by the fire, though. I forgot that he didn't have fire aspect. Well now he did.
"Woo-hoo!" Max yelled, "My sword now has every enchantment I can get! Yeah!" He was so much like a little kid, yet he was such a good fighter. But apparently there wasn't a height difference from 8-year-olds and 30-year-olds in Minecraft. Just then, the Wither summoned a huge bolt of lightning.
And it was headed straight for Max.
Conclusion:
Conclusion: The Cage
Legendary leaped towards Max and got hit by the lighting. I guess Legendary's armor was immune to it, because he wasn't hurt at all. The Wither was also hit by its own blast, since Max was so close, and died. The Wither dropped an obsidian sword that was enchanted with a red glow. The enchantments seemed to be glowing differently a lot lately.
The sword had Fire Aspect II, Looting III, Sharpness II, and Unbreaking X. It was called the Ender Sword. I guessed this was what would kill the Ender Dragon. Except it wouldn't. I was gonna use my normal sword. I decided to name my normal sword Old Reliable, though it was more than reliable. It was legendary.
The doors opened up and I realized that this was the end of the fortress. That was a lot faster than I thought. Hanging above the door was a cage. I don't know how we didn't notice it before. Inside was a woman.
"Mom!" Jack called out, "I came to save you!" Jack's mom looked nervous. She seemed to be waiting for something bad to happen. Jack pulled a lever on the wall and the cage lowered, but then shot back up and kept raising up to the ceiling that we couldn't even see. So it looked like we weren't done with this place.
I noticed a broken ladder on the wall and started climbing it. I had to be careful, because any of the rungs could easily break at any second. I also had to skip some rungs, which is a lot harder when you're square.
Finally, we were almost to the top. Just then, a rung collapsed under my foot. I caught myself. The rung above that foot was broken, too. I had to jump to reach the next rung and keep climbing. Finally we reached the top.
The rooftop had a pretty boring view of the End. There the cage was, hanging from an obsidian block. On the edge of the rooftop sat a figure that I couldn't make out. There had to be a way to release Jack's mother from the cage without angering the figure. If we did, the cage might fall the hundred blocks back down.
Jack touched the bars of the cage, but the cage along with his mom teleported away onto a high pillar in the distance. The figure came closer and before stood a long lizard-like body with large wings and purple eyes that had a piercing look.
We were face-to-face with the Ender Dragon.
END OF BOOK TWO Book Three-The Final Battle:
Chapter Thirteen:
Chapter Thirteen: Corruption
The dragon studied each of our horrified faces. That thing was scary. Don't go calling me a chicken if someday you somehow run into me. This was the real deal. Anyway, I was about to pull out my sword to end this, but then I saw something climb onto the roof. It was a beast that was black with a distorted red face. I literally cannot describe it much farther that that.
"Well, well, well," the dragon said, "what is this? The ragtag group of misfits that somehow defeats me? That's not how it works here! I am the ruler, and intruders are banished. The only exception was someone that your friend in way too much armor might know." The dragon started laughing, without moving its mouth. Legendary stood motionless. He knew who was here. Suddenly I realized it. That thing was whatever the Commander, well, commanded.
Legendary slashed the creature and jumped off the fortress. I really hoped that armor had feather falling. He was in for a long fall. "I see your friend knows about the Corruptions," the dragon said, "who are my ticket out of here. With my vast knowledge of the Overworld and their knowledge of interdimensional travel, I can soon reclaim what is rightfully mine!"
The dragon flew away with those words. I guess he was checking on the portal's progress. I headed over to the ladder back down, motioning to the others to follow. When we reached the bottom, we looked through the slightly opened exit gates. Legendary must've gone through.
The end was much different. The endstone was smeared with red-and-black stains. It definitely matched the Corruptions, who roamed everywhere. There were more of them then there were endermen. This was so much different than what the librarian had showed me. We needed to find the Commander and kill him first.
Legendary was standing in front of a cross between a corruption and a zombie pigman, both ready to battle. Legendary lunged at the Commander, slashing at his neck. The Commander raised a hand, and a corruption appeared out of thin air and landed on his shoulder. It immediately turned into a barrier, which Legendary's sword clanged against. "I," the Commander said in a booming, powerful voice, "am the Lord of the Nether. You cannot stop me! You may have put on that armor to cover up your scar, but you will show yourself. AND I WILL KILL YOU!"
The corruption that had transformed into a barrier turned into a black-and-red rapier. The Commander grabbed it and leaped at Legendary, holding out his sword in a thrust, piercing a tiny hole in Legendary's armor. Legendary winced in pain, removed the rapier, and threw it back at the Commander. It transformed back into a corruption and landed at the Commander's feet. "Is that the best you've got?" he yelled, "I'm hardly even trying. I have an army and you have five dimwits! This battle is mine, Mr. 'Legendary.'" The Commander summoned a giant army of corruptions.
He pointed his arm towards us, and all the corruptions came charging in our direction.
Chapter Fourteen:
Chapter Fourteen: The Beginning of the End
The good thing was, the corruptions only took one hit to defeat, so they were easy to kill without getting hurt. But when you have ten thousand, it's a different story. It took quite a while to take them all down, Jack taking them out like a madman. Was that rose enchanted? Or was it just something weird like pure love? Legendary, on the other hand, wasn't doing too good. His injury made it hard to fight. So I volunteered myself to go in and help him.
It didn't make things easier, because we were fighting double the amount we were supposed to. Where was the Commander in all this? He seemed pretty confident, so I doubt he ran away. He was probably just behind all the corruptions. One corruption turned into a sword with wings and I had to duel it. It's pretty hard, to be honest. It didn't have any noticeable weak spot. I just stabbed it in the hilt and it died. I couldn't believe it was that easy.
Finally, after what felt like hours but was probably only ten minutes, we had defeated all the corruptions with no casualties. "Ha! Take that, Commander," Max shouted, "An army of ten thousand corruptions isn't enough to beat us!"
Max really needed to learn to shut his trap every now and then. The Commander charged at Legendary, with a look on his face that this was the end for him. Just then an arrow pierced the Commander's side. I gave Bruce a thumbs-up for a job well done. Legendary came over, ready to make the fatal blow, but the Commander pulled out his sword and hit Legendary in the side of his head. That blade really packed a punch, because Legendary fell to the ground.
The Commander summoned another two corruptions, which turned into a set of wings, they flew to the Commander and attached themselves to his back. Great. Now this guy could fly. He kept dodging Bruce's arrows, so we would need a better way to hit him. He started summoning corruptions and turning them into daggers to throw at us. As long as he had corruptions, he could keep fighting us. I looked in the direction the corruptions always came from. The place with the most corrupted endstone.
That's where I needed to go. "Hey guys," I said, "hold off the Commander for a bit. I think I have a way to stop him! Legendary, you come, too!" Legendary followed me and we headed for the dark spire where the corruptions were coming from.
Once we arrived, we realized it was a small mountain of corrupted endstone with a Nether Portal on top. Using two of my iron pickaxes that I brought, I scaled up the mountain. Legendary did the same with two daggers. We eventually reached the top, where I approached it and felt its essence surround me, feeling a bit like goo, taking me to the Nether, where we would end the Commander. Once and for all.
When we arrived, we were in what looked like a corrupted Nether fortress. Through the windows was a bunch of red-and-black caves with tons of Black ghasts and a few red magma cubes wandered around. We had to pummel through a lot of corruptions before reaching what looked like the source. A giant, amorphous mass that was the queen corruption, which spit out corruptions by the thousands.
If this is what could turn a pigman into the greatest fighter of the Nether, it would need to be eliminated ASAP. Chapter Fifteen:
Chapter Fifteen: Not HIM! Anything but HIM!
"Legendary, here's the plan," I said, "you climb onto its back and stab it in the head while I hold off the corruptions!" Legendary ran around to the back of the room, while I fought like I had never fought before. For once, I used the Ender Sword, which obliterated them three or four at a time. However, they were being created faster than I could kill them. Just then, I saw Legendary on the thing's head.
"Steve!" he said, "I can't kill it unless you get it to stay still!" I knew exactly what to do. "Hey, queen!" I said, "I got you a present!" The thing looked at me and I placed down a piece of TNT and ignited it. "Now!" I shouted to Legendary. He stabbed the queen in the head, and she died, vanishing into wisps of corrupted smoke. All the corruptions turned into...pigs. But bacon wasn't our problem. Both of us ran and got through the portal just as raw porkchops began flying everywhere.
The End was back to normal. Just one big island of yellow with a bunch of obsidian pillars. When we got to the battlefield of the Commander (who was now a normal pigman), he was surrounded by pigs. Oh wait, I forgot. He was a pig. He ordered all of them to attack the remaining four fighters, who killed all the pigs in seconds. We finally got to the Commander, who had been kicked to the ground by Max. "Wanna do the honors?" I asked Legendary. In response, he took out his blade and stabbed it into the Commander's chest. He erupted into a shower of gold nuggets, which formed a golden bow. Of course, Bruce went out and took it. "Oh yeah," I said to him, "I think there's something else you'll want." I went over and gave him the Ender Sword.
"Thanks, Steve," he said, "I guess it would be good to try hand-to-hand combat for once." Just then a voice spoke. A familiar one. "Well, well, well," it said, "I've finally found the ones who disobeyed me. It looks like they've brought some friends." I turned around to see Herobrine himself. He summoned a giant mass of lava and was just about to throw it at us when a sword flew through the air towards him. I looked around and saw someone in adventurer's gear with a Herobrine head on.
"Dude," he said to Herobrine, "I'm not gonna be settled with killing one of your decoys. I'm here to kill the real deal. Prepare to finally taste defeat from Tanksverylot." He had an odd name, but he had just done a good number on Herobrine. Once again, a Herobrine health bar appeared in my mind. Tanksverylot walked over to us. "So you've got Herobrine troubles, too?" he said. "Not exactly," I said, "Notch himself sent me here to kill the dragon. But we've got bigger problems." Herobrine removed the sword from his side and threw it away. Tanksverylot caught it and the sword turned into an iron hoe with a black glow.
Bruce took out the Ender Sword and charged at Herobrine, who was holding an exact copy.
Chapter Sixteen:
Chapter Sixteen: The Dragon
"Guys," Bruce said as he ran, "Go get the dragon. I'll take care of Herobrine." But Tanksverylot stayed put. "No way. This is my duel," he said, taking the Ender Sword and going towards Herobrine. Bruce shrugged and walked towards us. I tried to remember the way that the dragon flew. He was flying towards the other end of the island when he left the last time we saw him. "We better hurry," I said, "Sorry that we can't save your mom yet, Jack. But the cage is probably trapped by now anyway. It's too risky."
I gave everyone pumpkins to put on their heads so we could pass by the endermen unnoticed. I don't know why they didn't think, What's that dude doing here and why is he looking at me? After travelling through what seemed like miles of endstone, we reached the edge of the island. The dragon wasn't here. I looked at the side of the island and saw a massive cave. I called everyone else over so they could see.
"Whoa!" Max said, "That must be, like, his secret lair." I guessed it could be, but Bruce happened to mutter, "looks like he didn't do a good job with the secret part." I sighed and started mining a staircase down to the cave. The cave was about 20 blocks high, which blocks of endstone right above our heads that had piles of sand on top of them. This was like a trash collection for endermen.
Finally, we reached a giant obsidian castle with walls that actually formed the aboveground pillars. The gates were iron doors. I didn't have time for this. I rammed them down with my pickaxe and went in. I didn't hear the footsteps of the others. I turned around to see them standing there, not moving. "Come on!" I yelled, "I think six people can deal with one dragon!" They reluctantly came forward and we went through the fallen gates.
Since this was a castle for a dragon, it was really just a throne room. The dragon's throne, if viewed from the side, was shaped like an "L" with the horizontal part really long but the vertical part really low. It was made of gold blocks and red wool. I took of my pumpkin and put on my obsidian helmet. I took out Old Reliable and approached the dragon. "I'm here for one thing," I said, "and one thing only. I want your head, so I can throw it in the void and no one will ever have to see you again!"
The dragon got up and began to fly. "I'm sorry," he said, "but I have a deadline to eat the world. It's in about twenty minutes. So here's the deal: I'll fight you for twenty minutes, and if one of us isn't dead by then, then I go into your world anyway." "Twenty minutes," I said, "is more than enough."
The dragon charged. I dove to the side and crashed my sword down on it as a health bar marked "Ender Dragon" appeared in my mind. Hardly a sliver of it went away. I was glad to see that the others had gotten out of the way. Bruce got onto the throne and began shooting arrows. "Steve!" he shouted, "I'm running out of arrows. You're gonna have to kill it yourself!" He then fired his last arrow. I wasn't gonna let him run out that easy. I got out my quiver and threw half of my arrows to him. I watched as he shot arrows and, slowly, the dragon's health bar began to drop.
It swung its tail at me and I jumped over his attack. I took some endstone from the ground, which opened up the void. "You see this?" I said, pointing at the hole, "that's gonna be your tomb when I'm done with you! If it wasn't for you, I would be living a normal life on the real Earth! So I'm gonna get it back!" I charged at him and stuck my sword right in his mouth. His health was now at 3/4 of the original amount.
The dragon flew away, turned around, and charged straight at me, much faster than it did the first time. It thought it could finish me like that. I jumped onto the dragon's back and stabbed it just as he was forced to swallow one of Bruce's arrows (well, actually my arrows, but it was shot by Bruce). It s flight got screwed up and it turned sharply to the right. I dove off of him, taking a bit of fall damage. The dragon rammed into the wall of the castle. The dragon now had 1/2 of its original health.
The dragon turned around, and it had something on its back. It had a corruption on there. The corruption jumped onto the dragon's snout, and they merged.
Conclusion:
Conclusion: The Ultimate Enemy
The corrupted dragon stared at me for a long time, until it got pierced by an arrow. It turned towards Bruce and lunged for his throat. I jumped over and hit it with my sword. I still had some TNT and I knew exactly what to do with it. If the castle was made of obsidian, then I wouldn't do too much harm. "Everyone," I said to Bruce and the others, "get out of the castle! I've got a plan!" They all left just in time for me to place down the rest of my TNT right before the dragon recovered. I ignited the piece closest to the gate and backed away. I placed obsidian where the gates used to be.
There was a loud thundering. The health bar was almost depleted completely. "You fool!" it shouted through, "I'll just go to your dimension now!" That never occurred to me. I broke open the wall and ran in, with the others following. Inside was a portal back to the Overworld. We all jumped in. Instead of a falling sensation like entering, I felt a sensation like I was jumping up really high in the air.
We landed on an endstone platform, with the corrupted dragon standing in front of us. "This is the endgame," it said, "any of you falls, and you're dead. But I can fly. There's no way out." I looked up and saw that the dragon had accidentally transported some of the sand piles. "There's always a way," I said, "In case you've forgotten, the good guys always find a way."
I charged the dragon and stabbed it in the snout. The others came in behind me slashing at the dragon. But its health wouldn't go away. I knew what to do. It was like my sword was destined to kill the dragon. I was about to stab it when the dragon swung its tail and my sword fell off the platform. I looked around me and saw exactly what I needed to do.
"Distract it," I whispered to Max. I went over to each floating pile and collected all the sand while Max and the others led the dragon away from where I was. I finally had all of the piles destroyed and put them into a 3x3 square above a spot on the platform. The shadow was the way of knowing I had it in the right place. "Hey, dragon!" I shouted. The dragon finally noticed me and swooped forward.
"If there's one thing I've learned about Minecraft," I said, pulling out a pickaxe, "It's never, ever dig out a block with sand above it!" I jumped in the air and mined out the sand supports. The sand fell, burying the dragon. The health bar was gone. The dragon exploded into experience, which I collected. I was at level 112 now. Where the dragon's tail was lay a dragon egg. It was black and speckled with purple. Max tried to pick it up but it teleported. I walked over to where it was, took out the same pickaxe that I had just used, and slammed it into the egg. The egg shattered into pieces. There would never be a dragon again. Ever. There didn't seem to be any way down that I can think of. But I remembered that there was a simple way to get down from any high place.
"Okay," I said, smiling, "who's got a water bucket?"
END OF BOOK THREEEpilogue:Home Again?
When we got down, there was a portal back to the End. Luckily the water landed right above a hole and created a small reservoir. I looked at the portal, and then to Jack. "Go on," I said, "you earned it." Jack hurried over and jumped in. A few minutes later, a figure came out. It was Tanksverylot, and on his iron hoe was the bloody head of Herobrine. "Woo-hoo!" he said, "Hero of Minecraft! Hero of Minecraft! Yeah!" Everyone looked at him, and then Max, Bruce, and Risugami pointed to me. I couldn't help but laugh.
"You know," I said, "I'm wondering. Where do you live, Risugami?" I asked. "Well," he said, sounding almost ashamed, "under the witch's hut. I'm the one that she cursed the village because of. Don't tell anyone I said this, though." I gave him a thumbs-up to show him I understood. There looked like there was something caught in the portal frame, though. It was my sword. I pulled it out with a bit of trouble. "I think," I said, "we could make a museum and put all of our main weapons in. Like all of our swords and Bruce's bow and Jack's rose and Tanksverylot's hoe-sword-and-whatever-else-it-can-turn-into." With that, we all started laughing. Just then, two figures came down the waterfall. It was Jack and his mother.
"Well," I said, "looks like we're all here. And everyone's safe."
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I woke up the next morning in the same place where I had first met Notch. Once my vision got into a bit more focus, I could see him standing in front of me. I still didn't remember anything about my past on Earth.
"So when do I get my memory back?" I asked him. He sighed and said, "and there's the problem. Minecraft has become too much of an independent dimension. I can't send you back or return your memories. You were in there for so long, I can't send you back."
"WHAT?!" I screamed, "so I can't return? That isn't fair!" He gave me a look saying, stop acting like a little kid. I was so mad, though. This wasn't even fair. Notch had kind of betrayed me. I was ready to scream.
I finally woke up from the dream back in my house in Minecraft, on my bed. I couldn't get to sleep because I was thinking about one thing, over and over again.
Notch is going to pay.
END OF THE EYE PROJECT
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I like it! Most of your "errors" are more...stylistic suggestions. For instance, in your opening paragraph, you speak directly to the reader ("you"). Consider replacing that with "I;" if a piece isn't consistently addressing the reader, it's generally good to avoid using second-person pronouns in descriptions, as they "jolt" the reader from the narrative. Another example would be using "what's weird was" twice in the paragraph; while grammatically correct, it might benefit from using another phrase altogether. For instance:
From the haze of my emotions rose one simple, impossible fact; I had no idea who I was. The only possible clue in the formless place to my past was the strange bearded man who (stood? sat?) across from me. His strangeness came mainly from his shape; he was made completely out of rectangles, which struck me as somehow wrong. But who was I to judge? For as I raised my arm, I realized that I too was nothing but lines and boxes.
Okay, so that's just a suggestion, and doubtlessly overkill. But it's one of many possible fixes! I'm sure you'll think of a suitable one--you're off to a good start, after all.
I like it! Most of your "errors" are more...stylistic suggestions. For instance, in your opening paragraph, you speak directly to the reader ("you"). Consider replacing that with "I;" if a piece isn't consistently addressing the reader, it's generally good to avoid using second-person pronouns in descriptions, as they "jolt" the reader from the narrative. Another example would be using "what's weird was" twice in the paragraph; while grammatically correct, it might benefit from using another phrase altogether. For instance:
From the haze of my emotions rose one simple, impossible fact; I had no idea who I was. The only possible clue in the formless place to my past was the strange bearded man who (stood? sat?) across from me. His strangeness came mainly from his shape; he was made completely out of rectangles, which struck me as somehow wrong. But who was I to judge? For as I raised my arm, I realized that I too was nothing but lines and boxes.
Okay, so that's just a suggestion, and doubtlessly overkill. But it's one of many possible fixes! I'm sure you'll think of a suitable one--you're off to a good start, after all.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll use that paragraph you gave me. Now here is the next part of the story:
Part Two:
Prologue-Part 2: Proving my Worth...This Should be Fun
Once again, everything seemed hazy when I woke up. Also, everything was square. But I realized what Notch meant. Everything was simpler. It was amazing. I was in an amazing forest. Trees big and small surrounded me. There were pigs and sheep all around me. To my right, a river was flowing. Notch made everything look special in it's own way. I guessed it would be easier to collect materials like this. But I didn't have time to admire it all. I had a mission. What had Notch told me? It was something about a village.
That was pretty easy. It was right behind me the whole time. It was in the middle of the clearing I woke up in. All the villagers had their arms in quite an odd position. They had stuck their arms into their sleeves on the opposite arm. I slowly walked towards it, looking in both directions.
Of course, my new life had to be cruel to me. A villager hurried over and stopped me. He said, "You there! Do you have emeralds? Have you come here to trade? Are you injured in any way?"
"No, no, and obviously no," I said in reply. There was something odd about this guy. He was very nosy, to describe him ironically. All of the villagers had huge noses. It was very disturbing and disgusts me to mention.
"Then I can not permit you into the village," the villager said, "unless you can prove your worth by killing the witch of the dark swamp!" He pointed to a swamp that was very ominous indeed.
"Well, that doesn't seem so hard," I said. The villager than said, like he would regret saying it, "If you do this, you will have to borrow a few things or you will be killed in the process of doing this."
"Now it seems kinda hard."
"Well, it should be. You're killing a witch, after all."
"Why do you need me to kill her. What's so wrong about her?"
"She cursed our village. Throughout the whole summer, every year, we are stuck in an eclipse. She did this when someone was journeying in the swamp and she didn't want her swamp to be disturbed," The villager answered, "Give me a minute. I will be back with your supplies."
He ran off quickly into one of the houses. Through the window i saw him open a chest and take out what looked like armor, a sword, a bow, and a quiver. I hoped that's what it was. All of these things were pixelated so it was hard to tell. When he returned, he came with the items. Indeed it was what thought it was. I put on the armor with ease. It was chain mail armor and fit very comfortably. That was surprising since it felt so stiff. He then gave me the weapons and the quiver.
He told me, "Now go on, outsider. We do not want an eclipse this summer. It begins in five days." I already knew that i would need only 30 minutes. However, I left without a word. This wasn't going to be fun.
I approached the "dark swamp" quickly and ran towards a hut that I saw in the distance. I climbed up the ladder and banged open the door. The hut was made of dark planks and ordinary logs. Inside was a workbench, a cauldron, and some mushrooms in some pots. There was also a chest by the workbench. The witch turned around. She looked just like the villagers except she had paler skin and a black hat on.
"Hmm..." she said curiously. "I thought one of the villagers would challenge me in order to break the curse. A human may be a bit harder to kill but it doesn't matter to me."
From the chest she pulled out many green, red, purple, and pink potions out of the chest. She threw a purple one at me. It shattered and the liquid hurt me in a way I couldn't describe. I ran out side and jumped off the porch. The fall hurt me a bit, but I was mainly okay. I turned around, pulled out my bow, and nocked an arrow while I recovered from the potion and the fall. When she came out of the door I released the arrow. It went flying and hit her right in the nose. She fell backwards and blocked the doorway. I climbed up the ladder and pulled out the rocky sword I had been given. Then, I stabbed her and she disappeared in a puff of smoke.
A few green orbs and a potion laid where she had just been a moment ago. Is that how things died here? The green orbs flew towards me and I seemed to absorb them. In my mind a bar appeared and filled up completely. Then it reset and filled up again a little bit. A number 1 was now on top of it. I don't know how it did that. I picked up the potion and examined it. Once I picked it up, I seemed to know what it was. It was a regeneration potion. How did I know that? This day just kept getting stranger and stranger. I headed back to the village, feeling a mixture of victory and confusion.
Very nice story, I like the concept very much, the hardest thing about story writing is finding something new for the readers and you clearly found something. I am looking forward to the next chapters.
Very nice story, I like the concept very much, the hardest thing about story writing is finding something new for the readers and you clearly found something. I am looking forward to the next chapters.
Thanks so much, man. It means a lot. I REALLY hate my apple mouse. I keep scrolling back with it because if my finger moves to the left, it goes back a page and this is my third try a writing this part. In this part off the prologue, I cover the last major event from the past, the Wither. This part's gonna be kinda long, though.
Prologue-Conclusion: The Reaper Of Souls Really Creeps Me Out
Three Years Later...
You might be wondering why I skipped ahead three years. It's because nothing really interesting happened. Once you prove your worth to the village, they make you feel welcome. They taught me everything from mining to crafting (yes I see the irony in what I said) to simple stuff like fishing. I forgot about my mission for three years. When I remembered it, I rushed over to the librarian and asked him to explain everything I needed to know about the Wither. First he had to explain the Nether to me.
First I had to build a 4x5 frame of obsidian. Then I had to light it and step into the purple substance that appeared. After a few seconds, I would find myself in the Nether. I would then find myself in a fiery dimension. I would see walking pigs everywhere (by "walking" I mean on their hind legs. It's downright creepy) carrying gold swords. It would be best not to hurt them, because if I did, every single one for as far as I could see would be after me. Then there were Ghasts, floating white squids that shot fireballs at you. If you killed them, you got one of their tears (they're not liquid. If they froze, the impossible would have happened. It must be at least 100 degrees there), which could be used for potions. If I found a nether fortress, I would run into Blazes, these weird yellow rectangles with spinning rods around them. They also shot fireballs (but they were much weaker than Ghast fireballs) at you. They dropped their rods, which were required for making brewing stand and strength potions. Then there were the Wither Skeletons. Taller versions of skeletons equipped with stone swords. Downright scary, but I would need three of their heads (along with four soul sand) to call the Wither into the world. It would probably take a while to do that, because it's hard to kill a monster without slicing its head into pieces.
So, as you can tell, I made the portal. After I got in, I was in a living nightmare. The second I got in, I saw a Ghast. They look friendly until they shoot their flaming balls of death at you. I quickly deflected it's fireball with my sword. I sadly missed. I deflected the next one, and it hit! Its tear fell into lava, though. After traveling for a while and fighting Ghasts, I found a group of Wither Skeletons. I was in trouble now. I did a quick sword spin (no one taught me that, which I think is sad) and hit all of them. One fell to the ground, but it clearly wasn't dead. I chopped of one's head. That was good news. I stabbed the other in the chest, then did a quick uppercut and killed it. The last one finally got up and I kicked in down again. Then I jumped onto it and stabbed my sword into its head. I had one head from it, but I was almost dead from the fight. I ate a few steaks and turned around to see a Ghast. Just another day in the unlucky life of me.
There was no way I could deflect the fireball in time so I rolled over to my left and barely dodged it. It hit a couple Pigmen (as they were called) and I'm surprised they didn't get all mad at it. I deflected the next fireball, and then a few more, but kept missing. I got out my bow and shot a few arrows at it and it finally died. I ran over and picked up the tear and some experience. Now to find more Wither Skeletons.
Ironically, one came up behind me and stabbed me, hard. I turned around and gave it a good chop to its side. I did an uppercut but it never hit because it hit me again. I knocked its sword out of its hand with my sword and chopped of its head. Victory! I traveled some more and saw in the distance a dark structure. It must be a Nether Fortress, I thought. What seemed to be guarding the entrance was a group of five Wither Skeletons. Before I could get any closer, I had to fight another Ghast. It must be so much easer to attack from a long distance, I thought. Then I mentally facepalmed myself because I remembered my bow. I shot three of them down and the other two came after me. After a brutal fight that almost killed me, they were both dead. After regenerating some, I went over to the corpses of the Wither Skeletons I had shot earlier. Two had been shot in the head, but one had been shot in the chest. I chopped off its head and emerged victorious.
I decided not to explore the Nether Fortress because I really didn't want to deal with blazes after what I had Just been through. I just dug through a wall to my portal because I had traveled in a "U" shape. Now I had a shortcut to the Nether Fortress. I approached the portal and exited the nightmare.
Once I got back, I realized I had forgot the soul sand. I quickly went back and got some because there was a patch behind the portal in the Nether. When I returned, I went over to the librarian. "Okay," I said, "I've got the materials, now what do I do?"
He looked up from what he was reading and told me, "You can see how to build it by looking at that painting to your left."
Notch had said something about the Wither and a painting. So when I looked to the left there was a painting that showed the 4 soul sand in a "T" shape. The Wither Skeleton Skulls were on top of each of the three highest pieces of soul sand on the structure. "Thanks," I said to him and left. I informed the mayor (or whatever you would call the leader here) about what I was doing. I venture off a long way, leaving minecart tracks behind me as I went so I could get back quickly. I was about seven hundred blocks away when I finally set up the powered rails and button to get back. I walked about ten blocks away and began building the structure.
After I had placed two of the skulls, something weird happened. I heard a voice in my head. It was an ominous voice that would probably send shivers down your spine if it was discussing plans for world peace with you. Yes! Yes! Place the last skull! The Reaper of Souls shall live again, it said, I will destroy all the living and the world will be mine. But if you do kill me, you'll get the Nether Star. What are you going to do? The decision was easy. I placed the last skull down without hesitation.
Immediately after that, there was a blinding flash. I remembered Notch telling me to run. While I was running, I heard the voice again. Foolish mortal! You don't know the magnitude of the mistake you've made! You've given up the world to try and get a Nether Star! Good luck killing me, it said. Behind me, there was a tremendous explosion. It destroyed some of the minecart track. Wither, the Reaper of Souls is about to claim the world, the Wither said to me. I turned around and saw it. It was a giant Wither Skeleton skull with a snake-like body. It had short arms with Wither Skeleton skulls for hands. It was entirely black except for the faces of the skulls.
It created a Wither Skeleton skull out of nothing and launched it at me. I dodged it, and it exploded once it hit the ground. It was flying in the air, so I launched a volley of arrows at me. I hurt it, and a health bar marked "Wither" appeared in my mind. It took a good bit of damage because of my enchanted bow, but it would take a while to even get it even halfway dead. After dodging many more exploding skulls, I got another volley of arrows on it. After repeating this pattern until half of its health was gone. Then a flashing white coat of armor appeared around it. My arrows kept bouncing off of it. Luckily, the armor weighed it down. It was time to go melee on it.
It was a lot harder to dodge the skulls now that I had to fight with my sword. I kept hitting it and hitting it. Finally, it was almost dead. It was the same with me. I quickly munched on a normal golden apple and kept dodging the skulls until I was fully healed again. I charged at it and slashed numerous times and it died. I collected the Nether Star and tons of experience. Well, Notch, I thought, Looks like I'm gonna have to do some dragon hunting.
Hope you like it!
Here's Chapter 1. I'm gonna add some more detail and change it a bit. Here it is:
Chapter 1: Pure Luck
In The Present...
You know your life's pretty bad when the world's about to end and it's technically your fault. That was, sadly, the case with me. After ten years, I still couldn't find a Stronghold. Now, in less than six months, the dragon would break out from the End into our world and devour us all. The whole six months thing I know of because I got another message from Notch (if you somehow forgot, he sent me here) into my head.
You have six months, Notch said, Six months until everything I have made and you are destroyed. You must kill the dragon or I shall be nothing. I don't have the strength to rebuild this world.
That was a few days ago. Notch really bummed me out there. When I first heard him, I didn't recognize him. Seven years (Do the ten years I've been here minus the three years it took to kill the Wither, and you get seven years) of aimless searching for a Stronghold kind of makes you forget a voice you haven't heard in ten years.
Now, I was wandering the streets of the village when I saw a villager put a flyer up on one of the black torch-posts. They never used flyers in the village because paper was so rare. This must be important. I quickly began reading it.
The Eye Project!
Are you a good fighter? Have you ever wanted to go to the End dimension? Do you want to obtain a dragon egg?
If your answer is yes to any of those questions, you are already eligible to join the Eye Project. We have already found a Stronghold and we are looking for people to obtain the 12 keys that are needed. Go to the observatory for more information.
This was my chance! I couldn't believe it! Could I actually be able to complete my mission? It was impossible, but it happened. I ran to the observatory faster than I thought possible. I kept leaping four blocks at a time and my hunger quickly depleted. I didn't care at that point. When you've been looking for something for years, nothing else matters once you think you've found it. It seemed like it was automatic as I ran towards the observatory. I really needed a life.
The observatory was bigger than I remembered. I didn't remember any construction going on. Above the doors was a sign that read: "Village Observatory: Home of the All-New Eye Project!" I opened the double doors and walked in. Inside was what appeared to be a screen that showed another part of the world. It was made of old stone bricks. It moved like they were seeing through someone else's eyes. Somehow this reminded me of something from the past. I heard many of the scientists talking to each other.
"He still hasn't found the portal room. If we can't get to the portal room, then this entire project is doomed!"
"We're fresh out of ender eyes, too. There's no way to locate the portal."
"Meanwhile, no one's volunteered to help. We could just send him an ender eye through an ender chest. But we don't have anyone who can fight endermen with us."
I was tempted to clear my throat in rude matter, but right after he said that, they turned around. "How ironic," the scientist who hadn't just talked turned around and noticed me, "you must be here to volunteer for the project. Before we fill you in, we need you to get us an ender pearl. It's almost sundown and we need one as soon as possible."
"Okay," I said, "I've always wanted to see the End. I'm a pretty skilled warrior, so I was thinking I could help fight the dragon."
"Splendid!" said the other scientist, "You better get started quickly. The sooner, the better!"
I quickly hurried out. It was about sundown, so it was good that I had just left. In a minute or two, monsters would start spawning. I had fought a handful of endermen, but sold all of my ender pearls. It's amazing how much they pay for those. I could see why the scientists couldn't just buy one. I got 20 iron each pearl. I realized that I should be hunting and not thinking about these things.
Once it got to night time, I saw some purple particles in the distance. I killed a few zombies before heading for it. Score! I got an iron axe. Behind me, I heard the notorious hissing sound. I turned around and slashed the creeper with my new axe. I headed for the enderman, but a spider dropped down from a tree. I quickly stabbed it in the eye and ripped out its other one. And since it was blind, it was fairly easy to kill. Finally I charged at the enderman's legs and got two hits on it. It attacked me once and knocked me over. It teleported away and I couldn't find it. When I got up, it hit me from behind. I was pushed forward but leaned back and regained my balance. I turned around and did an uppercut and a sideslash on it. It hit me again, but before it could teleport away, I jumped into the air and sliced down on its head. It disappeared into the could of white smoke like what happened with the other monsters. I picked up the ender pearl it dropped and headed back to my house. If my job was just to hunt endermen, I could get used to it.
Here's Chapter 1. I'm gonna add some more detail and change it a bit. Here it is:
Chapter 1: Pure Luck
In The Present...
You know your life's pretty bad when the world's about to end and it's technically your fault. That was, sadly, the case with me. After ten years, I still couldn't find a Stronghold. Now, in less than six months, the dragon would break out from the End into our world and devour us all. The whole six months thing I know of because I got another message from Notch (if you somehow forgot, he sent me here) into my head.
You have six months, Notch said, Six months until everything I have made and you are destroyed. You must kill the dragon or I shall be nothing. I don't have the strength to rebuild this world.
That was a few days ago. Notch really bummed me out there. When I first heard him, I didn't recognize him. Seven years (Do the ten years I've been here minus the three years it took to kill the Wither, and you get seven years) of aimless searching for a Stronghold kind of makes you forget a voice you haven't heard in ten years.
Now, I was wandering the streets of the village when I saw a villager put a flyer up on one of the black torch-posts. They never used flyers in the village because paper was so rare. This must be important. I quickly began reading it.
The Eye Project!
Are you a good fighter? Have you ever wanted to go to the End dimension? Do you want to obtain a dragon egg?
If your answer is yes to any of those questions, you are already eligible to join the Eye Project. We have already found a Stronghold and we are looking for people to obtain the 12 keys that are needed. Go to the observatory for more information.
This was my chance! I couldn't believe it! Could I actually be able to complete my mission? It was impossible, but it happened. I ran to the observatory faster than I thought possible. I kept leaping four blocks at a time and my hunger quickly depleted. I didn't care at that point. When you've been looking for something for years, nothing else matters once you think you've found it. It seemed like it was automatic as I ran towards the observatory. I really needed a life.
The observatory was bigger than I remembered. I didn't remember any construction going on. Above the doors was a sign that read: "Village Observatory: Home of the All-New Eye Project!" I opened the double doors and walked in. Inside was what appeared to be a screen that showed another part of the world. It was made of old stone bricks. It moved like they were seeing through someone else's eyes. Somehow this reminded me of something from the past. I heard many of the scientists talking to each other.
"He still hasn't found the portal room. If we can't get to the portal room, then this entire project is doomed!"
"We're fresh out of ender eyes, too. There's no way to locate the portal."
"Meanwhile, no one's volunteered to help. We could just send him an ender eye through an ender chest. But we don't have anyone who can fight endermen with us."
I was tempted to clear my throat in rude matter, but right after he said that, they turned around. "How ironic," the scientist who hadn't just talked turned around and noticed me, "you must be here to volunteer for the project. Before we fill you in, we need you to get us an ender pearl. It's almost sundown and we need one as soon as possible."
"Okay," I said, "I've always wanted to see the End. I'm a pretty skilled warrior, so I was thinking I could help fight the dragon."
"Splendid!" said the other scientist, "You better get started quickly. The sooner, the better!"
I quickly hurried out. It was about sundown, so it was good that I had just left. In a minute or two, monsters would start spawning. I had fought a handful of endermen, but sold all of my ender pearls. It's amazing how much they pay for those. I could see why the scientists couldn't just buy one. I got 20 iron each pearl. I realized that I should be hunting and not thinking about these things.
Once it got to night time, I saw some purple particles in the distance. I killed a few zombies before heading for it. Score! I got an iron axe. Behind me, I heard the notorious hissing sound. I turned around and slashed the creeper with my new axe. I headed for the enderman, but a spider dropped down from a tree. I quickly stabbed it in the eye and ripped out its other one. And since it was blind, it was fairly easy to kill. Finally I charged at the enderman's legs and got two hits on it. It attacked me once and knocked me over. It teleported away and I couldn't find it. When I got up, it hit me from behind. I was pushed forward but leaned back and regained my balance. I turned around and did an uppercut and a sideslash on it. It hit me again, but before it could teleport away, I jumped into the air and sliced down on its head. It disappeared into the could of white smoke like what happened with the other monsters. I picked up the ender pearl it dropped and headed back to my house. If my job was just to hunt endermen, I could get used to it.
Sorry it took so long to finish!
Chapter 2 has been released! Here it is:
Chapter 2: Zombie Invasion!
Good news. Finally a new major character is coming into the story. But not exactly in the best scene...
This was not good. The village was surrounded by armed zombies. I saw some fighters come out of their houses trying to save the defenseless. There was once called Max (he claims it's not short for anything, but I'm pretty sure he's lying) who only used a wood sword that never broke for some reason. It had ridiculously high enchantments on it and could take out skeletons in one hit. I couldn't recognize the other people, but some appear later in the story.
Anyway, it looked like I had work to do. I rushed towards the zombie horde. "You want me?" I shouted, "Come and get it!" I charged at the zombies at full speed and swung my sword and knocked two of them out. One in leather armor with a stone sword came from my right and I only saw him out of the corner of my eye. I quickly turned to the side and got in a fierce duel with him. Surprisingly, the other zombies backed off. They just stood there, watching. He actually knocked my sword out of my hand. It it flew over and went straight through a zombie. I kicked the one in leather armor to the ground and picked up my sword. When I picked it up, that zombie got revenge by kicking me to the ground. He was about to make the fatal blow when an enchanted wood sword was stabbed through him.
"Thanks," I said to Max, "You saved my life over there. But I guess we don't have much time to talk. Zombies to kill, after all." He nodded, and we rushed over and began fighting the rest of the zombies.
Sometimes we even stole their weapons and attacked them with it. I'm not kidding; they were really that stupid. Sadly, one of the zombies got to a kid. It turned into a baby zombie. Max threw a splash potion of healing at it. At least it was cured. Traumatized, but cured. I fought off the zombies who has infected the kid. It was still only midnight. We may have to fight off the whole armada, I thought. Finally we got to the stronger troops. These guys were decked out in gold-chain mixes and chain-iron mixes of armor. They were all armed with iron swords. Some of their swords were enchanted. My life was really unlucky these days, because I realized that I would need to protect the observatory if I wanted to save the world. It was on the other side of the village. I burst through the crows of zombies and went over to the observatory. The zombies were banging on the doors. I threw a snowball at them so they would stop banging on the doors and they wouldn't get in.
It looked like I messed with the wrong group of zombies. One of them was in similar gear to mine. Decked out in full diamond with a diamond sword. All of it was enchanted. This must be the leader of the pack. If I took him town, maybe the the zombies would wander aimlessly instead of going for the villagers. I shot an arrow at the diamond zombie. He switched weapons to a bow. He could do that? When did zombies get smart enough to use their inventory. I ducked out of the way before he even fired. Even if he was smart enough to switch weapons, he couldn't be smart enough to change aim that quickly. I went in the back entrance of the observatory. It had an iron door with buttons. I went in and headed for the main doors. The observatory was in panic. I really didn't have time for this. I headed for the main doors and opened them. The zombie leader was still trying to find him. I opened the door, closed it quickly, then kicked the leader down. I really needed to stop doing that. He rolled over, and I stabbed him in the nose. He was stunned, but got back up quickly after he recovered. However, while he was still down, I took out the rest of the zombies.
Now for the final battle. But before it started, I saw Max running over. Whatever it was, it wasn't important right now. Unless the dragon came here early or the Wither came back to life, I didn't care. Now, the final battle started. I slashed down on it, giving it a good bonk on the head. It got dizzy, and I sideslashed it. It got back up and got a few hits on me. I gave it an uppercut to the face. It was best that I kept hitting there, since it was its only weak spot right now. What happened next, thought, will shock you. He pulled out a poison potion and threw it at me. How did he have that? It must have been brewed with some glowstone, because it was really hurting me. Max shot an arrow at its back, though it wasn't much good to a zombie in a diamond armor. Quickly, I tore off its helmet and slashed down on its head. The thing was dead, and it was about to be the same with me. I almost fainted, but drank a health potion at the last second. That was close. I hobbled back over to Max, still aching from the poison.
"Looks like I saved your life twice today, huh?" Max laughed, "But you've done the same for me before, so I guess we're even." I couldn't help but smile.
"I guess we should head home and rest. We just fought off like a hundred zombies. I think we deserve a break, huh?" I told him. So that's what we did. My house was basically three of the librarian's house stacked on top of each other without the roofs except on the top floor. I kept all my valuables in a secret basement that I hooked a password lock to. I taught myself redstone because the villagers considered it trash. Little did they know, it was the land's greatest tool. My bed was on the top floor of my house. I was originally going to put a spiral staircase in it, but it was too small and I didn't want to rebuild. So I just stuck with a ladder.
After a good night's sleep, I headed back over to the observatory. I almost dropped my pearl in battle, but I checked my pocket to make sure I still had it. When I got inside, it looked like nothing happened. They really cleaned up good. Maybe that's why the villagers were so greedy with emeralds. I gave the scientists in front of the screen the ender pearl.
"Perfect! Walter, we're sending you an ender eye. Use it to find the portal room." the scientist said. A voice that didn't come from anyone in the observatory said, "Great! I'll be famous for discovering the End Portal!" And I'll be famous for killing the Ender Dragon, I thought to myself. The scientist pulled out some blaze powder from a chest and sprinkled it on the ender pearl. The coating on the pearl burned away and it revealed to be something that looked like an eye. That's when I realized why they called it an ender eye.
If they knew about this and the librarian didn't, how much did they know?
Good news. Finally a new major character is coming into the story. But not exactly in the best scene...
This was not good. The village was surrounded by armed zombies. I saw some fighters come out of their houses trying to save the defenseless. There was once called Max (he claims it's not short for anything, but I'm pretty sure he's lying) who only used a wood sword that never broke for some reason. It had ridiculously high enchantments on it and could take out skeletons in one hit. I couldn't recognize the other people, but some appear later in the story.
Anyway, it looked like I had work to do. I rushed towards the zombie horde. "You want me?" I shouted, "Come and get it!" I charged at the zombies at full speed and swung my sword and knocked two of them out. One in leather armor with a stone sword came from my right and I only saw him out of the corner of my eye. I quickly turned to the side and got in a fierce duel with him. Surprisingly, the other zombies backed off. They just stood there, watching. He actually knocked my sword out of my hand. It it flew over and went straight through a zombie. I kicked the one in leather armor to the ground and picked up my sword. When I picked it up, that zombie got revenge by kicking me to the ground. He was about to make the fatal blow when an enchanted wood sword was stabbed through him.
"Thanks," I said to Max, "You saved my life over there. But I guess we don't have much time to talk. Zombies to kill, after all." He nodded, and we rushed over and began fighting the rest of the zombies.
Sometimes we even stole their weapons and attacked them with it. I'm not kidding; they were really that stupid. Sadly, one of the zombies got to a kid. It turned into a baby zombie. Max threw a splash potion of healing at it. At least it was cured. Traumatized, but cured. I fought off the zombies who has infected the kid. It was still only midnight. We may have to fight off the whole armada, I thought. Finally we got to the stronger troops. These guys were decked out in gold-chain mixes and chain-iron mixes of armor. They were all armed with iron swords. Some of their swords were enchanted. My life was really unlucky these days, because I realized that I would need to protect the observatory if I wanted to save the world. It was on the other side of the village. I burst through the crows of zombies and went over to the observatory. The zombies were banging on the doors. I threw a snowball at them so they would stop banging on the doors and they wouldn't get in.
It looked like I messed with the wrong group of zombies. One of them was in similar gear to mine. Decked out in full diamond with a diamond sword. All of it was enchanted. This must be the leader of the pack. If I took him town, maybe the the zombies would wander aimlessly instead of going for the villagers. I shot an arrow at the diamond zombie. He switched weapons to a bow. He could do that? When did zombies get smart enough to use their inventory. I ducked out of the way before he even fired. Even if he was smart enough to switch weapons, he couldn't be smart enough to change aim that quickly. I went in the back entrance of the observatory. It had an iron door with buttons. I went in and headed for the main doors. The observatory was in panic. I really didn't have time for this. I headed for the main doors and opened them. The zombie leader was still trying to find him. I opened the door, closed it quickly, then kicked the leader down. I really needed to stop doing that. He rolled over, and I stabbed him in the nose. He was stunned, but got back up quickly after he recovered. However, while he was still down, I took out the rest of the zombies.
Now for the final battle. But before it started, I saw Max running over. Whatever it was, it wasn't important right now. Unless the dragon came here early or the Wither came back to life, I didn't care. Now, the final battle started. I slashed down on it, giving it a good bonk on the head. It got dizzy, and I sideslashed it. It got back up and got a few hits on me. I gave it an uppercut to the face. It was best that I kept hitting there, since it was its only weak spot right now. What happened next, thought, will shock you. He pulled out a poison potion and threw it at me. How did he have that? It must have been brewed with some glowstone, because it was really hurting me. Max shot an arrow at its back, though it wasn't much good to a zombie in a diamond armor. Quickly, I tore off its helmet and slashed down on its head. The thing was dead, and it was about to be the same with me. I almost fainted, but drank a health potion at the last second. That was close. I hobbled back over to Max, still aching from the poison.
"Looks like I saved your life twice today, huh?" Max laughed, "But you've done the same for me before, so I guess we're even." I couldn't help but smile.
"I guess we should head home and rest. We just fought off like a hundred zombies. I think we deserve a break, huh?" I told him. So that's what we did. My house was basically three of the librarian's house stacked on top of each other without the roofs except on the top floor. I kept all my valuables in a secret basement that I hooked a password lock to. I taught myself redstone because the villagers considered it trash. Little did they know, it was the land's greatest tool. My bed was on the top floor of my house. I was originally going to put a spiral staircase in it, but it was too small and I didn't want to rebuild. So I just stuck with a ladder.
After a good night's sleep, I headed back over to the observatory. I almost dropped my pearl in battle, but I checked my pocket to make sure I still had it. When I got inside, it looked like nothing happened. They really cleaned up good. Maybe that's why the villagers were so greedy with emeralds. I gave the scientists in front of the screen the ender pearl.
"Perfect! Walter, we're sending you an ender eye. Use it to find the portal room." the scientist said. A voice that didn't come from anyone in the observatory said, "Great! I'll be famous for discovering the End Portal!" And I'll be famous for killing the Ender Dragon, I thought to myself. The scientist pulled out some blaze powder from a chest and sprinkled it on the ender pearl. The coating on the pearl burned away and it revealed to be something that looked like an eye. That's when I realized why they called it an ender eye.
If they knew about this and the librarian didn't, how much did they know?
Here's Chapter 3 Part 1:
Chapter 3-Part One: The Three Volunteers
What the man they called Walter on the screen placed down the ender chest (I had learned about them, but never learned what was used to make them) and took out the ender eye, he threw it. It went the direction he flew it at first, but some unknown force drove it a different way. It went through a wall. Walter took out a pick and mined through the wall that the eye went through. What he didn't know was that he unleashed a silverfish armada. I had a spare diamond sword, and I knew what I had to do.
"Give him this," I said, handing them the sword. They looked at it, nodded, and put it in the ender chest. "Walter," one scientist said, "take this. Get back to the ender chest. There's too many silverfish!" Walter ran over to the ender chest, took it and pulled out the sword. The silverfish were ganging up on him. He began slashing them like crazy. They were all dead in seconds, and he went into the room. Inside was a 5x5 horizontal outline of weird blocks with the corners missing. Walter saw the silverfish spawner and broke it with his pick. The librarian had shown me a picture of those green-and-yellow blocks. They were pieces of the End Portal Frame.
"That's where he needs to put the eyes," I said to the scientists. The other scientist told him this. "But we have another problem," the first scientist said, "We don't have any ender eyes left." Just then, Max and a guy I had seen running out of the houses last night walked in.
"Hey," the unnamed man said. "Is this the place where the eye project starts?" Then Max explained to me, "I saw you walk in here last night before the zombies came. I remembered reading about the Eye Project and thought I should help out. Then Bruce here said he was willing, too. So here we are." Well, that made sense.
"Well, okay. We need six blaze rods and twelve ender pearls. Get them as soon as you can because after all, this is for science!" the other scientist replied, "Which one of you is best with a bow?" I shook my head, and so did Max. Slowly, Bruce raised his hand, unsure. "We'll need you to head into the Nether. You'll have to kill six to eight Blazes," the scientist said. "You can use my portal," I told Bruce, "Though I haven't been in the Nether for a while. I marked a path to a Nether Fortress the last time I was there. Just don't destroy the spawners. It may take a long time to find another fortress."
"Gotcha," Bruce said. "Now, you two need to hunt some endermen tonight. Probably tomorrow, too. If you can get us twelve ender pearls by Friday (today was Tuesday), we'll be ready to go," the other scientist told us.
"Sounds like a plan," Max said eagerly.
Once again, A new character has been introduced. There will probably be one more, though I'm not sure.
Chapter 3-Part One: The Three Volunteers
What the man they called Walter on the screen placed down the ender chest (I had learned about them, but never learned what was used to make them) and took out the ender eye, he threw it. It went the direction he flew it at first, but some unknown force drove it a different way. It went through a wall. Walter took out a pick and mined through the wall that the eye went through. What he didn't know was that he unleashed a silverfish armada. I had a spare diamond sword, and I knew what I had to do.
"Give him this," I said, handing them the sword. They looked at it, nodded, and put it in the ender chest. "Walter," one scientist said, "take this. Get back to the ender chest. There's too many silverfish!" Walter ran over to the ender chest, took it and pulled out the sword. The silverfish were ganging up on him. He began slashing them like crazy. They were all dead in seconds, and he went into the room. Inside was a 5x5 horizontal outline of weird blocks with the corners missing. Walter saw the silverfish spawner and broke it with his pick. The librarian had shown me a picture of those green-and-yellow blocks. They were pieces of the End Portal Frame.
"That's where he needs to put the eyes," I said to the scientists. The other scientist told him this. "But we have another problem," the first scientist said, "We don't have any ender eyes left." Just then, Max and a guy I had seen running out of the houses last night walked in.
"Hey," the unnamed man said. "Is this the place where the eye project starts?" Then Max explained to me, "I saw you walk in here last night before the zombies came. I remembered reading about the Eye Project and thought I should help out. Then Bruce here said he was willing, too. So here we are." Well, that made sense.
"Well, okay. We need six blaze rods and twelve ender pearls. Get them as soon as you can because after all, this is for science!" the other scientist replied, "Which one of you is best with a bow?" I shook my head, and so did Max. Slowly, Bruce raised his hand, unsure. "We'll need you to head into the Nether. You'll have to kill six to eight Blazes," the scientist said. "You can use my portal," I told Bruce, "Though I haven't been in the Nether for a while. I marked a path to a Nether Fortress the last time I was there. Just don't destroy the spawners. It may take a long time to find another fortress."
"Gotcha," Bruce said. "Now, you two need to hunt some endermen tonight. Probably tomorrow, too. If you can get us twelve ender pearls by Friday (today was Tuesday), we'll be ready to go," the other scientist told us.
"Sounds like a plan," Max said eagerly.
Once again, A new character has been introduced. There will probably be one more, though I'm not sure.
Sorry it's been such a long time since I wrote. I had medical issues to be taken care of (don't ask). Anyway, here's chapter 4:
Chapter 4:
Chapter 4-Part One:Ender Mages
That night, I couldn't get to sleep. I couldn't help thinking about how that enderman had an obsidian helmet. Obsidian was too brittle to mold together. Maybe they used some kind of magic. This was really driving me nuts. By the time I got to sleep, the sun was starting to come up over the horizon.
"Steve! Steve! Wake up! We're under attack!"
What? Under attack? I woke up to see a panicked Bruce in front of the ladder. Here's where the worst part came in. I hurried towards the door. Three blocks in front of it, fire circled my house in a ring. I turned around to Bruce. "I think I know what's going on," I said, "Lately, endermen have been holding weapons and wearing, though it sounds crazy, obsidian armor. I think some endermen found a flint and steel."
I turned back around, kicked open the door, and placed a piece of cobble in front of the fire and jumped on it and then over the fire. Whatever strange things were happening in the End, it was up to me to stop. But endermen with flint and steels was almost too much. But there wasn't a single enderman anywhere in the village. There were only mages wearing black robes. Their eyes were enderman eyes, though. I decided to call them ender mages.
Note to self: Do not use a sword on ender mages. If I swung my sword at an ender mage, they held both of their hands up and summoned a giant ender eye and threw it at me. It would shatter into bits and knock out five hearts. I went back into my house and got out my infinity bow. I hardly ever used it because this was the only one I had. It was also enchanted with flame, so it really packed a punch. They died each time I hit them. They were easy to kill, but did a lot of damage since they made rings of fire around peoples' houses. Suddenly, the rest of the mages retreated into what looked like a portal. I had to go in because it seemed like it would be an End Portal. Bruce appeared and followed me, and so did Max. When we got to the portal, I hesitated and stopped.
"What's wrong, Steve?" Max asked, "We'll be able to take whatever's in there. There's three of us, after all!" He did have a point, so I continued walking. We all jumped together into this strange unknown. Chapter 4-Part Two:The Secret of Obsidian
We flew through empty blackness, enderman particles flying everywhere. Suddenly, everything in the world was visible again, but we still moved and the particles still surrounded us. We suddenly went downwards, drilling through the ground. I picked up the ores that we broke on the way down and got four coal, thirty-four redstone, two iron, and three diamonds. Something told me I would need the diamonds.
We smashed through bedrock after only a minute or two after steeping into the portal. We zoomed through the void and wound up in the Nether, slamming right through it without any mobs noticing. We broke through the bottom layer of bedrock there and fell through the void for a while. We started approaching a floating dark castle that was so black, you could see it even in the void like we were. We landed on a platform about fifty blocks away from the castle.
Obviously, we had to go in. I placed a piece of cobblestone down on the edge of the platform. It then vanished into thin air. Where were we, and how was this happening?
"Maybe you were right to hesitate, Steve!" Max said, "There's no way out except down!" That was it! I approached the edge and looked down. There was a black block that I could distinguish darker than our surroundings. "There's another portal down there! It's only one block, so we'll have to go one at a time," I told them. To show them, I went to the other side of the platform, turned around, and ran as fast I could and jumped off the edge of the platform.
It was hard to move to my sides because of my velocity as I fell. I eventually lined myself up with the portal block and fell in. I was transported and turned right-side-up instantly and found myself right in front of the castle gates. I shouted over to Max and Bruce.
"Okay, guys! I can't do it alone!" I shouted. Bruce leaped off and teleported over about ten seconds later. Seeing that we were both safe, Max jumped off too. One we were all there, I opened the gates and walked in. In the center of the castle was a giant floating mass of obsidian. Once we stepped in, it flew straight towards us faster than anything I had ever seen
Sorry it's been such a long time since I wrote. I had medical issues to be taken care of (don't ask). Anyway, here's chapter 4:
Chapter 4:
Chapter 4-Part One:Ender Mages
That night, I couldn't get to sleep. I couldn't help thinking about how that enderman had an obsidian helmet. Obsidian was too brittle to mold together. Maybe they used some kind of magic. This was really driving me nuts. By the time I got to sleep, the sun was starting to come up over the horizon.
"Steve! Steve! Wake up! We're under attack!"
What? Under attack? I woke up to see a panicked Bruce in front of the ladder. Here's where the worst part came in. I hurried towards the door. Three blocks in front of it, fire circled my house in a ring. I turned around to Bruce. "I think I know what's going on," I said, "Lately, endermen have been holding weapons and wearing, though it sounds crazy, obsidian armor. I think some endermen found a flint and steel."
I turned back around, kicked open the door, and placed a piece of cobble in front of the fire and jumped on it and then over the fire. Whatever strange things were happening in the End, it was up to me to stop. But endermen with flint and steels was almost too much. But there wasn't a single enderman anywhere in the village. There were only mages wearing black robes. Their eyes were enderman eyes, though. I decided to call them ender mages.
Note to self: Do not use a sword on ender mages. If I swung my sword at an ender mage, they held both of their hands up and summoned a giant ender eye and threw it at me. It would shatter into bits and knock out five hearts. I went back into my house and got out my infinity bow. I hardly ever used it because this was the only one I had. It was also enchanted with flame, so it really packed a punch. They died each time I hit them. They were easy to kill, but did a lot of damage since they made rings of fire around peoples' houses. Suddenly, the rest of the mages retreated into what looked like a portal. I had to go in because it seemed like it would be an End Portal. Bruce appeared and followed me, and so did Max. When we got to the portal, I hesitated and stopped.
"What's wrong, Steve?" Max asked, "We'll be able to take whatever's in there. There's three of us, after all!" He did have a point, so I continued walking. We all jumped together into this strange unknown. Chapter 4-Part Two:The Secret of Obsidian
We flew through empty blackness, enderman particles flying everywhere. Suddenly, everything in the world was visible again, but we still moved and the particles still surrounded us. We suddenly went downwards, drilling through the ground. I picked up the ores that we broke on the way down and got four coal, thirty-four redstone, two iron, and three diamonds. Something told me I would need the diamonds.
We smashed through bedrock after only a minute or two after steeping into the portal. We zoomed through the void and wound up in the Nether, slamming right through it without any mobs noticing. We broke through the bottom layer of bedrock there and fell through the void for a while. We started approaching a floating dark castle that was so black, you could see it even in the void like we were. We landed on a platform about fifty blocks away from the castle.
Obviously, we had to go in. I placed a piece of cobblestone down on the edge of the platform. It then vanished into thin air. Where were we, and how was this happening?
"Maybe you were right to hesitate, Steve!" Max said, "There's no way out except down!" That was it! I approached the edge and looked down. There was a black block that I could distinguish darker than our surroundings. "There's another portal down there! It's only one block, so we'll have to go one at a time," I told them. To show them, I went to the other side of the platform, turned around, and ran as fast I could and jumped off the edge of the platform.
It was hard to move to my sides because of my velocity as I fell. I eventually lined myself up with the portal block and fell in. I was transported and turned right-side-up instantly and found myself right in front of the castle gates. I shouted over to Max and Bruce.
"Okay, guys! I can't do it alone!" I shouted. Bruce leaped off and teleported over about ten seconds later. Seeing that we were both safe, Max jumped off too. One we were all there, I opened the gates and walked in. In the center of the castle was a giant floating mass of obsidian. Once we stepped in, it flew straight towards us faster than anything I had ever seen
Since it's been a while, chapter 5 is also here: Chapter 5:
Chapter 5-Beacons: A Blessing and a Curse
The strangest thing possible happens right now. Because when the fatal blow was about to strike, time itself reversed. Suddenly, I was back with Max and Bruce in front of the gate.
"What just happened, guys?" I asked. "We all just jumped into a portal to the castle. You were the first one, so how do you not know?" Max said, clearly confused. I sighed and explained, "Okay, basically, I'm from the future. We had just opened the gate and this weird mass of obsidian flew towards us. But then time reversed and I came here. It's strange to me, too. But it's like I'm being told there's another way in."
They seemed to understand, so I walked around the castle. There were creepers that were black and gray instead of green and white with purple eyes and mouths. When they exploded, they would teleport away instead of dying. They took forever to kill. Finally I saw it. In the blackness, there was a piece of black wool about two blocks from the edge of the platform. I jumped onto it. I looked around and saw another one. I kept jumping onto these until I was on top of the castle. Bruce and Max got up quickly, too. There were glass windows that looked into the room with the obsidian mass.
"Okay, I'll have to break the window and get the heck out of there the second the glass breaks, or this time it may really be the end for me," I said. They jumped back down to the castle, going along the wool parkour course. I broke one piece of glass and jumped down to the castle without taking the parkour course. Instead, I just jumped off the platform I was on. I looked up and saw the obsidian thing bash through the wall and fly out into the void. I hoped that it would shatter once it hit bedrock.
We walked back around to the gate, fighting off more ender creepers. But this time, they dropped what looked like ender eyes except it was all black except a purple pupil. It felt just like obsidian. Were these used for the obsidian armor? I made sure I picked up every one. I would need the best gear I could find if I wanted to fight the Ender Dragon. I opened the gate, revealing the same room. I saw a throne fit for an enderman. Maybe the endermen had some weird ruler other than the dragon. I guessed this throne was a source of honor. So I took out my diamond pick and swung at it. The throne was made of a strange red substance that was easily breakable. It shattered in seconds, revealing something tat was told of in legends. It was a beacon. I didn't want the beacon itself, though. I wanted what was under it. I dug out a block that was two meters away from the beacon. I put water in it and went down. The whole time, Max and Bruce were staring at me, frozen in a confused look.
As I went down my water elevator I saw that the beacon's pyramid was made of diamond. Score! I mined it all up after a short time. I went back up and took the beacon. I turned to see Max and Bruce looking at me in the same glance as they were before. I punched both of them to make sure they weren't frozen like that because of some mysterious force. Sadly, they were frozen like that. Both fell over and broke into pieces. Did someone steal Max and Bruce? If so, that was just plain creepy. Something bit me and I felt a familiar pain. I turned around with my sword out, slicing the enderman. I hit him at least ten times but he never died. I saw that he had full obsidian armor on. The chestplate and pants looked stretched. It was boss battle time.
If this thing wanted a fight, I would give it one. I placed down a piece of TNT and ignited it. Hopefully this would do the trick. I ran as fast as I could but still was knocked back by the blast. I am such an idiot, I thought, that won't do a thing if he has obsidian armor. I was wrong on that one. The enderman flew back and crashed through a window, falling endlessly into the void. That was quite an easy boss battle. But right now, I had some friends to save.
There were no hidden passages, so I climbed to the top of the castle. It was a long time since there were hardly any footholds except a bit of space between blocks sometimes. Once I got to the top, I found this enderman king. Behind him, in midair, there was a cage with Max and Bruce in it. Next to the enderman king, there was a lever that would retract the floor under them. If I didn't make the right move, they would surely die. Why did these things always happen to me?
"Looks like I forgot one," the enderman king said, "the dragon will not be pleased unless I finish you off. But let me get into true fighting gear." He teleported away and came back wearing obsidian armor and a crown that was made of a mix of gold and obsidian.
"If you want to save your friends," he said, "you must beat me in battle. Yes, I mean it. You must defeat the strongest of all endermen." He laughed, and I heard static in the background while he did it. This was really creeping me out. The enderman king pulled out an obsidian sword. He lunged at me. It was do-or-die time.
I was not going down that easy. I rolled between his legs and stabbed him in the back of the head. I get that it was technically a cowardly move, but that and his face were the only weak spots. Suddenly, I had a realization that would help me win this battle. I backflipped off the edge and landed on a small platform. I shot more arrows than I could count up at his face. It didn't matter what armor he had. He would be dead. He pulled the arrows out of his face, but it was no use. He fell to the ground, and off the castle. I climbed back up and followed the redstone path to the cage. I broke it open and freed Max and Bruce.
"Nice one," Bruce said, "you're a pretty good fighter." Max looked pretty happy. "Told you you would save my life," he said, laughing. I looked back to where the enderman king had died. His crown had been left behind. I walked over carefully and picked it up. The second I touched it, a portal opened up right where the obsidian mass used to be. I put the crown on and took off my normal diamond helmet. It was dented from enderman bites. All three of us went into the portal, not realizing the properties of the portal until e had returned.
When we returned to the village, it looked like nothing had ever happened. That's because nothing had happened yet. We had traveled back in time. We could stop the mage attack before it started. Or was it too late? Because a minute after we got back, it changed again. The village was now a desolate wasteland. The Eye Project was ruined, and soon the world would be doomed. What had we done?
Since it's been a while, chapter 5 is also here: Chapter 5:
Chapter 5-Beacons: A Blessing and a Curse
The strangest thing possible happens right now. Because when the fatal blow was about to strike, time itself reversed. Suddenly, I was back with Max and Bruce in front of the gate.
"What just happened, guys?" I asked. "We all just jumped into a portal to the castle. You were the first one, so how do you not know?" Max said, clearly confused. I sighed and explained, "Okay, basically, I'm from the future. We had just opened the gate and this weird mass of obsidian flew towards us. But then time reversed and I came here. It's strange to me, too. But it's like I'm being told there's another way in."
They seemed to understand, so I walked around the castle. There were creepers that were black and gray instead of green and white with purple eyes and mouths. When they exploded, they would teleport away instead of dying. They took forever to kill. Finally I saw it. In the blackness, there was a piece of black wool about two blocks from the edge of the platform. I jumped onto it. I looked around and saw another one. I kept jumping onto these until I was on top of the castle. Bruce and Max got up quickly, too. There were glass windows that looked into the room with the obsidian mass.
"Okay, I'll have to break the window and get the heck out of there the second the glass breaks, or this time it may really be the end for me," I said. They jumped back down to the castle, going along the wool parkour course. I broke one piece of glass and jumped down to the castle without taking the parkour course. Instead, I just jumped off the platform I was on. I looked up and saw the obsidian thing bash through the wall and fly out into the void. I hoped that it would shatter once it hit bedrock.
We walked back around to the gate, fighting off more ender creepers. But this time, they dropped what looked like ender eyes except it was all black except a purple pupil. It felt just like obsidian. Were these used for the obsidian armor? I made sure I picked up every one. I would need the best gear I could find if I wanted to fight the Ender Dragon. I opened the gate, revealing the same room. I saw a throne fit for an enderman. Maybe the endermen had some weird ruler other than the dragon. I guessed this throne was a source of honor. So I took out my diamond pick and swung at it. The throne was made of a strange red substance that was easily breakable. It shattered in seconds, revealing something tat was told of in legends. It was a beacon. I didn't want the beacon itself, though. I wanted what was under it. I dug out a block that was two meters away from the beacon. I put water in it and went down. The whole time, Max and Bruce were staring at me, frozen in a confused look.
As I went down my water elevator I saw that the beacon's pyramid was made of diamond. Score! I mined it all up after a short time. I went back up and took the beacon. I turned to see Max and Bruce looking at me in the same glance as they were before. I punched both of them to make sure they weren't frozen like that because of some mysterious force. Sadly, they were frozen like that. Both fell over and broke into pieces. Did someone steal Max and Bruce? If so, that was just plain creepy. Something bit me and I felt a familiar pain. I turned around with my sword out, slicing the enderman. I hit him at least ten times but he never died. I saw that he had full obsidian armor on. The chestplate and pants looked stretched. It was boss battle time.
If this thing wanted a fight, I would give it one. I placed down a piece of TNT and ignited it. Hopefully this would do the trick. I ran as fast as I could but still was knocked back by the blast. I am such an idiot, I thought, that won't do a thing if he has obsidian armor. I was wrong on that one. The enderman flew back and crashed through a window, falling endlessly into the void. That was quite an easy boss battle. But right now, I had some friends to save.
There were no hidden passages, so I climbed to the top of the castle. It was a long time since there were hardly any footholds except a bit of space between blocks sometimes. Once I got to the top, I found this enderman king. Behind him, in midair, there was a cage with Max and Bruce in it. Next to the enderman king, there was a lever that would retract the floor under them. If I didn't make the right move, they would surely die. Why did these things always happen to me?
"Looks like I forgot one," the enderman king said, "the dragon will not be pleased unless I finish you off. But let me get into true fighting gear." He teleported away and came back wearing obsidian armor and a crown that was made of a mix of gold and obsidian.
"If you want to save your friends," he said, "you must beat me in battle. Yes, I mean it. You must defeat the strongest of all endermen." He laughed, and I heard static in the background while he did it. This was really creeping me out. The enderman king pulled out an obsidian sword. He lunged at me. It was do-or-die time.
I was not going down that easy. I rolled between his legs and stabbed him in the back of the head. I get that it was technically a cowardly move, but that and his face were the only weak spots. Suddenly, I had a realization that would help me win this battle. I backflipped off the edge and landed on a small platform. I shot more arrows than I could count up at his face. It didn't matter what armor he had. He would be dead. He pulled the arrows out of his face, but it was no use. He fell to the ground, and off the castle. I climbed back up and followed the redstone path to the cage. I broke it open and freed Max and Bruce.
"Nice one," Bruce said, "you're a pretty good fighter." Max looked pretty happy. "Told you you would save my life," he said, laughing. I looked back to where the enderman king had died. His crown had been left behind. I walked over carefully and picked it up. The second I touched it, a portal opened up right where the obsidian mass used to be. I put the crown on and took off my normal diamond helmet. It was dented from enderman bites. All three of us went into the portal, not realizing the properties of the portal until e had returned.
When we returned to the village, it looked like nothing had ever happened. That's because nothing had happened yet. We had traveled back in time. We could stop the mage attack before it started. Or was it too late? Because a minute after we got back, it changed again. The village was now a desolate wasteland. The Eye Project was ruined, and soon the world would be doomed. What had we done?
Plot twist! Hooray!
SPOILER ALERT! READ THIS AFTER FINISHING THE NEW CHAPTER:
the world has become a wasteland as a reference to the fact that world is supposed to end today. Obviously it won't, but I decided to combine a plot twist with making a reference to a dumb theory. .
SPOILER ALERT! READ THIS AFTER FINISHING THE NEW CHAPTER:
the world has become a wasteland as a reference to the fact that world is supposed to end today. Obviously it won't, but I decided to combine a plot twist with making a reference to a dumb theory. .
Just made a few edits to the parts of the story. They are now "books". Also shortened their names.
Of course, since the world didn't end (TOLD YOU), here's the conclusion to book one: Chapter 6 (Book One Conclusion):
Conclusion: What's the Internet?
"I should have hesitated back there. I shouldn't have went in! We never would've been in this mess if it wasn't for us going into that portal. We have changed history!" I screamed, probably sounding like I had gone totally insane. "Calm down," Max said, "There's got to be a way to fix this. That's how it always works in the books." I glared at him and said, "Yes, but we're not heroes. We're just idiots who didn't defend the village!"
A figure appeared in the shadows as I said that. He approached us. He was a figure in a black cloak with a hood that covered his face. He was taller than us, but not as tall as an enderman. "The Eye Project is not doomed. Because as your friend said, there has to be a way," the hooded figure said, "There is one way, but it is incredibly dangerous and most people say it is a myth. It involves the connection between our worlds and the worlds beyond."
"What? Worlds beyond? Our world is the only one inhabited in the universe!" Bruce said. "Not exactly. I forgot that I never told you about this," I told him, and then explained my story. You don't want to have to hear me explain it again, so I left it out. Anyway, Bruce understood and asked the hooded figure, "So, what are these other dimensions and how do we get to them?"
"They are all connected by one central object. They call it the Internet. If you get to it, you can access any world possible. Sadly, Steve, you can't get to your world from there. It is from a world much bigger than the Internet. There are devices in your world that can look into the Internet," the hooded figure explained.
"How do you know my name and where I'm from?" I asked. "I know many things. I am known for instantly knowing everything about everyone," the hooded figure answered, "Anyway, from the Internet, we can take something from it using a process called downloading. We bring this thing, which is called a mod, into our world and it will alter it. If we can find a time machine from the Internet and bring it here, you can go back and fix what has happened."
"Sounds complicated. How do you get to the Internet?" Max asked. "That is the only hard part," the hooded figure said, "because there is only one person in this world who knows how to get there."
"Who is it?" Bruce asked, "I think we can take him, whoever it is." He seemed pretty confident, which is what we would need. It will shock you when you hear who it is.
"He is the greatest evil of the Overworld," the hooded figure said, "He has power beyond imagining. He is only heard of in legends. He was legendary until someone brought him from the Internet into here. Sadly, that person never returned."
"Sounds pretty scary and all, but who is this 'great evil'?" Max asked.
The hooded figure answered by saying, "They call him by the name Herobrine."
Stinks for them. I mean, who wants to deal with Herobrine?
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Sorry it's been a while since I've typed. With the holidays and other stuff I'm not going into detail about, there isn't much time. Saturday I go on a four-day vacation, so I've just run out of time. Merry Boxing Day! Your gift is the start of Book Two, the battle with Herobrine. Scary, huh? Here it is:
Book Two-Finishing the Project
Chapter Seven:
Chapter Seven: Storming the Castle
Herobrine? Make a deal with Herobrine? Was I crazy or something? But my only choice was to agree, so I did.
"Herobrine lives in a giant castle not too far from here. You can see it in the distance," the hooded figure continued. Sure enough, behind me, a dark structure could just barely be seen even with this thing called "render distance" I had learned about on the "far" setting. "I will go with you, as I am the only one who has ever ventured inside and lived to get out," the hooded figure said, "Herobrine will challenge one of you for the information. He will probably choose Steve, as he is the strongest."
"Hey!" Max yelled, "what about me?"
"I'm just stating a fact. Just let me finish."
"Okay."
"Anyway," the hooded figure resumed, "you are in this mess because of one of you killing an enderman with immense power, but we can't revive him." Max and Bruce looked at me. I was really embarrassed at that point, but I did have a good excuse. "We must hurry," the hooded figure said, "we can worry about who did what later! We are running out of time!"
The hooded figure held up his arm and it glowed with some weird essence. Instantly, we were in front of the structure. It was massive and made entirely out of nether brick. In front of the gate were five Wither Skeletons. Don't you just hate this type of unlucky life?
The hooded figure pulled out an enchanted iron sword. Whatever enchantment it had was incredibly strong. Each skeleton fell with a single blow. Of course now it was easy to kill those things.
I noticed a christmas tree by the gate. Merry Christmas! I have to fight Herobrine!
We headed through the castle, fighting mobs as we went. We eventually found the throne room. On a massive throne of gold and diamond sat Herobrine. I was ready, and so was he.
"Well, well, well," he said, "you want to kill me, don't you. If you do, you'll get the information. If you don't, then the world is doomed except for me and my eternal castle."
"Bring it on!" I shouted. He nodded and stood up. The others backed away. Herobrine pulled out an axe. It glowed with enchantments. It was lit on fire yet it didn't burn the handle.
"Come closer," Herobrine said, "and fight the master of this world." I approached and stabbed him quickly and did a backflip. He didn't even seem hurt. He got out another bow that shot flaming arrows. It must've had infinity, because every time he shot one, another arrow appeared, ready to fire. I got out my pickaxe and started bashing the walls down. The castle would crumble down on him.
"Get out, guys!" I yelled to the others, "It's not safe here!" Even as I said it, an arrow hit me in the back. I placed some water down to cool the flames. I kept hitting the walls with my pick. Part of the ceiling crashed down in front of me. I jumped onto the rubble and over towards Herobrine, stabbing my sword into his shoulder. I quickly removed it and sideslashed him multiple times. He still acted like he wasn't hurt. That was it.
I hammered down every single wall and mined out a block in the ceiling above me with my pick. The entire throne room fell down. Herobrine was dead. He had to be. A hand reached through the ruin. "Not yet," Herobrine said. He was some phantom now. He was black but with those same white eyes. He had a black aura around him and he could fly. An arrow whizzed by and hit him. I didn't even turn around. I knew it was Bruce who did it. Herobrine fell to the ground.
A health bar appeared in my mind again. It obviously said Herobrine. A tiny sliver was gone. This fight would not be over for a long, long, time. The others didn't care what that only one was supposed to fight him. They charged in, slashing at him. After what felt hours of slashing and eating golden apples, Herobrne had one sliver of health left. He seemed to summon the last of his strength to create a familiar snake-like body.
The Wither appeared before us, but the wither skeletons skulls on it were Herobrine heads. Instead of exploding, fire appeared around us. The hooded man threw his sword at the largest skull. The Wither crumbled to dust. A voice rung through the air. "The information you seek is contained inside the dust of the Wither. But be warned, adventurers. I shall someday return!" Inside of the dust was a book. Who knows what it contained?
Note: Finishing the Project does not include the chapters in the End.
I'll keep going:
Chapter Eight:
Chapter Eight-Part One: The Final Warning (no Maximum Ride series reference intended)
First, a question was biting at me. I turned around to the hooded figure. "Who are you?" I asked him. The hooded figure pulled off his hood. His face looked just like mine. It was just all grey. He looked at me and said, "I am Risugami," he said, "I am not you from any time. I have done the greatest things people have ever known to this world using the Internet. I created something that made it much easier. I called it Modloader. Sadly, people used Modloader for evil purposes. One person brought Herobrine into this world."
Risugami picked up the book and looked very stunned. I went over and looked at the pages. It read:
Internet Access by Herobrine
Well done, heroes. But you have it all wrong. That wasn't the real Herobrine. He was my decoy from the Internet. I am the real Herobrine, roaming endlessly through the Internet. This is your final warning. Do not go into the Internet or I will personally find and kill all of you. Minecraft used to be my realm until Notch banished me. I will love to see it destroyed. I would also enjoy killing you, though. So if you are stupid enough to go into the Internet, Take this book and place it on my throne. You will be transported to the Internet. I'll enjoy killing you.
Risugami closed the book. "T-this can't be happening. That guy was tough enough! Now we have to fight the real Herobrine?" he said. I took some of the stone bricks and tossed them away until I uncovered the throne, which was somehow undamaged. I took the book from Risugami and said, "There's only one thing left to do." I placed the book on the throne.
Chapter Eight-Part Two: The Internet
Coming Soon!
Dun Dun Dun!
To be honest, this is great! I love the plot- quite a cool idea, having Notch send you on a mission. The characters are well thought out, (gotta love Max,) and it's... just a good fan-fic !
Echoing Ora the Owlish, some of the 'errors' were stylic suggestions rather than errors. For example in the zombie invasion chapter, when you describe the scene with the head zombie I think you might have changed from 'He' and 'His' to 'It' and 'It's' a few times. And I would maybe suggest to build up some more tension, like just before they go to defeat Herobrine. It just felt a little un-tense. If that makes any sense at all.
But apart from that, awesome read! Going to definitely keep a look out for this. Keep going, keep writing.
~ Me out xD.
Thanks! It means a lot coming from another fanfic writer! BTW, gonna finish chapter eight tomorrow. I only have today and tomorrow to write for the rest of the year.
Thanks! It means a lot coming from another fanfic writer! BTW, gonna finish chapter eight tomorrow. I only have today and tomorrow to write for the rest of the year.
Finished Chapter Eight: Chapter Eight:
Chapter Eight-Part One: The Final Warning (no Maximum Ride series reference intended)
First, a question was biting at me. I turned around to the hooded figure. "Who are you?" I asked him. The hooded figure pulled off his hood. His face looked just like mine. It was just all grey. He looked at me and said, "I am Risugami," he said, "I am not you from any time. I have done the greatest things people have ever known to this world using the Internet. I created something that made it much easier. I called it Modloader. Sadly, people used Modloader for evil purposes. One person brought Herobrine into this world."
Risugami picked up the book and looked very stunned. I went over and looked at the pages. It read:
Internet Access by Herobrine
Well done, heroes. But you have it all wrong. That wasn't the real Herobrine. He was my decoy from the Internet. I am the real Herobrine, roaming endlessly through the Internet. This is your final warning. Do not go into the Internet or I will personally find and kill all of you. Minecraft used to be my realm until Notch banished me. I will love to see it destroyed. I would also enjoy killing you, though. So if you are stupid enough to go into the Internet, Take this book and place it on my throne. You will be transported to the Internet. I'll enjoy killing you.
Risugami closed the book. "T-this can't be happening. That guy was tough enough! Now we have to fight the real Herobrine?" he said. I took some of the stone bricks and tossed them away until I uncovered the throne, which was somehow undamaged. I took the book from Risugami and said, "There's only one thing left to do." I placed the book on the throne.
Chapter Eight-Part Two: Risugami's Story
"I remember it all! I remember my past!"
Yeah, it sounds like me talking. But it's not. It's our good friend Risugami. "Steve, Notch sent me on a mission, too! I know it sounds crazy, but let me explain," he said. I nodded in approval.
Let me put the story in these dotted lines:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"I come from your world, Steve. I used something called coding to do stuff to Minecraft. You can use it from our world, Steve. It's amazing! It was called Modloader. It was used as a gateway for people to alter Minecraft. Little did I know what could be done with it.
"One day I woke up and met Notch, only remembering that I made something called Modloader that people used for evil purposes. He sent me on a mission to fight Herobrine and his dragon, the Ender Dragon. I knocked Herobrine into the void and fought the dragon. When I killed it, it left behind an egg. When I tried to grab it, it teleported away, then teleported back. It was so weird. Notch never returned me to my world. The egg must have hatched into another dragon!"
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"What?" I asked at the end of his story. This was so shocking to me. But I knew it must be true. Risugami was the ancient Hero of Minecraft I had heard of s long ago. There was a statue in the village of someone who looked just like me who was said to have conquered Herobrine and killed a dragon. They called him the Hero of Minecraft. I couldn't believe it.
"You're the Hero of Minecraft?" I asked, "But why do you look like me?" He seemed to know the answer. "Because that is the Hero's image. All of the heroes look the same. I know this because Notch gave me the ability to know almost everything involving this world. But, sadly, we have bigger things to talk about right now."
I turned around and saw the last thing I wanted to see at that moment. You probably don't know who I'm talking about.
Chapter Eight-Part One: The Final Warning (no Maximum Ride series reference intended)
First, a question was biting at me. I turned around to the hooded figure. "Who are you?" I asked him. The hooded figure pulled off his hood. His face looked just like mine. It was just all grey. He looked at me and said, "I am Risugami," he said, "I am not you from any time. I have done the greatest things people have ever known to this world using the Internet. I created something that made it much easier. I called it Modloader. Sadly, people used Modloader for evil purposes. One person brought Herobrine into this world."
Risugami picked up the book and looked very stunned. I went over and looked at the pages. It read:
Internet Access by Herobrine
Well done, heroes. But you have it all wrong. That wasn't the real Herobrine. He was my decoy from the Internet. I am the real Herobrine, roaming endlessly through the Internet. This is your final warning. Do not go into the Internet or I will personally find and kill all of you. Minecraft used to be my realm until Notch banished me. I will love to see it destroyed. I would also enjoy killing you, though. So if you are stupid enough to go into the Internet, Take this book and place it on my throne. You will be transported to the Internet. I'll enjoy killing you.
Risugami closed the book. "T-this can't be happening. That guy was tough enough! Now we have to fight the real Herobrine?" he said. I took some of the stone bricks and tossed them away until I uncovered the throne, which was somehow undamaged. I took the book from Risugami and said, "There's only one thing left to do." I placed the book on the throne.
Chapter Eight-Part Two: Risugami's Story
"I remember it all! I remember my past!"
Yeah, it sounds like me talking. But it's not. It's our good friend Risugami. "Steve, Notch sent me on a mission, too! I know it sounds crazy, but let me explain," he said. I nodded in approval.
Let me put the story in these dotted lines:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"I come from your world, Steve. I used something called coding to do stuff to Minecraft. You can use it from our world, Steve. It's amazing! It was called Modloader. It was used as a gateway for people to alter Minecraft. Little did I know what could be done with it.
"One day I woke up and met Notch, only remembering that I made something called Modloader that people used for evil purposes. He sent me on a mission to fight Herobrine and his dragon, the Ender Dragon. I knocked Herobrine into the void and fought the dragon. When I killed it, it left behind an egg. When I tried to grab it, it teleported away, then teleported back. It was so weird. Notch never returned me to my world. The egg must have hatched into another dragon!"
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"What?" I asked at the end of his story. This was so shocking to me. But I knew it must be true. Risugami was the ancient Hero of Minecraft I had heard of s long ago. There was a statue in the village of someone who looked just like me who was said to have conquered Herobrine and killed a dragon. They called him the Hero of Minecraft. I couldn't believe it.
"You're the Hero of Minecraft?" I asked, "But why do you look like me?" He seemed to know the answer. "Because that is the Hero's image. All of the heroes look the same. I know this because Notch gave me the ability to know almost everything involving this world. But, sadly, we have bigger things to talk about right now."
I turned around and saw the last thing I wanted to see at that moment. You probably don't know who I'm talking about.
Chapter Nine:
Chapter Nine: We get the Last Ender Pearls (with a little help)
As you can see, it was Notch who we saw. Why was he here, I didn't know yet. He turned to us and said, "You have done well, heroes. Risugami, your assumption was correct. Another dragon has hatched. I was in the End about twenty years ago. Steve wasn't old enough, so I couldn't send him. I really suppose I could do it myself, but I am banished from the End. But I'll do two things for you. I'll turn back time to the night before you fought the ender mages. I'll also give you four ender pearls. But you must slay the dragon. We don't have much time!"
Max wasn't shocked. "We got this," he said, grinning. Most of us were all incredibly surprised. Notch was just giving us what we needed? Why hadn't he done this before? There was no time to ask. The next thing we knew, we were back in the village. We had no idea what happened. We headed for the observatory.
We bust the doors open and handed them the pearls and blaze rods. "Okay," one scientist said, "We'll send you over. We have to coordinates of the portal." He handed me a sheet of paper. "Just think of them in your head as hard as you can and you'll be there," the other scientist said. I realized that Max and Bruce has never signed up. Paradox, anyone? But we didn't have time to deal with that. I thought of them has hard as I could. 1330 13 237, I thought, making it the only thing on my mind. Instantly, me, Max, Bruce, and Risugami were at the stronghold. I heard a scientist shout, "Look in the enderchest! The ender eyes are in there!"
I looked to my right and there was an enderchest. Where was that Walter guy? That didn't matter right now. What I started, I would finish. I took out the twelve ender eyes and headed into the portal room. I slowly walked onto the portal frames. Carefully walking around it, I placed eleven ender eyes down. I turned to the others.
"You guys ready?" I asked. They nodded. Hesitantly, I placed the last ender eye in. The inside of the frame turned black. Through it, I saw a yellow platform with endermen on it. They looked too far away to see me. "Let's do it!" We all jumped in together into the unknown.
Scary, huh? Makes you all like, "Oh noz! Why'd you leave it off there?!"
Posted the character contest. When I get back, I'll pick the best one. Great publicity, huh? XD. But seriously, your character could be part of my story! Chapter 10 will have the new character.
Name: Jack Age (not required, since none of the main characters have a known age): Well if it's not required... Bio (summary of their past): His parents divorced when he was 12. His father died trying to fight the Withch bringing the curse upon the village. He's searched for his mother ever since... Why they joined the project: He has speculations that his mother may be somewhere in the End, a hostage of the Enderdragon. Weapons and armor (Can be anything. Could wear an enchanted zombie head or fight with a hoe): Doesn't wear armor because he cannot hold it up. He fights with a rose (his Mother's favorite flower) which somehow has unrealistic powers. Appearence (Easy one. Just post an mc skin):
Other: Good farmer
Name: Jack Age (not required, since none of the main characters have a known age): Well if it's not required... Bio (summary of their past): His parents divorced when he was 12. His father died trying to fight the Withch bringing the curse upon the village. He's searched for his mother ever since... Why they joined the project: He has speculations that his mother may be somewhere in the End, a hostage of the Enderdragon. Weapons and armor (Can be anything. Could wear an enchanted zombie head or fight with a hoe): Doesn't wear armor because he cannot hold it up. He fights with a rose (his Mother's favorite flower) which somehow has unrealistic powers. Appearence (Easy one. Just post an mc skin):
Other: Good farmer
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Quite a good character. I'll add you to the entries list.
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The Story: Book Zero-Prologue:
Prolouge Parts:
Part One:
Prologue-Part 1: Ten Years Before
From the haze of my emotions rose one simple, impossible fact; I had no idea who I was. The only possible clue in the formless place to my past was the strange, bearded man who stood across from me. His strangeness came mainly from his shape; he was made completely out of rectangles and squares, which struck me as somehow wrong. But who was I to judge? For as I raised my arm, I realized that I too was nothing but lines and boxes.
"Who are you?" I asked. "Why is everything square? Where am I? What do you want? Why can't I
remember my past?"
"You ask too many questions." the bearded man said, without moving his mouth, "I don't have much
time to answer you. I am known as Notch. I will not reveal my true name to you, not until you complete the only request I ask of you. Everything is square because that is how I made it. Everything is...simpler."
"Simpler?" I asked. "There's no such thing as a circle here! Or a triangle! Nothing is making sense! How do you have the power to create an entire world?"
"You will realize later. I need you because you are destined to be a hero, Steve," the man called Notch answered. Steve. So that was my name. It saddened me that I couldn't remember even that much. I was still confused.
"But why did you have to wipe my memory?"I asked.
"Your past would get in your way. You would focus on your friends and family and getting back to them rather than finding away to complete my request," replied Notch. "which is to slay two great foes. The first is known as the Wither. It has incomprehensible powers. In one of the paintings that will be shown to you, you will see how to summon it. Be careful, you must get far away quickly after you summon it, or it will mean certain doom."
"How will it cause my 'certain doom' if I get too close?" I said to him.
"You'll blow up due to its protective blast," Notch answered. "Anyway, the next foe I ask you to defeat is the Ender Dragon. It is no ordinary dragon. It is a dragon with powers that can destroy almost everything that is of any world besides its home dimension, known as the End. To get there, you must find a Stronghold. If you have the 12 keys required, you can enter the End. You must do it, in ten or eleven years from now, it will break into our world and destroy everything I have made."
"How will I know how to find the Stronghold? Also, what's in it for me?" I shot at him.
"If you must have a reward other than not dying, you will return to your home world with all your
memory and you'll be the same age and you will wake up on the night after you left," replied Notch. "Everything you will need to know about the world I am sending you to can be found out at the village. It will be very close to where you arrive."
"Okay, that sounds fair enough. Uh...when do I leave to do this task?" I said questioningly.
Notch answered by saying, "Actually, right now." Immediately after he said that, I got very dizzy and couldn't make out what was in front me anymore.
Suddenly, the world went black.
Prologue-Part 2: Proving my Worth...This Should be Fun
Once again, everything seemed hazy when I woke up. Once again, everything was square. But I realized what Notch meant. Everything was simpler. It was amazing. I was in an amazing forest. Trees big and small surrounded me. There were pigs and sheep all around me. To my right, a river was flowing. Notch made everything look special in it's own way. I guessed it would be easier to collect materials like this. But I didn't have time to admire it all. I had a mission. What had Notch told me? It was something about a village.
That was pretty easy. It was right behind me the whole time. It was in the middle of the clearing I woke up in. All the villagers had their arms in quite an odd position. They had stuck their arms into their sleeves on the opposite arm. I slowly walked towards it, looking in both directions.
Of course, my new life had to be cruel to me. A villager hurried over and stopped me. He said, "You there! Do you have emeralds? Have you come here to trade? Are you injured in any way?"
"No, no, and obviously no," I said in reply. There was something odd about this guy. He was very nosy, to describe him ironically. All of the villagers had huge noses. It was very disturbing and disgusts me to mention.
"Then I can not permit you into the village," the villager said, "unless you can prove your worth by killing the witch of the dark swamp!" He pointed to a swamp that was very ominous indeed.
"Well, that doesn't seem so hard," I said. The villager than said, like he would regret saying it, "If you do this, you will have to borrow a few things or you will be killed in the process of doing this."
"Now it seems kinda hard."
"Well, it should be. You're killing a witch, after all."
"Why do you need me to kill her. What's so wrong about her?"
"She cursed our village. Throughout the whole summer, every year, we are stuck in an eclipse. She did this when someone was journeying in the swamp and she didn't want her swamp to be disturbed," The villager answered, "Give me a minute. I will be back with your supplies."
He ran off quickly into one of the houses. Through the window i saw him open a chest and take out what looked like armor, a sword, a bow, and a quiver. I hoped that's what it was. All of these things were pixelated so it was hard to tell. When he returned, he came with the items. Indeed it was what thought it was. I put on the armor with ease. It was chain mail armor and fit very comfortably. That was surprising since it felt so stiff. He then gave me the weapons and the quiver.
He told me, "Now go on, outsider. We do not want an eclipse this summer. It begins in five days." I already knew that i would need only 30 minutes. However, I left without a word. This wasn't going to be fun.
I approached the "dark swamp" quickly and ran towards a hut that I saw in the distance. I climbed up the ladder and banged open the door. The hut was made of dark planks and ordinary logs. Inside was a workbench, a cauldron, and some mushrooms in some pots. There was also a chest by the workbench. The witch turned around. She looked just like the villagers except she had paler skin and a black hat on.
"Hmm..." she said curiously. "I thought one of the villagers would challenge me in order to break the curse. A human may be a bit harder to kill but it doesn't matter to me."
From the chest she pulled out many green, red, purple, and pink potions out of the chest. She threw a purple one at me. It shattered and the liquid hurt me in a way I couldn't describe. I ran out side and jumped off the porch. The fall hurt me a bit, but I was mainly okay. I turned around, pulled out my bow, and nocked an arrow while I recovered from the potion and the fall. When she came out of the door I released the arrow. It went flying and hit her right in the nose. She fell backwards and blocked the doorway. I climbed up the ladder and pulled out the rocky sword I had been given. Then, I stabbed her and she disappeared in a puff of smoke.
A few green orbs and a potion laid where she had just been a moment ago. Is that how things died here? The green orbs flew towards me and I seemed to absorb them. In my mind a bar appeared and filled up completely. Then it reset and filled up again a little bit. A number 1 was now on top of it. I don't know how it did that. I picked up the potion and examined it. Once I picked it up, I seemed to know what it was. It was a regeneration potion. How did I know that? This day just kept getting stranger and stranger. I headed back to the village, feeling a mixture of victory and confusion.
Prologue-Conclusion: The Reaper Of Souls Really Creeps Me Out
Three Years Later...
You might be wondering why I skipped ahead three years. It's because nothing really interesting happened. Once you prove your worth to the village, they make you feel welcome. They taught me everything from mining to crafting (yes I see the irony in what I said) to simple stuff like fishing. I forgot about my mission for three years. When I remembered it, I rushed over to the librarian and asked him to explain everything I needed to know about the Wither. First he had to explain the Nether to me.
First I had to build a 4x5 frame of obsidian. Then I had to light it and step into the purple substance that appeared. After a few seconds, I would find myself in the Nether. I would then find myself in a fiery dimension. I would see walking pigs everywhere (by "walking" I mean on their hind legs. It's downright creepy) carrying gold swords. It would be best not to hurt them, because if I did, every single one for as far as I could see would be after me. Then there were Ghasts, floating white squids that shot fireballs at you. If you killed them, you got one of their tears (they're not liquid. If they froze, the impossible would have happened. It must be at least 100 degrees there), which could be used for potions. If I found a nether fortress, I would run into Blazes, these weird yellow rectangles with spinning rods around them. They also shot fireballs (but they were much weaker than Ghast fireballs) at you. They dropped their rods, which were required for making brewing stand and strength potions. Then there were the Wither Skeletons. Taller versions of skeletons equipped with stone swords. Downright scary, but I would need three of their heads (along with four soul sand) to call the Wither into the world. It would probably take a while to do that, because it's hard to kill a monster without slicing its head into pieces.
So, as you can tell, I made the portal. After I got in, I was in a living nightmare. The second I got in, I saw a Ghast. They look friendly until they shoot their flaming balls of death at you. I quickly deflected it's fireball with my sword. I sadly missed. I deflected the next one, and it hit! Its tear fell into lava, though. After traveling for a while and fighting Ghasts, I found a group of Wither Skeletons. I was in trouble now. I did a quick sword spin (no one taught me that, which I think is sad) and hit all of them. One fell to the ground, but it clearly wasn't dead. I chopped of one's head. That was good news. I stabbed the other in the chest, then did a quick uppercut and killed it. The last one finally got up and I kicked in down again. Then I jumped onto it and stabbed my sword into its head. I had one head from it, but I was almost dead from the fight. I ate a few steaks and turned around to see a Ghast. Just another day in the unlucky life of me.
There was no way I could deflect the fireball in time so I rolled over to my left and barely dodged it. It hit a couple Pigmen (as they were called) and I'm surprised they didn't get all mad at it. I deflected the next fireball, and then a few more, but kept missing. I got out my bow and shot a few arrows at it and it finally died. I ran over and picked up the tear and some experience. Now to find more Wither Skeletons.
Ironically, one came up behind me and stabbed me, hard. I turned around and gave it a good chop to its side. I did an uppercut but it never hit because it hit me again. I knocked its sword out of its hand with my sword and chopped of its head. Victory! I traveled some more and saw in the distance a dark structure. It must be a Nether Fortress, I thought. What seemed to be guarding the entrance was a group of five Wither Skeletons. Before I could get any closer, I had to fight another Ghast. It must be so much easer to attack from a long distance, I thought. Then I mentally facepalmed myself because I remembered my bow. I shot three of them down and the other two came after me. After a brutal fight that almost killed me, they were both dead. After regenerating some, I went over to the corpses of the Wither Skeletons I had shot earlier. Two had been shot in the head, but one had been shot in the chest. I chopped off its head and emerged victorious.
I decided not to explore the Nether Fortress because I really didn't want to deal with blazes after what I had Just been through. I just dug through a wall to my portal because I had traveled in a "U" shape. Now I had a shortcut to the Nether Fortress. I approached the portal and exited the nightmare.
Once I got back, I realized I had forgot the soul sand. I quickly went back and got some because there was a patch behind the portal in the Nether. When I returned, I went over to the librarian. "Okay," I said, "I've got the materials, now what do I do?"
He looked up from what he was reading and told me, "You can see how to build it by looking at that painting to your left."
Notch had said something about the Wither and a painting. So when I looked to the left there was a painting that showed the 4 soul sand in a "T" shape. The Wither Skeleton Skulls were on top of each of the three highest pieces of soul sand on the structure. "Thanks," I said to him and left. I informed the mayor (or whatever you would call the leader here) about what I was doing. I venture off a long way, leaving minecart tracks behind me as I went so I could get back quickly. I was about seven hundred blocks away when I finally set up the powered rails and button to get back. I walked about ten blocks away and began building the structure.
After I had placed two of the skulls, something weird happened. I heard a voice in my head. It was an ominous voice that would probably send shivers down your spine if it was discussing plans for world peace with you. Yes! Yes! Place the last skull! The Reaper of Souls shall live again, it said, I will destroy all the living and the world will be mine. But if you do kill me, you'll get the Nether Star. What are you going to do? The decision was easy. I placed the last skull down without hesitation.
Immediately after that, there was a blinding flash. I remembered Notch telling me to run. While I was running, I heard the voice again. Foolish mortal! You don't know the magnitude of the mistake you've made! You've given up the world to try and get a Nether Star! Good luck killing me, it said. Behind me, there was a tremendous explosion. It destroyed some of the minecart track. Wither, the Reaper of Souls is about to claim the world, the Wither said to me. I turned around and saw it. It was a giant Wither Skeleton skull with a snake-like body. It had short arms with Wither Skeleton skulls for hands. It was entirely black except for the faces of the skulls.
It created a Wither Skeleton skull out of nothing and launched it at me. I dodged it, and it exploded once it hit the ground. It was flying in the air, so I launched a volley of arrows at me. I hurt it, and a health bar marked "Wither" appeared in my mind. It took a good bit of damage because of my enchanted bow, but it would take a while to even get it even halfway dead. After dodging many more exploding skulls, I got another volley of arrows on it. After repeating this pattern until half of its health was gone. Then a flashing white coat of armor appeared around it. My arrows kept bouncing off of it. Luckily, the armor weighed it down. It was time to go melee on it.
It was a lot harder to dodge the skulls now that I had to fight with my sword. I kept hitting it and hitting it. Finally, it was almost dead. It was the same with me. I quickly munched on a normal golden apple and kept dodging the skulls until I was fully healed again. I charged at it and slashed numerous times and it died. I collected the Nether Star and tons of experience. Well, Notch, I thought, Looks like I'm gonna have to do some dragon hunting.
Chapter 1:
Chapter 1: Pure Luck
In The Present...
You know your life's pretty bad when the world's about to end and it's technically your fault. That was, sadly, the case with me. After ten years, I still couldn't find a Stronghold. Now, in less than six months, the dragon would break out from the End into our world and devour us all. The whole six months thing I know of because I got another message from Notch (if you somehow forgot, he sent me here) into my head.
You have six months, Notch said, Six months until everything I have made and you are destroyed. You must kill the dragon or I shall be nothing. I don't have the strength to rebuild this world.
That was a few days ago. Notch really bummed me out there. When I first heard him, I didn't recognize him. Seven years (Do the ten years I've been here minus the three years it took to kill the Wither, and you get seven years) of aimless searching for a Stronghold kind of makes you forget a voice you haven't heard in ten years.
Now, I was wandering the streets of the village when I saw a villager put a flyer up on one of the black torch-posts. They never used flyers in the village because paper was so rare. This must be important. I quickly began reading it.
The Eye Project!
Are you a good fighter? Have you ever wanted to go to the End dimension? Do you want to obtain a dragon egg?
If your answer is yes to any of those questions, you are already eligible to join the Eye Project. We have already found a Stronghold and we are looking for people to obtain the 12 keys that are needed. Go to the observatory for more information.
This was my chance! I couldn't believe it! Could I actually be able to complete my mission? It was impossible, but it happened. I ran to the observatory faster than I thought possible. I kept leaping four blocks at a time and my hunger quickly depleted. I didn't care at that point. When you've been looking for something for years, nothing else matters once you think you've found it. It seemed like it was automatic as I ran towards the observatory. I really needed a life.
The observatory was bigger than I remembered. I didn't remember any construction going on. Above the doors was a sign that read: "Village Observatory: Home of the All-New Eye Project!" I opened the double doors and walked in. Inside was what appeared to be a screen that showed another part of the world. It was made of old stone bricks. It moved like they were seeing through someone else's eyes. Somehow this reminded me of something from the past. I heard many of the scientists talking to each other.
"He still hasn't found the portal room. If we can't get to the portal room, then this entire project is doomed!"
"We're fresh out of ender eyes, too. There's no way to locate the portal."
"Meanwhile, no one's volunteered to help. We could just send him an ender eye through an ender chest. But we don't have anyone who can fight endermen with us."
I was tempted to clear my throat in rude matter, but right after he said that, they turned around. "How ironic," the scientist who hadn't just talked turned around and noticed me, "you must be here to volunteer for the project. Before we fill you in, we need you to get us an ender pearl. It's almost sundown and we need one as soon as possible."
"Okay," I said, "I've always wanted to see the End. I'm a pretty skilled warrior, so I was thinking I could help fight the dragon."
"Splendid!" said the other scientist, "You better get started quickly. The sooner, the better!"
I quickly hurried out. It was about sundown, so it was good that I had just left. In a minute or two, monsters would start spawning. I had fought a handful of endermen, but sold all of my ender pearls. It's amazing how much they pay for those. I could see why the scientists couldn't just buy one. I got 20 iron each pearl. I realized that I should be hunting and not thinking about these things.
Once it got to night time, I saw some purple particles in the distance. I killed a few zombies before heading for it. Score! I got an iron axe. Behind me, I heard the notorious hissing sound. I turned around and slashed the creeper with my new axe. I headed for the enderman, but a spider dropped down from a tree. I quickly stabbed it in the eye and ripped out its other one. And since it was blind, it was fairly easy to kill.
Finally I charged at the enderman's legs and got two hits on it. It attacked me once and knocked me over. It teleported away and I couldn't find it. When I got up, it hit me from behind. I was pushed forward but leaned back and regained my balance. I turned around and did an uppercut and a sideslash on it. It hit me again, but before it could teleport away, I jumped into the air and sliced down on its head. It disappeared into the could of white smoke like what happened with the other monsters. I picked up the ender pearl it dropped and headed back to my house. If my job was just to hunt endermen, I could get used to it.
Chapter 2: Zombie Invasion!
Good news. Finally a new major character is coming into the story. But not exactly in the best scene...
This was not good. The village was surrounded by armed zombies. I saw some fighters come out of their houses trying to save the defenseless. There was once called Max (he claims it's not short for anything, but I'm pretty sure he's lying) who only used a wood sword that never broke for some reason. It had ridiculously high enchantments on it and could take out skeletons in one hit. I couldn't recognize the other people, but some appear later in the story.
Anyway, it looked like I had work to do. I rushed towards the zombie horde. "You want me?" I shouted, "Come and get it!" I charged at the zombies at full speed and swung my sword and knocked two of them out. One in leather armor with a stone sword came from my right and I only saw him out of the corner of my eye. I quickly turned to the side and got in a fierce duel with him. Surprisingly, the other zombies backed off. They just stood there, watching. He actually knocked my sword out of my hand. It it flew over and went straight through a zombie. I kicked the one in leather armor to the ground and picked up my sword. When I picked it up, that zombie got revenge by kicking me to the ground. He was about to make the fatal blow when an enchanted wood sword was stabbed through him.
"Thanks," I said to Max, "You saved my life over there. But I guess we don't have much time to talk. Zombies to kill, after all." He nodded, and we rushed over and began fighting the rest of the zombies.
Sometimes we even stole their weapons and attacked them with it. I'm not kidding; they were really that stupid. Sadly, one of the zombies got to a kid. It turned into a baby zombie. Max threw a splash potion of healing at it. At least it was cured. Traumatized, but cured. I fought off the zombies who has infected the kid. It was still only midnight. We may have to fight off the whole armada, I thought. Finally we got to the stronger troops. These guys were decked out in gold-chain mixes and chain-iron mixes of armor. They were all armed with iron swords. Some of their swords were enchanted. My life was really unlucky these days, because I realized that I would need to protect the observatory if I wanted to save the world. It was on the other side of the village. I burst through the crows of zombies and went over to the observatory. The zombies were banging on the doors. I threw a snowball at them so they would stop banging on the doors and they wouldn't get in.
It looked like I messed with the wrong group of zombies. One of them was in similar gear to mine. Decked out in full diamond with a diamond sword. All of it was enchanted. This must be the leader of the pack. If I took him down, maybe the the zombies would wander aimlessly instead of going for the villagers. I shot an arrow at the diamond zombie. He switched weapons to a bow. He could do that? When did zombies get smart enough to use their inventory. I ducked out of the way before he even fired. Even if he was smart enough to switch weapons, he couldn't be smart enough to change aim that quickly. I went in the back entrance of the observatory. It had an iron door with buttons. I went in and headed for the main doors. The observatory was in panic. I really didn't have time for this. I headed for the main doors and opened them. The zombie leader was still trying to find him. I opened the door, closed it quickly, then kicked the leader down. I really needed to stop doing that. He rolled over, and I stabbed him in the nose. He was stunned, but got back up quickly after he recovered. However, while he was still down, I took out the rest of the zombies.
Now for the final battle. But before it started, I saw Max running over. Whatever it was, it wasn't important right now. Unless the dragon came here early or the Wither came back to life, I didn't care. Now, the final battle started. I slashed down on it, giving it a good bonk on the head. It got dizzy, and I sideslashed it. It got back up and got a few hits on me. I gave it an uppercut to the face. It was best that I kept hitting there, since it was its only weak spot right now. What happened next, thought, will shock you. He pulled out a poison potion and threw it at me. How did he have that? It must have been brewed with some glowstone, because it was really hurting me. Max shot an arrow at its back, though it wasn't much good to a zombie in a diamond armor. Quickly, I tore off its helmet and slashed down on its head. The thing was dead, and it was about to be the same with me. I almost fainted, but drank a health potion at the last second. That was close. I hobbled back over to Max, still aching from the poison.
"Looks like I saved your life twice today, huh?" Max laughed, "But you've done the same for me before, so I guess we're even." I couldn't help but smile.
"I guess we should head home and rest. We just fought off like a hundred zombies. I think we deserve a break, huh?" I told him. So that's what we did. My house was basically three of the librarian's house stacked on top of each other without the roofs except on the top floor. I kept all my valuables in a secret basement that I hooked a password lock to. I taught myself redstone because the villagers considered it trash. Little did they know, it was the land's greatest tool. My bed was on the top floor of my house. I was originally going to put a spiral staircase in it, but it was too small and I didn't want to rebuild. So I just stuck with a ladder.
After a good night's sleep, I headed back over to the observatory. I almost dropped my pearl in battle, but I checked my pocket to make sure I still had it. When I got inside, it looked like nothing happened. They really cleaned up good. Maybe that's why the villagers were so greedy with emeralds. I gave the scientists in front of the screen the ender pearl.
"Perfect! Walter, we're sending you an ender eye. Use it to find the portal room." the scientist said. A voice that didn't come from anyone in the observatory said, "Great! I'll be famous for discovering the End Portal!" And I'll be famous for killing the Ender Dragon, I thought to myself. The scientist pulled out some blaze powder from a chest and sprinkled it on the ender pearl. The coating on the pearl burned away and it revealed to be something that looked like an eye. That's when I realized why they called it an ender eye.
If they knew about this and the librarian didn't, how much did they know?
Chapter 3-Part One: The Three Volunteers
What the man they called Walter on the screen placed down the ender chest (I had learned about them, but never learned what was used to make them) and took out the ender eye, he threw it. It went the direction he flew it at first, but some unknown force drove it a different way. It went through a wall. Walter took out a pick and mined through the wall that the eye went through. What he didn't know was that he unleashed a silverfish armada. I had a spare diamond sword, and I knew what I had to do.
"Give him this," I said, handing them the sword. They looked at it, nodded, and put it in the ender chest. "Walter," one scientist said, "take this. Get back to the ender chest. There's too many silverfish!" Walter ran over to the ender chest, took it and pulled out the sword. The silverfish were ganging up on him. He began slashing them like crazy. They were all dead in seconds, and he went into the room. Inside was a 5x5 horizontal outline of weird blocks with the corners missing. Walter saw the silverfish spawner and broke it with his pick. The librarian had shown me a picture of those green-and-yellow blocks. They were pieces of the End Portal Frame.
"That's where he needs to put the eyes," I said to the scientists. The other scientist told him this. "But we have another problem," the first scientist said, "We don't have any ender eyes left." Just then, Max and a guy I had seen running out of the houses last night walked in.
"Hey," the unnamed man said. "Is this the place where the eye project starts?" Then Max explained to me, "I saw you walk in here last night before the zombies came. I remembered reading about the Eye Project and thought I should help out. Then Bruce here said he was willing, too. So here we are." Well, that made sense.
"Well, okay. We need six blaze rods and twelve ender pearls. Get them as soon as you can because after all, this is for science!" the other scientist replied, "Which one of you is best with a bow?" I shook my head, and so did Max. Slowly, Bruce raised his hand, unsure. "We'll need you to head into the Nether. You'll have to kill six to eight Blazes," the scientist said. "You can use my portal," I told Bruce, "Though I haven't been in the Nether for a while. I marked a path to a Nether Fortress the last time I was there. Just don't destroy the spawners. It may take a long time to find another fortress."
"Gotcha," Bruce said. "Now, you two need to hunt some endermen tonight. Probably tomorrow, too. If you can get us twelve ender pearls by Friday (today was Tuesday), we'll be ready to go," the other scientist told us.
"Sounds like a plan," Max said eagerly.
Chapter 3-Part Two: Pure Luck Turns Into Bad Luck
So, as you can see, things don't turn out too good at this part. But, you know, I had a world to save in six months, so I was stuck with this. Let's just say that endermen bite back. I better stop giving things away. For some reason, Max really enjoyed hunting endermen. He charged at them, killing them in three hits each. His sword must have had looting on it, because one time he got three pearls from an endermen. What was going on? He had six pearls quickly, so I knew something bad was about to happen.
Sure enough, something did. We had 9 pearls, and there was a group of three enderman, which I thought was impossible. So we started fighting them as usual. But what happened was impossible. One enderman teleported away and came back with an enchanted diamond sword. I tried to stop it, but for some reason, he didn't try to kill Max. The enderman just took his pearls. Now we were down to the three pearls that I had.
"Max!" I shouted, "If they keep getting swords, we'll never defeat them! Just come back to the village!" He turned around and ran towards me. The other two endermen grabbed bows and started shooting at us. What was happening? This was not enderman behavior at all. Maybe somewhere in the End, the dragon was gaining power. So the endermen would, too. I realized they must have stole a sword from somewhere in the village unless they knew how to craft.
We ran back. One came up to us holding obsidian. That wasn't possible. It said so in the librarian's book. He whacked me with it and fell over. I threw an arrow at it because I couldn't pick up my bow. As I got up, Max slashed down on it. That's when I noticed it had a helmet on. It was made of obsidian. Max's sword would explode into pieces! I lunged over and knocked the enderman down. Max's sword hit its chest. Well, at least we had a victory on one enderman. This was insane. We would be overpowered soon. That's when I decided I would go ballistic. I charged at the endermen, swinging blindly. I knocked all of them out and got two pearls. There was no way they would stop me now. One more appeared, armed with a diamond sword. I took his sword and stabbed him between the eyes. He spun in circles for a moment, then opened his mouth and bit me.
That surprisingly hurt a lot. I didn't care at all and you could tell that because I got three sideslashes on it. I didn't even notice that Max was already back at his house. The enderman opened his mouth again and I slashed downwards after putting my sword in his mouth. This must have been the one that took Max's pearls, because it dropped three pearls. That brought us to eight pearls. That should teach the endermen to mess with me. Who cared if they did the impossible?
Chapter 4-Part One:Ender Mages
That night, I couldn't get to sleep. I couldn't help thinking about how that enderman had an obsidian helmet. Obsidian was too brittle to mold together. Maybe they used some kind of magic. This was really driving me nuts. By the time I got to sleep, the sun was starting to come up over the horizon.
"Steve! Steve! Wake up! We're under attack!"
What? Under attack? I woke up to see a panicked Bruce in front of the ladder. Here's where the worst part came in. I hurried towards the door. Three blocks in front of it, fire circled my house in a ring. I turned around to Bruce. "I think I know what's going on," I said, "Lately, endermen have been holding weapons and wearing, though it sounds crazy, obsidian armor. I think some endermen found a flint and steel."
I turned back around, kicked open the door, and placed a piece of cobble in front of the fire and jumped on it and then over the fire. Whatever strange things were happening in the End, it was up to me to stop. But endermen with flint and steels was almost too much. But there wasn't a single enderman anywhere in the village. There were only mages wearing black robes. Their eyes were enderman eyes, though. I decided to call them ender mages.
Note to self: Do not use a sword on ender mages. If I swung my sword at an ender mage, they held both of their hands up and summoned a giant ender eye and threw it at me. It would shatter into bits and knock out five hearts. I went back into my house and got out my infinity bow. I hardly ever used it because this was the only one I had. It was also enchanted with flame, so it really packed a punch. They died each time I hit them. They were easy to kill, but did a lot of damage since they made rings of fire around peoples' houses. Suddenly, the rest of the mages retreated into what looked like a portal. I had to go in because it seemed like it would be an End Portal. Bruce appeared and followed me, and so did Max. When we got to the portal, I hesitated and stopped.
"What's wrong, Steve?" Max asked, "We'll be able to take whatever's in there. There's three of us, after all!" He did have a point, so I continued walking. We all jumped together into this strange unknown.
Chapter 4-Part Two:The Secret of Obsidian
We flew through empty blackness, enderman particles flying everywhere. Suddenly, everything in the world was visible again, but we still moved and the particles still surrounded us. We suddenly went downwards, drilling through the ground. I picked up the ores that we broke on the way down and got four coal, thirty-four redstone, two iron, and three diamonds. Something told me I would need the diamonds.
We smashed through bedrock after only a minute or two after steeping into the portal. We zoomed through the void and wound up in the Nether, slamming right through it without any mobs noticing. We broke through the bottom layer of bedrock there and fell through the void for a while. We started approaching a floating dark castle that was so black, you could see it even in the void like we were. We landed on a platform about fifty blocks away from the castle.
Obviously, we had to go in. I placed a piece of cobblestone down on the edge of the platform. It then vanished into thin air. Where were we, and how was this happening?
"Maybe you were right to hesitate, Steve!" Max said, "There's no way out except down!" That was it! I approached the edge and looked down. There was a black block that I could distinguish darker than our surroundings. "There's another portal down there! It's only one block, so we'll have to go one at a time," I told them. To show them, I went to the other side of the platform, turned around, and ran as fast I could and jumped off the edge of the platform.
It was hard to move to my sides because of my velocity as I fell. I eventually lined myself up with the portal block and fell in. I was transported and turned right-side-up instantly and found myself right in front of the castle gates. I shouted over to Max and Bruce.
"Okay, guys! I can't do it alone!" I shouted. Bruce leaped off and teleported over about ten seconds later. Seeing that we were both safe, Max jumped off too. One we were all there, I opened the gates and walked in. In the center of the castle was a giant floating mass of obsidian. Once we stepped in, it flew straight towards us faster than anything I had ever seen
Chapter 5-Beacons: A Blessing and a Curse
The strangest thing possible happens right now. Because when the fatal blow was about to strike, time itself reversed. Suddenly, I was back with Max and Bruce in front of the gate.
"What just happened, guys?" I asked. "We all just jumped into a portal to the castle. You were the first one, so how do you not know?" Max said, clearly confused. I sighed and explained, "Okay, basically, I'm from the future. We had just opened the gate and this weird mass of obsidian flew towards us. But then time reversed and I came here. It's strange to me, too. But it's like I'm being told there's another way in."
They seemed to understand, so I walked around the castle. There were creepers that were black and gray instead of green and white with purple eyes and mouths. When they exploded, they would teleport away instead of dying. They took forever to kill. Finally I saw it. In the blackness, there was a piece of black wool about two blocks from the edge of the platform. I jumped onto it. I looked around and saw another one. I kept jumping onto these until I was on top of the castle. Bruce and Max got up quickly, too. There were glass windows that looked into the room with the obsidian mass.
"Okay, I'll have to break the window and get the heck out of there the second the glass breaks, or this time it may really be the end for me," I said. They jumped back down to the castle, going along the wool parkour course. I broke one piece of glass and jumped down to the castle without taking the parkour course. Instead, I just jumped off the platform I was on. I looked up and saw the obsidian thing bash through the wall and fly out into the void. I hoped that it would shatter once it hit bedrock.
We walked back around to the gate, fighting off more ender creepers. But this time, they dropped what looked like ender eyes except it was all black except a purple pupil. It felt just like obsidian. Were these used for the obsidian armor? I made sure I picked up every one. I would need the best gear I could find if I wanted to fight the Ender Dragon. I opened the gate, revealing the same room. I saw a throne fit for an enderman. Maybe the endermen had some weird ruler other than the dragon. I guessed this throne was a source of honor. So I took out my diamond pick and swung at it. The throne was made of a strange red substance that was easily breakable. It shattered in seconds, revealing something tat was told of in legends. It was a beacon. I didn't want the beacon itself, though. I wanted what was under it. I dug out a block that was two meters away from the beacon. I put water in it and went down. The whole time, Max and Bruce were staring at me, frozen in a confused look.
As I went down my water elevator I saw that the beacon's pyramid was made of diamond. Score! I mined it all up after a short time. I went back up and took the beacon. I turned to see Max and Bruce looking at me in the same glance as they were before. I punched both of them to make sure they weren't frozen like that because of some mysterious force. Sadly, they were frozen like that. Both fell over and broke into pieces. Did someone steal Max and Bruce? If so, that was just plain creepy. Something bit me and I felt a familiar pain. I turned around with my sword out, slicing the enderman. I hit him at least ten times but he never died. I saw that he had full obsidian armor on. The chestplate and pants looked stretched. It was boss battle time.
If this thing wanted a fight, I would give it one. I placed down a piece of TNT and ignited it. Hopefully this would do the trick. I ran as fast as I could but still was knocked back by the blast. I am such an idiot, I thought, that won't do a thing if he has obsidian armor. I was wrong on that one. The enderman flew back and crashed through a window, falling endlessly into the void. That was quite an easy boss battle. But right now, I had some friends to save.
There were no hidden passages, so I climbed to the top of the castle. It was a long time since there were hardly any footholds except a bit of space between blocks sometimes. Once I got to the top, I found this enderman king. Behind him, in midair, there was a cage with Max and Bruce in it. Next to the enderman king, there was a lever that would retract the floor under them. If I didn't make the right move, they would surely die. Why did these things always happen to me?
"Looks like I forgot one," the enderman king said, "the dragon will not be pleased unless I finish you off. But let me get into true fighting gear." He teleported away and came back wearing obsidian armor and a crown that was made of a mix of gold and obsidian.
"If you want to save your friends," he said, "you must beat me in battle. Yes, I mean it. You must defeat the strongest of all endermen." He laughed, and I heard static in the background while he did it. This was really creeping me out. The enderman king pulled out an obsidian sword. He lunged at me. It was do-or-die time.
I was not going down that easy. I rolled between his legs and stabbed him in the back of the head. I get that it was technically a cowardly move, but that and his face were the only weak spots. Suddenly, I had a realization that would help me win this battle. I backflipped off the edge and landed on a small platform. I shot more arrows than I could count up at his face. It didn't matter what armor he had. He would be dead. He pulled the arrows out of his face, but it was no use. He fell to the ground, and off the castle. I climbed back up and followed the redstone path to the cage. I broke it open and freed Max and Bruce.
"Nice one," Bruce said, "you're a pretty good fighter." Max looked pretty happy. "Told you you would save my life," he said, laughing. I looked back to where the enderman king had died. His crown had been left behind. I walked over carefully and picked it up. The second I touched it, a portal opened up right where the obsidian mass used to be. I put the crown on and took off my normal diamond helmet. It was dented from enderman bites. All three of us went into the portal, not realizing the properties of the portal until we had returned.
When we returned to the village, it looked like nothing had ever happened. That's because nothing had happened yet. We had traveled back in time. We could stop the mage attack before it started. Or was it too late? Because a minute after we got back, it changed again. The village was now a desolate wasteland. The Eye Project was ruined, and soon the world would be doomed. What had we done?
Conclusion: What's the Internet?
"I should have hesitated back there. I shouldn't have went in! We never would've been in this mess if it wasn't for us going into that portal. We have changed history!" I screamed, probably sounding like I had gone totally insane. "Calm down," Max said, "There's got to be a way to fix this. That's how it always works in the books." I glared at him and said, "Yes, but we're not heroes. We're just idiots who didn't defend the village!"
A figure appeared in the shadows as I said that. He approached us. He was a figure in a black cloak with a hood that covered his face. He was taller than us, but not as tall as an enderman. "The Eye Project is not doomed. Because as your friend said, there has to be a way," the hooded figure said, "There is one way, but it is incredibly dangerous and most people say it is a myth. It involves the connection between our worlds and the worlds beyond."
"What? Worlds beyond? Our world is the only one inhabited in the universe!" Bruce said. "Not exactly. I forgot that I never told you about this," I told him, and then explained my story. You don't want to have to hear me explain it again, so I left it out. Anyway, Bruce understood and asked the hooded figure, "So, what are these other dimensions and how do we get to them?"
"They are all connected by one central object. They call it the Internet. If you get to it, you can access any world possible. Sadly, Steve, you can't get to your world from there. It is from a world much bigger than the Internet. There are devices in your world that can look into the Internet," the hooded figure explained.
"How do you know my name and where I'm from?" I asked. "I know many things. I am known for instantly knowing everything about everyone," the hooded figure answered, "Anyway, from the Internet, we can take something from it using a process called downloading. We bring this thing, which is called a mod, into our world and it will alter it. If we can find a time machine from the Internet and bring it here, you can go back and fix what has happened."
"Sounds complicated. How do you get to the Internet?" Max asked. "That is the only hard part," the hooded figure said, "because there is only one person in this world who knows how to get there."
"Who is it?" Bruce asked, "I think we can take him, whoever it is." He seemed pretty confident, which is what we would need. It will shock you when you hear who it is.
"He is the greatest evil of the Overworld," the hooded figure said, "He has power beyond imagining. He is only heard of in legends. He was legendary until someone brought him from the Internet into here. Sadly, that person never returned."
"Sounds pretty scary and all, but who is this 'great evil'?" Max asked.
The hooded figure answered by saying, "They call him by the name Herobrine."
Chapter Seven:
Chapter Seven: Storming the Castle
Herobrine? Make a deal with Herobrine? Was I crazy or something? But my only choice was to agree, so I did.
"Herobrine lives in a giant castle not too far from here. You can see it in the distance," the hooded figure continued. Sure enough, behind me, a dark structure could just barely be seen even with this thing called "render distance" I had learned about on the "far" setting. "I will go with you, as I am the only one who has ever ventured inside and lived to get out," the hooded figure said, "Herobrine will challenge one of you for the information. He will probably choose Steve, as he is the strongest."
"Hey!" Max yelled, "what about me?"
"I'm just stating a fact. Just let me finish."
"Okay."
"Anyway," the hooded figure resumed, "you are in this mess because of one of you killing an enderman with immense power, but we can't revive him." Max and Bruce looked at me. I was really embarrassed at that point, but I did have a good excuse. "We must hurry," the hooded figure said, "we can worry about who did what later! We are running out of time!"
The hooded figure held up his arm and it glowed with some weird essence. Instantly, we were in front of the structure. It was massive and made entirely out of nether brick. In front of the gate were five Wither Skeletons. Don't you just hate this type of unlucky life?
The hooded figure pulled out an enchanted iron sword. Whatever enchantment it had was incredibly strong. Each skeleton fell with a single blow. Of course now it was easy to kill those things.
I noticed a christmas tree by the gate. Merry Christmas! I have to fight Herobrine!
We headed through the castle, fighting mobs as we went. We eventually found the throne room. On a massive throne of gold and diamond sat Herobrine. I was ready, and so was he.
"Well, well, well," he said, "you want to kill me, don't you. If you do, you'll get the information. If you don't, then the world is doomed except for me and my eternal castle."
"Bring it on!" I shouted. He nodded and stood up. The others backed away. Herobrine pulled out an axe. It glowed with enchantments. It was lit on fire yet it didn't burn the handle.
"Come closer," Herobrine said, "and fight the master of this world." I approached and stabbed him quickly and did a backflip. He didn't even seem hurt. He got out another bow that shot flaming arrows. It must've had infinity, because every time he shot one, another arrow appeared, ready to fire. I got out my pickaxe and started bashing the walls down. The castle would crumble down on him.
"Get out, guys!" I yelled to the others, "It's not safe here!" Even as I said it, an arrow hit me in the back. I placed some water down to cool the flames. I kept hitting the walls with my pick. Part of the ceiling crashed down in front of me. I jumped onto the rubble and over towards Herobrine, stabbing my sword into his shoulder. I quickly removed it and sideslashed him multiple times. He still acted like he wasn't hurt. That was it.
I hammered down every single wall and mined out a block in the ceiling above me with my pick. The entire throne room fell down. Herobrine was dead. He had to be. A hand reached through the ruin. "Not yet," Herobrine said. He was some phantom now. He was black but with those same white eyes. He had a black aura around him and he could fly. An arrow whizzed by and hit him. I didn't even turn around. I knew it was Bruce who did it. Herobrine fell to the ground.
A health bar appeared in my mind again. It obviously said Herobrine. A tiny sliver was gone. This fight would not be over for a long, long, time. The others didn't care what that only one was supposed to fight him. They charged in, slashing at him. After what felt hours of slashing and eating golden apples, Herobrne had one sliver of health left. He seemed to summon the last of his strength to create a familiar snake-like body.
The Wither appeared before us, but the wither skeletons skulls on it were Herobrine heads. Instead of exploding, fire appeared around us. The hooded man threw his sword at the largest skull. The Wither crumbled to dust. A voice rung through the air. "The information you seek is contained inside the dust of the Wither. But be warned, adventurers. I shall someday return!" Inside of the dust was a book. Who knows what it contained? Chapter Eight:
Chapter Eight-Part One: The Final Warning (no Maximum Ride series reference intended)
First, a question was biting at me. I turned around to the hooded figure. "Who are you?" I asked him. The hooded figure pulled off his hood. His face looked just like mine. It was just all grey. He looked at me and said, "I am Risugami," he said, "I am not you from any time. I have done the greatest things people have ever known to this world using the Internet. I created something that made it much easier. I called it Modloader. Sadly, people used Modloader for evil purposes. One person brought Herobrine into this world."
Risugami picked up the book and looked very stunned. I went over and looked at the pages. It read:
Internet Access
by Herobrine
Well done, heroes. But you have it all wrong. That wasn't the real Herobrine. He was my decoy from the Internet. I am the real Herobrine, roaming endlessly through the Internet. This is your final warning. Do not go into the Internet or I will personally find and kill all of you. Minecraft used to be my realm until Notch banished me. I will love to see it destroyed. I would also enjoy killing you, though. So if you are stupid enough to go into the Internet, Take this book and place it on my throne. You will be transported to the Internet. I'll enjoy killing you.
Risugami closed the book. "T-this can't be happening. That guy was tough enough! Now we have to fight the real Herobrine?" he said. I took some of the stone bricks and tossed them away until I uncovered the throne, which was somehow undamaged. I took the book from Risugami and said, "There's only one thing left to do." I placed the book on the throne.
Chapter Eight-Part Two: Risugami's Story
"I remember it all! I remember my past!"
Yeah, it sounds like me talking. But it's not. It's our good friend Risugami. "Steve, Notch sent me on a mission, too! I know it sounds crazy, but let me explain," he said. I nodded in approval.
Let me put the story in these dotted lines:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"I come from your world, Steve. I used something called coding to do stuff to Minecraft. You can use it from our world, Steve. It's amazing! It was called Modloader. It was used as a gateway for people to alter Minecraft. Little did I know what could be done with it.
"One day I woke up and met Notch, only remembering that I made something called Modloader that people used for evil purposes. He sent me on a mission to fight Herobrine and his dragon, the Ender Dragon. I knocked Herobrine into the void and fought the dragon. When I killed it, it left behind an egg. When I tried to grab it, it teleported away, then teleported back. It was so weird. Notch never returned me to my world. The egg must have hatched into another dragon!"
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"What?" I asked at the end of his story. This was so shocking to me. But I knew it must be true. Risugami was the ancient Hero of Minecraft I had heard of s long ago. There was a statue in the village of someone who looked just like me who was said to have conquered Herobrine and killed a dragon. They called him the Hero of Minecraft. I couldn't believe it.
"You're the Hero of Minecraft?" I asked, "But why do you look like me?" He seemed to know the answer. "Because that is the Hero's image. All of the heroes look the same. I know this because Notch gave me the ability to know almost everything involving this world. But, sadly, we have bigger things to talk about right now."
I turned around and saw the last thing I wanted to see at that moment. You probably don't know who I'm talking about.
Chapter Nine-Part One: We get the Last Ender Pearls (with a little help)
As you can see, it was Notch who we saw. Why was he here, I didn't know yet. He turned to us and said, "You have done well, heroes. Risugami, your assumption was correct. Another dragon has hatched. I was in the End about twenty years ago. Steve wasn't old enough, so I couldn't send him. I really suppose I could do it myself, but I am banished from the End. But I'll do two things for you. I'll turn back time to the night before you fought the ender mages. I'll also give you four ender pearls. But you must slay the dragon. We don't have much time!"
Max wasn't shocked. "We got this," he said, grinning. Most of us were all incredibly surprised. Notch was just giving us what we needed? Why hadn't he done this before? There was no time to ask. The next thing we knew, we were back in the village. We had no idea what happened. We headed for the observatory.
We bust the doors open and handed them the pearls and blaze rods. "Okay," one scientist said, "We'll send you over. We have to coordinates of the portal." He handed me a sheet of paper. "Just think of them in your head as hard as you can and you'll be there," the other scientist said. I realized that Max and Bruce has never signed up. Paradox, anyone? But we didn't have time to deal with that. I thought of them has hard as I could. 1330 13 237, I thought, making it the only thing on my mind. Instantly, me, Max, Bruce, and Risugami were at the stronghold. I heard a scientist shout, "Look in the enderchest! The ender eyes are in there!"
I looked to my right and there was an enderchest. Where was that Walter guy? That didn't matter right now. What I started, I would finish. I took out the twelve ender eyes and headed into the portal room. I slowly walked onto the portal frames. Carefully walking around it, I placed eleven ender eyes down. I turned to the others.
"You guys ready?" I asked. They nodded. Hesitantly, I placed the last ender eye in. The inside of the frame turned black. Through it, I saw a yellow platform with endermen on it. They looked too far away to see me. "Let's do it!" We all jumped in together into the unknown.
Chapter Nine-Part Two:Not the End We Expected
We were in a dungeon of some sort. It was made out of obsidian. An enderman was in front of us. It was too late to look away. I hacked its head off. Another enderman walked in with obsidian armor. Instead of just killing it, I took its armor then killed it. So Endermen took blocks from our world to make dungeons? That was unexpected.
A booming voice sounded through the walls that could only be the dragon itself. Fools! Before I even kill you, it said, I have prepared a trial for you. A dungeon of sorts. If you make it through, you can try and kill me. Good luck with that. It laughed evilly. What had the dragon made?
A group of endermen surrounded us. I put on the obsidian armor but it would probably be no use. There was no way out. Or maybe there was...
I pulled out one of my eight obsidian eyes. I threw it to the ground and it shattered. We were teleported back to the overworld. We were going to need some backup. Fast.
Chapter Ten: Backup Arrives
So this meant that we could only leave the End seven more times. We were in the observatory for some reason. A person walked into the room just then. He looked just like a creeper from the future. Max's reflexes got the best of him. He held up his sword to the creeper-man's neck.
"What sort of demented creeper are you?" Max said, "You have no right to blow us up!" Then Max realized that his sword had made a clink noise against the creeper-man's neck. This guy was a robot?
"That's just my armor," the creeper-man chuckled, "by the way, they call me Legendary." He pulled out an enchanted sword. It didn't look right for some reason. It glinted like gold. "I've got some work to finish with the commander of some weird monsters," Legendary said, "and I think he's in the End."
I caught Legendary up with the story. He nodded, understanding. I was about to give him the coordinates for the portal, but someone else walked in. He was very casual-looking. But his faced showed that he wanted something.
"Who are you?" Bruce asked, "and why do you want to go to the End?" Bruce got out a stone sword that I never knew he had. The new guy pulled out a rose, holding it like a weapon. "My name is Jack," he said, "and my mother is a hostage of the Ender Dragon. This rose is more powerful than you think."
I told everyone the coordinates to get back to the portal. We all teleported to the Stronghold. I stood in front of the portal, warning everyone, "we can only come back here seven more times. Then we're trapped unless we kill the dragon. So don't say you forgot anything!" We all jumped in together.
The sensation of traveling into the End is weird. It feels like you've only fallen for a short time, but you hit the ground with such force that you feel like you've traveled thousands of blocks downwards. Jack shuddered, as he had no armor on. The fall didn't hurt us, but that wasn't exactly on my mind.
"This isn't the End I read about," Jack said, "the End is supposed to be a large yellow island floating in the void." I chuckled and said, "I guess the endermen had some spare time. But seriously, for the past week or so, the endermen have been acting strange. They've been wearing armor and carrying swords. They even have obsidian armor like me. I actually stole this from one."
A large gate of iron stood before us. There was one of the fabled light sensors hooked up to it. I saw some glowstone high above us. If I could get it closer, maybe the light sensor would activate. It was apparently only sensitive to daylight, but we were in the End, so it would probably be different.
"I can almost reach it! But I can't place blocks for some reason!" Max yelled, jumping and trying to break the glowstone. I knew what to do. I climbed onto his shoulders and broke the glowstone. Luckily, it dropped four dust, which I molded back into a block. I placed it above the sensor, and it activated.
Something told me it would only get harder from here.
Chapter Eleven: DAT STINKIN' WITHER!!!!
I would say I told you so, but I just started the chapter. But I did tell you it would only get worse from there. The next room was big and empty. Well, not empty. It was filled with endermen. They all turned to face us. Risugami got out another iron sword (how many of those did he have?), but it was too late. All the endermen had teleported away.
Jack looked around. "I, for one," he said, "hate this place. But my mother is here. I know it." Max laughed and said, "I'm sorry Jack, but your mom is in another castle." We all gave him a look that said "Really? Of all the things you could've said..."
The endermen reappeared carrying soul sand and wither skeleton skulls. Of course. These guys were going to have us fight the Wither. We were in deep trouble. I dove in and slashed one of them carrying a piece of soul sand. It fell to the ground. I took the soul sand and whacked its original holder with it. Another one with a sword came up towards me and hit me with his iron sword, breaking against my tough obsidian armor. I still fell to the ground from the force of the impact.
The enderman took my soul sand and placed it down. Everyone was taking down the endermen and trying to take the skulls. All the soul sand had been placed. They had placed one of the skulls down. Just then an enderman came up to Legendary, who was carrying a skull and whacking endermen to the ground in one hit each time. I knew he was powerful, but I couldn't think of anyone who had the strength to do that.
An enderman placed another skull down. We were running out. There were nine endermen but six of us. Eventually the last skull was taken and placed. The statue erupted into sparks. "Stand back!" I shouted as the Wither appeared before us. It just stood there. Bruce tried shooting arrows at it, but they flew off, hitting the endermen. All nine were dead before the Wither even exploded.
A massive purple explosion appeared. Its blast went right up to our faces. Any closer and we would've been slammed against the wall. What fun. The Wither looked a lot different this time. First thing, it was on fire but not getting hurt. Second, it got an end makeover. Its faces was filled in with purple instead of white and it had purple particles floating around it. Third, it shot lightning, too.
Avoiding the first bolt, Bruce got right into action, pulling out his bow. Risugami got out healing splash potions and began hurling them at the Wither, who writhed in pain at the hit of each one. So you're fighting me again, mortal, it said to me, I'm a lot stronger in the realm of the dragon. Even with five other people, YOU CANNOT DESTROY ME! Its last four words rang in a distorted way. It was more creepy than menacing, but I didn't have time to worry about that.
I shot a few arrows at the WIther. Lightning came down right in front of me. The Wither shot a skull at me and I barely dodged it. Max jumped up and stabbed that demented snake with arms that was on fire. When Max pulled his sword out of the Wither, it gleamed with fire. The sword wasn't being destroyed by the fire, though. I forgot that he didn't have fire aspect. Well now he did.
"Woo-hoo!" Max yelled, "My sword now has every enchantment I can get! Yeah!" He was so much like a little kid, yet he was such a good fighter. But apparently there wasn't a height difference from 8-year-olds and 30-year-olds in Minecraft. Just then, the Wither summoned a huge bolt of lightning.
And it was headed straight for Max.
Conclusion: The Cage
Legendary leaped towards Max and got hit by the lighting. I guess Legendary's armor was immune to it, because he wasn't hurt at all. The Wither was also hit by its own blast, since Max was so close, and died. The Wither dropped an obsidian sword that was enchanted with a red glow. The enchantments seemed to be glowing differently a lot lately.
The sword had Fire Aspect II, Looting III, Sharpness II, and Unbreaking X. It was called the Ender Sword. I guessed this was what would kill the Ender Dragon. Except it wouldn't. I was gonna use my normal sword. I decided to name my normal sword Old Reliable, though it was more than reliable. It was legendary.
The doors opened up and I realized that this was the end of the fortress. That was a lot faster than I thought. Hanging above the door was a cage. I don't know how we didn't notice it before. Inside was a woman.
"Mom!" Jack called out, "I came to save you!" Jack's mom looked nervous. She seemed to be waiting for something bad to happen. Jack pulled a lever on the wall and the cage lowered, but then shot back up and kept raising up to the ceiling that we couldn't even see. So it looked like we weren't done with this place.
I noticed a broken ladder on the wall and started climbing it. I had to be careful, because any of the rungs could easily break at any second. I also had to skip some rungs, which is a lot harder when you're square.
Finally, we were almost to the top. Just then, a rung collapsed under my foot. I caught myself. The rung above that foot was broken, too. I had to jump to reach the next rung and keep climbing. Finally we reached the top.
The rooftop had a pretty boring view of the End. There the cage was, hanging from an obsidian block. On the edge of the rooftop sat a figure that I couldn't make out. There had to be a way to release Jack's mother from the cage without angering the figure. If we did, the cage might fall the hundred blocks back down.
Jack touched the bars of the cage, but the cage along with his mom teleported away onto a high pillar in the distance. The figure came closer and before stood a long lizard-like body with large wings and purple eyes that had a piercing look.
We were face-to-face with the Ender Dragon.
Chapter Thirteen:
Chapter Thirteen: Corruption
The dragon studied each of our horrified faces. That thing was scary. Don't go calling me a chicken if someday you somehow run into me. This was the real deal. Anyway, I was about to pull out my sword to end this, but then I saw something climb onto the roof. It was a beast that was black with a distorted red face. I literally cannot describe it much farther that that.
"Well, well, well," the dragon said, "what is this? The ragtag group of misfits that somehow defeats me? That's not how it works here! I am the ruler, and intruders are banished. The only exception was someone that your friend in way too much armor might know." The dragon started laughing, without moving its mouth. Legendary stood motionless. He knew who was here. Suddenly I realized it. That thing was whatever the Commander, well, commanded.
Legendary slashed the creature and jumped off the fortress. I really hoped that armor had feather falling. He was in for a long fall. "I see your friend knows about the Corruptions," the dragon said, "who are my ticket out of here. With my vast knowledge of the Overworld and their knowledge of interdimensional travel, I can soon reclaim what is rightfully mine!"
The dragon flew away with those words. I guess he was checking on the portal's progress. I headed over to the ladder back down, motioning to the others to follow. When we reached the bottom, we looked through the slightly opened exit gates. Legendary must've gone through.
The end was much different. The endstone was smeared with red-and-black stains. It definitely matched the Corruptions, who roamed everywhere. There were more of them then there were endermen. This was so much different than what the librarian had showed me. We needed to find the Commander and kill him first.
Legendary was standing in front of a cross between a corruption and a zombie pigman, both ready to battle. Legendary lunged at the Commander, slashing at his neck. The Commander raised a hand, and a corruption appeared out of thin air and landed on his shoulder. It immediately turned into a barrier, which Legendary's sword clanged against. "I," the Commander said in a booming, powerful voice, "am the Lord of the Nether. You cannot stop me! You may have put on that armor to cover up your scar, but you will show yourself. AND I WILL KILL YOU!"
The corruption that had transformed into a barrier turned into a black-and-red rapier. The Commander grabbed it and leaped at Legendary, holding out his sword in a thrust, piercing a tiny hole in Legendary's armor. Legendary winced in pain, removed the rapier, and threw it back at the Commander. It transformed back into a corruption and landed at the Commander's feet. "Is that the best you've got?" he yelled, "I'm hardly even trying. I have an army and you have five dimwits! This battle is mine, Mr. 'Legendary.'" The Commander summoned a giant army of corruptions.
He pointed his arm towards us, and all the corruptions came charging in our direction.
Chapter Fourteen: The Beginning of the End
The good thing was, the corruptions only took one hit to defeat, so they were easy to kill without getting hurt. But when you have ten thousand, it's a different story. It took quite a while to take them all down, Jack taking them out like a madman. Was that rose enchanted? Or was it just something weird like pure love? Legendary, on the other hand, wasn't doing too good. His injury made it hard to fight. So I volunteered myself to go in and help him.
It didn't make things easier, because we were fighting double the amount we were supposed to. Where was the Commander in all this? He seemed pretty confident, so I doubt he ran away. He was probably just behind all the corruptions. One corruption turned into a sword with wings and I had to duel it. It's pretty hard, to be honest. It didn't have any noticeable weak spot. I just stabbed it in the hilt and it died. I couldn't believe it was that easy.
Finally, after what felt like hours but was probably only ten minutes, we had defeated all the corruptions with no casualties. "Ha! Take that, Commander," Max shouted, "An army of ten thousand corruptions isn't enough to beat us!"
Max really needed to learn to shut his trap every now and then. The Commander charged at Legendary, with a look on his face that this was the end for him. Just then an arrow pierced the Commander's side. I gave Bruce a thumbs-up for a job well done. Legendary came over, ready to make the fatal blow, but the Commander pulled out his sword and hit Legendary in the side of his head. That blade really packed a punch, because Legendary fell to the ground.
The Commander summoned another two corruptions, which turned into a set of wings, they flew to the Commander and attached themselves to his back. Great. Now this guy could fly. He kept dodging Bruce's arrows, so we would need a better way to hit him. He started summoning corruptions and turning them into daggers to throw at us. As long as he had corruptions, he could keep fighting us. I looked in the direction the corruptions always came from. The place with the most corrupted endstone.
That's where I needed to go. "Hey guys," I said, "hold off the Commander for a bit. I think I have a way to stop him! Legendary, you come, too!" Legendary followed me and we headed for the dark spire where the corruptions were coming from.
Once we arrived, we realized it was a small mountain of corrupted endstone with a Nether Portal on top. Using two of my iron pickaxes that I brought, I scaled up the mountain. Legendary did the same with two daggers. We eventually reached the top, where I approached it and felt its essence surround me, feeling a bit like goo, taking me to the Nether, where we would end the Commander. Once and for all.
When we arrived, we were in what looked like a corrupted Nether fortress. Through the windows was a bunch of red-and-black caves with tons of Black ghasts and a few red magma cubes wandered around. We had to pummel through a lot of corruptions before reaching what looked like the source. A giant, amorphous mass that was the queen corruption, which spit out corruptions by the thousands.
If this is what could turn a pigman into the greatest fighter of the Nether, it would need to be eliminated ASAP.
Chapter Fifteen:
Chapter Fifteen: Not HIM! Anything but HIM!
"Legendary, here's the plan," I said, "you climb onto its back and stab it in the head while I hold off the corruptions!" Legendary ran around to the back of the room, while I fought like I had never fought before. For once, I used the Ender Sword, which obliterated them three or four at a time. However, they were being created faster than I could kill them. Just then, I saw Legendary on the thing's head.
"Steve!" he said, "I can't kill it unless you get it to stay still!" I knew exactly what to do. "Hey, queen!" I said, "I got you a present!" The thing looked at me and I placed down a piece of TNT and ignited it. "Now!" I shouted to Legendary. He stabbed the queen in the head, and she died, vanishing into wisps of corrupted smoke. All the corruptions turned into...pigs. But bacon wasn't our problem. Both of us ran and got through the portal just as raw porkchops began flying everywhere.
The End was back to normal. Just one big island of yellow with a bunch of obsidian pillars. When we got to the battlefield of the Commander (who was now a normal pigman), he was surrounded by pigs. Oh wait, I forgot. He was a pig. He ordered all of them to attack the remaining four fighters, who killed all the pigs in seconds. We finally got to the Commander, who had been kicked to the ground by Max. "Wanna do the honors?" I asked Legendary. In response, he took out his blade and stabbed it into the Commander's chest. He erupted into a shower of gold nuggets, which formed a golden bow. Of course, Bruce went out and took it. "Oh yeah," I said to him, "I think there's something else you'll want." I went over and gave him the Ender Sword.
"Thanks, Steve," he said, "I guess it would be good to try hand-to-hand combat for once." Just then a voice spoke. A familiar one. "Well, well, well," it said, "I've finally found the ones who disobeyed me. It looks like they've brought some friends." I turned around to see Herobrine himself. He summoned a giant mass of lava and was just about to throw it at us when a sword flew through the air towards him. I looked around and saw someone in adventurer's gear with a Herobrine head on.
"Dude," he said to Herobrine, "I'm not gonna be settled with killing one of your decoys. I'm here to kill the real deal. Prepare to finally taste defeat from Tanksverylot." He had an odd name, but he had just done a good number on Herobrine. Once again, a Herobrine health bar appeared in my mind. Tanksverylot walked over to us. "So you've got Herobrine troubles, too?" he said. "Not exactly," I said, "Notch himself sent me here to kill the dragon. But we've got bigger problems." Herobrine removed the sword from his side and threw it away. Tanksverylot caught it and the sword turned into an iron hoe with a black glow.
Bruce took out the Ender Sword and charged at Herobrine, who was holding an exact copy.
Chapter Sixteen: The Dragon
"Guys," Bruce said as he ran, "Go get the dragon. I'll take care of Herobrine." But Tanksverylot stayed put. "No way. This is my duel," he said, taking the Ender Sword and going towards Herobrine. Bruce shrugged and walked towards us. I tried to remember the way that the dragon flew. He was flying towards the other end of the island when he left the last time we saw him. "We better hurry," I said, "Sorry that we can't save your mom yet, Jack. But the cage is probably trapped by now anyway. It's too risky."
I gave everyone pumpkins to put on their heads so we could pass by the endermen unnoticed. I don't know why they didn't think, What's that dude doing here and why is he looking at me? After travelling through what seemed like miles of endstone, we reached the edge of the island. The dragon wasn't here. I looked at the side of the island and saw a massive cave. I called everyone else over so they could see.
"Whoa!" Max said, "That must be, like, his secret lair." I guessed it could be, but Bruce happened to mutter, "looks like he didn't do a good job with the secret part." I sighed and started mining a staircase down to the cave. The cave was about 20 blocks high, which blocks of endstone right above our heads that had piles of sand on top of them. This was like a trash collection for endermen.
Finally, we reached a giant obsidian castle with walls that actually formed the aboveground pillars. The gates were iron doors. I didn't have time for this. I rammed them down with my pickaxe and went in. I didn't hear the footsteps of the others. I turned around to see them standing there, not moving. "Come on!" I yelled, "I think six people can deal with one dragon!" They reluctantly came forward and we went through the fallen gates.
Since this was a castle for a dragon, it was really just a throne room. The dragon's throne, if viewed from the side, was shaped like an "L" with the horizontal part really long but the vertical part really low. It was made of gold blocks and red wool. I took of my pumpkin and put on my obsidian helmet. I took out Old Reliable and approached the dragon. "I'm here for one thing," I said, "and one thing only. I want your head, so I can throw it in the void and no one will ever have to see you again!"
The dragon got up and began to fly. "I'm sorry," he said, "but I have a deadline to eat the world. It's in about twenty minutes. So here's the deal: I'll fight you for twenty minutes, and if one of us isn't dead by then, then I go into your world anyway." "Twenty minutes," I said, "is more than enough."
The dragon charged. I dove to the side and crashed my sword down on it as a health bar marked "Ender Dragon" appeared in my mind. Hardly a sliver of it went away. I was glad to see that the others had gotten out of the way. Bruce got onto the throne and began shooting arrows. "Steve!" he shouted, "I'm running out of arrows. You're gonna have to kill it yourself!" He then fired his last arrow. I wasn't gonna let him run out that easy. I got out my quiver and threw half of my arrows to him. I watched as he shot arrows and, slowly, the dragon's health bar began to drop.
It swung its tail at me and I jumped over his attack. I took some endstone from the ground, which opened up the void. "You see this?" I said, pointing at the hole, "that's gonna be your tomb when I'm done with you! If it wasn't for you, I would be living a normal life on the real Earth! So I'm gonna get it back!" I charged at him and stuck my sword right in his mouth. His health was now at 3/4 of the original amount.
The dragon flew away, turned around, and charged straight at me, much faster than it did the first time. It thought it could finish me like that. I jumped onto the dragon's back and stabbed it just as he was forced to swallow one of Bruce's arrows (well, actually my arrows, but it was shot by Bruce). It s flight got screwed up and it turned sharply to the right. I dove off of him, taking a bit of fall damage. The dragon rammed into the wall of the castle. The dragon now had 1/2 of its original health.
The dragon turned around, and it had something on its back. It had a corruption on there. The corruption jumped onto the dragon's snout, and they merged.
Conclusion: The Ultimate Enemy
The corrupted dragon stared at me for a long time, until it got pierced by an arrow. It turned towards Bruce and lunged for his throat. I jumped over and hit it with my sword. I still had some TNT and I knew exactly what to do with it. If the castle was made of obsidian, then I wouldn't do too much harm. "Everyone," I said to Bruce and the others, "get out of the castle! I've got a plan!" They all left just in time for me to place down the rest of my TNT right before the dragon recovered. I ignited the piece closest to the gate and backed away. I placed obsidian where the gates used to be.
There was a loud thundering. The health bar was almost depleted completely. "You fool!" it shouted through, "I'll just go to your dimension now!" That never occurred to me. I broke open the wall and ran in, with the others following. Inside was a portal back to the Overworld. We all jumped in. Instead of a falling sensation like entering, I felt a sensation like I was jumping up really high in the air.
We landed on an endstone platform, with the corrupted dragon standing in front of us. "This is the endgame," it said, "any of you falls, and you're dead. But I can fly. There's no way out." I looked up and saw that the dragon had accidentally transported some of the sand piles. "There's always a way," I said, "In case you've forgotten, the good guys always find a way."
I charged the dragon and stabbed it in the snout. The others came in behind me slashing at the dragon. But its health wouldn't go away. I knew what to do. It was like my sword was destined to kill the dragon. I was about to stab it when the dragon swung its tail and my sword fell off the platform. I looked around me and saw exactly what I needed to do.
"Distract it," I whispered to Max. I went over to each floating pile and collected all the sand while Max and the others led the dragon away from where I was. I finally had all of the piles destroyed and put them into a 3x3 square above a spot on the platform. The shadow was the way of knowing I had it in the right place. "Hey, dragon!" I shouted. The dragon finally noticed me and swooped forward.
"If there's one thing I've learned about Minecraft," I said, pulling out a pickaxe, "It's never, ever dig out a block with sand above it!" I jumped in the air and mined out the sand supports. The sand fell, burying the dragon. The health bar was gone. The dragon exploded into experience, which I collected. I was at level 112 now. Where the dragon's tail was lay a dragon egg. It was black and speckled with purple. Max tried to pick it up but it teleported. I walked over to where it was, took out the same pickaxe that I had just used, and slammed it into the egg. The egg shattered into pieces. There would never be a dragon again. Ever. There didn't seem to be any way down that I can think of. But I remembered that there was a simple way to get down from any high place.
"Okay," I said, smiling, "who's got a water bucket?"
When we got down, there was a portal back to the End. Luckily the water landed right above a hole and created a small reservoir. I looked at the portal, and then to Jack. "Go on," I said, "you earned it." Jack hurried over and jumped in. A few minutes later, a figure came out. It was Tanksverylot, and on his iron hoe was the bloody head of Herobrine. "Woo-hoo!" he said, "Hero of Minecraft! Hero of Minecraft! Yeah!" Everyone looked at him, and then Max, Bruce, and Risugami pointed to me. I couldn't help but laugh.
"You know," I said, "I'm wondering. Where do you live, Risugami?" I asked. "Well," he said, sounding almost ashamed, "under the witch's hut. I'm the one that she cursed the village because of. Don't tell anyone I said this, though." I gave him a thumbs-up to show him I understood. There looked like there was something caught in the portal frame, though. It was my sword. I pulled it out with a bit of trouble. "I think," I said, "we could make a museum and put all of our main weapons in. Like all of our swords and Bruce's bow and Jack's rose and Tanksverylot's hoe-sword-and-whatever-else-it-can-turn-into." With that, we all started laughing. Just then, two figures came down the waterfall. It was Jack and his mother.
"Well," I said, "looks like we're all here. And everyone's safe."
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I woke up the next morning in the same place where I had first met Notch. Once my vision got into a bit more focus, I could see him standing in front of me. I still didn't remember anything about my past on Earth.
"So when do I get my memory back?" I asked him. He sighed and said, "and there's the problem. Minecraft has become too much of an independent dimension. I can't send you back or return your memories. You were in there for so long, I can't send you back."
"WHAT?!" I screamed, "so I can't return? That isn't fair!" He gave me a look saying, stop acting like a little kid. I was so mad, though. This wasn't even fair. Notch had kind of betrayed me. I was ready to scream.
I finally woke up from the dream back in my house in Minecraft, on my bed. I couldn't get to sleep because I was thinking about one thing, over and over again.
Notch is going to pay.
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From the haze of my emotions rose one simple, impossible fact; I had no idea who I was. The only possible clue in the formless place to my past was the strange bearded man who (stood? sat?) across from me. His strangeness came mainly from his shape; he was made completely out of rectangles, which struck me as somehow wrong. But who was I to judge? For as I raised my arm, I realized that I too was nothing but lines and boxes.
Okay, so that's just a suggestion, and doubtlessly overkill. But it's one of many possible fixes! I'm sure you'll think of a suitable one--you're off to a good start, after all.
I own one, and her name is Cuddlemuffins.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll use that paragraph you gave me. Now here is the next part of the story:
Part Two:
Prologue-Part 2: Proving my Worth...This Should be Fun
Once again, everything seemed hazy when I woke up. Also, everything was square. But I realized what Notch meant. Everything was simpler. It was amazing. I was in an amazing forest. Trees big and small surrounded me. There were pigs and sheep all around me. To my right, a river was flowing. Notch made everything look special in it's own way. I guessed it would be easier to collect materials like this. But I didn't have time to admire it all. I had a mission. What had Notch told me? It was something about a village.
That was pretty easy. It was right behind me the whole time. It was in the middle of the clearing I woke up in. All the villagers had their arms in quite an odd position. They had stuck their arms into their sleeves on the opposite arm. I slowly walked towards it, looking in both directions.
Of course, my new life had to be cruel to me. A villager hurried over and stopped me. He said, "You there! Do you have emeralds? Have you come here to trade? Are you injured in any way?"
"No, no, and obviously no," I said in reply. There was something odd about this guy. He was very nosy, to describe him ironically. All of the villagers had huge noses. It was very disturbing and disgusts me to mention.
"Then I can not permit you into the village," the villager said, "unless you can prove your worth by killing the witch of the dark swamp!" He pointed to a swamp that was very ominous indeed.
"Well, that doesn't seem so hard," I said. The villager than said, like he would regret saying it, "If you do this, you will have to borrow a few things or you will be killed in the process of doing this."
"Now it seems kinda hard."
"Well, it should be. You're killing a witch, after all."
"Why do you need me to kill her. What's so wrong about her?"
"She cursed our village. Throughout the whole summer, every year, we are stuck in an eclipse. She did this when someone was journeying in the swamp and she didn't want her swamp to be disturbed," The villager answered, "Give me a minute. I will be back with your supplies."
He ran off quickly into one of the houses. Through the window i saw him open a chest and take out what looked like armor, a sword, a bow, and a quiver. I hoped that's what it was. All of these things were pixelated so it was hard to tell. When he returned, he came with the items. Indeed it was what thought it was. I put on the armor with ease. It was chain mail armor and fit very comfortably. That was surprising since it felt so stiff. He then gave me the weapons and the quiver.
He told me, "Now go on, outsider. We do not want an eclipse this summer. It begins in five days." I already knew that i would need only 30 minutes. However, I left without a word. This wasn't going to be fun.
I approached the "dark swamp" quickly and ran towards a hut that I saw in the distance. I climbed up the ladder and banged open the door. The hut was made of dark planks and ordinary logs. Inside was a workbench, a cauldron, and some mushrooms in some pots. There was also a chest by the workbench. The witch turned around. She looked just like the villagers except she had paler skin and a black hat on.
"Hmm..." she said curiously. "I thought one of the villagers would challenge me in order to break the curse. A human may be a bit harder to kill but it doesn't matter to me."
From the chest she pulled out many green, red, purple, and pink potions out of the chest. She threw a purple one at me. It shattered and the liquid hurt me in a way I couldn't describe. I ran out side and jumped off the porch. The fall hurt me a bit, but I was mainly okay. I turned around, pulled out my bow, and nocked an arrow while I recovered from the potion and the fall. When she came out of the door I released the arrow. It went flying and hit her right in the nose. She fell backwards and blocked the doorway. I climbed up the ladder and pulled out the rocky sword I had been given. Then, I stabbed her and she disappeared in a puff of smoke.
A few green orbs and a potion laid where she had just been a moment ago. Is that how things died here? The green orbs flew towards me and I seemed to absorb them. In my mind a bar appeared and filled up completely. Then it reset and filled up again a little bit. A number 1 was now on top of it. I don't know how it did that. I picked up the potion and examined it. Once I picked it up, I seemed to know what it was. It was a regeneration potion. How did I know that? This day just kept getting stranger and stranger. I headed back to the village, feeling a mixture of victory and confusion.
Thanks so much, man. It means a lot. I REALLY hate my apple mouse. I keep scrolling back with it because if my finger moves to the left, it goes back a page and this is my third try a writing this part. In this part off the prologue, I cover the last major event from the past, the Wither. This part's gonna be kinda long, though.
Prologue-Conclusion: The Reaper Of Souls Really Creeps Me Out
Three Years Later...
You might be wondering why I skipped ahead three years. It's because nothing really interesting happened. Once you prove your worth to the village, they make you feel welcome. They taught me everything from mining to crafting (yes I see the irony in what I said) to simple stuff like fishing. I forgot about my mission for three years. When I remembered it, I rushed over to the librarian and asked him to explain everything I needed to know about the Wither. First he had to explain the Nether to me.
First I had to build a 4x5 frame of obsidian. Then I had to light it and step into the purple substance that appeared. After a few seconds, I would find myself in the Nether. I would then find myself in a fiery dimension. I would see walking pigs everywhere (by "walking" I mean on their hind legs. It's downright creepy) carrying gold swords. It would be best not to hurt them, because if I did, every single one for as far as I could see would be after me. Then there were Ghasts, floating white squids that shot fireballs at you. If you killed them, you got one of their tears (they're not liquid. If they froze, the impossible would have happened. It must be at least 100 degrees there), which could be used for potions. If I found a nether fortress, I would run into Blazes, these weird yellow rectangles with spinning rods around them. They also shot fireballs (but they were much weaker than Ghast fireballs) at you. They dropped their rods, which were required for making brewing stand and strength potions. Then there were the Wither Skeletons. Taller versions of skeletons equipped with stone swords. Downright scary, but I would need three of their heads (along with four soul sand) to call the Wither into the world. It would probably take a while to do that, because it's hard to kill a monster without slicing its head into pieces.
So, as you can tell, I made the portal. After I got in, I was in a living nightmare. The second I got in, I saw a Ghast. They look friendly until they shoot their flaming balls of death at you. I quickly deflected it's fireball with my sword. I sadly missed. I deflected the next one, and it hit! Its tear fell into lava, though. After traveling for a while and fighting Ghasts, I found a group of Wither Skeletons. I was in trouble now. I did a quick sword spin (no one taught me that, which I think is sad) and hit all of them. One fell to the ground, but it clearly wasn't dead. I chopped of one's head. That was good news. I stabbed the other in the chest, then did a quick uppercut and killed it. The last one finally got up and I kicked in down again. Then I jumped onto it and stabbed my sword into its head. I had one head from it, but I was almost dead from the fight. I ate a few steaks and turned around to see a Ghast. Just another day in the unlucky life of me.
There was no way I could deflect the fireball in time so I rolled over to my left and barely dodged it. It hit a couple Pigmen (as they were called) and I'm surprised they didn't get all mad at it. I deflected the next fireball, and then a few more, but kept missing. I got out my bow and shot a few arrows at it and it finally died. I ran over and picked up the tear and some experience. Now to find more Wither Skeletons.
Ironically, one came up behind me and stabbed me, hard. I turned around and gave it a good chop to its side. I did an uppercut but it never hit because it hit me again. I knocked its sword out of its hand with my sword and chopped of its head. Victory! I traveled some more and saw in the distance a dark structure. It must be a Nether Fortress, I thought. What seemed to be guarding the entrance was a group of five Wither Skeletons. Before I could get any closer, I had to fight another Ghast. It must be so much easer to attack from a long distance, I thought. Then I mentally facepalmed myself because I remembered my bow. I shot three of them down and the other two came after me. After a brutal fight that almost killed me, they were both dead. After regenerating some, I went over to the corpses of the Wither Skeletons I had shot earlier. Two had been shot in the head, but one had been shot in the chest. I chopped off its head and emerged victorious.
I decided not to explore the Nether Fortress because I really didn't want to deal with blazes after what I had Just been through. I just dug through a wall to my portal because I had traveled in a "U" shape. Now I had a shortcut to the Nether Fortress. I approached the portal and exited the nightmare.
Once I got back, I realized I had forgot the soul sand. I quickly went back and got some because there was a patch behind the portal in the Nether. When I returned, I went over to the librarian. "Okay," I said, "I've got the materials, now what do I do?"
He looked up from what he was reading and told me, "You can see how to build it by looking at that painting to your left."
Notch had said something about the Wither and a painting. So when I looked to the left there was a painting that showed the 4 soul sand in a "T" shape. The Wither Skeleton Skulls were on top of each of the three highest pieces of soul sand on the structure. "Thanks," I said to him and left. I informed the mayor (or whatever you would call the leader here) about what I was doing. I venture off a long way, leaving minecart tracks behind me as I went so I could get back quickly. I was about seven hundred blocks away when I finally set up the powered rails and button to get back. I walked about ten blocks away and began building the structure.
After I had placed two of the skulls, something weird happened. I heard a voice in my head. It was an ominous voice that would probably send shivers down your spine if it was discussing plans for world peace with you. Yes! Yes! Place the last skull! The Reaper of Souls shall live again, it said, I will destroy all the living and the world will be mine. But if you do kill me, you'll get the Nether Star. What are you going to do? The decision was easy. I placed the last skull down without hesitation.
Immediately after that, there was a blinding flash. I remembered Notch telling me to run. While I was running, I heard the voice again. Foolish mortal! You don't know the magnitude of the mistake you've made! You've given up the world to try and get a Nether Star! Good luck killing me, it said. Behind me, there was a tremendous explosion. It destroyed some of the minecart track. Wither, the Reaper of Souls is about to claim the world, the Wither said to me. I turned around and saw it. It was a giant Wither Skeleton skull with a snake-like body. It had short arms with Wither Skeleton skulls for hands. It was entirely black except for the faces of the skulls.
It created a Wither Skeleton skull out of nothing and launched it at me. I dodged it, and it exploded once it hit the ground. It was flying in the air, so I launched a volley of arrows at me. I hurt it, and a health bar marked "Wither" appeared in my mind. It took a good bit of damage because of my enchanted bow, but it would take a while to even get it even halfway dead. After dodging many more exploding skulls, I got another volley of arrows on it. After repeating this pattern until half of its health was gone. Then a flashing white coat of armor appeared around it. My arrows kept bouncing off of it. Luckily, the armor weighed it down. It was time to go melee on it.
It was a lot harder to dodge the skulls now that I had to fight with my sword. I kept hitting it and hitting it. Finally, it was almost dead. It was the same with me. I quickly munched on a normal golden apple and kept dodging the skulls until I was fully healed again. I charged at it and slashed numerous times and it died. I collected the Nether Star and tons of experience. Well, Notch, I thought, Looks like I'm gonna have to do some dragon hunting.
Here's Chapter 1. I'm gonna add some more detail and change it a bit. Here it is:
Chapter 1: Pure Luck
In The Present...
You know your life's pretty bad when the world's about to end and it's technically your fault. That was, sadly, the case with me. After ten years, I still couldn't find a Stronghold. Now, in less than six months, the dragon would break out from the End into our world and devour us all. The whole six months thing I know of because I got another message from Notch (if you somehow forgot, he sent me here) into my head.
You have six months, Notch said, Six months until everything I have made and you are destroyed. You must kill the dragon or I shall be nothing. I don't have the strength to rebuild this world.
That was a few days ago. Notch really bummed me out there. When I first heard him, I didn't recognize him. Seven years (Do the ten years I've been here minus the three years it took to kill the Wither, and you get seven years) of aimless searching for a Stronghold kind of makes you forget a voice you haven't heard in ten years.
Now, I was wandering the streets of the village when I saw a villager put a flyer up on one of the black torch-posts. They never used flyers in the village because paper was so rare. This must be important. I quickly began reading it.
The Eye Project!
Are you a good fighter? Have you ever wanted to go to the End dimension? Do you want to obtain a dragon egg?
If your answer is yes to any of those questions, you are already eligible to join the Eye Project. We have already found a Stronghold and we are looking for people to obtain the 12 keys that are needed. Go to the observatory for more information.
This was my chance! I couldn't believe it! Could I actually be able to complete my mission? It was impossible, but it happened. I ran to the observatory faster than I thought possible. I kept leaping four blocks at a time and my hunger quickly depleted. I didn't care at that point. When you've been looking for something for years, nothing else matters once you think you've found it. It seemed like it was automatic as I ran towards the observatory. I really needed a life.
The observatory was bigger than I remembered. I didn't remember any construction going on. Above the doors was a sign that read: "Village Observatory: Home of the All-New Eye Project!" I opened the double doors and walked in. Inside was what appeared to be a screen that showed another part of the world. It was made of old stone bricks. It moved like they were seeing through someone else's eyes. Somehow this reminded me of something from the past. I heard many of the scientists talking to each other.
"He still hasn't found the portal room. If we can't get to the portal room, then this entire project is doomed!"
"We're fresh out of ender eyes, too. There's no way to locate the portal."
"Meanwhile, no one's volunteered to help. We could just send him an ender eye through an ender chest. But we don't have anyone who can fight endermen with us."
I was tempted to clear my throat in rude matter, but right after he said that, they turned around. "How ironic," the scientist who hadn't just talked turned around and noticed me, "you must be here to volunteer for the project. Before we fill you in, we need you to get us an ender pearl. It's almost sundown and we need one as soon as possible."
"Okay," I said, "I've always wanted to see the End. I'm a pretty skilled warrior, so I was thinking I could help fight the dragon."
"Splendid!" said the other scientist, "You better get started quickly. The sooner, the better!"
I quickly hurried out. It was about sundown, so it was good that I had just left. In a minute or two, monsters would start spawning. I had fought a handful of endermen, but sold all of my ender pearls. It's amazing how much they pay for those. I could see why the scientists couldn't just buy one. I got 20 iron each pearl. I realized that I should be hunting and not thinking about these things.
Once it got to night time, I saw some purple particles in the distance. I killed a few zombies before heading for it. Score! I got an iron axe. Behind me, I heard the notorious hissing sound. I turned around and slashed the creeper with my new axe. I headed for the enderman, but a spider dropped down from a tree. I quickly stabbed it in the eye and ripped out its other one. And since it was blind, it was fairly easy to kill. Finally I charged at the enderman's legs and got two hits on it. It attacked me once and knocked me over. It teleported away and I couldn't find it. When I got up, it hit me from behind. I was pushed forward but leaned back and regained my balance. I turned around and did an uppercut and a sideslash on it. It hit me again, but before it could teleport away, I jumped into the air and sliced down on its head. It disappeared into the could of white smoke like what happened with the other monsters. I picked up the ender pearl it dropped and headed back to my house. If my job was just to hunt endermen, I could get used to it.
Chapter 2 has been released! Here it is:
Chapter 2: Zombie Invasion!
Good news. Finally a new major character is coming into the story. But not exactly in the best scene...
This was not good. The village was surrounded by armed zombies. I saw some fighters come out of their houses trying to save the defenseless. There was once called Max (he claims it's not short for anything, but I'm pretty sure he's lying) who only used a wood sword that never broke for some reason. It had ridiculously high enchantments on it and could take out skeletons in one hit. I couldn't recognize the other people, but some appear later in the story.
Anyway, it looked like I had work to do. I rushed towards the zombie horde. "You want me?" I shouted, "Come and get it!" I charged at the zombies at full speed and swung my sword and knocked two of them out. One in leather armor with a stone sword came from my right and I only saw him out of the corner of my eye. I quickly turned to the side and got in a fierce duel with him. Surprisingly, the other zombies backed off. They just stood there, watching. He actually knocked my sword out of my hand. It it flew over and went straight through a zombie. I kicked the one in leather armor to the ground and picked up my sword. When I picked it up, that zombie got revenge by kicking me to the ground. He was about to make the fatal blow when an enchanted wood sword was stabbed through him.
"Thanks," I said to Max, "You saved my life over there. But I guess we don't have much time to talk. Zombies to kill, after all." He nodded, and we rushed over and began fighting the rest of the zombies.
Sometimes we even stole their weapons and attacked them with it. I'm not kidding; they were really that stupid. Sadly, one of the zombies got to a kid. It turned into a baby zombie. Max threw a splash potion of healing at it. At least it was cured. Traumatized, but cured. I fought off the zombies who has infected the kid. It was still only midnight. We may have to fight off the whole armada, I thought. Finally we got to the stronger troops. These guys were decked out in gold-chain mixes and chain-iron mixes of armor. They were all armed with iron swords. Some of their swords were enchanted. My life was really unlucky these days, because I realized that I would need to protect the observatory if I wanted to save the world. It was on the other side of the village. I burst through the crows of zombies and went over to the observatory. The zombies were banging on the doors. I threw a snowball at them so they would stop banging on the doors and they wouldn't get in.
It looked like I messed with the wrong group of zombies. One of them was in similar gear to mine. Decked out in full diamond with a diamond sword. All of it was enchanted. This must be the leader of the pack. If I took him town, maybe the the zombies would wander aimlessly instead of going for the villagers. I shot an arrow at the diamond zombie. He switched weapons to a bow. He could do that? When did zombies get smart enough to use their inventory. I ducked out of the way before he even fired. Even if he was smart enough to switch weapons, he couldn't be smart enough to change aim that quickly. I went in the back entrance of the observatory. It had an iron door with buttons. I went in and headed for the main doors. The observatory was in panic. I really didn't have time for this. I headed for the main doors and opened them. The zombie leader was still trying to find him. I opened the door, closed it quickly, then kicked the leader down. I really needed to stop doing that. He rolled over, and I stabbed him in the nose. He was stunned, but got back up quickly after he recovered. However, while he was still down, I took out the rest of the zombies.
Now for the final battle. But before it started, I saw Max running over. Whatever it was, it wasn't important right now. Unless the dragon came here early or the Wither came back to life, I didn't care. Now, the final battle started. I slashed down on it, giving it a good bonk on the head. It got dizzy, and I sideslashed it. It got back up and got a few hits on me. I gave it an uppercut to the face. It was best that I kept hitting there, since it was its only weak spot right now. What happened next, thought, will shock you. He pulled out a poison potion and threw it at me. How did he have that? It must have been brewed with some glowstone, because it was really hurting me. Max shot an arrow at its back, though it wasn't much good to a zombie in a diamond armor. Quickly, I tore off its helmet and slashed down on its head. The thing was dead, and it was about to be the same with me. I almost fainted, but drank a health potion at the last second. That was close. I hobbled back over to Max, still aching from the poison.
"Looks like I saved your life twice today, huh?" Max laughed, "But you've done the same for me before, so I guess we're even." I couldn't help but smile.
"I guess we should head home and rest. We just fought off like a hundred zombies. I think we deserve a break, huh?" I told him. So that's what we did. My house was basically three of the librarian's house stacked on top of each other without the roofs except on the top floor. I kept all my valuables in a secret basement that I hooked a password lock to. I taught myself redstone because the villagers considered it trash. Little did they know, it was the land's greatest tool. My bed was on the top floor of my house. I was originally going to put a spiral staircase in it, but it was too small and I didn't want to rebuild. So I just stuck with a ladder.
After a good night's sleep, I headed back over to the observatory. I almost dropped my pearl in battle, but I checked my pocket to make sure I still had it. When I got inside, it looked like nothing happened. They really cleaned up good. Maybe that's why the villagers were so greedy with emeralds. I gave the scientists in front of the screen the ender pearl.
"Perfect! Walter, we're sending you an ender eye. Use it to find the portal room." the scientist said. A voice that didn't come from anyone in the observatory said, "Great! I'll be famous for discovering the End Portal!" And I'll be famous for killing the Ender Dragon, I thought to myself. The scientist pulled out some blaze powder from a chest and sprinkled it on the ender pearl. The coating on the pearl burned away and it revealed to be something that looked like an eye. That's when I realized why they called it an ender eye.
If they knew about this and the librarian didn't, how much did they know?
Here's Chapter 3 Part 1:
Chapter 3-Part One: The Three Volunteers
What the man they called Walter on the screen placed down the ender chest (I had learned about them, but never learned what was used to make them) and took out the ender eye, he threw it. It went the direction he flew it at first, but some unknown force drove it a different way. It went through a wall. Walter took out a pick and mined through the wall that the eye went through. What he didn't know was that he unleashed a silverfish armada. I had a spare diamond sword, and I knew what I had to do.
"Give him this," I said, handing them the sword. They looked at it, nodded, and put it in the ender chest. "Walter," one scientist said, "take this. Get back to the ender chest. There's too many silverfish!" Walter ran over to the ender chest, took it and pulled out the sword. The silverfish were ganging up on him. He began slashing them like crazy. They were all dead in seconds, and he went into the room. Inside was a 5x5 horizontal outline of weird blocks with the corners missing. Walter saw the silverfish spawner and broke it with his pick. The librarian had shown me a picture of those green-and-yellow blocks. They were pieces of the End Portal Frame.
"That's where he needs to put the eyes," I said to the scientists. The other scientist told him this. "But we have another problem," the first scientist said, "We don't have any ender eyes left." Just then, Max and a guy I had seen running out of the houses last night walked in.
"Hey," the unnamed man said. "Is this the place where the eye project starts?" Then Max explained to me, "I saw you walk in here last night before the zombies came. I remembered reading about the Eye Project and thought I should help out. Then Bruce here said he was willing, too. So here we are." Well, that made sense.
"Well, okay. We need six blaze rods and twelve ender pearls. Get them as soon as you can because after all, this is for science!" the other scientist replied, "Which one of you is best with a bow?" I shook my head, and so did Max. Slowly, Bruce raised his hand, unsure. "We'll need you to head into the Nether. You'll have to kill six to eight Blazes," the scientist said. "You can use my portal," I told Bruce, "Though I haven't been in the Nether for a while. I marked a path to a Nether Fortress the last time I was there. Just don't destroy the spawners. It may take a long time to find another fortress."
"Gotcha," Bruce said. "Now, you two need to hunt some endermen tonight. Probably tomorrow, too. If you can get us twelve ender pearls by Friday (today was Tuesday), we'll be ready to go," the other scientist told us.
"Sounds like a plan," Max said eagerly.
Sorry it's been such a long time since I wrote. I had medical issues to be taken care of (don't ask). Anyway, here's chapter 4:
Chapter 4:
Chapter 4-Part One:Ender Mages
That night, I couldn't get to sleep. I couldn't help thinking about how that enderman had an obsidian helmet. Obsidian was too brittle to mold together. Maybe they used some kind of magic. This was really driving me nuts. By the time I got to sleep, the sun was starting to come up over the horizon.
"Steve! Steve! Wake up! We're under attack!"
What? Under attack? I woke up to see a panicked Bruce in front of the ladder. Here's where the worst part came in. I hurried towards the door. Three blocks in front of it, fire circled my house in a ring. I turned around to Bruce. "I think I know what's going on," I said, "Lately, endermen have been holding weapons and wearing, though it sounds crazy, obsidian armor. I think some endermen found a flint and steel."
I turned back around, kicked open the door, and placed a piece of cobble in front of the fire and jumped on it and then over the fire. Whatever strange things were happening in the End, it was up to me to stop. But endermen with flint and steels was almost too much. But there wasn't a single enderman anywhere in the village. There were only mages wearing black robes. Their eyes were enderman eyes, though. I decided to call them ender mages.
Note to self: Do not use a sword on ender mages. If I swung my sword at an ender mage, they held both of their hands up and summoned a giant ender eye and threw it at me. It would shatter into bits and knock out five hearts. I went back into my house and got out my infinity bow. I hardly ever used it because this was the only one I had. It was also enchanted with flame, so it really packed a punch. They died each time I hit them. They were easy to kill, but did a lot of damage since they made rings of fire around peoples' houses. Suddenly, the rest of the mages retreated into what looked like a portal. I had to go in because it seemed like it would be an End Portal. Bruce appeared and followed me, and so did Max. When we got to the portal, I hesitated and stopped.
"What's wrong, Steve?" Max asked, "We'll be able to take whatever's in there. There's three of us, after all!" He did have a point, so I continued walking. We all jumped together into this strange unknown.
Chapter 4-Part Two:The Secret of Obsidian
We flew through empty blackness, enderman particles flying everywhere. Suddenly, everything in the world was visible again, but we still moved and the particles still surrounded us. We suddenly went downwards, drilling through the ground. I picked up the ores that we broke on the way down and got four coal, thirty-four redstone, two iron, and three diamonds. Something told me I would need the diamonds.
We smashed through bedrock after only a minute or two after steeping into the portal. We zoomed through the void and wound up in the Nether, slamming right through it without any mobs noticing. We broke through the bottom layer of bedrock there and fell through the void for a while. We started approaching a floating dark castle that was so black, you could see it even in the void like we were. We landed on a platform about fifty blocks away from the castle.
Obviously, we had to go in. I placed a piece of cobblestone down on the edge of the platform. It then vanished into thin air. Where were we, and how was this happening?
"Maybe you were right to hesitate, Steve!" Max said, "There's no way out except down!" That was it! I approached the edge and looked down. There was a black block that I could distinguish darker than our surroundings. "There's another portal down there! It's only one block, so we'll have to go one at a time," I told them. To show them, I went to the other side of the platform, turned around, and ran as fast I could and jumped off the edge of the platform.
It was hard to move to my sides because of my velocity as I fell. I eventually lined myself up with the portal block and fell in. I was transported and turned right-side-up instantly and found myself right in front of the castle gates. I shouted over to Max and Bruce.
"Okay, guys! I can't do it alone!" I shouted. Bruce leaped off and teleported over about ten seconds later. Seeing that we were both safe, Max jumped off too. One we were all there, I opened the gates and walked in. In the center of the castle was a giant floating mass of obsidian. Once we stepped in, it flew straight towards us faster than anything I had ever seen
Since it's been a while, chapter 5 is also here:
Chapter 5:
Chapter 5-Beacons: A Blessing and a Curse
The strangest thing possible happens right now. Because when the fatal blow was about to strike, time itself reversed. Suddenly, I was back with Max and Bruce in front of the gate.
"What just happened, guys?" I asked. "We all just jumped into a portal to the castle. You were the first one, so how do you not know?" Max said, clearly confused. I sighed and explained, "Okay, basically, I'm from the future. We had just opened the gate and this weird mass of obsidian flew towards us. But then time reversed and I came here. It's strange to me, too. But it's like I'm being told there's another way in."
They seemed to understand, so I walked around the castle. There were creepers that were black and gray instead of green and white with purple eyes and mouths. When they exploded, they would teleport away instead of dying. They took forever to kill. Finally I saw it. In the blackness, there was a piece of black wool about two blocks from the edge of the platform. I jumped onto it. I looked around and saw another one. I kept jumping onto these until I was on top of the castle. Bruce and Max got up quickly, too. There were glass windows that looked into the room with the obsidian mass.
"Okay, I'll have to break the window and get the heck out of there the second the glass breaks, or this time it may really be the end for me," I said. They jumped back down to the castle, going along the wool parkour course. I broke one piece of glass and jumped down to the castle without taking the parkour course. Instead, I just jumped off the platform I was on. I looked up and saw the obsidian thing bash through the wall and fly out into the void. I hoped that it would shatter once it hit bedrock.
We walked back around to the gate, fighting off more ender creepers. But this time, they dropped what looked like ender eyes except it was all black except a purple pupil. It felt just like obsidian. Were these used for the obsidian armor? I made sure I picked up every one. I would need the best gear I could find if I wanted to fight the Ender Dragon. I opened the gate, revealing the same room. I saw a throne fit for an enderman. Maybe the endermen had some weird ruler other than the dragon. I guessed this throne was a source of honor. So I took out my diamond pick and swung at it. The throne was made of a strange red substance that was easily breakable. It shattered in seconds, revealing something tat was told of in legends. It was a beacon. I didn't want the beacon itself, though. I wanted what was under it. I dug out a block that was two meters away from the beacon. I put water in it and went down. The whole time, Max and Bruce were staring at me, frozen in a confused look.
As I went down my water elevator I saw that the beacon's pyramid was made of diamond. Score! I mined it all up after a short time. I went back up and took the beacon. I turned to see Max and Bruce looking at me in the same glance as they were before. I punched both of them to make sure they weren't frozen like that because of some mysterious force. Sadly, they were frozen like that. Both fell over and broke into pieces. Did someone steal Max and Bruce? If so, that was just plain creepy. Something bit me and I felt a familiar pain. I turned around with my sword out, slicing the enderman. I hit him at least ten times but he never died. I saw that he had full obsidian armor on. The chestplate and pants looked stretched. It was boss battle time.
If this thing wanted a fight, I would give it one. I placed down a piece of TNT and ignited it. Hopefully this would do the trick. I ran as fast as I could but still was knocked back by the blast. I am such an idiot, I thought, that won't do a thing if he has obsidian armor. I was wrong on that one. The enderman flew back and crashed through a window, falling endlessly into the void. That was quite an easy boss battle. But right now, I had some friends to save.
There were no hidden passages, so I climbed to the top of the castle. It was a long time since there were hardly any footholds except a bit of space between blocks sometimes. Once I got to the top, I found this enderman king. Behind him, in midair, there was a cage with Max and Bruce in it. Next to the enderman king, there was a lever that would retract the floor under them. If I didn't make the right move, they would surely die. Why did these things always happen to me?
"Looks like I forgot one," the enderman king said, "the dragon will not be pleased unless I finish you off. But let me get into true fighting gear." He teleported away and came back wearing obsidian armor and a crown that was made of a mix of gold and obsidian.
"If you want to save your friends," he said, "you must beat me in battle. Yes, I mean it. You must defeat the strongest of all endermen." He laughed, and I heard static in the background while he did it. This was really creeping me out. The enderman king pulled out an obsidian sword. He lunged at me. It was do-or-die time.
I was not going down that easy. I rolled between his legs and stabbed him in the back of the head. I get that it was technically a cowardly move, but that and his face were the only weak spots. Suddenly, I had a realization that would help me win this battle. I backflipped off the edge and landed on a small platform. I shot more arrows than I could count up at his face. It didn't matter what armor he had. He would be dead. He pulled the arrows out of his face, but it was no use. He fell to the ground, and off the castle. I climbed back up and followed the redstone path to the cage. I broke it open and freed Max and Bruce.
"Nice one," Bruce said, "you're a pretty good fighter." Max looked pretty happy. "Told you you would save my life," he said, laughing. I looked back to where the enderman king had died. His crown had been left behind. I walked over carefully and picked it up. The second I touched it, a portal opened up right where the obsidian mass used to be. I put the crown on and took off my normal diamond helmet. It was dented from enderman bites. All three of us went into the portal, not realizing the properties of the portal until e had returned.
When we returned to the village, it looked like nothing had ever happened. That's because nothing had happened yet. We had traveled back in time. We could stop the mage attack before it started. Or was it too late? Because a minute after we got back, it changed again. The village was now a desolate wasteland. The Eye Project was ruined, and soon the world would be doomed. What had we done?
Plot twist! Hooray!
SPOILER ALERT! READ THIS AFTER FINISHING THE NEW CHAPTER:
Just made a few edits to the parts of the story. They are now "books". Also shortened their names.
Of course, since the world didn't end (TOLD YOU), here's the conclusion to book one:
Chapter 6 (Book One Conclusion):
Conclusion: What's the Internet?
"I should have hesitated back there. I shouldn't have went in! We never would've been in this mess if it wasn't for us going into that portal. We have changed history!" I screamed, probably sounding like I had gone totally insane. "Calm down," Max said, "There's got to be a way to fix this. That's how it always works in the books." I glared at him and said, "Yes, but we're not heroes. We're just idiots who didn't defend the village!"
A figure appeared in the shadows as I said that. He approached us. He was a figure in a black cloak with a hood that covered his face. He was taller than us, but not as tall as an enderman. "The Eye Project is not doomed. Because as your friend said, there has to be a way," the hooded figure said, "There is one way, but it is incredibly dangerous and most people say it is a myth. It involves the connection between our worlds and the worlds beyond."
"What? Worlds beyond? Our world is the only one inhabited in the universe!" Bruce said. "Not exactly. I forgot that I never told you about this," I told him, and then explained my story. You don't want to have to hear me explain it again, so I left it out. Anyway, Bruce understood and asked the hooded figure, "So, what are these other dimensions and how do we get to them?"
"They are all connected by one central object. They call it the Internet. If you get to it, you can access any world possible. Sadly, Steve, you can't get to your world from there. It is from a world much bigger than the Internet. There are devices in your world that can look into the Internet," the hooded figure explained.
"How do you know my name and where I'm from?" I asked. "I know many things. I am known for instantly knowing everything about everyone," the hooded figure answered, "Anyway, from the Internet, we can take something from it using a process called downloading. We bring this thing, which is called a mod, into our world and it will alter it. If we can find a time machine from the Internet and bring it here, you can go back and fix what has happened."
"Sounds complicated. How do you get to the Internet?" Max asked. "That is the only hard part," the hooded figure said, "because there is only one person in this world who knows how to get there."
"Who is it?" Bruce asked, "I think we can take him, whoever it is." He seemed pretty confident, which is what we would need. It will shock you when you hear who it is.
"He is the greatest evil of the Overworld," the hooded figure said, "He has power beyond imagining. He is only heard of in legends. He was legendary until someone brought him from the Internet into here. Sadly, that person never returned."
"Sounds pretty scary and all, but who is this 'great evil'?" Max asked.
The hooded figure answered by saying, "They call him by the name Herobrine."
Book Two-Finishing the Project
Chapter Seven:
Chapter Seven: Storming the Castle
Herobrine? Make a deal with Herobrine? Was I crazy or something? But my only choice was to agree, so I did.
"Herobrine lives in a giant castle not too far from here. You can see it in the distance," the hooded figure continued. Sure enough, behind me, a dark structure could just barely be seen even with this thing called "render distance" I had learned about on the "far" setting. "I will go with you, as I am the only one who has ever ventured inside and lived to get out," the hooded figure said, "Herobrine will challenge one of you for the information. He will probably choose Steve, as he is the strongest."
"Hey!" Max yelled, "what about me?"
"I'm just stating a fact. Just let me finish."
"Okay."
"Anyway," the hooded figure resumed, "you are in this mess because of one of you killing an enderman with immense power, but we can't revive him." Max and Bruce looked at me. I was really embarrassed at that point, but I did have a good excuse. "We must hurry," the hooded figure said, "we can worry about who did what later! We are running out of time!"
The hooded figure held up his arm and it glowed with some weird essence. Instantly, we were in front of the structure. It was massive and made entirely out of nether brick. In front of the gate were five Wither Skeletons. Don't you just hate this type of unlucky life?
The hooded figure pulled out an enchanted iron sword. Whatever enchantment it had was incredibly strong. Each skeleton fell with a single blow. Of course now it was easy to kill those things.
I noticed a christmas tree by the gate. Merry Christmas! I have to fight Herobrine!
We headed through the castle, fighting mobs as we went. We eventually found the throne room. On a massive throne of gold and diamond sat Herobrine. I was ready, and so was he.
"Well, well, well," he said, "you want to kill me, don't you. If you do, you'll get the information. If you don't, then the world is doomed except for me and my eternal castle."
"Bring it on!" I shouted. He nodded and stood up. The others backed away. Herobrine pulled out an axe. It glowed with enchantments. It was lit on fire yet it didn't burn the handle.
"Come closer," Herobrine said, "and fight the master of this world." I approached and stabbed him quickly and did a backflip. He didn't even seem hurt. He got out another bow that shot flaming arrows. It must've had infinity, because every time he shot one, another arrow appeared, ready to fire. I got out my pickaxe and started bashing the walls down. The castle would crumble down on him.
"Get out, guys!" I yelled to the others, "It's not safe here!" Even as I said it, an arrow hit me in the back. I placed some water down to cool the flames. I kept hitting the walls with my pick. Part of the ceiling crashed down in front of me. I jumped onto the rubble and over towards Herobrine, stabbing my sword into his shoulder. I quickly removed it and sideslashed him multiple times. He still acted like he wasn't hurt. That was it.
I hammered down every single wall and mined out a block in the ceiling above me with my pick. The entire throne room fell down. Herobrine was dead. He had to be. A hand reached through the ruin. "Not yet," Herobrine said. He was some phantom now. He was black but with those same white eyes. He had a black aura around him and he could fly. An arrow whizzed by and hit him. I didn't even turn around. I knew it was Bruce who did it. Herobrine fell to the ground.
A health bar appeared in my mind again. It obviously said Herobrine. A tiny sliver was gone. This fight would not be over for a long, long, time. The others didn't care what that only one was supposed to fight him. They charged in, slashing at him. After what felt hours of slashing and eating golden apples, Herobrne had one sliver of health left. He seemed to summon the last of his strength to create a familiar snake-like body.
The Wither appeared before us, but the wither skeletons skulls on it were Herobrine heads. Instead of exploding, fire appeared around us. The hooded man threw his sword at the largest skull. The Wither crumbled to dust. A voice rung through the air. "The information you seek is contained inside the dust of the Wither. But be warned, adventurers. I shall someday return!" Inside of the dust was a book. Who knows what it contained?
Note: Finishing the Project does not include the chapters in the End.
I'll keep going:
Chapter Eight:
Chapter Eight-Part One: The Final Warning (no Maximum Ride series reference intended)
First, a question was biting at me. I turned around to the hooded figure. "Who are you?" I asked him. The hooded figure pulled off his hood. His face looked just like mine. It was just all grey. He looked at me and said, "I am Risugami," he said, "I am not you from any time. I have done the greatest things people have ever known to this world using the Internet. I created something that made it much easier. I called it Modloader. Sadly, people used Modloader for evil purposes. One person brought Herobrine into this world."
Risugami picked up the book and looked very stunned. I went over and looked at the pages. It read:
Internet Access
by Herobrine
Well done, heroes. But you have it all wrong. That wasn't the real Herobrine. He was my decoy from the Internet. I am the real Herobrine, roaming endlessly through the Internet. This is your final warning. Do not go into the Internet or I will personally find and kill all of you. Minecraft used to be my realm until Notch banished me. I will love to see it destroyed. I would also enjoy killing you, though. So if you are stupid enough to go into the Internet, Take this book and place it on my throne. You will be transported to the Internet. I'll enjoy killing you.
Risugami closed the book. "T-this can't be happening. That guy was tough enough! Now we have to fight the real Herobrine?" he said. I took some of the stone bricks and tossed them away until I uncovered the throne, which was somehow undamaged. I took the book from Risugami and said, "There's only one thing left to do." I placed the book on the throne.
Chapter Eight-Part Two: The Internet
Coming Soon!
Dun Dun Dun!
Thanks! It means a lot coming from another fanfic writer! BTW, gonna finish chapter eight tomorrow. I only have today and tomorrow to write for the rest of the year.
Finished Chapter Eight:
Chapter Eight:
Chapter Eight-Part One: The Final Warning (no Maximum Ride series reference intended)
First, a question was biting at me. I turned around to the hooded figure. "Who are you?" I asked him. The hooded figure pulled off his hood. His face looked just like mine. It was just all grey. He looked at me and said, "I am Risugami," he said, "I am not you from any time. I have done the greatest things people have ever known to this world using the Internet. I created something that made it much easier. I called it Modloader. Sadly, people used Modloader for evil purposes. One person brought Herobrine into this world."
Risugami picked up the book and looked very stunned. I went over and looked at the pages. It read:
Internet Access
by Herobrine
Well done, heroes. But you have it all wrong. That wasn't the real Herobrine. He was my decoy from the Internet. I am the real Herobrine, roaming endlessly through the Internet. This is your final warning. Do not go into the Internet or I will personally find and kill all of you. Minecraft used to be my realm until Notch banished me. I will love to see it destroyed. I would also enjoy killing you, though. So if you are stupid enough to go into the Internet, Take this book and place it on my throne. You will be transported to the Internet. I'll enjoy killing you.
Risugami closed the book. "T-this can't be happening. That guy was tough enough! Now we have to fight the real Herobrine?" he said. I took some of the stone bricks and tossed them away until I uncovered the throne, which was somehow undamaged. I took the book from Risugami and said, "There's only one thing left to do." I placed the book on the throne.
Chapter Eight-Part Two: Risugami's Story
"I remember it all! I remember my past!"
Yeah, it sounds like me talking. But it's not. It's our good friend Risugami. "Steve, Notch sent me on a mission, too! I know it sounds crazy, but let me explain," he said. I nodded in approval.
Let me put the story in these dotted lines:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"I come from your world, Steve. I used something called coding to do stuff to Minecraft. You can use it from our world, Steve. It's amazing! It was called Modloader. It was used as a gateway for people to alter Minecraft. Little did I know what could be done with it.
"One day I woke up and met Notch, only remembering that I made something called Modloader that people used for evil purposes. He sent me on a mission to fight Herobrine and his dragon, the Ender Dragon. I knocked Herobrine into the void and fought the dragon. When I killed it, it left behind an egg. When I tried to grab it, it teleported away, then teleported back. It was so weird. Notch never returned me to my world. The egg must have hatched into another dragon!"
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"What?" I asked at the end of his story. This was so shocking to me. But I knew it must be true. Risugami was the ancient Hero of Minecraft I had heard of s long ago. There was a statue in the village of someone who looked just like me who was said to have conquered Herobrine and killed a dragon. They called him the Hero of Minecraft. I couldn't believe it.
"You're the Hero of Minecraft?" I asked, "But why do you look like me?" He seemed to know the answer. "Because that is the Hero's image. All of the heroes look the same. I know this because Notch gave me the ability to know almost everything involving this world. But, sadly, we have bigger things to talk about right now."
I turned around and saw the last thing I wanted to see at that moment. You probably don't know who I'm talking about.
Chapter Nine:
Chapter Nine: We get the Last Ender Pearls (with a little help)
As you can see, it was Notch who we saw. Why was he here, I didn't know yet. He turned to us and said, "You have done well, heroes. Risugami, your assumption was correct. Another dragon has hatched. I was in the End about twenty years ago. Steve wasn't old enough, so I couldn't send him. I really suppose I could do it myself, but I am banished from the End. But I'll do two things for you. I'll turn back time to the night before you fought the ender mages. I'll also give you four ender pearls. But you must slay the dragon. We don't have much time!"
Max wasn't shocked. "We got this," he said, grinning. Most of us were all incredibly surprised. Notch was just giving us what we needed? Why hadn't he done this before? There was no time to ask. The next thing we knew, we were back in the village. We had no idea what happened. We headed for the observatory.
We bust the doors open and handed them the pearls and blaze rods. "Okay," one scientist said, "We'll send you over. We have to coordinates of the portal." He handed me a sheet of paper. "Just think of them in your head as hard as you can and you'll be there," the other scientist said. I realized that Max and Bruce has never signed up. Paradox, anyone? But we didn't have time to deal with that. I thought of them has hard as I could. 1330 13 237, I thought, making it the only thing on my mind. Instantly, me, Max, Bruce, and Risugami were at the stronghold. I heard a scientist shout, "Look in the enderchest! The ender eyes are in there!"
I looked to my right and there was an enderchest. Where was that Walter guy? That didn't matter right now. What I started, I would finish. I took out the twelve ender eyes and headed into the portal room. I slowly walked onto the portal frames. Carefully walking around it, I placed eleven ender eyes down. I turned to the others.
"You guys ready?" I asked. They nodded. Hesitantly, I placed the last ender eye in. The inside of the frame turned black. Through it, I saw a yellow platform with endermen on it. They looked too far away to see me. "Let's do it!" We all jumped in together into the unknown.
Age (not required, since none of the main characters have a known age): Well if it's not required...
Bio (summary of their past): His parents divorced when he was 12. His father died trying to fight the Withch bringing the curse upon the village. He's searched for his mother ever since...
Why they joined the project: He has speculations that his mother may be somewhere in the End, a hostage of the Enderdragon.
Weapons and armor (Can be anything. Could wear an enchanted zombie head or fight with a hoe): Doesn't wear armor because he cannot hold it up. He fights with a rose (his Mother's favorite flower) which somehow has unrealistic powers.
Appearence (Easy one. Just post an mc skin):
Other: Good farmer
Picture for better reference:
Quite a good character. I'll add you to the entries list.