Minecraft: Adventures beyond

(Quick note, before any other Minecrafters out there say anything, I know the Wither skeleton doesn’t have a bow and arrow, it just makes it more interesting if it does, now enjoy, p.s. It takes quite some time to get into Equestria so just a heads up)

Chapter 1: Meaningful Discoveries

“Come out, come out, where ever you are mister Wither Skeleton” I quietly whispered to the screen as I stalked through the Nether to find my third and final Wither Skeleton. So far I had been searching for around a half hour finding the first two Wither Skeletons without much of a problem, but the third being far more difficult to find.

This entire time I had been searching for these OP skeletons so I may finally fight and defeat the fabled Wither. It being one of the most difficult challenges to overcome in Minecraft since the new update got me excited since Minecraft had been getting boring lately. “Hmm maybe if I just get off for the night and come back tomorrow I’ll have a better chance of finding another Skeleton.” I said mentally, glancing to my clock. It read 2:30 AM.

“Oh yea time to go to bed” I said turning back to my computer screen only to reveal the prized Wither Skeleton that I had been after all this time, a small ways in the distance I began to slowly and quietly sneak up on it. Drawing my bow I took aim and fired, it quickly realized my presence, dodging my arrow it fired its own arrow with deadly accuracy hitting me straight in my chest, knocking me off the netherrack platform I was on, and down to the lava below. “Oh hell no” I mentally cursed as I swerved off to the left and landed on a small piece of soul sand out in the middle of the searing lava, the fall knocking out five of my hearts even with diamond armor.

I looked back up to see the Wither Skelton looking town to me and firing it’s cursed arrows at me, attempting to doge them I place a block to walk on and quickly sprinted off back onto the mainland of netherrack. The skeleton still wanted to fight apparently even risking jumping down to me, and jump down to me it did momentarily stunning it. I took this chance to draw my diamond sword and began sprinting towards this creature from hell quickly dodging left and right narrowly avoiding the volley of arrows it sent down range at me. Until finally I was within striking distance, I took one swing and struck it, sending it flying back. It in turn shot another arrow straight into my chest once more, it’s wither effect lasting until I was to one and a half hearts.

“This ends now” I mentally spat as I drew my bow once more, firing a single shot into the creature’s head killing it and dropping its prized possession, its head. Quickly picking the XP and head up I high tailed it back to my portal and went back to the normal world, collecting four pieces of soul sand on the way back.

Glancing back to my clock I noticed it was 3:15 am, “Pshh who needs sleep anyway” I said with glee finally happy to have all three Wither Skeleton heads. I quickly went to work on setting up the area where the epic boss fight would take place, finally ending as I stacked the four soul sand, two pieces going straight up and two on either side, lastly I put two of the heads on putting the last one at the feet of the creepy statue like figure, first before the battle should start I would have to enchant my weapons and armor.

Going back to my home I quickly enchanted my armor, my bow, and my now OP diamond sword. Stepping outside once more yielded the dark landscapes, as the sun had set long ago and night had come to shroud the land in darkness. Not wanting to wait any longer I began the trek out into the wilderness until I came upon the battle ground. A large flat area with several hollowed out mounds of dirt to hide in from the Wither’s exploding head, and there in the middle of the grassy arena was the statue, I broke the head that lye on the ground and quickly slipped it in between the two other two heads.

The statue of the creature began to shake violently as it began to slowly move its heads. The soul sand turned into a disturbingly black ribcage as the creature began to float into the air. Before long the creature was now hovering in the air, all of its heads were trained onto me, this is it, now the real battle begins. Drawing my bow I take aim as the creatures draws near, as soon as my first arrow is fired, the Wither fires one of its heads. The arrow I fire hits home directly in one of the Withers head doing a massive amount of damage, I myself narrowly avoid the creatures flying head as it soars by and explodes behind me.

Knowing that this is already a losing fight I run and take cover in one of the dirt mounds once again narrowly avoiding another one of this creatures cursed heads. I began to take pot shots from the doorway of the dirt mound. Slowly the creature began to break away my cover, soon enough there was no cover to hide behind, quickly jumping out of the blasted crater I took shelter in another dirt mound nearby, taking care to dodge the Withers flying heads. This trend kept up until I was hiding in the last mound with only one more stack of 64 arrows. The Wither though seems to be weakening as its health is now only at 25%, this battle is almost over.

“Smile you mother fucker” I cursed as I fired another arrow into its bony body. This last hit finally made the creature go beyond its limits as it fired two heads at once blowing all of the cover I had left, stepping out of the crater I turned to face the massive bony creature. “Now comes the hard part” I sighed as I drew my sword and sprinted at the creature, heads flying left and right exploding blocks as I passed by. Sprinting and jumping over one of the flying heads I plunged the sword into the Withers body knocking it back and stunning it, taking this momentary chance I struck again, and again, and again the Wither began to grow tired of this game and launched one of its heads directly into my chest knocking down my health to half.

“Without this diamond I would be screwed” I mentally chuckled to myself as I ran circles around the creature slicing and jabbing at its sides. The night dragged on as we exchanged blows until finally one last hit on either side is what would determine the outcome of this battle. With one arrow left, I looked at my adversary, it’s can barely move and is attempting to position itself for one final attack. I look back at my bow and draw my final arrow. “Today just ain’t your lucky day mate" I said allowed as I took aim and fired my last arrow into the center skull of the creature.

As soon as the arrow connected with its skull, the creature let out a blood curdling screech that forced me to throw my head phones off in pain, as the creature began to dissipate, it dropped tons of XP and created a weird misty smoke effect, That was all I caught as I held my head in agony. “Son of a bitch I yelled” as I reached up to my right ear, I felt something warm and wet, my mind skipped to a conclusion, it can be only one thing, blood. Panic began to flood over me as I sprinted into the bathroom. Looking in the mirror I noticed there was a small amount of blood dripping from my right ear. My eyes had dark bags under them; the normal vibrant blue color they held is now a now glossy grey, not to mention my dark brown hair was heavily disheveled. “Damn I look like shit, time for bed” I moaned as I walked back to my room, only to notice that where, the wither had died there was now a small floating shard. Upon closer inspection as I sat down again, it was multi colored and surprisingly not a square like everything else in minecraft, it was smooth and came to a sharp tip on either side. I moved closer to it and picked it up, by now in the game it was day once again. When I went into my inventory to look at the mysterious shard I could see it at the bottom right of the inventory screen, hovering over it, the game read out, Harmonite.

Forgetting how tired I was I clicked on it, only for there to have an error window pop up, this window said. “Sorry this item can only be used in realism mods, would you like to change modes, yes/no” dumb founded by this I decide to click yes. Upon clicking yes however my mouse decided to shock my fingers scaring the hell out of me, not only this but my computer instantly blue screened. Panicking I tried shutting it down and restarting, only to have it come up once more with that cursed blue screen.

After some time I decided to call it a night and get to sleep hoping that in the morning everything would be cleared up. Sleep over took me fast as my world faded into darkness.

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“Please dear god someone help me” I yelled out as the wall of darkness began to close in on me.

“Ha ha, foolish boy there is no escape now, embrace me or die” Boomed a loud and malevolent voice that sent shivers down my spine.

“Stay away from me, what did I do to deserve this” I cried out once more, tears begin to stream down my face as one of the dark tendrils wrapped itself around me, pulling me back into the inky blackness.

“Hmm, yes your mine now boy, soon you shall be one of us” said the voice once more as I was dragged further back, soon I was at the very edge of the darkness, all light began to fade away as I accepted my fate.

“ENOUGH” boomed another voice from the darkness, immediately as if by some kind of magic the dark was replaced with a bright, soft, white light. The darkness hissed and burned away only leaving the soft white comforting light. The tendril dropped me; I surveyed the area and was only met with confusion.

“Umm what just happened” I yelled out trying to comprehend what had just happened

“Hold your questions young one, soon all will be answered” said the voice once more, the voice itself seemed feminine in nature, but held kindness and compassion.

“Wait What’s that supposed to mean” I was cut off by a sudden feeling of falling, the light began to fade out as the ground gave out below me showing nothing but inky blackness, before the light was gone I could have sworn I saw a silhouette of a large winged and horned horse standing above watching me as I fell. The light is once again replaced with darkness, and I am falling. Faster and faster until BOOM.

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“GAHH” I yelled out bolting straight up out of bed, waking up in a cold wet sweat shivering and convulsing. My vision was just a blur of colors and unrecognizable shapes. Gaining my balance was a losing game as the world just spun around me. After a short time my vision finally began to sort itself out and shapes and colors once again returned to normal, except something was off. This isn’t my bed.

“Wait what, what’s going on here” I cried out hoping for my mom or dad to answer, but to no avail. I glanced around, this wasn’t my room, this wasn’t my home. “Where am I” I yelled jumping out of my bed, cringing at the cold early morning air hitting my exposed skin. The room felt oddly familiar but yet was not my normal room. Looking out the window only seems to terrify me even more.

There in the window looking back at me was a massive spider, venom pouring from its fangs as it scratched and hissed at me through the window. It quickly jumped down out of sight, wielding a long grassy meadow littered with trees. As a ton of bricks it hits me, my mouth hangs agape as I take in the scenery around me finally realizing the impossible. “I’m in Minecraft.” I stammered out continuing to take in the scenery. The only difference is everything isn’t blocky, it, it seems real, to real I look at my arms and legs, they look exactly as they did before I went to sleep. Smooth and not blocky.

Looking back towards the bed I noticed a chest; curiosity overcame me as I move over and opened it revealing its contents. It had all of my equipment from the night before including the harmonite and strangely, a book. I reached into the chest and too the book, examining it I opened to the first page and began to read aloud its contents.

“Dear Devon, if you are reading this, than I fear it is already too late for you. You are now stranded in this world and I am sorry to inform you, there is no way home. But do not worry, do not fret, there is still hope, inside of this chest you will find all of your equipment that you had on you when the transportation began, including your clothes from the night prior. Not only this but in here you will find the Harmonite shard that you collected the night prior as well. Devon it is time for you to start your journey, it will be dangerous. You will be scared and you may even die, but the reward is worthwhile. This Harmonite shard you have discovered is much more than you can ever comprehend, it opens a gateway to another universe entirely, and it is these shards that will kick start your journey. To begin your journey you need only turn it thrice in hand and place it down for the portal to manifest. I am sorry but that is all the information I can gift to you. Good luck Devon, you are our only hope." Signed Anonymous.

Dropping the book I stand there dumbfounded, once again trying to comprehend my situation. Looking down once more I reach down and open the chest when I finally snap out of my stupor I find my cloths that I had been wearing before, I instantly put them on, quickly making the cold vanish. The chest also holds a large knapsack full of food and supplies. Next to the sac are my Diamond armor fully cleaned and polished my diamond sword in a sheath. My bow and quiver of arrows and at the very bottom are building supplies, mixed into these supplies is the Harmonite shard; I quickly snatch it up and put it into my knapsack for safe keeping.

I remove the armor from the chest and begin to strap the pieces on, it seems much lighter than it looks and before long it is all on. The helmet now covers my entire face and to anyone staring directly at it, it must seem pretty menacing and intimidating. Taking the sheath and sword I quickly tie it to my side while taking the bow and arrows, finding the best way to carry all of these supplies without them weighing me down.

Before long I have everything and now hold the Harmonite shard in my right hand. I descend the stairs and walk into the main room. Making my way to the front door to notice I have a visitor. From the looks it seems human except that it has pale green skin and is constantly moaning while banging on my door, this was no human, this was in fact a zombie. Perfect timing for some combat practice I thought as I unsheathed my sword and drew closer to the door, the zombie still banging senselessly as I drew closer until the door was within arm’s reach.

Before I had the chance to even grab the knob, the door burst open and the zombie came shambling in, intent on making me it’s meal, In on swift motion I sliced at the creatures neck, effectively knocking its head off making the body instantly fall to the ground as green goopy blood began to spill and squirt out of its neck. It seemed too easy, as though I had done it many times before.

Sheathing my sword once more I walked over to the body, only to have something odd happen, my arms as if by magic floated outwards in front of me, and to make it even weirder two large black holes open in the palms of my hands. As this happens I can't help but notice some kind of gold essence floating out of the zombie and into my hands until just as quickly as it started it stopped, the black holes on my hands close and the zombie still lay dead on my floor, with a nice big green blood stain where it had bled out. “Well shit, I can’t just leave this thing here” I grumbled.

After the business of cleaning up the now dead zombie was finished, I walked out of my home and next to what I can only presume is the nether portal, it’s now a large spherical ring of obsidian filled with some kind of purple essence, ghostly moans and whispers emanated from its entrance, the sounds causing shivers to run down my spine, as a seemingly infinite amount of ghostly whispers whispered death threats and fake prophesies towards me.

Attempting to ignore this I pulled out the Harmonite shard and stared at it, its colorful rainbow color only glowing brighter as the sun shone on it, remembering what the book told me to do to make it work, I flipped it in my hand and bent down placing it in the grass. It just sat there and looked the same as always.

After around thirty second of waiting and no results worrying thoughts began to assault my mind, fortunately all of my worries were set aside as the shard began to glow, glowing brighter and brighter as if it were becoming a sun of its own, the light, so intense it forced my head away and for me to shield my eyes as not to get blinded by the overpowering light that emanated from it. As the light hit its peak an ear shattering BOOM resounded around me as I was hit by an immense shockwave of untold power, barely able to stay up I cringed at the immense power coming from this small shard. As everything finally hit its peak, it just stopped, the Bright light tuned down to a light glowing and when I looked back to where the shard had been there was a large circular vortex just floating in midair.

The portal seeming to resemble the Nether portal had a multicolor hue to it as it pulsed as if it were alive. I took several steps closer, the closer I got the warmer the area became; it was comforting but yet foreboding. I stood at the portals edge and took one last glance back to my new home. “Well here we go” I said out loud as I stepped into the swirling vortex.

As soon as every part of my body entered, I was just as quickly expelled, walking back out as if I had just walked through a door way, my surroundings had drastically changed as I looked around, from the looks of things I was in a large dark forest. I was immediately struck with an unsettling feeling as I continued to take in my surroundings, something just wasn't right about this place, looking back I could once again see the portal.

Pulling my knapsack off my back I began to search its contents thoroughly until finally I found what I was looking for, a map, "I must map out this area so I can at least know the way back home" I thought to myself as I looked at the blank sheet of paper, I looked up from the map and began to walk, directionless, as I walked through the dense foliage the map seemed to map the area around me without me even having to intervene. This continued until finally I had hit a large clearing, now I could finally notice the magnificent sun that just seemed to hang there in the bright blue sky, The sun bathed everything in its soft warming glow, walking into the clearing brought me comfort, I could have sworn on my trek here I saw shadows moving just beyond my peripheral vision, as if I were being stalked, that feeling never seemed to go away even now I feel as though I am being watched. But being able to see around myself brought a small amount of security and closure.

Ignoring this feeling I checked my map and saw that it had indeed mapped out the entire area I had walked. As I looked a loud growl resounded around me, I jumped up and stood at the ready, sword drawn and ready to fight, fear and nervousness hit me once more as an even louder growl resounded around me once more, until it dawned on me. It’s only my stomach, sighing in embarrassment I pulled out a apple from my knapsack and began to devour the sweet fruit. Sheathing my sword once more I continue my trek through the forest.

I hiked for what seemed hours, periodically checking my map to see how far I had gone. Eventually I came upon a dirt path. The path was worn down and had no growths which led me to one explanation. “There’s a town nearby, which means there might be people here” I silently cheered as I cracked my first smile of the day, unfortunately this moment was short lived as something hard hit me in the back sending me flying into a nearby tree. My leg smacked into the trunk so hard that it had left an indent in the tree. My leg now throbbing in pain I attempted to pick myself up.

Picking myself off the ground I saw what can only be describe as something from mythology, standing there was a massive Lion looking creature, it had large bat like wings, and a massive scorpion like tail protruding from its rear end. It was hunched low to the ground and had a large amount of saliva dripping from its large fanged mouth, it looked hungry and wanted food, and I’ll be damned if I’m that food

”Can this day get any worse” I yelled out drawing my bow and readying an arrow, as if by fate the creature lept at me, it’s massive claws barely missing me as I dodged to the left back onto the trail, as the creature turned around and readied itself for another strike, I released the string and sent the arrow flying, the arrow struck perfectly, hitting the creature in one of its large yellow eyes. The creature let out a howl of pain as the arrow made contact. Not wasting any time I began to run I took off down the trail and doing my best to ignore the pain I felt in my leg, running as fast as possible, the armor not doing much to slow me down as it seemed to have molded to my form perfectly.

Not looking back I heard yet another ear splitting roar as the sound of branches breaking emanated from behind me. This thing won’t give up so easily. Once again I pulled my knapsack off of my back as an idea formed, I searched franticly as the growls and roars of the creature drew nearer.

“Ahah, found it, let’s see how you like potions bitch” I yelled in triumph as I pulled out a bottle full of dark red liquid. Stopping in place and swiveling around I could see the Scorpion thing getting closer and closer, I have to time it perfectly I thought. It just kept coming until it was no more than twenty feet out, I chucked the potion at the creature. It was a perfect shot as the potion hit home, the bottle broke on the creatures head and the Liquid poured out all over the thing.

It began to wail and cry out in pain as the potion did its thing. Forgetting about me entirely the creature ran back into the forest still yelping an howling as the potion kept burning it. Turning back onto the path I began to walk once more, trying to put as much distance between myself and that thing as possible, the potion won't kill it so I will come back, the adrenalin soon wore off and with it came the pain of being smashed into a tree. The pain only intensified as time went on, and walking soon became a chore.

Hobbling along the path was a grueling process, my vision began to blur as the little light that penetrated the canopy began to dissipate, I quickly slipped off my helmet and ran an armored hand through my sweaty disheveled hair. Once again checking my map to pass the time, as I looked down I saw something odd out of the corner of my eye. Looking up from the map and squinting my eyes I could see a clearing ahead. Getting excited I put my map back and slipped my helmet back on once more. Continuing to hobble as fast as possible to the clearing, though every step I took seemed just to intensify the pain in my leg.

Time was not on my side as my energy began to slowly drain as I grew closer and closer to the end, the pain only intensifying with every step causing me to cringe and moan in pain. The light continued to fade as day turned to night with just a small bit of orange sun still lighting the way, “Shit I gotta hurry, if I get attacked by something that big during the day, god knows what could attack me out here at night” I said under my breath as I huffed it up the last stretch up the hill to the clearing.

As I finally made it to the end the sun had finally set, to be replaced by a magnificently large moon. What I saw before me literally made my jaw drop, a town. Though this town seems to be empty, since the streets hold no life. Pushing the thought aside I began my slow painful trek down into the small town, the buildings I could now see seemed cartoony, as if I were in some kind of child’s fantasy land, this made me silently chuckle as I made my way onto the cobble road, my diamond boots clanking on the surface with a grating scratch and crunch sound as I walked further in I can’t help but shake the feeling of eyes on me, it’s unnatural and it seems to be coming from everywhere. Attempting to push the feeling away was futile as I continued even further into town, By now I had reached what I could only say was a marketplace with a large fountain in the center.

“You there, HALT!” Yelled a voice out of the darkness from behind me.

Happiness overwhelms me when I finally here a voice, not caring who said it or what they said I began to turn around. “Finally, umm I’m kind of lost can you plea” I stopped midsentence as I stared down to who or what had just talked to me. I was a weird looking pony that for some reason had massive disproportionate cartoony looking eyes. It had a lantern hanging from its back and somehow managed to hold a spear, the weapon in question was pointed directly at me.

“Di, did you just talk” I questioned the pony getting nothing but a hate filled glare back.

“Yes, I did now submit to arrest creature, or I will be authorized to take you down by using force” said the pony as forcefully as possible. He was visibly shaken at my size, as I easily towering over it by a foot and a half. I couldn’t help but chuckle at its meaningless threat.

“Ha ha, you and what army” I said mockingly as I stared down at him, attempting to intimidate him by using my size.

“This one” he said cracking a smirk, he pulled out a large shiny whistle blew into it, as if by some kind of black magic more of these guards seemed to run from nowhere, As the last few guards came from doorways and alleyways there numbers soon swelled to around 25 possibly more. I noticed that some of these ponies had wings, and others even had horns. With all the commotion lights inside of the homes began to flick on and ponies began to come out of their homes to investigate.

A large crowd had gathered around myself and the guards, ponies of all different shapes, colors and sizes, began to whisper as I held my ground staring down that one guard.

“Oh what kind of shit storm have I walked into” I squeaked out still trying to seem intimidating.

“Now as I said before thing, submit or be taken by force” said the same pony, the pony in question now held a satisfied smirk.

“In your dreams” I yelled out ignoring the pain in my leg I began sprinting at that one guard intent on take as many down with me as possible, when I finally reached him I yanked down and started my swing at his neck. However before I could make contact I just froze, my sword stuck in my hand with me not able to let go, I could not move or speak, as some kind of weird purple aura surrounded me.

“What is going on here” said another voice, though this one sounded more feminine than that of the guards pony, all attention was diverted to the owner of the voice as I was swiveled around in midair to see as well, the owner was a indigo colored pony that had dark purple hair, she also seemed to have a streak of pink running through it as well. She also had a horn, aww hell with it I’ll call her a unicorn.

“Umm, Miss Sparkle, we found this creature roaming the streets, it resisted arrest so we were forced to arrest it by using force” said the guard to the unicorn.

*sigh* “it’s too late for this” she moaned “Alright I’ll put it to sleep and send the princess a letter on what to do with it, for now I’ll keep it asleep so it will be no threat to anypony” she said waving the guards off, she seemed very grumpy and upon closer inspection her hair or I guess I should say mane was heavily disheveled. With my current thought process I failed to notice my vision begin to darken, my eye lids felt heavy as I fought the urge to sleep, however the feeling was far too great and within seconds I was out.