Daring Do and the Legend of Herobrine

Daring Do awoke to the rhythm of the ocean tide. She raised her oozy eyes, but the sunlight was too bright. Narrowing her eyes until they got used to the sunlight, she stood up and took a look around. She found herself washed up on a shore of an unknown island, but something was not quite right. She closed her eyes and rubbed them, looking up again to make sure. She was right; everything was very... blocky. Instead of a normally smooth surface, the sand looked like stairs, with distinct lines and edges.

"What.... what is this place? How did I get here?"

Then the memories came back. She remembered being on another adventure to the legendary lost tomb inside a far away land known as Minecraft, where a rumored dragon egg was hidden. Many had attempted to retrieve it, but not many had returned. Those who came back seemed to have lost their minds, mumbling something about the laws of physics and some strange creature named Herobrine. However, as the greatest adventurer who ever lived, Daring Do was determined to find this legendary treasure. She had boarded a ship and left for the mysterious continent of Minecraft. However, she ran into a severe storm that took the ship apart. Her wings were also injured when the ship fell apart, but she managed to escape in time before it sank and grabbed onto a floating wooden board. Although she used some emergency bandages to stop the bleeding on her wings, she would not be able to fly for at least a month, even had she been under proper medical attention. However, with no food or fresh water, she quickly grew weak. She had finally lost consciousness and when she woke up, she was in this strange continent.

Could this be Minecraft? She couldn't be sure, but that was not the top priority at that moment. She had become extremely weak, and she needed to find food and some sort of shelter before it got dark.

"Only Celestia knows what kind of predator could be living on this strange island" Daring thought.

She gathered up her strength and stood up. The sun was still low on the horizon, so she would probably have plenty of time to gather food and find shelter. She walked forward off of the sand and stopped on some nice, green grass. She sniffed the grass and took a little test lick; the refreshing scent told her that it was just normal grass, despite how blocky it looked. She lowered her neck and took a bite.

"Ugh! Bleh.... pleh!! What is this?" She spit out what she had just bitten. Instead of tasty grass, she had almost swallowed a mouthful of dirt. It was like the grass was just on the very top layer, and it seemed impossible to pull it out of the dirt.

"Great. Just great." Daring Do let out a long sigh. "This island is way too strange. It's like another universe where the laws of physics are completely different."

Feeling tired, she looked around and saw some tall grass.

"Jackpot!"

She would have jumped for joy had she had the strength for it. Quickly, she ran over and sniffed it. It didn't smell as delicious as the dirt, but it would do. She took a bite of it and chewed. The grass was not very juicy, and its fibers were all stiff and hard. It took Daring a while to digest enough grass to fill her stomach. It wasn't delicious, but it was still converted into energy. Daring felt her strength slowly returning to her. She did some stretches and decided to chop down some more tall grass to keep it as her emergency food.

After she filled her saddlebag with tall grass, she walked towards the forest. Her next task was to find some branches to build a shelter out of before night fall, so that she could get some rest and continue her adventure tomorrow. However, she was surprised by what she saw. The forest looked nothing like those in Equestria. The trees were mostly the same texture and size, the ground was flat and spotless except for some grass and flowers, and it was dead quiet. No bird singing, no critter chattering, just dead silence as if nothing alive was there. Daring found the unusual silence discomforting, but she had no choice but to go in.

She looked at the forest and said, "Well, if I can't find any branches, I'll just have to break down a tree." She picked a rather small tree, and aimed her back legs at the trunk. She lifted up her back legs, and gave it a heavy kick. The tree didn't budge at all, but a small crack had formed on the part, or block rather, where Daring had hit. It was as if the tree was made up of separated pieces of rock, and Daring had just damaged one of them.

Daring gave the cracked block another kick and it broke completely. It fell on the ground and Daring Do quickly moved to the side in case the broken tree fell on her.

To her great surprise, nothing happened. She closed in again and investigated. The block that she had broke off was on the ground nearby, but the upper part of the tree remain unmoved, floating in midair.

"O....kay?" Daring said as she looked at the floating tree uncomfortably. This island is too strange, but her priority was to survive. She decided to not think about physics and just pick up the piece of wood that fell down to start making wooden planks with it.

After some work, she made four wooden planks. She turned around and broke another part of the trunk off the tree. The upper part continued to remain floating. Daring broke all the wooden blocks she could reach on the tree, and then moved on to another one. Soon, she had made a nice pile of wooden planks next to her, at least two hundred of them.

"Whew, this should do the job." Daring wiped her forehead with her hooves, getting rid of the sweat. She looked up at the sky. It was about 4 pm and she figured that she would probably have another two hours or so before it would begin to get dark.

Daring immediately went to work. She started placing the wooden planks down. Row by row and layer by layer, she soon built a small hut in the middle of the forest with three walls and no ceiling. Remembering her strange experience with the tree, Daring decided to try to build the ceiling. She placed down a block on the top and sure enough, it didn't fall.

"It appears that gravity has no effect on any blocks."

Daring quickly filled the top of her little hut with wooden planks, and her shelter was done. The hut had three walls and a ceiling, and the opening was facing the forest.

It was getting dark. The sun was disappearing behind the horizon, and the forest was slowly fading into shadows. Daring decided to find some stones to build a fire, but her hooves were too soft to dig up cobble. To help with this, she made a pickaxe out of wood. It wasn't very strong, but she thought that at least it was better than her hooves. She quickly gathered some cobble and returned to her hut. She built a small furnace and started a little camp fire at the front of the door. It was bright and warm, and as Daring got comfortable, she felt sleepy. She laid next to the fire and grabbed some fresh tall grass for her dinner. After her stomach was filled, she laid down in her shelter next to the fire and fell into a very shallow sleep.