Minecraft Urban Legends: Self Reflection

 Minecraft Urban Legends 

 Self-Reflection 

Hello, my name is Amelia Prowers and this story happened when I was 12 years old, back in July 28th 2012, this was when Minecraft on XBOX 360 was booming with popularity. What I saw that day, that one fateful day, mentally scarred me for life and made me hate Minecraft. It was my own corpse. Well, my Minecraft skin’s corpse…

It all started in my Minecraft house, my house was nothing impressive, neither was it special. My house wasn’t a wooden mansion or anything of the sort, it was a cave. Yes, you heard me correctly, I lived inside a cave in a snowy mountain, it wasn’t very high though, it has the same altitude as the floor, which was zero.

I wanted to embellish the entrance of the cave since it consisted of cobblestone, dirt, obsidian, water and lava. Did I mention that it was night time and the entrance was a door? So, I went inside my cave, closed the door behind me, and I decided to smelt some iron and some cobblestone to beautify the exterior. Although, my inventory was cluttered so I opened the chest and put all the seemingly useless stuff in the chest for now. This is where it all starts to go downhill.

In said chest, in a vacant slot, there was “Disc 11” flashing, but I never had the disc. It is as if a “ghost” was putting the disc in and out of the chest… or it was a glitch, so I passed it off as a glitch to not scare myself. Disc 11 stopped flashing so I took it out of the chest and, without hesitation, I put in the jukebox next to the crafting table.

The disc played normally, so I left it playing and checked the furnace and saw that my iron smelted and I decided to put in a stack or two of cobblestone and I remembered that I dropped the cobblestone outside by accident.

As I approached the door to leave, I noticed that it was already open. Hmmmm… I thought I closed it. Who opened it? I completely ignored it and disregarded it as I left it open or something.

I picked up the cobblestone, went back to my cave, and I made sure to close the door behind me. I wanted to smelt the cobblestone, but something refrained me from doing it. What I saw next to the jukebox, was a bloodied and dead version of my skin. It stayed for at least three seconds, taunting me, and then it vanished. I was screamed and cried, all of this happened while disc 11 was still playing.

I went to cry to my daddy since he always comforted me and mommy wasn’t home. “What’s wrong, sweetheart?” he said. “There was scawy monster that was going to kiw me!” I replied as I sat on his lap. “Where?! I’ll kill it!” he declared. “No, daddy! It was in Minecwaft! The monster was in Minecwaft!” I responded. “Oh… sweetheart, it’s just a game! A game can’t kill you!” he convinced me. I nodded and went back to my room to play Minecraft.

Disc 11 was on the ground so I stowed it in the chest for it to never be touched it again, thankfully, it didn’t flash this time. This Minecraft world I am playing may be haunted so I contemplated weather I should delete it or not it. I decided not to since I’ve been playing on this world for a month and I don’t want to lose all of my progress.

What was I doing? Oh yeah, I was adorning the cave’s enterance so it can look attractive. Ok cool, now I put all of my cobblestone in the furnace to smelt it, all while I’m still on alert of wackier things happening *awkward laughter*.

Secondly, there was a small 5 by 3 pool of lava in front of the entrance so I patched it up with dirt so it would blend in with the rest of the environment, gotta make it safe, amirite?

As I was doing so, there was a splash potion of slowness thrown at me from the top of the hill where my cave is situated. Luckily, the hill wasn’t that high so I can see who was the culprit (it was a singleplayer world but I didn’t take that into account before haha). To my surprise, it was the same person with the bloody version of my skin.

It didn’t scare me this time since daddy told me it was just a game. I chased her, well, I tried, the slowness effect wasn’t in my favor… On the hill, there were mountains with snowy peaks, however, the scary thing is that there is a redstone torch on the front of the rugged mountain.

The sun set and the slowness effect subsided, I was heading to the redstone torch to see what was up. I could hear another splash potion being thrown at me but it thankfully missed.

There was a skeleton that spawned near the redstone torch, so you know I had to do it to them. As I observed the redstone torch, I heared a noise so I looked behind me and saw my bloody doppelganger again. God… what does she want now?

She approached me and threw a splash potion of weakness at me and vanished. I found it a little rude but I’ve seen a lot of movies about Time Travel, and maybe that’s just me from the future trying to warn me about something stupid I might do.

The stupid thing I had done is strip mine into the mountain where the redstone trorch was. Yep, I was that stupid back then. Eleven blocks in and there was nothing, until I found some light, then a skeleton dropped and killed me. Huh, that potion of weakness really wasn’t my friend. Me from the future should have warned me about this.

I returned and went in to the source of the light and found what looks like a dungeon floor. Amongst the stone bricks and their mossy and cracked variants, I found to perfectly placed vertical cobblestone blocks on the left wall, which indicates that they want me to go in here.

I mined the cobblestone and what I found was a dimly-lit room, with the same variety of stone bricks, two redstone torches and my… grave. On the mossy cobblestone wall on top of the two dirt blocks which replicates the appearance of a grave, there was a sign written on it: “Here lies Amelia Prowers”. I was on the verge of a myocardial infarction. The sign didn’t even have my username which was “FluffyUnicorns163427” it used my REAL name.

As I approached the grave, thunder struck on it. I wanted to walk out but my thoughts were interrupted by thunder that struck on it and that thunder spawned my dead counterpart, or future me, standing on my grave.

I wanted to ask her a few questions so I typed in chat: “Am I dead? How did I die? Are you actually me? How did I get here? What is this place? What happened to you? Why are you so bloodied up? Why is there a grave? Speak to me!”.

With no provision of an answer, she gave me an iron shovel, and disspaears into the thin air. She wants me to dig open the grave. Without hesitation, I dug open the grave. To my surprise, there wasn’t a coffin, there was lava!

More safety reasons, I tried to place the dirt block back down but it wouldn’t place. It is as if there is someone or something blocking the way. After a few more attempts, my dead peer arose from the lava pit but now she has a very wicked smile.

I jumped and sprinted out of the room and patched it up with some obsidian, so nothing can come in and nothing can come out. I saw a cave with coal in it so I went up there to mine some of it. As I was doing so, thunder struck at me. This was not over.

I had no more patience for this so I head back to my cave to forget about this trauma. As I was getting out of the cave, there was a creeper that followed me and I punched it back in the cave where it belonged. Here’s the catch, after I punched the creeper, three more of them spawned, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT!

I knew that something was not right so I sprintjumped back to my cave. While I was doing that, my dead clone was ahead of me, running to my cave. I tried to go real fast since I don’t want this ghost to grief my house. I was on top of the hill where my cave was and I inspected the front of the cave from the hill to see if she entered.

As I was doing so, something invisible punched me and knocked me off the hill. That made me jump. She is starting to piss me off. I went into my cave and closed the door behind me. I checked all over the cave, the cake room, the potion room, the main room, the nether portal room, the mine, nothing. She was nowhere to be found.

I fully examined my mine since it was so vast, every ramification, every Y:11 branch, still nothing. She probably left, so I went back to the main part of the cave, but there was bedrock blocking the main cave from the mine. I wasn’t dumb so I mined around the bedrock and found myself in the main room of the cave.

I chose to see if she left anything in the chest. I did, but there was nothing out of the ordinary, nothing was added or taken out, the items stowed in the chest seem to be in the same way I left them. Okay. Good. No signs of my deceased doppelganger in my cave.

However, my eyes were drawn to the furnace. It is still smelting the cobblestone? What? Surely, it must have completed from the time I was gone! I checked it and it turns out that the furnace was smelting a stack of pork chops with my stone left to be nowhere to be found.

I heard a door open behind me, this can’t be good, and I was right this wasn’t good. I exited the furnace menu, turned around and saw her. Standing there menacingly.

I had enough of this so I typed in chat: “Why the FUCK are you doing this to me!” Awaiting for a response eagerly, the demon finally responded: “No particular reason. I just like having fun! By the way, I am a hacker who is in your house.” Excuse me what?

On the screen, text in red was fading in that read: “Check on your father.” And so I did, what I found had traumatized me for LIFE. I found my dad, bleeding on the floor, a hooded figure was standing on him, saying: “Hello, Amelia.”

I cried, ran to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, the hooded figure followed me. I swung the knife at them and they surprisingly catched it. “Amelia. You must not be afraid of who you are.A͡͏̶͜͏͙̞̪̞͚̺̳̱ͅ ̴҉̻͕̳̭̳̝̙͚̙̯m̘͖͖̝͇̺̕͟u̸͉͕͇͙̹̣̞̻̪̣̮̘͈͢͝ͅr͡͏̰̟̮̣̩ḑ̩̱͓͇̼̝͙̻̘̥͕͍̦̤͜͜͡e҉̣̱̜̪̬r̸̸͔͕͓̝͍̣̕͞͠ͅe̴̗̹̥̜͞͡r͏̧̛͙͖̙̺̀!̴̧҉̨̫̗̖͕̠̲̻̤̞͇” she said. I was frozen, then she punched me and gave me a concussion.

I woke up and the floor of my bedroom and Minecraft was on. Mommy and Daddy were calling me for dinner. I get it now. Daddy died because of suicide because I have been playing too much Minecraft so I can not have time ofr Mommy and Daddy. Well, kids, don’t play Minecraft too much or your subconciousness will take over.

'''Hey Guys! It’s me the author of this story! This is the first out of the five stories of Minecraft Urban Legends! Please like it I put so much effort into it. Goodbyr my little cupcakes!'''