“My mother always told me the world could surprise you, that the world is a vast place that was made for us to explore and discover what lies on the earth, within the waters or high in the sky. My mother never told me though...That i would be the only one…”



Floating in the vast cosmos of space was a planet like no other. A planet that was cloaked in blue and green colours with a small splash of beige. On this cube shaped planet were many towns, cities and villages and within one of these villages, like every other village had it’s villager. His name was Steven Hemlock, however most people called him Steve for short. The sun was high and the wind was blowing softly and the villagers were going of their day to day life; Harvesting crops, exchanging goods for emeralds found deep within the mountains or just people creating the next revolutionary invention. Steve was a miner and was proud to be one however there were a few close calls… On this nice sunny day Steve ventured into the mine with a few of his friends - John and Matthew, the trio continued mining from where they finished the previous day and without hesitation they all hacked away at the stone, whistling a tune in sync to inspire them to keep mining. “Found some more coal, our furnaces will be burning bright for yet another day!” said matthew. “Sweet, found some iron, now we don’t have to worry about our current pickaxes breaking on us!” said John. “Ha, I beat you all. I found some Gold.” John and Matthew both replied to Steve. “Oh man, i’m sure we’ll find some shiny ore next!” The trio continued to mine, and dig until they breached into a cave. “Oh look.” said John. “I just found a cave, maybe it will be easier to find some shiny ores. Matthew, Steve come down here.” Matthew and Steve rushed down to meet up with John. They all placed down some torches to illuminate the surroundings within the dark abyss of the cave, soon enough Matthew, John and Steve explored different parts of the cave, finding many ores and gemstones. Steve noticed a light orange glow down the path of the cave and went to explore to discover a pool of lava lighting the area revealing a small cluster of diamonds. Steve cheered with joy and chucked down gravel in the lava and a bridge formed in the lava below and Steve was able to obtain the diamonds. Steve shouted back through the cave for his echo to reach his friends. “Hey guys! I just struck some diamonds!” Steve chuckled and rushed back through the cave following the echo to meet up with his friends.  Steve, Matthew and John met up with each other at the entrance of the cave they created. “I managed to find some Iron, gold, lapis lazuli and more coal.” said Matthew. “Well i found some iron, coal and some strange red powder, i decided to call it Redstone.” said John. “Well i got myself some diamonds.” Both Matthew and John grunted and Matthew replied. “Jee, what is with your luck and finding diamonds, I mean you’re like the master diamond hunter without even trying!” John and Steve chuckled. “I think it’s time we call it a day, let’s head home and have some dinner.” John and Steve replied. “Oh man, I’m gonna’’ cook myself up some tasty chicken…” Steve fantasised about what he would have for dinner. “Ahh, lovely beef for me. Alright, my stomach can’t wait, let’s head on up.” The trio  began to walk up the mine however a deathly screech echoed past them. They all froze in terror and turned around to find nothing behind them. “What the heck was that!” said Matthew. “I’ll go look guys, you go home, i’ll handle it.” Steve then pulled out a very damaged diamond sword from his belt and went back down the mine leaving Matthew and John behind.



Steve found an unlit part of the cave and went down the dark tunnel finding unnaturally large spiders on the wall and found a ominous stone brick structure that looked recently created and steve realised soon after exploring into the structure it was a labyrinth of passages and tunnels. Passing through the tunnels and passages he found a room that was lit with a purple aura. he saw a strange white stone ring floating in the air above lava and standing above the portal was a large figure in a pitch black robe. The figure turned around and locked his gaze on Steve. The features on the figure were dragon life however his skin and his body remained human with pale dead skin covering him. “Gaze at the eyes of the tall ones mortal, and your fate will be sealed.” The figure then leaped into the portal leaving behind a purple aura that created tall black figured with glowing purple eyes. Steve looked at one of the figures and both the Steve and the creature were locked in a gaze that Steve could not escape. Steve charged toward the figure and slashed it with the blade, only for it to teleport. The other figure teleported behind Steve where the damaged creature stood. The two figures looked at each other and nodded before teleporting away. Steve looked at the portal and placed town some TNT to destroy it however when lit, the TNT exploded and did not destroy the portal but instead destroyed the keys needed to open it and because of this the vortex vanished. Steve then rushed out of the halls and back up the mine and back to his village. Back at the village there was no sound but the wind. Silence broke through village. “Hello, friends?!” Steve shouted but there was no response but it was not long until steve found a village who rests on the floor with his neck snapped. Steve looked up and entered a building to find everyone inside suffered the same fate. One woman was still alive choking and coughing violently and Steve rushed to help. “Are you ok! What happened here?” The woman could barely talk but tried to speak clearly as possible. “Ta-Tall...Mon-Monsters...I-I tried...To fight back…” She opened her palm to reveal a cluster of small black scales before she went limp and stopped breathing. Steve took the scales and went outside and saw the moon rising. “No...Not now…” Moans and groans filled the village as the dead rose including those who died around steve. Steve filled with tears and ran, leaving everything he knew behind him to never turn back again.



3 Years later…



Steve found himself living in a cave he dug out and he made makeshift furniture to settle on. Steve was sitting at a desk writing down in a book his story.


“I called them the Endermen, i’ve been roaming the land for years and i have found no survivors, they all became apart of the undead. If there is somebody still out there I will find him/her so i can have a friend who understands my pain and suffering. If the world is empty then i will be the one to fill it, and i will get revenge on the Endermen, and that strange cloaked figure who vanished through the portal, many years ago…”


Thank you for reading my story. I couldn't think of anything interesting other than this so i hope it's considered to be good enough to be placed in the contest.
~Endersteve