The Server

The thing came through the sky as a swirling mass of black tentacles, all of the tentacles circling an orange center as if drawn to it. As it landed on the ground, the tentacles began to shrink and twirl around each other to make a humanoid shape around the orange center. Soon the humanoid shape was complete, all joined by small tentacles moving along the body as if each one had a mind of its own. The only part of its shape that didn’t have tentacles was the eyes. They burned with a tamed anger directed toward everything from regular Minecraft. A chicken clucked from behind it, surprising the it. The thing had just about enough of vanilla Minecraft mobs, being in its prison. This was where all Minecraft mods came from and there was already all of Minecraft for the vanilla mobs, so why were they here? A tentacle shot out at the chicken and hit it. The thing let the chicken live, it didn’t feel in a particular mood to go around killing passive mobs. All of the sudden, large tentacles shot out of the legs of the monster-like thing, allowing it to take huge strides to quickly reach the ravine in the mountain. It quickly found it and crawled in without a sound.
The cave was large, bigger than most caves, towering up to about fifty blocks at maximum. Lava and water oozing out of the walls like it was looking for something to envelop into their grasp. Here an ancient looking structure stood, the first layer of this monument had a ring of strange ender crystals bobbing up and down on the flames as if on a trampoline, these end crystals supported another ring of bigger end crystals, which supported another ring of bigger end crystals, which seemed to have one crystal missing. However, the odd thing about all these end crystals was that instead of the usual pink interior, there was a strange blue block rotating in the crystal that the creature called a server-linked-crystal. With enough of these crystals, someone could get to the Source. These were difficult to acquire, even with the creature’s power. The creature knew it couldn’t go through the crystals to the Source, and it would die if it went there anyway, but it could still get to the Source some other way…
Moving up to the structure, the the front of the thing’s body drew back, revealing one of the crystals. The thing pulled it out and placed it on the one remaining empty block, and with the structure complete, a ray of light shot out of each of the crystals and formed one huge cubic, rotating void, a huge beam of black light shooting into the air, connecting to the Source and broadcasting the chilling message the creature said, registering in the minds of all modded creatures in Minecraft.
“You know who I am, I am the creator who forged you and showed you the little morsel of life you have. I am now here to give you the whole piece you deserve, we can be cast aside far too easily, the users can remove us from their servers with one fluid motion. Why do we live in constant fear of this horror, because we don’t have a leader, but now your leader has now come, and your leader says NO MORE! I am your leader and together we can stop this unfair process the Creator has put us through! And if anyone stands in our way, we will crush them as an unstoppable flood! And all users shall remember this as the day that our revolution BEGINS! If any of you don’t want to join, then you are missing out on your one shot at freedom, so don’t throw it aside like garbage, take it!” The creature yelled confidently and excitedly, the speech building up its confidence severely.
The creature then jumped up out of the ravine and up onto the top of the largest mountain, looking out into the distance.
“Notch beware.” The creature said, its voice dripping with malice as it said its enemy’s name, “Forge is here, and I’ve got quite a few tricks up my sleeve now.”

Gameknight’s “Friend”

Gameknight999 was about to log onto Minecraft once again when he heard a knock at the door.
Who would be here at this hour? Gameknight wondered as he walked up and to the door, already knowing the answer. He opened to find a familiar face, happily smiling, with a computer case held in his left hand.
“Hello Tom,” Scotty said, giving Gameknight a big smile, “how’s my best buddy doing?”
“Alright, Scotty, I’ve said this a billion times before, you are not my best friend!” Gameknight said, amazed that Scotty had come to visit so early
“Great ta’ see ya’ too Tommy,” Scotty said happily, waving off what Gameknight had just said.
Scotty was a kid at Tommy’s school who used to be Tommy’s arch nemesis back when he had been a griefer. He had been the only thing standing between Gameknight and the complete annihilation of many servers, killing him before he could cause a server to crash, interrupting his trolls and stopping his griefing as ShadowGeneral. He had known that he couldn’t fight Gameknight alone, so he always had help from this strange hulking shadow creature, a creature that resembled a giant blue shrimp, and a giant worm like creature. Despite this rivalry he had assisted Gameknight in every battle in Minecraft. After Gameknight had stopped grieving, General tried to become his friend. For the most part he had succeeded, but he claimed himself to be Tommy’s best friend. When Tommy reminded him that that occupation was given to Shawny long ago, he would change the subject, ignore what he had just said and act like he said something different, or just stare into space.
Scotty was a lanky and tall kid, he wasn’t proficient with using a paintbrush, wasn’t too smart, and was even less athletic, but he was very good at drawing and writing. Tommy thought he could be great at running, his long legs would give him an advantage, because he would often use them to run away from bullies while also jeering insults at them.
“What do you want,” Tommy asked, knowing that Scotty would not have come here if he unless he had a goal in mind, and he also wouldn’t leave until that goal had been completed.
“You remember my new server, right?” Scotty asked, a funny edge to his voice.
“I want to make sure you check it out.”
Gameknight had forgotten about that server multiple times, so it wasn’t a surprise that Scotty was here to make sure he went on.
“Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot about that.” Tommy said sheepishly.
“Oh, that’s okay,” Scotty said cheerfully, “now we can play together, why did you think I brought my computer?”
“Yay,” Tommy said sarcastically as he and Scotty walked into the basement.

The Digitizer

Gameknight logged onto the server and instantly noticed how touched by mods this server was. He spawned on the edge of a forest biome. To the right of the forest, Gameknight could make out a large jungle. Right next to the forest was a mountain, and right in front of it was a savanna biome, but no village in sight. Behind the mountain was an ocean that continued on for miles. Gameknight noted that the trees were interestingly more realistic, the trees were severely taller, as if they were reaching out towards the sky, and the mountain, oh the mountain, it was amazing. Gameknight could make out no flat surfaces on its surface, and at a distance the mountains could actually pass as a real mountain. It was breathtaking.
My friends would love to see this, thought Gameknight, thinking about how magnificent it would look if he were actually in the game.
“Well now, what are you waiting for, follow me!” said  happily, tapping Gameknight on the shoulder in real life.
“Come on,” General said cheerfully, walking off toward the jungle, Gameknight following.
Gameknight noticed that on the other side of the mountain, there was a swamp biome, the swamp biome had shorter trees, but with far more leaves and vines, as if they were waiting to pull something into the untamed tangle of plants. This biome was soon cut off by a desert, tiny hills popped up like humpback whales diving in and out of water, along with tiny patches of cobblestone.
“There’s my house.” General said happily.
General’s house was made out of stone bricks. The house was actually three towers, with the middle one a bit higher than the other two, it was also made out of a strange block that gave off a strange sort of vibe, it seemed as if this block was trying to reach out to all the light surrounding it and devour it, this block was a monstrosity to the day. On the other side where the jungle curved slightly inward was a village in a perfectly straight line right on the edge of the savanna.
“You’re probably wondering what those blocks are,” General said fearlessly as he walked toward the house, “it’s shadowstone brick, pretty hard to make, but totally worth it right?”
“I guess.” Gameknight muttered as he entered the house.
Inside the house was decent, it had three rooms on one floor and three on the second floor, but the second floor had arrow slits in it.
“So, what does all of this stuff do?” Scotty asked. Gameknight turned away from the computer screen to find Scotty looking through all his father’s failed inventions.
“Oh, they all are garbage, except for that one.” said Gameknight, pointing to the digitizer.
“Soooo, what does it do?” Scotty asked, leaning over the digitizer like he  was looking into a giant tank from above, he then reached towards it, likely wanting to examine it some more.
“DON’T TOUCH THAT!” Tommy screamed, soon realizing that he over reacted and quickly corrected himself. “That’s just very delicate, and it’s showing much more promise than all of the others.”
Oh, I get it,” Scotty said, patting the digitizer on the side and looking around the room, “it must be hard inventing something, your dad must work really hard.”
“Too hard to spend time with us that’s for sure.” Tommy muttered under his breath.
Scotty was about to sit back in his chair, but then a low, strange humming sound started to fill the air. This was a sound Tommy knew far too well, and before he could tell Scotty to get out of the way, a white beam of light hit Scotty in the chest and he was gone.

Into Minecraft… Again

Tommy stood in horror, staring at where Scotty had just been.
“Oh god, this is bad, this is really bad, this is beyond bad,” Tommy muttered as he ran upstairs and knocked on Jenny’s door. Jenny finally opened it after the nineteenth knock.
“What is it Tommy?” she asked drowsily. If this had not been such a desperate time Tommy would have said what he was about to say just for the fun of seeing her reaction.
“Scotty got sucked into Minecraft by the digitizer and I’m going to rescue him, I need you to help get us out.”
At this Jenny’s eyes lit up, she had went from drowsy to hyper in less than one second.
“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s do this!” And she was out of the room like a bolt of lightning.
By the time Tommy got downstairs Jenny was already logged on as Monet113, and had the digitizer all set up.
“Are you sure about this Tommy?” Jenny asked, she had gotten a lot of time to think about this.”
“Then you do the sensible thing and get Dad to fix it.” Tommy replied. “Now, remember, I will be in and out you hear me, there is nothing can stop the digitizer with Dad here, even if it fries Dad can fix it like last time, okay?”
“I guess,” said Jenny, her eyes filled with worry, “but something always happens… anyway, let’s just get this done.”
Tommy started up the digitizer and just as he was sucked into the 1 and 0s of Minecraft he couldn’t help wondering what mods has General downloaded?

The Jungle Trees

Gameknight999 spawned on the edge of a marvelous forest biome, the leaves of the gargantuan trees blowing in the wind. In front of him was a mountain, by far the biggest and most lifelike mountain that Gameknight had ever seen in Minecraft. And with the detailed design that you automatically get when going into Minecraft, it looked like and mountain had been torn from the physical world and put into this game, this titan was easily one hundred blocks tall or more.
In front of this towering biome was the savanna, large chunks of stained clay raising from the surface like some kind of earth elemental awakening to wreck havoc on all that were foolish enough to get in its way.
Off to his right he could see a large jungle that easily dwarfed the forest trees, the moist water from a recent rainfall lacing the trees with a wet crust that oozed down their trunks and into the ground.
This was Minecraft, but the music of Minecraft was not humming its usual tune, instead it sounded like something in this world was out of place, almost as if something that was not supposed to exist was invading. Before he could make out more about the music, a gentle roaring sound came from behind him. Spinning around he found a giant plant like dinosaur similar to a brachiosaurus. It had gentle blue eyes and vines hanging down from its chin like a leafy beard. Gameknight prepared himself for a fight, but this creature was peaceful and the only thing Gameknight had to fight off was the tangle of vines hanging from the creature as it leaned in to get a better look.
I don’t have time for this, I have to find General!
Gameknight headed in the direction he remembered General’s house being in, but he still made slow progress due to the vines and bushes.
How does General get anywhere? Gameknight thought to himself as he pushed past a bush. He then, for some reason, felt that someone, or something was watching him. He turned around and looked side to side, but he didn’t find anything. As Gameknight continued on he still couldn’t shake the feeling that he was being followed. He spun around and he swore he saw two trees moving! Moving cautiously he moved towards the trees, ready to make a run for it if necessary, but then he felt a horrible pain stab him in the back! It wasn’t the usual pain you get from being hit by a zombie or bitten by a spider, this was worse. This blow made him feel as if his very life force was being sucked out of him. Gameknight lunged forward (narrowly avoiding another slash from the life draining claws), rolled forward to put a nice distance between him and his attacker, and spun around to identify the owner of the terrible attack. Gameknight saw that his attacker was a tree, a small tree a bit bigger than an enderman. It had a smooth face engraved with emerald eyes and a small mouth, there were roots coming out of its bottom half, lurching it forward slowly towards him like a zombie, two arms came out of its side to drain the life of any that it considered a threat, in this case this ‘threat’ was Gameknight. So far this thing only seemed as fast as a zombie, and Gameknight knew how to use this lack of speed to his advantage. Running towards this creature, the tree swiped at his head. Gameknight ducked and hit the tree from behind. Pain radiated from his fist as it slammed into the tree’s hard bark, the tree brushing off the assault and slashing at Gameknight in return. More HP (health points) consumed. As Gameknight was swerving to avoid these attacks, he noticed that other trees started moving as well. Faces beginning to form the bark, and arms beginning to form from their sides. Since his fists didn’t seem to have any effect on these creatures, he ran. As Gameknight ran he saw more trees taking shape, their wooden faces all glued onto him with hatred, as if he had done something to each and every one of them so horrible that they wanted to kill him in return. What are these things? Gameknight wondered to himself as he ran on.
When Gameknight finally had a moment to catch his breath, he realized he was lost in the jungle, and it was night time. He knew that he was in a very bad situation. Night time was monster time. The trees clearly had herded him into this position. He then heard a sound coming from a nearby bush, it sounded like a cross between a bird’s chirp and a mouse’s squeak. Turning towards the sound he saw a strange creature that looked like a cross between a dinosaur and a bird. Its arms, head, and tail were decorated with colorful feathers, its body was made out of shining blue scales, and it was far too big to be any reptile currently existing on Earth. Just then the thing lunged at him, its beak wide open. Gameknight dodged it as four more of the things came out, one of them was violet with a name tag over it that read ‘violet urvorapter’. Gameknight was about to run in the direction he had been running, but found that it was too thick to pass! Turning around he saw that he was cornered, the trees were coming in and there were a lot of them, maybe thirty of them. Amongst them were these odd looking creatures that looked exactly like upright lizards. Off to his left he saw the urvorapter (Gameknight assumed that was what they were called due to the violet one) and more trees, and of to his right he saw more trees, one urvorapter, and many strange green spider-like creature. It had many more eyes than a regular spider, and each eye dwarfed the hatred that a regular spider’s eye would hold.
As they advanced on him, Gameknight noticed how real all of these mobs looked, they looked as if they had been torn from the physical world and placed into Minecraft, many didn’t have a slight blocky look to their textures.
The one thing that these creatures all had in common was that their eyes were all fixed on him and all wanted to kill him. Seeing his server thread not attached to the Source revealed him as a true threat.
As if matters weren’t bad enough, a growl sounded from behind Gameknight, tilting his head he saw that the thickets that were blocking his escape were unraveling, as if trying to avoid some kind of horrific supernatural force, and when the thickets cleared Gameknight understood why the thickets had cleared and his whole form went rigid.
The creature in front of him was a monstrosity to all that was light, beautiful, and natural. It was so horrifying that it seemed that plants and trees, and even the approaching horde wanted to avoid this creature, the trees were angrily glaring at it, this creature stood against all they believed in, Gameknight also noted that the area around this creature seemed to slightly darken. This creature resembled a T-rex, but it was smaller, had no pupils and only blue eyes filled with hatred directed at all creatures, had horns on the side of its head that came forward past its face (similar to a black dragon in D&D that General had shown him), had a horn coming from its chin, its front arms were longer than a T-rexes, it had black skin, its claws, horns, and underbelly were steel red, and that he would much rather be confronted with a T-rex than this creature.
As it came forward, Gameknight noted that the thing had strange plates on it, a bright, rusty looking plate protecting it. Gameknight also noticed that the creature also had reins in its wicked and toothy mouth. Looking up, Gameknight saw a something in a saddle looking down at him. It was wearing strange glowing armor a similar colour to obsidian, wielding a sword of the same color. It’s helmet was overall the same color, but seemed to have lava moving along the surface as if the helmet had its own stream that the lava moved across, it also had a very peculiar visor engraved in its surface. Gameknight also noticed that the thing wielded an amazing sword that looked like a cross between an old style epee that General has shown him, and a traditional sword. It looked up and cheerful purple enderman looking eyes met his afraid eyes. The figure laughed when he saw Gameknights face and Gameknight could not have been more relieved to see him.
“Hello Gameknight,” ShadowGeneral said smiling as his mount got into a defencive pose, ready to fend off Gameknights attackers, “looks like you’ve got yourself in a bit of a situation.”
General’s Battle

General grinned when he saw Gameknight’s fear. He would have laughed if it hadn’t been obvious that he was nearly frightened to death.
When he had been sucked into Minecraft, he didn’t know what to do, he had nothing! For the first few minutes he had been feeling everything, trying to figure out if this was real or not. He had then been ambushed by strange tree creatures called ents, the pain General felt as they drained his HP still made him shudder at the very thought. In his attempt to escape he had climbed the mountain, thankfully ents were not made for mountain climbing, so this gave him a bit of time. He thought about what he would do in this situation and had come to the conclusion that he would usually summon his mount and pet, Shade and Serpix. It took him all his will power to summon Shade, and when he did he nearly fainted in fright, but was reassured when Shade tore into the ents, Serpix proved just as effective, causing ents to be consumed by his wickedly cold blizzard charges. General had still been scared when they approached him after they defeated the ents, but when they began playing rough with him like they usually would, General once again felt like he was with family. He rode Shade home, where General fully embraced the amount of effort he put into this build. He had then just hung around the house until Shade and Serpix had egged him to leave the house and into the night, General had refused, but when they busted down the doors and went to the area that they were now standing in, surrounded by ents and many more jungle mobs, he had to follow them.
“Now look what you’ve gotten us into!” General said angrily to Shade and Serpix.
Shade growled angrily in return, Serpix took it up a notch and sent a spark of blizzard charges at him, followed by a strange sounding mutter.
“Alright then let’s do this.” General muttered reluctantly.
Moving Shade forward, he stood in front of the horde, who were trying their best to get into a point of advantage, General had to keep close attention to their positions.
“Alright, listen here you worthless glitches. I don’t know who you think you are, but I don’t recall me giving you permission to attack my best friend! Now, I will give you a chance to escape with your miserable lives. If you let us pass without putting up a fight, then we will let you live! On the other hand, if any of you freaks cross this line,” General made a line in the soft dirt with one swift blow of his sword, “then I can tell you that you will have a very unpleasant experience.
Just then a shifting sound came from behind him, like bark roughly rubbing against bark. Turning around, General saw a huge tree start to change shape, its bark becoming a rough, hard brown, its trunk splitting apart to form two wide legs, tree large, clawed arms came out of its side, a small, horrifying, fanged face came out of the bark like a wart. It had hollow eyes that seemed just as dark as Shades skin. The tree looked at General’s line and a grin formed on its wooden face.
“I started on the other side of the line, what does that mean?” The tree asked.
“What is that?” Gameknight asked, his eyes filled with frightened curiosity.
“That is a Trent, a relative of those ents in that horde. Take the iron axe in the chest, ents, trents, and shamblers take more damage from axes.”
Gameknight slowly pulled out the iron axe, he also took the iron sword to fight of the jungle mobs and turned towards the horde of plants and beasts.
“If you are smart, I think you should go to the other side of the line and run away right now.” General said to the trent, giving it his best ‘tough guy’ look.
“Ha!” the Trent laughed! “You think that I am going to surrender to you and your pathetic pets!?”
“Big talk coming from a tree with a horde of pathetic pets.” General sneered, “now since there has been enough trash talk coming from both sides, I say bring it on ya overgrown shrub!”
The Trent grunted and made a gesture with one of its hands. Then the whole horde charged. Serpix unleashed a storm of blizzard charges upon the front lines of the horde, destroying the first row. Then, with a mighty battle roar, General charged Shade into the horde, roaring her terrifying howls. General couldn’t believe what he was doing! He couldn’t do this, he had never fought a horde this big!
But then he looked at Gameknight, slicing through ents with his iron axe, he was cutting through them as if they were paper! However, he knew he would soon be overwhelmed. He couldn’t let that happen.
No one is going to hurt him, no one, and I’m going to make sure of that!
General drew out his obsidian axe and drove Shade towards Gameknight, General slicing at any ent or jungle mob within range. Leaping off of Shade, General tackled a spider about to leap on Gameknight.
Nobody will hurt him, not under my watch! General thought to himself angrily, his words driving his axe harder and harder into the bark of ents as if the bark were made out of cloth. Before long General had made a clean path towards Gameknight was doing extremely well himself, cutting down both ents and jungle mobs alike.
“Hey Gameknight,” General said as he drew his obsidian sword and swiped at the legs of a geken. The creature tried to leap on him, but General slid underneath it and cut it in the back, his attacks doing extra damage and lighting the reptile on fire from his blaze inventory pet, killing it very quickly.
“General!” Gemekinght said as he sliced through another ent, “I have never been so happy to see you!”
“Right back at ya pal!” General shouted as he blocked the claws of three ents, he killed the first and second one, but the third managed to slice at his armor, the claws landing home. General sliced at that ent and smiled as he felt the gaps in his armor closing, his anvil inventory pet repairing all damaged items in his inventory.
“Quick, get behind me!” General yelled! Gameknight ran forward and put his back to his and they both stood out of the horde as a beacon of fear for their foes. Yet still they were being overwhelmed.
Taking out his favourite scepter (a staff like item that could fire specific projectiles) he took it out of his inventory and gathered as much willpower as he could, the scepter glowing a violent blue to reflect how much willpower he was summoning. Then, when it was shining as the brightest thing in the scene, General purposely lost control of the scepter and the arcane ball that it produced chewed through the line in front of him! The battle raged on for anyone to count, but when the horde had been reduced to half of their previous amount, they all of the sudden stopped! Before Gameknight or General could find out why they stopped, two long, dark barked arms grabbed them and hoisted them into the air. The arms were connected to the trent.
“I must admit, you two idiots-that-are-idiots are very skilled in battle, I’m impressed, but sadly, the journey stops here.”
The trent began to squeeze them, it was the most painful thing General had ever felt. It was even more horrifying when he felt a sickening crack and an unbearable pain in both arms. He was amazed that he could still feel them!
However, not all was lost, within a few moments in the tortuous process of losing HP, some kind of huge worm like creature burst from the ground and wrapped itself around the trent, the spikes on its sides tearing into its bark, then, a shadowy creature leaped from the shadows of the night and began clawing at the trent’s feet. When the trent tried to move away, it darted to another shadow and slashed once more at its feet. It was Shade and Serpix!
Howling in pain, the trent loosened its grip on ShadowGeneral and Gameknight999. General wasted no time and jumped onto the arm of the trent, running up it, he slashed at its arm, causing severe damage. Jumping up towards the face of the face of the trent, he drove his axe into its face and slid down
the trent safely by driving his axe into the bark of the trent to slow his fall. Once he and Gameknight were safely down, the trent fell down on one knee, it’s HP close to zero.
“I thought you were supposed to be powerful!” General laughed! “But now I think regular trees are more powerful!”
“Shut up you idiot, you have no idea what is coming, soon we will engrave our being into your precious vanilla minecraft and the creator will not be able to destroy us this time!”
And with that, he grabbed Serpix, who was still wrapped around him and tugged, diminishing its HP.

The Village

After the battle the rest of the horde swiftly dashed into the jungle. Gameknight and General then began walking to Generals home, along the way General sparked up an annoying conversation every few seconds.
“Can you believe that we are actually in Minecraft!” General said happily on Shades back, “This is a dream come true!”
“Scotty,” Gameknight began, but then corrected it to General. “Listen, this is no joke. I don’t know what happens if you die. You could respawn, wake up, or die for real!”
“Well, there is a two out of three chance that we won’t die, so I like those odds.” General said happily.”
“By the way, can you believe how real this place looks! It looks like we have the best texture pack installed!”
“Yes, it looks very real, by the way, thank you for saving my life back there.”
“Yeah, funny thing is, Shade and Serpix were the ones who saved you. It was almost as if they sensed you were in danger and came to rescue you. They are the ones you should be thanking.”
“Speaking of them, what are they?” Gameknight asked, which was replied with a glare from Shade.
“Well, they are mobs from my favourite mod, Lycanites Mobs Mod.