Minecraft: The Story of Steven Cubex

Chapter 2: Night One

Beta: XxAlty_KingxX

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Steve was running through the dense woods, dodging trees and watching the sun light slowly disappear, the sky growing darker and darker until there was no sunlight. It was almost pitch black now. The only source of light was coming from the moon. It wasn't much for Steve to go by because he kept knocking into the trees. The blows slowly beginning to bruise his shoulders. He was running when suddenly he hit what he thought was another tree harder then usual which made him spin and fall down. Before he could get back up he sees something stumble into the dim moonlight. It looked human but its flesh was rotted. It's eyes looked dead and lifeless. It's mouth gaped wide open, its jaws unhinged. A deep raspy moan escaping its open mouth. It's arms reaching out towards Steve. He stands up as fast as he could and readied his wooden weapon facing the Zombie. His hands were shaking from the horrifying shock of this dead creature. But he knew that this one monster was not going to stop him from reaching his goal. He let out a loud yell and took a massive heavy swing of his wooden sword. The weapon hit it's mark at the side of the Zombie's head. Its head snapped to the right and Steve watched the open wound from the hit on its head start leaking with blood. The Zombie rears its ugly head back towards Steve and goes in for a bite. Steve raised his sword upwards and the Zombie snapped its jagged rotten teeth down onto the wood. He could see the wood splinter under the pressure of the Zombie's teeth. Steve struggled to keep the monster from getting any closer and getting a real bite. The Zombie was still reaching at him. It started to claw at Steve's shoulder and sides. It's nails, digging into Steve's skin, drawing blood. He let out a small cry of pain before planted one of his feet onto the Zombie's chest and pushed as hard as he could. The Zombie stumbles back a few feet, with a loud snap. Steve noticed a few of the Zombie's teeth were still embedded into the wood. The Zombie was lunging at Steve once again. He takes another swing of his sword. Hitting its mark once again. The Zombie's head snaps back again but this time, Steve didn't stop. He strikes again and again until the Zombie falls into a bloody mess. It's head caving in on itself. As soon as the creature stopped moving, 3 green orbs raise out of the Zombie's body and slowly flew into Steve's Toolbar. He could see a small green bar start on the bottom part of the Toolbar bracelet.

Before he could study it and think about the strange green orbs, Steve hears a noise behind him, the crunch of twigs and dead leaves. He turns around to see a skeleton. Except this one was wielding a bow and arrow. It raises its ancient looking arms and prepares its bow and arrow and aimed it at Steve. This one, Steve didn't want to fight. It fires an arrow and it just grazes Steve's cheek and sticks deep into the wood of a tree right behind him. He slowly turns his head to see the arrow still shaking a bit from the shear force of the shot. Steve turns his head back at the Skeleton to see it readying another arrow. With that, Steve starts running again and he can hear the Skeleton begin to chase after him. As he is running, an arrow flies right over his head. And it's not the only one that flies uncomfortably close to Steve. Soon the Skeleton finally hits its intended mark. An arrow flies and hits Steve's left shoulder, piercing right through. Steve let's out a loud cry of pain and stumbled onto his knees. He quickly picks himself up and keep running. Eventually no more arrows are fired and Steve got enough distance away from the Skeleton and lost it. He stopped running through the seemingly endless forest propping himself on a tree; leaning on it with his right shoulder. He was trying to catch his breath as the pain in his left shoulder from the arrow sticking right through it came back. He felt like he needed to get the arrow out. The pain was unbearable. He grabbed the front end of the part that still had some of Steve's fresh blood on the tip of it. He took a couple quick breaths and snaps the top part off. The shake of the snap sent a surge of pain through his shoulder and down his spine. He then reaches over his shoulder with his right hand and slowly pulls the rest of arrow out of his shoulder. The pain made the wound feel like it was pulsating. Steve could feel a steady stream of warm liquids flowing down his left arm and dripping onto the ground from the tips of his fingers. Seconds later, and Steve started to feel dizzy. With so much blood loss, he was starting to get very weaker by the second. With the bit of strength that he had, he reached down, picked up the wooden sword and continued walking through the forest.