Minecraft: Before The Player's Journey

Chapter V - Tragedy

Kris began to straddle the creature's back.
 
Kris: Come on, guys! Take these!
 
Kris throws an item at everyone.
 
Brennen: It's a warped fungus on a stick? Oh, I get it! Haha! Come here, you!
 
Brennen also sat on the creature that walks on lava.
 
Frieren: Brennen, be careful!
 
Frieren, Eren, and Stein also ride the creature.
 
Brennen: Kris, what should we name this creature?
 
Kris: Well, it likes to be straddled on top of us, and I think I want to call this mob "The Strider.".
 
Stein: This is like riding a pig, but dangerous!
 
Eren: I'll lead the way to the fortress. Now let's go!
 
Everyone rides on their striders and heads back home. As they travel, they see some beautiful scenery in the Nether.
 
Frieren: Even though this place looks like the underworld, it sure does look nice, doesn't it, Kris?
 
Kris: Yeah, it does.
 
They all arrived at the fortress safely and climbed up.
 
Frieren: We are back, Your Majesty.
 
King Alexander: That's wonderful, Frieren.
 
As the king and Frieren talked, Frieren, heard some blazing fire noises at the lab.
 
Frieren: What was that in the lab?
 
King Alexander: Oh, it's just Stark experimenting with an artificial mob that will protect this fortress.
 
Stark: Okay, I'm finished! I call this artificial mob the Blaze! I even built a spawner for it, and its rod can make potions easier than brewing them in a pot.
 
Frieren: It's rod can be used for making potions easier? Well, then, I'm joining your experiments and making new potions.
 
Stark and Frieren go to the lab to create new potions. One of the guards approaches the king.
 
Guard 1: Your Majesty!
 
King Alexander: What happened? Is there something wrong? You looked so worried.
 
Guard 1: One of the pigs looks different and attacks us for no reason!
 
King Alexander: A different kind of pig? I'll go and investigate it.
 
The king went to the pen of the fortress and noticed a different hog.
 
King Alexander: It must've been fed up with different kinds of food. What food did you feed to the pigs?
 
Guard 1: We fed them crimson fungi, your majesty.
 
King Alexander: I guess I have to build a bastion. I'll check the storage to see if we have enough materials to build with it.
 
The king went to the storage of the fortress and noticed Eren and Brennen unloading new blocks.
 
King Alexander: What blocks have you two collected?
 
Brennen: We found blackstone, basalt, and magma blocks, your majesty.
 
King Alexander: I'm familiar with the magma blocks, and I think I could use these new blocks for a bastion.
 
The king's men began to build a bastion for the pigs and settlement, while the king went through the Overworld and spread the word that there was a second dimension. Rumors became true, and all of the kingdoms began to build their fortresses, bastions, and a Nether portal checkpoint. After all, kingdoms have built their structures in the Nether. A mysterious rumor tells the people that if they eat the pig being fed by Nether's resources, it can mutate them and turn them into wild beasts.
 
King Alexander's diet is often normal food from the Overworld, and he didn't want to try the Nether's undoubtedly delicious food, including that of the five heroes. While the king's men loved the taste of the pigs being fed with nether warts and crimson fungi.
Until one day, the men who were guarding the bastions suddenly mutated. Their faces turned into pigs with large tusks, their hands and feet turned into hooves, they became greedy for gold and treasures, and they lost their humanity.
 
King Alexander realized the problem: his men, including other king's men, became "Piglins." As time went on, the bodies of the Piglins began to rot each day, turning them into "Zombified Piglins." The people who turned Piglins began attacking anyone who didn't wear gold armor and attacking the Hoglins, who were pigs that were fed with nether warts and crimson fungi. Hoglin can also turn into "Zoglin," similar to a piglin turning into its zombified form.
 
One day, Kris decided to go alone to the bastion's stables to butcher some pigs. Kris didn't hear the news that piglins and hoglins attacked humans. After he arrived at the stables of the bastion, he looked confused as to why there were humanoid pigs and large wild nether boars.
 
Kris: Okay, but what is going on here? What are these mobs?
 
The Piglins heard the voice of Kris and began to attack him. Kris runs for his life so he won't get killed by a hoard of piglins. He finally made it to the fortress's perimeter and shouted for help.
 
Kris: HELP ME!! PLEASE!! FATHER!! HELP ME!!
 
King Alexander saw his son running towards the gates of the fortress while being chased by a hoard of piglins.
 
King Alexander: KRIS! MY SON! GUARDS OPEN THE GATES!! My son is in danger!!
 
The guards opened the gates, but it was too late. King Alexander watches his son being slayed by the Piglins. He broke down in tears and was filled with rage at the Piglins. The king unsheathed his sword, slayed all the piglins, covered his clothes with blood, and went to his son. He looked at his son's dead body being absorbed by the netherrack, turning it into soul sand, and his skeleton turned from light and ivory to dark and withered.
 
King Alexander: This is all my fault!
 
King Alexander shed his tears on his son's body and collected his soul sand and his withered skeleton skull. Then he went back to the overworld and announced to the kingdom that his son was gone. Many people broke down in tears upon hearing that the king's only heir was gone. The king couldn't bear that his son had died, but suddenly he had an idea. He went to the surface, went to Stark's lab, and told him his idea.
 
Stark: My condolences that your son died, your majesty. Would you like to have a cup of tea just to calm your nerves?
 
King Alexander: No, thank you, Stark.
 
Stark: It must've been so hard that your only son died.
 
King Alexander: Yeah, you're right. I didn't focus on my son's safety a lot compared to what I did before my wife died.
 
Stark: Sire, how did your wife die? If you don't want to answer it, I'm okay with it.
 
King Alexander: You see, my wife died to a mysterious mob that exploded.
 
Stark: Wait, a mob that explodes? We may not know that mob, but I think it exists here in this world.
 
King Alexander: Stark, there's something on my mind that had me thinking about my mind lately.
 
Stark: What could it be, your majesty?
 
King Alexander: I want to revive my son.

To be continued.