The Tall Ones

Based off of "11" by C418

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The sun set on yet another short day. I hurried back to my house as fast as I could, wading through the river that separated the jungle from the plains, where my wooden house and warm bed sat. Darkness fell as I opened the oaken doors, depositing the iron, gold, and coal I had found earlier in my mine earlier into the chests flanking my crafting tables and furnaces. I smiled over at my dog, Sea, who had decided to stay at home today, sleeping on her bed.

 "She must've gone hunting today," I thought, chuckling. 

As I walked upstairs to my bed, I saw something tall and dark near the jungle. "Strange," I thought, "nothing like that had ever come out at night time..."

Unless it was something new from the depths.

I burst out of the doors, sword in hand, decked in my black-dyed leather armour that I used for my night time hunts. I saw the tall, black creature up ahead. I fell to the ground, and began crawling towards the creature.

It suddenly turned, and I froze. It had large, purple eyes, which glowed in the darkness. Its body was short, with long arms and legs, and it had otherworldly designs all over it. It gurgled, and then picked up a piece of dirt, looking at it like a child would an ingot of gold.

I stood, staring at the creature's incredible purple eyes. The creature turned sharply, and a horrific noise erupted inside my head, causing me to clamp my eyes shut and clench my hands over my ears. I stumbled backwards, and ran as fast as possible back to my house. My foot caught on a rock and I fell, my body slamming into the cold, hard stone of the cave. I could hear the creature coming after me, and scrambled to my feet, losing myself in the winding tunnels.

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My pickaxe felt heavy in my hands as I swung it, breaking through the rock before me. The creature had followed me down, its sounds of agitation echoing and shaking the cave tunnel walls. I broke into the stone, and heard a noise behind me. I froze, and slowly turned around. There the creature stood, its face livid with ferocity.

I screamed, and broke through the rock, revealing the dirt behind it, and pulled out my spade to dig out to the warm sun. A freezing chill came over my body, and my vision began to go fuzzy. I felt my body go limp, and the last thing I saw was a pair of glowing purple eyes.