Glitches and Gods

Summoning a Hero

A young newbie was playing on the Minecraft 360 version. She didn't have X-Box live, so she didn't have to worry about her world being destroyed. She was a lonely teenager who only got along with the staff at school. Her mother kept badgering her for grades, scholarships, and to be social, but the poor girl's mind wasn't strong enough for all of that. At least, that's how it seemed. Dawn Martin was a creative girl who held entire worlds and characters in her head. Her mind was so full of creativity that she was barely able to hold any facts from her original reality into her head, or so the shrink she visited weekly said. Frankly, the doctors all thought it was surprising that she was doing as well as she was, and surviving as well as she was in the first place.

Dawn had a 3.1 GPA and a 2nd year college reading level, what she didn't have was an anchor. She needed something for all her mental energy to go to, and because her mind was so filled with worlds, characters, and stories, she wasn't able to concentrate on school as much as her mother wished. Instead, she wrote stories and played video games. One of the most recent games that she played, other than PMD, was Minecraft. Her lack of social skills was due to many things but if she had the money for X-box live, than she'd be a social butterfly on the game. As long as she wasn't in real life, the young lady was able to talk to anyone. In the real world though, Dawn was bullied for her abilities, her looks, and her skills.

Dawn smiled as she found another set of coal. She didn't mind that it wasn't anything for her armor. She liked it all the same. She saw coal as a way to keep a light in her dark world. Dawn kept the game on peaceful, as she was afraid of creepers, skeletons, and the like. She didn't want to get hurt, and she didn't want to hurt them. She didn't even hurt the squids when she ran into one. She ran away from them instead. When she had made her first item out of iron, it had been a set of sheers so that she could collect wool for her bed. Dawn had a simple house next to a mountain cave that she had dug herself. It was really just a shack next to a small tunnel.

As she finished mining the last of the coal, she placed another torch to light her way. She smiled. She was stuck in a "Steve" skin. She didn't have any money to purchase any skins for her player. She didn't mind really. She'd probably get some later on when she went to college next year and got the game on her computer. She was that close. She had been playing the game for only a month now, and already she felt a small bit of pride for having gotten as far as she had.

Dawn was in the middle of mining some simple iron when she noticed it. A glitch. She wasn't used to glitches. They didn't usually show up in a game that couldn't use the internet. "What the?" Her whole television screen blacked out for a minute. When it got back on, Dawn was surprised that her character had finished mining the iron, but now had a different skin on. She pushed a few buttons to get a better look at her character and was shocked to find that her character was no longer "Steve" but was in fact her own design! "Okay.... This is awkward..." She leaned forward to get a closer look, but fell as darkness overtook her eyes and she drifted off.

"Let's see how well you do on my turf, 'Sunrise Warrior'." A dark ominous voice chuckled as it translated her name to its base meaning. "Don't worry though; you're actually going to be doing me a favor. You're going to save my world. You shall have help though, rest assured... welcome to the game, 'Dark Rose', my little hero..." Dawn managed to open her eyes one last time as she heard one of her story characters' name. Dark Rose was her hero character!

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