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Achievement: The Beginning

•The Beginning

The world was in a horrible state. Everywhere you turn to look, every sound you hear, is the screams of people, and explosions in the distance. A great terror had risen. One that craves death and destruction. There were no official names of this creatures. The only thing the people called it by was what the beast was capable of.

The Wither.

These proud people, these incredibly ignorant people. They knew about this monster's existence. They knew. But they didn't care. The only thing they wanted to do was learn how to cheat death. But it's impossible.

The Wither exists to keep the balance of Minecraft. So no one can live twice, no matter how much grief there is for this person.

It had already been summoned, once before. But it was slain by a Hero who had the ability to do the impossible. She could cheat death. She could "respawn". Since then, however, she has never been seen again. She had disappeared from the world, no one knowing where she had vanished to.

After the first time, all records of the creature were destroyed. Burned away to nothing but ashes. This was to prevent future generations from summoning the monster again. Only witches know about this creature, and how to summon it. But without the ability to build, this information is useless to them.

But now The Wither has been summoned again. And another Hero has been called to destroy it. A Hero similar to the woman before. A Hero who could "respawn". But he had arrived much too late. The people had all fled, fled so deep into the earth. They built strongholds, underground sanctuaries where the Wither will never reach them. Using portal technology that they had learned, they traveled to another dimension. One of eternal darkness. Nothing but strange stone and an empty void that dropped forever. If you fell into this void, you were never seen again. It was named...

The End.

The End was a cruel place. Unfit for any life, save the giant dragon that resides there, known now as the Ender Dragon.

This dragon was pitch black. Shining purple eyes. Grey wings with black scales around the edges. This terrible dragon ruled it's world with an iron fist. It would randomly swoop down to the ground level, destroying the Endstone and knocking anyone or anything into the void below.

The people needed to escape again. But they could not. There was no exit back to the world they came from. No escape this time. They constructed a second portal. A smaller one that leads to a smaller piece of land within The End. The dragon did not travel there. They were safe. They constructed cities there. Well, one city. From now on, this was their home.

Over time, generation after generation, these ancient builders began evolving. Their new diet now consisted of a strange fruit, the Chorus Fruit. They grew on Chorus trees, far out of regular human reach. The people's arms and legs had to grow. Taller. Longer. And that is what happened. Only those with the greater height and longer arms had taken over the genetic pool, causing the people to change as well. Consistent consumption of this fruit gave these people the power to teleport to random locations. They could still hold blocks, and place them. But only a few. They were barely recognizable. They were almost...alien.

These people soon became known as Endermen. Monsters that appear and disappear, leaving only a puff of purple smoke behind. They were not to be messed with. They are neutral to the other monsters of the outside world, as they learned that the zombies and skeletons (creatures that arose after The Wither was destroyed) would not attack them anymore. Now they wander. Picking up dirt and sand blocks. Placing them down at random.

Now is the time for a Hero. To free the Endermen from the tyranny of their draconic overlord. This Hero is arriving.