iii - Past is him

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*The Next Day*

– Nate –

I was exhausted from my mining work earlier... well, y'know that I'm a hardworking guy.
As I went home, I counted all of what I have found on that wet cavern, counting them excitedly. Uh-huh, twelve diamonds, a couple of gold... ah no, scratch that, dozens of them, seven emeralds, fifty-six coals, and... yep, fifty irons. And... wait! Thirty-three lapis lazuli? And... again, dozens of redstones.

Typical... if you ask me.

I then put them away in my spared chest under my bed... yep, it's just I don't want 'em to be sneaked okay?
I knocked my black bed off the way that's blocking my double treasure chest on the floor.

Adding another twelve diamonds makes fifty-four, and so is adding seven emeralds makes sixty-four and twelve of them...

Oh...

I realised I've got too many gold's! Three stacks of them... huh, I'll just surrender the other sixty-four to the blacksmith tomorrow I guess.

Ugh, five stacks of lapis makes me sick... what do I do with them? All I know was they're just used to be as an enchantment, right?
And... jeez... more redstone? I am not an engineer! Why do I keep getting 'em?

Doesn't matter... I'll just go to bed... I sensed that there are no zombies around and so, I am not even starving!

So, I put my bed back into place and at the same time I hop on and go sleeping.

However, something odd just happened. In Minecraft, when you jump into the bed, you're supposed to getting a night sleep, right?
But in my case, I feel that I'm all awake and somehow, sleeping in that black bed makes me travel to a different kind of world or dimension? Or whatever is this lava-face is called...

I was standing on a red block, well, an odd red-block. Fungus everywhere with the colour of crimson red and cyan blue, red odd vines, skies are replaced with red blocks that looks like mirroring this platform on where I was standing on, some light-blocks that looks like glass, enlighten by the colour of golden-yellow, some other kind of red blocks connecting from the ceiling until to the deepest surface, and... Blue and red fires ...seriously?

I kneeled and touched the ground or the block on where I was standing on, dusty and mushy... ew...

...wait, this is familiar!

I think I have kind of seen this block before... wait, where do I...?

Oh, yes! *Snapped both of my fingers* It was in high school! In the biodiversity class! Well, this was called... um... what was that again?

It was something like saying... 'Nather'...

Natherbrick? No. Natherfrack? Definitely not...

Oh! It was called Netherrack!

I looked around in amusement, because I remember my professor said, "Wherever there's a netherrack, it's called Nether."

...and so I think... I was in the Nether!

It takes time to sink into my head that I was in a hell-like dimension. I always heard that Nether was built by Notch's brother which people do not speak his name, you-know-who is the one who built this place on his own, lava's... netherracks... But this is terrifying though, I heard that people who was sent to the Nether didn't came home alive, instead they always arrive at home with their inventories and not with their corpses, and in Notch's law, everyone who died would have not leave a trace except for their inventories...

Oh dear, am I going to die here? Why am I sent here? What am I doing here?

That's when I heard an odd cry, like a baby... but different kind of baby. This sound grew louder from my left ear, and so, I looked at my left and saw this odd flying creature...
It was greyish-white, eyes are bleeding, and it has tentacles looking like one of squids... and suddenly it just releases some... I don't know... fireballs?

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