The Devouring

This is a story about an entity that will appear rarely in any sort of Minecraft world. It is not immediately hostile, but will slowly progress to a point where it will actively hunt down any players online, killing them and devouring any organic/food items within their inventory. It is also capable of altering farms, seemingly making the crops disappear and leaving only the wool, leather and feathers of your animals. However, it is possible to make an ally out of this entity by allowing it free kills on your animal farm. This story follows someone who did just that.
I was playing on one of my worlds, Bedrock Edition. All I really did in this particular world was grow crops, check on my bees every now and then, breed animals, all that. My base was a small cave underneath powder snow, which I thought would do a decent job of protecting me from enemies. They fall in while chasing me(I made sure to always have leather boots on, enabling me safe travel across the snow) and slowly die to hypothermia. The powder snow also made it so I couldn't have my farm up there as the animals would die, so they were down the mountain. I could never lose track of the entrance because it was at a naturally occurring two-block deep dip in the snow on the mountain. Just jump in and crouch, and I'm home. One of the more important points in this story is Vanta, a glitched horse I found and tamed that was a solid, untextured black. You'll see why in a bit.
One day, I was walking down by my farm when I noticed something off- all my crops had vanished, and half my cows were dead. Only the leather remained. I didn't mind the cows or crops, as I raised the cows for leather anyways and it's not like I exclusively ate bread, but it was still strange. I had some wheat on hand so I bred the remaining cows and broke grass nearby to get more seeds. I then started back up the mountain, as my leather boots were getting low on durability and I could use the leather to make new ones. Afterwards, I hopped on Vanta to check on the bees I was getting honey from. The hives were empty, despite me having seen them full earlier but not getting the honey because I didn't have a bottle on hand. I stood there for a bit, wondering if the bees were dead as well, but they eventually popped out alive and buzzing. Weird but at least they aren't dead.
These odd happenings continued for several ingame days, constantly when I left my farms alone the animals would be dead and the crops would vanish. It got frustrating after a while. But I eventually found out what was causing this.
I was riding Vanta again, but needed to check something on my phone unrelated to the incidents. When I looked back... there it was. A humanoid character that was a dark grey with teeth in the middle of their head, and more teeth going down the torso, all lined up vertically. It seemed to be circling me and Vanta, as if confused. I moved slightly away, and the thing backed up. It then placed a sign down, facing me, and seemed to be writing on it. It moved behind the sign, which now said...
"Whats wrong with them?" The thing then punched towards the ground by Vanta. Fair. I wasnt sure if it would understand the gestures I was about to make to try and communicate what I needed to do but it was worth a shot. I could craft a crafting table but not a sign, so I did so and placed it down, punched towards it and then the sign this entity had placed, then some nearby trees and crouched twice. It stares at me for a few seconds, before doing a sort of nod. I go over to the trees, getting enough wood, and going back to the crafting table and making a few signs. I place one down to explain that Vanta was just glitched like that.
For a few minutes we back and forth'd through signs, it just seemed curious. It told me that it was called The Devouring, and was... filled with an unending hunger? That was why it kept killing all my animals(except the bees) and stealing my crops, and the honey. I told it that I wouldn't mind it if they killed SOME of the animals, at least two animals left would be fine. And a few tiles of crops was fine, as long as they put the seeds somewhere. I just needed the ability to make more of the food sources they were using, and it could work. It nodded in response to this, before walking away.
For the next few ingame days, that was what happened. The Devouring would come and kill all but two of each my animals, would leave a few tiles and put the seeds in a retextured barrel that was black with white bindings, and only occasionally took the honey. Vanta was always left alone, and sometimes I could see the Devouring looking at him for several minutes. Apparently even after I got offline the Devouring kept going like normal. Sometimes I just chatted with it through signs.
One day, I randomly checked my avatar customization inventory and found an unusual item in the gloves section. Titled "The Devouring's Gift", it looked like a set of teeth clamped over the upper half of the right arm. Interesting.
Category:Creepypasta
Category:Entities
Category:Supernatural
Category:Short Pastas