Chicken droppings - part 1

== Notes: This is not real. I made this up. The image is a photoshopped image of a Minecraft chicken. This is my first pasta. Enjoy! I deliberately included cliches for the sake of the storyline. Do not criticise me. The nature of the entity will be revealed in part 2. I am Australian, so I spelt the words differently to how you may expect. Please don't criticise (not criticize) me for my spelling. ==
Chicken droppings. What do they mean to people? Crap. Fish food. People trying to disguise that they mean chicken poop when saying it. Or, as my brother so kindly puts it, “The other eggs”. I can barely hear that phrase without panicking now, for reasons which will soon become clear. For me, they mean a long-lost friend, and yet a mystery which traumatises me even today, five years later. So I am now telling my story.
It started on the 4th of August, 2019. I was playing Minecraft: Java Edition, a game which I enjoyed very much, with my friends. I was at my chicken farm, breeding chickens, when I didn't pick up an egg from the chickens. Instead, I picked up an item which was called "chicken droppings". This confused me, as I had no mods installed. Confused, I tried to use the item. It worked just like a normal egg, so I went on normally. On the 7th of August, I logged back onto the world. I decided to check on my farm again, but something startled me. The baby chicken which I had hatched from the chicken droppings was name tagged "Help Me". I was confused, but put it down to a prank by one of my friends. I responded by setting up a bamboo forest around the friend who I thought was pranking me's house. When I went back to my chicken farm, the nametag had been changed to "Before it's too late", while two other chickens, probably the parents, had the nametags "Help" and "You must". I rolled my eyes and continued. For a while, events continued in the same way, but on the 23rd, the textures of the chickens started to glitch. Dropping, as I now called the chicken I had hatched, was switching colours in a random way very quickly. The other two chickens ended up randomly rotating, all of which I put down to a glitch in the code for the mod I suspected my friends had downloaded as a troll, once again not realising the darker truth. Two days later, every chicken in the farm, with the exception of the glitched chickens, disappeared, leaving behind only feathers and raw chicken. One of these items was named, in a blood-red colour, "It is too late". I quickly ran to a pool of lava and dropped it in. After walking away, I later checked my inventory, and the same feather had reappeared in a blank slot in my inventory. I hurried to the farm, and killed Dropping's parents in a panic. However, when I tried to kill Dropping, a totem of undying effect appeared repeatedly. Then, when I gave up, I suddenly heard a small sound. It said "You work with them, don't you? You will see their cruelty soon." I panicked and logged off as soon as I could. After that, it was two weeks before I logged back on. As soon as I logged back on, I ran off and started mining. When I left the mine though, there was a sign at my house. It said "THANK YOU NOW LEAVE" in multiple flashing colours. I was startled, and I ran to my friend's base. I begged him to help, even offering a totem of undying, but he said that I was just delusional. I got the same response from my other friends. I went to my base in panic, where I heard the same squeaky voice as before, this time saying "I see you have realised your mistake, but nothing can be done. Farewell." Once again, I panicked and stayed off the server, planning to never go on there again. In this, I was thwarted by my friend's birthday; she had decided to have a birthday party on the server. I nearly had a mental breakdown upon hearing this, but I had to respect my friend's wishes. And so, on the 19th of September, I logged on to that server one last time. For my sanity's sake, I brought Dropping along with me. It seemed like Dropping was staying as close to me as possible, so I stopped using seeds. He kept following me. By now, he had turned a completely beige colour, and had stopped colour glitching. For some reason, he appeared just like a normal chicken to my friends. It was an ice boat race, so I brought Dropping on my boat, and everything seemed normal until the ice turned green. Dropping's voice came through shortly afterward, saying "We have 1 hour left. This is bad.". By now I knew to listen to Dropping, so I understood that it was bad. We managed to come first in the boating race. The prize was a dragon egg. "Normally I'd be happy for you, but this is bad.". Dropping's voice interrupted my thoughts. "45 minutes left.". Next, we had a parkour race. Dropping stayed close to me the whole time, mimicking my jumps. Even the stack of diamonds that was the prize was a horror for me now. This was made worse by the parkour course starting to change colours. I lost due to my panic. Next, we had a hide-and-seek match, which took a while. After the match, I had almost forgotten about the amount of time we had left, until Dropping sharply said "Ten minutes. Goodbye." The birthday cake was the final part of the party, but in my mind, it took forever. The cake texture flipped upside down, and when I had my cake, it depleted hunger instead of restoring it. Dropping informed me that we only had five minutes. For the end, there was a "pinata". Rather, a sheep hanging on a lead suspended from a fence that we beat with a stick. Suddenly, I heard Dropping's panicked voice. "Thirty seconds. I'm glad I got to know you." By now, the glitches were starting to spread to everything, and I started panicking. I quickly made the decision to give all of my items to my friends. I was counting down while I did it. Ten. Nine. The server was lagging now. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. With this time left, I managed to blurt out "Goodbye, Dropping.". Four. Three. Dropping turned toward me and then responded by saying "Goodbye, Friend.". Two. One. And then, the screen became an image, though I cannot remember what it was. Upon seeing this, I blacked out.Five days later, I woke up. I was in hospital. I had collapsed from some sort of shock. My mind was foggy, but I was still traumatised from something. I am still in therapy today. And as for that laptop, it overheated. It is in a junkyard now. I have not played Minecraft since, and I do not want to. For me, it is too traumatic, for it brings back memories of my friend. One whom I truly cared for. His name was Dropping.
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