"VOID" - An Unforgettable Story

== Disclaimer ==
Hello, this is Starfall again. Third official page I made, and the second story. Again, please don't change the main storyline or edit anything that may bend the story. Please feel free to comment about any possible changes I can make, though. Thank you!
== The Story ==
Recently, one of my friends asked me to come online to a Minecraft server he’d made. Since I had an addiction to playing Minecraft I obviously agreed to play. I thought this was just going to be another let's play and we were going to have fun and all but…
We never thought of the worst that this world would give us.
After I joined the world we immediately started to do what any other gamer in the world would do: chop wood, get stone and ores, upgrade our tools and so on. We were talking via Discord. We also found a village and dungeon on day one so I guess we just got lucky for that.
It was almost nightfall and we already traveled far from spawn. We were somehow stupid enough to not get some beds from the village, plus, dying when you were far from spawn did not sound like a good idea. So we built a small dirt hut lit by a single torch to wait the night out. Having placed a glowing furnace and our old friend, the crafting table, we thought we were all good for the night until it's all over. We started to discuss some plans for day two and to find diamonds soon. 
Just when my friend was crafting a chest to store our resources for the night, I saw a skeleton nearby turn pitch black and stop moving. Completely. I was confused. I pulled my friend aside from crafting and asked him if that was a game mechanic or something random. He looked out the door and told me that it was not and assured me that it was only a glitch, or tried to. I could hear some uneasiness in his voice since it's not every day a mob’s AI stops operating without any player commands. Plus, this one is pitch black. Do skeletons do this?
My friend is the type of person who isn't afraid to pursue something that is unknown to them. That was supposed to be a positive trait but I don’t see how doing that is ever going to be good so I am the polar opposite of him. So of course, naturally, he’d burst out of the hut toward the defective skeleton and I would yell at him to come back or else and that stuff. He did not, of course. After he took a good look at the thing he proceeded to spin his avatar’s head all around to check the ambient terrain. Unsurprisingly, all other mobs, whether they are hostile or not, flashed black and froze instantly. They weren’t frozen in motion (which was kind of disappointing, how cool would it be to see a chicken freeze midair) but immediately changed back to their default form and turned north. Just all of them. But this was only the beginning.
For good measure, my friend tried punching the mobs but they still won’t move. They won’t even turn red when they got hit! This was really strange. At this point, we knew this couldn’t be a glitch. There was something, or someone working on this server that wasn’t us. I hit enter to see who was online, and no one except us were supposed to be. How was any of this happening? We had no idea. While me and my friend were clamoring over what the hell was going on, the surrounding blocks of the skeleton that we first found started to turn pitch black. It wasn't only those though, because the darkness started to spread like an uncontrollable plague. Me and my friend did not need a second's notice because our instinct told us to run. We quickly grabbed our things from the hut and burst away from the ever spreading dark. But little did we know that this corrupted black would spread faster and faster, like the void closing in on you when you fall from the edge of a world.
Me and my friend were still exclaiming in horror about what we saw. Every mob that we passed by was also black and eerily facing the same direction, but the creepy “void” (as we called it) was not pouring out from them. We tried logging off of the server but the quit button disappeared which made us stay locked into our world. Also, shutting the computer down didn’t work either because the shutdown button didn’t respond. It has been about ten minutes already since we started to run but the night still won’t end. Since the void wasn’t seeming to be any close to us my friend looked back and told me that the void just won’t stop. Whatever this thing that’s causing this to happen obviously didn’t want us or this world to exist within Minecraft… or really?
I was still in the Minecraft world, desperately trying to escape this ominous corruption when I realized that I hadn’t heard anything from my friend since he looked back to check how the void was doing. I spoke over Discord to see if he still sees anything but oddly enough, he wasn’t on the call. I went over to where my friend had been, only to see his avatar being entirely black. I was shocked. The void was already touching him from when he went back. I checked the server list, but no one except I was online. I immediately tried to contact my friend in all other ways possible, but to no avail. What has this “void” done?
I was scared and confused. But I knew that just standing and staring wasn’t going to help in any way so I turned around, my reflexes ready to snap the w button just when I faced the opposing direction… if I hadn’t seen a pitch black player with corrupt purple pixels scattered unevenly all around it. I jumped back and yelped in horror just as this creature started to type something in the chat:
“Krz duh brx vwloo qrw fruuxswhg? Zhoo, grhvq’w pdwwhu. L vkdoo ilqlvk wkh mre pbvhoi. Glh, kxpdq.”
It typed all this gibberish into the chat that I didn’t understand. It closed in on me and hit me once with a sword as dark as obsidian…
My game suddenly crashed. The crash log also displayed some gibberish:
“Brxu odvw krxu kdv vsrnhq. Wlph kdv frph, kxpdq. Jrrgebh.
YRLG”
I immediately exited out of the window (this time it worked!) but I was immediately confronted with all of my files and programs deleted except the trash bin and Minecraft. My screensaver also changed into a solid black background that somehow made everything scary. Without my command, Minecraft also instantly deleted itself. Now this was terrifying. Until then, I didn’t believe in any Minecraft Creepypasta shit but I knew this day would change it all. They existed. Well at least this one did.
I lingered around my main computer database for about half an hour to try to retrieve my files. I couldn’t find all of them, but some came back. After I decided to call it a day and go to sleep because it was already 1 AM, but something interrupted this attempt.
My computer started to type out words of its own on a windows command prompt-like screen.
“L dp zdlwlqj iru brxu uhwxuq, Qkbot. Orrn dw wklv frpsxwhu ri brxuv. Lw orrnv dv gdun dv wkh yrlg!”
Another sentence of gibberish. I desperately scorched my thoughts in hopes of finding something that may be able to decrypt this code. Then realization struck me. Ceasar cipher, I thought, and shook my head as I told myself how stupid was I. Just as I did this though, again, something came up on the screen:
“Kxk. Brx duh d fohyhu jxb. Pdbeh brx gr kdyh vrph vnloov diwhu doo.”
I figured since I never had Minecraft installed on my iPad I could decode it on the web, and I entered the codes as I saw the results. I kept a log of what the chat said on my notebook so I took it out and started decrypting immediately.
First one: How are you still not corrupted? Well, doesn’t matter. I shall finish the job myself. Die, human.
Second (the crash log): Your last hour has spoken. Time has come, human. Goodbye.
VOID
Third (on the cmd):I am waiting for your return, Nhylq. Look at this computer of yours. It looks as dark as the void!
(The gibberish there somehow couldn’t decode. I have no idea what that means.)
Fourth (the last): Huh. You are a clever guy. Maybe you do have some skills after all.
The last one caught me off guard. Throughout the entire process of even getting the idea of this being code. I had not spoken out loud. I had only merely thought of these in my mind. So how did this “void” or whatever it is know that I am decoding? Is it watching me?? Or can it do more than I know…???
And then, the last message. This time, I could literally hear it as clear as a person talking next to me. But no one was supposed to be here. This made me freeze in absolute terror of this thing’s true powers. How did I hear it? I still don’t know to this day…
“Okay kid, you won this time, but you’ll never beat me now!”
Suddenly the window behind me shattered. A second later, I felt a sudden surge of pain thrust through my body. I thought it was just me but the blood on the carpet proved this wrong. It was no one else’s, as nobody except I was there. I have no idea how this happened. And I probably never will. And just as what felt like another slice of a knife go through my shoulder, everything went black. 
== The Aftermath ==
I woke up in a hospital on a bed in a dull, white room. I saw my other friend look down at me wearing a relieved expression. However, this was not the friend I had played Minecraft on that day with. She quickly caught me up on everything:
According to her, my neighbor was coming to visit my house to give me some of his home-made brownies but I wouldn’t come out no matter how long he waited. He figured I was out of home to do something but came around the back to check things out anyhow, only to find the window glass shattered and my bloody body on the desk with the cmd screen on my computer with no text. There was absolutely no sign of any knives or anything that can even be of any harm to me. There wasn’t even a big enough piece of shattered glass! According to my neighbor, it looked as though the window was made out of powder. My neighbor immediately called the ambulance and police to come and take me away and investigate this further. 
While the ambulance took me to the local hospital the police closed my house down to look into this case. They couldn’t find any evidence of anyone else being there during the crime or after. I knew the authorities won’t take any crap of any kind from me so when they come for questioning, I decided I’ll keep quiet. 
As for my computer, the second the police put their hands on it, the cmd screen closed and the computer just shut down. Despite all their best efforts to put it back on again, the PC just won’t turn on. How strange…
Finally, about my friend. I haven’t heard from him in a long time, and the next time I went to visit, he wouldn’t be there. The only thing you can see from the window is the word “‘void’ was here” on his room’s wall written in blood red. Or it could be actual blood… and unfortunately, this was proven true very soon. The police confirmed his death as soon as they found his cold corpse on the ground of his room. They still can’t give a logical explanation to how or why he died, but nevertheless, this is the case.
Since this encounter of “void”, the Minecraft community would continue to be affected by this entity in-game but never in real life. They also never reported seeing this entity again, and with each progressing year the victims of “void” were reducing in number. And today, no more “void” sightings or anything else paranormal within or without Minecraft are reported, and people see these as nothing but hoaxes and lies. It is as if they all disappeared...
THE END
Category:Entities
Category:Long Pastas
Category:Creepypasta
Category:Supernatural
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