The Skulk Lurker

I was on my Minecraft world, mining. As I endlessly clawed away at the tough deepslate with my janky iron pickaxe, I began to see speckles of black riddled in the deepslate. The more I mined, the more of the black moss-like substance began to appear. After a while, the deepslate was gone and there was only this strange black moss. Suddenly, as I was excavating the growth, it opened into an eerily dark cave. The walls were lined with growing mushrooms, and I swore I could see small parasitic worms moving along the shadowy walls.
After I pondered at the terrifying but also amazing sight, it hit me where I was. The infamous skulk caves. I had heard tales, legends and myths about this place from my village, but it mostly seemed like an old folklore tale that got spiraled, like Chinese whispers. How wrong I was. 
The cave was completely straight, and so long and dark I couldn't see 2 feet in front of me. The glowing mushrooms illuminated only a few inches around them, rendering it useless a reliable light source. One of the worms latched onto my face, once I yanked it off, my lantern was out, but there was still light.
I looked up to see where the strange light was coming from, and I saw a pair of odd green dots. I thought it was just the mushrooms again, but this was-brighter? As the dots drew closer, it became clear these were not lights. They were eyes.
I dropped all my stuff and RAN! I turned round to look and was met with this jet black monstrosity. It stood at least 10 feet tall, leading to the need for it to bend down. It had a 4-way splitting mouth, lined with razor sharp teeth. The creature has arms longer than itself, with serrated claws at the end of them. Some of the glowing mushrooms appeared to be sprouting from its back, and finally, it had a small crevice in its chest, with faces of souls in it. I don't remember much after that. It seemed to have a psychological effect on me which seemed to make it appear more powerful than it was. Once I found the opening in the cave wall where I had mined through, I wasted no time running up the mineshaft. I looked back and saw that the creature didn't- or more rather couldn't leave the skulk cave.
When I arrived back at my village, I guess I looked pretty shaken from the incident, as many people offered me various medical drugs, as they thought I was ill. After being bombarded with unnecessary medication, I went to the village elder and informed him about what I saw, and the normally cheerful man degraded down to a nervous wreck. He continuously asked ludicrous questions about the incident, and when I finally got him to calm down, he simply collapsed, and he didn't wake up. When I mentioned the incident to the village cleric, she became extremely nervous, and then just died on the spot. I figured out the hard way that I was cursed. I couldn't live with the guilt of killing a person, let alone 2 people, so I left the town and barricade myself in a dank and rotting wooden hut, suspended on stilts in a swamp. Its the only way I couldn't hurt anyone.
Even though everyday I feel my sanity slowly trickling away into hysteria, I know its for the greater good. I believe that I can one day vanquish that strange creature I saw down that cave, the curse will be lifted and I can return to my family and friends and get the life I desire so much to be mine again. But for now I can only dream of my old past. I didn't even know I would miss my old life of degrading my lungs away in a coal filled cave, but somehow I do. That creature may not be able to leave its cave, but it still found a way to punish me with a fate worse than death....
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