Tale of the Creeper

Howard is a 17 year old junior in high school, who has a passion for Minecraft. Like most of us he has spent a countless number of hours creating and modding his Minecraft into the world he wants. One day he decides to create a new world without any mods to see how long he can last while playing in the mode hardcore. So he spawns in like usual, right away gathering wood and supplies to build his home.
After about an hour or so Howard has a basic house with everything he needs to survive the first night. His plan is to sleep through the following nights as much as he possibly can. As the first night approached Howard went into his small, basic and somewhat safe home. Slowly he puts away the spare items he collected during the day. Then a walk over to his bed and the game slowly fades to black.
Meanwhile Howard himself is slowly drifting into a deep sleep at his computer desk. Once some time passes he awakes and looks at his computer. Minecraft is still open, but something was different about it. The house walls seemed to have darkened and something was oozing from the cracks of the planks. Howard noticed the ooze was very viscous and a strange color he had never seen before. He turned and looked at the door when he heard something that sounded like footsteps. With this not being out of the ordinary he assumed it was just a regular mob. As soon as he opened the door things immediately changed. Strange music started to play as the screen began to have the same effect as if he was teleporting to the Nether. When it finally stopped this weird effect, he was in a dark room that had one source of light in the distance. Standing in the light seemed to be a creeper just staring at him.
Howard's first reaction, like most, is to go and kill it, but as he tries to move he realizes that he cannot. He looks down to the bottom left corner of the screen. In the chat box he noticed that the creeper seemed to be talking to him.
"Listen." was the first thing the creeper said.
"Do you know what I am?" says the creeper.
"You're a creeper." replies Howard.
"Wrong .......... I am much more than that."
"You can't believe everything you see."
Howard is frightened by the response he is given. For about the next five minutes he waits for the creeper to say something else. When finally he sees something in the chat, but this time there is something written in an incoherent language. As he looks at it, words begin to form out of the strange language. By the time he gets to the last word he recognizes the story the creeper has just revealed to him. It was the story of Herobrine. The creeper revealed that Herobrine was truly the dead brother of the creator. Howard assumed the creeper was talking about Notch. Out of morbid curiosity Howard asks the creeper...
"Why are you telling me this?"
The creeper simply replies...
"Life is given and life is taken."
Once he looked up from the chat, the creeper was standing right in front of him. Except the creeper's face was different from what he was used to. It had half of the same face as a creeper, but the other half appeared to be human. Startled he jumped back and heard a sound coming from his speakers. At first it was mumbled and faint. Then it began to get louder and louder. It was as if the creeper was on repeat saying the same thing over and over again "Life is given and life is taken." In a voice that had a rustic and grainy undertone to it, yet still sounding vaguely human.
Suddenly the screen flashes and he has been sent back to his home. Everything was back to the way it was before his first night in the game. Warily he walks outside and notices that it is night time and everything seemed to be normal again. This leads him to believe he was just having a nightmare. Over in the distance he can see a creeper. He approaches it with much given caution. It begins to chase him like a normal creeper. He decides to kill it. The moment he does though, he begins to hear the creeper from earlier. It's saying the same thing again. "Life is given and life is taken." Now this time in a more demonic and ear wrenching tone, with the same portal effect from earlier. It progressively gets louder and more demonic causing Howard to cover his ears. Filled with fear and anger Howard simply shouts "STOP!" To his surprise all noises and effects abruptly end. He finally begins to regain composure when the game begins to fade to black as if he was going to sleep again.
Howard began to become frustrated as he was getting tired of being toyed with. He then appeared in the same dark room only this time he didn't see any sign of the creeper. Howard wrote in the chat...
"I know you are here."
"You are correct." Replies the creeper, once again speaking.
Just when he is ready to reply the creeper suddenly appears in the block right in front of him and says.
"You and I are the same."
"All I wanted to do was play... then HE intervened."
The screen goes black and the creeper whispers... "Now you will share my fate."
Then his Minecraft crashes showing instead of the usual errors and reports, it just says repeatedly Life is given and life is taken. Howard stands up angrily and shouts "I'm done with this!" 
Then suddenly a voice from behind him says... "You are correct."
He then feels a sharp and sudden pain piercing through him. He looks down, only to see a bluish colored blade going through him. The person behind him whispers in his ear
"Why didn't you listen?" As Howard falls to the floor he can only see two white and brightly glowing eyes. The last thing he hears comes from the creeper saying...
"Herobrine......... has returned."
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