The scream of the end

The usual stories about Minecraft will always go to Herobrine, about
how he lives and he’s a lot more than code. But have you ever wondered
about the Endermen, and whether there are any secrets about them?
Everyone who has played Minecraft is well familiar with them by now, and
 while they can be hard to find in the overworld, many have visited
their home in the End. Of course, they aren’t hostile unless you look at
 them or attack them. For this reason, quite a few people consider them
friendly and like them. Personally, I've always found them creepy and
killed them whenever i could. They are based off of Slender Man, after
all. Well, being as strong as they are, regular players know that if you
 run into one right after you spawn, you run for water. For some reason,
 Notch decided to code them with a fear of water, and whoever thought
anything bad could happen with water, right?

Well, water is the whole reason this mess started. I haven’t even
 attempted to start up my game since then. I was playing on my regular
world, a server that my friends and I had started. We had plenty of
houses built, a seemingly unlimited supply of diamond and gold, and the
Ender Dragon was defeated. There really wasn't much to do in the world
anymore, so you had to get very creative. My friends and I, we were
creative enough, and we understood the game very well. Aaron was our
redstone guy. If you needed anything powered, he found a way to build it
 and make it better than any tutorial could ever tell you. Myself, I
made a majority of the buildings, and even started working on a city. We
 had a few guys who would work on supplies, planting, and harvesting
anything that was needed. Lastly, we had Graham. He did all the magical
stuff. Potions, enchanting, and he had us build him a mob trap so he
could get an outrageous amount of experience whenever he wanted to. Of
course we had the randoms who would join, the occasional troll, and
sometimes we would have someone new join our group as a regular. We had
all fought the Ender Dragon before, and we could do it fairly quick.
Aaron, I, and majority of the group would take out the crystals and
fight the dragon. Graham, however, would stay underground working up
potions for the battle and have the rest do deliveries. He wasn’t too
fond of Endermen either. That’s why he made us bring water buckets to
the End. He stayed in the middle of the water, where the Endermen
couldn’t get him. That’s where I got my whole idea from.

One day when I was had nothing else to do, I decided to get on
the server. It had been about two weeks since the Ender Dragon was
beaten, and we hadn’t really gone to the End since then. We had a little
 trap that was set up with torches and sand that would send anyone who
walked onto it into the End, but it was mostly just to make them panic.
Well I had the great idea of using the End to farm Ender Pearls. I was
planning on using Graham’s idea with the buckets in order to do it, but
on a massive scale. I had every intention on flooding the End. With the
help of an inventory editor and the /fly command, I started. Of course
this was the only time I was using such things, as I made sure our whole
 server was legit. However, I was the only person on, and I figured
everyone would have a good laugh out of the fact that I flooded the home
 of the Endermen. As I started going, a good portion of the floating
island they called home was filling up quickly. You would hear them
panic and teleport away every time they would get splashed, and the
occasional scream from when they decided to go swimming for too long.
It’s amusing how much determination to live a simple computer AI can
give a being. As the rest of the island started to fill up, they became
very crafty on their spawns. Many were going under the island on little
ledges, but as soon as I saw them, they would be swept away from the
water and fall into the Void. I kept going until there was a little
square in the center, and the obsidian platform I spawned in on. They
were pushing each other for what little, precious space they had left,
and one would fall off the platform or into the water every few seconds.
 I made a few more trips around the island, filling up any spots I
missed and finishing off any stragglers that found a comfy spot to sit
in. One had even found a spot buried in the ground, in a four tall
tunnel, until I flooded him out. This all took till about 1 o’clock in
the morning, and I was happy I was able to finish by the night’s end.
After I was sure I had filled every dry spot up, I filled up the square
in the center. Many of the Endermen just swam until you heard the death
scream and they fell, while a few of them managed to teleport to the
platform. I decided to have a little fun, at first flooding the edges
and watching them push each other into the water and off of the level.
This left only four. This just compelled me to get it over with and
flood the center, which I did, causing three of the four to fall off the
 platform. The one remaining Enderman stayed jumping in the center, and
slowly his health was being chipped away. Finally, he fell to the floor
and screamed. But it wasn’t the normal death scream I had grown
accustomed to during my trip. It was glitching. Slowed down. Then it
would start over, skip, and drag out even more. Eventually the rest of
the game took suit, and I was unable to move. The sound repeated itself,
 as did his body falling to the floor, that is, until, “Minecraft has
run out of memory.” Minecraft then crashes, as does Java.

As many people do when something like that happens, I started up
both the server and Minecraft again. I figured it was just a glitch due
to the massive amount of water running and the loot that was on the
ground from the Endermen dying. I put in my IP address in the
multiplayer and click connect. “Error: World not found”. \*\*\*\*, I
thought, as I knew that the crash had corrupted the files. Luckily I
backed up the world right before we fought the dragon. I grabbed my
external, copied over the files, and loaded it right up. Even though I
couldn’t fix all that was lost, I figured I’d go back and fight the
dragon again before bed. Thanks to Graham, I had armor and weapons with
any enchantment possible, as well as potions that would last me years of
 battle. I get over to the portal, jump down the hole, and the End loads
 right up. However, something is wrong. As I look for the Ender Dragon, I
 see nothing in the air. The crystals are on the tower, but no dragon to
 feed off of them. I notice next that the Endermen are gone as well. I
get on the island, walk around a bit, until eventually I’m hit. I look
up and see that the crystals are chaining to what I would presume to be
the dragon. He was invisible. So the world just didn’t load properly. I
save, exit both programs, restart my computer, and get right back into
it. The dragon is there, but the Endermen are still absent. Easier
fight, as I don’t have to worry about looking in the wrong direction and
 having to ward off a \*\*\*\*\*\* off Enderman. 20 minutes later, I shoot the
 last arrow into the dragon and he floats in the air, and the egg drops
onto the fountain. I run over there so I can get out of the End, but
another strange occurrence. The End portal that usually fills the
fountain is now just the same texture as water. A bucket wouldn’t pick
it up like normal water though. This just led me to think my .jar file
was corrupted, and I hop in. Eventually it functions just as the normal
End portal would, except I hear the death scream to the Enderman again.
Not just once, but over, and over, and over. The portal finally works,
but it isn’t what I expected. Black. Then, “Minecraft has run out of
memory.”

I reinstall all the files, including the world for another time,
and the game starts up without a hitch. I get back to the portal and hop
 in. This time, it is not the End that awaits me. Instead, it seems like
 an endless room. I can still see, but it’s just a faint glow around me.
 I walk forward, thinking it could be the End and something like a
potion of blindness is stopping me from seeing it. The faint globe of
light is all I can see, and the only source of light in my room as well.
 The platform doesn't end in a few blocks though, and the obsidian
continues, shattering my hopes of being in the End. The obsidian floor
keeps going in all directions, so I follow a straight line. I walk, and
the sound start. My footsteps first, but then the sound of blocks being
placed. As I go forward the faint sound of Enderman begins, and
increases. First, just the normal grunts. Then, they sound as if they
are agitated. The sounds become much more frequent. It gets louder as if
 there is a whole hoard chasing me but they refuse to catch me. I start
to see the purple pixels as if they are teleporting themselves and me.
Then it stops. A few seconds and steps later, one comes flying at the
screen, and the death scream goes at full volume. This makes me
literally jump and let go of the keyboard and mouse. Silence. It doesn’t
 start up again until I move the mouse. One more sound, a light grunt,
as if they are letting me know they are in the darkness, just out of my
sight. I go forward again, clicking my mouse, hoping to hit one of them,
 or a wall, or anything. The pattern starts over, the sounds, the
pixels, and the scare. I didn’t stop moving though, and neither did
they. It continues. Escape, alt+f4, they don’t have any function.
Unplugging the computer is out of the question, as I refuse to risk my
equipment. I keep going, hoping it ends. After about three minutes of
the cycle, it does. I’m teleported one last time, unable to move. The
Enderman on the screen stares straight into my eyes. Water surrounds my
character, and after the 20 seconds, he begins to drown. “You are dead.”
 In the background, the Enderman still looks with his stoic appearance,
not even flinching as much as an inch. Five seconds later, the computer
powers down without warning, and I’m left in the dark.

The next day, I send my friend the files for the world. They play
 the game without any flaws, gone to the End and even got a few pearls. I
 refuse to. I don’t even have the files on my computer anymore. Did a
complete wipe of the hard drive. Minecraft became more than a game that
night. It’s a lot more than a simple AI controlling a few entities.
Definitely more than a glitch. These games and entities that form on our
 fears, they do that and much more. It’s a lot more than just simple
coding now. The Endermen, they do hold a grudge. They have a fear, and
it is not something to taunt them with. They are aware, and they will
make sure you become well aware of them and their presence.

Credit To – The Magic Merker (Not me, all I did was censor bad language)