Trouble in Minecraft

Note from the author: I would like to say this story is short. It is just an introduction to the series. Much more to come... :)

What happens when Ethan Yelverton's best friend moves to Louisiana with him? He finds magical cokes that give them superpowers of course!

Virtual Adventures: Trouble in Minecraft is a book about two friends who are given powers to zap themself into videos games, the internet, movies, shows, you name it! They are pulled into the popular game Minecraft and greeted by a cloaked stranger... They must learn how to survive in Minecraft once again, but this time its real...

## Introduction

**May 19th, 2020**

Ethan had just finished eating breakfast when his friend Caleb called him. "Yes?" Asked Ethan. "Hey Ethan! Whats it like living in Louisiana?" Caleb asked.

"Hmmm... Like hell?"

"Watch your language boy!"

"Oh wow... Let me think... 'You guys deserve to be put in the bloody pits of hell?"

"I was mad ok?"

"I understand." Said Ethan. "Why did you call exactly?" "Guess what my last birthday present was!" Said Caleb. "Uh... Five nights at Philips whatever number its on?" "No! And its Five Nights at Freddies. My last present was we are moving to Louisiana!" "Oh my god. Near us?" "Right across the street." Said Caleb. "Oh my god. We are gonna play so much Minecraft!" Said Ethan "Or Fortnite..." "Boy its been 3 years! Fortnite is dead! *Dead!*" "Ok ok. I need to start packing." "K, bye." Ethan was so excited. Right away he got on his gaming computer and loaded up a new Minecraft world. He spawned in a Jungle Edge biome next to a Jungle, Mesa and Desert. *Sick spawn area...* He thought. Figuring nobody would mind he checked the seed with the /seed command. The seed was BOOK. In all caps. He started the world like normal. He got wood, stone, iron, coal, built a house and made extra tools for Caleb. He thought about all he would do in that world. *Tomarrow is gonna be good...* He thought.

## Chapter 1

Late the next afternoon Caleb and the rest of the Nuzzis arrived at their new house. They got settled in quickly and went to buy matresses. Caleb would spend the night with Ethan though. Caleb looked at his watch. It was 10:25. He was suppouse to go 5 minutes ago! "Dudbuckets..." He whispered. He left but first grabbed a few cans of coke. They were a strange type of coke Caleb had never seen before. They had neon green stripes on the can. Earlier the Yelvertons helped get his matress into Ethan's room. He knocked on the door and Ethan answered. "Come in!" Caleb came into the house and into Ethan's room. "Got your laptop?" Asked Ethan. "Yup." "Dude what is with that coke?" "Found it next to a gas station. It was a pefectly good case of cokes. And a new flavor!" "What flavor?" "Lime?" "Ok just get your laptop ready. I started a new world already." Caleb opened his laptop and logged into Minecraft. He went into multiplayer and clicked Ethan's LAN world. Ethan took a sip of the coke. "BLEH! Thats awful!" He said. "Really?" Caleb tried some. "Ew, yeah... Sorry." "No big deal. C'mon this way I have stone tools." He brought Caleb to his house and gave him some tools. "Dude your a Tawkerr again?" "Yeah. I don't know why. I haven't been on this account in ages." "Why?" "Been on Wynncraft a lot." They played Minecraft for hours. Ethan remembered looking at the time at one point. It had been 3:45. "You ready to go to bed?" Asked Caleb. "Yeah." But as soon as Ethan turned off his computer a green aura started swirling around him. "Ah! Whats this?!" He said. "I dont know!" Said Caleb. Caleb ran over to try to grab the aura but it pulled him next to Ethan. "Personal space!" "I cant move!" Suddenly they felt what felt like a thousand needles stabbing them in the back and suddenly they were gone.

Caleb and Ethan found themselves in a room made of silver flames. "Where are we?" Asked Ethan. Caleb didn't seem to hear him. Then a cloaked stranger came out of the flames. He wore a black cloak and he had a long crooked nose. They couldn't see his face but than he spoke; "Search the world high and low to find the *end* goal if you want to return to your home..." Than they felt a sensation like they were spinning very, very fast. Than like they were falling a thousand feet then they were falling through a hole that appeared. Everything started becoming pixelated. The stranger looked down into the hole and suddenly everything went dark.

## Chapter 2

Ethan woke up. He was in the middle of nowhere. He was lying flat on his back in grass. He looked up into a blue sky. With a huge yellow cube floating above. *What is that?* He thought. Than he noticed the clouds were blocky! He looked around. Everything was made of cubes. The trees, the grass, the flowers, even blocky animals were everywhere. Ethan saw Caleb on the ground. He was asleep. Ethan shook Caleb. "WAKE UP MAN!" Caleb woke up. "T-Tawkerr? Is that y-you?" He asked. "Ha ha." Said Ethan. "It really is you!" Said Caleb. "What? No! Caleb wake up!"

"I'm awake, Tawkerr!"

"I'm not Tawkerr!"

"Than who are you?

"I'm Ethan! Can't you see that?"

"You look like Tawkerr."

Ethan looked at his hands. They were blocky and dark gray. "You... You look like your Minecraft skin too..." Caleb looked like a blocky person with a red shirt and blue pants, while Ethan was a light gray humanoid creature with purple eyes and black horns. "Ok well I am now *really uncomfortable...*" Said Ethan. "Why?" "I'm Tawkerr. You know my book... What happens..." His face turned red. Caleb burst out laughing. "HA!" He said. "You sound like Ronald Weasley..." Said Ethan. "Do you realize where we are Caleb?" "Yes." "Wait..." Said Ethan. "How are we going to survive? How will we get food?!" "Ethan, relax. There are animals everywhere. We can just-" "CALEB! IM VEGITARIAN! This is not Minecraft! I am still vegitarian here!" "Yeah well its not like its *real*. The mobs are just code-" "CALEB! DO YOU EVEN READ?! In all the books... When people get zapped into Minecraft it *is real!* The animals are real, the mobs are the... Oh look." Ethan went over to a sheep and patted it on the head. The animal bleated in joy. Ethan pet it more and the animal seemed even happier. "They are real." Said Ethan. "Than lets just find a village and raid the crops-" "CAALEEEB!!! THE VILLAGERS ARE REAL TOO!! We can't just steal from them!" "Than you grow wheat." "CAAAAALEEEEEEB!!!!!" "What?!" "I don't like bread." Ethan watched the blocky sun. It was moving quickly. "Oh... We need go get on it... Go start getting wood." Said Ethan

## Chapter 3

Ethan and Caleb started punching down trees then they made a crafting table and built tools and a door. They built a small hut with a wooden floor because as Ethan said "IMO, *my dignity* is more important than survival." They found apples in trees which Ethan ate. Caleb killed several chickens (even though Ethan insisted they didn't deserve it) and cooked them. When Caleb tried to tell Ethan that his dignity isn't more important than survival and reminded him he was a Tawkerr. (a character from one of Ethan's books)
That night Ethan started digging with a pickaxe very carefully. He wouldn't want to get dirty. He found iron ore down underground and came up and started mining. "How are we going to get out?" Asked Caleb. "Through the door..." Said Ethan. "No, out of Minecraft." "That cloaked guy... before we appeared here said something about... Search the world high and low for the end goal... Do we need to..." Ethan didn't finish. "What?" "kill the Ender Dragon?" Then Ethan remembered what he was best at with Minecraft; commands. "Wait." He said. Then Ethan imaged himself typing. */give @p command\_block*. Than a voice whispered to him; "Cheats are not enabled on this world..." "Nevermind..." Said Ethan. "What?" Asked Caleb. "I tried to use a command."

Before nightfall Ethan quickly went out and sheared some sheep. He got wool to make beds. He gave Caleb his than Ethan placed his own. Than Caleb placed his next to Ethan's attaching them. "Uh, no." Said Ethan. "Why?" Asked Caleb. "Personal space!" Ethan moved his to the other side of the room. "When did you get to strict?" Asked Caleb. Ethan turned around. "When I was 12. When we weren't talking." There was a long silence. "Whaddya think it means now that we got into Minecraft? Think we can get into other games? Or anything originating in a device?" Instantly Ethan thought of every game, website or app he wanted no part of. *Shooting games... dating websites... unsafe apps... horror games...* "Man I hope not..." Said Ethan. "I'd rather stick to Minecraft..."

## Chapter 4

Ethan woke up in his bed. Caleb was gone. He sighed. Suddenly Caleb burst through the door with a potato and 3 bones. "YOUR FOOD IS HERE!!" He said. "Dude," Said Ethan. "too loud." Caleb gave him the items and Ethan went outside and hoed some ground and planted the potato. Than he crushed the bones up into bonemeal and used it to grow the potato instantly. He repeated the process until he has 32 potatoes. He want back inside and put them in a furnace. "I have done things!" Said Caleb. "I saw." "No really, last night I went out-" "AND YOU MAKE FUN OF ME BEING TAWKERR!" Caleb rolled his eyes. "and went mining AND found these." He pulled 7 shiny blue stones out of his inventory; diamonds. "D-d-diamonds?" "Yeah! And now I can make a nether portal!" "You'll need obsidian." Caleb pulled a lava and water bucket out of his inventory and splashed them together making obsidian. "BOOM!" He said. Than he destroyed it with his pickaxe. "1 out of 10!" Said Ethan. "No, 14." "The corners dont count." "Wat?! Ok, I am going mining now. Cya." Caleb entered the mine. Ethan sat on his bed. He imagined himself at his keyboard. He imaged himself pressing ESC. (Escape) Suddenly a menu appeared. There were several options. Save and quit to title, Options, Resume game, and Skins. All were grayed out but skins and resume game.. He tried to touch the button that said skins than all the skins he ever used popped up. He gasped. He saw his human self, his alien self, command block folk, ice knight, Tawkerr... He tapped his human self than he saw his hand change. It became a tan color. He was no longer Tawkerr. "Oh, nice." He said. He pressed a back arrow on the menu than resume game. The menu dissapeared.

Caleb came out of the mines with 10 obsidian. "HAHA! I bet you didn't believe in me! Huh? HUH? Anyways lets go." He said. "Wait!" Said Ethan. "Thats so dangerous, we don't have armor or weapons!" Caleb pulled out 3 blocks of pure iron. "Got it covered."

## Chapter 5

Caleb build a portal shape out of the obsidian blocks. "Wait, you look... different?" Said Caleb. "Hmmm I do?" Caleb made armor out of the iron he had gathered. "I'm sure we'll be *fine!*" He crafted a flint and steel with (you guessed it!) a piece of flint and iron ingot. "You do the honors." Said Ethan after Caleb tried to give him the flint and steel. He struck the items together making sparks. He tried again, nothing. He tried a third time and than flames appeared and filled the obsidian doorway, than a swirling purple barrier formed within the doorway. Before jumping in Caleb said "GERONIMO!" and then hopped through. Ethan thought very carefully about what to do next. Than he drew his sword and jumped through.

Ethan appeared in a fiery red landscape with lava lakes surrounding. The place heavily resembled hell. Nearby he saw a group of pink humanoid creatures but the scary thing was, half of their body was a skeleton. "Caleb?" Said Ethan. "Im here! Uhhh.. Help?!" Caleb was hanging off a cliff above lava with one of the pigmen standing on the cliff. Ethan knew Caleb angered it. Ethan ran over to the creature and pushed it into the lava. It splashed in the lava but seemed unharmed than somehow started wading through the lava towards Caleb. Ethan bent down and pulled Caleb up. "Some player you are." Said Ethan. "I didn't do anything! I fell on it when I came through." "We need to find a fortress." Said Ethan. "For blaze."

## Chater 6

Ethan and Caleb walked through the hellish landscape. Out of nowhere they heard a sad sound, a sound like a cry... "You know what that is... right?" Asked Ethan. "Yeah." A giant pale squid-like creature rose out from behind the netherrack. "You know what to do..." Said Ethan. The creature spit a ball of fire at Caleb, which blew up behind him. "Yikes!" He said. "Dude! Your too old to be saying that! Why no do something?!" Then the creature spit a ball of fire at Ethan. "Oh, well that's nice..." He said. He used his sword to deflect the fireball back at the creature. It hit the creature right in the face and blew it up. "W-w-what did I just d-do?" Said Ethan. "Hey, it wanted to kill us- OH MY GOD I SEE A FORTRESS!" In the distance there was a dark purple building. But inside there were evil monsters that were more dangerous than any other... "Letsa go!" Said Caleb. They both ran towards the fortress. "You and your Mario references..." "Yeah well at least its not Geometry Dash references!" Said Caleb. "Heres a free sample. Find me when you can! Did you hear something?" Said Ethan. "No..." Said Caleb. "Caleb, that was a reference. To Scratch. Anyways, ready?" "Yep" they charged into the fortress but they didn't see any mobs. "This place is a ghost town.." Said Ethan. "You hear that?" Asked Caleb. Ethan hear what sounded like weezing robots in another room. "Blazes..." He said. "This way." Ethan snuck down a dark hallway and peeked into a room. Sure enough, four blazes were in there. It looked as if they were plotting something until one seemed to hear Ethan and turned around and looked. "Oh, damn..." Said Ethan. "Language!" Said Caleb. "Caleb! Quiet down-" they blazes came out of the room and shot three fireballs at them. "Crap!" Said Ethan. "That's better!" Said Caleb as he dodged a fireball. Caleb leapt towards a blaze and stabbed at it, then punched it in the face. "Gah! That's hot!" He said. "What did you expect?!" Said Ethan while he attacked a blaze. Another blaze flung fireballs at him and he ducked to avoid it then jumped at it and attacked, but didn't attack as fast as humanly possible. That would be inaffective. In the end they had eight blaze rods. "That's more than enough." Said Ethan. "Come on. Lets build a portal out of here." Caleb built the same obsidian portal as they had in the overworld. Then three fireballs were launched at him which he dodged. The fireballs landed in the portal which made a fire strong enough to activate the portal. "That works!" Said Ethan before jumping through. Caleb turned around and made a mocking face at the blazes then jumped backwards into the portal.

## Chapter 7

Ethan fell out of the portal and landed in the top of a cobblestone tower. Instantly he knew where he was; a village. It looked to be morning. Then Caleb fell out and landed on Ethan. "PERSONAL SPACE!!!" Shouted Ethan. Caleb knew Ethan was very sensitive about his personal space and noticed he was shaking. "Sorry... Wait, we are in a village!" He said. "I kn-know..." Ethan looked down off the tower and saw the villagers harvesting crops. They must have finished growing. "Lets go..." Said Ethan. He climbed down the ladder to the bottom of the church. Nobody was in the church at the time. Caleb came down also and they exited the building. A villager in a gray robe drew an iron sword and pointed it at Ethan. "Who are you intruders? Wait... You... your players!" He slowly walked towards him. "Drop your weapons!" He said. Ethan put his sword on the ground. "We come in peace!" He said. He pulled some potatoes out of his inventory. "Here! An offering of peace!" The villager glared at him but took the potatoes. "The golems say that if someone offers anything of use, they mean no harm. I believe you." Ethan noticed that there were many villagers watching him then he started shaking. "I have emmies!" Said Caleb pulling out large green gems out of his inventory. All the villagers started whispering 'emeralds...' "You bring the sacred gems..." Said the gray robed villager. Ethan was very confused. "Emeralds?" "Yes, they are sacred treasures to us. We collect them." Ethan got an idea. "We will trade them for enderpearls and eyes of ender!" He said. Suddenly many villagers started pulling enderpearls and eyes of ender out of their inventories. "I guess that's a yes..." Said Ethan. The villagers came over to Caleb and started giving him the items for the emeralds. "Thank you, friends." Said Ethan. "Why do you give sacred gems for such a low price?" Asked the gray robed the villager. "We don't need them." Said Ethan. "You guys do more than us." Then Ethan wondered why Caleb had emeralds in the first place. "Well, I am Jack." Said the gray robed villager. "I am the guard. Do you need anything else of us?" He asked. "No," said Ethan. "we need to get going. We are... *lost*..." "Ah, ok... Well then you players must get going. What are your names? For if we meet again." "Caleb." "Ethan." "Ok. You adventurers must get going. Good luck on your quest." Ethan and Caleb walked out of the village with their new ender objects. "Lets make more ender eyes." Said Ethan. Ethan started putting the blaze powder and ender pearls together making more eyes of ender. "Lets go!" He said and threw an eye of ender into the air. It flew north. "North it is."

## Chapter 8

Ethan and Caleb walked north through the day and tunneled north through the night. The third morning Ethan threw another eye of ender into the air. Instead of it flying north and up it flew north and down. "You have arrived." Said Ethan in his most automated sounding voice. "Lets dig!" Said Caleb. Caleb started digging straight down with his pickaxe. "CALEB!!" Said Ethan.
"What?"
"The heck you think your doin?!"
"Digging..."
"Your gonna get killed!"
"Oh yeah, lets staircase."
Ethan started digging a staircase down with his pickaxe. After a few minutes they found a stone brick. "Here we go!" Said Ethan but Caleb jumped in front of him and broke the block and fell down through the inactive end portal into lava. He screamed very loudly in pain. Ethan thought fast and dumped a water bucket on him. The lava turned to obsidian and put Caleb out. "The heck you think your doin?!" He said. "Trying to be cool..." Caleb climbed out and onto the steps leading up to the end portal. "Wow..." He said. "Never thought I'd ever put an ender eye into an end portal... Like for real..." He put one of the ender eyes into the portal frame. It made a sucking sound then the eye was stuck. Suddenly small, silver, insect-like creature popped out of the ground. "SILVERFISH!" Said Ethan. He jumped down and put all the ender eyes into the portal. When he put in the last one the portal activated. The portal looked as if it were a tear in the universe. All that he saw was a purple sky. "Jump!" He said jumped through the portal. Caleb tried to fight the silverfish but was hit into the portal by it.

The friends appeared on an obsidian platform in the sky. The sky was purple. In the distance they saw an island made of what looked like cheese. It was actually just end stone. Ethan handed Caleb an enderpearl. "You know what to do..." He said. Ethan threw an enderpearl to the island. When it landed he flashed purple and appeared where it landed. Caleb did the same. With the same result. Suddenly a blood-curdling roar filled their ears. "That's the dragon!" Said Ethan, shaking. Up in the air there was a black dragon with purple eyes. It saw them and spit a purple orb at them. "Dodge it!" Said Ethan. He jumped out of the way. "YARGH!" Said Caleb. He got hit by the orb and was surrounded in purple dust. "DON'T MOVE!" Said Ethan. He placed some blocks for Caleb to get past the dust. "That's dragon breath." He said. "Fatal stuff, dude." "What?" "Nevermind." Ethan looked up at the ender dragon. It was the most majestic, yet terrible creature he had ever seen. "Lets dance, buddy."

## Chapter 9

Caleb shot an arrow at the ender dragon but missed. "Hah." Said Ethan. "You wait..." Said Caleb. Ethan remembered; *the crystals!* he didn't even notice the huge towers of obsidian. There were many and each one had a crown at the top, an end crystal. The source of the ender dragon's life. Caleb threw an enderpearl up to the top of the tower. He landed safely next to the tower. "Still got a water bucket?" He yelled down to Ethan. Ethan dug a five by five hole and filled it with water. "Yeah!" Caleb readied himself then jumped back wards off the tower and threw a block at the end crystal which made it explode. "Booyah!" He said. He fell and landed in the pool of water. The ender dragon seemed to notice they were after it. It glared at Caleb and dove down to attack him. "Dodge it boy!" Said Ethan. But it was too late. The ender dragon slammed into Caleb, knocking him out. It flew back into the air. Ethan ran over to Caleb. "No... No... AGH! I'll kill that dragon if its the last thing I do." "I'm fine." Said Caleb. "Dude! You scared the-" "Shut!" Said Caleb, he knew what Ethan was about to say. Caleb shot another arrow at an end crystal then it exploded. "Agh..." He said. His arm was hurt. "Your not fine!" Said Ethan. "Yes, I am... Its nothing." Said Caleb, grinning. "I'm *invincible.*" He said. "Really?" Said Ethan. Caleb shot 3 arrows at three more end crystals destroying them. "Yes..." "Be careful." Caleb shot three more crystals with the same outcome. "Ok!" There were 2 crystals left. They were in iron cages though. "If only I had the Quark mod." Said Ethan. "I could've made explosive arrows..." "I had Quark..." Said Caleb. Ethan stared at him. "MAKE EXPLODING ARROWS QUICK!" Caleb placed down a crafting table and surrounded an arrow with gunpowder. Nothing happened. "How do you..." He re-arranged the items with the same result. "Err..." "Let me do it!" Said Ethan. The ender dragon spit a purple orb at them. "GAH!" Said Ethan. He dodged the fireball. So did Caleb. "GOT THE CRAFTING TABLE!" Said Ethan. "HAHA!" He placed it down and crafted exploding arrows with 4 gunpowder and some arrows. He tossed them to Caleb. "Good luck!" He said. Caleb shot an arrow at one which destroyed the cage. He would need to get higher up to see the crystal. He jumped up onto an end stone hill and shot an arrow at the crystal. It exploded. "One remains..." Said Ethan. Caleb looked at the other one and shot an arrow which exploded the cage then shot another. "Game over Jean!" Said Ethan. "Who's Jean?" Asked Caleb. "The ender dragon's name!" The ender dragon dove down to what looked like a bedrock fountain and started to explode. "Woohoo!" Said Ethan. The ender dragon exploded countless times, until the final blow. The ender dragon exploded into a shower of green orbs of XP. The fountain was filled with an exit portal and at the top rested the ender dragon's egg. "Lets go!" Said Ethan and he jumped into the portal.

## Chapter 10

Ethan appeared in the room of silver flames. The cloaked stranger was still there. Caleb appeared next to Ethan. "Hmm..." Said the stranger. "You have mastered this realm. On your next adventure, you will not have each other..." The stranger clapped his hands and Ethan and Caleb felt a sensation like they were spinning very, very fast. Than like they were falling a thousand feet then they were falling through a hole that appeared. The stranger looked down into the hole and suddenly everything went dark.

Caleb and Ethan appeared where they had been before entering Minecraft. "Well..." Said Ethan. "Lets go to bed..." Ethan felt something heavy in his pocket. He felt in it and pulled out a large pixelated blue diamond. "Damn." He said before Caleb could stop him. "Shhh!" Said Caleb. Ethan put the diamond on a shelf. "Mine." He said. Caleb looked like he was going to pass out. Caleb sat on his blow up matress. "What just happened..." "I don't really know... Lets get some rest." Said Ethan. He fell back onto his bed and fell asleep before his head hit the pillow. Caleb looked at Ethan's bookshelf and saw a book titled 'Minecraftians: Call of Celestials'. He grabbed it and started reading. He knew he wouldn't be able to sleep so he started reading Ethan's book. After reading a while he fell asleep. The next morning Caleb had to go home to get his room all set up. They agreed that soon they would have another game night. But for now they would stick to playing Minecraft every few days together. After all, they had literally been in the game. They had gotten some true practice.