29Okay, I'm just going to say a few things now to clarify somethings before you begin to read. I DO NOT own minecraft story mode. This is a fanfiction so I do not claim anything as to be my own, well except all the stuff that is NOT in the game and came from my own imagination etc.
This follows the female character of Jesse. I'm going to change her name to Jessica but have her close friends call her Jesse as a nickname. This shouldn't be uncommon, because I have a friend in real life name Jessica and I call her Jesse for short. You will understand the full reason as my fanfiction goes along.
Also I advise you to think of the characters as humans and not blocky figures, due to content. Also think the world as realistically as well.
Thank you in advance for reading.
Chapter One: A New town.
The sound of hooves and what felts like a bump woke her up. A small breeze blew around her ruffling her hair and causing something silky to tickle her hand. Keeping her eyes closed she suppressed a giggle as she shivered with cold. Instinctively she tried to curl up and snuggle within the warmth she could feel behind her.
A low chuckle reverberated against her ear as she snuggled against the solid warmth. "Finally waking up, Jessica?" There was a pat on her head as she opened her eyes. Bright sunlight made her squint and she groaned adjusting to the brightness before the sun seemed to disappear. Rubbing her eyes she looked around at the trees passing by. They were in a dark oak tree forest with wild roses, daisies and tall grass scatted here and there reaching out toward the sunlight that fell through the tree canopy here and there.
The horse nickered and tossed its mane causing the silky hair to tickle her hand again, this time she let out a giggle. Strong hands held the reins in front of her, turning the horse slightly to go around the thick dark oak tree. She looked up above her to see the stubbly five o' clock shadow of a beard and a slightly rugged face of her father. "Daddy!" Jessica said excitedly.
He looked down and smiled his eyes crinkled showing the laugh lines around his emerald green eyes. A leather helmet was covering most of his head, he wore similar leather armor on his chest and legs and even leather boots. "Did you sleep well?" he asked his daughter before looking straight ahead.
Jessica shifted slightly within the saddle and grimaced at the pain that shot to every muscle, kind of wishing she was still asleep. "Yeah…" She answered her dad in a small tone, gritting her teeth trying to get comfortable.
Another low chuckle escaped from her father's mouth. "It's okay we've been traveling for three days now. The Village should be ahead shortly. You can rest and move the aches out of your limbs soon enough."
"Why did we have to leave? I like our old home." She said sadly. "I had friends there..."
"You know why we left, there was barely anything left standing, Hun." There was a crack in father's voice and she instantly regretted what she said. She knew very well what happened to her last home, something she didn't really want to remember. But it didn't change the fact that she didn't like the new change.
Five days beforehand she and her father and mother had lived in a small village on the edge of a small plains that sat beside the ocean. Since the village was small it didn't have fortified defenses. They were helpless when a zombie horde attacked killing most of the villagers including her own mother. Her father saved her just in time, coming up behind a zombie and killing the cruel monster before it could get to her. She could remember the screams of terror as zombies bit into the flesh of their prey. Her father had fought to protect the village along with a few other villagers who had weapons to fight with. But it was all in vain. Morning came and went, bringing the left over zombies to burn in the sunlight. They burst in flames as soon as the sunlight hit them, growling with a sickly groan they burned to death, but not before some of the houses caught of fire because of it. In the end the only things left standing were half burned down houses, her and her father and a few other villagers and their children.
It took two days to treat the wounded, gather the supplies and deal with the dead. A sickly aroma had filled the air and the stench of burning flesh. They had to burn the dead, including her mother. She could still remember how he begged her father not to, that somehow she thought her mother could still be alive, but it was all just wishful thinking. Her mother's body was burned with the rest of the villagers. They couldn't just bury them like normal, in case the bodies were infected and they were turned into zombies as well. Saying goodbye was the hardest thing she felt like she ever had to do, and hoped to never do again.
Her father looked back down to see his daughter staring off blankly into the distance. He could feel the pain that she felt. He could only imagine how hard it was on his eight year old daughter. He pulled her close to his chest protectively while one hand holding the reins he reached down into the saddlebag and took out some mutton, bread and cheese and handed the food to her. "Why don't you eat while I tell you a story? I think it will make you feel better."
Jessica picked at the bread and cheese nibbling it slowly as she shrugged at her father's words. She wasn't feeling all that hungry. She felt sick to her stomach than hungry. They were coming out of the dark oak forest and into a vast plain biome, tall grass everywhere. White and black sheep grazed here and there and small white and brown rabbits hopped around but soon scattered in fright as their horse drew nearer.
"I think you will enjoy it." He said.
"It just a story Father." She answered
"Well actually it a legend." Her father chuckled.
"Legend is still a story." She retorted with a snort.
"Legends are part of truths. And this is a peculiar Legend." Her father was leading the horse up a hill passing what looked to be a ruined cobblestone tower. It base scattered across the ground making it harder for the horse to pick around the rubble. Her father swept his hand toward the ruined tower, Jessica gaze following his hand and looked at the tower. "Nothing built can last forever. And every legend… or in your case what you call a story, will fade with time, no matter how great or small it is. Each passing season, year, decade or century a piece of the details will be lost. To where all that remains are just myths and half-truths. Since you're still young I'll abridge the story just a bit and leave out the gruesome parts."
Jessica sighed but leaned against his back still nibbling the food her father have given her. "The legend of the Order of the Stone. It is said that this happened twenty years ago. Starting with a group of four friends. Gabriel the Warrior. Ellegaard the Redstone Engineer. Magnus the Rogue. And their leader Soren the Architect Builder. It is said that these four friends each had a great talent. Gabriel could make all those combatants who went up against him tremble down to their feet." Jessica sat up a bit with interest, starting to eat her mutton absent mindedly as her father continued. "Ellagaard's ability was amazing circuitry involving redstone, building and creating new machines that started the era of inventions. Magnus could channel his destructive creativity for the benefit of all."
Jessica wrinkled her nose at that. "So Magnus was a griefer? I don't think I'd like that. And I'm not smart enough to know about redstone circuitry. And I don't think I could be as brave as Gabriel, though he sounds pretty cool, daddy. What was Soren's ability?"
Her dad dug into the saddle bag and took out a canteen taking a swig of water before clearing his throat. "Soren ability was the builder of worlds," he looked down to see confusion on his daughter's face. "To put it simply he had the mind to create great building, cities, or things we wouldn't be able to dream of. That was why he was the leader of the Order of the Stone."
"These four friends, thought different in talents found themselves on the quest to a place call The End. A dark and mysterious place filled with Endermen. Creepy tall black monsters with purple glowing eyes. One look in those eyes and they will attack you. Thus at all cost you always look down and never look them directly in their eyes. But their journey to The End was to fight something more powerful, more mysterious than any monster they fought before. This creature was known as the Endar Dragon. Through the perilous fight and with the ability to work together the Order of the Stone was able to defeat the Dragon with Gabriel's mighty diamond sword to finish it off. Their quest was victorious, and their story has now slipped into the pages of legend."
Jessica was astonished at the tale that was told. She shivered with excitement and had eaten all her food without her realizing it. She no longer felt sick, though she was still sad, it seemed like she could move forward now with confidence, even though change was scary it wouldn't be so bad. The ability make friends. I wonder if I can make friends and have adventures like the Order of the Stone. She thought with a smile. "I want to be just like Gabriel!" She said in excitement.
Her Father chuckled again. Smiling with relief at being to put her in a better mood. "It always good to look up to Heroes." He made a clicking noise with his tongue and pushed against the side of the horse with the stirrups causing the horse to go in to a small gallop up the hill.
Jessica smile as they began to pick up speed. Her hair moving in the wind as they reach over the rise if the hill. A wall came to view towers and buildings followed. The village was just beyond a small forest of birth and oak trees. Their new home. "Dad…" She said, with a bit of timidly. "Do you think I can make new friends?"
"Of course, there always a new adventure just around the bend." He said. With that they made their way to the town. Their new life beginning.
A whole week had passed since they came to the new town. Her dad had stopped off by a big building when they entered. The town's people had stared at them as soon as they entered. Everywhere it was nothing but stares and quiet. Sometimes she could have heard a few whispers as the people turned to their neighbor to talk to them and point at the new comers.
Her father had come out of the building quick enough, hopping on their horse and setting the reins in to steer the horse in a direction across town. "What did you go in there for Father?" she remembered asking him a few minutes later. He had shown her a piece of paper signed and dated. It was a contract to a piece of land.
"I've bought a place for us to build a new house. And start our life here." He had said.
But all that was a week ago, nothing exciting happened since they came to the new town, Aureum. What a weird name. Who calls a town Aureum? She thought with some boredom. Jessica sighed loudly.
"Bored already?"
She looked behind her to see her father, he was no longer wearing armor but normal clothes. A linen white shirt and black pants, a tool belt strapped to his waist and a duffle sack at his back that looked to be carrying supplies. Simple. Her father always like simple things, nothing fancy or elaborate.
Behind her father she could see the structure of the house. Half built. Some of the town's people were at the roof or the sides hammering in the sideboards, or roof slats. It didn't take long for her father to gather some people in Aureum looking for work, most of the people were doing it just to help out, not expecting pay. At least the people were nice a friendly.
Jessica got to her feet brushing off the dirt from her bottom and shuffled her feet a bit. "It's a little… boring."
She felt a hand pat her head and ruffled her brown hair roughly. "Don't worry, things will be getting better you'll see." He looked behind him at the construction. "The house will soon be finished, and we won't have to live in the tents anymore. And I hear that John and Norm's spouses are bring over lunch as a welcome gift, and I believe some of the other neighbors are coming over too. Maybe they will bring kids your age to meet you."
"Hey Nathan!" One of the men yelled from the construction. "Bring another sideboard so we can get this wall up!" Her father looked back over his shoulder and gave a replied. He smiled down at his daughter before going off to help with the construction.
Jessica sighed and kicked a rock which went sailing into the air landing in the shrubbery and tall grass. She was about to turn around and go to observe the construction when she heard something.
"OW!" Came an exclamatory voice.
"Shhhhh… you'll give away our position." Said another voice.
"But that rock landed on my head!" Whispered the first voice somewhat loudly.
"We came to get to look at the new kid." Whispered the second voice.
"If you guys both don't shut up you will feel my fist." Said a third voice.
Jessica raise her eyebrow in curiosity and looked over at the bushes there was an occasional movement within the foliage where the whispering came from. "Who's there? Show yourself!" she said crossing her arms agitatedly. She didn't like to be spied on.
"Uh oh, we're caught!" whispered a voice. The whispering continued a bit more in audibly before three figures stood up behind the bushes. They were kids that didn't seem to be older than she was. Two girls and one boy. The boy walls tall and round, wearing a green shirt and brown pants. He had black hair and very thick eyebrows that seemed to almost cover his brown eyes. His appearance made him look intimidating. He was rubbing the back of his neck with his hand awkwardly as he looked at the two girls. The two girls were very different, one of them was dark skinned with two pigtails at the side of her face, nearly covered by the green hat and goggles she was wearing. She wore a red shirt with gray short sleeves, with a matching gray pants. The last person had her arms crossed. She wore a blue bandana over her long orange hair, she had brown eyes. She also wore a blue shirt with a black vest and some faded blue jean shorts with black boots.
"Well I've seen enough here, later guys." The blue bandana girl said, walking off toward the center of town. Leaving the green hat girl and the big intimidating boy behind. Jessica didn't know what to say, she felt shy.
The boy looked at her before looking away. "We're sorry. We just wanted to see what you were like." He looked down at his friend nudging her with his elbow as if to get her to say something to.
The girl frowned and glared at the boy after being jabbed by his elbow. She turned to Jessica pointing to herself. "My name is Olivia. And this guy is name Axel, he not as intimidating as he looks. And the girl who just left, her name is Petra. She kind of mysterious. She came up behind us while we were walking in town and insisted that we'd come take a look at the new neighbors."
Jessica looked between Olivia and Axel and she smiled. "My name is Jessica. It's… nice to meet you, you guys didn't really have to hide in the bushes though."
"We… we were just shy and didn't know what the new kid would be like, plus we heard weird rumors from town… so we were also nervous." Axel said looking down before smiling. "But it seems the rumors aren't true."
"What kind of rumors?" Jessica said with a frown.
"Well news travels fast, and well, we know what happened to your old home. So people blew things out of proportions, it nothing to worry about it though, seriously. My parents always told me that don't believe in what you hear until you get to know a person." Olivia said with a smile. She walked over to Jessica and looked into her eyes seriously. "So I have a question..."
"Oh no here we go again…" Axel muttered softly before walking up beside Olivia.
Jessica looked taken aback at the proximity of Olivia. "Wh…What's your question, Olivia?"
Olivia narrowed her eyes thoughtfully and then asked seriously. "Would you rather at will have invisibility and teleportation as a skill or ability to read minds and fly?" She smiled at her question, waiting to see what Jessica's reaction would be. Axel just sighed beside her.
Jessica took a step back, after hearing the question and she thought a moment. What an odd question to ask? Was she being serious or was it a joke? The power to be invisible and teleport. Or the power to read minds and fly. Well… being invisible and teleporting didn't seem as fun to her, I mean if you invisible what is the point of teleporting? Reading minds seem like and invasion of privacy, but the ability to fly seemed like it would be the most fun.
"That's an easy one. Ability to read minds and fly. Flying sounds like the most fun thing to do right now."
"I know right?!" Olivia said enthusiastically. "I mean think about seeing far off places. And then being able to hear people thoughts at will."
"That's cool idea and all but, Olivia are you forgetting that EnderCon is in town?" Axel said impatiently.
Jessica turned to Axel her head tilting to the side. "What's EnderCon?"
"You never heard of it? Are you kidding me?! It like the best convention in the world. It comes every year, and every year it greater than the last. There are a bunch of stalls and booths full of food and prizes and games and there is a building competition. Though Olivia and I don't have an extra person to enter the building competition and even if we did find one, we wouldn't know what to build. You need a group of three or more to enter the competition." Axel said enthusiastically.
"Oh! Would you like to come Jessica?" Olivia asked. "This could give us an opportunity to also show you around town."
Jessica looked over her shoulder to see the construction going along nice a smoothly. She could see her dad helping another guy putting in a window. "I guess… it wouldn't hurt to go along."
"That great!" Axel patted her on the back making her stagger forward.
A few minutes later Jessica, Axel and Olivia were walking through the town. Olivia was pointing out the booths that show great engineering, she seemed to talk excitedly and non-stop about redstone and circuitry. And Axel was pointing at all the trickster like booths that almost looked like it would cause bodily harm or humility. Jessica grimaces at those.
Jessica was having fun with her new found friends, she learned that Olivia and Axel both looked up to the heroes of the Order of the Stone. She was surprised to find out that the legend her father told her was so popular. Apparently by Olivia's standard anyone and everyone knew about the legend of the Order of the Stone. Axel had a mind for destruction and chaos, thus he was a big fan of Magnus. While Olivia said she looked up to Ellegaard and hoped to someday be just like her.
"Hey Jessica, who is your favorite member of the Order of the Stone?" Axel asked her while they came up to the booth of masks of all different monsters.
"I like Gabriel the Warrior!" She said instantly. "It would be so cool, if I could learn how to fight with a sword and be as brave and heroic."
"You got to admit that would be cool." Olivia said. "Just imagine the amount of people who looked up to all them. One of these days I hope to meet one of them. Especially Ellegaard."
"Nah, I think Magnus would be better to meet in person." Axel said.
Jessica shook her head a rolled her eyes. Not for the first time that day it seemed, she noticed that despite Olivia and Axel being well close friends they tended to argue a bit over who was the better hero of the Order of the Stone. At least it was a friendly argument, one that where both sides knew what the other was saying and good easily settle their differences in opinions.
She looked down at the masks and picked up an Ender Dragon mask. Eying it from side to side. This is so cool. I'm glad I made some new friends.
A high pitch squeal interrupted Jessica's thoughts and she looked around. The noise of the people going to booth to booth and the friendly argument between Olivia and Axel was still going on. Curious she walked away from the booth and looked down the street. There was another squeal as a small piglet came running out of the alley way, and ran down the side street. A moment later four kids ran out of the alleyway.
"Which way did it go!?" A boy said loudly with a little bit of hostility.
"I think it went down this way Aiden," a girl said smugly. "That little runt won't get away."
Another boy laughed, at her comment. "Yeah, Maya, it deserves what it soon will get. It got us in trouble with that farmer and now that piglet going to pay."
"Come on guys, it was only hungry. Can't we just leave it alone?" said a boy with spiky blond hair.
"Shut it, Lukas. It ate the farmer's carrots. And now the Farmer thinks we stole them."
The boy name Lukas shook his head and sighed, following his friends down the side street.
Jessica watched the scene before her taking in the conversation. The group of kids didn't notice her as they turned down to the side street and ran after the piglet. I can't let them harm a piglet for a stupid reason like that! I mean it just a baby, it didn't know any better! She quickly and silently followed them. She followed them for a good half hour at a safe distance. The four kids eventually cornered the piglet in an alleyway with a dead end to it. Squeals of terror rang in Jessica ears.
"Here piggy, piggy, piggy." Said Aiden with a sneer.
The piglet backed away in terror and stood shaking in the corner of the alley terrified. A low chuckle came from the girl Maya and Gills. Lukas rolled his eyes and leaned against the wall.
"Come on you stupid pig, I bet you will be fine bacon." Said Aiden.
Jessica didn't like the thought or idea of harming a piglet just for the fun of it. She felt the inside of her chest tighten and get strangely hot with anger. She stepped out into the entrance of the alley. Lukas noticed her and raised an eyebrow.
"Hey you jerks leave him alone! And go pick on someone your own size!"
Aiden and Maya who had almost reached the small piglet turned around at this. Gills had stopped chuckling and crossed his arms. Lukas kept leaning against the wall as if he didn't care.
"Who are you?" Maya sneered a comment
"Yeah and why are you messing with our business?" Aiden sneered as well.
She froze for a second. What am I doing!? I don't have a plan! "U…Uh…. Well you see…"
"Well what? You better have a good explanation for interrupting us." Said Maya coldly.
"W…Well… um… that.. piglet… he's… HE's MINE!" Jessica blurted out hurriedly.
"Yours?!" Gills said in exclamation and then he started to laugh.
Jessica frown and started to feel anger rise in her chest again and she decided to continue with her bluff. "Yeah, he mine. So you better not hurt him."
"Or else what? If he really is your piglet, then what's his name? Why not call him, if he comes to you we'll think about letting him go. But if you're lying. Well he'll be bacon." Aiden sneered.
Biting her lip she looked at the piglet in the corner. For a moment the piglet and she stared each other in the eyes. Without taking her eyes off him she responded to Aiden. "His… His name is Rueben." With a loud squeal the piglet shot forward and ran underneath Aiden's feet knocking him down on his back. The piglet ran toward Jessica. For a moment she thought the piglet would knock her down just the way it did with Aiden. But instead it jumped and squealed happily into her arms, snuggling against her chest.
She stared in astonishment and smiled widely and laughed, hugging the piglet closely. "Rueben!" She said automatically.
"Why that little lunch meat." Growl Aiden as he got up rubbing his back. He glared at Jessica and Rueben.
Jessica took a step back, holding Rueben close to her protectively and glaring back at Aiden.
"Jessica! There you are! We've been looking all over for you!"
She turned around to see Olivia and Axel coming toward her and she sighed with relief. "Sorry guys for running off like that! I got a little distracted…"
Olivia and Axel looked down to Jessica's arm and looked a bit confused to see the piglet. "Oh how cute! It's adorable!" Olivia stated.
Axel tilted his head to the side. "It looks like a runt to me." Ruben let out a snort at Axel comment.
"Hey you! Don't ignore us, we haven't finished with you or the pig." Aiden yelled.
Jessica turned around and glared down at the group in the alley. "Four against one wasn't fair, I suggest you leave. Or I might give you a reason to."
"Why you little..." Aiden stepped forward.
"Let it be!" Lukas voice interrupted Aiden. "Come on guys, let's go, we'll be missing the rest of EnderCon"
Lukas pushed himself off the wall and headed out toward the alleyway and into the main street following the crowd. Gills immediately followed Lukas, but Maya and Aiden both glared at Jessica and her friends. "This isn't over." They both said before walking off to join Lukas.
"What was that all about?" Olivia asked.
"That was Lukas and his gang of punks. They always think themselves better than everyone else. They are an annoying bunch. And his friends like to bully those around them. And Lukas just lets them and ignore their comments." Axel frown after them.
"It's a long story." Jessica said with a sigh.
"Hey we still got time before it gets dark." Olivia smiled.
"Well you see…" Jessica began.
It took a whole ten minutes to recount her tale after she had left Olivia and Axel at the mask booth. They had stopped by the town's ice cream shop to sit down at an outside table and to eat ice cream. After Jessica retold her tale, both Olivia and Axel were laughing. Jessica had sat down Rueben beside her on the bench and she began to pet him. Rueben instantly snuggling against her hand.
"He attached to you now," Axel stated with a smile.
"Jessica are you really going to keep the pig?" Olivia asked.
"Well, if my dad lets me then yes. I wouldn't mind having a pet."
Olivia raised her eyebrow in response but said nothing.
Jessica licked her vanilla ice cream cone and pondered about the day. Today started off so boring… She looked at her new friends. Olivia and Axel were talking again seemingly to be in another one of their arguments. Smiling to herself she looked down at Rueben. I've made new friends… and had an adventure. I learned a lot of things about this town. Maybe… just maybe Aureum isn't a bad place after all? Maybe dad was right. Adventures can happen just around the bend.
And with that thought Jessica smiled wider and joined in her new found friend's conversation. Knowing that Axel, Olivia and Rueben would be her best friends for the rest of her life.
OMG! I swear this is the LONGEST EVER CHAPTER I HAVE EVER WRITTEN. This goes for all my stories…. Anyway. I decided have this chapter before the fanfiction take place where the game starts sorry the ending may seem a little rushed. Its… 5am and I've been up all night. It's been one heck of a day and Oh… HAPPY NEW YEAR! I thought it was best to give this part of the story time. To see how Jessica, Olivia, Axel and Rueben become friends. Anyway those who have liked reading this chapter there will be more to come. I'm setting this rated as T for the time being. May change later.
Next Chapter coming soon! Chapter Two: Ten years later.
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