I slowly started to wake up.

I could feel the grass beneath and the sun glaring down at me. I opened my eyes to see that I was lying in the middle of a valley, I slowly say up, confused as to how I got here. I had no recollection as to how I arrived, all I remember was that I was about to go downstairs to get something from the kitchen while watching Tommy's stream.

I took in my surroundings and I saw various farm animals around, I looked behind me and saw a chest that resembled a Minecraft chest. I opened it and found an envelope with my name written,

Dear Aspen,

Congratulations! You have been chosen to test out a new program that we, New Horizons, developed! We have picked players that seem quite experienced with the game we used as inspiration for our project, we believe that you may know them. Just like the game Minecraft, the only way to complete the program is to beat the Ender Dragon. That is the only way that you all will be able to leave. You all only have three lives, if you use all three you will die here as well as in the real world.

If you are wondering what happened to your body, your family has already noticed that your body fell and took you to the hospital. They believe that you are in a coma, the same happened to the others.

We wish you good luck! We hope that you find the others and complete the program!

P.S: You all have different abilities that will appear along your journey!

P.S.S: The only way to leave is that you ALL beat the dragon, if you do not, then you will stay in the simulation for as long as you keep your lives. Your bodies will be collected by our organization and cared for if that does happen.

Best of luck,

New Horizons.

I felt my eyes water as I stared at the last sentence. They chose me as a test subject? Why? I'm only fourteen, I'm decent at Minecraft but far from experienced. Who are the others? Am I going to die?

I took a deep breath to try and calm myself, this was no time to cry. If this is really based on Minecraft then I had no time to waste, I needed supplies and a place to sleep when the sun set. I dropped the letter, not caring to put it back in the chest, and made my way to an oak forest. I started punching trees until I had enough to make a crafting table, I made some sticks and proceeded to make some tools.

I quickly took the crafting table and put it in my inventory, I saw that I was wearing my Minecraft skins clothes, I mentally thanked myself for choosing to make my skin look like myself in real life. I had a turtle neck that had pastel yellow and peach stripes with some white jeans and some white shoes. It was pretty nice and oddly didn't feel warm enough to bother me.

I walked around looking for the animals that I had seen, should I start calling them mobs? I mean, it would make me feel better at least, I absolutely love animals and couldn't bear the fact that I had to kill some to eat. I mentally scolded myself for getting distracted and continued looking for some sheep's I had seen, it took me a few minutes to finally find them. There were two adults with white wool and one with black wool, I quickly killed the two white ones and left the black sheep alone since there was no sense killing it when I didn't need the wool and refused to kill another sheep.

I wandered a bit more and stumbled upon a village, I slightly smiled. I was very tired, I wasn't used to moving around so much plus my anxiety wasn't helping. I entered a house and put all the stuff in my inventory in the chest, it was a habit I had when I entered a village. I sat on the bed and thought about how my life had literally been turned upside down, I mean, a few hours ago I just watching Tommy stream the Origin SMP and now I have to get resources and survive.

I took off my shoes and laid down, I knew the villagers wouldn't mind because it was a abandoned. I closed my eyes and let sleep take me.
The Next Day

I woke up just as the sun was rising which was weird considering that I usually slept until like eleven if I didn't have an alarm. Shaking the thought away I sat up, might as well start my day with the sun, and opened the chest to get my stuff back. As soon as I had everything I started searching the houses to see what I could find, in the end I found 5 pieces of bread. The bread didn't exactly taste the best but who was I to complain when it was the only food I had eaten since I got here.

I left the village since there wasn't anything else that interested me, I saw some mountains and decided to climb them.

It was very hard

As a kid who didn't really do exercise, climbing was probably the worst decision I could've made. My arms were too weak to support my body and my feet couldn't find a stable place to 'stand' on, I was halfway up and I was getting tired fast. I didn't know how much longer I could hold on, obviously, I started panicking.

I tried climbing a bit higher but my hand slipped, which made me panic more, everyone knows that when that happens in a movie or a book something bad happens. In my case, I could lose a life and I was not ready to experience death. I could feel my other hand start slipping, I tried grab on to a rock with the other one but it was loose and fell, I watched it fall and winced when the rock broke in half as it hit the ground.

I could hear some distant.... flapping? I wasn't sure what the sound was but it seemed to be getting closer so I looked back. Bad idea. My hand slipped and I started falling, I couldn't bring myself to scream.

After a few seconds of falling I felt a pair of arms catch me as I almost hit the ground, I looked up and saw someone who I had only seen in fanart. Philza fucking Minecraft.

" You alright mate?"