Episode 1, Chapter 1: The craving
It was the time of the year again. Beacon Town's annual exotic vendor's festival. Everything was lit up with purple and yellow decorations, vendors could be seen left and right for miles on end, selling exotic items, blocks, mobs, and materials. This festival had always been Lukas's favorite one, as he could explore new things and write them down in his books.
Jesse was seen wandering the massive isles of vendors, checking to see what rare items they had, eventually stopping at a tnt vendor, where Axel was chatting with the vendor about the tnt they sold. He approached the two of them, with a smile on his face. Looking at the vendor, the tnt he was talking to Axel about was black and yellow.
"I call this one the bee's knees. It explodes with tremendous force, firing venomous arrows all around!" the vendor chirped happily, proud of his creation. Axel smiled while pulling out a stack of amethyst shards.
"I'll take one stack please." Axel said in a very well-mannered voice. The vendor nodded politely, talking the crystals and handing Axel a stack of the tnt. Axel eventually noticed Jesse and approached him. "Oh hey Jesse, how's it going?" the large man said, stuffing the tnt into his inventory. Jesse smiled.
"Great actually, been a while since I've had a stress-free day." Jesse said with a grin on his face. Axel also smiled, then attacked Jesse with a surprise noogie, peeling out into a burst of loud laughter. Jesse struggled to escape as Axel's massive fist ravaged Jesse's hair. Jesse too succumbed to the laughter, he too burst out laughing "Ahhhh! Cut it out!" he said in between a breath and laughs. That only made Axel noogie him harder. Jesse eventually escaped the barrage of noogies on his now messy hair. "Axel you messed up my hair!"
Axel just giggled, "You're welcome". He began to walk away when Jessg caught Olivia passing by.
"Oh hey, Jesse! Look at this cool contraption I bought!" she barked eagerly. She ran up to Jesse and held up a black and blue tentacle thing, there was a massive amethyst crystal growing in the middle. "This is called a skulk catalyst! It sends a redstone trigger based on how loud a noise is!" she seemed well interested in this device, Jesse moved his hands out in a manner that was asking to look. Olivia gave him the device.
"Woahhhh, this feels so strange. It's all slimy and bumpy" Jesse said in awe of what he was holding. Olivia nodded.
"I plan to test it out later, prak trap Axel." She said snarkily, taking back the block. Jesse giggled a little.
"Well you have fun then. I'm going to find Lukas" Jesse said walking away. Looking around, there was Ivor at a potion ingredient vendor and Petra at some sort of armor vendor, but Lukas was nowhere to be found within the crowd. Jesse knew that Lukas didn't like big crowds, so he was probably somewhere with less people. Jesse began to walk toward the backside of the festival, that was where Lukas might be. It's also where the more absurd vendors were set up.
Low and behold, there Socially awkward blonde was, discussing something with a very odd looking vendor group. There was a sign, upon reading it, it was found these vendors come from a company dubbed "Second Life Potions". Odd, potions were usually Ivor's thing. Jesse walked up to Lukas.
"Hey man, I was looking for you you okay?" Jesse asked him.
Lukas turned from the vendor and spoke "yeah, I'm all good just needed to escape the crowd. Plus, I found this cool potion! Bought a batch of 24 of em. Check this out!". He pulled out a blood red potion, and chugged the thing. Suddenly where Lukas once stood was an ocelot, that ran around Jesse.
"woah! A shape shifting potion!" Jesse exclaimed. In a few moments, Lukas returned to normal.
"Yep! Pretty sick isn't it?" Lukas said.
"yeah it really is" Jesse replied back. "its getting late, I think we need to start the cleanup of this place."
Lukas nodded in agreement "yeah, don't want the mobs to come wreck a nice festival."
"Then let's get started" Jesse said, guiding Lukas back to the main festival.
⧫ ⧫ ⧫ ⧫ ⧫ ⧫ ⧫ ⧫
The group decided to crash in Jesse's office building. Lukas had a hard time sleeping that night. All the others were sound asleep. Lukas felt an unbearable craving for something. He couldn't put his finger on what though. It was painful.
To try to take off the edge, Lukas got out of his bed and walked into the kitchen. He scavenged through the chests for some kind of meat. He felt the urge to eat fresh, raw flesh of an animal, even if it wasn't good for him. The urge didn't go away. He needed to taste blood. Meat. Flesh.
While he was digging through chests like some sort of animal, he jolted when he heard Jesse's voice speak out loud, "Lukas? Why are you in the raw meat chest?" his tone was a mix of concern and confusion. Lukas looked up at him swiftly. "woah buddy, calm down! Are you, okay?"
Lukas stared at the brunette for a moment, before opening his mouth to speak, "I don't know, I woke up with 2 cravings, one of which was raw meat, the other, I'm unsure of.". Lukas looked down and sighed in embarrassment. "I'm sorry Jesse"
"There's nothing to be sorry for random cravings happen." Jesse said in a soft tone. Lukas nodded. "You can eat some of the raw beef, it was cleaned so don't worry about getting sick." ,
"Thanks, Jesse." Lukas replied he pulled out some raw beef and bit into it. "yeowch!" he shouted, removing the meat from his mouth. Blood. There was blood on his lips. Lukas stuck his finger in his mouth, his face suddenly turned into shock. "Jesse... I think you need to see this"
"Yeah?" Jesse looked at Lukas, noticing the blood. Then he saw it.
Lukas now had sharp feline-like teeth.
"holy moly your teeth! They're all pointy!" Jesse said, shocked.
"What's going on with me-!?" Lukas cried.
"I don't know but I don't like it."
"Neither do I," Lukas looked at his hands, they were now clawed. "what the hell is this?!"
"I don't know, this is more of an Ivor thing-! We'll talk to him in the morning, okay?"
"Okay."
"let's go back to sleep now." Jesse said as the 2 walked back into the room everyone was crashed at.
Jesse fell asleep, but Lukas lied awake for a long while, before his own body grew exhausted and passed out.
