# The End's Disappearance - Listener Stories

An episode of [Minecraft Short Stories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1570004719), 22 Apr 2023, 15 min.

Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO7955492060.mp3

Thanks to PhoenixLord for sending in their story! Sorry I didn't remember your name... In this episode, I tell two (more) stories set in the End. The first is a listener story that focuses on Steve's accidental destruction of the End, and then the second is by me, and is about a player named Olivia who goes to the End in search of Shulker shells. Hope you enjoy! LINKS Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon. Subscribe to the YouTube channel! To submit your stories, go to minecraftshortstories.com! -------- This podcast is not associated with or approved by Mojang.

## Transcript

[0:13] Welcome back to the Minecraft short stories podcast in this
[0:17] episode. Today, we have two stories one
[0:19] by listener. I do not have their name written
[0:22] down, but I will correct them set the description and an
[0:25] original story by me. Camos also.
[0:28] Yes, we did reach 100 subscribers, we are 133 at the
[0:34] time of recording and Grayson will be on the show, I resume
[0:38] next episode, next one to be released, but it may be the
[0:42] episode after That in a way watch out for that also.
[0:46] Yes, the podcast was taken down from Spotify.
[0:49] And apple podcasts about 3 weeks ago, And the reasons for that
[0:56] are that it was in violation of one of Mojang's.
[1:03] Rules in terms of service. So the reason I was taken down
[1:07] was because on the cover art of the podcast, what you first see
[1:12] when you look up mine, Crusher stories on oval plug, as to
[1:15] Spotify, the Minecraft is larger than the short stories and thus
[1:20] can be taken down on the grounds that it is acting as an official
[1:25] microphone guest. So it was taken down.
[1:32] And it got back up but you will see some changes.
[1:36] Probably with the first thing you guys noticed was that the
[1:38] cover has changed. I think it's looks even better
[1:41] now. But short stories is now larger
[1:43] than Minecraft and also at the bottom of the pocket start, it
[1:47] says an unofficial, my group show, also, inside the
[1:50] description of the podcast and all the episodes descriptions
[1:52] from now on, it will say, none emerging product not associated
[1:56] or approved by Mojang, So that's that but luckily we got the
[2:03] podcast back up. And I will continue releasing
[2:06] episodes talking about that. I will not be releasing episodes
[2:10] weekly for the next month as I have a lot of tests and large
[2:17] things I need to do for school. So I do not have the time to
[2:20] write and produce this podcast, but I will try to get episode
[2:23] out within the next month. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy
[2:27] the story, but first a word from our sponsor.
[2:35] The first story is by The Listener, I created them inside
[2:40] the description. The end of the end chapter one,
[2:44] The Prophecy eons ago, a mysterious being known as the
[2:49] illusion or made a prophecy. It stated that when the injured
[2:52] Dragon was slain, the in dimension would crumble The
[2:56] Terror from the Stars would end in the environment?
[2:58] And Shockers will be wiped out. However, that should never
[3:02] happen because the Ender Dragon was nearly impossible to slay,
[3:06] chapter 2, arrival of the player.
[3:09] The end was peaceful. The Ender Dragon swooped over,
[3:12] the mainland and the enemy until ported.
[3:15] All over the place, in the in cities, on the outer Islands,
[3:19] the Shocker civilization traded with the Enderman, as always,
[3:23] then it happened again. It happens about once a year.
[3:27] They are above and obsidian platform, fluctuated, a green
[3:30] and blue spark crackled and burnt a dark form emerges from
[3:33] the portal. Somebody was coming through the
[3:35] from the Overworld chapter 3, the player as the players
[3:40] pixels. Can't Other the interval realize
[3:42] that something was different about this particular player.
[3:45] Instead of the gleaming blue armor that the Indians were used
[3:48] to, this players armor was a gleaming black, the Enderman
[3:52] realized that the Fable nether right?
[3:53] Was not a myth it was real, the player pulled out a goat horn
[3:57] and blew it dude. Ah I am Steve and I'll free the
[4:02] end the player yelled. Steve pulled out his bow and
[4:04] fired an arrow at one of the crystals on the obsidian
[4:07] pillars, it exploded the Ender Dragon Ward The battle was on
[4:13] chapter 4. The battle arrows fired from
[4:16] Steve's bow Crystal after Crystal exploded.
[4:19] After 1 hour the final Crystal was destroyed the dragon roared
[4:23] in anger, and dived a. Steve he pulled out his nether
[4:26] at sword and whacked the Ender Dragons head, it flashed red
[4:30] again and again under dragon was dying.
[4:34] He flew off, he pulled his bow out again and fired Arrow after
[4:37] Arrow at the dragon. A fire truck blew off the
[4:40] dragon's mouth. Exploded against Steve and he
[4:43] flashed red repeatedly, flashed red, one last time and then
[4:46] landed on side. I'm flying everywhere.
[4:49] The Enderman and the Ender Dragon cheered.
[4:51] They were safe. Chapter 5 return of the
[4:55] Warriors, the air above the obsidian platform, fluctuated.
[4:59] Once again, the green and blue sphere crackle into existence.
[5:03] Once again, however, this time, two figures, clad and gleaming
[5:06] leather armor emerge from the portal.
[5:09] Steve had brought his friend Alex to help.
[5:12] They both yield a brutal war cry and charged the dragon.
[5:16] After about an hour of combat, Dragon exploded into a supernova
[5:19] of light green XP balls rain down on the players.
[5:23] The inner dragon was dead, a sphere of dark energy emerge
[5:27] from the dragons corpse, the black Vortex, sucking everything
[5:30] in blocks of in stone Broke Free from the islands and vanished
[5:34] into the void dannemann screamed as they are stuck to their Doom
[5:39] chapter 6, the collapse of the islands, everything in the end,
[5:42] apart from the Bedrock blocks around the main island crumbled
[5:45] into pixels and collapsed into the portal Steve.
[5:48] Now it's realized that they had to leave immediately or they
[5:51] would suffer the same fate as a whole.
[5:53] Dimension Alex has blasted into pixels and sucked into the void
[5:56] portal. She screamed as she died, she
[5:59] isn't dead forever. Steve thought, she'll just
[6:02] respond, at least that's what he saw before.
[6:04] He saw the messages and chat Alex's game mode was set.
[6:07] The hardcore Alex was pixelated by an injured black hole.
[6:13] Steve realized Alex was not responding.
[6:15] She had died and hardcore Steve wanted to grieve.
[6:19] Alex is lost but he knew he had to leave before.
[6:21] Sever the same face her. She began floating towards the
[6:24] black hole desperation. He threw an inter Purl into the
[6:27] exit portal. Skipping to the end poem.
[6:30] When you return to the other world he respond just worried.
[6:33] Should the end portal room. However it wasn't there, not at
[6:37] all. In its place was a giant piece
[6:39] of map art with the words. The end is no more chapter 7.
[6:44] A new life Steve returned to the surface, then went to live a new
[6:48] life without Alex. He built a couple stem gray for
[6:51] Alex, never forgot her loss. It's strangely though, although
[6:54] not much had changed in the Overworld, Steve never saw an
[6:57] Enderman and a pearl Eye of Ender, or Ender Chest ever.
[7:00] Again the end. The next story is by me again,
[7:09] does not have a name. I keep forgetting to need my
[7:11] stories. Let's just call it the end
[7:14] story, because it is about the end.
[7:21] I stepped up to the glowing end portal deep underground in the
[7:24] stronghold. Squinting into the white stars
[7:26] and particles. Luckily the stronghold was
[7:30] easily accessible due to the Minecart Track built to carry
[7:32] people there. My friend, Cole walked up beside
[7:35] me, reassuringly. Putting a hand on my shoulder.
[7:39] Remember Olivia, he said you get two shotgun shells and we're set
[7:43] for life. I nodded thinking of the
[7:46] daunting task before me, I had to find and successfully
[7:49] infiltrate in in city, but if I could talk or shells soul for a
[7:53] small fortune each because of the high demand from players,
[7:58] I'm Going into the end together as many as I can.
[8:00] Well Cole stays due to his lack of light.
[8:02] Ra, I got my letter from my mom who doesn't fly and knows I can
[8:06] take care of myself. I will, I said, simply I settle
[8:11] my nerves and stepped into the inky Blackness.
[8:13] That would teleport me to the ends.
[8:16] I spawned on the obsidian platform that all players spawn
[8:18] on, but I didn't even bother going to the mainland with
[8:21] rockets. I blasted off the platform.
[8:23] After approving, my light ra, the mainland faded out my site
[8:26] as a sword higher. Smaller Islands emerge from the
[8:33] Blackness dotting. The infinite void like fireflies
[8:35] at night, most of the islands are small and secluded on my
[8:39] right and left. The edges of gigantic floating
[8:41] land masses, went in and then out of you, it was on one of
[8:44] these that in City would be found from the void Rose.
[8:48] Another of the giant land masses, I swerved downwards
[8:51] towards it and landed lightly upon the griddle in stone.
[8:55] The light was constant in the end even though there are
[8:57] usually no nearby light sources. No one knew how the only natural
[9:02] illumination came from the chorus.
[9:03] Plants, long purple and flower top that stretch upwards for
[9:07] many more blocks. Didn't even the trees in the
[9:09] Overworld. I surveyed my surroundings but
[9:13] didn't see any signs of an in City watching myself from the
[9:16] ground. Again, I'll be getting Gliding
[9:18] Over the island just to make sure there were many cities not
[9:21] just at an rocks in the large purple plants sign.
[9:24] And I use my Rockets to Jet off to another Island after only 5
[9:28] minutes of flying a promising, land mass came into view.
[9:32] I scoured it from the are not bothering to touchdown.
[9:35] No luck here either I took off and landed on another meal and
[9:40] quick search still nothing. Finally, I found one, I had
[9:44] flown off to the right of the island.
[9:45] I was previously exploring, he became immediately apparent a
[9:49] huge tan and purple Tower joining up from the flat
[9:51] landscape. How do usually just fly up to
[9:54] the floating ship rubber tires together, the loop.
[9:57] But this time I was here for the Shocker shells.
[10:00] So it make more sense to start from the bottom and work my way
[10:02] up. I touch down in front of the
[10:06] doorway, at the bottom of the tower, stuck my head in a
[10:09] downwards and insanely tall, broken spiral staircase, adorned
[10:13] with, in rods high above, I could see Shockers immediately
[10:18] noticeable by the opening and closing boxes, they lived in.
[10:21] Now the only way I could see to get up there was to climb up the
[10:24] staircase as opposed to narrowed to fly it with my ledger, a
[10:28] place to block to reach the first step and stared myosins.
[10:31] The staircase was in relatively good shape and I only had to
[10:34] play Place a block to help myself up in frequently.
[10:38] I didn't have to worry about the Shocker bullets.
[10:39] Yet, I did stop and put on the armor of storing.
[10:42] My inventory with a shield and sword hands.
[10:45] I felt much safer. A few minutes later, the first
[10:49] shocker came into view. It's box flew up.
[10:51] And before I could take a swing at it, adds a quickly to knock
[10:54] it away. With my shield, I / downwards
[10:57] with my sword as to shocker charged up another of the Flying
[11:00] Ten Bullets, My Sword struck the creature within the box and it
[11:03] flashed red before closing. So suddenly, my sword was stuck
[11:06] in it, but my hands around it and pulled using the sword to
[11:10] Leverage The Box, open it, sprang open.
[11:13] And as I grab my sword, I'm struck by the bullet.
[11:17] It didn't hurt too much with my diamond armor but I instantly
[11:20] started floating upwards and away from the Shocker.
[11:23] My helmet smashed into the stairs above me, and luckily
[11:25] left me, relatively unaffected, I waited for the effect to wear
[11:29] off, or blocking the soccer. Subsequent attempts to continue
[11:32] my floating finally wore off and I finished off the Shocker.
[11:37] I placed a shocker shells, and some inventory and continued my
[11:39] client. I'm at two more Shockers.
[11:42] I was able to avoid their attacks long enough to finish
[11:44] them off. The number of purple shells.
[11:47] Mentor was growing and so were the denser.
[11:49] My shield, the religions of battering from the Shockers was
[11:52] really taking its toll. I could stop soon though.
[11:56] These shells would suffer enough for us to be well off already,
[11:59] but I decided I would continue more.
[12:01] My shield could take a few more hits, I attempted to bad off,
[12:06] another chakras attempt at my demise but my shield was not up
[12:10] for it. It was apparently more damage
[12:12] than I had believed the bullet. Hit me.
[12:15] And again, I felt the tingling sensation that came with
[12:17] levitation. My helmet.
[12:19] Hit the ceiling once more but this time I heard a loud
[12:22] cracking and snapping sound as Muhammad broke my actual head,
[12:26] hit the ceiling and I went with pain as I floated helplessly in
[12:29] the air. Another bullet came spinning
[12:31] right at me, I tried to slap it away, but the tangling still
[12:35] washed over me with the new Duds of levitation.
[12:37] The bullets were still hurting me.
[12:39] Even with my diamond armor, if I was stuck here, it would all be
[12:42] over. A third bullet crashed into me
[12:46] against all my best attempt to block it.
[12:48] My chest plate, had a large crack grunts to front.
[12:50] Now, my leggings looked about ready to break.
[12:53] One more of the chakras. Projectiles could finish me.
[12:56] I did enough time for levitation to wear off and I could
[12:59] hopefully dispatch the Shocker. I looked around for a way to
[13:02] block the bullet. My eyes fell on the mangled
[13:04] Shield still in my wrist. I know what to do, I can feel
[13:08] the levitation wearing off. Just needs a little longer.
[13:11] I watched intently as another bullet shot of the chakras box.
[13:15] Turning and shooting right towards me, I waited, and
[13:18] through my shield directly at it.
[13:20] The shield smashed against The Bold and midair and hit the
[13:22] wall. The entire across me with a
[13:24] clatter levitation fizzled out, and I landed on my feet.
[13:27] So weird brandish before the Shocker could even shoot another
[13:31] bullet. I had already dispatched of it
[13:33] and taking the Shell with my armor in shambles, in my
[13:36] inventory full of shells, it carefully made my way down and
[13:39] now empty inspired back to the old world Cole was delighted
[13:43] while horrified at how close that come to death.
[13:45] Luckily my troubles paid off and me and my friends were able to
[13:48] sell them and live comfortably. The end I just really set the in
[13:56] story ended with the end that was not intentional, but I like
[13:59] it. Hope you guys enjoyed those
[14:08] stories. Thanks for the listener that I
[14:11] do not have the name on, but I was inside the description for
[14:13] submitting a story. Make sure to check out the
[14:16] YouTube channel Link in the description while you're down
[14:20] there. Check out all the other links.
[14:21] Got some cool stuff down there. Also yes, the website has been
[14:25] down for a while now and that's because I have moved from
[14:29] WordPress to Squarespace and I'm currently designing the site.
[14:35] I am waiting a little bit because it will cost me thirty
[14:38] six dollars a month. Which is a little bit of a drain
[14:41] on my income. Well, not my income on my
[14:45] savings. So in a little while that site
[14:49] should be up Ivory linked. Some of the newer episodes with
[14:53] the side that still works. It's just hosted on WordPress
[14:56] still. so, if you would really want to submit Story, look at
[15:00] it's one of the links inside the Quest for the ancient blade or
[15:05] The invasion of the swamp and it should work.
[15:09] Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed. And I will see you inside the
[15:12] next episode.

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