Disclaimer: I don't know. I dislike the regular Minecraft, but oddly got into Story Mode (shrugs). So you should know I definitely don't it XD
Story: Jesse hadn't been looking to be a hero, but now was her time to save the world, and she's just wondering when she and her friends became people who mattered and weren't losers. She also wondered why Lukas was weird around her, why Axel was acting differently, and why the men of the Order were such kicked puppies, while she was at it.
Set as fem!Jesse of the gameplay.
Spoilers: Yeeeessss. Yes, yes, yes. Beware?
Warnings: Age difference, poly relationship ("triangles" for a while though), possible sexual situations, dark/perverted/silly humor present…
Pairings: Jesse/Lukas, Jesse/Axel, Jesse/Magnus, Jesse/Gabriel, Jesse/Soren, Jesse/Ivor…(basically reverse!harem)…

The Road is Long
Chapter One: Kick Start My Heart

"Jesse Lucasta –Leader of –"

The pretty ravenette standing by the treehouse's window made an aggravated noise and threw up her hands. She had been trying to work out a name for the group, so that she and her two best friends Axel and Olivia would be ready to take on Endercon together. Unfortunately, nothing was coming to her and her imagination was drying up.

"Oink oink!"

She looked at her pet pig, who was giving her a look. "I know, Reuben. I'm trying to think up something."

"Speaking of," Axel came into the treehouse with Olivia coming up behind him. "What should we make? A Zombie, Creeper, chickens?"

Jesse gave him a weird look. "Chickens?"

Olivia grinned at her. "We were debating on our way back here on whether it would be better to fight against chicken-sized Zombies, or Zombie-sized chickens."

"I choose neither," Jesse declared blandly before giving her friends a teasing grin. "Or chickens, I guess. Zombie-sized chickens just mean more meat to be cooked."

"Haha, Jesse," Olivia rolled her eyes, though Axel burst into genuine laughter. Both girls traded amused looks over their male friend. "So…?"

"Let's do an Ender Dragon," Jesse grinned widely at them. "It'll be awesome!"

"Then you'll love this," Axel told her and went back out before coming back in with a small Ender Dragon costume. "I made it for Reuben!"

He put it on the pig, who made a few noises and posed. Olivia giggled, while Jesse clapped in delight.

"That's amazing, Axel! Great job!" she told him sincerely and he shrugged as he grinned back at her.

His face turned a little red, but Jesse missed his reaction as she cooed over her costumed pig. He looked over at Olivia, who gave him a knowing look. He just huffed at her.

"Alright, guys! Let's grab last minute stuff and head out of here, so we can get to Endercon already, 'kay?" Jesse turned back to her friends.

They agreed and they double-checked their treehouse before checking with each other and deciding they had everything from there. Then they got out of there and went around the area around their home, grabbing other materials they could use for their build. Afterwards, they started making their walk towards the convention.

As they continued their walk, Reuben ran ahead of them, pretending to be the Ender Dragon he was dressed up as. Jesse smiled, though she got an idea then.

"You know…Why don't we call ourselves The Order of the Pig?"

Her friends laughed and grabbed one of her arms each.

"Sure!" Axel kept laughing.

"Why not?" Olivia shook her head.

Jesse cheered at the same time as Reuben made happy noises.

"Then it's settled! We're The Order of the Pig!"

It may not be the cool name she'd wanted to come up with, but it was a name that was dedicated to the best and most awesome pig ever.

At the entrance to Endercon, they looked on in awe around them. Their excitement built up even more, and they were eager to get inside.

"Hey, move out of the way!"

They frowned and looked to see who shouted at them, and found a group of three that wore matching leather jackets with a really cool design on the back. The one who seemed to have spoken to them was a handsome young man with green eyes and brown hair, but a haughty look on his face that was accompanied with an ugly sneer.

"No need to be rude," Olivia snapped back, but they did move to the side for the leather-clad trio.

The leathered trio moved passed them, with the only female of the group sneering at them and saying, "Nice pig."

Jesse straightened up and stood protectively and proudly next to Reuben, glaring them passed.

"What a load of jerks!" Axel exclaimed.

"Who spat in their coffee this morning?" Olivia tacked on, watching the group still.

"Who cares?" Jesse said hotly. "Let's just get into the convention and get registered for the Building Competition."

"Yeah! You're totally right," Axel agreed with her immediately and Jesse began to lead the way.

Olivia sidled up to Axel's side, elbowing him slightly. "Obvious much?" she muttered to him, while Jesse was distracted with leading.

Axel's cheeks turned pink. "I don't have any idea what you're talking about."

Olivia smirked. "Oh, I bet you do, Mister Obvious. You should just tell her."

"No way!" Axel hissed at her in alarm, glancing worriedly at Jesse, whom thankfully was still distracted. "Stop talking about it, will you? She might hear you."

The dark-skinned girl sighed. "Fine, fine. I'm just telling you, Axel. You should get a move on it, or else you'll miss your chance. Who knows? Someone else might snatch her up."

That put a very obvious glower on Axel's face that Olivia shook her head at.

"Boys," she muttered, before moving up faster to reach Jesse's side.

It wasn't long until they entered the convention and they reached a large sectioned off area, which had the Building Competition registration desk in front of it. They saw the leather jacketed trio there registering, but a fourth member seemed to have joined them. He was blond and blue-eyed and the handsomest of the group. It wasn't until they were nearer that they heard one of the others address him as "Lukas."

"Oh, you guys are here," the female saw them first. She scoffed. "What are you guys doing here? Don't tell me you're actually going to sign up and compete!"

"Yeah, we are!" Axel said hotly. "We're The Order of the Pig and we're going to win this year!"

A round of laughter came from them, though Jesse noted the blond was frowning at his group instead.

"More like The Order of the Losers," the brunet from earlier laughed at them loudly. "We're The Ocelots, the ones who really will win the competition!"

"Cut it out, Aiden," Lukas finally spoke, and Jesse's irritated eyes were drawn to him. Her face grew a little hot, but she ignored it in favor of her irritation and wanting to sock each one of them in the face. "We have to keep going."

The group reluctantly left Jesse's group, with Lukas leading them. Olivia declared she was going to register them, looking angry as she stomped up to the person in charge of that. Axel turned to Jesse with a scowl.

"We're not going to worry about them, Jesse. We've got brains, beauty, and brawn, triple time!" he winked at her and she smiled a little at that.

"I don't know, Axel. Olivia and I might be missing the brawn factor," Jesse said dryly.

"Nah –I've seen Olivia when she's angry. She can throw a desk at a person's head! And no offense, Jesse, but you've got super human strength too, when you get angry…It's kind of scary…"

"Maybe it's a female thing," Jesse said in amusement, raising her eyebrows slightly.

"What's a female thing?" Olivia came back to them, looking much more cooled down.

Jesse repeated what she and Axel had been talking about, and Olivia was back to smiling again too.

"Nice point. Maybe it is," Olivia snickered. "Anyway, we have to head inside and get to our spot. They're starting soon!"

They agreed to head into the competition area, where they were directed to a spot. Unfortunately it was next to The Ocelots' booth.

"Ugh, can't we be free of them for once?" Axel grumbled.

"Just ignore them, guys," Jesse told them, resolved to do that herself.

They settled into their spot and started getting ready, though it wasn't long until the rival team noticed them. Aiden strode up to them first.

"I see you guys actually went through with entering," he looked at them skeptically.

"Of course we did," Axel stood in front of the girls protectively. Jesse and Olivia traded exasperated looks, but allowed their friend to do so.

Aiden laughed at them. "I doubt you guys will be any good. You guys scream rank amateurs!"

"Shows what you know!" Olivia snapped back, crossing her arms in front of her chest defensively. "We're going to win this competition, and then you'll have to eat your words!"

Aiden had a menacing grin on his face as he took a step forward, but a hand on his shoulder stopped him.

"Aiden, stop wasting your time," Lukas said firmly, having appeared by them then. "We have to focus on our build and get on it."

Just then, another female with fiery-colored red hair, covered by a bandanna, came near and was holding something.

"Lukas! I've got that Nether Star you asked for," she said and held up said Nether Star, which surprised Jesse and made her look at it in awe.

Lukas accepted it and gave it to Aiden, ordering him back to their group to add that in. Lukas then turned back to Jesse and smiled awkwardly, which made Jesse blush slightly. Axel saw and frowned a bit, glancing between the two.

"Um, this is Petra. She's great at getting stuff," Lukas told her hesitantly. Then he turned to Petra. "Thanks, Petra. We really needed that Nether Star. These are…"

"I'm Jesse," Jesse smiled friendly at the other girl. "This is Olivia and Axel, and this is Reuben. Our group name for the competition is The Order of the Pig."

Petra's lips twitched up and she reached down and pet a pleased Reuben. "Cute name. See you guys then! And good luck to both of you."

She left and then it was just Lukas still with them.

"Don't you have somewhere to be," Axel said rudely, glaring at the blond male.

Jesse was shocked at her friend's behavior, but before she could say anything, Lukas coughed and ran a hand through his hair.

"Yeah, you're right. Um, see you guys later."

When they were left to themselves, Jesse rounded on Axel and gave him a surprised and disappointed look.

"What was that about, Axel? I know his team are jerks, but he hasn't really acted like that towards us and even stopped his team. Besides, we shouldn't be stooping down to their level."

Axel's face became slightly mulish. "Yeah, well we don't know what he and his friends are saying about us behind our backs."

"And that's behind our backs and none of our business," Jesse put her foot down. "They can be that way and act however they like, because it's none of our concern and we should focus on our own build. If they want to act up, then let them. We won't be like them."

"Yeah," Olivia agreed. "If we're going to win over them, then we do it by proving them wrong and winning for real in this competition."

Axel deflated and nodded. "Yeah, you guys are right. Let's focus."

Jesse smiled brightly at him, though her emerald eyes did briefly look over at The Ocelots, specifically at the blond leader.

Aiden was laughing as he was fixing the Nether Star into the rainbow beacon they were building.

"Can you believe those three? They actually think they can win against us! Gill, hold that still for a moment," the brunet directed towards his bearded friend. He continued talking as he fixed the Nether Star more securely in place. "I mean come on! We've won this competition several years in a row! There's no way we'd lose."

"Well, better safe than sorry, so we should be focusing on this and not on other teams," Lukas cut in, frowning at him.

Honestly, he expected his team to be better than this. He had no idea what had gotten into them and why they wanted to pick a fight with the other team, who seemed new to the competition. He'd certainly never seen them before, in the years he'd competed with The Ocelots.

The dark-skinned girl with the green hat and goggles seemed very sharp and observant, while their big male friend was definitely protective of them. But the other girl…

Between Olivia, Axel, and her…Lukas couldn't help watching Jesse closely. He'd been fortunate enough that she'd introduced herself and the others to Petra, and that he'd been there at the same time, because he wasn't sure she would have given her name to him otherwise.

He remembered seeing the dark-haired, emerald-eyed girl at the registration desk, and had been hopeful for trying to get a reason to talk to her (he didn't know why, but he just felt the urge to talk to this girl). Only, to his dismay, he realized that his team had been trying to fight with her group.

"Aw, Lukas," Maya grinned at him. "We're just having a bit of fun."

"Yeah," Gill tacked on. "They're newbies. It's like a…rite of passage or something."

"And you heard them," Aiden rolled his eyes. "They think they can win. We're just setting them right."

Lukas refrained from sighing. "Let's just get our beacon done, alright guys?"

The four of them cheered and they did their handshake, to which Lukas started to smile again a bit. At the moment, he should just focus on winning with his team. And then afterwards, he could talk to Jesse, maybe offer his condolences on losing, and then they could try to hang out a bit…

When they finally finished, Lukas looked at their creation proudly. It was definitely going to catch attention and he had no doubt they'd win –

"Woah," he heard Maya say, and he looked over to her and saw that she, along with Aiden and Gill, were looking behind him.

When Lukas looked to see what had caught their attention, he felt his own jaw drop. While it probably wasn't as large as the real thing, it was still pretty large and it was built impressively. In fact, he admitted it looked a hell of an awesome thing.

In record time, Jesse's group had managed to make a replica of the Ender Dragon, complete with gleaming red eyes (was that redstone they used?) and obsidian to make the build of the body. Its sharp teeth had to have been made by diamonds.

"Where'd they get all that obsidian?" Gill asked jealously.

"I want to know about the diamonds!" Aiden exclaimed.

Lukas wanted to know too, and now wasn't so sure about his and his team's chances at winning.

Aiden fumed at the same time as he admired the other team's build. It looked freaking awesome. He started feeling worry too, more so as he noted that even the judges that were walking around and taking notes were obviously admiring it as well. What if their rainbow beacon wasn't enough to win? He and his team always won! They'd been brought together to build and stuck together through their wins. If they lost…

They'd never lost before. What would happen if they'd lost?

But obsidian and diamonds…where did they get all that? He felt his teeth grinding and he glared at the other team, even at the emerald-eyed girl he'd noted as being really pretty. Even if it wasn't as big as the real Ender Dragon, it was still bigger than him or any of his team. Bigger than them put together.

"Time to start finishing up your builds and get ready to show them off, if they're completed," the announcer told them, and he watched the other team closely as he looked back at his team's rainbow beacon.

Frowning deeply, Aiden caught sight of the team right next to that girl's booth, and of which had an obvious lava display as part of their build. He bit his lip and looked at his team. Then he made the decision to subtly walk over, and when he spotted an opportunity…He pretended to stumble onto a block holding back the lava that would have kept the other's team's lava build from spilling over to the next booth, and consequently the emerald-eyed girl's build.

Bits of the lava splashed up and he panicked, moving to avoid it and falling on his behind on the floor. Some of it got onto the girl's pig's costume, and it squealed and started to run away. He heard the girl yell at her pig anxiously.

"Oh no! Reuben!"

He felt slightly bad about it, but there was no way they'd win now, with their build about to be destroyed. But he watched in dismay as the girl talked to her team, and then she was getting off of their build and running in the direction of her pig. His dismay upped when he saw her friends begin working hard and quickly to stop the lava from reaching their creation, and ending up succeeding.

And when they moved a lever, he watched in even more envy as the Ender Dragon's mouth moved and then fireworks began shooting out of it and into the sky.

"Damn," he muttered to himself.

Jesse ran after Reuben as fast as she could, but he was fast and he already had a huge head start on her. They were some ways away from the building competition now, and as she looked around, she saw it was getting really dark. Worried, she ran across a cave that she made the decision to go into and ended up heading through it and to the other side.

To that end, she still saw no sign of Reuben until she found hoof prints. She found a carrot that she thought Reuben might like to eat, and kept walking until she found Reuben's smoking costume. Luckily, he wasn't in it and she put out the smoke. Going on, she saw some pink hidden behind some tall grass.

"Reuben, that you?" she whispered.

"Oink!" Reuben peeked his head out of the grass and saw her, and ran happily to her when he saw it was Jesse.

"I'm so happy to see you," she said worriedly, and held out the carrot. Reuben munched on it. "Don't worry me like that! I was really scared about you, you know?"

"Oink oink," Reuben said while nudging his nose against her hand.

She gave him a small smile. "Good boy. Now let's get out of here."

Just then Zombies appeared and started to come towards their direction.

"Oh crap!" Jesse gasped and led the way away from there. She and Reuben made it to the tall grass on the other side and thought they were free, until Creepers swarmed towards them and they had to flee again. They also fled from the Skeletons that shot arrows at them, before they were back against a wall and were cornered by them all.

"Reuben," Jesse said determinedly, even though she was really scared. "I want you to run back to Endercon! Be safe, alright? I'll distract them!"

"Oink…" Reuben looked at her hesitantly.

"No, Reuben! You have to go! Go!" she repeated and Reuben made a dash passed the creatures closing in.

As he left, Jesse took out her wooden sword and began to attack the hostile mob, doing her best to keep their attention on her. However, just as Reuben was safe and out of distance, her wooden sword broke and Jesse yelped, now unarmed and in danger of being overwhelmed.

Just then, a huge spider landed on top of her and she screamed, attempting to get it off of her. She struggled to get it off, while all around her those things were closing in. However, out of nowhere, the spider was thrown off of her and she saw a hand in front of her face. She quickly grabbed it and was pulled up, and she then looked to see the owner of it. She gasped loudly.

Of all the people to run into, the one who saved her was Gabriel the Warrior, of The Order of the Stone!

Started 2/15/16 – Completed 2/26/16

A/n: Welp, I feel strange about writing and uploading a Minecraft story. Never thought I would…Anyway, obviously this is going to be based off of the playthrough, but probably not completely going by it, as you can see by the changes in here. It'll be pretty boring if I just copy the game completely, right? My only familiarity with Minecraft is with Story Mode, but I still hope everyone enjoyed this first chapter and please remember to review!

Quick Points:

1. Obsidian and diamond: Obviously, they didn't use diamonds XD Obsidian though, I'm debating about…

2. Actors/Actresses:

Order of the Stone:
Soren: Michael Cudlitz (as Abraham from Walking Dead)
Ivor: Colin O'Donoghue (as Hook from Once Upon a Time)
Ellegard: Hayley Atwell (as Agent Carter from Marvel)
Magnus: Mark Strong
Gabriel: Idris Elba

Jesse's Group:
Jesse: Willa Holland
Axel: Stan Yanevski
Olivia: Candice Patton
Lukas: Freddie Stroma
Petra: Emma Stone

3. I miss Reuben.