5 ✣ Dead Enders

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"Would you guys rather fight a hundred chicken sized zombies, or ten zombie sized chickens?" Olivia asked as me, her, and Axel walked to the building competition, prepared to build their Enderman Fireworks Machine.

"Huh?" Axel asked, confused. I laughed.

"I guess the mega chickens, they'd be abominations!" I exclaimed.

"Wow, what about their giant feet?" she asked.

"Abomination!" I exclaimed. A month had passed since we had been trapped in the game. It was actually kind of fun, but at the same time, I missed the real world. Reuben leaped around in the Ender Dragon costume Axel had made for him, letting out his 'dragon roars' every few seconds.

"Nice pig, losers," even in Minecraft, I was still in the exact social status.

"Oh great, Lukas and the Ocelots are here..." Axel sighed.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the Order of the Losers!" Aiden exclaimed.

"Great, the fail squad's here" Maya laughed.

"Hey, Lukas, have anything to say to them?" Gill asked. Lukas took one look at me and my team and then
turned away.

"Lets go guys" he said and Aiden, Gill, and Maya followed him, leaving the sign up booth open.

"Name please" the lady who sat at the desk said.

"Axel, and how do you do?" Axel asked.

"No, your team name" she said.

"Well crap... a team name you said?" Axel groaned. I searched my thoughts and then.

"We're the Dead Enders" I said.

"Woah, thats cool" Axel said.

"Alright, Dead Enders, you guys are in booth five!" the lady smiled and Axel began to walk through the gate to the competition, but got stuck. He squirmed and after a second or two, he was free. Aiden laughed and the Ocelots began to walk to their booth. We arrived at our booth and looked over at the Ocelots in awe.

"They have a beacon? A freaking, beacon?" Axel gaped at the experienced group.

"They have stained glass, they're building a rainbow beacon!" Olivia added.

"A Enderman is way cooler and scarier than some fancy rainbow light!" I said.

"Look its the Order of the Losers, again!" Gill walked over to us followed by Maya and Aiden who laughed.

"We're just looking" Olivia said, crossing her arms.

"There'll be plenty of time for staring after it wins and gets shown at EnderCon!" Aiden replied. "Oh and EnderCon doesn't allow outside food or drink." He was talking about Reuben who squealed in anger and terror.

"You really shouldn't mess with Reuben" I told Aiden.

"What harm could a pig do?" he asked me.

"Keep chit-chatting and find out" I said.

"Aiden! We've got work to do!" Lukas shouted at Aiden. Aiden, Gill, and Maya walked away.

"Hey guys" it was Petra, holding her iron pickaxe on her shoulder.

"Hey, Petra" I smiled at her.

"Hows your build going?" she asked.

"Only time will tell, but we're optimistic" Axel told her.

"Hey, Petra, thanks for that Nether Star" Lukas walked over to Petra.

"Not a problem, Lucas" Petra smiled at him.

"You helped these jerks?" Axel asked her.

"For the right price, i'll help anyone, if you need anything, you know where to find me" Petra said, walking away.

"But none of us know where to find you" Olivia told her.

"Exactly" Petra replied before vanishing into the forest.

"Hey, no hard feelings guys, if your cool with Petra, you're cool with us, lets just forget about all this and, you know, make this about how cool our builds are" Lukas said, smiling.

"May the best team win" I responded.

"Careful what you wish for."

"We'll see about that" I responded coldly

"Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the first, EnderCon building competition!" the lady from the sign in exclaimed, standing on a crafting table, people cheered. "The winners of this years competition will have their build featured at EnderCon and will meet, in person, Gabriel the Warrior!" people cheered louder.

"Ocelots!" the Ocelots exclaimed, doing a handshake.

"Woah, handshake? We don't have a handshake" Olivia sighed.

"We'll just make one up, we'll call it the... ummm" I thought for a second.
"The Builder Bump!" we did a random handshake that I had thought up.

"And just like that, i'm nervous again..." Olivia sighed.

"Come on! The Dead Enders can't loose!" I exclaimed.

"Lets do it!" Axel exclaimed.

"Building starts... now!" we began building the Fireworks Machine, placing blocks and redstone -which Olivia handled- quickly. When we were done with the fireworks machine, I heard Aiden's voice.

"Oh no, a fireworks dispenser, I'm so scared!" Aiden shouted at us teasingly.

"You worry about your build, and we'll worry about ours" we leaped down from the machine and began to place the black dyed wool that would become the Enderman. Once the statue was complete, Olivia set down a lever, we all looked at each other, worry in our eyes.

"Here goes nothing" Olivia sighed as she pulled the lever. Fireworks began to go off above the Enderman and people started to walk up to the machine. They stared in awe at the Fireworks. In the corner of my eye, I noticed Aiden break a block. Lava came pouring out, setting Reuben's costume on fire. I gasped.

Reuben squealed in terror and ran into the forest madly.

"You guys stay here! Save the machine!" I shouted.

"You got it!" Axel exclaimed. We leaped off the machine. I pushed Aiden down as I ran after Reuben, knowing very well the sun was beginning to set.

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