Chapter 1

Katherine's POV

"Would you rather fight 100 chicken-sized zombies, or 10 zombie-sized chickens?" Olivia asked Jesse, "just to be clear, you wouldn't have any weapons or armor."

I looked up from the Fault in our blocks book Olivia had made me read and watched Jesse think about his answer as he practiced his fighting skills on the wooden dummy in the corner.

"I'd have to go with the zombie-sized chickens, not because I want to or think it would be easy, but because it would be an abomination."

"Imagine their giant feet!" Olivia replied sarcastically.

"Like I said, an abomination." Jesse defended himself.

"Soooo, I put a daylight sensor on the roof…" Olivia started.

"Mhmhm," Jesse and I said simultaneously, not really listening.

"… And if I'm right these lights should turn on once it gets dark." She continued.

"Mhmhm." We said, again, not really knowing what we were 'mhmhm-ing' about.

"I mean," Olivia continued obliviously, "I didn't want to just leave Ruben here with nothing while we were at Endercon."

Jesse and I snapped our attention to Olivia as she said that.

"Ahem, but Ruben is coming with us." Jesse said as Ruben, his pet pig, pushed the armor stand back in its place and smiled excitedly.

(A/N: You all know that sweet, innocent, adorable Reuben smile ❤)

Olivia sighed, "I know. I'm not saying he shouldn't come. I'm not! But it's just that he makes us look like… amateurs. Now don't get me wrong, I like having him around but, isn't it weird that you take him with you everywhere you go?"

Jesse looked at Reuben. "He's my wingman. Everyone wants to talk to the guy with the pig." Ruben jumped onto the crafting table in sitting in front of the window and nodded in agreement.

I shook my head and smiled at the two and decided not to intervene.

"You mean talk about the guy with the pig. Like 'who's that weird guy with the weird pig. How weird.'"

Jesse glared at Olivia.

I looked up from my book. "That's not the nicest thing to say, Olivia." I said, putting my book in my pocket and crossing my arms.

She sighed, "I didn't mean anything by it. I'm glad he's coming. I just don't want to give people one more reason to call us losers." Olivia turned back to her contraption with a sad look on her face.

"Embrace being a loser Olivia! And then you can be anything!" Jesse said excitedly.

"What if I want to be a winner?"

"Anything but that." He said.

"Hey, at least we win at being losers!" I said reassuringly, throwing my arms in the air triumphantly.

We all started laughing, until we heard a creeper below the trap door on the floor that served as the entrance and exit to their treehouse.

"Ssssssss…"

My silver eyes widened.

Please don't blow up, please don't blow up, please don't blow up… I thought desperately.

"BOOM!" Axel yelled, wearing a green creeper mask and popping his head through the trap door.

"AAAAHHHH!" we screamed.

Ruben was so startled he fell right off the crafting table.

"Oh man! That was awes-Oof!" Before Axel could finish, Ruben head-butted him in the stomach angrily.

"Axel?! What the crap was that for?!" Jesse exclaimed.

"You gave me a HEART ATTACK!" I screamed, my hand on my chest.

"Great, now I'm gonna smell like pig at Endercon." Axel complained.

"Axel, that wasn't funny!" Olivia said, and we all gave him the evil-eye.

"I brought you good times and now I'm being punished for it?" He asked angrily.

"You scared us half to death!" I said.

Olivia sighed, "do you have the fireworks?" she asked.

Axel's eyes lit up and we looked at him expectantly. "Yes. I even brought something for the little guy." He said, pulling out an Enderdragon costume from his pockets and putting it on Ruben.

"He looks awesome!" Jesse exclaimed as Ruben gave his best dragon roar, which sounded more like a strangled pig-dragon crossbreed, but was still good nonetheless.

I giggled.

"It only took me a million hours to make it." Axel exaggerated.

"Alright, alright." Olivia said, and we forgave him.

"You do have the fireworks, right?" Olivia asked Axel again.

"Yes, waiting on you guys!" He replied in exasperation.

"Then let's go." Olivia said.

"Okay, but I just need to grab some things first." Jesse said as we started climbing down the trap door.

~le time-skip of time-skipyness~

"Okay, I heard a pretty juicy rumor about the Endercon building competition, but you guys have to promise not to say anything!" Axel said excitedly. "Plus, it comes in two parts, each part more exciting than the last!"

"Spit it out Axel!" Jesse said excitedly.

"Well, part one, according to my sources, the special guest at this year's Endercon is none other than Gabriel the warrior him freaking-self!" Axel said excitedly.

"Woah, what's part two?!" I asked, my eyes growing wider by the second.

"Part two is that whoever wins the building competition will get to meet him!" Axel said wistfully.

"Meeting Gabriel would be a dream, and an honor." Jesse said.

My mouth just hung open until Olivia closed it for me. "Wouldn't want a bat flying in there would we?" She joked.

I glared playfully at her.

"Now we have to win." Jesse said.

"Okay," Olivia says and we all stop and stand in a circle, "so what's the plan?"

"We don't just build something functional, we build something fun!" Jesse says. "Once we build the fireworks machine like we planned, we build something cool on top of it!"

"You might be into something…" Olivia said thoughtfully.

"I think so too, so I say we should build a Creeper!" Axel said.

"Wouldn't an Enderman be scarier? I'm way more scared of Endermen than I am of Creepers." Olivia protested, giving Axel a look. He rolled his eyes at her.

Jesse looked at me. The first thing that came to my mind was a zombie.

"A zombie?" I shrugged.

"let's go with Olivia's plan." Jesse said.

I was relived. A zombie had sounded like a lame idea anyway. Almost no one feared zombies anymore.

"Awwww… Olivia's thing?" Axel complained.

"Are you whining?" Olivia teased.

"Of course not. I was just saying Awwww-some!"

I rolled my eyes.

"Everyone knows you were complaining, Axel!" I thought to myself. "You think we have all we need?" I asked.

"It wouldn't hurt to grab a little more…" Jesse said.

"Okay then, when we are all done collecting we will meet back here, sound good?" I asked.

They all nodded their agreement.

"This year, we can't lose. Can. Not. Bring it in!" Jesse said.

"Okay, 'prepare to dare' on three… no, 'preparing is daring'… no that's the same thing… forget it! 'Team' on three…" Jesse finally said.

"One, two, three, Team!" They said in unison. And went to collect supplies.

~Time skip, brought to you by Frito-Lay~

As the team walked to the building competition, Olivia said, "we are so ready for this!"

…Then some idiot walked by. "Nice pig, LOSERS."

We glared after him as he walked away.

"Oh, great!" Axel said, looking in front of them at the building competition check-in desk, "it's Lukas and the Ocelots, the rivalry continues!"

Standing at the desk were four people in black leather jackets with ocelot-head logos on the back. There were three boys and one girl. Lukas, the leader of the Ocelots was a blonde-haired boy with sky blue eyes. The boy to his right was a brown haired bearded guy named Gil, and on his left stood Aiden, with light brown hair and green eyes, he was the meanest of the group. The girl's name was Maya, and she, like most of the others, also had brown hair. She had blue eyes, which were slightly aquamarine. Just at that moment, Aiden noticed them and elbowed Gil and Maya to get their attention.

"Well, look who's here, it's the Order of the Losers!" Gil said.

Maya, laughed at his 'joke'. "Ha! Good one Gil!"

Aiden tried to get Lukas's attention. "Hey, Lukas, get a load of these losers!"

Lukas turned around and said, "c'mon guys, leave them alone."

And the Ocelots walked away to their station, Aiden glaring at them the whole way.

The team walked up to a smiling lady at the desk.

"Name please." She said kindly.

"Axel, and how do ya do?" Axel told her.

The lady kept smiling. It was a little creepy. "No, your team name." She said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Oh… a team name… uhhh…" Axel said, trying to think of one.

"We are not ready for this…" Olivia said.

Jesse looked like he was about to speak, but I cut him off before he said something stupid like 'Order of the Pig'. "We're the uh… the Order of the Ender!" I glanced at my necklace, it was made of an ender pearl. It didn't look like a normal ender pearl though, this one was bright blue ang gold. I had always had it.

"Okay, Order of the Ender! You are in booth five." Ugh. That happy look is so creepy.

"Thanks!" Jesse said.

Axel went through the gate first, but got stuck and I shoved him free. Aiden just so happened to see and laughed at us. Then we went to booth five to start working on our Enderman.

"They have a beacon!? A freakin' beacon!? Freakin' beacon!?" Axel said, looking at the Ocelot's beacon.

"They're not just building a beacon, they're building a rainbow beacon!" I realized.

"Their difficulty score is going to be higher than our total score! We're gonna lose…" Olivia added gloomily.

"Faith." Jesse told her.

"Huh?" Olivia asked, confused.

"You've got to have faith Olivia! Just a sliver, a portion! Just a little faith. Plus, I'm hungry… To win!" He said reassuringly.

"Well we should probably stop staring at them…" Olivia started.

Too late.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the Order of the Losers, again!" Aiden said.

"We were just looking." Olivia stated.

"There will be plenty of time to look, once it wins and gets shown at Endercon!" Aiden told her.

"Well you're being unpleasant." Axel said.

"Well, maybe not all of you," Aiden continued, looking down at Reuben. "Endercon doesn't allow outside food or drink!"

I glared at him and curled my fists.

"I'm talking about your pig!" He snapped.

"Reuben is not food. But soon, you might be if you keep antagonizing us!" I snarled, wanting to punch the smug look off Aiden's face.

"Oh yeah? I bet I could take you on with my bare hands!"

I cracked my knuckles. "Bring it, punk!"

"Hey, hey, hey! No one is going to fight anyone, okay? This is a building competition, not an arena!" Jesse said, holding me back by my arm.

"Aiden! Stop screwing around, we have work to do!" Lukas called, oblivious to the recent threats.

"You guys are lucky I'm busy." Aiden said, stalking away.

"Hey Jesse. Guys." A voice said from behind. I turned to see Petra, an orange haired girl with a blue striped bandana and an unforgettable reputation. She had her iron pickaxe slung over one shoulder casually.

"Hi Petra!" I said happily.

Then Lukas walked over.

"Hey, Petra! I just want to thank you for that Wither Star." He said.

"No problem Lukas." She replied.

"Wait, you helped these tools?" Axel asked her angrily.

"For the right price, I'll help anyone." She said. "Anyway, see you later. If you need me, you know where to find me." Petra called behind her back as she walked away.

"But, none of us know where to find you!" Olivia called after her.

"Exactly." Petra replied.

"Well… uh… if you're cool with Petra you're cool with us." Lukas said, "So let's forget about our rivalries and just make this about how cool our builds are."

"May the best team win," I said cheerfully and stuck out my hand. He shook it with a smile.

"Be careful what you wish for!" He said jokingly.

"Oh, we'll see." I said gravely. And we went back to our builds.

"Building starts… now!" the always-happy lady said, and set off a firework to signal the beginning of the building competition.

~time-skip 'cuz I am bored~

"Ruben!?" I called.

Long-story-short we built our Enderman, Aiden broke a stone block containing a pool of lava. Cuz he is an IDIOT! And next thing I know Ruben is on fire and Jesse is telling Olivia and Axel to protect the build.

And now here I am… in a dark forest… in the middle of nowhere! I thought to myself angrily. Why did Jesse and I have to split up?! I don't even have a sword.

I came to a fork in the path and took a right turn. "Ruben!? Are you there?" Still nothing.

I yelp as I see a spider crawling up to me and search my pockets for any kind of weapon I could find. I settled for a stick that I had left over from the build I did earlier. I held my flimsy little stick like I would if it were a sword. This was gonna suck.

"Alright, stick vs. spider…. I got this…" I said to myself.

Who are you kidding?! You're gonna die! I thought frightfully. I took a deep breath which caught in my throat when more mobs poured out of the darkness.

I heard Jesse yelling for Ruben to stay back from deeper in the forest. "Jesse!?" I called desperately as the mobs walked towards me. "I have had enough of all these stupid mobs!"

There was a flash of bright light that came from somewhere in front and below me and I was thrown backwards, temporarily blinded. What was that?! I shook the thought from my head, I'd worry about it later.

The spider took my temporary blindness as a signal to try and tackle me, and I just managed to dodge the attack, turn around, pick myself up, and run away as fast as my feet would carry me.

"You will join Death!"

Did that spider just talk? I paused and looked back and thought I saw the mob's eyes take on a purple glow.

"He will teach you the true meaning of power!"

This wasn't right! MOBS DON'T TALK! What was happening? I pushed the thought away for further scrutiny and continued running, but before I could get more than fifteen blocks away from the mobs an arrow lodged itself in my left leg and I fell face-first on the ground. I turned on to my back. The spider took this second chance to land on top of me before I could even cry out. I stared into its burning red eyes- only, they weren't red.

They were purple.

"You know you can't escape me. You know you can't escape Death!" I closed my eyes. The spider bit my shoulder and I cried out. "Now you belong to Death!"

"Katherine!?"

I heard someone call my name and the spider's weight was lifted of me. "Ow…" I moaned.

Someone tapped my shoulder. Jesse!

"Jesse?" I asked.

"Kath? Are you okay?" Asked a familiar voice. Petra!

"Jesse? Petra?" I asked, lifting my head to see my two friends standing over me.

"Yes. Now c'mon. We have to get back to my place." Petra replied.

Jesse helped me stand.

"Are you hurt?" He asked.

"I don't think so..." I said.

The greatest pain I had ever felt jolted through my head and all I could see was a giant pair of burning purple eyes.

"YOU. ARE. MINE."

And the world went black.

I hope you guys liked the first chapter of my Minecraft Story Mode fanfic! I have been working on it for about two years now, and I swear I've edited this chapter five billion times.

Right now this story doesn't have a cover, but I swear I'm working on it.

I do not own Minecraft or Minecraft Story Mode. I do not own any of the characters listed above (except for Katherine, and various other villains and characters that will make their appearances throughout the story).

Feedback and constructive criticism is appreciated! Please no flames!

If you have any questions about the story, just ask! I'll be here quite frequently.

Bai~

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