The three took deep breaths as they finished the last of the firework contraption. Now, for the fireworks…

Olivia went wide-eyed, looking over at Axel's way. "Please tell me you brought the fireworks." mumbled a nervous Olivia, and Axel narrowed his eyes. "Yeah, it's right here. I'll sit it up, because you guys look like you just ran a marathon." Axel muttered, irritation dripping off his voice like venom. "I guess you could… could say it like that." Jesse said, her hands on her knees while she panted. That wasn't even the Zombie-building part.

"Okay, now… when we pull the lever, the fireworks should work." The three nodded, Rueben on the ground as they started working on the Zombie. After about thirty minutes, they finally finished the build. The zombie looked exactly like the green monsters they usually saw at night. The groaning made it hard for Jesse to sleep one time, but she had learned to just ignore them. They couldn't actually reach her. "Okay, are you guys ready?" Jesse asked, while the other two nodded. "Okay… here goes nothing." Olivia said with an unsure tone in her voice. "Remember what I said, Olivia: Faith."

Olivia pushed on the lever, the fireworks bursting from the contraption they had created, and it looked great. Different colors exploded from various places. Aiden – one of the jocks that hated Jesse with a passion – laughed, while glaring over at Jesse. The fireworks had captured some of judges the attention, and seeing the zombie made out of wool had made them swarm towards them, staring up while smiling. "Rock on, dudes!" yelled one of the visitors, fist pumping the air.

Aiden then stomped his foot on the ground, attracting attention himself. "It's just dyed wool, anybody could do that!" grumbled a very pissed off Aiden, before 'accidentally' breaking a piece of stone with flowing lava behind it from just a flick of the wrist. "Oops."

Rueben cried in pain as the lava had reached his costume, making him run towards the forest in both pain and being scared.

"Rueben!" cried out Jesse, glaring down at Aiden as he had a smirk on his face. "Okay, guys. I need you guys to stay here and protect the build. I'm going to find Rueben."

Jesse jumped off the top of their build, now running towards the forest as both Olivia and Axel jumped off as well, carrying a few pieces of cobblestone in their hands. Jesse shivered as the wind smacked her in the face, rubbing her arms in comfort. "Rueben… where are you buddy?" she shouted out, slowly walking towards a tree. She looked behind it, finding nothing both grass. "Rueeebeeeennnn, I don't like being out here during the dark..."

She looked down, noticing pig tracks on the ground. They seemed to be bigger than Rueben's whole body, but continued forward after inspecting the prints on the ground. "Rueben… where could you be, buddy?" she muttered the last part to herself, frowning as she saw a herd of pigs. She rolled her eyes when they continued making snorting sounds. "Ugh, stupid pigs… Any pig that is not Rueben, shut up!" Jesse noticed a carrot in plain sight, running towards it. She picked it up, shoving it in her pocket. "Rueben, I got ya a carrot, boy!"

She heard a shuffling behind a bush, shrieking when a chicken had jumped out at her. There were two places she could look for Rueben at. In a cave, that had barely-lit torches, or out in the open where there was a small pond in front of her. She hurried into the cave, hearing a few hisses from spiders while in there. "Rueben? Is that you?" she asked, but jumped when a spider had walked past. "Ugh, I hate spiders…"

Finally getting out of the cave, she slowly continued to walk. "Rueben…" Her eyes opened wide when she saw his costume lying there, all burnt crisp. "Please don't be in there, Rueben…" she muttered to herself, slightly scared to see if her pet was now dinner; although, she wouldn't actually eat him. Groaning in pain, she finally lifted the costume up, seeing no sign of a dead pig nearby it. She sighed in relief, kicking the fire out before continuing on. She saw bushes and then slowly approached it. "Rueben?" she whispered to the 'thing' in the bushes.

She slightly parted the bushes open, seeing Rueben shake in fear. "Rueben!" she gasped, opening her arms for her pig to run into them, tightly gripping him in a tight hug. "I'm so glad I found you!" They broke away from the hug, pulling out the carrot she found earlier. "Want a carrot, buddy?" Rueben snorted, nodding his head as she pet behind his ear while he downed the carrot. "Come on, we should get out of the open. It's not safe for neither of us."

All of a sudden, an arrow flew past her head and into stone next to her head, right next to her head. Adrenaline was running through her veins as she got up from her hiding place. "Run!" she shouted, sprinting past a few zombies on the way with Rueben by her side. She stopped; took a deep breath and looked down at Rueben. "I… I think we're safe…"

"Sssssssnnnngggg~" was heard from a few feet. Jesse turned her head, wide-eyed as Creepers were right behind the duo. They flashed green as both Rueben and Jesse picked their pace up again away from the walking time-bombs.

They ran through hills of stone, a distraught look on Jesse's face when they arrived at a dead-end. She pulled out her wooden sword as zombies approached the duo. She thought for a moment whether Rueben should run, or if he should stay behind her. Her time of thought was short due to the groaning in front of her.

She didn't want Rueben to get hurt, maybe if he ran fast enough, he would arrive at Endercon. But, what if he got lost on his way there? There was a ledge right next to them; if he were to hide behind her, he could get hurt, badly. Therefore, she made up her mind.

"Rueben, you're going to have to make a run for it. Wait at Endercon with Olivia and Axel, I'll fight them off. Rueben, now!"

Rueben snorted before running off; turns out the zombies didn't really care for Rueben, instead, they were hungry for the human in front of them. She walked up to one of the zombies, hitting it back a few feet. She slammed her sword into its contorted feet after she waited for it to approach; the zombie falling in the process and she bashed her wooden sword into its head. She knew it was dead because she saw it disintegrate into nothing. Two more of the human-hungers were close, using her sword to push one of them backwards once it approached her. The other one was close, so she whacked it with her sword once it approached her. The one she threw back a foot ago was back, slamming it so hard into its head, it disintegrated like the one before. But her sword did as well, a gasp escaping her lips.

What was she going to do?