CASEY'S POV

You know what's annoying? Skype notifications. Sure, if you're actively talking to your friend and want to know when they reply, they're useful, but when you're playing a PvP minigame and are stuck in a humongous group chat? Not so fun.

Technically, I should have turned the notifications off - I'm just stupid though! I mean, if you've stuck with me this long, you should know this. I was trying to win the hunger deans! Right now, I wasn't playing on the Nexus; I was actually on Mineplex, and as much as I hate to say it, I think I prefer Mineplex over the Nexus. I've failed my Benja! I'm sorry dood, I just don't love your server as much as I did /3

Anyway, back to the notifications thing. Like I said, I should have turned them off, but I forgot. Whoop-de-doo, I forget things a lot, and they weren't that bad - besides the fact that they weren't exactly quiet, and they were kinda distracting. Ugh, group chats.

A few minutes later, I was in the deathmatch with one other person, and, because I have amazing luck - I'm just that fabulous - he had a diamond chestplate, iron helmet and boots, and chain leggings. And an enchanted iron sword. I hope it had Bane of Arthropods. Seriously though, that's the worst enchantment ever, and not just in the survival games. It was really just useless, like Smite. Why do they love me when I hate them so much?!

I, on the other hand, had a Sharpness 1 stone sword, an iron chestplate and boots, chain leggings just like my opponent, and my amazing diamond helmet. Go supply drops, amirite? I guess it helped that we were playing on my favorite map - Aztec Island. I loved the map, hated the lava. Like with the enchantments - Why does lava love me when I hate it so much?! I have fall into lava on this map so many times. So. Many. Times.

I ended up chasing him to the outskirts of spawn, where I hit him into one of the 1-block wide lava streams. He got out and ate a mushroom stew to regen. Nah, bro, nah. Not gonna happen - I already have to deal with these annoying notifications, I'm not losing too you on top of that. I mean, he has the default Steve skin!

He dies when I actually knock him off of spawn - but he doesn't fall into the lava surrounding the mid, no, he lands on the obsidian. The obsidian caused by the deep freeze. Yes, ladies and gents, he was getting snowballed to death. Poor him - but I mean, what could he expect? He had a Steve skin. Steve's will never win. Neevvvveer.

I left to the lobby and finally checked Skype. I had a few messages from Elle, mostly about how her computer keeps crashing. Oh yeah, Elle's computer sucks. It keeps getting blue screen, and minecraft and skype turn into an 'ocean', which means they bug out and turn blue and white, which I guess reminds her of an ocean - after that happens, her computer usually crashes.

The big group chat was some thing with my friends. There was Elle, obviously me, then Alexa, Kara, and Scott. Ah, the wonders of the internet. Yeah, I know, I know - I did call the chat 'humongous'. But you don't know these crazies like I do. They're so freaking talkative. I mean seriously, I had over 500 notifications from the group chat. It'd been like, five minutes.

I decided to just call the group, and they all picked up right away, except Elle, who took a while. "I was getting sushi!" She shouted when she picked up and we all laughed. Elle was so obsessed with sushi - must be an asian thing. Oh crap. I'm asian.. I don't like sushi. Waaah, I'm a failure, I need to learn to like sushi if I want to live up to expectations! Nah, I'm joking - I mean, I don't like sushi, but I like other Asian foods! They're mostly Japanese, but whatever, you be quiet.

In fact, I had an unopened bottle of Strawberry Ramune sitting right next to me. I took the cap off and used part of it to push the marble down into the drink, and I heard the familiar carbonated sound you get when you open a soda. I don't know why, but that sound is way more satisfying than actually drinking the soda. Not that the soda tasted bad - it was delicious, I was just worried I'd drop the glass bottle on the ground and break it. I'm not exactly graceful.

"Heeeyy, wanna play Bridges?" I ask them, and before they have a chance to answer, I yell, "Meet me in Lobby 7!" I switch back to my minecraft tab and go to Lobby 7, waiting for them. After what seemed like forever, and actually probably was, they all told me they were there, and I began adding them to my party. First I added Elle, who's IGN in Goldieloxx, then Alexa, who's IGN is AntarcticBlaze. If you don't know what IGN stands for, you're stupid - uh, I mean... Anyway, IGN stands for In-Game-Name, or just In Game Name, without the dashes.

You get what I mean, I'm not going to go through all of them and their usernames. Since I had Hero rank - yeah, I had started playing enough on that server to decide that the Hero rank was useful enough to buy - I was always the party leader. I know, I'm awesome. I joined a game of Bridges on Skylands, which only had two other people on it. "Yellow team!" We all shout at the same time, except Scott, who basically screamed it, which made us all laugh.. except me, I was the one wincing. Yeah, you guessed it, I was wearing headphones. Actually, we all were, but mine were the best quality. What would you like as your prize for guessing? Hmm, what was that? I can't hear you, Scott's scream made me go deaf.

Elle and I were both Miners, while Alexa was a Bomber, Kara was an Apple, and Scott was an Archer. We were all useful, because me, Elle, and Alexa could get armor and stuff, Kara would keep us from dying of hunger, and Scott could mine with us until the bridges dropped, which was when he would snipe people off their islands and into the void. The archer is kinda OP on this map.

I finished drinking my Ramune right before the game started, which took a while, because like I said, before me and my friends joined the game, there were only two other players. It takes a long time for Bridges to start up, but more time for us to run around and act like idiots, I guess.

"Hey, somebody get wood and stuff, I'm going mining before everybody takes all the iron! I'm way too lazy to go searching for iron, I'm getting the surface stuff!" I say when it starts, which gives Elle and Alexa the opportunity to complain. "But you went mining first the last time!" I don't answer, because I've already jumped into the mine and gotten some iron. Pff, I'm such a jerk. And proud.

By the time the bridges spawned, we all have full iron and diamond swords. I have a diamond chestplate as well, though, and I gave Kara diamond boots. Skylands has a ton of diamonds on it, you just have to know where to look. When a green ran for mid with his teammate, Scott shot them both off. Booyah! The only thing that sucked was that one of them had full diamonds, which we could have used. Eh.

We were the only ones left on our team after a bit, but that wasn't really saying much, since that was still five people. Yellow. Team. Is. Boss. I mean, all the other teams had no more than 3 people, but they were kind of stupid. Green and Blue were about to team up on us, which would come to a total of 5v5. Easy.

There was a reason they were teaming besides low numbers - one of them had full golden armor, another had leather pants and an iron chestplate, but nothing more. Woww. Either they suck, or their teammates hoarded the iron and diamonds. Well, either way, they suck, so this little this-or-that thing was pointless. Don't forget, yellow team is boss.

I went for the two I just told you about - one of them had an iron sword, but the other just had a stone one. I ended up pushing them over to the edge of the island before punching them off with my fist. They only got me down three hearts, so I just moved away from the edge and helped my teammates fight the other three opponents. Yeah, did I forget to tell you, yellow team is boss? Well, yellow team is boss! We killed them all, and none of us died, even though Alexa got down to half-a-heart.

"Get in the mine to regen, Red is coming after us." I warn, seeing the three Reds running on the bridge towards us, diamond swords out. One of them had full diamond, the other had full iron save for a diamond chestplate, and the last just had full iron. I ate a mushroom stew to regen the last three hearts I was missing, just so I don't die quickly. Die quickly? I mean, it's not like I'll die at all, let alone quickly - it's just a precaution, I guess.

I did die. The last Red, with diamond armor, killed me, while my teammates were far away from killing the others. He didn't stand a chance, though, not against my four crazy friends - they wrecked him. 'lel get rekt m8!' I put in the chat when he dies, just because. I mean, he didn't even - nobody could have won against my friends. Or anybody on Yellow, really, because yellow team is boss!

"I got 8 kills!" I exclaim loudly once we're returned to the waiting lobby for Bridges. I switch to the main lobby, but scroll up in the chat once I'm done. "260 gems, aww yeah!" Gotta love gem booster, amirite

[ A / N : Super long chapter for you guys! I was trying to make up for not updating in days, ehe. Wrote this last night and this morning before school started. Now I'm off to eat strawberry icecream for breakfast - I mean, it does have fruit in it, so.. ]