Disclaimer: I do not own Ender's Game or any of its components.

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Ender Wiggin, leader of Dragon Army, stood outside his gate to go

fight the hot-shot new Chimera Army. The Greek mythological fire-

breathing creature with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and

tail of a serpent.

James Smith was the commander of the Chimera Army and he was tied

with Ender in standings, as a commander and as an Army. He would prove

to extremely tough.

The gate dissolved and Ender floated through to face an enemy with

just as much skills as his army possesed. The epic battle began. The

battle that would prove who's was the better army. The battle,

effectively, that would decide the Earth's destiny.

There were new standings posted the next day and all of the

commanders rushed in and saw them. Some weren't surprised,

some were, some smiled, and the new commanders knew who

stood where.

"Good battle yesterday, Ender," James said as he sat

down. He started eating.

"Very good battle. It was amazing what happened to my

formations and my strategy. It just all fell apart," Ender

said.

"I know," James replied, "mine did, too."

Petra Arkanian sat down at the table and asked, "How'd ya do

it? How'd ya beat him?"

"I played it like a poker hand."

"Steel faced, and you read the oponent."

The board looked a little odd to Commander Smith that morning:

"Army(rank) vs. Army(rank)"

"Time. Battle Room #"

Phoenix(3) vs. Rat(4)

0800. Battle Room 3

Tiger(6) vs. Chimera(2)

1400. Battle Room 2

Rabbit(5) vs. Dragon(1)

0900. Battle Room 1

So, Ender had won. He was the winner, and he now had the confidence

to go to where he needed to go and beat who he needed to beat. To save

the world, it seemed, Ender had an epic battle in which he won to save

his pride and his respect.