(Ryuuto POV)

"So I heard a really juicy rumour about EnderCon." Axel began after a long awkward silence of walking.

"Juicy, eh? HOW JUICY?" I pressed, although I already knew due to have gone through with this before.

"Well it's in two part-"

"Spit it out already, dude." I interrupted.

"Part one, the special guest at this year's EnderCon is none other than Gabriel The Warrior him-FREAKING-self." Axel told us.

I pretended to be in awe. "Woah, what's part two?" Jesse asked.

"Part two, according to my sources, the winner of the building competition is gonna get to meet him! It doesn't mean anything if we lose. But if we win, oh man, this would make up for all the losing!" Axel looked excited.

"Meeting Gabriel would be a dream and a honor."

'Not really.' I thought.

"Totally, he's awesome. It'd be amazing to meet him." Olivia said.

"Reuben better be careful in that costume. The last time Gabriel saw that costume, it didn't END well."

"Axel, no." I deadpanned. "No puns."

"It was a good one though, but fine."

Olivia looked around. "Soooo. Does this 'source' of yours make posters for a living?"

I smirked as I looked and saw the insane amount of 'Gabriel at EnderCon' posters.

"Yeah, uh, my source... uh... doesn't exsist. You guys are my only friends."

"Guys, let's stay focused. We have a competition to win." Jesse said.

"We NEVER win. And this year we have Reuben AND Amy with us. We basically have no chance." Olivia said sadly.

"Hey Olivia, I sense something. It's called disbelief. And it's coming from you in WAVES." I said, rolling my eyes.

"Yeah, what Ryuuto said. Faith, Olivia."

"What?"

"A little slice. A sliver. A portion. Just a little faith. Also, I'm hungry. To WIN."

"No, no, I'm with that!" Axel grinned.

Olivia smiled at our antics. "Alright."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute! We're thinking about this all wrong! The point of the building competition isn't just to build something. You have to DO something to get noticed by the judges!" Jesse said, grabbing our attention.

"Alright then. So how do we do this." Olivia asked.

"We don't just build something functional. We build something FUN."

"After we build the fireworks machine like we planned, then we build something cool on top of it!"

"You're onto somethin' Jess." I smiled, rolling with it and letting fate take it's course for now.

"If you want to get a reaction out of the judges, you build something scary. So I say we build a Creeper."

"Wouldn't a Enderman be better? I'm more scared of Enderman than Creepers."

"They're both pretty scary but..." I began.

"But?" Axel asked, as my friends all looked at me.

"But I think we should build a Zombie." I smirked. "Zombies are green like Creepers, and their eyes are creepy and lifeless like Endermen."

"You're right Ryu! Nice work!" My friends smiled.

"Think we've got everything we need?"

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

"Let's get to grabbin' then."

"We're so prepared. We can't lose. CANNOT. Bring it in." Jesse put her hand in front of us, as we all put our hands ontop of hers, pets included. "Dare to prepare on three. No. Prepare to dare. Nope, that's the same thing. Forget it. Team, on three. One, two, three! TEAM!"

"PREPARE!" Axel yelled. We all went our seperate ways, grabbing items.

(One epic item grabbing montage later...)

"We know what we're building, we got all the stuff for it, we are SO ready." Axel smirked.

"This year it's going to be different. I'm not just ready to build, I'm ready to win." Olivia said confidently.

"Nice pig, losers." Some idiot said, walking past. Using some magic, I silently summoned a wood block in the jerk's path, and caused him to trip as my friends continued walking. Then we stopped, seeing a familiar group.

"Oh great. There's Lucy and the Ocelots. The rivalry continues..." Axel groaned. I glared at Axel who looked at me and sighed. "Fine, I won't try to antagonize them." Axel drawled.

"Still... those leather jackets." Olivia said with a hint of jealousy.

Aiden turned around. "Well well well... if it isn't the Order of the Losers, and their Betrayer friend." I looked at Aiden, my eyes glowing orange.

"Great. The Fail Squad's here."

"Lucy, get a load of this!"

Lucy looked at us sadly. "Let's go guys." She said, walking off, with the rest of the Ocelots smirking and chuckling. My eyes stopped glowing orange.

"Name please?" The attendant at the front desk asked.

"Axel, and how do you do?" Axel said obliviously.

"No, your team name."

"Team name...? We are so not ready for this." Axel muttered.

I looked at the snickering Aiden, rage filling me as I remembered why I left the Ocelots in the first place.

Jesse tried to speak. "We're the Order of the-" I cut her off mid-sentence.

"We're the Second Order." I proclaimed proudly.

"Alright, Second Order. You guys are in Booth 5!"

I watched as my friends were being angered by the Ocelots. "Really...?" I muttered, facepalming at their short fuses.

"Hey, Betrayer!" Aiden snickered. I ignored him. "Hey, Albino, I'm talking to you!" I glared, summoning a magic ice spike.

"Listen Aiden. I'm TIRED of how you are always so confident that you'll win EVERY. DAMN. YEAR." I stabbed the ice spike into the floor, causing a ice barrier to very slowly pop up between us and our build zones. "Well this time you WON'T win so easily. I PROMISE that."

Petra walked up to us, holding her Iron Pickaxe, with a brown haired guy with her. "Hey guys." Petra greeted.

"Hey Petra. Hey S.M.B." Jesse, Olivia and Axel greeted.

"Oh, hi Petra. S.M.B." I nodded, awknowledging the person who was new to my adventures.

"How's the build going?" Petra asked.

"Only time will tell. But we're optimistic."

"Hey Petra. I forgot to thank you for that Nether Star." Lucy said, walking up to Petra.

"Hey Lucy. Not a problem."

"You helped these tools?" Axel looked indignant.

"For the right price, I'll help anyone. If you need me, you know where to find me."

"None of us know where to find you." Olivia said.

"Exactly." Petra said, as she and S.M.B walked off. I waved to S.M.B, who waved back slightly.

"No hard feelings guys, if you're cool with Petra, you're cool with us. So let's just forget all about this, and you know, make this about how cool our builds are?" Lucy looked at me.

"As the Team Leader for my team on this years EnderCon Buidling Competition, I accept." I said, shaking Lucy's hand.

Axel looked at me. "What do we benefit from this Team Leader rotation every year anyway?"

"It's just fair. Remember, last year you led Axel."

"Oh, right."

"Ladies and Gentlemen..." I heard the Desk Lady/Judge say as I turned around. "Welcome to the EnderCon Building competition! The winners of this years competition will have their build featured at this years EnderCon. The winners will also get to meet, in person, Gabriel the Warrior!" My team got hyped as they heard that, and I smiled.

I heard Lucy's Ocelots shouting their team name as they did a handshake.

"Woah... handshake? We don't have a handshake Ryu!" Jesse said.

"And we won't need one. Ok? We need to FOCUS." I said strictly.

"Alright fine..."