Legends of Old: Chapter 2 – Contest
In the morning, the first to awaken was Nicholas who sat up in a sluggish manner. He rubbed his sleep filled eyes and pulled on his abnormally large glasses and looked at his friends and fiercely shook the closest person to him, which was Dexter.
"Ow, hey!" the redstone genius loudly spoke.
"Shh!" Nicholas shushed quickly.
"What? It's, what," a quick glance at his golden watch he looked back up, "Eight o'clock? I still want some sleep!"
The dirty-blonde haired boy laughed quietly, "You should see Yuro! It's impossible to wake him early!"
Dexter just groaned and hit his head onto the wool pillow and just mumbled into his pillow, saying stuff along the lines of Nicholas being annoying and swearing to Notch about why he invented time. Then, after a few minutes with the brick addict watching intensely, Dexter lifted his head and looked at Nicholas.
"Done yet?"
In an annoyed response, Dexter dryly replied, "Facepalm," before pushing himself up.
"C'mon, dude! Lighten up! Did a spider bite you and put you in a bad mood?" the glasses wearing boy joked.
"Aww, be quiet! Go bother Mari or Yuro! Leave me be for a minute!" Dexter quietly yelled.
"Alright! Alright! Geez!" the blonde walked off and got in Yuro's face and started to poke him in the side.
Then, akin to Dexter's awakening, Yuro groaned in annoyance and slid his eye lids open slightly and yelled when he saw Nicholas in his face, looking down mirthfully at his friend. With a loud, surprised gasp, Yuro awoke and slammed his forehead hard into the other.
The two of them turned away and groaned in pain while Mari woke up looking at the two with droopy eyes.
"Mmm, guys, what's going on?"
"Nicholas thought it'd be a good idea to wake me up with his face in my own!"
"Well, I didn't expect you to zoom up like that!"
"What do you think I'd do? Smile at your grinning face and say good morning?" he said sarcastically.
"Well, Dex, you know I do that!"
"Yeah, but it at a time where you're least alert and aware! You're lucky I didn't have a sword!"
"Or a pick," Yuro murmured.
"Hey, I did not mean to hit you with my pick! It was all a mistake! So, stop judging me on that!"
The group kept getting louder and louder in their fight and, eventually, the camp master marched up to them with a normal crossed look.
"You! All of you stop this incessant bickering and do something productive or I shall send you back to Minecity!"
"Yes, sir!" Nicholas respectfully replied.
"Sorry, Mr. Ingo. We'll got hunting and stuff," Mari replied back.
"Good. Work diligently but quietly. Others do not wake at such an early hour."
They all nodded in agreement and the camp master walked back to his tent, whispering furiously to himself. The four just watched him, Nicholas just smiling goofily, Dexter looking like he's plotting, Mari sitting and rolling her eyes, and Yuro seeming a bit uncertain.
Then, Nicholas spoke in the midst of silence, "So, uh, Yuro, let's go mining while Mari collects resources since it's day?"
"Yeah, remember to bring the teleport remotes," Mari agreed.
"Definitely, last time we forgot, it was a mess," Dexter groaned, remembering the experience.
"I'm going now, though. We haven't got all year."
"Yeah, uh, hey, Mari? Can you get me some-"
"-Some bricks?" the girl stole the words, "Yes, I will. Be safe, you three. I don't want this to be a dead body trip."
"Hey, you too!"
"I will, Nicholas! Bye!"
The group split into smaller groups, saving time with resources and minerals. The three guys stood up and slowly walked towards the camp chest and lifted the container's lid. Yuro pulled out three picks that glowed a small violet from the lid that creaked open. He lifted the precious picks up and handed them to his partners.
"They aren't diamond, Nick! You miscalculated!" Dexter remarked dryly.
"Oh, I forgot. It's only camps that are in richer cities."
"You mean like CobbleCity?"
"Yeah, sorry, guys. But, it's iron, at least," the boy compromised.
"Yeah, well, it's not the same," Dexter muttered under his breath, inspecting the silvery white metal closely. Yuro simply shrugged and closed the lid, earning another rusty creak.
"Let's go mining. With any luck we'll find diamonds"
"Yeah, and we also get to keep them," Nicholas scoffed.
"Oh my god, that was so annoying! We had to give away any mineral we found at the end of the camping trip!" Yuro complained.
"Yeah, no kidding, Yuro!" Dexter sighed.
"Come on guys! Let's go mining!"
"Well, what else would we use our picks for? Wood?" Nicholas asked as he hit the pickaxe into a tree to give a crude explanation.
"Just, ahh, forget about it. Let's go to that ravine. Yuro, lead the way, if you don't mind," Dexter instructed, though he sounded slightly like a king.
"Yes, sire." Yuro mocked before leading the way.
Mari carefully pulled her heavy yet effective stone sword from the animal that had squealed in terror before. The teen carefully removed the edible parts of the killed pig, though she took great care of not to look unless necessary, knowing that sight was quite gruesome.
Then, she finished, carefully wrapping up the raw meat in some spare paper. She then continued to travel farther, yet she kept her nose in the map. Only when a uneasy feeling overtook her did she stop.
Mari carefully looked at the hilly plains and furrowed her eye brows at the unseen fear that seemed to surround that area. Turning to the right, she edged the high hills and searched for another area.
"That's really strange. Maybe it's just the Herobrine story spooking me out."
Marching on, the resources person found a desert and sighed in annoyance, knowing that the desert was dangerous to go not only alone but without any liquid.
The camper followed the boarder line between the snow and desert.
"Pfft, today is not lucky. Definitely unexplored."
The girl kicked the ground and waited for a difference in the terrain. Then, she noticed the snowy ground began to become thinner and thinner before realizing that the land opened up into a plain that was grassy and filled to the brim with healthy flowers and a variety of animals.
"Well, let's get to work," she muttered before setting off to work."
Yuro and Nicholas beat down on the rock terrain of the cave and it echoed with the clanging of metal against the hard Earth.
"Hey, guys! I found a ravine! Come on! I think it might have diamond and we should reach it before anyone else does."
"Well, that sounds more fun the hacking at this stone for little to no reason," the nerd of the group said, taking some breaths from the hard work.
"Yeah, definitely. I want this to be worth while and get something out of it."
"At anything, we should hurry. Or Mari'll come back and get worried while waiting. Then she'd call and want to know what's going on."
"Let her come if she'd like, I just want some precious jewels or metals."
"Yeah, same. I think you're alone on this one, Dexter."
"Nnnh! Fine then. Let's go deeper."
Yuro grinned and ran deeper into the clinging darkness that laid ahead.
"Wait, wait. Did Yuro just forget the… torches again?"
"Yeah, like the other million times. Let's go before he yells that he can't see."
"Uh, I think he brought his see-in-the-dark glasses."
"No, I don't think so."
"Why?"
"Uh," Dexter looked away slowly, "Well, I think that, since I used mine for an experiment, I used his for a second… uh,experiment."
"Well, let's hope he doesn't find out!" Nicholas remarked comically.
"It's not funny, Nicholas."
"Well, at least he'll hit you with the hilt of his sword and not the blade!"
"Gee, thanks. I'll be knocked out for a week, then."
"Or a year," Nicholas suggested.
"Yeah, that's better."
"Well, your welcome."
"Ugh, let's just… go. I have a bunch of torches."
The two friends walked in the general direction that Yuro went and placed a scattered amount of torches on the floor, aresult of their laziness, and searched for Yuro.
The two saw a lava pond where they met up with Yuro who was staring into the the small area.
"Guys, just… look here."
The double looked around the lava and saw glittering golds and metals. Series of diamond was around the lava pit and gold along with iron and the other glittering gem, emerald.
"Oh ma goodness!"
"Wow. We struck diamond."
"Guys, guys, let's mine this!"
"Wait, I call the diamond," Yuro spoke seriously.
"Uh, no. I do, 'cause I'm boss," Nicholas bragged.
"No, I'm boss, you're beast. I get it."
"Just share."
The three looked behind themselves and saw Mari looking at them with a slightly peeved face. They looked at the pack that she had held on her back and saw that it had an iron pick and some ore in it that looked ready to be smelted along with some apples. It was obvious that she had too much.
"Uh, Mari, when did you get here?" Nicholas asked in surprise.
"Since yesterday," she replied sarcastically, "Let's hurry. I need to cook some food."
"Yeah, alright."
Mari just sighed and walked to the entrance of the lava pool and sat down, waiting."
The others turned back to the fiery liquid pit and carefully created a safe area to mine and not fall into. The three carefully picked the mineral and gems while Mari just sat and read a book that she seemed to produce out of her bag.
"Hey, Mari, what did you find?" Yuro asked.
"I found, uh, meat from cows, apples, I got some seeds, wood, and just now I got about twenty or so iron and thirty coal."
"Not a lot…" Nicholas dryly remarked.
"Hey, I got here five minutes ago. Cut me some slack. Besides, I was in a rush to get things done so I make sure you don't get into an argument about the minerals."
"Well, we would've eventually."
"Yeah, after two of you were knocked out."
"Well, you realize the importance of them, right?"
"Yeah, I do. That's why we fight about them so much."
"Nicholas, we're done. You're just mining the stone."
The nerd looked at where he was mining and saw that he was only picking at stone.
"Oh… you're right…"
"Come on, now. Mr. Ingo said that he had to announce something at twilight."
"Oh, well, who cares?" Nicholas asked, jokingly.
"I do, 'cause I want to watch TV."
"Oh, can I come?"
"Pfft, that's what she said."
Mari just sighed, "Let's just… go. Use your teleport device, set it to warp campsite."
The three took out the device and typed in bwarp campsiteb and they all flashed out of the cave.
"Alright, campers. Today was your first day to actually explore this unexplored area. However, a few have asked about this direction," he motioned to the high hills, "-being dangerous. My answer is that it maybe a little uncertain and safe there, so for now I want you to all avoid that area.
"Now, in other news, this new land will be all yours for a week. I don't want you to venture very far without more then two people. Now, this is also a survival test. So, at the end of this trip, whichever team has the most minerals, gems, and food, gets the first place prize and a trip to CobbleCity."
Around the camp master came many whispers and excited talk. Everyone knew that even though MineCity held the best exports, CobbleCity had the best buildings and best imports out of all the towns, villages, cities, and bays. And, the only way you'd get there would be with ia loti of money or if you ever got famous enough.
"Wait, so, what happens if there's a tie?" Paige called out.
"Well, the teams will have to compete in a race to see who can create the most swords, picks, shovels, and axes."
"How many people per team?" Mari asked.
"Four or less. Any team with more then the limit will have to leave behind one person. Any team with less then said amount will be able to choose the remaining people that equals four."
"Mr. Ingo! What about tools? Do you provide us with them?"
"Yes. We provide you with as many hoes, picks, axes, shovels, and swords that you'll need."
The whole came seemed to be excited about the prospect of going to CobbleCity. The whole camp would be at a war to get minerals.
"Now, please take a few minutes to find you team. You must have at least two or more people."
The camp went into a frenzy to find team members. Many people got left out and created a team with the left over players. Then, eventually, there were teams and one of them was Yuro, Dexter, Nicholas, and Mari.
The camp master looked around, pleased by the teams making a decision and then spoke again, "Alright, teams, please make a name so that we can know who wins and localize you as."
That, also, caused chaos and and everyone started to talk very loudly about names.
"Well," Nicholas started, "Let's be the Mustachios!"
"No, I say the N3rds, with the E as a 3," Yuro smiled.
"Redstone Masters," Dexter suggested.
"I think that it'd be good if we were all were actually masters at redstone."
Dexter just sighed and made a displeased noise.
"Well, I'd say we should do N3rds, not Mustachios," Yuro remarked.
"No way, Mustachios sounds way too cool!" Nicholas replied, arguing strongly.
"Wait, what about Death by Fall?"
"Why?" Dexter asked, looking at the girl strangely.
"We like parkour, right? We've fallen and have almost died. Then, when we mine we almost die sometimes by falling."
"What about Death by Creeper?" Nicholas suggested.
"That sounds a bit over used," Yuro replied.
"Well, then, who agrees?"
Yuro spoke first, "Me."
"I guess. Not as good as Mustachios, though."
"Eh, good enough," Dexter shrugged.
"Then, it's settled. Death by Fall."
The four listen to conversations around them and heard names like the Mining Creepers, Caming Hunters, and other names that might sound bizarre.
One the open area silenced, the Camp Master then came up, "Now, let's tell our team names."
The camp master went around and some names were sensible, some very cool, and some were just plain random or creepy.
Once that was done, Mr. Ingo nodded in acceptance of the names, "Right, then, we shall start tomorrow and this is all on your own. You must wake on your own, work with your team, and, above all, have no physical fights with other teams. But, now, I think it'd be best to sleep."
The campers all sighed in disappointment and marched to their tents. Then, one by one, chattering stopped and the only thing that could be heard was snoring and heavy breathing that night, with a crescent moon high above them.
- - - - - - End Chapter - - - - - -
Alright, I think that wraps it up. But, I hope you liked this chapter and for any of you who're curious, please go to my DeviantArt page on my account to see how Yuro, Nicholas, and Mari, my, skins and how they'd look in real-life.
Also, please check out the YouTube channel for Death by Fall, DxF for short, because that is actually a YouTube channel. Anyway, thank you for reading.
~ Eien M.
Edit - I fixed the spacing. I'm very sorry about that! Also, I might do a drawing of the teleporter device and I might make a name for it and be original. :P