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many hours have the passed since the morning, and now the endercon building competition registration time has begun. the builders started flooding in, the first was a woman named cassie rose, accompanied by her calico cat winslow. she had red hair, eyes like an ender pearl and some nice black glasses. radar had said hello to her and winslow, although she kept looking around like she was being chased. the rest of the groups didn’t stand out that much, they were pretty normal.
except for the last two.
radar is tired. it’s bright, it’s unbelievably warm to the point it’s nauseating. radar looks at the clock on the lady’s desk next to him. 2:39PM, 8 hours and 20 minutes. another group walks up to the registration booth. all of them wearing matching leather jackets, which is cool but not a good idea for summer. they all had their ears pierced and at least one nose piercing. the one in leading the group was a blonde man, the rest had brown hair. the blonde man introduced their group as “the ocelots”, which radar assumed that’s what they embroidered on their jackets. they seemed normal, aside from the side eyes they gave him, probably from how stressed i must’ve looked he thought.
another group started walking towards the desk, with a very pink pig. for some reason their appearance had ticked off (most of) the ocelots, luckily before it could become a real problem the blonde guy told his group to drop it and go to their booth. the other group sighed and walked up to the desk, their group consisted of a girl with long dark hair and dark skin, a blue hair clip was placed completely incorrectly on her hair (which made him a bit mad). radar assumed the guy next to her was was her brother, since they looked so alike! only he had short curly hair. their outfits sort of mirrored each other in a way, since he had yellow suspenders and a blue and white shirt, while she had blue overalls and a yellow and white shirt.
the other three in the group was a girl with dark skin and black fluffy buns, she wore a white shirt and a red apron, the apron was covered in pins, one was blue pink and white. the last person was a tall wide guy, he was pale and had dark hair and a monobrow. his shirt was some sort of green hood with a white undershirt. the last one was much shorter and younger than the rest of them, she had her hair tied up in a black pony tail and a blue striped shirt with orange overalls, her skin was tanned ish, she stood a bit further back from the group looking towards the ground out of anger.
aside from their pig and the grumpy teenager they were pretty normal people, just a bit embarrassed, but it’s not like he could judge them. the lady at the desk asked them their name, which pulled radar out of his thinking. the tall guy replied “axel, and how do you do?”. she sighed and then smiled “my name is daphne and i’m fine,” she rubbed at her nose-bridge “but i mean your team name.” axel looked back at the girl in the red apron and tried to mumble “team name? we are so not ready for this.” she looks at their other two group members, who seem to have more interest in their pig than the competition. “so much for losing anonymously…” the two both jump up from the pig and yell out two different names. “THE NETHER MANIACS!” and “THE ORDER OF THE PIG!” daphne looks back at them with a look of surprise, “uh huh, now which one is the team name?” she adjusts her glasses and uses a more serious expression in response. the two of them look at each other and then huddle up, a few seconds later the girl declares “both! just put like a slash between them… yea like that, and that’s our team name!” daphne sighs and tells them to go to booth 5. she then puts up a sign telling people there are no more booths. the both of them turn to watch as the builders start getting prepared.
while observing them radar sees the ocelots and the nether maniacs / the order of the pig starting to argue again, they are so loud in fact that he can almost hear them from the desk. daphne swivels around in her chair to deal with the ginger person who’s appeared at the desk. she tells her “there are no more booths sorry.” but they say it’s alright and that they just wanted to talk to some friends. they waltz on in and radar can no longer hear their extremely noisy voices!
and just in time too since daphne needed to make her announcement at some point.
“ladies and gentlemen... welcome to the endercon building competition! the winners of this competition will have their build featured at endercon. the winners will also meet, in person, gabriel the warrior!” once she finishes speaking, tons of loud cheers erupt from everyone, except for radar. since nausea, noise, the sun, and being tired don’t mix well together, ever. he decides to sit on the ground for a bit near the desk hoping that if he closes his eyes he won’t get a headache.
BOOM CHZK BOOM BANG
radar is jolted awake by the sounds of fireworks, after rubbing his eyes he realises they are coming from a build. after waking up more he realises he slept for at least an hour. stella’s voice rings through his ears “make sure you all get a good nights sleep before endercon!” he remembered that she looked directly at him during this part “we don’t need anyone falling asleep on the job!”. he sighs frustrated.
his frustration can only last so long, because suddenly he sees the red haired woman standing over him. “hello? you are a staff member right?” she holds her hand out to help him, “my cat, winslow, he got scared and ran off when they set their fireworks off, and i need some help finding him.” once radar gets up he takes a proper look at her, or at least tries since she can’t stop moving. “yes i’m a staff, and of course i’d help you find him!” he tries to smile and her to help calm her down, but his smile is tired and she’s afraid so she sort of starts walking off. radar grabs a first aid kit and catches up with her and they start running into the dark and creepy forest