The next day was pretty boring. The amount of time I had to wait until Dream's contest started was so far away. I practically just woke up.

I could just go and try to take a mini nap, but I'm just a little worried that I'll wake up late. I'm a pretty deep sleeper, even when it comes to naps.

Well, at least I had youtube to keep me entertained until that point.

God, am I thankful for those stupid websites.

But, after binge watching-- or should I say binge listening?...-- to the Eboys Podcast, the time to fight Dream finally came.

I got a notification from my phone, saying that Dream finally went live.

'A first in a while...' I thought to myself

Tapping onto the notification, it took me over to Twitch where I saw Dream playing Minecraft, talking to his viewers in F5 mode to show off his green blob skin.

"Hi!, Hello everyone! How's it going? Been a while since the last time I've streamed..." Dream says to chat "How are you all doing?"

His chat then began to spam their 'goods', 'bads', and weird copypastas.

Seriously... his chat is weird at times.

"Well, that's great!" Dream chuckled "Okay... But- uhh... Anyway. For those who don't know... I'm hosting a competition. The premise is pretty simple: The first person out of 5,000 people who can beat me in a 1v1 can get into the Dream SMP. Probably for, like, a month or something... I haven't really thought it out that much...."

After that simple explanation, he began to talk about some other random things. But in a summary he ended up saying that he'll be adding everyone who is in the call into a separate group chat. In where, you submit your minecraft username and then he'll whitelist the lot of us on the server he'll be fighting us on.... with the help of some of his friends.

Dream continued to read donations and chat while things were being sorted.

After about three minutes, I managed to somehow get access to another chat and I typed in my username.

And after probably another 10 minutes, the chat room was blocked, and those who didn't send any messages that were related to their usernames were kicked and removed from the call.

I thought I'd see more people attempt to join, but the call seemed to be put on a lock.

Well... This just got a lot more intense....

"Okay... I believe we're ready to go?" Dream says on stream "The Ip will be spammed in chat for those who are whitelisted. Just join the server and one at a time you all will fight me. Everyone who loses will be removed from the server and blacklisted. So good luck to you all!"

Once the explanation was said, I managed to catch the Ip being spammed, typing it out into my direct connections and then clicked the 'join server' button.

Waiting for it to load, I took a sip of my cranberry sprite (idk why this was the first thing to come to my mind-). After my character joined the world and the chunks were officially loaded, I decided to just check out what the little server had to offer.

It didn't seem to look like anything special, just a little hub with about 100 players. On the right side of my screen I noticed there to be some text that said "Lobby 3".

Well, that makes sense... If you had all 5,000 people in one place, then you'd surely cause some type of crash, or at least major server buffering.

But even with the lack of players, I couldn't see what the place actually looked like because of all the players running and jumping around. From what I could see though, it was an island with cobblestone walls to keep us from falling off.

God- imagine 5,000 people being put here. No one would survive.

Beginning to get bored once again, I decided to see who else was streaming on twitch as of that moment. After checking it out, I saw that Eret, Fundy and Tommy's alt account were streaming as of this moment other than Dream.

Eret and Fundy were just on the Dream SMP and Tommy seemed to be doing a "just chatting" stream.

Okayyyy- once I lose, I will just go ahead and watch one of their streams.

"Okay, teleporting the first person in..." I heard Dream say

Dream then begins to type in teleportation command and held tab to randomly select his first opponent, which- thank god it wasn't me. But it was this unfortunate soul with the username "Rhino_Monkey14".

"Hey, Callahan. Can you give them the kit we set up?" Dream asks his friend who was apparently in his call or watching his stream

And just like that, Rhino_Monkey14 was given a kit. Dream shortly getting one after.

From what the kit looked like, there was a full set of diamond armor, a diamond axe, a diamond sword, a cross bow, a normal bow, 5 arrows and a shield.

An interesting kit if I do say so myself.

It's one of the common kits you'd see being used on PVP Legacy.

Callahan typed in chat, asking if the two were ready. Dream responds with a simple 'yes' while his opponent Rhino_Money14 nodded their characters head eagerly.

Once Callahan's count down hit it's final number, Dream and Rhino_Money14's match started.

Dream stayed back and Rhino_Monkey14 decided to charge in. They swung their axe down, breaking Dream's shield but getting slashed in the process.

Rhino_Money14 begun to spam click their axe, I didn't understand why they were doing this though. The attacks wont register as in 1.8 and they're at least doing a quarter of what they could if they did normal timing.

On a much shorter note of how that duel went-- rip Rhino_Money14. They didn't stand a chance.

And for the rest of my time, I watched Dream fight many players, none of them even coming close enough to killing him.

At most, he'd get down to half health. But the other players would get absolutely demolished before they could try and heal up.

I really do feel bad for them...

After dozing off watching Dream's stream for the past 45 minutes, I saw my minecraft character's skin suddenly appear on the stream.

"Oh shit-"

Startled, I turned back to my desktop and began to move my character around.

I studied the area around me, a normal grassy plains biome with a few trees scattered around. The map almost looked symmetrical on both sides the only exception being a small river on the further end of the map to my right.

It took a bit of time for the kit to be given to me, but once I got it I took note of where my items were in my inventory. I practiced selecting the items as fast as I could using the hot keys I usually use for 1.8 PvP.

As a joke in the moment, I quickly went onto youtube music with my phone and put my earphones in, placing my headset on top of it. Putting on a certain playlist, I set my phone down as the song started to fade in.

"du dU DU Du" I snickered

What a perfect song for this occasion. Better not laugh too much or I'll totally lose.

are you both ready?

Dream responds vocally and I just nodded my character's head, staring directly at Dream's character.

I heard a chuckle from Dream's end, one humored by my actions. Him commenting soon after about my apparent confidence.

Really, I wasn't confident. I was a nervous mess.

But if I allow myself to be overwhelmed by my nerves, then I would surely lose.

3...

Once I saw Callahan counting down, my nerves started to bubble up even more...

2...

But after taking a few deep breaths....

1...

....my nerves were stabilized.

GO!

And the fight had begun.