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"So how does that make the beast yours?" Jake asked with a raised brow.

"Because it was ours and we injured it before it got to you, so that makes it ours." The curly haired boy who\'s name was Jared said.

"That is not a relevant argument. We got the kill on the beast so it\'s ours. No argument." Vynn said.

"Oh really!?! Is that how you wanna play it? Then fine two can play this game." Jared said backing out to head to his teammates.

"What an annoying kid," Peter said. "I felt like punching his face in."

After that little, confrontation, they decided to hunt again this time, a little bit away from Jared and his group so as to avoid any form of confrontation. They hunted the sand worms for an hour more before they were called back to base. After getting back, the crystals were collected and scanned by the military so as to record the teams scores.

Any crystals that has been scanned, can\'t be scanned again since the machine could recognize it therefore losing the team a few points. When it got to Jake\'s team\'s turn, Kate walked forward and handed their 21 sand worms beast crystals.

They had hunted 10 more crystals in that hour added with their earlier 11 crystals, giving them 21 crystals in total. Per crystal, that\'s 2 points. So the team had 42 points in total. After all the teams scanned their crystals, a scoreboard pulled up so they could see their positions. It turns out, Jake\'s team were in the third position.

"What!" Sophia shouted. "So you mean, some teams handed in even more crystals than us?"

"And so?" The soldier asked with a raised brow.

"I mean our team has the most strongest among the first years so how come we got the third position?"

"Well strength doesn\'t mean team work. So chop chop to your dorm rooms." The soldier said dismissing them.

Sophia just stomped her foot in annoyance and headed out of the building grumbling under her breath.

\'what\'s wrong with her?\' Jake thought.

The rest of the team also went off to their dorm for a good rest. When they got to their room, they saw Sophia sitting cross legged as if meditating. When they opened the door, she stood up and looked at them.

"You guys I\'m truly not happy with our position." Sophia complained. "We have the most strongest in our team and we only got third position."

"Relax will you." Jake said heading to his bed. "Today is just the first day and we still have six more days to go. We will surely get the number one spot before we finish the beast hunt."

"No you don\'t get it." Sophia said.

"What don\'t we understand?" Peter asked with a raised brow. "We all want to get the top spot like you but you\'re the only one making a mountain out of a molehill. Just like Jake said, today is just the first day so chillax."

"I will." Sophia said. "But before I do that, I want us to come up with a strategy."

To which Jack raised an eyebrow. "What strategy?"

"I want us to come up with a team formation and also I propose we head out to the orange zone tomorrow."

"What!" They all shouted at once.

"Are you crazy or what? The orange zone?" Kate asked.

"Yes the orange zone. What\'s wrong with it."

"Everything is wrong with it." Kate replied. "We all struggled a bit with the sand worm and you want us to head into the orange zone. Heavens knows what awaits us there."

"If you don\'t wanna go because you are weak, then you can stay." Sophia said.

"What! You think am weak?"

"Yes I do." Sophia replied.

"Fine then, if you wanna go get yourself terribly injured then be my guest." Kate angrily said and headed out of the room.

"So about my earlier suggestion, what do you guys think?" Sophia asked.

"I think, you are being crazy." Jake replied.

"Look I\'m not forcing you guys. I only just want we the strongest out of all of us which are; me, Jack and Peter to head off to the orange zone to hunt."

"Huh? Why are you involving me in your crazy expedition?" Peter asked.

"Think about it, if we managed to hunt something strong and we gather the crystal, we will finally rank up higher on the scoreboard." Sophia said.

"But, still it\'s still quite stupid and dangerous." Jack said.

"Don\'t worry, it will all be fine. So do we have a plan?" Sophia asked.

"Sure. I\'m in." Jack said.

"You managed to convince me. I\'m also in." Peter said.

"Well, I\'m out." Jake said actually heading out to look for Kate.

"Vynn and Cindy, no need to come with us. You can all head into the green zone and also hunt some beasts so combined with the ones we get, we will finally rank up." Sophia said.

"That sounds like a plan to me." Vynn said lying down to get some shut eye.

Meanwhile, when Kate stormed off earlier, she didn\'t have any where in mind to go to so she just wandered around trying to calm down.

\'what does she think of herself? Just coz she\'s strong, doesn\'t mean she gets to pull the strings here and call the shots for the rest of us.\'

Kate just kept wandering around annoyed that was when she heard her name. "Kate!"

She turned around and saw Jake chasing after her. "Aren\'t you also going to join them in their little expedition?"

"Me? Why will I? Actually she thinks am too weak and said I shouldn\'t bother going with them. Besides I think her idea and suggestions is quite stupid and not wise."

"Well because the idea is actually stupid. But if she really wants to risk her life just because of some crystals then she should go ahead am not gonna stop her." Kate said.

"Don\'t worry, we will head off to the green zone and help hunt crystals for them so when they finally realize the danger and how stupid they were, we will rub it in their face." Jake said smiling.

Kate just smiled. "Thanks. You managed to cheer me up in your own weird way."

They looked into their eyes for a bit and then Kate quickly looked away with her cheeks red. "So what do you think the world will look like after the war?"

"Peaceful, I guess." Jake answered.

After a few more minutes of talking, chatting and walking, they decided to head to their dorm to get some rest for the next day.