Nick Eliopulos - Minecraft - Into the Game (Minecraft Woodsword Chronicles #1)

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auditorium. But none of them was quite like theirs. They had constructed it out of one hundred identically sized cubes of modelling clay. It was brown and green and blocky. And it looked like something right out of Minecraft.

Harper, Morgan, and Po were very different. But they all liked Minecraft. That had been all the inspiration they needed.

Po pulled the finishing touches from his backpack: a bottle of vinegar and a packet of bicarbonate of soda. A small amount of each would make their volcano erupt. That would prove to the teachers that they understood chemical reactions. And a dash of red food colouring would give it some flair!

“What do you think their project is?” Morgan asked. Jodi and Ash were setting up their station nearby. Morgan couldn’t take his eyes off them.

“Focus, Morgan,” Harper said in a singsong voice. “Do you have the food colouring?”

“Yeah,” Morgan grumbled. He began rooting around in his backpack.

Just then, Ash and Jodi pulled their sheet

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away with a flourish. Their project wasn’t a volcano. They had constructed a piñata. It

looked just like a Minecraft creeper¸ with a green body and black eyes. It was as tall as Jodi.

Kids oohed and aahed. Harper couldn’t blame them. The creeper looked amazing.

Morgan went pale. “But . . . but . . . ” he said. “Minecraft is my thing.”

Ash saw him looking. She smiled and waved.

Morgan didn’t wave back.

“You don’t own Minecraft,” Po reminded him.

“But they copied our idea!” Morgan said.

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“It’s probably a coincidence,” Harper said.

Ms Minerva and Doc Culpepper looked the piñata over. They smiled and nodded and wrote notes on their clipboards. Then Ash directed the teachers and students to step back to a safe distance.

Ash put on a pair of safety goggles. She attached a hose to the back of the piñata, and then she joined the other students.

At the other end of the hose, Jodi stood beside

a canister of gas. It was labelled CO 2. Harper

recognised that as the chemical formula for carbon dioxide. I wonder what they’re up to? she thought, her mind racing with possibilities.

At a signal from Ash, Jodi turned a handle on the CO 2tank. The hose went taut as gas moved from the tank to the piñata.

Harper held her breath, excited to see what would happen next.

The creeper exploded! It was just like in Minecraft. Except when this creeper exploded, it sent candy flying across the floor.

“Amazing,” Harper said. “They made a piñata that breaks itself.”

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All the other children cheered and laughed as they ran forwards to grab fistfuls

of candy. Doc Culpepper

cheered, and Ms Minerva gave Jodi and Ash a

thumbs-up.

“That does it,” Morgan said.

“We need to go bigger.”

“Bigger?” Po asked.

“Our volcano is measly

compared to that. We

need a much bigger

eruption!”

Harper shook her

head. “That’s a terrible

idea, Morgan. Our volcano will work just fine if we stick to the plan.” She picked up her measuring spoons and poured out a tablespoon of vinegar.

But Morgan took the bottle from her and the packet of bicarbonate of soda from Po. He held everything out over the mouth of the volcano.

“Morgan, wait!” Po said.

Harper added, “We don’t know what will happen if you . . .”

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