A Helping Prank
Prologue
Seto coughed loudly and pulled away from the smoke emitting from his vial of blue liquid. "Woops." He set the vial down in its holder and moved to his shelves, removing several beakers of different solids and liquids, carrying them over to his table. He turned on a burner and began to boil a clear liquid. He added different substances until they made a bluish green liquid and he smirked.
"Finally." He left the room yelling out his friends' names, unaware of the man in the shadows of the room.
"You guys, I've done it!" Seto exclaimed to the three lounging people.
"Done what Seto?" Deadlox asked, his controller laying by his side.
"I finished my potion!"
"Oh sweet! I wanna see!" Jerome yelled, sitting upright and pausing his game. He hopped up, ready to follow Seto back downstairs. "Let's go Ant, Deadlox!"
Ant and Deadlox sighed heavily, both getting up as well, ready to follow Seto downstairs. The group of four went down the stairs and saw Seto's bubbling concoction on the burner. He rushed over to it and turned off the fire, removing the beakers from it.
"So what's this supposed to do?" Ant asked, taking a metal stick and stirring the liquid.
"It's supposed to help you answer any question right for a certain matter of time," Seto answered, slapping Ant's hand away and removing the stick. He looked at his friends with a grin. "Wanna help me test it?"
They were silent until Jerome took the beaker and stared at it. "This won't kill us right?" Seto shook his head and Jerome shrugged. "Alright then, bottoms up!" He lifted the glass to his lips and took one mouthful. He burped, satisfied, then passed it to Deadlox.
"Fine then," Deadlox drank a mouthful next, swallowing and coughing into his hand slightly, giving it to Ant.
Ant looked at Seto suspiciously before drinking his amount then gagging. "That tastes like cheese."
Seto grinned madly, taking the beaker, drinking the rest and telling him, "I know." The four waited for a moment before Deadlox spoke.
"I don't feel any different..."
"This was a bust Seto," Ant included, turning to go back upstairs to his book.
"Shoot, I'd thought it would work this time!" Seto grumbled, crossing his arms defiantly. "Maybe it just needs time overnight?"
"Well then, I guess we'll find out tomorrow," Deadlox said, waving as he walked back upstairs. "You're dead this time Fluffy."
"Oh, you are so on." Jerome climbed the steps two at a time and chased after Deadlox. Seto sighed sadly and followed up after them.
"I have no idea what that did to them, but I'm sure it'll be hilarious," a snickering voice walked out of the shadows.
"I'm pretty sure that whatever you did won't kill them," another voice came from behind the figure.
"Well, let's just hope it'll stop them from beating around the bush," a third voice chuckled.
~A Helping Prank~
Deadlox yawned from his bed, stretching his arms wide. He pulled his legs over the side of his bed and rubbed at his eyes. Half asleep, he stood up, putting on his slippers. He moved over to his closet to remove his clothes from it but paused to admire his reflection, screaming in surprise at what he saw.
Jerome woke up to his friend's scream- considering their bedrooms were right across from each other. He moved out if his bed, careful of being quiet and walked across the hallway. Sleepily, he opened the door.
"Deadlox, man, keep it down."
"I am a freakin' girl!"
At the screech, Jerome's eyes snapped open and instead of his pajama wearing friend, he saw a girl with messy, short brown hair and a visible red eye. "De-Deadlox?"
"Yes!" Deadlox wailed, crossing his arms. "What the hell happened!?"
Jerome rubbed at his eyes and finally walked into the room. He looked at his friend, who was staring at him with wide eyes. "What?"
"Y-y-y-you're a girl too!" Jerome's eyes widened and he ran forward, pushing Deadlox away from the mirror and staring at his reflection.
He touched his face, moved his hands through his now long brown hair, and poked at the lumps now on his chest. "How the hell-!"
"Would you two shut up!?" a feminine voice sounded before the door was opened violently, slamming against the wall.
"Ant!?" the two screamed together. They saw their friend there in his pajamas, but he was a girl as well. Long black hair falling around his shoulder and big lumps on his chest as well.
"What!?" he paused shortly before questioning. "Why the heck are you cross-dressing at six in the morning?" Deadlox moved towards Ant and pulled him to the mirror. He yelped at his reflection as well. "What the hell!?"
"Seto!" the three screamed, running from the room and to their friend's closed door. They burst through the door and began yelling problems.
"Wa-what?" Seto's groggy voice wafted from his bed. He looked at the three people yelling at him. "Why are girls in this house?"
"Seto! This is your fault!" Deadlox yelled at him.
"Wait- Deadlox!?" Seto's head spun to the other two. "Jerome, Ant!?"
"Yeah!" Ant exclaimed, throwing his arms up in frustration. "Your stupid potion did this to us!"
"But I drank the potion too..."
"Look in a mirror," Deadlox crossed his arms, Jerome pointing to the mirror on the wall. Seto got up from his bed and looked into the mirror.
"H-how-?" He had long brown hair and his brown eyes were bigger, his chest was no longer flat like before and his face more rounded. "I didn't put anything in that potion that would turn us into girls!"
"Hey you guys, keep it down. Some of us are trying to sleep," a male voice came into the room. It trailed off and he stared at the four girls in the room. "Oh my gosh, it changed you into girls!"
As the figure fell to the floor laughing, Seto yelled, "What did you do Ssundee!?"
"Me!? I didn't-" Ssundee's protest was halted by his uncontrollable laughter.
"Ssundee..." Deadlox glared at the man on the floor. He was incredibly furious at him- even if he didn't do anything.
"What the hell did you put into my potion?" Seto asked, straining to remain calm.
"That's the best part- I just mixed some random chemicals together with it!" Ssundee exclaimed.
Seto paled visibly and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Why?"
"Thought it would help you guys either confess or give you a chance to get together with them," Ssundee explained.
"I needed no help trying to get my crush to like me," Jerome pouted, folding his arms grumpily.
"But you did need help with confessing."
"So?"
"Well, I guess I'll get to work on an antidote and-"
"Hey, you guys alright up there? We heard screams from the basement."
The four boys changed girls' eyes widened and they quickly made a move to cover up or something. "Eh? Why are there girls here?"