Nothing much happens in this chapter but I came up with some ideas and I wanted to make a chapter out of them. Hopefully I wrote it right. If I did then it should be funny, if not well it will be boring. Review and tell me which!

"Maua! Come over here and help me get the paint off the shelves!"

Elphaba tried once more to reach the top shelf to grab the buckets of paint. Maua had found several canvases in one of the spare rooms and they had decided to have a go at painting. While Maua got the canvases ready, Elphaba went into the storage room to try and find paint. The buckets were all unfortunately on the top shelf and were impossible so reach, even with the help of a chair.

Maua bounded in on all fours. She looked up and quickly saw the paint buckets. Even though Maua was shorter than Elphaba, she was very strong and agile. Elphaba had seen her climb trees at a rate that would impress the average monkey. She was sure she would be able to climb up the shelves and bring down the paint.

Seconds after leaving the room Elphaba heard a loud crash. She quickly ran back into the room and instantly saw what must have happened. Maua had tried climbing up the shelves and had probably hoped to lower the paint buckets down with her tail. Unfortunately for her, the shelf with all the paint snapped and she fell back down, paint buckets and all. None of the buckets appeared to have lids...

Elphaba was soon rolling on the floor laughing at the site. Maua was absolutely covered in paint. Her back was a rainbow of green, purple and and bright blue, her tail was hot pink, one of her arms was a navy blue and the other was a fluorescent orange, her stomach was yellow and her legs and head were a colourful mix of all the paints. Maua stood in a pool of colour as Elphaba was trying to get her laughing under control.

"This is going to take hours to clean off!" She whined. This only made Elphaba laugh harder. However when she looked up her friend had a rather mischievous smile on her face. Maua took a very deliberate step towards Elphaba. Elphabas response was to take a very deliberate step back.

"Don't you dare. Don't even think about it"

"I'm thinking about it..."

Elphaba turned and ran as fast as she could. The whole first floor of the house didn't have an inch of carpet but if she made it to the stairs she was sure Maua wouldn't want to ruin the floor in the bedrooms.

However Maua quickly caught up with Elphaba by running on all fours and used her weight to pin her down. She then smeared as much paint as she could onto her green friend. Elphabas struggling only made it worse and she was soon just as covered as Maua. After she let her go it was Mauas turn to have a fit of laughter. Elphaba was a colourful mess. However the smearing and rolling had only made Mauas fur look even worse so Elphaba soon joined in. It took a long time for them to get their laughter under control and for them to head to the bathroom.

Both girls had been in the bathroom for well over an hour. Maua was standing in the bath pouring buckets of water over herself. She hadn't even bothered to take off her clothes. Elphaba was sitting on the floor and was using a ruler to scrape the paint off her body and clothes. When Maua had rinsed as much of the paint off as she could she filled the bath and started to comb the rest out.

"All the paint you smeared into my hair has dried. How on earth am I going to get it out?" Elphaba sighed

"Well at least you don't have fur covering your whole body" Maua pointed out, combing her arms

"Yes well at least you can take a bath and wash it out"

In the end Maua solved the problem by having Elphaba sit in a chair with her back against the sink. Maua then had to wash the paint out while being extremely careful not to let any water touch her scalp.

By the time they were both clean and their clothes were free of paint it was dark and they were both tired. However they still decided that they needed to clean the floor. Elphaba went into the storage room to get a mop and sponge. Suddenly something caught her eye.

"Maua come over here!"

Maua came in, picking off some paint she had missed on her tail. "If you want me to get something off the shelves then you can forget it"

Elphaba pointed to a small cupboard by her feet. Maua crouched down to see what was inside. There were pots of paint...

Hope you like this chapter! I know there are no key events but the idea of the paint disaster came to me and I thought I could make a fun little chapter out of it.

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Thanks for reading!