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I have really nothing to say other than to offer a quick apology for having no numbers on the notes.
I can promise you they were there when I double checked the chapter, but when I posted it, they were gone!
Anyways on with the last chapter! (sobs)
Ch 6
Ruby Gorgon: Worst day ever!
If you went to Ruby's Fangbook page, you would see this post.
Normally when bad things happened to Ruby, she would try to think positively.
But the only positive things that came out of this situation were that she and Clawdette got to perform and that Clawdette probably had less stage fright.
The fact that she didn't win, didn't make Ruby upset; what made her upset was how Holt and her friends got treated.
Ruby was checking to see if any of her friends were online, wanting to talk to them to see if they were ok, when she heard the doorbell ring.
Ruby went out of her room, and went to the balcony that over looked the front room.
She leaned down (but not too much as no fall) to see her mother walk toward the front door and look in the peephole.
"Thank the gods," Cleo sighed, and opened the door.
Ruby strained to see, as her mother said "It's about time!"
"Don't blame me!" Deuce said, panting, walking in and sitting on the couch "The distance from the club, to Holt's house, to here is long!"
"Deuce, why did you walk?" Cleo asked, sitting down next to him "You could have called me!"
"How could I?" Deuce asked "I forgot my phone at the restaurant!"
Cleo shook her head, and kissed his cheek.
"How's Holt?" she then asked "Is he ok?"
"External wise," Deuce said taking her hand, and stroking it "I guess so. Internal wise… Not so much."
"What you mean?" Cleo asked.
"We didn't actually talk to him, we just followed him home to make sure that he didn't do anything stupid." Deuce clarified.
"Why didn't you talk to him?" Cleo said, baffled.
"Cause he was really pissed off. You know how violent he is when he's like that. Besides if I were feeling like that, I wouldn't wanna talk to anyone."
"Then it was kinda useless that you, Gil, and Pearl followed him,"
"We just wanted to make sure that he didn't hurt some monster he passed by,"
There was silence.
"Say that you love me," Cleo then randomly said.
"What's the magic word?" Deuce asked pulling her close.
"Please,"
"I love you Cleo,"
They then kissed.
Ruby then left, pretty such that was all information on what happened to Holt.
Coming back to her room and laptop, Ruby saw that she had five chat windows opened with five chat messages from the ghouls and Klaus.
Klaus: Hey little red u and your leg ok?
Pearl: U ok?
Clawdette: Hey ghoul! Thx for letting me sing with u! u rock! I hate that manager guy he was so mean! We sooooo should have won!
Bella: Hey Ruby, how are u? OMG When I told Owen about what happened he said his first word! He said "Unfair"! Now that's all he's been saying for the last hour! It's soooo cute! We all freaked out since we thought he would never learn to talk. My mom's trying to get him to say "mama" but all he keeps saying is "unfair"!
Luna: Hey Ruby are u ok? Wat happened was sooooooo not fair!
Ruby then all messaged them back, telling them she had just come back from bat room (bath room).
After telling all of them that she was ok, Ruby then made individual comments to each of their messages: congratulating Owen, agreeing with Luna and Clawdette that was mean, that they should have won, and that what happened was not fair in addition to saying "you're welcome" to Clawdette, saying to Klaus that her leg was better (that she could finally now move it without it hurting a lot), and asking Pearl if her dad was ok.
She then waited for her friends to type their responses.
Pearl's came up first.
Pearl: Yeah he's ok, my mum got mad at him for leaving the car back at that club.
The others were still typing their messages, so Ruby replied back.
Ruby: Oh no!
Pearl then quickly typed her response.
Pearl: But my dad when back and got the car, so their cool now….
Ruby: :)
Then notifications popped up that the others had finished typing their messages.
Ruby was gonna check on their messages, when Pearl typed out:
Pearl: Hey, I have a plan on how to get revenge on that manger dude. You wanna hear?
Revenge was a word that was not allowed in the Gorgon household since Ruby's parents believed in the whole treat others that way you wanted to be treated rule; but Ruby was pretty sure that her parents wanted to get revenge on Mr. Furge just as much as she did.
After messaging to the others that she had to go to the bat room again, she then messaged to Pearl:
Ruby: I'm all ears
Pearl then explained her plan to Ruby.
Ruby: That's genius Pearl! Will your mum be ok with it?
Pearl: Thx, yeah I told her about what happened, and then about my plan and she's all for it. Will your folks be ok with taking u back to the club?
Ruby: Let me ask brb
Ruby then went downstairs to find her parents still on the couch, talking, still holding hands.
After welcoming her father back home, Ruby told her parents about Pearl's plan.
At first Cleo and Deuce were reluctant to let Ruby go back to Karaoke Dokie, but she ended up reasoning with them by saying "Please! I know you think Pearl's plan is good. And I know you wanna get back at manger guy."
Cleo and Deuce both sighed; their daughter just knew them too well.
"I'm not taking you back there Ruby," Cleo shook her head.
"I will then," Deuce smiled at his daughter.
"Thanks daddy, thanks mummy!" Ruby gave her parents a kiss, and then ran back upstairs.
Getting back on her laptop Ruby typed back:
Ruby: Hey I'm back
Pearl: Hey ghoul :)
Ruby: My mum and dad said yes! :)
Pearl: Voltage!
Ruby: Do u think Clawdette and her family will ok with the plan?
Pearl: idk I'll message and ask her
Ruby: Thx Pearl u rock!
Pearl: np :)
Ruby: So we meet tomorrow, at the club, at 6:00?
Pearl: yeah, bring your uncle too, if he's ok with it
Ruby: will do
The next night, Ruby, Deuce, Narcissus, and Holt waited in Deuce's car by the front entrance of Karaoke Dokie for Pearl, as well as Clawdette, Klaus, and their mothers.
Ruby was able to chat with Holt on Fangbook, and tell him about "the plan"; and he had loved it!
He couldn't believe how his goddaughter's friend (whom he barely knew) cared enough about him to think of plan that would help him get revenge: sweet, sweet revenge!
"Why did you make me come back here?" Narcissus moaned, for the fifth time.
"Cause," Ruby clarified, once again "we need you and Klaus to distract that Arsinoe ghoul and her friend while we sneak Mrs. Blue in."
"I don't wanna talk to her!" Narcissus cried "She's weird!"
"Come on, buddy" Holt reached over and messed up his hair "If you don't wanna do it for your sister, can you do it for me, please?"
"Take one for the team son," Deuce agreed, turning himself around in the driver's seat, and reaching his hand out to take his turn at messing up Narcissus's hair.
"Fine, fine" Narcissus finally gave in.
Then turning to Ruby said: "You owe me big time."
"I do," Ruby nodded "Thanks,"
"Whatever," Narcissus replied, after which Deuce made him say "You're welcome" (which he said in kind of an irritated tone).
A knock then came from outside the right passenger's door.
Everyone all turned to see Klaus, waving.
Upon seeing him, the Gorgons and Holt got out of the car at a brisk pace.
Once they all greeted each other, Holt then thanked all of them for coming back.
"No problems" came from each of the monsters, after which their glances turned to Narcissus and Klaus.
"You ready boys?" Lagonna asked.
Klaus and Narcissus looked at each other.
"Sure," Klaus answered sarcastically, feeling the same way Klaus did about having to talk to the ghouls.
He and Narcissus then went into Karaoke Dokie.
"Please don't do something stupid, please don't do something stupid" Deuce found himself thinking as the boys disappeared.
In entering, the boys instantly covered their ears.
"I'm in love, I'm in love, sitting here without your love. I'm in love" The voices of Arsinoe and Settimana echoed throughout the club.
The boys took their hands off their ears when they saw Arsinoe and Settimana turn to face them.
The ghouls smiled, as Klaus and Narcissus waved at them.
Soon as the song was over, the ghouls jumped up the stage and ran to them.
"Hey, baby!" Arsinoe cried to Narcissus giving him a hug and a quick kiss on the cheek.
It took Narcissus a ton of control to not take off his glasses and stone her.
"Hi," Settimana nervously said to Klaus.
"Hello," Klaus said back.
"I never got to catch your name," Arsinoe purred to Narcissus, taking his hand.
"Narcissus," Narcissus said, trying to confident.
"Narcissus, huh?" Arsinoe said exmating Narcissus more closely "What were your crabby parents thinking when they named you that? It pure bad luck."
"What!" Narcissus cried, yanking his hand away "No it's not!"
"Correction, it is" Arsinoe insisted "It means that you were probably destined to die of unrequited love."
"What do you mean by 'you were'?" Narcissus asked.
"It means that as long as you have me, you'll never die. Cause I'll love you forever!" Arsinoe hugged Narcissus.
"This ghoul's crazy!" Narcissus though as Arsinoe finally let go of him.
"So what's your name?" Settimana asked Klaus.
"Kl…" Klaus was saying when Settimana interrupted by saying: "That's hot!"
"You didn't even let me finish!" Klaus cried, trying to be patient.
He then continued: "My name's Klaus, and it's not a hot name; it's a name you would give to someone living in the seventeen hundreds."
"Well, to me, it's hot" Settimana replied.
"So, uh, Arsinoe" Narcissus was beginning to say when he heard Ruby cry out "Hey!"
Arsinoe and Settimana, along with Narcissus and Klaus, turned to see Ruby and Holt walking hand in hand with Pearl and Clawdette following.
"Well, well, well" Arsinoe left Narcissus and went up to Ruby and Holt "I thought I was starting to smell failure."
"Well then, you must be sniffing yourself, ghoul" Holt said.
He then leaned forward toward Arsinoe, and instantly pulled back.
"Yep," Holt agreed with himself "You smell most definitely like failure."
Clawdette then took a sniff at Arsinoe's sent "And fear."
"Come on!" Arsinoe cried "Like I'd be scared of you guys."
"What do they want?" Settimana asked as she approached the group, taking her place next to Arsinoe.
"To prove his point," Pearl answered, pointing to Holt.
"What point?" Arsinoe asked.
"That if the audience chose who won at these contests, anyone in this place would beat you guys." Holt explained, emphasizing the 'anyone'.
"But you'd be too scared to do that right?" Ruby asked, letting go of Holt's hand so she could get face to face with Arsinoe.
"No," Arsinoe said swatting away the comment away like you would do with a fly "We're not scared."
"Then do it!" Ruby shouted.
"And if we win?" Arsinoe asked.
"You can kiss my brother, and your friend can kiss him" Ruby said, pointing to Klaus, feeling like she just got punched in the stomach for offering her crush up like that.
"WHAT?" Narcissus and Klaus yelled.
"And if you- somehow- win," Settimana was saying.
"You have to promise to leave and never come back," Ruby said "You'll give my uncle the keys to this place, and never set foot in this place ever again."
"What?" it was Holt turn to be surprised.
"Deal," Arsinoe stuck out her hand.
"Deal," Ruby shook it.
"Now chose someone to sing against you," Pearl said.
Arsinoe and Settimana then began to look around.
"Found someone," Settimana elbowed Arsinoe and pointed to a table near the entrance.
Sitting at the table was blue skinned monster, reading a book entitled Coping with Failure.
Her face was covered with warts and she had a long noise (like a witch's).
She had straight, lengthy black hair, wore circle glasses, and was dressed in sweats and a jacket.
She wasn't the most attractive monster there, which (according to Settimana and Arsinoe) made her the perfect competitor; after all a ghoul that ugly can't sing right?
"Perfect," Arsinoe whispered back to her friend.
Turning back to Holt, Ruby, Clawdette, and Pearl she gave a wicked grin, and pointing to the witch like ghoul, said "Her".
"What? Her?" Holt cried.
"She hideous!" Pearl shouted.
"At least pick someone who has a chance," Ruby said.
"Hey," Arsinoe's grin grew wider "You said I…"
"We!" Settimana interrupted.
"Could choose anyone in this place," Arsinoe continued, ignoring Settimana, "And I pick her."
Arsinoe then turned to the ghoul.
"Hey ugly batty!" she yelled to the witch like ghoul.
The witch like ghoul looked up.
"Time to sing!" Arsinoe gestured toward the stage.
The witch like ghoul looked around in dis belief.
"Me?" she asked in high pitched voice that hinted a bit of an Austrian accent.
Arsinoe nodded.
"Ok peoples we're doing something very special tonight!" Heath announced into his mic from the crockpot, two mintues later.
The crowd stopped what they were doing and looked at him.
"You just heard the awesome voices of our champions, Arsinoe and Settimana!" Heath continued while the crowd started up a hesitant bit of applause.
"Well they've pick a challenger to sing next," Heath explained "and you- the audience- are gonna pick a winner!"
At this the crowd howled with excitement.
"Are you ready?" Heath asked.
The crowd yelled their approval.
"Now, what's your name?" Heath said the witch- like ghoul.
"Louise Black-En- Thogh" she said in that high pitch voice.
Laughing came from some of the audience members, including Arsinoe, Settimana, and Mr. Furge.
"Wow, that a name" Heath remarked, sarcastic, making the monster who were laughing laugh harder.
"Now, what do you want to sing, Louise?" Heath asked.
"Freak the Freak out," Louise answered, confident.
"Really?" Heath chuckled "Are you sure? That's a pretty intense tune."
"I WANNA SING IT NOW PLEASE!" Louise yelled.
"Ok, ok" Heath quickly grabbed the C.D. from the shelve and slammed it in.
The music then started up.
Ruby, Arsinoe, and Settimana looked at each other from their table.
Ruby tried to give a serious look, but it was realllllllllllly hard to do that since Pearl's plan was working and she was close to being victorious.
Ruby brought her lips into her mouth, trying not to smile.
She then gave Arsinoe and Settimana a look as if she inspecting them.
"Don't make that face-Ruby- please," Deuce said, not wanting her look to give their plan away.
Ruby turned away from Arsinoe and Settimana, and smiled the smile she had been holding back.
The music then gave its cue, and Louise began.
"Are you listening? Hear me talk, hear me sing. Open up the door easy less, easy more…"
Wispers began along the crowd, and all of them where "Man, she sounds amazing!"
As she continued, Louise reached up to her head and pulled her hair off.
The crowd gasped as she shook out her true hair, blonde with blue streaks.
The gasps continued as 'Lousie' took off her noise and glasses, rubbed the fake warts off her face, unzipped her jacket reveling a pink top, and stepped out of her pants showing her shorts.
Lousie Black-En- Thogh was really Lagonna in disguise!
"They tricked us!" Arsinoe cried.
"What do you mean by us?" Settimana asked "You agreed to this whole competition thingy! I just helped!"
Still singing, Lagonna pranced around the stage having the time of life!
She never thought that when she agreed to her daughter's plan, that it would be this fun!
"That's my mommy!" Pearl said with pride.
She then got up and ran to side of the stage, and began to dance.
At seeing Pearl next to the stage, Lagonna took her hand and invited her up to the stage.
After helping Pearl up, Lagoonna looked toward the table to try to find her friends and their offspring but saw that no one was there.
Then all of a sudden, she saw them (along with everyone else in the club) dancing right in front of her below the stage.
Lagonna was at the point in the song in which it was an instrumental so she called out in her true voice "Clawdette! Ruby! Join us!"
At hearing their names, the ghouls stopped dancing and turned toward Lagonna.
"Come on!" Lagonna held out the hand that wasn't holding the microphone.
The ghouls didn't hesitate for one moment; they ran toward the stage, Lagonna helping them both up.
As Lagonna then continued singing the last verse, as Pearl, Ruby, and Clawdette danced off to the side of the stage.
By the time Lagonna finished, every single monster in the crowd cheered and applauded for her.
Ruby ran up to her and hugged her, followed by Clawdette and Pearl.
"No! No! No!" Arsinoe was shouting, but she couldn't be heard over the sound of the clapping.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Mr. Furge had suddenly grabbed the mic from Lagonna and was on stage "Wait!"
"FOR WHAT?" everyone in the club had yelled.
"The crowd hasn't voiced yet!" Arsinoe stood up in her seat.
"LOUISE! LOUISE! LOUISE!" the audience screamed their vote.
Mr. Furge and Arsinoe had looks of shock on their faces.
"I'll take the keys thank you very much," Holt had unexpectedly appeared, reached into Mr. Furge's pocket, and took the keys to the club.
"Are these the right ones?" Holt asked, mockingly, laughing, waving the keys in front of his former boss's face.
Mr. Furge nodded, still in shock.
"Then, GET OUT OF MY CLUB!" Holt pushed him off the stage.
On the ground, Mr. Furge looked up.
"But that's not fair!" he cried "You tricked us!"
"Life isn't fair son, you should have learned that by now!" Holt replied, scornfully , still laughing at the shock on his face.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Arsinoe suddenly screamed "GET IT OFF OF MEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Everyone looked to find Crescent clinging to Arsinoe's right leg, biting it so hard that she was drawing blood.
"CRESCENT! STOP IT!" Clawdeen ran over to get her daughter.
"ARSINOE!" Mr. Furge got up and also ran to his daughter.
Ruby, Clawdette, and Holt were laughing however; about time something bad happened to her!
As Clawdeen pulled her daughter away from Arsinoe, her fangs scratched Arsinoe's skin leaving white scratch marks.
In her mother's arms, Crescent kicked and growled.
"LET ME GO! LET ME GO!" she struggled.
"What has gotten into you?" Clawdeen furiously asked "You know you don't bite others!"
"I was asking her if she could leave and she called me a turd!" Crescent augured her reason "She's a meanie!"
"I don't care what she calls you," Clawdeen said, still annoyed "What you just did was not polite."
Clawdeen then looked up, wanting to apologize for her daughter's behavior, when she realized that Mr. Furge and Arsinoe were gone.
"They left?" she asked.
"Yep," Holt gave a smile of satisfaction.
"More like ran out," Ruby smiled.
"Awwwww I wasn't finished with her!" Crescent cried.
"And I'm not finished with you either," Clawdeen said as she, still carrying Crescent, began to walk toward the restroom so she could discipline her privately.
As soon as they disappeared, Holt went back behind the crockpot.
"Can you hand me a microphone, Heath, buddy?" he asked Heath.
"Yeah," Heath nodded to his new boss, giving him a mic.
"I'm just gonna get out of here and let you run the show," Heath exited the crockpot.
"Thanks," Holt said as he left, then to the audience he said: "Wow, what a show tonight huh?"
The crowd clapped and screamed, agreeing.
"Now, I want to say thanks to some people," Holt continued "Don't worry I'll make it short, since I know you wanna get back to dancing right?"
Shouts of "Yeah!" came from the crowd.
"I wanna my friend, Lagoona for dressing up and pretending to be Louise Black-En- Thogh. Her daughter Pearl for thinking of this whole plan, my goddaughter Ruby, her friend Clawdette- as well as Pearl- for being my back up people. My guys, Narcissus and Klaus, for you know being bait..." Holt was interrupted by shrieks of laugher.
"Sorry guys," he continued "I couldn't think of a better term."
"I love you too," Narcissus sarcastically commented.
"Right back at ya," Holt returned the comment "Anyways, I wanna also give thanks to the insane parents of these girls, for actually letting them back here again."
The laugher started up once again.
"Again, just kidding" Holt said, before Deuce and Lagonna could give him looks.
"And last but most defiantly not least" he went on "Let's give a hand to little Crescent Wolf, for showing who's boss, aye?"
The crowd agreed by clapping and cheering.
"Ok then enough with the boring speech, onto the music!"
The crowd continued clapping and cheering as Holt made his way over to the stack of
Holt eyes scanned the as he tried to find the appropriate song to play.
Stopping his search at a certain song, he looked back at Ruby, then Klaus, and then the C.D.
"Perfect," he smiled as he went, carrying the C.D., back to the microphone.
"Now- please don't kill me-," Holt said "I'm gonna put on a slow dance tune for you guys right now. So find that very special someone and just dance."
Holt then put the C.D. in the speaker, and "When a Man Loves a Woman" went on playing.
Holt smiled as Pearl dragged Ruby off the stage, white Clawdette dragged her brother toward the middle of the dance floor.
Now standing in front of each other, Ruby and Klaus blushed.
"Would you like to dance?" Klaus asked, giving a quick bow, and holding his hand out.
Ruby looked back toward where her friends had left her.
They were standing near Deuce and Lagoona and were (along with Lagonna and Deuce) encouraging her to dance.
Ruby then turned back to Klaus, smiled, and taking his hand said: "I would love to,"
And as they danced the night away they were both thinking the same thing: "Best night ever!"
Epilogue:
The next night, Holt was driving himself and Ruby to Spectra's house to tell her what happened.
Upon opening Ruby's door and helping her get out, Holt walked up to Spectra's front door, with Ruby following (now walking normally, now that her leg was a lot better) carrying something that she should have won two nights ago.
Holt rung the door bell and a minute after Spectra appeared.
"Holt! Ruby!" she gasped, stunned.
Ruby then held up what she had been holding in her hand, a trophy.
"Oh my ghoul," Spectra gasped once again, Ruby placed the trophy in her hand.
After giving a quick examination of the trophy, Spectra looked up at Ruby and Holt.
"Thank you! Thank you!" she cried, still in awe.
"No problem," Holt smiled.
"How did you get this?" Spectra asked.
"Oh he owns the place now," Ruby said, happily "So he's got like a ton of them."
"What sweetie?" Spectra asked confused at what she had said.
As quickly as she could, Ruby explained all the happened the previous night.
"So," Spectra looked toward Ruby to get a better understanding of what she had been told "You set a bet with Mr. Furge, and he lost. And since he lost he gave Holt ownership of the club."
"Yep," Ruby nodded.
Spectra looked at Holt.
"My ghoulness, you did of this just because of what happened last Thursday?" she asked.
"All true," Holt said.
"Why?" Spectra wondered.
"Cause," Holt explained "It's not fair that Mr. Furge treated a pretty ghoul like you so roughly."
Spectra blushed.
"Well it's not fair that all monsters aren't gentlemen like you," she replied
"Thanks," Holt said.
"No problem," Spectra replied.
"Hey, um," Spectra then said "It's been a reallllly long time since I've gone out a guy and I was wondering…"
"If I wanted to go with?" Holt asked, finishing her thought.
"Yeah," she blushed.
"I'd like that," Holt smiled.
"So next Friday night?" Spectra queried.
"Pick you up at 6:00?" Holt requested.
"Sounds good," Spectra nodded "Thanks"
"Don't mention it," Holt smiled once again.
"And you too Ruby," Spectra smiled at her "thanks."
"Any time," Ruby smiled, and then said "Bye."
"Bye," Holt and Spectra said at the same time.
But they didn't go bye; they slowly leaned toward each other and kissed.
"Oh la, la!" Ruby cried, making that whistling noise that guys made when a hot girl came into the room.
"Hey," Holt chuckled, taking his lips away from Spectra's and smiling at Ruby "you had your fairy-tale moment; now this is mine."
And as they continued, Ruby let them, remembering how he had let her have her fairy- tale moment with Klaus
THE END!
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