Start of the Prank War

It was several weeks after New Year's and things had been going very smoothly. The only small rut for our group was when finals happened and Mello was angry at Near for being number one.

Of course, this group peace couldn't last and it didn't. Matt and Astraea had silently started a prank war with each other. It started out with small things; moving objects and deleting game files, but now it was moving on to bigger things and every once in awhile it somehow included the other group members, much to their annoyance.

It was a calm day. Breakfast had gone fine with no incidents and BB, Near, and Mello were beginning to think the war was over. But, that calmness had to be shattered. They were sitting in the commons with Astraea waiting for Matt so they could go into town when they heard an ear-piercing shriek from the bathroom.

Mello was about to go see what happened when a pink blob rushed out. They stared as Matt glared at the little girl.

"You!" he shouted

"Me?" she asked him innocently.

"What the hell did you do?!?"

"I didn't do anything. What did you do to yourself? You're pink…all over!" Astraea replied.

Matt seethed and glared at her. Roger came through the door to ask if they were ready to leave and stopped when he saw the pink gamer.

He gave the boy a look over. The boy's hair was hot pink and his skin was pink too. He sighed and shook his head.

"What happened?" he asked, regretting the answer. Ever since this prank war started, he had been going insane with the two kids.

"She happened!" Matt shouted.

"Astraea…"

The girl grumbled, "why do you assume it was me?"

"You and Matt are the only ones having a prank war at the moment, that's why," Roger answered her.

He took her outside to talk to her and returned a few minutes later.

"Astraea won't be coming with us today, so if you still want to go, follow me."

He left and no one followed him.

"I'm not going, it'll be no fun without Astraea's crazy ideas," BB said as he walked to his room.

"If they won't go then I won't," Near said as he too walked to his room.

"I'm not going like this!" Matt hissed as he stalked back to his room and Mello sighed and followed him.

No one went into town that day. The pink faded from Matt's hair after a couple days but it took longer for it to fade from his skin.