A/N: Welcome back to another chapter everyone! Thank you all for your reviews and suggestions once more - I know, I know, I say this every chapter but it's all true! Reviews make my whole day, they mean a lot to me.
Speaking of reviews, this will be the last chapter that people will be able to leave suggestions on who should end up with who! The next chapter will set some things in stone and then there's no going back. If it's a tie between characters (ex. If two people say Larry should end up with Electra and another two say he should end up with Wolfe) then I'll have to choose which option I think would be better for the story. Just a heads up, so get those suggestions in! Thanks for reading, let's get on with the story shall we?
Disclaimer: All Nintendo characters belong to Nintendo. All other characters belong to their respective owners. I only own Lindsay, Abigail, and the regular story.
Friday, the day everyone looks forward to during the week. Usually fridays don't have much going on since it's right before the weekend. Most students don't even care about their classes if there is something going on since they're so excited.
Now? All some kids could stress about was the ominous invitation they received the previous day.
Some kids got it in the mail, some got it in person. Some even had it in their lockers. One thing that each person who received an invitation was thinking was something along the lines of 'what the hell?'.
The select few tried not to stress over it but it was just so… mysterious. They couldn't do much else except think about it until lunch.
Currently, the day had just begun and the English class were bored out of their minds. The bell had just rang for class and everyone was still only settling in but as soon as their teacher, Ms. Nastasia, spoke in her monotone voice? They felt like they could fall asleep right away.
"'K, class, I have an announcement." Ms. Nastasia said, leaning back in her chair. "We have a new student today. Please welcome Mr. Mark."
A boomerang bro strolled into the classroom with a small smile on his face, scanning his new classmates. He looked like a regular guy, but he caught the eye of a certain Koopaling.
"Whoa." Lemmy muttered, and Iggy glanced at him out of curiosity.
"You know this guy?" Iggy asked and Lemmy shook his head.
"I wish I did, I mean look at him!"
Iggy looked at Mark and then back at Lemmy. It took him a second but he finally understood what his closest brother meant. "Oh… dude, you got this. If you need any relationship advice, come to me." He smiled until he noticed Lemmy's 'really?' expression and remembered his current relationship status. "Actually... maybe you should ask someone else."
Lemmy looked back at Mark and the two stared at each other. Lemmy gave him a grin and Mark looked away, but Lemmy could've sworn his cheeks were slightly red.
"O….kay." Ms. Nastasia watched them and then shook her head. "Right. Uh. On with the lesson."
The class awkwardly got to work on some boring english stuff but most people - once again - could not concentrate and were just counting down the minutes until lunch; until the meeting.
The bell blared through the school after a few hours, signalling the start of lunch. Everyone raced out of their classrooms as usual, a few kids though were a little more frantic as they rushed to tech hall.
Everyone was now gathered right outside a computer lab. There were quite a few people: Dimentio, Electra, Abigail, William, Wolfe, Mark, Candy, Lindsay, Gabby, Doopliss, Cheryl, Amethyst, Norman, and Luvbi.
Mimi opened the door for them from the inside and invited them in. Inside the room were quite a few chairs placed in a circle. They all took their seats quietly, but many people were unsure about what was happening.
"What the hell's this all about?" Gabby asked with a frown on her face and her arms crossed. She didn't like meetings, especially not ones she was forced to go to. Amethyst nodded in agreement next to her.
"Ahem!" Mimi cleared her throat and dusted off her dress. "We've gathered here today to discuss a certain troublesome family, one that has caused mayhem-"
"'We've gathered here today'? What is this, a wedding?" Abigail laughed loudly and William, seated next to her, joined in. Mimi gave her an evil stare and continued on.
"One that has caused mayhem for all of us here. The Koopalings."
"What?" Candy asked, speaking up. "They haven't been any trouble!"
Most of the students agreed, making the room erupt in noise. Mimi sighed in frustration before waving her hands around, causing them to settle down. "Candy, we all know that's a load of crap. I mean come on! Ever since those dummies got here, the whole place has went to shit!"
"Mimi!" Doopliss scolded her.
"You get my point."
"No, we really don't," Amethyst complained loudly. "Is this whole meeting just about you not trusting the Koopalings? Awh, poor Mimi. Who was it who tried burning down their house?"
The room exploded in noise once more and it took longer to get everyone to quiet down this time. Dimentio was the one to finally do it. "Ah ha ha, now everyone I know we all have our disagreements. But one thing is for sure, which family has been involved in our disagreements?"
"What kind of disagreements?" Wolfe asked curiously, slightly tilting her head.
"Hm, let's see…" Dimentio looked around the room with his shifty mismatched eyes. "Wolfe and Electra have issues with the other, Candy and Cheryl do as well but they just hide it, Abigail and Lindsay were feuding were quite some time and only recently made up, Gabby and Doopliss are feuding as well, and oh! Abigail and Amethyst had quite the brawl, wouldn't you say?" He glanced at the two girls who looked like they wanted to slap him across the face. "There's more… shall I go on?"
"Um, yeah, hi?" Mark sheepishly raised a hand. "I have nothing to do with this, the Koopalings seem chill to me, can I go now?"
"No!" Mimi snapped at him. "We need reinforcements."
"Reinforcements?" William retorted. "You're joking, right? Jeez, they're just a family. You guys need to chill and just relax."
"They're not just a family." Mimi narrowed her emerald green eyes at him. "Listen newbie, you don't know what you're talking about,"
"But I do!" Lindsay frowned at her. "This is ridiculous, the Koopalings are not the awful monsters you're making them out to be."
"Awh, but Lindsay," Doopliss started with his crooked grin. "Didn't Roy have some nasty things to say to you oh-so-long ago? And just yesterday, wasn't Wendy doing the exact same thing?"
"Maybe so," Lindsay looked away, close to backing down. "But that was only two of them. There's seven altogether and you're just grouping them together. They're not all like that."
"Yeah, and they're not the cause of all those problems you just listed!" Norman pitched in. He didn't necessarily like the Koopalings, but he had a feeling they were taking it too far. He had to agree with what William and Lindsay said.
Dimentio's eyes seemed to darken just a bit. "Candy and Cheryl, two good friends, are now having tension build up between them because they're stuck in a love triangle with Iggy who can't even let one of them down easily. No, he's selfish and is now avoiding them, making things worse for the girls. Isn't that right?" He turned to face them who looked sad at the mention of Iggy.
He continued. "And Wolfe and Electra? Never had an issue before Larry came along. Now he's playing both of them - taking one to homecoming, taking the other one on a date. Just like his brother - selfish. Who knows when those two girls will brawl?" Wolfe and Electra both looked like they wanted to say something, but chose to stay silent.
"And Roy? Don't even get me started on him. He made two girls physically fight each other because that's how much of a conceited guy he is - he just liked seeing girls fight over him and didn't care to comfort either of them afterwards. He plays girls, he doesn't care about their feelings! Isn't that right, ladies?" Dimentio's voice was getting a bit louder now and, to be honest, was scaring most of the people in the room.
"Wendy's an inconsiderate brat," He looked over at Luvbi. "She glued a mask to your face because you didn't want to listen to her whine and while all day," He then turned to face Lindsay. "And she practically replaced you in your friendship group to the point of you crying on the sidewalk with two other pathetic people."
"Hey-!" Norman tried to cut in, partially because Dimentio called him pathetic, partially because he didn't want Lindsay to be reminded of that, and partially because he didn't know how Dimentio knew about that.
"All of these things are facts, people." Dimentio growled. "Our school was peaceful before they came along. You can't deny that."
"Now?" Mimi spoke up again, a creepy undertone in her voice. "Our school is as dysfunctional as Mush High. And that's saying something. Does anyone object?"
"I agree, to a point." Electra stood up out of her seat. "The Koopa family isn't the best… Larry's an exception. Ludwig's the worst out of them… he's so conceited just because he's the heir to the throne."
"No he isn't!" Lindsay stood up as well, enraged. "Ludwig may be anti-social, and a bit stuck-up… but he's not awful. You have no idea what you're talking about Electra, he's a good friend." She clenched her fists in anger, that's one thing she was passionate about: defending her friends.
"Awhhh," Mimi cooed sarcastically. "Does little Lindsay have a little crush on Ludwig?"
Lindsay's cheeks went red in embarrassment. "No! Geez I'm just sticking up for a friend. Besides, he likes Vivian I'm fairly sure..." She frowned a bit as she said this which caused Mimi to cackle.
"Hah! Awh you so like him, you're so jealous of Vivian."
Lindsay sighed and sat back down, thinking of Ludwig and Vivian dancing together at homecoming. "Yeah… jealous of Vivian."
Mimi smirked and looked around. "To our main point: the Koopalings are not good people, so we're going to get rid of them."
Cheryl's eyes widened and she whispered out, "You're… you're going to murder them?"
"What? No!" Mimi batted her hand as if she was shooing off flies. "Geez. We're just thinking about how nice it would be if they would get expelled."
"Expelled? You're serious?" Gabby spoke up in disbelief. "Yeah, uh, you realise that the school is run by Kammy Koopa… Bowser's assistant. She literally works for their family, she wouldn't expel them."
"Hm, you're right, that sure is a pickle." Doopliss sarcastically said. "Unless she would."
Everyone looked at each other in confusion until Gabby finally realised what he meant. "You're not thinking of what I'm thinking of… right?"
"What're you thinking of?"
"Take a wild guess, Doopliss." She narrowed her eyes at him and he smirked.
"Oh, I'm thinking of what you're thinking of."
"Damn it!" Gabby threw her arms up in disbelief. "You're insane, that's never going to work!"
"Uh, yeah it will Abby!" Mimi crossed her arms. "Or was it Gabby..? Golly, I can never remember."
"I'm out of here." Gabby stood up and headed for the door. "Anyone who thinks this plan is absolutely ridiculous can follow me. And for the record, it's Gabby." Without any hesitation some people followed her: Amethyst, William, Mark, Lindsay. The rest of them stayed though, some were interested in their plan and some had no clue what it was.
"Umm…" Candy anxiously held the hem of her dress in her hand. "What's your plan, exactly?"
Electra rolled her hazel eyes at her. "We're working with two shapeshifters - what do you think?"
Candy frowned at her harsh words and tone. "I don't know, that's why I asked." The two girls glared at each other until Dimentio spoke up once more.
"Ladies, save your negative energy for dealing with our true enemies, the Koopalings."
Abigail sighed, sitting back in her seat, eyes locked on her phone as she typed on it. "So, let me get this straight: you want to impersonate Kammy and expel the Koopalings?"
"Yeah." Mimi shrugged, twirling a piece of her hair.
"'Kay…" Abigail trailed off, typing something on her phone. She finished, and stood up. "Well, I'm out. See you around, I guess." Her phone buzzed and Doopliss finally snapped.
"Abigail what're you even doing on your phone? I swear, if you told anyone about our plans-"
"Oh no, I would never tell the Koopalings that people are conspiring against them!" She said with a sarcastic tone as she left the room. Everyone else followed her as well except for Mimi, Doopliss, and Dimentio.
The boys looked at Mimi, waiting for her reaction. Her face was stone cold and still, until her neck jolted and let out a loud crack. "Ew, Mimikins, gross." Doopliss gagged and Mimi glared at him.
"These dummies don't know who they're messing with. If they don't want to help us - fine! We'll get them out of here ourselves and show everyone else who's boss." She turned her head to face them and they shivered a bit at her cold glare. "Any complaints?"
They stayed silent, neither boy daring to say a word. They weren't scared of her, they just didn't want to have to deal with her true form. They knew how bratty she could be once her true self was shown. They really didn't want that to happen, not yet at least. There was a time and place for everything.
As for everyone else? They didn't know what to think. So a few people didn't like the Koopalings - big deal. They were mostly uncomfortable with the issues that they all pointed out. A certain lycan especially.
She found Larry near his locker and walked up behind him, clearing her throat. "Ahem."
He jumped around in surprise, fighting back the urge to shriek. He immediately calmed down though once he saw Wolfe's face. "Oh, hey Wolfe. What's up?" He smiled at her and she smiled back but immediately frowned again.
"Larry, I hope you know this isn't a game."
"...What?" Larry tilted his head to the side, a confused expression on his face. Wolfe tried not to think about how cute he was.
"This isn't some dating show where you can just date as many girls as you want. You realise that, right?" Her voice had an edge to it and Larry looked a little guilty.
"I… I know that, Wolfe."
"Do you?" She didn't even sound mad anymore, just hurt. "I get it if you don't like me and you like Electra… or if it's the other way around. I can deal with either one, I just, I can't deal with you playing both me and Electra! Do you have any idea about all of the tension that's built up between us right now? It sucks. This has to end, Larry."
"...We have to end?" Larry had a small frown on his face. He honestly expected this to come any day now, he was just surprised that it was really happened.
"No, no! Unless you want it to. Something has to change here."
"I know." He took a deep breath and looked at her crimson eyes. His stomach fluttered a bit, but the poor boy didn't know if it was from his nerves or from how he felt towards her. "Can I… can I take a day or two to think about this? 'Cause this is like, some deep stuff to think about."
She nodded and sighed. "Yeah, just… let one of us know by Monday, okay? Take the weekend to think about it. I can't wait any longer and I don't think Electra can either." She turned to walk away and Larry quickly took her hand.
"Um, no matter what happens, we're still gonna be friends right? Because you're a super cool chick." He looked down at the floor and she chuckled.
"'Chick'?"
He laughed a bit and let go of her hand. "You know what I mean! We've made some good memories, you have to admit."
She smiled a bit and leaned against a locker. "What, like you throwing up on our date? Or perhaps spilling paint on me?"
He laughed even harder and she joined in too. He took a breath before answering, "Yeah, I guess so. Those were some pretty good times in my opinion."
She smiled but it instantly felt bittersweet. She turned to walk away again. "Yeah. Hope we can make some more."
He watched her walk away and he frowned. He felt like his heart was being pulled in two different directions, as dramatic as that sounds. He was beginning to like both of the girls - something he didn't expect. He made some memories with both of them, but he did agree with Wolfe. He couldn't let himself get feelings for both of the girls and he more importantly couldn't let both of the girls get stronger feelings for him at the same time.
He sighed and slammed his hand on his locker in stress. "Ow!" He reeled back as pain shot through his hand. "Okay, okay… not one of my smarter decisions…"
Meanwhile, Lindsay walked into the cafeteria and was immediately tackled by Lemmy. She shrieked and the two fell on the floor, Lemmy giggling and Lindsay groaning in pain. "Ow… Lemmy what was that for?"
Lemmy stood up with a huge grin on his face. "I need relationship advice!"
Lindsay immediately brightened up. "Oh my grambi really? Dude! I'm so excited! Tell me all about it." She pulled them over to a nearby empty table and crossed her hands over each other. "So… who's the lucky person?"
Lemmy blushed and looked away. "The new kid in english class…"
Lindsay smiled, "Awh! Okay, so, what do you need help with specifically?"
"How do I talk to him?"
She sighed. Lemmy was basically a relationship newbie - yeah he had crushes and stuff before but he told her that he'd never dated anyone, so he was pretty inexperienced. "Well…" She thought of what to tell him. She was a bit unsure of what to say, seeing as she didn't really know Mark that well. "I think in this situation the first thing you gotta do is be friends with him and most importantly: be yourself."
"Well duh!" Lemmy laughed and stood up. "Thanks Lindsay, I'm gonna go find him now. And if you need advice for you-know-who..." He winked at her and she blushed in embarrassment.
"No, no, I'm good. Thanks though." She looked down at the table as Lemmy walked away and just as she did, another person walked up and sat down next to her, startling her. "Ah! Oh, hey Vivian!" She smiled at her and smiled wider as Vivian smiled back.
"Hey Lindsay. Where've you been?"
"This dumb meeting… some people want the Koopalings out of this school." Lindsay lowered her voice and Vivian gasped.
"No! Why?"
"They say that they're the cause of all of our recent issues which is so dumb… and when I defended them, stupid Mimi claimed I had a crush on one of them."
Vivian frowned a bit, "Ludwig?"
Lindsay nodded. "Yeah, but, I don't like him. Not in that way so don't worry about it, in case you like him." She smiled at Vivian who frowned even more.
"You think I like Ludwig?" She asked with a tilt of the head and Lindsay nodded, her curly brown hair bobbing up and down. "Well I don't. He's not my type… he's nice but he's kind of… just not my type, you know?" Vivian twirled a piece of her light pink hair around in circles.
Lindsay smiled a bit. "Yeah, I know what you mean."
As she said that, Abigail loudly set her tray of food down on the table with a heavy sigh, followed by Amethyst. "That meeting was so dumb." Lindsay nearly jumped out of her skin at the sound of those two and her face turned a bright red.
"Jeez, a little warning would be nice." Lindsay grumbled and stole a fry from Abigail. The redhead only smiled and glanced to and from Lindsay and Vivian.
"What were you two talking about?" She asked and Lindsay could hear a slight edge in her voice… was she jealous?
"Oh, nothing." Vivian politely smiled and felt a bit awkward. "Um, Lindsay I'm gonna get going, I'll see you in drama okay?"
Lindsay smiled and waved her goodbye before noticing the stares from Abigail and Amethyst. "What?"
"Sooo…" Abigail trailed off. "You and Vivian are good friends, huh?" Amethyst wiggled her eyebrows at Lindsay who just looked at her in confusion.
"Um, yeah. She's a really good friend."
"She your best friend?" Abigail looked up at Lindsay in a bit of annoyance.
"What? No, Abby you're my best friend. It's… different with Vivian."
Amethyst snickered a bit under her breath and Abigail was the one now who looked at her in confusion. She rolled her eyes and then turned back to Lindsay. "Different how?"
Lindsay stood up suddenly and turned away. "It's just different, okay? You have nothing to worry about." She told the two before running off.
Abigail turned to Amethyst who was trying not to laugh. "What's so funny? Am I missing something here?"
Amethyst only shook her head and took a sip of her milkshake. "Abigail, it's funny how oblivious you can be sometimes."
Sooner than students expected, the bell for lunch rang out and everyone rushed off to their classes. Coach Daisy was particularly excited this Friday because she had a major announcement to make to her gym class. Everyone was gathered in the gymnasium, a bit antsy, wondering what the announcement would be about.
"So," Coach Daisy stood at the front of the bleachers, where all the students sat watching her with eager eyes. "As you all know, I'm close friends with Princess Peach who happens to be the principal of Mush High." The class remembered how Peach came into their school to lecture them on lord-knows-what; they couldn't even remember.
"Well, we arranged to have a game of sorts at the end of December - most likely, a football game." The students cheered as she announced this. "Anyone is able to sign up to participate, but I thought you guys might be interested in particular."
"What does this have to do with Peach?" Wendy mumbled, and the students around her nodded in agreement. Daisy seemed to hear this and sighed rather loudly.
"The football game will be against the school Peach rules over - Mush High."
The gymnasium was filled with students sighing and groaning in disbelief. "Really, those stuck-up pricks?" "I don't want anything to do with them!" "They're going down!"
Iggy turned to his close friend Francis in confusion. "What's wrong with Mush High?"
Francis sighed and looked around. "A lot. Mush High's a high school - duh - that's filled of students that live in the Mushroom Kingdom. Sounds normal enough, but they're so full of themselves. You'd think the residents of the Mushroom Kingdom would be polite but no," Francis muttered bitterly. "They think that we're just as bad as Bowser, no offense, and that all of us are evil."
Iggy blinked in disbelief. "Wait, really?"
"Yup. They made it clear that our two schools are rivals, and everyone's loyal to their own school. Switching between schools would be like a betrayal, no one's ever done it before."
To Iggy, this sounded like some kind of cheesy high school movie. Two schools that are rivals, one is supposedly good and the other one is evil. What a cliche.
Daisy waved her arms wildly, "Shush, all of you! Enough!" Finally everyone stopped complaining long enough to hear her out. "Look, this 'rivalry' between the schools is ridiculous - we're having a football game whether you like it or not."
"Doesn't mean any of us have to participate!" Some random guy called out.
"Hm, that's true…" The redhead muttered in fake thought. "Okay, then anyone who doesn't at least show up to the game whether you participate or not, will have their mark dropped by 30 percent."
Silence. The students were silenced in disbelief and shock. Daisy looked around with a smug smile on her face. "Any protests?"
"Uh, yeah!" Mimi called out and stood up. "You can't drop our mark by 30 percent if we don't wanna show up to some football game."
"I can, and I will. Who's the teacher here Mimi?" Daisy crossed her arms and stared the little green girl down. "I'd recommend you show up, especially with your current grade."
Mimi's face went red in embarrassment and sat back down. Nobody else dared to stand up to Daisy, they knew how fiery her personality was. How Luigi ended up being her boyfriend, nobody knew.
The class went on, but everyone felt unsettled. They were dreading the game at the end of next month, and after the final bell rang, word got out. Some were scared and decided they weren't even going to show up. Other people were fired up and claimed that they were going to either participate in the game or show up to support it.
Someone planned on showing up to the game to support, until they got a text. He was called a traitor, and a disgrace. He sighed. He knew he didn't belong at this school, but it was better than Mush High.
Nobody knew that he was a former student there, and now… now he didn't feel so certain that he'd attend the game. He didn't want anyone else calling him a traitor - he was no longer loyal to Mush High. No, now he was loyal to this school… right?