"DAMMIT! How do you get out of here?" Seiko freaked, looking around frantically.
"Seiko, you only ran for about 2 minutes. Just keep going." Maxime said, pushing the girl along.
"Yeah, we are pretty sure this is the right way!" Sahari said happily. Seiko nodded and kept going. Maxime turned to Sahari.
"We are?"
"Oh I don't know. I think we are completely lost."
"Come on Ruffians, we have to go!" Pester ordered, snapping his fingers to speed it up. The ruffians quickly picked up Peanut, who started his wailing again after Dustin completed his dance. Dastardos was still muttering to himself in annoyance. Seedos was fanning Dustin, seeing if he would wake up.
"I don't understand how you thought dancing would solve the problem!" Seedos said to no one in particular. Dustin's eye's squinted open.
"Seedos..." He rasped in a very over-dramatic voice.
"Yes Dustin?"
"You... have to distract... with dance..." Dustin rasped, putting his hand up shakily. Seedos glared at him.
"Dustin, I am NOT dancing for villians!"
"Oh come on man! If I do it the homo will hit me!"
"Did you just call me a homo?" Dastardos hissed, his head turning slowly to the two. Dustin's pupils grew smaller and he pointed at Seedos.
"It was him!" He said quickly. Seedos's head snapped to his brother, his head shaking vigorously. Dastardos turned back around.
Brothers... He thought to himself. Seedos glared at Dustin, who smiled.
"Are you trying to get me killed?"
"Just do something to distract them! Maddie should be back any minute!"
"Maddie? You mean that annoying girl who came up to be during the P-Factor?" Dastardos asked, turning around again as the Ruffians started to move the crate. Pester heard "Girl" and turned around, smiling evilly.
"A girl was talking Dastardos?"
"Shut up, it wasn't like that!"
"Are you sure~" Dustin pressed. Dastardos lifted his pinata stick slightly, making Dustin flinch.
"Eh, I hope she's not interested. He's too busy for girls." Pester said, waving for Dastardos to fallow.
And she would have to be blind... Pester thought to himself, trying not to laugh out loud. Dastardos shot one more glare at the two before fallowing. Seedos started to panic.
"Dustin, what do we do? Their leaving!"
"I told you- You have to dance!"
"For the last time I am not dancing!"
"Seedamor-"
"No, and that's final!"
"Man, I have to do everything myself!" Dustin muttered, getting up off the ground. He put his hands behind his head again like he did before.
"SHER-"
"I swear to God, I will come back over there and whack you again if you start dancing!" Dastardos snapped, his body jerking around. Dustin looked at him, the reaper's stare chilling him. He was afraid, but that can't stop him. He had to do it.
"SHERBAT DANCE!" And he began to dance. Again. Horribly.
"Just ignore him Dastardos. He's obviously trying to delay us. BUT IT WON'T WORK!" Pester shouted to the blonde boy. Dustin stopped and started to panic, looking around for some kind of hope.
"H-Hey Dastardos!" He called weakly.
"Shut up I'm not watching you dance."
"No! I'm just saying you might want to be scared when Maddie comes!"
"I'm not scared of your friend. What's she going to do anyway? Hit me?"
WHACK!
And like that, Dastardos's face met the dirt below.
"OKAY EDDIE THE SHOVEL WORKS!" Maddie shouted, holding the Dastardos shovel in her hand. Eddie fallowed right after her, breathing heavily and was looking quite irritated.
"What... The... Heck?..." He gasped, hand son his knees. Seedos covered his mouth his his hands, looking at his brother in sympathy as Dastardos slowly got up from the ground. Pester was laughing on the side, gripping his sides as if they were going to fall off.
"OH THAT WAS PEFRECT!" He laughed, tears starting to come from his eyes. Dastardos glared at his boss, then turned angrily to Maddie.
"What. The. Hell." Dastardos asked. Maddie snapped her fingers.
"You don't mess with me!"
"Oh! You just got served!" Dustin said, pointing at Dastardos. Dastardos glared at him in disgust, ready to go over there and whack him again-
WHACK!
"HA! KARMA'S A BITCH AIN'T IT?" Maddie shouted as Dastardos was whacked into the dirt again. Eddie looked around, seeing the large crate that was shaking around and the ruffians trying to carry it.
"What is going on here?" He asked.
"Well, Pester and Dastardos captured Peanut in a crate and are going to take him away to be soured, so Maxime and Sahari went to find Seiko and Maddie went to get help, so Dustin and I stayed behind and came here to distract them. Then Dustin started doing a really weird dance and wanted me to do it too and I was probably going to be forced too until Maddie came with your shovel and whacked Dastardos in the head." Seedos said. Everyone looked over at him.
"Well, that is what happened!" Seedos defended. Dustin put his hands on his hips.
"My dancing wasn't weird!"
"That's why you stole my shovel?" Eddie asked, changing the subject. Maddie nodded.
"Pretty much."
"... You know if you just explained and asked I would have given it to you, you know."
"Hm, I guess."
WHACK!
"HOLY SON OF A BITCH!" Maddie shrieked, gripping the back of her head. Dastardos stood behind her, his pinata stick in hand.
"I'm not afraid to hit back." He hissed. Maddie glared, gripping her shovel.
WHACK!
"Your not supposed to hit a girl!" Maddie snapped. Dastardos rubbed his head, looking really pissed now. He was holding his pinata stick, and was ready to whack again.
"Oh come on man! Don't you know your not supposed to hit a girl?" Dustin piped up, standing between them. Dastardos smirked, shoving him aside.
"I wasn't hitting a girl."
WHACK!
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Maddie screamed.
WHACK!
"I said I wasn't hitting a girl!" Dastardos answered, looking pleased with his hit.
WHACK!
WHACK!
WHACK!
"Dastardos, quit flirting and let's go!" Pester shouted, getting irritated with all the whacking sounds. Maddie and Dastardos were standing there, their heads aching with pain. Dustin was laughing on the side, and Seedos had a quite sympathetic look on his face.
Oh dear, that isn't going to heal for a while... he thought to himself.
"I wasn't flirting!" Dastardos snapped. Maddie stuck her tongue out.
"That would just be disgusting!"
"Tell me about it..." Dastardos muttered to himself.
"Well, usually when a guy tries to make a girl upset it's because he likes her."
"Dustin, you really should shut up." Eddie whispered. Dustin gave him a slight glare.
"Maddie, is this all you could find for help?" Dustin asked. Maddie gave him a worried look.
"Um... Yeah?" She said, her voice cracking. Dustin's arms dropped.
"You didn't try to find help did you?"
"Well-"
"You were still mad that Dastardos choked you, and instead of THINKING about our situation, you went ahead and looked for someone who had a shovel, stole it, then came back so you could beat the crap out of him for revenge."
"... Pretty much."
"GOD DAMMIT MADDIE!"
"Do you want a shovel in your head too Dustin?"
"Would it kill you to think about something that ISN'T about revenge?"
"I'm sorry I was just-"
"THAT'S IT! I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE! WE ARE LEAVING!" Pester shouted.
"About time!" Dastardos agreed.
WHACK!
"BWHAHAHAHA! That is still as funny as hell." Pester laughed as Dastardos was smacked in the head again.
"Oh my God! Where did she get a Dastardos shovel? Lottie doesn't even let her near one!" Seiko said, observing from far away.
"She probably took it from someone," Sahari said, looking over at Eddie, "Probably from Lizard."
"Guys, maybe we should be trying to get Peanut out of the cage..." Maxime whispered, pointing to the cage that started to thrash around again. There was a loud wailing, and it was no mistake who it was.
"Peanut! Damn I'm going to kill that Pester!" Seiko growled, glaring at Pester, who yelling at Dastardos, who looked bored, and Dustin was yelling at Seedos, and Maddie was trying to whack Dastardos again but he kept moving aside, and Eddie looked around like he had no idea what to do. The ruffians who were supposed to be watching the cage, were screaming at each other for some reason.
"Okay, we can sneak over there quickly, open the cage, and then Peanut can handle the rest!" Sahari confirmed, peeking over at the scene again. Everyone was still arguing, so they decided to move. The ruffians were still arguing and walked away slightly from the cage as the girls approached.
"Are we even on the right side?" Seiko whispered, low enough so that they wouldn't be heard over all the arguing. Maxime nodded.
"Yeah it looks like it opens over here!"
"God, they are arguing about some really weird things over there..." Sahari muttered, deciding to listen in while Seiko and Maxime tried to figure out how to open the cage.
*Pester and Dastardos argument*
"Dastardos, we need to move NOW!"
"Then let's go! You knew they were only trying to distract us!"
"Yeah, but now the ruffians are fighting and I don't know how to calm them down!
"Well how am I supposed to-"
WHACK!
"Dammit, give me that shovel!"
"Hey, let go Gaystardos! This isn't even mine!"
"Stop calling me Gaystardos!"
"NEVER!"
"Oh my God, WHO THE HELL IS THIS GIRL?" Pester shouted over the two's argument.
*Dustin and Seedos Argument*
"Dang it Dustin why do you want to dance so bad!"
"Hey, don't blame me! Blame Footloose!"
"Foot-what?"
"Footloose! It's an awesome movie Seedamor I'll have to show it to you sometime!"
"Okay seriously, why do you keep calling me Seedamor?"
"OH MY GOD! Have you ever seen Little Shop of Horrors?"
"... Little shop of what?"
"Oh my fudgehog..."
*Eddie*
Eddie looked back and forth, frustrated because he wasn't sure which argument he was supposed to join. As much as he wanted to yell at Dustin and to hear the full story, he also really needed to get his shovel back from Dastardos and Maddie...
"Wow, it's just bad over there!" Sahari told the other two.
"Hey, as long as everyone is distracted, then we are okay with it." Maxime said to the desert girl. Seiko was looking at the weird machine on the side of the box. There was a bunch of buttons all it, all which had numbers on it.
"Hey, I think I found out how to open it!" Seiko said. Maxime and Sahari looked over.
"How?" They asked.
"There's some kind of code thing on it." Seiko said, pointing at it. Maxime rolled her eyes.
"Really? How more original can he get?" Maxime muttered, pushing Seiko out of the way slightly before she got to typing. After a few buttons were pressed, the latch was clicked open. Sahari and Seiko looked at Maxime in awe.
"How did you do that?" Sahari asked. Maxime shrugged.
"I just type '1234' and it opened."
"God, what a moron..." Sahari finished. Seiko shoved past the two girls, desperate to open the door.
Peanut ceased his wailing when he heard a loud 'CLICK' sound. His eyes were all puffy and squinted when light suddenly crept in.
"Peanut?" A soft voice spoke in. Peanut recognized it right away, and his frown turned into a smile as a face became clear.
Seiko, his mother. Her lavender eyes turned wet with tears, and a smile crept across her face when she heard Peanut roaring softly with happiness.
"Peanut!" she squealed happily. Peanut roared quite loudly this time and ran out of the cage, right to his mom.
"PEANUT! PEANUTPEANUTPEANUT!" Seiko cried out, hugging her dragon pinata, "Oh thank goodness your okay!" Peanut purred, his tail coming around the skinny gardener. Sahari and Maxime smiled on the side, only until they saw someone walking around.
"WHAT? WHEN DID YOU GET HERE? WHY IS MY DRAGONACHE OUTSIDE MY CAGE!" Pester roared in rage. Seiko's eyes widened.
"What do you mean your Dragonache? Peanut is mine!" She said bravely, although she was shaking. Peanut hissed, threatening Pester. Pester pulled out his own pinata stick, and his ruffians were right behind them. Behind the ruffians, from a few yards away, was everyone else. Dustin and Eddie were staring wide eyed, and Seedos was cowering a bit, while Maddie and Dastardos were still yelling insults and tugging back and forth on the shovel.
"You give him back, right now, and I won't hurt you too much!" Pester growled.
"OH MY GOD PEANUT YOUR OKAY! IT'S ME, UNCLE DUSTIN!"
"Dustin, shut up this is not the time!" Eddie hissed. Dustin looked over at him.
"What makes you say that?"
"The fact that Pester is standing there with a pinata stick and he is surrounded by a bunch of Ruffians to back him up."
"Oh right..."
"Now hand him over!" Pester said, "Or I will whack you into the middle of next week!" Seiko took a deep breath.
"No."
"No... No? ... NO?" Pester shouted in disbelief.
"That's right. I let go of him once, and I'm not letting him go again. Besides, can you even handle a Sour Dragonache?"
"Don't talk back to me!"
"Your not my mom!" Pester growled in rage, raising his pinata stick up. Seiko's pupils shrank, everything starting to slow down. She heard shouting from all sides. They didn't sound like names, they sounded like screams, and something that sounded like wicked laughter from Dastardos. Something started to feel hot as well, like something was on fire.
"AH MY ASS IS ON FIRE!" Pester screamed, knocking Seiko out of her trance. Her vision came back and she was shocked by the scene.
Peanut was standing in front of her, fireballs shooting out of his mouth at Pester and the scrambling ruffians. They were screaming, and Pester was trying to put out the flame that was lit on his pants. Dustin was cheering loudly on the side, and shaking Seedos in excitement, who was too stunned to do anything about it. Eddie fell back trying to dodge the flames and ended up knocking Maddie over as well, meaning that Dastardos finally won the shovel, although he was laughing too much to do anything.
"DON'T FLOAT THERE AND LAUGH! HELP ME!" Pester shouted, racing away to find some water. Peanut roared and lashed out at the ruffians, finally making them run away.
"YEAH! TAKE THAT YOU FREAK! Alright Peanut that was awesome! I'm so coming up with the Dragonache dance!" Dustin cheered, finally releasing Seedos from his grip. Sahari groaned.
"Dustin, I think you have been watching too much Footloose..."
"Oh come on, it's a classic!" Dustin argued.
Seiko looked up at Peanut, who was turning around slowly. His eyes were wide, and his mouth had a few scorch marks around it from the flames. He wagged his tail a little, the corner's of his jaw lifting up into a smile as he let out a small sound, sounding close to the word "Mama". Seiko wiped her eyes, and hugged the giant dragon.
"I'm so sorry Peanut." She cried. Peanut purred, as if to say it was alright. All was quiet for a moment, as the two shared their little family moment. That was until Maddie started to shout.
"HEY WHERE DID THAT CREEPY GO?" She screamed, holding Eddie's shovel in her hand. She growled, throwing the shovel on the ground, the handle breaking.
"DAMMIT! He got away!" She swore, crossing her arms angrily. Eddie poked her shoulder, making her turn around.
"Your buying me a new shovel handle."
Aaaaaand the end :D It ended on a happy note YAY! But there's still an epilogue coming :D
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