BP: Yeah, I know, but I had writer's block and well, I did not write for a long time. So, please bear with me as I try to make this chapter as long as possible.

Ryoma and his gang finally went to visit the Somatic Ability last. The Alice festival has at last reached its second half. Today was the third day, the performance festival, where each class displays their culture, art and special activities. This evening, they are going to hold the closing ceremonies, where the Alice festival's winning classes and the individual excellence awards will be announced. The fourth day, which is tomorrow, is the real main event, the dance party around the main bonfire that brings the Alice festival to an official close- The after party! For today, the Technical class has a music recital (Agiel is part of it), the Latent class has a circus show, but the main attraction would be the Somatic Class' musical play.

Ryoma and the others filed in the hall, and headed towards backstage, where someone was helping Fuji with his makeup. Fuji was dressed in a Snow White gown. It was blue at the top with a white collar and puffy sleeves decorated with red drops at the sleeves. Attached to the gown was a light pink cape lined with white fur. The skirt was light yellow and at the corner, it has matching yellow shoes with ribbons glued at the top. To add, Fuji was also wearing a headband.

"It…" Ryoga trailed off.

"IT'S SNOW WHITE!" Everyone, except for Shizuku and Tezuka, exclaimed.

"Hello, everyone." Fuji smiled. "Thanks for coming to our musical."

"We came out of pure loyalty, Fuji-senpai." said Momoshiro. "You look great!"

Fuji merely smiled back.

"Wow! This is the first time I've seen backstage!" Ryoga commented. "There's so many sets and people in weird costumes everywhere!"

"Here, let me help you with that." said Momoshiro to a girl, using his Alice to transport the heavy object to the table. The girl nodded his thanks. 'Of course, Momo-senpai has the Transport Objects Alice. He has the ability to transport anything telepathically using his Alice, though he needs his hands to control the direction of where the object would go. How far he can transport depends on the size and weight of an object and the strength of the user.' Ryoma thought.

"You're so cute, Fuji." Momoshiro sighed. "Like a real girl."

"Yeah, I suggested he took that part." They turned to see one of the teachers, Narumi-sensei, walking towards them. "I feel the role is perfect for him." Narumi-sensei, as we all know, has the Human Pheromone Alice. It gives him the ability to make anyone of any gender fall in love with him. According to Shizuku, Narumi's Alice may not work if the person eats Pheromone medicine that makes them immune to his pheromones, but it will not work if Narumi takes off his earring which limits his Alice. If he uses his Alice on a kid who hasn't experienced love yet they may faint. He also wears a ring on his ring finger to limit his Alice, but Shizuku mentioned he doesn't have a wife or girlfriend.

"Nice casting, Narumi-sensei." Ryoga commented. Narumi laughed.

Tezuka opened the curtain slightly, and saw a lot of people already seated. He frowned, as he noted that there are animals as well.

"There are a lot of pheromone kids in the class, and they all have their fans. That's why we do so well with stage productions like this." Narumi explained. "And that is also why there are a lot of people in the audience."

"By the way, sensei, what is this play about?" said Oishi.

"Oh? Well, as you can see, we've combined the two stories, 'Sleeping Beauty' and Snow White' together. I suppose you can say it's a spectacular love fantasy, where Snow White, played by Fuji and Sleeping Beauty, played by Kikumaru, both vie for the prince!"

"Kikumaru-senpai/Kikumaru plays Sleeping Beauty?" the gang echoed in unison.

"Yep." said a gloomy voice. They turned to see Kikumaru, dressed in a gown. The top was purple and the bottom was black, and the collar is white, same as Fuji's, except it is smaller. He is also wearing red shoes, and a tiara. "I had to act evil as well." Kikumaru mumbled, apparently not happy with his role.

"Will he be okay?" Ryoma whispered to the teacher.

"Oh, he will be alright. Once he is on stage, he'll transform."

Just then, there were girls screaming. A girl with short hair, and dressed in a green hat, and a green prince outfit with matching shoes, with a yellow cape, sat emotionlessly on a stool. The girls were knelt at the base of her stool, apparently worshipping her. "Her name's Yuri Miyazono. She's playing the prince. She has the Female Pheromone Alice, she's 14 years old, a second year in the Middle School Division. She hasn't quite come to terms with her Alice yet." Narumi explained, for Ryoma's benefit

"What's a Female Pheromone Alice?" Ryoma asked.

"You see, when girls see her…." He pointed to two girls, who had hearts in their eyes, and they screamed, "Yuri-sama!" and they joined the crowd of girls. "Shizuku didn't join them because she has the Apathy Alice, and she can erase feelings inflicted by Alices."

"'I'm sick of being popular with girls for no reason! I had it!' That's what she said, and she really hated the idea of being in this play, but I told her not to be like this. I wanted her to be free of those trivial emotional shackles. I want her to take pride and confidence in her Alice, to have a wonderful pheromone life, and I put those wishes into the role I gave her."

"So you want her to start liking girls?" Shizuku said in a bored voice.

"What is he talking about?" said Ryoma.

"You're just using her for her popularity." Tezuka said stiffly.

Narumi mock pouted. "How mean, the three of you. Well, grown-ups have their reasons, understand?" The three looked at one another and shook their heads.

"Hey, Momo! What are those?" Kikumaru asked, pointing to a box Momo is holding.

"Oh it's Powerful Slime Balls. I bought them at the Technical Class prank shop main office. If you add heat and physical impact, it'll explode, and the sticky stuff inside will stick and won't come off for an hour."

"Why would you buy that?" said Fuji.

"I thought I could throw them at people who tick me off." Momoshiro said sheepishly.

"Want one?" said Momoshiro, offering the box to Ryoma.

"I don't have anyone to throw it at…" he trailed off as he took a furtive glance at Ryoga. He reached a hand inside the box.

"What are you looking at me for, Chibisuke?" Ryoga demanded. They did not notice the drop curtain falling off the hook and dropping towards them. The drop curtain also knocked one of the lights down.

"LOOK OUT!" someone screamed. Ryoma and the others jumped out of the way. Momoshiro tried to use his Alice, but it was too late. The box of slime balls was sent flying.

BOOM! SPLAT!

"You alright, Ryoma?" said Tezuka, helping him up.

"Yeah, but what happened…" he trailed off as he saw some people in costumes, stuck to the ground by slime balls! They were screaming things like, "What is this?" or "It's stuck! I can't get it off!"

"What the hell?" Shizuku was stuck to Yuri, who was playing the prince! Yuri was surprised that Shizuku was complaining about being stuck to her despite her Alice. Shizuku, as if reading her mind, explained, "One of my Alices is the Apathy Alice, where I can erase all feelings in my heart. That's why I wasn't affected by your Alice, because I used my Alice to erase all romantic feelings towards you that you forced in my heart with your Alice." Yuri silently cheered that she was stuck to someone who isn't affected by her Alice. When the slime wears off, at least she wouldn't still cling to her.

"This can't be happening." Narumi murmured. "Not only the sets and stagehands, but the prince, the queen and the huntsman all got slime-balled and it won't wear off for an hour…It's only ten minutes to curtain and even if there is a delay, we only have 30 minutes!"

"We're so sorry!" Momoshiro exclaimed.

"Nah, we're not blaming you. It's just bad luck that your slime balls happened to get mixed with our accident." said a stage manager. "However, it's not that you're completely blameless, so we'll get you to help us out with some things…" Momoshiro and the others nodded. Shizuku is seething on being stuck to Yuri.

"We'll have to use understudies." said Narumi. "For the prince, the Queen and the huntsman"

"Yeah, but who?" Kaidoh finally grunted. He was stuck to the floor (He's playing the huntsman.) "The slime ball's caused so much damage; we can't spare anyone as understudies."

"I thought something like that will happen, so I do have a Plan B." said Narumi. "I'll play the huntsman, Fukutan-sensei, you'll play the Queen. I'll just have to adjust to the script…" he trailed off when he read the script.

"Sensei!" Kaidoh shouted from where he is stuck. "One of the kids playing the Seven Dwarves…his hand is stuck to Echizen-senpai." Inui held up his hand to show his point.

"What? There are more victims?" Narumi groaned. "The Seven Dwarves are played by students in the lower elementary grades. Our class doesn't have any more young kids. No matter how hard you pull, they won't come apart…" He sighed. Then he brightened. "Maybe we can get Ryoga-kun to act as one of the animal friends!"

"No way. I'll kick you into next week." Ryoga hissed.

"What? Why not? Do it!"

"Moron. Why should I help you?"

"Sigh…so cold…well, we'll have no choice. We'll just have to change it from the Seven Dwarves to the Six Dwarves…and you practiced so hard. I'm sorry." He mumbled, patting the boy's head.

The boy looked like he was near to tears.

The next moment, Ryoga was dressed in a cat's costume. However, no one commented because of the deadly aura emitting from him. "So that's settled. Now for the prince." Ryoga spat out. Then he paused. He turned to Ryoma. "Chibisuke, you play the prince."

"What? Why me?" said Ryoma.

"You are known as the Prince of Tennis back in your school, after all…"

"What? Wait a minute, I can't…" Yuri ran towards him, dragging Shizuku along.

"Please! Play the prince in my place!" Yuri exclaimed. "If anyone can do it, you can!"

"What?"

"You're my last ray of hope now! Please!"

"Yeah! Do it for us too! And for Yuri-sama! The girls who fell for her Alice begged Ryoma.

"Alright! Alright!" Ryoma shouted in exasperation. He was later dressed in the exact same outfit as Yuri.

"We'll have to raise the curtain, the audience is getting impatient." said Tezuka. He gave Ryoma a squeeze. "Good luck, Ryoma."

Ryoma nodded, and went to his designated position.

BP: A bit too long, but I hope you enjoyed the chapter I should have updated long ago! Do review!