And now for this long dumb disclaimer:
I do not own Nintendo, Sega, or Capcom characters. I also do not own Wonder because she belongs to Jessy1997 - Wonder, Zeena because she belongs to GrossGirl18, Champ because he belongs to Champ 15, Rugtugba because he belongs to Rugtugba, Dash because he belongs to Dash456, Michael because he belongs to Thought Cloud, Yorkie because she belongs to Yorkielover123456789, Marioliza because she belongs to Marioliza, Vinny because he belongs to Zeldamaster456, Smart One because he belongs to The Smart One 64, Child because she belongs to Child at Heart Forever, Will because he belongs to Mudkip8330, Ace and Anna because he belongs to AceJinjo, Sheri because she belongs to Badberry123, and Laguz because she belongs to LaguzGirl13. I, as in ChrisMSMB, only own Chris; and if I forgot anyone then sorry. ^^;
I felt I just wrote my life away. :P
Chapter 21: The Twelfth Day; Before First Block and the First Student Council Meeting
"Well, it is obvious that they escaped and he could be that one who set his buddies free."
"Question is where could they all be hiding?"
"And when they will decide to show up and wreck my day?"
"Without many clues, we have nothing to go by... And school is starting in about forty minutes."
"I take it we should leave now in order to make it on time?"
"Can't we just go back home and sleep?"
"Just sleep during your first block, I do that sometimes."
"I was planning on doing that anyway, smart one. Thank goodness my cast is off now, it will be easier to sleep now."
The tension in the room, you could almost taste it as you looked around the round table. All eleven characters in the room, including the principal himself, could feel it; Yorkie and Pauline were not pleased with each others presence one bit.
"Ahem, may you two not try to cause a ruckus today?"
"I would but I don't know about Ms. Crazy over here," Pauline said hatefully.
"Ms. Crazy! I ought to..."
"Master Yorkie you will not finish that sentence nor incorporate that action or I will assign you detention for the whole week, understand?" Yorkie huffed and sat back down on her seat; Pauline made snickering noises and Yorkie strained herself in order to not get herself a nice little detention week.
"Now as this is your first meeting, I will accompany you today to make sure things go smoothly." When he finished his sentence, he was looking at Pauline and Yorkie.
"No problem Toadsworth, we will all keep these two hotheads cooled down." Peach giggled; Pauline and Yorkie rolled their eyes.
"Yes, let's hope so otherwise another election for a new vice president will commence."
"Now our first order of business is a fun one," Peach continued. "Spirit Week is coming up and we some fun events to promote Spirit Week? Anyone have anything they would like to share?"
"Something gloomy would be nice," Ashley stated bluntly.
"Ew, gloomy does not promote the spirit of school spirit! Let's go with something pink," Amy suggested.
"That might not fare off with much of the boy population," Paula stated.
"We should do stuff that should be acceptable to all: like a dance party," Wonder exclaimed.
"Would it fit our budget, Rosalina?" Zeena asked. "Laguz's party was really expensive after all."
Rosalina intelligently began typing on a keyboard on a nearby computer. "Let's see… It cost us about $16,070 for Laguz's party… So I'd say if we keep it under $10,000 we should be fine."
"That's not so bad, right," Mona inquired. "We do get a lot of freedom with the money…"
"But a dance party sounds so lame," Ashley stated, everyone sighed.
"You should try it sometime Ashley, it is really fun!" Ashley didn't say a word.
"But a dance party would probably cost us a lot," Peach clarified. "Why not go with something royal?"
"Because that would cost us more Peach," Rosalina answered.
"I have a better idea," Daisy announced, catching everyone's attention. "We shall have… A beach par-ty!" Everyone, except for Ashley, Pauline, and Yorkie, at once instinctively agreed. Never had you seen a room get so excited for a party at the beach.
Toadsworth facepalmed himself thinking that this debate was going to ruin the school's budget; plus he could not correlate how a beach "par-ty" had anything to do with school. Yorkie and Pauline, despite having no input on the discussion because the other girl thought the other girl would counter the other girl, snickered at the old toad's action. Shocked to have done something together for once, they quickly went back to hating each other.
"Chris, there is a thing called sleep. You should try that every night."
"Uh-uh."
Michael raised an invisible eyebrow. "Chris, you are an idiot."
"Uh-uh."
"Chris stop thinking about Zeena for once."
"I am not thinking about her!"
"Says the liar."
"Jerk..."
"Krissy..."
"You are impossible, you know that?"
"So I've been told."
"That fails at making sense!"
"It doesn't have to make sense, Kris."
"You can be so frustrating sometimes like... Like... That kid over there!" I ran up to the boy I pointed to with Michael not so far behind. "Yes this guy right here!"
"Me," the boy asked.
"Yes TSO, you!"
TSO is a human boy known as The Smart One. Typically always wearing a blue shirt, khaki shorts, and a baseball cap, he is incredibly smart, already in Geometry unlike the rest of us, likes to have fun, pull pranks on others, hates Twilight like the rest of us, helpful, and of course friendly, which is why he and I get along pretty well; though he can be a bit of a meddler, often getting himself in stuff he really shouldn't. Because I feel his smartness turns him cocky, we both can easily get into arguments and debates quickly, but of course, he is too stubborn to let me win one for once.
TSO is also a writer, in which should not be a surprise by now. He is the author of one of my favorite books by him, Three Longs Days. Although, he and updating are never good friends – it actually feels like three long years since anything was done to that story.
"I am not frustrating," TSO defended intelligently. "Maybe you are just too stubborn!"
Michael sighed, beginning to sit down on the grass and get comfortable. He already knew where this was going.
"Stubborn! You are one to talk, Mr. Can't Let Up!"
"You know that I know that I am right, Mr. Picky Guy!"
"Geez, what a lame comeback! Just like my brother!"
"We are not bros! That would be too weird!"
"So I am weird now, huh? If anyone were to be weird; that would be Laguz!"
"Objection! Why are you bringing Laguz into this? This argument is invalid!"
"Are those two at it again?"
Michael nearly jumped, not knowing until now that a person even sat next to him. She was definitely a girl, though not recognizable to the Cubone. "Who are you?"
"Hi Michael, Chris told me some stuff about you; I'm Child."
Yes, the girl's name is Child (In which I wonder if it was her real name or not). Typically always wearing blue shorts and a green vest over a white T-shirt, she is very kind and very popular because she always seems to be smiling, with a two finger pose, and with a wink and that catches everybody's attention. Because of that, I tend to treat her like my kid sister, always calling her Princess and also act overly protective just in case she gets any kind of looks from any guy. Some find it weird, but I don't complain because I get jelly ultraz from her. Not smarter than TSO (Nobody is except for maybe Dash) but smart enough to be the top in school, is outgoing if she likes you, she can be an optimistic pessimistic when she wants to, either tending to be negative and having a bad temper on a bad day or when she tries to be funny, and she never gives you a straight answer. Nope, sometimes it is like a puzzle to figure what she is saying.
Surprising no one, she too is an author. Donning one of the most popular books of all time, according to about 500 people, Paper Mario; Thousand Year Door X. It makes me jealous sometimes, yet it strives me to outdo her one day... A pipe dream, but my dream nonetheless.
"Child huh?" Michael said in monotone, "You mean The Child? As in that popular one from our rival school, Reality Check High School?"
"Well, I don't know about "The" Child, but yes, I have come to this school because I heard this one was better."
"Can't blame you, Kanto's High School stunk. See you later." He rose and left without as so much waiting for a goodbye.
"Well uh... Bye!" That was when she was glomped and fell to the ground on her back.
"Hi better friend!" She looked up and found TSO smiling.
"Hi TSO!"
"You see TSO, this is why you never glomp people you might end up breaking there backs. You can't do it like Zeena can." I gladly helped Princess up from the ground, "Hi Princess!"
"First of all Kris, I can glomp epically. Secondly, she is alright. And finally, who is Zeena?"
"Yeah Chris, who is Zeena?"
I let go of Princess before I began to quickly rampage through my head. "Um... This girl in school..."
"Uh-uh," they both said simultaneously; both very interested now.
"That is one of my classmates..." They kept eyeballing me; obviously not willing to change the subject. "And she... Look your cousin, TSO!" Both turned the other direction; perfect chance for me to escape a weird conversation.
"Hi cousin Daisy," TSO exclaimed.
"Hi cousin TSO," she shouted back.
BAM!
Both TSO and Child turned back to the other direction where I once was. I did successfully run away from them, but not as far as I wished. You see, I kind of bumped... Or rather ran into somebody, or rather (again) two of them.
"Chris, you okay?" TSO asked while helping me up.
"Yeah I'm good thanks for asking." TSO went to help the girl while Child went to help the unfamiliar boy.
"Wait a minute?" Child asked, "Champ, is that you?"
"Child? TSO? Chris? You mean, all three of you go to this school as well?"
Another one of my human friends named Champ. He has brown hair and always seems to be wearing either a black, red, or yellow cap (It's yellow today). He too is a very smart kid, possibly rivaling TSO at his own game; something I would like to see one day. As per usual, he too is an author of sorts. I have skimmed across his stories a couple times, but my personal favorite happened to be "Twilight Princess and the Green Plumber's Adventure."
"Princess, you mean our Champ as in that Champ who we play mafia with?"
"The same one!"
"Wow... Oh Toadette, sorry for running into you."
"No problem Chris," she said bending down to pick up her fallen books.
"Here let me help," Champ offered, also bending down to help her. Child was about to bend down, until both TSO and I stopped her.
"Don't help them Princess," I mumbled.
"Why?"
"Take a look," TSO pointed out; Child observed. There they were, Champ and Toadette, just simply talking. Toadette would occasionally giggle and Champ would just smile; they both, despite just meeting each other, seem to enjoy each others' company. At one point, there was one more book on the floor and both made an attempt to grab it at the same time; it ended with Toadette's hand on top of Champ's hand. They both jerked their hands back, with Champ shortly grabbing the book again and handing it too her. She took it gingerly, almost as if the book was an extension of Champ's hand.
This little display of gentleness from Champ told us all.
"You know what we have to do, Chris?"
"Hook them up, TSO?"
"Bingo!"
"I'll help too," Child whispered.
I patted her head and smiled. "Sorry, but I don't think you can, little sis."
"What?"
"You are too young," TSO confirmed.
"But I'm 14!"
"Exactly, just leave it to us big guys to take care of everything." Child pouted, but said nothing more. Toadette finally left and Champ came over to us.
"Hey guys."
"Hey buddy!" Both TSO and I throwing one of our arms over his shoulder and smiling broadly.
"Did I miss something?"
"On the contrary, we found everything!"
"Did you hear the news Will?"
"What news?"
"About Yorkie and Laguz: Their trip to stardom! They were recruited by that famous music producer, Candy Kong!"
"That's neat Ace! Funny feeling to know famous people, right?"
"Totally. Hey, there's Rugtugba and Dash." Indeed, Ace was correct. Rugtugba and Dash seemed to be locked in a battle of the brains with a simple game of Chess. Dash was slumped in his chair smirking while Rugtugba was deep in concentration and sitting upright.
"You play a mean game, Dash," Rugtugba muttered. "But I see a fault in your strategy." He moved his queen piece over two spaces to the left, away from his king. "I believe I put your king in check now."
"You have Rugtugba, you have; however, that was the move I wanted you to make." Moving his pawn piece to get rid of Rugtugba's bishop. "Checkmate."
Rugtugba slapped himself. "Should have seen that coming."
"Hello Will and Ace," Dash greeted. "What brings you two over here?"
"Just wanted to see what you two were doing," Ace answered.
"And we find you both playing boring chess," Will joked.
"Well, at least I know one person who I could beat," Rugtugba stated.
"Who?" Will asked quickly; Rugtugba only smirked as he got up and began walking with Ace and Dash somewhere. "No seriously, who is he referring to?"
"Hey, where is Anna, Ace?" Rugtugba asked. "She is never too far from you."
"She is at home sick today," Ace sighed. "I promised to to take care of her as soon as school ends."
"You're loyal," Dash commented. "She is lucky to have you, you know."
"Ace and Anna do make a good couple," Rugtugba purposely though out loud.
"Will you guys shut up?!" Ace shouted, completely embarrassed.
The school garden, located perfectly behind the school; it was a beautiful with the various arrangement of flowers everywhere and a big water fountain right in the middle. This was the go-to place for all troubles or just if you wanted a place to relax. Wonder sat alone in this exact garden; she had to think about everything: her friends, what she valued, the boy she liked, and basically her life overall. It wasn't so bad, she supposed. She had wonderful friends and nothing too depressing going on in her life right now; but there was the boy she had an eye on since their first encounter during gym class. She felt a spark in her go off that day and she was pretty darn sure he felt the same. But... Something doesn't feel right between the two of them; like that feeling between them never existed – or maybe she is just feeling paranoid. Yeah, that's it: Paranoid...
"Poor Wonder," Sheri observed. "She must be thinking hard about something."
Shadow nodded. "Leave her alone. Sometimes it is best to leave others to themselves to figure out their own problems."
"Okay," Sheri acknowledged, leaning on Shadow's shoulder. "I am too comfortable right now to move anyway."
Shadow could not have helped but show a small smile.
"Do you suppose we should help them, ML?"
"Not really, Vincent," she replied without looking up from her drawing pad. "You should never get in between mad fans and their idols."
Vincent took another glance over at the sea of fans over yonder. "Yeah, I totally agree with you... But these are our friends Laguz and Yorkie we're talking about."
Marioliza sighed, "You have a point; alright let's do this!"
"Great, I'm bored anyway!" The two edged toward the mob of fans rather quickly; also quickly finding out that the narrow hallway prevented them from going any further.
"Well shoot," ML exclaimed. "What can we do now?"
"Up," Vincent said, motioning with his stubby leg in an upwards position.
"Up?" It took ML a few seconds to comprehend what Vincent was planning. "Okay, so if we use that then..." She looked upwards toward the approximate center of the mob. "Perfect."
Meanwhile in the crowd...
"We must be just too awesome to have this may fans, Yorkie."
"And that is a good thing, right Laguz?"
"Totally, but not all at once!"
Indeed, superstars Laguz and Yorkie found themselves in a real pickle early this morning. Just one song made them the biggest sensation in school; not to also mention that they already got their own clothing brand and novelty knickknacks. This duet reached instant popularity in just one night.
"Laguz, sign my shirt!"
"Be my girlfriend, Yorkie!"
"You two are drop dead gorgeous!"
"Marry me!"
"Give us a song!" The instant that one fan said that, the crowd went into an uproar. They were all demanding for a song now and constantly chanting their names as well.
Suddenly, Yorkie's cell phone rang and vibrated. She was all too eager to answer as she checked the caller ID. "ML," she asked.
"Yeah Yorkie, just be ready to look up and jump because I am going to lower Vinny and you two must grab on to him."
Yorkie was highly confused with ML's until she actually did look up and saw that the air duct above her suddenly opened. "Come on Laguz, our ride is here!" Yorkie jumped up as high as she could and grabbed Vinny's stubby little hands, beginning to get pulled up.
"Yorkie, don't forget about meh," Laguz shouted, flutterjumping and grabbing Yorkie by her legs. ML almost lost her grip on Vinny because of the added weight but still managed to pull them all up.
"Dusty in here," was the first thing Laguz said.
"You're welcome Laguz," Vinny said sarcastically.
"Come on you three," Marioliza said leading the way. "We have to escape the angry mob through the vents."
"We are so in trouble if principal Toadsworth finds us."
"Don't jinx us Laguz!"
"Sowwy."
"Do you hear that?" The four of us stopped and listened.
"Maybe… It sounds like… It may be coming from… The vents," TSO commented.
"It sounds like it is getting closer too," Champ added.
"Do you think it's a ghost?" Child wondered.
"Princess, that's ridiculous! There are no such things as ghosts!"
"Well actually they are called Boos…" I jumped in fright; I had no idea that Zeena was right behind me. "You should really stop jumping whenever I come around, Chris."
"But you always sneak up on me, Zeena. I am beginning to think you're doing that on purpose."
"I don't mean too," she defended.
"That's okay," I said in an unusually soft voice; it surprised everyone around me but Princess because she only snickered. "Did I do something wrong?"
The answer to that question was yes. Why? Simply because the air duct above me suddenly broke apart and down fell the people who were up there. There landing was soft enough for them considering my shell cushioned their fall, but at least they would not have suffered heavy injuries falling on the cold hard floor like I did.
"Ow," was all Yorkie said.
"Dang, what happened here?" Champ asked.
"Obviously breaking school rules by breaking their property," TSO intelligently informed.
"Hey, someone what to clue us in?" Child asked.
"Like explaining why people fell from the sky and such?" Zeena added.
"Laguz jinxed us," Vinny and ML stated at the same time, struggling to get up.
"Did not," she huffed from inside the still broken air duct, "I told you three to be careful but you didn't so..." She stuck her tongue out. "And at least you only three of us got hurt mildly." Laguz expertly jumped from out of the air duct had a soft landing. "Wait soft?"
Zeena shook her head, TSO, Child, and Champ all facepalmed themselves, and Yorkie, Vinny, and ML were just sweetly taking their times getting up from off my shell (I did not want to be rude or anything and fling them off). But Laguz's feet were not my hand's best friend... If I still have a hand. I couldn't really feel my hand at this point.
Only five or six more to go! Remember, for those of you who want to stay in the story and I have not yet heard from, please PM me! I don't bite, I promise. :P
Ciao!