Okay guys! I'm really excited for this chapter and a few of the upcoming ones because I'm adding the OCs in! I'm really excited and
I hope you guys like how I write them and how I incorporated them into the story.

Chapter 20

Chip groaned as he slowly sat up and rubbed his eyes. He was still really tired from the night before and wanted to keep sleeping but had to go to the bathroom. He tried to get up only to feel something on him. He looked down and found Art passed out on his lap; amazingly his hair still looked good. He carefully eased the purple monster off and scurried down the hallway to the bathroom. He finished his business and washed his hands before walking back into the living room.

At one point in the night the fort had been knocked over, effectively blanketing everyone with sheets. Naomi and the twins were still wearing each others clothes as they cuddled. Sulley was snoring rather loudly still, Squishy had a cushion over his head, and everyone else was sleeping peacefully. Except for one monster. Chip looked around for a certain cyclops before he heard a little ruckus in the kitchen.

He stepped in and saw Mike preparing a fresh pot of coffee. The green monster looked over and gave a small wave before he turned back to the pot. "You're up early. Have a good sleep?"

"Yeah, I'm still pretty tired though."Chip whispered back as he took a seat at the table. "Yesterday was a lot of fun. Thanks for letting me stay."

"That's what friends are for. We look out for each other." Mike stated as the coffee started to pour into the pot. "By the way, why was Sulley so grumpy after Belicia's dare?"

"Hehe, when she went to write on Johnny's face he kissed her."

"What? Really?"

"Yep, their expressions were hilarious."

"Wow, well that explains a lot." Mike chuckled as he poured the coffee into two mugs. He handed one to Chip as he sat down at the table with him. "I've been meaning to ask you something. You don't have to answer but I would still like to ask you."

"What is it?"

"Why won't you defend yourself?"

Chip blinked. "Huh?"

"Why won't you defend yourself? From what I've seen you always defend everybody else but you." Mike explained. "Why is that?"

"Uh, I guess I'm just used to people trying to push me around. If someone calls me names or anything, I just shrug it off. I don't care what they have to say about me. But if they mess with someone I care about, then I get mad."

"I get that, really. But why?"

"...I don't know."

"Hmm, well let me tell you something. When I first came to this school, all I originally thought about was that one day, I was gonna be the best scarer ever. Number one! I never thought about what would happen to everyone else I knew." Mike stated. "In fact, me and Sulley had a bit of a rivalry going on. Sure I tried to make our fraternity win, but it was mostly for my gain, so I could get back into the scaring program. Then a lot of stuff happened. I got to get to know everybody and I learned something new. Nothing about scaring, but about friendship. Its sounds a little cheesy, I know, but it was one of the best things I ever learned."

"...Wow, I never knew that. You all seem like you've known each other forever." Chip said as he glanced back into the living room at everybody. "Thanks for sharing that with me Mike."

"No problem. You're the only other monster I've told this to other than my frat. I like to share what I've learned."

Chip nodded in understanding before his brow creased in thought. Mike had just told him something very important that effected him. He's already dragged this group of monsters into his problems, so he deserved to know, right? "Hey Mike..."

"Thanks for the ride Sherri!" Don called out as the monstress drove away in her van. "I love ya!"

"Love you too sweetie!" Mrs. Carlton shouted as she blew him a kiss.

He caught it happily before strolling through the front gates of the university. He waved to several monsters that were up for their morning jog or reading the morning newspaper. He walked all the way to Frat row and whistled a tune as he knocked on the door to the house. "You fellas up yet?"

There was a brief silence before the door opened and Mike greeted him. "Hey Don, you're up earlier than I expected."

"The early bird catches the worm after all."

"Come in. Just be quiet, everyone else is still asleep."

"Oh, gotcha."

The two tiptoed through the living room and into the kitchen where Chip was still seated at the table. "Hey Don."

"Good morning Chip. Did you all have fun last night."

"Yeah, it got pretty crazy. Did you enjoy your night?"

"Oh me and the Mrs had a quiet night. Watched a couple movies while drinking some hot cocoa. It was relaxing."

"Nice."

"Would you like some coffee Don?" Mike asked as he opened the cupboard.

"Oh that would be nice." Don said as he seated himself at the table. Mike handed him a full mug and he took a long sip. "Thank you Mike. So are there any plans for today?"

"No, not really. Today is all about relaxation before we have to go to class again tomorrow."

"Good morning!" Belicia cheered as she skipped into the kitchen, startling the three. "Last night was awesome!"

"Shh!" Mike shushed as he looked back to see if she had woken anybody up. "Everyone else is still asleep."

"I don't care. Its time to wake up anyway. I'm gonna make french toast!"

"Ooh, that sounds good." Don stated with a grin as he took another sip from his cup. "Need any help?"

"No, its okay. What I need is cinnamon because Art ate the last of it last night."

"I'll get it. There some at the ROR house. I'll be right back." Chip said as he finished off his mug and stood up. He quietly exited the house and started walking to his place. As he walked further into Frat Row, he was able to clearly hear two monsters bickering. Specifically Roy and Carla. They were in the middle of the cul-de-sac shouting at each other with their members supporting them, two of which he did not recognize. "What's going on?"

"They're arguing on which team is better, I think." Chip jumped at the sudden voice before he noticed the monster next to him. He was a tall golden monster with one eye and three horns going from the top to the back of his head. He had a small body but really long arms and legs with claws. He looked up at Chip with a big grin and and waved happily. "Hi! You're Chip right?"

"Yeah, and you are?"

"Oh, I'm Eddy Elbarrox. I'm a huge fan of the RORs!" Eddy stated.*

"Okay, then nice to meet you Eddy." Chip said as he shook the monsters hand. "So why are they fighting?"

"From what I know, they each announced that they got a new member and then started yelling at each other." Eddy explained as the argument grew louder. "I think its pretty silly."

"Yeah, well I better try to break it up before things get physical." Chip said as he remembered what happened last year. A disagreement over what soda was better led to several cans to go flying across the room. He jogged over to the group and let out a shrill whistle, similar to a coach's whistle. The sports fanatics immediately turned to the horned monster. "You know there are still monsters trying to sleep."

"Stay out of this Goff." Roy growled as he continued to glare at the sorority. "Its none of your business."

"It will be the Dean's business if you don't shut up. Why are you fighting this time?"

"They copied us!" Carla yelled before Roy could answer. "We got Oriel on our sorority, then they went and got that guy!"

"No way! You guys copied us!" Roy argued. "And his name is Richard, and he's twice the athlete than you guys!"

"Wait, hold up! Who's Oriel?" Chip questioned as he looked between the two.

The EEK girls stepped aside and let a feathered girl walk to the front. She had purple feathers covering all of her body, except for her feet and beak. She wore an EEK jacket and headband with her head feathers tied up into a small ponytail. Instead of regular arms, she had wings that were able to grasp stuff still. "Hi, I'm Oriel Pearson. I excel at track and field."*

"Pearson? Like Brock Pearson?"

"Yeah, he's my older brother."

"Huh, you look a lot alike."

"I know, but the intelligence level between us is completely different."

"Okay, nice to meet you. Now who is Richard?"

The JOX stepped aside and let a large aquatic monster walk through. He greatly resembled a shark with a iconic dorsal fin and long tail. He wore a JOX letterman jacket with his name sewed on. He had huge, sharp teeth and flippers instead of hands. "I'm Richard Caspian, water sports star."*

"Right. Okay, so you guys think that they copied you by getting a new member and vice-versa." Chip stated, to which everybody else nodded. "This is obviously a coincidence so could you just shake hands and let everyone sleep?"

"No way!" Carla shouted. "Not after what he said about being a better athlete. You guys could never beat us when it comes to sports!"

"We always have before!" Roy stated, followed by several cheers from his frat.

"Yeah, by cheating!"

"Shut up!"

"I could make you shut up!"

"Think you can hit harder than a guy?!"

"No, but I know I can hit harder than you!"

"WAIT!" Everyone turned to see Eddy waving his arms around frantically. "Please don't fight! I don't want anyone to get hurt!"

"Who's the kid?" Roy muttered as Eddy calmed down slightly. "Why's he screeching?"

"So that you don't kill each other. " Chip stated. "You guys can get pretty serious."

"Why don't you just play a game and be friends?" Eddy suggested cheerfully.

"A game? What kind of game?" Maria asked as everyone else contemplated the idea.

"I got it!" Dirk yelled out in triumph. "Let's have a competition. Whoever wins the most challenges is the best athlete."

"So guys vs girls?"

"Yeah!"

"That's a good idea!" Carla said as everyone started to warm up to the idea. "Let's do it! At 1:00, our competition starts!"

"Alright, you're on!" Roy said as the leaders shook on it. "May the better athlete win!"

"Oh, we plan on it."

Both groups glared at each other one last time before returning to their respective houses. The two remaining monsters stood there in shock for a bit before Chip spoke up. "Well, that didn't solve anything."

"I'm sorry." Eddy apologized as he continued to get over the shock. "That was my bad."

"Don't be sorry. It was a good idea."

"Thanks."

"By the way, what were you doing over here? Are you in a frat?"

"No, I wanted to visit my old roommate."

"Who's that?"

"You know him, he used to be in your fraternity."

"Good morning boys." Johnny greeted rather cheerily as he walked into the kitchen. Javier was cooking breakfast again and the others were seated at the table. "Have a good sleep?"

"Yeah." Reggie muttered sleepily as he leaned heavily on his arm. "Why are you so happy?"

Before Johnny could answer, Javier spoke up. "He kissed his dream girl last night before getting socked in the face by her cousin."

"You kissed a gurl?" Chet asked amazed. "Who is she?"

"A gentleman never tells." Johnny stated before they heard the sound of the front door opening. "Who's that?"

The RORs watched as Chip stepped into the kitchen with a very excited Eddy next to him. His mouth was going a mile a minute as he admired the house and all its elegance. It was then that he noticed the other monsters present in the room and immediately shut up. "Uh...hi."

"What are you doing here?" Johnny questioned as his cheery mood darkened.

"Heh, good morning guys." Chip greeted as he made his way over to the pantry. He quickly opened it up and pulled out the cinnamon before returning to Eddy's side. "Just stopped by to say 'hi' and get this. We gotta get going now so, see ya!"

"What do you need cinnamon for?" Reggie questioned.

"Uh, cinnamon challenge." Chip stated before took hold of Eddy's arm and ran out of the house.

"...What's the cinnamon challenge?"

"Oh that was close." Chip muttered as they walked down the steps of the house. "At least we got this now...Are you okay?"

"Y-Yeah, its just that...wow." Eddy mumbled as he looked back at the house.

"A lot to take in, huh?"

"Uh huh. So many great scarers used to stay there."

"Yeah, its pretty cool. So you wanna head over to the OK house now?"

"Okay!"

"Where the hell is Chip with that cinnamon!?" Belicia roared as she paced furiously in front of the stove. "Its been twenty minutes!"

"Maybe he got held up. Johnny is probably up by now." Mike stated as peeked out the window every now and then. "I'll admit that I'm getting a bit worried."

"I'm sure he's fine." Sulley said before there was a knock at the back door. He walked over and opened it to see a very familiar face. "Eddy?"

"Sulley!" Eddy cheered as he hugged the larger monster. "Its been a long time!"

"What are you doing here? I haven't seen you since I moved out."

"We were trying to stop a fight from happening." Chip said as he walked through the doorway. "It didn't go as planned, but we met and I brought him over. He said you two used to be roommates."

"Glad to see you're still in one piece." Mike said as he shut the door.

"Yeah, yeah, everyone is happy. Now give me my damn cinnamon." Belicia growled as her ears pressed back against her head. Chip did as instructed and the feline returned to her cooking. "Thank you."

"So Sulley, who's your friend?" Terri asked from the table.

"Guys, this is Eddy. He was my old roommate. He would wake me up in the morning so that I wouldn't miss class and he always had moldy pizza to spare." Sulley explained as Eddy waved happily to everyone. "So why did you decide to come over?"

"I had nothing to do today so I thought I would come and say 'hi'." Eddy explained. "Its really nice to meet all of you."

"Are you gonna stay for breakfast? My cousin is making french toast."

"I-I don't want to intrude."

"It's alright man. She loves to cook. Right B?"

"Yeah, but don't go inviting a bunch of monsters here. This isn't a restaurant." Belicia said as she piled all of the food onto one big serving plate and placed it on the table. "Dig in."

"So can you tell us what exactly you were trying to prevent?" Terry asked as his brother stuffed his face.

"Well what happened was..."

"I've got something!" Rhonda announced from her seat in front of the computer. Yesterday she had emailed her Aunt the picture of the symbol to see if she had any information about it. "She said that she sees it all the time around town. She said it stands for...Kurai Beasts?"

"What's that?" Nadya asked as the girls gathered around the computer.

"Hold on. Let me read the rest." Rhonda said as she scrolled down. "She said that its a local gang in town. Been around for long time now too."

"A gang? Why would Chip have a scar of a gang symbol on his side?"

"Maybe he got cocky and thought he could take one of them on in a fight." Susan suggested as Rhonda started to look up the name. "I'm sure its happened before."

"No, this is different." Sonia said, getting everyone's attention. "If you are a part of something, you show it. You use a symbol to let everyone know not to mess with you. Sometimes on clothing but most of the time on the flesh."

"How do you know?" Rosie asked, curious of her friend's knowledge.

"Mi primo, my cousin got into the wrong crowd. He quit and they put him in a hospital. He warned me of what gangs do. Marking themselves is one thing."

"Hmm, well if you're right and Chip did this on purpose, then he was in this gang." Rosie stated as everyone stared at the symbol for a while. "The question is why?"

"Should we ask him?" Rhonda asked as she scrolled through the different results.

"No, its obvious that he wants to keep it a secret. We'll see what else we can find about his gang and go from there."

"Why are we doing this?"

"Because I wanna know where this guy is coming from and why he helped us."

-Eddy Elbarrox belongs to Nekophy

-Oriel Pearson belongs to Bellamunch

-Richard Caspian belongs to PeaceGrrl2(DeviantART)

I literally typed this all in one day...Don't expect it too often. Anyways, congrats to those listed above. Love writing your OCs and I hope I wrote them well. Things are getting pretty hectic at MU now. By the way, I'm still taking ideas for one-shots. Thanks for reading and I'll talk more in the next chapter. Bye!

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