Dragon's pepper.

Vanessa was cooking a meal for the others when she heard on the news of a new food called "Dragon's Breath."

Jenny saw the same report. "Uh, no Vanessa. They said it can be fatal if you were to eat it." Deborah was busy with eating some chocolate and not paying attention, focused on her favorite snack.

Vanessa sat by Jenny. " I can handle anything like those peppers. Besides, it said not for humans to eat. So a super athlete like me can instead." Jenny sighed, "Ok Vanessa, just be careful."

Later that day.

Victoria, Brandon, and Tiffany along with Eric and Rob were at the apartment. Vanessa smiled. "I heard of this new hot pepper recently that is called the Dragon's Breath that I was curious to try. As others are weak, they can't try it without dying so I decided to try one myself." She opened the box of the newly delivered peppers and took one out. It was tiny, the size of a pea, bright red, and according to the label, dangerously spicy. "So who would like to take part?" Vanessa asked.

Brandon shook his head, "No thanks. If it's not mild, it would not agree with me." Tiffany abstained as well. That only left Victoria. "Well, I don't know." She began. Vanessa then chuckled. "Scared? You're a rich girl. Rich girls can't eat these." This ticked off the catty girl and she glared at Vanessa, their rivalry still not over with. "That so? I have you know I have tried many spicy foods in my time. This is nothing to me." Tiffany and Brandon shook their heads and the three others looked on surprised. They wouldn't dare do this either.

"Ok. You're on. The first to fail has to cook for the rest of us. No water or anything to lessen the burn of the pepper." Victoria said. Vanessa and Victoria shook hands. Both not going to lose. "May the best win."

Tiffany had the two sit at the table and she held a stopwatch in her hand.

Victoria and Vanessa sat opposite one another. The two holding a handful of peppers each. "You know the rules. On three. One, two…three!" Tiffany said and started the watch and Vanessa and Victoria began stuffing the peppers in one by one. Brandon and the others watched as the two girl's faces turned red and halfway between fully finishing her handful, Vanessa stopped and fell over, peppers on the table as she groaned and held her gut. Victoria smiled as she kept eating the entire handful of peppers. Victoria stood up, "YES! I wo…" Victoria then collapsed, joining Vanessa on the floor, in pain and holding her stomach. Both crying as their bellies felt like they were on fire.

A couple hours later. Jenny got home, tired. She noticed Deborah sitting there. "Deborah where is Vanessa?" Deborah sighed, "Victoria and Vanessa were fighting and both are hurt. They're in the bedroom." The bookish girl said as she shook her head.

Jenny walked into her bedroom after setting her stuff down and found Victoria and Vanessa shaking and crying. "Why won't this burning stop!" Vanessa cried. "It's your fault!" Victoria screamed back. Jenny sighed. "What did you do?" Vanessa looked up seeing Jenny, tears in her eyes. "A duel and we both lost. My stomach burns!" Vanessa whined again.

Deborah walked in and handed Jenny the bag of peppers. Jenny looked at the bag. "I warned you Vanessa. And you had Victoria do this too?" At hearing her name, Victoria answered. "I did this on my own peasant! Damn this hurts!" Victoria continued, the athletic and catty girls sharing their pain from their own egos getting in the way of common sense. Jenny went to sit on the couch and left the two to their misery and maybe learn from it.