Episode 36

"Welcome back!" Yurick awkwardly waved at the screen. "And, uh…Merry Christmas!"

Mystical looked absolutely displeased. "I-I can't believe this took forever to get done..." She could be heard whispering under her breath. "I-I can't believe it…"

"Because of how much we have to do for this episode," Therius grimaced, "we're going to first show the clip of the Splatoon fight that we promised to show since about two episodes ago first, and then we'll answer your questions and finish off this episode with a clip of Zangurak's disastrous date which we didn't get to show last time because we lost the footage back then."

Zangurak looked annoyed. "Why is mine saved for last?"

Zepha smirked. "You know what they say, Lord Zangurak—last but not least. Perhaps yours will be most amusing…"

SPLATOON FIGHT!

Team Red: Syrenne, Lowell, Zangurak, Zepha, Jirall

Team Green: Mirania, Zesha, Dagran, Emily, Count Arganan

Team White: Calista, Zael, Yurick, Therius, Asthar

"Why are there three teams?" Zael called to Mystical, who was currently looking after Syrenne and Lowell's baby and also was in charge of setting up the arena beforehand.

Mystical shrugged. "I thought since it was Christmas, might as well just go with three teams. Three teams means more chaos and fun."

Asthar was not amused. "Did I really have to be split up from Arganan?"

"Out of all the couples you had to split for this challenge," Arganan called, "It had to be us!? Seriously?"

Mystical chuckled sheepishly at that. "Well…it was either you guys, or Zepha and Jirall…uh, how about we just get this started?"

Both men sighed. "Fine."

As the siren sounded to start the challenge, all of the teams immediately start shooting as much paint as they could everywhere.

Of course, given that there are three teams, it was easily bound to be chaotic. Even more so than usual.

"$%$#!" Jirall was heard screaming as Zepha accidentally hit him in the face with splotches of red paint. "Really, Zepha!?"

"I thought you were the accursed Count!" Zepha snapped back, just before Jirall decided to shoot him with a blast of red paint. "#$#!"

Mystical winced from above, trying to cover the baby's ears. "Guys, we have a kid watching this! Please stop swearing!"

Calista sighed as she doused a nearby platform with white paint. "This is Zepha and Jirall you're talking to, Mystical. How likely are they to take heed of it? I—whoa!"

The last part came from her slipping on some of the paint, barreling forwards into Zael and tackling him to the floor.

Mirania giggled as she pointed her paintgun at the two, dousing them with green paint. "Mystical was right. Three teams means—"

She was hit right in the face with red paint as Lowell cheered. "MORE CHAOS!"

Syrenne laughed, painting up a nearby wall with red. "This is the best fun I've had in a while!"

"Really?" Lowell looked to her, chuckling. "Apart from me feeding you all those sweets during your pregnancy? You ate almost as much as Mirania!"

"Oh, you!" She squirted him in the face with red paint in return, blushing slightly. "Idiot! Don't go around yelling about it all!"

Yurick and Therius had cowered in the nearest corner, just making sure the area they were at was covered in white paint at all times.

"I admit," The white knight managed, "This fight has to be the scariest so far."

The fire mage nodded. "I agree." He shot a few blobs of paint at Jirall, who slipped and fell on his face.

Much later after the fight, everyone was completely covered in paint.

"So…who won?" Lowell asked, looking to Mystical who was surveying the map of the paint-covered area.

"The winner is…" Drumrolls were heard from nowhere, and as everyone tried to find the source of the sound:

"TEAM GREEN!"

Dagran, Emily, Arganan, Zesha and Mirania burst into a cheer as Syrenne and Lowell were heard groaning in disappointment, as well as Yurick staring.

"Wait, what!? How!?"

Mystical showed him the map. "While you and Therius were hiding in the corner the whole time, everyone else kind of got creamed with red or green paint. Sorry guys."

Therius chuckled slightly. "Perhaps we'll win next time."

Q and A

Parakun

Hey! 100th review here! Congrats! Glad to see you updated. It has been a long time after all. XD I'm looking forward to the host club and footage of Zangurak's date!

"Thank you so much!" Mystical chuckled a bit as she waved at the camera. "And thank you so much for your patience while waiting for this episode to come up, too!"

Yuricklover1123

Heyy! *hugs mystical , then tackles dagran to the ground, hugging him tightly* I've missed you SO much! *starts to tear up* I really really did. I love you forever and always, dagran, don't you ever forget that! *kisses him*

"WHOA!" Dagran chuckled as Emily tackled him down, hugging her in return. "I'm glad you're back, Emily! Sorry it's been so long….you know," He cupped her cheek with a hand, "I won't ever forget. I love you, too."

Everyone else went "awwww" at the sight.

Ok guys enough with the sappy stuff; it's time for some questions!

Syrenne: You know, I have recently took up babysitting as a part-time job; if you need help taking care of the baby, I can certainly help with that if its not too much trouble for you.

"Oh? Really?" Syrenne couldn't help but chuckle a bit as she looked to Emily, still cradling her baby in her arms. "Lowell and I would totally appreciate it!"

"Speaking of the baby," Lowell fidgeted, "I..Syrenne, have we even given her a name yet!?"

She blanched. "Uh…um…no."

Everyone gaped at that. "WHAT!?"

"YOU NEED TO GIVE HER A NAME!"

"AAAAHHHH HOW CAN THIS BE!?"

"GIVE HER ONE NOW!"

The baby started wailing at all the shouting, and Syrenne gave them a death glare.

"Make my baby cry again," she seethed, "And you will have hell to pay!"

Everyone else shut up immediately, Lowell chuckling slightly at their horrified reactions.

"Um…well…how about we name her Martel, Syrenne?"

"Martel?" Syrenne thought, before smiling as she heard the baby giggle. "That sounds great. Her name is Martel!"

Everyone nearly let up a huge cheer, but then Syrenne and Lowell both glared at them to shut them up. So instead, everyone else just raised their hands up in the air slightly and pretended to silently scream with joy.

To Therius: I love your hair! I want to have mine cut like that someday, but unfortunately bc of the thickness of it, it wouldn't exactly work.. *is sad now* (lol)

Therius smiled softly at the statement. "You do? Thank you…." He chuckled slightly. "Yurick likes to braid my hair sometimes when I'm half-asleep. I can hear him saying how soft and silky it is."

Yurick's face went red as everyone else "awwwwed" at the statement. "H-hey! It was only a few times!" The fire mage defended.

Therius looked to him, still smiling calmly. "And I appreciate every single one of those times."

As Yurick blushed even more, Therius hugged him.

To everyone: hey guys did ya'll know that I've been learning how to play the electric guitar? wait here I'll go get it. *runs out of tavern and comes back with an amp and me white and red guitar* hehe I only know one song as of now *sweatdrop* it's by a rock band called Breaking Benjamin. *smiles gleefully*

"Breaking Benjamin?" Asthar mused as Emily grabbed the guitar. "I can't say I've heard of that one…"

"Honestly," Mystical confessed, "I've barely listened to that band. It'll be nice."

"Great!" Emily nearly started playing, but then looked to Syrenne and Lowell and baby Martel. "Is it okay if I play it kind of softly?"

Lowell grinned. "Why not? Maybe she'll like it!"

"Rock music as a lullaby?" Calista looked baffled. "That's…that's definitely new…"

To Count Arganan: * walks over to him angrily and gets up close to him til his face is inches from mine* "is it true that you've been fantasizing bout Dagran and secretly writing fanfics about you and him!? Huh!? If you don't believe me, then look them up yourself, you twat!" *gets up, still so angry that my whole body was shaking, and ran to another room in the tavern, locked myself in there from the inside, and started to scream and cry my eyes out*

Arganan went awkwardly silent as Emily went up and yelled at him, before running away.

Mystical gasped, before beginning to run off after her. "Emily!? EMILY WAIT! IT'S MY FAULT FOR THOSE FANFICS, NOT HIS!"

"YOU wrote them!?" Yurick screamed, looking to her.

Mystical nodded sheepishly. "Y-yes, I did! But that was before we even started the show in the first place! Lemme just…oh, I'll go after her and apologize."

Dagran got up, quickly leaving with Mystical. "I'm coming, too…"

Everyone awkwardly went silent as the two left, looking to each other before Therius sheepishly looked to the camera.

"Um…let's just roll the clip of Zangurak's date…"

"But we still have something from xXGirlGamerXx to answer!" Jirall pointed out.

Everyone looked ot the one letter, then Therius apologietically looked to the camera.

"Sorry we didn't get to your question, xXGirlGamerXx. We'll answer it next time, promise!"

THE FOLLOWING IS A CLIP CONTAINING ZANGURAK'S DATE.

Zangurak looked horrendously bored as the blind date kept talking.

"So I was like, Oh seriously!? Like, I mean, that 3$% better not have ruined my hair with that mistake of hers! Gosh, she's supposed to be doing her job! How can she still be hired and do such a mistake with my hair!?"

Zangurak said nothing, but the date still hadn't caught onto his annoyance. If it was possible, smoke was coming out of his ears.

"And then this other guy had the nerve to spill his latte all over me! He ruined my best clothes for this date, or else I would've looked better and—"

"ENOUGH!" Zangurak got up, glaring at her as he took out his Zan Lance. "You, human, have thoroughly annoyed me and I am sick of it!"

The date screamed, before running off in terror, followed by Zangurak who rushed off after them to try to impale them on said spear.

(Good news: The date didn't die, they got away. Bad news: Zangurak was horrifically annoyed for the next week over this whole situation, and it wasn't fun to deal with him during then.)

"…" Everyone stared at Zangurak with horror, who simply shrugged. "They had it coming…" He muttered, shaking his head with disappointment.

Conclusion

"So…"

Everyone looked to the camera awkwardly, then to Yurick. The fire mage awkwardly looked to them and then to the camera.

"So…I guess that's it for this episode!" Yurick finally managed, chuckling a bit. "We wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! Hope to see you all next episode!"

Author note: Hello, all of you readers! :D Thank you so much for reading this chapter despite the long wait for it. *flails* I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! XD