It was nightfall and Lady Olivia was leading Anne, Charlie and the Plantars towards Marcy's sleeping quarters as the sleepover Marcy planned with the kids was leaving Anne, Sprig and Polly so excited they couldn't control themselves for much longer. Charlie on the other hand felt a bit nervous but with Anne by his side, he felt like he could take on anything, even his first sleepover.
"Does anyone need to use the bathroom while we're headed to Master Marcy's sleeping quarters?" asked Olivia.
"We're all good!" they all said in unison.
"As long as I don't have any intake of sugar. I'll be cool." Charlie advised.
"Are you allergic?" asked Olivia showing subtle concern.
"No, sugar from candy makes him go hyper crazy. He once jumped over ten feet into the air when he had a sugar rush." answered Anne patting Charlie's back.
"So many headaches." Charlie replied slowly.
Anne took hold of Charlie's hand and he grasped her hand. Lady Olivia saw the two holding hands like any normal couple would do which left her smiling while they were not paying attention to her.
"If his heart feels any pain. I hope Anne can be the one to heal his heartache." Olivia thought to herself.
Lady Olivia seemed to secretly developed motherly like feelings towards Charlie but she didn't let anyone know it. They arrived at the double doors that lead into the room Marcy sleeps in. Lady Olivia was the first to knock on the door twice. They waited a minute and Marcy opened the door which the door had a blue Newtopian symbol on it from both inside and outside the door. That's when Lady Olivia was the first to walk into the room.
"Good evening, Master Marcy. Anne Boonchuy, Charlie Matsuda and the Plantars have arrived for your..." Olivia began.
Anne, Sprig and Polly burst through the door and screamed "Sleepover!" and chanted the word. Anne and Sprig were jumping on the bed in excitement, unable to contain themselves. Polly ripped a pillow in half with her bare hands, causing the feathers from the pillow to fan over Lady Olivia's face. She let out a sigh afterwards.
"Sleepover." Olivia finished.
"Party animals." chuckled Charlie.
"Did they happen to have a large amount of sugar before they came over?" asked Olivia.
"Not an ounce. They're just excited to spend some quality time between friends. If this was a sugar rush, their eye pupils would be dilated." explained Charlie. "At the very worst of consuming too much sugar, they'd probably hurl. I speak from personal experience. Don't ask."
"I'll take your word for it. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the kitchen drinking... juice." said Olivia half telling the truth.
When Lady Olivia was about to leave the room. She took one last look back at them, mainly one more look at Charlie as he joined in on the festivities with them. She stared at Charlie as if her heart was telling her something as she turned and left the room.
"Hopefully, if anyone gets hurt, they'll be wearing a helmet." Olivia thought to herself hopefully.
Anne ran over to Marcy and embraced her in excitement.
"This is gonna be." Anne started.
"Awesome!" said Marcy in a sing song tone.
"It's the perfect way to spend the night before we hear from the king." said Sprig.
"Speaking of King Andrias. How did the chat between him and Charlie go? I didn't catch the details." asked Marcy.
"He's shown to be trustworthy, no doubt. He did tell me how he'd never hurt a child." Charlie answered.
"I even heard Charlie is becoming quite the positive influence around here. I heard a few things going around." said Marcy.
"I wonder what he learned about the music box." Anne wondered.
"I got the same question on my mind. Not gonna lie, I may have shown some signs about myself that's unexplainable." Charlie said. "But we'll worry about that later."
"I don't wanna give anything away, but it's gonna be pretty cool." said Marcy looking proud of herself.
"Okay, kids, I'll be back in the morning for our meeting with the king. You enjoy yourselves. I'm off to spend a little much needed me time. And by me time, I mean a full body..." Hop Pop began.
Sprig and Polly both suddenly slammed the doors closed and Charlie gave them a look that had them knowing that they shouldn't have done that. Sprig opened the door and told Hop Pop a friendlier farewell till they meet again in the morning which Hop Pop understood. After Hop Pop walked off and Sprig closed the doors. He looked at Charlie who smiled.
"That wasn't so hard." Charlie replied.
"Whoo-hoo! Me and Sprig's first sleepover." said Polly eagerly.
"Kureijī itte miyou!" cried Charlie.
"Better make it a good one." said Sprig as he shown a grim yet scary look when he whispered the next words eerily. "These will be formative memories."
The human teenagers were wide eyed at how eerie Sprig's words sounded which Sprig was wide eyed and blushed as he saw that the way he eerily whispered that last statement might've left them a bit startled.
"Too much?" said Sprig.
"Sukoshi." said Charlie making a hand sign that spoke out his words.
Anne just realized something that came to mind. They've done sleepovers together but not without Sasha, this time. She even knew that since this is Sprig, Polly and Charlie's first sleepover. She knew that this was the first time they did a sleepover without Sasha.
"I just realized, we've never done a sleepover without Sasha." said Anne.
"You mean you two never did a sleepover without Sasha before?" asked Charlie curiously.
The two female humans looked at Charlie and shook their heads. They looked a little embarrassed to admit it.
"First time?" Charlie guessed.
"Yes." Anne finally admitted.
"Oh, you're right. You think we can pull it off? Sasha's the sleepover queen, not us." said Marcy.
"Pfft. Who says there has to be just one queen?" said Anne confidently.
"Everyone. That's sort of how the whole system works, Anne." Marcy stated.
"Marcy, you and I have done tons of sleepovers. And this will be a chance to show Charlie how sleepovers go. We know everything about them." said Anne.
The two human girls were filled with confidence as they started to say something they both knew.
"Pajamas, junk food and gossip galore. Pillow fights, movies and tearing up the dance floor. And listen up 'cause this I won't repeat, never ever go to sleep." said Anne and Marcy in unison.
The two girls laughed as they both still remembered how their sleepovers panned out in the past. As they laughed, they heard Charlie laugh his madman like laugh which Marcy was a little surprised he could laugh like a madman but she heard him laugh like that before so she's used to it, she just didn't expect him to laugh like that.
"Charlie gets it." said Anne with a grin.
"Don't you know I'm loco?" said Charlie in a sing song voice. "Insane in the membrane."
"Insane in the brain!" said Anne and Charlie in a sing song voice.
The two laughed at their little joke and it took a minute or two for the laughter to calm itself.
"Sensing some missing context here." uttered Sprig not understanding.
"Oh, sorry. Sasha always said falling asleep early means total failure. A true sleepover goes till sunrise." Marcy explained.
"Same can't be said for Dracula or he'll burn like bacon." joked Charlie.
Charlie started to mimic the sound of a vampire's voice and made it look like he was about to turn to dust by the sunlight. His impression of a vampire being hit by sunlight was incredibly realistic, especially the voice he mimicked.
"Ahhh! The light! It burns!" joked Charlie mimicking the vampire voice.
They laughed after he stopped which they were having fun so far. Charlie managed to get them all laughing which he loved to do that, he especially loved making Anne laugh.
"Already. Enough setup. Let's get our sleepover on, baby." cried Anne powerfully.
"Whoo-hoo!" they all cried feeling thrilled.
The sleepover started with them going around the castle to find a mattress and they used it to go mattress surfing down some flight of stairs. Charlie was a little nervous about doing this but Anne held his hand to hang onto him which provided some comfort and thrill. As they used the mattress to surf down the flight of stairs, they knocked over a suit of armor when they passed Lady Olivia who watched them wide eyed.
As parts of the suit of armor went flying, the helmet flipped over into the air and Charlie ran up the stairs so fast to catch the helmet to prevent the helmet from hitting Lady Olivia. He placed the helmet down on one of the steps beside her and Charlie blushed with a nervous grin.
"Sorry about that. Gomen'nasai." said Charlie nervously as he ran off.
Lady Olivia was quite exasperated by what she just saw but seeing Charlie catch the helmet to prevent it from hitting her made feel as though his actions cushioned the angry blow.
The next thing the kids did was explore what looked like King Andrias's closest where he kept his clothing in there. Marcy tried on what looked like a super huge cloak. Sprig was messing around with one of the spare crowns and Anne was trying one of his socks which was big enough to be the size of a sleeping bag. She used it to hop around like she was competing in a sack race. Polly and Charlie managed to get into what looked like King Andrias's armor and made it look like the king was standing there while Lady Olivia was walking up to it, mistaking them for the king himself.
"Excuse me, sire." asked Olivia.
"Yes, Lady Olivia? Forgive me but I think I feel a little pressure in my stomach." said Charlie mimicking King Andrias's perfectly.
"Oh? Do you have a belly ache? Perhaps a bit of ginger would help?" Olivia suggested kindly.
Polly was trying to stifle her laughter while Charlie tried not to laugh as well.
"I think it was something I ate." said Charlie as he spoke in the king's voice sounding like he was groaning.
What happened next was unexplained as Lady Olivia saw the area of the armor's butt rumble and green smoke blasted out from the butt regions of the king's armor while it sounded like the biggest fart to ever be seen or heard. It lasted for a few seconds. Lady Olivia was wide eyed and had a look of disgust while blushing. She actually witnessed what she believed was King Andrias farting.
"That was a burrito!" said Charlie laughing.
"Sire, did you just...fart?" asked Olivia almost gagging.
She suddenly saw Polly appear out from the helmet of the king's armor while Charlie fallen out from the armor as he fell out from the exit of the armor located around the butt area. He was laying on the floor and Lady Olivia saw the both of them. Charlie smiled nervously blushing.
"Hi Lady Olivia." said Charlie still mimicking the king's voice.
Polly laughed out loudly as she couldn't control her laughter any longer. Lady Olivia was shocked that Charlie could mimic other people's voices. She almost felt impressed that he could mimic other people's voices and sound just like them. But when she saw Polly fall out of the armor from the top, laughing, her face turned red with anger as she groaned.
The kids ran while laughing as they were exploring more of the castle. They had found what looked like plastic caterpillars and found out it was the silly string as Marcy shown them how to spray the silly string by testing it out on the wall. They got the idea once they saw it.
As they explored more of the castle. Marcy, Sprig and Polly tried to stifle their laughter as they opened up a door that lead to a closet and they found Anne and Charlie making out. Charlie was laying on his back on the floor with Anne on top of him, both kissing each other.
"How long do you think we have till we get caught kissing? Five, ten, fifteen minutes?" Charlie asked during the kissing.
"Ten minutes at best, big boy." said Anne during the kiss.
"How about three seconds?" called Polly.
The two stopped kissing and looked up and they got sprayed with silly string. Anne, Charlie, Marcy, Sprig and Polly were laughing as they knew they'd probably catch Anne and Charlie making out somewhere in the castle.
"Gotcha!" laughed Sprig.
"Get em!" cried Anne and Charlie.
As the two got up and ran after them, they playfully chased each other around the castle. Charlie proved to be a faster running than all of them, even a faster runner than Marcy. When he caught up to each one them, he would gently tap one finger on each one of them and uttered the word "Boop" when he did.
"Wow! He's really fast, Anne!" said Marcy surprised. "Did he secretly take up track running?"
"He's never done that before." answered Anne.
The next thing they did was the idea of a prank when Lady Olivia looked like she was in her private study or possibly a private room she sleeps in. She dusted off a comfortable seat from a purple armchair she was now sitting in which she was about to be reading a green book that read "Your Emotions and You" and just as she was sitting down for a good five minutes, both Anne, Marcy, Sprig and Polly ambushed her by spraying silly string on her but Charlie was the only one to not participate in that but he couldn't help but chuckle a little. Lady Olivia was irate and had enough of their mischief.
"Oh, for frog's sake." said Olivia sharply.
Lady Olivia jumped up and just like a martial arts grand master, she pulled some maneuvers that knocked both Anne, Marcy, Sprig and Polly to the floor while she also felt the adrenaline rush, she nearly pulled a few martial arts moves on Charlie but he successfully dodged and blocked every move she threw at him.
"Whoa! Who taught you how to kick ass?" said Charlie feeling entertained.
She snapped back to reality and stopped while Charlie used his incredible speed to catch some silly string cans and placed them in a nearby box chest, closing it and caught Lady Olivia as he jumped into the air and caught her in his arms. He landed on the floor with his feet and the slender female newt saw that Charlie was able to move at lightning speed with how fast he was able to move on his feet. It was like he was as fast as a samurai warrior. Charlie realized he used a swear word in from of her and both of them blushed.
"No swearing in front of you?" Charlie predicted.
"Affirmative. Can you place me down, you handsome muscular- I mean sweet young man." asked Olivia nearly letting something slip.
Charlie nodded and obeyed as he set Lady Olivia on her feet to the floor and he came over to Anne's side. He helped the others get up on their feet as Lady Olivia looked on at Charlie as if she were admiring him since she got to see a brief gaze at his muscles and she tried not to stare at his butt. She shook her head and brushed off her initial emotions and she shown a calm yet serious face.
"While I'm glad you kids are having fun. Let me remind you that some castle rooms are off-limits, namely the basement, which is..." Olivia stoically warned.
But she got cut off by Anne who pulled out a hidden caterpillar can of silly string and sprayed her face with it. She let out a groan while Charlie tried hard not to laugh.
"Montage is back on, baby." cried Anne in excitement.
They all ran out of the room but Charlie hung back as she gave Lady Olivia a freshly clean and warm towel. He helped wipe her face clean and her vision was clear.
"Just so you know. I didn't participate in the silly string antics." said Charlie really fast.
He pulled her in for a hug and it left the lady newt wide eyed with her cheeks turning a bright pink. Once he released his arms from her, he ran to catch up with Anne, Marcy, Sprig and Polly. Lady Olivia suddenly smiled and gave a brief chuckle.
"I've been hugged by a sweet male human with a heart of gold." said Olivia with a smile.
The next thing that the kids did was have a pillow fight. They didn't hit each other hard but they did hit each other with pillows enough to excite the other.
After the pillow fight. They were running around in the kitchens and both Anne and Marcy pushed around a cart that had a big pink cake with candles on it, some candles had been lit and were the type of candles that were like sparkler candles. Polly came out with Charlie carrying her as she let out a huge burp, she obviously had a lot of cake to eat.
The kids would try out some cake but Charlie tried out a cake that was pink. It had pink icing and the cake had a small sign near it that read "Strawberry Supreme Flavored" his eyes were widened at the sight of how good the moist cake appeared to be.
"Oh look, my favorite flavored cake. I love strawberry flavor." said Charlie taking a bite.
They looked to see that Charlie had used a knife to cut a piece, than used a fork to take a few bites. Anne, Sprig and Polly looked on in alarm.
"Uh oh." they said in unison.
"Oh come on, guys. Charlie eating cake isn't going to hurt him, at the very worst, it'll just rot his teeth." said Marcy not understanding.
"Marcy, we forgot to tell you. When ever Charlie has a huge amount of sugar." Anne began to warn.
They looked at Charlie and saw his eye pupils dilating like he was experiencing a rush of energy from a large amount of sugar intake. He began to laugh like he was going crazy from how much fun he was having and began to devour the entire cake. They saw he actually devoured the entire cake which was the size of a large pillow. He chewed up every bit of it and swallowed it all down.
"Let me guess, sugar rush?" guessed Marcy.
Charlie laughed like he was about to go nuts and he began to jump into the air as he jumped ten feet and jumped over and over into the air like that while laughing loudly.
"It's an all night party that where getting into. If you think it's all over. Than the joke is on you. Hahahahaha!" said Charlie rapidly in a sing song voice.
"That would be a yes." Anne, Sprig and Polly answered.
"I'm on top of the world mama!" cried Charlie laughing maniacally.
Charlie ran around the room and exited the room as they ran to catch him but even in his sugar rush state, he was still faster than them. But when they caught up with him, they saw him laughing so much and jumping up and down, they saw his burst of energy from the sugar last for thirty minutes till he stopped, his eye pupils returning to normal size. They saw he looked dizzy and came over to him to check and see if he was alright.
"Charlie, you alright?" asked Marcy worried.
"Is the roller coaster ride over? I'm ready to get off the ride, mama." said Charlie dizzily.
Charlie's stomach loudly gurgled and he let out the loudest burp he ever made and afterwards, the dizziness, the sickly feeling in his stomach and any discomfort he felt in his entire body had completely dissipated instantly. Charlie chuckled with a grin.
"That was gnarly." laughed Charlie.
Polly hopped over to Charlie as she landed on top of his head and both of them were laughing about the burp he had which really was the biggest and loudest one he's ever experienced. They even did a little dance along with the excitement rushing through them.
"All night long, we love to party hardy. What's the smell, seriously, who let out a big farty. The his party is just getting starty. Oy, Macadamia!" Charlie and Polly said in a sing song voice.
The two let out one more loud burp and possibly a fart which left everyone laughing. Charlie and Polly gave each other a high five afters. They were glad Charlie was feeling alright since the last time he had any sweets was when they took on Barry and after defeating him, they remembered that Maddie let Charlie have some of the candy which she figured after the day he had that time, he could use something sweet to calm the stress in his body but resulted in him going on a sugar rush bender, got hyperactive, talked faster than he could run, jumped at a high height and ran around like he could go as fast as supersonic speed and he got tired and sleepy once it warped out of his system.
They all moved onto the next activity they were doing which was still a form of pranking but it was more like pulling a joke on pictures of people. It looked like they were in the hall of portraits that shown portraits of previous rulers of Amphibia. They painted mustaches on some of the portraits for a laugh. Anne painted one on at least three of them with a paint brush, Marcy and Sprig used a big ladder to paint a big mustache on a portrait of King Andrias with roller brushes while Polly held onto Sprig by one of his feet. Charlie on the other hand painted both a mustache and beard on some of the portraits of those who ether had no facial hair or those who had some form of facial hair.
"Make a nice, cool river mustache there. On the nice big bald guy in this portrait. Oh yeah, that's refreshing as an ice cold glass of sweet tea which I have organically brewed and have at least two or three times a day." said Charlie in a soft and relaxed voice.
After some time had passed. The kids were all back in the sleeping quarters of Marcy's room. They were laying down on sleeping bags while Polly let out a yawn. Some of them looked a bit tired and slightly sleepy.
"That was awesome." said Polly.
"Best sleepover ever." said Sprig with a grin.
"I can't believe I ate an entire cake, went on a sugar buzz, and let out the loudest burp I ever produced." said Charlie giggling.
"I can't believe we actually caught Anne and Charlie making out in one of the cleaning closets." chuckled Polly.
"We thought we had ten or more minutes before someone caught us." chuckled Charlie.
Anne and Charlie took hold of each others hand and winked at one another.
"See, told ya we could pull off an awesome sleepover without Sasha. And Charlie's managing to have a good time for his first sleepover. What time is it anyway? 5:00 a.m.? 6:00 a.m.?" asked Anne.
Marcy pulled out her phone and tapped the screen once with her finger to check the clock and it left a wide eyed face of shock on her face when she saw that they were not even close to the time that Anne guessed.
"Uh, only 9:00 p.m.?" said Marcy surprised.
The human teenagers bolted up right to sit up with widened eyes. They were not even close to the time Anne guessed, they were barely half way.
"What?" replied Anne.
"Chikushō!" cried Charlie.
"That early?" chuckled Sprig looking sleepy.
"But I'm so tired." said Polly on the verge of falling asleep.
Anne reached out to grab a hold of Sprig and Polly and shook them to keep them awake. This only had very little affect till Marcy had a stoic expression when she placed her hand on Anne's shoulder.
"Anne, I think it's time." said Marcy.
"Really? Are you sure they're ready?" asked Anne curiously. "I'm not even sure if Charlie's ready because I don't want him getting hurt."
"Is anyone ever really ready, Anne?" replied Marcy. "But maybe Charlie could sit this one out?"
"Ready for what?" asked Sprig and Polly.
"I'm not missing out on anything that's fun tonight. Besides, what do you two have up your sleeve?" asked Charlie looking interested.
The lights in the room suddenly shut off like a power outage that struck a neighborhood. Anne and Marcy both had a wide eyed yet spooky look on their faces as they used the light from their phones to shine on their faces. It looked as though they were trying to add a bit of a scare factor as they both had an idea in mind.
"The Scare-Dare challenge. Oooh." said Anne and Marcy in unison with a spooky tone.
"The rules. One of us comes up with a scary dare, and we all have to do it." explained Marcy.
Marcy was pulling out what looked like a black notebook as Anne continue to explain more about the mentioned challenge.
"But whoever bails first gets their name added to..." paused Anne trying to look scary.
"The Book of Losers." both of them finished.
They shown them the black notebook that had the words "Book of Losers" drawn on the front of the book in red marker. Both Sprig and Polly gasped at such a challenge while Charlie was not sure to laugh at Anne and Marcy's attempts to be spooky in a humorous manner or to take them seriously since he's never done such a challenge but Anne, Marcy and Sasha have done this before.
"Yeah, and once your name is in the Book of Losers, it'll be there forever." said Anne wiggling her fingers in their faces.
Marcy even said the word "Forever" in a deep and scary voice while trying to look like she's possessed but they knew she was trying to humorous. There was a pause and both Sprig and Polly smiled as they felt wide awake now and there was nothing that could make them fall asleep now.
"Well, I'm sold." said Polly excited.
"Let's do it." Sprig chimed in.
They suddenly heard a deep, loud and scarily evil laugh which they jumped and turned to see that the one doing that was Charlie. He made his laughter sound like he was possessed by a demon but he stopped once they saw him making the evil laughter.
"Sorry, was that too much?" asked Charlie.
"You had me going there, little man." giggled Anne.
"Okay, all we need is a scary dare." said Marcy.
They all sat down to think and so far, they tried thinking of ideas on what to do for a scare dare but they ultimately had nothing in mind. Charlie even felt like he could barely think of something for an idea.
"I'd suggest I could use my talent for mimicking voices to scare some of the guards around here but that would only scare them, not us. And Lady Olivia sure knows how to pack a punch." Charlie suggested.
"A nice idea but we need something that could scare us all. The scary dare is mainly to scare each other all in good fun but not so much as scare someone whose not part of the dare." Anne kindly denied.
"Someone runs around naked?" chuckled Polly. "Just kidding, that would traumatize one of us."
"We're not crazy college kids so that's out." Charlie declined on the idea.
They tried thinking for a moment but they had nothing to come up with that was considered a scary dare. Anne, Charlie, Marcy, Sprig and Polly had nothing to think of since two of them had experience while three of them never done this sort of challenge before.
"Yeah, I got nada." said Sprig giving up.
"Huh. I don't remember it being this difficult." said Anne taking notice.
"That's because Sasha always came up with the best scare dares." Marcy reminded.
"Oh, right." said Anne.
Anne looked at the wall and saw the maps that were pinned to the wall by Marcy. Anne was starting to get an idea but she still was thinking about what they should do since there was something about those maps on the walls that got the ball rolling.
"Alright, what have we got to work with here?" said Anne.
Anne got up from where she sat and so did the rest of them while Anne got out her phone and used the built in flashlight that it had as she used it to take a look at the map more clearly. She saw a part of the map that looked like like a picture of the basement. She remembered what Lady Olivia said or what she mentioned about the basement.
"Oh, what about the basement?" Anne asked.
Marcy felt a sense of hesitancy while Charlie was curious.
"Anne, that place is probably off-limits for a reason. This may not be a smart idea." warned Marcy.
"What's in the basement?" asked Charlie.
"That's the thing, I wasn't told what was in there but Lady Olivia said it was off limits yet she didn't specify. Some of the guards said they didn't know or some would say they heard rumors about what's in there but nothing was confirmed." answered Marcy. "I mainly thought it was best not to ask because everytime someone talked about it, they looked as though they didn't like to talk about it."
"Come on, guys. It's what Sasha would do." said Anne eagerly.
"Well, that is true. I hereby accept this Scare-Dare challenge." said Marcy powerfully.
"We also accept this Scare-Dare challenge!" cried Sprig and Polly in unison.
"It is done. This Scare-Dare challenge is now..." Anne began.
"Official." they all said in unison.
"Hold up, before we go off and do anything crazy. There's one thing I'll have to inform you about." Charlie announced. "One, I'm going with you, and two, if we encounter anything that's straight out of the walking dead or if we encounter anyone dangerous, let me be the one to take them down."
"Why you?" asked Marcy curiously.
Anne went to whisper something in Marcy's ear and she told her about some of the times that Charlie was a fierce warrior in battle as she remembered them pictures of Charlie that Anne shown her about Charlie's "Badass" moments. And when Charlie shown his big muscles, that's when Marcy understood why Charlie wanted to be the one to take down anything that would attack them.
"Oh." Marcy replied.
The five kids walked out of the room and they were making sure to be as quiet as possible. Charlie was the the first to be in front as he volunteered to be in front in case they encountered anything or anyone dangerous. He looked stoic but on the inside, he was filled with excitement.
"I can't believe I'm having my first sleepover with Anne and we're partying hard like she does with her gal pals. Sasha never told me their sleepovers was this fun. And I got Anne Boonchuy joining me." Charlie thought to himself excitedly.