Jesse lunged to the side out of the portal, water forming in a little puddle in the floor as her arms scrabbled to get her back into a standing position, slipping on the wet floor.

Lukas followed a moment later, crashing ungracefully into the floor as his tail flipped into the air and whapped him on the head, Petra whipped around the corner, steam coming off of her in clouds, Cassie slipping, tripping, and nearly doing a faceplant on the floor, Winslow letting out a loud meow as he almost got squashed.

Before anyone could say anything, the four soaking wet teenagers gaping at each other silently, a huge wall of water exploded out of the portal, sending a screaming Ivor into a duller dark blue portal right across the hallway.

Jesse tore off the glass helmet she was wearing for breathing purposes, tossing it onto the floor, and raced after Ivor, creeping across the floor using all eight of her limbs. Lukas yanked his off as Cassie pulled her own off, Petra letting out an aggravated groan and leaving the glass helmet on the floor as she raced after the others. "Aggh, not again!"


Jesse let out a loud yell as she came out of the green portal, all she was able to see being a tangle of black.

Since, you know, there was a SQUID on her HEAD. I mean, Jesse was okay with squids, but not on her head!

"Get it off! Get it off!" Jesse yelled, practically at the top of her lungs, before racing across the hallway, the familiar feeling of the bead-curtain parting greeting her as she accidentally ran into yet ANOTHER portal.

She heard a laugh from Ivor as he hustled after her, Lukas snickering as he followed, even a soft chuckle from Cassie (and the sound of Petra facepalming), and promised herself that she was going to give them all a good hard punch on the shoulder after this whole thing was over.

Once she got this accursed squid off her head, of course.


Jesse skidded out of this olive-green portal, Petra racing after her and the Blaze hybrid colliding with her, sending the spider hybrid tripping backwards onto the floor.

Cassie bolted out of the portal, tripped over the both of them, and landed on the floor, Winslow letting out a yowl of complaint as Ivor and Lukas came sprinting out as if there were a dragon on their tails (literally for Lukas), bats flying around in a big cloud.

"BAAAAAAAAAAATS!" Lukas yelled, his ears flattening against his head, as Jesse got to her feet and pretty much ran down the hallway after Winslow, chasing after the calico cat which had decided to run away from the cloud of bats.

Petra was just crouching on the floor and sending up well placed firebolts at them, knocking them to the floor aimlessly as Cassie flailed her arms wildly. Ivor just ran in circles.

Bats were really quite a nuisance.


Jesse and the others trotted out of the hot-pink portal, Cassie looking distinctly scratched and a bit disgruntled as Winslow perched on her now-rather-lopsided beanie, hissing angrily.

"I see what you meant about this being more of a punishment," Cassie replied, drily.

Jesse would've responded, but she was a bit busy pushing some strange English gentleman back through and fishing around with one arm, groping until her hands met an arm and she yanked her ocelot hybrid friend through.

"What just happened?" Lukas asked, looking a bit disoriented.

Petra let out a loud, frustrated "Rrrrghh!", sparks popping off of her as the temperature around the Blaze hybrid grew uncomfortably warm, Ivor letting out a laugh in amusement.


Jesse gently pushed through the crowd of sheep that were now flooding the hallway, Lukas trying not to get his claws entangled in the woolly fluff as Petra let out a ticked sigh, although Jesse had the feeling she was holding back- otherwise they'd have sheep that were on fire in the hallway.

Ivor exploded up through a crowd of sheep nearby, spitting wool out of his mouth.

Cassie shooed one sheep away, but it just insistently butted its head into her stomach. "Quit it, sheep!" she said, putting her hands on her hips.

The only response she got to that was that the sheep butted her again, making Cassie land on her butt and Petra snort a bit in amusement.

Petra had a rather sore right arm afterwards.


Jesse crawled out of the portal on the floor, her extra arms propelling her out as she stood on the floor- and then did a flip before slamming into the stone floor with a yelp as gravity finally went back to normal, climbing back to her feet in slight pain and stepping back as the four others climbed out, Cassie's beanie now looking a bit tattered from how much Winslow was clawing it.

And then the four of them all landed on the floor with a yell as their own gravity went back to normal, Ivor pretty much squashing Cassie, which made Winslow yowl in turn and Cassie then yelp.

Jesse never knew that Cassie knew so many swear words.


Petra marched out of the swirling white portal, leaving snow footprints all over the floor and dusting off the white coating of the stuff that had formed on her that melted into little steaming puddles on the floor.

Lukas shivered as he came out, hugging himself as his ears flattened and tail whacked himself, smacking off some of the snow. "Brr... Ice Lakes," he shuddered.

Ivor grinned as he game out, before launching a sphere of snow at Petra, making her glower at the two boys behind her as Jesse came through, a bit more sluggishly than usual, Cassie following a second later. Both girls were pretty much coated in the white stuff, and Winslow seemed none too happy. At least the calico cat had switched over to Lukas, so he didn't keep clawing his distinctly battered owner.

Jesse dusted some snow off of herself and Cassie as Petra went racing after Ivor with an annoyed yell, flames forming in her hands as she chased the fleeing potion master, who was cackling loudly.


Jesse, Cassie, Lukas, Ivor and Winslow burst out of the next portal, all of their faces having a lot of ashes on them and the seat of Lukas's pants being on fire.

Jesse coughed, hacking out a good mouthful of ashes. "That was crazy!" she spit out, still trying to get rid of the taste of burned stuff as Petra strolled out, looking perfectly okay. In fact, she looked rather energetic. "That wasn't too bad," Petra said casually, although the Blaze hybrid still looked rather annoyed.

"Easy for you to say!" Cassie hacked out, giving the red-haired Blaze hybrid a mock-glare, "you're basically someone who can walk through fire with no problem whatso-frickin-ever!"

"Why would there even BE a fire world?" Jesse grumbled in agreement, spitting out another mouthful of ashes as Ivor shook his hair vigorously, scattering ashes all over Winslow and making the calico cat give the potionologist a rather disgruntled look before padding over to Cassie and rubbing against her side, purring. It honestly made Jesse's heart hurt to see the almost Reuben-like relationship between Winslow and Cassie.

Jesse made a little gasping sound as she finally spotted Lukas's pants being on fire. Lukas started turning in circles, trying to see what was going on.

Jesse leaned down automatically and patted the fire out as fast as possible, aided by Lukas's frantically flicking tail as Lukas danced in place a bit. "Thanks, guys," he said, relieved, as the fire got put back out.

Jesse leaned back with a relieved look and gave him a thumbs' up, before Lukas took out this brown journal and a quill and started writing in it. "I marked that one down as Fire World," he said, after a second.

"Wow," Petra said, sarcastically. "How did you come up with THAT gem of a name?"

A/N: Stopping point! This was such a fun chapter to write, though xD

Ooh, looks like we've got drama next chapter.

Kaos Ruin: Lol xD

ChoyofBonk: Haha xD

LittleAngelbun: Hm, not a bad theory :)

NoItsBecky: Thanks!

Choco: Now that you mention it... xD

DemonCatLady: I'll do my best :) Cassie just has pale skin, pretty long red hair, and green eyes. Her aunt looks like that, only older (like, at least thirty years or so) and has gray eyes. You can decide how you want that to look :)

angelwings: Placid is peaceful, mild, or calm.

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