Kaito smelled trouble.

He also smelled the distinctive scent of a certain sugary confection being burnt, which equalled about the same thing.

A feeling of dread coiled in his stomach, he quickly but thoroughly searched the school from top to bottom, following his nose and the increasing sense of impending doom.

It lead him outside, to where a small group of people were crouched down around something, high-pitched noises and laughter coming from them.

"Aoko!" Sheer terror made him put on his sternest face. "I thought you SWORE you weren't going to do that any more after you made corrosive acid out of house hold materials!!"

3 pairs of gleaming maniacal eyes looked up at him and he sweatdropped, taking a step back.

Hakuba, Akako and Aoko.

Nearly covered with white globs with un-naturally patches of sparkling pink, yellow, purple and blue in them. Especially around their faces.

"I said I wouldn't do it anymore in the microwave!" Aoko protested, hugging a cellophane wrapped box to her chest.

"Yup!" Hakuba giggled and nearly fell over as he waved a mass of molten blue goo in a paper towel at the longhaired sorceress. "She -hee! She's got fire spells!"

Kaito winced. Hakuba giggling was not a sound that he had ever expected to hear. Ever. Nor did he wish to again.

"Ooo... Fire pretty...." Akako cooed in a sing-song voice as she stared at the ball of fire that was cupped in one hand as she held a small neon pink bird over the flames with a pair of chopsticks.

They all watched with morbid fascination as the bird twitched, its brown chocolaty eyes bulging out as it's head started to expand, then get absorbed by the wiggling growing mass of its body. Akako removed it from the flames, grinning manically as she waited a moment for it to cool; them popped it in her mouth and chewed with obvious relish, ignoring the sticky residue on the chopsticks and her fingers. "Hee-hee!" She warbled. "Bai bai birdie..."

"Okay, that's it..." Kaito marched in, grabbed the box that Aoko was hoarding and held it above his head. "No more roasting Marshmallow Peeps for you!"

"Awwww..."

-fin-

For those of you un-familiar with Marshmallow Peeps, they're marshmallow shaped bunnies and chicks covered with brightly coloured sugar, usually sold around Easter time. Near instant sugar high.

If you're insane (hello!) one of the fun things to do with them (besides dress them up and have them re-enact the Lord of the Rings books, see LordofthePeeps dot com) is stick them in a microwave and watch them balloon up then melt into little writhing puddles of peep-goo. They're pretty tasty afterwards, kind of crunchy from the hardened sugar.

Of course if you don't mind cleaning up the mess afterwards, if you leave them in the microwave for too long, they go BOOM!

...muwahahahahahahahahaha...