its been so long since ive updated this!! whoaaa! but that was b/c my internet wasnt working and i couldnt update so now i did!! eloisha, i dunno if u'll like this chapter or not cuz its kind of really really random. but w/e.

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"GUYS, GUYS, WAKE UP!!" Dude shouted early the next morning. She hopped about to all the cots, whamming their residents with her pillow. "IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE DAY!! WAKE UP!"

"Wha?" Eloisha asked, sitting up and rubbing her eyes. "Did you say it was Independence Day?"

"No," Starfish answered. "IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE DAY!!"

"Oh, darn," St. No-No whined. "Another Hannukah came, and I didn't even know! So who freakin' cares about Christmas Eve?"

"Anyone who's not Jewish," Ukulele Peanut answered. "So stop being a silly neener-head."

Dude and Starfish stopped their dancing about to stare at Ukulele Peanut in confusion. "A what?"

"Silly neener-head," Ukulele Peanut repeated. "When I was little, I read a Garfield cartoon where he called Jon a....oh, never mind."

"Hey, do you guys here disco music?" Hammer asked. "It sounds as if it's coming from the boys' side of the tent...."

"HEY, CAN WE COME IN THERE?" Dude shouted, addressing their male counterparts.

"Yeah, we're all un-scandalous," Squid answered from the other side.

The D-tent girls entered the boy's side, and then Dude stifled a laugh. "Oh yeah, I forgot your foot is still broken." She did her little victory dance, and said, "That reminds me: did you guys know what I did last night?"

"No, what?" asked Magnet.

"I re-arranged all the letters in the alphabet!" Dude exclaimed prouldy. "Wanna hear? Okay! X, Z, Q, L, G, R, Y--"

"That's great and all," said Zig Zag. "But I really couldn't care less right now. We're trying to figure out where that funky disco music is coming from."

"Oh, we thought it was coming from in here," Starfish said.

"Do you see any radios or CD players around?" asked Armpit.

"No, but I do see a yellow-spotted lizard about to bite your foot," Eloisha said, pointing to the reptile.

There was a pause. Then the D-tent dudes and dudettes screamed and leapt into the air in unison. With X-Ray leading the way, they flew out of the tent until they were as far away as possible from the tent.

"I think....we eluded....it for now," St. No-No said in-between breaths.

"What's 'eluded' mean?" Zero asked.

"No time to worry about that now," Ukulele Peanut said. "I think that disco music is coming from the Warden's cabin." She walked towards the building. "Yeah, it's getting louder as I walk closer!"

"How odd!" Magnet said in a Minnie Mouse-ish voice. Everyone decided to ignore him until he said, "C'mon, let's check it out." He began to walk towards the house, until Dude pulled him back and said:

"Why walk when we can skip?"

They all linked arms, and Hammer sang the opening note: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh--"

"WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ! WE HEAR HE IS A WIZ OF A WIZ, IF EVER A WIZ THERE WAS! IF EVER IF EVER A WIZ THERE WAS, THE WIZARD OF OZ IS ONE BECAUSE, BECAUSE BECAUSE BECAUSE BECAUSE BECAAAAAAAAAAAAAUSE!!! BECAUSE OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS HE DOES!!"

"Hey, wait for me!" Squid complained, attempting to catch up with his crutches. "No fair, these $%&(*@&#@ are slowing me down!"

"More profanity!" Ukulele Peanut declared, interrupting the D-tent unison of the song. "How rude!"

"Monkey," muttered Armpit.

"How DARE you call Squid a monkey!" St. No-No yelled, from the opposite side of the chorus line. She un-linked arms with Ukulele Peanut and walked towards X-Ray. "You take that back!"

"No way!" X-Ray said, un-linking arms with Armpit and Hammer. "And you know another thing?! Audrey Hepburn is a BAD ACTRESS!"

St. No-No gasped loudly, and then there was a silence. She turned a brick-reddish color. "YOU WANNA TAKE THIS OUTSIDE?!"

"YEAH!!"

"Um....guys?" Eloisha said. "We're....we're already outside."

".................oh yeah, I forgot. Which reminds me--we were on our way to the Warden's cabin," St. No-No said, laughing. "Heh heh....heh."

Once they reached the cabin, Ukulele Peanut knocked on the door. "Hello?"

"I don't think they can hear you!" Starfish said, covering her noise from the sound of the loud music.

"HELLO??!" Ukulele Peanut persisted, knocking harder on the door. "Ow, my knuckles are in pain!"

"Well then use your head!" Armpit said.

"Okay," Ukulele Peanut said, tapping her noggin lightly. "Wait....do you mean to 'use my head' as in the Toy Story 2 definition of the expression?"

"Sure, why not?" Zig Zag asked, shrugging.

"BUT I DON'T WANT TO USE MY HEAAAAD!" Ukulele Peanut cried, as D-Tent backed up several yards, holding Peanut out in front of them like a sword. "AAAAAAAAAAAH!!"

"YAAAAAAH!" came the cavalry charge of D-Tent as they ran towards the Warden's cabin.

With the combined efforts of the group (but mostly Ukulele Peanut), they managed to break down the door to the Warden's cabin.

"Yo, what up with breakin' my door?!" the warden asked over the music.

"WHAT?" asked Eloisha.

"WHAT?" asked the Warden.

"NEVER MIND!" they said at the same time.

Suddenly, the music stopped. "HEY!! WHO CUT MY FUNKY DISCO 70'S MUSIC?!" the Warden demanded.

"I did," Mr. Sir said, who had also been in the cabin. "I thought you all might want to be able to have an understandable conversation."

"Well what's up with thaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaat?" asked Squid, who had finally reached the cabin.

"What's up with whaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaat?" asked X-Ray.

"The music stoppin'!"

"We had to talk," the Warden explained. "But anyways, Mr. Sir and I were having a party to celebrate Independence Day!"

"Independence day?!" repeated Starfish and Dude. "It's Christmas Eve!"

"Don't be ridiculous," said Mr. Sir. "I think we would know better than you about what day it is!"

"But....but...." sputtered Dude. "I've kept a calendar! And it clearly states that today is Christmas Eve!"

"See!" Eloisha said. "I TOLD you it was Independence day! You and your stupid Christmas Eve!"

"So I didn't miss Hannukah after all!" St. No-No said happily.

"Yeah, me neither," Magnet said. "Yay!"

"Since you all are here, I guess you can join our party," the Warden said. "You know what they say--the more the merrier!"

"Couldn't agree with you more!" Ukulele Peanut said.

"Hey, can I draw a caricature of you, Mr. Sir?" Eloisha asked. "You can be in it, too, uh....Warden."

"That'd be hunky-dory!" Mr. Sir said, taking a seat on the couch with the Warden. "Is this my good side? I know they're both good."

"Yeah, sit just like that," Eloish said, taking out a notebook and pencil that she just happened to have on her person. "Wow, Mr. Sir--I never noticed what a pointy nose you have! How extraordinary!"

"Is that an insult?"

"No."

"Hey, Ukulele Peanut, turn the music back on, wouldja?" the warden said. "And Magnet, get those chips and sodas out of the closet."

"Can do, ma'am!" the two of them said, both setting to their seperate tasks.

"WOW, I LOVE THIS SONG!!" Dude shouted, once Peanut turned the ear- splitting music back on. "STAYIN' ALIVE!! STAYIN' ALIVE!! WOOOOOO!!!"

Mr. Pendanski marched over to D-Tent. "Rise and shine, boys! Today we're going to continue digging our--hey, where'd everybody go?" Confused, the counselor walked over to the girls's side of the tend. "You girls here?" Raising an eyebrow, he went back into the boy's side of the tent and then came to an immediate halt.

A yellow-spotted lizard was seated on Armpit's pillow. "Hello, Mr. Pendanski," it hissed in a very reptilious fashion.

".....YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! A LIZARD IS TALKING TO ME!!!" Mr. Pendanski screamed, throwing his arms up in the air. "SOMEBODY CALL A PSYCHIATRIST!!"

"You don't need a psychiatris, Pendanski," the lizard sighed, sounding very much like Williem DaFoe. "I'm just a dead guy talkin' through a lizard here. No need to be scared at all."

"YOU'RE A DEAD GUY TALKING TO ME THROUGH A LIZARD!!" the hysterical counselor yelled. "HOW CAN I NOT BE SCARED!?"

"Because I'm gonna tell you where D-Tent is!" the lizard said.

"Oh, okay." Mr. Pendanski waited patiently for the lizard to continue.

"They're in the Warden's cabin partying," the lizard went on. "It's a holiday, you know, so the warden decided to have a little party."

"Really? I've gotta go!" Mr. Pendanski hurried towards the end of the tent, then said, "But would you mind getting out of the tent? You might scare the boys when they all get back."

"Oh, they've already seen me," the lizard called to the counselor as he left the tent. "But I'll leave anyway."

"Elvis, pelvis!" Ukulele Peanut said, back at the Warden's cabin, doing a very typical disco move.

"Elvis pelvis?" asked Squid. "Where'd you get that?"

"My old gym teacher," Ukulele Peanut answered. "When she was teaching us about the different bones in the body, that's how we'd remember the name of the pelvis. By rhyming it with Elvis!"

"But Elvis wasn't in his prime in the disco generation!" X-Ray said. "He was a freak at the point!"

"Yeah, but Elvis was always wiggling his pelvis," St. No-No said. "But that doesn't exactly explain the disco move your teacher taught you to go with it."

"Hey, don't ask me," Peanut said. "I'm only a student!"

There was a knock on the cabin door. "Hey, I think someone's knocking," Magnet observed. "Or maybe it's just my imagination. It must be."

"There, I'm done," Eloisha said, beaming and showing her picture to Mr. Sir and the Warden.

"Oh....I'm....anime," Mr. Sir said blankly, blinking.

"Oh, it's to die for, Eloisha!" the Warden exclaimed, taking the picture and sliding it into a frame. "This will go on my wall of fame! Good work Eloisha!"

"It's not that good," Eloisha said oh so modestly.

"Stop fishing for compliments!" St. No-No said, whacking Eloisha on the head with a book of Shakespeare.

"Ow, what was that for?!" Eloisha asked, standing up and proceeding to chase St. No-No about the room.

"Hey, someone IS knocking on the door," the Warden said. She opened it. "Mr. Pendanski? What're YOU doing here?"

"I heard there was a party, so I came to join it!" he answered.

"Sorry, no dorks allowed," Dude said.

"Yeah," the Warden said. "Goodbye."

"But wait!" Mr. Pendanski pleaded. "I was sent here by a lizard who sounded like Williem DaFoe! It is my FATE to be at this party!"

The Warden stared at him. She slowly began to close the door, saying, "You are a sad, strange little man."

"Eloisha, I think you've gotten your revenge now," Hammer said, trying to pry her off of St. No-No.

"Yeah, I guess so," Eloisha said, standing up and dusting herself off. "Sorry for crushing you into the floor like that."

"No problem," sighed St. No-No, pushing her glasses back on her nose. "No harm was done. I just hope I didn't hurt you."

"Nope," Eloisha answered. "And my glasses--which are WAY cooler than yours--are fine too."

"Hey, my glasses are cooler than yours!" St. No-No said. She flew at Eloisha, attempting to strangle her.

"I'll settle this," Ukulele Peanut said, stepping in-between the two of them. "I have the coolest glasses."

"No, I do!" X-Ray argued.

Screaming with rage, Eloisha and St. No-No pulled them two of them into their dust cloud of fighting on the floor.

"Whoo, glad I don't wear glasses," Zig Zag laughed.

"Yeah, me too," Magnet laughed.

The party lasted late into the night, and it was a much needed break from digging for our little D-Tent friends. And as for the lizard who sounded like Williem DaFoe.... well, maybe Mr. Pendanski was imagining things.

After all, he HAD just watched Finding Nemo.

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a/n: hope that was ok ppl! eloisha, u r much 2 hard 2 plz. grrr.

btw, nora--our english essays r due 2morrow. just 2 let u know, since u werent in school today. HA HA HA HA!!!