Melody crashed onto the marble floor with an earsplitting crackle. The purple portal loomed overhead and flashed as Melody groaned and rubbed her skull beneath her short, cyan blue hair and black beanie. She took off her beanie and growled under her breath as she dabbed trickles of hot blood streamed down her neck like a waterfall. She questioned angrily, "Where are the others? They should be here by now. What a bunch of slowpokes they are." Her brain gave quick, angry, and abnormal spasms. Good thoughts flitted away, as pessimistic ones surmised.

The portal spun and flashed even more before coughing up Tai, Fern, Eve and Cyndi. Ani then came and slid two meters before skidding to a stop as feathers flew everywhere, tickling their noses. She was obviously not in her crayon costume anymore if white feathers covered the floor and buried Ani in them. The portal's light throbbed once more, before Talia leapt out and landed on her feet— and collapsed onto her weak, right ankle. Candi came next, rocketing out of the sky at high speed and knocking Tai off his feet as he was adjusting his glasses. Eve laughed at their collision before saying, "Are you okay? At least you caught her in your arms though, Tai."

Marie agreed, "Ya, nice catch— with your face!"

As the others laughed, including the couple, Devin, then came, holding Raine's hand [as they drifted serenely down, rather than dropping like an earthquake.

Just as their feet touched the marble flooring, a scream erupted, and when it died, it's echoes still shook the vast, elaborate room.

"What's going on?" inquired Raine frantically, "You're not hurt are…"

Talia screeched, the owner of the scream, "Hurt?! Internally, yes. And if you want to know why, it's because I'm wearing makeup!" With that, she wrung her hands in with resentment at it.

One look at what Talia was now wearing, made them gasp; it was clear to them that their outfits had changed elaborately. Talia's warrior gear was gone, and had been replaced by a poofy, black gown that was studded with black opals at the edges of each layer of ruffles. A headband, resembling a tall arch, wrapped around Talia's newly-braided hair. Fern smiled, saying that she looked nice, but Talia responded with a shriek, before panting for air and muttering, "Um, thank you?"

Marie, meanwhile was pounding the floor with both fists, bubbling with laughter at Tali's panic. Fern, meanwhile, wore a lime-green dress that flowed behind her as she kept her ice cream cone hat. At the tip of the hat though, now had a white veil, which flowed back as she walked, making it seem like a princess hat. Her entire outfit glittered like ice from the diamonds, there was no doubt that this outfit also represented her character, which was simply sweet and wondrous.

Marie, on the other hand, was now wiping tears of laughter away. She wasn't wearing anything that was considered formal. Her's was rather wild. She held a country gal's look. Her two ponytails had been whisked away and were let loose in curls. She was permitted to keep her black t-shirt and plaid jacket, but instead of her jeans, she was now in a maroon, riding skirt.

Unanticipatedly, an unfamiliar voice warned almost kindly and joyously, "Look out from above!" Cyndi threw herself on the ground before a crash occurred, but luckily, no one was hurt. What they found though, awed them.

Eve gasped, "Oh wow."

None of them could believe their eyes, but it was clearly genuine when it stamped its hooves on the clean floor. In a magnificent position in front of them now, stood a pegasus with red, orange, and yellow wings that were tipped with black like fire and ashes. It's mane rippled like a wildfire, as he swished his tail pompously. It's rider, a girl with a yellow skirt and a white, buttoned-up, long-sleeved shirt, greeted them. "Sorry about that," she smiled kindly and adjusted the sunflowers in her blonde hair. Her green eyes sparkled like summer's leaves as she jumped off of the pegasus' back. She patted the pegasus and decided to introduce him, "This is Blaze. He hasn't stretched is wings for a while, so he got a bit reckless today."

The pegasus barked and flapped his wings indignantly, "Ya, and that wouldn'tve happened if you hadn't locked me in your room!"

"I didn't lock it, you just can't open the door without your paws apparently."

Cyndi suddenly stopped her as she smoothed out her ornate, black dress and adjusted her headdress that looked like a necklace, but was put on her head. The ruby dangled a bit, before slowing to a stop. Cyndi asked, "Um, and did your pegasus just bark, and did you say something about paws instead of hooves?"

The bright girl answered Cyndi, "Oh, yes. You see, Blaze is really a hippo in real life."

Candi gasped excitedly, as she shook her sweet pink gown so ecstatically that it bumped into Ani's feathery, flowing dress, "A hippo?"

Blaze snapped, "A hippo?!"

"Naw, I'm just joking," laughed the bright girl, "He's really a puppy in reality who works for… er… never you mind. Anyway…"

Seeing that she wanted to change the subject desperately, Fern questioned, "So what's your name? I'm Fern, and there's too many names here to get correctly, so I'll let them introduce themselves."

"Oh, I'm Magnificence Destiny Grace Joy!" she responded, and burst into laughter seeing their stunned faces, "But you can call me, 'Joy'."

Marie approached with a mischievous smile and said, "Well, there's a new jokester in town. I think we'll get along just swell."

"Ya, swell," whimpered Joy, "Because you just stepped on Blaze's hoof."

"It doesn't hurt now, does…" Before Marie could finish, she got kicked across the room by the pegasus and landed against a marble wall with a thud. Marie sighed before collapsing on the floor, "Dang, I think that I hate horses now."

Blaze stamped, "I'm a magical pony, not a…"

Joy stroked Blaze's mane and said, "Now, now, be a good boy and I'll give you a treat."

Blaze mumbled, "Not after I turned your room into a shredded newspaper from lack of exercise."

Joy questioned, "What was that?"

"Er… nothing!" giggled the pegasus nervously.

Raine surveyed everyone else's fancy clothing as Joy pestered the pegasus suspiciously.

Eve's dress was ocean-blue and cyan blue. A thick, gold headband wrapped around her hair like the moon as gold speckles decorated her dress like stars in the sky. She had long sleeves on her dress, but it left her shoulders uncovered. She looked as though she might be a fortune teller.

Melody's hair was still cut short and roughly, but her rock star's outfit had become a blue dress that touched the floor and flowed behind her. Her black beanie in hand, suddenly became a tiara with a glittering, blue sapphire for the centerstone.

Raine decided to compliment her, "You look fantastic, Melody!"

To her surprise, Melody returned with a scowl. Melody thought, "Hmph, you think that my rockstar outfit must be garbage compared to this gown, don't you? You think that I look amazingly bad against you."

Raine, really, was perplexed and a little bit hurt with Melody's unfriendly reaction, "Why is Melody frowning at me? It is a good intention. Well, alright then if you're not going to be nice." Raine looked to Devin for comfort, what she found instead, shocked her. He was in a tuxedo that was identical to Tai's, and he was blushing at the sight of her! Raine gasped and looked down upon herself, "Oh!" She was in a magnificent, purple gown with layers of lace, swept the floor gracefully. No jewels serenaded the fabric, and she didn't receive any rings, nor necklaces, but on her head, sat a tiara encrusted with diamonds and a large blue sapphire in the center that brought out her blue eyes. No makeup was needed on Raine apparently as she beamed at her wondrous outfit. Her hair was mostly loose now and curled as a ponytail still bound the top half. The elastic that bound her hair also had a jeweled flower stuck to it. She whispered, "This is… nice."

"You look wondrous," Devin imposed, making Raine blush furiously.

Suddenly, an angry shout erupted from an unfamiliar voice, "Why are you all late to class?!"

Joy fell off of Blaze's back at that outcry and stammered, "I-I-I… I am so sorry… sir."

It was clearly one of the enforcers here, but he wasn't dressed like a scholar, nor like a police officer. Raine shuddered at the sight of his black, wretched robes that dragged upon the clean floor, staining the nice place dreadfully. His hair was so greasy that Marie whispered to Ani that he would be their next ice bucket challenge victim.

Raine stared unbelievably at them, "Wait, so you were the ones that dumped ice on me back in that cupcake shop?"

"Yup," they nodded, and burst out laughing.

"What? But I thought that Devin did it."

"Oh no, he was just crossing by us when we did it, and you tackled the wrong person— then you punched him!"

Raine's cheeks turned red out of shame for her mistake. She blurted, "I- I'm so sorry, Devin! I…"

He smiled and gently cupped her hands in his, "No need for that."

Candi was now whispering to Marie, Eve, and Ani, "No, let's confront this professor's greasy hair with shampoo and see how fast he runs!" The girls roared with laughter until the hunchbacked professor snapped, "Back to Chemistry—NOW!"

They trudged down the hallway, following the stomping professor as Joy tagged along. Joy whimpered, "He doesn't really mean Chemistry, he means Potions."

Devin asked, "What's the difference anyway?"

Joy responded, "This place is magical. You see, we're in Royale High and…"

"ROYALE HIGH?!" shrieked Talia and Marie.