Back at the castle of Dragons, Gearfried was standing on one of the statues of the Promenade, he held his shield close to him, but held his blade out to his side.

Just then, he bounced off his statue as a taloned hand smashed the head off.

Megumi was circling him at high altitude, watching him much like a vulture was awaiting for its prey to collapse.

"You going to give up yet?" She asked.

"You wish." He said, his blade cocking back.

"You're funeral, Antimony Slash!!!" She called out as she dove in.

Gear took off in the opposite direction, heading straight for a wall.

"You're heading for a dead end." She called out.

"All a matter of opinion!" He shouted as he threw his body straight for the wall. He braced with his feet, and the sudden recoil sprang him backwards at high speed!

"Metal Forearm Thrust!!!" He shouted as he swung his blade with breakneck speed straight at her.

Megumi reformed into energy, but emerging from the light was a large scimitar! Kuro had altered her form to the Amazoness Swordswoman.

The two blades slammed into each other with incredible force, but her sword was refracting the force twice as hard as he was and the shock wave sent him backwards with the speed of a bullet.

"NOT DONE YET!!!" He called out, as his Kunai with Chain fired, and grabbed around the waist and pulled her along for the ride!

Gearfried slammed hard against the stone wall and Kuro crashed face first, but the two fell to the ground at the same speed.

"You…give…up?" Aaron groaned getting back on his feet.

"You wish." She spat, picking up her blade and the two readied for battle.

"BOOOOO!!!!" Jordan screamed standing right behind Gear.

"AAAHHH!!!" Gearfried yelled.

"Still nothing?" Jordan asked.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" Gear turned around and shouted in his face.

Oddly, this didn't affect him in the least, "Aaron we've gone through this 8 times already. And you still can't change into Truesdale again?"

"Of course not! I said what happened shocked me and the next I was changing but that's all I know. So stop doing that!" Gearfried shouted, glowing brightly then dispersed in to energy, leaving a very angry Aaron.

"But you've been the only one to change into a higher level creature, you even surpassed Deno and his Grarl form. Heck even I haven't reached beyond 4 myself." The Swordswoman said, as she changed back into Kuro.

"I don't know, I'm still at a loss that I actually asked a girl out to the dance, let alone Ashley."

"Speaking of which, how's that going?" Kuro asked.

"Not good, I can't dance, and I have to pick out a suit." Aaron sulked.

Just then, He felt a hand grip his shoulder and pulled, he spun around and Jordan held him close, "Say no more, your worries will soon be gone!"

"Eeep." Aaron squeaked, as he was dragged away.

"This is not going to be easy for him." Kuro said, as she watched as Aaron vanished down the halls of the castle.

The next thing he knew, He was standing on a pedestal, his arms were spread out, and a tailor was measuring him. "Now how did I get here?"

"Come on Aaron, you're dance is in 7 hours and you're diddling around. You have to look good for your woman." Jordan said, reading an issue of Shogen Jump.

This coming from Mr. Hoodie. Aaron muttered, quickly getting irritated that he was being measured for his coffin over a suit.

The next thing he knew he was hand and hand with Sarah, dancing on a polished marble floor, "Am I dead?" Aaron wondered.

"You step on my feet and I grantee it." She said, leading him as best she could to avoid Aaron's 13 inch feet.

"Sorry," he whispered. Learning as fast as he could before he was whisked away to who knew where.

The next the boy knew, he was strapped to a chair, "Ok, this is getting too weird, even for me."

Just then, a bright light was shining in his face, "Aaron, you're going to have to clean up your act, no facial hair on the first date." Jordan said, behind the blinding light.

"No, you wouldn't!!!" Aaron called out.

"Attack!!!" Jordan called out, the next thing that Aaron heard, was the buzzing of razors.

"NNOOOO!!!!"

5 hours later.

Aaron was rubbing his sore face, every stray hair was sliced clean off, and his face ached and burned.

"I think I was better off a loner with a day job, this is torture." He moaned.

"Oh stop your bellyaching. You're almost done." Jordan said.

Aaron's veins would have been popping out of his forehead, but then he remembered the torture of the make up and manicure, definitely not wanting to repeat it, he kept his cool.

Just then, Kuro came in to the room, and had something in her hand.

"Here, the last touch."She said, handing Aaron a carnation, "Now get out there and make me proud."

"What? I did all the work!" Jordan shouted.

"But he's my responsibility, besides your taste in ties needs work, she said, pointing at Aaron's tie, several fishes were swimming across it.

"So what about it?" Jordan asked, frustrated that his taste was being questioned.

Kuro rolled her eyes and pulled Aaron's tie off, and took one from the rack and put it on him, "There you go, have a good night."

Aaron looked at the bright red flower, and clasped it to his suit's shoulder, "Thanks, time to go!" He said, as he bolted down the hall, heading for the terminal.

"So that just leaves you." Jordan said.

"Say what?"

The Zephyr Express began to take off as Aaron stepped onto the platforms, and he took off as fast as he could to jump on.

Landing with a thud, he turned to see the castle vanishing into the distance, "Thanks for everything guys. Let's see how tonight goes." Aaron said, as his body began to change into light, and fade away.

Aaron vanished from the world, only to appear at the Thompson Train tracks.

He took the next 30 minutes getting up to the gym, the traffic was horrible, cars and people were honking at each other as they tried to climb to the top.

As he made it to the top, he was admiring the large crowd had formed as they entered the building. The entire place was alive.

I don't belong here, but I want too, I guess spending so time with Ashley has changed me in more ways than I thought. Aaron thought to himself, as he ran down towards the crowd.

"Hey there, where's the rush?" A kind voice called out to him.

Aaron grinned, and turned to see Ashley, stunning as always, but even more dazzling than ever. She was wearing a lovely blue gown, and a bright red rose in her hair, which was flowing down her shoulders. Her eyes sparkled in the moonlight, and she was smiling like she was as happy as could be.

"I guess I found who I was looking for, and she is as beautiful as I could imagine."

"Why thank you. But you certainly did a lot for yourself; I thought you were never going to shave." She giggled.

"You don't know the half of it." He chuckled, "So shall we go?"

"Why not?" She said, taking his arm in hers, and the two headed in.

However, "Oh, don't they look sweet?" Jordan said happily.

"Aaron's going to have the time of his life tonight. Just no Chicken Dance got it?" Jacob asked.

"Are you sure we should be doing this?" Josh asked.

"Aaron needs something to get his mind off his transformation. And besides, it will be fun." Sarah grinned.

"If you say so." He said.

"So are we going to wait here for the night to end or what?" Paul asked.

"First we got to get Kuro to come in with us." Amy said.

"Forget it!"

They all sighed, all the guys dressed up in suits, the only real difference was their ties. Sarah and Amy had put on dresses, Kuro was also, but also was clad in irons and shackled. "I don't know how you got this on me, but there's no way in hell I'm going there!!!"

"Come on, you look great, just imagine how you'll look at our wedding." Jordan said.

Kuro quieted down and started to imagine. Her, wearing a stunning white wedding gown, her blonde hair tied behind her, wearing polished white heels, holding a bouquet of flowers, her face covered with a veil, and standing next to her, is Jordan in a Tuxedo, with his eyebrows bouncing on his forehead.

The image in her head cracked like a broken window and she lunged at Jordan and started strangling him. "Take it back!!!"

Jacob took a card out and took off his tie and all of a sudden, the card began to glow, and then fused into the tie.

He began shaking it in front of Kuro as she continued to shake the life out of Jordan. As it began to swing back and forth, she began to drift off into dream land, until she went under and passed out, with her death grip still on Jordan's jugular.

The card unfused with his tie, and appeared in his hand. Mesmeric Control.

"Works every time." He said.

"A…a…lit…tle…help!" Jordan gasped.

Josh and Paul pried her death grip off, picked her up and carried her towards the gym, Sarah, Amy and Jacob following suit, leaving Jordan lying and trying to breathe.

Meanwhile inside, Aaron and Ashley had sat down at a table, and were listening to the band, they were interesting to hear, despite the singers sounding like strung cats.

"It's nice to see you here, after all the times I went with Dave, I never saw you here once." She said.

"I never felt like I belonged here, reasons included Dave, but I just kept to myself. It was peaceful, but lonely." He said, a tad sad.

"But you're here now. And that's all that matters." She said, shaking him a little.

"Yeah Aaron enjoy yourself." A voice said, over his shoulder.

Aaron looked to see Paul's bright grin, with Amy at his side.

"Paul, Amy, what are you doing here?" Aaron asked.

"Come on Aaron, you can be the only one here trying to have a nice night to remember." Amy said.

"It's a dance, but that doesn't mean we can't show up after all." Said a voice said, sitting at the corner. It was Josh, smiling, with bite of cake on a fork.

"And don't think those Dance lessons were for nothing." Sarah said, sitting down next to Ashley.

"Aaron you learned how to dance?" Ashley asked excitedly.

"Well sort of." Aaron tried to explain.

Amy and Paul both sat down too, "Come on, you were twinkle toes out there."

It was do or die out there! Aaron thought to himself.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Aaron and Ashley saw a table next to them jumping up and down, with a sign on top saying "Haunted."

"Alright, Who'd you put under there?" Aaron asked.

"Well Kuro was supposed to be Jordan's Date, but that's as far as it went, the planning stage." Josh said.

"You do realize she will kill some one when she gets out of there."

"Yeah, but her targets are going to be Jordan and Jacob. So it'd be fine." Sarah said, rather condescending.

"Aaron, is she your ex?" Ashley asked.

"NOO!!!" Both Sarah and Aaron called out in response.

Josh and Paul started to chuckle, but Amy asked, "Hey where's Jacob?"

"Follow the women." Sarah replied.

Aaron and Ashley looked at her, then at each other, "Follow the what?"

Josh pointed with his fork, "Over there."

The couple looked to see a large group of women hanging over Jacob, "Oh look at him, he's just so cute!" They were squeaking.

Ashley looked at him with a confused look, Aaron couldn't believe his luck.

"Ha Ha Ha! It's good to be me!" Jacob crackled.

Ashley, Sarah and Amy sweatdropped, while Aaron, Paul and Josh frowned, "I think his head will explode at this rate if he keeps getting so full of himself." Josh said.

"No kidding." Jordan said, hovering over his head, "He's getting my girls."

"Where'd you come from?" They all asked.

Just then, the 'Haunted' table flew up into the air, and a very angry Kuro was panting stood with broken shackles in her hand.

"Oh my." Ashley gasped, "Aaron is she a friend of yours?"

But when she turned her head, he was gone! Then they realized Josh, Jordan and Paul had vanished as well.

Kuro scanned the room, and saw Jacob in his bliss. "Your gonna pay!"

She grabbed a hold of her dress and tore it off! But underneath was a very impressive display, a black and purple top, with a black leather skirt, boots jet black and lased up to her shins. Her hair was now braided behind her, and she had a bull whip in her hands.

Amy and Ashley both were a gasped, but Sarah, "Yeah! You go girl!"

Kuro took off into the crowd, charging straight for Jacob at cheetah speed, once their, the torment began, so horrifying it could not be described.

"But where did the guys go?" Amy wondered.

Just then she felt a tug on her dress.

The girls looked under the table, and they saw that Aaron, Paul, and Josh were praying under the table, their eyes shut and apparently praying that Kuro wouldn't see them.

"OK, this is new." Sarah said.

"They look cute." Ashley cooed, at the humiliating stance they were in.

"That just leaves Jordan, and he's not one to stray away from the party." Amy said.

Just then, the music went dead, Josh and the guys climbed out from their hiding place to see Jordan arguing with the band.

"What's that fool doing now?" Paul wondered.

"Let's ask." Aaron said, as they got on stage and went over to him.

"I'm sorry sir, but we just don't do that song." The lead argued.

"And I say you have to, otherwise it will be a whole travesty!" Jordan shot back.

"Does he even understand the words that are coming out of his mouth?" Josh asked. Aaron and Paul simply shook their heads.

"Oh hey guys, I was just asking these gentlemen to play a song for your dates."

"And that would be?" Paul wondered.

All of a sudden a loud beat came out of nowhere and Jordan started ranting "Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money!"

"No!" The 3 said in response.

"Ok, how bout this." Just then, an upbeat tone and the sound of guitar in the background came out of nowhere and Jordan started to hum, "This I Promise you."

"Well, it's a better choice than the last." Aaron admitted, noting the side effects of the past song on Kuro and Sarah.

"Or how bout the Chicken Dance!!!" He said, as a Country beat came out of the wood work and he began to dance in a very strange fashion.

Suddenly a trio of fists came at him and landed him in the face, knocking him out and sent him spirally down the stage.

"Well, he had the right idea, but something less Jordan would be nice." Josh said.

"Yeah but what?" Paul asked.

Aaron was a tad confused as well, just then he noticed a Piano, "I got an idea, I hope you two can carry a tune."

The two looked at each other and shrugged their heads, "I guess so, what do you have in mind?" Josh asked.

Aaron had already walked over to the band, and they nodded their heads.

He whispered it to the guys, and they agreed, and headed over to the piano, and pulled it across the stage.

Aaron hopped into the seat and put a Mike near his face, "Ladies and Gentlemen, we wish to dedicate this song to our dates, and for the poor fool who wouldn't know a good song if it bit him in the rear. Enjoy."

He began to play the piano, very slowly at first but then began to move up in down it faster, but then slowed down again, "Its undeniable...that we should be together...Its unbelievable how I used to say that i'd fall never…The basis is need to know, if you don't know just how I feel,…Then let me show you now that I'm for real...If all things in time, time will reveal...Yeah..."

Then Josh and Paul came in, "One...you're like a dream come true...

Two... jus wanna be with you...Three... girl its plain to see...that your the only one for me...Four...repeat steps one through three...Five... make you fall in love with me...If ever I believe my work is done....then I start Back at One."

"Yeah." A voice came over the mike, and it was Jordan.

Jordan jumped on the stage, and began to sing to, "So Incredible...the way things work themselves out...And all emotional, once you know that its all about babe...And undesirable...for us to be apart...Never would of made it very far...Cause you know that you got the keys to my heart, Cause..."

Paul and Josh came in Aaron focused on playing the piano, the band was following suit, "One...you're like a dream come true… Two... jus wanna be with you… Three... girl it's plain to see…that you're the only one for me… Four...repeat steps one through three… Five... make you fall in love with me… If ever I believe my work is done....then I start back at one......"

Just then Jacob, appeared from behind the stage and grabbed a mike, "Say farewell to the dark night...I see the coming of the sun...I feel like a little child…whose life has jus begun...You came and breathed new life

Into this lonely heart of mine...You threw out the life line...just in the Nick of Tiimmmeeee....."

Aaron was wondering how Jacob was getting those high notes, till he realized his under wear was wrapped over his nose while sticking out from the seat of his pants, OUCH!

Just then Kuro snuck up behind the two and dragged them off stage, "One…" Aaron and Josh said,

Paul, "You're like a dream come true…"

"Two…"

"Just wanna be with you…"

"Three…"

"Girl it's plain to see…"

All three came in, "That you're the only one for me…"

Aaron and Paul…"Four…"

Josh, "Repeat steps one through three…"

"Five…"

"Make you fall in love with me… If I ever I believe my work is done…"

All three of them came in "Then I'll start back at one."

The crowd applauded with the roar of a thunderstorm, the guys looked over to their table, Amy and Ashley were smiling clapping, Sarah was grinning and clapping.

"What's with that grin of hers?" Paul asked.

"Uh oh, take a look." Josh said, pointing at the horrific sight of Kuro attacking Jordan and Jacob mercilessly.

"Note to self, don't get on her bad side." Aaron said, in total shock.

"Yep." Paul and Josh said, as the 3 of them hopped off the stage.

Just then, something burst out from under the hard wood flooring of the gym!

"NOT HERE!!!" Aaron called out, as he recognized the creature immediately, a Serpentine Princess! However, this one had a large scar across its face.

What the, it can't be, I wiped that thing out with my Iron Rock Crusher, that can't be the same one I faced on the day I met Jacob.

Just then the serpent let loose a horrible screech, and creatures began to appear as they did last time, however, the creatures this time around were a lot more menacing.

Many were Gagagigos and Cobramen, while others were Cobra Jars and Don Turtles.

"This is not looking good!" Josh said, as the monsters surrounded the exits, and the Serpentine Princess hovered over them.

To be continued…