The arcade was really fun and it was nice of Loona to beat up that charlatan employee at the place trying to rip off Cody for more tickets to get that ring. Loona mauled him pretty good enough to give up scamming the group, and unsurprisingly, he got a vacation for his injuries (even though he clearly doesn't deserve a vacation.)

Pizza here was surprisingly good, although, like the ice cream parlor and Blood Burger had ghastly toppings as options like bugs, guts, and dead animals and roadkill, Cody got the normal pepperoni topping on his pizza. Although, he asked for some extra meat on it like bacon, ham, and grilled chicken on his size (given his hellhound form gave him an unusual craving for meat).

While eating, the kid was thinking if he can turn back to normal as a human form, or if this would be permanent on him. He had been a hellhound for at least three hours now, and it didn't really feel so bad on him. It was almost like... like it was starting to grow on him. "Thanks for taking care of that guy, Loona." said Cody to her, "I should have seen that coming."

"No, its ok." Loona said. "And you're welcome. No one rips off my friends and gets away with it. Someone messes with you, then they mess with me."

"You beat him up real good, girl." Vortex noted. "Especially after you gave him that awesome wedgie."

The female hellhound blushed at the praise Vortex was giving her, and she was glad to he given that recognition from her little crush. Sure, she couldn't really have him, but it was nice that he was giving her recognition like this.

"Thanks, Tex." Loona flushed a little.

"So what do you guys want to do after this?"

"We can play a game of laser tag." Crystal suggested.

"Ooh, that sounds fun." Serena said.

"Well then, Laser tag it is." Vortex said before eating a whole pizza with eight slices down his throat, leaving his lips a little messy from the tomato sauce. "That is good stuff." he let out a burp after patting his full belly.

Another five minutes of eating has passed and the group of five friends went to the lasertag arena to start their match. Cody was on Loona's team (obviously), and Crystal and Serena were paired with Vortex against the two. the point patches on the chests of Loona and Cody were green while the other team was red.

Locomotive by Guns N Roses plays

As soon as the match began, Cody was hiding in plain sight behind a red pillar Suddenly, he felt something in himself, like his senses were tingling, and he dodged a "blast" from Vortex and dashed out of the way in great speed with a jump, landing on another platform.

For Loona, she got hit a few times, but she was almost treating it like a kill contract like IMP would have (but she knows not to kill her own friends). She was firing and firing from the trigger of her blaster, then she got hit three more times.

She put the gun in her mouth and decided to run on all fours to make her faster than before. The more legs, the faster she was. Cody realized that being a hellhound now, and he realized that he can probably walk on four legs too. Besides, Hellhounds in most folklore always stand on four legs instead of two like werewolves would have done. He tried going on four legs, and he managed to pull it off without ease like a wolf or a painted dog. He used the advantage to dodge many "laser" hits on the chest to the point where he jumped over the invisible lasers. It was tunnel vision to him, and it reminded him of the matrix with how he is dodging the imaginary lasers.

Loona also did many flips and dodges in the Matrix style. If the actors and actresses of the movies were there to witness what was happening, they would be very proud of them for their skills. Of course, they probably also wouldn't take it well since they would be meeting demons. Cody dodged another laser to the left, and another laser to the right by doing side-flips. Before Vortex could react, he felt the laser pad on his chest getting zapped many, many times as Cody was dodging and dodging some more.

Vortex was caught rather off-guard by how Cody was moving like this an acrobat from a fancy Russian or French circus. It didn't even give him time to act and shoot Cody many times in retaliation because the kid was moving so fast.

"What the?" the male hellhound said, looking baffled by this turn of events. Nevertheless, he was trying to get his head back in the game, and try to shoot him back in retaliation, but, alas, it was no use.

"Game over!" said a robotic, demonic voice over the intercom. "Winner is Team Green!" Loona and Cody cheered and the female hellhound picked up Cody to hug him.

"How did you do that, Cody?" asked Serena in surprise.

"I... don't really know." Cody admitted. "I guess being a hellhound made me more... athletic?"

"No argument." said Crystal.

"Well, no hard feelings." said Vortex, hugging the kid after Loona put him down. "It was a good game."

"Well, I would call it luck." Cody admitted

"in my experience, there's no such thing as luck." Loona remarked. "Probably the new attributes of being a hellhound. That's for sure."

"Good point." Cody said. "My brother doesn't believe in luck either."

"So, i'm worn out from that laser tag fun." said Vortex. "What do you wanna do now, Cody?"

"Maybe.. get some ice cream at Wacky Wally's place." Cody suggested.

"Sure. that sounds fun." Crystal said. "Serena, do you agree?"

"I couldn't agree more." Serena smiled. "And i really love the bacon-flavored cones that they give out."

"I think i'm done with video games for one day, dude." Loona said, gently placing a hand on the kid's head.

"Oh, and Loona... I forgot to tell you something."

"What is it?"

"I got a call from one of my friends, Tyler, yesterday before i turned into a hellhound."

"What about him?" asked Vortex curiously.

"He said my teacher and friends have been worried about me. I was so sad about mom and dad and all, that I forgot about school."

"Ohhhh. Right." Loona remembered. "I forgot it was the law for kids to go there on Earth. Sorry Cody, that was my bad."

"Everyone thinks I'm dead because of the fire."

"Well, don't worry. I'll see what I can do."

"But i'm still a hellhound." said Cody. "What am I going to do?"

Thinking of a solution, Loona then said: "We go to Earth and fake your death to everyone."

"But Tyler knows I'm alive. I can't just lie to everyone."

"Oh, you're right."

"And are you still in grieving?" asked Vortex woth sympathy

Silent for a moment, Cody realized that the death of his parents happened a few days ago, and he was still not completely over it. "Yes." he admitted, "I'm still grieving."

"Why don't you just tell them you're still in mourning then?" asked Crystal

"I'm sure your teacher will understand." Serena asked.

"Will she?" asked Cody

"Well, I might be a high school dropout, but I think she will." Loona said.

So they all walked down a few blocks in the city of Wrath and they stopped at the ice cream parlor they went before. As usual, being the gregarious fellow, Wally welcomed the group in and said: "Well if it isn't... Oh! what have we here?"

He looked at Cody in his hellhound form. "Hello Wally." he said sheepishly.

"Cody? Is that you, boy?"

"Yeah. I got hellhound fever and I turned into this the day after I got it." the boy explained.

"We'll." Wally was equally surprised. "I'll be more damned than the ones in the murder ring. So this is what happens to humans who catch Hellhound fever."

"Looks like it, Wally." said Loona.

"Well, look at the bright side:" the carny demon said trying to sound more positive, "Look at ya, Cody. You look like a cute little dog. I mean, you are as adorable as a litter of spotted piggies in the middle of winter." Cody flushed again at being called cute from being turned into a hellhound pup. He was thinking that: maybe humans would probably find him adorable if they would see him as a hellhound now. Of course, if there is no prejudice or fearful attitudes towards those kind of people like muggles who hate anything out of the ordinary. Or worse, some greedy people would kidnap him and put him in a circus for show to make them possibly; millions of dollars. He didn't even want to think of the last part he thought about.

Perhaps it was best if he didn't go back to Earth just yet. "Thanks, Wally." he said, rubbing the back of his head with his right arm. "You're not the only one to say that. Many demons said that about me."

"And I, for one, don't blame them one little bit." said Wacky Wally. "I mean, look at you. The ladies would sure as hell love to cuddle and snuggle with ya like their own puppy. Even Verosika Mayday would do that for ya."

"Don't even say that, dipshit." said Loona. "Cody has been through some... complications with her."

"You means she had her way with him?"

"No! No, no no. Not like that." Loona said. "No, she has standards. I mean, that's what she said."

Wally looked rather baffled to hear that, and stared into the ice cream containers. "Now that surprises me. I thought she would let anyone insert their dingus inside of her-"

"Stop it!" Loona shouted, gently covering Cody's ears. "Not in front of the kid!"

"Ohhhh. right. Sorry." the carny imp looked embarrassed. Nevertheless, he placed his arms on the glass of the freezer below him. "So anywho, what can I get ya crazy kids?"

Cody looked at the menu again and got himself a cupcake cone with two scoops of soft-serve ice cream, vanilla flavor of course. Loona and the other hellhounds got themselves multicolored ice cream cones with bacon bits and steak bits on them. "thanks Wally." said Cody.

"Any time, kiddo. Any time." They all sat in a booth together and they enjoyed their desserts together as friends. Cody was sitting in-between Loona and vortex while Crystal and Serena were on the other side of them.

"So, should I worry about my teacher? You know, missing school and all?"

"No, we'll see what we can do." said Loona. "I promise."

"Besides, is she a nice teacher?" asked Vortex after taking a bite of a piece of steak.

"Oh yeah. She's really nice." Cody said. "I'm one of her favorite students."

"That's wouldn't surprise me." said Loona with a smirk. As they were still enjoying their ice cream, an unexpected face popped through the door with her little posse. Cody's heart sank at seeing Verosika Mayday coming into the parlor to possibly get ice cream for herself. "Oh no." Loona said, looking over. "Here comes pop trouble."

"I gotta hide!" Cody said. "You guys need to hide me." Without thinking, he hid under the table next to the wall so Verosika wouldn't have to see him, or her little friends.

"Oh, here's she comes." Vortex said. "Just act casual." Then they pretend to not notice her by nonchalantly eating their ice cream some more. Verosika looked around the area, and noticed them all, giving out a small smirk of amusement at seeing them all again.

"Well, look who it is." said Josh

"It's those losers again." Ace added.

"Wonder what they're doing here." said Kiki

"Only one way to find out, girlfriend." Verosika said in her sultry voice. She walked over from the entrance, swaying her hips from side to side as she walked, and her posse walked next to her in a casual way. "Well, look what we have here." said the pop star demon. The hellhounds just looked at her in annoyance and rolled their eyes. "What brings you all here?" she bent herself down and placed her hands on her knees.

"None of your business, slutface." Crystal said. "Don't you have anything better to do?"

"Something like getting busy with humans up there?" Serena added before sticking a raspberry at the succubus and incubus group.

"We already did that earlier." said Apple. "And god, were they easy."

"Very easy." Coco said.

The pop star demon couldn't help but look around the interior. "Where's Cody? Is he ok?" It sounded like she was a little concerned for him. Cody however, didn't sound very convinced, considering the fact that she kidnapped him before. It's a shame Tommy wasn't there to help him this time, but at least he had his friends there. "Something bad didn't happen to him, did he?"

"He's fine." said Loona with contempt. "And none of your goddamn business."

"Come on. I said I was sorry for taking him with me like that. I just... want him to forgive me."

"What, so you can kidnap him again?" Vortex said with his arms crossed. "I don't think so. He says he doesn't want to talk to you again. you gotta respect his wishes, and treat him like a regular human being instead of a toy." Under the table, Cody nodded his head in agreement and noticed something next to him. It looked like a small spider with spikes on it, and glowing, red eyes that were glowing like four beacons. Two eyes were bigger than the other two like all spiders would have, and it showed his fangs.

"Look, they've got off on the wrong foot." said Apple. "Can't you just give her a chance to start over with him?"

"Yeah, she really is sorry." Kiki added

"We might have... differences, especially with your dad, Loona." Kat said, "but we just ask for a second chance."

"Forget it, you has-been losers. I wish you would all just spend more time in-"

"AAAAAAAHHHH!" Cody screamed under the table, surprising everyone around him.

"What was that?" said Verosika in confusion. Suddenly, the kid popped out from the table and jumped in Loona's arms.

"Spider! Really scary spider!" said the boy, sounding like he was panicking. It turns out: he doesn't really like spiders. Either that, or he's just not a big fan of them so much. Arachniphobia was kind of a common fear for many human beings to endure, even though most spiders in the world are not very aggressive, regardless or how much venom they have.

"Hey, hey, hey, take it easy." Loona tried to soothe him.

"Cody?" said Verosika in confusion, hardly believing what she was seeing. "Is that you?"

"Oops." Cody murmured. "Cody? who's Cody?" he asked in a gruff, beastly voice. "Name's Bones. Bones... Wild."

"Yeah, he's... a cousin of mine." Loona played along before gently putting Cody down. "So, you can get the fuck out of our faces now."

"Oh my god!" Verosika said. "Look at how cute you look!" she scooped the kid up and cradled her in her arms again.

"Well, here we go again." said Cody.

"You're a hellhound now?" said Kiki

"Just look at you!" said Coco.

"you're so fluffy, and cute. I mean, look at that cute, little, fluffy tail of yours." added Apple. Yes, she, verosika, and the rest of their friends continued to fondle and cuddle him like he was an actual puppy.

"How did this happen?"

"Well, i got hellhound fever and turned me into one, if you wanted to know." Cody sounded rather annoyed at being given this treatment again.

Verosika and her whole posse couldn't help but go "Aww!" in response. Loona, seeing what was going on, got off the booth, and began growling like a rabid wolf again. She had her fists clenched and her teeth were bared, fierce and angry. Yes, she was more than ready to do unspeakably painful things to these slutty demons.

Vortex stepped up and gently stopped her from doing anything rash by gently holding her shoulders. "Easy Loona, don't even think about it."

"But they..."

"I'll handle this, Loona." Vortex reassured. He walked over to the demons and said in his tough voice: "Hey! put him down."

"Come on, Vortex. I'm a popstar and you are not." said Verosika.

"Just put me down, Verosika." Cody said, sounding a little more tough in his voice. "I still hate you for kidnapping me, and I still don't want to talk to you! So just... go kill yourselves or something! Your music sucks!"

Verosika and her posse looked shocked by the insults the kid was throwing at him. "Cody, please. I said I was sorry for kidnapping you."

"I don't want your apology! what do you want from me, anyway?"

"Well, we just wanted to ask for your forgiveness again." said Ace

"Yeah, sweetie. I really want to make ammends and I felt bad for what I did. I just want you to forgive me." Verosika said.

"No!" Cody said. "It's way too late for sorry. I don't want to hear it anymore!"

"Cody-" Verosika tried to show how sincere she was, but was stopped by Vortex.

"You heard the kid. Let him go, or you'll have to deal with me."

"What are you going to do, tough guy?" asked Milky, foolishly trying to sound mightier than this large hellhound.

"This." Vortex grabbed Milky's face and squeezed it before throwing her at the condiment table. "Now get the fuck out of here. Now!"

Looking terrified at Tex' immense strength, all of the succubus and incubus members ran out of the building in a cowardly manner, with Milky covered with chocolate syrup and sprinkles. Verosika however, just left the parlor in a casual way after putting Cody down. Before she went out the door however, she gave him a look of guilt and sadness. "I just want to make things right, sweetie." she said before sadly leaving the parlor.

Vortex then went up to the the counter and handed Wally three-hundred demon dollars. "Sorry about the mess, Wally."