Rochelle was in her rooming taking selfies of herself when she got on her Pictagram pics when she saw some of Peggy and Mahi together. "Those lovebirds," growled Rochelle. "This is too disgusting. I just hope this doesn't offend Sasha."
"Rochelle," her father said as he came into her room, "are you going to that dance audition today? Sasha and Lara are going to be there."
"Yeah, yeah," Rochelle replied. "Just let me get my purse and them I'm off."
XxoxX
It was a bright and sunny morning at Hartfeld High School, but their summer programs couldn't stop them from learning new things. Peggy, Rayne, Isadora, Mahi, and Addison were arriving in their dance clothes. "You're going to love this, Peg," Rayne said. "The Hartfeld High Summer Dance Show is the best summer activity in town."
"It's Kayleigh's brother," Addison recalled. "He's home from Yale."
"Haven't seen him in ages," Isadora recalled. "When I say 'ages', I mean 'two years', since that's a very long time. He's an astronomy major and minored in astrophysics."
"He was part of our school's astronomy club," Rayne recalled, "and super hunky."
Rayne walked up to him and said, "Hey, Colby."
"Rayne," Colby recalled. "I see you're still sporting the dreads with beanie look."
"That's right," answered Rayne. "I'm doing this again. I was a bit disappointed that you didn't show last year due to your part-time job at a science museum."
"Easy," said Colby as he blushed. "We should get to the audition."
Addison turned her head in annoyance when she spotted Liam coming up to her. "Liam," Addison asked as she hugged her boyfriend, "you're auditioning too?"
"I am," replied Liam. "This gives me a chance to get to know you and the others better besides Dagger and Merula, who are taking a part-time job at the music store at Working in the Music Mines."
"Both of them need to save up for college and for their car," replied Addison.
As they were all going in, Rochelle, Sasha, and Lara glared. "That posse of losers better not steal my spotlight as they did for the ballet club."
XxoxX
Inside, Principal McLean came up onstage, for he was one of the two main supervisors for the summer program. "Welcome, everyone, and Rochelle," greeted Principal McLean. "To the 40th Annual Hartfeld High Summer Dance Troupe Audition. Every year we only pick out the best of the best to be in the show. The rest of you will also have a part in the other shows because the school board wanted everyone to be welcome."
"Well, I'm not welcome here," snapped Rochelle. "In fact, I hate just about everyone in the summer dance program."
"Let's get on with the audition, everyone," Principal McLean said. "First up, Isadora Atenas. You will be performing a dance routine based on Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote."
Isadora made a rush towards for the stage. Along the way, she accidentally pushed Principal McLean out of the way. "Watch it!" shouted Principal McLean. "This is my favorite tie. I wear it every year during audition day for the summer program. This keeps students' brains from getting rotten."
XxoxX
During her audition, Isadora goes around acting like Road Runner while shouting. "Meep meep!"
"Like, you're getting annoying!" shouted Sasha as she added sparkly hair gel in her blonde hair.
After Isadora was done, it was Rochelle's, Lara's, and Sasha's turn. They were going to do a dance style of a younger version of "Heathers: The Musical"'s "Candy Store" because it was against the rules to have grown-up like songs in the summer dance program.
With his supersonic hearing, Liam could hear something outside. While he was getting out, it was Rayne's turn to audition. By the door, Liam could see his Jeivan vulture friends. They usually helped him out find food around Hartfeld, but this time they found danger.
"Nice work, boys," Liam said to his Jeivan compadres in vulture form. "I'll hold them off. Hey, Principal McLean, is it my turn to go up."
XxoxX
By the time they were at the door, Rayne bumped into a nerd. "Sorry," said the nerd. "My family has been performing at Hartfeld's Junior Summer Dance Program for 70 years, and we all promised we would perform there between ages 10 to 28."
"That's a very long time," replied Rayne as she helped him up. With one look, she could see his gleaming braces, his cute little necktie, and his dashing grey eyes under his dorky glasses.
"You must be Rayne," he replied. "My friend Xiang told me about you. I'm Alton Tracey."
"Yeah," recalled Rayne, "You're the nerdy trash boy."
"That's me," Alton nervously said. "I can't believe that Rochelle and her friends tricked me like that."
"Are you auditioning too?" asked Peggy.
"I am," answered Alton. "I ran a little late because I had to help my father repaint the kitchen."
As he got inside the place, Peggy got an idea.
Spord Lartsa
Their clones from the Astral Drops spell came out of their rings. "Now, girls," Peggy said to her clones, "I want you to cover for us during our dance audition. Addison told Liam the difference between Drop Us and Normal Us. So he'll do the best he can to control them."
"Okay," said the clones as they got into the auditorium.
Guardians Unite
Then they took off to the Hartfeld Zoo.
XxoxX
Meanwhile, in the auditorium, Liam could see the clones roaming around being curious. Like Peggy said, he knew who was a clone and who wasn't, "Okay now," Principal McLean said. "Next up, Kayleigh Houghton."
Kayleigh was a bit nervous, but then she started dancing. Mae and her friends Nicki and Belle came up to Colby and said, "Your sister must be confident when it comes to dancing."
"She is," Colby replied. "And a unique feature about her is her innocent Valley girl accent."
"Mae Bach," announced Principal McLean, "you're up next."
"You got it," Mae replied.
XxoxX
At the Hartfeld Zoo, our heroes arrived where they saw a Jeivan antelope destroying the place. Zookeepers were cowering in fear from the antelopes.
Peggy shot out lightning bolts, Rayne shot out water cannons, Isadora made supersonic breaths, Mahi blew fire from her hands, and Addison shot out vines. That's when the Jeivan antelopes started eating the vines because of their herbivores. "That's too bad," Lua Doi said. "I always loved watching antelope eat vegetables with my girls." Then he started to get a little migraine.
"You were a parent?" asked Addison.
"What are you talking about?" asked Lua Doi as he got another headache.
Addison and Lua Doi started fighting, then she made him slip on a pile of leaves. His mask fell off, but he put it on quick before Addison got to see his true identity, which left Addison in confusion. "I don't know who you are," Addison replied, "but I don't want you here. Life is short, and you don't know what's going to happen."
She started to sprout angelic wings in a shade of chartreuse, which meant one thing for the others. "Look at that," said Rayne. "Addy has finally awoken her Guardian Angel form."
She rounded up all the antelopes and made them charge against Lua Doi, who summoned a portal for them to return to. "Lass!" shouted Peggy. "You got your Guardian Angel wings!"
"I think I know why you got it," replied Isadora. "You're always looking foward to the path ahead, no matter what life brings. LIke the time Felipa never planned on winning Student of the Month this Feburary for writing love poems in Spanish for her teachers."
"Plus things don't go the way you plan," Addison replied, "like the plan where our doubles might mess up and we'd be disqualified."
"You're right," Mahi replied. "Lucky Lass and I have to get back there before Principal McMean finds out. It's not cheating if our doubles aren't entering."
XxoxX
Back at the auditorium, Alton was onstage. "You look like your doing the Dance of the Dripping Paint," criticized Principal McLean.
"Now, now, Kevin," said Mrs. Dean. "The Tracey family has been involved in this for decades."
"I just got out of re-painting the kitchen, okay," said Alton quickly. "Plus I ran into this amazing Rayne Covington. Her dreadlocks are lovely."
The real Peggy, Rayne, Isadora, Mahi, and Addison arrived back on time. Their clones walked up to them. Luckily, everyone was too busy watching Alton's dancing.
Astral Drops
The clones got back to their rings. After Rayne got her clone back to her ring, she saw Alton dancing, which confused the other PRIMA members. "First you fall for Kayleigh's older brother," Addison replied, "and then you fall for British kid Alton Tracey."
"You're right" replied Rayne. "It's too confusing."
"Addison Bach," announced Principal McLean, "you're up next."
For Addison's audition, she performed a ballet rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
XxoxX
After Nicki and Belle finished their audition dance, it was Peggy and Mahi's audition dance. They both did "Rewrite the Stars" from "The Greatest Showman."
"Alright, folks," concluded Principal McLean. "Now that everyone has auditioned, you can go home now."
XxoxX
The next day, they went up to the bulletin board to see who's in the dance show.
Peggy O'Donovan and Mahi Chakavarti - More Than A Feeling (Modern Dance)
Addison Bach and Liam Freeman - Anything You Can Do (Square)
Rayne Covington, Alton Tracey, and Colby Houghton - Remember The Time (Hip Hop)
Isadora Aetnas - Swan Lake (Ballet)
Rochelle Vilks, Lara Cookson, and Sasha DeForest - Money, Money, Money (Disco)
Mae Bach, Nicki Charron, Belle Bowman, and Kayleigh Houghton - Mickey (Modern Jazz)
Peggy O'Donovan, Rayne Covington, Isadora Aetenas, Mahi Chakavarti, Addison Bach, Kayleigh Houghton, Mae Bach, Colby Houghton, Alton Tracey, Liam Freeman - We're All in This Together (Finale)
PRIMA was amazed that everyone who auditioned is in the show, including Liam. Addison could tell that his surname was fake. "My real last name is actually Jeireeman," Liam explained as he took her hand. "I've been going by Liam Freeman since I came to Earth."
"Jerieeman sounds similar," Addison replied. "And I like it."
"But there's one question," asked Rayne. "Why did Mahi and Peg pick 'Rewrite the Stars'?"
"Because they have a forbidden love," Mahi replied. "We're all aware that Principal McLean is homophobic, so we have to make sure he doesn't get upset about it."
The six of them smiled, knowing that they were going to stand up to a homophobic principal. "So, babe," Liam said, "after dance rehearsal, wanna catch a movie at The Tiara?"
"I'd love that," Addison replied. "Mae has to help Grandma out with marketing the summer theater classes."
Then they both kissed.
The End
