It was midnight, and Principal McLean was stressing out on who to ban from Hartfeld High. "Now Jayla Olsen has always been known as a lesbian and her funk music," he said to himself. "Without her, no more funk music."
As he was writing down his student ban list, he was interrupted by hippie music.
Outside, he saw a pair of hippies performing in his front yard. They were Rainbow Drum, who had red hair and rainbow-colored clothes and his wife, Pastel Love, who has pink hair and purple clothes. "What are you hippies doing here?" Principal McLean growled, "I'm busy with my banning list for next year."
"Hey, man," greeted Rainbow Drum. "Welcome to our campout. We always welcome far out dudes and dudettes in Hartfeld."
"Like we don't get many visitors," Pastel Love explained, "but we're glad to meet you."
"Hurrying friendships causes trouble," Principal McLean explained. "And If you don't leave my yard now, I'm calling the cops."
"Dude seems pretty stressed," Rainbow Drum whispered.
"Like, perhaps this strange horn that lady we met at the convention today could," suggested Pastel Love.
While playing "Dear Prudence" on the horn, Principal McLean imagined numerous clouds around him and he became completely peaceful. "Hey, bro," he said. "Care to mellow out?"
"Whoa," Pastel Love replied. "Come on, man. Crash our pad."
And just like that, Principal McLean started dancing around.
XxoxX
In the morning, Peggy, Rayne, Isadora, Mahi, and Addison were heading to rehearsal from Havana Java after a little brunch. "I can't believe your father made us some vegan cappuccinos," Mahi said. "This is like, awesome. Even a vegetarian would want one."
"Speaking of vegetarians," Addison said, "do you know how hippies hate eating meat?"
On the door, they saw tarps all around. "What's going on?" asked Rayne.
Inside, they saw the performers playing hacky sack, making tye-dye shirts, braiding hair, and relaxing in bean bag chairs. At a music circle, they saw Arielle playing Panpipes, Mae playing maracas, Belle playing the ukelele, Nicki playing the tambourine, and Kieran playing bongos. Principal McLean was also dancing peacefully. "Principal McLean," he said. "Like, we're glad that you mellowed out for once."
"It is so solid that you are calm now," Nicki replied.
The only ones annoyed by Principal McLean's strange behavior were Rochelle, Sasha, and Lara. "The principal is driving us crazy more than ever," Sasha whispered. "He's starting to seem okay with me being lesbian, but in a creepy way."
"Everything is so turning into 1967," replied Lara. "This is so wrong. The three of us don't like stuff from the late '60s and early '70s. The peace and love are too lame."
"He told us that he's starting becoming calm after a group of hippie trespassed on his lawn last night," explained Rochelle. "Then he heard 'Dear Prudence' on a funny looking horn."
Will came in looking cautious. After she heard what Rochelle said, she knew what was going on. After Rochelle and her girls left, Will came up to warn them about what's going on. "This is just the Horn of Hypnos," recalled Rochelle, "or worse, Asinorth's Mindsong Horn. It can brainwash anyone into doing the user's bidding by listening to its music."
"But why would a bunch of hippies get a hold of the Mindsong Horn?" asked Addison.
Peggy decided to go up to him and ask what was going on. "Principal McLean-" said Peggy as Principal McLean covered her lips with his land.
"Please, young lass," replied Principal McLean. "Call me Kev Heaven."
Peggy removed his hand from her lips. "Kev Heaven," she replied correctly, "may I remind you that we have a show at the end of the summer?"
"We can't believe this," Dagger growled as he came in. "Hippies!"
"Beatles, Janis Joplin, Brian Wilson, and Jimi Hendrix," Merula growled as she followed her brother, "with their relaxation methods and colorful chaos. Gross!"
Peggy, Rayne, Mahi, and Addison were confused about what Dagger and Merula were doing here. "I invited them over to watch us rehearse for our dance routine," explained Isadora. "They're on Mrs. Dean's list."
"That's a relief," Will said. "Now the one thing left is to change Mr. McLean back before everything turns int a commune."
"Isn't the Tipton having their tye-dye festival?" asked Isadora. "I read about it in the papers about a tye-dye festival where they dedicate everything related to tye dye. Tia Delfina once had a tye-dye shirt when she was a kid. Of course, my dad didn't like it, because it looked like bruises and he gets bruised very easily."
"We should go to the Tipton," Rayne said. "Maybe we could not only find the hippies responsible for McLean's behavior, but Asinorth, too."
XxoxX
At the tye-dye festival, hippies were everywhere. Everywhere PRIMA looked was completely colorful. Finally, they arrived at Rainbow Drum and Pastel Love's Drum Therapy. "A drum circle!" Isadora exclaimed. "Good thing I brought my drumsticks for this occasion. I'm not the drummer of Rockin Bonanza for nothing. There are all sorts of drums: snare drums, bass drums, congas, bongos, all that stuff."
When she got into the drum circle, Isadora started banging on the hand drums with her drumsticks. The hippies in the therapy group weren't mad at her; they were delighted to have another drummer into the circle. "Whoa, whoa," Rainbow Drum said. "There's plenty of room for everyone."
"Isa!" shouted Addison as she started clapping in morse code.
Isadora Atenas, stop pestering the hippies. We need to change Principal McLean back to normal, fast.
Isadora started clapping in morse code.
Sorry. I just got excited to be in a drum circle.
"Forgive us," Addison replied. "We're just looking for someone who can snap our principal out of his hippie behavior."
"That McLean man we met last night," recalled Pastel Love. "For some music magic we heard from fortunetellers, just play the song backward, but if you, like, want him back immediately, just show him something that makes him mad the most."
"And if you want to," Rainbow Drum replied, "you can check out my Viewtube page on teen therapy."
"I've seen your videos," Addison replied. "A bit colorful, but it does bring back my parent's youth from the 1970s."
At another table, they saw Asinorth disguised as a gypsy playing. "Hey," greeted Pastel Love. "Thanks for this groovy horn yesterday. It really worked."
XxoxX
Asinorth was surprised that she gave Rainbow Drum and Pastel Love an actual Mindsong Horn instead of her replicas. "Zemunth," shouted Asinorth, "I told you to give those hippies a fake Mindsong Horn so they won't bug us!"
"Well, miss," he replied, "I couldn't tell them all apart."
"That is no excuse," snapped Asinorth as she started playing her sitar.
All of the patrons started running out of the festival. This was PRIMA's chance to stop her.
Guardians Unite
Asinorth suddenly summoned some Jeivan hippies. As all five members knew from the heart, hippies don't believe in violence. So they decided to dance their way through. Peggy and Mahi did they're "More Than a Feeling" dance routine, and Rayne, Isadora, and Addison did the Hey Mickey routine Mae taught them. With one final pose, they stopped and the Jeivan hippies were defeated. "They dance purty," admired Zemunth.
On the ground, they couldn't help but notice they acidentally broke the Mindsong Horn. "Without the horn," Rayne said in depression, "we will never get your principal back to normal."
"Yes, we will," replied Peggy. "Remember what Pastel Love said: show him something he hates."
As they left, Asinorth started beating up Zemunth for running their plans again.
XxoxX
Back at Hartfeld High, they saw that everyone was getting annoyed by Kev Heaven's weird behavior. "He just barged into the girl's locker room," Belle stated. "It was disturbing."
"Then he purposefully stripped himself bare," Liam traumatically explained. "Please! Somebody change him back!"
"We got this," Addison said, "but we have to work together."
XxoxX
Later, Kev Heaven came in fully clothed. "Hey, dudes," he beamed. "You don't feel bad. Take some sad songs to make them better."
In the auditorium, everyone was hooking up the cameras and getting ready for a multimedia event. "Like, remember what Pastel Love said," Peggy said. "Are the cameras ready, Nicki?"
"Anything to get the old Principal McLean back," answered Nicki.
"Hey, hey!" shouted Kev Heaven. "How many dances did you do today?"
"None yet," responded Addison, "but we're reciting the lesbian scene from Creamy Cravings. But first, the subplot. Take it away, Isadora."
Onstage Isadora came in wearing an usher's uniform.
In the 1970s, an ice cream shop known as Creamy Cravings starts going out of business when two lesbian girls known as Lilly and Juliette apply as the newest waitresses. Lilly is a foreigner from the UK who was trying to break out in acting. Juliette, on the other hand, is from a very poor family and wants to save for bike. When Flavors and Passion come around, they figure out what's more important than money.
Peggy played the role of Lilly and Mahi played the role of Juliette. They were reciting the scene where Lilly and Juliette confess their love for each other. At the part where they kissed, Kev Heaven snapped. "Lesbians!" shouted Principal McLean. "I strongly can't stand the fact that you two girls are making out during rehearsal. You can play feminine kissing afterward!"
Everyone was relieved because they got him back to normal. Mrs. Dean arrived late because she promised Chloe they would attend the first meeting of her summer bowling club. "I want everyone to get to your stations," ordered Principal McLean. "I want everyone to rehearse the 'Swan Lake' scene with Ms. Atenas."
All the dancers got to their positions while Peggy and Mahi got offstage. "We're glad to have the old Principal McMean back," she whispered.
"And all it took is a little love confession scene from 'Creamy Cravings'," Addison whispered. "My mom did play the manager in the remake, after all."
"We better get going, babe," said Dagger to Isadora. "The boss is having a world-famous band do a photoshoot at the shop."
After one kiss, Dagger and Merula took off, with Isadora staring at him.
The End.
