Chapter 12: The School's Story Presentation
Serena, Neon, and Wisp were at the lake and starting to ease their minds. They suddenly saw the shimmering light appeared above the lake. As soon as the light disappeared, Luna appeared right before them.
"Luna!" the three guardians exclaimed.
"Serena, Neon, Wisp, it's been a while now, hasn't it?" said Luna calmly, closing her eyes before she opened them again. "Listen, there's something urgent I have to discuss with you three..."
"What's that?" Serena asked.
Before Luna could answer, she summoned the dream bubble visuals of the dream victims, including the five new ones. Serena, Neon, and Wisp gazed at them in awestruck.
"These are the dreamers' dreams, right?" Neon pointed out.
"Yes, they are..." Luna replied in despair. "But now, they're becoming the evil's victims due to their dream life forces being stolen..."
"What?!" the guardians shouted, with their shock expressions.
"As you should all know, if the evil keeps taking the dream life forces away from the dreamers, something terrible will happen."
The three guardians gasped while Luna explained the whole situation to them. There was some information she has to tell the guardians that the Duo of Justice weren't aware of this at all.
It's been a week since the party ended up in a disaster at Soma Island where Claire and Sonia lived, Vicki and Robert were looking at Sammy and Jimmy who were sitting on the bench, feeling depressed. Neither of them had ever seen the twins feeling this way before. They sighed and looked at each other in puzzlement.
"Ever since the party ended at Claire and Sonia's island, their depression begins so sudden..." said Robert unsurprisingly. "What can we do to help them, Vicki?"
"Huh, I'm not so sure, but that's a good question..." Vicki answered. "Few days after the party, I ran into Claire and Sonia at Paradise Planning. By the look of their faces, they had tearstains on their cheeks and puffy red eyes after they cried so much..."
"Oh, I guess they're in the same situation as them, huh?"
"Oh yeah..."
Vicki checked her smartphone if she got any new messages from either Claire or Sonia. But she hasn't received anything at all since she sent each of them a message about an hour ago. Few days prior at the Paradise Planning, Lottie could tell that Claire and Sonia were not feeling well. So, she sent them home right away until they felt better. Hopefully, Vicki would get a reply from either of the girls very soon. Suddenly, she remembered something she has to tell Robert right away.
"Oh Robert, there's something I have to tell you!" said Vicki excitedly.
"What's that?" Robert asked curiously.
"There's a grand opening for the new school yesterday, and it was right next to the Paradise Planning! Do you want to check it out?"
"Really? A new school built already? Of course, I will love to check it out!"
"Great!" Vicki turned to Sammy and Jimmy and asked, "Hey guys, do you want to check out the school as well?"
There was no response from either of the twins. All they ever did was sigh in despair. Robert shrugged and turned to Vicki.
"Well, I'll take that as a 'no'..." Robert suggested. "It just happens that we don't even exist whenever we talk to them, not even they're planning to throw insults at us..."
"Okay, what about we forget about them and go to the brand-new school now?"
"Sounds like a good plan, let's go!"
Vicki and Robert had arrived at the island where the Paradise Planning and the new school were. Robert was impressed that this was his first time seeing the school opening. He saw the exterior of the school and the shining school bell. As soon as they were inside, the classroom felt so nostalgic for the duo. There were desks, chairs, lockers, chalkboard, bookshelves, and other school stuff. They noticed there were animals inside of the classroom, but one of them was the teacher. So, they waved at the dog who was the teacher of the day.
"Hey Gold-oh, shall I call you 'Miss Goldie' here?" Vicki interjected, while the class was busy with their assignments. "I hope I didn't disturb your class, did I?"
"Oh no, it's fine, woof..." said Goldie calmly. "And it doesn't matter whether you call me in here, but I'd prefer you just call me 'Goldie,' okay?"
"Okay, then! But anyways, what are you teaching in class, Goldie?"
"Oh, I'm just teaching them how to write a story, woof."
"Isn't it like the book report?" Robert asked.
"Well, I don't know if you call it a book report. They're going to write their own short stories first. Then, they'll make the book cover; and finally, they will read it out loud in front of the class."
"That's pretty simple, I can't wait to hear those stories!" said Vicki excitedly.
"Me, too!" Robert agreed.
Two hours later, Goldie's class completed their book projects and were ready to present them. One of her students was eager to go first, and it was the rabbit named Bunnie. She read her short story about the rabbit wearing the red hood out loud in front of the class without any hesitation. After her presentation was done, the next student was the Siamese cat named Olivia whose story was about the queen of the wonderland. Followed by the white rhino named Rhonda whose story was about the sugarplum ballerina, the cat with the black-framed glasses named Raymond with the story about bookworm cat, the blue wolf named Skye with the story about the nighttime ball, the purple mouse with the blue and white stripes bandana named Rod about the pirate ship, the light blue and white penguin named Sprinkle about the queen of ice, and the blue bear cub named Poncho about the legendary hero.
Few hours later, Goldie's class finished their presentation and left the classroom after the bell rang. Vicki stood up from the chair and found Robert who was taking a nap when he was listening to the whole presentation. She immediately slapped his shoulder lightly to wake him up. Her fiancé looked around the classroom after he woke up and noticed that the class was already dismissed.
"The class is over already?" Robert asked, while he stretched his arms.
"Yeah, just a minute ago..." Vicki replied, "and Goldie was about to lock the door. She's waiting for us to leave. Let's go!"
Vicki and Robert exited the school before Goldie closed the door and locked it. As soon as they parted ways, the duo suddenly heard a scream. They turned around and headed back to school right away. When they saw of what's going on, Solomon showed up and stole the dream life forces from the animals who were already attending the school. They immediately turned into a vile team of nightmare monsters. Vicki and Robert quickly transformed into their heroic forms. Masked Swordmaster gave the reptile demon a high jump kick and knocked him to the ground.
"Hey, which one of you did that?!" Solomon asked angrily.
"That was me, who else?" Masked Swordmaster replied. "You, sir, are a fool to turn the innocent animals into guilty monsters!"
"That's right, you've just proven yourself guilty, you demon!" Phantom Angel exclaimed. "Because of you, of all demons, stole the dream life forces from them!"
"Ugh, you and your politics these days..." said Solomon flatly. "But screw this! Monsters, teach the dynamic duo a lesson or two now!"
The team of nightmare monsters were ganging up on the Duo of Justice. Phantom Angel was focusing on the female monsters and Masked Swordmaster was pitting up against the male monsters. By the time they were all fighting, Solomon disappeared with the rest of the dream life forces.
One of the female nightmare monsters used her scepter to attack Phantom Angel while another threw her dark glass slipper at her. The angel quickly avoided two attacks and the two nightmare monsters got a direct hit instead. Suddenly, another two female monsters got the heroine cornered. One took out the bomb from her basket and another threw the icy shard at her. Phantom Angel used her heart compact mirror to reverse their attacks. As soon as the mirror flashed, the attacks went right back to the users and got hit. That left down to the last two monsters the angel must face. One of them threw the book like a dagger and another was dancing around, like a ballerina, but using her swift kick. Phantom Angel immediately flew up in the air as the book slammed at the rhino monster. Finally, she landed on the dog monster and used her heel to pin her down.
Masked Swordmaster was facing off against three male nightmare monsters. One of them carried the bombard books, another held the dark cutlass, and the third used the dark blade and the dark shield. Three against one wouldn't be a cinch for the hero of strength and intelligence. Once the monsters had him cornered, they charged right through him. Masked Swordmaster jumped away and the nightmare monsters collided themselves. He used his cannon to put them into a deep sleep with the sleeping gas. When all the nightmare monsters were out cold, the white knight gave his ally the signal.
"Dream healing refresh!" Phantom Angel shouted, as she turned the nightmare monsters back to normal animals again.
After Vicki and Robert returned to Triforce, they noticed that Sammy and Jimmy were still sitting, feeling depressed. Until the sun was setting, they were heading right back to their house without looking or saying a word to either of the duo. Of course, things would never be the same as usual.
