Sorry for the long wait, it was a mixture of the end of school year tests, me being lazy, and trying to figure out what I'm doing next with this story. This is officially the start of ARC TWO. Arc one was supposed to be longer, and I think this arc is going to be longer than what I had planned. This is because It was getting harder to make those introduction type of chapters, even with me completely changing the story at one point. As a result, this arc is most likely going to be longer, since I want to have a good amount of chapters at the end, so readers will be satisfied. I've also decided to list the main characters of each chapter because I want to include more characters this arc. This arc is NOT inspired by Stranger Things.

Main Characters:

Dawn

Ash

Platinum

Gold

Ash POV

Dawn has been gone for a while. By this I mean she wasn't attending school, although I have seen her around Lavender Town. Platinum thinks she might be skipping class because something bad might have happened to her or her family.

Gold, Platinum, and I are sitting down at lunch when Dawn quickly walks up to us and says,

"Meet me at the library after school, I have something very important I must discuss with you that I can't talk about here. Please meet me at a table in the fiction section." She walks off quickly and sits next to Serena.

"What was that about?" Gold asks

"I don't know but hopefully she'll give us an explanation for her recent absences. I know I haven't known Dawn for long, but it doesn't seem like something she would do without a good reason." Platinum responds. As she finished speaking, the bell rand signaling the end of lunch. We head to our lockers and I remain wordless. I head to math, while Platinum goes to orchestra and Gold goes to history. During math, Serena sits behind me and talks to me, but I tune her out. I can't stop thinking about what Dawn said, and why she couldn't say it at school.

"Mr. Ketchum, MR. KETCHUM!!!" Ms. Berlitz yells at me.

"Huh... Oh sorry, I wasn't paying attention." I casually answer

"Answer the question on the board, and next time, make sure you don't daydream about unicorns and puppies in my class!"

"But I wasn..."

"QUIET!!!"

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Timeskip

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Platinum and I were waiting for Gold by our lockers. We wanted to get to the library as fast as possible, but Gold was taking forever, and even Platinum was getting impatient.

"What is taking him so long," Platinum practically yells "you should know, your his best friend."

"I don't know, but he should hurry up. I'm worried about Dawn. I know there shouldn't be as reason to worry, but I can't help it. It's stupid right?" I say

"No, no it's not stupid, your just caring for your friend, which is a good thing. You should never feel stupid about caring for others." Platinum quickly responds

" Wow, I never thought of it that way, thanks Platinum. You must be really good with emotions." I praise

"No, I'm not really that good. If you think that was good, then you should talk to Diamond." Platinum quickly stops as if she said something that she shouldn't have said.

"What's wrong Platinum?" I question. Platinum quickly panders over something, and then looks directly at me.

"I overheard you and Gold talking while I was in the shower the other day." Platinum says

"But how di..." I start to say

"Please let me finish. I heard you guys admit to each other that you are vampires. Please don't tell Gold, but I'm a vampire too. The answer to your question is that I have super hearing, I don't know how and why." Platinum answers

"Okay I understand, but why can't I tell Gold?" I question

"I didn't trust either of you with my secret yet because of how quickly you revealed your secrets to each other, but now that I know y0"ou better, and I know how much you truly care about your friends, now I thought was a perfect time to tell you." She responds

"I understand." I reply. We stood in silence for a minute and watched the last of the kids leave the hall.

"I'm going to text Gold to see where he is, school ended fifteen minutes ago." I say. I text Gold to ask where he is. He replies almost a minute later saying he was at the library, and him and Dawn were waiting for us. I explain this to Platinum, and then we start walking to the library. I think about what Platinum said. I understand her caution with revealing her secret. I guess Gold isn't the best at keeping secrets.

Before we know it we arrive at the library. I don't go to the library often, unless it's for a school project. At our school, we have student ID cards that work as credit cards. They hold money, and we can add more money by going to the school office. We can only use the cards as credit cards in our town, but we can use it as a library card for every library in the region. For using the card at the library closest to our school, we get rewarded. The school gives us five dollars each hour we spend at the library. We have to scan our cards when we enter the building, with the machine past the scanners. If we don't, we don't get the reward. When students walk out, and they don't scan their cards, the scanners will automatically check them out, so the reward doesn't keep running if they forgot to check out. I always remember to scan my card.

"Great you guys made it! I was beginning to think you forgot." Dawn says

"Sorry, we were waiting for Gold. We didn't think he would go on his own." Platinum responds

"That's fine. I do stuff like that all the time." Dawn says

"Anyways," Dawn begins "I have something very important that I need to share with all of you."

Dawn POV

"As you all know, I haven't been attending school a lot recently. That is because I've been researching spells." I tell them.

"Researching spells?" Gold asks

"Yes, witches don't automatically know every spell in the universe." I reply. I pull out my phone and I showed them the picture of a stack of spell books I read over my absence.

"You read all of that!" Gold exclaimed

"That and about seven other stacks." I smugly replied

"I can barley even finish one book in a month." Gold muttered to himself, but everyone heard him. I then pulled an old book out of my bag.

"Anyways, the reason I asked you all to meet me here is this one particular spell." I said to everyone. I flipped through the pages and found what I was looking for.

"This spell right here is call The Flip Side. It says the spell will take the spell caster and anyone who is touching the caster to a parallel universe, with creatures that are different from any creature we know." I read to them. As I told them they all looked as confused as I am.

"So, what are the creatures the spell is talking about." Platinum questions

"Maybe it's a magical fantasy land with dragons and trolls!" Gold suggests

"Possibly, I have no idea what that last part means. It could possibly even be only a few more animals that don't exist here." I reply. I studied the page a little more before putting the dusty book back into my backpack.

"Anyways, I want to try out the spell" I told them

"What!" Everyone except Dawn quitely yells

"Relax, we are totally prepared and powerful enough to do this." I look at Ash while saying that last part.

"I guess." Ash said. The others quietly agreed.

"Ok, lets do this on Friday, after class."

I am so sorry this took so long, but I really needed the break. I know the chapters have a large time between uploads, but that is because I am busy, and writing is something I do in my free time. Anyways, I started writing this chapter in May, and now it is October. I had trouble expanding the chapter, since I wanted a long chapter, but not to start the next part of the story. I really hope this chapter was worth the wait!

Platinum was eating lunch peacefully while studying, until Bianca walked up.

"What is your favorite animal?"

"Which is more important, geometry or calculus?"

"Do you play an instrument?" Platinum got up a started walking away, until she ran into a wall.

"Violin and viola" Platinum said in pain.