3 goats, 2 bananas, 1 football
Summary: The long awaited results of the battle... who will truly be crowned as having the Best Anubis House Instincts.
Evie's Notes: Happy Sunday! Thank you for your support, it truly means the world to me 💜. I hope that you all love the ending of this story🌺.
"So what is the likelihood that Eddie and Co are actually hiding down here?" asked Fabian, swinging his flashlight beam across the walls of the tunnels.
"Like zero percent" laughed Nina. "The real reason we're down here is that we have exactly three hours left till the ceremony and if we want to beat Eddie we need to step it up".
"Step it up, how?" asked Fabian worriedly.
"Don't worry Fabian… We've got it handled" assured Amber.
"What do you mean 'Handled'?!" squawked Fabian worriedly, only to accidentally walk into a wall.
Willow and K.T. snuck through the hallway armed with silly string spray cans as they set up their Mick trap. Willow finished tying up the final knots on the laundry basket they had stolen. K.T. placed the two bananas and soccer ball the girls had brought in the center of their trap, before hitting play on Mick's "Party Time" playlist. Like a moth to a flame, Mick came flocking to the music not a moment after the song began.
The loveable golden retriever lit up when he spotted the bait laid out in the hallway. Charging forward, the boy ignored Fabian's worried shout of "Mick, No!" and picked up the soccer ball and one of the bananas. As soon as the boy was in position, Willow released the ropes causing the basket to fall and trapping the goofy boy in the basket.
Eddie poked his head around the corner of the laundry room. "Big Apple to Fire Spirit, Big Apple to Fire Spirit. Fire Spirit come in, over" Eddie whispered into his walkie talkie.
"This is Fire Spirit, I'm in position, over" crackled Willow's voice over the walkie.
"Guys this is so dumb. Can we please just use our phones, Eddie?" complained K.T.
"You need to use our code names! It's simple walkie etiquette. Over!" scolded Eddie.
"You have got to be kidding me" snapped back K.T.
"Nope! And you forgot to say, over!" chirped Willow
"Fine. Rainbow American to American Doofus, the paint cans are in position. Over" sighed KT.
"Thank you," chuckled Eddie. "My skates are ready to go… our plan commences in 3… 2… 1… over!"
Pushing off with his dominant foot, Eddie launched himself through the kitchen at top speed. The squeak of the roller skate wheels and the feel of wind across his face filled Eddie with excitement.
The thundering sound of stampeding feet signaled that the enemy had figured out he was there and were in hot pursuit. Spinning into the entryway, Eddie grabbed onto the long yellow lengths of camping rope Willow had set up and counted backwards from five. As he reached one, Eddie pulled sharply on the ropes, causing the buckets full of paint and glitter Willow and KT had assembled to tip over… spilling their messy contents onto Eddie's furious housemates.
"Ugh! What the hell, Slimeball!?" yelled Patricia, angrily wiping the green glittery paint from her eyes.
"But Yacker, you look so good in green" teased Eddie.
"I will tell you this once, and only once" snapped the goth girl. "Run fast and run far… because if this shit stains, there is nothing on this earth or in the underworld that will save you from my wrath".
"You're gonna want to take that warning, Bud!" cautioned Mick. "Trix gets fuckin feral"
Weighing the pros of staying to laugh at his glittery green girlfriend, versus the cons of everyone else around him encouraging him to run. His decision was made for him as Alfie, Amber, Nina and Fabian released a trio of rampaging goats into the entry way through the cellar doors.
Jerome took advantage of Eddie's temporary distraction to dart forward and snatch the award from the American boy's hand.
"Hey!" protested Eddie
"Go Go Go Go Go!" ordered Jerome, ushering his team up the stairs at a rapid pace.
Eddie gave chase, quickly tripping Mick and Mara as he chased his girlfriend and superlative competitor up the stairs.
Jerome and Patricia reached the top of the stairs with Eddie hot on their heels. Ripping open the door to the girls' hallway, the pair intended to sprint to freedom. Unfortunately they found their way blocked by Eddie's co-conspirators bearing matching Cheshire grins.
"Going somewhere?" demanded K.T. cooley.
"We're going to have to take that off your hands" finished Willow cheerfully, reaching for the glittery award in Jerome's hand.
The British boy was not going to have his victory snatched away when the end was so near. Whirling around he called for Patricia to "DUCK!" as he chucked the award back towards the entryway. Unfortunately, Patricia did not react quickly enough and she was knocked backwards by the flying candlestick. The redheaded girl was sent tumbling over the balcony onto the stairs into Eddie and the pair fell the rest of the way down the stairs in a knot of limbs and pained groans. The bejeweled candlestick rolled past the various students and landed at the feet of their caretaker, Victor.
- One furious Victor lecture and first aid session by Trudy later --
"Da, da, da, dadda, da da, da, dadddda!" sang Alfie dramatically as Amber rolled the cart bearing the twelve shiny candlesticks into the center of the sitting room.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Anubis House Superlative Award Ceremony" crowed Jerome happily. "Today we answer the most important question plaguing the human race… who is most likely to blank!"
"Yeah, yeah… enough fanfare! Get on with the awards" heckled Mick.
"Tonight's first award goes to Miss Mara Jaffray, as the best roller skater of Anubis House!" grinned Jerome as Eddie grumbled unhappily in his seat. Amber passed the green sparkly candlestick to Mara as K.T. did her best to comfort her best friend.
"The next award goes to Nina Martin as most likely to fake her death and disappear off the face of the earth!" Nina rolled her eyes but reluctantly accepted the turquoise award from Amber.
"Tonight's third award is the very much coveted, most likely to make contact with an alien race, goes to Mr. Alfie Lewis" cheered Jerome, happily passing the golden candlestick to his best friend.
After the Anubis residents finished clapping, Jerome presented the next award. "Up next is the most likely to join a gang award, which goes to Fabian".
"Sibuna is not a gang" protested Fabian loudly, only to be overruled by all present and past members loudly disagreeing.
"What's Sibuna?" asked a very confused Mara.
"It's their DnD game" explained Mick sagely, sending the club into a fit of giggles.
"Moving swiftly onward… The next category goes to the lovely Miss Millington as most likely to receive a celebrity restraining order!".
"Ehhh, that's fair," chuckled Amber, picking the sparkly blue award off the cart.
"Next we have the Secret Nature Goddess award, which obviously goes to Willow" announced Jerome, gesturing to the redhead who was too busy playing with her hedgehogs Victor and Trudy to realize she had won.
Flipping to the next page of his notebook, Jerome reluctantly grit his teeth and revealed the next award of the night. "It is my *honor* to announce that this award goes to myself. According to your votes I am the most likely to go bald".
It took several minutes for the raucous laughter to calm down enough for the ceremony to move on to the next bit.
"The next award of the night goes to Mick who was voted most likely to kill for a banana"
"Banana is good, Banana is life" declared the football player, nodding sagely.
Jerome selected a red candlestick off the cart and called out "The award for having the most secret identities goes to my lovely girlfriend, Jack… I mean Joy!".
"Thank you! Thank you everyone for this award! I can't wait to post about it on Jack Jackal" joked Joy, wiping away fake tears of happiness as she accepted the ruby award.
"Next up is a repeat winner with Patricia winning the award for the student most likely to assassinate the Headmaster!" cheered Jerome, skillfully avoiding the girl's furious gaze.
"Now just a reminder everyone, this leaves Eddie and K.T. as the final two in the running for our coveted Best Anubis House Instincts award. But first let's announce the award for best wrecking ball which goes to Eddie and his dramatic fall down the stairs!"
"But Patricia fell into me!" protested Eddie, but his complaints fell on deaf ears.
"The final award of the night is also the award which caused all of this chaos in the first place, the award for Best Anubis House Instincts goes to K.T. Rush for being the only one with any common sense!". A loud round of applause and laughter rang out as K.T. proudly accepted her award.
"And with that folks, we have reached the end of our night… see you all next year!" waved Jerome, as he released several confetti guns in celebration. Truly, there was nothing Jerome loved more than award season!
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