Homecoming
The Moment You've All Been Waiting For Starts Now!
"Please?"
"No"
"Pretty please?
"No!"
"Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, please?"
"No, no, no ,no, NO!"
Rondana sighed. Shadow wouldn't come out of the bathroom.
"What is wrong with you? When you look like an actual girl, you hide out in the bathroom like it a bad thing. Besides, we can cover that scar with make up!" Rondana reassured. Tigger toppled over laughing. Ari sat on one of the beds in Dawne, Rondana's, and Shadow's dorm room.
"So are we going with the disco theme or not?" She asked, holding a clipboard in her hand. Snow drop was curled up on her shoulder.
"Because looking like a girl is bad! Because then…" Shadow tried to think of a reason it was bad. It would attract stares? No. It was distracting? No…
"Then What? You're being ridiculous!" Dawne shouted. She had no idea how ironic that statement was.
"Oh, and you can talk? You're not even going to homecoming!" Rondana argued.
"If you want me to wear high heels and a dress, then why don't you make me!"
"You guys are acting like children" Kellesey muttered.
"There's an eight year old who has more sense than you-"
"We have to wear high heels?!" Shadow squeaked. Ari clapped her hands over her ears and screamed.
"EVERYBODY SHUT UP!!" Tigger roared. Everyone was quiet. Tigger sighed.
"Whoa…"
"You guys are acting like a bunch of girls!" Tigger said. Rondana gave her a look.
"We are girls" She replied. Tigger reddened.
"A bunch of prissy girls!" She corrected. Dawne suddenly jumped. She ran over to the window. Shadow, noticing everything had gotten quiet, inched out of the bathroom.
"Who's there?!" Dawne demanded, shouting out the window. A tree rustled, but no one responded. Dawne turned around.
"Sorry, had a moment of paranoia. Shadow, you don't look stupid" She said, hoping to change the current mood. Shadow hid back in the bathroom.
X
"…. I'm just a little awkward"
"You keep falling over! How are you going to walk in those shoes?!"
Shadow was clutching onto Dawne as they walked to the Gym, where Homecoming was held. Shadow thought she was going to be sick. Either that or twist her ankle.
"You know what, screw these shoes!" She said angrily, throwing them across the hall. Rondana gave her an odd look.
"If somebody trips over those, I'm gonna laugh"
A brunette boy tripped over Shadow's shoes.
"RALPH! Are you okay?!" Rondana shrieked, running over to the boy. Tigger giggled.
"He's Ralph?
"So much for laughing…"
X
Shadow felt like crap. Everyone else was having fun, except her. Well, Dawne refused to do anything, so she wasn't having fun either. Rondana was attempting to dance under the disco ball with Ralph, who was just as bad. Trayos was hiding from Celine, which basically meant he was under the table. Lee and Tyrranis were using someone's cell phone to prank call people, Ari was trying to get people to line dance and Tigger was forcing Aladd to line dance. Celine's posse was scattered all over, the Goth girl terrorizing the weaker ones, the blond one trying to write and the red haired one was staring off in space. Celine, was of course, stealing everyone's date.
"He's MY date!" Tigger shouted, in a standoff with Celine over Aladd, who was quietly sneaking away.
"Celine, if you want to be a slut, go to Terra Vegas" Shadow muttered, coming over to help defend her friend's date. Celine looked murderous.
"Oh, I wouldn't be calling other people a slut when you're falling all over Trayos like a hired hooker" She hissed. Tigger's eyes went wide.
"Oh, you did NOT just say that!" Shadow spat, clenching her fists.
"Actually, I just did"
"Looks like someone wants a broken nose!" Shadow muttered, lunging forward. Dawne grabbed her from the back.
"She's not worth it" She reasoned. Celine smirked.
"So says the He-She"
Dawne stiffened.
"What did you just call me?"
"I called you a He-She, you -"
Dawne whipped around, snapping Celine's jaw with her foot. Celine went flying. The music stopped. The few students dancing froze. Celine slammed against the opposite wall, her jaw crooked. Her posse stood in shock. The blond, Lori, dropped her pencil. The Goth, Mecha, stared, aghast.
She watched the pencil fall to the floor and lost it.
"Do you only write all the freaking time?! Don't you ever do anything?!"
And then, of course, all hell broke loose.
Shadow ducked under the table with Trayos, both of them wishing they just stayed in the dorm rooms. Rondana ducked under a chair. Aladd jumped into the middle of the fight.
"Students?! You must cease this childish…" Miss Nightingale realized no one was listening. She snatched a whistle from the neck of the football coach.
TWEEEE!
Students cringed, clamping their hands over their ears.
"DAWNE! MECHA! MY OFFICE, NOW!" Miss Nightingale bellowed. Dawne stumbled back a little, than stared at her.
"Are you DEAF?! MY OFFICE!" Miss Nightingale screamed. Dawne, although confused, followed Mecha and Miss Nightingale. Nurse Jamie helped Celine off the ground. Several other students whispered, staring at Dawne's friends. Lori started to cry and the red head, Marina, comforted her.
"Okay… That was interesting! Let's resume, shall we?" Miss D asked, trying to sound cheerful. Most students started to dance again.
"Holy crap, Dawne is in so much trouble!" Tigger muttered. Trayos shook his head.
"You have no idea how much of an understatement that was"
Shadow looked around. She felt horrible and whenever she felt bad, she always drank a lot of liquids for some odd reason.
"Shadow? Why are you drinking half the punch?" Rondana asked after Shadow's, like, fourteenth glass of fruit punch.
"I don't know… Does this taste funny to you?" Shadow asked, stumbling a bit. Rondana took a sip.
"No"
"Lee?"
"Nope"
"Ari?"
"Nah…"
Pretty soon, a lot of kids were drinking the punch, trying to find out what was wrong with it. Trayos refused to follow suit.
"If something is really wrong with it, I'm not letting that anywhere close to me" He muttered. Shadow felt dizzy. She gripped a table so hard that her knuckles turned white.
"Hey, are you okay?" Trayos asked. He barely noticed other students dropping around him. What was going on here?
"What the… What's going on?! Hey, wake up!" He said, shaking Shadow. Her vision blurred.
"What…?" She collapsed onto the floor. Trayos looked around. Lee, Tyrranis, Rondana, Aladd, Tigger…
WHAM!
The only way in and out slammed shut. A tall, red headed man with beady brown eyes stood there, blocking the way.
"You!"
Trayos failed to notice the talon creeping up behind him until the blunt edge of his staff rapped him upside the head. Marks smirked as the boy fell to the ground.
"Get them out. Leave the unnecessary ones behind" He ordered. A group of Talons that had come through the windows nodded.
X
Dawne felt so stupid. She couldn't believe she let herself do that! Well, she hadn't really done that, another part of her had…
"You know, this was all part of the plan" Mecha sneered, sitting next to her in Miss Nightingale's office. Dawne stared at her.
"Plan…" She trailed off. Mecha stood, grinning like she was winning a fight.
"ATLAB pays well…I think your head will pay for much" She hissed. Dawne glanced at the door. But before she could run, Mecha slammed a fist into her face, knocking her backwards and unconscious.
Elsewhere, Nurse Jamie smirked as she and Celine walked into the nurse's office. Celine snapped her jaw back into place, making the sound of metal grating on metal. Jamie/ Veronica flipped a switch on what seemed like a television. Mark's face appeared on the screen.
"Hadgers! Report!" He barked.
"K.I.R.A and the boy have been secured"
"Good. Now, get out of there before someone calls the authorities"
The screen flipped off. Celine smirked.
"I believe spiking the punch went well…" She said, removing the skin on her hand, that served as a glove. As a matter of fact, it wasn't skin. It was rubber. Celine was a robot, designed for the use of trapping and torturing.
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Now THAT was totally unexpected, right? Right?! Ah, well… It was still a cool idea.
(crowd gasps)
ShadowQueen25
PS: I'm going to camp on the 29th of June, so I'll be gone for the week at camp. Sorry!