And as always, I haven't got a clue as to why this story is read by so many. :P
Disclaimer: If you don't know, take a gander from the previous chapter.
Sorry Laguz, but I can't accurately describe a band or its music nor can I do songs within a fic. You will just have to visualize that whole part and come up with a song in your head (I feel so very bad). :(
Chapter 18: The Ninth Day; Fourth Block Party
"He's late," I grumbled, crossing my arms tapping my foot and waiting outside the front door. Wonder was with me too, since I would need help to carry the many pizzas that I ordered, and I was so tempted to just hold her hand while I we waited, but I somehow found the urge to not to. Though I couldn't help the blushing, and having Wonder giggling from it was not helping. Of course her presence was comforting and the disturbing lesson for the day was well in the back of my mind for now, but my co-worker was late and I am pretty sure Laguz is at the gym by now – and I need to get there quickly, if I wanted to feed the hungry masses.
"You should relax more," Wonder advised. "Waiting patiently will be so much easier you know."
"I am pretty relaxed." "Because yo..." I stopped short, thank goodness I did not finish what I was about to say.
"Because?"
"Because... The wind is calming?"
"But there is no wind blowing, Chris." I felt like an idiot.
"You guys are acting too weird – only I can do that – so why am I blindfolded and possibly being led to a lava pit where you might push me in?"
"Laguz, calm down," Yorkie said happily. "I assure you that you'll not fall in a lava pit."
"Then what about endless pits?"
"Nope," Ace said with a grin that Laguz could not see anyway.
"Then what about..."
"No," Zeena said with a hint of annoyance in her tone.
"Killjoy," Laguz muttered.
"Alright Laguz, we're here." The blindfold was literally yanked from her eyes and then light hit the red Yoshi girl; it took a few moments to adjust her eyes to the incoming light.
"The gym?" She second guessed herself before the light was adjusted firmly through her eyes. "The gym?" she asked again.
"Yes the gym," Anna clarified, nearly shoving her to get in. "Go in."
"Alright alright!" She happily pushed the large double doors and feasted her eyes at the big room. Obviously, there was a stage in the middle, which had never been there before, big enough for a band to play on – maybe. The bleachers were all extended so it looked like many could sit. A disco ball dangled from the ceiling and shone off many pretty glitters on the floor (or however those work). The room had a sort of purple color to it, considering that the lights from above all had a purple tint to them.
"So, why is the gym looking funny today?" The female Yoshi asked, but her question was answered when all of a sudden so many of the students and staffs jumped out from their hiding spots and said one big "Happy Birthday" out loud.
"Because Laguz," Vinny smiled. "We take birthdays very seriously here."
Wonder and I could already hear the band we hired, Relient K I think, and we were still waiting for the vast amounts of pizza. Particularly, I could hear Laguz so I assuming she was enjoy her time.
"Ah finally," I almost yelled. A yellow – almost golden – car parked its way to the front of the school. I beckoned Wonder to follow me as the driver door slowly opened. A tall person stepped out of the vehicle, his blue hair seemed to flow as he stepped out the car.
Typical show-off, that's what I say.
"About time you showed up!"
"Geez sorry, it takes time to make at least 12 dozen pizzas and more, thank you very much!"
"Just joking with you. Come on, Laguz's party already began and they're expecting pizza!"
"Alright, don't be having fits over it, at least they're here now... But I did also to manage to get a copy of both those games."
"Good, she likes those."
"But why do I have to stay here again?"
"Because you, my friend and co-worker, are gonna make one fan girl happy."
Of course, he let his ego get to him, which happened sometimes if he was in a good mood. "Well, I can't keep my number one fan waiting now."
The band played so professionally that Laguz thought she died and went to the Overthere. How in the world the school got her favorite band here, was totally not understandable and relevant. Her favorite band was playing, her friends were rocking with it, and pretty much the whole school was rocking it. That was all the reasoning she needed.
But then a spotlight landed on her, and Will right next to her gave her a microphone. They were all staring at her with expectant smiles and stares... What was going on?
"Come on Laguz, go for it," Yorkie encouraged as she rose up with her own microphone. "Sing for us." Laguz looked over her microphone at hand, she listened to the slow steady music just waiting for her cue to pick up its pace again, she observed all her adoring fans just waiting for her moment to shine, even the band was waiting.
With a skip and a hop, Laguz started her song, with Yorkie joining in. Some of the boys in the audience became so mesmerized by their singing that you could hear them screaming for them - cheering them on. It soon became a madhouse as Laguz and Yorkie stole the show, clearly this singing duo was such a big hit that I would not be surprised if they had a fan club for those two tomorrow.
"Wow they are really good."
"They are, aren't they? I would have never thought of that."
"So where do these pizzas go?" Wonder asked.
"Oh, right over here next to Toadsworth. Follow me." Those two couldn't have helped but dance a little as they held on to those pizzas, but thankfully they didn't drop any boxes. Unfortunately, I was sort of getting in a dancing mood too – and I absolutely hated to sing and dance. You wouldn't be able to get me to do it, no matter what. But here I am, carefully placing the boxes of pizza on the table and tapping my foot to the rhythm. I mumbled angrily to myself, trying to force my foot from tapping.
"Ah very good you three," the principal acknowledged. "The pizza safely got here just in time!"
"Alright, you two find a seat somewhere and make sure you go up to Laguz by the end of the song, okay?"
"Got it... But I think I will go dancing instead. Catch you later!"
"Chris, will you go dancing with me please?" The moment Wonder finished with that sentence, I was so inclined to instinctively and automatically say yes, even against my hatred toward dancing; but fortunately for me, I was able to politely deny her request – and it took a whole lot of sheer willpower to do that.
"N-not r-right now, Wonder... There is one more thing I gotta do first. I have to get Will first, so I'll see you later, okay?" I didn't take another glance at her as I sort of power walked away from her, I was so shaken up that I had to stop momentarily just to get over myself. Luckily though, Will must have saw me because he came strolling over to me.
"Is he here?" I asked him.
"Nope," he said simply.
"Well he has to be somewhere in the school then, let's go."
Leaving Yorkie and Laguz to their road to stardom, Will and I transversed the school in search of the only person who would not dare to show up because of well... Laguz herself.
Yorkie and Laguz were beginning to get hot and sweaty, but that didn't stop them! No, they continued to sing, and the audience was loving it. Their quickly becoming fans were screaming out in encouragement, and Laguz and Yorkie gave them what they wanted. They were so good that even the band was utterly astounded, and they almost stopped playing their instruments for the two rising stars.
"I would have never thought it would get this good," Ace shouted to his friends over the loudness of the rest of the audience.
"If they keep this up, they might have a career in singing," Zeena said back.
"Might? They definitely would," Dash shouted back.
"I might even consider opening up a fan club for them," Rugtugba joked.
"I'd second that," Anna shouted, completely taking him seriously.
"Where is this dude?"
"I have no id... Found him." I pointed to the distant male restroom door that was just opening and revealed one little Dragon Koopa. "Yo Bowser Junior..."
He instinctively looked up and began running away, I grumbled as Will and I gave chased.
"I won't go to that party," Bowser Junior wailed. "I hate girls!"
"Oh yes you are," I hollered back. "You are on the list of Laguz's most favorite things and people in the world!"
"Ew," he hollered back, taking a turn to a right hallway.
"Will, you go that way so you can catch him on the other side."
"Got it." He took the forward hallway while I turned to the same hallway Bowser Junior took. I don't know about Will, but I totally felt like a cop trying to catch a criminal – only without the criminal and cop part.
"Come on Bowser Junior, you know you like her!"
"...Says you," he spat back... But did he hesitate with his sentence? No, I must be imagining things. He turned the to the left corner and I smirked. Any minute now and...
Yep, Will tackled Bowser Junior. "Gah, you two are so annoying! I will just have to make you leave me alone!" He raised his neckerchief he always wore around his neck and brought to his face, revealing a somewhat decent picture of a monster mouth that made him slightly more intimidating. "Now you are gonna get it!" He reached inside his shell and threw two empty, green koopa shells at us. Skillfully, Will jumped over the shell that came at him and used Water Gun to douse Bowser Junior; me on the other hand, just kicked the shell back at him, tripping him in the process. Unfortunately, the fall harmed his head a little more than I thought it would and it knocked him out.
"How anti-climatic," I sighed. "Come on Will, let's..." A white light suddenly enveloped around my little buddy. I instantly freaked out, thinking that something terrible was going to happen to him, but somehow I realized that the light looked familiar, it even felt familiar. But once it disappeared, I knew exactly what happened.
"Dude, I evolved finally!" It was true, you couldn't call Will a Mudkip anymore – he was now Will the Marshstomp! "Oh just wait until everyone gets to see me and my awesome-r self now!"
"If we hurry, you could tell them faster." I holstered Bowser Junior by the arms while Will grabbed his legs. "This guy weighs a ton!"
"Oh my god! I love you!"
"You were amazing!"
"I can't believe you two go to this school!"
Yep, just some of the flattering comments given to now superstars, Laguz and Yorkie. They were so good that even this person showed up.
"Darlings, you were brilliant! Brilliant I say!"
"Um thanks," Yorkie blushed in happiness and flattery.
"Please call me Candy Kong, and love finding new talent in the music industry."
"Wait, so are..."
"Yes, I can get you two girls into stardom, if you want." The light in their eyes grew into anime stars, as if this was some sort of cartoon or something.
"Really?" Laguz shouted with anticipation.
"Hmm, yes, but let's discuss this after shall we? I believe this someone's birthday, no?"
"Yeah, I'm starved," Laguz suddenly realized, she turned around but soon bumped into something soft and cushion-y. Upon backing up and coming to her senses, she looked ahead of her and then up and then up and then up some more.
This was the biggest green Yoshi plushie she had ever seen; seriously almost halfway up to the roof of the gym. And how in the world she missed this while on stage, we will never know. But since she happily tried to wrap her arm around it the best she could and squealed while burying her face in it, she must have been real happy, to say the least.
All her friends, Zeena, Wonder, Rugutgba, Vincent, Marioliza (Who was still on the bleachers drawing on her notepad), Ace, Anna, Dash, Yorkie (Will, and I, if we were there), were proud of their collaborated present to her.
"Pardon me sir. Excuse me ma'am..." Does her ears deceive her? That voice sounded just like... Like...
"Um hello there. Laguz right?" The red Yoshi made a needless, overly slow dramatic turn away from her humungous Yoshi plushie and saw...
"Hey, I heard that you were my fan, am I right?"
*Cue a huge, ear piercing fan girl scream* Laguz ran up to him and tightly gripped him, nearly almost picking him up off the ground.
"Whoa there Laguz, you can let go now." The very excited Laguz was reluctant to let go of her grip, but judging how tight her grip was, she could have drained all his oxygen out his body system. "Geez, with a grip like that, you might be stronger than me."
"Sorry Ike, but I had no idea you..."
"That I would be here? No, probably not but thanks to my co-worker, Chris, I was able to (And not to mention get out of work). Here, he told me you would love these." He extended his hands, offering her two Wii games: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn; however, these were no ordinary Fire Emblem games. No, this was a never before released platinum edition – packed with several bonus features and not to mention another mind blowing of eighteen hours of more game! Laguz was speechless, despite that she always had something to say. "That's not all," he said, almost not being able to contain his excitement. From within his back he had a sword that glimmered to a shine, neatly polished and crafted only by the gods themselves. Something newly added to the sword though was Ike's name neatly and beautifully carved in cursive.
"Your Ragnell," Laguz breathlessly.
"Is now yours." Ike carefully offered her his sword; Laguz almost stood frozen before she even considered touching it. Laguz slowly started to firmly grasp it, but as soon as Ike let go of it, she nearly fell over due to its colossal weight. Ike caught her just in time and set her back to a stand position. "Did I forget to mention that it was heavy?" Of course Laguz knew this because she is the ultimate Fire Emblem fan, so grunted and heaved as she slowly brought the sword to her eye level. She nearly chopped off the heads of several around her; but after at least 10 minutes, she was able to grip and keep it leveled with her body to an up position.
"I almost killed myself," Laguz giggled. "But I think I can finally hold it straight up... But aren't you gonna need this back to fight monsters and bad guys!? I don't my hero to go unarmed out there."
Ike chuckled. "Don't worry Laguz, my Ettard is back at home and I prefer that one anyway." They both shared a laugh, that was until Laguz dropped her new sword on the ground... On someone's foot (At least it landed flatly)... A blue foot to be exact.
And I was trying so hard not to scream out in agony because that sword is not powerful for nothing – I could see why Ike had such an easy time knocking others with his smash attacks... "Laguz..." I tried to say without yelling at her, "Take your boyfriend now please..." Will and I practically handed the still asleep Bowser Junior to her – she nearly almost died of cute he looked when he was asleep. As she went on ranting about how cool he is, I limped away from her to the outside hallway.
And then, I screamed bloody murder in the hallway.
Yorkie smiled." Thanks Laguz!"
"Yup," Laguz gave a thumbs-up.
About ten minutes after, I was still out the hallway because my foot hurt like no other and everyone else was snacking on some pizza and listening to some more music from Laguz's favorite band.
"ML do you have to constantly draw on your notepad?" Vinny asked.
"Yep, 'tis my favorite pastime," she grinned. Vinny rolled his eyes and took another bite out of his slice of pizza.
"Does this star look funny to you?"
"They all look the same to me," Vinny said with a bored tone in his voice, that ML couldn't catch.
"Really?"
"Hey ML, check out Laguz over there." ML propped her head up finally from her notepad and looked over to where Vinny mentioned.
"No, you can't make me Laguz," Bowser Junior huffed, "I don't like playing with girls."
"Come on," Laguz whined. "It's my birthday!"
"I don't care, you can't make me!"
"Yes I can!" Laguz happily took a firm grip on his neckerchief and started dragging him.
"No no no," Bowser Junior wailed. "I refuse to let you take me!" Bowser Junior began dragging Laguz as she continued to grip his neckerchief.
"Nope, not going to let you." Laguz started dragging Bowser Junior again, but he kept fighting back – she kept pulling and he kept pushing. Eventually though, Laguz somehow found hidden strength from inside her and with one yank, she was now carrying him! Completely taken by shock, Bowser Junior just sat there as Laguz just carried him off outside so the two of them could play some basketball and be on the same team.
And although Bowser Junior was completely enraged, he started having second thoughts. Laguz's commanding forcefulness... He liked to forcefully command others too... He had to admit that part of Laguz was actually pretty cool...
Did he really just think that?
And what was I doing, you say? Still massaging my sore foot...Aand trying my hand out for poetry.
To that red Yoshi girl,
Who's mere mention remind us of pearls.
"This sounds so terrible," I thought to myself.
That cool dino with an attitude,
Yet, can somehow give us gratitude.
Something about that people like,
And heck even I am one of those tykes.
I sighed, this was so difficult to write...
Your random, your playful,
Your cool, your... random?
Such shortness this poem pays,
Because I ran out of words to say;
But only because this brain cage...
And no more room on this page. :P
Talk about a fail poem! I grumbled and crumbled the stupid piece of paper up. I then took another piece of paper out, "Basketball, check. Drawing, not yet. Writing, fail..." I began scratching things off this list, I wanted to make this perfect for Laguz but I couldn't get everything she wanted. I shut my eyes and buried my face into my hands, this party was going to be over soon anyway. We would be leaving in about ten minutes. I just hope Bowser Junior remembers to do that thing I told him when he was knocked out; I hoped he heard me.
"Whew," panted Laguz, "You guys-you guys play like beasts!"
"Heh, they don't call-call me the-the Rock Hard for nothing," Knuckles panted heavily.
"And I'm not called The Zipper for nothing," a purple dragon, properly named Spyro, panted, but not so heavily.
"And I am not called Laguz for nothing," she piped. Well, it is true, that is here name.
"I gotta admit Laguz, I seriously do not want to go one-on-one with you," Knuckles complimented. "You definitely got some mad skillz!"
"You said that with a Z, Knux."
"Because everything sounds better with a Z at the end."
"Yeah," Laguz agreed, "Kind of how like my friend Chris likes to say Jelly Ultraz all the timez."
"Bummer man," Spyro mentioned. "Looks like your B-day is down for the day Laguz." Everybody was exiting out the gym, and Laguz could see that her favorite band in the world was packing their belongings together. Indeed, her birthday bash was done for the day.
"Well sorry Laguz, I got to get going. Rouge wants me to help her with Shadow's date tonight."
Even Laguz was astounded by this! Shadow... And a date?
"Ol' Moody has a date," Spyro almost yelled, "With who?"
"I believe it was a girl named Sheri."
Only Laguz had an evil smirk on her face. "Heh, this is some good information for later..."
"...Anyway, later Laguz and Knuckles, I promised Sparx I would meet up with him tonight."
"Alright Spyro, catch you later shorty," Knuckles joked.
"Alright gullible hot-head," Spyro countered before flying off; Knuckles walked to the other direction (Muttering some threats about Spyro).
This left poor Laguz all alone, she was hoping that at least...
"Hold up a second."
Laguz turned and raveled her eyes to the person before her. "Hiya Junior!"
Bowser Junior snorted, only handing her a big sheet of rolled white paper. She grabbed it giddily and wasted not a lot of time to open it.
She would have burst out into fits of laughter if Bowser Junior had not made it: there was badly painted green grass, with a background of smeared sky blue color. The sun looked very cartoonish (And very angry for some reason) and some 'cloud' things were also in the background. And then there were two stick figures – badly drawn of course. But one of them was labeled Bowser Junior and the other one was labeled Laguz... And judging by the closeness of the two in the picture, you could call their stick hands touching – almost. There was a light gray area between the two so who knows if you would consider it touching; Laguz thought it was a touching picture.
"Thank you Junior."
"Don't mention it! Seriously, I had this strong urge to make it for you because some voice in my head kept nagging me to do it! I just did it to get the stinkin' voice out of my head!"
What Laguz heard was: "I hope you like it! I made it just for you because I like you a lot!"
"Thank you anyway," she smiled and... Laid a small peck on his cheek.
"EWWWW!" EWWWW!" Bowser furiously tried wiping down his cheek with his claws, as if the kiss she gave him would go away magically. "EWWWWW! COOTIES!" Bowser Junior ran toward some random direction screaming bloody murder and wailing how much he hates girls.
What Laguz heard was: "Yes! I just met her, but she kissed me! I think I'm in love!"
What Roy and Larry thought as they eavesdropped: "Heh heh heh..."
Walking home with a painful foot was way harder than I thought, but I managed and was happy to reach my abundled home. "Ah, no place like..."
All of a sudden, Michael and Kirlia stepped out the house holding hands. Michael was the first to see me, Kirlia soon followed suit.
We all stared at each other in akward silence.
