After a good fifteen minutes, the last ones left were triumphantly standing- either breathing heavily from exhaustion or looking smug. The other team cheered for the first five to qualify in representing their school for the 'Battle to become The Ten Terror of the Under'.
"Alright. Students, may I announce the victors in group one" Mr. Vermon said as he was seen on the wall using a projector.
"Out of 500 students *DRUM ROLL PLEASE* Dahlia with 75 victories (Dahlia was transported into the room where the second group where and she stood on a out-of-the-blue step which had a print of the number 5) and Taylor with 98 victories (He was also transported into the room and stood on a step with the print of the number 4) and Gene with 103 victories (She was also transported into the room and stood on the step with number 3 printed on it) and Harry [the wizard] with 109 victories ( He was transported into the room and stood on a step with 2 printed on it) and Lastly, Shock with 121 victories (She was transported into the room and stood on the highest step with number 1 printed on it)". As Shock was transported and arrived in the room, the other group was quickly transported into the gym for their fight.
"Go Lock! Go Barrel!" Shock cheered seeing through the glassed safety room. And on cue, Lock looked at her way and winked then smirked.
"Go Barrel!" Dahlia cheered too and Barrel looked her way beaming with enthusiasm.
"Come on Prez! You can do it!" Gene stated as she saw their president got to a fighting stance.
"Win, Gray, Win!" Taylor exclaimed at his long time friend.
"Win! Blakey-boy" Harry announced.
Meanwhile inside the gym, the fight had already started. All the girls charged each other; some got between man-to-man battles and were knocked out. The boys were rough with each other- Barrel and Lock helped each other. Both of them used the same technique Shock did. Gray used a ghoul's secret moves. And Blake charged and knocked down anyone stupid enough to challenge him and his superior strength.
After just five minutes, the second batch of winners arose from the group. The winners in the other room were cheering louder this time.
"Alright, Batch 2. Out of 500 students *DRUM ROLL PLEASE* John [The dragon] with 55 victories ( He was transported to the other room and stood on the number 5 step) and Gray with 78 victories (He was transported into the room and stood on the step number 4) and Blake with 109 victories (He was also transported and stood on the number 3 step) and Barrel with 119 victories (He was transported and stood on number 2 step with a hug from his girlfriend) and Lock with 139 victories (He was transported into the other room and stood on the step with number 1 printed on it with a hug from Shock)" Mr. Vermon announced.
"Congratulations to the winners" The principal's voice said.
"Aie-yoh. P.T. wen des com'etish stat eniweez? (Ai-yoh! P.T. When does this competition start anyway?)" John asked.
"When the moon turns crescent and black, that is when the representatives and I shall instantly be transported to the meeting place" Principal Thorn's voice said.
"Finally, we get to see you in person" Harry said.
"Wait, when will we have a black crescent moon?" Dahlia asked.
"During nighttime" Gene answered.
"We'll all be INSTANTLY transported, right" Shock asked/said.
"Whatever we'll be doing will be interrupted" Lock stated and grimaced for he had special plans for tonight with Shock.
"According to my calculations, we will have a black crescent moon in a week or so" Taylor said and Lock rejoiced.
"Don't-" "TRANSPORT" Blake was interrupted when Lock immediately grabbed Shock, Barrel, and Dahlia and transported them out of school. "-Forget about the different time tables of the Under Dimensions" Blake finished.
"Oh-right...So the correct time will be tonight at 12:27:15 am" Taylor said.
Meanwhile with the hooligans, they played pranks on the mayor all day. With the mayor-in his sad face, saying "I knew you wouldn't change!" or "Stop or else". The three tricksters had taught Dahlia the art of pranks since she and Barrel started dating. Dahlia, in fact, found pranking fun, amusing, and enticing. The four of them got home at about 7 and played, talked, and ate with each other. Around 10, Dahlia's older sister, Ophelia stormed to their front door. She said "Dahlia was to be home after school had finished for her lessons and you have the nerve to gorgon-nap her in broad daylight!" or something like that. Ophelia almost turned Barrel into stone because of her rage if Lock hadn't put an invisible barrier to the three of them. When Shock realized what was going to happened, she yelled "TRANSPORT" and transported Ophelia back to the gorgons' house.
"I'm sorry about that" Dahlia said shyly after all the commotion had settled.
"No worries"
"It's fine"
"No one was hurt or turned to stone" was the trio's answer to the girl. Dahlia and Barrel went to the guest room where they can have a private conversation. It was about 11:30 when they went out of the room and Barrel escorted Dahlia back to her house.
"That was a long 'conversation'" Lock said with air quotes on conversation when he heard the guest room's door open then closed. Shock looked up at his face with knitted brows.
"Why with the air quotation on conversation?" Shock asked. The two of them lay on her bed and we're getting ready to sleep.
"Didn't you hear?"
"NOPE"
"Oh right, you don't have my level of hearing"
"Get on with!"
"Impatient aren't we?" Lock said and flipped her around and kissed her.
"Lock, stop it. Answer my question" Shock insisted as she meekly pushed her lover away.
"Come on, just one for tonight" Lock whined. Shock pushed him off her and started to tickle him.
"Stop! Stop!" Lock exhaled out of breath, his pale white skin showed a pale pink color.
"Not until you lessen being so damn sensual and intimate" Shock whispered and tickled harder. Lock laughed and laughed.
"Okay, okay. I'll lessen my sensuality and intimacy!" Lock exhaled loudly as he caught his breath. Shock happily lay on his lean muscular clothed chest.
"I miss this" Shock said as Lock played with her long curly purple hair. His tail was on the outskirts of her thigh but didn't move higher than there.
"Yeah, same here" Lock said as Shock breathed hot breathes onto his chest.
"Again, what didn't I hear?" Shock asked out of the sudden.
"Whoa. Way to go, ruining our moment" Lock said calmly but felt Shock's fingers nearing his ticklish spots.
"Fine, fine" Lock said and Shock grinned.
"Finally" Shock said.
"What you didn't hear is their voices as they had done their first time" Lock said.
"They snapped their V-cards?" Shock exclaimed.
"Stop overreacting, we did too, didn't we" Lock stated.
"Yeah but-" She was interrupted when she found her surroundings to have changed.
"Oh GOD" They heard Barrel exclaim. They went to look for him and saw him. His bare back faced towards them as he tried to cover up his naked lover.
"ATTIRE" Lock and Shock said in unison as they saw their friend and brother hugging his girlfriend to lessen what they could see from her (Lock and Barrel had seen each other naked numerous of times, Barrel saw Shock naked once, Shock saw Barrel naked for the second time, and Lock and Shock had seen each other naked a number of times). Now the other couple was fully clothed. Barrel sported a red and black hoodie with magenta jeans and maroon sneakers- courtesy of Lock. And Dahlia wore a purple shirt, lavender shorts, and violet high top sneakers- courtesy of Shock.
"Uh, guys?" Dahlia said as she covered her eyes and pointed towards the rhyming named couple. Barrel didn't get what Dahlia pointed at until his eyes fell on his friends and so-called siblings. Both were wearing their sleepwear. Lock was wearing loose black boxers and a red v-neck shirt- showing him with no under-underwear. Shock was wearing a short tight lavender nightgown that hugged her figure- and showed her with no underwear.
"What?" The couple asked in unison. They looked at each other then down on their bodies.
"ATTIRE" They said. Now, Shock wore a sleeveless lavender one piece short with purple boots and Lock wore a red sleeveless hoodie shirt, black jeans, and vermillion steel-toed sneakers.
"Better" Barrel said as he and his girlfriend gave the couple a thumbs-up.
"Liar!" The four heard and they turned around to the right. They heard grass shuffling, branch moving, and voices mumbling to the right.
"Who's there?" Lock instinctively said as all of them were looking at their right.
"Lock?" They heard a girl said on the other end which was to their left. When they snapped their attention to the left, there was a cute girl staring at them.
"LOCK!" The girl yelled, running to them and bear hugged Lock. The girl was about their age, she had silver hair, yellow irises, and pale white skin- whiter than Lock's, and was dressed in a puffed flowing light blue dress. Lock looked surprised at the mysterious girl who's hugging him and Shock glared daggers at the girl.
"Lock?" A voice said from the other side- to the right. When the group, mostly Barrel and Dahlia, snapped their attention to the right. From the right bushes, the other Spooky High representatives emerged from the dark side of the bushes and tree lines.
"Oh. Hey, guys" Dahlia said as she looked at their six schoolmates. They wore fitted white spandex suits with black and orange accents and the Spooky High patch right collarbone side which was the Spooky High representative uniform.
"There you guys are!" Gene exclaimed. She wore the Spooky high representative uniform so well that she looked like she was a general in an army.
"Gene? So it was you we heard yell" Barrel said and looked at the other representatives.
"Let Lock go!" Shock yelled at the mystery girl as she tried to pry her off. Taylor ran up to them and pried the girl off Lock.
"Another kind?" Taylor said as he stared at the girl. He wore the Spooky high representative uniform that showed his chiseled body.
"Another kind?" The girl said as she stared at Taylor. Meanwhile Shock looked at Lock angrily as he tried to explain.
"People!" Gary's voice interrupted. He looked fairly regal and mature wearing the Spooky High representative uniform.
"Thank you, Gary." They heard the principal's voice said as a figure emerged from the darkness of the bushes and tree lines.
"Oh my!" Dahlia said as she stared at the figure.
"Shoot!" Barrel exclaimed staring at the figure.
"What the…." Lock said as the figure caught his attention.
"Your majesty!" The mystery girl said and bowed down.
"What's happening here?" They all heard and their attention snapped to their left as a group of girls dressed in puffed flowing light blue dresses emerged from the dark.
"Lola!" They heard one of the girls say and the mysterious girl that hugged Lock earlier turned her head to the group.
"Guys!" 'Lola' said as she rose up, bowed slightly then ran to the group.
"Your Highness!" One of the girls said and all of them bowed down to the figure.
"Glad you can make it, Gaylord" Shock said smirking as she pinched Lock's pointy ear.
"You shall not address Principal and Ruler Thorn like that!" Gary exclaimed as he drew a meter stick and was going to slap Shock's wrists. The figure gestured his hands as in to say stop.
"Gray!" Lock stated as he hugged Shock tight.
"It is alright to call me by my first name but I prefer Cruz or P.T." The figure with the principal's voice said.
"Cruz?" Lock said as he, Shock, and Barrel looked at each other in confusion.
"Like - who was that again?! The one in Mhadz Genesis!" Barrel said staggering to get the information that he wanted from his memory.
"Mhadz Genesis-" Lock said with wide eyes.
"-Louche Family-" Shock said with wide eyes too.
"-Louche Cruz" Barrel exclaimed as he remembered.
"Yes. Yes. I am Louche Cruz of the Mhadz Genesis" The figure said as his appearance was unveiled. There was this manly figure wearing a white formal suit with black and orange accents. His skin was dark blue, his hair was blue, and his eyes were black with cerulean irises.
"You used to be one of the Ten Terrors of the Under!" Shock yelled in surprise.