Three months later, school got a little better for Phantom. Phantom, Anya, Ian, and Loco were all talking at lunch now and were becoming somewhat friends. Pike eventually started sitting at their lunch table too.
"Hey Tom!" Anya said at the lunch table, "guess what?" Phantom wasn't in the mood to talk today; he was so tired. "Anya not today. I'm still very tired from getting up early to do chores." he said with a yawn. After the fight with Pike three months ago, Phantom told Mr. and Mrs. Johnson about where he came from. Still he didn't understand why they still wanted him there. They also said that they would love him no mater what. Which was weird. From then on he slowly started doing his chores.
"But I just found out that next week we're having Spirit Week," said Anya. Ivan, Lilly, and Pike just came over to the lunch table. Pike was being yelled at all day by the student president. He woke up late and didn't have time to put on his bandana, so everyone noticed for the first time that Pike had extremely long hair, for a guy. (Up to his waist) Loco put down her lunch tray. "What's Spirit Week?" she asked. "Spirit Week," started Anya, "is a whole week of crazy days of dressing up and having fun. All leading up to a pep rally on Friday."
Anya explained the past Spirit Weeks that they had before. "So what is next week's Spirit Week going to be like?" asked Pike. Anya pulled out a colorful sheet of paper that talked about the Spirit Week activities. "Well, on Monday it will be silly hat day. On Tuesday it will be crazy hair day. On Wednesday it will be school color day. On Thursday it will be sport jersey day. And on Friday it will be dress up as your favorite TV, video game, or comic character."
As soon as she was done, Anya noticed everyone was not really thinking about Monday through Thursday, they were thinking about Friday. I can tell that Tom, Ivan, and Lilly are probably going to dress up in their Chess Pieces outfits. But I wonder what Pike is going to dress up as. Thought Anya. Well I can't wait to find out.
Next week finally came along. Silly hat day barely anyone did it. (More just baseball caps) Crazy hair day was very interesting. Phantom just put highlights in his hair. Ivan dyed his hair red. Lilly wore a wig. And Pike had his hair up in a braid. On school color day the whole school had the red and orange colors on. On sports jersey day a bunch of different teams were all across the school. Finally Friday came along.
Anya was waiting for the others to come. She wore an outfit that looked like Mint's blue bird form from Tokyo Mew Mew. Where are those guys? Wondered Anya. Lilly came first. "Wow, Lilly your outfit looks just like your original!" Anya said holding out the manga MAR. "Yeah, it took me forever to find everything for the outfit." She said admiring her clothes. Ivan then came in. His outfit looked exact to his original, he even had a mask. Pike came soon after. He wore an outfit that looked like Peta's from MAR.
Anya noticed that the three of them had ARMs also. She already knew that Ian and Loco's were real, but Pike's looked real too. Anya accidentally bumped into someone. "Sorry," she said. The person was Alan, the guy who came to school the same time as Pike. "Wow, Alan! You look really good. You look like the MAR character Alviss." Anya said, helping him up, "all of your ARMs look like Alviss's too. "Thanks," he said with a half smile.
Just then a hand came onto Alan's shoulder. He looked back and nearly fainted. Anya thought of running but then noticed that the person was Tom. "Tom! Great outfit! It looks exactly like Phantom's!" She said with a smile. He even had an exact copy of his zombie tattoo. Alan got up, "you… you…" he started saying. Phantom saw that he was terrified of how much he looked like himself. I'm guessing that he reads the manga MAR thought Phantom. He took off the mask he was wearing. "Don't worry, it's just me Tom," he said. Then the bell rang.
In class their teacher was dressed up like Oracle from Batman. She let everyone in the room tell the others what they were dressed up as. Once she was done, she went onto an exciting lesson about WWI.
Later at lunch, Anya ran up to Alan. "Hey Alan! Why don't you sit with us today." She said walking over to her table. He was not sure. "It's fun. Watching Ivan and Lilly eat some weird looking homemade lunch. Tom mixing every disgusting food on his tray together making it look like barf. And Pike having a formal, expensive meal with some thick red looking drink." (A/N I'll mention what his drink is in the next chapter) Alan started walking to his table, but Anya grabbed him.
Just then some kid on the other side of the shouted "Food Fight!!!" Then food started flinging from all different directions. (Its fun to have a school with younger kids in it) One piece of chicken came flying at Anya, but it didn't hit her. A metal rod, that Alan was now holding, flung it away. "Where did that com –?" Anya started before Alan told her to run.
They both started running, using their trays (and the pole that Alan now had) as shields. Anya noticed that Alan was swinging the pole around like he's done this a thousand times. "We need to find a place to hide!" yelled Alan blocking off some mash potatoes from hitting them. "Over there!" Anya yelled back, pointing to her lunch table. It was now on it's side, and food was being thrown from the other side of it. Anya and Alan lunged toward the other side just missing today's lunch's 'mystery meat'.
"About time you came," Lilly said leaning against the table. Then Ivan took Anya's tray, which was now covered with mash potatoes. "Thank you for this," he said adding the potatoes to another tray. Anya looked at Lilly and asked what on earth is Ivan doing. "Ivan and Pike are making mash potato balls and throwing them at people," she said rolling her eyes.
Phantom then came behind the table with a tray full of mash potatoes. "You better have a good explanation for making me get more of this mush," he said giving Pike the tray. "We do," Ivan and Pike said with evil grins on their faces. Anya picked off some of today's mystery meat off of Phantom. He noticed that Alan was here, and asked why he's here. Anya explained that she didn't want him to sit by himself and that he also helped her get to the table.
After Anya said that Pike and Ivan said that they were ready. They made some sort of mash potato launcher and had many mash potato balls around them. Pike smiled at Anya and said for her to do the honors of starting the potato launcher. She pressed the thing Pike told her to press, and the machine started flinging the mash potato balls everywhere.
Everyone started getting mash potatoes in their face. Eventually Lilly, Anya, Alan, and Phantom started flinging other food's too. Alan saw a tray of food under another table and quickly went over and got it. They were having so much fun that Phantom wasn't paying attention. He accidentally used his shield ARM and blocked off a whole bunch of food that was coming his way. Hopefully no one saw that. Panicked Anya who saw him use the ARM. But Alan saw it.
"We have to get out of here!" Ivan yelled once their ammo was gone. "Follow my lead!" Phantom shouted back. He ran out into the open. Everyone thought he was nuts, but then Anya noticed that he was dodging all of the food like it was a training course or something.
When Alan came back over, Ivan, Lilly, Pike, Alan, and Anya ran after Phantom. They ran as fast as they could dodging several different kinds of foods. When they got close to the door, some sixth graders were throwing their lunches at them. "Dive toward the door!!" Lilly yelled pointing at the door that was open.
They lunged toward it and closed it in time before they could get creamed with food. After a quick awkward silence, everyone busted out laughing. "That was the best day I had in years!" laughed Ivan. "It was ok," Phantom said shaking off some food that was in his hair. Anya looked at him, "Oh, come on Tom! Admit it, you had fun."
He shrugged it off, but just then Alan took the pole that he was holding and rammed it right under his chin. "Phantom I have NO idea what game your playing, but what ever it is I'm through playing."