Chapter VII: Zombie Movie Madness
Hello again, fans of Yu-Gi-Oh GX and "Halloween Hysterics!" This is part II and the finale of this particular story! Thanks to all of you who have read and reviewed this tale despite the delays and the fact that it is now way past Halloween. So we hope you enjoy this finale. And now a little housekeeping issue. Soon, Ani and Peach hope to produce a project on the website, AdultFanFiction, which will show our four couples' wedding nights. The trouble is, we haven't the foggiest which lemon we should start with, so we need your help! Go to Peach's page here on FF and offer your opinion on our poll! So without further ado, the finale of "Halloween Hysterics!"
Disclaimer: If we owned the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, we'd have money, so you can bet we just might screw the rules. We also don't own Michael Jackson's epic song, "Thriller," and we own no movies, no other anime, no companies… well, you get the idea. Thanks for your attention.
Authors' Note: In our timeline, this story takes place in 2018.
The school day went on and the Duel Academy Host Club group was a huge success. "Man, who'd have guessed our little punishment would've been so... fun?" Jasmine wondered out loud as they headed down to Chazz's room.
"I know. Looks like those two ate our chocolate stash at the perfect time," Alexis replied, smirking.
"Yeah. And I think they've had fun too," Annie smiled, watching as Sy held onto Usa-chan and rode on Bastion's shoulders with a genuine smile on his cute face.
Violet grinned deviously. "Well, none of them will ever forget it. I got pictures of everything! The wigs, the girls' uniforms, AND our cosplaying!!" she stated gleefully, holding up a digital camera.
"Violet, I don't think they're worried about that," Mindy smiled. "And Chazz took shots of Jaden and Jesse too," she said loudly enough to get the J-Twins' attention.
"He did??" both boys spoke in surprise at once, looking over at their fellow cosplayer.
Chazz grinned wickedly. "You bet. And they'll come in handy someday!"
"Maybe. But so will our pictures of you and your 'mean face'," Jesse quipped, grinning slyly. Chazz's mean face, truth be told, was more hilarious than scary.
"Yeah. My Kuriboh slippers ran for cover," Jaden added, smirking. But instead of putting on his mean face, the raven-haired Slifer started to laugh.
"What's so funny, bro?" Atticus asked curiously.
"I can't ever look really mean, can I? Mom said that this summer!"
Atticus grinned. "No, even back when you tried to act all mean and scary, it wasn't that way at all."
Mindy sidled up to her boyfriend. "Nope... you just succeeded in looking mega-cute..." As if to confirm the cute factor, Chazz blushed.
Some of the guys snickered. "Chazz, are you blushin'?" Jesse teased.
"Uh... no," he lied lamely.
"Then why are your cheeks a few shades darker than Jesse's wig?" Atticus continued, smirking and nudging his little brother in the ribs.
"Aw, come on!" Chazz shouted indignantly, going into chibi mode. Everyone laughed; not at their friend, but with him. All of the tension that had occurred over the past few days with Jaden and Jesse's "punishments" was long forgotten. "So... does anyone want popcorn balls?" he asked as they headed to his palatial room.
"YEAH!" The sugar-lovers of the group cheered.
"Chazz, make sure there isn't any caramel in them," Alexis stated in a warning tone.
"I got special popcorn balls, sis. I remember what happens when certain people have sugar," he stated, a little frustrated.
"Good. Just double-checking. We don't want that number of streaking scenes to jump from 50 to 51," she replied with a smirk.
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The group was settling in to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride, but what they didn't know was that a figure with anger in his heart was about to make an attempt at revenge. Terry Rogers hid in the bushes. "I'm gonna get those morons," he muttered dangerously.
As Terry plotted in the bushes, Chazz opened up a window in the room. "There... We need some fresh air in here."
Out in the bushes, Terry smirked. "Perfect."
At the same time, Tyson sat down on the couch. "Ow, I hate these dang dress shoes! I want my boots!"
"You and me both," Axel stated calmly.
Rosa laughed from her spot beside Tyson. "Well, you can take them off now. You don't need to wear them inside."
"Good… my feet hate me," he muttered, trying to pull them off. And then he realized... "I can't get 'em off!"
She blinked, something about that exclamation familiar to her. "Here, I'll help," she sighed, reaching down and grabbing a shoe. As Rosa tugged, it finally hit her, and she laughed again. "Ty-Ty, doesn't this feel like... oh, how is it said here? 'Deja vu'?"
Tyson thought a minute and then laughed. "Yeah... last school year and my dance lessons! My boots went flyin'!"
Rosa smirked. "Well, as long as it doesn't happen-" As if on cue, the shoe she had been tugging on came loose, and flew out of her hands as she fell onto her back. "-again. Oops."
The shiny dress shoe flew out the open window. Terry hadn't noticed as he was busy putting on a scary rubber mask of the late Richard Nixon. "I am so gonna get those losers," he said to himself. "And I'm gonna be...." SMACK! He fell backward and was unconscious.
Violet went to the window, poking her head out of it and looking around. She then pulled her head back inside and sweat-dropped. "Uh, I think you lost your shoe, Tyson. I don't see it."
"Dang... I'll find it... My feet are killin' me," the Texas Ra groaned.
About 5 minutes later, Terry came to, a large shoe print on his face. "Dang it.... what hit me?" he muttered. A short distance away, the black shoe sat, mocking him, or so he thought. "I'll get 'em yet," he growled, staggering his way up the hill.
And back in the room... "I'll find the shoe later," Tyson muttered.
Rosa stifled her laughter this time as she helped her fiancé get his other shoe off, this one NOT flying out the open window. "From now on when we go shoe shopping, Tyson, I am getting you a size larger than you say to get."
"All right... I think I get 'em too snug anyway, darlin'," he grinned sheepishly.
"Can we watch the movie now?" Jaden and Jesse asked together.
"Chazz is the one with the remote," Violet answered, grinning.
"Okay... we can watch!" said Slifer groaned.
"Wait a sec! We need a group picture!" Annie realized.
Alexis face-palmed. "How did we forget about that?!"
"Crazy day as usual, babe," Jaden grinned sheepishly. Bastion moved to set the timer on the camera after the gang was all posed together nicely, and it captured the Duel Academy Host Club perfectly.
"Kiss kiss, fall in love!" Annie sang happily when the camera had flashed.
Some of the others laughed, and Violet was the first to snatch up the camera and look at the captured image on its screen. "Ooooh! This one's definitely a keeper!" The group looked almost exactly like the Ouran Host Club, but everyone was laughing.
And then, Violet made a comment that led to half of those present blushing, while the other half grinned. "We can show this to our kids! And then they can laugh with each other over how crazy their parents were as teenagers."
Bastion turned fire red at this, but he wasn't the only one. All assembled did. "Oh man... kids," Axel groaned.
Violet noticed the others' sudden change in complexion and blinked. "Uh... was it something I said?"
"Darling... thinking about our future children," Bastion explained, stammering.
Violet shrugged, not quite understanding the problem, though she did blush a nice red. "So? It's not like when we were dating... we're gonna get married in less than a year, aren't we? We'll be thinking about kids even more then, so why not a little bit now?"
"Ah..." Bastion couldn't say any more than that.
Syrus decided a light joke might help to break the tension, though he was blushing as fierce as anyone else in the room. "Uh, Bastion, you don't have to be in character anymore," he joked.
The Ra genius was still beet red. "Ah...."
"Sy, I don't think he's in character anymore," Jaden offered, moving a hand in front of Bastion's stunned face.
Syrus sweat-dropped. "Yeah, I knew that," he mumbled.
Violet sighed and set the camera down, then did something very Violet-like. She ran and tackled her fiancé onto the couch, knocking Jaden into Jesse and Syrus in the process. Gripping Bastion's shirt, she shook him vigorously as she spoke. "Bastion!! Snap out of it! We've still got a while before we're married, so chill!"
Bastion blinked a few times. "Ah... I know... Just... it... flummoxed me, love."
Meanwhile, Jaden groaned. "Ouch..."
Violet blinked several times at Bastion before muttering a surprised, "Bless you."
"Jay... could ya get off?" Jesse asked from beneath his Slifer twin.
"Can't... breathe..." Syrus gasped beneath both of them, fingers twitching.
Jaden moved fast. "Sorry, guys, are you okay?" he asked, helping them up.
"Yeah, I'm all right. What about you, little buddy?" Jesse asked, looking over at Syrus.
The blue-haired teen groaned, rubbing his sore back. "Y-Yeah, I'm okay."
Annie moved over to her fiancé with a smile. "You should get in the tub later, Sy..."
"Uh... can we start the movie now?" Aster asked. "We still have class tomorrow..."
"Oh! Yeah," Chazz remembered. "Okay, The Chazz Theater is proud to bring you a Tim Burton stop-action animation double feature... The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride!"
Alexis couldn't help her light sniggering. "'The Chazz Theater?'"
Chazz groaned and in a return to his slightly more acerbic self, groaned, "Yeah, yeah, the Chazz Theater, got a problem?"
She smirked. "No... aside from the fact that the movie's starting," she pointed out matter-of-factly.
And so the gang sat and watched Jack Skellington nearly mess up Christmas... "And what did Santa bring you, honey? AAAAAAAAAH!!!"
"How did they think a shrunken head was a good idea?!" Jaden asked, cracking up as Jack brought the children of the world creepy presents.
"Hey, they're monsters. I bet a monster kid would love gettin' a shrunken head as a present," Jesse returned, grinning.
"Yeah, but still, that is so weird! Why not candy?" Jaden wondered and then one could practically see the light bulb coming on over his head. "That's what Jack didn't explain! CANDY!"
"Candy?! Where?!" Violet shouted, only catching the last bit of what Jaden said and looking around wildly.
"Jack should've said Christmastown likes candy!" Jaden explained excitedly.
"Oh, no.... not again," nearly everyone else in the room groaned.
"Hey! Speaking of candy... LET'S GO GET SOME!!" Atticus shouted eagerly; Jaden, Jesse, and Violet instantly agreed with the older boy.
Everyone else in the room blockaded the door. "NOOOOOO!" The last thing they wanted was the four most hyperactive kids at Duel Academy running around on a sugar high... again.
"Aw! No fair!" Jesse whined with a pout.
"Yeah, no fair! We should be able to..." Jaden began.
"...get some candy if we want!" Jesse finished.
"That's it, I'm quoting Mori... You'll get cavities," Bastion growled.
"Hey! I brush my teeth!" Violet countered, frowning.
"And I also don't want to scrape any of you off the walls," he added.
"Why would you need to do that?" Atticus asked innocently.
"Because you'll be so bloody high on candy that you'll all bounce about like Superballs!"
"............." The four teenagers couldn't help it; they started cracking up at Bastion's description of them on a sugar rush.
"It might not be physically possible, but it sure seems like you guys bounce that way," Annie murmured, sweat-dropping.
"Huh?" Jaden asked. "Am I really like that? COOL!"
Jesse was grinning excitedly. "Hey, Jay! You think if we jumped off the second floor while all hyped up, we'd end up bouncing?!"
"Oh, crap... how do they not get killed on a regular basis?" Aster wondered.
"Fate protects fools, little children and Jaden and his doppelganger," Annie muttered.
"You think?" Adrian asked, hand over his face.
"Should we try it?" Jaden asked his twin eagerly.
"Yeah!" Jesse answered, practically hopping up and down in his excitement.
"I'm with you guys! I wanna bounce too!" Atticus exclaimed, going over to them.
Violet scoffed and rolled her eyes, crossing her arms over her chest. "Geez, glad I'm not that silly. If you wanna bounce, you obviously have to jump from the roof! Especially if you wanna go really high!" she stated matter-of-factly.
Looks of horror spread all over the group's faces. "Uh... guys, we have another movie to watch," Axel reminded them.
"Sarge... come on... we can watch another movie... and I'll make some tea," Tyson tried.
The four crazed teenagers exchanged looks, and then huddled together. They stayed that way for a few long, tense moments, whispering to each other over what to do. Finally, they separated, and Atticus spoke up for all four of them. "We'll stay and watch the movie IF we can have hot cocoa."
"Can we?" Jaden asked, giving the classic cute chibi look. The other teens exchanged glances.
"Okay. We can do that," Tyson said gently, already heating the water at the stove. "YAY!" Jaden grinned, running back to the couch.
Jesse tailed after his twin, Violet and Atticus plopping down onto the couch as well. "I suppose chocolate is ALMOST as good as candy and bouncing like a Superball," Violet stated.
It didn't take long for Tyson to fix the hot chocolate. He'd made enough for everybody and brought a big carafe to the table along with paper insulated mugs. "There we go... all nice and yummy," he said in a calm voice.
"YAY!" Jaden whooped, taking his mug.
Rosa smirked. "I guess it's a good thing that I taught you that recipe, Ty-Ty." The Spanish girl had taught her fiancé how to make the same hot chocolate her mother made, using real chocolate.
"Mmm... this is incredible," Annie murmured in pleasure. "This beats what we normally get in the stores..."
Aster was smiling too. The chocolate reminded him of times when he was really little and his father fixed the sweet drink for him on cold San Jose nights. "This is top quality stuff... You tend to get this in New York..."
Needless to say, the four sugar-crazed teens were satisfied. "Mmm! This is better than candy!" Violet stated happily.
"Yeah," Jaden smiled, looking content and blissful as he sipped. For some odd reason, this hot chocolate was calming him into a sleepy state. "Mmmm..."
And unsurprisingly, Jesse was beginning to drift beside him, the mug warm in his hands as he sighed. "This is nice," he muttered sleepily.
It seemed that the J twins would fall asleep while watching Corpse Bride. Blair blinked, looking at her crush and his twin. "Wait a minute... why are they falling asleep? Chocolate has caffeine in it!"
"Annie, Bastion, Violet, Adrian; you four are the smartest ones here. What the heck is wrong with them?" Atticus asked.
Violet blinked a few times, then shrugged. "I don't know. I feel perfectly fine."
As Chazz, extremely puzzled, moved to load Corpse Bride into the DVD player, the other three brains looked at each other. "Endorphins?" Bastion asked curiously.
"It's possible," Adrian agreed. "Annie?"
The would-be doctor thought carefully and nodded in agreement. "Yeah. Considering how strongly they react, it's very possible..."
"What are endorphins??" Syrus asked in puzzlement.
"They're hormones, Syrus. And this type of hormone makes us feel pleasure," Bastion explained. "Jaden and Jesse, if I am correct, are feeling very calm and sleepy because their endorphins have been stimulated. They feel immense pleasure and now are sleepy."
As if to prove their answer true, the twins were snoring away beside each other. Jaden was using Jesse's shoulder as a makeshift pillow, and Jesse was using Jaden's head in a similar manner. "Aww... they look like Hikaru and Kaoru," Annie smiled and cooed as Jasmine picked up the digital camera to capture the cute moment.
Aster took this moment to pull out a black ledger and smirked, "This could really boost the club's budget... We could sell prints of that picture for 20,000 yen."
Those who were awake laughed at the very in-character reaction. "At least Bastion's not the one who's sleepy. Mori gets weird when he's tired," Violet reminded once the laughter had died down.
"Oh, you mean I turn into Tamaki?" Bastion asked with a naughty smile.
Atticus snorted. "Now that'd be interesting to see. Bastion acting like me!"
One could practically see the beautiful sparkles surrounding Bastion as he took his fiancée's hand. "Perhaps you and I should go look at the stars, Violet darling... but they won't be half as breathtaking as the lovely young woman whose hand I am holding."
Violet, like Jaden and Jesse, had been feeling the effects of her hot cocoa. So, when the man she loved suddenly pulled this, she blushed redder than her cosplay uniform and her pleasure endorphins sky-rocketed. Unsurprisingly, her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she passed out, like so many girls who had been charmed by one Tamaki.
Annie moved down to the floor and got to work without a word. "Bastion, you overdid it," she scolded him in a little sisterly way.
"Can I help it that I'm cute?" he asked.
"Quit it, Dot Warner!"
The conscious members of their little cadre were either snickering or outright laughing. "Okay, I'll admit it, Bastion. You make a pretty good me when you try," Atticus relented, grinning.
"I've observed you for over a year," Bastion grinned back. "I should think I've absorbed your mannerisms in some way..."
"That was almost too good," Jasmine admitted, blushing a bit.
Atticus sweat-dropped, and acted worried. "Uh, Bastion, I hope you don't steal my girlfriend."
"Of course, not, my friend," Bastion answered, puzzled, that is until he saw Jasmine's face. "Oh, dear..."
In fact... "All of you girls are lookin' a bit red there," Jim pointed out, causing the girls to blush more in embarrassment.
Indeed, Mindy, Blair, Alexis and Annie were also blushing. Bastion had turned on the charm. "Why does he have to sound like Pierce Brosnan," Annie muttered, abruptly turning the shade of a certain sky dragon when she realized she'd said it out loud.
"Urgh... because he's British, that's why," Violet answered with a groan as she sat up. Shaking the dizziness from her head, she managed a smirk and half-tackled her fiancé with a hug. "And he's aaalll mine! So there!" she added, sticking out her tongue at the blushing girls.
Annie, by this time had her face in her hands. "Mmph mmph mmmpmph Mmm mmph mmph..."
"Annie?" Bastion asked, worried for his surrogate sister.
"I can't believe I said that!" she groaned, bringing her face out of her hands.
"So you think he sounds like some kind of celebrity; so what? I've done the same thing before," Violet countered simply.
"But I had a crush on Pierce Brosnan!" Annie groaned again. For some reason, this tortured her.
"Annie! Chill! Seriously, it's not a big deal!!" Violet shouted, grasping her friend's shoulder tightly.
"Violet... I'm not supposed to think about Bastion that way!" the dark-haired girl groaned again, supremely embarrassed.
"So? Technically, you weren't thinking about HIM that way. You were thinking about how his voice was like the dude you have a crush on. Sooo... you were actually thinking about HIM that way. Understand?" Violet explained, surprisingly not messing up.
Several pairs of eyes blinked. "Did Violet just explain reasoning?" Alexis asked no one in particular.
"She did... It's a miracle," Bastion stated drily as Annie hugged her best friend.
"Thanks, Violet... I was just feeling terrible," she admitted. "It'd be like if I had thoughts about... Bobby..." And then she turned a most unattractive shade of pea green.
"ANNIE. Think non-gross thoughts! Like… ummm.... Syrus in a bunny suit!" Violet blurted, trying to stop her surrogate sister from puking all over Chazz's floor. Syrus blushed a very nice shade of red. That was a good thing to say, and then Annie again fell over on the couch with a beautiful dreamy smile on her face. And again, if this were an anime, she would have a nosebleed.
"Darling," Bastion said, "I believe you broke Annie's brain..."
"Well, you kinda broke mine earlier, so I guess it's contagious," Violet replied, plopping back onto the couch as well.
While Annie came back to herself, Chazz got the new movie started. "Victor and Victoria... that has to be an in-joke," Adrian said thoughtfully.
"Oh yes, Victor/Victoria," Bastion responded as they watched Victor place the ring on what he thought was a tree branch.
Violet was grinning when Emily appeared soon after. "I dressed as her for Halloween when I was younger. I wasn't nearly as pretty, though. Even if she's dead, she doesn't look THAT bad."
"She and Victoria kinda look alike," Aster noted, smiling a little. "Either one would work for Victor."
"Well, if he doesn't mind dying really early," Syrus pointed out, grinning sheepishly.
"Yeah, that sucks," Mindy groaned, staying close to her boyfriend. "What if she'd been alive?"
"Who knows," Jasmine answered, "but yeah. It still sucks."
The redhead smiled, resting against her boyfriend. "Glad I'm alive."
Atticus flushed lightly, wrapping an arm around her shoulders with a grin. "Same here, Jazzy."
Everyone laughed as Victor got to know the world of the dead. "Man, they dance well for dead people," Axel said drily.
"Were you expecting them to fall to pieces, mate?" Jim joked, smirking over at his friend.
"Well, at least have a jaw fall off or something," the African-American admitted, smirking a little.
"But this is Tim Burton, Private Axel," Tyson pointed out. "Dead guys move well."
"That's true..."
It was well into the movie when Barkis came on the screen. "Man, what a jerk... he'll get his," Chazz growled.
Violet was frowning deeply, eyes flashing with a significant amount of loathing. "He's just as bad as Mike... the evil scum..." she muttered, fist clenching. She would have loved to be able to give Barkis one of her atomic wedgies.
"Ooooh... atomic wedgie... Or push him into Dr. Crowler's bathroom!" Bastion growled. They all might be friends with the blonde teacher now, but heck, they would not want to see him in his birthday suit.
"EWWW! Bastion, that's gross!" Mindy squealed, horrified.
"I bet the dude would prefer drinking the poison over that!" Atticus agreed, eye twitching slightly at just the thought.
"I'd drink the cyanide laced Kool-Aid over that," Jasmine and Annie stated at the same time.
"...That was weird," Alexis stated, looking at her two friends.
"How did we do that?" Annie wondered.
"No idea," Jasmine answered, beginning to laugh along with the dark-haired girl.
"Hmmm... wedgie combined with Crowler would be cruel and unusual punishment," Axel observed.
"Perhaps... at least we know the bloke gets what's comin' to him," Jim replied simply.
It was at this juncture that the dozing twins woke up. "Can I have French toast for breakfast?" Jaden asked, clearly half-asleep.
"Jaden, it's still nighttime," Alexis answered with a sigh.
"Then can we cuddle?" he asked her.
The blush was instantaneous, and she barely stopped herself from smacking him upside the head. Instead, Alexis reached over to grab his shoulders, giving his torso a fierce shaking. "Jaden!! We're not ALONE, remember?!" she hissed.
That was enough to wake the Slifer and shake off his blue wig. "Alexis?! What did I say?!" he asked, clearly terrified at his fiancée's sudden temper. Alexis, not wanting to repeat it aloud and be further embarrassed, rolled her eyes and whispered it to her fiancé. If this were an anime, Jaden's entire body, including his clothes would've turned white, his eyes would've widened and only shown the whites, making him look very, very upset. As it was, he looked freaked out and embarrassed. "Uh... sorry..."
The rest of the group was doing an epically horrible job of hiding their laughter at the whole scene. Jesse stretched and yawned as he, too, woke up. "What's so funny? Why's everybody laughin'?"
Adrian quickly moved to Jesse's side and whispered the explanation. "... Soo… he was half-asleep... and you guys have missed most of the movie..."
Jesse sat bolt upright, though for a different reason than the others would have guessed. "I missed the movie?! Aw, man!" he groaned.
"It's not over yet!" Annie squealed as Victor and Emily made up and proceeded with their wedding in the living world. "And this looks like a new version of Thriller," she stated drily.
"Yeah... Sam Hill, that'd work," Tyson observed.
"Well, personally, I like the cartoon-y, cute version better," Violet stated seriously.
"Yeah, that one was kinda creepy," Jaden admitted, remembering all the zombies on his computer screen. "Mom banned me from the computer for a week after I found that vid because I had to sleep in Mom and Dad's room because I had a really bad nightmare..."
"Really?" Alexis asked her fiancé in surprise.
"Yeah. See it was a month after he died... And I'd watched the funeral... And my mind did some really weird things with that," the Slifer admitted.
The others in the room grimaced, winced, or paled slightly. "Er, no need to go into any further explanation, Jay..." Alexis said quickly.
"Yeah..." Jaden shivered, remembering Zombie Michael climbing out of the gold-plated coffin and then dancing to Thriller. And so they watched to the end of the movie, cheering when Emily's and Victoria's would-be suitor drank the poison and then clapping when the couple that was meant to be got back together as Emily found her peace.
"That was a good ending," Chazz stated softly.
"Yeah... Kinda sappy for a Halloween movie," Jasmine said, "but I like it. Hey... should we watch something a little scarier? But still funny..."
"Oh, oh, oh! Pick me! ME!! I know a good one!!" Violet shouted eagerly, waving her hand around in the air.
"Darling, we're not in class," Bastion observed, flushing slightly.
"What movie?" Jaden asked. "And do we need..."
"...more popcorn?" Jesse finished with a grin.
Violet seemed to consider the question. "Well... as long as you don't think you'll choke on it from laughing so hard..."
"Then we need more pop!" Annie asserted. "NO JOLT, JADEN!!!" The brown-haired Slifer had been tiptoeing to Chazz's fridge with Jesse.
He looked up, along with Jesse, now both sans wigs. "I think they caught us, bro..."
Jesse grimaced. "Good point. I say we go sit back down before they kick our butts," he whispered back.
And so they did. "We don't want to peel you guys off the walls," Bastion stated calmly.
"Then make sure I don't get caramel, either," Violet piped up, then cleared her throat to continue. "Anyway, like I was saying... I SAY WE WATCH ZOMBIELAND!!!"
A few people snickered, having seen the movies, but a couple of people looked blank. "Uh... Zombieland?" Annie asked curiously.
Violet grinned, perfectly content with giving a summary. "It's like any other zombie movie; you know, the whole swarming masses of the undead eating people and getting their heads blown off. But this one's really, really funny at the same time! It's a Corror! Or... maybe a Homedy?" She paused at this, trying to combine the words "Horror" and "Comedy".
"Cool! Comedic horror!" Annie grinned eagerly. "All in favor?" Everyone raised their hands. "Motion carried! Violet, do you have it?"
"Oh, I know I brought it!" Violet moved over to her bag, which she'd brought with her from her room, and began digging through it. "Now... where is that thing? Nope… nope... not that either," she muttered, tossing this and that across the room.
Violet's throwing things had led to everyone dodging pillows, the popcorn bowl (plastic), empty soda cans and her bag. And then, Jaden actually spotted something... "Uh... Violet?"
Violet paused, a little agitated as she glanced at the Slifer. "What!?"
"Uh... the movie's in your pocket..."
"...Seriously?" Jaden nodded, pointing solemnly at her back pocket. Violet spun around a bit in an effort to nab the pesky thing, finally grabbing hold of it and looking it over. "Oh. Well what do you know? It was there the whole time. Sorry guys." Everyone sweat-dropped.
However, they watched the movie in short order. "I forgot Woody Harrelson was in this," Annie whispered to Syrus. And then she started cracking up as Columbus explained what Harrelson's character, Tallahassee was doing. "He's looking... for the last Twinkies on Earth?!"
"Well, Twinkies are supposed to be the only thing besides cockroaches to survive a nuclear war," Violet said with a grin. Who hadn't seen the Family Guy Y2K episode?
"And apparently, Carvel ice cream," Jaden grinned, remembering the same episode.
"Hmm... new slogan for Carvel ice cream: We're so good, we'll survive the end of the world," Bastion grinned sheepishly as they kept watching.
"New rule for surviving a zombie attack... Shoot twice to be sure it's dead... Would that work at Duel Academy, though?" Jaden wondered.
Alexis looked at her fiancé in confusion. "Jay?"
"Well, if zombies ever attacked here... they'd probably duel or something and not eat us..."
The others considered this for a few moments. "...Holy geez, I think Jaden's right, guys. They probably WOULD duel us instead of trying to eat our brains," Violet finally stated, eyes wide.
Rosa frowned. "But... couldn't we just beat them with our duel disks or something? I mean, Columbus used a toilet seat to kill one!" she pointed out.
"But... they probably wouldn't be the living dead, and we'd want to fix 'em, right?" Jaden asked.
Syrus sweat-dropped. "Leave it to Duel Academy to make even a zombie take-over extra complicated..."
"Hmmm... I wonder if we used Thriller to defend ourselves... Maybe it'd make 'em dance," Annie theorized.
"Annie... that's stupid," Adrian groaned, laughing. Annie sweat-dropped, grinning and laughing sheepishly, reflecting that perhaps she'd seen one too many episodes of Robot Chicken.
"Actually, it might work on some of the zombies... a lot of the Obelisk guys aren't too bright..." Violet mused, snickering at the thought of some of the Obelisk zombie boys dancing.
The gang looked at each other, and started cracking up. "Yeah! Imagine that idiot, Terry dancing to Thriller!" Jaden whooped.
Chazz joined him. "Yeah, he and Randy'd be the first to dance!"
Outside, Terry had awakened and looked at Randy as they listened below the window. "Ooooh, I am so gettin' those Slifer sludges back for that!" Terry growled softly.
Randy, who had come looking for Terry after he hadn't returned, nodded in agreement. "They'll pay for makin' fun of us! We're not that stupid."
Back in the room, the teens finished the movie. "Hey guys? I have an idea!" Axel said in his usual serious tones.
"What's your idea, Axel?" Jim asked.
"Well, it seems you all know the song, 'Thriller,' and know about the dancing zombies. So why don't we reenact some of the video?" the African-American suggested. No one would guess it from the young man's usual serious demeanor, but he had a humorous streak. And that part of him could easily see the gang dancing to the song.
There were several grins and excited expressions at the idea. "Yeah!! And we can record it and put it on YouTube!" Violet exclaimed eagerly.
"I've got my video camera!" Atticus added cheerfully.
"Great! Do we have zombie make-up?"
"Yeah!" Adrian smirked. "You can't do covert operations without having make-up for all occasions, can you?" he asked, holding up a make-up case he'd brought with him.
The girls exchanged smirks. "Adrian, do you always carry around a make-up case with you?" Alexis asked teasingly.
"Only on special occasions, Alexis," Adrian answered, flushing slightly. All of the guys started to snicker. They couldn't help it.
"Hey, Adrian, don't worry about it. We won't judge ya if ya like to wear a little... make-up," Jesse managed to say between laughs.
And uncharacteristically, Adrian got anger marks on his head. "I DON'T WEAR MAKE-UP!!" he yelled indignantly. The group quieted almost instantly, staring at the bespectacled redhead with wide eyes. The cliché awkward silence ensued, and one could practically hear the crickets chirping outside. And then like a ripple on water, someone tried to suppress his or her laughter. And then... laughter erupted. The group rocked and shrieked with laughter.
More than one person fell out of their seat, the tension melting away like ice cream on a summer sidewalk. "I was just joshin' ya, buddy!" Jesse gasped out as he clutched his sides.
Adrian was now laughing as well. "It's okay, man... So... Let's do this! I can't believe we're actually going to do this!"
"Let's turn into zombies! Without the whole 'eating people' side effect," Violet said with a sheepish grin.
"Yeah!"
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With some quick make-up work, everyone soon looked like the Ouran High School Host Club had died and come back as the living dead. "Hmm... definitely not what they did in the Halloween episode," Bastion stated calmly. "I guess we didn't win against the guards," he said to Syrus, who also carried a zombified Usa-chan.
Syrus grinned sheepishly. "No, I guess not. I wonder what the fans would have done if that had happened in the show..."
"Hmmm... There would've been a riot among teen girls," Mindy and Blair said at the same time. They looked at each other and started laughing.
"I think the Zuka Club and the Host Club just had a battle to the death," Blair chuckled.
"Well then the Zuka Club must have been awesome fighters, because it would have been three against seven," Rosa reminded.
"Unless their fan girls attacked," Tyson grinned sheepishly. "Then the Host Club would've had a heapin' amount of trouble!" And then he considered something. "If you'd been in the Zuka Club, though, darlin', I'd hate to face you!"
Rosa smirked. "Are you saying that you're scared that you would LOSE, Ty-Ty?"
"I wouldn't lose a battle of brawn... battle of brains on the other hand," he muttered the last.
"Oh?" The Spanish teenager asked, getting a hint of fire in her chocolate-colored eyes. All she'd heard was "I wouldn't lose a battle of brawn." Now she had to go and prove him wrong. "We'll just see about THAT, mi amor," she stated simply. Rosa, having been standing beside Tyson, then grabbed him around the torso without warning. With a battle cry, the strong girl twisted and lifted her fiancé up and around in a spinning drop. Said fiancé did a crash landing into one of the couches.
"WHOA!!" Tyson yelled as he crashed, clearly not ready for her. "Now, that ain't fair!" he complained as he regained his breath.
Rosa had a smug look on her face as she dusted herself off. "Oh, it's fair. I thought with your training, you were always alert, Ty-Ty."
He sweat-dropped and hung his head. "I let my guard down..."
Jim nudged Axel in the ribs. "I wouldn't let your guard down around that girl, mate," he whispered to the other army brat.
"No way," Axel grinned.
"Well, are we ready for this?" Jaden asked, straightening his jacket.
"We all look dead. I'd say that means we're ready for this, Jay," Alexis answered.
"Okay!"
Meanwhile, outside, Terry and Randy were ready to ambush the gang when they came out, not realizing the plan. "We're gonna make 'em pay," the teal-haired bespectacled Obelisk smirked, holding a warm water balloon.
Randy grinned, holding one in each hand. "Yeah, they'll wet their pants when they get hit with these!" he whispered eagerly.
Their logic was a variation on the old hand in warm water prank. Randy and Terry were both counting on that to work. "Here they come," Terry smirked as the door opened.
Just before the door did, Jaden said, "Guys, practice your zombie moans! We need to be in character!"
"Is that why you slept so much in class before you played the three-toed sloth in last year's environmental play?" Chazz smirked.
"Hey!"
"Guys? Less arguing, more moaning and moving!" Violet stated, giving them both an abrupt push to the back.
"Okay! Zombie moans!" Annie grinned. "UUUUUUUUUUH!!!" It was not a good zombie moan...
"Um... Annie? Maybe not so much effort," Syrus offered sheepishly. Besides, zombies never really gave an effort... did they?
Annie considered that. Bastion smiled, thinking and then emptied his face of all expression. "More like this," he explained, following it with a more dead-sounding moan. "Is that better? Particularly since in a real zombie attack, I'd be the first to die..."
Violet pouted. "They'd attack you first, yeah, but I'd knock all their blocks off before I'd let 'em lay a rotten finger on you!" she replied seriously.
"I know you would, love... Now let's get to this..." And so the gang stepped out of the door moaning as zombies do. Their make-up was indeed convincing, making them look like the Night of the Living Dead Host Club.
Terry Rogers, ready with his balloon, was not prepared for the sight and sound of zombies. He clenched the balloon a little bit too hard and it popped as he screamed at B-movie pitch and suddenly felt a warm feeling in his pants. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Zombies!!!"
Randy, seeing the "zombies" as well, froze with fear. That is, until Terry's scream jarred him back to reality. Surprisingly screaming one pitch higher, he threw up his arms and, consequently, the balloons. One landed on Terry and the other crashed down onto Randy's head. He, too, felt a warm feeling in his pants. Whether the boys had wet themselves from the warm water or out of sheer terror was unknown. However, they didn't wait to try and find out. Randy, when he had been struck, was already in the midst of leaping to his feet. The sound of popping water balloons only fueled his fright as he grabbed Terry by the collar and high-tailed it down the path, dragging his friend along the way.
The gang heard the high-pitched screams of terror and looked up. "Sam Hill! Was that Randy and Terry?" Tyson gasped.
"I... think it was," Aster confirmed, stunned.
"I didn't know a boy could scream that high," Rosa stated in awe.
"You'd be surprised how high a guy can scream or sing. Has anyone else heard that singer, Prince?" Blair asked, still stunned.
"I'm pretty sure most of us have, Blair," Alexis answered. "Yeah, but my old choir teacher could hit that high too. And he was a dude," Violet piped up.
"So... uh... should we just set this up already?" Chazz asked, feeling uncomfortable.
"Yeah, before anything weirder happens," Atticus replied, sighing.
The gang quickly set up their sound equipment and camera and Jaden moved to the front of the group. "Hello, everybody! My name's Jaden Yuki and these are all my friends. Tonight, we're doing a reenactment of the late Michael Jackson's Thriller, which premiered when our parents were kids. We thought it'd be fun to do this on Halloween. We've been friends a long time and this is something we wanted to do before we graduated!" He waved at Atticus to do an introduction as well.
Atticus, surprised, pointed at himself and blinked a few times. Receiving a nod from the Slifer, a nudge in the ribs from his sister, and a "morale boosting" shove from his brother, he quickly took Jaden's place before the camera. Atticus gave his usual charming grin, which even as a zombie would have made his fan girls swoon. "Hi, everyone! I'm Atticus Rhodes, resident handsome devil of Duel Academy Central!" Several groans could be heard from the group, as well as eye rolls. "We're all here dressed up like zombies, out here in the middle of the night with a camera. So what are we gonna do? Our own version of Thriller, duh! And so, without further, commentary, let the zombies dance!!"
Annie cued up the music, and the group did a beautiful synchronized imitation of the legendary singer as he sang and danced the song before they got to the actual zombie dance. And when they got to the zombie dance and Vincent Price's epic rap lines, they began to move almost exactly like the zombies of 36 years before.
But then, near the end of the dance, there was a sudden squishing sound and a loud thump. No one would have noticed it, had it not been for one thing. Violet now only had ONE arm; the other was lying in the dirt at her feet. Blood dripped down from where the remainder of her arm presumably was, underneath her shirt sleeve. However, the purple-haired teen didn't seem to notice as she continued dancing. But to everyone else, the injury was as gruesome as if an actual zombie had lost its rotting arm.
Bastion, a logical man of science, took one look at his fiancée and screamed as Vincent Price intoned his famous lyrics. And as Price's voice continued eerily, just about to conclude, Jesse and Jaden looked back. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHH!!!!" Jaden shrieked. And then Price's disembodied voice began to laugh menacingly.
"!!!!!!!!!" Jesse had shrieked in perfect harmony with his twin. Both boys hugged each other fearfully, staring at their fellow big eater with wide, alarmed eyes.
Violet, hearing all the screaming, stopped dancing and looked around at her staring friends. "Um... what? Is there a giant, pink spider on my head or something?" she asked in confusion.
"Violet... darling... your arm," Bastion said, staring at said appendage on the ground.
Annie hobbled over to it, being the only dancing zombie on crutches and looked at it. "Violet... you used the fake arm?"
Violet finally allowed the grin she'd been suppressing to appear on her face, and a laugh bubbled up from her chest. "Yup! You guys ALL fell for it, too!" she answered happily as she reached down to grab the bloody, rubber prop. Her real arm slid out of her sleeve, covered in some fake blood. "Even BASTION fell for it! And Jay, Jesse, you guys should have seen your faces! PRICELESS!!" Violet had to clutch her sides because of how hard she was laughing.
Jaden shivered. "Don't do that!" Everyone else, save Jesse, was cracking up by now.
Jesse, too, shivered; but he had an indignant look on his face. "Yeah! You scared us half to death, Violet!"
Violet waved them off with a hand, trying to calm her relentless giggles. "Oh, come on! When else was I going to get to use this? The dance was the perfect setting!"
"Violet... that was great! Atticus, shut off the camera!" Annie grinned.
Atty did so, then brought the video camera over to the gang. "Hey, let's check out our work, guys. I can hook this up to Chazz's TV."
"Okay!" Annie held the video camera up in triumph. "This is going to be so epic! Too bad we didn't get Terry and Randy on camera!"
"Yeah. That would've shown them not to mess with us," Alexis agreed.
"Well, we can always prank 'em later," Jaden smirked. "Then again... they'll probably get expelled at some point."
"No, Sarge, they ain't that stupid... Are they?" Tyson wondered out loud.
Rosa sighed and shook her head. "It wouldn't surprise me."
"Ah, well, hopefully, darlin', we never find out," Tyson grinned, wrapping his arm around his fiancée as they walked.
"Violet, darling... That was bloody brilliant," Bastion murmured to his love.
Violet absently tossed the fake arm up and down as she walked, a grin plastered on her face. "Nice pun, Bastion-baby! Even if you didn't mean to say it," she teased, giggling.
Bastion, confused briefly, went over what he said and then realized. "Oh... that pun was not intended, love," he laughed, embarrassed. "But it was brilliant. I think it gave our video an amount of authenticity."
Violet puffed out her chest in a comical show of pride. "You bet that hot accent of yours it did! If we hear screams in other dorm rooms, then we know what video they're watching on YouTube!"
"Yes, we will..."
The group got back into Chazz's room and hooked up the video camera to the TV. They watched the introduction and then heard the music. "Is the song loud enough?" Axel wondered.
They got their answer when the music picked up and echoed around the room. "I'd say it's loud enough, mate," Jim answered.
"Good, we won't have to loop it back in," Adrian said thoughtfully. The camera showed Jaden and Jesse pulling off almost perfect renditions of the Gloved One's moves.
"How do these two do it?" Chazz muttered in awe.
"I... don't know," Mindy answered.
Jesse scratched his head. "Well, don' look at me. I was just dancin'."
"But you guys danced almost perfectly... right down to a modified Moonwalk!"
Jaden's eyes went wide as he watched himself and Jesse move. "Wow... we did move together..."
Atticus suddenly grimaced. "Uh-oh. Guys... if we put this on YouTube, your fan girl population is gonna soar."
"Uh... Oh brother," Jaden groaned. "Bro... are you sure?"
The older teenager nodded. "When they see those dance moves... even if you guys are dressed like zombies... they're gonna be all over you... I should know; it's happened to me all my life!"
The other guys grinned sheepishly as Jaden looked at his twin in horror. "Jesse? I'm afraid..."
Jesse groaned. "And what's worse... this school has way more girls than my old one... I had a small fan girl problem there too..."
"Oh, great! But... we worked hard on this... And are fan girls worse than the Shadow Riders, that Sartorius guy and the other problems we've faced?"
The group seemed to consider this. "I'd say only the ones like Mary Sue Fofesca," Syrus piped up with a wince.
"Well... she's not here... So... should we do it? Do we dare put it on the worldwide web?" Jaden asked everyone.
The others were about to reply with their opinions, when the door to the computer room suddenly opened. Out skipped Blair with a cherubic smile on her face. "I got it edited and uploaded to my account," she said cheerfully. Several jaws dropped. "What?" she asked, catching their horrified expressions.
Jesse buried his face into his hands. "We're doomed."
Blair's expression went quickly from one of joy to one of horror. "I messed up, didn't I?" she asked, nearly going into sad chibi mode.
Alexis sweat-dropped. "Ah, no, Blair... it's okay. We'll figure something out."
Blair was very sad. And Jaden stood from where he was and moved to the small preteen. "Blair, it's okay... You didn't know," he said, hugging her like a big brother.
Jesse, too, stood and went to her. "Jay's right, Blair. We're not mad at ya."
"Thanks, guys," she said, enjoying the warm hugs. A few minutes passed and the gang began to hear... laughter.
"Where's THAT coming from?" Rosa asked.
The group listened carefully, and it sounded like... "It's coming from the other rooms here," Annie said, her brows furrowing together.
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And indeed, all over Slifer, the boys were laughing. "Hey, Jimmy, take a look at this!" a Slifer named Kenichi called in their dorm room.
"What? It better not be another talking cat," the other Slifer answered as he walked over.
"No it was just posted to MaidenLuvsAvian247's account! That's Blair Flannigan's account, Jimmy!" Kenichi answered. "It's Jaden and all his crew! And... they're ZOMBIES?!"
"What!? Lemme see that!" The boys watched the video, and were gripping their sides by the time it was halfway through.
But the Slifers weren't the only ones watching the video. In Ra Yellow, Phil McGraw looked on his laptop with the other Ras as they sat in the dorm's common room. "What in the cotton pickin'..? It's Tyson and Bastion, guys!" he whooped, watching the two Ras as they moved.
"Wow. I'd hate to run into them if they were real zombies!" stated one Ra.
"But man... they dance good!" Phil grinned. "Professor! Take a look at this!"
"Phil, I really don't have time to-" Professor Sartyr paused mid-sentence when he'd walked over, staring at the screen in surprise. "Is that... Bastion and Tyson?"
"Yeah, Professor, and their whole gang!" the sandy-haired Ra grinned as the gang on screen went into the zombie dance mode. "They're doin' Ra proud, sir!"
The Ra proctor smiled. "I can see that. I did not know they could dance so well."
"I don't think any of us did..."
And in Obelisk, the students were glued to their computer screens. "Go Atticus!" a few girls squealed in their rooms.
"Like, oh my God! Do you SEE Jaden and Jesse?! Even as zombies, they're sooo awesome!" gushed one girl as she hopped up and down.
"And that hair!!! They all look awesome!"
A few of the guys were watching too now in their rooms and the common room. "Look at Alexis," one guy smiled at her curvy figure.
"Yeah... she's pretty, a good dancer and she's smart, all in one!" another guy added in agreement. And then, all laughter and admiration turned to horror and quite a few screams from girls and boys alike. Of course it was the scene where Violet's arm just falls off; and the fact that some of the dancers were freaking out didn't help.
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF HOUSTON?!" Phil yelped in Ra Yellow.
The two boys down in Slifer both screamed and promptly fell out of their chairs. "HER ARM FELL OFF!!!" shrieked Jimmy.
"OH MAN!" Kenichi shrieked like a very small girl.
And in Obelisk... "VIOLET!!" several voices screamed. The boys who had been ogling the Queen of Obelisk were now holding each other. Violet's little prank had worked a little too well; half the island would likely have nightmares for days. And then they all saw the end of the vid. The group was laughing and Violet was holding up her fake arm with a huge grin. "It's... fake?" one Obelisk boy asked, blinking.
The other Obelisk boy instantly pulled off his friend, obviously embarrassed. "O-Of course it's fake! I knew that," he muttered.
But two more Obelisk boys had already retreated to the bathroom. "Randy?" Terry Rogers called, shuddering from his bathroom stall.
"Yeah, Terry?" Randy Mototani called back, voice quivering.
"They... were zombies with arms falling off... And... do you have more toilet paper?"
"...Um... no... I was about to ask you that..."
"Oh, great...." And then, just as they were about to call for assistance, two great big rubber spiders dropped down from the ceiling. Normally, the two would have seen through such a trivial prank. However, they were still shaken up from all that had happened that night, and even a pin dropping would have made them jump. Randy saw the spider and promptly screamed, tugging up his pants without hesitation and bursting out of his stall. He practically blasted the door off its hinges.
Terry too ran like the Vampire Lord was chasing him, screaming. And unfortunately, he did not pull up his pants. The effect of him running with his pants down made him look rather like a duck. "Wait for me!!!" he shrieked.
Randy, who for once had been a little smarter than his friend, paused and nearly wound up face-planting the floor. He had two choices: go back and drag Terry, again, or keep running and save himself. One could practically see his poor brain working double time to solve this problem. Luckily for Terry, Randy was loyal to his leader, and backtracked until he could grab his friend's wrist. After that, all Terry could see was the ground as he was dragged face-first across it. "Next time pull up your pants! If we get eaten alive by spiders, I blame you!!" Randy shouted.
"I didn't bring those gigantic things! If I find the dummy who did," Terry groaned.
Meanwhile, in one of the Obelisk boys' rooms, Harrington Rosewood scowled. "Darn it! That was for Jaden and his band of idiots!!" His plan to scare the... stuff... out of Jaden and possibly steal Alexis from the Slifer had failed. "I'll get you next time, Jaden... And Lexi will be mine..." The cliché lightning flashed oddly in the background, and then a peal of thunder shook the teen's dorm. One could practically hear the Powers That Be laughing at him. "That was... weird," he muttered.
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And back at Slifer, the gang that had made the Thriller video read the comments pouring in. "'Jesse is the smexiest,'" Jaden read.
Jesse groaned, face-palming. "I hope Willow didn't see tha-....I'm sooo dead when I get back to Canada," the Southern teen muttered. For a comment reply had just appeared under the one Jaden had read, with the username "JessesCurlingGirl123".
Alexis took the liberty of reading said comment reply. "'Stay away from my Jesse-blue you wannabe fan girl! I won't hesitate to come to that island and show you who's boss! AND JESSE, WHEN YOU GET HOME, I'M GONNA TAKE MY CURLING BROOM AND-" The blonde girl abruptly stopped and sweat-dropped upon sight of the next few lines.
And then, things got even more interesting as SapphirePegasusGRRRL shot back, "What? Do you own him?"
"Oh, boy," Violet muttered as a fresh reply came in from Jesse's girlfriend.
"Yes, actually. We got each other's names tattooed on our-"
"You what!?" half of those present yelped, turning to stare at the bluenette with wide, shocked eyes.
Jesse went white. "Ya... y'all weren't s'pposed ta know about that..."
"You have a tattoo?" the guys asked, stunned.
The girls looked at each other. "Seriously? You have a tattoo... there?" Blair asked, her eyes wide.
Jesse sweat-dropped and rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "It... it was our birthday present to each other last year... We're the same age and our birthdays are in the same month, so... um..." He blushed.
"Wow... you guys are really serious," Jaden said, mouth open in astonishment.
"I guess ya could say that. But still..." Jesse tugged on a few locks of his hair. "SHE'S GONNA KILL ME WHEN I GET HOME!!" he howled in mortification. And then, Jesse's PDA rang to the tune of Halfcocked's "Bad Reputation." The blue-haired young man shivered in horror. "Oh, man... she only uses that line when she..." Jesse didn't finish his sentence as he answered his PDA. "Icy-Will?" he stammered nervously. He yelped and nearly dropped the PDA as screaming emitted from it, a few words barely audible to the gang. And none of them sounded pleasant. Looking like a man on death row, Jesse turned his back on them and whispered a weak, "Y-Yeah, I know, Will, but I... No, I didn't... But..." More screaming ensued, and Jesse promptly went outside, flushed with embarrassment.
Jaden's eyes were wide with shock. "She's really mad," he muttered in pity. He dared give a sidelong glance to his fiancée. "Babe... uh... would you get that mad at me? And do you want us to get tattoos?"
She flushed. "Jay, I don't want to get a tattoo, and... it depends on what you did."
"Well, if something like this happened... would you get mad?"
Alexis seemed to consider the question. "Hmm... maybe..."
Jaden's eyes went wide with fear. "But... it wouldn't be my fault... How could you blame me?"
Alexis sweat-dropped. "Jaden, it's complicated... Girls can get this way when it comes to their boyfriends... Besides, guys can get the same way about their girlfriends."
Jaden considered this. "Yeah... girls are complicated... I mean... wow..." Suddenly, the door opened and Jesse re-entered the room, slipping the PDA back into his pocket. He had a dejected, slightly scarred look on his face as he let out a sigh. "Jess? Man... What did she do?" Jaden asked.
"Well... she says she knows it ain't my fault, and that she forgives me for making myself more appealing to the girls on the island. But... she said when I get home if she catches me even lookin' at another girl wrong, she'll... um..." Jesse mumbled something unfit for children's ears.
The guys all suddenly were terrified. "Uh..." Tyson couldn't form words for a moment and then picked up again. "Uh... she wants kids, right?"
"Oh, she could do that and still get children," Rosa answered for Jesse in a matter-of-fact way.
Annie, for one, wasn't convinced. "Rosa... what she suggested isn't like that guy, those four angry women and the super glue..."
"No, it isn't. But if you just think about it in a creative way..." Rosa went on to explain, which made the guys all unconsciously cover up their manhood.
"Note to self... be careful," Bastion muttered.
"Yeah... I'd rather be Inuyasha," Adrian muttered as well, suddenly getting an image of himself as a certain half-demon and Echo dressed up in a sailor suit uniform as Kagome Higurashi.
Then, suddenly, Violet popped up behind the bespectacled teen and shouted, "SIT!!" She had decided to tease him about the Inuyasha comment, not realizing what he had been imagining in his head. Because of this, to Adrian it felt as if his image had turned to momentary reality.
Poor Adrian was startled out of his reverie at the "SIT" that he literally fell over like the half-dog demon anime character. "Argh!" He face-planted.
"Adrian?! You okay, man?" Axel asked.
"She said it... Osuwari," the redheaded young man groaned into the floor.
Violet stared down at Adrian, blinking her wide eyes in surprise. "Wow... I didn't think it'd actually WORK!! COOL!! And you're not even wearing the Beads of Subjugation, Adrian!"
"No... but shouldn't Bastion do that for you?!"
Bastion looked at Adrian. "You have a point..."
Violet considered this. "...That is a good point." She abruptly turned to her fiancé and this time decided to shout the Japanese version. "Osuwari!"
At that moment, a very subdued Pharaoh the cat stood and stretched from where he had been snoozing on a rafter. Bored, he decided to go hunting and promptly dropped down from his perch. Unfortunately, Bastion happened to be standing in the way of his leap, and the fluff ball crashed into the teen's back. The timing, though, was perfect. Like Inuyasha and Adrian, Bastion now crashed to the floor. "I wasn't picking a fight... I wasn't a peeping Tom... what did I do?" he groaned, face to the floor.
Violet was practically bursting with glee at her newfound "power." "Oh, wow! This is great! I wish I'd known that I could do this sooner!!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms into the air happily.
Annie grinned. "Let me try!" She pointed dramatically at Syrus. "Sit, boy!"
Syrus yelped, body tensing as he braced himself for the face-plant to come. His eyes closed tightly, and he hoped he wouldn't break his glasses. But then... seconds passed, and nothing happened. Slowly, Syrus opened his eyes, glancing around in confusion. "Uh..."
Annie blushed and started to laugh. "The timing didn't work right... Good thing too..."
"Glad I don't have anyone I'm serious with," Axel muttered.
The gang watched as the comments on their video quickly piled up. Comments from people they didn't know also came onto the screen. "'The twin boys are excellent MJ dance imitators! How do they do it?'" Mindy read.
"Gee, that's the fifth time someone said somethin' like that," Jesse muttered, rubbing the back of his head.
"It's because you guys are so much alike," Blair admitted, and then she read a comment directed at her. "'MaidenLuvsAvian247, you are the most graceful dancer I have ever seen. I hope you dance at school more often.' And it's signed FrenchToySoldierBoy..."
Some of the girls smirked. "Looks like someone has a secret admirer," Violet teased with a grin.
"But... who could it be?" Blair wondered, blushing deeply and hoping it wasn't a stalker.
"Well, how many boys at this school are French? That should narrow it down," Rosa answered.
The gang thought carefully, trying to figure it out. Meanwhile, up at Ra Yellow in a smaller room, a small boy sat at his computer, watching Blair dance. To this 13-year-old, she was beautiful. Marcel Bonaparte smiled at the graceful girl. "She is so pretty," he smiled, and then frowned nervously. "And so... boisterous..." Her exuberance frightened him a bit.
"Well, there's plenty of time for us to figure out who it is. Right now... I think maybe we should get some sleep," Syrus stated, motioning at some of the gang who were dozing off.
"Yeah... I think we need to call it quits," Jaden muttered sleepily, wishing that right now, he and Alexis lived at Slifer. But he was rooming at Obelisk now. Tyson had fallen asleep on the couch, snoring lightly.
Alexis glanced around at the sleepy group, seemingly deep in thought. After a few moments, she turned to her younger brother. "Hey, Chazz?"
Chazz, also dozing off, managed to wake up enough to respond to his sister, "Yeah, Lexi?"
"Everyone looks way too tired to walk back to their dorms- some of them are even sleeping already. Can we all just stay here overnight?" she asked.
Chazz looked around at the dozing group. His brother was leaning on the couch while Jasmine used him as a pillow and the others were all curling up. "Oh, okay... Guess it wouldn't hurt, sis... At least Slacker won't jump on my bed again..."
Alexis smiled and gave Chazz a sisterly peck on the cheek, before going over to her fiancé. "Thanks, bro. I'll keep an eye on him."
"No problem, sis," he answered, heading to a linen closet for some extra blankets. Though the girls had intended initially to punish two boys in the group for stealing their chocolate, it had ended up being a fun few days of Halloween celebration.
THE END
And that concludes our Halloween tale! We hope you all enjoyed this absolutely insane story. As always, Peach and Ani thank you all so much for your support and reviews! Thank you and we'll see you again!