Note: This chapter is dedicated to Meri, both my friend and the muse. Happy Birthday Meri!

Chapter 3

I continue to laugh as I write down the last dare on a note card. "Man, my youngest sister never fails to make me laugh, even if she doesn't mean to…"

"Out of curiosity, what did she do?" Yusei asks.

"Well, I was re-watching the beginning of the Ark Cradle part," I begin. "My sister decided to watch it with me. Keep in mind that I was watching the Japanese version, starting from the very end of your Duel with Aporia. Her first comment was something along the lines of, 'So they talk in Spanish and the English words appear on the bottom of the screen?'"

Instantly all of the 5Ds characters either facepalm or, in the case of Leo, do an anime-style fall. Clearly trying not to laugh, Yusei asks, "Anything else?"

"Well, there was this one scene where Jack's trench coat was really defying gravity, and she though it looked like a skirt…"

This one gets laughs from everyone except Jack, who stands up and adamantly says, "Where is this sister of yours? Jack Atlas does not wear a skirt!"

Meri kicks the back of his leg. "What? I thought the dare from the last chapter was still up?"

"Oh, it is," I reply. "Of course you would remember it." I look back at my note cards. "Oh, Shade! Your turn to fetch the new guest. It was originally going to be Primo, but someone submitted an idea that I'm all to eager to accept, so…"

The muse in question stands up, a gleeful (and evil) tint in his eyes. "Who do you need me to fetch?"

I whisper the name into his ear. "But no fire, and for crying out loud, don't shove him in a sack and toss him through a magic portal. Or anything involving a sack."

"Very well." He vanishes in a cloud of smoke.

"…If he's not fetching Primo, then who is he getting?" Lester asks.

"You'll find out soon enough," I reply, grinning. "But for now, onto the first request. Seems like this one reader has a thing for Leo receiving stuff from Luna…" I hand Luna the first note card.

Request by: amk8930

Receiver: Leo

Dare: You have to wear the forest green short shorts that I wore in episode 152, until the end of the chapter.

"Wait, what?" Leo protests, jumping up.

"In fact, this person even wrote out how it should go. Therefore…" I snap my fingers.

Instantly, Leo's pants suddenly change into Luna's short shorts. He quickly leans over from just how tight and short they are. He then has to slowly waddle over to his sister. "How on Earth can you wear these?" Leo shouts, "they're so tight and so short!"

Luna smiles, shrugs, and replies, "I love them that way. In fact, it's the way all of mine are."

"You are crazy!" he shouts, "and so is anyone else who would wear these!"

"Okay, onto the next dare…!" I start to say.

A loud crash echoes from outside the door, and it flies open. Shade drags someone along after him. His "prisoner" protests loudly to being dragged by his ear, and I can see he has a bump on the back of his head that has just started to form. Maybe he hit his head and made that crashing sound? Regardless—

"Kalin?" Yusei asks. "What are you doing here?"

"I have no idea!" the icy-blue-haired man replies. "Would you let go of me?!" he shouts at Shade.

"Sure thing. You're here, after all." Shade lets go of Kalin's ear.

I quickly fill in Kalin with what's going on here. The last thing I say is that he's here because a dare was submitted with him as the recipient, and I just couldn't pass on it.

"I hate you," he replies, once I finish.

I smile. "Oh, I know you do. ANYWAYS, back to the dare I was going to deal out before those two came back. Jack, you get to hand this one out…" I hand him over the card.

He scowls at me and reads it off.

Request by: Ra2344

Receiver: Crow

Dare: Get chased by a bunch of rabid fangirls.

Instantly, Crow glares at me. "Okay, first, shouldn't that be a dare for Jack? Second of all…" The color drains from his face. "Can I choose to just do the parrot dare again?"

"Why, you got something against fangirls?" Lucy asks, grinning wildly.

"N-No, it's just…" He clearly tries to come up with a response, but fails and throws his arm up in defeat.

"As for your first question, the review said you, and since it was a guest review, I couldn't PM them," I say. "Well, time for the dare."

I pull something out of my bag—some sort of magic dust—and throw it onto Crow. He vanishes in a puff of smoke. When I turn on the TV, the screen shows Crow in the middle of an arena. Surrounding him is a crowd of girls—most of them teens, but in one case an eight-year-old—all of them wearing T-shirts or jackets that have Crow's face on them. The majority of them also have Crow plushies or something. It even seems like one of them is a voodoo doll…

"…F***." Crow says.

Instantly I mute the TV, expecting him to shout even more vulgar words as he hurdles over the crowd of girls and starts running like his life depends on it. Which it probably does… Anyways, I let him stay in the arena for about twenty minutes until I teleport him back.

His jacket is missing, his clothes are horribly torn, his boots caked with mud and dead grass, and there are a lot of scratch marks on his face and arms.

I smile sheepishly at him and snap my fingers. The scratch marks are gone, and his clothes are back to normal.

Crow doesn't say anything, but walks straight to the bathroom and locks the door.

I frown. "Well, looks like that dare will have to wait then…" I mumble to myself, remembering one of the many Faithshipping ones submitted. Oh well, there are still a bunch of others. I look at my cards and quickly decide to do the one that I needed Kalin for… I laugh and say, "Meri? You can read this one."

She grins. "Is it for Jack?"

"No, it's not for Jack," I say, rolling my eyes. "Read it yourself."

"Okay…" Meri takes the card.

Request by: mcdinh

Receiver: Kalin

Dare: Go to the Distortion World, find a Pokémon named Giratina, and bring it to Shimmering-Sky.

Meri looks up. "Giratina is that one dragon-thing with two formes, kind of based on the devil, right?"

"It is indeed."

"Just what I needed," Kalin mumbles.

"Oh, don't worry, you aren't going alone," I say.

My bag of magic expels a belt with a small pouch on one side and three shrunk Pokéballs on the other. I hand it over to Kalin, who stares at it for a moment before putting it on. "Do I need to explain how to use it?" I ask.

"I'll figure it out myself," he retorts.

"Fine. Oh, the pouch holds all the Pokéballs you need," I say, before throwing some of the magic dust on him and he too turns into a cloud of smoke.

The resulting scene is rather humorous, because Kalin finds Giratina almost instantly—or rather, Giratina finds him. The legendary Pokémon is clearly not happy about someone trespassing in its domain, and attacks with Dragon Pulse. Kalin nearly gets blown up.

The ex-Dark Signer quickly adapts, though, and figures out what Pokémon I had given him: a Torterra, a Staraptor, and a Luxray. He withdraws the Torterra instantly; likely realizing the Grass-and-Ground-Type doesn't offer a decent moveset against a Pokémon like Giratina.

Luxray and Staraptor, on the other hand, start attacking the great dragon, even without commands from Kalin. They didn't seem to do much of anything, until Kalin catches on and starts shouting commands like "Brave Bird" and "Thunder!"

Giratina still puts up one heck of a fight, spamming the use of its signature move Shadow Force and also of Ancientpower. But eventually its moves become somewhat sluggish, and Kalin removes one of the empty Pokéballs from the pouch. "You're mine!" he shouts, throwing the ball.

It hits Giratina's chest and opens, sucking the legendary into it. It twitches once, twice, three times… Click.

I snap my fingers and Kalin reappears in the room. He offers me a half smile and hands over the Pokéball. "I hope that mcdinh is happy."

I accept the Pokéball, look at it for a moment, and toss it over to Meri. "Here, you can have Giratina. Happy Birthday!"

Everyone turns to Meri. "Wait, it's your birthday?" Yusei asks.

Meri nods and catches the Pokéball. "Yep! And… Woot! Now I can wreck havoc with my dinos and a dragon!"

"You cannot have Giratina eat Jack," I say, sighing and realizing what she wants to do. "Or anyone else for that matter. Just don't use it to severely injure or kill someone."

Meri's face falls a little. "Poop. But I can destroy stuff, right?"

"Yes, you can destroy stuff with Giratina," I say, knowing that she'll do it regardless of what I say. "Again, Happy Birthday."

"Okay! I have something to do," she announces, and leaves.

"…Are we supposed to get her something?" Akiza asks after she leaves.

"Nah, I'm sure Giratina is good… for now," I reply. "Anyways, back to the requests. I'm going to fit one more in here, a truth." I peak at Leo, who is still moaning on the floor about the tightness of his shorts. "Looks like it's going to be the one for Jack. Sky, you want to read it?"

"No problem," Sky says.

Request by: amk8930

Receiver: Jack

Truth: Is there any flavor of Ramen that you hate?

Jack snorts. "That's not a real question. Of course there isn't; Jack Atlas loves all kinds of Ramen and that's final."

Then he suddenly grunts in pain and jumps off his bean-bag. Lucy stands behind it, smiling like a maniac. "Well, Meri's not here, so someone had to kick him," she says.

I facepalm. "What am I going to do with you, Lucy?" I mutter. Then I shrug. "I think I'm going to stop the chapter here… Oh yeah!"

I snap my fingers, and Leo's shorts return to his normal ones.

"The relief!" he shouts. "The loose-fitting relief!" He stays on the floor though.

~To be continued~

So, requests are always good! I might not get to them all in the order that you submit them, though. It depends. Oh yeah, Meri also says that she's open to truths now. If you can think of anything, please submit it to me, whether it's in a review or PM!