It seemed like it was just another day in the Netherworld, though, Drell had summoned someone into his office. The person summoned was a little nervous because of how the warlock could be sometimes and feared the worst. Once the conversation was held and talked down to, he felt a little calmer, especially since it was in his school, but was somewhat of a simple task just to see how he could do, plus possibly make a new friend.
"So... You want me to do what?" Casper asked the warlock, sitting across from him in a tiny chair from the man's larger desk to pronounce his authority in The Supernatural Realm.
"You have to help this girl in your school named Jamie Grover, I'm sure you've heard of her?" Drell replied.
"Jamie Grover..." Casper repeated until he thought of who that could be in his new school ever since he was adopted by Patrick and Emily. "Doesn't her mother run the town paper?"
"Nancy? Yes," Drell replied and he took out a newspaper article from the future. "Take a look at this."
Casper took the paper and read it aloud, seeing the headline which got his attention rather quickly. He could see two parents with five babies in their arms. "'The Grover Family'? But, where's Jamie?"
"That's the thing, this is one of those 'be careful what you wish for' stories," Drell told the former ghost boy, he then showed him a picture of the girl he needed to help. "Jamie's an only child and her parents fuss over her, so Jamie wishes she wasn't an only child anymore, so her mother gives birth to quintuplets."
"Quintuplets?!" Casper's eyes widened. "Is that humanly possible?!"
"Of course it is, Casper, for mortals and immortals, anything is possible, especially with the world we live in," Drell replied. "Her story reminds me a bit of that of Vapor Trail."
Casper didn't need to overthink that due to the many visits in Equestria the family has spent since Patrick and Emily were old friends of Twilight Velvet and Night Light: AKA Twilight Sparkle's parents. "Isn't she that pegasus whose parents kinda stalked her and she soon ran away before finding Sky Stinger?" he then asked, just to make sure.
"That's her all right," Drell nodded. "Only, Vapor Trail never made a wish like that, and you have to help Jamie. Be her friend, support her."
"Um... I guess I could try that..." Casper shrugged. "I don't know her that well, but I sometimes see her in classes in school."
"Well, you are always trying to make new friends," Drell smirked. "It'll just be fun for you to go without people screaming 'GHOST!'."
"Ugh, do you have to remind me of that?" Casper groaned and held his head.
"Yes..." Drell replied. "Now, go!"
There was then a poof cloud which sent Casper back home to where he was and he coughed before looking around to see he was back home. Not Whipstaff Manor home of course, but home with the Fudo family.
"Hey, kid." A voice said.
Casper looked over and saw his two companions ever since the adventure with Aladdin. "Oh, hey, Yoyo and Doc Croc." he then greeted.
"It go okay at that guy's office?" Doc Croc asked.
"Yeah, a little bit," Casper replied. "I have to help Jamie Grover."
"Who's he?" Yoyo asked.
"Actually, she's a girl, and she goes to my school," Casper replied. "Apparently her mom's gonna have five babies."
"Five babies?!" Yoyo and Doc Croc gasped.
"Yeah, apparently I have to help her and support her, be a friend to her..." Casper replied. "Seems a little too simple. I thought I was gonna do something cool like fight a dragon or whatever."
"Well, maybe Drell just wants to see how you do in the scary world of middle school," Doc Croc suggested. "You're always saying how you wanna make new friends."
"Yeah, that's true..." Casper admitted. "Well, I guess it can't be that bad... How hard can it be to help a girl with quintuplet brothers and sisters?"
"I dunno, but you might wanna ask your school bus." Yoyo said.
"School bus?" Casper asked before looking out the window and panicked as the bus rode off without him. "THE BUS!"
"I guess I should've said that first." Yoyo said.
"Aaaugh!" Casper groaned as he then grabbed his backpack and rushed out the door to catch the bus.
Yoyo and Doc Croc followed after him, going in his pocket.
"Wait! WAAAAIT!" Casper yelped.
The bus driver concentrated on the road while driving the kids to school. It was almost like when Peter Parker missed the bus for the museum before he would eventually become Spider-Man. The only question was though, would someone stop the bus for him like Mary Jane Watson? However, eventually, someone had and the bus stopped.
Casper panted until he slowly trudged to the bus and soon came on to take his seat. "Thank... You..." he said through gasps before sitting down.
"Sheesh, kid, you gotta make sure you get outside in time." The driver told him.
"Yes, sir..." Casper sighed as he sat down.
The driver then closed the doors again and drove off to school.
"You okay?" A voice asked.
"Yeah... I guess I just lost track of the time." Casper smiled nervously, then saw he was sitting next to a certain girl he was told about earlier.
"Oh, it's no problem, it happens to the best of us." Jamie said to him.
"Uh... Yeah..." Casper said nervously.
"Hey, aren't you in my class?" Jamie asked him.
"Uh, yeah, I'm Casper..." Casper replied.
"That's right," Jamie said. "You were that new kid. It was kinda weird, I didn't think the Fudos had any other kids."
"It's kind of a long story..." Casper said.
"Well, I'm Jamie..." Jamie said.
"It's nice to meet you, Jamie." Casper said, so they could get properly reaquainted to help them out during this journey.
"I'm a little nervous." Jamie said, a little shyly, moving a strand of her hair behind her ear.
"Um, what for?" Casper asked, he had a hunch, but he wasn't sure if this was before or after the quintuplets thing.
"Report Card Day," Jamie said, relieving Casper a little. "I'm not sure if I did so well."
"Oh, um, I'm sure you did your best..." Casper smiled. "I don't mean to brag, but my big brother's a great help with my homework."
"Big brothers must be cool." Jamie said, a little jealous.
"Well, mine is..." Casper said, shyly. "Especially when against bullies."
"Atticus Fudo is your brother, right?" Jamie asked.
"Yeah," Casper nodded. "You hear of him?"
"A lot of the times since my mom runs the paper," Jamie said. "He sounds quite interesting."
Casper smiled. This was going a lot better than he thought it would. What was he so worried about?
Jamie and Casper left the bus together, almost becoming the best of friends. Maybe it was because they were both only children, well, at least Casper formerly was, though he was practically a slave to his uncles in his old afterlife as a ghost.
"Hey, Jamie." Two kids, a boy and a girl greeted.
"Oh, hey, guys." Jamie smiled.
"Uh, who's your friend?" The boy asked.
"This is Casper, he's in our homeroom actually." Jamie said.
"Ohh..." The boy and girl said.
"Casper, these are my friends," Jamie introduced. "Brad and Zoe, but we like to call her 'Z'."
"It's nice to meet you both." Casper smiled.
"Nice to meet you too, Casper." Zoe smiled back.
"So, anyone ready for Report Cards?" Brad asked.
"Ugh..." Jamie groaned.
"Well, that answers my question..." Brad said.
"I'm sure we all did our best though, that's all our parents can ask for." Casper advised.
"So true," Zoe agreed. "Great life lesson too, Casper."
"Um, well, thank you, Z," Casper smiled. "I can call you that, right?" he then asked, a little nervous since they had just met.
"Well, sure," Zoe allowed. "If you're friends with Jamie, you're friends with us too."
"Uh, yeah." Brad added.
"Great." Casper smiled.
Yoyo and Doc Croc smiled as well as they hid inside of the boy's pants pocket.
