Summary: The winter ball is the special events at the school the group goes too. However, the group's night off will be crashed by some unwanted guests.

Rin's House, 4:30 PM

The door opens.

"Hi, Thomas," Rin says as I walk in. She's in the middle of getting ready for the Winter Ball, "you came a bit early."

"Eh, yeah, just sort of my life motto I guess, 'If you're early, you're on time, if you're on time, you're late," I replied.

"I see, well, I just need to finish up a few things, and we'll get going. When is the rest coming?"

"I think Darren will be here pretty soon, but Wanny, Yuna, and Rupee won't be here until after 5."

"Well that's good, want anything to drink?"

"No, I'm fine, thanks though." I take a seat on her couch. I remove my jacket and place it on the arm of the chair. Rin walks over to her room, and I look at her while she leaves. Rin's dad sits there and watches a movie. He explains to me the summary of it, and he soon starts asking me a bunch of questions about my life, and I just give answers without thinking.

The doorbell rings. Rin's brother, Alex, answers the door, and Darren is standing there dressed up for the event.

"Hey, Darren," I said quickly. He joins me on the couch, and we all watch the movie. Rin briefly comes out of her room to find her camera, and then returns to finish her make up. She greets Darren in the same way as she greeted me, and continues with her work.

The doorbell rings yet again, and Wanny and Yuna show up. Yuna has a turquoise dress on, however Wanny failed to get a matching tie to go with his date's dress, and wore a white striped tie.

"Wanny, you do know that the two of you are supposed match right," I told him jokingly.

"Um, whatever," Wanny replied.

"Hey Jonathan and Yuna," Rin says as she walks back into the living room, "let me get my keys and we'll be out of here shortly." Rin quickly searches around the house for the keys to the van, and soon we all hop in and head out to the Opera House, which is where this year's Winter Ball would be held.

Highway: Brian's Car

"Brian, where exactly are we going?" Adrian asked.

"I don't know, but I just need to get out of that apartment."

"How long have we been shut in there?"

"I don't know to be honest, we've probably been in there for the past two weeks or so, I think it's time that you and I do something besides talk about the past."

"Yeah, true."

"Want to go to the Opera House?"

"What, they have those in this world."

"Apparently, I wonder if they have any shows tonight."

"I hope they do."

Highway: Rin's Van

"So why isn't Daniel, Josh, or the other Jonathan coming to the Winter Ball?" Rin asked Darren and I.

"Well Josh and Daniel went last year, and they want to try and raise their ELO this weekend on League," I answered.

"And Jonathan just doesn't go to these social events," Darren answered.

"I see, that's pretty anti-social of them," Rin said.

"Yeah true, but they don't mind it," I replied.

"So why isn't Jennifer here," Darren asked.

"Well she's pretty bogged down with all her AP classes," Rin answered. She saw in her rear view mirror that Wanny and Yuna were slowly scooting closer and closer together. "By the way, you two in the back, I'm going to keep my on you, I don't want anything inappropriate happening in my car."

"Yeah we know," Yuna answered with sort of an embarrassed look.

A few minutes later, we reached our destination.

Opera House 6:30 PM

The sun was almost completely down, and the night was beginning to take over. Rin parked the car near the entrance of the Opera House, and we all walked in. Soon we were greeted by staff members from the school and started up conversation with other students with whom we were familiar with.

Unlike other high school dances, we actually get to have a dinner, so we ate really quickly and soon the DJ started playing the music, and we all got up and danced to our heart's content.

Meanwhile, outside, Brian and Adrian walk by the Opera House and don't hear the familiar sound of vocalists bellowing out elongated notes.

"Well that's odd, let me check the paper again," Brian said to himself. He glanced over and noticed that the Opera House no longer hosted great performances, but instead hosted formal parties.

"Oh well that's a shame," Adrian said, "we can at least peruse the shops."

"Eh, might as well."

The two of them walk off, but then the earth shakes suddenly and then stops.

Inside the building, everyone halts the festivities. Soon everyone starts wondering whether or not that was an earthquake, but the staff is able to keep everything under control.

"Let's see what's going on," I said. I pulled out the Mercury Hammer keychain from my pocket, and had it ready. Rin, Yuna, Rupee, Wanny, and Darren soon followed me outside.

In an Intersection near the Opera House

A portal opens and the mighty Master Of Metal, Mordekaiser, steps out of the portal with a small army of minions at his command.

"Our orders are plain and simple, find Adrian and Brian and kill anyone that stands in our way," he commanded to his small army.

The minions soon went out in search of the two young men. Cries of help from the innocent bystanders echoed throughout the small town, minions plowed through the buildings in search of their targets.

The group stepped outside and witnessed the chaos. A family was being chased by a group of minions. I pulled out my hammer and swung with one mighty blow and knocked all of them away.

Rin pulled out her sword, and Yuna summoned Tibbers.

"Rin, Yuna, protect anyone who is trying to escape and get them to safety," I said, "Wanny, Darren, Rupee, and I will try and find the source of the problem."

The girls ran off to defend groups of fleeing civilians from the onslaught of minions pouring from the portal. The guys fought their way closer to the portal, against the tide of minions.

They reached the intersection where the portal was. Then they saw the one person that reminded them of that one defeat on their record, Mordekaiser.

"You humans," Mordekaiser announced, "today is your lucky day, stay out of my way and I won't have to beat you into a bloody pulp. I am after different prey this evening. Hue hue hue."

"We won't let you," Darren cried. He activated his Anchor Keychain and pulled out the giant anchor. "Dredge Line." He threw the anchor at Mordekaiser, but he pulled out his mace and whacked the hammer aside. "No way," Darren said to himself, "so much power."

"Super minions, Attack" Mordekaiser commanded. A group of super minions emerged from the portal and charged at full force at the guys. Rupee pulled out the axe and spun around to use "Decimate," his attack destroyed the legs of the gigantic machines. Wanny activated his glove and pounded Mordekaiser with a series of spells.

Then I charged at Mordekaiser with my Mercury Hammer, but I was soon stopped by a hooded figure.

"Get out of my way, this place is dangerous," I told him.

"This is our fight," the hooded figure said. He threw off his cloak, and revealed himself.

"Who are you," I asked.

"I'm Brian," he said, "you may not recognize me, but you'll definitely recognize my partner."

A blue super minion was about to bring its gigantic mace arm down upon Brian when out of the darkness came a flash of orange light. I covered my eyes, but when I looked back, there was a familiar face.

"Adrian," I mumbled to myself.