Ben Tennyson, and the others, are owned by Man of Action and Cartoon Network.
American Dragon - Jake Long, and the others are owned by Disney.
Danny Phantom, and the others, are owned by Nickelodeon.
Ghoul School, and the others, are owned by Hannah-Barbara and Cartoon Network.
Story Aided by - u/2319472/Vanessa-Masters
Chapter 5:
Pre/Post game jitters
'Seriously a piranha first and now a twin headed shark. Lady luck hates me." The flame headed one thought as he tried to swim away. The only reason he was still alive was the smell that came from him which caused them to keep a few inches away from him; it was still a threat though. "Wait a minute…why am I fearing these guys." He whispered before realizing an easy solution. As he was about to put his plan into action a voice was heard from above him.
"Keep swimming, swamp-breath! I'm on my way!" The teen said and was about to go ghost until he saw a bright green flash down below.
"Ripjaws!" The fish creature shouted when the light dyed down.
"Show off." The spirit muttered as he saw the new guy. The girls gathered around the other window of the room, and one was ready to help out.
"I know Ben's changed, but I'm still going. I love swimmin`!" Elsa said and made her way to the edge of the wooden windowsill. She watched carefully and as soon as the two made another pass she jumped.
"Hey! Easy on the tail!" The aquatic warrior shouted since his two legs have become one fin and their jaws were barely grazing it. When the two of them were right over the two windows the shark creature's heads were greeted by both of Frankenteen's feet.
'Cool. I nailed my landing, and now…' The black/white haired one in question thought before using the heads she landed on as a springboard and landed into the moat: in front of the hero.
"She'd be a much better diver if she learned to keep her feet together!" The headmistress said after watching the whole thing from the coach's window. The two males simply stared at one another thinking of the same thing.
'That was pretty cool.' The voltage vixen surfaced after her second dive and decided to give her friend's the go ahead. "Com on in! The water's fine!" She shouted while waving them to join her and the good fish. The two that were with her got closer to the edge, but it was the brown furred one that leapt first with a howl.
"Oh, Winnie, you werewolves are such show-offs." Sibella said with a pre laugh before jumping up, flapping her arms a bit, and then dove down. As she was falling a foreign thought entered her mind, 'You better just hope that you were trying to show off to Ben.' The purple skinned pretty gave her head a shake, and decided not to wonder where that thought came from.
'Ow.' The shark head to the right thought as the wolf landed on his head and fell into the water.
'Ow.' The shark head to the left thought as the bat landed on his head before falling into the water. The orange haired werewolf surfaced and spat out some water, right onto Ripjaws teeth, but he did not mind.
"This water is as warm as a bat tub." The daughter of darkness said with a shudder of enjoyment. The fish-man saw the three and felt all forms of awkward, but thankfully he head something from his friends above - still in the training room.
"Come on, Danny. Let's get into the swim of things." The dragon said after going dragon, to look cooler, and grabbed the flesh of his friend. 'No way is he going to have two girls.' The winged beast thought before flying straight down.
"Wait for us coach." The female phantom shouted after a short laugh, and after the two other heroes headed straight down.
'Well, if she's coming then I'm really going to have to change.' The Amity Park apparition thought and activated the dual white halos. Once his transformation he heard the youngest, who was off the chin up bar, and was ready to dive with them.
"My mummy taught me to swim. I can do a Nile and a half." The bandaged beauty said before letting gravity do it's job for her. As the four were falling the ecto-enforcer heard her comment and could only chuckle.
" 'A Nile and a half'? Only in Egypt, right, Jake." Danny questioned after phasing his wrist free.
"Yep, too true." The other said back: intent on doing what the other three did - land and bounce on the shark creature. The two of them both landed on the head to the left while Tannis landed on the head to the right.
'It's just not worth it.' The two thought before swimming into the deeper, darker part of the lake. As they were leaving the eight had already started swimming with their coaches taking point.
"Alright. One lap around the moat, guys. Then out of the water!" The super specter said to them as he was just swimming normally since that type of swimming was hardwired into his brain.
"And onto the Volleyball court." The black/green manned fighter said as he swam to Phantom's left. The girls heard their set rules, and all agreed that they were fair, but one said that it was okay to their teachers.
"Right, coach!" Elsa said to them as she swam in the same pattern as the white haired one. The vampire was the next to speak as she swam behind the strength of the girls.
"We're ready for those Calloway cadets." She said as she swam. A part of her tried not to pay attention to the black and yellow tail fin just out of her reach. A part of her wandered about the butt it hid, but like before she stifled that thought.
"Go, Grimwood!" Winnie said to them in praise with a howl before and after her statement while doing the backstroke. As she gazed into the air a fantasized image of a familiar dragon with her on his back zipped through the clear blue sky. 'Just a trick of the heat.' She thought and focused on swimming.
"I'm gonna bring a trophy home to my mummy." Tannis said as she trailed after the salmon swimming specter. As the group was finishing with their swimming another eye, similar to the one that Danny froze, surfaced on the edge of the moat: hidden in the thick grass.
"Are you keeping a close eye on those girl ghouls, Creeper?" The green toned woman said as she looked into the view screen to see what the plant was seeing.
"Yes, Revolta. As you commanded, I won't let them out of my sight." The plant like henchman said as he too looked at the screen, and prayed that they still worked.
"Excellent!" She said back after a long hiss. Outside of their base, back at the ghoul school the group was now getting out of the moat. The ghouls first, and then two out of three of the guys.
"Aren't you coming, Ben?" Jake questioned as he remained in his dragon form.
"Give me a minute." The Piscciss Volann said to the flier before submerging as far as he could. As soon as his feet hit the bed of the moat he shot straight up. The group saw the flying fish soar, and then heard straight back down, but before any of them could do anything they saw a flash followed by a familiar orange eyeless mutt land before them.
'Now that was impressive.' They all thought even tough they all saw that he was still covered with moat water which was shaken off. Unknown to them some of the water landed into a new plant.
"Thanks, mutt, I needed a shower anyway." Danny complained before using his intangibility ability to quick dry his clothes. As he did that a discussion was being taken at an unknown location.
"Fool! Next time, don't plant your spy traps by the moat." The four armed villain ordered in anger while flinging some of the water in her hair into her minion's single eye.
"Sorry, Revolta." The cowardly cucumber said back while wiping the water from his single optic. Back at the school the alien mutt 'watched' as the girls dried them selves off in their own way, but was interrupted when he caught wind of something head his own way.
"I think he's wanting us to change back." Long guessed after hearing the roaring and snarling of the four limbed hero.
"Gee, ya think." Danny said back and with a blast of green, white, and red the trio was back in their civilian form, and just in time to hear how their fellow man talk.
"Look, guys. Those Grimwood girls are all washed up before we even play them." Tug said while tossing the ball in the air and catching it. His friends were right behind him smiling due to their leader's comment.
"Matches, I think the girls could use a quick blow-dry." The headmistress, who walked over the drawbridge, and waited on the outside edge of the moat.
"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Blow-dry." The dragon, who went with her, garbled back up at her. He then started up his fire, but launched it when it was only at half strength. At that level the flame attack became a flame cloud which engulfed all five creatures.
"I hope this doesn't become a permanent wave." The vampire commented after the heated cloud went past them and left her hair inflated. The changling saw her worried expression and decided to do something about it.
"If it does…you won't have to worry since you could pull off any hairstyle." The brown haired youth said back to her which caused both to look away in a bashful sense. The two decided to get away from the awkwardness by changing her hair back to normal as the others recovered from the quick dry too.
"Those cadets make my hair stand on end." Winnie shouted after shaking her fluffed up fur back to normal, and prayed that her coaches didn't see how silly she looked. Danny took a look around and saw that Frankenteen and Phantasma got out of it okay, but after a double take he saw that there was a problem.
"Next time, your mummy should dress you in non-shrink wrapping." The civilian spirit commented after picking her up, but before he attempted to shake her back to normal. To his lucky stars - it worked.
"Thanks, Danny." She said to the taller man after he placed the full sized daughter back on the ground. As soon as he let her go she bounced away. As she bounced the male half of the Volleyball game.
"If you girls are finished playing around, we've got a game to win." Miguel said to the hopper with fingers in his ears since he was not a fan of the sound of genuine happy unlike his cousin who could tolerate the sound of a playground and a classroom.
'Or to lose.' Tennyson thought as he considered doing to them as he had done to TJ and Cash, but had a feeling that the girls preferred to beat them by themselves. As the group was heading over to the court Ben spotted the blue skinned student. "Phantasma, where did you put my smoothie?" He whispered to her since he was determined to finish that treat.
"In your bedroom." She whispered back, and as soon as he heard where it was the boy back tracked.
"I just remembered that I forgot something. Go on ahead without me." He said before racing back to his temporary home. As he did that he ran past the Colonel, and this time a thought occurred, 'Why does it feel that I've seen that face before.' As he headed to the window that was in his room the older man had a thought of his own.
'Caring for a personal item instead of the game - disrespectful.' He thought with distain, but decided to head to the enemy court just the same. Ben found the window that led to his room, and activated his watch.
"Underwraps…I guess you'll have to do." The mummy said even though he had programmed in Big Chill. He stretched his arms to the window, latched on, and pulled forward, but in the middle of it he decided to something the original did - separate into several wrapping. "That was new." He said after landing in a heap on the floor. Once he was whole the bandaged man grabbed the beverage and slammed the symbol again.
"Diamondhead!" He shouted after the form was complete. "This'll do." He said and then ran…out the front door since he did not want to sink into the water with his drink. As he was making his way over the bridge the others arrived at their destination.
"Then let the games begin." Grimwood cheered as she stood beside the stick in the mud known as Colonel Calloway.
"Negative, Miss Grimwood. This Volleyball court is a disaster area. You don't even have a net." He complained; ending with a gesture to two posts, but nothing in between them.
"Not yet." She corrected him before looking over her right shoulder and shouted, "Legs!" With that shout a hairy eight legged beast cut off the walking boulder on his way to the court.
'What kind of spider is that?' The Petrosapien thought before going back to civilian since he did not want to spook the new kids in this area.
'This is all I'm good for.' The spider thought as he climbed up one of the posts and began to crate a net with little to no effort. The gree jacketed youth saw this and was actually impressed.
'Almost as good as Spidermonkey.' He thought as he then listened to the one that volunteered them for this job.
"You were saying, Colonel?" Fenton questioned to the man before him. In truth the ghost was also impressed with the arachnid's skill at such a thing, but said nothing aloud.
"I was saying that this court doesn't have any boundary lines." He stated to them; praying that his old foe would not have a way around this. To his dismay: she did.
"Coming right up." She said and pulled out a gong from within her right sleeve and then used it. By the sound of it the butler slithered over to them with an old fashioned chalk crank.
'I originally came here to follow that stone creature, but my duty to Grimwood comes first.' He thought before using the chalk crank that one of his eight limbs held. They all watched as he went into a complete rectangle.
"Any other complaints, Colonel?" The brown haired youth questioned with a confident smirk before sampling the smoothie. The man looked at the three teens and then at the head female.
"Well…we need a referee." The high ranked man commented and then scanned around for another creature, but saw none stand up…until.
"You're looking at him." Ben said before leaping into the air and slamming down the watch.
"Eye Guy!" The new creature said as he landed on a referee stand. "I call them as I see them." He said to them once he sat down. The older folk did not see this one coming. A off white creature with eyes on his arms and chest with a pair of bat ears on his head, and black pants for decency sake.
"Let's flip to see who serves first." Tug said to the purple haired and orange haired girls. The two heard that, but it was the land based girl that liked the sound of that.
"No problem." Winnie said to the two before racing over to the net, leaped and flipped over the net before landing back first.
"Winnie!" Jake shouted in alarm before using his dragon wings to get to her faster to see if she was alright. "You okay, wonder wolf?" He questioned while looking at her nervously. The female in question opened her eyes and stared right at the mystical man.
"I'm fine I do that sort of stuff all the time." She said back causing the hidden beast to sigh in relief. It was then that the cadets had something to say about what they saw.
"That girl's flipped! We're supposed to flip a coin!" The bulky boy said to his speedy friend - Jamal who could only stare at what just happened.
"Affirmative!" He said aloud once he found his voice while seeing a guy like them with the wings of a dragon. Danny heard that, and since he saw that he was the only one not drawing attention to himself he knew that it was up to him to find one.
"Why didn't you say so?" He questioned to all even though that a part of him preferred the way Winnie did it over traditional means. The black haired youth began to dig into his pockets, but found nothing causing him to question to all, "Anybody got a quarter?" His answer came in the form of the hand spirit, who came out to see what all the commotion was about.
'Here's one.' It thought while presenting the item in question. This brought a smile to the human's face.
"Thanks." He said to his friend for his readiness. "Heads." He said once the silver object was flipped into the air. Once the coin landed it landed on the side the hero stated.
"More looks like hands." Baxter commented feeling a little freaked out at the sight of the hand even though his cousin would like it or at the least shrug it off.
"Heads! See for yourself, Colonel." The young Fenton said to the coach of the other team. That comment made the floating creature headed over to his direction so the other would see it for himself.
"Affirmative. Grimwood serves first." The military man acknowledged in defeat. The two teams took their places with their coaches on the sidelines. It was then that the multi-eyed one spotted a cup holder to the right of him.
"That's handy." He whispered before placing his cup inside of it.
"Go to it girls - raise some shell!" The New Yorker shouted while using a comment from a game of his. They liked those words of encouragement. Danny, who decided to act as a coach saw that it was their strength going for the serve so he decided to offer some friendly advice.
"Give it all you got, Elsa!" He shouted in an encouraging tone.
"All right, coach." She said back after hearing his request. The young one took some stored energy and used it on her serve, but sadly it went threw the net plowed into the strength and field leader of the opposing team.
'Okay, that hurt.' Tug thought as he struggled to get back to his feet after the surprise from the girls. The brains and the speed of Calloway walked over and saw the damage to the piece of sports equipment.
"Net ball." The alien commented while seeing the damage with his chest eye.
"I'd say it's a net loss!" Miguel commented once the two of them got there and saw just how bad it was.
"Affirmative." The taller one added to his friends statement while thinking, 'Good thing I wasn't at that spot otherwise they would be short one player.' It was then that he saw the white hand pick up the ball and float over to the girls.
"Legs, on the double." Grimwood said to the spider that was trying to nap on one of the nearby trees.
'Seriously I just put it up a few seconds ago.' The arachnid thought as he walked all that way, and repaired his earlier handy work; he then left the second it was done. Danny decided to follow the same plan as the others and use his true form. As soon as he was in his ghost form he floated over to their server to giver her slightly better advice.
"Try to hit the ball a little higher." He said after floating over to her. The stein creature understood that much since she also knew how temperamental legs was with his work.
"Right, coach." Elsa said back while feeling a little embarrassed of her earlier bungle, but not enough to throw off her game. She angled higher as her coach said, and everyone saw the ball go straight into the air.
"Nice hit!" The wolf of the crew stated with a happy howl. Sibella on the other hand just put her left hand on her eyebrow and watched it fly. Eventually the object was pulled back to the game; thankfully on the guy's side.
"I've got it. I've got it." The small red head said while hoping in place ready for the sphere, but the moment his head was struck the young boy was plowed into the ground.
"Yep, you got it alright." The ref commented after seeing what just happened. "Point goes to Grimwood." Eye Guy stated, and saw the single hand place a '1' marker nest to the name - Grimwood.
"Yeah! Now that's what I like to see!" The dragon praised his team for their first win.
"I know what you mean." Grimwood said to the youth sitting on the bench with retracted wings. The game continued for a bit with the enemy gaining ground or the hero's female's winning. Eventually the game stalled at a tie 10 to 10.
"Good serve, cadet! Keep pressing the attack!" Calloway said to Grunt, attempting to use kind words since he saw that it did wonders for the girls when their three strange coaches praised them, so he decided to give it a shot.
"Yes, sir!" The boy in question said before giving a growl as he returned to his serving position. The youth grinded to a halt behind the line and served as strong as he could, but it was struck back by a giggling ghoul.
"I got it." She shouted before striking the ball back. 'That was fun, and Danny's been watching me.' She thought while laughing, but her happiness was cut short when she heard the other team on what she had just done.
"Hey! She hit the net!" Miguel commented while pointing an accusing finger at the ghost-girl. Jamal watched as the ball bounced back into their territory, and had to agree with his friend.
"Hit it? She went through it!" He complained to the ref who had been sitting there watching the game and drinking his drink at the same time.
"I'm sorry, but that's a foul, and Calloway gets the point." Ben said after taking a break from his smoothie sucking. Danny knew that his new found friend was only following the rules, but he saw the girl in question down on what happened.
"Hey, it's okay, you'll get them next time." He whispered to her after floating over to his fellow ghost. What he had said encouraged since her frown had turned upside down. The creatures of myth watched as their disembodied friend placed the number 11 to their enemy.
"All the way with Calloway!" The five others shouted with a hands in. This caused the trio to groan since they did not believe winning a point on that technicality was no reason to celebrate.
"We're never going to win that trophy, Sibella." The mummy girl confessed in a downhearted tone of voice. The taller student never did like it when her friends gave up too easily, and she knew exactly how to inspire confidence.
"You bat we are!" She said back with pride before glancing through the corner of her eye and saw that the ball was coming, so she transformed into her bat form and knocked it right back at them.
'I can hit it. I can hit it.' Detweiler thought as he back peddled, but lost his footing and had to watch as the ball flew over his head. This brought a smile to the referee. He was so excited that he had to praise her efforts.
"Nice spike, Sibella!" He shouted with praise and raised arms. The bat flew back to her original spot and changed back. The female in question liked the praise so much that she let his name slip again.
"Thank you, Benji." She said to the ref.
"Uh…you know just making an observation." He muttered back while trying to keeping his eyes at anywhere/anyone, but her, but before he could question about the nickname he watched as she headed back to the blonde boy, who was standing up with the ball in hand - dumbfounded over what had just happened.
"I must be going batty." He said after rubbing his eyes and having a fixated gaze on the female in question. One second later he dodged a laser beam from their peace maker on the sidelines. 'What the heck? That was like the third time that has happened.' The human though, but decided to worry about it later.
'Again? What is wrong with me?' The creature thought, but decided to shrug it off for the moment and concentrate on their match. The female the two were staring at decided that the newest girl deserved a turn at serving.
"Here, Tannis. Let's see a fang-tastic serve." She requested to the other who just smiled back at her. She did as the taller monster requested and served it; while purposefully leaving a strand of her wrapping on it.
"I've got it. I've got it." The brains and speed of the guys shouted as one, but before they had a chance the ball was flung back to the girl's side. The mummified one hit it again to their side. "I've got it!" They shouted and tried to jump to it, but that ended in failure as soon as they hit the fence.
"I've got it." The female server corrected them while catching her own serve. It was then that the girls watched as Miguel and Jamal were caught under the Volleyball net.
"You hit the net, cadets. We're all tied up!" The Eye Guy informed and watched with pleasure as the hand placed an '11' marker by their name.
"I'd say their all tied up!" The wolfett said to Phantasma with a howl as they both saw their predicament.
"That's a howl, Winnie!" The ghost-gal said back to her friend ending in a laugh.
"Oh, Legs." Grimwood said in a sing-song voice when she saw the problem. Again the creature got there, but then stopped at the base of one of the posts and crossed his first two arms across the chest.
'I better help out too.' The sideline hero thought before getting off of his stand and used one of his eyes to weld the posts together. As Tennyson was doing that the headmistress was trying to strike a deal with the sewing expert.
"I'll give you six extra flies for supper!" She shouted to the arachnid. At first he seemed interested, but in an instant returned back to his stubborn pose.
'Still not going to do it.' He thought as he looked away from his employer. It was then that she got the message.
"All right, all right. A dozen flies!" She issued to him, and it was then the seam maker went to work by making a new net on the refused poles. Ben saw this and knew that their game was about to get back on track.
'Time to judge this thing.' He thought as he headed to the stand. As he was doing that the American Dragon sat on the sidelines - cheering them on. He did not mind it, but he was getting hungry. It was then that something hit his nose.
"Are those what I think they are?" He questioned aloud and headed for the source of the smell, and saw that it was his fellow dragon carrying a metal container with the words 'red hots' painted on. "One, please!" He questioned with a growling stomach right behind his statement.
"Make that two!" The good ghost commented with the number two from his fingers. Seeing the offer the green scaled one picked up the container, and cooked it's contents. Both warriors waited until their items were made.
'These two are okay. It's him I don't like.' Matches thought as he handed them their dogs and glared up at the referee.
"Thanks, Matches. All this winning works up an appetite. Ya know?" Fenton commented before digging into his dog. As they were eating and the ref tried to get comfortable the leader of the cadets told the others his plan.
"They won't be winning for long. I planted a remote control device in the Volleyball." Tug informed the rest of his team while holding up a red and white remote device.
"Affirmative!" Jamal said even though that Vince tried to show him that playing by the rules was the best way to make sure that you deserve to win, but at the moment he just didn't care.
"Good-bye, Grimwood." Grunt added out of evil glee since he really did like making those girls look like the losers. The sad thing was that the kids did not anticipate one of the eight over hearing their plans.