A/N: Ok so this one is connected to the first but don't expect the others to be connected as these r random. This is also quite short.
Barrett's Dorm
"Alright, don't touch anything, don't go on the carpet, don't go on the couch, and don't enter any rooms, got that?" he asked them but sighed when he saw Dennis giving Yuri another noogie while headlocking him and saw Serena chasing Sora around with the stick (Yuri gave up at some point and dropped his stick while Serena kept hers).
But when they noticed Barrett looking at them, they just said, "Yes, sir!"
When they all went inside though, they did all the things Barrett told them not to. Dennis sat on the couch, Sora sprawled on the carpet, Yuri was holding one of his toploaders that was supposedly displayed on a small table, and Serena ran straight to his room and took his card binder and proudly showed it to the other three.
He's not really sure what to do now.
"You all do know I just said not to sit on the couch, touch the carpet, don't touch anything and to not enter any rooms, right?" he asked, sighing.
"Nah, I don't remember," Serena answered bluntly and went back to show off Barrett's collection.
'This… this is what I get for spoiling her even if it's not all the time.' He just approached them and took the binder from the girl's hands. "Hey!"
"You. Get four towels from my room and go to the bathroom and take a bath," he told Serena. "Then, with you three," he pointed to the three boys, "you all go after Serena finishes, one by one."
The boys nodded while Serena groaned and ascended the stairs to get a towel.
After their baths he tended to Yuri and Serena's bruises and wounds. "Did you both fight this much?"
"Yeah," Serena grimaced as Barrett cleaned her wound.
Then to Sora and Dennis (who only had a few scrapes from all the playing).
When everything was finished, they were gathered up on Barrett's couch and were fighting for the remote. Annoyed, Barrett went to them and took the remote. "Why don't you guys do something else?"
"Ooh! Can we camp outside, please?" Yuri piped. "We'll stay in tents…"
"Yeah! But first, we'll make a campfire," Dennis started. "Roast some marshmallows or make some smores…" Sora added. "And do some stargazing!" Serena finished.
"Well, since you guys seem so enthusiastic about it, go ahead," Barrett said. When he did, you can see the beams of joy in their eyes and smiling faces. This… Well, it warmed Barrett's heart. He thought only Serena could cause something like this, but to see it on the other three as well… It's just… different.
He then added, "I think I have a tent in the attic." Which made them even happier.
Then, not a long while later, the four were all outside doing their own thing. Dennis was trying to start a fire from the wood he collected (stole, actually. From the kitchen somehow), Yuri was reading the tent's manual, Sora was carrying one pack each of marshmallows and graham crackers and a few bars of chocolate while Serena was helping Barrett with some sleeping bags, pillows, and blankets. They set camp on Barrett's balcony, somehow making everything fit.
"Need help with the tent, Yuri?" Barrett asked the boy.
"I think yeah…" he said as he grabbed the tent's poles which were bent and were much taller than him.
While Barrett went to help Yuri, he heard a big fire start behind him.
Turns out, Serena poured some motor oil she found in Barrett's storage room onto Dennis's small flames. "I said I'll do it on my own, Serena-chan."
"Oh come on. What we needed was fire, and I didn't wanna wait an entire eternity seeing you rub wood together."
Dennis just pouted and ignored her. "I guess."
"Dennis, Serena, can you guys roast some marshmallows please?" Sora asked the two, holding a pack of marshmallows. They nodded, placing some marshmallows on some BBQ sticks and were about to put them near the fire when Yuri stepped in front of the two.
"That's totally wrong," he stated. "It should be like this." He took a marshmallow from the bag and yelled at it angrily.
"See? I'm roasting it," he grinned happily and proudly. His face even beamed with pride, lots of it.
Serena and Dennis just looked at him boredly. "I… reckon you're amused of yourself?" Serena asked.
"Sure am."
"Well it wasn't funny, idiot."
"Hey. It was an attempt at making a joke, ya know."
"It was quite a stupid and boring one. Don't you agree, Dennis?"
The carrot-top just looked around, unsure of what and how to answer. "I-uh…"
"See? He agrees."
"At what point did he agree with you!?" Yuri yelled furiously.
Barrett separated the two. "Let's just roast the marshmallows properly and pretend this conversation never happened, alright?" he growled, obviously annoyed and tired of the bickering.
"Okay/Augh, fine," both said in unison.
After a while, the marshmallows were starting to melt and a thick and hot golden-brown appeared on a part of it, indicating that they were finally roasted. Its smell consisted of something sweet with a tinge of smoke.
Sora popped his into his mouth. The taste was a mixture of something sweet, almost like sugar, and, like its smell, a bit of smoke and heat; it also almost tasted and smelled like caramel. The combination of the two made the almost-burnt marshmallow be one of the best things he's ever eaten. "Mmm~" he said, savoring the melted mallow.
Dennis did the same but spat it out. "It's hot! How'd you do that, Sora?"
"I 'uess," he mumbled, missing the 'g' as he ate the mallow, "I 'ave an im'u'nity 'o heat."
Yuri blew his first after seeing what happened then ate it. "It really is sweet!"
They then all looked at Serena (btw, Barrett went inside after making the tent and told them to call him if needed). "Uhh, Rena-kun," Yuri called, "shouldn't you take it out already?"
"Nah, I wanna see it burn. Y'all are weaklings for eating it like that." She pointed to herself. "While I will be the only one to eat it burnt."
"Suit yourself. Just a warning, they say it tastes bad when burnt," Yuri warned. "I mean, they're burnt."
"Sora, no!" They heard Dennis yell. "I spat it out, don't eat it!" He was grabbing the younger kid by his collar.
"But it'll be wasted!" the younger boy yelled, trying to resist Dennis's pull. "Guys!? Help!"
Yuri kicked the mallow off the balcony as if it was nothing. "There. Gone. And do not jump off."
"Aww…" Sora whined as he looked over the balcony's railings.
He then saw another thing fall off at the side of his eye.
It was Serena who threw her burnt marshmallow off the balcony. "Yeah… It didn't taste good."
"Told ya," Yuri teased.
"I get it…" Serena groaned, punching him lightly at the shoulder. "Hey, why don't we stargaze?"
"Boring," Yuri murmured.
Serena just glared at him. "You'll never know till ya try, ya know." She dragged a sleeping bag to her position, laid on it and gazed at the night sky.
Since Academia didn't have many lights and was far from the mainland, the moon, together with the stars, shone brightly, with the stars' colors ranging from red, white, blue, and sometimes, yellow. She stood up and looked towards the vast ocean.
"Ursa Major…" she murmured. 'One of the most common… Imma look for more…' She looked a few degrees down to the left and saw– 'Hercules!'
A bit more to the left and saw the Cassiopeia Constellation. 'Hmm I wanna find the Andromeda Galaxy, but now's not the time.'
She wasn't sure why, but she always found the heavenly bodies peaceful and fascinating and had read a number of books about them.
And she felt like she was connected to them, somehow. And not just to the moon or stars, but to the whole of the cosmos itself. Was that why her name was 'Serena', or was it just a mere coincidence?
She knew she was from an orphanage, but thinking back, who gave her that name in the first place? Another, who were her parents…?
But, perhaps she wasn't connected to the universe. Perhaps her name was also just a coincidence.
If so, she really is just another speck of it—the universe, just like everyone else; another commoner amongst all those stars above and people below them.
"Hey, Serena, where's Leo located?" Dennis asked, interrupting her train of thought.
"It's in the Southern Hemisphere, I think. I don't think you'll be able to find it at this time of the year. You might, but it'll be hard."
Dennis and Sora then joined her. Sighing, Serena helped the other two find various constellations and stars.
Not wanting to be left out, Yuri eventually joined them.
After an hour, they all sat back at the campfire.
"What should we do now?" Serena asked.
"Hey guys!" Dennis yelled. They all looked in his direction.
He was tapping away at his duel disk which showed a holographic screen. He seemed to be scrolling through a playlist. "Uhh… Here!"
He tapped at a certain song. And even if it was backwards, Yuri read it as "Get Your Game On - Shortened One Minute Version".
"You gon' play a song, Den-den?"
"Yep!" he said, playing it.
The first 6 seconds of the song—which consisted of drums and guitar riffs—caught everyone's attention. Dennis paused it afterwards.
"Ooh! I love that song!" Sora shrieked. "It's 'Get Your Game On'!"
"I know it, too. It's like, 'Chillin' out with the—" Serena started but was cut off.
"Okay, okay. We all know the song." Yuri then smirked. "Let's all sing it!"
All of them nodded happily. "Sure!/Of course!/Yeah!"
Dennis then restarted it and said, "All right, everybody, 3, 2, 1… now!"
"I'll start," Sora said. He held his breath and started.
(Sora) Chillin' out with the crew in the school yard~
Findin' trouble never looking too hard…
(Serena) [She stood up and continued this part] Well back at class they never taught us this, She beat her head to the music.
Some things you gotta learn, hit or miss.
(Dennis) Tough times, hard climbs,
We'll take 'em on together. [He hugs the other three together then lets them go]
Right now, let's go!
(Last, Yuri (who felt ashamed he was only left one line)) Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Generation NeXt!
(All of them) Game on, get your game on~
Come on ya better play your cards right
Game on, get your game on
We'll make the grade and win this fight!
We'll make the grade somehow
Yeah! Yu-Gi-Oh! GX!
Come on get your game on,
Come on ya better play your cards right.
Come on and get your ga~me on!
And with that they all cheered and hi-fived each other.
They sang the song several times to the point that Barrett got annoyed and told them to do something else while he made them some cup ramen.
A little while later he finally finished it and put the four cup ramens with varying flavors on a tray and got ready to walk out to the four.
"Alright, here's dinner." He looked at them and saw Serena pouting at the corner. "What happened to her?"
"Sora beat her in a Duel, well, Duel Monsters specifically," Dennis sighed.
"She doesn't have to be so sore about it, though," Yuri commented.
"I'm gonna talk to her. Anyway, here, choose your own flavor." He walked over to said girl.
The three nodded as Barrett went to get Serena.
It took a while, but Serena finally gave in and ate with them.
With that finished, the four were now in the tent, ready to go to sleep.
Instead of sleeping, though, they told each other some scary stories. After all, what's a camp without them?
"Hey, why don't we end our day with some scary urban myths?" Yuri suggested. "That way, we'll know who here has a faint heart."
"Ooh! Can I start?" Dennis asked.
"Sure."
"Waitwaitwait, I did not agree to this!" Serena blurted out.
"Why, you scaaared?" Yuri teased.
"N-No! I just thought we should sleep early, that's all. Sora didn't say anything about this, either!"
"Honestly, I don't mind at all. Let the stories start!" Sora exclaimed, popping another lolli in his mouth. "Plus, you can just sleep if you want. We'll just be talking with each other here."
"Sigh, fine. I'll just sit here." Serena pouted and sat down.
"Can I start now?" Dennis asked.
"Yeah."
Dennis went outside. "Hey Yuri, come here. And only Yuri."
"Hm? Ok."
After a few minutes, he called Sora and Serena out. The four of them sat down, forming a circle in front of the campfire.
"Now," Dennis started menacingly, "Let me tell you a more popular kind of story—The story of Kuchisake-onna, aka, The Slit-Mouthed Woman."
The hair on Sora's body rose up as if a cold wind passed by. Only, it wasn't that cold nor windy right now.
"Oh, I know that—" Serena was about to interrupt when Dennis cut het. "Shush. No interruptions."
"Fine."
"Anway, they say that she wears a mask to conceal her grotesque face and that she appears during the night time, when you're alone." He gave a pause as the atmosphere around them thickened and became cold. "When you walk alone in the streets, she is said to stalk you. And when she catches you," Dennis slowly looked away, "she'll ask you a simple question."
He suddenly looked back at them with eyes twitching and a chilling smirk on his face, one that could almost be comparable to Yuri's. "Am. I. Beautiful?"
An icy current ran through Serena and Sora's spine.
"W-What happens next?" Sora stammered, clinging to Serena. Both shaking a bit—Sora more so than Serena—and sticking to each other. 'Wait… where's Yuri?' Serena thought. The cabbage seemed to have disappeared.
"Well, to put it simply, you answer her: no or yes." Dennis fixed his posture and sat properly. "If no, she will take out some long, bloody, scissors,"
"…A-And?"
"And stab you with them until you fall to the ground and be nothing but a dead, lifeless, corpse," he continued with a low, menacing tone.
A moment of silence arose; they could hear the crickets chirping near them. The three just sat there with the other two feeling as if all the life and breath had been pulled out of them.
Serena steadied herself. "What about if you say she's beautiful?"
He looked at them with half-lidded eyes. "She will still take out her scissors. But instead of murdering you with it, she'll slit your mouth so that you'll be beautiful—just like her. And it's up to how you describe it, but, some people say it's a fate even worse than death itself."
A bead of sweat passed through Serena's face.
"The end!" he concluded happily. "Were y'all scared or what!?"
"I definitely wasn't," Serena lied.
"M-me neither!" Sora mirrored.
Dennis laughed before looking behind them, eyes widening. "G-guys… behind you…!"
"Pfft, yeah, right. There's nothing there," Serena said, and though she did feel a dire presence behind her, she still wouldn't look back.
"No, really!" And so, sighing, she and Sora both looked back.
To see a person cloaked in a long, thick, and dark cloth. And with the lack of light it looked like it was long hair. "Am I beautiful?" The figure asked with a voice that was femine but felt forced.
Sora and Serena's blood ran cold. "WAAAAAHHH!" They pushed the other to the side and ran towards Dennis who was shaking… with laughter.
Meanwhile, in his room, Barrett awoke to the sound of screaming. "What now," he groaned, sitting up and walking to the door.
Back to the four, Dennis and the cloaked figure were laughing uncontrollably. The cloaked figure even fell to the floor out of laughter.
It took a while for her to notice, but Serena finally figured it out.
With her fear overcome by anger, she stomped her way to the figure. She stood in front of him.
She pinned whoever it was to the ground and lifted the cloak which confirmed her thoughts. It was Yuri.
"Why you little…" She lifted her fist and punched his gut, making him gasp for air. "UGH…"
"You. Do not. Sneak up on me. EVER!" she yelled, choking him.
"Yeah, yeah. Sorry already," Yuri coughed. She let him go.
Sora looked closer. "Oh. It's just Yuri-san."
"And I know you have something to do with this!" she pointed to Dennis, "Don't think you're off the hook just yet!"
She let Yuri go and lunged at Dennis. "Ack! Stop! I'm sorry already!"
"You better be, or I'll—"
The glass door suddenly slid open, making the four of them scurry to the tent.
"Alright, what's with the commotion?" Barrett groaned. He was very, very tired.
Sora ran out of the tent to Barrett and looked at him with puppy-like eyes. "Barrett-sama," he whined, "can I sleep with you tonight?"
"Uhh, why?"
"D-Den-den told us a very scary story."
'That explains a lot,' he thought. "Alright, fine." He was too tired to start an argument.
"Can I, too?" Yuri asked.
"Wait, what? Why?" Dennis and Serena asked, whispering. "You're probably the least scared person out of the four of us."
"I just wanna sleep with him." Yuri smiled.
"…What if I'll just sleep with the four of you, instead? I'm sure you're all still awake."
"Yeah, please!" The four of them yelled.
'Knew it. Oh well.' He walked to the tent and laid down on the side.
Sora got on his stomach but was too tired to stop him, Serena stayed close to his right, Dennis went to his left, and Yuri… somehow fit on his chest.
How Yuri and Sora — and himself too, actually — were comfortable with that was beyond him. For now, all he wanted to get was sleep.
And when he finally was about to sleep, he heard Sora mumble, "you're fat."
"Don't start," he scolded, knowing what could follow after.
A/N: And there ya have it folks, the fusion four sleeping on big stronk Barrett.
And wud u guys mind if i did the other dimensions to? not with these guys, but child them (just like with the fusion gang here) doing casual/kid stuff (i already have somethin i mind for 'em).
This is all for now, bai!
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