Frost POV
I was still pretty stressed about what happened last week, so Cream suggested going to a hot springs.
"Doesn't sound too bad actually." I said while she smiled. Marshadow suddenly popped up right next to us, making Cream jump.
"Do you have to do that?" She asked while holding her chest. He tilted his head with a confused look.
"Do what?" After a brief pause, I spoke up.
"Never mind that, what is it?" I said as he remembered why he was here in the first place.
"I only thought about this 'hot springs' you have been talking about." He said while we both sighed. He doesn't know what a hot springs is.
"It's a relaxing hot bath." Cream explained. Marshadow nodded and left.
"Where is he going?" Cream asked. I shrugged it off and we left to not stress anymore.
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We arrived and were stopped by Marshadow, with everyone behind him.
"Marshadow, what the fuck?" I asked, gesturing behind him.
"Everyone has been stressed lately, so I thought they could use this too." Rush came up after he said that.
"You were planning on going in on your own? I thought we were friends." He said while running a finger down his cheek. I mumbled a 'whatever' and we entered. The girls headed to their side as we went to ours. Rush and Marshadow tried following the girls, to which I bashed their skulls against the floor.
"Ow. Why'd you do that?" Rush asked as Marshadow rubbed his head.
"Are you kidding me? Why would you think I'd let you?" He pouted and walked to the boys side.
"I thought we would all be on the same side." Marshadow said with a question mark appearing over his head.
"Just get in there." I told him as I was walking away.
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For the first five minutes, I had to keep Rush away from the wall that separates the two sides, until Psych decided to hold him in place with Psychic. Rush grumbled and gave up. I was finally able to just relax... until Rush told Marshadow something about the girls side. He went right up to the wall.
"I swear to Arceus..." I Whispered to myself while walking over to him.
"Don't even think about it." I said before dragging him back.
"But Rush said that they are in danger." I chuckled at his words.
"From what? The water being slightly too hot?" We sat back down, and I kept my eye on Rush.
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Doll POV
We heard almost everything on the boys side. Thankfully, Frost was able to stop them. I don't know why Rush suddenly turned into a pervert, and Cream doesn't know either, even though she's been friends with him for a long time. I forgot about it and tried to relax, but I started feeling uncomfortable. The water felt like it was heating up.
"Is it just me, or is the water getting hot?" I asked while Taki looked over.
"It's a hot springs, it's supposed to be hot." I shook my head at her words.
"No, it's getting hotter then it was before." The others seemed to notice after I stated it, except Taki, probably because she's a fire type. It eventually got so hot that we couldn't stand it, so we quickly got out.
"What could've caused that?" Shine asked as we began drying ourselves off. We heard what sounded like a little girl scream. Me, Sylvee and Cream peaked to see Rush running out of his side screaming bloody murder. Taki looked just in time to see the others come out to try to calm him down and she laughed her ass off. We walked out while Psych was basically smothering Rush to shut him up. Jolt walked up next to him.
"I think that's enough." He said as Psych dropped a very suffocated looking Rush. The rest of us were talking about what happened.
"How in the world would that happen?" Judo asked, dumbfounded.
"Maybe It was because-" Lila started before being interrupted by Taki.
"Maybe that Heatmor is back with a vengeance to burn our behinds." She said with a smile. Cream suggested we look around to which everyone agreed.
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We got back to the girls side to look around for anything that could've heated the water. I was about to give up before finding a sort of pipe looking thing running from under one of the outside walls, into the water.
"I found something." I said to the others.
"So somebody was-" Lila was again cut off, but this time it was Shine.
"Somebody must have been heating up the water through this, we're dealing with a fire type." We nodded and I flew over the wall to see the other side of the pipe out in the open, with a small path leading away. I told them what I found, so we did the most logical course of action and scaled the wall to follow the trail... it's not the best idea...
"I see a big house over there!" Sylvee shouted after a ten minute walk. I recognized the place as soon as I saw it.
"Hey, this is the place I used to creep around as a Shuppet." I said with a slight smile. Everyone seemed to be less cautious before I continued.
"But I don't remember liking it very much." They all frowned and their guards came back up, except Sylvee, she was just chewing a piece of gum she pulled from her fur.
"Let's go already! I've been itching for some action!" Taki yelled as she ran towards the house, and we ran after her.
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Frost POV
We found a small pipe leading to the girls side of the hot springs, so we reluctantly walked in and saw that it lead outside of the walls. The girls were gone, so they must've followed it a lot earlier. I climbed the wall first, then motioned for the others to follow. We walked for about ten minutes before seeing a really old looking house. Actually, it's more of a mansion. I walked up first and knocked on the door. A few minutes go by with no response.
"Did the girls not come this way?" I whispered to myself before we heard screams coming from inside, which startled Rush and Jolt.
"That sounded like Shine!" Judo yelled as I tried opening the door, but it wouldn't budge, so I kicked it off its hinges and we ran in the direction where the screams were coming from.