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Suspicious Chapter 9

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Suspicious
Chapter 9

Sheer brilliance.

That was the best way to describe Charmy's latest plot.

The day after the skating event, Charmy was hanging out with Tails and Cream, as usual. Of course, Zaravin was there too now, but she almost seemed to be avoiding Charmy. Almost as if her shy side had taken over again, but only around him. Because she treated Tails and Cream normally.

Zaravin excitedly chattered, at Tails and Cream, about how there was a trap door above the stage at the rec center. Whenever the king and queen of the dance where crowned at the dance it was going to release a bunch of balloons on the first to be crowned, then a few more on the second a few minutes later.

Of course, Charmy couldn't help overhearing this. Then it all clicked.

Tails and Cream where sure to be crowned. There where no if's, and's, or but's about it. Everyone knew, the king was always crowned first, because the queen was saved for suspense's sake.

All it took was for Charmy to eagerly volunteer to take care of inflating the balloons and putting them in place the next day.


The next day came, and Charmy arrived at the recreation center at 8:30 AM. Purposefully a half hour before the others would get there.

The receptionist let him in easy. As Zaravin had already let her know about all of her friends coming to help her.

Charmy quickly scuttled into the room above the stage. It was small and cramped. There appeared to be small doors all around the room, but it was just all of the air ducts that spread throughout the center.

Pulling up his large sack of balloons, the bee smiled to himself.

There was no way these could leak, as they where very high quality, but it would  have been disastrous if they did leak.

Naturally, Charmy's plan did NOT involve the balloons being filed with air. Instead, each and every balloon was filled with a sticky light green slime. Tails would get COVERED in the stuff come the dance. Naturally, if something bad happened with the king, they would hold up the announcement of the queen until the problem was solved.

Charmy loaded them carefully into the trap door, to insure none of the yucky substance managed to get free.

Finished, and it only took him about twenty minutes.

Charmy crawled toward the ladder going down.

As he climbed down the ladder, Zaravin walked through the large doors at the far end of the room.

"You're early." She said, avoiding looking Charmy in the eyes.

"I woke up early and wanted to get out of the office before Vector gave me something to do." He replied. It was half true.

"Oh. Get anything done yet?" She starred into the box of supplies she was carrying as she set them down on a table.

"I got the balloons in the trap door." He said.

He walked over and looked in the box the butterfly had set down.

"What is this stuff made from anyway?" He said as he picked up a roll of streamer.

"Crepe paper." She answered as she got the courage to look up at him.

"Crepe? Sounds like a type of breakfast food." He joked, now that Cream wasn't there to be disappointed by him he was being his clownish self. He ripped a small piece of the streamer off the roll and stuck it to his tongue.

"Ew! Most definitely NOT breakfast food." He winced on purpose in order to be funny.

Zaravin couldn't help but smile and giggle a little as Charmy continued to joke about the misnaming of streamer paper.



About ten minutes later Tails and Cream walked in. Zaravin and Charmy hadn't gotten any work done since Zara had arrived.

"Seriously! You could have put THIS stuff in the casserole at the camp and no one would have noticed!" Charmy went on as he and Zaravin mindlessly tossed the streamer paper back and forth. They where making a mess more than doing anything else.

"Crepe paper and toupee casserole!" Zaravin laughed.

"What?" Tails asked, causing the both the butterfly and bee to turn in their heels to face the newcomers.

"Nothing..." Charmy said suspiciously. He then cast a look at Zaravin that sent them both into giggles.

"Whatever." Cream smiled and rolled her eyes. "Let's just get to work."



"Thanks to you guys, we're almost done!" Zaravin said excitedly about two hours later as she adjusted some fake flowers in one of the windows.

"It was no trouble." Cream said as she pulled two shiny items out of a box. "Are these the king and queen of the dance's crowns?"

"Yup. Speaking of which, go ahead and try it on so you can pick a dress to match it." The butterfly teased.

Cream smiled and adjusted the smaller metal crown on her head.

"You know. I don't officially have a date yet." She cast a glance at Tails.

"Oh, sorry about that. Cream, will you go to the dance with me?"

"Sure."

"Well, that takes care of that." Tails smiled at the joking tones behind the simple affair.

Charmy scowled slightly, Cream hasn't shown anything concerning how he'd been acting toward Zaravin since two nights ago.

"Hey, Zaravin!" Charmy said as he flew up behind the butterfly, whom jumped slightly.

"Yes?" She said as she turned around.

Charmy reached over her shoulder and pulled a fake rose from the arrangement Zaravin had been working with.

'They don't call me Charmy for nothing.' He thought to himself as he half smiled.

"Will you go to the dance with me?"

Zaravin stood silent for a moment, and her mouth trembled for a minute before she could finally spit the word out.

"O-okay!"

"Cool." He smiled and he shoved the fake flower into her hand.

"I'm going to go get the other boxes from the closet!" Tails, whom really hadn't been paying attention to everything else, called.

"I'll come!" Charmy volunteered to avoid anything awkward now and followed the kitsune.

As the boys went out the two swing door Zaravin turned to Cream.

"EEEEEEEEKKKKKK!" The both girly squealed in unison.
I don't know HOW Charmy thinks he's not going to get caught. That, and he's SUCH a ham. :XD:

I actually like this chapter. I even got a little scene where Charmy and Zara where able to unwind and be themselves for a little bit. :)

Enjoy! :heart:

Charmy, Cream, and Tails belong to Sega
Zaravin belongs to me!

Prologue: [link]
Chapter 8: [link]
Chapter 10: [link]
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CHICKENRED2000's avatar

The balloon thing will definitely backfire on Charmy I know that for a fact.