Five Seconds

Curious Dares

A/N: This takes place 2 1/2 years forward; its safe to assume Lev has become the Meowth of Team LoliRocket and Deinos amd Kakos have joined them as well; also safe to assume Nat is aware of Ephedia by now...

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"Please tell me you're joking."

"Not even a bit."

"Dude, nobody could ever pull this off!" Mephisto whined, a pleading look in his olive eyes.

"You brought this on yourself, dude! You should've prepared yourself before you came at me with a game involving dares." Lev smirked, a look of achievement on his face. He knew he would win. Mephisto was easy to entertain and gullible enough to take on any challenge. The teal haired twin boys chuckled from next to them, with Prax grinning at her brother's misery, taking a pause from filing her nails.

"Next time somebody gives you the option of playing Truth or Dare, say no." Praxina smirked as Mephisto glared at her from his seat below her.

"Not helping, sis!" He growled and she rolled her eyes.

"It's not my fault you let the secret of your now uneventful sex life fall into the hands of a thief who gets moment's highs off a child's game." Praxina shrugged, ignoring the mutual glares of the boys.

"Prax!"

"I resent that...But a dare is a dare." Lev grinned.

"I am NOT going to sleep with one of the princesses. I'd be dead before I even land! Also, isn't there, like, a law against this or something?" Mephisto blushed, pouting at his latest dilemma.

"Oh, so you'll blow up a factory in the name of Gramorr, betraying your own planet, but you can't get laid? I'm starting to see the problem here." Lev crossed his arms, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh yeah, and how's it going with Iris? Hm?" Mephisto shot back, smirking as the platinum blonde Ephedian paled, his smile falling. The Infernal Twins laughed and jeered at the teen, earning a silencing glare.

"Alright, big man, just for that, I'm gonna make a few rules." Lev smirked again, causing Praxina to perk up in attention. This was gonna get even more entertaining than before.

"Oh, thank good-!"

"Any one but Iris and your favorite princess."

"...Prax..." Mephisto squeaked, turning red as the twins and Lev laughed at his embarrassment.

"What? He made me." Prax went back to filing her nails, a satisfied smile on her lips.

"How could he possibly convince you to tell him that?!" Mephisto bellowed, throwing his arms out dramatically.

"He said, 'Hey, does Mephisto have a crush on Auriana?' and I said 'Yeah.'"

Mephisto crossed his arms, his tone deadpan, "You're the worst."

"Thanks. I do my best." She smiled, admiring her handiwork.

"That's gotta be against the rules! Right?!" Mephisto cried, standing and turning to Lev.

"The only rule I know of is if you chicken out, you lose. And that makes you the weakest link." Lev smiled a toothy grin, and Mephisto wanted to break his perfect teeth.

"But that only leaves me with, like, three choices! Three terrifying, deadly, also, TERRIFYING choices! Did I mention deadly?!" Mephisto rambled.

"True." Lev tapped at his chin, "But if you don't go through with it, not only are you the cave chicken, we get to put the blame on you if we lose the next oracle gem, aaaand you're on cave cleaning duty for the rest of the month."