Butterfly In The Light

The Three Musketeers

Today Stars went to the beach with Tom so I've got some time alone. I jump and land on my back, my arms splayed out and my legs hanging over the bed. What to do, what to do. Hmmmm.

Well I haven't done anything with Ferguson and Alfonso for really long. Maybe I could take them on an adventure in another dimension. As long as I don't go anywhere dangerous we should be fine without Star, I mean I can summon Hekapoo or we could just teleport away.

I grab my phone and start sending my friends messages. The messages are delivered but both friends are offline so I get up to eat a sandwich. I walk down stairs, oh gosh my parents are busy painting. My mother is posing in a Greek type robe while my dad is painting her, I hope he's trying to paint like picasso, her face looks very skew.

I stroll into the kitchen and start making my sandwich. I grab some bread, cheese, ham and mayo. I quickly spread the mayo and slice the cheese. Finally, the easiest, best sandwich. I walk out the kitchen and sit down. As I'm about to take a bite I get a message.

*From Star*
Hey Marco we just got to the beach remember when we came here and got sick from ice cream?

I smile fondly at the memory. Star and I had gone to South Beach for their famous ice cream and Star had insisted on trying every single flavour of ice cream. The bad part was that once she ate half she gave me the rest and tried a new flavour. The vendor we went to had 46 flavors... to put it shortly we had both spend a day away from school. We didn't even go to another dimension that day, we just watched telenovelas, it was a pretty great day.

I bite my sandwich and watch my dad do a horrible job at trying to draw a long flowing robe. As I put my plate by the sink I get another couple of messages.

*From Ferguson*
Just met up with Alfonso, we'll be by your place in 15.

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So where do you guys wanna go? We got the cotton candy dimension. I could show you my dragon cycle and awesome bod in the time warping dimension. If you guys don't mind waiting we could go get a bunch of goblin dogs, itll take all day but they're worth it.

The two stare at me blankly. They look at each other before Alfonso opens his mouth.
"Is there any dimension where we can be safe but still play a real life version of Dungeons and Dragons?" Both of my friends

eyes go big.

"Uh well we could go to this place where there a dragon cycles and orcs that are really friendly. It gets boring but together we could have fun." Star and I usually avoid that dimension as we cant cause to much destruction to the friendly inhabitants.

"Yesssssssss, please, please, pleeaaassseee." Both of them start begging me to go to the same dimension.

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"Lord Marco, I declare war on you on the basis of your insults to my beautifully constructed weapon." Alfonso charges at me, waving his stick that we carved into a sword shape, a pretty good one if I'm being honest.

"Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh." I charge at him and our sticks clash. We duel for a minute or two before we get tired an start laughing.

"Hehe, I guess we'll have to call this on a draw Lord Alfonso." I hold my hand out to shake, accepting the draw.

Alfonso grabs my hand and agrees.
"It was a respectable fight, I'd be happy to draw with such a formidable foe."

Just as we part we hear a loud crashing noise.

We both stare at each other and realise.

"Ferguson!" He had gone to have a bathroom break but had been gone for a while.

We rush towards the sound. After a few hundred meters we hit a clearing. Theres a large tree in the centre and dozens of wild dragon cycles moving around. Some perched on the branches. We spot the problem.

Ferguson has decided to climb the tree and try to ride one of the wild dragon cycles. Unfortunately he didnt sit properly and grabbed its face over its eyes. The dragon cycle began to move and soon was flying. The helpless Ferguson was flying around on it's back trying to hold on.

I sprint to a large brown dragon cycle near me. If used properly the docile dragon cycles here would listen. I swing onto it's back and rub its head for a second before revving it and going forward. Despite my lack of knowing this dragon cycle it steered very well and seemed to enjoy a bit of company and speed.

I soon started to fly and went towards Ferguson on his dark blue ride. I get closer and shout to him.
"Ferguson move your hands off its eyes, itll land by itself!"

He doesnt seem to hear me. I look forward and we are nearing a huge cliff face. Oh no, if I dont stop this dragon cycle Ferguson is going to die!

I push my dragon forwards and get right up against Ferguson's dragon. I pull his arm but he grabs tighter.
"Ferguson move you hand off its eyes!" He hears me but looks very scared, he cant think.

"Come on just move you hands onto its handles I'll catch you if you fall!" He looks at me but looks unsure.

"You promise?" He says quite softly, obviously scared out of his mind.

"I promise." My words are finally enough and he moves his hands to grab the handles.

His dragon sees the cliff and immediately swerves right hard. Ferguson flies up but holds on. I slow down and swerve left amd around to meet with him. We fly back towards the clearing and I see Alfonso. Ferguson's dragon thankfully can fly by itself and me simply pulling it in the right direction works. We land close to Alfonso.

"No. Fricken. Way." He smiles widely and looks at the dragons.

"You guys almost died.... I'm next!!" He rushes up and I help him get on a green dragon close to us.

We spend the next 2 hours riding around. The dragons are really easy to fly and I show my friends how to ride. The time we spend together is awesome. Finally we decide to go home.

"See you guys at school on Monday." I wave my friends home, them having the biggest smile I've seen in my whole life.

I wonder if Stars coming back soon. Saturday is always nachos night. I message her but she's been offline for 3 hours so I guess she wont be home for a while. Well I might as well have some of my specialty nachos alone.

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*Author's note*
Hey guys, so here's a fun little chapter after the serious one before. I dont think the show showed enough of Ferguson and Alfonso so this is dedicated to them. Shout out to my close friend ChrystopherAbbott, he's been revising my writing, go check out his story. And please vote and comment.

Lotsa love,
Nick.