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It was now time for Winter to complete his dare…

"Marsh I have hardly ever seen you before but you are the bestest friend a guy could have," Winter said though it sounded like he was choking out every word before hugging him leaving Marsh baffled.

"Did he just-"

"WUUUUUTTTT!?"

"And you Sora my other best friend! Give me a hug!" he said hugging her to before continuing down the line, "Anemone, your the greatest Seawing in the whole world!"

He then proceeded to hug her too though the gawking had died down as they figured out what the dare was.

"I love you so much Kinkajou! Give me a hug!" he said to Kinkajou with a "smile" which was more like a grimace, Kinkajou took full advantage of the hug.

"And you too Pike and Turtle! We should go fishing later because we are best friends right after I strangle someone,"

"Who would that be?" asked Qibli laughing his head off as he watched Winter hug everyone in the room with a speech about them being their best friend.

"I love you too uh- whats your name? It doesn't matter we are best friends…" said Winter giving the small sandwing who's name was Ostrich

"And Qibli I do love you-

"I feel so honored," snorted Qibli still laughing.

"Id love to strangle you,"

"Jee thanks…"

Winter sat back down as far away from Qibli as possible shooting daggers at everyone, "We will never speak of this again you hear me? Or I will personally slice your faces off!"

They all gulped and nodded.

"And the plot thickens," said Marsh mysteriously still in character.

There was a silence after that.

"Uh who's turn was it?"

"Wasn't it Marsh's?"

"No because he is a detective now… who did he dare?"

"Oh yeah its Turtle's turn!"

"Umber, truth or dare?"

"Truth,"

"If you had to choose, who would you kill first in this room?"

"What? Nobody!" he protested thinking it was a strange question, Turtle ahd honestly just come up with the question randomly.

"Pick anyone you would like,"

"Who will it be? The grumpy Winter-" started Marsh dramatically.

"I am not grumpy!"

"Ha! In what world are you living in-"

"Qibli shut up,"

"The mysterious Moon? The peppy Kinkajou? The sluggish Turtle? The-"

"We get it!" yelled Anemone, "I said detective not annoying narrator,"

"Sorry…"

"Can I get a different question please?" he asked nervously.

"What about if you could have any superpower what would it be?"

"Oh I like that one! I would like to be able to see the future," he said without hesitation.

"Why?"

"Because then I could predict if anything bad was going to happen…" he said trailing off thinking of Crane.

"What is going on in here?" asked Tsunami storming into the cave finding 2/3 of the dragonets in her school huddled on the floor or on the rocky ledges.

"We are playing Truth or Dare," said one of them.

"Yeah its awesome!"

"Winter hugged all of us it was really awkward,"

"Yeah its because we are all best friends-"

"Qibli shut up,"

"Your really abusing you power-"

"I said shut up,"

"It was horrible I had to Dress and Drag and do the Hula…"

"Please you werent the one who had to fly with your tails stuck to a ton of other dragons! Arguing dragons at that!"

"Oh yeah that was hilarious!"

"You guys are so lucky," grumped Tsunami, "I tried to get my friends to play it but they never did! And if they did they were total wimps about it!"

Icicle then stormed in pratically livid, looking for Winter which wasn't too hard to spot.

"I think I have to go…" he said and ran off apologizing to his sister and trying to convince her he did not hug everyone in the room and say that he loved them.

"I have to go to actually," said Sora, "I promised Starflight I would help him in the library,"

"Anemone and me have a project we are working on, sorry," murmured Ostrich apologetically to Qibli.

Soon the other dragons started to disperse, though most of them left because it was lunchtime, the Truth or Dare game was over.

Or was it…

Well over as in long distance because the next morning there was already a Truth or Dare system being put up using notes and maybe one to many stops to the bathroom.

A day later the teachers were already baffled at the strange behavior of the students that involved from yelling "IM ON TOP OF THE WORLD AY!" to outright kissing their teachers, along with dancing, eating peppers, running around the room imitating a monkey, applying makeup without using a mirror, mimic the grumpiest dragon you know ( Qibli was lucky to not get caught when doing that ), date someone who has a crush on you for an hour before breaking up with them ( what can I say Anemone is brutal! ), moonwalking, and- you get the idea whatever their crazy dragon minds could think of.

Nobody told because rule zero of school games is nobody tells.

It was lunchtime by the time the dares had already looped around, everyone doing a dare/truth at least twice and now it was Qibli's turn.

Oh by the way, Winter was oblvious and nobody had dared him yet, maybe because he was to busy sketching a picture of a certain Nightwing sitting across from him chatting with Kinkajou.

"What is wrong with Qibli?" asked Winter as he sat down.

"What do you mean?"

"I dont notice anything wrong with Qibli," said Turtle.

"If I ask him to shut up he actually shuts up! Did he not get the memo the game was over? Seriously its kind of freaking me out…."

"Im insulted you don't think I can listen," laughed Qibli, techinallcay the game never ended its just a bonus that Winter was almost more annoyed with him not talking than talking, "I do have ears you know-"

"Shut up," he said and Qibli immediately shut up, "See!"

"Would you rather him talking?" questioend

"Psst Qibli…" said Anemone whispering sliding next to him.

"Yeah?" he asked also lowering his voice.

"I dare you to randomly break into song every five minutes… starting now!" she smirked before going over to sit next to Pike again.

"What did she tell you?" questioned Winter.

"Oh nothing... just being Anemone," shrugged Qibli before he goes back to talking with Turtle about things they wished they could do.

"Toast or lettuce?" asked Kinkajou randomly.

"Toast,"

"Lettuce,"

Qibli noticing his time was almost up, got up and sang at the top of his lungs, "OOO EEE OO AH AH! TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG! OOO EEE OO AH AH! TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG!"

Kinkajou promtely started laughing as the others gave him a look of confusion.

"It was a dare," he explained as they all made an o sound.

Anemone meanwhile was snickering as the other dragons started to sing that annoying song.

No sooner than 5 minutes later again did Qibli sing another song that came into his head, "Baby Shark doo doo doo doo doo doo!"

"Qibli shut up," said Winter not wanting to hear that song every again.

Umber walked up and sternly said, "I am investigating a murder. Private Umber here, and I need you to answer a few questions."

Winter had caught on by now and internally cried inside, that was why a classmate had showed up for history and looked like a clown.

Qibli smiled deviously looking towards Winter, oh no what was he planning… "Truth or Dare, Umber."

"Oh um…" Umber paused nervously, "Dare?"

"I dare you to help me set up a murder mystery game, it would be perfect for your charafcter afterall." said Qibli, "And Winter was the one murdered."

"What!?" squwaekd Winter indigantly, "I am Not playing that I'm dead, you can't make me-"

"Oh look at that its been 5 minutes." said Qibli glancing at the sundial, "WINTER AND MOON SITTING IN A TREE K-I-S-S-I-N-G! FIRST COMES LOVE! THEN COMES MARR-"

The last word was violently cut off by having Winter's cold talons clamped tightly across his snout he could only hum the last bits of the song.