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"EEK!" Draconia and the rest of the clawdience heard a Granite City skater let out a squeal as....whatever was in the corridor he was skating in lurched forwards and grabbed him with mysterious, slimy tentacles.

"AAAAH-CHOOOOO!" Suddenly, a giant sneeze shook that track, as the hapless Granite City Skater was shot out of the tunnel backwards with a massive, monstrous sneeze. The skater flew so far backwards he did a triple summsault, and then landed right on the end of the Granite City bench. The team nurse strolled over to check him out.

"Bloody bats!" Draconia hexclaimed. "Whatever's down that tunnel must be allergic to gargoyle."

That still left two Granite City skaters, one of whom was the team captain Rocco, in their respective tunnels - and in the lead for the second heat. Draconia tapped her claws together. Could Monster High catch up? The score was tied, thanks to that 'too many skaters' penalty point. Whichever team crossed the finish line for the second heat first would be in the lead.

"What??" Nekki's outside voice was about the same volume as an average ghouls inside voice... She takes the middle path.

The big rock... She wasn't going to let him get away. She was small and light, he was big and heavy. Twerps revenge!!

What?! The big guy got swept up by an allergic tentacle! A ditch... Oh no!!!! With rapid thoughts, she resorts to her book of souls and says whatever was written on the first page...

"Uhh... Skeleramus del' aeros... Uhh... Glorify...?"
Swoop! Ebony skeletal, yet fully functional (somehow) wings emerge from her back... Safe! Necrolin stylishly rolls off the edge and into the air, barely avoiding the nasty grasp of those horrid suckers. Once a fish is trapped by a tentacle, its inevitable doom. Whump! Back on the ground and on her way back to the main road... However due to the delay, she is now the last player behind on Monster High... Drats!

Essi's horns turned downward. That was loud for a yelp. Akito probably is part dog...she looked toward him. Oh he did get hurt, or maybe because the sting left a hole in his uselessly draped coat. She carefully poked the sting. He winced again.
"I cannot remove that painlessly...do you wish to see a medical professional?"
The school had to have somemonsters to help right? With this SKRM and all...

"I said DON'T take the-oh, defrag me with a spoon!" Atomica rolled her eyes as Nekki went directly down the path Atomica had told her NOT to take.

SIGH. This meant having to work MUCH faster.

Atomica took stock of the field. A new Granite City Player was on his way. Tori and the lump of mass she'd crashed into were being dispersed. She was off-the-board for now. It was Atomica, Glen and Nekki.

Atomica decided to take Glen's original suggest to atomic heart.

"GET READY!" She told the green witchboo as she grabbed his arm and started spinning around and around. "It's time for the FASTBOO SPECIAL!!!!!!!!!"

Atomica spun faster and faster and faster. As she spun, she calculated the probabilities of which path was correct - the left or the right. All of the data she could gather indicated to her that the most likely solution was the path with the most unwelcoming opening - the path that Rocco had skated through on the right. So often in in SKRM the easiest-looking path was the hardest one - so the opposite must be true, too!

"GOOOOOO!" Atomica shouted out as she released Glen, sending him hurtling down the right path. Atomica immediately knew she'd guessed right as the crowd watching in the stands started cheering. Glen was streaking right through the moving maze parts! Moving so fast that when he was spit out on the other side, Monster High had eeked into the lead!

Atomica followed Glen through the right hand path and into the next obstacle...thick, stinky fog. Even with her enhanced Automaton senses, Atomica couldn't see five inches in front of her face.

Oh man...this obstacle was DANGEROUS.

"It's okay." Rory answered, even if he was worried about what kind of trouble Kriminel could cause. Rory didn't consider even once that Kriminel may NOT have a huge vested interest in the romantic dramas of high school boos and ghouls, and was just leaning on Rory because he thought seeing the younger boo jump was funny. "If Marceline didn't bother to tell her family about our breakup, that's on her, not me, right?"

Peggy's backpack writhed.

"Do you REALLY want to be a part of this teeny bopper soap opera, Peggy? Your father would NOT approve!"

As Peggy argued with the tiny talking ram that lived in her backpack, Rory focused back down at the SKRM track. For a brief second, he thought Marceline was looking right up at him and Peggy. But then he was more certain that she was scanning the crowd for her family.

Somewhere on Concourse B...

The New Dead chanted, danced, tromboned Harry all over the place. The snack stands, the souvenir stand, and (most horribly) the bathroom. Corps-E and Moldy had a deathgrip on him so escape was not an option. They finally stopped in the middle of the concourse.

"INTO THE POPCORN!"

"Into the whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

The three draugr dumped Harry into a pit full of popcorn. The buttery snack came up to Harry's chest when he regained his footing. Luckily, he was no worse for wear. Huh.

"Dudes, this was so un-groovy on a cosmic scale! We could have hashed this out in a drum circle with some tofu- GAH!"

Something brushed against Harry's right leg. HE WASN'T ALONE IN THE POPCORN!

"Hey Demona!" She called to her little Demon bloody, "Looks like i'm out for this match thanks to 'peace and Love' Boo other there! Thank Ra he's off with New Dead, they are really un-life savers."

She noticed her poot her iCoffin away as she sat back on the bench. "So... What's the Ghostly Gossip between you and Kai?"