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Hump Day Oz Hunks 🇦🇺💪🏻🧔🏻💪🏻🇦🇺

Well, Technically Two Are English, But They’re Still From The Land Of Oz! 🏉🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

WARNINGS: VIOLENCE. REFERENCE TO MENTAL ILLNESS. ATTEMPTED MURDER

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Emerald and the other girls stood before Betty in her bedroom. The blonde was fast asleep and each of them rolled their eyes. Sapphire physically shivered at how fake the room seemed. Fuck, she hated the Northside.

Toni was the one to kick the bed post and wake the girl up. Emerald quickly covered the girls mouth to keep her from screaming aloud.

Though they couldn’t see it, they all could guarantee that Toni was smirking behind her mask.

“What the hell,” the blond asked, and Sapphire stepped forward, “Your initiation begins now. With assuming guardianship of the beast.”

Sapphire let Hotdog go and the dog jumped into Betty’s bed as the Gems disappeared out of her bedroom and out of her house.

– The next day at school Emerald and her friends walked through the doors. The other Serpents’ turned to look at them and Emerald felt a shiver roll down her spine. Something was happening. Something that needed the Kingpin’s attention.

Emerald felt the change. The darkness that had been pulling at her every since she completed initiation. The darkness that she usually has good control over. It exploded and engulfed her. Wrapped around her like silk blanket and she couldn’t see. She couldn’t feel.

The air turned colder around them, and the other Serpents flinched and avoided eye contact. Emerald breathed in and relished in the power that they held. The power. It was wonderful. It was glorious.

It was fucking suffocating.

Nathan from Sapphire’s den rushed over to her boldly making eye contact. He was one of the few that could do so. Sapphire’s elite members that didn’t let her title as the Serpent Princess get to them. The ones that had her upmost respect.

“Nathan,” Sapphire inquired. “What is it?”

This time Nathan avoided eye contact and Emerald felt herself tensing. Something was wrong. Something was seriously wrong.

“I-I can show you,” Nathan stuttered a little. He waited for Sapphire to give him the go ahead and then they all followed.

Whatever had happened was horrible. Emerald could feel the darkness in her pushing her down further. She could see the other Serpents feeding off their energy. Their presence was strong and powerful that it was impossible to contain.

The only sounds were people heavy breathing and the sounds of Sapphire’s heel clicking against the floor. Emerald noticed some of the regular students rushing into classrooms and teachers hurrying to lock the door behind them.

And then the smell hit her.

Emerald’s eyes widen as she took in the damage. It was Sapphire’s locker. The words QUEEN WHORE was dripping down in something that look suspiciously like blood.

At the floor in front of the locker was small tank and inside was a snake on fire and surrounding it was bloody sapphire diamonds.

The air turned icy. Tension sparked as Sapphire stared coldly at her locker. She didn’t say anything and that was so much worse.

Nathan cleared his throat lightly, “That’s not all. Its like that for Toni’s locker too…”

A beat passed before one of the boys from Sapphire’s den and quickly pulled a regular male student in the path of her fist. The sickening crack from the breaking of his nose rang loud in the quiet hallway.

Sapphire took a deep breath to try to reign herself in, but it looked like she just couldn’t.  She spoke through gritted teeth, “Clean it up. All of it. And find out who did this.”

She quickly walked back out the school and the people in the hallway pressed themselves against the lockers as she stormed away. Emerald could see that even from a distance Sapphire’s shoulders shaking.

Sweet Pea and Joaquin turned to follow her when an inhuman screech of rage made its way down the hall alongside someone’s scream of fear. The kingpin shared a look before they were rushing towards the front of the school only to see Sapphire tumbling across the floor with Reece Jackson. She wore one of Sweet Pea’s spare brass knuckles around her fists as she punched the boy right in the nose.

All of them took a step back and didn’t interfere. Reece might not be a serpent, but it was a rule that no one interfered with a fight. The fight dragged on as Reece kept trying to restrain Sapphire, but his spilling blood made it hard for him to keep a grip.

It wasn’t until one of the Northside boys started to break up the fight did the rest of them move into action. Sweet Pea reached forward to grab Sapphire and they stood in a loose circle around her and blocking her from view.

Joaquin walked up to her with hands raised, but each of them could realize that Sapphire didn’t really see them at that moment. Everything about her scream danger and all of Emerald’s self-preservation instincts told her to get the hell out of the way.

“You fucking slut,” she heard Reece scream. “You fucking serpent slut. I’ll fucking kill you for- “

By the time they blinked, Sapphire had somehow managed to slip pass them as tackled the boy once more. Another high pitch scream escaped him as she pounded her fist into his face again and again and again.

“Do”

Punch.

“Not”

Punch.

“Call”

Punch.

“Me”

Punch.

“That”

Punch.

Jughead was the one to grab her this time and didn’t let her go as he tighten his arms around her and carried her out of the building despite her struggling. The air was suffocating, and Emerald knew that they wouldn’t be attending school today.

Not with Sapphire on a rampage and the need for them to be around once she calmed down and helped her with the aftercare.

Emerald followed them out but not before she heard the familiar sound of Sweet Pea’s rings connecting with someone’s face. She turned around to see him turn Reece’s face to his own and tell him something. It was no doubt a threat especially with the way Reece paled in fear. Sweet Pea stood to his full height making sure to glare darkly at the boy and the people in the hallway before he made his way to the door following the rest of them out. – When the Northsiders had first walked into the school, they felt something evil in the air. Candace had met up with outside the doors, but the second she recognized what ever was giving off that presence she booked it to the gym door to go hide.

Of course, if the Northsiders were any ounce of intelligent they would realize that they should’ve followed her, but instead they carried on inside. And they were not prepared for the sight they saw.

Every person that bore the Serpent emblem were standing incredibly still. Their eyes were focus down the corridor and they look as if they were waiting for something. Waiting for orders like warriors.

They all strained to see what had their attention. What made everyone not even glance in the direction of the Serpents until the sound of clicking heels caught their attention. An even darker presence. One eviler. Darker with the all the intent of murder.  With each click of the heels, they all felt their heart stopping until Sapphire came into sight.

She looked furious. Hell, she looked like a leather clad goddess off to war. Her hair swung in ringlets own her back and her serpents jacket covered the black bandeau she was wearing. Her serpent tattoo mocked them and even though they couldn’t see the full thing, Archie swore the snake head was hissing at her.

And then a blond boy stepped in her path and time seemed to freeze. The air was so suffocating that they couldn’t feel like they couldn’t breathe. They couldn’t hear. They could barely see.

But the boy said something to her and the scream of outrage that left her mouth? It sounded more like a battle cry as she lunged forward, and her fist connected to his face. She had moved so fast that they could barely see the glint of metal around her fingers as the two went down and the boy let out a high pitch screech.

They stared with wide eyes as the two rolled around the ground and looked even more shock as the other members of the Kingpin made their way to the scene. And they just stood there. They didn’t do anything until Archie couldn’t resist and pulled her away.

He had barely the girl in his arms before her boyfriend was grabbing ahold of her and the kingpin was surrounding her, and random serpents were surrounding them.

“You fucking slut,” the boy on the ground scream holding onto his bleeding nose and carefully touching his busted lips. “You fucking serpent slut. I’ll fucking kill you for- “

They barely blinked before Sapphire managed to get past the two groups blocking her. Her fist once again tore into the boys’ face and that’s when they really looked at her.  Her whole expression was blank, but it was her eyes that did it for them.

They looked so empty. Soulless.

A glance at the other members of the Kingpin got them to see that it wasn’t even new to them. Especially since they too looked like they were one wrong word before falling into the dark abyss of death and rage with her.

Betty’s heart fluttered a little as the boy with the beanie reached out and grabbed her. His biceps flexed as he picked her up and tightened his grip around her. He walked right out the doors without sparing them a glance even as Sapphire started struggling a deep spark of pure fury appearing in her eyes.

They stepped out of the way as her legs kicked out, but they all turned around to watch the rest of the Kingpin leave. The boy that Sapphire had been fighting with slowly picked himself off of the ground. Sapphire’s boyfriend.

“Sweet Pea,” Cheryl thought. He turned his gaze towards the blond boy and that’s when they got a glimpse of his eyes. With each blink, they turned colder and colder and colder. He calmly walked over to him straightening the rings on his fingers as he went before his fist shot out and the boys’ head snapped to the side.

“If you ever call my girl a slut again, I’ll snap your head off your body and mount it up in the Whyte Worm.”

He stood up to his full height casting glare at the boy and all those in the hallway making eye contact with everyone and no one. And then he strolled out with the rest of the confidently and in control. Regal. Like the Serpent Prince he was.

–

It was an accident.

From the morning until now, Emerald had been having a good day. The school went back to how it was before the Northsiders stepped a foot into the building. Of course, they still attended the school, but no one acknowledge their presence. They were just there. They were kind of like the third wheeler to hundreds of students.

The accident Emerald was involved in began started in chemistry class. Mr. Mouse told the class that it was a free reign that day. In other words, they could do whatever they wanted if they follow their guidelines and didn’t risk the safety of themselves and others. Looking back on it, this way Mr. Mouse’s fault.

Chase and Emerald’s project brought out the mad scientist in them. They looked through books for the best way to make a smoke bomb. Remember people, do not try this at school or home. Their project started off well. Emerald was pouring ten grams of chemical A into test tube C to mix with ten grams of chemical B. It wasn’t until Fangs came and distracted her did things get messy.

In all honesty, Fangs didn’t really distract her. They held a small conversation while Emerald’s focus was completely on task. Veronica is the real reason they’re in this predicament. She ‘accidentally’ nudged Chase who in turn bumped the table which shoved into Emerald who spilt the chemicals onto Veronica’s clothes. Chase, who was staring with wide eyes like everyone else in the room, rushed to the back to get the shower started. Veronica had tears streaming down her face because the chemicals burned. Well if you wore your lab coat like you’re supposed to; it wouldn’t be touching your skin.

Emerald stood to the side glaring daggers at Veronica. She steals her notebook and her best friend now she ruins her class project. Did she want her life ruined?

Veronica decided that it was Emerald’s fault that she turned into a real-life Bunsen burner. She turns around and started waving her hands in Emerald’s direction. She forced herself to trip over her bag that was beside her and wastes her chemicals across Emerald’s clothes.

Emerald channeled her inner Sapphire and picked Veronica up before throwing her into the shower. Then she proceeded to try and drown the girl in the middle of class. Her attempted murder was not an accident. Emerald did that one on purpose. Everything else was an accident.

Now here they were sitting in the principal’s office with Emerald handcuffed to a chair. Her glares switched between Veronica and the principal.

“Can you girls please explain to me what happened?” Principal Crenshaw asked exasperatedly. The three of them have been in here for the past three periods.

They only have gotten as far as handcuffing Emerald to a chair as she threatened to rip out Veronica’s throat with a safety pin.

“She threw chemicals on me!” Veronica cried out. Emerald struggled against the chair as she bared her teeth out at Veronica. Veronica moved as quickly as she could with the bandages on her body.

“You’re a dam liar, Veronica Lodge. It was an accident because you bumped into Fangs who bumped into my work table which caused me to waste the chemicals. YOU wasted your chemicals on me on purpose and once I get out of these cursed handcuffs I’m going to end your fucking life.” The principal sat shock as he heard the language that Emerald was using.

“Like Candace threaten when you first joined the serpents?” Veronica shot at her. Emerald and the principal froze in their seats. Emerald’s glare turned completely dark and sinister. She roughly yanked her arms against the chair until the wood broke. The principal shot up and restrained Emerald as best as he could.

“DON’T YOU EVER BRING THAT UP. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.” Emerald began to yell obscenities out at Veronica in multiple languages. She struggled against the principal’s grip kicking her feet out in every direction while trying to reach Veronica. The principal used to his head to gesture towards the door. Veronica scrambled out the room not before Emerald could kick her in the head.

“I FUCKING HATE YOU, VERONICA. I’LL TEACH YOU A LESSON ABOUT SNOOPING IN THE WRONG PLACES.”

Emerald’s voice carried out into the hallway where the rest of the student body was residing. Veronica stumbled into the middle of the hallway. Glares were thrown her way while confusing glances were sent towards the office. Archie and Betty pushed people out of his way to get to Veronica. She looked scared to her roots as he led her out of the school as quickly as they could. The dark and evil presence of the Serpents flooded the air and they were all but running to get away.

“What happened in there?” Archie asked her as they got in Cheryl’s car and the girl quickly started the car.

“I don’t know. One minute we were yelling at each other than the next minute she’s being handcuff to a chair. The yelling started again, and she said she was going to kill me. Then I mentioned her and Candace old friendship then she broke the chair and the principal restrained her. And I booked it out of there.”

Cheryl drove off and not a moment too soon. Emerald’s yells of outrage could be heard coming down the school’s entrance. Seconds later, the presence of the Serpents spilled out into the open air.

“VERONICA, BRING YOUR ASS BACK HERE SO I CAN FUCKING KILL YOU.” Emerald growled out as she made her way forward. Cheryl had just made it tore out the parking when a loud shrill scream sounded from behind them. The doors to the back of the gym flew open. Emerald stormed out them with fire dancing in her eyes. She held a broken metal bar in her hands as she sprinted after them. — “Emmy, calm down.” Fangs repeated for the thirtieth time in the past hour. He felt hopeless and he sat back and watched her trash her bedroom. There was broken glass everywhere from the windows, mirrors, and picture frames she broke.

“Calm down? That bitch went on a joyride after what she said about Candace,” she snarled fiercely. Fangs glanced towards the other to see if they were going to try to calm her down but all of them except Sapphire decided to keep a wide berth. They didn’t even enter the room. Sapphire sat on Emerald’s bed calmly drinking a glass of wine as Emerald rampaged.

Fangs sighed before he gently grabbed Emerald’s wrist, “Emmy, I know you’re pissed off. But will trashing your room really make you feel better? Let’s go down to the kitchen and get you something to eat.”

Sapphire smiled behind her wine glass, “Fangs is right, Em. Go eat something and calm down. I’ll clean up in here.”

Emerald looked at Sapphire who shooing her away before nodding and letting Fangs lead her out of her room.

Sapphire slowly looked around the room. Glass and ripped clothing were sprawled across the floor. She whistled lowly in appreciation. At least Emerald has better control of her black outs. – Later that night, Emerald and the other girls stood before Cheryl in her bedroom. The ginger was fast asleep. Sapphire cast a glance around the room behind her mask. She took in everything and nodded her head approvingly. Cheryl may be a bitch, but the girl always had good taste.

Emerald was the one to kick the bed post this time and wake the girl up. Toni quickly covered the Cheryl’s mouth to keep her from screaming aloud.

Though they couldn’t see it, they all could guarantee that Sapphire was smirking behind her mask. She had to be laughing also if her shaking shoulders were anything to go by.

“What the hell,” the Cheryl asked, and Emerald stepped forward, “Your initiation begins now. With assuming guardianship of the beast.”

Sapphire let Hotdog go and the dog jumped into Cheryl’s bed as the Gems disappeared out of her bedroom and out of her house.

Reece is the blonde piece of shit from the lovely  @southsidestella​ fic “Youngblood”. Go check it out if you haven’t already.

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