Goodbye, Dragon Valley. Hello University Life

After years of struggling with mood swings as adolescents, it was a relief for the Luck brothers to have reached the young adult age. 

And not just that, but they would at last say goodbye to the turbulent Dragon Valley, to build their brilliabnt future at the St. John University, near Hidden Springs.

Winston and Tristan said goodbye to the few friends they had made at the valley, like Corren Dwyer, Winston's best friend, whom he probably was going to miss, but whom he hoped as well to see again someday. The future was uncertain for now.

But their last night in Dragon Valley was far for being calm, cause, even when the twins were in holly peace, Sabrina and Wylie were still angry at each other due to the Siobahn Murphy affair. In fact, Sabrina had issued an ultimatum to Wylie: either he forgot about Siobahn forever, or he better wouldn't return to Hidden Springs with her.

Wylie tried to calm Sabrina's anger with a kiss. Big mistake!

Sabrina got even more angry and the argument ended in a fist fight. Winston ran upstairs to stop the 

brawl.

"Mom, Dad! What wrong with you? Mom, are you okay?"

"I'm perfectly fine, can't say the same about your Dad", Sabrina answered.

  "All the Goths are demented", Wylie could hardly mumble.

"Oh, yeah? Pues nunca te metas con una Goth - contestó muy oronda Sabrina y se retiró a su recámara. Se sentía mucho mejor después de haberse desahogado.

Wylie, more wounded in his pride than anything else, stayed in the kitchen washin the dishes and thinking about Sabrina's ultimatum. Maybe he should listen to her and forgete about Siobahn? Anyway, once in Hidden Springs, it would be difficult to see her again. 

"Well, goodbye Dragon Valley and goodbye Siobahn."

Twelve hours later,  Winston and Tristan Luck arrived in Hidden Springs to prepare their departure for the University.

"Do you think I can take Scarlet with me to Uni, Wins?"

"Don't even think about. Dragons don't go to Uni, Trist. Plus, I don't think Dad wants to separate from him.

 

A few days later, Winston and Tristan arrived to the Universidad, but they won't be alone, with them were their cousins Antoine Langerak, Josie Langerak, and Billy Goth. They all knew each other since childhood and now they would share an apartment that they would pay for between the five of them.. Thus, under the rain and without the slightest idea how they would organize themsleves, Winston and Tristan, and their cousins started their University Life.

A Strange Birthday

The long awaited twins birthday finally arrived. Sabrina, however, couldn't completely enjoy it.

 

  To begin with, that same day she discovered that Wylie was still seeing Siobahn. Even worse: he had invited to the boys' party. She, of course, didn't remain silent and, not caring that some guests had already arrived, she complained aloud to Wylie, and she even slapped him in front of everyone!

When the moment came to blow out the candles on his cake,  Winston didn't make a wish but three of them. The first one, that his parents would stop fighting and make up, the sooner the better. The second one: return to Hidden Springs, if possible, by tomorrow.

And the third wish, a total secret, was that something extraordinary would occurr that would prevent his father from seeing that Siobahn woman again.

 He still didn't understand how Wylie had dared to invite her to the party. If only there was a way to make her disappear...

Anyway, Winston blew out the candles, hoping to see his wishes fullfilled soon and... poof! He was a young adult now.

Sabrina celebrated cheerfully, while Wylie seemed a bit anxious, perhaps he knew that after the twins' birthday, he would have to return to Hidden Springs and wouldn't see the infamous Siobahn again.

 

By the way, she looked kind of worried too, which made Winston extremely happy.

"Sorry, Miss Murphy, but you'll have to find yourself another boyfriend".

Now it was Tristan's turn to blow out the candles on his own cake. The wishes he made weren't different from Winston's. 

 

 "Let's see... I want to go back to Hidden Spring by tomorrow and... that Siobahn vanishes!"

Sure enough he didn't say this aloud, cause the female alluded to was right behind him. He wished this wouldn't bring him bad luck.

 

Once his wishes were made, he blew with all his strenght, but the candles didn't go out. 

Then, something unexpected happened...

The cake caught fire, burst into flames until and burned to the ground! Had Siobahn done some kind of trick? It was difficult to know, it could've been just an accident. The worst was that not only did the cake burnt,the fire spread across the table, burning Winston's cake too, and then engulfed the dining room.

 Some of the guests were terrified and started to scream: "Fire, fire!"  Others prefer to leave the party. In the beginning, nobody knew what to do, until finally, Wylie grabbed the extinguisher and bravely tried to put out the flames, while Sabrina called the firefighters from outside the house.

FFew things are scarier than a fire, and boy was this a scare for the Lucks and their guests. The one who had the worst time was poor John Burb, whose clothes were completely scorched. Luckily he survived, 

Still, what had just happened mortified Sabrina. Why had this happened to her best friend? And during her sons' birthday party! Did the hideous Siobahn have something to do with this? She better not!

But the party should continue so for the modest sum of 30 simoleons, they replaced the burnt cake with a new shiny one. Albeit with some hesitation, Tristan decided to blow out the candles again. 

"Now I understand why it is called Inferno Cake, I hope it doesn't catch fire again".

 

Right at that time the firefighters arrived to the Lucks' house, a bit late by the way. Had it not been for Wylie's quick intervention...

Thing is, Tristan was already a young adult, just like his brother Winston and both were happy about it.

But they couldn't deny it had been a rather strange birthday. Fortunately, this was their last night in Dragon Valley.

After the Prom

The awaited Prom of the twins wasn't at all what they had dreamed of. To start with, there was a heavy snowfall and even when they traveled to school in a limo, the cold was intense and visibility almost zero. It was a fairly gray, somber day.

The limousine left them at the school's door, but... 

Even so, Winston and Tristan had to get out and walk under the snow.

Or rather, they had to  run under the snow, cause it was getting late. They were not sure if the dance really was taking place, cause from the outside, the building looked dark and desolate.

 The only people there were Aidan O'Conell, and Cara Ghallager, who, by the way was Tristan's crush. Perhaps that night he would get lucky and she'd accept to dance with him? That was a tough one cause they had hardly spoken to each other all year.

 

Finally, in the evening, Dragon Valley High lit up and the dance started.

So many things can happen in a prom: the first dance, the first kiss, even the first break-up.

 

It's an even nobody ever forgets!

However, for the Luck twins, it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Tristan could hardly dance a few minutes with cara, and then lost track of her.

Winston wasn't even able to find a date, what a memory! Anyway, when they got home they consoled themselves with a big piece of cake.

The days after prom were much more peacful for the Lucks. Sabrina spent them practicing with the violin.

Winston took a liking for painting.

Also, Sabrina got another promotion in her job, this time to Middle School Teacher.

Sadly, her relationship with Wylie continued downhill, cause, apparently, he continued seeing Siobahn Murphy on the sly. Like never before, Sabrina wished that the day would when they leave Dragon Valley.

Something that didn't change for the family was the game evenings...

Although Wylie and Sabrina seemed to enjoy more a pool game.

 The twins kept on playing dominoes. Winston asked Tristan for a rematch, and he finally beat him! It was the first Tristan's defeat in a long time and Winston truly enjoyed it.

Finally, the last day of school at Dragon Valley High arrived for the Luck twins. The next thing would be their birthday party, in which they would become young adults.

Then they would leave for the University, and their parents would return to Hidden Springs. After that, Dragon Valley would be history.