2:11 What Cupid Problem?

What Cupid Problem?

Part 2

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Hope looked into MG's eyes, grateful. "Date? That-That's perfect. Okay, I need your help." Hope stated.

"With Cupid?" MG questioned, now confused.

"Worse." She said after a few seconds. Landon stared at her confused even more.

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Hope was now in Alyssas dorm room and was searching for the ascendant. "Hope, Alyssa Chang is horny as hell, and I don't like it." MG said into the spelled microphone in his ear.

Hope let out a small hug and stopped what she was doing. "Stop messing with your ear, I'm getting feedback." Hope commented, continuing to look.

"I can't help it. This enchantment itches like crazy." MG responded.

Hope was looking in the shelves. "The faster that you can seduce Alyssa into telling you where the ascendant is, the faster that you can get out of there. That's why I'm here to help." Hope then stopped when she came across multiple French bulldog photos. "Looks like she's really into French Bulldogs, now talk about that." Hope stated, turning around to continue searching.

"How am I supposed to just bring that up, Hope?"  MG questioned, getting annoyed.

"These strawberries are to die for." Alyssa commented, making MG turned around. "Delicious." She continued before eating the rest of the strawberry.

MG let out a forced laugh. "Almost as delicious as F-French Bulldogs." MG awkwardly said.

Hope stopped what she was doing, letting out a groan. "Not like that!" She scolded the vampire.

Once Alyssa turned around, MG turned around to not face Alyssa. "Okay, you know what, maybe I'm good without the backup. You're messing up my game." MG then started messing with the microphone.

"No, as long as you don't mess up the game of saving the Saltzmans' and my girlfriends' lives." Hope stopped what she was doing and quickly responded to MG. Once she didn't get a response back,she huffed. "Hello? MG?" Hope questioned, annoyed.

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Meanwhile, Landon had called an emergency Super Squad meeting since he had lost Cupid. "Thank you all for coming." Landon started seriously. "I hereby bring this meeting of the Super Squad to order." He paused, looking at the four students in front of him. "Now, I know what you're thinking: we're not heroes, and you're right, but I believe that we can join together and equal one relatively capable hero." Landon continued, pacing back and forth.

Wade slightly raised his hand. "Is this supposed to be motivational or...?" He trailed off.

Jed slapped Wades shoulder, earning a look from Wade. "Shh." He shushed before both looked back at Landon.

"It's time us to step up. Show our non-believing peers and our mysteriously absent authority figures who we really are by charging headfirst into our destiny. And today our destiny is getting Cupid back before Hope finds out that I lost him." Landon explained, quilt laced in his voice towards the end.

It was quiet until Jed spoke up. "Yeah. All that, but my destiny is somewhere else. And I got to go find her." Jed stated.

"Okay." Landon stated, starring at Jed running out of the Hall. "Uh, that's fine, but the rest of us are still in, right? Wade? Pedro?" Landon questioned.

Wade nodded. "Yeah, you believed in me, so I can believe in you."

"As long as we're back before snack time." Pedro commented, Wade pointing at him as if he was saying 'I second that'.

Landon starred at Pedro. "Oh, obviously." He then looked at the girl behind Pedro. "Um, and you...?" He trailed off, unsure of her name.

After a moment of silence, she spoke up. "Druscilla?" She questioned her name.

"Right. Can you do a locator spell with those wings?" He asked.

"Sure." She simply stated, looking at them. "Can I keep them after?" She questioned.

Landon's as a bit confused. "Um... all yours." He responded. "Now we just need to find Cupid wherever he's making bridesmaids wear twenty-seven dresses or making jocks fall in love with nerdy girls." Landon rambled, everyone getting up.

Just then, Kaleb walked in with a very large book in his hands. "Oh, my bad, I was, um, I was looking for the-the Super Squad meeting." Kaleb said.

"Then look no further." Wade smiled. "That's us."

Realisation struck Kalebs face. "Oh. Oh, damn. Um, okay. Uh, well, I got Kym's research right here, so y'all ready to roll?" Kaleb asked, his keys jingling in his hand.

Landon nodded. "Yeah." He said before running down the stairs and following Landon.

"I call shot-gun!" Pedro exclaimed, running as well.

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Kaleb sped down the road, hitting the breaks for turning abruptly to park. Once the car stopped at the curb, he got out the drivers seat while Pedro got out of the passenger seat. "Are we sure Cupid's here?" Pedro asked the vampire.

Kaleb grabbed a poster and read off of it. " 'Mystic Falls Lonely Hearts Club'. Starts in an hour. Looks like we're right on time." He explained.

Just then, Wade, Landon and Druscilla came speeding down the same road expect on scooters. They came to a stop and put the stand for the scooter down. "What are we waiting for?" Landon asked, the bow and arrows on his bad.

"You." Pedro responded.

"Yeah. Okay, look, I'll respect it this one time, but you can't be calling 'shot-gun times infinity'-" Landon complained.

"Come on." Kaleb said.

"That's too many times!" Landon continued complaining while being pushed inside.

Kaleb let out a groan. "Come on. Get over it." He stated.

Landon turned the corner and saw Cupid. "Hey, baby wings." He exclaimed but shut up when he saw Cupid feeding on a mans heart, letting out many groans as he 'enjoyed' his 'meal'.

"Oh!" Kaleb exclaimed, grabbing Pedro and covering his eyes. "Oh, damn." he continued, everyone extremely grossed out.

Cupid then looked over, growling. "Want a bite?" He creepily asked.

The girl ran out of the place while Landon threw up fairy dust. "Oh, c-come on, Wade." Kaleb groaned, Wade still throwing up fairy dust. "Man-"

Landon grossly stared at Cupid - who had blood all over his hands and mouth - while Cupid just starred, smirking. he then quickly started grabbing the bow and an arrow to fire at Cupid. he shot one but missed. "Come on, Landon!" Kaleb exclaimed while Cupid laughed sinisterly.

Landon grabbed another arrow. "The book says we only have to shoot him with one of his arrows to take him out." Kaleb then started to get annoying.

The phoenix glanced at Kaleb.  "I'm trying, okay?"

"Okay." Kaleb said softly. Landon fired up another arrow only to miss again. "Come on, just one!" He held up on finger.

Cupid then grabbed the green feathered arrow that had landed next to him. "Blind love. One of my best. Makes lovers' hearts nice and plump for the picking." Cupid creepily said. He licked the arrow for some weird reason. "Delicious." he then threw the arrow towards Pedro.

PEdro covered his eyes as he gasped but then felt arms wrap around him and drag him away. The arrow was now in Wade instead. "Guys." Wade said, obviously scared.

"What? Wade?" Landon said.

"I can't see." Wade commented, feeling his way to a table, knocking stuff over.

Landon faced the arrows again, picking one out. Cupid started laughing. "Nice try. Come on!" Cupid exclaimed. "Do another." He threatened.

Hope then appeared and stared at the Cupid. Landon looked over at Hope. "Hope." He said, grateful.

Hope didn't bother to look at Landon. "Uh-oh. Fun's over." Cupid said, sounding scared of Hope.

"Uh, we were I was just, um-" Landon stuttered.

Hope finally looked over at him. "Just trying to help?" She questioned sarcastically with annoyance laced in her voice.

Kaleb then decided to cut in. "Look, Cupid's arrows are his weakness, so we were just trying to-"

"Exsurgo." Hope chanted, lifting most of the arrows into the air.

Cupid worriedly looked at all the arrows. "No fair!" He exclaimed, his voice breaking.

Hope then aggressively threw her arm forward, the arrows flying right at Cupids heart, knocking him into the wall, only to fall to the ground with a thud, glass breaking due to the impact. "Okay." Kaleb exclaimed.

Hope turned around, momentarily making eye contact with Landon before walking around. "Hope. Hope, wait." Landon pleaded.

Hope came to a stop, locking eyes with Landon. "We will talk about this later." Hope angrily said. She was frustrated at the fact she had to 'baby sit' Landon but also worried at the fact of not getting you back.

Landon let out multiple sighs before banging his head a couple times on the wall next to him. Kaleb made his way over to Wade who was still struggling to see. "Wade, you still can't see anything?" Landon questioned, confused since Hope had just killed Cupid.

"Yeah, it's-it's that arrow." Wade stuttered, still feeling his way around.

Landon then looked at Kaleb who was starring at Wade. "I thought the research said that that the magic would wear off after we killed him." Landon explained to Kaleb.

Kaleb didn't respond as he looked over the edge of the bar and saw no Cupid. "Uh, about that..." He trailed off. Pedro and Landon made there way to Kaleb to see what eh was looking at while Wade just struggled with seeing. "Looks like Cupid flew the coop." Kaleb said, Landon getting extremely worried.

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They all stood around a table, looking through the book Kaleb had Brough on Kyms research on Cupid. "Are you sure the research said that Cupid's weakness was his arrows?" Wade questioned.

"Look, Kym said it was basically the one constant across every version of the Cupid mythos." Kaleb explained.

"Well, it wouldn't be the first time the legends got something wrong, though." Landon stated.

Kaleb then looked at Landon. "What if we got the monster wrong?" Landon looked up at him. "Didn't Cupid have siblings?" Kaleb questioned.He flicked through pages before he landed on one, pointing at the heading. "The Erotes. Each representing a different type of love and attraction. Each one with a different weakness." Kaleb explained rather quickly.

"Oh, God." Landon groaned out.

"Gods." He emphasised the 's'. "Plural. Seven of them." He then paused.

Landon shook his head. "Okay." Landon softly said, ripping the page out.

Kaleb looked at the other two while Landon walked away. "Okay, I guess we got to..." he trailed off, grabbing his jacket and helping Wade walk out. "Come on." He softly stated.

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Hope opened the door to find MG trying to fix he ascendant. "What happened?" Hope questioned, worry filling her even more as she saw the broken ascendant.

"I-I-I tried to stick to the plan, but once you were gone-" MG stuttered.

Hope cut him off. "This is why I do everything myself." Hope rudely stated. She didn't want to be rude, she just really need you back.

MG then bent down, watching Hope pick up the pieces. "Except it wasn't you making out with her." Hope then looked back up. "And it wasn't you manipulating her. But it doesn't matter. Alyssa she-she went insane. She's not just in love with me, it's like she was obsessed." MG explained.

Hope listened to Mg before responding. "That's the arrow that Cupid gave me to use on her. Obsession."

"Like boiling-bunnies, burn-your-house-down obsession?" He questioned but Hope didn't answer. "That's not romance, Hope. That's a whole different movie genre." MG exclaimed.

"I just-I grabbed the strongest one I could find." Hope said sadly, knowing she was just blinded by her obsession with getting you back.

MG stayed quiet for a few seconds. "Then I guess we both messed up." MG stated. Hope looked at the ground before back at MG. "I told Alyssa that I'm into Kym." MG worriedly said.

Hope widened her eyes. "Go. I'll take care of this." Hope stated. As soon as she said that, MG vamped out of there to go find Alyssa and Kym. Hope then worriedly looked down at the ascendant before getting up and running her hands through her hair.

Just then she was shot by an arrow and fell to the floor in pain while Cupid just stared at her creepily.

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A.N: sorry for the delay! ive been busy with some tests <3