It took them an unexpectedly long time to select and send the invitations.  P'Zee, as a representative of the Institute in Bangkok, insisted on inviting the most important representatives of the magical world, and neither Gemi nor Fourth had much experience in this, so they left this task to experienced specialists.  Khao and First decided that their wedding would take place twice, because they wanted to organize the second wedding mainly for Khaotung's loyal fans who had never stopped supporting him and who had no idea about the magical world.

Emotions grew as time went on.  The atmosphere in the Institute was tense, but also full of joyful excitement.  It was a special event for all of them.  It was also necessary to think about additional security measures and strengthening protection.  It was an onerous chore, which Zee politely passed on to Max, who was extremely dissatisfied with it.

A week before the wedding and coronation, Joong came up with what he considered a brilliant idea, which he immediately shared with the others, of course without informing the main interested parties.  Gemini and Fourth sat in their own room with First and Khaotung unaware of anything and were learning the texts of the speeches they were to give.  Additionally, it turned out that Gemini, Fourth and First had suddenly become very famous in the Magic world, which gave them another somewhat onerous task: they had to sign at least 100 posters and 200 cards with their photos.  Khaotung, the only one who had been used to this for a long time, was the quickest to cope with his task, and while the others were still hunched over the table, sitting on pillows on the floor or on the chair at the desk, he started filming it.  He didn't use a phone for this, but a real camera, one of the ones he used when filming his urbex adventures.

“An evening like tonight won't happen again, so I'd like to have a souvenir,” he said when Fourth asked him about it.

Meanwhile, in a room almost in the middle of the hall, away from Gemini's room, all their friends were gathered: Pond, Phuwin, Joong, Dunk, Cooper, Kaownah, Cooheart, Turbo, Mixxiw, Dr. Jimmy, Sea, Off, Gun, Zee  , NuNew, Newwie, Tay, Fluke Natouch, Max, Nat.  They were also accompanied by guests invited by P'Zee himself from the planet Gaia II: Tinn, P'Bright, P'Earth.  The only one missing was Gun, Tinn's boyfriend.  Tinn was Gemini's doppelganger, while Gun was Fourth's twin.  Tinn still felt sad at the thought of Gun not being with him.  Now he realized the sad irony of Gun's words when he swore he would never marry Tinn.

„And you will never do it as you wanted, but look, Gem and Fotfot are getting married... Oh Gun, you idiot!”

Tinn didn't want to think about it, so he focused on the others' conversation. He believed that somewhere there's a universe where they're happy and together, where it's them who is getting married, where they don't know about magic or things like that, so they're safe and sound.

The room was in chaos.  The food they ordered was literally everywhere: on a low table in the middle of the room, on the desk and on the dresser.  Someone had knocked over a wooden dwarf carved to resemble Pinocchio, and now he was lying with his right cheek on the floor in front of a large, white, three-door wardrobe.  You could also see colorful plastic cups everywhere.  There was no doubt that the introduction of such a large and diverse group of magical beings led to true chaos.  The men could barely fit in there, but no one complained.  They had a great time.

“Listen, you know that the wedding and coronation will take place in a week, right?” Joong asked loudly.

Pond gave him a suspicious look.  He had known him long enough to expect Archen to come up with some evil, crazy plan.  He didn't get much wrong.  His question was answered with nods and grunts.

“So listen, I thought that since it's our friends' last day of freedom, maybe we'll organize a bachelor party for them?”

“What is a bachelor party?”  Tinn didn't understand.  There was no such custom in their universe and the name itself sounded quite exotic to him.

“Oh, it would take too long to explain, let's just say you'll see when you get there”. Joong tapped Tinn on the shoulder.  “Oh, that's right, Tinn, do Gem and Fourth know you showed up?”

“No, I haven't talked to them yet.  I had just come back and wanted to rest a bit.  I think I'll meet them tomorrow”.

“Oh, that's okay.  Okay, let's continue then.  Remember, Tinn, you can't tell them our plan by a single word, do you understand?”

Joong looked at him sternly.  Tinn set his glass of whiskey down on the dresser they were both standing next to.  He ran two fingers over his lips, showing that they were zipped shut.  Joong smiled with satisfaction.  In a way, he felt that everyone around him was giving in to him because they didn't want to irritate him, he had a very short time as a vampire and he still had a lot to learn, and he couldn't always control himself, so he still had to have someone with him.  It was bothersome.  He wanted to regain his freedom, he wanted to be like he used to be again, but Zee and Dr. Jimmy explained to him that he could still consider himself lucky, because in the end he managed to outsmart the angels and not lose his memories, and their entire adventure ended successfully.  He knew Zee didn't trust him anymore and he had to come to terms with that.  He guessed that it might take him many years to regain his trust, but he didn't care, the most important thing was that he didn't lose Dunk, but he recovered and felt as good as ever.

Tinn refused to be intimidated.  He was no longer the same calm and charming bespectacled nerd that Gemini had first met.  A lot has happened since then and it has changed the boy.  Above all, his soul was filled with a darkness that someone as pure of heart as Gemini or Fourth couldn't even suspect existed.  Tinn has changed beyond recognition since he lost Gun.  The only clothes he wore were black to remind him of his mourning.  He also spent evenings in bars more often, going out with men of different ages he met by accident.  He escaped from Gaia II to Earth when he realized that everything there reminded him too much of the loss he had suffered. His face also changed, he had grown little beard, eyes became full of mysterious sadness that only he understood.

Sometimes, when he wasn't spending the evening at a bar, drinking away his grief and despair and flirting with random men, he would sit in his room with the lights off, take his guitar and sing his own songs composed especially for Gun, whom he missed mercilessly.  For a long time he didn't want to meet Gemini and Fourth because Fourth painfully reminded him of Gun.  Even now, he could hardly bear the news that his doppelgänger would soon be getting married to Gun's doppelgänger, and the two of them had never gotten the chance.  He regretted it now, but he didn't tell anyone about it.  He closed himself off, stopped talking about his feelings, and Zee had to persuade him for a long time to agree to visit Gemini and Fourth on the occasion of their wedding.  Tinn simply couldn't stand to see them happy when he himself was so damn miserable and in so much inconsolable grief.

“I will never get the chance to grow old with Gun, I will never see more wrinkles appear on his face and his hair turn gray.  Gun will never get old.  But he will always live in my memory, always.  If only I had been more careful back then... Gun, I'm sorry.  Please forgive me".

But Tinn couldn't really forgive himself.  Still, every day he forced himself to get out of bed, put on a fake smile, and fight.

The only positive side of all this was the young actor, Perth Tanapon, his current boyfriend, whom he recently helped a lot.  There was no way Perth could replace Gun for him and he didn't even try.  Tanapon himself went through a trauma from which he found it difficult to recover.  Perth was a Non-Magical, but like Rose, he received a special blessing that allowed him to learn the truth about their world.

This particular Perth Tanapon was watching his boyfriend with concern as he sat on the couch.  He was the only one of them all who drank only water.  He didn't want to go back to the times when mainly alcohol flowed in his veins.

Tinn shrugged.  Joong decided there was no reason to worry and went back to discussing his plan out loud.  Phuwin and Kaownah didn't really want to listen to him, discussing something in whispers, so he walked up to them and hit them both on the head with a stack of papers he had taken from his desk.

“Focus, it's important!”  He exclaimed.

“Yes, boss”. Mix, who had the least contact with Joong out of all of them, stuck his tongue out at him.  Earth pinched his arm.  “Sorry”.

“Chen, say what's on your mind or I'll make you talk,” Dunk pretended to lose patience, even though he was actually having a great time.

“Yes?  How are you going to force me?”

“I don't know, maybe with my mouth?”

“Sure, come on, you can try”. Joong smiled slyly, puffed out his cheek and tapped it with his finger.

“Idiot,” Dunk grimaced.

“Joomg may be an idiot, but yours”. Said Archen calling himself like this.

“Oh man, I'm about to vomit,” Dunk continued teasing him.

Everyone around them also lost interest in what Joong was saying, figuring that he just wanted to show off his boyfriend once again.  Pond photographed Phuwin with his own phone.  Bright grabbed a guitar and started singing something.  Tinn slowly sipped his drink, resting his elbows on his knees and sitting on the couch next to a visibly worried Perth.  Zee and NuNew flirted shamelessly with each other, and Cooper talked about one of his missions with lively gestures.  Fluke, Cooheart and Turbo listened to him with their mouths slightly open and a glass of alcohol in each hand.  Nat fell asleep with his head on Max's lap, who was slowly stroking his hair.  Jimmy was on the phone with Sea, who couldn't get off work in the Non-Magical world.

Frustrated with their behavior and the fact that they weren't giving him the attention he deserved, Joong crossed his arms over his chest and stomped his foot loudly, but only Dunk noticed.  The others were too busy with themselves.

Archen decided to get back at them.  He gestured for Dunk to lean down and whispered his plan in his ear.  Dunk, who was still a little afraid of his new, transformed boyfriend, agreed with some reluctance.  Joong went to the closet, set the fallen dwarf upright (he thought the dwarf whispered a short "Thank you!", but it could have just been a figment of his imagination), and took out a gray cardboard box filled to the brim with colorful sashes, shawls and scarves), when he signaled to Dunk, Dunk turned off all the lights and the room was immediately filled with complete darkness. Joong could take full advantage of this since one of his gifts was darkvision.

Archen approached each of his guests one by one, accompanied by Dunk, who drew an appropriate rune in front of them, causing them to freeze for a few minutes.  They both blindfolded them all.

When they finished, he was very proud of himself.  Now each of his guests was blindfolded and unable to move.  Chen took advantage of this and, still with Dunk's help, began to slowly move them.  His next gift, this time resulting from his vampire nature, was extraordinary strength.  Lifting such a weight as the body of Zee, Pond or Max, who were not the little ones, wasn't difficult for him.  He changed everyone's place.

Now it was Fluke who lay with his head on Perth's lap.  Tinn hugged NuNew tightly.  Tay stood under the closet and held the guitar he had taken from Bright in his hands.  Bright sat in his seat, but Dunk had drawn a very naughty drawing on his face.  Joong placed Pond on the bed, taking off his shirt.  Off he pressed Phuwin's phone into his hand and positioned it as if he was taking a photo of Pond lying shirtless.  He placed a plastic crown on Gun Atthaphan's head, the kind children from the Non-Magical world usually used to play with.  He carried Cooper to the window, positioning him to face the view outside.  He intertwined the fingers of Zee's hand with those of Max's, positioning Max too close to Zee.

For a moment he had no idea what to do with Earth and Mixxiw, but Dunk came to his aid and the two of them were placed in the middle of the room facing each other, their hands placed so that it looked like they were going to fight.

On Jimmy's phone, Archen set the alarm to a song he and Pond had once recorded, in which there was no single correct note.  He took Tay to the bathroom, but he wasn't mean enough to rest his head on the toilet bowl, although he considered that too.

He swapped Cooheart and Turbo's shirts and now Cooheart was wearing Turbo's shirt and Turbo was wearing Cooheart's shirt.  Kaownah had a green plastic bucket on his head and a pen in his hand.

Once he was sure that everyone had been properly treated, he turned on the music, ordered Dunk to break the spell, and watched his work with undisguised satisfaction.  Dunk just gritted his teeth but didn't say anything.  He already knew Joong's strength and didn't want to experience it for himself.

The enchanted ones regained the ability to move, and the first thing most of them tried to do was remove the blindfolds.  To their surprise, it turned out that it was not that easy.  These blindfolds had already been enchanted by Magnus Bane himself at Dunk's request, making them impossible to remove until the task was completed.  Joong felt truly satisfied.  Neither he nor Dunk were ever walking green flags, nor were they black and white, their personalities consisted of various variations and crazies.  After a minute of watching his blindfolded friends struggle in vain, Joong showed some mercy.  He turned off the music.

“You didn't want to listen to me out of kindness, so that's your fault”. He laughed.  His prankster nature never left him and he didn't care if his jokes were on point or not, what mattered was having fun.

“Tell me what you did to us!”  Zee demanded a bit frustrated, who had no idea he was still holding the hand of his best friend, Max, instead of his boyfriend, NuNew.  Max, on the other hand, had guessed it, but it didn't bother him.

“I didn't do anything, but you have to listen to me, and this was the only way”.

“Okay, then tell us what it's about”.

“It's about the evening before the wedding of Khaotung with First and Fourth with Gemini.  I came up with the idea to organize a bachelor party for them.  And my plan is that everyone present here will divide into four groups and each group will take care of a different groom and make sure that this evening is truly unforgettable for the groom entrusted to you.  The blindfolds you are wearing are part of the fun I prepared as an introduction to this bachelor party”.

“You're forgetting one important thing, Aydin”.. Max told him in a cold voice, and only then did Zee realize who was standing next to him.  With playful fear, he jumped away from his friend as if he had been scalded, causing Joong to laugh.

“Yes?  What could I have forgotten?”

“ You forgot about the fact that the next day is Gemini's coronation, the boy cannot look like seven misfortunes, it is his important day, also important for all of us, we all also have to look great to not bring any shame to our Bangkok's Institute”.

“I thought about that too, so I suggest you deal with it tomorrow”.

“TOMORROW?!”  A simultaneous cry of disbelief ran through the room, coming from all throats.

“Yes, tomorrow.  And I don't want to hear any objections”.

„Alright”.

“Eh”.

“Fine”.

“Damn it!”

“So be it”.

„This is stupidity.  This will definitely not work”.

Their voices mixed with each other, but Joong had a way about that too.  He just let them take off the blindfolds.  When they did, Dunk and Joong watched their reactions with amusement.

Pond immediately covered his bare chest with the blanket.

Cooheart and Turbo stood motionless opposite each other for a moment, only blinking their eyes, then they turned their backs on each other, and Turbo ran to the bathroom, where he found a surprised Tay.  He apologized and took off his shirt.

“Uh, P'Tay, could you give this shirt back to Cooheart and ask him to give me mine back, please?”

Tay Tawan just scratched his head in confusion.

“Er? What?”

“Thank you!”  Turbo handed him the shirt and pushed him outside.

Dr. Jimmy was frantically looking for his phone, which Dunk had taken from Joong and maliciously placed out of Doc's sight on the top shelf of the bookshelf.

Fluke, with red cheeks, fled the room, forgetting to return the red scarf that served as a blindfold for him.  Perth walked over to NuNew and Tinn who were still in severe shock, pushed NuNew aside and grabbed his boyfriend's hand, leading him back to the couch.  Zee started apologizing to NuNew for holding Max's hand.

“I really thought it was you, Nu!”  P'Zee explained, and Dunk thought that he had never seen his boss begging someone for forgiveness like that before.  It was quite an unusual experience.

After some time, order was finally restored and Joong explained his plan to them in more detail.  He drew a table on the closet door with a magic marker and divided it into four parts.  Each part was titled with the nickname of one of the grooms.  Joong counted everyone and told them to write their nicknames, then he collected them and placed them in the bucket that Kaownah had previously had on his head and started drawing.  Some time later and after much discussion, each groom had his own group to take care of him during the bachelor party.

Group A (Fourth):

* Dr. Jimmy
*Joong
*Off
*Cooper
*Perth
*Turbo

  Group B(First):

*Dunk
* Max
*Earth
*Tay
*Cooheart
*Bright

Group C(Khaotung):

*Phuwin
* Tinn
* NuNew
*Nat
* Fluke
* Mixxiw

Group D(Gemini):

* Zee
*Sea
* Pond
* Newwie
*Gun
*Kaownah

It took them so long to figure this out and consumed so many liters of alcohol that some of them fell asleep right where they were.  The next day was supposed to be a day dedicated entirely to having fun.  Zee assigned other, older and more experienced Knights of Light to ensure everyone's safety.  There were still hectic preparations for the double wedding and coronation at the Institute, but according to Joong's idea, the bachelor party was to spend in the world of the Non-Magical.

Dunk insisted that someone from Fourth's group switch places with him.  Perth, who had known them the least, was the only one to volunteer, feeling a bit awkward.

“Don't worry, you'll call me if anything happens,” Tinn comforted him.

Joong and Dunk had a plan together and were going to put it into action.

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(2023)  From the author!

Let me tell you, my dears, that... time flies so fast.  It will be winter soon.  On Instagram, I saw beautiful videos of roe deer and falling snow, accompanied by songs that reminded me of Christmas.  So I was wondering for a moment whether I should also write such a chapter, for example as a bonus chapter after finishing the story?  What do you think?

Then I could describe my dream Christmas...

Ok, ok, but actually I wanted to thank you.  "Hey Stranger" in the English version is something I am very proud of and although, like all my lyrics, it is not perfect, I like it very much and I guess deep down in my heart I wanted the people who are mentioned there as fictional characters to  have read this text, I understand that perhaps I did not deserve it as a person.  I don't know, I try to be a good person, if you ask me for something, I will always try to help, but I can't always do it.

We are getting closer and closer to the end of this story.  I'm reluctant to post the next chapters because I love this story with all my heart, all these characters are alive in my head and I feel that when I put the last dot, I will miss them.

Did you know that there are only two chapters left?

If you are still reading this, could you encourage others to read this fanfiction?  Please.

I wish you a nice day, good grades at school, easy exams, loyal and sincere friends and simply happiness.

And don't attack Gun... I thought that Gem/Tinn as a red flag fits perfectly here.  If anything, I can add one more chapter to explain the story of Tinn and Gun from the planet Gaia II.

See you soon then.

~Annie

2024 Posting again as i want to tell you all that I'm very thankful for all views and stars and comments and also I'm so damn happy to know that one day we will get The Next Prince with ZeeNuNew and also new projects with GemFourth! I'm already very excited!