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The town of Clamburg was as miserable as ever. Smog like clouds covered the sky. Because of this lakes could barely manage life as the ecosystem was disrupted. There were no town events, no gatherings. The place had smelled of death, it smelled like despair. It was infested with monsters known only as fiends which made this town unlivable.

Most of the stores were closed until the town's dictator Vendetta wanted them back open. Even then it was exclusively for her to get her wants and needs alone. No one else was allowed. The societal structure was barely manageable.

The one school that was in this town was underfunded and falling apart. It was also where vendetta went to school. Its playground was condemnable and a hazard zone. There was a big red cat who loved to treat the schoolchildren like mice. It had two teachers: Mrs.Minty who taught the younger kids up until second grade and Mr.Milk who kept teaching up a grade every year to keep up with vendetta. From fifth to now seventh, three grade levels with very little actual teaching done in between.

Vendetta was enjoying a magazine, not even attempting to pay attention to Mr.Milk’s lesson on math. She was reading a juicy article about how to use household object as torture devices. Who knew that a sticker could be used in such a way. That's when Charlotte ran in. She hid her face deeper in her magazine. Mr.milk tried to punish Charlotte for being late but she just ran past him. “O-ok,” he said under his breath. He knew from vendetta that it was better to not try to enforce the rules too hard.

Vendetta chuckled until Charlotte rushed over to Vendetta's desk, slammed it with her hands and said. “ Vendetta, Do you know why button 2 is acting so strange?” she questioned with her voice as high pitched as before. When Vendetta looked up Charlotte had a look of fear on her face. Vendetta held her head high and smiled. she tilted back in her chair. Finally Buttons 2 was following in his maker's footsteps. It was doing evil as fiends should. Maybe it wasn’t a disappointment after all. “Why should I care?”

“Because we’re best friends.” Charlotte answered with a giggle. Charlotte's ability to go from someone who seems anxious to someone who seems cheerful in a heartbeat was one of the biggest reasons Vendetta hated her. No matter what, Charlotte would always find a way to make bad into good.

‘We are not friends-”

“And there’s this strange cool new portal outside.”

Vendetta practically fell out of her chair with shock. Her arm already started to form a bruise from the fall. The magazine page she was reading now had a big rip in the middle. “What?!” she’d hoped that Charlotte would get sucked up. But she was also concerned about Clamburg getting sucked up. She’d put a lot of effort into terrorizing this town. She couldn’t lose it to a stupid portal.

Vendetta grabbed Charlotte's hand, pinching her skin, and dragged her out of the classroom. Before anyone could close the door, Vendetta ordered. “Everyone in here must listen to grudge until I come back. Teacher, i am leaving with charlotte. Do not object.'' She gave Mr.Milk one of her best stares. Her bulgarian accent grew stronger with each word. “I will be back.”

She could hear a faint whimper from her teacher and an a-a-alright from him as they went outside.

The two of them hurried to Charlotte's house. Charlotte's house was a ray of sunlight in the town. Up on top of a hill it was peaking out of the clouds that surrounded it. Vendetta was puffing by the time they reached the house. She swung open the door, ran up the stairs and entered charlotte room.

There was a blue and purple portal nearly reaching the ceiling standing right in front of Charlotte's mirror. It was sucking up trinkets and jewelry. Buttons 2 was grabbing onto the bed for dear life. It seems that buttons can cut more than paper or walls. He could cut the very fabric of time and dimension. Vendetta was both impressed and horrified.

Ok Charlotte, now go through it. You get to have the honor of seeing whatever is on the other side of that pretty portal over there.”

“No” Charlotte rejected. She gripped Vendetta's hand tightly. ”Let's go together, it'll be fun.”

Vendetta's eyes bulged out of her skull. She had to come up with something to change her mind. “I-If we are truly friends you would not bring me along with you because I do not want to go. Just trust me. I do not want to go with you.” Desperateness grew in her voice. She had started trying to pry Charlotte's fingers off one by one.

“But Vendetta what if i never see you again? If I’m lost in whatever fun is on the other side, I want to be lost with you. “Because,” Charlotte's lip began to quiver and her eyes began to well up. “You are my bestest friend.”

Vendetta hadn’t realized just how close she was sitting to the portal. Suddenly the force from it got stronger and shook the furniture. The force gripped on Vendetta's foot. Charlotte saw what was about to happen and grinned. “Yay, I get to be with you, Vendetta. Whee!” Charlotte had jumped right in the portal afterwards with both feet. It meant Vendetta was going in too.

She tried to grab onto any piece of furniture that was nearby. However she failed to stay in place as her pigtails got stuck on her face and she couldn’t concentrate anymore. Her muumuus stitching was tearing at the end. Vendetta screamed for her very life as the portal took her in completely.

Outside of her bedroom it stopped as soon as it began. Clothes were left scattered everywhere, bottles of nail polish were spilling on the carpet. Books had been torn to shreds. Charlotte's grandma had taken one look and said, “Oh Charlotte's playing hide and seek. How cute!” as she took her load of laundry downstairs. She hummed a cheerful tune all the way down.

Buttons 2 continued to stare at the mirror where there was once a huge portal. His teeny little mind was still curious and frightened of what he caused. His one true companion was lost in a portal that he made alongside his bastard creator. A tear streaked down his face onto his beak. He’d miss her and her atmosphere. He secretly always wanted her to be safe. Goodbye my friend.

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Ok so i might have to abandon this fic.

I've thought about this a bit and have come to a conclusion: I probably won’t continue this fic. To all five of the readers that have been reading this thank you so Ok so i might have to abandon this fic.

I've thought about this a bit and have come to a conclusion: I probably won’t continue this fic. To all five of the readers that have been reading this thank you so
much. Your views have brought a smile to my face. Thank you for clicking you’re awesome.

If you want to know the reason why, it’s that I can’t find Lola and Virginia in English anywhere. I wanted to go back and rewatch the show just to get more accurate characterization. However, the original site that I had watched it from had taken it down. I tried searching on another site that has a lot of cartoons, but there was no luck either. I tried searching this other site that has a lot of programming. It had it, but it was in Spanish, which I’m not fluent enough in to write fanworks about. I had finally found episodes on YouTube. And guess how many there were in english?

Two segments which could add up to a 22 minute block. That was it. I searched both channels completely. Nothing else.

This show never caught on most likely because networks never gave it a channel timespot when cable was popular. Now that streaming has caught on, it’s practically impossible to get people to watch a show without a ton of buzz surrounding it.

The point is that, I can’t draw enough information from two episodes to write the sort of fanfic I want to write. While making fiends only got six episodes made by Nickelodeon, it had a lot of webisodes before it was made into a tv series. And the episodes are more dense with elements I can draw upon for fanworks

While the main problem is L&V inaccessibility, there were a lot of problems I had with L&V as a series. Skip to the next paragraph if you don’t want to read that. The town is kinda bland, the theme song was way too loud compared to the show itself when I put it on at night. And why are the colors so bright. The writing compared to making fiends is average, but it was one of the better shows on the streaming service.

A lot of the reason that I wanted to do a crossover was that vendetta and virginias dynamic would be very interesting to read and especially to write about. Vendettas rigidity clashing with virginias meanness is interesting to think about. I might write a meta post about it. Simply put, vendetta may be evil, but virginia is a bitch. Also i thought of doing some cross shipping with charlotte and one of the girls. Probably haide. They’d be cute spacey airheads together.

I had no clue of how this would end. I was thinking of grudge being forced to save the day by violetta and viktor because they miss her daughter. They were going to willingly shrink back after they grew and chew on grudges fur like fleas, and grudge would get very irritated. But I thought that was a kinda lame ending. I was hoping to get something from L&V but again, 2 episodes.

If you like making fiends, I can write stories for that show still, but no more L&V stories. I enjoyed the experience of writing this work. Once again, thanks for reading and viewing. Sincerely, penguinbunny56.