The altercation started in the schoolyard during recess, when Mogey and a young man by the name of Beezums Borg each wanted to use the swing that went extra-high. It continued in Social Studies class, when Beezums Borg landed (in what was, candidly, a world-class shot) a spitball on Mogey's ear. And now, behind the bleachers after the final bell, it had truly come to a head.
A small crowd surrounded the two belligerents, who were circling each other, issuing disses of epic proportions.
"Are you actually attempting to grow a moustache?" Beezums Borg sallied. "Or is your face just as dirty as your fingernails?"
"Neither!" Mogey rejoined, while attempting to subtly wipe chocolate ice cream off his upper lip.
"Get 'im, Moges!" Smush encouraged his pal.
"And anyway that's pretty rich coming from a fellow with a giraffe neck!" Mogey added.
The students gasped, but Beezums Borg smiled.
"Oh you just wait," he said. "You just wait until my big brother hears. You're dead meat when he finds out what you said."
"Who's your brother?" Mogey mocked. "I know he's not--"
But Mogey stopped in his tracks, because at that moment, "Grr" Raffy Borg, the leader of the world's first all-giraffe biker gang, rounded the bleachers. He was bedecked in a black leather jacket, spiked at the shoulders and with "The Spotted Demons" stitched across the chest.
"Hmm?" said Beezums Borg. "You know my brother's not who now?"
"'Grr' Raffy is your... brother?" Mogey said with a gulp.
"Sure is. I was adopted."
"You were adopted?" Mogey asked.
"By giraffes?" Smush added.
"He sure was," came a voice from behind them.
Mogey and Smush whirled to see The Spotted Demons' two most legendary lieutenants, who also happened to be "Grr" Raffy's parents: Tall Celeste and "Even Taller" Barnabus. Tall Celeste tossed her famous sharpened horns menacingly, and "Even Taller" Barnabus cracked the knuckles of his front hooves.
"Now," said "Grr" Raffy Borg, who had covered the distance to the crowd of students in a pair of his enormous strides. "What'd you say about my baby bro's neck?"
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