Mid-2002...
Barnacles and Shellington went outside into the Canadian weather, as they were walking, both of them sat down at a picnic table and started getting their lunch out, Shellington looked over Barnacles' shoulders and saw a small group of pledges with the Fraternity that he saw on his first day of college, Omega Zeta Mu
(Or this if you know your Greek 👉🏻ΩΖΜ.)
This particular Fraternity house is tough to get into for any reason. One, if your father did not go to this Fraternity then you can't get in, two, if you are not fit then that's out of the question as well. And so forth, Shellington got up and walked over to the Frat boys, and Barnacles noticed and followed his friend with a mouth full of cold chicken.
"There is no way I can't do this, Michael!" One pledge said,
Michael the Long Hair Dachshund, the big brother of Omega Zeta Mu, was hazing one of the new pledges. He crosses his arms in disappointment as Shellington and Barnacles get concerned about the pledges' safety,
"Bud, if you don't jump into this creek, then you're out man!" Michael objected,
The pledge looked over the creek, it looked cold, shallow, and dangerous, the big brother was waiting for him to jump in until Shellington and Barnacles walked up to Michael,
"Excuse us," Barnacles said,
Michael turned around as the pledge jumped into the creek, the other pledges and big brothers were looking at the two critters. Shellington and Barnacles saw that the new pledges were wearing dummies around their neck and some of them had them in their mouth as if they were babies, they were also wearing white t-shirts with words on them that either said, 'Crybaby' or 'Rookie low-life loser' and even 'Jelly belly'. And so on. The other pledge in the creek was screaming in pain due to the cold temperature in the water and possibly twisted his ankle,
"Is he okay?" Shellington said in concern
"He'll walk it off," Michael said as he shifted his focus to the new pledge, "Don't be a Crybaby! SANDI! EMBRACE THE COLD WATER AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN! SPOILED SANDI!"
"Hey!" Barnacles said firmly, "That's not very nice! How would you know if he's spoiled?"
Michael chuckled sarcastically as he walked up closer to the polar bear and sea otter thinking that they were naive,
"Oh really..." Michael said, "Spoiled Sandi over there, he came from a family of wealth, and then one day, Sandi got surgery on his lower back, and then his family felt guilty about what they've done to him and so they spoiled him. So what I'm doing is that I'm straightening him up to become a man, along with these other Pledges too. And by the looks of you two, I can see that you two are not Omega Zeta Mu material. Your nose is too big, your teeth look like they've come out of a horror movie, and your polar bear looks like the ripped-off version of David Bowie with that haircut. NOW BEAT IT!"
Shellington clinches his fist in anger as he was about to let his temper get to him, Barnacles saw that his friend's face was turning five-shades of red as he got in front of him just in case Shellington might attack Michael,
"Easy, Shellington, Temper..." Barnacles said calmly, "We'll beat it..."
Meanwhile, back in the room, Damian was sitting on the couch as he listened to Shellington renting about Michael
"THE AUDACITY OF THAT GUY!" Shellington said in rage, "BULLYING AND TORTURING THOSE GUYS JUST TO GET INTO THAT STUPID FRAT HOUSE! OH! IF ONLY I COULD HAVE THE STRENGTH TO STRAIGHTEN HIM UP!"
Sebastian came in with some snacks, and Randy and O'Ryan were just shocked about what Barnacles and Shellington had witnessed.
"Back in Boston, if anyone treats someone like that. We will take them to Fist Hotel" Randy said,
O'Ryan looked at his northern Yankee friend as he sat down next to Damian,
"Violence won't solve anything, Randy." The Tennessee pit bull said, "Look, Shel, don't let that guy get under your fur, he's just trying to get a rise out of you. Besides, who wanted to join a Fraternity anyways? To be cool?"
Damian was getting a little bit fed up with this Fraternity topic, as the rest of the roommates got more into it,
"I'll say," Sebastian said, "We should make our own Fraternity. I mean, how hard can it be?"
"But we needed it to get it approved by the Greek Board before that, Sebby," Randy said,
Damian then exhaled very loudly as his roommates looked at him in confusion, why Damian is getting fed up,
"What's the point of making one!" Damian said in frustration, "I mean! All it's going to do to us is make a bigger target out of us! For Goodness Sake, All Michael is going to us is Bully us, call us Babies, and treat us like Horsecrap! I should know, I've pledged to that Frat house before!"
Everyone's jaws dropped as Damian buried his face into his paws, Shellington sat down next to their southern cat friends,
"On our first semester here, we did our own things like joining clubs and programs. I decide to Pledge to Omega Zeta Mu, my uncle was in a Fraternity back in North Carolina and I thought if one of my family members pledged to a Frat house, I thought I could get in. From day one, Michael was acting friendly to me, treating me like he was my brother, but then; he started to say these mean things to me, pointing out how big my thighs were, how fluffy my fur was compared to the others, and after all the hazing, Micheal pulled me into a different room and blinded folded me and lead me to somewhere I didn't know. But when he took off the blindfold, the whole Omega Zeta Mu fraternity was laughing because when I looked down, I was in a diaper with a Pacifier in my mouth with a bib that said 'Big Southern Baby Kitten' on it, I saw Michael just standing there, satisfied of what he had done." Damian explained as he choked back his tears, "As for the others who did make it, they took pity on me. So all of y'all see, why I don't want to make a Frat house, I'm just...scared that Michael would either destroy it or...I don't know..."
Shellington puts his paw on Damian's shoulder as the rest of the guys are trying to figure out something to show Micheal that not all Frat house has to have a suck-up leader,
"Damian, it doesn't hurt to try to make one," Shellington said,
"Yea," O'Ryan said with his braces mouth, "We can show Omega Zeta Mu, that we can be better than them. All we need to do is make a Frat house that doesn't have to be rich."
Damian looked at his friends and smiled a bit feeling a little bit better from the pep talk from his friends, he doesn't have to hide in fear from Micheal,
"You're right," He smiled, "Let's make our own Fraternity, and show Michael that we don't need his standards."
They all looked at each other in satisfaction about making their own Fraternity, but something was missing from their Frat house, Sebastian thought of something,
"Wait a minute! Badiz!" The Canaan Dog Jew said, "What are we going to call our Fraternity?"
They all stop smiling as they agree with their Jewish friend, what are they going to call themselves?
An hour went by as Sebastian and Randy were next to a whiteboard with different Greek names that were scrambled to sound like a Frat house, it almost felt as if they were in a board meeting,
"What about Pi Delta Beta?" Randy said,
"No."
Sebastian crossed it out and went to the next one,
"Alpha Nu Kappa?"
"No."
Sebastian crossed that out too,
"Okay...what about this one...Gamma Pi Beta"
Everyone looked at each other as they went it threw their heads and they all put up a thumbs up, Sebastian circled it, and it was settled,
Gamma Pi Beta (ΓΠΒ)
a week later, all the guys on campus were gathered around the corkboard, they were all looking at a poster that was sponsoring a new Fraternity on their campus,
Every guy who was Outcasted or stood out from the rest, came to the new Fraternity, The Roommate Circle had homemade Gamma Pi Beta shirts for the new pledges, and even Sandi became a new Pledge for Gamma Pi and went over the rules.
"Alright!" Damian said with a smile, "Now we are aware that Michael's way of hazing is hurtful and unfair."
All new pledges nodded their heads in agreement as if they knew Michael's whereabouts,
"But instead of us forcing y'all to jump into ice-cold water," O'Ryan said,
Shellington and Barnacles got out a watering hose and started to spray the ground until it got muddy,
"WHO WANTS TO MUD WRESTLE? TO GET INTO GAMMA PI BETA!" Damian said,
All the new pledges cheered for the mud wrestle. They all did a safe hazing ritual in Gamma Pi Beta, they did Mud Wrestling, arm wrestling, and a shirtless race from their new Frat house to the creek. After all the active hazing everyone got into the new Frat house all was good until Michael showed up,
"So..." Michael said with his arms crossed, "This is the new Fraternity that everyone has been talking about, huh?"
Shellington stepped out of the crowd covered in mud as Barnacles stood by him just in case something bad happened,
"This new Fraternity that we made is 100 times better than yours, Michael," Shellington said, "You treat them like babies while we treat them with respect. What you were doing to them was hurtful, you were only doing it because you are insecure about yourself."
"I AM NOT Inscure!" Micheal said,
Everyone now in Gamma Pi Beta nodded their heads in disagreement, Michael is insecure about himself,
"All of you can't join this Fraternity just because these weirdos are like all of you, Nick!" Micheal said as he tries to get others on his side,
Nick stood his ground and said no, Michael looked at some of the previous pledges that tried to get into Omega Zeta Mu, they all stood their ground against Michael,
"SANDI!" Michael asked,
"Go away, Michael, Just go away," Sandi said,
Michael couldn't believe what he was experiencing right now, he just gave them the cold shoulder and walked away. After a month the Greek Board of Hamilton Academy approved the new Fraternity.
GAMMA PI BETA!