Bellua continued to course the walls of the room until he felt a bump. Flicking his index finger upward, he heard a tiny click, followed by a low and dull hum and a source of light that filled the room. Immediately, he noticed several things; a counter covered with basic items one would find at a local healer - medicine and the like, a long examination table that doubled as sort of a bed, a small note with scribbles on it. He surmised that this room must have belonged to some sort of nurse, that she could be anywhere on the grounds. Picking up the note, he read the casually scrawled words and smirked. The note was addressed to Euclid, from someone named Leon, telling his target that he and a 'Rose' were heading towards some cafeteria.

"We have a new destination," said the demon, turning towards Rae and crumpling the note in his fist. "This cafeteria. Surely, there's one on these grounds."

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“That deal I mentioned? That’s what it took the guy to be my little servant. I promised he could run around in the Guild world, free as a bird, and hunt you down and kill you. He wasn’t a roleplayer like you guys, though. No – in fact I got the idea after I dragged you here and couldn’t help but notice the connection. As for this monster’s name, he called himself – or, no, I suppose more accurately you decided to call him Bellua.”

The name gave Euclid chills. Since his arrival here, he hypothesized the possibility, but mostly disregarded the theory that it could happen. Landing in Atlas Novus, finding himself in Kalmasyia - both were settings in their respective RPs at some point in time. He should have pieced it together, should have known from the beginning, but it eluded him, and he was ashamed that it did so for this long. Now, it was confirmed, much to his dismay - not only can locations from RPs come into existence, but characters as well, and his most dangerous creation during his time at the Guild was hunting him down.

Falling back against the wall, his vision blurred as he slid to the ground, obscured by the couch as he sat in the corner, rocking back and forth, gripping his knees and speaking in frantic, unintelligible whispers. He lost all hope. All he could do was wait for death. If Bellua was looking to kill him, it was almost a certainty.

Rae blinked when the light flicked "oh you found it"
she looked around and saw she was in a nurse's office, complete with an uncomfortable looking bed.
she crossed to it as Bellua picked up a note on the counter. she sat down on the bed and muttered "yep, just as stiff as the one at school"
Bellua turned to her "We have a new destination," he crumpled the note in his hand "This cafeteria. Surely, there's one on these grounds."
she nodded "any ideas where it might be?" she looked back down at the hallway, "we might check around the main entrance again, in most american schools, assuming this is american, the cafeteria is near the entrance"

Muse blinked as he looked down at Ebil's new, aquiline form. "Almost forgot he could do that..." he muttered to himself. "Well anyway, I hope you get the hang of flying pretty quickly." He then turned to Books. "Ah, don't worry about transforming right now. Here, I got you." Trying his hardest not to be awkward, he carefully placed one arm on her back and the other on her legs, scooping her off the ground and into his arms. Thankfully, her thin body made her easy to carry - not that he was otherwise happy that she'd been out here so long. "Right then; let's go!"

With a powerful push of his wings, he lifted himself off the ground. This kept them off the flickering floor, at least, but much of the building still remained intact and the ceiling wasn't all too high. "Where to go from here..." Muse growled. His eyes then landed on the doorway, which, along with the entire wall that came with it, flickered every 20 seconds or so. Timing it right, he whipped his body through the doorway, letting his wings glide through the void, then banked a sharp right turn down the nearest hallway (thankfully wider than the doorway), gliding in search of an exit.

He braked hard with his feet and wings, though, after flying past the nurse's office. "Augh, sorry." he told Books once they'd made a complete stop, gently placing her back on solid ground. "I swear I saw someone in the corner of my eye." he told the group, looking back towards the door - now a good couple meters away from him. "Hello?" he called, scurrying back towards it. "Is anyone there?"

Callum stayed looking at the floating island he needed to get to for a few minutes, but as he finally took his gaze away from it, he noticed a small figure into the distance. Raising his eyebrows, Callum took a couple steps towards the figure. It wasn't that far away so it didn't take him long to realize it was another human. As Callum took a brief jog to catch up the Human, he could get in a few more details. First he was a male, and second he seemed very confused. Just like me Callum concluded. When he was rather close to the person he decided to introduce himself. "Umm, look...I know you might be very confused with something right now...But I kinda need your help for something..Well, rather help to get somewhere"

A small sigh escaped from Leon's lips, his heart skipping a beat in relief. Thank God... The man seemed to have calmed down a bit, even dismissing his weapon. Now if only Rose wouldn't taunt the demon any further, then all of this could end in a remotely happy fashion. Luckily, this seemed to be the case, as GM could just speak uninterrupted. A part of Leon wondered who 'Ara-' could be. If the young man was a bit calmer, he might've realised that, from the way GM spoke, it was obviously someone GM knew in the past -- Which in turn implied that this wasn't the first time something like this had happened. As things stood now, however, Leon was far from calm, still constantly worrying that things might turn even more sour than they already did -- As impossible as that seemed at the moment, with Euclid being in a state of near-shock, Rose having a death wish and he himself acting like a scared animal, losing his sense of logic in the clouds of panic. And now there was apparently a monster out there who was specifically hunting Euclid down? That is, of course, assuming that GM was speaking the truth. For some reason, though, Leon didn't doubt that. The guy may be batshit insane and obscenely powerful, but he didn't seem to be a liar. Which brought Leon to another point; he couldn't turn into a liar himself, if he wanted Rose to see the next day... .

"I said I would do anything... ," Leon answered, staring at a point on the floor in front of GM's feet. "I won't go back on that word." Well, that much was obvious. If it wasn't for the simple fact that him going back on his word would allow GM to do the same, the logical next step for him would be to kll the forktongue. In fact, it would make more sense for that order to be reversed. Well, no turning back now. Great, what have I gotten myself into this time? "What do you want me to do?"

"I wouldn't cower in the fetal position just yet." GM added in Euclid's direction. "Seems to be taking him a while to get here..." he mused, his eyes staring into the distance as if he were concentrating on something. "It's fuzzy, though. Must be near a void." he shrugged, before looking back towards Leon with a grin on his face. "Well first..." Before Rose could object, he placed his hand on her forehead, eye-aura increasing in size for just a moment, before Rose completely vanished. "Don't worry." he spoke up quickly. "She's perfectly safe, just... stored away, for lack of a better term." he informed Leon. "At any rate, before I can make you into a full-fledged helper of mine, there's something I need to take care of." Similarly, he placed a hand on Leon's forehead, allowing his aura to increase in the same way. He expected a slight fuzziness in Leon's head for just a moment, but other than that, the change should've been barely noticeable. "There." he spoke once he was finished. "Now you're ready to serve me..." he grinned. "Just as soon as I... think of something... to do..." he trailed off, realizing he didn't quite have his to-do list for the day all planned out. "Oh yeah! I was gonna redesign Rin, and you can help me out! Then beta test her!" he smiled. "Now where'd I leave my laptop..."

"Well anyway, I hope you get the hang of flying pretty quickly." Muse said.
"I already got the hang of flying. I flew myself up here, didn't I?" Ebil asked, annoyed that Muse didn't give him any credit. Of course, nobody could understand him, as he was a bird.

Ebil flew after Muse towards the Nurse's office, keeping away from the floor that was flickering rather quickly now, about once ever twenty seconds. When they arrived, Ebil attempted to stay in the air, but eagles aren't known for their ability to hover, and he flew into a wall instead. Ebil squawked as he fell to the floor. He quickly jumped, and began slowly flying in circles.

Ebil began transforming again, getting smaller and smaller as his beak got longer and thinner, until he was a teeny little humming bird. And as everyone knows, humming birds are known for their ability to hover.

Books stumbled a little when set on her feet. She quickly followed Muse and Ebil. Her footsteps were almost silent despite the fact that every few steps she would slightly stumble, just a sign of her weakened body. She stayed close behind the two of them with her eyes trained on the door. She was scared, actually no she was terrified but she wasn't going to show it despite the shaking of her hands.

Before Bellua could leave the office, a large figure seemed to sail past the doorway at incredible speed, followed by a few other people. He couldn't see much, except that the one in front was carrying something in its arms. Interest piqued, the demon moved towards the doorway, just to hear someone speak, sounds of movement nearing him.

"Augh, sorry. I swear I saw someone in the corner of my eye. Hello? Is anyone there?"

The voice sounded relatively human, a male. The scents he caught were reminiscent of the ones he sensed when he first stepped foot on the Academy grounds. He grimaced, clenching his fists as he entered the hall, head turning to catch sight of the group that now remained before him. One was a man who had large wings, carrying a girl in his arms. The others seemed human, with the exception of one member being a tiny hummingbird. Raising an eyebrow, Bellua was confused, but the confusion was soon replaced by the need to inquire.

"Who are you?" he asked, eyes narrowing in concern. Maybe they knew something about his creator.

Rae saw the people rush by and quickly went to Bellua's side.
she heard the "Augh, sorry. I swear I saw someone in the corner of my eye. Hello? Is anyone there?"
she poked her head out from behind Bellua and could see the people, except for Callum these were the first... mostly human, people she'd seen, exculding the bird and ignoring the wings on one man.
Bellua asked who they were, so she kept silent, looking them over carefully. this sparked a thought 'maybe they can tell me what this place is, i hope so'

With a gasp of surprise Kole rounded on the person behind him. He gave a sigh of relief when it turned out just to be a normal person who was maybe little bit younger than himself, of course it was going to be a person what else would it be? Kole hurriedly decided that in his current setting he probably shouldn't begin thinking about that.

“Uh, ah, yeh, uh, yes.” Kole then cleared his throat a few times trying to recover from his heart jumping into it before he continued. “J, just a little bit confused.” He glanced back at the floating Island. Did it just flicker? Passing off the flicker as a trick of the light Kole turned back to the person. “Well, before we get onto that could I ask where we are at the moment? If not have you got your phone on you? We could activate the GPS on it and see where we are.” At this point he held up his own and pushed the button showing the person the lovely message it held, for the record it still said ‘NO’. “Mine’s acting really odd at the moment.”

As an afterthought he then realised he hadn’t introduced himself to this new person, who was probably staring at his blue hair. “My names Kole by the way.” He said holding out a hand to the new person, whilst attempting to cover up his offending hair with the other still holding his phone.

Callum made a strange face when Kole asked him where they were...While he was relived that he was going to help him get up there, there was the trouble that he didn't really know either. "Well, I don't have a phone...however, We're kinda....Well I don't know. And I know it might sound weird...but I don't think we're really anywhere...On earth" Callum said with a bit of a look of 'Yeah I just said that' But he belived in what he said. Giant White-Sand Tornadoes, Demons...Magic, Floating islands..This had to be somewhere.....else. Callum glanced around once again. Suddenly he jumped, "Oh right" Callum smiled as he took Kole's hand, "My name is Callum" He shook it.

"But uh...." Callum looked back at the floating island, "Kinda need help"

Understandably, Leon was shocked when GM made Rose quite literally disappear. Before Leon could actually say anything about it, the perpetrator explained that he didn't kill her. The wordings he used were a little strange, though. 'Stored away'? What was that supposed to mean? Not that Leon had any time to think about it, though, seeing as GM then turned his attention to his soon-to-be-minion. The young man's eyes widened for a second, fearing that he would soon share Rose's fate, then closed in submission. ...only to slowly open again in confusion when what he expected to happen, well, didn't. Instead, all that came over him was a strange, hard to describe sensation. It was almost as if someone had stuffed cotton in his head, causing a somewhat detached, dizzying feeling, which then disappeared just as suddenly as it came.
Once again, though, Leon barely had any time to wonder about what just happened to him, seeing as GM started to talk to him almost immediately. Much like the last time, the exact wording of how he was supposed to help with Rin sort of worried Leon about what could happen in the future. But, seeing as he wasn't really in any state to talk back, the young man didn't raise any objections. "Uhm, I think you left in my room. ...Well, the room where I was sleeping, that is," he answered GM's questions. Then, with a questioning look on his face, he continued. "Shall we go?"

Kole raised a scrutinising eyebrow when Callum had suggested that they weren’t on Earth. What a silly thing to say of course they were on Earth, they could breathe without any problem and considering how big the universe was Kole found it very unlikely that if they had ended up on another planet it would be one with a breathable atmosphere. Then again, there was a giant floating island behind him as well as an overly ominous black scar across the land.

He slotted away the thought of them being on another planet as a theory. But still, he was intrigued as to why his phone was acting so odd. Maybe there was something in the ground that made the island float and made his phone act odd as well…

“Hm?” Kole had zoned out when Callum had repeated his question. Tucking the phone back into his pocket Kole looked at Callum and then looked to where Callums gaze lead. “You…want to go up there?” He pointed at the floating Island as it drifted lazily amidst the clouds. “Well, um.”

Placing a hand on his hip Kole rubbed his head in thought. Opening his mouth occasionally as if he was about to say something but would always close it before anything emerged. He was absolutely stumped, and looking around Kole couldn’t see anything around like a plane or helicopter not even a very long piece of rope that they could at least attempt to throw at the island.

“Well.” He spoke finally. “Short of growing wings and flying I don’t see how you’re going to get up there.” Seriously, who doesn’t keep their phone on them these days?

“Oh uh… Hello!” Muse greeted awkwardly as he retracted his wings, looking the two newcomers over. The one who approached him, Bellua, didn’t look like a roleplayer, though he could’ve been mistaken. He definitely sensed one nearby, though, so it was probably the girl…

“Ah, my name is Muse.” He introduced himself. “And this is Books, and the bird is Ebil.” He introduced his two companions, gesturing to them, respectfully. “Though he’s usually human in nature.” He informed the newcomers. Then, whispering to Ebil, “It’s ok to change back now, by the way.”

“Anyway! We probably shouldn’t spend too long on pleasantries. This part of the school’s turning to void! Either of you know any good escape routes? Or perhaps a safe area?”

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GM grinned. “Agreed!” he chirped, pleased that Leon would be so eager to serve him, and happily dashed into the other room with his arms spread wide. He sat down cross-legged on the floor with his computer on his lap, just as he had when he woke Leon earlier that night, and re-opened what he’d been fiddling with before, quickly rummaging through some files to find what he’d been looking for. He placed the laptop on the floor in front of him as he beckoned Leon into the room, then pushed the screen down so that the entire device lay flat on the floor. Once he was sure he had Leon’s attention, he pressed something on the keyboard, and the content on the screen seemed to reach upward as what was previously a 3D model on a 2D screen became a full-fledged hologram floating in three-dimensional space in front of them. The image in front of them was Rin, though scaled down considerably, and still in a healthy state.

“Here’s Rin when I first got her.” GM spoke. “Terribly plain, I know, she was one of my first beasts – in terms of my Guild reign, at least. Not to mention I used her for a lot of basic experiments, so I didn’t exactly take the best care of her.” He explained. “Ah well, I can just make another. A better Rin, more suited for long-term use.” He turned back towards Leon. “How did you say you killed her, again?”

“Oh uh… Hello!” said the guys holding the girl “Ah, my name is Muse, and this is Books, and the bird is Ebil. Though he’s usually human in nature.”
"Hi, i'm Rae, this is Bellua" she said, stepping out from behind the man as the group appeared peaceful "where are we?"

“Anyway! We probably shouldn’t spend too long on pleasantries. This part of the school’s turning to void! Either of you know any good escape routes? Or perhaps a safe area?”
"no, i'm not sure we could go down the same way we went up, what do you mean it's turning to void? we aren't safe, right?" she looked around cautiously, remembering the floor flashing beneath her earlier, "the ground did something weird beneath me before, is that what you mean?"

Books nodded, "The ground has been flashing off and on for a while now. It's becoming more frequent and that's what Muse means by the school disappearing into the void. Which in my opinion is a very bad thing." She said glancing around hopping to what ever higher being that was out there would let the school stay intact for a little while longer so they could get out. Her eyes went to rest on Rae and Bellua. She was becoming pretty nervous around them since she was always nervous around new people.

After one last torn look at Euclid, Leon followed GM, who at least seemed to be switched out of Murder Mode. After all, there was no sense in making the guy wait, possibly ticking him off again. As small as the delay was, though, it was enough for Leon to still be in the hallway when GM reopened his computer. Even from there, the sharp light from the monitor caused an unnatural glow to radiate into the hall.
With his eyes half closed, Leon stumbled into the room, blindly searching for the light switch whilst muttering something about stupidly bright lights. Where is the stupid light in this place anyway? Seriously, it has to be around here somewhere...
As if on cue, the young man found the light switch moments later, the slowly activating lamp bathing the room in a far mor appreciable light. "Seriously, how can you work like that? Don't you know that that's really b-b-b... bad for your eyes?," he started, his voice drifting off in confusion when GM switched the laptop into hologram mode. "You'd figure I wouldn't be surprised by something like this after everything that happened," he muttered, staring at the image of what was obviously the beast that had attacked him, albeit not in a starving state.

"Meh, whatever. Anyway... To answer your question: 'Rin' leapt up and attacked my arm," he continued, subconciously rubbing said arm -- which, as you might expect to be the case with touching somewhat fresh wounds, turned out to be a bad idea. The pain, which up until now was reduced to an annoying throb, came back in the form of a sharp surge. Grunting, muttering and biting his hand in a poor attempt to suppress actual screaming and cursing, the poor kid had to take a short break in his explanation. When he finally managed to catch his breath a bit, he went on. "...After that, Rose stabbed Rin with a kitchen knife. I don't know if the thing had any special properties though. I think I then used the bag I was carrying as a hammer of sorts. The fact that it was filled with several heavy bottles amongst a bunch of other stuff probably helped in that end. Not to mention the adrenalin."

As guilty as he might feel, Nautilus stealthily walked away from the party to get some private time. Both in real life and as a Roleplayer Guild member, he hardly informs anyone when he disappears nor explains to them afterwards; he thought that was the best way to appear and disappear whenever he wants. After he got what he wanted, he tried to trace the group back. It was supposed to be a tough thing to do in an area he had no knowledge over, but thankfully Ebil's squawks revealed the party's general location. It took a couple of minutes before Nautilus found the party, who seemed to have two unknowns near them. By the time he arrived, he had missed some parts of the talking that had happened. "Sorry, guys, but I do have a habit of disappearing and reappearing without telling anybody. Expect more of this during the rest of our life here," he said. "And by the way, who are you?" he asked at the two unknowns.

“Awwww do we really need the lights on? I miss working in the dark…” GM whined like a 7th-grader whose classroom had just been brought back into the light. Shrugging it off, however, he turned back to his wolf hologram. Poking the air in front of him, a pull-down list appeared in the top-left corner of the 3D “screen”, from which he quickly selected “Save as” and saved the file under the name “newRin2”. He stroked his chin as he listened to Leon talk.

“I suppose the first thing I should do is bulk her up.” He spoke. Touching the right spot caused a slider to appear which, when pulled to the right, caused the wolf’s legs to thicken with muscle, as if he were playing with a character creator in a video game. “And if I want her to be a valuable servant, then I should probably add something special – like magic powers or wings. I used to make a lot of winged wolves. Ooh! I could even duplicate her and make a whole personal army of them! I’d be like the Wicked Witch of the West, except with dogs instead of monkeys – cuz canines are clearly superior, wouldn’t you agree? Definitely more intimidating…” he rambled. “Maybe I could show you some of my old wolf designs and you can tell me what you think…”