[color=lightsteelblue][h3]Niall[/h3][/color]
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Niall chuckled lightly as Shukura but nodded at her before speaking, "[color=lightsteelblue]I'm not entirely sure why there's a human here but it's with a dragon and smells like it. Nothing I want to be involved in. I'd steer clear, not either of our fathers would be able to get you out of that.[/color]" He shook his head as he glanced over in the direction of the human. He wasn't quite sure what was going on but he felt the need to leave and when someone as dominant as Niall could be felt like they needed to leave shit was about to get real. He just didn't know why or how. Then he put it together. 

"[color=lightsteelblue]Shukura, Joar, I feel like we probably we will taking cover here very soon. There is a door in the floor just behind the stage. There is a tunnel that goes both back to the portal and one that goes back to the dorms. That human is definitely a part of whatever is about to happen.[/color]" Niall was deadly serious now, his brow pulled tight as he looked at his old friend and his possible new one. He simply couldn't shake the bad feeling as he looked at the others. "[color=lightsteelblue]Something is very very wrong.[/color]"

Then it began.

The ground shook, rattling the tables and causing beautiful crystal glasses to slide off the tables and shatter if they were not being held. Niall was extremely alarmed as he watched and felt the vibrations. His wolf snarled as his eyes swapped, then it stopped. The ground stopped shaking. A wolf always knows when things are not quite over and Niall knew this was definitely not over. Very suddenly a young man ran in, an elf calling for Mrs. Langley. She was head of Defense Operations for the school. This was most definitely not good. 


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Mrs. Langley moved quickly as she stood abruptly, this was obviously quite serious and she looked more fearsome than ever. Her brow was pulled tight as she headed for the ballroom doors. She swept them out of the way ahead of her as she seemed to float in a rather eerie manner across the ballroom, far too fast for a human to have ever moved. She side stepped around the much younger elf. It was a good thing she had decided to wear a pair of dress slacks tonight instead of wearing a dress. 

She met the overly tall figure in the hallway, stopping several feet away. "You had best be here as an alumni and in no other function Mister. I will have your neck if you cause any trouble and you know that is more than true." Her voice was not strained as one might have imagined it would be. It was cold and calculated as a true killers would be. She left no room for argument as she looked at the dark figure. 

Meanwhile.....

[color=plum][h3]Laurel[/h3][/color]
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Laurel's mother had wandered off, hopefully Laurel's threat of ripping her throat out would quell her urges to fight with anyone else.  Just as she was fixing to pick up a glass of water off the table she was disturbed rather suddenly by being bumped into by someone. She spun around immediately and grabbed ahold of the girls arm to keep her from falling down. Once she was sure the girl wasn't going to fall she let go of her.

"[color=plum]It's fine, I hadn't quite gotten my drink in my hand just yet.[/color]" Laurel smiled softly as she looked at the other girl. She seemed kind of younger but she wasn't really sure what year she was in. As she looked carefully at the girl she noticed the tall foxish ears that she had flattened atop her head in apparent embarrassment. 'She must be a Splice,' Laurel thought as she looked at her. As she thought more about what the girl had said she quickly concluded that the girl must be blind or have very poor eyesight which was rather odd for a bat cross of any sort. Bats had excellent eyesight in daylight but it was poorer at night which was why they had echo location.