@axleonex

The library should have been empty, with the silence and the faint old book smell. Not that it mattered, one student alone being in when they should have been in class, the silence remained the the smell unaltered. Still, covering all the bases, Orin brought a hand up to cup at the side of his mouth, "Pretty little miss, I don't really care if you spend time in the library or not during class hours, but I do want to be able to say that I had asked, at the very least. So, shouldn't you be attending a class?"

Letting himself hang out of the reflection of the skylight for about two minutes for effect, he pulled himself through and out of the shining surface of the desk, stepped off of it and settling back into his chair, back to the cataloging. Lightly licking a thumb, tasting the bitter wax, turning a stuck page...not tearing his eyes off of the catalog page, though he had gone off and further away, his voice was projected out of the nearest mirror by the girl, "...actually, since you're here now, maybe I can put you to use. You seem to be interested in reading materials, what are your prior experiences with libraries?"

"Easy there miss." Hades lifts his hands up defensively, "no need to be offended. I'm just here to pass the requests along. If you aren't interested, you won't be hearing any complaints from me." He lets out a sigh, "you might hear some things from up top, but again, not my problem. Let's head back inside for you to teach."

Elsa looked out from the classroom window. "I'll bring you back, Jack" she thinks to herself.

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Gaston winks at Juliette, "what the staff doesn't know, won't hurt them."

"GASTON!"
Phil walks up to Gaston and grabs him by the ear. "Why I outta!" Phil drags Gaston away from Juliette, "you need to get your sick head outta the clouds and focus on what matters. Hitting on students NEVER ends well for you."

Phil takes a look at the girl Gaston was speaking to. He scans the girl from head to toe, "you... Have got to learn to stick up for yourself. Otherwise guys like this idiot are gonna trample all over you." He yanks Gaston's ear harder just to prove a point.

Phil continues to drag Gaston away from Juliette, Gaston gestures his hand onto his ear, "call me! My beautiful maiden!"

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In the main office, Tarzan sits on a chair in outside of Gothel's room. His arms and legs are chained together. A mask is tightly pressed onto his face.



"Will I be allowed back?" Tarzan asked, with his voice muzzled by the mask.

Gothel answers, "if you cooperate well enough. Wait here, I need to finish the paper work for your transfer."

@Major Ursa

Alice's eyes widened at the teacher. "How did he find us here? I thought the library was a place I could be alone."

"Um..." Alice's voice crackled a bit. She rarely spoke to other people. "I read. In libraries. A lot..."

She wasn't sure what more to say. Her experience in socializing with others was so limited. "Am I supposed to stay quiet so that they won't think poorly of me? Am I supposed to be more polite for adults and teachers? Is being too quiet awkward? Should I speak more so he'll think kindly of me?" Thoughts buzzing through her head. She really hasn't spoken to another person in a long time.

"Are... You going to ask me to leave?" Alice mumbles,

Hades opens the door for Despell to enter back into her classroom. "So glad we could come to an agreement. Now, if you could please continue you're, ahem, lesson." He gestures his arms for her to enter her classroom again.

Elsa sees Magicka, she raises her hand, "Miss DeSpell, could I please have a word with you outside for a moment? There's something important that I've been needing to speak to you about."

Hades couldn't help but chuckle, "well, you heard her Miss DeSpell. How about you two talk in the hallway, and I'll watch your class in the meantime. Be sure to follow up on that recommendation while you can."

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Tarzan slings his head up. "Juliette? Is that you?" He looks around the office. "Its me, Tarzan, I helped you with your luggage earlier today!" The mask blinded him, and muffled his voice, but he could still smell his surrounding. "You seem... Different. Like there's an extra scent on you. A demon? A spirit?"

Tarzan shakes his head. "Trying to get used to this mask. I'm sorry if you can't hear me well."

@axleonex

"Very well, Elsa. Let's get this over with so I can start class....." Magicka spoke to her then mumbled something about a dime and Scrooge McDuck as she passed Hades. Even though she spoke very softly in her mumblings, she was sure that Hades could hear her and possibly Elsa. Once outside the room, Magicka asked Else a simple question.

"What is it that I must take more time out of class?" Magicka was wary of this female so kept a close eye on her.

Elsa did her best to be as respectful as possible. "Miss DeSpell, my friend is dying from the black curse. He is currently encased in ice I formed to preserve him, but will die the moment I un-thaw him. He has a sword wound through his chest. I've spoken with other healers and they've told me that he won't survive once the ice melts away. But I've been looking into the black curse that he and I still have within us." She glances down at her Grimoire, the black snowflakes dance on it's cover. "I believe that the Black Curse can save my friend's life. It can be altered to re-create the organs that are fatally wounded. What I need is...." She twiddles her fingers a bit, "is your help reprogramming it. I'm not sure how to alter curses into something else. I had hoped that perhaps you could... Save my friend's life?"

She wasn't sure how else to put her proposal, or what she could offer in exchange for this favor. So instead of saying anything more, she waited for Magicka's response.

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Tarzan looked at Juliette for a bit longer. Although he couldn't see her face, he could sense her uneasiness. "Juliette, could you do me a huge favor?"

@axleonex

Tapping his fingers on the polished surface again, to stop the effect of his magic from fading out, the magic mirror leaned close to the reflection without tearing his eyes from the spine of the catalog set out before him, "Please speak up. Your voice isn't half bad, but I cannot hear much with the mumbling. Now, why would I ask you to leave? The library is open during the regular school hours. Complaining any time a student walks through the doors, that would be odd, as it's expected and standard. Now with that out of the way,"

Drumming his fingers along the edge of the reflective section of the desk, Orin reached his hand through the opening he had made, his arm coming out of a mirror near Alice and pointing at an opposite shelf, "Can you hand me the two books with green covers? I need to relabel something on them."

Alice nodded her head. She then slowly backed away from the teacher. She went off to collect the two books that Orin had requested. As she picked up the books, another side of her metabolized into an organic being. Behind Orin, a girl mirrored in Alice's image carries a nice closer to Orin's back.



Alice, noticing the doppelganger behind the librarian, decides to say nothing. "Here are your books sir," she says, trying to keep his attention away from his back.

"Jack was stabbed through the heart. He was muttering a few last words, probably trying to leave this world with some integrity intact." Elsa sighed for a moment, remembering the day it happened. "I didn't let him. Die that is. I froze his body to the core from the inside out. Right now he's as fragile as glass. I can turn him back the way he was, but he's currently in his dying state. The black curse made me and him symbiotically attached to the monster that created the curse. We assumed that we would both die once the creature was destroyed. That proved to be wrong. He and I are still cursed, but we're still 'alive' even though the beast died." She gestures her hands at the word 'alive', as though the standard definition no longer applied to her.

"I heard the black curse, and the monsters connection to it, is connected to Pitch somehow. Jack and Pitch have some history. I don't know the full story behind it, but it involved controlling student's dreams. Both for surveillance as well as manipulation." She swallowed a bit, "I was... One of the first people experimented by Pitch. It was an incident that occurred two years ago. I'm not sure if you want to hear the full story of that. It's rather personal, and Pitch probably knows more about the experiment than I do."

She rests her hand on her cheek. She smiled a bit, "back when I first met Jack. Things were better back then." She let those words hang there, lost in memory and unsure whether she truly wanted to elaborate.

XXX

Under Tarzan's mask, he smiled. "I'm going to become a tool now. I have a unique ability. I can track anyone from anywhere across the world. People with my ability have long been extinct, and now they want to use what's left of me for their own reasons." Tarzan wasn't upset. He'd reached the point where his own well being didn't matter to him. It hadn't mattered to him since his family had died.

"Tell Mulan that this isn't her fault. I don't blame her for this, and she needs to move on from this..." He raises his head in the air. He sniffed. "Kovu is hiding under the floor boards in the infirmary room." He whispered. "Tell only Mulan, and no one else. I'm confident she'll know what to do."

"Jack is in my bedroom." She takes the vial and looks at it. "Though if you'd like more details the Black Curse, maybe you can speak to Pitch about it from his prison cell. I'm sure he knows more about this curse than I do." Upon opening the vial, blue glitter pops out from the vial's flask. She coughs, "ugh, I think some of it went in my..." She some coughs more, "lungs..."

She holds her head down, trying to exhale the dust that fell on her. She breathes more heavily to try and wait for the wheezing to end. she tries to hold her head up. "Water... Need some water." She takes a step back, and falls down as a result.

"Can't breathe..."

She blinks her eyes, colors begin fading into her vision. A low ringing fills blocks out her hearing as headaches begin deteriorating her train of thought. "Magicka DeSpell..." She moans. "Medicine. Need medicine..."

Her body begins to noticeably pale. The tips of her feet begin to freeze her body into a grayish stone color.

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"Don't worry about Gaston. He hits on students often and regularly fails. He used to be a star athlete in this school and chose to work here to relive his 'glory days'." Tarzan chuckles, he remembered the fan club that actually formed when Gaston was a football player. They'd all moved on, but Gaston still had a high esteem for himself. He no longer wanted to leave the past behind.

"My story is a rather long story." Tarzan thought about that for a moment. He realized he had enough time to tell it.

"Sniffers were hunted to extinction back when I was five years old. I was young when I had this ability. A group of people trained me to find my parents, and their families. After they were all killed by them, I became a very valuable slave. I was sold off to different parts of the world. Using my talent to find any and all targets that needed to be found.

A man name Clayton is my master. I was only enrolled in this school to capture the scents of every students in this school, including yours." He felt a little guilty for saying it. Juliette was a good person, but now if someone wanted her dead, Tarzan would be used to find her. "I'm going to other schools to repeat this process. Once I've collected the scent of everyone possible, I'll be given more freedoms for myself..." Those words were stale to Tarzan. He wasn't sure if he'd actually gain anything from doing Clayton's bidding, but the idea that he could strive for something gave him a sense of hope. That sense was the only thing that kept him alive.

Hades walked over to Magicka just in time to witness Elsa's transformation completing. "Well, that worked like a charm." He knocks on Elsa's hardened forehead, "anyone home? Of course not." It was moronoic joke, but it still made Hades chuckles. "Congratulations Magicka," Hades knocks Elsa's statue over. She shatters into hundreds of stone pieces, "you failed the test."

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Tarzan shook his head, "don't worry about me, Juliette."

Gothel walks out of her office. "You!" She points to Juliette, "what do you want? You better have not been speaking to the mutt." She gestures her head to refer to Tarzan, he doesn't react to the comment.

Hades casually picked up the pieces of Elsa. "Well... That was easy." He smiled at the thoughts to himself. Not only was he able to get Elsa in the state he wanted her in for delivery to Pitch, but he was also able to trick Magicka into borderline treachery against the school. He'd fulfilled Pitch's request, gained knowledge of Jack Frost's remains, his his own treacherous secret, as well as gain dirt on Magikca. Four birds with one stone.

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Shenzi snickered. She picked up her Grimoire and bolted out of the classroom. "Thanks for the gift, teach." She shouted. Ed and Banzai followed her out.

XXX

Gothel's eyes lit up with excitement. "A job you say? Oh how I love giving out jobs and assignments to unsuspecting students!" She laughed, pretending the statement was sarcastic. "I need this, delivered to the infirmary room. Do this little job, and you'll earn enough to last you the rest of the year." She takes out plastic back with purple liquid inside.

Tarzen flinched, "Juliette-"

"Hush, mutt. You have no speaking privileges. Understand?"

Tarzan nodded without hesitation.

Gothel turned back to Juliette. "Come back once you've delivered this to the infirmary, then return once the task is complete. I guarantee this is exactly what you need right now."

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Stitch walked into the infirmary room. "Uh... Doc. I got an injury.... Again."

Jane and her father rolled their eyes. "Stitch, you really must learn to stop exerting yourself so much. You're magic might make you strong, but you're not invincible."

Stitch shrugged, "I like pushing my limits."

Shenzi saw Juliette in the infirmary. "Oiy, injured and staff only here. Get the fuck out of our wary."

Benzai's eyes scanned over the girl's body. He noticed the bag of liquid that was holding. "Oh." He elbowed Shenzi, "She's the delivery girl."

Ed chuckled, "of course she's the delivery girl!" He huffed a laugh, "tell me girl, where are you from? What's your name? And more importantly, what are your powers?"

The three students stood circled around Juliette, prying their eyes into her, snickering at the thought of what she'll say next.

Juliette was a bit miffed and spoke in a heated voice
"For your information, I was sent here on an errand and see no need to saything more. Now that I have done my errand...."
Julliet simply faded away and out to the hall. Then she basically stomped her way back to the office....