[IC] Athalia Academy: Season Two - Finding Bael

[Destinyfailhorror17]

–Zivon-

Zivon gave a small smile, “…Ya… Ru-ssi-an… da-d…w-as Jap-an…es-e y-et ga-ve…me a Ru-ss-ian na-me… I ha-ve t-o lea-rn to co-ok wh-en I w-as sti-ll you-ng, it w-as f-un b…ut h-urt… a lo-t…” Zivon rubbed his arms, remembering the cuts and burns he received as he tried to cook… when he was just four… “…Bu-t sna-k…es ar-e coo-l I gu-es…s… ne-ver see-n one tho-ugh… o-nly r-ead the-m i-in b…oo-ks….” After realizing time went on so quickly he turned around to hear an announcement to go to the longue area. Zivon looked at Andromeda and gave her a small nod. “…W-w-e sh-ou….ld go… se-ems i….mp-ort…ant… I gu-es…s…w-e…e ha-ve to ca-n…cel th-e m-eal but ma-yb….e ne-xt…ti-me w-e ca-n…” Zivon muttered out and looked at the direction where he heard the voice.

As he started to walk towards that direction with Andromeda and started to hum a small lullaby, it was the one his dad always used to sing when he was still quite young. “W-hat do yo-u t…hi-nk th-ey ar-e cal-li…ng al-l of u-… to t-he lo-unge An-dro…me-nd…a?” Zivon asked as he continued to pull his hair… it was getting quiet long. “…I n-eed…a ha-ir c-u…t…”

(What is Zivon saying... Ya… Russian… dad…was Japanese yet gave me a Russian name… I have to learn to cook when I was still young, it was fun but hurt a lot… We should go… seems important… I guess we have to cancel the meal but maybe next time we can…But snakes are cool I guess… never seen one though… only read them in books…. What do you think they are calling all of us to the lounge Andromenda? I need a haircut)

–Garden-

Garden clapped her hands again as she was hugged by Lady Oona, she was grateful and happy that she liked the braids she did. “I wonder why still, you are a very sweet, and I you sure take care of your hair very well, defiantly something you might be proud of! Oh Lady Oona, I don’t mid the hugs at all” Garden smiled sweetly at her and gave her another hug. She turned around where she heard the announcement. “Oh, I wonder what it will be? I hope it’s not like another Demon attack or anything…” She joked a bit… she would not want another demon attack at all. She realised lots of time flew by quickly. “I would love to Lady Oona, lets go together! Wow time moves fast!”

Garden smiled at Lady Oona and went to pick up the sleeping little kitten Sunflower. “Wakey wakey Sunflower! We have to go somewhere now.” The kitten yawned and looked at her, Sunflower gave out a cute little meow and licked her hand. Garden giggled at Sunflower and walked back to Lady oona. “Okay we can go now, this adorable kitty was still asleep.” She said in a giggly tone as Sunflower gave a mew and looked at Lady Oona.

–Cyber-

Cyber looked at Alistair giving out another melancholic smile, some how his story felt something… a small feeling, it wasn’t much but he felt something. As he felt his hand being hold Cyber bit his bottom lip for a moment. “It does seem fake, I have seen so many things from just playing video games that I guess… it doesn’t faze me… Your life seem fun in a way, living in the swamp, nettle things, quite interesting…” Cyber gave out a light laugh and nudged Alistair shoulder like what would friends do. “…Dreams are just dreams but if you think about it harder… it may not be dreams at all…” He looked at the ocean, the sun and sight and took a deep breath. “ Like now…” Just looking at the ocean... time moved very quickly.

Cyber then looked back at Alistair as he heard that athalian should go the members lounge. “You should go with me then.” Cyber got out of the tide and walked a bit further, putting on his socks and shoes. “I don’t that Alexandria women to bring you back, I promised that I will make sure of it.” Cyber smiled at him and took his hand, walking towards the lounge.

–Seven-

Seven woke up from the voice, he turned back to human and looked around, he licked his hand paw and began to walked around searching for something fun to do. “Should I go? Should I not? That is the question!” seven laughed, he stole some poor saps clothes from a bag he found out of no where and changed into a black sleeveless turtle neck and leather pants. “Okay this is odd, I wonder what type of person would leave these things? Oh well the world is messed up anyway!” Seven shouted loudly as he stretched and ran towards the voice, like a cat hunting its prey, jumping on trees and actually killing a small rabbit in the process. ‘I got a snack now’ Seven smiled happily carrying the dead creature in his mouth.

But he felt like he should go to his house thingy, maybe just to hide his little snack. He ran up there and opened the door, looking around he hid his prey at his room underneath the bed he then walked out of his room like a cat.

[Ebil Bunny]

- Matt -
Matt put his cup down, and immediately a calling for everyone to come to the lounge area came.
Matt sighed, heaved himself to his feet, and began to make his way towards the lounge.

When Matt arrived, he went over to Principle Maria.
"What's going on? Nothing bad, right?" he asked.

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- Dani -
Very little time passed when Dani realized that maybe he shouldn't have been running. Nice and easy, that's how actual marathoners do it, right? They don't run, they walk, and sometimes jog a bit.

Dani walked to the lounge area and sure enough, he wasn't really that tired. He made his way inside and plopped onto a chair, waiting for everyone else to arrive.

[Triple A]

~ Yevon ~

Whoa.

Yevon stared at the snowball in his hand. He had no idea as to how it got there, but he personally felt pretty chill about it. Life must've sometimes granted people snowballs even at fairly warm beaches.

Ye.

The white-haired transfer student simply turned to the entrance of the entire island. How did his truck fall all the way back here? He had no idea, but decided not to question it further. For an announcement soon blasted into his ears.

"CALLING ALL OF ATHALIA. PLEASE REPORT TO THE LOUNGE AREA FOR A MANDATORY MEETING!"

Yevon raised an eyebrow, realizing he had stared at his snowball for over an hour now. Time flew by pretty quickly. Not that he minded. Time was cool.

"If people like her make love, I bet my ears would become nonexistent," Yevon bluntly said. "I'm cool with having my ears blown, though. Actually, that'll be problematic..."

The white-haired student lazily opened the ice cream truck door, slowly getting out of it. Locking the truck, he proceeded to head toward that... Lounge place. Lounge. Longe. Lodge. Whatever it was.

He eventually arrived, clearly chill with taking a nice little walk to the lounge. Looking around the lounge, Yevon nodded, pouting in... acknowledgement. He liked this room. He felt chill with it. The boy decided to lean on a wall, for he wanted to let the students pick their seats.

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~ Nike ~

Nike sat still on top of a tree.

Now, he was pretty easy to recognize thanks to his true blue hair and his funky outfit, which always changed as time went on. Nike was, so to speak, a really fast guy. Maybe a little too fast. Sure, he could be caught by others quite easily in some situations, but most of the time, people tend to see him as a blue blur when he is running.

Nike felt that taking a break was nice. Just before he could start thinking fast, however, he heard a voice ring out,

"CALLING ALL OF ATHALIA. PLEASE REPORT TO THE LOUNGE AREA FOR A MANDATORY MEETING!"

"OH MY GO-"

Nike fell off the tree... before beginning to run to a designated location. The lounge? He liked to run around in the open, but if it was mandatory, it must've been something important.

I hope it's just a chill thing! Nike thought, running at a hundred miles per hour as he zoomed toward the lounge. Never was good at serious talk, anyway!

It took him a few minutes to get to the lounge. The instant second he entered the lounge, he was sitting on a chair, feeling like an attentive gentleman with a particularly awkward smile.

Living life in the wild for years proved to make him feel unsophisticated.

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Liam

It didnt seem smart for a moment to point a real gun at someone's head. She was being scolded by a teacher and he even knocked on her head for a few times what actually hurted quiet a lot after the 762th time. But the teacher stopped for a moment when an announcement could be heared it was pretty loud and coul clearly be heared all over the island possibly. He dealt the final blow and released her from her cruel torture "You should probably go walk over to the meeting don't let this happen a second time okay." He straightend his tie and walked out of the staff room of the gun range. Liam was still trying to get herself together she rubber over the spot on her head that he had been hitting all the time and felt an enormous bump 'isn't it illegal to do something like this' She left the staff room short after the teacher left hoping he wouldn't be there anymore. She was about to cry out all of her tears but she had to remain strong for something like this. It wouldn't surprise her if something like this would happen frequently.

"Lounge area.... The bar?, The beach, It is all freaking lounge area to me, This whole island is a lounge area" She gave a deep sigh "The bar it is" The sun hit her eyes once again "I hate that thing who invented it, Im going to kill him" She kept mummering when she was walking trough the hot sun burning her body slowly luckly she was in her swimming wear that revealed most of her body parts to the sun. She would get bright red at the end of the day not even the end more like 10 minutes of the hell light of the sun.

It didn't seem like there were a lot of people just yet but they would eventually come. She took a seat under some shade so her body could get a good rest and closed her eyes a bit to enjoy the cold beautiful shade. Opening her eyes she could quickly see that she didnt pick the best seat, Dani was sitting almost next to her she didn't know if he could notice her or not but they still didn't speak to each other after the accident happened 'Maybe her forgot about it and everything is okay now...Probably not' Liam looked away while muttering a quiet "Hello"to him and hoped he wouldnt act to weird to her.

[Driving Park]

Carmen

Carmen's eyes lit up in excitement when Lily asked to be dressed up. This was just getting better and better.

"Oh Lily, I would just love to. You have no idea how happy this makes me." Standing up, practically giddy with excitement, she stood and looked at Lily, doing various undecipherable motions with her arms and hands as she tried to imagine Lily in different things in her collection. Several times she would appear as if she had an epiphany, only to shake her head shortly thereafter. It was not a simple process when her collection was as huge as it was. And yet, with her incredible memory, she couldn't remember just how she was able to attain all of them. The total cost would be astronomical.

Eventually, she arrived at the final epiphany of what to dress her up in, and with a still-giddy face she retired into her closet to grab what she found. After a few moments, she appeared with a stylish brown dress in her hands, holding it out to Lily. "This would look lovely on you...what do you think?" Carmen asked, eager to hear Lily's opinion.

[Ebil Bunny]

- Dani -
Dani turned to find Liam sitting next to him.
"Oh, hello." Dani replied. He hadn't even realized someone was sitting next to him. Was she here when he arrived, or had she just sat down?
"How're you today, Liam?" he asked. He decided to pretend the Incident never happened, hopefully she would, too. Of course, it wasn't exactly her fault the ceiling or something fell on top of her, he just wished that someone else had been there to fix her up. Being a surgeon was not one of the things Dani was going to be when he grew up. Not that he was going to grow up. Dani didn't know if he enjoyed or despised being immortal.

[Scallop]

Darwin

Darwin was sitting on his bed, grinning like a maniac as he sorted his collection of super awesome manga into seperate piles by his bed, so the dastardly Dendus couldn't get bear Darwin in his sleep. Darwin had one rule, don't disturb rainbow nap time, the falling manga would be the security system. He then lay down on his bed as he recited the words to 'Electric Avenue' one of his favouritesgk songs evened. "Hey Dendus!" He said after he'd finished. "You ok with stating up till 2ak tonight? I've git a towelling it would Be amazing if we did." He laughed as he pictured himself and Drndus staying up and creating chocolate. It would be amazing!

He'd skyways wanted a room mate ever since his last one moved. Way from the Hoyle where he lived with his dad, now he always wanted one to talk to, to eat with, to watch anime with abd to party with. He popped so,e skittles in his mouth when he heard the announcement. Suddenly he shot out of his bed spilling skittles every where and crashed through the wall of manga. As the wonderful books fell, he dashed towards the lounge area, being followed by a trail of green and purple skittles.

He could miss a mansfyor nmertting, it's Ge like missing an episode of anime. He simply couldn't! So as he ran he shouted, "GUYS! MEETING! HURRY UO!"

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Liam

Liam looked back again at Dani, blinking twice as she was suprised that he could give such a normal answhere after all that "O I umm I-im fine" her face felt hot and became a bit red which was rather weird for a zombie but she sort of liked the feeling of it. For some reason she felt scared looking him in the eyes but still wanted to continue the conversation half looking she let out some words "So ,how are you" She putted a warm smile on her face while was looking down and moved her legs closer to each other almost like they would colide with each other after one more push. Liam felt like she couldnt withstand this heat much longer coming from her face so she tried to get away for only a minute or two "I should b-buy you a drink for helping me last time." She already stood up without taking Danis request of anything to drink and moved towards a bar to get two drinks looking back a few times at him while he wasnt looking. She hoped the large scarr on her back wouldnt be noticed to much by him but it still was fully exposed to the public.He might other wise become really uncomfortable knowing what he has done to her. so Liam tried her best to move her back away as much as she could from Dani while she was still walking towards the bar.

[Ebil Bunny]

- Dani -
"O umm I-im fine" Liam replied. "So, how are you?"
"I'm pretty good. I had a pretty enjoyable day." Dani replied.
"I should b-buy you a drink for helping me last time." Liam said, and got up to leave. Dani opened his mouth to say something, but she left before he could.
...So much for the 'Nothing Happened' approach... Dani thought with a sigh. As Liam headed off towards the bar, he leaned back and looked at the sky. Even though it was evening, it was still hot enough to get anyone sweating. Well, anyone except Dani. Spectres didn't sweat, apparently. Dani found the differences between an ordinary human and a spectre's disguise interesting to discover. Life is full of mysteries. Being a spectre was definitely one of them.

[FaithsRose]

- Crash Bandicoot-

Crash was sat on the dry sand just along the beach from the huts, he had his knees bent up so he could rest his forearms over his knees playing with something in his hands. He'd met his roommate earlier for the first time since he'd started the academy, Ryuu the guy that had assisted him against Ara (A) during the water balloon fight earlier that day. He seemed to be an ok guy, perhaps a little on the scary side...? He looked like the type of guy that would steal your lunch money...but Crash knew better than to judge a book by its cover people wore many masks to hide who they really were, he'd be a foolish shapeshifter if he took everything at face value.

Deep thinking...it doesn't suit me and it hurts my brain He complained to himself, before pulling his arm back and lobbing the object he had gripped between his fingers. It turned out to be a stone, it soared through the air with ease and plopped into the calm sea with a small splash undoubtedly sinking to the bottom with ease. Crash groaned to himself and flopped back on the sand, unable to peg his sudden bout of melancholy...usually he buried it, the world would never see it and it would cease to exist. "Too much thinking...that's the cause of it" He told himself, for a moment he considered spreading his limbs out and making sand angel...

"CALLING ALL OF ATHALIA. PLEASE REPORT TO THE LOUNGE AREA FOR A MANDATORY MEETING!"

His ears pricked as Maria's voice rang out across the beach, though he knew the direction it had had come from he couldn't tell where she was yelling from, he could only assume she was already by the lounge. "Mandatory meeting...?" He sighed heavily. "If demons are attacking the island I swear...I'll...I'll do something drastic!" He decided, nodding to himself. What like threaten them with a deadly frying pan? Crash shook his head at his own thought begrudgingly pulling himself onto his feet he took a deep breath and made his way towards the lounge, forcing himself back into his protective cheery disposition, besides he had a great many reasons to smile at this moment in time. It only took him a while to reach the main building, by then he was his old self he strode through the front doors glancing around he saw Maria perched by the bar and a scattering of students already here. Two of which he'd never seen before and one of which he knew her name but hadn't spoken to her yet. He couldn't see Carmen or Kathy among them, thinking he should probably attempt to make more friends, he was still thinking this as he took a step sideways without looking where he was going walking straight into a cabinet holding a vase.

Shock entered his expression as he realized what he'd done, lurching towards the falling vase he grabbed at it. Engaging the inanimate device in a desperate battle of wills, his will to keep it from smashing and the vase's will to end its non-existent life. Not today! Crash thought valiantly as he juggled the vase in the air his foot caught the cabinet before it could hit the floor, the vase persisted in dancing about at the tips of his fingers as he leant forward breathing a sigh of relief as he was finally able to secure the vase in his hands. Of course now he looked like the worlds most ungraceful ballet dancer, with one foot on the ground to support him, the other raised with the toe of his sneakers pressed against the block of wood that held the vase and both of his arms outstretched in front of him gripping the plain vase as if it were holy grail. If nobody saw him enter earlier they were probably aware of his presence now...

Luckily for him he didn't feel embarrassed in the slightest around everyone here, he simply retracted his arms, carefully pushing the wooden block upright before he replaced the vase and exhaled a sigh of relief. Bowing to anyone who felt the need to comment on his performance before he retreated to the edge of the bar to join Mercy who was perched at the other end. "Smooth moves, though don't hold your breath if you're going for gold" Mercy commented giggling as Crash merely poked his tongue out at her childishly.

- Little Feather -

Little Feather was snuggled up against Lion's side in the common area of her shared beach hut, she had her flute in her hands and was playing the white beast at her back a relaxing tune. Lion purred his appreciation as he lay with his head against the cool ground with his eyes closed, his tail flicked lazily across the floor. Do you have a roommate here? Lion grumbled to the young Lakota by his side. Little Feather lowered her flute, glancing around curiously well there were bags by the door so she could only assume so. "I think so...but you know everyone would have been busy over the last few hours" She answered the beast, turning and snuggling into his side, she had changed back into her traditional native american clothing, though she had decided to put on a smaller feathered headband instead of her usual extravagant headdress...it was too warm for that. I'm glad we left that boomstick place...it was getting a bit hairy in there don't you think? Lion growled, tucking one of his paws underneath his chest leaving the other outstretched,

"They're called 'Guns' I think" Little Feather told him, his ears flicked back and he snorted loudly. I don't care, I think Boomsticks is a perfectly good name for them! More to the point than 'guns' He rumbled his mane puffing in agitation, causing Little Feather to giggle into her hand. "Alright grumpy, cool your whiskers...what say you and me go for a walk through the forest. I'm sure we've barely seen any of this island. I reckon the better views are beyond the forest" She offered, getting to her feet and tugging at the white lion's ear. I suppose we could He purred, giving in and pulling himself upright he shook his coat out and followed her to the door. Once they were outside the beast lifted his muzzle to the night air inhaling deeply.

"CALLING ALL OF ATHALIA. PLEASE REPORT TO THE LOUNGE AREA FOR A MANDATORY MEETING!"

Lion's ears pricked towards Maria's voice, tilting his head to the side. What does mandatory mean? He grumbled to the Lakota woman as she reached over to scratch him behind his ears. "...I'm not sure, but it must be something to do with lounge, perhaps its a game!" She grinned at him, though he didn't look convinced. Little Feather hopped up onto his back despite his bad tempered grumble. "Hey what happened to wanting to be a valiant steed?" She asked him, her lip twitching up in mirth. Valiant steeds are not generally used as transportation from one place to the other Lion rumbled his reply, though he set off towards the lounge regardless. It was a short stroll and before long the pair arrived at the large building, Little Feather slid off of Lion's back, threading her fingers through his mane as they walked into the lounge area she quickly scanned the room looking out for people she knew though she didn't recognize two of the male students she did recognize Dani and Liam, she could also see Mercy and Crash on the other side of the bar. Lion gave the new blue haired student a wary look his nose twitching before he ushered Little Feather towards the boy sat in chairs. "Hey Dani! Mind if we join you?" Little Feather asked the pair cheerfully.

- Derek Keelan - The Blind Dragon -

The young dragon couldn’t express his relief upon ‘seeing’ sandy shores ahead of him, the moonlight reflected off of his forest green hide, sending dazzling flickers of color across the calm surface of the ocean. The gentle beat of his large leathery wings caused small spirals of water to dance across the waters dark surface, his muscular tail drooped down beneath him, the tip sliced through the water creating a constant hum of sound as the water was forced apart briefly before meeting in a clash behind the trailing appendage. On an island of all the places The dragon complained to himself, blowing a huff of smoke through his nostrils as he stretched his long neck forward. He reached forward with his forelimbs allowing his sharp talon like claws to skim the top of the ocean, black glass like eyes reflecting tendrils and spheres of light as he tried to map out the land before him. His slender ears pricked up as he tried to locate any other signs of life...of sound along the beach.

So quiet, I thought students would be loud....and obnoxious little-....why am I here? The dragon grumbled low in his throat, noting that he wasn’t far from the sand he absorbed as much of the scenery as he could before lifting himself high into the air with an almighty beat of his wings, causing a plethora of waves to crash against the shore throwing reassuring flashes of light into his eternally dark world. He grabbed them bending them skill fully around the cabins on the hill as he passed overhead circling the gabble of buildings for a moment before veering off towards the larger building. That must be where the Principal wanted to meet me... Derek thought to himself, catching slithers of light swirling around the large shape, he could just make out a way in from this height.

However the dragon suddenly veered off to towards the forest, intrigued by another source of light he passed over a moving sea of waving shadows before he came across the colourful distraction, he inhaled with a hum breathing in the fresh scent of spring water, usingthe steady hum of a small waterfall he manipulated the bright fuchsia pink and cornflour blue waves to give himself a clearer picture of the Waterfall alcove he had found.

He swooped down, into the small pool connecting the two waterfalls hovering above the water, the light caused by repetitive purr of the rapids seemed to delicately curved around the open top cavern, with a thrum of his vocal chords the dragon reached down to grip his small shoulder bag between his ivory fangs lifting it back into the air he allowed his body to sink into the pleasantly cool liquid beneath him, folding his wings into his body he pulled himself over to a try platform just tucked out of sight on the right hand side of the alcove. He pulled himself out of the water, his sleek scales glowing faintly in the dark, though the dragon himself knew it would be more difficult for him to tell the difference between night and day here, usually he depended on the sound levels when it was quiet it was night, when it was day everything was loud.

Derek shrunk back into his form dropping his small bag onto the warm stone beneath his feet, he ran a hand through his sandy golden hair before reaching down to unzip the bag. This cavern was a bit large for his liking but he had decided it was as better place as any to call his den. They wouldn’t expect me to stay in a building would they...? How many years has it been since I last slept in my human form... The dragon mused to himself as he pulled on a pair of jeans and placed his feet in a pair of white sneakers, he didn’t know what ‘brand’ they were he just knew the guy they belonged to had the same shoe size as him. Grabbing the stripy shirt out of the bag, he turned away moving over to the edge of the platform he crouched low to the ground before leaping up into the air, his wings bursting free of his shoulder blades in a flurry of blood and sinew, he winced at the initial pain but quickly composed himself as he soared back out of the cave.

His eyes were drawn to the lights surrounding the water, before he took off shooting across the vast sea of darkness he was flying blind until he was able zone in on the weaker lights surrounding the buildings, focusing on the largest building he tucked his wings around his body and dove towards the ground, waiting until he was a meter away before he snapped his wings out, flapping them once hard he landed gently on the ground. “Perfect landing” He murmured to himself as a smug smile tugged at the corner of his lips. He strode towards the building in front of him, naturally wrapping the meager excuse of light around his surroundings as he moved his wings retracted back into his shoulder blades, with minor discomfort as he reached the doors before him, he fiddled with the striped shirt in his hands for a moment, cursing the quiet environment as he pulled it over his head agitated by the fact he couldn’t tell if it was on back to front or not. He’d been asked to meet the Principal here for his orientation before he could be settled into the...academy.

Smoothing down his shirt he carefully made his way through the doors, walking confidently into the bar he slid one hand into his pocket, the constant hum of music in the background created a perfect amount of light in the room, meaning Derek was able to ‘see’ every shape the bar had to offer. He noted there actually seemed to be quite a few human shapes here; huffing to himself he approached the woman at the bar. “Excuse me...I’m looking for Maria Cross, I’m supposed to be meeting her here.” He politely asked his accent was undoubtedly British and although he hadn’t asked a question he was under the impression his sentence hinted that he would have liked to be directed towards her.

[Triple A]

~ Bedivere ~

This is quite the treasure to be found, hither! I hast to give credit to whoev'r that stuff'd this hole with this brilliant gem!

A blue-armored knight dug out what appeared to be a fascinatingly red gem, which had somehow been chucked within a cave. This cave had some dirt chucked into it, and the knight knew that there was something special in the hollow, natural structure. So far, his stay in the world he was in proved to be quite eventful, as he had just ran away from a bunch of sharks on a wooden boat to the island. He had figured out that the school, which was apparently under construction, had sort of moved to some distant island.

It is a horror that I dream not of, Bedivere, the knight who wielded a shovel, thought as he left the cave, thinking about the frighteningly fast sharks. I do hate them as I do hell pains!

The Knight of Shovelry was, so to speak, a knight who followed his own Code of Shovelry. Never had he swung a blade before, but shovels were a different story. In his own land, he had been hailed as a hero. Here, everyone considered him to be a fascinating term known as a "cosplayer." They even went as far as calling him an extreme "cosplayer," which Bedivere had no idea as to what it meant.

Nevertheless, he found a gem that would hopefully make up for his absence. The knight froze when, after leaving the cave, he heard a voice call out,

"CALLING ALL OF ATHALIA. PLEASE REPORT TO THE LOUNGE AREA FOR A MANDATORY MEETING!"

Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late! I wilt get to the voice that calls!

Bedivere quickly ran, heading to where the voice had come from.

It took him one entire hour to get to the... village? A tavern? The voice seemed to have come from the "tavern," which turned out to be a bar. Bedivere looked around, receiving weird looks due to how heavily armored he was, before peeking into the so-called "lounge." Many people had gathered already!

Bedivere! Sit thyself down in gentleness! Thou've met plenty of people already!

Thinking that the people inside the bar would not mind seeing a fully armored knight, the man of Shovelry simply strutted into the bar in an utterly outdated fashion. He walked, walked, walked before dusting a fascinatingly simple chair. The blue-armored knight looked around again before taking a seat, feeling surprised that the chair withstood his armor's weight.

[Ebil Bunny]

((Btw, Liam is no longer sitting next to Dani, she left to go to the bar.))
- Dani -
Dani looked up to see Little Feather and her good pal Lion.
"Oh, sure. Have a seat, there's plenty for everyone." Dani replied with a smile. "Well, everyone except Lion. Sorry, but you might have to take the floor."
As Little Feather sat down(?), Dani asked "How's your day been, Little Feather? Mine's been pretty good, though I missed the main fun event of Beach Olympics. Speaking of Beach Olympics, where you there? I kind of want to know what happened."

[Theobromine]

– Kathy
Apparently her roommate had not been to the house at all. Kathy saw zero signs of any other belongings aside from her own and the second bedroom remained unlocked and empty. ‘Maybe I haven’t been assigned a roommate yet?’ She thought. It would certainly explain why she had never seen anyone back in the dormitories of Athalia, though in that case she was rather embarrassed about not noticing it sooner than she had. It would have been nice if she could’ve met a nice a roommate to become friends with, but being along had its own perks after all. ‘Though… I guess it’s a little lonely.’

She ended up changing her clothes for the 3rd time that day. In her defense, she didn’t quite feel like walking around in a bikini top at night when the sun was no longer out and the 2nd time she had changed had been because of the training. She put on a black tank top and jean shorts and moved in front of the mirror as she removed the hair elastic to loosen up her ponytail. “Oh, it’s back!” She could see the familiar shade of dark, brown-ish red hair in her reflection. Kathy breathed a small sigh of relief. As interesting as it had been to have different coloured hair for once, in the end she truly liked her own natural hair colour. ‘And… So does Crash.’ She thought, then noticing the slight blush that had appeared in her reflected image, she quickly waved the thought away and began to comb her hair out.

Without any further plans for the day, she began to contemplate where she wanted to go next. She had already finished organizing all her belongings and didn’t seem like she could socialize with her roommate, so she thought about going to the resort and seeing if anyone had as much free time as she did (which was incredibly likely seeing as they were all on an island vacation). She had just stepped outside when an amplified voice announced:

"CALLING ALL OF ATHALIA. PLEASE REPORT TO THE LOUNGE AREA FOR A MANDATORY MEETING!"

Kathy frowned. ‘Now?’ Instinctively, she looked around and strained her ears for any sign of trouble. But as far as she could tell it was just a peaceful night. ‘Then again, the principal didn’t sound all too urgent about the meeting. There’s no real reason to assume every announcement is connected to an emergency I suppose.’ And now that she thought about it, Maria Cross hadn’t even bothered to make an announcement during the demon attack. It had been Crash that went around telling everyone to meet up in the auditorium. ‘Where was she then anyway?’ She wondered, frowning again. Whatever it was for, she was not going to skip out on a mandatory meeting.

Reaching the lounge area Kathy made herself comfortable in one of the single lounge sofas. Seeing the relaxed expressions of all the other students that had gathered there, she was fairly convinced that the announcement wasn’t for something requiring immediate and urgent attention. Normally she would have immediately started searching for Crash and Carmen among the crowd, but she felt a little embarrassed about seeing them at the moment. So instead, she relaxed in her comfortable seat and looked around for any other faces that she may have recognized.

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– Leroy

Leroy had, once again, covered everything in his bedroom with newspaper and moved most of his personal belongings over to the living room. He had considered just leaving the bedroom be since it was just a temporary place to stay, but in the end he had decided to go with it. As troublesome as it was, it also gave him a sense of familiarity.

Armed with an impressive number of nightlights carried around in a plastic bag, he began to stick one into every outlet he found throughout the house. Save for inside of his roommate’s private bedroom of course. He didn’t care about being made fun of for his fear of the dark at his age. Pride wasn’t going to help him keep calm without proper vision and he already knew that it would be better to be teased about a phobia than the actual reaction he had when he was caught trapped in darkness. For now, all the lights had been turned on in the house seeing as it was nighttime, but just in case his roommate didn’t want to be in a place that was lit 24/7 he had installed nightlights throughout the house.

Leroy had just finished putting one of the lights in the bathroom when he heard the door opening. He smiled, knowing it was probably his roommate. ‘Let’s see who it is then.’ Done with putting nightlights everywhere, he left the plastic bag on the bathroom counter and stepped out to greet his roommate. To his pleasant surprise, he realized he had already met his roommate before. “Hey! Seven, it’s been a while.” He gave the bakeneko a warm and friendly greeting. “By the way, there was an announcement for a mandatory meeting. Aren’t you going?”

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– Ara (B)

“Managed to meet most of the people you did.” Ara told A. She had bought a tropical dress before making her way back to her assigned quarters. Having changed into it, she sat and lounged on the bed while she faced a standing mirror to have a talk with A.

Needless to say, A was actually quite surprised by this. Usually they preferred just to ignore each other as much as possible except for the occasional heckling. “Well good for you. Did any of them believe you when you told them who you were? Or did you not bother revealing your identity?” Ara smirked at his words. “I didn’t really greet too many people, and the group I joined hadn’t met you yet. But one person believed me and another didn’t catch on all too well. Crash thought that you’d sent me, a different girl, to go and tease him in your place.” From beyond the mirror, A was laughing. “So you continued with the teasing? Nice.” Then frowning she recounted, “Carmen decided to just treat you and me as both being real.” A’s laughter was cut off by this, and immediately replaced by a rather serious expression.

Right now A was in a reflected room exactly like the one Ara was in, but as soon as she moved away so no mirror could catch her image he would be left in an empty, pure-white room with random fractions of the real world floating around him like giant shards of glass. The Fractal World was an empty place with nothing but himself and the belongings they threw inside for storage. It was a world without hunger, pain, warmth, or cold. One of them, A or B, would always be in there. And whenever they switched places, they gained the memories of the other, including the thoughts and emotions the ‘doppelganger’ felt while being in the Fractal World. Finally, A narrowed his eyes at the Ara in reality and told her, “One day, I’m going to say goodbye to this god-forsaken world and take my place back in reality for good.”

To this Ara sneered and replied, “How will you do that when you’re dead and gone?” They both knew the pain of being left alone in an empty world with nothing in it and how determined the other half was to escape from it, once and for all. But that was also why they could never forgive the other. Because they both thought that they were the real one and that the other one was the horrid doppelganger that had gotten them into the mess in the first place. The silent and hostile glaring between the two was cut off by a sudden announcement.

"CALLING ALL OF ATHALIA. PLEASE REPORT TO THE LOUNGE AREA FOR A MANDATORY MEETING!"

“… I’ll be going then.” Getting off the bed, Ara turned back to face the mirror once more before leaving. A nodded. Waving her off she added, “Don’t get too used to it. Those are my friends that you’re going to be socializing with.” Ara let out a laugh. “Like they would want to be friends with a delusional doppelganger.” And with that, she left for the lounge area to go join this mandatory meeting. 

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Liam

When she arrived at the bar she gestured the bar tender that she wanted to order something from him as he was still helping his other customers. Now she tought about what did he even want to drink she couldnt think of something he would have liked since she didnt know him that well. Liam looked back at the table they were sitting at to try gesturing what he even wanted but he already seemed to be in a conversation with little feather that had joined their table. It might be nice to get something for her to, She had two problems now deciding what the boy wanted and what the little indian wanted.

So she just recklessly ordered the same thing that she herself wanted to drink "Could I have three ice tea's please." The bartender took her money and placed down the drinks in front of her. While she waited she gazed around a bit seeing a large armoured man sitting on one of the chairs. The knight Bedivere had a quitw ordinary appearance it however was very intresting since he didnt even have a sword but a shovel with him. Liam picked up the ice tea's with both her hands and walked over to the knight to give her compliments about his armour "Ooo, You have a pretty ordinary cosplay I must say but its very well done."

She placed a grin on her face as she moved towards her table again leaving the blue armoured knight alone again. Her red face seemed to be totally gone now after the small walk and she felt like she used to. As she sat down she immediatly stepped on the tail of Lion by accident but she didnt even notice Lion sitting next to her and kept her foot on his tail. She placed the drinks in front of her and started to talk to the Indian cosplayer "I bought a delicious iced tea for you. I hope you like it." She shoved the ice tea in front of little feather and looked over to Dani also placing the ice tea in front of him. "Sorry I forgot to ask what you wanted, I hope you dont mind." She gave an akward laugh at him as she placed her hand on the back of her head making it seem it was a little accident.

Drow

Drow was at her home packing out her stuff that just go here she placed some posters of super heros on the wall that reminded her about her childhood. She used to pretend she was a super hero sometimes when she played with her dad.But that is all way to long ago she continued on with her unpacking. placing her guitar next to her bed putting down some books on the shelfs and a small toy rabbit onto her bed she cant sleep without it. Drow finished unpacking her stuff and looked over to the other room. It felt lonely in the house since she didnt see her room mate yet. She felt so curious about who her room mate was if she liked her or if she was somebody that she would defenitly hate.

She needed to get her mind of it and decided to play on her guitar to kill some time. As soon as she grabbed it a loud voice came from the middle of the island it seemed. Why would they need to get to the lounge area all of the sudden the only thing it could be was some sort of activity with everyone like a ghost hunt or something the forest would be great to do such things. Drow dropped down her guitar again next to her bed and quickly changed into something else. She was wearing a sea blue mini dress revealing her arms and legs the flower and scarf still remained on her body as she headed off towards the lounge area.

Once she arrived there were already a lot of people they must have been close by or something. She saw a statue with armour sitting on a chair and gave it a closer look. She bended down in front of him with her hands on her knees Drow looked directly into the mask of Bedivere. She questionly turned her head slightly as she came a bit closer to the armour why did it have a shovel. Isnt it suppose to fight dragons and stuff with big iron swords. What can he do with a shovel punch them in the face well it felt less stupid now when she tought about it. She kept pondering at the statue and stayed with it the whole time.

Save

Save was getting bored in the pocket of Zivon there was nothing to do but float around a little and eavesdrop kn the conversation of Zivon and the girl. She surfed the web looking at her usual forums discussing about all sorts of thing but mostly about cosplay. She even searched the web for 'How to get out of a phone' but there werent any answheres about that either. It was clear she could move from devices and look through cameras but was there anything more then that. She could get to the real world in some way but there were some minor problems with that. Whatever she tried she couldnt move from the same spot but she could still talk and see and feel. It was probably better to do that then just stay in the phone the whole time.

The phone vibratted for a moment and a girl floated right in front of Zivon she gave an enthusiastic "Hi" and gave the brightest smile in the world. Save tried to touch him but she just went straight through him 'im not real in this world anymore it seems' "Do you still remember me?" She gave a look at andromeda "I dont think we met yet" She reached out her hand to her while floating in mid air "Im Save" Her hand would probably just go through hers but it was just for the looks.

[Scallop]

Darwin

Darwin sped out of his bedroom with all the speed of a super amazing ferrari on super amazing speed pills. Next thing he knew he was ohis way towards the bar place, or was it called the lounge? he couldn't remember and he didn't care, it was gonna be super legendary! He reached in his pocket and pulled out a handfull of red skitles, downing them in one gulp before grinning at the people at the bar.

He near enough imploded right there, right thern because of the ammount of awesome people that were there. There was Crash, nah he needed a better name....maybe Crashmania! Yeah! That was an amazing name. He waved to Crashmania then noticed Kathy was sitting on a lounge chair all by herself, looking oh so relaxed and lonely. He snuck up behind her and poked his head over the top of the chair. "HEY KATHEH!" He said cheerfully. "What's wrong!? Why you staying away from Crashmania?" He grinned at her and pulled a chair over beside her.

[Animelover_princess]

- Andromeda -
"that's interesting, i wonder why he did that" she smiled "my dad's american but my mom's greek" she looked over at him "why did cooking hurt? did you burn yourself a lot?"
"snakes are pretty cool, if you know ho to handle them, i've never had a snake hurt me" she chuckled.
she looked towards the lounge area "yes, i suppose we should go, maybe you can cook dinner for me another time"
she starts towards the lounge "do you want to walk with me Zivon?"

- Oona -
Oona was happy that Garden didn't mind the hug and how she called her sweet. the hug garden gave her was nice as well.
"oh i doubt it's another attack but we better go since it's probably important"
she watched with an amused smile as Garden picked up the kitten and came back to her "let's go" and she head for the lounge.

- Alistair -
"it was fun" he said, smiling at the memories, a drop of moisture hit his hand. he quickly wiped at his eyes and hoped she hadn't seen "i would love to go home some day, but i can't even make it off the island, so i'm stuck"
he liked how determined she was "ok" he smiled "i guess i'll come with you" and followed her towards the lounge.

[Destinyfailhorror17]

–Zivon-

Zivon nodded a bit showing he was still going with Andromeda to the lounge. “ I h…a-d to le-a….rn to co-ok, m….y da-d is ki-nd of o-ld an-d co….ul-dn’t m-ove w-ell… I me-an h-e is 64 y….ea-rs old an-d I-I a-m o…n-ly 17…” Zivon sighed a bit, it seemed weird how his dad was really old but then again he knew that they both weren’t related at all; he bit his bottom lip hard enough to make it bleed a little. ‘Dad… how are you now?’ Zivon though… he could never get that feeling of homesickness out of him. He felt like he needed to change his clothes, he had been running and panicking all day and hadn’t able to change clothes in a while.

“Ju-st a min-ute… nee-d t-o ch-an-ge..” Zivon said to Andromeda as he ran back to his assigned house to change. He quickly changes into his regular style clothing. The red jacked, beanie, gray skirt and red sneakers and ran back out quickly towards Andromeda. “…Am….er-ica… Gre-ece… I-I wi…sh I co-ul-d g-o th-er….e…” He looked up at the sky, he had a small smile when ever he thought about going around the world one day but his smile drop down, he knew that was impossible with how he is.

As they continue to walk closer to the Lounge the girl in the phone Zivon found pop up, said a very enthusiastic hi and tried to touch him but went through to him, it still made freak out and scream, he… didn’t want anyone else to touch him, too much of his past affected him already. “N-no!!” He shouted as he stepped back quickly and froze up, like he was under a freeze spell, he didn’t even looked like he was breathing. He looked away again and covered his mouth to try and control his breathing. Being surprised like that can easily give him a panic attack. Zivon then covered his eyes as well, going completely mute; another panic attack was sure coming up.

(What is Zivon saying... I had to learn to cook; my dad is kind of old and couldn’t move well… I mean he is 64 years old and I am only 17, Just a minute… nee-d to change..” … America… Greece… I wish I could go there…N-no!!)

–Garden-

Garden smiled and started to walk quickly towards the lounge; she wondered what was it about. ‘Please not another attack…’ Garden gave a awkward sigh and continue to walk with Lady Oona. As they were going there a few familiar faces started to pop up. She saw Lady Little feather and Sir Lion, Sir Crash and Lady Kathy, Lady Carmen. Just so many familiar faces that made her smile even more. Sunflower looked at Lion and mewed loudly at him. “ Lwion!! Lwion!” Sunflower meowed loudly to Lion while tryig to bop his nose again even though they were far from him. Garden giggled happily at Sunflower trying to call out for Sir Lion, she waved at them happily.

“Hi Everyone!!” Garden said to them as she turned back towards Lady Oona. “It seems everyone is having a good time here though so nothing bad must have happen.” Garden said as she noticed the happy vibe coming from the others, he sighed in relief. “What a relief Lady Oona, but still I wonder what why they called us here…” She walked closer with Lady Oona towards Lady little feather. “Hi again Lady Little feather and you Sir Lion, how are you guys?” She curtsied to them while Sunflower bopped the nose of Lion. “Hwi...” Sunflower mewed.

–Cyber-

Cyber took Alistair towards the lounge, his backpack still with him as he clutched it tightly. “Maybe one I could bring you home? May be impossible but fun” Cyber giggled at him and continue to walk, it was dark soon and some light from some stores shined brightly. Cyber turned around to Alistair walking backwards; he clutched his backpack, not letting it go. “Well maybe you can stay at my place tonight? I heard they assigned houses for the student, I was going to get a room mate but now I have my own house thing, so you can stay the night with me.” Cyber suggested to Alistair, he could like sleep at the couch if there is one…

“I don’t know how to cook so we have to buy some instant food and microwave meals though…” He giggled jokingly as he continued to walk. ‘Might be fun… but I have to keep my cover…’ he still remembered that Alistair still though he was still a girl… if he found out… Cyber realized he would be lonely again. He looked away and closed his eyes.

–Seven-

Seven heard a noise as he started to walk out it was Leroy. “Huh I guess we are room mates then well that’s fun.” Seven yawned and licked his paw, actually not caring much as in his bi polar personality. “I has been a while old mate well I was heading towards there but I caught a rabbit” Seven said while licking his lips happily, tasting some blood still from the rabbit. “I decided to bring it here and eat it later, its was fun watching it squirm!” He said very enthusiastically as his eyes shined with something… odd in them. His cat like eyes watched Leroy, like if it were dark it would glow brightly.

“Well then lets go!! I do want to see what is happening, and maybe actually eat my catch; I don’t want it to go rotten at all.” Seven replied as he walked out, his tail happily wagging around as he moved a bit further from Leroy but still waited for him.

[Theobromine]

– Kathy

Feeling quite comfortable in her seat, Kathy was almost certain that if something didn’t start soon she would start nodding off. Luckily for her, someone was willing to engage her and keep her occupied until the meeting began. “Good to see you too Darwin.” Kathy greeted, smiling as she tilted her head up to face him.

Then watching him pull a chair up to where she was, she let out a small laugh. “Crashmania?” She repeated with an amused smile. ‘A nickname on top of a nickname.’ She thought, then realized, ‘I guess I’m the same too though. Calling him Bandicoot and all.’ She waved the question off and answered, “I’m not staying away from anyone. I just thought it’d be good to lounge here until the meeting.”

She had been leaning back into the comfort of the lounge chair even as Darwin moved a chair of his own right next to her, but now she straightened herself up and began to look around them. “… Is he here?” She asked, having noticed the slight implications behind the unicorn’s words. Crash’s messy red hair should’ve easy for her to detect, but while sitting down a good portion of her view was concealed by others standing in the area.

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– Leroy

Leroy laughed, “Yeah, who would’ve guessed?” He thought back to their meeting at the academy. ‘Interesting. I accidentally poisoned my roommate on the first day of meeting him.’ He didn’t feel too guilty about it. First of all, the result had been alright and Seven was still alive despite it. And secondly, he personally thought the bakeneko himself should’ve known about the sort of things he could eat and couldn’t eat. If he didn’t, then he should’ve started with small bites of potentially harmful products. No harm, no foul. That’s how he saw it. And it wasn’t as though he had forced Seven to ingest chocolate either. He had only asked the bakeneko if he could, then introduced him to chocolate products in the cafeteria because he had asked Leroy to point them out.

After listening to Seven talk about the rabbit, he shrugged and replied, “Just finish it before it rots then. Do what you want in your room, but I don’t want any foul odours flying around.” Then he followed the bakeneko out and started to head for the mandatory meeting. On the way there, he patted his pockets for the familiar shapes of the ink bottles he carried around. He had two in his right pocket, and one in his left. He didn’t know what this meeting would be about, so he wanted to make sure that he had his ink bottles with him ‘just in case’.

[HylianRose]

- Lily -

She smiled, watching Carmen go a bit crazy. She enjoyed seeing people happy and Carmen looked pretty happy right now. As she waited, Lily looked down at her hands, turning them over as a child might look at their hands after noticing them for the first time. Why she was suddenly fascinated with them, she didn't know. She was just thinking about her history. These hands had seen a lot, touched a lot, done a lot...

She jumped a bit when she heard Carmen speak to her, holding out a dress. Lily smiled warmly and nodded her head enthusiastically. "I love it!" She told her friend and stood up. "I might need help getting it on though... It's been a few years since I've even looked at a dress much less put one on." She said, chuckling a bit at herself. "I could even try and braid my hair." She added, smiling brightly at Carmen. "And then we need to get you all dressed up." She told her roommate, feeling bad that she was the only one being dressed up.

- Maria and Brako -

She turned when Matt came up to her asking if everything was okay. She smiled and nodded. "Everything's fine. Just sit and wait for everyone else." She told him, her voice soft. She sat, listening to the students arrive slowly and begin talking to one another. She stifled a chuckle when she heard Crash's... episode.

Her eye shot to her side when she heard a voice she'd never heard before.

Brako had been walking around the island, almost like a zombie would. He didn't say much and he didn't show much expression... He just looked empty. His head slowly raised when he heard Maria's announcement and he walked over to the lounge at a leisurely pace. He'd completely forgotten that Maria probably didn't know who he was when he sat down next to her and said, "Hello Maria..." His head fell down to the table as he rested, his frustration mounted.

Maria's eyes shot open. How did this guy know her name? Who was he? There wasn't anything Maria didn't know about around her students. Even the freaking devil... Maria's face went through and interesting transformation as her emotions went for a whirl. First, she was shocked, then she was confused and then angry and then confused again. Who the hell was this guy?

"Excuse me... but who the hell are you?" Maria asked.

Brako's head went up, his brow raised as he stared at Maria. "It's m- OH!" He shouted as he finally realized. He chuckled a bit and lifted a hand to wave at Maria. "It's Brako... Oddly enough. Long story. I'll tell you later." He explained to her, choosing to tell her later as he noticed another Dragon enter the area. He smiled and leaned against the bar, watching the other students and this... dragon.

Maria let out a long frustrated sigh, not really wanting to understand. She'd never understand this man but she knew he'd keep his word and tell her later. Still... Why did he look so young? She shook her head and turned when someone else began to address her only, they were asking for Maria Cross. Her...

Maria chuckled a bit and let out a small sigh. "Hello Derek. I'm Maria. Glad you could make it." She greeted the new dragon, assuming he was the reason for Brako not telling her his story right now. Brako had a thing about other dragons. He usually avoided them if he could. "If you want, you can go have a seat with the other students. I'm going to start up a meeting when the rest of them get here. Or... when most of them get here, anyway." She explained. "You're also welcome to sit here too. You can ask me questions. I don't bite... much. And... I don't mind sitting with a cutie like yourself." Maria teased, wrinkling her nose at him.

[FaithsRose]

- Little Feather & Lion -

Little Feather felt her smile broaden as Dani welcomed them to sit down, she slid into an unoccupied chair laughing lightly as Lion tried to stick his bottom lip out in a ‘pout’ failing miserably he ended wrinkling his nose and jutting his chin forward looking more like he was about to sneeze. Fine I’ll take the floor He grumbled looking around warily as if he was unsure about speaking in this area with so many people he wasn’t associated with hanging around. He plonked his butt down next to Little Feather swishing his tail happily. “It’s been fairly good thank you” Little Feather replied to Dani with a sheepish grin. “I’m sorry about abandoning you earlier...turns out we weren’t cut out for the ranged dojo...” She apologized, a look of guilt crossing her face. “I’m glad to hear your day has been good!” She smiled brightly at him, though she had dressed herself back into her ‘normal’ clothing upon inspection of her face she was actually missing her face paint, something she had not yet been seen without...

“I watched from the sidelines to begin with...there was a waterballoon dodgeball fight. Girls VS Boys, very amusing to watch! The girls won and a few of the guys kept breaking the rules” She grinned thinking of to a particular red-haired troublemaker. “Then they did this thing called ‘Dressing up’ or something like that, where we put funny looking clothes on all the guys” She told him in an animated fashion her cheeks flushing as she thought back to Alistair, though she knew better than to react this way to him anymore so she pushed it aside. Blushing more because she’d blushed in front of Dani, in an attempt to brush it aside she continued retelling her version of events in a rather fast and animated fashion. “Before they had to run through an obstacle course whilst being pelted by ‘Paint bombs’ and something called a ‘Foam Canon’! Carmen...kicked butt on those” Little Feather hesitated on the last quote as if trying to pull it from her memory. Seven won the race I believe” She finished her tale just as Liam approached the table. “Hey Liam” She greeted the girl with a warm smile, her face was still flushed at this point. Lion jolted as Liam stood on his tail whining low in his throat he quickly headbutted her foot off of the sensitive appendage and scooped it underneath him protectively. Always the tail... He grumbled maintaining his ‘grumpy’ lion visage. Little Feather blinked in surprise as the drink was thrust in front of her, she had no idea what an ‘Iced Tea’ was but the Salad Dani had chosen for her earlier had been very nice...perhaps this would be the same. “Thank you! That’s very kind of you” The Lakota woman grinned gratefully at Liam, as she lifted the glass taking a sip.

Lion’s ears twitched as he heard a soft familiar mewling, he turned his large head grinning at the small kitten. Good Evening little one He mewled back lightly wagging his tail as the kitten tried to bop at him from a distance. Little Feather looked up waving at Garden as she sipped her iced tea, which she decided was indeed delicious. “Hello, Lady Garden!” She greeted the other woman mimicking her polite titling. “Very well thank you and yourself?” She asked with a bright smile, her cheeks had finally returned to their normal coloring, Little Feather lifted her hand to her face seeking out the comfort of her facial markings. However a look of panic crossed her face as she couldn’t locate the markings that usually adorned her face. L-Lion! My face! Have I-? Little Feather made a rather peculiar purring noise in her throat looking at the Lion beside her, who pulled his attention away from the kitten after allowing himself to be bopped on the nose and nuzzling the little kitten affectionately. He blinked at her before nodding his head quickly, his ears flattening back as if he already knew what her reaction was going to be. “E-excuse me!” She stuttered out to the others trying to hide her face as she got up out of her seat, abandoning Lion who watched her with a worried expression. Though quickly turned back to Sunflower giving the cat at least half of his attention. How has your day been, furrball? Lion purred, grinning cheekily at his new pet name for the kitten...though he was more of a furrball than the little cat.

Little Feather was in such a rush she nearly collided with Leroy upon his entry to the lounge, she looked to be in a right state with her hand shielding her face and nose from view. “I-I’m sorry!” She stumbled over the words, jittering in an embarrassed manner. “A-Are you ok?” She asked uncertainly, trying to calm herself down...it was just paint. But to her those simple markings were a symbol, a mask of which to hide behind without the ‘idea’ of them she felt like a boat without an anchor. A thought flickered across her mind as she waited for Leroy’s response, she remembered he’d demonstrated his ability a couple of weeks back “L-leroy! Have you got any ink or paint on you?” Little Feather asked tentatively, she had told him specifically she would prefer him not to mess with her emotions but she was making a scene at the moment and this seemed like the fastest option to getting her face painted. “It’s just I've forgotten my face paint and well...” She mumbled, looking at her feet bashfully. “...if you wouldn’t mind could I borrow some? I don’t mind if you want to...paint it on for me, any kind will do” There was hesitation there but permission granted. “Please?” The Lakota murmured, feeling about ready to burst with anxiety

- Derek -

Derek’s ears twitched as he heard the woman chuckle before sighing. I fail to see why that question was amusing... He thought bitterly to himself though remained outwardly at ease, his eyes shifting to take in the ‘shape’ of the other dragon using the beautiful lights Maria’s voice conjured up for him he felt they were particularly bright with a certain...spark to them. He inclined his head towards her, his mouth twitching up into a polite smile as she spoke his name. “A pleasure to meet you Maria” He murmured tilting forward into a bow as a gentleman would have done in the presence of ladies in the past. He cast his ‘gaze’ over at the other students as she mentioned them trying to keep the look of disdain from entering his ‘young’ face, they were indeed a noisy bunch, though he appreciated the light their racket created his old ears retreated from the bustle. He had been slumbering for the last 100 years or so, so he was still adapting to this new world with its strange sounds and new shapes.

He rested his elbow on the bar casually leaning against it as he shifted his attention back to Maria, bending the colorful lights around her so he could ‘see’ her more noticeable facial expressions. His lip lifted into a smirk at the obvious tease, he was very much inclined to take her up on her offer but his emerald eyes shifted to rest on the old dragon behind her, he got the feeling the elder dragon didn’t want him to hang about. So? Stay and flirt a while...what do you care? He thought to himself, not allowing the devious smirk to leave his lips after all he could tell Maria was a very attractive woman...still.

Deliberately causing another dragon any kind of trouble on his first day probably wouldn’t do, he regretfully lifted himself off of the bar. “As charming an offer as that is, I wouldn’t want to impose on anything” Derek regretfully declined her invitation throwing a ‘glance’ at Brako, holding his hand out in a gentle attempt to take her hand however depending on whether or not she accepted such an intrusive action the young dragon either kissed the back of her hand lightly in farewell or presented her with another bow. “I shall...mingle for now” He told them, moving away without another word his nose wrinkling as he passed by the other students. I don’t want to associate with any of them...I wonder what this meeting will be about? He thought to himself, moving over to a secluded spot and settling himself down into a comfortable chair, wishing he was back at the alcove nestled up in his dragon form, he needed to rest his flight had been ridiculously long after such a long time hibernating.