[IC] Athalia Academy: Season Two - Finding Bael

[Driving Park]

Carmen

Carmen smiled back at Lily, satisfied that Lily had liked her selection. She chuckled at Lily's dress comment. "Oh, it's really quite easy. But I would be happy to help you put it on, of course," she said, walking closer to Lily. "I have hairstyling tools if you'd like to use them. I keep my hair brushed but unstyled...I like it better that way," she said, using the obvious chance to flick her hair. "You can do whatever you like, though."

"And don't worry about me," she said with a chuckle. "I'll find something for myself. Unless, of course, you want to help?" Carmen chuckled. "But let's not put the cart before the horse, shall we? We need to get this dress on you first," she finished, at this point standing close to Lily facing her with the brown dress in her hands, holding it out with a tilt of her head and a soft smile.

[Destinyfailhorror17]

–Garden-

Garden noticed that Lady Little feather excused herself to go somewhere else while trying to cover her face, “Okay Lady Little feather…” Garden nodded, wondering what just happen and patted Sir Lion head. “I see you really like Sunflower Sir Lion, you have such a big teddy bear!” She giggled in a bubbly tone as she continued to pet Sir Lion. Sunflower who looked at Lion and enjoyed him nuzzling him, he gave out a loving purr. “I wam dwoing gwoog, I wam hungwy thwough… I will wask Flower fow fwood latew.” Sunflower mewled, calling Garden Flower with all the multiple flowers on her.

Garden looked at the drinks and food scattered round. “Hhmm You hungry Sunflower? I am hungry as well… A nice raspberry mojito will be good but I don’t think my age they will allow me to drink” Garden said looking for something to eat for Sunflower and herself. Sunflower mewed happily again hearing about food. “Fuw bwall? I wam fwuffy? ” Garden laughed and put Sunflower on the flower where immediately Sunflower ran up to Sir Lion and nuzzled him, purring very affectionately. “So cute…” Garden whispered as she waved towards Sir Dani. “Hi Sir Dani! Nice to see you again. How have you been?” She curtsied to him.

–Seven-

Seven ran fast with Leroy. “I will, I have put it underneath my bed, I need some more though, a squirrel and a mouse maybe, Or even a crow…” Seven licked his lips wondering what all those fresh young meat taste, the fun he will have chasing them… he ran until reaching close to the lounge, he noticed that Little feather ran out and bumped into Leroy. ‘Where is Mr. Lion?’ Seven thought as he entered the lounge not waiting for Leroy, as he was busy thinking of bugging the flabby lion. He noticed the Lion talking to a small little kitty, Seven smiled as he walked there and crawled down to have a sort of same height as Mr. Lion.

“Hi again! I see you like this little kitty? Its cute!” Seven mewled looking at the Sunflower nuzzling Mr. Lion leg… His cat eyes watched the kitty like it was prey. “SO small… so easy to catch…I wonder how long it will last?” Seven said in a dark humorous tone while licking his hand. He picked up the little kitty and licked him like a normal cat would. “You need a bath!” He said to the kitten while he poked Mr. Lion. “Very cute isn’t it, a big puff ball!”

[Theobromine]

– Leroy

Leroy couldn’t help up laugh as he and Seven made their way to the lounge. “You really are like a cat aren’t you?” Then looking thoughtfully up in the sky he commented, “Don’t think I’ve seen a crow around here yet though.” Without any real idea of what was going on or what he wanted to do until the meeting commenced, he would have probably continued to accompany Seven in the lounge if it weren’t for the sudden bump into someone. “Heh, where’s the fire?” He asked.

Recognizing the one that had bumped into him, he raised a brow as he seemed to ponder something, though his smile still did not falter. Leroy generally never met again with people that learned about the true nature behind his abilities. Not only did he actively tend to avoid them, the victimsones that found out about it were generally not all too inclined to meet him again either. ‘Come to think of it, I never really considered how ‘closed off’ the entire academy is. I’d have to select people with more care…’ He thought. Aloud he just replied back to Little Feather, “Yeah, it’s good. Didn’t fall down or anything.”

Her request was… Incredibly surprising. He let out a low whistle. “Have to say, you’re the first to come willingly. And yes, I have some ink on me.” Well, there were the people that became addicted to the ‘joy’ he could give them, but he didn’t count people that were already broken. It was definitely a first for Leroy to have someone come up to him as a willing ‘participant’ when they hadn’t even had a real taste of what he could do. His smile broadened. For once, he actually seemed to be happy from the very bottom of his heart. “It would be my pleasure Little Feather.”

‘Too much people here for my liking though.’ He looked around, but as expected there was a large crowd of fellow students gathered up for the meeting. Leroy eyed a small corner near the lounge building with some decorative foliage. Though they were still near people, there was a good enough space away from the real crowd and they could probably shield themselves from view if they crouched a little. “Let’s go over there then.” He told her, gesturing towards the area he had found. Then thinking about how suspicious their actions probably were he laughed and reassured her, “Don’t worry, I don’t do anything that’d make you uncomfortable. ‘Cept maybe the face painting.”

Keeping an eye on her reaction, he held his hand out to her. “Take my hand if you’re sure you want my help. No ink on it, so no need for worry.” He shrugged. “Since it seems like you’ve been kind enough to keep quiet about my abilities, I’ll help you out. As a special service, you can even choose the emotion you want me to place.” Smiling warmly, though there was something off about the way he was looking at her, he added, “And no, I can’t refrain from using my ability. There’s a ‘default’ emotion that gets imprinted if I don’t focus and… I’m sure you won’t like that one.” He chuckled slightly, but didn’t elaborate any further as he kept his hand out to her.

[Ebil Bunny]

- Dani -
“It’s been fairly good thank you. I’m sorry about abandoning you earlier...turns out we weren’t cut out for the ranged dojo...” Little Feather said sheepishly.
"Oh, really? I though it would be a good one for you, being Native American and all." Dani said, forgetting about the guns. "Wait, am I basing my guess too much on stereotypes?"

Dani listened quietly when Little Feather described the race, but got somewhat puzzled when she started blushing in the middle of it. However, the blush somehow made Dani realize that Little Feather didn't have any face paint on. This was the first time he had seen her without it. Even when in ordinary American clothes, she still wore face paint. Why was she not? Did she just forget about it? Probably.

"Seven won? Somehow I didn't see that coming. He seemed to be a more lazy and laid back kind of cat." Dani said after Little Feather finished. "Well, good for him. I'll congratulate him on it when I see him again."

That's when Liam returned and hand both of them some ice tea.
"Sorry I forgot to ask what you wanted, I hope you dont mind." Liam apologized when handing Dani the drink.
"No, it's fine. Thanks." Dani said with a smile, then took a sip.

Suddenly, Little Feather made some sort of purring noise. Dani looked over to see her touching her face.
“E-excuse me!” she said, got up, and left.
"Er, bye-" Dani said, but she was already gone.

“Hi Sir Dani! Nice to see you again. How have you been?” Dani turned to see Garden by Lion.
"Hello, Princess Garden. I've been pretty good. How about you?" Dani asked, bowing his head to her.

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- Matt -
Matt nodded and turned to look for a place to sit. The lounge was filling up, but he only saw a few he knew.
Matt headed over to Darwin and sat down next to him.
"Hello, Darwin. How've you been? Did you do as good at the archery as you said you would?" Matt asked, smiling slightly.

((I'm not ignoring Kathy, it's just she and Matt haven't met yet.))

[HylianRose]

- Lily -

A soft smile formed on Lily's face. Even if the dress was easy to put on, somehow she wanted Carmen involved. Maybe she was acting strange today, she didn't know. But she wanted someone to be close to her both physically and mentally. Something inside of her was telling her to find someone and what better person than your roommate? And... Carmen seemed very nice.

"I think I can put my hair in a braid myself unless you want to help... And I'd love to help you pick something out. Though... I doubt I'd be very good." Lily replied and put out her hand to grab the dress. She took it from Carmen, smiling as the other female smiled. She took a look at the dress. It seemed easy enough to put on. So, she began to find the hole at the bottom of the dress and try to pull it over her head. She found it but as she began pulling she realized she hadn't even taken off her other clothes.

"So... uhm... That's awkward..." She told Carmen, giggling at herself. Quickly, she took off the dress and laid it out over the bed so that she could strip down to her underwear. It didn't take long as she was already back to pulling the dress over her head again though this time it got stuck about half way through. "C-Can you help me?" Lily asked, feeling a bit embarrassed.

[Driving Park]

Carmen

Carmen chuckled at Lily's lack of confidence in her own fashion picking abilities. "Oh relax," she said dramatically. "I'll pick out a few options and let you choose one for me. ...But first, your dress," she said as Lily began to pull the dress over her head. Carmen suppressed a chuckle as the fully-clothed Lily started putting on the dress, and was rewarded with Lily's own realization. She just stood with an odd smile as Lily quickly to requisite dress-putting-on attire. If I were a human male, that would have been..."hot"? Is that the term? she thought. She had learned a lot about human romance and attraction through the books, but was also blissfully ignorant of the emotions associated with them, almost like a child. She lived her music and fashion-centric life without romance, though she supposed since she had a human form she should try it at some point.

Her self-judged odd train of thought came to an abrupt halt when Lily got the dress stuck halfway down and asked for her help. Carmen smiled and walked over. "Oh, don't be embarrassed," she said, noting Lily's stammer. "I'm me, remember?" She reached underneath the dress without a second thought and felt around until she found the snag, freeing the dress and letting the dress complete its drapery over Lily. Again...blissfully ignorant. The dress appeared to fit surprisingly well, and Carmen herself was very satisfied with how at least the back looked.

"Well, what do you think?" she queried with a little grin. "Turn around so I can see!"

[NaraK]

Apophis

The Deity of Chaos growled, standing on top of the water.

He felt quite impatient just waiting for nighttime to arrive. After all, soon, he would get to relax with Athalia's students in a warm bloodbath. He wanted to have conversations with them as their lives slipped away and give them the time of their lives. Clever things surrounded his head, protecting it like worker bees defending a honeycomb.

Apophis felt a grin slide into his face. He remember Lucifer's orders about not killing the students, and he complied with that. Of course, if accidents happened, then he would have to compromise to not get in trouble. The Deity had far-reaching goals in his mind, and getting berated and threatened over killing one stupid student sounded like a retardation of his own liberty.

Apophis said

"Cross wants to play a game, I see."

The skin-wearing man snickered, crossing his arms. Thanks to a device Macbeth had created with the help of Hell's technologists, Apophis was able to temporarily hide his presence, instead letting off a scent of ocean water. He loved the scent. It reminded him of how he ravaged an underwater city and its people.

How delicious the mermaids were...

Apophis said

"...I have yet to taste the Brightendale, however. Mm hmm hmhmhmhmhmmm.......... Lily Brightendale....mmm....."

The Deity of Chaos slowly sunk into the water, his stitched right eye looking directly at where Destiny Island lay.

Apophis said

"But even angels can be messengers of death... And for that, I am glad to feast upon them, who are like my brethren."

Apophis grinned joyfully, letting some of the skin around his mouth float buoyantly on the surface of the water before submerging along with his body. He did not intend on ruining their joyful mood for now, for that would catch Lucifer's attention a little too effectively. He needed to make a fool out of himself once more. He wanted to test something. A test.

Apophis said

"I hope they can kill people. Hehehehheahahheahhhaeahehaheahehahehahehhahhahahhaheahehaheahehaheahehaehhaehahhea heahahehaheahehaehahehaheahehha. Ha. I do hope, but I can only hope. Ha."

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[Scallop]

Darwin grinned at Kathy as he rekXed in his chair besjde her. Suddenly a cup of skittles sppeared in his hand and he began...sipping Ih. Like a gentleman. He could tell singeing was yo with Kathy and Crashjsbia.....but what? Maybe they'd had an argument? Maybe Crash was part of the FBI and was sent undercover to destroy the order of the banana! Oh know...Darwun knew too much now. They wre gonna go after him now!

He set there besjde Kathy with a grin as he lifted his had and pointed at Crash nearby. "that's him there right ? I fir get sometimes..."

[DELETED7282737]

Liam

Liam slowly sipped her ice tea looking at the people around her out of curiousity. She wanted to join the conversation but she didnt even know these people. Liam needed a plan to get their attention so they would atleast notice her. She lowered her glass till it was almost under the table 'hmm a plan to get someones attention. It doesnt seem all to hard but still I shouldnt scare them right at the start.' before she could feel a sharp pain in her lower leg it felt however very fluffy but she still reacted to the pain and by accident bumped her knee against the glass with ice tea. The glass fell out of her hand onto her lap making her belly and her swimming trunks covered in ice tea.

She could catch the glass immediatly as it almost reached the ground. She placed the glass onto the tabel and looked down at her lap that was for the most part wet now She just noticed a big lion lying by her side it must have bumped into her when it sat down she looked back at her lap again. It almost seemed like she peed in her pants and her belly felt all sticky. Her face got as red as a tomato as she moved her chair closer to the tabel. Little feather also seemed a little red and left short after with no real reason. The only ones left should probably laugh at her if she showed it to them except for Dani ,maybe but thinking about it. She didnt even know Dani that well, Even tough it was the person she was with for the most amount of time. Liam bit her lip slightly as she knew there was no real way out of this and needed to wait till it dried up or everyone should disappear by something magical.

[Destinyfailhorror17]

–Garden-

“I am doing well Sir Dani, it’s a nice time here, I wonder why they called us here… you have an idea Sir Dani?” Garden asked as she gave out a simple smile and fixed her dress, she noticed a girl there drinking ice tea (Liam) and waved to her to be friendly. Garden looked away for a moment, looking at Sunflower being… licked? By a half cat clown teen. ‘…weird…’ She gave out an awkward laugh and scratched her head. She turned back to Sir Dani and noticed that the girl there was blushing for some reason… she looked at the ground and Garden noticed a damp spot on the girls’ clothes and on the floor. ‘She must have spilled her drink… that must feel uncomfortable…’

Garden walked up to her and started to make a pair of short made out of petals like hos she made the dress she was wearing. It was made out of rose petals with some leaves and vines adorn to it. She walked towards the girl and handed it to her. “Sorry I have notice you have dropped your drink on you, I made this shorts if you like you can change into them” Garden said while smiling happily and kindly at the girl.

[FaithsRose]

- Little Feather -

Little Feather cast her eye to the floor as she listened to Dani's comment, she pushed a lock of her hair behind her ear glancing back up at him. "Perhaps in the archery range...though I wasn't permitted to use a bow or any other weapon technically, before you know" She told the purple haired boy. "We're not very good around...guns" She offered in explanation, she had no idea what he meant by 'stereotypes' so left his question unanswered, smiling in an apologetic manner. She nodded her head in agreement with Dani's comment about Seven, she had to admit she thought of the bakeneko in a fond way...even if their meeting hadn't been perfect so to say, she refused to entertain the memory.

She felt guilty for leaving the group so quickly but she figured she could apologize when she returned.Right now however she found herself in a rather strange predicament, in her desperation to replace her 'mask' she had practically pleaded Leroy to help her. Even though she was aware of his ability, she shuffled from foot to foot as she heard him release a low whistle. Her cheeks were undoubtedly flushed beneath the protective hand she currently held across her face. She watched his facial expression carefully, unable to hide the anxiety in her own, though she felt a rather mixed reaction as his smile broadened he looked genuinely happy about her request...it was unexpected. "T-thank you!" She stuttered out, a small waver of relief passing through her at the knowledge she would be back to normal soon.

She cast her gaze at the floor whilst he looked around for somewhere they could go, she took a few deep breaths to calm her nerves. Of all the times Sacqui, how could you have forgotten it? She chastised herself, yes it had just been her and Lion in the beach hut earlier but what if her roommate had walked in? It was still a foolish thing to forget...She returned her attention to Leroy lifting her seaweed green eyes she looked in the direction he was gesturing. Thank goodness... She looked back at Leroy with a small smile before nodding in agreement, her head tilted to the side as he laughed and...attempted to reassure her?

"Erm...Ok" She responded to him her eyebrows twitching up in a questioning manner, the term clueless would have fitted in with the current expression she held even with her hand covering half of her face it was plain as anything she wasn't entirely sure what he was implying. She glanced down at his hand as he offered it to her, listening to what he had to say though her gaze was rather fixated on his open palm. She looked up at him curiously as he stated she could 'choose' an emotion noting the warm smile she reached out and took his hand without further hesitation. Perhaps somewhere in her mind she questioned the way he had been looking at her, but it was quickly pushed aside as she took a step towards the secluded location he had pointed out holding onto his hand to make sure he knew she was sure about it all.

"It's not my place to speak about other peoples abilities, you don't have to worry. Even Lion doesn't know about it" Little Feather murmured to Leroy, she seemed less anxious now she had a hold of his hand though it wasn't as comforting as Lion's thick mane it was something. She kept her other hand over the bridge of her nose, of course her arm would start to ache soon. Then taking the initiative she begun to move over to the secluded spot he had pointed out, hopefully taking him with her she could feel Lion's gaze drilling into her back as she worked but she chose to ignore it. "Thank you for this" She told him in a low voice, rather glad he hadn't merely ridiculed her for getting so worked up about 5 colored lines.

It only took them a moment (If Leroy followed) to get to the secluded area, Little Feather hesitantly released the artist's hand if she was still gripping it "I'm not entirely sure how this works...if you wouldn't mind could you tell me a bit more about your ability?" She asked him either when he reached her or straight off the bat. She was rather eager to be out of everyones view at this moment so she shuffled into the secluded space to take cover behind the decorative foliage, judging from the layout this required her to lower herself down, instead of crouching however she simply tucked her legs underneath her and knelt down, awaiting Leroy's answer and attempting to work up the courage to remove her hand from her face by herself.

- Lion -

Lion purred his appreciation at being petted by Garden, the large beast flicked his tail happily across the floor, watching the little kitten with wise blue eyes. The Lion listened to the small kittens mewls, his ears flickering as he looked up at Garden, upon hearing the small feline refer to her as Flower. Her names Garden little one, Princess Garden if you would like be precise...though I doubt she'd mind being called flower He mewled lightly at the kitten, tilting his head on the side he cast his glance at Little Feather as she conversed with a boy he had not met...she seemed to know him...he looked back at Garden as he heard her speak thinking her to be a mind reader with her impeccably tiemd mentioning of food. He produced a strange purring rumble from his throat as if trying to chuckle as the kitten repeated his nickname. Yes you are now known as Furrball because you're a fluffy kitty Lion grumbled softly at the kitten, lifting his jowels in a grin as the fluffball ran over to him and rubbed itself against his leg. He reckoned the little feline was about the same size as one of his battleship sized feet...which was positively adorable!

He turned his head as he heard yet another familiar voice, he gave the bakeneko his best lion-ish grin. Hello Seven, good to see you again He greeted him with a friendly rumble, feeling rather like a feline magnet at this moment in time. He glanced down at the kitten nuzzling its head with tip of his nose before shifting his gaze back to Seven, he lifted the ridge above his eye momentarily at the circus cat deciding he wasn't comfortable with the way he watched the kitten it made his 'Papa Lion' instincts kick in, he curled his tail around his side flicking the tip across the ground. A long while...because his hunter would have to deal with a rather angry lion first Lion grumbled at the bakeneko with a small grumble, though his tone had not been threatening it was uncertain whether the lion was jesting or issuing Seven a indirect warning. Lion tilted his head to the side as Sunflower was hoisted up by the circus feline and licked, he nodded as he was poked. Feeling his gaze lift once more to seek out Little Feather he could smell her nearby but he could no longer see her or her friend, he simply shook his head and returned his attention to his feline friends.

Seven, do you know why we were called here? Lion mewled glancing over his shoulder as he bumped into something he realized he had caused a young girl to spill her drink into her lap, he shifted out of the way moving his head so she could see him he purred at her trying to offer an apology before his watchful eyes sought out Sunflower once more, making sure he was safe.

[HylianRose]

- Lily -

She sighed in frustration as Carmen came over to help her pull down the dress. She turned around at Carmen's request, feeling suddenly very, very shy. She kept her hands at her lap and kept her head down, her cheeks turning a bright red. "It... It feels nice." She told her friend, looking up with an almost forced smile. She meant what she said she just... felt very weird right now. She'd never been dressed by another female before. And... before when she wore dresses it was just because they were comfortable. She'd worn them before and she'd been dressed before but that was by her mother or the maid. Never by another friend.

She folded the dress in as she sat down on the bed. Quietly, she took her hair and began to braid it slowly, making sure it was tucked nicely. When she got down to the end, she just held it. She looked up to Carmen with wide blue eyes and put a smile on her face. "I just need a hair tie..." She said softly, not really wanting to ask for much more from her roommate.

[Driving Park]

Carmen

Carmen was very pleased with how the dress turned out on Lily. However...she was not pleased with Lily's reaction. Her demeanor had changed on a dime, from all into it to apparently very reserved. Most curiously, she was also redlining. That was something she had only seen Crash and Kathy do. But here? Now? With only her in the room? Carmen was, understandably, extremely confused. And also concerned. Her intense eyes could see through Lily's suppressed emotions.

"Lily?"

Her voice ripe with concern, she sat down on the bed opposite Lily. "What's wrong? What happened? Was it something I said?" She spoke quickly, in a tone full of concern but also a clear desire to eliminate her omnipresent confusion. She immediately got up and walked over to her hair supplies without a word once Lily asked for a hair tie, picking out a nice hair tie and walking back, handing it to her. "Need anything else?" she said very softly. She felt an odd obligation to help Lily in any way possible, fashion quest or not. ...But still mainly the fashion quest. She was still Carmen, after all.

[HylianRose]

- Maria -

She looked up and around and noticed that a good deal of the students had arrived. A few straddlers were fine, she didn't really care too much. She was a pretty lax principal anyway. She got up from her seat and walked over to a table which she promptly climbed and stood atop. She smiled at all of her students and coughed a bit loud, trying to get their attention.

"Evening everyone." She began, mockingly saluting them. "I hope you've all had a good time so far. The school is still under construction so we'll be here for at least another day or two before we can move back." She explained, looking around at everyone. "I just wanted to talk about what happened a few weeks back." She began, wanting to clear everything up with them. She turned her head, looking for someone. When she spotted him, she smiled. "Crash. I just want to congratulate you." She said, smiling at the young man. "I know that I didn't really show my face much during all of that but I had my reasons. I wanted to use that situation as a test for you all. Brako and I stood on the sidelines, watching in case things should get too much for you all. I don't know how Crash got the message but I'm glad he did. He took charge and got everyone together where they could work together to keep everyone safe." Maria turned to look at Little Feather next, smiling. "You did a lovely job taking care of everyone. I was impressed." She told the young woman and then returned to looking around the area. "You all did great. I could ask for better students. I just want you to know that it's not all over with and I expect more things like that to happen and... I just want to tell you all to keep doing what you do. Don't be afraid to do what you have to do to keep everyone safe. That should be your number one priority." She continued, getting a bit more serious now. "You guys are a team and will only be effective if you work as one. Sure, all of you are strong and have potential to be great but you'll never make it without friends. I hope what happened has shown you that and I hope that what happens will continue to show you that." She finished, sighing slightly.

A large grin formed on the woman's face, plotting something as usual. She jumped down from her table and grabbed the cup from the bar and ran back. "I have something for you all! It's something I played when I was a kid and I wanted to provide you guys the opportunity. So with the meeting over, I want to invite those that wish to stay to play the King's Game!" She shouted, grinning from ear to ear. "Of course, for most teachers, this is mandatory." She giggled, winking at Brako. She laughed as he rolled his eyes and then turned back to the kids. "Just stay here. The game will be starting shortly!" She explained and then went back to sit with Brako again who seemed to not be talking to her.

[Destinyfailhorror17]

–Zivon-

Zivon was scared yes but hearing the principal voice and the kings game scared him a bit more, it made him panic, breathe heavily and he wanted to cry all over again because it was to sudden. “Ah!! I-I! Aahh!! He shouted as he was going to have another panic attack, even though it was just a hand GOING through him he still felt emotionally scared. It still felt like he was being touched, ignoring the two Zivon ran forward, holding the phone is hand towards the lounge. He embarrassed himself enough in front of Andromeda and didn’t want any more embarrassment or failure.

Zivon ran in quick, as he cannot look back at Andromeda. When he was there he looked at the nearest corner and sat down hugging to himself, rocking back and fourth. Singing the lullaby that his dad sang, trying to calm himself down. “Blue bird fly away… spread your wings and dream…” The phone was till in his hands.

–Seven and Sunflower -

Seven continued to lick the little kitty and looked at Mr. Lion with his cat eyes then he heard what the lady said in why they were there. “Kings game… how odd, I played it once with my fellow mates yet I ended up inside the sharks tank!” Seven said in a joking manner as he licked the kitten again. Sunflower squirmed again; this weird cat person was licking his fur. “Nya!! Why ywou lwick mwe!” Sunflower meowed out, squirming and trying to make the scary big cat person go away. Seven laughed and put down the kitty, he looked at Mr. Lion looking at him like he was causing trouble, and he smirked. “Ah!! Papa Lion protecting his cub? How cute” Seven said while licking his paw.

Sunflower ran back to Lion and hid behind the scary clown guy, he was looking at him like he was some sort of dish. “I… wawnt Flowew…” Sunflower mewed weakly, missing the Flower girl. Seven then licked his arms and body as his body was flexible as a cat and yawned. “Oh the kings game!! I am ready to get eaten!! Feed to me to the sharks I am good” Seven shouted as he lay on the floor and licked his paw. “Its fun but… hurts others…” He said in a grim tone while Sunflower was still scared of the scary clown cat and nuzzled tightly on Lion’s leg.

–Cyber-

Cyber took Alistair towards the lounge, since they were there he could notice a quite few student there. One thing that caught his attention was the fact that they were called to play the King’s game. “Hell no!! Just like Persona 4!! Oh man I am pump!!” Cyber shouted as he fist pump to the air. He couldn’t believe it, it was like living in a video game. “ This is going to be awesome!! If I were the king man I would make two people kiss!!” he said as he couldn’t contain his happiness. ‘I am so going to mess with people if I am king…’ Cyber smirked in a evil yet fun manner… he was too excited! He took Alistair hand and hugged his arm tightly. “I can’t believe they are doing this!!”

[Theobromine]

– Kathy

Following Darwin’s pointing with her eyes, Kathy did indeed catch a glimpse of the familiar red hair. Fidgeting a little, she got up from her seat but hesitated as she looked back at Darwin. She wanted to go up to greet Crash but it didn’t seem right to just leave Darwin after he had gone through the trouble of even pulling up a chair beside her. “Y-Yeah… I think that was him.” She looked in the direction the unicorn had pointed once more. Standing up now, she could easily spot him among the crowd.

Her mind waved back and forth between all the choices. ‘I could just ask Darwin to wait a bit and go talk to him… Or maybe I’ll ask Darwin to come with me? But I could just-’ Another announcement was made by the principle at that point, interrupting her thoughts. Moving her gaze away from Crash, she looked up at their outgoing principle standing up on a table. ‘Oh, that explains quite a bit actually.’ She thought, listening carefully to the recounts about their second day at school. Though… Kathy frowned a bit. She wasn’t particularly happy to be reminded about the events back at school. Especially not the incident back at the auditorium.

Making up her mind after hearing the announcement, she turned to Darwin and told him, “Sorry… I’m just going to go over and congratulate Crash a bit.” After smiling apologetically she began to weave her way through the crowd. Since no one was really moving around all that much it wasn’t hard to get to where he was. Reaching him and Mercy she greeted both of them with a small wave. “Hey.” Then looking at Crash specifically she continued, “Congratulations. Looks like you did a really great job that day.” Blushing slightly, she smiled at him. Kathy felt a little down about being reminded about the incident again, but she was actually doing quite a bit better than she had expected. Or rather, it wasn’t easy for her to stay depressed near Crash now. ‘It’s almost unfair how easily he can affect my mood.’

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– Leroy

“Does it bother you that much? Not having face paint on I mean.” Obviously not caring slowly coax into the topic, Leroy got straight to the point and questioned the strange behaviour he observed from Little Feather. ‘Your hand is probably covering more than any paint ever did right now.’ He thought, raising his brow slightly at the way she seemed to be attempting to hide her face from view. Though he was certainly pleased that she didn’t express any intent to talk about his ability to others, he didn’t really trust her to stay that way forever. ‘Now the real question is if I want, or even can, do anything about it.’

Keeping the warm smile on his face, he nodded when Little Feather took his hand. “Glad you’re still interested.” He told her, his amusement apparent in his light tone of voice. Matching his pace to hers, Leroy followed Little Feather to the secluded area. On the way though, he couldn’t help but chuckle at how strange and conspicuous they probably seemed as they weaved through the crowd of students. Pretending not to notice the curious looks he just kept his gaze forward, making sure not to lock eyes with anyone. It was far too late to keep a low profile, but he figured no one would actually approach them to ask what they were doing and lose interest soon enough.

Feeling her hand slip out of his own he joked, “You could’ve held on for a bit longer if you wanted to. I can work with just one hand.” Tilting his head slightly to the side he kept his eyes on her face attempting to gauge her reaction. Leroy had planned on suggesting they crouch down to hide behind the foliage, so he was pleasantly surprised when she took the initiative again and did that on her own. Getting down onto the ground, he sat with his legs crossed, making himself nice and comfortable before answering her question. “Can’t remember exactly how much I told you, but basically I just think about an emotion and put some ink on the person. When I do, he or she will start feeling the emotion I was thinking about. Simple enough right?”

Reaching into his pockets, he took out his 3 precious bottles of ink. Red, blue, and yellow. “The red I can apply directly, but I don’t have the exact shade of greenish yellow that you had for the other lines. I can mix a bit of the blue and yellow together to create some green. Probably won’t reach the exact same shade though I could try to make something close.” He told her, recalling the 5 lines he had seen on her face back at the auditorium. “Or you can try something different if you’d like. No idea if any symbols of colours mean anything to you particularly, so you’ll have to warn me about that first if you’re actually going to just leave it up to me.” He placed the bottles on the ground between them to let her take a closer look at them if she wished to.

“By the way, remember that I won’t be able to do a thing if you keep your hand up like that.” He reminded her, one corner of his smile lifted up slightly higher than the other. “And you know…” Leroy reached out and brushed a lock of her long hair over Little Feather’s shoulder, deliberately brushing the tip of his fingers along her neck as he did so. “Has anyone told you that you’re a little ‘defenseless’ or ‘careless’?” He had another joyful look in his eyes as he studied her expression. “Are you so preoccupied with the face paint that you’re not noticing these things? Or maybe it’s because there’s still quite a bit of people nearby?”

Waiting for her reaction, Leroy had begun to contemplate whether or not he would risk doing something more 'dramatic' to Little Feather. A potential reason behind it was to ensure she wouldn't be in the right mind to talk about his ability but... 'Nah, that's not it.' He thought to himself, chuckling at his own attempts to make excuses. 'As always, I just want to see what happens.' However, as if on cue, the principle had decided to make a second announcement of sorts. His interest was piqued by the mention of the "King's Game", but otherwise he didn't really care much for the rest of the announcement and pretty much ignored it. He hadn't even bothered to turn around to look at Maria as she spoke. 'Guess it'll be bad to do something too big with the principle around. I don't want to kicked out of the school yet after all.' Thinking it was a pity he couldn't just go ahead with the more 'fun experiments', he waited patiently for her to make some decisions.

[HylianRose]

- Lily -

Her head shot up when she heard the worry in Carmen's voice. Why on earth was she worried? She was asking Lily questions, wanting to know what had happened and was it something she said. Just as soon as she asked the questions, she was up and getting Lily a hair tie. She even asked if Lily needed anything else when she came back.

A bit flustered at this point, Lily simply took and hair tie and put it in her hair. When done, she let her braid fall softly on her shoulder and then looked up at Carmen who was watching her with worried eyes. Lily smiled and chuckled, shaking her head.

"Nothing's wrong. I don't know... I've just never had a friend like you before. The last time I can remember doing something like this with was my mother and that was a very long time ago." She explained, feeling bad for making Carmen so worried. "Anyway, it's nothing you need to worry about right now. Let's get you dress as well." Lily told her, putting on a smile. Her face was still a bit red from both being dressed and feeling a bit akin to a princess right now. If Carmen were to look at her too long, she might explode from getting so red. Then again, that was kind of silly. Lily sighed. She didn't know what she was doing anymore.

[Scallop]

Darwin

Darwin grinned at Kathy who was growing more nervous by the second. It was quite funny, but also quite disturbing. Was she scared of Crash or something? Did Crash do something? He heard the principal make an announcement but ignored it ll really. H ewas just bored out of his mind right now, when as something gonna happen? It was like being crammed in a jar of boredom, on a shelf of boredness everywhere. Darwin would get to the bottomt of this, he would find out why everything was boring....it was probably Niwrad, nah, he died.

He shook his head, somehow changing his purple hair to green and smiled, a crazed, terrifying, mennacing, destructive, happy and joyful smile. He jumpd off his chair and ran up to Crash and Kathy. "HEY CRASHMANIA!" HE shouted out loud with outstretched arms. In the next second he was hugging Crash, in an even more rib destroying hug than before. "How's you Crash! It' me, you're best bud Darwin! So...how's you been? I've been fantastic, y'know cos I'm awesome and I can change into rainbows....but hows you?" He grinned the grin again before letting go of Crashmania and exploding into laughter.

[Driving Park]

Carmen

Carmen listened to Lily carefully as she responded. Never? She sort of understood, having never done a lot of human things including romance, but still...never? She almost felt sorry for the girl, who was apparently in desperate need of a confidence boost via carefully selected fashion that Carmen was only too happy to provide. "Well, you'd better get used to it," she smiled. "If we're going to be roommates, we're going to have fashion adventures. It's just science." This was about the limit of Carmen's understanding of science.

Standing up, she walked over to her closet that had to have been the Athalia equivalent of the Narnia wardrobe to hold all of Carmen's clothes. Carefully rummaging through her dresses with a ponderous look on her face, she said "I'll pick out a few dresses for you to choose from for me," without turning around. Pausing a little and turning her head to look at Lily, she said "Don't worry, there are no wrong answers," with a little grin. After a few more moments, she appeared with five (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5) dresses, three in one hand and two in the other. She placed them on the bed and sampled them over herself one by one, looking at Lily with a distinctly runway model expression. "So, which one will it be, Madame?" she asked, clearly enjoying herself. "I am at your disposal."

[FaithsRose]

- Crash & Mercy -

Crash had been talking to Mercy before Maria cleared her throat and begun her announcement pulling the pairs attention to her. Crash spun round to face her leaning back on the bar as she begun her speech, he shifted uncomfortably as the subject of the meeting was revealed planning to faze it out, his eyes naturally traveled the room as he listened a smile flickering across his face as he saw Kathy sat next to Darwin across the room (?) he felt slightly guilty for not noticing her before...she must have got there after him. He returned his gaze to Maria as he heard her say his name, his eyebrows raising in surprise at the unexpected praise, much to his horror he felt his cheeks flush with embarrassment. His hand sought out the back of his neck, unsure of what to do he offered up a grateful smile and nodded his acknowledgement of the praise avoiding looking at anyone else.

Do whatever it takes to keep everyone safe... His mind lingered on that for a moment before he pushed it aside raising his eyebrow at Maria as she grabbed a cup from the bar and placed it on the table. King's game? He wondered he'd personally never heard of it before, so the curious side of him had already decided he was definitely hanging around to participate. He blinked as he felt a hand scruff up his hair. "Aww! That speech made me so proud!" Mercy cooed ruffling his hair, laughing as he batted at her hand adopting a sulky expression. "Leave off...it wasn't as grand as that I can assure you. I'm not good at those types of things" He muttered to her. "Take credit when its given and like it" Mercy grinned at him placing her finger on his nose, causing him to go cross eyed momentarily, she retracted her hand as Kathy approached offering a small wave of greeting in return and a warm smile as she leant against the bar next to Crash.

Crash blinked twice to return his eye sight to normal, his face lit up as Kathy approached them a smile instantly springing onto his face. "Hey" He greeted her, sitting up so he wasn't slouched back against the bar any longer. His face colored a second time as she congratulated him, he lifted a hand to the back of his neck, a flicker of guilt crossing his face. I don't think this is deserved "Thanks..." He smiled appreciatively at her, noting the slight blush tint her cheeks. "For what its worth I think you were far more impressive" He murmured deliberately ignoring Mercy's slight eyebrow raise at his comment. Crash shifted seeing Darwin approaching them he smiled and nodded at the unicorn, turning back to Kathy he asked. "Are you going to play the Kings-" Before he could finish what he was saying he heard Darwin shout out some strange form of his name he glanced at him seeing his arms outstretched he adopted a worried expression.

Oh please no, not again Before he could react he was in the firm grip of another of the unicorns rib destroying hugs one of which all but squeezed the air from his lungs, he instantly went rigid. Mercy put a hand to her mouth finding the entire scene highly amusing. "Darwin...air..." Crash barely managed to croak out as the unicorn launched into conversation, He gasped in a lungful of air, grimacing as pain spiked through his abused ribs Damn...he's so much stronger than he looks

Crash rubbed his ribs grinning at Darwin, he was slowly getting used to the unicorns greeting. He wasn't accustomed to being hugged, it was a rarity...and perhaps a little worrying the only one that deemed him 'huggable' was a guy. "Hey Darwin, glad to hear you're doing well...turning into rainbows sounds awesome" He agreed his gaze shifting to Kathy briefly before back to Darwin. "I'm doing great thanks for asking" He grinned sincerely at the green haired guy. "Are you joining in the Kings Game?" He asked again directing the question at both the students now stood in front of him.

- Lion -

Lion raised the ridge above his eye again at Seven upon his mentioning of the Kings Game. You ended up in a sharks tank? Lion rumbled, creating a strange purring rumble as if he were trying to chuckle. His ears twitched back as Sunflower squirmed in Seven's grip, he was about to ask the bakeneko if he would put the kitten down when he did so, Lion's lip twitched up at Seven's mocking tone. If it came to it of course, this cute fluffball is a valued companion of Princess Garden Lion grumbled at the bakeneko, he lowered his head to the kitten as it hid behind his foreleg. Easy little one, you're ok The lion purred soothingly to Sunflower, before lifting his head he extended his muzzle towards Garden, brushing his moist nose against her arm to capture her attention as Seven shouted and rolled around on the floor "My lady, sorry for bothering you but Sunflower seems to be rather unsettled, he could do with coming back to you" Lion spoke clearly to Garden once he had her attention, inclining his head if she looked at him.

- Little Feather -

Little Feather didn’t seem to mind the directness of his question. “Yes...it’s a part of me, when I came back it was the only thing I couldn’t change” She answered him honestly, though she didn’t seem to consider it may not have made sense to him she shuffled from one foot to the other before she took his hand.

She hesitated for a moment as he told her she could have held on a bit longer, her gaze dipped to his hand for a moment as if she was actually considering sliding her hand back into his. She seemed to change her mind however before she foolishly reached for him again, she shook her head at him before sliding into the secluded area, apparently oblivious to his joking tone in her current state. “I saw what you did to Zivon...you didn’t really go into detail though just offered me the same ink. Erm, right” She told him before nodding her head, she watched him take out 3 bottles of ink she tilted her head to the side looking at them curiously, she played with the fringe lining the hem of her dress as she listened to him. Once he had placed the bottles on the floor between them she carefully reached her hand towards them running her index finger along the side of the blue pot she thought over what he had said. She was still musing over what to do when she heard him speak to her again, reminding her to lower his hand she watched one corner of his mouth lift higher than the other, she also felt the color rush back into her cheeks because of it. She took a deep breath before shyly lowering her hand to her lap avoiding his eye as she did so, there was no obvious rhyme or reason as to why she was so self conscience about her face without the paint on it, she just looked like an ordinary girl...well kind of, she was still wearing Indian clothing after all.

She glanced back at him preferring to focus on his shoulder as he spoke to her she noticed his hand reach out towards her feeling a section of her hair fall down her back she lifted her gaze to his face, blinking in surprise as his fingertips brushed her neck. She felt her heart rate increase of its own accord, her cheeks were already flushed. To most people what Leroy had said may have stung, however to the young Lakota she simply dropped her gaze to the floor and nodded missing the joyful look in his eye. “Yes more than once...” She admitted in a small voice. “Apparently I’m too trusting as well” She added lifting her gaze to his for the first time since she’d lowered her hand. “It’s the people...I’m not very good with crowds on a good day let alone during something like this” She murmured. At that moment Maria made her speech, though Little Feather couldn’t concentrate on it, her attention was on the ink pots sat between her and Leroy. She looked up in surprise as the principal addressed her, she lifted her head in surprise catching Maria’s smile as she addressed her, she smiled gratefully at Maria more than relieved only she had been able to see them.

What’s a ‘Kings Game’? She thought though quickly pushed it aside as she leant forward placing her finger atop the blue ink pot, looking up at Leroy her eyes momentarily lighting up with excitement as her mouth curled into a small smile. “For this kind of face painting blue symbolizes Wisdom and Intuition...not entirely me but it’ll work it symbolizes the sky as well. During battle it symbolizes Confidence” She explained to him before shifting her finger along to the yellow ink, apparently telling him this information whether he cared for it or not. “Intellect and Determination. It is also associated with death and during battle it means you’re willing to fight to the death” She then shifted her finger to the red pot. “Faith, Beauty and Happiness are the core meanings. In battle it symbolizes Blood, Violence and Energy” She finished off retracting her hand. “I’m telling you this because I didn’t explain why I was so worried about not having my face painted. Basically without it I’m disconnected” She sighed, apparently unashamed if this admittance made her appear anymore vulnerable. “My usual green symbolizes Nature, Harmony and Healing, when in battle Endurance...do you understand now?” She asked him tilting her head to the side completely unaware of his thoughts. “No symbols needed unless you want to add something” She shrugged smiling at him.

“As for the emotion, you can decide” She told him, unable to suppress the sliver of worry that coursed through her eyes as she did, she withdrew her hand to her lap pushing a strand of hair behind her ear with her other hand. “Hey Ink, just please...” She started before hesitating and glancing at him. “...don’t hurt me, OK?” She finished with a small sigh. “And for what it’s worth I do appreciate you doing this for me, I think the term I need to say here is...I’ll owe you one?” She attempted a smile, strangely comfortable with him despite her unpainted face.