[IC] Athalia Academy: Season Two - Finding Bael

[Scallop]

Darwin - CANNONBALL!

Darwin grinned at Crash when he saluted. "I'll see you later soldier!" He shouted as he ran off dropping the mirror into the sand...accidentally burying it in the sand. Thanks to some of his rainbow magic a sudden sandcastle appeared over it. He laughed at it and ran up toGarden and Mercy at the pool. He had to admit,....they looked pretty nice in their swimsuits. He also turned to see another girl....in a very revealing costume.

His facial figures froze as he watched the girl jump into the pool, and he had lost control of his body. And then he was hurtling into the pool like a cannonball. He made a quite big splash and swam to the surfac. "That really hurt...."

[Aeris]

Bael - Inevitable

Bael raised both of his arms, shadow gathering around them; then, he slammed his palms together, a legendary sword appearing between his palms. He picked it up normally with his right hand, holding it front of him as he kept an intense stare over at the woman, who in response, drawed a long, normal katana from her back, smirking broadly as she vaguely pointed her index finger towards the sword-wielding demon.

"Oh, that's an interesting blade. I wonder if you're capable of wielding it." The tone in her voice was so volatile that Bael could barely keep himself from becoming irritated. He gripped the blade tigther as it began to release a strange dark mist from the blade, the material glowing ever so slightly in a gray color. He began to sprint at her, while she remained in place, waiting the boy's attack. He grinned broadly when he got close enough, moving his blade to slash her upper body; the woman easily parried... except.

The Umbra Regis or the blade of The Shadow Reign is not an average sword. It is shadow itself and it's impossible to parry it, as it goes through every material thing existing within this world, except the wielder's foes. The woman noticed extremely quickly that she didn't parry his attack and quickly leaped to the side, gripping her shoulder which had received a cut from that mistake of thinking she could beat him so easily; strangely enough however, the fabric of her clothes were left unharmed. The demon's cold eyes glanced over her form, his head tilting to the side. "Hmm." Was all the boy said, assuming a combat stance again, his sword pointed towards the right; he'd attempt another slashing attack more than likely. The woman prepared herself, keeping in mind that she'd need to dodge and that parrying was useless.

Both of them changed looks; and soon, the two quickly lunged at one another, Bael kept trying to slash the woman; who dodged his attacks with ease, but wasn't attacking back, trying to get the perfect opportunity to. Bael couldn't notice, but her sword was glowing with a strange green mist; just as he tried to stab her, she moved aside and pressed the tip of her blade against his shoulder, creating a small wound. The demon groaned and retreated, keeping his sword up. He began to realize how slow his movements were getting; the woman was walking calmly towards him, and yet he couldn't move away. After twenty-five seconds, his sight was no more; neither could he hear, or feel. Suddenly, when he opened his eyes; he had been knocked off the ground and was launched a pretty good distance into the air; the woman leaped after him, preparing to strike. The Demon simply dissipated into shadows.

"What?!" The woman grunted out in surprise just as the demon materialized himself just under her, at the shadow she herself created.He extended his arm up as two shadow tendrils quickly travelled towards her- these tendrils wrapped themselves around her right foot and a part of her leg. The demon quickly slammed his hand forward as the shadow tendrils followed his movements, slamming the woman against the ground with a powerful thud. She groaned and rolled around in the floor for a moment before sitting up, clutching her sides. Fuck, this boy is not so bad, I think I just broke a rib or two.

Picking up her blade, she stood up again. This time, her expression changed. She wasn't playing around anymore. Bael could notice the shift in her general expression, though he kept a fairly confident smirk.

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Zaelyn

Zaelyn kept a warm smile, her eyes glancing between Mercy and Garden as they left, following the rather.. loud and flashy boy which had hugged Matt moments ago. Once they left, her eyes glanced over at Matt, her smile faltering for a moment. "Uh, hey? I hope you didn't go with your friends because of me, you know." She told him, feeling a bit annoyed. She just met this boy and was already making him miss things which he likely wanted to go. Still, her eyes curiously glanced over at the man behind the counter, both eyebrows blinking in Unison. Strangely enough, she covered her normal eye; it was nearly as if she was trying to scan the man with the single fiery eye, but alas, she couldn't exactly see what he was just like she had seen what Matt was before.

"So... what are you drinking?" She asked right after, turning her head to face Matt with a single eye staring at him. She had forgotten that she was covering her normal eye, still.

[Ebil Bunny]

- Matt -
"Uh, hey? I hope you didn't go with your friends because of me, you know." Zaelyn said, glancing at Matt.
"No, you weren't the only reason. As I said to them, I am quite thirsty." Matt replied with a shrug. He stood up to make his way to the counter to order. Before he went, though, he turned to Zaelyn.
"Want me to get you anything?" he asked.
"So... what are you drinking?" Zaelyn asked.
"Hm... I don't know. I was thinking of getting a fruit cocktail without the alcohol." Matt replied.

[Driving Park]

Carmen - Ara you bored yet?

"Meet...her? Your doppelganger is a...oops! Sorry," Carmen abruptly cut herself off when Ara asked her to tell him a little more about herself. "Guess I have to wait my turn," she said, smiling. "Well...I've been around for about 20 years. I traveled the world, learning its ways in those 20 years, as I wasn't born on Earth. I came into existence from a supernova. Pretty romantic, right?" she joked. "Anyway, I adopted a human form to live in the world, but I also have a bird form. It's really more like a strain of stardust in the shape of a bird...not really tangible. I guess everyone here has an ability of some sort, and mine is sound production. In human form I have to use my trumpet to produce sound. I mean, I can produce music without it," she paused, blushing a little at referencing her singing voice, which although extraordinary beautiful she didn't want anyone to hear, "...but I prefer not to." Quickly scrambling to move away from that topic, she continued, "And in human form, as you can probably tell, I'm very fascinated with beauty and fashion. And I guess I talk a lot..." she said, smiling meekly but quickly turning into a brighter smile as she finished, "Your turn!"

[Theobromine]

– Ara (A)

Ara grinned, wondering when they had decided on this sort of turn-based exchange of information. He didn’t mind though, he had a lot less information to share than most people anyway. “Now that I’m done my background you want to talk about my doppelganger? And yes, her. It’s some pretty complicated and messed up stuff really.” Once again, he was keeping things vague. “But if you’re wondering about me, I am a male. Biologically and otherwise. In case you couldn’t tell.” He smirked, “So I get to the lucky fellow whose doppelganger doesn’t resemble me, much. From the outside anyway.”

‘B’s probably going to kill me later.’ He thought, knowing she would not appreciate being introduced as the doppelganger. ‘But like that’s news. She’s always at my throat anyway.’ Ara took another sip of his drink, almost done the glass already. “How’d you manage by the way? Those 20 years. I don’t imagine the supernova gave you some starter money to get by right?”

[Driving Park]

"Don't worry, I figured out you were a male all by myself," Carmen quipped playfully. "My turn then...no, the exploding star didn't give me any starter money...that would have been nice though." She took another sip of her drink. "But, not really being human or even biological in the carbon-based sense, I don't have to eat, drink or sleep to survive. So I didn't really need money. And public libraries are free," she finished happily. "That's pretty much me in a nutshell...so I guess it's your turn again! So...do both of you think that the other is the doppelganger? Or is it just a mutual acceptance that you are each others' doppelganger? And can you ever exist at the same time? Sorry for all the questions...I've never met someone with a doppelganger before."

I can't believe Ara is still talking to me, Carmen thought to herself. I'm probably really annoying when I'm drinking alcohol. ...But oh well, if he stays he stays, and I have someone to talk to. Everyone wins! But mostly just me.

That made sense.

[NaraK]

Nikola stiffened when he realized that several of the students attended his class.

Now, by no means did he not despise the kid known as Crash: the student aggravating to contain in his classroom. Like any other human, he seemed to be interested in Lovelock's mechanical inventions. Not that he was surprised, but the inventor wondered if the student had to break his stuff in the process. One of them was something he intended on showing Margaret, though it was only a matter of time for him to replicate any of his creations. Still, this red-haired student simply did not synchronize well with him.

Then there was the reddish-brown-haired girl, Kathy. His classes were fairly hard to follow along, though she seemed to do pretty well for a student who never met him before the classes began. She was not as bothersome as Crash.

For some reason, however, he could not bring himself to yell at the two at any moment. He tended to boast about himself, sometimes to the point where it was humorous, and he really did not mind shouting at others, regardless of how important their background was. However...

Nikola simply glanced at the two, though the glowing lights shining out of his mask's eyeholes did not reveal that. With a simple grunt, after having finish several more orders in mere seconds, the bartender simply muttered directly to them,

"Welcome. My data proves that it is no surprise to have met you two."

The masked man froze suddenly.

He put down the glass he was cleaning, putting down his cleaning device as well. The man then reached for his mask, touching the sides of it.

Two small smokes of air lightly shot out underneath his mask. Readjusting the metal that covered his scarred face, the teacher told Crash and Kathy without any doubt in his mechanical voice,

"It is not that rare to see engaged students entering the bar. Anyway, give me your orders, and I shall get you your products immediately."

Nikola was doing his best not to directly look at Crash and Kathy. After all, red hair simply reminded him of a certain person. It would be bad for him to do something weird when he just made up such a bad-ss introduction for himself.

Wait, did anyone else even remember him?

Meanwhile, within the kitchen, a small, delicate container sat still. The container had a sleek white design scheme to it, and within it was a person. The person's full figure, however, was blocked off by glossed glass. Serene, quiet breaths escaped the container with an elegant rhythm.

---

Ryuu suddenly laughed. At this point, he had grown quite accustomed to the surprisingly well-mannered snake-woman (he was still sort of weirded out). To a large majority of people, however, he simply looked like a thief who just found a bag full of gold.

"Er, well, if bad things happen when I see your eyes... hm. Maybe we can ask someone like that old man Brako for some placement magic? He seems capable of that, right?"

The otaku did make a good point. If Brako did have some kind of magic like that, then it was highly likely that there would be a way to prevent the sunglasses from moving around. It seemed that something was wrong with her eyes, which did take him aback. It was not his job to feel sorry, however, but instead, do something that would not make him feel like that.

And there were thousands of melon farms around here. What more could he want?

"If that's alright with you," Ryuu said, stretching his gloved fingers, "then we could just go to him right now. Whaddya say, huh?"

Still, Ryuu felt like he was forgetting something... but for now, he needed to be a melon farmer helpful to someone who did not treat him like "crap-on-first-sight." People like her just made him feel softened, which remained to be a foreign, yet pleasant feeling he had not felt for a very long time.

[PrinceYuki]

Destinyfailhorror17 said
"Your names confuse me. Garden and Mercy, it'll be confusing. Whether someone utters, 'Have mercy on me!' or, 'Let's have a break in the garden.', it sounds funny, and at times, it'll be a horrid mix-up and debate of what would they actually mean. How about some other names for you two? ... Gardenia and Mercela, perhaps?" sir Dendus said and asked, she ponder a bit on other names she has but quite frankly. Garden is the most simplest name she has. "Sorry, Sir Dendus I do not have any other name...my full name is Princess Garvenialiam Inegeniumegi of the kingdom of Garvenloir. It's quite long and kind of tongue twisted so I stick by Garden." She explained to the dark hair boy. As soon enough the bartender brought in three passion fruit smoothies. "Ah~ Thank you!" He thanked the bartender as she grabbed the smoothie and drank it. It had a little umbrella and that her laugh. "Wah~ This is really delicious and refreshing~" She said as the smoothie was really good. He watched Mr. lion sniff the air. He took a small step back...he remember to never mess with a hungry lion...he learned his lesson a long time ago...He focused back on Little feather and Dani who were talking about wet clothes. He laughed as Mr. Lion sort of nommed on Little feather hand. The girl hand as covered in lion drool. "Hahahaha!" He let out a prankster laugh as Little feather rubbed her drool covered hand on Mr. lion. So he, Mr. Lion, Little feather and Dani were going to eat, he continue to find the scent of the food...As he ran a bit head while doing some flips and twirls he occasionally stop to find the scent. He did a massive jump and landed on his hands, he smelled something. On the beach was a small shack with some smoke going up, he sniffed first and decided that where was the scent coming from. "Hey guys over here!" He pinted at the shack,"I think I found a place to eat!" After a few moments he stood up from where he was sitting and started to walk a back, he guessed that he will just stay at the house he was assigned to, alone and probably cook for something, grilled tuna sounded good. He will just unpack first and buy the fish and ingredients later. With that said he walked to the main building of the entire island. The resort itself looked amazing, modern and clean something he only could see in magazine ads or posters. "...pretty..." It had seemed that was the only thing he could say publicly but he couldn't"t lie...it is pretty. He put on his sun glasses and walked around, he figured to check the palace out so he won"t get lost unlike in school, it happen a lot. Many unpeculiar faces, he got a lot better to control his anxiety eventhough he was really afraid, he didn't notice that his hands were clutching onto his shirt the entire time and his breathing was rather abnormal. With trying his best to control his self he didn't know he accidentally bumped into someone at their back. "I-I am sor-ry..." He muttered in a quiet tone as he tilted his big floppy sun hat, hoping someone he had bumped into wasn't someone he knew.

Yuki

Yuki turned around to see who it was, it was someone he had not ever seen before, he gave a kind and gentle smile it was a very peaceful and tender smile that could make anyone feel at ease, even if they suffered from some kind of condition that caused them to fear everything, as he bowed to the new person who just bumped into him and spoke in a calm smooth tone almost as cool at the atmosphere around him that he inadvertently caused to be chilled with just his mere presence since he couldn't control that aspect about himself. "Oh no.. please excuse me sir i was the one who was standing around it was my fault for this incident.. can you forgive me? I didn't hurt you in the process did I? You see i just got here about half an hour ago and this place is so large i don't know where i'm supposed to go.. I'm a bit lost and couldn't find anyone until we bumped into one another.. again i didn't harm you in any way did i? My name is Yuki by the way.. and on a second note i'd like to say its a pleasure meeting you." Yuki bowed once again and stood up looking the male in his eyes through his glasses, his eyes were a beautiful azure blue so vibrant but peaceful like the ocean or blue ice diamond fragments.

[FaithsRose]

Crash

Crash was grateful as Kathy agreed to keep his birthday a secret visibly perking up afterwards with a light smile on his face. His grin widened as she shoved his shoulder playfully, the slight pout made his cheeks color That was kind of cute... He exhaled a quiet sigh of relief as she agreed to accompany him to the bar, a part of him didn't like the idea of trying to transport drinks alone, it never ended well.

Crash was still reeling a little from Darwin's quick visit, but he had caught Kathy glance at him if only for a moment, he had no idea what she was thinking though. He adopted a lopsided smile at her comment on Athalia. "You know they should get that engraved somewhere” he commented lightly, the smile refusing to leave his lips.

He tilted his head to the side as he listened to Kathy speak. Great...I can't think of any reason why that would be a bad idea...oh wait, I just thought of several he smiled despite his thoughts. "She may be great but she's also a devil in disguise...honestly you'll see it eventually" he warned her though there was a hint of amusement in his tone. He saw the blush return to her cheeks feeling a rather large grin split his face at her words. “Hmm, thanks to her you hurt your nose because I thought the doorway was the best place to stand...” He chuckled at the thought.

“I’m glad I met you though” He grinned at her, sincerity reflecting in his crimson eyes. He noticed her begin to fidget under his gaze which was what made him flick it away again rapidly, the amusement drained from his face as a grin spread across hers, he raised an eyebrow at her as she gave a small cough. “Oooh, is that why?” He raised an eyebrow at her comment, he wasn’t sure he liked the way she said that... “...yes...why are you grinning like that?” He asked her, possibly looking a little anxious apparently it was his turn to squirm.

As Kathy came up to the bar beside him Crash was in the process of trying to find a way to order drinks without drawing Nikola’s attention to him...he wasn’t getting very far but he still flinched as Kathy called over to the teacher, he pinched the bridge of his nose in preparation for what may be said.“Hello Mr Lovelock...” Crash greeted him politely, he couldn't remain quiet now. I’m a little surprised he didn’t shout... He leant his arm on the bar propping his chin on the tops of his knuckles, glancing at Nikola awkwardly. "It is not that rare to see engaged students entering the bar. Anyway, give me your orders, and I shall get you your products immediately." Crash looked completely perplexed by what the inventor had just said...I need to learn to understand his ways...I almost thought he said... Crash pulled himself from his thoughts glancing at Kathy before looking back at Nikola. “You wouldn’t happen to serve Fruit Loops would you? 2 of those if you do” Crash asked still maintaining a very polite manner, he still felt guilty about damaging Nikola’s experiments.

Little Feather

Little Feather smiled happily at Dani, glad she had said something right. Lion grumbled at Seven, poking his tongue out at the bakeneko which looked rather strange coming from a lion no doubt. Little Feather nodded as Dani repeated her words. “Yes...he didn’t get out a lot over the vacation. He kept complaining he would get flabby on all the cooked products that he was given...you know I don’t really know, it wasn’t a comfortable conversation” Little Feather tried to explain, though she hadn’t quite understood it herself. Little Feather rubbed her hands together nervously at Dani’s next question. “Part of the perks of being a Spirit Guide I guess, we didn’t need sustaining” Little Feather answered him truthfully.

“Some of the other spirits used to get quite upset over the fact they couldn’t eat...I remember one of them trying to describe chicken, all he could say was it taste pretty much like everything” Little Feather continued her eyes alighting momentarily with a joy as she discussed the others. “I think he should have tried explaining something else like strawberries” She grinned, suddenly coming back to herself she fell quiet as Dani turned and ordered something from the bar the Indian girl wasn’t quite sure where that had all come from, she felt pretty good though talking about her past. “I didn’t take you for one to stay inside Seven, maybe if you go hunting you would take Lion with you?” Little Feather asked the bakeneko, watching Lion wag his tail. Hunting? I need to do more of it...I’ve been cooped up for 2 weeks! Lion grumbled.

[Theobromine]

– Ara (A)

He listened and nodded every so often as Carmen explained why she didn’t really need money. Then hearing her string of questions Ara made a face in discontent, but he answered her anyway. “Yeah… I’d imagine it’s pretty rare to meet someone with a doppelganger. I guess it’s possible, since my doppelganger and I both exist right now.” ‘Technically speaking.’ He thought, and continued, “Myth-wise I think most people think of doppelgangers as just another person that’s identical to them, but from what I know they’re actually completely a different species from regular humans. Imagine something like a death god with a horrible hobby of playing copy-cat.”

Finishing the rest of his drink, Ara thought for a moment of how he wanted to explain this. “So normally only of us would ever be the ‘doppelganger’, and both of us would know it. But… So amidst all the messed-up stuff both of us got a pretty bad case of amnesia.” At this, he laughed a bit. “Sounds cliché, I know. But because of that this doppelganger of mine also insists that she’s the real one, but know that she’s lying. I’m the real one, and she’s the doppelganger. Don’t listen to her if she says otherwise.”

Pushing his empty glass away from him, Ara asked Carmen, “Want to come along with me to see what else this island has to offer? Or are you still working on that drink?” While waiting for an answer, he accidentally overheard a rather interesting sentence directed at the two students that had just arrived at the bar near them. "It is not that rare to see engaged students entering the bar. Anyway, give me your orders, and I shall get you your products immediately." Raising an eyebrow, he looked at Carmen with a quizzical look. “Do a fair amount of students get engaged during school now or something?”

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– Kathy

Smiling at the recollection of the first day Kathy asked, “You still remember that?” Now she was quite glad she had been hit on the head with a drumstick. Otherwise she probably would’ve just reflexively apologized for bumping into him before hurrying on her way. “I’m glad I met you though”. Feeling warmth spreading through her, she nodded in agreement. “Me too.” Then enjoying the slight anxiety that was on his face, her grin grew a little as she became more determined to ask Mercy for ‘advice’. “Nothing~! I just think I’d really like to see Mercy again soon.”

At the bar, she looked at Crash quizzically as she saw him pinch the bridge of his nose. ‘Did something happen between the two of them?’ Kathy looked back and forth between Nikola and Crash, not seeing any hints of what may have happened, especially since the teacher didn’t seem all too bothered from seeing Crash. She was about to just Crash directly if something was bothering him when-

"It is not that rare to see engaged students entering the bar. Anyway, give me your orders, and I shall get you your products immediately.”

“Huh?” It seemed that Kathy’s subconscious processed those words faster than her conscious mind could, because the blush started appearing on her cheeks before she could even repeat the words to herself. Staring blankly at the teacher with her mouth slightly open, she stood for a moment in shock before waving her hands out in front of her in denial. “N-No, that’s not-!” She glanced up at Crash, noting that he didn’t seem nearly as flustered. Unfortunately for her, that made her feel even more embarrassed and delivered the finishing blow. ‘Am I the only one that interpreted it that way? Am I?! Aaaah, I’m so embarrassed!’ She went over to the counter and knocked her head down onto the surface, producing a rather alarming THUNK!! sound on impact. She protectively wrapped her arms around her to cover the bright red shade now on her face, the shade that had nothing to do with the stinging she felt on her forehead. Kathy was blushing so much that even her ears were coloured red now. ‘Did Mr. Lovelock mean something else? Engaged students as in… L-Like, students that are actively participating in class? But that doesn’t make sense in this context!! Then why is Crash so fine with it?! Did they plan this? Is this another evil trick from Crash?!!’ She didn’t know what was what anymore, and at the moment she didn’t really care either.

… She only knew ‘Fruit Loops’ as the colourful cereal with an irrelevant blue toucan printed on the box, but she wished whatever Crash was asking for as an alcoholic drink. There was nothing more she wanted to do than to just down something strong and knock herself out. But unfortunately, she doubted that. Especially with a teacher being the bartender. Finally, she reached out beside her and gently tugged on the edge of Crash’s shirt. Peeking out from beneath her arms with just one eye, she weakly mumbled out, “... Aren’t you going to deny it…? Please don’t tell me that I’m hearing things…”

[Animelover_princess]

Andromeda - beach

his sudden laugh scared her a bit but after a second she returned back to her quiet smile.
then he said "Er, well, if bad things happen when I see your eyes... hm. Maybe we can ask someone like that old man Brako for some placement magic? He seems capable of that, right?"
the idea really appealed to Andromeda, swimming had always been something she had wanted to do.
"If that's alright with you, then we could just go to him right now. Whaddya say, huh?" he said.
'he's really nice, and kinda cute' her blush deepened again when she thought 'and one of the few guys i actually know by name' she could feel a few of the snakes turn their heads towards him at her thought, she even heard a faint thought 'he's ok ... for a human' which almost made her laugh.
"could we really?" she smiled suddenly "i would really like that, do you know where he is?"

Oona - beach

Oona walked along the beach.
as she walked she saw someone who was apparently painting.
she approached the person , from the side, slowly. she looked at the painting, it was quite beautiful and of the scenery.
the person painting appeared to have stopped painting momentarily so she tapped him on the shoulder "excuse me, sorry to bother you but i wanted to tell you that your painting is quite beautiful"

[Driving Park]

Carmen

Carmen listened to Ara's explanation of his doppelganger carefully, moving through different facial expressions as she tried to fully understand it. "I feel like I'm going to be really confused if I ever meet your doppelganger. Hopefully I'll manage," said Carmen with a small smile. Upon his offering to explore the rest of the island, she said "hold on a moment" and with a couple sips and a swig finished her drink, putting it back on the counter. "Hopefully that doesn't change me too much," she said with a chuckle. Just then two red-haired students walked up and Ara asked Carmen if engaging was a thing. "I didn't think...so...but engaged or not, they do look great together, don't you think?" she said, enjoying herself very much. She hadn't forgotten about his question before, though. "I'd love to explore the island though! Now that my drink is finished, we can go! I'll follow you?"

[Destinyfailhorror17]

Zivon

He couldn’t really see the guy he had bumped into because of the hat but he could defiantly hear the guy’s voice. Zivon made sure he moved the sun hat to see the guy who apparently bowed to him. "Oh no.. please excuse me sir I was the one who was standing around it was my fault for this incident.. can you forgive me? I didn't hurt you in the process did I? You see I just got here about half an hour ago and this place is so large I don't know where I’m supposed to go.. I'm a bit lost and couldn't find anyone until we bumped into one another.. again I didn't harm you in any way did I? My name is Yuki by the way.. And on a second note i'd like to say it’s a pleasure meeting you." The man introduced himself as Yuki and apologized, somehow his eyes were like the ocean, it was so bright yet calm and peaceful…Zivon couldn’t stop looking at them, he could defiantly see them clearly even with the sun glasses on.

“…Pretty…” Zivon muttered out accidentally, when he realized he said that he covered his mouth, the sunglasses he wore drop down and a bright red blush came. ‘WHY DID I SAY THAT?!” He shouted to himself in his head, he couldn’t believe that he said that in front of the guy. “A-h! I-I a-am sor-rr-y!! I d-id-n’t mea-n to sa-say tha-t!! ” He bowed to the guy or Yuki but quickly covered his face again with his hands and tremble with embracement; he was defiantly having bad luck.

Seven

He also poked his tongue out as Mr. Lion did the same; with no proper attention span he quickly saw a seagull near the shack…”Mine…” He muttered out as his tails were perked up, tail swaying happily and claws and teeth grew sharp. “I didn’t take you for one to stay inside Seven, maybe if you go hunting you would take Lion with you?” Little Feather asked him, he quickly recovered from his tance with the seagull.. Hunting? I need to do more of it...I’ve been cooped up for 2 weeks! Mr. Lion grumbled, Seven gave out on of his famous smiles and patted Mr. Lion on the head. “Well…make sure you can….” With that said he turned invisible and quietly sneak up to the seagull. With on strike opf his shaped nails and teeth he easily killed the seagull, he turned back visible with the catch in his mouth and put it in front of Mr. Lion. “Catch up…flabby.” He gave out as taunting smile at the lion.

[FaithsRose]

Crash

Crash shrugged his shoulders his cheeks tinting at her question. “Yes, it’s a little hard to forget” He murmured. Crash adopted a sulky expression at her words about Mercy, he wasn’t sure he liked the idea of Kathy and Mercy joining forces...he knew it would not end well for him. “Of course you do” He murmured, already grimacing at the idea. This is not going to be good...I’ll have to think up counter measures, yeah a good defense... Whilst Crash was wondering how to cope with the combined forces of Mercy and Kathy as well as how to apologize again to Nikola about his previous digressions without bringing them up again –an impossible task- he didn’t see Kathy glance at him quizzically.

Having adopted a new thought process and taken Nikola’s introduction in a completely logical way he was surprised when Kathy started waving her arms about in front of her, apparently in complete denial over something. What? You just greeted him how can you deny you know him now? His perplexed expression maintained dominance over his face as he watched Kathy go a very impressive shade of red, he wasn’t sure what she was thinking as she glanced at him, so he lifted his hands palm up in a questioning motion. “Ah! What are you-“ He exclaimed as she audibly thunked her head down on the counter before wrapping her arms around herself protectively. Damn that must have hurt...Why is she so flustered?!

Crash by all means wasn’t stupid, he actually had a pretty high IQ but apparently this only seemed to be in effect in a classroom and when it came to social situations he was a complete plank. Worry etched its way into his eyes as he frowned at Kathy, he felt himself look at Nikola questioningly, as if the teacher could instruct him on the inner workings of Kathy and shed some kind of light on the current situation.

Crash –bless him- had not put the sentence into that context, though it may have passed his mind he had buried the idea as quickly as it had arisen as was the trend with his fast paced thoughts, things like this got buried. The word ‘engaged’ to him meant many things all to do with ‘engaging in’ so Nikola’s sentence had read somewhat like this in his mind "It is not that rare to see engaged students entering the bar” Engaged students as in students Nikola had engaged with previously, interacted with before now...this logical answer had imprinted itself quite firmly in his mind and was stubbornly denying the teacher had meant anything else by it thus his confusion.

He was frowning when he felt something tug at the bottom of his shirt, he glanced down to see Kathy’s hand gripping the fabric tightly, causing him to lift his gaze to her face well her arms, a level of concern apparent in his expression. “... Aren’t you going to deny it…? Please don’t tell me that I’m hearing things…” He looked a little puzzled, though he automatically wanted to deny the it just to calm her down. “I erm...well su-“ He started though he paused as he heard an unfamiliar voice say.

“Do a fair amount of students get engaged during school now or something?”

Engaged?...Wait! Engaged?! As in marriage engaged?! Crash looked at Nikola running over what the man had just said a few more times, after hearing the previous comment no amount of will power could prevent him from coming to the same conclusion. Did he just...did she think...WHAT?! Crash’s mouth dropped open for a moment a new level of shock spreading across his features. Now it was his turn to become flustered though he wasn’t quite as animated in the way he did it. He felt his palms grow damp and became painfully aware they were being looked at, he was being scrutinized he could feel it! Maybe it was because he hadn’t denied it. But how could he deny it now?

"I didn't think...so...but engaged or not, they do look great together, don't you think?"

Crash lifted a hand to his eyes covering them from view, his blush spreading from his flustered cheeks down to color back of his neck he really wished he hadn’t heard that conversation...in fact what he really wished was for The Doctor to appear in the Tardis and offer him a lift back in time or anywhere away from this situation...but there was probably more chance of Nikola doing the ‘Robot’ than that happening...

He was sure steam was rising off of his face considering the heat that was rising from it, he wasn't sure he could cope with this much blood flowing around his head he could hear his own pulse hammering in his ears. “OK lets rewind this a bit” He finally said, trying to keep his pitch even though his usually deep tone was obviously strained “We are not engaged, big misunderstanding” Crash told Nikola though his voice was very hushed he had said it loud enough that Carmen and her friend (Ara) could hear him thus clearing up their misconception of the situation.

He turned to Kathy looking extremely apologetic, well as much as he could considering his face was the same color as his hair. If I suffer any more embarrassment I’m going to shift... “L-look I’m sorry I didn’t even think about it...well I did...m-maybe a little not a lot though” Crash stuttered, though he was so jumbled it took him a moment to become aware of how his words could be taken. Ah! Could that be taken the wrong way? BACKTRACK, BACKTRACK! “Not about that! I didn’t mean erm...I just-” Crash blurted out, though he wasn't helping the situation at all, biting his tongue he ran a hand down his face trying to hide the grim expression he was currently sporting as he shook his head.What am I trying to say? Pull yourself together you knub

Forcing himself to stop for a moment and take a deep breath, he touched the back of his neck resting his palm there as he offered her an apology –because that was his answer to most things-“...I’m sorry...” he glanced over at Kathy briefly, some part of him was hoping that Nikola would take pity and put rum or something in those Fruit Loops...not that a small amount of alcohol could solve this. “I thought Lovelock meant ‘engaged’ as in previously engaged in interaction” He muttered, eyes focusing on the counter in front of him he was avoiding Kathy’s eye for fear of increasing his -and probably her own- nervous disposition.

Mercy

Mercy’s response to being splashed was to squeak in surprise, as she splashed Garden back before she drifted away from her, a smile breaking across her face as Garden dove under the water. She was glad to see her friend was having fun, her eyes lifted as she watched Dendus run towards the pool, she blinked scooting backwards as he leapt into the pool causing a wave to splash out onto the side, as well as causing ripples to lap across the surface of the water splashing her in the face as she retreated to the edge of the pool noticing another girl hop into the pool wearing a rather revealing swimsuit, she felt her eyebrows rise in surprise before she shook her head and averted her gaze in embarrassment. Watching Garden splash around happily brought another smile to Mercy’s face, she laughed as her friend surfaced speaking with a gleeful tone as she pulled her hair off of her face. She glanced over her shoulder to see whether Darwin was going to join them, at that particular moment he was sprinting towards the pool.

“Oh sugar honey ice-“ Mercy inhaled a lungful of air before she plunged under the water watching Darwin fly over her head and plummet into the pool not far from her, she kicked her legs drifting back to the surface breaking through the water a few moments before the unicorn, pushing her hair off of her face she rolled her eyes at Darwin as he complained the water hurt him. “It was quite a jump” Mercy shrugged at him, paddling over to the side she pulled herself out with ease, perching herself on the side of the pool with just her lower legs submerged in the water. "Hmm you know what's needed now an inflatable beach ball and a net..." She grinned at Darwin and Garden.

[Ebil Bunny]

- Dani -
“Yes...he didn’t get out a lot over the vacation. He kept complaining he would get flabby on all the cooked products that he was given...you know I don’t really know, it wasn’t a comfortable conversation.” Little Feather replied.
"Yeah, but did he mean flabby as in fat? Or flabby as in he had a stomach ache?" Dani asked, furrowing his brow in confusion. "What does 'Flabby' even mean?"

“Part of the perks of being a Spirit Guide I guess, we didn’t need sustaining” Little Feather answered Dani truthfully.
"A Spirit Guide?" Dani asked, interested. "Is that why the lion follows you around all the time? What's his name, anyway? I feel kind of weird just calling him "The Lion" all the time."

“Some of the other spirits used to get quite upset over the fact they couldn’t eat...I remember one of them trying to describe chicken, all he could say was it taste pretty much like everything. I think he should have tried explaining something else like strawberries.” Little Feather answered. Dani laughed.
"Chicken? Everyone says everything tastes like chicken. It's a joke, things don't actually taste like chicken." Dani said, grinning.

The cashier looked at Dani, then turned and went into the backroom. When she got back, she was holding a towel in her hand.
"Here, dry yourself up while we get your order ready." she said. Dani looked at the towel, confused, when he realized that he was still wet. Sure he wasn't sopping anymore, but he was still a quite damp.
"Er... Thanks." he said, and began rubbing his hair with the towel.

[Aeris]

Zaelyn

Zaelyn shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know... Just, uhm, the same as you!" She had absolutely no idea of what to say, so she just went ahead and asked the same as the boy. She had a vague memory of drinks and their purpose; for one, she knew that she needed water, otherwise her current human body wouldn't be functional. She also needed food- which was why she felt hungry and had something to eat two or three days ago. When Matt (possibly) left to get the drinks, she couldn't help but smile widely, glad that the folks of this academy were so nice and welcoming. She felt... comfortable, more than she was before for sure. And it was a great feeling.

[Theobromine]

– Ara (A)

Ara nodding in agreement when Carmen said she’d probably be confused to meet his doppelganger. “Probably. You probably won’t be able to recognize her but… She’ll probably come find you herself.” He added, chuckling to himself. “But that’s all for now about my doppelganger. I’ll keep a rest a surprise for you to enjoy when you two meet.”

"I didn't think...so...but engaged or not, they do look great together, don't you think?" Looking over at the red-haired duo, a sly grin appeared on Ara’s face. He watched the flustered exchange between the two. “We are not engaged, big misunderstanding” The guy (Crash) said, clearly denying the claims. But with his (Crash’s) face the same shade as the hair on top of his head, Ara’s grin only grew wider. ‘Oh this is too easy.’ Answering Carmen he purposely spoke loud enough so they could all hear him, “I agree. In fact, maybe we’ll get to see a proposal on the island sometime soon.” Struggling very hard to keep from breaking out into laughter, Ara turned back to Carmen and told her, “Let’s go then. Don’t want to intrude on the happy couple.” The corners of his mouth twitching, he exaggerated the last two words as he got up from his seat.

Unable to resist one last poke on his way, he lightly knocked on the guy (Crash’s) shoulder as he passed by. Then in a low voice only he (Crash) could hear he said, “Go for it. You’re in the right place for a honeymoon.” Not holding back anymore, Ara threw his head back as he laughed and walked away. He stopped when he was close to the edge of the resort and a good distance away from the bar, making sure Carmen was following after him.

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– Kathy

If she was a cartoon character, her head would have exploded in a puff of white smoke and she could have fallen unconscious onto the floor in a comical way. Unfortunately, the human body normally preferred to stay very much awake and upright for survival, and did not intend to let Kathy escape this situation in such an easy manner. Hearing the other students (Ara and Carmen) talk, she let go of Crash’s shirt and turned her head back down towards the counter. Her arms crossed around her head once more, she squeezed her eyes shut and tried to calm back down.

Taking deep breaths as Crash busied himself in trying to clear up the misunderstanding, Kathy got enough courage to peek out from under her arms again when she realized that Crash was speaking to her. “L-look I’m sorry I didn’t even think about it...well I did...m-maybe a little not a lot though” “!!!” The flush that had just begun to fade returned at full power and coloured her entire face in a bright shade of red once more. ‘S-Stop right there! Stop thinking Kathy! Stop thinking right now or-!’ It was too late. She had already thought about the other meaning to that sentence. “Not about that! I didn’t mean erm...I just-” At this point she decided to ditch the counter and curled up into a small ball on the floor. Hugging her knees to her chest, she remained on her feet and stared at the floor feeling like her eyes were spinning. This was, without a doubt, the most she had ever been embarrassed in all 17 years of her life.

In fact, she usually didn’t get flustered this quickly or often. Crash just seemed to have a strange knack for poking at weaknesses she didn’t know she had, and was making her experience all these emotions she hadn’t quite developed a resistance to. Still unable to lift her head to look at anyone, she meekly listened to Crash’s apology. “N-No… You don’t need to apologize I just, um…” She had no idea what she was supposed to say anything. She took a deep breath and sighed out, “I’m so confused…” Her head lost to the swirling confusion of thoughts in her head and her eyes trained to the floor, she didn't even notice that someone passed by and stopped to say something to Crash.Taking a moment to let her cheeks calm down from a bright red to just a rosy look, she poked at Crash’s ankle (the easiest thing to reach in her position) and asked, “Can… Can we take our drinks and go somewhere else? I don’t think I can stay here much longer…”

[Ebil Bunny]

- Matt -
"I don't know... Just, uhm, the same as you!" Zaelyn replied.
"Alright then." Matt said, and went to the counter. Crash and Kathy were there, together as always, except they were both much too red to be healthy. Kathy was on the floor, curled up into a ball.
He knelt down to her.
"You know, if you're too hot here, the bedroom huts have air conditioning." Matt said. He kind of missed the whole episode where they got embarrassed out of their wits.

He stood up and turned to the bar tender.
"Greetings, I would like two kiwi and pineapple cocktails minus the alcohol, please." he said politely.

[Theobromine]

– Leroy

“Hm?” Turning around, Leroy saw a girl (Oona) with impressively long white hair wearing a swimsuit that almost looked scaled. “Working on a mermaid theme there?” He commented with a smile. Then looking at his painting he told her, “Thanks. I didn’t bother to bring anything to fix the paint into place though, so it won’t last for a long time. I can give it to you when I’m done if you’d like.”

Balancing his brush onto the paint palette on his right hand, he held his left out to the girl (Oona). “I’m Leroy by the way. Don’t think we’ve met before, or I’d remember.” Leroy greeted with a playful wink. “Were you there for the whole auditorium chaos a few weeks back?”

[Animelover_princess]

Oona laughed when he commented on her swimsuit "my mom bought it for me a while back, it fits me so i wear it"

she replied with "really?" when he said he'd give it to her "it's really pretty, i certainly like it, that's very nice of you"

“I’m Leroy by the way. Don’t think we’ve met before, or I’d remember.” Oona giggled a little when he said that.
"i'm Oona, it's nice to meet you Leroy" there was a mischievous smile on her face at this point.

“Were you there for the whole auditorium chaos a few weeks back?”
"for the last part of it" she said, brushing a strand of hair over her shoulder "i only got there towards the end, lots of panicked people were between me and it, i assume you were there?"