[IC] Athalia Academy: Season Two - Finding Bael

[Animelover_princess]

Leroy picked the canvas back up and said “We’re already here. I’ll finish the job, no worries.” and smiled.
Oona followed him over to her house, this was actually the first time she'd seen it, it wasn't half-bad, a reasonable sized house for sure, she would have no problem sharing it with someone. Leroy turned to her and said “Now… This is the part where I’m going to ask if I should wait for you to put this away, leave so you can get some rest, or help you carry all the way into your house.” then he winked “If you don’t mind inviting a guy you've met for the first time inside that is.”
Oona laughed "i'm a lady, I don't invite in guys i don't know," she tried to look sarcastically offended but she wasn't sure if she achieved it or not "but i'll invite s guy that i do, for tea" she winked "if you'll accept?" she smiled at him.

[Sukui]

Anedine - U is for.... underwear
Anedine saw a familiar girl swimming and waving towards her. Why familiar, perhaps? This certain girl, another nature person called Garden, was the one who had saved her from being stuck under debris on that day. Now, after all these days leading up to today's vacation, she hadn't really paid her back for the help she had. Paying for a smoothie, giving her half of her mana potions, or searching for treasure in Destiny Island and giving it to her, they seem to work as the price for that.

But it also works to wait until she has said what she could offer in exchange.

The white-haired girl in her comparatively revealing swimsuit waved back at Garden, still standing in the middle of the pool while she was headed for the deeper parts. While she initially wanted to do that at first, she then decided to head where the other nature-girl was, ready to give her a warm welcome.

"Hey, Garden! How's stuff recently?"

[Destinyfailhorror17]

Garden

As she saw closer to the girl she remember her as the girl who was trap underneath all that rubble form that day. She felt rude and embarrassed that she didn’t recognize her from before, her name was…Anedine right? "Hey, Garden! How's stuff recently?" Anedine asked as they were both swimming at the pool. “Great, thank you for asking Lady Anedine, I hope you are fine from what had happen though….even though I had seen you drank that blue liquid that made you look and seem better I just wonder if you are still okay?” She asked the white hair girl, she was indeed curious of the blue liquid drink Lady Anedine had drank but felt to obliged to ask for it and oddly she was curious in the…very interesting swimwear Lady Anedine decided to wear but she did have to say it actually looks really pretty. ‘I do have to say I like your swim wear, its really pretty.” She complicated to her.

[Scallop]

Darwin

The purple haired otaku grinned at his best friend Ryuu-San. He sure had found a nice pair of mel---a nice girl. Darwin smiled at her with his usual warm, friendly grin. He didn't want to creep her out or anything, but how could he?

he tilted his head almost confused at Ryuu. He was trying to say what's going on, but he didn't want to ask it. He suddenly turned back to the girl with a spin and held out his hand. "Hi! Darwin Indigo, nice to meet you!" He went to shake her hand with a giant grin before swirling back to Ryuu. "Oh Ryuu! My new boxset of anime arrived the other day, it's gonna be awesome! Care to join me!"

[Aeris]

Zaelyn

Cheers? Unfortunately, the demon had absolutely no idea of what that was. So she simply took the glass from him, mouthing a silent 'thank you' before taking a sip herself. Only one, then she'd place the glass back at the table, eyeing it curiously. It's taste was quite nice, she'd need to write the name down somewhere so she could remember the name in order to get more of it. Zaelyn tilted her head and glanced over at Matt, eyebrows furrowing slightly at what he asked.

"Attack? No... uhm, I was practically forced to be in here because..." She pressed her left hand's index and middle finger against her forehead, as if the act would suddenly give her the proper words to explain it. But since it didn't, she just settled with inquiring him further. "What kind of attack, though?"

[Sukui]

Islands.

What does this one, certain teacher thinks about such a certain landmass, nearly isolated from most of civilization by a decently, if not huge, part of water? Would it be... the fine, sandy shores? Salty waters, perhaps? The drinks at the fancy bar? Maybe hiking in the mountain? Or, the greenery spread across Destiny Island? Why, lovely it would be. Of course, a teacher in a vacation would normally think first of-

Treasure!

When Clarisse hears of islands, she thinks not of the typical nature stuff you would see that soothes your eyes, nor the colored, bitter fluids that soothe your throat while at the same time messing your mind. And when she thinks treasure, she doesn't seek the gold, gems, or ancient stuff that can be sold to museums or collectors for millions or even billions. She wants to find magical treasure, the kind like the Pearl Cherry and the Sacred Blossom, powerful and also cool arcane weapons she could use for both style, combat and research.

While this was her mindset for the rest of her time in Destiny Island, she needed first a bit of time to spend within this isolated landscape. First thing to do is go to the bar near the resort, so with her usual red mage-like clothes that differ from most of the students' skimpy and revealing clothing, she followed the trail towards the main spot of Destiny, the resort area where the students spend their time talking and swimming.

[Driving Park]

Carmen - Ara you ready for a tour? (can't stop won't stop)

Ara was fun to be around. He had a sense of humor that apparently a lot of people lacked.

"Though I doubt I’d be invited after all that. Sneak me in under that hat or something will you?”

Carmen chuckled. "That'll be easy," she said. "I could probably sneak half the Academy in. Resident smuggler, right here."

She thought about what she had heard was on the island. "Well, there's this big resort that we've been hanging around now. It's got a small beach shop, the bar, a pool, and stuff like that. Lots of people are over at the pool, if you're interested in socializing and seeing lots of girls wearing very little," she said, jokingly winking at him. "There's also a volleyball net and our houses. Other than that...I think it's just beach? There's probably more but I've forgotten it all," she admitted, shrugging. "Oh! I think there's a place we can train. I'd love to do that at some point. I feel like we all need it," she said, momentarily being serious in her flurry of jollity. "But that can all come with time. What sounds interesting to you? If you're bored you can always show me your doppelganger," she offered. "I'm up for anything!"

[FaithsRose]

Crash & Mercy - Beach Olympics anyone?

So much through traffic in his mind often led to Crash missing out on social cues...well and forgetting things, messing things around. He hadn’t even realized he hadn’t answered her he watched her wave a dismissive hand at his comment, amusement dancing across his eyes though his face visibly felt at what she said next, he adopted a rather sulky expression at the evil chuckle he heard creep from her lips. He huffed before he pushed away from the bar.

“What was that...I should try harder to be evil?” He repeated her, mixing around her words deliberately with a cheeky smile crossing his face as he slid into his seat. “I’m kidding...don’t worry so much” He assured her with a quick wink, hesitating as she went to reach for the bowls. “Thank you” He grinned picking up his spoon. “Good memories or bad?” He asked after a few moments. Having pushed the cereal around long enough Crash had literally just brought a spoonful towards his mouth when he noticed Kathy set expectant eyes on him, he lowered the spoon raising an eyebrow at her gesture, a smile flickered across his lips as he rested the spoon back in his bowl. “You got me there” He grinned at her. “I’m a little surprised you’re giving me the option to choose what I tell you after I gave you no choice” He admitted a thoughtful expression apparent on his face as he tried to find something to say that fitted within the rules.

Mercy clapped her hands together, this was perfect! This was what everyone needed to do, a bit of action around here before it could become a bit too stale. With a megaphone in hand she danced her way back up towards the resort passing a small group at the restaurant though she didn’t stop to chat she’d grab them on the way back down...no she had to start at the top of the hill and rope in everyone that was there before they dispersed! Arriving back by the pool Mercy’s eyes scanned the people that were still milling about up here, spotting Crash sat with Kathy she felt a smile tug at her lips Aww isn’t it cute, he doesn’t even know...I really must grab a chance to chat to Kathy soon Mercy shook her head, before trotting happily towards the pair. “Sorry to interrupt my lovelies, but I do so require his assistance” She announced her arrival pointing at Crash and watching surprise, possibly relief, definitely fear spread across Crash’s expression at an alarming speed. “I need a boost” She told him with a cheeky grin, “Come again?” Crash frowned at her. Mercy’s eyebrow lifted but she remained silent.“Get over here and lift me up or I will start talking” Mercy threatened watching Crash give Kathy an apologetic look before scrabbling over to her. “...you’re not sitting on my shoulders” Crash told her as she pointed to the ground. “Oh Really?” Mercy raised a coy eyebrow at him, he muttered something under his breath before dutifully leaning down on one knee so Mercy could perch herself atop his shoulders. “I hate you...” Crash murmured. “Up we go” Mercy giggled deviously tapping his head.

Crash however was sporting a grin of his own as he lifted her up in a pouf of purple smoke he shifted into an elephant sized Apatosaurus , Mercy was wrapped around his head looking rather the opposite of elegant as she held on for dear life, she jabbed Crash’s red head as he lifted her just high enough that everyone could see her...straddling the head of a wee crimson Apatosaurus...”Ohhh you are so dead when this is over” She assured him out of the corner of her mouth as she smiled at the people giving her peculiar looks, shaking off her initial embarrassment. She lifted the megaphone to her mouth.

“Listen up everyone!” She shouted to get their attention,that thing was loud it was the kind of noise that slapped you in the face and demanded you listen. “You are to get your butts down to the beach as soon as possible, down your drinks, scoff your food...well don’t scoff your food you’ll get indigestion...” Mercy announced. Crash cleared his throat noisily. (M)Hmm...oh right focus “Do I hear a why? I’ll tell you why! Because the Beach Olympics are about to start!” She continued on. “I can see a few of you looking at me and wondering what I’m on about...well if you’re that curious you better blooming well get yourself over there to find out!” She told them. (C)Has she been drinking? Or is this sunstroke? “Don’t keep us waiting!” She finally finished, taking the megaphone away from her mouth she grinned happily at the murmur that passed through the students.

“Good job, you can put me down now big guy” Mercy told Crash patting his head and holding on as he lowered her to the floor. Once her feet touched the ground she slid off of his head, exhaling once she was stood firmly on solid ground she moved over to Kathy. “Well...that was different” She commented, waiting for Crash to shift back in a pouf of purple smoke, he sheepishly came to stand near them obviously on high alert. “You’ll come won’t you? To the games? You have got to see what they've got going on down there” She grinned at Crash before turning to Kathy looking hopeful. “Right well I’d best get down there...I’m not finished with you” Mercy narrowed her eyes at Crash as she said the last thing, he danced away from her rather rapidly as she passed him.

Mercy bounced over to Darwin, Ryuu and Andromeda. “Darwin! You better be joining in these beach games, you two as well...trust me you won’t want to miss this” She grinned at the three of them merrily with a quick wink before she made her way hastily back towards the beach. Skidding to a stop as she came across Dani’s group she eagerly hopped over to them “Alright guys you’ve got 5 minutes before I expect to see you over there” She grinned pointing to a part of the beach further down that at a glance had a peculiar set up of colorful items not quite easily distinguishable from this distance. "No buts no ifs, it's fun time!" Mercy beamed at them before bouncing off towards the peculiar set up.

[Theobromine]

– Leroy

Nodding, Leroy was about to accept the invitation for tea when he heard an unfamiliar and feminine voice (Mercy’s) make an announcement that was probably heard by at least 85% of the entire island. They were too far to actually see the speaker, but the message was fairly loud and clear.

As someone who mostly spent time quietly painting, be it indoors or out, he and sports normally did not mix very well but… “You know, tea sounds good but I think we might want to go and check that out. Don’t want to miss out on the next possible big thing all the students will be talking about.” Leroy laughed. “Why don’t we just place that somewhere nice and safe at your place, then start heading down to the beach again?”

[Destinyfailhorror17]

Garden

As she waited for Lady Anedine to reply she heard Lady mercy speaking. “Do I hear a why? I’ll tell you why! Because the Beach Olympics are about to start!” She eyes widen with the though of a beach Olympics, they had those at the kingdom but never a beach type of Olympics. She looked back at Lady Anedine and smiled at her. “I think we should go, it may be very fun!” She said to her as she swam to the edge of the pool where her boots were at sat at the ledge. She put on her flowery boots, slowly walked so Lady Anedine can catch up and walked to the site where Lady mercy voice was. Even though it was not showing much she was bouncing off the ceiling, she was really…really excited. Maybe her eyes were shining and showing a bit too much excitement but she always wanted to participate in something like the Olympics, being a princess she never had a chance to.

Seven

As he felt a small shock through his body he didn’t mind it, he let out a small meow to show he was okay and let the girl to continue to hug him. Then a lady with white walks by and said something. Alright guys you’ve got 5 minutes before I expect to see you over there” She then pointed to the direction she told them to go. He was curious in a way, why would she point to that direction….unless something amazing will happen!! Or maybe not…he wasn’t sure but he was sure curious to see. He looked at the girl who hugged him and pointed to the direction the white hair girl was pointing at. Oddly enough he didn’t at all to the girl but instead gave another meow showing his curiosity of what the girl was pointing at.

Zivon

Zivon watched Liam walked of to the direction that where the bar was not at but to the forest, he was shock and giggled a little wondering why she would do that but after what Yuki said to her about beauty she could have been very flustered. He followed her with great caution, still being very afraid of her but just making sure she would go into the forest so she won’t get lost. He turned around to Yuki and waved over to him, he still had to admit it but Yuki was really…attractive? That seems like that was the appropriate word to say what Yuki was like. He then walked to Liam and hesitated for a minute but lightly tugged her arm. “uu-h-hh…yo-u…are...goi-ng t-o th-e for-est…” He stuttered quite a lot, hoping she wouldn’t do anything that would scare him.

[Sukui]

Anedine
When someone else, possibly another friend of Garden talked about something about the Beach Olympics which she immediately thought of volleyball and swimming and sand-sculpting contests and whatever water and beach sports she could think of, the white-haired girl immediately followed the other nature girl, crawled up the pool's sides, and walked to where her turquoise slippers was. After putting it on for a moment then, Anedine followed Garden again, towards the girl who just said about the Beach Olympics. She was fairly tall, or was it? Anedine's 5'1'' was quite short by teen standards, so it might be just her view.

Clarisse
There she was, in the resort. And to say, the rocky trail was quite rough.

While she was passing by the blue pool in front of the main, fascinatingly-designed building, the redhead teacher noticed a crowd beginning to form around one girl. Apparently she seemed to hear her just saying something right as she had entered the area, something along the lines of inviting the Athalian kids on beach sports. Two just surfaced out of the pool and to that lady, and both seemed to have an affinity for nature as far as she heard in the past days. Seeing the children organize stuff on their own was unusual, but at least in a good way, since it could have been indicated they've matured enough to be proper people in a proper society.

Clarisse walked further until she got to the bar, sitting on a stool. As it would've been, Nikola was the bartender of Destiny Island's liquid-serving station, having to put up with the orders and complaints and other shit the students have to offer. There were signs he have been a bit stressed, but she did not mind for now.

"Hey, Nikola. How's life recently? Care to give me a drink? A chocolate smoothie, perhaps?"

[PrinceYuki]

liferusher said
Liam"Oh most of the people on the Island are at the bar?.. How old are they?.. Are they legal to be at the bar or is anyone able to go there as long as the minors don't drink any alcohol?.. Actually why does this place have a bar in the first place really?.." She gazed at the boy that just kept talking and seemed very calm. "umm well, maybe for the older students" She looked quite confused as he just kept talking. 'Do I need to answer all of his questions I can't even remember the first one' She gave a quick look at Zivon that sighed she almost forgot that he was still standing there he didn't have that much presence compared to Yuki so it would just get akward for him at some point. "I am truly curious about this Island is there anything you could tell me about it or possibly escort me around possibly?.. I would be very much obliged and happy to have someone with such beauty to escort me around dear.." Her eyes widened as her face became red she stiffend as her pigtails were about to stand up straight "Umm umm I" She looked at her fingers which she started to play around with. . “I-I am cu-rio-s abo-ut th-e ba-r..” She looked at Zivon still bright red "Yea good idea" She didn't hesitate as she quickly walked over to the forest as she could barley hear wat Zivon was talking about. She placed her hands to her cheeks 'Beauty' as she kept walking forwards.DrowShe could see Little feathers hand did somewhat hurt but she couldn't do anything about it.“I-it’s ok no harm done” she gave a small smile towards little feather knowing she was okay. She could feel her knee being pushed aside as a large ball of hair walked along it. She looked down at the big lion and kneeled down moving her body closer to him as she gave the lion a hug "hmm soft" she closed her eyes for a bit enjoying the soft hairs tingeling all over the place. She could feel a paw being placed on her forhead. She opened her eyes with a curious look and could see a little cat touching her forehead. "O" she sat on her knees and released the lion as she grabbed the cat with two hands as she started to hug it to. When her mind became clear again she quickly released Seven hoping she didn't shock him that much.

Yuki

Yuki blinked as she started to rush off nervously heading towards the forest and then looked over at Zivoth and said in a calm gentle voice. "Lets follow her.. I think she's taking us to the bar where everyone is.." Yuki grabbed Zivoth's hand and started to pull him along softly with a sweet smile on his face, his hand as cold as ice from the tundra, it was enough to make someone think that his hands were frostbite by how cold that it was. "So what are you here for Ziv? I'm just curious, you don't have to tell me what your here for but i'd like to know.. I'll tell you why i am if you tell me why you are.." Yuki chuckled and smiled softly looking back at him from the corner of his eyes then back at Liam. "Are you taking us to the bar dear?.. Or for a fun little walk in the forest with such a pretty girl?.." Yuki chuckled softly, his laugh was the most charming and enchanting noise ever to be heard really aside from perhaps his voice that made most girls fall for him if he said anything sweet to them really.

[Destinyfailhorror17]

Zivon

"Lets follow her.. I think she's taking us to the bar where everyone is.." Yuki said as he grabbed Zivon his hand and started to drag him slowly. It caught him off guard, as his hand was really cold, it felt unnatural. He let out small and unbearable yelp, ‘How could his hand be so…’ He shook his head just let Yuki continue to drag him lightly. Soon enough he ended up blushing a bit fist time someone actually different who hold his hand like that. "So what are you here for Ziv? I'm just curious, you don't have to tell me what your here for but I’d like to know.. I'll tell you why I am if you tell me why you are.." Zivon immediately kept quiet… he does not want to explain his reason why he was there but how Yuki asked made him feel quite different and even persuaded to say it. It was still quite funny how Liam was still going to the forest even though he told her where she was going. ‘Umm…I-I we-ll…sor-ry but I reall-y do-n’t wa-nt to s-ay w-hy am I he-re….”

[PrinceYuki]

Destinyfailhorror17 said
"Lets follow her.. I think she's taking us to the bar where everyone is.." Yuki said as he grabbed Zivon his hand and started to drag him slowly. It caught him off guard, as his hand was really cold, it felt unnatural. He let out small and unbearable yelp, ‘How could his hand be so…’ He shook his head just let Yuki continue to drag him lightly. Soon enough he ended up blushing a bit fist time someone actually different who hold his hand like that. "So what are you here for Ziv? I'm just curious, you don't have to tell me what your here for but I’d like to know.. I'll tell you why I am if you tell me why you are.." Zivon immediately kept quiet… he does not want to explain his reason why he was there but how Yuki asked made him feel quite different and even persuaded to say it. It was still quite funny how Liam was still going to the forest even though he told her where she was going. ‘Umm…I-I we-ll…sor-ry but I reall-y do-n’t wa-nt to s-ay w-hy am I he-re….”

Yuki

Yuki smiled softly and continued to follow Liam holding onto Zivoth's hand then looked back with a gentle smile the kind that meant 'Alright i won't pry into something that isn't my business' He faced forward again to make sure he didn't lose Liam. "Sorry I ask Ziv it's none of my business so i wont push the matter any further.." Yuki was looking around the forest meanwhile keeping his senses on Liam, he didn't want to get lost in the forest. "I wonder where Liam is going possibly.. do you already know her?.. By your reaction earlier it looked like you may have known her from earlier.."

[Destinyfailhorror17]

Zivon

"Sorry I ask Ziv it's none of my business so I wont push the matter any further.." He gavew a nod to Yuki and just said, “Oh i-it fi-ne…” Asthey both continue to walk through the forest trying to follow Liam, Zivon did felt scared, a forest…it was creepy to go in and he felt like sooner or later they will all get lost. Then Yuki asked something. "I wonder where Liam is going possibly.. do you already know her?.. By your reaction earlier it looked like you may have known her from earlier.." He somehow gave a nervous laugh well in his head; how he met Liam was clearly…something… He didn’t really want to answer but just sighed.

“Uh…well u-m yes I k-now her fro-m befor-e, she ki-nd of m-ade me c-ry…w-ell it w-as parti-ally m-y fa-ult b-ecause I w-as…” ‘Weak’ the word seemed to be appropriate to use for him just shook it of. “I-n a sta-te of pa-nic…” he looked away a bit, trying not to remember that thing that happen that night. “But tha-t w-as few we-eks ago an-d well…I ki-nd of am sca-red of he-r…”

[Theobromine]

– Ara (A)

Ara chuckled at the pool joke, but probably didn’t find it as funny as it would have been for a lot of normal guys. Not that he wasn’t interested by any means… Though he could technically had ‘memories’ of being a girl and didn’t have as many mysteries to ponder over as most people of his gender. Besides, it was not worth ogling at girls when B used that as fodder against him. For some damn reason B was able to just prance around and joke about such things with no problem but he still felt the need to keep it all under wraps. Perhaps it was because B didn’t need to be worried about getting slapped by someone for accidentally saying something inappropriate.

Carmen had a great list of ideas. Except the last one. He knew they could actually have a group meeting if he just stood in front of a mirror and let the two girls talk to each other, but there was no way in the world he was just going to willing introduce anyone to his doppelganger like that. “The beach sounds-”

He was interrupted by someone making an announcement to the island in general with a megaphone. Apparently he wasn’t the only one that thought the beach would be a good place to gather in. “The beach sounds great.” He finished. Then laughing he added, “You know, whoever that was didn’t exactly state which part of the beach. Imagine if people just wander around on the opposite side of the island wondering why no one else is there?” He didn’t know if the entire island was completely surrounded by beach, since some could just be a rocky area or end off at a cliff, but it seemed likely that there was probably a wide area that was covered in enough sand and water to be considered a beach.

[Ebil Bunny]

- Matt -
Zaelyn didn't return his cheers, but Matt didn't mind that much. He shrugged, and took another sip.

"Attack? No... uhm, I was practically forced to be in here because... What kind of attack, though?" asked Zaelyn. Matt raised his eyebrows, confused. Did she not want him to know why she came? It must have been pretty bad.

"Well, the school got attacked by-" Matt was interrupted by an invitation to a "Beach Olympics". Matt wasn't that great with water. Sure, it sounds stereotypical, but Matt didn't feel comfortable around it.
"You can go if you want. I'd rather not." Matt told Zaelyn.

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- Dani -
“Alright guys you’ve got 5 minutes before I expect to see you over there.” A young woman said before darting off again. Dani raised his eyebrows. Strangely enough, he hadn't heard the announcement, and it seemed Seven didn't either. Maybe the restaurant had sound proof walls?

"Sounds important if that woman gave us a time limit." Dani said. Turning to Little Feather, he said, "How about we take the salad with us? I'm kind of curious to know what's going on here. Even though I do hope it's not another attack..." Dani sighed, remembering the last time somebody popped in to tell everyone to meet at a certain point.

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Liam

"Are you taking us to the bar dear?.. Or for a fun little walk in the forest with such a pretty girl?.." She stopped and gave a little jump at what the boy was saying she turned around facing the two boys holding hands "ummm well, I don't think this is the right place." She started to mumble a bit and looked to the right of her to hide her still kind of red face. "Well, I kind of didn't pay attention to where we were going" She putted a hand behind her head and gave an emberassed laugh "I would say we're pretty much lost in the forest its quite dark and cold here but at least we have something to do..."

Drow

She saw the cat shake for a second and decided to put it down on the ground before he would be one big ball of hair that would be filled with static electricity. A woman came to tell something and dashed away again after that "Alright guys you’ve got 5 minutes before I expect to see you over there." She gazed at Dani "Sounds important if that woman gave us a time limit." Drow gave a nod and crawled to the Lion again as she continued her hugging session.

[Animelover_princess]

Oona heard the announcement, too.
Leroy said “You know, tea sounds good but I think we might want to go and check that out. Don’t want to miss out on the next possible big thing all the students will be talking about.” he laughed. “Why don’t we just place that somewhere nice and safe at your place, then start heading down to the beach again?”
Oona looked over at the beach "sure, i'll go put this somewhere safe, then i'll see you down there"
she pushed the door open and kept it open with a foot as she picked up the painting "see ya" she hurried to a room, her stuff was still by the front door and gently set the painting against the wall. then she quickly got her stuff and moved the suitcase into her room before heading out again.

Oona headed towards the beach, unsure what she should be expecting from the 'beach olympics'.

[FaithsRose]

Mercy

Once people got closer to the colorful display it was a lot easier to see what was going on, there was a volleyball court laid out on the sand a large white net with orange trims and poles had been erected and the court itself had even been marked out with blue dunlop marker cones. Just along from that was a large space of open beach with a big box full of colorful sand box toys, shovels, buckets etc. A small ball of cream fur fluttered over to another section of the beach ripe with items, this section had 3 large light blue trugs spread out on a single red line that stretched about 8 meters across the beach, on closer inspection the trugs were in fact full of water bombs. The little cream creature turned as Mercy approached the site, it’s little red bopper wobbled frantically atop its head as it flapped its tiny purple wings propelling itself towards her at speed.

“Wow Koop, this looks amazing!” Mercy grinned at the little creature, who clasped his small paws together and swayed his shoulders, little red circles appearing on his cheeks. “Thank y-upo-po!” He thanked her in a sweet tone; the corners of his mouth turning up into a smile. Mercy reached up and scratched him behind one of his ears smiling at him. “I think most of them are coming over here, would you mind making sure they come to the right place? I’m not sure I was quite as clear as I could have been” Mercy pulled a slight face, she had allowed herself to get a bit too excited back there which was most unlike her, yet again since...she hadn’t quite been herself anyway. “Hmm, maybe a change is for the better right?” she grinned at the moogle hovering in front. “Roger that! Kupo-po!” Came Koop’s joyous response before he left her to scramble up a nearby lifeguard tower megaphone still in hand. “Everyone gather round! I’ll announce the first event shortly” Mercy announced as a few students begun to show up.

Koop took off down the beach hovering by the path up towards the resort he pulled his bag round to his side poking his tongue out of the corner of his mouth he reached into the bag rummaging around until the bopper on his head sprung up straight like an upside down exclamation mark. He retracted his hand, pulling out what seemed like a long pole that quickly expanded into a neon sign about three times the size of him it had the words. ‘Beach Olympics this way ->’ light up on the front of it as well as a huge red flashing arrow on it. Holding the sign above his head Koop flew up towards the resort positioning the sign so it was pointing the way Mercy had bounced off in. The little moogle looked quite pleased with himself as he hovered just next to the pool brandishing his sign post with a proud puffed out chest.

Little Feather & Lion

Lion offered Dani a toothy grin as he mentioned being up to talking with him. I’m quite the popular one aren’t I? He grumbled at Little Feather who rolled her eyes at him. Lion turned to listen to Seven his ears slowly lowering at the sinister tone that went along with his friends dark words. Punished?! Lion whined. That doesn’t sound nice at all Lion grumbled at the bakeneko, his tail flicking in agitation. I guess you stayed because they are family? I can respect that Lion purred at Seven, flicking his ears forward as Drow hugged him a deep purr reverberated through his chest, although his mane seemed to poof up a bit at Drow’s touch the spirit animal remained unharmed by the electrical current that seemed to constantly course through her.

He tilted his head to the side as Seven climbed up Drow, the ridges above his eyes rose in surprise. Hey...you’re stealing my cuddles Lion grumbled at the bakeneko lifting a large paw and padding at the air his ears flicking out to the side of his head. Little Feather smiled at Lion, Seven and Drow sitting down in a chair she had just begun munching through her salad when Dani said about his heart. “You can’t just be nothing though can you...you have a soul don’t you? It’s what forms the basis of a being” Little Feather offered with a frown, trying not to smile too brightly at hearing Dani tell her she was one of two people that knew what Dani was. It made her warmth flood through her chest did this mean Dani considered her a friend?

It’s not a big deal...he only told you because of what you are She thought logically pushing the idea away quickly. She looked up as Mercy whirled towards them in a flurry of excitement. Lion wagged his tail happily at Mercy a short mewl escaping him as she scratched his head on her way past. She lifted her hand in greeting blinking as Mercy disappeared as quickly as she had come, she was still munching when Dani spoke up. “That’s Mercy” She told Dani with a small smile. “She didn’t look worried so hopefully it’s something fun?” Little Feather attempted to sound encouraging as she picked up her half eaten salad moving over to Dani before past him heading towards the interesting colors just along the beach from them. Lion purred louder as Drow resumed her hugging session but he seemed torn between following Little Feather and staying. Lion grumbled something at Drow though she wouldn’t have understood him, he tugged out of her grip moving around behind her and head butting her lower back very gently trying to encourage her to stand up and move along with the others.