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Merope's hands continued to shake, even after he had mustered up the courage to decide attend the class. There were times when Merope still felt resentful towards the professor who had been nothing but helpful towards him. But it was through Malcolm's teachings that Merope became painfully aware of how weak he was when it came to mastering Fear, and how weak he still was. If only he was a little stronger. No, not a little -- if only he was stronger, then perhaps...

The grip on his minipet tightened as Merope took a deep breath, steadying his nerves as he entered the classroom. He made a bee-line towards the sign-up sheet, his hand shaking with guilt as he wrote down his minipet's name. It shouldn't have been her. It should have been him, his minipet that stuck with him through thick and thin, who --

Who was no longer with him. Merope forced himself to finish signing up before claiming a desk, clinging to the small draconic minipet in his arms for comfort. It wasn't until he looked up that he started with surprise. Professor Savage was here?! He was about to call out a greeting before he choked it off, staring as other professors joined in.

Merope settled for slouching down in his seat, quietly stroking his minipet for comfort while waiting for the class to begin.

Minipet battling. It was an interesting concept. Shun would rather fight personally, but it did intrigue him. It was enough to bring him out to see what it was all about. Bent-Tail, while a faithful companion, was not a fighter. Yin and Yang often did not want to be separate and he was certain he couldn't have a tag team duo. And thus, he walked on into the classroom with the metallic raptor/dragon creature in tow.

Arkham already acted as a sort of guard for his room, so he had little doubt that the little guy had the ferocity to make battle with others.

Looking on around the room, it looked like a lot of other students had come on up. Wait... there were a few professors around here. Furrowing his brow, he eyed the few professors scattered on about, before finding himself a spot in the room to wait. This... should definitely be interesting.

Professor Malcolm, she remembered, was the Professor who had taken her for the exam, though this would be the first time she would be attending his lessons. The ghoul was somewhat excited about the class, though to be honest, it wasn't exactly her favourite subject. Dingo was feeling rather ambivalent about the idea as well, but rather than let Edel be stuck with the other two (grumpy and sedentary Snow and the skittish Chives), he simply went along with it instead.

Edel arrived at classroom 14 to find that it was rather packed, including three members of the school faculty. The ghoul took a seat, wondering what on earth could be so important that even the other professors should come. Little did she know.

Minipets, as everyone knew, were serious business.

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Sign-up Sheet - Please state name & minipet's name/species
1. Mortimer + Brian the Zombie Dragie
2. Yǐn Cáng + Princess Eva the Rabo
3. Amphitrite + Vaith Jr. the Virdian Kushi Kushi
4. Professor Savage + Bats
5. Amrita + DC the Death Charm
6. Alexander + "Creature" the Dustbunny Black Rabbit
7. Professor Norvegicus + K-9 the Robo Scareon
8. Enzo + Wiseguy, the Mafia Grunt Torterror
9. Cricket + Warrior the Red Fracs
10.Sura + Dormin the Follossus
11. Hel + Heimdall the Lore FoxFire
12. Malodore + Luce the Cwn Annwn
13. Merope + Kai'e'e the Lost Fathoms Levathia
14. Ren + Seth the Swashbuckly Lepus
15. Shun + Arkham the Organoid Shadow
16. LW + Callix the Batling
17. Edel + Dingo the Runic Inugami

Amphi squeaked as she was called out before looking at the Valkyrie and smiling. "Hel! Hello!" She walked over to the ghoul before smiling shyly, "It looks like we'll be part of training our minipets this time around instead of ourselves?" She flushed before another familiar voice called her out. Turning her head, she looked at the she-wolf before flushing again.

"LW." She squeaked as she was dragged away from Hel before waving, "I'll come to battle you Hel!" Was all she said before focusing on the red wolf and her minipet. "Ah your minipet...so cute!" She touched the batling before looking over the shewolf, "Ah...your boilfriend?" She looked around to see who she pointed at before linking her arm through Lw and shyly ducking her head in her shoulder...."If...If you want me too..." She flushed again. The kushi Kushi on her shoulder made a small squeak as it was squished between Amphi and LW.

Willow had seen the notice about the minipets class and was suddenly delighted. "Oh good, something useful." Her eyes made their way down to the scareon that was looking up at the board mimicing Willow.

"Maybe they can help me teach you the meaning of 'no'." She sighed and headed towards the class, the Scareon following behind her. "I should probably give you a name besides Creepy OwO face." The tigress gave a small shake of her head, thinking as she walked, "Alright fine, here I'll call you Houle." The scareon gave a happy scaarrree noise as it followed her. Willow had luckily seen the class notice right before the class started so she slipped into the room with the scareon behind her and signed up.

Savage almost fell out of her chair. Norvie was taking minipet training too? She gave him a nod of approval and a wicked toothy grin that wasn't entirely unpleasant. It was a relief to see another professor having minipet troubles. Savage, her self, owned no minipets of her own. But the bats didn't seem like they were about to go anywhere anytime soon so might as well learn how to deal.

If only she had her sunglasses on her...

Cricket did not go unnoticed. Nor the fact that she made no attempt to sit near Savage or Norvie. The fact that Cricket maybe really just wanted to sit away from what was work related never got calculated in the professors brain. Instead the ginger leviathan took it a bit as an insult. So of course Savage made a point to grin and wave at her a little more excitedly then she had with Norvie.

"HELLO CRICKET~" She cried as fake cheerful as she could. No, Savage did not know Cricket to well. But she didn't care. Savage folded her arms behind her head and kicked back leaning back like she was some kind of deliquescent student. Before Savage could get to comfortable she noticed a familiar winged ghoul waving at her. Oh! She remembered her. Helena was it? Savage couldn't rightfully remember the students actual name but she did remember the face at the very least.

"Oh hello~ So nice to see you taking this class Helena~" Savage used the name she was unsure of any ways. None the less, the greeting was sincere.

Hel grinned as Amphi approached, giving the mermaid a fond wave as she nodded her head. “Indeed we will be! It is important to train everything, ya?” She glanced over at the other ghoul the mermaid called out to, and then gave another parting wave to Amphi as she moved off to speak to her. “Alright, I look forward to it!”

The reaper’s grin widened as Professor Savage greeted her in return. Though for a brief moment, her expression couldn’t help but falter. Helena?

…

Close enough.

She’d let it slide because in her books, Professor Savage was just that awesome. “You too as well, Professor! I uh…did not know professors took classes as well…” She replied, glancing around at the other professors as well. Curious indeed.

When Jove arrived at minipet class, it was nervously. He was tempted to just skip all his classes altogether, but for some reason, he couldn't just hide away in his room and try and block out the world. So he continued almost like the most wooden of undead, shambling around outside at night, only giving half his attention to routine tasks during the day.

The foxfire he clutched tightly seemed to sense this fragile state, and alternated it's usual wiggling with attempts to lick Jove's face and fingers. All his foxfires had been like that, swarming their favourite little friend the moment they sensed his nervous uncertainty.

But there was only so much a little foxfire could do. Fruitloup paused as Jove entered the room, and with a delighted tail wag it squirmed free and wiggle-danced it's way straight to Ren, who it recognized from the gryphon's frequent visits.