{ The School Office } [Re-Open] PAGE 36: THE CALLING

[endejester]

Pachua's feather's ruffled in irritation and an attempt to stay warm and he -sighed-, could they just be in trouble or not in trouble and have done with?

"That...swirly thing... at the end that reminded me of Uncle Kha's eyes when he's trying to convince you he didn't take the last rodent... only odder if thats possible...and you picked SOMETHING off the stage..."
He folded his arms and tried not to look cold before yawning again.  

[Lilwolfpard]

"Some weird s**t clearly went down there." Remi mentioned, late to the party as always as he opened the office door in time to hear the question about anything weird happening. His tail swishing in irritation. Remi was glad they were in the top three teams... they made it through all the rounds. But that 'final boss' at the end was nothing BUT creepy.

"Clearly was not normal.. and that weird nameless ??? whatever their name was smacking us down like flies when in our weakened state."

"They dropped that weird thing that you picked up too, Arel." He wondered where it was eying the secretary warily. Still not that happy being held back.  

[Roxy_roxanna2]

"Unusual? That whole thing was unusual....most of us aren't even sure what exactly happened. All I know if that one minute I was in a competition of a lifetime...for my life...and the next you were flung like a ragdoll and ??? was battering us harder then we'd managed to beat the daylights out of each other. I have bruises! Look at my complexion! Bruises...ugh they look wretched on me." She huffed and crossed her arms glancing at Alcie and davi in truth she was more upset that at the end she and her friends had taken the beating and walked away...well they hadn't WON. It was just an added insult to the long list of injuries.

"So...what was that thing you picked up? Is that our prize?" She raised a brow curiously, she wanted a trophy or something, some proof that she and hers had stood their ground when others hadn't been able to. Okay so that was a lie, it would be more like proof that she and hers were jack damn lucky, so lucky that they hadn't been targeted for painful elimination like others.
 

[Discordancy]

She was a little late to the party; but not so much as to avoid Arel's question. Davi let the others answer for her as she slid into the office, still walking a little heavily. One of her eyes was still an, albeit fading, angry plum color; there were pink welts striping her arms, where the fur wouldn't grow back for a bit. As the garou's eyes drifted over Sin and Alcyone, she might have agreed with the succubus: save that she wasn't so much angry that the Harlots hadn't won - more that the stupid ??? thing that had hurt her like this was still jackdamned standing.

Well, she assumed it was.

"Rain's got it right," Davi piped in, finally. Her tail thumped listlessly against her legs as the monster made her way over to her demonic bandmates. "The stage, uh. Opened. Like the flytraps-" and the loup-garou did her best impression of the flowers' snapping jaws with her claws- "and there was sky and land underneath. Weird sky," she added as an afterthought. Maybe she'd taken one too many knocks, since she didn't seem to be quite herself.  

[Nothing Yet]

Hearing what seemed to be an already very active discussion, Shine slipped into the office, hoping that her tardiness might go unnoticed. Being late to an appointment at the Office couldn't be a good thing.

It didn't take the zombie long to figure out what the conversation was about, despite her general lack of basic reasoning skills.

"It was kind of pretty..." she tacked on groggily, trying to remember what she'd seen. "..like um, a dream?" Had she been dreaming? She felt so tired now, but everything ached, and the fight that she and her friends had endured felt very real. Frowning, she walked to her bandmates and looped her arms around theirs in a half-hug before speaking up again.

"Why would you take our prize...?" she asked Arel, astonished that he would do such a thing. He hadn't sung or played or done anything that all of the students here had done!  

[Paperghost]

She could have sworn she'd gotten the time right... at least she thought so.. sort of. Though as Mai approached the office she could hear students already in discussion.. so maybe she wasn't so sure.

In any case, she tried to make her entry as unobtrusive as possible while she listened in on the conversation. After a moment, she managed to grasp the gist of things and offered, "I saw... something that looked like an island.. maybe?" She shook her head slightly. "But things were kind of hectic.. I'm not really sure what I saw."

Feeling like that was all she had available to contribute at that moment, Mai peered around for a place to sit. She didn't see anything in her immediate vicinity, so she settled for Pachua's lap... totally ignoring any possibility that he might take issue with her doing so.  

[lizbot]

Emily stared in horror. Of all the terrible scenarios she'd imagined since the semi-finals, she had never even considered that there would be a test. She hadn't even studied. What had her brother said about quizzes? He had given her somesort of advice about them, and Aardvark had always managed to score well without ever seeming to study. He had said...he had said...

"Um...ah....choice B?" Emily stared wide-eyed at the secretary, practically willing the answer to be correct. Wait...no one's else answer had involved letters. She should add something...what had happened...what oh! There was..."And a portal?!"  

[Zoobey]

"A prize?!" The secretary had stood up, chair scraping noisily behind him, some of the weaker icicles clinging to the bottom of the chair rungs shuddering and falling - clink clink- onto the ground. Both hands pressed against the desk, he leaned towards the students. "You- you first years go in to some event, WITHOUT PERMISSION, may I add, think it is okay to participate and fight and think you'll get a Jack be Damned PRIZE?! You have NO clu-"

- His desk suddenly hiccuped violently, and his shadow leaned forward, curving in an unnatural angle around the secretary, clearly not his own. Arel jumped an inch, looked guiltily towards "HELLMA'S OFFICE", and took a deep breath. The room seemed to have dropped considerably colder.

"The ghost girl - Mai is correct." Calmer now, he pulled out from the top drawer a folder, opening it. They were all labelled "Student report" and had pictures of all nine perpetrators' image plastered on each sheet. There was a large red circle around their name. "It was a tough fight, it was late, there were a lot of people, a lot-" he stressed this word -" Was going on. It was hectic, you are not really sure at all what you saw, and it better be kept that way if you do NOT want to get into further trouble."

Arel did not wait for anyone to protest. It was clear that he meant it as a request, not a statement. "Red thinks you should not be suspended, Hellma would rather put you all in the Princess Corner, but unfortunately, I am ultimately responsible for your fates." Each student profile was flipped back and forth, from Remi, to Pachua, to Davinca, to Sin, to Rain, back and forth. He seemed unaware of the tension he was creating from his to-be verdict as he worked silently, assessing each student. "Well, most of you have not had issues in the past. As much as I would love to suspend you all, it would be more dangerous for your to stay at home as you have been marked-"

-His table shook violently again, and the shadow circling Arel gave a low growl. "-Marked... with a bad grade, I have been REQUESTED to give you these."

The secretary pulled out nine of them, but they oddly looked smaller, the rune more faded than glowing intensely, unlike during the band fiasco.

"If it happens that you get atta-" The desk shook, knocking Arel's cider cup right over - "You will know when you will need it. Just hang on to it or something, it would suck for you to lose it if -" another shake - "When things get wor-" his papers were falling like drifting snow off his desk - "Just hang on to it okay. It's freaking harmless anyway, I made sure of it when I repli- FOR JACK'S SAKE HELLMA IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING AGAINST MY SPEECH THEN YOU SAY IT."

It was clear the conversation was over as the secretary trounced over to HELLMA'S OFFICE and knocked on it furiously, attempting to move a doorknob that would not open. The pendants that Arel had put on the desk had long been shaken off, and lay sprawled on the floor, one for each student. Well, the secretary had said that they didn't do anything, right? It was probably a wise move to just take one and keep stored in memory for later. After all, the entire incident had been one chaotic blur more than anything else.



((OOC: It looks like Remi, Pachua, Mai, Davinca, Sin, Alycone, Rain, Shine, and Emily have ended up with a 'replica' pendant of their own! I recommend keeping it somewhere safe until the right time...

Also you have been each awarded + 1 growth points for showing up. Yay!)  

[Molten Tigrex]

Aymet lounged in one of the chairs in the office, by the door he'd come in through. Arel may or may not have been around - the desk was stacked too high with miscellaneous paper to see over. Ms. Winters sent him for detention, but he didn't have the faintest idea what one of those was. Did he bring it to her when he got it or something?

"You weren't supposed to get out!" he complained to the thing in his backpack. It whined back. "Stay in there next time. Bad dog. Bad."

This just elicited more whining and a little scratching.  

[Rii_Hon]

He didn't feel exactly pleased as he headed into the office. Not in the least. Detention? Him?? Seriously?! A heavy sigh ripped through him as he went and plunked himself down into a seat, shifting back accordingly and crossing his ankles. Well, he supposed it was to be expected... though no one had thought that the teachers would have showed up anyway -_- but still. He hoped whatever they got wouldn't be too bad, though.

He had noticed the other students there as well, but he was kind of in a dark mood so he didn't say anything as of yet. It also seemed the boil was busy being displeased with his pet, so he figured it best to let him be for the time being.  

[Lucifer Force]

Well, it was a valiant effort nonetheless. And at least most other people had gotten detention with her, so it wasn't like she was by herself or anything. Still, how embarrassing was that? Oh well. They'd made good memories. Or something. Right?

Carthusia plunked herself down next to Livius and signed. "Well... let's get this over with. Still, glad I didn't stay to see what Hellma cooked up..."  

[Huni Pi]

This was Maritess' second time to be doing the flight of shame to the school office. The first time had been because she had posted on the Singles Board. Something she would never have done back home. This time she was here because she joined in a game of Truth or Dare (she never even got her turn, not that she would have known what to do with it). Granted she would have done this back home, it would have been with closed friends and with complete parental knowledge and consent. If there was a pattern forming here, Tess was refusing to see it.

She was too upset that it hadn't been a nightmare.

When she arrived, she saw some of the other students. And spotted Livi with a ghoul she vaguely remembered from the Freakuent Flyer tryouts. While she wasn't that familiar with the boil, she figured it couldn't hurt to at least be near someone her friends were well acquainted with. While the beating of her wings made no sound, they displaced air enough that would draw notice.  

[Enoh Love]

Amrita sighed heavily. When she had been told there would be detention, she nearly cried. She didn't even mean to end up at the Truth or Dare game! But, she supposed, she could have left before Hellma and Red showed up. Oh well. It was too late now! So with heavy feet she shuffled towards the office, going to report for the detention she was pretty sure (but not positive) that she deserved.

When she spotted Livi in the room, she did give him a little wave, absently shuffling closer to her 'mentor'. Well, until Maritess showed up anyway. Then the ghoul moved closer to her fellow actress and fellow Undead. She'd never had detention before! The thought was terrifying.  

[Toshihiko Two]

Being hauled back to the dorms had been...not the worst thing that had happened to him all night, honestly.

He'd been dreading the long and cold walk back. If Hellma wanted to volunteer for carrying- it hadn't been gentle, admittedly, but it hadn't been walking, either.

Now fully clothed (and maybe bundled up a little more than usual) he dropped onto the floor of the office next to Carry and Livi, leaning against the wall. There were only so many seats, and there had been a lot of students playing Truth or Dare.

Next time Christof wanted to drag him off somewhere in the middle of the night, he was going to do his best to be extremely heavy. He didn't hold anything against Carry for her dare, although he did wish she hadn't thrown his clothes quite so far.

"She carried us back," Barth said. "Err, her shadow things did, anyway. And dropped us off back at the dorms."  

[MoonKitsune]

He was here at the office again, a place he swore he would try everything in his power never to enter. How did such a fun game turn most fowl, and once again, it was Hellma – and yet a new threat. Red. Whlle he was still glad he hadn't stayed, he kicked himself that he had been SO CLOSE to escaping. He and G had made it all the way to their dormitory, displaying true monster skill superior to the rest who had all been caught beforehand. However, she had been waiting for him and here he was. HERE! THE WORST PLACE EVER only second to whatever place they might be sent to.

Stepping in, Calder looked to a few students he saw during the game and slowly went over to sit down. His complexion was pale – even more than usual – and he had a sick look about him. "Ohhh…this is bad." He said to himself, starting to rock. He remembered THE OTHER BATHROOM! It still haunted him to this day, and he still couldn't go near soap without being wary that it would turn into a monster and eat him. He only hoped there wasn't an OTHER OTHER SUBBATHROOM to go to, and bite his lower lip, wondering what was in store. All things pointed to NOT GOOD.

"First punishing us for being romantic and now punishing us for having fun. This school is a prison." He huffed, rubbing his arms as he rocked a bit in his seat. He needed to find his happy place. Happy place. Happy place.