Sequel to The Siren's Call. If you haven't read it yet then I recommend you read it first before this.

Will attempt to update once a week.

Enjoy :)

Disclaimer: Homestuck belongs to Andrew Hussie.

"Okay everyone! We're meeting right back here after lunch so one hour exactly! Don't be late!" the announcer shouted with her megaphone. Once she was done she hopped off her little stand and scampered off to get lunch.

Nepeta had convinced Karkat to accompany her to the new student orientation at their university. She would have had asked Equius but her matesprit was still back in their home town and would be arriving the next day. The same was for all the other second and third years in their group since they had already gone to the orientation on their first days. Plus the university was on the other side of the country so they want to spend what little summer days of what they had left with their families. The only reason why Karkat was there was because his parents didn't want Nepeta to be alone in the new university and that her big brother had to drive her anyways. The other new first years like Jade and Tavros were supposed to be there but for some reason they were nowhere in sight. A university had thousands of students after all so there were most likely lost in the crowd.

"Where's the best place to eat?" Nepeta asked as she excitedly looked around at her new school.

"It's a little far and we might not have enough time but the cafeteria near here isn't so bad," Karkat explained and led the way. As he walked some troll bumped into his shoulder from walking the other way.

"Watch where you're fucking going!" Karkat and the stranger simultaneously shouted.

"Whoa that was weird," Nepeta commented as she looked at the perpetrator. He was just a little shorter than Karkat and had a strange orange symbol on his shirt. Upon further inspection it was the symbol for anarchy.

"Asshole keep your eyes on the road," the rude troll flipped the bird at Karkat and ran off.

"Fucking first years," Karkat cursed and looked back at Nepeta who had a raised brow, "You know I don't mean you."

"Yes yes dear big brother. Let's go now," Nepeta put on an amused smile and the two continued walking.

They continued onwards to the student run cafeteria that was having a free event for orientation days to show off the cooking department of the university. For that day only the cafeteria was turned into a restaurant so all they had to do was sit down and order.

"This university is so cool!" Nepeta exclaimed as she looked through the menu.

"Wait till you see the private dorm."

"Oh that's right! Feferi made us our own purrsonal building hehe."

"Yeah and she refused to let us stay in the mediocre dorms the school gives us."

After the first group to graduate had entered the university Feferi began construction on a building just for herself and her friends to stay at that was near the university. It had a large living room where everyone could sit and hang out or have movie nights with a gigantic plasma TV, a nice big bedroom for each student complete with amazing furniture, their symbol on the door of their bedrooms, one large dinner table for everyone to eat at if not at school, a pool, nice big washrooms upstairs with the bedrooms and a few small ones downstairs, a kitchen complete with professional chefs that appear to work all the time, and a beautiful backyard with flowers and a hot tub. It was like a top class condo for everyone or something along that sort.

Rose and Kanaya had worried that it was too luxurious for them but Feferi argued that it would be better to study in comfort and it would be fun to have them all living together in one building like that. She made it for them and not just for her so it wasn't as luxurious as her mansion. It appeared to be a little 'rich' for everyone's taste but it was comfortable. It was finished after the first semester of Eridan's first year and everyone didn't want to just leave it there to sit and be unused, she had made it for all of them in mind after all and so they all moved in. It felt quite empty with just the few older trolls living in it alone until Karkat's level came in and now it was almost full with Nepeta and the rest of her level joining in. The rest agreed it was a good idea because they did not want to room with some random stranger that could be a potential future annoying roommate.

"I can't wait to see the inside!" Nepeta and Karkat's flight had arrived early in the morning just in time for the orientation to start so all he could do was drop of their bags in the dorm before heading straight to the university.

"Yeah it's nice. We're lucky to be friends with the highest troll in power," Karkat said quietly with a smile.

Ever since the incident three years ago a lot had changed. The hierarchy of the hemospectrum disappeared and even if there were a few others who still believed that it should be intact, no one actually took action to protest against it. Trolls still wore their blood colours with their insignias somewhere on their clothes though. It was a tradition hard to break. Karkat still stuck to his grey sign if it was large and noticeable on his clothes but he had a few outfits where a small red version of his symbol could be seen in subtle areas. Like now there was one on the pocket of his pants. Unless people where being dicks, most of the trolls treated each other as equals and could soon be seen like the humans minus their obvious appearance differences. The only time where people would see each other as higher than another would be through job levels, experiences, ages, school levels, and so on like usual but most of it was no longer from their blood colour.

"Oooo this looks delicious," Nepeta clapped once their food arrived.

"Enjoy! And remember the taste! You could learn how to cook just like this too if you join the program!" the server happily chirped before serving the rest. Karkat rolled his eyes. He heard the exact same line last year.

"Oh delicious!" Nepeta took a bite of her pasta dish.

"The chefs at the dorm can make better. If you want a recipe you can always ask them," Karkat stated and dug into his free stir fry.

"Pst hey isn't that the Signless' kid."

"Oh yeah I heard he was here but I thought it was just rumors."

"But look it's really him," the table beside them whispered. Karkat put up his left elbow and covered his face from them with his hand with a scowl.

Ever since the incident he had been getting popular as well. Rumors of the children of the rebellion had spread ever since the incident and many had come up to Karkat to ask what happened in high school and in his first year of university. Even though everyone in the group was talked about, Karkat and the Signless with the red mutant blood were the most popular. He did like how no one called his father the Sufferer any more but all this attention was getting on his nerves. He had tried to avoid getting any attention all his life and now no matter where he went he was the center of it.

Karkat noticed Nepeta trying to eat faster, probably to get out of there sooner, and he stopped her, "It's okay, slow down before you choke. This kind of thing is to be fucking expected. This year they're just tamer. You should have seen them last year they were practically mobbing me and I was run over by crowds multiple times. It was a fucking hurricane my first weeks here."

Nepeta couldn't help but giggle.

"Don't be all chummy with whoever comes up to you okay. Most of them will just want to ask about what happened three years ago and some of them get aggressive if you don't tell them," Karkat warned.

"I think I'll be okay. Especially when Equius is here since he likes to scare off any guys that come near me. Oh and some girls if they're being mean."

"Yeah I trust him with that. Okay well we should get back before the group goes on ahead of us."

"Okay!"

The two finished and headed back to the meeting point. On the way there a petit troll ran towards them and bumped into Karkat before falling down.

"Ow. Oh I'm so sorry!" the troll girl quickly scrambled up and dusted herself off. She looked too young to be a university student probably a high schooler at most.

"Are you okay?" Nepeta asked concerned.

"Yes! I'm fine so sorry about that! Ah I'm late," the girl was about to run off again but looked up at Karkat's face, "Oh my gosh it's the Signless' kid!"

"Great," Karkat sighed.

"Dammit I want to ask you sooooo many questions. Argh," she shook her arms in frustration, "Oh I hope I run into you again."

The girl checked her watch and ran off, "Sorry again!"

As she passed Karkat saw the dark teal sign on her arm of a constellation.

"Good now let's get back before something like that happens again," Karkat quickly ushered his sister ahead.

"Hehe can't handle the popurrlarity Karkitty?"

"Never wanted it."

The two went back to the meet up point and followed the group around for more tours and explanations of programs and such. By the end of the tour they had the option of going to see the band for opening ceremonies of they could just leave. Karkat of course wanted to leave but Nepeta insisted on staying and watching the band. There wasn't a band the previous year so he used that mindset to make himself go. The crowd was large but thankfully all their attention was put onto the stage. The performance was held in the middle of the courtyard of the university. Once the crowd appeared to be at its fullest, the girl that had bumped into them earlier walked up to the microphone.

"Hello Skaiternia University! Are you all ready to rock?" the small troll shouted to the crowd and the people in turn shouted back at her with excitement, including Nepeta.

Karkat frowned and looked around at the rest of the band members and found that other troll that was rude to him earlier was the drummer. Great now he wanted to leave even more and the people pushing against him as they were jumping to the music didn't help either. After a few minutes one person pushed into him quite roughly but a soft and familiar voice apologized. Karkat turned to the person and his eyes widened in shock.

"Zylpha?" he said normally but his voice was lost over the music and cheering of the crowd. The sea troll didn't look at him until he tapped her shoulder and her eyes widened a bit as well once they made eye contact. The two began to push through the crowd to get out and Karkat pulled Nepeta along with him. Once they were out of the crowd he gasped for air.

"Hey what's the big deal Karkitty I thought we were going to sta- Zylpha!" Nepeta cried and jumped at the sea troll to give her a big hug.

"It's nice to see you too!" Zylpha stepped back to hold her ground. Over the past three years the sea troll had decided to grow out her hair again and it went back to the length from when they first met.

"What a surprise. Thought you said you weren't going to go to school and just concentrate on the hotel?" Karkat couldn't help but give her a small smile.

She smiled back, "The hotel only gets busy in the summer so I can leave everything else to the rest of the workers for the rest of the seasons. After a year of just working at a mostly empty hotel for the non-busy seasons I decided to come to school to gain further knowledge on the business which is why I am here to take a Major in Tourism Management."

"So technically you'll be a first year like me!" Nepeta exclaimed cheerfully.

"Yes technically. What are you two taking?"

"I'm going to major in Communication and Culture and try for a minor in Dance later on~," Nepeta shared in a sing song voice.

"Computer Engineering. Well good thing you're here or that extra room would have gone to waste," Karkat began to head towards the dorms.

"Extra room?" Zylpha questioned as she followed.

"Feferi made an extra room in our purrsonalized dorm just in case you efur decided to come to school with us! This is simply purrfect!" Nepeta bounded ahead with excitement.

"Oh that's right she did speak of the dorm she made. I didn't expect her to have a room for me though. I went ahead and got one of the normal dorm rooms."

"Well get your money back to get out of that soon to be hell hole and get your stuff moved over here. She made it for all of us so it'd be a waste not to use it."

"Alright oh powerful leader," Nepeta giggled at Zylpha's comment. Karkat just rolled his eyes and lead them to the fancy building at the end of the campus. Zylpha looked up at it in awe after they crossed some sort of security gate, "Doesn't this attract a lot of attention?"

"It does but thanks to the fucking overload gate and security guards set up we don't get bothered. We're allowed all of this cause of what happened to us and the university doesn't want a commotion so they allowed it."

"And of course it helps with Feferi being the Empurress." Nepeta hummed as three walked inside to the lobby of their temporary home for the school year.

Before Nepeta and Zylpha could go explore the new building a voice called out to them, "Karkat is that you?"

"Kanaya?" the three walked towards the large living room to find Kanaya standing at the entrance and everyone else inside, "What? I thought everyone was coming later."

"Feferi kind of shoved all of us onto one of her private jets in a hurry and sent us over here. We grabbed some stuff to stay a few days and the rest of our stuff will be sent later," John explained, "But what for we're not sure yet. She just dropped us off here and then left telling us to wait here."

"Wwhoa is that Zyl?" Eridan called from the back of the room as the three entered to wait with the rest.

"Hi everyone," she sheepishly waved.

"Heeeeeeeey you made it!" Vriska walked over and put an arm around the sea troll.

"Yes I ran into Karkat and Nepeta during orientation."

"Oh did you guys go see the band? Tavros and I skipped that part cause we got a text from Feferi telling us to meet at the dorm," Jade added.

Karkat looked at his phone and found an unread message. He looked over to Nepeta who just turned on her phone and same with Zylpha.

"Chirth't KK you really need a new phone," Sollux said for about the thousandth time.

"Shut up. I was stuck in a big ass crowd full of screaming people so of course I wouldn't be able to hear the notification."

"But the text, was sent, an hour before the band, playing," Tavros stuttered and slowed down once Karkat was glaring at him.

"Man it don't matter now brothers and sisters. We're all together as one big group again like back in motherfucking high school and now all we gotta do is wait for lil sis to return with some miraculous news."

Karkat raised an eyebrow before checking the long sent text. )(ey guys. Meet me at the dorm I )(ave urgent news.

"I wonder how urgent the news is if it requires flying us to the other side of the country so suddenly like this," Terezi gave a good point.

"It's probably nothin' all that big. She might havve just been excited to havve evveryone together again as wwell."

Just as Eridan finished his sentence the door to the dorm opened again. With the entire group already there the only person it could be was Feferi. The group just waited as they heard footsteps approach but something was off. It sounded like two pairs of footsteps were approaching. Now who on earth would be with her. Soon the young empress poked her head in sheepishly.

"Hi," she greeted with a face of nervousness. Now that was an odd look to see on the Pisces.

"Oh so this is where all your friends are?" an unnaturally sweet voice rang behind her. The sounds of high heels clicking onto the floor rang through the air until it stopped right behind Feferi and there standing behind the young empress was Her Imperious Condescension smiling sweetly.

Happy New Year :)