"Who are you?" Petra asked warily, hand straying to her sword. The girl's green eyes flickered to Petra's hand, and she put her hands up in surrender. "Whoa there cowgirl, let's... maybe calm down a bit? Here, let's- yeah, let's introduce ourselves? I'm Ariza. Ariza Luca. You can call me Riz though, but I'd prefer just Ariza. And I'm rambling. Let me shut up." Which she did.

Even through Jesse's wary stance, she couldn't help but let a smile flicker over her face. Ariza looked pleased at that, before moving her hands and putting them on her hips, shoving her bag aside slightly. "Well? What about you guys?"

"I'm Jesse," Jesse introduced herself, before gesturing at her friends. "And this here is Petra-" Petra moved her hand in a slow, still-wary wave. "-Ivor-" Ivor jerked his head in a little nod. "- Olivia-" The dark-skinned girl nodded slightly at Ariza. "- Lukas-" Lukas gave her a faint salute, a faint smile coming onto his face. "And Axel." The burly boy crossed his arms and looked at Ariza, who had to be at least a head shorter than him. "Nice to meet you," Jesse finished.

Ariza's hand plunged into her bag, and she raised a torch out of it, clicking a flint and steel over the tip and igniting it. "Sorry, it's dim as Hades in here," she apologized, wavering firelight illuminating the room. Now Jesse and the others could properly see Ariza's face; it was very nice and her reflective green eyes were crinkled up slightly in a small smile.

"Nice to meet you," Jesse repeated, a faint smile coming over her face as she gave the black-and-red haired girl a smile.

"Ditto. Now c'mon, you should probably come meet the others before they overreact and all come charging in here like bulls," and Ariza gave a smile to show that she was only joking.

"There are more people here?" Jesse asked, feeling a sickening sense of deja vu. With that sense of deja vu came the glint of a diamond axe and a pair of gold eyes behind a white pumpkin, a wicked laugh ringing in her ears.

"Yep! About... um, five others, so far. Now we have twelve people. C'mon, they're all in the library... I think. I might be wrong," and with a little laugh Ariza led them out of the potion room, keeping the torch up. Jesse could see why; even with the torches in the hallway it was still quite dim and a bit spooky; with the wavering firelight pulsing against the stone walls.

"So what are you doing here, then?" Jesse asked, hands in her pockets. They bumped the flint and steel and the Atlas, which she automatically closed her hands on as she tightened her grip in worry.

"Well, it's a little bit of a funny story- turn right here," and Ariza swung a sharp right down another hallway, which the others followed her down. "The six of us that are here got this invitation... it didn't say much, though. Just to come. At least I know everyone that came... well, I did, until I met you guys. Did you guys get an invitation, too?"

Jesse grimaced a bit. "Sort of."

"Ah." Ariza didn't press her for details. "And... left here... I think... ah, yep, here we go. Sorry, these hallways are like a freaking maze," and she pushed open some double doors. Jesse squinted in the sudden light that illuminated the place.

A black blur pelted at the black-and-red haired girl, who was shaking out the torch, and tackled her backwards, making Ariza let out a squeak as she stumbled backwards, dropping the thankfully-no-longer-burning torch. "Ariza-saaaaannnnnnn!"

Jesse was fairly certain that all six members of the Order of the Stone simultaneously blinked here. Now hugging Ariza so tightly Ariza looked as though she couldn't breathe was a girl with tan skin, black hair, and brown eyes. She was wearing a black t-shirt with the saying "Don't Stop Won't Stop" emblazoned across it, and some jeans. She also had a pair of rather prominent cat ears on her head, but Jesse put that down to them being a headband.

Then they twitched happily and Jesse jumped a bit.

"Oh my gosh you're baaacccckkkk who are these guys where'd you find them what were they doing-"

"Rebekah," Ariza squeaked, "can't... breathe..."

The black-haired girl released Ariza immediately, who wasted no time in gulping in huge amounts of air and gasping loudly. "One question at a time, please," Ariza added, still inhaling deeply as she tried to catch her breath.

Rebekah gave Ariza a sheepish grin, which Ariza returned, before peeking over the slightly-taller-girl's shoulder at the six people standing behind her. "Hi! I'm Rebekahtpe! But call me Rebekah!" she said, cheerfully, before reaching out and seeming to pull a different girl from out of nowhere into the vicinity; a girl wearing a green sweater that was green at the top and faded to white at the bottom with a weird smiley face on it. She had thick dark brown hair that reached a little ways past her shoulders and almond-shaped brown eyes. Her skin tone definitely had an Asian tone to it, and she wore gray yoga pants and sneakers, as well as a colorful array of hair ties upon her wrist. "And this is Veggie Girl!"

"Rebekah, I said I don't like being called that," the other girl grumbled slightly, as Ariza chuckled a bit, before looking at Jesse and the others. "I'm BonkChoy, but you can call me Choy. Or Cho. I don't really care much..." And she smiled at them.

"Hey, what's going on over here?" Another girl popped over, with short brown hair over a freckled face. She had brown eyes which were slightly hidden by her black-rimmed glasses, and was wearing a black hoodie with a creeper face on it; rainbow-and-white-striped sleeves the only part of the hoodie which was not black or green. She was wearing some brown boots under a pair of blue jeans.

"Hey, Toni," Ariza said, before gesturing at the six of them behind her. "This is Jesse, Ivor, Petra, Lukas, Axel, and Olivia." She rattled all of this off in under thirty seconds and pointed at each one depending on their name.

Toni turned to them and smiled at them. "Well, hey. I'm Antonia, but you can just call me Toni."

The doorway was getting very crowded by now, and it got even more crowded as two other girls trotted over. One had mid-length wavy dark-brown hair with a green-dyed streak in her hair and dark brown eyes, with slightly bushy eyebrows, and tan skin. She was wearing dark, skinny boyfriend jeans with a black belt and gray converse, as well as a somewhat-short-sleeved shirt with the collar and sleeves being dark green with some brown suspenders over it. The other one had hazel eyes which were hidden slightly behind a pair of purple glasses, and blonde-brown hair that was in a braid. She was wearing a pink t-shirt, faded jeans, and sneakers as well, and she was the one who spoke first. "Okay, what the f**k is going on?" she asked, bluntly.

Ariza chuckled, rubbing her head a bit. "Ah, yeah, introductions. This is Becky."

"Not Becca?" Ivor checked.

"No, it's Becky," the blonde-brown haired girl shot back, scowling at Ivor slightly.

"This is Becky, who curses a good deal," Ariza finished, "don't worry about it, or take offense. She just swears a lot."

"Damn straight," Becky agreed bluntly.

"And this," Ariza leaned over and poked the wavy-haired girl next to her, "is Samantha GirlOfMyOwnWorld, but you can call her Sammy or Gommie."

"I prefer Gommie, though," Gommie interjected, a bit too loudly.

"And... yeah, I think that's everyone," Ariza said, looking around at the others, before smiling at the wide-eyed Order of the Stone, who were gaping at the girls. "Welp, so that's all of us! Any questions?"

A/N: Haha xD And the Authors have been introduced! Featured in this story are GirlOfMyOwnWorld (Gommie), Toni42 (Toni), NoItsBecky (Becky), ChoyofBonk (Cho) and rebekahtpe (Rebekah), and then there's me, obviously xD This was mostly introductions and stuffs, next chapter some stuff is gonna go dooowwwwwn.

Luna96: Hm! It's not bad. I feel like you should only use some aspects of the plotline and come up with a lot of it on your own; because this way no one can accuse you of ripping it off or something, and I would like to see what you come up with by yourself :)

NoItsBecky: Lol xD

NinjaCat: Hey, cool! Me too! (I'm literally making most of this up as I go along... I have no idea what's going to happen except for general certain events xD )

angelwings: Aw, I'm sorry you were sad :( but on the bright side, welcome back!

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