Jade and Vriska were walking back down the corridor. "Thank goodness Sollux is okay." Jade mumbled. As they continued on, they over heard Karkat talking to John.
"…that Kankri had freaked out and won't talk. Considering what's going on at the school and the fact that something's upsetting the Seers of the castles can't be good."
Jade listened, but then a thought dawned on her. "Rose!" She pulled out a mirror from her bag, tracing a few letters on its surface. Lil' Seb's face appeared. "Is Rose okay?"
Lil' Seb shook his head no. "Ask later okay?" With that the mirror's surface returned to normal.
The corridors were much calmer now since most of the students had gone back to their dorms. Jade looked up and noticed someone she hadn't seen before. He seemed like walking death, walking on with a blank face. "Hello!" Meulin shouted behind them. Vriska turned to her," Do you know who that is?" She pointed towards the stranger. Meulin looked over, then smiled.
"Oh, that's Kurloz!" She smiled. Jade and Vriska looked back and forth from Kurloz to Meulin. "He's my teammate. He usually tries to save his energy, so that might be why you haven't seen him around before!" She waved at him. He noticed, quickly came over. He towered over them, staring down to see everyone. "Are you feeling better?" Meulin asked. Kurloz nodded. "Let's go on a mission!" Meulin said excitedly, already headed over to the missions assignment office. Kurloz gave a quick wave goodbye, then followed Meulin.
"That was… strange." Vriska said. They stood there in silence. A large explosion got their attention and they quickly headed over to investigate.
Porrim and Horuss stumbled out of the dorm. "It won't blow up this time my a-" Porrim coughed, then noticed Jade and Vriska. "Hello. Can you guys help us out here?"
"You need to get the flammable things out, right?" Jade asked.
"Yes," Horuss coughed a bit," before it gets any worse."
Jade crinkled up her nose at the smell, but headed inside the building. The smell of smoke and gunpowder was stronger inside, chokingly stronger. She grabbed any explosives she could and quickly shoved then into her bag. As she looked around, she couldn't see anything else that could possibly explode. She stumbled out coughing. "Here," she emptied a pile of explosives at their feet.
Horuss smiled a bit," Thanks."
Jade and Vriska started going away from the burning dorm, trying to get some distance in a case there was an explosive left inside. They were near completely across the school when they saw an explosion in front of them. Although it wasn't as destructive as the explosion in Horuss and Porrim's dorm, it still blasted out a few windows. The door flung open and Rufioh stumbled out followed by some black smoke. He fell to his knees coughing.
Jade and Vriska hurried over. "Are you alright?" Jade asked trying to help him up with help from Vriska.
"That's the third time you guys have blown up your dorm this…" Vriska fell silent for a moment, noticing a large pair of butterfly wings on Rufioh's back as the smoke around him cleared. "…week."
Rufioh blinked a few times, then noticed their gazes and looked over his shoulder. His eyes widened. "Hey doll!" He said loudly," Can you explain something?"
Damara walked out of the dorm. Her gaze immediately fell on the wings. She smirked and said something in a weird tongue.
Rufioh's eyes widened. "What?!" He shook his head," Why do I have wings?"
Damara laughed and spoke the odd language. She smirked. "I mess up. He be okay." As she said this she slipped Rufioh's arm over her shoulder, supporting his weight. "He just be dizzy, okay?" She explained.
"Is this going to be like when you turned my hair partially orange? Because it's still like that." Rufioh asked. Damara laughed as they walked off to find a healer.
"We should probably head back to our dorm."
"Way ahead of you dog girl."
As they headed back Vriska accidentally ran into someone. She looked up to notice Dualscar's glare. "So, did you finish your essay, Serket?" He questioned.