The room was a light grey colour. It was quite possibly four times the size of Eas's room, but it was also housing to people. A bed rested on either side of the room, and one dresser that was shared stood between the door and the right wall. A girl who looked to be of French origin was setting up a table of snacks at the far wall of the room. Her long blonde hair had a small wave in it. Her eyes were an astonishing green, practically illuminating her pale face.
"Who's that?" She caught notice of the group as they entered the room.
"This is Eas! She's the newcomer everyone was talking about, well, they where talking about Krowley first, but now they are talking about her." Sarra smiled.
Seraphina nodded and returned to her work, setting up a tray of fruits.
"That's Seraphina; she's not usually in such a bad mood…" Mizuki trailed off as she returned a glare from Sarra. "Never mind, I'll tell you later." She whispered. Eas nodded in confusion.
The twins plopped down on Alexandreina's flower printed bed as they watched Seraphina finish the preparations.
"I do love how you guys are so willing to help me out here, especially since this wasn't even my plan!" Seraphina growled.
"Sorry!" Sarra hurried to help with the food, pulling a sack of chips open and shoving them in a bowl.
Mizuki chuckled. "I wouldn't want to get my hands all dirty from the food! I'll leave that for you guys!" Seraphina glared at her, chucking the heaviest thing she could find in her direction. This happened to be a cantaloupe which Mizuki dodged with ease, but the wall wasn't fast enough. The cantaloupe exploded across the wall, juice splattering everywhere.
"Great! Just great!" Seraphina groaned.
"Hey, why'd you throw that cantaloupe at our wall? Now my beautiful flower sheets are ruined!" Alexandreina had gotten off the bed, now facing Seraphina. Her face held a bright smile, but a popping vein gave away her anger.
"Hey now! I did nothing! Mizuki was the one that didn't catch it!" Seraphina put the blame on Mizuki.
Mizuki looked up, surprised. "I didn't think I was supposed to catch a flying missile!"
"It was a cantaloupe!"
"It could have shattered my brain!"
"What brain?"
Alexandreina's knuckles cracking shut them up. "If that doesn't get cleaned up quick, both your brains will be shattered." Her smile widened, friendlier, but still, just as evil. "Please?" A chill ran down their backs.
"I'll get a cloth." Mizuki volunteered, scurrying away from Alexandreina's friendly wrath. Seraphina began collecting the chunks of cantaloupe still intact.
Vasilisa sighed and switched over to the dry bed, which happened to be hers. Eas decided to join her, sitting on the far edge of the mattress, watching Seraphina pick up the cantaloupe.
"Is it always like this here?" She whispered to Vasilisa.
"Basically." She replied, her eyes closing as she laid back on her bed.
"All done!" Mizuki whipped her forehead with relief, the wet cloth still in her hand. "I think we got it all!" It had taken a couple of minutes, but it wasn't long until the room was tidy again. Seraphina had given up after she had finished collecting the cantaloupe pieces and was currently residing at the base of Alexandreina's bed, her eyes closed.
"So what now?" Vasilisa asked, her head resting against Vasilisa's bed, opposite of Seraphina.
"Truth or dare?" Mizuki offered with a cold smile.
"Alright!" Alexandreina cheered enthusiastically.
"Oh joy." Seraphina grunted.
"Me first!" Alexandreina held her enthusiasm.
"Alright, Alexandreina, truth or dare?" Mizuki asked, her smile devilish.
"Ohh! Dare!" She cheered. Mizuki thought for a while, finding a nice and tough one to force upon her to begin.
"You haven't met Krowley yet, have you?" Mizuki asked her.
"Nope."
"Then why don't you go over to his bedroom, knock on the door, and once he opens the door, you must hug him, then run away without any further explanation. Well be watching from the staircase to make sure you did it!"
Alexandreina nodded. "Sounds fun! What's his room number?"
"I'll show it to you!" Mizuki laughed, lunging out the door, Alexandreina, fallowed slowly by the others, all drained out after her.
"Ok so, I'm pretty sure it's this one. You remember what to do, right?" Alexandreina nodded. "Good. We'll be at the stairs if you need us, I must warn you, he does look a little scary at first, but I think he's a real cry baby once you get a taste of his personality. Anyways, good luck!" She held up her thumb, and then dashed back to the stairs where everyone else was waiting. Alexandreina cleared her throat, adjusted her shoulders, and then knocked on the hard wooden door. A loud bang sounded, followed by a short cry and then shuffling feet towards the door. Krowley's large frame replaced the door as he answered it. He looked down in surprise at the smiling Alexandreina. He looked around in confusion and then back down at her.
"C, can I help you, miss?" He asked, extremely confused. Alexandreina ignored his question and followed her instructions. She wrapped her arms around his thick waist, barley able to connect for a full embrace. Krowley's face lit up in both embarrassment and confusion.
"Miss? I think you have the wrong person! Miss? I'm sorry!" Tears welled up in his confused eyes. Mizuki, fallowed by Seraphina and even Sarra burst into laughter. It was such a hilarious sight!
Finishing with the plan, Alexandreina detached herself from Krowley, who was in hysterics. She smiled up at him one more time before skipping off towards the stairs, Krowley watching in awww.
"How was that?" She asked when she got to the stairs.
"Perfect! Just the reaction I was looking for! Mizuki was sitting on the third step, holding her sides, laughter jumbling her sentence.
"Krowley." Eas was staring at the door Krowley had stumbled back through. "I've seen him before. I just can't quite remember where."
Mizuki shrugged. "You could have. Anyways, let's get back to the room and continue the game! Alexandreina, it's you're turn to chose someone!"
Alexandreina thought as they hurried back to the dorm. "Ok! Vasilisa! Truth or dare?"
"What a big surprise." Vasilisa sighed, flopping down onto the bed. "I really don't feel like moving, so I'll take truth."
Alexandreina pouted. "No fair!" She thought hard. "Fine! Rate all the boys you know from the hottest to the least hot!"
Vasilisa sighed. "You're not very original, ok. Let's see… well, there was that one guy, we only saw him once or twice, he was pretty cool."
"Who, who? Alexandreina pressed.
"Umm, he's not from around here. All the guys here are boring. He wears black makeup, and has a twin, I think, just like us."
"Who are you talking about?" Alexandreina asked, confused.
"You know the one on the Noah's side!" The room went quiet.
"You like a Noah?" Mizuki asked in shock.
"No, I just thought he was kinda cool, to answer Dreina's question."
"Ok, so who do you think is the second hottest? The other twin?"
Vasilisa made a face. "No, he's a wacko. I wouldn't want him any where near me! But maybe the well dressed one, you know, the one who can't put a smoke down? He's pretty cool too."
"Oh, you mean Tyki? You really have a thing for the villains, don't you?"
Vasilisa frowned. "What ever, like I said, all the guys here are boring."
"Did you say Tyki?" Eas piped up, she was sitting on Dreina's bed this time, swinging her feet.
"Yeah, do you know him?" Alexandreina asked.
"No, just someone with the same name. He's not evil, he's actually really kind."
"Well that's surely not a Noah." Sarra laughed.
"Really, their bent on making people miserable! That's how they get their Akuma army, anyways." Mizuki added.
"Ok, Vasilisa, you're turn to choose someone!" Alexandreina continued.
"Fine, umm, Seraphina, truth or dare."
Seraphina groaned. "Pass."
"You can't pass!" Alexandreina argued.
"Fine! Truth! I don't care!" Seraphina grunted.
"Alright, now I'm just curious about this, so don't bite my head off, but what's the real reason you're in a bad mood?"
Seraphina looked up. "You haven't heard? Apparently it's because Kanda's not here." She glared menacingly at Mizuki, Who laughed awkwardly.
"Yeah, sure, but is their any other reason?"
Seraphina ducked her head. "Umm, it's not really something I want to share."
"Please????" Alexandreina pressured.
"Just don't laugh, ok?" They all stared at Mizuki.
"What? I promise you wont here a peep out of me!" She smiled.
Seraphina ran her fingers through her hair. "Ok, well you know how I have like an incredible amount of siblings?" The group nodded, excluding Eas who was hearing this for the first time. "Well, it was my third youngest sisters' birthday today and we were really close, so I guess I'm just missing her." She ground her hand into her head, embarrassed.
"It was your sisters Birthday?" Alexandreina finally voiced.
"Yeah."
"Why didn't you go see her?"
"Komui said to be patient; he says he'll need us soon." She growled.
Alexandreina's eyes lit up. "Sweet, that means a mission! I mean, I'm sorry you couldn't see your sister!"
Seraphina shook her head. "It's ok, I'm sorry I've been in such a bad mood, It was just kind of bugging me."
"Yeah, sorry about spreading that rumour." Mizuki added. "I didn't know it was something like that!"
Sarra rolled her eyes. "Since when have you been considerate of others feelings?"
"Since a long time ago!" Mizuki countered. "I was brought up in a proper household!"
Sarra chuckled. "Sure."
"You're turn, Seraphina, you need to pick someone." Mizuki continued.
"Sarra." Seraphina chose. "Truth or dare?"
"umm, I think I might actually choose a dare, I'd rather not have my personal life peered into by you verbal peeping toms!"
Mizuki laughed. "We're not all that bad!"
Sarra frowned. "Yes you are!"
"Anyways!" Seraphina interjected. "Your dare will be something simple. I don't want to have to move all over the place again. I want you to climb to the top of the dresser- if you can reach- and meow like a cat."
"Did you just slip a short joke in there?" Sarra growled.
"No, I would never do that! It's not like you're pathetically tiny for your age or anything!" Seraphina rolled her eyes. "Now get going."
Sarra huffed and stood up, walking over to the dresser. She decided to be tactical by climbing onto the bed post and leaning over so she could get a good grasp on the dresser before pulling herself up onto it, ducking her head before it hit the ceiling.
"What did you want me to do again?" She asked as she crawled to the middle of the dresser so she wouldn't slip off.
"Just pretend you're a cat." Seraphina replied, slightly bemused.
"Where did you come up with this?" Mizuki whispered to her.
"I dunno, I just thought it would be interesting to see." She replied.
"M, meow?" Sarra cried, embarrassed.
"What? I can't hear you!" Seraphina challenged.
"Meow!" Sarra screamed. "That good enough for you?"
Seraphina chuckled. "Sure, that's just fine. I'll have that in my memories for the rest of my life. Thanks."
Sarra slid off the dresser, brushing herself off.
"Mizuki! It's you're turn! Truth or dare!" Sarra glared.
"Well, I'm obviously no sissy, I go with dare, though I wouldn't trust me on a dresser if I were you; I'm absolutely not tiny enough!" She dodged a pillow thrown her way from Sarra.
"Fine then! I dare you to sneak into Komui's research experiment lab and bring us back something as proof!"
"Whoa! That's going a little far, don't you think?" Seraphina noted. "That place is restricted to everyone, for their own safety. I mean, the last thing that came out of there was Komurin 4, and you saw how messed up it was! Who knows what other evil creations he has in there?"
"I'll do it!" Mizuki bellowed, pumped. "Sounds like an excellent challenge!" She got up, stretching. "Where is it again?"
"Down stairs and to your right, but do you really want to do that? I could find another dare for you, Seraphina's right, it is a little dangerous."
Mizuki shook her head. "Nope! This one's just fine! I'll see you guys soon, want anything in particular?"
"Not a komurin!" Seraphina interjected.
"Something simple, and not life threatening." Sarra added
"Nothing smelly!" Alexandreina finished.
"Kay." Mizuki waved as she walked out the door.
"She's doomed." Vasilisa piped up.
"Good as dead." Seraphina nodded.
"I shouldn't have said anything." Sarra smacked her head with her hand. "I forgot she'll take any challenge that's given to her!"
"Should we go get her? Or just wait here?" Alexandreina asked.
"Wait." They all concluded.
"Is the experimental lab really that scary?" Eas asked.
"Oh yeah, you haven't been here for any of the experiments that were conducted there." Sarra remembered.
"Or any of the Komourin's." Seraphina added.
"Komui is like a mad scientist. The experimental lab is where he conducts all his freeky experiments, and creates things like Komurin, which are robots designed to make his work load lighter." Vasilisa explained.
"Yeah, but every time he creates one, it usually goes berserk and ends up attacking everyone." Alexandreina added. "He never learns from his mistakes, so he just keeps making more."
"I think Lenalee's been destroying all the ones he creates recently. Seraphina recalled.
"Sounds frightful. That Komui guy sounds really evil! Why do we keep him here?" Eas asked.
"Well, he's not actually that back, he's a nice guy, and he usually just creates them to help out others, he just ends up failing in odd ways." Seraphina explained.
"Oh." Eas thought. "He seems weird."
"Definitely." The others agreed.
As the girls dug into the snacks, Mizuki faced the dreaded experimental lab, risking life and limb for a suitable prize. In a darkened crevasse of the lab sat a glowing concoction. "They never said it couldn't glow." Mizuki thought to herself as she picked it up. She placed her bow, which she had taken out as a precaution back into her arrow holder. "Now to get back to the others. At least this bottle provides good illumination! This place is so dark!" She trudged through the abandoned experiments until she caught sight of a dim light a distance away. She headed towards it, hoping it wasn't anything worse than what she had gone through to get there.
"Do you think we should go search for her?" Sarra asked, munching on some chips.
"I'm not going anywhere remotely close to that place!" Eas shivered.
"Same here." Seraphina nodded.
A hand gripped at the door way, pale and webbed with cob webs. The girls shrieked in surprise. Eas hid her self behind a pillow, thinking it was a spider monster. The other girls clung to each other.
"What's up? What's with the faces? It looks like you've seen a ghost!" Mizuki came from around the corner. Her blonde and blue streaked hair matted with webs and her eyes red from the dust.
"You should be a ghost!" Sarra shrieked, still wound up from the fright.
"Nah, it wasn't that bad down there, just dark, and old. I think I was in a section that hadn't been visited in a while, there where cob webs everywhere!"
"And a good thing, too! It's no wonder no one goes down there! It's hazardous!" Seraphina scolded.
"I feel fine, and look, I brought back a souvenir." She held up the glowing substance. "It was way in a far corner, but it was the light I needed to get out of there. Is that proof enough?"
"I think the cob webs and your determination was enough, though this is a bonus… What exactly is it?" Sarra asked, concerned.
"No idea! Wanna try it out?" Mizuki asked.
"On what?" Alexandreina joined the conversation.
"I dunno, got anything good?"
Alexandreina looked around. "Not that I know of, I might have like a stuffed animal or something…"
"Too bad Teddy's not here." Eas smiled devilishly.
Mizuki nodded. "That'd be fun, but I guess a dead stuffed animal will do, too."
Alexandreina tossed a stuffed bunny at Mizuki, who caught it with her right hand, careful not to spill any of the solution on the floor. With a shaking hand, she drizzled the solution on the rabbit. It oozed down the animals torso, forming a stream heading to the floor. Without thinking, Mizuki cupped her hand under it to prevent it from falling to the floor.
"Crap!" She cursed, which was rare. The hand unfortunately didn't hold the liquid for long, and it started to ooze out of the cracks in her hand, coming dangerously close to dripping on the floor.
"If even a drop of that hits the floor, all of you will be whipping it up with your mouths." Alexandreina chimed.
The girls stared at her in awe, then, noticing the realism of her threat, the simultaneously lunged for the now dripping liquid. Seraphina's hand caught the first drop, Sarra's the second, and Eas's the third and even Vasilisa at the bottom, right above the floor. She wouldn't dare risk having to clean it up, even if she was her sister.
"Did anything hit the floor?" Alexandreina sang. The group peered down to check the floor, which had fortunately been left spotless. To the girls horror though, they each had a fine amount of potion on their hands.
"Oh my god! Were going to die!" Sarra cried out.
"Damnit." Seraphina growled, looking at the large pool of potion in her hands. "I'm going to kill you if this does anything weird to me, Mizuki." The others nodded in agreement.
"Hey! This isn't my fault! It was Alexandreina who couldn't stand having anything on her floor!"
"Yeah, but you're the one who was idiotic enough to poor the whole this on the bunny!" Sarra explained.
"I wanted to make sure it worked! Geez!" Mizuki said, shaking her head. "Now I think we'd better get this stuff off out hands before something strange happens."
"Like that?" Eas asked, pointing to the top of Mizuki's head. Two furry black ears had sprouted on either side of her head.
"Aeiiiiiiiiiieeeee!" Mizuki Screamed, dropping the rabbit for Seraphina to catch and grabbing hold of the new addition to her body.
Seraphina groaned. "Are you serious? Were all going to look like panda's?"
Eas shook her head. "Nope! See? You don't have panda ears, you have bunny ears!"
She groaned, standing up and dumping the Bunny into an empty chip bowl. She the grabbed a towel and rubbed her hands clean of the potion.
"You are so going to pay." She growled.
"Oh wow! You've got bear ears, like you're Teddy!" Sarra cried out to Eas.
"Oh, great! Just what I wanted to be, identical to a yo-yo throwing pervert!"
Mizuki looked over to Sarra, prodding at her own ears. "Oh, ha, that's funny." She chuckled.
"What?" Sarra asked.
"That's a little ironic." Seraphina half smiled.
"What am I" Sarra asked. "Please don't tell me I'm a mouse, that'd be just mean!"
"Don't worry, you're not a mouse. Actually, you're a cat." Mizuki laughed.
"Oh." Sarra felt her own ears. "Well I'm not climbing on any more armoire, ok?"
The girls giggled.
"Sure." Seraphina amended her.
"So, uh, how long do you think it'll be before the potion wears off?" Vasilisa asked, pinching at her koala ears.
"Not sure." Mizuki processed. "Maybe we should sleep on it, if they aren't gone by the morning, we'll go to Komui."
"Good luck with that." Seraphina lay down across Alexandreina's bed. Eas curled up next to Vasilisa, who had once again taken up her spot on her bed. Sarra lay on the other side of Vasilisa. At the bottom of the bed. Mizuki propped herself against one side of Alexandreina's bed with a bunch of pillows.
Alexandreina stood, dumbfounded. How on earth are we supposed to sleep in the same room? She asked in shock.
"Like this." Seraphina rolled over to give Alexandreina a spot on the bed.
"I don't want anyone to ever get a chance to see me like this again, so let's all go to sleep right now!" Seraphina ordered as they blew the lamp light out.
"What's the matter, Komui, you said it was urgent?" Lavi asked, rubbing his eye.
"Where's Krowley, and Teddy? I want to make it up to them for their entrance examination. Komui smiled evilly.
"Alrighty then. I'll find Komui; the bear will probably be in the new comer's room." Lavi headed to Crowley's room.
"Hurry back!" Komui sang as he skipped down the halls to Teddy and Eas's room with a single flickering candle.
"You got Krowley?" Komui asked Lavi, Teddy in his hand, half asleep.
"Oi, will you explain to us why you woke us up in the middle of the night now?" Lavi asked, annoyed.
"Well, I was doing some late night experiments, just messing around, and I decided to test an old experiment I have sitting on the shelf from a while back, but when I looked in the place I left it, it was gone!"
"And? Why does this relate to us?"
"Well, I heard the girls where having a party, and when they have a party, they always do some form of truth or dare thing, so I assumed that one of them, most likely one of the braver ones, got a dare to go into my lab and take my experiment. And if that's correct, we just might have a sight to be seen!"
Lavi sighed. "You make no sense, Komui."
"Shhh!" They where rounding the corner to the twin room. "They always have the party's in here, but I'm not sure if they're still awake or not, so we have to be quiet!" Komui whispered.
The three men plus one half asleep Teddy peered into the dark room. Komui brought the candle light up and the room was suddenly illuminated. There, amongst the beds, laid five girls, all with some form of animal markings on their heads, and one normal one, with a smug smile on her face. Lavi caught sight of the sleeping Mizuki in all her panda-ness. He covered his nose to prevent a nose bleed from breaking out, his face a tomato. Krowley screeched silently at the sight of all the girls. Covering his eyes quickly so he couldn't see anymore. Teddy nearly launched himself at the girls, being held back by the wildly satisfied Komui. When they closed the door to the room of animal girls, Komui stared the three boys in the face sternly.
"This is our little secret, boys, if anyone of them finds out about this, were dead!" The three nodded solemnly, Lavi and Teddy putting the picture to memory.
"Thanks, Komui." Lavi smiled. Komui rolled his eyes.
"Let's get going before we do something stupid to wake them up." A loud sneeze erupted from Krowley's mouth.
"Sorry!" He apologized, holding his hands to his face again. The boys sighed and returned to bed.
