"Um, what do we do now?" John asked.
"Guys's room is to your left, girls's to your right," Karkat said, pointing to two doors. "Your robes will get delivered here in a minute or so."
"Why can't we just wear what we've got now?" Dave asked. "I really prefer jeans and a shirt to robes."
"Because this is still a fucking school, with a fucking dress code." Karkat said. Then the door opened and a guy walked in. He looked surprised when he saw Jade, John, Dave and Rose. He turned to Karkat.
"Should I stab these guys?" he asked, pulling out a dagger.
"What?!" Jade exclaimed.
"No!" John yelled, jumping behind Dave and holding him.
"No Jack. These are some kittens," Karkat said.
"They need discipline," Jack said. Karkat shook his head and Jack sighed and put his dagger away. "Anyway, I've got four new robes. Probably for the kittens." He put the robes on a table and walked out of the room.
"Who was that?" Dave asked.
"Jack Noire, he's a messenger here," Karkat said. "You'll get used to him."
"Get a room you two," Terezi said, grinning at Dave and John. Then John realized he was hugging Dave. He immediately let go.
"I'm not gay!" he exclaimed. Dave smirked and Terezi and Vriska laughed. Nepeta pulled out a notebook and began drawing in it.
"Go change into your god-damn robes already," Karkat said. John and the others grabbed their robes and went to the doors.
"Bec!" John turned and saw a big white dog jump on Jade. She laughed and stroked him. John and Dave grinned and walked up to him. Bec sniffed Jade curiously, then John and Dave and Rose. After a few seconds he seemed happy and wagged his tail. Then he looked at Karkat and suddenly started growling. Karkat sighed and scowled at the dog. Bec started barking loudly and Jade did her best to sooth him.
"Why's he acting like that?" John asked.
"Because I'm a fucking Vampire. He already knows you four, so he doesn't freak out when he sees you," Karkat said.
"Shh Bec. It's okay. He's a good guy," Jade said, stroking Bec's fur. After awhile she dragged him into the girl's dorm and Rose followed her. John heard loud meow and a bit of ruckus.
"Doesn't Rose have a pet cat?" John said. Dave chuckled.
"Great. Both of them in the same room. That's hilarious." John grinned and laughed too. He and Dave went to the boy's dorm and looked around. There were a bunch of beds lined up against the walls, each with a symbol above them. John went up to one with no symbol and sat down. Dave sat on the one next to him. John undressed and put on his robe, then looked around for a mirror. Then he remembered he was a Vampire. I probably don't have a reflection anymore. How am I supposed to gel my hair now?
"How do I look?" John asked Dave. Dave looked at him and smirked.
"Well, with the weird green symbol of yours on a cool black robe, I'd say not too cool." John rolled his eyes.
"Whatever. You've still got the symbol of that record."
"Yeah, but they messed it up on this robe. It's split in half." Dave frowned at the symbol.
"Whatever. Let's go see how Jade and Rose look." They walked out of the room and found Jade and Rose talking to some of the trolls. Jade had her blue symbol that was the same as John's and Rose had her symbol of a purple octopus, which actually looked really cool with the black robe.
"That is such a shitty symbol," Karkat said when he saw John. Dave seemed to be trying hard not to laugh and John just rolled his eyes.
"Yours looks good Rose," John said.
"Yeah, and the rest of us looks stupid," Dave said.
"Hey!" Jade exclaimed. John laughed.
"Hey, at least we both look stupid Jade."
JANE'S POV:
"Your robes got here just a few minutes ago," Aranea said. She picked up some black robes and handed them to Jane and the others. "Girls's dorm in on your right, boys's on your left. Go get changed please." Jane nodded and dragged Roxy into the dorm. Roxy was grumbling about needing a drink and Jane plopped her on a bed that didn't seem to be used.
"Calm down Roxy. I'm sure you'll get something to drink eventually," Jane said. Roxy shrugged and got changed. Jane looked at her robe. It had the same blue symbol on her shirt. She smiled and changed into it. Roxy's had her pink cat-symbol.
"Mew!" Roxy and Jane stopped and looked around. Gcat and Muti suddenly jumped at them.
"Gcat!" Jane exclaimed.
"Muti!" Roxy said. They laughed and petted their cats. After playing with the cats for a few minutes they picked them up and carried them out to the others.
Jake and Dirk had changed into their robes. Jake's had his dark green skull symbol on them, which actually looked pretty good. Dirk's had his orange baseball hat symbol, which looked pretty dumb. Though Jane knew her robe looked dumb too.
"Oh, aren't those your pets?" Jake said, pointing to Gcat and Mewti. Roxy nodded and held up Mewti.
"Yep! All of you bow down to the adordabale—shit, adorable, Muti!" Jane laughed and bowed comically.
"Where's Bec?" Jake asked.
"I think your dog's with Jade," Aranea said, smiling.
"Oh, that's fine then." Aranea smiled at him and Jane had a strong suspicion that she liked him. Meulin took out a notebook and started drawing something.
"Anyway, it's time for dinner," Porrim said. "Come on, we'll lead you to the Sister Eating Hall and Brother Eating Hall."
"The what?" Jane asked.
"Female Vampires are referred to as Sister, and the males Brother. They eat separately."
"Aw, really?" Roxy said. "I wanna get Dirky drunk!"
"No," Dirk said.
"There's no alcohol served at dinner," Kankri said. "It could prove to be quite triggering as alcohol has a stronger effect on Vampires than on humans, and as such many would get far too drunk by accident and could act shamelessly and accidentally humiliate themselves. The Headmistress does not wish for this to happen, so alcohol is banned here-"
"What?!" Roxy exclaimed. Jane sighed and patted her shoulder.
"You'll survive Roxy," she said.
"No I won't! I need vodka! How the hell am I supposed to live here if we can't drink?!"
"Actually, it's allowed at Festivals," Latula said. "Like Halloween, New Year's Eve, Christmas, stuff like that! It's just toned down a bit so that we don't get too drunk."
"Oh, great!" Roxy said. "Okay, I can live here if we get some alcohol at parties."
"Aren't we going to eat?" Rufioh asked.
"Yeah, come on you guys! Follow your leader!" Meenah said. She walked out of the room and the others followed her. Jane and Roxy put Gcat and Muti down and followed them and Jake and Dirk.
Eventually they came to two doors. One had the words "Sister Eating Hall" written on it, while the other one had "Brother Eating Hall".
"Bye guys!" Meenah said to the boys, waving. The boys went into the Brother Eating Hall while Jane and Roxy followed Meenah's group into the Sister Eating Hall. There were long tables that stretched across the length of the room. Jane grinned when she saw Jade and Rose.
"Hi!" she said, walking up to them.
"Hello," Rose said. She looked at Meenah and her group and smiled. "That's your group?"
"Yeah, they're all the older siblings of your group!" Roxy said. "Crazy, huh?"
"Not really," Kanaya said. She smiled thinly to Porrim, who waved to her.
"Come on! Let's all sit together!" Latula said, sitting next to Terezi. Jane and Roxy sat down with the others and waited.
"Here comes the food!" Terezi exclaimed.
