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It took all of Saturday for Lyn and Siamon to settle in. Jeremy, who was exhausted from his flight all the way from Australia, hadn't been able to practice sparring with his new partners on Saturday or Sunday, due to air sickness. Now it was a very rainy Monday, and everyone had down time to do whatever.

Avalon, who had just been outside running when it had started raining, walked into the classroom that the group was staying in. She was completely drenched, and very surprised to find Lyn and Siamon sitting around, reading books.

"Why are you guys just reading?" Avalon asked, drying her emerald hair. "There is plenty to do here."

"Well, we don't know what there is to do here, and since no one will show us, we're kind of stuck here," Lyn said glumly.

"Well then, allow me to give you the grand tour," Avalon said cheerfully, brandishing her arms towards the door way. Lyn and Siamon glanced at each other and stood up. It's not like they had anything better to do. They walked out of the classroom and down the hall.

"Did you guys bring your own books?" Avalon asked. They nodded. "Well, let me show you a few more." Her pace quickened and they quickly found themselves in front of an enormous, fire truck red door. Avalon pushed it open with ease and held up her hands dramatically. "Here is our great library," Avalon declared. Lyn and Siamon were shocked. The library had a soaring white ceiling and enormous wooden bookcases.

"Wow, there must be a million books in here," Lyn said breathlessly, rushing over to a shelf. The tables around them were littered with books, telling them that the others had been in here already.

"Yes, yes. It is all very impressive, but this is a school tour, not a 'let me show you one place and then stop there' tour," Avalon said impatiently, ushering them out of the library.

"Now where are we going?" Siamon asked, glancing longingly back at the doors of the library.

"It's a surprise," she said, leading through the checkerboard hallways and up five staircases. She stopped at a small red door and pushed it open. This room was startlingly different from the library. It was enormously wide and long, but it had low ceilings, plain cherry wood desks pushed against one wall, and easels scattered about the the room. Enormous windows pierced the wall opposite the desks, revealing the overcast, rainy skies. There were telescopes next to the windows.

"This is where kids come to write, draw, paint, and study astrology," Avalon said cheerfully. The astrology part seemed like an odd thing to include. Lyn gasped as she noticed the paintings adorning the walls. She recognised some as Van Gogh, Picasso, Da Vinci, and many others. She realized that the ceiling also had murals on it, the predominant one an exact copy of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. She could also see sculptures. Two sections of the ceiling actually rose up at least fifty feet in order to accommodate two ginormous statues: Athena Parthenos and the Statue of Zeus, both by Phidias.

"Are these real?" Siamon asked in awe.

"Think of them more as 'rough drafts'," Avalon said with a grin. "A few are stolen, though. We actually stole both of those statues. Quite a few of the paintings are forgeries. We just don't know which is which. Anyways, let us continue," she said, dragging them out of the room.

"Now, let us head to the kitchen," she said happily.

"What's so special about the kitchen?" Lyn inquired.

"Nothing. I'm actually making some homemade chocolate and it's probably cooled down by now. I need to go and hand it out to everyone," Avalon replied thoughtfully.

"You had us at chocolate," Siamon said excitedly. "Lead the way!"

"Actually, it's right here," she said, about to push open the swinging door.

"Wait!" a voice hissed from their left. It was Midnight, munching on a piece of delicious looking chocolate. It was clear that she had eaten a lot already, judging by the chocolate covering her face and her extremely dilated pupils.

"Midnight, how much chocolate have you eaten?" Avalon asked suspiciously.

"Well, you made 20 trays, so I ate half of it," Midnight said dreamily.

"I think that you should stop now," Avalon said, cautiously extracting the chocolate from her grip. It was already semi melted.

"I don't think so!" Midnight snapped, grabbing the chocolate back and stuffing it down her throat.

"Midnight! No grabbing!" Avalon said angrily, as if talking to a naughty child. Midnight merely growled. "I think you need to go to bed now," Avalon suggested.

"Maybe. The world has turned purple," Midnight said dreamily. Lyn and Siamon glanced at each other worriedly. Midnight shuffled off.

"This happens a lot," Avalon explained. "She really likes chocolate. Too much makes her vision go funky and makes her a loopy."

"Okay then," Siamon said awkwardly. "It must be really good chocolate."

"Oh, it is," Avalon said, turning to the doors. "And now, the two of you will be able to taste my world-famous chocolate!" She pushed them open and gasped in surprise.

"Wow, it looks like someone was murdered in here," Lyn said, carefully avoiding the streaks of chocolate on the checkerboard tiles.

"Yeah, no kidding," Siamon muttered, looking at the word Supernatural written on the wall.

"How did this even happen?" Lyn asked, examining a tray that had somehow imbedded itself in the wall. It had been licked clean.

"Midnight gets like this when...Wait a second," Avalon said, frowning at the untouched trays.

"What's wrong?" Lyn asked, coming up next to her.

"Three of the trays are missing," Avalon said. "This is very odd."

"I think I found the answer," Siamon said, pointing behind a set of cabinets in the corner. There sat a very odd trio: Loki was there, licking chocolate off of Cerberus, who in turn was licking chocolate out of Kaldor's spines.

"Go, go go, go!" Avalon said, sprinting them out of the kitchen, grabbing the remaining trays on her way out,and slamming the door. "The chocolate is going to blow up their digestion system. I am not going to be the one to clean that up," she explained.

"Where to now?" Siamon asked, munching on some chocolate.

"I need to take some of this to the others, so we're now headed to our amazing indoor gym," Avalon said.

"Is it awesome?" Lyn asked excitedly.

"Yeah. It blows all of this stuff out of the water," she said cheerily.

"I seriously doubt that," Siamon said.

"I bet you ten dollars that your jaw will hit the floor the second you see it," Avalon said, smirking.

"Your so on," he replied.

"Here we are then," Avalon said, stopping at a perfectly normal looking green door. She opened it to reveal a hallway.

"I'm not impressed," Siamon said unimpressed, stepping inside.

"I'm not finished," Avalon said with a wolfish grin. She walked down the hallway and stopped at the end, where a second green door stood. "Close your eyes. It makes for a better experience," she ordered.

"Alright, we'll play along," Siamon said confidently, shutting his eyes. Lyn did the same. Avalon pushed the door open, which allowed blaring music to enter the hallway.

"Take six steps forward and then stop," Avalon commanded, her voice cutting across the music. They obeyed and she shut the door behind them. "Get your ten bucks ready, Siamon," she said cooly. He extracted the bill and held it up where she could see, his eyes still shut. "Good, now you can open your eyes," she said.

And they did.

Siamon immediately handed the bill to Avalon.

Chapter done!

I know that it is an odd place to end, but the chapter was getting kind of long.

I am still accepting OCs, not that anyone is sending in more, though.

Please review!

And Mysterious Mr. H, who commented earlier, I have a message for you: Your OCs need more information than just their weapon forms, names, and genders. Please refer to my first chapter/forum. If you can fill those out, then I will use them.

I am actually in desperate need of two males, one a meister, the other a weapon.

Thanks,

~CatKkit