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"Oh my Death! I am so excited!" Midnight said as she sat in front of a mirror in Dr. Stein's ruined classroom, doing her make up. The sun was slowly laughing its way out of the sky, signaling the dance's fast approach.

"I know, right? It's going to be so much fun!" Nami said, pulling her long, white hair into braid.

"Who do you want to dance with?" Lyn asked from her perch on one of the front desks. She was completely ready to go, thirty minutes early.

"No one. I just became single again. I plan on relishing in it for as long as possible," Nami replied. "What about you?" she asked.

"Well, Jeremy is kind of cute. Well, he's actually really cute. And nice. An loves the same show as me, and... What were we talking about again?" Midnight asked, coming out of a dazed state and causing the other girls to giggle.

"What about you, Orion? Are you hoping that you and Kat will finally get somewhere in your relationship beyond friendship?" Avalon asked, waggling her eyebrows as she ran a comb through her friends long, brownish red hair.

"We could ask you the same thing about you and Wade," Lyn countered before Orion could say a word.

"Is it that obvious?" Avalon asked, blushing.

"Well," Nascha began as she applied mascara. "I am the most oblivious person in the universe when it comes to relationships, and even I know that something is going down between you and Wade, and probably Kat and Orion too," she said, causing both of the girls to blush furiously.

"Yeah, they must be madly in love," Lord Death agreed from the other side of the room where he was curling Kuri's hair. "And I'm the Grim Reaper. I know this kind of stuff when I see it."

The girls turned away from him, continuing to get ready, and tried not to think about how strange their current situation was.

...

"Well, this sucks," Wade said, trying the doorknob again, but found it to be as locked as it had been ten minutes earlier.

Lord Death had shut them into one of the dorms in the school and locked the door, saying that he would return once the girls were all ready. The boys were already dressed, and bored out of their minds.

"Why don't we just bust through the door?" Kat asked. "It would be easy."

"That won't work," Issac chided from his seat on the ground. "None of us have our weapon partners except for Jeremy and myself, but we haven't had the chance to practice and I know for a fact that our souls aren't compatible yet."

"Well, one of us could try shooting Hanz," Wade said, causing Hanz to dive for cover behind Kat.

"He just means using you to shoot through the door using you as a gun," Kat explained to the terrified German boy.

"Oh," Hanz said, straightening up with relief. "That wouldn't work. Lord Death put five or six locks on the door, and he put Cerberus outside to guard the door. If any of you want to be eaten by a three-headed dog, then go ahead. I'm fine just waiting here," Hanz said, jumping onto one of the beds.

"Do any of you want to play cards?" Wade asked, extracting a deck from the top drawer of the wooden night stand.

"Yeah! Let's play some blackjack," Issac said, excitedly, walking over to a large round table. "You all know how to play, right?" he asked. All of the boy's nodded.

"But wait. What are we going to bet with?" Jeremy asked, joining Issac at the table.

"Let's use the copyrighted candy from the copyrighted candy brand!" Wade suggested.

"Let's start!" Kat said. "I'll be dealer."

"Okay, but just to warn you, I'm kind of an expert at blackjack," Hanz said cooly as Kat dealt the cards, giving people hits when they wanted them.

"You may be an expert, but I am the master," Jeremy said, looking at his cards. "Hit me," he said.

"If you are the master, then I must be the grand master!" Wade said, laying down his cards. "I got twenty," he said smugly.

"I think we all busted or got nineteen," Kat said. Everyone was nodding in agreement.

Wade smiled. "Haha, looks like I-".

"I got twenty one," Isssac said quietly, laying down his cards.

"How did you...?" Wade trailed off, looking at his cards.

"You may be the grand-master, the master, and the expert," Issac said, "but I am the lucky one." He gathered up the pile of copyrighted candy.

"Shall we go again?" Kat asked, glancing around.

"Yeah. Issacs' luck will run out soon enough," Saimon said. Kat dealt out the cards again.

And in one hour, Issac completely cleared out everyone's stash of candy, redistributed it so they could play again, and then won it all back.

Five times.

...

"This is going to be so fun!" Ruby said happily as she helped Rosie zip up her silvery dress.

"I know, right?" Luna asked. "When have we ever had an opportunity like this?"

"Never, that's when," Robin said, pulling her pink dress off of the hanger.

"Why are they doing this, though?" Rosie asked as Ruby finished with her dress.

"What do you mean?" Ammy asked as she straightened her long, coppery hair.

"Well, there must be some sort of underlining reason for this. Why else would they do this?" Rosie asked.

"Maybe they care about us?" Robin asked angrily. "They did help out me and my brother after our mom vanished," she said.

"And who told you that? Your brother? Lucifer could have lied to you. After all, you don't remember a thing about your life," Rosie said.

"Hey, don't say a word against my brother. He saved me," Robin said, jumping to her feet.

"Lucifer wouldn't lie to anyone," Ruby defended. "Stop being so stupid, Rosie!"

"You only say that because you have a major crush on him, and it is obvious that he doesn't care," Luna said, jumping to her meister's defence.

"I would keep my voice down if I were you," Kailani said from the corner. The other girls hadn't realized that they had been shouting.

"Sorry Kai. I know that you just got out of that horrible cell. All this shouting must be bothering you," Robin said.

"No, it's not that. Azuzai might over hear you, or Naresa. Then horrible things will happen," Kai said dreamily. "Just like me."

"Okay Kai, we'll stop shouting," Ruby promised, glancing at the other girls.

"That's better," Kai said. "Can one of you help me get dresses?" she asked, standing up.

"Yes, of course. Naresa made lovely dresses for all of us," Robin said, getting Kai's golden dress for her.

"We should thank her. Does anyone know where she is?" Rosie asked.

"i'm afraid that Naresa must be gone tonight. She headed out early to set up a command station for us," Azuzai said, briskly entering the room. "Hurry up girls, and get ready. The boys finished about a quarter of an hour ago. Now Alastor is lecturing them on the proper etiquette, which must be incredibly boring. I would be quick if I were you."

The girls glanced at each other and began to rush around, pulling on dresses, with Ruby and Azuzai using spells to perfect everyone's hair and make up. A question still nagged at the back of Rosie's head: Why wasn't Naresa there? There was nothing in the plan that mentioned that she would be leaving early.

So where was she?

...

Naresa sat in her cell. It was identical to the one that Kai had been kept in, with the same plain walls and furniture.

It was boring, too.

Naresa sat on the bed, staring at the ceiling. She had a glowing blue collar around her neck, which prevented her from using her magic.

She let out a small gasp of pain as the poison in her blood progressed more, slowly moving up her arm. It was almost to the elbow now. If her calculations were correct, then the poison would hit her heart in about 2 days, around early morning, and then kill her later that afternoon.

But she wasn't going to sit by and idly wait for her death. No, Naresa still had some pawns left in the game, and she was going to use them to go out with a bang.

Chapter done!

Kinda short, again, but I can only do so much.

If I don't get a design for all the characters that need a design, then I will pick one for them.

You have until monday.

Anyway...

Point out spelling/punctuation/grammar/etc mistakes.

Or any controversies in the plot line (i.e., I accidentally jump from spring to summer)

Thanks,

~CatKkit