Hey, so I'm gonna try to get some bigger chapters in. I'm also going to try to get a schedule for chapters in as well. I haven't decided if I want to do one or two chapters a week yet. It depends on how long they end up being. I know that for a while I had chapters that ended up being ten pages on Deadly Touch, and they were once a week. So, I don't know. I just can't dish out those kind of chapters anymore. I'm not the greatest when it comes to thinking of day to day casual content. I'm more into adventure and stuff. So, I'm going to really try to get that kind of stuff down. Well, I've informed you of stuff, so let's get into this, shall we? To whom this may concern,
Chapter Eighteen: The Specter.
College, something I was stoked for. I took a deep breath and entered the double glass doors to the dorm helper.
"Good day, are you here for your keys?" The smiling sea wing asked.
"Yes, my name is Calcite, how are you doing?" I replied with a smile.
"Pretty good, weather's nice. It's a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming, waves are crashing. Ah, here you are, you get two keys, room 515, top floor, great view. Here's a university card, it'll get you free meals, a parking spot in the private lot, and a ticket to the clubhouse at the top of your building. Do you need anything else?" The guy asked, still smiling.
"No thanks, thank you, have a great day!" I replied, waving as I walked off.
"No problem! You have a good day too!" He called back. I smiled and walked into the elevator.
I exited the elevator and walked to room 515. As I was walking, I saw a few other students. Three dragonesses, two guys, or so I assumed they classified themselves as. I didn't say anything and just walked passed them. One of the guys however, an ice wing to be exact, caught my right arm as I walked past.
"Hey babe, would you like to-," I cut him off by kicking his shin. He whimpered and backed off.
"Hey! Are you messing with my boy?!" One of the dragonesses exclaimed, one of her claws above her chest, mouth agape. She was also an ice wing. I sighed and turned around.
"Firstly, he was about to finish hitting on me. Secondly, as his lover, you shouldn't let him go around hitting other dragonesses, it'll get you cheated on. Thirdly, he made the first move, by grabbing my arm. So, if you'll excuse me, I'd like to get to my room," I turned around and walked off. The sky wing next to the female ice wing whistled.
"She's cool," She remarked, elbowing her ice wing "friend".
I unlocked the door to the room, and walked in. The floor was carpeted in a nice light blue. A dark blue stripe went along the room on around the middle of the wall, it went horizontally. I took a sigh of relief and breathed in. As the first one to arrive, I got to call what room I got. No doubt Crescelia would be here soon. I took a room to the bottom left hand corner of the room. It was decently sized, it had a bed, desk, some drawers for clothes, chair, balcony with plastic chair and table, and a small bathroom with a sink, shower, and toilet. It was definitely one of the nicer dorm rooms out there. It was nice and quaint though. It wasn't longer than three minutes after I claimed my room that Crescelia entered.
"How's it going?" I asked, peeking out of my room.
"Great! People are so nice here! Although I got some glares from two ice wings I passed by walking here…" Crescelia replied, a claw on her chin.
"Don't mind them," I replied.
"You can have the room in the bottom right hand corner, a.k.a. the only other bedroom," I informed her.
"Cool! It looks like we won't be having another roommate however, I was interested in making new friends here…" Crescelia's tone went sad.
"Hey, it'll be fine. Plus, I'm sure you'll make some new friends in your classes," I put a claw on her shoulder.
"Yeah! You're right! Well, I'm going to go ahead and unpack what I brought!" With that, she skipped to her room. I shook my head and chuckled. I turned and went back into my room, I started unpacking my things, I had a lot more to un pack, so it took me a little while to get done. In the end, there was a lamp and desk top on the desk, five drawers filled with all four seasons worth of clothes, toiletries in the bath room, different sheets and pillows on the bed, some shelves for various things like knives, note books, books, various trinkets, and some mints. There were three posters on the walls, one of a band, another of a game with a black back ground and white letters, and another a promotional poster for a movie with a wooden ship with canons in it. A spear and shield rested in the upper left-hand corner of the room, next to the desk. This all took three hours. Mostly because of the clothes and shelves. I sighed and popped my knuckles. I rolled my neck several times and exited my room with a yawn, stretching my arms as I did so. I walked into the kitchen and tapped my claws on the counter. Luckily, we had a Whalemart (hehe) on the island. I noticed Crescelia absorbed in a TV show on the couch. I rolled my eyes and grabbed one of the keys.
"Where're you going?" she asked, tilting her head.
"Grabbing some food and drinks, I'll be back in thirty or so minutes," I replied. I made sure that I had my wallet, driver's license, helmet, bike keys, university card, and double checked I had keys to the room before I left. I left the room and nearly ran right into Shadow.
"What're you doing here?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"My room's on the same level, I got Phantom as my roommate, and another. I decided to get some food," Shadow replied. I closed the door and we started walking down the velvet carpeted hallway.
"Who is it?" I asked, turning a corner.
"A cool sky wing name Kai, he's cool, he's got some more control over fire than most. Fire balls, longer and hotter flame breath, fire claws, fire scales he can control. Pretty cool, he's not an elemental though, obviously, as I'm Shadow and Fire," Shadow replied.
"Cool, how did you plan on getting to the Whalemart?" I asked, tilting my head as we entered the elevator.
"I was gonna use my Shadow magic to get there, and get all the stuff back, you?" Shadow replied, before asking his own question.
"Bike, then use portals to get the stuff back," I replied.
"I think I'll just hitch a ride with you then," Shadow shrugged with a grin. I shrugged and smiled, walking out of the elevator and out the doors to the building.
As promised, bought the food needed for the week, and got back within thirty minutes. Crescelia and I got all the food and liquid into the fridge and the pantry food into the cabinets in the kitchen.
Night came quick, Crescelia was knocked out quicker. I stayed up a little longer, watching videos, playing games, reading a bit, you know, just alone time. It was 10:43 when I started to feel a little woozy. I threw on some pajama pants and brushed my teeth. Then, I went to turn off the switch. I almost reached the switch when one of my books fell over.
"Whoops," a voice said. I spun quickly on my heel, hand canon raised. What I saw…made me want to scream at the top of my lungs, and not because I was scared. I was ticked. One of my eyes twitched as I stared a mostly translucent sand wing down. I put away my gun and dragged the ghost Dusk out of the room.
"Ow! Ow, ow, ow, ow!" Dusk exclaimed. "Would you stop that?!" Dusk exclaimed.
"No! We're gonna go downstairs, drive to the other side of the island, then I'm going to yell my lungs off at you, and you're not going to speak a word until we get there and I'm done. Have I made myself clear?" I replied with a stern voice.
"…Yes ma'am…" Dusk quietly replied.
"You realize, you left us, and was with us, the whole time, and didn't let any of us know until now, yes?" I growled.
"Yes…," Dust meekly replied.
"What, may I ask, kept you waiting until now?!" I screamed.
"It's…complicated," Dust squeaked. I glared at the ghost.
"Fine then," I marched up to the ghost.
"What are you-," Dust was caught off, by a hug.
'Hate to spoil the moment, but you really weren't supposed to do that,' Dust's voice ringed through my head.
"Why not?" I thought back.
'Cause' now, I'm tethered to you,' Dust replied, sarcasm in his voice.
"And that means what exactly?" I asked.
'I can't leave farther than twenty feet from you, because you showed affection, to a ghost. What, may I ask, were you thinking?'
"Many things," I simply replied.
It was 3:30 by the time I got into my bed and fell asleep. Turns out, two dragons plus one body equals weird dreams. Those dreams were the most lucid I'd ever had in a long time…taco fish shooting gummy missiles, weird…
I didn't wake up until 11:47 am. When I woke up, I had to wipe some drool off my mouth, the sheets were all over the place, and one of my legs and tail were hanging off the bed. I got out of bed and stretched, letting a yawn out while I did so.
'Sleep well?' Dust asked, he rolled his ghost neck a couple times.
"Yes, I did, what time is it?" I responded, walking towards my clock.
"11:50?!" I exclaimed.
I burst out of my room, pajamas in wrinkles and looking like I came out of a whirlwind. I threw open one of the cabinets, took out the toaster, plugged it in, scrambled to the fridge, opened the freezer, and took out four waffles. I then jumped over to the toaster and slammed the four waffles into the toaster. While the waffles were in the toaster, I ran into my room, threw on some actual clothes consisting of a university dry fit t-shirt, grey light weight pants, some socks, and tennis shoes. By the time I finished tying my shoes, I heard the toaster make a "ding!" sound. I ran back into the kitchen, unplugged the toaster, threw the four waffles on a plate, grabbed an apple, and dug into the waffles.
"Curse Crescelia for not waking me up," I thought bitterly.
'Why did you even need to be up? It's not like college has started yet,' Dust remarked, floating in the air above me in his grey spectral energy, he was studying one of his claws. There was actually a dark grey line wrapped around one of his ankles, it was tethered to one of my wrists.
"I needed to be up, because I need to help her, Shadow, and Phantom move into their dorms with all their stuff. No doubt they're already on their way back. Oh, she's going to get it," I replied. I finished my waffles and grabbed the apple. I took a key to the room and left, locking the door on my way out.
I ate the apple I was sped walked down the hallway. Dust was still floating above me, but he didn't let himself be seen by anyone else. I met my comrades in the lobby, I stood tapping my shoe on the floor, taking the last bites of my apple.
"Calcite, heeeeey…," Phantom nervously greeted. I glared at him and chucked the apple core at his face. The core hit and he rubbed his snout, which was currently in pain.
"None of you woke me up," I glared at the trio. Shadow shrugged.
"Wasn't my problem, she insisted," Shadow nonchalantly replied, pointing at Crescelia. He then put his claws back in his pockets. I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose.
"Come on, let's just go ahead and get to setting up, besides, there's someone I want you to meet…," I trailed off, taking two fairly big boxes.
I took a step out of the elevator and started walking to our room, 515. I was almost at the door when a sand wing slapped me on my butt. I rolled my eyes and slapped him with my sea wing paddle tail. A loud smacking sound filled the halls, the sand wing was left very dazed on the floor. I simply smirked as Dust worked the lock open with his ghost powers. I then nudged the door open and the three followed behind me, filled with mixed thoughts.
"Alright, now that the door is closed, and we've set down all of Crescelia's boxes," I glared at my female friend, she pouted and fiddled with her claws, "Dust, show yourself, why don't you," I finished, tapping my shoe on the floor.
"As you wish," Dust's voice surrounded the room as he faded into sight, his color palet changed slightly from this morning, when it was a little darker, as well as far from last night. He was a little more blue in the day, while more greenish at night. The overall white kept them shades of blue and green light, however. Dust preformed a dramatic bow and greeted them.
"Hello, my living friends, as you can see, I'm kinda dead," Phantom passed out. I pinched the bridge of my snout. Crescelia blinked before jumping at Dust, trying to give him a hug. She ended up on the floor.
"It's kind of hard to give a ghost a hug…" she pouted. I shook my head.
"Maybe you should think before you try to come into physical contact with a non-physical being," I pointed out.
"Yeah, why you think about that a little, Calcite?" Crescelia gave me a knowing smirk. I glared at her and grinned evilly.
"Uh-oh, shouldn't have said that…" She trailed off. Five minutes later she was tied to the couch, forced to watch a cheesy dragonet show.
"Anyone else have something to say?" I growled, narrowing my eyes. Phantom had woken up during the fiasco. He rapidly shook his head. Shadow high fived Dust.
"That's not fair! Why can Shadow do that!" Crescelia pouted.
"Shadow magic, that's how," Shadow replied, smirking.
"And for you information Crecelia, I can touch Dust, since I may've done something I wasn't supposed to…" I informed her.
"And now I'm tethered to her," Dust grumbled. Shadow facepalmed.
"You dun goofed," he stated.
Hey readers! I've decided that I'm going to try to have five page chapters. Which is the number of pages for this chapter. There should some more activity over the holidays for this story. So, that's that. Anyways, I'll be making a discord server for this story soon. I'll make an update when I've figured it out. Happy holidays!