"Sparklez, what's going on?" the pink-haired girl asked the boy immediately, blue eyes wide and curious.
Sparklez rubbed his head awkwardly. "I, uh... was just about to get everyone together to tell them all at once." Walking past her, he left the room, presumably to get the other people now.
The pink-haired girl squinted at the four of them, before her eyes widened. "Hang on a minute... it's you! I recognize you!" she exclaimed.
Jesse blinked. Looked down at her extra arms and back at her friends again. Before turning back to the pink-haired girl with a raised eyebrow. "'Recognize us'? Um... how?"
"I'll, um, I'll show you," the girl said, a bit nervously, "follow me."
"Um... okay," Petra said, nervously, before floating back to the floor and following her, all four of them starting to trot after the pink-haired girl, who kept looking over her shoulder at them.
"You know we don't bite, right?" Jesse asked, teasingly.
The pink-haired girl quickly whipped back around to face the front. Jesse now kind of regretted the joke.
Turning the corner, Lukas suddenly winced and grabbed his nose. "Gah!" he yelped loudly.
Jesse turned to look at the ocelot hybrid, all of them stopping to look at him. "Uh, you okay, Lukas?" she asked, concerned.
"Yeah, yeah, give- give me a second- who's wearing perfume?!" Lukas coughed, cautiously taking his hands off of his face, blue-green eyes watering slightly.
All three of Lukas's friends blinked. "Someone's wearing perfume?"
"Yeah, quite a bit of it too." Lukas coughed again, wiping at his eyes with his tail. "I'm used to it now. It was just a bit too heavy a couple seconds ago when I first got a whiff of it."
"Lizzie, hi! Did you see all of these new- oh! You've got them with you," and a girl with long red hair and green eyes walked over, a calico cat strolling next to her. Lukas waved to the cat, who purred and tilted its head at the sight of Lukas.
Now Jesse could smell the perfume, too, but it really wasn't as heavy as Lukas had made it out to be. He must have quite a sensitive nose.
Jesse walked forward as the red-haired girl and the pink-haired girl walked together, shooting the hybrids nervous looks. And then Jesse looked up at the walls, and her jaw dropped so far it probably hit the floor. There were portraits on the wall... long ones that showed the full body. That wasn't what was startling- Jesse found herself staring at a portrait of... herself. Extra arms and all.
"At first it was just the people that were already here," the redhead said nervously. Now, when I'm saying redhead, I MEAN redhead. This girl's hair was redder than Petra's. Petra's! "And then... poof! You guys."
"Well, that's... unexpected," Jesse said, uneasily.
Petra nodded, staring at her own portrait, blaze rods hovering around her. "Yeah, no kidding..."
Ivor was staring at himself. "I must say this is... extremely disconcerting, yet very well done," he said, sounding rather uneasy about the whole thing. Jesse looked back at her portrait, shuddering slightly. "You're telling me..."
Lukas's tail flicked across the floor, but he wasn't looking at the portraits anymore- he was playing with the calico cat, although he had looked at his portrait. "This is... flattering, yet... ridiculously creepy," Jesse said, cupping her elbows in her hands.
The red-haired girl adjusted her glasses and nodded, rapidly. "Right? At first I was like, 'Oh cool, fan art! Flattering.' But the more I thought about it... creepy is definitely the right word to use," and she shuddered, before going back over to her cat, giving Lukas a nervous smile. "I'm glad to see you like my cat."
"He's bored," Lukas reported, as the cat meowed again, "and he's hungry, I think. I don't know," and he batted at his ear, "normal cat talk is a bit different from ocelot talk. It's... like a different accent."
Jesse had to think about that. "You mean like how some people in one section of the world have one accent, and then you move over to the next section and it's completely different?" she suggested.
"Yeah, like that, only with... cats."
Jesse snickered at Lukas's statement before looking up, and her smile fell right back off her face. "Oh. That's... not a good sign."
Lukas followed her gaze, but before he could say anything Sparklez's voice came through the double doors. "Come on, everyone, let's huddle up in the dining room." And he opened it.
"Wonder if he told them yet," Petra said, quietly.
"Can't wait to hear the big news."
"I know!"
Jesse looked up. A picture of the brown-haired girl and the brown-haired boy were coming in. The boy had goggles on his head.
"Ooh, I hope there's cake," said a boy wearing an orange hoodie cheerfully, matching the portrait up on the wall. And then- "GOOGLIES!" And the boy with the orange hoodie practically jumped onto the brown-haired boy in fear, knocking him over.
"Whoa, are you guys- half monster, or something?" the girl in the striped shirt asked, nervously, stepping backwards.
Jesse blinked. Looked at her friends. "Uh... I am, Petra is," she pointed at Petra, and then she looked at Lukas, who was still communing with the calico cat. "And Lukas is."
"No I'm not, I'm half cat!" Lukas protested, looking up.
"Ivor's normal," Jesse continued, deciding to skate over Lukas's statement. Ivor bowed sarcastically.
"So- so you're not here to hurt us?" The brown-haired boy asked, sounding a bit out of breath from where he was now lying flat on his back on the floor.
Jesse sighed and shook her head. "No." She probably could've explained more, but honestly right now she was tired and she probably needed some explanations for what was going on before she was in the mood to do any explaining.
"Oh."
An awkward silence before the boy who'd yelled 'googlies' got up and said, "Erm, well, perhaps we should go to the dining room, like Sparklez said?" He still sounded nervous, and he twitched a little, as if he was wishing with all of his might to turn on his heel and run away screaming.
Jesse raised her shoulders in a little shrug, all of her arms going up a bit. "Sure."
A/N: Yaaayy okay names next chapter. NEED THE NAMES
I also should do my English project, since I have time. But I'm not. Instead, I am working on this story.
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