In the center of the 'clearing', Siobhan, having finally awoken all of her chacters and got them working,
stood staring silently at the imposing mound of debris before them. Her hazel eyes slowly drifted closed as she
sighed.
"I suppose there is no other hope for it." The words were soft, barely audiable. "A solid illusion simply
won't do. It must be the true form..."
With those cryptic words, she shrugged out of her great coat and set it aside. Then, she...
Changed.
Her eyes flashed open as her lips parted in a silent scream of agony. Her body whipped violently fowards,
arms clutching her chest, as a pair of silver wings and a massive series of spinal spikes ripped their bloody way
free of her back. Her spine lengthed itself with a hideous grinding sound into a long reptilian tail that lashed
about. The rest of her torso and legs writhed and churned violently under their cloth and leather coverings for a
moment before bursting out into the torso and hindquarters of a silver dragon, the flesh splattering down to join
the puddle of gore and cloth beneath her new form. Then, a thin wail tore its way from her throat as her skull
twisted and reformed itself accompanied by a sound not entirely unlike a demonic choir singing, into the scaled
and behorned head of a dragon. The last thing that happened was the horrible rending noise of her neck suddenly
springing long into the serpantine silver neck.
And there, standing were Siobhan had once stood, was the silver dragon known only as Glacier, emitting a
nearly earth-shaking roar, her sapphire eyes glinting dangerously in the half light.
"DAMMIT!! But that HURT!!" she screamed her rage at the pain to the uncaring heavens. Then, she snatched
up Siobhan's discarded great-coat and snapped it outwards with a curious gesture before slidding its newly enlarged
shape over her dragonic frame.
Moments later, she was knee-deep in the debris, lifting out terribly massive sections and shoring up
weakened supporting beams and walls with brief touches of ice. Siobhan's character clambered blithly about her,
hauling out debris and scampering into the depths of the chaos to rescue trapped survivors.
Whilst Kyouichi Saionji was enfolding the chibi-Anthy Himemiya in a very skin-timate embrace, Touga
Kiryuu carefully made his way down the rest of the debris slope. He stepped in and around the bustling movements
of the other characters as they cleared away the fallen floor sections. He paused, however, near the silver dragon
as it worked to secure the still-standing portions of the building.
"The very picture of power and grace, strength and beauty. Interesting. Quite interesting..."
Glacier merely blinked once as she gazed contemplatingly down at Touga. For a moment there was only
silence. Then...
"Tell you what. You stop trying to hit on me, and I'll stop contemplating eating you. Okay?" Glacier
finally rumbles. "What do you want anyway? Hmmm?"
Then she notices the fact that a nude Saionji was embracing Chibi-Anthy...
"OI! Flasher-boy! Get yer nudist paws OFF the wee one!!" She roared, batting her wings to keep her
balance as she casually hopped over, smacked Pod-1 and then hopped back to Touga.
"As I was saying... " she continued. "What do you want?"
If the Student Council President was thrown off his game by such a frank discussion, it didn't seem to
affect the smile on his face. In fact, it seemed to have only grown larger. But that could just have been a
trick of the light.
"A woman who knows what she wants. Intriguing."
There was no mistaking it this time. The smile had grown larger. Then turned into a contemplative smirk
-as the young man considered the looming silver dragon before him.
"But to answer your question, I merely wanted to become more acquainted with one of the (relatively)
newer Players. We have had so very few opportunities to work together this past year."
He flashes a smile again. "I wish to remedy the situation."
Not too far away, peering from deeper inside wreckage, three bishounenmon kept an eye on the interaction
between Touga and Siobhan while the trio did their part in the clean-up.
"'E's actually still hittin' on 'er. That boggles me mind, that does. 'Wot is 'e thinkin'?"
"I think he's been around the Deputy Chairman for _way_ too long."
"Think about it. The sheer mechanics of 'wot would be involved if 'e got 'wot he wanted..."
"Huh? Lufio no get it..."
"Don't worry about, Ni-ban. You'll get it when you evolve."
Glacier hissed out at Touga, surrounding him with a not at ALL warm cloud of mist. When it cleared she was
baring her not inconsiquental fangs at the now shivering playboy. He blinked slightly as he noticed his reflection
in her grimace... not to mention the fact that one of her fangs was about as big as his height... -_-;
"Human, perhaps you have not noticed this, but _I_ am a Draconis Sapiens Argentum. YOU, on the other hand,
are NOT." She huffed another puff of freezing mist at him. "As a mere HUMAN, you are completely lacking in the
proper wings, claws, fangs, and tail for what you are obiviously suggesting. As well... YOU are no where NEAR of a
proper size."
She suddenly smiled at him and blew at him almost softly, incidently encasing him to about the neck in a
solid block of ice. Her serpantine tounge flickered out and lightly grazed his face, throughly messing up his
hair.
"As it is... you are only about the size of a throughly UN-satsifying appetizer."
With that she went back to her work, coincidently knocking the Touga-Ice-Block across the clearing into
Pod-1...
Katie sat down beside the trio and flushed slightly. "Yes, however if he used his entire body rather than
just a...segment... it might be an interesting match."
A matchstick match at best. The boy has the height of one of my fangs. THAT is not any where NEAR
impressive... or even AVERAGE in my species." Glacier paused for a moment then chuckled, her sapphire eyes briefly
flaring white. "You may say that he is a, as they say, 'one inch tool'!"
She grinned fairly dragonicly at Katie, then went back to work.
A moment of silence past betwixt the twain before it was shattered by Chibi-Haruka's cries.
"Oi! Found another Not-Deader!!"
And, with the assistance of the rest of the Character Crew, she slowly began to extract the queazy not
entirely concious individual out of the debris... hoping against hope to avoid another 'gift' from the stomach
of the said individual...
"Ouch! That _had_ to hurt. Shot down _and_ shot up."
The former news commentator watched as the two Student Council members collided at the other end of the
courtyard. The Vice-President had been ejected earlier with a smack from the outraged dragon. Now, the President
joined him after a short flight of his own.
At the base of a birdhouse, there laid a quiescent pile of prettyboy flesh. Touga Kiryuu, who was more
"cool" than usual, and Kyouichi Saionji, who was more "out of it" than usual, were tangled together unconscious
in a heap. Nonetheless, uncomfortable as it must be, they still appeared to be sleeping with a graceful poise about
them.
"That's something I don't see everyday. Birds with landscape art. Man, _everybody_ in Ohtori Academy has
class."
The two of them were like beautiful Grecian statues. Especially since they were both nude. Touga's uniform
seemed to have broken apart into several frozen pieces when he crashed and tumbled into Kyouichi.
"Oi! Found another Not-Deader!!"
The shout from the diminuitive tomboy drew the attention of the lurker, as well as his fellow bishounenmon
who had been listening to the conversation between Katie and Siobhan. A large crown gathered around the area near
chibi-Haruka Tenoh. It looked as if it had been a music room.
"Bleargh!"
"Eeewww... That gross! Blue boy throw up again!"
"Oh grea... NASTY!" Glacier hissed, back-winging quickly away from Miki AND Chibi-Haruka. "You positively
REEK, 'Ruka-kun! Go get cleaned up and I mean NOW!"
Couragous beyond any doubt the adventurous tomboy might have been, but even Chibi-Haruka didn't fuss no
quarrels when it came to an order from Glacier. Thus, with a rather fixed grimace spread across her (somehow)
grease besmeared face from the odor of the vile looking maiasma across her jumper, Chibi-Haruka made quick-feet
towards the nearest (working) bathroom.
As for Miki...
Being thouroughly evil Kevin Materialized near the naked forms of Saionji and Touga and pulled a camera
from the shadows.
*Click*
*pose*
*click*
*pose*
*click*
Even unconsious and naked, something caused the two Student Council members to pose the moment Kevin
pointed his camera at them. All he could think of was that the Dark Magics of Ohtori were at work.
So much the Better.
After taking an entire roll of photos, he flits away looking for Nabiki.
"Oh Nabiki! I have a Lucrative Deal for you!!!"
As for Miki Kaoru, the collapse of the third and fourth floors had not been kind to him. He had been in one
of the music rooms, the one situated besides the restrooms in the fourth floor, practicing on the piano. He had
suffered no physical injuries: no bones broken nor gashes larger than some scratches. No, he received a far worse
fate.
"Eeew! Blue boy really stinky!"
The blue-haired Rose Duelist had gotten buried in the debris that had fallen near the broken sewage pipes
for the bathrooms. So it was understandable why he was so nauseous and delirious. And why his rescuers were leery
of coming near him after uncovering his body.
"Gwan' then. Get to it, mate. Help the bloke out."
"No, no! You do it. I'm, uh, umm, I'm still busy clearing out the debris! Yeah! I've still got some more
junk to clear away! You do it."
"No! No! No make me! Lufio no want to do it! Blue boy stinky!"
Each of the bishounenmons kept trying to push one of the other two to help out the newly-uncovered person.
They would alternate hiding behind the other two and shoving one of them forward. The people near them stared at
their antics.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the courtyard, some of the student body were making their way back. And not
too soon after that, cries of "Saionji-sempai!" and "Touga-sama!" were in the air. From the volume, it seemed as
if it were only the girls who had returned to the main academic building.
Mustering up all the courage that a true Adranic Duelist and Knight Companion of the Order of the Gryphon's
Mantle could gather to her banner, Glacier veeeeery slowly inched back over to where Miki stood wavering about
rather drunkenly. Her snout was nearly sucked into her cranium so great was the withdrawl of her olfatory senses.
"Karou-san?" She hissed out, being careful NOT to gift him with the same treatment as Touga had recieved.
"Karou-san, come with me."
With that, she encircled the toppling boy-genius in a clawed hand that could, and had, before crushed steel
within its grasp like a over-ripe banana. However, this power was incased in a glove of velvet as she carefully
lifted him up off of the ground. Not wanting the odor so close to her face, she huffed a surprisingly warm breath
of steam over the woozy boy, ridding him of most of the unpleasentries that he was covered in. (Unfortunantely for
the Lufio trio of Stooges... most of THAT landed on them... ;p)
For a moment, she simply stood there, staring at her paw in some shocked sort of amazement. Then, she
carefully lowered it down and opened the claws a bit for a view inside. It seemed that Miki had finally passed
out from exhaustion and was now curled upon the dragon's palm.
Glacier, for her part, was beginning to look more than a little nervous about the whole thing...
"Whadda I do with him NOW??" she hissed, anxiety coloring her voice quite nicely.
"hand him here" a deep rumbling voice whispered near her left side.
Emerging from the shadows of the science building was a form not too dissimmilar to Glacier's own. Long
scaly body, elephantine legs, sharp claws on the forelegs that could, given the imputus, split the armor on a M1A2
Abrams Tank as if peeling an apple. Large somewhat tattered Skin and Strut wings.
All in shadow black and shades of grey. A shadowdrake.
"Master Kevin made it quite clear that the council were to be treated with care. I shall provide that care,
as I know spells for healing harmed mammals."
Glacier's eyes flared briefly white as she almost gleefullly handed Miki off to the 'drake.
"Great! Then he's YOUR problem now!" She hissed, passing off her neglegent burden.
Glacier quickly scurried of as fast as wings and claws could carry her after that. And with good cause.
Since as soon as Miki became ensconced in the massive paws of the shadowdrake, he sat up and promtly (sp)
projectile vomited aaaaall over the 'drake's chest and head...
"Ack! Nasty! I think I'm going to be sick!"
"Yuck! Get it off Lufio! Get it off!"
Now covered in vomit and other unpleasant mixtures of fluids and solids, the panicking bishounenmon trio
are running around in confusion, trying to get that gunk off of them. They run here and there, like headless
chickens, trying to find something with which to wash their reeking selves.
"Bloody 'ell, man! Bloody 'ell!"
With the threat of mobile sources of nasty funk, the other people that had gathered scattered. The
Characters and the Players slowly started backing away at first, then made a break for it when the bishounenmon
came closer to them. Well, maybe except for the shadowdrake, since it was still standing there shocked by the
present Miki shared with him.
"Sorry about this, Lufio-kun!"
"There are times to stand your ground. This is not one of them."
"Run away! Run away!"
The trio of rank-smelling bishounenmons have unexpectedly routed the reconstruction of the main academic
building. Once again, there was a flood pouring out from the crater, this time a stream of escaping Characters
and Players. As for the people who had been clearing the debris outside of the building, they were sweapt away
by the deluge of humanity.
"Hey! What's going on? Where are you people going? Hey! What? Aack! Oof! Owie! My spleen! My liver! Oof!
Argh!"
From beyond the wreckage a figure, slightly translucent, emereged picking its way through the debris.
"Kami-sama, what is that stench?" Mikage Souji was not happy. His hall would smell for years if it drifted
over there!
"And what -happened- here? Did someone let the Players loose? And you people call -me- insane..."
The man was obviously muttering to himself. A product of many years haunting alone. Of course, he tended
to forget that others could hear him if they were actually about. He paused in his pickings and looked at the two
nude Student Council members and the crowd of girls either admiring or being jealous of the man. Or doing both.
Eyes skyward he started to direct the crowd elsewhere.
"Akio really shouldn't leave his playthings lying about unclothed. They may stop coming to him and his
'ends of the world' drives..."
With much disappointment, the crowd around the Student Council President and the Student Council Vice
President began to disperse. Most of them recognized the seminar group leader and his authority. Still, many
of the girls dawdled as they were directed away. They looked fondly at their "Touga-sama" and "Saionji-sempai"
and glared jealously at the lucky few asked to help the two Student Council members to the nurse's station.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the central courtyard, the flood of Players and Characters had disappeared
as suddenly as it had appeared. The reason for why was clear; the three ill-smelling bishounenmons had stumbled
their way out of the partially-wrecked building. No way in hell were they gonna get grabbed by the plague-bearers!
"Get it off! Aaahhh! Get it off!"
"Stinky! Stinky! Stinky!"
"Bleaaarggggghhhhhh!!!!"
Keeping out of sight was the order of the day. For most people that is.
"Never fear! For Tenoh is here!"
From out of nowhere, chibi Haruka Tenoh ran into the courtyard. Trailing behind her was a length of water
hose stretching all the way back into another part of the main academic building. Screeching to a halt at the base
of the debris pile, she eyed the zig-zagging bishounenmons.
"Let's get it on!"
With that challenge made, she let loose a torrent of water towards the trio with a twist of the nozzle.
Mikage sighed and looked about as the few girls who didn't have their foolish jaws on the ground at the two
nude men took them to the nurse's station... Of course, that was supposing it was still intact.
"What has happened here?" he asked the chibi-Anthy, not blinking at the fact that she was chibi.
She was ANTHY after all - nothing really could be considered ODD for her.
Chibi Anthy Himemiya merely smiled at Souji Mikage in reply. The afternoon light glinted from her glasses
as she surveyed the central courtyard from beside the base of the bird house. At the other end, chibi Haruka Tenoh
was mowing down the bishounenmons with the geyser of water spewing out of the fire hose.
"Hah haha hah ha! Dance! Dance for me! Dance for Haruka!"
The three bishounenmons were knocked helter-skelter by the stream of water aimed at them. By this time, the
trio had all devolved back to their CHIBI-Lufio forms and were easily swirled about in the mud, grass, and water.
Chibi Haruka was becoming quite intense with her fumigation of the stench-ridden bishounenmons. Maybe some of the
fumes had gone to her head?
"Ack! Haruka! Watch where you're aiming that thing! You almost got me wet!"
From behind a building column, Katie popped out. It seemed some of the water had been splashed that way.
"Haruka? . . . Damn. Me and my big mouth."
With a mad giggle, chibi Haruka Tenoh aimed the fire hose in the direction from where Katie started running
for cover.
Elsewhere in Ohtori Academy, a lone figure watched the courtyard through the windows spanning one of the
walls of the room. He looked on, bemused at the antics of his puppets.
"Well, she is entitled to her playthings. *ding* But so am I."
The doors of the elevator opened to reveal the smoldering Juri Arisugawa. Clearly, she was still not over
the duel from earlier.
For all her great might and incredible fury, one facet of Siobhan's self and personality bled through to
Glacier quite unchanged. She was still a complete clutz when it came to simple tasks. Which is why she found
herself sprawled across the courtyard, having tripped over fleeing students. Oddly enough though, she didn't seem
to notice the largeish bulge starting in the water hose that had suddenly found itself pinched closed when she
landed on it...
Ruka-kun, for her part, had turned the hose towards Katie and started chasing with a vengance, water
spewing in all directions. But then suddenly, she flew back the way she had come, the sudden termination of hose
length jerking her to a rather abrupt reverse and about the same time as the torrent of water was reduced to a
trickle...
Meanwhile, Ikariko and Xmerc were engaged in their own sort of argument, being that Ikariko was trying to
pull the arm of a helpless student out of Xmerc's mouth and Xmerc was resisting... strongly.
"Let GO, Xmerc!!" Ikariko shouted, giving a firm tug on the appendage in question.
"NO, Xmerc HUNGREY!! Xmerc no eat Kufio! Xmerc eat DEADER!" Xmerc sounded muffled at best through the
cloth and flesh filling her mouth, but got her point across quite nicely.
"She's NOT dead, dammit!! Now let GO!" Ikariko gave her strongest yank, but instead of coming out with the
arm removing itself from Xmerc's teeth, she found herself with a handful of yellow and black cloth sitting on the
ground and staring blankly at the grinning Xmerc...
Ami, though, was involved with difficulties of her own. For it seemed that in Katie's distressed race to
escape from the crazed 'Ruka-kun and her water hose, she had knocked the blue-haired genius quite askew. And
incidently directly into a hole that broke into the building's basement...
Chibi-Anthy was off in her own little world again. It didn't matter that the big strange man was talking to
her. Nothing mattered at all, except that the flowers were pretty and watching 'Ruka-kun was funny. Of course,
there was the fact that she was hungery.. She looked up at Mikage with an odd expression on her face, the afternoon
light completely obscruing her eyes. After all, HE was definately a deader...
Lastly, but never leastly, Juri had finally stormed the castle. Literally. And she burst into the
Deputy-Chairman's office full of her rightous wraith and fury.
"Akio! I," Her teeth gritted with the effort it took to admit it, "crave a boon from you. Help me to defeat
that wretch Siobhan and.... and..."
stood staring silently at the imposing mound of debris before them. Her hazel eyes slowly drifted closed as she
sighed.
"I suppose there is no other hope for it." The words were soft, barely audiable. "A solid illusion simply
won't do. It must be the true form..."
With those cryptic words, she shrugged out of her great coat and set it aside. Then, she...
Changed.
Her eyes flashed open as her lips parted in a silent scream of agony. Her body whipped violently fowards,
arms clutching her chest, as a pair of silver wings and a massive series of spinal spikes ripped their bloody way
free of her back. Her spine lengthed itself with a hideous grinding sound into a long reptilian tail that lashed
about. The rest of her torso and legs writhed and churned violently under their cloth and leather coverings for a
moment before bursting out into the torso and hindquarters of a silver dragon, the flesh splattering down to join
the puddle of gore and cloth beneath her new form. Then, a thin wail tore its way from her throat as her skull
twisted and reformed itself accompanied by a sound not entirely unlike a demonic choir singing, into the scaled
and behorned head of a dragon. The last thing that happened was the horrible rending noise of her neck suddenly
springing long into the serpantine silver neck.
And there, standing were Siobhan had once stood, was the silver dragon known only as Glacier, emitting a
nearly earth-shaking roar, her sapphire eyes glinting dangerously in the half light.
"DAMMIT!! But that HURT!!" she screamed her rage at the pain to the uncaring heavens. Then, she snatched
up Siobhan's discarded great-coat and snapped it outwards with a curious gesture before slidding its newly enlarged
shape over her dragonic frame.
Moments later, she was knee-deep in the debris, lifting out terribly massive sections and shoring up
weakened supporting beams and walls with brief touches of ice. Siobhan's character clambered blithly about her,
hauling out debris and scampering into the depths of the chaos to rescue trapped survivors.
Whilst Kyouichi Saionji was enfolding the chibi-Anthy Himemiya in a very skin-timate embrace, Touga
Kiryuu carefully made his way down the rest of the debris slope. He stepped in and around the bustling movements
of the other characters as they cleared away the fallen floor sections. He paused, however, near the silver dragon
as it worked to secure the still-standing portions of the building.
"The very picture of power and grace, strength and beauty. Interesting. Quite interesting..."
Glacier merely blinked once as she gazed contemplatingly down at Touga. For a moment there was only
silence. Then...
"Tell you what. You stop trying to hit on me, and I'll stop contemplating eating you. Okay?" Glacier
finally rumbles. "What do you want anyway? Hmmm?"
Then she notices the fact that a nude Saionji was embracing Chibi-Anthy...
"OI! Flasher-boy! Get yer nudist paws OFF the wee one!!" She roared, batting her wings to keep her
balance as she casually hopped over, smacked Pod-1 and then hopped back to Touga.
"As I was saying... " she continued. "What do you want?"
If the Student Council President was thrown off his game by such a frank discussion, it didn't seem to
affect the smile on his face. In fact, it seemed to have only grown larger. But that could just have been a
trick of the light.
"A woman who knows what she wants. Intriguing."
There was no mistaking it this time. The smile had grown larger. Then turned into a contemplative smirk
-as the young man considered the looming silver dragon before him.
"But to answer your question, I merely wanted to become more acquainted with one of the (relatively)
newer Players. We have had so very few opportunities to work together this past year."
He flashes a smile again. "I wish to remedy the situation."
Not too far away, peering from deeper inside wreckage, three bishounenmon kept an eye on the interaction
between Touga and Siobhan while the trio did their part in the clean-up.
"'E's actually still hittin' on 'er. That boggles me mind, that does. 'Wot is 'e thinkin'?"
"I think he's been around the Deputy Chairman for _way_ too long."
"Think about it. The sheer mechanics of 'wot would be involved if 'e got 'wot he wanted..."
"Huh? Lufio no get it..."
"Don't worry about, Ni-ban. You'll get it when you evolve."
Glacier hissed out at Touga, surrounding him with a not at ALL warm cloud of mist. When it cleared she was
baring her not inconsiquental fangs at the now shivering playboy. He blinked slightly as he noticed his reflection
in her grimace... not to mention the fact that one of her fangs was about as big as his height... -_-;
"Human, perhaps you have not noticed this, but _I_ am a Draconis Sapiens Argentum. YOU, on the other hand,
are NOT." She huffed another puff of freezing mist at him. "As a mere HUMAN, you are completely lacking in the
proper wings, claws, fangs, and tail for what you are obiviously suggesting. As well... YOU are no where NEAR of a
proper size."
She suddenly smiled at him and blew at him almost softly, incidently encasing him to about the neck in a
solid block of ice. Her serpantine tounge flickered out and lightly grazed his face, throughly messing up his
hair.
"As it is... you are only about the size of a throughly UN-satsifying appetizer."
With that she went back to her work, coincidently knocking the Touga-Ice-Block across the clearing into
Pod-1...
Katie sat down beside the trio and flushed slightly. "Yes, however if he used his entire body rather than
just a...segment... it might be an interesting match."
A matchstick match at best. The boy has the height of one of my fangs. THAT is not any where NEAR
impressive... or even AVERAGE in my species." Glacier paused for a moment then chuckled, her sapphire eyes briefly
flaring white. "You may say that he is a, as they say, 'one inch tool'!"
She grinned fairly dragonicly at Katie, then went back to work.
A moment of silence past betwixt the twain before it was shattered by Chibi-Haruka's cries.
"Oi! Found another Not-Deader!!"
And, with the assistance of the rest of the Character Crew, she slowly began to extract the queazy not
entirely concious individual out of the debris... hoping against hope to avoid another 'gift' from the stomach
of the said individual...
"Ouch! That _had_ to hurt. Shot down _and_ shot up."
The former news commentator watched as the two Student Council members collided at the other end of the
courtyard. The Vice-President had been ejected earlier with a smack from the outraged dragon. Now, the President
joined him after a short flight of his own.
At the base of a birdhouse, there laid a quiescent pile of prettyboy flesh. Touga Kiryuu, who was more
"cool" than usual, and Kyouichi Saionji, who was more "out of it" than usual, were tangled together unconscious
in a heap. Nonetheless, uncomfortable as it must be, they still appeared to be sleeping with a graceful poise about
them.
"That's something I don't see everyday. Birds with landscape art. Man, _everybody_ in Ohtori Academy has
class."
The two of them were like beautiful Grecian statues. Especially since they were both nude. Touga's uniform
seemed to have broken apart into several frozen pieces when he crashed and tumbled into Kyouichi.
"Oi! Found another Not-Deader!!"
The shout from the diminuitive tomboy drew the attention of the lurker, as well as his fellow bishounenmon
who had been listening to the conversation between Katie and Siobhan. A large crown gathered around the area near
chibi-Haruka Tenoh. It looked as if it had been a music room.
"Bleargh!"
"Eeewww... That gross! Blue boy throw up again!"
"Oh grea... NASTY!" Glacier hissed, back-winging quickly away from Miki AND Chibi-Haruka. "You positively
REEK, 'Ruka-kun! Go get cleaned up and I mean NOW!"
Couragous beyond any doubt the adventurous tomboy might have been, but even Chibi-Haruka didn't fuss no
quarrels when it came to an order from Glacier. Thus, with a rather fixed grimace spread across her (somehow)
grease besmeared face from the odor of the vile looking maiasma across her jumper, Chibi-Haruka made quick-feet
towards the nearest (working) bathroom.
As for Miki...
Being thouroughly evil Kevin Materialized near the naked forms of Saionji and Touga and pulled a camera
from the shadows.
*Click*
*pose*
*click*
*pose*
*click*
Even unconsious and naked, something caused the two Student Council members to pose the moment Kevin
pointed his camera at them. All he could think of was that the Dark Magics of Ohtori were at work.
So much the Better.
After taking an entire roll of photos, he flits away looking for Nabiki.
"Oh Nabiki! I have a Lucrative Deal for you!!!"
As for Miki Kaoru, the collapse of the third and fourth floors had not been kind to him. He had been in one
of the music rooms, the one situated besides the restrooms in the fourth floor, practicing on the piano. He had
suffered no physical injuries: no bones broken nor gashes larger than some scratches. No, he received a far worse
fate.
"Eeew! Blue boy really stinky!"
The blue-haired Rose Duelist had gotten buried in the debris that had fallen near the broken sewage pipes
for the bathrooms. So it was understandable why he was so nauseous and delirious. And why his rescuers were leery
of coming near him after uncovering his body.
"Gwan' then. Get to it, mate. Help the bloke out."
"No, no! You do it. I'm, uh, umm, I'm still busy clearing out the debris! Yeah! I've still got some more
junk to clear away! You do it."
"No! No! No make me! Lufio no want to do it! Blue boy stinky!"
Each of the bishounenmons kept trying to push one of the other two to help out the newly-uncovered person.
They would alternate hiding behind the other two and shoving one of them forward. The people near them stared at
their antics.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the courtyard, some of the student body were making their way back. And not
too soon after that, cries of "Saionji-sempai!" and "Touga-sama!" were in the air. From the volume, it seemed as
if it were only the girls who had returned to the main academic building.
Mustering up all the courage that a true Adranic Duelist and Knight Companion of the Order of the Gryphon's
Mantle could gather to her banner, Glacier veeeeery slowly inched back over to where Miki stood wavering about
rather drunkenly. Her snout was nearly sucked into her cranium so great was the withdrawl of her olfatory senses.
"Karou-san?" She hissed out, being careful NOT to gift him with the same treatment as Touga had recieved.
"Karou-san, come with me."
With that, she encircled the toppling boy-genius in a clawed hand that could, and had, before crushed steel
within its grasp like a over-ripe banana. However, this power was incased in a glove of velvet as she carefully
lifted him up off of the ground. Not wanting the odor so close to her face, she huffed a surprisingly warm breath
of steam over the woozy boy, ridding him of most of the unpleasentries that he was covered in. (Unfortunantely for
the Lufio trio of Stooges... most of THAT landed on them... ;p)
For a moment, she simply stood there, staring at her paw in some shocked sort of amazement. Then, she
carefully lowered it down and opened the claws a bit for a view inside. It seemed that Miki had finally passed
out from exhaustion and was now curled upon the dragon's palm.
Glacier, for her part, was beginning to look more than a little nervous about the whole thing...
"Whadda I do with him NOW??" she hissed, anxiety coloring her voice quite nicely.
"hand him here" a deep rumbling voice whispered near her left side.
Emerging from the shadows of the science building was a form not too dissimmilar to Glacier's own. Long
scaly body, elephantine legs, sharp claws on the forelegs that could, given the imputus, split the armor on a M1A2
Abrams Tank as if peeling an apple. Large somewhat tattered Skin and Strut wings.
All in shadow black and shades of grey. A shadowdrake.
"Master Kevin made it quite clear that the council were to be treated with care. I shall provide that care,
as I know spells for healing harmed mammals."
Glacier's eyes flared briefly white as she almost gleefullly handed Miki off to the 'drake.
"Great! Then he's YOUR problem now!" She hissed, passing off her neglegent burden.
Glacier quickly scurried of as fast as wings and claws could carry her after that. And with good cause.
Since as soon as Miki became ensconced in the massive paws of the shadowdrake, he sat up and promtly (sp)
projectile vomited aaaaall over the 'drake's chest and head...
"Ack! Nasty! I think I'm going to be sick!"
"Yuck! Get it off Lufio! Get it off!"
Now covered in vomit and other unpleasant mixtures of fluids and solids, the panicking bishounenmon trio
are running around in confusion, trying to get that gunk off of them. They run here and there, like headless
chickens, trying to find something with which to wash their reeking selves.
"Bloody 'ell, man! Bloody 'ell!"
With the threat of mobile sources of nasty funk, the other people that had gathered scattered. The
Characters and the Players slowly started backing away at first, then made a break for it when the bishounenmon
came closer to them. Well, maybe except for the shadowdrake, since it was still standing there shocked by the
present Miki shared with him.
"Sorry about this, Lufio-kun!"
"There are times to stand your ground. This is not one of them."
"Run away! Run away!"
The trio of rank-smelling bishounenmons have unexpectedly routed the reconstruction of the main academic
building. Once again, there was a flood pouring out from the crater, this time a stream of escaping Characters
and Players. As for the people who had been clearing the debris outside of the building, they were sweapt away
by the deluge of humanity.
"Hey! What's going on? Where are you people going? Hey! What? Aack! Oof! Owie! My spleen! My liver! Oof!
Argh!"
From beyond the wreckage a figure, slightly translucent, emereged picking its way through the debris.
"Kami-sama, what is that stench?" Mikage Souji was not happy. His hall would smell for years if it drifted
over there!
"And what -happened- here? Did someone let the Players loose? And you people call -me- insane..."
The man was obviously muttering to himself. A product of many years haunting alone. Of course, he tended
to forget that others could hear him if they were actually about. He paused in his pickings and looked at the two
nude Student Council members and the crowd of girls either admiring or being jealous of the man. Or doing both.
Eyes skyward he started to direct the crowd elsewhere.
"Akio really shouldn't leave his playthings lying about unclothed. They may stop coming to him and his
'ends of the world' drives..."
With much disappointment, the crowd around the Student Council President and the Student Council Vice
President began to disperse. Most of them recognized the seminar group leader and his authority. Still, many
of the girls dawdled as they were directed away. They looked fondly at their "Touga-sama" and "Saionji-sempai"
and glared jealously at the lucky few asked to help the two Student Council members to the nurse's station.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the central courtyard, the flood of Players and Characters had disappeared
as suddenly as it had appeared. The reason for why was clear; the three ill-smelling bishounenmons had stumbled
their way out of the partially-wrecked building. No way in hell were they gonna get grabbed by the plague-bearers!
"Get it off! Aaahhh! Get it off!"
"Stinky! Stinky! Stinky!"
"Bleaaarggggghhhhhh!!!!"
Keeping out of sight was the order of the day. For most people that is.
"Never fear! For Tenoh is here!"
From out of nowhere, chibi Haruka Tenoh ran into the courtyard. Trailing behind her was a length of water
hose stretching all the way back into another part of the main academic building. Screeching to a halt at the base
of the debris pile, she eyed the zig-zagging bishounenmons.
"Let's get it on!"
With that challenge made, she let loose a torrent of water towards the trio with a twist of the nozzle.
Mikage sighed and looked about as the few girls who didn't have their foolish jaws on the ground at the two
nude men took them to the nurse's station... Of course, that was supposing it was still intact.
"What has happened here?" he asked the chibi-Anthy, not blinking at the fact that she was chibi.
She was ANTHY after all - nothing really could be considered ODD for her.
Chibi Anthy Himemiya merely smiled at Souji Mikage in reply. The afternoon light glinted from her glasses
as she surveyed the central courtyard from beside the base of the bird house. At the other end, chibi Haruka Tenoh
was mowing down the bishounenmons with the geyser of water spewing out of the fire hose.
"Hah haha hah ha! Dance! Dance for me! Dance for Haruka!"
The three bishounenmons were knocked helter-skelter by the stream of water aimed at them. By this time, the
trio had all devolved back to their CHIBI-Lufio forms and were easily swirled about in the mud, grass, and water.
Chibi Haruka was becoming quite intense with her fumigation of the stench-ridden bishounenmons. Maybe some of the
fumes had gone to her head?
"Ack! Haruka! Watch where you're aiming that thing! You almost got me wet!"
From behind a building column, Katie popped out. It seemed some of the water had been splashed that way.
"Haruka? . . . Damn. Me and my big mouth."
With a mad giggle, chibi Haruka Tenoh aimed the fire hose in the direction from where Katie started running
for cover.
Elsewhere in Ohtori Academy, a lone figure watched the courtyard through the windows spanning one of the
walls of the room. He looked on, bemused at the antics of his puppets.
"Well, she is entitled to her playthings. *ding* But so am I."
The doors of the elevator opened to reveal the smoldering Juri Arisugawa. Clearly, she was still not over
the duel from earlier.
For all her great might and incredible fury, one facet of Siobhan's self and personality bled through to
Glacier quite unchanged. She was still a complete clutz when it came to simple tasks. Which is why she found
herself sprawled across the courtyard, having tripped over fleeing students. Oddly enough though, she didn't seem
to notice the largeish bulge starting in the water hose that had suddenly found itself pinched closed when she
landed on it...
Ruka-kun, for her part, had turned the hose towards Katie and started chasing with a vengance, water
spewing in all directions. But then suddenly, she flew back the way she had come, the sudden termination of hose
length jerking her to a rather abrupt reverse and about the same time as the torrent of water was reduced to a
trickle...
Meanwhile, Ikariko and Xmerc were engaged in their own sort of argument, being that Ikariko was trying to
pull the arm of a helpless student out of Xmerc's mouth and Xmerc was resisting... strongly.
"Let GO, Xmerc!!" Ikariko shouted, giving a firm tug on the appendage in question.
"NO, Xmerc HUNGREY!! Xmerc no eat Kufio! Xmerc eat DEADER!" Xmerc sounded muffled at best through the
cloth and flesh filling her mouth, but got her point across quite nicely.
"She's NOT dead, dammit!! Now let GO!" Ikariko gave her strongest yank, but instead of coming out with the
arm removing itself from Xmerc's teeth, she found herself with a handful of yellow and black cloth sitting on the
ground and staring blankly at the grinning Xmerc...
Ami, though, was involved with difficulties of her own. For it seemed that in Katie's distressed race to
escape from the crazed 'Ruka-kun and her water hose, she had knocked the blue-haired genius quite askew. And
incidently directly into a hole that broke into the building's basement...
Chibi-Anthy was off in her own little world again. It didn't matter that the big strange man was talking to
her. Nothing mattered at all, except that the flowers were pretty and watching 'Ruka-kun was funny. Of course,
there was the fact that she was hungery.. She looked up at Mikage with an odd expression on her face, the afternoon
light completely obscruing her eyes. After all, HE was definately a deader...
Lastly, but never leastly, Juri had finally stormed the castle. Literally. And she burst into the
Deputy-Chairman's office full of her rightous wraith and fury.
"Akio! I," Her teeth gritted with the effort it took to admit it, "crave a boon from you. Help me to defeat
that wretch Siobhan and.... and..."