Ibuki watched anxiously as the clock ticked by in the lecture hall. It was the night of the next play and he had some important last minute things he had to deal with. He quietly growled to himself and pulled out his phone.
Ibuki: "I need to head to Drama Club early, babe. I'll meet you there."
Lee: "Okay. Love you!"
Ibuki: "I love you too, Lee."
Ibuki left the classroom slightly early and briskly walked through the hall. He would run, but he didn't want to potentially run into a hall monitor and get delayed.
He heard an unfamiliar voice around the corner. "C'mon. Gimme a big smile! I know you can do it!"
Ibuki rounded the corner and spotted Jiro talking to a wolverine and a jaguar.
Jiro shook his head. "I just told you. I can't. I need to go, okay?"
The jaguar blocked his path. "Now that's pretty rude, don't you think? We're just trying to have a polite conversation."
Jiro scoffed. "I have something important to do tonight. Please, get out of my way."
The wolverine smirked. "You seem grumpy. It's written all over your face." The mustelid slowly inched closer to Jiro. "Here, I'll help you smile!" He grabbed both of Jiro's cheeks and placed his thumbs under the corners of his mouth, pulling them up into a fake smile.
Jiro grabbed the wolverine by the wrists and tried to force him off, but to no avail.
The mustelid sneered as he kept pulling up, making the "smile" even bigger.
Jiro started to whine in pain.
Ibuki approached the two. "Is it just me or is someone assaulting a student right in front of me?"
The jaguar scoffed. "Oh, boy. Everyone's favorite abomination. Just what do you plan on doing about it? Snitching?"
The deer-wolf shoved his hands in his pockets and smirked. "That is a possibility. But another one is telling my father."
The wolverine blew a raspberry. "Oh no! He's going to tell his dad! What should we do?"
The two loudly laughed.
Ibuki grinned maliciously. "My father has some special connections, you know. The people with the most money are the people with the most power."
The jaguar snorted. "And? Is he going to buy the school just to expel us?"
"No, he doesn't need to do that. But it would be fairly harmful to have Louis the red deer against you. Think of all the colleges and jobs in the area. Now imagine if one of the richest people in the country was telling all of them about how much of a risk you are. Doesn't seem worth it to bully some random fox."
The wolverine seemed to think about it for a moment before grimacing and releasing Jiro. "Fine. Whatever." The two walked off.
The Tibetan fox turned to Ibuki and pulled out his notepad, flipping to the big smile. "Hey, thanks for the help, Ibuki-kun!"
The deer-wolf nodded and approached Jiro with concern. "You aren't hurt are you? Did the skin around your mouth tear?"
The vulpine shook his head. "Nah. I've had way worse stuff done to me."
Ibuki winced. That's right, he was tied up, tortured and beaten. The deer-wolf still somewhat blamed himself.
Jiro shrugged. "Well, either way, we need to be going, right?"
The deer-wolf nodded and followed Jiro.
Esther started sprinting through the hallway, trying to get to Drama Club early. But then she heard a vaguely familiar voice in a hall she ran by.
"C'mon, honey. I'm not asking for much. Let's just get to know each other."
The white tiger glanced around the corner to see that huge Great Dane talking to an annoyed looking Olivia.
The lab growled. "I already have a girlfriend. Leave me alone."
The Great Dane walked closer to her, causing Olivia to back up in fear. The giant dog smirked. "You a lesbian? Don't worry, I can fix that." He grabbed his crotch. "You just haven't had good enough dick yet. You'll change your mind."
Esther's eyes turned to slits as she went completely feral, losing control out of sheer rage. She let her animal instincts run wild and loudly roared at the male canine.
The dog turned to see the raging tiger and smirked. "You again, huh?" He stepped into the middle of the hallway and cracked his knuckles. "It's you and me, bitch. Let's go."
Esther charged at the canine, but skidded to a halt when Olivia jumped between them with her arms outstretched, blocking the tiger's path.
The lab had a panicked expression. "Please, Esther! Remember what I said! We can resolve this without violence!"
The white tiger stared at her girlfriend. She could feel her rage cooling off as she looked at the lab's beautiful face and brilliant eyes. She immediately thought of all the intimate moments she's had with Olivia. Those memories started to calm her down.
The Dane rolled his eyes before shoving Olivia aside. He grinned at Esther. "Sorry. I don't let it slide when someone threatens me. Now let's-"
A familiar effeminate yet distinctly male voice came from behind the Dane. "Excuse me."
The large canine turned pale and started to profusely sweat before turning around.
Behind him were the Dall sheep twins. Sebastian stared up at him with an innocent smile that most people would just find adorable. "You wouldn't happen to have any scissors I can borrow, would you?"
The Great Dane screeched at the top of his lungs like a twelve-year-old girl before running away faster than any canine Esther had ever seen.
Sebastian giggled. "Hey, Esther-chan! I'll see you at Drama Club!" He walked away and started making idle chit-chat with his sister, not even acknowledging what just happened.
Esther looked dumbfounded before looking at Olivia who looked back at her with a similar expression.
The white tiger started to laugh awkwardly and her girlfriend did the same. But the laughing picked up speed and frequency until the two were clutching their stomachs, laughing incredibly hard.
Olivia stopped and walked up to her girlfriend, giving her a quick kiss on the lips. "Thanks for listening to me, hun."
Esther blushed and smiled bashfully. "Y-yeah..."
Olivia walked away. "See you at the play tonight, hun! Do your best! Love you!"
The tiger gave a big, dopey grin. "I love you too!"
Esther started running through the halls in high spirits.
Lee started packing his bag before the bell even rang, impatient to get to Drama Club. He walked briskly through the hallway of the school until he heard a familiar voice. Jolene the sheep.
"Look, I don't have time for this. Please get out of my way."
Lee turned the corner and saw Jolene talking to that bull that Viola poisoned with a vomiting drug.
The bull smirked. "I just have a couple concerns about the new director for the Drama Club. It's an important job, y'know?"
Jolene scoffed. "Yes, I'm aware. Now, will you please leave me alone?"
The chimera growled and started storming down the hallway towards that damned bovine, prepared to teach him another lesson.
The bull sneered at Jolene. "Lemme tell ya somethin', my man. Cutting off your dick doesn't make you a woman."
Lee paused. Wait, what did he say?
Jolene's lip twitched contemptuously. "I don't think I recall asking for your opinion on that. My gender is my business."
The bull scoffed. "Don't you think that club has enough degenerates? It already has a fairy, a dyke, and two freaks of nature ruining the art of theater. We don't need a tranny running the show on top of it all."
The sheep smirked. "C'mon, be honest with yourself. You wouldn't know art if it bashed you over the head with a sledgehammer."
The bull loudly growled at her with a hateful scowl before raising a fist in the air. "I'll show you a sledgehammer!"
Jolene gasped and took a step back. The bovine swung his fist at her, but she dodged at the last second. She tried to turn and run but accidentally tripped over herself and fell to the floor. "Oof!" She looked at him with a panicked expression. "Are you insane?! What do you think you're doing?!"
The bull sneered and stomped towards her.
Lee panicked and ran in front of Jolene with his arms outstretched, putting a barrier between her and the bull. "Leave her alone!"
The bull stopped and growled at the chimera. "Not you again!"
Jolene looked at Lee with surprise.
Lee scowled. "Just walk away, man. I don't want to fight you again. You remember what happened last time."
The bovine grimaced. He scoffed before walking away. "You aren't worth my time anyway!"
Lee watched the bull go around the corner before turning to Jolene and offering her a hand. "You okay?"
The sheep nodded and grabbed his hand so he could pull her up. "I'm alright, thanks, Lee-kun." She scowled. "I can't believe that maniac attacked me! I'll see to it that he gets expelled."
The chimera looked at her nervously. "Um… About what he said to you earlier."
Jolene groaned and rolled her eyes. "Yes, I had a sex change operation. But we don't have time to discuss that right now. Let's get to Drama Club."
The sheep grabbed Lee by the hand and pulled him along. She was surprisingly strong.
Lee just decided to go with it.