the chapter is basically the same, i think, i don't tihnk much has changed in this chapter

Chapter 8: Office Finding

"I'm guessing you guys have no idea where the office is right?" Marth asked hoping but knowing they didn't.

"Oh yes, because I just study the map to the places I got to." Link said sarcastically. 'Well we know he's back to his regular self' Marth thought as he glanced at the clock. It read 8:30.

"OH MY GOSH, WE HAVE TO HURRY!!" Marth shouted as he pushed the other two out the door.

"What's the problem, this is a tiny school, we'll be able to find it easily." Link said as they turned to get out of the cafeteria and went into a hallway with like a million door ways and a staircase.

"Yeah it'll be easy." Marth mimicked Link.

"Shut up."

"Hey guys let's go instead of arguing, you can continue at dinner." Roy broke up the fighting.

"Fine." They both said as they opened and closed the doors. Soon they went upstairs. 'Why are we even looking up here? Offices are mostly on the first floor where you enter' all of them thought and then headed back down stairs.

"How did you guys ever find the cafeteria?" Link asked.

"We just followed the signs if you haven't noticed. I guess when you're hungry you can just sprint to the cafeteria by following the signs. Or maybe so no one gets lost and starves to death." Roy could have gone on until Link interrupted him.

"Are you done?" Roy nodded.

"Why how did you get there?" Marth asked Link remembering that Link wasn't a big sign reader.

"Well you know." Link said smoothly Marth and Roy looked at each other having no idea what he was talking about.

"At this rate we'll never find it!" Marth sighed feeling doomed.

"Doesn't the office have a sign that says office? Or have employees in it?" Roy said as the other two looked at him as if he was an alien.

"I think that is one of your greatest moments in your life." Link said to the happy Roy.

"Really?"

"Yeah, but trust me, you don't get that many."

"Oh thanks Link." Roy said as he led the way down the other hallway that connected to it.

"Roy look where you are going before you trip yourself!" Roy glared at Link and like Link said, he tripped. He brought Link down with him who brought Marth too. When Roy fell his back slammed against a door and opened it as he slid down (since it's one of those pull down handles). Before they even knew it the trio fell into the room and they were too slow to react before the door slammed shut and locked. "Aww great Roy look what you did!" Link complained under Marth.

"Well if you weren't mocking me then this would have never happened!" Roy shouted under Link. The room wasn't big so they were all cramped up in a pig pile. Poor Roy, who was on the bottom.

"Hey I was just telling the truth." Link countered. But before Roy could respond Marth interrupted.

"Well Roy if you looked where you were going then you wouldn't have tripped. And Link if you didn't grab me then we wouldn't be in this mess and be late." Marth shouted at everyone. "So suck it up and help me find a way to get out of this."

"Okay first, CAN YOU GET OFF OF ME!!!" Link shouted.

"Yeah I must agree it's getting kind of hard to breathe down hear." Roy struggled to say. "Not that you guys are fat or anything, not that I would know-"

"For your own good Roy, I would shut up!" Marth suggested.

"ARE YOU-"

"Sure hold on." Marth said as he got up. 'I wonder where all the students were' Marth remembered at the cafeteria how there were only the three of them there. Soon all of them were standing in the dark small room. It was really silent.

"Well this is awkward." Roy whispered breaking the silence.

"No dip!" Came Link's sarcastic voice.

"Do you have a sarcastic phrase for everything?" Marth asked really getting annoyed.

"Yeah that's about it." Link answered. 'That's what I thought……Damn!' Marth thought.

"Maybe we can break down the door!" Roy suggested. 'Finally we're going somewhere' Marth happily thought knowing it wasn't going to last.

"With what? Your thick skull?" 'Okay never mind' Marth was ready to beat those two up to a pulp.

"Hey it's that or trying to pick the lock on the door." You could hear the annoyance rising in his voice.

"With what?"

"Exactly, that's my point."

"Okay let's break the door!" Marth finally said, having about enough of it.

"WITH FREAKING WHAT!?!?!" Link shouted. "IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED THERE'S NOTHING IN HERE WE CAN USE!"

"I wonder what they use this room for; it's empty and pretty small." Roy said randomly.

"How about we try to break it down by ourselves?" Marth hoping Link would give up.

"Oh yes I wonder how the teachers will react when they find out we can break through doors." Link said noting he didn't feel like slamming against the metal door.

"On three. Ready one….two….THREE!!" Marth shouted to Roy. There was a thump but the door didn't give (obviously). Soon there were thumps every third beat against the door. 'Idiots' Link thought as he felt something on the ground with his foot. He reached (or tried to) down to grab it.

"WHOA what are you doing?" Roy and Marth complained together.

"Wouldn't you like to know!" Link ignored them and continued reaching until he grabbed it. "Scoot over I can't reach the handle." Marth and Roy sighed; they were never going to win with this guy.

"Ready?" Roy and Marth continued to go against the door beginning to feel a bruise on their shoulder. They heard a picking sound but ignored it.

"Marth can we just do one more and quit, my shoulder is going to fall off." Marth nodded even though no one could see in the dark but Roy had a feeling that it was a yes.

"Quit whining, don't be such a baby." Roy was about to insult him back until Marth stopped him, wanting to be done with the fighting.

"Just ignore him."

"Just ignore him." Link imitated Marth with a small high pitched voice.

"Ignoring that." Marth said as he was ready to signal to Roy when to slam into the door one more time. 'All most there' Link thought.

"Okay on your mark…get…set…GO!!" Marth shouted signaling to Roy to slam into the door now. Too bad the door opened up right about when they were about to crash into it.

"YEAH I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID IT!! You can call me Link the lock master!" Link shouted happily as he held up the twisted paper clip. Roy and Marth on the other hand were ready to torture him.

"Why didn't you tell us you were picking the lock?" Marth asked as he slowly got himself off of the floor. If his shoulder wasn't bruised from slamming into the door a couple of times then the fall sure did.

"Umm didn't feel like it. Why?" Link answered.

"Because I think I just broke my shoulder!" Marth replied.

"Let me see!" Link said as he walked towards Marth.

"No now it's fine!" Marth panicked as he backed into a wall. Poor Roy on the other hand was still on the floor shocked and still experiencing the shoulder pain from falling.

"OWWW don't touch it!" Screamed Marth as he got away from Link with his other arm stretched out showing Link how far Link can and should come to him.

"Link, Marth and Roy please come to the office; it's five minutes before nine."

"Curse you intercom man!!" Yelled Link and was flipping them off, while Marth helped Roy get up.

"Link, I praise you for picking the lock in the dark but can't you just tell us, COULDN'T YOU JUST FREAKING TELL US!!!" Roy shouted at Link.

"Okay I'm so sorry Roy that I killed your shoulder." Roy didn't care if it was a sarcastic apology or not, but an apology is an apology either way you look at it.

"Okay let's go. How about we quickly sweep through the floor and then move to another floor looking for a door that says office." Marth suggested ready to punch Link if he said anything. He didn't probably knowing that he would be a dead man if he did. Both heads nodded and soon they were running around the hall sweeping through the doors. The scenery on the windows all seemed the same as they whizzed by. By the time they made it all the way around they were panting.

"Okay how about we go upstairs and look for students to ask for directions?" Marth said between gasps for air. Everyone nodded and soon they were on the second floor. They all turned their eyes to the clock and it read, 8:58.

"Hurry!!!" they all shouted as the sprinted to the end of the hall. Then they took a turn and went down the other hallway. They were halfway before Marth stepped in one of those janitors's small bucket thing on wheels they use for mopping up messes. Marth screamed as he tried to maintain his balance and soon got both feet into the dirty water.

"Marth!!!" Roy and Link shouted as they leaped after Marth and caught onto him and joined him in the dirty water. Now the problem was, was that they were speeding down the hall from all that running speed in a janitor's bucket of water and they couldn't stop.

"HOW DO YOU TURN THIS THING!!!!!!?" Marth shouted as he saw the wall coming up. And to make the situation worse, the wall had a window and the window did not have a screen.

"AHHHHHHHH!!!!!" they all screamed as they were coming to the window.

The bucket stopped dead in its tracks once it hit the wall while its passengers continued on. They held their arms up to protect themselves from the window glass as they broke through it.

"AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!" they screamed again as they were falling. Something hard broke their fall but then it collapsed under them and they continued until they hit something. For a moment they were staring at the sky looking at the window they just broke through. Then they got up and looked around. It looked to be a small living room with lots of chairs and a desk in one corner. 'We're not in heaven, we didn't die!' they all thought as they looked around.

"YEAH WE DIDN"T DIE!!!" They all screamed happily as they looked on what they landed on. It was a big pool of plastic, air filled balls and balloons. 'Why is this here?' they all thought again.

"Can I help you? You can call me Miss Aran." Asked the woman. "I knew something like this would happen so we put this here for the day!" she answered as if she read their thoughts. She looked to be in her twenties with her slim body. Her long blond hair was tied in a high ponytail with long side bangs on either side of her face. Her fierce blue eyes were behind small wirey glasses that gave her the secretary look but her athletic body looked odd with it. She wore a tight light blue dress that went to her knees.

"Um, yes we are looking for the office we were to report to." Marth said finally.

"Sure this way and you're right on time!" She answered as she led the way through the door. The three followed. They went through the door and ended up in an officey looking place. There a figure stood and towered over them.

"This is the vice principal, Mr. Dragmire." Miss Aran smiled and was off.

"Hello Link, Marth and Roy. I'm sorry but the principal won't be here today. He has a fatal illness and rarely comes." He said in his deep voice. Marth, Roy and Link stared at him as if he spoke a different language. Mr. Dragmire was doing the same thing as they were doing, staring, evaluating. His eyes drifted from Roy's happy face to Link's emotionless face, studying each feature. He had orange hair slicked back with an orange beard that connected to his hair in front of his ears. His skin had this gray ashy look to it. He wore a black suit with a dark green tie. Also he was kind of big but I guess it was just all the muscle.

"Umm so sorry about the roof-"

"Ah it's okay, we've been trying to get the office moved from that room, it makes finding it a lot harder than it should be." He said as he led them through another door. They looked around and saw a very familiar place. 'You got to be kidding me' the trio thought. They were in the cafeteria. The door was hidden by the cafeteria door since it has a double door. They opened both doors and held them open. They were all mentally slapping themselves in the forehead a thousand times.

"If you go through that door," he pointed to the one they entered in the mourning, "then you will meet your guide and have a tour around the school and then maybe a visit to the school nurse."

"That would be nice, thank you." Marth said hoping the embarrassment wasn't going to last long.

"Yeah thank you!" Roy said cheerfully grateful the torture was finally over, "nice meeting you, Mr. Dragmire. And hopefully we won't be meeting with you again anytime soon." He looked confused and offended but then got it. The vice principal waved goodbye as he watched them go through the door to meet their guide.