GL (GalaxyLight): I'm back for more. This time we're going to continue the class time before going through any strong romance. You'll soon see when you start reading. Like I said, this is more than just romance here. I'm talking about hilarious, sad, scary and serious scenarios. Let's get to this chapter and see what I added.
Rena's PoV
After school, I came to where Elsword, Elesis and Aisha were. I had something to ask them about. "Hi, guys." I called to them.
"Hey, Rena." They said back to me.
"What's up? You were running to us pretty fast." Elesis spoke to me.
I panted before saying my words. "Have you guys joined a club yet?" I asked them.
The three of them grew silent as they looked at each other and back to me. "...Nope!" They answered plainly.
I let out a sigh. "Have you three even thought about joining a club?"
"No, not really." Aisha said slurping her juice.
"It never really crossed my mind actually." Elsword wondered.
"Oh, should we go and look for one then." I offered them. "We'll go together."
"Well, since we got nothing better to do, why not?" He sat up and moved out of his desk.
"Alright then. Let's go!" Elesis agreed. doing the same thing. I smiled as I lead the three to where the club request board is.
We walked along the hallway to find club request board where there were tons of papers and flyers on them. There was an Archery club, a magic club, a newspaper club, a swimming club and many more. There were so many to choose, I don't know which one what's right for us to be in.
"What do you suppose we should be in, sis?" Elsword asked his sister.
"Anything is fine." She answered with a smile. "Any club you join in is where I will also join in as well." There she goes being a very overprotective sister she is. I can't really blame her, she loves her brother a lot, but may be too much. I decided to let it slide and continue looking at the flyers.
"UGH! There's so many, it's making my head spin." Aisha groaned as she was holding her head. She was pretty serious about the head spinning part, because my head was spinning as well when I was looking at the board for quite some time. "I don't think we're going to find a club like this..."
"You four look like you need help." The four of us turned around 180 degrees to see a familiar man.
"Raven!" We all shouted at the same time. None of us expected him to still be here. I know he's an engineer but, that doesn't mean he comes here often, does he? Right now he was wearing different clothes, this time as a janitor.
"Hm? Did I recall giving you my name?" He asked us.
I forgot the fact that he didn't give us his name but we knew because of the ID on his shirt. "You had an ID with your name on it when you wear an engineer." I explained to him.
"...I see. In that case, nice to meet you four." He greeted us.
"Nice to meet you too." We all greeted him back.
Raven then looked at the club board. "So you're having trouble deciding a club?" He asked.
We all nodded. "There's just too many, I can't even pick one at all." Aisha groaned.
I noticed Raven holding a lot of cleaning materials and a toolbox. "Raven, where you going with all that?" I asked him.
"Oh. I'm going to fix and clean an old unused room. There are many old things in there that needs to be put away."
This gave me a good idea. "How about we help you clean the room?" Elsword, Aisha and Elesis turned to me with their eyes widened.
"WHAT!?" They shouted.
"Come on, you guys. He fixed the heater for us. Thanks to him we were able to get warm again. If it weren't for him, we would be freezing again. We should at least do something for him in return."
The three looked at each other and began to think about it a little. Elsword was the first one to leave a sigh. "I guess we owe him for helping us... Alright then." He answered while scratching his back head.
"Well, if you agree, Elsword. Then I guess I'll do the same." Elesis agreed. "Besides, I have to thank him for almost getting us frozen." That sounded a bit wrong there, but I knew what she meant.
"Well, since all of you are going, I guess I'll go too. A-And it's not like I want to be left out or anything." Aisha flustered. She was quite on edge to go.
"This isn't really necessary." Raven denied. "It was only my job to fix the heater, you don't need to repay m-"
"It is entirely necessary." I cut him off. "We want to help you out, for keeping us warm that time. Besides, I'm pretty sure you can't clean and fix an entire room by yourself. You should learn to have someone to help you for once. Please, let us help you."
Raven didn't say anything for a while as we all stared at him and then let out a sigh. "Very well. If you insist, I won't judge. You can come and help." He answered us.
The four of us cheered as we high-fived each other happily. "Thank you, Raven, I hope we get to know you better." I smiled before we all walked to the old room.
Aisha's PoV
It took a few minutes to get to where we need to go. "Are we there yet?" I asked because my legs were killing me.
"You didn't have to ask that right now," Raven told me. "because we're already here." I saw Raven took out some keys and began opening a door behind him. I groaned and facepalmed myself with embarrassment and humiliation.
After he unlocked the door and opened it, we came to get a look to what the room looks place and were shocked to see what we saw. There were tons of boxes lying around the place. Lots of things were spilled on the floor. There weren't a lot of furniture there either, just a table, a couch, a few lockers and some old paper on the table.
"'Cough' Ugh! 'Cough' How long has this place been unused?" Elesis asked while coughing from the dust that were covering the whole floor and onto us making us cough as well.
"The principal said it wasn't used for over a year." Raven explained. "It's surprising how no one wants to use this anymore."
"What's with all the boxes?" Elsword asked.
"They're all used props for the room, most weren't needed so they were thrown away. Some stayed here for odd reasons."
Rena opened one of them. "This has a bunch of pencils, paint brushes and rulers." Rena said.
"This one has some old paintings and posters." Elsword said when he opened another box.
"This one has a computer with wires." Elesis said opening another box.
"This one has a huge stacks of textbooks and workbooks that are completely blank." Except that they're covered in dust,. I coughed a few times while wiping the dust away, and I chose not to say anything about it to avoid any embarrassment.
Raven then examined a wall which had it's wallpaper torn away. There eve more on the other sides and even the ceiling. "I'll take care of the walls and ceiling. You can all start cleaning the room." He gave me and Rena small wipers and gave Elsword and Elesis brushes. What are we? Housewives? None of us wanted to complain as we started cleaning the whole room.
Elesis's PoV
The dusting and cleaning was really difficult. Because of how old the room was, the dust wouldn't come off so easily. I had to dust it off harder and faster for at least 10 times to get it off. Elsword was having the same problems too, except that he's having trouble with the lockers. He kept raging whenever he tries to dust off the dirt. He looked pretty cute when he gets mad like that. I turned back to where I was dusting as I spotted something hideous. I saw a big spider who was about to craw to my brush. Without thinking, I pulled my brush away from it and stomped it incredibly hard even I don't know how much strength I put on it.
It almost caused an earthquake when the others all looked at me terrified. "Nothing to see here." I faked smiled.
"THERE IS!" They all shouted at me as I flinched.
"Relax! It's just a spider I stomped on." I told them.
"That was pretty loud." Rena said. "I didn't know you hate spiders."
"It's not that I hate spiders. It's just that it caught me by surprise."
"Well, anyone would hit it if they notice it without having second thoughts." Elsword sighed.
"Sorry if I startled all of you." I apologized.
"It's nothing. As long as you didn't do any damage, we won't have to worry." Raven informed us.
I looked back as I didn't see any cracks on the floor. I was glad that I didn't use much strength to crush that spider otherwise I'll be getting lectures from Raven (probably). I picked it up with my brush and tossed it on the garbage bag we brought with us.
When Rena and Aisha were wiping the walls and furniture with water, I saw some black spots left behind. I can take it it's been old enough to be stuck with it or it's been holed out. They probably need to be replaced or fixed.
It took about 45 minutes to get everything cleaned up. Everything was now spick and span. The books were all clean and stacked properly, the computer is functioned, and all the materials are placed to where it belongs. The rest were placed in the lockers. We all lied down on the floor while Rena tossed herself on the couch. I originally wanted the couch but Rena beat me to it.
"Phew! I'm beat!" I exhaustingly said as I was taking deep breaths.
"That took way longer than I thought." Aisha muttered.
"At least we got everything shiny clean." Elsword said.
"I thank you all for your hard work." Raven smiled at them. He finished fixing all the torn walls, they were all perfectly repaired as a normal wall again. To make even more amazing, Raven doesn't look like he's tired at all. He was just staring at us normally. Where does this guy exercise at? "As a token of gratitude, I brought some candy with me." He showed us some candy balls wrapped colourfully.
"Oh no!" Rena cried out while shaking her hands. "There's no way we could possibly-" Before she could even say anything else, she was cut off by my brother.
"Thanks! I could use some sugar." He immediately got up after saying that and snatched one of them with incredible speed and tossed it in his mouth. He smiled greatly to the taste which was very cute.
"Elsword sure loves sweets..." Aisha sweatdropped seeing him do that.
"He sort of have a sweet tooth." I replied to her. I wasn't kidding about the sweet tooth part. Elsword LOVES sweet things. When he tasted something sweet for the first time, he was crazy over it and he kept eating over and over. I never saw him have a stomach-ache from sweets... ever, which surprises me. He would eat anything sweet-related. Red bean, jelly, lollipops, you name it. I worry for his teeth, but I'm sure he can take care of that... I think.
"Still thanks..." I grabbed a piece of candy from Raven and popped it into my mouth, and it tasted sweetly delicious.
Elsword's PoV
Raven has finished packing everything up, and was ready to leave. I stopped him though. "Hold on!" I called to him. "What are we supposed to do with this room now?"
"I was only told to clean and fix this room." He answered. "That's all I needed to do."
"Wait!" Before he moved forward, Rena stopped him by grabbing his left hand. She then flinched as if she felt something weird. She then took a look down and gasped as she stepped back a couple of times. Elesis, Aisha and I were confused to why Rena was shocked until we looked at Raven's left hand. It wasn't a human hand at all, it was a claw made out of metal.
"What... is that?" Aisha slowly said as she was shivering.
"Is that... a metal claw?" Elesis said trembling.
"This is a joke, right?" I muttered.
"Raven... What happened to your...?" Rena couldn't finish because of her shock to what she just saw.
"Tsk!" He blurted out as he covered his claw. "That's none of your concern! I'm leaving! You four are free to use this room whatever you want." He then tossed the keys (for the clubroom) to Rena and stormed off the room. None of us wanted to follow him as we had nothing to say, until Rena spoke first.
"Um... Anyway... I guess we have this room for ourselves, huh?" We all snapped out of it as we looked around the room again. We decided to forget about Raven for now.
"I guess so, but what do we suppose we do with this place?" Aisha asked.
"You got me..." I answered her.
"Well we can't really just leave it here, can we?" Elesis sighed. "We have to think."
All of us started to think about what we are supposed to do with this place. Leaving this place and gong home would be too awkward unless we had an idea. We thought long hard but got nothing, until Rena spoke up.
"I know!" Rena cried while slamming her fist down to her palm. "I think I can use this room."
"Really? What is it?" I asked her as the three of us looked at her closely.
"We're going to use this room and make our own club!" She answered happily.
The three of us paused as it took time to understand what she just said. "WHAT!?"
"Think about it. Because they are too many clubs, we can't decide on one. So how about we make our own club and do stuff we like? We could solve mysteries, train our bodies, go on a journey and other stuff. It'll be great! Besides, this room looks good enough if we add more accessories and furniture to this place. This is the perfect opportunity and find something new to see."
None of us could say as we were imagining the stuff we could do with this room. Rena was right about one thing; we can use this to do anything we can do in school. Thinking about finding new people I could face to become stronger, new places I can see.
"You know, maybe we could use this place for purposes." Elesis was the first one to agree. "Sure this place is old, but if we can add more stuff here, we could make our own professional clubhouse. We can see lots of new things, just like what Elsword wanted."
I flinched when she mentioned me. "D-Don't say that out loud, sis!" I shouted at her. She just giggled. "But yeah, I'd like to be in a new club too since I have no idea what club I can choose. What about you, Aisha?"
We all looked towards our purple-haired friend. "Me!?" She flustered. We all stared at her as she was looking at us back and forward. She began to blush red as she tries to open her mouth. "W-Well. Since all of you decided to be in this new club, I-I guess I'll do the same." She then began to blush even more. "And it's not like I don't want to be left out or anything! I just don't have much stuff to do besides practising my magic."
"Alright! Alright! We get it." Elesis groaned.
Rena just happily smiled. "Great! Now that that has been settled, let's debate on who's going to be the president?"
"P-President!?" I gasped.
"Not THAT kind of president!" Aisha cried out who thought I was getting the wrong idea. "In clubs, presidents are based as leaders of the club while vice president is the second commander and the secretary is the one who handles the papers and so on."
"Oh! I think I get it now." I replied. "So... who's going to be the president?"
"I already thought of that. Right, Elesis?" She then turned to my sister.
"Huh? What are you talking abou-" She stopped and paused for a couple of seconds before she panicked. "WHAT!? M-ME!? THE CLUB PRESIDENT!? WHY!?"
"Think about it, Elesis. I've known you for quite some time, even when you were younger. You are strong, skilled, smart and responsible. You always took care of most of the things and you weren't afraid to do them at all. You'll be perfect as the club president. Right, Elsword?" She then looked at me while Elesis was the next one to do the same except she was sweatdropping.
I was about to argue thinking I should stay out of it until I remembered about Elesis's abilities. Unlike me, she had better skills and potential. I was still far off from her. I don't want to admit it but she's clearly better than me and probably Aisha and Rena as well. She was better off to be the president than any of us. But despite that, I will still look up to her and will be counting on her. Leaving out with a sigh, I agreed. "Yeah, she's well suited for this kind of thing. I know, because I believe she can do this." I said as I let out a smile.
Elesis blushed deep red. "W-Well, if you all have faith in me, I guess I'll give it a try." She flustered a bit. Rena smiled as much as I did. "So what about the rest of you?"
"I decided to be the secretary." Rena answered. "I can take care of the work established on the papers. Aisha can be the scout where you will look around the school and see anything unusual, you go and report to us. Is that ok with you?"
"Well, I guess I can do that. So what about Elsword?" She asked.
"He can be the vice president." Rena replied almost instantly.
I almost fell over with I heard that. "Whoa! Whoa! Are you sure about that?" I asked her as I sweatdropped.
"You may not be as good as Elesis, you are very capable to work on the plots and assist others. Besides, you're the president's right-hand man so you can help her do some work for her. I think you can work on that."
I wanted to object but I remembered that a vice president is needed, and everyone here already have a role, except for me. I had no other choice but to agree since that role as a vice president is important to the clubs. "Alright. I'll become the vice president." I answered.
Rena smiled. "Good, now there's one more thing we have to do..." The rest of us groaned as there was more to be done.
"Come on, it's getting late." Aisha sighed. "I need to go home fast."
"Don't worry, all we have to do is name our club and that's all."
"Name our club?" Elesis asked. "Oh yeah, we haven't named it did we?" We all shook our heads. She sighed. "Well, what are we going to call this club? I haven't really thought of one."
"To be honest, I haven't got a name either." Rena said miserably. "You got one, Aisha?"
"Not really." She replied. "I got one, but it was too embarrassing I didn't want to use it." I wondered what it was.
That leaves me as the girls all turned to face me. I gulped. "Me? Uh... well..." I tried to think as fast and hard as I could but it was very hard. 'One name! Just one name!' I thought hard and hard. Until one name came to my head that would fit well. "H-How about... The 'El Search Party' Club?" There was silent in the clubroom.
The silent stopped when Rena started laughing. "What kind of a name is that!?" She cried out when laughing. "I've never thought of it that way. It sounds very cute!" Cute? "I like it!"
"Me too!" Elesis followed. "It kinda fits the party of us!"
"Well... it had a good ring to it... I guess it's... nice." Aisha said as she was folding her arms with pink spots on her cheeks.
"It wasn't much to think of, really." I lied.
"El Search Party Club it is then!" Rena announced. "This clubroom officially belongs to us now!" We all high-fived each other as victory. "By the way, I'm going to a sweets café. Want to come? I'll treat all of you."
"Really!? Awsome!" I cried out.
"Thanks Rena, that's quite generous of you." Elesis smiled.
"Don't forget me! I'm coming too!" Aisha shouted as she came closer to us.
"Okay! Let's go!" Rena cried out. We all nodded as we locked he clubroom, left the school and headed for some grub.
GL: Phew! I didn't think making a club would be this hard! It took quite a while to do this. Almost a month but, eh! Who's countin? See you in the next chapter!