Chapter 19
Nobu and the others were on their way to the gym, when Nobu tripped on something and fell into LJ's back, knocking him over and landing on top of him, LJ face planting the floor.
"Nobu. What the fuck?" LJ asked annoyed as she got off him and sat on the floor fiddling with her shoe laces.
"My laces came undone. Go ahead, I'll catch up in a minute." She said, waving them off with a smile as he rolled his eyes but did what she said none the less.
She tied her laces and ran to the gym, opening the doors and walking through them.
Nobu let out a loud shriek, as a bucket full of cold water fell on her head from above.
Shivering, she fell to her knees clutching her head wide eyed, as Offendy jumped down from one of the tight ropes laughing, as were some of the others.
"Revenge is sweet, my dear Nobu." Offendy laughed, but not receiving a reply from Nobu, he got worried and crouched down in front of her, concerned. "Puppy, u ok?"
"No. I'm not a monster. I didn't mean to kill her, please. I didn't mean to." She sobbed, chanting the last sentence over and over again.
"What? Who did you kill? Nobu, talk to me." Offendy desperately tried to pull Nobu from her memories as she cried holding her head and staring at her knees, rocking back and forth. "Whoever it is that's calling you a monster, is not here now. You're safe."
"O-Offendy?" she asked with a weak voice as she hugged him tightly, finally snapping out of her trance.
"What . . . was that?" he asked worried.
As Nobu pulled him aside, he told everyone to get on with the usual sparring, and he sat down beside Nobu on a floor mat.
"I . . . just have a really bad memory connecting me to cold water. I don't . . . like to talk about it." She said looking anywhere but at him.
"You know I'm here for you. And you can tell me anything." He reassured her.
"I trust you. But don't tell anyone else, ok?" she asked looking where his eyes should be.
"I promise I won't." he smiled down at her as she returned it.
" Ok . . . *sigh* it happened when I was ten, so not long after I supposedly got amnesia from an accident." She started to explain.
"An accident . . ." Offendy said darkly, not being too pleased about the lie.
"Yea. I just started middle school, so I didn't have any friends and the other kids just avoided me. So did the teachers now that I think about it." She said in thought as Offendy frowned. "Couple of months later into the year, I found a friend, who I was talking to and she helped me settle in a bit better."
"That's good, you found a friend." Offendy smiled.
"No, it's not. Humans are liars, and selfish. She only befriended me to make me trust her." Nobu said frowning with pain evident on her face. "It happened after school one day. She called me to the pool and when I got there, she hit me over the head, breaking my illusion."
"She saw you?" he asked anger in his words.
"Yea. She said she knew I was a monster so she has to kill me before I kill everyone else. I was no danger to the humans. Not until she pushed me into the pool filled with ice cold water. I got out as fast as I could of course but she kept attacking me. That is, until I fought back and accidentally cut her throat with my claws. She fell into the pool and bled out, drowning." Nobu said remembering the terrible accident.
"Little bitch deserved it." Offendy glared into thin air.
"Yeah. Shortly after the teachers turned up as I was standing there staring at her dead body, with my fingers dripping blood. They saw my ears and tail. Started calling me a monster and chased me away, attacking me. I was so scared" She cried hiding her head in her knees as Offendy pulled her into his chest, hugging her.
"I'm guessing you got home schooled after that incident." He murmured to her as she nodded.
"Ever since then, I had a fear of cold water. I'm fine with hot or warm water, it's just cold that I hate." She said moving back and looking up at him.
"I'm sorry I wasn't there for you puppy." He gave her a sad smile and stroked her hair.
"Don't be. It's not your fault." She smiled and stood up, pulling him with her.
"Let's go back to the class. I have a few new stances to show you guys." He smirked and called everyone to gather around the floor mats while he demonstrated the moves.
Nobu smirked as she got an idea, and turned into her full Hell Hound form. Offendy looked at her for a sec, but he brushed it off as her feeling a bit down so he left her alone.
As he was standing on one leg, demonstrating a stance, Nobu grabbed the edge of the mat with her fangs, and yanked it from under him, making him loose his balance and fall flat on his face.
"NOBU!" Offendy growled as he sat up on his elbows, glaring daggers at her.
She stopped laughing and rolled over like a dog, then waged her tail excitedly panting with her tongue out.
"No. Stop. Stop being adorable. I can't be mad at you like this." Offendy frowned.
'Come on uncle, play with me.' She said in everyone's head as she jumped on him.
"You wanna play, huh?" he asked with a smirk from under her, and with a swift move, turned her back to her humanoid form, and groped her ass.
"Ahhh, you perv." Nobu screamed and jumped off him with a death glare.
"You asked for it puppy." Offendy smirked, standing up, as everyone laughed.
"You never change, do you?" Nobu asked smiling amused, despite being violated a minute ago.
"Haha. Nope. Shoo, off to your next class now. Shoo." Offendy laughed shooing them out of the gym with his hands and tendrils.
Nobu pulled EJ with her to get a drink, so after she finished and they walked back. They saw Offendy talking to Squidward. He smirked at Nobu then left.
She sceptically walked to her desk and seeing nothing suspicious with it, she sat down.
Except, the chair bucked from under her and fell, bringing her with it. As she grabbed for a support, she found the edge of her table. But it wasn't enough to support her weight so it tumbled down on top of her, and the edge fell right on top of her right side ribs.
"Ahhh. Offendy I'm going to kill you!" Nobu yelled in rage as she realised the culprit behind it. Everyone was laughing by this point, as Nobu climbed out from under her table and got a new chair.
"Wow. That was majestic." Ben laughed from in front of her.
"Epic fail." Jeff banged his right fist on the table in front of him and holding his stomach with the other, laughing his ass off.
"Haha. Brilliant. But are you ok? It looked painful." EJ said a bit concerned.
"At least somebody cares for my wellbeing." Nobu glared at the elf and Joker-wannabe. "I can already feel a giant bruise forming on my ribs." She frowned poking it and hissing a bit.
"Let me look at it when we get home, ok?" EJ asked as she nodded and they went back to focus on the class. Well as much as Nobu could focus in a Maths lesson.
After an agonisingly boring lesson, Nobu was relived to finally get out of class. For what Offendy did, she could not let him get away with. So she came up with the perfect plan to get back at him.
While the others scurried off to their next class, Nobu took a different root. She brought in her special 'coffee beans', as she spotted them on her desk this morning and felt she would somehow need it.
'Thank you sixth sense, I love you.' She thought smirking as she sneaked into the staff room and found the kitchens.
Knowing that only Offendy drinks coffee at this time of day, and they only have coffee beans that need to be granulated, she sneaked in without notice and replaced them with her special ones.
Now, you may be wondering what I mean by special. Well you see, Nobu is a smart one and she gets influenced by the most stupid things, basically her manga and video games. So she came up with a very hot chilly coffee bean that would make the strongest of men break down in pain and set their mouths on fire.
She mixed a lot of different very hot and spicy things; like wasabi, Mexican chilly and the sort. Making it into a shape of coffee beans, she added food colouring and even managed to get that coffee smell right. Genius, it was perfect.
So with full confidence in her plan, she sneaked back out and quickly went to her next class. She just had to wait it out and see the damage done later. Oh how sweet it will be.
. . .
Offendy finished teaching his CT class with the Zalgo House, and not having another lesson until later, he went back to the staff room to have some well-deserved coffee. Sometimes it's just a pain in his ass dealing with these kids.
Offendy entered the kitchen and happily prepared his coffee. Putting the tiniest amount of milk in and no sugar, he went to the couch and sat down by Seedeater. He likes his coffee mostly black, can't take all that sugar, unless its chocolate, and received from a beautiful woman or off a beautiful woman's body, though he preferred the latter.
He took a mouth full, not bothering with the temperature much, he already burned his tongue the night before so what's the point? He noticed it tasted a bit odd, not at all like coffee.
For a few seconds, he just sat there confused when something unbearably painful exploded in his mouth and he spat the contents of it out, all over the glass coffee table in front of him and some papers Seedeater was looking through.
Offendy jumped up and ran into the kitchen for water, as Seedeater gave him a wtf look followed by a death glare. He turned the tap on and put his mouth under it as it burned with a searing pain that he never experienced before. From his mouth it shot up to his non-existent nose and into his brain. So the pain was pretty unbearable to say the least.
The water failing to calm the blazing fire in his mouth, he went for the milk instead.
Figuring out that, that won't help either, he had no other ideas so he just went back out and sat on the couch, curling up into a ball, and waiting for the pain to fade away.
"What the hell man? Your acting like a child." Seedeater complained. Unhappily cleaning up the papers and the mess Offendy made, seeing as the slender won't be functional for a while.
"What was in that coffee?" He asked as he sat back down by Offendy, crossing his arms and looking at him impatiently.
After a while the pain subdued and he was able to talk.
"I have no idea, but I know who's behind it all. Argh. Such evil. I didn't know it existed." Offendy said frowning but stood up to leave.
"Don't touch the coffee beans. They're made of Satan." Offendy grumbled as he passed Trendy on his way out, earning him a confused look from his brother.
Oh Nobu is so dead when he finds her. But wait, death would be too easy, he has to make her suffer. Make her feel the pain she put him through.
Seeing as it's nearly the end of Nobu's biology class, Offendy opted for leaving her be for now and went to come up with a plan elsewhere.
As lunch rolled around, he asked Splendy for some stuff to use in his plan and sneaked into the art room, which is huge and has sewing machines and other stuff in it. He set up his plan and sneaked back out again, like he was never there in the first place, and just stood to the side, waiting for it all to unfold.
. . .
Nobu had trouble to hold back her laughter as she overheard Seedeater and Trendy talking about what happened with Offendy and something about the 'coffee beans being made of Satan'. Ok, her plan worked better than she expected and her little beans are lethal. She can definitely put them on her list of torture devices.
Surprisingly enough, she didn't get into trouble, so she just enjoyed her lunch, but kept an eye out for Offendy. She isn't as dumb as to think that this is over. Oh no, on the contrary. That particular slender is competitive and vengeful to the bone. So this is nowhere near the end of their little prank war.
Walking into art class, she checked the room for any possible traps and devices that could cause her downfall. Finding nothing, she sat down and left the matter alone for now.
"So, today we will be doing some textiles." Trendy said happily as everyone groaned. Nobu didn't really get the purpose of a lot of these classes, but decided not to question them and get on with her work. Must serve a purpose, she just didn't know what.
They had to make a pillow case out of the fabric that Trendy provided for them. He gave them the pattern and specific instructions of how to do it. It was so easy a five year old could probably do it.
But he forgot a very important fact. He was not dealing with five year olds, but sadistic, homicidal murderers, that had neither the patience or at most cases the skill for this.
Nobu could already see that this lesson will end up a disaster before it even began. Oh dear.