Jamil was not in a good mood. He had been getting the strangest looks from his classmates and teachers all day, and he had no explanation for it. At least, he didn't until he reached the dorms. Kalim had been missing as well, but since it had been a teacher who took him Jamil had been concerned.
The second he saw the familiar white hair and tattoos, Jamil walked up to him. It took him several seconds too long to register the fact Kalim's figure was a bit more...curvy...than he was used to.
"What did you do this time?" he said irritated.
"Jamil! You won't believe what happened!"
Jamil's brain froze for about five seconds. The reason was simple really...Kalim had come out of the side room, despite being right in front of him with a female version of himself.
"What in the name of the Seven is going on?!"
The female version of himself had a rather exasperated expression on her face.
"I can explain," she said with a tone that suggested she was just done with this already.
Jamil listened incredulous as his counterpart explained everything. Meanwhile, Kalim was happily chatting away with his own female counterpart, who was just as happy-go-lucky as he was.
"So let me get this straight. You were using a spell to banish some eldritch tentacled horror out of the dorms, and the thing somehow latched on to you both as payback, but you landed here instead?" said Jamil.
His counterpart, who's name was Jasmine nodded.
"It happens more often than you'd think. Some idiot gets bored or finds a spell book that's a bit too vague for the especially stupid, and decides to summon some eldritch horror only for it to immediately turn on them and turn them brainless from the amount of pleasure it gives them. The teachers do their best, but every so often another book is found and they have to spend a ridiculous sum of money to get a professional team in to remove the damn thing since it's too risky to send females in. I thought I had managed to cover the dorm with enough wards to prevent them from showing up, but apparently someone was dumb enough to remove them before I could notice," said Jasmine exasperated.
"So Night Raven College is an all girls school in your world?" said Jamil.
"With how rich and prestigious the Al Asim are, I have little doubt it will take either Headmage very long to find a way to send us back to where we belong," said Jasmine unconcerned.
"You seem rather calm about all this," said Jamil.
Jasmine gave him an eye roll.
"I attend a magical college full of girls of varying bust sizes that are generally pent up from sexual frustration. They had to put in special warding to keep random boys from popping in to the school without warning long before I even started. I have it on good authority the Royal Shield Academy have an even harder time of it, because Crowley refused to tell them what wards he used to keep the males out. The number of random male suitors Bianca LeBlanche has to deal with after her hand is ridiculous."
Jamil was already making mental preparations on how to deal with this. At the very least this explained all the odd looks he had been getting all day.
Putting them in an empty room was easy enough. There was no way Jamil was tempting any headaches by having them room with another person. Besides, if he left Calypso with Kalim, they were liable to talk for hours and not fall asleep until well into the wee hours of the morning. Kalim was hard enough to deal with on a good day...him being sleep deprived made it impossible.
~*~*~*~
Cater stared at the female Kalim with some amusement and bewilderment.
"You two could pass for twins!"
"I know, right?" said Kalim grinning like a loon. Calypso giggled.
"Fascinating. So in your realm, we're all female?" said Lilia with interest. "What is Malleus like?"
Calypso brightened, as that was one of the few things she had retained during their unexpected trip. She pulled out her phone and began scrolling.
"Here's a picture of a rare housewarden meeting that she attended," said Calypso.
Cater whistled. If he had found Malleus imposing before, he looked downright terrifying as a woman. Also, oddly hot and totally his type.
"What about us?" he asked.
Calypso cheerfully scrolled and pulled up another picture. Cater had to make a face, because he looked entirely too much like a younger version of his mother. Lilia looked at his female counterpart with fascination.
It took her a moment, before she swiped the phone to another picture she had taken. She loved it because it showed Lilith's more maternal side rather strongly.
Lilia had a paternal smile seeing his female counterpart kissing her daughter's head as she peacefully napped among the small animals and flowers. You could see the love and affection between them. His counterpart had even placed her jacket over the other girl, so that she did not get a chill.
"That's a cute picture," said Cater.
"I know!" said Calypso. "Lilith had me share a copy of it with her, because she liked it so much. I'm pretty sure she had a printed copy of it made."
"So...any idea how long you're going to be staying here?" asked Cater.
Calypso shrugged.
"Knowing Jasmine, it's going to take the professors ages to figure out what exactly happened thanks to the spells she put around the dorms. Summoning eldritch horrors is fairly common, and the banishing spell is a mandatory one that everyone has to master before they're even allowed to become second years...that and the alarm spell once their nests have been discovered."
Cater had an odd look on his face.
"So...tentacle demons are a common thing in your school?"
"I heard it's worse around the Royal Shield Academy. They hate us with a passion because our school figured out how to create special wards to keep random male suitors from showing up, much less the ones to keep the stronger eldritch horrors out," said Calypso.
Cater looked more bemused than anything hearing this. Then again, there had to be some basis in fact around all those magical girl hentai.
"So...do you have any other pictures?" asked Cater eagerly.
"Tons!" said Calypso. "Some of them are even ones Katrina shared with me from her MagiCam feed."
"Katrina?" said Cater. Calypso had a grin on her face and a knowing look. "So that's my alternate's name? Cool."
Jasmine arrived to find the group looking over all the photos she had on her phone.
"Having fun?" she asked with a maternal smile.
"Loads!"
"Well I have good news and bad news," said Jasmine. "The bad news is that we're stuck here until they find a way to send us back."
"What's the good news?" asked Kalim.
"Crowley is letting us stay in the Scarabia dorms and your family is sponsoring us since we are alternates of you and Jamil," said Jasmine dryly. The fact they could pass for twins made it easier.
It said far too much that they were taking this in stride, but to be fair this wasn't as uncommon as one would think. It was simply their turn to wait until someone tracked them down long enough to bring them home.
Two weeks later...
Jasmine took one look at the two who had arrived through the mirror chamber...and openly groaned in horror.
"Oh dear Seven...out of all the people to track us down, why did it have to be you two?" said Jasmine.
Before her were the two most perverted girls in Night Raven College. The housewarden of Ignihyde, Iria Shroud and her girlfriend-slash-enabler Azula Ashengrotto.
Iria let out a nervous giggle, while Azula looked at her smugly.
"You should have guessed that we would be the ones sent to track you down."
"Considering she's likely the one responsible for that creature being set loose in the dorm to begin with," muttered Jasmine unfavorably.
"That was not my work," said Iria defensively. "That creature was too low level to be worth my time. And the summoning ritual was too half-assed."
Jasmine snorted, but said nothing. Everyone in Night Raven knew Iria was the biggest nymphomaniac in the damn school, and that her girlfriend had zero issue selling her 'favors' to the highest bidder. All with the proper protections of course, as Azula didn't want to deal with children just yet.
The less said about the videos Azula produced with Iria being the main feature, the better.
Jasmine would happily turn a deaf ear to any of Crowley's complaining once he realized what was in his school. Not her damn problem.
~*~*
Azul looked at his female counterpart fascinated.
"So you're the biggest producers of porn in your world?"
"Iria's libido is ridiculous, even for me," said Azula exasperated. "The second she found out I was an octopus mermaid, she damn near begged me to see the extent of my abilities. She was tired of being bitched out by the headmage for summoning eldritch horrors. We've been together every since she realized I had no issue with satisfying her on top of letting her experiment as much as she wanted. She doesn't really care about the money after all."
Iria was quietly sipping her tea that had been provided. As much as she wanted to meet her own counterpart, from what she had been told he was currently busy with some online tournament. She didn't want to be rude and interrupt something as sacred as gaming after all.
With Idia and Ortho
Iria took one look at Ortho and squealed with delight.
"He's so adorable!" she said, hugging Ortho without any restraint.
"EH? Is this some sort of weird gender-bend event? Am I hallucinating?!" said Idia, freaked out.
"Honestly Iria, must you? At least let me have a chance to get some cameras ready for blackmail," said Azula exasperated.
"I don't know, Ortho doesn't seem to mind," said Azul.
Idia stared between them in disbelief.
"How strange. Your biometrics seem almost identical to nii-san's," said Ortho.
Iria hadn't let him go yet, and was disinclined to do so any time soon.
"We're from an alternate reality," said Azula calmly. "Some idiot summoned an eldritch horror and two of ours got dragged in, but due to the protections they were wearing they got shunted off here instead of whatever realm the horror came from. Iria is likely one of the few people who can create a portal back."
"And the reason she's hugging my brother?" said Idia, calmly down slightly.
"Iria is a total sis-con for her baby sister Arthra, and has always wanted another younger sibling to spoil," said Azula shrugging.
Iria had found a summoning circle when she was about eleven, which had lead to her perversions. Arthra had been spared from that due to the adults, but it had taken them hours to rescue her.
Either way, Iria did her best to spoil her sister rotten, while Arthra did her best to support Iria. She was beyond relieved when Azula and Iria had gotten together.
Idia and Iria began talking in earnest in techno-babble.
Ortho...was just very confused. The hug was sure nice though.
