"...now what?" Chrome asked softly as she looked around the now empty mirror chamber, Crowley had been silent for a few minutes before he cleared his throat
"since the dark mirror said you have virtues of all the dorms, that means you can still attend this college!" Crowley spoke almost as if that was a good thing, and he looked to be thinking over what to do
"ah! there is a vacant building on this campus, it was actually used as a dorm a long time ago" Crowley continued while he looked at the trio of mages that had arrived through the dark mirror...of course, two of them were females...but it certainly wouldn't be the first time a female had managed to slip through the cracks and into the all boys school that was NRC.
Although...the last female to attend left a lasting impression on those who attended at the time she did, some impressions were good, others were bad...but none could deny that she could have been better off at their rival school of RSA.
"with enough cleaning, it should be habitable enough, in the pure kindness of my heart, I shall allow you three to reside within that dorm since you three can not be sorted into the other dorms" Crowley explained, having brushed off his thoughts of the past for the time being to instead focus on the present.
"I shall personally escort you three to your dorm straight away. It is an old building, so it has plenty of...character, one might say" Crowley hummed as he turned and gestured for the trio to follow him out of the mirror chamber.
"...why do I have a feeling when he says 'character' he means almost uninhabitable?" Skull whispered to Tsunami who snorted quietly and nodded in agreement
"...as long as we have somewhere to sleep" Chrome whispered in agreement as the trio almost calmly followed the headmage through the halls and towards where the old and vacant building was, the building that would become their 'home' for however long they would attend this college for.
"...you want us to...stay here?" Skull asked once they had arrived at the gates of the dorm, the trio looking up at the dorm beyond the entrance gate
"...character is too light of a word..." Tsunami whispered to her elements who hummed in agreement as they followed Crowley past the gate
"Isn't it delightful? scoot inside now. There you go" Crowley grinned back once they got past the gate and into the dorm itself and the trio could see the true extend of how it had fallen into such disrepair.
"This should keep the elements at bay for the time being, until you can fix it up of course" Crowley hummed once they were inside the building's lounge
"...this truly is Ramshackle..." Chrome murmured while she looked around and noticed how dingy everything was and how broken things were,
"This is going to take a while to clean" Tsunami agreed
"Now then! I must be off! i shall be back soon though, with some food and overnight clothes! Ta!" Crowley spoke before he left out the front door and almost seemed to vanish.
"there isn't even a clean place to sit..." Chrome spoke up as she looked around the main room of the dorm trying to find a relatively clean place where they could sit and figure out what to do.
"at least it isn't raining" Skull said, trying to find a silver lining...only...
"you just had to jinx us..." Tsunami deadpanned at her cloud who paused and looked guilty once it had instantly started to rain after Skull had said that.
"GWAH! it's pouring out there!" the trio paused when they heard that familiar voice cry out and the trio turned to look at the source of the noise, and low and behold it was Grim,
"huh?" Chrome spoke in shock when she saw the flaming feline who laughed and pointed at her face
"hahahaha! your face is priceless, like a bat blessed by a water gun!" Grim cackled happily
"as if I wouldn't sneak back into the campus once I had escaped prying eyes, you all got no idea what I'm capable of!" the cat continued almost indignat that he had been tossed out simply for trying to prove he should attend the school.
"I ain't gonna give up attending this school just because I got kicked out one measly time! if you think that, then you don't know Grim!" Grim finished before he referred to himself in the third person as he said he wasn't going to give up attending the school.
"why do you want to attend this school so badly?" Tsunami asked trying to figure out why the beast wished to attend NRC to such a passion that he would sneak in even after he was tossed out by the headmaster.
"ain't it obvious?" Grim asked the three almost asking if they were that stupid that they didn't know why he wanted to attend so badly, which felt a tad insulting to the three ex-mafiso.
"I was born to do this! I'm a magical prodigy who's got the makin's to become one of the greatest mages who's ever lived!" Grim told the trio who all blinked as they continued to listen to his rant
"But I've been waitin' and waitin' for that black carriage to come for me...and yet..." Grim suddenly trailed off and he looked downtrodden when he trailed off and the three knew what that meant...he never got the carriage to arrive at all.
"Hmph! That dark mirror has no eye for talent!" Grim huffed as he crossed his paws, and just like that his downtrodden expression was no more, Skull wondered if it was an act for the feline to be that downtrodden before but he could tell it was genuine, however short the period of the cat being downtrodden was.
"That's why I took the initiative and came here myself! You humans don't understand what a mistake you're makin'! Not lettin' me in is a great loss to the world!" Grim exclaimed sounding angry and indignant about everything that had happened at the opening ceremony mere minutes ago,
"Now come one! move over! I'm getting dripped on here!" Grim continued as he tried to get one of the trio to move over so that he wouldn't get wet by the holes within the ceiling that was letting the rain in.
"Bwah! Another hole in the roof! These flamin' ears are like my trademark, y'know? I can't let 'em get doused!" Grim explained as he hid near Skull in hopes that he wouldn't get wet from the water dripping from the various holes in the roof of Ramshackle, Tsunami rolled her eyes at the feline's antics although she found it somewhat endearing...if a bit heart wrenching as he reminded her of Lambo...
"I'll get some buckets" Chrome volunteered as she knew her illusions wouldn't exactly work in this situation and getting the roof physically fixed up was the best solution, but that could be started tomorrow once they had daylight to make it infinitely easier.
"I dunno why you don't just magic those holes away. You could have it fixed in half a jiff" Grim huffed while crossing his small arms again, Chrome hesitated as she looked at Tsunami whose eyebrow twitched when Grim didn't even give them any time to explain why they couldn't do that or why it would be a very bad idea for them to do so at all considering they weren't even sure if the wood was flame-treated...although considering this was a world of magic...probably not flame-treated.
"Ahhh, right you can't use magic at all! pfft, man are you three useless" Grim snickered and their eyebrow's twitched in response to his words
"why don't you magic the roof then?" Skull asked the cat sarcastically even if the three knew it wouldn't turn out well if Grim did it either, from what they had seen of his magic, it wasn't exactly suited for repairing anything...never mind wood which is highly likely to catch fire...even if that chance dropped drastically considering the fact it was currently raining.
"Heh? You want ME to help YOU three?" Grim asked almost mockingly as if he hardly considered even helping the three humans,
"Ha! You got the wrong idea. I'm just a stranger takin' shelter from the rain. You ain't the boss of me." Grim continued with a scoff in his voice as he stared at the three of them.
"If ya had some cans of tuna to trade, well, that'd be another story. But I don't work for free!" Grim finished speaking with another huff in his voice and the trio collectively twitched their eyebrows at the arrogance of this flaming feline.
Tsunami was half tempted to tell Chrome to make some tuna cans as illusions before deciding against it, there was no point in creating something false when the flaming feline would work it out once the cans vanished.
Besides...
Tsunami knew Chrome had to focus on keeping her organs real instead of relying on Mukuro's help...especially considering they were now in a different world to their own.
Tsunami had lost her guardians...she wasn't about to lose Chrome.
"...let's get those buckets" Tsunami finally decided and the trio nodded before splitting up to search for any buckets that could have been left within the abandoned dorm, Chrome had Grim with her as they went down a hallway to the right.
Hello!
Author here!
Anyway, I require some advice from my lovely readers
I do plan on having Chrome gain some real organs instead of the illusionary ones however I'm currently at an impass of how I should go about it.
So I propose a voting!
Option 1; the organs are donated from donors alive or dead and it's all paid for by Crowley once it's discovered that Chrome has illusionary organs.
Option 2; Kawahira shows up and decides to help out Tsunami with that
Option 3; involves Bermuda and some...less than legal ways to acquire the organs...Meaning criminals that bermuda knows won't be missed at all.
Option 4; Chrome is put at the top of the list for any donors of various organs that she needs.
Another thing I require help with, when shall all this happen?
Meaning between which books and who is involved and such.
Anyway!
Hope you all like this chapter!
