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If you used anti-magic on a fae, isn't that fatal?

That was the alchemists only thoughts before running into the fray.

In the spur of the moment , he grabbed a large gelatin cake (?) and put the comothis powder on top, then threw it at the rosettes feet as he grabbed his wrist to move him away.

Just as he'd hoped, the collars momentum didn't exceed the amount of force nor mass needed to pass through the gelatin completely, causing it to lose its friction and momentum near immediately upon contact, and end up inside the green dessert halfway through, now in something akin to stasis.

Alchemy : 1,

Magic: 0

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𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌

Finally reaching the tea garden, the first thing that caught her eye was the pool sized thing of lime Jell-O.

The second was Elephys, frozen in what seemed like fear as he gripped the shoulder of the groups resident Alchemist, ears drooped and flicking around while Deuce and the aforementioned Vyr stood infront of him, blocking the rosette from a screaming Riddle.

"I WILL HAVE ALL OF YOUR HE-"

The fact every non-Heartstabyl student was in an odd no-longer straight line, and Riddle was cherry red told her all she needed to know as she ran into the middle of the oncoming quarrel, Ace in tow.

𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝑨𝒄𝒆 & 𝒄𝒐'𝒔 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚

"OBJECTION!!"

She refused to meet the redheads eyes as she spoke, arms blocking between him and her companions.

"According to NRC's rules, you can not punish a student outside your dorm without the Housewardens explicit permission, and also legally you can not punish any students, regardless of dorm, in any way that could result in severe injury or death.  

Hurt or collar me and any other non-Heartstabyl student, and you break the first rule.
Since Ace and Deuce are still technically under my supervision due to the pass, that includes them..."

Balancing on trembling legs, she lifted her head to look the tyrant in the eye, Jade Green against Steel Blue for moment before she shut them tight, afraid of losing what confidence she had left.

"Collar Elephys, someone who anti-magic is fatal to, and you break the latter rule, and can be legally arrested for attempted manslaughter, or straight up murder, with over a hundred witnesses to testify against you if needed in court.

This includes several citizens from varying nations, meaning whatever fancy legal hold your, or any family you're close to, might have at home is worthless.

Think about this carefully, because no schools legally accept murderers, no matter how many academic achievements they get, dude."

𝑾𝒐𝒘, 𝑰 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅

Finally peeking an eye out, Riddle was visibly shaking with anger, but before he even put a step forward, Nevermore had his wing shielding the group, one hand cautiously hovering over a small pouch over his hip as she watched the redhead turned on her, tone sharped maliciously.

"You are an outsider to these nations, are you not? How would you know anything about our rules and laws? 
If I told you I could kill that boy under law, you would have no reason not to believe me, would you?  I'm quite sure no major felonies have ever occurred in Heartstabyl.
But if you're so certain of yourself, then site your sources on the matter."

"Gladly, just a moment..."

Searching through her pocket to find the copy of the original notebook she had solely used for jotting down the rules, she noticed Trey and Cater attempting to signal to her this was a bad idea.

𝑺𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐.

𝑰𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒕, 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚

Finding the journal, she buried her fears, reminding herself that it nothing else, she had several idiots and a cat-boy with god tier powers on her side, as she placed it on the table beside Riddle while pulling her tablet out.

𝑴𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇𝒇.

Setting the tables display so other students could both view the notebook, the NRC rules, the Legal rules of  Sage Island, and the Rights documents, of which she had screenshotted the only ones they needed.

With a deep breath, she began.

"This notebook contains every contradictory rule between the rules of NRC, Nationwide laws, Worldwide laws, and Phonetic Beings Rights. After 3 full nights, I have found over 139 contradictions in the NRC rules alone, but the end total is 1454 across the board, including several worthy of life sentences.

801 rules, 1454 contradictions.
That means theres actually more felonies within the rules then there are rules themselves.

Only around 180 rules actually pass legal guidelines, and I hate to break it to you, but if you haven't noticed, this is an Olympus Corp  tablet of a certain branch that was gifted to me.

I'm not sure if it connects to their databases or not, but if it is, and someone sees it, they have to do a manual legal dorm check on NRC, thats going to be a ton of lawsuits, with a whopping 87% being against you alone.
Atleast with the data I have on the guy, Crowley isn't going to come to your rescue on that, he's far too cheap, far too lazy and far too cowardly. 

If its going to take removing you from the school to keep this under the rug, I don't doubt he'll try to find whatever means possible.

All in all, you're completely wrong. Several felonies have occurred here. Several hundred, actually.

Oh, and I sited all my sources on the last three pages, plus a few interesting articles I found if you want to take a read."

An odd ambience flooded the room as the tiny tyrant was momentarily left speechless, several students taking photos or gazing in both awe and disgust at the list and what had just gone down.

"He was seriously about to off that first year?"

"Thats fucked man...."

"We've breached the "thats fucked" territory dude, this is full on "This guy needs to go."

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"Insane...All this time I could of just called Ma to snitch on Crowley for allowing Illegal treatment of students....."
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"That chick just outruled Riddle. I mean, thats whats fucking insane.  He's been "rules" this and "rules" that since first year, and she's been here what, 3 days?  And she just outruled the human rulebook of a different dorm. Talk about badass!"

"I know! She doesn't even go here —Er..I mean
live here, and she pulled that off! 

"Do you realize what this means?  We can fight back!  We can take our freedom back! Viva la revolution! Kill Fire with fire!"

"Water on fire is more effective, Liam."

"Shut up, Dave."

"....."

"Do you think...and hear me out..."

"No, I am not going to fight a climatic battle against Riddle by your side and then let you pretend to dramatically die in my arms as you confess your undying love for me as your last words while a piano ballad plays in the background"

"Can a man not be delusional in peace?"

"In the words of Cater, #Can'tHaveShitInHeartstabyl"

"We should still atleast do a peasants revolt! This is our freedom! This is the perfect chance!"

"Neither of us are even in Heartstabyl, idiot."

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It was almost insane to her she had inspired so  many students, and shocked both them and her fellow housewarden, so much so that he stood unmoving in place.

𝑰𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈  𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈? 

𝑰 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒓, 𝑰 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒖𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆.

Dashing over to the group, she beelined for Elephys, checking for injuries with what little time they had before Riddle finally loaded back into reality.

"Are you sure you're ok?  I don't know fae biology or if you guys require different medical treatment, but I have some friends-"

The cotton haired boy laughed weakly, starting to try stand on his own again instead of leaning on Vyr.

"Nevermore is a fae too, even if its harder to tell since....erm.."

"What he means to say is that the protruding parts of my ears were cut, therefore most people are quick to assume I am an aviary beastman.  I told you I wasn't a raven, Did I not?"

Given how edgy and distant he seemed, it was odd to see Nevermore's hidden smirk. For someone who gave off such a harsh vibe, it was nice to see he could be a little silly.

Grim apparently had been boasting about how great of a henchhuman he had, and that he was definitely the source of her outstanding work.

For this, he was punished with cheek squishes and air jail.

Glancing back towards Riddle to check to see if he had snapped out of it, she took note of a small
black fog at his feet, the curls of it reminding her of dripping watercolors.

𝑪𝒉𝒆'𝒏𝒚𝒂'𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 ..𝑵𝒐, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕...𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇.  𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒅.

She turned around again to find Ace looking from the tablet to her and grin.

"Thats alot of extra work you did just to, and I quote from yesterday morning after breakfast :  "Get you off my back and out of my house, Ace, you fucking freeloader."

"Now your chances of getting collared are significantly slimmer, which means you won't be coming back unless you really screw up.
I can finish what I'm here to do in peace, and you get your magic and room back. Voilà."

The side of his lip turned up to form a smirk as he snickered at the idea.

"Yea...you're not getting rid of me that easily."

"Seriously?"

"Yup, You're stuck with me now, like it or not. With Elephys and the other guy, I'd say you had 7 , maybe 8 parasites now?"

"Do I get a say in this?"

"I hate to be the bearer of bad news-

"Bullshit!"

"—But thats not how parasites work. Didn't think that one through, huh?"

Deep and bitter, someone spoke from behind her.

"YOU....."

𝑶𝒉 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌, 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌

The entirety of the group fully turned 180 to see that Riddle was finally back into commission, and was, unsurprisingly, not happy

So much so the grass beneath him was quite literally dying from heat as he stormed over to the group, only to be repelled by an unseen force, invoking him only more.

"Mreowww."

The once more familiar feel of fluffy fur near her neck notified her of Che'nyas presence, and by the look on Treys face, was at least selectively-visible.  She turned to see a Cherry red Riddle with eyes trained on her.

"YOU DARE SAY I AM WRONG?  I CANNOT BE WRONG. I HAVE GOVERNED BY EVERY RULE AND MEMORIZED EVERY WORD. I HAVE BECOME A SYMBOL OF PERFECTION! AND YOU-"

Pointing and shaking an accusatory finger at her, a crowd began to draw as he continued.

"YOU, AVILLION, HAVE NOT EVEN THE SLIGHTEST MAGICAL CAPABILITIES.
NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM, I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED TO FIND THAT YOUR UPBRINGING IS SIMPLY VOID OF ACHIEVEMENT , NOTHING FOR YOUR FAMILY TO TELL OF!

ITS NO WONDER YOU BEFRIENDED SHROUD SO QUICKLY. YOU ARE BOTH LIKELY THE DIRT OF YOUR FAMILY TREE. TOO MEEK TO EVEN HOLD CONVERSATION AT TIMES, I PITY WHOEVER RAISED THE TWO OF-"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!"

The sickening crunch of one heavy hell of a hit colliding with someones face at point blank.

Rubbing his jaw and cheek aa Trey and Cater ran to him, Riddle looked up, stunned.

"Ow...?"

The puncher in question , Ace, brushed his arm off, scowling down at him as Ophelia weakly protested his oncoming speech, praying it wasn't what she thought it was as he started.

"Heres a damn reality check: Kids aren't fancy trophies or diplomas for their families to flaunt around, and you really don't know SHIT about Ophelia if you think she's anything for a half-decent parent to be disappointed of, or a defenseless coward, so stop talking it!!"

The Steel blue eyes of the housewarden seemed glazed as the ginger carried on.

"You think she's weak just because she has no magic?  Bullshit. I watched that dumbass take out a whole blot monster with her purse without a shred of magic! Deuce even said knocked two guys twice her size unconscious with a bag of cans with one hit, I'd like to see you do that!"

Deuce, standing not too far back with a dark expression pitched in.

"Aces is right. She's got brawn, but she's also got brains! If it wasn't for her quick thinking back in the mines, Ace, Grim and I wouldn't be here right now, so your out of your fuckin' MIND if you think she can't hold her own!"

The verdette held his hat a moment, amber eyes moving back and forth between the redheads.

"Guys, that's enough."

The ginger of the two was having none of it, immediately turning on both on Trey first, then back to Riddle.

"Stop babying him! If he keeps acting like this, one day its going to bite him in the ass for real, and you aren't going to be there to stop someone from kicking his ass into next week.

Speaking of, its partially your fault that you couldn't make a single damn friend that had the balls to tell you off when you were going too far.

And Back to you! You're just being a sore loser because someone outsmarted you at your own game, and now you can't hide behind your rules to justify the shit you've put everyone through! Now that you can't collar anyone for everything, you're like a baby that had its favorite toy taken away!
Man up and accept the fact you lost!"

𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒕...𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆...

Tugging on Aces arm, trying to force him back a bit, to no avail, praying to everything he hadn't triggered what she was thinking he did.

"A..Baby..?!"

The sound of dripping reached her ears, and she looked to its source on instinct

Smears of black began dripping down Riddles face and hands, as a long root from a nearby rose tree lashed out to grab Ace, missing by a hair as she pushed him out of the way, grabbing her pigtail instead, lifting it til she was above ground.

Trying not to scream in pain as she reached out to pry herself out as best she could while wiggling in mid air, the searing pain of her body weight being help up by only a single pigtail caused her irrational next words.

"HEY! LET GO"

As it got unbearably tight, she only what cane to mind, the filter gone.

"ACE IS RIGHT, MAYBE IF YOU HAD THE GUTS TO STAND UP FOR YOURSELF, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE LOST YOUR FREEDOM OVER A FUCKING TART, AND BEEN CHEATED OUT OF YOUR CHILDHOOD! JUST BECAUSE YOUR MOM DOESN'T LET YOU HAVE A LIFE DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULDN'T HAVE ONE!"

𝑶𝒉 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌, 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉.

"How do you know ANY OF THAT?!!??"

A shot rang out, and the vine trapping her was cut through by four bullets and sending her straight to the ground, immediately barricaded by Ace and Deuce.

𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑮𝑼𝑵?!

Her answer came as she saw Nevermore, holding a smoking pistol in the tyrants direction, wings pulled back as he somehow changed it into a small glowing square, floating in his hand, then into a shield.

Nobody moved an inch, no words spoken as Grim climbed up her arm, kneading his paws anxiously on her shoulder blades.

"My Henchhuman doesn't have to answer to you!-"

"SILENCE, YOU JOKE OF AN ENROLLED STUDENT, AN ACCURSED RODENT."

"What did ya just call me bucko?! I'll roast you!!"

As the Rose Tyrant began making his way across the garden , all in his path , other then her protecters and the group behind her, scrambled backwards, as if parting the seas for the newly lit flamethrower.

As the smell of smoke slowing began wafting in, she was slightly calmed by its aroma, until she remembered the fine lack of fire places or torches within the Rose Maze, and Heartstabyl as a whole.

𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒕...𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎?

Going on her tip-toes to see over her favorite card soldiers, she made direct eye-contact with the fuming Queen, his face now resembling a deep shade of Maroon, matching his rage.
As more and more smoke emitted from the grass below him, some sparks flying with it, the students around began slowly making their escapes in different directions.

He was a ticking nuclear missile, and she and Ace had set the fuse in their own moments of rage.

Unluckily for her , that exact explosive was about to blow, and it was flying straight for her.

Perhaps stomping was a better word, considering if he could fly, she would have been turned to ash already.

"YOU!! ANSWER ME, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?!??
NONE OF YOU SEVEN LEAVE UNTIL AVILLION CONFESSES WHERE IT IS SHE LEARNED SUCH THINGS!!"

Beneath the Housewardens feet, a Flash fire began to spread across the Maze as the sky turned red, every rosebush de-rooting itself

As her loyal Ruby eyed companion gripped her wrist, and bolted for the exit , and the Sapphire haired Spade, the Alchemist, the Pink fae, and the (Not) Raven flanked them from behind, only to be stopped by a massive wall of roses.

"YOU ARE GOING NO WHERE!"

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He was going too far.

Che'nya had, very cryptically mind you, explained something bad was going to happen to Riddle, and that Trey couldn't stop or interfere with it, but to have trust in Ophelia and her group and work alongside them when it finally happened.

Of course he was going to do whatever he could to help, But....why couldn't Che'nya help aswell?

Sure Trey wasn't a weak mage, but his capabilities in magic was next to nothing compared to Riddle, and practically non existent compared to Che'nya.

He and Trey both cared about Riddle wholeheartedly, so why was he just floating behind the group of first years, looking close to tears, but not moving forward to do anything?

Unless the answer was his first guess, back when they had been baking.

"A Cheshire can not directly interfere with certain moments, the most important ones,
of a Yuu's journey.
They are bound to only helping from the sidelines, the roots of the Cheshires tree will bind them should they get too close.
Perhaps because it would be far too easy for the Yuu if 𝑎 𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 could intervene whenever they wished."

Grandpa Pinka had once told the two something similar after one of his "fairytales" when Trey had been visiting Che'nyas residence for a sleepover as a child.

They aren't just fairytale's after all, this is the real deal.

Ophelia is a Yuu

But since they only appear before mass calamity...

Whatever was happening to Riddle must be the Calamity, or the start of it.

He was going to Overblot

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Horrorstruck at his realization, Trey tried once more to reach for Riddle only to be shot back by a large blast of magic as he transformed into...something else.

His once gold crown was now a skeletal outline of itself, sharp spikes made from clumps of blot.  The rest of the outfit was black and blood red, with half white and half grey roses at his