"So, what do we do now, Henchhuman?
The Cat King said you'd get me, The Great Grim, into the school, so what are we looking at these grey things for? I wanna be a student already!"
"Patience, He'll arrive sooner or later."
"Nyah? Who's "he"?"
Sitting on a bench, notebook in hand,
Ophelia quietly cursed the Royal Sword Student, currently in his Cat form on her lap, for declaring himself the "Cat King.", and telling Grim she could get him into the school so that he would behave until she got to Ramshackle.
She then cursed herself for absentmindedly slipping up in conversation by mentioning Ace, and getting so tired the night before she had forgotten to exile Che'nya from sharing a bed with her, so his large Mainecoon form had shed everywhere on her new (pre-destroyed) mattress.
Though he had cleaned it, she was still prickly from the wakeup call of it, not to mention the ghost's screaming after the Feline Fae had trapped them in salt circles for 7 hours with their bodies halfway through the ceiling for attempting to scare Grim and herself awake.
Turning the page and clicking her pen, she looked at the smaller of her feline companions, a sense of mothering instinct coming over her for no reason at all, as she fixed his small bowtie, a fresh one she had made with the fabric of an old curtain.
"Hey! What was that about? Imma look at that statue, stay here henchman!"
As Grim waddled away, she was nearly done with the first page of her notes, when something caught her eye.
Seeing a flash of orange, black and red in her peripheral vision, she prepared for the social anxiety warfare that was going to happen inside her from now on, if she played her part right, until the end of the week, at best.
"Hey, you seem a bit out of place.. You're the
girl who I heard was randomly summoned to Orientation, am I right?"
Shaking, she peeked above her, knowing full well who she was about to come face to face with made the task all the more daunting.
Coral Orange spikes poked out here and there in his unruly fluffed hair, obviously brushed without much care put into the actual process of it. Ruby eyes sparkled with mischief, one eye framed by a heart drawn in red eyeliner.
𝑨𝒄𝒆 𝑭𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒂
If she could, she would fade out of existence at that very moment. Kalim, The Shrouds and Lilia she could deal with , or would leave her be if she slipped up and mentioned something she shouldn't know, as long as it didn't concern them or their loved ones.
Ace however, was an entirely different story
She had an inkling that if she slipped up once and caused him to get curious,
he would fight a God behind a Dennys just to find out what she was hiding, and she knew from the storyline and his Vignettes that he was persistent and smart as hell when motivated
Keyword : When Motivated
"Uh....yea? Im Ophelia.."
He gazed at her in amusement, definitely finding joy in the fact she was hiding her face with her notebook, afraid to fully reveal her face, so she didn't have to look him in the eye.
"Names Ace Trappola. Whatcha writing?"
"Nothing important..."
Right before he could try to sneak a peak or make a grab at her notebook, Grim came bounding over to her side, Che'nya moving onto her shoulders to make room for him.
"Whoa, are you an Animal Whisperer to magical cats something? Whats with the fire ears on that one?"
Growling and Puffing his chest out, Grim objected to the gingers assumption almost instantly.
"I am NOT a cat, I'm the Great Grim, soon to be the most powerful mage of all! Remember that, human!"
His prideful denial was only met with a snort from the ginger and a dramatic eye roll as he taunted the small feline.
"Sure, and I'm going to be the King of Pirates. Keep dreaming, furball."
"HYAH? You want a fight, human? I'll burn ya to bits!!"
"I'd like to see you try!"
Far too familiar with the scene that was about to go down, she attempted to stand as far away from the Queen of Hearts statue as possible, having no intentions of becoming a medium rare shortsteak
𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 "𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 7 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅" 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 "𝑹𝒐𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒆" 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕.
Watching them from afar , it became all the more surreal how truly striking the whole scene looked from a real life perspective:
Flashes of Blue fire spinning in winded tornadoes, heading upwards from their intended direction fascinated her completely.
Both Elements coming straight from beings she had conversed with seconds ago.
It momentarily distracted her from the fact in about two more seconds, shit was going to hit the fan.
And hit the fan it did, as Ace re-directed one of Grims fireballs right into the stone face of the Queen of Hearts
"CRAP!!! The Statue!! Now look what you've dome, you mangy cat!"
"I ain't mango-y!! And who cares about some dumb big rock face anyway?!"
"Well the Headmaster will care a whole damn lot! Those statues are Historic Monuments!!!
If he finds out, we are both-"
"If I find out what, Mr . Trappol-
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STATUE??!??"
Right before Ace could run, a Long sash came from who knows where and held both brawlers in place. Peeping out from behind a tree,
She looked towards the two apologetically
𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒕...𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝑹𝒂𝒎𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑮𝒓𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒔....𝑶𝒉 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕
"Psst, Che'nya? Can you uh.. pause time for a second?"
"Mreowww?"
"Can't you speak normally in this form?"
Giving the cat on her shoulder a glare, she witnessed in both confused awe and agitation as he changed back into a humanlike form from his feline one with ease, as if changing species
"It's pawssible, but its more fun not to.
When a cats a funny color that nobody's seen befurr , people think it could make sense for one to talk, so why would it talk?"
"What in the Great Gatsbian Fuck does that mean."
"I dunno, do you?"
Pinching the bridge of her nose as to not lose her temper, she turned to the Lavender Feline with puffed cheeks.
"Listen, is it possible for you to somehow trick Crowley into believing Grim is allowed to be here?
I was too tired yesterday to remember we had to fight the ghosts, and then him, to get the seal of approval for Grim to stay."
"I got mew covered!"
Disappearing into thin air, the only proof of the RSA student being on campus was the soft humming emitting from him as he removed Crowleys mask and tapped his forehead, for who knows what reason, then returned to her side, grinning widely as he unpaused time.
"Meow that we're all set, lets go~"
Changing back into his Mainecoon form, the fae curled into her hood as she made her belated entrance back into the street, standing next to Grim as she heard the punishment they were supposed to face.
"You will be washing a hundred windows-"
𝑫𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒕
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The Trio of Feline Direbeast, Feline Fae, and Tired human relaxed in the Mirror chamber, the Fae having cast a misting spell around them, so they could wait to ambush a certain ginger in peace.
"Any moment now....."
All 3 heads turned as a sneaker squeaked from down the hall.
Speak of the Knave of Hearts and he shall appear. er........sometimes.
"Sweet, I got away. Wash 100 windows, my ass. I'll just leave that to-"
𝑶𝒌, 𝒑𝒓𝒆-𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓, 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒂 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚.
𝑴𝒚 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝑶𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂, 𝑶𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅.
𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒏𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒎 𝒂 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐l 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍.
Counting down the seconds before revealing themselves to prepare Grim, she could only sigh in her mind.
𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔, 𝑨𝒄𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒂.
Dashing out with Grim in tow, the brunette slid slightly as she blocked the Heartstabyl Mirror from the front, as Grim took his spot infront of her left leg, both practically T-posing to block entrance to the dorm.
"Not on my watch you don't! If I didn't even participate in the fight, and still have to clean, so do you!"
"Yea! What my Henchman said!!"
"What?! How did you even—"
Crossing her arms, she impatiently tapped her foot, face slightly scrunched in agitation.
"I had a feeling you would try to ditch, call it a calculated guess."
"Well, does your calculations cover me leaving?"
𝒀𝒆𝒔, 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚.
Just like she knew he would , the soon to be concussed ginger ran off down the hall, grinning like with pre-successful pride.
The clicking of her flats and the pitter-patter of Grims paws made for a odd ambiance as they pursued him through the corridors.
𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝑰 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝑻𝒖𝒏𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄? 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎
𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓.
Still pursuing the Ruby-eyed ass pain, she had smacked into what felt as solid as a brick wall, with fabric to soften the blow.
It was someones chest, no doubt.
"OW! Shit, sorry!!"
"Huh?! What- Are you ok???"
Glancing upwards, a straight haired bluette came into view, confused eyes of aquamarine and an ever familiar spade lining one of them.
𝑫𝒆𝒖𝒄𝒆!! 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚!
Almost completely out of breath, she pointed towards Ace, who had paused his running to observe them, unaware he had sealed his fate because of it.
"He's trying to sneak out of detention!
Can you help us stop him?? Maybe drop something heavy on top of him?"
"Something heavy.... let me think....."
𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆?
"An Anvil.....no..too heavy.., a dumbell? .... no.."
"Hurry!!!"
"Crap! I.. uh.. I summon...something heavy!"
The sounds that followed was the most aggressive crash she had ever heard close by,
encored by confused screaming from the first victim of Attack on Cauldrons, by Deuce Spade.
"What the hell?!?"
"Nya-ha! Take that, card boy!"
As Ace crawled out from under the large pot,
she finally noticed that Che'nya had continued his invisible nap in her hood throughout the entirety of the madness, not affected by the volume and her movement at all.
𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉
"You didn't have to hunt me down, y'know!
You could of just banged out those 100 windows by yourselves!"
"Are you stupid? Unlike you magical girls, I can't just "bang out" a hundred windows!"
Turquoise irises flitted back and forth from between the quarreling brunette and the ginger, widening in surprise.
"100 windows?? What did you guys do?!?!"
"I didn't do shit! Tangerine-Head over here decided to beef with Grim, and they ended up scorching one of those statues on the walkway!"
"Well if you could of controlled your weird cat a little better! He wouldn't of fried the Queen of Hearts fricken face and got us all in trouble!"
"Then maybe you shouldn't have egged him on! Besides, aren't you the one who misdirected the fire with your weird wind trick?"
If Deuces jaw wasn't already fully dropped in surprise, it was now.
"You guys burned a statue of the Seven?!
"It only got a tad bit charred, sue me. Scratch that , sue the damn cat."
"Uh...who?"
𝑨 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒐'𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔
"Her stupid weasel—"
Angrily pointing to where the Hell-cat once was, The ruby eyed of the group did a double take, realizing Grim was no longer there, but sprinting down the hall in the other direction.
"Nyah-Ha!! I'll leave the rest to you two! See ya suckers!"
"You little—Catching me so you could ditch? -
Hey whats your name?"
"Deuce..Deuce Spade . You seriously don't remember your own classmates name?"
"Yea whatever Juice, I bet you don't remember my name either."
"Its ...uh..."
"I knew it, you didn't know my name either!
Anyway, this is partially your problem now!"
"What? Why?"
"Since Ms Cat Whisperer can't use magic, its up to the two of us, so get ready to run and catch that little shit!"
𝑫𝒊𝒅...𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝑨𝒄𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆??
𝑰𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒏𝒆𝒚???
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𝑰 . 𝑯𝑨𝑻𝑬 . 𝑹𝑼𝑵𝑵𝑰𝑵𝑮
Keeping up with Dweedle Heart and Dweedle Spade was a lot more difficult then she had expected, especially in flats while carrying a small satchel , but she didn't have much say in the former, and the latter was her own choice.
As two wooden double doors came into view,
she realized they had finally made it to the cafeteria, and the run was near its end.
Hallelujah or whatever the song was called.
The doors opened with a loud bang as the trio barged in. On a beautiful gothic chandelier was their target, grinning like a fool.
"Haha! Catch me if you can!"
"Thats not fair! Don't just go jumping on the chandelier, you coward!"
As the bluette put his hand on his chin in thought, eyes scouring the room for something to help him,
She took this moment to sit down on one of the benches in the Cafeteria and pull out her new tablet, recording the ensuing chaos to cheer herself up later on.
"Crap! I haven't learned flight magic yet..what could I summon to hold on to him......thats it!"
"What? You got an idea, Juice?"
Turning in his direction, the ex-delinquent pulled out his pen, and held it point blank to Aces head.
"Hey! Why are you pointing that thing at me?"
"Because I'm going to launch you."
"WHAT?!? No-no-no- Put me down!!
Abort this plan! ABORT!"
"Grab on to him as tight as you can!"
"BWAAAAHHHH!!"
"MYEHHH?!"
Looking up from her notebook, she adjusted the tablets recording so it was aimed directly at the space between a flying ginger and the chandelier.
𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔
The sound of glass shattering was the first thing to reach her ears, the next being the metal of the chandelier and pained groans, the latter causing her to instinctively run over to check on the crashlanders health.
"Are you guys alright?"
Coughing and hacking from the dust and debris, the Heart Suited boy muttered an "I'm fine" while Grims eyes were practically spiraling from dizziness. She picked up and attempted to clean the hellbringer up , as the redhead of the group turned to glare at the one who just pitched him like a baseball.
"I can not fucking believe you just did that!"
The Spade made his realization all too late, which was proven when he sheepishly admitted it to himself.
"Oh...I probably should of summoned something to cushion your fall..."
"YOU COMPLETE AND TOTAL MORON!
We got Grim, but we broke an entire chandelier, if the headmage finds out-"
"If I find out what, Mr Trappola?"
Noticing s shining object on the ground, she picked it up and pocketed it as she prepared to be promptly lectured and near Expelled
𝑶𝒉 𝒃𝒐𝒚, 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆.
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Authors notes:
WOOOOOOOOOO LETS GOOOO
Im so happy I got this chapter out so fast!
We are finally getting into it folks!
(Also , Im aware I moved around some of the lines in the Adeuce meeting, that was on purpose :)
Me : *Adds what seems to be small, insignificant action*
Me, secretly: *evil laughter* "This is going to be important later"
Ill see ya in the next one folks!
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