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Ophelia awoke in a haze, internally attempting to process her odd dreamscape

𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒚??

𝑯𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒔𝒔, 𝒏𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆 "𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈."  𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒚

𝑾𝒐𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒆

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At some point within the night, all 3 of the beds other human occupants had subconsciously decided she was a personal heater, or something of the like, because they had her practically crushed in an odd dogpile, with her as ground zero.

Vyr and Onyx were the furthest off, the gem named raccoon happily curled on the Alchemist, who had somehow managed to end up between the groups heads and the headboard of the bed

Ace and Deuce had more or less crushed her, the gingers arms latched around her near parasitically, with Grim in the crook of her neck, where as Deuce just had some form of a starfish pose ontop of all of them.

Unfortunately, she was also the only one awake, other then Che'nya, who was seemingly MIA, leaving her unable to escape her koalaing and starfishing barriers, opting for suffering in silence originally, then giving up and waking Ace.

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"Ugh, why did you have to wake me up just to go downstairs?"

Ace groaned, arms sliding across the counter while she grabbed ingredients from the kitchen.

"You had my waist in a vice grip, that collar was scratching my neck, and your legs were roping around mine! What else was I supposed to do? Lay there in misery as a heating pillow?"

"Heres an Idea. You sleep in, so I get warmth in this Seven forsaken refrigerator of a dorm."

"I'm not your personal heater, you parasite."

"Ok, you're our personal heater then. I wasn't the only one mooching off it last night, you know.
We all subconsciously moved towards you for warmth, so congratulations, you have several parasites now."

"Great, lucky me."

Scouring the pantry, she looked from parcel to parcel, only for the words on each to be in an unknown alphabet.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒚. 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒚𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒚.

Grabbing a random bag, she slid it across the counter

"Ace, what does this say?"

Lazily , the redhead looked at the item, then at her with a face of disbelief.

"Can you seriously not read this?"

"Answer the question."

"Its Powdered Sugar. You used it yesterday. Did you forget how to read overnight? Considering you're still speaking Twisian right now-"

The light feeling now in her head matched the products consistency.

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑰 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈

𝑶𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒎 𝑰 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕? 𝑶𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕?

𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕? 𝑵𝒐, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒖𝒑, 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔.

Dashing for her bag, Ophelia took out the glowing blue tablet and rushed back to the counter, unfazed by Aces confusion.

Me:

Important question: Did you install a translator on this for me.

Hadestown:

Y r u asking me stupid questions at 7 am of course I did.
Ur from a dif universe u need that shit.

If u prefer to be illiterate tho be my guest

Me:

How does it function? I have a feeling you don't know English or Spanish so its got to be your tech magical girl shit

Hadestown:

Translates anything u see to the first language ur brain can understand by scanning for recognition with symbols, then lets u see it as that. Doesn't work if ur too far away but the range is pretty good.

Handmade, I'm a genius, I know.
Leave the offerings at the door for ur new god

Me:

I just had a crisis because of you not telling me that in advance. I deadass thought I went illiterate overnight you are not receiving any offerings good sir.

I hate to admit it but this thing had me thinking y'all just spoke my language ;—;

Hadestown:

Sounds like a alterdimensional traveler L to me

R u really that stupid u think another planet would speak ur languages

U still a noob 2 the whole world warping?

Me:

Literally I got yoinked here in the middle of the night against my will was the noob part not obvious.

I have to make breakfast for some hooligans so thanks and see ya.

Ignoring the several messages from unknown numbers, she casually swiped off the tab, leaving Ace just staring at the tablet in awe in an befuddled state.

"What tech genius are you talking to so casually that can just make shit like that? Theres no way he actually goes here."

Turning the device off and placing it in her shirt pocket, she began grabbing ingredients, realizing that yes, she could now read them again, so the was telling the truth.

"He does. I met him on my first day, he walked me halfway to Ramshackle, then traded off with someone else. He's a third year in Ignihyde,
Idia Shroud."

𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 7, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚.

"Vyrs Housewarden? Deuce said he nearly dropped dead in fear at the sight of them when they asked for the sleepover pass.
Some guy named Autoni or Automi or something gave it to them instead."

The redhead seemingly decided he no longer wanted to sit still, following her a bit as she prepared the meal

"Yup, death by social interaction. Sounds like Idia alright."

𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒏𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍. 𝑯𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝑰𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏"𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇𝒇.

Opening the fridge and grabbing a jug, he turned, eyebrow raised.

"Was the other guide your fae charm gifter, or a severe insomniac?"

"Neither. I'm simply your average ceiling dweller."

Both humans in the room nearly shot upwards. Ophelia squeaked, nearly dropping the mixing bowl whilst Ace abandoned the orange juice and practically flew to the other side of the room.

Lilia hung above the doorframe, grinning widely

"My, you're both so easy to scare. I believe you've woken up your friends with such a shriek."

The loud thumping and crashing from above seemed to confirm this as he continued, pulling out two large books from thin air, aswell as a Cat form Che'nya popping out from his coat while a sword fell from it, clattering to the ground.

"I'm just stopping by to return these to you,
I've begun training your feline friend in being a retainer and a knight, at his request, I assure you. Even with such raw power, he is still a young fae with much to learn."

From the look on Che'nyas face, even in his secondary form, she heavily doubted it being his idea in the first place, but had somehow been coerced into it.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆?

As the books and cat were flown into her arms, she glanced at Ace, who seemed paralyzed as he pressed himself against the wall.

"Well..uh...I hope he wasn't too much of a pain-"

Turning back to Lilia, nothing remained where he once stood, the blue parcel that had been on the counter from the day before now missing.

Circling in an attempt to spot the elden fae, she heard something appear behind her, placing something large and metal around her neck, then disappear once more.

𝑶𝒉 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒕

"An Amulet doesn't work if you don't wear it, dearie. I should know, I've dabbled in trying such things."

Giving her attention to the golden object around her neck, large and circular, she curiously fidgeted with what seemed to be tiny cog, and it opened like a pocketwatch.

Inside at first was several symbols she didn't recognize made from gems, some still colored, others seemingly blotted, circling a large mirror shard. Upon her glancing into it, the gears and cogs began moving about, the mirror shard spinning until it emitted a great flash of light.

Now, Eight large jewels decorated the first ring, different colors cut into different shapes:
A ruby rose, a sceelite lion, a tanzanite nautilus shell , a garnet gem, an ametrine crown, a Haüyne skull and a peridot dragon.

The second had six medium jewels :
An emerald clover, a amber animal she couldn't quite make out, a apatite eel twirled around a mimetite eye, an obsidian snake, a near purple rose quartz bow and arrow, and a Red beryl bat.

What seemed to be a clocklike shape with a purple cat was in the middle, the hands of the timepiece currently pointing towards the rose jewel.

𝑶𝒌, 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒕, 𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒃𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍

If time allowed, she would of observed it more, but due to the overpowered tiny war vet currently in her kitchen, she decided to hopefully end this conversation for Aces sake and her own.

"Sorry, I'm still getting used to everything, and yesterday was a bit crazy. Thank you for covering for us, by the way."

The Vice smiled, hopping onto a counter for whatever reason, and turned to her.

"You're welcome, child. I hope to see you again at the unbirthday, its quite rare other dorms may participate. Toodle loo for now!"

As the bat disappeared into nothingness, Ace gave her a face that screamed "what the fuck"

"Why does nothing go normally around you?"

"Honestly, I'm used to it by now. The magical bullshit is new though."

A crash sounded from down the hall, followed by Deuce groaning in misery from his elegant and definitely purposeful test of the gravity on the stairs.

Grim was nearly knocking into the male brunettes legs trying to get past as Vyr popped his head into the kitchen sheepishly, looking for a source of food.

"Good morning?"

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....𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒙𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕.

Staring at the hallway to the mirror chamber, the group finally heading to Heartstabyl, after checking her bag to make sure she had everything she prepped.

Under rule 152,

(if an Unbirthday party is postponed for any reason, the Queen must not appear for 18 hours, 21 minutes and 14 seconds after the next one is planned)
and rules 14,15 and 23

(Rule 14: if the Queen is late to her own event, any non-citizens of under her rule can stay if they make it in before her arrival with a pocket watch.

Rule 15 : if the Queen is absent, her left and right hands will take over along with anyone with matching eye and hair colors.

Rule 23: If tea is being served without the Queen, no tarts with fruit are allowed to be served on plates, carried or in hands. They must be delivered by bird (dodo if possible, not required) a hedgehog, a cat, a caterpillar, a hammer, an oyster or a whale.)

Riddle wouldn't be showing for 2-4 hours, anyone was welcome, Trey and Cater was were incharge along with an unknown student named "Elephys", and free food. It should be a heavenly idea

The catch was the fact she had been seated directly next to Riddle, and although she was allowed to move anywhere she wished (See rule:722) it might come off as heavily suspicious, and thats the last thing she wanted to be, considering her situation.

"You good, hon? You're looking at that wall for like, 4 minutes. I promise you the party isn't hidden behind it."

Turning swiftly on her heel, she had been far too out of it too notice a certain phone addict approaching from behind as the large group of 7 made their way inside.

"Sorry, thinking."

As she had abandoned her beloved giant hoodie for Crewels gifted one, in fear of losing it during the enviable magic outfit change, aswell making it a pinpoint to her identity as "blue-hood".

Cater had very quickly put two and two together the second he arrived at the door, which was something she wasn't all too giddy about.

"If you're scared about the whole identity as the female student thing and the bounty, you're going to be totes safe from anyone trying to snatch you for a quick cash grab or some weird reason, promise!"

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒖𝒎𝒃 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕.

"-Just to give you the deets beforehand though, a few students reaaaallly want to meet you, mostly for the sake of confirming the tea, although one of my besties, he ... oh, by the way, are you allergic to hedgehogs or flamingos?"

"Probably not..?  We never really see flamingos outside of zoos where I live, so I wouldn't know. Hedgehogs are fine though.... Er.. I'm not sure about this world, but at home I'm allergic to common grasses."

Although looking away, she could see the ginger look up from his phone in her peripheral.

"Grass? For reals? Like lawn grass?"

"The ones in my world, yea.  Only very mildly, like a rash or hives that go away within the hour."

"Oooh, yikes.  That sounds #notfun."

𝑰𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒆𝒐 𝒐𝒕 𝑳𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔.

𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒈𝒐 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉, 𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒕 𝑵𝑹𝑪 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕

Looking up the large mirror, she took a deep breath before entering, the ginger behind her following suit

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The dorm truly looked straight out of a fairytale, a castle with the sound of people bustling and laughing not far off, regal and tall, a picture perfect 3D version of the one ingame, which, it kinda was.

Rushing up to the group, they walked along until they reached the gates to the dorm building itself, where another student stood, blowing bubbles, their magenta coloring a contrast his light pink, cotton candy like hair, with downturned eyes, Irises matching in shade of pink perfectly, along with copper skin, the several elephant shaped rose gold earrings parading on his long ears, a telltale sign he was a fae, happily swaying in the wind as he greeted them.

"Why hello! I'm Elephys, first year here at Heartstabyl! I'm guessing you—wow theres alot of you—-all are here for the unbirthday, right? What dorms are you all —Oh, Hi Cater! Hi Trey!"

Waltzing past the rest of the Ramshackle quad, the redhead and verdette joined him at the front of the group.

"Due to Rule 15, Elephys is partially incharge today, but he's still a freshman, so if you have any questions, ask me or Cater."

"Alright, before we go in, we have to coordinate you're outfits! Elephys, I'll let you do the non Heartstabyls, 'kay?"

"Alright!"

Groaning interally, she wondered how hard it would be to run off back to Ramshackle without being caught as several pink bubbles surrounded her.

𝑰 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒑𝒊𝒅

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Looking on from above, wings hidden behind him, he observed the group, specifically the one he was told to guard simply for the day, should anyone try to bring harm against her.

As the hundreds of pink bubbles popped, her once common and comfort seeking outfit became one of many colors, a bright white dress that reached past her knees, with an apron of blue black, purple and pink. Long striped leggings of teal and black decorated her legs, with short heels with small bows on the end.

Her long locks were pulled back by pigtails, a large bow of many colors hiding the scar that facaded as a hairline, and a large grin on her cheek was drawn, hiding the scar beneath her eye in plain sight. She still bore the Cheshire fae charm, as it hung next to a brooch with a half painted rose.

The front of her torso had yet another bow, with the suits lining up the shirt onto it, one small glove and one longer glove on each arm, the outfit completed itself with a long yellow and black bow tied around her midsection.

Seeing as group was heading into the event, he decided it would be best to arrive beforehand, as to keep a watchful eye on the reactions of others when she entered.

Unfurling his long wings, the boy flew off to hide amongst the crowd.

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SHORT CHAPTER IM SO SORRY!!!

I hope you liked Elephys! and the last perspective is another OC we will meet soon! Yay!

Heres the artwork I did for Ophelias outfit

Andddd a face closeup!

Not my best work, but I tried!!!

ONTO HEARTSTABYL PARTY TIMEEE!!