Chapter 26

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~YUU POV:

'Another dream?' I thought to myself as I looked around the familiar grey landscape of my previous dream.

"For painting my roses red, someone will lose his head!" A lady in a black and red dress yelled out in anger.

A Three of Clubs was shivering while pointing at his Two of Clubs friend. "Y-your Majesty, if anyone's to blame, it's him!"

The Two of Clubs frantically shook his head. "Have mercy, Your Grace. It was the Ace!"

The supposed Queen frowned and pointed at said Ace. "So it was YOU."

"Gah, no, it was the Two!" The Ace denied the claims put on him.

"Then he will pay!" The Queen shouted once again.

"It was the Three, I say!" The Two suddenly switched his accusations.

The Queen looked confused, but then her expression turned to that of anger. "Enough of this. Off with ALL their heads!" She screamed with a booming voice.

"Ooooooooooh! Yaaaaaay!" The heart soldiers went as the Clubs were dragged away.

The Queen watched with a smirk on her face. "Hee hee hee." She laughed.

A Two of Diamonds watched aswell. "A fitting end. Color, you can't mend."

A Three of Spades nodded along. "Everyone knows the roses should be red."

"Why doesn't anyone just stop the Queen?" Once again the riple covered all of my sight, and I was only greeted by darkness waiting to clear up.

"Yuu, wake up." Deuce lightly shook my shoulder as the darkness cleared up to make space for the sight of the lounge.

"The unbirthday party is today. If we're late, you know... and I can't get Y/n to wake up so I kinda need your help." He continued on.

"Another strange dream?" I muttered, before turning my head to the spot where Y/n was still sleeping.

As I started getting up to walk over to the balled up feline lady there was a knock on the door.

"Hmm? It sounds like you have a visitor. I'll get it for you." Deuce walked out to get the door.

I climbed away from under my blanket and started slowly shaking
Y/n's shoulders and pulling my hand over her ears to pat her head.

Cater then barged in with Deuce following close behind. "Good mooorning! Did you enjoy your sleepover? Did you bond over pillow fights and card games?"

"Oh, good morning, Cater. We did play some cards, yeah." Ace answered the energetic boy while dramatically yawning.

"But only Old Maid, 'cause that was the only one Grim knew how to play."

Grim huffed. "And I still fot the old maid every time, dang it!"

Deuce chuckled slightly. "Let's just say Grim doesn't have a very good poker face."

They were about to continue their conversation when a load groan interupted them.

I giggled slightly as I looked at the feline grumpily waking up as I pat her head.

All heads turned and Cater immediately pulled out his phone. "OMG, who knew the calm beastwoman of NRC had a soft side!"

She grumbled again and snuggled into my hand. Her tail was flipping in and out of sight from behind her.

Both Ace and Deuce were glaring at me behind my back, I could feel their stares but decided to act like I didn't notice.

Multiple clicks of Cater's phone went of, together with the bright flashing light of his camera.

I watched as Y/n groggily rubbed her eyes and opened them to glare at Cater.

She then finally seemed to take notice of the situation, and quickly sat up while patting down her hair.

I smiled at her behavior as her face turned red.

"Sorry, I'll go get ready now." She stood up and quickly scurried off upstairs, her tail still swishing behind her.

~2ND PERSON POV:

You were changing upstairs as Cater started on a new topic.

"Ne, do any of you know what type of beastwoman Y/n is anyways? I'm kinda curious." He asked as he looked between the other three, not including Grim because he ran off to the kitchen for tuna.

Said trio looked at eachother before all slowly shaking their heads.

"You're not FR right? You guys don't know?" Cater deadpanned as they all shook their head once again.

"Never really thought about asking." Ace shrugged his shoulders.

"Me neither." Deuce nodded.

"Isn't she a fox or something?" Yuu added in after thinking.

The Heartslabyuls thought about that for a moment. "Could be.." Ace muttered.

Deuce thought really hard about it. "Maychance..."

"Dude, just ask it's no biggie." Cater spoke up while looking at his underclassmen with slight disappointment.

Deuce sucked in a breath. "That's kind of awkward, don't you think?"

Ace seemed to agree. "Yeah, we've known her for a while now so then shouldn't we have asked earlier?"

"I don't think it'd be awkward?" Yuu interupted with a confused look.

"Ugh. You know what? Nvm. I'll ask myself once she gets down." Cater rolled his eyes.

"All righty." Ace replied in a dry tone.

Then they heard soft trotting from upstairs. You had burst out of your room and were now running down the stairs in your uniform.

You almost fell down but just jumped down the rest of the steps instead.

"Okay, I'm here." You said while placing one hand on your hip.

"Yep! Well, you should get one of the tarts we made yesterday and go apologize to Riddle." Cater said mostly to Ace.

"And you should probably hurry, because after the trouble yesterday, we're a little short-handed." He added on with a lightly serious look.

"What does that mean?" Ace asked with a suspicious look.

You frowned slightly. "What kind of trouble, Cater?"

Said orange haired boy sweatdropped slightly but smiled anyways. "Don't worry. I've totes got it under control. Anyway, off to the party we go!"

"Grim, let's go!" You yelled for him, and he immediately cane running out of the kitchen and jumped into your arms.

The junior amongst you started marching for the door and you all followed behind him through the door off the raggedy building.

You stepped up and walked next to him. "What kind of trouble do you mean? Do you need any help?"

"Oh, Y/n, sweet! I wanted to ask you something. Don't worry about the other stuff tho, like I said I got it under control." He winked with a bright smile on his face.

"Okay, whatever you say I guess." You nodded although you knew something was up. "What did you wanna ask?"

"So, I've been wondering... What kind of beastwoman are you? I'm assuming you're a fox of some sorts but I'm not really sure." He tilted his head to the side slightly.

You heard A-Deuce and Yuu walking a little closer behind you, as if they were anticipating your answer.

"Hm? Yeah, I'm a fennec fox!" You replied with a smile.

You heard a few 'oh's' behind you, causing you to snicker slightly.

"Aha. No offense or something, but that kind of explains the big ears." Cater hummed.

You raised an eyebrow at the orange head. "I said no offense!" He repeated in distress, making you snicker once again.

"Now that you've said it, it is quite obvious." Yuu added in from behind you.

Cater nodded, whuke Ace and Deuce just stayed quite in the back.

You then entered the mirror chamber, and went straight for the Heartslabyul mirror.

You stepped through, and we're once again met with the red and white building of the dorm.

"All right, so I'll hand over the tart and say I'm sorry, then-" Ace started as soon as he got through the mirror.

"Hey, it's about time I got back! Good to see me!"

Another Cater, one in his P.E. uniform walked over to you all while waving.

"And me! Looking good as always, me!" The Cater that had picked you up at Ramshackle replied.

"Huh?!" All four beside You and the Caters yelled. You were just staring with wide eyes.

Deuce jaw was hanging on the ground. "Th-there's two Caters?!"

"Are you guys identical twins?!" Ace yelled in pure confusion.

"Nope. Don't have any siblings." He held up a peace sign.

"What I DO have is my signature spell, Split Card. It let's me make magic duplicates of myself." He winked while explaining the situation.

Deuce 'oh'ed. "This must be how Cater kept coming after we beat him over and over again yesterday..."

"Welcome home, daaarlings!" Another Cater in the lab uniform walked over.

"Good to see you, Y/n! And Yuu." Another Cater in the orientation uniform followed closely behind.

"You're late! I was worried sick!" The Cater in the P.E. uniform from earlier said.

Ace jumped back in some sort of fear. "Bwah! There's more of them?"

You gave him a look. "Chill. It's just Cater."

"J-S-Y-K, I'm actually the real Cater." The one in the P.E. uniform said as he winked at the shocked Ace.

The one with the red diamond the slumped his shoulders. "Making these duplicates is suuuper exhausting, so I can't maintain them for long. Anyway, if we're late, heads will roll. And since we're several people short, we'll need your help. But when this is over, I promise I'll take you straight to Riddle."

"What, MORE roses?" Grim hopped off your shoulder and placed his paws on his hips in a sassy way.

Ace frowned while crossing his arms. "And here we go again!"

You just grabbed two buckets of paint and handed one to Yuu while he handed you a brush he grabbed.

Cater just smiled as his usual energetic self. "Get the lead out, peeps! We need to get started!"

✿༺ 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓈! ༻✿

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A/n: Why. Wattpad deleted my process of this chapter TWO TIMES. Luckily it was early in, and I was able to restore it but I was so close to a mental breakdown holy shit /hj. I did it tho‼️😨
-Kitz/Yumeko