#except Mr. and Mrs. Trein

[mysaldate]

I am only annoyed a reasonable amount.

[harunayuuka2060]

Sebek: Sensei! *his voice filled with worry* Aren't you supposed to be in the hospital right now?!

MC: *chuckles* I'm fine, Sebek. It's only a minor injury.

Ace: MINOR INJURY?!! YOU GOT SHOT!!!

Epel: Ace is right! We were worried about you!

MC: That's why you shouldn't be watching TV during class hours. Though I always allow you in my time, didn't I? Hehe~.

Professor Crewel: Professor MC, please come with me so we could clean that up.

MC: Thank you, Sir Crewel~. I'm glad you're just as calm as always.

Professor Crewel: *frowns* Indeed I am. However, you need to be scolded for pulling that stunt.

MC: Aww... Can I please wear headphones if you do? I've already got an earful from Mr. Venue.

The NRC students: *had all watched how the dating show had turned into a whole chaotic situation*

*Vil's dad almost getting kidnapped right after the winner was announced.*

*Professor MC fighting off the kidnappers and treating it like a children's game, where they even allowed one of them to shoot because they felt bad of how 'clumsy' they were*

Crowley: Professor MC! I didn't expect you to be this careless!

MC: *sad frowns*

Professor Trein: What you did is a bad example of someone who is supervising the disciplinary department of this school.

MC: Ow... I think my wound actually hurts... *smiles* May I take my leave now?

Crowley and Professor Trein: *frowns* *then sigh*

Crowley: You may.

MC: Thank you, sir~. I'll go see my students.

The students: *frowning at them*

Floyd: *except him* You were so cool, sensei.

MC: Thank you, Mr. Leech. *smiles*

Jamil: It was amazing, yes, that Sensei handled those kidnappers in a graceful manner. However, allowing them to hurt you so you would be even was something I didn't expect from you.

MC: You're right about that, Mr. Viper. After all, I have taught everyone else to use everything at your disposal while ensuring your own safety.

Jade: Then, why didn't you do that, sensei?

Malleus: Because they're more than capable of doing anything.

Azul: If someone is strong, they would foolishly let their guard down. However, MC-sensei did that to mock them.

MC: *chuckles* Oh. Don't phrase it like that. I actually felt bad for them.

Leona: You're kinda twisted too, sensei.

Idia: It's almost scary.

Vil: Enough of this conversation. Sensei, my dad sent you a blender. Since that's the only thing you've asked him.

Vil: *frowning a little* Are you sure this would be enough?

MC: Why, yes. I've already bought some fruits to try it. That's right! How about I treat you all to a small, fruitshake party?

The students: YOU GET REST!

MC: Aww... *sad pout*

Crowley: Professor MC will be resting for a week until they're fine to teach classes again.

Professor Trein: Headmage, there's something I would like to inform you.

Crowley: What is it, Professor Trein?

Professor Trein: The Queen of Briar Valley, the King of Sunset Savannah, and the head of Al Asim's want to meet Professor MC as soon as possible.

Crowley: ...

Crowley: Why do I feel nervous?

Professor Trein: I don't know...

MC: *drinking their fruit shake alone* *sigh*

MC: I can't believe I've got scolded by my students.

MC: Have I taught them too much?

MC: ...

MC: Hehe.

[yuurei20]

Floyd Nickname Compilation

Original vs. meaning vs. English-language adaptation

Ace: Kani-chan Meaning: Crab-chan EN: Crabby

Deuce: Saba-chan Meaning: Mackeral-chan EN: Macky

(EN will sometimes introduce a “y” or “ie” ending or the word “little” to Floyd’s names, possibly to represent the “-chan” honorific (ex: Ace, Deuce, Ortho) but sometimes not (ex: Jack, Epel, Sebek))

Riddle: Kingyo-chan Meaning: Goldfish-chan EN: Goldfishie / Lil’ Goldfish / Goldie

Cater: Hanadai-kun Meaning: Seabream-kun EN: Seabream

Trey: Umigame-kun Meaning: Sea turtle-kun EN: Sea Turtle

Leona: Todo-senpai Meaning: Sea lion-senpai EN: Sea Lion

(Floyd seems particular about to whom he grants the title of “senpai,” only using it for Leona, Vil, Idia and Malleus.)

Ruggie: Kobanzame-chan Meaning: Remora/Sharksucker-chan NA: Remora / Sharksucker

(Floyd’s nickname for Ruggie remains the same in the original game, but on NA it is “remora” in one place and “sharksucker” in others, which seem to be two names for the same fish.)

Jack: Uni-chan Meaning: Sea urchin-chan EN: Sea Urchin

Azul We see in a flashback that child-Floyd referred to Azul as “Tako-chan” (Octopus-chan, or “Octy” on NA) when they were still getting to know each other, but the game goes out of its way to have Floyd explain that he has no nickname for Azul now because, “Azul’s Azul.”

Kalim: Rakko-chan Meaning: Sea otter-chan EN: Sea Otter

Jamil: Umihebi-kun Meaning: Sea snake-kun EN: Sea Snake

Vil: Betta-chan-senpai Meaning: Betta-chan-senpai EN: Lil’ Betta / Vil / Mr. Fancy Fins / Schoenheit / my fancy friend

(I have received questions before about whether or not Vil and Floyd have a unique relationship of some kind since—besides Azul and Jade—Vil is the only character Floyd refers to by names outside of his own sea-life-naming-convention.

But he doesn’t!

Unlike Rook (who shifts between using French/Japanese/English with his nicknames and sometimes drops them completely) Floyd is strict about his names: he never uses any name with anyone besides the sea-creature name he decides for them, except for Azul and Jade. The game emphasizes this with Floyd’s “Azul’s Azul” line, so it is interesting that NA's continuity for Floyd is so flexible.)

Rook: Umineko-kun Meaning: Seagull-kun EN: Seagull

Epel: Guppy-chan Meaning: Guppy-chan EN: Guppy

Idia: Hotaruika-senpai Meaning: Firefly squid-senpai EN: Firefly Squid

Ortho: Clione-chan Meaning: Clione-chan EN: Lil’ Clione

Malleus: Umiushi-senpai Meaning: Sea slug-senpai EN: Sea Slug

Lilia: Mendako-chan Meaning: Devil fish-chan EN: Devilfishie

Silver: Kurage-chan Meaning: Jellyfish-chan EN: Jellyfishie / Jellyfish

Sebek: Wani-chan Meaning: Crocodile-chan EN: Croc

Grim: Azarashi-chan Meaning: Seal-chan EN: Baby Seal / the Seal / Sealie-o / Seal

Prefect: Ko-ebi-chan Meaning: little shrimp-chan EN: Little Shrimpy

Sam: Umiuma-kun Meaning: Seahorse-kun EN: Seahorse

Trein: Akaika-sensei Meaning: Red squid-sensei EN: Professor Red Squid

Vargas: Lobster-sensei Meaning: Lobster-sensei EN: Coach Lobster

Crewel: Ishidai-sensei Meaning: Beakfish-sensei EN: Professor Beakfish

Crowley: Manta-sensei Meaning: Manta-sensei EN: Professor Manta Ray

[frootloopscos]

Night Raven Daycare!

This is another fic that I figured I should cross post, let me know what ya'll think of it!

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(Y/N) hummed along to their music as they drove down the street to their new work building. Turning into the parking lot the smile as the song playing had finished right on time. Unplugging their phone, turning off the radio, and then their car, they check their hair quickly in the Mirror and then grab their Fanny pack. Putting their phone inside and tossing the strap over their shoulder. They exited the car and locked it before putting the keys in the little bag, then they took a deep breath and walked up to the door, pulling it open they look around before they're greeted by who the assumed was the head caretaker.

"Mx (Y/N) (L/N) correct?" The male asked, (Y/N) nods, "that's me." They said with a small smile and extending a hand, "nice to finally meet you sir." The head caretaker smiled and exited his own hand, shaking the enby's. "Yes yes, now today is your first day so you'll be taking care of only one class with another caretaker to get used to it." (Y/N) nods, "makes sense." They say as the two walk down the hall and to a door "this class consists of mainly humans with one beast man and one half fae child, and a robot, they're all around five to seven in common years." The male explained before knocking on the door and opening it. No one was inside except for a cat?

The Enby crouched down and held and open palm, the black fluffy cat came over and allowed them to pick it up. They pet the cats head as Crowley spoke to it. "Ah, Lucius, where is Trein?" He asked, (Y/N) looked to Crowley, "I didn't know we could bring pets or familiars." They said with a small pout, they would've brought their own little kitty if they knew. Crowley cleared his throat, "apologies, did you not get an email that said that?" The Enby shook their head looking at the cat. "Hey kitty, can you go get your master?" They asked before setting Lucius down. The cat meowed at them and went to the back of the room, weaving through toys scattered on the floor until he got to a curtain and went behind it.

The two humans followed the familiar, Crowley pushed the curtain back to reveal an older looking gentleman who was moving around a dark room. The male looked over and grunted quietly to himself. He went over to the two and introduced himself as one of the other caretakers, "Mozus Trein, you may call me Trein, the kids find it easier to say than my first name. You are the new caretaker correct?" (Y/n) (L/n), I look forward to working with you." They said with a smile. Trein nodded, "I have finished tiding up the nap room, why don't we tidy up the rest of the room. If parents drop off their kids then have them put any belongings in their cubbies, their lunches go the the fridge behind my desk to keep them cold."

Crowley left shortly after the two caretakers had gotten acquainted, and as the two were cleaning the first child was dropped off by his dad. (Y/n) walked over "hey there bud, my name's (Y/n) you can call me Mx. (Y/N) or just (Y/n), I'll be helping mr Trein out today." They said to him, the little redhead smiled brightly and waved "hiiii! I'm Ace!" The Enby laughed lightly, "it's nice to meet you ack, why don't you say bye bye to your dad and then put your bag in your cubby, I'll take your lunch and then you can go sit on the mat alright?" Ace gave his father's legs a tight hug and then he ran over to the cubbies putting his backpack inside and giving (Y/n) his lunch box. "Look look! My lunch box has the queen of hearts on it!" (Y/n) nodded with a smile, "I do see, it's so cool Ace." They then went behind the fest and put it in the fridge.

The next child was carried in on someone's shoulders, "alright squirt." The dark blue haired male said putting the mini version of him down on the floor. "You be nice for your caretaker and We can go for a ride with the gang when we're done alright?" The little boy smiled widely at the statement and ne nodded, "okay big bro!" The tall male looked over "yo, call me Spades, pologies if the little sh- er Deuce says anything that might make him seem bad, I'll be here later to pick him up, later squirt." (Y/n) just shook their head confused and introduced themself to the boy, he told her his name was Deuce Spade and gave them his lunch box, it had a blastcycle on it.

The other kids slowly came in and introduced themself to the new caretaker. Jack, Epel, Sebek, and Ortho. Each proudly showing off their lunch boxes and running over to the mat to greet their friends. At that point Trein walked over with (Y/n) and cleared his throat. "Children, I'm sure you've all already met Mx. (Y/n), they'll be helping take care of you and the other kids in the daycare." (Y/n) waved with a smile, "heya kiddos, I'm brand new so you'll have to show me the ropes alright?" Epel's eyes widened at this, "we get to help an adult?" He asked with a grin, (Y/n) nodded, "yep! You'll have to help me out alright? So go easy on me." They said playfully and sat on their knees, "now, Mr Trein has some things he has to do, so why don't you all tell me your names again and one thing you like to do for fun? It'll be a little meet and greet." They said putting their hands together

The kids agreed to this and Ace decided to start. "Hi I'm Ace Trapula! And I really like to play!" (Y/n) smiled, Deuce decided to go next. "I'm Deuce Spade! I really like going on blastcycle rides with my brother and his friends!" "That's nice" (y/n) said with a smile. "Jack, why don't you go next?" The wolf beast man nodded, "I'm Jack Howl....and I really like to run!" (Y/n) nodded, "Epel?" The purple haired boy nodded "I'm Epel Felmer, I like helping my family out with harvest." "Mx. (Y/n), what's harvest?" Ace asked, "harvest is what we call it when farmers pick their fruits and vegetables." (Y/n) explained, "human!" Sebek said standing up "I am Sebis Zigvolt! And I like playing with my neighbors!" "It's very nice to meet you bud." (Y/n) said, "and how about you kiddo?" They asked the robot with blue seemingly flaming hair. The little robot looked up at them "oh! I'm Ortho Shoud and I really like playing video games with my brother!"

——— Hi hi! Thanks for coming in and viewing my new story! This was inspired a bit by a story on Ao3 right here

What did you guys think of the first chapter?

Word count: 1168

Published to wattpad: July 29th 2022

Published to tumblr: Jan. 30th, 2024 Edited: May 8th, 2023

[mysteryshoptls]

Sam Voice Lines (9th Unified Exams)

About the School

Even the ever popular Mr. S's Mystery Shop doesn't get many customers while classes are in session. So when it's that time, I just vibe with my friends on the other side. Alllright～

Running this Mystery Shop is very enjoyable. Whenever the Little Imps find something they like, their delight overflows, and my wallet overflows. Everyone's happy, you see?

About the School Facility

The Mystery Shop always stores such soul-shaking stock on our shelves. Better snag it soon before it's sold out!

About Himself

I'm Sam, A.K.A. The Shadow Man. But that's just an old nickname. As to why "shadow," well, that's for me to know. The more secrets I got, the more it feels like a real Mystery Shop, don't you think?

I come from a long line of merchants, so we've had a history of helping people with their deepest desires. Like those who want to be fashionable, or be powerful, or grow their restaurant's business... As well as many other concerns.

I have multiples of the same kind of suit and I just swap them around. It's kind of like my personal policy. Don't you think that little bit of whimsy peeking out from behind the formal is the best?

Towards the Students

The only thing I have to say to all you Little Imps is that making money is crucial. With loads of cash, you can pretty much do anything you want. Maybe even change your future～

Incidents / Memories

Are you stressed living in that Ramshackle Dorm? Do you find yourself recently in need of something to soothe your worries? Then do I have the thing for you ＩＮ ＳＴＯＣＫ ＮＯＷ! Come by the Mystery Shop sometime. Nyeheehee～

I heard that you and some others broke the cafeteria chandelier and went all the way just to mine some magestones. Must've been tough. If you'd just asked me, I could've had it for you in a flash, and I would've even let you pay me back in installments!

You should keep playing nice with the Ramshackle ghosts. You can never have too many friends that can phase through objects or disappear like they can.

About School Staff

The Headmaster comes to the Mystery Shop to chill from time to time. Only, he'll just talk endlessly. If he'd buy a few more things, I'd be more inclined to listen to his gripes.

Crewel-sensei really is obsessed with cars. He'll come by my shop and often buy car accessories. He'll even go so far as to request something crazy, like asking for discontinued parts. He really makes me work for it!

I totally got Lucius's likes down pat. I don't think I'd even lose to Trein-sensei, his owner. Cat food, toys, clippers, and kitty litter, everything is ＩＮ ＳＴＯＣＫ ＮＯＷ!

As a rule, I try to avoid stocking any perishables, but raw eggs are the exception. And that's because Vargas-sensei will buy my whole stock. He's the best kind of customer! Nyeheehee～

Requested by Anonymous.

[sdr2lovemail]

Jack comes down with a fever but is too stubborn to go to bed. MC takes care of him after he faints.

Gender Neutral MC!

Staggering, Jack walks to the Savanaclaw stadium. With blurry eyes, he nearly walks into students and walls alike. A few shout curses his way, though his ringing ears do well to drown them out. He’s drenched head to toe in sweat but would instead pass out than flake on plans.

You check the time on your phone. It was unlike Jack to be late. 

“Hmph, he’s not coming! The nerve of the guy. Having us wake up this early to stand in the heat. Come on, henchman. I wanna get some more rest before class.” Grim grumbles, perching himself in your arms.

“Let’s just wait a few more minutes, Grim. Jack’s usually here before us. It’s weird for him to be almost thirty minutes late.” Looking around the stadium, you spot a familiar pair of white ears heading your way. “Look, there he is!”

As he gets closer, you notice how terrible he looks. His hair was messy and barely styled, his fur seemed matted with sweat, and his eyes looked glossy and unfocused. 

Your face crossed with concern. “Jack, are you doing okay? You don’t look very well.” 

“Yeah, you look disgusting. Like someone hit you with an ugly stick-!” Grim gets cut off as you press your hand onto his mouth.

Jack would try to bite back, but today he just couldn’t muster up the strength. “I’m fine. I didn’t sleep well.” He paused for a moment to let out a string of coughs. “Come on. We should get our laps done before class starts.” 

“Jack, I don’t think you should be running. I’m not sure how you’re keeping yourself standing.” You set a hand onto his bicep, nearly flinching at how hot his skin is. “You’re burning up!” 

“Mhm! You should go to bed right away!” Grim chimes. Not for the well-being of Jack, but to get out of exercising.

The beastman sniffles. “It’s just allergies. Let’s go. We’ll do an easy ten laps for today.” 

Grim groans in anguish as you could only stare in concern for Jack. While running around the stadium, he had to stop to take a breather. Much to your surprise, you had almost passed Jack once or twice. At the end of the run, he stood at the start, drinking water bottle after water bottle. As if he hadn’t had anything to drink for years.

You reach up to set a hand on Jack’s forehead. He slightly pulls away before leaning back into your touch. Though your hand was warm, it was nowhere near as hot as his skin. It brought him a sense of comfort.

“If you won’t go to bed, I think you should at least visit the infirmary.” You huff.

A bit reluctantly, Jack pulls away from your touch. “I’ll go after school. I have an important assignment in alchemy today. Besides-” He stops to sneeze. “I feel fine. We should shower before going to class. I’ll see you two in history.” Jack bids you both farewell before stumbling back to his dorm.

“I give him till lunch before he collapses.” Mumbles Grim.

It had been fifteen minutes since magic history class had started. There was still no sign of Jack. Worry had begun to creep up on you. What if something happened to him? He looked awful during your morning exercise.

“When the Queen had ended the Grand Tea Party of-” Professor Trein’s hand halted its movement against the chalkboard. The classroom door creaked open to show a sloppy-dressed Jack. “Mr. Howl, how nice of you to join us. You will be meeting with Coach Vargas after school for detention.” He says, quite eloquently, not once looking back from the chalkboard. 

All Jack could do was mutter a quiet apology as he made his way to his desk. Before he could reach the rows of chairs, his steps falter. He stops walking and simply sways with unfocused eyes.

“Mr. Howl. To your seat.” Trein says sternly.

There’s no response except for Jack’s heavy body hitting the floor.

“Hm, he didn’t even make it to first period.” Grim snickers.

When he wakes up, the first thing Jack feels is a cool towel on his forehead. Sluggishly opening his eyes, he sees that he’s in the infirmary. His school blazer drapes across a chair. Sitting on the bedside table are bottled water and a cup of juice.

He sits up, bringing a hand to his aching head, letting the towel fall on his lap. All he could remember was walking to class. The sound of a door opening causes his ears to twitch. He could faintly pick up the sound of a plastic bag.

You walk into the infirmary, holding a shopping bag and your school bag. You perk at the sight of Jack sitting up.

“Jack, I’m so happy you’re awake. You had me worried when you fainted in class.” You said in a hushed tone.

“I…I did what?” Much to his dismay, his tanned cheeks flush in embarrassment. Though, he hoped you’d just pass it off as his fever.

“You collapsed earlier. The nurse said it was from overexertion on top of a fever.” You set the plastic bag and your school bag down on a chair.

Jack puffs out a sigh before his ears perk up. “My assignment!” He flips off the covers and attempts to stand up. “I have to get to alchemy!”

You bring your hands to his shoulders, easing him back onto the bed. “Relax, Jack. It’s already after school. I talked with Professor Crewel. He said you’ll redo the assignment when you’re feeling better. Though, he might dock some points.” 

The beastman visibly relaxed and lay against the pillows. Jack closed his eyes, trying to soothe his headache.

You move your hand to brush some hair out of his face. From under the blanket, you could see his tail rhythmically thumping. “Are you hungry? I brought you some soup from the Mostro Lounge.” Jack simply shakes his head in response. “Okay, but you have to eat it soon. You’ll need some energy to fight that fever.”

You rummage through your plastic bag with your free hand. “I also got some medicine from Sam. You should take it.” 

“I’m sorry.” Jack apologizes. His ears drooped against his head. “I should have listened to you this morning. I fainted in front of the class. Now I’m stuck in an infirmary bed.” 

With a smile, your hand moves from his hair to his ears. “Don’t worry about it, Jack. Your only concern right now is to feel better.” As you scratch the fur of his ears, a small smile breaks out on his face. His tail quickened its pace.

“Now, sit up. You should take this medicine now. Have some juice as well.”

[liviavanrouge]

Realization

Crowley: *Walks through the orchard, then perks up*

Livia: *Lay's asleep against a tree, the plants around her moving in response to her breathing*

Crowley: What in the name of the seven *Stares in shock, watching the trees sway inwards when Livia breathed in then out when she breathed out*

Livia: *Smiles slightly, the grass pulsing beneath her like rippling water*

???: LIVIA! LIVIA, WAKE UP!

Crowley: *Ducks out of view, watching silently*

Silver: *Rushes over alarmed* LIV!!

Livia: *Opens her eyes, looking at him* Did I faint again?

Silver: Yeah, did you hit your head?

Livia: *Shakes her head* No, one of the trees branches caught me and set me down..sorry the plants were asking me to sleep with them..

Silver: *Sighs* Liv, I don't know what goes through your head at times...

Livia: *Stares at him, then rubs her eyes*

Silver: Let's go back to the dorm before anyone comes and sees you here

Livia: *Gets to her feet and yawns sleepily* Okay...

Crowley: *Stares after them with narrowed eyes*

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Crewel: Exactly why were we all called here?

Crowley: It concerns Ms Vanrouge

Trein: What about her, did something happen

Crowley: I saw something rather interesting in fact

Vargas: That girl is quite interesting, I'm always getting surprised by her

Sam: What did you see

Yasmin: Yes, I am quite curious about this stupid interest of yours...

Crowley: You remember the new reports about the plants around Twisted Wonderland, moving in sync with something?

Trein: Yes this occurrence started sixteen years ago, the trees would all sway in sync, the grass ripples like a human pulse, the ground thumps as if responding to someone's heartbeat

Crowley: Sixteen years ago?

Crewel: Don't tell me!?

Sam: Does the nature confusion have to do with Imp Cub?

Vargas: That's impossible, I don't believe it...

Crowley: Believe it, Professor Vargas, we don't know much about Livia and more about her appears everyday, it's safe to assume.....that Livia is somehow part of Twisted Wonderland

Sam: .....it's her thorns...

Yasmin: Thorns?

Sam: Malleus told us that Livias thorn control power is overpowered which was why he locked it away with his thorns...now that her power is free and she can learn to control it, it seems as if it's connecting her with the land

Trein: I find Sam's theory agreeable, thorns grow almost everywhere, they can withstand most harsh climates, which is why they're hard to not see

Trein: And think about it, Ms Vanrouge is able to adapt quickly to any land she's come across or any season she's in

Crewel: Except winter...

Trein: Exactly, winter is where most plants wilt or get frozen over, and not to mention Mr Vanrouge and Silver told us that Livia gets fragile in the winter

Sam: Even the smallest chill would have her fainting and rushed to the infirmary...

Crowley: Yes, we've had several scares with her winter problem....but I think that further confirms my guess

Crowley: Somehow, someway, Livias thorns grew strong enough to make her apart of our home

Vargas: Like Trein said, thorns do grow almost everywhere, so it's not at all a shock that almost every nature covered area is responding to her breathing, pulse and heart

Yasmin: So what do we do

Crowley: ....have mr Draconia weaken Livias thorns..just enough to keep the land from responding to her...

Trein: *Sighs* Fine...

[lowkeyclueless5137]

Winx au(S5)

here is season 1 with the original notes for everything :3

And here comes season 5!

Starting from where we left, the group is discovering also the fact that Deuce was a nymph. Not like the ones that kept training to gain their nymph status, which made it all the more weirder.

But they liked to poke at him, which yeah... That was a win!

Thankfully, his seal wasn't completely broken, so Deuce could still tap into that bit left to turn back to a normal human look. Even though his hair remained longer. Deuce really didn't know how to tie it up, so Jack offered to do for him a braid.

Riddle and Idia were also told of what happened. And both of them were losing their minds over it. They never had to deal with Mangor, but they knew that a scandal will blow up if Mangor gets back to the public.

So far, the group was trying to investigate and find any clue of that sucker before it was too late. All of their holiday was spent like this, which got them to enter their second year of NRC tired and with literally 0 will to even go to an exam. For a hot second they forgot they speedran to enchantix when the teachers told them that charmix was this year's objective. It was a fun 12 seconds of staring like dumbasses at Mr Vanrogue.

Nonetheless, with Mangor on the loose, the group could at least relax into the library. Trein was back with Lucius too. And while he was proud of how they handled the situation and saved the library, the spirit was still troubled about Mangor's escape. That was the count of nothingness's doing after all. It meant that whoever it was, knew of their presence and their mingling into his plans. Now they even had mythix, which only makes them more of a threat.

Thankfully, one of Sebek's mythix spells was able to conceal their appearances in fairy form. So they didn't need anymore potion, which is a big relief. None of them wanted to stay around a Cauldron for hours mixing and making sure the whole thing doesn't blown in their faces or turns anyone into a toad.

So for now, they were mostly dealing with the earlier tests and everyone readjusting to the school life after holidays.

Except that this year, seeing how much chaos was caused lately and with Magix apparently dealing with some magic criminal problems too, the headmaster had to announce that they will have a far more riguros training, this time along RSA's specialists and NBC witches. Starting with 2nd years, the training will be early, while the newbies get to be introduced to co-school combat later in the year. This was mandatory for everyone, so no one got to say a pass.

Of course, our group now we're 2nd years, meaning that they would be attending early on with this combat training. It was the least of their worries, but it was still important enough that they put a sticky note on their pinboard in their dorm.

As for the aincent library? They still had to clean up the fallen books and the mess that it was made. Trein was weaker than usual due to the library still being in recovery. Nonetheless, now that they had Mythix, they knew how sub-transformations work. Enchantix was their main, but they could change to mythix when the situation calls for it.

Deuce also tells them about the key he received from the story world Neressa. They had to give it a shot. But now they were at school, with no way of getting out so suddenly. Maybe their punishment of not officially leaving the school grounds was forgotten, but still! First weeks of school and already they were running away? Give them at least a bit more time to settle in.

But really the more they stood and did nothing, the more distance Mangor puts in between them. Who knows what new orders he got from the count?

So even if it wasn't even a week since they started school, the group had to sneak out at night. Really, nothing out of the ordinary here. They used the miniaturising form of enchantix along Ortho's invibility spell in order to make sure they won't be caught Sneaking in the library.

And BOI that thing was huge! Deuce did summon the key, which immediately took some sort of life of it's own and flew out of his hands. Epel thought fast and caught the key with some magic ropes, but it only dragged him over, the others trying to hold onto Epel and getting pulled along.

Just a bunch of guys getting dragged by a key in the middle of the night. :'3

But, the key does stop and the group is met with a shelf with various books under locks. The book in question was quite simple, with a lock in Which the key fit perfectly. Opening it, the group was meet with a pseudo-book, inside it being a hand mirror in a silver frame with beautiful ornaments. Taking it out, the group out the now empty hidden box back and left via the zodiac blade before someone would come around and spot them.

Back at the aincent library, the group was all around the hand mirror, clearly not knowing what to do with it. So far it wasn't reacting to anyone, not like they even knew what to do with it. But at least it was a pretty hand mirror. They tried to use the gemini spell, but again, the mirror was still just a simple mirror.

That's when Ortho came up with an idea. He did know of soul traces. Very pelicular patterns of magic that are left over from intricate spells. Maybe the mirror was under such a spell from the former nymph of the night sky.

But ortho also was quite unsure about his power in thar departament. It was a bit volatile and tapping more onto his witch side. It was a spell that was able to tip significantly the balance in between Ortho's light and dark magic. So he asks that if by chance, his body shows signs of altering... Just slap the shit out of him.

So Ortho starts the said spell. He said that he will lay down for this one and disconnect from his material body, hence he asks for the others to please keep an eye on that. When Ortho does raise up, he is a spirit, clearly unable to be seen by the others. Except that Trein and Lucius both see and hear him. It was extremely wierd at first, but right now, Ortho had to check on that mirror. And he does find something, or more like someone. For a hot second he was ready to charge in, before realising that it was the original Neressa, which most likely had no memory of what her story world counterpart did.

And Trein seems to not be able to see Neressa, nor Lucius. The spirit herself was looming over the mirror. She couldn't speak, but she did smile warmly at Ortho and motioned in between Deuce and herself, before at the mirror. Ortho wanted to ask more, but something else caught his attention.

Some kind of spirit, a quite restless one, was hurrying above them, most likely on the halls of NRC. The spirits of the living all manifested in the form of small colorful flames. Depending on their magic, the flame colors may vary from bright to dark and ortho could see them through walls if they were close enough. Yet that one seemed to try and gain a shape of it's own. It was a bright blue flame. It meant that whoever was that spirit, they were most likely close to dying. Ortho wanted to go after it, but as he got closer, he saw 2 other spirits of the living. One was an extremely bright green, so bright that Ortho could bearly make out who it belonged to. The other was a very dull purple, a bit agitated. Ortho would say that it was in a sense similar to his own flame. But he felt how he was passing out and harshly dragged back into his body. Waking up properly with a bang, it was clear that Ortho stood way too much for his welcome in the spirit world. The others said that his fingertips were turning a darker color and his body was suddenly ice cold. Ortho thanks them for waking him up and tells them that the mirror is indeed special.

That was Neressa's soul inside of the mirror. And in true nymph fashion, she wanted for her descended to use it. The problem was how?

Deuce tried his best to concentrate, but nothing came out of it. He was growing tired. He kept hanging on to that seal bit to keep his usual form, the one he was so used to. Sebek realises that maybe, Neressa doesn't recognise him as her descendant because Deuce looks like a normal human.

Once switched to the nymph form, the mirror also seems to react. And in the reflection, the real Neressa is seen, smiling and waving at the group. She was very happy that one of her descendants found her soul, soul which was put in this mirror so that nymphs in training could still use her knowledge, yet she didn't answer to any of them up until now.

The group tell her that they needed to find prince Mangor and stop the count of nothingness. Neressa tells them that if they want to find their enemy, they must aim for the prince's goal. What would Mangor look for immediately after he is freed?

Their answer was simple: a source of power. Something to be on par with their enchantix and mythix. But enchantix was gained through a noble sacrifice to save someone and mythix clearly was out of Mangor's knowledge, let alone reach.

Neressa reassures that she will be always in here, in their reach, before dissappearing in the mirror. Now the group were looking through transformations one could aquire power through taking it from a source. They came across a few interesting ones, but so far it was only a list.

That's when Ace gets a call. It was from Riddle, who tells them that something bad happened to Idia and that Ortho should come. The group of course took one look at the very dizzy Ortho and knew well enough that he is most likely going to slam his way through any wall just to get and see his older brother. So Jack decided to carry him through the halls until Ortho felt enough better to stand on his own.

And at Idia's dorm room, it was a bit of panic. Idia himself was laying on the bed, Vil next to him along a blonde guy named Rook, the latter handing to Vil a warm towel to put on Idia's forehead. There were also Cater and Trey, who were looking through books of curses and cures. Additionally, there was Azul there, whom Malleus seemed to try and comfort him about something. Riddle was helping Cater and Trey with looking through the books when the group arrived. And immediately Ortho went to his brother's side, asking Idia what was wrong. Of course, the older Shroud had a hard time recognizing Ortho or what was going on, but when he did figure out that his brother was there, Idia holded tighter Ortho's hand, coming to hold with both of his.

And Idia told Ortho that 'he' will come for them all. When Ortho asks who is 'he', Idia dismisses him and continues, weakly, saying that 'he' found something to use against all of them. Something so powerful that it could affect the whole magical universe. That was before Idia passes out again and Vil groans that the only time he wakes up and it's just to warn everyone of something they already knew.

Jack tries to reason, saying that it's the first time they hear about it. And Ortho is Idia's younger brother. By how shaken up he looks, it's clear he's in a state of panic. The others bearly convince Ortho to let go of his brother's hand, even so, Azul had something to talk to him, mainly concerning the situation at hand. So the others decide to help out with anything they could while Ortho talks with Azul in private.

Azul starts first by saying that his group and Idias were dispatched into a mission around the Sage Island beach, since it was a lot of ground to cover and they split up. They encountered a strange person. Idia seemed to recognise the guy, which somehow triggered the person to attack them, by dragging them into the sea, where their wings became an additional weight. It was only him with Idia and Azul really had to pull through by the limit to just get them out of there. Ortho did know where this was going. He asked if by chance, the guy gave out a name. Azul denied it, but that's where his own question comes into play: the guy that attacked them was looking for Ortho's group. The guy placed a curse on Idia, so that it will eat away all of his fairy magic, until he is left with nothing. By all means, no one expected Idia to be on the verge of death.

And to Azul's surprise, Ortho was boiling with rage, to the point his firehair was bright orange. He promises that they could handle it, to which Azul heavily doubts it. He reminded ortho that they were, by all means, baisc fairies, this year striving to get charmix. If even an enchantix fairy had difficulty fighting underwater, what chances would have a basic fairy.

And Ortho replies that he will find a way. For the Shrouds, their magic is tied in with their very own lives. A Shroud can only lose their magic if they die and vice versa. And if that curse eats away fairy magic, the best candidate to take care of Idia was a witch or a magicless person.

Azul admits that before switching to Vil, he took care of Idia. He took a break after Riddle called Ortho's group over, mainly to figure out how he could break the news to Ortho. The curse was one from the aincent mermaids spells. So the only way to break is by tapping into more powerful sea magic than the one who casted had.

And Ortho has a wild thought. After deeming Idia stable enough, Ortho dragged his group back towards their dorm, telling them about what he and Azul exchanged. A quick internet search and indeed, a few days ago the mermaid kingdom from the coral sea reported that a few manuscripts containing spells were stolen. Mangor had to be the one who stole them, although for getting a potion to breath underwater, one must have some high connections.

Sebek theorised that most likely Mangor returned to his kingdom to aquire the said potion, but that would also mean that the news would be blaring about the missing prince returning, which didn't happen. Epel theorises that maybe Mangor and his parents are all involved in aiding the Count of nothingness, on which Ace calls bullshit. It would be an immense scandal if that were to happen.

Ortho tells them that he read somewhere about a fairy form that would allow them to move freely underwater along with their spells gaining immunity underwater too. Jack resonates that it would be a bit too early to go after yet another transformation. They bearly started their 2nd year, which was more busier with the added combat training schedules. Besides, they already had mythix. But Ace gives the point to Ortho. Their fairy form can't carry them through water. Enchantix may be their most powerful form, but it won't carry them underwater without complicated spells or potions. And even then, those might fade and they will never know just how much Mangor might hold them underwater. That sucker was clearly searching to gain something similar to Sirenix, but for what purpose?

Unknowingly to them, someone else heard their conversation about weather or not they should pursue sirenix.

Later in the library, the group is faced with going through the various books that had info on sirenix. Very little was known about it. It was a transformation that allowed the fairies and witches to move incredibly fast underwater and also breath in there. Their magic won't be hindered by the said environment too and also they could resonate more with the ocean's magic, to the point they could access the infinite ocean, a paralel world, which acts as a sort of command room for all the oceans in the magical world.

Jack does resonate that Sirenix is quite the powerful transformation. If Mangor aims for that, he will gain access to the infinite ocean. Not only will it be the ultimate retreat technique, but also he could reek so much havoc from there without anyone able to even figure out it was him.

Epel tho, has the briliant idea of searching for past sirenix fairies and witches. There had to be some. And since oh so little is known about sirenix, it means that there had to be some deceased sirenix fairies or at least nymphs of the oceans they could contact.

So first, Trein advises them to ask Neressa. She was the closest nymph they could ask, so she might have an idea.

Fortunately, Neressa admits that even as a captive soul, she feels her fellow nymphs. Weather they were natural nymphs or raised to that level of power. She knows that currently, there is one nymph they could contact: Daphne, the nymph of sirenix, the specter that can be found in lake Roccaluce. Although she doesn't know why Daphne was the only nymph she could feel on enough to be able to be reached out by others, Neressa advised to be cautious.

So the group decide to prepare for a small visit to lake Roccaluce. Really they were tired of all that traveling, but alas, it had to be done sooner or later.

At the said lake, the group make a convergence spell, trying to reach out to Daphne. And she presents to them as a specter and asks what are they seeking from her.

When the group asks about sirenix, Daphne seems to grow enraged. She tells them that sirenix is cursed. It was the reason she was a specter and because of that curse, she was unable to put a proper last stand against the ancestral witches, leaving her planet to be destroyed.

But despite that, the group insists. There was someone else who was pursuing sirenix. And that person wanted to use it to reek chaos in the magical dimension.

Ortho also insists that his brother was cursed and sirenix is his only way to save him. He would do anything for Idia, even if he gets cursed or dies. Daphne seemed warmed up by this declaration and indulges in the group pursuing this power. She tells them that they have to speak to Mrs Faragonda about getting access to the archive. Epel suggest that, giving their record, they should just straight up steal it. Daphne didn't really find it that funny, but because of them being very insistent of keeping things secret, she gives them a little ring on a string. She tells them to present it to Faragonda and tell her that on behalf of Daphne, they should be allowed to borrow the book of sirenix in secret.

And rightfully the group immediately hurries to Alfea. Except that they are faced with one of the most terrifying tasks: finding the headmistress of an all girl fairy school, when a full blown start of the year party went on. Add to that that it is 100% guaranteed to be some royalty around here. News in Magix travel fast, not to mention that twisted wonderland might get them later, but still, they will get them anyway and bust their secret.

But, seeing how the specialists also came to pay a visit, the group decides to use that to their advantage. Since the specialists also were in casual clothes, the group decided to just go like that. Jack does note that he did see a few times the red fountain specialists in their uniform and he must admit that those are very tacky. Ace was thankful that he won't have to wear some tacky ass cape and wierd boots.

Nonetheless, their infiltration proves successful. Some students did ask them if they were newbies, since they looked a bit too unfit. No, ladies, Ace and Ortho were wheezing because they are certified couch potatoes and Deuce refused to teleport them to the gate of Alfea. They had to run there. :'3

Nonetheless, they listened in to Faragonda's speech and watched as the top of the specialists raced towards here. Apparently they were the boyfriends of the girls who saved the school or something, but our Requix squad was absolutely done and over with this. They needed to get the headmistress alone and ask her to give them that damn sirenix book.

In truth, they are absolutely tired with getting dragged from parties and fun, only to have to deal with their missions and get the least fun.

But they meet Najima. And Najima guides them to the food tables so everyone collectively deems Najima as a cool fairy. It was her first year in Alfea too! Epel tells her that if magic doesn't work, always get physical and don't be shy on biting. Ah, yes... Advice from your seniors is the best. :3

Thankfully, Faragonda notices them before anyone figures these 6 are completely out of the loop with the other specialists, who were having either show-off or chats with the other students. The group does admit that they are here for an important matter and so, they quietly are invited into her office.

The group do explain to Faragonda their problem. They also present Neressa's mirror, Daphne's ring and their library marks as proof. They only mentioned that they had enchantix and right now they were looking for sirenix in order to stop prince Mangor from getting into the infinite ocean or steal anymore aincent mermaid spells. They doubt Magix would ever be spared, so Faragonda sees where they are coming from.

Even so, they are just fresh 2nd year fairies. She is quite skeptical on leaving an important artefact such as the book of sirenix in their hands. In the end, she caves in and gets the group to the Alfea archive. They meet Concorda and go on a long search for the sirenix book. Faragonda trusted in the pixie to look over these 6, which quickly ends up being the best call. Concorda took her job very seriously when it came to guarding the codex piece, but also the archive's wellbeing. She did say she was taken aback when the archive shook for a bit during this summer, but she figured it must've been the tower rebuilding.

The boys really didn't want to tell the pixie what actually happened to affect the archive(S4's objective). They just hurried over with their search.

FINALLY, after a long search, they found the goddamn book. Really Sebek wanted to wack each and every one in the group, including himself, since the book was literally on the lower shelves, in front of them, but nooo... They had to start from the higher levels. They give their farewells to Concorda and tell her to say to Faragonda that they will return the book as fast as possible. They used the zodiac blade yet again to go to their dorms back in NRC.

Except that in there, the group is greeted by Azul and the twins. First of all, Azul congratulates them on finding the sirenix book so fast. Second, he demands to know what they are up to, otherwise he will rat their little late night randevous outside to the headmaster.

So with the given choices, everyone deemed Jack as the group speaker and also as the one who could explain coherently enough the mess that is their plan: get sirenix, find Mangor, capture the fucker, figure out how to break Idia's curse via getting back the stolen scrolls or if the scrolls are compromised, use sirenix's wish to break it.

And Floyd with Jade do find it entertaining enough to tell on how Azul was worried sick over Idia and wanted any and all leads to the cure for that curse.

So Epel calls the 3 out on it: they all want the same thing. Why not band together? Azul seems very hesitant. After all, he wouldn't really want to associate that much with the infamous taboo students of NRC. Well... At least it was an upgrade from simply calling them troublemakers. :'3

So to make things more airtight, Ace makes a deal with Azul, both of them being tied up by magic bindings. If any of them dares to spill the beans over their real mission, the bindings will break and everyone will suffer from backlash.

With that, the twins and Azul bestow upon the group their knowledge of sirenix. That transformation was cursed in such way that if you do not manage to aquire it in time, you will loose all of your magical powers.

And the group collectively looked at Ortho. The Shrouds, as he put it previously, are linked to their magic so well that their life is also taken away alongside their magic.

But Ortho was absolutely set on it and even opens the book himself using his mythix wand and the rest channeling a convergence spell with the wand as the focus point.

The book does open and gives them the instructions: they had up until the lunar cycle ends to gain fully sirenix. For that, they will need to gather 3 gems scattered across the magical waters of the universe. Those gems will be put on their sirenix boxes, where their personal guardian of sirenix resides inside. With that, they are granted Harmonix. Harmonix was only halfway to Sirenix, which means that they would be able to breath underwater, but they won't be able to move as swift and fast as in sirenix, neither will their spells be as strong.

And in true quest fashion, their first riddle is given. Of course they couldn't ask the guardians for the answer. That would've been way too easy. So Azul suggests to use the school library to inform themselves over the riddle answers.

For a hot second, the first years were shook about NRC having a library. Being so used to the aincent library, they forgot that NRC actually did have a proper library. And thankfully, Octavinelle had a private section for themselves.

A few days everyone was looking for an answer to the riddle in question. They were guided to the Zenith oceans, searching for the binary flowers. That was also them testing the waters with Harmonix.

Cue everyone making fun of everyone for having lil puffy uniforms. Clearly this half a transformation had very few distinct features to each of the boys, mostly because it was here only temporary, akin to a trial period. But Sebek got again a tiara so Ace had to get back the 'very pretty prince' joke. The twins also took that joke in order to make fun of Azul too. The joke unfortunately doesn't work on Ortho, the twins or Jack, because they just roll with it. :'3

Although, Ortho noticed that what set him apart from the rest's otherwise very pastelly outfits was the inclusion of a few splotches of bright and dark color here and there, clearly meant to represent his witch heritage. What was more interesting was that Azul also had a few quite darker colors in his outfit. He brushed it down as him liking darker colors, but Ortho tells him that so does Epel, Jack and Deuce.

Azul just dismisses Ortho, saying it's just unimportant details he looks too much into it. They should focus on the mission at hand.

And indeed, the octatrio are quite the allies. Things seemed insanely easier now with them helping out. Maybe it was Azul's way of managing things, but really it felt as if now they had time for both pursuing sirenix and trying to foil Mangor's plans. They also meet the selkies, getting to bond with them, just like with the pixies. The selkies helped out by looking out for Mangor and closing off any gate to the oceans of twisted wonderland. They betted that Mangor was using those gates to get lost more easily. They did run into him several times and indeed, Mangor was completely nuts.

Maybe imprisonment in a tiny box for months can mess up with your head a bit. :/

Mangor was absolutely having it out for Sebek. And with the mermaid scrolls he kept stealing, it was very obvious that Mangor was turning into a merman, one who was stealing the scrolls to gain more power and eventually force his way in the infinite ocean.

The sirenix quest meanwhile, guided the group everywhere. Their second to last quest got them to even visit STIX, at the river of souls, which housed the corals of dead magic. Magic that once belonged to beings that passed away. In order to depart forever, their souls left their magic into the river, creating this array of beautiful corals.

Of course, the group was absolutely livid to see that Ortho not only had ties with STIX, but he was actually having the position of executive director, much like Idia had too. Their parents ran STIX after all.

And of course, Mrs Shroud asks about Idia. Azul was the one who kept the closest tabs on Idia and he didn't want to lie to the woman: Idia was getting worse per day. And currently they were doing their best to pursue for answers and a way to save him.

But, the river of souls proves to them as a tricky place. They had to find a dream fish, little beings that sprout into existence from the soul's unfulfilled dreams. Those little fishes are scared of literally anything, so catching one proved to be a task, especially when the corals themselves attacked the group.

And Ortho saw how in the heat of the moment, Azul used a witch spell. The others didn't see it, assuming it was ortho who did it. And the fire head kept his mouth shut regarding that. They got what they needed, so they had to go back to school.

A few days later, while waiting for a new riddle or searching for Mangor, Ortho goes to visit Idia when he happens to overhear a conversation in between Azul and Malleus.

Malleus seemed to be worried over a letter Azul received. The latter told him that he was unsure of what to say. On one hand he wanted to stay here with him, Idia and the twins, but on the other hand, the letter was a lifetime opportunity. He never wanted in NRC to begin with, but he couldn't just have abandoned the twins. They wouldn't have been here if Azul didn't insist to accept the NRC acceptance letters. And he couldn't simply pass that one up. Malleus advised to take action as he sees fit, yet Azul tells him that it's not as simple as it is for full fairies or witches to switch in between. He can't just give out what he worked so hard for. Malleus finally tells him to think of what Idia would say about it, to which Azul replies that for now, this doesn't concern Idia and he would rather also not focus on things that don't concern him. Malleus did tell him in the end that he tries healing spells daily, but they only seem to relieve the pain. The others did leave taking care of Idia to him after all.

So Ortho waits a bit before acting like he just got here, wanting to visit Idia. Azul and Malleus seemed to both have some things to settle still, so Ortho had some privacy with his brother.

So as a precaution, Ortho uses a spell to lock the door so that he could use his special spell of traveling through the soul world.

And there he is meet with Idia's soul, having a human form, but it was still attached to his body, unable to leave far from it. Idia did expect for Ortho to come like this. After all, it was a disenchantix spell that Ortho recently got the hang of it. And Ortho fills Idia in with their adventure. Idia seemed skeptical of Azul and the twins joining in, but they were a great help, so he wasn't going to comment on it. By the end, Ortho wanted to tell Idia about the letter conversation he heard before coming here. Idia mutters more to himself that Azul must've gotten a letter from Cloud Tower. Ortho does ask what was that about. Idia tells him that he is in no position to reveal that about Azul, as it was his own privacy. But what he does tell Ortho is that Idia happened to have a relationship with both Azul and Malleus. It was very complicated and messy, hence Idia didn't really brought up his love problems, but he knew Azul is passionate about what he loves, so he tells Ortho to follow that example. Fight for your passions and what you love.

And ortho, before finally going back to his body, tells Idia that he is fighting for what he loves already. He loves his family and his friends, so Mangor, the count of nothingness and whoever wakes up one day and decides to be evil, will have to go through him first if they ever wanted to hurt his most dear people.

Idia just tells Ortho that he had something in his nightstand drawer. To take it and show it to Azul when he feels the time is right. That was the last thing before Ortho woke up back in his body. Following what Idia told him, Ortho found in there a small seashell pendant, which he hid in his pocket and with that, he left.

Although curiousity still poked him and so, after Malleus was out of the room to go and redo his healing spells, Ortho asked Azul about the letter. And about the witch spells he used back in their missions.

And Azul admits that, unfortunately, he is just like Ortho. A half fairy, half witch. His mother was a quite respectable sea-witch from Andros, very close friends with headmistress Griffin from Cloud Tower. His biological father was a fairy from twisted wonderland, but following the divorce, his current stepfather was a simple divorce lawyer from the coral sea. He got that letter because, despite being in NRC, Azul had to control his witch side as well. So when he told his mother about getting enchantix, he knew word got to Griffin as well. Issuing a small transfer to cloud tower would be harder considering he was now in his 3rd year, but Azul didn't want to go to Noble Bell College and his mother couldn't take him as her apprentice. She had a restaurant to run.

So Ortho happily declares that they could start a coven together. They are both halflings who need to watch over their internal balance. They could do it together. And witches have this coven thing going on, so why not they just start one too?

And Azul accepts, mostly to have Ortho not pester him about it. Of course, the news were shared with the twins and Requix club, who didn't hesitate to poke fun at Azul for trying to hide his 'Witchy thingies'.

And because of that, Ortho finally got comfortable enough to wear his witch hat, hat which was his favorite, a heirloom from his grandma on mother's side.

Unfortunately for them, their last riddle regarding the gems has them venturing into the coral sea for the gem of courage. That would be a big chance of getting compromised if someone recognises them, but even so, they had to go through with it.

And even worse! Mangor seemed to have got his way around here as well. So a fight escalated both in and out of the water. Ortho, Ace and Epel did stop in time a few tsunami spells. Jack was working with Jade and Azul on defence for the group, while Deuce, Sebek and Floyd went nuts on attacks.

Thankfully, they find their wanted gem and Mangor dipped on them. Azul did inform them that today it was an optional course on the beach, so maybe they should attend it.

They weren't late, although the more earlier students seemed to cheer in between them. When asked about it, the teacher, Lilia, told them about the big tsunamis that came in here. Thankfully Silver and Kalim kept everyone safe while the rest of their group made a convergence spell to prevent the tsunamis from harming innocents further.

And Sebek seemed puffy. Of course Silver got credit for this. Malleus does ask why Sebek won't be happy for Silver too. Maybe because he was absent in here? Or perhaps Sebek was upset about not being here to protect people as well?

The others really wanted to subtly tell Malleus to get the fucking social cue, but it was too late, as Sebek was snapping right then and there.

He was sick and tired of working his ass non-stop, only for Silver to get the credit for some dumb little spell he did at that moment. He was absolutely done and over with trying to keep his ties going with Lilia, Malleus and Silver, only for them to brush him aside. He went through a lot and these 3 never once asked if maybe he was alright or how he was doing. At one point he left them aside, only for it to bite him later when he was confronted about what did he do to have his ties so severed. He is sick of trying and from now on, he will cut off their ties completely. That was accompanied by grave silence as Sebek stomped his way back to NRC. He didn't want to participate into the optional course anymore and honestly, it was a bit reasonable.

Silver wanted to go after him, but Jade advised him that right now it wasn't the best time. Sebek needed to be left to deal with all that emotion on his own. The rest of the Requix squad tho, followed after Sebek. Although it was quite obvious they supported the Greenhead over how they didn't comment on the matter at all and let Sebek run his pent up anger until he couldn't conjure anymore polite replies.

Malleus did ask Azul about it, but the response was that they messed up big time. And he doubts Sebek would even want to hear from them.

Meanwhile, Sebek was aggressively investigating. It was a clear sign that he didn't want to talk about it. The others tho, advised him to take a break. They had the last gem and now they were ready to find the source of sirenix and complete their transformation. The lunar cycle was over in less than a week, but so far, form the riddle and their separate investigations, they figured out that Lake Roccaluce was their final stop in this quest.

So Jack reassures Sebek that even if Malleus and Lilia didn't know, even if no one else gave them credit for it, for them at least, Sebek was a hero and a great fairy. Ace says that no one is just as loud and serious as Sebek, but it was good. Epel added that they did need someone to keep them on track for the school matters and Sebek was always taking care of that. Ortho insisted that Sebek shouldn't worry himself over with people that won't recognise him for what he was truly worth. And finally, Deuce tries to cheer up Sebek, by telling him that once they get Mangor, they will make sure to leave for Sebek the last punch. And that did creak a smile out of Sebek.

But they do report to Trein about their quest and their results so far. Trein nudges them to not spare any seconds now that they were so close. Time wasn't something to take lightly and so, he hopes the group understand that a cursed sirenix can have consequences.

So despite Floyd wanting a break, they had to go to lake Roccaluce and find the source of Sirenix. The earlier, the more of an advantage they had over Mangor.

Of course, once their group convergence is successful and Omnia greets them into the infinite ocean, the nymph tells them that unfortunately, a great threat is trying to get in. She fears that the emperor's throne will be activated.

And the group gets introduced to the said emperor throne. A structure holding all the magic of the infinite ocean, waiting for the first proper magic user to sit on it and claim it's power. Omnia guarded this throne with all of her power. There was once a rouge nymph, politea, who wanted the power of the throne, but Omnia managed to stop her before she could even get a chance to sit on it. Yet politea did manage to charge it up, hence the throne was very volatile.

So Azul suggests to make a barrier. Something that would block the throne from Mangor. Another very tiring convergence spell and Floyd declared that he will nap on the sea floor at this point.

Thankfully, now they had sirenix, so they could put Mangor to a stop if they got the chance.

Except that the sirenix curse did unfortunately reflect on their civilian lives. A sudden need of just throwing yourself in water, sometimes it was so desperate that breathing was hard too. Their enchantix and mythix forms were unable to be accessed, despite everyone feeling them there. Sometimes their hair color would change when wet too. It was hellish and keeping it a secret also came with it's own nasty can of worms. Not to mention combat training. Thankfully Azul knew how to brew quickly advanced potions of concealing, even so, holding back was harder, as the sirenix power arsenal was far more volatile outside of water. Training with RSA was especially hard since these specialists didn't have any magic to defend themselves, only tech and combat skills.

Add to that Mangor starting to reek havoc around, so everyone had to go and stop him. Yet he kept escaping. He was slippery and managed to land some serious hits from time to time on others.

One instance was when Sebek was hit. He was healed up quickly by Floyd, but still that rage and saltiness was translated on his combat training. That day he had against Silver and boy did Sebek not hesitate. He put down the guy so quick that the teacher bearly had time to process what happened. So much for the guy who had a saving streak.

Although some of the said curses were holding a bit over sometimes. But those were simple ones such as dizzy spells or clumsiness curses.

Of course, the group tried to use their sirenix powers to heal Idia, but again, healing spells didn't seem to work at all. Ortho wasn't losing hope yet. They came too far, so it wasn't any place to give up.

Azul tho, was more pessimistic and stressed out. The others figured it had to be from everything. The twins also were keeping hard with all this rush our group was used to since last year.

But oh were they so wrong.

Because one particular fight with Mangor had him actually flee to the infinite ocean. How tf did he even gain access?

Azul was the answer.

He wasn't pessimistic or anything like that, rather Azul was under a hypnosis spell. And using that spell, Mangor had Azul give him sirenix as well and now he was using him to break through their barrier over the throne. And Mangor used Azul as his dummy for the throne. Since it was so volatile from staying charged up for so long, it was clear that the sudden power increase could be deadly. So why not have a hypnotised fairy to transfer the power to him so he could use it to free his master, the count of nothingness.

Except that when Azul was seated on the throne, something seemed to have snapped. Azul turned into an octopus mer, the twins telling the group that it was his actual form, as they were all 3 mers from the coral sea. Except that even then, some corals gre out of his shoulders along with what it seemed like a spiky crown.

And Mangor sure as hell wanted to use Azul to get that power of the throne, only to be immediately caged by none other than Azul himself, who sounded absolutely different, much more demonic. He was offended that Mangor even wanted to order him, let alone ever give him, HIS power. Oh yes, Azul was absolutely nuts from that throne and Mangor paid the price by getting caged up and the scrolls being taken away.

When the others tried to stop this, Azul lashed out at them. One by one, each of them were hunted down by Azul and caged just like Mangor, although he didn't take their sirenix as he 'didn't have any use for it anymore'.

The last one left was Ortho, who got out of the water in order to get a bit more time to think of a plan. Something to snap Azul out of the madness induced by the throne.

Except that he has no time to think of a plan because a gigantic Azul emerges out and is ready to catch Ortho, the last of them. Ortho puts up a chase, trying to tell Azul to stop it, that it isn't him.

And that's when he remembers of Idia's gift for him. Summoning the pendant in question, Ortho uses his essence of sirenix, becoming a whole flame that immediately plunged into Azul's chest like an arrow.

Except that what it did is shrinked back Azul and Ortho hugging him tightly, begging Azul to remember why he wanted to get sirenix in the first place. How Azul cared about his family, about the twins and how he was nothing but kind to Ortho. How Idia wanted for both of them to follow their passions and why they formed a coven for shits and giggles. Because those were things that the real Azul holded dear. Ortho knew it. And deep down, the real Azul was still there, and he wanted the real Azul back. Everyone needed the real Azul back. And Azul seems to finally snap out of it. He holded the pendant, looking at it for a few seconds before slowly hugging back Ortho and reassuring that he was back now and apologising for what he did. Really he lost his mind when he got that much power. He may be greedy to some extent, but not that greedy, you get him?

And Ortho has his sirenix box appearing, his guardian of sirenix telling him that he managed to please the destinies so what would be his wish? Azul did encourage Ortho to think at how much he could do with a reality altering wish, but Ortho already knew what he wanted.

He wished for his brother and anyone affected by Mangor's spells to be cured. And the guardian happily fulfilled that wish.

The first ones who come over once Azul lifts up his cage spells are the twins. It was clear the 2 were worried sick for their friend, but they were also failing so hard at hiding it that it was hilarious.

But now they finally had prince Mangor locked up again. Except that when they try to wrangle him out of answers, he simply laughs and tells them that their master has one more loyal servant, one who surely will put them all in place.

Azul simply banishes the guy to oblivion. From there it was clear Mangor won't have any chance of escaping.

That leaves the group to deal with the new emperor of the oceans. Really it deserved a long round of teasing about 'his majesty', which ended up with Azul wishing he still holded this dumbasses hostages a bit more.

Nonetheless, Azul feared that because he is now the emperor, he won't be able to leave the water. So the twins came up with an idea: split Azul's power and create pillars from that power. That way the throne will remain unchanged and the pillars will hold the balance of the oceans instead of Azul. So via a set of convergence spells, Azul splits up his power in 4. Deuce and Sebek used one fraction to create the pillar of light, Epel and Jack created the pillar of control and Ortho with Ace created the pillar of balance. For the last fraction of the power, Azul kept it to himself to replace the lost sirenix when he was crowned emperor. The twins were the ones who used their power to maintain Azul when the pillars were created and powered and him losing a considerable chunk of power.

And of course, all of this remained a secret. More like Azul insisted to keep it like that. Really he didn't want to boast about how he gained so much power, only to have to be snapped to reality by the power of friendship and hugs. :'3

Still, the rest of the Requix group were losing their shit since Ortho gained first his wish and he used it to undo Mangor's mess. Like dude missed a bigass opportunity right there. He could've erased his witch or fairy part or he could've wished for the power to permantly keep in check his inner balance. Heck, with Azul as the emperor and the scrolls back, they could've probably done that healing themselves!

But Ortho was happy like that. Idia was alright and he had to give full thanks to the group for saving him. Even though the other students assumed that Malleus's healing spells worked in the end. (Sebek had to keep in another snap about the subject of crediting)

Even tho, Azul wanted to properly thank the group for helping him and the twins with this crazy quest. So using his new emperor powers, he lifts the sirenix curse off of them, allowing the group to access again their enchantix and mythix. Azul told them to consider it a formal thanks, as they probably won't be seeing each other after winter break.

When the group asks about it, Azul reveals that he did think about it and will accept to study at Cloud Tower. He feels like he's pretty good with his fairy spells and already he had enchantix, so maybe working on his witch spells won't do him any bad.

Azul does ask if Ortho would be interested in studying at cloud tower too. He could pull a few strings for that to happen, but Ortho reassured that he was alright as he was. He still has a mission to fulfill as part of Requix: to defeat the count of nothingness. But he would gladly try and visit Azul and maybe exchange some spells in between them.

Unknowingly to them, someone else was watching them, promising that they will get those pesky fairies and make sure that all of the magical dimension will be under the new regin of the count of nothingness.

And here is where season 5 ends! :3

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[the-trinket-witch]

Alongside Drawing TWST stuff, I also write!

Did this up last night cause I haven't actually written any interactions between my Yuu and Malleus sooo... CW/TW: None Note: my Yuu is NB/AMAB, uses exclusively They/Them.

Seeing him in the daylight almost felt odd; something they weren’t supposed to see. Like the sight of coyotes or raccoons prowling in the night on the assumption the humans had all retreated indoors. Being listed as a first-year alongside Grim, not many of Yuu’s classes intersected with ‘Tsunotaru’s’. They couldn’t ever seem to find the Dragon even during lunch. Sure, there were the occasional passing glances or glimpses out of the corner of their eye, but the only time it ever seemed the two had for each other was once the sun had set and made way for the stars. Yuu found it almost a relief-harkening back to a coyote-being able to experience the silent campus in the company of a friend. 

“Eugenio, Child of Man. It’s a pleasure seeing you again,” Malleus greeted from the other side of the creaky gate. They had grown used to the lack of perception with their human eyes, but there wasn’t any mistaking the glow of draconic green eyes under blue-black bangs. Yuu made a quick wave with their violin in its case.

>Hey, Tsunotaru

>Good to see you too. 

Yuu had long since tossed aside any attempts at stifling the squeak of the gate; if Albert and Grim were going to find out about these nightly romps, they were going to. The only thing accompanying the Human and Dragon seemed to be the ambient, floating orbs of green and the swirl of cherry blossoms showering the cobblestone. 

“Might I ask: how your day has been? I scant remember what my first year was like, classes especially. Have others treated you well? I understand, given your circumstances, it might be difficult to attend class here,” Malleus stated.

>It’s been alright. Not much different than my world’s school. 

>No different than Earth School, except for the potionology, the flying lessons, and the guys with animal ears

Yuu offered a quick chuckle to indicate their sarcasm. They noted early the literal-mindedness their friend shown, and it was too difficult to shake their wit, so it was easier to laugh as their tell that their words weren’t meant at face-value. 

“Ah, I see. I hope your other friends have been of assistance, then. The two from Heartslabyul seem to be rather close to you. Of course, they also seem apt for dragging you into more unfavorable situations. Was that why you weren’t able to walk with me, the other night?”

>Oh that? Yeah, Mr. Trein gave us detention

>Yeah, Ace dragged Deuce and me into something and we got detention for it

“They seem rather keen on involving you, for better or worse. And more often than not, you seem to talk of them with an air of parenthood. Do you enjoy their company or have they put you in a position where they won’t allow you to claim otherwise?”

>I like them, but a la vé, do they seem to gravitate to stupid shit

>Oh I do, but sometimes that ‘Older Sibling’ part kinda comes out

“Is that why you carry that footwear? I’ve seen how proficient you are with hitting your mark,” Malleus couldn’t help but laugh at a young memory; seeing Yuu chuck la chancla at Ace over a conversation he didn’t catch. 

The two had since cataloged every gargoyle, grotesque and buttress across campus. Since then, most nights consisted of simply recounting each other’s day and conversing about their different worlds. Tonight they decided, in lieu of attending the cherry blossom viewing alongside their classmates, the two would enjoy a much quieter view from any number of the balconies dotting Night Raven College's campus. Malleus had enraptured Yuu with tell of his home’s different features. From the lack of terrestrial infrastructure, to the archaic technology, it fascinated them. They increasingly wondered, should they never be able-or want-to return home, if they’d be ever invited to a tour of The Briar Valley. In turn, Yuu had ensnared Malleus’ attention with talk of their home life, how modern everything was in some aspects, and almost medieval in others. Somehow they had been able to help him navigate the internet, albeit slightly; just enough to be able to search sheet music. 

It didn’t seem to matter what the subject was, Malleus somehow just enjoyed the entirety of their conversations. Their cadence, the fervor they had for certain topics, the unabashed lack of fear or innate reverence they held for him. They talked with him so casually when no one else seemed to be able, he almost would forget his status as Prince of the Briar Valley when he was with them. Even on a dark, quiet balcony, just the two of them, it felt so much less lonely than before. 

Yuu found an equal amount of camaraderie with the Fae. They were human, but being so out of place, spatially, it wasn’t much of a stress to imagine the displacement someone like Tsunotaru might have felt, regarding time. There was an odd twinge of honor in their friendship, knowing their friend’s social position, but not enough to eclipse their genuine desire for the man’s company. He was older, and in brief glimpses he certainly acted like it, but in other regards, Yuu felt more of the adult between the two. They assumed a parental role over Grim, Ace and Deuce, but when it came to Tsunotaru, they didn’t mind anywhere near as much. He was that oddly perfect combination of mature and naive that Yuu had been feeling and seeking in their own life. The two of them sat on that balcony, bathed in moonlight, when something seemed to well in their chest. They tried fishing for a word to describe it as it continued to bubble, threatening to spill over. 

>Can I see that, quick?

>Mind if I look up something?

They asked Malleus, who had his brow furrowed in the depths of a search for a piece of music. He blinked back to reality, before wordlessly relinquishing it with a smile. They flew through their phone; it seemed by the thumb strokes they knew exactly where they were going. A smile crept up now on their face. Another quick moment of fiddling allowed them to project the result: pages of sheet music. A slight, sakura petal blush dusted their cheeks from under their bangs of ringlets. 

>I, uh, I really like you, as a friend. Maybe even more

>I've really enjoyed being able to hang out like this 

“As do I,” Malleus sighed. A twinge of a smirk pulled on his lips. “I believe I’ve stated before, but I am grateful for moments like this; to be able to enjoy someone’s company without pretense hiding some ulterior motive. I haven’t stated yet but: I appreciate that you do not fear me, or treat me different from other students. It’s…refreshing. I hope I’ve been able to return such a kindness. I can’t fully imagine what type of odds you have against you, having been brought to our worlds. But, it does feel like I am indebted to you, having allowed me to be a part of your stay, here.”

Yuu’s face softened. What a relief. They tossed their bangs off to the side to give their eyes a chance to catch their friend’s gaze. Nondescript grey meeting magically green. 

>I’m not great with my own words, but there’s something I’ve been meaning to say.

>I don’t know how to really say, but I think I like you, maybe more than as a friend. This is kind of what I mean…

They turned back to the projected sheet music, having fished out their violin. They turned back as they’d rested the instrument to their shoulder. Yuu offered a soft smile as they drew out a drawl of the strings before setting into their song. 

Eres tú el príncipe azul que yo soñé

Eres tú, tus ojos me vieron con ternuras de amor 

Y al mirarme así el fuego encendió mi corazón

Y mi ensoñación se hará realidad y te adoraré 

Como aconteció en mi sueño ideal

*Note: song is the Latin American version/translation of Once Upon a Dream-Sleeping Beauty

[phoenix-manga]

Since halloween is coming, what if the magicam monsters injures Posie while she's telling them to stop and follow the rules or steal her candy in front of the teachers. Also some streamer or Cater will probably live stream the whole ordeal.

Oh dear.... I'm pretty sure someone has to stop Lilia AND Malleus from frying those visitors into ash.

Obviously everyone is upset, it's bad enough they messed up the venues but to include Posie in all this?! Crowley has to compromise with them to get back at those magicam monsters.

Cater obviously got ahead with the livestream and all they needed to do was have Ignihyde do the rest on the internet.

Every single one of those magicam monsters' identities are posted and soon enough the backlash will do its work.

Vil adds salt to the wound by explaining how a precious little sister figure was harmed by unruly guests when all she wanted them to do was follow the rules. His acting for once is intended to pull heartstrings.

He didn't expect Neige himself to be upset about this ordeal but for once he's glad to use his rival's influence to further add fuel to the flames.

Of course, Posie is watched over by the staff. Mainly, Vargas, Trein and Crewel. All three made sure she's fine now and always carries her around.

Mr. Sweets is fuming and is more alert, ordering Rosie and Mr. Doodles to keep an eye out for unruly guests and to do everything to kick them out.

Needless to say, those magicam monsters mysteriously deleted their blogs but no one knows the reason why.... except for NRC of course.

[thesunshinebunny]

It’s Show Time

I made this request several months ago and I had many comments wanting a second part with the song More (K/ DA) and since the problem with the publications is now fixed, I think it’s a good time to write it once and for all before returning to the orders.

In this second part, reader is fused with Evelynn and Seraphine, you’ll understand what I mean.

I hope you enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VTkBuxU4yk

Days, weeks without the leaders knowing anything about your new singing career. Since you got off the stage that beautiful day, dozens of record producers, even audiovisual managers were at your feet asking, imploring you, to give them a chance in their agencies. After long days and millions of messages per hour, which they played as background music in Mr. Trein's classes, you decided to give this new career a chance in a completely different world from the one you were used to.

Weeks since you last told them about a new song that was being produced with three more members, it seems you were going to be part of a group band, but you didn’t delve much on the subject for confidentiality reasons. The only thing you could tell them is that, in a couple of weeks, and the famous day finally coming, a music video with the respective band was going to be released.

Leona and Riddle weren't very excited. Let's see, don't get me wrong, Leona was very proud with all the little act you put on on stage, you even made Vil himself shut his mouth, 1000 for the effort, not just anyone does it. But he wasn’t very "into" in your music career. Yes, he was happy that you found something to distract you from all these catastrophic events at school, but other than that ... nothing more. Instead, Riddle… he doesn't know much about this whole world, he had an idea, and he was happy that you could meet other people outside of school. Perhaps he would be more excited by the time he waych the music video.

And like I said before… the famous music video release day had arrived.

The leaders were having a routine meeting, almost nothing interesting and very little to report, maybe a few complaints from the cafeteria or flight classes, but as I just said, nothing important. The mirror chamber was on the verge of being clear, faces of exhaustion and disinterest poured out of the doorway when a whirlwind of five multi-colored heads arrived to collapse the seven dormitory leaders.

"Care to explain what this outrageous come for?" Riddle was about to turn his trademark color as he saw his two residents sprawled on the floor after colliding with Kalim and Idia's tablet.

"Wooow, that happened so fast, my head hurts" Azul held out his hand to the white haired boy and helped him stand up, while the tablet flew off and floated in the middle of the room as usual.

Leona and Vil looked at the scene with contemptuous looks, just as their irritation was clearly evident at being pushed by their residents. As for Malleus, who hallelujah had been notified at once about the leaders' meeting, he simply deigned to observe the scene in a mocking way, but never disrespecting his classmates; a little giggle and he was composed again.

"It's out!!" Ace and Deuce jumped off the floor and faced the crosshairs of their dorm leaders. Ace continued to take out his cell phone and enter the conversation he had with you, clicking on the link you sent him a few minutes ago.

"What went out?" Azul, intrigued by his comment, approached the redhead, except that he ended up being dragged out of the room. Each freshman grabbed the arm of their respective leader and led thm into a classroom with audiovisual projectors ... except for Sebek, he simply asked his young master to follow him. In all this tumult, Ace connected his cell phone to a projector, revealing a black screen on a white canvas in the middle of the classroom. The seven leaders were completely lost, some even wondered why they had followed them, ahem… Leona more than anyone.

Now, with the cell phone connected, the speakers at full volume and each participant sitting in a chair, trying to be as comfortable as possible in their pompous suits, and with the lights off, Ace gave play and music began to reverberate throughout room. Multiple vibrant colors invaded the vision of everyone present, shapes, figures and objects began to come out of nowhere and a voice dislodged them all.

Akali that girl, 'kali go grr 'Kali don't stop,' kali don't skrrt 'Kali got a job,' Kali go to work 뜨거워 언제나, don't get burnt

The first to appear on the screen, the origin of that unknown voice was a girl with an incredible blonde hair, long and in a ponytail, which if were loose, it would’ve reach the floor. The faces of most of the boys showed confusion, it was obvious that they didn’t know her, much less had you talked about her in one of those short conversations about the video clip. The only ones who knew who this girl with violet eyes was, which matched her purplish top with sparkling blues and a shorts that barely covered her butt, were Vil, Idia and surprisingly Ace.

Without giving many explanations, avoiding distracting others from the girl's movements, Vil commented aloud, seeing Kalim's face when he didn’t understand why he wasn’t seeing one of his great friends first and foremost in the video clip, that the girl was from a female-only academy, much like NRC.

All I'll ever know is life up on a throne 시작 하면 끝 을 보는 거야 You want More

Everyone turned to see the others, even Leona raised his ears when he heard your voice appear for a fraction of seconds, to end up combining with the voice from another girl. This second girl was one of tall build, pale skin with red eyes and bicolor white and blue hair; Unlike the first, she was already known within the music industry but she had never recorded a video clip with another person.

In the middle of the shots of her, Deuce saw your profile hiding behind a mural, even some shots of your hands playing or ... moving your fingers in the air. With the chorus appearing on the screen, tension began to build in the environment. Why weren't you showing up? The directors gave you the ugly eye and left you behind? Why weren't you dancing with the other members?

During the chorus, no matter how high it was, the guys could hear your voice. It was there, it was in complete harmony with the other voices, but at the same time, you weren’t there. For some it was going to sound a bit embarrassing to admit, that they could discriminate your voice from any other, even in the midst of a crowd of people. Azul and Idia had found a video of your little recital and had downloaded it for…the great seven know for what; perhaps to have it in loop for hours. Even Malleus was getting impatient not seeing you on screen, not seeing you enjoying yourself like the other members were showing it.

When I go, it's for gold Yeah, they cool, but I'm cold I don't fit in the mold I'm a rebel

The video now showed Neige walking down a large red carpet, having people asking for photos and autographs, aside from reporters and paparazzi taking photos. And besides, couldn’t miss the bodyguards, scaring off every crazy fan who threw themselves on him. Throughout that walk, Neige was dedicated to signing autographs left and right, never stopping to look at people. Perhaps the aesthetic they wanted to give him was from a famous and megastar, but seeing this brunette so ... carefree made Vil tense.

As much as the events of the NRC’show have remained in the past, one doesn’t simply forget their rivalry, and much less now that he had to see how his greatest rival, both in modeling and now in music, was part of his first video clip with the person who refused to participate in his musical group. Yes, Vil was dealing with serious problems of guilt and regret.

What's higher than the top? That's me Come take a look before falling at my feet

Again, the only thing the camera showed was your profile, hiding and appearing behind murals. For the last time you came out behind a marble figure, the camera made a 180 ° turn, starting from your back, but it didn’t end on your chest, it was in a downward movement, until it ended at your feet, just at that your sentence ended and your body was left squatting on the reflective floor.

At this point you could see the despair of Kalim and Riddle in their eyes. They were both sitting in their chairs and leaning forward, hoping that they could see your appearance more clearly, but each time your profile appeared, the camera would turn to another objective. Both boys had their hands fisted over the edges of their seats, while their body jerked back involuntarily when their expectations were not met.

All I'll ever know is life up on a throne

Again, the camera avoided having a complete shot of your body. This time, what looked like an aerial view of the studio, or whatever that black room was with blue, light blue and purple lights, began to spin on itself, without turning on your body, at the same time each time it approached your back. At the moment of collapse, you made an almost imperceptible movement, turning around and hitting the camera with your open hand and sending it flying into another space, again changing the perspective and the person as the center of attention.

Jack was wagging his tail at all times, he was undoubtedly enjoying the video clip, both the aesthetics and the melody. Obviously, he wanted to see you even more on screen, but inside he knew that at some point you were going to appear, even to blow up the whole video.

Again the chorus appeared, like the first time, you didn’t appear, no matter how many changes of perspective there were. It is as if the most famous people, or at least with the greatest recognition, were predisposed to have more camera time. Even Malleus was beginning to grow impatient. He had seen you happy weeks ago and he could see the excitement in your eyes when you told him about the video clip when the idea was still starting. He wanted to see you more, just like everyone.

The screen went black, and in a moment of great tension, doubt and nerves, the boys thought the clip was over. Ace and Deuce were about to bolt, ready to beat up and kill the record company that had "hired" and duped you, but a little glint and a hand hovering over a window stopped them in their tracks.

Way out 感觉 犹如 海浪, on the wave now 不断 往前 遨游, never weighed down This is how I do it every day, wow, wow

And finally… finally, you appeared in your great splendor. Your hand lightly decorated with a blue ring chained to your wrist was the starting point for a great sequence shot towards your body, revealing your arm covered with a semi-transparent black mesh jacket with purple and light blue highlights, and ending in a black top, purplish with pink and sky blue iridescent patterns. And your face… woow, your face made up like a rising star, cold-toned glitters and shadows, silver pearls around your eyes, and shiny pink lips.

Everyone, absolutely everyone was stumped. Your way of singing, the movements that enchanted the camera, the warm tones that came from your lips; your simple presence blended with the aesthetics of the video. Even singing in Chinese was a nice touch to throw off anyone hearing and / or watching this show.

Kalim, finally seeing you, let out a cry of joy and clapped as he had never done it before at one of his parties. Riddle was proud and couldn't help but smile to see you shine. Leona smirked when no one was looking at him, watching as your head fell into contact with a bed and your whole body merged with the objects and the predominant aesthetic.

More Know I got it, so here you go You look like you could use some more Know I got it and never runnin' low

Your walk towards a large illuminated door, ending up turning around and appearing in the middle of a room with the other members to give the last chorus, left everyone excited. They had already seen your movements and the way your body moved to the rhythm of the music, as if you didn’t have a skeleton, but watching you dance on the big screen, with a musical group, having better and closer shots was another different experience completely. 

Let's say also, there was a bit of jealousy on the part of the boys when they saw some shots showing you with the other members, interacting and being very touchy. Your smile, as beautiful as it was, that someone else, outside of NRC, was responsible, made the boys' blood run hot.

Never givin 'less and that's how it'll stay You know I got it like all day, all the time

The room was silent for a few seconds, ending in cheers and applause from the first years. Ace disconnected his cell phone and was ready to make a video call when a message notification echoed off the walls. The guys gathered around the device and read the message, your message.

"Get ready, I'll get more;)"

[harunayuuka2060]

MC: How's everyone's experience? *while smiling in amusement*

The first-years: *cheering*

The sophomores: *yells* NOT GOOD!

MC: Ara! Why is that? *pretends to be shocked*

Professor Crewel: Misbehaving puppies, you have no reason to complain when the sophomores were allowed to use magic while the freshmen couldn't.

Professor Vargas: You were all so cocky before the event started!

*The third-years who have watched the scene unfold*

*The first years beating their senpais at their own game*

Lilia: This teacher is quite amazing. Wouldn't you agree, Malleus?

Malleus: Yes. Teaching the students not to depend so much on using magic.

Vil: We could understand why as they're someone who can't use magic themselves, however...

Lilia and Malleus: ...

Vil: Judging by how they have influenced these students, it might be that they know more than their field.

Deuce: Let us treat you, housewarden sir!

Ace: Yeah. Bet your back hurt from falling from the spider web.

Riddle: And whose fault do you think is that?!

Ace: You wouldn't have fallen if you didn't mind our teasing, but no.

MC: That's right, Mr. Rosehearts. In fact, it wasn't any difficult. Mr. Trappola and Mr. Spade only triggered you ever so slightly.

Riddle: Gnghh!!!

MC: *pats his head* Now I'm thinking that you need a whole lot of self-meditation.

Riddle: I don't need that! I—

Riddle: *suddenly falls asleep*

Ace and Deuce: ...

Ace: When will you teach that to us?

MC: Next class. *smiles*

Floyd: Hello, guppy~.

Jade: That was a fantastic performance.

Epel: Floyd-senpai and Jade senpai...

Floyd: You moved so fast that my eyes couldn't keep up.

Jade: And we were not able to sense you at all.

Epel: That's all thanks to MC-sense—

Epel: *got hit by a piece of folded paper on the nose* Ow...

Jade: Are you alright, Epel?

Epel: Yes. By the way, Sensei doesn't like it when I don't take credit for my hardwork.

Jade: *chuckles* Why, they're certainly right with that.

Floyd: But, who hit you with that?

Epel: Sensei.

Jade and Floyd: *starts looking around*

Floyd: From where?

Jack and Sebek: *arguing, because they almost got caught by the sophomores when they were trying to conceal their presence*

Jack: I told you to shut your big mouth.

Sebek: Your ears were poking out!

Silver: Why it should matter when you've won?

Ruggie: Yeah.

Sebek: You don't understand! Sensei wouldn't excuse that—

MC: Sebek~ My favorite student. Have you not learned a thing or two about teamwork?

Sebek: ...

Jack: ...

MC: And you too, Mr. Howl. Though it was my mistake for partnering you two.

Jack: Sorry, sensei...

Sebek: P-Please don't blame yourself, sensei!

MC: Hmm... *chuckles* But it's okay. You have improved a lot. I hope you both are ready for more advanced lessons.

MC: Isn't that right, Mr. Kingscholar?

Leona: !!! *shocked as to how they know he's approaching from behind*

Ruggie and Silver: ...

The professors: *having a meeting after the event*

Crowley: Is everyone here except Professor MC?

The professors: Yes.

Crowley: Hm. I think everyone has understood the purpose of this event.

Crowley: ...

Crowley: We've been neglecting the majority of them!

Professor Trein: Headmage, no... That's not it.

Professor Crewel: The purpose of the event is to show that our students are capable of learning much more. As proven by the first-years.

Crowley: O-Oh. Is that so?

Professor Vargas: We should think more outside the box!

MC: The students are uniquely intelligent enough. Just lacking when it comes to application. Hehe~.

Crowley and the professors: *screaming*

Crowley: H-How long have you been here?

MC: A few minutes ago. I was resting on the ceiling. *smiles cutely*

Crowley and the professors: ...

[lovelyllamasblog]

Made with this Picrew.

Part 2 of my EAH x TW x MH exchange AU! This time it's the boys!

Part 1

Note 1: I couldn't get Deuce's snake mohawk or his red shades due to the limited amount of options, so regular green hair and glasses for him 🥲

Note 2: I had to quickly redo Holt's because I forgot his blue skin 😱 It's fixed and he's here 😅

Deuce Gorgon, son of Medusa. Due to being the son of mythical creature and his abilities, he is sorted into Diasomnia. He's much more relaxed than his dormmates and he gets along with Lilia the most.

Clawd Wolf, son of the Wolf Man/Werewolf. Being part wolf makes him a perfect match in Savanaclaw. Though his dormmates find him a bit strange, since he tries to break up the fights instead of joining in.

Jackson Jekyll, great-grandson of Dr. Henry Jekyll. A quiet and timid young man who tries to stay away from trouble but still finds himself being the target of some bullying. Since he still has some insecurities about himself, he finds Ramshackle to be a very comforting place to be.

Holt Hyde, great-grandson of Mr. Edward Hyde. If anything, no one excepted someone like Holt. Rowdy and rumbustious, he's like Ace x10. He often blasts music from his iCoffin and overall being a giant, loud distraction. Some people like him, some people don't (i.e. Riddle, Sebek, and Professors Trein and Crewel). Some people have noticed that when Jackson disappears, Holt reappears and vice versa.

[twstarchives]

Nicknames & Honorifics

Disclaimer: This post is partly a style guide for myself, and not all nicknames will be a 1-1 translation. I’ve included the romaji for your reference (excluding Rook’s list). This list is also incomplete.

Rook’s Nicknames

Himself → Le chasseur d’amour

Yuu → Trickster

Grim → Monsieur Fuzzball

Riddle → Roi des Roses

Ace → Monsieur Heart

Deuce → Monsieur Spade

Cater → Monsieur Magicam

Trey → Chevalier des Roses

Leona → Roi des Lions

Jack → Monsieur Tough Guy

Ruggie → Monsieur Dandelion

Azul → Roi d’Effort

Jade → Monsieur Mastermind

Floyd → Monsieur Kills for Thrills

Kalim → Roi d’Or

Jamil → Monsieur Multi-Skilled

Vil → Roi du Poison, Beautiful Vil

Epel → Monsieur Cherry Apple

Idia → Roi de Ta Chambre

Ortho → Monsieur Doll

Malleus → Roi des Dragons

Silver → Monsieur Sleepyhead

Sebek → Monsieur Crocodile

Lilia → Monsieur Curiosity

Neige → Roi de Neige

Floyd’s Nicknames

Yuu → Little Shrimpy (Koebi-chan)

Grim → Baby Seal (Azarashi-chan)

Riddle → Little Goldfish (Kingyo-chan)

Ace → Crabby (Kani-chan)

Deuce → Little Mackerel (Saba-chan)

Trey → Sea Turtle (Umigame-kun)

Cater → Sea Bream (Hanadai-kun)

Leona → Sea Lion (Todo-senpai)

Jack → Sea Urchin (Uni-chan)

Ruggie → Sharksucker (Kobanzame-chan)

Kalim → Sea Otter (Rakko-chan)

Jamil → Sea Snake (Umihebi-kun)

Vil → Betta Fish (Beta-chan-senpai)

Epel → Guppy (Guppy-chan)

Rook → Seagull (Umineko-kun)

Idia → Firefly Squid (Hotaru Ika-senpai)

Ortho → Sea Angel (Clione-chan)

Malleus → Sea Slug (Umiushi-senpai)

Silver → Jellyfish (Kurage-chan)

Sebek → Crocodile (Wani-chan)

Lilia → Flapjack Octopus (Mendako-chan)

Crewel → Beakfish (Ishidai-sensei)

Trein → Red Squid (Akaika-sensei)

Vargas → Lobster (Lobster-sensei)

Sam → Seahorse (Umiuma-kun)

Vil’s Nicknames

Pomefiore 1st years → Fresh potatoes (Shin-jaga)

Epel → Baby potato (Ko-jaga)

Ace → Fresh potato 1 (Shin-jaga 1-gou)

Deuce → Fresh potato 2 (Shin-jaga 2-gou)

Sebek → Cucumber (Kyuuri)

Leona’s Nicknames

Yuu → Herbivore (Soushoku doubutsu)

Riddle → Red Young Master (Akage no bocchan and Akai bocchan)

Azul → Octopunk (Tako-yarou)

Idia → Radish sprout (Kaiware daikon)

Malleus → Young Master (Obocchama), Lizard (Tokage), Monster (Bakemono)

Other

Ramshackle

Grim often refers to Yuu as his henchman. (Kobun)

Yuu’s nickname for Malleus is “Mr. Horns” (Tsuno Tarou)

Heartslabyul

Ace often teases Deuce by calling him “Mr. Goody-two-shoes” (Majime-kun)

Deuce refers to all his seniors by their last names.

Cater calls himself Cay-kun.

Cater adds “-chan” to all 1st years’ first names except Jack (-kun).

He calls Grim “Gri-chan” and Chenya “Chenyan”

Ignihyde

Ortho refers to everyone by their full names

Exception is Idia, who he calls Big Brother.

Diasomnia

Silver often calls Lilia “Father” / “old man” (Chichi / Oyaji-dono)

Sebek calls Malleus “Young Master” (Waka-sama)

Sebek tends to call everyone “Human” condescendingly (Ningen)

Lilia has referred to Sam as “Sammy boy” (Sam-bou)

Malleus described Yuu as “child of man” (Hito no ko)

[twsty-lav]

To all Yuus. What do you guys think is going on in NRC? Do you think it suspicious that only people who resemble the closest the Great Seven get overblotted? For example, Azul and Ursula, Jamil and Jafar, Leona and Scar. Do you think Crowley has something to do with it?

New info! on Magirl! Yuu

- Also known as Yukio Hasegawa. Hair turned pink after coming to TWST, much to their consternation. If only they had realized what it meant earlier...

- Cure-toku-sei to the rescue! Whee... 

- The ‘cutest’ Yuu. They do not like this in the slightest. Very strong, but only when transformed.

- Current biggest problem: “I feel like my skirt is getting shorter every time I transform... That’s just my imagination, right? Right?”

.

"Can we come out? Can we come out? I wanna be requested more!” 

“Be quiet, Yustine, Yulia is reading.”

“I should’ve walked into Leona again, Jesus Christ--” 

“...??? Haha, what.”

“Uh, guys... Guys... Guys? Oh, boy.”

“Everyone,” Yulia coughs, “It’s our first group ask, so we should be on our best behavior. We’ll answer this in order, understood?” 

“Yes ma’am,” four voices chorus obediently, figures straightening up. One of the shorter heads swivel back and forth in confusion, before sighing and copying the others.

“Alright, you first.” 

1. Quinn Yu (LB!Yuu)

“Oh yeah, it’s super weird, isn’t it?” Quinn nods, ticking off their fingers, “Honestly, I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be Vil, Idia, and then Malleus next. Kalim seems like the only outlier, since he was based off of... I don’t actually know who he was based off of?” They frown. “I never really watched Disney movies, sorry.”

“As for Mr. Crowley... I mean... I don’t know? Is he supposed to be suspicious? He doesn’t seem like a bad guy, other than never giving me a paycheck.” A grumble, “But he’s basically paying for my tuition, so I guess I can’t really complain. I just wish he’d let me sleep in... But I like him, personally. He could’ve just kicked me out, right? I don’t really know enough about him, either. So yeah.” 

“Psst... Yuuya, what’d they say?” 

“How the hell should I know? Go bug someone else, damnit.”

“Jeez, somebody’s grumpy...” 

2. Yustine Gibson (Protag!Yuu)

“Huh? Headmaster? A bad guy? No way!” Yustine shakes their head furiously, bouncing up and down in protest, “He’s nice, isn’t he? He said so himself, and that would make him a liar! He seems like a cool dude... Even if he is a little irresponsible, or somethin’. Are you sure you’re not watching too many conspiracy videos? If anything, I’d be more scared of Mr. Trein... His cat doesn’t like me, either...” :(

(Yukio sighs. “That’s because you nearly strangled him when you got too excited...”)

They stick out a tongue childishly. “I have no idea what you’re talking about! Anyways, about the overblots... I think...”

A dramatic pause.

“I never actually noticed! So... I have no idea, yep!” 

3. Yuuya Hibiki (NoRES!Yuu)

"Ugh... Look, I don’t even care anymore. Crowley hasn’t chucked me off a building yet, so you know what? That’s more than what Ruggie can say, right? So he’s literally whatever in my book. If he is behind the Overblots, though... UuuuUUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH--” Yuuya groans. 

...

...

They’re still going.

...

“...GHHH--Jesus Christ, give me a fuckin’ break, man. Am I really gonna have to deal with Tsunotarou? I can feel the fucking sparks comin’ off of him from twenty feet away.” Yuuya whines, “Just let the earth consume me already, damnit.” 

4. Yulia (Mama!Yuu)

“Unfortunately,” she tilts her head, “I do not actually know what you mean. Are those that overblot similar to the Great Seven, somehow? In disposition, perhaps? I will look into this matter on my own, later.”

“As for Mr. Crowley...” Yulia smiles. “Well, I can’t say that I’ve ever liked him very much, not with that mask of his. But I will reserve my judgement, for now. If he does turn out to be at the head of some scheme, then... I simply will do that which is necessary.”

Quinn shivers. “... Scary...” 

5. Yuel (Yancheck! Yuu)

Yuel blinks lazily, rolling over to look at you with a shrug. “Uh, the overblots? I mean, I guess. I thought it was more of a curse, or something... Maybe it’s like, the forbidden snack of house positions. I dunno. I never felt like Crowley had anythin’ directly to do with it, though. From what I could tell, everybody was gonna snap sooner or later. It’s a dysfunction junction all up in there.” 

“Honestly though... Even if he was behind it all, what’m I gonna do about it? ‘S no use worrying about that, don’tcha think?” They wave off the concern with a relaxed shake of their hand. “I’ll just deal with it my own way, yup. ‘Sides, it’s not like the OB’s did any real harm... Except maybe to his own bank account. Have you seen the structural damage? Looked like a pain...” 

(“Not like the OB’s did any real harm? Oh, I’ll show you real harm, asshat--”

“Yuuya, no.”)

6. Yukio Hasegawa (Magirl! Yuu)

Yukio winces, fiddling with their hair. “Um... Am I allowed to speak bad about Mr. Headmaster? It feels kind of wrong. But yeah, I agree! It’s a little suspicious, isn’t it?” They whisper, glancing over their shoulder as if Crowley would pop up behind them, “Like.. Aren’t Overblots supposed to be a rare thing? And everyone lines up so perfectly with the ‘Great Seven,’ or whatever! It’s like the Disney gods meant for it to happen! I don’t like it.” “And what am I gonna do if Leona gets mad at me?! He’s been getting really grumpy about the skirt thing, lately!” They shiver, “It’s not like I wanna be doing this, either! Ah, I want the pens to summon Ace and Deuce more... Maybe I should handcuff them to me... Ugh...” 

Extra: Gail

He blinks. “There’s been more overblots? I thought it was just Riddle.”

Pomefiore Student A facepalms.

[adifferentworldfromyesterdays]

Gonna talk about Disney (and by ext pixar) IP in Japan. mainly bc i’ve brought this up several times by now and i suppose you deserve an explanation

IP in Japan is technically a grey area. “What do you mean?”

What I mean is the Doujin works. 

Official Doujin works are those that are commissioned or approved by the company. 

Unofficial are those you’d find at an anime convention and online on sites like Pixiv and elsewhere. 

The first group is entertainment meaning games, musicals, songs events and park miscellaneous  .

Most well known franchise with Disney outside of Disney would be Kingdom Hearts* albeit recently lolol 

Behind this imo the second best known literature would be the manga Princess Kirara.

Both are self inserts but self inserts that interrupt the plots and have similar goal. Except KH eventually jumps into Pixar and Princess Kirara is solely Disney.

Basically Arina’s Frozen II adaption was commissioned by Disney lol. Couldn’t find anything on a jp ver so it might exclusively be for overseas outside of jp???

Another well known Disney related game is Twisted Wonderland (abbv. Twst) by Aniplex and Disney. It’s an ‘inspired’ official doujin game and falls into the grey area. with art by yours truly yana toboso-sensei

Then there’s TDR. Let’s be real, TDR is really just a really big official doujin owned by OLC with IP rights from Disney. 

So how does this fall into TDR?

TDR used to have a seasonal Halloween entertainment, Happy Villains. They’re gender-bent of famous Disney Villains, different from the inspired OCs in Twst and kinda treated as official???? (no merch afaik) But also because jp Halloween is different from the typical western Halloween. Christmas too but thats a different story

Funnily they both have similar villain and themes. (Save for a few) Although i’ve noticed the genbent villains insporation from the parks was used for the faculty in Twst too! 

Snow White: Apple Poison (HV) + Pommefiore (Twst)

Cinderella: Mozus Trein (Twst only)

Sleeping Beauty: Malfie (HV) + Diasomnia (Twst)

TLM: Eight Foot Joe (HV) + Octanivelle (Twst)

BntB: Ashton Vargas (Twst Only)

Heracules: Ms Hades (HV) + Ignihyde (Twst)

Lion King: Pretty Scar (HV) + Savanaclaw (Twst)

101 Dalmatians: Mr. Dalmatia (HV) + Divus Crewel (Twst)

PntF: Mr. V (HV) + Sam (Twst)

Aladdin: Faja (HV) + Scarabia (Twst)

HoND: Veil (HV)

Peter Pan: Hook (HV)

If you want to try it, Aniplex is bringing the game over this year!! (restricted to NA, about 2 years behind the jp servers, the EU stuff is also another story)

Other forms of entertainment include the ‘Koe no Oujisama’, the utaite (cover singers) collaboration cd ‘Connected to Disney’, this also means they have the right to preform the song live -> Shoko Nakagawa (the va not the singer for movie rapunzel) singing wwmlb, the healing incantation, and istl at a concert**. (idk how it it overseas since I’ve seen the songs sung outside of ‘concerts’ on talent programs so I’m assuming might be something different there?)  then again filming policies are different but that’s also for another day

Remember when Idina Menzel was invited to jp for a tv program yeah lol. While it’s not IP usage persay this is just a form of pr in jp and kr lolol

The second group is merch,

Store collaborations like the Oh My Cafe (official from the looks of it) cafe, GSC nendroid collab series (this can fall two ways actually with both twst and mainstream Disney bc GSC does listen to fan requests) and Ichiban Kuji/ UFO catcher prizes with Banpresto. seriously have you seen the ufo catcher prizes??? broke me is crying

This is similar to the jp Moomin branch we don’t talk about the 60s anime since that was an attempt at the moomin IP but they said screw source materials until the 90s reboot with actual input from Tove’s family

Other things include the ultimate princess celebration special bonus merch and merch bonuses in general. Glimpse at a jp media magazine next time (nakayoshi, wsj, b’slog, spoon2di), if you can, usually the bonus is mentioned on the cover and you’ll feel a bump from the packaging either midway in-between or behind the magazine. There’s even a TDR magazine (no bonus included)!!

US IP seems to be getting somewhere with merch IPs with spinoff books like the Twisted Tales and other YA books as of recent, hallmark ornaments, Funko pops and McDonalds, but that’s all I can think really and haven’t seen them slap the Disney logo onto any other stuff that much lol 

imo US IP tends to be more/less??? entertainment focused? Like (long runners) Disney on Ice and the Broadway musicals, Now That’s What I Call Music, and most recently Cirque du Soleil. now if they’d stop giving their tv series the 3s curse

EU IP the only ones I can think of atm is the Bullyland figurines (Germany) and  Piscou comics (France).

TLDR: i didn’t rly explain anything lolol  IP in Japan is more likely to turn a blind eye as long as you’re respectful bc of the trust built within the community and not pull a moomin or a KH bc sqex didn’t like that at the parks *For the KH stuff here’s a link to a somewhat old but informative video: https://youtu.be/mFtkOA2MZuM

**somewhat old vid from Shoko Nakagawa’s live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSc8c8Qyfo

Anyway thanks for reading :D

Edit: this aged poorly lmaooooooo twst en