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The girl was an average sixteeen-year-old teen who was raised by her adopted mother who gave her a diamond brooch to become a magical girl of light to fight off these inky monster called “blots”. They were inky shadowy creatures that would drain peoples negative energy to take a life away. It was up to Hana and her five friends to stop the blot from taking over. Hana is the light diamond of the light that keeps everyone in peace and harmony. Her best friend, sixteen year old Aimi Morrison diamond guardian of storms. Her close friends Yuko Sevilla Guardian of the ocean and Allen Woods diamond guardian of flames both are seventeen. Who Hana looks up to as a big sister, Kira Albero, eighteen diamond guardian of nature.

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Back at Earth, there was an alert from their diamond brooches from their Magical guide, Terra. The guardians were fighting off four blots that they sensed off from around a plaza. People were either running or were knocked out from the attack. The blots caused a lot of damage to the stores or the people. It was difficult but the girls led the blots into a trap!

"I got them!" tanned faced girl, Kira, swift her arms crossed to her chest with her white gloves in a tight grip! Wearing a pink magenta like poncho that watched her skirt and boots. Underneath the poncho was a light pink turtleneck underneath. A diamond jewel boho chains around her head like the others.

Giant vines wrapped around the four blots as they struggled.

"Light Guardian! Now!" 

The pale faced girl with long brown hair pigtails hopped from the ground as a magical small wand appeared that a blue shimmering diamond on as did her the diamond from her boho chain around her head.

"Luminesce Flash!!" Hana shouted.

With a glittering flash striking the blots at them, they flare and the inky blot fled their vessels.

fair skinned girl, Allen, wearing a red like poncho, and inside a pink orange turtleneck. The red diamond boho gloweed from her forehead. Using her fist to spew through flames at the blots that few off from the unconscious as she shouts,

"Inferno emerge!!"

Her blonde short hair flows through the wind as she jumps with her red heels to strike the blot down.

Aimi also jumped, wearing a similar outfit but in black, her vest inside the poncho was a purple turtleneck. Her purple diamond boho glowed a spark from her head. Her long black hair flowing from the air flew from her pale face.

"Thunderous strike!"

Aimi shouted her unique power for the Purple lighting striking down the blot as it started to vanish off. They gave each other a high five!

Yuko straightens out her dark skinned arms, having her gloved hands out palms closed together. Her indigo diamond glowed,

"Maelstrom!!"

She shouted with a smirk as she twisted her arms as swirling water shot through and hit down the other blot into a huge whirlpool like a tornado. Vanishing into nothing.

Kira conjured her plants to grab the blot as it was struggling. Her pink diamond glowed from her forehea, before she could conjure her unique magic the blot slithered down to hit Kira down.

"Kira!!" Aimi shouted as she tried striking the blot but it dodged her lighting strikes.

"It's getting away!" Allen cried angrily, shooting her flames at the monster ink slithering by Hana as she jolted back. The ink was slithering away down the plaza.

"I got it!!" Hana ran after the blot before her friends could call to her. She was running after it like a predator and prey. Using her wand to shoot the blot but it continues to dodge the creature. It was leading to a store where it all took place when the blots were first spotted...

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"Hana! Wait!!" Allen shouted before she could hear. She looked over to Kira slowly getting up.

"I'll be back! Make sure the people are okay!"  Allen said, the three nodded before she ran after the leader.

"I swear this girl..." She mumbled.

She stopped midway to whip her head around to see any sign of the young girl. She analyzed the area with her blue eyes. Then in the blink of an eye, a flash came from the damaged store. She sighed a bit of relief seeing that Hana must have gotten the creature down. She ran into the store to look for her. It was a beautiful clothing shop.

Or so it was until the blots damaged it.

"Hana! Are you okay? Where are you?" Allen shouted and analyzed the store. Damaged and burned clothes. Area looked wet from the fight before they led them into a trap. She made a sheepish smile at that.

"Hana?" Allen ran around the store, picking up some damages in case. But thankfully, she wasn't there. But that also another problem.

Where is Hana?!

"Hana! This isn't funny! Where are you! It's Allen!" She shouted again but her tone sounded as if she were to panic. She looked again, some things were damaged and some of the items look like they never were touched. She was startled to see a mirror laying on the side of the wall. 

Could she have left to go back to the others? She hoped so.

Allen quickly hurried out of the store to go find the others. But She stopped midway from the entrance to see the three.

"Kira called the ambulance! Some people are okay! Well.. minus the people that got possessed by the blots." Yuko said with a nervous smile twirling her long light lavenderish blue hair in a high ponytail.

"Is Hana alright?" Aimi asked, looking at the blondes' worrisome eyes.

"She's not in there. She's not with you?"

The braided bun pinkett looked to the black haired girl then back to Allen.

"No, we didn't see her."

"Guys! This is Hana we are talking about! She may be clumsy but she wouldn't have ran off too far." Yuko tried to excuse it. However, they were not sure. They all started to search around the plaza, shouting out her name, even bringing up her favorite food to lure her back. Not even that, they used their diamond brooches to try to track her down. But nothing. It took two or three hours of looking as soon as the ambulance and the police came.

They were on the other side so the police wouldn't find them. "I-I can't find her anywhere!" Aimi said shakily.

"She can't just vanish! This is insane!" Yuko perplexed

"I'm worried. The blots could have kidnapped her..."Kira breathed, not looking at the three. 

"I think so too." Aimi said.

"We have to report this to Terra!" Allen insisted, they all nodded.

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The four de-transformed to their normal forms and were at Hana's house. They were sitting on a sofa in front of a woman with long blonde wavy hair, dark brown skin wearing a pink shirt and long white skirt. Her green eyes were concerned hearing what happened.

Allen was in her casual shorts and sweatshirt her hair became shorter and more dirty blonde. Yuko's hair was shorter from long to tail bone to shoulder length, and as wearing her uniform for a café she left early from. Aimi was wearing all black pants and shirt. Kira's hair was more redish than pink and was wearing her preppy white blouse and dark blue skirt.

"Are you sure that you all checked around the area?" Terra asked.

"Yes! We tried tracking her diamond with our diamonds but... nothing!," Allen responded, she ended up looking down and gripping her knees.

"I'm sorry guys... I should have ran after her sooner!"

Kira looked over to Allen, "Don't beat yourself up. We'll get her back."

"But how?! We don't know where they could have taken her!" Yuko cried, looking so puzzled as she slouching a bit.

Terra began to spoke as they all looked to her, "I will try to track her down. You four must keep an eye out for blots. We may get some clues of what they are doing."

The four nodded, but there was a distress look upon their faces.

"But... without Hana, it won't be easy to remove the blots from the vessels." Kira said.

"I'll try my best to help out. It's going to be a lot but we can't have anymore chaos like before..." Terra answered as if she were unsure. She helped Hana to become strong on the way when she became a magical girl for the first time when her mother gave her away to her. But, with trying to find her and fighting the monsters. It's a lot. Making Aimi cringe a bit. She stood from the couch.

"We can do it," They looked to Aimi, "Hana never gave up on us. She never gave up on me when I overblotted..." She looked away a bit before she shook it off, "We must fight for her!"

The guardians nodded and stood up and nodded. Aimi held her hand out as they placed their hands on hers.

"For our guardian of Light!" They all said with a smile. 

Aimi made a brief smile, but she continued to cringe inside about her friend that she knew since middle school.

Hana...

Where did you go?

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A short girl wearing a black blazer with a striped bow around her collar blouse. Wearing a long skirt down to her ankles following two guys who are a year older than her. One had bluish dark hair with a spade mark on his left eye. A redhead next to him with a heart mark on his right eye. He had a big heart collar lock. From his dorm leader as a punishment for eating his tart.

“Our next class is…” The blue haired boy mumbled looking at the school schedule.

“For a magic school, I’m glad it’s not so different. I was worried.” Hana smiled a bit.

Ace nodded, “Yeah, well for you,” he looked down at his collar, “I would use magic but with this stupid lock on me I can’t even. But I do agree...” Ace looked down next to Hana…

“What about you Grim?” He blinked to notice that the space next to Hana was empty.

“Uh? Grim?” Ace looked around.

Hana whirled her head around as her long brown two high pigtails swift side to side. “Grim?!”

Deuce’s eyes widened to see out the window, a familiar speck running down the courtyard.

“Ah! Look! He’s out there!” Deuce shouted. Hana looked over through the window in a panic.

“I’m not sitting through any more boring classes! As a genius as myself! I don’t need to learn all that stuff! I got my magnificent powers!” Grim grinned and started running down the courtyard that made Hana rise with anxiety.

“Not again! Even after trying to get the crystals for the old chandelier he does this?!” Hana mellowed with a sad sigh.

“He’ll never learn…” Deuce shrugged with his head shaking side to side. 

Ace cracks a snicker, opening up a mocking smile, “For a prefect, you sure don’t really keep an eye on him. Do you want us to help you out?”

Hana looked over to them with pleading eyes, “Yes, please! I don’t want him to cause any more trouble!”

“Hmm…  Buy me a chocolate croissant!” Ace grinned.

“Huh?! Deuce?” She looks over to the bluenette.

He crossed his arms with an open smile, “I’ll help you out, if you get me an iced latte from the cafeteria.” 

Hana started to frown at the both of them as her fists tightened. I can’t believe this! She thought.

“Hurry! I think he is getting away.” He made a mocking smirk looking out the window.

“Fine! Deal!” Hana cried out.

Ace still had his mocking smug up as he crossed his arms, “Good! Now then Deuce, let us help our pathetic little prefect to get Grim!”

Deuce laughed and made the same smug tone as well, “Sure thing, Ace. I look forward to lunch.”

Hana looked out the window, “Can we hurry please!” 

They three hurried out in the courtyard, Ace grabbed a butterfly net from the janitor’s closet.

“GRIM!!” Hana shouted as he halted his movement to look over to the three. Hana had her fists on her hips, “We have class to go too! We can’t waste time!”

“Fyna! No way! I’m not gonna sit around and watch some sessions! I want excitement!”

“Well, this will be some excitement you’ll get!” Ace grinned holding up the net. Grim starts running as They all chase him down. Deuce tried to use his red gem wand to shoot at Grim to stop him.

“Fyna!! Watch it, jerk!” Grim yelled trying to dodge the shots. He jumped back as soon as Ace threw down the net, missing his catch.

“Argh! Stop being annoying!”

“You’re the annoying one!” Grim argued 

“Grim! C’mon! We must get going! We’ll get into trouble and Crowley will not like it!” Hana urges Grim as she ran over next to him.

“No way am I sitting through another class!”

Hana tries to think of something that popped into her head, she crossed her arms with her head up. “Fine! Then you won’t become the great wizard then!” 

Grim grumbled, glaring at Hana. “Fyna! I hate that you’re extra strict today!”

“Because it took us to fight a blot from a cave to get those crystals. To replace the chandeliers for Crowley. For that, he lets us enroll in this school! He may be a bit odd, but we should be thankful!” Hana blurted out to him as he looked away grumbling a bit. Not only was Crowley kind of enough to have Hana supervise Grim. He is trying to figure out a way for Hana to go back home. She hopes maybe through the semester she can figure out with him from the classes. She is eternally thankful for the help, but why does Grim have to make things harder...

“Are you coming?” Hana asked.

“Yes! Yes! Jeez!” Grim groaned.

Hana looked to Deuce with a smile, “What’s our next class?”

Deuce looks at this schedule, “Let’s see…”

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After the class that they successfully made it too, they went to lunch. Only to have a little scenario of Grim trying to take food and two seniors trying to pick a fight and lose to Deuce. This school gets even more chaotic than earth…

Hana got her lunch and sat with the trio. Grim was eating his food like he had it for the first time. She looked up to one of the chandeliers in the cafeteria. She was glad it looked the same before Deuce used his magic to throw Ace to get Grim. She could not believe that it happened but like she said, if that didn’t happen. She and Grim would probably still be janitors. 

Grim was busy describing the food he was eating in a bliss as if he were a professional chef. It was almost funny to Hana as she smiled. She looked to the heartslaybul duo to change the subject, “Oh! I wanted to ask. Since Grim and I saw ourselves what Heartslabyul earlier was like. What are the others like?” Before Deuce could answer...

“You know the Great Seven displayed outside of the main street, right? They represent those dorms!” Hana blinked to who was speaking was the guy from where she met along with the duo at Heartslabyul. His orange hair was long to his jawline, upper hair was pulled into a half ponytail. He had a red Diamond mark on his right cheek. Next to him was unfamiliar to her, with dark green hair and glasses. He wore a pair of black glasses on. She could see his clover mark on his left.

“Hey! You were the guy from this morning that let us do the work for you!” Ace snapped the orange haired guy.

“Yeah! You tricked us to paint those trees for you!!” Grim glared at him who still smiled but sighed. They were talking about the guy, Cater, who was letting them paint the roses red for him because he wanted help. As he asked.

“Saying it was a trick is so mean~!”

Deuce frowned to point out, “You were grinning the entire time…”

“Now, now little Deuce! We must obey the rules inside of the Heartslabyul dorm as always! I’m just your kind upperclassman.” Cater chimed.

“Don’t add the “little”!” Deuce cried.

“Haha, that’s how Cater shows affection.” Trey smiled.

Hana looked at the guy, “Not to be rude but, who are you?” She asked. 

Trey looked at her, “Oh, my bad! The name is Trey Clover. I am part of Heartslabyul as a third year like Cater. And you’re the freshmen put in charge of that ramsh-,” he coughed a bit, “unused dorm, am I right?” He asked.

She nodded, “Yes!”

“I heard about it from Cater. Sorry for all the trouble these guys from our dorm have caused you.” He chuckled looking at Ace and Deuce then back to her.

“I’m sitting right here…” Ace murmured.

She giggled a bit, “It’s okay! It’s not just these guys.”  She looked over to Grim who was finishing up his food.

“We should put that aside and make up!” Cater said, pulling out his smartphone. “We’re from the same dorm after all! Let’s exchange numbers with each other.”

Hana would like to, but since she mysteriously was brought to this world. She has no phone or anything. Except, luckily, her diamond guardian powers for her to transform. She didn’t understand why exactly… Perhaps her Diamond saved her from something?

Hana made a nervous laugh, “I don’t have a phone at the moment, I lost it...” She smiled sheepishly.

“Eh!? Really?! I never heard of someone losing their phone before!” Cater then sat down next to her. “I’ll tell you what! I know a place to get the newest models for a good, cheap price! How about we go on a date to choose one?” he gave her a grin.

Hana’s blue orbs widened at the sudden move, “I-I— I don’t w-wa— Uuh I-I mean!! Ah—“she nervously stumbled over her words. She’s never been asked out on face front.

“Cater, look at this freshman.” Trey insisted with a sheepish smile. Cater blinked with a sheepish smile too while leaning back.

“Ah, sorry! Sorry! We were talking about the dorms, correct?”

Hana shook it off and nodded with a smile, “Yes! Can you please explain them to me and Grim?”

“Of course! What would you like to know?” Cater smiled.

Ace then speaks up, “I would like to know about our dorm. About those insane rules of “Laws of the Queen of Hearts?”

Trey responds, “You know all about the legend of the Queen of Hearts? She created a Wonderland of Madness built on strict adherence to her rules.”

Cater adds in, “Out of respect for the lovely Queen of Hearts, those of us in Heartslabyul we traditionally wear red and black arm bands like the colors of her dress! We uphold the laws that she made.”

“Sounds stiff.” Grim frowned.

“I don't think I would be able to survive there… Are each leader of Heartslabyul dorm leaders always so strict?” Hana sighed.

“How strict we follow the rules depends on the dorm leader. Last year, He was pretty chill about it.” Cater said.

Trey then adds on, “Riddle is the serious one among the serious of all dorm leaders. So, he really stands by them.”

Ace then groans in disgust,” Ughh oh great.”

Grim looks at Trey, “What are the other dorms like?”

Trey explains about each seven of the dorms leaders, Heartslabyul founded by the Queen of Hearts who was a strict queen. Savanaclaw founded by strong minded of the Beast King, Ocatvinelle founded by benevolence of the Sea Witch, Scarabia founded by the deliberation of the Sorcerer of the Sand, Pomeifore, one of the oldest dorms, founded by the strenuous efforts of the Beautiful Queen, Ignihyde was founded by the diligence of the King of the Underworld and lastly the Diasomnia founded by on the elegance of the Witch of Thorns.

Grim groans, “Names are too long! No way am I gonna remember each of them!” 

Cater laughed, “Just get the rough idea and you’ll remember them eventually!”

Trey then explains again, “Which dorms you enter is based on the judgement from the old dark mirror when he looks into your soul. So each dorm has their own quirks about them.”

“You’re so right! It does!” Cater chimed.

“What do you mean?” Deuce asks.

“Look over there,” Trey motioned head a bit for the freshmen to look like a macho guy having lunch. He is well built for an athlete shown through his uniform. Dark skin, his hair was silvery white with wolf ears sticking up. Hana's eyes analyzed his ears twitched. This was the first she has seen anyone with actual animals other than cosplay.

“Woah! His ears are real!” Hana breathed. She couldn’t help but wish she had some animal ears too!

Trey laughed a bit at her reaction, “The tough look definitely means Savanaclaw.”

“Totally! That dorm has a lot of people who are good at sports and martial arts! They’re the buff and gruff big guy types. Savanaclaw wears yellow and black armbands!” Cater adds onto the information.

Grim looked around and pointed with his paw, “Hm what about the guy with the grey and lavender thing on his arm?”

Hana looks up to see a guy with waving grayish lavender hair sitting from a far with two twins in front having a conversation.

“He’s from Octavinelle. At the table in front of us with the dark red and yellow bands are Scarabia.” Trey pointed out. Hana saw two guys sitting with each other. One had a beautiful white and gold band wrapped around his head smiling while a guy with long black hair braid back into a low ponytail had a poker face on.

Cater adds, “they said both of the dorms are really smart. Those two dorms are in a dead heat for written tests. Though the Scarabia dorm leader isn’t that great at studying.”

Hana saw a light purple haired person from afar with a blonde bob cut with a brown hat with a feather.

“Who’re those guys with the purple and red band?” Hana asked.

“Practically sparkling are the members of Pomefiore.” Trey explained.

“Woah!” Grim’s enthusiasm made Hana jump to look at the creature. “There’s a super cute girl over there!” Hana’s orbs widened shock to Grim for his comment to the girl. She never thought he would be attracted to certain people other than food. Deuce eyes widened as well.

“What?! Another one in a boys school?!”

“Idiot! We would have known by now. There is no way that’s a girl.” Ace spoke up.

Deuce and Grim both were flabbergasted to look at the pretty boy. Deuce shook his head.

“You’re right, the dark mirror did reveal Hana’s Uh gender in front of everyone at the ceremony…” Deuce added a fact. Hana’s gender as a female was revealed in front of the ceremony when the dark mirror looked into her soul. 

No dorm. Not a boy either.

Dire Crowley didn’t want to simply send this girl off on the streets, so he had her to stay for a while trying to figure out how to get her home. Dire Crowley was strict about the girl’s protection when he decided to let her and Grim go to classes now. Anyone who tries anything on her shall face great punishment! Anyone who slips from the outside about a girl at NRC will be expelled. He doesn’t want a bad reputation around letting a girl in an all-boys school. It was morbid! However, if someone did find out, Crowley will say it’s his daughter, trying out if one day that Night Raven College will become a unisex school one day!... If that’ll make sense to anyone...

“Oh? If you wanna see girls, the portrait in the west building, Rosilia, is pretty high level! Not that you’re not cute, Hana.” He added, she nodded with a sheepish smile.

Ace shook his head, “No thanks, I am not interested. Even if Rosalia was cute, she’s still a painting.” 

“Anything goes if you’re good looking! Pomefiore always scores high for their good looks and their beauty! Their dorm leader is a magicam-grammer with over 5 million followers!” Cater explained when he was on his phone to show an account of a user of the name, Vil_Schoenheit account. His pictures contain beauty brands and pictures of the blonde hair with purple ombre man himself. Hana admits that he does look very pretty. But something about through the pictures he looks intimidating...

“Hey now, Pomeifore are not always about looks.” Trey pointed out, “Pomefiore has many members skilled with creating sorts of potions and curses.”

“Ooh!! That’s so cool!! I wonder if I can do that in other classes...” Hana smiled in a gleam.

“It has no magic involved. I don’t see why not.” Deuce said.

“Next would be Ignihyde dorm buuut,” Cater turned his head whirling around, “I don’t see any of them around. They usually have the blue and black arm bands.” Cater explained. “Everyone in that dorm has their guard up almost all the time, not all of them even have any friends. They’re like the opposite of the extroverts in Heartslabyul.”

Hana nodded understanding.

“So, they’re dull?” Grim blurted.

“Grim!” Hana exclaimed to him.

“Though they do have a very quiet image.” Trey said, “Many of them are good at building equipment that use magic energy or digital things.”

“That’s really cool!” Hana grinned.

“So, what about ...Dia-Diablahblah dorm is left.” Deuce said, trying to pronounce the last dorm to talk about making Hana and Grim friend in confusion

Ace frowned to Deuce. “You mean Diasomnia?” He said with a snicker. 

Deuce grumbled and nudged Ace with his elbow, “I bit my tongue okay!”

“Ah, Diasomnia is…” He looks around until he spots a table very far at the back. “There! They’re all shoved into that booth in the back.”

The freshmen looked over to the table. Hana caught a glimpse of two guys with a short guy with them.

Cater continued, “Their symbol is their green and black arm band! They’re kind of like celebrities around here. They’re got this aura that makes it hard for us regulars to approach them. Their dorm leader has max “don't come near me vibes.” Cater finished.

“There’s a child with them? UH! Not that-- I mean!” Hana ushered.

“Don’t worry about it.” Trey shook his head with a smile, “You can skip grades and still enter this school. But he isn’t a kid. He’s a third year just like--”

Hana heard a sudden whoosh then heard a deep voice, “Lilia, Lilia Vanrouge.”

The table jolted from the upside down floating short guy who was supposed to be far away. He lifted himself down landing perfectly.

Hana froze up, “H-He just teleported right over here!” Hana whirled her head to the table from afar and then to Lilia.

“Curious about my age are you not?” He shortly chuckled, Hana was thrown off by his voice. He didn’t exactly sound like a kid. Trey was right. “I have this baby-faced facade but like glasses said, I’m not an age one would call me a child.”

“Baby-faced?” Hana cocked a brow at that.

“There is no need to look on from afar, you can come up and speak with us. Are we not all students of the same academy are we not? We at Diasomnia always open up a warm welcome.” Lilia urged with a kind smile, Hana’s blue eyes glance over back to the other table but only with the two the freshmen looked back to their table. Seeing the two intimidating teenage boys watching Lilia. Hana couldn’t see very well but they did give her the shivers.

“Those guys don’t look like they are very welcoming…” Deuce murmured.

“D-Deuce!” Hana hushed him, making Lilia chuckled again.

“Apologize for dropping in on your meal. Until we meet again.” He nodded before disappearing off to go back to the table.

Ace started to whisper, “Our table is easily 20 meters away from their table but you’re telling me HE can hear from that far? Freaky.”

“A-At least he was nice!” Hana tried to add a positive comment.

“True. The Diasomnia members can be peculiar. Many of them excel from magic in general. Their dorm leader Malleus Draconia is counted among the top five members in the world.”

Hana’s eyes were in awe, “That’s crazy!”

“Honestly, Malleus is super super super crazy. Well, our dorm leader has his own brand of crazy.” Cater added.

“So true!” Ace snapped, “All I did was eat his stupid tart and he collared me! His narrow mindedness is super crazy!” 

“Hmm? I’m super crazy?” 

Hana jumped with her eyes widened even open enough to pop out, it was the redhead short guy himself, Riddle Roseheart behind him. Ace sadly continued as Hana was waving her hand to have him stop, “Yeah! He blew right past “strict” and is just a tyrant— Now Hana looks crazy! What’re you doing?” He frowned at Hana.

Deuce leaned in, “Ace! Behind you!” 

Ace jumped up from his seat as the dorm leader was glaring at him with his gray eyes.

Hana put her hands on her face.

“Oh... OH! Hey Dorm leader!” Ace shouted.

“O-Oh my Riddle! You’re super cute today!” Cater chimed with a nervous smile.

“Hmph, Cater you talk too much. It’s going to cost your head.” Riddle said

“Ah~! Gimmie a break.” Cater sighed.

“Fyna! That’s the guy who collared me during the exam.” Grim exclaimed.

How could Hana forget about what happened?  She sighed from the bits of memory of the chaos.

Riddle glared over to Hana and Grim, making the girl flinch a bit “You’re the freshmen that caused all the fuss yesterday. A girl too...,” He shook his head, Hana flinched at the comment. 

“For goodness' sake. The headmaster has gone soft,” Hana removed her hands down to look at him. “If you forgive rule breakers the whole system will collapse.” 

Hana’s brow raised. That’s a little much. She admits that they shouldn’t be in the school by now. But something about the way he said it gave her an uneasy vibe as he continued,

 “All you have to do is cut the head off of those who don’t follow the rules.”

“The things he says doesn’t suit his look at all...” Ace sighed.

Riddle continues, “The headmaster may have forgiven you, but the next time it happens. I will not.” 

Ace opens up a smile, “Y-Yeah… By the way, dorm leader. Is there a way to remove this collar?”

“I was going to if you had learned your lesson,” He then frowned, “But the way you acted just now changed my mind. Keep it on longer. Don’t worry, as in the first years you’ll be learning simple fundamentals. Not to use actual magic. You also won’t be able to cause a scene like yesterday, isn’t that great?” 

Hana thought at least he was considerate. 

“Now don’t just chat among yourselves, finish lunch and get to class. Laws of The Queen of Hearts, No. 271 “One should eat lunch and leave their seat within fifteen minutes.”

Oh gosh 271? She wonders how many there are…

“If you break the rules… Surely you know what would happen.” Riddle said.

“Ugh another weird rule…” Ace sighed

“The answer is “Yes, Dorm leader"!'' Riddle demanded

“Yes, dorm leader!” Ace and Deuce both said.

“I will look after them for you.” Trey insisted.

“Hm, you're the vice dorm leader, so I expect you not to act foolishly. Following Law of The Queen of Hearts, No. 339, “After a meal one must always drink lemon tea with two sugars.”

That’s oddly specific… Hana frowned.

“I’ll be on my way to get some from the school store. Letting the sugar run out is a huge offense, I can’t believe…” He grumbled. Hana blinked with an uncomfortable vibe coursing through around her. An aura she was way too familiar with… She looked to the dorm leader who walked off. She looked at the students,

“Aaah! That was a close call…” Cater sighed in relief.

“He is so obnoxious!” Grim huffed.

“Woah! That’s rude!” Deuce glared over to Grim.

Hana wasn’t paying attention at the moment. She must be the only one who felt this dark aura... Could this be…

“Did the dorm leader leave?” Hana looked to her side to see the other students talking to each other. “I broke one rule, Law of the Queen of Hearts, No. 186 “One must never eat a hamburger steak on a Tuesday!” I was terrified if he found out!”

“Ugh at least he lets us eat whatever we want…”

Hana started to frown, worried.

After they were through with lunch they left to go to their class. Planning now for Ace to make a tart for Riddle as an apology and for Cater not to kick him out from Heartslabyul. Hana still couldn’t stop thinking about that bad aroma that happened from Riddle… It’s happening too soon. Not only that, but she is also the only guardian at the boy's school. She just hoped that the school knows how to deal with blots. If not, she has to figure it out. She reached into her chest pocket from the school’s blazer to hold her blue diamond brooch. She hasn’t transformed since Earth. Not only was she worried about the school, but she was also worried about back at home, earth.

Looking down at the diamond. Her brows wrinkled a bit as her lips twitched.

Mother must be so worried… She thought. Then she thought about her friends… Aimi... Allen... Kira… Yuko…

“Hey Hana, you okay?” Hana shot her head up as she quickly placed the diamond in her pocket. Deuce looked from behind his shoulder as Ace started to do the same. Grim even looked up to her curiously.

“Y-Yes! I’m just worried about you guys.” Hana kind of lied, she was indeed nervous about Riddle blotting soon, she must hang around Heartslabyul to help him.

“I’m hoping it’ll work out, and to get this stupid collar off to let bygones be bygones.” Ace complained.

“You just have to make sure not to break the rules from now on.” Deuce reminds him.

“That's going to be a lot more troublesome…” Ace groans.

She really hopes so. Not just about Ace actually following the rules. But for Riddle to forgive and move on…

Chapter Text

Earth: Terra’s Condo

Terra was a nervous wreck. It’s been days since Hana’s disappearance. Allen said that they’ve been looking, but for them starting school it may be difficult. They agreed to wait for an overblot happening to go after and get answers… To Terra, it’s eternity...

She was vacuuming the hallway of the small condo. She slowly looked over to her right of a bedroom door. She slowly opens the door. A bright blue and pink bedroom for a teenage girl who loved pastel colors. Terra looked to Hana’s bed. White sheets were folded nicely. Her desk from her bed. Wooden chair was tucked under the desk. Her study book was on the side while her fantasy books were on the side too. If only she would come home...

Terra briefly smiled as she quickly closed the door. She took a deep breath and tried to continue vacuuming away from the hallway to the kitchen connected to the tv room. She didn’t dare to look at the photos of child Hana with her mother Terra at the beaches or the family photos of them.

It was sick to her stomach to think that those inkly blot monsters have her daughter captive.

Disgusting.

Truly disgusting!

Once she gets her daughter back, they will pay!

She promised that.

What got out of her consciousness was a knock on the door. She turned off the vacuum and gently placed it down. She patted her long pink skirt and white shirt all the way to the door. Tucked her blonde hair behind her ear.

Opens the door to see a pale face with long dyed red hair slicked back, her thick long hair all the way down to her leather pants that watched her sleeveless turtleneck. Her arms were crossed as her red eyes looked bored to the woman in front of her.

Terra’s brown eyes slightly frown to her, “Aeron.” She said,

“Good evening to you, Terra.” The woman’s brow raised.

“Would you mind coming in?” Terra stepped aside for her to come through.

She walked in without a word as Terra closed the door.

Before Terra could place a word in, “I’ve heard Hana has gone missing.” she blurted.

Terra quickly closed the door before take a deep breath and to speak, “We think the blots have taken her.”

Aeron squinted, “Do you know where?”

“We--We don’t exactly know where yet--.”

“Then what’re you doing?” Aeron said as if it were spiteful.

Terra began to glare back at her, “Don’t do that to me, Aeron. You have no right to make me look careless when you handed her away as a baby!” She snapped.

Aeron raised her hand for Terra not to speak but she continued, “I’ll never forget that. A baby. That was yours until you gave her to me like she was a ragdoll walking away--!”

“ Look,” Terra halted her words to go any further, “the past is the past. I can’t change it back. I want to help.”

The blonde woman raised a brow to her as she continued. “Hana and I were starting to get closer. For her now to be gone, it’s been….” Aeron hesitated trying to find a word.

Terra whirled her hand as if she was waiting with curiosity, “Scary?”

“Irritating.” Aeron said. “If you’re going to argue with me about the past, I’ll be leaving. It’s a waste of fresh air.”

“I do agree.” Terra said, making Aeron raise a brow.

“It would be. I want to find her as much as you do. The four have been searching day and night. I feel awful for them to search around when they have families…”

“Hana is the one with the gifted to get rid of blots. Without her, we’re going to struggle a lot more,” Aeron said before sighing, “It is truly troublesome.” She shook her head looking to the ground.

Terra crossed her arms, “Well, do you want to hear our plan?”

Aeron looked at Terra, “I’m listening…”

“We need to sense a dark aura around.”

The redhead raised a brow, “The usual?” unamused.

“Yes. If those ink monsters took her, we may find a key to where they have taken her. That is the only plan we have so far. If we find one, we need to capture it before it disappears or gets away.”

Aeron tilted her head back a little before looking at Terra, “Alright. Sounds tedious but it’s worth a shot.”

“It’s worth saving Hana,” Terra looked down to the floor with her hands on her chest to her heart, “That poor girl… She must be so scared…”

“Ugh,” Terra glared over to Aeron who made the comment. “To this day you still treat her like a toddler.”

“Because she is a child, Aeron.”

“She is supposed to be a warrior. Treat her like one.” Aeron rolled her eyes before walking away to the door to leave. “She’s strong. She faced her friends overblots and saved them. Wherever she is. I know she can pull it off. Until we meet again, Terra.” Aeron leaves the condo outside before Terra walked over to close the door,

“I do hope you are right Aeron… I really do.” She walked away to grab the vacuum to clean again.

=💎=

Twisted Wondelrand: Night Raven College

After class they went behind the botanical garden. Deuce insisted on getting baskets from the inside. They split up to go find the caretaker of the garden. Hana couldn’t help but look at it’s beautiful paradise-like garden as she walked with Grim.

“Hey Hana! Look at this! There are some fresh-looking fruits!” Grim exclaimed looking at the fruit.

Hana sighed, “They do look good but let’s focus!” She walked over to Grim, felt a lumpy smushy step underneath her heel as she heard a loud ground in pain.

“Huh?” Hana looked down to see it was a tail. A lion-like tail! She hops off nervously as she sees someone standing up.

“Oi, you got the nerve to step on my tail without saying anything.” He was a tall guy with wavy brown hair and skin. White blouse with a yellow vest. 

Grim looked up to him. “Oh, are you the caretaker? You seem impolite--”

Hana quickly covered his mouth and picked him up. “I’m so sorry! I didn’t see you there!” She quickly apologized.

“Hmm...” He analyzed the girl with his poker-faced expression, “You’re the girl that dark mirror rejected... Hmm…” He leaned down to sniff her that made her flinch in fright making her squeal a bit.

“Hm, I smell some speck of magic. But it’s different. It's not from you but from your pocket.” He crossed his arms

Hana lowered Grim a bit, “Are you talking about my Diamond?” 

“If that is where it is coming from. Interesting...” He crossed her arms making Hana raise a brow. He seemed to hesitate for a second. He looked down to look at her before speaking, “I, Leona, can’t just let you go after stepping on my tail. I was having such a lovely nap until this.”

At her making her flinch back as he gave a slight glare, Hana took a few steps back shaken up. “A-Ah!! I said I was sorry!!”

“Fyna! Let’s get out of here!” Grim urged her.

Hana then thought about using her diamond to transform. Leona analyzed her hand to try to grab her Diamond. Before she could try to grab it quickly a voice to his voice making, he glanced over to a dirty blonde boy running over to him.

“There you are! It’s time for class y’know!”

“Ugh, Ruggie...” Leona groaned with a sigh in annoyance.

“If you keep skippin, we’ll end up being classmates next year.” Ruggie reassured him.

“Jeez, I don’t want to hear anymore lectures.” Leona said.

“Well, I don’t enjoy nagging you! Whatever, let’s go.”

She jumped a bit, but Leona’s green eyes were not glaring at her. “Watch your back next time, Herbivores.” Hana’s lips were tight shut as he began to walk away. He didn’t seem angry, but he was indeed intimidating with his stare! But was he interested in her diamond? She was glad he was gone with that blonde boy with the ears.

“Man! What’s with that guy?!” Grim whined a bit, Hana hushed him.

“Keep it down please!”

Hana flinched again hearing footsteps, she spun her head to see it was Ace and Deuce approaching them.

“Hey guys! We found some tongs to grab the chestnuts!” Ace grinned, Deuce noticed Hana’s legs were shaking a bit.

“You alright there Hana?” Deuce asked with a raised brow.

Hana nodded her head trying to smile, “I’m fine! Just had an encounter.”

“An encounter?” Ace raised a brow.

Grim slipped from her grasp as he landed on the ground, “We’ll tell you while we get the chestnuts! We need a lot of those!”

After a while of chestnut picking, Hana and Grim explained what happened earlier after Ace and Deuce left. The four were walking outside on their way to Heartslabyul with buckets of chestnuts.

“That was not a caretaker.” Ace said.

Hana hesitated, “He was wearing a yellow vest! He must be from…”

“Banana dorm!” Grim said.

“It’s Savanaclaw!” Hana giggled a bit at that as she corrected the small creature.

“Is it me or are there a lot of delinquents enrolling in Night Raven College…” Deuce commented.

Hana sighed and looked down at the chestnuts she was carrying, “It seems like it to me…”

The girl’s mind wandered about the delinquents; this is bad. If there were blots around and there would be a lot of delinquents around this school. Meaning dark aura popping from left and right. And a lot would outnumber her! 

This is so bad, she thought! For now, not only does she want to help Ace to make a tart with Trey, who was kind enough to help, to help out with ingredient to get. But to watch out for any dark auras that could lead to an overblot situation.

=💎=

They’ve made it to the school's kitchen.

Trey was there with his sleeves rolled up with the bowls and some ingredients. He opens up with a friendly smile. “Welcome back! I see you guys got the chestnuts.”

“Yes! Like you said!” Hana smiled back to him to place the buckets with Ace and Deuce.

“With these! We can make a huge tart!!” Grim said with enthusiasm.

“Peeling these will be a challenge but let’s start peeling!” Trey said.

Trey, Ace, Deuce, Grim and Hana were peeling off the chestnuts for a while. They threw away the skin shell and placed the nut onto another bowl. After a while they’ve had section jobs to start up the recipe for a while. Their arms were starting to hurt after a while until they were finished up. Ace and Deuce sighed in relief to rest their arms as well as Grim.

“Good job guys! Your hard work will make the tart tastier!”

Hana grinned excitedly. “What do we do next?”

“Next we’ll mix the butter and sugar into the chestnut paste. Add the oyster sauce as the secret ingredient.”

Hana’s excitement turned into horror as Ace and Deuce’s turned shocked as they both cried out,

“Oyster sauce?!”

Trey’s smile was genuine, “Yep. The savorness of oysters adds depth and richness to the cream.” He explained shortly as he held a small bottle of oyster sauce. “Here’s some young oyster sauce with the walrus seal of excellence! Famous pastries all use this in their tarts!”

No way!  Hana thought.

“That’s pretty ...salty for a tart...” Deuce was in deep thought.

“Hey, even chocolate gets put into curry all the time… it might be good?” Ace mentioned.

“I-I trust you, Trey!” Hana encourages this strange idea to Trey.

Trey opens his mouth to start laughing, “It’s a joke! It definitely doesn’t belong to anything sweet!”

Hana laughed sheepishly as she rubbed the back of her head, “O-Oh! Haha…”

“Screw you! You said in such a straight face!” Ace snapped.

“Don’t just accept it without being skeptical about next time. Better study up.” Trey added withe smile.

Hana will keep that in mind then. Grim frowned at him with his paw across another.

“What’s actually next to do then?” Hana asked.

“Next is the whip cream-- Oh!” Trey looked to see the milk they had was half empty by using up too much of the maroon paste. “I got ahead of myself by using up the milk. We don’t have enough whip cream to mix into this.”

Deuce spoke up, “I’ll go out to buy some. Are they at the school store?”

“You’ll find everything there, could I ask you to pick up a few other things?” Trey aske as Deuce nodded, he listed 2 cartons of milk, a dozen eggs, aluminum cups and 5 cans of fruit!”

“I don’t think I can carry that amount alone…”

“I-I can help!” Hana raised her hand to volunteer.

“I’m going too! I’m tired of mixing flour!” Grim chirped in.

The three left the kitchen to go over to Mister S’s mystery shop to grab the ingredients from him. They were leaving the shop while dragging Grim out from the shop. She was trying her best to carry the groceries. Deuce took a notice that Hana was trying her best to carry them

“Hey, those bags of cans look pretty heavy for you. I can carry them.”

“O-Oh! I can do it!” She tried to convince but he insisted as she handed them to him.

“Don’t worry. I’m used to carrying heavy bags.”

“Oh really?”

“Yeah, my mom always buys more than what we need. Since I’m an only child, it was my job to require strength. Ah. I’ve been talking about myself…”

Hana giggled a bit, “I think that is sweet! I bet she is happy to have you to help!”

Deuce looked down frowning sadly, “...That’s not true. I’m the one that always made… ah!!” Without looking he bumped into someone having the bag with eggs dropped with a crack.

“Ah! Are you okay?!” Hana asked.

“Never mind that! Half eggs are destroyed in the bag!” Deuce opened the bag and half of the egg yolk and shells were cracked.

“Oh no!” Hana mumbled.

“Hey, watch where you are--” Hana looked up to the delinquent from lunch talking to them, “Hey you guys are the ones who wrecked the egg in my carbonara!” The guy said angrily.

No no no!, Hana thought. She sees another delinquent next to him.

“It’s you guys again. You can’t catch a break!” Another guy next to him smug.

Deuce and Grim were glaring at them while Hana was in panic mode.

“Please! We don't want any trouble!” Hana urged the delinquents. 

Deuce puts the bags aside as he looks over to the two guys, “You were the ones who jumped from behind the corner. Just now you destroyed half of our eggs.” Deuce said

“That’s right!” Grim said.

“And you’re saying it’s our fault?” The delinquent said as if he were to laugh.

“Yes, please pay for the eggs. Also please apologize to the chickens.” Deuce with his arms crossed.

Hana opened her mouth but raised a brow to the chicken part.

The other delinquent boy mused, “You’re fretting over some dull eggs?” 

“They didn’t hit the ground, did they? Ya still has some left so thank your superiors for that!” The two mocked them as they laughed.

Hana sighed a bit. This school is really troublesome. She thought back at home with some small number of delinquents from outside the school were bad. These guys come from left and right.

“This ain’t something to laugh about…” Deuce mumbled as Hana looked to him.

“Huh?”

Deuce’s calm demeanor turned rough as his eyes widened with his lip up. Used his hand to hit his palm. 

“This ain’t something to laugh about!!,” He shouted. Making Hana jump and Grim too with the other two delinquents.

“D-Deuce?” Hana slipped his name.

“You don’t get to make decisions for us! These eggs were going to make a delicious tart instead of becoming baby chicks! You get it?! HUH?!” Deuce raised his voice at them making them step back.

“What the— what’s with this dude’s problem?!”

“If you’re not gonna pay for the six eggs, I’ll just punch ya six times!!”

“W-Wait! Deuce!” Hana tried to call out. But he wasn’t listening.

“Hana, I think you should leave it to him.” Grim eyes were widened.

“GRIT YOUR TEETH ASSHOLES!!”

Hana and Grim took a few more steps back as Deuce started to grab the both of them into six punches of pain. Maybe more than that.

The two delinquents were almost on their knees before running away. Deuce was shouting at them, he looked as if he were to run after them. Hana grabbed from behind for him not to go after them.

“Deuce! Please calm down!! They’re gone!!” Hana urged him. She felt him flinching as she quickly let go of him. His anger turned to ease as he was panting from shouting from the top of his lungs. His eyes widened, flabbergasted by what he just did.

“I-I… screwed up... I vowed that I’d definitely be an honor student…” he mumbled to himself. 

Hana furrowed her brows. “What do you mean?”

He looked at Hana. He explained that he used to be a full-fledged delinquent to disrespect teachers, skip classes, pick fights and hang around sketchy upper classmates. Went as far to use magic against people who couldn’t use magic. Hana couldn’t believe it. But…

“Just now you went full on bad boy!” Grim shrieked.

“I-I never thought you had such a past.” Hana commented.

Deuce looked away, “that night, everything changed when I heard my mom crying in tears as she was on the phone with grandma… questioning about me if she raised me wrong. That’s when I wanted to change for her...”

He really does care for his mother… Hana thought. 

“Mom… never did anything wrong. It was all me! I wanted to make my mom proud and then I did this...”

“Those delinquents deserved it if you ask me! I would have beaten them up too!” Grim smug with his paw up. “You don’t have to grin on everything ya know.”

“Well, sometimes you can’t. But for this incident. They did deserve it.” Hana said, she didn’t like violence, but these guys definitely got the message.

“You guys…” Deuce looked to them.

Hana smiled at him, “Honor students can get mad. If they can’t reason, do what you think it’s best! B-But not to go too far!! But even if you have a bad boy side, your heart is in the right place. You’re definitely a good guy, Deuce!”

“Really?”, Deuce's sad frown disappeared to a smile of relief with a small chuckle, “well may those chickens rest in peace then.”

Hana smiled sheepishly, “U-Uh Deuce,” he raised a brow to her, “…Th-There wasn’t any baby chicks in those…”

“What?!” He shrieked, “Are you serious?!” Shocked at this. Hana nodded while Grim frowned at him.

Chapter Text

Allen and a group of girls who were wearing their lacrosse uniforms. Chatting among themselves as they were leaving the field. They were through with practice for the day. As they were walking. At the entrance waiting was short dark-haired girl wearing a dakr blue blazer with a matching shirt. Under her blazer with a white blouse with a red ribbon aorund the collar, Aimi. Holding her backpack strap.

“Haha! I’ll catch you guys later!” Allen smiled to them.

“Alright, see ya later!” One of the girls said in the group as they opened the twin doors go inside the jump to go to the locker rooms, leaving the two girls outside.

Aimi walks over to Allen to lean in and whisper with her hand covering the side of her mouth as if there were people around, “Any suspicious activity?”

Allen shook her head, “No, Aimi. There hasn’t been.”

Aimi leaned back putting her hand down and sighed, “Alright…”

“I’m just as anxious as you are. It’s a slow process.” Allen crossed her arms.

“It’s going off for too long,” Aimi complained. “Hana is in danger. Those blots could be torturing her to overblot!”

Allen brows turn into a gloom,“I hope not… Let’s not assume the worst. If we do, it’s going to put a toll on you. Hana wouldn’t want that.”

Aimi opened her mouth but closed it slowly when she hesitated. “...You’re right… Is there a meeting later?”

“Yeah. Terra wants us to talk with Aeron, Cthihayu, and Tvora.”

“So, Hana’s whole family…” Aimi laughed a bit nervously.

“Yeah, I know. It’s awkward when it comes to her birth mom. I still remember the first time we met her… Fighting her almost got us killed.” It gave Allen the shivers. Remembering the day, she fought all five of them to see how powerful they were. They weren’t.

Aimi nodded in agreement, “Not just that, her partner Tvora was scarier. Training with them really almost got us dried out too eheh...”

“You got that right! Remember when we almost passed out from training for Cthihayu and Terra hurried to heal us.” Allen cracked a laugh.

“How can I? It was crazy but it’s sort of funny now!”

The two laughed at the silly memories. It wasn’t funny facing it then, but now it’s a funny memory.

Their phone started to ding, Aimi rapidly stuffed her hand in her skirt pocket to grab her phone. Thinking there was an overblot alert when the message from Yuko said,

Yuko: Hey guys! Sorry, I have to go see my cousin’s play today! I can’t miss it for the world! The tiny lil imp has grown so fast!! ヽ(*。>Д<)o゜

Aimi sighed,

“What is it?”

Aimi sighed again, “It’s just Yuko…” She puts her phone away.

Allen started to ask to change the subject, “You want to go walk home with me?”

Aimi nodded, “Sure. I’ll wait for you out here.” Allen nodded back and started to go inside the gym to hit the showers quickly to change.

Aimi leaned against the wall to look up to look at the sunset sky.

Later Allen came to walk with Aimi to home…

-💎-

Allen was in her school uniform like Aimi's, they both were walking on the sidewalk down by some fence. “I’m so anxious about tomorrow. Reading Pride and Prejudice has gotten me so damn confused.” Allen sighed.

“Same here. I don’t get why this book is so important to analyze… Someone just happened to want to write to two people.” Aimi started to shrug.

“Was he in love or not? I could care less…”

“That’s because you hate reading.” Aimi giggled.

“Yes, and I can’t even get away from it.”

Aimi smiled a bit. Her body had a sudden wave warning around her for her to suddenly halt her steps. She whipped her head around to look around until she looked down the street of a dark aura forming from a far. Allen stopped and looked back at her.

“What’s wrong?”

Aimi whipped her head back to the blonde, “Do you feel that?” 

Allen her brows forward, a sense of negative energy somewhere around their area. Allen took out from her skirt pocket to look at her red diamond to see it was blinking a small golden dot glowing.

“Someone overblotted.” Allen tensed as Aimi's eyes widened.

“C’mon!” The two ran down to follow where the dark aura was at. Aimi texted on group chat that an overblot has appeared and they are tracking it down and it looks to be at a park called Sunset Meadow. They ran to a playground to see a person in a black suit with an ink like slash around their shoulders. It was a man, his eye had red flame licking from his eye.

Aimi quickly took out her diamond.

“Guardian of Storms! Power up!”

Guardian of Flames! Power up!”

They chanted out to transform from their school uniforms to their magical girl form.

“Let’s distract this guy until Terra comes!!” Allen rushed over, seeing some people down and one trying to crawl away from the guy.

“I-I’m sorry man! A-Ah–!!” The guy screeched before the monster behind could try to slash him interrupted by flames hitting the monster directly at him. 

“ Inferno Emerge !!” 

The monster flinched away as the guy made his escape. The overblotted guy looked over angrily to Allen.

“ Grrr!! Get away!!! This is my turf!!” 

“It’s not your turf man.” She said flatly.

“ Then go away!!! ” Trying to slash Allen as she jumped back dodged. Using her flashes to block out any attacks from the monster, trying not to hurt the person who is possessed by the negative ink blot.

“ Thunderous clap !” Aimi shouted with her hand clench with her finger out to shoot like a gun to the monstrous ink.

“ ARGH!!!! I SAID GO AWAY!!!”

The monster swiftly uses its inky arm to leash out four bolts that striked down Allen and Aimi. Making them crash to the ground. They quickly got up as the monster was still shooting some bolts at them. They kept dodging from left and right.

Aimi chanted out the lighting again to strike at the monster, without looking. The inky monster slammed her down to the ground. Allen whipped her head to her. 

“Aimi!” She tried to run over to help her up, but the bolts were trying to get in the way. The raven-haired girl was lifting herself off from the ground, she glared at the monster before quickly getting off from the ground to run at it to use her power again. The monster is about to lift its arm up until a large thick tree vine wraps around the monster. Someone jumps in midair, it was their older guardian teammate, Kira.

Her magenta diamond glowed, “ Divine efflorescence.” 

She grips her hand in midair as a viney like bow appears as her other hand holds back like she is pulling back an arrow. Petals formed into a glowing arrow surrounding the point. She releases her grip as the arrow shoots down with petals swirling around as the arrow directly hits the monster with a flash force making the monster stumble back with some petals hitting the monster like paper cuts. Kira landed on her heels. Her eyes looked over to Aimi.

“Are you alright?”

Aimi gave her a thumbs up, “Yeah.”

They looked back at the monster that looked weakened.

“We need to hit it a few more times but we can’t let the blot run off!” Aimi said as Kira, Allen and Aimi’s diamonds are all glowing.

The three halt their attacks as they see from the entrance was Terra walking over with Aereon along with a woman with very long dark blue hair wearing a black jumpsuit. 

“Good, they’re here too.” Terra said.

“Girls!” Aeron shouted as the four picked up on it, “Try to weaken it! Tvora and I will try to capture it.” 

The three nodded as Kira summoned her arrow as Aimi tried to summon her thunder to hit the inky monster. Allen runs up to the monster and blows her flames at the monster as it starts to stumble down weakly. 

“Aeron! Tvora! Now!” Terra shouted as she raised her hands that were glowing. The two women ran over to the monster as they jumped on either side to shoot some bolts of magic from their hands at the monster, who was flinching and started shaking.

Aimi ran over to Allen as she picked her up.

Kira shoots the ink creature once more with her sharp petal arrows as it started to stumble. 

“That’s it!” The blot monster started to become smaller as it shrunk. The person who was possessed fell down to the ground. He returned to his regular self. Terra shoots out bolts of light around the small inky into a square glass box.

Kira ran over to the guy passed out on the floor. Checking his palm for his pulse. Allen and Aimi high five each other with a grin of victory!

Aeron and Tvora walk over to Terra as she has the box in hand. Watching the inky was swooshing around trying to escape from the enclosed box.

“He’s breathing.” Kira said to pick him up to place him on the bench, calling 9-1-1 to get him into the hospital incase his health being taken away.

Allen and Aimi ran over to the three women analyzing the box.

“We did it!” Allen grinned.

“I’ll try everything I can to look into this blot.”  Tvora crossed her arms as she said. 

Aimi looked at Tvora, feeling concerned. “How long will you look into this?”

Tvora began to explain, “Maybe days. Depends on if I am able to know where this thing is coming from and who its master is that took her. If I am able to do that, I’ll have to go find the exact location where she may be at.”

Aimi felt a pat on her shoulder as she looked at Kira who smiled, 

“We’re getting close.”

Aimi started to smile a bit back as if she hadn’t for a while, “I do hope. I hope she is okay.”

“She’s gonna be fine,” Aeron said, “If she is not. She’s gonna earn a lecture from me.”

Allen laughed a bit nervously. 

Terra began to say, “Let Yuko know. I’ll take you guys back home after the paramedic take him away.” She looked over to the unconscious guy on the bench, who looked drained from the overblot.

“Oh no, don’t worry about that! Do what you gotta do. We’ll definitely let Yuko know.” Allen grinned, reassuring her.

Terra smiled at them.

The women vanished with the ink monster. The girls turned back into their forms as the paramedics arrived to take the man from the bench who was unconscious. Kira told them that he didn't seem right and took him away. They left as the three girls hurried back to their homes. Aimi’s mind kept racing about Hana.

Something in her gut clenched at the thought that maybe.

This was going to take longer than they thought. She was hoping it was her overreacting.

But she wasn’t sure… Only time will tell.

=💎=

Heartslabyul wasn’t doing so well. Hana senses the dark aura growing and growing. She needed to do something! The tart gift failed. They’ve information from a strange encounter between a purple cat boy and Trey. Not only those circumstances. She kept having an odd dream about her childhood movie, Alice in Wonderland. Why? She didn’t think of it much, but they got Crowley kind of helped their situation with Riddle as he and Ace and Deuce were going through a magic duel.

Hana watched as the two freshmen were unlocked from their collars being back around their collars. They were complaining out of breath.

“Th-That was quick!” She comments, unsure if she would jump to help them out. She badly wanted too.

“The stronger the imagination, the more effective it is. Riddle’s power has a beautiful, polished way of using his magic.” The headmaster smiled.

Riddle smiled cockily, "Heh, it didn’t even take five seconds. You all thought to challenge me? Aren’t you embarrassed?” Her hand twitched at his words, “This just proves that the rule breakers are always wrong. Just like my mother said.”

She steps in front of Ace and Deuce. “You’re wrong! This proves nothing!”

“F-Fyna? Hana?” Grim was watching his “minion”.

“Everyone should follow the rules. But there is a time when you can be wrong on something! It happens to all of us.” Hana shouted.

“Ha? Rule breaking has consequences. And in this dorm, I am the rules! Those who don’t obey don't deserve to complain!”

“That’s completely wrong!”

“What is wrong is decided by me! It makes me question your education. You were probably born from parents that barely use magic and didn’t receive much in schooling before coming here. You’re utterly inadequate.” He made a smug at her.

Hana clenched her fists, “Y-You don’t know anything about me... What I have been through with my family!” 

“Why you...” Deuce had his fist in hand.

What surprised Hana was shocked as Ace ran past her as he cried out, “SHUT THE HELL UP!” His fist directly hit’s Riddle’s face.

Hana hands cover her mouth in shock.

The Heartslabyul members, even the headmaster, were in shock. Grim laughed with a smirk.

Riddle stumbled back holding his cheek as his eyes were widened at Ace who pants. “We aren’t our parents' trophies. Kids' achievements don’t determine our parents' worth,” Ace was going off in Riddle. Hana watched as her whole body shriveled at the darkness aura soon was growing more and more.

“You always say mama this and mama that! Think for yourself! You’re just a baby good at magic!” Ace snapped.

Riddle started to glare viciously, “Y-You don’t know anything about me..!”

“I’ve got no idea. There’s no way I would!”

Riddle repeated his “enough” three times. Yelling his mom was most correct.

Trey was telling to calm down. A shocking moment to Hana an egg flew directly to Riddle’s uniform.  

Trey’s eyes widened, “A-An egg?” He looked to see if the members were composed but their faces were either angry or terrified. Riddle started to laugh. Hana shriveled up, making herself  to quickly pick her Diamond from her skirt pocket.

“ Fine . If you won’t come forward. I shall punish you all!! OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!” Riddle shouted to conjure his unique magic to lock collars around his students as they shouted.

‘The overblot is happening…,’ Hana thought as she shook her head to glare at Riddle laughing and mumbling to himself.

“Enough Mr. Rosehearts! This isn’t like you at all!” Crowley shouted.

“Riddle, stop this!” Trey encouraged him but he was ignoring him.

“Throwing a tantrum isn’t going to get you anywhere!” Ace shouted.

“TAKE THAT BACK THIS INSTANT.”

“Like hell I will!” He glared

Riddle shouted as the whole garden started to have a purple mist dark filling up around the garden crumbles of dirt were rising. Cater was shouting for everyone to leave as fast as possible. The trees and roses were starting to crumble up, floating in the air making Grim shriek.

“This is all coming from him?!” Deuce shouted.

“Rose trees heed my call! To pieces with them all!!” The rose trees flew at them so quickly Hana wasn’t able to shout her transformation. But the trees turned into cards in a flash.

Trey stepped forward to Riddle with his pen wand glowing. “Riddle! Stop! You’ve gone too far! If you keep going, you’ll overblot!”

Riddle wasn't listening as he kept mumbling until he started shouting, “I am… I AM THE MOST CORRECT!!”

 Riddle’s right eye began to light as ink was poured down his face. The ink formed around him as Trey, and everyone backed up to a large blot monster from behind him. The ink poured away as he had a different outfit with a red and black like dress with ink decorated around him.

“N-No! Riddle!” Hana’s legs trembled a bit. She can’t believe the sense of power from him. It’s unlike what she has faced from the other blots from her world… 

He began to laugh as his voice sounded eerily, “ Now you all shall obey ME! You all shall refer to me as “Lord Riddle!”. ”

“Oh dear! A student overblotted in front of my very eyes as a headmaster! This is a mess!” Crowley melowed.

“What is an Overblot?!” Grim exclaimed.

Crowley looked over to him, “Overblot is a state that wizards must avoid at all costs. It’s all negative energy, emotions that are out of control.”

Hana speaks up to add, “We must stop it before he uses so much of his magic energy! His life is in danger!” Grim’s eyes widened to her.

“I shall evacuate the students! We must bring him back to his senses!” Crowley was insisting, “we must find the other teachers—“

Ace then uses his magic to hit Riddle as Deuce did with the cauldron.

“I’m not gonna let him waste his life for this!”

Trey held his pen and stared over to Riddle. His glare was determined to bring him back.

“I can overwrite his magic; I’m not going to lose him. There is so much I want to say to him...” Trey said, holding his magic pen tightly.

“Agh, I’m not cut out for this.” Cater said, pulling out his wand.

“I’ll be back!” Crowley said as he was trying to get the students away from the area as they ran off in a hurry. Trey stands by Hana.

“Hana, stand back.” Trey ordered her.

“I-I don’t have too!” He looked at her. She raised her hand with the Diamond.

“Guardian of Light! Power up!” Hana shouted as her NRC uniform glowed to change to her light blue guardian uniform. With the poncho around her shoulder, pale blue turtleneck with a blue skirt. Her Diamond boho chain around her head.

Trey and Cater were both surprised by her transformation. “Woah! Hana’s power went from zero to having full of light energy around her!” Cater sensed her energy was full of light. Trey looked from her to Riddle.

“I-I can fight too! I’ll save Riddle! Hang in there!” Hana shouted as she conjured her small want with a huge on top with small wings on either side.

Riddle swung his arm as the ink monster with the dress, holding a tree in her hand, was swinging around trying to hit them. Riddle tried to use his unique magic at Ace, but Trey used his unique magic to make turn into cards. Ace and deuce used their pens to shoot the monster. Grim jumped to blow flames at the monster. While Riddle was throwing more magic than they expected it. Hana was using a wand to shoot sparks of lights at Riddle, but he manages to block them off while trying to him.

Deuce dodges the monster tree’s arm from hitting him as Grim and Ace did.

Cater stumbled a bit when Riddle tried to shoot him with his magic, but Trey used his unique magic to block it off.

Cater sighed in relief, “Argh! Keep it up Trey! Or else we’re done for!”

Trey nodded as he kept an eye on Riddle. Hana watched Riddle who swiftly used his hand, for the monster behind him to raise its rose tree arms to smash the green haired boy but he didn’t seem to notice, the girl dashed to tackle Trey down from being hit by the tree.

“Y-You okay Trey?” She quickly got up to help him up.

“Yeah! Thanks Hana!” Trey couldn't keep his eyes away from Riddle as he throws more magic to stop his magic to use unique magic or throws.

“ Argh!! You’re in my way! ” Riddle shouted. “ If I am not most correct, how can I endure…” His voice drifted as he was to cry, he shook it off.

Trey frowned sadly, “Riddle…”

Cater quickly gazed at him to shout, “Trey! Keep at it!”

He shook it off, “Sorry.”

“I need to hit him with my magic.” Hana said, making Trey listen, “I need to hit Riddle so he can return to normal!”

“You’re not going to hurt him—“

“I promise I won’t, Trey. I would never forgive myself. Please trust me!” Hana said. Trey gave a quick glance to her then to Riddle.

“Do what you can! As long as he can make it alive. I’m all for it! I don't think I can hold him for much longer” Trey said, focusing onto Riddl.

“Okay!” Hana smiled, she switched to a frown to Riddle as Ace and Deuce were attacking him.

“EAT THIS!!!” Ace used his wind magic onto Riddle as the monster tried to dodge him as he dodges. Riddle shouted as he tried to use up his magic as Trey was weakening up to try to rewrite his magic. Ace shouted angrily swiftly using magic at him. For a while I started to look dazed.

‘That’s it!’ Hana thought as she made a dash over to Riddle she started to jump in midair. 

Riddle blinked to look up at Hana.

“LUMINANCE FLASH!!” She shouted holding her hand to Riddle as a glow of flashlight began to brightly shoot at him.

“ARUGH!!” Riddle shouted. The monster from behind him flinched and began to fade vanish away from the light. Hana then landed on her two feet. Stumbling a bit. Riddle started to look as if he were to pass out, “ W-Was I …wrong? … Mo…ther ?” his form started to melt away, his dorm leader uniform was appearing again. He fell onto his knees and fell over to the damaged grass.

“Riddle!” Trey puts his pen away as he rushed over as Hana did as well. Trey picked him up in his arms. Shaking him in a panic.

“Riddle! Wake up! Please. Riddle!”

“FYNA! Hana! Your wand!” Grim cried.

Hana looked down to her blue wand now glowing. From a blue Diamond to half red and half black Heart with a small golden crown on top. A red rod at the bottom had the Diamond on the bottom.

“W-What?!” Hana screeched.

“Hana! Your small wand changed?!” Deuce looked at the wand as Ace walked over to her.

“I-I know! I-I don’t know why it did that?! It has never done that before!” Hana looked down to her wand before Riddle was waking up.

“It kind of looks like the Heartslabyul…”

Hana has no explanation; she starts to look away to hurry over to Trey holding Riddle holding the wand.

Hana’s blue eyes stared down to Riddle before her eyes were blinded by a flash.

Riddle’s mom tells her son to study. Child Riddle wanted a tart, his mother refused because of calories. She left for an errand leaving her son alone. Child Trey and Chenya the purple cat boy from the rose garden who appeared. Wanted Riddle to play and introduce him to tart. One day his mother came home and was furious over his son not studying and going out to have a tart. He was crying. He didn’t mean too. All he wanted was a tart. Punishing him by staying home and studying…

Hana’s tear poured down to her cheek. She blinked as she heard Riddle coughing a bit.

“He’s okay!” Trey said.

‘Riddle… no wonder you were this way… I’m so sorry…’ Hana thought.

Riddle started panting and looking around, “What happened…?”

Crowley came forward, “Oh thank goodness you he got back to his senses!”

“Us too! I got so anxious if he’ll wake up or not.” Cater sighed in relief while Ace scowled to Riddle.

“I wouldn’t let this jerk have a hissy fit over us calling him out!”

“Oh gosh…” Riddle was in disbelief of what happened, coughed more as Trey and Hana helped him up.

“Riddle, you’ll be in some pain, but you’ll be okay!” Hana reassured him.

“I–I…”

“Huh?”

“I really wanted that mont blanc tart…” He started to speak, “I don’t mind the roses being white, I don’t mind the flamingos being pink. I like putting honey in my tea more than sugar cubes and I like milk tea more than lemon tea.” He started to sniffle up making Hana’s brows curl up. “I want to chat with everyone while we eat..”

“Riddle…” Trey looked at him.

“I want to be with Trey and everyone else!” Riddle cried out and started to tear up more. Trey then starts to embrace him as he began bawling up into tears. Hana patted his back.

“Stop that! You’re not easily forgiven after all that!” Ace rolled his eyes.

“Jeez you don’t stop…” Deuce sighed while crossing his arm.

Trey glanced to the crying redhead, “I’m sorry to Riddle, I knew you were suffering but I pretended to notice it. I’m glad you’re okay.. But Riddle, you have to realize you can’t always be right. You have to apologize to everyone.” 

Riddle moved away from him. His face was red, and eyes glossed from weeping.

“I–I’m so sorry everyone…”

Ace stepped forward to Riddle, “There is one thing I have to say,” Before taking a deep breath to shout, “ARE YOU SERIOUS?! AFTER ALL THAT!? WORDS CAN’T FIX THIS DAMN GARDEN YOU DESTROYED!!! NOT TO MENTION I WON’T FORGIVE YOU LIKE THIS!!”

Hana and Cater both flinched at the sudden shouting,

“You’re saying this now!?” Cater exclaimed.

“Ace…” Hana mumbled sadly.

“He threw away the tart we’ve worked hard on to make and threw us out! There is no way I’m gonna take his apology like this!”

“T-Then what can I do?” Riddle asked, wiping his face.

Ace sighed and hesitated, “Well my birthday isn’t for a long while… How about a Revenge Unbirthday. We didn’t take part in the last one. And this time you have to make a tart. No helping from Trey either. Do it yourself! If you don’t do that, there is nothing for me to forgive!”

“Ace, we’ve got helped--” Hana began to say for Ace to interrupt.

“Shut up from the peanut gallery!”

Riddle nodded, “Okay, I will–” He then started to groan a bit. Hana stepped forward to look at him winced in pain. “He should be looked at! He just overblotted, I don’t know how they would treat overblots here…”

Crowley nodded, “Hana is right, we should take him.”

Trey stepped forward, “I’ll take him.”

“Alright, I’ll escort you to the infirmary.” The headmaster insisted

“Thank you, Headmaster.” Trey looked at Crowley as they left the garden.

“Ah we have so much cleaning to do! It’s going to take a while…” Cater sighed, picking up some buckets of paint that were turned over.

“Fyna I am starving from using all the magic… Oh!” He sniffed around and noticed a black crystal and picked it up, “Oh! This is the same black crystal from the Dwarves mine!”

Hana paused and remembered that he ate it. 

Wait.

“Grim no don’t–-!” Before Hana could stop him, he chows down the crystal like a piece of candy.

“He already ate it!” Ace exclaimed.

“Ah! Grim! What kind of food does he eat!?”

“Ah~! This crystal has a different flavor than the last one! Ah it’s so good I wish I had another!!” Grim smiled happily, chimed, savoring the taste from the “meal”.

“Grim! You shouldn’t be eating that!”

“I am fine! Look at me!” He argued

“Yeah, his stomach is just built differently.” Ace sighed.

Hana wasn’t sure, she has a gut feeling that these rocks he is finding are something odd…

Chapter Text

Human world: Aimi’s house

“Aimi. You’re not eating.”

The raven-haired girl looked up to her mother. They were around a small white cloth table. Her father was looking at her too.

“I-I’m sorry… I’m just not feeling well.” Aimi said looking down at the steak that her father cooked up.

Her mother raised her hand onto her daughter’s forehead. “You feel fine to me. Did something happen?”

Aimi moved her mother’s hand away, “N-Nothing happened.”

“You know you can tell us.” Her father said.

“G-Guys. I’m fine really.”

Her mother frowned before rolling her eyes, “Oh I see what’s going on!” She started to smile.

“What?”

“You miss Hana because she and her mother are on a vacation!”

The girl took a hesitation to say, “Y-Yeah! That’s it.”

“Well don’t be such a sour puss! She'll be back before you know it. You two must be chatting up a storm!" 

“It’s not the same mom…” Aimi looked down.

Her mother’s smile frowned. “Did something happen between you and Hana?”

“I’m gonna go to my room.” Aimi moved back her chair to leave the kitchen. Before her mother could go after her, her father raised her hand to not let her go after her.

“Leave her be. It's a teenage thing.”

“She’s been acting strange lately. I don’t understand it.” Mother sighed.

While they were talking, Aimi quickly walked down the hallway to her bedroom door to close it. She began to sigh, looking at her room. Walls were white, her bed was purplish blue. She had a dresser on the side of her bed. In the middle of her room was a small coffee table with her unlit candle. She walked around to flump onto her bed. She doesn’t want to talk to anyone at this point. She knew that her worriedness was so obvious. It’s painfully annoying the heck out of her. She grabbed her phone from the dresser to look at the screen. 

Nothing.

Only new messages from what happened and Yuko freaking out about what happened.

She clicked out from the group chat to find Hana’s message bar. She clicked onto it to see messages from her from days ago. Asking where she is and where they can find her.

She scrolled up to days ago of the very morning, Hana’s message at 9:00am:

Hana: Are u at the theatre? I’m so excited to see the Raiders movie!! >u< I heard it’s going to be so good!!

This was right before the blot situation happened. This was the last message from her...

Aimi tapped onto the keyboard to type.

Aimi: Hana please respond. I don’t know where you are or if you’re able to get this message. Please, I want a sign if you’re alright,” Aimi started to tear up a bit as she sniffled. “This is probably stupid of me to send this. But please. Give me a sign. It’s been days! I know you’re alive out there. We all miss you. We’re going to get you back no matter what.

She wiped her tears away, knowing it won’t solve anything. She doesn’t think this text message was going to either. She knows her friends would say “What is the point?” But what other choice? If only she were lucky. She then pressed send. She placed her phone on the dresser. She sighed, as the knock interrupted her silence.

“Come in.” Aimi called.

Her father came inside of her room.

“What do you want dad?” Aimi asked as she held the pillow. Her father walked over to sit at the edge of her bed.

“Your mother and I are worried.”

Aimi didn't say a word.

“If you feel like talking to us. You can talk to us when you are ready, okay?”

“Okay… Is that all you came for?”

He placed his fists on his hips, “Well, I’m a bit offended that you're not eating my special steak, young lady! i thought it was your favorite” He smiled as Aimi tried not to laugh but slipped a snicker.

“Ah! There’s my little baby!,” He grinned. “But it’ll be in the fridge if you want. I’ll wrap it up for you.”

She got up from her bed. “No, I’ll eat.”

“Huh,” He had his hands on his hips, “I thought you were not hungry.”

“Well now I want to eat it before it gets cold!” She placed the pillow on the bed.

“I swear you switch too quickly... Alrighty then. Go eat!” Her father laughed as they left the room. She got back to her seat and started to eat her dinner.

After a while she finished, she thanked her dad for dinner and hugged her mother before she went to go back to bed. Her phone was glowing. She hurried to grab her phone and it was a message from Allen and the other girls on the separate group chat from Terra.

Allen: After school on Friday, we should check out the damaged mall again.

Yuko: For what?

Allen: I can’t stop thinking about that store. It’s been bugging me for some reason.

Allen: Hana ran into that store to go after a blot and there was a flash! Something in there has to be the key!

Aimi quickly typed to respond,

Aimi: Ur right! It has to be the key!

Kira: I may have a study group after, but I’ll try to get there as soon as possible.

Yuko: What if they cleaned that place out!

Allen: We just have to get there to check it out and see. This could be our chance to find something and report it to Terra and Tvora. 

Yuko sent a gif of a woman kicking her leg up.

Yuko: Hell yea! Hana we’re comin for u!!

Aimi smiled. Hoping maybe that this was the key.

=💎=

Aimi hurried in her transformation guardian uniform with Allen, Yuko and Kira. It was A quarter after 6. They told their parents they were out going to the movies and then went to eat dinner.

They were walking around at the mall that was currently being rebuilt. Allen led them over to a store. Thankfully it didn’t seem like it was touched yet. But there was caution tape around the entrance. Allen tore the tape away and the both of them ran inside. 

“Where have you searched in this place?” Yuko asked.

“I searched around there and then there.” Allen pointed on either side.

“Maybe look again. We were a wreck before so maybe with clear eyes. We are able to find it.” Kira said as they nodded before departing to search around. 

Yuko looked under the ruined clothes. “Damn these are such a waste– OH MY GOD!!” Kira jolted up as she looked over to Yuko.

“Did you find anything?!” 

“I found a beautiful dress!” She pulled up a mermaid white rose gold dress.

“This isn’t the time!” Allen shouted.

“For you. But this is perfect for prom! It even has my size! Lucky me!” she flipped it onto her shoulder with a grin.

“Focus!” Allen rolled her eyes as Allen walked over to move some broken items for anything. Kira looked everywhere around something suspicious around the damaged area of the store.

Aimi was looking around until she ended up around the cashier area where it got the most damaged. Her eyes analyzed the area until her eyes landed onto a tall luxury looking mirror. She raised a brow. This mirror… Doesn’t seem to be damaged?

This mirror reminded her of the movie Snow White mirror but golden and brighter.

 The frame had snakes on either side and a crown in the middle top. Aimi walked over to the mirror and touched her reflection. Her fingers ran down the fresh golden frame until her fingers felt an inky substance.

“G-Guys!” She shouted shakily.

Allen, Yuko and Kira ran over to Aimi over to the cashier.

“What’s wrong!?” Allen asked.

“This mirror has ink!”

“What!?” They all exclaimed.

Yuko looked at it, “Why a Disney mirror?”

“Disney mirror?” Allen raised a brow.

“You never watched Snow White? It looks exactly like the dark mirror! You know? From the famous quote? “Mirror, mirror on the wall~! Who is the fairest one of all~!”.” Yuko tried to imitate the evil queen’s voice as she flipped the back of her long ponytail.

“Actually, it's a “Magic mirror on the wall”.” Kira corrected.

“Then why do we all say “Mirror, mirror” then?”

“It’s catchy?”

“Look,” Kira and Yuko looked to Allen, “You can take the Disney conversation somewhere else! Let’s report to Terra!” Allen rolled her eyes at them.

“We should take the mirror with us!” Yuko insisted.

“Why do you want the Disney mirror?”

“No....maybe… But! It is a clue! If we leave it here, it may disappear or be thrown out!”

Kira was calling Terra and telling her about the mirror. Aimi kept her brow in the mirror, as if she was waiting for something odd to happen...

 Few minutes later Terra and Aeron came to the scene and looked at the mirror and then to Aimi’s hand with the ink as Aeron held her hand. Aimi was intimidated by Aeron’s height. Being 6’4 and Aimi’s 5’6, she was barely at the length of her neck.

“Oh yeah. This is definitely a blot. I can smell it.” Aeron announced.

“I knew it.” Allen grinned.

“But why this mirror in particular?” Terra asked.

“Now that you mentioned it…,” Kira began looking around, “This store has no sign of blot ink anywhere… We all checked. Only this mirror in particular…”

“Yeah. When I went to go look for Hana! Not a single blot of ink around.” Allen added.

“How eeriy…” Terra said.

Kira looks to the mirror, “Yuko is right. We should take the mirror. It may have some fingerprints from Hana or where the ink is at now." She looks to the blood redhead woman, "how are they doing with the other ink blot?”

Aeron answered as she used her magic for the ink blot to flow in the air, with the ink from Aimi’s hand into a small glass box that formed around.

“She is still working on it.”

“Did They say anything at all?” Aimi asked.

Aeron looked at her, “The only thing they said is it’s going to be a while.”

Yuko frowned, “But Tvora said it was going to take days!?”

“It takes time. We are trying everything we can to find her. We can’t rush or else it’ll be even more troublesome if there could be an enemy watching us through the blot,” Aeron said in a calm tone. “We’ll check out this ink and the mirror. Maybe with these we’ll find her much faster. We all need to be patient.” She looked closely at the blot. To her it’s odd. Why would this speck of ink be left behind...?

“Ugh okay.” Yuko said walking away from the mirror to kick something that shifted across from the floor to hit the wall.

They group looked over; Yuko walked over to what she kicked. Her throat formed a golf ball like she couldn’t swallow as she bent down to pick up something.

“Yuko?” Kira asked.

The water guardian held up in her hand was a phone.

“That’s Hana’s phone!” Aimi shouted.

“No way…” Allen practically has no words.

“This is messed up.” Yuko comments.

Terra’s hands were covering her mouth as Kira’s eyes widened. Aeron looked at the phone then to the mirror.

Aeron gave it a deadly glare.

=💎=

Twisted Wonderland

After Riddle’s overblot he gained consciousness and was bawling in tears apologizing to everyone. They started over at the Unbirthday party. Riddle even remade the tart on his own, accidentally putting oyster sauce in the tart. Overall, everyone was happy!

Until weeks to now, the magishift game was starting soon. Players one by one were getting injured all of sudden. Crowley persuades (mostly Grim) Grim and Hana to investigate the matter before more players are down. Trey sprained his ankle, describing someone tried to push Riddle down but Trey saved Riddle from falling down the stairs. With the help of Cater, Ace, Deuce and a little bit from Riddle as they were investigating other dorms of who would be next target…

Rook didn't seem like he would be a target.

Jade and Floyd were chased away from.

Riddle went back to his dorm. They decided to go find another person who could be a possible target, the five went through the Savanaclaw.…

“Woah!!” Hana and Deuced chimed. 

“So, this is the Savanaclaw dorm.” Deuce said as Hana looked around admiring the deserted area with some trees and rocky areas. What made her uncomfortable was the animal bones. They are fake right? Grim was looking around.

“We’re looking for Jack. What does he look like?” Ace raised a brow to Cater as he went on his phone.

“Oh, he has dark skin with silver hair. His wolf-like ears and bushy tail...” Cater looking around.

Grim noticed someone running by, “Oh! Is that him?” pointed to the muscular guy from the cafeteria that she remembered with the wolf ears.

“Oh! It’s him from the cafe!”

“Bingo Grim!” Cater grinned. Ace began to sigh as he used his blazer jacket as a fan.

“We went through the twins and now this big guy?”

Deuce comments, “He looks like he is good at martial arts.”

‘He has to be the next target…  We need to hurry!” Hana thought.

“L-Let’s go talk to him!” The girl urged them.

They all were starting to walk over to him. Hana was practically having a worried look. No because of talking to a guy that could flick her off the face of the world. But this dorm reeks with dark energy. This is too soon!!

Cater looks at Hana as they walk, “Hana, are you okay? look nervous.”

She looked up to the orange haired boy, waving her hand as if not to worry. “Oh! I’m fine really! Ahah...”

“It’s okay, you’re fine, just relax. If he tries to bite you, I’ll protect you, okay?” He smiled.

Hana smiled back and nodded, “Thank you, Cater!” 

Hana’s eyes widened as Grim went ahead to go up to Jack who suddenly stopped running, “Oi! Tough guy!”

Hana wanted facepalm at Grim’s actions, she only watched in horror.

Jack looked down to the gray cat with flame ears. “Huh?”

“Some bad guys might come after you, so we decided to protect you! Aren’t you lucky?” Grim had a smug tone with his paws crossed. Hana’s eyes widened nervously as Jack started to give a frown glare at Grim.

“What’s your problem? Don’t get in my way of the track.” His eyes showed a bit of annoyance down to Grim.

“G-Grim!,” Hana quickly picked him up quickly before he was withering from her grasp, “You shouldn’t have started like that! I’m so sorry!” She covered his mouth as he started to muffle.

Cater walked over to Jack with a nervous smile, “Sorry about him. Do you think you can have a moment to speak with us?” He asked.

They explained the investigation to Jack. He didn’t seem like he was interested in helping him out.

“What’s that got to do with me?” Jack asked.

Hana answered, “We think you’ll be the next target. So, our plan is to catch whoever it is that may try to interrogate you.” 

“Are you willing to help us out?” Cater asked with

Jack took a moment in a calm composure, “I refuse. I’ll figure it out on my own. So, there is no need to protect me.”

Hana tried to speak up, “B-But it might be more dangerous by yourself.” She flinched at him, getting slightly annoyed as he looked over to her.

“...I said I don’t need it. And…” His annoyed look faded, “Me being targeted... probable. Won’t happen.” He murmured under his breath, but Hana caught that “See ya.” He left before she could argue. But what would be the point? If he doesn’t want to help it’s his choice. But what is odd to Hana is when he says something under his breath in the middle of his sentence. 

Grim was complaining about him being a jerk as Hana went into thought.

‘Is there something going on here…? This dorm energy feels just like Riddle’s dark energy… Could it be–’

Her thoughts were interrupted as three athletic looking students came over to them.

“Oi? What’re you guys doing?” One Savanaclaw student said.

They looked over to them.

“Aren’t they from Heartslabyul?” Second Savanaclaw student said.

“HA HA HA! They’re that red brat’s grunts!” The third one said.

“Did ya think we would just let you come onto our territory and leave?!” The first one questioned.

‘Oh no! Please not like this morning with the stupid sandwich thing!’ Hana thought.

“Oh ahah! Sorry to intrude! We’re just leaving!” Ace forced a smile.

“Oh c’mon now! Why don’t you guys hang out with us for a while?” The student mocked with a grin. 

The other one begins to laugh, “HA HA HA! Let’s play a game of cat and mouse! Y'all are the mice of course!”

“Please let us go! We won’t disrupt again!” Hana urges the students.

“Oi who the– Ooooh wait now I remember! They seriously kept a magicless human in this school!” They laughed.

“‘Please let us go~’!” One of them mocked.

Hana lowered her eyes away from them as her lips twitched.

“Knock it off.”

They looked back to see the two from the botanical garden!

“Dorm leader Leona!” One announced.

“These guys are the ones who mindlessly stumble into our dorm!”

“We’re just going to mess around with them!” He laughed.

Grim glared over to Ruggie, “FYNA! You are the one who stole my deluxe menchi katsu, food thief!”

Ruggie eyes widened and waved his hand as if to dial it down, “Woah! Woah! Woah! Be careful of saying any certain foods around here! The names Ruggie Bucchi!”

Leona looked at Hana boredly, “Oh it’s you again who stepped on my tail.”

Hana flinched as the three students glared over to her.

“You did WHAT?!”

“Unforgivable!”

Hana trembled, she felt like a small mouse to them. “I-I said I was sorry!”

“Saying “ sorry ” doesn't mean anything, kid!”

“Let’s show them who's boss around here!”

Leona rolled his eyes, “Stop barking. What’re you going to do when your little action may affect you guys to compete in the magishift tournament?”

Hana started to smile a bit. Thinking maybe he could reason with his own members since he is the dorm leader!

“But we’ll solve this peacefully with a game of magical shift.” He started to make a smug.

Everyone was puzzled until he explained, “We can go crazy with magic during the game without breaking any rules.”

Ruggie started to laugh with a shishishi, “Leona! You’re such a bully. These guys look like they wouldn’t be able to handle more than one game~.” 

Hana frowned worriedly, ‘ This gets worse and worse… ’

Grim made a noise under his breath, “I’m not gonna take that lying down!” 

Deuce sighed, “Doesn’t feel like we can refuse and go home.”

“Alright let’s do this! Cater! Don’t forget about the tryouts!” Ace shouted looking over to the heartslabyul third year.

“Eh~! Seriously? They’re hopeless.” Cater sighed, Hana quickly looked at him.

“W-What can I do? I can’t help out.”

Cater looked at her, “Stand somewhere out of the way. Don't get hurt, okay.”

She nodded, she had a feeling this is not going to be good…

The magishift started. Hana being on the side watching it go down.Ace, Deuce, Grim and Cater were trying their best to win. However, as it goes on. Hana knew it wasn’t going to go so well… Leona, Ruggie and other students were too fast and were beating them with no sweat! Leona threw the frisbee so fast it shocked Grim and the heartslabyul students!

They were all panting out of breath knelt to the ground while Leona and Ruggie were just giving them mocking smiles.

Hana was disgusted with the situation. All because they wanted to investigate and help some students… her stomach was on edge.

“Oh no…” Hana whispered.

“Oh, what’s wrong?” Leona mocked, “Done already?”

Ruggie laughed, “Where’d all that bravado from earlier go?”

Hana couldn’t bear to hear what the others were saying, her mind raced about what to do! She can’t stand here like this, but they were stronger than she is!

“C’mon herbivores! I am in the mood for one more round.” 

‘ I had it! ’ Hana stood up and ran over in front of the tired-out guys. Glaring at over to the two Savanaclaw members. 

“That is enough! This has gone too far! You guys are awful!”

“Shishishi! Are you trying to act tough while your shakin like a mouse?” Ruggie pointed out.

Hana cursed herself as her legs were trembling a bit.

Leona shrugged, “Sorry kid, I don’t take on opponents that can’t resist.”

“What’re you guys doing?” Approaching them was Jack.

Leona looked to Jack, “We’re just messing around with some trespassers.”

Jack crossed his arms, “What’s so fun picking on newbies?” He scowled towards his dorm leader.

“Ooh? What Jack? Ya playing hero? So cool!” Ruggie mocked him with a laugh.

He looked over to Ruggie with the same angry stare, “I can’t stand by and watch something heinous happening in front of me.”

“Huh… You really are a buzzkill.” Leona frowned.

One student approached Jack's face, “Oi Jack! You’re getting really cheeky for a freshman.”

Jack glared back, “I could say the same to you, to someone who is supposed to be an upperclassman.”

“What was that!?”

Hana looked back to the gang watching the Savanaclaw students arguing.

“Ha. Fresh-baby being assertive is splendid. Whatever. I lost my mood. Let’s go Ruggie.” Leona said as they walked off. The three students gave the Heartslabyul and Rramshackle students a warning.

Hana ignored them and helped Cater up, “Are you guys alright?!”

“Haha I showed my ugly side huh?” Cater laughed a bit sadly. They all got up slowly. Hana smiled at Jack as she walked over to him.

“Thank you so much, Jack! That was really cool!” She smiled.

Deuce spoke up, “Yeah thanks. You saved us.”

Jack looked away rubbing the back of his head, “It’s not like I wanted to help you or anything.”

Hana raised a brow, “But you did sort of–”

Ace groaned, “Ugh I feel gross. I’m going back to my dorm.”

“I’m hungry!” Grim whined. Hana carefully picks up Grim.

Cater chimed up, “Well Jack! We’ll be heading back now! Be careful!”

"Y-Yes! Please do! Let us know anything suspicious!" Hana encouraged him

“You don’t have to worry about me. Go home already.”

=💎=

They all left Savanaclaw in a hurry. Grim and Hana managed to get back to the ramshackle. It ended up being nighttime later one. Hana studied for a bit before going to bed. Whoever, she couldn’t sleep because of Grim mumbling in his sleep.

She got up from bed. Her hair is loose from the twin tails. Her pajamas were a huge gray t-shirt and plaid pajama bottoms. She grabbed a blanket to wrap herself around her head and arms and put on flippers to go walk outside in the dark for some fresh air. It was a bit windy out. She wanders off the path to the front gates and looks up to the moon. 

All she could think about was her friends and family from earth. Her step-mom must be freaking out like her friends. Aeron… She can’t tell if she would miss or not…

“I wonder if I’ll ever return home…” She mumbled.

She heard ruffling from the bushes but assumed it was the wind.

“Hm… Who are you?” A deep voice asked, making Hana squeal up and jump up in surprise. She accidentally dropped her blanket and picked it up to wrap it around herself again.

“G-Ghost!!”

She blinked to take a clear look as she went near the fence. She sees a 6-foot man with horns!

“Well, this is a surprise. You’re a child of man.” He said, folding his arms.

She analyzed him. His face was pale. Long raven hair. Horns. He had a green vest and armband. So, he is part of Diasomnia…

“Do you live here? This building has been abandoned for quite some time. I’ve been quite fond of this place where I could be quietly left alone.” he frowned at her. She stumbled a bit.

“U-Uh I-I’m the prefect of this dorm. My name is Hana. Who are you?” She asked shakily a bit.

Malleus’ eyes widened at her, “Who I am… Do you have no idea who I am?”

Hana raised her brow and quickly shook her head.

He started to make an amused smile, “How exceedingly rare.”

‘Huh? ’

“I’m…  Actually, no I’m not going to tell you my name. Not knowing is a benefit to you.”

‘H-Huh?… ’

“The moment you hear it, it'll send shivers down your spine. For your ignorance, as an exception. I’ll allow you to call me whatever you like. Though you may come to regret that someday…” His amused smile already made Hana a bit nervous.

‘He seems so stuck up. Did I meet a stuck-up abandoned house maniac?’ Hana thought worriedly.

“Hmph, nevertheless. I must go find another abandoned area since this place is no longer. I abide edu.” He nodded off.

Hana opened her mouth to reply but a flicker of green light flashed before he teleported away.

‘Well, that was an interesting encounter… ’ she thought, before walking back as soon as the air got colder, she made it back inside to make sure to close the door.

She started to whisper to herself a bit, “What did he mean by regret someday? Does he want to see me again? Is he going to mess around with me? Aaah!! Crowley, when can I go home?!” She cried out. Realizing her reaction, she shook her head.

“No! I have to act strong!” She remembers Riddle's comment about how she was brought up. Even if he wasn’t himself at the moment and the verge of overblot. It still hurts… The Savanaclaw members mocked her too. All because she was a magicless human. Maybe she is being too sensitive…? She doesn’t know.

She took a deep breath. Reminding herself about when she and Aeron have talked…

Hana and Aeron were deep in the woods somewhere. Hana was in her guardian uniform training with her birth mother…

Hana yelped as she flew off hitting the ground on her back.

“Tch, you need more training than I thought.” Aeron frowned with her long black fingerless sleeves on walking over to her midway to watch her get up.

Hana slowly got up, “O-Ow…”

Aeron scowled down at her, “You should not feel that bad of a pain. Honestly now...”

Hana glared back up at her, “You’re being too rough on me! How can I not?”

Aeron shook her head as she teleported in a flash with her head leaning over to Hana. Making her flinch a bit.

“Saying “Ow'' is giving your enemy a reason to make you a full-on target,” Hana looked away from her, “You want to be a good little guardian to protect everyone. You need to show your enemies that you are not the type to be picked on.”

“I-I know–”

Hana felt her head was grabbed, not rough and not gentle. But making her look at her own mother’s blue eyes when she was looking away, “Then act like it.” Aeron’s stern voice made her shrivel.

“Acting like it can help you then crying. You’re practically a teenager, it's embarrassing.”

Hana started to sniffle a bit.

Aeron eyes widened a bit, she let go of Hana’s head gently as she looked away, “...Sorry. I guess this is also why I’m not cut for being a parent either.” She looks back to Hana. Tears were forming around her eyes. Aeron used her thumb to wipe them away, “You’re a good kid. Terra raised you right. I just want you to be prepared for what will happen between you the overblots.”

“B-But you don’t have to be so tough…” She said, rubbing her arm.

“I am because blots are taking over vulnerable negative people. It’s life or death for you or the person. If you’ll never get it, it’s never going to be easier when blots become stronger by the minute. And you won’t grow as a person. Sometimes, kid. There are a lot worse people in life. Even worse than me.”

Hana nodded; she knew she was right.

“Yeah… Aer– mom?”

“Yeah kid?”

“I’m sorry.”

“For what?”

“For not being so strong…”

Aeron patted her on the shoulder, “You have a long way to go kid. You’re still strong. You just gotta protect yourself. If you show yourself standing up to assholes who’ll toy with you. You’ll show them who's boss!” She gave her a grin as Hana started to smile.

“Y-Yes.” Hana said, wiping her tears. “...C-Can we try to train again?”

“Yeah, but don’t get caught off guard this time. Always watch your surroundings and have your guard up. Understand?”

Hana leaned against the door frame. She understands it. At least she hopes… She must be strong for everyone. Including Aeron.

Tomorrow will be a new day. She must find out who is doing the attacks and find out about Savanaclaw's weird dark aura. She walked back upstairs to go back to bed...

Chapter Text

Twisted Wonderland:

Hana woke up from another Disney movie dream about the Lion King. She finds it so strange ever since she has been in Twisted Wonderland, she has been dreaming about those particular movies.

Why? Because she was at the Savanaclaw? 

It gets stranger and stranger….

Grim woke her up this morning to go have breakfast. He seems to be getting nicer now… She was glad that they could get along. She got dressed up in her school uniform and put up her usual twin tails. They were walking by the statues of the great seven. Grim was beside her crawling on his two feet, he lifted his head to glance at the girl.

“Hey Hana. Did you go out somewhere last night? I woke up to go to the bathroom and you weren’t there.”

She looks down to her companion to explain, “Oh! It was so strange! Last night I went outside to have some fresh air until I came across this weird, very tall student with horns casually talking to me!” 

“Weeh. A weirdo with horns. What’s his name?”

“He was going to tell me his name and he said something like,” She tries to do her impression of the mysterious horn man, “Actually, no I’m not going to tell you my name. Not knowing is a benefit to you.” She soon stopped and continued talking, “Like that! Making it sound like it was the devil. But he told me I can call him whatever I want.”

“Hmmm… what about Tsunotaro!”

“I don’t know… Hmm… I’ll try.” Hana answered unsurely, would he not mind? If only he told her his name… Why would he not? Too Weird.

“If Tsunotaro is a student here. We’ll probably run into each other eventually. You gotta introduce me to him! I have never seen humans with horns!”

“Maybe…” She said but her mind was rapidly thinking, ‘ Oh I hope not… Oh gosh what if he is the one behind this mess and is out to get me? !’

“Oh hi Hana, good morning!” 

She blinked from her own conscience to see Cater and Riddle approaching the two ramshackle students.

“O-Oh! Morning!” She smiles at them. 

Riddle walks up to Hana, “Hm, your bow is a little off,” She looks down to her bow, “Following the rules starts with your attire. Or else your residents will never listen to you…” Although, I guess it’s not bad for you being the only one.”

“Aahh… I’m not sure about that…” She glances at Grim a bit for him not to notice. Riddle tidied up her bow a bit better than looking a bit loose.

“Alright there you go.” He nodded.

She smiled at him, “Thank you, Riddle!” She was happy to see him not being so strict as before. He was at least being fair but will be strict when he has to be. It does show how the overblot situation had affected him.

“Where are Ace and Deuce?” She asked.

“Laws of the Queen of Hearts: Number 249, they are currently feeding the flamingos dressed in pink,” Ridddle answered her.

‘ Ah same old weird rules… ’ She thought.

“We also have some news, last night there was another accident.” Riddle breathed.

“Really?!” Grim and Hana exclaimed.

Cater answers, “According to the portrait that witnessed a new victim! A 2nd year member from Scarabia by the name of Jamil Viper. It happened in the kitchen.” 

“I’m so glad we have those portraits…” Hana sighed a bit before saying, “Where are they now?”

Riddle responds, “Since it’s still breakfast time. They’re probably in the cafeteria.”

Hana nodded, “Let’s go! Hopefully we’ll get at least a hint of an answer!”

They hurried over to the cafeteria. The two scarabia members were at their table eating. Both were dark skinned, one had a white hair with a white and gold turban. Wearing a white sweater with blouse and dark red vest. The other one who Cater said was Jamil had long black hair tied in a low ponytail with braid on the side. The inside of his jacket uniform had a sweatshirt with black and red flames. They approached them at their table. 

Grim hop to their table to say, “Yo! You’re the guy that went through the kitchen incident! Tell us what happened?”

Jamil blinked at the critter. Kalim started to exclaim, “Gah! That’s the raccoon who set my butt on fire from the ceremony!”

Hana leaned to Grim, “Grim, please let us do the talking first,” She leaned back and looked at them, “We’re so sorry to interrupt your time!”

“Oh, you’re enrolling in this school now? I thought it was just for boys! A girl and a violent raccoon! What a funny comb!” He laughed a bit. Hana didn’t think he was mocking. His presence to her seemed more in light then the other boys she was with. She wonders why that is?...

“I am not a raccoon! I am the great Grim! This is my minion!”

Hana began to sigh, “Why Grim…” She whispered under her breath.

“Ooh!! Well I am Kalim! The dorm leader of Scarabia! This is the vice dorm head, Jamil! Nice to meet you guys!” He smiled sweetly.

“This guy has a screw loose or two.” Grim said, looking at him with wide eyes.

Hana looked at Grim, thinking he was exaggerating. She smiled back at him, “It’s nice to meet you too! I hope you were okay after that whole mess at the ceremony...”

“Haha I’m all fine thank you!”

Jamil decided to ask them, “What do you want to know about my injury?”

“Oh! Sorry! I hope you'll recovery your injury too! We’re investigating the safety of the kitchen! I-If you’re comfortable with explaining wise…”

Jamil leaned back to analyze her and the Heartslabyul members, “Well, I don’t really mind,” He then starts to explain, “Last night I was making agemanju with lamb for Kalim’s request–”

“Jamil’s agemanju is the best! You guys should try it!” 

Hana nodded, smiling kindly to Kailm, “I’ll think about it but can Jamil please explain what happened.”

“Oh! Sorry! My bad, my bad!” He nodded,

Jamil continued, “While I was finely chopping all the ingredients, for some reason my hand slipped, and I ended up cutting myself.”

Hana covered her mouth with her hands in shock, looking at his hand that was bandaged up.

“Oh no…”

“Jamil is so good with a knife; the head chef was blown away. Were you tired from Mageshift practice?” Kalim looked at Jamil. He shook his head.

“No. Not so much where I would hurt myself by accident. However, while I was cooking for a moment. I felt my consciousness… slipping away.”

Hana was trying to think. This is something strange to her, “W-What do you mean? Were you tired?”

Jamil glanced over to Hana, “Most would probably think that way… But I’ve felt this sensation before. My guess, it was someone’s unique magic.”

Hana looked to Riddle and Cater was paused into thought.

Kalim started, “Oh yeah! That’s because your unique–”

Hana looked to Jamil who covered Kalim’s mouth muffled up. Jamil released his one hand away from his mouth as Kalim started to frown at him.

“Why did you do that all of a sudden?” 

Jamil frowned at him, “We’re not talking about me right now,” He brought his composed look back at them, “Anyways, I think they used magic to control the movement of others.”

“That’s so scary...” Hana said as she crossed her arms. 

Cater started to speak, “Now I see! It explains about the other incidents!”

Riddle mused into thought, “Even when I fell down the stairs, I didn't think it would be someone trying to control me to do so.”

Hana was trying to think, who would do such a thing? To control people… As the others were talking.

Grim began to say, “Hmm if I can do that! I’d make everyone in school give me bread every day!” He grinned.

Give bread… Why does that click to her? Think! Think!

“Then I could take all of the deluxe menchi kantsu!”

Hana whipped her head to Grim as he looked back into her blue eyes.

“Grim, are you thinking what I’m thinking?” Hana asked the small creature.

Ruggie.

From the cafeteria! 

Ruggie was insisting to trade some beans with Grim, but he refused and Grim’s paws were handing the sandwich…

As if they were mind readers, both Grim and Hana started to shout in realization. Making Scarabia and Heartslabyul members jump from their sudden reaction. Even some students looked at them but looked away.

“Y-You guys good? Why are you both shouting all of a sudden?” Kalim asked, watching them.

Grim and Hana looked at them, “We know who has the unique magic!”

Riddle switched to serious mode with his arms crossed, “Come again?”

“The culprit is Ruggie Bucchi!” Hana answered.

Cater’s eyes widened at her, “From Savanaclaw?!”

“Yes!,” Grim started.

Riddle began to say, “Let’s capture him and interrogate him!”

“Where could he be?” Hana asked.

“Ruggie is in class 2-B!” Cater smiled with his phone.

Riddle looked at Jamil and Kalim began to smile, “Thank you both for your help.” 

“Yes! Thank you!” Hana smiled happily.

“Sure! I don’t know what’s going on but good luck you guys!”

They left in a hurry to go find the classroom, Hana’s mind ran off all things.

If Ruggie is doing this… What is he doing this for? Is he the one that’ll soon overblot? If not, is he doing this for someone else…?

=💎=

Earth: School

Aimi’s mind raced with Hana’s phone in the store as she leaned to the car door while her mother was driving her to the high school. The fact her phone is not with her. The one thing that could help to contact her. The only hope for a communication key to contact her was the magical diamond that they were to entrust them to have...

“Aimi?”

She zoned out to look at her mother.

“Are you sure you’re alright?”

“Y-Yeah, I’m fine. Why?”

“Well, sweetie. Ever since you got home last night, you didn’t seem like yourself. You may have been eating but you looked like you saw a ghost,” She pulls to the school’s curb to the entrance with the buses in front letting the teens out to hurry inside of class. “You sure there isn’t something going on? I’m here for you.”

Aimi shook her head and began to smile, “It’s nothing. If there was something, I would tell you.”

Her mother didn’t seem convinced, she sighed, “Alright... Have a good day.”

Aimi grabbed her backpack to leave the car to close it. Walking over inside of the school entrance. She made it to her locker to grab some books and to go to her homeroom. She saw some students were not seated and some were either reading or on their phone or sleeping. She went over to her desk to sit down and lay her backpack on the side. She pulled her phone out to text the group chat,

Aimi: Morning Everyone. Anything new?

Yuko: Other than last night. No. (￣o￣) . z Z

Allen: All we have to do is wait. The phone still freaks me out…

Yuko: ಥ_ಥ Right.

Kira: I just hope we’ll be able to find her as soon as we can.

Aimi: Same. It gets freakier and freakier.

“Hey Aimi!”

She blinked to look at a boy with black short hair and light brown eyes.

“Navin, hi! What’s up?” She asked, giving him a warm smile.

He smiled back to her, “It’s nothing, I was wondering. Since you’re Hana’s friend..”

Aimi’s smile faded.

“Do you still talk to her? She hasn’t been responding to my messages. It’s not like her.”

“She hasn’t responded to me either. I have no clue either.” She responded with a shrug. She hated lying but she can’t say that she was taken by ink blots. That would be dumb.

He looked away for a second before telling her, “Really? I just hope it wasn’t something I said to her...”

“I’m sure you haven’t said anything to hurt her.” Aimi tried to lighten up with a smile.

“I know. But it’s so weird…” He said in thought.

A girl with very curly brown hair came into view, “Hey you guys!”

“Oh hey Molly!” Navin greeted.

Aimi started to smile, “Oh hey!”

“Why are you guys so down? It’s morning!” She grinned.

“It’s just…” Navin began to say, "it’s because Hana hasn’t been responding.”

“Oh yeah! It’s so strange! I was sending her a couple of pictures from when I was getting back from my trip to DisneyLand!” She took out her phone to show them pictures of her with some disney characters pictures, Hana was responding positively it stopped.

“That’s… so weird.” Navin mumbled to himself.

“Maybe where she is at has no phone service?” Aimi said, trying not to let them have any conclusions.

“Where is she at then? Antarctica?” Molly raised a brow and she switched to her smiling at the pictures scrolling on the phone. “Aren’t these cool though? Oh my gosh I love the evil queen there! She was roasting everyone! Even the characters!” She grinned happily.

“I can tell. You took a picture with her twice.” Aimi giggled a bit seeing two pictures from the phone.

“She’s an icon!” Molly snapped her fingers with a smirk as she said.

The bell rang for class to start, making everyone automatically go sit in their seats.

Aimi looked to her phone to see any messages,

Kira: You’re not wrong…

Allen: Someone has definitely taken her away. But who would do that?

Yuko: Whatever took her! We’ll kick their butt!! (///￣皿￣)○～

Kira: I have a feeling this search will be quick... Have you noticed how Aeron was so in distress when she looked at the disney mirror?

Yuko: Yeah! I never thought she would care! She’s def a tsundere mom! (￣y▽￣)╭ Ohohoho~

Allen: What’s with you and the weird emojis…

Kira: What’s a Tsudere?

Yuko: (￣_￣|||) You all wouldn’t understand… 

Yuko: *Tsundere

=💎=

Somewhere:

Aeron and Terra were in a circular room with the floating square, the mirror and phone in the middle of the room. Tvora and Chithayu were right in front of them.

“This is just stranger by the minute,” Chithayu said, his raven hair was slick back, his dark skin with white blouse rolled up sleeves, his jacket overlapping his shoulder matches his pants. He couldn't wrap his head around what he and Tvora have looked into. It was like a dream to them... “You guys found these in the store.”

“Duh. Where else?” Aeron asked with her fingerless gloved hands on her hips.

“It would seem that these two types of blots are… Different.” He answered.

The two women in front of them stared at him like he had two heads. Terra turned her head to Tvora.

“What’re you talking about?”

“There are no other words to put it. The blot from the mirror compared to the blots here has more magic. Even more negative with dark powers that seem... Oddly ancient.”

“How is that possible?” Aeron gritted her teeth, Tvora’s golden eyes looked at her.

“Humans here use the magic from the blot created from the negative energy. This blot has more dark magic than a regular dark negative human itself. It’s nothing like here.” She answered, Terra stepped forward as she swallowed.

“What exactly are you implying?”

Tvora stares right into her brown eyes, “Well to cut to the chase, this blot seems otherworldly.”

Aeron eyes look at the Chithayu face, she looked at him in the coral eyes as she glared at him.

“What does that mean? These blots are always otherworldly to us! We’ve been fighting them for years!”

Tvora nudged her back as Aeron was forced to step away, “Yes. We've been having overblots from regular humans for years. This particular inkblot is like a stranger to us. Stronger. It's ancient but O am nowhere familiar with. Aeron and I wouldn't know and we're both pretty old. Whatever this blot may be, it has Hana. She may not be here in our world…”

Terra’s face paled, “H-How could you make such a conclusion. Just because it’s different doesn’t mean–”

“Then you tell me where she is.” Tvora interrupted, “If we can’t find her anywhere on earth. Not even the diamonds could find her. Where do you think?”

Terra opened her mouth to reply but she quickly closed it.

She knows she is right. Her mind raced as the back of her nape began to have the chills. This is something unexpected.

Aeron took a deep breath, her chest was heavy at the thought.

Why would someone from another world…

Out of any planet or anyone.

Why specifically Hana?!

Chithayu blink to the blood redhead.

“Aeron, it’s going to be–”

“I’m fine,” She quickly responded. “We need to find her quickly. We know she is not on earth anymore. So where the f*ck could she be?” She uttered as her teeth clenched.

Chithayu responds, “We have no clue yet. You know how many worlds and galaxies she could be in? But we’ll do everything we can. We’ll find out and bring her back.”

“I need a breather.” Aeron said before walking away. Terra watched her leaving the room, her eyes sympathizing with her. She was hoping wherever Hana is that she is alright and is fighting her way out…

=💎=

Twisted Wonderland:

Hana, Grim and Heartslabyul members did manage to find Ruggie. To then only go around making a wild goose chase to track that little bastard down when he stole the two pens and Hana’s diamond! Ace and Deuce were told to go after him by the very pissed off Riddle. For a while until the four got tired out. Ruggie taunting them about having this type of evidence. Hana didn't pay attention other than her diamond! She wants it back!

“Shishishi! Try as much as you want! It’ll be even more difficult for you to get me!” Ruggie laughed.

“Ugghh,” Grim groaned, “This is frustrating!”

“Well, that’s it for the game of tag! Better luck next time! I’ll just leave these here! Bye-bye!” He lays down on the ground the pens and the diamond. She ran over to grab them as soon as he ran off.

She sighed in relief.

“Arh! Screw him!” Ace shouted.

“Dorm leader is going to have our heads…” Deuce sighed.

Hana looked at them, “But guys! He said next time! He must be planning another accident to happen! We have to stop him!”

“Ya’ll still haven’t learned your lesson?” A deep voice said a loud as Hana turned her head for her to step back.

“J-Jack!”

Ace glared at him, “Huh?! You should have helped us instead of watching from a far! Your dorm is filled with assholes!”

Jack walked over to them as he folded his arms, “Why are you working so hard for other people’s sake?”

“Other people's sake?” Deuce questioned.

Hana looked at them, they should know! It’s wrong! They are hurting others.

Jack began to say, “I understand wanting to get back at the culprit for the people who got hurt but…”

“Huh what’re you talking about?” Ace looked at him, then began to grin, “Who said anything about for people’s sake?”

Deuce then responds, “We just want to score points by chasing the culprit.”

‘Huh?!’ Hana thought. She looked at them in shock.

“Yeah, yeah! Then we get picked to be in the magishift tournament! Show off for the whole world!”

Grim began to say, “I’m gonna catch that guy so I can be on the big screen!”

This was ticking Hana off as she gripped her fists.

“Yeah, yeah! I’m definitely taking Trey’s spot!” Ace chimed.

“I can’t believe you guys!” Hana exclaimed at the three.

The four guys looked at her in shock. Ace switched to frowning at her, “The hell has gotten into you?!”

“There are people who’re getting seriously injured by him! Trey saved Riddle from getting hurt! I’m doing this for everyone’s safety,” She placed her hand on her chest and looked at the four, “It’s my duty to help people! I don’t want more people to get hurt! Because it’s the right thing to do! Not for some stupid tournament!”

“Jeez Hana! You got so serious!” Ace complained.

“Hmph,” Jack began, “I can’t trust guys who just do things for others but you guys, “He looked to Ace, Deuce and Grim then began to smile “are worse than I thought,” He dropped the smile as he looked at Hana who shriveled a bit, she smiled a bit nervously. Realizing her reaction, she shook her head, Hana started interrupting Ace, 

“Listen here mister! You may not trust others who do things for others, I don’t trust someone who hides in a shadow knowing this was going on! Who looks worse now!”

“That’s right! You knew Ruggie was the culprit!” Ace pointed out.

Grim joined in, “Oh yeah! You knew you wouldn’t be the target because you were part of the dorm huh?!”

Jack placed his hands on his hips pausing before responding, “... Oi assholes, go round with me.”

“Huh? What’s gotten into you too?!” Ace raised a brow.

“If guys are gonna spill guts, they start with their fists.” Jack said, lifting his fist up. “If you can show me you’re not bark and no bite, I’ll tell you everything I know.” 

Hana nervously looked at him before shaking her head taking a deep breath to shout, “I’ll try!”

“Hana, you are not gonna live for a second with him! Ugh I hate getting sweaty!” Ace groaned.

Deuce pounded his palm with a bad boy like smug, “Leave it to me! I don’t hate it! It makes things simple!”

Hana and Grim blinked at Deuce's switch.

“Fyna! Deuce just switched to delinquent mode!” Grim commented.

“Alright! Let’s let our fists do the talking!” Hana shouted.

“Hana are you really–” Grim interrupted her.

“This is the only time I’ll do violence! To show I am strong! I’ve faced overblots who would be strong, and I would give a few punches! Don’t hold back on me!” Hana looked at Jack holding her fists to him. He was thrown off by her sudden reaction. However, if she is willing to do it. It shows that she really wants to find out.

After a while of throwing fists at each other, Hana was remembering how to do self-dense, thanks to her birth mom Aeron. She fails a bit at times but manages to throw fists with the three.

Jack began to shout as Deuce and Hana threw punches at each other.

Jack backed away to look at two who were panting, “You’re pretty good with those punches,” He looked to Deuce as he responded, “Huff! You’re pretty good too!” Jack’s eyes landed onto Hana, “You’re not bad as well.”

Hana nodded with a smile, “you said to show bark and bite! I wasn’t going to back out! No matter how many times I get scared, I need to protect people!”

Jack blinked. Her determination impressed him a bit. 

“...Alright. My consciousness is clear. I’ll tell you everything.”

“That cleared your conscience?” Ace frowned

“I’m going betray my dorm but,” Jack started to look from calm to angry “But I can’t stand it!! Fighting is about how far you would go! It’s why I put myself through all of that for the tournament! It makes me sick of when it comes to cowards using their tricks to get what they want! I want to use my own skills to reach the top!”

Ace placed his hand on his nape, “Jeez this guy…”

“I know the feeling! I get you!” Deuce smiled

“I believe it too!” Hana started too, “My mother would put me through a lot of training for me to fight on my own!”

Grim crossed his paws, “We got our own pain in the asses.”

Jack looks at them, “Ruggie’s unique magic. He makes the other person move exactly how he would. So he would have ways of making them like accidents.”

“I knew it! That bastard will pay!!” Grim exclaimed.

“Is Ruggie doing all of these accidents?” Deuce asked.

 “He is not entirely alone doing all of the accidents… I bet it’s most of Savanaclaw.” Jack said, making Hana feel unease at that.

“Why do all of this?” Deuce mumbled the question.

Ace started to say “How well your team does in the magishift tournament can have a big impact on your future, right? So I can’t understand their feelings.”

Jack growled underneath his breath making Ace and startled up.

“Hey! Don’t you bare your fangs at me! I’m kidding!”

“There’s no point if you don’t show what you can do now. And why it's why can’t stand Leona Kingscholar! He has so much potential! But he never gives it his all!!”

Grim started to say, “He was a tough opponent, even when he is always is lazy about.”

“I know! I hate his type! His play from three years ago was amazing! When I got into this school and being in Savanaclaw. I thought I would be able to play the game on his side…”

Before Hana could speak, Hana stepped forward to Jack, “You respect him a lot…” Jack looks at her, “I am sorry that you have to see someone you look up to this way. It happens a lot to everyone… But do you know who they will go after next?”

He answered, “I’m sure they’re targeting someone bigger.”

“Someone bigger?” Deuce repeated.

“The head dorm leader of Diasomnia, Malleus Draconia. The guy is an absolute monster on the field and has led two years of victory on the Diasomnia team. Savanaclaw didn’t score a single hit on their first match.”

“That has to be so frustrating…” Deuce said.

Jack looked away for a bit, “Yeah, they were humiliated while the whole world watched…”

“Oh gosh…” Hana was speechless at that but then said, “So Leona is going to take revenge on this Malleus Draconia.”

“Yes, and I’m going to crush that plan even if it kills me!” Jack angily clenched his fist. 

“Thank you for telling all of the details!” 

They looked back to see Riddle and Cater approaching them.

“Cater! Riddle!” Hana said loudly.

“I can’t allow anyone to sully our important traditions with their personal grudges.”

“What should we do?” Hana asks.

“We have no evidence against Ruggie and the Savanaclaw members for the incidents so far we can’t convict him. Leona and his group are intelligent people. They’ll find a way out if they tried.”

“We have to catch them in the act, right?” Ace asked.

Riddle mused in thought, “I do have an idea…”

“Wait,” Hana turns her head to Jack, “I only gave my information. I’m no mean to team up with you guys…”

“Eh? You’re saying this now?” Cater mellowed.

“I’m going to take down my dorm myself. See ya.”

Hana started, “But you never stopped any incidents so far! What can you do one versus the dorm?”

Jack stared at her with a slight frown,

“We should work together, right? We could crush their plan that way!”

“....Fine. I’ll hear you out. If I don’t like your plan, I’m out.” 

“Thank you!” She smiled at him.

“This guy’s stubbornness is a whole different level…” Ace sighed

“His stubbornness is one line with yours, Ace.” Cater chuckled a bit.

Riddle starts to explain the plan….

Making Hana hope whatever it is will work and to stop whoever will overblot soon...

Chapter Text

Earth: Terra’s home:

The girls were at Terra’s home.

Their eyes widened at the realization that Terra had to explain to them that their young leader was no longer in this world but in another world that is possibly far, far away from their own.

Aimi was shaken, Kira placed her hand on her shoulder to try to comfort her.

“Woah! Woah! Hold on a second! That blot we found is not like the usual blot we fight?!” Yuko asked.

“I couldn’t believe it myself… Hana was taken away into another world somewhere and somehow.” She said not evening looking at the group.

The blonde was speechless. Why would something take her away?

“H-How...” Aimi started to say, “How long will the search take now?”

Terra bit her lip, “Probably months. Years.”

“No way!” Aimi stood up from the sofa. “Aeron said to be patient but not for this long enough! Hana is probably scared out of her mind!”

Teresa looked at the poor girl’s teary eyes forming around her brown eyes.

“I’m sorry. It’s the way it is. Aeron is just as desperate. You should have seen her, she was truly upset. I am the same way as well…” she tried to hold back her tears, turning her head away from them.

Kira then asks, “How are you so sure she is in another world?”

“If we can’t find her anywhere. Neither Tvora, Aeron nor Chithayu could find a single speck of Hana’s energy. She is nowhere in this world…” It’s hard for Terra to even say these words. They were like spikes through her chest at the hard truth.

“Dang…” Yuko tried to say with a smile, but her eyes drifted to the sunset sky from the window.

“We’re going to do everything we can.” Terra said. “For now, do your usual job. To fight more blots and let us know. We can only hope that we’ll find her sooner…”

“Yes, ma’am.” The four said.

They left the apartment to go on their way back to their homes. They were walking the sidewalk, Yuko glanced over to three girls before saying, trying to think of what they could do besides being upset, “Hey guys. How about we go watch a movie?”

Kira looked back at her with a smile, “I think that would be a good idea.”

“Yeah, maybe.” Allen said with a bit of a smile.

Aimi started to glare at them, “How could you guys say that when our friend is out in some galaxy?!”

Yuko held her hands up in defense, “Yo chill! Don’t make me look selfish! What’s so good about being upset all day and knowing that Terra and the others are going to find her.”

“What if we don’t find her! That’s the issue !” Aimi snapped.

“Aimi, please calm down.” Kira tried to tell her with a sympathetic look.

“How can I?! When Hana is out there with some gross blot!”

“Oh yeah? You tell us what to do!” Yuko snapped. “All you have been doing is sitting around crying all day and all night over Hana! What does that benefit you?”

“Of me trying to solve how to get her back!”

“No! You see! This is exactly why you overbloted!” Yuko scowled, pointing her finger at her.

Aimi replied, “You overbloted too!”

“My situation was different, we got absorbed by it! You on the other hand overbloted from jealousy! All because you thought Hana wasn't hanging out with you anymore when we were fighting for our lives before you even became a guardian! How you thought people didn’t want to be around you! Your overthinking is going to get you back to that dark place again!”

“I mean…,” Allen spoke up, “How could she have known? We were keeping it a secret for the longest time. The blots were constant before ….”

“The huge blot fiasco happened with Tvora…” Kira mentioned.

“Yeah...” Allen nodded.

Aimi held onto the Diamond in her pocket. Holding back the tears but we’re let out.

“Y-You’re right, Yuko… I’m sorry…” Aimi sniffles up.

Yuko's anger switched to worrisome. She walked over to Aimi and hugged her. “I’m sorry too. But I just can’t stand you being upset over her. I’m just as upset as you are. I don’t want us in that dark place…”

Aimi hugs her back. Allen walks over to hug them as well as Kira.

“We’ll find her, Aimi. I can feel it in my gut.” Allen assured her.

They all pulled away from each other, as Aimi was wiping away the tears from her eyes.

“I hope you’re right… We can’t keep going like this without her.”

Kira begins to speak, “I agree with you one-hundred percent. The blots may end up getting worse for Terra and the others to focus on her rescue. We just have to manage without them...”

Three girls gulped. Aimi began to say, “I hope we do...”

Yuko gazes over to the raven haired girl like she was going to be shaken again. She looks at her, “Hey! What did I say?”

She blinks to the silver haired girl who began to smile, “C’mon, you’re up for a movie or what? It’s probably your favorite! The Gremlins?”

Aimi slipped a smile, “I guess a movie wouldn’t hurt…”

Yuko pumps her fist in the air, “Alright! Movie night ladies!!”

Kira chuckled while Allen smiled with a raised brow.

☆:*.✧*-💎-✧*☆:*.

Twisted Wonderland : Savanaclaw

Hana is going to be sure that Leona won’t lay a finger on Malleus! Even if she doesn’t know who he is… Or does she? Hoping Riddle’s plan would work… It was morning before the tournament had started. All of a sudden there was a stampede of people running over to the disguised Diasomnia Cater clones from Ruggie’s unique magic that he somehow possessed. After that he was making his move to hurry back to Savanaclaw to see if Leona knew if he was successful. Little did they know, they were caught red handed…

“We heard everything.” Riddle said loudly enough for Leona, Ruggie and the savanaclaw members to notice them. Hana was right by Riddle’s side in her guardian uniform she transformed before they got into the dorm. Ace and Deuce. Jack and Grim. All scowling at him.

Leona cracked a mocking cackle, “Well, well. Looks like the Heartslabyul and kid have stumbled upon our territory once again. I see one of our fresh baby putting the cherry on top of it. Did you just transfer to their dorm?”

Jack tsked underneath his breath as crossed his arms glaring straight at his own dorm leader, “I just can’t stand being by your side anymore.”

Leona growled, “Traitor.”

“Your actions are very unforgivable!” Hana shouted, taking a step forward.

Riddle began to say, “As Heartslabyul’s dorm leader, I cannot turn away in a blind eye like this.”

Leona raised his hand to ruffle his hair as if he had a headache, “You brats are really using the “hero of justice” act for your fantasies.” 

Hana glared at him. She couldn’t stand him at this point! He clearly doesn’t care that he is putting lives in danger along with his members. Truly disgusting!

Ruggie raised his voice as if to intimidate, “Not only that. You all came here outnumbered from us. You must be crazy enough to do that on our territory!”

Hana had a cold shiver of fright. She looked to the others who were ready for whatever was going to come at them. She smiled a bit for a quick second as the member asked what to do with them. Leona tells them to go have fun.

Ace, Deuce, Grim and Jack did most of the fighting against them. Hana took a deep breath, holding onto the red heart rod with Riddle who mostly fought them magic to quickly end them. It didn’t take very long for Riddle to conjure his unique magic to seal the savanaclaws members' magic up.

“Tch… he’s strong…” The savanclaw member muttered.

“Amazing Riddle!!” Hana grinned at him who still had his focus on Leona who was muttering something while Ruggie was doing his usual laugh.

“Even if you beat us, you’re too late to help Diasomnia!”

“I don’t think so!” Hana argued. Making Ruggie raise a brow at her.

“Oh hoh? What a fascinating conversation.” They all turned to see the three Diasomnia members watching them.

“Who is too late?” The green haired boy next to Lilia.

“It’s true. There is not a single person who has been injured among the Diasomnia. Thanks to all of them.” The silver haired boy said.

Ruggie’s confident smile turned to horror. “Huh!? But I saw you all got hit by the stampede!”

Cater walks in the Diasomnia group with a smile and his hand up making a peace sign. “Surprise~! It was actually a bunch of me in costume to fool you guys! Lucky me that I gotta wear the Diasomina uniforms! I always wanted to try them on!! I even have a picture!” He said, holding his phone, swiping at pictures of himelf wearing the uniforms.

Hana watched Leona’s face that was slowly turning into disbelief. Hoping that sweet taste of defeat sinks into him.

“Well now. If that’s the case, you could always borrow my uniform anytime.” Lilia smiled up to Cater with the kind suggestion.

Cater smiled sheepishly, “Thanks but I don't think they will fit…”

Leona steps forward, making the girl startled from the energy around him. Leona’s chest felt heavy, staring at the three people that he knew would defend and would be on Malleus' side. There was no sight of him around yet he knows the confident smile of the short man knows that it was not successful.. A churning motion around Hana’s stomach was making the scene uncomfortable to her. 

“Oi, what’s with the farce.”

Lilia’s red eyes analyze his confusion, “We heard if from Riddle. So we put on a little show for you.” 

“Then Malleus is…” Ruggie trailed off.

“He safely guided the panicked crowd to the coliseum without injury using magic. Be grateful!” Sebek stated. It would have made Hana feel at ease, but Leona was making her nervous as his anger seems to grow through his aura. Ruggie’s eyes looked as if they were to pop right out! Anxiety was filling up inside, he had one job for Leona and he blew it! He would have won but because of them, of course he would feel this way!

Leona took a deep breath to let out to breathe out, “...Whatever. It’s over.”

Ruggie whipped his head to him, “Leona… What are you saying?”

The dorm leader glared at him, “Idiot. If Malleus is going to play at top form. There is no way he can beat them. There is no meaning in that kind of game. I’m dropping out.” 

The guardian was curious about how strong Malleus is… She shook it off to try to listen as the Savanaclaw members were in complete shock, especially Ruggie.

“Y-You can’t be serious. Put Malleus' aside, we took out all the other sat players from the game. If you’re not going to play, I don’t know how we can’t make it to the top three… What about our dream?!” Ruggie’s ears were drooping a bit more. Guilt was sinking in, his dorm leader saying all of sudden was like a slap in the face. After all that… he was just going to drop out!?

It almost made Hana get some sympathy for the poor hyena boy.

“No matter how many times the world watches, we’re just some students playing around. Going along with your daydreaming was something that amused me.” Leona said  simply that made Ruggie looked even more shocked,

Rugge spoke more but his voice sounded shaky, “Why? Weren’t we going to flip the world on its head?”

“You’re nagging is annoying me. Let me give you a reality check. You’re a worthless hyena from the slums. I’m the loathed second prince who will never be king.” Leona stated angrily to the hyena.

Hana took a step forward again to shout, “You’re horrible! Worse than dirt!” 

Cater’s eyes widened to Hana’s anger.

Ruggie was shouting at him as well as the heart broken Savanaclaw members. 

But that didn’t affect the dorm head. “Shut up… You bottom feeders!” His voice was like venom as it made Hana’s anger into horror.

“Everyone! Prepare yourselves!!” Hana shouted as she eyed Leona. Making Riddle hold his guard up. The mist around Leona spreads like a spiral. Hana yelped as well as Grim from the dryness from the breeze of their nose and their eyes hurting. As soon as Ruggie was caught off guard, Leona grabbed his arm before he could run away.

“Wh-What’s going on!?” Grim exclaimed.

“Everything Leona touches is turning into sand!” Jack said loudly.

“What?!”

“It’s my unique magic. King’s Roar. Ironic isn’t it? For a prince of Afterglow. That hates droughts above all to be born with…” Hana was not focusing. She looks at Ruggie, her hand covers her mouth in shock! He was on his knees as his arm was cracking like dried up dirt on a desert!

“Ruggie!!” Hana shouted.

Ruggie was trying to tell Leona to stop but his mouth was too dry to speak. 

“His arm!” Deuce shouted, as he watched it crack up like the desert cracking around land.

“He could do that to people!?” Ace exclaimed horrifyingly with his eyes widened open.

Riddle couldn’t stand that the Savanaclaw dorm head was nonchalantly standing there. His eyes widened, “Leona! This has gone too far!! Off with your head!!” He used his magic to shoot for his collar bone but he easily bounced it off. 

“H-How!?” Hana exclaimed as she shakily held her hand up with the rod, winced at her skin feeling itchy from the dry air.

Grim shouts, “He repelled Riddle’s magic!”

Leona began to glare at them, “You have good talent. But it can’t outdo my defensive magic,” He began to smile, a chilling smile that probably will haunt them as he started to laugh at Ruggie’s struggle to stand himself up. “How are you feeling, Ruggie? Do you need some water? I bet your throat must be so dry ! C’mon speak up!” He cackled.

The girl couldn’t stand it anymore, she aims her rod at the older student who is going nuts into overblot state! “We have to help Ruggie!” 

“We can’t let this continue! This is bad at this rate!” Jack gave Leona an uneasy galre.

“Why are you doing this?!” Hana shouted to Leona,

“Why…?” it sent a shiver down her spine, “How’s knowing the reason going to change anything? Are you going to scold me and then comfort me?” The way he says his words were eerily to her. What does he mean by that? “In this world there are plenty of times when talent and effort make no difference. Just like Ruggie can’t do anything right now… Pathetic.”

“You may be right… But it's an effort that counts as trying to help the person in need!” Hana speeds over to help Ruggie, Leona eyes at her. Ready for an attack.

“HANA!!” Grim runs after her. 

“UNLEASH BEAST!!!” Jack dashes over and turns into a huge full on white wolf. Leona flinches from the huge wolf. Hana took the opportunity to shoot her magic at Leona’s grip from the hyena. “OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!” Riddle rapidly shouted, having the collar flash around his neck.

Jack got a hold of Ruggie away from Leona as far away from him as he could. Hana held her rod to aim at Leona as if it’ll intimidate him. Silver and Sebek hurried over to help Ruggie’s injury.

“Ugh… A collar around a lion like me…!” Leona glared and passed Hana to Jack who was in his normal form. “... Jack. Where the hell did you get that kind of transformation from? A potion?”

“Unleash beast. It’s my unique magic that lets me transform into a wolf.”

Leona made a weak chuckle, “Well that’s certainly unique for a pup.”

“Leona…. I came to this school because I looked up to you! Where’s the Leona we admired?!” Jack began shouting at the top of his lungs. 

“Don’t shove it all at me! So annoying!”

Hana had an intense feeling that this was not going anywhere, “Guys please–!” 

“I may not have the right to have a say in this. But I can’t stand to look at you.” Riddle said simply as he looked away from him.

Hana was too focused on his aura. That was getting more and more intense! “E-Enough! Guys!” 

“Hmph,” Lilia began to say “Men like you deserve that collar more than a simple crown,” Leona was glaring over to him. “Listening to another royal such as yourself is appalling.”

“ Huh ? ”

Hana flinched, but was holding her stance still.

“You always whine about how you’ll never be king due to the order of birth and how highly skilled you can be… However,”

“L-Lilia?” Hana tried to call out, he kept going on. He was making it worse for the blot! Even if he deserves it! He does!

But not here! Not now!!

“You lay around lazily as life passes you by without reward. If nothing goes your way, you become petty and find fault in others. To become king as you are… the thought of you becoming a competitor to our lord Malleus makes me laugh. Even if you are able to defeat him. As long as you hold that rotten grudge in your heart,”

‘ No!’ She wanted to say, but she knew it was soon too late. She stared at Leona, waiting for the blot to happen.

“You will never become a true king.” Lilia finishes with a smug on his face.

Her blue eyes stared at Leona’s eyes that were taken back those words from the short man. He then starts to weakly laugh, “... You’re right… No matter how hard I try…. I can never become king! No matter how many times I’ve tried! ”

The ground of the dorm started to shake, Hana’s hand was shaking. It wasn’t the ground. The back of her nape was sweating. The overblot has begun worse thanks to Lilia’s roast!

“My fur is standing!” Grim flinched from the feeling.

Riddle winced trying to hold his magic against Leona. 

“Guys! Stand back!!” Hana shouted.

“This evil negative energy… He can’t be.” Lilia’s eyes widened at the realization.

“You couldn’t have said this after?!” Hana exclaimed to the fae.

“Guys! Get out of the way!” Cater shouted,

Ace, Deuce and Grim stood their ground. Leona finally makes the collar disappear. The atmosphere was filled with a dark mist of energy in the upper sky. Hana in horror watched the ink pouring down from his left eye of his scar “ I’ve always loathed myself since the day I was born…. That will never change. Even if I tried. ” He spewed out words. Grim flinches watching the ink was pouring down his face more “ The agony. This despair… How could any of you possibly understand!? ” He started to growl

Ink started to melt around Leona into his blot form. Deuce noticed that Hana jolted but focused on him. Hana felt the very intenseness of the dark aura. Her eyes widened. This was a way more intense feeling than Riddle’s. Then the people from earth who overblotted…

A shadow mist  phantom appears from behind the form of a lion. Jack stumbles a bit as the shadow forms into a lion. A loud lion-like growl wasn’t coming from the shadow, it was coming from Leona. His bangs were up as if it were floating. A golden necklace around that had crop black thick fur around his shoulders and chest. He had a corset around his waist with some fabric around it like a skirt.

“What the hell!? A shadow came from Leona’s body!!” Jack exclaimed 

Grim started to shiver, “He’s gone insanely berserk like Riddle!!”

Riddle started to shout and wave his Heartstabyul staff, “Retreat on your own stand! Ace, Deuce! Carry the injured outside!! Lilia, please get the teachers for assistance!”

They nodded to get the Savanaclaw members out to safety as they could. 

“Understood. Hang in there until I return.” Lilia said then vanishes away.

Leona's angry lion growl made Hana back away and step back a few spaces. She couldn’t help but stare at the overblotted man… Not only was his appearance made her feel as if she failed. But the strong negative energy was far from what she had faced from earth.

“I–I c-c-can’t—...” Before she could whimper of self-doubt, her eyes were about to water. Her birth mother’s voice rang through her ear. 

‘.. blots are taking over vulnerable negative people. It’s life or death for you or the person. If you’ll never get it, it’s never going to be easier when blots become stronger by the minute…’

She hears from behind her, “I am with you dorm leader.” Cater said with a nervous smile.

Jack held his grip, glaring at Leona. “I have no idea what’s going on but we just have to knock him into his senses, right?”

Ruggie stands on his two feet, “I–I’ll help too… I’m not gonna let him get away from what he said…” Glaring to his dorm leader now infected with the blot.

Hana couldn’t believe it. Even if he was in a weak state, he was able to get up. She jumps hearing Leona’s laughter like a demonic being, “ A hyena defying their leader?! ” He started to laugh “What a joke! ” He glared deadly at them.

Grim hops right to her side, “If we catch him! We’ll be in the magical shift tournament!”

Hana shook her head as if to have the fear at the back of her head, if Ruggie could stand up to a powerful incarnation blot. So can she.

Hana gave the lion a determined stare, “Let’s save Leona!! Aim for the phantom!!” 

Leona uses his hand to swiftly make the shadow from behind him uses his paws to try to hit the small guardian. She hops away to dodge, watching him make his move. 

“ If I can’t overturn the world, I’ll turn every single thing into sand!!” The overblot incarnate yelled in rage. He swiftly uses his hand to try to hit Ruggie. Cater uses his magic from his pen to shoot the paw to block it off. Riddle uses his opportunity to strike him from his rod that he carries.

Leona flinches but stands still, making another growl. He uses his hand with claws out to try to hit Hana with the phantom clawed paw. Before she could fly off across the field, she was hit against Jack who grabbed her shoulders still.

“Hana! You alright?” 

“I-I’m fine! We have to hurry and get rid of the blot phantom!”

Jack scowls at the ghostly lion phantom that is being controlled from Leona, “Is that what it is?”

She nodded, “Yes! We need to distract him while I shoot him with my magic!”

Jack nodded, “I’ll do anything to bring him back into his senses. Let’s hurry!” 

The phantom’s paw slams down making another earthquake, making everyone stumble from a wave of magic. Leona threw some magic from the phantom’s paw at Riddle who tried to dodge but ended up getting hit as well as Cater did.

Grim tried to keep his balance and dashed over to him, “AYE!!! You have some nerve jerk!!” he jumps in mid air to throw flames from his mouth at Leona who tried to claw him. Leona gets hit in the guts from Ruggie’s magic pen that shot from. 

“That’s what ya get!!” Ruggie snapped, Leona was giving him a murderous glare. Ruggie flinches from his eyes. Jack took the opportunity while he was distracted to use his claws to slash against the phantom. The shadow monster flinches back, weakly.

“ARGH!!!” Leona groaned as he stumbled a bit. Jack jumps back along with Grim.

“ I’ll… be… king… ” Leona still gave a glare to try his best to move.

“Hana! Now!!” Riddle and Jack shouted.

Hana hops from midair and holds the black and red crystal heart rod both of her hands at him.

“ Luminance flash!! ” The guardian shouted for the heart crystal to shoot out a white flash that shoots out with the brightest out at him. For the shadow to vanish away in thin air. The overblot’s ink form melted away as his clothes were vanishing back to his Savanaclaw dorm outfit.

His knees goes down to hit the ground making him fall over to the ground.

“Leona!!” Jack, Hana and Grim run over to check on him. Jack turns him over on his back.”Leona! Leona!!” 

Ruggie slowly walks over.

“I am here! Oh dear, am I too late?!” Hana heard Crowley’s voice.

She blinks to see it wasn’t Crowley, it was Leona. She blinks in confusion to look down but Jack nor Grim were there. Everything was in black and white. She held onto the heart rod closely. Hearing different voices at once around her. 

“...Why is the second prince so hard to please… ”

“……Farena is so kind and cheerful unlike Leona..”

“..Leona you have so much potential you could do so much but your brother….”

Flashes of scenarios from her vision pass by her. Unfamiliar voices began to sound louder!!

“Leona!! Wait!!”

Leona begins to speak, “No matter how hard I try so hard… They only look at him… If the birth order was reversed… Would they look at me…? Leona the very intelligent prince unlike his cheerful brother…. Why was I not born earlier?! Why him?! WHY NOT ME?!”

Hana reached her hand out to him. Her shoulder was suddenly shaken by someone, “Hana!”

She shook her head as her vision cleared. Leona vanished seeing the white-haired wolf boy right in front of her. “Hana! Are you alright?”

Her eyes blinked and nodded, “Y-Yes!” A sudden glow hits their vision as Hana stepped back to see her heart rod was glowing, turning from black and red to a yellow rod. The top of the rod turns into a black claw like crystal.

Grim eyes widened in confusion, “What’s with your wand!? It keeps changing!!”

“I-I don’t know! I never had this before.”

Jack frowned at her before asking her a question. Grim started to shout for Leona to wake up as he started to groan getting up from the ground.

“Huh…? Where…?” Leona had a sense of surge of pain in his guts as Jack tried to help him up.

“Good! Now that you are awake, confess that you were behind these schemes!!” Grim yelled.

“What…? Come again?” The man seems genuinely confused, Hana stepped forward to ask,

“Do you not remember? You build up so much of evil dark energy you overbloted.” She explained shortly. His eyes widened as he ruffled his fingers into his hair.

“I-I what?... You’re kidding…”

She shook her head side to side.

“More importantly, the tournament is going to start soon so confess!!” Grim urges him.

“What’re you talking about?”

“We went after you for the headmaster of this investigation. You can’t lie now that we have so many witnesses of you confessing from before!” Hana crossed her arms with a scowl.

Ruggie rubbed the back of his nape, “You did something like that…”

The girl whipped her head to the Hyena, “Of course!! You went around injuring people like a sport!” 

Ruggie’s ears lowered a bit, “Oh yeah… I guess..” He frowned.

Dire Crowley crossed his arms at Leona, “Then it’s safe to assume that all of this was you and the dorm doing?”

Leona took a deep breath to answer, “...Yes.”

“Understood. On that note, you’re disqualified from this year’s tournament. Further, your punishment will be decided after I discuss with those who were injured from your scheme. Is that clear to you?”

Before Leona could answer, they were interrupted.

“Headmaster, hold on.” Crowley looks to Riddle who said Trey, Jamil and the others were injured from before.

Trey speaks up, “We ask for a request, could you refrain from disqualifying them from the tournament.”

Hana looks at them in confusion, “You want them to be left off the hook?!”

Jamil frowned at her, “No way we’re doing that.”

Trey smirks to Leona who looks to be scratched up, “If Savanaclaw doesn’t make the playoffs, we won’t have our payback on them.”

Riddle sighed as he looked at Trey, “Personal squabbles are prohibited from campus.”

Trey then adds with, “The magical shift tournament is a well respected sport, right? We can go all at it in a magical battle you know.”

“Yeah!,” One student said, “I won’t have closure unless I give you guys a piece of my mind!”

“I agree!”

Jamil makes a confident smug too, “I don’t know what happened here. But it looks like they are in some kind of worse shape than we are.” Analyzing Ruggie and Leona. 

Cater steps right over next to Trey, “Hey Leona, didn’t you say something before? About rules during the game you can use any magic you like?”

Hana and Riddle sigh over Cater’s personal grudge, “Normally I wouldn’t allow such small grudges but for this is everyone's wishes. I will turn this into a blind eye.” 

“M-Me too. But is Leona going to be able to compete after… You know.” She worriedly analyzes Leona.

Dire Crowley begins to say, “I agree with Hana. Are you able to stand, Kingscholar?”

Leona began to laugh, “Don’t underestimate me, kid,” Her eyes widened at his response. “I could take these guys in my sleep. I have zero intention of apologizing. If that’s what you want, you have to force me through the field.”

“There you have it headmaster, are you alright with this?” Trey asks Crowley.

“My goodness. I thought it would be some impressive speech. Alright, I shall allow them to compete in the tournament.”

“A-Are you sure, headmaster? He’s still the bad guy…” Hana tried to persuade but Crowley coughed, he then began to say, “Well then the audience must be waiting for all the players to be present. Please get ready.” He then insists. 

Hana began to sigh, “Of course…” 

“Alright, let’s get– Argh!” Leona flinches in pain as Ruggie helps him still with a frown. 

“Just so you know. I still don’t forgive you.” Ruggie tells him, “You know what, you always have that stupid miserable sad look on your face! That arrogant smirk always suits you better!” He uses his fingers to stretch his lips apart, “LAUGH WITH ME!!”

Uncontrollably, Leona does the same as Ruggie does by control. “UGH! WRAFFIE! STAPH!”

“HAHA!! I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THIS WITH YOU!!” Ruggie laughed.

Hana tried to hide her snickers behind with her black crystal rod. She looked to Jack who was watching them

Jack crossed his arms, “What are you doing…heh.” Hana spotted him slipping a smile.

“Ah!! You smiled!!” Hana beamed a smile at him.

Jack’s eyes widened to her, “I-I was not smiling or anything!”

Hana nodded, “Hehe! Okay! Thank you for cooperating with us!”

Jack started to smile again with a sigh, “Thanks to you guys I can give all I have.” 

Hana whirls her head around, “Hey? Where did the Diasomnia students go too?”

“My guess is that they got the other Savanaclaw students to safety. They probably went to go find Malleus if he was alright.” Riddle answered for her.

“Okay. As they should.” Hana nodded, but she wondered if they knew about Tsunotaro…

Grim walks over to Crowley, “So headmaster! Are you going to let us in the tournament like you promised?” Hana looks at him as he is confused until it seems like he just remembered as hummed out.

“Huh uhh.. Aaa? Aaah!! Yes I did promise you two! However, it is impossible since we’ve announced the tournament line. What should we do…”

“FYNA!!!! YOU SCAMMER!!” Grim shouted Hana quickly ran over to the small creature to hold him back, “I"M GONNA BURN YOUR ASS INTO CRISP!! LEMME GO MINION!!”

“Grim!! Don’t!!!” Hana urges him as she was struggling to keep him hold making Crowley back away with his hands up in panic.

“Wait! Wait! Hold your lighter! Let’s see uhh… I know!" He lowers his hands down, "How about playing in the exhibition match! It will be like the opening act before the main event. I’m sure you’ll be able to show off that way!” 

“Show off aye? I don’t mind that!” He hopped off from Hana’s arms, “Yes! Everyone will watch the great Grim’s magnificent act!”

Hana smiles at Grim’s excitement but it drops with realization looking at the adult man, “Don’t we need more members?”

“Oh yes… Extra members… and a team to go against for you play the game.. Perhaps the staff team?”

“We heard everything!” Ace smirked as he walked over next to Hana and Grim.

“We would like to take those spots!” Deuce grinned as well.

Riddle looks to the two of them, “What are you two talking about? Aren’t you both team Heartslabyul?”

“There’s no rule to say we can’t join another team, right?” Ace pointed out. Making Hana smile

Trey chuckled at that, “Oh, I wouldn't have thought of it like that.”

“If that’s the case, I wanna join Hana’s team!” Cater smiled.

“You’re part of the regular members.” Riddle tells him.

Hana was smiling at everyone!

Jack then starts to insist, “If you’re looking for an opponent, Savanaclaw will take you on.”

“You guys will?” Hana asks.

“I mean if you want to go against the staff…”

“That would be great! You’re really cool, Jack!!” Hana smiled at him, making the boy look away.

“D-Don’t get the wrong idea. I just don’t want to be indebted to you.”

Hana nodded and walked over to Leona. “As for you! I will give you a lesson from me, mister !,” She points her finger to him, “Hope you’ll be prepared for that!”

Leona rolled his eyes as he held his hand to his face, “Ugh this is a pain. Whatever, just come at us at once. Even if it’s just an exhibition. Be prepared yourself, kid.”

“Phew!” Crowley said, “I was going to get a long lecture from Trein… You have four players in your team, you need three more.”

‘Three more…’ She thought hesitatingly before answering. “Hey,” Crowley looks at her, “How about the three ghosts from our dorm.” 

“That’s right! The residents in our dorm!” Grim chimed in.

“You’re going to have the ghosts enter in the game?”

Grim points out, “They said they were really good in the game.” Hana nodded.

“They’ve told us stories on how they were back in 90 years ago! I think they would be so happy to play again like the old days!!” Hana encouraged it.

“Can ghosts even play properly?” Jack looks at them.

“I think it’s fine! I mean Hana cannot even use magic in her regular form.” Ace informed me.

“Before we go to the stadium, has anyone seen a black rock somewhere?”

Hana raised a brow, a black rock…

“What did you drop?” Deuce asked.

“Hm… No, it's fine if nobody has seen it. Let’s go.” Crowley grins.

Jack smiles over to Hana, “Let’s go prefect.”

Hana smiles back, “Magical shift tournament here we go!!” She cheered.

☆:*.✧*-💎-✧*☆:*.

Later on, Hana’s team against Leona’s had a fun game play while the whole world watched. Hana was unbelievably happy; everyone was having fun especially Grim and the three ghosts. It didn’t seem like a competition but a fun play! Hana couldn’t wait for the next round to see Savanaclaw against Diasomnia but sadly she suddenly blacked out.

Hana’s eyes opened to a room that looked like a nursery.

“Hm… huh? Where is this…”

“Ah! Hana is awake.” Her blue eyes glanced over to Grim next to her. 

“Grim? What happened? Ow…” She rubbed the back of her head that has a sore sensation. She sees Ace, Deuce, and Jack.

“Yeah, Grim was trying to do his little throw trick that ended up hitting you on the side of your head in the second half of our match.” Ace shrugged.

“What!? Really?”

“Yeah, it looked like it hurt pretty bad.” Jack walks over to Hana to give her an ice pack. Hana thanked him and placed it on the side of her head.

Grim smiled, “I was trying to do a long throw shot!”

“Newbies shouldn’t try to do that.” He informed him.

“I don’t remember any of that… I remembered we were having fun for a while… Did I miss the entire game?!” She looked out to one of the windows, it was nighttime already. How could that be!? She probably almost went through a coma from that throw.

“Well duh, silly.” Ace replied.

“I’m glad you’re awake. We were worried when you didn’t seem like you were waking up for a while.”

“Yeah you missed that closing ceremony when they already started the dispatching venue.”

“You’re joking right!? I’m not usually a deep sleeper… Uh, who won by any chance?” She looked to them, before one of them could answer.

“Diasomnia won.” She whirled her head to see it was Leona on the bed next to her bed.

“Ughh even in the end, we didn’t stand a chance… All the other dorms were a mess through this tournament shit show.” Ruggie said on the other side of his own bed. She noticed some students were on the beds too. She wonders how crazy the tournament was…

“You guys are awake.” Jack said.

“Tch,” Leona started to frown, “I can’t believe I’m on the infirmary bed too…”

“Well, you did in fact had a huge episode, I don’t see why not.” She made a sheepish smile as he turned himself over away from her view.

Ruggie looks around, “The fact that there are no Diasomnia members at sight here really irks me.”

“Geez I heard of the rumors about Diasomnia’s leader was good. Jack was right, he IS a monster in that game!”

Hana noticed a tense look on Ace’s face, Deuce began to chime in, “Yeah… it was something else… You should have seen it, Hana.” 

“R-Really? How bad?”

Ace answers, “Like I totally get why it’s unimaginable to beat this guy.”

Hana replies to that, “I mean…,” She reminds herself about how frightful she was when Leona turned into his overblot form. The intense dark aura in the air. His fierce raw power coming from him like she wouldn’t even imagine. “It may seem that way, but you can figure out ways of beating him.”

“I agree,” Jack responded, “no one can win if they give up before they even try.”

“Exactly!” Hana smiles at him

“That's why next year I am definitely going to beat Diasomnia! Without using underhanded tactics, but to use my own strength.”

Leona lets out a loud “Hmph.” Making Hana take a glance at him. "Using Underhanded tactics requires one’s own strength, y’know?”

Hana blinks to him “Huh? Do you feel bad about this at all?”

“Feel bad?” He makes a confident smug, “What do I need to feel bad for? I gave my all to win this year. And I’ll give it my all again next year.”

“Leona…” She mellowed a bit.

‘He reminds me a bit of my birth mom with that attitude…’ She thought.

Ruggie started to laugh, “That’s our Leona!!”

“Great now that I have to worry about next year…” Jack said as he placed his hand on his nape.

“I’m gonna be in the tournament for real next year!!” Grim said as if it were a promise.

Deuce smiled at him, “We’ll just have to do our best and make sure to get a good spot till then too.”

“You’re right. I don’t want to stand out for being stupid like this year.” Ace sighed.

Hana smiled for a bit but suddenly dropped at the thought.

‘But for next year… Will I be finally home by then?’ She thought worriedly. She was getting along with Ace, Deuce and… Grim…

Her thoughts were interrupted when a child like voice shouted,

“Ah!! I finally found you uncle!!” A child ran over inside of the infirmary.

“Huh? Who is the kid?” Grim asked looked from Hana's bed.

The child ran over to Leona’s bed hopping a bit. The child’s skin was brown, his hair was orange with blonde ombre. Wearing a mustard-colored dashiki on and brown pants.

“Uncle Leona!!!” The child chimed happily at him. Leona’s eyes widened as if here surprised, to then close and mumble “Great the annoyance arrived…”

“Uncle… Leona?” Hana and Jack both repeated the child’s words on confusion.

“This furball is my brother’s kid, Cheka… My nephew…” Leona answered as if it were kind of tasteful.

“N-NEPHEW?!” the gang shouted in surprise.

Ruggie spoke in realization, “That means… he is the one next in line for the throne.”

“Huh?! Really!?” Hana gasped.

The child asked, “Your match was so cool!! Next time you got to show me how to do all of those cool tricks!!” as he hopped onto the bed and asked to his ear.

“I got it! I got it! Stop shouting in my ear! Where are your bodyguards? They must be going crazy trying to find you.”

“I couldn’t wait to see you! So I left them behind! Hehe!” The child giggled.

“So… Leona’s root of all pain is from…” Jack asked slowly.

“This little angel?” Hana finished his last words.

“He seems to be really attached to you.” Grim made a comment. Watching the child happily being with his uncle.

“It’s kind of cute!” Hana smiles at this picture.

Leona gave a scowl to them, “Shut up…ugh.. Stop staring at me!” He urged angrily.

Hana giggled as the Cheka was rapidly asking him questions if he got his letters or if he would come home sooner. Leona tried to answer but Cheka interrupted him by climbing on his stomach. Jack was shocked at this while Ruggie laughed at him,

“Haha! This is rich! So, this is why Leona never wants to go home.”

Cheka looks over to everyone as he is sitting on Leona’s stomach. “Are you guys' Uncle Leona’s friends?”

Ace snickered to answer, “Yes, yes, we are his friends! Riiight? Uncle Leona~?” He made a mocking chime.

Ruggie snickered but groaned from the pain to burst a laugh.

“Stop laughing bastards! I’ll remember this for later!” Leona scowled at the redhead first year.

“Leona…” Hana sighed.

After a while the rest went back to their dorms and the guards finding Cheka. Hana was upset about not seeing Savanaclaw against Diasomnia... She still couldn't believe she was knocked out for so long! What can get any weirder? Hana and Grim were back in Ramshackle. She went to the bathroom to shower and change into her usual gray t-shirt and plaid pajama bottoms. She went into her bedroom and stretched her arms. 

“Jeez… What a day. I’m so glad it turned out well. What do you think, Grim?” Hana saw that he was sleeping on the bed.

Hana made a small giggle at him. “Okay, time for bed!” She flipped the switch to turn off the lights to go under the covers. She closed her eyes for a while to sleep to then wake up in the middle of the night. She opens her eyes to see the mirror where the fireplace was glowing.

“Hm?” She rubbed her eye as if to make sure she was awake. She got up from the bed and walked over to the mirror. The mirror was fading to glow up, she flinched back to see a shadow appearing to the side of the glowing mirror. “Huh?! W-What’s–” Her eyes flashed before her. Next thing it was morning when she woke up again…

She opens her blue eyes once more, finding herself under the covers with Grim on the bed sleeping away instead of standing near the fireplace where the mirror was. She looked over to the mirror, it wasn't glowing anymore.

“W-Was it.. just a dream..? What was that shadow…” She clutches the comforters as if they were to help her ease her nervousness.

‘Moms… Guys… Where are you…’

.☆:*.✧*-💎-✧*☆:*.

Earth: Somewhere

The back of Aeron's nape shivered down her spine as she looked over to Tvora in front of a huge floating blue screen with the two ink blots floating in the cubes. Tvora's eyes analyzes the tabs results to then notice Aeron's who seemed to be boggled as she placed her hand on the back of her nape, her eyes whirled around the room.

"Is there something the matter?"

"I just... Nevermind..."

Tvora frowned at her, "Are you sure? You look like you just saw a ghost."

"I'm fine. Don't take it so seriously. Jeez." She rolled her eyes as she turned her head away from her.

Tvora sighed, "There is no need for you to be stubborn. Perhaps you need to rest for a while. We've been trying to do research for a long while. It can be good for you."

"Talk, talk, talk. Gosh aren't you supposed to be focusing?" Aeron said in an irritated tone.

"I'm trying but you are distracting me."

"Let's just drop it! Kay?"

Tvora didn't want to push any buttons with her, so she turned her head away to the screen. Aeron looked through some paper notes that they've been writing out for weeks. She broke a sweat down her cheek as she held the back of her nape once more.

What was that all about?

Chapter Text

Earth: Donut shop

Week later.

Yuko yawned. She was at her usual job. Having her 15-minute break playing on her mobile phone. “Oh dang it!!” She muttered. She then sighs, she knows it’s not getting anywhere. She blinks to her phone again and goes through her photo gallery. Seeing pictures of friends she made in the school. Most pictures of her with the girls. Kira, Allen, Aimi and well… Hana.

She shook her head.

No, she is not going to dwell!!

“Hey, Yuko, are you okay?”

She blinks to an older woman employee looking at her as she was cleaning the table.

“Who me? Pft! I’m fine! I’m just tired.”

“Alright, I was just curious. How is school doing?”

“Oh it’s just hell. I have an exam coming up and I’m soooo not ready!”

“You’ll be fine, girl. Don’t you worry.”

“Hope so! If not, I'm gonna be so pissed and my family will take my phone away and my livelihood!” She sighed, the woman chuckled as she put away the towel.

“It’ll probably be a blessing!”

Yuko looked away for a bit until she then asks, “Hey do you have a minute?”

“Of course, nobody has come in yet.”

“I… am kind of upset over something…” The woman came over to sit on the chair in front of Yuko.

“What is it?”

“Well…. It’s something very complicated.”

“With kids like your generation. Maybe.”

Yuko snickered, “So yeah, I’m trying to have hope of… searching for.. Something… Not school related like that.”

“Like what? A crush?”

“Oh you’re funny. It’s something personal. I’m trying to have hope that whatever it is I am looking for will eventually appear. Like a big hint that’ll lead me to it. But every time I find the answer, it gets even more complicated to search.”

“It’s kind of hard to tell what it is you’re trying to say.”

Yuko sighed for a bit, “Forget it…”

“But maybe this. Life is hard. When you think you have the answer, you’ll have things come your way when you least expect it. Whatever it is you’re looking for, maybe it is not meant to be.”

“What if it is meant to be.”

The woman shrugged, “Then maybe the thing you’re looking for isn’t as difficult as it seems to be. Just because you have something in your way that is difficult, doesn’t mean you won’t be able to figure it out. Like your exams. It’s hard until you work your way through to find the answer you’re looking for. But you have accomplished past exams before. Life can be hard, you can work your hardest to then get to what you are looking for.”

Yuko nodded, she knew she was right but it wasn't exactly what she was looking for.

“Thanks, Abigail.”

“Any time, girl. I hope whatever it is that you’re looking for, you’ll eventually find it.” The woman smiled with a nodd.

“And this is why I want you as my second mom!” Yuko cackled as the woman chuckled.

=💎=

She was thinking about what the employee-mom said. She was thinking about it… Tvora is still trying to find out where Hana could be. But she then thinks about it.

The disney mirror with ink blot. The store was normal looking. Allen said there was a flash… How could Hana disappear into thin air? Teleported away? But why would the ink be at a specific spot where the phone was near the counter to the mirror?

Yuko was in the car as she drove over to Terra’s home. She goes right to their door and knocks onto it. She waited for Terra to open the door.

“Oh Yuko, hello! What’re you doing here? It’s 7 o’clock! You should be at home.”

“Yeah but I had some thoughts when coming here from work. I want to ask you something!”

Terra moved to the side for Yuko to walk in to talk with the woman who closed the door.

“Okay! I have one question! Do you guys still have the mirror?”

“I believe so.”

“Good! Remember when Allen said something about a flash from the inside of the store?”

Terra raised a brow as she nodded to listen, 

“What if that mirror has something to do with it! ”

The woman started to frown, “What do you mean?”

“Like someone took her in the mirror? Like a portal kind of thing.”

Terra’s brows furrowed, “Maybe so… I don’t know. We’re still trying to find an answer. I appreciate you thinking more into this. I’m just… I just hope it’s something instead of nothing…”

“Yeah and we’re in the middle of the semester. We’re two months into December.”

Terra sighed, “Time has gone by quick hasn’t it…”

Yuko looked away to the pictures of baby Hana smiling with Terra smiling. She looks to Terra who looks as if she didn’t want to dare to look at those pictures.

“Look… Terra… I’m sorry about all of this. I hope we’re getting close as we speak.” She tried to sooth Terra with her words but Terra spent months not daring to look at Hana’s bedroom door. It hurts her every time.

“I hope so too,” Terra forces a smile, “Please, do go back home. Your family must be worried.”

“Okay, but. I want to see Tvora soon. To tell her. Not right now but if I can… because haha my exams my family would say comes first.”

Terra nodded, “Alright, we’ll go together. Just let me know when you want to go see her.”

Yuko leaves the apartment to go back to her car. Terra closes the door, turns off the lights to go back to bed. She walks past Hana’s door. As if not daring to look, she clenches her fists. She slowly looks at the door. She looks away from the door..

=💎=

Twisted wonderland: Octavinelle

Hana and her friends were having fun in the Magishift tournament! She was happy to see the ghosts were playing against the Savanaclaw. It was fun until she got knocked out by the frisbee by Grim who wanted to do a trick. So she missed half of the tournament! Thanks Grim!

After all of that, exams started, what could go wrong?

Oh yeah, Ace, Deuce and Grim made a deal with the Octavinelle leader, Azul Ashengrotto.

Jack and her were forced by Dire Crowley to get into Azul’s activities with a little threat from the headmaster himself of trying to find her way back home. Aaah Hana wanted to cry.

Jack and Hana are now trying to gather information to monitor Azul by skipping class.

She was with Jack and the three single-brain-cell-group along with two twins who went up to them.

Grim whined behind Deuce from the turquoise haired male with a black streak on his right side.

“The one I’m speaking with is not those anemones. But rather you,” other twin with the same hair color but with the hair streak on the left side. His heterochromia gold and olive eyes glances over to Hana, “Prefect, Hana Fuma of Ramshackle Dorm.” he said with a gentle smile

Hana flinches from him saying her full name, “Huh?! M-me?!”

“Haha… Why’re you jumping like a shrimp?,” He was amused by the idea, “Hmm… ah~! You’re so little so I guess that makes you a Little Shrimp~.”

‘A little shrimp?’ Hana thought confusedly.

“If I remember correctly, you were playing spy with Riddle from before. You’re probably aware of who we are but allow us to reintroduce ourselves,”. Oh yeah. From that investigation about the incidents… How could Hana ever forget running from 6’2 feet tall twins running after her and the Heartslabyul students? He places his hand to his chest with a smile, “I am Jade Leech, this is my twin brother Floyd Leech.”

“Hello, I’m Floyd~. Nice to meet you, Little Shrimp~.”

“I-It’s Hana…” She said shakily.

“Back to the matter at hand, is your concern perhaps these stupid anemones are in?”

Jack mumbles for Hana to hear, “”Perhaps” my ass with that smug on his face.”

“Hm? Who’s this guy? His hair is spiky like a sea urchin.”

“I’m not an urchin! I am a wolf!” Jack exclaimed to the droopy-eyed twin.

“If you’re concerned about the anemones I’m sure the best idea is to approach Azul directly to discuss it with him.” Jade said while smiling.

Hana quickly started, “Uh– I’ll think about it… I’m not sure.”

Jade made a kind tone that sounded a bit persuasive to her, “He is a benevolent person like the great seven sea witch. I’m sure he would listen.” 

Floyd chimes in, “That’s right, Azul will clear all of your worries, like for example,” He grins widely, “to wish to free the anemones over here.”

The three flinch with a gasp.

“Y-You guys just want me to be part of the contract with him too!” Hana stepped back for a bit making Jack glare at them.

Jade switches to a sympathetic look,  “Oh please don’t be frightened. Land creatures are rather quick.” He smile almost as if he were to laugh.

Floyd then adds to the persuasion, “We just told you with the kindness of our hearts. Right, Jade?”

“Indeed, Floyd. Like a kind guardian such as yourself. We are the kind of people who just can’t leave poor, unfortunate souls alone.” 

The two chuckles with each other, making the brunette uneasy. Mentioning the fact that she was a guardian made things even sketchier for her on that matter…

“If what we talked about is of any interest to you, please do come by to the monstro lounge around 9pm.” Jade insisted.

“U-Uh okay I-I’ll think about it…”

“We will be waiting for you with delicious tea ready for you.”

“I’ll be waiting for you, Little Shrimp~.” Floyd cooed as the twins left Hana in an intense uneasy feeling that this is something she can’t turn her shoulder from.

“So this means…” Deuce begin to say

“If you sign a contract with Azul and beat him…” Grim adds with middle

“We’ll be free…” Ace finishes the sentence. 

The three looked at Hana and began to shout, “We’re counting on you, Hana! Beat Azul!!”

“EEH?!?!?!” Hana screeched.

“You guys didn’t waste time on that…”

Ace argues, “You guys don’t know the pain and suffering we’ve gone through with these!”

“It’s your fault for not just taking the risk.” Jack frowned

“And we’ve learned our lesson! Promise!” Ace said as if he did. Hana sighed a bit. Knowing these three, it would be a lot more lucky for her…

“Yeah. I promise not to do it again. Even if I fail, I’ll accept fate.” Decue said with a hand to his chest like a soldier who was wounded.

“Ahaha… You guys are really something.” Hana shook her head with a weak smile. Jack looks down to her to ask, “So what’re you going to do now? Are you going along with their scheme?”

Hana started to look up to him, “This might be my chance to help them. I don’t want them to be like this for the rest of the school but…”

Grim hops up to exclaim to his fellow companion, “This is the first time I’ve really thought about you as a prefect– no! Guardian of Light!”

“You mean you didn’t at all?!” Hana cried out as if it were a slap in the face.

Jack tsked underneath his breath, rubbing the back of his nape of these three talking out nonsense, “This can’t be helped… I’m going with you. You’ll be in danger by yourself.” Jack insisted to her,

Hana smiles up at Jack, “Ah!! Really? Thank you so much!”

“Yeah Jack is so nice~!” Ace spoke out in a playfully tone with a smile.

Jack’s cheeks darkened a bit, “D-Don’t get the wrong idea! I don’t like what Azul is doing.”

“Isn’t that the same idea?” Hana questions.

“N-Never mind.”

Jack’s ears twitched as he heard the anemones on their head move.

“ACK!! It’s back to pulling me again!!”

“OWOWOWOW!! NOT AGAIN!!” Ace started to complain.

Grim started to wail out, “We’re counting on you, Hana!!”

“Don’t worry!! I’ll figure something out!!,” Hana shouted before they were screaming away to disappear off, “gosh… I can’t get a break from this world too…”

“Wow these guys never seem to change…”

“Uhuh…”

“Anyway we’re going tonight right?”

She whips her head to Jack with a nodd, “Yes! I’m not letting him get away with this! It’s too much!! The fact he outsmarts Crowley into getting what he wants is just… scary!,” she begins to sigh. 

Crowley needs to control this school better… first Riddle’s crazy rules, Leona’s attempt of murder and now Azul trying to gain control. What is with this school?! “I just hope whatever it is Azul may try to persuade me with, I’m ready!” She said, trying to make a determined look on her face.

Jack looked unto sure as he rubbed the back of his nape, he still remembers the reckless act when she ran over to grab Ruggie. He may have done the same, but his attempt was to catch Leona off guard to let go of the poor hyena. 

“I hope so too. This is why I'm coming with you. T-To make sure Azul is not trying to do anything sketchy.”

“Aw! Jack! You’re really a good friend!” She smiles at him, making his cheeks darkened. 

“I-I said don’t get the wrong idea!”

The bell rings for next class to start,

Jack switches his embarrassment to serious, Hana begins to say, “Let’s get going. We have to wait until 9:00pm!”

“Right.” Jack agreed. As they walked off. Hana’s started to wander off. She looked at him, “Say Jack,” he looked at her. “You’re not also coming with me because you think I'm that naive, right?”

He raised a brow, “I think anyone would get tricked by them. We just have to look closely. Like I said. I don’t want another student to get into it too.”

“O-Oh haha that’s right! It’s good to have someone to make sure!” Hana smiles, it faded as the both of them looked away from each other. Her mind wandered again… She was trying not to overthink it. Perhaps the mind got the best of her…

Cater “…It’s okay, you’re fine, just relax! If he tries to bite you I’ll protect you, okay?”

“Oh please don’t be frightened. Land creatures are rather quick.” He smiled almost as if he were to laugh.

…Grim “…This is the first time I’ve really thought about you as a prefect– no! Guardian of Light!..”

The voices came through as her eyes lowered with a small slouch as her hands started to grip a bit. ‘ Does everyone… still view me so lowly…? Well I guess it still feels like home…’ 

This is not new to her. Even her friends from Earth would treat her this way. Every time she gets injured, they freak out. When she is crying, they freak out. The only one who seems to not treat her like that is Aeron. 

She imagines how freaked out they are back at home. 

They must be going crazy trying to hunt her down. She knows it… Not only because she is the leader, but because she is small, naive and weak to them…

=💎=

Time went by as 9 o’clock pm, Jack and Hana were at the Octavinelle dorm. It didn’t even look like a dorm! It looked like an adult club bar to them. Even his office feels as if they were in some ocean bank theme place!

Hana was face to face with Azul Ashengrotto. The persuader scammer! She is not sure if she’ll beat him, but she must try to prove a point that she cannot be viewed as lowly.

“I’ll make a deal with you then!” Hana announced.

“Wha– Hana!!” Jack exclaimed.

Azul smirks at her confidence, “Oh is that so? Now we’re going off somewhere interesting.”

Hana gave him a scowl,

Floyd commented “Eheh~. Little Shrimp you got guts~.”

“Now to discuss shall we? But first things first dear Hana. From my understanding. You don’t really possess any magical powers other than your diamond. It’s something useful but it’s not as useful to me. You’re not gifted with a beautiful voice nor are you an heir to any kingdom. You’re just a simple land creature girl.”

Hana started to pout, “Thanks…”

He then continues, “But there is one thing you have that I want. I would need considerable collateral.”

“And that is?” Jack crossed his arms.

“Hmmm I don’t know… Perhaps to have the rights of the Ramshackle dorm that Hana is holding up.”

She gasped a bit. The Ramshackle?! No. What about the ghosts?

Jack began to say something until something… or someone burst through the door.

“SIGN ME UP!!”

Hana’s eyes widened behind her at Grim, “Grim!!! Have you been there for the longest time?!” She sees him covered into bubble soap too.

“I’m tired of this CRAP!!! My fur isn’t some sponge!!”

Jade raised his voice, “Eavesdropping on others shall not be tolerated, Grim. Floyd, please do the honors and get him out of here.”

“Okay~!” Floyd started to walk over to the poor creature that flinched as Hana watched in horror, “No! Wait!” She exclaimed.

“Now, now you two,” She looks over to Azul making Floyd froze to look back, “Hana, your one and only resident is fine with this. Will you accept the contract with me to offer up the Ramshackle?”

“Hana!! Help me!!” Grim whined in plea

“Hana! Think about this through! He is trying to trick you!”

Hana could hear at the back of her head of Grim whining, begging her name and to help him.

While Jack is convincing her not too. 

What rings within her head is her mother…?

“...If you show yourself standing up to assholes who’ll toy with you. You’ll show them who's boss…”

She started to frown, “What are the conditions?”

“Hey!” Jack exclaimed.

Azul makes a smug, “Go to Atlantica Memorial Museum and retrieve a certain photo within three days.”

“Y-You want us to steal!?” Hana screeched. She even heard Jade make a slight gasp.

“Not an art exhibit. What I want you to steal is a photo that was taken years ago commemorating Prince Rielle’s visit to the museum.”

“a photo? Where is this piece?” Hana asked.

“Why have us go through the trouble?” Jack questions.

“It’s located in the sea of Coral Reef. Atlantica Memorial Museum.”

Jade leans next to Hana with his hand to his chest to inform them, “The cultural heritage from the mermaid princess’s Cornucopia and her twenty thingamabobs are collected there so it’s a famous sightseeing spot.” He gives a sweet smile, “it won’t be like trying to find gold dust at the bottom of the ocean.”

“Oooh yeah~ didn’t we go once I. Elementary school?” Floyd adds in the conversation.

“Hold on,” Jack says, “If it’s at the museum, it's at the bottom of the ocean. How are we supposed to get it if we can't breathe underwater?”

“Yeah! What he said!” Grim shouted as he jumped onto his desk.

“We’ll then,” he got up from his chair to grab off from one of the shelves a bottle “I shall provide you a potion that will allow you to breathe underwater.” He has a clear shark eye shell bottle with a long neon green liquid inside. He hands it to the girl.

“Because it is said that the Sea Witch even provided the unfortunate mermaid princess with legs to meet her human love. It’s important to be benevolent, you see.” He chuckled while Hana and Grim were looking at the bottle.

“So have you made up your mind?” Hana’s eyes switched to him, looking a bit impatient, “I am a busy man. So please hurry up and make your decision. Well… Well ?”

Hana looked down to the bottle then Grim switched to Azul with a determined look into his eyes, “Once I win, you won’t try anything to trick us in the end to take back your words, right?”

Azul looked as if he were appalled, “What kind of benevolent dorm head do you think I am? I won’t do such a thing. Once it’s done. I won’t try anything.” He makes a kind smile as if it were the answer. She wasn’t sure. He could be lying yet he could be keeping his word.

She held her back straight, “Okay. I’ll sign!”

He snaps his fingers for a golden contract to appear with a fish bone pen for her to sign. “Wonderful! Sign your name please.”

He takes it and writes her name down. As she finished. Her full name started to glow as if it was engraved. It vanished away in thin air. Azul chuckled again in amusement, “Now that I have your signature. I think this concludes our meeting. If you made it back with the photo by the end of sunset within three days, I promise to release the 225 students. But you’re not able to, you have to work with the rest of the anemones.”

She crossed her arms, “We’ll see about that!”

“Jade, Floyd. See our guest out. I will be enjoying these three days from now.”

Hana held her tongue before saying anything. Jack also got up. They were taken out of the Octavinelle. However, Jade and Floyd went with Hana and Grim to Ramshackle…

Jade and Floyd analyzed the inside of the old building. “Oooh,” Jade mused, “This is my first time inside of the Ramshackle. I’m sure we can tidy this places up. It would be perfect for a second location of Monstro Longue since it’s so close to the school.”

Floyd looks at Hana with a grin, “Ghosts live here too? Haha that seems like fun.”

‘ Hope they will scare you away! ’ Hana thought. But she would doubt it would make things better. 

“Why did you come all the way here with us?” Grim asked standing her Hana as if to protect him from the eerie twins.

Floyd crossed his arms, “Since you signed the contract to put up for this building…” 

“Unlike the other contracts, you did hand over an ability. Therefore we are confiscating the dorm.” Jade explained shortly

“What?!” Hana and Grim exclaimed loudly.

“Why not just wait until who wins or loses?” Hana asked

“Oh that won’t do. Until you have held up your end of the bargain, this dorm will temporarily be Azul’s,” Jade grins “I'm afraid we cannot allow you two to stay here during this time.”

Floyd then mentions, “We’ll let you guys get your stuff first before ya go.”

Jade nods, “Once this place becomes Azul’s we’ll be disposing of your personal items. So please do that in the meantime.”

“Haha~ don’t worry once you win . You’ll have everything back.” Floyd laughed a bit.

Grim exclaimed as he ran over to the upstairs while yelling, “NOT MY TUNA! GOTTA GET MY TUNA!”

Hana sighed, “Ha… I don't really have much so this will not take as long.” She hurried over to get her things in a bag. Her pajamas, her spare uniforms, toothpaste with toothbrush, textbooks and school supplies. She did help Grim pack his tuna. They were right outside of the Ramshackle. 

Floyd waves, “See ya little shrimpy and baby seal~. Safe travels~.”

Hana started to mention, “Wait, you’re not going to tell us where to shelter?”

Jade started to answer with a gentle smile, “You can reserve at the Octavinelle guest room for 10,000 madol a night.”

“W-We won’t…” Hana slipped her words out. She already gave away the Ramshackle and that was enough.

They slowly closed the door as Grim and Hana were halfway leaving through the gates. Demon jolts up, “WAIT. He called me a baby seal?! Does he mean I'm a baby seal?!”

“That’s what you’re worried about, Grim?! Look at us!” She hugs herself as the wind is rushing through them. Grim was shivering from the freezing atmosphere.

“A-Are we gonna sleep in the cold?” Grim hugged himself as he was still holding his bag.

She shivered up as they were both walking over to the front gate, “W-We need to find somewhere! Maybe Crowley can help—“

“Hey! Hana! Grim!”

They looked over to see Ace, Deuce and Jack hurrying over to them.

“Fyha! Did you guys come all this way to help us out?” Grim smiled.

Ace placed his hand to his nape, “Well, Grim aside. If Hana doesn't have a place to stay. We’re also the reason too. I wouldn’t be able to sleep if they were caught in the cold or something out here.”

“You’re not straightforward.” Grim frowned.

“We’ve talked with the Dorm head. If you’re cool with a first year four room we can at least give you a place.”

Jack liked to Deuce, “you plan to shove two people into a four person into a room? Isn't that a little since… you know,.” He took a glance at Hana before coming back to Deuce. “There are no vacant rooms?”

Deuce shrugged, “There won’t be any people getting held back or dropping out. Our dorm is completely full. Ace and I can offer our bed for her while we sleep on the floor.”

Jack looks at Hana, “… Then do you want to come to Savanaclaw? Even though I said I would have your back dealing with Azul. I ended up unabling to do anything.” He cleared his throat as his cheeks darkened a bit, “ they still owe you for the magift tournament stuff so I don’t think Leona will refuse.”

Hana smiles sweetly to him, “You did the best you could! I made my own choice in this mess. It’s so sweet of you though!!”

Deuce a playful “Oooh?” With a playful smug. 

“Yeah Jack is actually a pretty nice guy~.” Ace grinned teasingly.

“Even though he doesn’t want to admit it.” Grim cocked a smile.

Hana was at a complete loss, raising her brow at the three. Jack scowls at the three, “D-Don’t get the wrong idea! It would be a pain If Hana beats Azul the next period comes around!”

“Alright, alright. We’ll leave it as it is!” Ace grinned. You’ll probably get better rest if you go with Jack’s idea. In our dorm. We either sleep on the floor or you have to share a bed with Deuce and I,” he makes a playful smug to her, “Ah maybe you prefer that.”

Hana’s face turned bright red “I-I-I- I would rather not!!— Jack! Can I go with you!” She whined a but to Jack as he frowned to the redhead that started to laugh,

“It’s a joke!”

Jack rolled his eyes, “Then let’s go back to the dorm. It’s almost midnight…”

She nodded, “Okay!,” she looked at the duo, “I’ll see you guys tomorrow!”

“Okay, goodnight!” Ace smiled

Deuce nodded, “Goodnight” The two wander off, Deuce smacked Ace behind his head further away while Hana and Grim followed Jack to the Savanaclaw dorm. It didn’t make things any better at inside territory of Savanaclaw,

=💎=

“No.” Leona said with his arms crossed.

Hana sighed. She thought he was more … reasonable. She guesses she has bad judgment.

“You didn’t have to say it so quickly….” Jack mumbled.

“We don't allow pets in this dorm. Cause they’ll shed everywhere.” Leona shrugged simply.

“HEY! You got more fur than me!” Grim cried out to argue, Leona just ignored him.

“This is this and that is that.” Ruggie chimed in to shrug. Hana looked like his hands were bandaged up.

“Pretty much. We haven't cleaned the vacant rooms in months, so they’ve just become junk collectors.” 

“That’s so gross!!” Hana exclaimed.

“Where the hell did you think you were going to put them in?” Leona looked at Jack.

Ruggie popped in on an idea, “Oh! I know! How about Leona’s room.”

“HUH?!” The four exclaimed.

“Oi! Ruggie. You better be joking because I ain’t laughing.”

“But Leona, you’re used to having servants in your room all the time, right? Think of it as a win-win for them to take care of you as payment.”

Hana could have sworn she made a ready eye at that. He didn't seem like he changed from before the Overblot than how Riddle did.

“Ruggie you…” Leona growled at him. Hana flinched at that.

“Hey now, I’m still injured from the magishift tournament! I still have to drink my potion to restore my magic ya know! I went as far as putting my life on the line for you! My condition will be better if they would help us out!” Ruggie was trying to persuade him by pointing to the bandages on his arm.

“Damn you’re annoying…”

“Hey now~” Ruggie laughed.

“S-So, can we?” Hana asked.

Leona looked at them with a frown. He then thought of an idea as he began to speak, “I’m not letting you in that easily, kid. Oi boys!” He called out to “get out here.”

“Eh?!” Hana exclaimed. 

The three boys walked over, “You called?” One spoke.

The other shouts, “HEY! It’s those guys that spied on us from the magishift!”

“HAHAH! The prey came all the way back here!”

Hana looks at Leona, “Are you serious?!”

“What? Are you actually scared? If you can beat those residents I’ll have no problem letting you stay to help you out. Even if it’s just for three days, I don't let weaklings in my dorm.”

“Jeez he definitely reminds me of my birth mom…” Hana mumbled. She breathed in, “Okay! But first,” she holds out her Diamond to chant out her transformation into her guardian form. “Just for my own protection!”

“The hell? Why did she suddenly change outfits for no reason?”

“Forget that! I sense some power energy from her all of a sudden?”

Hana glared at them, held her hand out for her new wand to conjure. “I’m ready! I won’t hold back! We got this Grim!”

“FYNA! Let’s go!”

The three charged at them, Hana and Grim dodge the attack. Told Grim where to aim while dodging some throws. She successfully had Grim use flames when they were distracted and for Hana to chant for her wand to shoot them. It wouldn’t be like phantom blots but for them to get a critical hit.

Leona frowned to see Hana and Grim high five each other as the others were down. “Getting your asses handed to you by some herbivores… Disgrace...”

One squealed from the floor, “We’re so sorry!”

Hana reversed back into her regular NRC uniform. “So Leona, are you going to take us in?” Hana grinned confidently.

“Not as weak as you think huh?!” Grim smug

“Ughh… it feels like babysitting.” Leona mumbled, “if you make any slightest noise. I’ll throw ya out, got it?”

They nodded with big smiles on their faces.

Ruggie looks at Jack, “Well then Jack. Can you get the futons up to Leona’s room?”

“Sure.” Ruggie laughed underneath his breath.

Hana and Grim followed Leona to his bedroom. It was sort of a mess. But this was better than Allen’s room in her opinion. Jack placed two of the futons in the room. Jack took Hana to the bathrooms to watch out for her as she changed into her short sleeve gray shirt and pants pajamas for the night. She loosened her hair from her twin tails. She brushed her teeth, she was walking out as Jack noticed.

“Thank you for watching out for Jack—“ she got off balance as she took a step, Jack grabbed her by the shoulders to stand still.

“Hana! You, okay?”

“Haha! Yeah,” she steadies herself, “I must have used a bit much of my powers on those guys.”

“Well, be careful. You don’t want to end up like...” Jack tried to say Hana nodded.

“Yeah know… It’s sort of weird since this place has more magic than home. It’s so weird to compare it.”

“What was your home like?”

“No magic at all. Society is filled with non-magic users. It’s usually mentioned in books, tv shows or movies. I only got my powers from this diamond from my step mother. But it’s the number one rule to not use magic outside at all unless it’s an emergency.”

“Really?! How? How do you keep magic a secret from non-magic users? That’s incredible.”

“Haha.. I kind of wondered the same. They really hide it well! It’s hard to explain…,” she started to yawn. “ I'm sorry I can’t explain it much. I’m so tired…. Thank you again, Jack.”

Jack looked away a bit but back to her, he started to nod. “You’re welcome. If you need a hand. I am here.”

She nodded with a smile to him as she went back into the room where Leona is set in bed while Grim was in his own futon while Hana crawled inside of it.

“If you two start to make any noises to disturb my slumber, I will eat you.” Within three seconds he fell asleep.

Hana and Grim flinched on the futon. They heard him started to snore into his slumber in no matter of three seconds.

Grim whispered, “He fallen asleep!”

“Sssh! Grim! Remember what he said!”

Grim frightfully closed his eyes to sleep. Hana turned herself on the futon.

‘I wonder what everyone back at home is doing…’ Hana holds onto the diamond. Curling herself into a ball.

=💎=

Earth, Somewhere:

In a dream, there was a library with floating books around.

‘What is this…?’ Someone thought.

“SOMEONE HELP!!” Someone was running down the hallway, to a library.

‘What the hell?! Hey do you need–’

A sea of blue flames surrounded them as a small furry creature with blue flame ears and a for tail appeared with a smug.

‘What the hell is that ugly thing? Oi! Who the hell are you?’

“Hehe! Think you can get away from me? If you don’t want to be barbecued on the spot you better give me– GYAAAH!!! WHAT WAS THAT?!” The furry creature got whipped by a man walking.

“This is no mere whip! It was the lash of love!” The man wearing a peak mask in a suit with feathers shouted. He looks at the person with the hood up.

‘Who the hell are you– Ahh what am I kidding? They can’t hear me….’

“Ah thank goodness. At last I found you! Are you one of the new students?” He asked the person who stuttered a bit trying to find an answer.

“I-I–”

“You shouldn’t have ran off like that! Leaving the gate on your own! Not only that you have yet to tame your familiar! Which has broken one of the rules of the school!”

“I am not their familiar!!! I am the great Grim!!” Grim shouted

“Yes, yes. A rebellious one too. Come, we must go.”

The man brought the person in such strange robes down the hall to what looks to be like a campus ground.

“E-Excuse me sir, but who are you?”

“Oh dear! It seems that you are still dazed. Perhaps the teleportation must have caused some disorientedness. Oh well, I shall explain it to you on the way therefore I am gracious! I am headmaster Dire Crowley at your service. You’re in the finest prestigious magic academy Night Raven college of Twisted Wonderland!”

‘This is so dumb… Twisted Wonderland? Sounds like a stupid title for an edgy preteen would make up.’

“D-Did you say magic?”

“Of course! Only those wizards who are chosen by the dark mirror to attend this school are summoned in this school.”

“S-So I was put into a coffin?!” The person stuttered nervously.

‘This voice… this voice, this voice…ugghh if only I could ask dammit.’

“Yes, the ebony carriage goes to welcome new students by the dark mirror. They are special carriages that the academy carries the doors to the academy.”

‘What kind of crackhead made this idea?’

As they were close to the big doors, they could hear them questioning where the headmaster went too.

“I am here!” Dire Crowley announced, “I managed to find another student that got lost. You are the only one yet to be assigned to a dormitory. Don’t worry, I shall watch over your familiar.”

“H-He is not famil–” The person mentioned nervously.

“Go on, go on.” the headmaster ordered.

The person was walking down towards the dark mirror which… looks like the mirror that the girls found in the shop, but it was bigger. The person tugged the hood a little lower, but their lips quivered nervously. They were right in front of the mirror who then looked like that giant green mask from the Snow-White movie.

“State thy name.”

“....H-Hana Fuma”

‘Wait… HANA?!’

“Hana…” The mask black eyes widened but then squinted at her that made her flinch a bit.

“I do not know.”

“Come again?!” Crowley asked.

“I do not sense a spark of magic. The color, the shape, all are none. Therefore they are not suited to be in a dormitory.”

The voices around gasped, whispering among themselves in confusion.

‘Heh, that stupid mirror doesn’t even know she has a diamond pendant. What a joke… Does she?’

“In all my years in this school! The Ebony Carriage would absolutely never take someone with no magic! There should be no mistake! Why in the world…”

Grim manages to escape Crowley’s grasp, “Lemme take their place instead! Unlike that dumb human! I can use my magic!”

“Everyone get down!” One announced.

Grim used his flames all around the chamber. One shouted that their butt was on fire!

“At this rate! It will get worse! Someone stop him!!”

Hana whipped her head around, none of these students were doing anything but to either stand away or tried to leave. But wasting their breath making comments, speaking to one another.

‘These bozos can’t do shit.’

Two students volunteered to capture the creature in a wild goose chase around the chamber to finally capture by him a huge lock around his neck. Crowley goes up to Hana, “Young man! Do something about him! It is your–”

“I told you he is not my familiar!” Hana shouted.

“Eh? It’s not?”

“How many times do I need to repeat?” Hana snapped a bit.

‘I would toss that thing in the dumpster if she had that thing.’

They took the cat demon away from the chamber as it shrieked that he would not give up.

“Right, well in that–”

“A-Also,” she pulls back her hood revealing her face, “I-I’m not a boy, I’m a girl!”

Voices around whispered again.

“It brought a girl in too? What’s up with that?!”

“Are they starting to have a unisex?”

“Idiot! We would know by now!”

“She’s kind of cute though.”

‘Slap them with my claws in their eyes.’

Hana shifted uncomfortably a bit, crossing her arms. Dire Crowley started to shriek in panic “WHAT?! You’re a girl?! Oooh I need to check with the ebony carriage later on!” He mellowed a bit, “But no matter! Dorm leaders! Take the first years to their dormitories. Hm?” He noticed looking around. “Now that I’ve just realized, I don’t see the dorm leader of Diasomnia, Mr. Draconia.”

“Huh? Nobody told him?”

“If you wanted to do that, you should have.”

“Hmm… But I don’t know the guy…”

Whispering happened again more frightful

“No way! Thee Malleus Draconia is here too?!”

“Is he seriously attending this school?!”

“Scary…”

‘This is so disorganized… How embarrassing.’

The short guy with a deep voice in the hood then said, “Aah I was afraid this would happen. It would seem the invitation has yet to arrive.”

“We’re so sorry. We didn’t mean to exclude him…”

“He’s hard to… approach.”

‘What a bunch of pussies. How long is this stupid dream?!’

“It’s fine. Diasomnia members, please follow. I just hope it doesn’t upset him.” The students left the chamber leaving Hana and Crowley alone.

“Now then, I truly must apologize, Miss Fuma.”

“N-No please! I am sorry for causing a fuss. H-How do I go home?”

“There is no need to worry about that. The dark mirror should send you back home in no time! Just stand in front of the mirror and picture your home in your mind”

She smiled happily and sighed in relief, “Thank you!!” She stands in front of the mirror.

He starts to clear his throat. “Oh Dark mirror! Guide this one back to where they belong!”

The mirror… did nothing but stare at them…

Crowley started to clear his own throat again, “One more time MHMH,” he cleared his throat again, “Oh Dark mirror–!”

“Their home does not exist in this world.” The mirror announced as Hana’s face began to pale.

“What?! This is extraordinary!-- Well. It has been for the past hour. This is the first time this has ever happened!”

Crowely walks over to her as her head whipped to him.

“Tell me exactly where you came from?”

Hana quivered her lips again to speak, “I-I came from Cliston town. It’s not a huge place but it’s near Rain Orchard and Blackpond Plaza of…”

Crowley crossed his arms, “Cliston town… I never heard of these places. I have a general grasp of all the students' locations of any place. I have never heard of this particular place before. Come, we must go back to the library.”

'The hell...'

They went to the library as he looked into a huge map of their world Twisted Wonderland.

“There isn’t anything on the map. Neither your homeland is in the maps nor its history. You’re not lying to me are you?”

‘Heh, Hana can’t even make a good lie to save her life.’

She shook her head, “No! I really want to go back! But I am really concerned that your map is so different…”

Crowley analyzed her horror, “Judging by all of this, you seem to be very unfamiliar. Either you have some bad case of amnesia or you're really from another world.”

She shook her head again, “No! I don’t have amnesia! I remember everything before I came here! I was supposed to go to Eastside high school in my second year! I was fighting a huge ink monster before I blacked out! Here lemme just..” She patted herself to check for her phone.

Crowledy blinked in confusion, “Come again? You fought a huge ink monster?”

Hana nodded, “Yes!” She patted herself around until she dug her hand in a robe to pull out a diamond. “With this!”

“A diamond?”

“I-I don’t know how the dark mirror didn’t see this. But I can transform with this! I get my powers from it but it’s limited.”

“How very strange that the mirror didn’t catch that… Do you have any identification? A license, name tags or a phone?”

“I-I-...” She patted herself again and her eyes widened more and more. “My phone is missing!! Oh no…”

 Crowley thought to ask, “Hm… do you mind transforming for me?”

“Yes! Maybe this will help! Light Diamond power up!!” She switches from black cult like robes to light blue poncho with a matching shirt with headset jewelry on her with the diamond on top.

“You…You seem to have so much power now! How could the dark mirror not see this?

“Maybe because I am still a magicless human,” She reverts back into the robes again. “This is what the diamond could give me.”

“Maybe… it still makes no sense… Even if you do have powers. I cannot let a human girl in an all boys campus. Oooh it would go down hills for the school's reputation… But I cannot let some penniless teenager out on the streets with no communication either. Hmmm… Right! There is an unused building!”

“Huh? You’re letting me stay? Are you sure?”

“Of course! The building hasn’t been used as a dormitory for a very long time! You shall stay for the time being until I find a way to get you back home! My graciousness is limitless!--”

He flinches back in surprise as Hana gives him a huge hug.

“Thank you! Thank you!!” Realizing what she did, she hops off.

“S-Sorry!”

He cleared his throat, “Not to worry! I understand! But let’s head to the dormitory! Come let us go but do tell me what your life was like..."” They wandered off, however. The vision started to blurr…

"Aeron?"

‘Huh?’

"Aeron!"

Aeron’s red eyes opened to look up, lifting her head to see it was Tvora with her black gloved hand on her shoulder. “Have you rested well?”

Aeron brushes her hand off her hand shoulder with an irritated look, “I guess. I had the dumbest dream ever about Hana.”

“Really? Care to explain.”

“Apparently, she ended up in an all-boys magic school trying to get back home with this goofball headmaster named Dire Crowley trying to help her out. And some stupid small cat with blue flames was trying to burn down some chamber. Not to mention with some kids in some kind of cult-like robes. Bunch of pussy ass bitches.”

“That’s an… interesting dream. Very strange one in fact…”

“Tell me about it. Why did I have such a dream so stupid like that?!”

“Perhaps you must be so worried about your own flesh in blood that you are hoping she is finding help.”

Aeron gave a scowl to Tvora’s poker face stare. She turned her head away with a “tch” under her breath. “It made zero sense. I’m just hoping she isn’t in a stupid situation like that dream.”

Chapter Text

Twisted Wonderland: Cafeteria

After this morning waking up at 5am for an early exercise. Leona, Ruggie, Jack, Grim and Hana went to breakfast to explain the Octavinelle situation...

Leona laugh made the girl and her small creature companion frown at him.

“This is rich! It sends shivers down my spine!”

“You’re not helping…” Hana sighed.

“There was that famous rumor about how amazing Azul’s notes were. Haa no wonder you made the deal so badly.” Ruggie sighed, scratching back his head as he leaned his crossed arms on the table.

“Does that mean you two didn’t make a deal with Azul for the tests?” Jack asked.

“Leona does seem like someone who takes the easy route.” Hana mumbled a comment before flinching at Leona’s glanced over at her.

“Idiot. Who in their right mind would make a deal with that cheating bastard because they want to?” Leona crossed his arms. “I have made a deal before because the situation called for it but… the conditions weren’t anything crazy.” Hana raised a brow at that.

Ruggie’s ears drooped a bit, “Yeah, he’s not the kind of guy you would rely on. But he is skilled for his wishes to come true if he can be kind enough.”

“When making a deal, the one who wants something has the disadvantage. There’s any number of ways to dupe herbivores that can’t think on their feet and will sign the contract without considering it carefully.” Leona explained as Hana was nodding at the information.

“Hm… I wonder if I am able to beat him… No! I must have confidence!” She held her hands to her chest in a fist grip. 

Leona raised an unamused brow at her. “What kind of conditions did he give you?”

“Oh!,” She snapped out of it and explained, “Well… you see. I must retrieve a photo from the Atlantica Museum before the sun sets on the third day! If I do, he’ll release the anemones from the students! They’re free! I don't do well… They’re going to be like that for a looong while.” Hana made a weak chuckle as Leona and Ruggie both looked at each other before to her.

“Well… You have my condolences.” Ruggie said.

“Hey don’t say that! we’re only just starting! We have two days! Have time.” Hana exclaimed.

“Yeah! What my minion said!” Grim shouted

“I thought you saw me as a guardian…” Hana mumbled with a teary eye.

“Isn’t the Atlantica Memorial Museum under water? How do you plan on going down there?” Ruggie asked.

“Azul gave us a potion to breathe underwater.” Hana answers holding up the bottle with the potion.

“We don’t know how well it’ll work though.” Jack told her. Hana knew he was right. They hadn't tried it out when they left the Octavinelle dorm since they were kicked out of the Ramshackle. 

The hyena boy shrugs and slouches back a bit, “If it’s from Azul, it probably works just fine. I don’t think his pride would let him make a subpar potion”

“I hope you’re right…” Hana responded in an unsure tone.

Leona hesitated before small smug at the first year students, “Then shouldn’t you hurry up and get a move on? Time is ticking.”

“Ah! You’re right! We need to get there as soon as possible!” Hana hops up from her seat along with Grim who hopped onto the floor.

“We’ve got three days. There’s no time to chitchat.” The wolf boy stood from the table as well. 

“Yeah! We’ll meet up with Ace and Deuce on the way! Let’s go!” Grim encouraged them. The three hurried out from the cafeteria to go find Ace and Deuce to meet up at the mirror chamber to try out the potion and into the mirror portal to go to the underwater sea to Coral Sea.

They stood from the mirror. Trying the potion after it kicked into for them to hurry to go through the mirror into the underwater world. They started to breathe the ocean salt water like they would how to breathe air. It was scary for Hana at first, but she did not drown.

The gang blinked at each other floating into the deep sea around as foam of bubbles were surrounding themselves to breathe into the salty water.

“W-We’re fine!” Deuce announced.

“Yeah you’re right!” Grim said swimming a bit.

“ We’re actually breathing right now.” It was surreal to Jack as his eyes analyzed the underwater plants.

Thick rocks around like an art piece with coral and seaweeds sticking out. Hana swam over to take a closer look as a smile beamed on her face, “Wow! This is so beautiful!! I always see underwater life with pictures on google but seeing it in person is amazing!!” 

“Look at the Coral reef! It's an amazing view!” Ace pointed with a grin, “If Cater were here he would be all “Grammable!” and would be snapping pics!”

She whipped her head to the boys, her pigtails floating around. “If Yuko were here, she would be in her glory! She would want to be here forever!” She giggled at the thought.

“Is that one of your friends from Earth?” Deuce asked.

“Yes! She loves everything about the ocean! She even got a part-time job at the Aquarium in the summer! My friends and I would go see her at times! She would tell us some facts about some sea animals and would go crazy over dolphins!” Hana explained happily but then shakes her head to focus! The photo! “Wait! We don’t have time! Let’s go to the Museum.”

“Fyna–!” Grim tried to move forward but ended up floating around as if he were a piece of paper in the wind. “I can’t move like this!”

“Ah! Grim! I’ll help you!” Hana swims over to grab him, "Just peddle your arms and legs-- Not too fast!! Slowly!"

Grim tries to swim slowly while being annoyed, he slightly had his upper body up. She giggled a bit from the small creature's annoyed look.

"You'll get the hang of it!"

After a while of swimming to their destination, they managed to find the tall building of the Atlantica Memorial Museum.

“I think I see something…” Deuce announced with his hand to his forehead as they swam further.

“W-Wow!! I can’t believe I am seeing the actual Atlantica building!! This is so cool!!” Her blue eyes sparkled at the architecture.

“Fnya! There’s a bunch of guards over there! Their legs look like fish!” Grim commented.

“They’re mermaids, Grim!” She told him.

“You mean merfolk?,” Jack corrected her before continuing, “I can’t believe there are actually living people under here..”

“It’s so cool!!” Hana couldn’t stop grinning. This world keeps getting better by the minute. It lasted for as soon as she saw a shadow slithering by that made her blink. It made jump a bit into a stone when she heard a familiar voice.

“Aaaaaaaaah~! They are here~! Little Shrimp and the crew~!”

“Greetings everyone. How do you like it here under the sea?”

“EH!? No way!” Hana shrieked, whipping her head around.

Grim started to scowl, “These voices are… The twins!!” 

“That’s right~!” 

Everyone’s eyes widened at the twins that had a totally different form! Their legs were long slithering like snake tails. Their form was scaled with white and teal colored long merfolks.

“Ah! You guys are merfolks too!” Hana exclaimed, pointing out the obvious. 

Jade chuckled a bit at her reaction, “Correct. While on land, we have a potion to turn us into humans so we can walk on two feet.” Swimming with them. She flinched as Ace’s eyes widened at the length of their long tail swimming by.

“Woah!! You’re fricking long! How tall– I mean long are you?!” Ace exclaimed.

“Are you sea snakes or what!?” Deuce asked, his eyes widened at the tails.

Floyd swims by them too, “We’re moray eels~!” 

“Why the hell are you guys here?” Grim glares at them

“Grim, it's so obvious!” Hana exclaimed.

Floyd laughed and replied, “Hahaha! We came to get in your way!”

“That’s what I thought!” Ace scowled at them trying to swim away a bit from them.

“C’mon let’s play around~!” Floyd laughed.

“We have no time!” Hana shouted, “Light Diamond power up!” She transforms into her usual uniform. She held her small rod with a black claw like crystal, aiming at the twins. “I will protect you, Grim!”

“Fyna! Don’t make me sound helpless!!” Grim complained.

Floyd’s eyes wide in surprise with a grin. “Waaah~! Little shrimp energy is a lot brighter than before. interesting.” 

“My, my. How unexpected. Let’s see what you can do, Prefect.”

The twins started to swarm, swimming around them. Grim tried to use his magic to spark at them. Jade successfully dodges them. Hana thought it was hopeless since they are underwater and the aims of the attacks wouldn’t exactly hit them. She would try to deflect any magic hitting them by the twins with her magic. They were trying their best to use magic underwater to shoot them at the right time. But for them it kept missing, not because the water…

"No way!! Why is our magic missing them?!" Deuce complained.

“I got this. HA--!! What?! My magic changed direction!!” Jack shoots their magic but with a close eye, it swiftly bounces off from Floyd as he grins,

“Eeeh? Now you have good eyes! It’s my unique magic, Bind the Heart! When you try to attack with your magic it will simply bounce off me.”

“That’s so not cool…” Hana whined a bit.

“Floyd, you shouldn’t give them information about your unique magic.” His twin lectured.

“It’s not like they’ll do anything about it.”

“Hm, true.”

Floyd then slithers through over to Hana and Grim. Hana squealed, using her arms rapidly to move away from him, “Now hurry, hurry! You better run away or I will catch you with my tail to wrap you around with~! Who should I squeeze first~?”

“NOT ME!!!” Hana shouted in horror.

She used her wand to aim at him to shoot magice at him for the merman to swim back away with a laugh.

Jack swam to her side for aid, “These guys are enjoying the hunt!”

Hana looks at him, “Let’s retreat!! It’s useless right now!” She flinched a bit hearing Floyd’s laugh. 

“No matter what you do, it’s going to be the same no matter what!”

“We’ll be patiently waiting for your next visit.” Jade said with a kind tone.

“You will get your asses handed next time I see you!!!” Grim shouted at them before they retreated back to the mirror champion. Jack, Hana and Grim went back to the Savanaclaw dorm to discuss with Ruggie and Leona…

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“You told us to hurry up!!” Grim snapped at Leona and Ruggie, outside of the Savanaclaw.

Leona shrugged, “Hmph, nobody said anything to jump into the ocean without a thought. How clueless. I meant to use your head to come up with a plan.”

“Leona, did you by any chance knew these guys were merpeople?” Jack asks.

“Pretty much.” He shrugged.

“Last summer, I remember Floyd was in his merform and it’s not fun when he comes at you in the water…” Ruggie sighed.

Hana glares at the both of them, “Why didn’t you guys say anything?!”

He glances over to the angry girl, “Weren’t you guys the ones who left without asking?,” Leona starts to put up a mischievous, “if you kindly asked, I would have given you some information.”

The girl couldn’t believe he would be this cruel! Was it because we stopped him from the horrific act of hurting someone?! Jerk!

She started to snap at him, “But you knew! You could have said something so we didn’t have to stay with you! Is this payback from the magishift?!”

Ruggie laughed, “Yeah, yeah. You should have asked before doing anything! You guys wouldn’t survive in the savanna.”

“You guys are a bunch of bullies!” Grim grumbled.

“I should have known Azul would get in our way…” Hana mellowed, looking off to the ground.

“Azul’s underlings will do anything to get in your way of completing the contract. So I heard from others.” Ruggie informed with his hands behind his head.

Grim started to groan, “Ughhh, if Hana loses. I am going to lose both of my paws working hard then ever!” 

Hana makes a weak smile to him, “I-I’m sure we’ll figure things out… I hope…” Leona blinks to Hana’s sorrowful look. To him reminded him of how sad Cheka would look when he would be upset… Ugh… not another annoying one.

“Azul’s unique magic is “It’s a Deal”,” Hana blinks to him, “He can take one ability if you sign a special contract. If there’s anything that breaks the contract, the one will be obedient under Azul’s control.”

Hana nodded, getting the information. 

“It’s magic that’s hard to activate but has big results if you do… He’s vicious.” Ruggie added

“Azul can use that ability to take the one that signed the contract.” 

“So that’s the reason why he could do a bunch of abilities! What a fraud!” Jack exclaimed.

“His unique magic is pretty high level so I wouldn’t call it a fraud.” Ruggie argued a bit.

The dorm leader says, “I’ve never put one of my abilities on the line for a deal. I can't tell you how it works.”

“What did you use then?” She asked.

“It doesn’t matter.” Leona rolled his eyes in anger. “As long as he has the contracts up. It’s still effective. So that’s why he uses deceitful language when drawing up the contracts.”

“Which makes impossible conditions… it’s how it goes.” The hyena boy shrugged his shoulders.

“The best way to beat Azul is not to sign a deal with him.” The older beastman stated states.

The small creature whined a bit mellow, “Fnyaaaa what do we do?”

Hana held her fists with a determined tone, “We just have to figure it out. I can’t let that jerk win!”

“Exactly. You have to use “this”,” The dorm leader poked his own head with his finger, “To beat those stronger than you. But yeah if I were in your position. First I would try to figure out a way to tear up those contracts.”

Hana nodded with a smile, but Grim whined, again “But aren’t they impossible?”

“Ughh You are clueless. There is no such thing.”

“They are the types to get scammed and not see the simple red flags.” Ruggie’s ears drooped a bit with a frown.

Hana looks to the second year and asks, “So you’re saying he may be lying.”

“Of course. It’s a performance to them knowing that they can’t do anything about it.” Ruggie laughed.

“So there is a weakness!” Hana used her hand to hit her palm as if she figured it out.

Leona states, “Every spell has a weak point. There is no such thing as no weakness. No matter how great the power is. Azul’s unique magic being “impossible” is just not.”

“Rather than challenging the twins, we need to seek out the weak point. Is that what you are saying?” Jack looks to his dorm leader.

“It’s a good idea we need to take! The leech twins were impossible.” Hana shivered from remembering how terrifying Floyd was.

Leona crossed his arms as he looked at each of the first years, “In general they are the bad guys who tricked and took the abilities away from the herbivores. Why hold back? It may be cowardly or a street fight, but it’s your win if you want the contract.”

“That’s Leona! He’s a coward down to the bone!”

“Have you learned from before?” Hana asked.

“I told you, I always give my all.” He shrugged.

Jack then mumbles, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth...”

Hana turns to Jack, “Let’s aim for his contracts!”

“Right! We got two days! Let’s do our best everyone!!” Grim uses his fist up in the air.

“Do your best kiddos.” Leona shrugged walking off to his dorm with Behind him.

Hana then asks for their tracks to halt “You’re not gonna help?” He turned his head over to her.

“Why should I? I gave you hints. The rest is up to you. Bye.”

Ruggie grinned, “I’m also out. Good luck to you three!” Two left walks off leaving them alone.

“Heartless jerks! I’m the one suffering!” Grim whined a bit.

“Jeez Leona is my birth mother…” Hana sighed sadly again.

Grim looks at Hana, “I remember you mentioning that before. Why do you keep saying “birth mom”?”

“O-Oh! Don’t misunderstand! I call her my birth mom because she gave me away when I was a baby. We managed to find each other at some point through my stepmom when she gave me the powers to become a guardian. It was kind of complicated… But! I think we are starting to get along!... I think…” She said while rubbing the back of her head in confusion. Making Grim squint his eyes at Hana.

“I think” doesn’t sound right…” He commented.

“Well, she is kind of tough, she lets me train with her back at home. It was super hard to learn from someone like, But from that I can manage to self-defense. She can be kind, she is just way too stubborn…”

“I see…,” Jack spoke then began to ask, “What is the purpose of being a guardian?”

She explains with her hands to her chest, “Our purpose is to help people who have consumed the bad negative energy to the point it becomes their worst enemy of what we call the "ink monster". Like here it is called the overblot. But the difference from my world is that there is a lot more magic here. It’s scary…”

“How were you chosen?”

She began to smile softly, “Like I said before, my stepmother has told me that I had a pure soul… Not only was my birth mom a great fighter. She knew something within me, so she gave me the diamond that sort of changed my life.” She smiled a bit, “She’s the one that raised me herself, all alone. I can’t imagine what it must have been like. I am so grateful for her! She is the best!!” She smiled but looked to the side a bit, “Right now… I wonder if she is alright right now… She must be so scared for me like my friends must be.”

Jack gazes at her eyes lowered to the ground with her lips turning down words, “Geez... It sounds like a lot you’re going through a lot on ..earth. I can’t imagine the numerous blots that have happened.”

She shot her head up to him, “Oh, I can’t either. Without me there too...” She started to yawn a bit. “I’m so tired… We need to have a fresh start tomorrow!”

“Right! We need to let Ace and Deuce know about this too!” Grim agreed.

Hana and Jack agreed with him. Like any other day, Hana still wonders what her friends must be doing on earth right now...

Earth, Yuko’s home bedroom:

“Shut up! I do not!” Allen cackled.

“DO SO!!! You definitely have a crush on that long redhead girl from lacrosse!!” Yuko poked her shoulder teasingly.

“Hmmm maybe I do! Are you happy?” Allen raises a pillow and hits her with it. Yuko used her arms to deflect the pillow. “HA! Didn’t hurt– GAH!!!” Another hits her face. They were on the floor of the bedroom with sleeping bags. Wearing their own pajamas and having their own pillows. Yuko wore a Stitch onesie, Allen wore a short sleeve t-shirt with red pajama pants, Aimi wore black short sleeved shirt with matching pants and Kira wore a silk buttoned pink pajamas. 

“Nice shot!” Aimi laughed while lying on her front inside of her sleeping bag.

Yuko grips the pillow, “Rude!! You just don’t want to admit it!”

“Hey I’m not partially in the closet you know!” Allen giggled

“Mhm!” Yuko sticks her tongue with a smile.

“I think you and Veronica would be a good match.” Kira nodded with a kind smile, tucking her a strand of her pink hair behind her ear that was armpit length. Sitting on her sleeping bag.

Allen’s cheeks were bright red, “Can we not talk about this anymore.”

“Your face is getting red.” Yuko wiggled her brows at Allen. The blonde grabbed the pillow again to hit her again.

The silver haired girl used her arms as a shield as she used the pillow to hit her again and again. Soon stopped as they were both laughing.

“Can we change the subject!” Allen exclaimed.

“Okay, okay! Aaahh…Let’s talk about spooky stories~.” Yuko made a mischievous grin at them.

“Oh! I have one,” Kira clapped her hands together. The three girls looked to their older friend. “Long ago, in the 1600 hundreds. There was a girl that the people thought had died but little did they know she was buried alive.”

“Wow, that sucks.” Yuko comments. Allen nudged her shoulder at that.

“Yes, but the mother had a dream of her trying to crawl her way out of the coffin. She heard her horrid screams and was begging to leave. The mother woke up and told one of the villagers to dig up her daughter's coffin. As soon as they dug it out, the girl was dead but inside of the coffin had claw marks as if someone wanted out. Even a nail was dug into the wood.”

The girl’s eyes were widened at Kira’s story.

“Jeez! That’s horrifying!” Yuko makes another comment.

“The mother must have been so devastated…” Aimi said.

“I know… I would be too. It’s one of those stories I heard from people.”

“I wonder how her mother had the dream to begin with?” Yuko paused to think, Allen raised a brow at the silvernette.

“It’s just a ghost story.”

“Ah I know, but ya know people will be weird.” She shrugs.

Aimi laughed shortly, “Like that time I had one where I was fighting a crocodile for my life.”

“Did you win?”

“No.” Aimi sighed a bit with a smile making Yuko laugh.

Kira then speaks up, “I had a particularly weird dream about us, even Hana on an island somewhere. Yuko made friends with a dolphin while all of us were fighting a blot.”

“That sounds like Yuko.” Allen laughed.

“Fish are friends, not food~.” Yuko chimed as Allen nudged her shoulder.

“Hmm…” Aimi paused for a second, “You know. Now that you mentioned blot... She did tell me she had a weird scary dream…”

The girls looked to Aimi,

“Really? Like what?” Allen asked. 

“Well…” Aimi started to explain trying to remember what Hana exactly said…

*Flashback*

…Hana and Aimi we're going through the front entrance of the mall. Hana was wearing her white sundress and Aimi was wearing her casual dark clothes.

The brunette yawned while rubbing her eye, her friend noticed but laughed a bit. “Tired?”

Hana looked at her with a weak smile, “Haha, yeah. I had a strange nightmare last night.”

“What happened?”

“Hmm there was this huge giant chimera blot monster. It had the brightest blue flames around its neck. A horrific roar too… I don’t think I’ll ever forget it..”

“Oh wow!” Aimi’s eyes widened at that before easing.

“But you and the others were with me! Along with other people. They were wearing strange cult like robes helping us. I remember trying to use my powers. I thought I was going to faint.”

Aimi shrugged and placed her hand on her shoulder, “Well it’s only a dream. I wouldn’t worry about it.”

“You are right but…,” She looked a bit tense as her shoulders slouched, “It was so scary. It felt almost real. How I was out of breath and I could feel the heat of the flames!”

“Dreams can be like that. But don’t overthink it too much– Oh! I think I see them!”

Hana smiled and nodded, “Okay! Hi guys!!”...

*flashback end*

Aimi finished explaining as the girls were looking at each other before coming back to her.

“That’s kind of freaky…” Yuko comments.

Aimi nodded, “Yeah, it was the last time I ever spoke with her.”

Kira paused then to speak, “… I find it particularly weird that it so happens on the day she disappeared. With a dream like that is pretty…”

“Hey I mean it’s just a dream, right?” Yuko smiled nervously.

“Yeah but… I hope we find her without a huge overblot problem again...” Allen sighed.

“When do we not have an overblot problem?” Yuko asked with a brow raised. 

The blonde started to shrug, “Sadly, true.”

“But speaking of which, I am going to talk with Tvora.”

“You are? About what?” Allen asked.

“The mirror. I think maybe that mirror could be linked to Hana’s disappearance. Like what if someone dragged her in and it’s why you saw the flash.”

Allen’s eyes widened at that. Kira then began to question, “How are you sure? We don’t know how she was taken.”

“I was doing research on mirrors at home and on my phone at work!”

“Yuko, you know most of those kinds of theories are mostly just based on tv shows or movies…” Kira shook her head.

“But I think this could be accurate! Hear me out! It’s so freaky I think I could be right about this!” Yuko mentions as she leaned to them for the girls to listen well, “In many cultures believe that mirrors are portals to the other world! Like dimensions or spirit worlds!”

“That’s disturbing…” Kira comments.

“So you’re saying someone from a dimension or spirit world used a mirror to grab Hana into their world… My gosh, that is so disturbing” Aimi commented.

“That’s my theory!” Yuko nodded with a grin.

Aimi brings up a point to add, “That does sound accurate. We found a speck of a blot from the mirror and Hana’s phone around it there…”

Yuko held her hand out to Aimi as she stared at Kira.

“Want us to go with you to Tvora?” Allen asked.

“Why not? We may have the chance to find Hana!” Yuko cheered.

“I’m wondering…” Kira said in thought, “If this could be the answer. Why didn’t Tvora nor Chithayu pick up on it?”

“Terra did mention that this is an ancient magic blot or whatever. Someone must be hiding Hana from us and knows we’re going to kick their butt if we get there!!” Yuko answered with a fist to her palm.

“Let’s hope.” Allen spoke, “The sooner, the better.”

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Twisted Wonderland:

The next day, Hana and the guys decided to sneak into Azul’s office to try to get the contracts. But they are locked up in a huge safe. They hid under his desk for a while Azul came in to do his counting of the contracts before leaving…

They got out from under the desk because the coast was clear.

“Woah! That was a close call!” Grim let out a breath of relief.

Jack looks at Azul’s desk, “Guys he left a contract on the table”

Ace’s face lit up, “Really? Lucky! Let’s take it and tear this thing to shreds!” Hana frowned at the contract on the table

“Hah! What an idiot!” Ace was about to grab it, Hana starts to shout, “Wait! Don’t–”

Next thing you know, Ace touches the contract for everyone to get electrocuted by the contract. Everyone was shouting out from the electric shock.

“ABABABABABABABABABA!!!” Grim shouted out.

“I-I SEE SPACE!!!!” Hana shouts. As soon as the electrocution stopped. Hana falls down to her knees as Ace and Deuce did. They heard a very familiar cackling laugh from the door.

Another voice called out. “Oh, my oh my, You guys look like you all got electrocuted~! Did you really think I wouldn’t have noticed?” He made a huge smug look at them.

Azul with Jade and Floyd at the doorway as if they were watching the whole show.

“You! How?” Jack snarled a bit.

“Your tail was popping out from my desk.” Azul pointed to his tail, “It’s so sad to see you lot were trying to steal my contract away from me. However, I did place a spell on my contract for only me to touch it and not anyone else~.”

“Y-You would really go that far?” Hana’s eyes widened as she got up from the floor as well as the others did.

“Did I not tell you? My contracts cannot possibly be destroyed.”

Floyd was continuously laughing his butt off, “I cannot stop laughing! You guys are a bunch of idiots!! Why do you keep coming back when you know the outcome?”

“Floyd, for you to laugh this much. It’s so sad.” Jade said with a mocking smile.

Azul pushes up his glasses, “Bad kids need to be taught a lesson to steal.”

“We must teach them proper manners not to do it again.” Jade nodded

“I’ll give you each a turn to be squeezed.” Floyd smiles lazily.

“No way!!” Grim shouts shooting magic at them. Floyd was deflecting it with his unique magic. Jack uses his against Azul but he deflects it and tries to hit him back with it.

“Argh… He is strong.. '' Jack clenched his teeth.

“If you can’t handle this then stealing the contract is out of the question.” Azul remarks.

Floyd laughed a bit, “Wouldn’t going to the museum be faster than this?”

“Your time is limited until tomorrow at sunset.” Jade mentions with a grin.

Hana’s eyes widened, she knew that, but it felt too quick… a weight dropped on her as her legs shook a bit as if they would give out. 

One more day…

There is no way…

“You guys might as well sleep in the infirmary after this~!” Floyd chimed.

Ace groans and decides to use his magic, “Argh!! This is annoying! Aaaa I’ll summon a Cauldron!!” He makes a cauldron appear.

“Hey don’t copy me!” Deuce complained.

Ace then throws it to Floyd who then makes it bounce off to the lock safe.

“FLOYD!!!” Hana jumps from Azul shouting, “You should have been more careful!!

“Oh sorry~!” Floyd smiled.

Azul ran over to the dial lock, “Oh gosh i hope it’s not affected…” He whips her glaring eyes at his underling, “I’ve told you countless times to be careful!!”

“Jeez! I said I was sorry! Aren’t your contracts invincible? You had it out and they couldn’t grasp it.” He rolled his eyes.

“You’re missing the point like always!”

Jade interrupts, “Guys if you don’t stop fighting, they will get away.”

They looked over to see them running out, “Haha! See ya!!”

The first years made their way out from Octavinelle like bats out of hell. They were panting from the main hall of the dormitory mirrors.

“...W-We’ve made it out!” Deuce let out a breath to breathe.

“Yeah, but that’s because Jack is a giant.” Ace said, making Jack look at him with wide eyes for a second.

“It’s just that I’m bulkier than you guys. That and wolves tend to be taller.”

“The contracts…” Hana drawled.

“We can’t even destroy them.” Deuce adds.

Jack lowered his eyes, “I guess this is all we can do today.”

Grim started to complain “I can’t believe we wasted a whole day!”

“Is there even a way to destroy them?” Ace questioned.

Hana’s stomach felt like it had sunk more and more. A shiver down her spine of a dark energy again. She looks to the mirror of Octavinelle thent to look at them.

“H-Hey guys,” They looked at her. “I’m gonna go for a walk to clear my mind. I want to make a good plan.”

Ace shrugs, “Sure.”

“Want us to go with you?” Jack asked.

“A-Actually. I want to walk alone. Thank you.” She started to walk away; she could still hear behind her head.

“Gosh she must be in a nervous wreck…” Deuce sighed

“No kidding idiot! We’re gonna be like this for the rest of two years!” Ace complained.

She was as if her thoughts were right before. Azul must have some weakness, right? He has too!! Like what Leona said! There is no such thing as the impossible!! But that dark energy… There is another blot that is going to happen!! When will it happen again?! First Azul and now a blot! What if he overblots too!? Oooh no!! This will be bad! Very bad!!

Her mind wasn’t clearing at all! Every thought comes in nervous assumptions of what could happen! If it’s not Azul, she can’t just ignore it! Someone’s life is at risk! Of course, Azul would not care at all! These guys seem to not care in this school!! It’s disheartening to her!

After a while of walking, she realized she was at a gated area. The Ramshackle.

She lets out a weak chuckle, “Of course I came here out of a habit… How am I going to win at this rate…?” She lowered her eyes and slouched over. Her face heats up as a tear pours on her eyes. Just then she sees familiar flakes of green lights around. She frowns at them in puzzlement. “Huh?” She wipes her tear with her thumb, worried if the leech twins would pop out.

“Hm?... Aren’t you...?”

She whipped her head to see the familiar tall horned man from before, “Ah!! T-Tsunotaro!” 

His eyes widened, “Tsunotaro?... You mean.. Me?”

She nodded with a genuine smile, “You told me to call whatever you like, so I had my friend Grim to help me.”

He then starts to crack a laugh, “Haha!! I can’t believe I am Tsunotaro! You really seem to know no fear!”

She frowns in confusion, “So you don’t like it?”

“It’s quite alright. I am the one who told you to call me whatever you like. I’ll allow you to call me that odd nickname.”

She nodded, “Okay! What brings you out here?”

“I was just having my nightly walk. I seem to notice this dorm has been quite lively inside. Are there more residents other than you?” He asked.

She began to sigh before explaining, “Well not exactly… My friends made a deal with Azul, so I made a deal with him to free them and other students.”

“Is that so?”

“Mhm, so I have until tomorrow to beat him before the sunset. If I don’t, he’s gonna take the dormitory away from me...” She started to frown at that. Her hand started to grip tightly.

“You seem to object to that.” He smiles a bit but drops his smile to see Hana’s anger turn worrisome as she slouches her shoulders a bit.

“I do… I-I can’t let him win tomorrow…” Her eyes began to heat up as if a tear would form.

“Do you not enjoy talking like you’ve already lost?” He paused to think for a moment to then speak, “Did you know, the walls of this dorm have some wonderfully done carved gargoyles?”

She looked up at him with a raised brow, “Huh?” She looks over to the Ramshackle of the gargoyles on top. “You mean the monster statues?”

“Gargoyles may appear like a monster carving with a sinister appearance at first glance but… They are actually gutter made so that rain water doesn’t damage the walls.”, he started to smile, “They look terrifying but they are something dearly that protects their home.”

“Huh… I never thought it like that. It sounds nice! So they’re good guys!”

“There are times when what you see is the exact opposite of reality. I would also like this place to not be so noisy at night.”

She looks over to him, “I will try to do my best tomorrow!” She held her fist up in determination. 

Tsunotaro chuckled at that, “Struggle with all of your might and prove you can protect your dorm.” He vanishes in a flash in thin air as the flakes disappear.

“Haaa… Tsunotaro is a strange character but… Opposite of reality… Hmm…” She thought as she walks back to from the area to go back into Savanaclaw.

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She kept on thinking, what Tsunotaro said was something she couldn’t get over. Was he trying to imply something? Others around her in Leona’s room were talking to one another.

“Hey! Keep away from that! I called dibs-– I mean– you don’t want to get in trouble for stealing from royalty, right?” Ruggie tried to persuade Grim from going near Leona’s wallet on a couch that was against the other side of the wall with blankets of clothes.

“Heh,” Leona snorted from laying on the bed, “You would have to be absolutely brave to try to steal from me.”

“Yeah, yeah. I’m surprised you don’t have a safe so no one can take these.” The hyena boy responded.

“Hm?” Hana blinked at Ruggie and Leona.

“It doesn't matter. You can run with it no matter what. It won’t affect me exactly.” Leona shrugged nonchalantly.

Something clicked into Hana’s head for her to scream, “AAAHHHH!!!” 

Grim jumped as well the two savanaclaw members stared at Hana as if she grew two heads.

“What happened?!” Grim asked.

“What the hell has gotten to you?” Leona asked with a glare.

Hana looks at them with a shocked wide eyed look, “THE LOCK SAFE! THE VAULT! Azul keeps the contracts in the SAFE because they are not invincible!”

“Huh?” Ruggied frowned.

Leona started to smile and laugh, “Now I see it!”

Grim frowned at them, “See what?”

“Grim! Azul got really mad at Floyd when the cauldron hit the safe! Why would he be so confident about his contracts to freak out over the vault being cracked open! The contract for us to get zapped was a trick!” Hana explained shortly enough for Grim to slowly realize and smile.

‘That’s what Tsunotaro was trying to say! He was giving me a hint!’ She thought while smiling happily.

“Yeah… what’s the point of having a safe if they are invincible?” Ruggie made a point.

“Oooh! Now I get it! We have a weak point!” He started to smug.

“But the question is, how do we not have twins in the way…” Hana siad with her hand to her chin.

“Yeah honestly you need to think of a better strategy to get past them.” Ruggie pointed out.

She looks to Leona who begins to frown, “Whatever you’re thinking, I’m not helping. Getting into troublesome stuff isn’t my style.”

“Fine! Ruggie?”

“Now way, you might as well give up.” Ruggie shrugged.

“Cold hearted jerks.” Grim mumbled.

Hana sighs, what could she do…

Earth, Somewhere:

The girls went to see Tvora along with Terra.

“I actually had thought about this theory. But I didn't think of it because of other theories that Aeron, Cthithayu and I had.” She admitted with her arms crossed.

“So, you’ve looked into it?” Yuko grinned. She makes a smug grin at Kira who only smiled a bit at that.

Tvora continued, “Not quite but we will, but the question is if that is true. How are we supposed to activate the portal to the outside world?”

Yuko opened her mouth but slowly closed it with an uncertain expression as she brought her curled up finger to her chin.

“Well…”

“And where the possible location Hana could be. I’m not expecting an answer right now. But I hope you all know that this is a slow process.”

“We know… We know…” Allen said underneath her breath.

The raven haired girl steps forward to the woman, “I know our duty is to fight the blots for now, but… Can’t we just help out?”

The silvernette frowned over to her, “Even if they ask. We have our exams to worry about.”

Tvora only looked at Aimi who made a nervous smile at the realization.

“Not yet. I know that we will ask later on but as of now, we are just barely scratching the surface. We have one clue of the mysterious ink blot and it’s a pity that there are no other clues.” The dark blue haired woman sighed.

“Should we go back to the store again?” Yuko asked.

“I believe they are currently rebuilding but I haven’t gotten any updates if they are almost done rebuilding.” Terra informed them.

Tvora begins to say, “Even so, you guys have looked in there and haven’t found anything.”

“We can look for a second time! If we can’t find anything, we’ll just leave it as it is.” Aimi stated.

“You can, but it’ll probably be a waste of time.” Tvora with her own opinion.

Allen began to speak, “Maybe we’ll find something… hopefully. Let’s plan it out because I don’t want it to mess up the sleep schedule for class.”

“Focus on your studies then we’ll cooperate. I do believe it would help us more and I hope we’ll find more answers we need.”

The girls agreed before they left the lab. Tvora mused into thought as her eyes lowered, the blonde dark-skinned woman looked at her.

“Something in your mind?”

She didn’t speak before as she glanced into her brown eyes, “I believe I may have at least have one answer that could help us…”

“What? What is it then?”

“The mention of the mirror manipulation. Like I said, I didn’t think about it until now but. But there could be another way of finding Hana.”

Her brown eyes widened for a second then switched to a serious look, “Whatever it is, please tell me now.”

The blue haired mullet looked into her eyes before speaking…

Chapter Text

Twisted Wonderland, Underwater:

Hana had another dream about the scene from the Little Mermaid when Ariel and Eric were on the boat of the pond where the eels tipped over their boat while Ursala was freaking out. It was very strange to her that it kind of resonates with her situation with Azul. Why… 

She and Grim both woke up to discussion between the first years of their new plan. They weren’t sure about their plan. But they went back underwater. The Museum was closed but it didn’t stop them from sneaking in while Ace distracted the guard…

“Prince Rielle, visiting with his friend from school…” Deuce read from the side of the wall of the picture of a small redhead merman with some merkids.

“Oh! This is the photo! Why is this photo specific?” Hana asked, rubbing her own eye and yawning a bit. Along with Grim who yawned as well.

“That's what I’m wondering…” Jack mumbled as he analyzed the photo.

“I don’t know. But let’s not waste time and take this to Azul!” Deuce said with a smile. Hana grabs the frame slowly off from the wall and sighed in relief.

“Good thing the alarm didn’t go off. It’s really just a plain old memorial photo.” Jack said. Hana was holding the frame, she looked closely at the picture frowning at the certain merpeople that looked at people. Hang on…

“Hm! What’re you kids doing here? We’re closed!” A merman shouted.

“Oh no.” Hana held the frame close to her chest as Deuce and Jack looked over to them.

“We’ve gone this far; we can’t get caught like this! We’re gonna have to knock them out.”

After trying to make it out alive from the merman guard. They got away from the museum with Ace, who left the kind guard away. They manage to get stray far from the museum.

“Did you guys get the photo?” Ace asked.

Hana held the picture frame to Ace with a huge smile, “Yes!”

Grim who floated with a smirk, “Yes! Let's show it to Azul’s face!”

“Aaah, and get some sleep too…” Hana sighed in relief at that. Ace raised a brow at her, noticing under the bags of their eyes to make him ask,

“Yeah, what happened to you guys?”

Before Hana could give an answer. The gang froze when a slithering familiar silhouette shadows upon them. their eyes grew widen, “Oh gosh please no…”

They all looked up to see it was mermen twins, “Aaaa, they’re back~! Little Shrimp~!”

Hana’s eyes widened as she held the frame to her chest as if they couldn't reach it.

“Hello everyone,” Jade said in a welcoming tone, “I see you haven’t learned your lesson yet.” He glances his orbs to the only girl in the group, “ And it seems you were able to get your hands on the photo.” Ace and Deuce were right by either side of her.

“Such hard-working kids!,” Floyd mocked, “Now, let’s take that for you to Azul~.”

Ace whispers to her, while giving each of the twins a scowl “What do we do now?”

Hana looks to Ace and Deuce then her worried gaze turned into a scowl. Glaring directly at the leech twins before holding onto the frame under her armpit while reaching with her other hand the diamond in her front pocket blazer.

“Protect the photo!”

Deuce made a smug to the twins, “Simple. Got it! I don’t know how much longer we can go about it.”

“We came this far! We’re not losing!” Jack held his fist up.

‘I just hope those two will help…’ Hana thought before she started to swim back away from Floyd.

Earth, high school:

Navin and Aimi were in study class with each other in the study hall in the cafeteria. Aimi was writing notes down from her history book. “How many have you written?”

From the table, Navin grabbed sheets of notes he has written down for a while, he made a weak laugh. “I wrote like, almost six or eight pages. Heh, it's probably not enough."

She nodded, “Okay, you mind sending me pictures of your notes later on?”

“Sure! This midterm is going to be the death of me. I’ll send them to Molly too”

He looks over to three tables away from her and these three girls. One was pale skinned with a red head, one tan girl with black hair with blonde highlights and one peach tone with blonde hair; they were all giggling and laughing among themselves.

“You got that right. I need to write more notes for the other classes and finish the final paper.” Aimi sighed.

‘Thank goodness for peace and quiet.’ She thought, however. She is mildly concerned of any blots that could happen around school. It would the worst timing ever!

“So, we’re all going to the party on Saturday?” One of the girls squealed from Molly’s group. 

“Oh so definitely! Look at this outfit I got online!” The blonde girl showed a picture from her phone to the girls and Molly.

“Wow!! So cute! You’ll look so good!!”

“I know right?” she shrugged up her shoulder with a wink.

“Yes!” Molly cheered happily, “Hey I was thinking of dying my hair blonde! What do you think?” She flipped her hair with a smile.

One of the girls made a slight hesitation looking at Molly, happy as she can be.

“Oooh, I mean. I don’t think so,” The blonde girl responded. Molly dropped a smile a bit but still stretched the corner of her lips wide like nothing. “You wouldn’t be a good blonde. It would so not be your color at all.” the girls nodded in agreement.

“Oh, I see!”

"Yeah, maybe like a red head?"

"No, she would look disgusting! Her being a blonde would be bad enough!"

The bell rings for next class,

“Ugh, if only I could go home!” Aimi whined a bit, closing her book.

“We have a few more hours. It’ll go by quickly.” Navin shrugged, putting his books in his backpack

“It feels like forever!”

As the students were walking to their next class. Aimi was on her way to her next class which was a science. She looked up ahead was Molly and the girls with her. going to the class. She started to ask the girls, “Oh hey! So, I was wondering about after this when we get to my house to study, do you guys want pizza or chinese takeout?”

“Oh today?” The red asked. “Sorry, I can’t. I have an appointment. I thought it was tomorrow.”

“Oh no it’s okay–”

The black hair with highlights responded, “Yeah but apparently, I need to do my driving lesson! I tried to switch it, but my instructor is so annoying!”

“I have to babysit my brother. I thought I told you beforehand?”

Molly was silent for a moment, looking at them. As if they were telling her this last minute, “Oh, okay! No problem! They are important to you guys! I’ll study on my own. Haha...”

“If you need any notes, I’ll send them to you asap!” The girl smiled sweetly as the three waved to her as she went to into her class where Aimi followed her into to go take their seats. Aimi sat at the front seat while Molly sat on the left side two desks behind from Aimi.

The raven-haired girl looked back a bit before turning her head away from the discouraged girl. Good thing Molly didn't notice as she was consumed with thoughts running through her head.

‘Are they avoiding me?... No Molly! You’re overreacting! It’s important! It would take a long time to reschedule. I mean, it's the second time they told them last minute. But! No matter! It won’t happen again!’ Molly tried to think positive with her finger in her curls twirling around.

Aimi felt a cold sweat down her nape, the air suddenly felt chilly. Her gut clenches as she looks over her shoulder a bit.

Dark aura was forming around her….

Twisted Wonderland, Octavinelle:

Leona and Ruggie were outside of Octavinelle with the distressed Azul standing away as he watched the lion man holding the golden contracts in his hand. 

Azul’s eyes widened at him, “The prefect… Hana… did this?” He started to frown angrily, “Why does she keep getting in my way?! Freeing them has no benefit!”

Leona shrugs, “I agree with you. Which leads me to my next point. Let’s make a deal, Azul.”

The boy’s eyes widened but tried to compose himself, “If you want these back, what would I get in return?” Leona asked smuggly making the dirty blonde hyena smirk.

“Wha-Whatever you like…test notes, graduation thesis, altering your records attendants? You name it.” He didn’t have a tone that sounded like a professional businessman. His tone is a boy with sort of a shaky voice as if someone held a gun to his head.

Leona stared at him with that mischievous smug, “I see. Tempting offer. But I won’t be handing these over.”

“W-What?”

His smug switched to anger, “Right now I have the kid’s threats over my head. If I don’t help them to get rid of these, they won’t stop shouting outside of my room every night.” He growled underneath his breath, “So letting you have the ramshackle would ruin my precious slumber.”

“You’re really doing this for that?!” Azul's eyes widened when Leona was holding the papers.

“You’ve been villianed out Azul, Kings Roar!!”

Azul shrieked as the papers turned into dust within Leona’s palms and into thin air.

Azul’s mind was racing. The golden contracts are all gone. All those people who signed it now into tiny bits of a speck! Leona and Ruggie were making comments but he wasn’t listening. He was in complete shock.

Azul opened his mouth, which sounded more like a whine. “Aaa….Aaaaa….AAAAAAHHH NO WAY!!” His tears formed around his eyes as snot was pouring a bit from his nostrils. The savanaclaw duo was shocked. Their eyes shot open to see Azul in a mental breakdown.

“After that hard work! All that effort! GONE!!!” He was whining like a toddler that’s candy was taken

“Wow! He is totally different! A-Azul! Please calm dow–”

“SHUT UP! SHUT UP!” Ink was pouring out from his mouth as he spoke, all of a sudden. The ink was all around him.

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The wiggling anemones from Ace, Deuce and Grim’s head suddenly vanished in thin water. Hana blinked at Ace’s head. “ACE! Your anemone!”

“What about–” He touched his own head and pointed to Deuce. “DEUCE! Yours is gone too! GRIM AS WELL!”

Grim touches his own head making Deuce touch his own head. “Wow! They did it!” Grim cheered.

“Huh? What’s the meaning of this?” Jade asked as he stopped slithering, questioning why they don’t have the anemones anymore.

“Leona and Ruggie got rid of the contracts! That’s what!” Hana shouted.

Floyd scrunched up his face as he exclaimed, “What? How the hell did you get the sealion to help?! There is no way!”

Hana made a sheepish smile, “Well, screaming at his ear all night did something! We promised if he didn’t help that we would scream at his ear everyday if we lost! So to prove that, we screamed so loudly he was mad when he woke up!”

“Wow…” Jade and Floyd can only utter those words.

“Jeez Hana! That’s something!” Ace’s eyes widened at that.

“I’m not scared of someone who reminds me of my mother!” Hana stated, making Ace snorted a bit while Jack and Deuce frowned in confusion of what she meant by that.

“Yeah, thanks to that. I didn’t sleep at all.” Grim mumbled while his paw was rubbing his eye making his ear twitch.

“That explains why you guys look so tired…” Deuce commented.

“Isn’t that more of a threat than a deal?” Floyd asked boredly.

“A coward for a coward, a villain for a villain.” Jack mumbled out.

 Ace grinned at the realization, “Now that we got our powers back, it’s time for payback!”

Deuce used his pen to conjure his cauldron, “HA! I got it back!”

“WAAAH!!” Grim started to whine, “I can’t even use my flames underwater!!”

“Pft! It’s not like we need your flimsy flames!” Ace mocked with a smug grin making the small demon glare at him.

Jade quickly glances over to Floyd in a calm manner, “We should go back, Floyd. They don’t have anemones.” Jade encouraged his brother, Hana uses her diamond to then transform into her guardian form. She held her dark crystal rod at them. 

“No way! You toyed with us before and you’re gonna face our full power!” Hana shouted at each of them.

“Haha! I like that spirit, Prefect!,” Ace grinned, “Yeah, why don’t you play with us some more?”

Floyd glares at them, “What did you just call me little shrimp?” He said in his dark tone. Hana shriveled up a bit. She shook her head and glared at him.

“Floyd, we should leave them be!... ugh Alright.”

Hana rapidly moves backwards as Floyd swims dashes over for Jack to use a magic pen to shoot at him catching him off guard. Ace and Deuce had the upper hand now as they were willing to use some of their magic tricks at the twins for payback! Ace shoots his magic at the Jade when tried to swim Floyd’s aid from behind and Deuce uses his cauldron to attack them too. Hana uses her magic on them with Grim.

Floyd started to whine in annoyance, “Aaah!! no fair!!”

Jade grabbed Floyd’s shoulder, “Floyd, we must hurry backs please excuse us.” The brothers swam away as Grim cheered in victory.

“Fyna ha! We did it!”

“That’ll show them!” Hana nodded with a victory smile.

“C’mon! Let’s hurry to Octavinelle!” Jack said as they swam in a hurry to go back to the chamber room.

The gang of the first years were trying their best to swim back to the Chamber and run over to Octanvinelle to hurry as if it were a goal. They went through the mirror to not expect to see that the underwater dorm was a inky floating nightmare…

“FYNA?!” Grim exclaimed along with Hana whose eyes were widened along with the three boys who were horrified. They saw Leona and Ruggie were trying to stay away from Azul who was absorbing each student who tried to run away or hide.

“A-Azul?!” Hana tried to speak but was too shocked to see him using his wand targeting a young student.

“Your lightning magic, and your athleticism! Give it all to ME!!” He shouted with a cheshire smile as the student cried, falling to the ground.

“Azul! What do you think you’re doing?!” Jade had a calm look but his tone was full of concern.

Ace and Deuce look around to see the ocean blue water was filled with negative purple dark energy floating around.

“This is bad! He is absorbing students left and right!,” Hana mumbled. “Was he this mad for losing?”

Grim started to squeal before glaring over to Leona, “Hana it probably was Leona! You probably picked on him too much! You jerk!” He yelled at the young adult who rolled his eyes.

“Oh yeah because this is my fault. You’re the ones who told me to get the damn contract.”

“This is not the time!” Hana shouted into the argument.

Azul's eyes looked over to his two companions, “Jade, Floyd! Aaah!! It’s good to see you two! Those two bastards destroyed all of my contracts! So please, lend me your strength to destroy them!” He said in a shaky tone with a smile as if he wasn’t going on full rampage.

Hana stepped in, “Please Azul don’t! With that much power you’ll overblot!” She shouted, she knows it’s too late now but she wants to do something to calm him down.

“Hana is right. You can’t control your power without your contract. It’s too much.” Jade explained shortly, the girl's eyes analyzing his two different colored eyes were worrisome that made her stomach sink in the familiarity.

She looked over to Azul who spoke slowly like a broken record, “Everything… gone… all gone…,” He made a weak laugh, “I don’t want to go back… I don’t want to be weak and lame like I was before…”

“Ummm…” Hana whipped her head over to Floyd, “Y’know, you are waaaay lamer now than you were ever before.”

Hana’s jaw dropped at his comment about him, “F-FLOYD!!!” She shrieked

Azul’s eyes darkened, broken. “Ooooh, so you are aware that I am a stupid, clumsy meroctopus after all. So, I am going to do the very best I can to be the best version of myself and nobody can stop me!” He uses his pen in mid air for the pen to spark its magic around. Making the cries of students run like hell to get away from him.

Hana’s familiar horror as Azul’s mouth and eyes were pouring out ink and a black mist floating around himself.

“The hell!? Why is there black mud coming from Azul? That’s not ink right?” Floyd stared at the very ink pouring out then looked to his twin.

Before Jade could make his own input, Hana raises her diamond magic rod to point at Azul. “He is overblotting! Everyone stand back please!”

Azul laughed hysterically as the mist started to curl up around him, absorbing until it started to melt around him, showing his overblot form. His pale skin was turned light purple, black scaled sleeves and black octopus legs were replaced than his two legs. His collarbone had corals poking out around and purple magenta lit flame on his left eye. The mist then reveals a huge woman with meroctopus legs like Azul’s, but its head had a glass like ornament with a crown on top.

“WHAT THE?! He looks so different!!” Grim shrieked.

“This is Azul’s true form. He is a meroctopus.” Jade stated with his pen out and ready.

“The hell is that behind him? How can I squeeze something like that?” Floyd complained

“Our priority is Azul to bring him back into his senses.” Leona informed him as he held his staff that he was conjured.

“Or anemones for all of us!” Ruggie said.

“Right!,” Hana pointed the rod at the overblotted former student. His power is quite strong like Leona overblot when he was taking so much power. She breathed in and stared at him with a determined look, “Azul. No matter how much of a jerk you are! I’m going to save you! Grim, distract him as much as you can! Left and right!” she held the frame tightly.

“You got it! This is what he’ll get for tricking the great Grim!” Grim shouted

Azul’s inhuman laugh made the back of Hana’s neck shrivel.

“C’mon! Let’s make a deal! Make a deal with me!” He swung his arm, making the overblot phantom behind him try to smash them with its giant black triton weapon. Leona uses his staff to shoot magic to block off the attack Grim jumping at Azul, blowing his blue flames around him.

“AAAAH!!! STOP BULLYING ME!!” He shrieked, swung his arm left for the phantom to swing out magic at them, Jade and Floyd tried their best to block it off with their magic against it. Ruggie and Ace were using his magic at Azul, making him even angrier. His eyes however were forming tears around them. He was out of control using his arm to try to smash anyone at sight! Everyone was either dodging or blocking his power. As Hana dodges his attack, Jade didn’t notice when Azul swung his arm for another attack, the triton shooting magic directly at him.

“JADE!! LOOK OUT!!” Hana shouted as she ran over to shoot her magic at the attack before within seconds, his eyes widened at the magic being blocked off from Azul’s corrupted magic.

She ran over to him, “Jade! Are you alright?!”

He looked over to her, “I am quite alright, but we must focus.”

“Right! Just distract him so I can use my magic on him to purify him back to his normal self!” He nodded as he couldn’t take his look away from his poor friend in a temperamental rampage. Grim ran back and jumped around to shoot more flames. Ace, using his wind magic to use it against Azul, tried to block it off. He seemed to be more weakened than before.

“N-No! I will not… be like before…!” He responded weakly. She whipped her head over to Jack.

“Jack! Lift me up in the air!”

She ran over to him for him to get into position. Hana jumps for Jack to use his hand to catch her boot to then lift her up in the air. Azul blinked to see Hana high up in the air.

With the frame under her arm, and the crystal rod she holds pointing it at him. She chants, for the black crystal’s sparkles of magic formed “Luminance flash!! ” The sparkles of magic shoot down at the overblot phantom and octopus man as he tries to shield off with his arms as he shrieks.

The light magic formed around Azul reformed back into his Octavinelle form as he stumbled down to the ground. Hana landed on her two feet lightly. Wiping the sweat from her forehead. She blinks to being back into that empty white space more.

She heard light sniffles.

A child sniffle like crying. Her head whipped back and forth to see a black caludron in the middle of the room. She slowly walks over to the cauldron hearing soft degrading voices.

“HAHA! It’s the ink spitter Azul~!”

“He is so lame~!”

“He is bad at hide and seek! Loser!”

“His ink makes the water so muggy! So gross!”

Hana felt her chest sink as she peaked down to the cauldron was a chubby child octopus that looked very much like Azul. He was crying non-stop.

“ W-Why… ” He responded in his childlike voice, “ Why are they so mean… ” He whined while crying.

The girl’s eyes formed a welt of her eyes water up at the sight and to hear such a thing.

“What did I do to deserve this?! ” He began to cry more and more.

Hana reaches her hand to him, “Azul…”

All of sudden a hand softly grabbed hers. This wasn’t Azul’s hand.

“Hana?”

She blinks from the empty room to the familiar white haired wolf ears, Jack. His honeycomb colored eyes analyzed her face in a concern.

“Are you alright?”

“Y-Yes! What happened to Azul?”

Jack turned to Hana to see him getting up from the ground. She notices Octavinelle’s waters was back to its natural color.

“I-I went on a rampage. H-How could this be…” Azul said in disbelief.

“Anyone would be pissed off if someone got into their way.” Ruggie said as he made a quick glance to Leona.

“HANA! It’s doing it again!” Grim shouted. Hana was puzzled at the moment before looking down to her rod that was turned from a black diamond to purple shaped like diamond with a purple with light periwinkle like tentacle around the heart tentacle.

“WAH!? Oooh How am I going to explain this when I get back home…”

“Your rod doesn’t do this?” Jack asked.

She shook her head, “No it doesn’t! AH! No time for this!,” Hana stared right to the very guy who she saved from overblot, walking over to him, “This is what I would like to call karma,” She scowls at him, “None of this would have happened if you didn’t use your magic to do something so sneaky! But even so, nobody could have those kinds of notes like you do.”

Azul frowned at her, making Ace respond to added in the conversation, “Yeah, Azul’s notes did help me get to a 90 with only one night.” 

Deuce nodded in agreement, “Yeah. It was a great secret weapon.”

Jack added in his points, “Crowley told Hana and I about you were going through the past 100 years test of questions. Can’t say I approve of what you did but your determination is crazy impressive.”

Azul smiled briefly as he looked away, “Your comments don’t bring me any sort of comfort…”

Floyd looked closely at him, “Huh? Azul, are you getting a little misty eyed?” He teased

“My oh my! Have you gone back into the ink-spitting-Azul.”

He glared at them, “You two should be under a contract to never speak!”

Hana notices the sunlight still up in the sky, then back to Azul, “Uh also,” She holds out from her armpit the frame photo that they took from the museum. “We have the photo, and the sun is still up. So it would mean that we won.”

Leona walks over to the photo, “Why the hell did you want this photo anyway?”

“Yeah it’s just an average elementary school photo.” Ruggie frowned at the picture to.

Floyd chanted happily, “Ah! This is so nostalgic! I remember we went on this field trip! There’s me, Jade,” He started to point at one of their younger selves in the photo. What caught Hana’s eye was a familiar octopus chubby child… “AAAnd baby Azul!”

The boys gasped in surprise.

Azul wailed in embarrassment, “AAAH! NO! DON’T LOOK AT THAT!!” Azul tries to go over to Hana to swipe the photo before Jade holds his back with his shoulders.

“My, my Azul. You have energy all of sudden.”

“WHAT! WHERE?!” Ace tried to look around in the photo.

Hana then points to the photo of a chubby Azul child at the corner back. “Is that him?”

“The one hiding in the corner…” Leona states squinting at the picture.

“Woah! Azul you were chubby!” Grim exclaimed with wide eyes. Hana glared at him.

“Grim! There is nothing wrong with that!”

“I’m just pointing out a fact, okay!”

“Azul! Don’t mind him! You were so round and so cute in this picture!” Hana tried to give out a positive comment on his chubby child self picture. Which wasn’t a lie. She did find chubby Azul adorable! Ace snorted along with Ruggie watching Octavinelle leader’s face ended up being red, not from Hana’s comment. But from embarrassment as he continued to wail out as if he were in pain.

Deuce analyzes Azul’s dramatic pain, “I-I understand your pain of looking back at your past. I didn’t see anything! You guys should forget too! We saw nothing!”

“D-Deuce! I-It’s totally fine to accept your past too!” Hana tried to reassured him

Jack frowned at Deuce, “You really just go with the flow, huh.”

Azul made a sad sigh, “Dammit, I had everything in the Monstro Lounge to erase my dark past! My plan… gone….”

“Azul…” Hana mellowed.

“I’ve gone through and edited every photo from graduation albums to films in photo studios. That photo from the museum was the only one I couldn’t get my hands on.”

“Y-You would go to that many lengths?!” Hana shrieked in surprise.

“Stop making everyone do your stinking dirty work!” Grim yelled.

Floyd shrugged, “I like this old Azul. There is no need to change it. You used to look so tasty!”

Hana’s eyes widened at the tall twin, to her that sounded like a concern.

“That’s not the problem!!” Azul shrieked.

“A-Azul, like I said. It’s always okay to accept the past from what it is. The past!” She tried to reassure him but he started to mellow to himself in self pity.

“Heheh…” She made a weak giggled until she realized something to shake her head, “But, like I said! Since we won and the contracts are gone. You must take responsibility! You promised me no tricks at the end! So,” She holds the picture out to him, “You must go to retrieve it back to the museum! I’ll go with you to make sure! Hope you will learn a valuable lesson from here on out!”

“Is she always goody-goody?” Ruggie whispered to Ace.

He began to sigh, “Yeah, a killjoy.”

Azul breathed in a bit, “...Understood. At least run it though some editing to erase my–”

“He really doesn’t give up.” Leona comments.

“Azul. You can’t always run from your past. It’s not how it works. Sometimes we need to accept them from what they are. No matter how many times you change it through software. Memories will not change it.”

Jade smiled and nodded, “She’s right. Memories are to be treasured.”

“So! So! When do we go to the museum? We’re all going right? I haven’t gone there since that field trip!” Floyd asked excitedly.

Hana began to smile, “I was planning for only Azul and I but we can all go! Huh?” She notices Grim sniffing around the ground.

“Uh, Grim you looking for something?”

“Hmmm…. My gourmet hunting skills are tingling!”

“Gourmet hunting…?” Hana tilted her head

“My favorite black truffle has fallen somewhere. The black rock! It’s right here! The gourmet hunter Grim has achieved its item!”

Hana’s eyes widened, “Grim! Is that…!”

“That black rock.” Leona frowns at Grim with the rock.

“GRIM! NO!” Hana shouted before she could grab the crystal,

“Thanks for the food!” He began as he took the whole rock into his mouth with a loud crunch. Eating it in harmony as Hana was on her knees with teary eyed look at him. She was so close to grabbing it.

“Please stop eating that stuff!” She shouted.

“There is no point in stopping that little walking garbage disposal.” Ace commented. The girl notices Leona was staring at Grim. He wasn’t annoyed or angry nor amused. He notices Hana was staring at him, “Has he been eating those rocks off the ground?”

“It was only uh.. Twice? Why?”

He shook his head, “...It’s nothing.”

She wanted to ask why, but she had a strange feeling he wouldn’t answer still. But something about him staring at Grim made her gut go off edge. She looks to Grim who was happy with the taste of the rock. She must look closely at him…

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Earth, High School:

Later on science class over for the instructions of the midterm paper,

“Alright be prepared. If I don’t have the paper by next week, you’re going to get a warning!” The teacher instructed.

Molly was walking down the hallway, 

“Hey! Molly!” Aimi shouted. The curly haired brunette turned herself around to Aimi.

“If you need help with studying. You can come with me to my house, Navin is going to bring some snacks.” 

Molly started to smile, “Sure! I can let my mom know.”

“Cool! Since you’re an hour away you caaan come at 3?”

“That’s perfect! I’ll see you guys then!” Molly smiled.

Molly walks off for her next class, Aimi slowly makes a sad smile.

“Oh I really hope she is okay…” She mumbled to herself to go to the next class. After some classes times go by, trying to get everything written down to study. The end of the classes, her mom came to pick her up to go home. Aimi’s chores was to clean up the house before Navin and Molly came over to study at the dining room with a table filled with books.

“No, it’s actually 1941! Not 1940.” Navin corrected Molly’s notes.

“Oh! Right! Silly me, thanks!” She grinned sheepishly as she erased her answer to replace it.

“Aaah, my brain is fried. Let’s take a break.” Aimi whined a bit.

“Yeah, I agree.” He sighed.

“The pizza should be almost here.” Aimi reassured as she looked at her phone. It was 4pm.

“I don’t think I could eat! I am so anxious.” Molly mellowed a bit.

“I don’t think we all can. It’s such a pain in the ass.” Navin commented.

“Guess I’ll have the pizza to myself!” Aimi grinned, making Molly giggle.

“Ah, yeah! Hana you think– oh.” Molly turned herself around to a chair next to her.

Navin snickered, “Why did you bring up Hana suddenly?”

“I don’t know! Haha! My brain is really fried!” Molly laughed a bit, “Aah, it’s so weird without her. Usually she would give some reassuring thoughts...” Molly said she lowered her eyes to the table.

“Sometimes I worry about her.” Navin admitted.

“You said it.” Aimi replied to him agreeing.

“If we could. We could facetime with her. But she really hasn’t responded to her phone at all.” Molly stated with a concern gaze at two of her friends.

“Honestly… It gets sketchier by the day.” Navin said his own thoughts too.

“Has she contacted you at all?” Molly looked to Aimi,

“U-Uh no. She has not.” Aimi knew she wasn't lying but the fact that it kills her to know she was taken still holds her on edge.

Molly and Navin mused for a brief second.

“I really hope she’s alright. Wherever she is.” The curly haired girl smumbled, she heard a ding that made everyone jump from silence. Aimi could say the same…

The boy took his phone out to see it was from someone on snapchat. “Ah, it’s just my friend.” He said with a brief smile. He clicked onto the picture, seeing his guy friends with cans and having huge smiles on their faces. “Ah, they’re partying while we’re suffering.”

“Hey, it's their loss if they fail!” Molly laughed.

He smiled a bit as he clicked onto the picture to skip. Before he could tap onto it, he saw one of Molly’s friends from the cafeteria were in the background smiling and dancing. Having fun without her. His smile dropped for a second at the realization.

“What’s wrong?” Molly asked.

He shook his head to skip the picture, “it’s nothing. Just a weird picture.”

Molly shrugged.

“Pizza is here!” Aimi’s mom announced going to the kitchen.

“Sweet!” Aimi grinned. The three got up to go get some pizza. The raven haired girl saw that the boy's face looked worrisome to Molly who was excited to have a slice of pizza.

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Twisted Wonderland, Ramshackle:

After the overblot situation, Hana and Grim got their things from Savanaclaw to finally being back home to the old Ramshackle with the three friendly ghosts.

“Oh I am so glad you’ve won!” the skinny ghost chimed happily.

“Indeed! You are a good sport! It was so odd to see more kids walking around.” The short ghost chimed in as well.

“Aw! I couldn’t have done it without the others and Grim! I was worried about you three if they won.” Hana told them as she held the blanket around herself wearing her usual pajamas. Grim was eating his tuna can as he looked over to Hana, “What about me?”

“You make me suffer too much!” She teased a bit.

“HEY! RUDE!”

“Now, now Grim, she is only kidding!” The chubby ghost reassured him.

Hana nodded, “He is right! Even if we lost, I would make sure Floyd would not squeeze you!”

“Ugh! Don’t remind me! I’m so glad we’re not there anymore! Especially Savanaclaw! I can have a good night's rest after that!” He started to yawn, “Aaah. I’m so tired… I think imma go to bed.”

“Alright, have a good night kiddos!” Chubby said happily.

Hana stood up from the couch, she looked outside for a second. “I’ll be right there, Grim. I’m going to have some nice fresh air.”

“Ugh. Do what ya want!” He whined a bit.

She walked outside with the blanket around herself. Happy to see the dead tree and the skeleton black metal fence instead of the other dorm. Not that she didn’t like it. But it was more homely being around the Ramshackle. However, she started to frown a bit.

If Crowley does find a way to bring her back home… Will she ever go back to visit?

She started to blink to see the very familiar green flack firelights.

“Oh, so you’ve returned.” She looked over to Tsunotaro himself standing by from the gate walking over to her, “I’m surprised you were able to beat Ashengrotto. You may look like an airhead but even you can get your hands dirty.”

Hana smiled a bit nervously at that comment, she couldn’t tell if it was a complement or an insult to her… She shook her head with a huge smile.

“Tsunotaro!! Wait a second!” She runs over to unlock the skull gate to walk over to him. He turned himself around to face the human. He jumps a bit as she hugs him.

“Thank you! Thank you!” She blinked, realizing what she was doing. She quickly pulled away. Tsunotaro’s eyes were widened at the sudden hug from the young girl. “I’m so sorry! I should have asked!" She shook her head with a smile at him. "I was just happy because it was your advice that helped me! I wouldn’t have figured out how to beat him if it wasn’t for you!”

He coughed a bit awkwardly before speaking, “My advice?... It was never my intention to provide some pointers.”

“Even if it wasn’t. It helped me. So, I must thank you!” She smiled sweetly at him.

He stared at her for a second before letting out mused “Hm, I’m glad to have this garden back to its peaceful way it was before. I would have loved to watch Ashengrotto’s smug fall into despair. It must have been a sight to see.” He gave a tone that sounded a bit ruthless to Hana. That made her raise a brow. It was... He switched his smug face to a poker face before Hana could ask, “...Hm, I think it’s time for me to return to my own dorm.”

“O-Okay, I hope you have a good night, Tsunotaro!” 

He smiled back at her, “Good night to you too, child of man.” He vanishes away.

“Haaa… He is so weird. But at least he isn’t rude. But the comment about Azul...” Hana mumbles to herself while walking back to locking the skull gate before going to the Ramshackle. She stopped midway as she heard the back of her head.

“...Is he here?”

“No! He’s not anywhere around here either.”

“He might be over in the west building.”

She turned her head over to see two of the Diasomnia students from before when they were in Leona’s situation.

Sebek started to sigh, “Ugh, young master… why do you always have to leave without bringing anyone with you… it’s because your eyes were off from him, Silver!” He started to yell at him.

“He’s not a child. You worry about him too much.”

“We’ll be too late if we wait until something happens! Don’t let your guard down for even a moment! Do you have any respect for your distinguished role as the young lord’s bodyguard!? I won’t let you owe to the young lord and Lilia for designing to raise you!”

Silver started to sigh from Sebek’s long explanation, “This doesn’t have anything to do with this…”

Before Hana could ask if they needed help, they hurriedly left the gates to the other way.

Hana thought for a second, “Hm…If only I could help. I wonder who they were looking for?”

She went back inside of the Ramshackle to go upstairs to see Grim sleeping away on the bed. Mumbling whatever he was dreaming of.

Before she was going to bed, something behind her was glowing. She whipped her head around to see it was the mirror glowing!

“AH! No way!” She whispered, the mirror! It wasn’t a dream! It was glowing! She walks over to the mirror, looking at it closely. She flinched as soon someone from the otherside started to speaking,

“...H–Hello?...some….there?”

She looked closely at the mirror; the silhouette was shaped like…shaped like Mickey Mouse.

Hana responded quickly, “Hello! Yes! I am here!” She tried to say it loudly enough.

The mirror’s glow began to fade away, leaving her in the darkness.

“I-I was so sure I saw and heard something…” She whispered as she touched the reflection of the mirror. This world is so weird to her…

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The next morning Jade and Floyd came to pick up Hana and Grim to go to the Atlantic Museum to bring back the photo with Azul and the others.

The twins were in their moray eel forms as the others were able to breathe underwater thanks to Azul’s potion. Ace was amazed by the statues of the historic great figures of the deep. Azul on the other hand was in his human form as he chose to be in.

“Everyone, welcome to the Atlantic memorial Museum. I made a reservation for us under “Monstro Lounge ''. Please enjoy yourselves.” Azul said with a smile.

“Oh it’s that octo-punk– Huh? Why’re you in your human form?” Grim asked.

“Meroctopuses are very rare around here as you can see…”

Hana's eyes analyze his somewhat discomfort. “I would like to avoid leaving weird impressions after I return the photo.”

Jade’s eel form swam over to his friend, “There is no need to worry. Nobody would recognize you after all these years.”

“We came all this way out here so wouldn’t it be more convenient to be in your real form?”

Azul frowned at Floyd, “Please leave me be. I will place this back where it belongs… Please go enjoy yourselves around the place.”

“C’mon! Let’s look at the princess’ dinglehopper!” Floyd pointed.

“I saw it on the pamphlet, but it’s just a fork?” Ace questioned.

“To you landfolks it is.” Jade chuckled. The gang swam over to look around leaving Hana and Azul alone.

He began to ask, “You’re not going?”

She frowned at him, “I want to make sure you keep your word. And that you didn’t edit it.”

He shook his head as he placed the old picture on the wall, “No need to doubt me. I said I would put this back. I thought if I could erase my past, my time spent being bullied as a “dumb, clumsy octopus” would vanish… The sea witch never hid her own dark past but faced it and worked to overwrite her reputation. In the end. I couldn’t accept who I was and tried to act like it never happened.” He explained as he lowered his eyes at the photo as if it were a long time looking at his own past.

Hana frowned in sympathy. After seeing that weird illusion moment of a crying child in a cauldron. She had this aching feeling in her stomach that she felt sorry for him. She walks over to him and grabs his hand. He looked at her in puzzlement.

“Azul. I remember you said you wanted to be the best version of yourself. You’ve already done that without stealing from others.” She smiled sweetly at him. He raised his brow at her. “Your hard work was enough to throw off the headmaster and myself.”

“M-My hard work?” He moved his hand away from hers, he made a small laugh underneath his breath, “There is no need for you to flatter me. I only wanted to get back at those who looked down at me.”

“Even so, don’t ever forget that. Okay? You’re good without trying to scam people.”

“Hey! Hana!” Grim swam over to her hide, “There is a huge dinosaur skeleton back there!”

“Oh! Really? Hold on lemme take a picture!!” She held the camera Crowley had given her.

The gang and the Octo Trio were going around the museum having a great time. She was glad things were back to normal. But the only concern other than going back home was. She witnessed three overblots so far from different dorms. What dorm could possibly be next…

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A dream was formed within the mind, what appears to be a long line of stores of some sort of plaza.

“Hm? Where is this place–”

"I-I can't find her anywhere!" A Raven-haired girl’s voice sounded shaky. The four had sort of the same uniforms but different shades of color. What they had similarly was the poncho and the headset jewelry was awfully familiar.

"She can't just vanish! This is insane!" Another girl with long silver hair in a ponytail insisted with a nervous smile

"I'm worried maybe the blot has kidnapped her..." The pinknette breathed, not looking at the three. 

“Huh? A blot? Hello?”

"That could be possible," The raven-haired girl said.

"We have to report this to Terra!" The blonde girl insisted, they all nodded.

“ Terra? ”

The dream blurred to what looks like an apartment room. The girls were on the couch facing the woman with a white shirt and a long pink skirt. She had dark skin; her hair was dyed blonde. Lighter than Ruggie’s hair.

"Are you sure that you all checked around the area?" The woman asked.

"Yes! We tried tracking with our diamonds but... nothing," The blonde girl responded, she looked down gripping her knees.

"I'm sorry guys... I should have run after her sooner!"

The pinkenette looked over to her, "Don't beat yourself up. We'll get her back."

“ Who are they looking for? If only… ”

"We can do it," They looked at the raven haired girl, for some reason the dream started to fade for a second."...We must fight for her!"

The dream was blurring for a moment. He can see the girls nodded and stood up from the couch to hold their hands out as they placed their hands on each others..

"For our guardian of Light!" They cried.

“ Guardian of …Light? ”

Before the dream started to fade into darkness. A split second, the raven haired girl’s smile was brief, there was a hint of overwhelmness from her smile…

“Silver!”

“ What –”

“SILVER!”

The boy’s-colored gray eyes opened to see Sebek shaking him by the shoulder. He was holding onto the rake he was holding for the hay in the horse barn “You’ve fallen asleep again! Honestly now…”

“Well at least you got him fully awake.” Riddle said, looking at Silver. “C’mon. You can rest after this. A little bit more and we’re done.” 

“Understood.” He nodded as he started to pick up the rake to use on the hay. As he does, he couldn’t help thinking about that odd dream. It was like any other dreams he had but…

Why did this one dream feel so oddly real?

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Twisted Wonderland:

It’s been a few weeks since Azul’s blot. Everything was normal but she had to sense any signs of a blot infestation. Being in an all-boys school with no girl was something she kind of got used to. She had Ace and Deuce by her side. Jack too. Maybe Tsunotaro if they talked more often? She only wished that she could find some female friends around. She misses her old friends from earth… She hopes that Crowley is finding her way back home!

Right? 

Meanwhile back in the Ramshackle early morning,

“Winter break already!” Hana spoke. Three of the ghosts told her and Grim when they came downstairs.

“Yes indeed! It starts tomorrow.” The chubby ghost mentioned.

She smiled a bit, “Ah I don’t think I’ll be going anywhere… I need to find Crowley for any updates. Ah! Maybe since it’s winter break! He won’t be so busy and we get to work on the dark mirror!” She cheered a bit.

“What’s… what’s winter holiday?” Grim asked.

She looked down to the confused small creature, she answers. “It’s when we can take a break from school for a week to celebrate with each of our families!”

“Oh yes! And have a big feast too!” The skinny ghost adds.

“A feast!” Grim smiled at that. Hana sighed at that but still smiled at Grim enthusiasm.

“Oh yes! Roasted turkey and cake and a gingerbread man! Well… none of us eat that.” The short ghost adds along.

“Aaah You talking about it makes me hungry… What do you guys usually do?” Hana started to ask them.

“Us? Us ghosts usually make our way back to the other side to see our families too.” The skinny ghost said.

“And some of us never return to this side!” The chubby ghost cackled.

“Have a feast and be merry with family…” Grim mumbled

“Grim, do you have any family?” She asked.

He shook his head, “My family? I don’t really remember…,” Hana stared at him. “I was all by myself. Just waiting for someone… What happened after that I can't remember. Well, like you said! The past is the past right!”

Hana nodded, “Yes…” She couldn't help but think. Where did Grim come from?

“Can’t change it! So I am all about the future! I’m on my way to become a great and wealthy wizard! Bwahahahaha!” Grim beamed with his paws up in the air.”

“You’ve had your own share of tough times.”

“You two can spend the holiday curled around the fireplace with us.”

Hana clapped her hands together. “That would be so nice! What do you think, Grim?”

“A holiday and I get to feast! Sign me up!”

Later on, the day. After leaving their class. Divus Crewel gave each of the students homework during the break before setting them free from their class for the day. 

Ace started to stretch his arms with a satisfied grin, “Aaaah finally a break!”

“If only they didn’t push us with homework.” Deuce lowered his eyes at the papers he was analyzing for the homework. Hana started to sigh, more work for homework while trying to figure a way back home wasn’t what she wanted…

“Say, Hana, you still haven’t found a way to get back home to your world, right?” Ace asked the girl.

She shook her head, “No I haven’t heard from him at all… I’m going to ask him! Since it’s break, maybe he’ll find my way back faster! On the bright side, the ghosts back in the dorm want to celebrate the holiday with us!” Hana smiled

“Fyaha! That’s right! We’re going to have a good feast too!” Grim cheered.

Ace nodded, “Hm we’ll that’s good. You guys won’t be so alone.”

Deuce thought about it before speaking, “Are you sure Hana? Has Crowley ever talked with you at all?”

She shook her head no as he continued, “Because what if he closes the cafeteria and the student store.”

Grim jumped, “FYNA! You’re totally right! How are we supposed to have our feast!” 

“And to get any updates to get back home!! Oh no! Where is he?!” Hana panicked. It couldn’t have slipped from his mind, right?!

“He is probably not in his office, maybe in the chamber room getting everyone home later on.” Deuce noted.

She nodded, “Yeah…”

Later on the boys got their suitcase walking with Hana and Grim inside the room. A bunch of students with their suitcases were leaving to go into the mirror to go back where they should go.

“Okay if Crowley is here he must be…” Hana mumbled before her eyes widened along with three. Crowley was not in his suit but wearing a yellow Hawaiian shirt with palm trees and apples with small bird prints around it and white pants that reached to his knees. Wearing a white fedora on.

“Alright everyone! Please make your way back home and be sure to have all of your belongings before you enter the mirror chamber! If you let go for even a moment it’s going to be lost in a different location so be sure!”

“He’s full on vacation-mode!” Ace, Deuce and Grim shouted as Hana’s jaw was dropped.

“Why is he wearing a hawaiian shirt for the winter?!” Ace exclaimed

“He’s not even trying to hide it!” Deuce sighed.

Hana ran over to Dire Crowley along with Grim. “D-Dire Crowley! We want to speak with you!”

His golden eyes blinked to the girl and cat creature. “Oh? What are you two doing here?”

“U-Uh are you really looking for a way to get me back home?” She tilted her head looking for a genuine sign that he has. He froze a bit before speaking as if he remembered

“O-Oh– Aaaah!! A way back to your home!,” He shortly laughed as Grim glared at him. “Don’t be like that. Of course I’m looking!”

Hana looked at his Hawaiian shirt then up at him, “Forgive me but you don’t seem to be… You haven’t given me any updates about it too…”

“Th-That is because my plan is to expand my research by going down south to see if I can find any leads. For I am very serious!” 

“I don’t think that’s what they would wear for researching…” Ace commented

“Yeah, yeah!” Grim agreed.

“What are you talking about? This is what they would wear in the south! You have to try to fit in when you visit foreign lands! Escaping this cold winter to sit out somewhere to have a fresh coconut drink on the side… WHICH I am not doing what so ever!” Crowley explained and tried not to blow his cover of going on a beach.

“Y-You went into detail!” Hana pointed out.

“No fair! If you’re going then so are we!! I want some fresh coconut!... whatever that is.” Grim yelled.

“Me too! N-Not the coconut! If you’re doing research there then I should come with!” Hana announced with her and Grim with determined looks on their faces making Crowley uneasy.

“What? And ruin my vaca– AHEM! What I meant to say is… You two MUST remain here as your job! Where I will be going is going to be dangerous! So I must go alone.”

“B-But I could–”

“No buts! It's a very important job for you two to stay here and to take care of this school. It’s a crucial task that affects the very existence of Night Raven College!”

Hana started to sigh again, ‘ I guess it’s going to take at the end of the summer for me to go home then… ’ She thought.

“If you were to accept this job, then on top of your food expenses over vacation then I promise to provide you with a great feast of roasted turkey, cake and a gingerbread man…” Hana looks down at Grim. Knowing the fact of Crowely’s persuasion was going to get the small creature to think about juicy delicious sounding foods making Grim’s mouth water at the thought of those. 

“Juicy ribs?! Mountain of fries! Hmph I guess there is no harm in hearing you out.” Grim makes a smug look at the headmaster.

“Doesn’t take hard work to win him over huh?” Ace commented

“All the fires of the campus are maintained from the faerie fae. They have been here for many years, if there are no logs to keep the fire up they will surely disappear. There was a ghost that was in charge but his daughter had a grandchild so he left to the otherside to celebrate.” He explains, making the girl blink in confusion to comment

“Wait, ghosts can have kids?” Hana asked.

“It’s a miracle of love! All you have to do is work on the fireplace daily so you can spend the long winter break in the warmth and happily have a decent meal to satisfy yourself.”

Hana nodded, listening to his every word. He is keeping her here after all. He would have just sent her off if he didn’t need her there. It’s a lot when she is a girl in an all boys school. She was grateful for him trying his best to keep her comfortable and safe. But not so with the overblots that has been happening...

“This will be a piece of cake if you compare it to the weird stuff you’ve told us to do!”

“Isn’t it? This makes me feel very ever so gracious! Oh! I almost forgot,” He made a phone appear in his hand as he handed it over to her.

“You’re giving me a smartphone?”

“Of course! In case of any emergencies while I am gone. This is only for that so don’t waste any data by scrolling through magicam!” He instructed Hana to nod rapidly.

“Understood! Will you promise to give me any updates?” She asked with a slight frown of disappointment. She knows there is no point in trying to go with him to other places.

“Aaaaah– Of course! I will when I find anything! Don’t you worry about a thing, my dear! Hahah– I have to get back to make sure everyone is leaving safely! That’s right! Before leaving I need to look at the brochure! I am so busy~!” He said walking away from them.

“FYhaha! Yes!! A feast coming my way I cannot wait!” 

“Well… as long as you’re okay with that’s fine.” Ace comments with a small smile, watching Grim hoping a bit happily. Both of the heartslabyul boys looked to Hana who was slightly disappointed over the response from the headmaster. As she was staring at the phone. 

Ace made a slight frown to her before he could respond, “Hana, are you–” 

“Out of the way! Stacks of bags coming through!” Ruggie shouted, carrying a backpack, three duffle bags and a cooler.

Deuce’s eyes widened, “Woah! You’ve got a lot there!”

“Yeah it was all the food from the cafe before they expired! This is all I can have for free!”

“How are you going to carry all of that through the portal?”

“Oh pft! What’re you talking about? Once I get through I’m giving it to all of the neighborhood street rats! I gotta make sure my grandma can fill this up too– Wait the food is going to melt! See you guys next year!” He drags all of the backs with them to go into the portal.

“Street rats?” Hana questions

“He is talking about the kids from his neighborhood back at his home,” Hana looks behind to see Jack approaching with his own suitcase. “During long holidays he brings as much food as he can to feed those kids.”

Hana makes a genuine smile, “That’s so sweet of him!,” She notices him holding cacti potted plants in his arms ,”Oh! That’s a lot of plants you have.”

“I grow them for fun. These are cacti. They will wilt if nobody is watering them.”

She nodded, “I see! That’s neat! My friend Kira has a boat of different plants at her home!”

“I never thought Ruggie would be nice enough to do that. That is pretty nice.”

“Hyena are the sort to share prey with the weak or sick without discrimination. I’m sure he was raised to be like that.” Jack stated.

“Hmph, just thinking about giving out food to a bunch of brats makes my skin crawl.” Leona said as he walked over. 

“Oh! Leona! Are you staying here too?” Hana asked him, seeing he has nothing to carry with him.

“I wish. I won’t hear the end of it if I don’t go back there,” He rolled his eyes. “What a pain.”

“You’re not carrying anything with you.”

“Hm? I’m fine with my wallet and smartphone with me. Besides, I got plenty of clothes back at home.” 

“This guy is the other extreme…” Grim mumbled.

“He’s not bringing homework either..” Ace sighed.

“Homework can be done right at the end of the holiday. My job is to rest. See ya herbivores.” Leona waved as he walked over to go into the portal.

Jack mumbled something under his breath before looking at everyone, “Anyway, don’t you guys slack off your homework. Bye.” He said walking over to the portal as well.

“There is Mr. Serious. Yeah, yeah see you next year!” Ace waved

“Bye! Have a good holiday, Jack!” She grinned.

“Kingscholar…” Deuce mumbled a bit thinking about what he said.

“Hey now you fresh shouldn’t follow what the upperclassmen said~!” Cater chimed along with Trey next to him. 

“Anyone who doesn’t turn in the homework on the way will lose their head.” The dark green haired man reassured them as Deuce and Ace flinched a bit from the memories of the beginning of the school year.

“Hi guys!,” Hana greeted, “Are you guys excited to go back home?”

“Not me sadly~,” Cater sighed. “It makes me feel depressed going back. My older sisters will be home too so I’ll be working to death through the holiday.” He turns his head to his upperclassmen friend. “Trey can I go with you? Your family is the best!” 

“I mean if you want, but you’ll get worked to death too there. Our bakery shop is going to get busy.”

Cater made a long sigh again, “Oh that’s right! Your family’s bakery shop! Boohoo~! Poor me.”

“Speaking of where is Ridd– Oh hi Riddle!” Hana noticed Riddle was next Deuce as he jumped a bit, backing away.

“Oh! Dorm leader Riddle! I am so sorry for standing in your way!”

Riddle crossed his arms with a frown, “If you guys keep having an ongoing conversation. I would suggest doing so on the wall there.”

“Hm? He seems to be down in the dumps.” Grim analyzed Riddle's pokerface. He doesn’t seem to be himself a bit.

Ace leans to mumble to Hana and Grim, “Yeah his Karen of a mother is waiting for him back at home. That’s bound to bring anyone down.”

“Hey Riddle, I am forbidden to take at least one step to your house. So I can’t bring you over some cake or something…”

Riddle closed his eyes and breathed, “That’s alright. I need to… have a good talk with my mother.”

Trey nodded, “I see… good luck.”

Someone walks in the group, “What’s wrong Goldfish? Ya don’t wanna go home?” Floyd beamed with a smile. Making Hana jump the unexpected boy popping in their conversation. “Then don’t. Stay with us in school! We’re not going home either!” 

“Floyd! Could you not barge into people’s conversations! It’s very rude!” Riddle scowled at him.

“He is right. You shouldn’t stick your head into people’s businesses.” Jade informed as he walked over to them.

Floyd started to pout, “Why? I’m bored with the ol’ faces over the holidays. I’m sure Azul would let Goldfish around since he is so tiny.”

Hana’s eyes widened as she can sense the fuming anger from Riddle,

“Can you repeat that? You have some nerve saying that to a dorm leader! I’ll have your head!” His face was in the shade of red of anger glaring at Floyd who was boredly looking at him.

“R-Riddle! Please calm down!” Hana told him worriedly.

“Yeah please calm down!” Cater said with his hand on his shoulder.

Trey steps in, “Yeah don’t let him get him under your skin.”

Cater decided to change the subject quickly, “Say, Floyd you’re from Coral Sea, right? Why aren't you guys going home?”

Jade answers, “While the three of us, including Azul. Coral Sea is our home far from the North. This time of year the surface is completely covered in glaciers.”

Floyd nodded, “Yeah it sucks getting around glaciers. So we’re waiting until spring break to melt.”

Riddle glared at the twins, “Hmph, I wouldn’t spend the time with the likes of Octavinelle. I need to go. Happy Holiday everyone.” 

Three of the heartslabyul members left leaving the Adeuce, Grim, the twins and Hana behind.

“Hey, little Shrimp, baby seal,” She looks up to Floyd, “Are you guys staying here too?”

She nodded, “Yes unfortunately.” responded with a small smile.

Floyd makes a huge smile back at them, “Then you two should come to Octavinelle!” Hana would have thought it would be such a nice offer but after all what happened between her and Azul does leave an aching bad feeling.

“Oh what a great idea, Floyd,” Jade adds, “We could all have fun over the holidays so please come over at any time. Goodbye~.” The twins made a small laugh before walking away from the chamber room.

“I hope they don’t have any grudges from … you know.” Hana mumbled nervously.

“Yeah but their faces bring back some trauma during that.” Grim shivered a bit.

“That was rough.” Deuce mumbled

“Don’t remind me.” Ace wallowed.

The dark bluenette looked around to see a small number of students going through the dark mirror, “The chamber is almost cleared up. We have to be going soon.”

“Oh yeah! Oh, by the way Hana,” She looks to Ace holding out his phone. “Since you have a phone. Let’s trade each other's magicam IDs!”

Hana makes a huge smile, “Of course! I want to hear from you guys!”

“Me too. Let’s keep in touch!” Deuce smiled softly. They showed each other IDs from their phones as they added each other.

“Alright… friended and friended. Done! Go ahead and hit me up if you ever get lonely.” Ace makes a playful smug look at her as she flinches a bit with her eyes widened.

“I-I won’t message you then!!” She exclaimed.

Ace sighed with frown, “Jeez you’re such a mood killer. I was only joking.”

“His jokes have such poor taste,” Deuce stated, “But you can always message us if you need anything.” He said with a kind smile.

She nodded, “I will! You guys must have to go!”

“Yeah, my mom is waiting for me. I should go now. Have a good holiday Hana, Grim.” He nodded as he walked over to the portal.

“Alright! I’m leaving too!! See ya next year guys!” Ace grinned before running off.

Hana waves to them, “Bye guys! Have a good holiday!!” 

They vanished into the mirror leaving the two alone. “Hm, now that i realized. There is never a dull moment with those two.” Grim comments and started to frown, “That and they never shut up!”

Hana giggled at that, “You’re not wrong. But it’s sort of nice. To think of you and Ace's first encounter was you two fighting each other.”

“Fyna! I’ll never forget that! He was so rude!”

“Not wrong there too… C’mon! Let’s go back to the Ramshackle!” Hana smiled as they both walked out from the Chamber.

“Say Hana…”

“Hm?”

“You seemed so down about Crowley and trying to get you to go back home.”

“It’s because I trust him to get me back home. He said he would while I stay here. I know it must take a lot of progress but for me to ask him. It gave me a bad feeling that maybe he isn’t looking into it much… I have a family and friends that are probably losing their minds about me being gone… It’s so inconsistent.”

Grim looks up to her, “... Say if you managed to find a way back home. Would you… come back?”

Hana's eyes beamed to Grim with an open smile, “Grim, are you saying you would miss me?”

“FYNA. Answer the question!”

“Of course, I would! Maybe I wouldn’t come to this school anymore, but I would keep everyone in contact! But since you don’t have a family, Grim. I will take you with me!”

Grim eyes widened at that, “Y-You would?”

“Of course! But we have to make sure to hide some of your features.”

He frowned up at her, "what’s that supposed to mean?”

She made a nervous smile, “Well... Where I come from, animal ears don’t have flame ears. We don’t want people to take you away and experiment on you.”

His eyes widened, “Experiment?! Your world sounds so lame and so weird!” Grim exclaimed.

“You’re not exactly wrong either…” She sighed a bit.

Now she mentions her family and friends. She keeps wondering everyday if they are looking for her. How are things doing on Earth? Is everyone managing without her? What about her old school classmates? 

Navin.

Molly.

But the question is, would she ever come back to Twisted Wonderland if she is able to go back home?

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Earth, the lab:

“The mirror?” Aeron asks Tvora, Chithayu, and Terra in the lab where they have been working on trying to find Hana for three months.

“Yes, after trying to figure it out. This mirror we have from the store may be the only thing that could find her. Thanks to Yuko’s idea. It made me find something that could be potential to find the very location of where she could be at.” The dark-haired woman explained. Hoping it made sense to the stubborn redhead who looked to be unsure as ever.

Chithayu nodded, “Yes, it makes sense. We just need to activate it if we find that very location from the outside world.”

“Activate it how?” Aeron raised a brow as they looked at Tvora.

“We think the girls and you could activate it.” Chithayu grinned, before Aeron could respond.

Tvora started to explain, “Teleportation from the mirror to activate. We need to use your dark magic along with the girl's magic to have their diamonds to sense her diamond's exact location. It won’t be easy since this very well would take a long while to make sure."

Aeron nodded with a shrug, “Fair enough. It took you all this long to figure that out?”

“We’re not finished,” Tvora crossed her arms, “We need to extract the mirror to make it a magical transportation rather than just a simple solid glass reflection. I trust myself and Chithayu to do that. We also need some more items for the mirror which I have a list.”

Aeron raised her finger, “Okay, I have a question to ask.”

“And that is?”

“ If there is someone out there trying to stop us from getting to her. What if they sense our energy?”

Terra glances at them.

Chithayu started to answer, “We’re not exactly sure who took her yet but…”

Tvora interrupts him as she begins to explain in a deadpanned tone, “We’ll try to hide our energy as much as we can. We’re not sure of what kind of world she is in. But… for someone or something to even reach into our world and to take her away makes me assume that it’s a powerful being we will be up against.”

Terra gulped at that.

“That’s what I thought.” Aeron in a calm tone.

“We do assume it’s a world with different magic than ours.” Chithayu said. “Comparing the two blots. The blot from the mirror we did confirm that it has more magic.”

Aeron started to smile, “Oh wow. A world that possibly has more magic than our world. That makes things even better.”

“I believe sarcasm isn’t necessary.” Tvora snapped a bit at Aeron who switched to glare at her.

“Let’s stay on task rather than arguing,” Terra pinches the bridge of her nose, “The list. What are they?”

Tvora takes a small paper list out from the table, “We need the Taaffeite, a few of amethyst stones, black tourmaline stones and more of sacred blessings around the mirror as soon as we extract them to be finished and read.”

“Why those rocks in particular? Are we going shopping?” Aeron joked a bit.

“I believe going to the human stores to buy those small simple gems won’t do. Some of them lack power. And most of them are fake copies.”

“I was only-- never mind.” Aeron rolled her eyes as she rubbed the back of her head. Tvora stared at the redhead.

“These crystals help us with their energy source.” Terra stated.

“How are we going to find the Taaffeite? You know that item is extremely rare. Only fifty samples around this world.”

“We have to find what we can get.” Tvora sighed, “That crystal can help us much faster than the other ones. Those help us to ward off anything bad during the process if someone does interfere. The better we get them the sooner we’ll get this done and Hana can come home with no worry.”

Aeron groaned a bit and nodded, “Fine. Are you going to go find it?”

“You and I are going to go find it. There are some hotspots that I did locate that could have the rare crystals. We’ll go there now while Chithayu and Terra are gathering the other gems. I would have Terra come with me, but she handles the blots better than us if there will be one popping out from nowhere.”

“We’ll have them prepared until you two get back. Hopefully this will work.” Terra nodded.

“Sounds good to me.” Aeron shrugged.

She smiled at her, “They’re not hard to find so I wish you two luck.”

Tvora nodded to the two, “We’ll try to be quick. We’ll give you an update at the end of the week.” The woman walked over to the long haired redhead as she grabbed her shoulder for the both of them to teleport away.

“Ah I do hope she also to tell her about another thing as well…” Terra sighed

Chithayu looked over to her, “Hm? What do you mean? I thought it was all that?”

The woman shook her head, “No, there is another thing she needs to find as well if we have to travel all the way where Hana is and then to bring her back.”

Earth, the Black Pond Mall:

After school, Aimi and Navin were walking around the Black Pond Plaza Mall to the inside of the clothing shops.

“You think my mom would like this?” Navin asked, holding up a leather jacket.

Aimi looked closely, “I think so? Does she like leather jackets?” Her friend started to sigh.

He put the jacket back on the rack of jackets. “I don’t know what she would like. I feel bad that I didn't get her anything for the holiday.”

She placed her hands on her hips with a smile, “I think she wouldn’t mind what you pick for her.”

“Sooo leather jacket?”

She held her hand up, “Go for it! She’ll be happy with you either way.”

He checked the size which was a m for medium. They were walking over to the cashier to buy the jacket. Aimi was kind of wary about the Mall Plaza since the attack from months ago. She didn’t think they would open but they were practically almost finished with the store that was attacked the most where Hana disappeared.

A few weeks ago after the exam they looked around from the store before leaving for good…

*Flashback*

The girls snuck into the constructed store for one last time in their guardian forms. They’ve looked around again for more specks of blot or anything! Sadly… Nothing was spotted this time… 

Allen bangs her fist on the table, “Dammit! This literally makes no sense!”

Kira walks over to Allen to place her hand on her shoulder, “Calm down…”

“But we’ve looked everywhere! This is insane! Who the hell would take Hana away from here?!” Allen lashed out.

Yuko and Aimi both looked at each other then to the angry blonde girl.

“We’ve been asking about that for a long time now. At this point, it’s a broken record…”

Kira looks to them and then to Allen, “This place doesn’t have any more clues. We should call this place off.”

Allen shot her head up to Kira, “No! There has to be more clues!”

Yuko shook her head side to side, “For real, Kira is right. There is nothing here. We got what we needed for now until …something.”

“But…”

Aimi walks over to the counter to look into Allen’s green eyes, “Allen, I am as scared as you are. Let’s call this place off.”

Allen nodded, lowering her eyes to the crumpled floor.

“Don’t beat yourself up over this. This obviously wasn’t your fault that she got herself taken.” Kira reassured her.

“I know but… I just want her back… It’s not the same…” Allen mumbled.

“We know…” Aimi responded quietly.

*Flashback end*

Aimi lowered her eyes at the thought of what Allen said that night. It’s true. Hana would have helped better with Navin trying to pick out clothes for his mother to make things better. Why her out of all the guardians?

“Aimi? You okay?” She blinked to Navin who had the paper bag with the jacket in it.

“Oh! I’m okay! I was thinking that it's just crazy we’re at the end of the year!”

“I know! Time has gone by quick!” He laughed as the two were walking off to the two front doors to leave.

“Say… this is the first time we’ve actually talked more often.” Navin said with a smile to her.

Aimi raised a brow, “Really?”

“Yeah, usually because we were around Hana so often. Without her, we kind of bonded through studying and here we are. You’re pretty nice.”

Aimi made a playful smile at him, “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Well, I was kind of intimidated by you.” He cracked a small laugh.

“You were? I was intimidated by you too!”

“No kidding?” They both laughed at the freaking odds of them being intimidated with one another. “I didn’t think you like me. I thought you just wanted Hana for yourself or something! No offense!” He held his hand up in defense.

She shook her head. “Ah… Maybe I kind of did but realized that was a bit much…None taken!” She sheepishly smiled as she continued, “Hana was sort of my first friend to get along with. Some kids didn’t like me because of… that sort of reason.”

“Really? I mean. You’re not that intimidating now. Why me too?”

“Well,” she sighed, clamping her hands together, “I was afraid of being alone. I used to think people would get bored with me after a while if I were with them often.”

He laughed a bit, "I can relate to that! I’m not bored with you or Hana or Molly.”

Aimi started to frown at him from the reminder science class, “Molly I’m really worried about.”

His smile dropped into confusion, “Why?”

“I don’t think those girls are… right for her.”

“What makes you say that?”

“It’s hard to explain but… before the exams. I overheard her friends making excuses to not study with her and she looked as if she were in distress. Apparently it’s not the first time...”

He shook his head with a slight sympathetic look, “Sometimes you can’t do much. But yeah, ever since freshman year, she wanted to be friends with them. I didn’t understand why because they don’t seem the nicest either. I heard one girl left the friend group because they were talking badly about her.”

Aimi blinked to him with eyes widened, “They what?”

“Yeah. I tried to tell that to Molly but she said that they like her, so she is not worried. But…”

“I wouldn’t trust to be friends with them! That’s horrible…” She looked at him, “Do you know who the girl was?”

“Sort of. She was in my history class…” Navin glanced to the side. “It’s not only that…”

Making Aimi raised a brow, 

“Remember when we were studying for the exam at your house with Molly?”

She nodded.

“The picture I saw from my friend at a party… Those girls were in the background.”

Aimi’s eyes widened, “What… Why didn’t you show her?”

He frowned at her, “And ruin the night? C’mon Aimi, if I showed the picture to her. She would have been depressed. It would have affected her exams. Besides… I was happy that she was enjoying herself with us. I see her acting so awkward with them.” He told her truthfully. She knew he was right. Molly tries to join in the conversation with them and she would seem a bit on edge with them with their response.

“You have a point…” Aimi admitted, “I don’t understand why they are doing this to her? She is patient with them, and she can be fun to be with. Why…”

Navin shook his head, “Some people can be mean. But Molly wants to be liked is the problem.”

“You think so?”

“I know her. She likes to be with people and talk with them. However, she chooses the wrong people to try to get along with and she doesn’t want to recognize the red flags.”

The fact that Molly keeps being around them when they just put up with it and she doesn’t see that they don’t want her with them is sad. Aimi’s eyes lowered at the thought.

“When will it take her to realize?” she asked.

He shrugged, “She has to find out for herself. She is going to get hurt, but she will get better after.”

“What if … What if something goes wrong?” Aimi tries to ask. Navin slowly stops, and looks at her with furrowed brows.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean… I don’t want it to get ugly for her to…” She trailed off as Navin squinted at her curiously.

“To…?”

“To… not get over it.”

He raised a brow, “She will. It may take a while depending on her. Are you implying something?”

She shook her head, “Well, implying… she may go into a deep depression!”

He shrugs, “Maybe if we play some Disney movies she will get over it.”

She giggled for a bit, “Yeah I bet!”

They both laughed shortly, however, He was somewhat suspicious that Aimi was really implying. He only glanced at her curiously still.

Navin blinked, “Maybe we should invite her to the movies! Maybe going out somewhere too?”

Aimi looked at him with a smile, “That’s a great idea! 

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Hana and Grim later on hurried back to the cafeteria to put in more firewood to the fireplace. As soon as Grim stepped inside of the empty dining area. His back arches up like a cat as he hugs himself.

“Jeez! It’s freezing!! I thought my paws would turn into ice!”

Hana hugs herself. She was wearing her usual t-shirt and plaid pajamas with a gray robe with a NRC logo on the pocket on it. “L-Let’s hurry and do this! I need to go to the library.”

“Why?”

“There could be some spells or some kind of ritual to get me back home! Or something to try to contact my friends or family!”

“Why the hell did you not think about it before?” He asked.

“I tried! I wanted to go to the library, but I couldn’t focus on doing more research because of the dorm leaders! Ace pulling us into Riddle, Leona almost had someone killed and Azul tried to scam me off! Not only that but Divus and Trein are cruel when it comes to exams.” She admitted. She was scared about the overblot issues that for some reason haven’t been taken care of.

“Well, I guess this time you will figure something out since everyone is back in their homes. C’mon! Let’s throw the firewood in!”

She picks up some pile of wood on the side to carry it and tosses it into the fireplace for a fire faerie to spark it up for the flame to flicker off from the wood.

She flinched a bit seeing the friendly small flame faerie appearing. She opens a friendly smile, “Hello there!” she started to smile a bit more.

“Heh, so these are the fire faeries that live here! It feels nice to be close to them ya know!”

Hana nodded agreeing with him. What caught both of their ears heard some noises from the kitchen. Like chopping on a board.

“Hm? Do you hear that?”

“Yeah!” Grim started to sniff, “Mmm! Something smells good too! Let’s check it out!” The both of them got from the floor and walked over to go where the kitchen door was. Opening them to see it was some Scarabia students in their dorm uniform in the kitchen making some food.

“Don’t forget to add nuts once the oil has heated up.” Jamil said, one of the students went to him with a bowl asking him questions on what ingredients to add. He answered them as they walked away to do what they needed to do.

“Some students are here too?” Hana mumbled.

“It’s winter break, how come they are still here?” Grim questioned too.

Jamil’s charcoal gray eyes glanced over to the two at the kitchen doors. “Hm? You are…”

The girl blinked to them, “Oh! Hi! I don’t know if you remember us from the magishift situation.”

He opened a smile as he crossed his arms, “That’s right. You guys asked about my hand injury. You guys are from Ramshackle, right?”

“Yes! Oh! How is your hand?” Hana asked, looking at his hand who lifted it in the air to show now bandages and it was perfectly fine now.

“It’s all good now, thank you.” He placed his hand back on his arm.

Grim began to ask, “You’ve got a good memory! What’s your name…”

“Jamil. Jamil Viper. I’m the vice dorm leader of Scarabia. I’ve always been good with names and faces. I’ll never forget your guys' entrance from the ceremony,” Hana made a sheepish smile. “I don’t think there is anyone who doesn’t know your names.”

“Oh haha good…” She’ll never forget it as long as she lives…

“Fnyaha! We made a big name for ourselves!!” Grim cheered.

“Why are you guys here during vacation?” Jamil asked.

She lowered her eyes a bit with a small smile, “Ah well… We don’t have a home here.”

Grim then adds, “So the headmaster made us do a crucial task to make sure the fireplace is fired up for the school! He was willing to rely on us to do the important task while he was away!” Grim grinned, being proud of himself.

Jamil then responded, “Oh he did? The headmaster…” He then mumbles to himself that Hana frowned at him.

“What was that?”

He makes a friendly smile to them, “You guys must be pretty great since the headmaster recognizes you.”

Hana made a nervous laught, “Ahah Well, it’s not like that because he is just–” 

A student walks over to Jamil, “Pardon the intrusion, Jamil. We finished cutting up the vegetables.”

Jamil nodded to him, “I’ll be right over there.”

Grim hops to see a pot with some liquid with some ingredients in. “That soup looks so tasty! But the smell is unique.”

“It’s traditional soup from the Land of Hot lands.” He said as he walked over to the pot with spoons, “It must be fate for you guys to come here. Want to try some?”

Grim made a huge smile, “Really?!”

“The food will be done soon if you can help.”

“Oh! Sure! It’ll be fun! Just tell me what I can do!” Hana made a friendly smile at Jamil.

After a while of finishing cooking the food to help and keeping Grim away from trying to eat the ingredients. The food was prepared on some platters neatly like a professional chef would.

“Whew. It’s done. Thanks for helping out” Jamil said, looking over to them.

“No problem! By the way, why are you guys not on vacation?” She asked as the air in the room got thick she noticed the students looked at one another worriedly.

“Well… That’s a bit of a long story..” Jamil started but trailed off.

“What do you mean?” She asked

“All of the students were ordered by the dorm leader for us to stay.” One student with dirty blonde hair and brown skin said.

“We couldn’t leave even if we wanted to.” One said with pale skin and dark purple hair.

“Knock it off. Any more and we will suffer,” He frowned at them but switched to soften his smile. “The food is getting cold. Let’s take these to the dorm. Scarabia would always feel like summer. So it would be like taking a vacation in a southern country.”

“Wahoo! That sounds like paradise! Let’s go!” Grim cheered. She frowned at the small creature.

“Hang on a second, Grim. Remember what we discu–” 

“Oh come now, Hana,” Jamil said with a smile as she looked at him. “I’m sure the dorm leader would be happy to have you too,”

“I appreciate that Jamil, but I need to go to the library to find–” Before she could reject it, the world felt like it was spinning as she felt as if she couldn't speak.

“You’re coming right?”

She blinked and responded, “I guess it wouldn’t hurt!

He complains to her, “I’m happy to invite you, dorm leader of Ramshackle. To Scarabia then!”

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Hana and Grim made it to the Scarabia dorm. The whole dorm had a beautiful red and gold arabic building with a pearl white peacock in the center. The heat of the inside of the dorm was as if summer was already here. They went inside of the building. There was a room where they sat that had some huge rugs with arabic oriental patterns with the color that matches the dorm colors. There were some pillows and cushions around for some to lay down and sit. There were some small low tables too. The students placed some food around the rug. Grim tried some foods as he seemed to enjoy them. 

“Mmmm! These are really good! The crunchy nuts make a pair with the veggies! The steam pork bun is awesome!” Grim hummed and went off of how the food tasted as ever.

“Ahah you sure do really describe food.” Hana giggled, kneeling down on the rug with Grim. 

Jamil nodded, “We have some more meat and soup for you guys to try. Please help yourself with some more.”

“Aaah there is so much!” Hana looked at the food.

“Mmmhm! This is paradise!” Grim made a huge smile.

“What’s with all of the fuss?”

A voice asked, it was white hair boy with a turnban wrapped around his head who walked in. 

Kalim.

“D-Dorm leader!” The students stampered.

Jamil looks over to him, “Kalim.”

“What’s the meaning of this, Jamil?” Kailm walks over to him.

Hana felt some sort of tension between the leader and vice leader and the students.

“I didn’t hear anything about guests being invited.”

“Kalim, let me explain…” Jamil tried to speak. Making Hana get up from the seated rug.

“E-Exucse me?” Hana spoke a bit nervously, but Kalim cuts her off as he was speaking to Jamil.

“You should have told me in advance because,” He looked away with a sigh, “We could have put together an even better feast with some concert to go with it!”

Hana and Grim blinked in confusion. Kalim looked over to them with a smile.

“Hi! Thank you guys for coming! Sorry for not having a parade welcome. I’m the dorm leader, Kalim Al-Asim! It’s nice to meet you!” Kalim made a cheerful smile at them. Making Hana at ease with a friendly smile back.

“Kalim, you met them before.” Jamil corrected him.

Hana added, “He is right! From the ceremony when Grim set your butt on fire and we asked you questions about the makeshift.”

“Oh yeah! Haha! My bad, my bad! I’m not like Jamil who has a better familiarity with people’s faces and names. I don’t mean offense”

“It’s okay! It’s nice to see you again” Hana replied

Kalim nodded, “It’s nice to see you guys again too!”

‘ He’s a lot more different than the other dorm leaders. Which is nice! ’ She thought.

Kalim looked around the rug with the plates of delicious foods around, “Wow! These look great Jamil!”

“There was nothing dangerous mixed with any of the foods. The poison testers have done their jobs.”

Hana and Grim’s eyes went wide.

“P-Poison testers?!” They both screeched.

“Yes, Kalim is from an extremely wealthy family from the Land of Hot Sands so there are those who may come after his life. Which is why poison testing was necessary.” He informed. 

“O-Oh wow..” Hana was speechless about people would go after someone and the fact she almost ate the food.

“Jamil! You’re blowing things out of proportion! The last time that happened to me was four years ago when I was put into a coma for two weeks! There hasn’t been an issue since!” Kalim gave reassuring information to him.

It still didn’t make it better for that fact! Hana swallowed nervously.

“The reason why it hasn’t happened is because you had poison testers for four years.” Jamil frowned.

“That’s why you want us to eat?!” Grim shouted in horror.

“That must have been so scary for you!” Hana looked at the dorm leader worriedly. He shook his head and waved his hand.

“Ah it was, but I’m alright!” Kalim grinned, “You guys got nothing to worry about! Jamil made them so it’s all in the clear! He would not try to poison me! Right, Jamil?”

Jamil smiled, “Hm no need to state the obvious.”

“O-Okay if you say so…” Hana said, sitting back down on the rug. Kalim went over to sat with her and Grim.

“Oh yeah Grim! Have you tried the sheep’s milk blue cheese yet? It’s so good with crackers!”

Grim frowned at him getting the crackers with the blue cheese, “Huh? I’m eating that mold–”

Grim couldn’t finish as Kalim stuffed his mouth with the crackers.

“Is it good? Right? Eat all you want!” Kalim laughed cheerfully.

Hana’s eyes widened a bit but began to soften with a smile. “May I try those?”

“Of course! It’s on the house!” Kalim grinned at her as she began to take some from the plate.

Earth, Black Pond Plaza:

Kira was done setting up clothes and pants for the restock. “Whew. That should be all. Now for shoes.” She hurried over to go to the back to grab some boxes of shoes. Another woman came to her side.

“Here, let me grab those for you!” She insisted as she grabbed some more boxes with her.

“Oh thank you!”

They took the boxes over to the shoes section to place the boxes at the right spots.

“So I heard next year you’re graduating! Isn’t that exciting?” The woman told her.

Kira made a brief smile, “Oh yes. I’m a bit nervous. But it’ll be something exciting. I’m waiting for a letter about a college I want to go to.”

“Oh! How exciting! What colleges do you want to go to?”

“Oh I was thinking of going to Phoenix University.”

“Oh my! I heard that it is a good college! I will wish you luck to get accepted!” She grinned at her. Kira still made a brief smile.

“I hope so too! If I do, I will be so happy! My family will celebrate!” Kira laughed a bit.

“Haha! Of course! All families would be like that! Let me know when you get the letter!”

Kira nodded, “Of course!”

When they finished putting up the boxes. They got up from the floor to go back to the storage room. The girl had a sudden jolt a bit, sensing an uneasy feeling form around her gut with the back of her nape chilling down her spine. Kira’s green eyes whirled around a bit as she kept walking more.

“Uh, Tess,”

The employee looked back to her before she walked into the storage room. 

“I’ll be right back. I need to use the restroom, I’ll be right there to help.”

“Okay.” She nodded before going inside of the storage room. Kira holds her diamond from her pocket, seeing it glowing a bit.

“No, no…” She hurried back away from where the storage room down the aisle to the front. The diamond started to glow more. She looks out from the glass front door. She heard a loud crashing and screaming. She opens the doors to look out to see dark clouds in the sky forming.

“Another day. Another blot…” She texted her group chat with the guardians about another blot near her store. She hurries out to see a dark mist forming into an ink phantom monster with an ornament as a head filled with ink.