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It is midnight with Waning Gibbous moon and stars, all of the Night Raven College and the Ramshackle Dorm are lights out. But soon at the front gate, the gate is closed and locked to prevent trespassing. There is the cloaked stranger just showing up with magic, the head moves to take a look at the sign that says, “Night Raven College.”The lips appear with a smile, chuckling with a gentle voice, “I know where you are… Lilia Vanrogue… the General of the Right.”Then lower the head down and stare through the gate to take a look at the college, the voice also adds, “I finally find you… Now I will set a perfect plan…”Then evilly laughs and disappears with magic, already gone as if nothing's happened. -Begin of Roxyu’s POV-After school I walk with my dorm residents and Grim, chatting together and I hold Gino’s hand as if a mother is holding a child’s hand. {I will tell you the reason why I let Ernesto and Gino join our dorm, because they kinda remind me of my past with my late brother. While the Playful Land, Grim and I were captured and I can see their expressions, I can see behind their eyes. I quickly know why they do that. So after that, I forgave them and welcomed them. So that’s why I don’t want to reject them.}So a long walk from the NRC to Ramshackle dorm, we step on the porch and I open the door for them, my dorm residents enter inside the dorm then I enter and close the door behind me. First we need to take a break for a while then I take them to Sage’s Island to shop for what they need. That's where me, Grim, Ace and others first met Ernesto and Gino. But the echo of the knock on the door and I walk to the door and I open the door, it’s Ace and Deuce.“Come in.” I move aside and let them enter inside, watching them walk inside the dorm and I close the door behind me and ask them through my choker and I cross my arms, looking serious, “What do you bring here?”“Remember our promise?” Ace puts his palms of his hands together and makes a nervous smile, “Take us to the shopping then sleepover at your dorm with our first year friends.”Oh right, I forget about the promise. I've been so busy doing, as a duty as the housewarden and perfect, including Headmaster Crowley. I ask them, “Did you ask your housewarden for permission?”“We did.” The boys say in unison, I stares at them for a few seconds, I hang my head down, nodding as I turn to call through my choker to tell my dorm residents, “Time to go shopping and please be kind to others.” I knew they won’t get along with each other, because... you know the situations between them.I take my hat from the coat hanger and put it on my head, {the cowboy hat is my biographic father’s. I have to protect my eyes from the sun.}We walk off together and out of the front gate, off to Foothill Town, Sage's Island. A few walks later we arrived at Foothill Town Sage’s island. I tell them not to leave this town and enjoy shopping for themselves. I give Rollo, Ernesto and Gino money for what they need. Rollo says to me and shows concern for me, “Be watchful of your surroundings and please be careful.”My lips into a small smile, “Thank you for your concern, I will watch myself.”Don’t mention but I used to be a loner, I know what the people would do to me and would do terrible things to me. {Trust me, you have to be watchful of your surroundings and yourself, you’ll never know what will happen so fast. Take this advice.}I may be magicless but I do know how to bloody fight. Therefore Grim and I walk off to check out the stores if we need something like new clothes, delicious food or makeup, luckily Headmaster Crowley pay me money for what I need as if I have a job to earn money. -End of Roxyu’s POV-Roxyu and Grim are walking to choice a shop for herself that she need something but she then widens her eyes and can sense that she is watched, look alerted, halts and turns her head to check her surroundings, but no one. She furrows her eyebrows and turn her choker off and thinks, What was that? I can feel the eyes are watching me... like a animal is eyeing a prey... I think I've better be more careful to watch myself..."What’s wrong?" Grim ask her and look puzzled as she presses the button from her choker, speaking, "I just thought I feel like we are being watched... but it's just my imagination."As she huffs and soon turn to walks off again with Grim.The cloaked stranger soon appear behind the wall while using a magic, saying, "So close... This is true, the magicless human and the cat the people mentions... Hmmm... I have better find another one."Then the cloaked stranger then walk off and goes invisible to find the other one.
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Ace and Deuce are walking on the sideway, chatting about what will do for the sleepover in Ramshackle. Soon Deuce quickly catches his eyes and widens his eyes vwith sparks… it’s a cool jacket and he smiles, “I’ll buy that.”Ace takes a look through the window and he raises his eyebrows, “Hm. I’ll stay outside and you can go get the cool jacket for yourself.”Deuce turns his head to him and tells him with serious furrowed eyebrows and frowns, “You better not walk off and leave me, Roxyu wants us to stay together, being alone is dangerous for teens like us, easily get kidnapped or worse.”“Oh please.” He rolls his eyebrows, “She’s not our mom.”He spots his dormmate is giving him a serious look, crossing his arms and waiting for him to say something and he then raises his hands as if he’s given up, frowning in “defeat”, “Alright, I’ll stay here while you enter this shop.”“You better.” Deuce points a finger at him before walking and enters inside the shop to buy a cool jacket, Ace watches him before smiling devilishly and walks off, leaving Deuce alone.An hour later Roxyu, Grim and their dorm residents have gathered together, Ernesto and Gino have bags of new clothes they need and Rollo brings the bag of books he needs. She asks them through her choker, “Are you satisfied with new things you like?”“Yes.” Rollo nods, making a small smile, “Thank you for your kindness.”“Thank you for taking us to buy from any store.” Ernesto smiles, Gino smiles at her, making her to smile warmly and Grim just eats a delicious meal and already noms it, empty from his paws, “Yummy! Thanks Roxyu!” She seems pleased with a smile, but then she blinks her eyes and can read Closed Captions from her glasses, hearing her name, “Roxyu!”She turns and sees Deuce who is running faster than you thought, she easily catches his expression, looks tense but panics as the Heartslabyul freshman halts in front of her panting and sweats stream down from his face, she asks through her choker, “What happened?”As soon as she realizes Deuce is alone, the fear builds inside her but tries her best to keep cool, “Where’s Ace?”“I lost him, he wandered away and left me. I'm sorry.”She bites her lip, tips her cowboy hat and turns to others, telling them, “Please stay here together, Grim and I will find him.”Rollo, Ernesto and Gino nod in understanding as watching the housewarden and Grim rush off to find Ace, together. -Begin of Roxyu’s POV-Grim and I rush to find Ace, I fear if something would happen to him like kidnapping by adults or perverts and I’ll never forgive myself. We are searching for him in all of the towns, I hope he’s safe. This is what I show you an example: If your family or friends get lost, be quickly and off to search for them, not ignore them.A few minutes after searching for Ace, we are huffing and stopping running, standing for a little break as I read the Closed Captions and hear the voice at the same time from Grim, “Aggh! When we find him, I’ll give him a piece of my mind!”Heh, he kinda reminds me of my late brother, I wipes my sweats off under my chin...But then… I hear the voice calling us, “Roxyu! Grim!”We turn to see Ace rushing and waving his hand as if nothing’s happened, I huffs in relief and walks toward him, I give him a hug and I’m glad he’s okay and speak through my choker, “Thanks Great Seven… I thought I lost you…”“Ace! You big idiot, we have to go off to search for you!” Grim raises his fists into the air, making an angry pout and I’m not the kind of a person who scolds him so harshly in public like that, but I do care if one of my friends gets lost, I’ll quickly search for one of my friends in no time. I can feel him hug me back, as I break the hug, scanning him carefully, “Ace Trappola, I told you to stay with Deuce but you wander off and get lost like that.”“I’m sorry… I won’t do that again.” He makes a guilty look with a frown, I stare at him for a few seconds and I feel my heart tells me to be gentle on him, I decide to tell him, “It’s okay. I’m glad you’re safe. We need to go back to our college before Riddle would collar you.”He soon smiles and nods, “Yea, we need to go.”As I pick Grim in my arms like a mom who picks a child in the arms, telling him, “Let’s go.”We walk off together, but I catch my eyes that Ace is acting strange by placing his hand on the middle of his chest, looking nearly uneasy as I ask him, “What’s wrong?” Ace hears me with widened eyes and turns to me and quickly moves his hand away from the middle of his chest, making a “fake” smile, “It’s nothing, it's just checking myself that’s all.”I stare at him and I nod, “I just check on you to make sure you're okay.”As he smiles, “Oh, thanks for checking on me.”He turns his head while focusing on walking, I turn my head to focus on watching myself or I will get bump or trip, quickly turn my choker off and think, I know he makes a fake smile, that means he’s hiding something… But I will find a way to make him to tell the truth.As I turns my choker on and keeps going, watching Ace if he's do something stupid. -End of Roxyu’s POV-Roxyu, Grim and Ace are walking together and off to join others, but they are watched by the Cloaked Figure, invisible and a smirk from their lips, “We will meet soon… Roxyu Forrest.” Here's a fun fact of her: She have rights to helps the people, searches for lost ones and protects from dangerous things, for example she have the real justice, which is she's willing to stop the corrupted people who like to cause troubles or stop the bullying.
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-Begin of Roxyu’s POV-After shopping with my friends, we are already going back to the NRC and the Ramshackle dorm and we have to prepare for a sleepover with the first year boys. Sounds fun. So we have many foods to make snacks with the first year boys, Grim, Rollo, Ernesto and Gino help me to make snacks together as teamwork. An hour later we finished making snacks and drinks, bringing them to the living room and places on the table as the echo of the door knocking. I walk and open the door, speaking through my choker with a small smile, “Come in.” I walk aside and watch the boys stepping inside this dorm, bringing their bags for a sleepover. I smile, I never had a sleepover with my first friends before, {I have many sleepovers with my late brother, we didn't have friends in the past.}So we tell them that they can have the bedrooms that are never used for a night, so they head to drop their bags inside the bedrooms and back to this living room, looking like the sleepover is ready. An hour later we are already wearing our pajamas. I have to use my flannel shirt because I have a black tank with crew neck, flannel pants. So I hear a question and I read the Closed Captions from Deuce, “Hey Roxyu, when will you join any clubs?”I freeze, keep smiling {Like Shinbou from Demon Slayer, she’s my favorite one.} I want to avoid the question but Sebek adds as if he caught me and gives me a serious glare, “Now you mention it, you don't join any clubs.”“What kind of clubs does this school have?” Ernesto asks them, Ortho starts explaining the details about the clubs to these three as I know I can’t tell them.{Let me tell you a secret, two of my other skills are riding the horse and lasso. My biographic father has owned the ranch since the first generation in the 1890s, which the cowgirl or cowboy veins through me and my brother. Before we met him in the past, don’t ask me why I worked as a lumberjill.} “Roxyu.” I snap out of my mind and get attention from Epel, who checks on me with a worried look, “Are you alright?”“Um…” I catch the boys staring at me, I nod, “I’m alright, just… daydreaming.”I stand up from the couch and have to excuse myself with respect, “Please excuse me and I’ll be back.”I’m walking off by myself as if I’m in a hurry, and going to the bathroom, opening the door, entering and closing the door behind me. I huff out and frown, to be honest I do not like to show that I have many skills. I walk to take a look at my reflection from the mirror, I look a little sad but not show tears. I speak through my choker, “.... Hey Rox. I know you are watching over me but…”Rox is my late brother’s nickname, known as Roxas. We have almost had names together since we were born. “I wish you are alive and with me in this Twisted Wonderland so you’ll have more friends, more fun and happiness than our real world, filled with cruel and heartless people.” I hang my head, managing my emotions well as I sometimes feel like I’m the worst sister I am, that’s what my biographic mother’s family says. “After you are gone, I don’t know what to do. I lost both of you, you and momma. I’m so alone without my family now.”But it’s so fast I feel a hand placing on my shoulder, I can hear a voice comfort me and read the Closed Captions but the voice doesn't belong to Rollo or others, “I do understand your feelings, Roxyu Forrest.”I lift my head to see a cloaked stranger who moves his gloved hand away from me, I widen my eyes and turn around. A cloaked stranger is taller than me, possibly an adult man. I ask him and give him a serious glance, “Who are you? How did you get here?”“Oh dear. Please excuse me for showing up behind you, how rude of me.” An adult man pulls a hood, he has blackish gray layer wolfcut hair with blue eyes, has pointy ears, fangs but he wears black cloak with black gloves.“Let me introduce myself.” A man says, “I am Demi Faye-Hex, a half-fae.” I turn my choker off by pressing the button from the choker, thinking, A half-fae, like Sebek. How did he get here? He wouldn’t enter the NRC with a magical barrier. How's it possible he can enter?“I heard the rumor about you, a magicless human who came from another world with a direbeast cat.” I read the Closed Captions, then stare at him and quickly turn the choker on, “I am. What do you want from me and how do you know my name?”“Do not worry, I won’t hurt you.” He raises his hands in the air, “But I like to learn about you, a friend of Lilia Vanrogue.”I’m surprised that he knows Lilia, but is he?“I see you can’t use your lips to talk, instead this choker you can speak without using your lips and glasses that you can understand me.” “I’m a Hard of Hearing or deaf, I can’t say many words with my lips or I can’t understand every word.”I know I have to watch him closely, I won’t let my guard off like that but I can see he looks calm. He suddenly notices and surprisingly takes my glasses away before taking a look at me but I can see his expression; deeply sad and his voice sounds gentler and quiet, “You look like my mother…”Huh?“Um.. excuse me.” I blink my eyes and ask him very gently and properly, “My glasses?”“Oh right.” He magically put my glasses back, “Forgive me, human.”I’m so confused like that but I ask him, “I hate to ask you but… before I’ll catch you down, are you planning to attack me or…?”“Oh no, I don’t like to hurt a lady but I am here to tell you one thing.” He gives me a evillish smile, then…I hear the echo of the loud noises and I turn to the door, I ask him, “What did you do?”“While you and others are in the Sage’s island, I cursed one of your friends who will soon become a beast by a full moon.” He disappears magically and I know it’s no time to stand there and I rush off to see what's going on, I hope they’re okay. -End of Roxyu’s POV-Demi Faye-Hex is not from Disney but a OC who is a half fae, the cloak he wears almost resembles the Kingdom Heart Organization XIII but not 100%.
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Roxyu shows up in the living room and widens her eyes to see Ace who is wincing in pain and she asks everyone in disbelief, “What’s going on?”“After you left, a few minutes later Ace somehow let out a scream and flipped the table! Our drinks and snacks are ruined and on the floor!” Ernesto says, widening his eyes and frowns, the table has flopped, the drinks and foods are already on the floor. Everyone watching Ace who hugs his stomach as if he has a stomachache, takes a few steps away from them while walking backward and kneels onto the floor while the moon beams its light through the opened curtains at him. Deuce asks him if he’s right, “Ace? Are you alright?”Ace is sweating and huffing heavily, lifting his head and showing them the fangs! “Look! He has fangs!” Grim shouts, widening his eyes as others look shocked.A spark of realization hits Roxyu and recalls the half-fae mention about becoming a beast by a full moon, widening eyes, “It can’t be…”They can hear loud cracking and screaming in pain from Ace, Ace’s nails and toenails starts changing black and growing to claws, his hands and feet are growing orange fur, the orange fur rips the hoodie and white shirt from the back, he get bigger as his hoodie and white shirt are ripping in pieces and his black pants ripping into shorts as his ears changing to pointy, the tail pops out as lift his head up as his nose, lips and mouth starts growing into canine nose and muzzle. Finally the loud cracking and screaming are going fade, so quiet as others can’t believe what they see. Roxyu looks concerned, gulps and starts slowly walking, gently calling him, “Ace?”“Roxyu, don't be near him!” Deuce tries to warn her to avoid it but she doesn't listen and read at the same time, carefully walking toward him, “Ace? Are you ok?”Ace twitches his canine ear and lifts his head slowly and his eyes are red with yellow scleras, staring at her and others. Roxyu tries to keep cool, bending knees on the floor, “It’s okay. We’re your friends.”That moment she falls on the floor when Ace stands up, so tall and huge than his human form, watching him turn and rushes, lunges through the windows with the sound of shattering! Ace lands and stands up again, lifting his head and lets out a loud howl for a short second before starting running all four. "Roxyu, we need to do something!" Jack says, ready to do serious, "Before he would hurt anyone!"“Tsk…” Roxyu quickly knows and orders while furrowing her eyebrows and frowns, “Boys, as a housewarden, I give you permission to stop him before it becomes a very bad mess, now!”“Yes!” All of them look serious and rushing to their bedrooms, she pulls a phone and hurriedly taps the screen to call the Headmage, speaking through her choker, “Headmage, this is Forrest. We have trouble, big trouble. We need to do, fast.”She hangs it down and hurriedly rushes to her bedroom and she pulls the drawer, finding other clothes, boots and black gloves, she sighs, “Pa, please give me your strength.”Then she takes them to dress herself.