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It was perhaps about four in the afternoon, and Juno was having generally a normal outing on the grounds. It'd been a while since he'd last been there. He'd forgotten, was it two or three years he'd been away...? Ah well, what did it matter really? He was back and ready to enjoy the loveliness of the campus once again...

More specifically, his favorite tree. A thickly foliaged oak tree to be precise. It was perfect for hiding in, and the best spot to play some old tricks he'd played oh-so-often during his days here as a student. Figuring it was bit time for some nostalgia during his first few days back, he had to return to this spot.

Crouching comfortably on one of the branches toward the middle-high end part of the tree, he was eyeing his unsuspecting target's backpack. All it need was a small cut at the seam and it would be enough; from this distance it was perfect. He pulled each hand's glove up a bit in preparation for the shot... And in one quick gesture, pointed at his target. "Bang." He whispered. An extra small dart of light appeared and disappeared in an instant, leaving its mark on the indent that attached the bottom to larger portion of the school bag: a near unnoticeable tear.

He knew what the end result would be eventually, and grinned chuckling to himself. Stretching out his legs more comfortably along the branch of the tree, he leaned his back against the trunk. Brown-eyes behind the pitch black shades still lazily on the student's bag he'd just sabotaged for disaster in the near-future (as it looked like a rather heavily loaded bag for sure). What a fine afternoon it was indeed.

Even from behind Juno's shades, he could always see quite well. He'd grown so accustomed to them after all these years wearing them that they'd become naturally part of his entity. So when a dark darting insect began to assault his head, he wasn't the least bit alarmed.

It looked like a giant dragonfly... From Tasea. Which was obvious to him since it was his home, plus the fact he'd used them as target practice on numerous occasions before coming to SA (Tasea had a great selection of enormous nuisance bugs that he didn't feel guilty shooting at). And he also knew there were none on SA, so how it'd gotten there was beyond him. Why he was attracting it, another mystery. It was for sure looking like it was going to attempt to bite him.

All these calculations had been within a few seconds neither had he really moved at all, but he was just about to take aim when it went straight for his head. His quick reflexes allowed him to duck his head out of the way to the left just in time. He had expected it to come around again, but instead it'd disappeared in a small poof of smoke after striking the trunk of the tree.

Mildly confused, his eyebrows scrunched together. He could only assume it was another person who'd decided to play a trick on him. This made him grin, it was always grand to bump into a fellow prankster. Though he wondered if he could find the culprit. He peered around on his level of tree and below and then finally took a glance upward only to find that yes there was someone. And she was sitting but a few branches up from him. He hadn't noticed her at all when he'd climbed his tree... Amazing!

"It probably would've been more effective if you'd used a snake." He said to her, smirk still on his face.

Juno's grin grew wider.

"Or having shoot outs." Juno turned himself towards the young teen, right leg swinging off the branch while the other was up against his chest, forearm leaning against it.
"Nice to meet you Clowrey Eir." He took her hand with a gentle squeeze followed by a short shake. "You may continue to call me Shades if you like. Or SS."

"So, what brings you to this fine specimen of a tree?" Juno inquired. She must have great taste in trees if she managed to pick one of many oaks out of the grounds that happened to be his particular favorite, eh?

Skipping class, eh? Not like he'd never done it. Juno nodded in comprehension to her statements.

He chuckled. "I guess you saw that, huh. Yeah, you could call it 'light bullets'."
"Well, what about you? Smoke insects? What's that about?"

"That sounds pretty neat." Though Juno'd been around the super power business and all that for quite a while now, he'd never really heard of this sort of ability. He nodded while listening to her talk. "Nah, I think it's plenty useful." He smiled. "Maybe one day you'll be able to, by condensing it enough into a solidified form. Though maybe that's not in your range and I'm talking out my butt. Haha." He shrugged. "But logically speaking, smoke or smog or whatever is made up of particles like soot. Aaaand I'm talking too much." He laughed. "Sorry."

"That is also pretty incredible. Sounds a lot like spy material." He grinned. She definitely acted the part with her stealth skills.

Juno sighed and stretched and stood up on his branch. "Well, I don't know about you... But I think it's about time to grab a snack of some sort. Been sitting too long in this tree as much as I like it." He bent down and was about to swing himself out of the tree when he looked up at Clowrey. "Care to join me?"

"So what did you have in mind anyway, Shades?"

With a twinkle in his eye (though of course she couldn't tell because of his shades), "Ice cream."

He knew that SA promoted healthy food and all that jazz, but that didn't keep him from having his own secret storage in a secret compartment in the school's kitchen. No one would keep Juno from his love for sweet things, ice cream was definitely in that category. Cold sweet things.

And now that he was a teacher at SA, he was all the more important that he keep this secret storage well... Secret. The only other person who knew about it was BB. Hack certainly couldn't know about it because he'd clean Juno out of food, the fiendish black hole. And he couldn't have a student finding it. So he would have to figure out a way to get some without Clow knowing. But he would get to that step once they got here.

"We'll have to go to the school's kitchen." He added, hopping down from branch to branch and landing nimbly on the grass at the foot of the tree.

"Hope no one catches us though; I've already got detention lined up at the end of the week. I don't wanna have to spend much longer in that room..."

Juno snickered at this. He wondered who was in charge of detention these days. He'll never forget that day he met BB in there. And then the many consecutive times they were in there again together... Oh detention, the memories he, BB and it shared. So numerous and wonderful. He could not remember a time when they did not wreak even more havoc in there than the reason that'd got them stuffed in detention in the first place.

Oh fond memories. He sighed. Hopefully he would find BB around soon, since he'd been back he hadn't seen his good friend. Even though he heard that he was around somewhere doing who knows what. Terrorizing new students maybe.

"Eh, I'm not too worried about it." Juno was never afraid of getting in trouble, as long as he had good reason for it. Though pranking was always deemed a good reason, as long as his prank wielded the results he desired.

Strolling along the school grounds on his long legs, it was in no time (at least for Juno) that they got into the cafeteria building which was rather crowded as it was almost dinner service. It was late afternoon after all. He supposed lots of kids were hungry. He noticed a few teachers keeping watch. But with this many people, it would make sneaking into the kitchens even easier.

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Unnoticed by the mass of people, it seemed simple enough to get to their destination. She did hope nobody was actually inside when they got there though...Clow followed after Juno as they made their way to the kitchen. "Say, what part of Tasea are you from anyhow? From your dialect, I guessed more inland-north?" she queried, being a sea-to-the-south girl herself. It was a simple question, for simple chatter as they came to the kitchen...The girl almost instantly spotted BB--"Oh crap it's that jerk!" she grumbled before starting to speak to Juno. "We oughta get outta here," Clowrey would begin to say, unaware that the two were the best of friends--or that Juno wasn't a student like she had initially thought.