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Sadly, Aki had gotten a bit... lost. He'd been working to find his way to the main area, following the noise and trying to make his way through the crowds, but due to that he'd missed the first event. Being short and new to school wasn't helping.

It also didn't help asking for directions over the din was even harder. Still, he'd finally made it! And in time for this second event-chamacallit. SO HE WAS READY!

Or so he thought. Races. Tests of strength... that stuff he'd have been ok at. But this was hard. He was shoved in a box area with a test that he couldn't read. This was no good at all.

It got worse too. He'd only just sat down and begun reading out the words slowly and trying to figure it out when the floor gave way and he found himself falling into a pit with a shriek. He ended up spending most of the test climbing out and drew a few smiles and things on the test in the last moments in hopes of a few points. Which... somehow worked.

YAY FOR ARTISTIC ABILITY!

The next part was... somehow worse. And yet... numbers. He could count. He'd figured out those symbols and what they meant as there was only so much one could do with numbers. Thus, he was working away happily, completing missing the sections that were in code. He didn't quite grasp what it was enough to realize he was completely getting that wrong.

Oh well.

Next came... something. He wasn't sure. The words were all foreign or too big. So he just started scribbling on the test again, drawing smiles and such like a child would. At least he was getting practice with the writing utensil. Though... he noticed toward the end that someone was peeking over the wall, and the two merely stared.

...had they noticed he was just drawing faces? Hopefully they didn't copy his test, that would be bad. For them.

Then came literature. Oddly enough, it was a picture book, about... someone named Excalibur... who was there to protect and these different colors and types. Hey, the voice had said something about this. THIS HE KNEW! And so he drew pictures of the things, adding a few big X's near the Revenge part. Because that wasn't for him, right?

It was the only part of the test he'd understood, and somehow he aced it.

And then he was starting the last test, which sort of smelled yummy. Probably too yummy, as his desk suddenly snapped up a page of his test and his hand along with it as he started to work on it. That did not help with drawing pictures on his test.

Eventually he got most of the test back. They might have given him some points for 'desk ate my exam' excuses. Because he was being honest.

Still, at least he'd done his best?

Perhaps it was lucky that Levi had happened on West at that time. Slinking down with an unwavering glance of suspicion despite his head shaking, Levi's behind would once again be in her own chair. With math done, she turned the page to- Human Studies? Ah, yes. She and West had gone shopping in the human world and seen some of the items listed her- why is this whole page just a list of items? Giving it a good two or five minutes of staring, the tatzel concluded this might very well have been a list of items intended for purchasing goods in the human world. Just to play it safe, this being a test and all, the ghoul took her pencil to the paper and wrote out the following at the bottom: Yea, these are all from the human world.
There, that would cover her.

The rest seemed pretty typical of her studies. Surprisingly, Levi got through this section rather quickly. Or perhaps it wasn't so surprising given she'd been beyond the door multiple times at this point. There was a sense of personal satisfaction in her memories of this; it wouldn't have been possible had she stayed home and not come to Amityville for her schooling.

The warm fuzzies were popped out of mind, quite literally, when Levi came face to fist with the knuckles of someone beside her. Clutching onto the desk just in time to avoid falling over with her chair, the tatzel would first give an involuntary low hiss in response to the collision's sting on her jaw. Looking at the boil as if to say WHAT THE JACK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!, Levi would realize then that this was no boil student. It was an enraged alumni member of which she did not recognize. The bulky built superior growled down at Levi, almost taunting her to take him on. There was no indication of why he'd chosen to attack her out of everyone here or why he'd attacked at all in the first place. Defensively taking on a posture suitable for ducking and dodging, the tatzel looked back at her paper and then back at her foe only to get a click of sudden inspiration.

Ahh... this must be a part of the test!

Maybe the others just hadn't gotten to this part yet? Now she was grinning; inhaling for this section's performance, Levi casually tucked her chair into her desk, turned, and lunged at her partner for the dynamic literature quiz. Instead of writing down poetic verse, the ghoul would loudly and aggressively site a familiar literary ditty whilst kicking the alumni member in the ribs.

So this was a real literature test...

Maybe it was the fact that she was attacking back, or that she'd taken to mispronouncing sonnets while doing so, but the alumni member raised a brow while blocking, opting to pick on another lowly student and fleeing the scene.

When Levi looked back toward her paper, a skip in her step for having done so well on the literature section, she took note of those horns against a bright-haired backdrop. Smirking, she gave the boil a thumbs up. Yeah, she aced that part; she knew it.

I've never hear a quiz accompanied by so many screams! Amityville doesn't play around when it comes to education! Knowledge can be a dangerous thing, but it looks like not knowing is even deadlier!
Let's see how ANN WALPURGIS IS DOING...she's doing DECENTLY. Nothing too suspicious going on, but don't be fooled, ANNA WALPURGIS WE ARE WATCHING YOU.
It looks like BOTH Van Rotte's are doing well, as can only be expected! Nobody knows brains like zombies know brains! You are what you eat, right folks?!

It looks like the previous loss has the Demon Dorm putting their all into this one if Tomoko the Kitsune is anything to go by!

It looks like someone else is doing well, who is that ghoul?! It's...yes, it's Miasma Aricia! Fluttering out of nowhere on wings of knowledge! Lovely ghoul!

And...it looks like another ghoul is shining with the power of intellect, although SHINING wouldn't be quite the word for one of Halloween Town's favored debutantes, Obsidian Depths!

Who will the winner be? Which dorm has proven themselves the smartest? The judges are tallying as we speak! During the wait be sure to visit the booths and leave your feedback! And don't forget to turn in your tickets for special prizes!