[ORP] Clean Up Duty - [FIN] P 14

[Blade Kuroda]

Shivering, Jericho looked over towards Tomoko and Roch, tempted to snatch up one of the kitsune's tails to use as well. He gave off a lot of heat, but that didn't really help to keep himself warm. If anything it made the cold all the more obvious to him.

He took one step towards the pair, but then Arel spoke up again.

"A snow castle? Seriously?"

Were they dealing with their secretary or a jacking 12 year old child right now?
Or was there a difference?  

[Bittiface]

Mot smiled at Pepin as she pouted, a light chuckle escaping him. He turned to Sammy as she approached. "She keeps glitching because of the cold. It's not as bad if she doesn't move, apparently."

The reaper learned of Arel's little request after witnessing the bickering between he and two fire type students. "A..castle..." Castle? Well.. wait why?

Mot looked at the snow around him. Did he mean a little one or a real castle? Mot was not eager to make either.  

[kuropeco]

Sparrow eyed Arel with a confused sort of expression on his face. One hand was on his hip, the other holding his scythe vertical in the snow.

"You want us to, er...what?"

He had not ever heard of a school professor - or secretary, rather - ordering his students to build a snow castle before. Perhaps, however, it was the fact that they were all in the middle of nowhere, surrounded on all sides by snow, and there were no other officials around.

Or perhaps it was just Arel attempting to show that he was, in fact, an authority figure, despite the fact that he was a) only about four feet tall, and b) looked like a twelve year old.

He resisted the very strong urge to ask if it would be a house for the secretary, instead turning to Wren, and lifting a brow.

"Wanna build a castle with me?"

Turning around, he accidentally whacked the side of his scythe against Roch's head.

"Oops. Pardon me. Didn't see you there."

Ice Queen

Lilwolfpard

 

[Ice Queen]

Roch growled, his eyes narrowing dangerously on the other reaper, his "happy place" gone within an instant. "I'm sure you are," he said, gently putting Tomoko's tail in her lap and standing. He held out one fist, summoning his guitar.

"Why don't we start digging, then?" he said, an evil grin on his face as he turned to the snow. He turned the guitar, wielding it like a shovel and tossing the snow quickly over his shoulder.

Right at Sparrow.  

[danse-hexe]

Well, that was it.

"You don't make castles out of snow!" For a secretary, he seemed to have rather.. limited knowledge of how things worked.

"First off, do you even know how durable this stuff is??" Grudgingly she reached down into the snow, forming a small snowball. Holding it out in front of Arel, she crushed it easily, letting the melting water trickle down.

"See that? SEE THAT? Snow's not going to protect your treasures, or keep you safe. Snow is, like, the WORST THING EVER other than water, and that's because they're pretty much the same thing."

You needed nice, strong walls, and probably a moat (though Vieve was more than fine with lava), and... and a lot of people, presumably. No sense in doing all the work on your own.. at least Arel had gotten that right.  

[Lilwolfpard]

"How big?" She frowned at the secretary, wondering if he literally wanted a HUGE castle... snow bricks and all. Or maybe a small castle.

Maybe Arel wanted a snow castle to play dolls with.

Did he even play with dolls?

She was unsure but... they were supposed to listen to their professors..right? Giving the briefest of nods towards Sparrow, confirming she would help, she leaned down over a snow pile and started to gather it...only to have it melt some in her hands.

"...How can we make a -snow- castle when the snow melts.. wouldn't it be a Ice castle?" Withdrawing her hands she shivered and shoved them into her coat pockets.... to turn around and look at Roch and Sparrow, mouth open.

....

Pulling her hands out of her pockets... she kept them out JUST long enough to toss a snowball, one at each of them. They were using up all the snow on each other! ... and she just contributed but, OH WELL.  

[kuropeco]

"Here," said Sparrow to Wren, bending down and scooping up a pile of snow in his gloved hands. "Just - gack!"

A large heap of cold, wet now landed on top of his head, going down the back of his shirt. Leaping up, Sparrow hopped around idiotically in an attempt at getting it out, then realized exactly where it had come from.

He turned back to Wren - just in time to get a handful of snow in his face.

"Wr - Wren?! he sputtered, brushing snow from his face.

There was a pause. "You missed."

A scythe swipe later and a whole pile of snow flopped on Roch's head.

 

[Ice Queen]

Roch reached up, slowly wiping the snow off of his face, then grinned, pure evilness, scooped, and threw, then did it again and again, three consecutive attacks, all aimed at Sparr--nope, that last one went in Wren's direction.

Whoops.  

[demon_pachabel]

Tomoko shook her head. "It just itches, really." she answered about her tails, getting up when it seemed it was time to...
...
...

Build a snow castle, really? The kitsune made a face, knitting her brows together and clenching her fists, twisting them in her skirt. She actually looked pretty angry for a second...until the snow seemed to flicker...and then reform. Did it actually reform? The faint purple glowing around her wrists said that it was possible, but..she was also forcing herself to maintain her focus and it caused her head to ache.

Her head to ache and the smallest bit of sweat to run down the side of her face. This was really hard without her ball of stars.

"i-Is this about what you're thinking...?" she asked. If someone were to actually walk up to the 'castle' (which was about the size of a playhouse) and touch it, the surface would flicker around their hand and allow it to pass through.

It was entirely an illusion that Tomoko seemed to be struggling with.  

[Sosiqui]

Malodore blinked, then slowly lowered itself to kneel on the snow again, a resigned... well, it would have been a resigned look if it had a more malleable face. As it was, the plague doctor just appeared as usual, but it certainly felt resigned.

It scooped up some snow and started building, because... well. Why not? It wasn't like they had anything better to do. "Yours is lovely," it said to the little kitsune girl.  

[Zyphiris]

Edel's head perked up at the secretary's sudden request, leaving the snowman she was currently working on unfinished.

A snow castle?

Most interesting. There was only one question though.

“Would you like it Gothic, Baroque or Classic?”  

[Zoobey]

"Hmph." Was pretty much all the secretary had to say regarding the illusory 'snow castle'. "Count on students to always try and take the easy way out. I bet you if Red was asking for the same-"

-Arel suddenly stopped himself. For a brief second instead of his usual dour expression there was something else - a sort of shock, a quaver of uncertainty. The air around them visibly flickered as the pelting snow for a second seemed to hiccup and change directions.

"The same... thing." The secretary finally finished. He was entirely distracted again, and for some reason, would not look at the students. One mittened hand pulled the pendant out as they gave a small sigh. "I guess there's no way to delay the inevitable is there?"

There was a small glimmer from the pendant, and then the scenery began to warp immediately. That b*****d - Arel had actually known all along that there really was no cooldown, he was just toying with them.

The world turned black again.

The secretary would be gone before the first of the students woke up to the usual buzz of the hallway.

OOC

Congratulations! For anyone who made a single post in the rp, you will be pulled in a raffle for a pendant item.
- In addition, if please pm chibizoo on the minipets site to pick up your free minipets prize thank you!
- Feel free to post conclusions here, etc etc.
- RP POINTS: If you posted all rounds, including the infamous "snow castle" turn, you get 3 rp points. For posting over 800 words regardless of how many posts you made, it is also 3 rp points. Otherwise it is 2 points in making any single post in this rp.
- (Once again this event happens right before the start of existing meta, for timeline purposes)

 

[Sosiqui]

One minute, Malodore was scooping snow up into the semblance of a tower. The next, it was blinking in the same familiar hallway, hands posed awkwardly over nothing at all, though snow was melting off of its coat and making puddles around it. "Ah..." It turned its head this way and that, but there was no sign of the secretary anywhere, or of that mysterious pendant.

Slowly, the plague doctor rose to its feet. "Well, ah... that was interesting?" it said, after a moment, to the students at large.  

[Blade Kuroda]

Well, Jericho supposed that it was good that the other students were more willing to play along with the whole snow castle bit. Maybe if the dragon was dressed more warmly he wouldn't mind playing around in the snow.. if he didn't end up melting whatever he touched within a few moments. That was a big maybe. Either way, this wasn't the case, so he just sat by, watching the others.

Though, he looked at Arel curiously as the secretary suddenly stopped speaking in mid-sentence. There was an odd look in his face that wasn't something he was used to seeing in the frost demon. It was like he was just reminded of something he really did not want to think about. Did it have something to do with Red?

He couldn't think of what this was all about really.

The last thing he said came off a little strangely as well. Furrowing his brow, he was about to ask something, but was cut off as the world went black. When he reopened his eyes, he found that he was feeling much warmer. Not only that, but he was back at school, away from teh snow.

The dragon looked over towards Malodore and nodded.

"You could say that."  

[Ice Queen]

The body of Roch's guitar hit the hallway floor with a clang which did nothing to hurt the guitar, but sounded horrible. He snorted, standing straight and looking around blankly.

Well, at least he was warm again. With that thought he let his guitar dissipate, gave Sparrow a look that promised a round 2--er, 3, wouldn't it be? Handed Mot his coat back. And walked away. He had stuff to do.