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Despite Arachne's defiant words, if they had to fight, if that got them away from this place, then that was what she would do. It looked at is if the others were also at least willing to do so, in exchange of course for information.

She looked at the door again, still mindful of the noise of the falling stones. When they moved as a group, she would follow them.

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Charlie shook his head. The fall had been quite out of no where, errr, the hitting the ceiling and the fall. The pink haired demon was still recovering but for the most part he was fine thanks to Lizzies care. In all honesty he had not been paying attention to the banter between the students and this hooded figure. He'd been cradling his head with his hands trying to get rid of this new found headache.

"Dude..." The pink haired demon finally spoke up, "Thats an awesome hoodie. I bet you could do all kind of extreme sports in that and look like a bad a**. Like mountain biking through lava and EXTREME rock climbing through lava. I want one." Charlie frowned and thought about how awesome it would be to be doing extreme things. Apparently the small pink haired demon had forgotten that they were trapped on an island with no way back home and that this guy right here was quite possibly not a friend.

" ... extreme.... yeah..." Charlie muttered under his breath as the day dreams continued.

Riley bent her head, just slightly, in a subtle attempt to look under the cloak. When she failed, she stood her ground for a moment, before returning to Malodore's side. Her eyes were foggy and distant, as she searched for more information. Being at Malodore's side provided her the safe feeling she needed to tear her eyes away from the hooded figure enough to do so.

When her eyes cleared again, they looked more confused than ever. She heard Petro's comment first. The ant always has a chance at winning, Petro. That's the point. Her eyes returned to the reaper. Either you're asking us to fight for you because we're weak enough to fly under the radar, or you're asking us to help carry you to victory. Either option doesn't sound very.. appealing. Not to mention you've basically all but told us there's no way home. I still don't see what would make us - WAIT!

Riley had only then noticed Mandy, already headed towards the door. She lurched in that direction, intent on stopping her - or at least not letting her go alone.

First Riley had started over toward Mandy and then Lizzy. Mandy must have been a pretty happening ghoul to attract the attention of the lovely Riley and Lizzy. Charlie wanted to be happening too. The young pink haired demon shot up from his seat, of course he gave Mac the bro thumbs up while doing all this, and ran toward Riley, Mandy and of course Lizzy.

"HEY YOU GUYS! I WANT TO SUBMIT TO PEER PRESSURE TOO!" He called out to them quite seriously. There was a bit of flailing involved too.

The figure stared silently at Charlie for a long time, and then apparently decided to ignore the boy's existence. "You ask me questions as if I'll simply answer them, because you asked. I will tell you one thing though, simply and plainly: you need not fight for me, Pride has long since fallen and I wouldn't dare rely on such."

He was agitated now, despite several students' compliance, his continued swinging swiftly this way and that. And the longer he spoke the less sense he made. "No don't fight for me, fight for yourselves. Fight for the little ants who had not your strength. Fight to go home. Because your teachers won't do it. Where are they again? That's right, you're don't know. Know? No elephants allowed. Or maybe you should..." he gestured widely to encompass the tower, "Fight to move forward, because you have nowhere else to go."

The stairs were very much gone.

So these little ants - Riley did not like thinking of them this way at ALL - were sent off to fight their elephant. Well, the strength of an ant meant little compared to a swarm of them. Lizzy had been right. Riley put her hand on Lizzy's shoulder, and turned to the others that had yet to join them.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, he said the magic words. We fight to go home. This wouldn't be the first time we've had to do it without the teachers. To herself, she grumbled that she was positive it would not be the last.

She nodded to Lizzy. If we do this, then you're right. We'll do it together. Her eyes strayed to Mac for a moment, before they turned to Malodore, Jericho, and the rest of the group. All of us. Her head swiveled back, and she took a breath.

Go ahead, Mandy.

Lizzy was one of the few that actually understood Charlie besides Mac. But Mac was like having a cheat sheet pretty much. No one understood the subtleties of Charlie's special better than Mac. Lizzy was dead on shooting down the idea of stealing the hooded persons hoodie because the next thing Charlie was thinking of saying was how much sexier it would be on him. The propitiation that they could make one together actually satisfied Charlie too.

The pulling closer was met with a hug from Charlie. The child like pink haired demon almost had hug set to a default.

"We can fight, then maybe we can get some tasty treats after and juice boxes." Yes that sounded like the best plan ever. He gave Riley a nod too acknowledging the fact that doing it together was sure to get them a trip to the pizza place after wards. They were a team. And teams got pizza if they won. Yes. Sounded like a plan.

"I want pepperoni! " It pleased Charlie very much to see Petro was now on board too. Pizza for team awesome for sure.