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"Your little pet-guy?" Kai asked, scratching behind his horns. "I haven't seen him. Wait...if he's a shapeshifter, how would I know if I'd seen him?"

Kai looked around the creepateria, suspiciously now. A shapeshifter could be anyone...or anything! Slowly, experimentally, Kai poked Glen with the handle of his plastic knife.

"Yipe! What was that for?!" Glen asked, rubbing his arm.

"Just checking." Kai replied. He then proceeded to slowly, experimentally poke the nearest milk carton.

Harry poked Kai gently.

"Dude, we don't need magic. We've got something more cosmically groovy than magic powers...goblin power!"

Goobedlygook buried his face in his hands.

"By the Lord Herne."

"One of my goblins pals if going to pretend to be me for Mr. HackeySack. He'll never tell the difference....he sentenced my ghost dogs to deadtention. We can get another goblin to pretend to be you!"

Lin slunk back across the creepateria, constantly stealing glances over his shoulder to give Hellene the ol' stink eye, or as those in the know call it, the gremlin eye. When his grimma would do this, she could black out an entire neighborhood. Lin still hadn't learned to do anything like that, not that he wanted to. He preferred building things as opposed to destroying them.

So the simple fact that Hellene's iCoffin just fizzled out on her was purely a coincidence. HONEST!

Lin didn't know hexactly why Hellene gave him such bad vibes, but being referred to as a 'that' really set his gears to grinding.

He arrived back at the corner table commandeered by the Tribe as their usual, and gave Draconia one last wave before he pulled his chair back out and climbed up onto his school books so he could sit comfortably, head above the table line.

"So?" Gryff started to speak up. "What's got you in such a snit?"

Lin sighed and finally gave his full and undivided attention to his hero and answered, "Oh nothing. I just invited Draconia and her friend over to sit with us and..."

"What?" Gryff frowned, one perfectly white and sharpened fang bared between his pursed lips. "Why would you even do such a thing?"

Lin blinked, looking back and forth between Gryff and Atomica, unsure of what he did or said to provoke such a response from his buddy.

"Welll...." He started to reason. "So you guys would know I wasn't just jerkin' your chains about my date tonight. Besides, they said no."

"Their loss." Gryff said almost absently, not really caring.

"They turned down a chance to sit at the cool kids table?"

Atomica's thought processors ran rampant overtime, trying to figure out the logic behind that. In her hexperience, kids were always clamoring to sit with the cool kids so why...

"Why would they refuse to sit with us!?" Atomica was aghast. "It like, TOTALLY makes no sense!" She immediately jumped to her feet and turned her vocal synthesizers up to maximum volume, "WHAT, DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TOO GOOD!?"

Okay so a few windows shattered from the high pitched outburst. These things happen!

Gryff 'assisted' Atomica in sitting back down and regaining her composure. She sat and fumed, mumbling "As if...." as she idly kicked her feet in agitation.

"I dunno why." Lin said as he started to carve into his haggis. "But I have a feeling that feather brained fiend of her's doesn't like me. Called me a 'that' and gave me dirty looks."

"Oh she did, did she?"

"Yeah! And I think she might try to disrupt my date! She's up to something I bet!"

"And your evidence?"

"She had the same look on her face that Atomica did when Reality Bytes at the maul had that 2 for 1 sale!"

Rory hesitated near the entrance to the Creepateria. Dashner was already chatting up Peggy, and it looked like Glen was sitting with Kai, Harry Herne and Arillena.

Rory took one uncertain step forward. But THE TRAUMA~! The MEMORIES~! The sensation of the horrible event that had happened there just yesterday (even though in some ways it felt like months and months ago) still echoed in his fractured mind.

The food fright! The hiding under the table! The incriminating picture of Arillena and himself crawling out from under said table! The gossip! And then...finally...the Traumatic Breakup of Doom! This was where it all started!

"Augh! They should post a trigger warning in front of the Creepateria door!" Rory lamented, taking a step backwards. "I can't go in there....but yet...still so hungry...."

"Yeah, it's going to be gnarly and - DASH! OVER HERE!" Kai waved at Dashner from across the Creepateria. What luck! The Band's Keytarist! That was one more slot to fill.

While he tried to attract Dashner's attention away from Peggy with waving and hand signals, Kai addressed Harry.

"Are you sure that your goblin friends can, uh...help us with deadtention, Harry? Ohhhh....Are THEY shapeshifters too?!" Kai gave an appraising look to Harry's butler, Gobbledygook. If Goblins were shapeshifters, and Arillena's pet/friend/companion was a shapeshifter....then maybe her pet/friend/companion was actually STANDING RIGHT THERE ALL ALONG~

As Doriana batted at her own hair, Hellene raised a perfectly manicured eyebrow.

"There's plenty of time for dating," Hellene mused, "Time is never really an issue, you can find time somewhere if you look hard enough or can talk Cleo into letting you use that weird little thingamabob with the hourus glass on it but I think her dad took it away after the Dawn of Dance incidents, it's that there's just not always anyone around with the trouble of it."

She didn't want to get too negative, her beasty had been a little down in the dumps lately and it wouldn't do to go and pile on the dark clouds. Her own misgivings on the Tribe were mostly by secondhand contact. Oh sure everymonster had been insulted by Gryff at one point or trod on be Atomica's incredibly heavy shoes, but you know, it wasn't like they had a blood feud. Except everyone in the chop classes kind of threw a party whenever Lin was out sick.

"Draconia, you know I'll support you whatever you do and help you pick out and outfit and makeup and do a perfect werecat-eye, and if that means going out with that weird little ankle-biter on a date," she paused here, trying to find the words. "Well I guess I can help you find a booster seat. Two booster seats. Like ten booster seats."

She gritted her teeth and forced out the next few words.

"Who knows. Maybe...maybe Lin isn't so bad at all, no one is up to anything and...."

The fork she was holding snapped in half.

"Oops! Ha ha, well, they don't make them like they used to," she stammered, putting the utensil shards down and looking at her lunch tray. "I wasn't going to eat this anyway. So...what are you going to do?"

Arillena sat down quietly and began to eat a heavily frosted cupcake. As the conversation turned to plans to break out of detention she giggled a small amount at how crazy they sounded. But for some reason none of it surprised her anymore, probably because of everything that had been going on in the last few months couple of days.

The Fae couldn't think of anything to add at the moment so she silently nomed her cupcakes. The conversation topic seemed to be about three different things she couldn't follow very well, her head thoughts were fuzzy. For some reason her mind focused of the strange mirror she found in her locker on day one- she still hadn't figured out where it came from or whose it was.

Hm...Oh well...