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Riley hadn't taken a good enough look at the map when she snatched one from the book after entering the room, with a frighteningly happy Cthulhu attached to her leg. It wasn't walking on it's own, oh no. It had decided that Riley's leg was the perfect mode of transportation. She had spent several minutes trying to shake or pry the Cthulhu off of her, but it was actually impossible to remove a Cthulhu from your body if it didn't want to be. Her leg had several suckling welts from trying.

At some point she'd just accepted her forced addition, and stood inside of the room with her pet attached to her ankle as if it was perfectly normal. She finally gave the map a good look, and her head slowly tilted to one side. Was that.. were those..

She looked around quickly for the professor. According to the map, Riley should be attacking the students during this exercise. This was what she got from it - and she wondered if she had missed some memo explaining her role in the situation.

Should she just start attacking now? She considered it.

Someone else had come in now - a dragon boil whose name Ren thought might have been Aksaja, if he was remembering correctly. He had met the boil at the Spin the Bottle party - it seemed like so long ago now - and he vaguely remembered the boil from the field trip. Ren offered him a friendly nod before he felt Jove shift. Glancing down, he caught sight of the boil moving closer, his ears flattened back against his fluffy hair, his expression a mixture of apprehension and worry. One look to the right at the mimic held in Aksaja's arms and Ren could figure out why. He chanced to put an arm around the younger boil's shoulders, gently squeezing, but hopefully not in a patronizing manner. The last thing he wanted was for Jove to feel uncomfortable, since he knew the boil didn't like public displays of affection. After a moment he moved his arm away, but his tail discretely entwined with his little brother's; a reassurance that he wasn't going anywhere.

Leaning against Gabrian, Ren's eyes were drawn to the doorway as another student swept in - this one much more familiar. Riley seemed to be curious about the map, but as usual, Ren could not read her expressions. He did, however, offer her a smile, lifting his hand in a brief gesture of greeting before resting his chin atop Gabrian's shoulder from behind.

"I don't really see this turning out well, you know..."

Astra knew that she would have to go back to class eventually, and it seemed this would be the first one she would return to. Dragging her ever reluctant Shenglong ryu with her, as well as some of his favorite fear candies (she was getting quite good at making it herself) she peeked her head into the classroom and immediately spied several people she knew, including Ren and jove whom she had assisted in helping them find mushrooms, Riley and of course..him. She grimaced at the sight of jericho, and decided that the best course of action was to pretend he didn't even exist. Yeah, she'd go with that.

The other thing she had noticed that this room looked less like a classroom, and more like the outside wilderness. One part of was covered in water, the other was just air. She took a guess thats he would have to guide herself and her pet across the room...and she wasn't looking forward to it. Ryu hardly listened to her even when she offered him fear candy and threatened to use the fear whip. How was she gonna pull this off?

Deciding that it would be better to be near others, Astra moved closer to the group of students including Jove, ren and Junko. She would of gone over to riley, but considering Malodore and jericho were here, she would just get in their way,and preceded to just wave at them instead.

Her minipet Ryu was, of course, not pleased to be here in the slightest, resuming his need to glare at anyone who came near him and doing his best tobe a general pain in the butt to his owner to show his annoyance.

Hurrying behind Barth, Christof had thankfully decided that a leash would be a good idea this class. He tugged at the rope he had tied around Scruff's neck, the patched up, undead scareon couldn't seem to decide whether lurching ahead and straining on his noose or trying to get the treats out of his Master's pocket.

Christof just batted it away, lurching forward himself to make sure Barth didn't skip out of class last minute for a nap somewhere.

At the sight of what had become of the inside of the classroom, though, he stopped short. What in the... He glanced from the churning water to the gaping chasm to the ominously quiet path between them.

This did not bode well.

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Mandy was running slightly late. She knew this and she also entirely blamed it on the reason she was even coming to this class. First the troublesome doll had hid the FEAR candy she had made and then she’d gotten into a fight with Pa. Finding the treats and breaking up the fight had themselves each taken a good five minutes and after that she’d had to catch the darn doll and convince her to be still whilst she held her. All that added with Mandy’s ability to get lost every time she wandered the school meant she was running late.

Thankfully it seemed not too late. Whilst there were plenty of students about Professor Malcolm was thankfully for the moment absent. Though looking around the odd classroom she wasn’t sure if she should be thankful. It looked very… survival coruse-ish. That added with the note not to come if you were still injured wasn’t exactly faith inspiring but this was a minipet class and from what she had gotten to know of him on the trip Malcolm wasn’t a bad teacher so hopefully it wasn’t anything too bad.

Still maybe she should find someone she knew to stick with until they knew clearly what was going on. A quick scan of the room later and Mandy was gravitating over towards Barth.

“Hey.”

To say that West was merely excited about this next foray into minipet training would have been an understatement. Not only had he been encouraged to beat small, annoying creatures in the first installment, but the classroom had seen fit to burn to cinders before they were even done with the lesson. It was all terribly exciting. Seeing firsthand how terrified the undead were of open flames was an added bonus.

The second class hadn't held the same sort of excitement, but it had been rather gratifying to learn that he wasn't useless at cooking, even if the results were only meant for Master. The phoenix scareon had been deemed too slow by her owner, but it seemed it was all to her benefit. West had slung her over a shoulder, and although she wasn't facing forward, nor was it the most comfortable way to sit, it was still an exciting new experience seeing the world from this height.

West placed the animal on the floor just outside the door and the pair of them strode in, the demon retrieving a map as he passed them. He gave it a cursory glance. Meh water. Meh air. Land it was!

Sin felt tired still, but she refused to let it show especially not in public. The journey to the island had shattered all her previous cockiness though and she felt it more important to take her classes seriously again. She didn't exactly have any physical reason not to go back to class after all she hadn't died like some. She cringed at the thought, no Sin was healthy and whole just suffering from a pang of survivors guilt and being forced to re-evaluate her views on things. She held Pantaloons in her arms as the little impish Unmentionable tried to squirm free. Her patience for her 'babies' had become considerably shorter and their antics had finally changed from amusing to annoying. She bit her lip and shook the bag of FEAR candy infront of him.

"If you want any of these you better behave." She scowled down at him and then relaxed as the squirming stopped. Of course the scowl remained when she stepped in and saw the strange set up. She moved to stand in front of the land portion and eyed the entire thing distrustfully. What was this? She could swim but she wasn't risking the water lane, and the pit looked incredibly foreboding to a young succubus who's wings weren't grown enough for flight yet. No, it would have to be land for her despite how ominous it too appeared.