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The murmurs and shouts reached a great way, and it was only a matter of time before Rikki heard.

CLOSED?!

He pushed his way to through the crowd, trying to see what was going on, and glared at the sign that pronounced the students would have to relocate. He hissed out his displeasure along with the rest of them, his stained hands curling into tight, angry fists.

The school couldn’t close. He was so close to his exams, so close to being a knob, so jacking close! If it closed he’d have to give all of that up and go back to living under the disappointed care of his parents. He couldn’t go back to that. He couldn’t stand to wake up every morning and descend the stairs to the disapproval on his parents’ faces again. Not only that, but things were so new with Danny, so exciting. School was the safe ground he could pursue that under without having to worry about her brother, or having to lie to his parents about his intentions. He couldn’t just let that go without fighting for it, right?

“You can’t close the school!” He roared angrily at the boogeymen. “This is our HOME.” Sure school sucked, but it had become home. His room was here. His minis. His friends. Hell, his friends were more family than he had at home. He would even admit that he enjoyed a class or two here and there.

Whether Natalia was too upset to really recollect their most recent encounters or she had simply put them all behind her.. it was difficult to tell as her gaze moved quickly to Ren, then to Tset, and then back to the Boogymen. Her lips peeled back in a snarl, white canines flashing and clicking irritably as a slow nod of her head acknowledged the gryphon. "I KNOW!" Suddenly her hands flew up into the air.

"I can not believe this! Why now?! Where the hell do they expect us to go?!" Pausing to breath, her orange eyes met with the two standing beside her once again; trying to offer a softened greeting. "It is good to see you both, by the way."

She gave Ren a particularly long stare, before the rage-button was pressed 'on' once again.

"But jack DAMN! You can not do this to us!" A fist shook toward the Boogymen.

Kuromeez

Haliekins

He nudged the taller monster with his wing. “But we kicked up a fuss. We tried to make it public and we were not very secretive about it. The horsemen even-“ A visible shudder went through him, feathers ruffling. “They went with that one. The school let them stay here and yet they still went with that one.” The one, being the hunter. “It’s like my flock back home. When one fledgling breaks the rules-“ A glance at the sign. “The whole flock gets punished.”
Another nudge. “…..but even so, there is nothing to say the fledgelings cannot fight back. I still can’t breathe fire though, so that will have to wait.” Vandalism? On the sign? Perish the thought.

Mmm.

So mad.

Sure, some of them were scared or heartbroken, but that wasn't why West was here. Jericho, Herryk, Cricket. They really didn't know just how delightful they were being right now.

If he had thought about the situation a bit - and actually read the sign everyone was getting so worked up over - he would have realized that this was quite a big deal. He didn't want to go home. His situation was much less dire than Ren's or Tset's, but, well, his other school had sucked. Life before this had sucked. He was finally learning things that didn't revolve around catering to his parents.

West sidled closer to Mandy, Alwine and Belladonna, and was about to ask them why they were so damn sad (be angry ladies, please) when he heard someone shout something about closing.

He looked up, finally noticing the Bogeymen and Amityville's irate school secretary. And the sign.

"Oh."

Tsetsiliya had secretely hoped that Ren would have some kind of idea what might be going on, but she quickly realized that this was a hope in folly. He, like every other student in the crowd, was at a loss. Instead, she dropped her gaze to the floor and nodded gravely. "They.. they cannot.. they cannot."

When the gyphon rested his hand on her shoulder, she felt the not-oft felt stinging sensation behind her eyes, but she pulled it back, swallowing tremulously. Her hands gripped her skirt and bunched up the material in agitation when Ren spoke again. Her glassy gaze met his again, her mouth slightly parted. She closed it slowly and nodded, allowing Ren to lead her over to the familiar werelemur. Her eyes lit up momentarily, since this had been the first time she had seen Natalia since they had passed their exam together.

There was no way they could let Amityville close.

"Y-yes," she said quietly. "This.. we must do something." She wasn't entirely sure what she could do, but for Jack's sake, she was willing to do whatever she could.

Family.

Oh Jack, Alwine hadn't even considered that.

In her mind the headless haunt could see the high-necked lace collars of her sisters, the monocles being polished and held up to a non-existent eye to glower down at the prodigal daughter. The Van Brunts were too good for Amityville, after all. Jack, they would be ecstatic when they heard the news! Alwine would be back to fade into the background. Alwine would be back to cling to the walls at social events. Alwine would be back to take on the yoke of the useless daughter.

"Where would we go?" the faint voice reached Mandy's ears. "What about our pets? What about everything that we had here? What about... I don't know..."

She looked up at West (though he probably couldn't tell) and just shivered. He looked... well, he always looked mad, but something about him seemed different. Alwine had expected him to explode louder than all the rest. His "oh" had sounded so... not-yelling.

"West?"

It was almost a plead. Please yell!

Genevieve gave the baku a small nod, affirming that she was who Xiu said she was. "Yeah, Gene if you'd like. Normally I would invite you to coffee, on me, but..." Yeah, that probably wouldn't happen right now. There was just too much crap going on at the time.

Or wait, maybe she would get to have coffee... incognito coffee."Actually, why don't you drop by Bloodbucks at the Maul soon? I'll take my lunch break, and you can tell me all about this then, yes? If you're okay with that, anyway."

She gave a sigh, looking at the general clamor in front of them. "Surely we could muster forces or something...