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Israfel was in shock. Really, he was. His first shock came with the noticing of glowing green goo on his pant leg. It took every drop of self control to not kill the bug. He wanted to kill, he lifted his foot to kill it but he couldn't. Why? It hissed at him. And that made blue eyes pop open wide. It's tiny little fangs dripped with goo and the siren did not want to find out how those fangs felt. Not one slice.
But what spooked him silly was Braum. Israfel had seen Braum a few times around campus, but never with a girl so...close. Not around pumpkins no less. But when Braum told him about eggs and feathers ruffling the face went from disgusted at the glowpede to utterly mortified. He sat, silent well beyong the grave as the demon left him, the expression frozen in pure terror. FEAR? Braum might as well have used FEAR on Israfel judging by the reaction alone. The slam of Cricket was like rude awakening he needed. Snapping out of it, the siren started to check his wings, his chest, his pockets, his ears, and...his shoes. He was most certainly bird like..But he was a siren! They mated with humans...or something. But... His grandmother and great great gram could take avian form so...

Slowly, his head turned to face Braum, skin paler then most ghosts. "I might lay eggs?" His voice was very subdued, very small, very weak, and very very feminine. High pitched and bordering on 'chirpy'. It was rare for the siren's voice to fluctuate so drastically from vaguely male to full on female, but when it did, it was usually from some kind of shock or trauma.

And the idea that he could start laying eggs was pretty darn traumatic for a Siren who had yet to even hit puberty by his race's standard.

Tahki instantly brightened when she looked over her shoulder to see her friend Amrita there. Amrita was her best ghoul friend and always seemed to be there when she needed her. The two had gone through battle of the bands together with the help of Israfel. In the end, Tahki had ruined it for them all knocking the other team out along with their own.

Hopefully Israfel didn't hate her. She hadn't talked to him since.

But right now that wasn't the time to dwell on that. Amrita had come over to sit by her and she couldn't help but beam.

"Come sit with us~" Tahki whispered and scooted a little closer to Julian to make some room for Amrita. The gryphon gave Julian and Sin a friendly smile.

"This is my best ghoul friend Amrita," Tahki informed Julian and Sin very proudly in a hushed whisper so as not to disrupt class. It felt good to say that out loud for once. Tahki wanted everyone to know she had the greatest friend ever. A friend who'd go on stage with Tahki if she asked her to just to cover up a little white lie.

Oh boils...Sin could handle a lot really, she understood that Julian had somekind of connection or what have you with the monster girl. The gryphon was sort of normal anyway she could almost pass for an odd subspecies of demon if need be. Then came Amrita, Sin's tolerance for undead was a bit less then her more open view of monsters or even ghosts. Still she struggled not to frown and gave a tiny half smile. All the boo-tox in the world couldn't have kept that smile on forever. She slowly glanced at Julian her lips falling into a harsh line before her features relaxed, it was her way of silently telling him 'this is all your fault'.

Still she could just be rude, especially since Tahki claimed that the undead ghoul was her best friend. Sin gave a tiny nod and then pretended to focus on the professor. At least in class she had a good enough reason not to engage in wildly friendly conversation.

Were his eyes deceiving him, or was shy, meek little Julian with not one, but three ghouls? Huh. For some reason, that was oddly fascinating to Morton, whom was more used to seeing the bird-like demon as the withdrawn, shy type. Why... Coralie and he had practically had to beg the guy to participate in the Battle of the Bands with them! Heck, they'd had to pull him on stage, because he'd been so utterly intimidated by the idea.

The same curiosity that had brought him to the classroom in the first place, tugged at him, and as soon as Nurse Cricket gathered his piece of paper, he nudged Coralie and made motion to Julian. It was almost as if he were silently telling her that she was free to do whatever, but he was going to check that out, thank you very much.

It never occurred to him that curiosity often time killed the cat. But then again, he wasn't a cat, now was he?

Getting up from his chair, he moved over to where Tahki, Julian, Sin and Amrita, "Mind if I join you guys?" he asked, and then paused after looking at the gryphon, almost as if he were pondering something. A second passed and he snapped his boney finger, "I remember you; you were in the battle of the bands, weren't you?" his gaze slipped over to the undead girl, "Both of you, actually," he wouldn't have normally noticed, since at the time he'd been a bit occupied, but he'd noticed Julian watching them. He hadn't asked though - it hadn't been his place.

Sin couldn't believe it, here came yet ANOTHER...err what was he? He was skeletal...an undead? Yet he could have been a monster for he resembled a gargoyle, an undead monster? Whatever he was, he WASN'T a dmeon and Sin was starting to get a LITTLE irked. Really she was trying to be open minded but if she was seen rubbing noses with a bunch of non-demons in a sex-ed class her reputation might not survive. She felt her fingers slowly clench into a little fist under her desk and tensed.

She really couldn't manage to just ignore them especially after Julian introduced her. She wanted to give him a good whack upside his featherbrained skull, but everyone would notice. Instead she settled for glancing at Morton and offering a little smirk.

"Yeah I was...and the Howling Harlots won, so you better be careful if you end up in the semi's against us..." She glanced at Julian again her eyes narrowing slightly. No good deed went unpunished apparently, she had tried to help Julian loose some of his intense shyness and now look! He was surrounded by companions...NON demon companions, and so was she.

Coralie let out an approving "hmph" to go along with her smile as Morton clearly decided it was more interesting to go and "crash the party" than watch it. Fine by her. She slipped out of her seat, following along until she reached what seemed to becoming quite a crowd. She recognized Tahki from shopping, she thought, and she had bumped into Sin at the Maul before. The other girl she was unfamiliar with though. She eyed her curiously for a moment with a quirked smile before lending her ear towards the conversation.

"Don't worry," Coralie said, casually taking on seat on top of Sin's desk, as she didn't really feel like looking for a free one in a group this size. "If we meet you semi-finals we'll definitely make it interesting. Even if Morton knocks us both out with his enthusiasm." She watched Sin briefly, watching how she maintained herself. Coralie had usually only seen her around other demons and such during other classes...huh. Interesting.

Sin almost jumped when Coralie sat on her desk but as she looked up she actually relaxed a little. She really like the reaper, she seemed like she'd be such a great ghoul friend, except that she was a reaper. Reapers could be the best of alliances, or the most dangerous to a demon depending on how things went. Still, Cora seemed nice enough and Sin gave an actual smile before leaning in and propping her head on her hand.

"I'm sure it'll be an interesting match at least...we've been working on a new song...though last time there was little room for lyrics with instruments flying around." She was slightly relaxed again, at least her excuse with Cora was that she knew her...sort of. She thought of her application to Lucky 13 and prayed to jack that whoever wrote acceptances couldn't see her now.

"So, what do you think our assignment will be? Looks like we're being paired off based on our questionnaire answers."

Despite the fact Morton was usually rather laidback as a rule of thumb, he was also rather observant by nature (There was very little a gargoyle could do while it was posed over a ledge other than, well, observe things). As such, he was actually able to catch the way Julian bristled when he'd stared at Tahki. He arched a brow, apparently amused, and then decided to store that in a cabinet at the back of his mind for later.

"Mmmm?" he turned to Sin when Julian mentioned the demoness had also been at the battle of the bands, then cocked his head to one side, "You were? I don't remember you," a pause as he realized that might actually sound rude, and instead pointed at the harbinger, "I only noticed the other two because they were in the same group, and Julian here kept staring at them," a smirk crossed his features, almost as if a direct response to Sin's own, "Oh, really now?" it was clear he'd been about to say more, but Coralie's appearance momentarily distracted him, "It was totally not my fault that those stupid sticks weren't doing what I wanted them to," granted, the witch was right; he'd probably caused more damage to his own team than to the rival team.

Watching Sin and Cora, it seemed like the two had previous met. Interested, and absolutely shameless, he allowed his head so that his chin landed on Cora's shoulder, "You know eachother?" he asked before his gaze shifted to the demoness, "We're going to be put in pairs?" a pause as the gargoyle's eyes rolled up, making it obvious he was wondering just WHY they needed to be put in pairs, "Nothing comes to mind that I would care to share with the class."