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Abbi lowered her head, abashed by Kyoshi's icy tone. She had deserved it, she knew. She wasn't exactly putting her best foot forward. The teen groaned inwardly. God, how she hated meeting new people. She had not the slightest idea of how to go about making friends. More than anything, Absinthe did not want to return to being the nonentity she had been at her last school. Her fists clenched tightly at her sides.

"Hey, look, Kyoshi, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult you or whatever---" Her voice trailed off as Kyoshi's eyes widened. When his head whipped around to look behind him, she cocked her head curiously to the side.

Cadmus decided to take note of how to kill the one named Kross, but then he realised that would not be wise. After all dragoons were often thought of as demons, which could not be father from the truth being Angles, and The Being are the only create that out dated their existence. And that kind of attention was the last thing he needed. If his father were to find out he was alive that would be bad, but for his father to find out he was questing for a way to restore his full dragonn form, he might send assasins(sp?) after him, which is not what he wanted.
"For now, your stupid human" he mumbled as he but the finishing touches on his salad and "dry soup".
He look at the salvaged meat and saw that a great deal of it was still usable. He decided he would use a little magic to dry it out and make half of it bacon, while he cut out the thick meat (the meat more like a lion) and made steaks to wrap the bacon in. He knew that the texture of a poultry/solid meat creatue being forged into bacond would be a new experince to most of the humans at Ria high so he decided to go with it.
"Kira and Nemai" he whispered her name not able to forget about her. He did hope she had recovered and he almost wished that she would come to the potlock. She was the only one here he felt he could relate to.

"O-O-Okay... Th-Thank you..." Makie paused slightly, remembering his name. "...Mr. Violet." A small voice came from her mouth. She was unable to hear uneasiness in the man's voice, but then again her mind seemed to wander. Where was her cake, where was Misty? What happens if they judge the food and she couldn't find her entry? Oh, she couldn't possibly think of the consequences... And she wanted Oliver to try her cake later, and Makie wanted to try some of his chocolate mousse. It sounded nummy... I mean yummy.

Makie was stumped. She couldn't just leave her friends, and even if it was in the Greenhouse, she couldn't just go off. What could she say? 'Sorry I lost my cake, it's in the Greenhouse, so I gotta go!'. Wouldn't that be a little awkward? Makie paused for a second, reclaiming a breath of fresh air. A few moments later, she began to think.

'Alrighty... Misty left around before Mr. Violet came and the cake was there before Misty left... So that would mean that Misty took it... Maybe...' The brunette thought softly to herself. 'Misty would never take it... Would she? Never!' Once again, the girl was stumped. She'd never believe that Misty took her cake. She would never know how to react. Makie almost tuned out on Sakura's explination of how European hot chocolate and normal hot chocolate were different, but she couldn't help it. She was too worried about missing judging and she still has to make her stand.

When Nohea and Ai started to talk about setting up outside, her back slumped slightly before regaining it's proper posture. She wouldn't want to burden them, but now she'd have to confess. Her smile was still kind of there, but it was more of a forced smile. Her white teeth showing slightly. "Y-Yeah... S-Setting up o-outside w-would-d b-be gr-great!" More studdering implied that she was hiding something. She was never good at hiding secrets. Well sure, she kept secrets and never told any one about that secret, but when it came time to keep her own, or when she was upset or flustered, you could catch onto her emotions right away.

"I-In the G-Gr-Green house...? Misty...? Ohh..." Makie felt stupid, why hadn't she just thought about that. What a baka she was... Smiling slightly, she ran off waving and saying thank you under her breath. She hoped she wouldn't miss the judging.

"oh for goodness sake.. now the man's getting sick" Violet threw both of his hands outwards motioning straight twoards Kross's disguisting behavior.

"Please somone give this man a medic or something!" Violet groaned and rose his walkie talkie up to his face again. but then quickly remembered Mattus decided to put him on 'hold' thus getting a medic turned to be a promblem.

"*groan* Sorry Cadmus looks like we may have wait a bit before i get to try your soup or so." Violet then looked around him "Hey anybody know healing arts around here? or is a nurse and what not?!" Violet exclaimed out to any general person. "and by the way.. who here still needs their food entry judged and what not? or.. are most of them going to be doing deserts with Eiyah..." Violet said looking back at Makie and some of the other gurls.

"whats up with all the desert entries neways?"

"E-eh?!" Ikaika said, dropping his plate as he was grabbed and forced to follow Taqune. But Ikaika had eaten enough to stop the stitch in his stomach, so he didn't really mind going over to talk to Nohea. But for some reason, he didn't feel good...he felt...nervous? How could he be nervous?! It was Nohea, the girl who had taken care of him for so long.
Ikaika's stomach felt all fluttery, like those butterflys that he just couldn't catch were all in his stomach, torturing him even more.
And then a thought came into Ikaika's mind,

Wait...she only knows me as Popoki!! How am I going to explain what happened to me? Ikaika thought, with a look of worry on his face.

Ikaika himself wasn't even sure what Feena had done to him. He didn't fully understand it, how could he get Nohea to understand? And, what if she didn't like him this way? What if she liked him better in his cute furry neko form?

All these thoughts were rushing through Ikaika's head as Taqune and him made their way through the many students in the potluck.
Then, before he knew it, they were almost to the stand where Nohea was.
Ikaika also noticed that Sakura Ai was with her.
Something was different about Ai...it was like he never noticed how beautiful she really was. Truly an angel. (( xd )) This only increased the 'butterflys' in his stomach.

Just then Sakura had somehow tripped and fell flat on her face.
Ikaika's eyes widened and he let out a small gasp,

That looked like it hurt, is she ok?! Ikaika thought

Ikaika ran over to Nohea and Sakura. He bent down where Sakura was and offered a hand,

"Are you ok?" He asked simply

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Nohea gasped,

"Oh, Sakura, they're coming this way!!" Nohea said smileing

Nohea liked Taqune because he was all neko-like, and she like cats alot. But also, she really wanted to meet this other boy who was with him. She wanted to know why she felt like she knew him.
They were almost to Ai's stand when...

FUMP

Down goes Sakura Ai!!

"Sakura!!"

Then, the white haired boy who was with Taqune ran up to Sakura,

"Are you ok?" he had asked Sakura, his tone soft and kind

Nohea just stood there, frozen, looking at him.

That voice...! But...nah it can't be.... Nohea thought

It couldn't be possible, her hearing must be tricking her. This boy...this white-haired-blue-eyed-boy....he sounded like...Popoki!! But Nohea didn't want to say anything. If he wasn't Popoki, she would be making a fool of herself asking him about it.
So she stood there, staring at him, almost expressionless.

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Kyoshi continued to look around swiftly,

I heard his name...he's here...I know he is, I can smell him... Kyoshi thought as he looked left and right for the voice who had said his brother's name.

But why couldn't he smell him before? Was it because he was distracted by the smell of the food? Or by other distractions like...

"Oh, Absinthe--"

Kyoshi could see Absinthe walking off towards the greenhouse. He shrugged a bit, because he wasn't one to care much for things like that. She had obviously been ignored by Kyoshi when he was looking around for Ikaika, and had walked off with her dish. But maybe that was a good thing for Kyoshi, so he could go and look for Ikaika without having to excuse himself from someone.

Kyoshi then continued to look around more. But since Ikaika couldn't have his own body, the body that Kyoshi remembered, Kyoshi couldn't spot him, of course. And, among all these people, it would be even more impossible for him to find Ikaika,

There's an easier way to do this...

The shadows had collected under his feet again, and he sunk into the shadow circle like he was sinking in water. The circle dissapeared after the top of Kyoshi's head had sunk into the darkness. Kyoshi would search through the shadows until he found the person who said Ikaika's name, and once Kyoshi found him, he would find Ikaika...

Nohea jumped a bit, starled from her zoneing by Taqune,

"E-eh?! Oh, hello Taqune. Oh, he wants to talk to me?"

Nohea looked to the white-haired boy who was helping Ai, then she looked back to Taqune,

"Oh, things are great! I brought a cake to the potluck...but it seems alot of people brought sweets..." Nohea said smileing a bit, glancing from Taqune to Sakura.

She knew that the white haired boy was helping Ai, but she didn't want to make it seem like she was ignoreing Sakura.

((most beatiful XDDDD. that was awsome Where is that silly Richu (naughtyazn) tsh tsh.. i knew he couldn't keep up an RP and now he slows everything down ::shakes head:: oh well.. silly azn.. ))

Mr Violet seeing that no one else would volunteer to help the barfing Kross just wiffed his hand twoards Cadmus's direction. "yeah yeah.. go ahead i guess then.." he then blinked and looked at his salad.

"... hmm... I'm guessing you made that? It looks like a very decent crisp salad.. I hope you didn't too fattening dressing did you? I'm pretty cautious about my weight.." Mr. violet chuckled and began leaning forward to get a closer look at his salad, trying his best to ignore the sounds of Kross throwing up.

"Don' touch it until the rest is prepared" he insisted, "It would ruin your appetite." he said as he clasp his necklace that was shrouded from the drops of blood he had shed on it.
He placed his necklace above the mouth of the holy guy and let the blood trickle into his mouth.
"Our blood is poisonous, but this neckclaced taints magic, it reverses it thus making leathal items, able to resurect(sp?)." he said sighing hoping the taste of his blood would not over power the dimwitted guy.
He turned to Mr. Violet, "The dressing will consiste mostly of the sweet oils found in the meet itself. It only has about .0034% of the fat the DRA based on a 2000 calorie diet recommends. I have mixed it in with oils and a sauce composed of fruits I have salvage from this region. The lettuce is imported from an ancient island so it has magical properites that increase the magnitude of the flavor to appease one's taste buds but not to alter the flavore itself.This ability can be over shadowed by the other components such as the dressing or other topings for the salad. The meat itself is very lean, considering fat takes an impeckibly long time to form on a gryphon. You should only have to worry about becomeing addicted to it" he mused as he smiled towards Mr. Violet hoping he understood his joke.