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Christof was currently attempting to get into a shark’s mouth on his second step. His current view was... rather dark. And sticky. Literally.



(sticky as in stick figure, ahaha. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IF I CAN’T FIND YOUR OFFICIAL UNCERTED ART DUDES)



If Bul was the sort to sing often, the acoustics within a shark weren't half-bad. He had the opprotunity to go back in on his seventh step. Astra watched him sink suddenly before a shark came by to save eat him.





The sensation of being alive breathed a new hope in the hellhound. He felt as light as a feather, as fierce as a tiger, as mighty as a... you get the idea. His first nine steps were solid, and he even managed to stop and free Astra who was waiting at H7. His step forward after that was on solid ground, but then he zigged when he should have zagged. He charged right into the waiting mouth of a shark.





A devil? Oh no. Red was a werewolf. And like any wolf, she was doing her best to drive the herd in the right direction. The right direction happened to be the vague "across the field." While the zigging and zagging would work on any other day, Mei zigged straight into a shark on her third step.





Junko's sought confirmation. She got it in Red's answering grin before the professor gestured for her to try the field again. Junko's shakey feet stepped on solid ground and followed it until she took her to where Astra used to be. The fairy was long gone, and the Fear net Red had thrown earlier remained. Perhaps the reminants of her net tripped her, as on her ninth step Junko vanished into the swamp.





If she could hear her thoughts, Red would point out that this was the fun part. For today, at least. Some students were still hurting from the rescue attempt on the island. This was Red's way of helping them cope, to heal.

That and it was damn entertaining to watch. Colette hit one solid step before falling straight into the waiting mouth of a shark.





Jericho managed to run seven steps before the eigth ate him. It was a good thing Astra was freed by someone else -- he could have stepped on her!





It shouldn't be that difficult. But the task was. On her first step, Holly went under. It... it was starting to end up like the darn field trip. Except with more skitter-sharks.





There was one skitter-shark with tentacles. In its mouth. If anyone could speak the skitter-shark language, they would discover that Riley tasted like tickles. But West's rage propelled him nine entire steps onto the field before he went under.

"Nicely done!" Red called, the skitter shark balancing half-in and half-out of the swamp to allow West to hear. "Unforunately you found the dead end, but hey! It's progress!" With that, the landshark disappeared into the swamp with its wrath demon.





Nope. Just running was boring. Just ask the first battle exhibition class -- their opprotunity to run included Red chasing them in her wereform. It was too bad that her fifth step landed her in the swamp -- it looked like Whisper would need to sing Mr. Sparkle Heart Norris' favorite song repeatedly for four hours while jumping rope.


(couldn't find your uncerted official art either ;; )



To Mandy, Red watched her approvingly. Watching others was indeed one of the tactics to figuring out the way across. But there were times when a straight line wasn't too bad, and the act of taking a corner was the downfall, as Mandy discovered on her fifth step.





Traps? Nope. Just skitter-sharks, hanging out and waiting to give students a helpful ride back to shore when they slipped. Unfortunately the path she picked was incorrect -- her first step landed her in a skitter-shark.


(can't find her uncerted official art and I don't remember what her shoes look liiiike)



Astra's scream didn't free her from the net. Demi did. But as soon as she was free, poke followed Demi... right into her own waiting shark. Omnom nom.





It was for their own good, really. The other side of the field didn't look back at him though, or do anything. If it had eyes, it would watch Ren take one step. If it had a mouth, it would chuckle to itself as Red fell into the swamp on the second step.





Sheridan was quickly adapting to how Red worked. Then again, he did have previous experience with her with the boat ride. And, hey -- Red had to get her kicks where she could. She couldn't help it if she prefered the 'hands on' method of teaching. One thing she couldn't teach was haunting, though. And Sheridan would haunting lessons on his eigth step into the swamp. Gloop!


(( no uncerted official art :< ))


ZOOM! Israfel was close to Red pulling out another Fear-net. But she didn't need to -- Israfel was saved from singing by a shark on his fifth step. Then again, the inside of the shark did have nice acoustics...





The only shiny things here weren't metal. The only shiny things were the deliciously bright teeth of the skitter-sharks. Cyrilla got to find this out on her fifth step.





His bird was a good guide. Unfortunately it lasted only ten steps. On the 11th, Lucien became shark food. omnomnom.





Red was swiftly running out of students. The werewolf professor was about to call the sharks in when several students rose up and tried their luck. Tahki did her best, but... she really did no where fast. Her first step landed her right into a shark.





Unfortunately for Petro, Red now had new a favorite word to say: tikbalang. But even the fun way his species name bounced off of her tongue didn't save him from the skitter-shark that swallowed him up on his fourth step.


(no official uncerted arrrrrt HAVE A STICK FIGURE look the bangles ttly make it petro!)



Tybalt showed up. He didn't try his luck, but as he stood there pondering, something more harm then good DID happen. A shark jumped up next to him!

... then it realized its mistake, disappeared, then reappeared in time to eat Tybalt. Gulp!


(because why not)



Squish, squish, squish, went RIley's first three steps. GLOOP went the fourth when RIley disappeared into the swamp.

As Petro struck out again, Red watched him with pride. He... He listened! He was trying a new path! She resist the urge to applause, though: Petro was shark'd on his sixth step.





Tybalt gets points for noticing a pattern. It was too bad that this wasn't that sort of exercise -- the ghost dog vanished within a shark on his eigth step.





He was gonna get it. He got it on his 13th step, straight into the waiting jaws of a skitter-shark. But this one was green!





"Nope," Red answered. "These are the local land sharks, actually. They help me out from time to time. The ones on the boat owed me a favor." The professor left it at that. It was too bad about the boat in all honesty -- she could have used that favor to get it back, but noo.

Oh well, at least she wouldn't be needing a boat for awhile. Nor would Junko, who was probably wishing for one right now after her third step. Shark'd!





In reality, what was a predator and which was a prey? Every predator was a prey to another: eat or be eaten. Jericho had the opprotunity to experience being eaten yet again as his 11th step brought him into the waiting jaws of a shark.







On the side of the shore, Red shook her head. "You lot really need to pay attention when I give hints," she said, more to herself than the students.

((IF YOU HAVE BEEN SHARKED: You will not get another shot until the next round begins. I am trying to push class a bit faster by sharking when I can instead of waiting. |D ))