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For once, instead of being closed up tight and locked to the teeth, Riyo's dorm room door was cracked open ever-so-slightly.

The first sign that something was terribly off.

Upon entering, it would appear that nobody but the cats were home. Riyo was nowhere in sight, and her clothes were strewn about the room chaotically as if her dwelling had been ransacked. It was very unlikely for the ghoul to be anything but cleanly, after all.

Though, it looked like a couple of cats were scratching at the closet. Perhaps whoever marched in and tore her room apart had stuffed the cat ghoul in there?

One would find, very quickly, that Riyo being in the closet was her own doing. The ghoul was curled up in the corner with her legs to her chest, rocking back and fourth nervously. It looked as if she was having a breakdown or something.

Moments prior, she had sent out a distress signal (or what they would call a text message) to Xiu and Mitsu after sending Hel a groanspring message (which was the third sign something was wrong, since the feline rarely asked for help). Oh, She hoped they'd be along soon. The dark kept her calm, but even this wouldn't do much for nerves in the long run.

Mitsu didn't know what to make of the text she had received from Riyo but she knew it was best not to ignore it. The ghoul rarely contacted her so when she got an urgent text to come Mitsu was on her way, dropping her homework and out the door. She had no idea what lay in wait for her at the demon dorms but she hurried her way over, entering through the front door of the dormitory in a hurry. Now was Riyo's dorm this way? No maybe it was...this way. No no it was most definitely this way.

After a few minutes of orienting herself Mitsu finally got on the right track, spotting the door that was now wide open thanks to Hel. Peeking in at first all that Mitsu saw was the clothes strewn about, her chest suddenly tight. Had Riyo been attacked? In her own dorm? Were the hunters to blame?

Hopeful, her eyes continued to score the room hoping to see a sign of anyone other than the creepy cats and managed to spot a bloomer clad rear sticking out of the closet....."Hel?"

Making her way over Mitsu leaned over the valkyrie to peek into the closet spotting the feline demon in an odd state of distress. "Ah, what's happened?!" Leaning a little further in Mitsu rested her hands lightly on Hel's shoulders so she could see Riyo a little better from her position and not fall over. Now there was a bloomer clad rear and a tailed rear hanging out of the closet like a strange totem pole of bottoms. "Are you okay, Riyo?"

One by one, her acquaintances... No. Friends filed in, quicker than she had even expected. Wide eyed, she looked from Hel, to Mitsu, and finally to Xiu as she seemed to become more shaky. She was ashamed of herself, but at the same time, Riyo couldn't send them away after they had all hustled here.

"I've..." The ghoul started, her voice even shaky. "I've done a bad thing. A baaaad thing..." Slowly, her head started shaking back and fourth, as if scolding herself. "I um.. I made a bet." Of course, that part didn't sound bad. "And, I'm usually p-pretty good at winning bets, but... Um..." fingers reached up to sift through her blonde hair.

"I made a bet with this guy..." Now she was too ashamed to even look at them. "He kept calling me a boil, s-so I bet him I could be ghouly... And it sounded good on paper! I mean, I'd like to think anyone would do the same if they had the chance to knock that grin off his ******** face! If I win, he has to be my b***h for a week!" Her voice raised as she tried to reassure herself it was the right thing to do. "... But... If I lose..." And then she grew quiet again. "... I have to let him tell everyone we..." Riyo coughed. "Had relations... And... That I-" had begged and pleaded for it. "... Had initiated it."

The shame on her face practically had a weight. "I have to get 3 guys to try and pick me up. There are no ghouly clothes in my room, and lets be honest, I don't even know how to be ghouly. I don't even know how to flirt!" She cried out and let her head bang against the back of the wall.

"S-so... I need... I need help. And I'll do anything if it means I can keep my reputation in tact." Big, red eyes looked up at the trio pathetically, as if someone had just struck a kitten in front of her. "... Please?"

Mitsu looked back as Xiu arrived giving the ghoul a smile before she leaned back into the closet so the three of them could converse with Riyo. Had Riyo summoned them all here? From the sounds of her story she had. "Relations?" Mitsu didn't entirely understand the term but she got the gist of what was going on. Riyo needed to win a bet and to win this bet she needed to be ghoully and have three guys pick her up. Pick her up? Like lift her? No that probably wasn't it.

When Hel leaned back so that she could stand Mitsu stood up as well so that they wouldn't collide. She opened the closet door a little further while Hel helped Riyo up and give her the oddest pep talk. "Balls?" The word made Mitsu's eyes brighten and she looked around the room for the toy. Yes, she had gotten the wrong idea but all she spotted were cats....lots...and lots...of cats. It made a shiver run up her spine. At least she wasn't as scared of them as she used to be. "So who did you make the bet with anyway?"

Riyo immediately cringed at Hel's shout, her ears falling back against her head as she attempted to curl into herself in vain. The valkyrie and the baku already had her wrists.

"Hel, you don't understand!" Riyo tried to explain as she was yanked up, looking back and fourth between the three other ghouls. "I'm... I'm-" Afraid of dresses? Terrified of being considered a slut? All of the above? Oh Jack, this whole situation was like the scene out of a nightm-

The feline's face went blank at Hel's question, before a great, searing rage spread like wildfire. "Excuse me? Do you think I'm some kind of tramp that just goes around sleeping with people for SPORT? NO! For ******** sake Hel, I can't even HUG a guy without feeling embarrassed!" The ghoul tried to pull her wrist away from the valkyrie. "Moreover, I wouldn't touch that filthy, stinking, raunchy, snaggle-toothed little rat-b*****d with a twenty foot pole! If he was the last being in Halloween, I would impale my head on a stick to spare myself the pain of having to listen to his cocky mouth spat s**t for the rest of my unnatural life! Even if he was the most handsome, dashing, and physically well-endowed creature in this whole world, the smell of his attitude would have me throwing up in a corner just by being in the same room as him!"

Riyo gasped for air after having spit the words out like bullets, trying to accurately convey the disdain she felt for that not-so-special nightmare demon.

Mitsu's questions hit her ears, as well as Xiu's follow-up. Why were the baku's cheeks puffed out like that? Jack-dammit, how was it possible that one ghoul could be so cute? "His name is... Uh..." ********, what was it again. "Starts with a T... Um... Timmy? No. Tanner? No." She rubbed her chin in thought. "Ti... Tits... OH. Titus." She visibly scowled as the name left her lips. "The b*****d snuck into my dreams and tried to play it off like he didn't know what I was talking about when I saw him in the cafeteria."

While their master spilled nasty words out towards the ghouls, some of Riyo's cats surrounded the group, looking up expectantly for pets and handouts as they were accustomed to getting from visitors. Ghouls especially.

All at once Riyo had exploded in a rant once she was to her feet. The lycan's ears folding back from the onslaught of words, Mitsu couldn't quite believe what she was hearing. Sure she could tell he was a jerk but what was most apparent was Riyo's dislike of the boil. It came with a fury of emotion like no other. Mitsu could almost feel the temperature drop in the room from all the hate Riyo had mustered into her speech.

"Titus?" That name sounded familiar. Where had she heard it? Mitsu hadn't actually met Titus face to face yet so she really hadn't registered the face with the name though she knew what he looked like. Shun had pointed him out and told her to avoid him.

"He snuck into your dreams?" Mitsu questioned. "Is he a baku?" Mitsu looked to Xiu then wondering if the ghoul knew anything more. Dreams were her domain after all so it was possible.

The werewolf wasn't able to focus on Xiu for long, her eyes darting down at the gathering of cats. She shifted almost uncomfortably but didn't move from her spot. Mitsu had no treats but she made a new stride and slowly...very slowly...stooped to lightly pat one of the kitties on the head. Oh jack she was touching it, she could only hope it wouldn't retaliate.

"W-well, we're here now to help." Mitsu continued. "What would you like us to do?"

Riyo gave Hel a 'oh no u di'nt' look when the ghoul suggested she was like Mot. This wasn't a joking matter! "He's got sharp teeth and these weird eyes. Like... The pupils are pure white and the rest is black. And he has sharp teeth." Riyo folded her arms as she thought about his image. Ugh. "His clothes do this weird thing where they're always moving, he's got horns and black hair, and other than that, he just looks like a douche." Yep. That was probably the best description she could give.

Turning to Mitsu, the ghoul shook her head. "I don't think so. He didn't have the ears." She pointed to Xiu's for emphasis. Maybe he would've been a little more endearing if he did...

Oh... But it appeared Xiu knew him. Much in the same way Riyo did. Well, at least she had an idea of how bad this situation was.

"I need you guys... To teach me how to be ghouly." She admitted reluctantly. "I could've just done a greugle search, but that doesn't change the fact that my personal tastes aren't... Like that." Her hands retreated to her pockets like rabbits diving for the safety of their warren, the slumped stature and uncertain expression making her look like an entirely different person. "I'm sure... You probably think it's stupid, but..." Her mind sank back to thoughts of her mother. How disapproving she would be of this. "I'm... Afraid of wearing... D... D..." ******** here it went again. She hadn't done this for awhile. "D.. D-d-d.." Riyo? Having a nervous stutter? She always sounded so confident.

Becoming frustrated with herself, she scrambled over to her desk, grabbed her quill pen, and scribbled down the shaky word on a spare piece of parchment.

It read 'Dresses'.

"It's uh... Been a... 'Quirk' of mine since I was small."

As glorious jerky was spread across the clean hard wood floor, the cats scrambled to get a piece, grateful little mews following little noms and purrs. Oh, and look. The nice white haired lady was back with more pets. Life was good. Oh, and she brought another white haired lady!

None of the cats seemed interested in retaliation on Mitsu. They were much more concerned with rubbing up against her and purring their little hearts out.

So he probably wasn't a baku though Xiu soon explain that he was a nightmare demon of sorts. That made sense if he was able to invade dreams but Mitsu's eyes went wide the instant Hel started to fume. Even Xiu seemed upset over meeting him....had she been the only one who hadn't met him? Everyone seemed to have some sort of deep seeded loathing for the demon already and Mitsu barely had a name for the face. At least she knew who they were talking about now.

Hel's outburst was the worst of all, making Mitsu's ears lay back, her fingers fidgeting with the bottom of her dress. "Hel," She said softly, large red eyes trained on the ghoul. "A fear is a fear, don't make light of it." She said nothing about the valkyrie's threatening words about the demon. That was just Hel being Hel apparently. Mitsu had gotten rather used to her outbursts though there did seem to be a bit more venom behind her tone than usual.

"Riyo asked for our help and this is important," She continued trying her best to stand up for the feline demoness. Her eyes regarded Riyo for a moment trying to be reassuring before she tried to think. "I imagine...you probably don't have any dresses then. If that's the route you want to go maybe we can find something?" Mitsu looked to Xiu for conformation. While Mitsu had a few dresses that would probably fit Riyo since she was so slender in frame they would no doubt be short with her long legs.