Night Raven College: Trial Start! (old version)

*The First Trips of the School Year

-Hall of Mirrors-

The room was even more impressive than what Crowley had told her about earlier; the ornate mirrors that had decorations that corresponded to each dorm looked amazing. However, how the room spined slowly around and around at the moment, or how Waiho was somehow on the ceiling looking down at her in concern as her dizzy mind struggled to catch up as her head was pounding right now.

A blurry shape of a blue-haired boy came into view alongside her partner as her vision spun. "Is...is he okay?"

A flash of red ran past the boy looking down at her. "He's fine Juice! But never mind that; the fur ball is getting away!"

The boy glanced back at her again before he took off after the other voice, his yelling getting fainter as it seemed the boys had started to argue. A faint "My name isn't Juice!" was the last thing she heard before it was once again quiet.

After a few more minutes, when the spinning stopped and her head wasn't pounding, she rose slowly from lying sprawled out on the floor. Turning her head to see a large cast-iron pot that lay next to her, she blinked slowly as Waiho helped herself use the pot to stand upright. Now with a better view of the room, she turned to look at the chamber, confused for a moment as to why she was in here. Maybe she could ask Crowley, who was quickly hurrying towards her. (Yeah, I'll have to ask him when I... wait.")

Coming to a stop next to the girl who still looked unsteady on her feet, Crowley's yellow eyes did a glance over her disheveled form. "Miss Ikaika...," his voice tight, "why is there a cauldron in the middle of the Hall of Mirrors?"

Kokia didn't say anything for a few moments, as she was still trying to piece together what led to wherever this was. Her voice was low with embarrassment. "I'm not sure where this thing came from, but I think I slid into it an'...flipped over it?"

Crowley slowly raised a hand to his face with a loud sigh. "I hope you can explain in more detail as we walk, Miss Ikaika."

"Walk?" She repeated in confusion.

"Back to my office, we will have to discuss what happens now with a new punishment in place as only half the windows have been cleaned. Or if the other two can give me a good explanation when I find them."

Crowley spun with a flourish of his cape to lead the girl and Pokemon away. "Now tell me what happened from the very beginning. I want no skipped de-TAILS!"

*Thud*

Kokia looked from the sprawled form of Headmaster Crowley to the crushed styrofoam cup that she assumed was the reason for the puddle that might have caused her to slip earlier. "Should, should we get a wet floor sign for this? Cause I don't know where the janitor station in this part of the school is just yet."

Seeing the downed Headmaster, she and Waiho carefully walked over to him. Crowley's eyes behind his mask seemed to shake with either anger or mortification, though maybe it was both?

Kokia felt a sweatdrop on the back of her head as she reached out a hand to the headmaster. "Um, Headmaster Crowley? You...do you need a minute?"

Both trainer and Pokemon side-eyed each other as Crowley tried to stand on his own, only to nearly lose his footing and tumble over again if they didn't catch him. However, once Crowly was back up, he cleaned what smelled like coffee off him with a wave of his staff.

*Ahem* "Now, what happened earlier? We must be quick if we will locate Mr. Trappola and Grim." Crowley stated this as he started to walk toward the exit of the hall. Acting as if what had occurred, didn't.

Still unsure what to make of whatever the hell that was, Kokia fell into step beside Crowley. "Uh...right."

-Earlier in the Cafeteria-


Grim paced back and forth, his irritability increasing due to the missing bedhead from earlier. "Henchmen, where is that dumb, splody bedhead? Eugh, if you had just let me go and dealt with that guy sooner than being a scaredy cat, we could have bailed before going to meet Crowley."