When Club Is Over

Chapter 5: Destruction

   A couple months after Azul managed to cheat luck, the customer that bought enough strength potion for two weeks and chugged it all in one sitting returned for a second appointment. Typically, the second appointment would be scheduled much earlier but since the Savanaclaw student had been passed out due to almost overdosing on strength potion for the last two months and was only now being allowed off bedrest, it had to be postponed. Second appointments were for talking about the potion and if the customer wanted to buy more. However, this time the appointment was taking a much different turn.

   Azul ducks behind the desk as the student throws the chair he was sitting vaguely in the octomer's direction. The Leech twins had both requested tonight off, so he closed the Lounge early. However, he had an outstanding appointment with this guy and wanted to get it done as soon as possible. The Savanaclaw student had been going on a rampage ever since he had been told that Azul was no longer going to do any business with him, both due to the conditions Crowley forced on him after his overblot and due to personal reasons, i.e., Azul didn't want to have to deal with this idiot after what he did during the last appointment.

   Another chair comes crashing towards Azul's heavy wooden desk, scattering his remaining contract papers and various knickknacks he had on his desk for aesthetic purposes, including a Newton's cradle and a picture frame the Leech twins had gotten for him that contained a collage of various octopus food dishes. He had no idea why he had kept it, especially since it was basically them telling him that they wanted to eat him. But that was no matter now, because the chair hit the glass frame and shattered the thing to pieces. Azul ducked under his desk again, hiding from the glass shards. Usually he'd be able to magic them away, but since he just over-blotted two weeks ago he still had to limit his magic use so he could actually heal.

   The student picks up the first chair that he had thrown and throws it again, this time completely missing the desk and hitting the giant fish tank instead. The water doesn't pour in because of the spell keeping a bubble of air around it, but since it was a fish tank looking into the bigger ocean, some fish fall into the V.I.P. section and start flopping around like, well. Like dying fish. Without thinking, Azuls waves his pen at the fish to get them back into the water and barely gets them into the water before he collapses, already tired just from a simple spell. The beastman continues his rampage, moving his wrath from Azul to the Monstro Lounge in general, almost completely demolishing the structural integrity of the building and turning it to- Azul shudders at the thought, Ramshackle quality.

   He had called Leona a few minutes after the student had arrived, but knowing his fellow Housewarden, Azul knew it would take a while for the lion beastman to retrieve his underclassman. After he caused several hundred thousand thaumarks in damages, the Savanaclaw student finally passes out from lack of energy, allowing Azul to restrain him until Leona arrives. Almost as if he was waiting, Leona waltzes through the door practically the instant Azul finishes with the student.

   "What was so important you had to wake me up, Cephalo-punk? I was finally able to enjoy my sleep without the Ramshackle prefect and their furball keeping me up, no thanks to you. And now here I am, cleaning up your messes again." The lion growls out, always taking the chance to make a jab at Azul. Not one to take such comments lying down anymore, Azul would normally shoot back with a smart retort. However, he is too tired from having to deal with the stress of his restaurant being destroyed to think of anything right now. So he starts listing the consequences for what the Savanaclaw student has done.

  "Your student came into my facility and began destroying my property. I have a secondary non-magical contract that I have copied out for filing purposes that clearly states that any damage done to my person or belongings shall clear me from fulfilling my side of the bargain, as well as the perpetrator owing me the monetary value of whatever what damaged as well as a fee for the trouble to me. Either your student can pay this, or he can be expelled from the school due to school rules. As you can see, the extent of the damage is very severe and I highly doubt that this student's poor family can pay the cost, as it no doubt reaches a million thaumarks after factoring in the fee for psychological damage." Azul pushed his glasses up his nose while spewing so much legal jargon that if Leona hadn't been raised as royalty, he would have had no chance at understanding a single word.