Never ever forget about me,
even when you get out of here

"I am Sakura Ogami." Sakura sent us a soft smile, I instantly rushed ahead and threw myself into the ultimate martial artist. "W-WOAH! Uh... it is nice to meet you too." The tall woman lifted me up by my apron, peeling me backwards with an awkward chuckle.

"H-Hey! Y/N?! What are you doing?" Makoto, once again looked as if he was going to lose his absolute shit.

"I'm a big fan!" I walked back to Makoto.

"Are you?" She blushed at me before noticing Makoto, she eyed him. "Hey, you."

"Huh? Y-Yes!?" she started to poke and prod at his body... she turned to menext and started poking at my body too.. "Um...what are you...?"

"Muscular quality and quantity is right around that of an extremely ordinary high school student..." She stood up upset, "Hmph. What a shame. You two are not at all fit to act as my training partner. Disappointing coming from my fan.."

"I'm not able to build up muscle as easily as you, unfortunately."

She perked up at my confession, "is that so? Come and I'll teach you how to properly build up your muscles."

Makoto, again gripped onto my arm, waving at Sakura. He slowly whispered into my ears, "I'm not sure that's such a shame for me..."

We walked up to Byakuya, his arms crossed and eyebrows frowning. He spotted us coming towards us and pointed his hand at us, indicating us to stop a few feet away from him. "Name's Byakuya Togami."

"Hi, uh...nice to meet you." Makoto let go of my hands and scratched his cheek. He extended his hands towards the tall male.

"...ugh" Byakuya took his index finger and thumb before harshly pushing the small hand away.

"I like your suit?"

"Thank you, your choice in wardrobe is... uh." He eyed me up and down, "If you want us to shake hands you must take off those gloves and put on hand sanitizer.....Anyways, we're done with introductions, right? How much longer are you going to stand there? Go away. I'm sick of looking at you."

I looked at my hands disappointed. I took off the gloves and put them in the flower purse. "They aren't that bad, I've just been working."

"They look nice, and they're surprisingly soft." Makoto blushed a little inspecting my hands. Byakuya rolled his eyes and quickly walked away from us. His aura says to me, 'You and I will never stand on the same level.' Like a king in training...

Yashiro came bolding towards us, he gave us a goofy grin and a thumbs up, "I'm Yasuhiro Hagakure--Hiro for short! Take it easy, yeah? I know I will!" He paused a little rubbing his head before slamming his hands down to his thighs. "Ahh... Okay, I give up."

"Huh? What happened?"

"I saw it. I looked right at it... Seriously, I totally saw it!"

"...Saw what?"

"A guardian angel with a crazy perm chasing after Bigfoot running off with a skyfish in its mouth. And that guardian angel...is YOUR guardian angel!" He started fuming at the mouth. "Nah, I'm just kiddin'. But hey, we should grab some brewskis sometime and get real deep into Lemuria and its civilization."

Makoko nodded before choking, "W-What? We're not allowed to drink! We're in high school!"

"Oh, I'm actually 21. I've been held back a few times, see, and...well, it's a long story." He confessed. He explained to us the story of him being held back, slowly walking us over to the Goth queen herself, Celestia.

"Woah, your outfit is so cool!" I left the two males rushing forwards towards Celestia, she grinned at my enthusiasm hiding her smirk behind her pale hands.

"Oh, alrighty bye then..." Hiro mumbled. He drugged his way over to Byakuya who also apparently wanted nothing to do with the poor ultimate clairvoyant.

Celestia brought us back to her, "I do not think we have been introduced. I am Celestia Ludenburg."

"Celestia...Luden...huh?"

"Ludenberg. It is my name. But if you don't mind, I would prefer for you to call me Celeste." She explained, holding out her hands to the two of us.

Makoto hesitated before gripping her hand, "Um...you are Japanese, right?"

"Of course. Why do you ask?"

"Wait--" I shook her hands next, "Isn't gambling illegal in Japan?"

"Uh... ha, ha... There are no police officers here, right? Unless you're an officer." She quickly took back her hands dusting them off from the dirt, she looked uncomfortable by my question. She stared right into my eyes, her red ones outshining my e/c ones.

"N-No..." Maybe i should have been the ultimate police officer just to scare the shit outta her...

"If you don't mind...could you tell me your real name?"

"Maybe Gamblers go by a nickname?" I turned to him, he looked back at me and nodded.

"Heh-heh. I don't know what you are talking about. Celestia Ludenburg is my real name. But as I mentioned, I would much rather you call me Celeste."

"Celestia it is i guess."

"Exactly, Y/N. I look forward to getting to know you better... Heh-heh-heh..." Her smile is so enchanting but has a hint of devious intent intertwined with it. She blew us kisses as she walked away eagerly to the back.

Achievement unlocked!
Friendship is Magic!

Look at how many friends you've made! Er.....

Makoto sighed and turned to me, now noticing Celestia was the last person we had to introduce ourselves to. "I think... all the introductions are done. This is an interesting group of people."

"If you two are done introducing ourselves, i will like to gather all of your attention." Byakuya strutted towards us. He stopped leaving a small gap between us, he looked around at everyone waiting for all the attention to be on him. "Okay, time to get down to business. This is no time to stand around making friends like a bunch of dull-eyed baboons."

I agreed with him, "If my memory holds up, didn't someone say something about a bigger problem or something? What was that about?"

"Well, you see..." Syaka walked up to us, tucking a strand of hair behind her ears, "Makoto, you said a bunch of stuff happened and then you were 'just asleep,' right? Well, the same is true for all of us."

"What? Seriously!?"

"Just after each of us got to the main hall, we lost consciousness. And when we came, we were somewhere here in the school! That's what happened to you right?" Leon scratched his head.

"B-But that's just...weird! That every one of us would get knocked out like that..."

Makoto scratched his cheeks before Mondo grabbed his shoulders. "Exactly! That's why we're all freaking' out!"

Ishimaru pointed at all of us, "And that's not the only thing. You saw where all the windows in the classes and hallways were, right? But instead of normal glass windows, it was a bunch of big metal plates! What's that about!?"

"Plus, all my stuff's missing! Even my cell phone..." Junko showed us as she started patting down her pockets. Instantly everyone in the group started patting down their own pockets.

Chihiro sighed, "Yeah, you're right. I haven't seen my PDA anywhere, either..."

"And then there's the main hall here. The front exit is completely blocked by some giant metal hatch--But there wasn't anything like that when I first got here...!" Taka started to blab on and on, "What the heck!? What's it doing there!?"

"Maybe we got caught up in some kinda, like, you know...crime or something?"

Leons face whitened at what Mukuro mumbled, What, like...a kidnapping? You think maybe someone grabbed us and hauled us off and we're not actually at school?"

"Come on, don't think like that." Hiro came up behind me and put his fingers on my cheeks, lifting them up into a forced smile. "Cheer up! I bet this is all just part of the school's orientation procedure.... Yeah, I'm sure that's it! So I'm just gonna take it easy for a little bit."

"Oh... So you think they wanted to do something to surprise us?" Chihiro gleamed.

"Huh. Well if that's all it is, it's nap time for me." Leon took a step backwards before stopping, "I was up way too late last night, so I could use a little shuteye."

The energy of the room started to lighten up from the anxiety and stress a few minutes ago. I could feel everyone's tension evaporating...But then...it began.

*Ding dong, bing bong*

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Achievements:
-Petting Zoo
-Friendship is Magic