Operation R.A.I.D.[event]

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Le Cyll glared back over at Ailyth, not quite angrily, but with an interesting intensity he could only reserve for something considered a nuisance.

"Are you insinuating something, dear?" He said, voice low, threatening. "Because as far as I can tell, you are the only little treat there is for eating..."
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Z felt about the same as Illia. No, he did feel the same. Illia was sad, and his perfect raid had failed. That meant he should be sad too...

When that one girl spoke though, Xena, he lifted his head slightly from the slump that it had been in. Really? Dis she think they would find anything? Wasn't it useless now? They'd broken down the door and found nothing, so wasn't that the end of it?

But... What if it was hidden? What if Xena was right about there being a "real" lounge? That would make sense right? There were humans at this school, and they needed a place to go to the principle's office without realizing that the school is run by a bunch of monsters. So that's why this office was here! To keep the students out!

Yes! That was it! He knew it!

Z began to help the team stumble around the room, looking for a secret passage. He would not give up this easily.
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The pencil rolled out from under his fingers, which was really quite annoying, because then it skidded all the way off the oakwood desk and right on to the plush red carpet. Daniel sighed, leaving it alone. He'd let the cleaning pixies handle it...

Pushing just the end of his sleeve, he absentmindedly checked his watch. They were right on time, but they had also ruined his nice big door to get in.

Cleaning pixies. They were a wonderful thing.

Danile tapped the nice solid oakwood a few times, his fingers making a soft strumming sound on his desk. He saw a shadow at the window - most likely one of the kids looking around - but they did not seem to want to go inside. Oh well. Plan "B."

Daniel leaned back to flick the small light switch on the wall behind him, and continued sorting through his papers has he had been doing.

He wondered if he could get the cleaning pixies to do papers for him too...?
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Z was checking the walls and the fake plants diligently for anything suspicious, just like some of the others were, when something really odd happened.

He couldn't feel the floor under his feet anymore.

Looking down, he noticed the floor was actually still there. It was just that he was sinking through it.

Wait... what?!?

Trying to grab onto something, he flailed around as he sunk into the floor. It was a looooong way down...
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[amber989]

Mizore walked and walked and saw a yellow...gate...? The color was annoying. Or maybe ugly. He followed the group into the faculty lounge. Soon, people are starting to search for passages. Would it be that easy to find one? She looked around. There's nothing suspicious at all. She looked at the ground. Nah, not possible but she was wrong. She saw Z sinking into the floor. Sinking. SINKING. She was stunned but knowing there isn't anything here, why not just follow him? If she gets expelled from this school, it would have been better. She walked towards Z and stood still and the floor just vanish and in she goes. She was a little scared, but that emotion is useless.

"Entrance?" She asked, looking down. It's just pitch black, nothing else.

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Tsuki followed behind the group. She heard there were trolls fighting students in a hidden room. But, trolls? Isn't that a bit too dangerous? That clearly means that the teachers are out of their mind or they just plainly wanted to kill the students. Pathetic teachers.

She followed the students, looking for hidden passages. She tried kicking the walls, but none of them works. She then started to talk around but there's nothing to see. Finally, she heard someone yell. She turned around to the direction and saw two students sinking. She was shocked so she stood there, not knowing what to do.

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[Iƪƪia]

Gritting her teeth, Ailyth spun around to face Le Cyll. She placed her hands on her hips, attempting to look threatening.

"Oh, yeah? Well-"

Her threat was cut short by a strange sinking sensation around her feet. Looking down, she realized that she was sinking. Straight through the floor. Gasping, she reached her arms out to grab onto something. Anything. She found it in another girl's ankle. Well, it might've worked, had the other girl not been sinking as well.

***

As the group broke up to search for a hidden entrance, Illia remained where she was. The others could do the searching for her. Right now, she just wanted to think. To get all her thoughts in order. Placing her fingers at her temple, she didn't look up until she heard several amazed gasps.

Before she was able to fully understand what was happening, she felt a hand grab at her ankle. Normally, she might have been annoyed, however, whatever annoyance she felt was quickly replaced by surprise as she noticed that they were sinking through the floor.

***

Seth stood in the doorway, watching all the creature's scuttle about looking for secret entrances. It was idiotic. Of course they wouldn't find a secret entrance. Not by themselves, anyway. This theory was soon proven correct as the floor gave way and began to pull each of them into the depths below. None of these creatures caused that. Someone else was allowing them to enter.

With a sigh, Seth stepped forward, allowing herself to sink into the floor with the rest of them.

[Elle]

Elle reluctantly entered the room as everyone set about to find a secret entrance. She pretended to be searching with them by moving plants or knocking on a wall, however, she was only killikng time. She didn't want to find a secret entrance.

It was then Elle felt a strange sensation beneath her. She looked down and realized that she was being cucked into the floor. She couldn't help but let out a small scream as the floor swallowed her up.

[areyna]

After the encouraging speech that random girl made Aron found himself shrinking. He looked down to the fact he was sinking into the floor. Nami and Syler stuck inbetween the tile as well. Instinctivly, Nami grabbed a hold of him screaming while Skyler struggled to break himself free. A failed attempt. What the heck is going on! He loosened Nami's tight squeeze watching the other students struggle and sink into nothing.

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Z rubbed his head, cursing and groaning as he got up off the floor. Stupid floor. He'd never trust another one again. not after he'd just fallen-

He looked up, gasping. That was like six stories! Hod the heck is he still alive?!

There was a small square of light where they once were, up in the normal part of the teacher's lounge, but down here it was... It was... Really, really awesome was the best way to describe it.

The entire place almost looked like a sunken castle of sorts. There were tall narrow arches over even taller narrower ceilings, and paintings and tapestries covering the walls. The floor was marble, covered up with a nice thick woven carpet. It depicted mythical creatures of old just like the English did, except, instead of that cool picture where the unicorn was running from the humans, in this picture the unicorn was the one spearing its horn through English hunting dogs.

In the same ways, dragons were eating people, gryphons were telling their riddles to wayward travelers, phoenixes were turning people crispy, and the mighty lion bodied chimera was taking on the English army, crushing footsoldiers underneath its huge paws. Neeldess to say, it was an awesome carpet. Z wondered if he could get his parents to buy him one of these things?

Anywho, moving on to the rest of the room...

There were a few stain glass windows stretching up the long Gothic walls, but there wasn't anything behind them but brick walls. Z was beginning to think his theory was right, and this place had at one time been a big castle, but now - he had no idea how - it had sunk into the ground and now served as the teacher's real lounge.

Did that mean Crane was a king with his own throne?

Z got up, brushing himself off. It must have been though magic that he wasn't hurt by the fall. Looking around, he realized that this whole raid thing was going ot be harder than he thought. They did have a whole castle to look through now...

"Uh, Illia, do you want to pick a way to go...?" He gulped, starting down all the long, endless hallways of the huge castle room.
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Le Cyll was up immediately, a nice serrated hunting knife in each of his hands. He was expecting some kind of attack now, but to his great disease, there was nothing.

Nothing but groaning children and a hole in the cieling about six stories high.

The Kludde sighed, sheathing both knives and feeling his back. He hadn't landed as well as he'd liked to...

[Iƪƪia]

Pushing herself up off of the ground, Illia shook the little girl's hand off of her ankle, annoyed. She hadn't been badly hurt. Her shoulder was just a little sore from her landing on it. However, the whole idea of them getting down here by such unconventional means... I mean, would a set of stairs be too much to ask?

As she looked around the room, her annoyance began to fade. Instead, it was replaced by fascination. Was this a... Castle? Slowly walking toward the center of the room, she viewed the walls with awe. Oh, she rather liked that Chimera tapestry. Perhaps she'd ask Z to buy her one.

Ah, but they were here for a reason right now. She could window shop later.

Looking at all of the branching hallways, she had a sudden sense of deja vu. She'd been here before. In a situation much like this one, at least. Last time she had merely picked a random path and it had gotten them where they needed to go. Perhaps she'd get lucky again this time.

"Oh, sure..." She mumbled, going to inspect each of the hallways, finally deciding on the one closest to her, "Let's try this one."

***

A little dazed, Ailyth got up off of the ground, brushing her clothes off as she did. There wasn't any dirt on her clothes, however, that's what the people in the movies always did whenever they get up from a long fall.

As she finished with that task, she seemed to notice the room that they'd landed in for the first time. It was like a castle! And old, secret, underground castle! They were right! There was a secret room! This was so awesome!

***

Seth stood up, slightly annoyed that she had to land so awkwardly. There should have been a better spell put in effect, or at least a pool. However, this room wasn't designed with a little "raiding party" in mind.

With a sigh, she ignored the pain in her neck and instead watched in what direction these creatures would lead her.

[Fiona]

Fiona could feel her feet stuck in the ground, her body slowly sinking into the floor. Sinking!? She turned over towards the others in the group, noticing they were sinking into the ground as well. What on earth was going on!?

"Eek! This is bad!" Fiona tried to struggle against it, but much like sinking in quicksand, struggling only seemed to make her situation all the more worse. As each second went by, she could feel herself falling in further and further into the floor, until all of the sudden she felt a whooshing feeling envelop her body. Fiona closed her eyes, and involuntary held her breath as though she were taking a deep plunge. She prepared for the worst to happen...

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The next thing Fiona knew, she was sprawled on the ground with all the others. Fiona opened her eyes and quickly pulled herself up, taking a look at where she and the group had landed.

It looked like some sort of old castle passageway deeply hidden underground, with tall ancient archways and gigantic stone columns supporting it. Oil paintings hung up on the stone walls as well, along with old tapestrys depicting medieval monsters and beasts. Fiona gasped in amazement as she spun around, examining the area where everyone had fallen into.

"This is amazing!" Fiona said in awe. She looked up at where they had dropped, and nearly did a double take at how high up that was. How the heck did she and the others fall from that height with no terrible injury? This was getting stranger and stranger...

[nerdswillrule]

Xena walked form tile to tile on the floor hopping fro something to happen. After a long while of looking she stepped on what she thought was it, she then flt her feet going into the floor.
"What!" She yelled she looked around and saw all the other going in to the ground. She became calm and allowed herself to sink.

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Xena for feet hit the ground hard, she wondered how none got hurt. She scuttled around for a time looking at other people to see if they were hurt when she found no injures, she started to look around.
"The REAL lounge" She proudly told the others.

[Elle]

Elle had her eyes tightly shut as she fell, though she didn't quite feel anything when she landed, or even if she landed. Opening her eyes, she ralized that she was laying on her back, staring up at the, er, floor.

Hearing someone mention something about the real lounge, she pushed herself up and looked around at the new room they were in. It was like a castle, complete with old tapestries and stained glass windows. Despite how interesting this place looked, she couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed. Apparently thay hadn't failed after all.

[amber989]

Mizore landed safely, unharm on who knows where she was. Good thing she didn't struggle badly. Quite a slow passage for a secret lounge, but it's better than walking. She looked around. There were a lot of pictures and such expect all were mythological. The lounge was real nice though. It's like a castle here. Royal and such. Illia and Z started to discuss which road should they take. She thought of splitting groups, but that might be unsafe for such little group. She bet the castle was big and dangerous. Heck, the teachers might be living in here too.

Illia chosed the one nearest to her? She felt an urge to go into a different hallway, but she'll deal with it. Illia's expression when she saw the room was quite funny, maybe she might show more later.

Before the group started moving, she observed the pictures. They were quite nicely drawn. Maybe by profesionels? She doubt there's multiple of these art works. Trying to look for them to buy is quite pointless. You'll find it like, after four years? By that time, you would have lose interest on it. Well, maybe the carpets could be bought easily.

Alright, move it. Mizore is lazy to just stand around now. Maybe she should try helping out if there is fighting involve but they will probably say something like the ice melting or something. Mizore was irritated, thinking about that.

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Tsuki was hesitating when she starts sinking, too. She struggled, but it looks like the floor just kept on sucking her in. She looked around, some wasn't scared, so maybe it's okay. She heard someone muttered something. It could be the entrance! Woah, this is so cool! Even if they fall into a cell or something, they will be all together so there's nothing to worry about... right?

Finally, she dropped and she felt pain below her. Ouch. She got up, and was amazed... slighty by there's another hall, not the rich-looking castles. Pictures... are so useless. They just sit there and do nothing. Rather waste your money on animations.

Illia chose a hallway. Well, she's just going to follow. If there's any battle involved, she'll be in the backup group. Mwahaha?

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"Right... Everybody over here!"

Z called out to everyone, so they would follow. Illia seemed to have done something like this before, so maybe he'd been smart in leaving this up to her. He wasn't the best with mazes, although he'd been told he was good at directions. He wouldn't get lost from here, and he would know which way it was to get back after they were done finding Rehnquist.

Come to think of it, that thing the one dog-guy said about the teachers was right. They would be sleeping right now. The funny thing was, Z wouldn't be surprised if all the teachers slept here. It was massive. There was plenty of room for anything they could possibly need to be doing here and more. It was a castle, for Pete's sake! The bedrooms must be like suites or something!

Thinking he should share this revelation with Illia, he trotted up to her.

"Hey!" He smiled. He really hadn't been staying close to her for a while, he noticed. He'd been too busy with the Raid. But that was no excuse. He made a promise ot make sure Illia was okay, and that's what he would do. "It does look like we might find that Rehnquist guy in bed. It is late, and I'm sure there are beds and stuff down here. I think all of them sleep here, actually..."

Okay, so it sounded less stupid in his head, but he trusted Illia to catch his meaning. She was a sharp cookie. She'd get what he meant.
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[Iƪƪia]

Illia gazed at the walls, almost with a sense of envy. She had a sudden desire to live in a castle, one day. With plenty of Chimera tapestries and several vaults full of jewels. Several large and expensive gems would be out on display, of course, with a large, crystal-cut emerald as the center piece in the foyer. Though, these display pieces would purely be for her own amusement. Outsiders wouldn't be allowed into her castle, naturally.

The sound of footsteps beside her caused Illia to put her interior decorating on hold. Apparently, Z was rather interested in where the teachers slept. Well, certainly it was possible that they slept down here. It was a castle, after all. Besides, wouldn't using an entire castle solely as the teacher's lounge be a bit superfluous?

"True. It's all too possible that all of them do live down here. After all, it's certainly big enough."

She smiled sideways at Z as several thoughts crossed her mind. Most of the teachers were unaware of the raid, weren't they? The only one who knew about this was Crane. And perhaps Rehnquist, but she couldn't be sure. So, if one of the teachers actually found them in their "house"... Well, Illia would almost prefer that they come across monsters instead.

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[Elle]

As everyone began shuffling down one of the hallways, Elle hurried to catch up. She didn't want to get left behind in this creepy, old castle. She was expecting to see any number of monsters drop down on them from the ceiling or something.

She intertwined her fingers in front of her as she tried to tell herself that they'd be okay. After all, even if they do run into monsters, she had helped fight one before. And she didn't get hurt at all. Well, that was just because Illia had been the one who took a more direct approach. Well, there were plenty of people to take that approach here! All she would have to do is hang in the back and provide, er... Emotional support.

[areyna]

Skyler blinked perfusively waking up out from a little black out groaning in pain. He landed on his stomach pretty hard oxygen knocked clean out of him. He took in deep breaths to regulate his breathing. He heard giggling turning his head to the noise to find Nami flat out ontop of Areon. His expression all but happy. She apologized and thanked him for breaking her fall Areon responded rolling his eyes with an annoyed sigh as they stood to their feet. Imeadiatly the scene around him caught Skyler's eye. A castle theme with portraits and tall narrow ceilings, he sucked in every detail. Distracted by the setting Areon regained his attention pointing out the mass of kids who already started venturing foward. All three of them caught up and followed unamware of what other surprises may lay ahead. If any. Just what are they up against exactly?