Watch And Learn So You Can Get It Right

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 Every now and again Doctor F remembered that this was actually a school and not a multi-roomed holding cell. The influx of new students reminded him, this time around. So he went and poked at the other teachers to remind them to do their jobs. 

Well, he had to prod Lady Tremaine and Mother Gothel. Yen Sid, it seems, has been teaching all along, whenever someone wanted to come in for a lesson. Unlike the others he was accessible and available. Well, now all of them were. How long that might last, however....  

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[lovebites_sodoi]

"That was just the opening number. Here comes the real show! Babies, sync up!"

Now all three would work together, Archie included - to bite as hard as possible on the hand holding Archie captive. Three sets of sharp fangs digging in as deep as possible.

"And now the main act everyone came to see!"

Morgana charged forward, but it was a feint - instead of hitting Tremaine in the face as threatened before, she tried to sweep the legs out from under her.

[utauhoshina]

She looked up, eyes haunted. She was about to say something bitter. Her expression made it clear, but with force of will she stopped herself. She said something cutting instead, pushing Morgana way verbally as a defense mechanism.

She was done losing everything she cared about.

Better to not let herself start to care.

"What makes you think you can?"

[misery_called_npcs]

You have to give something to the old woman for poise. She tried to shake the bats off, but didn't drop the spider or cry out. Her eyes just narrowed as she started to pull harder on the legs, as though the bites didn't bother her.

When the blow to her legs came, because she was backed into a corner, she topped forward towards Morgana. One hand let go, slamming the spider into the wall as her arms flung wide before she fell, spider and all.

[seacub]

Emporio leaves not quite as soon as he sees Xion leave- he takes in any words from the newer students, from the staff that he's fallen into a strange balancing act with, but after that trots off with worry in his eyes and a frown on his face.

It takes a bit- he's still shaken from...a number of things in his thoughts, in the past number of weeks, but he seeks Xion out all the same, walking across their pocket of land until he can find her hunched form.

About a meter away perhaps, he speaks-

"...Xion?"

[lovebites_sodoi]

But the bullets just bounced right off Morgana as if she was wearing Kevlar. She continued to grin, cool and calm as if nothing could hurt her.

"Because I'm an ego-centric narcissist." She replied, only slightly kidding. "So I never think I'm wrong. And if you really want to think that I am, you'll have to try much harder than a cute pouty face."

[lovebites_sodoi]

The plan didn't go exactly the way she wanted it, but the old lady was in pain - and that was what Morgana desired. Tremaine wanted to see Morgana live up to evil... wish granted. Now she cared more about revenge and hatred than seeing her precious pet let go.

With the old biddy on top of her, she reached up to hold Tremaine's face right up to hers, her slit eyes glittering, fingernails digging into skin.

"Should I give you the same treatment?" She hissed, forked tongue now easily seen among her fangs. "Pull out each of your limbs piece by piece? Squish you like a bug? Or maybe I can just take my time and ssslowly suffocate you second by second?"

By now, even her bats were concerned - they'd never really wanted their mistress to follow the path of evil, and the way she was talking was scary! They squeaked in protest, now gently trying to pull Archie free before anything worse happened.

[nobodys_puppet]

She looked away from the barrier, back to the only person here who didn't terrify her. "Did... Did you have that dream too?" she asked, softly.

[utauhoshina]

Now cutting was easier. She flicked a look down at Morgana's feet, then back up to her face. "Those are shoes you can't fit," she said, sounding a bit more like her snarky self.

[misery_called_npcs]

Lady Tremaine remained stoic. "You have the basics. Or at least the potential," she said, flatly. "But you lack wisdom. You chose your target poorly. Yes, you probably could kill me, but then what? I could bring your evil to whole new levels, but kill me and all you are is a murderer. There are more murderers on this lice infested isle than rats. If you don't want to fade or die then your evil needs to shine."

[seacub]

"I..."

Did he? ....Well. He definitely had a bad dream of some kind. Rather than say anything about it though, he bites his lip and gives a short nod- looking to the side in silence. "...It...didn't feel like something I should talk about."

A lot of things feel that way.

[lovebites_sodoi]

There we go. It was a relief to hear the sass.

"I've risen to many challenges before, why not just add one more to the list? Maybe you can think of me as a curse that's a lot harder to lift." She playfully flicked some of Utau's bangs. "You should expect nothing less from a rival."

[lovebites_sodoi]

"What I want, right now, is to make you SSSUFFER-"

The bats squeaked louder than they had before - they had Archie! It'd taken some effort, but they'd gotten him free, and were holding him with their feet.

It was the exact thing that Morgana needed to snap out of her monstruous, evil side. She blinked, losing a bit more of her ghoulish features as reason came back to her. "Archie!"

She let go of Tremaine, pushing her off so she could scramble to her feet and cradle her exhausted bug. "Oh, my poor baby! Are you okay? I'm so, so sorry!"

[nobodys_puppet]

"That... Not talking about things is an emotion too?" she asked, startled.

[utauhoshina]

She snorted a bit and rolled her eyes. "You're not half as bad as some of the curses back home." Well, not half as annoying anyway.

[misery_called_npcs]

Tremaine got up as well, brushing herself off. "Pathetic. I see I have much to do to turn you into a proper villian."

[lovebites_sodoi]

"So I'm also half as good? It's a starting point."

She swung her guitar around to her front. "C'mon, let's find a nice, empty room to practice in. If they want to lecture us, we'll drown them out in our talent."

[lovebites_sodoi]

Morgana turned a hateful eye at Tremaine, cradling her spider close. "The only one who needs to learn anything is YOU. Never go near me or my babies again... or the next music I'll play is a funeral march."

With that, she began to storm out of the classroom, wanting to tend to Archie. That whole encounter was awful... what had she almost done? She'd glanced down a road she never wanted to see again.

As for her familiars, the worried and the injured... Tremaine was right about them. They were a disgrace to all things evil... because they never wanted their mistress to be evil. And they'd do all in their power to help her turn over a new leaf. The bats even stuck their tongues out at Tremaine before joining Morgana.

Chell (OC) ★ OTA

[elvendryad]

The humanoid-shaped tree -- and the more obvious tree-shaped tree -- had yet to set foot in the building, honestly. The two were making their way around the perimeter for the umpteenth time, the former letting out a long, slow breath as he determinedly kept his patience. Sooner or later, there would have to be a way to leave, right? Beyond simply attempting the waters, rough as they looked?

He was beginning to consider entering the building, to see if perhaps the way out was to go deeper in. It wouldn't have usually made much sense, of course, but dreams sometimes made very little indeed, and if this was simply yet another instance of someone's dreamscape... a persistent instance, whoever's it was! And the utter lack of his abilities working as they normally ought to only seemed to count in favor of this theory, really... well, maybe it was worth a try?

Maybe. Maybe.

Maybe not. He looked behind him, to the other tree. Did he leave it outside, or take it with him? He wasn't certain he trusted that it would stay put and un-harassed, if he left it. But if he took it, would it be any more hospitable an environment?

He'd be outside for quite a while, if someone should find him there.

And, some time later, perhaps they'd come across him just inside the doorway, not quite daring to go in further when his precious tree refused to set foot -- well, to set root -- further inside. Perhaps it didn't like the feel of the floor there? Who knew. He was trying to figure that out, really......

[seacub]

Hm. "...Kind of. It's...something people do because of emotions, really. Sometimes it's fear...sometimes, it's because of guilt, or sadness or...or even care, and love," he adds with only a little hesitation.

"...It can be a lot of things."

[utauhoshina]

"Well, at least your hair isn't pink and you're not on and on about opening hearts," she said with a roll of her eyes. "But sure, you could use the rehearsals..."

[misery_called_npcs]

"And now you have given me power. Foolish child," she said to her back. "This is not over. Do not think I have failed to learn my lesson with those wretched mice. Your friends are not long for this Isle if you insist on allowing them to be your weakness."

[nobodys_puppet]

"I... Don't understand..."

[lovebites_sodoi]

Morgana raised an amused eyebrow as they began to walk. "Sounds like someone wants to vent... if you wanna go full blast, don't let me stop you. Not that I ever could, I'm guessing."

[utauhoshina]

She snorted. "No, you couldn't, but no, I don't want to. Not much point if she isn't actually here."

wrap?

[lovebites_sodoi]

"Fair enough. We'll exhaust our frustrations through our music... and because I'm in a good mood, I might let you lead."

Morgana wasn't naive enough to think Utau would never glance down that dark and dangerous road again - but maybe it would take her longer to get there. As long as Morgana was around, she'd make the journey here a bit easier if she could, if only for Utau.