✿༺ 𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐔𝐒 ༻✿ [𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒]

Book 1 chapter 18

"Rrrgh! I hate that little ginger megalomaniac! Does he think HE's the Queen of Hearts?"Ace growled out as he walked down the corridor

"Banished by the housewarden from my own dorm... My dream of becoming an honor student is slipping further and further away..." deuce sighed out, following behind the raging Ace

"Stupid collar! It's so tight! Grrr..." grim scowled, pulling on his collar every two seconds

"You're really racking up those collars. Quite the impressive collection." Suddenly a floating head appeared in front of them, scaring the three boys but not y/n who hadn't even noticed him and was too busy trying to get her hair out of the collar.

Deuce, Grim & Ace:  BWAH?!

"Myah! A ghost head!" Grim yelled out in shock

"Oh dear. It seems I'm not all here." The man spoke before the rest of his body appeared

"What? Er, so you do have a body, then? Who are you?" Deuce asked awkwardly

"The name's Artemiy Artemiyevich Pinker.
Am I a cat? Am I a purrrson? A mimsy borogove, perhaps? A mome rath with a knack for magic?" The boy spoke with a lazy smile

"Uh, look, Ar... Arte... Run the name by me again?" Ace struggled

"  Heh heh. People usually just call me Che'nya.
Let's just say I'm not from the other side of the looking glass." Che'nya spoke out

"Yet another weirdo..." Deuce muttered

" You think so? I'd say by the standards here, I'm no more mad than anyone else." Che'nya teased

"What dorm are you from?" Ace asked him, skeptically

"Why don't you try to guess?" Che'nya spoke, now watching y/n struggle to get her hair out of her collar

"Oh, I know! He's got animal ears, so he's gotta be from... uh... Bananaclaw, was it?" Grim shouted out, confident in his answer

" Bzzzzzt! Incorrect. Bananas grow on trees, do they not? I, on the other hand, am a cat." Che'nya spoke with a serious tone.

"And besides, other dorms have students with animal ears, too." Deuce added on, making grim groan

"After the insanity that teapot tyrant put me through, I'm not in the mood for whatever this is. Just leave me alone." Ace sighed out, wanting to leave

"Riddle the teapot tyrant... Heh heh. Well, I can't dismiss that perspective as wrong.
He's always been quite strict." Che'nya spoke, appearing beside y/n and slinging an arm over her shoulder.

Y/n didn't even bother with him, she just lifted her arm and the pot almost smacked him in the face, had he not made it disappear.

"Do you know something about him?" Deuce asked, unbothered by what y/n had just done

"Perhaps there are things that I know, and perhaps there are things that I don't." Che' ha teased out

"That's not an answer!" Grim spoke with a pout

"Is there something you wish to know about Riddle?" Che'nya asked

"Yeah, what created such a control freak?" Ace spoke rudely

"I believe his four-eyed friend may have the answer." Che'nya answered

" Four-eyed friend? You mean Trey?" Deuce asked with a bewildered expression

"He's known Riddle since we were all little boys.
If you want to know more about Riddle, I would begin my quest there." The cat man answered

"They're childhood friends? I didn't really get that impression." Deuce muttered under his breath

"If you're so perceptive, then what are you asking me for? Buh-bye!" Che'nya then started to fade away, making deuce panic

"H-hey!" Deuce stuttered

"Ha ha ha ha...!"

"I tell ya, no one makes any sense around here." Grim spoke, nudging y/n's leg.

"Well, we're not going to be able to do much in the way of schoolwork with these collars on.
So let's go see what Trey has to say, and then..." Deuce stopped

"If you're gonna say "apologize to Riddle," you can forget it!" Ace spoke out with a petty scowl

"Huh?" Y/n questioned, finally looking up and questioned what was going on.

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