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Dusk The ghostly boy on the bed merely nodded at Loli's hyperactive description of what happened during their trip to the outdoors. Dusk looked at Koh and pretty much chuckled as she had finished, but inquired about his outing. "Man...where do I begin...this morning was a little bit of a rocky start since that Smeargle kid showed up with gods know what plan he had...then we proceeded to the town which was much bigger than I thought. As you can see we did a little shopping and finally got me a cool leather jacket." He said as he showed off his new outfit by lifting it by the collar. "We met a bunch of faces and girls kept giggling at me which was super weird and uncomfortable. Zoey said because I was Hot? But it wasn't even warm today so I don't know what thy mean by that. I also found these cool things called escalators that I thought kidnapped me to the second floor but really didn't. Then we went to eat sushi for lunch which tasted amazing but that's when the lights turned off...then we made our way back here and the rest is history. " dusk finished his story and exhaled as he lied back down. "I'm kinda exhausted....it's been a big day...I think I'm gonna pass out guys...I'll catch you in the morning.." Dusk said as he yawned and nuzzled his pillow with his face. "Let's catch up...again...tomorrow..."

Dusk Dusk's train of thought was interrupted when a sudden familiar voice spoke to him as it became louder as they got closer to him. Of course it was Lolita, back from her little camping trip with the rest of the others who went out. Before he could speak and respond to her usual hyperactivity, she went into the room waiting for him to spook her. Dusk smiled and chuckled to himself while looking to his side to see Amaya looking a tiny bit concerned as she commented on his thinking. "Haha..I won't..I'll catch you guys later okay? Sleep well when you do." He said to his little Swanna friend reassuring her with a grin. "And take care of Zoey, I think she's having a little fit." Dusk said teasingly as he knocked on his door and went on in. Upon entering he saw Lolita and gave a smile. "Boo~" he said jokingly as he sat himself on his bed. "What's new Skitty Cat?" He asked waiting to hear her exciting adventures in the wild.

@,@@Ampharos, @@Lyridian, Dusk After hearing the announcement Dusk merely scratched his head and shrugged in response to Zoey's little outburst. "Well there's not really much we can do Zoe...they probably just want to make sure everything is okay with us all safe and secured. If anything were to happen to us it would be held in the school's responsibility deeming them unsafe and unfit to be able to take care of a problem like this. I for one wouldn't like our stay here to be disastrous and cut short...I like it here too much.." Dusk retorted and looked around the Common Room and his friends. The very thought of just leaving them after they had just met a few days ago would be devastating. "So come on..why don't we listen and see what unfolds for now. This Blackout thing might not be a one day crisis." Dusk said trying to be the voice of reason this time around. He gave a soft smile and complied with the instructions given to go back to the dorms for the day. At least they had some fun going out earlier, maybe it won't be so bad. Dusk went back to the dorms as he walked in the hallway along with some other students and his friends. Coming to the Dormitory Hall he headed towards the door of his room. Maybe Koh and Lolita were back, then he can tell his room mates about the awesome day he had....but his thoughts came back full circle to his questionable abilities as a ghost-type....maybe if he tried hard enough...he can phase through the walls of the dorm rooms to go inbetween hanging out with familiar faces. There really wasn't much ruling on that...nor did the instructors say it wasn't allowed. Yeah, tonight he'll try to regain his ghostly abilities. He continued to contemplate on the matter as he stopped and stood outside his door with a very concentrated look and gesture on his face and poise.

@@Suitaloo, Jonathan Jon sat up from where he was seated at on the couch and looked intently at the two students Althaia had delivered to him. Once hearing the predicament about the Nik boy he sighed and brought his fingers to the bridge of his nose in frustration. "If anything happens...and he's somehow involved in it...expulsion is going to be the least of anybody's worries..." He said as his right hand began clenching. He turned to the two kids once again, almost glaringly as he was in no mood for tomfoolery of any kind. "You'd better have used protection because I will have no eggs being born in this school." Jon said in probably the most annoyed tone of voice he's ever had the displeasure of talking. Just the mere mention of such...acts made his stomach churn...he only thought of that as a very filthy process being the insane neat freak he was. He turned back to look at Althaia with an exhausted and irritable look in his eyes. "We're sending students to their rightful dorms.There will be curfew until further notice. Relay this to the student body and the rest of the teachers if you can...I'll be searching for our brush-tailed little ball of mischief...with no mercy." Jon stood up and unfurled his wings before taking off along with his Shedinja partner attached to his head.

Dusk "O-oh right sorry." Dusk said as he let her down a little embarrassed himself. It didn't feel like there was any real inconvenience with Amaya on his shoulders that he was quite comfortable with it. "Anyway, shall we make our way to the common room? They would've been able to figure out what to do by now." Dusk said as he contemplated more on the current blackout situation at hand. He began to make his way into the school with others doing the same as well as he navigated the halls. He saw that some students had Will-O-Wisps following them to help light up their way. Dusk lit up at the brilliant idea and decided to bring up his own for their group. He raised both of his hands and made several little flames that floated about, a little tinier than the other ones in the hall already. He grinned at another accomplishment of his and lead the way towards the common room. Jonathan Jon himself had arrived at the common room and waited for more students to arrive here before he takes roll and explains the situation. He was absolutely beat and decided to sit down on the couch to catch a moment to collect himself. He had been fixing FRED all morning, doing the usual cleaning, checking the equipment and kitchen since the power came off and finally helped round up the students. It had been one hell of a day that much could be said. The Shedinja on his head hovered off and floated near his face as if consoling the overworked Custodian. "I'm fine...there's still a lot to get done....do I'm counting on you partner.." He said looking up at his ghostly bug buddy. "Sheeeedinja!" It replied in agreement.

Dusk When they had arrived at the campus it would be an understatement to say that things got a little out of hand, thankfully Raiga and Melissa were there to quell the unrestricted spirits of chaos. Dusk turned up as looke up at Anaya still clear on his shoulders and gave a sigh. Once Raiga had apologize for his little outburst Dusk merely chuckled and waved his hand as off brushing the whole fiasco under a rug. "No worries pal, Things always go sour when Nik enters the scene. I'm just glad he's always outnumbered when it comes to people having actual common sense." Dusk smiled as he extended a hand out for the electic buddy to shake. "Forgot if I ever introduced myself properly but my names Dusk! And don't worry about shocking me, in pretty much a tank now." He said reassuring the guy with a smile. He then looked up at Amaya, "Told ya I could carry you all the way here." He said quite proud of his feat of strength. Jon Jon had been in the kitchen checking up and saving as much fridge and freezer foods as he could, though it was thanks to some local ice Gijinka kitchen staff, it seems the stock of food would be alright. As soon as Althaia had come to check up on him he lifted the googles from his eyes and spoke with her. "Our stock of foods is going to remain unchanged since we mostly use gas powered stoves and ovens in the first place. As for the cold stuff, that's saved too. We have enough here to go for a good few weeks or so, but if the electricity doesn't come on soon then some of the equipment we use in the classes as to maintain the school will be inoperable." Jon sighed as he caught his breath. He had been frantically working all over today to check up on the whole school, it was beginning to take its toll on his stamina. "Let's go round up more of the students. We should take a roll call in the meeting places then decide what we should do. But I'll be planning on paying the electrical plant a visit tomorrow." Jon said as his wings unfurled and he began to lift off from the ground. "We do this by the book.." Jon said as he took off towards the front of the campus.

Dusk "Ah...well...nooooo I don't...t-that'd be silly!" Dusk said towards Zoey as he chuckled nervously while facing back toward where he was walking. "They mustn't know..." He muttered to himself. He turned his head to look at Amaya as she held onto his trailing blindfold looking all adorable like a she was his own tail. "Oh yeah?? If I'm a Big Nerd then what does that make you? You little book buying ballerina? C'mere!" He said as he playfully hugged her and picked her up and had set her on his shoulder. "Can a nerd carry you on his shoulder for the rest of the way? I DONT think so!" He said grinning as even he was amazed by his newfound physical prowess. The group was nearing the campus gates as they had been walking for quite a time now. It would only take a few more for them to finally arrive at their destination, still it never left his mind on just what the heck happened with the power all if a sudden. Jonathan It hadn't been more than a couple of minutes from Jon's initial take off that he was already running maintenance on the school's own power breakers. Althaia had walked into the utility room and asked him if he needed help....help? It almost offended him...almost. He kept this entire school running on its finest since day 1...but still it was odd for the power to go out. Once she made the joke about the thing in his hair he merely chuckled and finally turned to look at her from his work. "I know but no matter how many times I throw it away, it always keeps coming back to me.." "Shed!" The little Shedinja said as it thwacked Jon on he back of the head. "Ah! Was kidding! Sheesh..." Jon said as he rubbed the back of his head. He stood up and wiped his hands on his jumpsuit tied to his waist. "The problem isn't with the breakers...they're still new and unpopped... His outage might be outside of my jurisdiction." He said giving his assessment. "I might have to see what's going on at the Plant..maybe something went wrong..." He said sighing as he brought a hand to his mouth mask bringing it down to his neck so he can cool off better. "I better help the kitchen first before things begin to get sour.."

Dusk Just as he was about to take a bite out of one of the appetizers, the power to the restaurant had been cut off surprising him quite a bit. He lifted his head and pulled the blindfold away from his eyes. This caused the glowing pinkish orb in his hallow eyes to practically light up the table they were sitting at as it's luminosity was quite vivid in the dark. "That's definitely odd..." Dusk muttered as he looked towards the room full of questioning people as they too were confused about the whole dilemma. From his observations it seems that this WASN'T a common thing to happen. Upon hearing the mention of the School's situation he couldn't help but stand up as his thoughts began running through his mind for their next course of action. He turned to Zoey when she had mentioned the Haunting of the Academy they could accomplish and chuckled at the thought. "Well that would be loads of fun, but I think our best course of action would be to head back to campus. I'm sure they'll want to collect the students as soon as possible once they figured out just how serious this is. I read in the Official Academy Student Handbook on articles 35 sub section B, that upon the event of a power outage, all students are to remain calm and if located outside the school premises during an event of impact on a wide-scale caliber we are to head back to the School and wait for further instructions from Faculty members upon gathering in the Cafeteria, Common Room, or Gymnasium.....and yes I read the whole thing." Dusk said quite proud of his memorization. "So let's pay this bill and head back to town yeah? I'm sure everything's going to be fine." Dusk said remaining calm and trying to organize their very much worrisome situation. Fun and dark hallway pranks can wait till later, he just needed to get them all back before they're all REALLY in trouble. After some time had passed, Dusk took the bill for the meal and walked on toward the cashier and presented her with a grey debit card with Kanji showing on the card. However the cashier look a bit worried herself when he came up to the counter, maybe because of his appearance, but mostly because of the absence of Auxiliary Power to the store that enabled their machines useless to accept the money. "S-sorry sir..? But the machine is down and we can't accept any bills at this time, I have however been notified from the manager to go ahead and let customers go free of charge. All the food might go bad soon without power to keep all the fish fresh." The cashier explained quite puzzled "O-oh, gosh that's terrible..well thank you for the meal! Once the power becomes stable I'll come back and definitely pay for it." Dusk said feeling bad for eating for free. But nevertheless they were free to go as he motioned the others to follow suit after him as he walked out of the restaurant. Jonathan Jon was about to shut down the machine when out of nowhere, it did it for him as the power in the room had shut off. Jon sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration. "Great...now I gotta re-calibrate this thing when the power starts up again...why did it go out anyway...I always keep the fuses to the breakers new...and Auxiliary Power should have come on by now...what's going on in this school..." Jon said as he contemplated and muttered to himself...however, his concentration was broken when the newly reborn Amuara screeched in fright. Jon turned his head and merely glared at the two kids and sighed once again. "You head to the Common Room and light the fireplace. It's going to get cold tonight...tell any students you come across to head there as well or in the Cafeteria. Miss Claudia you go as well and keep the order...I'm going to find out what the hell is going on here..Let's go Shedzi- I...I mean Shedinja." Jon said as his transparent Ninjask wings revealed themselves from their hiding place and began to flap rapidly. The Shedinja companion held on tight to Jon's shoulder as they both lifted from the floor. Life a flash of lightning, Jon zoomed out of the room and headed into the halls in break necking speeds for any normal person.

Dusk "H-hot?? B-but it's not even warm out! Maaaaan.. Guess I'll just order a rainbow roll.." Dusk said as he slid behind his menu as he pondered his confusing situation. Still it was great seeing everyone enjoying their time out here in town. It had been a pretty eventful day, kind of tiring though as he could feel the fatigue already setting in his energy. Upon seeing the returning Amaya and Zach he perked up and gave a wave at his companions. "Hey guys! How was that book store? Tell me all about it, I'm super eager to know of it's collections!" Dusk asked hen both going into full on nerd mode.

Dusk As Dusk waits outside he was met by wandering eyes from a variety of different girls. Some just stared at him while others giggled and whispered to each other, probably talking about him. He didn't know how to react to such a situation and merely stood there as his face became red from embarrassment. Next he was met by another girl, this time a Glameow Gijinka, that he had saw earlier talking with Zoey that decided to wink in his direction. Why would she do that?? Why were girls acting so strange?? Ever since he got this leather jacket it had been causing him nothing but stres and giggles and unwanted attention from the opposite sex and he wasn't comfortable with that. Dusk decided to head inside to get away from prying eyes and found his seat easily next to his friends. Sitting next to Zoey he decided to speak his mind. "Hey Zoey I think this jacket has some kind if girl attractor or something. I've been getting nothing but stares and giggles and whispering wherever I go and I don't think I like it. Are they making fun of me or something? I feel uneasy..." Dusk said with an obvioUs self conscious tone about him....though he's totally oblivious about the situation he's in. Jonathan Jonathan was grabbed by the neck and practically nuzzled from the weird spectral woman he called fellow faculty. Jonathan wasn't use to physical contact of any sort with other people so he started to sweat a little. "P-please...don't do that... And I don't call him Shedzie..." "Shedinja!" "Don't agree with her.." Jonathan stared as the Fossil woman left the scene to take care of business. He admired her cold yet get it done attitude and nodded in affirmation as she left the room. "Alright let's go.." Jonathan said as he pried the ghost girl from her hold and began to shut down the machine.

Jonathan Jon was wiping off the sweat from his brow with a stray towel he had brought with him and looked up to the machine to check the condition the little Fossil pokemon was in. "Vitals are fine...seems to have proper awareness of it's surroundings.....everything seems to be in working order...I'll have to fill out it's paperwork later....would you like to give it a nickname?" He asked Lhee as he turned to look at him. Though before he could get a response, a familiar face walked in through the door as she was very familiar with the whole subject herself. "Yes I did....I had help.." He said to Althaia while turning to look at the Marowak boy. Dusk Dusk was gathering up the loose bandages he untied from his body and proceeded to give them to Zoey. He had been following her towards the restaurant and merely kept quiet for a lengthy period of time as the sites of the busy Mall kept him in total awe. Though once they had left it was much easier to think and collect his thoughts. They had been seeing new faces ad new people as yet made their way to their destination of meeting that had him merely nodding and showing a wave every now as then. Once they had gotten to the restaurant, Dusk decided to wait outside for Amaya and Zach to arrive while Zoey went on in and sat with the rest of the group. Dusk kept his hands in the pockets of his jacket and felt a little more confident about his overall outward appearance. Sure he still looked somewhat unnerving with that blindfold and bandages in him, but at least he didn't look like a complete mummy.

@, Dusk Dusk merely nodded in silence as he was shoo'ed away to try on the jackets Zoey had picked out for him. Getting into the dressing room it wouldn't be longer than couple of minutes before he emerged out of them. He saw that his pals were off talking to other people in his absence and decided to join them near the entrance as he was now. "Hey Zoe? How does this look? I like the plain one the most." Dusk said as he had left behind two other jackets in the room and had walked out to show his decided jacket. It really was just a plain leather jacket, but it somehow suited him just fine. The monotone-like colors played off each other well and it looked comfy on him as he was just the right body physique to show it off. He had taken off some of his bandages that wrapped his upper torso and left it bare skinned under the jacket. He too some off his arms and kept them wrapped around the wrist area. He had also unraveled the final bits of them around his feet so he wouldn't be able to trip over them anymore, but this also made him bare-footed...though he kinda liked it. "I like it personally. It's super comfortable and now I don't have to worry about tripping over myself anymore....but the blindfold stays." Dusk said as he tightened it more over his eyes to keep people from screaming.

Dusk "Wow, shows what I know about fashion. This store is one big mystery to me." Dusk said as he scratched his head in confusion about all the outfits he was seeing inside the boutique shop. Everybody else was trying on new things and new looks. Dusk was just standing there twiddling his thumb while Zoey sifted through the many bundles of hanging outfits. Dusk also couldn't get the image of that person that passes by him on the escalators. He looked...menacing but that was purely from his own outfit. Who was he? And why did he look at him the way he did at Dusk? Dusk shook his head and looked back at Zoey as she continued her mission. "It doesn't have to be over the top fashionable Zoe, just ya know...simple and comfortable." Dusk said hopefully making it easier for his Zorua friend.