"Good morning Horizion Academy! Welcome to the presentation of your life!" Called out Traci's voice from a big stage. The five girls were at the back of the crowd of students as Aurora sniffed and recognized the voice as Traci. "It's the women that saved us from the boat falling apart." Aurora said to them. "Is that what happened to you while we nearly drowned?" Ivy asked. "Yeah, There was a cocoon thing hanging from one bit of the ship. We could hear some weird humming from it." She explained as Traci kept going on and on. Grace then cleared her throat as she took the microphone from her sister and smiled. "Sorry for my sister, she can get very excited. Today we are about to present a specimen that has been provided by us who can emulate human emotions like us humans beings. We are also here with a partner of ours who has helped with progress of our latest project. Everyone put your hands up for the man, Maxwell Arachne!" A bunch of the students cheered as a man with red hair, sort of fancy clothing. and four scars on his cheeks. He waved to everyone and nodded as he took the microphone from Grace and cleared his throat.
"Hello Horizion! Thank you for welcoming me to present to you a project that me and Miss T Meadowood have been working on for quite a while. I present to you, A.R.I!" Maxwell cheered out as he stepped to the side and a female looking android was sitting in a lounge chair, staring off into space. "A.R.I is a wordplay which calls out Automatic Robotic Invention. What it means is that it can act human like everyone here. But she can obey basic commands. Like for example. A.R.I?" She stood up as her camera lens like eyes opened and went over to Maxwell. "Yes sir!"
She exclaimed, waiting for her command.
"Find Ivy Meadowood."
Ivy heard her name and paused in confusion as Jackie looked confused. "Grace said 'just like us humans.' But they're not human.." Aniran jumped up to see the girls on the stage clearer. "Well Ivy's sister's hair aren't green there. Grace's hair is just brown and Traci's hair has a fade of green."
"Found you!" A.R.I called causing most of the girls to scream. She then put her arms around Ivy, hugging her tightly. Ivy coughed as the four girls looked at her with concern. A.R.I noticed and stepped back, letting her go. Grace, Traci, Skye, Nari and Maxwell then walked over to the girls to see what was going on as the crowd walked away to do other stuff for the festival. "Hey girls, how's it going?" Nari asked, putting her hand on her waist. "Hey uhhhh..." Aurora trailed off as she didn't know if she should call Nari mom. "It's okay Aura, you can just call me Nari! If you want to call me mom later I don't mind!." She said with a smile on her face. "You could still tell it was us, right?" Grace said as she pointed to her hair. "Well it was obvious." Ivy said as she massaged her throat. "Well I know that I already introduced myself on the stage, but I'd like to do it again. I am Maxwell Arachne. I do work for the people on Prizma. It's lovely to meet your ladies." He bowed to them as they looked at him with confusion. "He's a full blood elemental, that's why he's so formal." Skye explained as she puts her hair up in her ponytail.
"Hey Jackie!" Yelled Devilin from a stand. Jackie turned around seeing Devilin trying to get her over to a stand that had a shooting range and some plushes. "COME OVER HE-" Atticus then stood behind Jackie, blocking her view from Devilin. "Jackie Makani." He asked, leaning down to their heights. "You're that guy who nearly beefed with Ivy, am I right?" Cascade asked tilting her head. He looked at her with concern but then cleared his throat. "Yes. I am Atticus Brauvwood. Heir to the Brauvwoods company."
"The one with the lightbulbs and wood sculptures? Is everyone here rich or somethin-" Cascade said with sheer confusion. "Yeah, that's why I'm here, It's not called academy for nothing Cas."
Atticus then scoffed and picked up Jackie like a cat. The four girls looked up at him with shock. "I shall be taking this with me." He said as he walked away from the four girls as they protested with Aurora screaming, " 'This' has a name!" Jackie looked confused as she turned her head to look at Atticus. He then put her down and motioned for her to walk with him.
"I've seen you around the school. You and your friend group infuriate me. Too loud, too disorganized, too spontaneous! How do you even live with that?" He asked as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. "We're still kids. We've only got a short amount of time left before we go down our paths in the future. And we're sorry that we used your room thing." She chuckled as she brushed some of her hair out of her face. "Sorry we even exist!" She then remembered her wings and took a deep breath. Atticus raised a eyebrow and scoffed. "No matter. I've said what I needed to say. Maybe you'll pass it to your friends and maybe they'll get the picture. Now get out of my sight." He brushed her off as he gently pushed her away looking away. She felt a little hurt but nodded as she waved him goodbye and walked off. He glanced up a little, seeing her walk away as he felt a little hurt by what he said to her.
Meanwhile, Aurora, Cascade and Aniran were watching Akaito and Oscar talking to each other. "Okie my platonic sisters, how do I confess to the boys that I wanna be part of their love group?"
She asked as she was peeking from a stand three rows down. "Well if you wanna be moi, jump out at them and confess your love with chicken strips!" Cascade suggested as she gestured to herself. "Or you could ask them tomorrow since it's a day off." Aniran said from the bottom of the dog pile that they got themselves into. "Sis, do you really think furry here will remember that?" Aurora then pushed Cascade's head down and leaned in. "No. I will not. So that's why we need to think of what to do!"
"They already know you animals." Said Brooke leaning against the stall they were behind by. The three got up and had red faces. "Heh, your faces. Anyways, Akaito and Oscar already know that you like them Aura. And what's funny about it is that Oscar likes you but Akaito doesn't know what to feel! Now that you're a furry he doesn't know if he should say hi to you or washing machine your face!" The four ended up bursting in laughter, loud enough for the festival to hear it. "Well the thing is that I wanna wait until Akaito is sure that he likes me or not. I don't want him to feel like he's cheating or I'm going too far or that he's being left out." Aurora explained, her ears and tail going down. Brook massaged her chin, trying to think of what to do.
"How about my old place?" Said Nari, tearing a hole through the fabric on a stand. "Before all this sad shit happened, me and Stan used to share a condo together to make music and shit. I'll ask Traci and Maxwell to redo it then so whenever you guys show up on Prizma you have your own place. All we need is a list of what you girls want and if you girls want a beacon. It's to so whenever we get lost, we know where it is." The three girls automatically beamed and squealed and jumped around.
Jackie was walking through the crowd as she started to feel more hurt about Atticus. She kept seeing him in the halls but never got a chance to say hi. But now she knows he doesn't like her. At all. She didn't want it to be like that. But she couldn't change that. And she wouldn't want to.
"It's alright sweetie. Jack was like that to me when we first met." Jackie looked around for the voice. It was the same one she heard when she was in Cascade's bathroom.
"Jackie." Ivy interrupted Jackie's train of thought as she darted around and Ivy was there, her hands on her waist. "What did he say to you? It's made you upset."
Jackie sighed. "He finds me, the girls and the others annoying. He hates me. I didn't mean for him to not like me. I didn't even think he would even acknowledge me!" She exclaimed as she felt the horrible feeling rise up. Ivy noticed and put her hands on Jackie's shoulder. "Calm down, calm down. It's okay. Don't think about what he thinks about you. If he doesn't like you then fuck him." She gave her a hug and held her hand. "Now come on. Cascade and Aniran's mum needs us for something."
Jackie nodded as they got to the library. Ivy opened the door and there was Skye sitting at a table with the book from her airship and a cup of coffee.
"Hey girls! I've got something that I got to tell you."
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