CH 17
Rei looked the troublesome trio weirdly while she, Meicoomon and the whole digimon eating quietly their foods then Impmon sighed.
"Make sure that those brats never watch the most saddest animes that they never watched before or else there would be more than just water leaks, Libra brat."
The black haired girl sweatdropped at the avatar of gluttony who just get back to eat his blissful meat dish that Rei successful created this anime dish.
Then she looked to the boys with their digimon and Grim who had puffy eyes because they watched her favourite anime that Rei marked to her list.
'Huh, maybe its better that I should it but how can I continued to watch my anime when they wanted to watch more... Eh not my problem.' Rei shrugged.
As they finished their dinner and cleaned up the dining table, they decided to head back to their room to sleep and before Ace went to his room he gave the black haired tamer a quick kiss to her cheeks that made her confused why he did it unaware to Deuce who went up first.
"Sweet dreams, Rei." Ace grinned cheeky with a hint of light pink on his cheek and went quickly to his room with Ruby leaving a dumbfound girl behind who hold her cheek.
"What was that about?" Rei asked herself while she was burned up what he did to her and Meicoomon shrugged her shoulder.
"Who knows. But first we need to head back to our room to discuss first about you mental problems Rei."
Rei winced and Grim got curious what mental problems is like he didn't know much about it because he was too young to understand what's going on.
When they are in their large bedroom Rei explained to them what she had a unwell feeling tomorrow.
"So the reason why I drink time to time alone or with the Royal Knights is because whenever our work is pilled up, what plots it gonna be unhold to our future and I had a feeling that tomorrow is going to be the day I will have a 'deep sleep' for awhile." She explained while Meicoomon careful listen to her partner and Grim was sleeping on their bed.
"Is there another solution for that?" The orange cat digimon asked her hopefully because she doesn't want to lose her again and Rei shaked her head in disapointment while she smiled.
"No there is no solution when I have to save them and this why I call someone in our digital world for help."
Meicoomon dropped her ears down when she heard that and sighed how reckless her tamer would be that she refused the future she had seen in her eyes when it had to do with her precious ones.
"Rei? Who is this person that is going to come here? There is no way that would be Erika because she lost her natural body to the eaters and it would be strange to come here, if I am correct she would be based the blue butterfly in wonderland from Lewis Charol." Meicoomon wonders about it that made Rei chuckle.
"Well I was hoping for Rina to come here but someone beat her to it."
"Who?"
"The one who put ends to the two armies, Commander Yuu."
The orange cat digimon wided her eyes as if she mention the fellow heroine like themselves.
"That's... Good to know that the older woman is going to support us." Meicoomon was somewhat relieved that the happy go lucky tamer Rina wouldn't come here yet or else V.V would have a headache because of it what she would to here for giggles and shits.
Somehow Meicoomon felt something that she would regret it what she thought about it.
"Any reason why Yu want to do this? I mean we didn't interact her that much and want to know her intentions why she want to come here." Meicoomon asked in suspicious about the strange commander who vanished one year ago.
Rei shrugged her shoulder, "Who knows? But I believe her intentions are not evil and trust her while I will be sleeping that she doing right to her decision, but once I'm awake I going to ask her."
Her partner digimon sighed how their future is going to be along with Ace, Deuce, Jazamon, Vorvomon and Grim.
With their heavy conversation that they are finish. They going to join Grim to sleep and Rei dreamed what the mysterious mirror has to offer for her.
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The monochrome gears started to spin as Rei watched listless of the scenery that the Queen of Hearts holding the rose tree like a bat while the little Alice from her previous dream was on the ground holding a red paint brush.
"How dare you defile my roses! You better prepare yourselves!" The Queen exclaimed.
'The queen jugded the cards is quite of foolish and behead them would cut down the armie that would the others quite happy about it.' The black haired girl yawned.
"Oh, please spare me, my Queen! The one to blame is him–!" Shouted the Three of clovers as he was on his knees on the Alice's left blaming the Two of Clovers.
Hearing his comrade the Two of Clovers ran quick in on his knees on the Alice's right. "It is not my fault, it's Ace's fault!" He exclaimed.
"Was it you?" The Queen asked, stepping closer to them that made them fear.
The Ace of Clovers came closer next to the Two of Clovers guard with a bucket of red paint on his head with the liquid dripped over his uniform. "No, my Queen! It was 2!" He said.
"So, it is 2's doing?" The Queen asked, narrowing her eyes at the said guard.
He shook his head and pointed at the Three of Clovers, "It is not me, I swear! It's 3!"
The Queen ran out of patience and yelled, "Enough! Off with your heads, the three of you!"
Once the Queen said the guards wearing red carded outfits while holding red heart spears stood in a line. As two red carded guards dragged them off hearing the guards wearing black card outfits wailed and shrieked.
"Fufu~" The Queen laughed in delight.
"We have no other choice because you got the colors of the roses wrong." The red two of diamonds said.
The red Three of Spades shook his head at them, "Mistaking white for red was a foolish mistake." He stated.
Thus the dream came to a close bringing Rei back into her usual dream.
What she dreams was the dark ocean with a mocking laughter.
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The Tamer opened her eyes waking up from that she heard knocking on her bedroom door that woke Meicoomon and Grim up.
"Wake up, Rei. Today is the Unbirthday Party, remember? It's off with our heads if we're late." Deuce said.
Rei got out of bed and she started to quickly change into her uniform. She picked Meicoomon up and placed her on her usual spot, them Grim in her arms. The black haired tamer quickly headed to the bathroom to do her routine then walked downstairs to the lounge area there the others waiting for them.
Hearing footsteps coming from the hallway, "Hm? It looks like someone's here." Deuce said as they saw 'Cater'.
The orange haired senior smiled at them playfully, "Good morning~! How was yesterday's sleepover~? Did you experience youth fully by playing cards and other games~?" He asked to his the juniors.
"Good morning, Cater-senpai. No, we watched an anime that you would cry in your sleep. Grim was really loud when he cries so he had to ruin my shirt." Ace replied with a yawn along with Vorvomon.
Grim recalled and frowned, "You...Bastard! You also cried where Violet realized that she was broken!!" He shouted while curling up in Rei's arms and sniffed.
"You don't have to spoil about that moment and now Cater-senpai will surely teased us right now." Deuce points out making the feline feel bad.
"Then, shall we hurry and bring the tarts we made to apologize to Riddle? Oh, actually, I want you to hurry and come with me because we're lacking man-power for the party." 'Cater' stated like he didn't care and he got curious about the friendly plant digimons who tended this garden when he was outside the dorm.
Palmon and Lalamon were adorable that he couldn't help but ask them if he can take a picture of them and to his luck they agreed it without a second thought that made him really happy like really happy, not his fake ones that he used to.
Now, 'Cater' was looked a bit around and saw more unique monsters that he never seen before that he assumed they are digimon to but back to the other while he blinked that he litarry see small dragon digimon that is unlike his kohais digimon.
Though Rei and Ace heard him as they frowned, "Man-power?" Ace questioned.
"It's nothing, I was talking to myself~ Let's hurry and go to the Unbirthday Party, boys and girls~!" 'Cater' replied cheerfully as they all walked out of the dorm heading to Heartslabyul dormitory.
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Once they arrived at the dorm with the Mont Blanc in their hands. Ace grinned and carried the tart and said, "Alright, I'll head on and bring the tart to the Dorm Head so I can apologize..."
"Hey, you're finally here~! What took you so long, me?" Another Cater in his gym uniform said.
The orange man in the uniform greets himself back, "I'm home~! Sorry for the wait, me~"
The group eye's widened to see another Cater in front of their eyes.
"...Da duck?" Meicoomon and Rei questioned themselve while they gaped.
"Th-there are two Diamond-senpais...!?" Deuce exclaimed.
Ace looked at the two Caters, "You were a twin!?" He asked.
The orange senior in the gym uniform waved it off, "Oh, no. I'm the only male sibling. This is my unique magic, Split Card. I can make clones of myself using magic~!" He replied.
"So this is the reason why we couldn't beat him at all yesterday..." Deuce muttered.
Then they see another Cater with a lab coat who greeted them. "Welcome back~"
Another Cater in the ceremonial robes said to Rei, "Welcome, Rei-chan~ ♪"
Cater in gym clothes said scratching his face, "It was so difficult~ You made me wait so long, Ace-chan~"
"There's more of him!!" The messy dark orange haired boy shouted and hold Vorvomon in his arm to prevent to attack them.
The orange haired senior in the gym uniform told them, "By the way, the real Cater is me~ Cloning myself is pretty tiring, so I don't want to prolong this. In any case, it's off with our heads if we're late. Come on and give us a hand, please~I'll take you to Riddle after we're done."
"You're gonna make us paint roses again?" Grim asked with a frown.
Ace also frowns looking at his senior, "You're a really carefree guy, huh~!" He stated.
"Alright, let's get started~!" Shouted the oranged haired senior as they were brought back into the rose maze.
As all the Cater clones smiled and said.
"Alright~!"
"Leave it to me!"
"Okay~♪"
The real Cater looked at the juniors and told them, "Take care of the roses right by me, got it, freshies~?"
"I'm really tired of all this manual labor, y'know...?" Ace complained while scratching the back of his head.
Deuce crossed his arms, "Nothing will get done if we complain. Come on, let's get started." He said as Rei and Meicoomon were already painting the roses red.
"I wanna praise you for finding a way to work, but... Hurry up and paint before the roses wilt~!" Cater told the boys.
This time it went better than it did yesterday.
"Red, red, come on!" Deuce exclaimed and making the roses turn red.
Cater nodded with a smile, "Lookin' good! We'll be done before the party starts at this rate~!" He exclaimed.
"After painting so much yesterday, this is already a piece of cake!" Ace shouted while painting another rose red.
Grim smiled, "There! There!" He said as all the roses turned red.
"Ahaha~ Grim-chan's on a roll, too~!" Cater laughs.
After all that Deuce using magic to paint the last roses red, "Alright, this is the final rose! Turn red!" He yelled as they turned red.
Grim sighed in relief, "That was tough, but we're finally done~!"
Rei and Meicoomon nodded happily that they finished in time.
Ace grinned at his senior, "Nothing to complain about this now, right, Cater-senpai?" He asked.
Cater went over to them and examined their roses, "Hm, let's see... You all did great! Gold stars for all of you~! Thank you for the hard work, freshies~ ♪." He responded with a smile.
Deuce panted heavily, "We... We did better than yesterday." He said.
Cater nodded then looked at his clones, "You did great~♪ Oh! It's almost time. Me army, we're done for the day~!" The orange haired senior told his clones.
"Aye, aye, sir~! ♪" They all said and disappeared.
After that they all cleared the paint cans and headed to the deeper part as they reached a beautiful garden. Seeing that it was all set up with tables with white cloth on top of it. Along with different unique cakes on them and little finger sandwiches. Also seeing there were teapots too. It was nicely decorated overall.
Trumpets played announcing the arrival of Heartslabyul's dorm leader, Riddle Rosehearts accompanying him was the Vice dorm leader Trey Clover.
"Make way for our leader, the Red Ruler: Prefect Riddle!" A Heartslabyul student shouted as the other students stood in a line and cheered, "Three cheers for Prefect Riddle!"
Seeing Riddle arrive his amazing outfit. It really made him look like a king. He wears a small crown leaning on the right side of his head. His outfit consists of a white and red coat dress with the bottom being lined with a gold-colored fabric. The inside of the coat dress is entirely red and has a pattern consisting of tiny hearts, spades, diamonds, clovers, and crowns. He also wears white trousers.
The brownish red haired man nodded and hummed in satisfaction. "Indeed. The roses are red and the tablecloths are white. Truly a perfect Unbirthday Party. The Dormouse is sleeping inside the teapot just as planned, correct?" He asked Trey.
Seeing Trey wears a white shirt, with an unbuttoned black vest and the customary Heartslabyul blazer to top it all off. Pinned on his blazer is the recurring Heartslabyul crest, the 'QH' heart pin, and a 3 of Clover playing card.
Like his fellow dormmates, Trey wears white trousers with a black and yellow ribbon at the waist, as well as black and white high-tops. He also dons a white fedora with a yellow and black striped band and a final clover pin to the side.
"Of course. The jam to put on one's nose is ready, should the need arise, too." The green haired senior replied.
Riddle hummed in approve, "Well done." He stated.
"Whoa...! What's with that get-up! He looks so cool!" Grim shouted with a smile. Rei and Meicoomon nodded in agreement.
Cater also nodded with the girls, "It's totally fashionable and very 'grammable~! ☆ I'm gonna go get changed, too." He said and changed his gym clothes into a white shirt, with a red diamond patterned vest covering it.
Over the vest he wears a blazer that the others in his dorm wear, except for Riddle. He wears a black and yellow ribbon around his waist, and red and white high tops. He also wears white trousers.
The orange haired senior looked at the juniors and said, "The Queen of Hearts states that a dress code is necessary for party days, after all~ I'll coordinate your clothes for you as a special service for today~" He casted his wand changing the freshmen's outfits except Rei and Meicoomon that they oddly repel it off because that is not their world.
"Whoa...!" Deuce exclaimed, noticing that he was white shirt, with a black diamond patterned vest covering it. Over the vest he wears a blazer that the others in his dorm wear, except for Riddle. He wears a black and yellow ribbon around his waist, black and white high tops. He also wears white trousers.
Ace smiled looking at his clothes, as he wore a white shirt, with a diamond-patterned vest covering it. Over the vest, he wears a blazer that the others in his dorm wear, except for Riddle. He wears a black and yellow ribbon around his waist, and red and white high tops. He also wears white trousers.
"Dude, this is totally stylish!" He exclaimed.
"Nyaha! I look so cool!" Grim exclaimed seeing his bow was red and black and the ends were in the same colors with diamond-patterns on it and looked over his human with his new big sister Meicoomon.
"Not only are you cool. You are also cute to kill someone."
Rei and Meicoomon cooed at him while Cater looked oddly at them why his magic spell didn't work at them but shrugged off and was quite sad.
"Eh~ its a shame that my magic didn't work on you guys at all and I was looking forward with the light blue dress that I was preparing for you, Rei-chan~." The orange haired senior playfully hit her shoulder lightly.
Ace and Deuce imaged on their head that Rei was wearing a cute but plain pastel blue lolita dress with their card symbols, mary jane shoes, white stocking socks that reached to her thights and a small light brown bag around her waist.
On the background was a beautiful scenery that Rei smiled them with her bright rare smile that got them blushed at this thought that their digimon partners looked curious at them why they are blushing.
'C-cute...' They thought and looked at each other with a glare.
"Anyways... Don't forget to offer him the tart, got it~? Alright, off to the party!" Cater shouted that got them back their reality and dragged Rei with his hand, leading her to his table. While Ace and Deuce glared at his senior but trailed behind them then as they heard, the other students whispered about how weird that she is still here with the creature that caused arson during the ceremony.
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Sitting at his table, Riddle stood up from his seat and raised his tea cup, "Let us toast before we proceed with the croquet match. Does anyone have their tea cups already? Now then, a toast to a day with no birthdays. A toast to the Unbirthday Party!" He shouted.
"Cheers!" Everyone exclaimed as they clinked their tea cups together and started to drink, eat and chat amongst each other. Noticing Riddle was sipping his tea it was the perfect chance to give him the Mont Blanc.
Cater nudged the messy dark orange haired boy.
"Acey, now's your chance, look." He said and winked at his cute kohai while Rei and Meicoomon looked wary what it comes next.
Ace looked at Riddle and got up holding the tarts with him, "Alright... Um, Prefect...~" he called.
The brownish red haired boy stared at him, "You are... Ah, the 1st year who stole my tarts." He stated.
The dark orange haired boy placed a hand behind his head, "Um... I was thinking of apologizing for what I did, so I uh... I made a new batch of tarts."
"Hm? I'll ask just to be sure, but what kind of tarts did you make?" Riddle asked with his arms crossed.
Ace then holds Mont Blanc tarts out to Riddle, "Thank you for asking! It's a marron tart made with lots of chestnuts!" He said with a smile.
Riddle eyes widened, "Marron tart, you say!? How atrocious!" He shouted in anger that alarming everyone except Rei that told Meicoomon quietly to get into her digivice.
"Eh!?" Ace shouted surprise that this wasn't the reaction he was expecting to get.
Riddle eye's narrowed with his arms crossed, "Rule #562 of the Queen of Hearts."Refrain from bringing marron tarts for the Unbirthday Party." This is a capital crime! What have you done!? You've wasted a perfect Unbirthday Party!" He exclaimed.
"R-Rule # 562!?" Deuce stuttered out astonished about the number of rules.
Rei blinked her eyes, "Um excuse me, Riddle-senpai just how many rules are there exactly?"
"There are a total of 810 rules and I've memorized all of them. A small feat for a Dorm Head, I must say." Riddle answered that shocking the freshmen group.
The black haired female tamer sneaked behind to her troublesome friends and she was glad that she teached them that their digimon can live in their smartphone for not gaining attention why they had small dragons and all that.
Cater then whispers nervously to Trey, "Oh, man... This is bad... Did you know that, Trey?" He asked.
The green haired man shook his head whispering back, "I've only managed to memorize until Rule #350. I completely let my guard down. Who'd have imagined there would be rules regarding the tarts, too..."
Riddle's eyes narrowed, "As Heartslabyul's Prefect, I cannot simply turn a blind eye towards this appalling rule-breaking. Get those marron tarts away from me at once! And throw this group away from the grounds at once!" He ordered.
"Wait a sec! As if I'd listen to a ridiculous rule like that!" Ace shouted.
Grim nodded, "He's right! If you're going to throw the tarts away, then I'll just eat them!" He stated.
"Prefect, I'm so sorry. I'm the one who suggested making the marron tarts." Trey apologizes.
Cater also adds in, "Exactly! We didn't think that there'd be a rule against it." He said.
"The fact that you made them isn't the problem! My issue is the fact that you brought them here!" Riddle exclaimed furrowing his brows.
Rei rubbed her forehead and sighed that startled the boys how the heck she managed to sneak behind them.
"I know laws are importent in good and in worse times, but those rules are unimportent in our life that hinder us for our future and it reminds me of some kind diet routine for me to be honest." She bluntly told to the redhaired boy and was disappointed how his life dedicated like a puppet without knowing the consequences from her own similar experience of her old world.
The students were surprised how her gaze was unyielding their prefect as told him and Ace agreed with her views.
"She's right, I've had enough of hearing all those ridiculous rules. Aren't you being kinda stupid?" Ace nodded in confident.
Riddle crossed his arms getting more angrier, "Stupid, you say...?" He questioned.
Cater's eyes widened, "Hey, stop! That's an absolute taboo word...!" He told the group then looked over to the dorm leader, "Also, Riddle, these guys are just some freshies who got accepted to the school." He defended.
The messy haired boy put an arm on his hip, "Nah, I'm gonna say it. Only an idiot would listen to a rule about tarts. Don't mess with me." He stated.
Deuce also frowned and crossed his arms, "I'm of the same opinion as Ace. Of course, I admit that breaking the rules is not a good thing, but... This is too much already." He agreed, staring at the dorm leader.
"How bold of you to talk back to me. Listen well. Breaking a small rule will result in a big problem someday." Riddle said holding an arm out.
Rei shaked her head and took the front for what she had to do while the inhuman long white haired man gazed her in interest what she will do from afar of this world.
"Oya? Do I sense her magic seemed to more off than usual?" He hummed and obverse carefully what her move would be.
The dark orange haired boy argued, "All the other guys, too! They're just scared that they're gonna get collars so they're not saying anything, but I'm sure they're thinking the same thing!"
"No, we're..." One of the students tried to rebut Ace's claim.
Riddle crossed his arms, "Heh, is that so?" He questioned.
"N-no, it's not true, Prefect! We do all we can to follow what you say, Prefect!" The student stuttered out not wanting to be punished.
The black haired tamer was prepared as her half-core burned through her soul that linked to her magic and clenched her fist as it hurt her.
'Why does it hurt just now?!'
"No way...!" Grim exclaimed, surprised.
Ace scoffs at them, "Running away, huh. How lame."
"Ever since the year I became the head, not one student from Heartslabyul has ever repeated a year nor was anyone expelled. And that's counting all the dorms in this school. That means that I am the most exceptional and the strongest! That is why I am the only one who's always right! There is nothing wrong with following what I say!" Exclaimed Riddle in his ego.
Deuce's eyes widened, "That's just...!" He stated.
"It's not like I'm doing this because I enjoy it. Aren't you the ones at fault for breaking the rules?" Riddle questioned as Trey remained silent.
"If you're not going to obey me, then it's off with your heads!" Shouted the brownish red haired man.
Cater looked at the upset group, "Everyone, come on. Just say 'Yes, Prefect~'" He told them hoping they would comply.
Deuce crossed his arms, "I will not."
"Same here after all this cross the line how I want live." Said Rei and started to thinking what she will do if she separate her body for gaining a cyber body in temporary time, maybe hacking the record of Riddle's familiy if there was something more going on his side.
"I've had enough playing along with this selfish tyrant!" Ace exclaimed angrily.
Riddle glared at them, "What did you just say...?" He questioned.
"He said that you're an irritable and selfish little tyrant who's unreasonable with trivial things like food!" Grim replied glaring back and the whole digimon group from Rei's, Ace and Deuce agreed that food should not thrown out no matter how ridiculous those rules may be especially Beelzebumon who reached his ultimate stage of out from his rage like how dare this pesky human acted like that.
Deuce's eyes widened and told Grim, "H-hey! He didn't go that far...!" He defended.
With their surprise Rei push them harshly to the other side that made them nearly fell down.
"Rei, Wha-" Ace, Deuce and Grim didn't expected what their future would be when she looked at them with her confident smile of resolution and mouthed that halted their breath.
"OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!!!" Riddle yelled as his face became bright like a tomato in anger.
Several collars appeared around her of neck that would be surpressed her magic, but that was not a case for her as it took her consicousness and her vision started to bleak as Ace and Deuce yelled at her which she didn't hear it when her soul drifted out from her body.
Grim didn't know what to do when his human told them.
"Go forward..."