The Club Festival. Amy's Evil Plan?

It is the day of the festival. While the first years go about their day like any other, the new second years and above who run clubs are all getting ready and finishing any last minute preparations. Shiori lays with her head on her desk and is even more gloomy than yesterday.

Shiori "Why did I listen to you..?"

Hikigaya "Are they artists? No. But at least it looks fun."

Shiori "Fun?! It looks ridiculous!"

She looks around to see the desks arranged in a 'U' shape around a single chair in the middle of the room. Three chairs are placed at each side of the desks. The desks on the left have a banner on them labeled 'The Softies', the desks on the right have a banner on them labeled 'The Crafties', and finally the desks in the middle have a banner on them labeled 'The Hard Boiled' with '-ies' scribbled onto the end of it. There are mismatched color streamers along the roof and the entrance to the room is surrounded by a large sign made of three different parts, each with a different theme on them. 'The', 'Helpers', and 'Club' are themed in metal works, then Temples & Tyrants, and then a bakery sign. There are pictures of baked goods, bottles of potions and butterflies taped to the outside walls. Overall, there is no theme and everything looks like a mess in Shiori's eyes. She pouts and slams her head back onto the table.

Hikigaya "Maybe it needs more streamers."

Shiori "Next time, I'm picking the theme."

Hikigaya giggles at her as the others start to make their way in. Ryuji walks in holding a tray of cookies with Lucy following behind with another.

Hikigaya "Hey, thanks Ryuji! Sorry it was so last minute. Figured we could hand those out to anyone who brings a problem for us to solve."

Ryuji "No worries. Cookies are super easy."

They put them down on the counter behind the 'Crafties' desk. When Lucy puts down her tray he turns and smiles at her softly.

Ryuji "Thanks for the help."

She gets embarrassed and nervous.

Lucy "Y-yeah… Don't worry about it, that's what friends are for, right?"

She laughs nervously as he smiles and walks past her. She then face palms herself. Shiori lifts her head and sighs.

Shiori "Alright. Make sure everything is in its place and get to your positions. The festival will start any minute now!"

They all get determined, happy looks and do just that. After a moment of dashing around, doing all final touches, they take their seats. Haru, Chizuru and Hisana at the Softies. Ryuji, Sugawara and Hikigaya at the Crafties and Shiori, Lucy and Kitaro at the Hard Boiled.

Shiori "Get ready…"

The bell then rings, announcing the start of the festival.

Shiori "Here they come…"

The sound of many excited feet stepping their way to the Club Hall trying to restrain themselves gets louder and louder with every passing moment.

Shiori "We have to be ready to solve any problem!"

They get excited, determined looks as the students enter the hall. One by one they walk past their club without even a single look inside. After a short period of time, they start to realize that no one is even noticing their club.

Chizuru "Do you think they can't see our sign?"

Haru "Oh no, you can see that thing from a mile away."

Ryuji "Maybe we need someone out there advertising."

Hikigaya "Good idea. Shiori, you're up."

Shiori "What? Why me?"

Hikigaya "Cause you're the most passionate person here. Go show your passion!"

Shiori pauses for a moment but understands and heads out. The others would watch as she tries to get attention to the club but no one takes the bait. After more time passes, Kitaro has begun to play games on his phone and Shiori has begun to lose her patience. She would be more in the students' faces and growl at anyone looking at her weird when she desperately tries to get someone into the club.

Sugawara "Should we maybe switch to someone less… aggressive?"

Hikigaya "No no, it's way funnier this way."

He says as he enjoys watching Shiori get irritated. After even more time and as most of the members have already begun to check out, Ryuji writing his recipes, Sugawara writing ideas into a book and so on, Shiori gives up and heads back into the room.

Shiori "Oh, it's hopeless… No one even knows we exist…"

She mopes into the classroom but right as she steps into the center of the room, someone pokes their head in.

Student "Um, excuse me?"

Shiori snaps around with a big smile on her face.

Shiori "Yes?! How can we help you?!"

The student who is wearing big glasses and dressed in more generically nerdy attire looks around as if confused.

Student "Is this the-"

Shiori "The Helpers Club?! Why yes it is! Where any and all of your problems can be solved or your money back guaranteed!"

Lucy "We're not charging them anything."

Shiori shouts proudly while using the chair in the middle of the room as a pedestal. The student looks as if found his answer.

Student "Oh! The Helpers Club!"

Shiori looks very excited and anticipating his problem.

Student "Sorry, I'm looking for the Sellers Club. I must've misread the sign. Guehuehue!"

He adjusts his glasses while laughing before stepping out of the room and leaving. Shiori just stands there for a moment in disbelief. Chizuru steps up to her and pats her on the shoulder.

Chizuru "There there. It's okay, come on, let's sit down."

She guides Shiori back to her seat. They sit in the club room for a while doing their own things when Shiori suddenly stands up and sighs.

Shiori "Whatever. Come on, let's just take it down. Maybe there's enough time to go check out the rest of the festival. No one's gonna show up anyway…"

The others look at each other, a little sad for Shiori but get up and follow her as she begins taking down the banner and streamers. After a minute of doing this, there is a soft knock at the door. They look over to see a girl with long black hair and bangs that cover her eyes in gothic makeup and accessories standing in their doorway.

Suiyoubi "Um, excuse me? Is this the Helpers Club?"

Kitaro "Who's asking?"

Suiyoubi "Well, I found this poster on the wall and it says you will help try to solve my problem."

She says shyly as she pulls out a folded poster from her skirt pocket. She opens it up to show them and reveals their poster.

Chizuru "Of course we'll help you! See? I told you the posters would be a good idea!"

She elbows Lucy a bit who smiles in response.

Lucy "I mean yeah, but we only made like five of them to put all over the school boards. With the amount of other posters up, what are the chances she'd actually find one?"

Suiyoubi smiles as she steps into the room. Everyone stops cleaning up and heads back to their seats as she sits in the chair in front of their desks. As Hikigaya sits down at his desk, he looks across at Shiori and gives her a smile. She gives an excited one in return causing him to blush a little. Suddenly, the room goes dark. A spotlight appears over Suiyoubi. She looks around in the darkness for a moment before another light appears over the Hard Boiled table, illuminating all three of them. They stare at her with their hands together in front of their mouths as if judging her.

Shiori "State your name."

Suiyoubi "Oh, my name is Suiyoubi, but you can call me Sui if you like."

She answers with a giggly tone. Then, another light appears over the Crafties table.

Hikigaya "State your purpose."

Suiyoubi "Well, I have this problem that I could use some help with. You see, I've lost my teddy bear. I've been looking for him for the past few days but I can't find him anywhere! He's very important to me, I can't lose him! So please help me find my teddy bear!"

The others give her intense looks and look at each other as if debating whether to take the case or not. Hikigaya looks at Sugawara who nods in response.

Sugawara "The Softies will decide if we should take your case or not."

Then, a light appears over them revealing Hisana who is happily rocking back and forth, and Haru who appears to not have been paying attention as he looks back suddenly and sweats a bit. Chizuru smiles at Suiyoubi.

Chizuru "We all agree. Right guys?"

She looks at Haru and Hisana. They look at her confused a bit for a moment before smiling.

Hisana "Well of course!"

Haru "Yeah, we agree."

Chizuru looks back at her.

Chizuru "We're taking your case!"

Suiyoubi smiles widely.

Suiyoubi "Really?? Oh, thank you all so much! Here's my number! I look forward to finding my teddy bear!"

She hands a small piece of paper to Shiori excitedly before heading out of the room. Shiori looks at it then at the others.

Shiori "Well guys, it looks like we got our first problem to solve."

Kitaro "Yeah, finding some boring teddy bear."

Haru "Oh come on man! Any adventure is a good one!"

He says while wrapping his arm around Kitaro.

Shiori "Yeah but we still only got lucky to get a problem to solve today. We'll still close up early for the day."

Kitaro "Cool cause I really wanted to see that cat maid cafe I heard about. Think of all the cute people in cat maid outfits."

He elbows Haru trying to get him to agree. Haru gets a look as if thinking about it.

Haru "Cat maid outfit…"

He imagines Sugawara blushing and embarrassed in the outfits and starts drooling with a dumb smile on his face. Sugawara sees him drooling and blushing over the thought but gets upset and pouty thinking he's thinking of other people in those outfits. He gets punched in the background as the others finish up cleaning the room. They get their things and close up the room before heading out.

Haru "See you later guys!"

Lucy "Same time tomorrow?"

Kitaro "Cat maids here I come!"

Hisana bonks him on the head as he says that. Shiori and Hikigaya walk down the hall for a moment before Shiori realizes she doesn't have her bag with her.

Shiori "Damnit, I think I left my bag in the room. I'll be right back."

Hikigaya "You know we're not supposed to leave each other."

Shiori "I know, I know, I'll only be a second!"

She says jogging back to the room. Hikigaya rolls his eyes as he leans against the wall. Shiori enters the room and goes to her seat. She sees her bag hanging off the side of it. She gets a smile of relief and grabs it.

Shiori "There you are."

Amy "Wow, you and your little 'friends' actually made a club. How cute."

Shiori is surprised for a moment before turning around to see Amy standing in the doorway.

Shiori "What do you want?"

Amy "Oh nothing. Just looking around I suppose. Must've been hard finding anybody to come to this pathetic Helpers Club, huh? I'm sure some posters would've helped."

She pulls out three of the posters they made for the club all wrinkled and crushed. She tosses them at Shiori's feet.

Amy "Whoops. I guess I took them all down."

She giggles to herself as Shiori gives her a mean look.

Shiori "Why would you do that? I don't care what your problem is with me, leave my friends out of it!"

Amy "Oh but why? After what you did to me, I lost many of my friends. So why shouldn't I return the favor?"

Shiori "I don't even know what I did to you."

Amy "You don't? You don't remember how you humiliated me that day? How I became a laughing stock because of what you did to me?"

Amy has an irritated look as Shiori stares intensely at her. Amy takes a breath and straightens back up.

Amy "It doesn't matter. I am just as popular now as I was before what you did to me and soon enough, I'll make you a laughing stock too."

She turns to walk out of the room but she stops right before leaving and looks at Shiori with a mean grin.

Amy "By the way, your eye? It looks hideous."

Shiori is taken aback by the comment as she smirks and walks away. Shiori stands in the room silently, unsure of what to do next.