Monday came too fast.
"Ladies," Penny said, softly.
"Huh?" Jeremy asked -- but before he could say any of the things that he was thinking like 'this isn't a good idea' and 'won't people ask questions' and 'there's literally a dragon hunter posing as one of my teachers' and 'wait, you have
elf ears
' -- Cinder and Penny grabbed his arms and shoved the doors to Jeremy's high school and the entire entourage entered. Jeremy in the middle, Cinder and Penny to his left and right, Rayne and Syke to their left and right, and Nova and Morgan to their left and right.
Time seemed to slow as Jeremy saw the entire school population seem to pause and watch them as they walked forward. His girls were all as 'human' as they could manage -- meaning that Morgan was flaunting her cat ears, Cinder had elf ears, Nova was barefoot, and he was pretty sure Penny was wearing shorts so low people could see the tattoo she had given herself using draconic shapeshifting that said
if you can read this, you're checking out my ass
.
Cindi gaped at him.
Morgan's old friends gaped at him.
Mr. Spelling, his math teacher, gaped at him.
Then they were at the locker and Cinder grabbed a locker that was definitely not hers, stashing some books in it as she grinned toothily at Jeremy. "See? We fit right in!" She brushed her hair back behind her pointed elf ears, while Penny and Nova chatted, casually, about the best application of transmutation spells. Loudly enough that one of the dorks that was too cool to hang out with Jeremy stopped, then glanced over at them.
"D-Do you two play D&D? Er, I mean, uh...Dungeons and Dragons?" he asked.
"We are dragons?" Nova said, confused.
"More like D in my D, am I right?" Penny asked, wiggling her eyebrows at the dork.
"No, they don't play D&D!" Jeremy said, almost frantically. "Hey, hows it going Mark, everything still, uh, cool with your...uh...cousin?"
Mark blinked at him. "My cousin?"
"You were, uh, saying something about, uh, cousins, right?" Jeremy asked, while shifting to stand between Mark and Nova, while he thought as hard as he could:
Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
Nova blinked at him, then gasped. "Oh, shoes," she whispered, nodding.
"Right, uh, yeah, still in prison, why?" Mark asked, looking confused as Jeremy felt heavy, thick, leather shoes pressing against his palms. He looked back over his shoulder and Nova nodded, tapping her nose.
"Shoes," Penny whispered, giving him two thumbs up.
"So, what do you do in Dungeons and Dragons?" Skye asked, stepping over to loom over Mark. Mark gaped at her Korra-esque physique and immediately lost enough IQ points to think IQ was real. Jeremy grinned to himself at his cleverness, before he remembered he had stolen that gag from a youtube video -- and, more importantly...
"U-Uh, you, uh, explore dungeons, fight dragons, that kinda thing," Mark said.
"Fight dragons, huh?" Skye growled, quietly, narrowing her eyes.
"Evil ones!" Jeremy said, quickly.
"Y-Yeah, there are good dragons and bad dragons," Mark said, as if he was faintly aware of how dangerous a situation he was in. "Uh, good ones are metallic, like, uh, gold-"
"
Gold
!?" Skye growled, grabbing onto Mark's collar. "They put those smug, scale-huffing, self conceited, Mu destroying, arcane obsessed tail-for-brained assholes in as
good
?" She asked, shaking him with every word. Mark looked absolutely terrified, holding up his hands.
"T-They're lawful good!" he said, which...honestly, Jeremy wasn't sure if it was the most pertinent thing in the universe, but he also couldn't blame Mark's brain for short circuiting slightly.
"Oh
of
course they fucking are!" Skye dropped him, turned, then punched a hole in the locker the size of her fist. She jerked her hand backwards, revealing the crumbling hole she had put in the linoleum wall behind it. She huffed. "Fucking golds! If I ever meet a fucking gold, I'll kick his ass so freaking hard!"
"Skye, uh..." Jeremy said, while Mark gaped at the hole she had put through one layer of cold rolled steel, a bunch of textbooks, then another layer of cold rolled steel, then the wall, then whatever the wall was made of behind the linoleum. Brick? Maybe? Jeremy wasn't sure. Skye looked slowly at Mark, then at her fist, then at the hole, then at Mark again.
"Ow..." she said, slowly, her voice so fake that she might as well have been made of plastic. "My knuckles. I broke...them. Ow." She rubbed her wrist.
"You put a-"
"No she didn't, see?" Jeremy said, gesturing to the hole. It was still there. He stepped between Mark and the hole, then stepped back away. The hole was gone. "See? See? No hole!"
"No hole here," Skye said.
"There was a hole here, it's gone now, trick of the eye, see you at lunch, we'll talk later," Jeremy said, putting his hands on Mark and shoving him gently away from the locker.
"W-Wh..."
Mark stumbled as Jeremy pushed him out into the corridor, then Jeremy turned around, ready to go and stop his dragons from doing
anything else
stupid -- only to find himself nose to nose with Cindi Fong. The head of the cheerleader team was as gorgeous as ever, but Jeremy had never seen her look so suspicious in his life. Her eyes were narrowed, her arms crossed over her generous (for a cheerleader) chest, and her lips pursed.
"Jere, who are these girls?"
"They're, uh, new students. Cinder, Skye, Nova, Rayne and Penny," Jeremy said, gesturing to the girls in order of the names. "I'm showing them around school cause they're new!"
"Huh," Cindi said, while Penny leaned in from behind her.
"And who is this?" She asked.