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Dance Club - First Meeting!

Who: Shantae and Dance Club Members. Lurkers welcome!
What: The first meeting of the dance club! Let's see what you know!
Where: The dance studio
When: Backdated to Wednesday, January 29th

Shantae was starting to wonder about this club idea. There was no dance class currently at Smash Academy, and while she could practice her moves at the studio, she admittedly wanted more of a chance to use her skills. And seeing as there were no monsters needing thrashing, and no dance parlors to work in, a dance club seemed like a good way to do that. She was an expert when it came to belly dancing, that much was true, but she did dabble in other styles. As a result, she did a lot of research into other common dance styles, collecting music and teaching herself what she could to help organize things. She felt fairly confident she could pull it off, but she had never taught or instructed dancing before. And it made her a little nervous to think about. But if there was one thing she did well, it was swallow her own anxieties and just get things done. And that's precisely what she did.

When everyone who had signed up was there, Shantae began the introductions. "Well, glad you all made it. So this is our first dance club meeting! The main thing we want to do here is just have fun, learn some new steps, and practice the ones we already know! So what I want to do first is just go around the room and have everyone introduce themselves, and just mention any dancing experience you have. I'll start."

"I'm Shantae, and I'm from Scuttle Town. I'm a professional belly dancer and I've been doing it for years now!"

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It's not what you think, Brown. Well, normally he would've been right, but in this instance it totally wasn't about the girls for once.

That scream died out into a tiny, strangled gurgle as Inigo's soul shrivelled up and died on the spot. No no no no there was no way he was ever going to live this down. He was ruined. Shantae probably thought he was a loser and the whole school was going to find out about this creep who was such a failure at dancing that he had to resort to spying on the club in a barrel and...

He had to get out of here

With speed fuelled by pure desperation, Inigo leapt out of the barrel and ran out of the room before anyone could see him start to cry.

Shantae had a really good idea what was actually going on here. She didn't want to say anything, since she knew how he felt about the subject at all. But seeing him like this brought her back to his reaction in the cafeteria. She had to do something.

"I'll be back in a moment," she called out to the club and to Brown, before running out into the hall after Inigo.

And Brown was left by his lonesome.

Wait, that guy just ran off and Shantae was running after him? The only logical conclusion that something was going on, but he couldn't pint-point what exactly, yet. So he ran after the two himself, but it was a bit too late to catch with them.

Thinking on his feet, he called out, "go!"

A familiar feeling soon rushed in as Byakko appeared above him. The whole hallway will get affected by Bind Voice, at least this way he couldn't possibly missed hitting Inigo. Brown sighed in relief as Byakko disappeared, at least one problem solved.

... Wait. An area?

"Oh fuck..."

Inigo was hightailing it as fast as he could when suddenly an unseen force froze him in place. "Guh?!" However he tried, he couldn't move his limbs - he was just stuck in mid-run. This... this had to be a curse of some kind, right?! Was that guy with Shantae a dark mage?

This nightmare scenario just went from bad to absolute worst imaginable. Every inch of him wanted to flee, to hide himself somewhere all this horrifying weakness couldn't be seen, but he completely in the open, and utterly trapped. Gods, he couldn't even cover his face!

His head was light, his vision was spinning, the pounding of his heart was drowning out everything. It'd been years, but he could feel the beginnings of an anxiety attack threatening to swallow him up.

Inigo's voice was cracking as he shrieked, "L... let me go! LET ME GO!"

Perhaps fortunately for Inigo, but not so much for Brown, there was someone a liiiiiittle angrier than him who happened to also be trapped by the same curse.

There was Shantae, frozen in place mid-pursuit.

"BROWN!! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!" she demanded.

Oh, that was that familiar tone of demand. The type that usually associates with 'Brown, you've gone and fucked up'.

"I-It's cool, it's totally cool!" Brown called out, in hopes that he sounds convincing. "It'll wear off real soon!"

And that's the only way to go, he didn't have any Personas in his arsenal to turn off the spell and neither did he had any sort of item to cure Shantae quickly. Brown, you've gone and fucked up, indeed.

You think it's totally cool.

"UARGH! What in the world is this!?" Another voice is heard in the hallway; some poor soul has been unfortunately been caught by the spell as well. And as he heard Shantae's yell at Brown, Schezo looks over at the culprit as well.

"It is YOUR cause!?"

Way to go, Brown. Not only did your spell backfire and catch an innocent bystander, that bystander quickly was found in a less than innocent position in front of Shantae. Uncomfortably close due to coming around a corner at the wrong moment.

Whoops.

Everyone might have been angry at Brown, but to Inigo it still felt like they were staring at him. Judging him. He was helpless under the piercing glare of their eyes, suffocating in plain sight, even if it was all in his head.

Fighting Risen wasn't nearly as terrifying. Dying seemed preferable to this embarrassment.

"Stop staring at me..." There was a quiet sob as tears began running down his cheeks - he couldn't even move to wipe them away. "Stop it..."

It wasn't like... Brown was a stranger to a predicament where everyone's blaming him. But unlike before, he was a bit better in-tune with diverting attention.

"HEY HANDSOME, THINK YOU'RE A LITTLE TOO CLOSE THERE," he yelled at Schezo.

Because he was sure that guy, Inigo, was at least about to cry.

Even without being actually told that he was like a pervert, this extremely awkward positioning was already humiliating enough for the dark wizard to get him riled up.

"I am. Not. A PERVERT!! I DON'T CARE FOR THIS WOMAN'S BODY!!!" Schezo shouted back at Brown, "I WILL HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!!!"

And if he ever finds out Inigo was also the cause of this, Schezo was going after your head, too.

"If you're going to say that, then at least LOOK UP AT MY FACE!" Shantae demanded.

That was a lot of shouting going on behind Inigo, but it... didn't seem to be about him? He wasn't physically able to turn his head around and look, but it seemed like someone else had taken the center of attention in this whole debacle.

Did... Shantae do that for him? Or that other guy?

Someone that just made the tears stream down his face even harder. It... they didn't even know him that well! He sniffed as quietly as he could, feeling both touched and mortified that they had to go out of their way to try and save him from dying of embarrassment.

He hoped Inigo had noticed that the lights weren't focusing on him anymore, Brown was a lot of things but a guy who would humiliate someone who doesn't deserve it? Definitely not.

Well, not like he assume the white haired guy over there deserves anything, but he doesn't seem to mind so much so he'd have to do. Sorry, guy.

Just for measure however, he walked up towards Schezo and Shantae's frozen state. "I gotta say, you're gorgeous an' all, but I'm pretty sure that's no way to treat a lady." He mostly eyed Schezo's hair, but he did make a quick moment to mouth an apology to Shantae.

God, there was still a lot of explaining to do once the spell wears off.

Schezo was so done with you, Brown. You are way too ridiculous to talk to.

"Undo this spell right now, you imbecile!!" Being forced into some girl's boobs he wasn't even interested in was frustrating enough. He was trying to figure out how to undo it himself, but the magic composition felt completely different than what he was used to.

Clearly there was only one fix to this unfortunate set of circumstances: the magic of air fresheners.

Alorah had stayed behind in the dance room, too surprised by Inigo bursting out of a barrel to think to pursue. It wasn't until Brown's Bind Voice had kicked in that she had suspected maybe the crowd out in the hall might need some help, so she peeked out from the doorway and assessed the situation.

Situation: very what.

Still, the utter lack of movement made it clear some kind of paralysis was taking place, and that was at least something she could fix. The hallway suddenly began smell remarkably floral-sweet as she unleashed an Aromatherapy, letting the soothing scent relax away whatever was holding everyone still.

"Um... is everyone okay...?"

A sweet scent washed over Inigo, and immediately the unnatural rigidity in his limbs relaxed. He stumbled forward onto both feet again, just barely managing not to trip and fall on the floor - as if he needed any more missteps this day.

Was that... Alorah's tiny voice he just heard?

On reflex, he wiped his face so that all evidence of his tears were gone - though his eyes were still puffy and red. The instinct to keep running was still very real, but after what Shantae and the brown-haired guy did, he couldn't just leave them in the lurch. He wanted to at least see with his own eyes what was going on behind him.

So Inigo turned around, just in time to see...

...To perhaps see Schezo faceplanting into Shantae's breasts as they toppled over from being released from the spell.

How... was this actually happening? She ended up on the ground, with the white haired boy on top of her, and his face stuck in her cleavage. It took a moment for Shantae's reaction to work its way through her stunned mind to her face.

And boy was she looking upset.

"Get off of me, you perv!"

"Well, boys and girls, look at the time," Brown brought up his sleeve to show a (dated) watch as he started moving on his feet. "Mr. Uesugi's gotta catch his flight to Mexico. Adios!"

"Laters, guy!" He patted Inigo's shoulder when passed by him and winked at Alorah. AND THEN HE RAN, HE RAN AS FAST AS HE COULD.

Edited 2014-02-11 04:55 (UTC)

Oh no you don't, Brown.

"For the hundredth time, I. Am. Not. A pervert!!"

This entire cause was that brat with strange powers. Schezo gets off of Shantae and gets his Sword of Darkness out, casting one of his spells to aim at the retreating culprit.

"Areiard Special!" A dark energy ball forms at the tip of the sword just before swinging it down with all his might, sending the ball flying straight at Brown's direction.

Everything was happening so fast. Inigo had scarcely blinked, and all of a sudden, a dark magic spell was being launched at the loudmouth running past him.

He'd only gotten on the dark mage's bad side because he was trying to help Inigo out. There was no way the mercenary could stand by and watch him get hurt because of it. All his feelings of embarrassment immediately took a backseat to the urgency of battle - without even thinking, he dived towards Brown and shouted, "Not today!" - knocking him down just as the Areiard Special whizzed over their heads.

It hit the far wall and exploded in a huge burst of dark energy. Holy balls.

Edited 2014-02-11 05:22 (UTC)

"All right, I've had it! Everyone is going to CALM DOWN, even if I have to make you!"

She hopped up to her feet. Then... she started to dance. A very simple couple of steps. And when she was done, a bright flash of light filled the hall...

...and in her place was a big grey elephant.

The elephant grabbed Schezo with its trunk and lifted him off the ground, eying Brown and Inigo to let them know not to move an inch.

She was serious.

That was not he was expecting at all. This girl can shape-shift? Into an elephant out of all things!?

"Put me down this instant, woman!!" He hollered, helplessly hanging in the air.

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