Mena went back to bed, if not feeling better, at least feeling a bit safer now that Janus might change rooms.
When she returned to her dream paradise island, she simply reclined in the shade produced by her shadow boyfriend while Straw-Woman waited on her. She did not think of the monsters that loomed in the murky depths and simply soaked up the rays until morning light. When she awoke, however, it was not gently. The door flew open and someone in combat boots stomped inside.
"Front and center, maggots," a miniture voice commanded, sounding like Nebula the gym teacher on helium.
Mena groggily opened her eyes to see a member of the Lollypop Labor Union dressed in brick colored camouflage, sunglasses, dog tags and a spikey blond hairdo that was buzzed on the sides. Stellaris stood behind him with an uneasy expression.
"Who the smell are you?" Mena asked grumpily, but not wanting to swear.
My name," the little person said, "Is Officer Wally Walberg and I am the official Wall Monitor of the Cloud Wall. I oversee things here to make sure that all of you maggots are safely and snuggly secure in your dorms."
Wally Walberg removed his glasses to reveal his beady, battle hardened eyes. "And it seems, according to the headmistress, there's been a report of a domestic dream disturbance."
"What?!" May and Janus both shouted.
Stellaris rolled her eyes. "It's not that serious. Mena was simply having nightmares of her roommate ever since they got back from the Mind Jungles. Janus, here, was partially reaponsible for the death of her boyfriend."
"What?" Janus squeaked. "Mena!"
Stellaris quickly covered her mouth to avoid incriminating Janus further. Mena buried herself in her sheets. It seemed Stellaris's airy personality really did her in.
"Not that serious?!" Wally shouted. He had just put on his sunglasses but he removed them again dramatically. "That's serious to the power of ten. That's so serious it deserves a new name"--Wally put on his shades and removed them yet again, narrowing his eyes--"Uber serious!"
Janus glared with hostility at Wally, causing him to whimper and flinch back towards Stellaris.
"What do you want me to do?" she asked in angry goth cockatoo mode."I suppose you want me to leave!"
Wally leaned casually on Stellaris's thigh until she glared at him and he got off.
"Will you leave quietly?" he asked. "We've already picked out a room with two nice, sweet girls who are desperately looking for a new roommate after their previous one had to leave."
"Fine," Janus said, her high and flighty voice sounding puffed up and furious.
"Mena," the pixie reaper said, turning to the basic witch who had begun to embalm herself mummy style in the blankets. "I know you've had problems with me ever since we got back, but instead of talking to me, you'd rather put our friendship on my daddy's harvesting list. As of now, consider our friendship dead!"
Mena was silent, and Janus turned in her bed to face Wally. "I'm DYING to meet my new roommates," she said, sweetly and innocently.
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"Excellent!" Wally said, rubbing his hands together. "I'm sure these girls will appreciate your morbid sense of humor and outfits. They are very open minded girls."
Stellaris let out a sign. "I'll get the Lollypop Moving Co in here and we'll move Janus's furniture. I'm sorry it had to come to this."
"I'm not," May said in a sassy deep voice.
***
The Lollypop Moving Co managed to transport everything of Janus's out of the room without much of a problem. The only trouble occured when they bumped Janus's trunk and her spider fishnet stockings came out and began scurrying all over the room. They leaped at everyone, including May and Mena until someone managed to subdue them with a dead fly snack from Apo Carrie's lab. May called the whole incident, "the final curse of Janus," but Mena wasn't in a joking mood.
Once the moving co had finished, May spent her time squeezing the inflatable Fabias and pinching his blow up pecs. "Thankfully," she said, "That's the last of reaper creeper."
Mena had flipped out on her belly and spent her time wistfully gazing into space. "I wonder who she is rooming with," Mena said softly.
"Does it matter?" May said with puffed out cheeks. "She's out of our hair now."
"I just hope they aren't being mean to her, whoever they are," Mena said, her face very still.
May shook her head. "After what she did to Tal, my loveable Leo and your dreams, you shouldn't care. C'mon Mena, let's get some breakfast."
Mena nodded, but she couldn't help but gaze at the empty space where Janus's coffin-bed once was.
As they reached the tunnel to the Cloud Hall, Mena did her best to put the beef with Janus out of her mind. She believed It was for the best, but when they reached the end of the tunnel, they were dogged by three ominous silhouettes.
May flinched in shock. "Who goes there?"
One of the shadows gave a rude cackle. "Only your worst nightmare. Vee 'ave a whole new addition to 'ow you say, our posse."
The three girls stepped into the light. "Oh no, it can't be!" Mena said with a hand to her mouth.
"Oh ho ho," the voice responded. "But eet eez."
Along with Laetitia and Marie Tessellation, Janus stood beside them, clad in an upper class Lunaborn sweater vest and miniskirt that matched the terrible Bougelves.
"Buh-but," May blubbered. "Marie, Laetitia, I though you didn't like undead people like Janus."
"Correction," the silver haired Laetitia guffawed. "We never realized she was a Lunaborn all along or rather a Luna Unborn."
"Besides," the dark haired, dimwitted Marie added, "Vee didn't like her until she made us realize that vee are just as dead on the inside as she is."
"Boo!" Janus said in a breathy but confident fashion causing Mena and May to tremble. All three of them chortled with their hands to their mouths.
"Miserable Magicaps, Janus is even doing the hand to mouth laughing?" Mena moaned. "This is like a whole new nightmare come true."
"Now…" Laetitia said, her teeth fanged and her eyes gleaming. " Now that stupid, roly-poly fish teacher actually remembers stuff again and that includes homework, we 'ave a request. I know you peasants actually kiss up to her and do it."
"And your point?" Mena demanded, starting to feel incredibly furious at both the elves and Janus.
"Fork it over," Laetitia said, "So vee won't cast our superior, high born magic skills at you!"
"As if!" May boasted. "Mena is a rainborn, and she's got more power than any of you poseurs. Right Mena?"
"Uh...yesh…" Mena said, nervously grinning through her braces like she had to go to the bathroom.
"Very well," Laetitia said with magic twirling on her finger tip. "Put up zee dukes. Our dukes are up!"
There was a sudden burst of spells colliding with each other in a rainbow cloud of energy. When the cloud dissapaited, Mena and May were lying stunned on the ground.
"Owie zowie," Mena whined as she saw multiple versions of Laetitia, Marie and Janus standing triumphantly over her. "My eyes are spinning."
That's funny," May stupidly slurred. "I thought it was the room."
The two Bougelves giggled with their newfound homework in their hands. "Great work, boney brat," Laetitia chortled. "And many thanks for your homework peasants. Tata!"