The Mysterious Forbidden Section - Open

[OPHELIA]

Ophelia found herself in the school's library. She was utterly bored and found no entertainment from the other activities like the gymnasium and the cafeteria. The invisible wall that was keeping them in the school made her pine to leave it, if only for a moment. She had a pile of unfinished homework in her dorm room but with teacher's scarce she hadn't been keeping up her lessons.

She chose an aisle at random and walked past it, touching each book as she went by, making a clicking noise from her long pale pink painted fingernails. "History, boring. Cooking, boring." she muttered as she glanced haphazardly at a few titles. Then all of a sudden she remembered something.

"The library just got interesting!" she said as she walked over to the librarian's desk. She rummaged through the desk drawers for a few moments before finding what she was looking for. The keys to the forbidden section. Normally if the librarian was in the school she would not have had the guts to do this but things were different now.

Ophelia patted down her school skirt before placing the keys into the lock and opening the door. At first glance the room was unimpressive but it was a miracle getting in. Her heart was pounding as she expected some sort of siren or alert. When nothing happened since Ophelia had the librarian's keys she closed the door behind her and turned on the lights. She wasn't even hiding the fact that she was in here. There was no one in the library to bother her.

[VALUS]

Valus had already been into the locked part of the Library for a few hours since he had his own keys. His eyes grazed the shelves about some type of magic that could allow him to offer more to the schools protection. He crossed his arms as he heard the door unlock and he sighed. He had his back to the door and the he heard some of the lights go on.

He was in a very back portion of this place where there was one light to illuminate his work space, now he noted that whole place was now fully lit and he looked around as he started to move towards the door.

"You know, you gotta stop fo-"

He was going to finish his sentence until he realized that this girl.. Wasn't who she thought it was, but he sighed and spoke again.

"Sorry, thought you were someone else."

Valus walked back to do what he was doing to try and figure his own plan out. He didn't care that a student was here. He just wanted to do his own work. If she freaked out. That would have given him the chuckle he needed.

[OPHELIA]

Ophelia glanced at the bookshelf at the various types of books. She could instantly tell why they were off limits to students except in rare cases. Now these were some very interesting books! She thumbed through the case on the right and chose a random book. Flipping through the pages were frightening images.

"You know, you gotta stop fo-. Sorry, thought you were someone else."

Ophelia paused and looked up. At first she was alarmed that a teacher had been lurking in the room and had caught her, but when he turned back to his own business she felt that she had gotten away with It. Whatever it was. She closed the book and her stomach lurched. Hopefully that was the only book with horrifying images.

She could push her luck and ask what the teacher was doing or she could ignore the teacher and continue lurking through the room. She found another book and read the ingredients list for a potion. "Aren't newt's extinct?" she muttered to herself. By now curiosity was killing her since she was wondering what the teacher was doing.

Ophelia put the book back and wandered over to where the teacher had disappeared to. She glanced at him.

[VALUS]

Valus sat back down looked at his pile of books to read, in his trance he started started to read to figure out what to do. His mind has all these idea's that each had been exploded and taken away as he read more into it.

Sources of power, sacrifices..

That was all what it was. he needed the lowest amount of bloodshed to do what he needed. He sighed and started to scratch his head violently as he started to freak out abit while he was reading, but he was being watched by the kid, as he turned and closed his book he looked at her.

"So, What can I help you with kiddo?"

He said with a smile on his face. He almost scared the student half to death and he was trying to be nice to counter it. But probably wasn't working at all.

But what did he know?

[OPHELIA]

Ophelia watched while the teacher was scratching his head. He looked kind of cute with his hair so white it looked gray. She briefly wondered if it was his natural color and tried to remember any rumors she had heard about him. Ophelia wondered what he was looking at that had him so puzzled and frustrated.

"So, What can I help you with kiddo?"

Ophelia jumped back and instead of landing on her feet, which she thought she would for a moment she fell flat dab on her butt. Her face was red by the time she quickly got to her feet and brushed the hair from her face, failed and was glad to leave something covering her red cheeks.

"Ummm... I.... Ummm..." It was one thing for the teacher to catch her and then go back to his business. It was a whole other thing for him to catch her spying on him and then ask her what she needed help with. Annnndddddd to call her kiddo. "Nothing I don't need any help!" she said quickly.

"What are you doing? You're the art teacher, right?" Of course she had no idea what teacher he was. She just said art because it was the first thing on the top of her mind.

[VALUS]

Valus had watched the student fall over and laughed a bit. New students always gave him a good laugh when he caught the in places they shouldn't be in the first place. He crossed his arms while standing and walking around the area they were in. He sighed and hit his head. Though, he did notice that she was red all over her face as if she was almost embarrassed about falling.

"Well, aren't we a little on edge today."

Something didn't feel right in the air. Something he didn't do to start this off. Maybe the time in this place had made him forget about something. Then it hit him.

"Of Course! How could I be so dumb! I can't believe I forgot to introduce myself."

He said and looked over at the student. He walked over and put his hand out. For a hand shake for now.

"Valus G'Layus. I'm the Human disguise teacher. Though... I do like Art.. Maybe I should go to the museum again sometime as a break."

He said. If she took his head he would go back to some reading and and rubbed his head.

"Well.. I am here on.. Personal Business that's about all I can go to at this time." He said with a sigh as he walked over to a book shelf and started to look at the spines of books. hoping to gain some form of insight into what they all may have for him to learn. He moved his right had to rub his eyes. This search kept getting hopeless and hopeless, but for an old friend he would try his best.

"So.. Why were you spying on me?"

It was one thing to be in the Forbidden Archives.. It's another to spy on a teacher. Especially with this whole situation.

Valus heard of a lot of rumors about him from student who didn't know who he was or what he looked like. Apparently most students thought he was Human to begin with since no one has ever seen his monster form.

Rumors never phased Valus as it was so anything so he put his hands in his pockets and awaited the student to answer his question.

[OPHELIA]

Ophelia felt her face red with embarrassment. To make matters worse she could hear the teacher laughing at her clumsiness. She watched him cross his arms and stand up, then walk around the room. She gulped and wondered if she was in super huge trouble. She would probably get detention... maybe expulsion or suspension.

She didn't answer him. She was a little on edge. Just a little. She shook his hand and was shocked when he said "how could I be some dumb". Who would say that to themselves? Let alone when they weren't alone. "Ophelia Aurora de Valence," she replied. She was shocked to hear he was the human disguise teacher. That was an interesting career....

"Spying on you?" she asked innocently. "I wasn't spying on you." She wasn't really spying on him. She didn't even know what he was doing. He just looked like he was poured over a pile of books engrossed in whatever tasks he was involved with. She turned around and picked up her purple and pink striped backpack and swung it on her shoulders.

"I just wanted to look at the books in this room." she added. She wasn't used to explaining herself to other people.

[VALUS]

Valus had realized that he wasn't being the most social person in the whole world right now. He scratched his head and sighed. Well, this was going well. He put his hands in his pockets and walked around to try and figure out what he needed to look for. He looked over at Ophelia and laughed a bit.

"Well, now you know. Don't make a habit of coming in here. Rox would eat cha alive."

He said with a laugh. He didn't care. Valus was really carefree about rules and such. He only enforced the main rules while he worked and didn't really care as long as the students were safe. He didn't sit back at his desk but instead he stood by the desk looking at Ophelia.

"Well, I am a Stage Technician.. But I can keep my human form no matter so.. It was a perfect fit."

He said with a laugh. He preferred his own job then being a teacher. It was more fun over all.

But what did Valus know, he was just a stage technician.

[OPHELIA]

Ophelia swung her backpack on her shoulder and moved from side to side. She looked down at her shoes when she was being spoken to by the teacher. She was certainly not used to being given orders. In fact, she was the one used to giving the orders. But she knew things would be different at school especially if she wanted to keep her identity a secret.

"I don't see what the big deal is about some old dusty, musty, books anyhow." She looked at the teacher who is laughing and wondered what was exactly so funny. Was he laughing because he was carefree or because he was going to tackle on her later to Roxanne the headmistress.

Ophelia couldn't afford to leave the school. It was a good thing that's the barrier prevented anyone from leaving. Because even if she wanted to leave she couldn't. "What's a stage technician?" Ophelia was unfamiliar with the term. She shrugged nonchalant like and wondered what it meant. She also wondered what his form was but knew that it was rude to ask. It would also lead to questions about her own form.