Ivy groaned awake as rays of sunlight caught into her eyes, her arms sprawled out on the mattress while Lilith's soft hands were wrapped around her waist. Ivy lifted her eyes and rubbed the tiredness out of her eyes, she turned around as petted Lilith's head as a signal for her to wake up. Feeling Lilith's arms closing in, Ivy smiled as she checked her Scroll nearby the table their bed was located in their dorm.
It was a twenty by twenty-five-meter room, it held a window center at the back wall that gave a nice view of the entrance of the academy. Four medium size beds: each had a velvet color blanket and white fuzzy blanket with a pillow. The room had two tables, both six feet by four, dark brown color with the feet quartz white. Four wall attached bookshelves: filled with fiction books, weapon design, history books, and even some strategy books from Ivy's suggestion.
Observing her other teammates, Ivy turned on her Scroll only to see no schedule for today. She tilted her head before checking a few apps and websites, realizing it was already the Fall break. It was a full week for the students to regain themselves after the first semester and enjoy the campus and its surrounding stores and shops.
Waking from her slumber, Lilith rubbed her head against Ivy's back, slowly awaking to her senses. Lilith moved her hands upwards, she felt the change to Ivy's stomach and lower chest, bulges of muscles and harden skin. She lightly blushed at the sensation. Wrapping herself around Ivy, Lilith smiled as she realized that it was the Fall break, she could have Ivy to herself all week, hopefully.
"Morning sleepyhead," Ivy placed down her Scroll and turned to face the little demon, she smirked before giving a light kiss on her forehead. "Let's explore the nearby shops yeah?"
Ding!
Lilith tilted her head as she wondered who was texting Ivy, she nudged Ivy to point to her Scroll. Ivy was slightly annoyed as she grabbed her Scroll, she read opened her Scroll and groaned loudly. The text that she has gotten was from Ruby and asking her to do some...tests. The message was obviously vague but she already knew what it was.
"Looks like I have a meeting with Miss Rubes, fun," Ivy groaned in annoyance as she pulled away the covers from their bed, swinging her legs off to the side and getting up.
She removed the white shirt and replaced it with a light grey shirt along with a green jacket with fur along the hoodie, she then replaced her underwear and grey sweatpants with black tight pants and black undies. She stretched herself before entering the bathroom and cleaning herself up, she came out with her hair lightly damped as she saw Lilith up and waiting for her. Her other teammates were slightly awake or watching videos on BoopTube, she waved goodbye as Lilith followed her out.
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Walking into the HeadMaster's office, Ivy stood upfront of Ruby's desk while Lilith was looking around the office. Ivy slammed her hand down as she found this whole idea of creating a super soldier will fail. She knew this whole project will be a failure just like last time. Her eyes were slightly flickering into red as she wanted Ruby to stop this before lives are used for nothing.
"Ivy, please calm down," Ruby spoke calmly, she had dark circles underneath her eyes as she haven't been able to get any good night sleep. The nightmare of Ivy being impaled by some unknown being she felt like she has seen before.
Ivy took a deep breath before becoming into a more reasonable state. "We both know that this project will fail, we also know that there hasn't been a single successful test. Each test has resulted in broken bones, contorting their limbs and breaking their neural connection." Ivy wasn't wrong about anything she said, she knew almost everything about the failed 404 project. Well, except that no one test was successful because there was a successful test done without anyone knowing. Ivy was the successful tester, changed and adapted to Ivy's measures and removed from the failed equipment the team overlooked by Neo.
Ruby groaned, she took a sip of her mug. Her patience was low and her mind wasn't thinking straight, however, she needed to stay awake. She knew there were forces stalking her kingdom, she just doesn't know when or where.
"Neo told me everything," Ruby said bluntly, she did a full background search on Neo when they first met. She was smiling as Neo tried to erase everything about herself but there was always a hole she forgot to fill. "I know you are the only tester that has survived the suit's trauma."
Stunned, Ivy didn't say anything, she recoiled back by the surprise but she looked away from Ruby when she finally composed herself. She knew that one day, Neo would either be found or taken away from her, Neo was very much an info broker and her mind is that of a goddess but she isn't one. Ivy did her best to erase Neo's background, an unknown girl with no background to say who she really was. 'Fuck me.'
"I won't force either of you to help but--"
"It was mean a lot wouldn't?" Ivy finished what Ruby was saying, her breath was a uneven as she could feel her body shaking. She realized another thing about Neo that could potentionally get her experimented.
Lilith felt the air in the room tight, she walked over to the window wall as she obvered the academy's movement. She opened her mouth before closing it, she didn't entirely know what was going on but she knew she needed to be there for Ivy, just like how Ivy's mother was.
"Have you tested anyone? Do you have any prototypes?" Ivy suddenly asked, her face was slowly drenched in her sweat as she looked up at Ruby. Her face was distress, the most distressed face both of them have seen.
Ruby didn't know what to say at first, seeing Ivy being distress, the constant flashes of Ivy's death, she parted her lips just slightly. Composing herself quickly, she opened her mouth, "No test but we have a prototype from the blueprints we scavenged from the facility."
"Dismantle the prototypes, they are flawed with the joints. Have Neo give her bluerprints, they at least remove the trauma from the joints," Ivy quickly said before turning away and walking off.
Lilith came up behind Ruby and placed a hand on her shoulder, she could sense the concern and distress Ivy was feeling but she shouldn't put herself last. "Sleep, clear your mind up and then talk to her. I think we should apporach this in a way where Ivy will agree." With that, Lilith lightly jogged towards Ivy and gave a small wave to Ruby.