Riddle looked Doppel Malleus over, he currently wore a slightly modified version of the dorm uniform. The pins on the jacket were different from most other students, displaying a card with a Ace of Clubs. His vest is black similar to Deuce's and his dark red gloves were fingerless.
"The color doesn't quite suit you but you look happy?" Riddle asked.
"I'm happy not to be wearing black, it's normally worn for business and at funerals, I don't mind it but somehow it makes me feel like I'm being overly formal." Malleus smiled softly.
After being brought to the Heartslabyul garden, Malleus wandered off, as he tended to do. So it's no surprise he met another small friend. He wasn't an animal magnet like Silver, but sometimes small animals would approach if he gave off the vibe of being approachable and safe.
"What is your name?" Malleus asked.
The rabbit straightened and Malleus read the dark blue ribbon with the words Finnegan Mctwisp spread out across it.
"Finnegan?" Malleus looked amused.
Carted behind the rabbit was a hat being dragged from the ribbon around it's waist. Studying it and picking up the hat he found a crystal box with four petit fours all coated with chocolate frosting. Each labeled 'eat me' in pastel letters.
Malleus stared at the rabbit curiously who shrank back in fear. "What are you attempting to give me?"
"Now don't feel nervous, I won't harm you, I just have a natural suspicion of sweets. Courtesy of Riddle's valiant effort to make strawberry pie," he smiled rubbing the rabbit's head.
Riddle began the party celebration in the background and Malleus paid no mind.
His eyes slid over to the box. The chocolate certainly smelled appetizing.
"Maybe just one..." Doppel Malleus said quietly.
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Trey and Riddle were surprised at Doppelganger Malleus's shift in behavior.
He was now laughing and encouraging the animals to not follow their set instructions for the croquet game. He kept calling Riddle Queen, and his outfit had been altered. The formerly white trousers now a dark brown, his dorm blazer turning a darker green but the playing card pin and the Heartslabyul logo remained. A new addition was the top hat on his head with the iconic 6/10 'in this style' tag and the sash that hung on his left shoulder and ended at the right side of his waist decorated with spools of thread in various colors.
" Doppel Draconia-senpai-- have you gone Mad?" A Heartslabyul student blurted.
"Oh yes- definitely. But in my defense we're all mad here, even you. You wouldn't be here if you weren't." He stated while doing a handstand on the table and pouring a cup of tea.
When he got down he was immediately deemed ladder by the hedgehogs. Or maybe they could smell the cream cheese crackers that were starting to fall out of his pocket.
"Now, now, little ones we need to be hahaha -serious about this!" Doppel Malleus laughed from the influence of the magical treat he'd eaten.
The persisted in their climb grabbing the various spools of thread and pulling them aloose only to end up tangled up in it.
"Oh! Quizelie!" Riddle looked in surprise as one of the hedgehogs ran down a maze pathway.
"Queen? why are you fleeing?" Doppel Malleus asked as he jumped on top of the vivid green hedges each covered with numerous red flowers.
"Whoa did he just scale ten feet in one jump?" Ace looked shocked.
Deuce jumped into action as well, although not literally, like Doppelganger Malleus. He instead assisted Trey and Cater as they helped the students herd the excited animals to a spot where they wouldn't get into mischief.
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Riddle had turned so many times and had long abandoned his dorm uniform cape. He was aware of Malleus following him from
"Relax Rosehearts it was my idea," a boy stepped out wearing sky blue clothes that contrasted his blonde hair.
"Allison Kingsley?!" Riddle yelled Two RSA students were here..? But why--
Landing rather gracefully Malleus jumped from his place atop the Rose mazes. His chaotic demeanor from before dropped, and now he was glaring at the two before him angrily.
"Draconia?" Riddle asked.
"Enemies of my Queen are enemies of mine," he stated coldly.
"Undo what you did to Draconia," Riddle demanded, seeing the boy in question. He didn't immediately remember that he forgot to state that this was the alternate universe counterpart of Malleus Draconia.
But what these two didn't know won't hurt them.
"Malleus Draconia??" Both boys looked shocked. Maybe even a bit terrified.
"Yes that's the one you gave your Magic dessert to I'd like the spell removed now," Riddle said sternly.
"He'll be back to normal when he wakes up," Alison said retreating into the shadows of the maze.
Likely he'd use his unique magic and the two of them become so small that if Riddle were to pursue he'd risk stepping on him.
"Let them go for now I suppose," Riddle mumbled.
Doppel Malleus immediately collapsed as soon as they left. His hat fell off and rolled a few inches away.
"I'd hoped they'd undo the effects of it now, but I suppose it having worn off by the time he wakes isn't so bad either." Riddle lamented. He knelt beside the unconscious boy.
Deuce and Trey approached the scene first.
"Take Draconia home, he'll need some rest after today especially so the effects wear off" Riddle commanded. Trey adjusted his glasses. "What do we tell the Dorm leader and vice dorm leader of Diasomnia?"
A pause.
What indeed...?
"Tell them he accidentally consumed something he shouldn't have, it hasn't harmed him just put him to sleep for awhile and that I'll be on my way to explain more details." Riddle sighed.
Out of curiosity he picked up the hat. Peering inside he saw something sparkling in the sunlight. Inside the hat was the glass box the chocolates had come in with the remaining three still inside.
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~The next morning ~
"Hi! Your physical stats say you're Malleus Draconia but my scans register that you as a human! How perplexing!" A small humanoid robot with blue flames for hair floated up to Doppel Malleus. The eager yet friendly voice surprised him a little.
"Hah? Yes, I'm Malleus Draconia from an alternate universe. How do you do? What's your name?" Doppel Malleus smiled politely. Malleus just observed the interaction quietly and Lilia grinned in amusement. Silver studied Doppel Malleus to see how he'd react to Ortho.
"My name is Ortho Shroud" the boy introduced happily, not immediately noticing Doppel Malleus's surprise.
"Shroud...? You mean this world's Idia made you body?"
Ortho nodded. "Yes,"
Malleus smiled "I see. Would you like to meet my world's Ortho?"
"Your--?" Ortho blinked stunned. Malleus pulled out
"Hey Ortho wake up, there's someone I think you should meet," Doppel Malleus stated holding the phone to his mouth.
After a moment, Malleus' phone's screen lit up displaying several blue lights. Soon he held up a smaller version of the boy before him. Although his eyes were amber and his hair a curly black color. His face still looked like him, If Ortho's facial recognition program was running correctly.
"WOW! That's the me of this reality? Nii-san successfully built you a real body!" The onscreen Ortho exclaimed his face zooming in on the phone, as if to replicate his face being pressed against the glass.
"This is mobile Ortho, he's somewhat different from his mainframe which is still inside Idia's house but both are connected so I think the mainframe back at home will be aware of this too," Doppel Malleus explained. Malleus leaned over observing with interest.
"Can I make a special request?" Ortho asked.
"Sure" mobile Ortho stated happily.
A holographic image appeared and then vanished in an instant.
"Oh! I'll be sure to take care of this!" Mobile Ortho said, nodding. In his hands he held a comically oversized envelope indicating that he received a message.
"What'd he send you?" Lilia asked.
"It's a secret," he smiled closing his eyes.
"Don't worry Ortho I'll take care of onii-san" Mobile Ortho said to his robot counterpart.
"I have to go but promise me you'll introduce me to your Mainframe Ortho," Ortho chirped as he started to fly off.
"It's a promise!" Mobile Ortho beamed. Now he'd changed his display to partly mimic the Ignihyde school uniform. The only difference being that his tie was a bow.
"You have a Ortho on your phone?" Lilia looked surprised.
"Yes Ortho automatically downloaded a simple version of himself on the phones of all of Idia's friends that being me, and all of my friends so we have other ways to contact each other should something happen." He explained, then he looked over to his left as did Malleus who sat on his right.
Silver had dozed again.
Lilia gently woke him up. Malleus would have found the moment sweet like he normally did but he happened to glance at Doppel Malleus and found the strangest expression on his face.
"I see your friend" Doppel Malleus brought his attention again as he looked at one end of the cafeteria.
"They're something of a hero here, Yuuta Origami. They are completely ordinary in the sense that they don't have any magic but... They stopped six overblots now" Silver stated. Doppel Malleus pressed his lips together not saying anything for a few seconds. Malleus thought his doppelganger's behavior around Silver was odd but no one else made a comment. Was he the only one who noticed?
"Oh... Wait what's an overblot?" Doppel Malleus blinked confused.
Lilia took up the mantle of explaining, like he usually did.
"..An overblot occurs when a mage uses too much magic at once, unique circumstances must also be put in place such as a build up of negative emotions; anger, stress, frustration, sometimes even sadness, all play a part in causing someone to overblot" Lilia then paused to see if Doppel Malleus had anything to say but he remained silent.
"Overuse of your magic is quite a dangerous situation to be in, and for most who don't have conservation skills mastered the accumulation of blot comes way too easily. At this school of which the entire goal is to learn magic, we students have pens embedded with magestone that will absorb the blot for you as a way of getting it out of your system. If you are not rendered unconscious or incapacitated, the monsters formed from the excessive blot will consume your magic and in turn your life force"
"and... you say six people have overblotted already?" Doppel Malleus asked.
"Yes. In the past it was extremely rare though enough to be a warning. Now it's happened six times. Almost back to back...." Lilia lamented.
"Who were the.... Who all overblotted exactly?" Doppel Malleus asked, genuinely concerned.
"Riddle Leona, Azul--" Lilia listed off.
Doppel Malleus glared a little at Riddle's name and had a nearly violent reaction at Azul's name; knocking over his glass as he straightened. An unusually dark look on his face. Malleus grabbed his arm, as if to ask "are you going to bother Azul again?"
Doppel Malleus glared at him as if the silent question was stupid. But after a moment, seemed to rethink it and sat back down.
"the latter ones being Jamil, Vil, and Idia, Ortho being a unique case and turning into a sort of monster himself from what I gather." Lilia finished observing .
"..." Doppel Malleus glared at his reflection in the spilled juice. Malleus magically reversed the spill and the liquid returned to the cup which was back in its upright position.
'It's just like my dream' he didn't notice the little display of magic, too lost in his own thoughts. 'But why would I get a dream about the concerns of another universe?'