Bree hit the ground a little too hard on landing, falling over in the process due to the smell burning away at her nostrils.
"Oh I hate this so much," She decided as she cleared her eyes as best she could and found Leroy and Lester laughing, they came to a stop and Bree blinked, the horrible smell suddenly gone as she got closer to them.
"Hey, I found these on the ground," Leroy said immediately "Fair game, you can't take them or I'll have my father arrest you for stealing from royalty,"
"So what? You gonna have him arrest the Honey Bear when it eats you?" Bree questioned as Professor Sweets landed behind them.
"And you beat me here," He noted "Incredible speed ma'am, you two drop those now,"
"No way," Lester laughed "We're gonna be rich, I mean even more so than we already are of course,"
"No idiot would every buy Enchanted Honey Suckle from two kids, if anything they'd just scream and start running because unprocessed enchanted HoneySuckle is like a giant red flair for Honey Bears,"
"That's just an urban myth," Leroy chuckled.
"I think the term is an urban legend," Bree noted.
"If there was a Honey bear, I'd just kill it," Leroy punched the air "Because as prince of oasis, I am the strongest, fastest, smartest, and overall better than a couple of smuck pesents teaching at a dingy school, now move aside peasant,"
"There aren't enough words in the Tricontinental Dictionary to describe how much trouble you two are in," Sweet said simply as the ground began shaking slightly. "It's coming," He noted.
"What does a Honey Bear look like?" Bree pondered as she looked to the forest, after a moment she turned her ring back into a staff and encased the two trouble makers in a barrier as they attempted to sneak away.
"They look like nothing," Leroy chuckled. "Cause they ain't real, I've never seen one and I ain't never met someone who has seen one," None to far from the group the edge of the forest began shaking as the thick grove of Trees were slowly smashed away.
"We don't have much time," Sweets said as he rushed to the barrier holding the two twins in "The enchantment hiding the school won't keep it at bay for long," The water from the lake formed a hand and Bree dropped the Barrier and Lester and Letory where forcefully dunked beneath the water in an attempt to remove the sweet smell of Sickle honey from them, Bree meanwhile used levitation to swipe the Enchanted Honey Sickle and made sure to avoid touching it, not wanting an atomic lake swirly herself.
Upon being thoroughly soaked Sweets tossed the two parts of a trilogy onto the shore.
"Leave now," He demanded "We'll deal with your punishment after the Honey Bear is taken care of," Bree ignored the two boys as they lay on the shore when a Tree was flung at her, she moved out of the way but the Enchanted Honey sickle was knocked away and with it gone, it's sweet scent was replaced with the Honey Bears Putrid scent, Bree and Sweets both fell to their knees as the beast approached, it had the body of a bear, the head of a bager, and a massive skunks tail, it was easily three times larger than Orion, and had two sets of upper arms.
"Lox Lotum," Bree gagged out as she put her hand to the ground, thorned vines shot from the ground and attacked the Honey Bear, it didn't react to the piercing vines and instead sniffed the air before plowing through the painful thicket.
"Honey Bears can't feel pain," Sweets notified her "It doesn't stop until it's died,"
"One part Grizzly bear, one part Honey Badger, one part Skunk, and one part Nake mole rat, what an odd creature," outloud Bree said nothing and instead took a deep breath and spat out a torrent of Golden Flames, hoping to burn it enough to cause muscle failure, instead the fires only made the smell infinitely worse, now accompanied by the smell of burnt rubber.
"Oh regret," She decided "So much Regret about that," Bree attempted to get to her feet, only to be grabbed by a flaming hand, the fires did nothing to her, nor did the claws, but being next to its mouth was hell. The Honey Bear sniffed her and was about to lick her to see how she tasted, when a scream got its attention.
"Magic be damned," B screamed out as he slammed face first into the Honey bear's side, his axe-like horns cutting into its skin, running in behind him where Jasper and Hana, the only other ones immune to the Smell for reasons Bree had not yet figured out.
Jasper raised his hands and the water form the lake formed a chain and struck out at the Honey Bear, lashing it across the face, it did very little damage, but succeeded in gaining its attention as it turned to do an odd barking growl at the lake and dropped Bree, B was still screaming as he gripped into it's side and slashed away attempting to cause a mortal wound, Bree noted that despite his efforts he was barely breaking the top layer of skin past his initial momentum filled attack.
Hana helped Bree to her feet.
"How is that smell not bothering any of you?" Bree demanded as she tried not to gag, barely able to see Hana as her tears blocked her vision almost entirly.
"Hobgoblins can turn off their sense of smell," Hana replied sweetly, "Jasper was born without one, and B's race hail from Honey Bears infested swamps, they find the creatures to be a delicacy so the rancid smell only makes them ravenously hungry," Bree turned to look at B and noted he was just biting at the top layer of skin instead of using his horns for more devastating attacks.
Jasper snapped and filled the watery chain with electricity, doing nothing to the Honey Bear and causing B to shoot off like a firework, the Lizard man rolled across the ground, got to his feet, and ran back, still swearing magic to damnation for his inability to use it.
"You idiots done?" Hana asked as Jasper repeated his attempt to electrocute it and laughed as B was once again flung off.
"Oh come on let me launch the Lizard Perv once more time, it's hilarious," Hana took a deep breath as she gingerly put her hands around Bree's head to cover her ears, Bree was shocked to find her amazing hearing was completely shut off, she watched as both Jasper and B quickly dropped everything to protect their ears, suddenly the world around Bree began violently shaking and Sweets promptly covered his ears and rolled away from Hana as the Honey Bear started to frothing at the mouth, after a second the shaking stopped and Hana released Bree, now breathing heavily.
"Sub sonic scream," Bree noted as the Honey Bear screeched in rage as its ears began bleeding "I see you've defend it, meaning I doubt you screaming at it will do any more good," Bree watched as the Honey Bear swung around in confused anger.
"I was lead to believe this thing was dangerous," Bree turned to Sweets as she spoke "But that creatures only real attack is that putrid smell," Instead of an answer she found Sweets laying on the ground, feebly trying to get back to his feet.
"The Honey Bear's stench can cause paralysis if inhaled for too long," He managed to say before falling back to the ground "The closer you are the worse the effect,"
Bree looked to Sweets, then back towards the Honey bear before groaning.
"Annie," She suddenly realized "This thing is causing me emotional harm, could you…" Bree stopped talking as she felt Annie Run past her.
"Annie?" Hana asked in confusion when a loud thud drew her attention back to the Honey Bear, who had been relieved of its head and now lay dead on the ground.
"I apologize, my lady," Annie said as she flicked blood off of her needle "I was in the bath, please forgive me,"
"Oh I could never be mad at you Annie," Bree coued sweetly, "And no real harm came of anyone, thank you for your aid, you can return to our room," Annie bowed and shot off back to the room faster than anyone could see.
"What was that!?" Jasper demanded in confusion as he looked to either of his classmates for an explanation, B was busily devouring the now deceased Honey Bear, already finished with three of its four arms. While Hana was looking at Bree with a smug look.
"I suppose when your lonely a Doll is a good substitute for company," She chuckled.
"I have many loyal followers," Bree replied "Annie is one of my oldest ones, used to be more street punk back in the day but the maid outfit is just adorable, now please get poor Sweets here to the aid of the school nurse or whatever fasimil you have while I go deal with the ones who caused this stupid problem," Bree shot off at high speeds and came to a stop in front of Lester and Leroy, who had made a break for it as soon as the Honey Badger had appeared.
The two ran into Bree at full speed, clearly trying to brute force their way past her, She proceeded to flip them both over her and had them land none too softly on their rear ends in a sitting position facing her.
"How about the three of us go pay a visit to Headmistress Mila?"
Bree hummed merrily as she led Lester and Leroy down the hall towards the Headmasters room.
"You're making a huge mistake," Leroy yawned. "Just gonna get yourself fired, You see Oasis is a big player in the Tri-Continental Peace Council…"
"I've never heard of that before," Bree replied "and at the moment I don't frankly care, you two almost got yourselves killed,"
"Oh please, if you could take that thing down I could do it with one hand behind my back,"
"I…what!?" Bree looked at Leroy with sincere confusion "I literally proved I was the one who beat Argit in a fight, how does killing something prove you could do it? I didn't even do it I had my maid do it,"
"Boom just outed yourself, you probably had that maid fight Argit and just took the credit, being such a busy guy Argit wouldn't have time to fact-check you, checkmate sucker, I know you're just a weak leader hiding behind her powerful pawns,"
"Your determination to belittle me is almost as impressive as it is stupid," Bree decided as they arrived at Mila's office, Bree knocked and after a moment was greeted by the Cyclops girl she had seen when she peeked into the office, she had two small horns and was wearing a three-piece suit.
"How may I assist you today madam?" She asked kindly.
"I'd like to talk with Mila," Bree replied simply.
"Mila?" The Cyclops looked confused for a moment before cracking a smile "Oh you must be Lady Bree, do come in ma'am," The Cyclops let them in before calling out loudly "Headmistress Milena, Visiting Queen Bree of Melodia has come to have words with you," Mila looked up for a pile of documents and smiled.
"Ah, I wondered how long it'd take for you to come and say hi, so what happened, Troubled class do anything too bad?"
"These two stole enchanted honey suckles and caused a Honey Bear attack," Bree noted "I've come to ask they be punished,"
"Queen Milena," Leroy said in a proper tone "Such an honor to meet you, I am Prince Leroy Snicket of Oasis, and I must apologize for hearing this lesser queen refer to you by such a bland name, I'm sure we could solve this problem diplomatically, of course my father will have to hear about my mistreatment by this borish Insectoid masquerading as a queen, but I'm sure a deal can be struck,"
Mila and her Cyclase looked at him, then at one another.
"Leroy Snicket?" Mila shook her head "Julie I thought we expelled this kid just before the break started '' She looked to her secretary for answers, whose eye was now glowing multiple colors, after a moment her eye went back to normal and she frowned.
"He was," She confirmed "He set fire to the auditorium before the school assembly wishing the students a good week off, the student Madeline was robbed of her award ceremony, and her mother, A noble woman from Cleminz, was so upset she got the countries leader, Demon Lord Mimzy, to register a complaint, He threatened to pull his countries funding for the school if the situation was not dealt with in a fair and just manner,"
"Mistress Milena," Leroy said with an impressive level of arrogance for someone who had just been outed as having been expelled over a week ago "I assure you, I have learned from my errors and am ready to return to my studies, now let us move on to the subject of earning my forgiveness, shall we? I will require you to sever all ties with this woman and her pitiful nation," Both Bree and Mila looked at each other, impressed at how far from reality Leroy seemed to be "I'm sure you don't want my father to become involved would you?"
"Are…are you serious?" Bree laughed at the smug look on Leroy's face "You're serious, I thought you were just trying to save face or something but you trully think you're all that and more?" Bree wheezed, breaking her usual casual facial expression and scrunching up her eyes as she laughed like mad at Leroy.
"Oh yes, laugh away you lesser Queen, but your nation will be nothing but dust in a no less than a year's time, with you leading it would be lucky to have half a year," Bree continued laughing, for a good-long moment before calming down.
"Give me a moment," She asked as her eyes began glowing. She stood in silence and Leroy waved his hands in front of her face before smiling.
"Now," He said, turning to Lester who turned to Julie.
"Lox Lotum," He laughed, a vine shot from the ground and wrapped around her waist, it wasn't exactly threatening as it had no thrones but Lester just laughed as Julie pulled at it.
"I wouldn't move if I were you," Leroy chuckled. "Lester has a bit of a problem with his magic causing things to explode," Julie went from pulling at it to freezing as she felt the unstable magic pulsating from the vine.
"Julie don't move," Mila stood up, but Leroy pointed at her in turn.
"You don't move either, or your little assistant is getting 'cut' from for more than just the pay roll," Lester chuckled as Leroy looked at Bree, who was standing in silence, her eyes still glowing. He put his hand to her face with a smile.
"Force two," Bree was shoved into the nearby wall and sat there with her eyes still glowing, Leroy turned to Mila and held his hand up, "Forc-" He cut off sharply when the door slammed off its hinges and Leroy was suddenly holding a bloody stump in front of him, He let out a caterwaul and fell to his knees as Annie glared at him.
"Hmm?" Bree blinked, her eyes no longer glowing and looked at the scene before her "Why am I in a wall?" She questioned as she pulled herself out and looked around, she ignored Leroy's cry when she saw the unstable plants and instead held up her hand.
"Lox Lotum," at her call Lesters vine turned bright green and unraveled from Julie before wrapping him up, growing large and thick, pinning his hands to his side as he screamed out in fear.
"Annie put his hand back on please," Bree asked kindly, Leroy suddenly had a hand again and immediately turned to Bree and screamed out.
"Die," He demanded as she swung at her, Bree sighed as Leroy punched her squad in the face, and broke his hand and arm in several places, he screamed in agony again and fell to the floor.
"The hell happened?" She demanded as she looked over to Mila "All I did was make like a 20-second long-distance call and everything went to hell in a handbasket,"
"they just…tried to kill me and Julie?" Mila statement sounded more like a question, as the sudden shift in what was happening had thrown her through a loop, "I should have known no one could be that stupid," Bree sighed "Alright bucko, what's the deal,"
"Screw you," Leroy spat "You'll never anything out of me, and when my father sees what you've done to me you'll be…" Bree blew into her hand before lightly smacking him across the mouth, and he went completely silent as his eyes started glowing.
"Explain," Bree demanded.
"I snuck into a bar during the break, saw a lot of bounty hunters go in, and wanted to see what it was about, Word is King Thomas is paying top dollar to whoever can give him the head of his wife,"
"Hmm," Bree shook her head as she looked over to Mila, who looked at Leroy slack-jawed, before the wall to her office exploded as Argit slid to a stop and looked around.
"I was summoned," He declared "So I wasn't really listening, what did you need me to do exactly?" Bree looked at him, having originally just been trying to ask him to tell her where Oasis was she smiled as she decided to change what she had summoned him for.
"Listen to this kid, he's currently unable to lie, and has something of great interesting to say,"