Frostbuny
~*soft baby*~
Ancient History Classroom
It started off the same way it always did. The professor would walk in a couple minutes late with a fresh cup of coffee in his hand from the coffee shop on campus. He would have his tie undone, and his hair would be a shaggy mess. He looked like the last time he slept was five years ago before his divorce. However, he still managed to crack a smile for his equally sleepy class. He set his coffee down on his desk and threw his satchel onto his spinny chair.
"Good morning!" he greeted the class, and they all chimed in with morning!'s and ughhh's. He laughed, rubbed at his eyes a little, and proceeded to clap his hands together. "I have something really fun for us today!" This statement made a few students perk up, but he has made statements like this in the past and never fully delivered. The professor's definition of fun usually entails an educational movie or a pamphlet from a museum that they have to do a vocab scavenger hunt with. It was a nice break from the usually long and dull lectures he gives every other day, but it wasn't enough to get anyone excited or happy about class.
He turned on the overhead projector and waved his hand around under the light to make sure the picture was as clear as he wanted it. With that, his lips fell into a devious smile and he clapped loudly once more. "I had the luxury of going on a archaeological expedition this weekend just on the outskirts of town. We have been looking into a strange sink hole that surrounds the entire parameter of the city, and we finally found somewhere sturdy enough to dig into. Now~" he cut himself and went rummaging through his bag. "We found very few things, but! We did find a relic from the site that my team let me bring in to show all of you."
He giggled out a tada! and placed a metal cup on the projector.
It was beautiful, no one in the room could deny it. The intricate design of the metal to the jade dragon curled against it. No one could take their eyes off of the projector screen. The professor gazed around the classroom with warm eyes and a fulfilled smile. He has never captured the attention of his class so effectively. "Now we aren't entirely sure where this relic comes from. We don't know anyone in this region that had enough technology to design something so detailed. In fact, there is no record of any civilizations being here at all. But this is just our first step. Now we do know people were here at some point." He continued to gaze at the relic with his class. It was really something special that they were all dipping their toes into history. His entire class was now in-the-know on an ongoing archaeological discovery, and he couldn't be more excited.
"Okay, be honest. Who wants to drink from the cup?" The class erupted with excitement, many students raising their hands and shouting to be first. He pulled out a bunch of styrofoam cups from his bag and began to set them up around his desk. "Form a line up here if you want a sip of the forbidden chalice~!" He continued to laugh as his students rushed to form a line. He was grateful he thought to refill their water cooler the day before. He took his time filling the chalice and pouring the water into the little cups dramatically for his students. They all drank from it like they were drinking a magic potion. Half his class remained in their seats. He didn't blame them, it was a slow Monday.
Class ended just as quickly as it began, and he wished them all a good rest of their day. He put the relic back in his bag and left the classroom with happy sensation of pleasing a class of college kids.
The warmth and happiness didn't last.
Two days passed, and Wednesday morning marked the day he didn't feel happiness quite the same way again. The news channel echoed throughout the walls of his cheap apartment. "A handful of students from the local community college have gone missing. Numerous reports are coming in from the missing students parents and friends. There are leads as to where these students have gone. It feels as if they have vanished off the face of the earth."
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The Gates of Willosya
It felt like submerging yourself into a cold bath, or rubbing a balloon on your hair until the strands stick up. One second she was walking home from class, the next she was waking up at a gate. Julissa's vision was full of white walls and red roofs. She turned around in a panic, but behind her was just clouds as far as her eyes could see. She rubbed at them hard, trying to wipe away whatever illusion her brain is tricking her into. She turned around a couple more times in search of anything familiar.
She gasped when she caught sight of the tail swishing behind her. She grabbed it tightly and yanked it - her immediate thought was that it was attached to her clothes, but the sharp pain in her tail bone told her otherwise. She felt panic rise in her chest, but she didn't have the chance to compute it. The gates to the city slowly opened, and couple of people came running over to her. "What the hell are you doing outside of the walls! You know its dangerous out here!" a girl yelled at her while also dragging her toward the city. She was covered in yellowish skin with brown spots all over her, and little antlers were atop her head. She looked like a giraffe. Julie tried to pull herself out of the girl's grip, but another figure stood to her other side. He had tanned skin and dark cat ears sticking out from his hair.
I'm somehow at a furry convention? Julissa was more scared now then she was before. She must have been kidnapped and taken to this place.
"Hey stop struggling, we're trying to help you!" the boy spoke this time, his brows pulled together in annoyance.
"I would stop struggling if I knew who the fuck you are! And where the hell this place is," she successfully pulled herself out of the girl's grip and stumbled back a few steps away from them. They looked at now with curled brows and open mouths.
"Where are we? What do you mean? Uhh, the lower part of Town I guess. Near the church," the girl spoke. Julissa shook her head, and the girl's eyes widened in understanding. "You- I've never seen you before."
More people appeared around Julissa, but these people she actually recognized. They were from her Ancient History class. The sight of familiar faces calmed her nerves slightly, but the dawning realization of they all have animal features was sharp and sudden. They were appearing out of thin air, popping into the world against all known laws of nature.
"Where the hell are we?" Julissa asked again, louder this time.
The giraffe girl frowned. "Willosya, of course."
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