The night passed and morning swept over the Duel Tower again. As soon as the students stepped outside of their dorm rooms, security went about warning them about some ruckus that happened last night and that anyone caught out would face severe punishment. Luckily for our cast of self-appointed mystery solvers, they barely managed to evade security scot free. The lessons dragged on and on, with Melchior making a mess in chemistry. Using solid vision with Crystrons and Chemicritters had turned out to be a rather [i]solid[/i] idea, but the man had taken it a little too far. Eventually, the clock hit twelve and the students could go for lunch.

The group was gathered up again in the cafeteria during the lunch beak, having put together some tables as the noise droned on around them. Nathan could feel the piercing eyes of a certain Dark Dorm leader being on him, specifically. No matter how anyone looked though, they couldn't spot Steel in the crowd. The crowd itself was also rather gloomy compared to the colorful student body at the beginning of the year. At first, purple was only one of the many colours mixed in with the browns and reds of the uniforms, but now it seemed like at least half of the students wore it. They had the decency not to pick a fight here, but that might also be because they'd be quickly apprehended.

Haas was poking his food with his fork and let out a deep sigh. [b][color=aba000]"Man, this sucks... Me and Hayate didn't find out anything!"[/color][/b] the boy complained. He took one of his meat balls and impatiently chomped it down, looking a little bit out of it. His eyes darted over to Megan.

[b][color=aba000]"Oh, right... how'd it go for you guys? Didya find out anything upstairs?"[/color][/b] Haas asked the rest of the crew.

Meanwhile, from another table nearby, Ethel was quietly listening in. She didn't have much trouble being discharged from the medical ward after a quick call from her parents to the school, and was now looking for something to do. She'd seen Haas' duel through the small windows on the stairwell doors as she passed by on her way to her room. It was peculiar, and she did feel like ratting him out at first. Her curiosity eventually got the better of her, though, and it didn't seem like the boy had noticed her tailing him... even with the rather eye-catching Ignia by her side.

Meanwhile, a duel had broken out in the cafeteria. The school didn't mind duels as much as getting into a fight as it gave the lunching students some entertainment, as long as they were kept reasonable and didn't cast an action field. It seemed to be two Light dorm students squaring off, but was mostly uninteresting. One of them had navy blue hair, held up in the air by a headband while the other sported a brown beatle cut. Fittingly, the beatle cut set a [url=http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Symphonic_Warrior_Miccs]Symphonic Warrior Miccs[/url] in his Pendulum Scale.