Taggie and Delphi scatter into the campus

Taggie kept running. Her feet carrying her aimlessly in a random direction. Sadly, that direction was right into the garden of the Groping Sallows, a branch of the Spanking Willow family of trees. “ Eeck! Bad tree! Don’t touch that! Crap, this is bad, we need to go, but where?”

“Kyaaa! …Maybe we could find Viela and ask her to give us the key back?” Delphi mumbled after a pained whimper.

“Eeep! Knowing her, she’s more likely to trap us into our tree hollow again than gives us a key. Only this time we’ll be naked too! Ugh, talk about awkward.”

“Yeah… that would be hot...rrible. Horrible!” Delphi replied, a faint blush coursing through her cheeks. “Can’t we ask the -Eeck!- the faculty for another key?” Spotting a break in the willows, Delphi led Taggie across some branches. The elf grimaced as she stepped on a shallow stream of ice-cold water.

“ Ugh… I miss my third favorite pair of boots, and no, I don’t think so. You know how bureaucratic the faculty is! We’ll have to do like three different queues to get the forms needed to ask for another key! We’ll be lining up naked for hours in front of everyone just so that maybe we can get a key if the headmistress feels like approving our request. No way.”

The duo forded the shallow stream with desperation, as an army of Nibbling Tadpoles was hot on their trail, jumping out of the water to try and give them a little kiss. “Then what if we go to the Armoire of Secrets and borrow some explosive mushrooms to blast our keyhole?”

“The closet that is guarded by the legendary Mud Wrestling Octopus? Do you want to fight that? In the nude?! To be suplexed by eight different tentacles in front of everyone!?! Heck No! Ahh, H-hi everyone?”

“Hi gurlz, how are my favorite losers doing? Came to volunteer for my anatomy presentation?” Jasmine, a nerdy elf, replied. The duo had somehow found their way to an ongoing lecture, interrupting a lesson on… the details of the elven anatomy. A whole class of elves was staring at their naked, muddy, and disheveled bodies. They feverishly took notes as well; the real deal was very different from the mannequin in front of them.

“Nope!” Taggie took to running again, the laughter of her peers ringing once more in her ears. Her cheeks were now burning hotter than the sun, and judging by the deep purple that Delphi’s face was, she wasn’t the only one.

“Well, we have to do something! It’s not like we can keep streaking across the campus forever!”

“It doesn’t have to be forever! Just, for like a week until Orchid…”

“Taggie!”

“Fine, l-let me think which one is the least bad option.”

“P-please hurry!” Delphie replied, squeaking as she sidestepped a couple of cute elf boys on the way.

Taggie hesitated; they really could not keep running aimlessly. Her feet hurt, her heart pounded a mile a minute and she was blushing so hotly that she worried she was going to melt. But… all their plans were prone to spectacular failure, and then they would be back to square one. Worse than square one, actually. It would be a total blowout!

Huh, Kind of like the one Taggie and Delphi had experienced a bit earlier. Yup, their plan had backfired. Spectacularly. Viela remained unscathed while she and Delphi managed to become the class’s clowns again, only this time they were naked too! And what a memorable way to get stripped! Taggie figured she would hear of it for days to come.

She sighed… All the more reason for her eventual payback to be even more spectacular.