3rd Person's POV:

*Drip Drip*

Andie saw two more droplets of black ink fell to the ground. They moved across the floor and merged with the puddle to form as one. Becoming twice as bigger than before fading away. As much as she wants to know what it was, but she didn't pay too much attention to it as she and the others had walked around the other side of the rose maze, wandering around without a way. Since they were no longer allowed to set foot inside the Heartslabyul Dorm, Andie and the others walked through the Rose Maze, collecting their thoughts at the mess that occurred. Ace was still pissed off. Deuce was sulking a bit and Grim was just upset about having the collar back on him again.

"Aaah! I'm so pissed! Screw that tiny, red tyrant! Does he think he's the Queen of Hearts or something?!" Ace yelled in anger. Deuce on the other hand looked depressed as he mumbled out, "I disobey the dorm leader and got kicked out... I'm even further from being an honors student..." This really wasn't sitting well with his new start of life. Andie walked closer to him and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder as she smiled and reassured him, "Come on, Deuce. You shouldn't put yourself down. Standing up for your friends is a good thing." Deuce smiled a bit feeling a bit better at her words. "Guuuugh, this collar heavy, and it hurts...." Grim wailed out, struggling to pry off the collar as he stretched his neck to try and get some air into his lungs, but to no avail.

Andie sighed out feeling sorry for her friends' predicament, "Don't worry guys, we'll find a way out of this.... But right now, I need to go somewhere to cool off..." she said, "I held my anger in for too long and I don't wanna lash it out on you guys." Andie said before walking ahead. Ace, Deuce and Grim looked at Andie worriedly. Andie took a deep breath and sighed heavily, starting to calm down as she walked through the road of the maze. She reached to her pocket and pulled out a smartie, after she did the progress of crushing it a bit and opened it one side while open it a bit on the other side, she inhale the smartie and exhale out to release a smoke cloud. Andie looked that there was a lake greeted her,

Andie:
♫ I went along my merry way ♫

Andie then approached the lake,

Andie:
♫ And I never stopped to reason ♫ 
♫ I should have known there'd be a price to pay ♫ 
♫ Someday ♫ 
♫ Someday ♫

Andie sat at the lake bank, looking at it, melancholically.

Andie:
♫ I give myself very good advice ♫ 
♫ But I very seldom follow it ♫ 
♫ Will I ever learn to do the things I should? ♫ 
♫ Will I ever learn... ♫ 
♫ Learn to do the things I should? ♫

Andie rested her chin on her palm, then suddenly she felt someone near her.

???:
♫ And the mome raths outgrabe ♫

"Huh?" Andie blinked, and turned around, trying to look for someone. Did she just hear someone hum? "Oi, Andie?" Andie closed the smartie and turned to see Ace, Deuce and Grim approaching her, "Hey guys..." Andie said softly as she put her smartie in her pocket, "Are you ok?" Deuce asked, "Yeah... I'm ok..." Andie said as she crossed her arms. It became quiet until someone broke it, but it came from an unfamiliar voice. "Y'all look so stylish with your meowtching collars~" The group looked up in confusion as they looked around, wondering who said that. Only when they looked straight ahead did they found the source of the voice... A FLOATING HEAD?!

"Buuuhh!!" The boys yelled, "Ffgyaaa!!! A floating head~~!!" Grim screamed and quickly hide behind Andie's legs in fear, Andie stared in amazement of what just happened. The floating head was grinning in amusement at their reactions and looked down to see that he was just a head. He let out a laugh as he made his entire body being shown.

He has short, choppy purple hair with his bangs cut in a curve, as well as three bobby pins pinned to the bang on the left side of his face. He has a pair of purple cat ears with a piercing of a speech bubble containing the word "up" in his left ear as well as three arrow piercings in his right ear. He has yellow eyes with slitted cat pupils. He wears a baggy white shirt over a striped purple t-shirt, and blue pants with a purple belt that has the sentence "Do you stand on your head?" printed on it. He has purple painted nails and wears a ring shaped like the Cheshire Cat's smile on his right hand.

"Oops. I fur-got to bring out my body." "W-whoa. So, you actually have a body." Deuce whispered in disbelief, "Who're you?" Deuce asked him nervously. The teen smiled wider as he introduced himself to them, "I'm Aruchemi Aruchemievichi Pinka. I'm a great enigma with magic that's both a person and like a cat." "Alche... come again?" Ace looking now confused, he tried to pronounce his name, but failed. The person chuckled, seeing his attempt, "Everyone calls me Che'nya. At the very least..." Che'nya put up his hands like cat paws, and grinned, like one would call it a "Cheshire cat's grin". Che'nya looked at Andie, "I'm on a different level than those guys in there." Andie was unsure what to say, but she murmured out, "Great.... Another weirdo...." Che'nya heard what she said as his ears perked, his grin widening as if more amused than offended. Especially since now he realized there's a girl before him. he walked up and leaned in way too close to her, "Really? Around here, this is normal. But my, my~. Now, this is a surprise, I didn't know a girl was a student here. So don't you think that a girl in an all-boy school's weird too?"

Andie blushed with embarrassment and took step back, "Th-That's... a good point, you got me there..." she admitted, "Sorry. My friends and I just had a bad day." "Yeah... Andie and I are in a bad mood thanks to the absurd situation caused by the tyrant. So outta my way." Ace said as he prepared to leave the maze when Che'nya then said, "Riddle, a tyrant... Hehehe. Well, mew're not incorrect. He's been a serious one since he was little... Hehehe." This caught the others' attention and curiosity as they looked at him in surprise. Wait, what? The way he said that... did that mean he knows Riddle personally? Deuce stepped up to him and asked, "Do you know something?" Che'nya put his hands on the back of his head, "If you think I know, then I know. If you think I don't know, then I don't." He rhymed, "Which is it?" Grim said, already getting annoyed with him.

"What's this? Do you wanna know all about Riddle?" Che'nya asked, "Yeah, I do! What kind of upbringing turns you into that kind of tyrant?" Ace demanded, Che'nya chuckled as he points in the direction of the Tea Garden. "You should ask your glasses fur-end all about it." He said, "Glasses... you mean Trey?" Andie asked, realizing who he was talking about, "He's known Riddle since he was a wee little thing. If mew wanna know about Riddle, he's the one to talk to." Che'nya said. Andie's eyes widen when she heard this. She knew there was something between them but she didn't think they were childhood friends. Considering how they behave around each other, she just thought they met sometime during their first and second years.

"They were childhood friends? It didn't seem that way at all..." Deuce remarked. "Yeah, by the way they were acting, it's a little hard to believe they used to be best friends." Andie said skeptical with her arms crossed, Che'nya giggled as he place his hands behind his head and said, "If mew think so think it must be so. So there's nothing for mew go talk to me about meow is there." Che'nya said with a wide grin as his whole body began to disappear before their eyes, leaving his head seemingly floating around. "See mew." "Ah, oi!" Deuce called out, trying to stop him but Che'nya's head bounced around in the air, humming a little song until it and his voice disappeared and faded away. "Hum hum hum~ Hum hum hum~ Hum hum hum~"

The first years looked at where Che'nya was, "Feels like encountering with the cheshire cat..." Andie murmured. "He had a weird cat-titude... Ah! I'm talking like him!" Grim exclaimed in shock, "Aren't you a cat though?" Andie blurted, "I'm not nya! Ah! I did it again!" Grim grumbled as Andie smirks at him. "If we keep these collars on, we're not going to be taking part in class. Let's go see what Clover-senpai has to say." Deuce suggested, then turn at Ace, "And..." Ace crossed his arms, "I will not apologize to get this off, so don't even say it!" Andie sighed, "You're pretty stubborn..." she murmured, looking at Ace. She took one last glance in the direction of the Tea Garden before she and the boys turned and left Heartslabyul. They weren't sure what to make of the... sudden advice they were given but they knew that, with Trey, they would get some answers.