Edric
"Was just lying around, I guess. In the words of Mickey Mouse, it's a surprise tool that will help us later. You would not believe how much Mickey Mouse Clubhouse I've watched, the consequences of having younger siblings. Maybe I'll meet those Fifi, Pamela, Dean people later, See y'all later alligators." He commented happily as the group split off.
He didn't know why he lied about his other power, but soon he would have a good reason why as he heard flapping wings.
"Woah." He stated as he looked up at the principal, who kinda had a resemblance to an angel, with her wings.
Principal White, whose name he now knew, was giving her speech about the houses and Karma High, reminding him of those houses from those Harry Potter books that Jade had an obsession with when she was younger. He honestly had no idea what house he'd be sorted in, as his powers were a bit off the walls, but he could manage whatever challenges came his way.
"If I were to pick a house on name alone, probably Chimera. I don't know the criteria and I think hybrids are cool." He thought to himself as the principal kept speaking in a direct tone.
"I might save my secondary power for the tournament, or any villains for that matter. In fact, do supervillains even exist?" He continued brainstorming as he heard about the Autumn Karma Tournament. It was lucky that he'd hidden his other power, Pocket Dimension from Omar, but he had no idea if Jasper knew about it. That debacle would have to wait, however, as he was starving.
"Ugh, too many questions, not enough food." He muttered hungrily as he headed over to the stands and got as much delicious grilled meat and iced tea as possible, but struggled a bit to find a seat. He saw an empty table with somebody in almost all black sitting on it.
"Hey, if you don't mind, I'll just sit here." He asked politely, not attempting to disturb the person sitting there.
Maria
He was back. She had no idea how he'd find her this quickly after she fled, but she wasn't just gonna let a guy have to roam around because she was selfish. She would just have to bear it. Besides he wasn't that bad.
"Yeah, sure, I guess." She squeaked out, as Edric slid into the seat in front of her, seeming content with life. She had heard the principal's announcement, not really happy about having to potentially fight someone. Hopefully, her housemates would not be like any of her schoolmates, no matter what house she was in. She was most interested in the Siren House, as they were like mermaids.
"Hey, what's your name? I never met you before, and I'd like to socialize more." He introduced himself again, apparently.
What? That was, she'd just met him behind the dorms, what was he talking about? She was puzzled, to say the least.
"Uh, I'm Maria, sorry for ditching you back there Edric, I'm not used to people..." She replied, still in a hushed tone.
"Where? Well, I apologize for ditching you, apparently. But I'm pretty sure I haven't seen you like ever, and never told you my name." Edric looked very confused, the same as her, but that didn't make any sense. How did he not remember...
"Ugh, we finally got here, you can't believe the horde of people, if only we had a riot shield or something. Hey dude, I met a talking flamingo, you should have seen it. Anyways, who is she?" Two identical clones of Edric walked up to the table and started chatting with the Edric who was seated.
"Oh! I get it now, you're like Ditto!" She exclaimed loudly before covering her own mouth. That was so so so stupid, why did she do that? How her chances with him as a friend were ruined...
"What's a Ditto? And are you like a mind reader? Because the only person who knows our name is that talking flamingo from earlier, and whoever he met on the way here." One of the clones asked, pointing to the one in the seat.
"Oh, um, Ditto was an alien from a cartoon who can duplicate himself. That's what I meant, you can clone yourself, right?" Maria corrected herself, attempting to recover from that embarrassing situation. "My power is Animorph, allowing me to morph into animals. So yeah I was that flamingo, sorry about that."
"Yeah, that's about it. Also, that's so cool, you could turn into dinosaurs and stuff."
"Wait, wasn't Ditto like that small mole guy from that show Zach watches? Ben 10 or something like that. Anyways, we probably need to fuse back together, I'm exhausted from prepping our dorm." One of the clones stated as they fused back into one Edric.
"Whoops, sorry gotta get my heads on straight, if you know what I mean."
Wow. He knew Ben 10, huh? This was more interesting than she thought, someone with common interests as little old her. She needed to know more, but she first ate a bite of lechon and rice. It was nice for him to explain the clone situation, now all she had to do was small talk. Shouldn't be too hard right?