Such a sunny day in Shokushu, and it was a few weeks right after the storm.

The gym had been the center of a clearing up operation for the past few days. It seems that a strange occurence of the newly-installed gym roof had happened, resulting in it falling down because of the storm. Engineers were puzzled, though, as it had been constructed according to safety regulations and most safety regulations had safe-guards against those storms. Add to the fact that it was newly installed, thus it should not be falling down like what had happened during that freak storm.

Then again, anything in this school had the habit of falling down on its own.

Anyways, now that the gym had been cleared safe and repaired once again, students found that day the perfect time to catch up and stretch some muscles right after being inside their dorms for so many days. Many didn't mind, though...of course, there were a whole lot of other things they can do inside the safety of their own dorms.

Although, of course, none were complaining about the perfect weather they were having. Some of the island's 'other' inhabitants did not hate it too much...it was perfect to have those students running around again.

Perfect for another hunt, that is.

The fitness centre was not a place Katarina found herself often. Typically she preferred to run outdoors or do simpler exersises in her room, but today she had decided to lift weights instead. While not a terribly muscular person, Katarina knew she needed to keep her arms and upper body in shape to play the piano well, never mind it was a habit carried over from the academy. She sat in the weight training room, lifting free weights over her shoulders in sets of ten per arm. Her face was flush red from the workout she'd finished just before coming in, running the perimeter of the campus a couple times was a daily thing for her, but it didn't make it any easier. After the third set she set the weights down on the bench and paused to take a long drink from the water bottle she had on the ground. Her mind was wondering about her next assignment in calculus, completely oblivious to the world around her as her body continued its work out essentially on autopilot.

Take a pause, day one on getting back to entrapment.

The forest had been abuzz with activity lately, after a few nights ago after the storm. The lake had since gone back to it's normal state; it did not connect to the lagoon anymore, when there had been a stream which channeled water once during the storm. The lagoon, for instance, had been a quiet place once more, when a few nights past strange sounds had been coming from within it.

There were a lot of things that had returned to normal once again, and one of them is the general appearance of the campus.

However, one such inhabitant of the campus, one of many who work unseen and do their thing unseen, had come back from relative rest. Raring to soak up more sun after quite a lot of time under shade, he had been going through the forest, trying to go after students who had fallen prey to other more capable people. Such is not to be the case he wanted, and so he continued to pursue some. Pursuance which reached its high level when he had run out of quarries, and had decided to strike closer to home.

He was on the way to one of his favourite haunts, when suddenly he heard something in the gyms, the sound of straining muscles, feminine grunts, and a whole lot of straining to lift. Decidedly he ran after the source of the sound to investigate.

Katarina let off a long sigh as she began stretching, the final step in her workout. As she did, her mind roamed about a multitude of subjects. This place was alright...though she found it odd that ever since she'd arrived she'd been having the strangest memory lapses. At one point she lost an entire day, to what she wasn't certain. The other students here were...well most were rather adventurous, making the most of an all female student body. Not that it was a bad thing, to the contrary one experience had been particularly...enlightening was the most diplomatic way her mind could put it. Incredible was the less prudent option.
Finished with her stretches, she began putting the free weights she'd used back.

There had to be a way into this building, the creature thought. He himself had been inside once before, and had a hell of a time that time. Now opportunity presented itself along with a new face and there was no way he was going to let this one pass, let alone escape.

He climbed up quickly to the roof, using leaps and bounds and being helped greatly by his ability to jump up to high places. Tentacles helped him overcome outlying beams and tree branches, and soon he found out that the roof had an access hatch in which the school's maintenance had used to repair the inner ceiling. He climbed in, of course, and found that it led directly onto the beams on the ceiling, and provided an excellent view of the floor below.

To his complete amazement, the girl was just wrapping up her exercise and was now keeping away the weights she had used. He was not too late, after all.

Slowly he slinked down, stealthily to avoid being seen, as he moved in closer.

((Apologies for my long LoA, my computer went down with an overheat problem.))

It was nice to have a fully functional gym right on campus. The thought had crossed Katarina’s mind many times before, but it never seemed to grow particularly old. There was no need to use the building’s own locker room or showers, as her dorm was a mere five minute walk away. She put the last of the weights she’d used back on the appropriate racks and collected her things into her duffel bag, mp3 player, keys, headset, and the notepad she used to track her workout schedule, after she’d written a terse note about what she’d done followed by the date. Once finished, she closed the notebook, replaced its pen, and slipped it into her bag, joyfully unaware of the other creature lurking in the room, or its malicious intent.