After school was rather different for Rio. While it was for his club, it took no place near the school. Rio was out of his school uniform, but what was used to hide his more monstrous traits he had pulled out of the outfit. He took a small crystal that was hidden within the tie, along with a thread necklace, and then tied it around his neck as he put on some new clothes. As he threaded a belt for his pants, he looked to the mirror and saw how his body looked like to other people. There was a slight smile, feeling a bit normal, and then it faded as his second pair of arms grabbed a shirt. As soon as he put the shirt on, he looked normal in the mirror again, but the feelings he had weren't as strong as before.
"Right," he sighed to himself, "I got to act normal in order to keep looking like this..." He shrugged and walked out, "Might as well keep those arms wrapped behind my back... Not like I'm not use to two arms." As he walked to leave the house, he looked to Adept who was writing at a table again, "Still, there just this... something..." He shook his head and started walking out.

Reaching the junkyard, Rio saw that Sasha was already waiting for the club. She smiled when she saw Rio, and waved with a big bat wing. Not long after Rio walked in with Sasha, and started to set the yard up; the rest of the club started to show up. Mr. Thronson came with a plaid shirt and the fox and rabbit came in some more casual wear.
"Well, I gotta say, It was what I was expecting of a junkyard, but we could certainly make somethings out of the junk here." Mr. Thronson said, "Though how experienced is everyone for this?"
"Well, we joined the club to learn more about this stuff." the rabbit said, "So it's about as good as the classes we've already taken."
"I more than you would think, Thronson." Rio said with a confidant smile, "I'll handle the metal work in making blades and the tools, maybe you could teach the two others about making handles?"
"Hold on there, Rio." Mr. Thronson said, "I like the enthusiasm, but let's make sure we know what we can make first."
"Way ahead of you, Teach." Sasha said with a smile. "Rio got here early to to help get the place set up and I was searching around for stuff we could use." She then gestured to a pile of metal scrap. Discarded car parts, old chains, rebar, and a couple of other things that were in there.
"Wait, aren't we gonna have to smelt this down or something?" The rabbit said, "That might take a while."
"Not necessarily." Mr. Thronson said, "There's ways to just hammer this stuff into the shake we need to make other stuff." He looked over to Rio, "Do you think you can do that?"
Rio just nodded to him
"Okay, I'm trusting you with that then," Mr. Thronson said, and walked through the junk yard, "You two, come with me, we're going to find things to make handles with." and he lead the other two members off through the yard.

Sasha was about to join them, but then Rio said, "Sasha, could you stay with me? I'd like you to help with a few things here while I mold the metal."
"Umm... If you say so." Sasha said, "Need me to keep the forge hot?..." From there she did was Rio said while he started to forge a few blades and takes out some rebar.
By the time The others got back. Rio had two short knives ready for them to put handles on. Mr. Thronson took them and started teaching about how to set up handles with what they had, but Rio kept swinging his hammer and turning other metals. The heat building up from both the forge and the hard work. Rio originally put it aside as he was enjoying this and wanted to make more; the more things they had, the more they could present to the principle and prove this club was worth doing. During his sixth blade, Rio finally took his shirt off and started hammer even harder. the metal this blade was made from was a lot harder then the others and needed more force. by the time he finished it, he was panting from the heat and exhaustion, then he realized the sweat on him but his shirt was gone. He still had the crustal, thankfully, and the rabbit, fox, and Mr. Thronson were all still busy adding handles to what was already made. Quickly he started to look around and realized it was being held by Sasha.
"Could I... have that back?" Rio asked, pointing to the shirt, "Please?"
Sasha didn't say anything, but her red. She still handed it back to him, and Rio quickly put the shirt back on as he walked away from the forge.
Soon after, Sasha walked over to where he sat down and sat beside him. "You doing okay?"
"Yeah..." Rio said, "...I just needed to be a little time to rest. Forge was getting pretty hot."
"That wasn't the only thing," Then Sasha's face turned red as she raised her hands, "I mean that... I was getting hot too... I might be better trying to forge in something more professional... like in the classrooms."
"I know for sure that's gonna happen after all this." Rio said, "Let's make a few more, and then I think we could help the rest of the club with the other half of work."
"Alright.." Sasha smiled and started walking on, "You'll be using both arms again?"
Rio paused at that, and looked to her, but then just started walking back to the forge. He worked with the club to finish up the knives and tools to present later on. They had about 12 blades by sundown and even their teacher was proud of what they accomplished. they all went home with a smile on their faces, but Rio would look to Sasha once and a while, he couldn't shake that last question she asked him.
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Part 26

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Sasha Banks  fuzzieredpanda

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