You dream once more while you verse...

"Avahur, stop being so thick-headed and come!"  A large, cloaked figure speaks in front of the doorway shining with light.  Soon, you move a small distance, but think more about entering.  Finally, the large figure gets sick of it and you hear him howl and begin to take his hood off.

All of a sudden you wake up, your pistol in your hand.  A cat is on top of you licking your face and you're in a soft field of grass.
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I open my eyes and get a grasp of what has happened and as I sit up after removing the cat from my chest and placing it next to me, I take out my laptop and record the events of my recent world and arrivng here then shut it back down and put it away.  Once I get a grasp of where I am I take a better look around to see waht is near me.

In front of you, you see a forest with a dirt road going through it neatly in between a gap of trees.  You follow the road behind you and see that it leads to a castle behind you.  The castle's towers are so tall that you have to look upwards to finish seeing the top of it.  It is about 200 feet off.

I figure I will head towards the castle, maybe I can find out where I am and whats going on.  But as I get close I take out my sniper rifle, assemble it and look through the scope to see if anyone is on guard on top of the castle walls, if I see no one, or no one threatening I will pack it up and continue on my way towrds the castle.

You zoom in with your sniper rifle to find the castle blurry in the gaze of the sniper scope.  However, when you point it in another direction, it works perfectly fine.  For some reason unknown, you can't use the scope to zoom in and gather information about the castle.

Hmm, thats odd, I remember sensei telling me of magics that could do that, and since I am a verser, it wouldn't surprise me if it was magic, there is no other way of explaining it.  Looks like I have to deal with some wizards or sorcerers or both....nice

I put the sniper away and approach the castle.

When you reach the gates, a poof of smoke appears in front of you.  It distracts you for a moment, and then you feel someone tap you on the shoulder, from behind you.  "Who are you and what are you doing here?"  It's a man's voice.

I turn around to face the man.

"My name is Avahur.  I came from a...distant per se land...actually I came from many lands...could you tell me where I am?"

"You're at The Academy."  The man behind you speaks.  The smoke clears and nothing at all was even inside.  It must have been just a diversion the whole time.

"The Academy? I've never heard of this place...whatever there are a lot of things I have never heard of.  What gets taught here at The Academy?"

"Nothing in your case."  He laughs some, and finishes something with a more serious tone.  "Not until you've been tested.  We have to keep our guard up just in case he comes around."

"He? who is this person you are referring to? How might one be tested to get into this academy? and even if I am not to be tested, I would still like to know what gets taught here.  By the looks of things, I woould say magic is taught here.  I know the castle is surrounded by magic, I figured that out from my lessons with my sensei."

"We don't say his name outside of The Academy.  I can test you right now, if you would like me to.  It is a test of Heart.  Would you like me to test you?"  The man asks, walking around you to your front.  He is in a white outfit, almost like a wizard's robe.  Still, he looks strong and he has some facial hair, gray from age.

"Yes I would like you to test me."

He puts his hands to each side of your face.  "Answer these questions honestly.  There is nothing to hide at the Academy.  Answer honestly and have no fear of consequence, for you will surely fail if you lie."

And so, the man's questioning began.  His eyes looked directly into yours.  "Would you betrey an ally if you thought that they could possibly kill you later on?"

"No, because if I betrayed everyone I thought could kill me later I would have no friends."

Looks like sensei's teachings came in handy..

"Have you ever tried to kill an ally?"  The man looks into your eyes indifferently to your last answer, but you can tell that you answered correctly enough.

"Yes, once.  The situation I was in was rather odd, not something most people were put in, it was either try to kill an ally, of whom I had only recently met and hadn't known much of him, and because of it, I died.. and so I went on my way and through each of my worlds still haven't mey up with him to apolagize for that."

"Would you trade the lives of those you love to save yourself from death's grasp?"  The man blinked calmly as he asked you this question.

"No, I would let death take me.."

Death already took me 9 times, dieing sucks, but its also good to leave a world, wouldn't want to trade lives though, to save myself would be to cause pain to me and to them, where as to save them would casue pain in the heart, but tehy can work through and still live their life, the life I protected by sacrificing myself when I had the chance to keep it.

"Indeed.  Now, one final question:  Would you give in to darkness to save your loved ones?"  Again, he asks it with the same kind of blandness.

"Yes I would, to save the ones that I truly love, if it was to save those that I deeply care about then yes, I would give in to anything to save them."

"Avahur, you follow your mind more than your Heart and are not worthy to enter this castle."  The man said blankly, but then smiled at you some, taking his hands away from your head.  "But no one is worthy to enter the castle when they first come inside of it."  The man simply vanished from before your eyes and the castle gates opened.

I stare blankly for a minute what just happened...shake it off and enter the castle.

Inside, you engter a courtyard of sorts, but when you look backwards, there is no wall.  There are just more fields behind you.  There are seperate buildings throughout the area, and it almost reminds you of a college campus.  What in modern terms you'd think was an administration building is along a stone road forward.

I figure that seems as logical a place to go as any, and I start heading in that direction.

As I look around I wonder what type of place this really is, and what type of magic they teach, because it isn't psionics after that display...

When you go inside, a man is sitting at a table sorting through some papers.  he is wearing a green tunic and says as you enter, "Hello sir, how may I help you?"  His eyes seem kind and have a natural aura of a good heart in them that you can't help but notice.

"Yes, Hello.  I was greeted at the front entrance by...a wizard or scorcerer I would assume, I asked where I was and he said The Academy.  Does this place train people in the Arts of Magic?  I would assume so based on that display.  Am I wrong is assuming this? If not how would I apply to get training of that sort?"

The man takes a slip of paper off of a pile and says, "Well, it all depends.  You seem interested in Magic, so would you like to go into Combat, Healing, Nature, or Conventional Magic?"  He has a pencil ready to write your information on the paper.  "Also, I need to know your name, age, and experience level in the area."

"Could you tell me the differences and what each one might imply Combta and healing are self explanatory but conventional and nature?

My name is Avahur, I am 25"

"Nature is manipulating the natural environment, and lessons on how to protect it.  It's becoming one with the world, in a sense."  He put his hand to his chin for a moment and said, thinking a little.  "Conventional is everything that would just help out here and there.  Like levitating objects, summoning them to fly to you, lighting your finger if the lights ever go out, and so on."

"Is it possible to train in more than one?"

"Yes, but it would be hard work.  A lot of people take Combat & Healing or Nature & Healing in a duel course.  What courses would you like to take?"  He asks, ready to write it down.  You see on the paper that there's a major course and a space for a minor course below it.

"I would like to train in Conventional and Healing.  I have a little bit of experience in healing, I have my own non magical ways of doing combat, conventional is well...conventional, that is my answer, conventional and healing."

"Okay now," he writes down Conventional and Healing on the sheet and hands it to you, letting you have a moment of reconsideration.  "Is everything correct, Avahur?"

I look it over and think....

"Are there any non magical courses here?"

He looks up a little, trying to think of what they are.  Finally, he takes out a clipboard, and flips a few pages in.  "Sorry, but a lot of people take magic and never even ask about the other courses.  If they take the others, they generally already know what they are."  At last, he seems to have found the right group.  "Now, let's see.  There's Chivalry/Swordsmanship, Martial Arts, Ninjutsu, and so on.  If you're interested, it might help if you tell me what kind of fighting you want to learn?"

"hmm, I'm interested in ninjutsu, is there battoujutsu as well?  I have training in battoujutsu and would like to continue it further."

He show you the cilpboard, turning it so that you can see it better.  He points at Martial Arts and you see that there are sub-categories for the lessons that are taught in that category.  "Battoujutsu is under Martial Arts-Armed Combat.  Are you interested in taking it?  Most of the time, it is better to train in certain areas until you like your level of it than taking too many courses at once."

"I would like to train in Battoujutsu, thats the only non magical course that I would like to take for now."

"I understand,"  He writes down Martial Arts (specified studies) down on your sheet below Healing.  "Okay, so are you ready to get a dorm and some new clothes now?"

"Yes I am ready for a dorm and some new clothes."

"Okay, then," the man looks down at everything, double checking stuff it seems, and he raises his hand behind him and snaps his fingers.  A door opens, and he takes you in there.  He pulls out a yellow tunic with a white trim on it.  Also, he takes out yellow pants, and a piece of rope, colored teal.  "Do you know how to put a tunic on?  You just tie the rope around it at the waste.  The extra should go below your knees.  You're required to go to classes wearing your tunic, but the pants are optional if it is a warm day."  He walks outside the room to give you some privacy for changing.

"Ok, thanks."

I put the tunic on and get comfortable in it, I also put the pants.

"There,thats better."

I walk out of the room where they guy went, putting my clothes in my pack, and carrying that with me.

The man gives you a slip of paper that says what the system of clothing has to do with classes.  It color codes the tunic, trimming, and the rope due to classes you're taking.  "Okay, we have an opening in a room with a Combat/Ninjutsu apprentice.  Is that okay-Oh, I almost forgot-speak to the teachers with the words 'Sensei', 'Master', or simply 'Sir'.  Do you understand?"

"Yes sir, it'll be just like back at the dojo.

I have no problem rooming with a ninjutsu/combat apprentice, that'll be interesting."

"Alright, then you're all set.  Don't take your things to class with you, if you don't mind.  Well, you can take the sword to Martial Arts for your training, but you won't need it here-It's safe."  He was talking to you as he led you to your dorm.  It was nice outside, but getting late.

He tells you some horror stories of how one student had mouthed off to the Combat Magic instructer, and even you couldn't help but smile some when he told you about how the student was turned into a walrus and still had to go to his chivalry/swordsmanship class to spar.  Also, the man's name is Jacob, and he's also a student here, just does administration part-time.

He leaves you at the door and tells you how to open it.  "All you do is press your hand on this white surface to the left of the doorknob to unlock it.  I'll see you later, Avahur."  He walks off out of the dorms, and you presume back to his desk.

I open the door and look around to see if my room mate is in here.  If not I will drop my stuff off and get some shut eye, if he is I'll talk to him a bit and then get some shut eye, going to start classes tomorrow.

You enter the room and find that there is in fact your roomate there.  His side of the room is kind of cluttered, but yours is pretty much spotless.  There's a chest and closet on your side of the room, along with a bed that actually looks rather comfortable.  He gets up pretty quick to greet you, taking headphones off and turning off his CD player, which you find a strange thing to have at a magical academy like this one.

"Hey, I'm Brian."  He introduces himself and offers his hand, but you get some hint of something about him that makes him different.  You sense that he's a verser.

"Hello Brian, my name is Avahur, how are you doing?"

((to save posts and time, I assume we can get through the whole introductions part..))

"So Brian, how did you get here?"

I sense the same thing when I met up with Thomas and Krillis, so I assume he's a verser.  This'll be interesting.

"Uh.."  He starts off, and then says, "I'm from a far-off city.  I journeyed here a few weeks ago and arrived three days ago on Friday."  You can easily see that he's lieing to you, or trying to hide something.

"Brian, that is some of the worst lieing that I have ever heard.  How did you really get here?"

Brain smiles some, and seems somewhat happy that you saw through his lie.  "I honestly don't know how I got here.  I've been knocked out twice and taken to two random places it seems."  He has a simple look on his face, but finishes, "Lucky me, they don't take away my things when I go from place to place.  I stocked up on batteries before whoever does this did it again.  I should be set for my CD player for a while."
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"Knocked out? I assume you died then in that case, am I right?  Well, that would make you a verser..eh you get used to it after a while."

"Wait, but if I died, then I wouldn't be alive."  He says simply, with a look that he thinks that you might be a little crazy.  "What is a verser, anyways?  You could be speaking chinese for all I know using words like that."

"A verser is one who dies, and is reborn essentially as they go from world to world.  You died, and went to a strange place when you woke up with all your stuff.  You versed.  I have died like 9 or 10 times so far, but after each world I have brought items, weapons, abilities, and knowledge to my next world.  When you die, normally your dead and you don't come back to life, but when you are a verser, when you die you just wake up in another world with your belongings, so long as they are close to you."

I take a few moments for him to soak it all in.

"Lemme explain my story.

First I was just a simple Game Designer going to my job everyday like I had been, I practiced Battoujutsu and became pretty decent at it, and then one day I died.  I woke up in an ice filled world, nothing really happened there, but I met up with someone who explained to me what versing is.  Then I versed to a world where it was Ninja vs Samurai..."

And so I explain what being a verser is and all the worlds and experiences I have had, leaving out certain parts that would make me appear too evil, like the stuff in the last world leaving them to die, I left that part out atleast for now, until I can get to know more about him and whether or not I trust him, maybe I will tell him the truth.

"heh, well I guess that makes sense," He scratches the back of his head a little smiling.  He seems to have already accepted the fact that he is a verser.  In your conversation, you find that he's 19.  Brian talks to you about how in his first world he'd just moved into a new house and the power went out.  He died by getting shocked by the breaker box.

In his other world, he talks about how it seemed like everything was communist or something.  He just bought a bunch of batteries and was caught without papers, getting himself shot.

After that, he looks at his watch and finds that it's about 11:30 and he needs to get up for Combat Magic tomorrow.  On your chest, you find that there was a schedule for your next day.  You were to go to Conventional Magic and then to your Martial Arts training.  Finally, before the day's over, you go to learn Healing Magic.  On the back is a map of the campus.

I get some sleep keeping my internal clock in check, like at the bases and set it so tht I would get up about an hour or so before my first class. sensei taught me of this and I honed it at the bases, I should be good, lets see how good sensei's trainign really was.

You wake up about half an hour before you need to get to your first class of the day.  The other guy is getting into his closet and changes his tunic with another one.  He is wearing a red tunic, red trim, and a black rope around it.

I make sure I have my tunic on, and start following the map over to my first class, and make sure I use the words sensei, master, or sir, when adressing them.  Along with me in a pocket in the pants I pack along my shurikens, just in case.
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You get into the class and find that the class isn't as large as you thought it would be.  There's about sixteen people in the room.  You one of the many open seats, in the second row.  Everyone there ranges from young to one or two older than you are.  They all have yellow either on their main tunic or in the trim.

Someone with a yellow robe enters the room and starts speaking.  "Conventional Magic is used for basic needs, some of which you could do yourself.  This includes enchanting objects to move, summoning them to you, and creating food or drink, including transforming its essence into another form."  He talks blandly, and doesn't seem to really care about this.  "If you can master these five spells overnight, then you will move on to a higher level, depending on how effective they are."

Then, he does a complex hand movement, and snaps his fingers.  A chalkboard appears behind him and he picks up some chalk and starts writing things down.  The five spells appear to be: "To summon flowers:" Florae, "To hover an object in the air:" Pendeo, "To open what is closed:" Aperio, "And to alter something's color:" Colos.  The man says, "You may ask me for help with these spells if you need it.  I will tell you the last spell at the end of class that you must use private study to figure out.  Go ahead and begin."

I go over to the teacher and ask, "Sensei, yould you be able to show me how to perform each of the hand motions to perform them all."

I pay attention intentively and commit them all to memory as I see them then go over to practice them.

"For the flowers, it would be good to have your hand in a position to hold them.  For levitation, simply focus on the object, though it would help to have your hand pointing at it.  You'll rank higher if you can do it without pointing, though.  For opening something and changing the color, the same apply as levitation does.  The difference for changing the color of something is if you move your hands around the object, it would be easiest."

Then, he decides to tell you more about hand motions, "These are the first spells you will learn, and no hand motions exsist for the stage that you are doing.  You can use these spells by simply saying the words.  Hand motions just increase the strength; however, as I said: you will get higher ranks in it if you can do it effectively without hand motions."

"Thank you, sensei."

I decide that I will go over into the corner and first practice summoning the flowers.

Using my skilled concentration honed from battoujutsu and training I work on summoning the flowers.

On your first try, you manage to summon a rose and a couple dandilions.  The teacher calls out as you all are practicing, "Remember that all of these spells can be manipulated into different forms with your mind.  Control is key when it comes to these spells.  Levitate something too quickly just to have it fall and you won't get as many points as if you can keep it at a certain height.  So on with controlling what flowers you will summon, and how quickly you open doors and chests.  Control is key to your magic."

This time I try again and I try to summon 3 red roses. Then concentrating and levitating them.

You summon one red rose, but there at least aren't any weeds among them.  You had seen that one student summoned twenty blades of grass that just fell on top of his head.  After a few more tries, you get three perfect roses in your hand.

When you have to roses in your hands, you softly speak the spell to levitate them.  At first, they shoot up quickly, but you catch them with your mind and lower them slowly to a point.  Your mind feels soft right now, not as rigid as normally.

I empty my mind keeping focused and remembering this mental state, and try to levitate the flowers a bit and make sure I have control of them.  If I do I concentrate on them and try to change their color to lavender if so or any other color really, then I deliver them to my sensei, as long as in the porcess of changing them they don't turn black, if so I keep working on going to lavender, the color of royalty.

You change it to lavender quite easily, picturing the rose in your mind and seeing it become that before your eyes without even using your hands.  It begins changing red again, and so you use more of your concentration to keep it lavender.

Slowly, you levitate the flowers further and further towards the teacher.  About 1/4 of the way there, you lose control and they fall to the floor, still lavender.  You begin levitating it again and they make it on a flawless path to the instructor.  He was reading a paperback book when you lowered the flowers to land softly in his lap.  He closes the book and does some hand signals.  A soft radient light follows the flowers' path back to you, and he signals for you to come up to him.

I walk over to the teacher and when I arrive,

"Yes sensei?"

"You seem to catch on quickly."  Now, he doesn't seem as absent-minded.  "You might even move onto the real teacher by tomorrow.  I expect you to have a very impressive display, do you understand?  Eevn if it's great, if you're not the best in the class tomorrow, you're not moving up to the next sensei."

He gestures towards a boy that was surrounded by a group of boys and girls.  He was levitating multiple flowers around him and trying to line them up as a door to open.  They kept on falling, but he didn't look like he was going to give up any time soon.

"There are some students who have been on this level for a little while, and that time means everything sometimes."

"I see, well sensei, this is my first class, and though I haven't done much magic before, except for a little bit of healing that I learned from merlin, I am not surprised those that are here before me are able to do more than me.  I will keep at it though, and will take my leave now."

I return to where I was and close my eyes, I go into a state of pure concentration.  Taking in all that I have learned,  concentrating and ignoring all outside noise and leaving just me.

As I open my eyes I continue concentrating and then..

"Florae"

As I try to summon another rose, and when it appears I repeat getting 5 of them summoned.  I focus on all of them as a group and line them up.  Increasing my concentration to its limit, leaving only me and the flowers, as everything else fades away, if they fall I relevitate them and have them in position 2 laying down, then one straight up, then 2 more laying down.  --|--  using the one straight up as a post for the two after it to open them as a fence would, and I continue trying and trying until I can get them lined up and concentrating as I did when I advanced to the next level of battoujutsu,  and when they get into a line, I chancge their colors to pink and then say the spell to open the fence.

I concentrate like I had done back at the dojo letting no noise in and keeping everything else barred out leaving only me and my targets.

You focus yourself on zoning out of the classroom, focusing yourself to remove all noises from entering you.  For a few moments, you zone out, but suddenly you hear clapping over where the other boy is showing off.

Still, you focus on summoning the roses.  Your first attempt is a failure, but you get it right afterwards.  You slowly then levitate the flowers into position.  You get the ones on their sides up, but as you're putting the last one into position, your concentration breaks and they all fall to the floor, and vanish.

Agrivated, you look around the room some, and notice something that you hadn't before.  There is a young woman, about 15-17 you'd say, laying her head down sleeping on her desk.

Right then, the teacher says, "Class is over.  The final task is to combine some or all of the spells in an attempt to prove your mastery over them."

With that and as everyone leaves class I join them.  When I get back to my dorm I take off the current rope and put on my teal one.  When the time comes I head off for my battoujutsu class, bringing my soord along with me.
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Avahur:

You head off to your battoujutsu lessons and easily find the Martial Arts building.  The room looks like a normal training room, with the whole floor covered in blue mats.

When the class begins, you fall in with the rest of the students.  You recognize two from your Conventional Magic.  One is just a random man, about 19-23 years old, and the girl that had been sleeping in ths class.  The sensei looks around and finds your face.  He is holding a piece of paper and says, "Avahur, you specially requested this branch of Martial Arts.  Do you have training with battoujutsu?"

"Yes sensei I do.  I had trained for about 5 years or so in Battoujutsu, and wish to continue my training here."

I wait for a reply.

"Well, no one here is that experienced in battoujutsu, not even myself.  I am just a Student Martial Arts Sensei, and only have three years of battoujutsu under my belt.  I'll test you to see your skills.  If you're too good, we'll have to see what we can do about improving your present skills."

The man got into position in the middle of the room as the others backed away.  They went up against a wall to get out of the way and watch.  The man waited for you to get into position.  "Come at me, and we'll see how well those five years have done for you."

"Yes, we'll see how good my sensei was at teaching me."

I got into position and put on my semi heartless glare, signinfying that I was focused on winning, in a duel, and because it was a duel I wouldn't try to kill him, but I would win.

I walked over in front a good distance away and charged..

Yesm Krillis I am attacking him.

Malachai:

The last thing you remember from your last world is the sensation of pain running through your body, and then just one quick pain through your head.  Pollux shot you, knowing that you're a verser, to relieve you of the painful death.

Then the dream came.  At first, you were confused at the reality of this dream, but slowly, you began to realize that you were supposed to be there.  You were fighting someone, cloaked.  He had a katana in hand and you merely your hunting knife.  You charged at him again and again, but he easily knocked you to the ground with counter after counter.  He began to remove his hood, and then you awoke.

You wake up in what seems to be a modern bathroom.  The dream had hit you hard, and you felt nausia.  You quickly went into a stall and threw up, dropping your plastic bag of water you had stored from your last world.


Avahur:

You charge at the man and bring your sword out fast on his left side as a trap.  He sees it with ease and brings his sword out almost as quickly to block any attack.  Then, you raise your sheathe as he does so and hit him accross his face, from your left to right.  He drops his sword and falls unconcious.

The people in the classroom are looking at you, and start coming over to you.  They are obviously impressed with your quick victory over their sensei.  The same girl from Conventional Magic leans against the wall and nods once at you, showing that she was impressed as well.  She sits on the floor and begins meditating.

Groggily picking up the water that had spilled, I flush the toilet and stand up, turning around in one smooth motion as I do so.  "Versing just doesn't get easier with age, Mal," I say to myself as I stumble outside the stall and rinse my hands off.  "Might as well figure out what this place is about," I mumble quietly as I step out of the washroom.

I wait for the sensei to get up and mean while go over to the girl that started meditating.

"Hey, I saw you in the conventional arts class, by the way you are meditating I am sure it helps with concentration, I did a bit back at the dojo where I trained...I assume you'll go to the next level tomorrow? It looks like you know what you are doing, so I think it would be easy for you to progress.  My name is Avahur, what's yours?"

Malachai:

You walk to the door and see that it is pink.  Still, you have nowhere else to go and open it, walking through the threshold into another tiled room.  You see shower stalls and a female body behind one of them.  You can tell from the shadow showing through the glass.  Soon, you notice that all three that are occupied have females in them.


Avahur:

The group of other students look curiously as you go over to the girl.  Many of them follow behind you as you speak.  She opens her eyes slowly, revealing dark brown eyes.  She has long black hair and is of asian descent.  She looks up at you and says, "I am Alison Cheng."  Her voice is strangely almost silent, and she looks at you as if she can see inside of your soul, or rather your almost lack of one (in some peoples' eyes).

"Ah, snap," I whisper to myself as I duck behind the corner.  "Just my luck... I think."  Mulling over my options, I decide to try sneaking by as fast as possible.  I'll try to be quiet, but if it's an option between running and getting seen... I'll run.

OoC: *shakes fist at j00*

"Alison, eh? It's a pleasure to meet you Alison."

I go over to the wall near her and close my eyes and do a wall sit.

Malachai:

You hear the girls talk about some "Conventional Magic Course" and how they know they're going to fail the test tomorrow in it.  After walking slowly some by them, trying to get to the next door, you slip on the watter, cursing under your breath.

They stop talking for a moment, but soon begin their discussion again on some sort of spell that they can't quite master.  Finally, it seems that you make it to the door without getting caught.  You're about to open it as the knob turns under your hand.


Avahur:

"Indeed,"  She replies, and returns, lowering her head and meditates.  There are specifically three guys around you, offering their hands to shake yours.  They're all smiling, and some laughing a little as they try to talk, still amazed.  The three seem to know eachother, and are about the same age, all about 20ish.  The rest of the class is over by the sensei, gossiping while waiting for him to wake up.

I shake their hands figuring, in a place like this, I shouldn't make too many if any at all enemies, in which case I shake their hands and if they have any questions, while remaining in a wall sit, I will answer a few..

I mutter a curse under a breath and turn around, dashing quickly back the way I came.  I round the corner into the girls' area and try to duck into a stall if at all possible.  If a quick glance into the room says that's a no-no, I'll try somehow making it back to where I came into this world.  This is not my day... not my day at all...

Malachai:

You start dashing back for the other room, but hear a scream halfway there.  All of a sudden, you feel your footsteps harder to take and your head falling to the floor quickly.  You land on the side of your face on the floor, unable to life any of your limbs.  An amazing pressure of gravity is on you, and it hurts like crazy, almost as bad as being eaten alive.


Avahur:

You find that their names are David (20 years old), Logan (17, but mature), and Derek (19).  Their only real question is how you did it and where you learned how to do that kind of stuff.  They obviously can't understand how someone beats the sensei in the first attack on the first day of training at the Academy.

"Hurnkz!"  I curse as I fall to the ground.  "Haha, okay, you got me," I say jokingly to whoever just did that.  "Why don't we play nice now and all make some muffins?  Hmm?  You like muffins, don't you?  I sure do.  A nice blueberry muffin would hit the spot right about now."  I try and move my eyes to see what just happened.  "Come on... who doesn't like muffins?"  I grit my teeth against the pain, trying to act calm.
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"Well, I was taught in the technique known as Battoujutsu except I learned a variant, its a bit more difficult to learn, but once you do, you can show up the sensei on day one...hehehe.  I was taught...in..another..town per se.  My village is very far away from this place, not accessible by normal means.  I was trained there and that is where I learned some of what I know, the rest is from being in combat..."

And I continue doing my wall sit.
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Malachai:

You feel the weight increase even more, and some of your joints pop from it, but nothing dislocates and everything stays togeather, for now.  You hear a voice above you now, a girl, as you anticipated.  "Shut up!  What are you doing in here?"


Avahur:

You see them just nod as you speak, somewhat dazed by your explaination.  They seem like they want to learn, but don't ask you for it-at least not now.  Instead, the three of them get on the wall to the right of you and do wall-sits with you.

"Well, you see, that's kind of a long story--haha!"  I attempt laughing as the pain inreases.  "It all started when I was 7 years old and my mother bought me a can of cheese."  This better work... I think as I attempt to summon my water sprite.  If he appears, I get him to preform the anti-gravity spell I learnt back in Motown.  Otherwise... bye-bye Mal... again.

I continue doing the wall sit to further increase my leg muscles.

"I think someone should try to wake the sensei up, if anyone knows a creat water spell, or something of the sort, it might be good to wake him up.  As much as I would like to let him sleep for a while, I would still like to apolagize for that, he said for me to show him what I can do, and so I showed him a bit...."

Malachai:

You summon the water sprite before you, in front of your face, and convey your orders to it.  He looks at you, and you feel like the weight is decreasing, and then you can feel it fail as you slam to the ground again.  The sprite decides to go with a different tactic to help you, and flies into the girl's face, shooting water out at her.  You feel the gravity release you.

The girl says, "What is that thing?"  She is holding a towel over her as she tries to gover her face some with her spare hand.  You hear the other girls calling out to her, "Jess, what's going on out there?"


Avahur:

David nods some, and goes over to the sensei.  He slaps the man some, and the sensei wakes up quickly, suprised to see David above him and pain on his cheek.  "What happened?"  The sensei seems slightly dazed, but you can tell that he's regaining his composure quickly.
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I jump up quickly and survey the situation.  "Sorry girls, gotta dash."  If I see a possible opening through the door I'll dash through it and call my sprite after me.  If not, I'll run back to where I versed and look for a window or something (worst comes to worst I can hold the door shut while I think of something).

I walk over to him,

"Well sensei, I took you out in the first swing, and you have been passed out since then..."

Malachai:

You see the door open and nothing in your path, so you bolt for it.  When you're almost onto the carpet, you slip on the wet tile (from the sprite spraying the girl), and fall onto your face.  The wind is knocked out of you and you feel slightly dazed.  The sprite is behind you, almost like it's guarding you.


Avahur:

The sensei gets up and glares at David for a moment, and then nods to you.  "Right, well, Avahur...If you could take over for me for a moment, I need to go speak to my higher-up.  Can you handle that?"

"Sure, what should I do? Rather, where did you leave off?"

As I look around to see who else I have in my company.

Landing on my face, I quickly roll to my side (whichever's more open ground to the side) and jump up on my feet as fast as I can before continuing my run.  As I do, I tell my sprite to continue soaking the ground behind me.

A little dizzy, but I'll keep going best I can.

Malachai:

You jump up easily, though you feel dizzy, and you run out through the door and into the hallway.  The only way to go is to the right, a crowd of girls the other way in all different dress wear.  Your sprite soon joins you, looking to cover your back, but not shooting out water anymore.  You can feel yourself constantly tripping as you go, and you reach a door that leads to stairs going down.


Avahur:

The sensei blinks some, and he seems fully togeather again.  "We just started yesterday, so start from the beginning, the VERY beginning.  Some of them have special swords, but for those without, you can find some in a trunk in my office in the back of the room."  He hands you a key and leaves the room.

All of them are looking at you, accept for Alison, but you feel like she's listening intently while meditating.  They look like they're waiting for you to do something.

"Down, down, down!"  I say to myself as I begin my rapid descent down the stairs.  Whenever there are 4 stairs left to the next landing, I jump it to save time.  "Come on, more water!  Soak these stairs!"  I tell my sprite as I continue my descent.  I go as far down the stairs as possible that there's a door to leave (and preferablly not into a basement if I can tell; main floor please!).

"OK....Who here has their own sword?"

I go get swords for the ones that don't, and I look around the office when I get in there to see what he's got...

((I don't plan on taking anything, just curios.))

Malachai:

You run down the stairs, and feel like you're recovered from the dizziness fully.  In this state, you almost feel like you didn't have to even tell the water sprite to soak the stairs, like he would have known to do so without a word from you.  He shoots jets of water on the stairs behind you, but the power was too much and he loses control, shooting some in front of you, and you feel that he ran out of water completely for now.

You dodge the water by jumping the rail and get down to what you presume is the main floor, because there's a set of double doors and the same old single door, that you presume would lead to another hallway of rooms.  There are more stairs down, but they aren't lit very well, it seems.


Avahur:

Only two people raise their hands.  Alison, who is still meditating, and a boy in the crowd that hadn't approached you.  He had your same look about him, but to a further extent.  The boy, about 17 years old, didn't look like he cared about anyone else there.

In the office, you find in the trunk many swords, but some are blunt.  They clearly were just meant for training, and nothing serious to defend.  Still, some seemed like good swords.

Other things in the office included a clipboard of people in the class, your name at the bottom with an ability rank of "unknown."  You look in one of his drawers and find shurikens inside.  There were also five huge logs in his office, which were obviously hit numerous times by weapons and fists.  The students outside look like they're getting impatient with waiting.

I thank my sprite for his serivces and dismiss him quickly to let him rest.  Almost immediately afterwards I dash through the double doors and keep on running, looking for a way out.
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I take all of the dull ones and hand them out, and take the clipboard to see whos who, and find out who that boy is.

Malachai:

You run out the double-doors and see light.  The sprite is gone now, and you look around for something.  You are in green fields, with buildings connected by stone pathways.  There is another building directly accross from the one that you're at, but there's another that you turn right on the stone path to reach.  It is larger, and looks like it would be an administration building, or central complex of the place.


Avahur:

You take roll of everyone there, discovering that the boy's name is Ajax.  His sword has a black blade on it, but looks just as sharp as yours.  Alison's is normal, but with a teal sheath and handle.  Hers has some feathers on a string at the bottom end of the handle.

Everyone collects swords from you, and they wait for further instruction.

I look towards the administration-y building and decide it would be as good a place as any to find out about this world.  I sprint over there, but stop just before the door and pause for a second to catch my breath.  Glancing over my shoulder to see if anyone's following me, I step through the door and investigate my surroundings.  If someone's there, I'll ask where exactly I am.

"Everyone wait right here for a moment, Ajax follow me for a minute."

We go seperated from the group..

"Alright Ajax, I can clearly see you don't care at all about anyone in here.  Why?  Is it that you think you are above them? Or perhaps you think that they are no match for you?  How much skill do you posess? and where did you get this blade."

As I say this I go into a more heartless state and tighten my grip on my sword, anyone that has a similar look to me, is bound to try and pull something...

Malachai:

You look back to find that four girls, in full clothing, are chasing after you towards the Admin Building.  You walk inside to find a man there.  He smiles at you and says, "Are you interested in applying for class here at the Academy?"


Avahur:

Ajax replies simply, in a emotionless tone.  "I think nothing.  I do not believe myself superior to these people.  I simply wish to further my training, and that is my main goal.  I'm not here to make friends."  He then looks down to his sword.  "I got this as a gift from my father.  He summoned it for me, and imbued it with darkness."

The others are whispering to one another, and seem like they spot some sort of resemblance in personality between the two of you.

"Ahh, then you are here for a similar purpose as I, I came here in this class to further my training.  How much skill do you have? If you had to rank it? Do you take any other non magical or magical courses?"

"Why, yes, as a matter of fact, I am," I say to the man as I walk towards the front desk.  "I do believe I would be honoured to take a class here.  Ah... what courses do you offer, perchance?"  While he may not, I'm hoping this guy will save my but when those girls get here.

Malachai:

"Well we offer courses in Magic which are Conventional, Healing, Nature, and Combat Magic."  He says, and gets a questioning look on his face, looking past you.  He keeps on talking though, as he signals some girls to come inside.  They're in red tunics with red trim, one with white trim.  One has a teal rope to tie it off while the other two have black ropes on.  "Our non-magic courses include Chivalry/Swordsmanship, Ninjutsu, and Martial Arts."

His eyes are cocked some, and you look back to see the girls are glaring at you.


Avahur:

"Avahur, you need to come with me outside of The Academy, and you need to come now."  Ajax's voice seemed emotionless still, but it sounded more like a demand than a simple request.  He had ignored your question entirely.  In your perifreals, you see Alison grip the handle on her sword, something not settling well with her.  She has been standing next to the group calmly and motionlessly until now.
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I look behind me and then look back, shrugging slightly as I do so.  "What exactly is the conventional magic?  And nature, for that matter.  I think I'll definetely take combat magic, though.  Swordsmanship... full-sized swords or smaller blades as well?"  I do my best to appear innocent.

Equally emotionless..

"Hold on Ajax, you know just as well as I do, that we could duke it out here and now, but we might get distracted, where are you really from? and Why should we leave the Academy temporarily?"

"Answer this!"

Malachai:

"Forget it, Jacob!"  One of the girls says, as she points at you.  "He snuck into our dorms!"

The man in front of you, who you assume they were talking to, says, "What do you mean 'snuck in'?  He's clearly an outsider, so how would he even get into your dorms without me knowing about it.  Actually, how did you get into The Academy without me getting told about it?"


Avahur:

Something bugs you about this boy now, more so than before.  Your gut is telling you that he's very bad news, almost as bad, or maybe even worse news than you are.  "You will come with me, Avahur, if I have to drag you out of this place."  He grips the handle of his sword, with an emotionless look about his face.  He doesn't even seem to have a commanding presence, or passion, or anything.

"Snuck in?"  I cock my eyebrow.  "Miss, I honestly don't even know where I am... or was."  I laugh slightly.  "All I can say is that I woke up there, found you, and tried to slip out withotu alarming anyone.  It seems I failed in that."  I shake my head, smiling.  "I didn't mean any harm, but you starting to crush me like that... I got a little scared, ya know.  Had to defend myself and all that jazz."

"What Academy is this exactly, perchance?"  I keep my smile on the whole time, regardless if they seem confused or not.

I go into a full heartless stance... and while not leaving my postion take my hand and point at alison and motion her to come over here.

"Well, I must say I have no problem killing you right here and now, who is your father? Soon, not today but soon you and I will leave this academy, and then and only then can we finish our business, meanwhile while class is in session you keep quiet and let me teach these imbeciles something about battoujutsu."

When alison gets over..

"Alison, keep an eye on him, and if he does anything remotely threatening to me, you, or any other student lemme know and use whatever magic you need whether it is levitaion to keep him in the air until I can come over and help or something else.  Me and him have issues to discuss at a later date but make sure he doesn't try anything while I teach."

Talking to both of them.

"Do you both understand?"

Malachai:

Jacob looks to the girls and says, "Hey, don't worry about it.  We'll figure this out.  Just go back to your dorms, and let me handle this, okay?  I'll message the Lord of the Castle about this, so we have it covered."

The girl up front smiles at Jacob, saying, "Fine, thanks, Jacob."  The four of them leave the two of you there.

Jacob then looks at you and says, "So, where were we?"


Avahur:

When you start turning your back, Ajax says in his normal emotionless tone, "I care nothing for these people.  I only want you to come with me, now."

When you turn around, you see Alison gripping her sword as well, but towards Ajax.  "Avahur, something isn't right about him.  There's something wrong with his heart.  I can't see it.  Even yours has some light shining from it, but his isn't even there."

"Yeah, ummm... I was wondering what conventional magic was.  And nature magic.  And, possibly, what types of blades swordsmanship covers."  I put my hands in my pockets, feeling my knife comfortably under my jeans as always.  I whistle quietly for a second as I wait for Jacob to respond.  "Name's Malachai, by the way.  Malachai Vanek."

"Ahh so you can see the evil and light in people's hearts, eh? Yeah its true I've got a little light, and I don't doubt he is worse than me.  But I like that, it'll be nice facing him off.. Alison what spells do you know?  I've got a feeling we might need to do something."

I whisper to her, "stay on your guard, I've killed many people before, but I can tell he's killed countless more than I have, or if he hasn't then his father has, and it runs through him."

Malachai:

"Well, Malachai, Conventional Magic is using magic for things such as opening doors, enchanting things to come to you, and so on.  Nature Magic is what you'd imagine a druid using."  Jacob then looks to his clipboard and says, "Swordsmanship is coupled with Chivalry.  It is a Knightly course, so longswords and greatswords would be the weapons there."

He takes out a piece of paper and writes your name down.  "What courses would you like to sign up for?  You can take one main course, or you could take multiple courses.  I have to recommend three max, or you could be overrun with work.  Also, I need your age."


Avahur:

Alison whispers to you, "I don't know that many spells.  I usually study after the classes at night time, with my father's help, though I usually end up doing it on my own anyways."

Ajax would seem impatient if the tone of his voice had changed, but it stayed the same as always.  "Avahur, this is your last warning.  You will come with me or I will force you to, which may result in this girl's pointless death.  She won't be safe in death, like you will."

I mull over my options for a few seconds before deciding.  "I think I will take combat magic and healing magic... but I'm kind of stuck on a third... and I definetely want to take three."  I pause and mull over my options.  "Explain ninjitsu and chivlary more, please."  I think for a second about my age.  I was 16 last I checked... but I've been versing for a long time... meh, whatever.  "I'm 17."
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AHH, I want to protect Alison, but I also want to kill this kid.  If I kill him now I probably won't get more training, but if I don't Alison might die.  This sucks..Hmm...Well.  If I run now and grab Alison he can attack and get us both, but if I agree I'd be leaving the students alone and I have been trusted with a duty...damn.

I think I will send Alison to teach them while I talk to this kid outside, but I might run back inside and turn around quickly using my leg muscles from all those wall sits..then I can have Alison guard me as well..  Hmm this is a tough choice.. Normally I would strike out and kill this kid, but in a place like this, it isn't something I should do...  Who let this kid in here anyway? he's worse than I am... Ok this'll be tough..

"Ok I will go outside with you, but lemme take care of things first.

Alison start teaching the kids the basics.  Or atleast explain to them the situation, and send someone ahead of us to find the instructor and get him back here.

I will follow you, I haven't been here enough to know my way around, you lead and I will follow."

As soon as we get towards the door I am gonna turn around and dart towards Alison and assume a position ready to attack if he charges...Fully heartless ready to kill him.

Malachai:

"Well, think of the Chivalry/Swordsmanship course as Knighthood.  It focuses you on the three bases of Chivalry, commitment to certain aspects of life, including the Lord God.  Ninjutsu is more so assassins.  It will include archery, explosives, more free form of sword and knife fighting, as well as some sort of ninja magic."  Jacob said, having his pen ready to write down the third course that you wanted.


Avahur:

Logan is sent out of the room for the instructor, and then you follow through with your plan.  You run back to block his path to Alison, and stand ready to fight.  Ajax says, "So be it.."  with no emotion.  He then charges you, and you prepare your counter attack.

You both release your swords lightening-fast with one another, but you push his back and sheathe it back so as to be ready to draw it again, just as fast.  He is now holding his sword in a different position, above him and facing towards you, holding it with both hands.

I go more heartless than I ever had before and....

My eyes widen as he goes over ninjutsu.  Everything except archery sounds amazing...  "I'll take ninjutsu as my third course, please."

Malachai:

"Okay, Malachai.  Go into that room,"  A door opens to the left of the room, and he keeps on talking.  "and change into a red tunic, white trim, and a black rope to tie around it.  There should be red pants with the tunic as well.  Pants are optional on hot days."


Avahur:

The two of you charge one another with battoujutsu once more, and get in a lock, pushing on one another.  He pushes hard against you, but you manage to push him to the floor and stab into the ground at him.  Ajax has the same emotionless face as you stab him.  He turns completely black, including clothes and skin.  With the same emotionless face, he loses his energy and is scattered into a shadow on the floor, that breaks up and dissipates.

"Sure thing," I say to Jacob as I walk into the room.  I take my clothes off and put them down, unsure of where to leave them.  Eh, he'll probably deal with them.  I put on the pants over my knife and then grab the rest of the clothes and put them on.  Walking out, I ask Jacob what next.

I put my sword away...

"You got served!" I say to the floor as he dissipated.

I turn to Alison.

"Alison?  I'm rather sorry oyu had to see that, not something these kids should see on their second day.  I know, that you can see the darkness of my heart with a bit of light, but its all there for a reason, and if it wasn't there I couldn't do that."

To everyone else,

"Alright! Everyone, Class is dimissed, there has been enough today, I or Alison can explain stuff tomorrow."

I go and collect the swords.

"Maybe I can show you some of my style too... ^_-"

Malachai:

He picks up his clipboard and flips to a page near the back when you get back.  "Well, this was unexpected, and it turns out that there are no rooms available in the Boy's Dorm.  The last one got filled yesterday.  So would you mind staying in the Girls's Dorm.  It would be an empty room, and I think that there is one right next to the door.  You'd need to run over to the Boy's Dorm to shower and such, but you'd have to sleep in the Girl's."  Jacob smiles some and waits for your reply, saying, "I swear, it isn't my fault.  It's just how the cards fell this time."


Avahur:

Even though you say that, David and Derek come up to you and start questioning what just happened, and what that thing was.  As you're picking up swords from people, you can't help but notice Ajax's blade on the floor where he fell.  Alison had left the class quickly, before the other students even, and the only ones remaining were Derek and David.

I shrug.  "No big deal, I'm fine with that.  I'm sure I'll manage."  I'm just wondering if I'll last intact... these girls are psycho.  Not that I can blame them, though.

I look down at my empty hands.  "Don't really have anything to put away or nothing.  What now, then?"

Malachai:

Jacob nods and takes you with him to the Girl's Dorm.  You go inside and go through a door on your right, into a hallway.  There is a room directly to your right as you go through.  It is the closest door to the exit.  He says, "Put your hand on it like this," and he puts his hand on a white rectangle on the door, and you hear it unlock.  "Have a nice time."

You go inside and find two beds, plain.  There are average white sheets and blankets on them.  There is a chest at the end of the bed and a closet on each side.

I go into the room and look around after shutting the door and inspecting the locking mechanism.  Cool...  I move over to one of the beds and sit on it, trying it out.  "Do I just stay here for the rest of the day or what?"  I ask Jacob as I walk over to the chest and closet to check those out.

I look to David and Derek...

"So? What do you want to know?"

As I put the swords away, I collect Ajax's and keep it on me, as a trophy, and as a nice blade in general...a sword imbued with dark magic, will be a nice tool to deal with...unwanted company.

Malachai:

Jacob responds, "You're free to go around campus if you like, but don't go exploring these Dorms, or you might not get so lucky as last time."  You check out the chest and find that it's empty.  The closet on your side has tunics just like yours, as well as a few spare black ropes to tie around.  There are also some red pants inside too, just like yours.


Avahur:

The two boys simply ask, "Well, what happened?  Should we report this?"

At that moment, Logan came back with the a man in a teal robe and a black rope around his waste.  He looks about 40, but still strong and says, "What happened here?  Where are the students?"

"Sir, I was left in charge after beating the current sensei here, and due to an incident I dismissed the students.  I would like to know who you are sir, and would also, depending on who you are, perhaps talk to you about the incident that occured here."

Turning to Derek and David..

"Guys, I'll take care of things here, go to your next class or your dorms, don't bother reporting it, I'll do that myself, as I know the full story."
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Avahur:

They leave the room, and then the man talks to you alone in there.  "I am Head Sensei of Martial Arts at this Academy."  He looks at you strangely, like something about him already points to you as the one responsible for all of this.  "Who are you, and where did you get that blade?"  His eyes grew narrower with the second question that he asked, seeming more serious than before even.
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"My name is Avahur I just arrived here yesterday and this is my first day of classes.  I came here after my conventional magic class, and the sensei asked my if I had previous experience, I did, and he challenged me.  So I did, and knocked him out in the first swing, he parried my sword, like in any battoujutsu technique, but due to studying Double Battoujutsu, I came up with my sheathe as I trained and hit him in the face knocking him out for a while.

When he woke up he left me in charge saying he was going to talk to his superior.  In which case I went, after he gave me the keys, to his office and got swords out for everyone, the duller ones of course.  Myself, Alison, who was also in my conventional magic class, and this person Ajax, all had our own swords.  This black one that I wear is Ajax's.

I assume you will want to know why I am wearing it and where he is.  From what he told me, it is a blade his father gave him, his father also imbued it with darkness.  I assume this kid was an assassin, or going to be one, and his father is the head of a clan.  The only way one would be able to know the dark arts and do something such as this.

He wanted me to come with him outside, and said that if I didn't, by this time Alison was over next to me, he said that he would force me, possibly needlessly killing Alison in the process of doing so, I didn't want to endanger her or any of the other students, so I had Alison guard the students, and I had him lead out of here.  I started to follow, turned back and ran towards Alison, quickly turning around and was ready to meet his charge with my own.  He charged me with the full intent of killing me and most if not all everyone else, and so I met his charge, but to win I had to kill him otherwise he porbably would have gotten up and attacked someone else.

He died, and his body turned black and dissipated, you can ask Alison Cheng and she can confirm this as she was here, and then after dismissing the students, I packed the swords away and picked this sword up claiming it as my own, I beat him, and won.  And being skilled I wouldn't want someone to hurt themselves with it.  So I add it with my own and I plan on keeping it with me.

Is there anything else?"
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Avahur:

"You aren't a good person, Avahur; however, I can see that none of this was your fault, and you did what you did to protect the students.  I'm assigning you to teach this class.  The other man wouldn't be able to protect my daughter and the others as you did."  The man said, and was starting to walk out the door as he finished talking.  "I will report this to the Castle Lord personally.  Be here about five minutes early, to show them that punctuality matters to the sensei.  And that does mean that you are a low-ranked sensei now."

"Yes sir!"

I walk out of the classroom and head back to my dorm to change ropes, but I will keep both swords with me.. If I have time, I'll examine the sword and see if I can find out more about it before my next class.

"Heh... sure thing, and thanks."  I walk out of the room past Jacob and decide to walk around and try to figure out where things are.  Along the way I'll try and practice my teleportation move, even though practicing while walking may not be that effective.

Malachai:

You walk out of the girls dorm, luckily without anyone seeing you.  Outside, you walk around and try your teleportation, with no success at all.  A few moments outside, you're about to walk past the Admin Building and three men, in full plate armor come up with you, swords drawn.  They hold their swords out towards you and the middle one says, "You're coming with us.  Dead or alive is your choice."  They have shields with a circle inscribed in a diamong.  A dot is in the middle of the circle.


Avahur:

You go back into your room for about an hour's break during the day.  You're thirty minutes early for the break, and in about half an hour, the door opens and Brian walks in.  "Ugh..Ninjutsu hearts my mindbone.."  He looks slightly exhausted, and lays smack down on his bed right when he walks in.  "I didn't think it would be such a mental challenge."

You're at your bed observing the sword right now, and see that it is as sharp, if not sharper than yours.  Another strange thing about it is that light doesn't seem to gleam off of it, nor let you see it any better.  It feels light-weight in your hands, about the same weight as your other sword, though.

"My knights in shining armour, I see," as I cock an eyebrow towards them.  "I'll come.  Dying hurts, and I've had enough of it for the past while."  I fall in line with them, following without question.  "Exactly what is this escort for, may I ask?  If it's about the incident earlier, I thought Jacob took care of that."  I shrug.  "Honest mistake... I suppose."  Not like it was my fault, though.

Hmm, this is interesting, well it'll be nice to add to my collection, and will be helpful when trying to hide, having a sword that doesn't let light shine on it.

I decide that half hour is enough, and go outside to practice with the sword a bit.

Malachai:

The two ignore you as they take you into the Admin building, past Jacob.  He watches curiously as they do this, and you can tell that he has nothing to do with it.  They go to the back door and two men go to opposite sides of the room, putting their hands to two seperate white places on each side.  A hidden door opens in front of you and the four of you walk inside of an elevator.


Avahur:

You start to walk out the door, Brian looking up for a moment and stopping you before you get out the door.  "Wait, I have something I gotta tell you."

OOC:  This is a post so that you can decide to ignore him or listen to him.

I turn around.

"Yes?"

I step into the elevator and look around it.  "Doo doo doo... do dooo doooo..."

</elevator music>

Malachai:

The elevator reaches it's destination, the second to top floor, very quickly.  The four of you walk in, the three knights behind you.  There's a man in plated armor, minus a helmet, in front of you.  He has the insignia on their shields carved above the throne.  The man has a stern look, and seems about 40-50 years old.  The men behind you kneel, one of them forcing you to kneel with them.

Another man is in the room to the side.  He looks around 40 and is in a teal robe, along with a black rope for a belt.  The man on the throne says, "How did you get past our defenses, Malachai?"


Avahur:

Brian gets up and sits on his bed now.  "Yeah, like I was saying about Ninjutsu being trouble.  I am going to move to another room, that I heard just opened up with a guy that's willing to tutor me.  I just wanted you to know that I wasn't going to be in this room anymore tomorrow."  He smiled some and finished, "I really owe you one with the whole verser thing, man."

"Eh, no prob, don't worry about it, have fun learning."

I smile, and continue to go outside and train with both swords adjusting my fighting style to use both effectively.

OoC: So next time I see zombies I can run in there and start hacking and slashing things up.

"Sir," I say to the man cautiously.  "I honestly don't know.  In fact, your guess is as good as mine.  Last I remember, I was in a city... then I was here."  I shrug my shoulders.  Why lie?  "You could say I just sort of appeared from a different world."  I laugh quietly for a second.  "Before you ask, I didn't try to come in in the girls' dorm.  It just kind of... well... happened."

Malachai:

"Master Cheng, can you please check him, sir?"  The man on the throne said, and the other in the teal robe approached you, looking at you curiously.

He looked at you for a short moment, put his hand on top of your head as well, as if he were double-checking something.  After that, he shruged some and turned around.  "He's clean, Malak.  He actually has a pretty strong heart, not corrupt.  His mind isn't tainted by him, either."


Avahur:

Brian nods and lays back down.

You go outside and begin practicing drawing your blades and fighting with them, using double battoujutsu with two swords, leaving attacking more open to both hands.  The style feels sort of loose to you, not very controlled yet.  After a little, you look around your environment and see Alison on a bench, reading a book.  Around her, about 10 flowers are spinning, all of them different colored roses.

I look at the man strangely as he puts his hand on my head, then shrug when he's finished talking.  "You could've just asked me, ya know.  I could've easily told you that... err... I think.  What exactly was that, anyways, a purity test?  And who are you, anyways?"  I ask the man on the throne.  "Speaking of that... where is this place?  I know it's the Academy, but not much besides that."

Wow, she's good, but I MUST get better.

I continue to train with both swords levitating flowers as targets, and changing there colors to red in order of when I am going to attack them.
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Malachai:

The man on the throne smiles some from relief and says calmly, "That is not concern of someone so young.  Don't worry about it.  Just continue your training."  Then, he seems like he just remembered something, "Oh, and we have a room open for you, and it will be ready tomorrow morning.  I've been told you don't have many things, so it shouldn't be hard for you to just move into there during the short morning break or the longer afternoon one tomorrow."


Avahur:

You summon seven white roses to be your targets, and spread them at various heights around you.  You can't manage to change their flower colors that quickly using so much concentration on levitating them.  Finally, you manage to change one's color and destroy it with your blade.  In the action, though, you lose your concentration and they all fall to the ground and vanish.

You estimate that you have about twenty minutes left before you need to get to your next class, Healing.

"Errr..." I cock my eyebrow at the man.  "Well... okay, then, I suppose that's... okay... I suppose..."  I glance around quickly.  "Actually, all I have is the pair of clothes I arrived in, but those... eh... they kinda need a wash," I inform him as my mind goes back to the zombie world.  "Anyways... I'll be seeing you, I suppose."

(yeah... if we're done here I go outside to practice teleport for a while; once it's dark I'll practice with my fire sprite trying to throw fireballs for a couple hours and then go sleep)
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Hmm, I just should concentrate on getting used to it.

I practice for 10 more minutes using two blades, then place them both in their sheathes, and will head over to Healing Class.
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Malachai:

You head outside to find a large group of people begin to head inside to different buildings.  You assume it's the changing of classes.  Some things that stick out to you is a girl that was reading with roses flying around her body, a guy trying to hold his concentration holding two swords, that finally hit a flower and started to leave, and a girl who was engulfed in flame deep in concentration.

Soon, the whole place is empty and you start trying your teleportation.  You fail for the first few minutes, but soon you feel like you're getting the hang of it.  You start to "feel" yourself in the other places easier, but it still comes hard.  You manage in the first hour to teleport about 7 times in a row before messing up.


Avahur:

You follow the map on the back of your cheatsheet for colors, and head to the Healing building, which you see has the infermery inside of it as well.  Inside your class, you find that it has mostly girls in it, and only a couple of guys.  Those two guys are sitting togeather at a two-to a desk-table.  There are a few desks completely empty near the middle/back of the room, and a couple that are half-full, one with a girl that looks about 16, and another that looks about 20.

I pause for a minute, sitting on the grass and looking at the sky.  "Well... at least I'm getting something done... I'd still like to know more about this school, though."

Standing back up, I continue my training in teleportation.

"Hmm, as much as I would enjoy sitting with on of the ladies, I think I will sit by myself to further contemplate my sword techniques, should a girl or a guy wish to sit with me, fine otherwise..whatever."

I go and sit in one of the empty spots.

Malachai:

You teleport three times in a row and are confident about expanding it.  You try to teleport a bit further away this time, focusing hard on it.  You lose your focus quickly, but feel yourself still moving.  Soon, you feel yourself fall down and someone underneath you.  Jacob is under you saying, "Gah, what the heck!?"  You're covering him up and can tell that he can't see who you are.


Avahur:

You sit down and see some of the girls behind you giggle.  You hear something about "swords," and then someone comes out of the office in front of the class.  It's a woman in her high twenties or low thirties.  She's blonde and in a white robe.  "Hello today, I understand there's an Avahur here now?  Can you please stand so that I can match a name to a face?"

I stand, holding my hand over my swords at my waist as I do, looking at the teacher with my sky blue hair and my red and my purple eyes.

"What the crap?"  I ask in amazement as I roll off of Jacob and stand up.  "Whoa, sorry... that was different."  I reach out my hand and help him up.  "Heh... yeah... I think I kinda messed up that..."

Malachai:

Jacob takes your help while using his other hand to rub his head as he's getting up.  "Don't worry about it, I'll just get her to fix me up after her healing class.  What were you practicing, anyways?"


Avahur:

You hold your hands over the swords, and she doesn't seem to see them, looking at your face briefly before getting back to her clipboard.  "Thank you,"  you sit down in response, and she starts with the lesson.  "Today, we'll be focusing on simple healing, through touch with your hands.  Focus your energy from your heart and move it through your arms into your hands.  Today, you'll only be fixing one wound, any questions?"

"Haha, something I learnt a few days ago before I came here.  Not very good at it yet, as you can see.  Good to see you're okay, though.  I think I'm going to go back outside again... try not to teleport back here, heh."

If Jason's okay, I go back outside to resume training... a bit more cautiously this time.

Malachai:

After a few failures, you lose your cautious attitude again, but manage to teleport twenty feet behind you, a location that you weren't watching at the moment.  For the next forty minutes in the hour, you are (with decent consistancy) teleporting.  Your highest record now is 23 in a row, much better than before.  Finally, you try to do it with your eyes closed.  You feel yourself, and you fall on the concrete, getting up with no serious injuries, but you have some scrapes and your forearms are sore, probably will bruise.

I have no questions and remain silent.

I look at my arms for a second, rubbing them.  "All right, enough of that," I say to myself.  I summon my fire sprite and began practicing trying to throw fireballs with him.

baka-chan:

You summon him with ease and he seems to be in good spirits, hyper to an extent.  Near the begining of your training with him, he summons a small ball of fire that might leave a minor burn and throws it at a nearby stone bench.  It doesn't really leave a mark.  He keeps trying to summon fireballs, but only getting hotter himself.  Eventually, he looks fed up and pushes even harder, summoning a large ball of fire, throwing it at the bench.  The entire bench is scorched, along with some of the stone pathway it was next to.


Avahur:

The woman smiles at no questions, and picks up a box.  "And, as you all know, we can't really do anything without injuries.  So, move the desks to the side and we'll have room for some dodgeball."  She spills a number of objects onto the floor in front of her.  There are some (2x2x2in) rocks, hardbound books (bound closed), and even a couple of stone throwing knives (not sharp at all).

After everything is seperated, she gestures to your swords, "You need to take those off.  We wouldn't want to ruin your blades.  And we won't be needing them in class any day, I don't believe, so you might as well not bring them next time."  At that, she turns to the rest of the class as well, "Does anyone volunteer to be captains?"

"I will volunteer, oh and I wont use them, I just don't trust them being left alone, and I was practicing outside, I just became the sensei of a battoujutsu class earlier, and was doing some training waiting for class to start."

I take out 2 shurikens, as they  are held between two of my fingers...((Done very carefully so I won't hurt myself, plus I trained doin it....))

"If you need I can make some light wounds on someone."

As I leave them there for a few moments and put them away.
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"Heh... that's enough now," I tell my sprite.  "You've done good, and this will definetely help later on."  I dismiss him and summon my water sprite, getting him to spray the bench with water to try cleaning it a little.

Avahur:

The woman smiles at you, "Very well, Avahur.  As long as you don't use them, it's fine.  And yes, you can use your shurikens."  Another one of the guys steps up and offers to be the other captain.  He has brown hair and blue eyes.  He picks his friend first.

OOC:  For picking them, just say what you're aiming for-tough, thin, beautiful, young, older, so on.

I pick a capable looking girl, someone that looks liek they would have a strong throwing arm, and then someone thin that can dodge things well after that, and so on I go and choose my team.

"I am not going to use my shuirkens, cus I don't trust them in unskilled hands, someone might die, by a stray one...its might slit their throat.  Now, I've used these in combat and they are fairly hard to throw straight and aim when running and such, and when people are moving, I will keep them with me, and won't use them.."

When the time is ready I run to the middle and grab the throwing knives...
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Avahur:

The teacher steps back when the two sides are made and shouts, "Begin!"

You run up and fail to get any obejcts, the knives taken from right under your hands.  Someone throws a hard-bound book at you and you catch it, throwing it at one of the boys and hitting him hard on the shoulder.

Soon enough, you're the last one left on your team, with them having five.  They all throw rocks and knives at once, three of them hitting you hard:  one on the shoulder, shin, and knee.  "Okay, now get into groups."  The woman says, and starts collecting the items on the ground.

I walk over to one of the older girls around my age if possible, and ask if they'd be in my group.

Malachai:

You attempt to summon your water sprite, but find something else come before you.  It is what seems to be a nameless pixie, a great suprise to you and startles you some.  It looks as if it's getting slightly impatient.  No one else is around at the moment.


Avahur:

You walk up to the girl.  She looks about your age and has a good..foundation.  She is blonde and has blue eyes.  She is wearing a red tunic, red pants, with white trim.  The girl also has a black rope around her waste.  She replies, after looking you up and down a little, "Yeah, sure.  I'm Jessica."  She says, on the way to guiding you to a seat, and gesturing for you to sit next to her.

I follow her and sit next to her, while thanking the GM for making her blond.

"Jessica, eh? As I am sure you heard earlier, my name is Avahur, it is a pleasure to meet you."

Avahur:

The teacher waited for everyone to take seats with their partners, and says, "Okay, now like I said before, touch the place that is injured on the other individual and feel the healing magic flow through your arms and out of your hands."  She goes and sits down at her desk nearby and starts reading.  You suppose, due to there being apparently student teachers, that she's studying.

She nods some to you and says, "You're new to this class."  Jessica shows her arm to you, there being a small scrape near the elbow.  "Why don't you try something simple, first.  I wouldn't want you to give me a growth or something."

I focus for a moment and concentrate letiing the healing magic flow through me and touch the scrape near her elbow in an attempt to heal it.

Avahur:

You try it for ten minutes to no avail.  For some reason or another, you can't feel the healing magic even originating in your heart, so you go for your bodily energy to draw it from.  It is easier than it was with the heart, no barriers in the way for some reason or another.  In about two minutes of effort, Jessica looking at you strangely through your struggles, the wound heals.

She then says, "Okay, my turn.  Where do you want me to heal?"  Your only injuries are the shoulder, knee, and shin.  Your shin is actually in a lot of pain, but your concentration keeps it from getting in the way.

"Well, the only time I got hit was at the end, and my shin seems to be giving me the most pain, I am sure I could heal it myself, so my arm will do fine."

Avahur:

Jessica smiles at you some and says, "Oh come on, don't be a baby about getting healed."  She pulls your leg up into her lap, which hurts some, and pulls your pants leg up some, revealing a nasty bruise already formind, along with it scraped from one of the stone knives.  Your knee is starting to bruise as well, and that's what had hurt when she straightened it out on her lap.

"Eh..."

Despite what they may do...I close my eyes and use my own healing magic to attempt to heal myself.

Avahur:

You can feel yourself drain of some energy without any effect on your leg.  Before you can even attempt it again, you feel a warm sensation accross your leg starting from your shin.  It moves up your leg and a new sensation of energy goes into your back and you feel it reach your chest even.  Your shoulder and knee still remain injured.  She smiles some at you and just says, "Well, it's your turn again."

She raises her sleeve to reveal her shoulder to you.  It's right on the muscle, and looks like a pretty bad bruise.  "Think you can handle it?"

"We'll soon find out."

I do what I did before, the method that worked, and touched the area to heal it.

Avahur:

It takes you the same amount of time that it did before, and her wound receeds and eventually disappears.  She then, still holding your leg in her lap, puts her hands on your knee.  At first, it just hurts, and her moving your knee around just makes the pain shoot through you worse.  When you're about to not be able to take it anymore, she lights up, like she just found something, and you feel the soothing sensation that you had before fill you from your knee, and moving throughout you once again.

Jessica then lets your leg down and says, "Well, there's one on my back, but.."  She looks around the room and seems to be at a loss as to what to do about it.

"Could you explain to me how you did that?"

"And for your back? Would be possible, if I held your hand that you could channel it through your hands into mine and I channel it to back?"

Avahur:

She looks at you curiously, wondering what you're talking about.  "But you healed me, didn't you?"  Jess seems to have ignored the second part of your question about the back and is interested in helping you with your problem first.

"But this is my first healing class.  You seem proficient with healing, how were you able to heal that effectively?"

Avahur:

Jess replies, and looks like she's trying to put it into the right words, "This is my second day in Healing; no one in the room knows much about healing without past experience in it, and I'm no different."  She looks like she's still trying to find the words, and then grabs your hand, and guides it to your chest-where your heart is.  "The way I know it, the best magic comes from here, not anywhere else.  That is for Combat as well.  The stronger the heart, the stronger your magic can become.  Of course, physical prowess is all well and good as well, but if you keep on drawing your power from your energy, you will be drained quicker with less effect on what you're healing."

"A... pixie!?"  I say in shock and awe.  Holy crap!  HOLY CRAP!  I better not mess this up.  I take a second to quickly calm myself and then dip my finger in the pixie.  Raising it to my nose, I smell the liquid and then taste it.  "Of course... your name is Epotus."

"Ahh ok then."

I try to heal her using magic from my heart, whether its healing her with dark magic or healing her with light, I try from my heart to heal her.

Malachai:

The pixie turns away from you, and you notice it doing spins through the air saying, "Epotus!" in excitement.  Quickly, it gets down to in front of you and says, "Master, in exchange for this name, I will serve you for a year and a day!"


Avahur:

You put your hand on her back where it hurts her and try to channel magic from your heart.  She yelps, "Ow!" and pulls forward, and turns so your hand isn't on her back.

"Yes!"  I shout out loud in happiness.  "I can't believe it... I named a pixie on my first try without the Librarian... wow..." I sigh, thinking back to Lakraine and the failed prophecy.  "Well, Epotus, shall we see what we can do together?"

(i.e. a quick bit of trainazorz)
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"Eh, I was trying healing...but I think energy will work for this exercise, even if it may tire me out."

I use some energy to heal her.

Malachai:

Epotus nods frantically, and asks, "Well, what do you want to try, then?"  The pixie seems excited for this new idea, and waits for you to give a command.


Avahur:

After a moment, you feel the energy flow from you and into her, healing her wound.  You feel a little tired, and finally a bead of sweat is coming out of your hand.  Jess then says, "Well, all you need is a little practice.  I'm sure that you'll get good at using your heart.  Well, I don't have any injuries left, how about you?"

"Hmm... well... with Metaquifer, we had a bit of a water jet going.  Why don't we try that and see what happens."  I close my eyes for a second, remembering the gestures and words to the spell.  Opening them again, I prepare to try it on the bench.  If it works, yay, and we'll train it up a bit.

"I beleive I still have my arm, you got my shin and knee area, so my arm is left."

Malachai:

The two of you focus hard and a small fountain comes out of your hands for a few seconds, but then the pixie looks at you sternly, and you can feel it focusing hard on this next attempt.  You feel an explosion of water come from your hand and engulf you.  Now, you're soaked in your tunic, your pixie laying next to you, exhausted, saying, "Sorry about that, master.  I'll try harder next time!"  And the pixie was back up flying, waiting for you with a newfound energy.


Avahur:

You turn to let her to the arm, and she moves her hand up to your shoulder, feeling a large bump already forming there.  Instantly, you feel the warm sensation wash over you, and you can't help lose your composure in it for a moment, it feeling so good.

"That feels good, it looks like we are done."

I laugh.  "Nah, that's fine.  My fault.  I've just got to concentrate harder, you didn't do nothing wrong."  I repeat the spell with larger and more abrupt gestures, this time focusing more intently and shouting the words to the spell.

Malachai:

You release a large jet of water, like on Lakraine, from your fingertips.  You see the pixie trying desperately to keep it going, and the power increases, drenching the stone and the area around it, giving the grass a nice watering as well.  Finally, it ends and both of you feel a little less energetic.  "How was that, Master?"  The pixie asks you desperately.


Avahur:

Jess says, "I guess so," and raises her hand.  Almost instantly after seeing this, the teacher gestures towards the door.  "Once you and your partner have healed eachothers' wounds, then you may leave for the day.  Good work."  Some other people go out of the class too, and Jess gets up and prepares herself to leave, then looks to you for a moment, with a look that shows she's thinking about something.

"Yes? I can see you are thinking of something, what might that be?"

"Quite good, Epotus, quite good.  I think that's enough for now.  Let's rest."  I loay on the grass for a few minutes, breathing slowly.  When I feel better, I decide to summon my two sprites and introduce everyone to each other.  Afterwards, I'll try a combo water jet spell with my two water summons (large hands and shouting again) and then try using my fire sprite and water pixie to create a thick mist around me.
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Malachai:

Your sprites meet the pixie and crane their heads to the side as the pixie makes long, excited introductions to them, and as he explains the magic that the Master seems to already know and everything.  You can tell that the sprites are somewhat confused and even a little annoyed by the pixie.

And so, you and your two water-things try to channel your magic.  Even the fire sprite gives you some magical energy to help you out.  You unleash a massive blast of water at the stone bench and you see part of it start to crumble some, the power of the water evidently too much for even that.

So, with your succeeded magic, you let your water sprite rest and your pixie and fire sprite work togeather.  The fire sprite simply stays stationary and raises its heat greatly as the pixie shoots water into it, creating a fog around you that continues to grow.  Your connection with the fire sprite and the pixie is telling you that they're getting tired from the work.


Avahur:

Two girls come up behind Jess, and she smiles at their approach.  They look about the same age as she is, one of them maybe a little younger, but barely noticable.  Then, Jess turns back to you and says, "Do you want to hang out with us after class?  We can practice healing and stuff outside.  We know this great spot out there, even though it's just as perfect as everywhere else at this place.  So, do you wanna come?"

"Sure, I've got no problem with that.  Where is this spot? Or will I have to wait to find out?"

"All right, that's enough.  Please... rest."  I look over at the bench which has started to disintegrate.  "Holy crap..." I say to myself quietly.  I should really be careful or I might get in trouble.  Shrugging, I sit on the ground next to my summons to rest a little.  Letting my sprites and pixie rest, I decide to practice teleportation some more.

Malachai:

The fog doesn't dissipate for a short while, but then you begin to see a group of students coming towards you.  It's one guy-strange looking.  He has blue hair.  And there are three girls around him, one of which has a voice very farmiliar to you, but you can't place from where.  The sprites and pixie are off to the side, sitting down and discussing something or another.


Avahur:

Jess just says, "Oh, it's near the Admin Building.  Sometimes Jacob comes out and hangs out with us."

You follow the three girls outside to their 'spot' near the Admin Building.  You see the stone ground drenched right next to a bench, which has some rubble underneath it.  A dissipating cloud of fog is nearby, and you can see faint figures of a person and three smaller things, which you presume are animals of some sort.

I say generally into the fog..

"Hello? Is someone there?"

Seeing the people come, I decide to pause my training and sit with my sprites.  If they come near, I'll greet them.  If they stay away... well... that's fine.  Where do I recognize that voice from, though?

I hear the guy talk, and respond: "Hey!  Over here!"  I wave my arm slightly.  "Just ignore the fog, it's going away anyways."
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I say to the girls,

"Should we enter the fog? I'll go in..."

I approach the fog keeping my hand on my sheath with my other hand ready to draw.

I stand up as the man walks into the fog.  "Amorphiciss, try and get the fog to go away a little faster," I ask him.  I take a few steps towards the man as he walks in.  "Hey, how's it going?"  His shape changes, but I decide to take no heed of it.  My hands move down to near my waist, my right hanging outside my knife.

Malachai and Avahur:

Jess looks up for a moment, like she's trying to think, "I could have sworn that I've heard that voice before."  Then, she brightens up some.  "Wait, I REMEMBER!  Avahur, get out of the way...  I have something to do with this prick."

The pixie gets to attention quickly and flies up in front of you (still with a look of some exhaustion), while the two sprites are just sitting on the ground still, but look to you.

The fog clears, and everyone can see one another.  It's the girl from the shower room that pinned you down with gravity.

I back off a bit..

"Jess, you know this person?"

"Oh, snap..." I say quietly to myself as I see the people appear.  "Jess, is it?"  I ask her, putting my hand on my pixie to tell it to stay calm.  "Listen, what happened in the showers was a total accident.  I really didn't know where I was or anything... honest!"  Crap... if I get into a fight... my sprites and pixie... I'm going to have to talk my way out of this... crap crap crap!  "You've really got to believe me on this one.  It's not like I went in there on purpose."

"Are you sure? You are a guy, and I've known some guys that would try something like that intentionally? Where are you staying anyway?"

Malachai and Avahur:

She simply says, "No dice, kid!"  and runs up in front of Avahur, shouting, "Flammacio!"  Her hands seem to catch fire and she unleashes a massive burst of it towards you.  Your sprites jump up instantly in front of the blast, and the pixie escapes from your grasp.

The fire sprite just sits there, absorbing some of the flames.  The other two, however exhausted, begin shooting water towards the flames, turning it into steam.  It looks like the water sprite and pixie will run out of energy soon, though.

"No!  Please stop!"  I shout at Jess.  "I don't want to fight!"  I grab my sprites, pulling them back (I really don't bother with Epotus... he's quite a free spirit).  "Listen, fine, hit me a few times if you want... I'll take it, I suppose I deserve it.  But my sprites really don't need to be hurt..."

I bow my head slightly.  "I still didn't do it on purpose... I just... kind of... woke up there.  Didn't remember much of anything.  Hurled into the toilet, stumbled out... wasn't fun.  Hasn't been the last half dozen times."  I look back up, this time at the man.  "Very sure, sir.  And if it matters, Jacob put me in the girls' dorm."

I look back at Jess.  "Please... you really don't need to do this."

"The girls dorm? what are you doing in the girls dorm? Did all the spaces fill up?  Eh my rommie is moving out...I erm...free'd up a space, and my roomie moved out, that means you will porbably be moving in with me..wonderful I have to deal with you now, it can't get much worse..."

I turn to Jess,

"Jess hold on, he will probably be replacing my roomie and leaving the girls dorm, tomorrow let me straighten things out, and afterwards, you can scorch him.  I want to talk to him one on one, he and I have...important issues to discuss, I am sure we've both 'woken up' in strange places before.  I plan on challenging him in my own way.  You can deal with him in your way later, we should move on to that spot and leave him to his own business.  I am sure he's going to go and try to peak on the guys now...so lets continue on, shall we?"

Malachai and Avahur:

Jess stopped for a moment, leaving Malachai with a singed back and an exhausted Epotus behind him.  Amorphiciss seems full of energy though, having been in the fire.  She just jerked her head the other way and allowed Avahur to lead her to the bench that was a little damp, but mostly dried off by now.

I whisper to Epotus, thanking him greatly and dismissing him.  I then do the same with Metaquifer, but ask Amorphiciss to remain behind for a while.  "Listen, Jess... I'd like to clear this up later... but I really think now isn't a good time."

What did that man mean by important issues to discuss?  Bah, I don't know.  I grin sheepishly at the bench.  "Yeah... sorry I kinda tore it up a bit..."

"Kinda?" looking at him

"Well...  ok, lets start whenever your ready."

Looking at Jess as I speak.

I also look around to see if anyone has a yellow tunic on.

"I suppose I'll be going now," I say quietly as I turn around and began walking back to the dorms, rubbing my back as I do so.  Looking down at Amorphiciss, I dismiss him with my thanks.

I should probably go and cool this off in the shower or something.

I stop after taking a few steps and turn around.  "Where are the guys' dorms, by the way... I need to have a shower..."
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"They are over there..."

I say pointing to the guy's dormitories.

"Oh Jess, sorry about earlier, yeah umm I was trying to do healing, honestly."

"Thanks," I reply to him as I walk off in the direction he points to have a shower.

Malachai:

It isn't hard for you to find a shower, with fresh towels and such.  Some guys are waiting in line to go into the private showers, but most are waiting to get into the larger, public shower.  Most of them seem sweaty from their long day of training.  They're already out of their tunics, and you see them just throwing them into a box, which when you walk up to it, is empty.


Avahur:

She shakes her head some, "No, don't worry about it.  You fixed me up in the end, didn't you?"  Through a short ten-minute conversation, you learn the other two girls' names are Rachel and Liz.  Then, there is a short silence, like they don't really know what to do now.

Rachel is wearing a green tunic with white trim as well as a black rope.  Liz, however, is wearing a yellow tunic with white trim and a black rope.  The three girls have healing and ninjutsu togeather.
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"Well by the looks of his tunic Jess, he is taking the same courses as you are.

That was a nice fire spell, and by the looks of it, not an easy one to do, are you the combat magic teacher to the new students?  I would like, if able to learn a spell like that.  I figure since we are out here, Liz, your in Conventional Magic, like I am, and Rachel, you are in nature magic, and since you, Jess, are in Combat Magic.  Wouldn't it be helpful if we taught eachother spells from other classes?  I am a new student here, so unless there is a rule against it.."

Avahur:

The three smile at you, and then Liz and Rachel both snap their fingers at once, fire appearing in their hands, but not nearly as powerful as Jess had hers before.  Jess then says, "We've been teaching eachother magic since we met eachother in ninjutsu a month ago."

"Nice, could you teach me some stuff?"

Avahur:

"Sure,"  Jess scoots closer to you and looks at you, smiling.  "What do you wanna know?  That fire that I just summoned is probably a little powerful for you.  What do you say to learning how to summon a samller fire, like my friends here?"

"Yes I think that fire will do well, is there anything that can be done once the fire has been conjured?"

Avahur:

"Well, you can manipulate it's growth and shape with your mind."  Jess says, answering your question and waits for you to respond.

"Ok, manipulate with the mind? That should be easier.  I am not that well at using my heart for magic...how ever small of a heart it may be, using it for magic is not what I am good at.  MY mind on the otehr hand is what I excell at using."

Avahur:

Jess shakes her head some, "No, you don't understand.  You draw power from your heart to release it, and then you manipulate it with your mind, keeping the magic flowing."

Then, she looks around for a second, and thinks of something, "I'll make you a deal.  I'll help you learn to release it from your heart and teach you some combat magic, if you help us get back at that pervert."

"Ok, I think he is going to be moving into the guys dorm tomorrow, to sleep in the same room as I...I made an opening in there in my battoujutsu class and my room mate just moved leaving an opening.  Its a deal, what do you have in mind?"

Avahur:

"Well, you can learn from any of us if you want to.  I'll teach you some basic elemental magic for now in any element you'd like."  Jess said, and the other two also looked to you, waiting for your answer.

"Is there any element good for countering water and/or fire?  That guy apparently could summon small elementals, so something that could counter that would be nice, should I seek to duel him sometime. And what did you have in mind for him, do you know what his name is?"

Avahur:

Jess laughs some and then says, "You don't need to worry about fighting him.  We just need you for inside information.  If you wanted to know about countering fire, of course water would work as a good barrier.  Enough of another element can stop a simple elemental assault, but some elements are better than others."

She takes a short moment to think, and then says, "Like Water and Fire counter eachother, then there's Wind and Earth, Shadow and Light, and so on."

"I see that you know fire, I would like to know shadow maybe, if you have that knowledge, if not fire, or wind or water would be fine."

Avahur:

Her friends decide to leave while she teaches you, going over the Admin place.  You see Jacob smiling as he greets them.  Jess smiles some, and puts her hand to her chin.  "Well, it isn't that easy to learn shadow and light at first.  Usually it's a good idea to master the other elements first.  Wind is the easiest to manipulate, then water, then fire, earth, and finally shadow and light."

"Well, lets try wind first then, since it is the easiest and seems like a good start."

Crap... my knife... I run back to my room and deposit my knife there before running back.  I toss my clothes into the bin, assuming it's some kind of teleportation magic box-thingy, then get in line for the public shower.

After showering, I return outside and try to find a spot alone.  If I do, I summon my fire sprite for some light training (i.e. smaller fireballs and the like).

Malachai:

You deposit the knife and everything works out through showering.  No one bothers to even notice you, the academy being apparently big enough that people don't know everyone.  On your way out, you look into the box and find your tunic, folded and clean.

After that, you head outside.  It's starting to get a little dark, and you see the same group over there, but deicide to train at the opposite end.  For about half an hour, your sprite manages to throw some fireballs at imaginary targets in the air.  You feel like you're getting decent at it, and the sprite seems happy with progress as well.


Avahur:

"Flabra,"  Jess says, as wind blows through her hair, making her look all the more beautiful.  After it stops, she says, "Okay, say the word and focus on the direction you want the breeze to go.  Try to picture a small funnel at the place you want it to go."

I picture the wind flowing away from us to my left, and to her right ((assuming we are looking at eachother))

"Flabra."

"All right, let's try something else," I tell my sprite.  "This might be a little hard, but... let's try."  I get the sprite to stand beside me, and then take an adaptation of what I've been practicing.  "Let's try and get a ring of fire around us, Amorphiciss."

OoC: Small (just a couple inches for now) vertical ring of fire, maybe, 6-8 inches out from me... at least that's what I'm trying :P

Malachai:

Amorphiciss has an eager expression on his face as he looks like he's charged up for this challenge.  Steadily, as he continues to try with no result, you feel the sprite get more and more annoyed.  Amorphiciss is even beginning to get angry about his failures.


Avahur:

You mutter the spell time and time again, failing with each attempt.  With these failures, you find that they still draw energy from your body when you fail with the spells, and eventually you get impatient.  You put your energy into it for a final attempt at the spell, and you feel the wind again.  You're happy, but soon you find yourself toppling over, and hard concrete under your face.

Jess quickly gets to your side and turns you over, saying, "Are you okay, Avahur!?"  She looks worried, like she didn't understand exactly what just happened.  You feel sapped of energy, unable to move well at all.

I sigh.  "Come on, Amorphiciss, let's try once more and then we'll take a break ff it doesn't work."  I attempt the spell once more, adding in what I think are words which may assist the spell.

Malachai:

You feel heat surrounding you, but that's as far as it gets in his efforts.  He doesn't say anything to you, just sits down with you and stares at the ground.  You can tell that he's disappointed with himself, or at least angry about something, but that's probably it.

I sigh and sit down next time to him.  "Listen, buddy," I say as I put my hand around him (hoping I don't get burnt).  "We're trying something new that I don't even have a clue about.  I don't know what to do with something like this... haven't even seen it done before.  We made some heat, that's good enough for now.  Relax a bit, okay?  You're doing fine, it's my fault it's not working."

I look up at the darkening sky.  "Let's try something easier, how about?  Maybe just creating some light?  Shouldn't be too hard, should it?"

Malachai:

The little sprite looks up to you and nods, "I'm sorry that I got upset, Master."  And then he smiles at this new opportunity to prove himself.  He grunts some, with no effect.  Then, with a strange look on his face, he re-adjusts himself in the air and grunts again, lighting up perfectly in the half-dark outside.  "How's that?"  He said excitedly, awaiting your approval.

"Haha, that's awesome!"  I tell him.  "Just what I was looking for."  I look around.  "Hmm... let's try making that rock over there light up from where you are.  If we can't do it, no biggie, but let's try."

Malachai:

He looks at you questioningly, and says, "Master, the only reason that I can make light is shining my own flame brighter.  Like a lantern that you turn the flame up on, it's brighter."  And then the sprite gets a little closer, "I don't think that I can make a rock do that, though."

I shrug.  "Haha, that's okay.  I think that's enough for now, Amorphiciss, thank you."  I dismiss the sprite and then sit down on the grass to think.  I wonder what class is going to be like tomorrow... I suppose I'll just have to wait and see.  Not really tired yet, though... a bit more training before bed.

Standing back up, I practice teleporting a bit more.

Malachai:

You stand up, after dismissing the sprite.  You look at a spot in front of you, and close your eyes.  After a few failed attempts to be there, you try to focus even harder, and open your eyes as you teleport.

You are falling down inside a room again.  It's the Admin Office again, and you feel someone underneath you, the farmiliar voice of Jacob saying, "Wha-?"

Two girls there, that you noticed were hanging out with the Jess girl, look over the desk at Jacob saying, "Jacob, are you alright!?  Hey, kid!  You could have killed him!"  Stunned at it happening again, you just look up at them, and they yell louder, "Get off of him, you dunce!"

AGAIN!?  WTF!?  I quickly pull myself off of Jacob and give him a hand up.  "Man... I am REALLY sorry about that... err... again."  I look at the girls and then back to Jacob.  "I'm... umm... going to practice that... tomorrow... eeeyyyeeeaaahhhhh..."

I get up and say,

"Well that didn't work, do you have any advice?"

Malachai:

You explain that it was an accident, and suprisingly they just smile and accept it.  Like last time, Jacob says, "Yeah, don't worry about it, just warn me next time  ...egh...  Liz, could you do the honors?"  He points towards his arm, and she puts her hands on him, and he says, "Thanks a lot.  Much better, now."

The girls look at you like they're trying to remember something.  "Hey, aren't you that boy that saw Jess naked earlier today?"

Liz turns to the other girl and nods, "Yeah, he's the one, Rach, remember?  Jess was trying to cook him outside a while ago."


Avahur:

You try to speak, but can't.  You feel too drained of energy, and can't get thr breath out of you.  Soon, your eyes can't hold themselves open, and then you feel something touching your cheeks.  They're hands, and you feel a sensation run through you.  It's even stronger than it was in the Healing class from Jess.  You open your eyes to see that it is in fact Jess touching your face and healing you.  She stays with her arms in that position and says, "Are you okay, Avahur?"

I feel a bit of heat rush to my face, and I try to push it away.  "Ummm... well... heh... yeah... about that... umm... I wasn't really trying to... bah, I've explained this too much.  And I say she overreacted back there."  I shrug, and look back at Jacob.  "Hey... yeah... I'll warn you next time I plan on practicing that."

Panting I say...

"....No....energy....can't....speak...."

After a few moments I try to speak again.

"Ahh well I used up all my energy with that one.

I suppose there is a reason I can't use my heart well for magic, and I'd be willing to explain it to you so long as you know and keep in mind, that at whats left of the heart that I once had I am still a nice guy inside...  Its just that I have my own way of doing things so, I according to some people, don't have a heart.  I know I have one and its been proven, but there is a little light shining from it...so says Alison Cheng, but otherwise it isn't there, so it is really hard for me to draw power from my heart."

Malachai:

You look the two girls up and down for a moment, and realize that they actually aren't half bad looking.  They, however, look to be about ten year older than yourself.  Liz comes up and grabs your cheek, "Yeah, don't worry about it, kid.  Jess will cool down eventually.  A nice quick beating and you'll be fine after that."


Avahur:

Jess looks at you and says, "Well, there's always room to increase your heart.  Have you ever thought of trying that?"  She smiles and finishes up what she was going to say, "I'm sure we can find a way to pull it out of you somehow."  Giggling some, she helps you up to the bench with her.

"Thanks, Jess there is a reason, room freed in the guys dorm, and why that guy is going to be moving in with me.  Its cus one of the guys was killed earlier today in battoujutsu class...I was the one that killed him."

"Heh... yeah... I suppose so.  Could you just make sure she doesn't kill me in my sleep.  That wouldn't be fair, now would it?"

Malachai:

"Don't worry about it."  She smiles at you, "Just don't take naps outside and you don't have to worry about dieing in your sleep."  You see Rachel talking to Jacob off to the side, not really interested in talking to you as much as Liz is.  Still, Liz turns back to Jacob and Rachel, releasing your cheek.


Avahur:

Jess looked down some, her smile fading.  Quickly, she raised her head back up, smiling at you.  "Don't worry about that.  If there was something wrong with what you did, then they would have for sure thrown you out by now."  She puts a hand on your shoulder, trying to comfort you some.

"All right, well, I'll see you tomorrow, maybe."  If they don't want anything else, I go to my room to sleep.

OoC: *cough*cough* I want it to be morning, already! :P

"Yeah but I had no problem killing him, it was what he threatened to do that made me do so, he threatened to kill Alison and the rest of the battoujutsu class, and this black sword is his.

Now I think you should hear my story, all of it.  Because it will help you understand why I can't use my heart well, and it might help you help me use magic better.  Ok, heres my story...it all started when I found out what versing is..."

*explains it all*

Malachai:

"See ya,"  Liz waves bye to you and you make your way to the Girls' Dorms to catch up on your Z's.  When you get inside, you find that there's a piece of paper on your desk listing your schedule for the next day.  In the corner is a 'cheat sheet' to identify what classes people are in by their clothes.  Also, the back of it has a map of the campus on it.


Avahur:

You see the 'pervert' boy sneak by, but can't bring yourself to say anything, and continue your story instead.

Jess touches your cheek softly, "Sorry, Avy, but I stopped believing in bedtime stories a long time ago."  She's smiling, but you can tell that she didn't like your explaination very well, "You don't have to make stuff up about your past, okay?  We can talk about it tomorrow in Healing, okay?  It's getting late, and I was going to head in to bed."

I go to sleep on the bed.

(ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!)
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"Yeah we'll talk tomorrow, have fun in your classes, I heard ninjutsu takes a lot of of you.  Brian was my room mate, except he's moving out tomorrow."

I go to my room and keep my swords right next to me as I sleep, the dark one under my pillow and mine right next to me, making sure they are both in their sheathes of course.

Malachai:

The next day, you wake up and find a note saying to move your things into the boy's dorm, and has a map on it of the boy's dorm and shows you what room it is.  The last line is:

Your school uniforms have all been moved but one clean copy.  This WILL NOT excuse you from tardiness from your first class.

You look to the clock and see that it's only 20 minutes until your first class starts-Combat Magic.


Avahur:

You sleep easily, finding that already your roomate had moved out.  You have dreams, something strange was going on.  It was like in-between your verse, but weaker.

You're standing in a green field next to a cloaked man.  Accross the field from you, you see armies of knights, archers, and even calvalry.  Nothing is on your side of the field accept for yourself and the large, cloaked figure; however, you're not fearful of the army at all.  You hold your sword and dash towards the enemy, and then you wake up with a jerk.

You jerk up, pulling both swords out of their sheathes naturally in response to the dream.  You look at the clock and find that you have 20 minutes to get to your first class, and there's a note on the door.  It says to expect a new roomate to come in some time in the morning, and that his name is Malachai.

Wow, that was an odd but cool dream.  Wish I could have more dreams like that one.  Maybe the next time I will be fighting them...sweet.

I get my tunic on and head over to the Conventional magic class, but not without grabbing both my swords first.

Eh... I suppose I might as well move my stuff now.  Had a shower last night, anyways.  Swinging my legs over the side of my bed, I rub the sleep from my eyes and mentally prepare myself for my first day of classes.  I quickly change into the one pair of clothes left, making sure my knife is securely attached underneath my pants (as always).  Not really having anything else, I grab the note as well as the "cheat sheet" and then decide to go and find the room I will be staying in.

When I find it, I knock on the door relatively quietly to see if whoever's inside is awake yet.

Hearing no answer, I decide that the person is either a really heavy sleeper or already at his first class.  Seeing no reason not to do the same, I head off to my combat magic class.
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Avahur:

You head off to Conventional Magic and find that some people are there studying hard for their test today on the subject.  Alison, however, is laying her head down like last time, you presume that she's asleep again.


Malachai:

You arrive to find that no one is there, and go to your first class-Combat Magic. As you get inside the room, you can't help but feel like something bad could easily happen in that room today.  Around the classroom, there are groups of students that are gossiping amongst themselves.  They range all over for how strong they look, but they all seem to be practicing the same spells.

You hear a door open from the other side of the room, where a small office is, and everyone sits down quickly.  You take the nearest seat to you, which was in the front of the class, and your fears are now realized.  The person who came out of the small office-Jess.

"Je... je... je... Jess... ah, snap," I say to myself.  Just my luck that the combat magic teacher's her.  But... I had a chance to beat her before, and I've gotten out of her spells... perhaps she was going easy... we shall see.  "Hi Jess," I say quietly as she walks in.  "How's it going? Heh... heh..."

Eh, from what I saw yesterday, Alison is defintely going to win, so I might as well try, but I won't get overly worked up about it, she's been here longer..

I go to where I was before and continue summoning flowers, and changing their colors, then opening them once I levitate them into the shape of a fence.

Malachai:

She glares at you slightly, and says, "Today, we're going to be summoning simple water element using speech.  You'll need to catch up another time on air."

She then looked to the whole class and said, "Okay, you know the drill.  You can practice what you want: air or water.  If you show me that you can use both decently, then you can work on things in other subjects as well, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone."  She uses a cute glare/smile at some people in the class when she said the last line.  "The word you will use for this simple power is Aqua.  There are different words for using water magic, but this one will simply summon water before you.  For extra information, show me that you can use this element and I'll give you a new word."  Finally, she finishes, "If there aren't any questions, you can begin."  She looks around for a moment, and then starts walking back to her office.


Avahur:

To your suprise, you complete the combination of spells perfectly.  There isn't a single flaw in your recreation of the thoughts you conveyed with the spells that the teacher had given the class.  You keep it up, opening and closing the fence.  Soon enough, the teacher says, "Okay, it's time.  Everyone get to your seats and we can begin testing."
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I go over to my seat and relax, and when its my time to perform, I will just relax and do what I just did.

Kinda pointless with my sprite, but bah... this will lead to other spells I can do without my sprite, hopefully.  Closing my eyes for a second, I use my experience from Lakraine and personal training.  For the first time trying, I shout the word to attempt to summon the water.

Malachai:

Jess turns around quickly as she heard you shout the spell, which didn't seem to work.  She charges at you and grabs you by your elbows.  "Keep it down!  There are others in here trying to learn the spell as well.  You may speak it, whisper it, but don't shout it.  You can practice that when you're in your dorm room, okay?"  She then released you, went next to her office door, and glared at you.


Avahur:

A few guys go, and you find that you're all first tested with simply summoning a flower of some sort, changing a piece of paper's color, levitate a feather slowly, and opening a door.  After all of that, you will move on to the combination of the spells.

OOC:  I'm giving you a chance to post what kind of flower you want to summon, what colors you want to change the paper into, and how complex, and all that jazz.

I look sheepishly down at my hands.  Wow, I did NOT think that through enough...  "Sorry," I say quietly before returning to looking at my hands.  Taking a second to calm myslef, I close my eyes to think over what the effect of the spell should be.  Opening my eyes, I say the word again and keep my mind entirely focused on it.

Hmm, lets see, first I'll summon a black rose.  Then I'll change the color of the paper to blood red.  That'll be a nice touch.  The Feather, i'll simply be levitating, and same thing with opening and closing and stuff.  Then I will do what I practiced to combine them all.

Hmm I wonder, if I use emotions, I might be able to do spells easier.

Malachai:

With your uncupped hand, water appears in it very calmly.  The water is crystal clear and seems perfect, but it's dripping out of your hand and onto the desk.  She didn't say anything about controlling it, though.  However, she isn't there to see you accomplishing this feat.

The water doesn't stop appearing, at least not yet.  There is a nice puddle accumulating on your desk.


Avahur:

You easily summon the black rose, the teacher writing something down on a clipboard.  He nods some, inspecting it a bit more, and then finishes what he was writing.

For your next test, you turn the paper a different color.  Rather than blood-red, the paper turns orange, and has a slightly red interior.  The teacher nods some, seeming to be a little impressed by it, and moves on to the next test, placing a feather out on the ground in front of you.

You easily levitate it to eye's height and move it around your head in a circle around it.  The man smirks some, but gives you the signal to put it down.  You let it down slowly, and he writes some on the clipboard.  And finally, he says, "Okay, now open the entrance to this room from here."

You focus on the door and utter the words to open it.  It opens at a perfect speed all the way open, and you move on to your combination.

You fail to summon the flowers, and you ask if you can try again.  The second time, two red roses appear, and you attempt to change their colors while levitating them.  Now, it seems like your concentration is fine again and you raise the flowers to the shape of a fence.  Finally, you open it flawlessly, and then they disappear for the finishing of the show.  The man nods at you and asks you to sit back down.  You feel confident that you did decently, and then he calls Alison up after you.  She's asleep on her desk behind you.

I relax and turn around and tap Alison on the shoulder hoping she wakes up and does well..even though I think she will pass with flying colors, minus the falling asleep part.
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"Ummm... Jess?"  I ask, looking up.  "How exactly are we supposed to stop the water?  It just keeps coming."  I look down at the steadily growing pool on my desk.  I could always just summon one of my sprites to clean this up... but I had best ask for help.

Malachai:

Jess walks over to you, a towel in hand.  She wraps the towel around your hand and says, "Well, that's strange.  The magic should dissipate almost instantly, only summoning a little bit of water.  Do you have experience in this kind of magic or something?"  She doesn't seem mad at all about the water, and puts your hand, covered in towel, onto the puddle that was forming on your desk.


Avahur:

Alison jerks awake quickly and you see that she has groggy eyes.  Rubbing them, she looks up to the teacher as her name is called.  She goes to the front of the class and summons the flowers with decent ease, just some simple red roses.  For coloring the paper, she does different colors molded togeather from the different corners-blue, red, green, and yellow.  With the feather, she simply levitates and drops it perfectly, and the door seems like a breeze with her.

She shakes her head some, waking herself up a little bit more, and closes her eyes, head down.  She summons white roses all around her, about a dozen.  She levitates them and they fly quickly in circles around her.  One by one, the white roses turn blue and fly out in fixed positions around her.  After it was all done, she goes back to her seat and sits down.  The teacher cocks his eye some, and you notice he writes more than he did for you, perhaps a note to the side.

No one else is especially special with their attempts at the magic.

I congratulate her on doing a good job, and ask if she wants to talk about what happened in Battoujutsu class yesterday.  If not, fine, if so we will talk a bit after class.

"Well, not this form of magic in particular.  Water magic, yes, but usually I have the help of a sprite."  I move the towel around the desk slightly, trying to soak up the puddle.  "This is the first time I've tried magic without a sprite."

Malachai:

Jess smiles some, a slightly suprised look on her face.  "Well, that doesn't happen, I mean these people took two days for all of them to do decently at the simplest air magic.  Well, if you can do the air magic in one try, then I guess you'll have a free day in this class."  She stared at you some and then said, "The spell is Flabra.  Try to blow wind into my face from your hand.  Invisioning it helps, just picture a space where air is blowing."  She puts her face out towards you, waiting.


Avahur:

Alison nods some, and lays her head back down for some sleep as the sensei speaks, "Okay, you all can practice for whatever class you like, accept for any swordplay," he looks to you some, and finishes, "I'll be saying who moved to the next level of training when the class is about to end."  He went back into his office, and sorted through some papers while looking at his clipboard.

"Ok Alison, you stormed out of class rather fast, do you always do that?  I think we should discuss what happened. And what do you mean by you can see people's hearts?"

I say to her before she can go back to sleep.

"All right, I'll try," I tell her, letting go of the towel and looking down to see the water's stopped coming out (thankfully).  Closing my eyes, I envision the air between my hand and Jess speeding up until it becomes a small wind.  Opening my eyes and pointing my hand at her while continuing my envisioning, I say: "flabra."

Malachai:

Almost instantly, there are results as the wind blows against her face.  It's a soft breeze, and she seems even more suprised.  "Uh..  Well, don't take this personally or anything, but I didn't expect you to actually be able to."  She looks at you and says, "Well, you may be a little perv, but I have to admit that I am impressed."  She stands, after the breeze stops, with her hands on her hips.


Avahur:

Alison looks groggy, but gets up, rubbnig her eyes.  "My father taught me how to see peoples hearts, and how powerful they were.  He always said that even though martial arts requires much mental ability, that without a heart that you're nothing."  She opens her eyes some, and says, "Why do you ask?"

I smile at her.  "Never doubt me, ma'am.  I've surprised many a person before.  And I still say I wasn't in there on purpose."  I shrug, doubting she'll believe me.  "Anything else I should do?  Or is that it for today?"

"Is there a way for me to be able to do that? and if not would I be able to train from your father in Battoujutsu?  I know I don't have much of a heart, but it just allows me to be more free with stuff, and not let emotions hold me back.  Sometimes hesitation kills you and with the ability, to change certain degrees of emotional content in my heart I can be just as nice as anyone else or not care and be almost as heartless as Ajax.  What do you see right now?"

Malachai:

Jess looks at you a little bit, and you can tell she doesn't believe you.  "Well, if you want, I can tell you the next element I will teach the class since you've already shown me that you can use the other two.  Still, practice the elements you've learned, because there will be a test at the end of the week on all of the base elements, if the class gets there."  She rolled her eyes and said, "So, do you want to learn it now or practice with these until tomorrow, or I could even teach you after Healing tonight."


Avahur:

Alison looks up some and says, "My father only teaches specific people he picks out, and they all have strong hearts.  Although there are many strengths to having a weak heart, there are more to having a strong one."  Memories of yesterday and using the magic rush back to you, and how skilled Jess was at it.  "Right now, you're still just a glimmer, but there's a little more than yesterday.  Still, strength of heart fluctuates through thoughts and experiences.  It never stays the same unless it isn't there."

I think for a second before responding: "Yeah, teach me the next element, I figure I can handle it."  In all honesty, I'm not 100% sure I can, but I figure I might as well get a head start... and the fact that it didn't take long to be able to do these other simple spells.  "So... yeah, what's the next element?"

"Alison, one of the reasons there isn't much light is probably from killing a lot of people, most of it was happening when protecting the dojo I studied at.  How have you been lately?  From what I can tell, you seem like a rather interesting person, some of the people I've met are rather dull...so would it be possible if we got to know eachother a little more? Like on the way to battoujutsu class later?"

Malachai:

She nods at you and says, "Okay, the next element is fire.  You'll only be able to summon a small one in your hand probably.  I won't tell you any more magical words after this one until the class catches up though, okay?  The word is Flamma."  She then walks off into her office and looks at a few papers.


Avahur:

Alison nods at you and says, "Well, if you want to walk to my dorm too and wait outside, I need to go inside to get my sword.  I don't bring it to any classes accept for battoujutsu."  She lays her head down then, but keeps on looking at you, waiting for a response.

"Sure thing," I respond to Jesse.  Sweet... fire.  The Librarian back in Lakraine told me it was the easiest element for me.  I concentrate for a second, imagining the air just on top of my hand heating up, the molecules moving faster and faster.  Faster and faster... until they ignite... "Flamma."

"Ok, I'll be practicing  outside anyway, I'll meet you there roughly 8 minutes or so before class, besides its good to get to know some of my more advanced students as well."

Malachai:

You focus your concentration on summoning the fire, and feel it above your hand heating up, but no fires appear.  You continue this and still there are no flames, just a hot area above your hand.  At one attempt, you feel it on the verge of a flame, but it cools down again just like the other times.

By then, Jess comes out and says, "Class dismissed."  Everyone rushes out the doors to go to their next classes.  She looks you up and down saying, "Hey, you've got ninjutsu and healing too?"  You see that her clothes match yours, hers just made for women.


Avahur:

Alison nods and the sensei comes back out and speaks up.  He looks to the group and says, "Only two of you passed on to the more advanced class.  Avahur and Alison, you will be moving on to the next level, two rooms to the righ of this one."  There are groans throughout the class, and then the bell rings.

Alison brisks quickly out of her seat heading for the door before you could even say bye to her, and in mere moments, she's out of the room.

"Hmm?  Yeah," I respond to the Jesse as I walk out of the room.  "Heh... didn't think someone else would be interested in all the same things as me."  I shrug.  I'm a little upset about not being able to produce the flame, but that's no biggie; I've got a few more days to learn that.
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I head back to my dorm and wait to meet Malachai...I think I'll call him Mal for short.  Maybe I'll try putting emotions into the Flabra spell and try it again.  Then head outside and throw some anger ina nd try Flammacio, if that doesn't work, just head over in teh direction of the girl's dorms and start practicing using two swords outside.

Malachai:

"Well, that will be interesting."  She says, and walks past you out the door.  Now, you're alone inside of the classroom.

"Heh... seems as though I'm all alone..." Shrugging, I walk out of the class and go to my new room to see if my roommate is there.

Malachai and Avahur:

The two of you head up to the room and reach the door at the same time.  Avahur sees Malachai going into the room as he gets into the hallway.  Malachai enters a room that looks just like it did in the morning-no roomate there, at least not yet.

I walk into the room, dissapointed once again no one's there.  I decide to wait for a couple minutes to see if anyone shows up.

"Ahh so thats who malachai is....based on the earlier conversation, I think I'm having another verser as a roomie...who else besides us would 'wake up' in random places without knowing why we ended up there."

I go into the room and as I open the door.

"You are a verser aren't you, Malachai?"

I jump slightly, startled at how quickly my roommate seemed to have figured out what I am.  He must be one, too...  "Yes, I'm a verser," I tell him.  "I'm assuming, since you know of that, you must be one too."

"You are right in that assumption, how mayn worlds have you been in? including the one you were born in?"

I close my eyes for a second, thinking.  "Eight or nine," I tell him, opening my eyes.  "I can't remember exactly... but I've been versing for four or five months now.  What about you?"
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"Hmm I can't remember, hold on."

I go over to my bed and take out my laptop.

"Ahh lets see, including the one I was born in, there was a deserted Ice place, then a ninja/samurai world, then a warplain, then a military base, then a gathering of versers where I met 3 others and I am sure there were more there, then I was in the dark, then I was at this strange place with a mad scientist, then I woke up and died, then there was zombies, then here. so 11 worlds for me, and yeahh I've been versing for a few months."

"Zombies?"  I ask as he goes through his worlds.  "That rings a bell.  I was there before coming here... unless it was a different world."  I shrug.  "Anyways, I started on a place called Earth, then went to some desert island volcano place.  Then I went to a place where all those old myths were true... fought some indians.    After that was some weird alternate reality of Earth... then I went to Lakraine, which is where I learnt my sprite magic, then I went to a place where vampires and lycans fight, then that zombie world, now I'm here.  Eight in all."

"Yeah zombies. That was interesting, so I see you are taking Combat Magic, ninjutsu, and healing.  Having fun with Jess in your classes? I'll be seeing you in Healing.

I am going outside to practice using two swords, I just killed a kid yesterday in my battoujutsu class, of which after beating the sensei, I became the teacher of it."

"Haha, I have been.  Killed the kid, eh?"  That's interesting.  "What did he do to deserve that?  And how come they made you teacher... you been here a long time?  Although, in all honesty, it seems people here kinda suck... it took me a couple minutes to do twice what some people haven't done in days."

"Actually I got here two days ago. Today is my second day of classes."

I shrug.  "All right, cool.  What you taking?  I've got combat magic, ninjutsu, and I guess we're both in healing magic."

"Conventional Magic, Healing, and Battoujutsu,

Now I need to train, we can talk outside."

I leave and go train outside.

"Sure thing," I reply as I follow him outside.  Spying his swords, I decide to ask: "say, do you want to practice some swordplay?  I'm okay with my knife... not really great, but it's been enough to get me by."

"Sure, I'll go easy on you and use two swords.

Come on, we'll train by the girls dorm, I'm meeting someone there anyway."

Malachai and Avahur:

The two of you head outside and to the entrance of the girls dorms.  The two of you don't encounter any trouble on the way.  There's just a few people on benches practicing magic, some meditating, and some practicing hand-to-hand combat.  One girl is even walking up one of the buildings, but she looks too focused to disrupt.

The two of you reach the spot with no trouble from anyone.  You don't run into anyone you know, either.

"Come on, Charge me."

"Haha, sure thing."  I reach down and pull my knife out of its sheath, its handle hidden under my robes.  Been a while since I held you for non-lethal means... should be a nice change.  Standing in the ready stance, I begin a cautioned charge (i.e. not a full charge, but still some decent speed) towards Avahur.

Malachai and Avahur:

As Malachai charges at Avahur, he remembers a scene from a dream he had.  It feels just like charging the cloaked figure in his dream with his knife, the enemy having swords just like then as well.

Malachai brings the knife up from a low stance.  Avahur easily blocks the attack, holding the knife back with his blocking sword.  He spins around and kicks Malachai in the stomache, just enough to knock him backwards.  It knocked him back, and he fell down on his back.

Quickly, Malachai gets up and charges again, feinting the low-to-high strike, but making a left-to-right strike.  Avahur moves both swords down to block Malachai and kicks forward, knocking the wind out of Malachai once again.

Right as Malachai is going backwards for a second time, an asian girl comes out of the girls dorm with her own sword.  Avahur recognized her, it's Alison.  She looks about Malachai's age and she looks at him calmly as he's holding his gut, the kick a little harder than he had expected.

She asks simply, "Were you two sparring, Avahur?"

I hold my gut, trying to get the wind back into me.  Who's that?  Avahur must know her...

Going into a more defensive stance, I prepare for Avahur to attack back.