Academy for Rejected Souls (Multiverse, OC)

Mistress's Room, then Hallway, Father's Chambers, and My Room


@StartingOver @TommyGun15


Why'nn was hoping Mistress would stop her, and then she spoke.  The answer filled the girl with joy and she bounced back over to Mistress, leaning up and kissing her deeply.  Her eyes were closed, actions filled with want and need.  The rest of what was said didn't seem to get to her.  No, she was too caught up in how much she loved giving affection to and getting affection from Mistress.


It was then that James's words played in her mind.  So powerful were these suggestions and commands that she found she could not disobey and she completely believed them.  Breaking the kiss, there was a look of betrayal in her eyes as she looked up at Scarlet, of utter hurt.  Turning, Why'nn sprinted from the room, into Father's chambers, slamming and locking the door, and entering her room.  "Mistress doesn't love me...?"  James would feel the utter heartbreak that came with that question.
 
My room


"Why'nn stop!" Scarlet gave chase till she was in the hallway. "What happened?" She kicked the wall. Her eyes turned cold as she figured who had a role in it. "I'll kill him." The spider came out then. The glint in her eye was there bel. She would kill him in front of Imalia. "I'm coming boy." She smiled and began to walk towards Imalia's room. "You won't ever hurt my pet agian."


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Mistress's Room




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James gulped as he felt Why'nn's heartbroken question.  He didn't hesitate to answer though, hoping that by making an educated guess as to what happened last night, he could convince her to stay away from Scarlet.


"That's right, she doesn't love you.  Remember last night, when she was on top of me?  She was draining me, stealing my energy.  I woke up this morning with no memories of what happened last night.  I think that's what she's done, or planning to do to you.  I think she was sent by Nishira to drain you, then use your weakened state to manipulate you.  Remember what you told me?  Never trust a Lich."


James turned to Imalia, a somewhat worried look on his face.


"Well...  Why'nn got out of there... and I don't think she was very subtle about it.  But, the important thing is that she's safe."
 
My Room


@TommyGun15


She stripped and entered the shower, letting the water wash over her as she listened to James.  "She told me not to listen to you.  She told me you would lie to me.  She said not to believe anything you said to me, that you are not right..."  The shower was quick, as always, and she began to dress again.  "I do not know who to believe now.  Now I am confused again.  I did not want to be confused again."


My Room


@StartingOver


Imalia nodded.  "Good.  Now, James, I need you to go to your room right now.  Go in, lock the door, and do not come out until I come to get you, okay?  If Scarlet tries to get in you use everything in your power to keep her from entering, but you do not open that door.  Do you understand me?"  There was a severity in her tone, an urgency.
 
Outside Imalia's room.


"Get out here!" Scarlet called. She began to pace back and forth. She had never felt this way in this mindset before. Normally when her spider came out she was calm and cunning, but now, now a new viciousness was apon her. She wanted his blood. She had been wronged last night. He took advantage of her and now this is how he repaided the mercy  she showed him? No no no, he would learn better.


"You can't protect him forever, he has to pay for what he's done!"


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Mistress's Room




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James felt a bit of fear come over him as Imalia instructed him to hide in his room, but he obeyed without question.  Once he was safely locked in his room, he reached out to Why'nn through the mindscape.


"Talk to Delrick.  Because whether I'm trying to trick you, or Scarlet is, I think you know that you can always trust Delrick.  He loves you, and would never steer you wrong.  Or failing that, talk to Sieghart.  And we both know that he hates me, so he's not going to betray you for my sake."


James heard Scarlet shouting outside, and it occurred to him that she might try to influence him through the doorway.  So he grabbed a candle off of his desk and broke off two pieces of wax, heating them with fire magic and kneading them into earplugs, which he hoped would block out Scarlet's voice.
 
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My Room, then Father's Chambers


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Why'nn finished dressing and went into her father's chambers. "Father is not here! I do not know where he is... James, I would like to see you. If I can see you I can see if you are lying. If we can... I will know. I want to kiss you. Mistress would not let me do so easily this morning. But she kissed you last night! Why does she kiss you but not me? Is there something wrong with me?"


My Room, then Hallway


@StartingOver


Imalia's expression grew dark. Ice emanated from her position, climbing up the wall, sealing James's door. She made her way to her door and opened it. As she exited her room and closed the door behind her, the ice sealed it off.


"Scarlet. What do you want with my apprentice? And I can protect him from you as long as necessary."
 
Hallway


"I want to kill him." She grinned. "So he can't harm anyone anymore. " She stopped pacing and stared down Imalia. "He aims to harm Why'nn. To undo all the hard work I did. I fixed her! Nobody cared about her, she was sad and confused. Always hurting and never understanding why. She was lost and I helped her!" Scarlet shut her eyes. "Kinda like what you were spoused to do with me, but I'll be better than you."


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Nishira's Office


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Delrick was a little surprised by the sudden show of affection, but did not push her away. He smiled and returned her hug. "I would like that as well." The warlock was able to feel her relax, being more of the person he had known for so many decades. His smile grew and nodded at her complement. "Someone needs to help guide this ship your sailing. As we seem to keep gathering more and more crew and cargo." He shook his head. "No. That would not go well for you or this realm, you will know when it has been brought into this realm, but I will not let it out of my possession." The monk looked to his friend and his smile grew slightly serious, but still friendly. He would push as far as he thought was prudent, but would argue or fight with her. "To aid in the retrieval of the exalted tome, I would like to take my apprentice. The reason being I feel that one on one training and mentoring in her home realm would be more beneficial to our aims then just the classroom interactions she is getting here." He thought over the last few weeks and the gains and set backs Why'nn had been through. "To illustrate. There are too many cooks stirring a pot and adding ingredients. If that is allowed then the soup is ruined and the time spent gathering the correct ingredients will be wasted. But if one chef is allowed to chill the soup will be bright to it's full potential." Delrick knew she would understand that he meant a certain new teacher and a young boy were the cooks and that through their meddling had started to undo the progress she had made. 
 
Hallway


@StartingOver


Imalia kept her expression calm as she observed Scarlet.  "You can't kill my apprentice.  I would sooner kill you."  That was rough to admit, but true.  "Would 'all the hard work' amount to one night?  Is all your hard work one session?  Because she was doing quite well... and then, if I recall, people decided she was their plaything yesterday.  James is not innocent, but I commanded him to get her away from you.  I don't know what he said or did to accomplish it, but I will not have you harming her.  I was supposed to manipulate you for Nishira.  I wanted to help you and make you stronger.  Nishira won out.  For that, I apologize.  But Why'nn was doing better before anyone started messing with her mind yesterday.  Her focus, primarily with Delrick, was growing as was her self-awareness and confidence.  Now you've shattered that.  You and James."  The enchantress crossed her arms and her expression became severe.  "Scarlet, tell me honestly: What is the girl to you?"


My Office


@Grim Wraithe Stjerna


"I do need help...  Yesterday I couldn't find the right scrolls.  Really, Delrick, you're going to have to step up your game.  If you must spend so much time with your bird, bring her with you when you attend to me.  She's your apprentice, after all, she needs to learn what a second in command does as she will be yours in the future."  His request, however, soured her expression.  Taking the girl away from the academy, giving him full reign over her for who knows how long...  She still wanted Scarlet to have her way, still wanted James's corruption to affect her.  "Were this guaranteed to be a short mission I would grant permission.  However, you must know... she is to accompany James, Grim, and Reagan into James's world on a mission very soon.  How is she to manage proper preparations, including briefing on proper behavior, if she's tromping around Faerun with you?  While a solo mission with you is a smart idea, I can't see it being beneficial to her next mission if she misses the preparation.  If you had an idea of where to go and could promise your return in a week I would allow it.  As it is, I doubt you will take that short a time."
 
Hallways


Scarlet eyes narrowed. Imalia was right, Scarlet knew she had messed up Why'nn. "You were ordered huh, yet you find it your place to tell me I'm at fault for doing the same. You were literally in the same room when the order was given. " she snapped. "I understand very well what I did, and I understand very well what I have to do to fix the problem." Scarlet took a few deep breaths trying to calm herself. "She deep down reminds me of myself. I was one of the first if not the first to go through this process. I'm not talking about being bound, but being changed. "Scarlet's memories were snitched together from the real one to Nishira's vision and finally what Imelia herself ordered. Who knows if what she thinks to be real actually was. "I understand what she's going through, but I can do some good for her, if only for her.." Even though Scarlet didn't known it, she was right. She like Why'nn was the vitcim of too many people trying to mold her weak mind. She very much knew what Why'nn was going through even if she didn't remember.


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Hallway


@StartingOver


Imalia raised an eyebrow.  "Oh?  Was I now?  I don't remember ever making you feel like I should control you.  I don't remember kissing you, molesting you, kissing anyone, actually.  I certainly didn't strip in front of you or have you sleep in my bed.  And to say you're the first is a bit presumptuous.  You're certainly not the first.  This academy has been in existence for a century.  There are many, many more before you.  And you're definitely bound as well."  She sighed, shaking her head.  "Of course you think you understand.  But do you?  All you understand is that she is confused.  Do you know when that started?  I do.  I was watching.  I talk to my colleagues."  The enchantress took a step forward, the ice spreading as she moved.  "When you drained her, when you messed with my apprentice's mind you threw her into turmoil.  You set her back almost a year.  Delrick was working on fixing it.  James was working on fixing it.  You only seem to want to recreate either my relationship with you or Nishira's.  I can't tell which."
 
My room


Scarlet saw her take the step forward, the ice spreading as she moved. The switch was turned on agian. Scarlet took her own step forward refusing to allow Imalia to scare her. "I don't want that kind of thing between me and Why'nn. She got that on her own. As for James, maybe you should open your eyes and look at what he's becoming yourself! I allowed him to control me to truly see what he would do. The answer is he's a shit person. He groped me, he took advantage of me... What I did to him... That was mercy. I should have erased every thought from his head and given you the husk!" Scarlet's fists balled. "I will not allow him to hurt her anymore, he's a cancer now. He's been corrupted... and as for Delrick. Fuck him! He sat back and watched the people before me go through it myself and the people after and he did nothing... NOTHING! So he has no room to talk to me about anything. He's going to fail to save her. He's a loser like you Imalia. You lost me, you lost James. You're a loser."


Scarlet almost spit the last part out. She was filled to the brink with rage and venom, but also tears. It could be that all of this was a cry for help. She obviously cared for Why'nn in some form. She was sorry for what she had done, her actions and words of trying to fix it was proof enough. Deep down maybe she wanted Imalia to save James. So she didn't have to be evil.


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Hallway


@StartingOver


Imalia shook her head.  "He's a 15 year old boy who was handed a tome of vile darkness.  The fact he hasn't been utterly corrupted yet is a testament to his Will and the person he truly is.  Also: You talk about Delrick as if you know the man.  You don't.  He is Nishira's right and.  Of course he won't do a thing against her.  But do you notice what the girl calls him?  'Father'?  What does that say of the stoic monk that he takes his first apprentice and thinks of her as a daughter?  Do you think he's really going to stand by and watch as you wreck her?"  Another step.  The ice continued growing.  "This isn't about Why'nn and we both know it.  This is about you.  For you it's always been about that.  You want to be free but all your straining sticks you further in her web.  You call yourself Madame Spider but you're the fly.  You let Nishira control you.  You let her own you.  And she does own you."  There was concern in her gaze now.  "What must I do, Lettie, to fix you?"
 
Hallways


"I don't want to wreck her! Why is that so hard for you to grasp?" She growled. "I don't want to hurt her. I want her happiness, I want her to have what I don't!" The truth starting to come out. "You can't fix me, you broke me, and gave the peices back to her. I don't give a crap about you or Delrick following orders. It's just your way of not getting your hands dirty." Scarlet was at her end. "She does not own me, she would not approve of me harming James, but I'll do what I must." Scarlet stopped for a moment and looked at Imalia.  She saw the concern in the woman's face  and for a breif moment she allowed something to slip. "For what it's worth. You don't deserve what's happening to you. You... You were loyal and look what it got you... I I hope you find peace." Scarlet looked away. 


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Cafeteria and then Hallway then Infirmary


Nobody


Lillith left the cafeteria after deciding not to eat any of the human food, as it was a mockery of what she was. Her stomach growled as she wandered the halls before she finally thought something up.


There had to be some blood in the infirmary, right? Yes, right.


She growled at a few students as she passed by them, causing them to shrink back a little bit. She was far too hungry to deal with these children.


The blood she had taken from the blonde boy had already worn off. The strength she had gained from it had wained as well. She only kept strength from blood when it was her chevalier's.


Lillith made it to the infirmary and asked the nurse to give her some blood. One of the strange, faceless nurses left and then came back with a blood bag.


"I'm going to need more than that." She commented before she sank her fangs into the bag.


Cafeteria


People in the cafeteria


Ivela finished her food and stood up to leave the cafeteria. She needed to put her overcloak back into her room. Ivela couldn't just wear it all throughout the day. She wished she could, but they wouldn't let her do that. A shame. She preferred to hide, although she really didn't need her overcloak to do that.
 
Hallway


@StartingOver


"No, it's not your intent.  You don't want to hurt her, but it's what you're doing."  Imalia paused a moment.  "She owns all of us, Lettie.  That's what this is building up to.  She wants us to bow before her.  And I was a fool for ever letting her have power over me, it's true, but you're playing into her hand.  You're letting her do this to you, to Why'nn.  It'll start as trying to help, trying to fix.  If you remember, that's what you and I started as.  But Nishira didn't send me to you initially like she's sent you to the girl.  So tell me, as you never answered before: What is Why'nn to you?"
 
Hallways


"Why'nn is me." Scarlet said softly. "Why'nn is me trying to fix me." She could feel tears starting to come. "Why'nn is me trying to be a good person. Why'nn is me not wanting to hurt anybody. Why'nn is me trying to fix my own life!" Scarlet could fell the tears coming." Why'nn is the all the good I can manage out of the peice of shit that I am Imalia. Why'nn is my redemption." She looked up. "You aren't a loser Imalia... what little good I have left is because of you. That's what Why'nn is. The good that I want to keep." 


Scarlet felt the urge to hug the woman. Imalia had a way to get to Scarlet's heart every time. 


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Hallway


@StartingOver


Though the ice behind her didn't melt, though it still blocked the door, keeping James safe, Imalia stepped beyond it.  She did not bring the coldness with her as she wrapped her arms around Scarlet.  "Shh... You're not a piece of shit, you're not a terrible person."  The enchantress stroked the woman's hair softly.  "You're trying to help yourself by helping someone else, which is good.  However, fixing her won't fix you.  You're two different people.  I don't know all of her hurts, but I know yours."  She sighed, keeping a tight hold on Scarlet.  "I know you, Lettie.  I know you and there is still quite a lot of good within you.  You need to break free of Nishira.  You have the strength for it."


Father's Chambers, then Hallway


James hadn't replied and Why'nn was frustrated, not knowing where Father was, not having a reply, her thoughts thrown into confusion once more.  The girl gathered the necessary things for the day and left her father's chambers, making sure that the door closed and locked behind her.  Maybe she should go see James?  She began to walk toward Mistress Imalia's room only to see the door blocked up by ice and the enchantress hugging Mistress.  Why'nn wasn't sure what to do, so she stopped and watched.
 
Hallway


"I can't let her go through this... " Scarlet started. "I thought if I controled Why'nn I could protect. I could keep some good in her. "Scarlet hugged Imalia tightlly. "Nishira trusts me more then she does you. I'll be allowed access to her that you weren't with me. I can not let her be a mosnter like me!" Scarlet felt the tears coming now hard. She sobbed into Imalia. "I don't know who I even am... I can't... I won't let Why'nn suffer like that."


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Hallway


@StartingOver


Imalia nodded, continuing to stroke Scarlet's hair.  "You're not a monster, Lettie.  I can help you. I can give you your memories back.  Trust me and I can-"


"Mistress?"  Why'nn walked up to the two, then tugged on Scarlet's clothing.  "I know what a monster is.  I do not believe one lives inside of you.  I have one inside of me, though.  I have done much one would consider monstrous.  You cannot save me from what I have already done."  She watched the woman for a moment.  "Are you crying because of me?"  Admittedly, part of why she was doing this was to get back at James for refusing to answer.
 
Nishira's Office


@folclor


Delrick nodded slowly, agreeing with her assessment about his apprentice being present during their talks. " And you didn't ask the librarian where they were?" He winked at her knowing how she felt, or more accurately how the owl felt about her. He listened quietly, intrigued that a mission was scheduled to begin so quickly after the tournament ended. "Ah, but I do have reports of where it is and how to go about getting it." The monk produced his contacts information and relevant scrolls and maps. " Now you are correct in that would take a bit more then one standard Fearun week, or as known as a Tenday." Which he knew would be the minimum amount of time required to accomplish this task. "And with the timeline you've given she would not me back in enough to prep for the mission. Is it possible to delay James' mission or are there time sensitive reasons why it must happen in seven days?" He hoped there would be a way to delay James mission. " As there is much Why'nn can learn about interacting with other cultures and people's, under supervision, that will be beneficial to her future missions. Including James' mission to his own realm. " The warlock hoped that would be enough to at least her his friend and mistress to consider a delay. 
 
Hallways


Scarlet looked down at Why'nn with shock. She let go of Imalia and hugged Why'nn tightly. "I'm crying because I'm just as lost and sad as everyone in this place. All the good I do or try to do backfires. I'm so sorry Why'nn. I never ever wanted to hurt you or make you sad. Forgive me." She looked to Imalia.


"May we go inside, I don't wish to harm James anymore." She also gave a nod. "You do understand that if you do that I'll be destined to take your place right. Is that what you want for me? " Scarler knew that if she was given everything back she would be the protecter of these kids that she changed, she would become a moral compass for them, a rock in this fucked up ocean. 


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My Room


James sat on the floor, across the room from the door to Imalia's room, which he assumed Scarlet would enter through.  As soon as he'd locked the door, he'd cut himself off from the mindscape and cast the first spell that came to mind, a book that he'd learned from Nishira's book.  Half a dozen lances made of pure, swirling darkness orbited above him, and James held out his hand towards the door, ready to turn Scarlet, or anyone else he didn't trust into a shish kebab the moment they stepped through the door.


Although... now his arm was getting a bit tired, and maintaining these lances was a bit taxing.  Slowly, he relaxed his arm and sat back against the wall, letting all but one of the spears fade into wisps of black smoke.  He gripped the last spear in his hand, it's smooth haft deathly cold in his hand.  It occurred to him that he'd never learned to throw a lance, but just holding it the knowledge seemed to flow into him.  Perhaps that was part of the spell?  Regardless, James continued to watch the door carefully, ears plugged with wax, and mind closed off from any outside contact.
 
My Office


@Grim Wraithe Stjerna


Nishira let the hug end at mention of the owl, scowling at him, though she knew it was a bit humorous.  "See, this is why you should've been at my side this whole time, Delrick!  I can hardly plan this without you.  I can delay it..."  She was considering it.  "Will you only be gone a tenday or is that the minimum?  The girl's Thayan, she'll have trouble with any culture she runs across that isn't her own and I highly doubt you will find that volume in Thay."


Hallway


@StartingOver


Why'nn hugged Mistress, but was very confused.  "Did you hurt me?  I cannot remember...  I am confused again, Mistress... Please make it go away.  I do not wish to be confused any longer."  The girl looked up at Scarlet, a bit desperate.  "I cannot find Father and James has stopped replying to me... and you are crying and I still do not understand..."


Imalia considered.  "Not if I do what I'm planning...  What I want is for you to be free, Scarlet.  That's what I want for James as well.  Engineering it is becoming a bit difficult, but I have a plan.  Yes, you may come in."  The ice in front of the enchantress's door disappeared and she entered, leaving the way open for Scarlet to follow, though she wasn't entirely liking the idea of little Why'nn coming in as well.  After that, the ice disappeared from James's door as well and Imalia opened the way, stepping inside to look at her apprentice.
 
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