Nothingness
Two Thousand Club
Aura GrimmXander SeongMood: Relaxed / IntriguedLord_BoreasVale - Beacon Academy Halls
After getting access to the interior of the academy walls, Xander proceeded to head through the campus grounds, attempting to avoid confronting another Atlesian guard or drone in the process. Just because he had gotten assistance from an unexpected ally all of a sudden did not mean that the rest of Atlas guards were going to be as easy going and simply take the word of what two disguised guards at the entrance stated, not to mention it did not change the fact that the drones were going to be able to do a full scan and confirm whether or not Xander truly had access to the academy grounds. With that knowledge in mind, he carried Yumi throughout his walk, requiring him to take detours every so often to avoid patrols of guards when possible and sneaking around stationed other guards in other spots scattered around the campus grounds.
Eventually after finding his way into the main building, Xander was finally able to let a sigh of relief wash over him. Lowering Yumi to the floor for her to walk beside him, he immediately began to proceed through the interior, all while gazing at his surroundings of all the dust covered artwork of old pictures and even trophies. As many of the memories of this place might've brought back, Xander's thoughts were far too distracted regarding the fact that the White Fang had helped him enter this place rather than attempt to attack him. Curious as to what their plan was and why they would suddenly help him, his thoughts wandered in his head seemingly endless.
Coming to a pause eventually when he had reached a pair of double doors that would lead into the headmaster's office, Xander was quickly stopped when a male voice spoke up to catch his attention. The sudden stranger had called out Xander's name in response causing him to turn his head over only to find a familiar face. It was one of the passengers that was on board the ship with him as they were making their way to Vale, he hadn't spoken with him as far as he knew, although by Yumi's ears lowering against her skull and a low growl coming from her, it appeared as though his small companion recognized the bird and male before him. Introducing himself as 'Itel' before questioning their involvement at the academy, Xander simply stepped forward to push the double doors to the headmaster's office open.
"I'm not too sure...although Roux believes there might be something here of interest that might give us some answers. So, I guess it doesn't hurt to at least take a look around and see if we can't find something..." With the office doors open for exploration, Xander stepped into the large circular room while observing the details of the office. Books littered the floors, the once wooden oak desk had been flipped over on its side along with pictures of the original headmaster followed by photos of graduation of other years of students covered the floor.
"See if you can find anything that might seem...out of place. Even if we were allowed onto the campus grounds, I don't believe we're allowed in here of all places...for all we know, its only a matter of time before Atlas gets wind of our involvement here and tries to get us out of here." Kneeling over some of the debris, Xander flipped through several of the pages of multiple books, finding nothing of interest other than old knowledge of laws and about the rules of the academy. Unsure of what exactly he should've been searching for, he continued to go through most of the bookshelves, attempting to find something/anything that could be of use in the old text, completely unaware of the small figure of Beacon Tower sitting on one of the shelves straight upwards compared to everything else around it being knocked over. Completely oblivious to the fact that if the figure were to had been tilted to the side, it would expose a long circular elevator to arrive from the center of the room to take any individuals downwards.
Code by Serobliss
The UnknownMysteriousMood: Curious / AnnoyedTarot of DeathVacuo - Desert
With the rise of the revenants surrounding the hooded individual, many of the undead Huntsmen, Huntresses, Atlas troops, and travelers slowly limped their way ever closer towards the unknown figure. Their voices were a mixture of groans and growls, a large majority of their flesh had been torn apart only to have the remains of their flesh and bone held together by the black substances that was Grimm. Their weapons fused with their limbs as they approached ever closer. Soon, one of the revenants rose their weapon to the air to prepare and strike down upon the hooded figure only to have a large Beowulf Grimm stop the attack by gripping onto the wrist of the revenant. Growling, the Grimm tossed the undead Atlas troop aside before one after another, a variety of Grimm exited the gapping maw of the Monstra from behind the individual, the Grimm, prepared to defend their master all stood behind and beside the figure.
"That's enough..." With their distorted monotone, the surrounding Grimm lowered their defensive stances while the revenants continued to groan and growl. "Tell me, you all have died before your time. No? Do you not wish to get vengeance upon the living? Why should you have suffered and all died alone? While the living continued to go forward without so much as a care for your sacrifices..?" As the figure spoke to the undead Grimm, they eventually came to a halt in approaching the unknown individual only to finally lower themselves down to one knee to kneel before them.
Just as the figure lifted their Grimm-like arm to point towards the Monstra for the revenants to begin marching into the beast, one of the many small orbs that was similar to the ones that the hooded individual sent with Turic to investigate Shade Academy came zipping over to relay a message on the updated situation. Being informed that Atlas troops were going to begin coming after Turic and that he had found the vault had him curse under his breath. "That fool." Turning his back to the large open desert that had caused the rise of the undead, the figure returned into the large Monstra before the large maw had began to close shut. Immediately after, the massive Grimm began to squirm in place before rising once more into the air with its bellowing howl echoed across the desert.
As it rose into the air higher and higher, the whale-like Grimm began to hover and slowly approach Vacuo while the figure relayed a message once more to Turic who was sure to reach the vault within the next matter of minutes. The message was to inform Turic that once he arrived in front of the vault, that he should not touch it, simply confirm whether or not the vault door was still shut and whether or not the room was pitch black or lit before making sure to leave the academy and if he were to survive leaving the academy, he was to go in search of the next academy from the rest of the Kingdoms and confirm the same details without the assistance from the individual.
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Meanwhile, if Turic had continued on his way down towards the vault, the further underground he went, the amount of light surrounding him would drop significantly and rapidly till nothing but darkness would be surrounding him. The darkness as he would be lowered further into the vault would be a suffocating type of dark, rather than simply just be a lack of light, the darkness of the vault the further down he went would become almost like a strong gas-like substance with the scent being similar to that of a mixture of rotten eggs and rotten corpses. This sensation and scent would continue to grow stronger for several minutes until they reached the bottom of the vault.
From there, only a narrow straight rocky pathway would be found going forward towards what appeared to have been an enormous rectangular doorway giving off a dim golden white light from its edges. Along the door were carvings of the symbols of the four kingdoms along with a carving a strange tree-like symbol at the very top of the door.
Code by Serobliss