Human, not human (actual rp)

[Ixidor92]

Ray's ears perked up at Samuel's exclamation. He calmly turned his head to his new roommate and cleared his throat.


"If you're referring to Gabriel, I feel I must clarify one thing about him. Seeing as he was my roommate for two years. He's only half angel. His mother is a full-blooded human."

 

[Cyrionessa]

Isolde heard both Sanz and Samuel and stilled, a few tears gathering in her eyes. So, now they'd find out what she is. The spawn of one of the most cunning and evil succubi in existence. "....I...." She couldn't expect them to be as understanding as the monks. "....I'm not a normal human being...." Izzy could never hope to be normal, especially with her mother trying to bring her back into the family fold. "....I'm....a demon...." The tears spilled over her eyelids. "....a....succubus...." She was shaking again slightly and her breathing accelerated again. "....born of.....the succubus.....Lilth...." She cringed at the name itself. Suddenly, inside seemed a bit too close to them. Sanz was sitting next to her and all the others seemed to be staring down at her. "....I....ummm.....excuse....me...." Izzy bolted towards and out the door abruptly, into the rain. The rain drops on her face mixed with her tears as she kept running back out into the forest. Finally, she couldn't run anymore and collapsed at the foot of a tree, knees drawn up against her and her arms hugging her legs to her body. Well, now they knew and now they would treat her differently.


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Habibah sighed and shook her head as the young succubus bolted. "....now look what you people have done....you've upset her!" She shook her head again and started to walk towards the girls' locker room. "Better go fix it before she runs clear through this forest to the other side!" Her purse that she always carried with her glittered with gemstones slightly as she set it down on the counter top inside the locker room. Habibah never went anywhere unprepared, so she set out her straightener to heat up while she was in the shower, hooked up the blow dryer, put out an array of make-up and accessories, then stripped out of her wet clothes and accessories with shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and razor in hand.


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".....i-it's o-okay...." Aamor noticed that Raziel had not let go of her hand. The realization made her shake slightly, not visibly noticeable, but Raziel should have been to feel it. The lights flickered several times for a few seconds as her psychic powers became unstable before she closed her eyes and concentrated. When she opened her eyes, the lights were okay again.

 

[Twizinator]

She's not human? Samuel thought, stunned. Is everyone here a monster? Am I...am I the only human here?


Go after her, Ryrax suddenly urged.


What? Samuel was surprised. Why?


I want to speak with her, Ryrax answered shortly. That's all.


Samuel didn't quite believe him. Suddenly, Isolde's crying face shot into his mind. Why could he only picture that?


Ryrax smirked, though only Samuel would be able to 'see' that expression. Ryrax knew Samuel's nature wouldn't let him be driven away. Be they human, demigod, monster, or demon, if they were distressed Samuel wouldn't be able to stop himself from trying to help. It was that nature that got Ryrax stuck in this eye, after all.


Samuel grit his teeth and stood. With only a moment's glance at Sanz, he bolted off into the rain, disappearing into the storm.


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Alex stared out his dorm room's window. Damn that leviathan...Alex hated rain. The sooner the sun came back out the better. He wondered briefly if that redhead girl had made it to her dorm...she was probably soaked. He smirked at that thought. If she would come to him, he could help dry her off.


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"Isolde!" Samuel shouted as he ran in the vague direction she'd disappeared in. He could barely hear himself over the rain, it was pouring so hard. Where had she gone? "Isolde!" He'd been warned that the surrounding forest wasn't the safest place for new students. It was the Black Forest, after all. She would probably be sensible enough to return to her dorm. "Isolde!" Why was he even out here? She was likely already in her room. He was totally soaked. "Isolde!" He slowed to a walking pace to catch his breath somewhat. Why did Ryrax want to speak to her anyway?


"Oi! Izzy!" Ryrax shouted from Samuel's right eye. "Where are ya?! I wanna talk to you!"


Samuel sighed. "She's probably already in her dorm by now."


"Why're you so worried anyway?" Ryrax taunted loudly. "I thought you'd be scared of her. She ain't a human like you, boy. She could kill you, easily, and since she's a succubus, you'd enjoy every moment leading up to your death."


"Shut up!" Samuel shot back. "I don't know why I'm out here, honestly. I don't know why I'm worried." The image of her crying shot through his mind again.


Ryrax groaned. "You're too soft, kiddo. Worry about yourself for once. At this rate you'll kill us both with your stupidity."


A rumble of thunder crossed over them. "I can't just leave her out here, assuming she IS still out here..." Samuel said.


"You're just a wannabe hero, Samuel!" Ryrax growled. "Don't forget it was your naïve beliefs that led to me getting stuck in this shitty eyeball!"


"You think I like the fact that I'm stuck with you?!" Samuel retorted. "I tried to help some injured dog and THIS is what happened to me! I get stuck with YOU! It's because you're in MY eye that I have no where else to go but this academy for MONSTERS!"


*CRACK!*


Samuel was thrown back as lightning struck the ground nearby. He crashed into a nearby tree, falling limply to the ground.

 

[Ixidor92]

"A--"


Sanz had not time to speak to Isolde before she bolted out the door. His eyes followed her, but he did not chase, only let his left hand clench into a tight fist. Armin let out a sigh and tossed something at Sanz's face, where it impacted with a soft *thump*


"Wha--"


"It's an umbrella. You want to follow her don't you? Hurry up before you and/or her catch a cold."


Sanz blinked a couple of times before running outside, he hissed slightly as he realized that he didn't have any idea which direction she'd gone after running.


"All-father, if you're watching right now, I could use a little help . . ."


He took off in a random direction into the forest, hoping he would find some sign of her


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Raziel felt a bit of a shudder from Aamor as he spoke, then noticed the lights flickering. Immediately he dropped his hand to his side and let her fingers go. Had physical contact always bothered her so? He tried to think of a time when he had touched her before . . . before quickly dismissing the concept. Lucas probably would have instigated a mini-old testament between the two of them if he had. The only other person besides him and Aamor in the area now was Armin, as Habibah was in the showers.


"You should probably get back to your dorm soon, the rain won't let up for awhile."


"Yeah, I got that."


Armin didn't say anything more as a single wing of flame came over his head and he walked outside. A cloud of steam rose up from above his head, but the fire did not dissipate. Ray let out a sigh and turned to Aamor


"Dorms are still halfway across the grounds. Any idea where we'd find a tarp or even just an umbrella?"


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Sanz froze as a crack of lightning struck entirely too close to him. He could swear he heard shouting, but he had no idea from what. As he neared the source, it became clear what he had heard. The man let out a sigh. He hadn't run into Isolde, but Samuel was here. He walked up to the young man and took his hand, not certain if he was conscious or not.


"Hey, you all right?"

 

[Twizinator]

Samuel was motionless for a few seconds. He twitched once, then twice. Suddenly he flicked his hand over his right eye, and the eyepatch disappeared. When he rose to his feet he seemed different: his stance was a bit hunched, very relaxed, almost animalistic. His fingers, curved like hooks, now ended in claws. His mouth curled into a wild grin, showing off powerful and exaggerated canines. His eyes were wide open...both of them. His right eye was a bloody crimson and the black sclera was void of any light. He threw his head back and laughed, a loud and crazed sound that pierced through the pouring rain. As he laughed, his hair darkened until it was pitch black, but blood red at the tips. Ryrax was now in control, and when he spoke, he spoke in his native Japanese tongue.


(To establish here for future reference, whenever Samuel/Ryrax speaks in brackets the words in brackets are in Japanese.)


"[Finally, that damn brat shut his mouth!]" he roared happily. "[That moron is blind to the reality that the weak should die. He doesn't realize he's going against the law of nature in his desire to help everything that moves.]" He blinked as he seemed to notice Sanz for the first time. "Hey hey~, you're one of them demigods, right? Sanz, I believe?" He laughed again. "To answer your question, I've never been better. Now run along, kid. I've got a young lady to find." He stuck his nose high, closing his eyes as he sniffed the air. He opened his eyes again with a grin. "Found ya."


With a *crack*, he shot off into the forest at incredible speed. "[isolde, daughter of Lilith! There's no use hiding, I've got your scent!]" He shot through the trees, and when he reached her he slammed down into a kneel, crouching on the balls of his feet, barely a foot away from her. "[Here you are!]" he said smugly, having won this game of hide and seek. "[Calm down, would ya, you've got the idiot boy worried sick.]"

 

[Ixidor92]

Sanz threw an arm over his eyes as the young man . . . if he could even be called that anymore, bolted off into the night. He did not like this sudden shift in demeanor, and he certainly did not like the look of that eye. He narrowed his eyes at the path that had been taken. If nothing else, this did give him a clear path to where Isolde was


"Run along? The hell I will."


He started down the path at a jog, admittedly not nearly as fast as the creature he was trying to follow

 

[Cyrionessa]

(Same brackets thing goes for Izzy when she speaks Japanese)


"[What do you want....?]" Izzy didn't look up. There was no way that she wanted to see the judgment in another person's eyes. One of the reasons that she had been sent away is that she had let her secret slip to one of the villagers in the little village beneath the monastery. Though they had never been hostile after that, they always looked at her as if she was just a monster, waiting to pounce.


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Aamor shook her head. "I never really bothered with an umbrella. Lucas could always make one for us...." She stopped and turned away. "I-I'll look around and see w-what I can f-find." Her quick steps started walking her down the main hallway, her eyes desperately searching for some sign of an umbrella. She was soaked to the bone and the fact that she was soaked also made her cold. And the cold made her shiver as she walked. Focus, Aamor, focus. This is not the time for these things. Why did Lucas have to enter her brain so much? For an instant, she saw Lucas' face, along with her family's face. Then, suddenly, she saw that night. She heard the men breaking in, heard the guns, felt the bullets tearing into her flesh.....It was then that the building's lights inexplicably flickered off, leaving them all in the dark.

 

[Twizinator]

Ryrax smirked. "" he said, apparently ignoring her question. "[Well, 'meet' isn't quite right. I saw her once as I was passing through Edo - Tokyo, as it's now called. Beautiful beyond description, and wielding terrible power. She's the only person I've ever been afraid of.]" He chuckled. "[You don't even make the hairs on my neck stand up. You're just some kid. You got her red hair, though.]"


He leaned in, shifting his weight forward and resting the fingertips of his right hand on the ground for support. His left hand reached out and slipped the index finger under her chin, holding it between the finger and thumb. He forced her face up, making her look him in the eye. He leaned in, locking eyes with her, and his face slid past hers. He sniffed her neck eagerly like a curious wolf. "[You definitely have her scent about ya,]" he said in a growl-like whisper, "[but of course, you've got your own scent. It's a devilishly good smell, damn near intoxicating...a trait any succubus worth her salt should have.]" He moved his head back so he could look her in the eye. His grip on her chin was firm but not harsh. He chuckled again. "[You seem afraid. I think the only one scared is you, ya know. Well, you and Samuel, but he's a bit afraid of everything.]"

 

[Ixidor92]

Ray looked through some of the outdoor equipment in the athletic building. Surely there was something here that would--


"Aha! A tarp!"


It was moderately sized, and while it didn't have sleeves, it could easily be pulled around one's shoulders like a cape.


"Now to--"


That was when the lights flickered off. Ray blinked a few times, trying to adjust


"That's not right, I didn't summon a thunderstorm. I only--"


Aamor. The lights had flickered earlier because of her, it wasn't impossible that this was also because of her. As his train of thought continued, green flames winked into existence along the bases of the walls. They didn't shine nearly as much light as the lights did, but it was enough to see by. Ray took off in the direction that he had seen Aamor travel, and soon found her huddled against the wall. He let out a sigh and threw the tarp gently over her head, pulling it down around her shoulders


"Come on, you look like you need to get back to your room . . ."


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Sanz slogged through the wet undergrowth, the umbrella he had brought barely helping anymore. He was already soaked to the bone, when finally he heard something that sounded like talking. He couldn't make it out, but after a few seconds he recognized it as a foreign language. Probably japanese.


"Dammit, I can't understand that."


He marched through the undergrowth in the vague direction, hoping he wasn't too far.

 

[Cyrionessa]

Izzy jerked her chin out of his hand. "[H-h-h-h-h-ow dare y-you touch me!]" It was now that she looked at him and could feel something within memory stir. It wasn't really her own memory; it was like a racial memory. Her eyes flashed open red and she pushed him away from her. "[D-don't touch me, y-you....Wolf...." That's what her mind told her his true form had to be. A Demon Wolf or Hell Hound perhaps would be what he was called.


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Aamor didn't move or react to his approach at all. Her eyes seemed almost glazed over and they were seeming to be looking far away. They moved for no reason that one could see; she seemed to be watching something else. Her body was frozen but the area around her seemed to crackle with psychic energy.


Within her mind, Aamor fought as she always did within the memory. Maybe it would turn out differently; maybe it had all been a bad dream. Maybe they weren't dead. Maybe she could save them. In reality, Aamor knew the truth. But in the world of her mind, reality warped and bended until she had no semblance of rational thought. Her only thought was to save her parents. Save her siblings. Save Lucas.

 

[Twizinator]

Ryrax let out a bark-like laugh. "[Wolf?]" he laughed again in the same way. "" Jet-black sparks danced over his arms as he said this, as if to prove he was telling the truth. "" He sighed. "[There's also the little wrinkle of me being trapped in this damn human body, but there's not much I can do about it at the present time.]"


He moved over and sat beside her under the tree, gazing up at the dark clouds that poured rain on the two demons. "[it's a long story I'd rather not get in to, but I'm only in control of this mortal shell because Samuel was knocked unconscious against a tree from that lightning strike a few minutes ago. He's starting to wake up, too, so I regret to say my fun is drawing to a close.]" He turned a serious and surprisingly soft gaze on Isolde. "[He's a fool, but he has his uses. He's afraid of you, I won't sugarcoat it, but if you need aid of any sort, he's the type that'll lend a hand without a moment's hesitation.]" He smirked. "[Also, he's not gonna know any of this conversation happened, because he's been out cold. So have fun with that.]" Ryrax flinched as the body's owner stirred in his mind. "[Good luck, child of Lilth.]" With that he swiped his hand over his right eye. The eyepatch conjured into existence, and his body immediately slumped. His eye was closed and his head rested lightly on her shoulder, his drenched white hair partially obscuring his face.

 

[Ixidor92]

Sanz pushed through the undergrowth, finally coming to where Isolde and the other creature were. He was just in time to watch Samuel/Ryrax slump down into unconsciousness. Isolde was curled up by a tree, an unreadable look in her eyes. Sanz let out a sigh and walked over to the both of them, kneeling down next to Samuel's unconscious body first. When he saw the eyepatch, he remembered Samuel saying something about a creature being sealed in his eye. So that was what he had seen. Sanz knelt down, the umbrella covering all three of them just barely.


"Hey . . ."


He wasn't sure how to start the conversation. Between how she had burst out and not knowing what had happened, he was clueless


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Ray took ahold of both Aamor's shoulders. He had no idea what was going on right now, but she seemed trapped in her own mind.


"Aamor."


He shook her gently


"Aamor!"


A little harder

 

[Cyrionessa]

Izzy hazarded a glance upwards but the look was filled with fear and doubt. What was he going to say? How would Sanz react to her now. So far, he was shielding her from the rain. ".....h-hey....." She looked over at Samuel/Ryrax. That beast probably knew more about her background as a succubus than she herself did. The monks had chosen to isolate her from her heritage with good reason. But, now, with her powers continuing to grow.....she needed to know. And just maybe that Raiju could tell her what she wanted to know.


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Aamor heard a voice. Slowly, what she saw disappeared into a darkness with the form of Raziel barely visible. Her body collapsed into shaking as a few tears flowed erroneously down her face. She quickly wiped them away, hoping that he hadn't seen them. "...I-I'm sorry....didn't m-mean to make the lights g-go out..." There was no safe place here, it seemed. The only place she had ever felt truly safe was in Lucas' arms. But mere physical contact made her go crazy with fear. And with reason. Aamor pulled up the sleeve on her arm to make sure that this was reality, not her mind. In her mind, there were no scars. But, sure enough, there was the gashing scar that ran from the base of her thumb to the crook of her elbow. She sighed in relief that she had escaped from her mind.

 

[Ixidor92]

Ray's eyes narrowed slightly as Aamor tried to hide the fact that she had been crying, then widened when she pulled up her sleeve and he saw the scar. He knew for a fact that had not been there last year. She had her forearms bear while in the summer uniform, and that had not been present. He wanted to ask questions--but the logical part of his brain told him to leave them for another day, if ever. He rustled a tarp over her head just a little bit.


"It's fine. The emerald flames came out like they're meant to. I found this, should keep you dry . . . or at least stop you from getting any wetter while you get to the dorms."


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Sanz gave a small smile to the woman as she looked up at him. Her fear was evident, she wasn't very good at hiding it. He shrugged the umbrella a little bit, causing some water to drip down his back, but he didn't care (he was already drenched anyway)


"Rain's not dying down any time soon, we need to head back."


So she was a succubus. And not just any succubus, but daughter to the most dangerous of all succubi. So . . . why wasn't he afraid? His father had told him stories of demons, and how they would rip a man's very soul apart . . . but this girl in front of him elicited no such fear. Maybe it was because she wore her emotions so obviously, to the point where he was pretty sure he would know right away if she was lying, but it wasn't there. At the end of the day, this was an academy for monsters. He would endeavor not to treat her any differently than when he had first met her.

 

[Cyrionessa]

Aamor hastily pulled the sleeve back down, almost violently. Had she almost forgotten that someone else was here with her? Someone had just seen one of her many scars. Most of the bad ones were on her torso thankfully, but there were still plenty enough on her arms and legs. She had managed to protect her face at least. "....t-thank you, Raziel...." All the others had always called him Ray but for some reason she always called him Raziel. She shakily stood up. "I guess w-we should go, then."


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"....you want to take me back there...." Izzy's eyes filled with confusion. "You s-sure you want to be around a demon? I thought it was a d-deity's duty to...." She trailed off. What little she did know about her species was that none but other demons really liked them. Izzy remained curled up, arms gripping around her legs tightly as if she was holding on for dear life.

 

[Ixidor92]

Sanz let out a sigh and shook his head


"Okay, let me make a few things clear. One: I'm only half-deity. Half of me is completely human, and there's no reason to treat me like a full deity. Two: I don't really have any duty apart from what I give myself, unless my father should see fit to assign me one. As it stands, I do the best I can to honor him. Three: A demon's greatest weapon is deception. Apart from the fact we now know you're a succubus, I'm going to be very blatant and say I don't think you're a very good liar."


A little bit of thunder sounded in the distance when he finished, as if to capitalize his point. He offered his good hand to her


"Now come on, the rain isn't falling any slower, and I know I don't want to miss the first day of classes because I caught something standing out in the rain. Do you?"


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Ray had one hand on her shoulder, though it was over the tarp. He could feel her shaking beneath his hand


"Yeah. I'll escort you to the dorms at least. I'm pretty much water-proof, so I don't need to worry about walking back."


He waited for Aamor to start walking. Her pace right now. Ray didn't know what was going on, but her psychic powers had just been unstable, which generally meant her mental state was in flux. As if one look at her face couldn't confirm that already.

 

[Ninja_Onions]

Frank's loud steel plated boots caused the soft, wet earth to leave imprints with each heavy step as he walked away from the field. "Mnggh..." He grunted. Frank didn't necessarily dislike the rain, but he much rather preferred a sunny day to a downpour. "Saw friendquaintences fumble to dark trees. Hmph. Need be more caretaking." He said as his footsteps stomped off in the direction of the forest.

 

[RedHotSwami]

"-will!"


The last word of Schmendrick's ultimate spell echoed through the forest. It carryed the weight of power and magic. His blue robe and patchwork hat were no match for the torrential downpour that fell atop him. He blinked a few times looking at the trees around him that had sprung up around him for a moment before he scrambled for the protection of the nearest one. He pulled the sack from his back and set it upon the reletively dry ground next to him and began to say the basic spell of waterproofing over them.


"SALUS KANTAINO LUMPIN!"


... He looked around coughed and raised his hands again.


"SA-LOOS KANTANIO LUMPINE!"


... He wiggled his fingers very intently before he scuffed his shoe against the ground


"SALOOS KANTAINIO LUMPONE!"


He kicked the sack and sat down next to the tree. He began muttering angrily to himself and continued for some time before he sighed, picked up the sack, flicked up his collar, and ran through the forest hoping to find somewhere to stay the night, or perhaps longer.


"Provided they need a fool."

 

[Ninja_Onions]

'-will!'


"Hmm? Who say words in dark trees? Maybe someone pained." Frank said as he changed course and began trudging towards to origin of the sound. "Hellooooooooo, tiny persons? No need to frighten. I will not ouch you." Frank shouted as he looked for the source. It wasn't too terribly long before he saw a patchwork hat poking out from the trees. "No remember see head shoe on others. Hmm." He stated, footsteps pounding on the soft earth as he approached.

 

[Cyrionessa]

Izzy blinked one. Twice. He....wasn't reacting the ways that the villagers had? She gently took his hand then looked down at Samuel. "....we can't exactly leave him out here." With strength that people really would never have thought that the girl had, she lifted him off the ground as if he weighed nothing and turned nonchalantly to Sanz. "Okay....let's go back...."


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Aamor walked, focusing on putting one foot in front of the other. She headed towards the door, hoping that she would just be able to function long enough to get back to her special room. After the academy had learned of her predicament, they had created a room that wasn't actually inside of the dorms to shield others from her psychic outbursts. To the people who lived in the dorms, it appeared to be a kind of storage shed. Her eyes widened when she suddenly realized that Raziel probably didn't realize this. "....erm.....I don't exactly....live in the dorms anymore....."


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Habibah walked out of the shower room, looking just as fresh as she had when before the rain had started. It was still raining buckets and there was no way that she was going to walk outside at the moment. Looking around outside, she saw the odd girl being helped out by the guy who had summoned this monsoon. She mentally noted to chew him out later. Habibah also spied the boy that she assumed was a Phoenix, judging by those fiery wings. She approached him, figuring that he was more likely to give her full answers than the girl who was shaking and the guy that was helpign her.


"Those two idiots, Sanz and Samuel, and my room mate Izzy have not returned yet have they?"

 

[RedHotSwami]

As Schmendrick saw Frank come out of the foliage his eyes grew wide and he stared at him. Sadly he was still running. He tripped on a root and went tumbling. The magician came to rest with his back on the ground and the bag of books next to him. The wind had been knocked out of him and somewhere he had lost his hat.


He wheezed as he tried to get back up... and fell back to the ground coughing. "Woo boy..." It's at this point that Schmendrick's life started flashing before his eyes. Being taught basic cantrips as a boy, life in the circus, the adventure with the unicorn, and finally this beast coming out of the forest to kill him in some horrible manner. Schmendrick began to lament, silently to himself as he was still winded, the events that led to his untimely death. 'Oh if only I hadn't run in the forest, if only I had spent some time on his studies before teleporting myself to a monster infested forest, if only- wait... did he say he wouldn't "ouch me?"'


*cough cough*


"Umm... hello?" he said looking up at the creature.

 

[Ninja_Onions]

Frank reached down and picked up the patchwork hat that had fallen off as Schmendrick had fled from him. "Hello." His deep baritone boomed as he walked towards the young boy. "Name Frank. Yours?" Frank said holding Schmendrick's hat out to him. "Be more caution in time soon. Dark trees no setting for small person."

 

[Ixidor92]

Sanz looked between Isolde and himself, then up at the umbrella. Between her, Samuel, and himself, someone was going to get wet.


"Here."


Sanz put the umbrella in Isolde's hands, then took Samuel over his left shoulder. If he stayed on Isolde's right side, then he would be the only one who got any wetter on the way back. It also allowed Isolde to set the pace, rather than himself


"Lead on, the academy shouldn't be too far."


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Armin gave a bored look at the girl who approached him, notably keeping the flame between only himself and the rain. Habibah was left to get drenched.


"No, they haven't. How soon all depends on how far your 'roommate' ran out into the forest like a moron."


He didn't slow down his pace at all, which was quite fast, eager to get out of the storm


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Raziel raised an eyebrow as the water slicked off of his form like he was made of plastic.


". . . Okay? Where would you be if not the dorms?"


This was new. He had watched Lucas leave the male dorms, and pick Aamor up from the female dorms. She had been there last year. Questions were adding to the buzz in Ray's mind, and he would be asking them tomorrow. When Aamor had calmed down somewhat.

 

[Twizinator]

Samuel's eyelid opened slowly, his mind in a haze. Why was he staring at the muddy ground, a couple feet below? He was also apparently moving backwards...he must be being carried by someone or something. Where was he anyway? What had happened?


Samuel's eye blinked once and was now wide open as the recent events caught up to him. Isolde was a succubus; he was likely the only human here. He had gone after her despite that, and argued with Ryrax. Then a loud clap of thunder, and then...


Samuel groaned as his head painfully reminded him that he'd collided with a tree. He didn't remember anything that happened since then, though. What had transpired between then and now?


Who the hell was carrying him?


In a brief panic, Samuel twisted out of Sanz's grip, landing with a splat on his back in the muddy earth. He sat up hastily, looking up at the half-god and the succubus before a hand flew to the back of his head, which ached harshly. "Ugh..." he moaned in pain. "What happened?" He looked fearfully first at Sanz, then at Isolde, but it was more at his missing memory than the fact that she was a succubus...though whether or not she could tell was unknown.

 

[RedHotSwami]

Schmendrick held out his hand and took his hat from Frank and affixed it to his head as he sat up. "Wew... thanks. My name's Schmendrick, Schmendrick the magician. You probably haven't heard of me." He reached down and picked up his bag. "I'm begining to see that this place could be very dangerous for me. Do you know a safe place fella? Or even where we are at all? Are we near the lands of King Lier?" Schmendrick rattled off questions being put at ease by the big man's seemingly friendly disposition.