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Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

"My my... it seems that you have yet to reach the state of liminality that your sister tries to learn you toward Blaire..."


Kylier was leaning along the side of a wall, out of sight, but close enough to be easily heard


"I see it as someone who is being trying to utilize her influential powers while they still bare meaning as you are now. I wouldn't know anything among royals and the sort, but it would make more sense for someone proper to counsel you over these matters, with experience, rather than a sibling who is younger than you yourself."
 
"I-it's okay," Bunny said. "I wasn't being all that clear . . . and all . . . " Staring down at her feet, she was trying not to look at Azure right now, nervously rubbing her arm. However when Azure mentioned himself possibly being Mel's next target, she looked up at his with wide eyes. "What? That's terrible. Do you think you'll need some protection? Though I'm not sure where we'd get any . . . Well, you should at least lock your door or something . . . "


Lily and Anya finished their little moment, with the alraune shooing the neko off for some adult talk. Once the little girl seemed out of earshot, Bunny turned to Lily. "So . . . You wanted to talk about . . . taxes?"


~~~~~


Rose didn't turn back for her sister. What Blaire said only served to anger her more. Insults? Rose was telling her that it wasn't safe to let her guard down in public. And she would've told Blaire all about the things that have been happening this morning, but her big sister thought it was best to just storm off and run away from her responsibilities, as usual.


And even as Blaire said she'd help run the school, Rose couldn't believe her. Just cheap words with no real action to back it up. No. With her sister's track record, this wasn't something that would just be solved by saying so. It'd be best if Rose found a replacement. That way the school would get an actual vice president and Blaire could focus on her training or last hoorahs before taking the throne, although she did have around 100 years to do what she wanted. Running over possible candidates in her head, Rose could only recall one person she could depend on lately. Lily. Perhaps the alraune would be interested in a position on the student council.


. . .


But first, Rose should probably go find a healer for her hand.
 
He wasn't sure if he needed protection, considering the life he's lived, if there's one art he's definitely mastered, its strategic retreat... a fancy way of saying running away while sounding at least tactical. A lot of people give tactical retreat a lot of flak, and its probably because its a strategy for the losing typically, but even so, it is a valuable skill when faced with an opponent you can't defeat. Escaping successfully may only delay the aggressor temporarily, but that's where other tactics come into play, to prepare for the next meeting with the attacker. Even so, he could fight if he really had to, if they used any sort of magic, then he might stand a chance.


Problem is now, he knows that what he believes to be Bunny's mortal enemy is now after him, so she's going to be worried probably. A time like this, calls for some incredibly on the spot... FAKE CHARISMA!!!


"Bunny, I'm going to be honest."


Azure turned his head away from her slightly, eyes shut with a smile, stepping back a bit.


"IF I CAN MAKE IT THIS FAR IN ON MY OWN!!!"


Azure took his right hand, and extended it all the way out in front of him clenched, with his left arm holding his right arm, opening his eyes, voice booming with confidence.


"THEN SHE'LL HAVE TO BRING ALL THE GUNS TO BRING ME DOWN!!!!!"


Azure swung his arm across his chest, leaving it just in front of him, with a toothy smile directed at bunny, having him set in that pose he made


"I'll be fine Bunny, I will find a way to make it so!"


The willful rebellion in his voice was made clear he had hoped. Then a thought came up about what Lily said earlier, about how Kylier gave him to Lily, for being rebellious.....


Azure may be convincing to others, even if he had to get a bit silly, but on the inside, he couldn't take what he just said seriously. Even so, what Bunny suggested would be a good idea at the very least, but his time with Kylier made him much more crafty than just that... he was glad that he had a room with a window.


After a bit, Azure got out of his silly pose, and went back to standing normal.


-Lily's probably going talk to me about this..... but I think it's worth it?-
 
After having sent Anya out of earshot, Lily was ready to talk some taxes and get everything cleared up. She looked around and saw naught but a boy who was occupied with a book. A Human, by the looks of it. Lily wasn't certain how good a Human's peripheral listening was, so she would keep her words quiet just in case.


Then the green monkey began shouting. Just... shouting. As if his voice wasn't repulsive enough on its own, he had to make it louder. Lily's eye twitched as she looked at the moron in disbelief- the last thing she needed was any attention on this conversation, and he had just begun shouting in the halls about guns.


"*******," Lily thought.


She couldn't even think of anything to say about this whole new stupidity skill tree Azure had begun investing in, so she simply turned back to Bunny.


"So, taxes," Said Lily, making certain to keep her voice down "I... I think that I may have offended... taxes... but I don't know much about them. I mean I could probably beat taxes myself no problem, but my concern is that taxes might go after... my assets."


Lily nodded in Anya's direction.


"I need everything you have on taxes ASAP. Azure told me that you knew, so I figure you're the person to talk to. I especially need to know if taxes has ever gone after children. Children assets."
 
Bunny jumped as Azure began yelling. It was certainly . . . loud, but unfortunately not very reassuring. No matter how confident he seemed, Azure was still just a human. Though Mel was one, too . . . "Well . . . if you say so . . . "


It seemed Lily might be a target as well. Or at least someone close to her, Anya. "Well, I don't have all my information on me and I don't think I remember it all. But I don't think she's ever gone after children specifically, but she has killed some. I remember an entire village being burned down. The children weren't spared in that case."


"So I don't think she'll go after Anya, at least not on purpose. But she doesn't seem the type to care if a bystander got in the way. Does . . . does that help? I can get you everything else from my room later if you want. Sadly, it's nothing too dependable. The articles, posters and everything are based off of witness accounts, witnesses who could only watch from far away. No one really survived getting too close. So I'm not sure exactly what her capabilities are. And the only ones who'd know are unfortunately the two that follow her. So unless we can somehow get them on our side, we'd be going in practically blind."
 
This was especially shocking news to Azure. If no one has ever survived an encounter with her when she's off fighting everything, it doesn't sound like he'd be any different. He knew that he was going to have to be on the run. Ironically, Kylier conditioned Azure though attribute of being Kylier specifically for this type of situation, so he would be more than ready to flee at a moments notice. Still, he wanted to prepare ahead of time for his meeting.


"Hey Lily, I'm going to go to my room and ready room as a defensive fort, and escape route for when the... "tax collectors" are after me alright?"


Azure began going away from Lily, he certainly hoped that she would let him go do this, he was trying to look after himself after all, and wasn't to keen on relying on others if he had a chance on his own as well. Hopefully they wouldn't do anything during the daytime though. With that, Azure started walking away from Lily and the others to go take care of business.
 
Blaire starred off after her sister with a confusing pain in her chest that she didn't understand at all, she had felt Kylier's presence and didn't jump from those words.


"I know. Getting help from a professional will be much better but it would be a shame to lose my only sister," Blaire sighed as she took a step back, her eyes watching her sister's retreating figure. What was wrong with her? How could she so easily turn her back on her own sister? If it had been Blaire she would've turned around and helped like she had claimed instead of giving up so easily.


"Is there something you want Demoness?" Blaire turned to look at the girl with long hair, she was in no mood to be friendly to anyone at the moment and that included Kylier.
 
"Nothing, nothing at all I have to say"


She came walking out a ways from where she was, now being able to be easily seen now, and is facing away from Blaire


"I was only saying what all appeared to be. Still, if you were to ask me, I feel as if Rose is trying to get you to do what she wants, rather than what you want, imposing her own beliefs over yours. Whose lifestyle is better though, that is a question I leave to you."


She then went on walking out of the room, feeling satisfied with all she had said.


-Will she remain as she is now... or will my words have an effect... time will tell...-


A smirk grew on Kylier as she continued to where she was headed.
 
Victor listed with the utmost intent to catch a phrase or word that caught his ear. The green haired boy blabbered something that may have looked ridiculous had he turned his head to look.


The plant girl lowered her voice to talk to the small Angel, it was harder to discern but from what he could hear apparently about... Taxes?


Then the Angel spoke, completely not trying to hide the words "she has killed some. I remember an entire village being burned down. The children weren't spared in that case." Which Victor was able to hear mostly under her hushed voice. He also heard her say something about articles and posters in her room, might need to see if he can get a peek at these files if that's what she did indeed say.


The green haired boy said something about making a fort and escape route for "tax collectors". Time to investigate into this boy. He stood up with the book still in hand looking into it to appear to still be reading, every now and then looking up for brief moments to see where he was going. Walking slowly to make sure he wasn't going to be pulled back for whatever reason.


( Typed via phone, I also hope you guys weren't talking so quiet that has very acute hearing can't hear you. There shouldn't be a lot of noise as the hall is empty right? )
 
Lily gave out a relieved sigh. As long as nobody was going after Anya specifically, that was a weight off of her shoulders. She did promise the Human protection, however, so this whole situation was still a concern. Pretending to care about other people and actually caring about Anya was way exhausting.


"Well, I guess it helps a little. At the very least it's nice that I don't have to worry about Anya. Much more than I usually do."


Lily lowered her voice again.


"Also, Bunny, taxes don't set fire to villages or kill people. We don't want to alarm people in the hall about taxes, right?"


Lily was smiling, but underneath she was rather frustrated about Bunny's blatant show of idiocy. Lily could only assume that someone put her up to this whole case or whatever, and marveled at the ineptitude of the entire operation. The only person who would think that this clumsy child was a top pick for an assignment like this had to be stupider than she was.


Looking at her and being in close proximity to her, however, Lily had to admit that at the very least she was cute. Really cute. Lily found herself staring a little.


Then she remembered that there were things to do and looked around to make sure no one was near. The reading human left behind Azure, so there wasn't much to worry about.


"Yeah, sure, go to your room," She called after Azure "But visit me later today, I have an assignment."


She turned back to Bunny.


"Give me your room number and I'll drop by later. I don't want you walking around school with that stuff, after all, and I certainly don't want you bothering the student council president any more. Just... you have me, all right? I'm all you need."


Lily placed a gentle hand on Bunny's shoulder and gazed into her eyes.


"All you need..." She repeated.
 
-Alright, I'm off the hook... for now at the very least...-


Knowing that Lily won't be holding Azure back, he went off running toward his room till. He didn't bump into anyone that seemed peculiar, along his way, and the one person who seemed to be heading anywhere was some book reader. Azure's never been to into books, he prefers physical activity over sitting down and focusing on some story, but that's probably just because he's to busy focusing on Kylier most of the time.


He went into his room, and promptly shut the door, leaning his back against it as he slumped down to the ground, leaning upright against it still, today has been an exhausting day, and he really didn't feel like breaking out all of the stuff he could potentially do.


Going his closet, he opened it up, and took out a very large box he had packed away earlier. In it were some old memories that Azure put away for a whole year since Kylier moved to this school before he did. He took out a lot of rope, he wasn't sure how much he was going to need, but he could figure that out in a bit. He began exploring some of the other things, such as his climbing darts. It looked like a metal rod with a spike on one end, as if it where an overly large nail. He took it out knowing he could use this in conjunction with the rope so that he could climb down it in case of an emergency, but he was sure that he'd have to end up paying for any damage he causes, and put it away.


Instead, he threw down the rope out the window, holding onto the other end, and continued to add more rope outside of the building, until it reached the ground. With that, he pulled it all back up, and tied one end firmly onto his bed and shoved the rest of the rope under...... perfect.


He went back over to go through a few more things, and as he moved through them, he spotted something he wasn't expecting... in a bad way...


"....."


He closed his container, and shoved it back into the closet, and closed it, he was tired, and didn't feel like dealing with anything more, that can be done when he's feeling better. With that, he hoped he could catch some Z's before Lily actually needed anything from him.
 
"O-oh. Sorry. I . . . I didn't realize. Uh . . . no. They don't." Bunny looked down at her feet, playing with her fingers. Lily was right. It wasn't very smart to just talk about it like that, instead of trying to mask the words like she and Azure had been doing.


Azure soon left, leaving to prepare himself for what might be happening. Though Bunny doubted that Mel would go after him tonight. She would have just known of him today after all. Wouldn't that be too soon to attack?


Lily then asked for her room number. Apparently, the alraune offered to help Bunny with Mel, though the angel was told to not bother Rose. "Um . . . I'm in room 158. But wouldn't we need Rose's permission to . . . take care of our taxes? We're . . . well, I am not used to doing these sorts of things and we could get in trouble if we mess up or something." Attacking a student on campus was a pretty big deal after all, especially if it was a human. If they did this without permission from the student council, they could get in a lot of trouble. So wouldn't it be better to try to appeal to Rose?
 
Victor followed Azure this entire way to his room, having to give a bit of distance as he walked to his room slamming the door behind him. Victor waited on the wall a bit to listen, but he couldn't exactly hear anything through the walls. So instead he just looked up and wrote down the number of this boys door in his book he was falsely reading, room 460 it was. Putting it away he stood up, adjusted his bow tie, and knocked on the door waiting for the boy to open the door.
 
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Azure's eyes shut open, someone wanted in. If it were any other day, and if he was any other person, he'd open the door. However, his heart raced, he know the potential risk, the fact, that if he opened that door, he could very well die.


-I..... I.....-


Azure was completely paralyzed by fear, he knew it was likely fight or flight at this point, and the only way for him to ensure that he could live, he would have to make his escape


"I... will not go down this way!"


Azure proceeded to climb down his rope, all the way to the ground, and made his way to the back of the building, going to the archery field front, hoping he could stay hidden there.
 
Lily looked down at Bunny, who was herself looking down. Lily felt a twinge of something, but quickly crushed any growing sympathy. She knew she had a weakness for cute, and now was not the time to be falling into that trap. She only needed one friend- one. More would just be more complicated.


"Look, we're not doing our taxes just yet all right? I can take care of this whole situation with ease. When I come over later I'll explain, but for now just trust me and don't say anything to her."


Lily's hand moved from Bunny's shoulder down to her arm and back up again- a reassuring caress.


"Anya and I both want to be your friends. You... need to trust your friends, right Bunny?"


Lily got down to Bunny's level and looked her in the eye again. There was a certain gentleness in her expression.


"The lonely ones are so easy, though. Just say the word 'friends' and they jump all over you. I guess I get it now, but I only need one. One friend, but multiple pets. I can't wait to add a cute little bunny rabbit to my collection."
 
Shift had been repairing the outskirts of the building. Filling in cracks, wear and tear, as well scrubbing the windows as well. Cleaning one window after another and cleaning up bird droppings that slammed on the part of the windows that sinks in a bit. ( have no idea what those are called. )


He climbed over to a new set of windows to go upon, and began cleaning it, but with a wipe he noticed a familiar little angel. Its been a while since he last saw her, so he pulled up the window forcing it open with a little trick making one of his hands into a thin piece of metal to slip by, and forming the end of it to flip open the switch and lifting it up. With this strange burst of confidence from seeing the one person that actually came up to him once and not for school issues, he yelled.


" L-lilith! Over here! "


Completely out of character from his normal shy guise, he really just wanted to talk to the small angel again, see if she needed help with anything since he did help him out the last time they met, plus to just be nice.


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Victors patience was running dry, he was a marksman yes, but in this setting he really shouldn't need to wait for something to come, so he did the most logical thing at the moment. He reached into his vest and pulled out a loaded handgun he had been hiding during the day, need that just in case option just in case ya know, aimed at the door where the lock should be, and with a precision aimed, fired creating this loud bang resonating throughout the halls and quickly entered and closed the door behind him.


He quickly used his glove while not looking to make some quick repairs with a weak object restoration magic. If you look at the door where he shot at, you could still see the small outline of where the bullet entered.


He looked around and the boy was nowhere in sight, but there was a rope hanging out from the window, putting two and two together, he must have ran, well, now that hes not here, might as well look through his stuff to give any hints what is going on with that group. He started with the closet opening it up, and going through it.


( alright i think ive sat around in the background for long enough, time to throw my characters at people and DO something. )
 
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Azure realized a dangerous mistake he had made. Even though he was supposed to be preparing for his encounter with Mel, he left behind the only weapon that would honestly be his only hope. Normally, he would have it just simply wishing it to be... but its been far to long since had actually used it. His hand was still damaged, and he realized, that the reason his hand reacted the way it did, may because of the magical bond, preventing the summoning of his weapon to him out of him.


Azure gritted his teeth, unsure if it were safe or not to actually go back for it or not.


"... but if she finds me without it..."


Azure looked at his somewhat damaged hand, it wasn't really all that dark anymore, but the palm area still looked a little burnt or something.


With that, he began heading back toward where he let down his rope.
 
Bunny's eyes widened as Lily called herself and Anya her friends. Friends? But she had just met Anya today, Lily a bit ago. Was it possible to make friends that easily? But then again, she didn't have much experience with female friends, at least not recently. Maybe it was a lot easier to make friends than it was back then. Lily rubbing Bunny's arm though was a bit creepy, given their ages, but she supposed it was supposed to make her feel better.


"O-okay," Bunny said. "I guess I can trust you. You don't look like a bad person."


Then Shift burst through the window, yelling Bunny's name, scaring the angel in the process. Bunny screamed, jumping back and hitting her head on the wall behind her. She grabbed her head in pain, looking up at the open window to see Shift. Shift? She wouldn't have guessed it was him from the shouting. He was normally so quiet.


"Ow . . . H-hi Shift." She glanced over Lily. "And this is Lily. Did you need anything?"
 
Shifts pale colored eyes widened with his mask replicating his emotion. He immediately regretted yelling out so loud. He formed parts of his body into a octopi squeezing though the window and standing up and quickly coming over to bunny. He spoke in a sorry worried voice, retaining his usual volume, he didn't want to frighten someone else now. " Uh, L-lilith, are you okay? I didn't mean to f-frighten you. "


She spoke and introduced lily, but he was a bit more worried about her, though that name did sounded familiar. " I was just s-seeing if you needed help with s-something, I didn't mean to scare you, are you alright though? Y-you hit the wall a l-little hard. "


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Victor pulled out boxes and briefly went though them, it was a bunch of junk to him, but he just generally went though seeking for something anything that caught his eye.


( don't want to make up things in your room azure, so I'll leave it short. )


( typed via phone )
 
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Lily smiled as Bunny stuttered that she could trust her.


"Of course you can trust me, my little rabbit pet. What part of 'flowery demonic vinebeast' could seem untrustworthy?"





Then again, Lily's entire race was all about seduction. People wanted to trust her- all she had to do was let them. Male, female, demon, angel... it didn't matter. The only things more alluring than the actual Alraune were the fantastic ingredients they possessed. That was their downfall, but even among the superior Alraune Lily was the best. Lily was unable to fail, unable to be defeated, and destined to rule not only the school but the whole world! If all went according to plan, the entire facility would soon be subjugated and Lily would find herself the owner of thousands of completely obedient pets. And how would she accomplish this? Why, she would-


"**** WITH ALL THIS SHOUTING *******!"





Apparently everyone had completely lost their **** today and decided to have a shouting match. Maybe it was because it was Bunny that everyone wanted to put on a show, but Lily didn't get it. Bunny didn't seem to like loud noises at all, so wouldn't she like it better if her friends spoke quietly?


"N-not that I want to be her friend or anything..."





And then the two began to have a stuttering contest. Didn't the groundskeeper have grounds to keep? There had to be rules against tentacled versions of No-face from Spirited Away shirking work to accost little girls. There had to be, or else Lily no longer wanted to live in this world.


All that said, Lily gave Shift a polite wave when Bunny had introduced her. No need to make the little Angel think she had anger issues or anything, because Lily was perfect and had no issues at all ever.


"Ouch. Do you, uh, become harmed often? That looked like it hurt."
 
Victor had continued to rummage and shift through the boxes, when something in one of them caught his eye. A dagger, of a purple hue. Odd coloration, but it looked like it was a really decent knife. He picked it up with his right hand and lifted it into the air to look at it. It seems worth to keep, aside from the odd coloration. So he just put it to the side, he would take it out with him once he finished examining, he really wouldn't miss a knife he kept in the back of his storage would he? So he continued along to see if there was anything else in here.
 
And at least, Azure finally reached the top of the rope... climbing up all of it was not exactly hell, but lets just say its much easier going down.


-I just, need it..... ugh... I'm tired, but I gotta get the dagger...-


As hauled himself up and through the window, before noticing that a thief was here in his room. However, Azure realized, that he was going through his personal belongings, more so than just clothing, but rather personal items.


"HEY! Stop going through my stuff thief!"





Azure was enraged at the sight of Victor going through his stuff, there's a lot of painful memories in there that he'd rather keep locked up, and he doesn't want any problems to come from not having them available.
 
"I'm okay . . . I didn't hit my head that hard. You just . . . surprised me is all." Bunny smiled at Shift, trying to reassure him that she was fine. She actually didn't hit her head all too hard. It still hurt though. As stone probably would. But she wasn't seeing double and it didn't feel like she was bleeding.


"Well, I wouldn't say it happens too often. But it certainly happens more than I'd like. I'm afraid, I'm not too coordinated or anything."


Shift then asked if Bunny needed any help, stating that he had shouted at her for this. She looked to Lily. The alraune said that she would be all that Bunny needed, and having given specific instructions not to involve Rose, the angel felt she needed permission to say anything. "I . . . Well . . . "
 
"Is it any surprise I find the masked 'groundskeeper' where I hear a girl's shriek?" Richter said from down the hall. Hands in his pockets, he took slow, steady strides towards the group.


He stopped, and turned his head to look at Lily. "Did she rope you into that odd stalker business?" he asked. "I know it's tough for you to pay attention while you're babysitting and all, but you shouldn't pick up any unhealthy habits."


He hunched down to look at Bunny properly, saying "While vigilantism is admired by the general populace, it is often frowned upon by the establishment proper. And that's not considering those that enforce their own rule." His eyes had a glazed over look; his breath smelled faintly of raw meat. "I'm not in the mood for shenanigans at the moment, Miss Mills. You'd do well to tell me exactly what you're up to before I find out."
 
Shiftious sighed in relief when he heard that she didn't hit her head that hard, with a smile to boot as well. He was still worried if she may be hurt somewhere, but most of it was alleviated. He looked over to the alurane, and was about to introduce himself further to her, seeing as he had heard of her deeds last year, and her unique species being here, he had at least heard of her of course. Then came that familiar voice that Shift slightly feared when had heard it. He turned round and saw the vampire teacher Mr. Richter.


Shift immediately went in a panic and start saying in a rushed frantic tone of voice " I didn't mean anything wrong sir, just wanted to talk that's all, b-but i seemed to scare them unintentionally. " He stood on the side, just staying out of what he was going to do.


Shift had heard him say to Lily about something about stalker business. He muttered to himself " Stalker business..? " Then to the angel about Vigilantism. Shift was a bit confused at what just happened. " U-uh.. w-whats the problem s-sir? Did Lilith do s-something? "


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Victor turned and looked over to Azure, and spoke in a calm tone. " Well if you opened the door and would answer a question or two, i wouldn't need to be going through your stuff right now, but seeing as you up and hopped out the window so carelessly, i just let myself in. I apologize though, it may have been a bit rude of me to do so, going through your personal belongings and such without your consent. "


He stood up, grabbing the dagger with his left hand and sneaking it into the back of his pants attempting to hide it from the boy. " Though, if i may ask, why exactly would you jump through a window with a rope? You weren't planning on trying to do something you shouldn't have, were you? "


( sorry if the part with Victor seems rushed, had to get of my pc )
 
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