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Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

Azure listened to him speak... and instantly felt like he had Kylier's level of confusing grammar and word choice..... though since he was used to Kylier, he managed to somewhat understand what he was saying to him...


"Just... forget about her... I don't want to talk about it..."


Azure wasn't sure how long Riff would simply stay there while he talked... since talking isn't a free action.


"And... well, it isn't really my plan, as its the other's to kill them. The real problem is that he has guns over us right now, and I'm out of magic that Bunny gave me..."
 
Johnny continued to knit, though it was slow going. He set aside the half-finished sweater and ball of yarn for a moment as he reached over to the radio. Carefully, so as not to snap off the dial, he tuned into his favorite station, only to find static. His face fell as he fiddled with the dial some more, eventually settling on 103.6-



. Not Curtis' favorite, but it would have to do.
Satisfied, Curtis went back to knitting.
 
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"Oh." Richter said as the tree slammed into him.


As his perception changed to match the illusory magic, he drew the Japanese sword, his bones already setting themselves back to a correct position.


"Oh. It's you." He said, facing Mel.


He quick-drew his revolver, and fired off several rounds, dashing towards the girl as he readied the blade.
 
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Lily stifled a laugh. She was pretty sure that the ball of yarn wasn't magic, but she wasn't going to tell Anya that.


"Yes. Yes, Anya, my toys are magic," said Lily, scratching Anya behind the ears. She grabbed the laser pointer from her flower, and turned Anya towards the area she would cover.


"And I have plenty more magical toys, just for you. Look."


Lily turned the laser pointer on, and a little glowing red dot appeared to start moving around.
 
"What's this?" Anya asked, attempting to grab the tiny red dot. To her surprise, it slipped between her fingers. Frowning, she made another grab, then another.


She had to have that dot.


She crouched down, pouncing on the dot like a fierce jungle predator, if fierce jungle predators were small girls. "Lily, help! It's gonna get away!" she said, looking up at the alraune with tears in her eyes. "I don't wanna lose your toy."
 
Lily had a lot of fun watching Anya get after that laser pointer, and took a lot of pictures as well. She was the most adorable fierce jungle predator in the world, but Lily didn't think she was having as much fun with this one. Anya was worried about losing the laser, and Lily quickly had to choose between laughing and seriously reassuring her.


Of course, Lily would reassure her. Anya was just so earnest about not wanting to lose Lily's toy, it sincerely touched her. Right in her roots.


"Hey... it's alright, Anya," said Lily, putting her arm around the girl. She showed Anya the laser pointer.


"It goes right back into this metal cylinder when you're done playing with it, so it can't be lost OK? I promise."


Lily pulled Anya closer and smiled at her.


"Wanna play with some more magic toys?"
 
Anya sniffed, wiping her eyes with her sleeve.


"Yes." she answered, comforted by her friend. Magic toys were astounding things. "What's the next one?"
 
Riff was taken by surprise as things went dark, even more so when his senses came back. Mel and Vash were nowhere to be seen. Neither were Richter and the others. Before him stood Azure and Azure alone. Scales covered his skin as he quickly looked at his surroundings. The hole from Vash's earlier attack was still there, so Riff was still in the same clearing. He hadn't been transported elsewhere. And though he couldn't see or hear her, he could still feel that Mel was there. He had no idea about Vash, but he didn't particularly care about the boy.


His senses had been tampered with. He was still in the same location as when it went dark. Mel was still here, so everyone else probably was as well . . . An illusion. So that's what Azure's ability was.


Riff looked back to Azure, now talking to a boy who wasn't with them before. Listening to their conversation irritated him. A couple of holier-than-thou "vigilantes", so green that they were actually having a conversation in the middle of a fight?


While they were still talking, Riff fired numerous rounds at both boys. Even if they didn't hit them, they were meant to expand and freeze anything they touched. Meanwhile, he froze the ground beneath him, creating a smooth path directly towards the boys. He then charged forward, skating on the ice to increase his speed. His weapons posed for attack, he slashed at both boys as he passed between them, skating past them and then spinning around quick, firing more shots.


~~~~~


The feeling of no light and sound was not an unfamiliar sensation to Mel. So when she lost her senses, she was able to remain calm. It was when she was able to see again that she felt a bit uneasy. Riff and Vash were gone. She wasn't worried about them. They could take care of themselves. But someone was capable of doing this and she wasn't even sure of what they even did. What made it worse was that they took the angel away. Mel didn't quite enjoy having her target stolen from her.


A voice from behind alerted her to the presence of Richter. As the vampire began firing at her, she frowned. "I don't have time for this," she said, tumbling to the side to avoid the bullets. She held up her own blade to block his, using the force of his strike to help force herself back, further from him.


It was obvious that with Richter's healing ability, taking him down quickly and forcefully woul be best. And with his power, she wouldn't be able to take many of his hits head on. Mel snapped her fingers again, a large silver ring appeared above her. As it went down around her, not much changed, other than the new boots on her feet. Blades decorating the heel and toe.


She stepped back, placing her hand on her cards. Charging in was not the way to go. She'd have to wait for Richter to move first.
 
Now that that little crisis was over, Lily produced a third 'magic toy' from her flower. It was a small, pink plastic ball with holes in it. Contained inside was another smaller ball of catnip.


This was the toy that Lily was most uncertain about. It wasn't supposed to be unhealthy in any way and cats were supposed to love the stuff, but Lily really didn't know how it would affect a Neko. Heck, Lily wasn't even certain it would affect her at all. Regardless, the Alraune would make certain to keep an eye on her just in case.


"This one is... different. A different kind of magic. You'll probably understand if you just play around with it for a little while," said Lily, placing the ball in Anya's hands.


Lily then began watching the girl closely just to be certain everything would be fine.
 
"Just drop the questions for n ow... we have to do something about him first..."


As Azure looked back toward Riff, he saw that he had began to shoot at them once more, and in a panic, dunked down onto the ground, flat on his chest. As they over passed, Azure became surprised to see that it had become iced over. Luckily for him, Kylier's cruelty has taught him to be familiar with getting around on ice, but not to the level Riff is of course...


"Ugh...... ...!"


-If Mel truly had done something to that gun, and Riff is firing Ice out of it...-


As Riff closed in to slash at them, Azure got himself up, and slashed back at the weapon coming toward him. As it made contact, time felt as it stood still for a brief moment for Azure. He felt the energy from the one weapon drain out of it and into him. When time resumed on Azure's perspective, even though in reality, time never stopped, he got knocked back, partly due to his own weapon, the ground being ice, and the rest of the force from Riff... Luckily, the Ice's slippery nature pushed him back without knocking him off his feet, as unstable as the whole thing made him


"Gah..."


With the magic setting itself on his body again, the marks began to grow from his right hand, still hidden by his intact clothing.


"Ice..... ice is no good against him... but..."


-At least I taken the magic from his weapon... I don't know how loaded it was... but if it hasn't stopped working altogether... it should weaken... hopefully... If the gun is directly using Riff's energy however... it should disrupt his flow of energy... and prevent the use of both... I wish I knew what to expect before hand-


Azure jumped out of the way and slid on the Ice a bit, until he was stopped by a lack of Ice on the ground, and promptly got up. He had a plan that could work to help the others... he doubted their resistance to the Ice magic he now had... if he had to use it in its current state...


"Elaem on our side at the very least... its do or die..."
 
"What, just a ba- oh my." Anya caught a whiff of its insides. One whiff wasn't enough; she wanted more. She brought it to her face and began trying to rub it onto herself.


Tentatively, she tried chewing on the ball, salivating more intensely than normal. It wasn't long before she tumbled onto the ground, rolling and chewing the toy.


"Lily, you have to try this." she said between chews. "This is amazing."
 
Aayame stepped onto the school grounds with a single bag in her hands.... Er. Mouth. Currently she was shaped as a large wolf with tannish white fur. She pawed past the people who were outside and wondered if any of them would be worth talking to. She waled up to the group and sat down holding her single duffle bag in her mouth and curling her long tail around her massive paws. Finally she dropped her bag to get some attention.


"Hiya," said the wolf in case the large bag dropping was not enough sound. "Can someone take me to the dorms..? I don't know who or where I am supposed to be. Terribly sorry." Her voice was thickly accented as if she grew up in another country. It was not an English or their close relatives the Australians. It did not sound like African or naive. It actually sounded like miss Aayame had grown up in Germany, in which she had. "Also, forgive me please as I do not know English as well as I probably should," she finished at last turning her head to the side as if to act cute in some way.


Mikamia


The boy closed a book nodding towards black and Dawn whom were sitting in the music room of the facility. Black was playing music as beautiful as he could and Dawn lay resting beneath his feet content in this. Mikamia had just finished the schools book of extensive rules. "No fighting, he spoke at last to Black who had actually been waiting for him to respond.


"So of all the rules in that book, fighting is the one you would break?" Black asked on return. He slowly de crescendoed his music as well as slowed it down from eight beets per bar to only four. "Are you sure?" He said turning in his chair.


"Yeah what other rule do I have to break?"


"True that."


"Well, what about you, Black, what rule would you break?"


Black paused for a moment and thought deep down. He had read that rule book cover to cover realising school pranks were also on that list but he was not a snitch. Thus the asking Mikamia what he would have broken. "I think..." He started trailing off and addressing the hateful sneer coming from Dawn's dark dog face. She had taken the form of An Australian shepherd that had a dark face with lighter brown and tan patches of colour. She also had managed to pick some black to feather out the colours better, either way she felt she still looked like a cow.


A long silence persisted the room pressing it into a widely chaotic and sanity loosing room. To lighten this Black started on the piano once more. In all truth he had not even considered being asked what rule he would break. The only way he could brake any rules is if something bad happened to Dawn and if that happened he would have to look up to Jack who would kill him on the spot.


"I dunno," he shrugged at last stating to play a piece of Beethoven. "Between the no interactions with females and no leaving school grounds without permission I must say it is a tossup." quite suddenly he was torn from his seat and slammed to the ground behind the snarling teeth bared jaws of Dawn. "I'm kidding!!!" He hollered still at the wrong end of the teeth. "I mean it!" He closed his eyes tightly laying on the floor as her growls got more vicious.


"Perhaps you should stop thinking," suggested Mikamia. "You keep forgetting that telepathic link, huh?" Laughed the boy watching Dawn still take protective stance over Black.


All black could do was stare at him helplessly.
 

Elaem




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Elaem looked at the pissed off Ice demon and took a bit more of a serious pose, as the bullets whizzed by Elaem's eyes grew a more intense blue glow he ducked slightly bending is upper body forward and letting the bullets pass by him, he used the iron staff to push himself around, as Riff passed by him he lifted his iron staff when he directed one of the guns towards Elaem, the bullets missed him by chance and hit the side of his scarf, which froze over until the pieces quickly fell off.


"Great..." he said





"--This guy really has some blood-lust going on-!--"





Elaem's thoughts were cut off as the demon turned around and shot more rounds, luckily Azure had slid around in the ice to avoid it, Elaem did the same but he threw his body downward and used his staff to kick off himself, the bullets missed luckily but he couldn't keep up with them for long, if Riff managed to spray the bullets Elaem would have to dodge by tossing himself around like crazy. Azure would most likely not be able to dodge many.


When riff had gotten between them and slashed he saw Azures weapon absorb magic from Riff, the power seemed to have some knockback at the time but Elaem now knew how it worked.


"I'm aware it's do or die... I'll stop asking questions I guess." he said





Elaem had to figure out how to do something about those bullets, I mean could the guy even run out of bullets? If they closed the distance too slowly he would fire at them rapidly or slash at them, they have to disarm him somehow. He whispered to Azure


"We need to do something about those guns. We need to move fast across the ice, and we need a decoy. As long as he has those guns we can't close any distance or attack. Also when you absorbed his magic what abilities did you get? We might be able to use that to disarm him."
 
Azure was glad that he was muting the sound on Mel's group, so that Riff wouldn't learn about the one ability of his and use that knowledge to his advantage...


"I don't know what I got from him... but any sort of magical ability he can now do, I will be able to use in one way or another..."


He held his right arm, pained from it, but the hurtful sensation was already leaving him.


"And don't just state that sort of thing out-loud! If I hadn't made it impossible for him to hear us now, he'd know what I can do, and in turn, prevent me from making his guns unusable at the very least..."


-This guy won't stop talking... to many questions...-


"And if you want a decoy so badly..."


Azure ducked on over behind a tree, and hid himself under his Illusions as well, causing Elaem to be the only one Riff can see.


"I guess you'll have to be the decoy for me..."
 
Elaem

​



Elaem rolled his eyes, This guy had a short mesh for an apparently calm dude.


"That's why I was whispering it idiot, unless you have hyper sensitive hearing as well." he whispers





Of course Azure was probably annoyed at Elaem's ability, but he wasn't exactly helping by going into an illusion and hiding while Elaem supposedly acted like a decoy.


"You know we could have thought this through a bit more. Maybe a third? Who knows but way to go on blindly addressing the problem." he said adressed to Azure as he hid away but low enough for Riff not to hear





This guy seems a bit cowardly, and Elaem just got here so he doesn't exactly know why he is fighting in full detail, he expected answers from the guy but of course all he gets is his shitty attitude and a much of redirecting statements. Elaem would have to talk to him later.
 
Lily had been busy taking notes (Pictures) documenting the effect of catnip on the Neko when Anya insisted that Lily try. Since Anya thought it was magic, she had no way of knowing that it really wouldn't work. Should Lily play along anyways?


"Oh... uh, sure," said Lily, taking another ball out. She started gnawing on it and got back down on the floor with Anya.


"Give it a second. Oh, hey, there it is! Wow," said Lily enthusiastically. Anya would probably have less fun if Lily didn't play along, and right now this was all about the tiny Neko and her enjoyment.
 
"Listen... I'm sorry, but I don't know to well of what they can or can't do... Given Mel's reputation... it wouldn't surprise me if he had some sort of 6th sense for this sort of thing..."


Azure walked out from where he was hiding, invisible under his illusions. Since Elaem did have some ability of his though, he was sure he could see him, and hear him since he is allowing this.


"Even so... I'm not just leaving it all to you, I'm just trying to make him think that I'm just right there. Since you can see past magic, isn't it better for me to be the one who can't be seen? It's not like we have all the time in the world to plan things out. It's times like this when we need to just act when acted upon."





He looked back over to the enclosing Riff


"The plan is this, I take the magic from his weapons, Mel did something to them to let him use it. I don't know exactly how his weapons work... if I drained the one gun, or if it takes energy directly from Riff, that I indirectly siphoned his energy. Either way, I can try draining him..."


-All I would need to do is outlast him... and my weapon...-
 
Anya rolled onto her back, rubbing up against the carpet. "Lily~" she moaned. Anya wasn't thinking very clearly; her eyes seemed dull as she began to space out. She scuttled over, cuddling up next to her friend on the floor, purring loudly.


"We should get more of that soon." she said, burying herself in the alraune's chest.


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"Weapon summoning..." Richter eyed his sword, then tossed it away. "Guess I better keep up."


The vampire bit into his wrist, then swung his arm around, leaving a trail of crimson. The blood formed itself into a very long halberd. He brought it around, swinging in a wide arc across towards his opponent.
 
As their blades touched, Riff felt something odd. It was like something was being drained from him, similar to the same feeling he got when he had fought Kylier. Given this was on a smaller scale. He immediately pulled back, not wanting the jelly arms of that fight. And judging by the outcome of that fight, Riff would want to end this fight as quick as he could, lest Azure pull out some odd tricks as well.


Taking the gun Azure had drained, Riff took aim at the green-haired boy and fired, only to be met with a clicking sound. What? How could it not be firing? This thing was linked directly to his magic. It shouldn't run out like that. At least not with the ice.


Was this an illusion as well? Riff wasn't sure what he could perceive as real with someone messing with his senses. Knowing should weaken its power but that was only if he knew exactly what was being messed with. The hole in the ground was real but Mel's absense was not. Everything he saw could be an illusion or be real.


Nevertheless, he'd have to strike now. These two were a bit too fond of dillydallying. And neither seemed like the attacking type. He could use that for his advantage. Using his other gun, he shot a few rounds, only this time, the ice bullets span around each other, forming a helix type of attack, aimed at Elaem. And while he was focused on that, he make the ice on the ground spike up, so that the others couldn't use it to help them get around.


He lunged forward, using both of his bladed pistols to attack the boy, slashing wildly.


~~~~~


A hemomancer, huh. Mel watched as Richter bit into himself, transforming his own blood into a polearm. A formidable ability given its flexibility in use, though one only has so much blood in their body, so there was only so much he could waste. Though Richter seemed like a reckless man, bordering on pure suicidal. Besides, this was nothing too special. He wasn't the only one with special blood. Though hers didn't have much use here.


As Richter swung his halberd, Mel dropped, kicking her leg up and catching the shaft of the polearm in the space between the heel and sole of her boot. She moved her leg, altering the halberd's path enough to just avoid the blade. Her leg throbbed a bit. His strength was something, but it would take more


Still on the ground, Mel span into a leg sweep, aiming to slice into his Achilles tendons with the blades on her heels.


~~~~~


Rose and Bunny both had hard times dodging Vash's attacks as the tree on his chains began thrashing about erratically. Neither girl had time to think up any plans or strategies as they were forced to speed about the clearing trying to avoid it. They even hadn't noticed how the others had seemingly disappeared. Damn, Rose thought. Vash must've been a lot smarter than she had given him credit for, to be able to produce such a defense.


"How the Hell do I get this thing off?! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!"


(Sorry. I'll try to finish the Rose/Bunny/Vash part later.)
 
The internet, as usual, had been correct. Anya was indeed acting very funny, and seemed to be enjoying herself immensely. Lily was happy that their playtime had been so fruitful, and patted Anya when she came close. Lately she had been so good and patient with Lily, after all.


"Yeah, we'll get more," said Lily as Anya cuddled up "But I think that we'll save this magic for special occasions and rewards for being good- so it stays special."


In addition, she didn't want to spoil the Neko. As grateful as Lily was for Anya's good behavior in her absence, it was important for her to remain the good, sweet, innocent child that she was. It might be hard to shield Anya from that sort of thing with serial killers and stuff running around, though. Lily really hoped that the others were doing OK.


As Lily looked down at the Neko, she couldn't help but think that the girl buried herself in the Alraune's chest a lot. There really wasn't much there, but it must have been some small comfort.


"...Do you miss your mama, Anya?" asked Lily, still patting the Neko.
 
Anya looked into her friends eyes, appearing briefly confused. Her eyes welled up. "My mama? ....Y- Mama"


"...Y-yes!" she choked out, and began bawling. It was a long, painful wail, continuing as hot tears began to stream from her cheeks. She pressed her face back up against her friend and continued to cry without end.
 
Fioravante Bloyse Zirnitra Gwydion Megalesius Johanai de Prospero Rasputin von Elsimore, Master of the Arcane, had returned to Oriens after a month-long absence. He'd claim it was spent questing for the Magical Eye of Primeon in an alternate plane of reality, where he battled fearsome beings of metal and eventually sacrificed the Eye so their species would be reborn without the taint of evil, but whether that was true or not was anyone's guess. There had been no reports of a wizard causing explosions anywhere while he was gone, at least.


He had been taking a peaceful nap (do liches even sleep?) in the forest before finally heading to the school and the job he hates but accepts because it's the only one that might one day begin to approach an inkling of his aspirations when all the fighting and magic-slinging had awoken him. Stopping himself from reflexively creating a massive arcane explosion was an act of self-control few wizards could ever claim to match, something akin to mentally stopping a yawn before it even happens. He was still not happy, for Rasputin von Elsimore (for short) did not take to rude awakenings well.


A small man clad in purple robes and a hat which obscured his every feature sans his glowing eyes and long white beard popped up from the trees and into the clearing, shaking a branch in place of a staff and paying very little heed to the fights going on. "WHAT IN TARNATION! I DEMAND TO KNOW THE MEANING OF THIS! I AM FIORAVANTE BLOYSE ZIRNITRA GWYDION MEGALESIUS JOHANAI DE PROSPERO RASPUTIN VON ELSIMORE, MASTER OF THE ARCANE AND MEMBER OF THE ORIENS FACULTY!".
 

Elaem




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Elaem stood his ground as he observed Riff's movement, the gunshots would be easy to avoid but Elaem noticed Magic being sent into the ice, rapidly changing the form of the ice. Elaem took his steel staff and slid forward, as the ground spikes started messing with the floor making his movement difficult he slammed his staff unto the ground and used it as a slight pole vault just enough to dodge the bullets. He landed on his feet and used the staff again to help him stabilize himself.


He then noticed Riff rapidly slashing at him. Elaem couldn't recover in time and got cut to his right arm, he quickly used his staff and parried the other strikes and dodged them without moving too much due to the ground. Elaem's eyes allowed him to keep track of riff's movement as they glowed, When he saw an opening she slammed the pole directly into Riff's left shoulder, pushing him back quite a ways hopefully. Also hurting him hopefully.


Elaem looked at his wound as it bled down his arm. It was a semi deep cut not fatal but if not wrapped with something it would probably make him pretty light headed.


--Hurry and do something Azure. You better make this good.-- he thought





Elaem took his scarf and wrapped it around his arm tightly, to keep some pressure on it.
 
Azure went to go and follow up on Elaem's defense when the ice on the ground spiked up. He became cut off from the two, and made it difficult for him to get close...


-Erg... I can't just leave him hanging.......-


Azure looked at Riff for a few moments, going over things in his head


-He's... definitely the Ice user..... the magic he uses must let him directly control this sort of thing... I guess I'll have no choice... Elaem... you'll owe me after this...-


Azure stuck out his hand toward Riff and Elaem.


-I need...... it to flatten.... flatten...... flatten, and ensnare!-


Utilizing the magic he gained from Riff earlier he made the once spiky ground return to its flattened shape as Elaem knocked him away. He responded to Elaem's knocking strike by causing the Ice at his feet to grow around his feet, to stop his movement and cause the top half of him to fall down. The result of directly using the fresh magic he obtained was not a pleasant experience for him...


-Erg... Now's my chance...-


Azure, under the stealth of his illusions ran toward Riff, and swung his weapon at his other gun. If everything went well, it would leave him weaponless... maybe even defenseless and helpless with the magic he would be absorbing from him. If he isn't able to use his magic to escape the impending ice prison, it would make the fight that much easier.
 
"This is not at all according to keikaku!" Thought Lily, attempting to comfort the crying child. She didn't really know how to do this sort of thing, and believed that perhaps warm hugs were not enough for this new plateau of despair. This sort of thing probably required words- good ones.


Lily had just been curious, mainly out of jealousy, and didn't expect all the crying. All Lily wanted was confirmation that Anya was barely even considering her parents because she had a new best friend forever. Someone who actually cared about her and protected her and didn't send her to serial killer schools and then not even visit.


Lily was a little angry that Anya was still so attached to those people when she had the perfect friend, but the Alraune wouldn't let it show. She simply continued stroking the Neko's back as she cried. This required tact and empathy and stuff, and Lily didn't want to end up saying something bad. She thought for a second.


"It's... it's OK, Anya. I know you miss her, but... I mean..."


"Think empathy."





"Um... you know... I never had a mama or papa. I got lonely a lot."


Not, of course, that any Alraune had papas.


"But I mean... I've got you now, and it's not lonely anymore."


Lily held Anya tighter.


"It's OK if you miss them or want to cry a little... but just like I have you now, you have me. You have me, and I'll always be here. I promise."


Lily then came in closer, bringing her lips to the Neko's ear.


"I'll always be here... and I'm all you'll ever need," whispered Lily comfortingly.
 
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