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Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

This time, Lily was somewhat surprised by Anya's answer. Just a couple of days ago, even, she was scared out of her wits by The Nightmare Before Christmas, and now she was beginning to think that killing abominations might be fun.


No, Lily had to keep the girl sweet and innocent. She wasn't going to let Anya get messed up. Lily was going to protect her from all the bad things.


The Alraune didn't want to disrupt class, but this was important. She leaned close to Anya, and whispered so quietly that only the Neko could hear. If anyone else got wind of this, it would be embarrassing beyond belief.


"Anya? Sweetheart? I need to use the bathroom, but I don't want to go alone. Could you tell the teacher that you have to go, and then I'll tell him I need to go too? It would be embarrassing to ask to take you, after all, since I'm an adult."
 
Anya nodded, removing her mask before saying, "Teacher may I use the bathroom?"


Richter looked up from the jaw he'd just torn off, saying, "And the teeth aren't ev- Oh. Yes. If you need the bathroom, just leave quietly. You can get notes from a classmate later. As I was saying, these teeth are actually from a wild dog, then grafted to the human jaw."


Anya nodded again, and left the class. She decided to keep up appearances, and went ahead to the bathroom to wait for Lily.
 
It worked, somehow. Anya didn't misinterpret anything or blurt anything out, instead leaving for the bathroom quietly. Lily sighed.


"How am I going to explain to her that violent things like this are no good for children? I need to get her out of this class. I need to get her to just forget these things."





Lily slithered quietly out of class and went to the nearest bathroom, where Anya was waiting. She smiled at the Neko.


"There she is- waiting obediently like a good girl to help her friend. There's hope. I can get her to drop this."





"Thank you, Anya..."


Lily just stood there and shifted around a bit. She didn't quite know how to start this off.


"So... you know rated R movies? Those are movies for adults, and not for children right? Your mama and papa probably don't want you to see them."


Lily bit her lower lip a bit.


"So... you know... if you wandered into one of those movies and saw something bad, you'd know it was an adult movie right? And you wouldn't stay because you know that your mama and papa wouldn't like it if you saw those things, right?"
 
"Yeah. Papa told me he didn't want me to see R rated stuff." Anya said, looking at the ground. She felt her eyes well up a bit, and rubbed them. "I guess he wouldn't want me seeing adult stuff."


"Lily, what's this about? I'm in trouble, aren't I?" she looked up at her friend, her voice starting to crack.
 
Lily could tell by Anya's look and by her words that she didn't want to do bad stuff. For once, Lily was ready to silently thank Anya's papa instead of despise him because she knew he would want to take Anya away from her some day. He was someone who, like Lily, didn't want the girl seeing things that she wasn't quite equipped to understand yet.


Lily sighed, and came down to Anya's level. She put her hand on the Neko's cheek, and gently ran her thumb across it. The Alraune smiled slightly.


"Oh, sweetie... you're not in trouble. You wandered into an adult movie- you didn't know. But Richter's class... it's a class for adults, and has things in it that your papa probably wouldn't want you to see just yet. It's the same with me."


Lily brought a finger to one of Anya's eyes and wiped a tear from it lovingly.


"It's OK. We'll find you a different class. Something that I know your papa and I would be fine with having you in. Something more appropriate for children. PG, maybe."


Lily laughed a little and smiled, to let Anya know that everything was all right.
 
"O-okay." Anya stammered, looking at her friend. She breathed deeply a few times, and rubbed her eyes. "It's okay then. It's okay."


Slowly, she began to hug Lily. "I miss Papa." she whispered.
 
Curtis wondered why the snake-girl was just standing in the doorway. Maybe she was scared of the teacher? He certainly scared Curtis, that's for sure. The boy attempted to drape the smock over himself, but it didn't reach past chest-level. At least his pecs would be protected from any errant splashes, he supposed. He sat there without a word as the teacher dismantled some sort of zombie, too intimidated to talk.


________


Olga's crab finished its tunnel, at which point it stood out in the sun, giving pheromones that would attract the sky-beast. Olga smirked as the great worm once again came crashing into the room- this time via the convenient tunnel the coffin-crab had dug, filled with convenient chemical markers. She stepped out and closed the door.


The thing pulsed once, twice, thrice, and disgorged a massive semi-translucent thing, like a giant slug made out of hamburger, which was soon eaten inside-out by a number of smaller slugs which coated the room in meat moss pretty much like that one scene in Slither and it was really gross and long story short the school has a big hollow tumor now in the foundation and Olga lives there and it has weird mad science stuff.
 
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"I'd like to see how long such a crude method of control lasts," Riff muttered as he watched Kylier leave. Still angered by her, he picked up a nearby chair, throwing it across the room as a huge blast of cold air burst from him, nearly freezing his entire room. What did that ***** know? A rare gemstone? Mel was perfectly normal. Just a normal girl. Why was it so hard to believe that?


He let out a sigh, thinking back on what Kylier had said. So what if he thought of Mel a lot. What was wrong with that? She's the person he owed his life to. It's perfectly natural.


Riff began to grow uneasy, now knowing of Kylier's interest in Mel. It was unsettling. He wanted to check up on her. But right now, she needed rest to recover. Well, at least her room was only a few doors down. He'd know if something happened.


~~~~~


Rose found herself near her breaking point as her stress levels skyrocketed through the roof. Every incident working to push her just that much further. What was wrong with these people? A teacher's aide harrassing a student and using his powers within such close proximity of other students? A teacher treating a student in such a way when he was asking an innocent question? That same teacher accepting a bribe from some brown-nosing student? Still, she was in class. She couldn't just explode here. So, she'd keep quiet for now. But she would make sure all of this would be known to her father.


As class ended, Rose was probably one of the first students out the door. Like a locomotive, she ran with no sign of stopping or slowing down until she locked herself up into the student council room. She didn't exactly feel like talking to anyone right now. At least, not until she managed to calm down. As she was now, she might explode in the face of the next person she met.


(Sorry for the sucky post, but I think I'll avoid posting for now. It seems a bit late for Rose to come to class, plus I'd like to summarize what's happened so far so that I don't get overwhelmed later.)
 
"...!"


Kylier quickly backed up as the ice spread around, luckily, he didn't freeze the entire room solid, and was spared in her little corner


-It seems not... and here I thought he would give chase... I hoped I would find something interesting in his room... I suppose I can do that now, but it would be best to do a full over on the room rather piece by piece... perhaps, now is the time to gave way to Mel's...-


Carefully navigating through the frosted room of Riff, she made her way out, and with her ability, its like she never even stayed to witness his outburst, that was something to be noted, he might be someone fun to torment in his sleep later.


"I suppose the best way would be to take an actual key... after all, it'd be troublesome to keep tabs on a busted door..."


She snickered to herself


"Now's the time, for delicacy, to make sure that bomb's core is carefully laid out in front of me"


Kylier made her way to the student council room.


"If I can just find the key..."


To her surprise, Rose came dashing down the halls, and went into the room, locking it.


"How troublesome... I can't explore to my leisure as it stands now that it's locked... if I remember right she was talking to an assistant when Mel spotted her, and that her name was Emily....."


She used her illusions to made her appear as Rose's assistant, Emily. She remained cloaked as this took place in the empty hall.


"Hmm... her personality, I don't know much, but I believe I have it down... and her voice..... voice..... voice"


Kylier knocked on the door, now appearing as her assistant Emily on the other side of it


"Rose, are you alright? I saw you run in just now and I got worried"


-I do hope this does not dissolve into a tearful hug...-
 
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Robin casually leaned on the desk, holding her head up with her left hand. She turned her head, so that the lens of the gas-mask would face the creature. "What, no examination of the inner anatomy, besides the blade manifested from the radius, and the accidental splatter earlier? At this point Apprentice Necromancers would be grafting these things together, probably use some remnant basilisk teeth, attach them to the jaw, of course enhancing the jaw Does this institution lack the coffers to provide the necessary and proper parts to create their own abomination? This excuse of a horrific creature is an anathema to me. Please, oh please tell me that this creature has something special to it."
 
"Hey now." Richter explained, pointing with the arm-blade. "I had, like, eleven minutes to get this thing ready. It's not my fault she came unannounced. And I was getting to that."


"Insides: they don't really matter to it." Richter explained. "Biologically, these things don't actually make a whole lot of sense. The best way to get rid of it is total dismemberment. If you have fire or an acid bath, I'd recommend using that to dispose of body parts. Not just it though, also your own dead. Whatever made it can use basically any flesh to make more."
 
"Eleven minutes? There is so much untapped potential you could have done with it, what did you not give it the proper abilities to oh, breath fire, disrupt the air around individuals, eye beams? Anything?" Robin inquired, mildly annoyed. "Well at least you made sure it properly infects the dead of all species... I suppose."
 
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As happy as Lily was that this whole 'violence' issue with Anya was solved, she didn't like at all that she had to bring up the girl's dad. She liked it even less that Anya once again professed missing the guy. As far as Lily knew, he'd just dropped Anya off at a super dangerous school that employed maniacs and then never bothered to call or write to see how she was holding up. He didn't care. Lily cared.


But just not talking about it and hoping she would forget didn't seem to work. She only mentioned him more and more. It was probably time to talk about it.


"Yeah. Yeah, it's OK," said Lily, patting the girl's back, "I know you miss your papa. Have you thought about writing to him? Or calling him? Maybe that will make you feel better."


"Because obviously he doesn't care about contacting you."
 
Anya brought her head back, looking at Lily. She looked up, hiccuping as tears began to leak from her eyes.


She thought for a moment, before answering, "I don't think that's gonna work.


She tried to wipe the tears from her eyes. "Can we just go to class? I don't wanna talk about it." she asked.
 
"... I wouldn't expect that something like that would be able to do that sort of thing, I'm pretty sure its not unheard of..... but I don't think that's really something that that thing would do"


-Like I'm one to talk...-


"It doesn't really seem magical really in any regard other than simply being alive again, or something. I don't even think that's something anyone is allowed to bring in here it if could do all that even?"


Given what Azure's experienced in the last week or so, he's rather ready for the unexpected, but he's not convinced that anything can't just simply be 'normal' or at least closer to that regard
 
Anya looked about as pathetic as a child could, and instead of the elation Lily would have felt at the tears of children a few weeks ago, she felt only pity and sadness. Lily wondered about what sorts of things the girl might be holding in. Whatever it was, Lily was pretty sure that she could fix it if Anya only told her. Lily was perfect, after all.


"I... suppose we can finish out the day, but I'm withdrawing you soon alright?"


"Children aren't even allowed in combat classes. How did I even manage to sneak her in to take my notes in the first place? This school..."





Lily paused for a couple of seconds.


"You know you can talk to me about anything, right? That's what adults..."


Lily shook her head.


"That's what friends are for. Any time you're ready."
 
"Oh my God..." Richter groaned. "It doesn't MATTER if someone is 'allowed to bring it in' or not. That doesn't stop the kind of people who'd bring this in in the first place. What matters is that you have the technique and the knowledge to kill it."


He punctuated this by removing the creature's head, leaving the body limp. "You can't just pull it apart like I could; you can't just shake off swarms of these. Did you know there's actually worse versions than these? This is actually one of the weakest kinds, I had specifically it prepared for this occasion, because the strongest kind give even me trouble."


He held the head close to Azure's face for emphasis. "How would you go about killing just one of these, Azure? No magic. Mundane tools only."


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Anya stood in thought for a minute, before leaning up, bringing her lips close to the alraune's ear. "I don't know where he is." she whispered. "Okay let's go." she added quickly, stifling a sob. "Can we just go?"
 
Azure looked away a bit, still keeping an eye on the head, uneasy as he brought it close. Azure's weapon reacted somewhat in Skyia's pack as it was brought close


-I doubt it honestly matters what I even say, may as well try-


"... Giving me the benefit of the doubt that I'm able to, I'd run and try to lose it under cover, and use traps or the environment to prevent it from effectively reaching me, and shoot at it with bows and arrows... wear away at it over time, or try pinning it with the one weapon I showcased for that one assignment, and hack away at it until its tendons or limbs are torn apart when its completely safe to do so."


-Now that I think about it, since I would be able to use magic..... even if I had no magic in me, I could probably siphon the magic off of its enchanted body, since it is reanimated with necrotic magic by just throwing my weapon at it... then again, I wouldn't want to try doing that against to many guys to soon...-
 
Richter stared with a scowl. "This thing is faster than you; you can't outrun it. I told you its muscle tissue is much more powerful than yours. A bow or a spear isn't going to stop it either. It's bigger than you; it's stronger than you; it can't actually feel pain, just more hate."


The vampire leaned in closer, his teeth like daggers. "And don't even think about relying on that fancy knife of yours. The thing that keeps these moving is not unlike what keeps a vampire alive. These are literally ungodly beasts, animated by a terrible primordial force, not some magician's stage trick."
 
Victor presses forward hearing his explanation. There was a lot of assumptions in his answer. How many would there be, how were they designed, would they have a way of keeping up, would he have the time to aim for a shot with a bow, if he even had one. Would he be able to hit the target, and how much stamina would the creature have, how did the environment help or hinder you.


All factors into the equation to kill one of these things. He just listened to Richter's lesson in the meantime, taking due note of what he pointed out.


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Skyia in the meantime, just slithered a little out of the way, to a bench along the hallway, still a bit queasy, but feeling better. Seriously whats up with this school and its staff?
 
Curtis just sort of... stared at the boy, wondering where the kid carried a bow and arrows. Maybe he kept them in his dorm? He didn't look like much of an archer, what with those tiny noodle arms of his- and his back didn't seem well-suited to carrying a lot of gear, either. Really, if anything, he looked like a kid that used knives. In fact, he looked like a kid who fought only with knives.


Must be some kind of wizard stuff, Curtis guessed.
 
"I know the point is to beat these things without magic, but... I don't know how if its better than you if you don't have magic..."


-Ya... knew it...-





He was sure they had some weakness probably, after all, it was caged, so someone did something to it...


"Is the key to beating it not being human, or not someone without any tricks or anything... if its better than anyone physically, are you saying that you simply can't beat it. We're in this class to learn how to deal with these kinds of things right? I wouldn't know since I've never seen this thing before, if you were nothing but an ordinary human who couldn't do anything special, what would YOU do!"


-I don't know these sorts of things like I know animals or whatever... ugh...-
 
"Personally? I'd just blow up the building it was in, rather than facing it head-on. Failing that, I'd get a heavy machine gun, or an RPG." he explained.


"But I'm not human. I can just slam it to the ground and rip it to shreds, as you saw. But you? You're human. You NEED better plans."
 
"How would you know if it was in building if you can't hear it or see it? Those things don't seem to make all that much noise or do a lot while they are docile. If someone's able to capture these things and release them on people, they'd probably be stronger than them themselves, like you."


-Still though that is a pretty good plan of his, using explosives, that means I'll be able to deal with them even without other's magic, but as far as I know, the other things will probably be not as effective on it. Now that I think about it..... without my ability... I'd be completely helpless... I don't think I'd be able to handle carrying heavy gear or explosives...-


"..."


Azure yet again felt useless again, with what Richter's plans brought him to, he was lucky enough to at least have magic on his side... even if it did mean being related to Kylier.


-I've been through a lot, I'm sure I could think of something if I didn't have magic, I made it this far, and only had that weapon for about 2 years...-
 
"You didn't hear the ruckus it made when it actually woke up? These are loud, for psychological reasons. Besides which, they're rather heavy. That means their footsteps are loud. If you can't hear it sprinting at you, you almost deserve what's coming." Richter answered back.


He dropped the head and stood up, straightening his tie. "What's taking those two girls so long?" he asked himself.
 
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