Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

[amdreams]

"GO AWAY!" Rose shouted as she heard a knock on the door. But upon recognizing it, she pulled herself out of her seat and went over to the door. "I'm sorry, Emily," she said, opening the door to see one of the council members. "I'm just having a bad day. But don't worry. After I talk to my father, I should be in a better mood. Why are you here, Emily? Did you forget something?"


As she spoke, she saw a group of students running by, speaking about a spar in the gymnasium. Hm? There haven't been many public spars like this. Maybe watching a good fight would calm her nerves a bit. "Emily, I think there's a fight going on in the gym. You mind talking on the way there? I sort of want to see this."


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As classes came to an end, Bunny found her room rather boring, at least with no one there to keep her company. Surely, it wouldn't hurt to have a bit of fun, right? After all, she'd be leaving this ****hole soon enough. As she slipped out of her room, a familiar voice made her jump.


"Hello Miss Bunny. Or should I call you Lilith. Bunny is such a childish name for someone your age."


Bunny turned around to see Riff, looking like he had been waiting for her. "Oh. It's just you. Looks like your wounds have healed."


"What can I say? We have a really good doctor on our side."


Riff then let out a chuckle, one that sent a shiver down the angel's spine. What was he here for? Revenge? No. He would've attacked already then. Or maybe this was some plan to get her to drop her guard down? "I suppose you want revenge for your mistress?"


"No. I don't need it. I just want to know why. There was no order for her. In fact, angels are forbidden from hurting humans, right? So what reason do you have for what you did? Why did you need to get everyone involved?"


Hearing this, Bunny gave off a devilish, arrogant smile. "Do I really need a reason to purge this world of evil? Of course, it was so easy with those perverted idiots hanging on my every word. Oh, an angel? Everything you say must be true. And a few little stunts to show them how 'defenseless' I was. Oh poor little Bunny can't fend for herself. Poor little Bunny was hurt by the evil lady."


"She is not evil!" Riff shouted, as he took Bunny by the throat and slammed the angel up onto the wall, squeezing her frail neck. Still, through her stressed breathing, she couldn't help but laugh. How easy it was to provoke this one. How easy it was to manipulate him. But something was making her uneasy. What was it? Wait . . .


"Why don't you need revenge?"


Riff smiled. His grip on her neck loosened just a bit. And Bunny saw a small figure peek out from behind the demon. "Hi there, Lilith. Miss me, *****?"


The angel's eyes went wide. How? How could she still be alive? Bunny stuck that knife in as deep as she could. She killed her, right? Bunny opened her mouth to say something, but the three of them were interrupted by a male voice. "What are you doing?" A boy stood there, having just come around the corner, staring at them.From the rabbit-shaped pin on his lapel, Bunny knew she had found her escape route. Letting her arms drop and her eyes water, she looked at the boy with pleading eyes. "P-please help me. I-I can't breathe."


The boy immediately shot a fire ball at Riff, making the demon jump back, bringing Mel with him. Soon enough Bunny was being dragged off to safety with Mel and Riff staring after them.


"Should I follow them?" Riff was posed to run as soon as Mel said the word. But Mel didn't say the one he was expecting. "No. Leave them be. I'll pay her back for the wound in my back and what she did to you both, but for now, let her squirm. Besides, it's more fun this way."

 

[EmilyPower]

Emily looked at Olga and thought about another lie that could convince her this time but she was unable to Consentrate with the thousand students talking about a spat in the gym.


" That could be interesting" Emily thought to herself until she remembered she had to answer the question.


"In a fight"


Emily didn't like to reveal her secrets like that but she was too busy for this kind of things, and she really wanted to see the two students sparing

 

[Parsnip]

"Well, I suppose I will be treating you now. It is no skin off of my shoulders if you are refusing."


She swabbed the wound with rubbing alcohol and threaded a surgical needle, tossing the girl a thick piece of leather.


"Bite down upon this thing so you will not be tearing own tongue off. Now then-", she said as she took hold of the needle, "-try not to be screaming too badly."


Olga stitched.

 

[Advent Azure]

She backed up as Rose yelled out at the door


"I came because I couldn't stand watching you overwhelm yourself with everything. When I think of how hard you try, it inspires me to try to be as good as you. Seeing you struggle with something like this, makes me want to help you, and since... well, you all defeated her, I thought I'd do the rest of everything about this. I was going to go to her room, to see what we would need to do about cleaning it out, and was going to ask to get a key for you"


-Hmm... interesting...-


"I'd like to too, its been a while since I've seen one, lets go."


Kylier slipped into the student council room as the two had been talking


-Hmm... if the keys are were they were last time...-


Already familiar with the location of the dorm room keys, due to previous adventures in here during his stay in the school last year, she gave herself a copy of key's that leads to Vash's, Riff's, Mel's, Bunny's, and Lily's room, so that she can easy go in and out as she pleases without breaking the doors completely


-Excellent... I won't need them in attendance to do snooping anymore... its likely Mel won't be showing her face any time soon... and I doubt Vash would have anything of value. If Bunny is true to what is likely a facade however, there'll be something for me there, and perhaps I can mess with Lily as well, perhaps I could get Anya in on it as well.-


Kylier shivered slightly with delight as things continued to go her way, and rejoined with her illusionary clone of Emily

 

[Croissant]

Elaem

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Elaem sighed in relief when his schedule was finally done and he could know where to go for the most part, the lady was also nice enough to hand him a map of the school just in case. Although it seemed that she did this by default since there was a giant stack of them next to her, as well as a giant stack in the recycle bin. Elaem decided to look at it as an act of kindness since the school wasn't giving him a very good first impression.


Elaem walked the halls quietly as he exited the office, he started hearing some commotion from the Gym and thought that there might be some kind of assembly going on for students, since the halls were rather empty. He started walking towards the Gym and saw students walking in regularly, he was one of the last ones to enter and he saw on the lower bleachers, he saw Azure and the Large guy about to deck it out it seems, and a that holier than thou girl talking with the boy. Elaem was curious of the girls magic so he began observing, she was quite powerful, and it was a bit hard to look through her magic. his eyes glowed a bit brighter.


It seemed that she had Arcane abilities but something kept making it so Elaem couldn't see as well through her, something biological. Elaem gave it a rest as he didn't want to expose himself by going into deep rem and making his eyes a damn lantern, he just wanted to watch the spar in peace, although his eyes still did have a weird color, and he wondered why his hair seemed to match. Man he was weird. He mental shrugged and kept watching, he would look at the girl in deep rem later that would probably expose her powers.

 

[EmilyPower]

Emily did what Olga said while waiting for her to finish treating her wound, it hurt terribly and Emily was trying to not scream of pain but she never did. She only tought about how much it hurt when the wound was created. Compared to that the needle in her skin was nothing.


Finally, Emily left the nurse's office and started to walk towards the gym. When she made it to the gym she saw two students she didn't knew preparing for the spar. She had to admit they looked like they knew how to fight and she was able to forget everything that was happening to her for a second. She looked through the crowd and she saw a familiar creature watching the students preparing for the spar. She saw the familiar man talk to a woman who dressed just like him. They both pointed at her and started to walk towards her. Emily's only choice was to run, if she were to fight agains them a lot of students could be harmed. Emily ran as fast as she could until she entered her room and locked the door behind her

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Richter walked forward, and called for a relative quiet as he eyed up the contenders himself.


"Our spar today is between Robin Yu and Azure Bane. As Robin is a young girl, she is being allowed a proxy to fight on her behalf, Curtis Twine. Weapons will be allowed in today's fight. Today's fight is nonlethal. If your opponent goes limp, shouts 'stop' or 'I give', taps out, or I signal to stop, the fight is over. Further fighting after this is punishable."


He looked at Curtis and Azure. "Before we begin, do either fighters have any questions or concerns?"


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Anya thought for a moment. It had been a while since she'd needed it, but she wanted the security blanket out of her trunk now. In times like this, it was comforting to have, being the last memento from her father.


"Can we head to our room? I need to get something from there." she asked.

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure sighed, he was ready to fight and everything, but it felt a little unnecessary, but even so, it gave him new determination...


-She's always been cowardly in public... and ruthless in private... I should of expected this...-


"I don't have any..."


-Wait... actually...-


"Well... I'm sorta waiting on someone to give me back something I lent for the fight... if we can't wait, can she give it or throw it to me during the fight?"

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Skyia in the meantime has been going through her room, she swore she had it on the table, but she can't seem to find the spear anywhere.


Oh well, more searching ahead, Azure didn't need it that badly did he? She continued her search throughout her room in the meantime.

 

[Parsnip]

"Outside of 'What in the hell's wrong with you, what kind of psycho brings sharpened knives to a spar', I think I'm good." Curtis said, standing up straight for the first time that day before dropping into an orthodox stance.

 

[CSA]

Richter had left as Anya thought about what she wanted to do, which wasn't great because Lily wanted to ask him to record this ****. For future generations probably. Still, this was more important than violence against a guy that she really couldn't stand.


"Sure, Anya. Let's go get whatever it is you need," Said Lily, taking the Neko by the hand.


The two made their way to the room that they shared, and Lily opened it up. She didn't know what Anya wanted, but it was probably important given that Lily had offered to do whatever the Neko wanted to do.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"If it's anything but a folding chair, no." Richter answered Azure. "You should have had it ready in advance."


"Curtis. The answers is that kind of psycho." he pointed at the green-haired boy.


"Any other questions?" he asked, turning on a camcorder. "By they way I'm recording this. For legal purposes."


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"Thank you." Anya said quietly, and walked up to the trunk at the foot of her bed. She reached in, and started pulling out its contents, underclothes, a few toys, a swimsuit for summer, and several costumes she and Lily could never quite make work.


At the bottom was a large sword in a scabbard. It was designed for men to use, being almost as long as Anya. The cat pulled it out, then clutched it to her chest. "I wanted to hold this." she explained.

 

[Advent Azure]

"Well... through out the past 8 years any time I spared..."


-Against the same person... really...-


"I've always been told to use weapons, and go at someone as if I were trying to go for the kill, even though I'm not trying to actually kill anyone"


-And maybe that's why I've never actually won in all those years... but she always held an unfair advantage over me and I've got new determination this time, and I'll use that instead-


"Everyone has their own way, weapons are allowed, and I can't win in a fist fight against you! That's still no excuse not to try."


-Someone like him though... he looks like he'd take me out in just one punch... he's massive! He looks like he has 8 times the mass. I don't think he's in danger of just being brought down with my sheer amount of knives as well, I'm just glad they are small and very light weight-


Azure took out his Shadow Edge... holding it in his right hand.


-Even if he his bigger and stronger, I can still match him in force!-


He turned to Robin


"I'm not a Psycho, your the one who's a psycho, no... your even worse, your twisted!"

 

[Ixacise]

The crowd and Josue by extension and virtue of organizing the crowd. Watched with slight impatience as the combatants still weren't quite performing combat yet. But at least the teacher was doing something regarding the mediation but it was too slow. And the green haired student's speech proved a bit too long. As a couple of voices yelled, "GET ON WITH IT ALREADY!" Which was followed by the pelting of dubious foodstuffs such as surprisingly hard stale circus peanuts, actual peanuts, and a tomato.

 

[Zerohex]

Rasputin skittered around the gym like an overexcited vermin, absolutely delighted with the atmosphere of the match. The boy was likely going to lose and lose badly, but Rasputin would nurture that pain, yes, and and make the boy stronger because of it. And if by some divine mercy the boy won, well, it served his purposes either way. "Yes yes, that's right boy, they're in the wrong. But you need to prove them wrong. In this world those with power determine what is right, yes. Prove you're right boy, bring down this giant oaf that dares oppose you. Today you will be reborn".

 

[Parsnip]

"Hey, kid.", Curtis said, "Shut up and fight me. Also, not an oaf."

 

[CSA]

Lily watched on in interest as Anya rooted through her trunk. Lily was fairly certain that the girl didn't possess anything that she didn't know about, so she was curious as to what exactly the thing was.


Then Anya pulled out a very large sword.


"I... how did I not know about the ******* buster sword? This is Monster Hunter ****."





While this was an exaggeration, it was still rather large and Lily had to wonder how exactly she had missed this. Lily stood in shock as Anya pulled the sword and scabbard from the trunk and held it as if it was a dear friend.


"I... I see," said Lily, still in shock, "And that is... a very large sword that I didn't know you had."


Lily was silent for a few seconds.


"Uh, well, be careful with that. Also what?"

 

[Advent Azure]

"... Fine then, I'll start."


-Kylier... you're the one who made this fight winnable-


Azure's weapon glowed as something happened to Azure, however, he appeared perfectly normal. With that, he charged straight at Curtis.


"What I can't hope to match for strength, I'll make up with technique, I'll show you my power!"


He took out a dagger from his clothing and threw it with precision at Curtis, taking out another one as he closed in

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Richter whipped an arm out, slapping the thrown knife out of the air, before swinging the other out, grabbing the front of Azure's shirt and slamming him down onto his back.


"I didn't say go. This isn't some street fight, this is a formal match with predetermined rules."


Richter stood. "Now get up, and let's try that again."


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"This is mine." Anya explained, kneeling down as she yet clutched the sword. "I'll be careful with it."


She cuddled up against the sword, holding it tightly against herself. She already felt calmer in its presence. "You can look at it, if you want."

 

[Advent Azure]

"Ugh... at least say when you'll start or something! He's just standing there taunting me to start... when it should be you Curtis should be complaining to... I mean everyone's throwing things at me..."


Azure walked back over to where he once was


-What a pain... at least I'm alright...-


Azure decided to wait, ignoring whatever may come his way until Richter starts the match officially...

 

[CSA]

Lily just sort of looked on as the girl cuddled with what was apparently her sword. Lily really didn't know what to do with this, so she decided to just sit next to Anya and watch.


"OK, then. I'll just look," said Lily, still staring at the girl.


Lily didn't feel very good looking at the scene, though. Anya was holding some big lump of metal instead of her. Lily had done such a good job comforting the girl up until now, so why was she being abandoned for a weapon? Why did she want to hold some sword instead of the perfect friend?


Lily looked away after a minute, no longer able to stand the sight.


"When are you going to be done with that, anyways?"


Lily tried not to sound grumpy. Anya seemed really calm with the blade, after all, but Lily didn't feel good at all.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Nobody threw anything but you. When you threw that knife. Stop that."


He fiddled with the camera for a few more minutes. "And... record. Okay. You can begin."


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"I think I'm good for now. Thank you." Anya said, and hugged Lily, pressing the sword between the two of them.


"This is my favorite thing. It was Papa's before he left." she explained. "Since you're my best friend and my adult and all... I'll share it sometimes, okay?"

 

[Parsnip]

Curtis grunted and raised his gloves again, going on the defensive for the moment.


"Alright-" he thought to himself "-now, how do I do this without splattering the guy..."

 

[Advent Azure]

-Ugh... is he giving me the first move or something again... but then again, I guess my first move still happened without reciprocation even if I only lost a knife out of it... but why... ugh... I felt strange ever since I got angry... but something about it felt... right, I think I'll start again while it's in effect, I've been given enough to last...-


Azure repeated his previous actions, taking out a knife and throwing it at Curtis and charged him with just his Shadow Edge this time


-Again Kylier... I just this once... Richter's slam looked like it hurt... duck and weaving should work-

 

[Parsnip]

Curtis watched as the dagger nicked his skin a tiny bit as it bounced harmlessly off of his abdominal, for his muscles were dense enough to deflect small arms fire- honestly, this was nothing.


Maybe I can get him in a hold? Nah, too risky. One wrong move and I'd end up pulping the guy.