Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

[CSA]

Lily looked back down at Anya when she said that she was done and hugged the Alraune together with the sword. Lily's cheeks changed tint a little, and she looked away again.


"So it was her father's. I guess that explains the attachment, but is this really it? Is there really no way I can get her to forget about him? Maybe if I got rid of the sword..."





But when Lily looked back down at the girl, who was earnestly willing to share her treasure with Lily, she just knew that she couldn't. Even if getting rid of it helped Anya to forget about her father, it would break her. As much as Lily wanted Anya to forget about that family of hers, the Alraune just couldn't do that. Not to Anya.


Lily remembered when she used to dream about her own mama. How she might have looked. How they might have gotten along. How they would have played together.


Lily thought about how much she would have loved something like that sword from her own mama back then, and couldn't bring herself to hate it no matter how much it frustrated her.


"O-oh. You'd share it... with me? Really?"


Lily looked down at Anya and her sword, a little misty-eyed.


"Thank you, Anya. I'd be happy to share it sometimes."

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure stopped as he saw that it had little effect on him... however he took out a second dagger from his clothing, and swung in pincer shape in front of him


-It looks like he is distracted focused on it. It only makes sense... I can't be seen or heard like this, as foul as this is, resorting to Kylier's tactics...-


As the illusionary Azure had swung in front of him, the real Azure was now behind him, immune to detection by Curtis's sense's since he has no magical abilities, Azure had swung in the same style as the illusion did, and as he was swinging with all that he had to pierce him, trying to cut into his legs. Even if he was strong enough to resist a thrown weapon, he can't resist what he isn't focused on hardening for defense, especially with how sharp his Shadow Edge's blade is, he was certain that he drew blood from him, and quickly back away from him to leave him in confusion.


-I'm going to need a cold shower after this...-

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Okay." Anya said, and hugged Lily again. "Wait."


The cat pushed Lily down onto the bed with a pomf, and pinned down her shoulders, staring intently into the alraune's eyes. "But you have to be careful with it, okay? I don't wanna lose this sword. Lily. Lily please."

 

[Parsnip]

Curtis felt mildly uncomfortable as something brushed against the back of his leg.


Maybe I can try kicking? Nah, I'm even worse at controlling my kicks. Oh, wait, maybe-


He looked over to Richter.


"Hey, is it, uh, okay if I just stand here until he gives up? I'm not really sure how to go about this without, uh, killing him."

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Yeah, I guess that's fine." Richter called from behind the camera lens. He scratched his head.

 

[amdreams]

"That might not be a good idea right now," Rose said. "Mel might be dead but her servants sure aren't. And they might be wounded but I still don't think they'll like us messing with their mistress' stuff."


Rose locked the door to the student council room before heading with "Emmy" to the gymnasium. Once there she saw Azure facing off against Curtis. Hm, interesting match up. From what she knew of them, which wasn't much she admitted, neither seemed very aggressive. She was actually quite curious as to who challenged whom.


Though impatient herself, she didn't like how the audience was acting. Throwing food? Where did someone even get a tomato to throw? The spar didn't even seem worth the level of anticipation everyone was showing. Curtis seemed to want to just stand there as Azure tried to chip away at the behemoth. "This . . . might not be as fun as I thought."

 

[Parsnip]

Oh, wait, but if I just stand here he won't learn his lesson, and then we're back to square one. Hmm...


Curtis looked down at the guy attempting to stab him.


On second thought, I'll just punch him and to hell with the consequences. Kid's a menace to society anyways.


Curtis threw a quick jab at the illusory Azure, leaving an enormous fist-shaped hole in the fabric of the illusion before the entire thing quickly and unceremoniously dissipated, revealing the actual Azure.


"Huh. Neat trick."

 

[Ixacise]

Needless to say the crowd's palpable disappointment with the fight and its less than lackluster nature was evident. Not only by some of the students leaving but also the sheer amount of jeering. So far it seemed the big beefy kid was just standing there taking it while the other was just desperately trying to do something. When after he got punched after trying to stab the legs of him proving to be an illusion. Well not much left to do but start tossing all sorts of items at both the meat tank and tiny kid. The crowd began to chant, "FINISH HIM! FINISH HIM! FINISH HIM! FINISH HIM! FINISH HIM! FINISH HIM! FINISH HIM! "

 

[CSA]

As Anya held her, Lily could only think about how well she had handled the situation. She had showed both maturity and grace in dealing with this, and Anya once again felt better. Truly Lily was the best and most perfect friend, who was definitely not jealous of a sword.


Then Anya tackled her to the bed and began pleading with her to be careful with the sword. The Neko certainly had a unique way of dealing with people. Lily's upper arm strength wasn't great, but she was still stronger than Anya for now. Pretty heavy as well, given the weight and bulk of her vines (Not that she would ever admit to being weighty), but that didn't matter much at the moment as it was her light main body that had been assaulted.


Still, she let the girl pin her and heard her out. This seemed important to her, after all. Lily couldn't help but blush a little and had to turn away, but once the extra color left her cheeks she turned back to her friend and gave Anya a reassuring smile.


"Of course I'll be careful with it. It's really special to you, right? I'm pretty sure that handling your friend's sword with care is somewhere in the friendship code book."


Lily felt a little bad about even considering getting rid of this sword, but got over it pretty soon when she remembered how she was flawless.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Oh. Okay. Good." Anya smiled, still pinning her friend down. "Hm."


Anya stood on top of Lily for another minute before asking, "So. Wanna go do something fun?"

 

[MechaGhoul]

Robin peered down at Curtis. She curved both of her hands around her mouth to amplify the voice to make absolutely sure he heard. "Hey Champion! Aren't you going to take a swing at him or something? That'd probably help! I mean do somethin-" Robin blinked, "I mean at the real one, not at any cheap illusionary magic. Anyway keep doing what you're doing, except with more punching."

 

[Parsnip]

"I'm getting there, just gimme a minute." Curtis said as he threw a short straight, his fist connecting with the air and forming a concussive blast roughly a foot in diameter which that traveled as fast as any bullet and carried with it force enough to total a reasonably-sized car, like a Civic or something else of that general durability.

 

[amdreams]

After their encounter with Lilith, Mel and Riff followed a crowd to the gymnasium. Even with the hood of her sweatshirt pulled over her head and sunglasses on, Mel stood at the back, in the door. Riff beside her. She looked down at the fight with indifference. Well, that is until a girl standing on the larger boy's side began barking orders. Hiding behind someone else was cheap and cowardly. Mel detested people like that. Still, it looked like the strategy would work. The boy was easily 3 times the height of Azure and 10 times the mass.


"WOO! COME ON AZURE! SHOW HIM WHAT YOU'VE GOT!!!"


Both Mel and Riff turned their heads toward the source of the shout so quick it was a surprise their necks didn't snap. There, sitting in the front row, was Vash, cheering for Azure. The idiot always loved siding with the underdog. Still, wasn't he aware they were trying to keep a low profile?!


"Shall I silence him, Miss Mel?"


Mel sighed. "No, Riff. It's actually nice to see that one of us can still feel normal after all that's happened. So let him be a kid. He might not be able to be one for long. Let's just watch how this fight pans out."

 

[Advent Azure]

-... He's just going... to stand there... ugh... I don't want to fight someone who isn't fighting back, its just as bad as fighting someone who's helpless!-


Azure began to let down his illusion, only to see that he quickly changed his mind... or lied about what he was going to do, by punching what he was letting vanish.


"Ah, uh, thanks Curtis."


-Ah, wait, I gotta try something else... I need time to think, WHAT CAN I DO TO FIGHT HIM!? He's like a tank or something...-


Azure looked back at Robin


"Leave him alone, he's trying unlike you you coward!"


Azure used his magic to give himself another illusionary copy, and circled around him to try to devise a strategy, only to see the explosive force sheer through his illusion and carry onward, to do whatever it is his strength may do, revealing Azure again as his concentration was snapped out of sheer surprise


"Wa...!?"


-Maybe... using Riff's magic... I could use that to my advantage....... is... someone cheering for me? Ugh, for now, I need to at least make him sensitive to damage at the very least.-


While Azure was behind him he began using the illusionary magic in a different way...


-As cruel as this is... it might be my only hope-


Azure's magic altered Curtis's sense's over riding his ability to see replacing his field of view with an intense fog, rather than cloaking himself. Along with this, he used his magic to exponentially magnify what would constitute as pain in general, and make it hurt all the more, regardless of how it felt to him before. Even though in reality he would be doing very little damage to his body with physical strikes, his mind will perceive his attacks to be as strong and destructive as Curtis pounding Azure against a brick wall dead on in the chest with his entire fist.


-I still remember all the ways Kylier used this to torture me... but at least its made my body built to last, long as he doesn't get a straight clean hit...-


"I'm not going to let this end the way you think Curtis"


~~~~~


"I didn't think of that, I'm glad you thought of that, it could of been bad if those two caught me in there... who's know what they would've done."


-I suppose I actually don't know entirely, but I would be the one who would likely guess the most accurately-


As Kylier saw who Azure was fighting, she couldn't help but develop that smirk on Emily's face, although quickly forced that away


-Oh Azure... you continue to make yourself entertaining...-





"We'll see, I'm sure the smaller one has tricks up his sleeve"

 

[Parsnip]

Curtis' instincts kicked in as the fog obscured his vision, causing him to throw a reflexive jab and once again causing the illusion to collapse as quickly as it appeared.


He grunted, and let fly two more Civic-totaling blasts at Azure, one after the other.

 

[CSA]

The Alraune just lay there, looking up at Anya for a minute. She had to wonder whether or not the girl realized that she was kind of still on top of Lily. Then after a while, Anya broke the silence with a suggestion to go do something.


"Hm? Oh, sure. Fun things are fun. What sort of fun things do you want to do?"


Lily paused for a second before adding, "You're gonna get off of me though, right? Because I mean really, what are we gonna do on the bed?"

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Hmm." Anya pondered, not yet getting off of her friend. "We could play a game. There's truth or dare, and Twister, and cardboard boxes." she tossed out her suggestions.


"Unless you can think of a better game."

 

[Advent Azure]

-I understand his attack I believe... I just gotta dodge as he's swinging his fists, before the shock-wave gets released... if that caught me though..... urg... no, gotta stay strong-


Azure's experience with Kylier has left him quick thinking as to how to deal with attacks. Sure he'd lose, but at least it'd delay the inevitable. With that, Azure out predicted his simple attack pattern, allowing him to dodge his 'guns'


-That's how you dodge bullets Richter... heh... don't dodge the bullet, dodge the gun-


"I guess I have to try something else..."


Azure aimed his Shadow Edge at Curtis, and released his Shadow Blast magic at him. He began keeping a close eye on the movements of Curtis's Arm's

 

[Parsnip]

Curtis threw a quick jab with his left, the shadow blast exploding and singing his gloves a bit.


"Same." Curtis responded as he slammed a fist into the floor, creating a shockwave of destructive force that rippled across throughout the gym.


Oh geez, wait, the spectators!


Curtis let out a sigh of relief once he confirmed that no one in the stands had been seriously injured. Thank goodness!

 

[CSA]

For some reason Anya still wasn't getting off of her. Lily guessed she needed a clear idea of what they would be doing before she let go.


"I dunno, I think we need more people for truth or dare and I kind of have an unfair advantage in twister. We could play with your boxes if you want, unless you'd rather get more people for truth or dare."

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Well... I guess it'd be easiest to play with cardbo-" she was interrupted by an immense trembling from below, and lost her footing as her knees shook, collapsing on top of Lily.


When it was over, she pushed herself off of the girl. "That was weird. Must have been an earthquake..." she said, and walked over to the closet. "I realized we can play cardboard boxes while we look for more truth or dare players!"


She pulled out a costume, and quickly changed into a set of tights and tactical vest, then tightened a bandanna around her head. She handed the alraune a walkie-talkie before unfolding a large cardboard box.


"Cardboard boxes." she said, deepening her voice to the best of her ability.

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure may be used to earthquakes, disorientation, and in general, bs from Kylier, but this was insane!! Azure couldn't help but reel back and forth in an attempt to stay steady as the area around him, and pretty much everywhere else nearby fractured upwards and the area became chaotic. Azure jumped up in a panic to avoid the shifting field.


-Ugh, now's a good time! Thank you Riff!-


Azure pointed his weapon down toward the ground, and as he landed, covered the entire area that Curtis and Azure were fighting in in field of thick Ice. It washed over the ground, turning the devastated floor into a nearly flat smooth slippery surface. Along with this, Azure his boots and gloves with the magic, effectively granting him snow/ice shoes/gloves for perfect traction. The fractured land spikes sticking upward where Iced over as well, and aimed toward Curtis. As the Ice washed over the arena, it encompassed his fist in the ground, and his shoes. The Ice had chased up his fist and shoes a bit, enough to cover his entire fist and shoes...


"Ugh... that was amazing Curtis!"


-Wow, as cool as that was, I have to focus-


The tiny pieces of wood chips that were launched clean into the air were frozen over, and shot at Curtis.

 

[Croissant]

Elaem continued to observe the fight and sighed, he was getting kinda of tired of people bashing Azure, he did hear someone in the distance cheer for Azure and at least that was a win for the underdog but still- wait was that Vash? Elaem still needed to talk to him later, he wonders how he feels... and if he saw him fighting. But anyways, why do people take such a disliking to Azure immediately? People are easily influenced it seems, and have a habit of throwing random tomatoes.





--Man, tough crowd...they really wanna see some bloodshed-- he thought


Elaem's curiosity influenced him to use Deep rem as Curtis used his shock wave punch, things started slowing down instantly, he could see the ripple of the shock wave as it spread across the gym slowly, Elaem was surprised that Deep Rem was becoming so clear, a lot more powerful, but his eyes were acting like a lantern so he had to act fast, Elaem looked over the Robin girl and noticed her physical form seemed as if it were malleable, as if it could change easily, Elaem started understanding her power quickly and concluded she must be a shape-shifter. Although he wasn't sure, it seemed it was just that her body seemed less... physical. He concluded with that and turned off Deep rem as the shock wave went through the bleachers, causing people's bodies to be thrown back by the force of the earthquake shock wave. The floor was destroyed pretty easily from the looks of it. Elaem decided to head to the library where things would be quieter, he didn't like how things continued to go down.


He walked out of the gym quickly.

 

[Duwang]

To Mr. Khan's knowledge, somehow, there was a fight going on between two of his students. He couldn't stand for this; not without him watching. The teacher threw on his clothing one by one, wiping his face, ate a scoop of whey, then walked out of his room down into where the fight was being held. "This might be good" he yawned, then turned his attention to his phone, responding to a message, then putting it back into his pocket.


As he stepped in, Mr. Khan had mixed feelings. He clearly remembered the more effeminate student talking about the other, making fun of him for being too strong to be in a combat class. He then looked to the stronger, slightly more dimwitted one. "I know magic's involved on both sides but..." Mr. Khan remarked, thinking aloud "their form is so... sloppy."

 

[Parsnip]

Curtis flexed his hand a bit as the kid pelted him with little chunks of ice and wood, breaking free from the ice.


Wow, not only is he a bully, but he's treating me like a little kid. What a jerk.


He silently thanked whatever entity had made such high-quality bleachers and threw another overcut into the floor.