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Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

"Augh, my head..."


Curtis' bed creaked as he sat up and massaged his temples.


"What's- what? Robin, I don't know wha's goin' on, but I think- I think I'm being punished for something. Probably drinking."


He groaned and downed some painkillers.


"Scratch that- definitely drinking. I'm never trying mead ever again."


He dressed and packed quickly before shaking his roommate by the shoulder.


"Boss? Boss, we gotta get ready to go. Trip's leaving soon."
 
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"Wugh?" Anya pushed herself off her pillow as the announcement blared. Her ears flicked, and her eyes lit up.


"Lily... Lily, we're gonna be late!" she said, dragging and empty suitcase to the drawers. "I forgot to pack!" she panicked, and began tossing clothes at random. "Oh man, oh man. Uh, Egypt. Egypt has.... sand, right? Sand means beaches!" She tossed her swimsuit into the case, then shut it. She still wore a nightgown, but she could just change in the plane's bathroom, then sleep the rest of the trip.


"Lily, aren't you awake? Get up!" she shook the bud her friend slept in.


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"Already? Didn't know Espinosa was a night owl." Richter said, slinging his large, black coffin over his shoulder. "I guess it's time to chaperone. Been a while since we had a field trip."
 
Robin was in a state of great slumber, as he was clutching onto a stack of papers with his left hand. He was still in the same form from yesterday, not having changed it yet. He snored a bit, before he was shaken, "... Wha?" Robin slowly got up as he moved his head groggily, "Gotta... go?" Robin felt a sharp pain in his head, as he clutched at his left temple. "Ah that was some party wasn't it pea-" He blinked at Curtis for a moment, before he fully sat upright on his bed. "Leave!? Now!? I need to get my trunk ready, and I haven't even settled for a proper aesthetic yet!"
 
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"Well boss, I hate to say I told ya so, but uh..."


He rubbed his forehead as he shouldered his bag a little better, happy that he had packed it the night before.


"I told ya so."
 
"Yes it was that truth or dare game. I got involved with and they asked me to use my powers in exchange for money. It was terribly boring all bark and not BITE. And the money; well it was okay but what's the point?" he said rather matter of fact. He pulled out the wads of quatloos and let them fall as they transformed into silver discs before dissolving into nothing.


He then turned his back and paced around closing his eyes in thought. Before spinning back to her and saying, "Thanks for the information I guess I should retreat and rest up." He then left her room and disappeared back into his room where he would pack suitably yet lightly. As despite the heat of the desert climate his physiology and abilities would render it tolerable.


Spending time neither sleeping nor being awake but rather in half trance. He whiled the time away until he decided it would be time to move. Which would involve very little movement as he'd beat the class collectively by tearing a crackling rift open. And then getting there a bit earlier to rest up for however long it would take this trip. Portal crackling open he then arrived in the mild heat of the Egyptian desert! Right amidst in the Giza pyramid area at exactly 1 P.M.


Wandering amidst the area he paid no attention to the withering heat of the desert rather basking in its energy before trying to spot the group. He was the usual combination of tourists, tour guides, and camels but no group yet. So he decided to head to some peaceful corner of a cafe and nap there. He'd place a ward to alert him of their presence but eventually when he woke up hours later and with a running tab they still had not arrived.
 
Robin just glared at Curtis, "Damn it peasant! I figured this expedition would leave at a later and more reasonable time!" Robin rubbed his head as he moaned a bit, "Last night, strong stuff.... Fun time though." He shook it off, as he quickly pulled out a trunk. "Luckily, I already have several trunks full of outfits suitable for any aesthetic. An individual of such noble standing, like myself, is always prepared. However... Picking the trunk is always the hardest part, as is picking the proper aesthetic to leave with."
 
"Oh, so it seems your ride is here now"


"Ugh..... I guess that means that I'll have to leave now... thanks for at least helping my pack....."


Azure went over to get what he had prepared for during the training session. It helps that Azure is particularly suited to being up for a couple days before weariness starts to really set in him, another unforeseen gift from Kylier's..... being Kylier.


"You didn't put anything in there that I wouldn't need right?"


"Who would be the judge of what you need or not?"


"... whatever... its not like I need much anyway, just my usual clothing and uniform really..."


-And a bit of my equipment, it might be fun exploring if I get the chance, I still have the umbrella to give Lily as well.-


Azure put on his backpack and other bag on him and proceeded to climb down from the rope. Being the pack rat type made it easy to climb down with only the use of three limbs, he's used to this sort of activity under far harsher conditions. For whatever reason, Azure has always felt more alive at night, something about the serene dusky light had a sense of peacefulness under the moons gaze. With his gear in tow, he easily made it as first student to the front gate at the very least. Before going up to where she was, he dropped his stuff at the entrance, and thought that since Skyia's room was rather close by, he'd help her up since it rather close to the entrance.


-I guess I could make it up to her by doing this, just helping her get up or something. If I remember right, she's just right, ah here-


Azure knocked on Skyia's door, unsure if she was awake from all the noise


"Hey Skyia, are you awake? Its time to go."
 
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Skyia stirred a bit hearing the sounds of the intercom, slowly getting up would start dressing up. Quickly getting herself ready, before hearing a knock on the door. " Huh? " she asked fixing up her hair a little, before grabbing her luggage, and her backpack, and would open the door. " Oh! Morning Azure. " she said smiling at him. " Lets get going then? " She asked him, slithering out following him.


" Really excited for this trip! " she said idly. " Wonder what we're gonna see out there! Other than sand, and more sand eheh. " she said rubbing the back of her head.


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Elsewhere Victor having awaken for a while prepping up anything he may have wanted to bring, packed a variety of clothes that should suit the environment in hand. As well as packing any sorts of Provisions in another suitcase. Leaving it open he walked over to Jayus, and told him to deconstruct, the giant, nodded, starting to fall apart, the rocklike structure quickly crumbling and falling onto itself in the room, leaving two red glowing gems, one the triangle shape that made his eye, and another more rounded one with larger crystals sticking out. They both had a glowing look to them as Jayus would absorb stray magic in the environment to keep himself running. Victor picked the two Crystals up and carefully, put them into a case specifically shaped for him.


And off he went down, idly carrying a large backpack, and two suitcases, one much much larger than the other, walking over and towards the plane.
 
Lily woke up, once again, to Anya shaking her bud in a panic. Lily's petals unfolded and she looked around quickly to identify the problem.


"Huh? Whatsit?" Asked Lily, still a little unused to being awoken so... forcefully. She quickly remembered what was happening that day, however, and grabbed her suitcase. She had decided the night before that, although she didn't really care about Egypt or the Valley of Elvis, she would go anyways because Anya wanted to.


"I am such a good friend. Probably the best ever."





"Egypt, right?"


One of Lily's vines shot out, grabbing an outfit and tossing it into her flower. She closed up, and after only a couple of seconds opened again to reveal the Alraune completely dressed and ready.


"Let's go."
 
"We gotta hurry!" Anya exclaimed, grabbing her suitcase in one hand, and grabbing her friend's hand by the other. She led the Alraune down the stairs to the front of the building, where a large cargo plane awaited them in the moonlight.


Anya rubbed her arms for warmth as snowflakes began to pile on her hair. "I think that's supposed to be our schoolbus." she said aloud. She hoped it had chairs comfy enough to sleep in.
 
Espinosa took another smoke alongside Francisco as she noticed the first couple of students arrived, Victor, Anya, and Lily. She smirked at them as she tossed the butt of the cigarette onto the ground and stomped it out. "Welcome! This is going to be a fun trip." Francisco took a good look at the students, "Well, looks like those ones are prepared for this. That's good."


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Meanwhile Robin, who was still holding some papers in his left hand, opened the closet fully and gestured to a large black trunk, covered in smaller red stickers. "... That one. That will do. Peasant, grab it, and let's be off."
 
Curtis finished putting on his sweater as Robin picked which trunk to bring.


"Sure thing, boss.", Curtis said as he pushed the trunk out into the hallway, shouldered it, and started off towards the plane.


"So boss-", he said to Robin, now sitting atop the trunk as Curtis ferried him over to the plane, the snow and noise not helping his hangover in the slightest, "-You think Reggie remembered us telling him about this trip last night? He seemed- Jesus, my head- he was pretty hammered. Or maybe it was me that got really hammered? I don't remember."
 
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Robin chuckled, "Oh I am positive he re-..." Robin blinked for a moment, "So that is the vehicle that they are taking us on." He kept his position on the trunk as he shook his head. Robin paused for a moment as he began rubbing his right temple, as he glanced back at Curtis, "Peasant remind me to tell you about a night I spent with Reggie back in Bangkok. That made last night... look like nothing."


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Espinosa gave a simple wave to Curtis and Robin as they arrived. "Now to wait for the rest." She pulled out another cigarette, as she held out her left index finger, which shot up a bright blue flame that lit the cigarette. She took a deep inhale, as she glanced towards Francisco. "Hey, do you want another one?"


Francisco shook his head, "Nah, I am good for the moment." He peered at the group of students curiously before cocking his head back to glance at the plane. Espinosa finished her cigarette as she placed it down on the ground and stomped out the remains of the butt. "Anyway, just a bit longer and then we venture to the Valley of Kings!"
 
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"Ya, lets get going"


Azure somewhat rushed back out, it wasn't so much as him running down the halls, but that his steps carried him further.


"I'm not to sure what to expect really... but sand shouldn't be a problem, I'll be great in that environment"


He made is way back out, grabbing the luggage he dropped off near Espinosa


"Looks like the others came after I dropped my stuff off."


-I should probably give the umbrella to her later, when its actually useful... or something.-


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"... he forgot to clean up his blood before he left..."


Kylier stared at the small trickle of blood on the ground


"Maybe if I leave it, a scandal will start while he's away. It's not like there's anything in here for anyone anyway, I'm sure he won't mind the room being completely open, I suppose I could rest for now."


Kylier left Azure's room, which no longer had a door or anything blocking it open to sleep in her room
 
"Hey, wait, but-"


Lily was unable to finish, however, as the tiny Neko started dragging her out the door. She wanted to tell Anya that going out in the cold with only a nightgown was a bad idea. Lily had thought that she would've learned from the last time she brought insufficient clothing out in the cold and almost caught hypothermia.


"Is it that our transportation is already here? She really should know better, though."





By the time they got outside, there were only a couple of people there. Miss Espinosa, a guy who was probably the pilot, and some kid she didn't know at all. Lily looked down at the shivering Anya.


"I don't care if we're late for a concert of Queen's greatest hits performed by a magically resurrected Freddie Mercury for one night only, you need to dress properly if you want to be out in the cold."


Lily looked once again at their transportation and added "Also, that is an airplane. Not a bus. It flies in the sky somehow even though it's an enormous hunk of metal. Probably physics."


Sadly Lily only had time to grab a couple of things with her vines as she was dragged out the door- a jacket and snow hat that were hanging next to the door. She brushed the snow off the top of her friend's head and plopped the hat on the girl, making certain her ears matched up with the holes she'd made.


"You probably won't need these during the day in the desert, but at least try and keep warm for now," said Lily, handing her friend the jacket.
 
Francisco stared at Lily. "You don't have to offer your jacket. Well, I suppose if either of you two need more warmth, I'll let you borrow my jacket." He gestured towards his bomber jacket. "Just offering of course." Espinosa glanced at Francisco, "Well that is quite the nice of gesture you made. Or maybe I could just, oh, make a fire." Francisco rubbed the back of his hand with his left hand, as he chuckled a bit "Or uh, that yeah. That'd probably work better." Espinosa looked around as she began counting the students. Francisco glanced at her, "Oh my arrival woke them all up didn't they?" Espinosa nodded, "If it didn't I did give that message over the P.A. either way, Cisco so whatcha been up to?" Francisco just smirked, "Really just the same ol' same ol'." 
Robin continued sitting on the trunk as he glanced around. "Peasa... Jeez my head." He began rubbing his temple yet again. "What was I going to say, what, curses. Lost my train of thought, regarding what I was going to discuss with you." Robin continued sitting on the trunk and rubbing his temple.
 
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It'd been a pretty wild night indeed. Not as wild as some other nights, but appropiately wild. Trying to sneak in not one, not two but three barrels of finely aged red rum into the dorm hadn't been easy and a lot of people were going to be waking up in strange places with bumps in their head, bumps which an expert might be able to identify as coming from Belarios' sheath. The idea had been to do it without leaving a single trace of the operation, but that had kind of not worked. Red rum was a good drink, Reggie's favorite in fact, so it had to be done anyway, and Robin had managed to pinpoint some of the good stuff, 70% alcohol by volume.


And now he had woken up and he was in a dark, confined space. He was surrounded by unidentifiable pieces of cloth, he could barely move, the roof wasn't giving in when he pushed and he definitely couldn't fit wherever he was without curling up some. Okay, not the first time something like this had happened, still a tad distressing. He could only vaguely make out the rumbling and some announcement but it was enough to remember. Right, Oriens. Field trip in crazy school for crazy people. He was still there it seemed. His head hurt a bit, he was thirsty, he hadn't showered and he figured he'd suffocate in about an hour, but at least he hadn't wandered off.


He didn't quite dare to break out of wherever he was yet, so he decided to wait a bit. He was also still sleepy, but he could hear Robin and the big guy, Curtis was his name, talking about the trip and trunks and outfits and then he could feel his makeshift bed being picked up and lugged around. Convenient. When he felt his transportation stop, he started knocking on the top of what he figured was one of Robin's many, many trunks, yelling at the same time. "I TOLD YOU TWO I COULD FIT IN HERE! NOW WHO LOCKED ME IN?"
 
Skyia just put her stuff down right there, coiling up trying to keep herself warm. Kinda forgot how cold it would be here in early morning, sometimes she kinda forgot it was still winter.


But she just hummed a bit, looking around. Waiting for anyone else who was going to be on the trip as well, just idly looking around as everyone did the same it appears. Occasionally glancing over towards the plane, planes are cool, they can fly and stuff!


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Victor just stood there looking around a bit, looking at the group forming around. A boy and the giant complaining about headaches, Moss head with the orange snake girl as usual. The curious plant with her pet cat it seems.


Victor just stretched a bit, looking around, hearing a faint muffed voice coming from one of the trunks, indiscernible, but he could at least hear something that sounded like a voice. He paid idle attention to it, just briefly glancing over in the general direction, before looking up into the sky.


Sitting there in the cold, idly listening to the conversations around him, adjusting his hat. Huh, morning cold reminded him a bit of home, not as frigid, but it reminded him slightly nonetheless, with the winter morning chill. Coming up and just sitting onto one of the cases he packed. Putting Jayus's case onto his lap, tapping it lightly and he just looked around a bit.
 
Robin shrieked a bit as he felt knocking it from the suitcase, followed by the yelling of Reggie, "Damn it, my head!" Robin paused for a moment, "Augw... W-wha... Aggh... my head." Robin glanced down at the trunk as he banged on it once. "W-why are you there!?" He paused as he rubbed his temple. "Oh right. You probably want out now?" He continued to sit on the trunk as he glanced at Curtis and chuckled a bit.


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Espinosa eyed the trunk curiously. "Is someone ACTUALLY in that trunk?" Francisco laughed a bit as he nudged Espinosa's left shoulder. "Heh." Espinosa then focused her attention to Skyia, who was, well clearly uncomfortable in the current weather conditions. "Hey, do you need a nice fire or anything?" She then focused her attention to the students gathered as she proceeded to do another head count. If someone is actually in there... I've got to help.
 
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Skyia, somewhat disturbed by the fact there is apparently a person in a trunk, nodded towards Espinosa. " Yes please. " She said, looking at them.


" Doesn't help i'm part snake eheh. " she said, trying to tough out the cold. While she wasn't cold blooded, it didn't help that her tail didn't produce as much heat as her upper body, so it kinda sucked in this scenario. She just began to shiver lightly while hoping that they would make a fire soon enough.
 
Espinosa walked up towards Skyia and sat down, right besides her. She then proceeded to allow her arms to turn into bright blue flames, as she moved the flames around her in a circle. She continued sitting down as the flames encircled her. She glanced at Skyia, "There we go, that should help. Are you feeling a bit warmer now?"


Francisco glanced at Espinosa and smiled a bit. "That is really a heart-warming moment right there." Francisco chuckled as Espinosa rolled her eyes. "You just had to do the pun, didn't you Cisco?" He flicked out his tongue as he grinned. He began rubbing the back of his head, "Heh, well you know me Sis."
 
-Huh... I guess she has it covered then... urg, wait...-


Azure backed away from Skyia as the flames came around her, in somewhat of a hurry while trying to not make it seem like a big deal


"Well..... that's solves that, your feeling fine now right Skyia?"


-I guess that is right, she would be cold blooded considering things, but... wait... she's part human too... I... I don't know? Wait, the times she surprised hugged me though, I could tell she wasn't cold blooded, she has to be warm.-





Azure examined himself for a moment...


-Maybe, I'm to used to this for my own good... I wonder if she'll will be alright in the desert...-


Azure looked over wondering what Curtis and Robin were doing with the crate, he wasn't really sure he knew what was going on with it, or at least until he thought of it differently.


-... that would make a pretty good hiding place, even if its on the small side... could it be...-
 
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The sudden announcement woke Rose with a jolt. Looking at the clock, she let out a groan, seeing 3:00 flash on the face. She had always considered herself a morning person but even that had its limits. The half-elf stumbled out of bed, still half asleep, grateful only for the fact that she had packed everything before she went to sleep.


Soon enough Rose made her way to the site of the plane, dragging a small suitcase and over the shoulder bag. She placed her bags with the others before waiting to board the train. It was . . . nice to see how energetic everyone was. Well, it was a headache mostly but the constant yelling was doing a good job to keep her awake. Hopefully, she could get more sleep on the ride. It should take long enough to get there.


It was odd. With all the magic in the world and the technological advances of the day, they have yet to improve on air travel in any significant way. But at least, they wouldn't have to suffer the horrors of airport security during the human era. The stories of long waits, invasive searches, complicated procedures and flights canceled right after you endured it all still sent shivers down her spine.
 
Azure looked over for as he heard Rose make her approach. Since Skyia is currently being warmed by magical fires, he thought it might be best to stay away from her for a bit for his sake, and thought now's a good time to talk to Rose, and went on over to her


"Hey Rose, are you... ok? You don't really seem like a night person."


It didn't cross his mind that he needed to talk to her about the whole Mel issue, given everything that's happened, and pretty much had forgotten about it.


"Or at the very least, you don't look like you're having a good time being awake there."
 
Skyia nodded. " Thank you Ms Espinosa. " she said, slithering a little closer to the flame, just trying to keep herself warm. Just coiling up nearby as Azure went off to go talk to someone. Settling down in the warmth of the fire, shimmering a bit in the still dark Sky. She just settled down peacefully, giggling a bit hearing the two adult's conversation. " Your related? " she asked curiously.
 
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