Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

[Zerohex]

"Yes, I'd like to get out the trunk now before I suffocate, if that's alright with you. Breathing is very important, you know?" Reggie shook around inside the trunk some to get the point across. "On the other hand, I still have my sword handy. I've never tried to draw the blade in such a confined space, I wonder if I can do something like that...".

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Airplane." the cat pondered, slipping her arms through the jacket sleeves. She imagined the plane flapping its wings, letting out a great cackaw. "So we're flying to Egypt" she concluded. Flying did seem like a good way to travel. It was more extravagant and magical than boats. In fact, Anya secretly suspected boats were designed to keep you on them forever, as they were actually extensions of some primordial god.


"But...." she thought harder. "How are we going to ride it? I don't see any saddles."

 

[MechaGhoul]

Robin glanced back down at the trunk, as more shaking was done by Reggie. "Stop shaking it, I am enjoying my sp-" He paused for a moment after he heard what Reggie say. Robin quickly got off the trunk, "NO! Oh no, you are not using your blade inside my trunk! Within its compartment it holds many alluring aesthetically pleasing outfits! You are not going to endanger any of them with the edge of your sword." He then proceed to open the lock, so that it would be possible for Reggie to get out of it. "There, you now have access to enter the outside world. Go on, be free, and enjoy the air. Just don't damage any of my clothes, as you depart."


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Espinosa continued producing the flames, as Francisco peered at Skyia. "Oh yes, your teacher is my older sister." Espinosa was quick to interject, "But I am not that much older than him." Francisco glanced towards Espinosa and paused for a moment. He then returned his attention to Skyia, "Feel free to just call me Cisco." He sniffled a bit as he wiped his nose with the edge of his bomber jacket. Espinosa glanced around, peering at the students, doing another head count.


Francisco noticed that a small neko was asking questions about the plane. "Well you see, you will be entering through the hull of the shi-." He paused for a moment, before shaking his head. Maybe I should answer this a bit more whimsically.





Francisco then spoke again, "What I meant to say is, that you get to enter through the stomach of the nice mechanical bird. Now, unlike food, you can get in and out of the stomach, and being inside it won't hurt you. While I go inside the bird's head." He gestured to the front of the plane. "Sometimes the nice bird forgets where to go, so I go inside the brain and give a helping hand." Francisco smiled at Anya. "Does that answer your question?"

 

[CSA]

"It's alright, uh, bomber jacket guy. I'm not cold," said Lily. The cold made her a bit weaker, but she didn't feel differences in temperature nearly as much as the mammals. Besides, they would be on the plane soon enough.


When the teacher created some fire, however, Lily couldn't help but think that Anya at least would be a little more comfortable over there. Perhaps it would be good for her to warm herself beside the woman. Then again, Miss Espinosa smoked. She was probably a bad influence. Lily wasn't familiar with addiction or how it worked in the mammalian population, but she was pretty certain that weak little mammals like Anya would be on hard drugs within a week of trying a cigarette.


Drugs like... like meth. Which she only knew from that one show. She would have to learn more about drugs to make certain that Anya doesn't do them and stays in school.


Lily looked on with curiosity and amusement at the trunk situation while Anya talked to her. Maybe they were practicing a magic trick? It wasn't very good. Maybe that's why they needed practice.


"You don't ride on top of it, Anya," replied Lily, "You ride inside its hard metal carapace. There are chairs and peanuts and sodas, and sometimes even really bad romantic comedy movies. Or so I have heard."

 

[MechaGhoul]

Espinosa cocked her head back to glance at Francisco. "Alright, open the plane." Francisco nodded as he gave a thumbs up, "Sure thing!" Francisco quickly scurried to the side of the plane as he headed towards the front cockpit. He proceeded to enter in the plane in a quick and efficient manner. Meanwhile Espinosa kept the flames around Skyia as she glanced at the assembled students. "Alright, once the hull opens, enter the plane in a calm and orderly fashion." There was a loud hissing sound, as from the bottom of the plane, a large platform ramp was coming down. It landed on the ground with a rough bang. The platform ramp looked rather worn out from use, with various missing pieces of paint, and a plethora of scratches covering it. Espinosa glanced back at the plane as she stood up, and began drawing the fires back to herself. Her arms, which were still in a blue flame quickly turned back into fleshy appendages.


Espinosa smiled at the students, "Alright! Remember, enter the plane in a calm and orderly fashion." She stood up and began going up the ramp, and quickly entered the plane.

 

[Parsnip]

Curtis carried the trunk into the plane, setting it down on a bare patch of floor and flipping off the lid. "C'mon, Reggie-", Curtis said as he offered the other boy his hand, "-I'd say something like, 'I'm sure you can find a better place to sleep', but now that I look around I think the trunk might be your best bet."

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure looked back as he saw the plane open up for them


"Looks like its time to go then Rose"


Azure began going to the plane, a little bit around Skyia, and went up the ramp and into the plane, following Espinosa


"Wow... looks like this has been through a lot, your brother must of had all sorts of adventures with this."


-I hope the others won't be to concerned with its looks, if he brought it here, it has to mean that its very capable of doing whatever-

 

[MechaGhoul]

Robin followed Curtis onto the plane as he glanced at his trunk, and the surroundings of it, looking in shock. No way, this...


Meanwhile Espinosa glanced at Curtis, "It's not so bad." The insides of the ship were lit by a cheap fluorescent light which was flickering in a strange pattern. The interior of the ship had a dank and wet smell to it. The inside of the plane was primarily empty, with no seats, no bathroom, or really any signs of comfort. What the ship did have though was quite a bit of dust, which probably helped account for the smell of the ship. There were several rusted and somewhat dented barrels on the ship, which were filled to the brim with a variety of materials, typically scrap metal. However, other barrels had marked letters, while most was too smudgy to be legible one of the barrels had "MED" on it. The inside of that barrel was full of brown syringe pieces, broken blood line bags, and other waste products. There were also a few crates which were partially broken, but were empty of any products.


"While it might not be the prettiest ship." Espinosa said, "It will get us to the destination in a timely fashion. Cisco is an incredible pilot, and when he is piloting his Cargo Plane, it is magical." Espinosa glanced around, "Anyway, find a place to settle down, for the moment, and once everyone is on board, we can take off."

 

[Advent Azure]

"I think its alright, just because something doesn't look comfortable doesn't mean it can't be"


-It's at least nothing I can't tolerate-


Azure eyed the scrap metal for a bit


-Man... what I'd give to take that back...-


He scanned around the rest of the plane for a bit


-It's almost like a junkyard sorta-


"Well, alright then."


Azure just went over to the left side of the plane and placed his stuff down, and laid down back against his backpack and luggage, being rather comfortable in the process.


-Ya... this is pretty ok, not bad at all..... but... I'm sure the others probably won't take to it so well...-

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Let's go!" Anya cheered, climbing the ramp.


Upon entering, the smile slowly melted from her face. This plane didn't seem fun. In fact, it looked like some sort of setup she'd see in a slasher movie. There didn't even seem to be a place to sit, let alone a place for her to put some day clothes on.


"Excuse me." she tugged on Cisco's coat. "Is there a room I can change here?"

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Skyia quickly grabbed her gear, and slithered onto the plane. Honestly, she was fine with the way how she would have to stick in for a while, especially considering she probably would have had to stay like this in the first place even if there was seats, her tail, and how long it is kinda gets in the way sometimes eheh.


But she sighed a bit, moving over to the left side of the empty room, just settling in, moving her tail around into a coil and would sit onto a portion of her tails. " Little empty, cold, but its not that bad. " she said to herself, smiling even in here.


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Victor hopped up onto his feet, picking up his stuff and wandered into the plane, empty, but spacious, nothing to really sit on. Somewhat annoying, but he just sighed. Tossing his stuff onto a side of a crate near the right side of the plane, and sat down onto his stuff. Putting Jayus onto his lap once more, leaning onto the side of the plane.


Though looking at the situation for a sec, thinks might slide around a bit when they get going. Probbably not that bad though since everything seems fine right now, it had to be since this plane only recently landed here. In the meantime he would just wait to get going with this. Looking over at the others as they entered. Just staying quiet, may talk a little with someone to pass the time, probably, for now, he just waited to get this thing started.

 

[MechaGhoul]

Francisco glanced at Anya who was tugging on his count. He frowned a bit, "Well you can move a few empty boxes, that are near the back to make a makeshift room. Other than that, there are really no rooms on the ship." He glanced back at Anya, "Anyway, I've got to get back to the cockpit."





From the inside of the ship, there was the small sound of pitter-patter, just coming around, oh and also a loud high pitch shrill shriek. From behind Azure there was a creature no larger than 10 inches in length. It stared at Azure for a moment with its beedy black eyes, and lunged towards him, as it held out its mouth agape which was dripping with a white foamy substance from it. It attempted to slam its sharp canines in his flesh.


Further in the back there were several tarps that were covering another pile of items. The tarps were spread out widely across the fixtures, giving it a loose like feel to it. The ship's dank aroma continued flowing through. It smelled like a mixture of fermenting waste, it was a bitter mixture, with a noticeable sulfur like smell to the ship.

 

[Advent Azure]

"...!?"


Moved his head up and looked around a bit


-Hey, if I remember right, isn't that sound that one junkyard rodent makes? Better find it before it goes after someone-


Azure got up rather quickly, and moved his stuff out of the way trying to see if it was around him with he saw that it was looking at him.


"Ah, so it is"


Since Azure's entire body is more or less under wraps by his clothing, his face was really the only exposed flesh. It trying to reach his face from him standing up gave him more than enough time to swat it down onto the ground rather harshly, followed by stepping on it. He took out a knife from his clothing and stabbed the rodent, to ensure that it indeed dies.


"Heh, you guys'll never get me, not ever again."


He looked over to Espinosa


"Er... there's seems to be a rodent problem in your plane just to let you know, I'll be fine since I've always had to deal with these things... but... I don't know about the others."


-I... probably shouldn't get to worked up, or my wound will seep through my bandages...-


"I'll just go toss this out..."


Azure picked up the bloodied rodent, taking the knife out first, and threw it out of the plane


-... I'll have to disinfect this later... I really don't want to use this diseased knife on whatever, but I guess I'll have to stay as it for now.-


Azure went into his backpack, and put the knife into a zip-lock plastic bag, and put it away after that

 

[CSA]

After Lily entered the plane warily, with its chipped paint and various other defacements, her mouth opened in horror at the condition of the flying piece of junk. She stayed like that for a couple of seconds before finally speaking to herself.


"Well," she muttered, "I guess this is what happens when you take a free field trip to Egypt."


Lily then looked down at Anya and said "You are not changing on this plane. I'm not even entirely certain we should still be going. Either way, you should note that this is most certainly not a peanut plane. And if you do see any peanuts, do not eat them because they are more than likely legumish mimics of an unfathomably sinister origin."


"I feel like I'm in the slum of planes, and I fear for Anya's safety."

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Mimics?!" Anya glared. She knew full well how mimics worked, and backed away from the empty crates. Exploring just got that much more difficult.


Still, she'd find a way to entertain herself. She gave a yawn, looking around. Maybe the plane had new friends for her to make.


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"Reminds me of home." Richter said, looking around the dilapidated aircraft. He placed his coffin down in one corner, then climbed inside. "Wake me when you need me" he called.


By his calculation, it'd be the middle of night when they landed in Egypt. This was good; he could wander freely once they entered the desert wasteland.

 

[Zerohex]

"Habbahwha...plane? Oh we're going by plane?" Rather than climb, Reggie simply rolled out of the trunk, landing chest-first on the dirty floor before rolling once more to stare at the ceiling. He was still wearing the same clothes he'd been wearing the day before, which had a faint smell of booze and sweat to them, and hadn't taken off his shoes before climbing into the trunk. "Aaaaah, how nice, teleportation makes me queasy. Shame about the *yaaaaaaaaaaawn*, sorry, shame about the time".


Jumping to his feet, and stumbling about before steadying his footing, he took a good look at the flying metal coffin that'd be taking them...wherever. "Right, charming plane. Where are we going exactly?" he asked no one in particular, unashamedly stretching out to get that feeling of sleeping in a box off of him. "I could really use a shower when we get there".

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Anya's boots pattered on the wooden floor as she turned a corner. Her armor was heavy, weighing upon her shoulders. She peered through her visor, viewing what she could of the dungeon. She'd no idea how long she had wandered the nightmarish hole. An hour? A day? She'd been separated from her party, left alone to navigate the labyrinth by the flickering light of a torch. Her ears flicked about as she picked up a noise. Footsteps arose, ones that didn't match her own. A terrible, squealing roar thundered out, revealing a huge, foul beast.


"Have at thee, monster!" she cried, drawing her blade. The monster swung its claw, causing her to backpedal before taking a swing, cutting into its hide. It roared again, and tore forward with its teeth, bashing its head against Anya's blade. "You cannot best me monster! Mine is a bloodline undefeated for generations!" she shouted, waving her sword in an arc.


"Now, the ultimate technique: GIGA SLASH EDGE"


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"Whapachow!" Anya shouted, waving around her Knight edition Anya figma. "I am the victor!"


The rat in her other hand stared at a moment, then gave a loud squeak.

 

[MechaGhoul]

Espinosa glanced around and did a head count, as Azure mentioned the rats. "It's my brother's plane, not mine." She then glanced over towards Richter, "Well it is a good thing it reminds you of home, and I will wake you if needed." She then continued walking around the plane, checking around to see if there was any scrap metal or other parts on the floor. She peered over at ... a student who just came out of a trunk, and Anya who was playing with the rats. "Just make sure they don't bite you. They are nasty creatures. Also fun figure... If only I had my Inferno Action Figure, I could show you that. It has Embrace of Heaven's Flames Attack." She then glanced to Reggie, "Welcome aboard, we are going to the Valley of Kings in Egypt."


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Robin glanced at Reggie, "Yes you should apologize for... Oh hey." Robin went through his trunk as he pulled out a small layer of rope, before shutting the trunk back. He placed it on the ground as he moved his left and right index fingers and his right and left thumbs, as he swished them around. Then at the exact same time, a small blue viper was summoned and rose its head up, the rope mimicked the snake's motion of rising up, some brighter lights shined down upon the snake and the rope, and




These four separate events of spell casting, occurred at exactly the same time, and it was perfectly timed as the rope and snake rose at the very start of the music, as the lights made it appear as if they were on a performing stage. Robin stood up as he gestured towards Reggie, "Behold once again, the Snake Dance! Oh I love casting these four spells together, they make for an interesting performance." The snake and the rope began swiveling their respective bodies to the left and to the right.
Robin paused for a moment as he noticed the cat girl playing with a rat, before glancing back to his familiar. You may go hunt soon. The two items continued moving in a rhythmic pattern as the music played in the background. Robin yawned as he glanced at them, "That'll amuse me for a bit, my familiar is most excellent at the dance."

 

[Parsnip]

"Tha's nice, boss.", Curtis mumbled as he lay sideways on this duffel bag, "I'mma go back to sleep, now. Wake me up if you need anythin' I guess."


He shuffled his bag around a bit more until he got it into a semi-comfortable position, and began snoring quietly as the group waited on Rose.

 

[Zerohex]

Reggie chuckled, cracking his neck. He liked to do that before a fight, but in this case he really was just putting everything back into place and getting some relief after a pretty horrid sleep. He sure as hell wasn't going back to sleep, once he was up that was that, a few hours would have to do for the trip. "You don't ever get bored of this one do you? You'd think a mage of your stature wouldn't resort to casting such basic spells, but it's a fun cantrip combo to watch. Been a while since I saw Zhuoru, too. How's he been?"

 

[CSA]

Lily looked on as Reggie rolled out of the trunk. She had no idea why he would be in one of the trunks that Robin Brought aboard, but this was Orien's. She'd almost gotten used to it by now.


"We're going to Egypt," Lily replied, "If the plane doesn't spontaneously come aflame midair, I guess."


Lily looked back down at Anya in time to catch her playing with a rat. Somehow, in the couple of seconds Lily wasn't watching the Neko, she was already in danger.


"Anya!"


But the teacher had already beaten her to the punch. She smoked, but at least she seemed to know a little bit about safety. Lily was somewhat surprised at the modicum of responsibility that seemed to reside within the woman, given her interactions with the other teachers.


"And she has... an Inferno action figure? With EoHFA? I kind of want to see it."


"Yeah, actually. Those are dangerous- like the teacher said. Give it," Said Lily, extending a hand.


At the same time, Robin was putting on a show. But Lily wasn't impressed. It was just a bunch of simultaneously cast cantrips, after all. Nothing amazing or improbable about that.

 

[MechaGhoul]

"Peasant, I will wake you as soon as I need you. I expect you to properly do whatever task I need you to do." Robin eagerly watched the performance of the rope and the familiar as he clapped his hands, "Now see, that is the wonders of synchronized dancers. They perform together with such precision, it is truly magnificent. This is always entertaining, easy enough to do, and always fun." Robin glanced back towards Reggie as he chuckled, "Yes, even I the HEIR of the Taishang Mage Guild, am still amused by the antics of basic spells, I mean how could you not be amused by the use of these cantrips together? Besides, I prefer using my higher level spells only when I have to. After all, why waste a perfectly good high level spell when the lower ones do the job? As for Zhuoru... He has been doing well, I feel bad that I haven't summoned him recently. But he has told me he will enjoy hunting the rats here." Zhuoru continued dancing with the rope, as Robin spoke with his familiar with the shared telepathic bond.





So, I may hunt those rats? I will make sure they die in an aesthetically pleasing way.


Yes, you do that Zhuoru.


So the others? Do they find my performance aesthetically pleasing?


Zhuoru... the only people who don't understand your brilliant dancing, are those who are uncultured.

 

[Advent Azure]

"....."


Azure looked over toward Robin not liking to much about what he heard of her


-Great... another mage... first I confused her as someone else, and now she turns out to be a proper mage... well, I guess that's kinda unfair for me to say... its not really..... their(?) fault for being a magic user... but it just means I have to be that much more careful. Then again, these guys aren't really haphazard with their magic like that Rasputin I think...-


Azure couldn't help but sigh, realizing that Kylier lied to him once more about how magic works, and about its limitations.


-Talking back would of made things complicated anyway... I should apologize to Robin at one point I guess over that spar... Still...-


He sat back down, trying to rest, while staying alert of SURPRISE VERMIN, and Robin a little bit.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Anya frowned, and handed the struggling rodent to the Alraune.


"I guess I'll find something else to do." she said. She turned around and stumbled a bit, giving a yawn. "I'm not tired."

 

[MechaGhoul]

"Well, I am sure you will find something interesting to do." Espinosa glanced at Anya and nodded. "Just make sure to be safe while you find something fun to do. Alright?"