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Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

Shift was right above her head keeling down. " H-hey its alright, w-we all can't be useful all the t-time, we can just look around then, i'm sure we can still find some g-gems. " He stood up and transforms the front of his right arm into a shovel to dig around, his other arm he shifts into 3 large tentacles that he spread around the area of his upper body to detect gems higher up, he also changed his feet into large bricks slanted bricks to hopefully find anything near his feet and start plowing through the snow a little better for little Bunny to walk through, even though the snow wasn't that deep the courtesy is nice he was thinking. " We should get started though, keep a lookout if y-you see any. " he said while starting to tread through the snow plowing through to find any of the fake gems that littered the landscape.


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Skyia seeing that Emmet is currently doing his own thing, decides to just start without him, she wasn't sure exactly how to act around him, but for now she wanted to try to win this contest thing, or at least participate, she didn't want to get in trouble for not participating. She slithered out of the bubble and tightened her clothes in a attempt to keep her warm, and just started to slither forward in search for any of the gems around. She started by going up one of the trees both to stay up above the cold ground, and to get a better view of where she was looking.
 
"...Okay" Anya replied as she wiped her sleeve across her face, then began to waddle across the snow. Though she was doing so halfheartedly, she still continued to hunt for jewels, their bright colors clashing too well against the white and brown, and rarely did it take Anya more effort than digging a shallow hole or tossing a rock to knock one off a tree branch, in between awkwardly pushing past the near waist high snow and rubing her own arms for warmth.
 
A relieved smile appeared on Bunny's face when Shift didn't get angry at her. Then after watching the groundskeeper turn into a jewel searching machine, she followed him, looking around for any glints and colors that caught her eye. After a few minutes and a couple gems, she looked back to Shift. "Thank you," she said softly. "Most people probably wouldn't have stayed to help me. Especially since I can't be too much help."

~~~~~1:00 PM~~~~~

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When the two hour limit was up, a bell sounded through the woods, calling everyone to return to the camp site. Groups of kids and teenagers hurried to the barrier protected area, bringing along their arms or bags of plastic jewels. And once there, each eagerly displayed their spoils, silently comparing their pile to the ones of others, trying to decide whose was bigger.


Rose came back rather satisfied with her team's stash. Lily especially was on a huge roll and managed to gather quite a number of them. Winning seemed more of an inevitability than a hope. As everyone gathered, the half-elf walked to the center of the site and blew her whistle. "Okay, everyone bring your jewels to the middle so we can count them."


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By the time 2 hours had passed, Bunny was exhausted, not used to doing so much walking. Making her way back to the campsite with Shift, she smiled up at the groundskeeper. "Thanks, Shift. We found a lot more than I expected." She was happy. Winning wasn't too much of a lost hope. Though it was mostly Shift who did the work. Bunny wasn't much help, though she did spot a few.


When Rose called for everyone to bring their treasures forward, she ran toward the counting area, but tripped over a stone and landed on her face. "Owie. Owie." Sitting up, she saw a bunch of the students looking at her, some even laughing or trying hard not to. Her face turned red as she picked up the jewels she dropped, laughing nervously. "Eheheh . . .sorry." She then came forward and deposited her gems into a pile without another word. How embarrassing.


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Mel and Riff had been among the first groups to have made it back to the campsite when the alarm rang. They deposited their spoils by the campfire as they were told to and waited for the counting. As Bunny fell, Mel looked over and scowled. "Glorified pigeons*. Useless little weaklings," she muttered under her breath.


(Sorry. Writer's block.)


(Also,when doing the dice roll set the number of sides to "20" instead of 10. I think it gives the groups of 2 more of a chance to beat the groups of 3. Unless the groups of 3 all score high numbers.)


(*(Glorified) Pigeons = Angels)
 
Kylier had made it back to the camp with everyone else, with Azure's gem total with her as well, and went over to Vash and Anya


"This is all that I managed to find so far, with our collective total, I believe we have a fair chance of winning"


Kylier grew a smirk, impressed with how many gems Vash had gotten


"You must have double timed to get that many gems Vash"
 
Emmet, hadn't been able to get any gems. He intended to steal some, and wished that he could turn invisible. He sighed, and heard the bell to head back to the tents. He sat by the water, and his hand felt the coolness.
 
Anya trudged back to the encampment, meager supply of gems in hand. She began shivering heavily as she make them into a small pile, glad to be back in the relative warmth of the campground.


She properly understood now why her mother always chided her to bring a coat outside.
 
Skyia came back after rushing around trying to get as many gems as she could in her reduced time frame, with a sigh she slithers over to deposit her gems, she had hoped to interact with some of the others but in the current state that Georgie didn't come and her teammate seemed a bit unresponsive to her approaches.


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Shift came with Bunny depositing his gems that he was able to get next to hers, he had hoped they might have gathered enough to compete against the others, as well, he felt kinda happy that he could talk with someone a little, as well help someone, it always makes shift a little fuzzy inside whenever someone enjoys his help or company.


( shifts pile probably wouldn't count would it? or in this case it would? just asking this right now regardless what i get on the roll. )
 
He stared at his refleftion, wondering if he liked what he saw. He heard the other kids talking and laughing, and about the gem hunt. He figured he would go out and get some, but braeking the rules. He headed to the woods.
 
Need a break? Did prez just ask her if she needed a break? Rose was the weak one, with that inferior knife-ear constitution. Lily was a plant. Plants don't get winded. Then again, plants don't normally move so maybe Rose could be forgiven for not knowing.


Actually, after thinking about it, when Lily finally turned on Rose she would twist the knife in prez's back one extra time just for this. She would relish that moment, but for now she had to pretend to be friends.


"No way, Rose! I can keep going until dawn!"


If anything, it was the cold that was getting to her. But as long as the sun was high, she could absorb and store that heat for use later. She was in no immediate trouble.


After a while longer, the bell sounded and the two came back. Lily deposited her fabulous crystals at the indicated point, took a microphone out of her flower, dropped it, and surreptitiously picked it up with one of her vines because she wasn't about to waste a perfectly good dropping mic.


As Bunny lumbered back, tripping and falling over herself, one would expect Lily to laugh or tease. Well, one who knew Lily. Thus it was surprising that not even a bit of a chuckle was hinted at on her face.


"**** dojikko moeblob harlot stepping to my block taking my popularity. Those freaks and losers in her little fanclub flocked to ME last year. Not that I want disgusting otaku stalkers like that, but it kinda wilts my flower. I'm gonna have to do something about her later."





As Lily analyzed her competition, however, she couldn't help but think...


"**** she's cute... even I kinda want to join the Rabbit Enthusiast dorks. Ugh, whatever! I have my own cute pet, and she's better than some clumsy no-talent moron any day! Speaking of..."





Lily looked around for Anya, before spotting her depositing her gems. She wasn't wearing her coat, and looked quite cold.


Not that Lily cared. If that thing got really cold, it was her own darn fault.


But Lily had to feign concern. She had to look good. She had to...


Yeah, it wasn't like she cared about Anya or anything but it had to be done.


Lily rushed over to Anya, and grabbed an extra coat out of her flower. She dressed the girl, and began scolding her.


"And why aren't you wearing your coat? You dummy- I told you! Always wear your coat when you go out in the cold! And where are those mittens I bought you? Oh, I swear that if you lost those mittens it's no pie when we get back!"


Lily just looked at the girl shiver before bringing her close for an embrace. She needed the heat, after all.


"Sheesh... what am I gonna do with you...?" She said, somewhat resignedly. She needed to stay like that to warm the poor thing back up.


It's what any good pet owner would do.
 
"Mittens are in the tent" Anya said between heavy shivers, barely able to hold a thought past 'I'm really cold'. "I was gonna get them... but some guy dragged me into the snow and now I'm cold and I didn't even get a lot of gems." she said, her voice muffled as she pressed herself closer to Lily. "But if I don't get a lot of gems I can't power up anymore..." her mind focused back to her crushed magical girl hopes, and she muttered a choked sob into Lily's chest.
 
Kylier felt assured that with her team's lead of 29 gems, she reasoned that the other teams would be unable to have gathered as many as her team has, she felt that now was the time to try to understand the one who assaulted Azure by insulting means, not to be childish, but to gauge how she would react, and perhaps get her to use her skills so she could learn about her


-So she's the one... hmm... and to think that she doesn't even look dangerous in the least... and has a nice body as well...-


Kylier approached Mel's group, keeping her distance a bit


"Well now, it looks as if you've lost this event, I can't say I'm surprised though you were down one 'servant', or maybe it was because was working for me in one instance, its quite a shame."


Kylier turned her head away, in a somewhat shunning style, keeping an eye on her from the corner of her eye


"Then again, I suppose failures beget failure, and as such, turns their anger toward other suspecting students here, so I suppose such outbursts are to be expected as well. Regardless, you won't gain anything by acting in such a manner, and as one stranger to another... I recommend changing your flawed ways, then again, that would be your choice if you wish to remain as you currently are"


Kylier turned away, laughing loud enough to let them know that she intended to let them hear it


-If this doesn't spark a reaction out of the girl... nothing will... and will almost just a time waster...-





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Azure woke up, still more or less almost hopelessly tied where Kylier left him


"Ugh..... uh..."


Azure looked around, hoping to see someone


"Blaire... you around...?"


A sense of despair begun to sink into Azure, but ignored the feeling, hoping he wasn't just doomed to the spot he is now


"Blaire?! Someone!??!"
 
Vash stood proud over his pile of gems. As Kylier came and deposited her findings, he held his tongue. Even if he wanted to pat himself on the back right now, he didn't quite trust Pedo-Kiki. And fraternizing with the creepers was a big no-no. Anya then came with her few gems, shivering as she put them into the pile as well.


He was about to ask if she was okay when Lily came over, asking where the neko put her mittens. "There's pie? What type of pie?" he asked, not aware that Anya had told the alraune of how Vash dragged the child out into the snow. "If I give you my gems, can I have some pie?"


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Bunny took Shift's sleeve as the gems were being counted. It didn't look like they were going to win, though they didn't do so poorly compared to the others. "Thanks Shift," she said with a smile. "I had fun today. Maybe we can hang out on normal days, too? I haven't made too many friends here yet. (Thanks to the Rabbit Enthusiasts Club) N-Not like I don't have any friends. I do. I just don't have a lot and they can be pretty busy sometimes. M-maybe I can come visit you at work?"


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Mel glanced at Kylier as the demon began running her mouth off. What she said didn't get much of a rise from the girl but Mel certainly wasn't appreciative of her method of saying it. Like a coward. Riff tensed up, his fists clenched as he shouted at the pink haired demon. How dare she talk to Mel that way? "Mel is no failure! It was my fault we-"


At this point, Mel intervened, pulling Riff back by his arm. "Be quiet, Riff." The blond looked at her in disbelief, but evidently stepped back as he was ordered. She stepped forward, looking directly at Kylier. She spoke loud and clear, making no mistake to make sure the demon knew who she was talking to.


"Pretty big words for someone who had to use my servant to win. Someone who didn't perform even half as well as I did. Someone too cowardly to insult me to my face. I'd hardly say you were one to tell me about my etiquette. 'You won't gain anything by acting in such a manner,'" she said, making sure to quote Kylier's very words. Her eyes turned cold as she crossed her arms. "'As one stranger to another' . . . I recommend thinking before you speak."


(Didn't quite hit the right buttons. Sorry.)


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(Sorry for the bad posts.)


Currently:

  • Kylier, Anya and Vash - 29
  • Riff and Mel - 23
  • Rose, Lily and Eric - 11 (need Eric)
  • Skyia and Emmet - 19
  • Bunny and Shift - 21
  • Azure and Blaire - 0 (need Blaire)
 
"I suppose there is some truth to your words, but it is a team effort after all, and it seems that Vash has no problem opposing you. Regardless of how well I've done, if your underling was truly loyal, he would have turned in his gems to you just like mine turned his to me. Perhaps if I put in effort on my end, I could have found more... sure... but I had someone else to do the searching for me"


She turned back toward her, meeting her eyes dead on


"Maybe it is because you are one who also enjoys grunt work as well and working along side your servants, I find that your style, words, and actions contradict one another. But when it comes down to it, I as well can get as personal as you have, for my own motives, but tell me, if you plan on doing the work, would that not drop you onto their level as well, or perhaps it is because you do not mind being equals?
 
Lily patted Anya as she sobbed and pressed closer against her. The poor thing was freezing- Lily understood that. But this level of intimacy, a level which Lily had yet to achieve with anybody, had succeeded in frightening her greatly. She wanted very much to let go and say 'Yeah, quit your slobbering and clean yourself up kid', but was completely unable to do so due to the dire need the girl had for warmth.


If Lily didn't know better, she would think that the Neko was the one manipulating her. Worming her way into Lily's heart (Figurative as Lily was a plant and thus did not have a heart) like some manner of parasite. Trying to make her care about someone other than herself.


"I'll show you who's the demon around here you... you adorable, helpless, sweet little thing! I'll show you how selfish I can be!"





Lily thought that, but ended up emanating the heat she had stored earlier in the day to get her room mate warmer faster. Since the invention of the hug, there have been only five hugs rated the most warm, the most pure. This one became number six.


"Don't worry... prez is gonna give us all the crystals everyone found." She whispered "You can po-"


And then Vash interrupted the scene because of course. Lily could only assume that it had been him that dragged poor Anya out into the cold. She would be completely justified in doing whatever she wanted to him in return, but she contained all of her rage and managed to look at him civilly.


"Sure." She said, somewhat coldly. One of her vines stretched out and coiled up, forming a sort of plate. "Just place them here, and I will give you pie when we get back."


Lily's red eyes flashed dangerously.


"Oh, such pie will I give..."


How relieved Lily was. For a second there, she thought that perhaps she was beginning to care for her room mate. What nonsense! She had just shilled out a just revenge for the possibility of obtaining fat stacks. She was a demon once again.


"...You can have pie too, Anya."


Well, even demons kept promises. Anya didn't lose her mittens, so she could have some pie.
 
Vash's face lit up like a child on Christmas morning. "Really?" He immediately took his gems and put them on Lily's vine dish. He started bouncing up and down once the last gem went into Lily's hands . . . er, vines, completely missing the flash in the alraune's eyes.


"So what sort of pie is it? Is it cherry? Because I don't like cherry. Or lemon or lime. They can be sour and I don't like sour. It makes your face all puckery. But I like apple pie. And blueberry and strawberry and pumpkin and meat and custard and . . . Do I need mittens too? Because I have mittens but they're back in my room. Wait, why would you need mittens to eat pie? Don't you use a fork? Well, you can use a spoon, I guess."


(I'm not sure if I should count them toward the Lilycat's haul. Seems a bit unfair since we did the dice thing. What do you all think?)


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"I suggest you look up the definition of 'oppose'. I gave Vash no orders to hand me his gems, thus he has no need to." Mel raised an eyebrow as Kylier gave her excuse for her poor performance. "So you had someone else do all the work and you still did so poorly?"


As Kylier spoke of Mel doing the "grunt work" and falling to the level of Riff and Vash, she clenched her fist, tightening it with every passing word. She wanted to rip out this girl's tongue and force it back down her impertinent throat. Mel wanted to watch as she drowned in her own blood, without the ability to cry for help. She had the gall to actually speak like that? As if she herself was so high and mighty when her own servant did worse than Riff. Oh, the fun she could have with this one.


But before she could step forward, Riff had rushed forward and jumped the demon girl. Face contorted in anger, his hand wrapped around her throat. "How DARE you speak that way to her?!"


(Hm? What is contradictory about Mel?)


(Hm . . . How to get Riff's ass kicked? Illusions may be a good start, mess with his senses. But Riff is able to attack 360 degrees around him. Hm . . . Plus depending on what he or Mel sees, they might figure out it's an illusion.)
 
Shift looked down at little bunny as she grabbed his sleeve, and when she asked him that, honestly he didn't know what to react to, only a very small amount of people have ever asked him that, he comes down and looks at her, while very nervous and a bit sweaty, he says a shaky " Y-yea! A-ann-nytime. L-l-lilith. " Standing up a bit embarrassed to say anymore he just starts trying to walk somewhere to do something to ready for the bonfire.


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Skyia sighed as she saw that her group's was one of the lowest so far, even for the extraordinary amount of gems she found in that short time span, however, since she was only by herself, it seemed like a fruitless effort. No matter though, she perked up and started to coil up, she wouldn't let something like this bring her down, it was only a thing to her, nothing really to get super worked up about, or at least that's what she would say to herself when in reality she really felt like slamming her head against a pillow, for now she just looked around to see if there was anyone to talk to before we do something else.
 
Anya replied to all this talking with a muffled 'mnnf' as she basked in the surprising warmth of the hug, barely remembering to give a muffled okay when Lily told her she'd be getting sweets. She found that between the day's events and crying, she was rather tired, and Lily's chest made a comfortable, if damp pillow.


As gems exchanged hands above her, Anya managed to fade into a gentle sleep, her soft breathing barely audible amidst the slew of words Vash was spewing out.
 
Kylier deep down was pleased at Riff's initiative, as now was the time to find out what he was capable of, although her goal was to learn of Mel, not Riff... but she supposed that there was no certainty that her minions would not react as well


"Hmm... I'd be careful if I were you, just because your looking out for your 'peers' doesn't mean I won't be looking out for myself"


Kylier didn't seem overly affected by his choking, and as she brought a streamlined hand toward his own, she grasped his arm, and the strength in his grasp steadily felt weaker and wimpier, as if his energy himself was being drained out of his body


"You'll tire yourself out long before you get close to finishing me off..."


She took his second arm with her other hand, as she stood there, waiting as he continually grew weaker, as a grin formed on her face making it apparent that she knew she would outlast him


(I meant contradictory as in having servants, yet doing work, even though she also commands them)
 
Riff could feel himself begin to tire, which was odd, considering that he was perfectly fine after the jewel hunt. But he couldn't let this get the best of him. This girl looked down on Mel and he couldn't let that go. "I don't need to finish you off. I just want to make sure you don't come out unharmed."


The blond slammed his forehead into Kylier's, with enough force to make her to let him go. Staggering back, his arms slumped at his side*, he shook his head in an attempt to shake off the dizziness. Now he remembered why he never really did that as a kid. No one really wins with a headbutt. Nevertheless, he could take an aspirin later. Focusing back on Kylier, transparent scales could be seen forming on his skin. He had no idea what the demon girl would do, but this should at least protect from any physical attacks. In front of him, a few fairly large shards of ice formed and were immediately sent her way. He didn't aim for any vitals though. Mel had a plan for this academy and he wouldn't ruin them with a murder.


Meanwhile, Mel sat back on a rock, watching the proceedings between the two. She wouldn't get involved, at least not yet. But there should be some good information she could gather on her . . . classmate.


(*because I'm unsure of whether or not the illusion would've stopped or not)
 
Lily's eye twitched a bit as she heard Vash ramble. Her vine slipped away and surreptitiously deposited the earnings in her own team's pile, but she was loathe to call it a victory. Tricking a monkey out of his shiny for a banana was not something she needed added to her long list of emotional manipulations and keikaku doori moments. She was briefly happy with herself, but mainly because of the money she might actually get. For once, she was slightly ashamed.


But that quickly passed when she remembered that this was the monkey that caused her room mate such grief. Not that she cared about Anya, but how would that make her look? Like an irresponsible pet owner. Lily was totally mostly responsible. She made sure to fill Anya's bowl most of the time, gave the thing gifts, and only let her stay up late to watch cartoons and movies and play video games and eat junk food and not study.


Lily was the best pet owner there had ever been.


She had mostly tuned Vash out when he stopped blathering and looked at her expectantly.


"...Yes." She replied. Why did she always attract stupid people? Oh, right. She attracted everybody and they were all stupid.


Lily then pointed at the direction of the confrontation currently taking place. "Isn't Riff your boyfriend or something? Shouldn't you, like, stop this?"


Lily then turned towards the fight, created a little hammock with her vines, and put Anya in it. After covering the girl with a blanket, she looked down at her shirt and noticed that it was very moist with disgusting mammalian fluids.





"Oh, Anya..." she muttered, slightly exasperated. She would have to change soon, but not now. The fight was just getting started.
 
Kylier staggered backward as she reeled from Riff's barbaric yet effective headbonk, catching herself with a sturdy foot as she firmed her stance in the ground, looking ready, yet casual


"Well if that's your plan, you will be greatly disappointed"


With a wicked grin, she held how a hand to her head, and a ghostly blue light formed around it, and in a few moments, the bruise that the blond inflicted on her had vanished on her, and turned her attention back toward him, looking collected


-Hmm... interesting-


Kylier had begun weaving in a playful manner around his first two shots, and held out her hand at the last one, suspending it in the air around her, a bit away from her hand


"Are you sure you want to continue, I understand your dedication to your now equal, but if this is all you can do, I can't really imagine this going anywhere..."





(He felt the energy drain from this arms, and as a result, believes they are drained, unless he's the kind of guy who would try to power through, in which case, he'd be able to use em again relatively unhindered)
 
(We're going to have to end this soon for 2 reasons. 1.People are waiting for us and 2.The longer Kylier uses her illusions, the more likely Mel, as an outside viewer, is going to notice something is up. So, I'm just going to tell you how you can win fairly easily. Holy and fire attacks are the weakness to Riff's scales, but as Kylier is a demon and cannot use holy magic, she'll just have to make an illusion of fire maybe. Then you can strike him multiple times, either with herself or her knives. Maybe stab him in the leg or something, I don't know. Something that will end the fight while hopefully not killing him. Of course, this is only a suggestion.)


"He's not my boyfriend!" Face thoroughly red, Vash looked over in the direction Lily was pointing in, seeing Riff and a pink haired girl fighting. He frowned. Seriously? Riff was already fighting someone? Though it wasn't exactly a new scene. Vash had only been a part of Mel's group a few months, but he knew plenty well about Riff's temper, especially when it came to Mel. It was something the boy didn't understand. Why was the blond demon so loyal to a serial killer?


"No," he said. "Anyone other than Mel who tries to stop him now is just going to get in the way. Riff may not look it but he did used to be a delinquent. Sure kept his temper from those days. We just have to wait it out until someone's on the ground. Or dead. Either way, last time I got involved, I was thrown through a tree. Still finding splinters in weird places."


He watched them a bit more before turning back to Lily. "So what sort of pie is it?"


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Riff clicked his tongue as he watched Kylier stop on of his ice shards. He looked around, trying to think of what he could do. His arms were still ******* useless at the moment, so that ruled out his usual attacks. As Kylier taunts him, he is only more fired up. He couldn't just back away. That was the same as betrayal and he wouldn't do that.


He first began freezing the ground, aiming specifically for the demon girl's legs to stop her movement. More shards of ice formed in front of him, thinner this time, making a large array of needles before they all shot out simultaneously at Kylier. Then behind them were large rings of ice, using the needle storm as a cover. They were meant to weave their way through to the pink haired demon and latch onto her before pinning her to the ground.


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As this went on, Mel watched with unwavering eyes. Becoming more and more skeptical of Kylier's abilities. So far, she displayed abilities in energy draining, healing and either ice manipulation or telekinesis. An odd array of skills. No real theme behind them. Like a mutt of various backgrounds, these didn't see to fit together. There was nothing conclusive though, so she would just have to watch more.
 
Kylier took glances at Mel, and grew concerned, as her purpose was to learn about her, but it seemed that she was only gathering information on Kylier, and knew that eventually, she would be able to see past her capabilities, and realized, that she had to end this right quite


A Sphere of fire grew in her hands, as she chucked it at the incoming frost needles, consuming them, and collided with this ice rings, creating a soft fog of steam, clouding the area, and over a few moments, grew heavily foggy, making it difficult to see, and out of the fog came another fireball, striking him unexpectedly with his impeded vision, striking him head on.


Kylier decided to end it here, not going in for the kill or anything serious considering everyone around them, and she can only go so far with the reason of self defense. Taking out the knives she had taken off Azure earlier, she threw a cluster of them into the fog, a few of them missing, and a few of them hitting their mark, not hitting any vitals, but rather his limbs in a few places. Out of the blue, the fog suddenly disappeared, seeming that Kylier had used some wind magic to blow it all away, as she appeared with herself in the off the ground near Riff, ending with a fully mid air strike to his gut, as he knocked him onto the ground, and backed away, feeling that continuing would cross the line for self defense now that he was seems to be very well defeated


"No more, if we continue, the school will have something to say to the both of us about this little matter unless we both relent, so I'll be going now..."


With that Kylier started walking away, now that no one was going after her
 
As Mel noticed Kylier's glances to her, Mel smirked. So there was a trick to it after all. But what? This wasn't a mimicry power since no one in the area had these powers. It wasn't magic either from the lack of spells, symbols, and time. She may not know it now, but there were only so many options to go through, so she'd eventually figure it out.


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Riff was now on the ground, seething with anger as he watched Kylier walk away. The strength in his arms returning as he forced himself up, his eyes were focused on the mass of pink hair. He wasn't going down like this. The air around him dropped in temperature as frost began forming on the grass beneath him. He was about to lunge at Kylier when he was slammed back onto the ground. Craning his head, he could see Mel above him, her foot planted firmly on his back.


"Where do you think you're going, Riff?" She lifted her foot off his back, only to step on the knife lodged in his arm. Riff let out a low hiss as he felt the blade digging deeper into his flesh. His anger faded away as he focused on the pain. Mel then proceeded to walk away. "Get up Riff," she called to him. "I never gave you permission to die."


Knives still in him, Riff pulled himself up, blood staining his clothes. "I'm sorry, Miss Mel. I'll take any punishment you deem necessary."


Vash ran over to Riff to and slung the blond's arm over his shoulder. "Don't you think that's a bit much, Mel. He's seriously h-" "It's fine," Riff told Vash. "It's my fault for losing in the first place." Vash opened his mouth to say something but looking at Riff's face and the severity of his injuries, he decided to shut up and help him over to the camp site where someone could hopefully help him.


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Meanwhile back at the center of the camp, Rose was busy counting each groups' jewel total. Some did really well. Others not so much. There were some gasps among the crowd but she chose to ignore them, assuming someone was just showing off their powers. It was when someone bumped into her that she looked up. And what she saw was not what she expected.


A blond boy, injured and bloody, using a white haired boy as a crutch. She dropped her clipboard.


"What happened?! Are you okay?"


Vash looked over to the side nervously, trying not to meet Rose's eyes. He had never been a good liar, but he couldn't exactly tell her what really happened. Scanning the campground, he noticed that Mel was nowhere to be seen, though she had just been there earlier.


Riff, however, was a fairly good liar and looked Rose straight in the eye. "I fell." Luckily, Vash had removed the knives from his wounds, though looking at the cuts, it was fairly obvious what could have caused them.


Rose looked at Riff with a mixture of concern and skepticism. There was no way a simple fall did all of that. At least not around here. It was obviously a person. But who? This boy wasn't going to say anything and she couldn't go around accusing others of it. Still, they shouldn't stay there either if there was someone attacking students. She turned to everyone else, taking a megaphone off the ground.


"Listen up, everyone. It looks like it's going to rain soon, so we're going to have to cancel the rest of the trip. The barrier protects us from the cold but not any precipitation, I'm afraid. I'm sorry but we're going to have to go back to the academy. Those whose jewel totals have been counted, please pack up and follow Mr. Shift back to the school. The rest of you, once your jewels have been counted, pack your things and leave with either Mr. K or one of the student council or discipline committee."


"Also, be careful. We've already had one person fall and injure themselves on some sharp rocks." She motioned to Riff. "That is all." Once her announcement was over, Rose turned back to find that Riff and Vash had managed to vanish in the time it took her to utter her final 3 word sentence. But she had other things to worry about, so she returned to the gem count, trying to get everything done so that everyone could go back.


~~~~~


Since people vote to have Vash's jewels count toward team Lilycats, then it will.

  • Kylier, Anya and Vash - 10
  • Riff and Mel - 23
  • Rose, Lily and Eric - 30
  • Bunny and Shift - 21
  • Skyia and Emmet - 19
  • Azure and Blaire - 0


Team Lilycats wins. Both Lily and Eric will get $1000 and an extra $500 since Rose will give it to them to split. If anyone has any objections, well, you should've voted when I asked.


Now for a timeskip.


~~~~~


~~~~~ Monday, January 27 ~~~~~


~~~~~ 9:00 AM ~~~~~

​



Having always been a morning person, Rose usually got up pretty early and today was no exception. Not that she got any sleep that weekend anyway. For the last 2 days, she had been racking her mind on what could've happened at the camping trip. Now, Oriens was no stranger to fighting. With few regulations on spars and fights, there have been a few scuffles every now and then. But the majority of the students at the campout were new, including the boy who was attacked. So either a dangerous individual enrolled or someone really hated that Riff kid.


Honestly, it was times like this that she wished the school actually did background checks on these kids. But it was her father's rule not to do it. Saying that this was supposed to be a place for new beginnings. Where if they needed to keep a secret, they could.


Still this was all too frustrating. She really couldn't do anything about it, especially now when it was time for classes. So with a huff and a puff, she started on her way to the dining hall for a quick bite before heading off to class.


~~~~~


In the dining hall, Bunny was pushing around the blueberries on her plate, maneuvering them around what was left of her pancakes. The incident at the camping trip was worrying her as well, though for a bit of a different reason. She was somewhat sure she knew who hurt the boy so badly. The same person she came to Oriens to find. She had seen Riff follow Mel around quite a few times, so she knew that they knew each other at least. But it wasn't like they were friends. Mel treated him like some slave and she was sure that it was Mel who hurt him. Though she didn't know why. Maybe she was angry because the two of them didn't win the jewel hunt? And she blamed Riff? She didn't know, but it was better than nothing she supposed.


Now she was toying with the idea of telling the student council. Maybe warn them about Mel and her own mission. But then again, it was her responsibility and the student council looked so busy already. Hm . . .


(I'll post for the others later.)
 
Azure was still in bed, a little sick from his last encounter with his sister Kylier, who decided to leave him there over the weekend, having to endure nature's wrath, despite being one of the more well behaved students. Its just unfortunate that Kylier enjoys trying to break his normally calm, cautious nature. He was thankful though that Kylier decided to release him from the tree he was bound to as the sun was going down yesterday, giving him time to have more than a full nights sleep in a comfy bed, but even so, he hasn't made quite a full recovery, and 9:00 AM is a bit late for someone who is normally early, as and he weathered most of his illness out, but since he had shed some of Kylier's magic during all this time, it did help his condition a little


"Ugh... I can't just stay here, its about time I get up and do something..."


Since Kylier left Azure without using his food provisions since he had over prepared, he rushed off to class, hoping he wasn't late as he consumed as much as he could, fully ready for his classes, before realizing that classes weren't starting yet, and felt a bit like a fool. With that, Azure made his way to the dining hall to get some proper food
 
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