Rosegarden High

[Ananfal]

Skyler had to stop quickly as she almost bumped into Felicity and Markus as they exited their room. "Hey guys, I was just about to come and get you." She said with a smile, genuinely happy to see them. Perhaps this year would be different from the others. She actually had friends now, real ones. "Breakfast is going to start in a few minutes and if we don't get there fast enough, then we won't get any." She told them as she began leading them down the stairs. "Then after breakfast, classes will start. Everyone has the same classes, so don't worry about getting lost or separated." She continued to educate them as she quickly ran down the stairs, extremely hungry after everything that happened yesterday.

 

[Servant]

Seeing how both Felicity and Markus had just woken up they were way too weak to process all the information as quick as they should. They just understood the words breakfast, which made them smile weakly, and classes, which made them let out a whiny low scream. "Coffee..." They both said at the same time, almost sounding like hungry zombies.

 

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Skyler had to laugh as she led the brain dead pair into the cafeteria. Instantly joining the fast growing line, she dragged Felicity and Markus behind her as the line advanced slowly. When they finally reached the front of the line, a vast array of healthy breakfast choices were spread out before them. Skyler simply took cereal, even though she knew that the protein rich options were better for her, with her recent injuries. Patiently waiting until Felicity and Markus had selected their breakfast, she seated them at a table and got them all coffee. "Eat fast." She advised them, starting her own breakfast. "You do not want to be late to class."

 

[Servant]

Without even a second of delay both Markus and Felicity took the coffee and began chugging down the whole thing. After they were done, in just a couple of seconds, they seemed to be in a much better state. Markus began eating a buttered up beagle while Felicity just ate a muffin. They both looked at Sky at the same time. "Oh yeah, I've been meaning to ask you, what will be our first class of the day? And, how much classes will we be having in total throughout the whole day?" Markus said before stuffing his mouth with another beagle.

 

[Ananfal]

"There are seven classes everyday, they alternate double periods. Today our first class is Magic Practice, and its a double period." Skyler spoke in between bites of her cereal. The moment she was finished she got up and dragged Felicity and Markus with her, ignoring their protests. "You don't want to be late!" She hissed at them as she directed hem down the halls and outside to the yard, where Magic Practice was always held. Most of the students were already there, the rest arriving just after the trio did. A female taught this course, pacing back and forth in front of the students. "Her name is Madam Baskytte." Skyler whispered to Felicity and Markus as the students quickly arranged themselves into a line and waited for the teacher to speak.

 

[Servant]

Markus and Felicity didn't put any resistance while they were being dragged. "So wait, this is just a normal practice class?..." Markus asked curiously. Felicity looked around at the other students, she only recognized a handful of them. "What other types of classes are there? Like history and sciences?"

 

[Ananfal]

"I mentioned them to you when I first gave you a tour." She whispered to them, keeping an eye on Madam Baskytte to make sure they didn't get in trouble. She was currently arranging students into groups so Skyler figured it was okay to talk for the moment. "No science or history, but Combat Theory and Martial Arts." She said, a small smile on her face. "Almost the same thing, right?" Then she turned to Markus and her smile faded. "Haven't you learned yet? There is nothing normal about this school."

 

[Servant]

Markus sighed as he turned towards the teacher. "I had a small hope that something would be..." That was true. SO far Markus was attempting to find something redeemable about the school, but so far he hadn't found anything. "Sure, they help us control our powers, but at what cost?....And the breakfast was so boring and plain that I can't even view it as a positive aspect..." Felicity began talking, not moving looking away from the teacher. "What is she exactly doing?" She said in an extremely low tone.

 

[Ananfal]

"Its the first day of school, so I'm guessing that we're being put into groups. Then we will have to fight each other using only our powers. Madam Baskytte will watch and instruct us." Skyler quickly explained the exercise to them then shut up as Madam Baskytte herself approached. "Ms. Morket, please instruct these promising young students on your own as I help some of the others." She said formally before turning away without waiting for an answer. Letting out a sigh, Skyler smiled at Markus and Felicity. "Good, we're in the same group. I was a bit worried. Now, would you like to begin?"

 

[Servant]

"Wait wait wait wait wait!" Markus quickly said. "Are you saying that we will have to fight each other?....Like right now!?" He seemed a bit panicked "Will I have to fight her shadow animals in the end?...And Felicity's water powers is something to be afraid of too..." Felicity simply smirked widely. "Well then, if the point of the exercise is fighting each other then don't expect me to hold back...I am specially gonna focus on you for what happened yesterday Markus." Markus was kind of shocked and moved a bit away from her. "Please tell me you aren't being serious right now..."

 

[Ananfal]

Skyler smirked slightly but at Felicity's words she grew confused. "What happened yesterday?" She asked, but was interrupted by one of the other student's fights, which sent a fireball shooting straight towards her. Without blinking she dissolved into shadows, only reforming after the fireball had safely passed over her. "Now as I was saying," She spoke again as if nothing had happened. "What happened yesterday?" She raised an eyebrow at Markus, an amused smirk on her face.

 

[Servant]

Markus blushed and slowly began to look extremely nervous while next to her stood Felicity, a mocking smile on her face. "So tell me Skyler, did you by any chance happen to wake up with small mysterious drops of blood on your towel?" Markus quickly turned towards her. "You b*tch!" He thought "Ha ha ha...Come on Felicty, you wouldn't tell her that..." By saying this the only thing that happened was the Felicty's smile grew eve bigger.

 

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Skyler nodded, growing even more confused about what was going on. Growing a bit self conscious with the lack of fighting while magic was being used all around them, Skyler raised her hands. "Talk while you fight." She said and conjured two shadow wolves. One growled menacingly at Felicity while the other just eyed Markus like he was a good meal. Folding her arms over her chest, Skyler grinned. "Fight." And the wolves lunged.

 

[Servant]

Felicity smirked as she took some of the she generated some water out off her hand and turned it into a thick and hard ice shield. "Well you see, Markus was kind enough to carry you to your bed while you were unconscious...but something terrible happened..." Markus spread out his jacket, showing various technological devices like electric razors, cellphones, etc. He took out an industrial flashlight and, soon after touching it, it's color changed into a deep black with red shiny strips over it. He pointed the flashlight at the wolf and, after turning it on, the flashlight emitted a powerful beam of burning light at the shadow wolf. "Felicity, stop!"

 

[Ananfal]

The beam of strong light completely destroyed the shadow wolf while Felicity's ice shield only served as a slightly delay. Growling, the wolf began to stalk around her, looking for any weaknesses, while Skyler turned to face Markus, frowning. "I think I get it from here..." She said, blushing lightly even as she glared at him. "Well you just earned yourself a one-on-one fight with me, mister!" She shouted, another wolf leaping out of shadow to stand by her side even as black flames burst into life at her feet. "Go!" She pointed at Markus, the wolf poucing on him even as a jet of darkness streamed from her finger towards him.

 

[Servant]

"Oh come on! I am a man, what do you expect from me!" He, keeping his eyes on the stream. He putted his flashlight away into his pocket and began to blindly search for a new weapon to use. He ended up grabbing one of the cellphone. "Goddamit..." He thought. There was no time to pick a new weapon. The wolf was almost near him. With desperation he transformed the phone the same way he had done with the flashlight and threw it at the wolf. Soon after it clashed onto the wolf an electric explosion occurred. "Any man would have a nose bleed after seeing THAT" Meanwhile Felicity's battle didn't seem to progress. "I need something to fight it...I know!" Water covered her right hand, which soon froze and basically became an ice brass knuckle. Soon after the shadow was close enough she punched it right in the snout.

 

[Ananfal]

The wolf yelped at the punch and fell to the ground but quickly recovered itself, looking at the ice covered hand warily. However it did not give up it's relentless pursuit. However, the wolf that went after Markus only to receive a cellphone to the face did nit fare so well. The explosion tore it apart and Skyler was forced to end her stream of darkness for fear it too would explode. Narrowing her eyes at Markus, she yelled. "Maybe we expect you not to look!" And this time she created a falcon, one that flew just like a real one. Screeching, it dive-bombed Markus, raising it's sharp talons for an air strike.

 

[Servant]

Markus's reaction window was way too small so he couldn't draw a weapon. He got lucky that in the last second he jumped out of the way, but not before the falcon left a big scratch wound on his back that slowly began to bleed. Markus quickly reincorporated himself and drew out a hair dryer. Before the falcon was able to charge again the Markus triggered the dryer, sending a blast of extremely hot air onto the falcon. Thanks to the adrenaline rush he was going though he was able to ignore the pain on his back. "I merely glanced for a second!" Felicity giggled as she punch the wolf yet again. "I don't know Sky, he seemed to be staring pretty passionately to me!"

 

[Ananfal]

Skyler blushed at Felicity's words, breaking her concentration. The shadow wolf she was facing wavered then vanished, unable to hold it's shape without it's owners will. Completely flustered, Skyler simply dissolved into shadows before reassembling herself. "Both of you..." She growled, and now she looked pissed. "Fight!" She yelled and streamers of darkness flew towards them, several at once and at very fast speeds.

 

[Servant]

Markus looked at the streamers of darkness. "Felicity..." She turned towards him, her ice shield already up. "F*ck you..." Seeing how Markus wasn't expecting any sort of fighting scenario he hadn't brought any sort of items that would serve as a shield and, seeing how they were in an open-field zone, he wasn't able to hide behind anything. He placed his arms in a X form and covered his face, hopping that the attack wouldn't last for too long.

 

[Ananfal]

The moment the attack would have hit both Felicity and Markus, they vanished. The cause? Mordred holding Skyler tightly by the throat, snarling at her. Throwing her to the ground, he viciously kicked at her before picking her up once more, this time by the hair. Eventually his words were loud enough for the others to hear. "You b*tch! You think you can beat me with your evil freakish tricks? Well you may have killed your mother but you didn't kill me! I guess your father didn't beat you hard enough for you to get some manners!" The vile words spilled from his mouth, drawing more and more attention as other students stopped t stare at the spectacle.

 

[Servant]

Markus remained still for a moment, expecting the attack, before he noticed what was going on. Both Felicity and Markus were shocked to see what was going on, but Markus's immediately became blind with anger. "Just what do you think you are doing?..." he said in what almost sounded like an anger filled whisper. He placed his hand and drew the most powerful electronic he was carrying. A stun gun. Soon after he took control of the stun gun the electric shock became much bigger. He began to charge forward, ready to electroshock Mordred. "Just what do you think you are doing!?" He said again, this time yelling.

 

[Ananfal]

Mordred dropped Skyler in shock, allowing her to curl up in a fetal position on the ground by his feet as he looked at Markus, a sneer on his face. "I'm teaching this f*cking b*tch a lesson, what does it look like I'm doing?" He gloated, releasing another sharp kick to Skyler's body, making her release a pained cry as it hit one of the wounds she still had from the punishment yesterday. Kneeling down beside her, Mordred caught sight of her necklace and tore it off her neck, laughing. "What a pretty little thing... Let me keep it." He said cruelly. Crying out, Skyler tried to grab for it but he just slapped her, keeping the necklace out of her reach.

 

[Servant]

Another shot of adrenaline went through Markus's body as he began to ran even faster towards Mordred. Soon after he was close enough to the him Markus tackled Mordred down. Boiling with a beast like anger Markus placed the stun gun just a few inches away from Mordred, the electric shock buzzing. "I want you to hear me out Mordred because I won't repeat myself. If you don't want me to place my little friend right on your stupid face then you will give me that necklace right now." He placed the stun gun a bit closer to him, the stun gun buzzing even louder, similar to an enraged hive of hornets.

 

[Ananfal]

Mordred's eyes widened with a mixture of fear and shock but he still managed to curl his lip at Markus. "Fine, take it then." He spat out, tossing the necklace to him. "Its a worthless piece of junk anyway. Now get off of me, punk!" With a strong shove he pushed Markus off of him and stood up, brushing the dust off his clothes. He aimed another kick at Skyler and spat on the ground next to her. "We're not finished yet, freak." He said menacingly before swaggering off with his buddies, laughing. Skyler didn't move from her curled up position in the floor, simply keeping her head in her hands.