Fantasy Ww: Iuncta Iuvant

[usagi froggy]

Eleanor nodded, listening eagerly. Even if she had only know Tim for a couple minutes, she felt she knew him a bit well now. She looked down at her feet, unsure of what to say next.


"So, are you excited about going to this new magical school? I'm very excited myself," Eleanor grinned.


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[Goddess]

Deep within her mind she was trying to find solutions to overcome this train ride. She was ignorant on trains and had no clue on how to open the window. She had no clue on how to ride properly or how to settle the stomach.


Kana looked up toward the new arrival that was asking to have a seat. Forcing a smile once more she nodded her head to him, scooting over a little to give him some room. Her hands unlatched from the end of the train seat to part of the window and side train wall. She used her eyes to tell him to sit there.


"S...sure, please..."

 

[bettsyboy]

"thanks a million" smiled Merideth, waking up and sitting down, after he sat down he looked forward, then at Kara. He gave her a bit of a gentle smile since she looked so nervous "Excited?" he asked, after which he stuttered a little "a-a-about going to the academy?" he reached behind his head and put his bunched up jacket there, the train rocked around a bit as he did that, he wasn't bothered in the slightest. Outside the window the train passed by a few cars driving in the opposite direction, Merideth leaned forward "was that a Delorean!?" he blurted out... it was.


After that he just realized how rude he was being "oh s-sorry, I-I-I'm Rodney" he held out a hand for Kana to shake, he hates his real first name.

 

[Goddess]

Kana nodded her head as she stared outside the window. Every time the train rocked her grip tightened and vise versa when it ran smooth. Her forehead was pressed against the glass as the sun's rays shined through warming up her skin. She stare off into the distance , remembering things from her past. When she heard the boy shout out something she was brought back to reality and gave him a smile.


"My mother heard a lot of good reviews on this academy and thought I should be able to learn something here. Though my interest lies within the people more than the school. My name is Kana, a pleasure to meet you Rodney."

 

[bettsyboy]

Merideth nodded, shaking her hand, he couldn't help but notice how exotic this girl looked, he couldn't help but ask "so, w-where you from?" He asked, once again giving her a smile as he leaned back, resting his head on his makeshift pillow.


Once again he yawned, covering his mouth "sorry, jet lag" he stammered out.

 

[Goddess]

She perked up a bit when he had asked about her homeland. The thought made her smile and relaxed her a bit to where she was able to lower her feet. Her hands moved to her lap clenching the itchy jean fabric as she gave him a smile.


"Well you see I grew up in Angola which is located in Southern Africa. Deep within a village took refuge their and claimed it as their land. That tribe is called Aandonga. Unlike the cities there is nothing but trees, wildlife, huts and my favorite the sun. Where I moved to , I could barely see the sun. The clouds and weird smoke that rose from small funnel looking things covered it."


She took her hair and unwrapped it around her neck so it would fall into her lap. Slowly she began to unbraid her hair, the small strands of her black locks would fall in between her fingers. Her eyes would narrow as she would explain more about her home. The look in her eyes giving off a dazed expression.


"There were no cars , no fast food places. If you wanted to eat you had to hunt, if you wanted to go places you had to walk, run or ride the great stallions given to us by the trade men. If you wanted shelter you would have to make them. We were independent and did not depend on money or trivial things like cars, paper and other handmade things. Our god was the sun and our life as well. "


When he had coughed she was knocked out of her dazed state. She looked up at him then gave a slight chuckle before she wrapped her hair around her neck and resumed her position with her legs on the seat and her hands clenching the wall. The train had jolted once more an she was fully prepared to keep her self stable and relaxed.


"What about you, where do you come from."

 

[bettsyboy]

He listened as she described her homeland, she was obviously homesick and wasn't a big fan of all the technology and differences between her home and the modern world, he smiled gently and nodded "yeah, I bet this is nothing like your homeland" he said with a slight sigh "still I'm sure you'll adjust" when she asked where he was from he sighed a little bit and thought of how he could describe it.


"Well, I'm from a place called Wales, over in England, it's part of an island country near Europe, I'm from a small farm up I'm the mountains, nothing like the big cities, it's cold, always raining, still it keeps the grass full and green so the cows, sheep and pigs all grow nice and fat"


He sighed again, leaning back, he rolled back his sleeve, showing his arm "since it's always cloudy I never got a tan, everyone there's all like that, pale as snow, like the Irish in a way"


The train bumped again, he remembered how she was tensing up before every time the train did that "don't be nearvous, trains are the safest way to travel, like flying... You know, in planes?" He stated that as a question since this girl grew up in a tribe she probably wouldn't know about things like planes.

 

[Goddess]

When he described his place it sounded much like her own but with a few missing things. When he stated this was one of the most safest ways to travel she gave off a small laugh and shook her head no. Safe to her is walking and riding horses. Anything that moves this fast worries her. What if they crashed and the train tipped over. Perhaps they ran out of fuel then they would be stranded. She even saw cowboys rob trains and kill off the people. When he asked her about the plain's she had to thing back.


"The big things that fly in the sky. Yes I have heard of them, I rode one to come to the cities. I didn't like it at all so I confined myself in that compartment above the head where you put your luggage. It was stable and didn't move around so much."


The chances of her getting on a plain again was a slim chance to none. She found more danger on there then here. Crashing, dying, suffocating, those thought eased her mind about the train a little. Kana had got back on topic as she looked at the boys skin tone.


"We have tribal members that have your skin tone. They are hidden within the trees where the thick leaves hid the sun. They usually live around the lakes so they don't retain heat very well. I had a few friends there but they rarely came out to visit.

 

[Esme]

Keeping to it's pace, the train rounded a bend in the tracks, a thick wood blurring past the windows, hiding all traces of anything else but itself. From the engine room, the floating orbs of fiery light seemed to grin as they reached the best part of their job. Colliding into each other, they charged into the coal pile and let the magic start to take place.


Windows along the train glazed themselves over, obscuring the outside save for the colour of the woods. A small surge rocked the train forward, before returning to the steady motion. Outside, the train raced with an unnatural speed, covering miles in mere breaths, stuck fast to the tracks to keep it steady, leaving the passengers none the wiser. Within three minutes,having covered near a hundred miles, the train started to slow. As the windows deglazed, they revealed a thicker forest than any they had passed before, the tops of buildings peaking through leaves. A voice crackled through hidden speakers.


"Attention passengers, please remain seated until we come to a complete and full stop at the station."


The train slowed more, and a station platform came into view before the train stopped all together. In the same fashion, the voice instructed them to exit in a neat and orderly fashion. As the first students left the train, dancing lights along the path leading to what old ones knew, and new ones would come to know as the Grand hall, light up.

 

[Coro]

Rick had been listening intently to the conversation that Kana and the boy who introduced himself as Rodney had been having, but became aware the train was stopping.


"Nice to meet the pair o' ya, but I'm gonna head off, I got some exploring and such ta do!" He called out, leaping up to his feet, grabbing the bag he had with a couple sets of clothes and some personal items and dashing into the crowd with glee. He soon found that he couldn't really push his way through the crowd, and continued to follow along, watching in awe as the lights lit up on the way up to the building who architecture he could only describe as magical. Again, chuckling at his own pun and knowing that if his family understood was going on, that pun would have slayed them too.


Nearing the doors to the Grand Hall, Rick felt the anticipation growing. He knew, just knew, amazing things were going to happen here.

 

[Esme]

With a nervous sense of care, Shawnee had slung her overstuffed camping backpack onto her shoulders and picked up the Venus flytrap's pot. Keeping Hector's mouth to the front of where she was walking, she sidled in line with other kids and found her way off the train. With a nudge from the kid behind as he passed to catch up with friends, she stuck to the outer sides of the groups. Partly to avoid the tragic act of dropping Hector, partly because it was a better spot to observe people from.


Well, Stien, this is it, she thought with a hard swallow as she looked towards what she could see of the school.

 

[bettsyboy]

He raised an eyebrow as she said about the other tribe that was close to her own "really? wow, so many things I don't know about the world..." it was just then that the train started to speed up, Merideth's tiredness faded away instantly as the train began to go at insane speeds, outside the window everything became blurry, and they seemed to be going through a vast forest "oooh-kaaay this isn't normal, I mean this is a train going to a school for magic so we probably shouldn't lose our cool here, I bet it's all under control" he poked his head out the door of the compartment, everyone was looking out the windows and chatting to each other, he poked back in "the seniors seem pretty calm, looks like this is pretty normal" he sat back down and rested his head.


When the train came to a stop, he stood up again, stretching his back, he let out a groan "well, looks like this is it" he said, looking to Kana with a smile "guess we should go and see this place, huh?"


He left the train and went with the crowd, there were so many students here! and before long he was at the great hall, he looked around in wonder, he knew this place was going to be amazing!

 

[Goddess]

When the train had stopped she let out a small sigh as she placed her feet on the ground and unwrapped her hair from around her neck. Standing up to get in a good stretch, she had leaned back a little allowing her bones to pop. Moving her arms she put the behind her back and laced her fingers together as she walked off the train. Smiling a little it was much bigger than she imagined and the area around it was filled with life. The only thing that was ruining her mood was the stiff shoes she had on, the laces were tied to tight an it felt like her feet was suffocating. Seeing the two boys ahead entering she began to walk as well instead of worrying about her feet. Entering the great hall a few minutes after her gazing and stopping to smell something she was then taken away in a dream as she looked at the detailed wall and the fresh pine smell. The oak and lighting all around her. Giggling a little she thought the smell reminded her of her fathers hut that was placed out back by the village well.


"So nice, I didn't think something like this could every be created. Wonderful... if only you could see this dad."

 

[ErisianDialects]

"Excited? Probably not the word I'd use. Cautiously optimistic."


His hands actually grabbed the seat just before the train kicked into overdrive, his legs keeping the trunk from rolling into him, not like it mattered. But hey, speed was speed, and he was still used to Newtonian physics.


When the train slowed, he looked a little green around the gills.


"Well, that was unexpected when it probably should have been."


Tim stroked his chin, opening the trunk enough to drop the wand into it, reclosing it.


"Guess I'll see you around school."


With that he would get up,picking up a length of rope, tying it around his waist, gripping it with both hands, and with a struggle, began to pull it on it's wheels. 
Corbin, the large black man decked out like every bad stereotype ever would look as the first students walked into the Hall. He would move to them, a wide smile crossing his skullpainted face, clapped his hands together and spoke.


"Detention."


With that, he would pick up the students who entered the hall uninvited, and removed them from it, standing and guarding the door, looming. He wouldn't let anyone in until his rooster crowed.

 

[Goddess]

Her gaze was interrupted by a brute of a man, picking her up and setting her outside the hall. Looking around toward the others she could see their faces of displeasure and hate toward the tall man. Putting her hands on her hips she walked up to him, passing a shorter girl who was whiter than snow. Looking up toward him she gave him a raised eye with a slanted brow. She tried to muster up enough dominance and deep tone to her voice to make her sound intimidating or at least sound like she had power behind her words.


"Who do you think you are. We got letters to come to this school so why are you preventing us from coming in. What is detention anyways a greeting or something. "


She looked him up and down before crossing her arms. She had many thoughts in her head about this oversized man.


"Oh I get it, your a student too right? You've been here long enough and you just want to wait till everyone gets here. What's the saying called...all together right. Geez you didn't have to come off so strong, I bet you scared have these kids to death."


She got closer to him and gave him a pat on his forearm like her father would do.

 

[ErisianDialects]

Corbin would look down at the little girl who was talking back to him, the smile on his face showing off teeth filed into points, he towered above her, even more with the hat and bird perched atop it.


Always one, wasn't there. Who thought they were bigger and tougher than the rest. It always helped him to have fresh meat for his classes.


He leaned back against the door.


"Detention."


He was not a man of many words outside of his classroom. He didn't need to use them. It would be explained in the orientation meeting.

 

[Hatchet]

Okay, here we go, Emery thought with a slow deep breath through the nose, nostrils flaring with the effort. When he exhaled, squinting, he could see shimmers of color around the sort of age mates he had been shuffled amongst and strung out with. If he'd stayed awake on the train, he'd actually know who one or two of them were, but staying up all night to make sure one made the train was a good excuse for needing a little shut-eye.


But anyway. A bright flare snagged Emery's eye. He didn't think, just hitched his shoulders to secure his bag, took two long strides (at all of three and a half feet in height) that turned into a brief sprint and Emery launched his little body at the gangly black haired boy whose existence spoke to Emery's affinity. There was some others around, but Emery didn't care, he never cared. "Hey friend, long time no see! How was your summer?"


Emery was twelve years old, had received a letter and had no home.

 

[ErisianDialects]

Tim was suddenly lunched at, the wait of the small boy pushing him forward, his luggage slamming into him, and knocking him into the girl with the biggest Flytrap he'd seen outside of Little Shop.


"Ow! Sorry both of you. Didn't mean to get in the way, I am so sorry."


He was going to be bruised tomorrow.


"I don't think we've met before, but Summer was a load of pure suckage."


When he managed to get his trunk under control, he would look at the pair of them, then nodded to the trunk.


"Put your stuff on top, I'll drag the lot."

 

[Goddess]

"Is that all you can say. I hope your not a teacher, I can see your career failing fast."


Her eyes had locked on to his teeth, sharp and pointed. She stepped back a little to get a better look. Tall he was nearly frightening but with the hat and bird on top she couldn't take him seriously. She growled a little hating this man's attitude. The hall was marvelous but the people she thought otherwise especially this man. She never once though up a hate list but today was the day and he was the first. Usually you weren't supposed to start trouble on the first day of school but then again she grew up in a village where foolery was one of the key subjects in her class. If you were mad at someone take something from them then run off. Point of the game was to teach the one who wronged you to apologize or things get taken. Her mother disapproved of that, she said it never taught her anything.


"I'll put you in detention then I'll take the hat of yours and toss it. I'll keep the bird since its part of life. Big brute."


She puffed out her cheeks and tried to figure out a way through. He was big in side and pretty wide.

 

[ErisianDialects]

The grin widened, like a shark about to devour it's prey. Corbin had dealt with troublemakers, it was his day job. At night he taught, and was a very different person.


"Deputy Headmaster."


Two words, almost a full sentence as he waited for the right moment, when all the students had caught up, for the headmaster to give him the signal for entrance.

 

[Esme]

With a soft chuckle, a red headed man in a white suit moved through the children. Setting a hand upon African girl's shoulder, he smiled. "A detention, Miss Vermican, is a form of punishment. A bit unneeded this early on for the new recruits, though, I'd think. " His voice was friendly, if not faintly teasing. Dropping his hand back to rest on his cane, he turned, looking over the students.


"Returning students, you know the drill, new faces, if you'd please listen." He tapped his cane, and his voice amplified across the group, "Please, place your bags and luggage just inside the door to the left so they may be taken to your rooms for you. Returning students, you may take your seats inside the hall. New students, I ask that you remain outside until my dear esteemed college,Mr.Corbin, " Here, he winked at Kana, "opens the doors to let you in for your opening ceremony."


With another tap of his cane, his voice returned to normal. With swift motions, despite an obvious limp, he opened the aforementioned door for the luggage, and waited there, smiling at the students as they came up, introducing himself to them as Felix Fernestic, Headmaster, and pointing them where to go after their luggage disappeared from the room.


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With a force pushing against her, Shawnee stumbled forward. Her hands grasped tighter to the plant pot as it almost slipped from her fingers. Readjusting it, she looked at it worried for a moment, before it seemed to start grinning again. A sigh of relief passed through her lips as she looked at the boy who had tripped into her. "You're alright, there, Sugar cube? Looked like that might'a hurt."

 

[Hatchet]

Okay, slight miscalculation. No wonder that was so bright. "Totally my bad," Emery blurted out, leaning his weight like he could change the momentum of a fall he had nearly caused but some people were quicker than him. And better balanced. "We definitely met before, you'll remember, just wait!" The amiable response of the pair of them confirmed Emery's affinity and he shrugged his shoulders again, dropping both feet back to the ground and grinning.


Emery arrested his motormouth to beam at their words, and then there was a teacher-man instructing them. When he stopped and the older students began to move obediently, Emery looked seriously at his new friends and pointed at himself. "Is this a new face?" For all he knew, someone could have swapped his nose on the train!

 

[Goddess]

She looked up toward the man who had placed his hand on her shoulder. Smiling faintly she looked away but shot a glare toward the man known as Corbin. She nodded her head toward the headmaster to show that she understood. Listening closely she kept her glare on Corbin , every so slightly looking up toward his hat. When the head master was finished with his speech she crept away from him. She didn't like being touched by unknown people, she always called it "filthy." Slowly creeping behind the taller kids she weaved her way close enough to his side. One of the boys grabbed her wrist and shook their head no. It must have been one of the returnees because he had that look in his eye. She gave him a grimace before snatching her hand away and giving him a thumbs up as if she had everything under control.


Getting low she had bent her knees and prepared her arms to swoop and grab his hat. In her head she counted before jumping up as high as she could and grabbing a hold of the rim before snatching it off. She hopped the bird on it would fly upwards then back on to his head instead of near her.

 

[ErisianDialects]

"Fish."


The amount is disdain in his voice for the new class would drip from his mouth like venom. The Headmaster knew how he was to students. One eyebrow raised as he watched the troublemaker move through the crowd, letting out a low sigh as she leapt and grabbed his top hat. He turned and grinned, and in that moment, she would know fear.


Fear, the majestic black Rooster would go for her eyes, and he would stop it's long claws as they touched her eyeballs. He let the moment stand the tableaux to etch itself into the minds of everyone there before he took back his hat, putting it on his head, and resettling the bird.


"Don't."


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"I'm fine."


Tim would dust himself off, smiling, ignoring the thumping pain of bruised ribs. Then Emery would ask about his face, and Tim would look back, his head tilting.


"A new face? Well, if so, you have a great plastic surgeon. I think he means new students, like us. I assume you're part of us. Ummm, Hi, if we've met before, you know my name. In case I've forgotten, I'm Tim."


He was introducing himself to both new people, before turning to see the large black man's bird almost assault a student.


"There goes the cautious optimism."

 

[Goddess]

In an instant she stood still watching the bird come for her . Unable to close her eyes she saw the roosters long claws so vividly she was able to see the fine line on its feet, the pads and the small shine on its claws. As it retreated when he placed his hat back on his head so did she. Closing her eyes she backed into the crowd, her wrist being pulled by the same one who tried to stop her. Before he left to join his other classmates he had whispered something to her before he ran past Corbin. Kana didn't know what to do with herself so she crouched down like she used to do when thunders rolled in. She covered her ears and kept her eyes closed shut.