Solatium Academy

Kaoz was awoken by her alarm clock at exactly 8:00. She rolled over in bed putting her clock on snooze and then closed her eyes... Her eyes flew back open.
"Oh no... It's monday?" She asked no one in peticular. She was in her own room, everyone here got their own room, hers was on the third, and highest, floor. She sat up and blinked in the darkness. Sure enough it was monday, in exactly three weeks school would start. She got up lazily and walked into the bathroom, her hair was done, teeth (And fangs) brushed, and dressed in a matter of seconds. She loved her super speed. She went into the hallway, down the stairs, and into the courtyard. It was still a bit dark, just before sunrise and it was a cool morning. She sat on one of the benches, why did she have the feeling that these three weeks would just fly by?

Lenyx sat in the courtyard working on her latest sketch. What had started out as the school quickly became a castle made of crystals, and she was just finishing the shading as the night began to fade into day. Since she had transferred from the home schooling of her grandmother to Solatium Academy, Lenyx has felt more alone than ever. She missed the safety and solitude of her grandmother's home. With a sigh, she pushed the thoughts and longing of returning to the only home she remembered out of her mind, and returned her focus back to her sketch. Using her pink she gently smudged and blended the shadows on her 'Crystal Castle' sketch, then opening her bag she dug in her bag for her colored pencils. Fumbling with in her bag with one hand while the other held her sketchbook, she found and pulled on the container holding the colored pencils, it was stuck under her books. She tried wiggling it around while trying to pull it out, only to have her bag fall to the ground as a result, her books and colored pencils fell out and were now scattered on the ground.

"Shoot." She muttered, closing her sketchbook and putting it down beside her.

She got down on her knees and pulling her skirt in around her, she began to pick up her belongings from the ground.

Ankin woke up, his face feeling the light touch of paper. He passed out on his desk. He got used to his foolishness as he was already planning what he was teaching this year. He sighed, wondering where was his mentor. He hoped that his mentor would be there to tell him what to do, as it was the last year of his learning about teaching, but he was informed that he wasn't in the academy anymore, and that he left no note behind him. It is something that he wondered about; why his mentor disappeared so suddenly at such time of the year? Meaby a challenge.

Sighing, he slowly lifted himself from his desk and stand up, stretching himself. When did he passed out? He didn't know, and he doesn't care anyways. He went to his closet. He pushed his white hair behind his ears to look into the empty closet; what set he will wear this year? The choice was already done as he pulled out a black coat with a chain on it, a brown top suit and dark pants. He also choose black shoes, just for the color of his clothing. He knew that arrangement was making his crimson eyes, but it is not a problem for him anymore. He let his hair falling back over his forehead and he hides a sword between his shirt and coat, on his back. "Just in case of..." His mentor would say. The same set appeared in the closet several times; he didn't like the way to have the trouble of wearing something different each day. Meaby on a special occasion. He looked outside; a clear blue day was announced for this morning.

He got out of his apartment and strolls down among the corridor of the academy, never switching for a specific room and part of the academy. He took his time, since he needed to refresh his mind about his mentor, since he didn't wanted to appear stressed to be alone this year. He looked outside again and noticed something strange; strange dark clouds is coming in direction of the academy. He needed to investigate about it... meaby later. He knew that it wasn't normal clouds, but he didn't feel the need to know more about it, feeling it is just another spell.

Kaoz heard the girl mutter "Shoot" and she turned her head to the source. A few benches down a girl was picking up her dropped stuff. She walked over and started helping her. Kaoz smiled,
"How did you manage to drop all of this?" She joked. She would have finished helping her, after all she only got a few of her books picked up... But it seemed to take longer for it to turn light outside in the mornings here, than other places. The reason was simply because there were mountains all around them, so the sun would have to be higher in the sky for them to finally get light. But as the first few rays of light strayed into the courtyard, over the distant mountains, she backed up to the shadows by the walls.
"Sorry..." She muttered.

Lenyx had just opened her mouth to thank the girl, but stopped as the girl muttered something she didn't quite catch and backed up to the wall.

"What's wrong?" She asked frowning, until a ray of light started floating towards her, and assumed why the girl had backed away.

With a gasp, Lenyx hurriedly picked up her fallen items and shoving them in her bag and ran to join the other girl in the shadows of the walls.

Taking a few deep breathes she turned to face the girl beside her. "Hello, my name is Lenyx Winters. I thank you for helping me pick up my books." She smiled, feeling her dainty fangs touching her bottom lip. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a rectanglar object sitting on the bench she had been sitting at. Realizing it was her sketchbook she started to go back for it, but caught herself just before she stepped out of shadow's safety. Had she been alone it wouldn't have been a problem to run back and retrieve it, but with someone here with her, a stranger to her, she dared not risk it.

Taking a few steps backwards she slumped against the wall and sat down, pulling her bag on her lap. She would have to sit here until someone walked by who would be able to bring it over to her, and forgetting all about the girl beside her, Lenyx went to work organizing her bag and putting all her colored pencils back in their case.

Kaoz noticed the girl step out but back in very quickly.
What...? she silently said in her mind. Then she followed her gaze to the sketchbook.
"Is that yours?" She asked, and she pointed at it. A purple, mist-like, substance appeared to envelope it and bring it to Kaoz, she gently dropped it in Lenyx's backpack. Then she smiled. "My name's Kaoz."

To be clear, it is all his fault if there was black clouds in the first place; he knew that he have bad time to control himself under injuries, and that he might cause things that he doesn't want to cause. It was shocking for him, but he had to move forward, limping to the front door of the building that he was going to. He didn't know if someone was there, or if at least that there would be accepted, but he just hoped that he doesn't die like that just because of a stupid injury. His blood marked his trail as the rain and thunder pounder down on the bridge, while the clouds are expanding to the academy. He barely was able to walk, and when he made his way...he just layed down...closing his eyes...passing away.

By chance, Ankin was passing by the main door, getting out to investigate on that stange event, as his mentor usually asked hen such things happened. But at his grand suprise, he found the body of a two-tailed yellow fox laying on the ground. It appeared to sleep peacefully. For some reasons, he thought it was a prank from Seth as it was the only person he remembered being able to shapeshift, but he thought serious. This was a fox, not something that Seth could shape-shift into, and his magic aura (everyone have one, no exception) was very different. He looked up and his eyes widen a little bit; blood. A long trail of blood. His bloodlust almost gain his brain, but he shook his head and understanded that the fox needed care. Is there a doctor avaible at this time of the morning? He didn't knew, but he much act quickly. He took the wounded beast in his hands and quickly ran into the corridors, making sure to not bump into anyone and bring the fox to his apartment.

From there he layed the fox on the fox on his couch and quickly bring his first aid kit to prevent more leak of the blood. He make sure to clean the fur around the injury before disinfect it, and then put a bandage on it. Ankin growled softly to the rain and thunder, saying; "I wish there wasn't any rain nor thunder today..." and before he had the consciousness of it, the dark clouds disappeared in a blink. He hit himself on the forehead, saying to himself; " Ankin, you foolish man, don't mess with the fabric of the universe. " He sighed and finished his work. He sat down in chair, thinking of what he should do next. Meaby force the beast to take an humanoid shape, but it seems already to been working as the body infront of him suddently changed into a young human teenager with yellow hair and two yellow tail. Ankin redo his bandage around the wound, since it has moved and now the kitsune had clothes on.

Lenyx stood stunned, she had never known any other vampires who could use any form of magic. Maybe vampires could use different powers but just never wished to share them with others... Wonder if grandmother has a special ability too then... she thought to herself. Shaking her head she tucked her sketchbook into her bag and closed it. Standing up, she pulled her bag over her shoulder and smiled again at Kaoz.

"Thank you very much Kaoz. I did not know vampires had any form of magical abilities. How long have you been attending Solatium Acadamy?" she asked.

Kaoz smiled.
Oh, this will be fun.
"Fifty years." She said matter-of-factly, and she wasn't lying either.
"And it's not magic... It's just an ability, like fish can breathe underwater, I can use that."

Drake strolled down the path, giving the ground a death glare with his deep scarlet eyes. His hands were jammed into the pockets of his coat, even though it wasn't cold. In the right pocket, his fingers were wrapped around his knife. He kept playing with the lock. Open. Shut. Open. Shut. Open. He knew that it was a small and pathetic thing to hold onto, but that didn't stop him. Even Werepyre's had security blankets. He chuckled at that thought, his small fangs glistening in the faint light. With a large, evil grin he glared up at the rising sun.

"Come on! That all you got?" He shouted. It was stupid, but he just needed to release some tension. His red eyes shifted back to the ground as he flipped out his knife. With several soft clicks the blade was out and ready. With a few more, it was once again back in the handle. Such a simple device, yet so complicated.

Once he rounded a corner, he stopped to gaze at the school. He nodded approvingly. "Not bad, not bad at all." He shifted the backpack on his shoulders and continued on his way.

Lenyx blinked, and stared at Kaoz. Fifty years? An ability, that is not... Magic? She thought to herself trying to understand it, while tucking her bangs behind her ear.

"Oh, fifty years is quite some time to be in school. Makes me wonder if there is such a thing as graduation then. I transferred in last year, but no one really talked to me." She looked down at the ground and adjusting her bag. "More like I was invisible."

Kaoz smiled.
"Graduation... Heh, yeah. I just stay here and watch as the people come and go. I'm top of my class every class because I d the same things in them every year. I don't leave because I'm safe here, and I sometimes make friends here. Plus, I'm a vampire and fifty years... Thats just under half of my life I've lived here." The cold breeze grew stronger as the storm clouds created by the kitsunes came, but they didn't block out the sun.
Darn.

Drake slunk through the entrance to the school. He looked around warily, almost as if he were waiting to be attacked at any moment. These feelings on tension heightened when he stooped to take a deep breath. His nose wrinkled in disgust as he smelled almost everything he had ever encountered in the magical realm. Werewolves, vampires, demons, angels, undead, shape-shifters, dryads, Elementals. The scents of each one, and more, entered his nose. The amount of power that one breath held was staggering. He just needed to sit down.

Shortly afterward he sat on a bench, leaning against the wall behind him. His scarlet eyes looked out at the school. There wasn't much to look at at the time. Only a few others and some scenery. He sighed, and stared up into the sky. With any luck, vampires were hiding inside. By now they would definitely know something was off with him. That didn't faze him at all. He just leaned back and quietly pulled out his knife. Click, click, clicky. Click, clack, snick.

Lynxx
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Lynxx woke on the hour and dragged herself.out if bed. Her hair stuck up like a mad sciencist. Bed hair... she thought slightly drozlShe rubbed her eyes a glass of water was ndct to her bed from last night she dipped her hand in and flicked it over her face. Feeling slightly regreshed she got up and dressed. She brushed her hair nd left it downwas in perfect curls though they hung just above her ribs. She looked at her faded denim jeans and black off shoulder shirt. She put her black boots on and left the room bed un made drawers a m. The ringright index finger caughf the light beautifully with every step as sbe walked away from her untidy bedroom. She yawned as she passed teachers and students not really having a caee in the world. She walked half into a door and swore angriliy as pain sizzled up her left shoukder she stormed past the door annoyed after a minute or two she calned down and looked for someone to talk to. She hated silence more then most things in life.
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Lenyx frowned.

"Safe..." She whispered, looking up to the sky and saw the dark clouds came closer to the two girls. Where is it truly safe anymore? My parents thought they would be safe and now their dead. Grandmother sent me away to keep me safe... There is no such thing as safe in my world.. She thought to herself.

She adjusted her bag on her shoulder again and forced a smile. "Well thank you again for helping me with my things, and it was a pleasure to meet you. I'd like to head inside incase those clouds indicate any form of a storm."

She held out her hand to Kaoz and gave it her all to suppress the tears that she so eagarly wanted to shed.

Kaoz gave her back a sweet, fanged, smile and shooke her hand. She looked up at the clouds, that still hadn't seemed to reach the school. In fact they seemed to hover over the bridge. Well, she'd get no Solas from the sun would she? Oh well.
"I... Uh, I have to get back in. Before the sun's too high up."

Drake cursed quietly to himself as his knife slipped from his hand. It landed with a soft clink, and sat spread out on the ground. He carefully bent down and snatched it up, shaking some dirt from it. He looked it over, picking small amounts of debris on occasion. Once he was satisfied with it, he clicked it shut and stuffed it into his pocket.

Now he was starting to get hungry. If he was hungry, nothing around him was safe. He glanced around nervously. To him, anything moving looked tasty. He shook his head, trying to control himself. Once again he swore, slamming his fist into the bench next to him.

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Lenyx nodded in agreement, and released Kaoz's hand.

"Yes I'd like to get change into something less... Well you know." She said lifting her flowing skirt. "It has got caught on things one to many time when I wear it around others."

With a curtsy and smile, Lenyx walked away calmly along the wall, and out of the corner of her eye, she watched as a young man slam his fist into a bench. Another student I suppose. He seems agitated she thought and kept walking towards the entrance into the building, where she then could hide in her room and let her tears fall down her face for as long as they needed to.

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Drake watched a young girl walk in front of him. He was strongly resisting the urge to run forward and bite her. Instead, he gripped the edge of the bench tightly. "Why? Why now?" He asked. He had eaten a deer before coming to the school to prevent this exact thing from happening. His eyes widened as black fur began to sprout on the back of his hands. He tucked them into his armpits, hoping no one noticed. He knew he only had one option now. He unfolded his arms and threw his coat off. In mere seconds, he had changed into a wolf.

Growling in agitation, he layed down in front of his bag. He didn't feel as hungry while he was a wolf, but he knew it wouldn't be permanent. He needed to hunt something again, and soon. For now, he would just camp out near his stuff. He didn't want any if it taken. Besides, sooner or later something the size of a mouthful could wander past.

Kaoz nodded before the girl left then she looked up at the wall of the building.
"Hmmm..." She thought with a smirk. She stepped on the wall. Took another step, another and yet another. Soon she was two stories high, standing perpendicular with the wall. She started walking sideways, until she got to the windown of he room, she opened it up and stepped in. She was now right-side up standing on the floor in her room. She closed the window.
"Well that was amusing."

Amethyst frowned as the ray of light coming from the window hit her eyes. She sure wasn't used to the flaming star humans called 'Sun'. Her home planet was neither night nor day, it was twilight. The purple eyed girl got out of her bed tiredly and did her daily rituals; combing her hair, brushing her teeth, and putting on decent clothes. Amethyst debated whether if she should wear shoes or not. What's the point of wearing shoes if I can levitate? She smiled slightly as she floated out of her room and into the hallway. Amethyst got a couple of weird looks and stares, she already knew it was because of her 'abnormal' skin color and how tall she was. If you ask her, everyone looked pretty weird to her, but she wouldn't say anything. Suddenly, her two stomachs growled, loud. The snow-white skinned girl was pretty sure everyone around her heard it, but she was far from embarrassed, it's something natural, at least to her it is. But Amethyst had a problem, she had no clue to where the cafeteria was. Her face expression turned grim quickly.

His breathing soon took on again, as be felt that he wasn't a fox agin. He knew that sensation before; being an humanoid. Well, at least he isn't dead, and wondered why not. He slowly opened his yellow eyes up as he saw that there was another being sat up near him. The word being is been used for describing it, since he could smell something alive, but he didn't quite know what it was since his eyes are still fuzzy. He tried to lift himself up with his arms, but that is when he realize he quickly stopped, feeling a sharp pain getting back. " Ungh... " he complained as it didn't seem to end.


Ankin quickly went next to the kitsune as he saw that it was still alive. He smiled softly; he was no healer, but he could still make a difference. He'll thank his survival experience later. The question 'are you ok?' almost flew out of his mouth, but the answer was infront of him as the beast was still shivering to his wound, and somewhat violently. He looked around his room; what could help him temporary? He knew the answer, a chemical that he invented, but never shared. It was some kind of painkiller, but it was totally safe, but the person much beware, to know that it doesn't heal the body, but just kill the pain of the wound. He pulled out a vial of clear liquid and a new syringe and put some of the liquid into the syringe and said to the kitsune; "Now...this might hurt a little bit." and he put the needle near the wound, injecting the stuff in, making sure he made a sound barrier around him and the kitsune so that the scream wouldn't alarm anybody.

The kitsune suddenly opened his eyes widely as an extreme hotness was injected into him. He wanted to scream, or even fall unconscious, as it for the most unbearable, but he soon feel good. So good, he wondered if he got injured in the first place. He quickly sat down on the couch and tried to see infront of him, but as he focused, he screamed in surprise and jump behind the couch. The stranger was holding a syringe, and he didn't like them at all. Taking courage, he peeked out of his hiding and looked into the crimson eyes of the mysterious man. His voice shaking, he said;

"A...are you human...?" he flatten his fox ears in fear.

Ankin giggled softly as he pulled the syringe away, answering in the same time; "No, I'm not human, so don't be scared, little friend."

"Y...You're not human...?" and the stranger shook his head. He almost squeaked of joy and jumped out of his hiding and went to hug the stranger tht appeared to have saved his life. " Thank you! " he expressed while his ears was straight up in the air and he wagged his two tails.

Ankin smiled softly and petted the head of the being that was smaller than him. "Be careful though; I might have saved you from the horrible pain that is your wound, but you're still injured. So try to be calm." and he was answered of a yes by the shook of the head of the humanoid. He motionned to sat down on the couch and they both did. The kitsune was sat down close to the demon; he likes him alot. "Let's start by the beginning; Who are you? And what are you doing here?"

"Oh silly you!" the little being first expressed. " I'm Ayumu Sakamoto, a kitsune!" he wagged his tail in excitement; it's been a long time sine he had a conversation with someone.

The demon continued to smile, making him remember of his childhood; how he used to be that excited when he came here, which make him remember he had a kitsune friend that time. 'What happened to her?' He wondered. 'Oh well, another mystery' he finished his thoughts with. "I'm Ankin Seinkan, and I'm a demon."

Ayumu's eyes widen as he stuttered a little bit by saying; "A...Ankin? The lost kid?" Ankin rose an eyebrow and nodded softly. Ayumu wagged his tails and smiled childishly. " I've heard of you! People wondered where you are now! Ev- oh, have you heard that your dad died? Tragic accident." He could see that Ankin's eyes widen in sorrow and Ayumu pulled some kind of pendant that have a dark crystal on it and handed it to Ankin, saying: " Here, your dad told me to give you that if I ever met you. He knew that we were alike. We were different from them." He smiled again like a child and looked into the demon's eyes.

His eyes did widen and he pressed the talisment to his chest, feeling the emotion of sorrow just running to himself. "Thanks..." He said lowly, trying to not cry and he closed his eyes. He sighed softly and said: "I need sometimes ... I'll go see you when I need to see you. Feel free to walk around the building, just to see if you like it."

Ayumu smiled and hopped off the couch, saying giggling a little bit: "See you later, big guys!" He went down into the corridors of the academy, looking around in awe as it is was his first time here. He then went into the courtyard, just looking around at the other students.

A tear went down his face and he stood up, going to his bookshelf and pulled out one of his tomes. He blow a little bit so the dust went off of it and put it on his book holder on his desk and turn the page. He pulled out a piece of paper and a pen with ink and then sat down, studying one of the spell that he'll use later, so he could heal Ayumu from his injury. Gosh, he would like that his mentor was here, or even Tiakono, the other kitsune.

Drake's ears flattened against his head as he stared out at the courtyard. He snapped at some younger "kids" that passed by. "They're bite size." He thought to himself as they ran away screaming. No matter. He rested his head on his paws, wondering why he had suddenly gotten the munchies. All those thoughts went away as something yellow emerged from the school in front of him. Whatever it was, the smell intrigued him.

"Two minutes." He thought, before standing up and padding towards it.

Seth Apolitho trodded out of the building, flicking his forked tongue and wearing his dark sunglasses as usual. He looked up at the dark sky as a cool, soft breeze blew in. He looked up at the building but threw his gaze down when he heard an annoying noise at his feet. There was a squirrel standing at his right foot making a chattering sound looking up at him. He took off his sunglasses and smirked an evil grin as the squirrel sitting on his foot froze up, then slowly turned into a statue. He put his glasses back on, dropped the thing from his foot, and kicked it. he watched as it flew out of the courtyard, somewhere. It probably landed in the lake but who knows?

Lenyx made her way to her room and opened the door. Slidding inside, she closed the door quietly behind her, gently placed her bad on her desk and went into her bathroom.

There she stood and stared at herself in the mirror, tear stains lined her cheeks, she gingerly touched the side of her face. "When did I..." She watched as fresh tears filled her eyes, blurring her vision.

"Did anyone see me?" She sobbed covering her face with her hands.

A sophisticated woman like myself, should never be seen at her weakest, let alone when she is crying! she thought to herself as she fled the bathroom and threw herself over her bed.

"Oh grandmother! Why did you need to send me here? I want mother and father! Why was I not killed with them?" She sobbed again, her voice muffled by her thick blankets.

She laid there crying, all the time remembering the memories she had of parents, their first trip into the forest by their cabin where Lenyx caught and fed on her first rabbit. The time her father helped her hone her shadow-melding skills by playing hide-and-seek with her. The night shadowed figures broke into their cabin in the middle of the night, through her bedroom window. Her mother and father rushing into her room when she screamed... Huddled in the corner, her parents standing in front of her, protecting her... Her mother hisses, whip in hand, her father muttering a curse under his breath holding his staff, ready to fight.

Then it was all over, the sun was coming up, the shadowed figures disappeared like spirits, leaving her parents dying on the ground. Blood splattered around the room, her parents take her shaking hands in theirs and they tell her something, but she cannot hear them.

"Momma, Papa... I can't hear you!" Lenyx shouts, sitting up suddenly.

She looks around the room and after blinking a few times, she realizes where she is. "It was a dream... I must have cried myself to sleep... Again." She leans back against the wall beside her window and sighs.

Kaoz walked to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. Her reflection wavered, flickered and was transparent, as if it didn't want to be there. She felt the opposite; she was happy to be living at Solatium. She was used to the place that had once been a mysterious and scary place to her fifty years ago. It was her fifty-first year here. She studied he reflection, her species of vampire was as close as you could get to the steriotypical Dracula, but those were her mother and father. Since her parents, who were the undead type of vampire, mated, they gave birth to a living vampire. Her. If she were undead like them too she wouldn't have a reflection.
"But that's just my species..." She muttered. She often times wished she were one of those other vampire speccies. The more humanlike kind. There were multiple species of vampires, she had learned in her previous class about the undead, and many of them are closely alike- some are majorly different.
Oh gosh, she'd spent so much time at this school that her flashbacks or memories were lessons! She shook her head, dismissing the thought. She'd have to spend more time with other students, and less time as a shut-in.

Seth noticed the kids running by him, and he had an urge to turn them into stone also and end their screaming. No, he wouldn't do that. He kept walking and walked past a white-bengal he presumed-tiger. The thought of turning it into a statue of a tiger like those statues of tigers and lions outside of banks amused him, but he kept walking by. Oh well, today might turn out boring.

He felt his right shoulder patted down and he smiled, closing his eyes, saying: "After all these years, your aura didn't change, didn't it, Tiakono?" He spunt his chair and looked at Tiakono and throw himself in her arms, even though she was a bit smaller than him. "I'm so happy to see you again, Tia!"

"Oh my." The purple kitsune first expressed as her friend was hugging her. "I knew you missed me, but not than must!" She giggled in joy and hugged him back. "So, what you're up to? I heard your mentor disappeared."

He motioned her to sit on the couch and they both did. He smiled softly, saying: "Well, I'm the magic, spell-casting and spells teacher for this year. Yes, my mentor did disappear, and it is a bummer, since I didn't finish my formation to be a teacher in this, but they accepted me anyways. What you've become? I thought you were strolling around the world."

She nodded softly, smiling as well. "Yes, I did. Well, it was more of "discovering new things" kind of strolling. I've came across a message saying that they searching someone to be a bestiary master, something like that, and here I am! I'm now working for this academy, like you do!" She giggled and hugged him again, snuggling a little bit, purring like if she was a cat. "I miss you so much...that is why I wanted to get back, and also to discover more about species that I don't know about. And yes, it is fun." She said the last phrase, knowing her friend. She smelled the air, saying looking up at him: "Hey, there was another kitsune, am I right? He was bleeding..."

Ankin nodded softly to her question, patting her head softly. "Yes, he is someone that I've found infront of those big doors. He was bleeding and I felt the need to rescue him, so I did. He's still wounded; that is why I was working on the healing spell. Actually, why don't you go meet him? He's mostly yellow and have a strange magic aura...he appear to have two tails, but he have nine of them, like you. Please, bring him back when you have time. Knowing the academy, use this if there is any problem." He handed her an odd card and she putted into her pocket, in safety.

Tia nodded softly and hopped off the couch and said to her friend before heading outside of his apartment: "By the way, Taokaka is saying Hello, big guy~" and she giggled, walking off in the corridors of school. She folded her tail on themself, forming one big tail; even if the corridors was pretty big, she felt like she is taking all the place. She felt her tail been pulled a little bit, but she didn't mind. Actually, she was giggling a little bit; it was remembering her when she was younger, or even Taokaka. Such good memories. She followed the scent of the kitsune that Ankin talked about, looking at the other beings.

Ankin giggled softly, remembering how Taokaka is one of those beings that doesn't mature really fast, and she appears to be always a child. He wondered what she looked now, but he shook his head and went back to his desk, working the spell again, waiting for the two kitsunes to come back, or get a signal.

~Meanwhile~

Ayumu was enjoying the fresh air outside in the court yard, running around energetically, while he didn't care much about his surrounding. He stopped and looked into the blue sky, wondering when Ankin will make him sign to come back, or how exactly he would do it. Either way, He still looked into the sky, smiling as he still smelled the air, kinda unconscious of what was around him, wagging his tails left to right.

Drake silently padded behind the strange creature he smelled earlier. Once he got about three feet away, he stopped and sat down. For a few moments, he simply stared at it. He had never seen anything like it before. Then again, he had only known about the "magical" world for a very short time. For all he knew he had only met, or eaten, a very small percentage of the magical breeds.

A few more seconds went by before he realized he was entranced by the tails. He had been watching one of them wave only inches from his nose. Quickly he snapped out of the almost hypnotized trance. Wanting to meet this fox-boy, he gave a small, polite bark.

The tigeress walked around past Drake iin silent long steps. Lynxx still hadnra clue where she was going. She shiftedinto her normal form boredly she looked aroumd her wishing there was spme one around shr coild talk to.She started talkinh to hetself for amusment aboit anythinh distracted.she walked striaght into a dopr. "God damn it." Shehuffed openong the door. Her head hurt like hell for the nect ten minutes a.d she vursed.quitely she rubbed her hrad gightong the urge to scream angroliy.

Ruin had been up to the same thing as everyday other day, walking around the mountains not too far from his cave. Lately he had realized he was being too careless, last week some people got a picture of him and he was sighted multiple times sneaking around the Academy for food and things to collect. However his last search was much worth it in his opinion, he found a lot of paper, pencils, and he had spotted something weird which shined a little and gave off a peculier energy that seemed to come from the light refracting off of it.

"I wonder what that gem thing was...maybe if I'm careful I can try and go find it, I hope this doesn't backfire." Then he ran in the direction of the Academy and leaped off of the edge of the mountain, closing his eyes, and waiting until he touched the ground causing a rock slab to raise from the slanted ground that slid down the mountain like a surf board, maneuvering left and right around trees until he felt the ground around him to see how close he was to the lake and noticing as how he was nearing the edge of the ground he raised his right foot and stomped it down. Only after a few seconds the slab slanted foward a little and immediately stopped in place but shot up, propelling himself foward quickly and then waving his left hands up, the wall of the Academy beginning to go out a little but then stopping. Shocked as he noticd he couldn't sense anything on the area anymore he opened his eyes and looked at his feet, he was careless again and was lifted off of the raising pillar which was already far, he was just flying through the air helplessly now.

"No, no this can't be happening!" Little hope he found in the situation, feeling a little stupid he saw a tree in his path, figuring he could be caught by it and then trying to lean towards it more. Making it right into the tree it did stop him from speeding into a wall or the ground but unfortuneately he flew right into the center of it, spraining his wrist as he had it infront of his body when hitting the tree and then toppling down the branches until he fell face first on the ground nearby two strangers but he never noticed as he was only focusing on how much pain he was in, a few ribs were broken from the fall and his wrist was sprained so little could be done.

Ayumu jumped a little bit as he turned on himself, snapping out of his spacing out as he saw there was somekind of wolf right behind him, near his tails. He smiled softly, thinking it was a bit hilarious, but he kept himself down, as promised to Ankin earlier. He only make a smile, leaning foward, saying: "Hello there Mr.Wolf. " He called him like that because of the lack of name. He leaned back to a normal standing. He wondered if it was someone that only transformed into a wolf, or it is a real wolf. Either way, he found it funny that a wolf was behind all the time. " So, are you able to talk normally or can you only bark? " he giggled softly.

His ears then twitched to the sound of a falling as he changed his glance to the guy that just faceplanted. He just, laughed, not taking the seriousness of the situation and just laughed infront of that being. "Oh god, you should have done that, weird guy." He would examine more the being that was laying on the ground, possibly in pain. He rose an eyebrow and asked: "Hey, are you alive?" He didn't know much about injuries.

Tia turned the corner, after few minutes of walking, to finally come into the courtyard, where she fan out her nine tails, feeling more comfortable to do so. She looked at the little ground that gathered around Ayumu, well, more like he found them. She giggled softly; Ayumu seems to have ease to attract people. She wondered if that kitsune was like the young ones. She approached gently, saying to the yellow being: "Hello there, little yellow Ayumu." She giggled softly.

His eyes widen a little bit in joy and went to hug her, saying: "I'm not alone of my species here!" he giggled and nuzzled her. She responded with an hug and a patted on his head. Ayumu then though on her tail and giggled, she did so. "You have so many tails, big lady~" He called her big lady because she was older than her and for another reason that remains personal. He pointed at the wounded person and said: "Weird guy just fell face first from the tree. I think big guy should help him."

She giggled softly, knowing which big guy is he talking about. She kneed down to the person that Ayumu pointed and shook him a little bit, saying: "Hey, are you ok?" She couldn't tell that he was in pain, for the fact that there wasn't any wound found outside of his body, and the fact that his face was hiding from the others. She knew that Ankin was preparing a healing spell, and since Ayumu got an advantage from his wound, it would more wise to do it on him instead on the kitsune if the guy was really wounded and wants to. She knew that she was a teacher, and it one of the rules to care about the students, but she won't force someone to do something that she wants, unless when she is teaching.

The collision with the tree had his ears ringing a little which made it so he just tuned out everyone speaking, the only thing he could hear other than the ringing was his heart beat, it was racing at a fast speed. All of the sudden he felt someone touching him and it immediately gave him a jump of fear, his eyes quickly opened and he used his good arm to push himself up, getting a quick look at everyone he got up on his feet look terrified and began hobbling trying to endure the pain as the ground below him lifted slightly and then trailed quickly away like a moving disc sliding around. Once he went around the corner he lifted himself up with the disc and got up on a roof making all the stone formations he created disapear back into the ground.

"Ugh...I knew this would end bad...I should have stayed on the mountain..." Sighing and then falling to his knees, putting a hand on his chest. Feeling idiotic he just turned around and layed on his back in pain, closing his eyes again and sitting quietly, doubt, fear, and regret the only things he could think about.

Tia tilted his head softly; was this weird guy deaf? or it is was just his normal reaction? However she interpreted it, she needed to help him. She didn't knew him much; only what he looks like. She shrugged to his words, but one thing was sure; he wasn't from the academy. 'Hmmm...What to do...? Let him alone? have fun with him? bring him to Ankin? or should I just go heartless and kick him out?' She shrugged to her thoughts and pulled out the card out of her pocket and pecked it. She let it drop on the ground and an dark aura suddenly appeared and Ankin came out; a book to his hand. He looked calm, unchanged, which was very strange to her. She knew the Ankin that was energetic and more fun, but now he seems to be just too much serious. Was he trying?

He looked at Tia first, than down to the person that seems to have pain. "Geez, wonder what happened to that guy." He make a grins, knewing that Tia would do the same. "You lucky mysterious children; I have my healing spell ready." He glanced at Ayumu, saying: "I'm sorry, but you have to wait." Ayumu nodded softly and giggled. He touched the stranger and a black mist emitted from him. They soon teleported to his apartment, where the stranger was lying on his couch. Ankin went to his desk and picked up a piece of paper that he finished recently and kneed down next to the guy, pulling out a scroll and throw it up into the sky, disappearing. He mumbled odd words and brings his arm down on the stranger's chest, as an energy went into the stranger's chest, healing the wounds that occured in his fall, and earlier than that. It took few seconds before the process was done. Once it was done, Ankin was sat at the opposite of the couch, on a chair, and looked at the stranger that he just helped, wondering.

He threw another scroll into the air and it disappeared in particles. He looked at him with his crismson demon eyes, looking serious, to much, as he examinate the mysterious children's magic aura; earth. That is what he thought about it; it may or may not cause some problems to him if he shows a bit harsh, or meaby not. He never knew which one, since he never knew anyone that was able to do so. He just took a neutral voice, as he felt that there was something wrong with the aura. "Hello again, mysterious children." He said first, making sure he was looking at him. "I would like to know your whereabouts of being here. You don't look to be a student, as much as I can describe, so please, try to be nice and I'll think about the consequences of your intrusion in this building." He sighed softly, didn't make a smile, since he didn't thought that the children would make him smile at all.

Tiakono sighed softly and stood up and petted Ayumu's head, smiling: "I'm sorry that I can't spend more time with you, little fox, but I have some to do before having my hands free." She went away into the building again, folding her tails to make one.

Ayumu nodded softly and giggled. "I'll see you soon, big lady." He giggled again and turn to Drake, making a childish smile, putting his hands in his sweater pockets, saying: "So, how are you Mr. Wolf?"

Kaoz Bloodred left her room and creeped along the dark halls. Every once and a while she could hear a student coming, thanks to her supernatural hearing, and she'd hide in the areas that were pitch black and jump out and hiss, scaring the student. It had become a tradition in the Academy some time ago that the vampires would all hang out and enjoy scaring students...
The vampires died somehow.
Kaoz always stuck to staying on campus grounds unless with a teacher, such as Flux Class, but there were some vampires that would sneak off campus into FLux Valley. The teachers would find their dead bodies. No one knew how they died, and most students regarded it as made up stories to scare students from leaving campus.
She'd seen a few of the bodies her self.
The bodies were lifeless. Dead, not undead like most vampires. She shrugged, she was creeping herself out with these memories. Oh well, I just hope there's more vampires here this year to be friends with. She thought to herself. It had mostly been happening to vampires, but recently also sorcerers and wizards. Any and all students are encouraged to stay on school grounds during the night, for all of the 'attacks' happened at night.
Quit thinking about this. She nodded to herself. Then she looked around. She'd been walking aimlessly and not paying any attention whatsoever about where she was going. She was at the open front door, inches away from the light pouring in. Sunlight. It fascinated her; she could be in it but it caused extreme pain and burns. She'd never even seen a sunrise. She took a step forward, the sun was on her shoes. Another, shoes and jeans. Soon the sunlight was up to her waiste, haven't touched her skin yet. She just stared out into the courtyard watching students walk around with friends. Oh yeah, she was feeling lonely...

Seth had gotten bored very quickly and he walked off into Flux Valley, into the Dark Woods. The place wasn't creepy for him; he still didn't dare come here after dark though. If something could kill a vampire and their super senses and speed, then it might get him. He shape-shifted into a Basilisk, merely a white-eyed cobra, and dug into a burrow. He was in his snake hole. But there was something important about the snake hole, the vegetation around it was dead, for if a Basilisk looks at a plant it withers. Anyone in the right mind wouldn't come near him in this hole, since Basilisks were somewhat common here. Flux Valley was huge.

The tigeress prowled around near Drake and fox kid she wasnt looking at any og them though she'mcouldn't care really.. Lynxx looked around her dying of boredum

sorry itslshort in a ruash to get out the hoyde

Ruin had fell unconscious about the time of being teleported ino the room, he was dreaming of something strange, a grassy plain with two glowing white humanoids that he stood between. Soon one turned brown and the sky behind it turned white while the other turned brown but the skies by that one had turned grey. Obviously it had to be a choice so he decided the white skied end seemed better and something didn't feel right about the grey skies so as he was heading over to the strange humanoid it began moving closer as well, growing slowly as it got closer until it was the size and shape of a stone golem, one with a familiar look which had for some reason compelled him to begin running towards it, unsure why it seemed so familiar but feeling also like it was part of him. The two reached eachother finally, about two yards away but the dream had turned into a nightmare, a bright light flashed and the golem wascracked all over, falling to pieces and now both the skies were grey with black surges of lightning flying through them. Confused and terrified seeing the golem fall apart had practically frozen him and as he attempted to get closer and try to fix it with his powers, tendrils lashed out quickly from behind him, constricting his arms, legs, and neck that spun him around, the other humanoid was now some kind of stone golem but made of stone with strange black symbols on it, a dark glow coming from it and then beginning to go down the tendrils.

"I need to phase through the stone...why can't I phase it!? What's going on!?" Then where the tendrils were he felt his body stiffening, his body was turning to stone at an alarming rate, consuming his entire body within about ten seconds and half of his head was taken over by it, the golem deteriorating and dissolving then as if it was destroying itself by doing this but little thought could be put into it because the stone was now halfway covering his remaining eye and he then woke up, sitting up quickly sweating and panting. After a moment of recollecting himself he looked over seeing the stranger and quickly jumped up from the couch looking for a way out and found the door, opening it and running off trying to find the way out until he reached the exit, charging out and just running around until he saw a girl standing just barely in the sunlight, she looked strange somehow yet in a way someone he can trust and without hesistation he ran towards her.

"Don't tell him I'm here!" Then something strange happened, the boy began sinking into the ground as he ran and once to his waist he began looking like he was a mole digging underground but for some reason the ground wasn't really moved or anything as if he was phasing through the earth. Once fully under it was silent, he made no noise and he was just sitting underground, he wasn't in a hole but actually turned into stone.

Ankin blinked first, than a second time, before he realized that he forgot something about his illusion. What was it? He doesn't know, and he doesn't care either. All matters to him is that he must gets the answer to his question, no matter what. That earthling, or whatever, must hold something interest in him to give that characteristic distortion in his magical aura. He quickly set a chase to the stranger, pinning the aura in his head as a reference as they skip corridor to corridor. What is up with that stranger? What is up with him? Ankin help him to get better, and he only asked a simple question, but he only ran away. He much have a secret, he could fell it somehow. He sighed softly and stopped running and just walk slowly, as he knew that he couldn't hide to him.

After few minutes, he reached out a vampire. He smiled softly and just leaned again a wall. Not close to her, but not far anyways. She wasn't much of interest, as he could felt that her magic aura was weak. He only opened the book that he had bring up and read the content of it. He knew that the guy was there; oh he would like that guy would cooperate. I mean, he seems a good guy to his eyes, but now it is more like if there was a secret behind that person. He could make him bring out, or set up a Illusion so that there would be only him and Ruin in it and he as no where to run, but it would felt wrong. He just leaned against the wall, reading his tome of spells. Then a question hit his mind; what if that vampire wanted some questions? He just discarded his thoughts about that and continued.

He would then wonder what is up with Ayumu? Did he flee too? That wouldn't be surprising, while on the other hand, he would wonder why. He knew that a kitsune doesn't like when it is privated of his liberty of going around, but so does Tiakono, but she got back. Is there something that he's missing in the puzzle that was his mind. He hopes not. Then he wondered about his mentor; what would be the motive of him getting out of the academy? Ankin was still thinking it is some kind of challenge to the final year of his learning into teaching in the academy, and there must be someone knowing the whereabouts of him. Then, another darker thought hit his head; what if he was dead? No, impossible. He knew it wasn't the case; his mentor couldn't die of age and he as one of the strongest, or even the strongest, aura he ever saw in the academy. He never knew about the owner of the academy; all theses years, he never saw the person behind all of this.

Anyways, he finished his thoughts and wondered how many hours will be pass before the little intruder will come out of his stone phase and cooperate with him? He hoped that all will pass like he would like; calm and not stressful.

Ruin feeling already safe underground he began to wonder, who was that girl he saw and why was she just standing there? Confused and curious he then remembered about the rock he came here for, he only needed to grab it and go. begin to move again he got a good 15yards away from where he was and then a small stone pillar rose from the ground slowly and a few seconds after it stopped rising the stone cracked and shattered, pebbles and rocks falling down revaling him again.

"Alright I just need to find the rock and avoid that scary guy..." Beginning to run off in the opposite direction of where he was. Eventually halting he stomped his foot down and a stone pillar rose up into the sky from under him and he just closed his eyes after once he got a view of the area and seeing where he last saw the rock, stomping again causing the pillar to fall back into the ground and he just stood there trying to map out the area by scanning it through the ground. Once fully clear of where to go he was lifted up slightly by a slab of stone and getting into a more stable stance as it begins to quickly slide across the ground, soon reaching a dead-end, he felt the presence of something strange and was sure it was the rock so the slab sunk into the ground and he re-opened his eyes heading over to the wall and kneeling down beginning to dig up some dirt until he felt something hard and grabbed it, pulling it out of the ground forcefully until it came loose and he had the strange stone covered in dirt but you could still see that it was more of a gem of some sorts.

"Finally I found it, now I just have to find out what it really is..." Looking at it curiously and then sitting down on the ground holding it tightly in his arms, it was a little smaller than his torso and a strange light shined in the center of it but not bright enough to light up too much of anything.

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[color=#A52A2A] Ruin sat quietly in the alley, however soon he heard a strange voice that told him to focus on the gem and phase it into him. At first he thought he was imagining it but then he felt the energy from it compelling him to do what it said and he then stood up, he was worried, should he do what it says? At first he felt something coming off of the gem, it was beginning to affect him which made him unable to resist and he then used his abilities, the gem being pushed again his chest and it slowly began shrinking until it was completely gone leaving behind a strange small fragment of something which he put in his bag.

"I feel...strange..." Then after a few seconds he had the nightmare from before flash in his mind and his vision changed making it like the dream, the being with tendrils on him and he then fell to his knees grasping his head yelling in fright, his body turning to stone but in reality he just looked like a boy screaming. Eventually his body was fulled covered in stone again but in the real world he just didn't move like a statue. He could only think, he couldn't see or hear, with his limited options he only began thinking, what was happening to him, was it the gem? It had to be it but now he could only sit. color]

Divina Magia Magnus was in his room, which was a creepy room. His room is crypt-like, witch cracked and mossy dark grey stone brick for walls, it was one room he magically transferred. Whereas the other rooms look like hotel rooms, one rooms with a bathroom and closet, his room was muc bigger than it should have been. Walking into his room was like walking into another world. On the outside it was still as big as the other rooms, but on the inside his room was as big as an american football field, it has a constant, unnatural darkness with cauldrons and steel tables lined against his wall. He was hunched over a cauldron at the time. Magical alchemic symbols, looking similar to runes, floated around him in a rainbow of dark colors. His mind was clouded, it was dangerous for him to do this, but he spoke one word:
"Perdere- Wait, OH N-" He had said the wrong word. The first word he said, it had been Latin for 'destroy'. He realised the mistake quickly but not quick enough to undo it. His world fell silent, and as if in slow motion his vision was slowly filled up with an explosion of magic. Then all he saw was white.
A few minute later, he woke up. His world was spinning- oh, no, he was spinning. More like tumbling through the air. He caught a glimse of Solatium Academy with a giant crater in it's side, slowly and magically the school repaired itself. But he didn't worry about that. He was hundreds of feet in the air tumbling down. He checked his pendants. None were broken! He tried using the power to control wind, but he was falling too fast. He fell in the middle of the courtyard, and then he passed out, yet again, for the second time in three minutes.

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Kaoz had watched Divina fall from the sky. She looked back down to the light where it was at her waist... What to do, what to do...
Then she heard the scream. She ran towards the source, to find a boy with his hands on his head. She was smoking, literally. Tendrils of smoke curled off of her skin as she started to sunburn twenty times the normal rate of a human. Her skin seared, but she stood there,
"Ummm... Hi." She smiled sweetly, despite her pain.

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Ruin still couldn't hear a thing but all of the sudden he saw a faint glow of aura, he was scared of it already but it seemed familiar in some way so he tried to speak or move but he then remembered he was frozen. Thinking in his head was still all that could be done and the only thing in his head was what he should be more afraid of, the creature turning him to stone or the strange aura. Lost in thought a cracked went down his eye, his vision began clearing slightly and then a strange aura in the shape of stone went around his body in te real world and then it sattered to pieces and disapeared, Ruin then putting his hands on the ground and panting heavily, whatever was going on had stopped for some reason, no clue why but he wasn't going to question it.

"Wait...isn't there..." Then looking up he saw it was the girl from before and he never had gotten a good look at her since he was just running for his life before, he was just gazing at her blankly and soon realizing he was looking like a fool he sensed her through the ground, scanning her almost and realizing a slight raise in stress and the smoke was another thing, hislack of education left him unkown what she was but he had seen it happen to people before. Quickly he stood up and walked over to a wall, placing his hand on it and then stone came out of the walls making a sort of roof above them and shading them.

"Ugh...h-hey..." Feeling weak all of the sudden, that gem had something weird about it and it was affecting his powers, he felt like he was more limited with them than before. Getting the thought out of his head for now he turned around and leaned against the wall, sliding down and then tucking his knees up to his chest and stareing at the ground now, too much trouble for a simple rock that only brought mental torment, what now, does it mean something?

Kaoz thanked him with a nod and a smile. Her smiled showed off her fangs, inch long each, but her eyes showed kindness, she wasn't going to suck him dry.
"Hi. My name's Kaoz," She studied him. "Headache? Year, I get them too..."

He was slowly falling asleep, he ad been exerting a lot of energy today and it was beginning to take it's toll on him. Yawning loudly he felt a weird pain surging through hisbody but it was faint enough that he could ignore it sort of even though he had an uncomfotable look on his face.

"Well I don't know about a headache..." Then thinking again about what that weird vision was he saw something strange, his vision ad shifted once again and there was some peculier path of water, maybe it was water but he wasn't sure and as he was about to follow it he fell on his side and his vision switched back to normal, he was panting heavily as if just seeing things in that way sucked his energy.

"T-the path..." Stareing at where he saw it and then his eyes closed and he fell asleep only a few moments after.

Kaoz eyed him curiously.
"You're okay, right?" She asked. "If you want I could take you back to my room and you could rest. Are you a new student here? I could lead yout to your room if you have one."

Meanwhile, Seth slithered out of his hidey-hole and morphed back into a human, shades and all. He walked back to the courtyard and sat at a bench. He looked at the clock hanging from one of the 'street lanterns' which were wrought iron poles with lanterns on the top and clocks hanging from them. Clock read noon, almost lunch time.

"Kid isn't going to be waking up sssoon..." A ghastly voice sounded from above and then a dark and slender figure jumped down fromwhere there wasn't a cover. Standing tall now was a strange person, looking to be a teenager, about 16-19 years of age possibly.

"Don't bother, kid seems like a waste of time to me, weak little runt can't even handle making that littleformation over your head, I mean lookat him!" Smirking and chuckling his serpent-like eyes had shown from behind his hair and then a thin tongue, that of a snakes slithered around while his mouth was open. This guy seemed a littledifferent from some of the others, if anything like the first guy to put a knife in your back but also something else about him seemed like just a bad guy, Probably between his personaliy and the fact that he then began walking towards a wall and pulled out some spray cans, continueing to grafitti the wall, big letters saying "EW", his intials and then he just jumped up, grabbing a small ledge and proceeding to swing up the wall until he was on-top and the disapeared.

She walked around the courtyard boredly human now. She hated thhe si lence following her it left her so bored and lonely. She looked at the boy on the bench wondering if it were worth talking to him. She didn't know spo she stayed put walkkng around in massive circles. She looked linely and bored but still everfyone ignored her as if she,were unvisable.

Kaoz raised an eyebrow,
"Well, I thought it was thoughtful of him to make the infastructure to cover me from the sun." She pointed out, talking to sherself.
"And you might be?" She asked Ruin, giving him a weird look. She didn't notice him unconsious. So many new people she hadn't known this year. It was an exeptionally weird year, normally they only have one or two new people.

Divina woke up in the courtyard his head on fire, or atleast it felt like it.
"Ungh... What happened...?"

Ankin just sighed and went back to his apartement and took some of his stuff. He had to, besides, the school haven't started yet. He had to find his mentor, he had to. He is not ready at all. He even wondered why he was still there in the academy; why they keep him as teacher? He doesn't know, and he does care. He need his answer. He took some scrolls, his normal layout and a tome in his hand. He opened it and search a page, then he rose his hand and rock rose up over his affairs, not wanting anybody touching his stuffs. He left a note on his desk, saying that he'll be back before the school will start. He knew that his whereabouts will be questioned, but he doesn't quite care. Does someone care about him? Besides Tiakono and his mentor, he doesn't remember any name. He only shrugged off his thoughts and went out of his apartment. He didn't pronounced a word to anyone when he walked down the corridor to outside of the academy. He questioned himself before getting out of the building, leaving everything behind as he walked around the Flux Valley, paying attention to where he's going to not fall into a fight with something, or get trapped.

Tiakono could see the shape of Ankin just getting out. She almost cried, as she doesn't understand what or why is that. She kept her emotions for herself, not wanting to show them, even though her tail stopped wagging and her ears flattened in sorrow. "Why...?" She muttered to herself as she continued to walk around the academy, her mind unstable from the sudden disappearance of Ankin. She wanted to run at him and stop, but the expression that Ankin had recently scared her a little bit. Why he changed so suddenly? Is there something wrong with him? if so, what she could do? She doesn't know. She just doesn't know what to do. He looked at the nearest clock; almost lunch time. She sighed softly, hoping it is just temporary. She guessed she could ask one of the older personal about what happened.

William Brion was told to go to this place and people would be able to help him. He didn't know much about the place, all he knew was that it was supposed to be safe.
He walked around looking for someone that would help him out when suddenly "BOOM" An explosion had come out of nowhere. There was now a giant scare in one of the school buildings. William almost couldn't believe his eyes, but what happened next was even more unbelievable. the building literally fixed itself. The stones levitated and went back in to their positions. In less than half a minute it was as if nothing had happened.
william ran towards the building. Then he noticed a black shape falling to the ground he ran towards it but he wasn't quick enough the person hit the ground. William stopped abruptly twenty feet from the person and dropped to his knees.
he started to cry. he slamed his right fist to the ground "Only 20 feet at most. If only I was just a little f-f-fast...faster." He whimpered. Then something he didn't expect happened he heard a voice. The person was sitting up. "HOW THE HELL DID YOU SURVIVE?" He yelled at the person.

She forgot about what she was about to do. She closed her eyes and took her a deep breath, before a little purple flame appeared into her hand. She put her hands infront of her and smiled at the little flame. "Please, make sure that Ankin is ok. If he's running in danger, alert me, ok?" She let the flame away and it traveled fastly into the air, joining Ankin by his side. Tiakono sighed softly and then her ears picked up a sound. A screaming. Since she got her hand free, she decided to run at the source of the noise and fold her tail to make one. It is more practical to have one big tail than 9 tails, she thought. Once she got into the courtyard, she could saw that there was 2 persons, one seemed to have made a crater in the ground. She ran to them, then stopped infront of the stranger, saying: "Are you ok?" She wasn't sure if he was ok or not, since he doesn't seem to present any pain, unless the fact that he was still on the ground, layed. She bits her lower lip; what she could do? She doesn't remember the academy very well, but she could atleast offer her assistance to the student in need. She'll question the whereabouts of the other student later, if needed.

Ankin was now progressing in the Valley very dangerously. He really wanted his answer, and sometimes, he forgot about himself. His thoughts consumed his actions of caring about everything else that he didn't think. He stopped suddently on a tree branch and looked behind himself; there was a small flame that was near him. He giggled softly, saying to himself: "Oh Tia, you're always watching on me don't you." And he continued his dangerous strolls. He tried to find the characteristic aura of his mentor, as he was sure that it would be the only place that he would be. He didn't know in which direction to go, just ran around, making sure to not fall into a trap.

William looked at the bizarre woman in front of him. "I thought he was was dead. You your not human. Either of you. Course apparently I'm not either" Then William thought Would I Survive a fall like that.

Drake's ears flattened against his head as the fox-boy called him "Mr. Wolf". It wasn't his fault after all, he didn't know his name. He stood up on all four paws and shook himself. He braced himself for the change, and more importantly the following hunger.

The change was a quick one. Soon a fully-clothed young man stood where a beautiful, black wolf was only seconds before. "Name's Drake." He said to the fox-boy. He shoved his hands into his pockets as he continued to examine the creature.

Hisi eyes widen and his mouthopened in an o shape as he saw the transformation. He then giggled softly, staying calm to not make his pain come back because the wound isn't threated yet. He bowed respectfully. "Hello, Drake. My name is Ayumu. It is a pleasure to meet you." He said as he wagged his tail and pulled out his hand to Drake, hoping for an hand shake. "I'm sorry to have call you Mr.Wolf earlier; I'm used to nickname people more than I use to say their name." he pointed out. It is was normal to a kitsune to nickname people to their first impression, especially for the more energitic ones, wish was the case of Ayumu.

Divina looked up at the boy,
"How did I survive that fall...?" He asked, then looked away.
"Honsetly, I should have died. I- I have no idea... It was almost as if someone wanted me to live. I felt myself stop ubruptly before I hit the ground, but my head hit a rock knocking me out..." He looked dazed, confused.

Drake grinned, just so his fangs barely poked out over his bottom lip. He pulled his hand from his pocket and obliged the offer to shake. "Don't worry about it. You didn't know my name then, so it's all good." He silently wondered to himself where the name Ayumu could have come from. He shrugged the thought away, since it wasn't very important. "So, if you don't mind me asking, what are you exactly?"

"This is so unecessary, why must I be sent to this place? I find there no problem in having other people not like me, friends aren't a necessity..." Continueing on through the strange forest, Raven was on her way to some school she had never even heard of, her parents choice since if it was her's then she would have still been back home. After all this time she felt she was getting lost but something just made her feel like she should keep heading this way even thoug she was wandering the forest for quite some time now. As she walked quietly already aware of the possible threats in the area she was completely paranoid if anything and then she heard something coming closer, no clue what to expect she just ran behind a tree and peered around it silently.

"What is that..." Getting a closer look and seeing it lookeed humanoid but she decided to keep on her guard.

She walked over to Seth boredly and smiled politely."Hi..Um I'm Lynxx." She greeted lamely. She wished she was in an animal form or something so she could draw attention to hetself she just wanted to talk to someone she I overly socialble that's her problem. She lookwd at.Seth as she spoke and thoight, She half.expected to be told to get lost lije she normally was but a Hi woukdn't go a miss. She pushed her side fringe out her face so she could see properly and put her hands in her pockets.

William steadily got to his feet."Well whatever it is im glad your not dead." He said while he wiped his tears. William held out his hand to the person for a handshake and to help him up off the ground he lay upon "My names William pleased to meet you."

Tia slightly pouted; how dare he could forgot her presence? She simply rolled her eyes and addressed the man with a smile: "Well, you should consult a doctor, just incase there is more injuries." She folded her tail to make one and went away, thinking that they would be better without her, since it appears that Divina can't see her, even though her immense set of tails that was fan out. Though, she needed to make sure that the student was safe, but then she wondered what is up with Ankin, since the flame didn't came back to her to say what is happening.

~~

Ayumu giggled softly to the person's question, like if it wasn't obvious enough of what it was. He tilted his head when he saw the person's fangs, but contemplate with a smile. He tilted his head again to the normal position as the hand was shake and took back to the pockets. He said as he wagged his two tails: "I'm a kitsune. I don't know much about my own species, unless the fact that we are foxes that can shape-shift."

~~

Ankin suddently saw a different magic aura. He knew that there was a person hiding behind a tree, but decided to not dare to talk to whoever it was as he only glanced away. He would then see sparks of an aura. Those have a special characteristic: It mean that someone died. It usually disappear under a week, or less depending on how strong the aura was before the owner died. But this one seemed to have been there for a little bit. He got up to bushes and his eyes widen in surprise and sorrow. He couldn't believe it. Was it real? or was it illusion? He does know the answer and rushed to the corpse of a middle-aged man that the skin turned white. He quickly check for a pulse; none. He cried into the dead-man corpse as somekind of demonic creature got out of the bushes, putting his hand on Ankin's shoulder.

"I'm sorry to see that, son." The giant demonic creature said to the one kneed down on the ground. Ankin looked back at it; rage could be expressed in his eyes. He then moved his arm to toss the demonic creature's hand off his shoulder as blue flames was created to make him stand back. "It is probably your fault!" He shouted to the demon as an dark aura surrounded Ankin. The creature quickly said: " I'm for nothing! Why are you constantly saying that!?" Ankin jumped, his hand clenched into a fist as he bring up to punch the creature, saying: "You're always have to do behind everything, dad!" The demon tried to stop the fist with the help of his hand, as a mark showed through the glove of Ankin. He threw him back.

Ankin landed on the ground as he held his head, screaming. Horn sprout out of his head as his face stretched. His clothing soon disappear as he took the form that looks more of his dad's one. His eyes changed to a bright crimson, as his muscular structure was stretched and bigger than before and his skin changed to red. His feet soon disappear into hoof as his legs looked more animalistic than humanoid. Dark fur was soon revealed around his wrist and on top of his hoof as a tail sprout out of his back. He had spikes that ran from his head back to his tail, dark as his horns. As the transformation was finished, a piercing roar was heard from his snout and he ran away from everything.

The demon sighed softly, muttering to himself: "I wished that wouldn't happen..." and a dark mist appeared around him and he disappear, without leaving any traces.

Soon, a dark clothed being just got out of the bushes and kneed down to the corpse and put a dark crystal on the chest. A white glow got out of the corpse and entered into the ball. The being putted the ball back on his belt and continued to walk in the same direction he walked when he appeared, in direction of the academy.

Divina took William's hand and used it to pull himself up. He checked himself. He didn't eve have a scrape.
"Strange." He said and looked at Tiakono, "I'm fine Miss Kono." He stated, his usual short answers and quietness.

Raven was shocked at what happened, never before had she really seen something like that and it left her speechless.

"W-what was that..? A demon?" Then as she stood there contemplating what to do next she noticed a familiar face, he was doing something to the corpse in the distance. Swiftly she began following him, was he on his way to the academy too? Possibly but who knows, with her friend going there as well it may not be all bad at this place. Keeping a good five yards away she just silently followed, inspecting to see if she was mistaken of it being him and indeed it was.

"Kamoku! Kamoku over here!" She yelled happily while running up to his side, a bright smile on her face as she examined him, Not much seemed to change in herr opinion of him, but she wondered why he was here still.

Ruin had still been sitting there for a while silently, he already woke up about when that weird guy who painted the wall in his initials came by. Then he felt something very odd, his curious side got the best of him and he then jumped up quickly and stomped the ground, a stone slab raising from the ground beneath him and he looked back at the girl.

"Do you want to come with me?" He seemed a little awkward and embarassed since he never really spoke to people. Without hesistation hebegan riding the slab through the grounds of the Academy, speeding out onto te bridge and then into the forest, what was this and why did it feel like he was being compelled to go to it?

"I feel it getting closer...what could this..." Then stopping he was immediately terrified, multiple corpses lying on the ground, why were there so many? Why were they out here? The only thing he could think of doing was going behind a tree so he wouldn't see it and he just pulled his legs up to his chest with a blank stare doing nothing.

"Whatis this...?"

She walked over to Seth boredly and smiled politely."Hi..Um I'm Lynxx." She greeted lamely. She wished she was in an animal form or something so she could draw attention to hetself she just wanted to talk to someone she I overly socialble that's her problem. She lookwd at.Seth as she spoke and thoight, She half.expected to be told to get lost lije she normally was but a Hi woukdn't go a miss. She pushed her side fringe out her face so she could see properly and put her hands in her pockets.

Kaoz had smiled at him and we he began to ride away she ran along side him, keeping the perfect speed. Of course she could run faster, but she chose to follow him. When they got to the corpses there was somewhere between twenty and fourty of them... Just lying on the ground, unmoving with shocked expressions on their faces.
"Are they...?" She was about to ask, but when Ruin sat and pulled his knees to his chest, she knew.
They were dead.
Apon closer inspection she noticed something else.
They were vampires.
What could possibly kill vampires without harming a hair on their heads? Not a Basilisk, they weren't stone. It was common to see the accasional animal turned to stone from the Basilisks that lived in Flux Valley, but vampires were smarter, and quicker. Also, these weren't stone...
"What the hell...?" She cursed silently.

Seth looked up at the girl who introduced herself as Lynxx., he merely binked at her. Of course she couldn't see it with his opaque shades on, but still.
"I bid thee 'Hello'." He said in his funny mixture of a slurred Anglo-Saxan voice.

She smiled kindly. "Cool shades." She complimented. Lynxx.had her sunglasses in her bag but she onlu wore them occasionly. She pulled her hands out her pockets. Her nails were painted a deep red and ever so neatly grown. She jeld one wrist witj the other casually.

You know when someone introduces themselves to someone that other person should introduce themselves as well." Said William in a friendly almost brotherly way. Giving the boy in front of him an encouraging smile."
William then looked at the strange fox lady the boy had called Miss kono." Considering he called you Miss Kono I Guess you have responsibility here. I was wondering what this place is exactly? You see all I was told was to come here to live."

Divina nodded at him.
"My name's Divina, call me Div." Said Divina. "And, this is a school/community. Almost like a town for anyone and anything not human."

"That sounds really cool." said william."So what are you?" William Asked Divina. "I imagine you aren't something that flys. I'm told I can but I'm not so sure about it."

Drake nodded, making a mental note to research 'Kitsune'. He understood Ayumu's confusion about his own kind. He himself had only been a monster for two years. "Really? A shape-shifting fox huh?" Drake said as he watched the tails wag. He mentally slapped himself, regaining his composure. He flinched as he noticed the bloody bandage on the Kitsune. Now he would have to increase the amount of concentration it was taking to not bite him. Not wanting to make him nervous, he tried to look as normal as possible.

Kamoku turned his head to the sound of a familiar voice and smiled softly. He waved at her and slowly walked to her. His voice, so innocent, rose up: "Hello there, Raven." He giggled softly, tilting his head. Raven was the only person that he liked to be around off, because they were the same species, and the fact that she liked more silence than anything...well, unless for her book, he would guess. "Are you going to the academy too?" He asked to her, seeming her doing here a bit strange than usual.

Tia nodded softly. "Well, if you feel pain coming up, don't ignored it." She smiled kindly and her ears turned to the other being as she glanced at him, listening to his question. " This place is reserved to the beings that aren't human. We, the teachers, make sure that you, the students, will receive a complete teaching on the normal things that everyone learn, but also to develop your magic and spell casting, as well as learning the different creatures and species from this realm. Well make sure that you're able to defend yourself in case of an attack." She smiled, marking a little pose, then saying. "This is also a community; some of the past student decided to stay here to help. It isn't limited to teachers, but everything useful, like doctors and other people. Students are welcomed from every species, and we make sure that everyone can live together without causing any problems." She giggled softly, saying: "If you're here, it is because you're special in a good way. And so, welcome to the Solatium Academy. Since it is your first time here, there will be someone that will inform about your room as soon as possible." She smiled, calming herself down before glomping William. "If you excuse me, I have other to do on my hand. If you need any help, don't mind to ask people around you." She smiled, waving and walked away.

When she was alone in the corridors, she sighed softly, muttering in amusement: "Miss Kono....eh, never heard of that." The flame suddenly appeared infront of her and she leaned forward, saying: "So, what is wrong with him now...?" She doubt the worst. Her ears flattened and she stopped wagging her tail as she heard what is happening to Ankin and she sighed. "Again...? Well, I guess it is normal for him, afterall." she said to herself. She kissed the flame and it went again. She quickly dashed out of the academy, into the Flux Valley, hoping that she could find Ankin before his insanity make more deaths than he wanted to make. She tried to guide herself with the sent of Ankin, but it was hard since Ankin's scent blended in with the other scent, and the fact that he changed means he have a new scent. She sighed and just continued, still hoping.

~~

Ayumu nodded softly to the person kind-of-a-question and smiled. "Yes, they say it is a common aspect of a kitsune. I wonder what are the other things about them." Then something hit his head; Tiakono was a kitsune too. He knew that she might know more about kitsunes than anybody else in this academy. He looked around; he was sure that she was there a moment ago. He then glanced back at Derek, asking: "Hey, have you seen bi-- I mean, someone named Tiakono? She is a kitsune too." he knew that if he use the nicknames he used, Derek wouldn't understand which person he was talking about.

She smiled kindly. "Cool shades." She complimented. Lynxx.had her sunglasses in her bag but she onlu wore them occasionly. She pulled her hands out her pockets. Her nails were painted a deep red and ever so neatly grown. She jeld one wrist witj the other casually.

Drake shook his head. "Only when you were talking to her earlier." He had silently watched the two talk, since he was still trying to figure out what Ayumu was. "But, when she left she went that way." He said, pointing in the direction she had walked. "Happy hunting." He said to him before turning and walking the other direction, back to his things.

When he got there, he was relieved to find everything was still there. He quickly put his coat back on, and threw on his backpack. Now he let his nose lead him to the cafeteria. It led him through the halls of the school until he entered a door. "Oh mama." He said as he immediately made his way to a selection of blood. He quickly grabbed a small bottle and took a sip.

Ruin was unsure of what was going on, he may have been living in those moutains by this place for a long time but he never expected to find something like this, he never saw anything like that before. Stressing greatly all of the sudden a slight shining came from his pcoket, the one he put the fragment in, he didn't know why but he took it out and noticed it would fit in a small part of the stone he had, it was like a puzzle, taking out the rock he then moving the fragment around on the symbol of the rock and eventually it snapped into place, why did it fit in the rock?

"Kaoz...I need to go...now..." Then getting up he had created another slab and began riding it quickly through the forest, towards the mountain. Something else felt strange up in his home, a strange aura wwas there all of the suddenand it made chills go down his spine. Soon one could see dust flying up and a strange formation of rock going up the moutain quickly and disappear somewhere near the top, he had astily retreated into his cave to find that the odd formation of rock that always had been in his cave actually had the same symbol on it and it seemed to have a replica of the fragment in the symbol on it now.

"What is this...? This day is so weird..." As son as he said it a light flashed brightly in his cave and he fell on the ground unconscious, the formation stopped shining and the aura presence was gone.


Rraven was joyous, even if she had to be at a place she didn't want to be atleast one of her friends would be here, or well one of her only friends atleast since she had always found more interest in reading than socializing.

"Yes, my parents sent me here, I was thinking this was going to just be a pain being here." Giggling softly and smiling slightly. Stopping for a moment she looked back to the mountain seeing the clouds of dust but just shrugged and looked back to him.

"Did you see that guy? He just...just...I don't know really." Looking puzzled and a little concerned as she then got lost in thoughts and began walking towards the Academy again, arms crossed and a stiff face.

A distinct roar from Ankin was heard in the forest.

Tia picked up the sound with her ears and changed her direction, trying to run as fast as she could, on the long distance that was. She wondered what could have happen with Ankin. What would make him bring to an insane state that he had to hide himself in the forest? She hoped that it was something that could be fixed, she just hoped...She suddenly pass infront of Kaoz, without even stopping to say an hi or asking her direction; she was determined on what she was doing, hoping that she will be there before something bad happen with Ankin.

~~

Ayumu facepalmed himself lightly, saying: "Gosh, why didn't I think of it before." He giggled softly to his foolishness and looked at Drake as he pointed in directions, then saying: 'happy hunting' and turned away and abandon him there. Ayumu wanted to walk with Drake, talking more to him, but he understand that there is other stuff that matters to him as for now. He only shrugged and went in the direction he pointed and strolls around the corridors, hoping to find Tiakono soon enough. He began to like this place; everyone seems to be friendly. He might stay afterall, if it is ok with Ankin, as he thought.

~~

Kamoku nodded softly. "I see. My parents decided that too, though, to be honest, I don't to. But you know how my parents are." He pulled out his tongue and make a disgusted face, and went back to normal. Raven was the last person he would except to find in the Academy, but apparently, destiny bond them in the same place again. Oh well, this wouldn't be much of a pain now.

He then tilted his head, thinking for a second. That guy? Was she talking about the one that suddenly transformed into a demon? He just shrugged, closing his eyes and tilts his head to the side. "Something tells me we will see him again...under other circumstances."

Shrugging she just continued in and soon reaching the bridge she stopped halfway down it and then looked over the edge quietly, an irritated look on her face.

"This is going to be a pain..." Looking over to the Academy the same way and then proceeding towards it, her only thought right now was where a nice quiet place was so she could read and that was the only thing she would care about, tuning everything else out now and not caring where she was going which was a mistake be soon she felt a tug on her leg and looked down confused seeing a string and then looking to see where it was coming from until she saw a bucket hanging high above her and then beginning tilting to the side until water rained down on her, the intials EW were on a close wall and a faint laugh could be heard. Yelling loudly in anger she started running into the Academy and started looking everywhere for the one responsible.

"Hey who did this!" A dead glare in her eyes as she drew her scythe but then paused seeing how ridiculous she looked and then tieing the scythe to her back again and walking away annoyed, sitting on a bench then and pulling out her book which luckily wasn't touched by the water.

He continued on the bridge to her side, without making any importance to his surrounding.

'This is going to be a pain...' the voice of hers resonate in his mind as he looked back at her, seeing that she already entered into the academy. Once he entered into the academy, he stayed completely silent; too much people. There was too much people around there. Why was he there? He wondered. He didn't like to be social, and prefer to just stay silent and proceed in. He forgot about Raven and looked around, completely lost. Too much people. He wondered where did she go; in her room maybe? He didn't know, but soon her shout came to his ears and he quickly walked to the source of it. She saw her being poured water on. He didn't find it funny at all, and wondered who would do such things to a women? He sighed, guessing this will be like she described. He quickly followed her and make sure to not lost her from his eyes.

He looked at her with her scythe and then she just got back to a bench, pulling out a book. He knew how she hate to be threatened, nor how it is so noisy around here. Too much people, he repeated to himself. He wondered where is the library, if there is even one. He quickly skip a few step and walked in a certain direction. He soon found the library, by pure chance, maybe. He looked around, trying to see if there is a book that would caught his eyes. He didn't know which one he should pick, nor why he should pick one anyway. He just guessed that the library would be a better place to be if he want to be calm. He climbed a ladder and carefully chose a black tome. He didn't knew why he pick that one in particular, but he remembered that he had one in his library back at his old home, but he never wondered what could be found inside.

The book borrowed, he went back to see Raven and he though lightly on her clothing and say: "Come." He didn't know if she would come with him, but he was already walking in a direction that he chosen in his mind. Left, right, left, right, the pattern seemed to be predefined in his mind, and soon he chose a door. The room seemed to have never been occupied, as a bed was found, along with some other furniture. He sighed softly, sitting down on one of the chair, opening the book that he picked up at the library, and said: "This is much better." to himself. The walls make like if there was nobody outside of it, that he was alone. He didn't remember if he asked that, but it was a nice feature to have in this noisy school.

By now she was already in her little sort of reading trance and would end up ignoring just about everyone so she never heard Komaku.

Meanwhile atop the Academy walls sat the mischief loving culprit, Ethan.

"Let's see where this goes..." Chuckling a little as he ran over to a nearby roof and hopped on, sliding and jumping down from buildings until he reached ground and then proceeding to follow him. Only one thing he had in his head at the moment, could this guy be amusing to him? Unsure he just shrugged it off and continued until getting to a door that the boy went past to do whatever.

"Alright, let's see what this kid is doing..." Sneering as he pushed open the door silent and leaned against the doorway, looking at him with a grin and his tongue slipping out of his mouth a few times before he moved closer and pushing the bok down with one finger, leaning in.

"Kinda sad seeing as my little trap didn't hit you, the girl was pretty amusing though, all I can say now is...well...gotcha!" Then jumping back he threw a strage device down and then ran out of the room in a quick hurry, wicked laughter being heard but then interupted by multiple loud noises overlapping eachother and a thick smog coming from the machine he dropped on the ground.

Even though he knew that Ethan was in the room, he didn't care much. Even though he interrupted his lecture for a moment, to talking to him, he didn't care. Even though there was a strange device that seemed to not give any sleep to him, he didn't care. To be honest, he looked like if never happened, he never stopped his lecture. The smog didn't even came close to his book, like if it was pushed away by a force. The noise seemed to not be a trouble, since there was somekind of ear thing to cancel outside noise was formed with somekind of shadow. He just sat down there, reading his book, flipping page time to time, not even preoccupied by what is happening around him.

He just wondered why that guy do such things, and why he was allowed to do so? Too much people, he thought to himself, even though he was somewhat left alone. Something tells him to take a revenge on the guy that make that joke, but he stayed ignorant of that suggestion, concentrating on his book. A shadow suddenly appeared after a while and the machine was cut in half as the smog stopped so does the noise did. He stayed the same expression after all of this.

Claire Crowfeather went into the cave that had shone brightly only a few minutes ago. When she went inside she found a young boy apparently asleep. "Hey my names Claire" She said to the boy. "Hello?!" she said irritated that the boy hadn't woken to the sound of her beutiful voice, so she started pulling on his face yelling "Wake up! You should be honoured to be woken by a voice as beautiful as my own!" She gave him a death glare glare a death glare when he still wouldn't wake up. "Alright" she said flying slightly over his head. "You asked for it" She pointed her hand at him in the form ogf gun. "Bang" She said making a cute gesture bringing down her thumb a tiny sphere blasted from her index at rocket speed hitting him on top of the head. Creating a sharp pain.(Claire is only a six inch tall fairy. her magic shot only creates a short sharp pain, no real damage).

Greyson spead down the hallway trying to avoid as little attention as possible, if any at all. Her hair waved behind her in a flag like gesture. She hid her face in her books. She was looking for a place to hide.

She eventually found a place. A janitor like closet, it was perfect. She opened the door quietly and closed it and slid her back down a wall. She smiled. She felt safe here. She opened her books and read and studied quietly.

Drake lowered the bottle from his lips. "Hmm." He mused as he raised it again and took another sip. It didn't taste the same as he was used to. What was different? He was unable to put his finger on exactly whatever it was. He continued to think about it until the bottle was empty. With his thirst quenched, he felt relieved that he no longer wanted to eat his fellow creatures.

He decided to take another bottle, just in case he got the munchies again. He shrugged one of the straps of his bag off, before reaching back and putting the bottle into his bag. He re-shouldered the strap and walked out of the cafeteria. As he stood outside taking a breath of air, he wondered what he was going to do next.

"I have to see what that was, c'mon Gyaku!" Running quickly along the mountain range, destination being the source of the bright light and the noise, he could see it from a long way back. Letting his curiosity and eagerness get the best of him he wouldn't even be paying attention to the damage he was causing, shoving boulders outof the way and lettings them roll down the moutain, leaving burn markings everywhere, and tearing up the ground in his pursuit to get there with nothing in his way. Soon reaching the mouth of the cave all he saw was a save filled with random junk, some kid on the ground, and a stranger who he guessed was intruding or something.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Tilting his head for a minute and then running up to the kid, poking him a few times but stopping as a sharp stalagmite extended from the ceiling and stopped once touching the ground, hanging between Sparrow's hand and the kid's head.

The stalagmite was his doing, never before had he been able to do something like that but earlier he felt some strange new power in him, he just went with it.

"Ugh...both of you...get out..." Unsteadily standing up unti he was on both feet and head down. Raising his arm and head the stalagmite went back up, then clenching his fist he kneeled down and shoved his arm in the ground, pulling it back up with a stone blade on it.

"You can't be here!" Then quickly he ran foward at the girl and jumped up, thrusting the blade foward.

Seeing what was going on he normally would have joined in the fight but he felt too tired and didn't want to hurt the kid, quickly sprinting past them and running down the mountain towards the Academy.

Kaoz had nodded when Ruin said he needed to go, but the gesture was probably lost on him. After a while, she too decided to leave, still shocked. She scratched her arm on a gnarled tree, but ignored it then ran off back to the school.
Stay at the school, like you've been doing for fifty years. Don't leave unless you're with multiple people or a teacher...
Something is brewing,
something evil is going down... Probably soon...

Greyson slowly came out of the closet and looked around. She sighed in relief to see no one was around and she headed down the hall. Her feet tapped as she walked down the hallway, admiring the architecture of the school.

Her face lit up red when she heard someone. She hid. Or, tried to hide atleast. She suddenly ran into one of the room. There wasn't any class going on in it. She didnt move away from the door at all she tried to hide herself as much as possible while peeking her head up towards the window to see if anyone was still out there. Her face slowly dimmed as she sighed in relief once again.

lucus walked by the door to the classroom, stopping in front of it and put on a crocked smile. he opened it slowly as to not hit whatever figure lie behind it and peered in " why, hello there... hehe"

Greyson's face lit up agian and she squealed rather loudly and threw herself behind his desk. She slowly raised up. Peeking her eyes looking straight into his. She was shaking. "H-Hi..." Her voice was very small and shy sounding and faded at the end of the syllable.

"I'm coming!" he shouted back to his brother as he ran eagerly. He also heard the noise and the bright light. He was always happy about something strange, and he could agree with his brother that this much be a fun mystery. He help him shoving a boulder out of the way, He giggled at the burn marking and the the teared ground so there would be nothing in their way. He clapped his hand, still running. He reached the mouth of the cave and saw all the random stuff that was in it and some beings was already there. He giggled softly, waving, saying: "Hello!"

He saw that his brother poked the kid and a stalagmite extended and stopped to grow until it touch the ground. Seeing that the little kid wasn't in the best of his mood, and that the fact that his brother just got out, he did the same and followed him to the Academy. He giggled softly again and said to Sparrow: "You didn't got any luck, did you?" He smiled widely and take more field infront of him. He then hid in a bush and motioned his brother to do so. "There is something there...!" He whispered loudly.

Tiakono was just standing infront of a giant demonic creature. She sighed softly, her ears flattened, saying softly: "Please....don't attack." She slowly approached her hand to the creature. It accepted her petting and it calm itself.

He got out of the bushes and giggled softly, waving. "That creature is impressive! Is that a demon?" He smiled widely, forgetting that he was hiding.

The beast suddenly growled and quickly ran to the stranger, but then he felt that someone hit his neck, and he just fell down heavily, unconscious.

Tiakono putted Ankin to sleep as she glanced at the stranger, smelling her scent. It smelled like ashes and she shivered a little bit. "I'm sorry you guys, but you have to get away from this." She motioned to get away as well.

Gyaku slightly pouted and nodded. "Okay, you foxy lady." He giggled softly and ran away in direction of the academy once again.

As he went away, She kneed down, taking the creature in her hands as it slowly transformed back to the being that she know of Ankin. She sighed and ran to the academy. Once there, she went into her apartment and make him lay in her bed while she sat on the couch, smelling the delicious scent of tea. She poured some in her cup and sip some of it times to times, waiting for Ankin for waking up.

Lucus walked over and smiled. walking his stumbley croocked walk , he had a sm,ile on. he was a rather creepy man but he looked firendly " whatr you doin' in here eh? the classes havent even started yet. hehehe..."

Greyson crouched again. "I... Well... Uhm... Was hiding from... People..." She seemed rather socialy akward and she sat down on the floor. SHe could tell he looked rather firendly but she wasnt going to take any chances.

"Your excellent physical specimens. what species are you?" said Claire as she flew beside the Basrrelen Brothers. "By the way would you happen to have any candy?" she said making really cute eyes which was really easy considering how beautiful she was to begin with.

Luxas smiled and lauphed, he had a few screws loose but he was a really smart man. he walked over to her and offered a hand to pull her up " no need to hide from people here. hehehe im Mr.Bangheart... or Mr.bnesaws if you prefer.... hehe "

Greyson hesitated for a moment and pondered in her mind weather to take his hand or not but she did. She stood up and looked at him "Im Greyson... Greyson... Smith..." her eyes tucked behind her hair quickly but were still some what visible to him.

Lucus smirked crockedly and took wht he needed from the room and started off to leave " you migh want to think about joining my class. hehe... thers usually good students in it "

Greyson suddenly nodded and walked out of the room. She had actually already signed up for his class and was looking forward to it. She smiled at him. Her first smile to anyone in years. "I already have your class... Sir..."

Once Kaoz had reached the school, her skin was seared red and burned all over, but she was shaking from the sight she'd just seen with Ruin. The corpses weren't very far from the bridge, maybe half a mile... Whatever was attacking everyone was getting bolder, gettin closer to the school with each day...
Then she had a flashback. It was late october, just before the Hollow's Eve dance, fifteen years ago at Solatium Academy. A student had been rumored to disappear, but she didn't mind it too much. She was walking down the hall, taking her bright red dress to be washed for the next night.
Then she saw it.
Her boyfriend, her dance, the student rumored to have disappeared, she didn't know it was him that had disappeared, but when she saw him... He had an expression of pure fear with his eyes wide open.
No pupils.
No shadow.
Her dance had lost his soul somehow.
He was being carried by two teachers, and the teachers told her they'd found him near the shadows, the most dangerous area of the dark woods....
Kaoz came out of her flashback shaking even more.
Could these deaths have been linked somehow...?
Then a loud bell sound resouned across the school, not a riiiiiinnnnngggg of a school bell, but more of a ding... Dong... Of a church bell.
The summer lunch bell. The school lunch bell was a normal ring, but it was still summer. The bell sounded at one o' clock, and everyone who needed food, that weren't eating in their rooms, was expected to be there.
It would be nice if she was social, get her mind off of things, so instead of going to her room she headed for the cafeteria.

Yet again, Drake was confused. He didn't know if he wanted to find his room or explore. He sighed, and took a seat on a bench next to the doors. His scarlet eyes scanned the courtyard in front of him, watching other creatures going about their business.

After a few minutes he reached into his pocket and withdrew his knife. Once again, the soft clicks filled the air as he played with the intricate tool.

Greyso wandered into the courtyard. And wandered around for a little while and say down under a tree alone as usual. She looked around at every ode else. She sighed and looked at the ground below her.

"Hey Div, what does that bell mean?" asked William to Divina. He wondered if the bell had significance or was just telling the hour.

Tiakono sighed softly; it was already time to eat and Ankin as yet to woke up. She looked back to his companion, seeing that he doesn't really appear alive. Why does it takes so long for him to wake up? She thought to herself as she remember to hit him not so violently, but enough to make him unconscious and go back to his normal form. She standed up and asked some of those flames she usually have to help her. She had two hands and couldn't transport her diner along with Ankin's one. The flames help her to pick up the things she couldn't take in one trip and put it in her apartment. She thanked them and rewarded them, but she keep one so that it keeps Ankin's foods warm. She ate her food silently, listening to her own noise and the one from the flames and Ankin silent breathing, and someone else.

~~

Gyaku giggled softly and looked at the stranger that was besides him and his brother. He wondered why she said specimens "We're dragons hybrids." He showed his sharp teeth with a smile and he shook his head. "No, I don't have any candy. I'm sorry, but you're beautiful like that." He giggled softly and looked back to his brother, saying: "C'mon, I'm pretty sure at this rate, we'll miss the food." He giggled and speed up again.

~~

Kamoku closed his book loudly and puts it down gently on the table. Even though he was almost deaf because of his ears protector things, something told him to got out of his room to get the food. He was also hungry, forgetting to eat before getting on his way to the academy. He looked around; too much people. He sighed softly, making sure that his crystal ball is still attached tightly to his belt. He picked up his and went into his room again, eating alone. He like silence, and prefer to stay away from crowded places. He begin to be very anxious when he gets into a crowd. He also wondered where Raven is, since he didn't saw her for a while now, and hope that guy who tried to get him mad would just go die into a hole. He shook his head; no, he does not want to have dark thoughts right now, it would make matter only worst. He eat his meal silently.

~~


Ayumu went to get his food as well, and when he saw Tiakono, he decided to follow her. When she was on her way to the apartment, she said it was ok that Ayumu diner with her, since she prefers to watch over him. Once they were there, he looked at Ankin and wagged his tail, saying: "Is big guy sleeping? How he could sleep on meal time!?" He said louder, though it didn't wake up Ankin from his eternal sleeping. He sat down on one of the seat and ate his meal, a bit loudly.

Tiakono giggled softly to Ayumu's question and responded: "He isn't sleeping. He is just unconscious." She laughed to the noise of Ayumu eating, remembering her the kitsunes she met earlier in the year, especially Taokaka. The was one of the most energetic of them all, which she gladly appreciated, since she could do almost anything with her. She like to have freedom, but she learn the hard way how to stay put.

Drake was glad he had gone in when he had done so. Some time after he sat down a bell had rung, and many "people" had entered the cafeteria. He was glad his luck had worked out like that. It was nice to have something just work out.

As he continued to flip his knife around, until he noticed a lone girl sitting under a tree. A slight shiver ran through his body as he examined her. No, it couldn't be. She was gone. But he just had to check. He quickly stood up, and flipped his knife shut before stuffing it into his coat pocket.

He casually made his way over to the girl, until he was within talking range. God, the resemblance was incredible. She looked exactly like her. "H-Hannah?" He asked the girl under the tree.

William realized that Div wasn't really talking any more. "Div Ill see you later alright. I'm gonna go see what all the people are doing." with that William left Div.
once inside the school William followed the main flow of people. When he turned around the corner he bumped into someone. They both fell to the floor William sat up "I'm sor..." William couldn't finish his sentence. He had bumped into a cute petite girl with black hair and red streaks, her skin looked slightly reddish as if she had tooken a sunburn. But that didn't matter to William she was the cutest thing he had ever seen(well at least from what he remembered).
So he sat there just looking at her. Finally he swallowed his nervousness and said a chokey "Hello".(William bumped into Kaoz).

~~~~~~
Meanwhile
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Claire had nestled herself on Gyaku's shoulder she asked him "Hey are we going to get candy?" With her black as night deep innocent eyes that made a person feel like never disappointing her.

Almost the entire time when running along with his twin he wasn't paying attention, he was curious about the kid but couldn't sense him anymore, did he fall unconscious again? The question fogged his mind but it didn't last long since he soon began running in a different direction, away from his twin and the stranger then accidentally colliding with someone, they both began tumbling down for a few seconds and e then got up confused and disoriented.

"What did I just hit...a rock?"

Raven was walking through the forest, she was annoyed after the incident with the water bucket earlier so she decided to read her book away from all the nuisances yet there were still some out there. Randomly she was tackled, she wasn't worried for herself but her book, watching it fly back and hit the dirty ground.

"M-my book..." Then quickly she raised her scythe and swung with great force, cutting one tree all the way through as the stranger jumped into the air to dodge it, the tree falling down and a few birds flyig away from the area. Quickly the attacker had made two large flames once landing on the ground but he immediately stopping as his body froze, a strange black vine-like thing was wrapped all over him and constricting him, he let out a scream in pain as she then released him, letting him hit the ground. Once he was down she walked over to her book and picked it up, dusting it off and walking away beginning to read again.

"Neanderthal..."

Greyson looked up quickly from her books and hid her face quickly as she did her papers slid out and fell around her. She scurried and tried to pick them up. She shook her head. "I-Im Greyson... Not a Hannah..." She looked up at him again.

"Sorry." Drake apologized. "You just look like someone I knew." His voice choked slightly towards the end of his sentence. "Sorry to bother you." He said before turning away. A painful memory flooded back to him as he thought about her. Hannah, his younger sister.

"Hey Drake, look what I found!" A small, brown haired girl said to him, holding up a small shell triumphantly.

Some tears welled into his eyes as he walked away. He quickly wiped them away, and tried to focus on something else.

Greyson suddenly felt the urge to speak up to him. She pulled a tissue from her back pocket and handed it to him. "Are you alright...?" She tilted her head softly. She thought to her self. "Maybe he will accept you..." She once again pondered the thought in her head wether to start trusting people or not.

"I-Im Greyson Smith. You are?" She was trying to change the topic so it would be less awkward in his case. It was odd to her. Most of the guys at this academy are all big and tuff. She had never seen a boy cry before. It was strange but she shook the feeling away and smiled at him.

"Drake." He said, a little more harshly than he meant to. He accepted the tissue and quickly dried his eyes. Luckily, his scarlet eyes helped to hide the white part turning red. He turned back to her and forced a small smile, doing his best to hide his fangs so he wouldn't scare her off. "Sorry about that. Like I said, you just reminded me of someone."

Kaoz entered the empty cafeteria.
No one in the school, besides the little kids in early elementary, was in the cafeteria.
"Guess I am eating in my room..." She said and slowly but quietly walked back to her room.

Divina had still been in a daze, and opened his mouth to answer William. But the words never came out, it's not normal to fall from around thirty stories up and survive. It's a wonder he even got launched that far. The school's only three stories high.

Greyson nodded at him. "Don't worry about it." Her voice was rather soothing whenever she spoke up. It seemed to always want to turn shy again but she forced herself to keep talking to him. "Uhm, So." She could slightly see his fangs poking out. She didn't mind them all that much. She actually had to extremely small ones herself, Being a Wood Elf and all, Fangs come in handy for eating.

"I see you have fangs." she said with a smile, showing hers. "I have some too."

She smiled kindly. "Cool shades." She complimented. Lynxx.had her sunglasses in her bag but she onlu wore them occasionly. She pulled her hands out her pockets. Her nails were painted a deep red and ever so neatly grown. She jeld one wrist witj the other casually.

-Drake-

"Yeah." He said, before pulling his mouth into a grin so they were more visible. He examined her fangs. They were small, but fangs none the less. However, her eyes were not red, so she couldn't be a vampire. She certainly could pass as a vampire though, with her fangs and pale skin.

"I don't mean to be rude, but what are you?" He asked.


-Blaze-

Blaze looked up at the school as the bell rang. A small breeze picked up, causing her hair to flutter lightly. Of course, she didn't feel cold. Her rods made sure of that. She continued down the road, glaring at everything in her path. She was resisting igniting a small pile of logs on fire. It would be entertaining, even if only for a short time. Besides, she might accidentally start a forest fire.

As if she cared. But she knew that this place was home to some powerful creatures, some even more so than her. She'd managed to incinerate several foes in her time, but who knew what kind of magic some of them possesed? Those thoughts vanished when she came to the bridge.

"Water." She hissed from under her rags. She hated it. Being a creature of fire didn't help much either. She growled as her legs changed to flame. Weightlessy she left the ground, and flew over the bridge and the wall. With gracefull poise, she landed and changed back. Her eyes looked around the courtyard, surprisingly empty.

Greyson just smiled at him and yawned softly before she answered. "I'm a Wood Elf, And Im guessing your a vampire?" She had a slight bit of sarcasm in her voice as a joke. She could totally tell he was.

Divina smiled and wiped some blood off of his lip. He looked around. He snapped and light burst from his thumb. He frowned and tried again, this time a fmale sparked from his thumb, he willed it to grow across his hand. He stared at the flames.
"Heh..." Was all he managed before breaking into a coughing fit.

Seth stared blankly at Lynxx.
"I guessss they are. I do not keep these for the looks though." He said. "If thy were to look into my real eyesss, thou shall be turned into stone." His face remained emotionless.

Kaoz sped down the halls then back out into the courtyard, instantly she began to smoke. She didn't combust but small curls of smoke rose off of her skin. She winced at the pain and bit her lip absentmindedly effectively drawing blood with her fangs. She looked around.
"What did I just do...?" She rhetorically asked herself. She was about to do something, and ran outside but instantly forgot. She started to wimper, the sun burning her and she darted under a tree.
"Damn..." She looked around some more.
Then she remembered. She looked around, there were thirteen trees in the courtyard. Scattered. Number three from the north, two from the east, the tree was a bit smaller than the rest. She walked up to it, and picked up a rock from the ground. It looked like an ordinary rock, besides the ract it perfectly matched the tree's bark color. She noticed a hole in the tree then smiled.
"Perfect!" And she slid the rock into the hole, closing it. It was completely unnoticeable, yes, but it served its purpose...

Gyaku looked at his brother who just changed direction, thinking it was only a trick. "Nan, I don't think there will be candy. But hey, we won't lose ho-" He suddenly hears his brother screaming, and he changed direction to the source. Once he was there, he could see his brother lying on the ground and he looked up to Raven. "So, we're taking on my brother, um?" He put a little smile on his face. He looked down to his brother, helping him up, saying: "You ain't got any luck today, don't you?" He giggled softly.

~~

Ankin suddenly opened his eyes and silently sat down on the bed. where am I? he wondered when he was looking around, but he soon smiled as he saw Ayumu and Tiakono sat down on the couches in the apartment. He quit the bed and went to them and sighed softly, saying: "Hello there, thanks for bringing me food." He giggled and thanked the flames before starting to eat his food.

Tiakono, who thanked the flames too, smiled at Ankin. "Good noon." She said, joking a little bit, but it was true though. She let Ankin eat silently as she took sips from her tea.

Ayumu giggled softly and puts his hands in the air, smiling widely, saying: "Good noon, big guys." And giggled with Tiakono and continued on his meal. When he finished, he puts the place on the table that was infront of him and wagged his tail as he walks around energetically. He then stopped infront of Tia and puts his finger on his lips and wondered something: Did I forgot something? Afterwards something hit his head and he gasped and giggled, leaning forward. "Hey, I'm a bit lost on my species. Can you help me?" He smiled widely, wagging his tail in hope.

Tiakono tilted her head first when she looked at Ayumu, then to the other side when he asked to have more information on his species. She smiled softly, standing and went to her library. She browsed through the titles until she pulled out a little black book. There was no title on it, but she knew what was the content of it. She handed it to Ayumu, smiling kindly, saying: "When you're finished with it, please bring it back like it was."

Ayumu looked at the book, tilting it to the side, then to the other. He slightly pouted childishly, saying: "But I don't want to read. And why there is no title?" Tia shook her head and laughed softly. "You gotta to, and there is no title because it is not a book we found everywhere." And she winked. Ayumu gasped in surprise and took care the way he was holding the book; it got to be precious. More, it was unique. "I-I'll make sure it is safe." He said in a shaking voice, as he thought, he was given the most important task in the world. Tia giggled and patted Ayumu's head. "You're so adorable." and they both laughed.

When Ankin finished his meal, he looked around, searching for something. He then glanced at Tiakono, saying: "Hey, have you took my tome?" He looked very concerned. Tia shook her head and then gasped. "Don't you mean...?" Ankin nodded and he suddenly emitted dark mist, before teleporting once again in the forest. He looked around, until he saw a book trapped in what looked like a black forcefield. He sighed softly and took the book, his hands traveling through the forcefield like if it was not there and he took it in his hands. He said into the air, like if there was someone: "Thanks dad." and he walked away as the forcefield disappeared also. He didn't teleported back to the academy, feeling that there was something wrong, and it was close to him.

-Drake-

"Yeah." Drake lied. "Vampire." He didn't want to reveal his true species this early in the year. Who knew how people would react? "Hmm, never heard of a wood elf." He said, trying to change the subject.


-Blaze-

Now what? She thought to herself. The courtyard was basically empty, aside from someone here and there. This was fine by her, just meant she wouldn't have to deal with anyone, boys especially. She had no idea why they thought her attractive. Probably because I'm "hot". She laughed lightly at her joke before continuing down the path in the middle of the courtyard.

<Sorry, ignore Gyaku. Didn't mean to add him.>

Greyson nodded and looked around and sighed. "As you can already see, I'm not much of a people's person," she chuckled embarrassingly. "I have honestly only talked to you and one of the teachers here." Her voice didn't really seem to fade at the end of her syllables now for some odd reason. "My sister should possibly be coming here soon and trust me. She will most likely get a lot of attention. She is rather quite pretty compared to my image." She chuckled again.

-Drake-

Drake snickered. Now he started to wonder about her sister, when he saw something out of the corner of his eye that caught his attention. He turned to look at it. It was a her. She was dressed in orange rags, with a hood over her head. But what mystified him the most, were the rods surrounding her.

He continued to look at her, before commenting. "Like that?"

"Hey looks like that guy got beat by a girl." Claire laughed at sparrow. "Hey would you happen to have any Candy?" Claire asked Raven.

Lucus sat down in some random classroom, setting his hat down and a cat jumping off hishead . " hehe... there ya go kitten.... " Lucus let the cat wanter and said back, sleeping in an awkward slumped position for... a very long time.

Greyson sighed. "Sadly, No," she pointed to a girl that was walking into the court yard. "That's her."
The girl was a magnificent creature. Jewels aligned her face and a small golden crown rested on her forehead. Her body was slim and curved perfectly and she walked ever so gracefully. A skip in her step each step she took.

-Drake-
Drake nodded. "Sorry, that fire-girl... never mind." He had run-ins with Elementals before, and they tended to not be pleasant experiences. "Anyway, care to introduce me?" He said with a smile. Greyson seemed like a nice girl, and it would be nice to have some friends in this place.

-Blaze-
"Hmm." She mused to herself, looking around at the architecture. It seemed to her that this place looked to be made mostly of stone. Boring, grey, unflammable stone. "Lucky for them." She said to no one in particular. Eventually she made her way inside, and continued to wander.

Ayumu smiled widely and looked at Tiakono and said: "well, I much keep going, gotta meet more people." He giggled and went out. He strolled in the corridors, in search for someone interested, as he stumbled on somekind of fight...

"Kya!" She shouted as she was violently sent flying backward and went directly into a wall. She body fell to the ground as she coughed some blood. Some jerk took her by her neck, and his friend took the egg that was on the ground and they laughed. She cried and shouted: "Hey! Give it back!" She was set on her feet, though she was pinned to the wall. The other one brought the egg high up into the air and grinned to the girl. She cried more and shouted: "Don't do it!" She then shouted as she closed her eyes and tend her hand infront of her and the other one to the middle of her chest, grabbing her clothes tightly: "No!" She then thought that the person already threw on the ground...she heard something hit the ground, but it sounded more like bodies falling than an egg shattering. She didn't try to open her eyes, but she felt tapped on her shoulder and she opened her eyes slowly as she heard a young male voice saying: " I believe this is yours. " She opened her eyes as she grabbed the egg as fast as she could, not breaking it. She held it tightly against her chest, closing her eyes. She opened them again to see a kitsune that was standing infront of her, as the jerks were unconscious. Her eyes widen once again, as she didn't know what to say.

Ayumu put his finger on her lips gently, saying with a smile: "Don't say anything; the important is that you have it." He smiled as he could see that she blushed and looked away. Her clothes were torn as she was bleeding from everywhere. Ayumu sighed softly, saying: "Stupid people." as he gently wiped the blood on her mouth off. He stepped back as he could see that she was a bit uncomfortable.

Tiakono arrived in the scene a bit late as she could see that Ayumu already took the situation in his hands. She sighed in relief; she thought that someone was going to die. She walked slowly to the two other being and asked: "Are you gu- ?" but the question was rhetorical as she could see that Larianne was bleeding from everywhere, her clothes soaked in her blood. She quickly took Larianne by the hand and said: "Come, you have to see the doctor." Tiakono could see that she nodded and she accepted being taken by the hand, while the other one was taking the egg. She let a small flame there. Ayumu also followed to the doctor's door and Tiakono knocked before opening the door. "Benjamin, we need your services." She let Larianne entering the room and she continued with: "Some people picked up a fight with her. For what regards them, it will be under my discretion." She looked up to Benjamin when she said that.

(Using an iPod)
Benjamin Bangheart

When they came in he was sitting at his desk in the corner, head in hands and legs crossed, only until a few seconds later he then moved, motioning for the girl tosit on the table next to the desk and then turning his chair around, looking coldly at Tiakono and then to the girl.

"Geez and I thought Ethan was causing havoc...how does stuff like this keep happening?" His stare disturbing and empty, as if he was brainless. Standing up he then started walkingto the door and stepping outside.

"Both of you say there, Tiakono may I have a word with you? It's something involving safety of the school." For once he actually wanted to talk to someone, usually he just sat in his office at all times with little contact or sight anywhere else, he never even talked to his younger brother.

Ayumu and Larianne both noded softly as they entered into the room. Ayumu looked at the egg and then into Larianne's empty eyes. He wondered why she why like that; it looked unusual to him, but he didn't want to talk to her since she still looked uncomfortable and she was still blushing. Though her innocent voice rose up as she said: "You're probably wondering why? As you, I would like the answer." she sighed softly, sitting down and looks away from Ayumu. Ayumu nodded softly and respected her silence, since she meant like it.

Tiakono sighed softly. He knows better how the academy works in term of safetyness...no? She has no clue if it was a new doctor or if he was, infact, always working in there. She looked directly into his eyes, not phased by his cold glare, staying serious; she didn't want to laugh in his face. Her ears twinched a little as she began to speak once again. "So, what is your question about this school safetyness?" For a moment, she felt she knew more than him about it, since she had been talk about it for a long time before she was accepted.

Greyson~

Greyson made her way with Drake over to her sister and her sister smiled softly at them. "Drake Celeste, Celeste Drake."

Celeste smiled again and held her hand out. "It's nice to meet you." The few people that were still in the courtyard were staring at her. She hated this so much. She didn't like the attention.

Drake accepted her hand. "Nice to meet you too." Her hand was pleasantly warm, but it probably only felt that way to him because his were so cold.

He stood there and sighed for a moment and then closed the door, for once there was an emotion other than his usual, fear.

"Something is going on, I was informed by someone who's name I will not disclose but...well multiple bodies were found out in the forest, two kids found it and the one who I got this intel from had followed. The two that were there are both young, one is a student and the other is...well that doesn't matter but they're names are Kaoz Bloodred and Ruin Hailinx. Try and see if you can get details but try not to make it obvious to them, I want this to keep on the down low for a period of time, no need to start a panic." Then he opened the door again, face once again back to the cold and lifeless look as he inspected the girl and then held up one hand, pinching his fingers together as a small ball of aura rested on top of them.

"Stay still for a moment, I want this over with as soon as possible." Then getting closer it shot at her but disapeared a foot away from her and he then pulled out some gauze, wrapping her wounds with it and then putting it away again.

"It will heal soon, try not to let it happen again, I don't like having peopl around me often, they're annoying and too careless. If it does though use this, it's a small beacon, by ripping it you will be sending a message to me and I can help if you need immediate help, safety is my only concern so I try to keep people from being injured, it reflects poorly on the school, the staff, and more importantly me..." Then he left the small sheet of paper next to her on his desk and began walking out of the room and down the halls until he was gone.

lucus woke up eventually, smiling to himself " hehe.. i think ill pay brother a visit ..hehe hel love to see me " lucus stood up and took his hat, the cat sitting on the desk, he bent down slightly" come on kitty, wel go visit benjamen " he put his hat on over the cat and stumbles out of the class and down the halls to his office, seeing his brother he walked over happily .

~Greyson~

Greyson smiled and leaned against one of the walls that they were standing by and gave a very wryly smile.

~Celeste~

Celeste griped his hand softly and pulled her hand back down. "Your hands are very cold." She smiled at him. "I'd give you a hug but I barely know you!" She gave a soft giggle at her comment.

Her ears flattened a bit; People died in the Flux Valley? Why wasn't I informed? She sighed softly, not showing her fear for she just heard, but she was uncomfortable to such though. Tiakono had to investigate on that; it was her class, afterall. Do not say anything to anyone seems the good term for the demand of the doctor. "Don't worry, I'll do my best." She said in a confident voice. She wondered if she would bring Ankin in the same time. No! She shouted into her head first, I'm a woman now. I'm independent of Ankin. Even so, she felt that it was a bad choice, but she accepted the conditions as they were and turned her and walk in the direction of the flux valley, hoping that she will be done with it soon.

Larianne nodded and let Ayumu hold the egg. She was still nervous, but in her head; he is the only person that I can trust in... She let Benjamin take care of her wounds. She tilted her head as she listened cautiously to his words; He doesn't appear to like people very much. Oh well. She looked at the thing that he handed her and carefully put it in her pocket, since she couldn't put it anywhere else. She took her egg back, and they went outside of the room with Ayumu. He said that he was going away from her, butt when he said that, she started to shake, and she asked: "Can you...stay with me a little longer?" She turned and smiled widely to him. "I like your presence." She could see that Ayumu blushed a bit, and she giggled. He agreed, and they went into the courtyard. "So, why are you here?" She asked kindly as they were still walking. Ayumu smiled to her, saying: " I was rescued by someone named Ankin. He's a really good guy." The name Ankin hit her head as she gasped. "I've been heard that I'll be meeting him soon, for some...um, how they call it... oh yeah, verifications ." She wondered why they wanted to verify something with her. Maybe because... No, I don't know the answer to my own question. She shrugged off her shoulders and glanced at Ayumu. "I was send here because they say that I was special." She giggled softly, feeling special.

Tiakono ears flattened when she saw the corpse on the ground; they didn't have any scent. She squinted her eyes; she couldn't see their magic aura. Maybe it was gone, or very very weak for now, but they looked dead. She inspected them longer, wanting to have much information that could know about them.

-Drake-

"Sorry about that. Vampire." He expained. "Don't worry, I won't try to eat you." Silently, he would have loved a hug. It had been so long since he had any kind of physical contact aside from mauling.

He was sitting in the tree when Tiakono was inspecting the bodies, deciding he had nothing better to do he would just follow her for a while, hopping down from the tree and a few feet from her.

"Sup, I'm guessing Ben told you?" He was the one who was following the kids here, not much for him too do really. Walking up to one of the bodies he smirked and laughed a little, he thought this was great, something big going on and he could have a part in it, how delightful.

"Kaoz is somehwere, don't care much and the Ruin kid is up in the moutains somewhere. I suggest we dispose of the bodies before it starts a panic though, even though it would be hilarious..." Shrugging as he backed up to a tree and leaned against it.

"Oh god...what do you want Lucus?" Crossing his arms and stareing at him with an irritated look. As he stood there a black cat jumped up from behind him and sat on his shoulder, also giving a kind of un-pleased scowl.

"This better be important, I have business to attend to..."

Celeste smiled and hugged him gently. Wrapping her arms around his back. She enjoyed giving hugs to people. She was so warm surprisingly. Her skin was so smooth and Greyson shrugged and joined in. Hugging from the other side.

-Drake-

He was taken off guard by their sudden attack. He missed this feeling. He really did. It made him fell safe an loved. But those feelings vanished when he felt his pulse quicken.

"Oh no." He said aloud. This was bad news. His transformation was being triggered, and it seemed these two weren't letting go anytime soon. Thinking about it only made it quicken faster.

Suddenly one of Celeste's friends came and grabbed her and they walked away giggling and Greyson let go and looked at him. "Well, that's my sister for ya'" she gave her smile again. One that could possibly tame a wild beast if necessary. Neither of them were aware of the long amount of time that was passing.

Tiakono jumped in surprised a bit as she looked back to Ethan, didn't noticing his scent, which was very rare, considering her species. She sighed softly; she guessed that it was the one that Benjamin talked about. Oh well, no more mysteries about him. She thought to herself as he approaches. "I guess you're right. Unless, I would like Ankin to check up on their aura, but I guess it is something I can't do. Besides, this is kinda my class room, and such things would make the students doubt about me" She giggled softly as she smirked deviously. "Say...since you and me and the other ones are the only one to know about this, how should we...dispose those bodies." She looked serious a bit, but also devious, as she was asking to Ethan a way to dispose them, but then she restricted him by saying: "No, we won't bring them at the academy. I want the corpses to disappear like if there were none." She giggled softly, smiling at Ethan. She liked to have freedom when she is not in the academy, and thought it was better not to let him get away with the idea of showing the corpse to everyone.

Ayumu smiled to her, saying: "Hey, what is up with the egg?" Larianne shrugged softly, holding it closely. "I don't know. I have it for a long time, but I'm still hoping that it will give birth to something awesome." She giggled softly and looked back at Ayumu, smiling. "And no, it is not food." She giggled again. Ayumu did too, wagging his tail. "Hmmm...Why such beautiful girl would be the prey of stupid people?" he asked. Larianne blushed a little and sighed softly. "I don't know. I would like the answer too, but all I can hear is that I'm a human." She shrugged softly, saying afterward: "If I was human, why am I here? Everyone seems to be non-human." Ayumu nodded delicately, stating: "It is true. Everyone is not human here, as I can tell. So, you much be non-human, in a special way." he giggled softly and saw Mr.Wolf from earlier, and he waved at him and the other ones. "Hello there!" He went to them and asked, eavesdropping a bit: "So, how are you guys?" he smiled widely. Larianne followed him a bit, hiding behind him as she held her egg tightly against her chest, and she peek out a little. She didn't say a word.

"Not good." Drake grunted in response to Ayumu's question. He clenched his eyes tight, and leaned against the tree. The newcomers weren't helping the situation. He could smell them. He could smell the blood running through their veins. A small sweat broke on his brow and he began to shake lightly.

All that went through his mind right now was preventing himself from changing. He did not want to kill these people. It was the last thing he wanted to do on this planet. He had to focus on that thought. It had to be the dominant thought in his mind. Now his whole weight was on the tree and he was gripping it so hard his knuckles turned white.

William was so embarrassed from what he had done that he just ran away in the end. He ran until he reached the woods and kept running until he came onto a most displeasing scene. Dead bodies everywhere. The smell was unbearable. He noticed Mrs. Kono talking to a student, but it was to much for him William passed out.

Greyson smiled at the small Ayumu and directed her attention back to Drake. Her expression immediately changed. Her look was worried. "Are you alright...?" She questioned him tilting her head lightly her eyes full of concern. She felt some what love for him. Not the kinda of dating love but love that he would talk to her.

"No... it's happening." He grunted. "I can't... stop it..." He was doing he best he could, but the transformation was still in full swing. Black hair began to grow slowly on his exposed skin. He staggered away from the tree and towards the gate. No matter what happened, he had to get out of the school. But he couldn't. He collapsed after a few steps, and just lay on the ground.

Greyson suddenly knew what was happening and she trotted quickly over to him. She knew he wasn't a vampire. It was obvious now that he has lied to her. She shook the thought away and knelt beside him. "Drake?" She didn't want to touch him, she was too afraid to but she knew she had to. She cautiously moved her hands to him. She shook him gently once then pulled her hands back quickly.

-Drake-

He flinched as she touched him. "No... get away." He grunted. He summoned the last of his energy and stood up, resuming his way to the gate. If he could, he would simply change to bat or wolf and run away. But no. Now that the change had begun, he couldn't do anything to nullify it. All he had to do was get as far into the forest as possible before his mind was lost, and with any luck people would be told to stay out of the forest.

Ayumu looked suprised to the sudden change of emotion of his friend. He hoped that it was only temporary. But for now, he needed to make sure that Larianne will be safe, since it seems that he can't be near her since she is bleeding. Besides, her clothes were soaked in blood and someone was already bringing attention to him. He turned to Larianne and said: "We need to change your clothes. It is never beautiful when it is soaked in blood.

"Sou?" She said in a foreing language and she giggled and tiled her head, ignoring what just happened. "I guess you're right. I will changes my clothing." She held her egg close and happy walked to her room. She felt safe with Ayumu presence around her, which makes her happier than usual. Ayumu followed her, for her protection. Once they were there, she makes Ayumu stop infront of her door and giggled softly, saying with a smile: "You might be my friend, but we aren't that far in." Ayumu giggled too and leaned against the wall next to the door, saying: "Go ahead. I'll be waiting for you." He pulled out the book that he borrowed from Tia and started to read it attentionally, since he really want the information about his species. Larianne leaped in, closing the door and hummed softly to herself as she was changing her clothing, with the egg near her.

He lauhed a little with a strange grin as he approached the bodies.

"Well, I'm hungry..." Then as he kneeled down he began shifting into his snake form, clothes disapearing and body morphing until he was a large dirty tan and yellow colored snake, beginning to devour all of the corpses within a matter of seconds, he was obviously a vile and despciable person to just go ahead and eat people. After a few seconds his form began changing again, his body was more humanoid again and his clothes came back.

"That'll tide me over for a while..." Wiping his mouth with a grin and then backing up to a tree and leaning against it, the entire time he just ignored the other one through that whole thing.

"What a fool..." Laughing slightly and then turning away and beginning to run off into the woods.


"I guess I should take a break from reading for a while..." Putting the book in a small bag of her's she then proceeded through the forest quietly, what was there to do here anyway? The question came up many times, no one here seemed remotely intrigueing so far.

"Ugh, this is so boring..." Walking over to a tree and sitting down on the ground next to it, pulling her legs up to her chest.

Greyson nodded and stood up quickly and ran inside. She found her sister and stayed with her until she eventually went back into the courtyard later that day. She knew he wasn't going to be there. 'Just leave him be, he can control himself' she thought as she yawned and laid down on a bench and eventually dozed off.

Tiakono rolled his eyes and giggled softly, grinning. "Bon Appétit!" She said in a french accent; something she learned when she was away. She saw the snake eating the corpse infront of her, and she didn't mind it at all, reminding her when she used to eat everything raw, still on the body. Once he was done and got away from the scene, Tiakono talked over her shoulder, saying: "You know; you are not very good to hide your scent..." Ankin got out of the bushes and scratched the back of his head, saying: "Sorry, You know that I don't want you to break your promise. As what about those corpses, I'll make my own investigations. It is rather...strange," and he could see that Tiakono nodded in agreement. He looked back to the body of a fainted body of a student and sighed. "I hope he won't remember anything..." He walked to the body, and a dark mist come out of Ankin.

He felt his arm grabbed by Tiakono as he transported himself, Tia and the fainted body into the student's room. The body was now laid on his bed, and Ankin disappear and reappeared in his apartment as he brought down his rock formation that reveals his stuff that he hid during his runaway thing. Tiakono pulled her tongue out and said: "Well, don't you mind if I ever stole your information about this," and leaped away, smiling widely in the corridors, looking around. Ankin rolled his eyes and giggled softly, pulling out some tome and some paper and a pen, starting to write in odd symbols.

Kaoz took a step back. The tree then disappeared.
"Nice!" She said with a mischevious grin. In the place of the tree was now a small tunnel; staircases leading down. When she reached the bottom it opened up to a 5 yard by 5 yards room, made completely of stone, as the rest of the staircase had been. On the floor lay a map, an unlit torch... Thank god. She miled at the fact it wasn't on fire, and there was something else. A few gold coins.
"Great, I have the supplies... Now I just need to know who would go on this crazy quest with me..." She walked back out, carrying the map and torch, money in pocket. The tree re-materialized, the rock popped out.

Divina strolled out of the lunch room, to where he had previously disappeared to. He was now absentmindedly stalkingthe halls... Then he remembered! His alchemy! What had he been doing before the explosion? Was his room okay...? Well, it was always a criptic mess, but sill...

-Drake-

It was difficult, but he drug himself to the gate. By now, the change was obvious. His fangs has elongated. Thick black fur sprouted all over his body. Wings had grown and ripped through his shirt. His mind was starting to cloud, but he was able to drag his way to the tree line.

By that time, the change was complete. He was twice his original size, and his clothes were in tatters around him. Thick black fur coated his body, and a tail wagged slowly behind him.

He threw his head back, and let out a howl. With that, he dropped onto all fours, and charged headlong into the forest.

Greyson tossed and turned on the bench. She was having a nightmare. Her childhood all over again. She woke up with a soft squeal and looked around. Her heart rate had increased tremendously and she was in a cold sweat she just looked around.

William awoke in the room with a start and freaked out until he found a letter that had fell to the floor in his sleep. He picked it up, it read


Dear William Brion we hope your stay at the academy will be comfortable and enjoyable. Here is a schedule for your classes.

William Found the envelope did have information on what he would be doing. It also said classes wouldn't start for some time. He put the envelope on a night table with a lamp. Besides that and the bed the room was bland with nothing in it. He wondered how he had been brought to the room and what happened to the bodies.
William ran to where he had seen the bodies. He searched hi and low every where but they were gone without a trace. With a heavy heart William tossed it off as a hallucination (he had a few since he had become a trickster so he wasn't worried about).
When William went back to campus he saw Divina Walking in the hallways so he called out to him "Hey Div Glad to see ya." He caught up to Div and gave him one of his compassionate smiles full of tenderness. "You won't believe the hallucination I had.

Divina spun on his heel to face William.
"Oh, hey. I bet I'd believe it... Trust me, I've been through a great deal." He smiled. The things that had been happening to him lately had been quite crazy... Amazingly scary, creepier than falling from the sky by far.

"Well guess i'll give it a try then. "I was running in the forest and I say dead bodies. Mrs. Kono was there and a student to, but that's all I remember. Then I woke in my room." William said to Divina. "I think I collapsed and had that hallucination. They happen a little ever since I turned into a Trickster. I guess being human might have been simpler, I can't remember, but it must not have been this exciting. I mean think about it, I've been here about an hour and I already have you for a friend." William said it with so much happiness. Deap down William felt that he had probably been an outcast before but things were better thanks to the Trickster in him.

Divina smiled a bit more.
"It's not that crazy!" He lightly punched William in the shoulder jokingly.

-Drake-

He was running on all fours at an incredible speed. He may have been large, but he could be fast. But he wasn't running blindly. The smell of blood was strong deeper in the forest. That was his goal. Only the thought of getting to that blood was running through his mind. Didn't matter if it was dead or alive, he was going to devour the poor victim.

-Blaze-

She had toured a large majority of the halls when she heard the howl. There was something about it that had made her stop and listen. It wasn't a werewolf, or even a wolf. It started low and began to trail off to the point it sounded like a screech. Whatever it was, it didn't affect her. She simply shrugged and continued to explore.

Divina cocked his head at the howl, as if trying to hear it better, then he just shrugged it off.

Kaoz had been following Drake at a steady pace, exactly thirty feet behind him running at exactly the same pace. She made sure she made absolutely NO noise, easy for her, and the wind was blowing behing her trailing her sent away from Drake. Her map was rolled up and tucked under her arm and the torch in her belt. She was already getting sidetracked... Oh well, this should be interesting.

Mika was running down the halls at high-speeds grinning like a maniac and yelling
"BEEP BEEP!"
Until she collided with Blaze.
"Oh, hi!" She almost squealed. She was slowly swinging her arms and bobbing her head as if she was listening to music. She had a cute smile, and her face showed a glint of mischeviousness.

<<If Mika actually had collided with Blaze, we would have a nice little pile of ashes. You may want to change it so it says, "Until she nearly collided with Blaze." Just thought I'd point that out.>>

-Drake-

Drake continued to run at high speeds on all fours. Eventually he reached a small clearing and stopped. He stood on his hind legs and sniffed the air before letting loose another howl. And just as quickly as he had stopped he was running again, except a small change in direction.

-Blaze-

She was not amused by the girl running around like a maniac, and even less so when she nearly hit her. It was all Blaze could do to dodge the suicidal attack. If she could have her way, she would roast the annoying Neko into cat treats. But she couldn't, so she would let her live. "Can I help you in any way, shape or form?" Blaze asked her sarcastically. Underneath her hood and behind the rag over her mouth, she was scowling.

William laughed happily with Divina. It was great to have a friend. "So Div where were you headed?" William asked wondering about Divina's destination. Then there was a weird sound off in the distance, but when Divina shrugged it off William thought it was a normal thing around here.

Kaoz Bloodred noticed this slight change and she couldn't feel the wind anymore...
She hoped he wouldn't catch her scent. She could easily outru him if she wanted, but aside from knowing he couldn't run nearly as fast as her she had no other knowledge of his abilities. She took out the map, Hmmm... This is quite strange... The icons on the map constantly shift and disappear only to reappear somewhere else. It was as if Flux Valley didn't have one defined form, but was always shifting and changing. It's be easy to get lost without this magically enchanted map...

Mika stood still for about half a second so she could one-over Blaze, then she smiled crazily.
"Fire!" And as soon as she yelled that, Mika herself burst into flames then ran off screaming,
"Fiya fiya fiya! Fiya fiya fiya!"

Divina Magnus chuckled.
"I honestly have no clue."

"Then how about we go train in the forest." William new the idea was crazy but he was anxious to find out what other things he could with his Trickster powers or even what Divina could do. "I'm told I have lots of powers, but I don't know how to use them so i was wondering if you could help me with that."

~Neve~

There was a sudden squeal from nearby. It sounded like a smaller girl. It was pitiful. "No! Leave them alone! Their dying"

~Greyson~

Greyson perked her head up and immediately dashed towards the sound.

Ankin sighed softly, finishing the bottom of his paper. There could be only one solution: Someone stole their soul. He sighed, hoping it wasn't the case, or it would be something that the academy must take in consideration. As for now, he doesn't want to bring attention on that problem, and so, he opened the tome he usually brings around and inserted it. A light came from the book as the page was sealed in it like if it was always there. He closed the book, and light goes off. He then quit his apartment and went into the corridors. From there, he got into the Flux Valley. He needed to know even more about the surrounding of the academy, since it could become an inconvenient if something goes wrong in it. He knew that Tiakono sent one of her purple flames to check on him; he doesn't mind.

Larianne came out of her room and smiled as she seeds that Ayumu was there again. She was kind of the same dress, only it was a dark yellow and there was somekind of purple tissue around her neck. She smiled softly as she still had her egg in her hands. Ayumu closed his book and smiled widely at the new dress of Larianne. "You're perfect." He said to her. He could see her cheeks changing color suddenly as she looked around shyly. His ears suddenly twinched as he heard a scream, and he quickly ran to the scream. Larianne followed Ayumu, since she didn't want to be alone again. When they got there, they could see that a girl was crying, but she stopped behind Ayumu. Ayumu stopped a bit away from the girl, giving her private circle before doing anything.

Tiakono's ears twinched too and quickly dash to the sound. What is up with everyone being stupid today? She would like the answer to the question, but she had to get there first to know what is happening. When she got there, she looked at the little girl and tilted her head. "Are you ok?"She asked softly, staying a bit out.

The small girl was huddling a small bouqet of flowers that had been stomped on. Her tears had soaked them. Some people suddenly ran away from the scene. She looked up at the others and her eyes narrowed at them. "You aren't going to hurt them are you...?" her voice was shrill from her crying as she nuzzled the flowers and pulled them closer.

Kaoz heard the sound too. This time she sped up keeping around ten feet behind Drake, she wouldn't let him hurt whatever that was if it was something of intellegince.

Divina smiled.
"Sure! Why not? You lead the way. I'm a bit new here myself."

Tiakono looked at Ayumu and Larianne, then back to Neve, raising one of her eyebrow and giggled softly. She just realise who it was and leaned forward, saying: "Don't worry, we won't hurt them. I just wanted to make sure they won't hurt them anymore." She smiled softly and went away a little bit, but kept them in sight.

Ayumu tilted his head to the side; why does a girl would cry for some flowers? He thought that there was enough of them, they are replacable. But seeing Tia's behavior on the girl, he understand that this girl have somekind of...condition. he quickly gave a big smile to her and said: "No, we won't hurt them." Larianne nodded softly, too shy to talk to the girl. Ayumu still smiled and said, finding himself a bit stupid too: "Will they be ok?"

The girl sniffled and smiled back and kissed the flowers. They suddenly perked up and she placed them in the soil and stood up. She looked back at them. "Mhm... Just fine." It was amazing how suddenly they perked up. She stood up slowly and walked to them. "I'm Neve. I speak for the flowers." She said more happier now. Her smile was so delicate. Exactly like a flower.

William was so glad Divina had agreed. He led Div far into the forest until he found what he wanted. A giant tree with lush green leaves and high branches. "Okay Div all you have to do is catch me when I jump from the Tree. I should be able to fly, but just to be on the safe side." William Climbed to the tallest branch and jumped spread eagle. No wings appeared he just fell.

He was puzzled who that girl was and what was with her, maybe something about that book she had? He figured he could just apologize to her if he could find her, well might as well start searching, then he went off witout saying a thing to Gyaku, disapearing in the thick forest. After running for a while he was able to find her, she was sitting down against a tree for some reason, approaching her he tried to be careful not to startle her.

"Hey, uhm sorry about earlier I-" Then he paused, a large fire was spreading through the forest and then a loud noise sounded as a torrent of flame can from the fire in her direction and he ran infront of it and taking a deep breath and breathing large flames back, holding it back and then once he stopped he turned back and picked up Raven, she was in shock from what just happened so she just let him carry her away, onward he began running to the Academy while many blasts of fire were shot at him but he was able to dodge them and get behind trees before they hit him and eventually the relentless attacks refrained and he looked back, a strange figure stood in the distance, a silhouette with glowing purple eyes, head tilted and a wicked smile, who or what was that? Curiosity was itching at him but then within an instant the thing had turned to a blur and then disapeared, was he in some sort of territory? He didn't care, his main focus was getting her back to the Academy and see if she was okay, she seemed in pain now. He was rushing through the forest, his mind fogged with the identity of that stranger, who could it be? Finally he reached the bridge into the Academy and then ran into an alley that for some reason had a strange roof like structure over it and some graffiti with the letters "EW", he thought it was weird but ignored it and then just layed her in the shade from the roof.

"I hope she's alright..." Then inspecting her there was a large burn on her arm and a small cut on her forehead, she was in great pain and panting slightly as he touched it a little and she flinched a few times, she couldn't be left like that so he got up and looked around for a moment, he had no clue what to do.


Growing impatient he decided to see if anyone things were going alright in the academy, pulling a small pebble out of his pocket and putting it up to his right eye while closing the left and looking around, he could see multiple auras around the academy but one was different from the other, it seemed like there was a high stress level in it so he decided he to help if it was necessary and pulled out a roll of gauze and the got a decent enough amount, cutting it off with his teeth and tapping it causing a strange black skull emblem to appear on it. Once putting away the roll he wound up the piece he took and then gave it to his cat which grabbed it with it's mouth and then ran off like it already knew what to do, soon reaching the two and dropping it on the ground next to them and running off again.


As he was panicing a cat had come out and just dropped off something before running off again, a little convientant iff anything as he went to grab it and it was medical gauze so he then went over to her quickly without a second thought and picked up her arm carefully, wrapping it slowly with it and then ripping it in half so he then could wrapped her forehead, a strange glow came from beneath the wrappings for a brief moment and then she seemed a little more at ease and he sd in relief.

"Sorry..."

Claire was so mad sparrow had just ignored her and if that wasn't enough torrents of fire were whipping through the forest. "Definitely not candy!!!" Gyaku dodge all of them with expert moving but Claire wasn't so agile. She got hit by the last one. it caused burns on her left arm and wing. She fell to the floor her little body limp.

-Drake-

He continued his hunt, when all of a sudden he stopped. His nose twitched and his ears swiveled forward. He lowered himself into a crouch, muscles tense and ready.

A lone deer stood several hundred feet away, totally oblivious to the large monster that was about to use it's corpse to satisfy his hunger. The deer walked slowly, nibbling on a leaf here and a tuft of grass there. It's head suddenly snapped up as a small sound occurred in the distance.

-Blaze-

She was totally unamused until the girl burst into flames. Then she was just confused. "Did I do that?" She asked herself. "No, wasn't me." Apparently the neko also had some control over fire. This made her a little irritated. She didn't like competition.

lucus smiled , his cat slipping out from the hat' ohhh come brother, can i come visit you simply for the pelasure of seeing your face? hehehe....' lucus walked over and leaned agenst him a bit , making a rather derpy smile.