Shanta directed another bolt of incoming lightning into the clouds and wiped her hair out of her eyes. There wasn't a lot, and since this was an artificial storm she suspected a lot of the dangerous bolts would strike somewhere they wouldn't cause a lot of damage. That made her job pretty easy, provided nothing else was stupid enough to fly in a storm like this.
Something caught her eye. Shanta twirled in the air and froze in place. Was that... was that a giant bird? And... was that a person riding it?What the ********> Why was someone flying to the school now of all times, and why on a giant bird?
The hairs on the back of Shanta's neck stood up as the bird took off. Oh you've GOT to be-- Shanta sped off, a red and brown blur, and reflected the oncoming lightning away from the bird and into the clouds. What a stupid bird. Shanta turned to look at it. [Get out of the sky,] she said in Elven. [It's not safe. You can take off when the water stops falling.]
The bird obliged, heading for what Shanta hoped was safe ground. Now, the girl it had had on its back... it appeared to have plopped her down in one of the only patches of the Practice Field that hadn't been completely scorched. Shanta flew down and slowed to a stop in front of the girl. She sure was a sight - soaked to the bone, and arms covered in scratches and dried blood - but that didn't really matter right now.
"Uh, hi," Shanta said, tilting her head. "I'm... guessing you're a late arrival?"
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Realizing she'd drawn the attention of a few people nearby, her face grew hot. Tucking her hair behind her ears and rolling down her sleeves, she tried her best at a charming wave (that she suspected didn't work). Nice entrance, she thought to herself. Late arrival and riding in on a bird. I knew I shouldn't have trusted that shady girl, going on about how birds are the planes of the future! arrive in style!
Yvonne turned toward the girl (cherub? fairy? wow she's pretty) who had apparently been her savior from that sorry excuse for an avian. Deciding to make the best of an obviously awkward situation, she offered her hand to shake.
"You could say that, Ms. Angel! I'm Yvonne Lorendi. This, ah, is the Academy of Merlin, right? It doesn't exactly look like the picture on the paper. I MEAN - I came at a bad time, I guess..." she trailed off. "Thanks for your help back in the sky there. That was a pretty cool spell you put on the bird. That was you, right? Uh.
"Sorry, I'm very new to the whole magic thing, but it looks like there's some things that need doing. Would you like some help or-" she faltered as she tried to root through her bag to reach her wand. Suddenly, her suitcase spilled open and her clothes splattered across the mud. "Oh no sorrysorrysorrysorry I'm so sorry if you could just point me in the right direction I'll be out of your hair I'm sorry-"
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⊰ａｅｒｙｋａｈ - ｓａｍｐｓｏｎ⊱ Aery's expression stiffened upon hearing Nao's laughing of success. Her bitterness was going to come out, and that was never a good sign, especially when she had official business to attend to. Shaking her head softly, she looked back towards her professor. He was working on two bodies, one was definitely and supremely obviously dead, and the other that he was working on? The body looked pretty damn beat up. The situation was bleak as it was, she doubted that he'd survive that - and she only got to see his external injuries.
Upon Runesteam's instruction to go check out the dorms she sighed, audibly, and nodded. "Glad t'hear that nobody else is dead or injured though. Be thankful of that, Runesteam." she said, with a nod, taking her sweet time to return to her fellow House Reps; they may want to investigate as well..
Kicking a rock, she head something swoop in the air... was that the dragon? What the ********? That was a bird? Dude, airspace is ridiculously dangerous, that bird'll become chicken dinner. A girl came off the bird, and Aery couldn't help but laugh. A little late to the party, eh?
Sitting down on the edging of the Oak's 'pot', Aery glanced down at her two other house reps. "Congrats, you two have officially become even more badass than originally thought."
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Naomi didn't reply to Aerykah for a minute; the giant chicken was much more interesting. Whoever was coming in on that sure knew how to show up in style. However, if someone was showing up now of all times they either had really, really bad timing...
...or it was a member of the Council, and that definitely didn't bode well for the Headmaster. And what didn't bode well for the Headmaster didn't bode well for any of them. It was time to get into gear.
Too bad Naomi couldn't <********> move.
"Aerykah," she finally said, "as much as I enjoy being praised, now's not the time so shut the ******** up." Honestly, if the stupid girl kept putting them on a pedestal like this then Naomi was going to seriously consider punching her in the face. "I can't move, and Ari probably can't either. So please tell me you were proactive for once and checked out the dorm situation. After all this I think all anyone wants to do is have a long nap, so we might as well get arrangements out of the way."
Naomi paused. Other than sleeping arrangements, was there anything that needed immediate attention now that the fires were going out? Other than the girl on the chicken. (Naomi was still trying to figure out who the hell actually bred chickens that large.)
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The corners of Shanta's lips twitched upward; Ms. Angel? Nobody had actually dared call that to her face except that giant squid and she wasn't even sure that actually counted. The only person around here that got routinely called an angel was End, and that was just Muna.
"I'm not an angel, Yvonne," she said, waving a hand. "And I just told the bird to go land somewhere safe since it's pouring out. You can call me Shanta, though." She looked around, and then back to Yvonne. The best line of action here was probably to send her to whichever house rep was appropriate, which was... well, any of five people, and two of them seemed to be out of commission. Shanta was pretty sure that those two bodies under the Oak were Ari and Naomi anyway. "What house are you in? You should probably check in with your rep first."
Shanta looked down at the suitcase; sheesh, what a bad way to start the year. (Well, to be fair, if Yvonne had shown up when everything was on fire, that would be worse.) Shanta flicked a few fingers. [Levitate,] she muttered in Elven. The clothes lifted into the air and dropped back into the suitcase. Shanta gave the girl a small smile. "You're not a bother, don't worry. You just showed up at an odd time. I'm happy to help."
And by happy to help I mean anything that keeps my head off of town, Shanta thought, but Yvonne didn't need to know that.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 12:02 am
"You're probably right about dragons,"Gilrin said, rather idly as things were starting to happen, a lot of things. Lights streaming from the Merlin tree to the sky."That's pretty ******** cool."Heavy rain bucketing down."I usually ******** despise getting wet but I really don't ******** care right now. At least it's putting out the fires."A giant bird flying across the sky with someone on it."Someone likes to make a ******** entrance."
It was a while until she decided to look over to Professor Galan and his patients. And as soon as she did, she gripped onto Scarlett's arm. And then quickly released her grip"Sorry. I--"She chocked on her own words. There was her brother, very injured, with a large screw sitting beside him, with his face back and being cared for by Galan."Tad?"Her voice cracked. She took a step forward, but took it right back again. What use was it her running over there? She couldn't interrupt. She didn't know how healing worked exactly, but she was pretty sure that it was done best without distraction."He's alive, right? He's ******** alive, right, Scar? Why else would the Professor be bothered? He's alive."
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ OOC: Look at this blubbering baby.
☼☀yvønne☀☼☾tømas-øne☽✦ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ✦ ₕ ₖ ₗ ₘ ₙ ₚ ₛ ₜ Her eyes widening at yet another beautiful display of magic, Yvonne stood up and smiled. "Oh, you're so much nicer than the people in normal old high school. Thank you so much, Shanta," she said appreciatively. "I'm in the house with the blue crest. Tomas, I think? What's your house? And what was that language you spoke?"
Besides conversation, the scene around her was pretty startling. There were people on the ground, some students with obvious injuries, and some weird dude in a trench coat. This can't be normal. Magic or no, this is just... and the chicken... wow. Wow. I'm kind of relieved I wasn't here when this was going down. I'd probably have been hurt. Still, I feel bad.
"I'll be honest, this doesn't look normal, even for a magical school. I'm still kind of reeling from that crazy flight here, but I'm sure the shock will subside and I'll be questioning my mental state soon. Heck, I'm standing here talking to a girl with pointy ears and wings. Wings! Ha," Yvonne laughed uneasily. "I'd like to know more about you, but I...
"Is whatever did this," she gestured to the burned down buildings, "coming back any time soon?"
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"Excuse you! You smell like sewage too, underneath all that wet fur. Seriously, you need a haircut! Since your hair is wet, I could give you one right now." Marianne smiled, a slightly dark look in her eyes. She was mostly joking, though. Not like she'd be able to summon her Blade to cut Merchant's hair anyways.
She shrugged at Merchant's remark, not bothering to push it. If she really had to, she could always just kindap him and drag him there anyways. I twouldn't be too hard. "Oh?" Marianne questioned at the chicken comment, head tilting to the sky just in time to see the great chicken land. "Wow!" Marianne remarked with a grin. "How stylish."
The only thing Ari was worried about the chicken was if the kitchens had a big enough oven to fit that thing in there. They were gonna be eating that later, right? Chicken was a waste if it wasn't being consumed.
Holy s**t, she was so tired. Ari let out a long groan as the two spoke, closing her eyes. "I'm too tired for this s**t." She muttered under her breath. "HEY! SOMEBODY LEVITATE MY a** AWAY FROM THESE TWO! I'LL PAY YOU LIKE THIRTY BUCKS AS SOON AS I CAN ******** MOVE MY ARMS, SWEAR TO GOD."_
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 2:34 pm
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__ Icarus and Iapyx watched the various students run around, attention mostly caught by the light show around the tree. They spoke quietly between themselves, Iapyx's eyes more focused on his brother than the actual light show around them.
Then the rain started, and Icarus felt the arm around his shoulder slowly slip away. Iapyx had a hand raised above him, a barrier of air keeping the water from touching him. Icarus had cast an improb around the chicks (he had to take off his gloves, UGH,) but as soon as Iapyx stepped away he was drenched in rain. "I'll call you." Iapyx promised, tone light hearted. "I promise."
Icarus gave his brother a nervous smile, making sure not to turn away from his retreating form until he had officially left campus. Almost immediately Icarus's nervous demeanor disappeared, replaced with a sulky look. God, now he was drenched. Sure his dormmates could handle themselves and Cas, Icarus went over to Scarlett and Gilrin's side.
"I'm presuming you two are safe," Icarus said immediately as he approached the two, chicks still happy and warm in his improb'ed hands. The improb didn't cover all of the hat, so the edges of it were damp with rain. Icarus's eyes flicked down once at the sight of it, and he almost looked troubled for a moment before he looked back at Scarlett and Gilrin. "What do you suppose is up with the theme of large flying things today?" ＞
Shanta pushed her wet bangs from her eyes. This girl sure talked a lot, or maybe she was just nervous. Anyone would be if they showed up at their new school and it was partly burnt to the ground. "Em, that'd be Tomas, so that makes your rep Aerykah," she said. "She's not hard to find, white girl with dark hair and her bangs are a different color every week. I'm a Janus and that was Elven, because, y'know, I'm an elf." Shanta gave Yvonne a small smile. "I guess I'm sort of Janus's co-rep. Our other rep sort of... um... well, let's not talk about her."
Shanta glanced around; was the state of the school as bad as she thought it was? Nobody seemed too badly injured. There was Muna and End under an improb (oh no, Bijan! Shanta made a mental note to hurry over there and see how the excursion into Janus went), there was Icarus, Scarlett and Gilrin all huddled together, Professor Runesteam was under the Oak dealing with someone that looked like Tadion (except he had a face) and there were the other reps under the Oak too. Marianne and the Merchant seemed to be fine too. All in all it could've been a lot worse.
"Oh, I don't actually have wings, those are just from a charm," Shanta said absently, touching the feather around her neck. "I can't walk and my carpet's... yeah. Anyway, no, I don't think the Dragon's gonna be back soon, so you don't have to worry too much." Right, if she was a Tomas, then Shanta needed to take her to either Aerykah or the other Tomases. Noting that Aerykah seemed busy with the other reps (Ari was yelling something about someone coming to levitate her), Shanta decided that the other Tomases would be the less dangerous route. "Follow me," she said, blowing hair out of her face again and starting in the direction of Din, Gage and Cas. "I'll take you to your housemates."
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:11 pm
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Scarlett stared at the giant chicken as it went down. Where on earth did that person get that chicken? What were they going to do with it now? Were they going to eat it? Scarlett hoped they were going to eat it; she was hungry.
And then it began to rain. Hard. Scarlett got even wetter than she already was, and sneezed again. At this rate she was going to get a cold, and with... well, with things happening, that probably wasn't a good sign.
Scarlett started as Gilrin grabbed her arm, and then she looked in the direction Gilrin was staring. It looked like whoever Professor Runesteam was working on was in bad condition, but she didn't really want to say that to Gilrin and make her worry more, so she just nodded. Besides, lack of faith in one of the only healers on campus would probably be really bad.
Scarlett looked up as Icarus finally came over. It looked like Iapyx had finally left, which made her feel just a little safer. (As safe as she could feel with a fire-happy dragon on the loose anyway.) "...I think-" she started to say, and then she sneezed again. "......at least this flying thing doesn't breathe fire... so... it's much better."
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⊰ａｅｒｙｋａｈ - ｓａｍｐｓｏｎ⊱ "Kay look, I've already taken liberty to draft up an idea of who is gonna go where since you two are simply so tired" Aerykah said, bitterly. The solution was simple, really. And at this point, she figured that the other two official house reps would follow her lead, Shanta looked worse for wear, and End would probably just go along with anything.
"Let's send the Tomases to Ekaterina, so everyone's together there, and then the Januses to Lucian. Sounds good? I can go let Soulstone know if you two would simply nod your heads."
Watching them nod wearily, Naomi clearly looking like she just wanted to sleep for days, Aery took that as assumption that, yes, this was alright.**
Going to Soulstone, she suggested to him that this was the ideal temporary dorm arrangements. Awaiting his approval as he thought about it, Aery decided to take a step to the new girl, who seemed a little lost... especially having flown in on a giant chicken. "So, where did you manage to find a chicken?"
**Sana and Kira have given approval for me to just skip posts**
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 7:48 pm
☼☀yvønne☀☼☾tømas-øne☽✦ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ✦ ₕ ₖ ₗ ₘ ₙ ₚ ₛ ₜ Following Shanta, Yvonne was intrigued by the mention of the second Janus rep. She had a feeling that this was the first mystery of many to come. However, she noticed the girl that Shanta had described coming toward her. "Oh, Shanta, it looks like my house rep is coming to us."
Hmm, nice hair, she thought, noting the brightly colored bangs. Very solid too. I wonder where she got her dye?
Realizing that (whom she assumed to be) Aerykah was engaging her in conversation, she started. "The devil-hen? Well, it's kind of a long story, but I'll try keep it quick...
"See, I was on my way here, and I was going to head to the town called Justus and then get started to the school, but with the messed up route I took (I'm terrible with directions) I stopped at some crazy farmer lady's house before the town. I told her that I was headed towards the Academy and then she got this REALLY WEIRD grin on her face! I was afraid that she was like those insane people in slasher films!! But nah, it turned out that she was just excited to know that I'm, well, magic. And I was excited too, because, me being all like, 'whoaaa, wizard lady!!!' was crazy happy. She showed me these HUUUUGE chickens in her barn and I said, 'I can't imagine riding one of those' (because I couldn't). ANYWAY she ended up convincing me to ride the fowl beast (hehe) who turned out to be ridiculously temperamental once we actually started flying. Wild from start to finish, huh?" Her bags started to weigh her arms down from the slightly frantic gesturing she was doing, so she placed them down, took a deep breath, and smiled. "I forgot to mention, my name is Yvonne. It's nice to meet you!" ₕ ₖ ₗ ₘ ₙ ₚ ₛ ₜ
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Headmaster Soulstone took a moment to evaluate everything going around him. Aside from the young man Professor Runesteam was tending to, and Miss Thakkar's arms, nobody seemed to be seriously injured. And with Miss Sampson's suggestions, it appeared that the house reps had reached some sort of agreement. "Right," the Headmaster muttered, glancing up at the Oak. The light show had been impressive; he'd have to thank the old man properly later. If there was a later for him, anyway...
The Headmaster rubbed his hands together. It was time to make another announcement.
[An announcement should go out shortly - after it goes out go ahead and make your exit post for your various characters! I'll post it here as well.
Once exit posts are made that will conclude the event! Other edits to the forums and such will be made tomorrow.]
