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Athena yelped, an entirely dog-like sound. She couldn't think of any words--but who the hell was this freak?! She stared, mouth moving and emitting odd sounds, so she looked like a goldfish and sounded... well, speechless. Her ears were flitting about, searching for a sound, but still trying to stay to her head. She had no idea what was going on, but this person was giving her the creeps.

((I'll have you know that I'm not lazy. And besides, you're one to talk Mr. I'm Only Online Once A Month -_-))

"Huh? Yeah, guess I'll go, but I'll take my own sweet time doing it. What kind of moron plants bombs in a school where half the kids have shielding abilities?" She asked to herself, then walked calmly into the kitchen, where Cook was busy continuing to cook. "Well, you coming Da?" She asked, and Cook shrugged, sighing. "If it's not one thing here, it's another. Come on, then." He said, and together the two took their time making it out the front doors.

When Cook saw the man, he scowled and said, "Ya mess with my kitchen, boy, and I'll beat your a** with my spatula." He said, his body slowly encasing itself in rock as he felt Danni's magical shield come up. And just above that, Ambrose's shielding magic made itself known, and a quick glance showed him and Lia a few yards away.

[[Isn't that from the Beatles..]]

Dymetri didn't even hear Lin.
He slid her up his body as if he was giving her a piggy-back ride and began running to the forest at great speed.

He stopped just then, a thought coming to mind. "Wait a minute. There are magical barriers all around the school. An unauthorized person wouldn't have been able to even get inside the building! So how the.."

Dymetri's brows pulled together in scrutinizing thought. He tried seeing the school from afar, but couldn't with so may trees and other obstacles obscuring his view.

Within a moment, he had climbed to the top of the tree next to both him and Lin, using his keen sight to try and figure out what was going on back there.
The sun was way too close to him.

He fell back down, only knowing one thing. "No one has exited the school yet," he informed Lin in a hushed voice, as if they were whispering in class.

He turned to her. "I have to go back." Before even realizing what he said, he knew it was true. He was a teacher, first of all. And second of all, he was immortal. Even though Lin was too, she could still get hideously burned from the explosions, and her small elven potions would take forever healing that. He didn't want her to suffer.

"Promise me that you'll stay here while I go back and try to do.. something."

Actually, pretty much anything he could do was enough to give himself a soft pat on the back and a good job. The joker inside him thought the bombs were a joke. The Dymetri that loved Lin didn't want to take any chances. Besides, she needed friends, didn't she?

((Yes indeed! I thought this characters strange speech patterns and actions deemed him a strange name))

"For the benefit of Mr. Kite, there will be a show tonight!"
The figure flipped a detonator out from his cloak, pressing a large button atop it. Each bomb attached to him began to blink and flicker, faster and faster. Just as the group began to flinch, an intense flash of light shot from behind them at the farthest reach of the school, followed a good five seconds later by an ear shattering explosion.
The force knocked the group to the ground; as they came to, they found themselves in a surreal, unimaginable place unlike anything they had ever seen.
Behind Kite, were a jumping, dancing, strange group of tall, lanky blue people.
"That was but one of my bombs kiddies, a splendid time is guaranteed for all!"

Lin was vaguely aware of Dymetri picking her up and moving them both at an incredible speed toward the forest. It was somewhat jarring how fast they were moving. Too bad she didn't have her hummingbird mind and stomach right now since they were used to going that fast.

She passed out for a few moments due to weakness from the darkness around the school. When she came to, she saw Dymetri falling down in front of her from a tree and saying that he had to go back. The life of the forest around her was already giving her some energy back, but the darkness at the school was pressing in on the forest. The forest was scared itself. With her enhanced ears and her keen hearing, she could hear a rumble in the forest from all the feet of the animals racing to find an exit.

She started shaking her head and was going to verbally ask Dymetri not to go. She even whispered, "No..."

But before she could finish, there was a loud, piercing sound that seemed to rip through her sensitive ears, blaze into her brain, and cause her whole body to become raw with pain.

She threw her hands over her ears and screamed in pain. Elves hardly ever screamed. When they did, it almost sounded like the screams from a banshee in Ireland.

She was so startled and in so much pain that her body took over and put itself into defensive mode. In almost a flash, her body shrank to the size of a butterfly and she grew yellow. Then, her entire form turned into one of a hummingbird. Even her brain momentarily lost its Elven intelligence and morphed into a hummingbird's. She immediately took off from the ground and started buzzing around different bushes nearby, trying to find a place to hide. An animal's natural self preservation started to kick in. She was very fast and looked like a flash of light.

Athena wanted to go run away. The noise that had assaulted her ears had been far too loud, and all her instincts said Run whilst you can! She was not used to this... Growling at herself, she allowed more of her Demon to come out--this caused her eyes, normally blue, to become purple. The color of the alchemist was blue, and the color of the demon was red, so when her Demon came out, her eyes became purple, and the purple color bled into the whites, making her whole eye--whites, iris, pupil--a menacing shade of purple. Her fangs, already long enough, became so long that she couldn't keep them in her mouth without piercing herself, and black markings in swirling, Ancient texts that no one but the wearer could read grew like vines along her skin, making a dappled effect.

She was in a demonic state now, and nothing would faze her. It was both curse and blessing. She watched this Mr. Kite, watched and waited. Her tail floated back and forth slowly, and her ears didn't ache any longer.