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Homework, it wasn't as if it were a completely new concept to him as he had the number and letter work from when he was little. This reminded him more of the little sheets he got to fill out now and again from D-corp. He fetch himself a pen from his father's desk and set to filling out the sheet. Name, weapon type, the name of the class... hrm a sketch of the stance that was different, and... gender. He tilted his head to the side as he noticed that the 'gender' section seemed to be thrown in as an afterthought. He gave a shrug and filled in the parts with the words first as that was the easiest part, then moved onto the stance drawing.

Let's see, he couldn't draw himself with his hands to close to the middle of the weapon, he'd gotten a good crack to the fingers for that, meet an attack at an angle so as not to crack the pole, hrm... his pen moved over the paper quickly and he smiled. It didn't look that bad he decided as he finished up by adding his wings into the picture. He starred at it for a long while, something was missing...

He hurried fetched a couple other pens of other colors to fill in the colors on his clothing. There we go, much better. Now... to go and find himself a pratice pole for when at home.

Wooden Poles and Odd Feets



Ligeia set his pencil down, drawing one of his feet up to him and undid the straps on his sandle, pulled it off, then did the same with his sock, normal kind this time aside from the front being cut off to make way for his taloned toes. The one of the back he never thought about cutting a hole for, maybe he should as it had started to cut a hole of its own in the heel of the sock... Oops. He looked his foot over, moving it a moment before giving a nod. He reached out with it and closed it over the closest thing to him, a pillow that had fallen from the sofa and was left unnoticed by the sleeping Orpheus. He lifted it up, tossed it up into the air, then caught it again... he couldn't help but giggle. Yup... he could pick up and catch things with the weird feet of his!



Ligeia's dark eyes went to his father, watching the man snooze and snore. It was a loud sound much like a chainsaw would make coming from him, it was almost impressive how well the sound resonated. He hopped up to his feet, slightly off balance by the fact that one foot was shoed and the other one wasn't and hopped up, fluttered, and landed on the back of the couch, "Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad..." Nothing, "Its time to wake up. Daddy? Dad! Come on!" He reached down to poke at him with a gloved hand and the red head only grummbled, reaching out to catch hold of his son wrist and tugged. There was a flutter of wings and then a 'umph' as he laned on his father's chest. Luckily for Orpheus though the boy was very light weight and the guy didn't even seem affected by Ligeia falling onto him.

"Oh... come on! You should get up and take me to the store. Store, store!" He said, excitedly, sitting up some to look down at his father. The man grunted and rolled over, Ligeia gave a scree as he ended up on his back on the floor in front of the couch which Orpheus slept on. He pushed to sitting up once more, fluttered his wings to make sure that everything was still in working order before he gave a groan, "Ok, ok I get it. Maybe I will ask Miss Emer to bring me shopping."

Orpheus grunted, Emer shopping with Ligeia... shopping... Emer... and Ligeia... who knew what sort of dresses or other crazy clothing that women with a vinyl fetish would buy for his son... couldn't let... He sat up suddenly, looking around as if he expected the house to be on fire. Or worse his son done up as if he'd visited the women's section in Hot Topic... upon seeing him sittig there next to the couch with his journal he laid back down, sighing in relief, "Did you need something?"

"To go shopping, I need a wooden pole to practice with for my Melee classes." He said to his father.

Orpheus gave a nod of his head, "Alright, give me a moment to wake up and we will get going." He said, stretching out.

~Notes taken down in his Magic Journal Notebook, the Homework assignment as well given by Miss Raven.~

Helping with Keivlos

~Halloween & Ligeia's Thoughts~

Class One: Part One

Unable to catch up with the two official teachers of the D-corp facility for classes and having Ligeia bouncing around him constantly asking him about moving forward in his Staff lessons promoted Orpheus to find an outside means of getting the owl child taught. It had taken a bit of time to find someone that he felt was competant, "Come on Ligeia! If we don't hurry your going to be late." He called over to the owl child who was lagging behind a little bit but only because he kept getting distacted by the things on the walls of the building they were walking through. Advertisements for random classes that were to be held in the build, martial arts of different sorts. He reached up to take a copy of one of them down and then hurried after his father, staff in hand.

"Daddy! Can I take this class too?" He asked holding out the paper to his father, a hopeful look on his face.

The redhead took it, read it over then nodded, "I don't see why not. For now though it would be best for us to have you make it through this one first. Once you survive this class we will see about your next one." He folded up the paper and tucked it into his pocket, self defense classes too? He figured that it could be good for the boy, especially with the fact that he was running around in girls clothing, best that he could defend himself if he were to run into someone that didn't find the idea to be something they liked. Look at him now, a blue colored tunic designed shirt with a flower on it, some form fitting pants, and a pair of clogs. He was rather cute, would have made a very cute girl which was why maybe all these battle classes were good.

He reached over to ruffle Ligeia's hair, "Do your best with all of this but be careful too, ok?"

Ligeia looked up at him with those dark eyes, looking a little rather confused about where that had come from before he nodded his head, "Yes, I will do my best. Are you going to stay and watch the class?" He asked, curiously.

He gave a shake of his head, "I told Ter that I would take him out to look for a weapon too, he's jealous over the fact that you got a staff." He explained to him, Ligeia had gotten a staff so that mean that Ter wanted something that could be seen, at least to the snake, as better. Orpheus almost feared what that could be...

The owl nodded his head, "Alright, I will see you when you come back then." He said, looking in the door to where the teacher was waiting for him along with a couple of other students. He took a deep breath before stepping inside the room, hurrying over to the others giving a greeting. Orpheus watched them closely before he smiled and headed out of the building to set back to his other son and their errands.

The teacher was a lovely blonde haired woman with a soft demeanor and a air about her that made Ligeia rather relaxed about this class. She was the exact opposite of his last teacher though he did like Cerlyn, she had been a good teacher and it was a bit of a shame that he was unable to catch up with her again for more classes. He knew though that the teachers were busy just look at his own father after all.

"Alright, out last member is here so we can get started." She said, taking up a notebook and read it over, "Alright... Mr. Solon is it?" She looked him over for a moment, studying him carefully and then gave a smile, "Yes, if you would take off your shoes."

He seemed to miss the fact that she had been studying him to see if he really were a boy before he took off his shoes and left them over with the others left by the other kids, "Ligeia, Mr. Solon is what people call my Dad." He said, walking over to them, holding his staff tightly, feeling shy around these new people. They weren't like he was they were... normal looking. They seemed to be starring at him quite openly too. Gaia was filled with a lot off races but it didn't mean that the humans got used to it completely and totally.

"Ligeia then, these are Lena and Jonas and they will be learning along with you. You can call me Miss Lilika." She said, walking over to pick up a practice staff of her own, "I am impressed to see that you brought your own staff, have you done any classes before?"

Ligeia nodded, "One with my teacher back home." He said, "A defensive class."

She gave a smile, "Good, so you know the basics. Thats very good then we won't have to show you them. We will partner up and go through some basic attacks how does that sound?"

"I wanna be partners with Ligeia!" Lena pipped up, this seemed only to tick off Jonas as he was used to being able to be partners with Lena before the new kid had shown up. So while the little redhead bounced over to get her staff Jonas gave Ligeia and open and hostile look before going to get his own. The owl gave a gulp and then looked away, scratching the back of his head.

"He likes her." Miss Lilika murmured to Ligeia, "So long as you don't try to steal her away I am sure that you will be fine."

He nodded then looked over at Lena and Jonas as they came back over, "I was... thinking I would pair with Miss Lilika, until I am better with my staff." He said, quickly and a little worried.

Jonas brightened his grim demeanor and Lena pouted a little, "B-But I wanna be paired with the pretty owl!" She complained even as she moved over to position, taking staff in hand with Jonas across from her.

"Alright, first then we will practice just a normal strike." Lilika said, making a motion with the staff towards Ligeia. The owl, who still remembered the rules learned in his class with Cerlyn automatically lifted his weapon to defend against the strike. The teacher blinked, surprised at the response and how smooth it was before smile, "Ahh, very good Ligeia. Now do the same back and I will deflect it."

Ligeia nodded, lifting his staff and after a moment's hesitation did as he was told even if it were a little slower and less confident then his block. He didn't much like the idea of attacking, of hurting someone but he did it and Lilika blocked it, "Not back but you will need real strength behind it, like you mean it." She looked over to Lena and Jonas, "You two try it?" There were some loud cracks as they took turns attacking one another.

Ligeia watched them, wide eyed, "Wow..." He breathed, looking over at the teacher, "They are good."

She nodded, "You can be too, come on. Try again?"

Ligeia nodded his head, "Yes, of course. Will try until I get it right." He told her, wanting to be as good as Lena and Jonas, if he could be that good then he wouldn't have to worry about Ter and whatever weapon it was that the snake was going to get today.