The Hero watched as Alexander ran off, a smile showing now. What a charming kid. He truly did hope war and what it did to people never quite reached him. He did know there were a lot of stories of bad lives back home for a lot of kids here, so he could guess Alex might have been touched early. Such could explain the pervasive darkened mana he felt in the kid. It was like an energy that hid in nooks and crannies.

Leaning against the wall to take a break to consider everything he'd seen, he chuckled. This would be an interesting year...for everyone.

so it's just one post? wow. how anticlimatic...but good for me I guess

Nyro noticed Alexander disappear from the ground after he hit it. Looking, she noticed a small bloodstain where his head was.

Nyro shook her head. Gotta watch where you fall. When you land on something hard, it's sometimes not the punch that does you in.

And, it was kinda fun. Kinda. That wasn't Alexander she killed, but someone possessing him. and that was the real party pooper part.

She also noticed she wasn't unscaved. Her evasion of Psycho-Alexander's attacks did actually clip her on the shoulder.

...kinda hurt too. Nyro put her hand on the bleeding shoulder, and felt a hard cince of pain surge.

"Kinda on the spot, but that'll do for now" She said as her own head cauterized the wound. Which also reminded her.

Nyro turned upward. "Hey! Teacher! I know you can hear me! What the hell was up with that? Teammates mindcontroling others or whatever the crap that was. I'm totally sure half this crap isn't legal or in the rules." or my knives

She didn't expect a response. She just wanted the record to state that.

---

Nyro headed the building that alexander was guarding.

sorry for the quick work. Hope this is ok. will be able to edit it tonight

Nate tensed when he heard footsteps, but relaxed when he noticed it was only Nyro. She must have won the fight then. He nodded at her, then descended the steps his magic had led him to.

It appeared it was a long set of stairs leading down to a single chamber in the middle of the building.

It probably wasn't a good idea to go down into a room with only one distant exit but Nate descended anyway, occasionally checking on Nyro behind him as he went.

(Halfassed. Will fix when home) *Nyro used her wand to lit the fire torches, illuminating their path and .got within conversation distance with nate*

"So, got any idea what's down here?" She said

"There's someone down here, " Nate replied, "but I don't know who. Apart from that your guess is as good as mine."

As they went down, the door seemed to slide open on its own, ominous music starting on its own.

It appeared there was nobody in the room, aside from a single golden coffin with black trim in the center. It looked like, at one point, the Sarcophagus once had the full name "Daigo" printed on the top of it, but the "a" and the "g" were rubbed off now.

And so begged the question...was someone in this coffin?

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Nyro skipped a step, walking up to the ally who's name she couldn't completely remember.

"Well, who'd you fight? I mean, I kinda killed Alexander, and you just fought someone else. If you beat him it means we have one guy left...

"...speaking of one guy, where's our player three? We kinda left him behind. We need to let him have some fun. You got the one guy, I messed up with Alexander, and then there's him. think we should turn back and find -"

Nyro was going to say that, but the two had reached the end of the passage, with a door opening up revealing a room with a coffin, and an ominous music beginning to play.

"Huh." she said flatly. "We got a coffin ahead and some music."

Years of playing videogames had it's advantages. Her mind finally put all of this together.

In a game + long walkway + ominous music + coffin in the next room with a little contraption that leads in and out of that room. Add This is a game into her mind, and nyro realized she was about to enter into a boss fight.

"Hey hey!" Nyro said, darting ahead and blocking nate's path.

"hold up a moment." Nyro told him. There's a fight up ahead in there. If everything I know is true, we got a fight ahead of us."

"Don't rush in. Make sure you're ready. I'm betting that door that just opened is going to slam shut the moment the b- the moment we enter inside."

(I would make a comment about her getting Taruin, but that doesn't sound like a natural conversation.)

"I think Taurin might've fought someone, given their was an explosion on the roof when he went up there. I don't think the person I thought was one of our classmates..."

He stopped talking and nearly bumped into Nyro when she suddenly halted in front of him. He listened to her then shrugged, walking into the room. "I only have my wand and about half of my paint left, how am I supposed to be prepare?" With that he went up to the coffin, examining it for a second before knocking on its surface.

No answer came from it, and as soon as Nate moved forward, the door behind them slammed shut just as suddenly as it opened.

It would seem there was nobody else in the room, the only possibility seeming to be someone hiding in the coffin.

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Meanwhile, outside the Academy, a female teen stood looking up at it. This would be a challenge, but it would be possible. She outstretched her right arm, pointing right and upwards, and drew a rune, which seemed to move and expand over her. Her appearance changed, becoming a combination of her own and of a fair maiden dressed in jade and yellow, with two large and elegant wings. Technically, a combination of her and Virgo. She flapped her wings and took to the sky, starting to fly high into the air. She hovered in the air high above the grounds and paused for a moment, staring at the area, before placing her hands together and pulling them apart, creating a network of glowing lines the same shape as the constellation that acted as a shield. With the shield hovering in front of her, she changed direction and soared down towards the school. There would inevitably be some defence against this, but that was when she would have to come up with something. Which she would. Eventually.

All around the school, a special magical alert sounded, only it was something only the Velke and the Hero could hear.

The young man stopped in his overview of another group of potential applicants, and looked up at the ceiling. His eyes narrowed and he ran off. It looked like this might either be the start of Qord's attack, or someone else trying something.

Alzest coordinated the Velke end of things, sending Vector and Chapter off to deal with the issue.

He just hoped the Hero did not cause too much property damage. Even though Alzest had told him not to involve himself too heavily in security, he knew that type of person well, and that not much could stop him from running off into a situation.

---

"Look, you've flown down into the air space of private property, please leave. We've got a dangerous terrorist mixing things up enough already..."

Vector showed up on the ceiling, and Chapter right at his side.

"Vector, this girl might be with him. Prepare yourself."

Both readied themselves for a fight, Vector materializing a gigantic claymore, while Chapter created...a large tome? Both knew they had to detain this girl or at least find out what she was doing and send her off, hopefully before she excited something into occurring.

This was interesting. A large hurdle in her plans, but interesting.

"If I was assisting a dangerous terrorist, do you really think I would be this blatant? Surely someone like that would attack immediately, or sneak in. I just flew down right in, and you immediately noticed, as I expected."

She hesitated for a moment, then spoke again, working off luck and assumptions.

"If you want me to prove I'm not some dangerous terrorist just trying to trick you, there's at least one student who can vouch for me. Last name Reylus. Tell them Gemina is here. That'll work."

Vector looked over at Chapter and asked, "Do we believe her? As far as we know, she might be some kinda shapeshifter thing working for Qord."

Chapter scolded him, "Not so loud." Whispering to the young demi-god, "If she tries anything, we're more than capable of putting a stop to it."

Looking over at her, he said, "Sorry about that. Reylus is currently in a class, but we'll get a message to him. All the same, why intrude from above and not register legitimately?"

"Qord huh? I can see why you're so worried. And regarding the point actually directed towards me, it's kind of difficult to go immediately from the streets to a high profile school."

"Wha-hey!" Nate spun around, startled at the noise. Once he realised it was just the door closing he relaxed slightly. "Huh. Guess you were right." Since there was really nothing else they could do he grasped one side of the coffin and, with a grunt, tried to force its lid open.

There was a giant blast of wind that erupted out of the coffin as soon as it was forced open, and which thrust Nate on to his back.

And when the air cleared, there was a slow string of claps from somewhere in the room, and then a slightly british accented voice said in a mocking tone, "Well, well, well...look at what we have here. Only you two made it...with that Reylus brat's Caelus spell, you might have stood a chance. But as it stands, you two are defenseless against me."

Slowly, Daigo became visible, reclining against a pillar in one of the room's corners, and apparently reading some sort of book.

---

Vector nodded at that, and said, "Yeah, I guess that works. So, umm, what were you looking to do here?"

Chapter did admit, this timing was a little strange.

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"It's a Magic School and someone I know is here. There are two obvious answers to your question, and the best case scenario involves both. Apologies for the abrupt appearance, but I've already explained that. Would you rather I landed and dismissed my magic?"

Chapter supposed she made a valid case, and he recalled an old law in the school allowing a sibling of a student to take an amended entrance exam and enter later than normal. He did not know if she knew this, but it was an option available.

"Very well, you may land and enter the school, but be wary, we do have a problem with Qord, a notorious criminal."

edited 9th Jun '12 6:01:02 PM by NickTheSwing

Gemina slowly descended onto the ground and dismissed her magic, the shield fizzling away and Virgo retracting across her body, the reverse of how it appeared.

"So. What next?"

"Please follow me."

Chapter opened an odd little door on the roof with a magic sigil, and proceeded down into a long hallway.

Checking to make sure she was behind him, he started to walk down the hallway, and saw the Hero walking up it toward the roof. He said in a stoic tone, "Ah, so you and Vector have the issue under control?"

Chapter nodded, "Yes, it was a misunderstanding. She is not a danger to the school."

Gemina's reaction to seeing the hero was an odd one to say the least.

"You have a threat and you let HIM in!?" She pointed to the hero. "Have you seen the battlefields he's been on? It's collateral damage like crazy out there! He can defeat an entire army, but the crossfire will take out everybody else."

There were some things, she deemed, that had to be said.

The Hero looked down and said, "I do what I have to do in order to halt the wars that erupted. But here, I understand that I have to restrain myself from using my full power."

Chapter thought to himself, Him and collateral damage seem to follow hand in hand. Yet, he was the strongest individual and one who has definite experience in handling Qord's type.

If he deemed that a sensible power level, there were questions to be asked, but she knew she could only go so far.

"You do that."

She made it clear she was done communicating with the Hero as she continued following after the others.