Blue Skies Academy of Sorcery

Orb guy scoffs at Thistle's statement, but then raises an eyebrow at Jacob's.

"Wait, what are you- MMMMPH!!"

Across the dining hall, Brandon snickers as he watches Erik hack and cough out the pastry.

"That kid's powers sure are something...." His voice trails off as he notices Thistle discreetly slip awsy from the commotion, and towards the other commotion.

"Okay, now what is he doing?"

Of course, Thistle stating to stay away from the windows prompts everyone in earshot to move towards the windows, Brandon included.

From there, Tasar, Thistle, and the other students watching would see the side of an enormous abdomen, as well as a set of countless legs climbing up the building.

"Uh oh," Brandon mutters. "Chris, stay here. If a fight breaks out, retreat to your dorm." With that, he runs off across the hall.

Of course, it's already looking like a fight will break out, as a couple students are already taking out their weapons, prompting even more students to look over in curiosity.

That is, those that aren't already distracted by the commotion on rhe other side of the hall....

In Dahlia's room, she'd spot the gigantic face of an enormous arachnid rise up from beneath the window. The creature chitters quietly, tilting its head to the side. Its eight milky eyes seem to be focused on the umbrella in her hands.

"That's it," Erik growls, after spitting the last saliva-soaked pastry chunk out of his mouth. "You have officially made an enemy out of Erik Bartholomew Greene, and the Order of the Seven will see to it that you will live to regret your frivolous actions."

"Uh, bro," the other guy says. "Is this really necessary?"

"You stay out of this," Erik demands, conjuring another dark orb in between his hands, this one much bigger than the others.

Centrifugal force winds blow everyone's hair and loose clothing away from the orb as it spits out a large, odd-looking spear into the air. Erik catches it in midair, then assumes a battle stance - his spear in one hand, and his orb in the other.

Just then, a boy wearing glasses and a striped hoodie runs up to the group, the ground turning to frost beneath his feet.

"Uh, Seb," Brandon whispers to the unnamed guy, now named. "We have a situation...."

"Yeah, I know we have a fucking situation," Seb responds, placing a hand on Erik's shoulder. "Hey man, look. You don't want to start a scene in the middle of the cafeteria. It's not worth it."

"Actually, about that...."

Erik says nothing, instead continuing to glare at Jacob, seemingly waiting to see what move he'll make.

A soft pink glow emits from where Seb's hand makes contact with Erik's arm.

Oh ok, just a giant spider, that's fine. Laura shivered. Why did there have to be giant bugs here?

However, she starts to snap out of it as many other students take notice of the big outside the building. She looks around among the ensuing noise. Many of the students were preparing for combat. Wait, they're not planning on fighting it, are they? Laura guessed that this might be a known thing at this school, what with everyone pulling out weapons in a school dining hall. She was a bit nonplussed about it. But hey, that's one thing she could do with fireworks... right?

"OK, didn't have any dreams about that." Vicki shuddered a bit. She wasn't arachnophobic or anything really but the biggest spider she'd ever had to deal with was a tarantula belonging to one of her brother's friends.

This, though... this was the sort of thing she'd only heard of in fantasy stories until now.

Daniel looks back to Vicki after seeing Galva draw his saber.

"Uh, dreams? What do you mean by that?"

"It's my special power," Vicki explains. "I have psychic dreams. I'm here to learn to focus them on important things instead of just knowing someone's going to spill ketchup on their shirt or something."

"Ah... Sounds cool. Hope you can learn to do that. Maybe so we don't end up in too bad a situation with this..."

Damn, this fucker's big.

Must've been some kind of experiment gone wrong, as was likely to happen in kids shows. She knew how to take on other people, but this kind of stuff was too big for her unless she could learn some actual magic tricks.

Yeah, it was probably better to let someone else handle things. That way she wouldn't have to get stuck in webbing or whatever else the spider had in it.

Dahlia placed the parasol aside into the hall, undid the stopper, turned off the lights, and closed the door behind her as she stepped back into the hall. As she then headed over to the stairs, she picked up her parasol, and kept her ears out for any strange noises.

Judging by that window in the dining hall, some of the others down there might have already noticed. Maybe she could use this time to see what other tricks they had up their sleeves.

There wasn't any way something like that was going to go down easy. Her first thought was to go on the roof and try taking the thing for a joyride, but she didn't even know if the stairs went all the way up. Otherwise, she'd need something like a medieval lance so she could puncture a hole in its side, but there was no telling where she might find something like that.

Weren't some of those people carrying swords?

Once she made her way down the stairs, assuming nothing interrupted her, she then made her way into the dining room to see if she could see the thing could be seen from within there. It probably was quicker to go outside, but then she'd just end up being the spider's lunch, especially since that thing was eyeing her parasol.

After seeing the scale of the beast outside, Tasar quickly sidles across the edge of the room to maximize the distance between himself and the creature, while attempting to remain calm. Sure, some might think him weak for not engaging, but he'd rather let the more bloodthirsty in the crowd deal with it. Besides, what was he going to do? Stab it with his pocket knife? Instead, he decides to stay at the fringe of the crowds, and see what he can pick up about the students. The showoff from earlier with the orbs seems awfully angry to Tasar, but he isn't sure what's got him so riled up.

Well, I suppose I can reasonably tag him as one of the "big fish'" of the school. Or at least that's what he thinks about himself.

edited 18th Jul '17 8:43:59 PM by Cabe_Bedlam

Galva recognized the creature as an Underland native. He was producing so much electricity, much of it automatic. There was a part of him that wanted the staff to come and get the oversized spider off campus. There was another part that wanted an opportunity to prove himself. Galva hoped that whatever happened, nobody would be hurt.

Chris also goes to have a look outside the window with the others, his eyes opening wide seeing the creature outside. "Wait. No, no, no, no. That, that thing is huge. Way way too big." Likely to say the kid was not expecting a enormous spider to climb over the building. Taking a few steps back and bumping into a nearby cafeteria table.

He watches as Brandon runs off. He nods a little but he looked conflicted. At the spider, then Erik, then the others. Searching for a answers. He was afraid but at the same time like he wanted to do something... Then again, what could he do. He had no weapons not that he could fight this thing anyway.

His head snaps back around seeing Erik get even more angry. "Please not here... We have a giant spider outside to deal with.." Christian a little desperate to make this stop. He didn't want this to get any worse. Christian wanting to run, somewhere, anywhere away from people and this but he just stood out in the open with his soda. The kids legs paralyzed by fear a little as he looked around. His legs shaking a little. Hand lightly squeezing his soda.

Christian paralyzed by fear, anxiety and his indecision has his eyes lock onto Erik for a just a moment. Accidentally using his sorcerery on him.
For Erik only, he'd see and feel a swarm of tiny little spiders that look the same as the big one outside start to crawl all over his body seemingly from nowhere. Perhaps a nightmare of the kids own nightmare made manifest.

edited 19th Jul '17 4:05:09 AM by HaizeDesira

Jacob would shrug at Seb, only to guffaw at Erik.

"Did he name you guys the Order of the Seven, or was it a group effort? Also, chill. My beef's only with you." He'd state to Erik, before turning, noticing the people at the windo- wait, guy with a spear.

Jacob'd hold the staff, eying Brandon.

"Alright, what's going on at the windows?" He'd ask, as he largely used the staff to keep balanced.

Though he'd love to pull the pastry trick again, now was not the time.

Probably, anyway.

The spider doesn't seem to have noticed the array of students watching it, and continues climbing the building slowly.

A pretty large portion of the student body has noticed the spider now, the dining hall filling with the students' clamors. It isn't long before someone shouts:

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go kill it!"

This is met with a huge uproar, as several students get up from their seats and start charging towards the exit, weapons at the ready.

Of course, many still stay behind, most of them either freshmen or otherwise distracted....

Seb shrugs. "Leon came up with the name- uh, I mean, what? What order? There's no order! He's just making up shit to intimidate you!"

"Nice save," Brandon mutters, rolling his eyes.

"But, uh, about the thing at the windows. Yeah, it looks like we have a Spieider outbreak, of the worst kind."

All of a sudden, Erik's eyes widen. He starts breathing heavily, stepping back slowly and jabbing wildly at the ground with his spear. "Spieiders... They're everywhere! Where did they come from- wh, what are they- get them off!! GET THEM OFF!!!"

His black orb suddenly grows even bigger, and starts to suck in everything that comes near it. Erik continues swinging his spear at imaginary spiders. His orb starts to crackle with electricity, glowing with a deep purple light.

"Hey... Hey, what the hell are you doing?!" Seb shouts. "Quit it with that Chaos stuff, or Sir White Knight will be on your ass like.... like uh..."

"Like the giant spider on the side of the building?" Brandon offers.

".... Yeah, like that. What the hell are you freaking out about anyways??"

"Don't you see them?!" Erik shrieks, his Chaos orb growing ever larger. "They're everywhere! Everywhere everywhere, I can't get them off...."

"What the...."

What students remain behind have now formed a wide circle around the group, as food flies wildly into the void, and even a nearby table is beginning to creep towards it.

With a final shriek, Erik pushes his void against himself, and in a split second, he's sucked in, the dark orb shrinking into nothing immediately afterwards.

What follows is silence, the only sound is that of the spider chittering outside.

".... He'll be fine," Seb assures Jacob.

Tasar's eyes widen as he watches Erik begin panicking, but he doesn't make any moves towards him until he disappears, at which point he states drily:

"And that's why you learn to control your powers, folks. Who needs to show off when you can be alive instead."

"What the fuck was that." Kevin muttered rather quietly.

He looked around to see how the other students were reacting to this situation.

Vicki was trying to think about how giant spiders were defeated in stories she'd read, since she hadn't had any dreams showing this particular beast's weaknesses. It dying of old age was unlikely, and collapsing a building on top of it and chopping its head off was... probably effective, but definitely problematic. And she wasn't about to be the one to stab it in the underside with a sword.

"What?" Laura said, dumbfounded. "Did that guy just snap or something? Geez."

She moved closer towards the window, now that there were less students in the vicinity. She looked around a bit, before turning towards the guys that the shadowy orb guy seemed to be with. "So..... are giant spiders a common thing here?"

Vicki turned to Laura and shrugged. "I don't know, but I hope not. Makes me wonder what else we might run into though..." She yawned a bit as she said this, as though the idea was making her sleepy and excited about dreaming.

Thistle sighed as everybody ran towards the windows. Figured. He looked up… and up… and up as a massive spider started to climb upwards. This was… wow. Just… wow. His first day here, and something like this happened? What the actual hell?

He wracked his mind for memories about giant spiders. Unarmored underbellies, but a sufficiently sharp blade could pierce their hide. Going for the eyes also worked wonders. He watched the other students run for the exit, and he glanced back at the now vanishing-from-sight spider. What if the thing hurt someone before it could be taken down…?

The lizardfolk sighed. It wasn’t any of his affair. He could sit down and everything would be fine, and no one would blame him for not helping. … but he would blame himself.

“Damn it,” he snarled, stomping over to the window. “Stand back,” he growled, before slamming a fist into the plexiglass, causing a few cracks to appear. He hit it again, and again, and finally again, causing it to shatter, forming a jagged, man-sized hole. “I’ll, uh, pay for that later,” he muttered. Stepping out onto the ledge, he sheathed his carving knife, and leapt upwards.

Grabbing onto a window ledge, he pulled himself up, before using another handhold to gain more purchase as he climbed after the spider. He wasn’t quite as fast as spiderman, but he was making decent pace.

"Well, I can't say I saw that coming."

Tasar simply watches from across the room as the lizard-like individual he asked a question of earlier bursts through the window to go after the beast. For all the commotion going on, it seems awfully showy to him. After all, he'd seen more than enough magic power go after the creature to consider it worth his time to try and find some way to help out. Shrugging, he decides to go back to his room and get some rest. There was hardly a good chance to get anything else to eat, after all.

Looks like the coast was clear for the most part. Dahlia was worried she'd have to call her parents to replace anything that got sullied, or that she'd get roped in for cleaning duty.

Eventually she got back down to the dining hall, where everyone seemed to be looking at the large spider outside. Looks like people made a mess in their panic, though something about the layout didn't make any sense. The window didn't look like it was broken or anything, and the people here didn't look panicked, so why was everything messed up?

Speaking of which, where the hell was that vacuum guy? He seemed like such a show-off, so it seemed strange to think he'd bail so quickly.

No, wait, he was there.

Dahlia didn't think much of it, since screaming was an expected reaction to something like this, but now that she thought of it, his voice was among those she heard as she headed downstairs.

He said spiders, not just one.

So, now where the hell were those other spiders? There was just one big one outside, and the one out the window seemed to the same one she saw in her room.

Dahlia kept that in mind as she stepped into the dining hall once again. She tried looking around to see if she could get her hand on a fork or knife, which would likely make for a better conductor than her parasol. Probably should take up dart throwing too, though now didn't seem like the time for it.

As she was wandering around, there was a sharp crash as Dahlia heard and saw a large lizard fellow burst out the window.

Well, that just happened.

Still, Dahlia had no idea what happened to the orb guy. Maybe if she just listened around she'd figure out what happened.

edited 20th Jul '17 6:18:14 PM by CathariSarad

"H-hey!" Laura says, and backs away from the window a bit after this happens.

Galva's heart is racing. He's involuntarily producing electricity, so much that his hair is standing up. Was the guy delusional? If so, was it magic, or just plain schizophrenia?

"Is there any way to help him?" .

"I would say I hoped they weren't too common, but guess I spoke too soon..."

Daniel's parents had warned him about spiders like this, even if they weren't super common in his neck of the woods. He was glad other people were handling things, though.

edited 21st Jul '17 7:40:57 AM by CorvusAtrox

Christian blinks and looks confused. Not knowing he used his power on Erik he watches in some horror as he orbs himself. He looks at Seb as he says he'll be fine but, he didn't look convinced.

He looks like he was going to say something. Then Thistle breaks through the window startling him again, no longer paralyzed by fear but instead ducking away behind something as he panics. In fear he rushes to the door and runs down the halls back towards his room likely soon meeting Tasar in the halls not that he planned to stop before he got there.

Jacob would react with a slight tinge of shock towards Erik's motions, before it was silenced with a tinge of sarcasm and apathy.

"Well, that takes care of that conflict. So, spider?" He'd ask, turning to look at the windo-oh.

Little too big to teleport, little too big to ignore. Two options here. Run, and get no fame. Attack it, and likely die like the idiots clamoring towards the windows. Wait, three options. I could find a substitute for a sprite, and just give it to Thistle, while watching the havoc. Then again, action is better than inaction- Hmmmm..

Jacob'd eye the spider, staff in hand.

Then he'd stop, turning to Seb.

"Wait, so where did Erik go? I mean, my teleportation is pretty simple. Picture in my head, warp there. But these things just nab you and drop you off somewhere, right?"