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Tuesday, August 10, 2004
oh god oh god!!! so much to write, too much to write!!! ahh! going into a melt down!!! i'll write, i totally promise, just not right now! mebbe later! I'll try, i'll try, i'll try! whew...kelp, clam down....deep blue ocean deep blue ocean.....
Posted at 11:44 am by Silicon_Scrifice
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(so sry everything took so long!!! all is hectic chaos over here! Seriously!)
Kanni slowly opened her eyes, her head throbbing with pain and faint images of what happened before she blacked out passing before her eyes. After going to the food court for dinner she couldn't remember anything, and now here she lay in a bed in the hospital welling with pain and exhaustion. She felt as if she could go to sleep any minute and never wake, but the hushed voices and hurried foot steps behind her pale curtain told her something was up. She heard Alice's panicked voice and Themrus's trying to calm her.
"Don't worry Alice, he's safe in here. Madame Lunna will hide and care for him. How about you get a bed and sleep a bit now, huh? I'm afraid Miss Merrane has taken your bed but the one next to that is free. Really-Alice, there's nothing you can do anymore. You wanna help then move your behind into those sheets and stay there until you're better. Look at you! Your wounds have all opened again! Go!" Mr. Themrus's voice bellowed and she could feel faint vibrations as Alice's feet quickly trudged to the bed next to hers, pulled open the rack, and plopped in with a sigh of releif.
"Why is Kanni here?" she asked and Kaleb, whom Kanni was surprised to find present, asnwered, "She had another attack, Alice. Almost got to you. But you weren't there." Kaleb sounded angry at first, but Kanni could almost see the smirk on his face. There was a silence and then Alice said, "For once I did a good thing then, huh?"
"You do many good things Alice," Kaleb almost whispered. Clarissa was talking about Gabriel and Kanni almost shot from her bed. "Gabriel!?" she cried and the curtain was brushed aside allowing Alice and Kaleb to peer in. Kanni squinted from the light and put up a hand to help shield them. "Gabriel! He's here?!" she managed to exclaim with a weak hoarse voice. "Kaleb, what happened to you?" she asked, seeing the boy bruises and soiled with blood and cuts.
"Yea, Alice found Gabriel. Brige was hiding him in an underground passage...about how I look-..." Kaleb breifly described what happened and how he and Premidas were both now more injured. Kanni lowered her eyes in guilt, her hands coiling into fists. That would explain why she was here, and why she was in this state.
"What about Premidas? I didn't hurt him too bad, did I?"
"No...Madame Lunna already tended to us after she came storming in and then had me and mom help her clean while she tended to you. Premidas is pretty okay now, he's in his bed though."
Kanni sighed through her nose. That would also explain the memories she couldn't recall flashing through her throbbing mind. She rubbed her temples and Kaleb turned to Alice and then back to her. "I think you should both go to sleep and get some rest after the ordeals you've been through. Tomorrow I'll come again and we can talk in more detail about what happened so you both don't miss anything, okay?"
"But I need to tell Clarissa about Gabriel!" Alice protested, her eyes wide and weary.
Kaleb held up a hand and pushed her back into the bed. "Themrus, she, and Ulthra are talking about it right now, Gabriel has told them a little and Themrus pretty much got the point across. Don't worry; they'll figure something out. But for now he's safe right here. Madame Lunna has a secret room in the back for very bad patients that Gabriel is being treated in right now. No one but Madame Lunna can access it, much less find it, so don't worry. He's safe...for now."
Alice reluctantly lowered back into her bed and kicked off her shoes, feeling very tired after what she had been through. Kanni felt her own eye lids become strangely heavy and hard to keep open. Outside it had quietened and all settled down after Gabriel was safely hidded. Now they disscussed what to do with Brige and the matter at hand. Either way, it would not be an easy one. For any one.
Posted at 03:54 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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"Oh dear, that man was right to burn her wounds but he could have done it with not such a sharp tip and point!" The voice of Madam Lunna crept it's way into the shape shifter's strange dreams that kept repeating themselves through the painfull night of not knowing of where Gabriel was. Her wounds had even slightly reopened and they were no longer being posioned by whatever substance was in the wounds when Alice was in the hospital wing before. Several needles had been slid into Alice's skin, making her jump slightly in her sleep. To many things were bothering her in her dreams about what had happened to Gabriel and all of the opprotunities she had to prevent all this. Brige had gone too far and yet, who was to stop him really? The man might know more charms and curses then anyone in the school seeing how paranoid the man was along with Merlin. And before Alice could slip back easily to her dream, a pain stabbed her in the chest were a ruin had yet to be closed apparently, still only bleeding a very small amount which Madam Lunna had been very proud of healing until Themrus had let out a bark of Gabriel and Alice being brought into danger by Brige. Clarissa could be heard hissing back at Themrus of how to even disarm or fight Brige back. There was nothing they could do and meanwhile the shape shifter wondered why Kanni was in the hospital wing or why Kaleb had been so bruised.
But to wake up and find Kaleb sitting by her bed was perhaps the most comforting thing Alice had yet experienced since being ordered to her bed by Themrus and hafly by Madam Lunna. He had been leaning against the wall, his eyes slightly closing and then opening once more only to watch Alice open her eyes to examine the blood spotted sheets coiled at the foot of the bed while clean white sheets covered her body which shook an extreme amount for now she heard the planning of Clarissa, Ulthar, and Themrus carefully herself. The warm memory of Alice living with Gabriel had been thrown into a corner of Alice's mind along with the loving gestures the man had given her before Brige had found out the secert. She had mentally kicked herself, sure that she was at fault somehow of the man knowing what people had tried to keep away from him, but then again Brige was the one who showed Gabriel in that globe so why did he show so much hatred to a man who had been protecting Alice and quickly was accepted by her and her friends?
"Alice." She turned her head to find Themrus standing next to her bed, covering Kaleb with a spare clean sheet. Darkly rings had faded under his eyes while he smoothed out his hair, his voice trembling as he then spoke, "Come on. Don't look at me like that and come along. Clarissa thinks it is best for you to see Gabriel before Madam Lunna retrieves more serious healers than at this school."
The shape shifter had glanced back at Kanni and then got out of bed for Themrus to place a hand on her shoulder while walking her out of a dorm and into the main room where Clarissa slept on a couch, her head resting on a folded cloak of Themrus. The man didn't turn to any of the dorms' entrances and instead to a statue of a Dragon coiled around what looked similar to a castle or perhaps the school itself, yet it was the fact the Themrus spoke to it in a language unknown to Alice was what she paid attention to the most. As if the dragon understood Themrus, the statue slid aside to reveal a door. It had brought them to another dorm with several other beds and at the very end laid Gabriel, still asleep. Only butterflies and screams filled Alice's gut when padding over to her guardian, unsure if Madam Lunna had been the woman leaning against the glass of the tall windows, mumuring to another woman who was dressed in a similar uniform as all the other nurses. Themrus continued to walk after Alice, watching the concern that planted itself in her eyes while she stood next to Gabriel and then sunk into a chair, feeling the stream of tears roll down her cheeks. There had been a way to prevent all this and she had failed to protect the right of herself to know the truth within the school and her own family.
Gabriel had even looked to bear great pain in his sleep, his face growing tense every few minutes while his hand moved to his chest where Brige had stunned him. The shape shifter simply sat there watching the man, unsure of what to do now with what might happen. If Themrus had brought her here did it mean that Gabriel had a slim chance of healing or was it just so Alice could convince herself that she had really seen the animagus and brought him away from harm? Now Themrus softly tapped Alice on the shoulder to nod his head in the direction of the nurses who were now bringing in their own supplies, wanting the room empty except for them and the patient. For Alice didn't want to leave but was brushed away by Themrus, brought back into the main room where he allowed her to stay instead of a dark dorm with nothing to do but stare up at the white cieling.
"Alice?!" Kaleb had then bursted through the doors, a grin on his face once finding Alice waving to him from the red armchair she settled on. "I thought you snuck off again..."
"How can I?" It wasn't like Alice to snap back at anyone, expecially Kaleb. Yet he understood Alice's fustration of what she went through and sat on the arm of the couch where he mother slept on, her face peacefull and concerned at once. Themrus had handed Alice a mug of hot chocolate which she excepted without thinking, her thoughts brewing on how anyone would plan their revenge on Brige when he knew so many diverse curses that Madam Lunna had trouble healing. Even now it seemed like an hour passed to Alice when only fifteen minutes had past, unnoticed by Themrus and Kaleb who had been whispering, even chuckled, about something that Alice couldn't hear past the buzzing of a lamp on the cieling whose light was about to die.
The students took turns sleeping on the arm chair, either one of them walking around the room and talking with Themrus who had stayed up the entire time. They all could feel the healing from the secret and hidden dorm behind the statue of the dragon, making Alice wonder who had known of it and whether Brige might be able to find Gabriel now. Soon enough she thought about the house and how life would have been different if her mother had just let Alice live with the animagus and if his name was cleared. Clarissa soon began to murmur about how she was signing papers, as if Gabriel was sitting infront of her discussing something. Clarissa even woke up after almost two hours of waiting for the healing to end. She immidently understood what had happened and gave Alice a meaningful hug along with Kaleb.
Now Alice slowly warmed up to the other student unlike the start of the healing. Both were now leaning against eachother on the couch which Clarissa had removed herself to convince Themrus to go to sleep and stop drinking coffee. But now Madam Lunna stepped out from behind the stone dragon and the castle saying, "The healing is over but we need several more hours to see if it really has worked. There is a very good chance that Gabriel will heal quickly, but you all need to get some rest for he'll be fine."
Clarissa couldn't even stop herself. "Brige won't be."
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"Alice, please wake up." Someone had been almost pleading the shape shifter to wake up with a hand resting on her forehead, brushing back her red hair from her face. Alice didn't want to wake up, wanting to only to convince herself that all was a dream. And then her eyes flickered only, only to find Gabriel looking over his shoulder not expecting Alice to suddenly through her arms around him neck, sitting up on the bed to see that Kaleb had just walked out, not knowing that the shape shifter was awake, patting the chest of Gabriel softly to make sure that it wasn't just some dream that she had been thinking up during her sleep. Even he had chuckled of how childish she looked doing so, finally convinced and then throwing her arms around his neck once more, feeling herself shake with excitement for Gabriel was now healthy and cured, something that was most amazing for he looked like he had never been in the room under the dress store or that he had been stunned in the chest with a curse conjured by Brige. "Alright now, I'm alive Alice. I'm perfectly sitting infront of you so there is no need to panic but you don't look so bad yourself," he chuckled, softly pinching Alice's cheek and then brushing back his own black hair from his face.
Posted at 10:03 pm by Winged-Horror
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
( another attack, eh? I'll give you an ambush! lol)
"Ugh..." Kanni moaned restlessly in her sleep, her head tossing and turning back and forth. Her fists tenses into fists and then relaxed only to curl up again, her knees buckled and her face scowled in pain. Her forehead beaded in sweat and and her muscles screamed as they began to spasm. She began gasping in breath, her chest heaving unsteadily up and down. "Kanni? Kanni!" a voice cried as she heard the drapes rip across the rack. Cold air came from the hall but she still felt like she was burning up inside. She whimpered as her arm muscles tightened and cramped painfully.
"Madame Lunna!" the voice called and she suddenly felt a hand fly to her forhead only to quickly withdraw. "She's burning up!" Then Kanni heard Madame Lunna's voice begin to speak very fastly around her but her head was already drumming with pain deafening everything into an inaudiable murmur. Her dreams were black, and a high pitched cackle rung within her ears. Her nightmares were attacking again. Lately they have been more frequently.
Suddenly someone pulled her into an upright position and smacked her cheeks lightly. Her body fell limp into the arms. Even though she tried, she couldn't make her limbs move. She felt like helpless jello. She was faintly aware of what was going on around her, but nothing more. Her head felt like it was about to explode and she felt her bed jerk into movement as it was rolled quickly down the hallway. A sudden green light pierced through her eyelids and she felt her body's spasing slowly ease into rest again. But she was still burning and her head was still thudding loudly within her skull. Her eyes flickered open and shut like she couldn't control them.
Another blast of green sank painfully into her body but then she felt her head-ache slowly ebb away into a dull migrane. Now she was only still burning, and her body was completely limp. The last blast of green was the largest, wrapping around her several times and stabbing at her skin like a bed of needles as it sank into her skin and sought out the pain, dulling it away.
Then a rush of blue icy light swept over her like a gust of wind, cooling down her flaming organs. Kanni's breathing was still tortured, but no long half as painful as it had been before. She let out deep breath of releif as her body numbly fell back to the sheets. She heard Madame Lunna let out the breath of anticipation she had been holding and said wearily, "There...that should hold her for now."
"What happened?" Kanni recognized the voice as Premidas's now.
"Is she okay?" Themrus's voice asked overhead.
"For now. We mustn't wake her. Let her sleep the healing off, then she should be fine if the healing had any effect at all, that is." Madame Lunna said lightly and her bed jerked as it rolled back behind the curtains. They were closed and Kanni slipped into a black sleep. Someone then put a cold hand on her forehead, but pulled away too soon. Kanni's hand, almost unconciously, shot out to grasp the person's wrist but she only felt air between her fingers. The rack made a metallic noise as the person pushed through the curtains and left.
Her hand fell limply back onto the sheets next to her, and she drew her knees up, balling up for a hopefully deep sleep.
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Premidas, clad in some baggy jeans and a black short-sleeved shirt braced both hands on his cane as he shuffled over to Themrus. "Kanni's forhead is still really warm," he said.
"Yes...I know. She has a little bit of a fever now, but that should clear up by late tonight." Madame Lunna informed, panting from the large amount of magic and energy it took to calm Kanni's jerking body.
"What happened to her?" Premidas asked, combing through his slightly matted white hair, his red eyes looking up at the healer expectantly.
"I-I honestly don't quite know. Some form of spasm, I suppose. That's what it looked like. But what caused it is what I'd like to find out." the healer replied and then strode off to go check on her other patients. "And you, Mister? How are your wounds coming along?" Mr. Ulthra swept down in front of him on his was out.
"After Kanni's attack last night a little worse off than they should be, but I'm fine...really."
"'Kanni's attack'?"
Premidas took a deep breath and described what Kanni had done to him, Kaleb, and the nursery when the black magician took hold of her again. Mr. Ulthra silently listened, seeming very interested. Finally he said, "Yet again, eh? And still she didn't acquire a third power...this is not good...not good at all..." the ghost muttered as he abruptly left Premidas without so much as a "good bye". The boy shrugged and wondered how Alice was doing.
He had heard Gabriel was back and was excited to see the man again. He came to Alice's bed and pulled away the rack to see Gabriel sitting on her bed, looking as good as new. "Gabriel!" he breathed, not beleiving it himself for a moment.
"Ah, Mr. Anthen! Nice to see you're recovering quickly," Gabriel looked up and cracked a broad smile. "How are you? Does Madame Lunna know you're our of your bed?"
"Yes," Premidas grinned. "I'm fine. Getting better. You?"
"Good as new," Gabriel held out his arms for proof. Then Premidas settled down on a wooden stool placed by Alice's bed and became serious.
"What happened to you down there? What did Brige do?" he asked, eyeing the man intently who dropped his smile into a frown.
"Enough to make we want to kill him," the man growled. "Listen, I really don't want to talk about this now, okay?"
"That's fine," Premidas pulled back and yawned heavily. "Man, I need to get some peaceful sleep!"
"What happened to Kanni, Prem?" Alice asked. "Why is she in my old bed?"
"She had another attack...I was only there for the second part of it, you should ask Kaleb for the whole story later."
"Is that why he's so bruised? And is that why you're still bleeding?" Alice asked even though she knew the answer. The animagus nodded and pushed a white strand from his face when Alice discovered the scar on the right top side of his forehead. "Oh...where'd you get that from?" she asked, poiting to it.
"Oh...that? From that night...the night Gabriel disappeared." he answered gravely and moved a few strands down over it to cover it up better.
"That night..." Alice said with a hint of anger. "Brige will pay for all this! He won't get away with it!"
"No he won't. Ulthra and Themrus are already planning what to do with him. Too bad Ulthra is in this too; otherwise Themrus would gladly allow Gabriel to kill Brige right then and there!" Premidas growled, not meaning any offense towards his ghost teacher. Gabriel chuckled at this and said, "Okay kiddies! How about we forget that for just one second and talk about something else?"
"Like how I'm gonna live with you?" Alice asked hopefully and Gabriel grinned.
"I hope so, kiddo, I really hope so."
"I'll come visit!" Premidas offered and then said, "As long as you keep that pool!"
Posted at 03:11 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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(Attack!!1 lol. XD)
In the school's arcade students recollected themselves into their groups, unaware of the events that took place the previous days. No one had seemed to be bothered by Kanni's or Alice's absence at all, yet most seemed to take awareness that Kaleb was sitting only in a booth, seperating the bottle green strands from his natural dark brown hair. He had been wearing a pair of dark jeans and a loose black sweater with a hood. Both feet were kicked up onto the long seat of the booth, taking up more space than usual to prevent from being drawn into some boring conversation with the giggling girls in the booth several paces away from Kaleb. Everyone was normal, as if nothing had ever happened and yet Kaleb sat there on the booth, his mind wandering to Alice, Premidas, Kanni and Gabriel. So much had changed than anything else this year all because of two students.
A woman now stood infront of the booth's table, placing bags of food with a wink before walking off to the kitchens. Kaleb had decided to bring food to the others, knowing that they weren't getting much food at the hospital wing. He quickly looked into the bags, finding that the woman had given him soup to bring back as well as some tea bags. The boy stood up while fingering the bag to his hand while walking through the crowd which had gathered over some new game some kid had bought. Kaleb had completely managed to get away from the crowd and out into the corridors, fixing portraits without having to go up to them as he walked. Several bells now chimed for the special classes to end which were in the left side of the school, exactly opposite of where Kaleb was heading too.
Merlin had been walking through the corridor infront of Clarissa's office, startled when Kaleb made the light bulb switch off into darkness and then back off. The boy enjoyed giving the old man a startle every once and a while, already imagining his mother's disapproving look. But around the corner had been what Kaleb was startled most about for his mother was greeting someone into her office. It had been a man and what could have been his daughter, her dark hair and deep blue eyes staring at Kaleb from over her petite shoulder. Suddenly something seemed to have stabbed him in the pain, only finding himself watching someone try and get past the wall that guarded his mind, trying to pry for some memory. The boy staggered to the ground holding his head, the pain stopping once Clarissa's door closed. He had now been sure that the girl had pryed into his mind just now.
It infact seemed to be a topic that concerned Kaleb to the rest of the way, his head aching with pain while the portrait of the girl standing next to her father and his mother, staring into him and prying for something specific. No one had mention to anyone of the new student yet, not even Themrus seemed to know about it and some surprised expression had played upon Clarissa's face when Kaleb saw her in the corridor. Now he entered through the large wooden doors into the lobby of the hospital to only find Themrus leaning over the desk, murmuring something to Madam Lunna as Kaleb crept around them and into the dorm where Alice and Kanni were located.
"Ah! And here is Mr. Agretto!" Gabriel's voice had cheerfully called through the dorm, calling Kaleb's eyes to catch the vision of Alice sitting up on her next while Premidas sat on a stool next to the bed and the man sat on Alice's bed, spreading his arms out and asking, "What do you think? Alive or just damn lucky."
"Both really. Anyways, I got you all some food." Kaleb had handed out the food one by one, watching Gabriel eye his own food carefully, not wanting to waste anything for the man hadn't eaten healthy for what seemed like several days. "The lady there gave me soup to bring back to you. Is Kanni still asleep?"
"Sleeping like a baby," chuckled Gabriel, handing Alice her own soup from Kaleb. "Did you see your mother somewhere in the corridors at anytime while walking over here? There is something we need to discuss..."
"Yea, but it looks like there is a new students here. She was bringing them into her office," answered Kaleb, deciding to keep the rest out. He could break the gleeful mood that taken over the room. "Has Miss Black snuck out at all today so far?"
"Was about to," growled Alice, drinking her coke from the can. "Until Themrus caught me half way to the fridge in the teacher's room in this wing. I was so close too!"
"You can never get past that room. Tried it once, remember that Kaleb?" said Premidas.
"Too well almost, we both turned to ferrets once we got into it," said Kaleb.
"I heard from Clarissa herself that you two made good ferrets," sneered Gabriel. "Alice, you took these?" The animagus was looking down at the camera of the pictures of the house he bought, then handing it to Premidas and Kaleb whose eyes grew hungry at the picture of the pool and the size of the house. "I'm surprised the neighboors still do the lawns and flowers on that house."
"Let me tell you that it wasn't easy getting there. I had no clue where to find a taxi first of all in the city," hissed Alice. "And does the pool freeze over in the winter?"
"Funny story about that actually," chuckled Gabriel. "Themrus and I were visiting the house, we were renting it then, for the winter and we forgot that the house didn't drain the water itself so the whole pool froze over with the hardest and smoothest ice you'll ever see. So, we had our own skating ring in the back yard for winter! And when I get back with Clarissa I'm going to have to get you some new clothes seeing how you bled through most of them, kiddo."
"I've got to come over one time," whispered Kaleb, flipping through the pictures.
"Gabriel!" The door had stood agar slightly with Clarissa sticking her head out of it, waving Gabriel to her. The man stood up, kissing Alice briefly on the forehead and give the two boys and friendly pat on the head before walking over to the principle, hissing about how impatient she was. Yet now the three looked at eachother, hearing Kaleb's story of the new girl and began to talk in deep conversation.
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"Court?! You've got to be joking about this Clarissa! Themrus, help me out here!" The animagus was now leaning back on the red couch in Clarissa's office, exmaining a sheet of papers he held up in the air. "I've got to go to court just so I can get my money back and be allowd to have Alice live with me? This is a load of crap, Clarissa."
"It's the law and we gifted folk must follow those laws as well. Even though we clear you, the people out there who don't know about us won't think the same way. Ulthar has put up an excellant defense force us that can't even lose. You can get a job here Gabriel! Even stay here with Alice freely!" bribed Clarissa, looking at Gabriel to except.
Instead the ma tore the papers in half. "I will absolutly not step foot into that court room. I trust Ulthar but he hasn't left this building for ages. For all I know Brige could be the only going against me and he'll be spitting out curses while he's at it."
"Gabriel, think about Alice and her friends for once!" hissed Themrus. "Alice has risked her life to find you and she has, now you're going to throw it all away because you're afraid to step into a court room. I know you're braver than this Gabriel."
"Can I at least think about this?" questioned the man, looking up at Clarissa who had been fixing ornaments on the tables.
"As long as you want before tonight for then I've got to make phone calls to get you in. Imagine this Gabriel, you can get a job here and live with Alice freely, earning money like you always did before all of this!" said Clarissa.
"And what about Brige?" asked Gabriel.
"Ulthar and I have a plan about that," said Themrus with a smirk.
"Clarissa, you're a parent but will this really help Alice in the future?" asked Gabriel, sitting up with his face in his hands.
"Unless you want your god-child to be hidden away from the world when being with you as a family, then I think you should do this. Alice can feel more safe knowing that most people won't be after you anymore and people will accept you to work for them for the money you'll need to support each other. Trust me Gabriel, you can finally bring her home to the house you spent so much time thinking about and worrying if she'd feel right at home. And I guarente you that she will feel more than at home with you freed and in your home."
Posted at 04:11 pm by Winged-Horror
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Thursday, August 12, 2004
write tomorrow! promise!
Posted at 11:55 am by Silicon_Scrifice
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Friday, August 13, 2004
Kanni's head throbbed as her eyes slowly fluttered open. She smiled lightly when she saw Premidas looking down on her. He patted her head. "You feeling better now?"
"A bit."
Kaleb and Alice hovered just beyond Premidas's shoulder with smiles. "Welcome back into the real world!" Alice greeted and leaned down to lightly embrace Kanni, happy to have her friend back. Kanni weakly wrapped her arms around Alice, feeling elated to see her friends hadn't disappeared even through all the attacks and pain she infflicted on them; like she sometimes expected them too. These were true friends. She had nearly killed Kaleb and Premidas, yet they were still here waiting for her to wake. She would have killed Alice could she have gotten to her, yet Alice was alive and well in her arms. Kanni smiled, her bleeding and scabbed lip beginning to break open again.
Kaleb put a bowl of soup on the desk next to Kanni's bed and Premidas helped the girl as she propped herself up with pillows and took the soup. Her stomach rumbled loudly for she hadn't eaten anything while she was alseep. She gratefully dipped the spoon into the soup and felt the warm liquid trickle down her throat. "Thanks," she murmured between mouthfuls.
"Your welcome, Miss," Kaleb replied sarcastically.
"Where's Gabriel?"
"In Clarissa's office. He's totally fine." Premidas groaned, perched upon the stool like a waiting owl. He eyed her as she ate, still wondering about what happened when the little soul had kissed his cheek. Ever since then he had different thoughts about his friend. Did she do that conciously? Could she remember it? Did she like him more than a friend, as he secretly and slightly did? He was nervous now around her. But she didn't seem to remember anything so he finally forced himself to calm down and act normal.
(hehe...he doesn't kno Kanni really kissed him at the hospital...hehe or at least that's what she think...hehe)
"What?" Kanni fixed her lilac-green speckled eyes on him with a crooked smile. "Am I that amazing?" she joked and Premidas nervously grinned with a laugh, directing his eyes to Alice and Kaleb who exchanging smirks about his behavior. He sent them a scowl only to make Alice giggle. Kanni rose a brow. What was so interesting that she didn't know? Oh well. She finished her soup and stretched out, yawning and moving her bones that had become quite stiff after lying so long. She suddenly got the urge to get up and walk about.
"You think I can walk around?" she asked Kaleb who shrugged.
"I don't see why. I would help you recover. Why not? You and Alice can recover together!" he jested in a high pitched voice and Alice elbowed him but he only laughed. Kanni, dressed in the light blue hospital smock. A little blue band was fastened around her wrist like a tag to show she belonged in bed and not in class. Kanni tugged at it but it didn't break so she left it alone.
Premidas handed her a cane lying next to her bed like he had and she slipped her bare feet down onto the cold tiled floor. Premidas braced himself against his own cane since he was still injured and shuffled around like a grandma, teasing her and Alice. Alice had now abandoned her cane and could walk just fine, but she still stuck her tongue out at the animagus.
Kanni buckled her elbow and pushed against the cane, almost falling when her knees seemed to fall from right under her. Alice and Premidas grabbed her arms and lifted her steadily back onto her feet. Kanni became frustrated. "What is this?! Have I forgotten how to walk?"
"No, you're probably just a little stiff." Kaleb offered and Kanni finally managed to walk. Her legs throbbed, her right knee tightly bandaged up along with her fists and a swab was taped to a gash on her stomach from all the beds Kaleb had sent flying at her. Soon she was shuffling around down the hallway, students greeting her as they watched TV and played their game boys.
The sun filtered through the once but it was hazey and white, like a storm was just about to come. Actually Kanni always loved storms and windy Autum days, when it was slightly dark. Those were the days you could light a fire and cozy up to someone you liked and drink hot cocoa. She shot Premidas a look; annoyed he was staring at her again. His cheeks flushed and he quickly looked away.
"What is it with him?" Kanni hissed to Alice.
Alice smirked but only shrugged, "Dunno." Kanni rose a brow skeptically but said no more. Madame Lunna was briskly walking across the hall, checking the students in beds lined up on both sides. "Ah, Miss Merrane has awoken!" she called when she spotted Kanni. Kanni smiled weakly.
"Good that you're walking around. I helps you. Keep at it, but I want you back in bed to rest in an hour. And don't dar try to leave like Miss Black has," Madame Lunna shot Alice a meaningful look with a smile and a wink, then hurrying down to check on other students. "Whew..." Kanni grinned, "Didn't get killed."
"Yea..." Kaleb said, his gaze a little distant as other thoughts took hold a moment. "So, where and what shall we do? I'm hungry for some action already! Lying in a bed and sleeping for two days isn't really my style," Kanni got a mischivious look in her smile and eyes.
( a lil short, but I promise a longer one next time...gotta go write on me short stories sometime too ya kno!)
Posted at 02:01 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Saturday, August 14, 2004
Wether Madam Lunna really allowd Alice to ask for permisson to go down to the arcade and malls, even Kaleb wasn't sure for the shape shifter had snuck out along with Kaleb and Kanni, soon followed by Premidas through the dorm and past Madam Lunna who was busy treating a student who had gotten herself into a color charm, her skin turning a bright pink with deep blue spots. The four had given eachother complete confidence in sneaking out, which they did once Alice bribed the portraits never to speak of them sneaking out when Kanni was orginally supposed to be staying in bed for another hour. Each portrait gave the shape shifter a shuffle, then a nod, and then an agreement stretching out their arms from the portrait to shake hands with Alice to make the bribe offical. Alice roamed freely infront of the three, her arms swinging by her side while looking down at the ball of paper she had been kicking for the past minute. Kaleb had then rushed to her side, kicking the ball of paper himself while wrapping his arms around her shoulders which was something that only made Kanni and Premidas exchanged glances that slightly looked blushed.
Other students had only noticed the apperance of the four after two days and were now chattering to themselves in a more hushed voices. Perhaps they were gossiping about what had happened in the last two days to themselves. If anything involved something with them it had been tackled on with rumors and the newest gossip made up or just even heard from someone else. What made Alice grin deviloushy was to find Brige leaning against the frame of this door, twisting something in the pocket of his robes while watching Alice give him a brief 'L' with her index finger and thumb on her forehead, quickly putting her hand to her side as Snoop roamed the halls for Kaleb or Clarissa with leaves of a plant stuck under his over large nose. Yet Kaleb had suddenly made a choice of going out into the courtyard behind the school, somewhere where Alice hadn't been to in the longest time she thought of. Yet now it was different with the cool Autumn breeze roaming through the trees which leaves were beginning to change color, only to result in falling to be picked up by the air, only to fall minutes later to the ground.
Kanni had settled on sitting at the gazeebo where several students had just walked away from to watch the fight between two other students, already wrestling on the ground. Before sitting down herself, Alice shifted into a squirel to brush the leaves off of the seats quickly with her large bushy tail. After several minutes of cleaning the squirell shifted back into Alice, sitting on the wall of the gazeebo under it's wooden roof. Just sitting there with the Autumn breeze had been very peacefull to watch the students wrestle themselves now after the two had been punching eachother to the ground, recieving nose bleeds, swollen lips and black eyes. Kaleb had been sitting on the table where the benches were missing across from Alice to only murmur in a hushed voice, "You're not worried about this new girl we've talked about at all when she tried to break into my own mind?"
"I'm trying to ignore that Kaleb. It only makes me more nervous to be eager of finding out what this girl looks like and maybe what she is..." whispered Alice back, trying to tie her hair back instead of it being played with by the breeze. "Can there be something like a possesser for a skill or is it just skill and practice?"
"Don't ask me for I'm not even sure about that. But I know she tried to break into my mind and was digging for something...a memory of something that she wanted but she couldn't even find it for my mother brought her into the office," whispered Kaleb, hearing the giggling from Kanni at one student being thrown into the nearby lake. "My mother can never be possessed or even allow something into her mind for she's more powerfull to even allow that."
"Well, there is going to be an assembly for that then, right?" asked Alice, still in the hushed voice that she had been speaking in for the past minute or two. "Unless the panel rejects her for being late and things like that..."
"We'll just have to wait up on that and see if my mother and the panel allows her. Yet Themrus and Ulthar have been up to things lately, always hissing about Brige. It's beginning to get suspensive on what they're planning to do with that man," he whispered back, his eyes darting over to where a stun charm had nearly hit Alice and himself. "Watch that! I'll be getting into that fight of yours too if you plan to try another stun!"
Premidas had then leaned across the space between him and Kaleb, saying, "I'll get into it too for one nearly hit the roof. And-Hey, isn't that Brad or is it Gabriel?" He had spoke in almost of growl when referring to Brad, but he relaxed to find Alice shaking her head to the name of someone who Kanni went with first to the dance. The shape shifter jumped off of the gazeebo wall to land softly on the ground, shifting quickly into white owl to fly across the distance between her and her own guardian, only to shift back to Alice to be embraced by Gabriel. Her hands had already been pressing against his chest and arms to make sure that the man was even real, for it had been dressed in a new cloak, wearing dark denim jeans with a tanish sweater with his long hair cut short, still long enough to be pulled back into the short tail with a thin piece of string. First Alice was the one to speak, only blurting out, "How are you st-you're not even allowd to be out here in the first place!"
"Can you listen and instead not smuggle out Kanni?" sneered Gabriel, kneeling lower to face Alice, insisting that she laid her palm open, and dropped a key in her hand. "Clarissa, Themrus and I just came back from normal court and I've been cleared. Which means I'll be looking for a job soon here and outside of the school. It also means that you can live with me now, kiddo."
Posted at 05:10 am by Winged-Horror
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"Whoohoo!" Kanni heard Alice whoop with excitement as she threw her arms around Gabriel once more. Kanni smiled. She was happy for her friend. Finally, maybe, things were turning around. Kanni, dressed in a strapless black top and baggy gray jogging pants that fell over her addidas shoes tried to cnceal her hospital tag by slipping some skin-tight separate sleeves up to her elbow. They were striped with black and white and fit normally to what she was wearing. She had also taken a shower to wash all the cold sweat from her, and her lilac hair smelled like shampoo.
Kaleb smiled too. "Hey, guys, I'm going to live with Gabriel!" Alice cried excitedly to them and tugged the man by his sleeves over to the gazebo. "He went to court and cleared his name! He's free!" Alice continued, her eyes wide and an elated smile stratched across her lips. Kanni suddenly felt a surge of pain streak through her head. Not wanting to alarm them with her painful expression she lowered her forhead into her cross arms, leaning against the tabel.
"Kanni?"
"I'm fine! Just tired," Kanni snapped, her temple throbbing. She sighed and lifted her head back up with a weak grin she hoped was reassuring. Her eyes seemed to pop out with a heavy thudding just behind them. Her hands grew cold and her bare arms slightly prickled. Alice shot her a worried look. "Are you sure? You look freaked."
"I'm fine already! Come off it!" Kanni snarled and fitted the blue tag band back under the sleeves where it had slipped out. Alice rose an eye brow but shoved away the comment. "So, anyways, he's free now! He's gonna get a job and everything! Isn't that wonderful? My mom tosses me away, but I finally get to live with someone who really loves me."
Gabriel smiled and rubbed his knuckles across Alice's head saying, "That's right. Now we can do what ever we want! I can finally go into the public for crying out loud!"
"What about Brige?" Premidas finally asked, wondering how they could have forgotten about the obstacle that still wouldn't budge out of their way.
"Themrus and Ulthra have already promised to deal with him." Gabriel said in a low voice and then smiled again. "You all have to come over and swim and stay over too sometime!"
"Don't mind if we do!" Premidas threw his hands up with excitement. "We'll see you blasted lucky fool everyday!" he directed to Alice who couldn't have looked more happier. But Kanni couldn't have felt worse. Her head throbbed, drummed, and pounded. Maybe it was time she returned to the hospital...
"Kanni?" Gabriel noticed the girl's strange behavior and patted her back only to have her jerk away with fear, as if he were some killer who had found her hiding spot. "I-I think I better go inside again. It's kindda chilly out here," she said in a rushed tone and wobbled to her feet, using the cane to shuffle down the gazebo steps and headed out into the gravel.
"Yea, maybe we should," Premidas shot the others a look of question but they didn't know either. They followed as Kanni, in a hurry, headed towards the doors. Just as the girl was about to open them they swung forward to reveal a girl with long brown locks. Her blue eyes were genuine and seemed endless as Kanni's lilac irises locked into hers. A sudden horrible pain jerked her from the near hypnosis and she lowered her head in pain.
The girl's gaze followed as Kanni cringed to the floor, her hands pressed tightly on her temples. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Premidas's angry voice bellowed as he neared, Alice and Kaleb backed away to keep from view. Kanni's breaths came in fast, short gasps. Premidas them squeezed her shoulder and the girl's blue eyes shot to him. He felt a dull pain throb within his head, but ignored it.
The girl's expression was clear and innocent; but her eyes were never faltering--and powerful. "Kanni? Kanni!" Premidas yelled in her ear and Kanni snapped back into the real world. "What?" she meekly asked and Premidas helped her up. Suddenly the girl turned and ran down the lobby back to a woman who was beckoning her to come back. They disappeared into the principle's room once again, but not without the girl sending an eerie back-stare back at the two.
"Gee, thanks for your help," Premidas sneered at Gabriel, Alice, and Kaleb who were cowering behind the doors.
"I don't like her. Listen to me, especially Alice and Kanni, I want you to stay away from her, okay? She's bad news." Gabriel said in a stern tone now. Kanni, returning to normalcy, lightly nodded. Her headache hadn't eased up; on the contrary, it had gotten worse. But at least she had her sense of balance back.
"Hey, how about we go to the arcade and get some ice cream before turning Kanni back in to her prison cell?" Prem suggested.
"On me," Gabriel offered, his eyes still a little weary of what just happened. He, with a gently grip, lifted Kanni to her feet and steadied her before heading off. Kanni now barely needed her cane; after walking the whole afternoon she had regained most of the mobility in her legs and limbs.
The halls were filled with students whispering and loudly laughing irritatingly. They shot the group looks of what sometimes was disdain before turning back to their conversation. Kanni stuck her tongue out at some of them and flicked a few off when Gabriel wasn't looking to give her a lecture about being nice.
Alice soon did the same, also annoyed at the curiosity of the nosy students. The food court was also packed and Mrs. Taint was even there. She soon approached Kanni and asked, "Ah, you're out of the hospital. When can I expect you back at training? Has anything happened? Ah, hello Gabriel! Good to see you!" She greeted the animagus and the kids shot surprised glances.
"Don't worry, Themrus and Ulthra are using me to help with the 'Brige' problem. Kanni?" Mrs. Taint fixed her eyes on the girl.
"Well....uh....I had another attack two nights ago but I should be back in regular class soon...It depends on Madame Lunna." Kanni almost whispered, not wanting to be reminded what she had to do to be safe around other students. And even with the training she still couldn't completely relax around people without the fear of what might happen.
"Good. Good day then, all of you," Mrs. Taint slightly inclined her head and headed out into the corridors.
"Now that was a surprise," Kaleb chuckled. "I had no idea she knew too, much less help!"
"Mrs. Taint go pretty far back too," Gabriel said and then quickly hurried them to the ice cream stand before they could pose any more questions about the subject. "Now hurry or I'll get completely chewed up by Madame Lunna if she finds Kanni out here and with us!"
Posted at 04:16 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Sunday, August 15, 2004
Riiinnngg! The small clock by the shape shifter's side went off, rattling on the white marble floor while she let go of her breath she had been holding and heaved in the air she had longed for several minutes. Her head throbbed with a pounding buzz almost forgetting that she was being given furthor instructions by Mrs. Taint who sat on the same white marble floor across from Alice. The girl had been here for what seemed to be hours, trying to sufficate intruders in her mind. It had been a new approach of training suggested by Ulthar which was something that made Alice wish that Ulthar had been instead too busy with teaching classes and thinking over their problem with her being a Verae. Gabriel had been watching his god child from behind one-way windows along with Themrus in the dome. Mrs. Taint continued with the instructions, "Once again, I'll try to enter your mind but you need to hold your breath to try and sufficate from from your mind since mind readers have limited air in other's mind. Ready? To five. 1...2...3...4...5!"
Alice's head throbbed more with the pain of Mrs. Taint re-entering her mind for what was the seventh time, and felt herself cring to her floor. She let out several screams with her hands clamped around her temples. They had been through this for several times now after they brought Kanni back to the hospital wing after seeing that strange girl. Now it had felt like the girl might be in this room, doing exactly what she might had done to Kanni. Mrs. Taint was now propping Alice up again on her knees, brushing her off quickly with a rag before sitting down herself, folding out the creases in her own robes. No one seemed happy anymore with the only time where Alice knocked Mrs. Taint out of her mind by falling onto the woman, which was why the two were now sitting instead of standing. The shape shifter didn't want to go through this once more for her head throbbed with an umimaginable pain that seemed to tear her apart from the inside the way she cringed onto the floor after every approach.
"Alright Miss Black. I think that'll be enough for today but you better wash up and get ready for dinner tonight. We're expecting a new student to be sorted by the panel." The shape shifter was raised to her feet by the old woman who seemed to have sorrow buried somewhere of her fading smile to Alice. Gabriel had then been handed Alice, carrying her for Alice's legs would have given in now that there wasn't much strength left in her. If she had to do this every day, then Alice believed that she might not even be able to handle school with the training. But Clarissa had given instructions to the staff to teach Alice, a Verae, to repell intruders from her mind. It all made the same difference in the end to the shape shifter; she just wanted to be the normal girl instead of a Verae.
The shape shifter had been carried up to her room by Gabriel who hadn't been at all pleased with the way Clarissa had forced these lessons of repelling intruders on his god child. His sister, who had died years ago, had always said that Gabriel was sometimes over protective of people who he has been giving the responsibility of watching over. He was for he couldn't bare Alice to be possessed again and for another mess to allow Brige more chances of getting anyone expelled. Brige was like a cannon waiting to go off at anyone now. Yet Gabriel helped Alice into the bathroom, putting her bloody knees from falling too much into the tub and washing them off after pulling up her jeans. Alice had been completely warn out from the lessons and the concern of the strange girl being sorted in the same corridor as her and Kanni was something that she had been worrried about. Kaleb had even told her that the same girl dug in his mind for some memory that she wanted so badly.
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