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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.
Posted at 08:14 am by Winged-Horror
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Monday, August 16, 2004
(sry real short!)
Kanni's head tossed back and forth, throbbing...acheing...thundering! She could see visions of that new girl...her deathly blue eyes locked on her as Kanni cringed to the floor, remembering what had happened earleir that afternoon. She was now taking a nap, trying to clear her head; but so far it was only getting worse. "I say Salarsh!" the panel's arguement about her rung back through her mind, the memories flashing through her head.
Something bad was about to happen. She was ever so deathly sure of it. Something they would all regret....
Posted at 04:37 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Someone had been trying to shake Alice awake in the past few minutes of her peaceful when hissing and screams filled her mind from the farthest corner, arguing over something. The shape shifter finally awoke to find Gabriel luring above her, his hand keep her mouth closed while he pressed a finger against his own two lips to signal the shape shifter to keep quiet. There was something tearing through the room, invisible, throwing cabinets to the ground and throwing clothes around the room. It was looking for something dearly and wasn't paying any attention to the awoken Gabriel and Alice who watched this invisible person tear through the room. The mirror was then pushed to the ground, sending several thousands of glass shards scattered on the rug. It then stopped, as if it had just seen Alice and Gabriel watch it from the bed with curious expressions. Nothing had stirred in the room after several minutes, but a sudden force clenching around Alice's neck broke the silence.
The shape shifter had been pinned against the wall, feeling human nails dig into the skin of her neck while the air for Alice began to run out. Her feet tried to kick anything infront of her that might be there, but it was no use for she had felt nothing. Gabriel had been trying to claw at anything, finding it difficult to peel Alice off of the wall and throw themselves onto the ground where Alice found air once more. Soft tapping was then made in the room from whatever was invisible. Gabriel had then shifted into the white wolf spotted with black, awaiting for the complete shifting of his god child which was interrupted by a painting that lunged at her, pressing her once more against the wall. Whatever it was it wanted Alice dead no matter how it was done. The wolf had tore at the canvas of the painting, giving enough time for his god child to properly shift into the choosen animal.
But that was were it all began to change dramaticly. It had happened a few nights ago, large green wings such as dragonflies' protruding from her back while green and purple strands of hair sank into Alice's naturual dark red hair. Her skin was peeling, revealing a green tint of skin under the peeling skin. Voices were screaming to her, several objects being picked up in the room then dropped, Alice turning into a ghost then to normal, and then several objects being lit on fire or frozen. The invisible someone now seemed pleased, not attacking while watching the raging power change in Alice. The powers kept changing causing chaos in the room while she heard voices that never were there before. The animagus had then launched himself at a blur matierlizing on the bed, engaging into a fierce battle while Alice tried to keep the powers under control.
"Black...Green...Purple, where is our little Verae now?"
The voice was so cold and seemed to come from nowhere, yet it spoke something else that was ended by Gabriel skidding across the room to Alice, tugging her sleeves to leave the room while the blur became more detailed. The shape shifter, now with wings and alienated traits, followed the wolf and was glad that everyone was mostly at dinner preparing for the sorting. The voices kept growing louder and then soft at one point. People began to matierlized in the halls, reaching out for attention from Alice who ran past them, her hands clenched over her ears which began to grow more into a tip, like the ear of an elf. This had happened before, yet she took a chance of keeping the abnormal eye which no one seemed to notice. Gabriel had then barked getting the attention of Alice along with Merlin who was with Snoop.
Both seemed entranced in the strange creature, once Alice, standing in the corridor with a white wolf tugging at her sleeve with impatience. Snoop had then launched himself at Alice but was thrown back by Gabriel. Merlin began to bark yells, perhaps to find Brige's attention that something was roaming the corridors. Even though Merlin began to scream out curses the shape shifter managed to run into another corridor with Gabriel, soon losing Merlin. She wanted to find Themrus or Clarissa, but the sudden thought of the girl struck her. The girl could enter minds, so would she know about this? It seemed to strike Gabriel too of where to go, his padded feet clicking against the floor next to Alice. Could they find Kaleb or Premidas before anything else did?
No, not really for the invisible feeling reappeared in the corridor and there at the end of the hall stood the cloak that had attacked Gabriel and Alice before. It didn't have the same feeling as the one that had helped Alice find Gabriel. No, this one had a cold aura quickly filling the corridor, waving the uneeded lamp around as if to see the two on the other end of the corridor. Gabriel had then shifted and hid Alice in his cloak behind a curtain, almost leaning against the covered windows. They could see through the curtains, watching the cloak hover through the corridor. Then something had just entered Alice's mind, making her vision foggy while Gabriel's whispered warnings were drowned out by screams that seemed to come from nowhere.
And there was the figure of the strange girl, attempting the walk through the broken wall that protected Alice's mind. Something had just then clawed through her memories, trying to find something that wouldn't be found easily. It was a request of something painfull, something of Gabriel for some odd reason. It had then found the memory, spreading a chilling horror through Alice who found herself staring at herself in what was a mirror, but with the wings and alien looks. The mirror had just then broke before her, sending shards of glass into Alice's eyes while previous memories created a sulky feeling through Alice...And all she hoped for was to find Kaleb and await the sorting of the new girl...
[Gotta go to the movies! YAHOO!]
Posted at 08:13 am by Winged-Horror
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"Hey, Kan," someone shook her. "Wake up sunshine, we gotta get ready for the sorting. Madame Lunna has let you off the hook; you can leave now." Kanni blinked open her eyes to see Premidas and Kaleb standing by her bedside, grinning. "C'mon! We gotta clean up for the sorting and feast. That new student, I heard, was put in the Salarsh housing area...We have nothing to worry about."
"Tell me that when she tried to break into me again," Kanni growled, remembering the intrusion. That girl had no right to sift through her memories as she wished! Kanni would teach her a lesson; and a damn good one at that. She lifted from the bed, still wearing what she had before when she snuck out. she slipped into her socks and shoes, now able to freely walk without a cane. Premidas still had to use it, and hated the fact. "Man, that is so not fair!" he complained as Kaleb and Kanni strode easily before him.
"So, what are we getting ready for? All we have to do is show up." Kanni said, slowing her pace so the animagus could catch up.
"First we gotta find Alice. Then we'll go see if we can squeeze and information about this girl from Themrus or mom." Kaleb replied, tapping his foot impatiently as Prem shuffled as quickly as he could. "God Prem! You're like a fricken' granny!"
"Oh shut up!" Premidas snarled and then smirked micheiviously. "Hey, Kanni, up for another ride?"
"What?"
Then, in a billow of white mist a lion stood before them. It's red eyes glinted and it nodded to Kanni for her to get on, one injured paw lifted slightly in the air. Kanni grinned but shook her head, "You'll hurt yourself more with any additional weight, Prem. Not a good idea."
Then suddenly Premidas's eyes grew wide. He made a small whimpering sound and then snarled angrily, as if an abrupt mood swing. Kanni watched his strong behavior with caution; this couldn't be good. A horrible nagging feeling settled in the pit of her stomach. Then a strange sensation washed over her like a bucket of icy cold water, making her jolt, her muscles beginning to jolt and cramp. Oh no....it was happening again!
A blackness tugged at the tips of her eyes; no! She couldn't give in! Not now! She hardly noticed Kaleb's warning yells as the white lion started to pad towards her, a hungry look set in its eyes. "Kanni!" Kaleb finally screamed and dashed forth, grabbing her hand and yanking her back just before Premidas pounced on her. The lion turned his attention to Kaleb and snarled, then throwing his head back, he let out a lion roar that echoed through the corridor.
"The damn thing had gone mad!" Kaleb yanked Kanni again, tugging her along as he began to run down the carpeted corridor, heading for the stairs. But a lion was much faster. Within seconds it had caught up with them and blocked off their escape. Kanni was almost numb, oblivious to everything but the blackness threatening to drag her under. What the hell was going on?!
That's what I'd like to know, a little voice, that sounded much like her own, hissed. The lion pounced. Kaleb threw out his hands and the lion froze, just inches away from them, snarling and spitting. He tossed his hands to the side and Premidas went slamming into the wall. Sweat from the concentration and energy it took to hold of the lion beaded down his forehead. Kanni realized that he wouldn't hold that much longer.
Do something! the voice within her screamed out the order. She had to. Had to trust and listen to it. She, then playing bait, began to run off down the hall. The lion shot forward, racing after her. Next thing she knew she felt the hot claws rip through her back, tearing through the skin and clothes. She screamed but, surprisingly, didn't feel much.
Then, as if knowing what was about to happen, she spun around and shot out a hand. The lion fell to the floor from mid-pounce and let out another angry roar. A violet light began to lightly emmit from Kanni's body, a light suprano voice singing lines from what seemed a summer song, trailing on the air. White mist was extracted from the lion's body leaving Premidas in human form. He still looked angry; even angrier his lion form was no more.
He leapt forward with and angry yell, falling on Kanni and the two tumbled to the floor. The impact pushed them together and Kanni felt her lips press against his. Then a horrible pain screeched through her head. She screamed with anguish, pulling her lips from his, trying to push him off her. A white mist began to surround them, seeming to leave Premidas as it floated into her open mouth while she howled with more pain.
Her head throbbed and pounded, her skin burning. Finally she braced her feet against PRemidas's chest and pushed, knocking him from her where her tumbled onto his back, a surprised dazed look in his face. "Make it stop!" Kanni wailed, her hands pressed on her temples as it felt as if her head was swelling and thundering. "Make it stop!" she pleaded again, almost in tears from the excuciating pain. A foreign power was streaming through her; one that was not her own was now suddenly there. Finally the pain recedded and the let her hands drop, her body almost worn out to the point of paralasis. Her cramps and spams finally ebbed away and she felt limp, numb.
Her breaths were in short unsteady gasps, her heart thundering in her chest as if it would burst. Her eyes closed, her brow furrowed upward, her cheeks red and hot. "Kanni..." a far-away voice came from her right, and then a light tap jolted her shoulder. "Kanni...can you hear me?"
"Yes..." she said hoarsly and lightly opened one eye. Kaleb was leaning over her, looking worn out as well. "You alright?" he asked, wiping away from sweat from his forehead.
"No." How could she be? After what happened? "Prem?" she muttered, remaining lying on the floor, "What did I do...?" She almost didn't want to know.
"Kanni...Well, I'm afraid that I think you stole his power...He's lying over there, looking at us, but he looks confused."
"God..." Kanni let her eyes fall closed again and sighed, steadying her breath, slowly regaining strength that seemed to have been brutally drained from her. Then she felt the carpet shift as someone crawled towards them. She knew it was Premidas. He was dragging himself over, obviously in pain. Kaleb got up and grabbed Prem's cane, returning it to him.
"I-I can't shift-..." he began.
"-I'm afraid Kanni's got it. Your power." Kaleb said bluntly.
Kanni squinted her eyes closed at the comment; it was painful. Then she remembered in a pang. "Ulthra! He said, 'when you have stolen the third power, come to me within the hour'. I need to get to him..."
"Don't move. I'll get him-" Kaleb got up but Kanni's hand twisted around his ankle.
"No! Don't go...not alone. Prem, go with him."
"Then who will stay with you?" Kaleb inquired with a hint of irritation in his voice.
Kanni's head rolled to her left and she lightly opened her eyes to see bright blue ones peering intently back at her from the shadows. "She will...now go!"
"Wha-?! Who will?" Premidas began.
"Just go, damnit!" Kanni yelled with rising rage and the two boys hurried to their feet. Premidas braced himself against Kaleb as they hurried away.
"I thought I'd never get the chance..." the girl with brown locks stepped from the shadows.
"You're banned from here until admission. Leave." Kanni ordered with a cold voice.
"I'm afraid I cannot do that...You probably know I am most likely going to be a Salarsh, and you a Tibileek. From what I've heard, many people hate your house...hate the competition." the girl tapped her long fingers against the wall, her clear blue eyes watching Kanni's every move.
"Get out of here," Kanni snapped. "Go back to your room."
"I am Lori...Lori Helken. Perhapse you've heard of me....no? Well, let me fill you in. I am known for my power of being able to break into people's memories...and I seek one. I almost found it, but lost it because of you. You were in her mind...you possessed her, didn't you? To protect her maybe? Or to get me out so you could take over her? Which is it, Remus?"
"Remus? Who the hell is that?!" Kanni snarled.
"Shouldn't you know, milthacti? Guess not...oh well. You will. Soon enough. In the meanwhile, I think I might sift through your memories...who knows? Maybe I'll find something useful." Lori cackled coldly, her blue eyes fixing on Kanni.
Close your eyes! Close them! a voice screamed at her. With no time to waste Kanni clamped her eye-lids shut, squinting them from something that seemed to pry them open. Kanni heard the girl curse angrily. "Damn you! Open up!" Her eyelids fluttered but she denied the force tearing and ripping at her mind, trying, trying so desperately to get through. Suddenly the pain abruptly left and Kanni heard voices...Ulthra's voice!
"What the hell?! Kanni!" the ghost exclaimed.
Posted at 03:48 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Thursday, August 19, 2004
"Alice! Dammit Alice! Wake up or I'll make you wake up!" The shape shifter's head was disorganized and felt as if it had been thrown into a millions pieces. Her thin body shook softly against the cold marble floor which explained the stiffness in her neck, and the pain grew greater to find out that she still had those horrible wings. Her hair was now a darker violet and green while her skin remained a pale green. She knew that she had only been alseep for an hour or maybe two for the clock above her told her the time, seeing how she already missed the sorting. Garbiel, in his human form, was leaning against the wall with his head back and eye lids closed. Alice couldn't blame him for now there was something that they both needed to take care of. Which was to get the shape shifter back to normal and to find out what triggered this once more. All the shape shifter could connect with this was the lessons from Ms. Taint. It was foolish to think that Ms. Taint had done something for if Clarissa trusted someone, surely Alice could. Then someone had been walking down the same corridor, hissing, "Damn! How am I supposed to find Themrus when that man ventures off all the time?"
Alice's heart had skipped several beats, recognizing that the voice belonged to Kaleb, yet her excitement shrunk back seeing her reflection against the clean marble. She too would have liked to know where Themrus was to fix this all, yet why was Kaleb searching for Themrus? The red curtain was covering the two from Kaleb as Alice watched him painfully cross past them. Yet the glaring that Gabriel made at the back of her head kept her quiet and behaved until the man thought of a plan. And then suddenly the curtain was pryed open by an invisible force which made Gabriel leap up from the walls to tear the curtains close which failed for the same force had then torn the curtains down and over the two, giving the shape shifter the hint that this had been Kaleb's work. And she was completely right to find Kaleb striding to them through the thin matierl that made the curtains. Her heart had, yet again, skipped a few beats to think of what Kaleb would think to find her like this. Just come up with some different reason! Can't you shift over this? The thoughts screamed into her head, pleading for some answer to prevent her from being seen. Then something else came to her, screaming in her head, Wait!? Won't Kaleb understand this all? He is your friend after all, correct? Perhaps more...But he'll understand more than anything and it'll help to have another person explain this to whoever!
Perhaps. It wasn't a guarntee to Alice of what Kaleb would do. Her godfather had then shifted behind her, whispering something that sounded like a spell. The curtains then had lifted themselves off of Alice and Gabriel while the mutated shape shifter squinted her eyes shut, wondering why Kaleb was shooting out questions. Yet now Kaleb had disgarded them, walking furthor down the corridor and taking a turn. It confused her irrabtly until Gabriel hissed, "Vanishing Spell, something very handy to learn in case of these situations occuring at any time. Now, kiddo, it makes me wonder why Kaleb is looking for Themrus at this time? Usually Themrus is lecturing in the library about now."
"You think something else has happened? Maybe to Kanni or Premidas?"
"Most unlikely with the new secruity Clarissa been placing around here since she's trying to find me a job here."
"A teaching job?"
"Maybe kiddo, but's that not the point! Point is that something serious is going on if Kaleb has been sent to fetch Themrus. Maybe Ulthar decided it's time to give Brige the good kick in the ass he was planning for..."
"But we can never be too sure about this."
"Exactly, which is why I'm going to go look around while you stay behind these curtains after I fix them until I come back, okay?" There was no arguing for Gabriel had a grim expression on his face, something that Alice had seen rarely on this high spirited man. He stood up, quickly patting out the creases in his cloak before storming off after fixing the curtains for Alice. It wasn't fair for Alice to be seated behind curtains while every one else was told what was going on before her. She was the Verae, not anyone else besides Gabriel. Why can't I actually leave these curtains? Before it was always Gabriel hiding so why am I the one hiding? The thoughts hissed angrily in her head till another thought hissed back, Well, look at you! Wings and everything else that a girl doesn't normally have in this life time! How are you supposed to explain yourself when another teacher finds you out in the halls looking for trouble rather than help?
"I would've thought about that once I was caught," muttered the shape shifter to herself, twirling a strand of purple hair around her slender pale green finger. There was nothing to do behind a curtain while trying to remain secert. Ah, now there was seeing how Brige was storming down the hallways, his feet slamming while his face was red with fury, sneering to himself, "They won't be ignoring my threats any longer! Once I find this missing Miss Black I'll prove to them about the havec they allowed to even be in this school! And that damned godfather of hers! (Watch it!, thought Alice.) He's surely an interesting piece of work despite the people he killed!"
The shape shifter remained calmed, glaring at the feet of Brige's feet yet another thing had happened. His feet lit aflame and was now waving at his shoes, howling in pain and curses, demanding to know who had done such a thing. His eyes had then rested on the curtains where Alice hid behind, his smeered frown curling into a grin that meant pure evil for her. His feet carried him to the curtains as he rested his hands on the cloth, giving a tight tug. Suddenly Alice doved out from behind the curtains and ran down the corridor, yelling to herself in her head, Can't you go any faster!? He's catching up to you! Why can't you flutter or do something dammit!
Flutter. Now there was a stupid word Alice found hard to believe that she had just said it to herself. But the rest was true. Brige was catching up to her for the marble made her bare feet sore. The shape shifter had then spotted an opened window, deciding to give her best chance and jump out from it, soon colliding into the open trash can which soon closed with a thud. Everything was dark around Alice who was unsure if the trash can would open from the inside. Then again, what was she to do now? Wait for someone to spot her while taking out the trash? Alice only pillowed her head on a bag, soon falling asleep while she hoped for the best instead of the worst.
Posted at 01:13 pm by Winged-Horror
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ur's on @ the same time as me! yay! u just made the post! hehe
-kelp
Posted at 01:16 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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"Please hurry..." was all the girl could mumble as Ulthra picked her up. Kaleb had been sent off to find Themrus to help Ulthra. Kanni was numb and then again she sensed things all around her. Voices of Penny and Mari when she took their powers, Premidas's lion roar. Her skin was coated with a light sheet of white fur, and two lion ears protruded from her lilac hair. Her green eyes fluttered open and shut but found the light too painful to stare in to. Finally she was set set down on something cold and icy metal clipped around both wrists, locking her down.
It was dark and cool. She opened her eyes and saw she was hanging from two ebony black pillars by chains. Her feet barely touched the white marble floor and a small globe no larger than a golf ball of purple-green light was shining just in front of her. It squirmed and thrust outward, as if something were caught inside and trying to get out. Ulthra swooped down and stood before her. He gave her a stern look but quickly turned as two huge black doors opened and Themrus, Kaleb, and Premidas came in. Behind them were Mari and Penny, both tired and looking pissed.
"Come here," Ulthra gruffly commanded Prem, Mari, and Penny. He stood the three of them on rising golden platforms that made a half circle around Kanni. There they stood and were told to close their eyes. Themrus then cast a spell around the peremiter of the circle to protect himself, Ulthra, and the rest of the school and room.
"Kanni...This is something we must do every time a milthacti steals three powers. Should the dark magician steal five, then he would have enough power to release himself from you by taking all your acquired powers and fleeing. We cannot allow that to happen. Now, what we're going to do is exract the powers from you and give them back to their owners. Understood? Now this will be very painful, I will not lie to you.
"It will feel as though much of your energy will be drained and you may sleep for days after this ordeal. But, now we must hurry!" the ghost said hastily and drew back to Themrus. Themrus's face then became stern with determination and his eyes closed, his hands waving about and around in strange circular gestures.
The globe of violet-green light suddenly shot out, expanding into and through all of the four students. Kanni screamed in the horrible pain that erupted through her entire body. She yanked against the chains and shackles but they held her firmly in place. Her eye lids shut tightly and she felt she would go mad with the pain.
Then she suddenly became a ghost white color. But the ghost sheet slipped from her body like a coating blanket and coiled down to Mari, aligning itself with her limbs and sinking into her skin. Mari wailed and then collapsed to her knees, breathing heavily. For a minute Kanni felt releif and the paint receded. The light withdrew a bit, but Themrus wove his hands once more and the light burst out again.
Another shock of pain tore through her and two long spirit arms shot out and were absorbed by Penny who also fainted when her power was within her again. She gasped with pain, feeling darkness tugg at the edges of her eyes. Her head seared and burned and she was sure she might go crazy. Once again the light withdrew a minute and then came the worst of all. With its final billow of light Kanni couldn't even scream. It seemed as if her whole body was consumed by the ice cold force that was so icy it felt scorching hot.
Her thoughts whirled and tumbled around like a storming sea and her head lolled to the side, blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. Her muscles didn't even draw together in the pain; they remained limp and it seemed as though she were completely numb with excruciating pain. Then she blacked out; the bright light penetrading through her eyelids finally withdrawing for good with a comforting darkness.
She opened her eyes a second but all she saw was black. Maybe the light had temporarily blinded her. She didn't care. The last thing she felt was the icy shackled releasing her wrists as she was slowly lowered down to a cold floor. After that all was black and silent...
Posted at 01:39 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Friday, August 20, 2004
[Revenge, revenge! XD]
The animagus ran swiftly through the corridors in the body of the fairly white kanine, similar to his own godchild's. And now she had simply vanished from where he had told her to stay until he came back seeing how couldn't simply walk her through the corridors. There was the fairly large pair of wings attached to her back and the pale green skin that everyone would notice once they laid eyes on Alice. Gabriel had known better than to leave Alice alone and with directions, it was almost a habit of hers to bounce out of line. Somehow it wasn't that she was alone and didn't listen to him, it was the thought of Brige finding Alice in her current state that had been bothering Gabriel once returning to the curtains to find nothing. The man could do great things once he got his hands on something valuble and Brige's full attention was to bring harm to Garbiel and Alice. Even the story why wasn't much of a secert seeing how Brige once had great respect for Clarissa until she broke a few rules that she herself had build to allow Gabriel to remain hidden in the castle.
His four paws hit the marble floor with a soft click! and then a clack!, something that Gabriel himself found quite hard to refrain from landing harder on the floor to make the same sound. He had just then took another turn to find himself staring down a full corridor of students, bending his ears back while his tail cowered to the ground. There was absolutely no way he'd walk through that crowd and have his tail or ears pulled again by the giggling crowd of girls like last time. Then again this was all for Alice so Gabriel faced the discision of taking a slight detour through the crowd. Gabriel sat highly on the ground, all four legs standing proudly while his long mouth opened into a snarl and barked madly, hoping to get the same reaction from the students nearest that cowered away from the students in the back. The animagus had just then ran through the crowd, barking as he still snarled to his left, then his right to scare back students. It wasn't rude, but nessecary.
Several paintings snickered from above where Gabriel sat, still a kanine, against the wall trying to think of where Alice would have gone or where Brige currently was. The figures painted on the canvas pointed at him, calling him 'Snuffles' while others simply pretending to wave a bone at Gabriel who hadn't liked the jokes at all. They had thought of him lower now, seeing how he would now be working here at the school rather than hiding in the shadows. This life seemed rather boring to him and was partly glad that Alice had caused some trouble for him to clean up. He had made a request to Clarissa to even find him a job that wasn't standing infront of a class all day and lecturing people over something stupid such as 'Vanishing Potion' or anything of the sort. Gabriel seemed to rather be hunted than to be innocent, something that most paintings had heard from Clarissa in her office.
Ah, the old fool is finally out and about. He was, Brige that is, was now striding through the corridors with a rather strange grin on his face. Perhaps he had found something out, something important that would end his hunger to do something destructive. The animagus still hadn't been sighted by Brige and crept on after him, carefull not to catch attention of any students who were fond of pets. It had been long since Brige stopped in the corridor, seeming confused of where he was going and then took another left, almost hestitant. Brige had then stopped once more, looking back at the other turn the corridor made. Where the hell are you actually going in the first place?, yelled Gabriel to himself. His black eyes were focoused on the feet of Brige, awaiting them to continue their walk. This was too boring, almost killing Gabriel on the inside who longed to find out where Brige was going.
There was the strange occurance of Brige wondering outside, looking slightly more pale in the sun than inside the castle. Gabriel himself had never seen the man wander off outside, something that made the animagus more keener in finding out where Brige was going. Students had also seemed to notice the rare occurance of Brige strolling outside, some murmoring while others where threatened by Brige with detentions. The teacher had then wandered off behind the school to a set of dumpsters, kicking aside bags. He had then left looking slightly disappointed while Gabriel stayed behind a bag thinking to himself, Why would Brige even come out to the dumpsters? Was he looking for something maybe? Most unlikely...
The aura of another aura that felt related to him swam to the air to reach his animal sixth sense, almost pleading for attention while it continued to grasp at the sense. Strangest thing was that this aura came from the large dumpster that had been shut, looking almost impacted from strong winds or just rough playing from fights. Whether it had been or not, Gabriel didn't give it much time to think about and instead shifted to human, patting out the creases in his new cloaks and jeans, then the white tee that had an arrow pointing down. He hadn't been given much clothing from Clarissa who promised to order more for Gabriel, seeing how she had a younger brother who wasn't much older than Gabriel. The animagus then ingored the dirt stain on the leg of his jeans, lifting up the roof of the dumpster to find a mutated Alice staring back at him, grinning dumbly while removing a banana peel from her wings in disgust.
"Why the hell are you in a dumpster? At least have some pride and hide somewhere with intelligence, not just anywhere, kiddo," chuckled Gabriel softly, shooting glances to students behind him while throwing his own cloak over Alice, quickly tightening the string that held his long black hair together as his godchild covered up. "What gave you the idea to not hide behind those curtains I told you to?"
"It felt stupid to be hiding somewhere while Brige kept on muttering rude things about me. Stupid bloke, who does he even think he is? Did you even find out why Kaleb went looking for Themrus while you were out and about?" asked Alice, stepping out of the dumpster still very well covered to find tissue paper attached to the bottom of her shoes. "Well?"
"It really doesn't matter, we need to get you fixed first before anything..." The shape shifter had known better than to argue with her godfather for once he gave his final word it was the final except for recieving instructions from him. Then it was everyone for themselves. Most students hadn't even thought of why Gabriel who take a cloaked piece of 'stick' inside the school with him where he changed the story to a dead 'Man-Eating Plant' that he had found infront of the school. To anyone, it didn't really matter for no one paid attention to it all. It had given Alice a knew outlook of most students just didn't care or were slow on the mind.
"This is it or it should be..." Gabriel whispered, kicking open a door which revealed the darkest light and the coldest breeze Alice had ever experienced, feeling herself being put down on a moist warm chair while several lights could be heard turned on. The animagus had lifted the cloak from Alice's head, letting her keep it as he said to someone else in the room, "Ah, Abigalle. So you really made it. I thought Themrus wasn't expecting you last week."
"Well, you see some things change rapidly such as the heat in this room. Turn off that damned heater before I blast your head off! I most take on the climate change rather slowly than most people and you should've known that," hissed a femine voice behind the shape shifter. "Now, now. What have you brought me this time?"
"Alice, my godchild." The voice from Gabriel was suddenly protective as the chair was turned around for the shape shifter to face a woman, a very attractive woman whose face was pale, her elegant cheeks outlined with her pitch black hair while a thick bush of her bangs was pink, a very bright and neon pink. Dark eyeliner outlined her eyes while she wore a thick amount of purple lip stick, something that Alice found rather eye catching. The woman, Abigalle, then whispered back with a grin, "Rather ugly thing, isn't she?"
"That's not what she looked like before this morning so watch it Abigalle," growled the animagus, seating next to Alice. "Can't you do anything before Brige finds out about this damned mess? If not my ass is roast."
"I've saved your and Themrus's asses plenty of times so you hush. It'll be simple but'll we need a few things from Brige's office along with Ulthar's methods." Abigalle had crossed her legs, her black cloaks swaying in the cold breeze that swept through the room. Her finger nails had been painting a deep blue, the same color of her eyes. This was Themrus's sister then. This was the teacher that was to teach Alice how to protect herself from intruders.
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In the office at the end of the corridor where not too many students had wandered was the office of Clarissa Agretto who stood over her cauldron, throwing in books that meant nothing to her and papers that had sketches of old plans to hide Gabriel. Nothing was needed anymore, nothing at all. She had expected a very chaos year with a Verae, a killer, and a recarnation of an old wizard which was perhaps her own mistake. A mistake that Clarissa would never regret in her life for it had taught her new things and she loved to have the two girls in her school. Kaleb, her son, had now even seemed more happier than before. Perhaps it would be foolish to no think that Alice and Kaleb were close friends, just as Premidas and Kanni were. Yet now the new student's father had exited, leaving Clarissa's feelings low as ever with an urge to kill.
"I'll show that man who can't be principle! I do my job very well mind him! Isn't that correct, Dr. Vagne?" Clarissa was now speaking to a portrait who was leaning against the canvas, yawning as he answered, "Of course Clarissa, of course you do your job very well or else this school would be in ruins."The woman nodded her head, throwing more books into the cauldron as a could of smoke engolfed Clarissa's face. She had just then felt another memory drift of to her, another thought that had seemed very informing at the moment...
Posted at 12:23 pm by Winged-Horror
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