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Filne makes his way to the Headmaster, waiting to one side until his work is finished. The winged armored being standing next to him drawing more then a few looks, or rather its huge axe.
After things start to slow down and a majority of the students have been checked and healed, Ryo turns his attention to the newcomer and his armored companions.
"Hello." He says to them both. "Is there a reason you are here? You are not a teacher or a student."
After things start to slow down and a majority of the students have been checked and healed, Ryo turns his attention to the newcomer and his armored companions."Hello." He says to them both. "Is there a reason you are here? You are not a teacher or a student."
Filne bows slightly.
"Ah well I am hoping to change that. I am Filne Nathton, a mage and lorekeeper of the elven people among other things. I have come here to inquire about a teaching position."
Filne bows slightly.
"Ah well I am hoping to change that. I am Filne Nathton, a mage and lorekeeper of the elven people among other things. I have come here to inquire about a teaching position."
"Ah, this is probably the best time then. I have a feeling I'm going to get some resignation from quite a few people when they get around to it." Filne feels a presence touch his mind briefly. "Apologies. I'm trying to root out a possession. What would you be interesting in teaching?"
"Ah, this is probably the best time then. I have a feeling I'm going to get some resignation from quite a few people when they get around to it." Filne feels a presence touch his mind briefly. "Apologies. I'm trying to root out a possession. What would you be interesting in teaching?"
Ryo gets a strange feeling from his mind as if it is not all there but at the same time as if it holds a huge amount of experiences. None the less all he gets is a feeling as he cant break thru. Filne gives a slight smile.
"No doubt that was interesting. I assure you I cant be possessed, well not by fiends I do enjoy gardening a bit to much at times. I would be glad to teach anything that I have expertise in. If you do not mind could we go somewhere private when you have time. I feel compelled to make you aware of a few minor details about myself. Best to make an informed decision after all."
As he sits in the auditorium waiting for the roll call to be over, Enre sees the room around him going dim. He seems to be standing on an old battlefield and before him is an imposing figure glowing brightly. Its robes were dark and the large sword it carried was of some dark metal that Enre didn't recognize, a huge blood red ruby as its pommel. The beings wings beat, stirring up a dust cloud from the battlefield below it.
Enre shakes his head as if to clear fog from his eyes at the change and at the being before him. He than says "Who are you? What is this place?"
"This is my realm. I ....have not had a name in a very long time. Some creatures who wished for some of my power took my last name as their own. Perhaps you will find a new name for me. I am Wrath, Retribution, Vengeance, Anger. A combination of these. Wrath will do. You are to be my Champion. You are well suited to meting out vengeance to Madness for his crimes. So I appoint you to this task above all others."
Enre thinks to himself as he listens to the being who named itself Wrath "Champion? Madness?" He than focuses on the names it gave itself thinking "Wrath, Retribution,Vengeance, and Anger?" He recalls his youth often being bullied until he finally stood up to them to protect Ileana. He than says "I am well suited? To met out vengeance against this Madness? Why me?"
"Because your soul if filled with rage. And you have the strength to carry it out, to visit divine vengeance against your enemies. Do not even try to tell me that the idea does not appeal to you. I already know that it does."
"Even better you know the importance of controlling your fury and directing it where it belongs. It saves much time not having to teach you that lesson myself."
Enre thinks for a few moments before nodding "Very well I will be your champion."
The being smiled. "Then go, and take my blessing with you. Use it well to smite both our enemies."** spoiler omitted **
Enre nods after Wrath speaks to him.
Could change his sword to look a bit like Wrath's. Mine currently is a big heavy thing without a guard on it that is a dark grey.
Consciousness slowly drifts back into Vai's being. She was ready for the pain... but it never came. Her eyes fluttered open. Expecting to see the dark ceiling, Vai is half-blinded by the bright lights of the infirmary. Her thoughts raced. Where was she, why was she here? Was this some new game of Aegythrax's? She sat bolt upright, unrestrained for the first time in a very long time. Not seeing anyone at first, she called out. "Hello?" her voice was a little hoarse from underusage "is anyone there?"
"No doubt that was interesting. I assure you I cant be possessed, well not by fiends I do enjoy gardening a bit to much at times. I would be glad to teach anything that I have expertise in. If you do not mind could we go somewhere private when you have time. I feel compelled to make you aware of a few minor details about myself. Best to make an informed decision after all."
"Indeed." Ryo says, wondering how this person would react if he had used his full psychic might. A door appears next to him and opens on it's own, revealing Ryo office. "We can use my office."
"Hello?" her voice was a little hoarse from underusage "is anyone there?"
A nurse hurries into the room.
"Dear, you really should lay back down. The nanites aren't quite finished healing you yet." She says as she checks Vai's vitals. "Would you like something to eat or drink?"
"You need to put off the plan for a while." Alton says as he walks into a room holding a bandaged rat. The person he's talking to looks up with annoyed anger in their eyes. "Don't get me wrong, I still want it to happen, but none of us are in the condition needed for it to work. This invasion couldn't have come at a worse time."
"Indeed." Ryo says, wondering how this person would react if he had used his full psychic might. A door appears next to him and opens on it's own, revealing Ryo office. "We can use my office."
He makes note of the door. It was different from the outer wards. He wondered just how many different kinds of magics were interwoven into this place. He walked thru.
"Thanks, oh yeah I think it best if its just me."
He nods at the winged being who disappears in reply.
The door closes as Ryo enters and takes his seat behind his desk, gesturing for Filne to sit in an empty chair as well, if he is so inclined.
"So, straight to the point, what details do I need to be made aware of?"
"Would you like something to eat or drink?"
Vai flinches as the nurse speaks, but then speaks up: "If you have any water, I would like that. I don't feel hungry at the moment." Vai pauses for a second, looking around the clean, well-kept infirmary. "Where am I? What happened to Aegythrax?"
"I don't know who that is, dear, but you are in Avalon Academy. Maybe you've heard of it? It's one of the best places of education if you can stand the chaos that always seems to be going on." The nurse walks into another room and returns with a glass of water for Vai. "
Vai's unease grew. If she didn't know about the dragon... who did? What were they planning to do with her? Panic started to well up within Vai. They were just new masters. Making sure she was healthy so they could do what they would with her. "I see..." was all she said, flexing her muscles and making sure everything was working. She'd only get one chance to escape.
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"Hang on a sec," Tamrin says to the figure on the monitor as he checks is datapad bracer.
"It looks like she's awake. Let me go check up on her and we'll pick this up later. Let me know if you find anything else we need to know about in her medical logs. Thanks Mordecai."
He gets up from the desk, and makes his way back to the Infirmary. After a quick cleanse cantrip to sterilize, he enters the ICU and Vai's room.
Vai sees a red-headed elf in an armored flightsuit with a duster over it. He has some sort of computerized bracers on, and what looks like some kind of antique gun strapped to his left hip. He smiles warmly, his demeanor very relaxed and non-threatening.
"Good afternoon, Ms. Emkar. My name's Tamrin, and I'm glad you're feeling better. I'm sorry for the drastic change in venue, but Aegythrax's lair was no longer fit for occupation when my team found you," he says apologetically.
"I'm pretty sure you have a ton of questions for me, so I'll do my best to answer them for you. I'll go ahead and take care of the big one first, though - Aegythrax is not here. I'm sad to say we didn't take care of him permanently, but he's gone and you're in a safe place where he won't ever get his claws on you again."
"You know this young lady then, Professor Sunwake?" The nurse asks. "I'll go to some of the others that are here for now then. Call if you need anything." She tells Vai before she leaves.
The door closes as Ryo enters and takes his seat behind his desk, gesturing for Filne to sit in an empty chair as well, if he is so inclined.
"So, straight to the point, what details do I need to be made aware of?"
Filne takes a seat.
"Well then to the point. I am a baelnorn more commonly known as an elven lich and a rather old one. Older then this world in fact, bet I dont look a day over a thousand."
He waits for a reaction, truth be told he took a strange pleasure out of it. Found it very entertaining regardless of the result.
Aananda pored over video files, absorbing them at a rate that most would find alarming, a skill she had learned from her mother who often monitored more than a dozen visual feeds at once. There were a few rather disturbing things here that she needed to speak with Ryo about.
She spoke into her wrist comm.
"Ryo, we need to detain a student by the name of David Therophenes. I believe he is the source of the strange readings I was getting. Visuals confirm he was confronted by a fiend during the attack, but then I get a moment of static and the fiend is gone, but David is still standing there. Also, we need to schedule a conference with Vakkler and Michael Dacamara. I'm still working at retrieving audio, but visuals show a pretty nasty showdown between the two of them. And Dacamara has a lot more power than we previously guessed. He's the source of the earthbending that caused the unstable floors. I'm heading to the auditorium to find Therophenes now."
He waits for a reaction, truth be told he took a strange pleasure out of it. Found it very entertaining regardless of the result.
"You are a... baelnorn. I really shouldn't be as surprised as I am, but I thought your kind were a mere myth. I apologize for that. You say you are older than Agartha? Amazing! If you don't mind then, could you take over my History of Agartha class? Even if it's just for a little while, it would be a great help at the moment. I have a lot of things to do, and I doubt the amount is going to get any smaller."
She spoke into her wrist comm.
"Pardon me for a moment." Ryo asks Filne as he listens to Aananda. "There are still a lot of students in there, Aananda, you have to be quick or we're going to have more injuries. There should be a red door coming up on your left, it will take you straight there."
"My apologies," Ryo says to Filne, "but as you may have seen, but a student appears to be possessed and we need to get keep the demon from doing anymore harm."
Aananda took an abrupt turn as soon as she saw the red door, heading through it straight to the auditorium. There were so many children here. It was going to be very difficult to prevent another catastrophe today, but she was darn well going to try. She slowed her pace to keep from drawing immediate suspicion.
"Excuse me, Mr. Therophenes," she said pleasantly, tapping David on the shoulder. "I'm very sorry to have to ask this of you, but would you mind coming with me for a moment? We're trying to identify the remains of those students who didn't make it, and I'm afraid your roommate is on the list of those missing. There....well, there isn't enough body to identify, but we found some personal effects. If you could tell us for sure if they belonged to your roommate that would be a big help. "
Meanwhile, in the jungles far to the south, inside a pyramid cut off from the rest of the world by powerful magical protections, two young dragons and a Hunter found themselves face to face with a creature of pure madness. The creature skitered forward on too many limbs trying to close the distance.
In a flash Lysander takes a small, sand-colored cude from his pocket and throws it to the ground. The instant it hits the floor it explodes into a mini-desert in the hallway, complete with an almost opressive heat.
The heat seems to weave around Lysander as he runs across the sand toward the beast, a strange blade sliding from the empty hilt he carries. Halfway to the creature, there seems to be more than one Lysander.
His attack bounces off the creature's tough hide though.
"You are a... baelnorn. I really shouldn't be as surprised as I am, but I thought your kind were a mere myth. I apologize for that. You say you are older than Agartha? Amazing! If you don't mind then, could you take over my History of Agartha class? Even if it's just for a little while, it would be a great help at the moment. I have a lot of things to do, and I doubt the amount is going to get any smaller."She spoke into her wrist comm."Pardon me for a moment." Ryo asks Filne as he listens to Aananda. "There are still a lot of students in there, Aananda, you have to be quick or we're going to have more injuries. There should be a red door coming up on your left, it will take you straight there."
"My apologies," Ryo says to Filne, "but as you may have seen, but a student appears to be possessed and we need to get keep the demon from doing anymore harm."
Filne smiles a bit.
"We are very rare and we work hard to keep our existence as mere myth. You can understand how the unenlighten may take a black and white view of undead. I must warn you I specialize in elven history and by extension their view of it. While I am sure the major facts are the same, like all written history it will be slanted to the side of the writer. If this is acceptable I do not mind taking the class. I would also ask that my condition only be shared with those that need to know and can be trusted to keep it secret. If their is any assitance I can offer feel free to ask."
He gives a slight bow of the head.
Aananda took an abrupt turn as soon as she saw the red door, heading through it straight to the auditorium. There were so many children here. It was going to be very difficult to prevent another catastrophe today, but she was darn well going to try. She slowed her pace to keep from drawing immediate suspicion.
"Excuse me, Mr. Therophenes," she said pleasantly, tapping David on the shoulder. "I'm very sorry to have to ask this of you, but would you mind coming with me for a moment? We're trying to identify the remains of those students who didn't make it, and I'm afraid your roommate is on the list of those missing. There....well, there isn't enough body to identify, but we found some personal effects. If you could tell us for sure if they belonged to your roommate that would be a big help. "
David turns.
"Huh"
He listens for a moment then gets a nervous look as he seems to pale a little.
"Um well I dont need to see the body or anything do I. I mean sense this whole thing started I feel like I've been ducking heart attacks and holding on to my sanity. Already had a bad run in with some fiend and lost my breakfast. It is safe now right, cause if their are still demons and stuff running around I'm not going anywhere."
He seems to fidget as he talks as if ready to run at the slightest sign of danger.
David turns.
"Huh"
He listens for a moment then gets a nervous look as he seems to pale a little.
"Um well I dont need to see the body or anything do I. I mean sense this whole thing started I feel like I've been ducking heart attacks and holding on to my sanity. Already had a bad run in with some fiend and lost my breakfast. It is safe now right, cause if their are still demons and stuff running around I'm not going anywhere."
He seems to fidget as he talks as if ready to run at the slightest sign of danger.
Aananda smiled reassuringly. "Of course you don't need to see the body. Just some possessions we found near it. And I promise you that I would never allow a student to walk into danger. The halls have been completely secured. There's nothing out there to worry about. Come along, Mr. Therophenes. This will only take a minute or two."
While Lysander charged at the creature, Ephebe started tossing blades at it, hoping to get in a lucky strike or two.
Unfortunately all of her blades bounced off of the creature's hide without so much as denting it.
Aananda smiled reassuringly. "Of course you don't need to see the body. Just some possessions we found near it. And I promise you that I would never allow a student to walk into danger. The halls have been completely secured. There's nothing out there to worry about. Come along, Mr. Therophenes. This will only take a minute or two."
David goes along but still looks around alot and takes breaths like he is about to make a break for it.
"Um I heard that their was some strange tiefling going around the school. Some are saying he sneaked in and summoned the demons. Some people even saw him tear apart demons that did not want to do what he said. You know they dont count as outsiders, they can hide easy."
Somewhere with in the school halls a mass of vapor stops. It could sense the fiend that had been hiding. It moves off towards the target.
"Aananda is everything ok?" Asch asks as he sees the Boss' wife leading a student away from the gym.
Filne smiles a bit.
*snip*
He gives a slight bow of the head.
"Your specialization isn't a problem. I was actually about to start Elven History in a few weeks myself. As for your condition, you need not worry. There might be one or two students here who can sense something is 'off', but they aren't likely to discover that you are a bealnorn. Only a select few teachers will be informed as well." Ryo says as stands and readies himself to leave. "Do you have any skill exorcising and fighting demons?"
"Aananda is everything ok?" Asch asks as he sees the Boss' wife leading a student away from the gym.
"Just fine dear," she said, still smiling as she shoved David into the hallway in front of her then sealed off the doors of the auditorium with stone so that David had no way to get back in.
"Now that we're away from possible collateral damage, cut the act," she said coldly. "I know what you are."
"Your specialization isn't a problem. I was actually about to start Elven History in a few weeks myself. As for your condition, you need not worry. There might be one or two students here who can sense something is 'off', but they aren't likely to discover that you are a bealnorn. Only a select few teachers will be informed as well." Ryo says as stands and readies himself to leave. "Do you have any skill exorcising and fighting demons?"
Filne nods.
"Oh yes, sadly our wayward kin the drow have had countless dealings with demons and so I have very detailed if highly disturbing lore on them."
He gets up and looks thru his pockets until he pulls out a tome covered in what seems to be living skin that moves slightly.
"Don't ask, unlike myself you need to eat."
"Just fine dear," she said, still smiling as she shoved David into the hallway in front of her then sealed off the doors of the auditorium with stone so that David had no way to get back in."Now that we're away from possible collateral damage, cut the act," she said coldly. "I know what you are."
David looks alarmed.
"Wah what are you talking about?"
He starts to back away from her until he hits a wall. Suddenly a pair of arms break thru to grab him and pull him thru. The rubble blocks the hole made as David is thrown into the room landing hard on his side and rolling away, he slowly get up to see a tiefling.
"Found you!"
David lets a slight smile play on his lips before hiding it in the blink of an eye. Simple half breed was strong but stupid, likely had some demon blood in him. He made a good pawn.
"Ah help the demon calling tiefling is trying to kill me!"
He runs for the near by door screaming as he goes.
"It's definitely one of the stranger things I've seen. Let's go save a student." The room around them shifts, buckles, and warps before it stops and both Ryo and Filne are in the same room as Aananda. "The demon is still in David, I assume?" Ryo asks Aananda as he seals off the door David is running for. "We have a bit of an expert on getting it out with us now."
"Who is that, by the way?" He asks as he points to the unfamiliar tiefling.
"Not sure about the tiefling. We can sort that out later. And yes, the demon is still inside David. A child doesn't smile evilly before screaming in terror that the scary tiefling is out to get him," she said, stomping lightly, causing walls to come up from the ground, completely sectioning off this corridor so that David had no where to go.
Vai relaxes. That's it? Free? She almost collapses into a fit of tears right there, but maintains her composure. "I... don't know what to say. I'd given up hope of ever being free. I just knew I had to live. I just..." Vai bursts into tears. Freedom. After several moments, she's able to wipe away her tears and take a few deeps breaths. It couldn't be that simple. She takes a drink of the water the nurse left before speaking again, her voice still choked from her outburst.
"Where am I, Mister Tamrin? I don't recognize any of these devices, but they look like the ones Lord Aegy... the dragon had in his lair."