A strange boy tilts his head as he looks at Ephebe, and smiles warmly.
"Isn't it nice not being the one to save everyone this time?"
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She smiled tentatively back. "Yeah, actually it is. This is the second time in as many days that they were able to save themselves without needing me to do it at all. I was able to help, but it's not all my responsibility. I'm glad."
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"Tears of Confusion, a strange and appropriately confusing attack." Michael says in a monotone voice, sounding like he's reading straight out of a textbook. "Do not try to understand this ninja technique, or your head will explode."
Jim will, once he realizes everyone is okay, begin examining the Giant metallic Dragon.
"Tears of Confusion, a strange and appropriately confusing attack." Michael says in a monotone voice, sounding like he's reading straight out of a textbook. "Do not try to understand this ninja technique, or your head will explode."
Kitty giggled. "Yep, it's my very own messed up ninjitsu style."
She cuddled Saffire for a moment before putting him on her shoulder. "I haven't thanked you for rescuing him yet," she said lightly before leaning in and giving him a lingering kiss on the lips.
"I'm glad."
"Some people dream of being able to take care of themselves. Never underestimate the power of a dream." The boy replies, that same warm smile on his face. "Think about what yours is. Sweet dreams, Miss Sunwake."
He turns and leaves the infirmary quietly, easing the pained moans of the sleeping injured as he passes.
"I'm glad.""Some people dream of being able to take care of themselves. Never underestimate the power of a dream." The boy replies, that same warm smile on his face. "Think about what yours is. Sweet dreams, Miss Sunwake."
He turns and leaves the infirmary quietly, easing the pained moans of the sleeping injured as he passes.
"I already know what my dream is," she murmured. "It just doesn't seem very likely to happen. But hey, what do I know?"
She stood up and went back to tending to the injured.
She cuddled Saffire for a moment before putting him on her shoulder. "I haven't thanked you for rescuing him yet," she said lightly before leaning in and giving him a lingering kiss on the lips.
Michael's "You're welcome" comes in the form of him kissing back while wrapping his arms around her.
"Never again will a thank-you card suffice. From you anyway."
"I already know what my dream is," she murmured. "It just doesn't seem very likely to happen. But hey, what do I know?"
She cuddled Saffire for a moment before putting him on her shoulder. "I haven't thanked you for rescuing him yet," she said lightly before leaning in and giving him a lingering kiss on the lips.Michael's "You're welcome" comes in the form of him kissing back while wrapping his arms around her.
"Never again will a thank-you card suffice. From you anyway."
She laughed. "I think I can live with that. Although it's too bad for you. My thank you cards are spectacular. Calligraphy, remember?" ^.^
"I already know what my dream is," she murmured. "It just doesn't seem very likely to happen. But hey, what do I know?"
Runs back up the dragon as it's being pulled out...
::Mrs. Sunwake, Ryo-san, Filne-san hear me. This beast was unleashed. There was a presence of a third party down below, left by magical means. They were apparently waiting for the concert.
I think it's safe to assume the wards here have been comprimised, again.::
The small fox licks it's paw, and rubs his face.
Runs back up the dragon as it's being pulled out...
::Mrs. Sunwake, Ryo-san, Filne-san hear me. This beast was unleashed. There was a presence of a third party down below, left by magical means. They were apparently waiting for the concert.
I think it's safe to assume the wards here have been comprimised, again.::
The small fox licks it's paw, and rubs his face.
"I wish I could say I was surprised. That these people are attacking us is bad enough, but to put so many innocent people in harm's way too...it's unforgiveable."
::I agree. If you can think of a suitable planar prison for that thing, I can open a gate to push it through.::
He stops grooming, and resumes his natural form, that of a humanoid fox, with silverish white fur, and nine tails, with white socks, and a white cap on each tail. He stands around 6'2". He has somewhat of a mane, with a bit of black in it.
"I suppose another alternative would be to disassemble it."
He looks at Jim
"Student, what do you think?"
"I'm not too sure of this thing, yet. It looks like it's got some nanite tech in it. This is gonna be really difficult to take apart, if I'm correct."
"I'm not too sure of this thing, yet. It looks like it's got some nanite tech in it. This is gonna be really difficult to take apart, if I'm correct."
"I already put in a call for Solivala to come and help with that. Er..if by call you mean screaming demand. I'll have to apologize for that later I suppose."
"Would be odd for him to be offended, as he often uses a similar method to communicate. I am eager to hear what his solutions would be, however. While his clocktower belies an amount of arrogance, it is a marvel to behold." he says as he absent mindedly plays with his long white moustache.
::Ryo-san, this situation has calmed, for a time at least. Do you require assistance with the angry mob?::
There is a whistling sound from above then the Gear Wyrm is gone the clockwork gate lying down in its place. Countless panals slide open to reveal hands that push as one so the gate rights itself. It then starts to quickly clean itself until shiney once more. It closes its gate as Solivala floats down.
"I will deal with the Gear Wyrm. Is there anything else."
His face is as blank as ever and his orbs move smoothly thru the air.
There is a whistling sound from above then the Gear Wyrm is gone the clockwork gate lying down in its place. Countless panals slide open to reveal hands that push as one so the gate rights itself. It then starts to quickly clean itself until shiney once more. It closes its gate as Solivala floats down.
"I will deal with the Gear Wyrm. Is there anything else."
His face is as blank as ever and his orbs move smoothly thru the air.
"Wait, you know what that thing is? Then do you know who might have set it loose in the school? Any information you can give me would be helpful in tracking this person down. Er...are there are any more of those gear wyrm things out there?"
Nala comes out of her room, curious about what is causing all the noise and the shaking of the floors.
"Uh, Ryuzo, hi. Umm....have you been there long?" she asked, a bit nonplussed to find him waiting outside her door. "Do you know what's going on? Is it another invasion?"
Stands there for a moment, then turns
"Umm hi! I've been here for a bit, a giant metal dragon thing was wreaking havoc in the basement. I came here to make sure you were ok, but didn't want to disturb you, so I jsut waited, either for a student to take advantage of the chaos for some revenge, or in case it made it up here. Other-me's are scouting the place looking for any one out of place. You ok?"
Stands there for a moment, then turns
"Umm hi! I've been here for a bit, a giant metal dragon thing was wreaking havoc in the basement. I came here to make sure you were ok, but didn't want to disturb you, so I jsut waited, either for a student to take advantage of the chaos for some revenge, or in case it made it up here. Other-me's are scouting the place looking for any one out of place. You ok?"
"Other yous?," she asked confused before answering her own question. "Oh, you can split yourself. Yeah, I'm fine. Lucky for me I guess that we left the concert when we did. Umm...well, if the crisis is under control I guess there's no reason for me to worry about it. Er, thank you. For. you know, watching out for me," she said, still sounding a bit bewildered, She really didn't know how to react to someone who protected her of their own free will.
"Wait, you know what that thing is? Then do you know who might have set it loose in the school? Any information you can give me would be helpful in tracking this person down. Er...are there are any more of those gear wyrm things out there?"
Solivala takes a moment. Again he cast a quick spell so only Aananda can hear him.
"That was the prototype Gear Wyrm. The first of the ENDER Series subsection World Ender. It was corrupted by a being with unique abilities connected with corruption. After the Gear Wyrm prototype was taken by him I adapted my systems to render a number of his abilities useless upon me and my creations. His out of date data is useless due to his abilities. He most likely has a new body but he favors melee over spellcasting. There are no more Gear Wyrms. I would also add that this corruptor is a mercenary by nature, he worked for the Dragon Empire a number of times."
"Err...yeah that's the simplest explanation. Umm I'll leave one of me here for now, unless it creeps you out, while I keep scouting, if that's ok? And no problem, I suppose it seems kinda stalker-ish, but your well being is important to me, so..." he blushes a bit and smiles
"Oh, and I did my homework. I won't bring up your heritage again, unless you do. I'm still in, though. Take more than that to scare me off."
"Err...yeah that's the simplest explanation. Umm I'll leave one of me here for now, unless it creeps you out, while I keep scouting, if that's ok? And no problem, I suppose it seems kinda stalker-ish, but your well being is important to me, so..." he blushes a bit and smiles
"Oh, and I did my homework. I won't bring up your heritage again, unless you do. I'm still in, though. Take more than that to scare me off."
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"You did actually read the book right? So you know that unless you've got some brilliant idea of how to deal with my mother we can't ever...ugh, this is so embarrassing. I can't ever be physically intimate with someone without them becoming the winter knight which puts them under my mother's control. Which I wouldn't purposely do to my worst enemy let alone someone I like. Even if I could get past the bad memories of the knights who were inflicted on me during my childhood. I'm not saying I won't keep going out with you if you want, but that's the kind of frustration you'd be letting yourself in for. Might as well get that out in the open from the start I guess. Saves overly emotional scenes later on."
"Wait, you know what that thing is? Then do you know who might have set it loose in the school? Any information you can give me would be helpful in tracking this person down. Er...are there are any more of those gear wyrm things out there?"Solivala takes a moment. Again he cast a quick spell so only Aananda can hear him.
"That was the prototype Gear Wyrm. The first of the ENDER Series subsection World Ender. It was corrupted by a being with unique abilities connected with corruption. After the Gear Wyrm prototype was taken by him I adapted my systems to render a number of his abilities useless upon me and my creations. His out of date data is useless due to his abilities. He most likely has a new body but he favors melee over spellcasting. There are no more Gear Wyrms. I would also add that this corruptor is a mercenary by nature, he worked for the Dragon Empire a number of times."
"Well, then, it seems that you are indeed the right person to take charge of it. Make sure that you disable it if you can't get control of it. We don't want a repeat of this. And I'd like as much information on the corruptor as you can give me. Preferably before he comes up with a new plan for killing us all."
"Uhh...I really hadn't thought I'd be in any danger. Patron wise I am already spoken for, and I'd say she's a wee bit scarrier than your mother. Ok, way scarrier. I think we'd be ok. Nice to know you're...umm...planning ahead, though." he says with a teasing smile.
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Snores loudly
Shifts back into his human form.
"I will head outside and assist the headmaster."
He "Snapes" bows to all and leaves.
"Uhh...I really hadn't thought I'd be in any danger. Patron wise I am already spoken for, and I'd say she's a wee bit scarrier than your mother. Ok, way scarrier. I think we'd be ok. Nice to know you're...umm...planning ahead, though." he says with a teasing smile.
"I don't get it. Why aren't you running away as fast as you can? That's what everybody else does. I haven't once tried to act like I was anything special around you, and I've been totally up front about all the reasons why I'm a bad relationship risk. But you don't do anything I expect. I just can't figure out why."
Filne bows to the empty wind.
"Thank you for your aid."
Once the wind is gone he thinks he should help out the headmaster as well. Anyways he knew that he would get called about the frog incident sooner or later.
"Well I guess I will see what all the fuss is about too."
Looks confused, then shrugs.
"I'm supposed to run? Courtship is wierd. All kidding aside though, I think it's your upfrontness that I like. It's nice to always know where you stand. You know you're beautiful, but you haven't once thrown it in my face, or expect things for it. As far as I'm concerned, you're a laid back, real, take-it-or-leave-it person. Why run from that?"
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At least you got carried this far, though. Michael just tossed me down a random hallway and ran off. ;P
Looks confused, then shrugs.
"I'm supposed to run? Courtship is wierd. All kidding aside though, I think it's your upfrontness that I like. It's nice to always know where you stand. You know you're beautiful, but you haven't once thrown it in my face, or expect things for it. As far as I'm concerned, you're a laid back, real, take-it-or-leave-it person. Why run from that?"
She kind of half smiled. "Okay. I've definitely never heard that one before. When I first got here...I did what I knew. And it ended very, very badly. So now I'm trying to be something else, something different than just my mother's daughter. When I realized I didn't have anything left to lose it was easy to start being honest. That's all there is to it."
"I'm gonna get some sleep. I'll see you tomorrow." She turned to walk back into her room and stopped. "And I like that you protect me. Nobody ever did that before, at least, not of their own free will."
"Sleep well, and it's nice to have someone to protect." He smiles.
He watches her go into her room, then goes back to scouting through his others for a while before going to sleep himself...
Snores loudly
As she made her rounds through the infirmary she found Krays passed out from exhaustion. She put a pillow under his head to stop the snoring and tucked a blanket over him before moving on. Once she was sure all the injured had been treated she stumbled off to her room for some much needed sleep.
Shifts back into his human form.
"I will head outside and assist the headmaster."
He "Snapes" bows to all and leaves.
The gear wyrm sinks to the ground as all functions are temporarily suspended until systems can be repaired.
Fei 'rides' the dragon to the ground as it slumps down, poised to lay into it again if it starts to rouse itself.
Aananda moved the rock away from the gear wyrm to allow Jim to move it, and turned to Fei.
"Are you alright, Fei? Do you need to go discharge your bracelets now?"
::SOLIVALA,:: she mentally bellowed. ::We have a situation down here that requires your particular expertise. NOW.::
"I am...alright, sabumnim," he replies, the bruising from the stones that made it through to him starting to fade. "I...think I will need to try and keep the energy inside of me in case this creation rises again. I could have been...more help if I had not had to take so long to build up enough to truly injure it..." he adds apologetically, looking around at all of the injured and dead.
There is a whistling sound from above then the Gear Wyrm is gone the clockwork gate lying down in its place. Countless panals slide open to reveal hands that push as one so the gate rights itself. It then starts to quickly clean itself until shiney once more. It closes its gate as Solivala floats down.
"I will deal with the Gear Wyrm. Is there anything else."
His face is as blank as ever and his orbs move smoothly thru the air.
Fei hops off of the metal dragon before the gate 'collects' it - and him by proxy (^.^).
Alton lets his legs uncurl from the light fixtures and lads on his feet about a yard from Solivala.
"Amazing piece of work, this thing. You called it a Gear Wyrm, right? A rather obvious name, but sometimes simplicity is key. How do you get the breath weapon to recharge? Is it a byproduct of the machine or a built-in feature?"
Nasima is quite blinkered. She honestly expected her lightning-disc-thingy to be...absorbed, or bounce off, or-or something equally useless. She certainly hadn't expected to actually hurt it. She recorporealizes, again covering herself with an opaque layer of cloud in lieu of clothes. She looks at her hands in wonderment.
I...hurt it. Only probably just a little, but I did. I did something. I did damage to a Big Thing.
In a fractal pocket plane somewhere behind her mind, in a dimensional overlap, Khoda smiles inwardly, his skulled godhead a rictus of terrible glee at destruction. Unconsciously, Nasima's face stretches into a deeply unpleasant smile that is a perfect echo of Khoda's fleshless and maniacal grin.
at last. it begins to learn. that's right little gate. power. power. destruction. power.
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