| Academy of the Arcane Artes | <IC>

[TheMomo890]

"I can't believe it....My baby's is leaving me.." Rya's mother sob out, hugging his father before the white haired male looked up from his suitcase, he was almost done packing, he just needed to put the rest of his clothes in the case. He had almost forgotten his pocket watch, almost.

Rya turned around to face his mother and father, his father was as silent as always, yet his mother was a sobbing mess. Rya couldn't help but to feel a pang of sadness for her. Not only was he leaving, he doubted he would see them again after he went away.

"Mom...Please. It's only until i'm done there. I'll be back..." Rya tried to comfort his mother, only to see hear cry even harder. Unable to make out words that he could even understand. He looked to his father before he flinched at the stone cold glare his father was giving him. Didn't he want him to become stronger?

Rya turned back to his suitcase, putting the last thing on his mental list inside. His gloves, he had no doubt that he would need these when he got there. He zipped his suitcase close, hearing the sobs of his mother echo in his ears....

...No. He would do this, he couldn't drop out now, he would fail himself....And his father. He walked over to the desk beside his bed, seeing his letter, and the green button on it as well. He knew that he needed to do this, he wanted to do this.

"Father...Mother...This is something i need to do alone." Rya stated to them, it wasn't a request, he didn't want them to see their only child go away. He heard a light gasp from his mother before the flooring under them creaked before he the doors of his room opened...Yet, he heard only one pair of feet exit the room.

"Rya" The white haired male heard the gravely voice of his father rumble though the room, even though he was on his way of being a adult...His father still scared him to his very core.

"Yes, Father?" Rya answered in the most steady voice he could manage, his hardily noticed his hands shaking.

"I trust that you shall make the Shirabuki name?" His father asked him before he nodded.

"Yes, i shall." Rya said before he heard the heavy footsteps of his father leave the room, but not before saying..

"Good luck...Rya.." The door closed, Rya felt tears roll down his face, he put his head down, tears falling onto his zipped suitcase before he covered his face with his hands. He looked to the green button on his letter, he picked his suitcase, reaching his hand out before he suddenly stopped..What time was it?

He put his case back on his bed, unzipping it before he took out his pocket watch, seeing it was only a minute before 6 'o clock. Gripping his pocket watch as he saw 6 'o clock come along, his hand shot out towards his suitcase, zipping it up before he picked it up once more. Softly pressing the green button on letter.

He felt a rush of air whip over his body, muting out everything else around his person, a flash of light wrapped around his body, never had he felt something so...Amazing.

By he time he opened his eyes he found himself with other people, he looked around trying to understand what just went on. He saw that others were appearing as well. He saw somebody with a ton of bags, walking though the crowd before he raised his eyebrow. He brushed his thorny hair behind his ear before he closed his Rosewood eyes.

...This school would be interesting.

[Cynder]

~ Charlotte ~

It was definitely packed. This was no figment of Charlotte's imagination as she had originally thought when she got the letters. How many average teenage girls got to attend a "magic" academy, anyway? That wasn't normal (Charlotte had thought she confused the idea with a video game Dylan once made up, but once he proved it, she believed it might actually be true. It wasn't until the letter returned that she had finally believed.), was it?

Weaving in and out of the crowd, Charlotte tried her best not to knock into anyone, and she was successful she had yet to hit anyone yet. It was suck if she ran into someone and had to pick up her bags. She looked down the ground for a brief second, trying to let her mind catch up with everything. Magic school, video games, blah, blah, blah. The shock was slowly fading away, and she was about to look back up until she collided with someone from behind and she looked.

"Uhm, sorry!" She apologized, unable to see his face since he was walking forward. Charlotte was embarrassed easily, not the mention, this didn't help.

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OCC: Just to make sure no one is confused, she walked into Momo's character. xD

[TheMomo890]

Rya looked at the crowd, some of the kids in the crowd didn't even seem Human. But, with a name like it had, he hardily thought Humans would be here. Heck! He wasn't even human! He saw...One with a tail...Another was...Glowing? He began trying to find all the races before he felt a headache coming on.

Okay...Off the subject of Humans, he looked around for somewhere to sit before he deeply sighed, he began to unzip his suitcase, holding the flat of the bottom on his forearm, trying to balance the case on his arm before..He got hit, his suitcase fell to the floor, some of his items falling out before he sighed, turning around to see a girl.

He sighed once again before he waved her off, saying "It's fine" Before he turned back around, he wasn't shocked that the girl didn't see him, from behind his hair made him look like a white cactus. It already had ''Thorns'' in it, all he needed was his feet in the ground.

[Kethuel]

Kezza walked through the crowd. She thought she saw another snake tail. I was black. A second later, she lost it in the crowds again.
She searched for the tail again, and found its owner. She was disappointed to find it wasn't a Naga like her. She had black claws, normal human legs, a long black tail, tiny wings, and the number 02 tattood on her arm. She seemed unique in this evironment anyway, just like her. (( adressing AlexisMaddox))

She slid around the girl, into her view. She smiled, and said,
"Hello! My name is Kezza. What's yours?"

[AlexisMaddox]

Alexis looked at the girl in front of her, inspecting her as she usually did with new people. Her eyes fell on the girl's lower half, which was a snake tail instead of legs.

This must be one of the creatures from Lucis…

"Nice to meet you, but I'd rather not give out my name so easily. It's nothing personal, it's just that I was given a number for a reason. If you want something to call me by, then you may call me Two. So, why did you decide to come here? For me it was a want to get away from the confinement of the place that made me the way I am."

[Kethuel]

Kezza chuckled slightly as the girl told her she wanted to be called a number - two.
"Well, two, I came here to get away from somewhere too, but I wanted to get away from my village, I wanted to see the world." Kezza liked Two,she was mysterious.
"Say- what extra classes are you taking?" she asked.

[Kilo6]

Paula yawned and rested her large, 102mm cannon as she stood there observing her fellow students. She couldn't help but do a double take when she saw one girl who looked like she was half snake and she was even talking to a stranger girl who had limbs covered in scales. "Dang, this is one strange crowd, but I guess I'm one to talk" she thought moving her relatively newly acquired cat ears and tail. "It will be awhile before I get used to these things." she thought with a sigh. Paula decided she would move around a little to see if she could meet anyone. She saw a tall, blond teen who looked a little younger than her. She quickly noticed his eyes were a little red from irritation even though he was smiling she walked over to him. “Excuse me, but are you alright?” she said to him in a friendly voice.
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Avalant was very intrigue to see all the diversity of species and races in front of the academy gates. He became very curious to what his years here will be like. He couldn’t help, but smile from the excitement he was feeling.

[Ginnungagap]

So, it was that time again. Time to leave behind a world that didn't care for him, and a time to find a new playground.
Kohai Vulpe looked up to the small patch of sky visible through the treetops, and then towards the brightest light in his sight. The sun was rising, it's beauty unparalleled in such an act. Beams of the softest light caressed the world's flowers into bloom, changing night into day.
He sighed at this prose thought, and looked once more to the letter. So delicate, and clearly a human thing.
Now was the last chance for thoughts, the last chance to hold back on pressing that little green button. Well, it would be, if he hadn't spent the last two days arguing with two other personalities over it. In the end, this had been the decision, and there would be no last minute changes. Not now.

He pressed the button. And the air shifted around him. And he felt what he knew to be magic. It prickled his skin, to be wreathed in so much of the stuff. But in a moment, it was gone, and he opened his eyes to see the world changed, or truthfully, his location changed.
"Wow...A world anew lies, under alien skies...." he monologued on the spot, observing this new place in which he stood. There was no magic to this line, but still, it was only half worth describing what he had just entered. After all, grand gates, their enormity unmatched, stood before him. And before even those, there stood an army of persons, some human, some not nearly so.
Compared to many of them, he looked remarkably human, 'wearing' black slacks and a blue longsleeve as he was, though his lack of apparent luggage might come into question, a lot of the people here seemed so confused they likely wouldn't notice. Probably unused to finding people who were so unique and exotic. That, or they were looking for any familiarity among those around. Personally, he doubted finding anything particularly familiar, but he still deigned to give the area a one-over.

Quite a crowd was assembled here. That fact was obvious, at the very least. There was little wonder as to what was being built here. An army in the making.

[Asuras]

"If 'ya thought we were 'gettin tired of 'pushin you around, that ain't the case," a tall, red-haired girl reassured another. Beside her, in an electric wheelchair, a frail-looking girl with dreary eyes and white hair merely smiled. Using only her index finer, she directed the chair to drive in a certain direction soundlessly.

"Yes, but I can't help but feel it was at the very least an inconvenience for you two," she said politely. Three girls, the so-called Anancite sisters, walked together for the front gate of the Academy, having been recently transported to the area by some contraption. Vermicula 'Vinnie', Silva, and Dia Anancite practically were sisters regardless of their lack of true genetic link; they acted like sisters, lived like sisters, and behaved like sisters. For those unknown to their origins, they might as well have been. Though Dia had gotten the new electric wheelchair, she still had the issue of partial blindness, and so when a turn came up on the road, she had to be manually directed by Vinnie lest she crash into a fountain.

As crippled as she was, Dia payed little attention to her unfortunate condition. Her sisters could barely comprehend how such a soul could shrug off such misfortune.

"Thank you," she kindly thanked for the turn, "I'll have to get acquainted with the layout as far as I can make out."

"We could always stay with you, we don't mind," Silva stated. Dia shook her head.

"No no. That'd be just another inconvenience. I have to learn how to take care of myself anyways!" she smiled again. The other two sisters rolled their eyes. Whatever suited her then.

"Why aren't you taking the Dark Magic course, Dia?" Vinnie diverted the subject of the conversation. Dia turned her head and thought for a moment.

"I honestly do not believe it will have a positive effect on my health. Momma was slightly angered, but she said it was okay," Dia said.

"I could honestly care less to take the class," Silva remarked, stretching her arms behind her back, "I'm not much into it, but mom says I don't have an excuse, unlike you." As their 'mother', Ms. Anancite was an Archwitch, she had an affinity towards dark magic, and stressed the importance of it to her three daughters. Vinnie was the only one who actually enjoyed the art.

"I just thought of an awesome idea, Dia!" Vinnie suddenly exclaimed. She stopped in her tracks and threw her finger upwards, as if saying 'Eureka!' Dia and Silva stopped and turned to face her. "If I can make 'somethin like Jack, I can make some robot thing to act as 'yer personal assistant, Dia!"

"Well, I don't want to trouble you with unnecessary work," Dia stressed.

"Nonsense, I'd be happy to make 'somethin like it, even if it weren't for 'ye," Vinnie said as she affectionately ruffled Dia's hair.

"Well only if you really want to then," said Dia as she struggled to fix her hair.

"But don't expect anything cute!" Silva added in, sticking out her tongue at Vinnie. She was quickly pushed away with a glare.

"A cute robot won't scare away the 'pervs from Dia," Vinnie menacingly grinned.

"Don't make it scare away my friends, nevertheless," Dia laughed.

"Give it a maw of sharp teeth and red eyes!" Silva clapped her hands, "And a built in chainsword like in Jack!" Vinnie contemplated that idea, being quite fond of devastating and brutal weaponry, as well as fierce appearances. She was instantly all the more eager to get into the workshop and build the thing. Dia knew full-well what was in store for her, but considering she couldn't easily see anything past her nose, it shouldn't matter what the robot would look like, she figured. The trio arrived at the gate, surrounded by countless other students from across all aspects of life, both Lucian and Earth-born. A woman approached the sisters from the side, clad in a dreary blue and black dress and sporting wavy blue hair around equally blue eyes. Ms. Anancite smiled as the sisters moved in to embrace her. She was nearly smothered by the girls, but nonetheless managed to wrap her arms around them all.

"It's so good to see you three again," Ms. Anancite lovingly said.

"It hasn't been that long, 'ya know," Vinnie commented.

"Any idea when we can get inside?" Silva cut to the chase, eager to do something a bit more fun than wait around for a speech she'd already heard before.

"Soon, I assume. I luckily was not recruited into the operation of the opening ceremony as you can see, and so I have no definitive knowledge of how things will play out," their mother stated, looking towards the gates. "But promise me the first thing you do won't be to run off into the woods. You know how angry the groundskeeper got last time you did that. At least, if you do so, don't go too far." Silva rolled her eyes and smiled, knowing full-well how much trouble she had gotten into. She couldn't help that she was elvish, and from a woodsland area at that. Silva would often sleep on a tree in the surrounding area, or disappear for a week to return completely unharmed and well-nourished.

The three girls and their mother both patiently and eagerly awaited for the gates to open and for the new year to commence.

[Fallenstrife6]

Adam pushed his way through all the students to get as close to the gate as he could. This was a very different experience for him, normally he wasn't around so many people. Neither had he ever had to force his way through another person as well. He did see a lot of people that were definitely from Lucis, that made him feel a little nostalgic remembering some of his memories from when he was younger.

Lucis was a wonderful place, completely set apart from the Earth he knew so well. He continued to let his eyes wander about the crowd until he noticed a girl carrying several bags.(Sophie) He couldn't help but chuckle a little bit as he noticed the way she carried herself. He slowly drove his way through the sea of people until he was standing beside her.

"Clearly you don't need it, but I can carry some of those for you," Adam said as he looked down at his one bag, it was small and only had clothing and a few other maintenance items for his sword. "I'm Adam," He spoke again with a smile.