Karu awoke in the elven home he had grown up in, though he was most certainly not an elf. He was a fae dragon in fact. Unhatched, he had been found in the forest and taken care of until he came into the world, growing up among the other youths. The result was a rather friendly dragon. Most fae dragons were shy and would hide from other beings, playing the occasional prank from a safe distance, but Karu was much more social and even understood both elvish and common, and could even read and write! It wasn't much of a surprise that he'd be invited to the academy, it was probably more surprising that he had accepted, and would probably be the first of his kind to go to it, as most preferred to just live among the trees.

Now, the towering gryphon had been quite a scare when it arrived, but he turned out to be friendly enough and Karu certainly did not want to have to fly there on his own. His colorful butterfly wings were more for show as he had to use magic to fly. Having nothing really to his name, he traveled with only a few notebooks and writing utensils gifted to him by his caretaker and his favorite warm blanket. He didn't pay much attention to the scenery, he was capable of flight himself after all so he'd seen enough mountains and trees by now, though the rift was a little more interesting when they reached it. 

When he finally arrived at the academy he was a little reluctant to dismount. Strange looking technology was everywhere, and he wasn't exactly confident it was safe to be around based on his past experiences. He may have gotten shot by an earth world gun once and never really gotten over it. It took him a good 5 minutes and an annoyed shake from the gryphon before he finally got down and was left alone with his luggage. His eyes darted around a little frantically from all the earth students and more importantly what they had brought with them, while his own light packing simply floating next to him, feathery antennae glowing slightly as he channeled magic through them with barely a thought.

He moved over to a wall for a bit to try and calm himself down, having his back to a wall helped with his nervousness, but what did not help was the rather loud announcement scaring the living daylights out of him, the small dragon jumping in surprise and twirling toward the source. That was certainly not something he was used to!

He took a couple deep breaths to calm his racing heart, reminding himself that this was an academy, most likely no one was out to get him here. No one here probably even knew who he was! Or what he was for that matter. He knew there was going to be a lot of scary earth trinkets here when he accepted, but surely they were not meant to be used on him! He just had to be careful not to agitate people... and not get stepped on.

Karu cautiously made his way toward the assembly hall, or at least followed the people that looked like they knew where they were going and weren't visibly covered in or wielding earth technology. He probably stuck out like a sore thumb, which was probably a good thing since he'd be lest likely to be stepped on or accidentally bopped with luggage.