[IC] Anime High School

[KimHanuel]

Lori would return the smile, but it'd be tight. Her eyes would, yet again, be guarded. "Nice to meet you too."

[BlitheCrescent]

Blithe nods, but then her eyes flash. Something was wrong. There was an aura here that shouldn't be....it was.... A Reaper.....someone followed me.

A rift in reality appears, another Reaper stepping out. She looks like Blithe, but with shorter black hair. She walks forward, eying Raphael. "Well if it isn't Blithe, everyone's favorite outcast. Thank you for leading me to this piece of scum. Figures that you wouldn't squish him like the bug he is. You were always too soft."

Blithe glares at this new figure. "Noctis.....I'd say it's good to see you again, but I don't lie anymore." Crap.....If Noctis is here.....she'd destroy the whole school to take this guy out.... She turns back to Raphael. "I'm going to need your help with this.

[KimHanuel]

Lori would stand there, confused.

[Morric]

Energies and tensions raised in the school. A fact traceable by the strange and powerful aura's that rose on the air, spreading across the campus and washing over the pitch black pendant. Like a chemical reaction, the essence sparked over the silhouette of the small stone, spattering bits of light onto the ground. Within, the imprisoned entity struggled faintly against it's bonds. Though with the rise in energy all around, the restraints weakened. Through a pinhole like aperture, a vein of shadowy essence, like a small tendril, reached from the entity and out into reality. Into the school. The tendril shot across the tiled floors and began prodding around for the source of these enticing souls and their ominous abilities. Sure to have powerful essence.

[Krein]

(I'm gonna go ahead and give the demon a personality, it'd be weird for me not to do such with a fricking demon goat thingy!)

The demon's voice echoes in Raphael's mind.

"Look... another Reaper. Since you have so coldly deprived me of the blood of the other girl, what say you to rending this one until there is nothing left but mangled flesh and bones?"

Raphael responds, already feeling the urge to battle building up inside him. It was clear this other Reaper was not going to talk peacefully like Blithe had, so Raphael had no qualms about fighting. The air around him darkened and shimmered with an oppressive aura as yet again the terrifying and wicked demon rose up from Raphael's body. It stared malevolently at Noctis. The Reaper's may have faced powerful demons and entities before, but the sheer presence of Raphael's avatar made it clear that... soemthing was different about it...

"And that marks four Reaper's I've met so far," Raphael said with a growing grin. "Two before Blithe... I believe their name's were Hasse and Zorn?"

The demon avatar stretched out both its hands as chains fell from its wrists. Within the shackles were bound two reapers, both with vacant expressions.

"See their forms, stripped of power, knowledge, and life. Trophies to my collection, empty vessels to serve as a warning."

The Reapers shimmered away at Raphael's command.

"Is that how you want to end up?"

[KimHanuel]

Lori would sense something searching, prowling, stalking. She glances around warily.

[CallaLily180]

Jackelyn walks toward the school and stops at the door she looks around but walks inside seeing nothing. "Hello?" She yells when she walks inside.

[KimHanuel]

Lori would be able to hear a faint yell from inside the school as well.

[CallaLily180]

Jackelyn sighs and walks through the hall. "Anyone here?" She yells this time even louder.

[KimHanuel]

She'd send a thought to Jackelyn. Out here.

[BlitheCrescent]

Noctis laughs. "Those two were mere Initiates. They knew nothing."

Blithe shakes his head. "Don't listen to her. She's known for playing mind games."

Noctis turns to Blithe. "You're one to be taking, considering you have no weapon. We all know that your Soul Blade was taken away."

Blithe blinks. "Raphael, can you hold her off for a minute?" She began feeling the presence of Ritter on campus.

[Morric]

Energy given off by the souls of the students around and within the school floated around the halls and courtyards like ethereal clouds. Though these energies weren't visible to the students themselves, they were visible to the entity that now prowled the halls with a small tendril of a black substance. Unlike the energy, this tendril was visible. It was like a featureless snake no thicker then a pencil, worming it's way across the floor. The sounds of a girl began to echo around the halls. The sound attracted the attention of the exploring entity. The small tendril stopped for a moment, before scattering across the floor toward Jackelyn.

[BlitheCrescent]

Blithe closes her eyes, dipping herself into the Spirit Realm. She remains on campus, visible to all, but just submerged enough to be able to see these energies around her. She traces them back to their source, until she finds the necklace. She reaches down and picks it up. So.... this is what I was feeling.

[KimHanuel]

Lori suddenly gasped, still feeling that strange presence. She looked at Raphael, worried. Her green eyes were still guarded, but one could tell she was flipping through emotions of the people around her.

[Krein]

"The years of experience these two had on them is an embarrassment to your society," spoke the demon. "Mere lies will not deceive us, they were aged well enough to know how to handle themselves, but were defeated by one who has not even had his powers for a year!"

The demon bares its teeth as Raphael preps for battle. He honestly didn't want any assistance from Blithe or anyone else, he wanted to take this on by himself. The demon speaks this.

"Reaper Blithe... do not interfere, lest we add your bones to the pile that is soon to emerge from this fool's remains."

Raphael finally speaks himself as the demon's aura grows more and more oppressive.

"So bring it on... show us what a 'real' Reaper can do!"

[Morric]

Suddenly, the tendril disappeared as fast is at approached. The prodding essence found something else. Rather, something found it. The sound of footsteps tapping lightly against the hard tiled floors echoed through the hallway as the young girl approached the pendant. At first glance, it had no abnormal properties. But as Blithe drew closer, the ominous feeling of a cold embrace enshrouded her. The sound of subtle static rose in her ears as the entity within the stone attempted to communicate with her. To it, she appeared as a figure of light, as did all earthly entities. But this one was different. It held some form of power within it's essence. Upon grabbing the pendant, and strange feelings and auras stopped. The presence of the pendant now looked onto Blithe's essence and a single word lingered on her mind and subconscious thoughts.

...Sleep...

[KimHanuel]

Lori sighed, suddenly leaving to go help Jackelyn.

[BlitheCrescent]

Noctis changes into a Nightmare form similar to Blithe's. The giant sword appears in one hand the other one with sharpened claws. "You are a mere child. I have had hundreds of years of training." Noctis seems to disappear, then reappears directly behind Raphael, lunging forward with the sword.

[CallaLily180]

Jackelyn would throw up her hands and sit down in the hall. "I can't believe it." She says. How can there be no one here?

[BlitheCrescent]

Blithe attempts to fight the urges of sleep. No..... I can not fall asleep.....not now..... Longer and longer she pushes down the urge to sleep, until finally it overwhelms her and she falls asleep in the hallway.