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The Ordinary Mythical Academy

@EchoicChamberThat's quite alright. That laugh isn't sarcastic it genuinely made me chuckle :P

The Ordinary Mythical Academy

Akira Kage

Akira continued to wonder the corridors on his search. He had no real way of deciding a heading for himself, for all he knew each step he took was leading him further away from what he seek. The section of the school he was in didn't seem to bear any remarkable designs, it just seemed like a normal school, for some reason he had expected more. "Come on where are you?..." Akira said to himself softly as he stopped to concentrate more on his ability to seek Arken's aura but to no avail.

As he begun walking again however he felt something. Someone was following him and their intents did not seem all that pure before he heard their voice call out to him. Feigning surprise Akira flinched as he stopped mid-step before turning around. His eye's checking over the one that had interrupted his search. "Ahh, Kitsune Lilith. Greetings, I am Akira Kage." He faked a perfect returning smile of sincerity to the creature stood before him. "I am simply seeking our... clearly illusive host, Head Master Arken. My late arrival was, as I believe to have been expected, though I don't believe he had expected me to arrive so close to his school introductions." Akira kept the conversation polite, in anything maybe he could bore his social partner he'd found himself with.

Akira thinks for a moment before speaking once more. "Though down here in these corridors there is not much to be found." Akira shrugs continuing. "Which does raise the question of why you might also be here? If I'm not mistaken I had passed you whilst making my way through the grand hall, so you clearly didn't miss the school hand-outs." Akira continued to offer his fake smile, as it was evident that he understood Lilith's intentions were not ones of niceties. "Anyway I must be off, need to find Arken and get my things after all. I'm sure I'll see you again soon." Akira finishes as he turns to leave before stopping himself. Showing a sincere smile for the first time. "Though a word of advice if I may... Always remember though your face can tell a beautiful lie, your aura will always betray your true intentions. Ciao." With that Akira turned once more and begun walking the corridors of the school once more, softly whistling to himself as he did so.

@The One (Seeking out Arken) @DragonKingUk

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Akira Kage

It had felt like he'd been wondering around on the fields on the outskirts of the academy for hours. "For the record, heh... heading up early was a stupid idea. Some students have already arrived, managed to stay out sight though just as planned." Akira clicked the stop button on the small recorder as he slid it back into his pocket before lowering his face scarf and cowl. This island certainly was impressive, Arken had done well for himself. Though admiration for the person running the show, that was far from the reasons he was sent here. Such a shame, maybe in another universe things could of turned out a bit differently. The boy sighed as he kicked the dirt softly as he strolled back and forth, keeping clear of the Academy's main entrance but not so far that he couldn't head inside easily enough.

"Simply entry... just gotta wait for the main student body to arrive." Akira said to himself softly as he continued to pace. He stopped before retrieving a shrewdly drawn map from his pocket, unfolding it as he glanced around his surroundings once more. "What idiot even provided this..." Akira glanced round once more. "Can't trust those intel guys with even the simplest of tasks sometimes." Akira's head perks up for a moment before dropping back down. "Two more in the nest it would seem, no need to move yet." Akira retrieved the recorder once more clicking the record button. "Equipment confirmation check, as required..." Akira's voice was almost monotone as he goes over the scripted line. "Daggers two, one iron and one silver. Hand crossbow..." Akira glanced down at his waist. "pre-loaded for quicker engagement. And finally 10 bolts stashed amongst the personal effects. It has been... emphasised that no more than this is required, where possibly bolts should be recovered for multiple use. Any additional will be self made at site if needed."

"Now I guess, the wait continues. I wonder what's going on down there, fights may be? Hell they might be surprising everyone with no fights at all... yeah right." Akira moved over closer to the academy. Remaining out of direct sight from the grand hall entrance, but lent up close by. Soon he would move, or at least that was what he had hoped. "Wow... that's a lot of people. Hope Arken knows what him and his staff are in for." No sooner had he begun his makeshift resting place had his mind been flooded by the different aura's that had all entered simultaneously into the Academy's building, one of which was exerting a dominant level of power to the others, easy to pick out. "There you are Arken." With that Akira pushed himself off from the wall to make his way round to the grand hall entrance. There was no need for him to remain outside of the academy and with the number of students that would now be in there, he would be able to enter with little to no chance of drawing unwanted attention to himself.

He had not however planned for such a short introduction, by the time he was at the entrance Arken had clearly moved. "Damn it." Akira mumbled shaking his head, no point in worrying about it though he entered the building. As he does so a student leaves past him the level of anger emanating from them was pretty impressive. As Akira turns to look he's almost shocked by what he see's as he grabs his recorder. "So the intel was good, Sekhemi is here. Looks like his leaving... no skin off our noses his life expectancy will be shorter outside then inside this place anyway." Akira whispered into the recorder not wanting to draw attention for Sekhemi before heading inside.

This was quite the collection of weirdo's Arken had seemed to assemble. Though for a mystic academy this was the closes to normal Akira could expect. A lot of faces to remember, names weren't important they'd be easy enough to extract with a bit of 'friendly conversation'. The expected turn-outs had arrived to the academy, didn't look like anyone had turned down their invites, Sekhemi's continued attendance however seemed questionable a best. There were some that Akira wasn't so sure on, they were an interesting find but there was likely a reason for it, lack of interest from his associates being the most likely scenario in his eyes. "Oh great... What are they doing here." Three students in particular stood out from the group like sore thumbs, though to most of the students that wouldn't be the case. Were his circumstances different he might of seen fit to address them, but in this moment in time his most pressing matter was to find Arken.

It appeared that some of the students may have been planning to disperse themselves so they'd clearly received room keys and other effects from Arken already. "Hunting time then." Akira made his way through the student body as he headed further into the Academy he had no particular route in mind he was just trying to locate the man in question, he felt for his aura but clearly teleportation magic had been used, all that remained was the stagnating remnants of his presence in the Grand Hall.

The Ordinary Mythical Academy

"Royalty?" Irvine found himself asking as he looked at the unconscious person laying on the ground. Irvine had thought royalty were supposed to be quite powerful, this did not match what he'd just seen however as the man had received a rather thorough 'beat down' by some of the other students. "I'm not entirely sure... that was over faster than I originally could have imagined." There was almost a hint of disappointment in his voice as Irvine slid the shadow hilt back into its pouch. "Guess I won't be needing this after all."

Irvine watch as the person who had initially humiliated the man rushed to his aid following the beating. "Such odd behaviour, I don't get it." Irvine comments as he watches this person shout out at those that had ganged up on this unconscious royal. "Why can't people stick to their original intent? So much mind changing all the time..." Irvine would of potentially ranted on further but Leval was soon taken away from the royal by another student, leaving another student to deal with the wounded Sekhemi.

"Well I'd say this morning has been pretty eventful huh?" Irvine asks as his eyes grow wide as he sees something different in the distance. "Where did... what the hell is that?" Irvine asked as he pointed over at Rika, Irvine was pretty sure there was a more 'normal' looking student there before but what he was seeing now, that wasn't there before. "That sort of like you? You know, the whole shape changing thing?" Irvine rubbed his head before sitting on the ground. "You know what, I think this is about as much excitement as I could possibly handle within this small span of time. Whatever that is, so long as it's staying over there... I'm just gonna sit here." Irvine's shadow hood fades as a straight layer forms behind his back allowing him to rest against it.

@EchoicChamber

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@The One Oh I know who might kill him from past experience :P

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Epsilons speech in response to his concerned seemed... motivational? Was that the right word? "Thanks... I think? But I'm not sure the whole good thing really applies." Irvine forced another smile, the interaction was not something he was familiar with nor was the act of being something that resembled happiness. But to him smiling seemed a common interaction he had observed others doing so it was possibly something to try and get used to at least. "So, when do you think we'll be able to head up to the academy?"

As Irvine asked it felt somewhat like the ground was off-settled, like someone was shaking it, not so much a quake just a disturbance. That's when he turned to see the parade of animals and people singing as they headed onto the field. Wait they're not all students right?" Irvine asked openly as he looked to see someone riding atop the elephant. He looked again, several different animals, men with rather exotic weapons along with some... not so finely dressed people. "Hey Epsilon, is that guy what people would call a... 'Circus Ring Master'?" Irvine paused for a moment. "If that's a stupid question I've only really seen them from the outside, if at all."

Whoever he was his attitude was pretty rude, not exactly a great way to introduce himself to a potential audience. Not only that but his entrance seemed to have angered some of the other students. One of whom, a spell caster of sorts had made it their own personal objective to completely ruin the display. The animals now looked like they'd been living on the streets for longer than he had, and the tatters wearing people now had nice clothes. The nice clothes person was in tatters, this was all a bit much to witness happen at the same time but it was pretty impressive to watch. Irvine turned towards where the spell seemed to originate clapping his hands, before turning back towards the person that now seemed worse for ware in appearance. He didn't look to happy, if anything he looked angry. Irvine gulped,'Guess that wasn't all just a show' He reaches his hand for a leather pouch at his belt, retrieving the shadow hilt. The rather basic looking sword guard looked like it had been broken off of some ancient weapon. "Uhh, don't worry this looks useless but I swear it does stuff... sometimes."

@The One@EurmalEye@EchoicChamber

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Hey all, just so everyone's aware I haven't been well these past few days which is why I haven't posted. I'm gonna get something up on the IC today but if my posts seem slow it's cause I'm still not at 100%.

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[color=0072bc]"I mean changing shape does sound interesting. But I do believe I should be careful what I wish for, can it be more daunting than what I've already seen here?" Irvine momentarily breaks his line of sight to glance round the field once more almost forgetting what he was doing. The next moment he'd snapped his head back to catch the falling darkness in place. "Stupid..." he mumbles to himself as he lowers his gaze slowly, the shade slowly lowering as it rested atop Epsilon's head and took shape of its own volition. "There, easy." Irvine said triumphantly to himself.

"So a uhhh, demon huh? I-I guess that's kind of normal all things considered. There's more documented cases of your kind then most of the people? Things? That are here." When the demon and Epsilon had introduced themselves he felt somewhat inclined to follow suit. "Irvine, I'm Irvine." He forced a smile followed by a short nervous laugh. As he does so the shadow hood re-emerges over his head as his attention is momentarily drawn to someone singing. At best he believed what some would class a 'cringe worthy' he didn't really understand the term but to a certain extent understood some related it to strange public behaviour, if a collection of non-normal entities could really be classed as a public gathering.

When Epsilon made her suggestion shook his head. "Ha! Yeah... I guess that's another joke?" Irvine asked. "Most vampires I've met haven't exactly been the nicest bunch." Irvine contemplated the option of 'blood test' to himself before continuing. "Sometimes it's nice to not know the answers. Sometimes ignorance of what you could be, can protect you from the monster that maybe you are."

@EchoicChamber@The One

Mirror Worlds

As Lance walked through the village with Tawny the way villagers were avoiding them was becoming steadily more apparent. It wasn't as though he could convince them that the wolf was no threat to them, heck he didn't even believe that himself. "We need to find something... something that will help everyone be not so on edge with each other. I don't know if it's fear, excitement or a mixture of the two, but everyone seems to be so different." Lance stops and turns towards Tawny. "Even if it's not on the surface. So, what made you pick the spear?" Lance wasn't even sure why he was asking, there might not of even been an answer to that question.

@Raptra

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"...Sorry?" Irvine responds to being told to lighten up. "The whole social game isn't really something I'm good at. But being alone does that I guess." He sighs, more to himself then the situation. "I can only make shapes, I don't think I can change shape. But I'll keep that in mind... Wait, do you change shapes?" Irvine asked as he tilted his head once more. This person seemed to have a much more exciting life than he if boredom was the true reason they'd come here, or were they just hiding their reason?

When he was offered a cigarette Irvine paused staring for a moment. Such an offer was definitely hard to find in the city, but once he reached out with his hand his own shadow again reacted as it swatted him. Somewhat annoyed Irvine responds "I guess not." Before he could comment once more about anything related to his shadow he heard a voice, whispering, but from where? Irvine looked over his shoulder seeing nought there as he hears the girl give her answer to what he'd heard he could only assume he wasn't hearing things.

"Chaos is bound to win in the end every time, so why fear it?" Irvine responds in kind. "Before light came the darkness reigned and as it arrives the darkness merely hides. Thus once the light is gone the dark returns and within it I shall thrive." Irvine shook his head. "Though I do believe such times are no where near their arrival. You should show yourself."

Irvine thought for a moment as his attention returned to his original conversation. "Not sure I'd call making a hood fancy,
but if you want one... consider it a thank you? For trying to make the situation less unbearable." Irvine stepped to the side as he stared at the shadow being cast by Epsilon he motions upward with his head. "Gonna need you to try and stay still,
much harder to do it for others than it is for myself but once it's there it doesn't take much to hold it in place..." Irvine stepped back in front of Epsilon as the thin layer of darkness loomed in the air, against lights will. "Just say the word and its done." His line of sight was looking above Epsilon as though holding the shade with his stare. "Alternatively I could just drop it..."

@The One@EchoicChamber