Daniel Valentin Mikhail
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Daniel sat with the rest of the Dragon students on top. If he only had an hour to get to the docks he could just run there. Back in Russia, Daniel was a Track and Field Runner, he also did Cross Country. So he could get back to his dorm for his things, and still have time to make it down to the boats. He slipped the device over his wrist and it locked in place. The thing looked cool, he had never seen one back home. He then heard whats she said about the pen and notebook and immediately stuck both inside his jacket pocket.
After the final remark of her speech, Lady Morgana vanished into thin air and that shocked the heck out o Daniel. He was not used to seeing other people's abilities but, he would get used to it, considering his new circumstances. He heard other students speak about rumors they had heard concerning the trip, some had fearful revelations, others had long and drawn out stories about one family member or another going on the trip. This
World Journey gave him goose bumps, and it only got worse when the lights dropped and the doors to the auditorium opened. Then these grey men with one eye came into the room. Daniel heard someone call them I-men, and they began fighting the other students and taking their pens.
These things were scary indeed, they looked like
rusalki from stories his mother used to tell him about. Them swarmed the top seats and started to attack the others. Students were fighting viciously to keep their pens, using all their powers and skills if they had them. By then Daniel had already picked up his backpack and swung it over his shoulder, he tried to avoid other peoples fights on his way to the exit. He duck when he heard someone yell get down and then he saw fire. He stood up after and saw one of the I-men look at him. The man jumped in front of Daniel and pushed him on the floor. The man kept trying to rip off his jacket to he could get to the pen, Daniel got frantic and started to thrash and try to push him off with his legs.
He looked down and saw the flower he had brought with him, a pink pansy, crushed under the foot of the man. Daniel rarely got upset over anything, but the abuse of nature, in any form, pissed him off. He looked at the man right as he unzipped his jacket and yelled,
"Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh" The man was wrapped in pansy vines and crushed, the vines lifted him up and Daniel stood up and dusted himself off. He wen over to where the flower was and looked at its flattened state, he picked it up, zipped up his jacket, and grabbed his bag. He looked around and saw two more I-men approached him, with a sneer, he lifted his hand towards them and vines engulfed them both. The first one was thrown over the rails and the second met the same fate and was crushed but vines and leafs.
Once he was clear, Daniel dashed outside, people were fighting like their lives depended on it. He looked around as he ran to the Dragon House, so kids were sitting down resting their wounds and pride, others were on the run to with fresh victory in their eyes. He could see pieces of the I-men all around. Once he made it to the Dragon house there were I-men outside,so he stepped up and caught their attention. The flower was feeding off of his anger and had grown wildly up his arm, it looked like a pansy gauntlet, made of vine, flower, and leaf, all the way up his left arm, the flower was snug but not too tight, just enough to not fall off. He plucked three flower buds and threw them at the men. The first two bounced off the chest of the men on the left and right. The one in the middle caught the bud and crushed it. This sent his anger over the edge. The I-man in the middle rushed Daniel but before he could get to him, the man had vines and flowers bursting through his chest. The plant was dismantling the man and tore him apart from the inside, ingrowing itself. Daniel tapped it and the man fell over. He stuck his hand out and the other two buds sprang to life and latched onto the other two I-men, they were thrown against the walls next to the entrance and dismantled.
Daniel stepped inside and went straight to his room. Once inside he found his clothes and put them in his backpack, then picked up the duffle bag and made his way out. He thought about grabbing the suite case but it only had luxury items and he would not need it. Daniel made it back out and to the entrance, he saw that the pansy's had taken over and were forcefully keeping the doors open. He looked around and ran into the forest.
I-men were all over and Daniel was getting tired. He could not find out why, but he as running out of breath faster and was slowing down. The docks were in sight but he was cropped up against a tree to hold him self up. He looked down at his arm and saw that the flower and wrapped itself around his waste and was still growing. Then heard some leafs crunch and looked up to see four or five men. They all blocked his path and needed be removed. So with one last burst of adrenalin and anger, he ran straight towards them. Daniel looked at the surrounding trees and willed them to move, they did, uprooting themselves and wrapping branches and trunks around the I-men and lifting them up into the air. Daniel ran towards the docks with his bags.
He was getting worse and needed to make it on board, he saw the Dragon house elf and pulled his pen out from his jacket.
"Ummmm....This is..my pen...can I get....on?" Daniel said in-between breaths, he bent over, and rested his hands on his knees, catching his breath. Other than that experience he was excited about the journey, only Daniel did not have the energy to express it at the moment. He looked at the elf and awaited his answer, hopeful that it was soon so he could fall over and sleep.
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