Conscripts

Hikari Academy

My apologies for disappearing without notice. I was on the plane for nearly two days, and is pretty tired. But I will try to make a post now.

EDIT: Posted. Though I wasn't sure about the school ground's design. I mean how many entrances does the school have?

Hikari Academy

@Cerces22 Sorry if that took that long. Vacation is keeping me busy, but I'll make sure to make the time.

Hikari Academy

Yurius Diencrade

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Cafeteria

The vampire was enjoying his precious glass of blood when a student suddenly came up to him. The girl had lengthened pink hair, and a seemingly formal tone. Maybe it was because of her relationship to him, a student to a teacher. The girl asked Yurius for a favor, all too familiar to the vampire: a ticket to attend his class.

"If your combat experience is flimsy, then you should ask the beginner level combat class."

He said, but when he reminded himself that she was a Shifter, as she had just mentioned, he couldn't help but give her some initial potentials. In his early days, he had fought against opponents, many of whom were able to shift into animals. And they were effective, to say the least. Enough to entertain him...

"I do not tend to accept students unconventionally, unless they prove themselves to me directly."

Yurius said. But then again, the vampire suddenly remembered the previous battle. Him blowing him into unconsciousness, and earned him a stack of paperwork, which was sitting right next to his meal here. He wouldn't want another stack to toll on the numbers. But he couldn't simply let the girl pass so easily

He would need a different approach.

"For starters, what exactly can you shift into?"

@Cerces22

Hikari Academy

@Cerces22 I don't mind that. In fact, you are more than welcomed.

Hikari Academy

Yurius Diencrade

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Infirmary to Cafeteria

The time it took for the nurse to heal this guy was wearisomely boring. All in all, for an opening of the new school year, it wasn't entertaining for the aged vampire at all. Soon, he could see a familiar coming his way, carrying two stacks of papers or something.

"Aayyy...here comes the trouble."

He had gotten things like this a few times during his stay here. Reiko was as strict as usual. It was natural for a human to see that as unacceptable. But it was a good first-hand experience for anyone who was going to attend his class. Yurius only produced the best in this academy. And to be the best, you had got to know what it took.

"Fine, whatever." The vampire glanced at the paperwork they had given him for his conduct. Yurius respected Reiko, but she could scarcely understand his ways. Or rather, the vampire could scarcely understand common senses at all.

Soon after, the boy woke up, his eyes filled with worries and disappointment. That look, that face, he looked just like his father when the vampire took him under his wings. It looked pathetic and weak. Yurius didn't like it, really really didn't. But eventually, it worked out between both of them. So hopefully it would for this guy. After all, he appeared to have the will to fight.

Yurius stood up, as he listened to the boy. Making a sigh, he addressed him, in his usual manner.

"To be honest, in that test fight, I am NOT impressed." He said harshly. "You are no means lacking in power, but your puerile tactics doom you. Remember that I hadn't even used a quarter of my power on you. Taking me straight on, hmph..."

But then his voice became more gentle, but still austere, stern and slightly mocking.

"But at least you did not refuse to unleash your all." He said. "For that reason..."

Yurius then pointed at him, and then himself.

"I shall give you a chance to attend. But I will not help you if you can't persevere. Make the most of it."

He finished at that. Then he passed on the information that the student missed during orientation before leaving the infirmary, with the stack of paperwork in hand. Such a hassle, but he could finish it in the night. Therefore, the old vampire decided to head elsewhere instead. Two fights in a single day. They were all dismally weak, but it was still some physical work, which made him pretty worn in terms of hunger. The aroma of food was mesmerizing, but as a vampire, it was merely like junk food. Although he did order a few steaks, it did not help him quench his hunger at all. Not because it was too little, but because it was not for a vampire's appetite.

The only thing that strengthened him was blood.

The academy would never allow someone to roam around sucking other people's blood, but since there was a vampire who lived and taught in the school, they had a special area that gave him that, or to any vampiric students who had such appetite. Taking with him were a few steaks and a glass of juicy red blood, the vampire sat down in a corner to enjoy his 'delicious' meal.

@RoccanIronclad

Hikari Academy

Well, I'm currently stuck here in the infirmary. Until Havish woke up, so if anyone want to interact with him, he's there.

Hikari Academy

Havish Greyson
Yurius Diencrade

Havish looked to the vampire in front of him, was he serious? Was he actually going to fight him right now, right here? Havish looked at his hands a moment, what should he even do to fight him, his father always told him to attack always, that his armor wasn’t going to save him from an opponent forever. Havish kind of settled into his combative stance, it was shaky but the foundations were there. Havish concentrated for a moment, if he was going to go for a direct attack his armor was the wrong spell to use, so he cast a spell to increase his physical strength. Havish’s body began to swell, it was only a minor change but it was noticeable, “Ok, alright, I have to get in.” and his pressed forward with a direct attack to the vampire’s face.

Yurius didn’t even need to signal the start, as the man in front of him already made his move after settling into his combat stance. His fist was aiming straight for his face. Bold.

”Heh…”

With only a chuckle, Yurius quickly brought his right hand up, catching the young man’s arm at his wrist, thus stopping the momentum of the attack before it could reach his face. His other hand was still inside his pocket, as he initially thought that this battle would not last very long. But the strength of this young candidate over here appeared to be a lot more than the last one, or any newcomers that the old vampire knew. It was significantly less than the vampire’s strength, but was no means feeble.

Yurius, having his arm in his control, immediately swung his arms sideways, before retracting the remaining arms out of his pocket. He raised his two hands to his chest level, his fingers curled into fists, as he began bouncing up and down, akin to a boxer. His right hand was bouncing notably faster than his left one, a discreet notification that he was about to launch the attack. After a bit more than a second, the vampire delivered a straight-up thousand pound punch to the young man’s chest.

Having began to panic, how could he have ever thought that going toe to toe with a vampire, especially one that teaches combat, was a good plan. With his hand trapped there was nowhere to go when the man delivered his counter attack, and as the fist drew near Havish thought, “No, no, no, no!” The impact was immense, Havish thought for sure he was going to puke or pass out, the sound of cracking was loud and sharp… no, that was pain, Havish looked down and saw that he managed to summon his armor in his panic, it was shattered and piercing into his chest but he wasn't dead and more so he was still awake. Having knew he wouldn't be winning but he could still make a show of it. Having gave what magic he had left, pulled down on the teachers arm and went for a full force knee to the man's undercarriage, hopefully even vampires still felt that.

Yurius noticed his knee coming straight at him, as the guy basically took advantage of the redundancy of his previous punch. He could have used his other leg to block it, or the other arm to direct it somewhere else, but he was pretty fast himself. And Yurius wasn’t even trying to defeat him anyway, but this was rather a test of strength and will. And as he was witnessing, the guy was pretty much in a bad shape after only the first blow. But he was having a certain amount of will to it. Normal students would have hugged their rib cages in pain and pleaded him to stop. And so the vampire simply just took the blow to himself.

”Hmm…”

That was quite painful.

The vampire took a step back reflexively, as he swept the area where the young man hit him, nodding smugly and challengingly, as his lips curved into a smile. As a chuckle was heard, he continued his stances, bouncing up and down, left and right, his arms held at the chest level, threatening to strike his deadly powerful punches at any moment. Then, after a few seconds, he threw forward another set of punches, this time towards his two shoulders.

Having backed up from the vampire after his successful attack for a moment he felt a rush, like something out of a movie, maybe he had a chance after all, that was until the taste of blood in his mouth reminded him that he was already looking at broken ribs, even with the armor it wasn't much protection not yet at least. When the next few attacks came Havish moves to try and deflect, but only managed to keep from a broken collarbone as well. The lights around him started to fade at the edge of his sight, he burned through what energy he had and barely touched the aged vampire, what kind of school is this, but right before passing out he could here the sound of the bell signaling the orientation. Havish looked at the vampire, he held up his hands, they were shaking and tired though still he waited, ”no timer right? I’m not.. not done yet.” And with his broken armor now fizzling away as the last mana he had faded he still waited.

He didn’t even try to dodge the punches? That’s stupid.

Yurius was holding back the urge to claw his own neck, triggering his adrenaline rush and go all power up against his opponent, but even his normal punches were already sending him to a trip of pain. Letting the guy witness his true power would easily result in his oblivion. Although trying to deflect the blows, he was taking a quite a harsh beating. The vampire did not know if he was stupid, or had a tremendous willpower.

The vampire halted his attack for a few seconds. And the guy was still trying to stand his ground. Not done yet? Hell, any students would have ended up faceplanting on the ground now.

”Heh, just like your father.”

The test was nearly over.

Yurius knew that the guy wouldn’t have enough strength to go on much longer, so he began disregarding the combat stances, and purely tried to land another punch to his torso. It was clearly trying to test his intuition, to see which approach he would use against this.

Havish saw the fist coming, it was slow, much more than the others, what for? Havish braced himself and waited until the fist struck. The pain wasn't there anymore as he stumbled back, he found himself falling back and landing flat on his back. One blow, that was all he managed, was that good? Bad? Was it enough for what he wanted? But at this point even his own voice faded as he fell asleep. A light trail of blood leaked for his lips and his chest was cut from his armor shattering, but for a sweet moment he was quite proud of himself.

’He isn’t even trying to dodge it...’

This was surely not a good approach. Both for himself, and for the vampire.

The young man simply just took the blow directly, as he stumbled a few steps back, and then fell to the ground, motionless.

”Hmph…”

He was by no means feeble. But his stupidity was simply beyond imagination. Seriously, taking all his punches, even if he knew that each one worth thousands of pounds of forces, many times stronger than a normal human could ever perform, if that wasn’t unwise, Yurius wouldn’t know what will.

The bell for orientation had already finished ringing, and the Headmistress was beginning her speech. She was linking it to the vampire telepathically to get his heads up on important information, since he was busy in the middle of his test. Important information were passed onto him, as Yurius tried to keep this in mind, despite having heard this information for so many years. Perhaps luckily, ultimately she had given the students a day off, without classes. Good, since this guy wouldn’t have the strength to go anywhere anyway.

Seriously, this was beyond expectation.

”You have a whole lot to learn, child.”

Yurius walked close to him, as the young man still laid flaton the ground, and picked him up with his two arms, and placed him on his shoulder, as he headed for the infirmary.

”Excuse me.” The vampire politely opened the door to the infirmary, addressing the person inside. ”I have a patient for you.”

He casually, as he usually did multiple times in the past school years, walked into the room and gently placed the man onto a bed. He was in a pretty bad situation, but the old vampire believed in the nurse’s power to heal wounds and things like that. He should be fine. Yurius could have been more gentle, but he couldn’t blame himself for the man’s decisions of taking in all his punches like that. And now he would have to wait to pass onto this guy the information that he had missed in orientation, also the result of this test.

The old teacher’s eyes frowned into wrinkles.

”So wearisome…”

@RoccanIronclad

Hikari Academy

@KoL Just for confirmation, because the fight turned pretty unexpectedly. Did Aria telepathetically tells Yurius the opening speech? Because if she does, then he will have to stick with Havish until he delivers the info to him

Hikari Academy

I'm wrapping up my collab with Roccan, and I hope to be posting it maybe today or tomorrow.

Innocence Lost: An RP of Child Soldiers and Science Fantasy

((Collab Post between Letter Bee and Conscripts))

Five Days Later

Five days later, John Green would wake up the rest of the group, saying: "It's time to go on the trip! We'll be taking a freighter to Planet Cobalt; it's not going to be a Spacewarper, so we'll be flying the mundane way through a wormhole."

The cast of geniuses might need to review what they knew about space frieghters and wormholes, aka the poor man's method of FTL travel. The majority of non-military spaceflight involved sending goods and cargo on large space-borne vessels, whose engines were strong enough to head to interplanetary orbit. There, in the middle of space, awaited the wormhole, a rip in space-time that connected different planets to each other. This route was profitable but dangerous, especially as pirates might wait to ambush vulnerable ships on their way to their destination.

Basically, they were going to take a large ship, be carried there alongside cargo, and perhaps get ambushed by pirates on the way. Fun.

Timeskip to the Frieghter

The perhaps quickly turned for the worst though, as mid-way, as the cargo freighter was steadily heading for the wormhole, a ship, equivalent to the size of a cruiser, suddenly emerged from the nearby meteor belt, in utter discretion. The ship was painted black all around, shaped like a combination of a flying saucer and a cross, with guns placed messily all over the ship. At the head of the ship was a large skull, ornamented both for ramming purposes and for intimidation. The insignias on the ship was all too clear for anyone who came into contact with it.

The ship quickly exited the asteroid belt and caught up with the cargo freighter. Its engine was roaring with ferosity, and the thing would be easily able to catch up with the freighter if its captain decided to make a run for the wormhole. There, the space pirate ship's captain made his announcement.

"This is captain Kulora of the Simone, the pirate group in the region! We demand you, surrender your ship and offer all your cargo on your ship to us!"

In response, the Frieghter tried to veer away, attempting to return to the ringworld that was the Galactic Bazaar. Its engines were firing at full speed, taking advantage of the frictionlessness of space to accelerate faster than expected, jolting the cargo, which by now included the band of geniuses. But they would keep themselves steady among the boxes, containers, and other passengers that filled the cavernous cargo hold of the spaceship. Turning towards the group, John would say, "It is time to fight."

"Very well..."

The pirate captain handed down the order, as the targetted cargo freighter tried to drift away, ignoring their warnings. Their engines roared with mightiness, unbound by friction, as they began catching up with the cargo ship. Despite its initial outlook, the engine, bought from the most discreet but with utmost quality of black markets, was significantly faster than the cargo ship's. The ship quickly caught up with the cargo ship, drifting steadily nearer to the vessel.

And then suddenly, the pirate ship made a sharp turn towards the freighter. Seconds later, the front skull of the ship rammed onto the back of the freighter, sending the ship off its current trajectory, and sent the cargo onboard a tremor. The pirate ship then open fired their weapons onto the hull of the cargo ship, quickly tearing apart its shield and significantly damaging the hull and engine. As the freighter began to falter in terms of momentum, the pirate ship began to pull the cargo ship towards them, preparing to dock with each other. And finally, when the ship was near enough, a boarding party, consisting of hundreds of space pirates began pouring onto the ship.

Their target: the cargo bay.