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Upon hearing this, energy started to return to Enzo. Not like the power of his curse, but energy to stand. He didn't question it, as he would need it for what was to come. "Nobody is going to follow you..." Enzo said, standing up. "If you can't manage to keep them at your side." Kenji too was feeling odd, but he knew what the feeling was. Kenji hopped onto Enzo's shoulder.
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"Ready for the last bout?" Enzo nodded, focusing on Montesque. Enzo didn't know what Kenji had in mind, but if it was from Kenji, it was probably good. Enzo took off running towards the time lord, jumping over loose debris. After getting close enough, Kenji hopped up into the air, using Enzo's speed to hoover over Montesque. Kenji's fox body shined, and started to take the form of a human.
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Kenji fired at the book, the bullet exploded on impact, destroying the book. Kenji landed on the other side of Montesque, and adjusted his fedora.
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Montesque saw the book burn and begin to react negatively."I see, so that's what I felt in that fox. I'm very impressed. So you're that Kenji I heard about from long ago. Montesque nodded. "It's a honor to see someone with such acknowledged power. Though, that wasn't the smartest. The book is reacting negatively to the shot you gave it. I assume we'll cross paths at some point. And as for you, Volitaire. I await for you enact your revenge." Montesque lets Volitaire down and makes a large seal that glows with a blinding light. Everyone reappeared in front of the school again, and a large explosion could be seen from Aurora from a good distance. Volitaire oddly was back to normal. "So..that's it then..thank you for keeping me under some control, Enzo. I'm not ready for challenges ahead, like I said. I'm going to take my leave and better myself." Volitaire's face was hidden under his hair, and he walked back to where his home in the forest was. Not saying another word.
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Maira stood there, more then a little confused. She looked around and sadly watched Volitaire disappear into the forest. " Is he going to be okay? " She asked softly and looked towards Maya moving over to her. " What room are you in? " She asked softly looking at her with hopeful eyes. Her tail wagged happily as if she was a dog and her ears wiggled with happiness. With the battle over and everyone had mostly survived unscathed.
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Kelsey walked over to the nearest person hoping they could give her directions, she was completely lost.
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The castle was now nothing but a pile of rubble and burning cement. The whole exterior was no longer standing and all signs of life were gone from the interior. Only person who was left behind was Ling. "Aiyaa, so much stuff happened while I was attending to the villagers. They must have been going all out to destroy such a large castle." He then crouched down and ran his hand through a pile of ashes. "So it would seem Aurora got destroyed in the process." He may have been away from the fighting team without anyone noticing but he still had eyes inside the castle monitoring the group. "Oi, Joanne, you can come out now. Everyone cleared out." A banging could be heard in the distance and a portion of the ground was vibrating to what could possibly be made out as kicks. Then the secret door burst open and Joanne climbed out of the smokey cellar. "Took you long enough to find me." "This was a dangerous job for one person to do." Joanne just crossed her arm and voiced her grumpy opinion. "If those brats at Sorcerers didn't interfere, we would have had gotten Aurora in one piece." Ling let out a depressed-like chuckle. "Well the big boss is going to be disappointed with our report." Joanne then simply smacked a small folder into his chest. "The original book have been destroyed, but the prior master of the castle had made a copy of a certain article." Ling looked through the untranslated paper as though he knew what the writing meant. "The couple of pages is just gibberish and nothing can be made out of it. I don't understand why 'he' wants the..." A hand was placed on top of Joanne's head and Ling started to stroke her temple. Her faced started to redden and she tried to round house kick him only to be dodged. "I told you so many time, don't rub my head!" Ling let out his usual chuckle and placed the document into his gym bag. "You deserved it Joanne, it would seem that this trip was not all lost. They got Montesque to show up and a couple of pages of Aurora is in our hands. This will certainly make that man happy." A helicopter descended over them and a man in a military suit stood by the open doors. "Mr. He and Miss Heartland. We have arrived to pick you up back to HQ." A ladder dropped down and both Ling and Joanne grabbed hold, climbing up the steps. "The acts are setting into motion Joanne. We still have much to do, but soon his master plan will come in fruition. Magic Users and Time Lords will have no idea that the Normal Humans are part of this grand battle." Ling let out his laugh as he watched over the city.
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Enzo quickly turned to stop Volitaire, but he was nearly out of sight. "Vol.." Enzo looked down and clenched his fist. Stay safe. He wished. Red had just regained consciousness at this time. "Where the hell..." He held his stomach, he was still lightly bleeding from the stab wound. "Sorcerers..?" He said. Enzo turned around to Red. "Yeah, we made it."
At the corner of his eye, Enzo realized Chrome was standing near them. She felt too guilty for her actions to confront anyone, so she teleported away before she caused a scene. Enzo looked back at the island, which was barely in view. It doesn't feel like a victory. We lost alot on the way... He sighed, remembering Einso. Red was having trouble standing up, So Enzo went over and gave him a hand. "I don't need your help." Red sneered. Enzo ignored his insults, and took him inside Sorcerers.
He had realized that nobody was inside except for one girl. It was nighttime, so nobody was permitted in the school unless it was an emergency. He walked up to the girl, ignoring Red's protests. "Hey, are you lost?" He asked the girl.
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Volitaire raised his hand as if he was waving as he walked away. "Take care of yourselves." Volitaire shouted as he walked further away.
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"YES! I have no idea where i'm supposed to be! the directions said it would be here, but all i see is this." she waved her hands for emphasis
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"Well, we're in the main school building, now." Enzo takes a look around the darkened lobby. "Though i'm pretty sure it's closed until tomorrow, so you should come back then!" Enzo felt like a student staff member. He puffed his chest up in pride, temporarily forgetting that he's carrying Red.
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"Okie Dokie!" She saluted and walked away making a mental note that she comes at day. That place looks creepy at night... she shuddered thinking about it
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A few minutes later, Enzo had left Red to rest in the infirmary. Got to remember to tell the nurse about Red. He thought as he walked away from it. He ran into someone who looked alot like Kenji's true form, but something was 'off'.
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"Who are you?" He asked the child. "It's me, Kenji." He replied. "Ehh!? What happened to you?" "My curse seal came back, but it didn't fully complete.. I'm stuck between my human and my animal form." He explains. "None of this matters now anyway, let's head to the dorm." Enzo nodded in agreement. Getting caught on school-grounds at night was probably bad.
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Vivid images of Montesque appeared before Enzo as he ran through the destroyed city of Whiterun. He didn't know why, but he was on his way to Sorcerers. Buildings and buisnesses were on fire, cars were flipped, and people lay dead in the street.
When he got to the school, he found it in ruins. Outside were the bodies of all of his friends. Volitaire, Einso, Maya, Maria, Ling, and more. "No way..." Standing before the dead bodies was Montesque. He smiled at Enzo's arrival, and beckoned him. "You bastard!" Enzo cried out, charging at him.
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"Wh- What the hell!?" Enzo sat up and held his head. Kenji had beat him with his own school bag. "You snore too loud, and you whisper things in your sleep." Kenji said. Part of Enzo was glad that it was just a dream, but what did it mean?
Another early start to the day. The Aurora buisness was finished with, so people could breathe easy. He got on his clothes and proceeded his way out of the boy's and girl's dorm.
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Silver had been out and about that morning, running around again in order to prevent a certain confrontation with a certain individual she may have gotten into a fight with. As she was running, she noticed that one of her shoelaces was coming untied but shrugged it off, thinking that it wouldn't be that much of an issue. She's pretty coordinated, or so she thought. Unfortunately, while she was distracted by the shoelace being untied, she didn't notice Enzo coming out of door she was crossing in front of. Bam! She ran right into him, sending them both tumbling. Sitting up quickly ready to fight the idiot who didn't see her coming, she realized she recognized his face. "Oi.. It's you again." she said with an overly harsh tone, somewhat disappointed that it wasn't someone a bit more threatening to her.
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Holding his head with his hand, he opened an eye to see who it was he ran into. "Ow ow... Oh, I remember you.." He said, quickly standing up to brush himself off. "You were here during that whole mission thing.." Enzo had just realized the state of his friends who disappeared before, during, and after the trip. He also realized that he didn't include them in the team. "Oh, I'm sorry! you were supposed to join team Valor, right?"
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Silver shrugged. Honestly, she didn't really remember any of that. All she remembered was that she knew him from somewhere. She stood up, brushed off her skirt a bit and stared at him. "..Something like that.." Just then, she remembered her shoelace and decided it would be a good idea to retie it. Silver leaned back down to retie her shoelace, but still looked up at Enzo. Something was different about him, but what? She stood up, looking at him from different angles and trying to figure out what exactly it was. "...Have you been working out?" she asked, poking his arm lightly. "...No, no.. That's not it.." She paused and stared at his face for a moment, tilting her head slightly. "...Is everything alright?"
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"What do you mean..?" Was it that obvious that his stress was bothering him? I should try and train, too.. My arms are a little thin. He thought. "I'm a little banged up from that Aurora buisness, you see.."
Kenji popped his head out of Enzo's backpack looking disappointed. "We've got a problem." "Huh? what is it?" Kenji looked down with a grave face. "..No food in there." Enzo sighed. "I thought it was something serious.. well, we'll go to the cafe soon."
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"Hmm.... I see." Silver stared at Enzo as if in deep thought, and glanced to Kenji when he popped out. Suddenly her stomach rumbled a bit. "..Ah, do you mind if I join you? I just realized I haven't eaten in a couple days." she said with a smirk. It's not that she didn't eat on purpose, she just sort of forgot with all the secret training she liked to do at normal meal times to keep her sword skills sharp. Besides, she got everything she needed to be healthy from her energy drinks... Right?..
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Volitaire traversed through the forest. He climbed over roots of trees, ducked under branches, and hopped over large stones. "Funny...I find myself wanting to stay by everyone's side. Even though I tried to devout myself to go away to train. Perhaps, maybe I can train with them...I have the perfect idea. For both me and Enzo!" Volitaire ran, carefully trying to avoid bumps in the road. He came across his old home that he and Einso once live in. He picked up the last of the spell tomes he had and wrapped them up in a bag. "Okay...lets see if Enzo, accepts my proposal." Volitaire walked out his home and began walking but was paused by sudden thought. "I forgot about my Icarus spell..." Volitaire sprouted wings and quickly flew back to Sorcerers.
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Enzo was a bit surprised, but he nodded nonetheless. "Sure! We should get going now, though. class should be soon." He said as he led the way out of the dorms and into the Sorcerers lobby.
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Maya walked into Sorcerers with a dragon nestled deep into her arms. It was about the size of a cat, and chubby like one, too. It's scales were brand new and shiny, nearly hiding it's true orange and black coloring.
To the protests of Maria, Maya left the dorms in the middle of the night to find an abandoned spot in the forest. All of the trouble and quarrels of the night before had caused her egg to rupture. When she was finally and completely alone, she allowed the egg to hatch. After a few hours, the bonding process was completed and the dragon devoid of its shell. The dragon had been in the egg for a long time, and had lost any soul it had before. The bonding process allowed Maya full control over the dragon's body and allowed her to feel what it felt. She had been carrying it with her for weeks, always having it nearby, or else the bonding would not have taken. Small rituals that may have been considered evil by others were also essential to the process. Now, it was finished, and this dragon was hers.
As she walked into the lobby, tired and feeling sick from this process, she saw Enzo. "Enzo!" She called out to him. Once within short distance of him, she used one arm and hugged him tightly. She wanted to talk about all that had happened before, but noticed that he had someone else beside him. "Oh, I'm sorry." She hesitantly looked at both of them. "Who are you, and where are you guys headed?" Maya didn't mean to come off rudely, but noticed that she might have because of how tired she was.
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Silver followed Enzo, being more aware of her surroundings than she should be considering she was still trying to avoid that person. As she and Enzo were walking along, someone managed to bump into her while she was looking the other way. "Watch where you're going!" she said as she turned around, only to see that it was the very same person she had been trying to avoid. "...Oi.."
"Why hello there, Silver.. I've been looking everywhere for you. I think we need to have a little chat." The rather large, built, teenage boy said in a low tone. Silver sighed. "I'd rather not get kicked out of school, but if you attack me, at least I can say it was self defense."
"Hah! You still think you can take me. Whatever, I'll make this quick." Quick, he said as he pulled back his arm, clearly winding up his arm to punch Silver in the gut. Silver sighed, and simply moved a bit out of the way as he swung. "Too slow." she said as she grabbed his arm and twisted it around, turning him and shoving him to the ground. She put her foot on his back, watching him flail around in attempt to escape. Silver leaned over and patted him on the head lightly. "Now that you've embarrassed yourself, will you leave me alone? I'd really rather not get kicked out, and I only have one more warning before they actually do something." She let go of him and he got up as quickly as he could, turning to glare at her for a moment before scrambling away with his little posse.
Silver sighed, looking back to Enzo and nodding at him, not noticing that there was another who joined the party, and kept walking forward towards the cafe.
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Enzo's color had left him once he witnessed how easily the brute was dealt with. He shook his head as Silver left, and turned to Maya. "Morn- AAH!" Enzo jumped back when the glint of the dragon's eye caught his attention. He pointed at it and shook with fear. "Is that a tiny godzilla?!" He shouted out. "Idiot, that's a dra..." Kenji also fell silent when he realized what it was. Dragon familiars? Those are rare.. only the most skillful summoners can bring a dragon to existance... Just how much power does my friends have?! He felt overwhelmed by the skill already shown to him so far.
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Volitaire descended, dispelling his wings and landing with ease. He quietly walked inside of Sorcerers and looked around for any trace of Enzo. He held his knapsack of tomes over his shoulder and noticed the clock. "It's early...must still be breakfast, at least." Volitaire walked down the hall and noticed a commotion. A girl with black hair had taken down this larger male. Volitaire hid his face under his hair, which got longer since the incident with Einso. He kept walking and looked around for Enzo and saw him walking down further into the hall. "Enzo!" It was hard for Volitaire to call out in a public place, even more so that he's chronically depressed. He tried to rush over and tapped him on the shoulder the moment he caught up.
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Maya frowned for being ignored by the girl and watched her as she walked. "Morn- AHH!" Maya continued to frown at Enzo. His loudness hurt her head. She looked at Kenji and nodded. "He's been hiding in his egg all this time, but everything that went on yesterday finally got him out." She stared at the dragon, it's eyes open but only with a blank stare, and it slowly whished its tail back and forth obediently. Maya had barely learned how to make the dragon use the most basic movements. Voltaire ran up, and Maya instinctively covered the dragon up. She excused her nervousness by thinking to herself that the dragon's body would need rest, anyways.
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Enzo was surprised by Volitaire showing up aswell. "Vol, you're back?" Kenji sighed, pulling on Enzo's jacket. "I'm hungry." He complained. "Geez, can your stoma-" "-No." Enzo shook his head and beckoned for both Volitaire and Maya to follow him to the cafe, where he picked out a table for all of them to eat at. Moments later, Enzo came back with two bowls of ramen, and set them on the table. Kenji hopped off of his shoulder and dived head first into the bowl. No table manners... He thought to himself as he ate.
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Volitaire quietly sat at the table with Enzo and the other two females. He didn't really know what to say around women, considering he's had no female interaction for the most of his life. He shrugged off the thought and pulled his knapsack over the table and unwrapped it, and a few books were inside. Advanced spell tomes from his family. One for Dark Magic and another for Void/Space Magics. He pushed the books farther to the middle. "Enzo. Volitaire's voice grew colder. "I plan on training with these forms of magic. The last tomes I have from my grandfather. I was wondering, would you mind coming with me to my old family training hall and aid me in my progression?" Volitaire pulled another book out. This one was Pyromancy. "Would this help with your 'Hyper Form'?" Volitaire kept somewhat hidden under his hair, feeling embarrassed he was staring at Enzo's food. He hasn't eaten in a few days.
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Daniel sat with his head in his hands. School had been a blur and homework was demanding, so demanding that he almost missed Enzo's return. The energy level dropped when he and his friends disappeared. After all, they had the same lunch hour and lived on the same floor in the dormitories. It was this thought that propelled Daniel's feet forward towards Enzo and before he knew what to say. "Where were you, and why were you gone so long?" had already flown from his lips.
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Silver sat down next to Enzo at the table, not really paying attention to the fact that there were two others that she didn't recognize. She ate an apple and had a small bag of carrots in her hand, which she had placed on the table as she sat down. She took a rather large bite out of her apple, and noticed the books this other strange boy had brought. Silver looked to the other girl at the table, who had a small dragon with her. He's a cute little dragon.. she thought to herself before taking another bite. Silver eyed the strange boy that had just shown up, asking Enzo about where he had been, but shrugged him off too. She brushed a stray strand of hair out of her face and decided to make sure she still had all her tools in her bag, sighing a bit out of relief when she discovered that she did.
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"Would this help with your hyper from?" Enzo looked down at his ramen, in deep thought. I haven't seen anything about my curse on the magic list... He looked up to Volitaire. "I don't think it'll work, but I will surely help you!" He said, smiling.
Suddenly, a boy came up to him and demanded questions. Enzo felt nervous, as if he had done something wrong. But then again, he did disappear for a while, heading to Nor. "I had.. a mission to do." He said vaguely. He didn't want to remember the events of what happened there. Images of dead people, impaled by ice, flooded his mind. rivers of blood, and worst of all, a man who could control time itself. A time lord. "It was a pretty interesting one." He said. Once he got a good look at the boy, he realized it was the boy that had showed up on his first day of school. "Hey.. you couldn't be..?"
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"Hmmm...I see." Volitaire put the book away and opened the tome on Void Magic. There was a small note inside, folded up neatly with a small stamp to keep it closed. Volitaire raised a eyebrow and opened it up, reading it to himself then closing it. "Well, it's good that you'd help. I figured you could use some practice with your Hyper Form. As would I with my...'virus'."[/SIZE] Volitaire put the small note in his pocket, and reads the book.