The Coming Darkness

After getting back to her dorm last night she decided to unpack her belongings into her room. It wasn't often that she got to settle in, always moving quickly from location to location and never really haven't a place to call home.

All that work had her exhausted, and she slept like a brick all night. It was an early start to the morning - Eos waking up bright eyed and bushy tailed. It was a good thing too, because she found a note about prom the following morning. Someone must have slid it under her door while she slept!

But, Prom?! She had just got here and already she was supposed to find a date to the prom? She couldn't go alone! That'd be embarrassing! And she couldn't go with JD, he wouldn't make it five minutes without asking some girl to dance and then Eos would be left alone.

After a long look into her full length mirror - she realized that something needed to change. She needed to change, to commemorate her new path in life as a student at Sorcerers!

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After spending almost all morning out - she was back in her room with arms full of shopping bags. If you were sitting outside her room, it would have sounded like complete chaos was going on inside. (Who's to say there wasn't?) But there was indeed a dramatic change going on inside - and for whomever was to enter her room next - they would have found this...

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Eos, sitting atop her bed. At least it looked like Eos, minus the "clown hair". She had realized it was time to put the past in the past - and grow up. No young woman would walk around with rainbow hair. She needed to be taken seriously! And at least now she really did look like JD's twin sister, both now sporting bleach blonde hair.

"This has to be perfect." Her hands wiggled around one another as she tried to fashion a dress for tonight - hoping that maybe it would catch the eye of a certain someone... if she was lucky.

After leaving the dorm building, Enzo stopped to take a moment to breath in fresh air. Some people were still giving him looks, but he was enjoying the breeze too much to notice. Afterwards, he took a deep breath, and planned out his day.


"So, who should I try and talk to first?" He sounded strangely optimistic about it. "They'll come to you, don't worry. All we have to do is wait." "Huh? Wait? why?" "Well, I took up the liberty of passing some notes you wrote to some girls dorms." Enzo raised an eyebrow, not totally sure of what he meant by 'you wrote'. He looked at Kenji with his confused expression, and Kenji rolled his eyes. "I made it seem like you wrote a note, asking them out to prom." Kenji hopped off of his shoulder expecting a freakout, and a freakout it was.


"What?! You did that?! Who did you send it to?!" "Everyone." Enzo was nearly pulling out his hair, his fedora already fell off. "Man.. what am I supposed to tell them? What if they get angry?" "Women are known to be dangerous if you don't know how to handle a good relationship. Face it, Enzo, it was going to happen eventually, it was just up to who had to do it first, me, or your Dad." "You're killing me, Kenji.. I hope you didn't send it to anyone we know.." "Everyone. Even Joanne. I can't wait to see her reaction to it." Kenji smirked devilishly. I'm going to die.. either because of her or a mental breakdown...

Volitaire dropped down from his tree and though he would go meet Artizle back at the training bunker. He should get to his morning rituals and wash his clothes before getting his jacket from the cleaners. Casting his Icarus he flew over to the underground hall, hidden by debris from the massacre. It didn't take long while flying, but he felt like a show off when doing it. He descended and quickly opened the hatch and dropped down. He fell and landed inside the steel clad halls lined up with rooms with various schools of magic for training purposes. He spotted the washrooms down at the end of the hallway, making clanks on the floor with his shoes Artizle heard him walk down and opened the door from the Ethereal room. "Oh look who's back! Didn't say hi or anything." Volitaire turned and saw Artizle's little remark. "Did I offend?" "Yeah jerk, you didn't say hi!" Artizle was obviously trying to push Volitaire's buttons. He knew he was his most vulnerable during the mornings. "Shove off and let me wash. Christ.." Artizle laughed and went back to the large room, continuing his training. Volitaire undressed and showered (Not going into detail because that would be kind of like fan service to a certain someone...you know who you are...) washing away some troubles and some airborne dirt. After taking a oddly long hot shower he threw his clothes into the washing machines, magic powered of course, and wore his bathrobe while reading a book to pass time till they were done. "Why do I never come here to stay or anything? Being a nomad for half your life makes it hard to stay in one place..." He flipped pages, getting more lost in his reading.

JD pretty much crashed that night and slept through most of the morning only to find his rumbling stomach awakening him. Those silver eyes flicked around and he re-acclimated himself to his surroundings. There was a warmth to the room that his chilly bunk had clung to with all its’ might, there were drawers, there was a soft light, and most importantly there was door leading to a shower that he would abuse first thing.
So once he was fully cleaned and re-clothed he became aware of a notice stuck to his door. “Prom- what in the bloody hell? I’ve only been here a day and I didn’t bring a damn suit with me. Unfortunately I’m going to skip this one.” He remarked to no one but himself as he closed the door and made his way to the cafeteria- his stomach growling was top priority. “Prom- what am I going to do at a prom? Dance? But with whom? I think I made a bad decision there- making a plain ole arse of myself last night. Ah well no one is going to go with me anyway- all disheveled and what not.”

His ruminations turned inwards as he made his way to the cafeteria, scooped up some breakfast, and meandered to his sister’s dorm. JD learned quickly that boys weren’t allowed in the girl’s dorm considering all the incredulous glances that were being passed his way as he ate a muffin. “Good morning ladies.” He stated with a lazy grin and a mouth full of pastry. There was a chorus of hisses and explicatives as he did so, and that only hastened JD’s trip to his sister’s room. “E- open up- I think I’m about to get my eye clawed out.” He whispered into door as he tapped on it. “I brought a muffin.”

Sasha was about to go stomp away and go find someplace to eat or something, when she heard some noise coming from the left of the hallway. Turning, Sasha saw none other than the blonde annoyance, strolling down, with girls yelling at him and tsking him for breaking the rule. He stopped a few doors away from him, knocking on what Sasha assumed to be his twin's door. Not wanting to deal with the man at the moment, Sasha turned on her heel, and slammed her door shut, looking once again at the three dresses laid out on her bed.

She took a deep breath, "...It's not like anyone's going to see..."

Thirty seconds later, Sasha stood in the second dress, hair down and tugging at the black lace, " I look so weird in this! And it's so damn itchy!"

Hearing a patter against her door, Eos hopped out of bed and laid out her almost finished dress on the bed. It was a lot more mature and "grown up" than what she normally wore, but it still had hints of flamboyant girlishness that she loved.

"JD?" Walking toward the door she opened it, greeting him with a smile. "Mornin'~!" She stepped to the side, inviting him in to her newly decorated dorm room. "What do ya think?" She was referencing her hair, "Can't call me a clown anymore, hmm?" A pleased grin spread across her face, this new look empowering her to her fullest.

Enzo couldn't hang around at the front entrance to the dorm. He felt nervous that a crowd of women would burst out at any moment to scorn him for whatever was on that note. He decided to move ahead without Kenji, who seemed to have fallen asleep on a nearby bench, waiting for the moment. Boy, was that a bad idea.

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While walking down the side of Sorcerers, He spotted a large group of kids discussing some comical matter. One of them catches site of Enzo, and their stream of comedic relief comes to a halt. "Hey, isn't that BRK?" One of them calls out, pointing straight at Enzo. BRK? They must mean... Battle Royal Killer. BRK was a common topic in Whiterun after the incident. It didn't take much to guess what the acronym stood for. The group started to spread, it was bigger then what he thought. around 10 of them were all glaring at Enzo. "That's the kid who fucked up Battle Royal alright. I paid a good 80 bucks to get in there, and YOU screwed it up!" Soon, angry chants were building up in the group. Enzo stood, nearly shaking to pieces. "L-Look, guys, it was an accident!" He tried to assure them. "Accident or not, you owe me 80 bucks." "I don't have that much money!" "That nice looking hat would do." The ringleader said.

Enzo decided he'd heard enough, he turned around to see an even bigger kid in front of him. The kid pushes Enzo to the ground, making his fedora fall off his head. "Puny Magician, how are you the leader of Valor?"He taunted. This isn't good, I can't switch my form without Kenji's help.. Within 30 seconds, Enzo was surrounded by the angry mob. His body was shaking too much to prove much use for him. Eventually, he was beaten down by the mob, quite viciously. It seemed they took everything they hated and put it into every kick and punch they sent his way.

Having enough of the whole girly dress thing, Sasha slipped out of it, opting for a pair of jeans and her red sports jacket, donning her black devil cap as well, and walked out of the building. She'd attend prom tonight. But just this once.

The first thing Sasha noticed was the yelling and jeering coming from a crowd hat was surrounding...Enzo!? What was happening here? Sasha decided not to join the fight, and instead stood there, arms crossed, silently watching.

She watched until it was apparent that Enzo was doing no fighting of his own, and merely behaving weakly. That annoyed Sasha, who then marched up towards the group, knocking some guy in the jaw.

" Hey! The hell are you doing, bitch?" a bully yelled, to which Sasha responded to by roundhouse kicking him in the stomach. Slowly, the group began to advance on Sasha more than they did Enzo, and the fight quickened.

Though Sasha was strong, she was also only human. The girl also had a few cuts and bruises on her face, though the damage she dealt to the bullies was by far worse.

Opening his one undamaged eye, realized the kicks and punches had slowed down greatly. They were all after Sasha. Enzo slowly stood up after the lingering bullies that were after Enzo was convinced he was not a threat at the time. She's saving me? He wondered. He couldn't stand there and be helpless, as he was being saved by a girl. He clentched his fists, and closed his eyes, but no avail. He still couldn't switch to his cursed form. "Sasha! ..Stop it!" He shouted out.

Don't get her wrong, Sasha wasn't saving Enzo. She merely disliked how he was just so...so damn weak! She continued to battle the last five people, throwing a hit in now and then, mostly just dodging and evading at this point; her energy had gotten lower. Heading her name, Sasha turned, " Hah?"

Bad mistake. While she was distracted, a guy kicked her in the stomach, causing Sasha to stumble back, falling onto the school grounds, " Tch..."

She dodged another attack, focusing solely on evading the punches now, " And then what? If I stop, s'not like they'll stop too, idiot."

“Wonderful,” JD remarked at her hair. “Now we really can’t deny our sibling-age.” He stated while offering a flourish in the air with his hand. Shortly after he threw her a muffin and glanced about at the wreckage of dresses and other feminine trinkets about the room. Out of boredom he meandered over to the window and stared out. “You really going to the prom?” He stated with an incredulous glance. “Seems rather faux-pas given our new status to Sorcerers.”

It was then those eyes noted a scuffle outside the dorms a good deal- and honestly he couldn’t tell who was involved but it was a fight none-the-less. “Hey E- someone is getting their ass whooped.” He smirked, “I wonder who. Maybe Juice Girl from last night- someone beating some good manners into her.” It was then he sighed. “I know I know- not polite.”

"Tch..." Enzo's gut felt like it was torn in two. His head felt the same, too. After Sasha fell to the ground, a gunshot was heard somewhere in the distance. That's... Enzo knew who's gun that was, and before he could do anything else, he was hit in the chest with the energy contained within the bullet itself. Enzo stumbled back a little, his body twitching as his hair covered his face. Most of the bullies stopped as they heard the gunshot, unaware if it was relevant to the fight. One of them spotted Enzo standing up. "Fucker, we didn't tell you get back up!" The bully rushed for Enzo. He pulled back his fist to give Enzo the one-hitter-quitter.

But unfortunately for him, Enzo's flames appeared, blasting back the bully towards the group.

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"Don't lay another finger on her."

Seeing the flames, Sasha immediately backed away, " Shit!" Fire had never been Sasha's strong point, and it even scared her somehow. She slipped over her own feet and fell to the ground, looking at the man who stood in front of her, flaming, brave, and not cowardly at all.

Who was he?

Sasha didn't recognize him as Enzo at all, he seemed different, like a separate entity, even.

Hearing his next phrase made her temper flare up, though, "Idiot, I can take care of myself!" she shouted, attempting to get up.

Maya watched from atop a building. The night before, antisociality and her fear of friends struck her again. She had been on her way to hunt, but Enzo had caught her attention. She watched as the men surrounded him, and she watched as 'Sasha' came to his rescue. When Sasha began to fight, her urge to help fired, but was quickly silenced. The only reason Maya hadn't intervened before was because she knew he could handle himself. He needed to lose his timidity. Just then, a bullet rang through the air. Enzo seemed to stabalize and his powers were activated. Kenji fixed him too soon, she thought. Enzo won't always have his help. Maya sighed and looked at Ryuu, who was seated calmly next to her. "Time to go." She climbed on the dragon and he hopped off of the building, allowing them to glide down safely. She hadn't had nearly enough practice to fly him yet. Upon landing, Ryuu and Maya leaped into the battle.

Some of the bullies see Maya and her dragon coming, and decide to add her to their list of victims. The others kept their assault on Sasha going, attempting to hold down her arms so she couldn't defend herself. "Stop!" Enzo shouted. Some of the members of the mob halt, just out of unnoticeable fear. It was clear they were attacking him because they were afraid of him. "They aren't your opponents. I am." He stated.

Ryuu dropped by Enzo with a menacing thud and let out his best roar, showing off the small spikes in his scales and his gleaming teeth. Maya took advantage of everyone's split-second distraction and stood up on top of the newly fearsome dragon. "STOP." The dragon's second roar perfectly echoed Maya's words, making her sound almost demonic. She stood slightly crouched, looking over all of the others and attempting to keep their attention long enough for the fighting fever to die. She appeared fearless and in control, still with a demonic sense radiating from her.

" Che, and now you're acting all hero like," Sasha said, attempting to block the attackers with her fists, " It's only a fight, come on!"

Then her arms were pushed down, and a punch directed at her face, which Sadha dodged by a hair. She was about to try to kick the guy off of her when the girl hat had been fighting with them yelled for them to stop while standing on top of a dragon. Sasha wasn't phased by the demonic aura; after all, she had a similar one when she was pissed. However, the guy on top of her did not. Sasha grinned and moved her leg to kick his crotch, snorting when he howled in pain. She stood up, brushing herself off. There were only a few people remaining.

Silver had been out all night the night before trying to do something, though she couldn't remember very well. She figured she had just gotten tired and ended up falling asleep outside on a random bench, because that's where she woke up. This happened often, really. When one is out an about doing important things such as training, there is no reason to go back to an empty room just to come back out the next day, and she kind of enjoyed sleeping outside anyways. She stood up and saw a bright piece of paper on the bulletin board not to far away, and when she went to read it, she realized it was a notice for prom night.
Silver sighed, she'd always secretly wanted to put on a fancy dress and dance the night away one time in her life, but there was no way anyone would ask her. She'd have no trouble getting a dress, but going to prom alone was an embarrassing thought.
She straightened herself out only to see Enzo and Sasha not too far away, fighting. She scratched her head and sighed, not really surprised to see such a thing this early in the morning.
Wait, what time is it anyways? Eh.. Whatever, I'll just go get some breakfast and then come back to watch them fight.
With that, she went to the cafe area, got some fruit, and sat down to eat.

Catching hold of the muffin, she gazed down at it in all it's banana flavored glory and suddenly realized she hadn't taken the time to slow down and even have her morning tea. She was starving! Taking a series of eager bites, she moaned with joy.

The way he asked her about prom made her a tiny bit defensive. "What do you mean? Of course I am!" In her eyes, this was a one time opportunity to live that social butterfly dream she always wanted to. It was how all those romantic scenes at the cinemas told her it would be. "Why... are you not going?" It was a sad day when JD would pass up heckling others in his best suit. "I went through all the trouble of picking out some suits for you and you don't even want to go?" She sighed pulling open the closet where they hung and looked back at him. "Quite a shame."

At word of a fight, Eos made her way to the window curiously. "Who?" Poking her head out the open window, she squinted her eyes down below. "This sure isn't a fair fight, is it?" But her statement was quickly sated when a burst of flame erupted from one of the figures. "Or maybe... it is..." She said, astonished. "Wait..." Leaning herself out of the window more she watched as someone on a dragon came down to join the fight. "Isn't that... Maya... from last night?" She looked at the other figures rapidly until she realized JD was right. "It is juice girl!" She caught herself. "Er... I mean, no - she has a real name." But Eos had temporarily forgotten. "So who the bloody hell is the one on fire?!"

While Maya wanted the fight to stop, Sasha seemed to be enjoying it. Enzo wasn't going to allow anyone to get hurt over him. Enzo leaned forward, using his flaming hands to project himself forward. To the human eye, it seemed like he was teleporting. He appeared behind every single bully, karate chopping pressure points on their neck, causing them to temporary paralyze from the neck down. He continued doing this in a quick fashion. One by one, The bullies fell down, with only a quick glimpse of Enzo behind them. Eventually, the last bully, who was between both Maya and Sasha, was taken down. As soon as he hit the floor, Enzo's flame disappeared, no longer needing it.

He felt dizzy over how fast he moved, but he knew Kenji was watching from somewhere. As a thank you, he smiled and nodded out into the direction in which he heard the gunshot come from, before looking at both Sasha and Maya. "You two... didn't need to get involved..." He stated. His body was a little battered, but his suit stayed intact.

She stared at him in disbelief; this was not the Enzo that she knew before. He was more focused, more dangerous, and very much more strong. This caused Sasha to gain a little bit of respect for the seemingly weak guy.

Her eye twitched a little when she heard the next sentence, " Are you fucking kidding me?!" Sasha muttered, " I couldn't just stand by there with you being so weak! And you wouldn't have lasted through that without my help either," she added on, folding her arms.

"Eheheh..." Enzo chuckled a bit. What Sasha said was true, if it weren't for his friends jumping in, the outcome would have been alot worse. Enzo was never keen on fighting, he did very little of it, if any at all. He lightly limped over to Sasha, and smiled. "You're right about that." Despite her harsh tone, Enzo was grateful he wasn't a bloody mess. Citizens of Whiterun hate him something fierce. "Thanks for the help, the both of you."

Why was he laughing about that? Sasha would never understand people like this. It irked her, even, how passive the guy was.

When he thanked her, she didn't really know what to say, " ...Che. Take better care of yourself next time," said Sasha, finding the words just slipping out of her mouth as she walked away, " Geez, now I have to clean up again.."

"Nice meeting you too." Maya hummed as Sasha walked away.
She walked stiffly over to greet Enzo. "Always getting yourself into trouble..." Maya smiled lightly, but was not happy. "If something like that happens again, well... I think you can handle it. You showed a lot of control." She sighed and looked down at the bullies who were starting to move. "For now, let's go." She started to walk in the direction of the forest.

After watching Sasha leave, He turned to Maya and nodded. "Y-yeah" He followed her. His wounds weren't too bad, they consisted of a few cuts of bruises, but nothing major. "I shouldn't be looking like this for prom." He said, making a broken smirk at Maya.

"At least it'll mean the girls will leave you alone. They'll think that the other girls you sent notes to have already gotten to you." She said blatantly. Maya looked over Enzo and frowned, not realizing earlier that he was hurt at all. "Sorry I didn't step in sooner," she chucked, "but it looked like you guys had things covered."

"Sort of.." Enzo muttered. That fight could have been avoided entirely. It was sad that people still blamed him for the events of Battle Royal. He looked at Ryuu. "He's gotten pretty big!" He said, suddenly amazed at how huge the dragon was.

"He's people eating size now, yes." Ryuu looked at Enzo and snapped his jaw shut in one quick movement to show off his biting power. As they entered the forest, Maya slowed to a stop. "Do you want to go hunting with me? ...Might not be something you'd like to see much of." She sighed. Maya did have a light crush on him, but felt reserved, for whatever reason. She still wanted him to come, as she enjoyed his company and enjoyed examining his personality.

Enzo yelped at Ryuu's X-rex-like teeth.I hope he's friendly... He thought. Enzo nearly bumped into Maya when she stopped. "Hunting? Hunt what?" He didn't want to kill any live animals. He could barely look at dead ones without feeling bad somehow.

"Today, deer sounds appropriate." Both Ryuu and Maya were looking at Enzo. "I would buy him food if I could, but he is still growing fast and would eat more than I could get. Or... we could just stay here and Ryuu can hunt on his own. Telepathic connection and all." Her voice carried a hint of hopefulness and she ended with a light chuckle. She thought of the second option after noticing Enzo's disdain.