The Coming Darkness

"And here we are," he said, handing Seraph his welcome package after a brief conversation with the receptionist, "now, how about that breakfast, huh?" Marcus escorted the student to the cafe and allowed him to order what he wanted. He only got a coffee himself, as he wasn't all that hungry. After paying for the boy's meal, he took a seat with him."So," Marcus said, taking a sip of his black coffee, "tell me a little about yourself. When did you first discover you abilities? Where are you from? You know, stuff like that?"

He grinned when he saw Silver come out of her room. Glad to see she was okay physically. "Just ummm...sores from the 'blows'. I had to cover them up. They may scar." He hinted at Venciersio's Spatial pushes, but didn't want David to catch on. He had a feeling Silver wouldn't want him to answer what happened right in front of her to David. He wasn't even sure if he wanted to. "I would answer, but she may cut my tongue off if I do...oh, umm Silver. Have you seen Kenji anywhere? I came here to ask him something."

Eos rolled around in bed until she heard a loud thud against the floor and a groaning coming afterward. "Oh!" This immediately woke her, sending her to the side of the bed to peer over and see her brother entangled in a sheet and flat on his back.

"Eh heh heh..." She hid her face in a nearby pillow, "Did I take up all of the bed again?" She was small but had a tendency to roll around - giving JD limited space. And it just so happened on this occasion that he had such little space, that last little nudge sent him off the edge.

But yes, she had overtaken her brothers room overnight. She needed someone to talk to, someone who would listen and understand. And JD was just the guy to help, and quite calmly spent the night calming her down - while without realizing it, calming himself down.

Maya had no idea how, but she had managed to sleep in the training room. She huffed as she woke up, noting that school was either starting soon or had probably already started. She sighed and stretched, finding herself colder and lonlier than ever. No matter, she pulled herself up and slowly began heading towards the girl's dorm. Maybe I should just stay in my room all day, she considered. It would be better than any of this. She watched students begin to congregate in the halls of the school, and shook her head. I have no use for attending, anyways. Does Enki attend classes? Maya had eventually made her way outside, but it was no easy class. She was tired.

Seraph thanked Marcus for his welcome package and followed him to breakfast. As they sat down he heared a question that didnt sit to well for Seraph. Tell him about...myself? Seraph stared blankly at Marcus for a few moments but finally opened his mouth. "I do not want any special treatment or any scowles from other students...I rather keep myself distant with personal details." Seraph cleared his throat. "I was born with these powers, and slowly over time I was trained by my father, I come from up north, way north..." Seraph looked a little nervous about speaking. He held his amulet for a brief second and looked down."I will just say that I am very special...and to most not in a good way." Seraph ate slowly and with great manners. "Tell me about yourself, and the school I will be attending, I have heard many good things."

Answer.. Answer what? What was he asking? Silver shot David a suspicious glare, which he responded to by frowning and looking down in a pouty manner, and turned back to Voltaire when he asked her a question. "No, I just got up, I haven't seen him anywhere." She began to wonder where the others were as well. The first place to look would be the cafe, she thought. Breakfast sounded nice anyways. "David, breakfast?" David perked up and nodded his head. The thought of food pleased him. Silver sighed. He was like a puppy, really. They still needed to catch up with each other, anyways. But, she still wasn't in the best mood for that. "Voltaire, do you want to come with us? Or are you going to look for Kenji?" she asked, turning to walk towards the cafe.

SMACK!

JD groaned loudly and cursed in another language- he was fond of doing that- but to give a translation it was pretty much a nice melding together of the words: dick, ass, damn, and shit, with the nouns: coaster, muffin, waffle, and taxi (plausibly not in that order). Either way he hoisted himself from the floor and glared at Eos in a manner that was probably quite familiar to her. Back in St. Albans they shared one bed, and this was actually quite the common occurrence. The girl would spread out with her legs and arms reaching towards each poster of the frame, and he would find some place in there to mesh himself into. Currently he was entangled in their sheet, and it neatly covered him like some Roman toga, but underneath he just had a swatch of grey boxer-briefs to keep everything in check. Sleeping naked next to Eos was just inviting disaster.

“Did you take up all the bed again? Was Napoleon the figurehead of the French Rebellion? Yes. And you both are just as short and tyrannical.” Slowly he hauled himself from the ground and pulled a pillow from the bed as he did so. With a quick motion he whacked her in the head with the downy soft thing, and continued to do so until a full on pillow fight was started.

He tapped his bottom lip. "No, this is pretty important." After saying that his stomach growled. He hasn't eaten anything since the day before the fight. He embarrassingly hung his head and walked up with the two. "Sure.."

Enzo lazily walked on campus, not noticing any of his friends lingering about. He found the steps leading down to the main road of Whiterun. He figured his friends were causing some kind of mischief and Enzo would be involved. He needed time to think about where he really came from.

He sat down on the top of the stairs, not minding the frequent passing by of students and teachers. Maybe distance was for the best. Enzo was recently making a lot of mistakes. Suddenly, Kenji plopped down next to him.


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"Long night?" He asked. "You could say that..." Enzo replied. A silence broke out between them as the cool breeze went by a few times. Then, Enzo spoke again. "Kenji.. What am I really?"

Marcus noticed Seraph become uncomfortable with his inquiries, so out of respect he withdraw and decided that was enough interrogation for one breakfast. However, he was more than happy to answer a few questions about himself. "Well, I can't for certain say much about the school. This is actually my second day, I start a teacher orientation in a few hours. But, about me? As I said last night, I used to be a teacher in North America. I'm from a pretty average family, Mom and Dad are both alive and well, living in England. I've never been married. I like literature, politics and the fine arts. I lived in Russia before I came to Sorcerers..." He trailed off, noticing the boy lose interest in the 'boring' details of an average magician's life, "...but enough about my personnel life, I suppose you'd like to know about my abilities. I'm a magician of the mind, I excel in what I like to call 'pushing'. I can make you think or do anything I want, just by looking at you. I discovered it in my early teens, and have been training the power ever since." He smiled again, finishing off his coffee and fidgeting with the stain it made on its saucer.

Seraph followed along with all the details but seemed engaged when Marcus started to speak about his power. Seraph leaned forward. "Mental abilities of control and altering of perception...very nice indeed."
Seraph smirked all casual like. "As you witnessed, I am an illusionist, but those powers I used were but small features." Seraph leaned back again and lost his smile instantly.

"I fear my power sometimes to be honest, to tell you the truth I am down right petrified...The illusions I use are not just to be seen, when Im serious enough I dabble in my blood magic, I pay with my own blood to cause my illusions to step up into reality." A terrified yet angry at the same time kind of look came onto Seraphs face. "My real magical ability...is being nightmare itself, frightening my opponent untill death, I do not enjoy it however it is just the power I have been blessed with..." He used the term blessed very lightly. "I feel we should be heading to class, when the time comes I will tell you more about myself, thank you."

The three of them arrived at the cafe after a bit of walking, and David was quick to gather as much food as possible. Silver took some, not feeling too hungry, and they went to sit down. David eagerly scarfed down his food, while still keeping an eye on Silver. He was worried about her. Silver ate the food she had and looked around, waiting to see if anyone else would show up.

And so the morning began on a note of fluffy pillows and non stop giggles on Eos' part. JD did a damn good job of bringing back the spirit in her last night, and the day was starting off on such a good note - she was far from the Eos she was last night.

After JD inevitably surrendering to the tiny force that was Eos and her feathery weapon of fluff she decided to steal the shower before he could. "I claim the shower as my prize!" Turning it on and hopping in she giggled amongst the bubbles and soap, even singing a note or two. JD's advice still rung in her head, "The best thing you can do for him is stay positive and hopeful until he returns. If you believe he will come back to you, he will."

She had to admit, for such a young bloke her brother was pretty wise.

Kenji stood up. "Well, I guess it's about time I've told you." He said, turning towards him with a serious tone. "You're soulless. A body without a soul, basicly. Your sky flame is where your soul should be." Kenji kept it straight forward. He didn't want Enzo to misunderstand. "So i'm a zombie?!" He shouted. "No. To put it simply, your soul is your Sky flame. You've probably noticed that your flame isn't like any other fire you come across. It's Soul Fire, made only in the Gaze."

"So I was born in the Gaze, then.." Enzo said, looking forward again. "Correct." Enzo looked back at him with the sudden desire to ask another question. "Is my Dad like me?" He asked. "Your Dad.. isn't real.

He's an illusion."

"You go on ahead, as I said, I've got my orientation soon. But it was great talking to you. Thanks to you as well!" He said, politely as possible. As Seraph stood up to leave, the smile faded from Marcus's face. The new expression that came was a mixture of fear, anger, and pain. From the way he had described his ability, it frightened him. He knew quite a bit about blood magic, he taught students with that skill at his old school. But a mixture of illusions and blood magic? That was a scary thought. Especially if that sort of power fell into the wrong hands. He would have to keep an eye on him while he was here in Sorcerers, considering he would also be attending his classes. Should he fall into insanity, his magic could very well decimate the school.

Volitaire wasn't sure what he wanted to eat. He picked out some pancakes, taking three of them and coating them in thick syrup. He smelled the melted butter and maple coming off the steam. It made him smile and he sat with David and Silver taking slices off and chewing happily. "So what were you two doing in the same room last night?"

Seraph got up and started to walk to the door, he noticed David, Silver and another who wasn't familiar to him. He walked over calmly with his hands in his pockets. "Hello David, and hello to you again Silver...to you aswell, Im sorry I do not know your name. I am new to this school and I briefly trained with David and spoke to silver." He looked at all three of them with a calming smile and relaxed notion.

"May I join you three?"

He couldn't really talk with food in his mouth. He chewed a little faster and swallowed, letting out a small breath. "I'm Volitaire, you know Silver and David?" He said looking up to him while sliding to the side a bit. He didn't mind the company, but he didn't know how Silver would react.

David looked up at Voltaire when he asked. He grinned, thinking about what he was probably thinking they did. But then Silver spoke up. "He needed a place to sleep, so I let him sleep on my floor," she responded, without looking up from her food. Suddenly, that feeling came back. She looked up to see Seraph, and she got a bit tense. David looked up, and frowned, remembering he stabbed him before. But no hard feelings. "Oh, I see you met Silver already! Illusionists, you guys are friends, right? Sure, of course you can join us!" Silver glanced to David, then back to Voltaire before looking back down at her food. David simply smiled.

"Thank you Volitaire, It is a pleasure to meet you." He slowly sat down beside him and rested his arms on the table."I only briefly met Silver here last night, I just introduced myself, as for David we had a little sparring match last night, it is great to see you guys."

Volitaire could tell Silver was getting a bit uneasy. He observed Seraph from the corner of his eye. He didn't want to make any bad assumptions of him, but was wary of how Silver tensed up. "And a pleasure to meet you too." He finally said, sounding as friendly as he can. He was still a bit upset about last nights ordeals. He overheard David say "illusionists". "You're an illusionist too? That makes you the second one I've met." He went back to his food thinking that was the cause of Silver's uneasiness. He was getting a bit worried himself. He did have a dark theme to him, just live Volitaire...but different.

“I think I got a feather up my nose,” JD remarked as he rubbed it harshly before sliding off of the bed and inevitably watching his sister vault to his shower. Fortunately enough he had managed to take one sometime after Eos had fallen asleep last night and so wasn’t in a desperate need to clean himself. Instead he slid on his ‘one iota probably too tight jeans’, some loose band shirt, his jacket, those boots of his, and all his accessories. The only thing that ever stayed on him completely was his necklace- otherwise it mostly just ended up in a pile next to the bed- a very painful and barbed pile if you stepped on it.

JD tapped on the doorframe and hollered in, “I’m going to go ahead- grab some breakfast and then work out. I’ll meet you in the cafeteria. Wear something slutty incase Voltaire is there- you want to show him what he missed. And honestly E- you have the biggest boobs of any chick here- use them to your advantage. Yes~ yes~ come to the dark side~” JD chuckled out. It was then he exited the room in a right proper mood. Eos was right- they needed to spend more time with each other. Either way he felt renewed, but that feeling sort of dissipated out of him once he reached the cafeteria and saw that Obsessive Fanboy curled up next to Silver.

Seraph looked at Volitare with a serious but honest look. "I am an illusionist, but I also have other powers aswell, some to be kept more secret than others." Seraph laughed a little about it. He then started to sense the tense atmosphere coming from Silver, Volitare seemed to pick it up. Hmm...Silver doesnt take to kindly to me...haha, maybe because I to use illusions...or something else. Seraph kept quiet for a little, trying not to come off too hostile for the most part.

Silver remained silent while they spoke. "Yeah, we did some sparring alright. And he gave me this." David lifted up his shirt and showed Voltaire the bandages around his stomach. "A 6 inch dagger." He sighed, looking up, only to see JD there. He didn't look too pleased. Silver looked up as well, and saw JD. Her face lit up, and she quickly got up to go talk to him. As she approached him, she spoke out. "Um, sorry about just leaving without saying anything..." She really felt bad about it, especially considering he got her those charms.

David watched as she got up to go say hi, and his face remained blank. "Are they a thing?" he asked Voltaire.

He looked up and noticed JD at the other side of the cafe. He was happy to see him and remembered he agreed to help him with his problem. He decided to keep quiet about that until they were both with Eos at least. Though he felt it foreshadowed some drama. With David so close to Silver. He saw her jump up and trot over to him, Volitaire wasn't surprised but he was happy she was happy. He blinked at David's question, and chuckled a little. "You can say so."

Seraph chuckled at the remark of David saying he got stabbed by him. When he heard this JD come out of no where, he turned and looked up at him. hmm...who is this guy, I don't feel very sure about him. He stayed still and calm without saying a word.

Well, this has been lovely. I will see you guys during class, I have somewhere to be." Seraph gets up slowly without making any eye contact. But calmly walks out with a wave. "Take care now."

Not.. real? Enzo stared through Kenji in shock. The man i've grown up with after mo-.. Enzo lowered his gaze to the ground. He was going to ask a question that would possibly scar him. "And my mother..?" "Your mom was real." Kenji replied. Enzo felt like he was going to shed a tear, but he didn't for some reason. He had lived in that house, with a fake Dad for years.

"Okay." Enzo stood up. Asking more questions would probably lead to bad things. "Your friends are all in the Cafe." "I'm tired. I really don't wan't to get into anything..."

Marcus returned his dishes to the designated area, and headed for the exit of the cafe. Seeing David and his friends sitting at a table, he gave a quick wave. It was time for him to get going, the orientation was beginning in an hour or so, and he didn't want to be late. The more he thought about it, the happier he became. It was exciting! Being in a new school, new faces, new beginnings. He had a passion for teaching and mentoring, and was ecstatic to be back into the field. Leaving the cafe, and round the corner, he once again approached the registration desk, where he was supposed to meet the headmaster for a tour of the school, information regarding his class, and general rules of thumbs for teaching. And of course, the most tedious part of it all, paperwork.

Jacen walked down to the main building's entrance, on a beeline for the cafe.
Food...I need food.
He still felt a bit tired, and rubbed his face before opening the door.
He touched again, feeling something was wrong. Damn it, don't tell me I forgot...He patted the pockets of his hoody, his jeans, and suddenly facepalmed while walking through the main hall.
I forgot my glasses...just great. Oh well, it's not like they're that big of a deal anyway.
Jacen didn't have any vision problems, but preferred to keep his eyes hidden by tinted glasses. Not too dark, but dark enough to keep his true eye color unknown. He reasoned that it would be unnecessary on campus, and walked into the school's cafe. He showed the cashier his ID and went to grab whatever looked appealing.
After making a satisfactory plate, he walked to find a table. He stopped, seeing one with a few seats open and that guy who grabbed the girl yesterday and hurried off.
Her name was Eos or something...oh well, might as well clear the air with him...and he looks like he just got out of a fight...I wonder if that's what that was all about yesterday...
He approached the table with tray in hand and a plain but, non-confrontational expression on his face. The one from yesterday glanced up with a curious look on his face.
"Mind if I take a seat?"