Avalon Academy: Tales of Sorcerers(Open RP)

[GamerKale]

Auroch felt a gentle pressure on his ear and he started awake, the darkness disappeared back into his flesh. He found Lilia kneeling next to him with a hand on his ear. "Li- Who are you? And what are you doing with her?" Auroch grabbed her wrist, but quickly found her wrenching out of his grasp and instead pinned his arm to the ground with a mischievous smile as she straddled him and whispered, "You want me, right? Just relax, you'll sleep soundly for once." Auroch wrestled fruitlessly and growled, "You're not her, I can see your threads, you're jut a puppeteer." The smile disappeared from her lips for a second and then she shrugged and leaned in very close to his face, "What does it matter? She's only human, you're a sorcerer and you want her. Just take her." Auroch tried to blast her off with wind, but his magic was countered. His left eye turned pitch black as he screamed. "YOU LEAVE HER ALONE! OR I WILL GRANT YOUR GREATEST WISH! I WILL FIND YOU AND PART YOU FROM YOUR BODY, PERMANENTLY!" "Lilia" pulled back with a malicious laugh. "You can't even best me while I'm in this meager vessel. How do you intend to do that?" Auroch growled, "I'm no mere inquisitor, nor any normal mage. Your puppet's strings may be hidden from everybody else, but I can see them and follow them to their source." "I know. I gave the eye to you after all." "Lilia" released Auroch's arm, but continued to sit on his chest.

Auroch stared for a second before he asked, "Who the hell are you?" He looked around, nobody seemed to have heard him, or at least weren't paying attention to it. "Lilia" sighed, "I expected more from you. I had such high hopes and invested so much money in you." "Other people's money." She shrugged, "Second class citizens. And you haven't even figured out who I am?" "Answer the question." "Now why would I do that?" "Evasion and misdirection go hand in hand. If I supply a name, you can just not correct me." "So, you are as good as I expected. Well, my name is the same as the word etched into the third line from the back of your eye." "There's nothing etched in my eye." "I put it there when I made it son, and my memory's just as good as yours. My name is Gepetto, just as it is etched in there." "I'm not your son." "Yes, Auroch, you are. Why don't you ask your new friends for my file. We share more than perfect recall after all. Oh, and I haven't done anything bad to the inquisitors, in case you were worried, they're just all asleep and have earplugs in, that or they suddenly got a craving for walnut bread that they just had to run off and sate." Gepetto smiled at all of the sleeping inquisitors, "They really shouldn't be so... pathetic and predictable, that's how I've stayed ahead of them for so long. They think their black keys make them dangerous to us, undefeatable even. I used to take pleasure in destroying the lives of the ones who hunted me, but now it's just sad."

Auroch stared at Lilia's eyes, "She's awake, isn't she?" Gepetto looked back down at Auroch and laughed. "Yes, she is. Trapped in her body with no control of what it's doing, you should see how torn up some of these Inquisitors get over what I make their friends and family members do to themselves. Don't worry though, messing with an inquisitor directly isn't my style, I just grabbed her while she was standing guard so that we could talk." "Let. Her. Go. Now." "Why are you so hung up on this girl? I thought we were having a nice father-son moment." "A father would not leave his son to be raised by strangers who want to make him into a weapon and only get involved after his thirteenth birthday." "I didn't want them trying to use you against me. I did make sure you were taken care of when I could, but you needed to make your own mistakes and learn from them, I even tried to get you off the grounds before that attack happened, but things didn't work out that way. Still, you're alive, so yay." "Piss off." Auroch grabbed one of his white keys and slashed through the air behind Lilia's body, he disrupted the invisible magical threads, but Gepetto got in one last proud? smirk in before he lost control of her. Auroch dropped the blade and rested his head on the ground. "Lilia Kjellberg, if you're feeling like yourself again, will you please get off of me? I just found out that I'm related to a mass murdering psychopath and would like to go back to sleep." The black faded from Auroch's eye as he looked up at her.

[Zorolo]

Zorlo stared quietly at L-Elf before he chuckled. 'Fascinating. You're kind of an odd Inquisitor... but I'd say having you here will keep the others somewhat safer," Zorlo stated as he began to rummage through the metals and began to think. There was a lot of work to do... but he and Kanna would get it done sooner or later." The green-haired elf paused as he set down some metals and paused. His eyes drifted back towards the Inquisitor as something occurred to the swordsman.

"I know you have no obligation to watch over me, so could you do me a favor and go tell that girl you came in here with that I'm sorry for being rude... I'm just not terribly good at relating to others," Zorlo stated somewhat blandly. "She WAS only doing her job, so there wasn't any reason for me to snap at her."

Zorlo quietly shifted through the metals as he continued to think. He began to mutter, "Not that they care, right?" he mostly asked himself. "Their kind, like everyone else, see me as an abomination... so far, only three people have seen me as helpful... well, two and her," he said, glancing at Kanna. "So what am I doing here if none of these humans trusts I won't simply murder them?" he asked, his head spinning. What were these feelings and thoughts he was having. Was this that "guilt" thing he'd heard of... did it really matter? He wasn't sure, but he knew something odd... something he'd keep to himself.

"Yeah... Mr. L-Elf, please just tell her I'm sorry, I guess. I'm not sure how to say anything else of the apologetic nature," Zorlo stated as he tried to see if the Inquisitor was still idling there with his Cat's Cradle game.

[nekoryuuha]

No Black keys... Because he doesn't need them, for better or worse... She thought to herself as she scanned over the metals. But she pushed aside such miscellaneous thoughts as she focused entirely on the steel. To her, the world beyond a few feet dimmed as she focused. To others, her pupils expanded until her irises nearly vanished, her sclera turning iridescent as she looked deep into it, into its structure. The heat, it need to be high, higher then normal. The steel floated before her and she slammed a fireball into it that blazed with heat like the mid-July sun. She held it and watched unblinkingly despite the brightness. "...It's not enough..." The fireball died and she blinked once as the floor shook. Strange, emerald pillars formed then molded together as it formed a structure and a trough for water. The forge. Another short pillar formed for the anvil.

Holding herself tightly, her hair waved slightly without wind. Quiet, unintelligible words fell from her as she made the calculations in her mind before looking up, not at the ingot, but at the formed emerald structure. Water filled the trough as she raised a hand. "Fire, Metal, & Wood Sign..." A fireball the size of a baseball formed at her fingertips, causing the area to begin heating up before she shot it into the forge, which shut promptly. "...'Meteor Call'...!" The room shook as the fire inside detonated. When to reopened, it was like being in from of a blast furnace. "...it's ready.." she replied, wincing as she felt her throat construct a moment from her Curse Dissonance. Fortunately, it was short lived. "...sedolpxe ti erofeb ti esu esaelp..." she then said with a bit of discomfort.

[Zorolo]

His mind took a moment to figure out what she had said before it put everything back together and he tossed the Meteoric STeel into the forge. Quickly, the metals began to set as he removed the necessary forming object and moved the liquified metal into the place the sword would get its form. Grabbing a pair of tongs designed to handle the insane heat, he quickly began to the repeated process of shaping, cooling and shaping. The first few actions repeated over and over again as the furnace became more and more unstable.

Heavy blows to the formed blade echoed into the room as the green-haired elf continued his hard work. Sparks flew from the meteoric steel sword as Zorlo cooled the blade yet again to finally let the blade cool for a second. "I hate to be a buzz kill... but I can't rush this process... the sword needs to go through the same events several times before it'll hold its form and be insanely sharp," the magic swordsman stated as he looked at her before removing the blade and placing the folded steel back into the furnace.

"Even with magic, something like this can't be expedited... it'll cost the stability and strength of the blade to early degradation and weaken it against the influence of my flames... I can't allow either of those things to happen," he stated firmly to Kanna as he continued working the metal as effectively as he could quickly. It wasn't easy and it was draining on him as he imagined that any misstep would make the weapon totally useless and render the used materials worthless. "We don't get a second chance... isn't there anyway you can stabilize this stupid forge so it doesn't kill us both?" he asked in anger as he started to heat the metal again.

[Kaori]

"Sorry" apologized Lilia as she got off Auroch, she entered her tent and found Wilbert wide awake, and holding on to a black key, "I heard" he said as she proceeded to get closer to him, she hugged him sobbing while he patted her on the back, Scarecrow entered the tent and and looked at Will with stern eyes, Will nodded and Scarecrow left the tent, she had a little bit of hunting to do.

footsteps were heard through the forest, Gepetto ran as Scarecrow pursued him, as soon as she got close, she performed a slingshot maneuver to kill him in one blow, however, just as she was about to deal a fatal blow to the puppetmaster, she was knocked back by an invisible force, she got up and looked at the puppetmaster, she then noticed a masked figure approaching him, she prepared to perform another slingshot when her radio chattered, "Scarecrow,get back here to the academy, somebody set fire to the dorms!" it was Yuuya's voice on the radio, knowing that lives of Sorcerer's were at stake, she left in a hurry.

"Thank you kind sir for getting rid of that pest, now if you'll excuse me-" before Gepetto could leave, the masked man stopped him by standing in front of him, "persistent one, aren't you? now please, move aside" he said with a smile, but the masked man wouldn't move, "I know all about you, Gepetto, you're wanted for murder and abuse of sorcery, the sentence is death for those crimes" said the masked man, "and what are you? Here to kill me for it?", "Not at all, on the contrary, I'd like to ask for your assistance on some matters, oh, and don't try using your little string tricks on me, they won't work, I'm immune to magic", "what do you want?", "I need help capturing the Shogun of the Tentou empire", "What is your name?", "Khamsin".

"Miss Feulner, we're inside Belkan airspace" said the helmsman as Ilfriede looked at the window, Theodore entered the bridge and approached the helmsman and told him "Take us down once we approach the capital, don't go into the city, just drop us off on the outskirts".

"we're descending" said L-Elf as he continued to play Cat's Cradle, he looked on as Zorlo and Kanna were busy with what appeared to be smithing.

[GamerKale]

Auroch watched Scarecrow fly into the forest and waited. He figured there were only three ways for things to turn out at this point and he wasn't sure which one he was hoping for. One, Scarecrow finds and kills his father, two, Scarecrow finds and is killed by his father, or three, Scarecrow fails to find his father. Auroch would put money on his father winning though. Between having time to prep the ground and having over a decade's worth of experience surviving Inquisitors he didn't hold out much hope for Scarecrow to win on her own.

The dorms caught fire behind him, he thought about going to help, but he had saved their lives once already in the past 24 hours and decided they should learn to take care of themselves. Besides, he was tired. When Scarecrow came flying back out he noticed two things, one there was no blood on her blades and two, there was a very thin cut that ran across her throat. He made himself faster and caught up with her as she ran towards the school. "I take it a third party intervened?" He asked as he cast a healing spell on her. Warmth rushed over the seemingly minor injury and let her know that while she had previously thought she had very nearly killed Gepetto, she would have died before the blade struck home.

[Zorolo]

Despite the intense heat, Zorlo continued to work on his sword until the human noted that the airship was descending. "Dammit, we only finished one sword," Zorlo stated as he set the finished sword down and fell to his knees. Sweat covered his body as he remained there, the intense heat of the forge having stolen an amount of his strength, looking at the completed work. "Excellent... the form is completely perfect... I love it!" Zorlo stated as he rose and held his new Meteoric Steel sword up before falling onto his back.

Slowly, a puddle of sweat formed around him as he continued to breathe heavily for a few moments. "Tell... Theodore... we'll be... behind soon... I have... one more... sword... to finish. I'll need it... to fight... those things," Zorlo stated with heaved breaths as he pushed his body into a sitting position.

"Kanna, let's get to work on the silver sword now... that should be much less intense..." he stated with a chuckled as he smiled at her.

(The Meteoric Steel Sword: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DpelW3aVPgA/T ... CF1341.JPG )

[kai the pkk]

Tatsumi: ( he soon finds a room as he knocks on the door after several seconds of no answer he walks inside and places his bag down and he walks immediately to the shower after wards he falls onto the bed) ahh feels good... To finally rest ( he eventually passes out although he has the same dream he always has him as a child within the tentou empire and then a girl who takes his hand and drags him around the city although he can't make out this girls face no matte how hard he tries and once the girl calls his name he wakes up) seriously that's so annoying...(he changes into a new set of clothes as he throws on a coat and he walks to the bridge) hmmm were descending? I guess we're there

[nekoryuuha]

The forge shook and the floor shook again as the fires with free detonated until they went out. The Forge and trough sunk back into the floor as the Silver & the soon-to-be sword hilt and core floated to her. "...easy..." she said as a field of heat surrounded her materials. Compared to the meteoric steel, the silver was soft, almost puddy soft as she molded it with her powers. The bars, one by one, came to the core to sheathe it within themselves as the extras overlaid themselves atop their companions. The metal folded and compressed, smoothed and hardened, slimmed and sharpened as she worked on the blade.

In about half the time it took Zorlo to forge his Meteoric Sword, Kanna finished creating the Silver sword and dispersed the heat zone. But then, it was only half finished anyway. This was the hard part now. Her eyes returning to normal, she reached forward to steady the blade with one hand as she used a nail to engrave the necessary runes along its blade. For her, this was the part that could not be rushed, as a mistake meant she'd have to start again from the beginning.

[Zorolo]

Zorlo watched quietly as she slowly inscribed the runes into his silver sword. Grabbing ahold of a bag he had been carrying, the swordsman removed a jacket from within. As he tinkered with the hood and looked it over, he adjusted some of the finely set metallic plates around for comfort. Although he tried not to make much noise, the interlocking plates inside of the jacket didn't tend to agree. Aside from that, Zorlo removed several large pieces of leather and started to sew together some sheathes for his swords. He couldn't very well go carrying them around without a sheathe... that would be bad for the blades.

[Kaori]

"It was an enemy from the past, how are the Students?" Asked Scarecrow as she got up, "They're okay" said Will, he was accompanied by the other Inquisitor's, "The fire originated from headmaster Ibrahim's room" said Lilia, Muscleman and Yuuya's eye's widened, Scarecrow noticed that, "I take it you two know what happened?" she asked suspiciously, "No Ma'am" said Muscleman with a strained expression, "Tell me the truth Sorenstein" said Scarecrow, she sounded irritated, and far more menacing, "I'm sorry Ma'am, we set fire to his bedroom", "You did what?! And who's we?!", "It was me and Mitch Ma'am, we set fire to his bedroom because he reprimanded us for trying to stop him from blowing up a room" announced Yuuya, Scarecrow had a displeased look on her face, "If you two weren't assigned to guard Farmer, I'd have sent you to go after the winds of destruction themselves!" she boomed, She then left to check up on the students rescued from the fire, the other Inquisitor's save Muscleman and Yuuya followed after her, "we're lucky bro" said Muscleman as he turned to Auroch, "Looks like you owe us one for covering you" said Yuuya, "It would have been really bad if she actually sent us after the winds of destruction" added Muscleman.

"This is Theodore" spoke Theodore on the loudspeakers of the airship, "Can everyone please assemble in the mess hall? I'll explain everything once you're all there, thank you" ended the announcement, L-Elf looked to the door and left for the mess hall.

[Zorolo]

"By the old gods," Zorlo complained as he put his breastplate and gauntlets back on before tossing his jacket on. "You'd think these humans weren't in... well, anyway..." Zorlo stated as he finished creating the two sheathes for his swords and slinging them over his back. He quickly sheathed his Meteoric Steel sword before he glanced at Kanna again. "Thank you again for all of this," he said with a smile towards her as he started off. He had things to do... mostly involving somehow helping the Theodore in this suicide mission.

[GamerKale]

Auroch stared at what used to be Ibrahim's room for a minute and then he turned to Yuuya, "No, I don't. You should have told her everything since it couldn't have been the fire I started that caused this." He walked after Scarecrow, although he didn't seem to be in any hurry, and explained while he walked, "If you two jokers had not busied yourselves with stealing his crap you would have noticed that I had set up wards to prevent that fire from doing this very thing. Plus we used an accelerant, namely gasoline, so anything that would have burned in that room would have done so a good while ago. So, all the two of you did was make it so that Scarecrow doesn't bother to look for the real arsonist." When they got to the academy Auroch used magic to get up to where Ibrahim's room used to be and then cast a spell to enhance his ability to see magic and checked to see if his wards had been tampered with or if somebody had just set fires nearby. "I suggest one or both of you go inform Scarecrow of the truth while I try to find evidence of the true arsonist's actions. Tangent, what can you tell me about these Winds of Destruction that seem to have you so petrified?" Auroch asked as he continued his investigation.

Auroch turned to whichever inquisitor was about to leave, "Oh, and I hate being called Farmer. Tell her I would like to see Gepetto's file later so that I can find out what my real name is." He turned back to what he was doing and grumbled, "If it really is Farmer then I am going to go and blow up a freaking farm."

[Kaori]

"The Winds of Destruction are five powerful Sorcerer's who became Terrorists, they kill anybody to achieve their goals, their goal is to ensure the suprema" said a returning Scarecrow, "So you set fire to his room and stole some of his belongings? I'll be checking what you two stole from there later", she added with a visibly annoyed expression, She then turned to Auroch and handed him a file from under her coat, "Take it".

"I thank you all for joining me on this, forgive the choice of words, Suicidal Rescue Mission." said Theodore as everybody looked at him, he wasn't exactly used to talking in front of so many people, he felt his old stage fright acting up, "Our destination is Petropavlovsk Gulag, which is half an hour's walk away from our current position" said Theodore as he opened a map, showing their position, "The plan is this, L-Elf will infiltrate the Gulag ahead of us and look for where Irisdina is being held, we'll give us the location and we'll storm in after him" he added.

[GamerKale]

"Thanks. Oh, and technically they just stole things, I lit the fire." Auroch said absentmindedly as he sat down on a block of scorched wood and opened the file, and made use of his magical eye to read it in spite of the darkness. "Francis von Dracul, aka Gepetto. Holy crap." He closed the file and looked up at Yuuya. "As in the house of Dracul. Bloody hell. I guess that explains his superiority complex. Something tells me all of the family's assets have been seized or otherwise removed." He flipped the file back open and nodded a couple times. "Yep yep, first thing he did, after making his entire unit kill one another was take out the rest of the family, obviously the emperor couldn't let that stand and divvied the assets up. So I guess he's just Francis Dracul now. The house now belongs to... the Feulners, neat. I wonder if Ilfriede will let me walk around it sometime." Auroch slid off the block and slowly drifted down to the ground.

Once they were back at the tents he went back to reading the file and eventually let out a long breath as he flipped a page over. "That is a long and distinguished list of assassinations. Where did you get your start, old man? A unit much like Cerberus, got the monicker because he turned monsters into his puppets, no Incorruptus though, and he's able to manipulate almost a dozen people at once, awesome. Oh, and when he got bored of turning things into dolls he used monofilament wires to slice them and dice them or set up traps to remove heads and/or legs. Wait, what?" He pushed the file away from him and stared at Yuuya, "One one occasion he used the wires to eliminate an Incorruptus after he had finished using it to kill two other Incorruptuses. What the hell?" He placed a finger on the file, "And all of that is in addition to being a Neutral Arm, like me. He just prefers to use puppetry."

He read the file in it's entirety, had another couple of freak out moments, and continued work on his black key project. What's your game here dad? Are you wanting to join those wind guys or- no. He wouldn't care about that, and more importantly he wouldn't stand for being at somebody else's beck and call. At most Gepetto would probably do assassinations for them. What do you want from me Gepetto? Are you just playing with me before you decide to kill me like the rest of the family, do you intend to turn me into another you, or is this really nepotism? When he was done reading he looked up at his in progress black key, it was no longer fuzzy or changing shape and now looked like a sword. "Well, you look right, at a glance, but... I think I'm going to need a better material to use as a base. Speaking of, if I'm going to be going head to head with Gepetto or one of these Winds I'm going to need to improve myself considerably." He threw a rock at Muscleman, "Hey, Muscleman, wake up." He magically yanked the earplugs out of the inquisitor's ears. "Tomorrow you're starting me on a training regimen. I've neglected my physical therapy for too long." Auroch then raised a couple more earthen walls to make a complete little room, made sure there were adequate air holes, and went to sleep.

[kai the pkk]

Tatsumi: ( he grabs iron plated gloves out from his coats pocket as he places them on his hand as they form somewhat bracers on his arms as he walks to the mess hall he listens to Theodore's explanation) so were pretty much just attacking head one as soon as we get the go ahead...I'm okay with that its certainly not the worst idea given the odds...do we have an escape route planned atleast?

[Kaori]

"Yeah, yeah, sure thing bro" muttered Muscleman as he went back to sleep.

"We do, the Airship will come pick us up for a quick escape, this whole plan is depending on the element of surprise for us to spring Irisdina out, so we have to be quick." Theodore replied to Tatsumi.

"This is L-Elf to headquarters, we are approaching Petropavlovsk Gulag" said the Executor to a small radio, "we copy that L-Elf, remember your mission, the rescue of Captain Irisdina Bernhard is second to your true priority", "I understand, May the father of understanding guide me", with that, L-Elf prepared to go talk to Theodore of how he will infiltrate the Gulag.

[nekoryuuha]

"...A suicide mission..." Kanna murmured to herself as she continued Runing the Silver blade Zorlo required for Witcher status. It was fortunate that, for her at least, it was still easy to do while doing other things like walking, or contemplating one's survival. To just simply storm the place without a full, or at least good plan, was foolish at best. But Kanna wasn't too worried about this. At least, not the survival part. No, she was more concerned that Zorlo wouldn't make it back, as his body and weapons represented a good deal of research material & potential.

"...it's done..." Taking hold of the hilt, she ran her hand down the blade, watching carefully as she instilled the runes with Sun, Moon, & Earth magics and say each light up and empower itself, braiding with the others to become stronger then the sum. Letting go of the blade, she floated it to Zorlo, hilt first. "This is...Gestalt... Don't lose her..." She said to him before waiting to see if Theodore had any more to add to these plan-less situation before they left. She was already considering her option for both attack and retreat.

[Zorolo]

(Gestalt: http://preview.turbosquid.com/Preview/C ... Larger.jpg
Calina: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DpelW3aVPgA/T ... CF1341.JPG )

"Gestalt, huh?" Zorlo asked as he spun his silver sword before sheathing it. "I like it, thanks," he stated as he adjusted his armored jacket before drawing his steel sword. "And this sword is named Calina. She'll be a great replacement for Lumina," Zorlo stated as he grabbed one of his long braids and rested his sword against it. With a flash, he sliced one of his braids off and tossed it up in the air, along with his sword, before the two objects switched hands.

With another flash of steel, his other braid came off and the green-haired elf tossed his severed hair to Kanna. "There, you can take that as payment," Zorlo stated as he sheathed the Meteoric Steel Sword. "Anyway, chief, while the Inquisitor goes and scouts, I think I'll make a distraction for you all. After all, of the people here, I'm the most expendable. Either I'll be free of Avalon Academy because I'm dead or because I'll leave when this battle is over. Either way, I don't plan on going back to that gods damned place ever again, so I don't see why you SHOULDN'T or WOULDN"T let me destroy myself to by you all time to plan," Zorlo stated with a cackle.

Grasping the hood on the back of his jacket, he pulled it over his shorter hair and upper face as his eyes glowed beneath it. Resting his hand on his pendant, a spiral of magical energy that revealed sources of magic in the room made him smile. Good, it worked as well.

The Elf walked up towards Luna and bowed his head towards her. "Er... Miss... I wanted to say I'm sorry for being quite rude earlier. I'm going to do what I said I was going to do for this group, so now you know," Zorlo stated with an awkward smile. He'd never been good at this kind of thing. "Still, it was an honor to meet you, miss. Best of luck to you and your associates in helping Theodore," Zorlo stated as he stepped aside and drew his Meteoric sword from his back. "SO, where should I insert myself, or is this a bad time for that kind of intense movement?" Zorlo asked with a chuckle.

[kai the pkk]

Tatsumi: well allright then ( he smiles) I'll be awaiting orders Theodore after all how do you say it??...ummm were Tovarichs right? Or am I using that saying wrong? Anyway suicide mission or not I'm sure everything will be fine granted its super dangerous anyway I got your back