It's the second year since Alice Black and Kanni Merrane had came to Clarissa Institute to learn how to train their abnormal powers. The two, along with Kaleb and Premidas, had overcome the rebirth of Remus and the return of Alice's godfather Gabriel. Perhaps they will over come everything this year with difficult or not...
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Sunday, September 12, 2004
It happened to be snowing on the day where students would return to school to recieve another year of education and homework. The weather had been like winter since the end of August with occansional snow storms that only lasted several minutes. And even in the south suburbs of the city where the wealthy had lived had recieved more snow than any other part of town, including hail that was large enough to crash through car windows. Yet the frozen rain that fell onto earth hadn't bothered an additional car, a Liberty Jeep, that was parked in the driveway of the house that belonged to a Gabriel Black who was known to own only a motorcycle. His godchild, Alice Black, had just recieved her drivers' license early this summer, who was loading several bags into the open trunk of her car, brushing back the no longer red hair. But Alice had colored her hair white, keeping the black roots and had cut it an inch above the shoulders.
Now, the neighbors living next to and around the Blacks' would tell anyone that the two were a normal family with their good and bad days. Truth was that Alice was a shape-shifter, a person who had the ability to take any apperance that he or she wished and had been preparing to go back to Clarissa Institute for another year of learning how to control her powers. Last year had been an horrifying experience that never left Alice fully. The ordeal of fighting against Remus, a powerful Wizard, and just finding out about her godfather was something that might be buried in her for several more years. The shape-shifter continued to keep in touch with Kaleb, Kanni, and Premidas since the end of school but none of them had met since then.
The weather was something that Alice had paid particular and carefull attention, wondering if the smoke and vapor from Gabriel's potion brewing had finally reached the skies to cause some of this weather. He was excited about being able to teach without being hidden, even though he denied it all whenever Alice had asked him. She, on the other hand, was proud to admit that she missed the school terribly. This year would be something special and Alice felt it in her shaking bones filled with excitement to see her friends again. During the summer Themrus had stayed and gone to inform Alice of Kaleb and Premidas, and other several details of what Clarissa had in store for them this year. Abigalle had apparently retired back to the cold climates, recieving a heat stroke during a confrence among the staff had brought the decision of leaving.
The Jeep continued to hum while the engine warmed the entire car for the ride in the snow. It was unusual for the weather of winter to come so early and made Alice wonder about snow days during school, if it had ever happened. The shape-shifter brushed her white hair out of her face to cover the wierd combanation of eye colors she had with a blue tinted pair of glasses before climbing into the front seat behind the steering wheel. The weather might had caused the ice flakes on the window but Alice wouldn't step out of the car for it and instead let the ice melt away slowly while awaiting Gabriel to lock the house and get into the Jeep with her.
Life of a Salesman was playing on the radio that played loudly in the car, making Alice repeat the habit of druming her fingers on the steering wheel. There were several reports of hail and some sun between the song, explaining that this strange weather might end soon. It made the shape-shifter think back to her ordeal last year and wondered if this had anything to do with it or if this was just some abnormal fad of the weather. The radio had just then switched to Breaking the Habit, giving some new beat to the humming car as Alice watched Gabriel step out of the house, locking the front door before jogging over to the Jeep and climbed into the passenger seat. He was slightly nervous about returning to the school.
And he shouldn't have been since Gabriel had taught the rest of the year for Brewing since Brige had retired, or so Themrus and Ulthar had told everyone. The man brushed his black hair, which he had grown longer before closing the door. He was then skimming notes labeled with Animagus, which was someone who could only shift into one animal. Like Gabriel could only shift into a large white dog, something similar to what Alice shifted into mostly. He threw his bag into the back seats asking, "Excited about school starting again?"
"I think after visiting Spain and all sorts it'll be nice to settle in one place close to home. Can you hand me the coffee? It's freezing today." Alice tightened the scarf around her neck before backing the Jeep out of the driveway and onto the seat to make their way to the school. She was very touchy of the lights that were fogged due to the coldness, wheeling through the red lights which weren't patrolled by any police cars or anything. The shape-shifter considered herself at a proffessional of running red lights seeing how this was a new habit of hers that Gabriel wanted to correct before school.
"I heard Clarissa is to give the students some new privledges this year such as trips out into the city every now and then," sniffled Gabriel, drinking from his mug before switching the radio to a weather report. "But not anymore maybe because of this damned weather we've been getting all month."
"What joy." The shape-shifter wasn't paying attention to her godfather in the seat beside her but rather the directions in her head to the school. Cars and buses were now carrying students to school, whether it was Clarissa Institute or another. The wheel moved smoothly under her hands, her nails now decorated with small diamond snow flakes to look nice for the first day of school. Alice wore a white peacoat, dark denim jeans, and a warm thin-strap shirt today. She wanted to enjoy her first day back and see her friends once again. Hopefully she wouldn't have to be reminded of the ordeal last year.
The white strands were blown of Alice's face, directing the car onto another street where the school could be seen, growing closer and closer to them. It felt like a savior to Alice, and a great pleasure to have this abnormal power most found to be wierd and disgusting. Next to her Gabriel was sitting up to examine the school, his face cracking into a grin directed at his godchild who blew one more strand out of her face before slowing the Jeep down. Several students could be recognized by Alice while some could be recognized as new students who would soon be sorted into their houses. Mrs. Taint could be seen at the gate talking to parents as their children walked about talking to other students.
"Here we are." Alice had parked the Jeep inside of the iron gates along with others, and hadn't seen Kanni or the two boys yet. Staff were already unloading the trunk of luggage and charmed the bags to walk inside the building to Alice's room while some walked to Gabriel's classroom. Many students were walking around the courtyard, trying to get to know another student before the sorting started, something that the shape-shifter was looking forward to for once. Brad could be seen talking to a group of his own friends, showing off some Ipod as Issac could be seen flirting with girls. Alice blew another strand of her white hair from her face, chuckling, "Always with the ladies first and then school later."
"Did you say something?" asked Gabriel, looking at her from the front of the car before walking over to her and saying, "I've got to go and find Clarissa before the sorting starts. You stay here and get organized, alright?"
The man was now walking into the school, being tailed by Themrus who waved his hands in a friendly manner. For a reason the staff had seemed more prepared this year than last year, perhaps the reason was because of Remus's great return. The shape-shifter looked around before entering the school after Brad and his group of friends, listening to his ranting of how he would complete this year. Several of his friends looked back at Alice repeatidly, their eyes wide with excitement that followed Alice until she took a turn in the corridor to the food court wanting to eat something before the sorting.
But before the shape-shifter even walked through the food court doors she could already hear people chatting behind it, hearing her name in several sentences. This was her treatment from last year from the ordeal and people were beginning to wonder if anything like it would happen again. Perhaps not with the secret plans Clarissa had for them all, but it all meant the same to Alice who would rather die than go through anything like it once more. People behind the doors wanted to see themselves as heroes and in their places rather than anyone else. Alice didn't actually care for what the person wanted, she just wanted never to be near anything like what had happened before. For several weeks after school ended she felt contaminated to find out that other adults who were gifted had known of the great return of Remus, soon wanting Alice's opinon on it all.
Whether Alice wanted to believe it herself or not, it was bizaar for some girl to be heard by her on the other side of the door stand up on what sounded to be a table and yell out a charm, directed at the doors which flew off of their hinges as Alice stood where she had been. Students yelped and moved higher on the chairs away from the door while older students leaned in to ask the shape-shifter some questions. The girl was looking down at the doors with tears, hearing Alice dismissing herself saying, "I did nothing to those doors!"
Then she had left the food court to walk down several corridors with her hands now in her coat sleeves, feeling slightly colder since the windows had been left open. The scarf around Alice's neck didn't seem to help much unlike her coat. Statues wailed for some sort of mink or coat, their structure cakes in frost. Weather this year was strange and filled with hail, snow, droughts and anything else that wasn't normally here. Maybe Alice had been right that Gabriel's brewing had effected the skies above them all or if it just was a fad of the weather. Several students who walked passed Alice where nearly covered in cloaks, their teeth chattering as words came out about some of their classes. The students where eager to get sorted apparently, hearing that Clarissa had some surprise for them all.
Finally, after having to walk around nearly the entire school Alice hadn't even found Kaleb, Premidas or even Kanni. She soon decided to try outside in the courtyard again and find Clarissa to be welcomed by the woman once more. Students were too walking outside to say good-bye to their parents before one year of entire school actually started. The shape-shifter had followed them all out, surprised to find Brad tailing her as if he expected her to find Kanni. Outside was crowded with kids who were watching their parents drive out of the iron gates as some drove in. Clarissa was indeed standing by the gate with Ulthar discussing matters with parents in a proffessional manner unlike how the parents were demanding for some explanation to some odd question. The shape-shifter felt much better to see Clarissa once more but was still looking for Kaleb, wondering if he was in his own room. A small group of girls shoved past Alice with their luggage who were apparently pack rats and daughters of a group of wealthy families.
"Verae." The word made Alice coil her hands into fists to find a girl who walked past her carry a grin. This would be her treatment for last year so Alice might as well get used to it. It took several more minutes for Alice to walk back into the school, wandering around for Kaleb once more and wondered where he had gotten to. It wasn't like him to just wander off for so long. But the shape-shifter had been wrong about where Kaleb was, finding him standing by the window, looking up at the cieling. The green tint on his face were now fading away as the green in his brown hair stood out more, reminding Alice that she had done that herself. His eyes lured over to where Alice stood and with saracasim said with a toothy grin, "And after ten times of walking around here I was wondering when you'd find me."
There had been no words, seeing how the shape-shifter ran up to Kaleb embracing him to be lifted several inches off of the marble floor by him to hear, "And look what you've done your hair! No longer the same red-head as last year that has nearly conquered her classes?"
"You dumbass, you're seriously a dumbass for not coming over to visit when we weren't in Rome or Spain. Gabriel had a sudden lust for traveling since he couldn't before seeing how he's been wanted by the authorities," said Alice, as Kaleb brushed the hair out of her face with his small amount of powers. "The coloring of the hair was my sudden lust just like getting my drivers' license!"
"We heard about the license from the portraits hanging in the school which always pick up some sort of gossip from somewhere. We've also have a new teacher, Ms. Venglik, who'll be teaching us fortune telling and everything in that department. Then there is also Mr. Gerritson and he'll be teaching us Cureology, the study of curing magic and everything like that," said Kaleb, looking at the students walking by and then to Alice. "Premidas has been eager if anything to see you and especially Kanni once more. He's been storming through here demanding that if Kanni wants to show up she'd better do it properly."
"Got off at the wrong side of the bed I gather?" asked Alice, loosening the scarf around her neck and felt a warmer draft. "And I haven't seen Kanni either so you can't really blame Premidas about that one..."
"Come on and let's go find Premidas or Kanni ourselves so we can get seats together at the sorting. It's been havic here since this morning." Kaleb locked his arm with Alice and the two walked down the corridor. Too much here reminded her of the ordeal, of the way that she felt contimated whenever she looked at herself from a mirror. Maybe this year nothing of the sort would happen again. Maybe this year everything would go as planned by Clarissa with no surprises that she didn't know herself.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Snow drippled from the skies as a girl tousled a strand of mild lilac purple (color like this font! ^^) hair that was streaked with white and silverish strands. A white braid hung by her ear and her green violet flecked eyes were closed as her face was tilted towards the fall of wet snowflakes. The sky was dark and gloomy, the trees bare and the air crisp with a chilling breeze. Before her stood a large structure and as soon as she opened her eyes all reality came flooding back.
"Clarissa Institute...Here I am again." the girl smiled and tugged the ends of her light blue coat over her hips clad in huip-hugger faded jeans that clung tightly to her slender legs. Her feet were comfotably encased in thick white K. Swiss shoes stripped with baby blue. Bags hung slun over her shoulder and a few suitcases leaned against her leg.
"Kanni, we're going to be going then," Mrs. Merrane called to her daughter. Kanni turned around, quickly fixing her sloippily-tied bun. She had awoken at three and had driven all the way here; it was now almost *eight*. She sighed and rubbed her right eyes sleepily. "Okay mom. I'll call you as soon as I settle in, okay? You'll come visit sometime too?"
"Of course," Mr. Meranne assured as he slipped back into the silver suburban's driver seat, blowing warm air into his hands. Mrs. Merrane pressed a styrofoam mug of hot coffe into Kanni's light purple gloved hands and brushed a kiss on her cheek. "Be sure to call us as soon as you can! Even if we're not home, we'll call back if you leave your number, okay honey? You'll be alright?"
"Ye-es mom." Kanni groaned, pulling the beanie-cap down over her ears. "I'll be perfectly fine. I was last year, wasn't I?" Mrs. Merrane got a distant look in her eyes and Kanni quickly smiled.
"Mom, I'll be fine. I'm going to be sixteen in a few days, remember? Don't worry."
"Okay honey. I love you." Mrs. Merrane climbed into the car which quickly pulled away and wheeled back down the street, kicking up slush and snow behind it at hollering students. Kanno turned back to the huge structure again before her. It had tall towers across from each other that were conjoined by elegant arches, each dropping a thick curtain of white marble and red bricks down to splash on a large set of aburn wooden twin doors.
Flags were battered mercilessly around in the wind high up on the towers, and Kanni knew the building rounded into a circle with the courtyard in the middle, and the gardens out here. She grabbed her suitcases, still not yet daring to use her powers to try and make them fly by themselves. She made her way through the snow, dragging her pack behind her, and managed to clamber up the stairs where Clarissa, Ulthra, and Mrs. Taint were bellowing at students and giving lectures.
"Ah! If it isn't our little Miss Merrane!" Mrs. Taint greeted warmly and then frowned at the suitcases Kanni heaved along. "Why aren't you practicing your powers on carrying them?" she demanded. Kanni slightly blushed.
"I've practiced as you said at home, but things haven't been going too well. I have to admit I am glad to be back here where you can train and supervise me again, Mrs. Taint."
The old woman cocked a brow but seemed satisfied with the honest answer. "Then let me give you a hand there..." She waved her hands at the suitcases which suddenly lifted up and trailed behind her when she walked.
"Thanks!" Kanni hollered over her shoulder as she pushed through the new students into the marble lobby. But she was oblivious to a little cloud that followed her into the building, hovering over her head as she took a long sip of her steaming coffee, glad to have the warmth slide down her throat and burn to every finger tip. "Look!" a voice suddenly gasped as a little plump red-head pointed at Kanni with wide eyes. She scowled at him until she felt a little drop on her nose.
Her brows dropped in frustration. The cloud was circling over her head and began to rain. Then it poured. "Argh! Damn thing! This is the first day of school for crying out loud!" The cloud rumbled with miniature thunder and rained harder, becoming dark and black. Kanni took off, dropping her coffe into a trash can as she raced through the crowd of confused students, trying to see if she could loose the little cloud darkening her day--literally.
She looked over her shoulder to see her suitcases were keeping up well, but as was the cloud. She giggled as she spun around the corner, wide eyes and whispers following her. BAM! She ran right into a boy with snow white hair. They both fell to the floor and the little cloud resumed its place hovering over Kanni's head. The boy rubbed his ruby red eyes and flashed a smile when he saw her, showing off his lengthened canine (tooth used for cutting, not dog!) teeth. He hard lightly sun tinted skin and wore a black sweater and dark jeans. A tight leather string rung around his neck carrying what seemed to be a small ring carved of white stone.
He grabbed Kanni's elbows and helped her up. She brushed herself off and then looked up, a smile breaking onto her face as she threw her arms around the boy, now totally oblivious to the cats and dogs raining down on her from the angry conjured cloud. "Prem!" Premidas pushed away from her. "Uh, no offense or anything, but I'm cold enough without being wet!"
"Oh, sorry." Kanni sent a batting hand at the cloud and concentrated a minute, pushing everything else from her mind. All noise and movement froze for a fleeting moment and the milthacti was quite satisfied to find the cloud gone when her concentration broke. She turned again to Premidas. He was only a little damp.
"So? How have ya been?" Kanni asked, adjusting the bags higher onto her shoulder and checked to make sure that the suitcases were still flying behind her.
"Good." The animagus held up a key with a green vine as a key-chain holder. "I took the liberty to pick up your dorm key and number. They now use the keys to get into the lock before you make a code for it, and you have to give them back when you're done. The desk it packed full! You would have had to wait forever!"
Kanni grinned, but then suddenly Prem's smile dropped to a frown. "Where have you been? I've barely heard from you!"
Kanni turned her gaze to her feet. "Been having a few troubles with my powers...you know, keeping them in check. And we went to my grandparents' this summer too. Sorry. And I mean it too, I really am. I wished I could have been availiable more often."
"Aw, don't give me that face!" Premidas growled but then hugged her tightly. "C'mon, let's get your stuff up in the room first. I bet Alice is already here. I saw Gabriel earlier today so she must be. We've got a few new teachers too, but you'll soon see. The sorting is later on, so let's go."
Kanni followed Premidas to her room which, surpisingly, was the same one she had last year. "Wow. It even still has the soda stain from when I dropped coke on the tiles," Kanni examined the darkened white between the sea-green tiles of the bathroom.
"And I bet it still has some of the blood..." she murmured.
"Hm?" Prem asked as he picked Kanni's siutcases from their hover and set them down on the floor.
"Nothing." Kanni let her bags drop onto the bed and she pulled the beanie-cap from her head, tossing it into the closet. She removed her thick coat to where it was just a skin-tight wool sweater. Fashionable yet still comfy and warm; just how she liked it. Premidas's eyes widened momentarily. "You've grown since I last saw you. Oh, but you're sixteen now, right?"
Kanni rose an amused brow. "No. I will be tomorrow." she answered. "So...how is my snake?"
"Um...er...good! Very good. Not always in the best mood and made it very clear that as soon as you arrived that he was to live with you again but..." his lifted a bandaged hand and peeled away the cloth, revealing two small punctures in the back of his hand, "A...charming snake."
Kanni laughed. "Sorry. He's just cranky sometimes. Even with me too."
Prem rolled his eyes. He took the lock from her door and tossed it to her. "Code." Kanni typed it in quickly, using the same code as last year, and then fastened it back to her door when she stepped outside and closed it behind her. Premidas pocketed the key. "I'll take this back for you later, okay?"
"Okay. Hey, I have to go to the bathroom real quick, do you mind? Been in a car for the past five hours!"
"I'll wait right here." the animagus replied smoothly, his eyes fondly following the milthacti as she shoved through the amassing students towards the bathrooms. He grinned. He was so glad she was back, and so glad Alice was too. But he couldn't show it too much or Kaleb would make little faces at him. (lol) His red eyes grazed over the students, catching a few girls' stares and hearing them whisper his name, all smiling when he shot them a quick curious look. He shook his head. This wasn't gong to change this year, was it?
Suddenly he felt a quick contriction in his heart. It was so sudden and so fast his knees didn't even have enough time to buckle. He grabbed the wall to steady himself, his eyes wide and wondering what the sudden pain was. He felt a bit of sweat bead his brow but wiped it away. He suddenly got the urge to transform into the albino lion, but the urge only made him decide against it. Why did he want to change so eagerly? To show off? No. He never wanted to show off like that before. He shrugged to himself and pushed the feeling away, lightly smiling again when Kanni came huffing and puffing back up to him.
"It's crazy out there!" she gasped, catching her breath. "They'll all be lucky if they don't see or feel any of my frantic powers today...cause I have a feeling it's gonna be a hell of a hecktic time!"
"Oh, it will be, you can count on that. So, want to hunt for our prey now?"
Kanni thought a moment. Oh! He meant finding Alice and Kaleb. "Strange wording, I must say, but I'm all for it. Afterall, I have to apologize for them too...-"
"-here's a hint: don't get a little cloud to get them all wet when you hug them. It might help if they stay dry and warm." Premidas laughed and Kanni playfully punched his shoulder.
"Come on before the new girls all come after you." Kanni said eyeing a group of new students all staring at Kanni and Prem with narrowed eyes.
"Good idea," the animagus gulped and suddenly jerked her around the corner, the two taking off, running from all the suspicious and watchful gossiping eyes.
(nice long one for ya! ^^)
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"We can't even find our own prey..." The shape-shifter was seated on the low pillars that made up the decoration in the courtyard, awaiting for some arrival from Kanni or Premidas. The weather was still chaos with the snow turning and twisting into something similar to a tornado or a sand storm that Alice craved for other than this. Students didn't mind the snow as much as Alice seemed to be, shifting to the other side of the pillar and back to avoid major dosages of snow on her. Soon enough her face felt cold and wet that matched the condition of her clothes. It was too cold to do anything, too cold to walk inside and face all the questions the students would have for Alice. The students' stares made her misrable enough and finally removed herself from the pillar to find several boys gawking at her. Alice was already disliking this all too much and just wanted to run into Kanni or Premidas. And the Kaleb had walked over to where she was, throwing her mittens along with the key to her room, "You'll be told all about that key during the sorting. Gabriel even has to make a speech, fancy that. That'll give some kids fright within the first day..."
"Too true." Alice didn't feel much like talking, pushing back a thick wad of her silverish hair behind her ears, feeling slightly more misrable than before. The attention was greater than it was than the first time Alice had even came here to this school and it resulted in plenty of ways. The snow still turned and fell to the ground only to be crushed under the shoes of students who walked here. Alice could still only recognize a few from last year, guessing names to the other students whom she had never had a class with. Kaleb leaned on the same pillar the shape-shifter had sat on until he came, looking up at the sky with boredrom. His head had then lifted, flashing Alice a toothy grin as he sneered, "Guess our prey won't be found until the speeches. It's almost time to go Alice so let's go grab a few seats and wait their. They're sure to meet us there."
"Oh, alright." It was disappointing not to find Kanni or Premidas and Kaleb was right about that they were sure to find each other in the assembly room. The two moved away from the pillars and began to walk inside the building, already feeling the coldness that roamed through the corridors. Students had seem to take account that the assembly was about to take place, walking inside and to the room where Clarissa could be heard shrilling at the top of her lungs at what seemed to be Gabriel, meerly looking back at the woman from the front. Alice had tried to grab the attention of her godfather but Kaleb had been moving her forward to stand next to a wall seeing how most of the seats were being saved or were filled. The shape-shifter locked her arm with Kaleb's, brushing some of his hair out of his face after watching Clarissa watch her own son with an excited quiver in her lip.
Soon enough the entire room had filled up with great extent, children sending more curious looks at Alice and Kaleb, whose eyes skimmed the crowd for Kanni or Premidas. It was starting to get fustrating without them until Clarissa tapped the microphone and then began the long speech that seemed to draw more attention through every word, "Good morning ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to another year of this Institute that helps anyone with the gift to control and use their powers to full extent. This year has been prepared for the unthinkable and a few more rules have been added by myself and the panel here which will be sorting the new ones out soon. To the elder students about fifteen of age. You all will be allowed trips into the city for limited time during limited periods. If you dare to use your powers in the city we will expell you straight away.
"As for the younger students there will be rules for you to follow too. Same as the elders. The main rule you all must caution will be that if any of you dare to use your powers against another student in offense I will take away your powers to a certain extent of time. I must come down hard on you all to prevent our...erm, mistake I shall put it. The rumors you will hear around here are true about Remus's return, but only you can believe it yourself.
"We've all be saved from a world of complete pain and misery by four students whose names will remain secert. If I hear one more word of this I will suspend you from powers, understood? Grand! We also have two new teachers here who will be treated with the upmost respect!" Clarissa turned to direct the attention to a scrawny woman who stood up, "This is Ms. Coazar who will be teaching fortune reading and among that topic."
Another teacher stood, this time a man who bowed lowly as Clarissa continued, "And this is Mr. Bibbs who will be teaching Cureology. Surely none of you will be getting in their hair so we'll have a few words from our staff and the sorting shall then begin!"
"It's amazing now how much they've improved the rules." The speech dragged on afterward for soem time, and then the sortings came. Only a few were sorted into the same house as Kaleb and Alice who continued to skim through the crowd for their two friends. Surely they were in this room and might meet when departing to their rooms. Students were now leaning on the edge of their seats to watch the last sortings, then shooting up from their chairs to exit the assembly room to either go to the foodcourt or to go to their own rooms. They had today free and classes would only be thirty minutes tomorrow for the new students to find out where they needed to go. The shape-shifter was still given attention to by girls who narrowed their eyes at her to find Alice locking her arm with Kaleb while braiding a strand of her white hair.
Finally, when everyone else had left in the room, some large group stayed instead, Kaleb walked Alice out and waved to the portraits that sent excitment into the passing crowds through their cheers. He had been alone in this place for the entire summer with Premidas and Alice hadn't even tried to meet up with him. It wasn't Gabriel's fault and Alice would never blame him after what had happened last year.
"Oops!" Someone's shoulder shoved into Alice's intently, causing the girl to trip over herself and onto Kaleb who steadied her. What luck, it was Brad. "Hey! It's our Verae! Seen any old and powerfull wizards lately in your dreams trying to take over your mind?"
BAM! Alice's fist had just then grazed across Brad's cheek, watching him fall on the hard marble floor with a loud noise. A crowd had just then surronded him as a group of Brad's friends attempted to help him up, but the glare that Alice sent them told them not to. The principle's son, however, had simply watched Alice with wide eyes and a smirk, sneering, "Don't go too hard on him or else he'll start crying and I'm not going to waste time on him."
"Nah, he'll be too numb to cry if anything..." hissed the shape-shifter, watching Brad come to his feet and point at her, "She's an absolute freak! She's trying to bring Remus back and kill Kanni herself! Can't you see that she's trying to kill us all? Last year was a coverup for all of those lies Clarissa has been telling us!"
Another fist from Alice swung at Brad, grazing against his other cheek to watch him fall back into the crowd, feeling more steamed than ever. This wasn't even against the rules, this was only brawling. Kaleb still remained where he was, his eyes focousing on the crowd as if he had seen Kanni or Premidas, listening to Alice who yelled, "Fine then! I guess I am Remus who is trying to kill you right now! So get out of my way before I get angry!"
"Our prey has found us..." The remark came from Kaleb, signaling that Kanni and Premidas were watching from the crowd yet Alice didn't seemed to hear him, coiling her hands into fists as she inhaled several deep breaths while watching Brad stand up and walk past Alice, tailed by his friends as Alice followed him. She wouldn't take this shit this year, this year the truth of last year would be told by someone other than gossiping students.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
"And by the way, Brad, it was me who housed Remus. Not Alice," Kanni hissed at him when he walked by and his eyes shot up to meet hers. His cheek was scathed and the edge of his lips slightly bleeding, his eyes flitting back towards the ground as he shoved away. "Aw, how sweet. He's mad Alice will kill you," Prem mocked in a high voice. Kanni shot him an irritated look.
"Not if Alice kills him first, or I will!" the milthacti growled. She would never forget the dreams...the dreams where she witnessed her soul fighting against Remus's control. She would never forget the battle that put her in such a weak mental physical state it made her sick to even think of trying to fight off any other intruder now. Her soul was drained and tired, and Mr. Ulthra had said it would take quite a while for her soul to regain regular strength and grow into the hole Remus left in her quilted patches of re-incarnated wizards she was made up of. It was all a really confusing concept she herself couldn't understand, so she didn't even bother to ponder now.
Especially not now since Alice scampered up and jolted her from her thoughts with an breath-taking hug. "Argh! What are you trying to do? Kill me?" Kanni wriggled from Alice's arms and took a deep breath. Alice grinned but then put both hands on her hips.
"Kanni Merrane, where the hell have you been? I barely heard anything from you!" she demanded.
"I see you've colored your hair," Kanni observed, trying to change the subject. Alice rose a brow but her gaze held firm.
"Okay, okay...Fact is, my powers have been acting up lately and I was gone to my grandma's for a long time...I have to say, I'm really glad to be back again where I can get some professional help. Once, while I was cooking I was practicing my powers...I tried to make the water pour itself into the pot and instead it turned into a lizard and chased my mom up the front yard tree. Then I got a lecture from dad about my powers: he says I can't use them anymore out of school perimeter. And by Clarissas's lecture, I guess she really enforces it."
"What?!" Premidas exclaimed. "How the hell are you supposed to get better if you can't practice at home? You know, sometimes figuring out how your powers work on your own will stay with you much longer than anyone trying to teach it to you. And it's not like we have another milthacti around to train you either. Most of them, especially in the olden days, they and Varae's were mercilessly killed because the people feared their uncontrolled power so much."
"Gee, thanks for the lesson, Mr. History." Alice mumbled as she hugged Prem as well. He tousled a strand of her white hair and then touched his own.
"So Alice has finally joined the new fad! White hair is in!" he joked. "By the way, congrats on how you handled Brad! I would have done it a loooooong time ago, and actually have, but you know Clarissa....she treats me like her own son and grounded me for a month!" Premidas shot Kaleb a glance and the boy grinned.
"Yup," he agreed. "It was quite funny."
"Hey, Prem, why don't you ever go home during the summer or on holidays?" Alice suddenly asked. Kaleb stiffened as Premidas's eyes steeled over like ice. He tossed his head to one side. "What makes you think it's any of your business?" he snarled. Alice was too taken aback by his sudden mood to retort anything, and Kanni bit her tongue so not to. Thing is, she had often wondered about the same thing. Quickly changing the subject she went up and hugged Kaleb too.
"Nice to see you again, principal's pet," she smirked.
"You too, smart ass," he shot back with a chuckle. Kanni cocked her brow but didn't say anything. Alice was twirling a strand around a finger.
"Still getting used to my new look," she admitted.
"I liked the firey-haired girl better. She looked a lot more tough," Kanni jested.
"And I liked the little timid milthacti better, that didn't mess with people."
"Timid? Since when was I timid!?"
Alice laughed. "Ah, I'm just joking. Hey, I'm starved! Let's go eat."
"Me too...I haven't eaten since three!"
"Three?" Kaleb echoed.
"Yup. I'll tell y'all on the way." They strode down the slightly clearing halls as Kanni told them of her days and the long cold car ride over here. They each added a bit of their own journey in, but there wasn't really much exciting compared to what was bound to happen here. And even though Kanni sensed it was on all their minds, no one mentioned about what happened here last year. No doubt it would come back to haunt them, and no doubt they'd have to deal with some jack-ass students this year too.
The food court was rather empty. Most kids were about the school, trying to navigate their ways to all the areas. Kanni ordered herself a casadilla and scanned the room while the worker left to go get it for her. Many new little students reminded herself much of herself when she first came here. But she hoped they would find good friends as quickly as she had, that they would be as fortunate.
Then a familiar and dreaded face locked onto her. It was Penny's. So she was coming here too. The girl had short dirty blonde hair and really pale skin, her eyes bright but also steely. A frown was set on her face and she was wearing a reddish robe-looking gown. "Ah. Look who dared to come back. Our little thief. Here to take our powers again and make yourself stronger?" she hissed in a whisper loud enough so her friends and Kanni could hear. Kanni narrowed her eyes.
The ground under Penny suddenly wrenched up like a carpet and fell back perfectly into place. But Penny landed straight on her back, letting out a yowel of pain and anger. Satisfied Kanni turned her attention back to the warm casadilla held out to her, letting the aroma of melted cheese and chicken sink into her nose as she paid. Premidas shot a look to Penny who was yelling complaints and then looked at her. "Looks like you got pretty good control to me," he commented as he ordered a small package of chicken bits.
Kanni's cheeks slightly reddened. "Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't. That's how it's always been, Prem. Just I've found out the powers have a tendancy to do what I command more often if I'm mad at the time. Even better when I'm furious."
Premidas leaned on the counter, a sly grin lifting the ride side of his lips.
"So don't make me mad, animagus." Kanni flicked pinched his cheek. "You won't like me when I'm mad."
"Ha, ha, Kanni, ha, ha," Premidas rolled his eyes sarcastically and rubbed his cheek.
Kanni took a big bite of her casadilla when she spotted another face. Brad's again. What? Was he stalking her or something? His eyes weren't on her though. They were fixed on Issac and another one of his friends whom he seemed to be in conversation with. But Issac's eyes, for a fleeting moment, flitted towards Kanni and Alice. Her green violet-flecked eyes caught his and he quickly lowered his gaze, turning his attention back to Brad where they sat at their booth.
Kanni dissmissively shook her head. The little new-years scuttled about, thier books protectively clenched in their arms as if somone would steal them. Pf! As if! As if anyone would want an extra text book! But I was one of those little helpless youngins' just last year, she reminded herself. Yes...just ladt year....And so much can happen in 'just' a year, can't it? She turned her attention back to Alice. Oh, the Verae was different all right. Weren't they all now though? Surely.
But the girl still had the violet eye. A memory that would never leave her--a scar that would never leave her and always remind of of Remus when ever she looked in the mirror. And Remus was also to thank for leaving Kanni's soul so weak and right now so vulnerable. It would take years to build up her power and stability again...All thanks to him.
"Premidas!" Alice's voice broke Kanni's thoughts. Alice was holding Prem up, who seemed to have fallen limp in her arms. He was breathing heavily and sweat trickled down the side of his face. Finally he braced his feet against the floor and pushed up, grabbing the counter and steadied himself, pushing Alice's hands away. "I'm fine," he growled, wiping the sweat away with his sleeve.
"Are you sure?" Kanni whispered and rest a hand on his shoulder. He shrugged it off.
"Yes, I'm sure!" he spat. Alice shot Kanni a confused look which Kanni returned with a shurg. Was there something that went wrong? She scrutzinized Kaleb's face for answers, surely he, Prem's closest friend, would know about this? He looked a bit worried and his hands were balled to fists, but his eyes held nothing. He looked at her and smiled reassuringly, but Kanni wasn't convinced. "Okay, are we all about ready then?" Premidas's cheery voice surprised Kanni, but she then crossed her arms and lightly smiled. Of course. Only he, Premidas, could have just experienced something, make his friends worry, and then minutes later turn around and act as if nothing was wrong. And he was a very good actor at that.
(it's fun to be writing as Kanni and Prem again. u kno, tis weird, but sometimes I catch myself thinking about them *all* as if they were real ppl that i kno. ^^;; mebbe I'm going crazy. ^^)
Posted at 01:28 am by Twinkle_Star
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Most of it was being dimissed easily by Kaleb and Premidas who continued to eat. Alice kept throwing Kanni curious looks about the two. It wasn't normal for someone to crash down like that, especially for Premidas. The shape-shifter couldn't eat anything now that she was thinking so hard on this. There was something wrong already, right on the first day they came back. Students didn't seem to notice except for Issac whose eyes kept fleeting over to their table from next to Brad. They would be planning some way to get Alice back now for their little scuffle. During the entire lunch Alice couldn't eat and listen to their conversation, her eyes wandering through the crowd. There was still something she hadn't told them yet that Gabriel had been debating over with her; He wanted her exchange over to another school to forget last year. Gabriel didn't want Alice to remember anything from last year and this might be her final week if Alice couldn't compromise with her godfather.
"Alice?" Kaleb's voice drew her attention back into the real world, raising her head up to level with Kaleb's who had been handing Kanni a drink. The shape-shifter lightly smiled and leaned back, drawing another seat up to rest her feet on, trying to pretend everything was alright. Kaleb didn't looked too convinced, his eyes fleeting over to Issac's table, watching him and whispering, "What the hell does this kid want already?"
"He's been watching us for some time now too," said Kanni, tousling with a strand of her purple-lilac hair before finishing off her lunch. "Been talking or whispering to Brad too...Probaly looking for revenge on Alice."
"Haha," sneered Alice sarcasticly, crossing her arms across her chest. "He deserved it all flat out too if you want my honest opinon on this all. The smart ass thinks he can get away with anything, thinking that I wanted to kill everyone with Remus. Thinking that I was going to kill-"
Her jaw seemed to keep shut then, remembering the painful subject, then shooting up from her seat and storming out of the food court. There came another touchy subject with Gabriel wanting to exchange her to another school, but it'll be something that Alice alone would tell. To come back was even a bad idea for her in the first place. To even be alive wasn't supposed to happen. Alice was supposed to be dead! The shape-shifter had brushed it all aside, turning into the corridor where she could remember falling out of the window to prevent Lori from finding what she wanted. The scars from it had never healed yet, emotionally and physically. All Alice could think about was how Kaleb would be thinking of her when she finally told them everything that had happened over the summer during the traveling. Most of it was even kept secert to Gabriel until he found out on his own one night when a fired had started in their own house.
"Alice! Jesus, must you run off like that?" It was Kaleb, walking down the hall with a slight frown and steely eyes. "What the hell makes you think that we don't want to know about whatever happened during the summer anyway? Nightmares perhaps?"
"Very funny Mr. Agretto, very funny but no one is laughing," retorted Alice. "And for your information nothing is wrong with me! I just had a stomach ache, that's all!"
"For someone who sneaks out so much you're a pretty bad liar," he said, leaning against the wall and watched Alice, "And what makes you think you've gone through worse? Kanni was housing Remus, Premidas and I were just there watching it all from a point that was unexplained to us at the time."
"I had dreams and visions about it Kaleb! And they weren't just normal ones!" yelled Alice, her face constricted in confusion and pain. "He would always be standing over me, waiting for me to wake up but I never could. I still felt him in my head, building up the same energy that he wanted last year. I...I-I also have another..." Alice raised her hand at the paintings and all of them had fallen off of the walls with shrieks as the glass windows bursted. "...power. It only happens when I'm angry or thinking about Remus. It's why Gabriel was going to send me to another school to forget all of this. B-but I couldn't leave you all..."
For several minutes Kaleb looked horrified, staring down at the ground. He couldn't add anything to this, seeing how Alice wasn't even supposed to be here. Finally, he dared to ask, "That doesn't give me the answer I wanted. Why aren't you talking to Kanni or I? Does last year not mean anything to you? We all went through it Alice! Not just you!"
"What makes you think I don't know that!?" demanded Alice, feeling her temper rise steeply with Kaleb. "I was the one who would've been killing all of those people! I would've been hated and I was hated! People only look at me and call me Verae, or think I'm going to kill them!"
"That's not what we think because we know the truth Alice! We knew about Gabriel, about Remus, about everything before anyone else!" There was a moment of silence after Kaleb who had been watching Alice slide down to her knees against the wall, yelling, "If you think I don't know that then leave! It's not last year, I'm worried about this year! I can't handle another possession, I just can't so don't you understand!? It's not easy being a Verae and worrying about any intruders of your mind! You need to be on constant alert!"
"And constantly ignore that your friends are here to talk to you?" asked Kaleb, looking hurt but was ignored by Alice. "Gabriel can exchange you, I don't care but it's your call Alice. Not his, not mine, nor Kanni's but it's your call."
"I can't! I honestly can't understand why you don't listen to me! This whole entire school is in danger every minute that I'm here!" the shape-shifter had been twirling a strand of hair around her finger, thinking more delicatly, "And I can't kill any of you..."
"That's what all of this has been about?" The answer Kaleb recieved was a tearful nod from Alice who remained where she was. This year wouldn't be much different, but all she could do was hope that the precautions Clarissa had took were strick enough to prevent an intruder from coming in with the intent to kill or hurt. And maybe Alice's power wouldn't collide with herself once more, hopefully not this year.
Kaleb had been standing there watching the windows rebuild themselves and the paintings hover to their normal placing with a wave of Alice's hand. The power would destroy or heal, something that he was frightened of himself. To have two powers wasn't something to cheer about for it was serious. If anyone's power collided with another it meant serious chaos. Or perhaps this was normal for the maturarty of a Verae to have two powers. To prepare themselves for another possession maybe, or to give the next possessor more power when in control. For anyone's point of view it was either frightening or disgusting. He could then finally talk, "Last year is something else but this year has nothing to do with it......"
"Easy for you to say seeing how you're no Verae. I've always hated myself, how I am and everything about my powers..." whispered Alice to him. "People of my family haven't even sent cards for my birthday, more like hate letters last year and I haven't seen any of them since last year."
There was nothing more for Alice to say, leaning against the wall and watching the students through the fixing windows. Kaleb had then walked over to her, embracing the girl. It would be hard this year, maybe too hard for anyone to get through.
Posted at 05:51 am by Winged-Horror
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Thursday, September 16, 2004
Kanni turned around and stifled a groan, tears brimming her eyes but she had long since learned to hold them back. Remus was her fault. It was her fault that Alice felt so scared all the time...She turned back around the corridor and headed into the food court, rejoining Premidas and wiping away all signs of sadness. "And? Where'd they go?" the animagus asked, slupring loudly through his straw.
"Oh, just some private talking, that's all. They'll be back in a while," Kanni lied. Remus. How she hated him. He deserved much worse than to die! Much, much worse... Just think about it. She had brought him in here, and she had him living within her--a part of her-- for all her life up until last year. And now, as a result, Alice has two powers along the side. Maybe during the power clash within Alice's body some of Kanni's power mixed in with and stayed behind in the Verae. It was a possibility that that was the reason for her telekenisis, but Kanni wasn't sure. Hell, she wasn't sure about anything.
"So...now tell me, what happened besides the lizard chasing your mother up the tree?" Premidas pushed back in his chair, rocking slightly back and forth.
"Well," Kanni counted off on her fingers, "I somehow broke all windows in the house, fell from the top story to the first story, teleported to the mall in the middle of the night, and almost got arrested cause they thought I was a robber." Kanni lightly forced a laugh.
"How'd you get out of it?"
Kanni's grin dropped. "I-I don't know exactly. It was like one minute I was there, getting hand cuffed, the next I felt gone. They couldn't see or hear me...no one could, and I walked right through the walls. But I was getting frantic cause everyone acted as if I wasn't there, until a biker drinking water rammed into me and spilled the water all over me. Then it seemed as if the water was encasing me and when I blinked I was back in my bed. Seriously, it was like a really bad and vivid dream."
"Weird," Premidas agreed. "But hey, what can anyone expect with you? You're something special."
Kanni locked her eyes on Premidas, feeling warm. He really thought so, didn't he? He wasn't lying. "Thanks. I like hearing that. I wish more people thought so."
Premidas lightly raised his cup, "Cheers to a new year." Kanni smiled and raised her soda, taking a sip and then setting it back down, her eyes trailing towards the food court doors. Alice and Kaleb weren't back yet. And she didn't really expect them to be for some time. She caught Premidas eyeing her and quickly schooled her worried expression into a neutral look. "So, what's the schedule? Class tomorrow?"
"Yea. Free today, thirty minutes of each class tomorrow, and then on Wednesday it all really starts. You got your schedual in your acceptance letter, right?"
"Yea."
"Well, all house students have the same classes so we'll all be together again. Ain't that good?"
"Yeah...right." Kanni said, trying to hide the sarcasm in her voice.
"Aw, we're not that bad, are we?"
"Just hold your tongue this time and I won't have to un-paralize you when Themrus pulls his clock trick again." Kanni reminded him and the animagus stuck out his tongue.
"Themrus, that 'ol man! He ain't got no humor-"
"-either that, or too much humor than you can handle." Kanni finished and Premidas scowled, crossing his arms.
Kanni's eyes once again strayed to the court entrance. She couldn't help herself. She wanted to know if Alice was okay. She wanted to know what was wrong...But maybe Alice didn't trust her like Kaleb. And that was her choice then. But then came the thing about Alice leaving...Was she really going to? Just like that? Get up and leave, after only being here a week, and then take off as if this all meant nothing? But as Gabriel would have to learn one way or another, no matter where he shipped Alice, the scars from what happened would never leave her, or any of them. It didn't work that way. No, not in this kind of circumstance.
"Kanni, what the hell is wrong?" Premidas demanded and Kanni spun aroudn to face him again.
"Oh, uh, nothing."
Premidas raised a testing brow. "Is that your final answer?"
"Yup. I'm just a little nervous about all the new students. Wanna go take a walk in the courtyard? I'll go get my jacket real quick."
Premidas still didn't look convinced but knew he was pushing it, and that Kanni wouldn't allow herself to be justled into telling easily, if at all. He finally shrugged and tossed his drink and wrappers into the trash can behind him. "Sure. Why not? I think I need some fresh air anyways, and maybe a little freeze with a cold just before school starts."
Kanni looked surprised and she bit her lip, trying to decide whether he was joking or if that sudden mood swing caught him again.
"I'm just kidding," he assured her with a sly grin. "Sheesh! Don't always look so sincere all the time!"
"Yea. Right. Now I'm sure you're mental," Kanni growled and got up. "I'll go get my coat and meet you at the doors, okay? And tonight I'll have to get Rothen. I know he knows I'm here, no use lying to him. See ya in a few." Kanni pushed from the seat and began battling her way towards the lobby. "Yea. See ya in a few," Premidas said quietly to himself, a sorrowed and pained look in his eyes as he lowered them to the floor. "In a few..."
(sry this one is a bit short. I gotta go out to eat cause tis me grandma's b-day! ^^)
Posted at 01:15 am by Twinkle_Star
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Out side the air was crisp, the snow crackling under their shoes as Kanni and Premidas walked in silence. Students hurried across their paths, playing and yelling despite the cold temperature. Kanni pulled her light blue coat tighter around her, shooting a glance at Premidas who wore the same black collared sweater. "Aren't you cold?" she asked.
"Freezing." he curtly replied.
"Then why-?"
"Kanni, get off my back," he growled. Kanni stopped dead in her tracks, both fists curled up.
"Look here, Mr. Anthen, I'm getting sick of this! One minute you're nice, the next you hate me and everything around you! Could this possibly be a very bad case of haromones or just a pathetic attempt to tell me you want to be alone right now?!" the milthacti demanded, both fists on her hips. Premidas was a bit startled.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it-"
"-you never mean anything Prem! Anything!" Kanni yelled and spun on her heel. "I think you need to be alone some time, so go. I'll wait in the gazebo."
"No, Kanni!" Premidas wailed but she ignored him. She was sick and tired of this. She had already had a "wonderful" first day of school and didn't need his mood to make it any "better."
(another small part. ^^; in addition to the other entry, since that one was short too. )
Posted at 01:29 am by Twinkle_Star
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"It's the shape-shifter! Don't go near her or else she might kill you!" Alice was pained to walk through the corridors with Kaleb, blowing the white strand of hair out of her face to find the crowd parting some ways. This was childish for these students to believe rumors that were meerly made to frighten students and others just to make one life misrable. Kaleb hadn't even responded the the comments, walking Alice through whose eyes glared at others who remained quiet. The weather didn't seem to bother most girls wearing tube tops and shorts near the windows, giving Alice doubt that these girls weren't smart enough to wear a normal attire during cold weather. Everyone wanted to show off to prove that they were greater then Kanni or Alice, everyone wanted to make their name spoken through every piece of gossip handled. To be known of was great, but not for something that was insulted and not exactly true to word.
Still, Alice walked through the halls fixing her one braid as she did so, passing by the people who seperated themselves from her along with Kaleb. If they didn't want to come near her, fine. It would only take away more problems that Alice would've have to dealt with in the future. Somethings at the moment weren't at its brightest yet it still mattered to the shape-shifter to at least prove once that Remus came and was now gone. It was now a scar that itched to be revealed and told by Alice herself rather than others. Several girls inched away and then stared at Kaleb with wide-eyes, "Isn't he cute? I bet his mother is forcing him to act normal around her just to make that stupid girl stay here than going out and killing..."
That was it. Alice had lost complete control of herself, spinning on her heel to turn to the girls who squealed, falling against a group of boys that may have been their boyfriends, who where Kaleb's and Premidas's age, yet it didn't matter to the shape shifter who hissed, "Keep talking and it'll only bring you in deeper water! Do you understand that?"
"Just leave them alone, they did absolutely nothing to you and Kaleb is just hanging out with you to make you stay here other than going out and killing more people!" One boy now stepped in to fill the space between Alice and the girls, only to get a firey answer from Alice, "You stay out of this! Pretending to be the hero isn't going to win you a little love from your damn girl friend! All of them like Kaleb or Premidas anyways, so why pretend you're all that when you're not?"
"Why you!" His fist then swung at Alice, yet his hand froze in mid-air by Kaleb who waved his finger in several circular directions as the hand twisted behind the boy's back. His eyes were widened to find Kaleb defending Alice, who had spun on her heel to storm down the rest of the corridor. This was too stupid now. Everyone was against her except for her own friends and teachers that she knew. Alice understood why Clarissa didn't want to publish this all into the public, but didn't the shape-shifter have a right to speak up and defend herself to the public that now feared her so much?
"Don't you have any brains in that head of yours! Once again you pulled yourself into another fight!" groaned Kaleb, shoving his hands into his coat pockets. "And don't believe those kids. Just ignore them and before you know it this will all get boring to them. They all want a reaction from you and knowing you, Alice, you should've known that too!"
"I can't let them call me Remus's apprentice or whatever the hell they call me these days. I can perfectly understand why I shouldn't go around and brag, but I should have to right to defend myself with what I saw and went through!" Alice hissed back, blowing another strand out of her face with temper. "Remind me to tell whoever is teaching me Defense this year about my evolving powers. It'll be something important to them."
"How can you not forget that? Isn't it like boiling in your veins every minute?" asked Kaleb, raising his head to look into the lights and then to the portraits who waved with curlers in their head or shaving. "We need to find Premidas and Kanni once more..."
"Our prey can be left alone for a few minutes. It's not like they're going to go anywhere and cause havic. I'm the one who kills, remember?" snapped Alice, shaking with rage and excitement as she talked while walking down another corridor with Kaleb behind her. "Gabriel should've exchanged me in the first place!"
"So you can forget about us all forever? Wasn't last year something that we all went through together?" It was Kaleb's turn to become fustrated and snap, feeling the portraits and windows tremble to find Alice glaring back at them. Their walk had come to a brief pause. "It wasn't just you Alice. The whole school couldn't see anything of what was going on and just assumed it all to their needs of believing."
"Who can't believe that when they have powers that can't be true in other people's worlds? NASA doesn't believe it in, scientists can't explain it, so how do we know that this is reality? How do we know if we're not picturing this all?!" she yelled, paintings began to fall to the floor screeching and wailing.
"If it were we would've never met and wouldn't even be talking about that possibility! This is real and last year was too. If this never happened then explain your family, your father. Explain Gabriel while you're at it too since he's going to need a long one."
"Can't you at least listen to me!? Everyone hates and me they're probaly right. You think I'm a freak too, don't you? With this evolving power, being a Verae, having to be possessed by Remus and perhaps will be by more. You hate me, don't you?"
"Alice, that's not even near to what I've been saying to you!"
"Oh yeah? Then explain everything last year to be. Who wouldn't be afraid of me? I doubt that you're mom is even grateful for me coming!"
"Are you stupid enough to believe what everyone is saying? They weren't even there fighting Remus with Kanni like you did! They're not as unique as you Alice! Why can't you understand that Premidas and I are trying to not to remind you but it's hard too and we're giving it our best shot not to bring it up! Are you that presasive to believe what everyone else says?"
"Maybe I am." And with that the shape-shifter left Kaleb in the corridor marching somewhere quiet without any students whispering. The library would be perfect, hardly anyone was there and it was ideal to fall asleep as you pretended to read. She felt silly now to be arguing with Kaleb. After all her first kiss...No, just because of that didn't mean she'd stand up for what could be true, even if someone retarded told it. Alice took another left after several lefts to enter through the large abony doors and into the library, watching dust collect into the light that shone from above through the glass windows brightly. Snow was coated on the windows, dimming some of the light in certain areas. Other than that it was beautiful how the light cordinated itself.
Several students were indeed here eating some lunch on the tables and skimming through books but they looked like first-years and paid no attention to Alice, who had walked several book cases to the right to find a narrow chair next to an open window and between two book cases, taking a seat there and kicking her feet up onto the desk, flipping through a book that had been left at the table. It was a text book from a class, Fortune Telling For Dummies. It looked rather large for a text book but it didn't change Alice's idea of skimming through it. There was mostly tea readings, palm readings, crystal reading, star reading, and anything else that a human would ever think of that was connected to fortune telling. Alice stayed there, wishing secertly that Premidas, Kanni, or even Kaleb would soon find her and join her.
Posted at 10:14 pm by Winged-Horror
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Friday, September 17, 2004
((a nice long one for ya. seeing how we don't have a taggy board any more, I'll tell you on here how cute the piccy is!! ^.^ she looks like what i envisioned Alice to look like the year before, with red hair. *kyute*!!! n_n))
"Maybe I do need a little break..." Premidas sighed to himself as he sat down on a lightly snow-coated bench. He brushed off the cold substance with his hands, the icy making them sting and redden with pain. His red eyes watched as the thick snow flakes gently triwled to the ground, amassing on the ground, all blending in together as if they were never apart, always one. He leaned his head back with a sigh through his nose. Stretching out he thought of what Kanni said.
His mood...It was really a strange and confusing thing, wasn't it? But he couldn't hide forever, and especially not from her. That he knew, but he decided to prolongue it as long as possible. He didn't want to confess before he really had to, until he had no other choice. His hands balled into fists as his muscles tensed when he flexed them for some warmth, his skin prickled and trembling beneath his clothes. Kanni only cares about you, and there aren't many people who do, he told himself. Don't scare her off because you're not experienced with getting warmth from other people. And Alice and Kalbe care too...Why do you want to shake off what you've always wanted? Man, I really am strange, aren't I?
Premidas plowed his fingers through his snow white hair and rubbed a ruby eye. The flakes on his cheek greatly contrasted from his sun-tinted skin, and soon melted from the body heat and trickled down his chin. Soon he'd be drenched, but he didn't care. He lowered his head and closed his eyes, letting random thoughts run through his mind. Was there nothing he could do right?
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"Damn, stupid...-" Kanni cursed the animagus heavily under her breath as she tossed her coat onto the bed, wringing out the water from her lilac hair. "Why the hell do I care so much?!" she scolded herself, scattering her things about the room, leaving her bags only half un-packed. Soon she got tired of it and stormed out the door. She was getting restless, oh so restless. She wanted to do something--craved something, something that she never was able to find, a craving she was never able to satisfy. And when you think about it, it really is an awful feeling. So the milthacti made her way through the corridors, looking for something to keep her thoughts from straying for a little while.
A sudden force rammed her shoulder, making her swerve off balance but she caught herself just in time. "Oh! Sorry!" a little girl piped as she dropped to her knees to pick up the books she had dropped. "Are you okay? Honestly, I didn't mean it!"
"It's okay, chill," Kanni's lips twitched into an amused grin. The girl looked about only thirteen and had short thick black hair, her skin very pale and her eyes tilted upward in Chinese decent. Her dark eyes were flitty and a bit nervous, as if she were expecting something to happen any second. But overall she was tall and slender and had an athletic build, and Kanni had to admit she was quite pretty.
"Excuse me, but could you tell me where the library is?" her smooth voice sounded calmed.
"Sure. Follow me." Kanni turned around and headed the other way, envisioning the huge ebony black doors which led into the sacred feeling library known to be thousands of years old, holding too many secrets that any person could ever know in three life-times. "What's your name?" she asked over her shoulder.
"Oh, uh, Oru...you?"
"Kanni. So, what house are you in?"
"'Kanni'?" Oru echoed but then quickly forced the surprise from her voice. "I'm a Tibileek, as you are."
"Oh? Do you know me?"
"Only rumors."
"Oh isn't that dandy," Kanni growled. So, her life was now on public news, was it?
"I don't beleive them."
"Huh?" The comment was un-called for and caught Kanni's complete attention, but she tried to hide it, not breaking her long stride down the dimming red-carpeted corridors.
"I said that I didn't beleive them. I've read about milthactis, and I don't beleive the rumors. Most rumors are even impossible anyways, if you look at your facts. It's sort of my hobby, classified beings. You know, shape-shifters, animagus, milthactis, horoldowns, and such."
"Oh? So maybe you can help me understand myself then."
"Possibly." Oru sighed. "So...ah, you've been a while here?"
"My second year. Your first?"
"Yes."
"So are you any 'classified being'?"
"Me? Oh, no! I'm not that lucky. I'm a normal girl with powers." Oru replied with some sarcasm. "I can manipulate anything with a medium hint of metal extracts."
"'Lucky'?" Kanni echoed. "I don't think you quite understand what you're saying there."
"Oh, but I am. I would love to be special, stand out from the rest. I've already met nine people with powers so similar to mine we could all be called the same."
"But being different isn't fun. Especially not when you're what I am."
"Why not? You have scattered powers and talents, almost no limits on what you can do, the power source of all wizards that make you up, and must only learn to control them to have full access to power every person can ever dream of.
"A milthacti's power is measured by the amount of wizards that make up her complexure. Each wizard has power, you must only see which wizards you have, how strong they were, and how many you have. Do you, by any chance, know?"
"No! How could I? if I went to real authority they might send me away or kill me."
"Yes, true. It's a wonder you and that Verae are alive. I see Clarissa is intent on protecting you even to the despense of risking her school's safety, or the authorities would have long ago hauled you off and you would have been shut away in dark cages like lab animals awaiting their fate."
"Well, you sure know how to brighten my day," Kanni felt a small prick of fear. Would that really happen to her and Alice if anyone else foudn out? Or was Oru playing with her emotions. Quickly changing the subject she was releived to see the library doors ahead. "Well, we're here. If there's anything else I can do for you, let me know, okay? I'll be around."
"Um...Is Mr. Ulthra in there? I wanted to ask him for some book recomendations. I think he ought to know for he spends most of his dead after-life in there. Also when he was alive."
Kanni rose a brow. This girl sure was well informed. Then Oru, sensing her gaze, lowered her eyes and reddened.
"You must think it suspicious for me to know so much, right? Well, I would too after I've been through-- and don't even start, I know all about the incident concerning you, Alice Black, Kaleb Agretto, and Premidas Anthen last year. But you see my father has high ranks and often knows a lot about everything, and he has me study a lot as well. And I like to learn about the magical world anyways, so I often but my nose into private places where it doesn't belong. Please tell me if I'm crossing the line, okay? I understand."
Kanni put a fist on her hip. "I'm still not sure how you know all this, but just take my advice and don't say too much when you're around Alice, the Verae; she'll get fed up with you real fast."
"I'm sorry..."
"Don't be. It's not your fault, it's just a...stressful subject for us. So don't get out of hand, okay? And no, I don't know if Ulthra is in there. Maybe you should wait for tomorrow when classes start, then you'll know for sure where he is."
"Good idea. But I think I'll have a little look around the rest of the school, okay? Thank you for all the help, Kanni."
"You're welcome. I'll see you around."
Then Oru made a little bow and headed off, soon disappearing in the herd of other students. Kanni chuckled to herself and shook her head. Now that was a girl that was going to go places, she told herself.
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"Prem? Is that really you?" A soft voice broke Premidas from his light sleep as he sat up, finding himself cold and wet. Damn. He had fallen asleep on the bench outside and now was caked in wet snow, and his teeth were chattering, his lips a light blue. "Prem?" His eyes shifted to the female standing before him. He blinked. Was it really her?
"Tash?" he asked incredulously.
The girl smiled and eagerly nodded her head. "You remember me!" The girl was tall and slender, with pale fair skin and shining light brown eyes. Her hair was a flaming flourescent orange, falling in long sheets down her back. She wore a long light brown overcoat and a skirt, leg-warmers stretched from her black books up her bare legs to help warm them from the cold.
"Tash!" Premidas shot to his feet as the girl leaned into his arms with a tight embrace.
"I can't beleive it, after all these years, I see you again! And here!" Tash exclaimed as she pulled away from his arms, pushing a white strand from his forehead and winced at the scar he had gotten last year. He quickly pushed her hand away and smoothed his bangs over the scar again, then grinning.
"Then what the hell are you doing here?"
Tash smiled. "Well, Mr. Ulthra, a teacher here I understand, is sort of my great great grandfather. He invited me to stay a few months here. At first I didn't want to, but then he told me you were here, and one of his students, and I packed my bags!"
Premidas caught her eyes slightly waver as he cheeks grew a bit redder.
"So, why the hell are you sleeping out here? In the cold, wet, and snow?" she demanded. "You'll catch yourself a cold! And my great great grandpa wouldn't like if you missed the first of his classes!"
Premidas grinned and ruffled some snow out of his hair. "That's why I should be going in right now. Want to come? I could show you around."
"I already got a tour, but knowing you I haven't even seen the half of it."
"They only show you what they want you to see," Premidas agreed. "I'll show you all the rest." His eyes twinkled mischeviously. Tash had been his childhood friend, from age four until age ten, when his mother died, they had been together. After the accident his father had moved away and he had to leave her behind. It was miraculous to see her again, after six years, here! She may not have powers as he and all the rest, but she would stay here for a while and that was enough for him.
"Hey, Premidas, I was looking for you. I didn't think you'd freeze yourself to death-" Kanni's voice abruptly cut off when she spotted Tash. Her brows dropped as a few well-concealed expressions crossed her face but she then lightly smiled. "Oh, sorry. I didn't know you were busy. I'm sure you'll take him in and get him cleaned off and dry so he doesn't catch pnemonia, right?"
Tash regarded Kanni with the same inquiring eyes but then returned the polite smile. "Yes. Who are you? Prem's nanny?"
Kanni's jaw froze and hardened, her eyes becoming steely, the smile now pasted to her face. "No, but he sure could use a nurse, Miss." Tash now wrapped her arm around Prem's, shooting him a look.
"She a friend of yours?" the girl asked innocently enough.
"Yea. A very good one at that, so be nice," Premidas warned in a low voice.
"Well, I've got more important things to do than stand around here, so I'll catch you later Prem." Kanni turned on her heel and headed back down the path towards the school. Premidas let out the breath he'd been holding. Tash sent him a reproachful glance. "Who is she?"
"Kanni Merrane. A very good friend of mine here, along with Alice, and Kaleb."
"Ah, Kaleb. I remember him! Who is Alice?"
"Kanni and Alice both came here last year-"
"-the milthacti and the verae." Tash finished with a bit of disdain. "You like them?"
"Yes, I like all my friends, Tash." Premidas sniffed and his friend gave his arm a squeeze.
"Well, we do have to get you inside. I can feel you shivering and it's making me cold, so let's go. Honestly, I would have thought now that you're sixteen, soon to be seventeen, that you'd be able to take care of yourself and get along with out me..."
Premidas gritted his teeth as sixteen-year-old Tash tugged him along. She had always been around him, but now something was different. The way she grabbed his arm and was so familiar with him disturbed him a bit. But maybe she was just glad to be back with her friend. He shrugged. He had often lay awake when he was younger wishing he could talk to her again, confide in her again, and now he finally had the chance. What was so wrong with that?
((Kanni is still fifteen, but the next day she turns sixteen...so she ain't too far behind. XD))
Posted at 12:21 am by Twinkle_Star
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"Oi! Watch it there!" The two Black relatives had been walking through the thick snow, avoiding flying balls of snow skillfully as they continued their conversation. The animagus had just found Alice asleep in the Library looking for books to pass out during his own class, deciding to make the first class something special than Brige's own class. Several students had waved at him and some girls squeled to find the mass murderur Gabriel Black walking on school grounds. Apparently Clarissa hadn't been too happy with the higher authorities coming down on them hard in order to protect Kanni and Alice, their opinon had been won by the panel here. Authorities didn't want the two girls to be let out into the world without the proper bounties, but there was somethings that Gabriel skipped, keeping secrets from Alice that she would never be too happy about. The snow fell harder, caking in layers in Alice's silverish hair and stood out in Gabriel's dark hair. They've been out here for several minutes now discussing things that came to mind; yet Alice felt more like an experiment listening to his rants of how protective Clarissa would be this year.
"They were even surprised to see the charts that prove we're even related. Going on about how I was a menace, asking how I recieved the proper training to become a Verae that won't give into magic so easily. Anyone would be surprised to watch me walk around like a normal human, yet they don't know much of this school, kiddo. They really don't. People assume that it's just listening to someone talking but it's much more than that. Perhaps that's why we have people who were once students running around killing people," whispered Gabriel, shunning his eyes to the ground where the snow crunch under their feet during every set of new steps. "Themrus has been locally concerned about you're training, saying that this year you're to be enrolled in a higher Defense Class with the fifth years in order to speed up the training.
"Don't even argue with me. Last year when-Oh, grow up and except it, Kiddo! It happened and we all know it but we need to learn from our mistakes, which you haven't made except for trying to push it all away! No ordinary student has an argument with Remus over a body and you know that! It proves that you've been holding back on us with what you've felt, with the powers you see evolving-Alice?" Gabriel had stopped, being pulled back by Alice who held his sleeve, nodding to where a group of girls sat over a magazine blushing as they did so.
"Why couldn't we all be like them? Not a care in the world of what other people fear or think of us. To just carry on with our classes and not have to worry about what I do. Kaleb probaly hates me since he wants me to take the advance classes but I told him no. I want to be normal and I can't understand why did Remus pick me? Why not you? Why not someone else far away where I would've only heard of it..." whispered Alice, her voice quivering on several pitches and vowels, feeling her finger tips warm up. "And I have been lieing to you, okay? I-I....It's been happening since we got back from Spain, Gabriel. Several other powers have been moving through me and some stay. It's like their drifters, wanting someone to use them...I'm not even sure if it's a good idea to be taught."
"Spare me from your agony, kiddo. To evolve new powers is quite natural for Veraes. It's even happened to be but when you reach a certain point they all flood out. Maybe not for you. No...defently not you. It would be too difficult for us to decide that...Or it can be that the power you were holding back as finally been let out..into a stream more like," mumbled Gabriel, ducking from another ball of snow which landed on Alice's arm, being brushed off by the animagus. "Students here can't know anything of this, alright? No one unless something happens that you cannot explain but not so much is allowed to be told. And forgive Kaleb, the guy has it tough with his mum and everything."
"You wish." The shape-shifter watched her godfather embrace her and then walk through the snow into the warm school, allowing the women who had been standing at the door to take his coat and walked with him, side by side. Alice had the gut feeling that there was more to this all nonsense of new authority coming down on the school. There had to be something else, there needed to be something else. Now Alice was left only, brushing the snow out of her hair before feeling something cold and prickly slide through her, matierlizing into Mr. Ulthar before Alice, coaxing, "My dear, so sorry. I can understand the numbness of the abnormality the weather has been giving us lately. Yet you need to being lessons with Themrus right away. The man has been waiting for you for several hours now! Come along!"
"Right now? Haven't you heard that tomorrow the classes start? Not today!" The arguing from Alice was simply ignored as Ulthar continued to hover over the snow, being tailed by Alice into the building where students still avoided her, stepping to the side quickly. It wasn't far down, the room that is. Themrus had gotten himself a newer and larger classroom, and the man was seated behind his desk staring back down at a stone basin, similar to what his sister had used with Alice's transformation early last year. The man looked up from the basin, "Ah, Alice! I've been waiting but that doesn't really matter since Clarissa has just enrolled you into a fifth year defense class and hopefully someone has informed you of that. We'll just start easy today and give you a few assignments to do tonight to prepare yourself for the first class.
"Now, I wanted to give you this last year but due to things I would've found it inapproiate to do so. You'll be writing a journal everyday of what you've been feeling, doing and anything strage about your day. It's to review your progress and find patterns in your weaknesses as a Verae, understood? Gabriel will be practicing you every night on a few courses next week so it is best to practice your powers to full extent till then. We want you to use your power plenty of times a day, understood?" asked Themrus, turning around to find Alice seated in a desk with Ulthar hovering around the room.
"Crystal clear," snorted the shape-shifter, feeling more angry than ever at anyone. To expect her to start a day early was just foolish.
-"It's foolish enough to expect anything out of me."
The water foamed to the top of the tub, slightly overflowing as Alice dipped her hands in it to make sure that it wasn't too cold. Her bones ached from walking about the school searching for Kaleb, Kanni or Premidas, wanting to apologize for her absence. The room smelled strongly of scents from the open candles and bottles, something which Alice continued to pour in without relizing that she had been on her second bottle of bubble bath. She didn't want to relize anything, feeling slightly hurt that Gabriel had gone ahead to prepare for the great feast the students were expecting for dinner. Everyone now feared or was scared of her since last year and the scene she caused against Brad. How she hated anyone who seemed to know it all. They didn't, know one knew the feeling that boiled in Alice. The feeling that this wasn't her body, that she was some virus infecting it.
Silver vapor began to form at her balled fists, coiling up her slender arms with a white misty apperance that was dreamy. It would be something to put in the damned journal Themrus gave her to write in, explaining that it she didn't write in it there was a good chance she'd been kicked out of the shcool. And Alice even knew that it was just a pretend threat to get her to do it looking back on how many times she hadn't done her homework. The bubbles began to pupple, sinking lowly into the water as the shape-shifter found out herself that now she didn't want to get into the warm water and rather just walk about and listen to what people had to say about her. The attention for doing something good was what she craved, but was this something good?
Her hand snatched at the bubbles, watching the water vaporate into a small cloud that hovered slightly until it mixed in with the normal air until the entire tub was empty. This power was getting out of control, too much out of control. Alice had no idea how to be a shape-shifter and whatever at the same time, yet was it even possible for anyone to do? Kanni perhaps, but not Alice who had exited the room into the larger room of the room, looking down at her unpacked bags and several books stacked on the small basket in the corner that used to belong to Gabriel. He often promised to come here to check in on her, to make sure that she was alright.
OBJ. 001. It was the book on the top that caught her eye with the attracting red print on it's cover completed with sprials. Alice picked it up, wanting to skim through it until the book snapped back at her, placing itself back under several other books. What did Gabriel want to hide from her that was so important? What did this book mean? Now several students could be heard roaming through the corridors, breaking the fixation of Alice's concentration on the book which has shoved itself back deeper under the heavy books that began to snap at the shape-shifter. With only a loud sigh and heavy swearing Alice had stormed to the door, hearing wild giggling and to find several first years standing outside of her door with a ruler, near enough to tap the door. They were frozen with fear watching the shapes-shifter watch them with an amused, twitching grin.
"Can I help you at all?" It was pathetic how the girls shook their heads furiously, shuffling their feet as they tore into a run to the other end of the corridor. Students would now avoid the shape-shifter, and she perfectly understood it. It was what she should've expected for ever been possessed by Remus. She felt ashamed to wish that this school never existed, that she had never existed. Alice shook her head slowly, reaching in for her scarf and coat before locking the room and roaming through the corridors alone once more. This was painful to find students parting from her in a crowd, to always point and whisper something insulting. Alice would've been more greatfull to herself if she hadn't shoved Kaleb away for selfishly. He had been only trying to help her, to make her understand.
"Hey! You won't beat me this time, shape-shifter!" It was Brad once more, standing proudly infront of Alice with both hands on his hip as a group of girls and friends stood behind him expecting Alice to be knocked off of her feet by him. Several more students relized that there was a great amount of tention built up in the boy, on the other hand Alice had just been standing there watching him with narrowed eyes and finally answered, "I have a name, smart ass. Now if you don't mind I must be getting to my food so, as you all put it, I can feed myself to generate energy to Remus so one day he can kill you all."
"She just admitted to it!"
"Brad! Move away from her! Quickly!"
Yet the boy was stubborn enough to stand firmly in Alice's way, expecting the girl to loose control and get in trouble when she really saw Ulthar from behind another student watching them all closely with a dull expression. He was expecting her to use her own powers against him to get expelled or suspended. Child's play. The students, especially the younger ones, were gathered around them all and awaited the action from Alice, which had been walking around Brad and continued her walk through the corridor until a beam of concentrated heat collided against her spine, sending Alice several steps to the ground in agony of pain, hearing laughter and howeling. Her nails soon dug into her palms, balling up her fists. This wasn't how this year was supposed to be and soon heard more beams of heat soaring through the air until something had matierlized before Alice into a woman in a black pettycoat, black buckled boots, and a black viel that hung over her pale face which large green eyes stared out of, watching the beams sway into the wall.
"Student suspension!" Students began to run away from Brad who seemed stubborn to leave, foolishly sending more beams at the woman who diverted them all until his power seemed to have left him, leaving the boy empty as the woman hissed, "Broken school regulation. Result will be suspension until tomorrow at 5:03."
And then it simply vanished into thin air, leaving Alice and Brad with a horror that could fill them for some weeks, yet Alice had a hunch it was the new authorities at these schools. The pain in her spine was still to great to stand up and walk, soon hearing yells and hisses from Brad, "You stupid shape-shifter! Since you serve Remus doesn't mean I have to suffer for your dumb mistakes of joining his league! I can't see how Kanni is still alive with the amount of time she spends around you!"
"Do you actually think I enjoy this all? And get it through that thick skull of yours that Remus is dead and Kanni housed him! I was only the Verae for possession!" snarled the shape-shifter, feeling pain soar throughout her entire body and slammed her fists against the white marble. It was too painfull to even move.
"Alice! Brad! What the hell did you do to her! Tash, do me a favor and find Kaleb!"
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