"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!"
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!"