Sei stood and moved in front of Carrie, his Keyblade returning to his hand. He stood there timidly for a moment before another twitch had him grinning, "If you think I'm emitting darkness...then allow me to show you you're wrong." Renee stared at the boy, shock in here brown eyes. "Tsk...I won't let your small stature dissuade me. You are nothing but evil and I'll prove it." Xenree lifted her gaze and focused on Nikolai. "You're back. Where's Nox and my seashell?" Xemnas stood, "You've got enough energy to speak. You must have enough energy to summon back another of my Organization." Xenree cast a glare his way before staring down at her wine. "You mean...you crave the attention of your subjects more and more as time passes. You're lonely, Xemnas." He didn't deny it nor move to apologize. His yellow eyes took in Nikolai. "You there...would you have any interest in joining me? I'm not entirely sure my thirteenth member will come back from the darkness or wherever he's gone off to and I'll be short a member."
ooc: sure, why not bic: Renee took a deep breath and nodded, "I did. Though...I don't like my own decision. The boy is emitting the darkness. Apparently this girl can't feel it." She lowered her Keyblade only to take a battle stance similar to Aqua's. "Now, move out of my way. This is for the safety of Radient Garden." Sei stood and looked down at himself, "You think...I'm emitting darkness? How strange...."
Gabriel stood quickly and grinned, "Oh Kaila, hello, what brings you here this late?" he motioned to a chair on the other side of the room. Uriel lifted her head from her hands and faintly smiled. "Evening Kaila. You remember Gabriel... we were just discussing Yves' proposition." Kiel squeezed her hand and half turned to look at her. His blue eyes pleading, "Please Tori.... I can't stand hospitals and that place smells like a hospital. My mother's sister died from mal-practice. They said my father was the doctor that killed her..." Ren shuffled the kids back into the dining hall, skipping out before he opened the doors. "There...dining hall, just like I said." His lack of a shirt made it difficult to focus on anything else other than the rolling lust coming off the female students. The Dark Court bonds binding him shivered as they absorbed the emotions coming off the girls. Dammit...I need to talk to Kyrios about loosening his bonds. I can't stand this everyday. Showing Kaila affection is difficult when your boss is feeding off of her emotions.
Jo warmed at the touch of Ariana. "I can behave. I don't much like the people now living in my village, but I can manage to live among them. I...only have one request if we do stop there... Nobody go near the cave with spirit seals in front of it. No matter what you hear or feel. They'll know you're a magic user if you do." She lowered her head but still spoke loudly. She remembered quite well what lie still inside the cave and it was her job to take care of it without involving her new "family" or the people of the village. After all...it was her fault it was there.
Jo cleared her throat and glanced over Ulrich's shoulder. She touched a tan finger at a halfway mark between the place Andrew was looking at and where they currently were. "That's my village... It's been rebuilt somewhat since I left. No less than a few days' journey to a hot bath and warm beds. They serve mostly meat as food...but...the forest beyond the village has a variety of greens that are edible." She glanced up. A reluctance to visit her home lurked in her eyes and the shadow of grief lurking in the red depths of her red iris's.
Sei nodded carefully, "Yeah...I'm okay." His mind was still focused on the Heartless' odd behavior when he saw Alexander, Renee and Keel come running. "Uh...Carrie...we have company." Renee stopped, staring at the little boy with silver hair, He can't be the source of what I felt...it's just a child. Renee shook her head and yet still followed her heart. The child was a source of danger. She lifted her Keyblade and pointed it at the boy. "I...I'm sorry...b-but...you're a threat. I don't know why, but you are." Xenree slumped back into her chair in the foyer of Castle Oblivion. She didn't dare visit the boy while Xemnas sat beside her, inquiring politely about the situation of the worlds. "You say the worlds have been at peace for the past two years? And now all because of you...the Heartless, Unversed and a new form of creatures come forth to serve you." She nodded, swirling a glass of wine and he smiled, "Interesting."
Sei covered his head as hearts flew up from the Heartless and magic sparking around. The rest of the Heartless cast him one last look and dashed off into the darkness. He shivered, "Wh-what happened? Why didn't they attack me?" "Um...th-that way!" Renee shivered and pointed off towards where Sei, Carrie and Poke were fighting. "C'mon!" she dashed off towards the battle.
Gabriel slumped in one of Uriel's tan leather chairs in the corner of her office. "Uri...you can't take it all so seriously. Just humor the Seraphim. I'll keep watch over the students. If anything goes wrong...well I'm a teacher." Uriel sighed, covering her face with her hands. Her brown hair fell over her face and she groaned into her hands. "I can't let them do this to my students, Gabe. I won't let them expose them to the cruelties of humanity! What can I do? They outrank me...Yves is serious about this....so there's no way to convince him out of this." Gabriel dropped his head onto the back of the chair, "Really? Yves is bothering you? I can talk to him if you're uncomfortable with this... I still think it's somewhat a good idea...after all, the humans we've seen are in need of divine protection. Kadaj is definately taking an interest in humans for some reason..." Ren sighed, running his hands through his black hair. The streak of white was scattered across his head instead of a concentrated streak. He would never see what the girls saw in him personally, but he figured his physic had something to do with it. They seemed to get fluttery when he removed his shirt. It was a shame the one he'd had was ruined and he'd tossed it into the fire in Kaila's room. His face warmed slightly at the memory of Kaila's room. He could still smell her scent on his skin. Waving a hand, Ren started forward, "Follow me then...I'll get you back to the dining hall. I should make you all stand out in the rain or work for Gabriel in the weapons room or even with Elena in the gardens. And if I wanted to be cruel...I'd say Sanya on patrol." He felt tired and almost drained from the close proximity to Kaila. Kiel panted, reaching back to grasp Tori's hand, "D-don't...take me back there... I can't s-stand the infirmary.... J-just...lemme hide out in you r-r-room for a while. Just unt-til we're d-dry." He pleaded with Tori.
Jo bit her lip nervously for a moment and awkwardly hugged Ariana. "No one can bare seeing their family and friends die. I couldn't even bare to see my Master burn before me..." Releasing her, Jo ruffled her hair and grinned again.
Yup, yup. She's around 19.
Jo swtiched to english and grinned, "Sorry. I tend to speak Latin...at times. My Master Igneel taught me. It's a song the villagers of my home used to sing...but they were refering to the wall they built...to keep Dragons out." She shrugged at Ariana's question, "My parents died in a fire...my Master....perished some time after that." she frowned and lowered her red eyes.
Jo bounded up to Ariana and Ulrich, her natural cheerfulness she'd suppressed bubbling back to the surface. She didn't say a word, but merely smiled at them and continued singing, "Ferrum ferro et ferrum et chalybs exstruendam ... ... ferrum et chalybs. Exstruendam *** ferrum et chalybs, mi formosa puella."
Jo drifted off and started humming an odd version of London bridges in Latin. ... Et lapidibus exstruendam cera cerae ceram, et lapis ... lapidis. Cera et lapidibus exstruendam, mi formosa puella. Her eyes half closed and she swayed on her feet. Images of Igneel scratching the Latin words into the ground and mentally teaching her to sing them and eventually to speak it. She could still remember how her inner fire had started to burn brightly with excitement when she'd learned the song.
Sei started to laugh at Poke's action and the poor attempts to hit him by the Heartless. The more he laughed the more the Heartless paused and turned to look at him. They all stopped in their tracks as Sei fell over, giggling at Poke. He stopped laughing as tears formed in his eyes and saw Heartless had taken up positions around him, as if defending him. "Huh? Wh-what's going on...?" he mumbled quietly and nervously curled up into a ball, silver eyes flicking from Heartless to Heartless. He didn't even hear Carrie since the Heartless were taller than he was and their constant shifting and clinking of armor, drowned out any sound. Renee picked herself up from the ground and shook her head, "Let's...not do that again." She lifted her brown eyes to take in what remained of Radiant Garden. To her it was still beautiful, but a wave of ill-intent washed over her and she shuddered, "Something's not right here... There's something evil here."
Jo blushed and bowed her head, "Um...uh.... Paenitet me!" Jo covered her mouth and shook her head, "I'm sorry." She scratched the back of her head as embarrassment redened her cheeks from the sudden burst of latin.
Looking up, Jo wiped at her tears. She took his hand and stood. "Master Igneel would be disappointed in me if he were to see me acting so childishly. I'm..I'm fine." Her red eyes wide and still glittering with tears, Jo grinned up at Ulrich. "Hehe...I don't like being trapped. Too many bad memories." She still smiled without a care and let go of his hand. Her skin was probably really warm from the exposure to the fire for so long.
Sei braced himself. Though he was younger and shorter than the other man, he took his weight well. Twirling on his heel, Sei cast Aero magic and chucked his Keyblade covered in a wind tornado towards the Heartless. Fighting unarmed, Sei dodged several attacks, using his tiny stature to his advantage and grabbed the back of a Heartless. Flipping it over his head, he used it as a weapon, taking out several other Heartless as his keyblade returned to his hands. Sei's dodging looked like a little dance with several partners.
Jo's panic mounted at the single touch, even though she couldn't feel it, Ulrich's words were much too painful to take in. The earth around her crumbled and ultimately, a bit less than a large scale explosion, burst apart, away from Jo's body. Jo dropped to her knees, her fire lessening in intensity immediately. It's head disappearing and yet a dull flame kept burning scattered on the ground. Tears fell freely down her cheeks, sizzling as they fell onto the heated ground. Jo's hands clutched at the ground, her nails digging into it. She panted and sobbed breathlessly on the ground. "Igneel!" she sobbed brokenly. Her memory vivid in the image of her Master's ashes blown away in the wind and his bones discarded back into the cave. Until Jo was older, she hadn't had the courage to go inside and return his bones to the volcano he came from. Instead, villagers buried his bones when they found her mourning the cave entrance.
Accepted. Thank you for joining.
Jo's eyes went wild with fury at being trapped. An old fear of enclosed spaces overwhelmed her better sense of judgment. Fire mounted around her body, causing the earth to crack and steam. She really didn't like tight spaces. Every instinct of a Fire Dragon was to be free and soar. Being grounded felt just like when they'd manacled Igneel and her in a cave to rot and die when she was just a child. After they'd broken free...Igneel went into a fear filled rage and tried to destroy her home town and the people responsible for their imprisonment. Igneel died in that fight. Flexing what muscles she had, Jo broke apart the earth around her. Her fire burning hot and dangerous, even though she kept her eyes tightly shut against reality. Soon, the heat would make everyone sweat and the air would be hot like the inside of a volcano. Inprisonment....how dare he....! Though she didn't make an outburst, Jo's rage burned on mostly out of fear that wouldn't subside and grief at her own memories. Anger fueled by fear and grief was greater than that mearly out of hatred. No...she didn't hate Andrew, she was afraid of his earth, not because she could've overcome it, but because he could trap her. Her head bowed and silver hair falling over her tan skin, Jo remained like that, letting her fire burn around her.
