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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jun 15, 2007 6:04:44 GMT -5
Lynexia continued moving her feet accross the panel's various lights, "We'll need to figure out which classes you'll be taking.Every student's supposed to take magic, weaponry, alchemy, beastry, master- in which I'm your teacher! and then sixth period is reserved for a break period. The rest of your classes you get to choose, there are four periods in which you can choose your class which are-
Music, History or Potionry for period seven
Holy, Flare or Summoning class for eight
Dragoon, Samurai, and Theivery is your selection for class nine
and finally you have the quick descision of either Survival, or Puppetmaster for your final class."
She smiled back at her student, not looking where they were going as they moved through the air, the Zion Drive kicked out a while ago so just as it could be thought of a glider- they were gliding along. Lighting struck a few feet ahead of them and Lynexia barely seemed to notice it, the ride was smoother now than when it started but it was still fast- which might have been the cause of the shakiness in Kyr's voice.
Lynexia's right foot tapped the upper right hand corner of the panel and then slid back to the left corner, tapped twice before she switched to her left foot and did the exact thing only with the upper left hand corner instead and she skipped her right foot over to the center light, after a while it became hard to tell what exactly she was doing- obviously telling the glider what to do... but the glider didn't seem to be doing anything and that was the trick, the glider didn't seem to be doing anything.
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Post by Nemaisare on Jun 25, 2007 17:34:43 GMT -5
Kyr peeked over the edge of the glider, saw the lake rushing quickly passed and promptly pulled himself away from the edge. To distract himself from the three-parts frightening/one-part exhilarting ride Lynexia was taking him on, he watched her feet as they danced across the various spaces to land unerringly on the different lights, and he figured that that was how she was directing it. He had, of course, never been on a glider in his life, and he had only ridden a horse twice, when demanded to carry a message with all urgent haste to someplace he couldn't run to. Well, he gulped as his stomach did a little flip, that lightning had been close, and she wasn't even looking where they were going!
Kyr hadn't been listening to her words, but he had been hearing them, so, while she smiled back at him and did some more light dancing, he quickly went back through what she had told him. As he did, his head tilted and he relaxed completely for one brief moment, so that, if she was looking, she would have caught a glimpse of his true self, not the one hiding behind fear and wary distrust. Then he came back to himself, with a few more questions floating floating around in his head, and the fearful manner crept back into place. Before they continued discussing the schedule, however, he wanted to know something, a fact that was very important should they happen to crash into the lake beneath them. "Kerien?" Kyr's voice wavered and he paused to take a deep breath and steady himself. "There aren't any zuufa in this lake, are there?"
The youth didn't know if they had a different word for the deep monsters in this language, or if they even existed in this world, other things hadn't, but he wanted to make sure. Kyr licked his lips nervously, wetting his mouth with the lashing rain that was trickling down his cheeks. His brown eyes, though narrowed against the wind, were still wide enough to show just how sincere he was. It was always better to know what dangers you faced before they jumped out at you, that way you just might know what ought to be done when they did. And in his world, no one went swimming in a lake that held even one zuufa and they only went fishing once they went through all the precautions, after all, zuufa didn't care what they ate, so long as it satisfied their hunger.
((so sorry for taking so long to reply))
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jun 25, 2007 18:11:41 GMT -5
"Zuufa? What language are you speaking anyways?" she asked, her eyes aglitter with curiosity as she stopped moving accross the panels which caused the glider to rock gently and the wings ceased to mold and twist to accompany the wind's currents. Lynexia didn't seem worried too much about it, though it seemed that if she didn't start worrying about it that sooner or later they'd plummit to thier deaths... The water below didn't look all too inviting to be honest, they were a murky gray hue and the waves choppy, a few crested even. Anything could be in thier depths.
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Post by Nemaisare on Jun 25, 2007 18:26:06 GMT -5
Her questions startled him out of his own troublesome thoughts, or maybe that was the sudden cease of forward motion from the glider. Either way, Kyr twitched a bit before calming down, oh, how he really wanted to get off this thing and he hadn't let go once since she'd told him to hold on. Hiis hands were begining to ache, as was his jaw from clenching it so hard. "I am speaking my own language, Irithenya, or so the SoulSeers call it. My own people have no name for it." Kyr shrugged and offered something of an apologetic smile. Here he was lecturing his teacher, and they had only just met. Then he got back to the real question, the one about the zuufa.
"Zuufa are... Well," He stopped and thought for a moment, trying to remember how they had first been explained to him and then translating that into this language. "They are giant creatures, lke eels only bigger. They live in lakes, not salty, the fresh ones, and eat whatever they can catch. Their meat is good and their teeth make very good tools, but we do not hunt them often, it is too dangerous!" He finished on a fervent note, very serious about that one fact. His uncle had lost his life to one and sometimes, when a ShadowWalker did some terrible thing, they were ordered to swim in a lake with zuufa. It was a death sentence, and one that Kyr himself had only narrowly escaped.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jun 25, 2007 18:33:56 GMT -5
"Oh! No zuufa, though there are spirits that swim in the depths of those waters." she said with a nod, "Any thoughts on your schedule?" she asked as the glider seemed to tip foreward, about to dive into the waters below and Lynexia slid her feet accross the glider's surface again and they leveled out and continued on thier way. She looked at the water below, "Perhaps a few zuufa-like creatures... like a sea serpent?" she asked again, looking forewards now. Her hair whipped behind her and she tapped her foot directly behind her, then tapped the same foot directly to her right.
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Post by Nemaisare on Jun 26, 2007 14:27:02 GMT -5
Spirits?! Kyr glanced back at the water, then quickly back to his teacher. This place was so very strange. Then, reassured about the zuufa if not about the sanity of flying in a storm, he turned his thoughts back to the schedule when prompted. "I do have questions, kerien. Not many, though." He almost sounded guilty about needing to ask, though it was likely something that was perfectly natural for first-time students, particularly for those of Kyr's curiousity levels.
Before he could ask them, however, she spoke a word he was not familiar with and he wanted very much to clarify it. "What is 'serpent'?" He especially wanted to know if she was speaking about something that was dangerous, like the zuufa, since if he didn't know what she was talking about, how was he to know if he ever saw it.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jun 26, 2007 14:34:56 GMT -5
"It's like a snake... and a snake is like a lizard... without the legs... Usually serpents live in water." Lynexia nodded, "And if you don't know what a lizard is... then you're out of luck." She said, gently teasing her student, "Any more questions?" she inquired with a smile, it was obvious from her tone she wasn't being degrading to her student and she had no intentions of malice at all, it was simply her poking fun. She slid her feet accross the panel to her left and one of the serpents arched it's back out of the water, the fins along it's spine glistened wetly and it's head rose soon enough as well, jagged teeth pointed in several directions and gills opened and closed next to it's jawbone, feirce eyes seemed to glow as it looked around, though not noticing the pair on the glider almost a mile above it.
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Post by Nemaisare on Jun 26, 2007 14:54:15 GMT -5
"Ah, coroth." He smiled at his newfound knowledge, then shook his head. "No, zuufa have no eyes, snakes do. But they do look much like each other." He mused, more to himself than o her, although he came bak to the present quickly enough when it came time to ask questions. He decided that, rather than wait and ask them one at a time, he would ask them all at once so that she would hopefully answer them all without getting angry at him. It was worth a try anyways, so, marshalling them all into order within his mind, he opened his mouth and launched into the few he had at the moment. "What is potionry? And when you say summoning, do you mean of magics or of creatures? What do flare, holy, dragoon and samurai mean?"
His voice, as he spoke had lowered in volume within moments of his begining as he suddenly noticed the giant snakey-fish beneath them and his face turned grey as the blood drained from it, but he continued despite his fear, having already decided that if he didn't trust Lynnexia, he wouldn't be trusting anyone at this place. You always had to start somewhere. He didn't ask about the last class because he had already decided which one he would take, not because he wanted either one, but through the process of elimination. To Kyr, Puppetmaster sounded far too much like slave master, and that, he would not which to become. Therefore, his only other option was survival, and that ought to help him well enough.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jun 26, 2007 14:59:57 GMT -5
"Potionry is learning to make magical elixers and concoctions, summoning is learning to summon beasts and other creatures, Flare is learning dark magic, Holy is light magic, Dragoon is the art of dragon riding, and samurai is learning how to negate an opponent's magic and even using it against them." she explained all at once with a nod and they could already see the stately outline of Twilight Moon Academy through the fog, "Almost there." she said with a satisfied tone.
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Post by Nemaisare on Jun 26, 2007 15:07:42 GMT -5
Kyr listened, the answer only giving him more questions, though he managed to hold his tongue and let her finish. The curt way she replied told well enough that he was welcome to ask as many questions as he liked, so long as they were sensible and not impertinent. so he continued almost as soon as she had finished, although he turned in his seat to find their destination. "What is the difference between light and dark magic? Is it what they do, how they are used or something else?" He paused momentarily, trying to find the word he wanted, then bulled through that questtion and went on to the next. "How does negating work?"
That last was more because he wanted to know what the word meant rather than what happened, though as his suspicions grew, so did the uneasy sensation of the rough cord bout his neck. No one ever quite got used to it, although generally, the feeling could be ignored, but maybe this time it was more from hope than anything else.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jun 26, 2007 15:12:08 GMT -5
Lynexia smiled, most of the time students would guess on meanings and she'd seen students make silly mistakes once they got to The Academy, this one was inquisitive. "Light magic specializes in healing and things of that sort, as well as doing damage to creatures of dark elements while dark magic is normally more violent than anything else and almost always dealing damage to opponents." She nodded to accentuate the end of her sentance and the paused to think of a way to put the meaning of negating, "And negating is to take someone's attack or negative magic that they have aimed at you and either send it back at them or stop it before it can do damage to you." She nodded as she looked at Kyr, "Anything else? Or are you ready to tell me your class choices?" she asked sweetly.
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Post by Nemaisare on Jun 26, 2007 15:38:06 GMT -5
Still listening as attentively as when they had begun, Kyr nodded that he thought he was ready, although there was a small frown as he spoke. "I think so, kerien. But..." He stopped there, suddenly realising that if he wanted to get the answer he needed, he was going to have to go far beyond the small trust he had. No, for now, he truly did not think he could, nor was it altogether a safe thing to do. "I am thinking that I will take Potionry, Thievery and Survival, though I am still unsure of the other one."
He wasn't trying to be difficult, it was just that Kyr wasn't certain if his magic would constitute as dark magic. He used the shadows, after all, but very few of the spells he knew were violent. The healing would be helpful, he knew that much though he wasn't certain if the summoning was better. On second thought... "No, I will go with Holy, I think." He spoke more decisively than he had before, and now, each decision made, he continued to watch as the large shape grew even larger as they closed the distance between it and them.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jun 26, 2007 15:56:43 GMT -5
Lynexia nodded at Kyr's deciscion and she could see the ground beneath them and they had quite a bit of distance to go to get to the earth and she stomped on the very farthest region of the right corner and tapped her fingers at the back of her left foot, the glider came to a spinning stop and small rockets under the glider silently fired underneath them and they gently lowered to the ground and Lynexia popped open a compartment on the glider and pulled out a small orb, about three inches in diameter, holding it up between her thumb and forefinger. "I have a gift for you." she said as she looked at the item with a smile.
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Post by Nemaisare on Jun 26, 2007 16:05:23 GMT -5
As soon as the glider even started to stop, Kyr was hanging on with all his strength, it wasn't that he wanted to hurt himself, it was that he was perfectly uncomfortable right now and he really didn't want to fall. Shutting his eyes and taking deep breathes settled his stomach, but it did very little for his wrecked composure. He still had his eyes shut when she told him that she had a gift, and, despite his curiousity, he opened them reluctantly. And was quite pleased to find that they were back on solid ground.
His hands relaxed their deathgrip, but he didn't let go, because he knew what would happen if he did that without getting permission. So he simply looked at the small globe Lynexia held. He wondered what it was, and decided that another question wouldn't be all that bad. "What is it, kerien?"
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jun 26, 2007 16:17:18 GMT -5
"It's called a diamond orb and it's for you!" She smiled, wondering in the back of her mind why Kyr was still holding on. Lynexia stepped off of the glider and looked at her student, beckoning for him to follow, "It'll summon up to three Ice Golems for you, but be careful because summoning can seem tiring at first." She nodded and tossed the item to Kyr. **Kyr has recieved the Diamond Orb** A small, crystal clear orb with white light eminating from it's center The diamond orb may summon up to three ice golems to aid in battle.
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