The little Tanuki comes in..

[Sarah]

( I wanted to add more to it >.<)

"Why did I have to come here alone.." The small voice of a little demon said. The cold Air was blowing through her air, she shivered a bit and covered her head up so her ears would not get cold "I don't get it...Why couldn't big brother come with me too... why.." She Glanced around and gulped a bit, Her ears were shaking. she looked around in the Dark and took a step back, she stepped back into a spot where the wood was Weak and cracked and broke though, hearing this noise started the little Tanuki and made her take off running in a direction toward the path to the forest " I HATE THIS!" she yelled out hoping that whatever she thought the noise was would not follow. ' Please let big brother come here soon too...' she thought.

She ran till she got to a tree not going any further. The little Tanuki's name Was Sarah, and she was sent to this area thinking it was safer..but..she had to come without her older brother Koto. So at the moment, she had no clue what to do or where to go. "Where is the place I'm going to go anyway...and...how the heck do I get there....ya know....this would be allot easier if I was not like..7 >.<"

She Sat down on the ground to wait for someone, anyone to come and look for her.. she did not want to go wandering..epically since she was so unfamiliar to this area..and she was small. "This place is kinda spooky.." she Squeaked, and sighed to herself.

"I don't wanna be here anymore.." She sighed and looked up at the sky " and the worse part is they had to send me here at night.. I may be a Tanuki...but.. I still don't like the dark to much.." she whimpered slightly, but she snapped out of it "I gotta be brave....I can do this..." Yes.. she was talking to herself, she did that allot when she was alone..and scared, It made her feel comforted. With her she seemed to carry a tattered looking tan colored stuffed rabbit, she almost always had this with her all the time..it was what Koto gave her before she left where he was, so she did not wanna let go of it.

[Ladd Russo of the Russo Family]

(I am very, very sorry for the delay, Sarah. TMA hits some bumpy potholes when the start of school comes in, but I can promise you prompt responses in the future. *bows hurridly*)

The last thing the little Tanuki probably wanted to see was the fellow walking up to her at this very moment. He was very tall and lithe to the point of frail, with legs and arms almost disproportionately long. Clothing consisted of a skin-tight body suit of a dark purple and ribbed variety, the sleeves stopping a quarter way past the elbow and the pants stopping halfway down the calves. His hands were in the pockets of a baggy pair of dark brown shorts that stopped just short of those knobbly knees.

All in all, his garb and stature were very unremarkable compared to his face. It was a pale face, and it seemed oddly smooth, as if the normal details of a human face had been blurred, or done by an unexperienced artist who had in despair simplified it. His eyes were tilted at the corners exotically, but that wasn't the important part. They seemed little more than windows, and they glowed a fierce orangey red color, as if he had a deep furnace inside his head. The only evidence of pupils or irises were slightly lighter orange circles in those horrible glowing eyes. His mouth was not only twisted into a smile, but his lips were sewn together with strong looking black thread.

Atop his head was a tightly woven steepled hat that was a few shades darker than the long, straw colored bangs that framed each side of his face (the rest of his hair was relatively short), and it had many sewing needles stuck in it like a pincushion. Ah yes, he was a comforting presence.

With his odd, sweeping and jerky gait, largely due to the fact he walked on his tiptoes, the man... creature?... stopped next to Sarah, looking down at her curiously.

[Sarah]

(I Its perfectly OK ^-^ I understand completely! school can be a pain in the booty sometimes XDD I tend to poof on and off anyway cause my dad keeps deleting my sites >,<)

The little Tanuki Perked up some.. she did not expect the figure beside her and let out a quiet gulp. she slowly turned to the figure and looked at him. She quickly jumped back in slight shock of the figure, after all she thought was was alone, and fall onto her bottom. She looked up again, her Eyes were very wide and frightened at first, as she looked the strange figure up and down..trying to figure something out.

"W..W..Who are you?" Sarah asked with a more squeaky and scared voice then before, she was not sure if this person was there to bring her to the school she had herd academy she had herd about..or was there to hurt her, so she was very cautious.

She rested her hands on the ground to hold up her figure cause she was leaning back in a scared sitting like way. She was very jumpy..but she was a little kid so it was understandable why..but..she really had no sense of weather people were good or evil..so..she was always cautious around new people..not to mention the fact she was a small compared to most kids..which made her jumpiness worse.

'W..Where did this person come from..' she thought, looking at his figure gain, she did not bother to get up..seing that she was so jumpy she would probably fall down again "W..Who are you.." she asked it a second time...only cause she had forgotten she already asked being rather flustered.

[Ladd Russo of the Russo Family]

(Now fate just plays against me. -- This time the delay was my upstairs computer Maximillian getting horribly sick with some kind of computer cancer. I can't log on with my downstairs computer... ._. We've just gotten Max a new hardrive, hoping to fix him, but even though he seems slightly better, he's had a reoccurence of symptoms that has really gotten us down...)

He smiled an stooped down next to her, looking like a praying mantis with all that excess of folded leg.

"Call me Sol. I take it you're Sarah? I'll be your teacher here at Twilight Moon Academy, and I'm also supposed to guide you to the school. Do you mind if we walk around the lake? Being on water always makes me giddy, and just a bit seasick," he admitted, one hand behind his head and grinning amiably. It was a very odd pose for someone so hellish looking.

[Sarah]

( I hope your computer gets fixed >W< I disappear because I keep loosing the link to the lite >.< )

Sarah called down allot once she saw It was a teacher and got back to her feet nodding her head "Yes..I'm Sarah.." she said "and I don't mind..its nice to meet you" she bowed a little bit in a respectful way.. she always was like that. Though you could she she was still really jumpy.

"I..I apologize for my actions...I mean...me kinda freaking out cause you seemed to appear from no where.. I mean..I'm just really really easily scared...and since I don't have my big brother with me its well..sorta hard for me not to be...heh..that And I'm tiny.." she sweat dropped

[Ladd Russo of the Russo Family]

He held up a long finger and laughed. "You're not small. Everyone else is simply too big. You're not easily scared, either, you are just wary. But you being of perfect size or having a great ability to sense potential danger is besides the point. Well met, Sarah." Straightening up, he started to walk. Because his legs were so long and his stride so sweeping, he still covered a lot of distance even though his gait was extremely laid back.

"So tell me Sarah, why did you come here? Where is your brother?"

[Sarah]

" Heh..no.. I'm really small.." she looked away " Ive always been really small..butt its OK.. I will get bigger...and less jumpy.." she smiled a bit. but then frowned at his last two questions.

"Uhh..well..." Sarah stopped momentarily looking away. her ears back "I..Its a little bit of a long storry.." she looked at the sky "uhh..y..ya see....They thought it would be safer for mt here..instead of back where I loved...c..case.." she stopped again looking back at him "C..Cause my Parents got in trouble with some people..and well...the people came to are home..a..and killed them.." she said that part in a squeaky voice, she was shaking when she said that.

"So...they thought that it would be safer for me here..but they wouldn't let me big brother go till they questioned him a bit..so they sent me alone.." she sighed." and..thats how I'm here..."

[Ladd Russo of the Russo Family]

Solomon's fiery eyes narrowed, but they softened as well. He bent down and put a hand briefly on her head in an odd gesture, though it was meant to be a comforting one.

"That's horrible," he said, his voice calm but serious. "Twilight Moon Academy is not one of the safest places in the world, but I won't let you get hurt. I have a small problem with protecting people; it will probably annoy you before long," he said, one of those painfully honest statements again. Solomon seemed to have no problem saying his own faults, just denying the faults of others.

"What are you training here as? And feel free to ask any questions.... Hm, let me find your class list...." The scarecrow looking man looked through the surprising amount of pockets on his half-pants as he walked, searching for the elusive list.

[Sarah]

Sarah smiled "its OK really..heh.." she laughed a little when he put his hand on her head,it was her automatic reaction to that gesture. Her ears perked up "Oh..I don't really get annoyed easy..I normally have Koto constantly trying to keep me safe..he really is overprotective..." she sighed, she really did miss him at the moment, she put her hand on a necklace that was underneath her shirt, but was doing it in a way that she didn't want him to notice.

"Heh..well..they figured here was safer cause I could try and control my powers here..and not be such a trouble maker..not that I really was one.. Its just when I try tochange..when I do I tend to accidentally break things.." she sweat dropped.

She tilted her head to his other question "Oh..I'm training as a shape shifter I think..I mean..I have some animals down..heh..but I tend to mess up allot when I try turning into bigger animals..so all I can turn into now are small ones like rodents..But I think I can get better..atleast I hope I can.."

[Ladd Russo of the Russo Family]

"That's pretty impressive for a new student, my girl," he said. With a small 'ah' of triumph Solomon retrieved a miniature list, which he held delicately between his finger and thumb.

"You have Magic, Weaponry, Alchemy, Beastry, and Master classes to start. Every student of your grade has them, but you also have to pick and choose electives.

"Seventh period you have either Music, History, or Potionry. Eighth is Holy, Flare, or Summoning. Ninth is Dragoon, Samurai, or Thievery. Finally, for tenth or last period, there is either Survival or Puppetmaster class.

I know this can seem a little confusing," he admitted as he strolled. "So feel free to ask questions. Knowledge is power, my girl."

[Sarah]

Sarah tilted her head "wow...that certainly is allot of things at once.." she put her finger up to her mouth, her fluffy little tail was wagging I don't really know about the electives though... "Probably Potionry,Summoning,Samurai,and survival..those are what ones sound interesting to me!" she grinned happily.

"so mister..y..you really think I'm good for what I can do so far...heh.." she blushed "my big brother knows lots more then me!.. heh..hes the one that taught me how to do the things I can do now..".

[Ladd Russo of the Russo Family]

"Oh, don't call me mister," he protested with a laugh. "Sol, or at the very least Solomon. It is a lot all at once, but you'll shape up to it. This is supposed to fun, after all."

While he walked he scribbled on a formal looking piece of paper before handing it to her with a flourish. He had to bend down like a bow to reach her.

"Here's your schedule; try not to misplace it," he warned.

***Sarah receives Schedule***
1: Magic
2: Weaponry
3: Alchemy
4: Beastry
5: Master
6: BREAK
7: Potionry
8: Summoning
9: Samurai
10: Survival

[Sarah]

Sarah smiled in a happy cheerful way, taking the Schedule " Thank you misst...I means Sol..." she bowed to him, she was going to need to get used to it...seeing normally people she just met she calls them mister or ma'am for quite a while..but she determined herself not to do that.

She read the Schedule and tried to memorize it the best she could, though she knew she could keep track of it.. she was good at keeping track of things for they would not get lost.

"This is going to be scary at first.." she admitted "I'm not very good around new people...atleast not at first." she sighed a bit " I may be kinda quiet in my classes...I don't speak up allot.." The little girl looked at the ground some, then she looked at Sol "h..Hey...w..what class do you teach?...".

[Ladd Russo of the Russo Family]

"I don't teach any general class this year. I'm more of a helper for odd jobs in the school, but I usually double as a Master Teacher too. And don't worry about being shy either. You've got a lot of steel in you; I think you could really hold your own if you needed to," he said seriously.

The school came into view ahead, a mass of misty towers and sweeping terraces of stone, all alit with hundreds of window glazed lights. The walk up to the school was a rippling sea of emerald grass, with a packing dirt path running through it like a river.

"Are you really afraid? It'll be a change, but think of all t he fun you'll have."

[Sarah]

Sarah sighed some "you really think that?" she asked..wondering if he really meant what he said. she looked at him in a pleading way. "thank you.." she said very softly..almost a squeak " but its still not gonna change me being shy..or nervious..or afraid of whats gonna happen..but..I guess... I guess its easy to be frightened.. I just have to look forward and be brave... Ive gotta look ahead and try to do my best.."

As soon as the school came into view, the little girl seemed to grip her locket tightly in comfort for her "Yea...im Scared...but its ok...Evreyone can be scared of new things at first..Right?" She looked at him with a reassuring smile " I think I will be OK..once I get used to everything here I mean..heh..never know whats ahead unless you try to go for it.."