Academia Everia

Silviana halted, folding her arms again and simply not turning around. "Please return me to the Academy. I have already informed you that I have no interest in doing business with you. You quite clearly do not need my Academy's resources. There are no doubt many other, far more willing magic users out there for you to ask to be your apprentices." she said, maintaining her cool composure.

She adjusted her hat pointedly, "This place is very impressive, I am sure. But it is not something I am interested in."

She sighed, and shook her head. "Fine, then you must enjoy your stay."She said, turning around, to face her, she smirked once again, and simply turned around, again."The exit is this way, and I wish to donate this Library to the academy. This magic needs to be let loose into the world once again."She said, sighing, having almost just left the damned basta-Witch there. With another sigh, she rose her hand, and motioned for Silviana to follow her. "And it comes with several other buildings too, for the low low price of free!"She said, rolling her eyes, at herself, a small, sad, smile gracing her face, as she walked through the doors on the other side of the room.

The obviously distraught woman, walked out the door with a shake of the head. As soon as she stepped out of the door, she breathed in the fresh air, and looked to the beautiful garden-scape infront of her, and the white marble buildings. This place, what ever it was, was truly beautiful. With a small smile on her face, one that was not so sad, she turned around, hoping for the wit-mage to come out, who she was gaining more and more respect for by the second, she actually liked the woman, even though she knew the feeling wasn't returned. "And I don't have the resources you do, there is no one else here."She said, turning around, and walking over to a marble bench, obviously to sit on it, and think, until the mage decided to come out, or wizard, or what ever she was, either way, she was a magic user. She was giddy, and truly hoping for something good to come out of this, but she was also worried, she was worried about the bad that she knew would come out of this, it always did.

Silviana turned with a sigh, following Kyrite. She held her wand uneasily, but she doubted that it would be of much use to her. Evidently, this woman was more powerful than her. Her black dress catching the breeze as she stepped into the garden, the headmistress met Kyrite's smile with a faint frown of concern. "I can see no reason for you to be giving me this," Silviana waved a hand as she searched for words, "Extraplanar complex, if that is what it is. Where are we, exactly?"

She cast her eyes around, taking in the sights. "I am sure that you could convince any independent magic user to join you here. There are doubtless many within Wing City. However, those at Everia are loyal to the Academy. That is a condition of enrolment, amongst others." Remaining standing on the path a short distance from where Kyrite sat, Silviana looked to the woman. "If you wish to donate books of knowledge, then be my guest, but I do not think we could incorporate this ... place readily. Your intentions seem to be fluctuating to and fro unpredictably, if I may say so. At first you desire things from us, but now you wish to give? Forgive me if I am confused..."

She sighed, and nodded. "I-I am not sure what I want, I wish to be kind, but so many years of war, and bitterness, do a lot to a person. I ju-I just-May I enroll at the academy?Please, there are so many new kinds of Magics, I know nothing about, there. Like, for one, new summons, I use the ancient thralls, and humanoid soldiers, and giants, you use new things, like dragons, giant birds, stuff like that. I-,"she sighed again, biting her toungue, as she struggled for the words to say,"there is nothing else here, not even that stray little squirrl, that you adore, despite how many times it steals your food, oh I see so many of those."She said, a small smile gracing her face, as she remembered that old squirrl, from when she was little."Hehe, I suppose, I confuse people, but I am ancient, and trust me, I could not fight you, I would hate to, I would probably die, infact, well, for a short while, bu-You know. I just-I ju-I just want a place to belong, everything falls, and falls around you. Immortality, is more of a curse, then a blessing, I can give it up though, but I need to give something first, before I do, I will be as powerful as ever, as old as ever, but I will still be young. Anyway, I will be reborn, of course, as all Fains are, if they die, forever."She said, furrowing her brows, as she struggled for words, obviously just, confused. "There is nothing worse, then confusion, Mi'lady. I wish to gift, wish to gain what I desire, to be set free of these shackles, no longer gazing on the sorry and pitiful lifes of mortals, I wish to forget, after I die, truly die, for the first time, I wish to-jus-I wish to just me me, flying in the sky, heart mended, bones set, glasses cleaned, then all, settles, down."She smiled to herself, as if a heavy burden had been lifted. "By the way, Head-Mistress, there is a gate here, I could set up one at the academy. This could also function as a safe room, in case of an attack, in each gate, if an area is under attack, a spell is activated, and a massive shield put around the building it is protecting, if the shield breaks, the whole building, and all inhabitants are transported here, -if- you wish it to be so, or someone of authority wishes it to be so."She says, smiling at the woman, after taking a look at the wizard, or what ever she was.

Silviana inclined her head, "Thank you, but no thank you." she said, "Your offer is appreciated, but the Academy is already sufficiently defended from the threats that it faces. You must forgive my reluctance to accept strange new magics from an individual I have known for all of ten minutes, regardless of what you tell me of yourself. As for enrolment, I must sadly refuse - one such as yourself is beyond our capability to teach, not to mention the fact that all our places are taken. If you meant as a teacher, I am afraid I am not looking to hire at present, either."

The headmistress glanced down at her watch, "If I may be returned to the Academy, I do have a meeting to attend." she said curtly. "It has been a pleasure speaking with you, however."

"All right, kiddo. Mommy says you have to go to school now." Darien still couldn't believe he was out in the open like this. Maybe this was the power of a succubus?

"She's not my real mommy!" Grin pouted as they marveled at the imposing structure.

"She is until your birth mother shows up," hissed the older male, tugging a little arm behind him to much bawling and complaining...that suddenly turned into a wing. Grin was very good at going where he wanted when he wanted, thanks to that damn shapeshifting power of his.

"Fuck, he's on the wing. Ike, honey, mind flying up there and bringing him down?"

Ike's eyes narrowed on her son. "Grin Brown, you get your butt down here right now." She said very firmly, crossing her arms. "It's the law, kiddo. You have to go to school, or you'll go to jail. You can't shift in jail." She said firmly, voice barely raised at all. Seriously, Darien could be a bit of a pushover when it came to Grin.

Still, she sighed and tapped her foot. "And don't say mean things like that. I know I'm not your birth mom, but I sure as hell have raised yo as best I can." Okay, he was being raised in a brothel and knew way more about sex than he really should at him age, but that was life. If his teachers asked, she'd own up to it and dare them to comment.

A woman had to put food on the table. If her food happened to consist of her customers, then oh well. The profits still fed and clothed Grin, with his insatiable appetite.

"All right. Now we're going to walk in here and register you for basic classes, okay?"

The place looked more like a military academy, though. Lots of weapons to accentuate the potent battle magic tomes scattered about, or replicas thereof with no real power. Grin seemed sufficiently cowed by all the strong people here. Finally, something that kept the dude in line.

"Hello, enrollments? We'd like to register our, ah, adopted son in basic training. He seems to have the gift of shapeshifting...and with two working parents, a child is left with little direction and much free time. We'd like to make sure he doesn't get up to too much mischief."

Whether an Erutin's shapeshifting was the result of magical meddling or just a natural quirk would soon be determined by whether a dispel could keep him fixed in his current form.

Books lined the halls and shelves of the vast library. The overall military feel reminded her so much of her home. The white robed feline woman was observing a magic user teaching possible students, she fought within herself to not try and correct the guy, Everyone had different takes on magic, its uses, and what one could do with it.

But the idea of magic having a price to pay for it made her wonder just what he meant. Did it mean she could not return home ? No, she had Misto, most likely nose in a magic book. Judging by how quiet the library was, Gridd knew she'd have to find her friend before he poofed into the area and either scare the humans out of their minds, or startle her into starting a fire.

So she wandered the library of the vast academy. The military feel felt oddly like home actually, each loevel of the massive place and many tiers of walls brought back possibly too many unwanted memories. But she then focused on finding her friend. Now or never.

Stepping through the many halls, Griddlebone took note of who else was within the massive library, Leaving the library after not finding who she sought she found herself soon wandering among several halls where men and women of various ages trained with combat magics. Other areas where men and women taught potion making, potions, interesting if not painful if gotten wrong. It made Gridd smirk as she passed, most humans like these had never seen a feline, much less a Jellicle wandering the halls. But most of the elders seemed more at ease of what they saw

After wandering for seemingly hours she finally found him, and also found a group of humans, most of them children, watching Mistos every move. Well, this was going to be interesting to see. She neared the group. watching how the children, most of the youngones at the least, focused on Misto's tail.

This was going to be interesting for sure! She stepped into view, as she did so she removed her hood of her white robes. It felt weird to wear clothing like a robe, normally she was used to a utlity belt for her sword.

Misto was smirking as he was entertaining everyone around him. Doing his show as he would jump over the crowd and disappear right before he landed on someone, appearing higher up in the air doing areal flips and tricks. He delighted in entertaining crowds and couldn't help but mystify the children around him.

As he did all his flips and tricks and magical acts of various kinds his tail would sway this way and that. A smug smirk on his face as he toyed with the crowd a bit. Noting that he saw Gridd in the crowd and a small blush formed. His smirk disappearing just a bit as he continued with the show. Staying fairly quiet as he showed people what he had in his hands. A small, red, rubber ball. No bigger than a baseball.

As he showed the crowd, the ball began to take many different shapes and even stretch out a bit. Forming into various things and creatures, dragons and castles and cannons and swords. He didn't like to mystify people with words, but with his actions. The Jellicle cat stepped gracefully around the area, turning the small rubber ball, which had resumed its original shape again, into a large soft blanket, and went over to Gridd and winked at her, pulling her out of the crowd and under the blanket. Silently putting his fingers up, 1, 2, 3! He snapped his fingers and attempted to make her "disappear". Or teleport her simply behind the crowd to make them think she disappeared anyway... Simple tricks any simple minded magic user could do, but used in ways that made crowds ooooh and aaah and wonder how it was done.

The tricks never got old. With Misto everything magic was new every time! It never got old.

When he came to her and winked she smiled, she knew what he meant when he droped the blanket over her. At the snap of his fingers there was a brief pluff of white smoke and a spark of light and Gridd had disappeared.

For a very brief moment she was gone. But another snap of the fingers and she appeared right next to Misto. Even though she was not as used to such attention as she had been growing up in the Vale back home. this took little getting used to. When the crowd thinned and the students went back to learning Gridd could not help but smile at how many of the kids were so focused on Misto, each trick, though she had seen most of them, were always new in some way.

For one thing she never expected him ot have a ball change shape in many designs. Had he done it with her before ? It was harder to remember on this world. Never the less, It was soon time when she spied what this ... magic school of a saort... called a clock, it wasn't a sandail or moondial, but it'd do.

It was nearly time for them to meet the head honcho of this camp.

So to speak.

So when the group had dispersed and a few kids remained, Gridd turned to her dear friend. "I wondered where you had gone off to, did you learn some new sklls ? I do not remember the ball magic" She said softly while giving her dear friend a hug. "Good morning!" Apparently she had found the coffee on this world. She seemed, well, awake as one could be!

"Shaping a rubber ball isn't that hard...." He spoke softly as he hugged the woman back, a darker blush forming on his cheeks."And good morning to you too." He said in reply. "The ball magic is easy, but only because the ball is made of rubber, so its stretchy and easy to bend to how I want things to look. Its a lot harder with things that don't do that....say.....a rock...or things of that nature. I'm still trying to figure out how to do things like that."

He let Gridd go from the hug but took her hand as his tail swayed left and right just a little bit. "So, what do you think of this place so far? it seems a little too....military like....for my tastes. I'm an entertainer, not a warrior...." Misto spoke to the woman. Giving a sigh. Why were people interested in blasting things to oblivion or freezing things so hard that they can't be melted or disolving someone from the inside out? What happened to fun magics like changing colors of fur or making yourself grow an extra tail for an hour or making yourself look like a cartoon? Why do angry things instead of fun things?

Misto pondered this for awhile before shaking his head and watching Gridd, waiting for a reply to his earlier question. He couldn't help but stare at his beautiful companion, so....mystifying, so pretty....so....so.... His mind couldn't find the words to describe how she looked and sounded and how just....amazing....this other cat was. Smart, cute, funny, flawless. At least to him she was anyway.

"It reminds me a lot of home" She replied softly, her hand in his, It felt really odd wearing the robe. "I never learned it, or for that matter saw you do it before until now. Nothing is ever old with you my dear friend, with you, and magic, everything is always new. And for me, that is good. Because its you."

"Shaping rocks is hard to learn, but. This place oddly feels like home to me. You know I'm a warrior mage of a sort, Papa said I was destined to be such" It was of course how she was born at the time. the only kitten for about a year. But one thing she'd never forget was that fateful first meeting with Misto when she first arrived at the Vale, the Wizards Vale. To learn magic. With him.

"You bring smiles to others faces when they're done, You may not be a warrior, but you're my warrior..." Oh skat, the cat was out of the bag, literally! She smiled, in a simple attempt to change the subject she said to cover her own blush under her unless white fur, "I remember our first meeting, at the Vale. I was so nervous, Tugger made me.... uneasy that first day."

Misto smiled and thought back to that day as well."I remember that day too. Tugger was picking on you and I got him to go away so you wouldn't feel so wracked about being at Vale." He nodded. "Man that happened a while a go didn't it? It feels like it was just yesterday...."

"Two peas in a pod since then, right?" He chuckled a bit and flipped his wrist around in front of Gridd, producing a yellow flower to give to her, to help her relax a bit. This place had a tension around it....military places usually do, a reverence about it that screamed "No fun allowed" and "Only seriousness here." Kind of things. Maybe he should cause a bit of mischief.....No....no...that was a bad idea, a very....very bad idea...

His eyes looked around the academy, noting the tall structures, oh how he would so love to climb them and sit up high. Looking out over everything else in the area, and the sunset....or sunrise.....or both....with Gridd by his side. Maybe with a couple of fresh fish if there was a lake near by that he could get to. Make a proper date out of it and show her a good portion of the world around them at the same time.

Misto always liked to try and provide Gridd with good views of the world. Trying to show the positivity in people and places.

"I am still surprised he became a soldier at the Vale as well. Munkus too" Gridd recalled how Tugger, and briefly, his brother Munkus, were made soldiers in the Jellicle army, but for Munkus it didnt last long as he ended up dropping the army all together and following in someone elses footsteps. In fact gridd knew both toms had no magical skills whatsoever, but there was something off about Munkus, he had skills unlike anything she'd ever seen.

But that didnt matter at the moment, what mattered were the two of them together. It was as if fate had brought them together. "I remember that first sunrise over the Vale too. That one we shared together, I could barely sleep that night I wasnt used to being away from home so long at the time" but now she traveled like heck, she never stayed in the same place more then two nights, even if it was in the same town she constantly moved place to place.

But the Wizards Vale was her home. She was born there, raised in her families truly massive four teired compound within the Vale. the four leveled home was huge, many soldiers, servants, teachers, friends and extended family. But when she started her studies at the Vale itself. Under Bluemane.

She never forgot the first time she met Misto, he seemed well aquainted with the massive Vale halls and many rooms, had been there a while before herself. But what made it all the more reassuring was his attitude towards Tugger and the leopard toms failed advances towards her. It was as if Misto could see her birth mark, which only anyone magical could. She felt scared at the time, but Misto stuck with her through their training, it made her feel better. She smiled and nodded, almost laughing. "Yes, it does feel like yesterday we first met does'nt it ?"

K'gara has arrived, coming from Eastern Crossroads.

K'gara wags more as she walks by

K'gara has left the area, heading west into Eastern Crossroads.

K'gara has arrived, coming from Eastern Crossroads.

K'gara has left the area, heading east into Academia Celestia.