Alexander Lute's Story

GM POST

and so the duels ended with a good end, at that moment the lunch bell rang. signaling for the students to either got o the mess hall, wonder the school or go off grounds for lunch. most of the students in Prof. Gray's class left the moment the bell rang while other straggled behind but they eventually left for better use of their time as they would describe . . .

"Lunch, Roof, Practice" Asuna said. Ryner decided to agree by nodding simply. There was no reason to speak. Ryner watched the fight, still interested. He wondered what Ellis and Gray thought of his father, but he didn't think it would be right to simply ask. Ryner had his attention on Ellis, interested in what the weapon was capable of. Ryner never underestimated his opponents or allies, taking every fight seriously. Ryner returned his attention to the battle as Katsu raced towards Gray. He watched her fight, an interesting strategy nonetheless. Ryner wasn't surprised when Gray managed to dodge, mostly due to Gray being a teacher. Ryner could rarely train with his father, considering the fact that his father could break every one of Ryner's bones on accident. Ryner wondered what Gray was hoping for when he went to hit Katsu's stomach. Ryner didn't wonder why Katsu took the hit. It was an obvious reason, she didn't want her partner to get hit. Ryner guessed that the battle would soon be over soon, but there was always room for possibilities.

Alexander Lute, an adult with a short temper, was made to do paperwork due to him not having to deal with students on the first day. Snap!, the pen he was using now had a broken tip, and the ink went onto all the papers he had just finished. He tried desperately to not be violent, considering the fact that he ironically didn't like violence. Too late, he had already crushed the remaining body of the pen in his hand and had gotten ink all over his hand. He felt lucky that he didn't get ink over his clothes, not wanting to figure out how long it took to get ink out of clothes. "Why was I, of all people, assigned to this?" He mumbled to himself. Oh, how the other teachers must have been laughing at the fact that he was assigned paperwork. Well, the teachers probably were more professional than that, but Alexander simply didn't care to think logically while having ink on him.

He stood up from his classroom, and went to a bathroom, preparing to wash his hands. The academy didn't allow him to smoke, which was a thing that helped him calm himself. He didn't need to smoke, but it helped him calm his nerves. He walked in and out of the bathroom, washing his hands and drying them. At least the ink came off. He would have went back to his office and continued working, but he knew he would probably end up breaking something. He instead went outside, putting his hands on his sides and stretching his body. At least his sunglasses kept away the sun's rays. He walked randomly and eventually spotted Gray in the distance. He had a slight urge to go and speak to Gray, but not enough to interrupt.

He simply watched the fight with interest, wondering how strong the new students would be mentally and physically. He watched until the bell rang, signaling lunch for the students, and his chance to 'borrow' his son for a bit. He walked calmly yet quickly up to the location his son was at. Nothing needed to be said for Ryner to notice his father. "Need something?" Ryner asked, wondering what could be important. "I want you to come practice with me, we can't have you being weak now, can we?" Alexander said, looking at his son's meister. A bit of sadness was shown in his eyes, remembering his meister, but the sadness was quickly replaced by his normally calm look. "You're coming too." Alexander said, looking at Asuna. He wouldn't force them to come, but he couldn't quite ask them to come without sounding forceful. It was just a problem with being freakishly strong. "Well then, let's go Asuna." Ryner said, anticipating the spar that would probably be soon brought on. Alexander waved at Gray, remembering that Gray existed, but he quickly returned to the matter at hand. He picked up both Asuna and Ryner, using both of his hands to ease movement. He then used his strong legs and ran towards a simple training location, forgetting that most humans weren't used to the suddenness of being carried and quickly transported. Alexander wasn't even slightly tired, building a high stamina from his years of training and being a hot-headed kid. He dropped the two abruptly. "This should suffice. I'd take you to the roof of the building, but we'd probably break something and the roof isn't very easy to move on." Alexander stated, not expecting a response. He had broken a couple of things when he began being a Professor, but he eventually got the idea to reinforce most of his class. He got himself in a fighting stance and prepared to help the two train, "I'll stop and give you kids time to eat after forty minutes of practice." Alexander said, a bit excited at the idea of practicing.

After a while of practice, Ryner was extremely tired. He let go of his weapon form and laid down on the floor. He had taken quite a bit of hits. He was surprised he hadn't broken. "Stop, please." He said, holding his hands up in defeat. "Fine, but expect to have more training tomorrow." Alexander, said proud that his son hadn't broken to pieces. Alexander was barely tired. He decided to let the kids walk back to the academy, considering they were only a few feet away. They had moved closer to the school while fighting, as to not have to move very much. Ryner and Asuna began eating.

Alexander entered the school, eating his lunch while moving. He decided to visit Gray, walking quickly into the other Professor's classroom. "Gray, how did it go?" He asked, wondering what Gray thought of the new students.

"Ah hello Alex, to answer your question, it went swimmingly!" Gray said after finishing a mouthful of his sandwich. "So, how have you been? Oh, and in case you didn't know, your son is in my class, he seems like a good kid" Gray said standing up to face Alexander (or as Gray called him, Alex). "I also have someone I never thought I'd see again in my class, but that's not important, the important thing is, what going on with you? I haven't seen you in the teachers lounge, but then again, I don't really look" Gray said, letting out a laugh. He looked at Alex to see what his reply would be.

Alexander was quite relieved that everything went swimmingly, since he wouldn't be forced to spend time training weak pairs. "I've been quite well, aside from breaking every pen I get a hold of." He said this with a bit of dismay. "Ryner will probably need a lot of training, then again, he learns pretty quickly." He said, a bit of pride in his voice. "Ehh, I rarely go into the teacher's lounge." He stood up, an innocent look on his face. "Not after last time." He was referring to the time when he accidentally broke quite a bit of stuff while training previous meister and weapon pairs. "Oh, I'm sorry to cut this conversation short, but I've got to go." He said, pointing at the watch he didn't have on. He waved goodbye and ran back to his little office, determined to not break any more pens.

"See you around Alex" Gray said as Alexander left the classroom, then turned his attention to the weapon and meister pair that had told him they thought a witch was in the city "You think you found a witch eh? What proof do you have that this person is really a witch? Even if they are using soul protect, what can you say that will make me deduct an investigation of this matter?" Gray sighed "Anyway, you were right to come to me when you thought you saw a witch, now what proof is there?"

Miyamoto Tetsuko

It didn’t take too long for her to purchase lunch for the two of them, and Tetsuko soon found herself looking for a place where they could enjoy their food. There were many open seats to choose from, but Tetsuko decided on a table a little further away from the other students. It wasn’t because she was antisocial, but rather she knew Katsu would prefer eating in a less distracting environment. That, and there were things to be discussed.

Tetsuko began her meal with a cheerful, “Itadakimasu~!” and tried to slowly enjoy her food as quickly as possible. Each bite was full of glorious flavor that helped fill her stomach and reenergize her soul. This had nothing to do with the food being yakisoba, rather any food would have been received with a similar welcome by her starving and empty stomach.

“Hmm.. so who are we going to spar with…” Tetsuko thought aloud. She thought back to when everyone was introducing themselves in the classroom. “Well in our class, I remember there was that small girl from the Archer family. From what I’ve heard that family’s supposed to have some really talented meisters. What was her name? It was a boy’s name that started with an ‘A’… oh wait I guess that makes her a boy then. Anyways, for such a famous name he’s kind of small and doesn’t look very tough. His weapon – Muzai, was it? – seems pretty fun and energetic, though I haven’t seen what sort of weapon she is.”

“Then there’s Hikari, the girl with the long hair. In her introduction she said she specialized in melee combat, though didn’t her partner say he could turn into a gun? Innes I think his name was… Yeah I think I remember hearing him say he was a gunblade. That might make for an interesting spar.”

“There was also that tall girl, Asuna. I don’t know about you, but I thought her introduction was kind of grim. However her partner is that smiling guy, Ryner Lute. I remembered his name because he said Alexander Lute is his father. Remember? The really strong teacher? It might be interesting to see how strong he is, even though he said he wasn’t anything like his father.”

“Oh! There was also that girl that came into the classroom late. Her name was Yuzuki, or something similar. I don’t really remember her partner all that well, but she was the one who interrupted our duel with Professor Archon. Her weapon form is a bow, which might not be the best for her partner if we ever catch them in melee.”

Hmm. I think that’s about everyone in our class, thought Tetsuko, I hope I didn’t forget anybody. Deciding her assessment to be complete, she said, “So what do you think?”

Alexander broke his desk out of pure rage. He resisted the urge to curse like a sailor, gritting his teeth. It was surprising that his teeth didn't snap, then again, this was and is Alexander Lute. His desk was made out of a sturdy material, but it still couldn't handle a bit of his strength put on it. He was breathing heavily and had adrenaline rushing through his body.

He decided to calm down and not end up causing mass destruction through the school. He could, after all, still get in trouble for losing control. He walked towards the entrance of the Academy, but stopped before the reception desk. He noticed a young girl. He didn't have a scholarly smarts, but he did have street smarts. Sure, he could make himself a genius if he actually wanted to, given his time-based ability and all, but nobody would want a strong and intelligent teacher out. He was already dangerous enough as it was. He still had his glasses on, a small crack appearing on it. He fixed his hair and approached the young girl. "Do you need something?" His voice was calm and precise, showing no signs of his fit of rage earlier. His smile was hiding any leftover anger extremely well. He had heard what the young lady said, so he knew that she was of the prestigous Archer family, but he didn't care. She would get the same treatment as the other students at the school, excepting his son of course.

Amelia

"Do you need something?"

"Indeed." Amelia replied. "I'm not sure if you heard," this was a fib for politeness sake, she saw him within earshot, "but I need to speak with Lord Death on behalf of the Archer family, regarding some important matters. Do you know if he is busy at the moment?" Hopefully the anthropomorphic personification of death itself would be to shed some light on the situation, and, if Cassandra hadn't been exaggerating the strength of what she'd felt on the other side, he would likely have sensed it as well.

Arthur

After bidding farewell to the rest of the Archer family, the two began making their way back to the school before class began. This was less due to the fact that class would be starting soon, and more that they needed to walk all the way back to get there. After a short while of silence, aside from the clicking sounds of Arthur playing his game, and both of their footsteps, he turned to Muzai, though he didn't stop walking. "I'm sorry to have dragged you into that. I will say this however, at least it wasn't another gala. That would have been awful." Then, after a pause, added "Also, sorry about my sister; she can be a bit... inquisitive."

Alexander smiled nonchalantly and pulled out a mirror from what appeared to be hidden compartment in the wall nearest to him. He would have laughed at what she said, but he decided to give her the benefit of the doubt. "Don't know," He said this while shrugging, being careful to not hold the mirror too much. He didn't want to break the mirror now, did he? If you can read this, you have awesome zoom

"I can check if you want me to." He held the mirror in one hand and took off his glasses with the other. He put his glasses in his pocket, hoping to not obstruct his view. He didn't want Lord Death appearing on his glasses. He wrote "42-42-564" on the mirror and waited for a connection to Lord Death to establish. He didn't really care if he was interrupting something, since he assumed the girl was referring to something important.

Lord Death, the most optmistic whatever-he-is in his location, which just happens to be the Death Room, had answered a call from one of his staff.
"Hey! Hello! Waz Up! Oh it’s you Alexander Hows it going! Hope Ryner hasn’t been too much trouble for you? So what do you want to talk about? You didn’t destroy another class room did you?” waving huge white hands all over the place.

Alexander dropped the cup of tea he didn't have after hearing Lord Death say 'waz up'. He tried holding back a laugh, but he still had his body moving. He returned to his normal state after a minute or two of controlled laughter. "Some Archer girl wants to talk to you." He moved the mirror so it faced the girl. "It seems important, so I decided to call you on the mirror phone, or whatever this is. And Ryner hasn't been much of a trouble, which is something that confuses me." He didn't mind the destroying a classroom comment, since he probably would have done that some other time.

"Take the mirror if you want, or let me carry it, I don't care" He directed this towards Amelia. He wasn't one to meddle in the affairs of others.

Arthur

"A gala is sort of like a ball, the main difference being-" Suddenly, he was interrupted by Muzai suddenly taking him by the shoulders and shaking him. “gah Arthur I can’t remember- no wait yes I do remember something I remember blue hair . . . . And that’s it. Dammit why only blue hair” Clearly, she was rather frustrated. "Look at it this way, at least you now remember something that you didn't before. That's a step in the right direction." Seeing the lollipop, he added "Do you know where you got those?"

Amelia

Amelia had been about to protest, she knew how to use the mirror to call Lord Death, and had refrained from doing so deliberately to avoid interrupting any meeting he may have been taking part in, but he had finished writing the number before she could say anything. Thankfully, it would appear that the shinigami was not otherwise occupied at the moment. She thanked Alexander, she knew who he was of course, and took the mirror when it was offered to her, before greeting Lord Death. "Hello, please forgive my abruptness, but there is something I must speak with you about. Do you have a moment?"

"Sure thing Amelia; what is it?"

"We've noticed some odd things within the city. The most worrisome of which being that a portal to the Witches Realm was briefly opened, and something of great power was detected on the other side." Suddenly, she was interrupted by her phone ringing. Lord Death waved his massive hand in an odd sort of gesture to tell her to answer it. As it turned out, this was a wise decision, as Cassandra began talking as soon as Amelia pressed the button. "Okay, this is really important. There's a strong witch in the city. It doesn't seem like she's even trying to hide her presence. She's even opening a portal! Even worse, that thing from earlier is still there on the other side, and it's so much stronger than... I can't think of a reasonable comparison, but it's bad." There was a pause as Cassandra caught her breath. "I wanted to tell you first so that you didn't do anything dumb, but I need to tell mom and dad now." With that, the call ended. "I'm going to go check on that." Lord Death stated, before ending their conversation.

The young detective handed Alexander his mirror back, offering a short nod of thanks. "You're help is appreciated. Thank you. If you don't mind assisting further however, I had a few questions for you." Cassandra hadn't specified where any of the incidents occurred, deliberately so, likely as not, so Amelia figured that she may as well question the teacher while she had his attention.

Noir

Noir raised an eyebrow at the professor's flat-out denial. Indeed, she had originally intended the question for Yuzuki, which made the dodge all the more obvious. That and the fact that a good liar is often capable of recognizing a bad one. Still, she didn't press the issue, and instead began eating heartily. She stopped and looked up as her new partner spoke however.

"I hope we can be best friends, I mean most people act as if I'm some person who'd be a force to be reckoned with."

This gave Noir pause, and for a moment, she had no words to reply with. She had never had a friend before, let alone a best friend, her lifestyle simply didn't allow for it. While the proper response was obvious, Noir knew that, likely as not, she'd be expected to betray this girl later. With a weak smile, she answered after a moment. "Of course. Also, do you mean to say that you aren't a force to be reckoned with? I ask because I got a similar impression."

"So anyway Professor I was wondering that when we're done with lunch that I'd have to start a match with you and Professor Gray, is that the case as I was still next? And if so, Noir I'm counting on you alright?"

"Aye aye, ma'am." Noir replied with a mock salute. "Please remember though, I'm still new at this, so my skill may not be quite at the level that you're expecting." To a certain degree, this was true. Noir had no formal training as a meister, though she did have some combat experience. People didn't react well to being duped. hence why she tended not to stay in the same place for too long.