Courtyard (North)

[xXCuratorAngelusXx]

Kreig silently chastized himself for not being more cautious, he knew she had noticed his slip up, and she wasn't going to let him get away with it that easily. His mind raced to think of something to say, what to lie, what truths to bend, or, just tell the truth, it's probably so bizarre she wouldn't believe me even if I told her the whole truth. So with a little more confidence Kreig became a little bit brighter. His facial features lit up in a joking manner, "Oh I hypnotized him, he fell for the whole thing, best thing was I got a few air miles for nothing. The tricky part was trying to hold the hypnosis long enough to get through the flight. You know how it is."

In the way Kreig managed to say it, it would fool anyone into thinking his persuasion was a big joke. But while his mind gently brushed hers, he felt something different about her, some unknown comprehension beyond normal humans. Soon he began to doubt she might even buy his little act. However, Kreig kept his bright smile and joking manner, not wanting to sell himself short.  

[Spinerella91]

She laughed at his joking manner. She could feel that it was the truth and that he wasn't sure if she could figure it out, so she decided to play along, but only for a little bit. She couldn't be too mean, it was the first person to really have a conversation with her. She didn't want to make him run away and never speak to her again.

"Hypnotize? So kind of like a magician? I hear they're fake anyways and real magik is where it's at." She said jokingly. She laughed a little trying to keep her tone bright. "Now the real question is are you the Magnificent Kreig because me on the other hand, I'm the Amazing Sapphire." She laughed.

Hypnotism now that's a cool power, better then my lame one's. She thought. Maybe that was what I felt at the edge of my mind before. She scratched her head in thought keeping focus on the conversation at hand. "Maybe you could teach it to me sometime."  

[ginseku]

(just gonna re-write my post instead of editing that last post., riyo)
"I need your blood, Kirai.
"What?"
"I need your blood. Cut your thumb."
Kirai, scoffing once, removed his left glove, and allowed his tag to slither out again. He very gently pressed his thumb against it's edge; he managed to cut himself rather deep, anyway.
His tag twitched a bit in reaction to his pain.
Austin pulled out a thimbel and a small paintbrush that came with his scroll. He pinched Kirai's thumb, and took an ample amount of blood.
He dabbed his paintbrush in the thimbel.
"Before I proceed any further, you need to take an oath. Do you swear, that as long as you are alive, you will take all responsibility for the actions of this individual from this point forward? He shall be forever be bound to you, and you will be his Guardian."
Kirai thought for a moment, considering only the negative effects of this deal.
"I accept. Yes."
Austin took Kirai's hand slowly, and painted an ancient symbol on the back of it quickly.
"Don't touch that. Back away now, this part gets a bit freaky.

Kirai retreated to the safety of the bench with Regalia, wondering what could possibly happen next.
Austin wrote a similar symbol on the head of the offering. He took one look at the arms that lay beside it, severed from the demon Kirai had summoned and killed earlier.
Austin gripped a hilt of an imaginary sword. He swung it quickly, and the wind picked up in an amazing gale in front of him, materializing in a blade and slicing the arms from their sockets.
He tossed these arms away simply. He pulled the demon arms over, and shoved the evil things in their respective sockets. He formed a few hand-seals. His middle and pointer fingers began to glow.
He ran them across the flesh of the offering, stitching up the arms almost instantly.
When he was finished, he backed away slowly.
"For this next part I need complete silence to focus. Please be quiet.
"Hurry up with this, man. This isn't the best spot to do this."
Austin's brow raised slightly.
"Oh?"
Kirai had to resist growling at Austin. It was very appealing.
"Just hurry up before a teacher shows up."

Austin closed his eyes and began to slowly form hand-seals; but something was different about the way he was doing it.

These hand-seals hadn't been in used since ancient times, and had long since been considered outdated. They were raw and powerful in their nature, and seemed strangely different from the ones used in this time period.
Austin's voice became a very deep hum. He was focusing his lungs into doing circular breathing(which was rather difficult for a seasoned smoker to master) and his voice went into some type of Tone-chant.

His hands stopped on a seal. They floated, apparently of their own will, outwards. His arms were limp and hung like string from his wrists and shoulders.
His hands grasped at something...invisible around the offering's person. The way he gathered it up and balled it, it might have been a blanket; but his hands became closer and closer, as if he were balling up aluminum foil instead of cloth.

Austin's eyes shot open. He smashed the ball in his hands with a loud clap.

Suddenly, but not through immediate attention, the area came to a complete standstill. All sound ceased; faded naturally, almost. A creepy feeling encompassed the area.

All around Austin, pieces of the would-be ball that he'd shattered earlier made themselves apparent in the forms of blue-ish shards of translucent glass. They began to float upwards and accumulate in a small cloud over the corpse, glowing brighter as they came nearer to one another. Austin slowly formed seals again, humming, and chanting.

The glass liquidated into a misty spray, which accumulated on Sendo's ashes.
They began to glow bright blue for a bit, before tinting to a dark purple, to red.
Austin stopped, yet again, on a seal.
The offering was consumed with red energy. You could visibly see the lengthening and reshaping of the bones and muscle tone. You could feel hatred and malice and evil in the surrounding area.
Austin formed more seals, but at such a speed that nobody could even see his hands; they were almost illusions.
He wasn't going to allow anyone to see this part.
Black electricity crackled along the surface of the sacrifice. A small whirlwind formed around it; Ashes and red energy fell away from the skin of the offering like plaster mold. These shavings compressed into a ball in the middle of the air above the corpse; By it's red light and plain view, you could see Sendo's body had taken the place of the previous Neko-boy.
Austin held out his hand. The ball floated slowly over to him, and he grasped it loosely.
"RISE FROM THE ASH! PHOENIX RESURRECTION TECHNIQUE!"
The ball of red energy crackled intensely with dark energy rippling across it's surface. Austin thrust the ball into Sendo's heart. Two things happened following this.

The first was a bright flash of red light, which blanketed the area for just a moment.
The second, was a searing pain in Kirai's hand, which caused him to grip it in recoil. He observed the symbol Austin had drawn earlier.
It was no longer blood; it was a red tattoo.
Kirai looked up from his tattoo, to Sendo's corpse. At first, he didn't move, but then...

Sendo groaned in pain, feeling rather like Frankenstein for a moment.
'Whoa..That must've been some party.'
It was the only thing that could explain the two questions that immediately came to mind when he sat up;
1. Where am I?
2. Whose close are these?
And, invariably, a third;
'Did I even go to a party last night?'

Austin spoke quickly and directly to Kirai.
"Remember, under your binding contract, everything that he does now reflects upon your soul as well."
A gust of wind combed the grass of the courtyard, and Austin disappeared into it like a fading mist, leaving no trace of his being there.

When Sendo saw Austin, he shot to his feet. Purple energy accumulated violently across the spikes of his arms, and his hands basked heavily in its burning power.
The bloosdlust of the area spiked.
"GET BACK HERE-"
Kirai called out to him quickly.
"SENDO! Leave it be. He is gone."
Sendo turned and took a look to see who was beckoning him; it was his friend, Kirai.
"Hey, Kirai, what the hell is going on? Did I have one too many and wander out here, or something? Because I'm having trouble figuring out how I ended up here.."
Sendo approached Kirai slowly. He took a glance at Regalia.
"And this is?.."

"Ah yes. Regalia, this is my friend, Sendo Kemuri. Sendo, this is Regalia."
Sendo tilted his head back in a reverse nod.
"How's it goin'?"  

[xXCuratorAngelusXx]

Kreig berated himself mentally once more, her forced laugh didn't cover up her knowing gaze. He knew coming into this school he would one day have to tell someone about his powers, but not in the first hour!

When she began talking again he barely paid attention, instead thinking about how he could possibly get her to forget he can hypnotize people. His thoughts instantly melted away when he heard "...magician..." His mood brightened a notch, and his mind raced over all the illusions he could pull off. Now this is what I wanted to hear.

After she had finished talking he replied, "They call me 'King Kreig', but real magicians don't need a flashy name when they can do this." Out of both pockets Kreig produced two halves of a cloth. After crumpling the two pieces in his hand he spread the cloth out in his hand, which had somehow seamingly connected in his hands. He held out the cloth towards Sapphire and asked, "Put the end of your earphones on the cloth, and good ol' King Kreig will show you a thing or two.  

[Spinerella91]

Sapphire was hesitant, she was afraid he might hurt her. "As long as whatever your about to do doesn't kill me." She said quietly. His tone worried her but she put her earphone in the cloth anyway.

What kind of trick uses headphones? she wondered to herself. She didn't like magic tricks because it was always kind of easy to figure it out and she always saw the end before it happened. Which she thought was absolutely no fun.

She couldn't see the end of this trick though and she didn't like that. That's what worried Sapphire the most not knowing what was coming. She hated using her power on simple things like conversations so she let this conversation take it's course. Now she regretted that decision.  

[xXCuratorAngelusXx]

Kreig smirked as Sapphire placed hear earphones in the cloth. He used one hand to quickly lay the long wire across the cloth. He then foldedthe cloth so that the earbuds hung out at one end and on the other end of the cloth the base where one would connect the earphones into the music player.

The questioning look that plagued her eyes only boosted his confidence to a higher point. He knew he was regaining his original advantage. With a knowing smile Kreig began to explain his trick in the way any preformer would talk to a crowd, "Now, as you can see, I have one solid pair of earphones, not rigged in any way." After that he nodded to Sapphire, making sure she understood so far. "Now, when I rip this cloth in half, like so." With that he promptly ripped the cloth in half, along with the wire inside. Before she could react he removed the two halves of the earphones from the cloth, showing her to make sure she understood there was no long any way they could possibly work. "But this is where it gets interesting," he held up the earphones close to Sapphire's ears, "now I want you to think of the song you were just listening to, and don't tell me." After a moment of waiting Kreig began to hear a soft tune emenating from Sapphire's severed earphones. He smiled and the sound grew louder, becoming clearly audible from the earphones.  

[Spinerella91]

She smiled at his success in his trick. "How the hell..." she whispered looking at her severed headphones. That's no ordinary magic trick. I've never seen that before, ever. She though racking her brain on how he could have possible done that. She concluded that trick was impossible, but not to show her that she was trying to figure it out.

"Now that's a trick." She smiled. "Your going to have to show me the trick to that on one day." She laughed a little. She studied him trying to figure it out. For god's sake what is it about him. His feelings keep fluctuating from worried to confident, it's confusing. I'm not going to upright ask him.

She smiled at him not showing her confusion and frustration. "You know you're not the only one with tricks up their sleeves."  

[xXCuratorAngelusXx]

Kreig let out a slight laugh at her surprise. He pulled back the earphones from her ear, the music now faded. With his grin still wide on his face he rolled up both wires around three of his fingers. He then unrolled the earphones, presenting them for her to take back. The earphones seemed to be reatached, as if they had never been ripped in half in the first place. Her statement barely surprised him, from what he already saw he wouldn't be the least bit surprised if God himself was a teacher here. However, he let his face fall into a questioning look, going for the bait she laid for him. With a curious tone he asked, "Really now? And what kind of powers might these be? I've been dieing to see something other than my silly little tricks." In Kreig's mind he wondered just what kind of unknown power a girl like her could possibly contain.

A sickening thought appeared to him when he thought of the unconcious boy and the three students standing over him. He really hoped she wouldn't pull off anything like on him. For her sake I hope not... I'd hate to kill someone my very first hour.  

[Annamarie Valenton]

Baeli walked slowly in to the courtyard, taking her her surroundings. She whistled, realizing how huge it was. Seeing a boy and a girl talking to each other, she smiled and ran up to them. They both appeared to be around Baeli's Eruthian age. The girl was fairly tall, for a girl, that is, and her hair was red and brown. It looked dyed. The boy was about six feet and tan with jet black hair. They seemed friendly enough, so Baeli introduced herself.

"Greetings!" she said with a large bow. "I hope I'm not interrupting anything! My name is Yelena Catalina Gracia Baeliano Silva Almeida. But, of course, just call me Baeli. I don't expect you to remember all of that, oh no! I have a hard time remembering it myself, sometimes!" When Baeli said her name, the words appeared to fly off her tounge. Her Portuguese accent was heavy, but her English was mostly understandable and her vocabulary impeccable. Again, she smiled. The smile was large and friendly, despite the fangs that were in the place of her canines.  

[Spinerella91]

She looked at her headphones in surprise. "Thanks," she said slowly. "I had no idea where I was going to buy new headphones." She smiled slightly.

Now it was her time to show him what she could do. "I can't do any awesome tricks like King Kreig. I can just tell you a few things." She smiled sweetly looking into his past instead of his future. "Here we go." She smiled hopping she'd get it right.

"Okay well I can tell you, that you are a Kahteef." She completely stumbled over the word, especially because she had no idea what it is. "Not like I know what that is, so stop worrying." She smiled reassuringly. "You're royalty, you ran away because your father tried to take away your tricks." She laughed at what she could find, but didn't dip too much into his personal life.

She jumped what she thought was about 10 feet in the air when this girl praticly shouted hello. "Wow uhm Hi." She said rubbing her ear a little annoyed, that this girl just joined her conversation. "Your quite the chipper one." She smiled sweetly. "I'm Sapphire"  

[xXCuratorAngelusXx]

Kreig clapped in impression, he shook his head in disbelief, but his grin remained. He could have never guessed she would turn out to be a fortune teller. He had always thought they would be old and baggy with a crystal ball, but obviously, the young attractive girl in front of him proved otherwise. "That was very good, very good indeed. I find it hard to believe I could do anything to top that." The fact she could see into his past bothered him less than he expected, in fact, it felt good to have someone else know of his shady past.

His thoughts were interrupted when another girl with a heavy accent approached and greeted them. Kreig turned his attention to the girl who had entered. She was of a general height, curley brown hair with green eyes. She stood smiling, with vampiric fangs clearly visible. Having been proven wrong about stereotyping only moments before, Kreig greeted the newcomer with the incredibly long name in a friendly tone, "Oh hey Baeli," He pronouced her name with a slight Portugese accent, which he assumed was where she came from, "I'm Kreig, Kreig Korwytch." His eyes flicked back over to Sapphire as he remembered her asking "Do you always say your name like; James, James Bond?"  

[Spinerella91]

Sapphire laughed when she caught Kreig looking at her. "I guess you do." She said quietly. Feeling his relief. She smiled happy to make him feel better, then the wound up feelings he was having before.

Sapphire looked up at Baeli "So what brings you to this school?" She motioned for her to sit down because it is just annoying to talk to someone standing up sometimes. "Oh and why is your name so long?" Sapphire looked frustrated, "Gosh darn it, I gotta stop thinking out loud. You don't have to answer that." She smiled in embarrassment and put her head down, feeling the blush come on.  

[Annamarie Valenton]

If Baeli's smile could grow any larger, it did. "Hello, Kreig. Hello, Sapphire. My cousin - well, my third cousin, actually - goes here. My parents heard about the school and thought it might be a good place to go." The first part, about her cousin attending Ria, was true. The rest was a lie. All three of her parents - her father, her stepmother, and her mother - were dead, but Baeli thought that was unneeded information. Besides, why would they care?

"Oh, and why is your name so long?" Sapphire said. "Gosh darn it. I gotta stop thinking out loud. You don't have to answer that."

Baeli laughed. "I am from Portugal, so it's sort of customary. The first three names - Yelena Catalina Gracia - are my first and middle names. Baeliano was my mother's last name, Silva my father's, and Almeida my father's father's." She didn't explain why she went by her mother's last name. Again, it seemed to be useless information.  

[xXCuratorAngelusXx]

Kreig absent mindedly wondered what kind of family a Portugese vampiric family must look like. He shook his wondering thoughts out of his head. He looked back at the grinning girl, and Kreig admitted that those vampiric teeth made Baeli look a lot more agressive than usual. He waited politely through both of the girl's conversation, all the while barely managing to keep his eyes away from Baeli's vampiric teeth. Before he could stop himself Kreig blurted out, "Forgive me for asking, but are you into the whole human blood thing or should I stop being worried about it?" Kreig caught himself, and he tried to correct the situation, "Sorry, don't answer that, it's my fault for being inpolite." Kreig's German accent began to rise in his voice, as it usually does when his emotions flare. He soon found himself to be in the same state as Sapphire, turning red and looking down.

((OCC: Writers block))  

[Annamarie Valenton]

Baeli laughed again. "Don't be sorry. There's really not much you can do to hurt my feelings or anything," she said, but, this time, she smiled with her lips closed. "And, to answer your question, no, not really. If I'm desperate, I'll find animals or something. But never humans. You don't have to worry about that." "Não seja parvo,"* a voice whispered evilly inside Baeli's head, and she chose to ignore it. The voice pressed on, though: "Naturalmente têm que preocupar-se sobre aquele. Bem, contanto que eu estiver aqui, isso é."* Baeli "spoke" back to the voice with her thoughts. "Eu estou tentando ter uma conversação em inglês aqui, e é duramente bastante sem você que rambling sobre no português."*

Ooc| * "Don't be silly,"
"Of course they have to worry about that. Well, as long as I'm here, that is."
"Will you be quiet, Izabel? I'm trying to have a conversation in English here, and it's hard enough without you rambling on in Portuguese. Could you leave me alone for once?"
Well, at least it is according to Babelfish sweatdrop