Murder most foul (Open)

2014 [July 24th]

It was an early morning, the sun was just rising above the horizon in the east, a thick mist had laid a blanket over the world but something was amiss, a foul stench of blood was in the air, the sun more redder than usual "drip drop, drip drop" a long stain of red ran down from one of the campus buildings just above the main entrance, a small pool had formed on the ground below still dropping the red liquid. "drip drop, drip drop" the sun was only reaching the top floors of the academy most of the people where still asleep at this hour, in few short moments however the whole academy would come back alive save for one unfortunate soul.

The victim in question was a male teacher, mr Gerard, he was or rather used to be one of the top prospectors at alchemy and mining above other things, his body laid cold in the autumn air, his long black hair swayed gently as a breeze blew across the courtyard, a magical sword kept him aloft upright torn right in trough the torso and several inches into the wall. Several people had seen this sword before, in the hands of a certain purple haired female that was a student at the academy, but then again not everyone knew this. A silhouette with purple hair stepped away from the scene of the crime in gentle steps to prepare the incoming day to the start of a new age....

(Sorry, this took hours to write and I started at 12 AM, and decided to post it. Yet, this took about 2 months or so to get ideas to write in this topic... Lets show activity, guys!
Other than that, sorry for the poor writing, I haven't been doing this kind of thing lately so I guess it'll take a while for me to regain previous skills.)

The sun was starting to rise, and far away from the scene, yet very close at the same time. The scene was a small singular room, seemingly made mostly out of wooden planks on the floor and wallpaper bearing resemblance close cardboard. There was a bed that seemed occupied by one person close to the window and a desk that were both being touched by dawn's graceful light. A coffee table with an old circular clock, its shorter hand nearing to the next hour... Suddenly-

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A hand lightly smacked the top of the clock from the covers of the blue sheets and from it arose the boy with black bed hair, ruffled to the point of a fuzzy afro for the early morning. Arkian yawned and tossed his covers aside, stretching his arms upwards with a long yawn and afterwards blinked as he rose up and moved away from his bed. Soon enough he readied and finished his breakfast, rinsed his corpus and tossed on his jacket bearing on his shoulder the academy's insignia on a cloth armband which the students would have to wear if using other apparel than the school's uniform. He opened his room's door with the keys, but he seems to have forgotten to shut his door as he runs down the polished dog-legged staircase of the abandoned Boys-dorm that was decommissioned years ago, he was a bit eager to get an early start to class rather than show up late again and possibly get snagged in another trap by his underclassmen or other classmates. Yet, that's how he had met Kasai.

The young mage in training strapped his boots on and shut the front door with his satchel bag on him, leaving with a slight passive smile while humming various generic noises. On his way he saw a few students had the same bright idea as him, however they were spending their free time, walking around and visiting various places of the academy grounds in their leisure time. Arkian was hoping to get that spot he had tea with Martel to get coffee in his spare time, but that was a good distance away, even if he ran, but there was enough to waste... 'So why not use it?'
Arkian immediately broke off into a dash as he was crossing a bridge over a river, approximately half way there on his way to school. He passed by a few individuals and it took about half an hour for him to reach. He arrived close to the main area where the buildings where the classes were held were, he leaned against a tree as he panted and let the gentle breeze cool him off. As he looked over however, he noticed a gather of staff and 'security' members gather around an area in what he remembered to be the courtyard. There were poles placed around the area and red tape with black text saying "DO NOT CROSS" on them as if they were some kind of investigation on-going.

Arkian found his a bit peculiar, he was however very unaware of the situation and did not speculator nor think of what was happening. It could have just been another one of the academy's simple alchemy/spell accidents, but those are usually taken care of by a teacher of great skills, rarely are they blown out of this proportion, or even close to it. That was his train of thought, and being the curious person he was, he approached a small gathering of early students and a few other staff just outside the barricade tapes. He heard a few voices saying things, such as-
"Did you hear, the way he was killed?"
"Doesn't sound right, it might have been an assassin of some sort..."
"I still can't believe it, Mr.Gerard of all people, gone."
He wasn't really following along with what he had heard from the various people talking amongst themselves, he walked a bit ahead, tapping the shoulder of another person. "Excuse me, what's seem to be all this commotion?" he asked a fellow classmate politely who he didn't recognize at first, to which he was met with "Oh, Arkian? This is among something that people said happened early this morning... mister Gerard is dead!"

A red haired woman with an attitude was stepping up her game, the council was ready to take whatever measures where requierd of them, she snapped her fingers to her two subordinates that where following right behind her heels, they where clothed in Magic council robes, however the Mature looking girl in red hair was wearing nothing like it. "what on earth was she wearing" or "Is that appropiate for a magic council member to wear?" Those where the kind of attention or mumbles that she had been so used to getting. Finally she could step out of her cover.

She was wearing a flaming bikini together with a flat jacket that was held open showing off her chest and her features, it was obvious that she was not a shy person. She also smelled slightly of booze which was not exactly very professional. Her hair was of very odd color, both red and orange, as if they where aflame, it was held down into a pony tail which reached past her neck. On her back she wore a red sword bag which was tied by black cloth around her back. In her left arm she held onto a handheld loudspeaker, on her chest a visible tatoo was shown from her sternum all the way down to her stomach, (which traveled right between her cleavage) the form looked like a seal of some sort.

Her eyes where a strange purple in color, she wore a pair of knee long boots, her socks where long enough to reach her thight`s, and finally but not least she used swimming pants instead of ordinary clothes, as soon as she came in view of the crowd she started dish out orders to the security staff, and for the crowd to disperce and she did this all with her handheld loudspeaker which echoed along the school grounds.

Jean was there a bit off from the crowd standing still with a calm yet troubled look on her face, she had met with Mr Gerard on many occasions, and the man was among the few that she had been able to discuss things with, or who she could just listen to endlessly about certain things. She was so caught up into her thoughts that she did not notice the Red headed woman approaching along with her colleagues.

Kasai hated waking up in the morning.

Maybe it was the fact that tiredness always followed her but for now her goal was get to the courtyard as fast as possible. She woke up later than useral and had rushed to get her stuff together and her cloths for the day on before busting out her dorm door and hightailing it down to the academy.

Luckily for her, she made it on time but was confronted by both the atmosphere of dread, angust and confusion. Kasai was lucky to not run into the "DO NOT CROSS" tape when she stopped. Somthing happened.

Kasai looked around and saw a weird looking person. Who wears that type of clothing? in autunm when it's getting colder? she gave the mysterious purple eyed lady a "Don't try anything sassy" look before walking off. She then saw Arkian taling to a bunch of other people, she ran up to them.

"Arkian! what happened here?" she called out to him as she finally stopped. "By the way, hello"

"What? You mean- Mister Gerard? Am I hearing right?! Dead? Are you sure about this, Garris?"
"Quite so, people have their suspicions, including a few staff and studies who specialize in weapons."
The two of them muttered to each other, Arkian and a random classmate named Garris Walther, or maybe not so random after all. The two of them exchanged words with their arms crossed, one in a white coat and the other in a black jacket.


"From what I hear, they're already close to finding the type of blade. That might narrow down who exactly did this."
A female classmate joined in on their whispers of discussions.
"A few of the staff members think they're close to finding who did this."
They each directed their glances to the crime scene, obscured by school officials and a few prefects past the academy's red tape.
"So what do you two think? Arkian? Shenna?"
The two asked had their eyes locked on the scene in front of them, trying to think about what could have possibly happened. A person isn't just 'easily' murdered, humans are hard to kill. Possibly even harder than those long living elves, and spirits of the sorts in some cases. It was only natural for each person to try to draw their own conclusions, but those among Arkian's classes were never really seen like 'each person', they would still keep open minds; taking in every detail they get until they meet a final end. That's when they draw their verdict.


"Already said mine in a way: I think they'll catch something in the end. With enough manpower, resources and skills, they'll find whatever traces left of the murderer."
"I don't know, that sounds too optimistic. The only killers that are scarier than a normal killer is an actual killer, you know: One with a plan and knows what he's doing. If it's that kind of killer, then you'd probably need someone as equally scary to catch their drift and find them."
The two gave Arkian a doubting stare for a moment, then exchanged glances at each other with Arkian in the middle of the crossfire of their stares.
"You're possibly over thinking it." He shot down Arkian's response.
"Honestly, he's right: You are, there isn't a criminal our teachers can't catch."
The crowd slowly began to dwindle, the bystanders not losing interest, but have no reason to remain at the scene. Honestly the best one could do would be to hope to be called up by the headmaster, possessing sufficient skill and expertise to help in this incident.
Even if anyone had wanted to help, the majority of the students were pretty 'incompetent' for very complex actions. Those at the scene being asked to help from an official source would be an overestimation of their skills, some of them hadn't even seen what a small squabble on the battlefield was like.
Besides, the perfects were already on the job, some of them at least.

"Should we really be talking about this? It's not like we can really do anything about it."
"You're right, maybe we should be somewhere else. We should be drunk?" Arkian quickly turned his head around, yet nothing caught his attention.
"Drunk? On beer or something? Arkian- do you... drink?"
What? No no no- Arkian quickly muttered, but was cut off by Shenna,
"You know that we can't drink as students right, people are serious about that rule more than they are about the whole 'don't litter' sort of thing, and they take that pretty seriously."
"Pipe down you guys, I don't drink. Not alcohol at least. I smelt something pretty strong like it though. Didn't really smell like cheep beers or such."
Arkian could have sworn that he smelt the stench that strong liquor could leave on a person. The smell was still there for a while, but it got weaker in a mere second or two. It was probably his mind being paranoia at a random time, as turning around he didn't see anyone who'd look drunk or in pain from a hangover.

"Sigh, poor ol' Mister Gerard. He was so close to retirement."
"Define "close" for me, young Walther." Shenna intervened as they too began to walk away.
""I don't know, eventually getting there?""
"Making stuff up, are we now?"

Arkian hung around the scene with a few people, watching as the perfects and staff members tried to do their job and try to obtain evidence and clues, as well as keep anyone from impeding their 'investigation'. Who would want to really kill Gerard? he thought, but he himself didn't know much about Gerard's life, from his perspective, Gerard was a simple, yet one of the skilled teacher who helped out his students and did his duties. He was really good in alchemy, one of the fields that Arkian still had to grasp even the basic concepts despite being taught it for a long period of time. For Arkian to really find out anything else, he'd had to rely on gossip, which wasn't something he was really into. Then he moved his head a bit around, and his sight being set on 'that maid'. "That maid..." he subconsciously muttered. Was the headmaster already aware of this? Of course she'd be, it's her responsibility after all.

While lost a bit in thought, Arkian was brought back full concentration from a familiar voice from a friend he had met recently, if one could say 'recently' is one month. He turned around after being asked something from said person, which was followed by a greeting. "Oh, hey Kasai. It's nothing much, it's just that-" he looked back at the red tape, then met back her face-to-face. "Well, it's something tragic. One of the academy's staff members were killed, apparently with a blade. It is an awful end to meet demises in melee." He ended. "So what brings you here, I didn't know you usually take this path to... whatever you're heading to right now." he attempted to stare to conversation a bit in a different direction, feeling that there is some reason to keep Kasai from getting into this too much, having nothing but just a hunch that she might do something drastic for 'answers'.

She was missing her hat, she had been looking for it for a while now where could it have gone off to? She had intended to ask Mr. Gerard since he had asked her to see her here, but by the time she got here had he already... expired. Who would need to steal her hat anyway? She was sleeping one day and the next time she woke up it was gone.

She was the first person to have arrived at the crime scene so naturally the security personnel needed to ask her questions, if she had seen anything, what she was doing here and so forth. At this point in time she was probably the main suspect, but she had nothing to hide she was sure justice would eventually prevail. She looked on as they closed up the body bag. This is when something hit her shoulder, causing her to almost loose her balance, almost. Watching the red headed woman pass by the red tape. "i wonder what he wanted to say, maybe he had found my hat?" she whispered quietly to herself, she was not exactly sad, but the old man sure reminded her of someone she used to know?

"Who was that again....?" She brushed off her shoulder with a stern face.

The woman with an ample bosom and red hair turned herself around 90 degrees to face her colleagues she intended to toss her loud speaker to one of them but instead used too much force so that it flew way past them and flew right towards the group of people that where talking between each other (Arkian`s group) she found it sometimes hard to control her strength when she had been drinking. And today was no exception.

Kasai rubbed her eyes with her hand as she got rid of the rest of her sleep. She also seemed to have noticed a megaphone flying towards them.

Now to Kasai, a flying megaphone is meme worthy and she was actually impressed she saw it, but matters aside she had to either move the crowd or face public humiliation of being smacked in the face by a megaphone...

She chose the latter.

"Code red! flying megaphone! incoming!" she yelled to the group almost jokeingly. She had nothing else to block the megaphone with but her hand. Surprisingly though, she caught it but boy was the strength of the throw felt, she held a straight face but after a few seconds whispered "Ouch"

Her train of thought turned to the drunken lass. Why and how did she throw the megaphone so hard? oh well..

"Kasai? You look tired..." Arkian said to her with a low tone as she rubbed her eyes. Everyone was completely unaware of the incoming megaphone flying towards them. A few others just leaned away from the forceful trail in reflex, and Shenna and Walther freezing up in surprise and reflex as the megaphone flew pass the gap between the two of them, it heading towards Arkian and Kasai's direction in particular.

Kasai screamed out the warning.

The entire crowd does the classical signature gasp of shock and horror, and instantly dropping to the floor without confirmation, yet unsure why they were doing so without confusion. Flying megaphones being tossed around were a thing, not a very common or even uncommon, but still a thing!
Arkian turned around immediately, with Kasai seemingly using her hand to stop the flying unorthodox projectile. Though it was not fast enough, Arkian turned around just a the right moment for just another occurrence in Arkian's day with his bad luck.  Unknowingly, upon catching the megaphone, a bit of the recoil in Kasai's hand with the sudden stop of such a fast moving object caused her to accidentally backhand Arkian, or in a more realistic perspective, Arkian stood in the wrong spot at the wrong time, staring in the wrong direction to receive said punch.

"Uagh-" Arkian recoiled himself, yet only stumbled one step back rubbing his nose, not really making much of a noteworthy sound of pain, or much to actually notice. The entire crowd rises up again, looking around not really sure of what to make of the situation. Some just ignored it, some just talked among each other.

"Ow, that was really-" he stopped for a moment to look upon the situation, "Impressive..." he ended his sentence off, amazed at Kasai's ability. Did she get stronger than him last time they met? Despite he's been around the academy for over half a decade? Actually that sounds feasible, most of the attendees at the academy are from prestigious families with unique traits and bloodline superiority. Or maybe it was that she was more endearing.
"But enough on that situation," he though, why exactly was there a megaphone flying towards the crowd?
Apparently everyone else had the same exactly though, or almost everyone, as the majority of the crowd turned towards the investigation and security team of the academy. A bit of familiarity was felt by Arkian when watching at the staff team, with his eyes slowly edging towards further down the crowd. He was unsure if it was just their uniforms and memories associated with it, or the green hair girl that was mostly with miss Yggdrasil that stood out from the crowd.

The most random occurence would have been normal on Sheena`s enduring daily schedule, however she was not exactly in the mood to play games tonight, least of all with some meddling kids. Hey you guys stop touching my stuff! To say that she was exaggerating would have been an over statement. She was just about to head for the "group" when something unexpected happened.

The attempted punch on Sheena was coming from the blue, well technically that was a lie since the maid that did so was wearing a green costume but you get my point. However Sheena managed to easily dodge the incoming punch simply by jumping backwards, the maid according to Sheena had broken two fundamental laws, one she tried to punch a member of the Council, and two she just crossed the red tape. She punched the two guards unconcious just as recklessly as she had attempted to punch sheena as well.

What`s the big idea? what`s your god damn problem freak! your stepping on mighty thin ice here so i suggest you back off... Its unforgivable She simply stated before she ran towards Sheena again in an attempt to punch her, Sheena however now sent a punch on her own which collided like a pump fist at each other, however it seemed like her fist was easily overpowering Jean`s as she sent her flying like a missile in trough the wall nearby. People where really not beliving this, what was she doing? some just froze on the spot, while others just left. How strong is she?

Jean flung trough the air into the library gliding across the marble floor until she hit a bookcase which broke, which in turned caused the nearby bookcase to partially collapse on top of her. Some of the security staff seemed to have freaked out a bit trough their captain`s sheer raw physical force She cracked her nuckles before she handed her sword bag to one of the nearby grunts that had been punched earlier, she walked casually towards the hole that she had made in the wall, then took a jump and skipped inside the library and she made it look easy too, she spitted out the toothpick in her mouth and continued her approach, upon finally reaching the spot where the maid was left lying she stopped. You got any last words? She kept her arms in her pockets.

Jean`s arm had broken in five places and her arm had dislocated from the shoulder, she had trouble breathing as she pushed aside some books from her body, she was panting in heavy breaths before she reponded back. Apologise... She said having coughed out some blood on her costume to....

Sheena was just about having enough Your really asking for a beating you know... Kasai.... her voice scraping off as she tried to breath.

Kasai sighed out. Quite uneasily as well. She turned around to see that she accidentally, backhanded Arkian in the face and her face change to a "oh god" type. "Ah, shoot! sorry Arkian. You ok?" Kasai sighed out again and was about to put the megaphone on the floor when.

"Hey you guys stop touching my stuff!"

Kasai turned around to see the person who yelled out was coming straight towards them and she was pissed off. Kasai was literally readying herself to protect Arkian and the group that had scattered behind them with her life.

That was until another one of the heads had sent a punch to the lady. She missed though and ended up knocking out the two guards and crossing the red tape.

"Oh wow" Kasai thought. Was she really seeing this? two heads fighting each other head-on? (no pun intended) She was both shocked and impressed by what she was seeing but it also angered her a bit.

It was when Jean was thrown straight through a wall and into a bookcase was where Kasai herself felt herself getting a bit too pissed off at the one who managed to throw her through a wall and into a bookcase.

Before she could even think, she ran in the general direction, into the hole in the building, climbing over the rubble and put herself in between the heads. "HEY,hey hey hey...Lets not get COCKY here ma'am but, I think you've done enough here" She said to the lady with her hands in her pockets with a scowl of anger and disbelief on her face. "Just...leave JeanAlone"

Kasai knew that if this head even WANTED to fling her to the side she'd be able to with ease. She was nothing compared to this person but she was still willing to get turned into a pin cushion to protect anyone, even a head.

Blood. There was just a slight bit of blood as he rubbed his nose. It wasn't very painful to him as he covered it with his hands, the edge of his woven glove's palm getting slightly stained. "I'm fine, don't worry about me. How about yourself? You okay?" He brushed it off like it was just a needle that pricked his skin, his vision, however, blurred slightly from the impact. He removed his hand and spoke slowly, asking "More importantly, what just happened?" He shook his head and blinked twice to fix his sight and the very minuscule ring in his ears.

Suddenly, there was a loud yell. He could tell that it was direct at the two of them, causing him to freeze up for a moment as his body jolted in a slight panic as it sounded like they were in trouble. His eyes sharpened themselves instantly in reflex while his feet cautiously adjusted themselves from an upright stance to an agile one. He was about to put his hands on Kasai's shoulder if the loud woman took a step over the red and black tape, ready to tell her "Run!" and make a sudden break for it. His mind changed however, as his focus shifted from the familiar face, Jean, jumping over the line and punching what Arkian thought to be the lower lackeys from The Council. This entire changed the situation for him as he looked on. Not only him, but the crowd around him gasped, flinched, and others manners of actions in response to her violent escalation of the situation. "What's happening?" Arkian asked under his breath as the crowd started to simultaneously shout and jabber collectively. He stepped to the side of Kasai to see the commotion only to see with his very eyes Jean flying at high velocity.

Unbelievable, he thought at first. He didn't know what to do in this situation as she flew in the direction of the library, the Zweiteturm that is, crashing through one of the floors. Arkian didn't think at moment Kasai made her move, he acted impulsively while few in the crowd fled, others either stayed put or rushed to see the continuation of the commotion. He did nothing more but ran towards where Jean had flown, where Kasai ran off to amidst the crowd of people around them.

"What power is that...? Wh- Ugh, hey! Arkian?!" Walter shouted in the midst of the sudden chaos as Arkian jammed his arm as he rushed by him. "Walter! What are you doing?!" Shenna screamed out to him. "But Arkian just-" He tried to explain, only to be interrupted her by again, "Arkian did what?! Don't worry about him, we have to get away! This is a serious battle!" she spoke intensely towards him as she proceeded to grab his hand and start to pull him away. "We have to help!" Shenna quickly shot him a confused and worried look. "Help how?!"
"Someho-" he tried to say, "We can't! Third years have no place in such a fight, now lets go!" They began to run in the opposite direction Jean was flung, while Arkian intended on doing the complete opposite.

Pushing through the crowd while following Kasai, it wasn't long before he got cut off by a few people and got separated from her for a few seconds. "Kasai! Wait for me!" he tried to shout as he forced himself through the crowd, but he was pretty sure his words fell on deaf ears with all of the noise and actions of the security staff members trying to calm the situation down. He dived through them, prying through people with his arms much to his and their own discomfort. He finally managed to push his way through the crowd of onlookers as he scrambled to his feet to find Kasai and Jean, heading into the massive hole left within the Zweiteturm. No security staff members had met the scene it seemed.

He darted towards the hole in the library, in his sights were Jean, Kasai, and the red woman. Jean in a worse shape that Arkian had ever seen her, but from her moments, he could see she was always as she ways, relentless and unyielding, yet even so in a broken and vulnerable state. To put it in an understatement, this did not bode well for Arkian...

He took his satchel bag, holding the farthest length of the straps as he pressed his weight into the leg of his right boot as he spin his entire body completely around as he let go of the strap. He sent the bag flying towards her, even though he know her power and sense were far beyond his, he was, as one would say, blinded by a vengeful bloodlust against the red haired woman. As the bag was in mid-flight, Arkian quickly set his left foot in place, and kicked off of the marble floor with enough force to jump towards her with his arm swung back for a punch. The bag would be obliterated, as anyone would normally think of someone from such power, but it would buy Arkian even the slightly amount of time for his act. He was not thinking, it was pure impulse for his actions.

He was... almost... there...

It did not reach. As Arkian neared the woman, his attack did not connect. He wasn't stopped by her, because if he did, one would expect him to be dead. Grabbed by a strap the back of his coat between his shoulder blades, he was pulled in the opposite direction from the lady. Smashed face-first against the flooring so hard it left a moderate amount of dust from the impact. "That's enough violence from you four!" One of the academy's security staff said as he pinned Arkian down with a knee to the back, the side of his blue colored uniform with the tag "N-0" while his black armored vest said the same on left side of his chest in thick white lines.
Five more of them appeared, as two of the five, bearing the letters and numbers "Z-1" and "R-8", walked up to Kasai on both sides as one says "Sorry, standard procedures! Please cooperate!", grabbing her quickly and trying to force her to her knees with their strength to restrain her with metallic cuffs.

Meanwhile, two others, "L-9" and "V-5" approached Jean, moving the partially collapsed bookcases off of her and a few books away as they examined her quickly with their eyes. The last one, designated "A-4" approached Sheena, slowing his pace as he got closer to her and stood at her said. "Miss Sheena," he started off, "I know you're dealing with a threat, but we can't have to going around trying to kill academy personnel without authorization or destroy academy property." he glanced quickly at Jean, then Kasai, then to Arkian pinned down by one of their men. "You're here to conduct an investigation, and the Magic Council doesn't like its third party's facilities being crushed or suffering causalities."

"Sir, she's hurt pretty bad!" one of the security staff member next to Jean said towards A-4.
"No shit, L-9! Call in the medical team, make sure she doesn't move!" he shouted at two next to Jean.
"Right!" He responded as A-4 looked behind him. Students gathered outside with more of the academy's security team forming a barrier between the incident and the previous scene of the previous crime. The surveyed the situation entirely.

A-4 turned back to Sheena, whispers to her "Please, continue the investigation and avoid drawing attention to yourself, Miss Sheena. Otherwise the Magic Council will find out and either they or the Academy will be forced to take action." He walked away from her, stepping into the center field of the soldiers in the marble hallway to instruct them further.

A.N:

She was writing a complaint with real ink, her careful and perfectionist nature did not allow any smudges or grammatical errors and it spared the ink too, she wrote a while longer dipping the feather one last time into the ink as she was about to finish the letter. She wrote her name at the end of the two page letter before she was going to finish it off with a water mark. Signifying that it was her letter and her own, but before she could get that far a not so distant implosion intruded her concentration, her feather pencil last work on her name ran across the letter like a snake in hot desert sand spluttering the wet blackness across the tea colored paper. She stood up in haste knocking over the ink bottle that quickly swallowed the letter.

The feather pencil snapped due to the applied pressure in her hand, her face turned from a concentrated one and mildly happy look to something darker shade of rage that slowly started to build deep within her focused mind. Veins popped on her forehead as she tossed the broken pencil across the library floor. Her left eye twitched for a second facing towards the direction whence the commotion came from. What the fuck....!!! She was going to get whoever was to blame and sue them to the seven hells! Quickly she started to float towards the direction of the noise, she picked up the letter that was still dripping with ink and wrapped it into a scroll. Despite standing upright high above the floor one could not percieve her privates because of a spell.

Quickly she made headway towards the gaping hole in the wall, she had no memory that there was a window there.... .... she would have clattered her teeth together in annoyance if she had had the decency to hold her rage a bit longer inside.
Meanwhile Martel`s clone appeared from the ground below, and almost nobody noticed her due to the commotion that had ensured, people where simply too busy to bother to notice her appearence, she gazed around and noticed the hole in the wall, she remained outside for the moment, contemplating what to do she could not get past the guards, she hoped everyone was all right. An officer came running outside to one of the guards asking where he could find sheena. The guard motioned him inside.

Im well aware, i don`t need you to remind me... just put the damage on Yotsuba`s tab she answered back to A-4 Also make sure no one breaks the red tape again, that won`t help my investigation capish? She rested both of her hands against her hips, looking a tad pissed at the students and the Maid. An security officer came running to Sheena panting a bit. Report! W-we have found new evidence! The man was holding onto a helmet, it was round and green in color, Sheena`s face lit up slightly as a smirk formed on her tender lips. Hey you know this helmet from somewhere freak? Jean`s eyes concetraited on the gear she was holding up... She produced a word motioning her still working hand towards it. That`s mine.... where did you... find it? Take her away i need to talk to her in private, just be careful with her She wanted her to spill the beans, after that she did not care what happened to her. That would in a way solve her problems.

What is the meaning of this? A rather feminine, yet annoyed voice ringed out from behind. Sheena turned around to see a rather young looking girl hovering around in mid air, she held her hands crossed across her chest uncounciously making her chest look bigger than it was. She put up her scariest facial expression that she could muster, she pulled out the letter that she had "finished" moments before, the letter dripping wet still. But all of this paled in comparision to what they had done with her library, the librarian was starting shake as her anger started to reach unheard levels. ´She knew these people, well not personally, they where here to protect the academy and its denizens, this did not look like "protecting"

She tossed her dripping wet letter at A-4 not caring what the fuck his name was or what it stood for.
She placed her hands back across her chest, when nine goblets of purple fire appeared in a half circle above her. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIBRARY!!! These where mostly there for theatrical effect since it gave her a good shading, making her look Ultra badass in that format, this the writer of this post knew especially well. She never intended to detonate them or she would have risked catching her books on fire as well, but this destruction was beyond her forgiveness. Even though she was a gentle, kind hearted soul.

What a bother... She muttered to herself. I thought you took care of this already A-4, your such a bother She said in a carefree attitude. She noted the lights going out in the library shortly after... it was them again was it not? damn now was not her time to check the fuses.

Go check the fuses, there could be slimes there so be careful! The security officer did not complain for one second and left withouth a word. Can`t we all just get along? She said to Anima not seemingly concerned by the purple flames at all.

"Arkian don't attack--!" just as she was in the middle of her sentence she saw him get pulled right back to the ground and also face plant it. Kasai facepalmed at this.

The person had pinned him to the ground and seemed to be one of the investigators. Two more appeared beside Kasai and proceeded to push her to the ground...someone wasn't very happy about this....

"Kasai!? what's going on!? why are they pushing you down!"
"They're doing they're job...please understand that Alain..." kasai responded to the ghost with her mind.

"No no! that's not ok! make them stop it! i don't like it! make them stop!"

"Alain!--"

"MAKE THEM STOP!"

she never got a chance to finish her sentence...

Within seconds the shift of strength within Kasai peeked immediately as she started to push up against the force of the two investigators, at such a time it would've caught many off guard not expecting for such a shift of strength to happen.

Kasai growled as she finally managed to push herself out of the grips and turn round to them with the all too familiar red glow of fury in her eyes.

While she looked like she lost control she had just enough to speak out.
"For my sake and yours....throw me down with all you got..please..!"

then she lost herself to her rage.

She turned round to the lass but looked down to arkian first with her glowing eyes. "Just who do you think you are.....? hurting a mage? you are one twisted weird investigator, lady~" she said with a small laugh right after.

"I can't hurt you...i know that... but i don't care.." she said, fire sparking in her eyes and in her hands. The yelling wrath of anima, the librarian didn't bother kasai.

She looked around with the sly eerie grin her rage induced form came with. She knew that she'd probably get pounced on soon. Exactly what her subconscious wanted to happen. She then turned back to the lass investigator.

She was testing very choppy waters. Not like she even cared at the moment. The only thing on her mind was revenge.

Arkian grunted as he was held down, pinned from his back and from his head. He constantly tried to push against the force holding him down, but compared to the security team's staff members, trained and well disciplined, he was far from success. N-0 looked down at him, he wasn't letting his guard down as long as Arkian kept struggling to move, all the while he paid heed to the others in the room. Arkian managed to have raised his head against the grip pushing him down, growling as he spoke "You bitch! I'm not afraid of-- Aghh!" "You ought' to just sit tight and shut it!" He raised his voice as he applied heavier force onto Arkian, and pressed his head down against the tiled floor. A-4 attended to matters along side with Sheena. He wanted a quick clean up of what just occurred, there was no reason for this to have happened, especially with the rest of the security team around, but it just happened to fast and got out to hand just as quickly. "Right, Yosuubah's... tab." he dawned on the pronunciation a bit. "Sheesh, too many inherent-Japanese names are popping up in society these days..." He muttered under his breath as he was about to issue others the other members, waving a hand just at the same moment as someone ran in, claiming they found evidence, presenting a green hat to Sheena.

"This... counts as evidence? Hah..." He asked as he pondered upon the thought process of them. He could not help but try to contain laughter, chuckling as she proceeded to question the green-haired girl about her hat. However, he stopped and immediately became serious at his duties again as she replied that it was hers. He cleared this throat and walked up to the two of them, standing behind Sheena she issued orders to her own lackeys. That reminded him, "Alright, take the students to the detention center for questioning and punishment. Miss Sheena, the medical team should arrive shortly enough to carry her. You can question her if she's still conscious after recovery from her injuries. L-9! Where's the repair team?!" Before he could realized he missed a step in the process, he heard a very well known voice. "You never asked me to call them in, sir." L-9 replied to him.

Shit... This isn't going to end well. was the thought that ran through Arkian's head as he heard Anima's voice, he even stopped his struggle to break free of the security staff member holding him down.

They were trying to at least clean up the situation before any troubles arrived, but the one their feared the most was the librarian and her infamous tantrums when something happens to it or regarding it. A-4 just stood there as the ink-drenched letter hit his uniform and dropped to the floor. He rushed in front of the others, putting himself between Anima and the others, "Miss Anima- we are deeply sorry fo--" His words seemingly did not reach her, as she just screamed loudly for them to "Get the fuck out!" which was one way to put it directly. He flinched at her words, knowing her powers were terrifying even without the need to demonstrate an apparent complex spell she had on hold towards them. Sheena's half-assed and carefree manner, as he would describe it, did not help very much. "We may have actually missed a step because of your wise choices..." he said sarcastically as he turned around to the others, "Alright, move the students out of here no-"

Even before he could finish that, Z-1 and R-8 grunted loudly as they hit the floor, landing on their backs as the white-hair girl broke free. The voice, the way she talked boldly, Arkian remembered seeing her like this, "Crap, Kasai's going berserk again." was his realization. He was against focused on breaking free, but he didn't squirm around and struggled blindly. A-4 took note of the situation and the noise the two made when she broke free from their grip. The two just laid there, sitting and watching. "What the fuck are you two even doing?!" He yelled at their negligence. "Sorry sir, we're too caught up with wanting to see where this is going!" Z-1 responded to him instantly. "She's going to die if you two don't do anything! Grab her and hold her down like the boy!"

With attention focused on others, Arkian saw this as an opportunity! He looked back as much as his vision would allow him, the security staff member N-0 was focused on the others. Arkian slipped out of his pin by rolling clockwise on the floor, quickly knocking the blue-uniformed guard off and following it up with a kick for a stunning effect. It sent the guard lowly flying towards a larger pile of rubble "We have to get out of here." he said to himself. Within a second, he evaluation the situation, one very wounded, the other was berserk. They weren't getting out of this situation easily. The two guards besides Kasai, leaped up back to their feet, heading for Kasai to subdue her with more than just a grapple, however their guard was very much down. The two behind Jean were still focused on Anima's rage it seemed, however they were not far behind from one breaking his concentration on her to notice the commotion and alert the other...

Jean groaned loudly as she tried to move her stiff body by force, soon ignoring the pain, and the two guards at her side, she suddenly and out of the blue activated her camouflage. She had thought about saving Arkian and Kasai, and she thought about her helmet too. But in her current state and concidering what she was up against that seemed reckless, her odds where against her and she was techically a suspect. So rather than fighting or trying to protect her friends she took a hasty retreat having become completly invisible using her mimetic skin. She also headed towards the library rather than trying to jump out trough the whole which by now was heavily guarded, she could have easily been caught taking that route plus it helped that Anima was there.

Arkian what the hell? She asked herself, wondering for one moment what kind of trouble he had gotten himself into this time? What are you doing here? Can`t you guys use a door like normal people? Define normal? Sheena had wanted to ask but held her tongue as she had more pressing matters to worry about. O-oi! Don`t let her escape! block all entraces make sure she does not get out... Geez do i have to do everything myself?

Anima lost her concetration for a second, which caused the nine Goblets to shoot off towards the group, luckily Anima had placed a barrier around the area for exactly this reason, no books would get harmed on her watch. Altrough the same could not have been said for the shitty people who started this mess just fyiSheena stepped forward seemingly not worried at all, she reached out her arm towards the ever growing Goblet of flame, which at this point had grown twice its size. She caught the first of the flames in her hand and gripped it with her arm. Then opened her mouth and took a deep breath, the next few moments would be suprising to say the least.

For she swallowed the flames one after another, each of the purple flames where devoured trough her mouth as she was finished she licked her lips in a mischevous manner. Thanks for the meal! Anima looked stunned to say the least, she cursed under her breath. Dragon slayer... She nearly whispered out the words.
Sheena turned to face Kasai and Arkian, reacting to her words. She laughed nonchalantly at her words, before becoming serious. Watch your mouth kid, your a friend with that freak of nature right? then that practically makes you a criminal, let me do my job like the good little brat you are and turn yourself in nice and easy and nobody needs to get hurt. She said to Kasai.

She moved to intercept Arkian and caught him by the face, she wrapped her arm around his neck with a seemingly iron grip, and pulled his head next to her chest. Accidents happen on the job sometimes and people get hurt, and sometimes even die, don`t try anything funny She said to Arkian, while eyeing kasai.

A thunderous roar erupted from outside and the lights returned to the library shortly after, Martel saw a special person enter the area, she was floating in mid air kinda like  Anima, but lightning jolts ran trough her body constantly, the blonde haired woman seemed calm despite the occasion though, she seemed to head for the library now.

Kasai growled at the lady, she was laughing at her...like she heard the funniest joke in 100 years. She only laughed at her sentences as the lass spoke. Then she grabbed Arkian...the little...

Kasai, if she wasn't like this would've thrown in the towel by now. But this wasn't really Kasai.

She heard the guards run at her. Smiling wider she dodged one of them and proceeded to grab anothers arm and throw him directly into the other guard. She then turned back to the lass. One would swear she'd gone completely insane.

"You think i care at this moment?" she said to her. "Im stuck like this in this form, bound to this body. I ain't Kasai...hahaha, hell no i ain't Kasai.."

Her voice seemed to change slightly, just ever so slightly.

"I do NOT share her worldview, if it was my choice i'd end you right now...but she won't let me. And us being criminals? you gotta be kidding me...! She won't kill anyone...she won't let me..."

She continued to stare down the lass with eyes ablaze with fury.

"HIT THE DECK!" With fire flying in nine separate directions, L-9 leaped to the side as V-5 looked to see Jean had disappeared. Regardless, both of them went flying from the blast force hitting the nearby bookshelf, one landing behind Kasai, the latter landing between Kasai and Sheena, sliding across the marble floor for a second or so. "Aughhh... I need a raise..." V-5 muttered before completely collapsing, face flat, their helmets red for a moment with the intense heat the blast produced.

"Ugh- You... little son-" N-0, the guard who held Arkian down was regaining focus as he rose up from the rubble. "Where are yo-" He rose his head up, just as Arkian rushed up to him, grabbing the top of his helmet and delivering a strike with his knee to the face. N-0 was moderately hurt from that, yet only a bit disoriented. He grabbed Arkian by shin with the strength of an iron maiden, about to grip his left arm and pull him in for a recovery and a beat down in one. Arkian acted fast in the heat of the moment, slipping his hand to the chin strap of N-0's blue helmet, he yanked it off his head and quickly swung the helmet's shell into the side of the guard's head.

A-4 quickly shouted a few words and had instinctually put up a shield in front of him and Sheena until the 'storm of fire', to exaggerate, had subsided. He dropped the shield soon after, and moved backwards, standing behind Sheena with caution directed at Anima. She was going berserk, but this was surprising a new level for her in terms of how quickly her temper caused her to have snapped. He was surprised at the incoming flaming creation that was tossed in their direction. Arkian recoiled at such a thing being launched while N-0 laid unconscious beside him in the rubble of marble blocks. A-4 bolted in the oppose direction of the enlarged fireball, he leapt and rolled, quickly regaining his stance as he took a defensive stance, arms forward and elbows out to absorb the fireball with everything he had for his level. To his surprise, it vanished before him, with only Sheena standing in front.

He wasted no thoughts, quickly he pulled out his two-way radio and held the button, screaming "A-1! A-1! Situation's gone south. Get the students out of the area, we're going to--" A loud 'thunk' was head as Arkian clubbed the guard helmet into A-4's. He flinched barely, stopping his sentence as he turned around nonchalantly and stared at Arkian. "What do think you're do- BAH!" Arkian clubbed him again from the front, he stumbled back as Arkian only moved ahead and clubbed him again and again, causing him to trip and fall unconscious amount a set of books that was knocked down by Jean a while ago.

"Phew! Finally! Ahhhhhhh! You guys take way too much strength to take down!" Arkian took a long breath of relief, panting as he wiped his forehead of sweat. He suddenly realized the situation again, there was no time for rest. He stood up straight and turned to his left, but before he knew it, he was grabbed and shoved into a pair of "chest" to put it bluntly. The helmet hit the floor and rolled to A-4. Arkian was confused and surprised a bit, but uncomfortable above all. He tried to look back, moving his head slightly around until he grasped the predicament he was in. Sheena was still talking to Kasai, and all he could do was listen, though he wanted to scream his head off in his situation for Kasai not to do anything to make them both end up dead. He didn't try to break away, for he felt the grip on his neck, the common choke-hold he was all too familiar with. Unfortunately, he was never accustomed to it being used against him. at least it wasn't the firs time...

His head could probably have been torn off in a pinch, or his neck could be snapped, or his throat could even be crushed, he thought under pressure. Being held hostage was never fun, he at least hoped he'd be able to say something witty in the end of all of this, every though there's going to be enough punishment for him and Kasai to make hell appealing, given that they BOTH survive...

Outside, all the security guards had cleared the students from the area, declaring the library a temporary 'danger' zone as more of the Security team arrived on the scene. However before they could have entered, they heard a very unnatural roar of outside, as they looked into the skies. A few of them were staying around the perimeter to ensure no one got inside, however the sudden appear of a blonde hair girl, hovering with electricity surging through her body baffled the security team members. As the lights flashed, Arkian moved his eyes around as they came on back. He just yelled"Oh! Look... lights. I guess those slimes are taken care of, heh?" with a carefree and sarcastic tone. He laughed a bit, before it died down and he came to a deadpan mood, sighing "This isn't going to end well for any of us."

The wall buckled, and broke into several pieces before Sheena could respond to the posessed girl, the air felt heavy with eletricity in the air turning everyone`s hair spiking, the wall that broke just above the hole that had been formed earlier, none of the pieces hit the ground despite flying loose of the wall they simply hovered around just like the blond woman. Her hair was naturally blonde though there where colored stripes in her hair four to be exact, three of them fell over her back and one over her left shoulder, she seemed to be wearing a strange coat, the coat was covered in pink feathers along the rim. On the back of the coat was written a single word. "Archmage"

Sheena loosened her grip and dropped Arkian, if there was one person in the academy that she did not want to attract the attention of then it was this woman. "The most troublesome woman" they called her in the council of ten. What a pain... She let out a frown. Having passed trough the broken wall, the pieces returned to their original position and melded so that even the cracks vanished. The womans eyes where covered by a pair of wonky sunglasses. Even Anima seemed to have calmed down as she looked at the headmaster with respect.

I wanted to enjoy my morning in peace... that is all i craved, and yet here you are blowing holes into my academy, on this blissful morning, explain yourselves! Anima pointed her finger towards Sheena, but she said nothing. What have you done kid? She turned towards Sheena and Arkian.

Kasai would continue to watch sheena carefully, her attention would snap to the sudden change of air, everything awry with electricity. She turned to face Arkian, then anima and the new lady. She growled slightly, backing off towards Arkian, whatever was driving her gekido was slowly calming down enough for Kasai to actually gain some control back "better back off for now..." she muttered to herself.


(sorry for the short post, it was done on my phone-)

As soon as electricity was sensed, by the moment his hair has fouled it through the slight shocks and stuck out for a moment, Arkian immediately knew what it was. Despite he was threatened to stay put or face getting his head ripped or neck snapped, the shock triggered a reaction from Arkian. While still in her arms, he flailed around, panicked and struggling to break free of her grip. His mind screamed for him to escape at any means, his instincts yelled at him to draw his knife and stab her to even get a chance, despite he was determined to only use non-lethal means in the situation. His body was seemingly convulsing at the sight of this, his felt as if he lost all senses and had gone made.

Luckily, he was dropped from her iron hold. He was unable to think, and as soon as he was loose, he dropped on his ass and quickly scampered to the site, moving quickly and with such haste, he pushed through a few books pilled up from the library, sitting between the massive rubble from the wall and tossed over bookshelves. He shook and shook, on and on, seemingly paralyzed as he hit the wall, his pupils massively constricted, becoming a very fine dot is his bluish eyes. He leaned over from sitting against the wall, staring at the floor, yet his gem-like eyes were locked in a thousand yard stare as he struggled to breath in and out, unsure which to do with his breathing in a rough pattern as he continued to shake. This throat felt constricted, as if someone had gripped his neck and almost crushed his wind pipe. His mind went blank, and he was unable to pay attention to anything, not to a weakened Kasai, not to a wounded Jean, not even the Headmistress nor Anima whose library was just destroyed, which would normally drive her into a killing rage.

Nothing.

The tension in the air was so real, it could almost be seen, the crackling in the air, the lightning that stroke the air around her, shielded her, smothered her body. Oddly enough her hair was not the least affected by the static currents prowling the air in the library, Anima floated forward, having a slight annoyed look on her face, her hair just like everybody`s was spiky due to the static electricity in the air, it didn`t phase the headmaster, and it didn`t suprise her the least, in her right hand she held onto a whip, it was buzzing with magic... lightning no doubt, due to the color of blue and gold that spun around the whip.

With a simple swing of her whip it made the slashing sound when the whip for a brief moment broke the sound wall, giving its distinctive sound. Well then... you people grew awfully quiet all of a sudden In her right hand she held onto a rather large book, with a bluish amber glowing runes adorned along the cover of the book. She slashed with her whip once more, giving a more buzzing sound than before. This time the whip wrapped around Sheena, and tossed her outside along with all of the members of the divisions, the wall broke again and shifted then closed and repaired itself before anyone could complain.

She sheathed her whip along her belt on her hips and the lightning trough her veins and around her gradually subsided... Hey now you look like you have seen a ghost?! She laughed with suprising cheery voice. With Arkian,Kasai, Anima being the only ones in the room anymore. Arkian... and Kasai? am i correct The book in her left hand opened and she let go of it, the book continued to stay in mid air where she had left it, the pages slid aside by itself. Suddenly bookshelves started to move on its own back into place, pieces of the shelves repaired on their own, books came to life and started wandering with their two small feet back into place on the shelves. Arkian gained air, he flew trough the air and landed on a chair that just appeared to have rolled across the floor from the other end of the library moments before he landed on it.

There was a cup of hot coffee that came floating into her right hand, all the while she was reading the book, a cup of hot chokolate with whipped cream came flying and landed next to Arkian, where it hovered waiting, same thing happened to Kasai and Anima.

Anima gracefully accepted the drink, blowing at the hot drink a bit before tasting, all the while the books literally jumped back into place with their own two feet. It didn`t take long before the damage to the library was repaired fully. Your welcome... She said not taking her eyes off of the big book that was still floating.

Kasai watched the new being intently, Alan, the ghost that had taken control of her for that moment slowly calming down and allowing Kasai to regain some control over herself again. She grunted and almost staggered over onto the ground, yet she managed to keep her wits about.

The hot chocolate that flew over to her did calm her down completely now, sighing in relief as she took it and quickly sat down to avoid completely falling over like a sack of potatoes "T-thanks..." she said, holding the mug in one hand while holding her head with here other hand, she hardly noticed the whole library fix itself until she looked up and saw its in mint condition.

"what...is going on here?" she finally asked Anima.

Arkian was still in a panicked stage despite sitting aside and trying to calm himself down. He looked like he'd just seen a murder, though he was close to one earlier, it looked as if he saw one upfront and personal, as point blank as it can be. Sitting on the chair he dropped both sides of it, holding on for dear life in his eyes, still shaken and with a thousand year stare with eyes so shrunk and him shaking that it looked like he was seeing everything in the past, present and future. Slowly, unexplained fear warded off bit by bit with each second, and he took his opportunity to scan his surroundings, looking around to see everything that just happened had just be fixed. Trying to catch his voice, only a small quiver of sound escaped at first, "W-Wh--Wah--Where's the maid!?" He finally yelled out on his last few words, kicking the chair back as he finally came back to reality with his senses, a strong pose and ajar mouth with a bit of his pointed canines showing his unease and worry as if ready to pounce at whatever danger was hurting her again.