Drew stifled a laugh. She really thinks I'm that good? "It gets better when you go up the ranks. There are less classes you NEED to take, and you can focus a little more on the classes you WANT to take. You still need to do a lot of work, but you have a little more control over how you work." He helped himself to a piece of her candy. "So you want to head to the Waterfall Fortress? I've never been there. You'll have to show me around if you get a room there."
This has to be important...
"I did."
"We haven't had to go there for a long time."
"The center of the island I think."
"So-"
*points finger south*
"That way... getting there without getting wet will be a challenge."
"Any ideas?"
"Oh and take this jug, it seems heavy-er." And I just invented a new word, why did I drink?
Nydia was pleased to see one her favorite teachers. Having spent a lot of time helping out in the infirmary, Nydia had a great deal of respect for such a powerful healer. She gave a bright smile, bowed, and greeted the master. "Ah, and a good morning to you as well, Master Ashton!"
After listening to his request, Nydia nodded her agreement. It wasn't often that they were all gathered in the Grand Hall so it must be for something fairly important. "Of course! I'd be more than happy to help! I'll go around and gather as many as I can find and head there shortly. And if I see Master Rotunz I'll be sure to let her know you were looking for her." Nydia then bowed respectfully and turned to go about the task she had been given.
Nydia made sure to notify every person she saw in the halls, knock on every door she passed, and poke her head into every classroom to let everyone she could find know to go to the Grand Hall. Eventually, one of the classrooms she poked her head into had Master Rotunz in it, teaching a healing class by the looks of things. She bowed upon entering and approached the master. "Ah, good morning Master Rotunz! My apologies for the interruption but Master Ashton was looking for you. He asked me to help gather students in the Great Hall."
As Cale lounged around in the main arena with the other Earthshapers that stayed in when the storm started to get worse he noticed one of the Earthshapers ,Edward, leave with another man. Most likely to cause some mischief because rumors more or less confirm Edward's playful reputation as they tend to fly faster than flames from a pyro. Cale stood up and stretched his dead legs and took after them, curios enough to see what they were going to do. But as soon as Cale turned the corner he came face to face with a gargantuan of a man that was respectfully Niklias Hoch. Cale's heart nearly sank for a second if he didn't recognize him right away, he would have taken him to be a Minotaur with broken horns.
"Master Hoch, greetings. What is the matter that brings you down here today? Or are you just checking up on us?"
Alexander had finished healing cuts and moved to practicing setting traps made of light. He was currently making them non-lethal to make them easier for him to set and so that nobody would accidentally kill themselves. It was always easier to make a trap more powerful, so instead he focused on different methods of trap. All of the traps he set were either activated when he desired them to go off or by using an extremely small laser that would activate the trap when interrupted.
So far he had already devised traps that would impair vision by making a blast of light at eye level that would force the one who set the trap to close their eyes and look away out of instinct. He had also figured out several laser traps that would hit the legs when activated with enough blast to either cause them to stumble or take their leg off if he put enough power into it.
Glad I used a training dummy for that one. Could have ended very badly for me if I tested it on myself or someone else.
Currently he was working on the trap that would cause an enemy to close his eyes, he was trying to figure out just how long he could maintain the actual flash of the trap and if he could actually move the trap while this happened so that when the enemy reopened their eyes they would have to close them again.
Mrs. Rotunz was working with other students who had requested assistance with their magic. He wasn't quite ready to ask for help, but the duration of the spell and his inability to move it was reaching the point where asking for help would be the better idea.
"It's really pretty in the Fortress~" Fei smiled, popping another piece of candy in her mouth. "But I'd still rather stay with you..." she pouted. Before she could continue, a loud voice sounded from outside. "Can all of the students in the Floating Air Islands please report to the Main Hall. We are having an important meeting, attendance is mandatory."
Fei looked out of the window, trying to see through the fog and clouds. "Who said that...? *turns back to Drew* Drew, we gotta go to the Main Hall! Come on!!! The voice said it's importaaant!" She grabbed his hand, dragging him to the door.
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Felicia cracked her knuckles. The other Pyro Master, Marcus, had told her she needed to gather all of the Pyro mages that were in the Caverns of Fire. He was one of the only pyros she respected, and even then it was only sometimes. "Hey assholes! Listen up! We got to get to the Main Hall! Right. Fucking. Now!" She pushed the closest mage towards the exit. "Move it idiots!"
Niklas Hoch stopped immediately, sensing someone coming around the corner. The student nearly ran into him, but they seemed to stop themselves right on time. Looking slightly downward with a small nod, he greeted the student. Cale, if he remembered correctly.
"Greetings, Mage Cale. I am actually here to both check up on everyone and get everyone moving to the Grand Halls. There is going to be an announcement, and we will need everyone present at this meeting in particular. It is of some importance. If you like, you can help me gather some other students to help spread the word while I plan on sending the message through other means." Niklas said, in his usual rumbling of a voice. Glancing around, he figure that perhaps he might as well go for volume in the training area.
"ALL ELEMENTALS ARE TO HEAD FOR THE GRAND HALLS IMMEDIATELY. TELL THOSE YOU MEET ALONG THE WAY." Niklas's voice boomed as he rose it to get his point across. In response, many students quickly dropped what they were doing and hurried to get to the halls.
Cindy Rotunz stood from assisting another mage with their healing when she heard another student approach her. Finishing assisting the student first, giving the boy a reassuring smile, she turned to see Nydia giving her a small bow, which Cindy returned.
"Good morning Nydia. I guess that meeting earlier today actually had some news! Thank you very much for the message. Seems class is going to be cut a little shorter today." Cindy said, rising from her bow to clap her hands. "Attention everyone! Seems that class is going to be a little shorter today. I would like anyone who is not an Adept to please make your way to the Grand Halls, as it seems there is something important happening. Don't worry too much about what you are working on, myself and everyone else will take care of it."
Looking around pleased that everyone was getting started to go, Cindy turned back to Nydia. "Thanks again for the message. Would you mind helping me finish helping clean this up? Can't have a bunch of lightly cut individuals leaving the class, just wouldn't be right in the slightest." Cindy said, moving to a nearby Airshifter volunteer and very quickly going about healing up the small cut on his arm which a student had been practicing on. "There you go!" She said, and then quickly moved to the next volunteer.
Marcus Orallian knew better than to let Felicia run about telling other students to get to the Grand Hall, let alone out in the open. So he had instead told her to get all the students from the Fire Caverns, which would mean at most all the students there getting an earful would be used to it coming from her, and her often foul mouthed and loud language.
Instead, Marcus himself decided that he would be the one to get the students who were either first having breakfast, lunch, or whatever else kind of meal they would need this still somewhat early day. As the wind billowed about him, Marcus took the time to look up, knowing that soon there would likely be a few of the fabled airships flying above them, delivering the cargo that Darnell had made a deal out of. While it still didn't sit nicely with him that Darnell had already promised the arrival, he knew that for the moment he was just going to have to live with it.
Darnell shifted about the shadows quickly, leaving notes, making the message in the shadows, or just outright whispering to students that there was going to be a Grand Hall meeting, and they had best get moving. As he shifted about the darker halls and students, he decided that leaving a note for many of the dorms where he knew students where was simple enough. Approaching one of the rooms where he thought he noted a presence, he made a note of shadows, slid it through the door, then continued on like a ghost. The shadow note quickly began arriving to many students (Namely students who remained in their rooms where the notes of black would be noticeable)
The main hall is a large enclosed colosseum. The walkways are lit by torches placed strategically so that equally sized light and dark areas alternate around the room. In the dome ceiling is an oculus that lets sunlight in, lighting up the center stage. Small streams flow down the wall and around the stage.
Aden excused himself from the cafeteria shortly, heading down the corridor in the general direction of the Fire Caverns. Before he was able to get very far, an apprentice airshifter approached him. "Sir, we've been ordered to head to the Great Hall."
Aden nodded to the boy, his brow furrowed in puzzlement. This was abrupt. "Thank you." He turned the corner, walking into the Great Hall and glancing around. Only a handful of people were already there, he appeared to be early. He tugged his coat around himself and leaned against the wall, pulling out a book and finding his bookmark, wondering what the hell the Council was on about this time. Some trivial drivel, no doubt.
"Nothing to drink, this is bullshit" Ezekiel complained as he entered the main hall. A fair number of people from all elements had arrived at this point most standing idly about talking quietly to each other. "Come Sir Taco" Ezekial said as he placed the chicken on the ground and motioned for it to follow him. He quickly pasted a rather relaxed looking Mage reading a book. Ezekial headed for the corner of the room to finish off the last of his jug and relax on peace.
Drew heard the announcement and got up walking outside. "Damn... whatever this is, it better be really important." He shrugged, trying taking his time to look around the streets to see what the people were saying, but nobody where he was going seemed to know why they were being called there. Well at least I'm not the only one in the dark about this...
Fei skipped beside her brother, smiling despite the storm. She tried to walk straight, the strong winds billowing her robe around her. "Of course it's important! I don't even remember the last time they had all the mages come together in the Main Hall... I'm so excited~" she looked around trying to find someone else she knew. "Do you know a lot of other mages Drew?"
Edward sat down looking around in a bit of a daze.
His thinking was still too fuzzy for his liking. They can fit EVERY student in here, amazing
"I think you can go awhile without a drink."
"Just guessing but you probably do that every day."
Nydia nodded and immediately got to work healing everyone's wounds. "Yes, I agree. That wouldn't be right at all. So I'd be more than happy to help!" Since the wounds were rather light it wasn't long before they had all been treated between the two of them.
After finishing with her last patient, Nydia sent the volunteer on his way with a smile and turned back to Master Rotunz. "Well, looks like that's the last of them. So I suppose I'd better get to the Grand Hall myself. It would a shame to miss out on such an important event." Nydia bowed once more to Master before turning to head to the Grand Hall.
Raven had remained in the cafeteria, contemplating the uselessness of the lives of everyone around her the shouts came from the hall way. Then one of the older Weavers came in, shouting, "All students are to report to the Main Hall immediately! By order of the Masters! No dawdling! Move it!"
Stuck up jerk. Thinks he's so high and mighty because he get's to be the Master's lap dog? Conformist punk. Enjoy a lifetime of sucking up to people who won't even care about you. People only care about themselves. Their own ideals. This populace is terrible. Fine. I'll go along with your wishes. Give you a small shred of misplaced satisfaction while you slowly die.
Raven slowly rose from the table, making sure her face was covered up as much as possible by her hood as she joined the bewildered students in filing out of the cafeteria towards the Main Hall.
"I don't know that many other mages. Nobody here worth the effort of getting to know. I know a few, but they don't really seem to remember me." The Grand Hall was in view now, and Drew picked up the pace, noticing there wasn't that big a crowd at the front yet. "Last thing we need is to be standing in a line to get seated..."
Seth rose from where he was leaning up against the wall, the announcement now made apparent by a Weaver coming and announcing that a meeting in the Grand Halls were being held.
Odd....I do not remember anything like this being scheduled. Something is obviously going on...
As Seth made his way quickly past many other individuals, he spied Marcus Orallian keeping watch over the many students leaving, no doubt here to make sure everyone was going. This reaffirmed Seth's suspicions that something very important was going on, something that apparently affected most, if not all, the Academy.
Making his way into the halls, Seth grinned as he saw Aden had already arrived before him, and had gotten to doing his usual aloofness of this 'special' meeting. Making his way over to the Weaver, Seth sat next to him.
"Greetings Aden. What do you imagine brought this out? World domination time? A new meal plan? The rooms are dirty and need to be cleaned? Personally I vote for the new meal plan, it would be nice to have something new for dinner this evening." Seth said with a grin.
Meanwhile, a larger group of people, either awakened from their slumbers, brought in from classes, or now coming from the meal hall, were starting to steam into the Grand Hall, and while the Grand Halls could fit everyone easily enough, the groups that people preferred to stay in made it seem to get more crowded in areas than others.
Aden chuckled. "More likely one of the Masters would like to announce that one of their 'pet students' is getting elevated to Weaver for their 'outstanding carnal performance.'" He shook his head. The Masters had a way of drawing his scorn. He glanced over the room, eying the other Mages as they trickled in. He couldn't wait to see what boneheaded decision they had made this time.
Fei and Drew managed to get into the Main Hall before the crowd came, which was pretty good. She made him sit down near one of the steams so that she could wantonly splash about with it. She spied Seth come in, and pulled her brother's sleeve. "Hey Drew look, it's Seth! I'm going to say hi!~" she sped off away from him without giving him a chance to reply. She almost barreled into him when she noticed Aden sitting next to him, someone she never quite warmed up to. Trying to stay out Aden's line of sight she pulled on Seth's sleeve. "Hi Seth!~"
Alexander decided to see what was going on. He knew that he could skip it if he really wanted to, but class being cancelled was certainly unusual for such a thing. As soon as he stepped outside and saw all of the Lightdwellers walking through the halls it piqued his interest even more.
What in the world? Why would every class be cancelled all of a sudden and everyone be told to report to the hall. Alexander quickly joined up with the other Adepts who were attending the meeting.
"Does anyone know what is going on?" He asked the group, to which he got immediate responses that indicated nobody knew what was happening.
"Well then I guess we will have to find out." He said as they all headed into the Grand Hall.
Raven filed in amongst the general populace heading into the Main Hall. She opted to go to the back corner, where the shadows were strongest. There were muffled murmurs amongst her fellow Nightshade brethren. Rumor had it that Darnell had gone and made a move behind the other masters back. What that move might have been was unknown, not even the Weavers had any info other than that Darnell may be involved.
She settled into a seat and watched the other students of the Academy pour in. Look at the sheep march, lockstep behind their supposed shepherds. Pathetic.
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