The Kethencian College of Magic RP (Part 3)

[Zaleramancer]

Tiberius nodded and whistled once.

Soaring high above the battle, the Valkyrie heard.

Harpist in sight, she dove downwards, sword whistling in the wind of her wake.

[Philote]

Zauber accepts Billy's help up. His ward may have stopped the blade from piercing him, but being knocked of EarthShaker was still not pleasant.

"I trust you know what you're doing Billy. If you need us to take these guys on then we won't let you down."

Zauber walks up to the front of EarthShaker to gain a better view of the battlefield. Asoka was facing off against the metal acolyte still and Tiberius' Valkyrie was now going for the harpist. An arcane mote appears in both of Zauber's hands, one purple, the other blue. It was time to see if he could be the maestro to both of these battles.

The motes fly off as two spells are cast. The purple mote flies to Asoka, causing an electrical ring to encircle her body and follow her as she moved. Gorn's spear is caught by the energy and deflected just enough so that Asoka's own skill would be enough to dodge the blow. The second spell flies past the Valkyrie towards the Harpist. From the blue mote, waters rise from the college's floor tiles that latch on and hold the Harpist.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Billy nodded to the two of them. "Thank you."

Then he whistled.

Earthshaker opened up it's mouth and the four skeletons squatting in it jumped out and landed in front of Billy. Before the behemoth closed it's mouth again, Gob is briefly visible. He's standing on the lower jaw, the fine black mana that holds all og billy's creations together gripped in either small hand.

"Just like we practiced: Speed Model!"

The skeletons leapt into action. One jumped up on the others shoulders, the second, bottom, skeleton wrapping its arms around it's legs and gripping. Skeleton number three wrapped its legs around the chest of skeleton number two. The whole shebang fell to the ground, the middle skeleton held aloft, face up, by the arms and legs of the others. The last skeleton leapt on top, the middle one reaching out its arms to catch it. They intertwined their arms, and the fourth skeleton contorted it's legs to form a sort of head.

It all came together to look vaguely like horse. They all opened their mouths, and said "Neigh."

Billy leapt on, mana extending from his tool and latching onto the feet that formed the horses "head.' He cracked his makeshift rein once, and the creature took off through the door like greased lightning, headed for the Divination Wing.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Asoka quickly salutes Billy as Zauber's shield surrounds her, deflecting the spear. However, rather than dodging away from the big guy as one would've expected, Asoka quickly grabbed hold of the haft of the spear, and began heating up both the spear and the floor, "I know that I can survive this, but are you able to Mr. Armor?"

The flames rise quickly, engulfing both Asoka and Gorn, hiding them from sight of the others.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Flux's eyes flash yellow as his head snaps up to greet the incoming projectiles. His erratic grin stretching wide. The wind pierces his skin and leaves long bloodless scars along his torso. Without flinching he slowly crept forward. Steam poured from his wounds, slowly at first, but building into thick columns of vapor that obscured the scars. Soon the steam cleared to reveal his newly healed skin. No trace of the wounds having been there, no even a scar.

"You'll have to do better than that little mage. He he he he..."

As he spoke the skin on his back creaked and groaned unnaturally, bulging outward. With a pained squeal, two large Bat wings eruppted from his shoulder and lifted him into the air.

"I'm coming for you. FLY LITTLE MAGE, FLY!!!! KE AH HA HA HA HA HA!"

[Marvelous Miscreant]

The Harpist plucked at her instrument, the tempo of her music changing. She strummed a quick and low melody that strained the air and before her a shield of foul and twisted roots erupted from the ground to intercept the Valkyrie. They coiled and struck like thorny cobras rising from the dirt. While a few tear into the water prizon that holds her feet and drink the magical liquid dry.

As the creature was distracted the Harpist again drew her instrument close and began to play a haunting refrain. Her fingers danced across the cords with supernatural dexterity and as she played, she sang.

Her voice was that of a dark angel, melodious and sweet, but tainted with something evil and malicious.

Poised upon the brink of war
Foes that stand beside me
Weapons drawn and eyes of hatred
Through their terror I am free
For no mind can just afford
To hear my melody of discord

As she sang the final note the battle field took a frightening change in the young mage's eyes. Every shadow seemed to boil with slithering movement and shifting eyes. Every stone and wall appeared to creaked and snap. The fires became clawing fists and gnashing teeth. Every thing took on a more Horrifying  appearance, even their companions.

Terror crept into their minds.

All the while the Harpist cackled her harp glowing with dark power.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

The area erupts with searing flames and Gorn is nearly lost in the blaze, his Bulky frame merely a shadowy outline amongst the bright spouts of fire. The spear melts in his grasp becoming a puddle of molten metal. And his armor turns white hot.

Suddenly his two massive metal hands, white hot and streaming smoke plunge through the fire grabbing Asoka by the wrists and pulling her off her feet into the air. Gorn draws her in closeun till his cracked and flaming helm is mere inches from her face. In the murky black of the Warrior's helm, Asoka can make out two Sapphire embers of smoky energy that burn brightly even amongst the flames.  They seemed filled with cold unfeeling hatred.

Gorn speaks, his voice echoing and metalic.

"You are strong, little Fire Mage. A worthy opponent. But neither blade, nor fire can kill what is not flesh."

With that, Gorn releases Asoka, and grabs a hold of his helm with both hands and lifts it from his head. Beneath it there is nothing but acrid black smoke that clings to the armor like something alive. His now headless body still moves and tosses the smoking helm high over Asoka's head and out of the fire. Once the Helm leave the armor's hands the metal cracks and melts into a pulled of slag.

But Gorn is not dead.

The Helm sighes and black smoke erupts from the bottom lifting it into the air on a plume of charcoal black fumes. The smoke expands and then condenses into a roughly human shape.  There is crackleing noise and The fully armored body of Gorn steps forwards from the smoke.

"YOU WILL DIE BY MY HAND!"

Suddenly, the air is filled with blades of all kinds, held afloat by smoke. All at one they streak through the air towards Asoka.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

The shuddering steps continue growing heavier. Surprisingly, there is no sound that accompanies them, only shuddering quakes across the floor. They grew quicker and heavier until suddenly the stopped. A brief moment of silence passed and the horrendous sound of splintering wood and cracking stone assaulted the ears of anyone unfortunate enough to be near the wall that exploded outwards. Dust swirled through the air clogging lungs and obscuring the massive form that now occupied the impromptu door.

When it cleared, the creature that was revealed could only be described as Monstrous. It's clawed and padded feet were the size of Bathtubs and scored the ground with deep groves as 2 foot long claws flexed and scraped the ground. It's legs, all six of them were bound with lean muscle and covered in thick scales. It's body was almost simian in appearance, but coated sparsely with the same scales. Course, wiry hair grew in patches on its back around sharp porcupine like quills. Its tail was long and segmented like a scorpions, but ended in a circular leech like mouth like with rows of razor sharp teeth

It's head was the most frightening. It was vaguely human, but bore resemblances to hundred of other species. A black nobbled horn extended from its forehead.

When it spoke, its voice was grating to the ears and inhuman. Its every word chilled the bones and pained the soul. When it spoke it sounded out the syllables awkwardly as if speaking were an unfamiliar concept.

"Wha-ere ish the Nee-cro-man-ser?"

[Marvelous Miscreant]

The Halls around the Divination wing are eerily silent. No sounds of battle or conflict can be heard. In fact there is no sound at all save the pounding of the skeletal horse's "hoofs".

As Billy reaches the divination wing entrance he can see that the door is slightly ajar, but completely intact.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

As soon as Gorn revealed his true form, Asoka's first thought was to swear in her native language and get Billy to try an exorcism.

She quickly starts moving to get out of the swords' trajectories, but as they change course to move after her, she yells out, "Zauber! Can you use your magic to capture these swords or restrain them from moving a certain distance away from the wielder?"

[Celadon's Penultimate]

To Wulf's dismay, there seemed no place to enter the fray undetected, as he watched the conflict out in the hall.

He clenched his fists, and let out a sigh. So much for the element of surprise.

Slipping down from the cloud on which he lay, Wulf set gentle tiptoe onto the College floor, and let electricity build up slow in his fists. His eyes grew bright with electrical power. He looked up to the cloud, and it seemed to respond, pulsating with sparks and grumbling with building thunder.

This was it. Now or never.

He adjusted the Electrical Eel Belt, knelt low, positioned himself almost like a runner. A final contemplative breath, and he took off full speed into the conflict, his rumbling storm cloud trailing behind at his subliminal behest.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Silent as the Grave." Billy whispers, before jumping off the creature. As he lands and tumbles on the ground, a thick grey fog rises up from where he touches the ground. There isn't any sound. Billy waves a hand as he stands up, and the steed doesn't even break stride as it runs down the hallway, carrying with it's strange footsteps.

Billy slinked silently up to the door, remembering every lesson his mother had ever given him about "moving like a ghost." He peered in the crack in the door.

[Ericus Europaeus (Bug)]

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[Marvelous Miscreant]

The Acolyte swerves in midair and crashes out of the windows in a spray of glass. The whirlwind swirls down the hall missing Flux completely. Seconds later Flux crashes back through another windows and continues the chase.

[Ericus Europaeus (Bug)]

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[Philote]

Zauber shields his eyes as a blinding inferno takes up one side of the hallway and wicked shadows take up the other. The temporary blindness reminds him of the curse that had wrecked his senses in his last fight against the acolyte.

He hears Asoka's call through the roar of the battle and focuses on the magic he already had placed around her. Even though he could not see the fight at the moment, he trusted Asoka's instinct. Expanding upon the electrical protection already around Asoka, he transfers the spell over to Gorn to hamper his movement with the electrical ring.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

The massive creature eyes Wulf from across the courtyard and grinned wickedly. It' gnarled and clawed hand shot out and it's palm opened to reveal a slimy, toothed orifice. From it, a long red tongue, much like a frog's shot out and snatched Wulf by the ankle before dragging him in arc through the air, into the creature's claws.

The thing, clenched Wulf and brought him close, its foul breath heaving in his face.

"Tall May Lee-tell Thing Wha-ere ish tha Nee-Cro-Man-Seer?"

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Through the slit between the door and it's frame, Billy can see a small portion of the divination wing's common room. The Purple Flames that had burned in the center basin the last time Billy had visited were nothing but embers leaving the room cloaked in shadows. Around the dying flames were unmoving forms, barely visible against the gloom. They were the divination students. They lay unmoving on the floor in scattered positions. Looking closer, Billy can tell they're still breathing, but only just. Small wisps of of smoke periodically escape their mouths.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Flux throws his wings back and intercepts the glass with his torso, the fragments lodging in his skin and sinking in. The cut begin to smoke and heal as they did before.

"You aren't very smart are you, little mage? When will you learn? You can't harm me!"

Flux's wings retract back into his shoulders and his arms become think thorny wines the extend towards Eric, thrashing and pummeling the walls and air.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Gorn makes a sound like screeching metal and throws his arms wide. Five blades depart from the masses and impale themselves in the ground  around him with thundering cracks.The blades form a pentagram, deep purple lines forming between them. Power builds around them climbing to hazardous levels until it is released. The shock wave of energy shatters Zauber's spell like glass, dispelling the magic everywhere.

With a flick of his wrist, a massive hammer appears and carried by smoke launches itself towards Zauber.

Next, Gorn turns his attention back to Asoka. Think smoke begin to leak from the crevices of his armor, pooling at his feet.

"It is a shame," his deep voice rumbled, " you would have made such a good acolyte"