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Chapter 2 - Landing
(Tristain, Tristain Academy of Magic)
Four figures stood tall on the summoning platform, with various expressions on their faces, and looked out for the first time at the slack-jawed group of children before them.
"Professor…?" questioned the shocked Louise, still quite unable to fathom that she had summoned not one but FOUR familiars, and humans nonetheless! Even though she had summoned three commoners, the sight of the large, well-built noble in gold-white robes comforted some of her lingering doubts.
"..."
Colbert stood in place, at a loss for what to do. Such a thing happening was simply unheard of, not just at the Academy, but ever! Unable to even fathom the situation, much less craft a coherent, logical response, Colbert simply remained in a dazed stupor.
Having to take charge of the situation, Louise slowly approached the four men, hesitation evident in her eyes. To tell the truth, she was deathly afraid of the human-like creatures she had summoned, especially the white-haired commoner with the gun. But even though her instincts screaming at her to just back away from these people, by the Founder she summoned them, so she would take responsibility!
Steadying herself, she began to walk with more confidence. Albeit dwarfed by the commoners, especially so by the tall, blond-haired noble, she gradually worked up the courage to draw herself up to her full 5" 0' height and address them directly.
"My familiars…" spoke Louise, before instantly being cut off.
"YOU!", roared Knives, leveling his gun at Louise's head. His expression contorted with rage, having finally located the insolent spider that dared to interrupt his fight.
Despite being unable to understand Japanese, even Louise could clearly grasp the murderous intentions behind Knives' words, and shrunk back while letting out an involuntary "eep!".
X
"Big sister…" whispered Syphlid.
"I know…" replied Tabitha, readying her wand.
X
"You dare point a firearm at a member of the honorable la Vallière family, you discourteous thug?!" exclaimed Louise, her once respectful voice quavering with fury, gobsmacked at the audacity of a mere peasant to pull such a stunt in front of so many nobles!
"You BASTARD!" screamed an incensed Knives, in a rage after hearing the thing that pulled him out of the oasis talk down to him.
BANG!
The first shot rang out, and Louise cried out in agony as the shot ripped through her shoulder. Unable to take the impact of the .45 round fired with the velocity of a rifle bullet, she instantly collapsed to the ground, writhing in pain.
"Louise!" cried Montmornecy, running over, and frantically trying to stabilize the wound, and the ever-growing pool of blood with her rudimentary knowledge of water magic.
Out of the tens of students, none of them were able to break out of the shock of such an outright, brazen attack, by a commoner nonetheless! Unable to even move, they simply stood, slack-jawed and still.
As for the remaining three men on the summoning platform, Schneizel looked on with a casual disinterest, Nine with an appropriately shocked countenance, albeit only at not knowing exactly where the hell he was, and Hei with a cold, analytical gaze under the Black Reaper's mask.
Finally moved to action by the threat upon Louise, and by proxy all of the students under his care, Colbert allowed his kind, caring professor persona to fall away, as Colbert the Flame Serpent re-emerged. His previous confusion was instantaneously replaced with pure rage towards the person who dared lay a finger on one of his students, a person he fully intended to incinerate. Rapidly reciting an incantation, four lethal streams of fire shot out of Colbert's staff towards Knives, with intent to burn him to a crisp before he could reload his musket.
Knives scowled. Faced with evidence of physics-defying phenomenon, he immediately deduced that he was dealing with a modified human with pyric abilities, not unlike the monster Legato Bluesummers and his "mind control". Although, he couldn't say that having that person completely loyal to himself wasn't half bad.
Regardless…
Knives expertly rolled forwards, the "flame snakes" decimating the area where he stood only moments before. Feeling the sweltering heat wave behind him, Knives reluctantly acknowledged the power of his adversary. However, not even such raw power could match his century of experience.
Coming out of the roll, Knives brought the pistol across his body, firing three brief shots in rapid succession. landing in a perfect spread along Jean Colbert's chest.
"Colbert!"
"Professor!"
The continued devastating attack from Knives prompted the gobsmacked students to action, as the drew their wands and prepared to cast all manner of deadly and immobilizing spells towards the attacker.
Knives internally grimaced. Although he wanted to massacre all involved with this little teleportation stunt, the unknown variables were too much to risk his life for. Electing to not push his luck, Knives used his innate Plant abilities to release a burst of psychokinetic pressure, disrupting the half-finished incantations, and took off towards the academy wall.
"Coward! He thinks he can get away with this?!" shouted one of the more temperamental students, preparing to launch a destructive fireball at the Knives' rapidly receding form. However, he lost his concentration when he witnessed Knives fired his remaining two bullets at the academy wall and ran through it, leaving shattered chunks of stone behind him.
Although briefly cowed by the incredible display of speed and firepower, the students were quickly snapped out of their reverie as they remembered the two of their own were critically injured on the ground before them, multiple gunshot wounds in their bodies.
"Someone, quick, get the headmaster!" shouted one of the more sensible students, and quickly everyone went into full damage-control mode, Louise's other summons momentarily forgotten.
X
The three men still remained on the platform, in a bit of a daze at the rapid-fire series of events that just unfolded, until suddenly, they found themselves surrounded by a legion of armed guards in full plate armor, complete with swords and lances.
"Please come with us," the guard-captain commanded, anger evident in his deep, baritone voice.
Glancing at the angry medieval warriors surrounding them with weapons and threatening expressions, Hei and Nine backed up slowly, not exactly wanting a repeat of the situation that happened just seconds before.
"Lay down your weapons, and you will not be harmed!" roared the captain, seething with rage at his previous failure, and at the monsters associated with the sort of man who could break through a wall reinforced by Square-class earth mages with just two bullets and a shoulder. Intending to make up for his earlier loss of face due to his gaffe in not protecting the students, he tried his best to intimidate the remaining men into submission.
Unfortunately, the sight of aggressive, angry knights, shouting threateningly in a vaguely-European language, all the while waving various offensive weapons had the exact opposite effect, leading Nine and Hei to the rational conclusion that they were in very clear and present danger.
Nine drew his pistol, disengaging the safety and aiming it steadily with a deadly focus, while Hei brought his knife to bear, electricity coursing through his body, each taking an offensive stance.
"Shit! Another noble!" cried one of the guards, aghast at the "lightning magic" Hei generated through the blade of the knife. Almost immediately, the guards sprung back in terror, eyes wide with fear.
With the tension rising to almost a breaking point, Schneizel sighed internally. Although he didn't enjoy having to break up petty squabbles, preferring to keep the impassive mask of a calm observer, he knew that if he didn't stop the situation now, someone would die.
And that would be very...disappointing.
"Enough!" roared Schneizel in impeccable ancien français. [Ancient French]
"Sir Noble!" exclaimed the guard-captain, shocked that the seemingly expressionless nobleman was suddenly infuriated to such an incredible degree.
While the guards stammered incessantly, attempting to make up for their huge gaffe at offending not one but two nobles, Schneizel turned to Hei and Nine.
"Lower your weapons for now. Just follow my lead," whispered the prime minister, in fluent Japanese.
Nine's eyes widened briefly, before immediately returning to his trademark cold, expressionless gaze.
"Alright...I trust you...", he whispered back.
Schneizel glanced over towards the masked man, about to repeat himself, before being returned by an almost imperceptible nod of Hei's head, the electricity within the blade slowly fading away.
Finally gathering his wits, the guard-captain worked up the courage to address the towering Schneizel. Opening his mouth to speak, he was suddenly cut off, yet again, by the arrival of Professor Osmond to the courtyard.
"Headmaster!" cried the guards, standing at immediate attention and saluting the old, white-haired square mage. Flanked by Longueville and Professor Chevreuse, the trio of senior leadership rapidly approached the center of the courtyard.
Completely ignoring the soldiers, Osmond rapidly scanned the area before him. Having been informed of a white-haired familiar drawing a gun on one of his students, he rushed over to the courtyard as fast as he could, bringing the most powerful mages in his employ with him. But, he had been far too late.
"By the Founder…", Osmond sharply inhaled, witnessing the carnage before him.
His sharp mind racing into action, he began to shout orders in an attempt to stabilize the precarious situation before him.
"Longueville, Chevreuse, guards, escort these...men...to my office. I'll take care of the situation from here," commanded Osmond, as he gathered the students, restoring order to the best of his abilities.
Turning to face the three summoned humans, Chevreuse spoke.
"Mister Nobleman…" started Chevreuse, ignoring Hei and Nine.
"Schneizel."
"Mister Schneizel, then, would you and your...companions...please come with us," spoke Chevreuse, her tone implying that it was not so much a request, but a command.
"Fine, then," replied Schneizel, an unreadable expression on his face. After relaying the command in Japanese to Nine and Hei, the trio reluctantly allowed themselves to be led away by the guards, towards the tower
X
Osmond quickly knelt down by the curled-up form of Louise, his black eyes hardening upon seeing the gaping hole in her left shoulder.
"Louise…"
"I'm...fine...headmaster…" choked out the injured Louise, tears streaming down her face. "Colb….Colbert….help Colbert, headmaster…please...". After speaking those words, she closed her eyes, passing out from blood loss.
"Louise!...Kirche! Take Louise to the infirmary, quickly!"
"Yes, headmaster!" replied the redheaded fire mage instantly, casting the levitation spell on her unconscious body, and sprinting towards the medical building as fast as she could.
Looking down at Colbert, Osmond gasped at the sight of the three massive, bloody entry wounds splayed across his chest.
"Jean!"
Coughing hard, Colbert slowly opened his eyes. Shakily pushing himself into an upright position, he wordlessly looked around at the destroyed courtyard. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open, and a sharp pang of fear pierced his heart.
"The students! Are they alright!" cried Colbert, his stomach sick with the thought that any of them would have been harmed by his failure.
"Jean, calm down! Look at yourself!" responded Osmond frantically, afraid of causing the bald professor to lose any more blood out of stress.
"ARE THEY ALRIGHT, OSMOND?!" roared Colbert, frightening Osmond back, being unable to believe the raw fury coming off of the normally level-headed and calm professor.
"Yes, yes, they're all fine! Now calm down, I can't let you hurt yourself any more than you already are!"
"Thank the Founder…" breathed Colbert. Suddenly feeling a wave of exhaustion come over him, he collapsed back to the ground.
"Jean!"
"I'm fine, Osmond…" muttered Colbert, before suddenly coughing up blood.
"JEAN!"
"..."
Colbert's vision suddenly went black, as he, too, fell unconscious on the courtyard ground.
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Cleaned up on 9/5/18