This story is alive! I saw the review by Tails the Fox and must say thank you. Though I had a tiny bit of trouble reading it which I deserved because the grammar from my previous chapter was poor. Luckily this chapter has a wee bit better grammar. Also I noticed a knew favorite, hello out there I know your reading and would love a review. From anyone. Come on pretty please! Anyway enough of my yapping, I don't own Sonic or Sega all copyrights belong to them.
Illusions class had come and gone and Tails was quite relieved when it had finally left. This time some of the class had started trying to transform their appearances. Tails not wanting to be left out gave his best attempt and managed to alter his fur color, unfortunately the color had been a pink so bright Amy would have been blinded. He saw Alysia snickering and had thought he saw a slight grin and suppressed chuckle run across Cyrus's face. Maro had said it was actually an impressive improvement since yesterday so Tails left the room feeling a slight bit of pride.
He was currently making way through a hall towards enchanting when he felt…something, he couldn't describe it other than a strong feeling of Déjà vu. He shook his head to clear the feeling as he heard a quick slap against that marble tiles that signaled someone running towards him. He turned and waved as he spotted Alysia who smiled in return.
"Hey Tails. You left Illusions so quick I had to jog to catch up. Something bugging you?" Tails shook his head with a smile on his face as he responded.
"Nah, I'm just excited to get to Enchanting, it's probably my best class. Sorry about running past you. Walk the rest of the way with me?" Alysia nodded and then kept a nice walking pace next to Tails occasionally giving him sideways glances. In all honesty she had been concerned that his first experience with Necromancy had shaken him. But looking at him he had the same bright eyes, though they were drooping with his lack of a nights rest. She was pleased to find her fears had been unfounded.
Tails walked into the room and felt a wave of excitement hit him, he wasn't sure why but Enchanting seemed almost familiar. He attributed it to the similarities between the engineering and building he had loved so much back on Mobius. A slight chill ran up his back at the thought of his plane just sitting in his garage gathering dust. Putting the thought hastily behind him he settled down on a bench right between Cyrus and Alysia and got to work.
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He licked his lips and felt his prison collapsing faster and faster. The infinite blackness now showed a single pinprick of light in the all consuming darkness. The light fell directly on to one of his eyes and showed the myriad of colors that made up the iris. Blood red, cobalt blue, bright yellow and dark green swirled about in constant motion. A wicked thought crossed his mind, perhaps he wouldn't need to wait until the prison fully collapsed until he escaped. It had been so long since he had last tried, but invigorated by the light he figured it would cost him little. He gathered his power, held his breath and then released it with all the force he could muster.
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Tails was staring with pride at his latest creation. Even the teacher had approached and adjusted the glasses on his wrinkled forehead as he showed signs of how impressed he was. It was an amulet this time that Tails hoped would absorb the background energies of the college and let him be a little stronger in his other classes. He held it up to the light shining through one of the classes stained windows which depicted an ancient mage when he noticed something. The window seemed to be rattling, in fact all of them were. Tails glanced down and the central jewel in his amulet had started vibrating. He turned about to ask the teacher what was going on when it happened. A horrible cracking sound filled the air and Tails stared in horror as his amulet's jewel cracked before his eyes. Then he felt the force hit him like a black wave and in that same instant every window exploded into a hail of razored shards. Yelps and screams filled the air as people took cover behind or under whatever they could while some were blown straight off their feet. Tails cringed and covered his head and neck waiting for a rain of glass to hit him.
He waited for the familiar impact, after so many times of fighting Robotnik and his minions he knew what it felt like to have glass rain down towards you. Nothing came so he peeked out and saw the aged Enchanting teacher had frozen all the shards in mid flight and was now pushing them out the window to fall outside of the classroom. The students started to dust themselves off and Tails quickly looked around in fright before sighting Alysia und a desk and ran up to her and took her hand before giving a pull which brought her to her feet.
"Are you alright? Did any get you?" Tails asked concerned, she just shook her head before spotting Cyrus and her heart nearly stopped. He had his back to the far wall and looked like he had been knocked off his feet. He cupped his shoulder a look of obvious distress on him as a slight line of red ran from between his fingers. Tails spotted what had frozen Alysia to the spot and quickly ran up to him. Tails was worried for his friend but a quick look told him he wasn't in serious danger. The aged teacher then came over and held his hands over the wound as his skin quickly put itself back together and glass embedded fell to the floor. Alysia and Tails helped him to his feet as a question that was in most everyone's thoughts was said aloud.
"What in the hell was that!? Are we under attack or something?" Tails wasn't sure who had said it but the concern was plain to see on every students face that this was what they were worried about. The teacher just shook his head before responding, his voice commanding authority that halted the panicked whispers which raced about the room.
"No we are most certainly not under attack. That was no spell, just a collection of magical power that must have somehow coalesced on college grounds. Though I admit it was unusually powerful but I assure you we are in no danger here. I will protect each of you from harm. Now if any of you have suffered any harm come up here and I'll heal it quickly. If you were not harmed, class is over in light of the circumstances so you may return to your rooms." He started healing scrapes and cuts people had gotten as Tails picked up what remained of his amulet. It looked scorched with part having partially melted and the central gem shattered into near dust. He placed it into his bag before heading to his room with Alysia and Cyrus.
Cyrus took a seat on Tails bed as the three just looked at one another still a little shocked over what happened. It was Tails who first spoke.
"So this type of thing doesn't happen too often right?" Tails asked only half jokingly. Both just shook their heads. Cyrus spoke up now, clearly far more awake than he had been that day.
"I have no idea what could have caused it. I don't think I believe Alistair's explanation, or at least I don't think it's the full story. Something caused that and it had to be pretty strong. I'm going to go question some spirits and see if any of them have seen anything like this before. But before I go I thought of something you might be interested in so I grabbed it from my room before I went to class, here." Tails took the small book in one hand; it was covered in black leather and seemed to hold the same scent as Cyrus, graveyard dirt.
"Uhhm thanks…what is it?" Tails asked still the slightest bit nervous for Cyrus. Cyrus grabbed it and opened it revealing a hand written title on the first page.
"Necromantic Grimoire and research by Cyrus" Tails couldn't read the last name that had been written after Cyrus as it had been scratched out. Tails nodded and thanked Cyrus saying he would read over it and tell him what he thought. Cyrus turned to leave but paused just inside the doorway before turning around and addressing the both of them.
"See you tomorrow hopefully and, yah know be careful." With that Cyrus departed and left Alysia and Tails starring at the small black book. Tails leafed over to the first entry and then a question quickly formed in his mind.
"Alysia how long has Cyrus been at the college?" Tails questioned, Alysia quirked an eyebrow before replying.
"He joined the same time I did so about 6 months ago I would say. Why?" Tails turned the book over and showed her the first date as he spoke.
"The first date is from three years before he entered the college. He's been studying Necromancy since before he even came to the college. No wonder you said he was so good from day one." Alysia nodded as Tails closed the book not yet ready to start into it as first he had a pressing matter. He still hadn't written Sonic back yet and if he knew Sonic he might very well be panicking.
Tails stared down at the page that he had written and hoped it would calm Sonic down; he looked over at the photo of the two of them and felt a twinge of homesickness. He placed the message in the box and left to go talk a little with Alysia before finally getting some much needed sleep.
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Sonic was sprinting through station square completely intent on keeping his mind off of Tails. He'd been gone two days and still hadn't written back. He was probably distracted, but so distracted to forget about his old big bro. The thought worried him which was precisely why he was currently trying not to think about and instead had gone on to track down and send to prison as many criminals he could get his hands on. The only real challenge he'd encountered was Nack who had managed to land a half decent kick but was now currently sitting in a prison cell. The sun was heading down so he decided to head back to his place to see it Tails had finally sent him a message.
He flicked on the light switch and stared at the small box and crossed his fingers. He finally gathered his hope and flipped the lid and an instant smile went out across his features. He pulled the letter out and took a seat on his couch to see just how his best bud was doing. As he read he imagined Tails light voice right next to him like it had been only two days ago.
"Dear Sonic
What's up bro, I got your first letter and thanks! I miss you to but I can't wait for you to get here so I can show you some cool stuff. I have a roommate who's really nice. Her names Alysia and she says she's called an elf! Crazy right, but I also met someone named Cyrus. He's nice but needs some help so I'm doing the best that I can. The classes are way past cool, I have Alteration which is all about making you enhance your own abilities. The teacher might even be able to make you sweat hahha. I'm pretty bad at illusions but I think I'm getting better slowly. Last I have enchanting which I'm already excelling at which is my favorite class. How's Mobius holding up? Make sure you say hi to Amy and Knuckles if you see them. Love yah bro and can't wait to see you and show what I've learned.
Love your little bro."
Sonic smiled and thought about what he would write back as he folded the letter neatly and placed it on his coffee table for later readings. He knew he needed something to take his mind off of Tails not being here and at the rate he was going he would run out of criminals sooner rather than later. For the first time Sonic half hoped Robotnik would attack so he had something to do. Knowing it would happen eventually he decided to do something he had never before done. Accept the standing invitation for a date from Amy, he might as well as he would just spend time thinking about Tails and he didn't want to respond to quick and seem like all he was doing was waiting. He took off to invite Amy to the movies.
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He was bent over huffing and breathing hoarsely from inside his prison. His "stunt" had taken more out of him than he had thought it would. He hadn't cracked the blackness but he felt as the tiniest fraction of his power had escaped the pinprick in his world of darkness. He grinned knowing some of it had hit the college, let it serve them as a warning for when I am finally free he thought. He crossed his legs and decided to meditate and regain his strength until his moment finally came, and soon enough it would be here. The wicked grin ran across his features as he imagined the power that would soon be his.
