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Chapter 10:
Siren Call (Oops...Wrong Number)
Chapter Complete!Kay I know I usually have a few parts per chapter but I think this is plenty long enough…
Hope you like it!
{*~********~*~********~*} *-Other-*-Other-*-Other-*-Other-*-Other-* *-Divya-* {*~********~*~********~*}Okay…you can do this…you can…it's not gonna be too bad and anyw-
She startles faintly at the sudden trilling of the dismissal bell, jumping.
Mental note: when you're keyed up and stressed and your heads kinda spiraling maybe DON'T stand directly under the bell.
Alright Divya- just breathe…you're not 'ambushing' her…you're helping her.
I-it just might not seem like it at first. Besides y-
Oh crap! There she is, move!
Geez she's quick.
She scrambled away from the wall moving into the throng of people milling about the bustling hallway, trying to catch up to the other girl, attempting to mentally will herself away from this annoyingly panicky, high strung 'thing' she's stuck in and get back to her normal cool, relaxed, kinda reckless self.
Easier said than done…
Usually it took a lot to shake her but this with Blake was really getting to her. I mean she'd thought she had it bad facing this on her own for a month…
Blake's been doing it for years…
YEARS…
God…she couldn't imagine seeing all this, facing all of the things she's seen and read about but not having any actual context for it. Genuinely thinking it's all just in your head- that you've just completely went around the bend. I mean yeah she thought the things she was seeing were all in her head…but she also thought the sting was gonna kill her…
She'd just kinda assumed hallucinations were a side-effect of whatever was in the sting that'd ultimately lead to her death…
Which….okay…yeah doesn't really sound like, BETTER….but at least she had the whole Rhwystro tân thing for a bit of context, misguided though it was (And oh wow, how screwed up is it that she's seeing being attacked, stung and nearly eaten by a giant demonic fire scorpion as an advantage?)…
And she had Raj…
But Blake? Blake's been flying blind on this for over half a decade…maybe longer. She has to of been. If she brought it up to humans they'd think she was as insane as Blake does. She'd of likely been taken somewhere for testing and odds are somewhere along the line a supernatural would of ended up coming across it and fill her in. If she'd of brought it up to any supernaturals (Who aren't evil bastards who hex teenage girls) they'd of no doubt filled her in on the truth then. So for however long she's been dealing with this she's been dealing with it totally on her own.
Damn…
How is that eve-
Okay you know what? Time and place. Whatever happened, happened and Blake managed to face it, survive it and make it through half a decade or more without totally being lost to it. She's clearly a very strong, very capable person and has managed this long on her own, and managed quite well at that. I mean she's spent around five years thinking she's seeing visions of monsters, demons, fairies, half human beings and all the rest…it hasn't broken her, hasn't terrified her. She doesn't cower, flinch or hide away from it, she doesn't run away…she just brushes it off, rolls her eyes and moves on with her life.
Alright…gotta admit…that's pretty damn cool. Even with the whole Magnus/Raphael detective agency insanity there might be a thing or two Divya can pick up from this girl. Clearly even when she thinks she's lost her freaking mind it doesn't make her lose her cool.
Divya wouldn't mind getting a few pointers on that.
I mean she's good, no question, but there's always room for improvement. Besides she's doing pretty good with plowing through the library of supernatural references Magnus gave her but even so It'd be kinda nice having someone to go through it with- you know someone who wasn't a centuries old warlock, snarky vampire clan leader or her big brother…
Really she loved Raj with all her heart but he always saw the dangers in things first, second, third and fourth. The fun, fascinating and excitement hardly even registering over the seemingly constant 'Danger! Danger Will Robinson' style alarms going in his head.
She had a sneaking suspicion Blake would be able to see past the threats and danger to the excitement and magic…
At least she would once she got over the whole 'ambush with the insanity' thing.
Which might take a while…
Which…kinda sucks…
She took a deep breath, pulling herself out of her own head and back to the task at hand, putting on her best, most none-rattled expression, picking up the pace a bit more.
"Hey Blake, hold up a sec!"
Blake paused, glancing around, gaze landing on Divya, head tilting curiously. Divya smiled in thanks, catching up to her side, flashing another, slightly nervous smile and a faintly awkward almost wave.
"Hey…"
Blake quirked her eyebrow, giving a slight wave back.
"Hey…Everything alright Divya?"
"Umm…y-yeah…I are you really busy right now? I kinda need to talk to you about something." She trailed off, fidgeting a bit.
Blake shrugged, giving a slightly flippant wave.
"Sure…what's up?"
Divya shook her head faintly, brushing her hair back, glancing around, nodding towards the doors of the building.
"Uh…not here. It's kinda complicated and awkward and crazy and complicated a few more times and not really something to talk about in a busy hallway. Maybe somewhere we can talk kinda privately?"
Blake blinked in surprise, a little dash of concern flitting across her features, giving a slight shrug, nodding.
"Sure Divya…think I know a place. The music storage room is usually empty- no one ever really goes in there unless there's a play or concert or whatever that week…it should be good, if that's okay with you?"
Divya breathed a sigh of relief, relaxing faintly.
"That would be perfect…thanks."
"Sure…no problem." Blake shrugged again, flashing a slightly concerned smile, falling into step, slipping out the doors making their way across the campus, the two falling into awkward silence.
Okay well…hard part done…well…the hardest part so far.
Kinda hard to do the whole 'hey you're not actually crazy, the entire world is…but you might possibly be cursed' reveal/ambush thing if you can't get the possibly cursed person to go with you to said reveal/ambush…
Geez…this is like planning a freaking intervention…
Well….that's kinda what it was, right? Trying to get someone to address a problem that they're ignoring. Only Interventions generally involve close friends and family. This is basically just an out of the blue ambush by one girl she kinda halfway knows slightly better than others, a handful of random (supernatural) classmates, a teacher and a bat crap crazy High Warlock disguised as a teenager.
Near all of which Blake will see as weirdly exaggerated tricks of her insane mind…
That they are going to then reveal AREN'T in fact figments of her mind at all but real, actual magical, supernatural beings…
Beings like a warlock, a fairy, a gargoyle, and a half demon half dragon hybrid…
Cause none of THAT'S gonna be super alarming or seem in any way less unsettling than just being kinda delusional.
Which she's seemed to have coped with pretty well up to this point.
Crap…
T-that wouldn't actually make things worse for her…right?
R-right?
Crap…
Wh-
"-out?"
Divya kinda startles from her spiraling thoughts, glancing over in confusion.
"Hmm?"
Blake tilted her head expectantly, greyish blue eyes sparking in slight amusement.
"I asked what did you want to talk about. You seem really nervous…and…well…you don't generally strike me as the 'nervous' type…which is kinda making ME nervous…so…what's up?"
Divya chuckled lightly, rolling her eyes at herself, shrugging, brushing her hair back, giving a faint shrug and a slightly hopeless wave.
"Yeah well that's cause I'm not… usually. Think I'm just kind of spiraling and over thinking this… Most of the time I just run at things head on, trust my instincts and figure it out as I go. I'm generally good with that strategy, works for me…saved my life a couple times…and caused my brother far more panic attacks than are probably in any way healthy…
Usually it seems to play out in my favor though.
But this is kinda the farthest thing from 'usual' and it's throwing me cause I'm pretty new to this and I've never been on this side of this conversation. It's probably gonna seem like overstepping and that's not at all the intention; it's not. But it's something that you really do need to know…though you might not want to …but…hell I don't know…maybe you would…or maybe you shouldn't cause you seem good not knowing…but even so you should…
I think…ugh…" She groaned faintly, shaking her head.
"Oh my god I'm babbling like Raj…I need to apologize to him if I ever teased him about it…this really sucks." She took a deep breath, giving a fake, kind of too wide smile, holding up a finger for a pause.
"Kay…that went bad…trying this again…again I'm new to all this. I just really don't know where to go with it and I feel like I'm going to somehow make it worse which is the last thing I want but I don't know a way to make it better and just ignoring it seems like a really bad idea…or it did…until I started talking…but…well…like I said it's not really like a 'normal' situation so…"
Blake blinked, shaking her head faintly.
"Umm…I think I understand even less than I did before."
Divya gave a scoffing laugh, nodding quickly.
"Yeah…seems about right." She trailed off, taking a deep breath, rolling her eyes at herself, trying to find a way to restart –
Yet again…seriously she SO owed Raj apologies…like a lot of them. One thing's for damn sure she's being super careful with her powers from here on out- she never wants to have to do the supernatural reveal thing again…
Well…no backing out now…
She took one more deep breath, hesitantly glancing over at Blake, again flashing a kinda nervous, slightly strained meant-to-be-comforting-but-probably-not-even-close smile, beginning.
"Okay so…remember what we were talking about the other morning? The over the top, sappy, romance-y type things that's been like bombarding our school for the last couple weeks?"
Blake gave a slow nod, eyebrow quirking.
"Yeah?"
Divya nodded back.
"Alright…so it's kind of about that- and how that pertains to you…but about more than just that. It's about why that's happening and about seeing people differently- And I get that, I do…cause I was the same exact way. Having people you may have even known for years just seeming totally different and not understanding why or how…not even wanting to see it and hoping it can just go back to how it was, trying to just ignore it and hope it stops and everything just goes back to how it was before but it doesn't and you can't just turn it off or fix it a-"
Blake sighed, reaching over catching her arm, squeezing gently.
"I-I think I get what you're saying."
Divya startled, blinking.
"Really? Cause I heard everything I just said and I couldn't make any sense of it…and I actually DO know what I'm trying to say."
Blake chuckled, shaking her head.
"Well…even so I think I got it…"
Divya glanced over. Blake gave a slightly apologetic look, faintly shrugging.
"Uh, look…Divya…you're really awesome and a great girl and it's super flattering and everything but I'm n-"
Divya froze, holding her hand up.
"Oh my god…do you think I'm hitting on you?!"
Blake quirked her eyebrow, head tilting curiously.
"Well…aren't you?"
"No!"
"Oh…umm…okay…" She shifted.
"So…now I'm even more confused…Aaand I'm guessing this has made the whatever you actually are talking about somehow even more awkward…right?"
"Uh huh…"
Blake sighed, rolling her eyes at herself, giving a slightly flippant wave.
"Awesome…"
"Yup…"
Divya sighed, slowing a bit as they'd reached the music storage room, reaching for the door, hand resting on the handle. She glanced over, giving a slightly helpless shrug, meeting Blake's eyes.
"Okay look I kinda screwed this up…but to be fair there's not like a playbook for this. I'm totally flying blind here- I've only known about it for like three months…well…a month and a half- before that I didn't know what the hell was going on."
Blake snorted.
"So like me?"
Divya gave a surprised near laugh, nodding.
"Actually yeah…exactly like you."
Blake quirked her eyebrow.
"Uh yeah…that didn't seem in any way ominous or foreshadow-y or anything." She shook her head faintly, shrugging.
"Seriously Divya, what is this about? Clearly it's something you think is really important- like REALLY important if it's making you this nervous…just…just tell me, whatever it is, I won't get mad or offended or whatever, just out with it…like you said, you're overthinking. I doubt whatever it is is as big of a deal as you are building it up to be."
Divya gave a slightly scoffing laugh.
"Wanna bet?" she quirked her eyebrow, twisting the doorknob, holding the door open for the other girl.
Blake gave a slight huff of a laugh, quirking her eyebrow right back, moving into the room, tilting her head curiously.
"How did I not know you're this dramatic? You know, they're always looking for help in the theater department- oh…" She trailed off, startling faintly as she caught sight of the five other people situated around the room, eyes settling on Mr. Fairfax, giving a slight wave.
"Hey, sorry for interrupting Mr. Fairfax, didn't know you used this room for one of your clubs, we'll j-"
"Actually they're kinda what we need to talk about." Divya offered, slipping into the room, pulling the door too, turning the lock before quickly turning back to Blake, holding her hands up placatingly, flashing an apologetic smile, eyes kinda wide.
"Okay I know what that seems like but that wasn't locking you in it was just locking others out so we don't get interrupted. This isn't a trap i-it's…well okay so it's kinda one but not exactly…think of it kind of like an intervention…
We just want to help you."
Blake swallowed glancing around at the other teens and Mr. Fairfax, it seemingly clicking that everyone in the room she could see something different about. She went a bit rigid, folding her arms, giving a clearly practiced, relaxed shrug.
"Um…I'm actually good. Don't really know what you're up to here but Lily already asked me about the whole LARP club…not really my thing. Nothing wrong with it but it just doesn't really appeal to me, you guys have fun though. Catch you lat-"
Bryan pushed off the wall shaking his head, flashing a gentle, compassionate smile.
"Blake just stop for a second…this isn't anything bad, I promise. I've known you for three and a half years, you know you can trust me. None of us are here to hurt or scare you."
She gave a slight laugh, rolling her eyes, tucking a couple strands of short blonde hair behind her ear, visibly relaxing, giving a casual shrug and a kind of flippant wave.
"Uh yeah… really don't know what you're talking about. There's literally nothing here for me to be afraid of. You're a teacher and like the poster boy for humanitarian of the year, there's a girl I've been going to school with for over two years who tends to annoy me far less than most people-which is a hell of a feat, a couple vaguely familiar underclassman and a…" She blinked eyes faltering on Magnus, quirking her eyebrow in confusion.
"I don't know, boyband escapee…why would any of that scare me?"
Magnus gave a delighted laugh, eyes brightening in amusement, head tilting curiously, flashing a brilliant grin, slipping a bit closer.
"Oh you are absolutely delightful- so feisty- those are always my favorite people, keeps life far more interesting. And this is one of the rare times I am all too happy to be completely wrong…cannot believe I missed that! Never even occurred to me, though really I don't know how I didn't even think o-"
"Magnus you're spinning." Divya interrupted, moving closer, glancing over Blake's expression curiously, gauging her reaction.
He glanced over, head tilting curiously, flashing an apologetic smile.
"True…sorry darling…I tend to do that."
"Yeah surprisingly I've picked up on it...subtle though it is."
Magnus chuckled, eyes flickering gold, flashing a playful wink.
Yup, she caught the eye flicker…she's clearly pretending she didn't.
She's not panicked by it but she is getting pretty nervous…they need to just drop the bomb- get it over with, kinda like ripping off a Band-Aid.
Divya tilted her head, glancing over at Magnus.
"So going by your little side trip thing I take it you know what's going on with Blake…and it's not the whole 'curse, hex, spell gone wrong' type deal we were worrying?"
Blake startled head whipping around, zeroing in on Divya, holding up a finger.
"Wait…curse, hex, spell? Uh dude? Kinda feel like you might need a breather…or adult supervision…which as Mr. Fairfax is like right THERE and not making any move to correct is making me a bit twitchy. Twitchy in a normal way…well normal relative to this conversation. I'm not Hexed, cursed or spelled."
"No you're not."
Blake nodded pointing.
"See, boyband dude agrees with me."
"You're a Mage."
"Oh my god, HOW did we miss that?" Max gasped, giving an animated wave, nudging Isaac and Billie.
Isaac scoffed, shaking his head.
"Hey I was kinda distracted."
Magnus rolled his eyes waving him off.
"Isaac for the last time; it's fine."
Divya glanced over, head tilting curiously.
"What's fine?"
Magnus shook his head.
"He's just overreacting a little."
"Over reacting? My adorable idiot of a best friend threw a penny studded net and a bucket of ice water on the High Warlock Of Brooklyn!"
Mr. Fairfax startled, skintone fluctuating from warm tan to soft velvety grey, eyes glimmering bright blue.
"Wait…what who d.…w-what?"
Isaac nodded animatedly.
"Oh yeah- Kasey and his theories…latest one's Magnus's a fairy changeling- apparently somewhere he read the combination of ice water and copper make the nets work on fairies…
SO many issues here. Like I said a bit distracted."
Billie winced faintly, eyes flickering pink, nails extending a tiny bit, brushing a couple bright blue and pink curls behind their ear.
"Uh yeah I was gonna try to throw him off after school yesterday but…well with everything else after school I just kind of forgot to go by, sorry…"
Max glanced over, shrugging faintly, flashing a reassuring smile.
"Hey we've been trying to corral the guy for nearly eight years, it only works like half the time at best, doubt there's much of anything you could've done."
Billie smiled, nudging Max's shoulder.
"Thanks Max."
Max just shrugged, glancing away, cheeks coloring brightly.
"Um…e-excuse me…I'm kinda lost here, but also totally fine with that and it seems you all have your hands full with your warlock/changeling whatever so I'm just gonna-" Blake ventured, taking a hesitant step back towards the door.
Magnus smiled, giving a slight nod.
"Of course dear, it really does make far more sense now and there really was no harm done. Even so you really do need to work on reigning in control of your powers a bit."
She blinked, quirking her eyebrow.
"My…powers?"
Magnus shrugged, quirking his eyebrow right back.
"Yes darling…And as I said no one was hurt- no harm no foul…and from the oh so entertaining stories Max has mentioned about this school a few little errant love spells aren't even a blip on the radar of most here. Even so we all must be somewhat careful."
Blake scoffed, shaking her head, holding her hand up.
"We? Umm…dude…there's no 'we' here."
Magnus sighed faintly.
"Sweetheart I know Mage's tend to be a bit weary around other supernaturals, or prefer to cling more to their human sides, especially during the first year or so of schimbarea but you cannot just stick your head in the sand and pretend it's not happening. We really did just want to help, it's not a judgment or a critique in any way; we were simply worried for you darling. We were working under the assumption that you were somehow cursed or hexed with the Scânteie văzută. That you were living for years thinking you'd somehow lost your mind- that all the magics, demons, fae, shifters and the rest you were seeing were just augmented figments of your imagination.
It's just a relief to know it's nothing so dramatic and there's a simple, plausible explanation for all of it…that's all."
Blake swallowed, blinking, raising a finger.
"Uh…kay…this uh…t-this 'plausible explanation' thing? You gonna get around to telling me it anytime soon…cause all I got out of that was a few words I don't know/can't pronounce, a lot of words that I DO know but make just as much sense as the ones I don't know/can't pronounce, and the knowledge that you use terms of endearment WAY too liberally.
So if you want to start making sense, like anytime soon, that'd be nice…" She paused, glancing from Magnus's rather startled expression over the others…who looked just as dumbfounded.
"Or if any of the rest of you all want to maybe try taking a crack at it…sounds like what he's saying makes total sense to you and from my POV there really isn't anywhere to go here but up.
Hell, Divya actually did better at explaining it."
That managed to snap Divya out of the shock. She gave a surprised huff, quirking her eyebrow.
"You thought I was hitting on you."
Blake shrugged.
"True…but during the entire sprawling, babbling, totally awkward 'thing' I understood every last one of the words you used…and not one of them were 'warlock', 'Mage' or 'Capybara'."
Divya couldn't help a slight chuckle.
"Schimbarea. I don't think we were talking about a giant guinea pig …"
Blake scoffed, waving animatedly.
"Oh yeah cause out of all of this THAT'S the really important part, my sucky pronunciation."
Divya couldn't help a slight laugh holding her hands up placatingly.
"Sorry…couldn't resist. I'm gonna try to take another shot at this but bear with me here- like I said, I'm new to all this."
"And the Boy band escapee isn't?" Blake quirked her eyebrow, gesturing over towards Magnus.
"Uh yeah no…That's Magnus…he's like the farthest thing from 'new' you can get."
Magnus huffed out a slight almost laugh, shaking his head before catching Divya's eye, giving her an encouraging nod, casting a soft, apologetic look Blake's way. Divya took a deep breath shaking her head, chuckling faintly, brushing her hair back.
"Alright…fourth times the charm I guess…kay I'm just gonna throw this out there, dive in and hope for the best." She took a couple steps closer, reaching over, lightly resting her hand on Blake's arm, squeezing gently, flashing a slight smile, meeting her gaze head on.
"All the things you thought were just figments of your imagination? All the people with crazy powers, with glowing eyes and claws and fangs? People with wings and scales and tails and all the rest, all of it? It's all real.
All of it.
You're not insane, you're not imagining it or hallucinating it or anything else. It's all real, and we all see it too, same as you, we just pretend like we don't. It's not a prank or like a secret club or whatever else. It's because humans- normal humans who haven't been somehow spelled to see the supernatural, people without the Scânteie văzută- actually don't see them…and for the majority of them if they did the knowledge could in fact break their minds.
I'm really sorry you've had to deal with this all on your own- I really have no clue how you handled it for so long. I barely made it a month without it driving me mad and the only thing that stopped me from totally panicking about it was because I literally thought I was dying and really at that point seeing people with fluffy tails, wild eyes and glittery wings was the least of my worries.
I know it's hard to believe, I know it seems totally insane but near everyone in here IS a supernatural being of some type. Hell, Magnus? The 'Boy band escapee?' He's the eight-hundred and sixty five year old High Warlock Of Brooklyn. Mr. Fairfax is a Gargoyle…who's actually totally terrified of both Magnus and Raphael the head of the Brooklyn Vampire clan and partner in the supernatural PI agency I work in. And There's a ton more. It's all insane…but it's all real…completely real.
Which is what I needed to talk to you about…
And now you see why that was easier said than done." She trailed off, giving a slight hesitant shrug, squeezing her arm once more.
Blake blinked, nodding, swallowing, glancing around the room at the others, settling back on Divya, shaking her head again, leaning in a bit.
"S-so…you…you see them too…all of them? You actually see it too?"
Divya swallowed, nodding, flashing a gentle smile, nodding.
"Yeah…I can…Max can too. See the weird mirage like rippley thing around him and me? That's how you can tell a human who can see the supernaturals. Or the ones who are somehow transformed into a supernatural. It's a way for everyone to know who does and doesn't know…
But apparently something went wrong with you and I-I guess you never got the message. Again I really am sorry…if like literally anyone realized you didn't know they would have filled you in right away.
Dude you are kinda WAY too good at keeping your cool.."
She gave a surprised laugh, rolling her eyes, giving a kind of flippant wave.
"Yeah well I've had a hell of a lot of practice. I've been seeing this stuff since I was about four."
"Geez…" Billie gasped quietly, startling.
"Sorry…didn't mean to say that out loud. I mean most of us have seen it all our lives but…well…we know what it is…we're raised with it. I can't imagine…just…I'm really, really sorry."
Blake shrugged.
"Thanks but it's not really necessary. It's just part of what I've almost always known, for nearly as long as I could remember. I just kinda thought it was maybe a really rare, unique version of like synesthesia or something. That some wires got crossed somewhere along the way, and I just see things differently. It never affected me negatively so I figured it was just a part of how I saw the world." She paused, turning from Billie, focusing back on Magnus, pointing.
"But you….you're saying it's not just a weird brain thing. That I'm something else…that I'm like you guys…that I'm somehow a Supernatural? But I just don't know it. Have never known it."
Magnus sighed, giving a faint nod.
"Yes sweetheart, well technically you're half supernatural. A Mage is a type of Magic being that is half human, half supernatural. That's why it's so tricky to differentiate between a Mage and a sight spelled human…and why a lot about you suddenly seemed to make sense.
Mage's don't always feel like they fit in the supernatural world, some prefer to try to simply cling more to their human side, especially when they first begin to develop their supernatural abilities- during the schimbarea.
I just assumed we'd read it wrong and you were just having issues controlling your abilities and were kinda pissed about it which was why you were trying to ignore it. We really weren't blaming you for the infatuation spells. From what Bryan, Max, Isaac and Billie say errant spells are not even a remotely rare occurrence here, it re-"
Blake waved animatedly.
"Oookay just woah…hold up a sec, let me just see if I have this all straight, cause seriously this is a LOT.
"What you're saying is I'm not insane, the things I've been seeing all my life are real…have always been real a-and…I'm one of them. And apparently I've been accidently casting spells or enchanting or whatever the people around me without realizing it? That the weird, super sappy, over the top lovey-dovey crap that's been going on the last couple weeks that has been driving me up the wall…I'm not just being bombarded by it, I am actually literally CAUSING it? Because apparently I'm half supernatural?"
Magnus tilted his head in acknowledgment.
"So it would seem, yes."
Blake shook her head, brushing her hair back, giving a slightly agitated, animated wave.
"I b-but…okay so…I'm part human and part…What?"
Magnus quirked his eyebrow.
"You're parents really never talked to you about this? Literally never?"
"Uh…my parents have no clue about any of this, and I'd really prefer it to stay that way if at all possible. My dad's adopted me when I was nearly three. It was in a pretty small town in Texas and there wasn't a lot of people too keen on a gay couple raising a kid…which is a big part of why I decided to keep the whole 'suddenly seeing supernaturals' thing to myself…didn't really need to give the righteous 'just trying to do what's right' jackasses any more ammo. We moved out here when I was twelve. It was a closed adoption, I know nothing about my biological parents...except now apparently I know one of them was some kind of 'supernatural' something or other.
Though I guess 'what kind' is anyone's guess."
Max swallows, leaning forward.
"Well A Mage is either half Demon or half Fae, so we can at least narrow it down that much."
Blake blinked, holding up a finger.
"Umm…Demon?"
Billie shook their head.
"It's not what you're thinking…well not exactly anyways."
"Y-you're a demon?" Blake gulped faintly, taking a slight, hesitant step back.
Billie shrugged, rather used to the reaction by now, tucking a couple brightly colored curls behind their elfin ears.
"Half demon, Half Ddraig-dyn."
Blake blinked again.
"Dragon shifter."
Blake froze for a moment, before giving a faint quick, kinda shaky nod.
"O-Oookay…that's really…umm…yeah…" she pushed her hair back, giving an apologetic shrug, not wanting to be rude, but not really knowing how to finish that sentence.
Max shook his head, moving a bit closer, giving Billie a bit of a smile, resting his hand on their arm, squeezing gently.
"It's really not what you're thinking. We have all kinds of shifter's here at school, and some of them sound really intimidating but they're just like everybody else. Quinn's a snake shifter, Devon's a tiger shifter, Kyle's a Wolf shifter-No it's not a werewolf, DON'T call him one-seriously don't. The lecture is long and complicated and he will quiz you at the end…and randomly over the next month. It's all really complicated and takes quite a bit of getting used to but none of it means they're a better or worse person for it.
Heck Aaron's the most arrogant, loudmouthed, confrontational person in school and he's a llygoden-ddyn- a Mouse shifter. What they are isn't who they are, just a little part of it. Some of them sound really scary but they're all just our classmates.
And I know the whole 'demon' thing gets kinda a bad reaction but really I think that's just up to really crappy PR. I mean they are powerful, and can be dangerous, but it's not like what you see on TV or whatever."
Billie gave him a grateful, very warm smile, settling a bit closer, cheeks coloring faintly, nodding.
"Yeah, Max is right. The demons in the human world aren't trying to collect souls or possess people or whatever else- they're just trying to make it through school, work, life and all the rest like everyone else." Billie paused, nodding towards Isaac.
"Actually as far as the human world goes Fae are way more dangerous. Only the least powerful demons live in the human world…All manner of Fae live here."
Blake nodded, giving Billie an apologetic look, taking a few steps closer.
"Sorry…I hope I didn't offend you. I really didn't mean to…just kinda caught me off guard…promise I'll get better about it."
Billie shook their head, waving her off.
"It's fine, I've got it all my life. I'm used to it by now."
Max huffed faintly.
"You shouldn't have to be…"
Billie gave him a warm smile.
"Thanks Max."
He shrugged, blushing faintly.
"W-well…it's just the truth."
Billie shrugged.
"Still thanks."
Max blushed brighter. Blake cleared her throat, nodding.
"Okay, well this is all really interesting- and that's not sarcastic, that's just my default tone, but, umm…how can I figure out what type of supernatural I'm half of…Just take a wild guess?"
Magnus chuckled, shaking his head, smirking.
"Well darling I think I can do a bit better than 'guess'…hold still a second dear- only'll take a moment."
He slinks closer, rolling his neck, blinking eyes glimmering brilliant gold, flickering like fire. He raises his hand, doing a few elegant, complicated motions, a glimmering violet flame sparking to life in his palm. He lifts it to his lips, whispering something the flame rolling and spinning. He blows softly, the flame slipping off his fingers, glimmering, twisting and dancing in the air like a serpent. It circles around Blake, a cloud of shimmering stars dancing in its wake, hovering in the air. It stops about four feet above her head, shifting into a shimmering, rotating perfect circle before suddenly exploding in a brilliant shower of glimmering multicolored shapes, colors and patterns.
Blake swallowed…
"Well…if I still had any doubts about the whole 'magics' thing…" She hazarded a glance over quirking her eyebrow.
"No hard feelings about the whole 'boy band escapee' thing…right?"
Magnus chuckled, shaking his head, waving her off.
"Darling no…humor's a sign of intelligence…that's especially true when that humor is in the face of fear…you're good sweetheart..." He paused gaze shifting from Blake up to the shimmering, dancing shapes, eyes glimmering bright and curious, giving a few more complicated gestures, the shapes dancing and spinning. He gives a excited gasp, eyes glimmering bright.
"Hmm…interesting you're definitely Fae…specifically half siren. There…now you know. Fair bit better than a wild shot in the dark yes?" Magnus finished with a slight flourish, giving a little snap of his fingers the shapes exploding into multicolored stardust shimmering down into nothingness.
Divya scoffed, rolling her eyes.
"You are such a show off…you probably could've done the same thing with a quick snap couldn't you?"
He shrugged.
"I could…but where's the fun in that?"
Blake glanced between the two, focusing back on Magnus, quirked her eyebrow.
"So I'm half Siren…Like those weird singing bird women from the Odyssey? Please tell me I'm not going to suddenly sprout feathers?"
Magnus chuckled, shaking his head.
"No dear, no feathers. Sirens aren't bird shifters, their abilities are generally in seduction, attraction and enchantment."
Blake's eyes widened, she huffed, rolling her eyes, giving a loud, very annoyed groan.
"Oh my god, I take it back, I'd be good with feathers…this sucks!"
Isaac chuckled, moving closer, giving a slight shrug.
"Dude, it's not that bad. Sirens are actually really highly powered Fae. Besides what high schooler doesn't want a bit of extra magnetism and attraction?"
Blake quirked her eyebrow, giving a spectacularly sarcastic look.
"The kind that's completely Aro/Ace and easily annoyed by amorous idiots?"
Divya burst out laughing, Blake huffed shifting over to Divya again, glaring in annoyance. Divya quickly shook her head, waving her off with an apologetic smile.
"Sorry! Totally unintentional; it's just I'm right there with you girl, and yeah, it's annoying enough with the usual level of idiotically misguided crushes and self-obsessed morons who think 'Not Interested' means 'I'm playing coy…try harder'. And I'm just dealing with it on a normal level. Having that being your superpower REALLY sucks…"
Blake nodded emphatically.
"It really does! I mean seriously, is this like a cosmic joke? I'm an Aromantic Ace with weird, creepy sex powers? That's just stupid! That's like someone terrified of heights gaining the ability to fly.
Is there a return policy or something on this?"
Divya snickers, the drama of the day broken, relaxing, settling a bit closer now that the threat of a panic attack or freak out was pretty well off the table, shaking her head faintly, glancing over at the others.
"I don't know, like I said I'm kinda new to this myself, Magnus? Any way to combat or shut down 'creepy sex powers?"
Magnus chuckles.
It's not 'sex' powers, just seduction and attraction."
Blake rolled her eyes.
"Oh joy…Yeah, don't want those either. Can't I just, like donate them to the guys in the Math club or something?"
Divya laughed, settling closer, giving a slight shrug.
"Well don't know if it'd be enough to help much but it couldn't hurt."
Magnus shook his head in amusement.
"No sweetheart, there's no way to transfer your powers. Powers can be bound, but not until a supernatural is fully grown and their abilities are totally developed, which depending on the type and strength of the being can take up to a century or more."
She groaned.
"Ah crap…so there's no way to change your abilities?"
Divya grinned.
"Well, you can go the route I took, but I really wouldn't recommend it."
Blake glanced over, quirking her eyebrow, head tilting curiously.
"Powers? Thought you were a sight spelled human?"
She shook her head.
"No…technically I'm a supernatural too…though I wasn't born a supernatural, I was turned into one. I'm what's called a Creuarall- it's a turned supernatural that's something other than a vampire or werecreature…it's kinda an umbrella term like 'Supernatural', used to cover a lot of different types. So you can be turned…but again I really wouldn't recommend it."
"Kay…noted. So How DID you get your powers?"
Divya shrugged nonchalantly.
"I was stung and nearly eaten by a giant, demonic fire scorpion. It was pretty terrifying and the sting kills you within half an hour unless you manage to kill the Rhwystro tân first. Like I said, not really fun… but now I can move things with my mind and set them on fire…
I-I'm still working on keeping those straight and controlling them…but I can..."
Blake's eyes widened, flailing slightly, animatedly gesturing towards Divya.
"See, now THAT'S a superpower…" gesturing over towards Isaac.
"Or like the sparkly dude there with the psychedelic light show thing…I've seen him do it a couple times…that's awesome…or well…" hesitatingly, glancing over at Billie.
"Okay so I don't actually know what exactly you can do but you're half demon and half dragon, you look really kickass and I'm pretty sure whatever it is has to be more useful than unintentional seduction powers."
Billie tilted their head, giving a slightly mischievous laugh, irises flickering from the bright blue to an electric pink, winking playfully, snapping their fingers a bright burst of electric pink and glimmering blue flames sparking to life dancing across the slightly extended claw like nails.
"You have a point."
Blake's eyes widened giving a slightly excited smile, pointing animatedly.
"SO much cooler than weird seduction powers."
Billie gave a slight giggly laugh, shrugging, cheeks flushing faintly, relaxing a bit more, setting a little closer to Max.
Magnus quirked his eyebrow curiously at the teen before turning back to Blake.
"Those aren't all your abilities darling, they'll just be the easiest to master. And you never know, once you get the hang of it you could find it quite useful, just give it a minute and let it set in."
Blake pauses, tilting her head consideringly for a moment. She shrugs, quirking her eyebrow, glancing over at Divya.
"So where can I find these fire/scorpion things?"
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Lol so apparently at first Divya was kinda channeling Simon but it just kinda worked for the scene. I love Blake thinking Divya was trying to hit on her (Think that might become a running joke between them…until someone actually does try to hit on one of them- then they both run with it….think it'll be cute).
I love Blake she's gonna be a fun addition.
This was gonna have a 2nd part but I'm thinking this is plenty long enough…we're actually gonna call this for chapter 10…so yay! Just 2 chapters left on this story!
So what do you guys think so far?
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