First day
It took a considerable effort to get Bump to agree to allow Indigo into the school, considering their age and their lack of learning the question was what had prevented them learning to begin with, Eda simply explained that their parents couldn't afford to send them when they were younger.
Bump eventually bought this as Eda started to go into detail about it, nakong it far more convincing than was even necessary.
"Alright, Alright, given their circumstances I will allow them to attend, can they perform the minimum of two spells?"
"Alright kid, show him what you got" Eda says and pushes Indigo forward.
Indigo steps forwards, blinking at Bump before spinning a finger to produce a bright Indigo light, before using a hand to carefully create a circle around themselves to create an Indigo bubble around themselves, spinning the other to disperse it, thanks to it only being Eda and Bump in the room, their mental state stayed calm and thy were able to send it away.
Bump seemed quite bored at the light spell, but his eyebrows peaked at the shield spell "Well well, that is an impressive spell for someone who has not attended school before, well done, I don't see any reason not to allow you into the general class, but now its a question of which track you will choose"
Bump indicates the banners behind him.
Indigo had thought carefully on this after a long debate with Luz.
"Illusions and Bard" they say calmly.
Bump raises his eyebrows again "Hmm, you wish to double track? Mmm I suppose I cannot deny it given we have several students already, but know that you will be observed carefully to be sure you can keep up with both classes." Bump explains
Indigo nods "I understand Sir" they say calmly.
"Good, for now I shall ask you to head to the homeroom, do try to behave yourself" Indigo could swear that Bump was talking less to them and more to the Owl Lady who stood behind her.
"Your Homeroom shall be with Miss Screamshaw, room 305, first on the left of the third floor"
Indigo nods and stands to follow Eda out of the room, once out of sight the two exchange a small smile before heading to the given room, the teacher had yet to arrive as they had come in earlier than most, meaning Indigo wouldn't be immediately swamped with emotions and they could pick some nice ones to focus on.
"Alright kid, remember, if you get overwhelmed, call on your teacher and say…"
"Can I use the ba'hroom please?"
"Exactly, good pronunciations, you're getting better at this" Eda says and ruffles Indigo's hair, which Indigo doesn't mind, it was meant as affection so it was well received.
"Now get in there so I can go let Luz know you're in, she says she'll meet you outside your homeroom once its over to show you where to go next"
Indigo nods and smiles, waving to Eda as she walks off to find the excitable human. Indigo enters the room, a few emotions hit them right off the bat, confusion, a lot of confusion but they were used to that, it did nothing to them so they could ignore it.
Soon the confusion shifts too many different emotions as Indigo notes quite a few students sitting at the back of the room. So far nothing negative had hit indigo so they simply chose a seat close to the front and sat down, setting down the books Eda had "acquired" for them to use.
A strong emotion of excitement hit Indigo and they had to keep a big smile off their face, they had to act like they didn't know the two twins as they walked into the room, both taking seats by them, Edric took the seat closest, that cute mischievous smile covered his face from ear to ear, Emiea's was just as wide and just as mischievous.
"Well hello there" Emira began, Indigo knew they were playing their parts, the kids at the back were watching them all now with curiosity.
"And who might you be?" Edric asks, leaning his face in close, only for Indigo to push it back again gently.
"Indigo" they reply in a friendly tone, tapping Edrics nose playfully, but to anyone else it'd look like she flicked it.
The playful "introductions" seemed to have fooled the rest of the class, Indigo felt no doubt from any of those present, more students trickled in and soon their teacher arrived.
"Ah, you must be Miss Indigo, Principal Bump informed me you would be joining our homeroom, I do hope you know how to behave appropriately" Indigo read the woman's emotions, she was anxious at the thought of another troublemaker joining her already troublesome class.
"I do Miss" Indigo assures though they knew the teacher doubted their words heavily.
The first half hour was spent getting to know the class, there were many unique individuals, though the teacher implied her class was full of troublemakers, Indigo saw no malicious intent from any of them towards her.
As the bell screamed, the teacher let out a weary sigh and dismissed the class.
Indigo gets up and grabs their books, noticing a mischievous feeling creeping into one of the many students' minds about the apple they had swapped for a pranked one on the teacher's desk.
As Indigo walked past, Edric bumped into them, knocking them into the desk and knocking the apple into the trash can.
Edric was quick to catch Indigo and apologised to both them and the teacher, who looks baffled.
Indigo reaches into their small bag and pulls out a new apple, though they had been looking forward to eating it themselves, they could tell when someone else was in need more.
The teacher was beyond skeptical but accepted it, her emotions grew annoyed just as she took a bite, but when nothing happened, they blinked, surprise filled Indigo's head once again, but it was soon replaced by a gentle happiness.
Indigo saw Luz waiting outside for them and waves as Luz came bolting over once they left Homeroom
"Well?!" Luz asks and Indigo knew what they wanted to know
"Eh was fine, Luz" Indigo says, smiling as the young girl squee's and drags them along to their next class, well, after eventually asking Indigo for her schedule so she knows where to go.
The first few classes were quite calm, English, Biology, History, then came the specific track classes, that was when things became interesting.
The first up was Illusions class.
Indigo walks in and immediately spots the twins, they had a seat between them and both chose to wink and gesture them over.
"What happened to being subtle guys?" Indigo asks through their minds as they sit down.
Emira passes a note carefully
"Edric is too impatient"
Edric scowls and takes the note, balling it up and eating it, causing Emira to splutter and try to get it back out of his mouth "Don't eat that you dummy!"
Indigo has to work hard not to burst out laughing, the most any others could see, they were simply caught in between the twins usual antics.
Once the teacher arrived and began the lesson, it was clear just how advanced this class truly was, this class was focusing on the mastery of making a clone of yourself, like any other illusion it would just look real, like a mirror looked like another you.
Edric was asked to demonstrate and happily got up to show the class, making another one of himself with ease. Unsurprisingly the clone looked just as smug as Edric did before it was dispelled.
"Alright class I want you all to pair up, anyone who's mastered the spell already I want you to find a partner who's still working on it and help them"
Edric and Emira share a glance over Indigo's head and Emira gets up to go find a partner as Edric stays seated.
Indigo looks to Edric once they watch Emira head off and basically get swarmed by others wanting her to teach them.
"Alright newbie lets see what we can teach you" Edric says with a smug grin.
Indigo chuckles "Sure… Ed was eh?"" Indigo asks, simply to keep up the charade of having just met him.
"Edric, but I'll let you call me Ed, now clones are quite advanced, what do you already know about illusion magic?" Edric inquires, this was a subtle ask if they had learned anything else.
"I can vanish, but that's about it" Indigo says and spins a finger, vanishing from the seat and appearing in the one on the other side of Edric, which of course he doesn't realise till he gets flicked on the ear, but as soon as he looks they are once again gone and his other ear gets flicked.
"Hey! Quit it" Edric says and covers his ears to prevent them being flicked further
Indigo is back in their seat, trying to keep from laughing, they knew Edric wasn't mad, in fact he seemed impressed that they had gotten the hang of the spell, he just couldn't show it at the time.
"Alright, so making a clone of yourself is pretty self explanatory, you have to picture another you somewhere near you" Edric explains and once again creates a clone of himself, this time behind Indigo to flick their ear in revenge, obviously the clone can't touch their ear but Edric clearly didn't care.
Indigo just twitches the ear in response, humouring hin "Alright, I'll give it a try" they say calmly and try to picture themselves.
Luz had been pretty adamant that Indigo should have a look in the mirror when she had tried on her white robes, Luz had helped Indigo cut their hair, the top of their hair was cut short like Luz's, whereas the back was kept long, braided right down to the bottom near their waist, while any hair under their ears was cut down very short, it was a weird mash of different styles but Indigo had loved it, it was just as confusing as the rest of them.
Since Bump had given them their track uniform, they now sported red and blue on either side of their uniform with the black cowl and mid suit.
Indigo thought about creating another of themselves and spun a finger to try it, before them appeared about ten of themselves, all looking very confused.
Indigo was startled and so were all of their clones, every last one of them was just about to start hissing like Indigo had at Hooty, but Indigo managed to send them all away by thinking of removing them quickly with a spell.
Indigo glances at Edric who just snorts and tries to stop himself from laughing "I said one clone, you have to be very specific" Edric says and tries to seem annoyed but he just couldn't stop the laughter slipping into his voice.
Indigo nods and hides their grin of amusement well, trying again and specifically only thinking of making one clone appear, despite their intense focus on only making one, they still ended up with another ten, this time all over the room rather than just in front of them, Indigo hastily dispelled them and glanced at Edric.
Edric was in stitches until Indigo looked at him and he righted himself to look stern.
"Clearly you aren't focusing enough" Esric says, Indigo narrowed their eyes before realising what was happening and snorted before putting a hand on their face.
"You have caught me, I simply cannoh get enough o' myself" Indigo says and shrugs as Edric buckles at their monotone voice.
"What seems to be the problem Edric?" The teacher asks as she walks over, eyeing the two to find out what was happening, having been distracted by another student's attempt.
"Nothing Miss, Indigo seems to be having trouble making only one clone" Edric says as he straightens up and tries not to laugh.
The teacher glances at Indigo and raises a brow "Do show me" she invites with a hand gesture.
Indigo does the spell and once again about ten of them were standing all around Indigo, Indigo dispels it once again, by now the rest of the class were watching with interest.
"Hmm, you seem to be channeling too much of your magic into one spell my dear, you do know how to ease the flow of your magic yes?" The teacher asks in a softer voice, so the other students wouldn't hear, attempting to save Indigo from embarrassment.
Indigo tilts their head to the side, they didn't understand embarrassment enough to know if they felt it, though given it was due to piers being present and their only piers whose opinions mattered to them right now would already know why she had a lack of this knowledge, they didn't feel like it was something to worry about possibly feeling either.
"Ah'm afraid I don' Miss" Indigo says just as softly.
A snicker from the back and the feeling of superiority invades Indigo's positive mind and makes their eyes tighten, they didn't like it but they'd have to tolerate it.
"But Miss, I must say I'm impressed with their quick learning, granted they can't control the number, but they understood and cast the spell to its intended result flawlessly on the first attempt, the number of perfect clones also shows how skilled they are at Illusions wouldn't you say?" Edric says strongly, he had glanced back to glare at someone behind them.
Indigo felt that feeling vanish and be replaced by irritation.
The teacher smiles at Edric's words "Why yes I do believe that to be accurate Mr Blight, an astute observation indeed, perhaps you could assist them in their magic control since that seems to be the cause of the trouble?"
"But of course Miss" Edric says with a flourish that just makes the teacher smile and walk on.
Once the teacher was definitely distracted Edric turns back to Indigo who raises a brow.
"What? I wasn't planning for her to notice" he says with a shrug.
"You added 9 clones on'o the one I made"
"Hey you did the first ten yourself, I was just messing with you the second time"
"So, you goin' 'o teach me how 'o control my magic?" Indigo says with a half smile.
Edric grins back and begins explaining carefully about magic flow.
-Luz-
Lunchtime bell screamed and soon the cafeteria was full of people clambering to get seats or their lunch trays.
Luz pulls out her lunch bag and scarfs down a sandwich.
Willow and Gus had joined Luz within moments with their own lunches.
"Hey Luz, is it true Eda enrolled another student here? Everyones talking about them like they have two heads, do they have two heads?! That would be so cool!" Gus asks excitedly.
Luz swallows her bite of sandwich, she had to remember the story they discussed, Indigo was supposed to have come from Skullsdale, they were from a family who couldn't enroll them at school there and eventually sent them here to Eda.
"Sorry Gus, they don't have two heads, they just look a little strange to anyone they meet" Luz replies with a smile
"Aww…"
"Strange how?" Willow asks
Amity walks into the cafeteria with Indigo behind her along with the twins, a group of kids follows after them eagerly, it seemed Indigo had run into the tiny ones and now the group was following them around.
Indigo sits across from Luz, the twins take either side and Amity sits by Emira, the kids scarper off out of sight, once they are gone Indigo puts their arms on the table and lets their head fall into them.
Emira pats her back and promptly explains "The baby class chased them all around the school, we had to act as bodyguards, even though they just wanted to hug them" Emira adds and smirks down at the exhausted empath.
"They were tryin' teh kill meh!" Indigo says through her arms.
"No they weren't… Draxis is too sweet to kill anyone" Amity defends the little ones "They all just really like you"
"I didn' mean they mean' teh, i mean' their emotions were 'o much, theh were 'o excited, they woulda crushed meh"
Indigo had lifted her head mid sentence and realized that there were others there, remembering they couldn't talk about reading emotions and switching tactics, their weird accent became worse with their hurried words.
Indigo read the two new kids pretty quickly and decided they liked them almost immediately, they both adored Luz, despite all the times the human had gotten them into trouble, Willow was a very happy person, despite how she used to be treated, Indigo could feel some left over tension from previous events directed towards Amity, but other than that, the girl was just the sweetest with her emotions.
Gus was one heck of a positive person, but his melodramatic emotions were also quite high as well, when he got sad, he got extremely sad, or anxious or way Indigo enjoyed his playful emotions.
At the moment the two were watching Indigo as they looked exhausted with sympathetic smiles, they had both noticed Indigo's odd speech and neither seemed off-put or saw it as some defect to them.
"Well, I'll be sure to explain to them that they can't rush you like that," Amity says simply.
Indigo nods their head in thanks and glances at the other two, they supposed they should really introduce themselves since they didn't actually know them yet and it would be odd to know their names already.
"Heyeh, yeh friends weh Luz?" Indigo asks, their tiredness made their pronunciation even worse.
Gus and Willow beam at Indigo "Yeah!" Gus answers eagerly "I like your hair! The shaved style is like mine!"
Willow smiles sweetly "It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Willow and this is Gus!"
"Am Indigo," Indigo says with a smile, reaching out a hand to shake Willows offered one gently.
Luz looked delighted as Indigo began chatting to Gus and Willow, making light conversation, Indigo explained their lack of knowledge with magic and the two were more than understanding.
"You'll get it in no time!" Gus encourages with a double thumbs up while Willow nods
"Some of us are just late bloomers, so long as you put in the effort to learn, you'll get there!" Willow says brightly.
Indigo adored the sheer positivity all around them at that moment but it was short lived as tiny feelings of panic erupted in the head.
"The kids!" Indigo thinks and immediately jumps up and books it out of the cafeteria, none of their group had any idea what was happening but all of them followed.
The little witchlings were huddled together as a large dog-like creatures prowled the corridor, a coyotree, its body consisted of bark and hardened sap, its back covered in leaves, it must have disguised itself in the green house.
Indigo slid into view on the opposite side of the corridor, once they saw what they were up against, they froze, they had never fought anything before, but given this creature's emotions were simply hunger, perhaps they wouldn't have to.
"Heyah! Hungreh? Why noh come geh meh then!" Indigo calls and banks a locker to make enough noise to get its attention.
The coyotree turns and snarls, charging at Indigo, who bolts away, the creature crashes down the corridor after them.
Indigo doesn't have time to think, once they round another corner, they jump up onto the lockers and run up the wall, surprisingly it works and they're able to cling to the wall, they don't know how they knew they could do this, but they were thankful they could, this corridor was a dead end.
The coyotree crashes into the corridor and tries to jump up at Indigo as they cling to the wall, its splintering jaws snapped at their feet.
Indigo wasn't afraid, but they could feel the fear of anyone who knew what was happening, this didn't help, it made their arms and legs shake and their eyes a little fuzzy.
A sharp pain hit Indigo's ankle and they kicked out as one of the splinters dug into their ankle from those jaws snapped far too close to it.
The kick hit the coyotrees snout and it fell on its side for a moment before getting up and prowling down below them.
Indigo couldn't remove the splint from their ankle, not without releasing the wall and plummeting to the floor, but it definitely hurt enough to be tempting, but why would they do that? What was wrong with them? That was a dumb idea, why were they so very dizzy?
Several fuzzy looking green and brown shapes slid into view behind the creature, there was a flash of orange and purple and the creature yelps and bolts off quickly, one of the green and one of the brown blurs follow after the creature while the other blurs run forward.
"Indigo let go! We got you!" Came a familiar and comforting voice.
Indigo does as instructed, sliding down the wall and falling over the lockers in their daze.
Two pairs of arms catch Indigo, they focus more on their emotions to identify them. Edric and Emira, that didn't surprise them, what did surprise them was the third set of emotions belonging to the girl named Viney they had a one sided encounter with before.
Viney thankfully didn't show any signs of knowing them, but their concern and the feeling of them being impressed at Indigo were enough to validate them to Indigo themselves.
"Ah, darn splinter, no wonder they're so out of it, Coyotree splinters are painful and coated in a weird saliva that makes someone unsteady and confused, hold them still, I can get it out, but it won't be pleasant" came the familiar voice of Viney.
Indigo understood the words but when something touched the splinter, their mind panicked and they squirmed, both the arms holding them tightened and two voices tried their best to calm Indigo, tried to explain what was happening, Indigo couldn't absorb any of it, it was frustrating for Indigo not to be able to control themselves properly.
The pain was gone… but there were no arms around Indigo, instead a weird feeling over them like a thin sheet of fabric.
Indigo opened their eyes to find themselves on their back, they did not like that! Indigo sat up quickly, a little too quickly, their head spun as they lifted a knee to rest it on.
"Indigo!" Came several worried voices, Indigo felt a flood of relief and happiness hit them like a sweet smell of flowers and sugar, it made them relax slowly and they could lift their head to see several pairs of eyes glancing back at them.
It took a few seconds to identify everyone.
Luz, Ed, Em, Amity, Willow, Gus, Viney and the four little kids she had saved from the creature.
Indigo tries to smile slowly "Heyeh" they say softly and raises a hand.
"Oh my gosh you're okay!" Luz says and bolts forward to hug them, Indigo moves in anticipation of the hug, accepting the girl into their arms and trying to hug them back.
"Yeh, am ahrite" Indigo says, their speech was less than ideal but they knew Luz could understand them.
"You were so cool!" Said a tiny voice from one of the kids, another spoke up with a deep voice "Thank you for saving us!" "Yeah!" Came the other two's voices.
"Neh problem" Indigo replies, Luz still hadn't let go so they couldn't do much else but hug the girl back.
"That was stupidly brave of you" came Vineys voice from beside Emira "That was a clever trick, luring it off, I'm curious how you stuck to the wall like that"
Indigo thought about it for a moment "Ah gottah be honest, Ah dunno how ah did thah" Indigo says softly, Luz finally releases Indigo and almost immediately they get swarmed by the kids, they tried their best not to overload with the kids excited thanksgiving, though since it was a positive emotion their overload simply looked like someone who adored cute things getting swarmed by them, they just looked incredibly happy and were kind of stuck that way until the kids let go.
Once Indigo was back to reality they realised that the twins looked a little beat up, yet they were smiling at them like nothing had happened.
"Whah happened teh you two?" Indigo asks.
Em and Ed glance at each other a shrug "You were too confused to hold still while Viney got the splinter out of your ankle" Emira says
"So we had to hold you still" Ed says "Which you obviously didn't appreciate"
"But you calmed down pretty quick once we got it out" Viney adds "These two will be fine, I've checked them, they just have a few small bruises"
Indigo slumps back a bit "Sorreh guys" they said softly.
"Ah no problem, besides, you're the one who worked out the threat! No one else even knew that thing was in the school till you went running off at it" Edric says.
"Yeah, how did you know it was in here?" Viney asks curiously
"Ah… heard the kids" Indigo answers honestly, it wasn't a lie, they just didn't tell them that they heard their terrified emotions rather than their scared voices.
The little one's teacher comes in just in time to save Indigo from getting more questions, coming over to check them all.
Indigo swung their legs over the side of the bed, as Luz had called a similar looking thing in her room before, in an attempt at standing up.
Viney was quick to step forward and firmly place a hand on Indigo's shoulder
"Sorry but healers orders are for you not to be standing for at least an hour, that toxin in the coyotrees bite could still be active for a while"
Indigo looked down, they didn't feel dizzy or confused anymore, though Viney spoke with practiced authority, Indigo could read that her actions were purely out of concern for them, so rather than causing them grief or annoyance, Indigo slung their legs back onto the bed.
"So what happened to the… Cotoytree" Indigo asks "I'm pretty sure I saw you two chasing it" they point a finger between Luz and Amity who both grin.
"Viney said they hated fire, me and Amity both know how to make fire, so we scared it off the grounds together!" Luz says proudly, slinging an arm around Amity with glee.
Amity went bright red for the whole 5 seconds until Luz retracts her arm to pump her fists in the air.
Indigo could tell who among the group was aware of why Amity was that red, Emira was very clearly aware, Edric as well, Gus seemed oblivious to it, whole Willow just smiles, but the kind of smile made it seem like she knew. Viney was sitting by the bed to ensure Indigo didn't go anywhere, she wasn't paying much attention but from the one glance and sympathetic smile she gave, it was clear even she knew.
Amity became aware of all the eyes on her, her ears pressed against her head and turned bright red.
Edric decided to be the hero for Amity and brought all the attention to himself when he discovered a jar of cotton balls and gleefully took one, smirking as Emira gasps
"Don't you dare Ed!"
Edric slowly stands as Emira gets up quickly, both pause before Edric bolts away with the jar as Emira runs after him.
The whole group bursts out laughing as the twins run back and forth, occasionally vanishing after each other as well.
Ed had successfully eaten 5 of the cotton balls out of the jar before Emira caught him and snatched it away, out of breath, she walked back and handed it to Viney who just held it.
Indigo sees their chance and grabs a handful to stuff in their mouth, Emira yells at them to spit them out but Indigo just grins as Edric sits by them and they do a strange arm bump with their forearms.
"Oh my titan there's two of you now!"