So... few... reviews... *fuzzy ego creature dies of starvation* You're all so cruel! So so so cruel! You're bad people!
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The out of breath trio stumbled through the door to Ren's caravan. Ren looked up, a rather amused look on her face. A few other pets, toying with wands whose crystals faintly gleamed of other colors, not fully developed into an elemental wand. Gala glanced at her own wand, whose crystalline tip still had yet to develop into any color, faint or otherwise. Dewdrop leaned against the wall, catching her breath. WindDancer was busy fixing her hair, which had come out of it's ponytail. Gala checked her watch. She was just on time. A usul giggled at the disheveled group, until Gala snarled at her. The usul sniffed impertinently. Gala narrowed her eyes to glare at the usul, her fur turning an angry shade of red. Ren, noticing what was going on, scowled at the two pets. The usul shrugged nonchalantly, rolling her eyes as she turned back to her group. Gala bristled with anger, but turned away, her bright red fur subsiding to a brooding grey. Ren listened to Dewdrop and Winddancer's excited explanations, glancing at Gala curiously quite a few times while they spoke. Gala busied herself with polishing her wand until the elder pets speaking. When they did, she looked up expectantly.
"That is extremely peculiar for a pet to show attributes of three different elements, considering how rare it is for a pet to be a strong elemental at all." Some of the other pets beamed proudly; others, including the usul which Gala had already started to dislike, yawned and smiled smugly. Gala focused on Ren to keep from attacking the usul, who was quickly making a bad start with the multicolored kougra.
"Pets, please introduce yourself to GalaLeFey. She is our newest recruit, of unknown elemental status. Please be courteous." Maybe it was Gala's imagination, but the final remark seemed focused at the usul's group of friends.
"Granola." A yellow pteri stepped forward, spun around in a circle, and flicked the tail that held his wand. A flower erupted from the tip. "Earth elemental." He grinned companionably at Gala. Dewdrop looked rather confused.
"I thought we didn't have any other earth mages..." Dewdrop smiled at Granola unsuredly.
"He arrived last night. Apparently he had met up with a friend of mine who I had given an extra wand. She gave it to him and trained him in rudimentary magic, then sent him to me. Got here round midnight." Ren smiled fondly at the pteri. "In fact, I was gonna call Bramble here. He already had his training from the fae and decided to stay here, so he can teach Granola the basics so he gets full attention. I know how much Bramble wants to teach another earth elemental. Now, the rest of you, please continue." She nodded to the other pets.
"Yarrow." A green lenny bowed rather awkwardly. Holding her wand with a delicate feathered hand that grew into a wing, she made a rather weak splash of water burst from the tip and turn to steam. "Curse it all! That was supposed to be bubbles!" The lenny glared at her wand as though that would make a bubble appear. "I'm a water elemental..." She grumbled despondantly.
"I've been teaching her on my off days. You know, the days I'm not monitoring or resting, like today, I guess." Dewdrop smiled fondly at the little green lenny, who kicked at the ground bitterly. Dewdrop put a paw on her shoulder. "You'll get it eventually! It's tough in the beginning."
"Yeah yeah yeah..." Yarrow murmured, but she sounded a bit more hopeful nonetheless.
"Kupari." A quiet but extremely self-assured voice seemed to declare as a few brilliant silver sparks were shot into the air, quickly dissolving into smoke. Gala didn't have to turn to know it was the red usul speaking. "Fire elemental." Gala nodded. Three pets was all she'd seen, she realized. The room was just so full of life, like millions of pets had gone through it, that it seemed like so much more.
"Raz." Gala jumped at the fourth voice, and realized she'd missed a pet. She recognized the deep voice, and moreover, the name. "Darkness element. So we meet again, Gala." She turned to see the blue lupe. A hint of a smile showed on his face. Gala's mouth dropped open.
"You know each other?" WindDancer asked needlessly. Gala's face was a mask of confusion.
"Ren picked up me and the rest of our section. They're happily living in the lower portion of town. I'm the only one with any magical potential, so I'm taking classes in magic. What happened to you, Miss Deranged?" Raz's face changed for a moment, but it was hard to tell if it was a grin or a sneer.
"You know, I'm not insane. I just needed to get out of there. It's too weird. Though I can't say the rest of Neopia is more normal. Just a bit easier to stand." Gala shrugged.
"Please, you can talk after lessons. I now have class to begin." Ren jumped in quickly. Gala nodded, sitting down quickly, but gracefully. Raz, twirling his wand whose crystal was already smokey gray, eased himself into a position where he was comfortably leaning against the bed. Ren pulled some books out of her bookshelf and told everyone else to work independently while she brought Gala up to speed.
"First things first. You're gonna need to study at home as well. Everyone else has copies of books. Let's see..." She picked up a book with a plain wand imbedded in the cover. "This book discusses wand technique, and gives practice spells. When you become more advanced this will be good for when you want to create a spell out of scratch. As you become more experienced, you will not need to use your wand to use your magic, but it creates a good way to focus your powers. The wand does not actually have any power. It just channels your own, so however powerful it feels, that's your own." Ren grinned. "The more in tune with you a wand is, the more power you'll feel in the wand. If you use a wand that was made for another, you will not have the best results. These wands you are using are utterly general, but they mold themselves. I invented them." Ren smiled proudly. She pulled out a wand of similar make, whose crystal was of more intricate design and was gray, rather than a regular element color. She touched it to the book with the wand, and an identical copy appeared on top of it. "This is yours." Gala nodded mutely.
Gala was also given a large magical spellbook. She was told of how its contents were spelled to change as new magical spells were added to any of the copies of it. "Like, what's it called... the Internet! That's it! Funny thing those mortals cooked up." A small guide full of practical spells that fit in Gala's pocket was also added, as well as a textbook on magical theory, another textbook on the history of the Fae, and a dictionary on General Fae Runes.
"Each type of fae has it's own, er, I guess you'd say dialect of fae runes. General is the main one, the original. Since you don't seem to have a specific element that I can see and I'm not into trying to teach you each element just in case, it would be better if you focused on something else. No one else is learning Fae Runes, nor does anyone else have any real interest in it. It's useful in some spells though, and some are quite... interesting, to say the least." Ren smiled as she conjured up a bag and placed all but the book on wand technique into the bag, which had "Gala" on it in fancy script.
"Study this and practice the techniques." Ren said, as she went off to help Yarrow, who was floating inside a giant bubble, despite Dewdrop's attempts to get her free.
Gala spent the rest of class trying to get her "swish-flick" just right. It was harder than it seemed in the book, and, five minutes before class ended, she got it perfect, and rainbow sparkles shot up from the book, which was also apparently magical. 'I guess all the supplies for this class are magical. Cool!' Gala thought to herself as she started to sweep away the glitter. The glitter disintigrated after a few moments though, so Gala just put her book in her bag and swung it on her back as she readied herself to leave. Raz sauntered over, smiling bemusedly.
"So, I'm curious, just what did you do after you left the pound?" Raz asked, sounding genuine.
"Feh, pound pick-ups and escapee. How common. You finally got the sense to realize the pound is a roundabout place to live, and few ever actually get adopted." Kupari sneered as she passed.
"She's a runaway. Thinks she's above everyone else because she controlled just about everything she did. She didn't have to deal with the pound or pets like Poire." Raz murmured to Gala.
"Ah, so she's a control-FREAK?" Gala said, just loud enough for the red usul to hear. Raz snickered.
"Yeah, you got a problem with that?" Kupari growled.
"Snobbish runarat."
"Pound scum."
"Flabby usuki-loving self-loving beach ball."
"Twiggy stick beast out of the deepest stinkiest parts of the Mystery Island!" ("Stinkiest", you may ask? Well, come on. They're only eight year olds).
Gala unsheathed her claws and growled, low and menacingly, at Kupari. Kupari suddenly seemed to notice Gala's thin muscular physique, quick and strong. In relation to her own soft, rounded body, she didn't have a chance.
"We'll finish this later," Kupari said with false bravado, and flounced out the door of the caravan.
Raz looked at Gala appraisingly. "Nice. She got scared and high-tailed it. All bark and no bite, as the saying goes. Anyway, what's your story?"
Gala told him about Brat, the Neopian Police, her days thieving, her meetings with Mort and Zuc, and finally her run through the art gallery and finding the door.
"That was why I didn't want the little pets going with you. You obviously weren't insane, but they were in no shape to live on their own. They'd be better off with owners who loved them." Raz said gently.
"After what I saw on the high street, I doubt there's such thing." Gala shrugged. Raz looked thoughtful. "Anywayz, this is my street, I think. Later!" Gala skipped away as Raz waved, and, sure enough, there was her building. She ran over to it, noticing Dewdrop and WindDancer tanning on WindDancer's roof (after they had finally gotten Yarrow out of the bubble, they decided to spend the rest of the day hanging out).
"Hi! Hey Windy, will you teach me how to fly now?"
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*Tosses out the old fuzzy ego creature and pulls a new one out of the pocket dimension of fuzzy ego creatures* Ok, so they're not that rare, but there are those 5 minutes after one dies where I'm inconsoloable. Really. So please R&R.
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The out of breath trio stumbled through the door to Ren's caravan. Ren looked up, a rather amused look on her face. A few other pets, toying with wands whose crystals faintly gleamed of other colors, not fully developed into an elemental wand. Gala glanced at her own wand, whose crystalline tip still had yet to develop into any color, faint or otherwise. Dewdrop leaned against the wall, catching her breath. WindDancer was busy fixing her hair, which had come out of it's ponytail. Gala checked her watch. She was just on time. A usul giggled at the disheveled group, until Gala snarled at her. The usul sniffed impertinently. Gala narrowed her eyes to glare at the usul, her fur turning an angry shade of red. Ren, noticing what was going on, scowled at the two pets. The usul shrugged nonchalantly, rolling her eyes as she turned back to her group. Gala bristled with anger, but turned away, her bright red fur subsiding to a brooding grey. Ren listened to Dewdrop and Winddancer's excited explanations, glancing at Gala curiously quite a few times while they spoke. Gala busied herself with polishing her wand until the elder pets speaking. When they did, she looked up expectantly.
"That is extremely peculiar for a pet to show attributes of three different elements, considering how rare it is for a pet to be a strong elemental at all." Some of the other pets beamed proudly; others, including the usul which Gala had already started to dislike, yawned and smiled smugly. Gala focused on Ren to keep from attacking the usul, who was quickly making a bad start with the multicolored kougra.
"Pets, please introduce yourself to GalaLeFey. She is our newest recruit, of unknown elemental status. Please be courteous." Maybe it was Gala's imagination, but the final remark seemed focused at the usul's group of friends.
"Granola." A yellow pteri stepped forward, spun around in a circle, and flicked the tail that held his wand. A flower erupted from the tip. "Earth elemental." He grinned companionably at Gala. Dewdrop looked rather confused.
"I thought we didn't have any other earth mages..." Dewdrop smiled at Granola unsuredly.
"He arrived last night. Apparently he had met up with a friend of mine who I had given an extra wand. She gave it to him and trained him in rudimentary magic, then sent him to me. Got here round midnight." Ren smiled fondly at the pteri. "In fact, I was gonna call Bramble here. He already had his training from the fae and decided to stay here, so he can teach Granola the basics so he gets full attention. I know how much Bramble wants to teach another earth elemental. Now, the rest of you, please continue." She nodded to the other pets.
"Yarrow." A green lenny bowed rather awkwardly. Holding her wand with a delicate feathered hand that grew into a wing, she made a rather weak splash of water burst from the tip and turn to steam. "Curse it all! That was supposed to be bubbles!" The lenny glared at her wand as though that would make a bubble appear. "I'm a water elemental..." She grumbled despondantly.
"I've been teaching her on my off days. You know, the days I'm not monitoring or resting, like today, I guess." Dewdrop smiled fondly at the little green lenny, who kicked at the ground bitterly. Dewdrop put a paw on her shoulder. "You'll get it eventually! It's tough in the beginning."
"Yeah yeah yeah..." Yarrow murmured, but she sounded a bit more hopeful nonetheless.
"Kupari." A quiet but extremely self-assured voice seemed to declare as a few brilliant silver sparks were shot into the air, quickly dissolving into smoke. Gala didn't have to turn to know it was the red usul speaking. "Fire elemental." Gala nodded. Three pets was all she'd seen, she realized. The room was just so full of life, like millions of pets had gone through it, that it seemed like so much more.
"Raz." Gala jumped at the fourth voice, and realized she'd missed a pet. She recognized the deep voice, and moreover, the name. "Darkness element. So we meet again, Gala." She turned to see the blue lupe. A hint of a smile showed on his face. Gala's mouth dropped open.
"You know each other?" WindDancer asked needlessly. Gala's face was a mask of confusion.
"Ren picked up me and the rest of our section. They're happily living in the lower portion of town. I'm the only one with any magical potential, so I'm taking classes in magic. What happened to you, Miss Deranged?" Raz's face changed for a moment, but it was hard to tell if it was a grin or a sneer.
"You know, I'm not insane. I just needed to get out of there. It's too weird. Though I can't say the rest of Neopia is more normal. Just a bit easier to stand." Gala shrugged.
"Please, you can talk after lessons. I now have class to begin." Ren jumped in quickly. Gala nodded, sitting down quickly, but gracefully. Raz, twirling his wand whose crystal was already smokey gray, eased himself into a position where he was comfortably leaning against the bed. Ren pulled some books out of her bookshelf and told everyone else to work independently while she brought Gala up to speed.
"First things first. You're gonna need to study at home as well. Everyone else has copies of books. Let's see..." She picked up a book with a plain wand imbedded in the cover. "This book discusses wand technique, and gives practice spells. When you become more advanced this will be good for when you want to create a spell out of scratch. As you become more experienced, you will not need to use your wand to use your magic, but it creates a good way to focus your powers. The wand does not actually have any power. It just channels your own, so however powerful it feels, that's your own." Ren grinned. "The more in tune with you a wand is, the more power you'll feel in the wand. If you use a wand that was made for another, you will not have the best results. These wands you are using are utterly general, but they mold themselves. I invented them." Ren smiled proudly. She pulled out a wand of similar make, whose crystal was of more intricate design and was gray, rather than a regular element color. She touched it to the book with the wand, and an identical copy appeared on top of it. "This is yours." Gala nodded mutely.
Gala was also given a large magical spellbook. She was told of how its contents were spelled to change as new magical spells were added to any of the copies of it. "Like, what's it called... the Internet! That's it! Funny thing those mortals cooked up." A small guide full of practical spells that fit in Gala's pocket was also added, as well as a textbook on magical theory, another textbook on the history of the Fae, and a dictionary on General Fae Runes.
"Each type of fae has it's own, er, I guess you'd say dialect of fae runes. General is the main one, the original. Since you don't seem to have a specific element that I can see and I'm not into trying to teach you each element just in case, it would be better if you focused on something else. No one else is learning Fae Runes, nor does anyone else have any real interest in it. It's useful in some spells though, and some are quite... interesting, to say the least." Ren smiled as she conjured up a bag and placed all but the book on wand technique into the bag, which had "Gala" on it in fancy script.
"Study this and practice the techniques." Ren said, as she went off to help Yarrow, who was floating inside a giant bubble, despite Dewdrop's attempts to get her free.
Gala spent the rest of class trying to get her "swish-flick" just right. It was harder than it seemed in the book, and, five minutes before class ended, she got it perfect, and rainbow sparkles shot up from the book, which was also apparently magical. 'I guess all the supplies for this class are magical. Cool!' Gala thought to herself as she started to sweep away the glitter. The glitter disintigrated after a few moments though, so Gala just put her book in her bag and swung it on her back as she readied herself to leave. Raz sauntered over, smiling bemusedly.
"So, I'm curious, just what did you do after you left the pound?" Raz asked, sounding genuine.
"Feh, pound pick-ups and escapee. How common. You finally got the sense to realize the pound is a roundabout place to live, and few ever actually get adopted." Kupari sneered as she passed.
"She's a runaway. Thinks she's above everyone else because she controlled just about everything she did. She didn't have to deal with the pound or pets like Poire." Raz murmured to Gala.
"Ah, so she's a control-FREAK?" Gala said, just loud enough for the red usul to hear. Raz snickered.
"Yeah, you got a problem with that?" Kupari growled.
"Snobbish runarat."
"Pound scum."
"Flabby usuki-loving self-loving beach ball."
"Twiggy stick beast out of the deepest stinkiest parts of the Mystery Island!" ("Stinkiest", you may ask? Well, come on. They're only eight year olds).
Gala unsheathed her claws and growled, low and menacingly, at Kupari. Kupari suddenly seemed to notice Gala's thin muscular physique, quick and strong. In relation to her own soft, rounded body, she didn't have a chance.
"We'll finish this later," Kupari said with false bravado, and flounced out the door of the caravan.
Raz looked at Gala appraisingly. "Nice. She got scared and high-tailed it. All bark and no bite, as the saying goes. Anyway, what's your story?"
Gala told him about Brat, the Neopian Police, her days thieving, her meetings with Mort and Zuc, and finally her run through the art gallery and finding the door.
"That was why I didn't want the little pets going with you. You obviously weren't insane, but they were in no shape to live on their own. They'd be better off with owners who loved them." Raz said gently.
"After what I saw on the high street, I doubt there's such thing." Gala shrugged. Raz looked thoughtful. "Anywayz, this is my street, I think. Later!" Gala skipped away as Raz waved, and, sure enough, there was her building. She ran over to it, noticing Dewdrop and WindDancer tanning on WindDancer's roof (after they had finally gotten Yarrow out of the bubble, they decided to spend the rest of the day hanging out).
"Hi! Hey Windy, will you teach me how to fly now?"
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*Tosses out the old fuzzy ego creature and pulls a new one out of the pocket dimension of fuzzy ego creatures* Ok, so they're not that rare, but there are those 5 minutes after one dies where I'm inconsoloable. Really. So please R&R.