Orion and Kieran are dueling at the arena, Orion tries to keep Kieran at a distance by switching from his Rapier, to his twin double-barrel pistols, while Kieran, attempts to dodge everything he can
"Go Kieran! You can do it!" A random student shouts, as he spectates the match.
"C'MON KIERAN!" Another student shouts. Morgan, who just arrived see the fight. She decides to give her input.
"GO ORION! EVEN IF KIERAN IS A BETTER FIGHTER, YOUR STILL BETTER LOOKING!" Morgan says laughing.
Kieran and Orion stop, "Morgan!? Whats that supposed to mean!?" Orion shouts.
Kieran shouts "Wait, I'm not good looking?!" They laugh and continue the duel, Kieran almost won, but Orion happened to disarm Kieran at the same time Kieran disarmed Orion, so they called it a draw.
"Well, that was fun when it lasted." Kieran says. Kieran is just about to ask them what they want to do next when his ruby starts glowing bright enough to be seen through his pocket, "Oh, hang on, Lemme get this quickly." Kieran takes out the ruby, a magic projection of Merle's face appears above it.
"Kieran, come to the Office immediately, same goes for You Orion. Bring Morgan and Wolf also. We must discuss the issue at hand, immediately, before another attack happens." Merle says to them, with a small flash, Merle's face disappears and the image goes away.
"Well you heard the guy, lets go!" Orion says. They head towards the Headmasters office, passing by a group of girls who are newer students at the school, who giggle and blush as Kieran, and Orion pass by.
"Uh..Kieran whats up with them?" Orion asks,
"Oh those are just some new students. Ironically they came from Wysteria." Kieran says.
"Why is that weird? Kieran?" Morgan asks, Kieran as they walk up the tunnel leading to The Commons, turns his head and smiles,
"Wysteria is the home to a rival school, Pigswick Academy, they teach magic there too, I went there for a Tournament about One or Two years ago, and during the time there, I had to do some other things too." Kieran says.
"If there's a school there why send the girls here?" She asks.
"Well, most of the students are...pigs...literally...there's a few human students there, but they teach magic more a little differently, not only do they teach combat with magic, they also teach living skills, and how to become 'One' with the elements, they are really smart and good, but rely on strategies to outsmart enemies, where here at Ravenwood, they teach how to use and control the magic, and history of it, apposed to modern uses of it that can help around the house." Kieran adds to the lecture.
"So they wanted the Ravenwood lessons? Or something?" Orion asks,
"Not sure. School is just weird like that when you gotta enroll and crap, but usually from my experience, when your old enough, You get accepted to a school based off your Family Traditions, Magic type, and Homeworld sometimes. They probably had parents that where historians, so thats why they got sent here, or something." Kieran adds.
They make it too the headmasters tower, and walk in. Its empty, usually, there are loads of visitors, asking Merle for odd jobs, extra classes, or advice for pretty much anything. Currently, the only people in there are Wolf, Blaze, Magnus and Cedric. Wolf and Blaze are sitting down on chairs, with Magnus and Cedric.
"Oh Kieran, you made it." Magnus says, "You got here just in time, Ambrose needs to explain the issue at hand from his perspective, and needs information on whats really happening, bad thing is, we can't find the guy who originally got the information about the attacks. We do know that he is linked to the pirate, Orion Underwood..." Magnus says.
"Um. I'm right here..." Orion says dully.
"Great! Then lets get started," Ambrose says somewhat enthusiastically . "From what Blaze, Cedric, and Magnus told me, a group of clockworks know as 'The Armada' is coming to Wizard City to arrest and or execute several wizards, and professors, including Me, and Kieran." Merle says grimly.
"Now, Orion, care to explain, why this is? If you know why?" Merle asks.
"In the skyways of the spiral, The Armada has outlawed magic, one of my friends, Ulysses Orne, is a Witchdoctor. They use magic that I presume is similar to the magic a Necromancer uses, to an extent. The Armada, recently found out about Wizard City, and started heading there. I was assigned to come here an intercept them because my boss said a friend of his was saved by a wizard some years ago in the skyways. I was hoping to get in here in time to warn the people, came here as fast as I could, I'm guessing Magnus and Cedric had the same idea." Orion explains.
"Actually, Orion, I was coming here originally to teach students about other worlds cultures. True, I would've eventually mentioned the fact that The Armada is out there, but my main intention was educational." Magnus explains. Orion shrugs and turns to Cedric.
"So how'd you get here?" He asks. "Kieran took me here on his wyvern. I was working with a small group doing some spy work on The Armada, and we were attacked. I escaped, but the other ships got taken down. Magnus had been the first to hear that they fell, so he contacted me to see if I was alright. I assumed they made it away safely, but...they didn't. When he told me he was at Wizard City, I told him to get away since The Armada might kill him too since its a place of magic, and the fact that he is technically a spy with me." Cedric sighs. "Thats about when I met Kieran,..." He finishes.
"Oh, Hey, Kieran, Orion, I found out something interesting, before I arrived to the Arena to watch the fight, Wolf showed me a live map of the spiral, and I saw several ships heading towards Wysteria. We have to get there as fast as we can, so we warn them!" Morgan says quickly.
"C'mon Orion get to the ship, we shouldn't wait! We gotta set sa-" Morgan is cut off by Kieran.
"Or, we could just take the world gate there. Instant, transportation." Kieran says, with a big smile on his face.
"I guess that would work. Lets go already!" She says loudly. They head towards Ravenwood, and walk up to Bartelby.
"Bartelby! I need to go in, open up!" Kieran shouts, at a sleeping Bartelby.
"Huh...Ah...Kieran...It has been...a long time..." His voice rumbles, "Ill let you in, as you wish.." Bartelby opens up for them to enter.
"Holy crap...What is this room?" Orion and Morgan ask in unison.
"This is the World Tree Chamber. This is normally how wizards travel between worlds." Kieran says.
"Kieran, if you used a worldgate to go to Avalon, why not use it to go back to Wizard City?" Cedric asks. Kieran stares, and blinks.
"Flying is more fun." He says. Kieran reaches to his belt, and grabs a small golden key, with a small spiral cup design for the handle.
"Turn it like this...and...THERE! Done it! After you." Kieran gestures towards Orion and Morgan. They stare at the door in amazement, its as if they are staring at the streets of Wysteria just on the other side, as if they are staring through a window. They walk through, instantly being warped to Wysteria. Its raining.
"Great...rain...guess this means Kierans going to be useless in the...rain?" Orion stares at Kieran, dumbfounded, the water is evaporating before it even hits his skin. "..J-just...How...Just how in the hell does that even work?" Orion asks, looking around the streets, not seeing much besides a few students running for cover from the rain, laughing at their own friends who are getting soaked.
"Oh, Uh, I just raise my body temperature so the rain doesn't get me wet, even though its not going to effect my magic too much." He says smiling. He instantly stops. Since Morgan, Orion, and Wolf look at him weird. "OKAY OKAY! I'll return it to normal!" Kierans unnatural heatwaves disappear and he is instantly soaked. There is a bright flash, followed by a loud boom.
"Crap are they here already!?" Orion pulls out his pistols ready for attack.
"No. IDIOT, Its just the THUNDER, Orion, Geez...Figures only my husband would confuse cannon-fire with thunder!" Morgan teases Orion. Orion blushes and turns back to Kieran.
"We need to warn this school's headmaster about the attack, we just need to get to her office." He says.
"So where is it?" Orion asks.
"Up the road, lets hurry, I don't want to get blow to smithereens." Kieran says flatly. They run up the street, splashing through puddles, unaware of the giant silhouette's of several ships, growing larger and larger with every flash of lighting, hidden behind the clouds...
(End of Fourth Chapter)