Ok, Ren is the last Trimen standing, let's go!
"ACK!"
Ren crashed out the doors of the girls bathhouse, sopping wet, covered in bubbles and soap suds, and feeling the ache from the clowns that had slammed into him.
"WHERE'D YOU GO, YOU JERK!? GET BACK HERE AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN!"
Ren sprung up and ran for it, down the hall as fast as he could go, he ran as quickly as his feet could carry him, using his wind to dry himself off to avoid leaving a liquid trail.
The wind mage darted around a corner and pressed himself back against the wall, gasping heavily for breath.
I ran all the way down the spiral stairs in that tower, no way she got after me in time to chase me.
Ren thought as his chest heaved beneath the stylish clothing that now looked rather bedraggled.
After he'd caught his breath, he pushed off of the wall, deciding to keep moving, and headed down the hallway.
He passed by several different rooms, finally, he found one that was deserted.
He entered the room slowly, shutting the door silently behind him with a small creak.
"What in the the..." Ren muttered as he looked around in bewilderment.
He stood in a room painted a mellow gold, with black wood flooring and a window draped by tasseled curtains to the opposite wall. There were three rows of five desks, a larger desk at the front, with several chalkboard covered with strange magical equations, sketches of casting positions, and comparisons of different magical abilities.
"It's like some sort of Magic 101 classroom." Ren said to himself as he entered to study one of the chalkboards.
He blinked at the sketch of a casting pose that would supposedly increase the strength of a single thrust by whatever strange symbols that were drawn at it's side.
"Huh..." Ren mumbled, than he turned and copied the pose, arms out in front, body sharply leaning forward, head angled down. Feeling a little ridiculous, he launched a gentle blast of wind.
That single blast sent the desk in front of him crashing backwards into the one behind it before crumpling over sideways.
"Wow." He murmured, normally a blast of that size would only lift the desk up slightly, but this pose apparently caused his magic power to flow differently, more smoothly.
Ren turned back to studying the chalkboard.
The Draconem's have figured out how magic power flows through the body, and they study different casting stances to see if that can somehow cause the energy to flow faster.
Ren's eyes widened as he recalled watching the members fight in the Grand Magic Games.
When Natsu did a wing attack, he snapped his whole body, when before he only did his arms. When that girl Orchid roared, she swung her whole torso about face before firing. Even those guys Sting and Rogue were moving differently, as if they were using the momentum of their attacks to send more magic energy coursing through their systems!
Ren was amazed, the way all of the dragons fought so fluidly, seeming to drift from one attack to the next without wasting so much as a single flick of the wrist.
Incredible. They must not have been properly trained to do it all the time. In the heat of battle they started muscling their way through instead of flowing with their energy. This is an amazing discovery. I have to...
Ren raised his lacrima watch, intent on snapping a picture of the board to take home when he heard something behind him, the gentle creak of the door opening.
"So...I did hear something. Here I was thinking I woke Cubulous for nothing."
Ren turned around slowly, and when he looked at the door he saw, in all his only-wearing-a-pair-of-plaid-pajama-pants glory.
Cobra.
"Crap..." Ren hissed, stepping backwards.
"This is our work. We've studied for years to figure it out. You ain't taking it from us, your gonna take off that watch, drop it, and back up, got it?"
Ren gulped, could he take Cobra?
Cobra raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Or you could try your luck against me. I'll show you our technique at work."
Cobra swung one arm across his body, snapping it as if he were causing something on his arm to slide forward.
"Poison Dragon's Scales!" He barked his spell call.
A magic circle exploded from his hand and out shot five shaped poisonous scales of magic power. Ren threw his arms up and created a barrier of air, but nope, they all slammed through it and into him, smashing into his chest and winding him. Realizing he had no chance if he stayed, he abandoned his attempt at the work on the board and dove for the window in the back of the room he'd noticed upon his entry.
He ripped up the pane as Cobra pointed and Cubulous obeyed, shooting towards Ren, wings spread and fangs bared
But it was to late, the mage had already jumped out of the window.
Cobra ran up to the edge of the window and stared out of it, seeing nothing but darkness in the courtyard, a frown on his face as Cubulous returned to his bare shoulders.
"Better call the Master and order a castle wide wake up call. We've got unwanted company at Draconem Castle." Cobra told the snake, which once again disappeared from his shoulders and into the night, towards the clock tower.
Ren hovered just beneath the window pane, using his power to press himself flat against the wall, holding his breath.
He heard Cobra shut the door to the class room and lock it on his way out.
Only after locking the window pane.
"Crap." Ren groaned again as he slowly dropped himself down into the courtyard.
He sprinted stealthily across and made for the opposite wall, hoping to find refuge within it.
In the boys dorms of the Draconem Heart castle
"Wake up!" Cobra barked as he kicked open a door, the door slamming into the wall inside the bedroom and causing the inhabitant of said room to awaken with a yelp of surprise.
"Wake up!" Cobra repeated the action, this time having to enter the room and drag Sting out in his boxers as Rogue exited his room wearing a pair of black pajama pants, rubbing his head of tangled black hair and stifling a yawn.
"Wake up!" Cobra entered Natsu's room and dragged the dragonslayer out by his scarf, still snoring.
"Geez, how many times to do I have to say WAKE UP!" Cobra screamed into Natsu's ear.
"I'M SORRY ERZA I DIDN'T MEAN TO EAT YOUR CAKE PLEASE DON'T MURDER ME!" Natsu wailed, limbs flailing.
Cobra sighed, "Didn't you beat her already? Whatever. Just get up."
"What's going on?" Onyx mumbled his question as he stumbled out of his room opposite Natsu's.
"We've got an intruder." Cobra growled.
"WHAT!?" All of the gathered guys exclaimed in panic as Laxus exited his room, more and more of the members joining the group gathering out in the hall.
"Is this a pajama party or something?" Zahn grumbled as he exited his own dorm.
"You heard me. That Pegasus guy, the tall one with the wind magic." Cobra continued, pretending he hadn't heard the space godslayer
"Pen?" Natsu asked cluelessly.
Onyx facepalmed and Gajeel slapped Natsu upside the head.
"Idiot! A pen is something you write with!" Gajeel yelled.
"And his name was Ren...at least you were kinda close." Onyx sighed.
"Well, let's go get him for breaking in!" Natsu shouted, jumping up from where he'd been sitting on the floor.
"Right!"
In the girls dorms of the Draconem Heart castle
"GET UP GET UP GET UP!" Layla howled as she kicked down ever door she passed in the hallway, still clinging tightly to the towel wrapped around her.
"What...?" Misty sounded sleep drunk as she waddled out of her room, which had had it's door flung open by the furious Trickster Mage.
"I'm gonna murder that windbag!" She screamed, her voice echoing down the hall as Wendy shuffled from her room, rubbing her eyes, wearing a silky blue nightgown with a pink heart on it and hugging her pillow.
"Whats going on?" She asked tiredly as Charles hovered out behind her.
"Someone broke in, Wendy!" Layla exclaimed.
"What!? B-B-But, our protective spells are supposed to keep everyone out!"
"H-Huh?" Orchid whimpered as she inched out of her bedroom, wearing a pair of cotton candy pink shorts and a matching pink half top.
"Yeah. It wasn't just one. It was all of the Trimen." Rina growled as she stepped into the hall, still barefoot and donning her nightgown.
"I just caught Eve and dragged him down to my dungeon. Not long after that Meredy showed up and tossed Hibiki in as well."
"So only Ren is still on the loose, than?" Ultear asked as she stepped out in a tank top and shorts.
Layla nodded as she dragged a thigh length nightgown on, it was in bright colors, violently attacking the eye with stripes of green, red and blue.
"We having a slumber party? Sweet, I'll get the popcorn!" Sofie joked as she appeared in a bolt of lightning next to them wearing a pair of neon ble boy shorts and a tight fit blue half top.
"Yeah. He's out in the castle somewhere. And we've got our fair share of secrets, we can't have him stumbling onto something important." Ultear pointed out.
"Well than it's settled."
Layla turned and stalked off down the hall, followed by the other deeply angered Draconem Heart mages.
"C'mon. Someones broken into our home, disturbed our peace and broken the law that no one but a lost mage or one of greatest trust may set foot in Draconem Castle, and it won't be pretty when we find them."
Layla's pissed! Natsu's confused! Everyone's sleep deprived! Thats it for now! Ren's got some anger mages on his tail, the the secret technique of the Draconem's is at risk! Please favorite, please follow, please review! Thanks!