yeah, told ya I can update in frequency now!
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School--
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Spellcasting class had been so annoying today.
Genis would admit that he was maybe a little tired out. Once the teacher found out that he had somehow learned a higher level of magic, she got so frustrated with him being able to cast higher level spells than her that she just forced him to teach the rest of the class.
Teaching on a different level, which included something she didn't even have to do.
Continuous demonstrations on every single spell, those including the non-elemental ones that he had JUST learned how to do but still could do "better than everyone else" because he was some sort of super genius according to the few arrogant jerks in the class.
And that was just it, she made him do the spells over and over again and no-one could even do them.
Even now, as he finished up something he had bought from the cafeteria for lunch, with extras for Raine, he was getting strange looks from the teachers, who would just stare at him, some very interested, and others seeming to be mourning something as they watched him eat.
"Ugh..." Genis lowered his head as he sighed. What did they expect? he had been doing this for years now, years of straight training and continuous battles. Then saving their two worlds...
But then again... he thought that he did see that one spell cast again after his...
"Hahaha!"
"Stupid nerd!"
"Yoouuu're in VOID commune!"
"Hahahahahaha!"
"No- no! She's from that far village! She can't even afford a house in the VOID dumpsters!"
Lowering his fork and blinking over at the crowd outside of the school cafeteria, Genis leaned forward and tried to catch a glimpse of what it was they were doing.
"Stop!" a girl's voice got his immediate attention.
He could see, when he stood up and walked to the door, that a short, brunette girl was being pushed back and forth between three boys. They would reach in occasionally and would tug at her hair and grab at her clothes.
To the right of them, he seen that her books were scattered about the ground and her bag, beside them, had been opened and dumped.
"Whah..." Genis was almost speechless, he knew people did that, but here too? He felt the pure irritation build up inside of him, why would they do that?
"Let her go, you jerks!" Genis shouted from the doorway, they were still about ten feet away, but Genis knew he could take them.
"Oh look, it's one of her VOID buddies!" The most obnoxious, red-haired one in the front turned his head and sneered at Genis.
The way they emphasized Void was really pissing him off.
"I think he wants to be a prince in shining armor." The black-haired one to the left of the leader whispered with a smirk.
"Oh--hahaha!" The one that kept on laughing hysterically was blond and grinned wickedly. "Dude! Dude! We should like..." They started whispering amongst eachother and grinning, all the while having knocked down the girl who was trying to brush herself off.
She looked up at them, they were so tall it seemed, and closing in on her.
"OH!!" The blond moaned and fell to his knees beside the girl, "Oh NO! It's the prince! the SAVior!! what ever SHALL WE DO?!--HAHAHAH HA!" He fell backwards and burst into a fit of laughter.
"Maybe he wants to join the princess! Come'ere sweetie!" The black-haired boy leaned forward and beckoned for him to come forward.
"Okay, amateurs. Come and get it. It's pathetic that you guys would actually sink to the level of beating up on an innocent girl."
"Fine!" The leader roared, he motioned for his lackeys to follow, and they did, they all charged forward at him. Genis's determination only strengthened when he seen the girl behind them watching.
The corner of his mouth pulled back into a smirk as they closed in, he had been chanting the entire time.
"METEOR STORM!!" Genis stepped back and lifted his kendama into the air. In a matter of half-seconds there were massive, flaming boulders of destruction bulletting down towards them. And the trio, slow reaction time and all, paused, wideeyed and open-mouthed at the sky as the meteors plunged into the ground around them.
"AAAHHH!!!" They all screamed in unison, huddling together and ducking.
As they fell, Genis darted over to the girl and picked her up by her arm. She had already picked up all of her stuff and put it back in her bag.
"Let's go!" he said with a grin.
"..." She blinked, staring up at him with bright violet eyes. "I-ah... thank you."
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"Interesting Study you have." Raine stepped forward and stared up at the stars alligned across the ceiling. Curtis led her around to the stairs and they walked up to the telescope.
"I know you must not want to talk about it." He found himself smiling.
".... You study the sky." Raine noted.
"You're changing the subject... but yes, I do."
A sigh escaped her lips and she finally just faced him. "You may eventually get an answer from me... but it's not likely that it will be soon."
"I know, but I do have something to show you."
"I probably could do non-medical magic other than light attacks on my own if I wanted to, you know." Raine shrugged, turning from him.
"Transportation!" he breathed in a raspy voice, lifting his hand to the ceiling.
The word caught her attention by a bit, she turned her head a bit and looked at him.
"You know you want to learn it!" he chuckled, grinning.
"....Alright?" Raine lifted her hand for him to continue.
"Watch." he stepped away from her with a whisper. He clapped his hands together once and closed his eyes. Behind him opened a black hole, he stepped into it and the hole vanished.
Her eyebrows went up, that's how they got here but... it was still a bit startling to see again.
"You're curious, yes?" From behind her Curtis appeared again, she faced him.
"I suppose, what's the catch?" Raine asked simply.
"Clear mind." Curtis focused himself again and looked down, where he fell downward into the floor. "And open heart." From above, his voice echoed, Raine still couldn't see him, be he appeared beside her. "You'll also need one of these." he tapped his finger to his temple and Raine quirked an eyebrow.
"Really."
"Well... that's not all of course." He looked upward and stepped forward, he pulled something out of his coat and held it for a moment. "I was supposed to give this to my equal or the person who could surpass me." Curtis looked down at it in slight hesitation, and then grinned once again and faced Raine, holding it up so she could see it clearly. It was a pendant on a chain, a moon crossing the sun, held together by a dragon, it looked old, on a golden chain.
"Go on?" Raine crossed her arms. "I'd like to know more. If you have that, then you can do what, specifically?" she trailed, motioning for him to finished her sentence.
"Cross time and space."
"So that's what it's called." Raine put her hand on her chin and thought, narrowing her eyes as she watched the chain before her.
A moment went by, and she eyed Curtis.
"...You're not just going to let me have it, are you." Raine stood up straight, her hands on her hips. She paused, seeing his reaction of agreement.
"Of course not. Let us duel for it!" he laughed, opening a black hole to their right. He stood up straight and motioned for her to go first.
"I thought so." Raine closed her eyes and allowed herself the smallest of smiles, as she walked into it.
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"Wow... that was-- hah..." Genis struggled to catch his breath, they had been running and stopped in an alley somewhere. He looked around, they were, in fact, in the Void community.
"You're a pretty cool mage." The girl took a breath, smiling and holding her sides. "And where did you learn that spell? I thought only Curtis could use stuff like that... and even so, I've never seen him use it." She stood up and leaned forward, examining him.
"Uh..." Genis smiled nervously.
"..." The girl's eyes narrowed, she just decided to dismiss her own question. "So, did you like... take care of those jerks for good, or what?"
"No, I just cast those around them so they'd be scared for a bit." Genis grinned and got into heroic stance. "I'm just glad they didn't... oh! are you hurt?" He completely forgot to ask that, trying to remember what Lloyd usually...
"No. I'm just glad that it didn't go any further than it did. I didn't want to hurt them, it would have totally blown my cover." She laughed sheepishly.
"Oh, haha.. yeahhh-wait, what?" Genis lowered his eyebrows, examining her.
"Oh, ah... never mind, forget I said that." She swallowed, smiling and standing up straight. She brushed off her clothes and Genis started to help, brushing misplaced objects like dirt and from her hair from her being pushed into the ground. He blinked, they had actually put a pencil in.
"Oh- oops!" Genis cringed, having pulled too hard, all of her hair slid off.
...Yes. The hair, that she had on her head, All of it. Gone.
He stood there, wide-eyes, staring into his handful of hair that just came off. "OH MY-- I am SO SORRY!" he knelt and bowed to her in sincere apology.
"It's okay. I actually kind of felt that you were one too, actually."
...Pause.
"What?" Genis froze, he looked up at her, and down to her shoulders fell long hair of glowing green. He didn't notice before, but it was because her ears, which were pointed, had been hidden by the wig earlier. Upon registering her new appearance, Genis's eyes widened and he opened his mouth.
"You're an elf?" he furrowed his eyebrows.
"Yes, technically." She shifted her weight onto one hip and crossed her arms.
"I heard from the professor that the elves here had wings though." He questioned.
"Wait, the elves... here?" She scoffed, "ALL elves have wings." she said, "Mind are hidden well, if you can't tell. It's uncomfortable but it's done."
"O-oh yeah... all elves." His face fell, scratching the back of his head. "....Oh, wait... what do you mean you felt I was one?"
"I can tell... but you're kind of different." She looked puzzled, "You don't look like a full dark elf, or a pure blood light elf exactly, unless you're hiding your wings... but are you--?"
"A half-elf." Genis mumbled, "Yeah...."
"Don't say it like you're ashamed." The girl snapped, stomping her foot. "Jeeze, you make me feel like I shouldn't be what I am. We should be proud of what we're part of."
"I-" his eyes lit up. "I know." he was surprised, she knew that. She was an elf, she wasn't discriminating against him. He had heard that elves here weren't like that.... that they would discriminate. "I kind of like this town though, everyone isn't that bad."
He had heard that they didn't like anyone who's not an elf. That they were snobby and arrogant.
Had he mistaken their words on elves? Were they just wrong? Or.... maybe the light elves just didn't discriminate against half-elves, Cecil did say that he was considered a dark-elf but...
"... Yeah, and I came here because..." She cut herself off, she looked hurt because of something, probably from her near past.
"N-never mind, but I wanted to study here, I wanted to learn more about magic with the books in Radiata. But I was convinced they wouldn't accept light elves socially, they probably would have let me in, but then... they would have ended up being rude or disrespectful to me, one way or another. all humans are like that... I disguised myself, I didn't want to be hated or treated differently than everyone else again. And now I'm just registered in the school as a human. But that's just it, they still bullied me, just because I don't live around here."
She thought for a moment, And then looked up at Genis, "You don't even disguise yourself, and you're left alone."
"Yeah... Raine and I look like pure bloods of something but Cecil knew we were of elven blood, but part human..."
"You're part human?!" She exclaimed, looking taken back. She gave him a look of disbelief.
"Yeah..."
"It's..." she trailed. "...I'm sorry, it's just, actually talking to someone... the result of the cause of--" she cut herself off, Genis obviously didn't know what she was talking about. She swallowed and readjusted her words a bit. "Sorry, forget what I said." she thought again, "A-Anyway, I just think that all humans are rude and arrogant. But this is the only place no-one will recognise me..."
"you know, all humans aren't like that."
"All the humans I've ever met are." she glared at the ground, a feeling of betrayal struck through her. "..." The girl fell silent, she thought. "Maybe it was just pointless that I tried to hide it to fit in through the crowd. I am proud of being a light elf. But I didn't want to stick out. Or ruin any friendships I might get, you know?"
Blinking, at the deja vu in her words. "I... I do know, actually." a feeling overwhelmed him, he found himself smiling, remembering Lloyd. "But if you have real friends, you'll find that they actually accept you, regardless of what you are."
"What?" The girl furrowed her eyebrows. "Yeah right, how do you find friends like that?" she scoffed again, crossing her arms and turning from him"
"HEY!" A loud, obnoxious voice came from the end of the alleyway, Genis stood up, alert and stiff.
"Ohh crap." Genis cringed. "Geeze, they know the spells I could cast on them and they still follow us." He readied himself, prepared to run.
"No! Face them like a man!" The girl hissed, pushing him forward. "I'm sure you could take them."
"I don't think I have enough magic left..." with a sweatdrop, Genis groaned. "We should just run!" he said, as the three of them gathered on the end, blocking them in.
"U-uh... but." the girl trailed, having turned around.
"What."
"They brought friends." Smiling and lifting a finger to point.
"........." Genis didn't even say anything. He gritted his teeth and groaned a bit, back-to back with the girl now, blocked in on both sides by unruly kids. "Since when was Vereth full of kids like that?" He muttered.
"They don't go to Vareth.... like they said, the only thing I can afford is Void commune apartments." she sighed. "So I would know, those guys there, They're everywhere."
"Hey..." The red-haired boy stepped forward from the trio, squinting. "Where's that girl---...." he cut himself off, a little surprised. He seemed to just be realizing who she was. "You're an elf?!" he tossed his head back and laughed. "Oh, this is great. " he held his stomach, "A little elf couldn't even protect herself against a couple guys." he pointed at her in amusement.
"... Yeah, my cover's blown, right?"
"Yeah, big time!!" the blond's eyes were wide with what looked like pure hysteria. "Wow, I can't believe that an elf is actually being associated with a human like that." he pointed to Genis, who quirked an eyebrow.
"They think you're human because you don't glow anywhere."
"You have a point. But you hardly gl--" Genis cut himself off, her hair was strongly giving off a greenish light now, and her eyes, under it, faintly lit up to a brighter violet. "...Nevermind." he muttered, he sighed, pressing his hands together in front of him, his forefingers pressed to his lips.
"Hey kid." The girl's voice started getting quieter as the group finally started closing in on them.
"Y-yeah?"
"...Don't worry." she said, turning to face him. "Thank you for earlier, but I thought it would eventually come to this anyway."
"Whah..." Genis cut himself off as he watched her, "What are you doing?" his mouth twitched as she crossed her arms over her lower waist, gripping the rim of her shirt firmly.
"H-hey!" The boy swallowed, falling backwards as she continued to pull her shirt upward. She pulled it off and threw it to the side, she now wore nothing but a skin-tight material of glowing green and white, speckled in blue. Other than her plain black pants below.
He noticed now, her wings were folded around her, pressed against her sides, the tips of her wings twitched, he could see them peeling back off of her, they spread out widely on either sides of her. They reminded him of Lloyd's wings, and Colette's wings...
"Ahh!" Genis squeaked, yes, squeaked, being grabbed by the waist and lifted suddenly off the ground. He craned his neck to see her, she had picked him up off of the ground and they were being flown upwards at a dangerous speed. He gritted his teeth holding onto her arm with all of his being.
The girl tried not to laugh at his death-grip, but decided against making herself more likely to drop him. He was short and skinny.
So yeah, as if he would be heavy.
But then again, well.... he, technically was taller than her, but it wasn't as bad as it could be.
They could hear them shouting at them from below. Angry that now they couldn't get to them.
"You okay?" She finally asked, as they now flew over the roofs and dodged multiple chimneys.
"Y-YEAH! perfect!" Genis forced himself to beam. He was trying too hard, so she could tell he wasn't exactly having the time of his life.
Knowing this wasn't his first time flying, Genis tried to bare it. That one time Lloyd decided to pick him up and do a lap around the village.... which also happens to be the time they crash-landed into a house, made him just slightly nervous about flying again. Yeah, good times.
"We're going to land now, I don't want anyone to see us, and it's night so it should be okay, but we're up a few buildings from Vareth, so I'm guessing you live around here?"
"..." Genis was gathering his voice, which he was almost choking on right about now. "Yeah."
Slowly, she brought them down to the ground level. Genis could breathe again at the contact of a firm surface under his feet.
"Th-that was actually k-kind of fun." his breathing had gotten heavier, he bent over and held his stomach.
"You're actually not really that heavy."
"Hey! It's Genis!"
From a little up the street, the two of them gave their attention to a brunette red clad teen who continued to approach them alongside an intimidatingly hot seraph and a blond in priestess uniform.
"Hi, Genis!" Colette waved, "Who's your friend?" she asked, stopping in front of them with a grin.
"I..." Genis paused, blinking. He had never even had the curtacy to ask. He turned to her sheepishly, a slight smile. "I never introduced myself, sorry, I'm Genis."
"I see... Genis." The girl trailed. "I suppose I can tell you." she looked down at the stone path below them. "I'm Aria."
"Aria, it's nice to meet you." Colette bounced up and down, "We were just going to get the professor so we can tell her something important."
"I kind of got..." Lloyd found himself laughing again, and Kratos stepped forward to speak.
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Was it satisfyingly long enough, guys?
