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Intro to The Academy: part 2

Alright, we know that you guys won't take any apologies, but our homework has doubled since we entered high school. I, in fact, should be working on a project right now, so you guys are lucky that I decided to procrastinate as I normally do with this story. So, here's the second part of the intro.

-Duck 1

Raphael winced as the door to his previously pitch black room opened, and a light was shined in his eyes by two men in white coats. "Alright, freak, you're coming with us. I hope you learned to obey us like a good birdie, or else you're going back into this room and staying there for another three weeks." Raphael, three weeks earlier, had braved the extreme headache of using his powers of psychokinesis to chuck a stapler at a passing Eraser's head. Raphael's good mood had only lasted a second before whitecoats had stormed the room that he was being held in, and he had been dragged off to solitary confinement in a pitch black room for three weeks with barely any food.

The whitecoats each grabbed one of Raphael's arms, and dragged him out of the room, only to throw him back into another cage. At least there were people in this room. The avian-human slowly stood up as the whitecoats left. "Hi, new roomates. I'm Raphael," he said, shaking off his depression and putting on a grin.

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Aurora glanced upwards from her position of sitting hunchbacked on the floor at the strange newcomer. No, it wasn't the fact that the guy had giant wings that was the strange aspect here; it was the new guy's mood. He had obviously been tortured in some way, and yet the guy had a humorous smile on his face, his purple eyes glinting. He had said his name was Raphael.

Aurora fixed him with a questioning look. Raphael noticed, and said, "well, I'm not going to be depressed, if that's what you're thinking. What will happen is inevitable anyway, and so why should we always be sad?" Hearing this, Aurora smiled. This 'Raphael' seemed like a nice guy. She stood up and stuck out her hand. "I'm Aurora." Raphael took her hand and shook it. "So, Aurora, what type of mutant are you?" Raphael asked. To answer him, Aurora grew a long, tan tail, and her eyes turned black. Her hair grew a shade lighter. Raphael whistled. "Spider monkey, huh?"

"Hey! Will you two be quiet?! I'm trying to sleep here!" Both teens looked across the room to see a girl with auburn hair glaring at them grumpily.

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Chase had just been having the best sleep that she had had in weeks before these two dunces started yapping loudly. She had then yelled at them to shut up, not feeling the need to use any mind-reading to figure out who the new guy was. The guy with purple eyes glanced down at her amusedly. "I apologize, your highness. I didn't notice you there." Chase's white and auburn wings fluffed up slightly. "You can just go fall off a cliff. And Aurora, you know better than to wake me up. I like my sleep." With that, Chase wrapped her large wings around herself with her back to the two, and fell back to sleep with an annoyed look on her face.

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Emra watched as Chase grumpily told Aurora and the new guy to shut up. After Chase had curled up and started ignoring everyone, Emra stood up and walked over to the bars of her cage. "Hey, new guy. Nice to meet you. My name's Emi, sparrow."

"Raphael, peregrine falcon," Raphael responded, nodding his head towards the older girl. Just then, a white coat entered the room. "Dinnertime!" He yelled, and tossed a few cans of tuna at the occupants of the room and leaving right after. "Ugh, tuna again…" Emi muttered, picking up the can of fish and cracking it open. She realized that the smell was off and that the tuna smelled too sweet, but eating and getting drugged was better than starving to death, as Emi hadn't eaten in three days. She began eating as Raphael began to tell a humorous story about a prank that he had played on some Erasers that involved a stolen sandwich, a feather, and some glue that he had managed to swipe. Of course, Raphael had gotten brutally punished, but "it is better to have laughed and to have gotten beat up than to have never have laughed at all, am I right?"

As the story ended, a laugh was heard from the corner of the room, from a cage that wasn't visible to Raphael and Aurora. "I like your way of thinking, Raphael. Can I call you Raph?"

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Cedric leaned against the side of the cage, his tail idly waving behind him, quietly laughing at the slightly awkward silence that came after his unexpected addition to the conversation. But Raphael quickly recovered, and grinned while retorting: "only if I can call you disembodied voice. Who are you?"

"The name's Cedric. Snow leopard."

"Awesome, do you have really sharp teeth?"

"No."

"Darn." Raphael leaned his head against the bars of the cage as Cedric adjusted his position to a more comfortable one. "Well, you'd better get used to some more boredom with more people, 'cause that's all there is around here. Well, apart from my amazingly good looks, of course, but you can't see them from there," Cedric joked. Suddenly, he started to feel extremely sleepy. "Ugh. I guess that the drugs from the fish are starting to kick in," Cedric noted, and he allowed himself to fall into blackness as everyone did the same.

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Alright… well, that's the second part of the intro, written by yours truly, Duck 1. All the main characters have now been introduced. Again, if you have a problem with how your character has been written, just PM us. Oh, and please don't murder us. We're really busy with school stuff, but thanks to Hurricane Sandy, we have school off tomorrow, so I have some extra time.

Also: AC III. Who's getting it? I can't wait!

-Duck 1

Hi, everyone! Duck 2 here. Sorry we haven't updated in a long time- Sandy is pretty much up our a**es right now, so yeah.

-Duck 2