Post by Talon Windwaltz on Jul 12, 2009 2:57:51 GMT -5
Talon felt himself moving fast at an incredibly slow speed through time and space. The only thing he saw around him was moving light, though he could hear snippets of the world around him as they moved past him - snippets of words, the delicate sound of grass crunching, students hurrying down the stone steps - until finally he came to a halt in the University's Hospital Wing.
The Headmaster fell to the ground dizzily, as if he had stepped off a fast moving conveyor belt onto solid ground. He took no time to ponder the nature of what had just happened, instead turning his head quickly to see if all had gone as planned. Indeed, the scene seemed to be as it was before, superimposed upon the backdrop of the Hospital Wing. He was exactly the same distance away from the wounded teens as he was before.
"Miss Rainier!" Talon cried out, before looking around for any sight of the red-headed nurse. "Miss Rainier, this is a desperate emergency, come quick!" He cried out again, getting back up on his feet and calling out for Ashelle.
Post by Professor O'Conner on Jul 12, 2009 19:16:37 GMT -5
Ashelle was not on duty that day . . . that is, she wasn't on duty yet. So when she heard Professor Windwaltz calling to her, it was from quiet a ways down the hall. Ashelle ran to the hospital wing, ending up behind the Headmaster, still trying her Nurse apron strings together.
"I am here Headmaster, How can I be of assist . . ." Ashelle trailed off when she noticed Willow and Felix lying there unconscious. Felix looked to be torn to ribbons while Willow seemed mostly intact.
"Oh," said Ashelle at last, "quickly, tell me what happened while I get beds ready for them! I swear this isn't a school at all but a war zone!" Ashelle whipped out her wand and quickly changed the sheets on the two nearest beds, then levitated Willow then Felix up onto them.
Post by Talon Windwaltz on Jul 12, 2009 19:27:40 GMT -5
"I often feel the same way myself," Talon muttered in response to Ashelle's comment. "Felix suffered a pretty dangerous curse, when I found him he had a pretty deadly gash across his chest and stomach, but I performed first aid on him and closed the wound. All the same, he's still lost a lot of blood." His eyes turned over to look at Willow, the Lycan that had also been a victim of the Shadow Without a Name.
"The other one's a Lycan, and she was covered in blood when I found her, but it wasn't hers, and it had silver in it. I know this because when I cast a cleaning spell, the words written in blood were burned into her. She's certainly suffered considerably less than Felix, all you have to do is remove the scar and any remaining traces of silver. Also, she's under a body bind, but I figure it might be easier to heal her if we keep her that way."
He took a deep breath, "and that's about all I know. I can tell you all I know about why this happened as soon as this is over." This wasn't a situation the Headmaster could cover up, because until Ashelle finished her work, the Nephilim's name was still written in a scar across the Lycan's stomach.
Post by Professor O'Conner on Jul 12, 2009 20:36:47 GMT -5
Ashelle's brows furrowed.
"That must be Felix's blood then. In a effort to immunize himself against Vampires, her -apparently- took a potion with silver in it. I wish I knew which one, I'd be able to make him take something that would counter act his suicidal attempt at protecting himself. Nevertheless." Ashelle rushed to retrieve a blood refreshing potion and one of her old inventions - the Sponge Spoon. She'd improved it by putting a spell on it witch cause the patent to swallow at a measured pace till the sponge was free of the potion it contained, thus allowing potion to be administered even when someone was unconscious.
Ashelle returned with these and more on a cart. She loaded the sponge spoons handle with one dose of the blood refresher and carefully placed the sponge part under Felix's tongue. The spell was gentle, but effective, soon Felix would be fine if that was all that had been done to him. Ashelle double checked Professor Windwaltz's Suture Spell Skills and smiled.
"Good job Headmaster, I won't even need to put any Scar Slave on this," she complimented him. She turned to Willow with a worried look. Willow and she had not been friends as fellow Gryffindors, though neither had they been enemies. However when they had re-met when she was a Lycan in the Drakborough coffee shop they'd talked together like old friends. It was the first time that Ashelle had been forced to work on a true friend and she had never hoped harder that she could put a patent right.
Ashelle quickly washed the writing with a potion that stung a bit, but worked well for her purpose. Never before had she been glad to be brought any body bind - tonight was a night of firsts. The wash would clean out any of the remaining silver and also help the next step. Ashelle put on some dragon hide gloves and carefully applied a most powerful healing slave, made even more effective by one of the ingredients in the cleaning potion. Luckily the combination of the two potions stopped the stinging and Willow would now only feel a slight cold sensation, not quite as strong a the feeling one had when accidentally stepping though a ghost.
"There," said Ashelle once she was done with the application. "Now, Willow it is important that you stay here with me till this burn clears up. It should only take a day or so with the treatment I have given you. Headmaster, you may unbind her now if you like . . . do you know which Body bind curse was used?"
Post by Felix I. Genero on Jul 12, 2009 21:06:15 GMT -5
The familiar blackness filled his head.
It wasn’t like a dreaming. Dreaming was full of pretty colors and happy thoughts.
This was darkness.
The kind of darkness that you only have after you are unconscious as a result of loosing large amount of blood and when you were previously on the verge of dying.
Felix’s subconscious was still working. Thinking. His body was completely immobilized at the moment and he seriously didn’t know if he was still in that wretched cell of pure magic or if he had been randomly teleported into a hammock on a tropical island. Tropical islands weren’t always the most relaxing; they were insects, sunburn, rough sand and other random uncomfortable items you usually don’t remember.
Willow. Was she alive? His own blood. His own venomous blood had poisoned her. No. If the blood was only placed on her skin and if it was wiped off by… who had saved them? In any case, if who ever their rescuer or rescuers were had wiped off the blood then it would only burn a scar in her skin. They were plenty of scar removal spells and potions. Speaking of scars, Felix couldn’t tell if his stomach was still sliced open. He hoped it wasn’t, he could be dying from the blood loose right now and he would be too far unconscious to tell.
Slowly. Very slowly. The magic bounded with his cells, multiplying them. Rejuvenating them. It was life in a single potion. Felix probably should keep some blood-rejuvenating potion with him at all times… he kept becoming unconscious because of blood loose only to find him waking up in the Hospital Wing a lot more often then he probably should. Ha! That’s where he was, Hospital Wing! He knew all was well.
In a matter of minutes, Felix’s consciousness snapped in. Adrenalin of cariousness kicked in and in a snap Felix eyes open. The familiar white ceiling above. He was inside the castle walls he love. He cherished. He lived for. He could tell three people were around him. Willow. She was alive. Her presence in the bed next to him. That alone made him more joyful then a guy that almost died six times in the last twenty-four hours should have been. Willow was alive. Yay! Who else? Ashelle. The last time Felix saw was after the attack on the tower. She must have just healed him. Last. Talon. The headmaster was there. He had saved Felix. He knew it. Ha!
Tilting his head, Felix smiled. He was alive. Willow was alive. Felix promised himself he wouldn’t leave these walls until he knew how to kill everything that breathed outside them, and even the creatures that didn’t. He also promised himself he would make it up to Willow and not let her get almost killed again, but he guessed that wouldn’t be easy to keep.
His voice was weak, but his spirit was probably the brightest one in the room.
“…Headmaster. Hey.”
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Okay. This was ridiculous. Roan knew Willow, and she should have noticed by now that her packmate was PETRIFIED. WHAT THE HELL. Surely Willow would have said something by now if she could talk! Did they think that damn shade had cut out her tongue, or that she was unconscious with her eyes open? What the hell!
She would have been pissed beyond belief if it weren't for the fact that she was pain. Talon had gotten most of the silver, but the scarred area was still painful, and probably sore to the touch. If she could move to reach it. Her arm wasn't in the best shape anyway.
The teleportation or whatever had rattled her, had been very uncomfortable, considering she couldn't move anyway and was being dragged through whatever. There was alot of light, and noise-were those voices?-and then she was still floating. Talon disappeared from her line of sight, reappeared a moment later, and then someone was shouting.
Ashelle. Thank god. Willow felt horrible now that the pain was wearing out. Horrible for what'd she'd done...She needed to talk to so many people, and at the top of her list was Roan.
Willow wondered if she could shift while in this state. She could think, couldn't she? The lycan decided not to try it, although she really, really wanted to talk to Roan. The lycan mind would let her send messages without speaking. Private messages.
And she was still petrified. Ugh.
Felix said something, and her hope soared. Thank god, the little idiot was okay. Then, she remembered.
Post by Shane Matthews on Jul 13, 2009 13:28:31 GMT -5
Shane wandered into the hospital wing, aiming to find one of the abundance of readily available headache-curing potions. Headaches happened, especially when GIANT FUCKING DRAGON GHOSTS showed up and blew up half the library or something.
"Finite incantatem," he muttered as the passed by the group, not even bothering to turn and look to get a better picture of what was going on.
"Here we go!" he exclaimed from within the supply closet. Pocketing his potion, he left to go back to the library.
Post by Professor O'Conner on Jul 13, 2009 15:54:19 GMT -5
((OOC: Um, ok I guess that means that Willow is free. Tim, I was only trying to keep Talon involved by asking him to help . . . just so you know.))
IC: Ashelle whipped around in time to see the solitary Librarian go by mutter a spell and help himself to a fresh headache cure. "Thank you, sir" she said quietly but loud enough so he's hear her. Turning back she addressed the (apparently) newly freed Willow.
"Willow, can you tell us what exactly happened out there," she asked. She figured Willow being older might have a better idea of what was going on than Felix, seeing as she was older than both of them. While she waited for Willow's answer she carefully took back the spoon sponge that Felix had unceremoniously removed from under his tongue to speak with Professor Windwaltz. Thankfully the potions it held had been used up so she didn't have to ask Felix to take more. Instead she checked his temperature and pulse to make sure she shouldn't be telling him to hush and lie still.
Post by Talon Windwaltz on Jul 13, 2009 22:17:30 GMT -5
Felix's courageous attitude had almost gotten him killed today, but it exemplified just what it meant to be a Gryffindor. Especially considering, from what the Headmaster had heard, he had tried to sacrifice himself for Willow. "Hey," Talon said, leaning down on one knee to be on level with the boy recovering in the bed. "You were very brave, risking your life to save your friend. Though I'm sure surviving is reward enough for you, I'm awarding 100 points to Gryffindor for your courage."
Just at that moment, the Librarian Shane Matthews barged into the Hospital Wing and rummaged through the cabinet - releasing Willow from her body bind with an offhanded gesture - and took off again without a single word. Talon ignored the occurrence and returned his attention to the two wounded teenagers. Now Willow was free, and if she was of Fenrir's pack, most likely transform and try to break away as soon as possible.
"I know what happened," Talon said loudly to Ashelle. "They were kidnapped by the Shadow Without a Name. He is working with the Nephilim to get a hold of certain possessions of mine -" He emphasized the word to make Ashelle understand. She knew of the Zodiac Books' existence, and would hopefully understand, but he did not want to reveal them to everyone else in the room. "-and is trying to use a vampire named Romulus to get them. Willow, from what I've gathered, is this vampire's lover. Felix bravely pretended that he was the one connected to the vampire instead, and you can see what happened."
He looked back to Felix and Willow. "Story match up?"
Post by Felix I. Genero on Jul 14, 2009 9:03:21 GMT -5
Felix was overjoyed in realizing that both of them were ok, sending out a connection to Willow, he realized she was still petrified. Had no one noticed? Just about to voice that fact, he got a strong signal of abhorrence, hatred and extreme malice coming directly from Willow, toward his own hospital bed. Severing the connection as fast as he could, Felix realized even more how absolutely idiotic he was… no, he had to have been there. If he hadn’t tried to tag along, Willow’s emotions were so blinded that she would have totally given away the fact that she loved Romulus, and the unknown one would have wisked her immediately away to Tiberius and she could have already been dead, displayed in the hallway of the Castille del Nosferatu in some gruesome way for Romulus to greive over. No. Willow was alive. They were alive. Felix wouldn’t have done anything else.
Talon, unexpectedly, kneeled down level with Felix. Was he going to give him detention for how stupid he was? Take away his prefect status for almost getting killed? Whatever he was doing, Felix hated when adults tried to talk ‘level’ with kids, as if they already weren’t level. It was true, but still. Felix respected Windwaltz to no end, he was a hero to the young Gryffindor, so he listened intently.
What came next was quite not expected. Talon congratulated Felix on his bravery and courage (which according to his definition must have meant reckless idiocy with extreme luck) and awarded Felix’s house a whole one-hundred points! Felix never cared much for points, which he had debated for fun many times, but still, Felix was gleaming with pride at the moment, not for the points, but because of the recognition Talon showed him.
Felix glanced up just in time to see Shane Matthews, Firefox’s ever absent Librarian, walking past. What he was going there, Felix didn’t know, but he healed Willow so he didn’t care much. He had completely destroyed the drama though.
“Thank you… Headmaster. I won’t be here if it wasn’t for you guys rescuing me. Foolish bravery and courage can only go so far in bridging magical dimensions.”
As for Talons story of what happened, Felix decided it interject with it all. Sure, Talon had covered most of it, but there was a lot he needed to hear. He wished Ashelle was not there, yet he had no choice.
“Quite true, but there’s more to it. A student overheard Tiberius and the unknown shade talking to each other at the Greenhouse the other night. A plot to find someone close to the vampire known as Romulus, an acquaintance of mine who is pretty powerful and influential among the rest of the vampires, extremely good friend of Willows…” Felix purposely left off the fact that Willow loved him, although Talon already said he knew, just for the sake of avoiding Willows wrath. “He also mentioned the Zodiac books that you have and creating a new dimension. you actually have some?” Felix had read the whole section in the library on elementalism, but he didn’t even know they actually existed. He understood that Talon was trying to keep it secret, but Felix had to know everything.
“Roan was also there talking to Tiberius, apparently she owes him a large debt and she knew of this plot to harm Romulus. Next thing I know, I’m telling Willow about the Nosferatu’s attack, that happened on the tower the night before, when the unknown creature shows up after I mention Romulus’ daughter, Elle, who I am good friends with. He asks us who mentioned Romulus, Willow said she did, but I knew that the unknown one would kidnap her, so I decided to make up a ridicules statement that I was Romulus’ lover…” Felix slightly shivered at this point. “Which was a total lie. I hoped the nameless… thing would either take me instead and leave Willow or at least take me along.”
“At this point I did not have a wand because it was burnt to a crisp on the tower. So the shade teleports us both to his own dimensional, at least I’m guessing that’s what it was. It was the same room that Forgoil was in when he was tortured by the same shade a while ago. Anyway, like an idiot I try to convince him that we were really trying to kill Romulus and that he had the wrong people, he didn’t fall for it, instead he gave Willow the choice of either biting me, saving me and having Romulus die, or saving Romulus and having me die, a slight problem because I had found a way to poison my blood with silver oxide about a month ago so I could still hang out with vampires and lycans and have them not bite me.”
“Willow tried to stall the shade, also telling him about my blood. Just around then I could feel the magic being breached in the cell, so he instead sliced me up into ribbons and dipped his wand in my blood, writing the name of, quote ‘That name you should fear, and that name shall be the last Romulus speaks. That shall be the name of his killer’ end quote, into Willow. So… basically Tiberius wants to kill Romulus, for a reason I do not know, perhaps you know something about the connection with the books? I am even slightly confused who is good and who is bad, Roan saved us, yet she was in cahoots with Tiberius. One thing left though, the unknown monster is either going to try to get Willow or Elle, Romulus’ daughter. They both aren’t students anymore, but they are both friends of mine who would never hurt a human. If the unknown shade kidnaps and/or kills Elle and/or Willow then Romulus will be delusional and weak, which is probably when Tiberius will attack him. Willow can’t leave this castle, she is safe here from that monster…”
A nightmarish image flashed in Felix’s imagination. The unknown shade. Appearing out of nowhere in middle of the feasting hall laughing as he tortured them, absorbing every spell sent his way—shaking the thought from his head… Felix looked at Talon deep eyes.
“..right?”
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Well, apparently everyone in the room had decided to ignore Roan.
From the moment the lycan had returned with the Headmaster, student, and Willow she had been worried about her pack mate. Silver was seriously damaging to a lycan, Roan herself had suffered at the hands of silver manacles before wielded by Talon’s friends. She shot an angry glare at Talon when he said that Felix had suffered much more than Willow. He didn’t know the extent of that allergy and for a moment Roan was sorely tempted to bite him and let him try it on his own. The wizard didn’t seem to care much for Willow for all the girl had once been one of his students. Perhaps Talon had changed in ways that she didn’t like anymore.
Ah, of course it had to be Ashelle to be the one to tend to them. At first Roan wanted to set the girl’s hem on fire and then demand another nurse but she remembered the pain that silver could cause and begrudgingly allowed the Gryffindor to work on Willow. All the while her hazel eyes were ablaze as she kept them warningly on the nurse, knowing that if anything went wrong then Roan would probably maul her. The nurse did what she had to and then told Willow that she would have to stay. This bristled Roan. “She will not be staying in the school, she is a lycan and Fenrir would not like it at all. You underestimate the healing ability of lycans Ashelle.” Her eyes glittered dangerously, daring the girl to challenge her.
And then the nurse was asking questions of the petrified girl who obviously couldn’t answer. At least a wizard with enough sense passed through and unbound the lycan from the charm. Roan murmured a thanks from where she sat by the girl’s bed, ignoring as Felix woke up. He wasn’t a charge of hers while Talon and Ashelle was here. As long as the boy wasn’t dancing on the edge of the Woods and wasn’t going to get Willow in trouble then she would be quite content to ignore him. His adventurousness made her very uneasy and she hoped she would never have to make a hard choice with him one day.
Both of the wizards wanted information, and Felix was glad to give it. Roan was surprised he knew parts of the story that she was involved in. Apparently this Shadow was on the same mission that she was only she had chosen a separate target. Tiberius had two working for him against Romulus, which was a testament to his fear of the vampire. And then Felix said something about Willow staying in the castle and Roan growled low in her throat. What was it with everyone thinking they had to stay in the damn castle. “This place isn’t exactly safe. It’s not like we haven’t been invaded before.” She mumbled, shaking her head.
“The parts of the story that mention me are correct Headmaster. Though I do not know where he got the information. I would love to give you more information on this vampire and situation at a later date. You should talk to me sometime, the vampires are rising up and you’ll need the information.” At least to protect his students he would. And to Talon his students were his charges. Roan herself stood up, looking at Willow with eyes that flashed with warning. She held out a hand to the girl, daring her to refuse it and not get up and come with. The lycaness would help her fellow packmate somewhere quieter.
“For now though I must have a word or two with Willow.” There was sharpness in her voice. This whole Romulus issue had to be solved now with the girl. Roan wouldn’t always be there to come protect her when things went wrong and Fenrir would go mad if he lost a pack mate. He would already probably freak out when he found out about this incident. Roan wanted Willow to come with her and find somewhere not around people so that they could have this little…chat.
If this is to end in fire Then we shall all burn together Watch the flames climb high into the night
"I think it might be best if Willow stays here, at least for the night." Muryllis, reverting back to his more realistic, human form, had phased into existence in time to see Roan's temper bubbling. He had hung back, at one with the chaotic arcane realm, to oversee the complete dissolution of the Unknown One's meta-dimensional plane.
He stood up straight, cracking his illusionary back as he slipped the glimmering phylactery back into the girl's pocket. While Talon was now his 'keeper', Roan certainly had the potential to get into trouble; it would be best if he maintained this constant, instantaneous connection with her. At least, until he figured out how the Dark Lord managed to travel so quickly.
Or develop his own method? This got him to wondering, and, with the mental agility only a Shade could boast of, Muryllis outlined a series of delicate questions for Windwaltz. Seeing as he was occupied with Felix and the organization of the night's events, however, he turned to the resident nurse. He hadn't ever met Ashelle (at least, so far as the memory the Unknown One had given him could recall), so he decided to make his introduction.
"Good evening. I'm Muryllis Antonius, Ravenclaw alumnus and, it seems, returning Firefox Justiciar." The man stretched out a hand, waiting patiently for her to finish her business.
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Post by Phugsius Charadus on Jul 17, 2009 22:41:54 GMT -5
An upscale British accent sounded from the other side of the room "I hope i'm not interrupting anything" Phugsius said as he walked across the room. Not breaking stride he continued. Eyeing the rooms occupants. "Now, I know we had an agreement miss.... um fire elementalist," He stuttered for the fact he didn't know her name. "But I heard the headmaster had returned with Felix and they were in the hospital wing, and here I am. I'm here to check on Felix's condition" After all it was the Slytherin himself who helped both the Head Master and Ungrateful bitch (kinda literally) reach the boy and lycan in time. Phugsius observed that Felix was awake.
"How are you doing Felix? I hope you gave the bloody wanker who destroyed my wand a kick in the stones, eh?"
Willow almost choked with relief when she could move again. She felt the spell rush upon her from an unknown souce, and the lycan twitched first her hands, then sat up. Immediately, the head rush gave her an ache, and she winced.
"I could kill you," Willow muttered to Felix, rubbing her temples. Her guilt shot over her, and she turned pale green eyes on her packmate. She wilted slightly at Roan's fiery gaze, but knew she was just worried. But the elementalist was still scary as hell.
It took her a moment to say anything beside her wake-up greeting to Felix. "I'm...I'm sorry Roan. Really. I should have listened to you." She drew herself up against the bars of the headboard, wincing at the pain on her abdomen. Massaging the place for a moment, she continued to look guilty and worried. When Ashelle said something about staying overnight....
"I want to go home," she said firmly. Home was the woods, home was with Erin and Orca and Roan and Fenrir and the newcomers. She'd be glad to even see the werewolf Seth at this point. Home was home. Talon's words further annoyed her. "I'm not his lover, we just sort of have a thing. Kind of. But I'm not going to get killed for him."
To many things happening, to many people speaking, but one voice hit her like a blow. She knew that voice, from where she could barely remember. It had been ages ago, but she remembered the name, she remembered the face. Her eyes flickered to the man who wasn't a man, he smelled like that thing. It was only her human memories that kept her from freaking out on him. And the scent was still there, something...
Her first day at Firefox, sitting out infront of the arch....What had happened to him? "Muryllis," she murmured. She glanced over murderously at Felix, then up at Roan. "I don't want you carrying me back. But I don't think I can walk," she said honestly, frowning. She wasn't happy about it.
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