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[color=aa88bb]Manny Ryi[/color][/h1][hr]Day 1 [color=734e66]◈[/color] [color=7ea7d8]Time:[/color] Night [color=734e66]◈[/color] [color=7ea7d8]Weather:[/color] Light Rain[color=734e66]◈[/color] [color=7ea7d8]Location:[/color] Academy Hallways[hr][color=734e66]◈[/color] [@Emeth]Raffaella Struna [color=734e66]◈[/color][hr][/center]
	[color=cccccc]Thunder boomed in the distance outside, either natural or someone's magic.  Manny half-expected the girl beside her to flinch from the sound, but instead she seemed to have found her courage!  A result of Manny's encouragement, no doubt, and good timing too, what with those bird monsters catching up to them!

	As the two took to the air, Manny shoved a monster back with the slippered foot it was trying to bite and into the purple fire of someone else's gift.  Then, she quickly followed Pinky over top the dozen or so teenagers escaping in the same direction.  She noticed the bunch was slowed slightly as some of the older ones helped the younger or injured, but thankfully the defender group was behind them doing an awesome job at preventing monsters from passing!

	Manny didn't see any way she could help the group though, so she instead flew to the front with Pinky where together they paused at a crossroads.  Untouched as it was by the chaos of the evening, it looked exactly like every other hallway intersection Manny had been in as far as she could tell.  She was just starting to the left (better to go the wrong way than nowhere at all!) when Pinky shouted, [color=palevioletred]"This way!"[/color] and took off down the right corridor.

	[color=aa88bb]"Aight thein!"[/color] Manny grinned and kicked off the wall to reverse direction.  This flounder girl was proving her potential after all!  Or "Raffaella" she introduced herself as, these islander names were always such a mouthful!  Manny decided to just call her Ruffy, she did seem very puppy-like.

	Such thoughts were immediately forgotten, however, as when they rounded the next corner they came face to face with a battle.  A young man with copper plate armor and spear held back two tall, gangly creeps, with an unconscious boy leaning against the wall behind him.  Rain fell in through the broken windows, pooling together with shattered glass.  As one, the two pupa seemed to forget about the boys they were fighting and turned towards the new group.  No, towards [i]Raffaella![/i]

	The creatures screeched like violins and dashed toward the smaller girl.  Manny had no idea what Ruffy could've done to get their attention like this, but they needed to be stopped!  There was no way that girl could do well in a fight!  Diving forward herself, the pupa in front reached up with a needled hand to swipe her out of the way.  Manny responded by halting the circulation of her vitesse, immediately dropping to the floor and rolling into the creature's knees to trip it.  Glass lacerated her skin adding red to the puddles of rainwater, but it didn't sting [i]that[/i] much.

	The creepy thing was successfully knocked over, but Manny wasn't entirely sure what to do from here.  While she'd fought plenty of times, they were brawls between children who at worst disliked each other, not life-or-death battles against adult-sized monsters!  It was fortunate her incarnations were always in tip-top shape, and this current one was one of the tallest she'd had.  So, she used that body mass by dragging herself onto the back of the tripped pupa in hopes of keeping it down, and bit down hard on its thigh.  Blegh!  It tasted worse than when that sister tried baking egg pie, and was just as ashy!  If nothing else proved these things weren't human, they certainly tasted different!

	The monster responded by stabbing its needle through her forearm.  That- okay that hurt- quite a bit-  But!  Not as bad as cutting her thumb nearly off throwing sheet metal like a discus!  So she gritted her teeth further into its leg and ignored the panging.  The young man fighting before was not standing idle in the meantime, and took advantage of the opportunity by piercing a pole of pure copper through its head, disintegrating it into brimstone.

	That was sadly the end of only one pupa, and the other had gotten past the conflict in its race towards Raffaella!
	[color=aa88bb]"Ruffy, watch aout![/color] Manny screamed, pulling herself to her feet.[/color]

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Translations:
[color=cccccc]Pinky - Temporary nickname for Raffaella
Ruffy - Less temporary nickname for Raffaella
[color=aa88bb]"Alright then!"
"Ruffy, watch out!"[/color][/color]
Current Appearance:
[color=cccccc]158 cm (5'2'') with short black hair, brown eyes, and light skin.  Wearing a shredded yellow sleeveless ballgown with an orange gradient at the bottom, and yellow and orange cloth slippers.  A white and blue jacket is worn overtop with the hood down.  Butterfly mark clearly visible.  Cut and bloody.[/color][/hider]