[IC] Prometheus Academy: Open-world, multiple locations, unique classes and an overarching story.

[threedawg]

Ivy had been sitting beside the lake, cross-legged and meditating as she allowed the Babylonian Gardens to subsume her essence. In the middle of her nirvana, however, she was rudely interrupted by a girl she had not seen before.
"Hm." she grumbled, peering up at Jade with one eye open. "No."

[wolverbells]

Jade's eyes widened as she the girls response. She wasn't the type to ask twice or beg so she simple shrugged and smiled at the girl. "That's fine. Sorry for interrupting. I'm sure there's some prefects around here that would love to show off."

[threedawg]

"Sure. The prefects are more accustomed to baby sitting than I am." she replied coolly, her piercing stare still not leaving Jade's eyes.
Ivy was not one to hide her power and thus, her mastery over dark magic was common knowledge through the Academy. However, it would never be good enough for her. Self-improvement was an eternal goal, the pinnacle always remaining out of reach. If she was to become the living apotheosis of dark magic, her pursuit for greatness had to be relentless and her craving for challenge equally so. It was one of the reasons she had goaded Carolyn into a fight several weeks ago.
The hood receded, but her gaze did not.

[wolverbells]

"That's what they do best." Jade met the girls stare and brushed off the comment. "Oh! Aphrodite told me to find this Ivy chick, but I think I'm just gonna go find Dark. From what I've heard , he's probably improved more than she has." She looked away from her and said the last bit more to herself than to the girl in front of her, but still put loud.

[threedawg]

"Dark?" she repeated, a slightly curious cadence to her voice. "Ahhh..."
Ivy remembered the boy, one half of Balthazar's new proteges. Also, fresh in her mind, was how she and the other girl, Aphrodite, had wiped the floor with the two friends. Dark had hardly posed her a challenge. She was unsure if it was poor teamwork, or if the two were actually that inept.
"If you believe Dark's abilities to be superior to mine then, by all means, go ahead." she said placidly.

[wolverbells]

"You're Ivy?!" Jade felt stupid as soon as she knew who she was. She wanted the ground to swallow her whole.

[threedawg]

Ivy raised an eyebrow at the girl, rather enjoying watching her attempting to conceal her embarrassment. Contrary to what Ivy had previously thought, Jade was not aware of who she was and had simply sauntered over to ask for lessons based on the dark magic hood that Ivy used to keep the world at bay.
"That would be me." she replied dryly. "You're easily impressed, aren't you?"
Ivy got up to her feet in a leisurely manner and looked down at Jade, cracking her neck to both sides before smiling sardonically.
"Why don't I give you something truly impressive?"

[wolverbells]

"Just a little bit." She took a few steps back as Ivy stood up, unsure of what she was going to do. "Sure?"

[threedawg]

Ivy's smile grew darker as she glared into Jade's eyes, her sharp and penetrating stare boring ever deeper into Jade's, waiting for her to blink.
Ivy was gone.
In fact, everything was gone. The grass, the trees, the lake and the stars above had all been replaced by impenetrable, inky blackness and a sudden, freezing drop in temperature. It was as if Jade was trapped in a realm that no one had ever entered and, more saliently, one in which no one had ever left.

[wolverbells]

Jade felt her stomach drop as Ivy's smile turned darker. 'What did I get myself into'. As soon as she blinked, everything was gone. She gasped and looked down at the ground, immediately lifted herself off of the ground and hovered over it, turning in circles trying to find Ivy.

[threedawg]

Ivy had encapsulated Jade within a thin dome of ice that allowed her to keep up the illusion from the outside. Taking pleasure in the sight of Jade blindly searching for her, she placed her hands against the ice calmly and focused her energy, creating a small vortex of menacingly swirling dark magic that steadily grew larger.

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The darkness around Jade began to creak loudly and ominously as the floor folded up and closed in around her, threatening to crush her as the space became smaller and smaller. Before the walls made contact however, a loud shattering sound broke the entire illusion as pieces of ice went flying in all directions. The vortex was now five times the height of Jade and almost three metres thick. It raged and billowed in tight circles until the dark tendrils consumed Jade's entire body and she vanished from sight.

[wolverbells]

Jade began to grow frustrated, but panic began to form as well, not being able to see. It was like being in a nightmare, not being able to see anything around her.
When the silence suddenly broke, Jade turned frantically and tried to fly off, but something stopped her. She put her hands up against the surface and began to panic as it pushed her down, a sense of claustrophobia settling in. She screamed as it closed in on her, pushing against it not helping. Even using her own dark magic was useful. She cringed as she heard shattering, finally going up and falling to the floor, covering her face and closing her eyes as the vortex raged on, her hair flying everywhere and the shards of ice cutting her hands. Unlike the times she had practiced, it didn't take her much to make a small dome of dark magic, barely big enough to cover herself from the ice and vortex swirling around her. "I think you've made your point clear, Ivy!"

[threedawg]

With a lazy flick of her hand, Ivy instantly caused the swirling tornado of dark energy to suddenly dissipate. She observed Jade on the ground, amused at the rather weak barrier of magic formed around her.
"I could say the same for you." she commented conceitedly. "Fine, I'll train you. Weekends, 8am."
And with that, Ivy turned on her heel and left the gardens.

-Ivy has left scenario #11-

[wolverbells]

Jade looked up when the vortex disappeared, sighing in relief and letting her own dome vanish. "Thanks..." She watched as Ivy left and visibly relaxed, fixing her hair and pulling her hood back up. Once she felt she looked decent again, she turned around and walked the opposite way, heading towards her next class.

/End of scenario 11/

[Marx]

Scenario 10

Jesse was lost, plain and simple. It wasn't exactly that this school was complex either, it was just the problem of not knowing how to talk to everyone here. How could he just go up to someone and ask them how to get accepted into the school? Up until a few days ago he had never even heard of the damn place and now here he was, surrounded by other wanderers. He didn't want to seem like an idiot and admit to his incredible ignorance to the world his people lived in. Though then again, were they really his people? Outside of himself, he had never interacted with another wanderer. 'Well, you're gonna have to talk to someone at some point. Might as well get it over with' he thought, giving the hall he was currently wandering through a quick glance around. A few students stepped out from a classroom a few meters before him and it was there Jesse would make his first attempt to communicate with another wanderer.

His fist hovered over the door, a single drop of sweat sliding down his brow, falling into his eye and making him blink with annoyance. "Here's goes somethin'.." his voice trailed off, knuckles sporadically knocking on the door. "Come in." a man's voice said, beckoning him from beyond the door. Jesse's hand ran down the door, his fingertips trailing slowly to the handle which he turned sharply, giving the door a push as he did so. Before him was a man who appeared to be in his late thirties, early forties who was impressively pale. From a quick glance, Jesse first wondered how long Benedict Cumberbatch had been teaching magic, then remembered he should probably say something. "Uh... H-hello. I'm Jesse and I'm..." Jesse reached behind himself and put his palm against his neck, giving a slightly nervous smile to the man. "Well, I'm not really a student I guess... I'm... a wanderer?" he said, for the first time unsure of his own status. "I want to become a student." he said, finally spitting it out.

[D Disciple]

Scenario 12

Dark lets out a yawn as he begins to stretch out, but makes sure to not hit the sleeping Aphrodite. The visions she saw last night after looking into Dark's past overwhelmed her and she fainted, or so she claimed to Dark for the reason why she couldn't make it back to her dormitory. He didn't really try to argue with that, plus other than Carolyn the prefects really didn't mind what he did. They owe him after all so he's glad they let this slide. He rolls over on his left and slips out of bed covering Aphrodite as he gets dressed for training.

Making his way to the gym, Balthazar and Kyo are there waiting for him, this is the first usually it's Dark that is there before either of the two. Balthazar with his usual cold look at the both of them, with his arms folded, tilts his head to the center of the gym. Quickly he gets into position and looks over at Kyo, Balthazar already told them that they were going to spar against each other at the end of the month. Dark looking over at Kyo and notices that his friend isn't exactly there.

"I'm ready when you are man."

[threedawg]

Kyo disengaged himself from Balthazar's side and stepped into the middle of the gymnasium, eyes locked on Dark as he gently shook his arms and wrists. This was the first time he had seen Dark since the terrible events of last night and, to his major concern, found that retaining eye contact with Dark was next to impossible. Just the sight of him made the memories of the murder seem fresh in his mind, the gory fragments of viscera on his skin and the smell of blood in the air...
"Let's go." he finally managed to say, arms spread to the side as if saying 'let's get this over with'.

[D Disciple]

Dark extends his arms emitting flames from them, they expand and coil up on the floor. He raises his arms again lifting the flames like a whip, sending them towards Kyo.

[threedawg]

Kyo blasted the flame whips to the side with his telekinesis and formed a sphere around himself, moving straight up into the air and hurtling towards Dark. The orb around him dissipated and he outstretched his arm, his fist heading straight towards Dark's nose.

[D Disciple]

Dark uses his telekinesis to cushion most of the blow to the point that it feels like Kyo smacked him, it stings but nothing broken which is a plus. Dark jumps back a few feet, while directing the whips to surround Kyo once more, he lets them set on the ground and flicks his wrist as the flames increase in heat and height. With another flick, they begin to turn black, blocking out the light for Kyo.