Lady Seraphina

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Hey Lug I mentioned awhile back that I would like if you have time for you to make me a new emblem I just needed an idea of what it was, well now I've got that idea. It looks pretty simple but actually describing it in words would be a rather lengthy process so this might be easier. Reason I don't just use that is because it's a bit blurred and crooked. Use the same colors the image if you please but leave the background black.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Sapphire Rode - Cafeteria

Sapphire started to eat her food. Starting with the apples. Diamond either didn't hear her questions regarding foster care or more likely chose to ignore it. That kind of childhood couldn't have been pleasant and Sapphire thought she likely didn't want to be reminded of it.

After this the conversation turned to the mornings combat class and the functions of each persons semblance. Both Diamond and Aurelius seemed to regard the others semblance as cheating. While the same could be said of Sapphire's the azure haired girl found this incredibly funny, a condescending smile forming on her lips. "I notice that the only people who seem to think their opponent was cheating were the ones that lost." She said putting extra emphasis on the last word.

It was foolish to think of anything as cheating. In a real fight whether it was with Grimm or others they would do whatever it took to win victory regardless of if it was honorable or fair. If you relied on your opponent fighting fair you would lose every time. The only thing you could do was pull every trick you had available and hope it was enough.

Sapphire had to admit though that Diamond's semblance was pretty impressive. While her own was more subtle Diamond's was an enormous boon in a fight. The talk of semblances got her thinking, she'd not seen Oswald use his in there fight. Sure he'd pulled all kinds of tricks, and tactics but nothing that could be regarded as a semblance. "Hey Oswald," She said looking at him "I never got to see it in our match. What's your semblance?"

Legends of Zelda... and Everyone Else

The answer the rabbit man managed to stutter out sounded much more like an excuse than a reason. While Navi could understand his distrust of Midna his methods were much less honorable than she was. After Midna had rebuffed the rabbit for his rudeness she gave Navi a parting farewell which Navi decided to take. The Twilight Princess clearly needed to be alone with her thoughts right now and Navi had nothing to gain by remaining, besides Midna's parting remarks were almost friendly. As she left Navi did not loosen her hold on the rabbit's robes. Once they were outside she then let go and pushed him roughly into the outside wall of the inn. "Among my people eaves dropping is a crime punishable by execution. I do not have that authority here but do remember that if I ever catch you spying on me or my friends again I won't hesitate to drop you into the Crater of Death Mountain." There Navi left the rabbit man hopefully with enough fear struck into him that she'd never see him or his offending garments again. She still have his boomerang in her other hand, oops. She might as well give it to Link when she met up with him. The rabbit man weighed on her mind though. Did he seriously think people were that stupid, that they started to confess there innermost secrets the moment they thought they were alone. Of course not. A better way to judge someone's motives was to look at what they got out of it. Midna needed the Princess to be on her throne for her plans on the kingdom to take effect. Therefore at least till Zelda was safe Midna was trustworthy. Navi returned to her room at the Red Dragon and slept. It had been a very long day. The next morning or perhaps Navi should have called it late that night, fairies needed very little rest so Navi had only slept three or four hours. She spent the next few hours till morning concocting plans and each and every route they took seemed to lead to the same conclusion. If Link was to be successful then he must seek the advice of Oberon and Titania the Lord and Lady of the Fairy Realm. That meant that for the first time in centuries Navi was going home. She prayed it would not be the last place she saw. When the sun rose Navi returned to the Town Square if Link had to exit the castle he would pass threw here. Soon enough he came riding tall atop Epona he truly looked like the Hero of legend. It was quite a sight to be seen. People left space in front of him so that Link might move forward without interruption but on all other sides people glamoured to get a view of the Hero. Girls blew kisses at him, children waved, a couple of older women threw roses. It was best they get out of this throng before discussing any plans. Therefore Navi walked up to Link's horse, taking Epona by the reins so that while Navi led the horse out of the city Link would be free to wave at his adoring fans. When they were just about to the gate, true to her word Midna appeared giving Link an early morning greeting.

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Sapphire Rode - Grounds ==> Cafeteria

After the sparring matches were threw and the bell rang Sapphire made her way slowly to the infirmary. There the nurse bandaged her rib and ankle and gave her a soft loose slipper for her damaged foot. Then at Sapphire's insistence she also bandaged her hands. It was not that she had injured them but the trick she'd done by grabbing Oswald's sword's had sliced her gloves, aura didn't protect clothing. The bandages were to hide the scares on her hands.

After that Sapphire deciding that she didn't really need to attend the remainder of Math or any of History returned to her room to get a particular item, her violin. She walked the grounds looking for a secluded spot. The nurse had given her some sort of anti-inflammatory so she could walk properly. She wouldn't be running for another two days but she could walk.

Finally Sapphire found what she was looking for, an isolated spot. She took the violin out it's case and played a song called The Parting Glass. She could of course only play the violin part, there was a guitarist piece and flute accompaniment that went with it but those were instruments Sapphire did not know how to play. She played it three times looking out over the edge of Beacon.

Halfway threw her third recital Sapphire heard the bell ring signalling the beginning of lunch.

Sapphire made her way to the mess hall, if she wanted to have time to eat she couldn't drop it back at the dorms which was a pity but Sapphire decided not to dwell on it.

In the line up Sapphire selected two chicken sandwiches, a side of mashed potatoes, a small plate of apple slices covered in cellophane wrap and a milk. She looked up at the staff member charging for each purchase making sure she was busy with someone who'd taken an impossibly large amount of foot compared to his size. Once Sapphire was sure the woman wasn't looking at her ship popped her violin case open and slid the milk and apples into a three by six slot that was supposed to hold dust cartridges, Janus had the case specialty made, he didn't want her to ever be out of ammunition and she never let her violin out of her sight so the obvious solution was to put the rounds in with the violin. He didn't really consider that she might just take them out.

Once she'd paid for her meal Sapphire surveyed the room and decided to take a seat across from Oswald. The table was currently in the middle of a discussion on the uses of math and history and how they applied to combat.

"I'd say the wizard there is right, combat is an art form not a science. You find me someone who fights with numbers and calculations and I'll show him what a real fight looks like."

Sapphire opened her violin case and set the rest of her meal, the stuff she hadn't paid for next to the stuff she had. Sapphire was just about to take a bite of the chicken sandwich when the girl next to her made some comment about growing up with the state. Sapphire froze, that meant only one thing. "You grew up in foster care?" Sapphire had known foster care and orphanage kids. The times that Janus was away from the house Sapphire spent as far from the place as she could. She'd fallen in with less than reputable crowds but she could always tell the foster kids from the rest. Something about there eyes, they never quite focused on one thing, like they were always looking for a way out.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

He found a relatively empty table behind the shield wielding man who'd lost to the somberly colored girl in the final match before Goodwitch's dismissal.

@TentacleLord

For the record regardless of what order they were posted each fight took place in the order of the list Lug posted earlier. That means that Sapphire and Oswald's fight while it was posted last actually took place first.

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I'm currently going with blood because my character's name is "Sangue." I may end up going for a different source of power if I change his theme, though.

@NarayanK

For the record is my memory serves right "Sangue" is mandarin, while it can be translated as "Bloody" I believe other interpretations include "Hopeful" and "Point of Interest"

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Geni Hung

@NarayanK

Isn't that Yosuke from Persona 4?

Don't worry too much about the sparring match. If you've not started by this point, I would not recommend doing so unless you're the kind of person to cram before a test: there's only one day left before the deadline and we move on to the next class, according to the schedule.

@Lugubrious

My advice to you would be to place a post in now that doesn't actually have anything in, some along the lines of "Sparring Match: Coming Soon" That way when you do get around to making the fight you can just slot it in there and we won't have all of the fights in one place except for one two pages over.

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Uh-huh.

@harinezumikouken

Tiger Boy meet hunting rifle.

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Sapphire can kick both their asses. Mweh he he he he.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

I basically took existing characters from other media and applied colors to match the characters' colors here. And I made a logo, but I honestly think it looks fantastically ugly, so I'm never going to share that one. (it's so bad, my friend said it makes the Power Glove look like a Sega Dreamcast)

@NarayanK

I love the Power Glove, it's so bad. On a side note the Power Glove was actually an amazing piece of technology for its time, it just wasn't ready for full scale production. Surprisingly enough it actually works off of many of the same principles as the Wii Remote.