OOC: I think you're guy is drained for the day...

(Yellow card! Cheating!...or something.)

Rena glanced at Ueleg, and smiled, "Nah, it's alright. My leg is fine. Once I get to my room I was going to just put some ice on it, and that should be enough to fix it up." She said, "Thanks for your concern though, I'm just a little sore from getting hurt."

"So guys, this gunshot wound...its bothering me...anyone care...to...you know...help me out?"

Zek looked at the person calling his name and narrowed his eyes as he observed him. "Yes, I'm Professor Feromus. What is it you want?"

He almost smiled, but decided that it would be bad form to do so now. Instead, he bowed, to show respect and hide his face. "Mentor Zek, I am Toma, one of your students in Advanced Vera Manipulation, and I wish to observe one of the Demons. If need be I'll knock it out myself.

"Something wrong happened, and I would like to investigate. Besides, I believe it would be good for my Guardian training."

Love, too, picasso!
Kirin shouted down the hall
But it looks like your gunsmithing abilities are about as sloppy as your drawing
He spoke aloud as he walked towards the open door, holding his hands above his head, staff lashed across his back
truce?

"Get me that bite-block, those pliers, and a bucket of water, and I'll think about it." he said, careful not to move his side.

He walks into the room, picking up the block and pliers as well as a towel
Good, now you just sit down and get ready to suck it up when I bring back the water.
He goes outside with the bucket.

Zek raised an eyebrow as he looked at the student. He didn't seem immediatly familiar, but there were plenty of students that were just average, not masters, not goof-offs, that never stood out as much. He questioned the motives, and sanity, of someone that wanted to examine the angry demons, but in the end he shrugged and said, "Very well. It is an odd request, and I wish to learn more about this situation later from the Headmistress, but I am interested in seeing what you can learn from a demon. Let us go."

Ueleg went back down to the pit to see if any of the demon corpses were still available. As usual his brain was abuzz with possibilities. I wonder how vera affects the demons differently than us. It could be useful to throw a couple weaves at it just to see He lost himself and wasn't really watching his step. Suddenly he ran into someone. He looked around dazedly and then turned white, He had run into Proffesor Feromous.

Zek stumbled as someone suddenly stumbled into him, and he spun and said, "What do you think your doing?! This classes are off for today, and there are no dorms around here, what are you doing here?"

OOC: Side note, there wouldn't be any corpses, the faculty cleaned all of them up.

ooc: well Ueleg is a scatterbrained, vera addicted artificer. He's clueless about anything that isn't vera or mechanical.

"Well... uh... I was wondering p-p-p-professor feromous... if there was anyway that I could obtain a piece of... erm... d-d-demon hide. I was wondering about the differing effects of vera on the demons. I wanted to see if it caused a distortion effect on my weaves or what not." He said visibly shaken at having stumbled onto the vindictive professor.

Zek glared at him for a few seconds and said, "Hmph, well they wouldn't be in the arena, we cleaned all of them out. Look for the new Janitor, I'm not sure what his name is. We burned the bodies of most of the dead, but he was supposed to take some of them to the professor that teaches about enchanted creatures, for some reason or another. Either track him down, or or just go to where they teach that class, and you should be able to convince someone to give you a sample."

"T-t-t-thank you professor. I'll do that." Ueleg said, briskly walking away and breakig into a run as soon as he was out of sight, glad to be away from Feromous.

"Thanks." Kane grunted out Kirin. He put the bite-block in his mouth, readied a bandage in his left hand, took the pliers in his right hand, and began looking at himself through a mirror placed out of expirience.

He then placed the pliers around the bullet, which was sticking out of the wound, and pulled it out with a sharp grunt. With no sound or pause, he quickly covered the hole with the bandage, and wraped and tied it around his waist. Only then did he pull the block out of his mouth, which had recieved another set of teeth marks.

"You know...oh man...you know, its funny that I got a few...wow, that stings...few minor bruises during the most pitched battle in my life thus far, and I nearly killed myself because I sneezed. Oh wow...man...I'll clean up, Kirin, thanks for the help. I'll pay it back...later."

"Oh, and if anyone asks at dinner...tell them I wasn't hungry."

No problem. Maybe I could tell them you've got a litle *fake sneeze* cold, eh?he smiles, pats Kane on the back, and leaves through the door.
Oh, I'll send Ueleg up If I see him, he should be able to help a bit more.

"That was...a rather odd fellow. For some reason he seemed afraid of you Mentor Zek." He nodded, agreeing with his own statement. "Anyway, I'm supposing we could find one of the live demons down in the lower levels (Dungeons/Storage Area), right Mentor?"

Catenan walked around the school, still bored. Since he was wet, he was getting cold. Taking a step outside, he didn’t realize that he walked into the middle of a sparring class.

However, this class was not sparring. One of the students had accidentally broken the training dummy. Today’s lesson was supposed to be the targeting of small, vital spots of the human body. But with a broken dummy, that was hard to do.

The teacher saw Catenan walk out of the door, and smiled. “You, janitor!”

Catenan stopped when he heard his title, then turned to see a teacher walking towards him. The teacher grabbed onto Catenan’s arm, and dragged him towards the students as he explained why he was dragging Catenan. “Our dummy broke, and you’re covered in chains. That will prevent you from being hurt to much, and the students are using wooden weapons.”

Catenan was put where the old dummy was, not entirely sure what was going on. When one of the students was signaled to get up, then started taking some practice swings at the air as the teacher began to point out vital spots on Catenan’s body, Catenan began to realize what was going on.

OOC: I see that soon there will be a few new additions to the infirmery...

"Indeed. I have quite the reputation around here for my short temper, and some nasty consequences when angered. Well founded I might add, I won't stand for incompetance and idiocy in my classes, or out of them I might add," Zek said, beginning to sound annoyed. He shook it off and said, "But anyway, this way to the dungeons."

After a trip down some stairs, they emerged in the dank and musty old dungeons. They were relics of what the academy used to be, and hadn't been used in quite a while, but regardless they were wll maintained. They passed by empty cells unitl they reached the rooms the demons were housed in. "If you want a demon, you can go and get it yourself. I shall wait by the door until you return," Zek said to Toma.

Ueleg ran down to the magical creatures class and sat at the door until the teacher was done with his lecture. He had taken this class two years back and the teacher immediately greeted him.

"Ah, hello my boy! What can I help you with?" The broad guardian said in a hearty, enthusiastic voice.

"I was wondering if perhaps you could help me with something professor?" He replied.

"Anything laddie, Anything." He smiled.

"I need a sample of demon hide. I want to do some studies of the warping effects the magical properties in it have on vera weavings. Do you happen to have some extra that you'd be willing to lend me?" He asked.

"Well... erm... I do believe so." He said. "Wait a minute here." The teacher went into a back room and came back with a burlap bag dotted with blood in one hand and a freshly used knife in the other. "I warn yeh, it'll smell horrible in a day or so."

"Thank you professor." He said, graciously taking the bag. "This will help ver much." Ueleg then, with a bow exited the room and headed down to dinner.

"Now janitor, don't move. Otherwise you might get hit." The teacher said to Catenan, then moving away as a student with a wooden sword swung for a certain spot where the next meets the shoulder.

Catenan however used to live on the streets, and a direct reaction to being swung at was to block and hit back. Quickly moving his left hand down, Catenan opened the chain lock thing on the bottom left part of one of his chains wrapped around his torso(A smaller version of what mountain climbers use for the lock thing... You know, those things some people have on back packs (But bigger and thicker)). Using his right hand, he grabbed the same chain at the right shoulder, then pulled on it upwards and to the right. Letting the chain run through his hand, the brought up a metal line which caught the wooden sword in midair. Before the kid could react, Catenan swung out with his left hand, punching the kid across his face. The student fell back, grabbing the red part of his face.

The teacher was obviously furious, and charged up towards Catenan. Still being in street mode, Catenan grabbed one of his belt whips. As the teacher got closer, Catenan whipped out at the teachers legs, wrapping around the right foot. After it was wrapped around, he pulled the whip back, causing the teacher to trip.

Now the teacher was beyond furious. "Who ever takes this guy down never was to work in my class again!"

Catenan prepared himself as every student (It's a small class) in the class took out their wooden weapons, and some blunt metal ones.

ooc: I am SO glad I didn't go to you for my demon hide

ooc-Tsk, tsk. Students going against Catenan using only swords? They're stupid. :D

Toma bowed just before he entered he entered one of the rooms. "Thank you Mentor Zek. I will only need one, so please excuse me if I accidently kill the other few in there." Straightening up, he headed into the chamber without another word, only pausing to grab one of the torches by the door.

The room he found himself in was dark, but then again that was why he had grabbed one of the torches. With his light, he could see that the demons here were all still in good condition, if not a little scratched up. Though normally bad he needed a healthy specimen.

However, there was an obvious down side to them being healthy. They all could charge him at once, which (from the low growls that were moving around him) he guessed they were moving in position to.

Still, that wouldn't be a problem. He had a plan.

(OOC: IHMN is going to all of this effort to make his character prove he can kick butt and none of our characters are seeing any of it... Oh well, Rena needs to do something, so...)

Rena continued to limp down the hallways, and since nobody was watching, she didn't try to hide her limp. She didn't really feel like going back to her room, so she wandered around the grounds of the school. Before long she heard some yelling... it sounded like fighting. She walked to a window and watched the events happening outside. It seemed to be a young sparring class... but they were using Mr. Aple-Pi as their dummy! However, it didn't look like he was all to excited about being the dummy... he was fighting back... and winning!

She chuckled to herself, watching Aple-Pi take on all of the really new students.

(EDIT OOC: well I changed it. She still needs something to do, so she's going to be watching)

OOC: No, it's a small newbie class, so it's not much of a fighting feat. It's just so some other teacher will see him, then take him to his office where he is offered a job (Weapons fighting), and then you all have to listen to him. Besides, I've already mentioned most mages could take out Catenan (Rena could easily take Catenan, unless she messed up or something)

Kane, hearing the commotion, slowly looked out his window and onto the courtyard to see The Janinator fending off several off the newer students with his chains. As he watched, the thought crossed his head, as it had several times before, Why don't they just use guns? And then, looking down at his stomach and seeing his bandage, Oh.

Whipping out at one of the student's legs, Catenan tripped the boy as he blocked a metal pole with his left arm. The chains took the blunt of the force, and before the kid moved back, Catenan grabbed onto the pull and pulled it away from the kid.

Slowly backing up, Catenan didn't want to get in trouble, but he didn't want to get beaten to a pulp. Backing away and trying to get back inside, he noticed two students pulling out rifles from their bags.

This is why this job was so easy to get!

Luckily for Catenan, the students were putting rubber bullets into the rifles. One of the riflemen shouted, and the rest of the students moved. The rubber bullet barely missed Catenan's leg, reflecting off of a chain.

The next kid shot. This shot was more accurate, hitting Catenan in the left shoudler. Catenan didn't yell or whelp, but he did grab his shoulder. "You shot me!"

After being shot, Catenan heard the kid ask the teacher for extra credit for getting a good shot in. "You shot me for extra credit!" Catenan yelled at the kid, who smirked as he reloaded. That just annoyed Catenan, and made him go from the defense to the offence.

OOC: Luckily for him, they are using fake bullets, and none of them are mages.

Edit - And just so you know, unless some one else decides to intervien, Catenan is going to come out of this with many brusies and sore muscles (The students won't be in great shape either though)

OOC: If Zek was around, he would intervene, but as it is, you've got pretty much free reign so far.

OOC: A water mage would intervene if no one else does, freezing Catenan in place or something (Cause that is how you beat a fire fighter, water magic)

IC:

Later...

Several unconcious students were littered around the small square near the foutain (Which I just made up). Several other students from the school say the fight, and were watching it. No teachers had noticed yet.

Catenan was sitting on the student that had shot him eariler. His chains and whips were still in perfect condition, but from every spot that the chains touched Catenan, he was bruised. He had several cuts on his shoulder, having been shot there over and over by the riflemen. Small cuts were all over him, from being hit by a weapon and his chains pinching him till it ripped part of the skin and flesh, making him bleed.

The kid under Catenan was not doing very well himself. Catenan was ontop of him, punching him in the face repeatively.

This would have kept going, until finnaly a teacher caught on. A water vera manipulation teacher to be exact. Quickly making a spell, Catenan was thrown off on the kid and into a nearby wall by a large stream of water. The same water then froze Catenan in place on the wall.

I'm fired... And in pain... And cold... This was not a good day... He thought to himself, watching the water teacher and weapons teacher talking. The weapons teacher was in just as bad shape was Catenan was.

OOC: Decided to end it myself.

Kirin was perched on top of some boxes throughout the escapade and was rolling with laughter.

You shot him, right in the arm!!! HAHAHAHAHAHooop!
as he tumbled off the boxes, catlike reflexes a little slow on the uptake, leaving him splayed out on his side, still giggling madly
ooohh, I remember when I was a little punk like them...ooh, that's painful..ah!...cat's having no mercy, don't give him any...why don't you listen?

OOC: Now the students have a story to tell, about how the janitor went insane and attacked a class. It also gives my guy a reason to be out for a while (Getting healed), while I wait for my new computer to arrive, because I hate this crappy little desktop I have to use.

(OOC: whoops, Rena was gonna come help/stop the madness, but I was busy finishing up my picture. ^^;; )

"Uh oh." Rena muttered, she was having fun watching Aple-pi kick the student's butts, but now she had a bad feeling that he might get fired now. <Well, even though he did overreact, he doesn't deserve to get fired. I would have done the same thing if I had all of those students coming after me.> Never one to usually sit by and stay quite, she sighed and headed outside. She waited for a moment where the teachers weren't agruing and spoke up, being respectful as she usual was, "Um. Not to mean any disrespect, but I saw the most of it, and they really didn't have a right to use him as a 'dummy' without his consent, and if he would have agreed, knowing what he was getting into, I'm sure he would have reacted differently." She frowned, "He doesn't even have the proper protective gear on."

(OOC: yeah I know Rena's getting into other people's business, but I'm bored and she's been sitting around doing nothing for too long. >_<;;; heheh. IHMN you can decide weither you still are in big trouble or not, she was just voicing her opinion on the matter.)

He fell into a stance as he glanced left and right, waiting for them to make the first move. He had heard how dangerous these demons were, despite having been labelled weak. Like I need to prove I'm incompetent in front of Mentor Zek.

He remained stiff, hardly breathing as a minute passed by with neither side making a move. Another minute passed, and then another. I don't get this, why are they hesitating? They seemed ready to challenge a bunch of cadets earlier, and now they outnumber me five to one. Something is wrong, but more importantly I can't keep waiting in here. What are they waiting for?

Several more minutes would pass until he got his answer, but when he did he suddenly felt sorry that he had asked. Oh...damn. It appeared that the sixth and final demon, previously unnoticed, had woken up.

He guessed that sometime, after the battle but before he had arrived, that the particular demon he had stared at had had a massive growth spurt, because if it had been like this earlier the Guardians would have simply killed it. Double it's normal size, which was just over his own height, the normally felinish demon was not bigger than usual it also had a couple long whip-like tentacles on it's head.

I'm guessing that that will have to be my specimen.

The "specimen" apparently had become the leader of the other demons, which explained why the others had waited, and now it seemed to wish to challenge him, the newcomer. The fact that the demon seemed confident enough to duel him alone made him a bit afraid. Normally demons worked together if they were weak. That only confirms my suspicions...we're in some deep shit. Especially me.

He still had his plan though, and he needed to rely on it right now. It's not that much bigger than me. The plan could still work. He motioned the beast to come closer. "Here kitty kitty." The specimen, seeming to understand his challenge, lunged forward to attack him.

Now, let me inform you of Toma's plan. The first step was to seperate one demon from the rest, which was simple, seeing as the demon did this itself. The second step was to goad it to attack. The third step would be to manipulate his Wind Spirit and increase it's forward momentum greatly enough to send it flying out the door.

There was one problem...with a smaller demon he could do the final step while at the same time managing to avoid it. However, this demon was larger than average, so large that he had to let it crash into him, or else he wouldn't be able to get it into the corridor. You know...this is going to hurt.

"Mentor Zek!" he yelled as he and the creature tumbled together out of the room. "Close the door, quick! Don't let any of the others out!" He didn't bother paying attention to see if Zek was doing as he asked, he needed to subdue his specimen, and quick.

Zek was actually shocked to see the student come flying out, fighting with a demon more massive then any from earlier. However, his combat instincts came back, and after throwing in a quick fireball to force the demons away, he quickly slammed and locked the door back in place. There were sounds of thumping as the demons tried to break it down, but that door could supposedly keep a rock golem at bay, so he wasn't worried about some demons breaking through. He quickly turned back to the struggling student to watch the fight, and he would have tried to help, but they were now so close together fighting, that he couldn't risk an attack that would effect the demon, since any spell that might stun it would have a much worse effect on the student.

An ounce of disinfectant, 15 self-woven stitches, 4 bandages, two hot compresses, and two hours of rest later, Kane's accidental self-inflicted gunshot had 'never happened.' Thus he was walking up and about, not leaning to one side, and certainly not checking bandages under his shirt--his stomach just itched, that's all.

He walked onto the small courtyard where the janitor had beat the crap out of the new class. He walked up to Renna, straitening his hat, as the teachers were discussing what they should do. "So...think the Janinator is going to get fired? Personally, I think he should be given a medal or something for kicking all those kids' asses, mostly because they had it coming. And that that student with the rifle should go sit in a corner for missing at 20 feet."

The teachers were to busy fuming over what Aple-pi did to really pay attention to Rena.
She sighed as Kane walked up, "Yeah, it looks bad for Mr. Aple-pi. The teachers don't seem willing to listen to any student's opinions."

Ueleg was sitting at a table in the middle of the room examining his sample of demon hide. This time he had actually finished his soup before starting his tinkering, as to prevent having to wash anything else.

The strange purplish skin was supple to the touch despite its incredible ability to deflect blows from swords and such. He looked around at the surrounding group and began prodding the piece of hide with vera flows.

It was amazing. The hide would turn them to the side or absorb them, one flow actually bounced off and back into him.
Then an idea piqued in his mind. He fed a cutting form of healing energy into the hide. What happened next he could not have predicted in his wildest dreams.

"'Course, the standard operating procedure for teachers is to assume the students are wrong....wait, Mr. Applepie? A bad-ass janitor...named...Applepie? ...wow....

"Hmm...looks like they might come to a conclusion soon." Kane pulled out a small blue die. "Even or odds?"

Bored again after seeing Catenan hauled off to be reprimanded, the practically hyperactive Kirin ran up to his dorm and retrieved his bow for a little target practice, passing through the courtyard on his way as he fixed his quiver to his hip, not minding Kane and Rena for the time being, though instinctively glancing at her again as he passed through the archway leading to the target range.
Damn I'm bored, It's been what, 10 minutes since all that went down...10 MINUTES! Long time to just sit around...

Rena glanced at Kane, "Umm... I don't really bet, but I'll say odds. I think he probably will get fired after all of that... it's not really a good thing for the janitor to hurt students... even though he's been a good janitor the time he's been here..."

Kane rubbed his side, making sure the bandage was over his wound, and said, "Odds? Ok..." Kane tossed the die up, caught it, and opened his hand. "17. Think random chance is right and the Janinator, er the Apple Pie will get off?"

Rena thought for a second, "He might get lucky and they just give him a pay cut instead of firing him." She shrugged.

"I hope so. Heck, if that was all they can take, they'll need the practice." A familiar clanking noise could be heard as Jason stepped up to his friends, his newly-repaired armor shining in the light and a smile on his face. "So, how are you two doing?"

Kane rubbed his side again "...pretty good. Can't complain."

Rena ran a hand through her hair, "I guess I'm doing alright. I got a little hurt before, but the nurses took care of it." She smiled a bit, "But Mr. Aple-pi might be in a little bit of trouble."

"Yeah, poor guy...I didn't see the fight myself, but the rumor spread like wildfire." Jason pondered quickly, a thoughtful look on his face.

"You know, perhaps we should do some training ourselves? I have a hunch that ther'll be more demons where those came from..."

Rena winced slightly at the thought of her hurt leg, "I'm not sure, the nurses told me I should stay off of my hurt leg," She lied. The nurses didn't know her leg was still bothering her, but she didn't want to bother them with something so small, since they were awefully busy today, "But I guess I could practice my magic a little bit."

This is the longest I've ever stood in one place in my life
Kirin thoght as he loosed another arrow into the innermost circle of the target, 40 yards away. He nocked one more and drew back smoothly on its 70 pound pull, releasing the missle just as a Novice with a rifle bumps his elbow, causing the shot to cross over two firing lanes and ricochet off a target down the row.
He turns to see the kid with a defiant look on his face
Watch where you walk, this is a firing range, you might get someone hurt
You watch where you shoot
not bored anymore
Excuse me?
You heard me, you bumped into me, go learn to shoot right
Little boy, you have no idea what you're doing
What makes you so special
I WILL NOT TOLERATE SASS!!
The kid throws the rifle at Kirin and tears ass awa towards the courtyard and Dorm entrances
Oh, it's over you punk!
He shoulders his bow and sprints off after him leaping on top of the little punk just in front of Jason, Rena and Kane, lifting his arm to give him a good slapping around

"Woah, now, don't be hatin' on the young guys." Jason walked up and tried to break up the fight. "We don't need any more people in the infirmary, so break it up, you two."

mmmm
he growled as he got up
Get up
The kid stood up, and Kirin slapped his palm in front of the kid's face
Go
He turns to Jason, with a guilty look, saying
Sorry, I kinda snapped...but c'mon, kid's got no respect for anyone, just one slap woulda' done him quite well.

"No, I think learning to hit a non-moving janitor at 20 feet would do him quite well. Even with a peice of shit like that I can hit a target at 100 yards."

"On second thought, you probably should have slapped him."

OOC: You realize Catenan was hit each time, but one of the bullets hit a chain and bounced off (Though the chain was hit back into him). And it would have been much, much more then 20 feet. 100 at least.

(You said they surrounded you, and then one kid almost shot you in the foot, and another glanced you in the shoulder, and you heard the kid ask for EC. And then you saw him smirk, and then you charged. Sounds like 20 feet. 40 tops.

(His rifle, not your bizzow)

OOC: I said charged, I never said reaching him. And why would a fighting class go outisde into a 40 foot long place, for a fighting class? And the shot bounced off his leg chain, not his foot. And they didn't surround, they backed away.

(Why would they go to an 100 foot long place for a fighting class?)