This is where the magicians are trained on various subjects. Amulet-making, combat magic, problem solving, etc.... You get the gist.
((Hello! Thought I might as well get this restarted...))
Yi Huo looked around the classroom, it was extremely quiet. "At least I'll have some peace..." she said to herself. She immediately headed for one of the nettle plants and made it to prepare an attack on a dummy.
Maya snuck into the classrooms. The cool facade she'd had in front of everyone earlier was gone, and in it's place was left a frightened girl who missed her home. And now she was hunting for somewhere that she could fall to pieces alone.
Yi Huo took her anger of the Serpent at the dummy. She blamed him for always forcing her to run. Hardly anything in her life was her choice. Who knew, he might even be responsible for her never having a proper family. She turned around at Maya, she saw her frail state. "Are you...?" she saw speechless. "Maya?"
Maya looked up with wide eyes. For a moment, she had the look of a deer in headlights, before her eyes gave out the same look they'd had before- cool, amused. But there was something off, a somewhat shattered look. "Hi."
Yi Huo could sense Maya's...well she didn't know how to describe it in any language. "Maya...I'm really really sorry about having a huge grudge on you before..." Her voice trailed off. " I don't want to make any excuses but...everything in my life someone breaks into what I cal home...it's never good news. I'm not saying that you are, I'm saying that I was blinded by...oh I don't know how to describe it...fear?"
"I understand," Maya said. "To be honest, I've been through the same time. After a while, I learned that life ain't gonna be fair and you gotta fight for what you want. I've been out on the streets since I was seven. I fought, and now I'm here. This is the first place I can call home, after so many years." Maya gave a grin, despite her state.
Yi Huo smiled. "You're not the only one. I've been on the streets of China, Russia, India and Egypt." She said, she touched her jade dragon pendant. "I remember the day I got this, it came with a letter that said that I was a magician. I have been through a lot with this."
"Depressing little bit, isn't it? But it didn't help. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. I quite like that quote. But it's been tough either way. I've been, as certain authorities quote it, 'terrorizing the streets of China, Canada, and the US'. "It's been fun. Well, for the most part." She shook of the thought of her house fire.
"You know, what's really fun? Dressing up as somebody else and busking." Yi Huo thought about the time that she was in India. "India was great, you could get away with magic. I pretended that I was part of a Chinese circus."
Maya smiled thoughtfully. "Canada was good. Lots of forests to live off of. Also, here in the US is fun- the mortals can't See. You still get away with magic."
"Speeking of seeing, I wonder what the mortals thought what happened this morning..." Yi Huo said. "Then, again. It doesn't matter."
"At Central Park? My guess? A phsyco buisness man tried to kidnap us. You found a car, and in a panic, drove away. The guy crashed and burned, possibly incinerated in the crash's fire." Maya smiled.
Yi Huo laughed. " What a coincidence." she said sarcastically. Then she looked out of the window. "If I survive the battle against the Serpent....I'm going to find my parents..."
"When we survive the battle, I think I'm going to go visit my old home," Maya said, bits of sadness in her eyes. "Then, if possible, I am going to beat up that buisness dude so bloody hard, his ancestors will feel dizzy."
"No, beat him up solo bad that he won't have any descendants to remember him." She chuckled, but her eyes went all misty. "I hope they're alive...in the orphanage, they told me that the police took my parents because of the one child policy...they told me that I had a brother...but it wasn't that strict when I was born...it was only later that I found out that my father was a magician and that I was his only child..."
"My mum was the magician in my family. I was the only child. That dude in the buisness suit? He burned down our house at night." Maya's words were as bitter as acid. "If I only beat him up, he should count his lucky stars."
"I don't know which one is worse...knowing or not knowing." Yi Huo composed herself. "Whatever happens, we're going to give a piece of our minds to the Serpent and what ever gods side with him."
Maya's eyes glittered with the thought of revenge. "Did they ever finish off that nuke?"
"Hmm...just only one of them. There are two, one for Tartarus, the other for the Duat. " Yi Huo said. "You know...that one did look very empty..."
Maya smiled maliciously. "I have a few things I want to add myself, the one for the Duat."
"Me too...when I put my stuff for the Tartarus...people thought that was deadly-that stuff was just half of it. Come on lets go." And Yi Huo went to the lounge room.
Cory narrowed her eyes at the shabti and tilted her head sideways. "What do I do?" She asked Carter.
"Summon a combat avatar and... um... take it down." Carter replied. They'd gotten the ceiling raised a lot higher after the last trainee's avatar had grown thirty feet tall.
"Oh-kay." Cory bit her bottom lip and felt power welling up in her. She channeled it into an avatar that looked like Neith, a woman with a bow and arrows.
Juniper was running late for class, she'd spent too much time reading in the library. "S-sorry, I'm late." she stammered as she entered
"It's fine. You're going next, considering you're the only two who bothered to show up." Carter shrugged.
Cory fitted an arrow to her avatar's bow and released it; the golden arrow burst into flames and the shabti disintegrated at the touch of the projectile missile.
"Very good," Carter nodded.
