Big Mistake.

[Roy Atenwood]

Roy was training again. He seemed to do that a lot since he arrived here. He had been meditating for four hours, and decided that is was time to actually cast a spell. Esiuhoieufe and Ayschoine had followed him, so that they could get used to his training habits, and were bored out of thier minds.


"Do something! You've been sitting here for FOUR HOURS! That isn't going to help you as much as actually trying to controll it!" Ayschoine nearly screamed at him. She was even more bored than Esiuhoieufe, because she haddn't found a little "Friend" to play with. But while Esiuhoieufe played with a bug she had found, Ayschoine stayed next to Roy, trying to gauge how long he would meditate.

Well, at least he was done now, right?

Roy stood the middle of the small field, and decided to try to fly. Yes, fly. If he mastered that, then his jumping spell would no longer be needed, and his agillity would increase ten-fold during combat. He concentrated, drawing in the air around him, as he drew both hands to his chest. As he inhaled, the wind began to swirl around him, and then he exaled, bringing his arms down forcefully, he flew into the air, staight up.

Instantly, he knew he had made a mistake. He was going too far up, and too fast. As he finaly stopped moving upward, he realized he had to be at least fifty feet in the air.

Not good.

Ayschoine lloked up at him, and waved, a smile on her face. She knew he was going to get hurt, and wanted to remember this moment. "Well, come down! This place is already floating, so the air up there has to be pretty thin!" She yellled up at him, too lazy to actually go up and taunt him. She let out a small laugh, and waited for the inevitable.

Roy realized how much this sucked the moment he had stopped going up. The wind currents around him held him aloft, but he was merely gliding. Ayschoine thought he was staying up there on his own. Well, he wasn't. He was scared out of his mind, and he wanted down, so he directed the currents toward the ground.

Bad Idea.

Just before he hit the ground, he managed to cushion himself with another blast of air, but he still hit the ground pretty damn hard. He slid for a while, face down, on the grass. He could hear Ayschoine and Esiuhoieufe giggling. They went from a case of the giggles to full on hysteric laughter, leaning against the wall at the end of the field.

"Could you two stop laughing? That kind of hurt." Roy said, still face down in the grass.

[smiley]

"TOUCHDOWN!"

Smiley had been around and it had been hard to miss what happened.
He hadn't seen from the begining but he had a rough picture about it. At least he knew what it had ended with which had given him the urge to create his own touchdown dance around Roy. He danced and jumped and looked fairly stupid while doing so. Not to mention what Roy looked like. Then he began to sing.

"Did you see? This man he flew!
about flying he had no clue.
From the top
he made a drop.
And hit the ground anew!"

[Roy Atenwood]

Good lord, was that a clown? A jester of some sort? Well, if there was one thing Roy hated, it was clowns. Especially clowns making fun of him. He thought about showing the guy a thing or two about manners, but decided against it. He was a little bit hurt, and thought he had at least one cracked rib. This really sucked.

"Nice little song." Roy said, gritting his teeth in pain, not anger."You think that up just now?"

Esiuhoieufe and Ayschoine wers laughing harder than they were a moment ago, apparently enjoying this man's antics. Roy had to admit, it was pretty damn funny.

"Ow........you some kinda clown?"

[smiley]

"Yepidiyep. I just thought it up and I'm a jester. I'm Smiley, the juggling jester of jokes and fun. And who might you be? Someone who studies birds and moles? Someone who doesn't always have both feets on the grounds?"

Smiley was really getting warm by now and probably would keep making jokes and dance until tomorrow if nothing else crossed his mind.
He was in fact still dancing around Roy. He hadn't noticed the other two yet.

[Roy Atenwood]

"Yay! This is fun!" Esiuhoieufe was giggling again as she danced around with "Smiley", who was still making fun of Roy. This was beggining to piss him off. He held his side, groaning slightly as he lightly touched his retractable staff, checking to see if it had fallen off of his belt. It was still there. He checked his boot for the small silver dagger he kept, in case of vampires, and it was there as well.

The only thing missing was his self-esteem. But he had lost that....wait...he had never had any! What a great realization! He was a LOSER!

As if you couldn't tell by looking at him, that is.


"Look, Smiley, your dancing is bugging the HELL out of me. I'm going to ask you nicely now. Please stop." The jester wasn't so bad, Roy was just in a bad mood. A VERY bad mood. He had just crashed into the ground from fifty feet, and that could piss off just about anybody.

[smiley]

"I wish I could but everybody else doesn't want to!"

As he said that a whole group of jesters materialized from him and began to dance around everywhere.
Then they began to change color and from nowhere special you could clearly hear a flute playing.
One of them picked up Esiuhoieufe on his shoulders and danced with her sitting there. Then they began to sing.

"Us and little mini here,
we are dancing everywhere.
some of us we've got no thing.
And one of us has got a toy.
But one thing goes for us all,
and that's we're full of joy!

We couldn't believe and had to stop,
when we saw a man from heaven drop.
When we came over here we saw you there, faceplanting the ground.
We all believed that it was a digging hound!

How did it happen?
Did you god piss?
An angel you diss?
It doesn't matter,
'cause down here is much better.
So please come on and dance!"

When they had stopped singing the music grew stronger and you could hear many more instruments playing a wild and funny song.
Meanwhile the jesters kept singing.
One of them shouted to Roy:

"Come on, don't be boring! Sing with us!"

[Roy Atenwood]

Y'know, even with a few thoughts of ill will toward this bastard of an illusionist clown, Roy loved clowns, in general. They mad him laugh, and they were always good for a smirk. They made him feel like a bit less of a loser.

A guy like Roy needed that feeling sometimes.

But this guy was a pest. He must have been insane. Most clowns would ask if you were ok before they laughed at you. This guy just diddn't know when to shut his mouth! Then something odd caught Roy's eye.

"Esiuhoieufe, are you smaller than usual?" He said, raising his voice above the music. She diddn't hear him, though. Figures, when he actually needed to know something from her, she couldn't hear him. Roy was REALLY getting ticked off at this jester.

Then his song got slightly menacing, as several clones of the jester appeared. One of them has got a toy? That diddn't sound right. Good lord, this guy was crazy. Then, one of the clones got right up in ihs face and told him to sing with them, and not be boring. His grating voice sounded slightly evil, menacing. Threatening.

That sounded like an invitation. Roy unhooked his staff from his belt, and said, "I think I'd rather dance, funny man!" clones were easily seen through, especially if you were a telepath, as thoughts only came from the origional. This would be fun, if he could fight well enough in this condition.

((Disadvantages: Cracked rib : -1 Endurance. Flight spell used, -5 mana.))

[smiley]

As Smiley danced even more clones appeared. Some of them even carried another Esiuhoieufe on their shoulders.
They kept cloning like that and when there were over thirty of them they began to rapidly change colors.
Red-green-blue-black-purple-yellow-black-white-red-purple-white-orange-brown-red.
They kept changing like that while they danced around each other and after a few moments even smaller clones appeared around their feets dancing just like tham but changing colors in the opposite way. Then some of the smaller ones began to fly which mixed them with the bigger ones when you just looked for a moment.
It was nothing but a mix of colors and in the middle of it all ten little clones of Eshiuhoieufe was happily sitting on their shoulders while they sung.

"Come and dance then,
join our fun!
we're the happiest men
under the sun!
So come and join us, dance and sing!
Then you'll see that it's a good thing!"

[Roy Atenwood]

"You think your illusions will help you? I can only hear thoughts from ONE of you!" Roy said, with a laugh. He ran at top speed straight through the throng of clones, and to the other side. He turned and faced them, with a small smirk on his face.

"Forgive me for this, Esiuhoieufe." He saaid, as he placed one hand facing toward the horde of dancing clowns."Soanates!" Roy screamed, an invisible wall of force shooting from his hand. Funny thing about this spell, is that it has VERY wide range, and would hit at least a two thirds of the clones, knocking them to the ground, to creat an opening for Roy.

As soon as the force left his hand, he fell into step a few feet behind it, staff poised. He't attack the only jester he heard thoughts from with a foreward thrust. The real one was the only one that actually thought.

This wouldn't end well for Smiley. It wouldn't end well at all.

[smiley]

((OOC: As a sidenote, Roy, Smileys thoughts are basically a mess. Just a bunch of colors and sounds if I put it roughly.))

The attack hit Smiley and pushed him over. He quickly landed on his hand and fliped up onto his feets again.
Then he did a backflip to gain a little range between himself and Roy. He dropped the familiar of while doing this and kept moving backwards at high speed.
When he finally stoped he claped his hands once. There came no sounds from them and the music stoped at once. This was his silence spell so that Roy wouldn't be able to use any verbal spell. Then he snapped his fingers and Roys world turned upside down.
Finally a large abbount of metal bars appeared around Roy, this was Smiley major illusion spell.
Because of the silencing spell he couldn't sing but he still danced and made gestures to Roy.

[Roy Atenwood]

((OOC:Roy could still pinpoint what body the noise came from ^_^))

I can't talk anymore. Silencing spell. This was exactly what I wanted to see. The world is upside down, and I'm confined by illusions., Roy thought. This could be just what he needed to fight a vampire, as he had sensed a dark force starting to build in the Academy, and knew nobody would believe him.

He projected a thought toward the jester, and with his mind he said:

That's enough, Smiley. I need your help, and I may be able to quell your phsycosis long enough for you to become lucid. Are you interested? I don't want to fight, I was merely testing you, to see if you were more than you appeared to be.

((OOC: Yes, Roy is trying to make friends, Smiley.))

[smiley]

Smiley spun around and suddenly everything was back to normal.
The bars disapeared, the world turned back into place and sound hit your eardrums like hammers after the complete silence.
Then he danced a bit closer with a grin on the mask even wider now than before.

"So the messy mindspeaker wants to make friends? Maybe I might accept it and maybe I might not. Mind you that I mind people attacking me no matter the reason since mindless attacking is making more mourning than fun. Maybe you can give me a good reason?"

Smiley said in a sarcastic voice. He was cleary not angry but seemed like he just wanted to keep making fun out of you.

[Roy Atenwood]

Roy was still speaking through telepathy, with a smirk on his face. Despite how he had acted earlier, he liked this guy quite a bit.

It would be easier to show you why I needed to test you. It's the reason I came to this Academy in the first place.

Roy focused, and projected powerfull mental images ito the mish-mash that was Smiley's mind. Images of children going to sleep, and not waking up. Images of terrible monsters rising from the corpses. Images of a demon with glowing yellow eyes, manipulating puppet strings, and sending a sort of wavelength to the children's dreams. Killing them with nightmares.

You could make the people of my villiage happy during this time of need. Yuo're an amazing Jester. I need your help to ease, and eventually end, this suffering. I'm supposed to fight that demon I showed you, and as it is, I stand no chance on my own.

"Will you help me?"

[smiley]

The pictures that appeared in Smileys head didn't stay there long since his mind was such a mess. He knew that he had been shown something but he didn't know or care about what. They just sunk deep into the back of his mind and stayed there. It was to much of a mess and since he didn't feel sorrow or shock he didn't react fast enough to the pictures and so they did little use.

"What is this, my mindspeakig friend? Is there something you show me or is it a new trick for me to use? Those that I need to help most of all right now are those inside the libraries and book stores around here. Everyone is moody and boring and that's why I'm here. What help could I give you? Teaching you tricks wouldn't do much if you decide to jump of a cliff to try that flying thing again."

After he finished the last part he made a whistling noice and then a splat.