A Chat (Phae)

[Onira]

Onira gave a grin and the thumbs up. He entered the bathroom slowly, flicking his wrist against the door to close it softly. He removed his shoes, socks, shirt, pants, and finally his boxers. As he removed the shirt, he noticed he didn't have his cloak. He wasn't sure if he had left it at the courtyard, or he had dropped it on the way. Either way, he'd have to take a look later. For now, Onira had some poo to get out of his hair. Infact, most of it come out pretty easily. Of course, a few had already dried and were a bit nasty to get out, but most were okay. Next came the clothes. The boxers, shoes, and socks were no big deal, but the pants and shirt were another story. Onira transmuted a small bit of marble from the bathroom into a hard brush, almost ripping out the poo on his clothes. Of course he had to wash them, so for the time being, they'd stay on the rack to dry. Onira threw a towel around his waist, overlaying it over his self and rolling up the top, making a sort of towel skirt thing. Onira opened the door with his new attire.

"Sorry for my, uhh, current form of dress. My pants and shirt are drying."

Onira gave a grin, sitting down beside Phae. he took a quick look at the bed. His masterpiece. He thought to himself.

I'm pretty good.

[Phae]

Phae stood up the moment he sat down feeling a trifle awkward sitting on the bed with a boy in a towel and nothing more. She made it look like she was placing the book back on the shelf which she did and then took a seat at the desk chair.

"Don't worry about your attire, I completly understand." she said. "Would you like to borrow one of Jun's shirts? I'm sure he wouldn't mind you are friends from what I understand." she offered.

She got up and went to the closet pulling down one of the t-shirts that was an actual color instead of the black that Jun constantly wore. She turned and gave the navy blue shirt to Onira.

"Here, I know he won't mind and when you leave just throw it in the hamper I have to do our laundry tomorrow anyway." she said with a smile and returned to the seat at the desk.

"So, what is your magic. Obviously you create things but how...it's so interesting." she asked her hand going to play with the heart he had made her. She couldn't wait to show Jun.

[Onira]

Onira took the cloth, staring at it with slightly wary eyes. He didn't quite enjoy when Junpei was mad. It was sort of creepy. he had some darkness about him when he got mad. Almost an aura. It was almost sickneing really. But who knew. Maybe Junpei had changed over the last little while. It had been a time since he last met Junpei. Then again, he probably more missed the jehreg (or however it's spelled). He had forgotten the name, but still loved the creature. It was so different for him. So, well, magical. Which really brought him to Phae's question.

Onira put the shirt on, having to take a moment to get his long hair out of the back of the shirt. He was a little thrown off that somebody really cared about his 'talent'. Mostly because he didn't regard his abilities as magic per se. But no harm in the truth.

"Well, I'll have to start by saying I don't create. Merely mold. If you take a look at the elevator, you'll see there's a chunk missing from the railing."

Onira gave a grin at the end of his sentence. He didn't know why, just felt the need for it. He walked to a wall of the room and placed his palm against it, the tattoo in his hand lighting up. When the tattoo and the wall met, the colors of the wall instantly started to change the colors repeatedly. Yellow, then green, then blue, all the colors kept appearing one after eachother.

"I'm an alchemist really. More a scientist than a user of magic."

Onira returned the walls back to their regular color, withdrawing his hand to his side. He then gave Phae a glance.

"May I ask what you do Phae?"

[Phae]

Phae watched in amazement as the walls began to change colors when he touched them. Her eyes lit up it was amazing how that worked. The tatoo on his skin lit and she had read of transmutation circles and marks that enabled alchemists to make things out of other things. But she had never seen it in action.

"How wonderful. I've never seen anything like it. It's a wonderful talent to have I think." she said truthfully and looked up at him as he asked about her own abilities.

"Well I'll show you." she said standing and taking her sword off the wall. She unsheathed it with precise ease and looked at it for a moment before looking over at Onira and smiling.

"Inferno." she whispered the easiest and most impressive.

From the hilt the flames flared traveling up the blade to the tip wrapping the silver metal in the flames that were ready for an elemental or physical attack.

"I change and add properties to my blade. I'm a sword mage I cannot use my spells without my blade. I focus through the blade and then attack. My attacks then become both magical and physical together. But since I've been here I've gained one new power."

She resheated her blade and hung it on the wall again. She sat down in the chair dropping her head her hands folded in her lap carefully. Suddenly Onira would see an apparition like Phae except as solid as her. The second Phae waved at him dressed exactly as the girl that now sat in a trance. Then after the wave completed the girl disappeared and Phae sat up.

"There, I'm getting better at that. I have to be careful not to hit anything when I do that with my astral projection or I get hurt too." she said with a smile.

[Onira]

"Oooooh!"

Onira stood, staring at the flame with mystified eyes. He knew that wrapping flame around the blade wasn't necessarily creation, as it was a reaction. By heating the air around the sword and using a sort of magnetic field, in theaory one could make a blade covered in flame.

"Cool."

Onira watched as the flames dissipated, Phae expertly sheathing it and placing it at the wall once again. The next thing she did was quite confusing for Onira. She relaxed herself, and then seemed to go limp. All of a sudden, she reappeared. The only problem was that she didn't first dissappear. There were two of her.

Phae came out of the trance and the copy dissapeared. What follow was speaking, but Onira didn't hear. All he really did was go,

"You were there.. and there, and then now you're there, but you were..."

Onira let his knees collapse comically, making him fall on his face. He then stood back up and looked at Phae. His voice was shaky.

"Th-that's quite a talent."

[Phae]

Phae laughed at his reactions to her powers. She loved her magic and had as of yet not met anyone that had any of her kinds of powers. The teachers apparently had but she hadn't and she loved it.

"Well, it's an astral projection. I project an image of myself to a place I know or really really want to be like an area a person I know extremely well like my sister is. I have seen her and checked on her once that way and I've seen my family once that was as well. But it isn't the same as seeing them in person of course. It's only a copy of me." she said trying to explain. "Though if my copy were to get hit...here I'll show you."

She went limp again and this time she had Astral Phae walk over and walk straight into the wall hitting her shoulder hard it could even be heard how hard she hit it. Real Phae took in a breath wincing. She opened her eyes and only one Phae remained once more. She waited a moment and then looked down a bruise already forming under her tank top strap on her shoulder. It could be seen easily starting off as read but quickly changing to the black a bruise tended to change to.

"See, I can get hurt that way." she explained.

[Onira]

Onira slowly regained himself, sitting on the bed and relaxing. He watched again as Phae went limp and projected herself into a wall. He couldn't help but laugh a little bit. However, he kept it muffled so as to avoid getting hurt by Phae. He didn't know how she would react to getting- in a sense- laughed at.

"Ohhhhh..."

Onira noticed how it worked. It seemed reasonable enough. Well, as reasonable as sending a copy of yourself into a wall could be. But of course, Onira wasn't exactly the biggest vote for poster-boy of reasonable.

"You know..."

Onira started getting an idea. He was thinking of practicing some human alchemy, and what a better time. Heal up a bruise. He could do that. So, the young man walked to Phae, placing his right palm where the bruise was. He would concentrate hard as his tattoo lit up. He pictured the cells regenerating, being replaced, and swiftly rebuilding or replacing all the dead cells in the area. The light faded and Onira took a look. He jumped up, almost hitting his head on the ceiling.

"I am so awesome!"

[Phae]

She was shocked when he came over and laid his hand on her shoulder. She felt...strange. This boy in a towel and Jun's tshirt was touching her near bare shoulder with his hand but the actions that happened took her mind away from the fact he was touching her as such.

She watched in disbelief as the bruise began to heal. This had happened once before though it was Jun's summon that had healed the deep black bruise that had covered her entire shoulder and then some. But soon the bruise that Onira was working on was gone not even a red mark left anymore. He was going to be a good friend to have around. She smiled.

"That is amazing! Thank you very much." she said poking and prodding her skin but it was healthy and unharmed now.

"So tell me oh powerful alchemic master," she joked "what do you do in your spare time?"

[Onira]

Onira stood still, thinking about Phae's question. What did he do in his spare time? He didn't reallyhave a hobby, besides transmuting things. But that didn't really count.

"Well, I guess what I do is..."

Onira let the words out slowly, pausing for a moment. He was trying to come up with an answer that didn't consist of just listing everything he had done in his spare time. Only one word came to mind.

"Anything, really. Whatever I feel like doing at one time usually happens."

Onira gave a big, toothy grin. He was happy with that answer. It sent the right message. Or so he hoped. It was true though. He really did do anything. If he felt like it, he ran across the top of Arcane Academy. Anything that might make him not feel quite so bored. If he was satisfied for even half a second, then it was well worth it. however, now his attention was turned to Phae. He wanted to learn more about her. Get inside her head. Well, maybe that was going too far. But just learn a few things about her.

"May I ask what you enjoy doing Phae?"

[Phae]

Phae smiled. She wasn't so free as all that. She loved doing new things but she wasn't one of those doing things on a whim people.

"Well, mostly I enjoy to read. I can sing...but that's a secret not even Jun knows that. Just between you and me. I also like to dance and I like to draw. But I guess I really don't have that many hobbies now that I think about it." she said with a laugh and a shrug. "Reading would be my main hobby though besides swordplay. I love practicing and learning new techniques with my blade."

"Where are you from originally?" she asked moving on to the next topic.

[Onira]

Onira glanced down for a second, now very quiet. His past. He hated talking about it. His past was full of death. Full of sorrows that just never seemed to let him be. Never seemed to leave him in peace.

"Well..."

Onira started slowly, unsure what to say.

"Well, I know I was born on the surface- like most of us- but never really had a life there. I was young when my master took me in, so I can't really answer your question. Sorry."

[Phae]

Crap! she thought. I've touched on a sore subject, how lovely .. I mean really Phae way to go. She sighed and looked at him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to drag up bad memories. Please forgive me." she said looking worried. She hated bringing up people's bad memories.

"I'll tell you mine so maybe that will help?" she asked and said hopefully. "I am from German, Berlin really. A big city of course my family and I lived in the suburbs. I have one sister who is my twin."

Phae pointed to the picture on her nightstand where she and her sister where standing side by side. The only difference was that Phoebe had short hair where Phae had long hair.

"We have a dog named Wagner. My sister studies swordsplay in Italy she is excellent at the rapier and I came here because I had magical talent and a blade with that." she explained. "So ... I hope this question isn't so bad...how did you learn alchemy what made you want to or chose to learn it?"

[Onira]

Onira let his pain go as he put on another toothy grin. His own pain had just made Phae uncomfortable, and that wasn't a good thing. He never wanted to make anybody feel anything close to pain. He wanted joy to flood their emotions. Well, maybe that was going too far, but he didn't want Phae to be uncomfortable. That much was certain.

"I'm sorry to be a nuisance miss Phaedra. I didn't mean to worsen your mood."

The subject then came to Onira's style. Alchemy. It was funny in a way. Making it seem like Onira had a choice and all.

"Well, I never really had that much of an option not to study alchemy. My master was one of the greatest alive, and he taught me a lot of stuff. Ever since I was four it's been drill after drill. Excercising my abilities all the time. But then again, I think I've come out fo the other end in fairly good shape."

Onira took a quick look around the room. The colors, the redwood, the doorknob. It all looked so... pretty. And it was his handy work.

"What about yourself Phae? How did you discover your talent? And better yet, why did you choose to pursue them?"

[Phae]

She winced as he used her full name and held up a hand for a moment.

"Please, just Phae. My full name...is a bit weird truthfully. At least Phae sounds normal." she said and then let him continue.

Only Jun got away with calling her Phaedra and that was because she practically melted when he used it and she loved it. She was the only one that called him Jun it was like their own personal names for each other.

"As for my magic. Well I started studying swordsplay when I was very young. Just old enough to hold the sword steady. My sister and I began to work hard to learn. We didn't go to public schools we were given tutors and began our work with the blade. My uncle taught us the blade. For a while that was what I learned. We became good very good. But one day I was mad or fustrated really and my blade errupted in flames and my uncle couldn't have been happier. He was a mage and began to train me how to channel my magic through my blade which was the only way it worked." she took a breath.

"Of course I was estatic. Magic..the things you read in books the things that only happen in fairy tales..I could do it! It was amazing I jumped at the chance to take on the extra studies to learn more and more about the magic that I could use. Then when I got an invitation to study here of course I accepted no questions asked. My sister was a bit upset and she ran away..I haven't seen her in a month."

She looked away.

"But..Jun and I plan to visit soon. Anyway! That's my story." she smiled.

[Onira]

Onira grinned at Phae's words. She seemed quite happy with her accomplishments. To say the least. Onira couldn't quite be as proud. Phae had discovered her powers through emotion, then simply crafted and molded it for more control. Onira was more forced into it, and still only finished with that of someone with regular talent. He sighed.

"And a long story at that."

Onira was in his own thoughts for a little while, and had to let some of the information run through his head after words. He suddenly burst out laughing.

"Ju... Junpei... people... hahaha..."

Onira fell to the floor laughing. He could only imagine Junpei meeting Phae's parents. It would be so funny.

In Onira's Mind

Phae: Mom, dad, this is Junpei.

Mom: What do you do Junpei?

Junpei: Oh, I do this *summon's Harlow*. See?

Mom:...

Reality

Onira slowly picked himself up off the floor, discontinuing his somewhat hysteric laughter.

"Sorry. Sorry."