Umbridge High School Building, Saturday Evening
There were some clouds hanging around the spires of Umbridge High School, but not enough; there was an overlaying sense that there shouldn't be as much sunlight shining down on it as there was.
It was quiet. Kind of. There was tension in the air, a wound-up strung-up thing that ensnared the school. Somehow it seemed as if even the birds didn't ( Read more... )
It was quiet. Kind of. There was tension in the air, a wound-up strung-up thing that ensnared the school. Somehow it seemed as if even the birds didn't ( Read more... )
A wall, inside her head, built to keep her magic away. Emma had made it stop hurting so much. Emma had promised that her magic was only sleeping.
Her magic was awake, now. The stone wall in her mind, covered now in dead flowers and rotting twigs, exploded.
Out in the physical realm, She -- the Sorceress, Rinoa -- pushed to her feet just as wings began emerging from her back.
She was the Sorceress. She was whole. She was a being of raw power and vengeance. And she was no more stable than she had been a minute before. Less so, with the intoxicating head rush. She had no leash on her powers, or herself. She was.
And she was pissed.
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Umbridge was going to pay.
All hell was going to break loose.
Squall stood and readied his gunblade with an unhinged grin. "I am yours to command, Sorceress."
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Why did he think she needed his services? He had left her in here. He had failed to rescue her. He was unworthy.
The Sorceress Rinoa reached out with a pulse of psionic energy, and flicked her hand.
Enough to knock the pathetic little would-be knight to the ground.
A moment later, she flapped her wings -- it felt so good to flap her wings -- and flew out of this detention center as quickly as those wings would take her.
He could stay in this dump, for all she cared. She had more interesting things to do.
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... No, he was no longer Leon, but he was not yet Squall. Today he was Griever, avatar of Pride, and before him this castle would FALL.
He cast Haste, Protect, Shell, and Aura on himself, and leapt into the fray.
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