A House Call... at Work 2

My body reformed as it was teleported from the maze beneath the forest, to the area where I now found myself, some type of room. Looking about, I recognized Izumi had made it here and also glance about my surroundings to get myself acquainted to where I was. My gaze is all around as her welcome comes in, to which I grin and reply, “sorry.” Following once more, I make my way behind her as I am lead up stairs to the area which would be ruins. I kind of got that they would keep the portals in safe places and not just out in the open where anyone could get to them. Looking about me, I murmur out loud, “so I guess this is the place where your people used to live back in the day?” I would walk in a semi circle, moving around with my hands on my waist as I look around.

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Location: Forest, Ruins

As she answers, I wondered how many people her clan grew to be at their largest numbers. The ruins seemed large enough to hold a good amount of people, or so I thought. I had no way of knowing what it would have looked like way back when it was in use, but the structures suggested they were good at architecture, or at least the people who made their houses were. With a title like Over Watchers, there was a good chance the clan was very old. As I was asked to follow and continue a certain way, I oblige and my steps lead me in the continued following of my shapely guide. It was getting hard to keep my bearings as I had been so many places in a single day; I knew that I would have to revisit these places so that I could remember them in the future, if our trainings were to continue here. Of course, if there was a place locally in the city, that might be more convenient. I had never projected that when I asked her to train me earlier in the police building that she would end up driving me to the end of town and immersing me into the depths of the forest. A lot had happened that I hadn’t prepared for, including the large decapitated head that chased us through the forest; this was certainly a learning experience indeed. Even if I didn’t learn how to warp this day, I knew I had gotten a good work out.

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Location: Forest, Ruins

My steps carry me behind Izumi as she leads the way and opens the door to the main house. While moving in, my hand comes to the door, touching it softly and holds it open after Izumi passes through. My hand trails from the door, allowing it to close as I enter into this area and observe my surroundings. After traveling though a hallway, I am lead into a dark room where I am told to take my shoes off. Understanding this, I look down at the slightly worn sneakers and place the toe to the heel of one, stepping out of the shoe before doing the same with the other. I crouch down and pick up my shoes, wondering if there was a place to put them. I look up just in time to catch Izumi fading into the darker portion of the room. After a moment, the room lights up and I turn my gaze to the side to allow my eyes to adjust before looking back towards Izumi who was holding a torch. Looking about the room, I could see, what would look to be her ancestors. Murmuring to myself, I observe, “they all have huge tits…” or so I would guess since they all resembled Izumi. Of course, this wouldn’t be said loud enough for Izumi to hear, since she didn’t seem to take well to my sexist comments in the past. I wouldn’t move from the area I was in until I was given the okay to enter; I didn’t want to end up doing anything wrong as this room could be holy or have some type of significance since it seemed pretty magnificent.

279 / 693 | Objective 1: 2,500
Location: Forest, Ruins

After being told that I could enter, I decide to just sit my shoes down where I was standing. I crouch and sit the shoes down before standing up and walking into the area of the room where Izumi was. As I walk, I hear her words and come to the conclusion that my initiation might be today. It was a bit sudden, but I rationalized that it was probably best to get it out of the way, since I had pretty much told her that I was down with the process; now was not the time to be hesitant about making life altering decisions. “Okay,” I answer her back as my steps come to a halt within good enough range of her. I was a bit glad that I would be learning a portal technique today, or at least trying to learn it. One thing I found out while trying to learn my fire spells, was that spells were not learned over night, especially when you don’t already know a spell of the same type. Her words give a small insight into the ability of the spell. I was able to catch that she stated I could come and go to places that I’ve visited before. I knew, or at least assumed, that was added to her statement because it was some type of clause on the spell. In thinking about it, it would make sense for you not to be able to visit someplace that you didn’t know, because in that case, how would you know said place really existed? I was sure there were other implications as well, such as knowledge of the terrain, since someone didn’t want to teleport into a mountain, or underground when they were aiming for the surface of a place or something.

300 / 993 | Objective 1: 2,500
Location: Forest, Ruins

I hold a confused look for a moment as I wonder what the smirk was; normally when a teacher smirked at a student, it meant that something bad was going to happen. The clap is performed and I am told to stay. “Woof,” I reply in an inside joke with myself, but it was pretty much an affirmation. She leaves and I am left to my own devices for a few minutes. Looking around, my attention is brought back to the pictures on the wall. Approaching one side of the wall, I hold my hands behind my back as I look up at the pictures to get a closer look. “That’s just weird,” I say looking at the resemblance, “they must not breed too far outside of the family…” Then again, I figured it could be a magic thing, or some type of reincarnation they use; there was no telling. My gaze snaps back towards where she had gone when she came back; it almost felt as if I felt her coming back. I look at what she brings out, wondering what it was. I figured that would be answered soon enough, so instead of asking the dumb question, I simply waited until I was informed.

206 / 1199 | Objective 1: 2,500
Location: Forest, Ruins

My gaze is on her as she makes her way to me and speaks. I lower my gaze to the clan symbol, looking over it as I hear what it signifies. The mantra comes back into play as the concept of the balance is reinforced. My gaze lifts back as she stops before me and speaks more. I linger on her words as she concludes, and coming out of my stupor of listening to her voice, I nod in a confirmation and accept the terms of agreement. I felt a bit anxious about the process that was going on, it was hard to explain, but suddenly if felt like things got formal all of a sudden. I would attempt not to show this on my face as she continued; I would keep my determination and seriousness in this process that I had agreed to.

144 / 1343 | Objective 1: 2,500
Location: Forest, Ruins

The necklace is held up, and I realize a bit slowly that I was supposed to be leaning forwards. The words assist as I murmur, “oh!” and am quick to comply, my body tilting forwards to allow the necklace to be placed over my head. It did seem like a formal process in my mind; it reminded me a bit of when I started gaining various belts in my training of martial arts. After the placing of the necklace, if all proceeded normally, I would raise my head and stand upright.

91 / 1434 | Objective 1: 2,500
Location: Forest, Ruins

After the necklace is placed over my head I rise up and look to her before realizing that something was happening around me and with Izumi. My eyes roam about the room as an eerie acceptance comes and I am left thinking ‘omg, wtf?’ Apparently, everything was all good and there was nothing for me to worry about; I had been accepted into the clan and it didn’t require any bodily harm to me. On top of that, I got a cool little necklace that probably could go with a few outfits I had, so I was good. Nervously, I look to Izumi with a “heh” just a little frazzled by the experience of the room being basked in seemingly living spiritual energy. I wondered if I would get the ability to do that to new members as we came on; by itself, it seemed like a useful enough ability; enough to make someone wet their pants if they were not ready for it. I give a soft exhale as I assure her with an honest face, “I will do my best… you know, to prove myself to you and the clan… and to help with enforcing the balance too.”

200 / 1634 | Objective 1: 2,500
Location: Forest, Ruins

My body shifts as my gaze follows her while she makes her way past me. I move along after her after the summons to continue onwards to the outside realizing that it was time to get started on the main course of things. I find myself exit the décor of the building structure to return to the openness of the outside. Looking up towards the sky, I wondered how many hours were left in this day to train; I would make the most of however much time I had to learn tonight. Hell, I figured since I was part of the clan, I would be basically in a karate kid-esk training sequence for the next several months; I couldn’t wait to get learning some of her void techniques. As we walked out, a thought comes to my mind. Speaking from behind, I ask, “so, if we do revive your clan, would that make me and you pretty much the founding mother and father of the clan?” There is a light smile on my face with the innocent question; I figured I would be bumped down to little brother or son if she were compared to the new ‘mother’ of the clan. After that thought, I come along the lines of thought that the past would be a good place to look for people to bring into the clan; they wouldn’t be tainted by the ideals of the city and might be more open to things. Of course, they didn’t have many demons back there, but they did have a few spiritually inclined people that I could probably pass for, though I didn’t fully know what her plans for the revival of her clan was, if he actually had them. It was very possible, however, that she could create a whole path of creating an organization to rebuild her clan.

309 / 1943 | Objective 1: 2,500
Location: Forest, Ruins

“Ah, I see,” I chuckle lightly with the short response, “right.” Coming out into the open space, I come to a stop as she turns to me. For that moment just before she turns, my gaze would be wandering about the space and getting a feel for where I was and what was around me. When my gaze shifts back to the front, it’s then that I notice her blue eyes upon me and I straighten up and recall her words into coherency. With a nod, I agree with the affirmation on getting me started. I would follow her lead and learn whatever was first; since I didn’t have a basis in void abilities, the only thing I knew of was that she could teleport me. From there, I figured she could teleport herself, and other objects. Aside from teleporting things here and there, which was about the extent of my knowledge in the void, save for what she explained to me earlier. I still hadn’t gotten a feel for the actual void element, or whatever it would be called. I make a mental note to stay attentive to the ‘feeling’ that the void may give once in use. Non verbal, my basic response would be that I was ready for whatever she was going to throw at me, or whatever she wanted me to do.

226 / 2169 | Objective 1: 2,500
Location: Forest, Ruins

I stand before her ready to be taught, giving her as much time as she needed in order to get a lesson plan put together. My mind would be actively giddy about the techniques I was about to learn, under the full assumption that I would be mastering them all over night and warping here and there like it was nobody’s business. My gaze and attention are on her as she interfaces with me. I’m a bit elated to hear that not only did the void allow me to move about, but it also had attacks that she describes colorfully enough to send my mind into thinking about all the possibilities of using them. Powerful… dangerous… those were adjectives that I liked. I didn’t pay enough attention to the confusing details to be confused by them, since my mind was focused on how cool this would be. As she continues, I mimic in a soft murmur, “black magic, huh?...” I remembered Ashram talking something about the different types of magic. I knew enough to know that elemental magix were neutral in state, though I didn’t know what that meant. I figured if there were black magix, there would have to be white magix as well, which I figured would probably consist of healing spells and such. It seemed the possibilities were endless when it came to what magix could do. With a nod, I confirm that I was indeed paying attention to her and would continue to hang upon her words not wanting to interrupt her.

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Location: Forest, Ruins

Her lips move with an incantation and my attention is drawn to the grounds below us. I witness a light form from the ground into a pillar. Looking towards it, I am a bit in awe, at least on how pretty the technique looked to be. Creating a shining light from the ground was a good enough trick; the fact that it could do something would be extra. I assumed this was some sort of portal of something. I am tempted to put my hand in the light, but then the thought of losing my arm, or my hand being in another place in space other than the rest of my body stops me. Looking at it, I murmur lightly, “how does this work after that? Do you just step into it?” I attempt to use my ability to sense spiritual things to feel out and get a sense of what this power felt like or consisted of. I wanted it to be familiar to me so that I would have something to shoot for when I attempted to utilize the same power. I continue, “I guess you have to have been where you’re imagining in order to get there, huh?”

201 / 2626 | Objective 1: 2,500
Location: Forest, Ruins

“Ah,” I say as my response before watching her walk into the portal, and in doing so, she vanishes before my very eyes. “Oh that’s cool,” I grin as I look to the light. Moving into it before it faded or something, I step into the light and for that moment, bask in its radiance. I feel an overwhelming sensation of displacement before I realize that I was no longer where I previously was. It takes a moment for me to adjust to my new position on the world, but in looking around a contemporary office space, I am introduced to the digs of that one cop guy. “Whoa,” I murmur lightly, “all this for that cop guy? He must be a sergeant or something like that.” It looked empty, so I figured he must be out on a donut break or something like that. Looking to her, I ask, “so this is where you work? We’re back where we started, aren’t we?”

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Void Package Unlocked (2,500)
Location: Forest, Ruins

My gaze shifts to the door as I assumed that was the gateway to her office area. My gaze shifts back to Izumi as she informs me that the cop was the commissioner of the Division. “No way…” I murmur lightly. I knew from Haven that he had organizational skills, but being the head honcho of the entire Division; they were like the police only with bigger guns and fewer limitations. I think about the fact that I attacked the cop at the coffee house; he wasn’t a slob, but I figured a commissioner would be some old guy in a suit. Looking to her, I nod and comment, “I guess not everyone’s used to what we can do.” I included myself now, in this we category, since I had gained powers that normal humans didn’t have, or knew they had.

My gaze shifts as I see the door open and notice the cop guy walking through it. He pauses and I look at him smiling with a “yo!” Instead of speaking, he keeps moving on without saying anything. I didn’t really care for him, but I would keep a pleasant look on my face wondering if he were mad that we were in here without him knowing. On top of that, I kind of wondered if he were always seemingly in a poor mood.

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Void Package Unlocked (2,500)
Location: Forest, Ruins

My eyes shift to my sensei as she speaks to this cop guy who would not be referred to as that commissioner guy. Her voice was soft and caring, a tone I wish Natsuki would take up more than not. It was almost magically soft, like what I would imagine an angel to sound like. His voice, on the other hand, was pretty annoying; at least what little of it he offered. My face frowns up slightly as I hear the cold response from the commissioner; I saw no real reason for him not to be friendly after such a pretty woman asked to prepare dinner for him. I fold my arms at my chest as I look over to him before I realize his attention shifts to me. With his question, I take the liberty of answering for my sensei as I speak, “this is part of my training.” My tone could be considered slightly rude, but I left out any insulting words that I might have wanted to add in there; for some reason this guy really rubbed me the wrong ways. Internally, I grin a bit, since after I learned void abilities, I would be able to easily take out a chump like him without trying. Hell, I probably could take him pretty easily now that I had mastery over both fire and wind; still there was that whole “law” thing the cops made that kept people in check from doing what they really wanted to do.

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Void Package Unlocked (2,500)
Location: Forest, Ruins

After my answer and glare to the cop, my attention shifts back to Izumi. This was a new light to see my sensei in, and at the moment, she seemed pretty vulnerable when it came to this man. I didn’t like it one bit. I also didn’t like the fact that his attitude seemed to bring my training session to an end; I hadn’t learned any void techniques yet and it seemed that things had just gotten started in that aspect. With all the crap we went through, hiking in the forest and running away from imminent doom, I was insulted that I would have to stop because she had to make dinner for some asshole. I hear her tell me to take the portal to head back into the alley, but I return my attention to the dressing commissioner as I inquire, “what’s your problem? Did you have a bad day or something? Would it hurt you to smile when someone’s being nice to you?” Aside from being a student, I also considered myself a man; I could not allow a woman to be in distress without saying something as that went against the principles of all that’s GAR.

200 / 964
Void Package Unlocked (2,500)
Location: Forest, Ruins

Thinking over his words, it caused me to wonder who he really thought he was. Needless to say, the words did not make me happy. A bit angered by them, I hold back the urge to deck him in the face, partially interrupted by when Izumi speaks up. My angered expression begins to change into one of a grin as I sit back and allow her to manage the situation; as expected of my sensei to but this man in his place when he got out of it. It was a bit soft for my tastes, but I figured with that, he should get the message… if not, I would be the first to offer to pound the message into him. I decline cosigning with anything like a “yeah” or “boyah!” though it felt appropriate at the time, I merely keep my piece and stand with my arms folded to watch everything work out. I figured I was a hell of a better candidate for training than he was; it didn’t even seem like he could do anything magical; he was nowhere near the man my original master, Ashram, was.

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Void Package Unlocked (2,500)
Location: Forest, Ruins

My thoughts are along the lines of “what an asshole” though I do not voice this at the time. I could tell this was a personal matter between her and this guy; from the looks of things, if she were smart, she wouldn’t have this problem for long. When things died down, I decided I might touch on the fact that she should leave him; I didn’t know how things were between them most of the time, but from what I was seeing now, the future didn’t seem promising in my opinion. The hurt in her voice coaxed me not to pursue or antagonize the matter any further. With a sigh, I give a simple, “hai, sensei.” However, instead of going into her portal, I pause for a moment, and feel out the energy coming from her portal. With a bit of determination and my focus on my motorcycle, I murmur the words she had murmured earlier, mimicking her and holding my hand out and to the side. Almost surprising myself, I feel my own artifact begin to release energy intuitively similar to hers as a circle of light forms on the ground. Having created my own portal, I take my first steps into what could end up either really cool, or catastrophic. My body comes within the confines of the portal and my gaze lifts up to the commissioner as my body vanishes from there and out of his sight.

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Portal (1,000, -10 TEXP)
Void Package Unlocked (2,500, -5 TEXP)
Location: ???