Lotus remained on the tree letting the wind blow through her fur. Lotus let out another screech. Shortly afterwards an extremely high pitched voice rang out. Lotus growled as she looked down at Alice. Lotus dashed down from the tree with unparalleled speed. Lotus glared at Alice. She glanced around. Lotus could hear so many sounds she normally couldn't Alice's heartbeat, Phora's wing beats, and every tiny snap of twigs. Lotus got down on all fours. Lotus looked at the ground. Lotus began to hunger. She slowly looked at back at Alice. Lotus' now elongated tongue licked her maw. Lotus blinked at she did her eyes changed from humanoid to cat-like slits. Lotus blinked again as they changed back. The young girl shook her head, Lotus was feeling weird.
Lotus, still hunched over, spoke "Run" she said ever so quiet."Run!" she said one last time, before she threw her head back. her eyes were back to those cat-like slits. She did a roar. Lotus failed. she couldn't, yet, control the pure instincts of a tiger. The being that was once Lotus extended it's claws. Claws ripped out of Lotus' boots. It let out another roar before lunging with it's incredible speed at Alice.

Johnathan put on a genuine smile and spoke as politely as he could, despite how freaked he was. He was so busy with all this Omnivident business he shoved the exams to the side. Though he could afford to do that however. "Actually I'm here to study. Do you know of any study groups that are going on that I can jump into?" He really didn't need to study, probably just gloss over the notes and he would be fine. But he really wasn't here to study.

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Just as Lloyd suspected. This wouldn't be as easy as he thought. This battle would be less of a drag if Grayson had his fire powers yet. Making a beeline for them he attempted to smash head first into them, but he prepared to counter attack if they dodged it. Lloyd prepared to preform the same move Grayson did on Alice.

Alice watched Lotus lose herself and leap towards her. Phora stepped in front of her master and blew the girl back with a powerful gust of wind, sending her tumbling backwards. "I won't let you touch her," the Pixie said. Alice peered over Phora's shoulder.

"Lotus," She said. "get ahold of yourself! I want your help." The totem was on guard, holding her finger out so she could blow the cat away again if need be. "There's a wizard among us." Perhaps this didn't have the impact that it should, but the third and second years knew that Alice had enacted a "zero-tolerance" policy on magic shortly after taking over. Her deep-seated prejudice against human mages was said to go back to her flashbacks when she first mastered fusion with Phora. In her eyes, magic was a path of evil, and she would often leave campus in the middle of the night to hunt witches. "You're going to help me stop him."

The creature that is/was Lotus growled as in tumbled backward landing on its feet. It heard more high pitched noises and Alice moved her mouth. Lotus couldn't understand them. Lotus' body was completely under the control of primal instincts. Lotus did a different approach. The creature lowered itself so its belly was on the ground, before sinking its claws in. It began to crawl toward Alice and the pixie this way. Lotus' ears moved flat backwards as she moved closer. Just as the tigress reached the space in front of the pixie it stopped. The creature opened its mouth to bite. But it couldn't something was holding it back. The creatures eyes began to change back and forth between cat-like slits to humanoid. The tiger remained motionless. Only small movements happened as various muscles twitched. The creature couldn't move as the scrambled confusion of lotus' head raged between instinct and humanity.

"Come on, Lotus!" Alice said. "Focus!" She moved around Phora and got on her knees. Lotus was still twitching on the ground. The agitated pixie tried to move but her master rose her hand. "It's okay, let me handle this." Phora didn't like that, but she reluctantly obliged. Alice reached down to stroke Lotus's fur. "It's going to be okay. I'm your friend, remember?" She smiled warmly at Lotus and scrached behind her ears. "You have such pretty fur!"

"Is that so... Well, I'm quite fortunate to have someone like you around to clear things up for me." Maximilian allowed his nerves to relax before returning his vial to his pants pocket. "By the way, do you think Miss Rachel had any other plans for us? The others seem to be taking longer with their tasks and she really didn't specify anything past what we already did..." He looked about lazily just to confirm that no one else was around and finished as they were. "...and it'd hate to to just wait about for the others to show up just to find out we're done for the day."

Boredom was catching up and there was no one around. Damian thought hard, he would have to try something, he can't learn a thing without effort. Slowly, he raised his right arm and pointed it at the bauble. He realized it was best to take it off the stall and with his left hand, he grabbed it and held it up in the air. For a moment, he stared at it with a hesitant expression. What if he electrocutes himself? "Oh hell, might as well." He shut his eyes and focused greatly, then from his hand, launched the smallest bolt of lightning he could manage at the bauble.

Lotus was about to abandon all hope over regaining control over this monster. The darkness of pure animal blood disturbed lotus. She was frightened. She had so many questions that needed answers. Did this happen with everytime she fused? Would she ever have full control? Did it only happen to animalium or do totem users get it to? Do totem have instincts? These questions are what scared lotus. She was frightened and alone till she caught one word Alice said to her.
Lotus held on to that word for dear life, not for her but Alice. Alice had done something Lotus had wanted the most a friend. A friend that's not afraid to say it either. Lotus began to fight off instincts again. The creature mumbled in a quiet but still deep voice "friend". The creature's eyes began to flip and change increasingly faster now. The tigress roared at Alice. The creature finally lowered it's head so it's eyes couldn't be seen. A low growl echoed through the tiger. Suddenly it lunged at Alice. Although the lunge wasn't a dangerous one. The tigress embraced Alice and began an ever so soft purr. It quickly stopped and shoved Alice playfully. Lotus now,mostly, in control of her instincts sat in front of Alice eyes perked up ready to listen.

"Aww, how ferocious!" Alice said as the transformed Lotus pounced on her. She giggled as the beast tossed her around playfully. Phora huffed in annoyance and looked away, clearly jealous. "Now youre getting it! Channel all of those instincts into something good!" As the animalium sat up, so did the totem user. "Okay, so!" She began, suddenly as business-like as she could manage. "That weird kid Daniel is suspected of being a wizard. Magic is bad stuff! We need your enhanced senses to help find him. When you do, bring him back here and we'll decide what to do with him. Don't be afraid to use force!" The girl grinned mischievously. "But you're not allowed to kill him, okay?"

Lotus twitched as Alice spoke again she could hear Alice although it was high pitched and fuzzy, lotus mad out some words like weird, magic senses, force, to kill. The random jumble of words confused lotus. She tilted her head sideways to help her think. After an awkward long pause Lotus gave up.
"What?" her voice bellowed from her vocal cords. As Alice tried over and over again, Lotus was trying to focus on just Alice's voice but as she did it simply gave harder to understand. Lotus finally in a fit of rage grabbed a tree branch and snapped it off. Then came the idea. She tossed it to Alice. As Alice caught it, the tigress pointed to the ground
"Write." she said simply hoping Alice would get the hint.

After multiple tries, the tiger girl threw a stick to Alice. "Write," she said, in that tiger-human voice that reminded Alice of a kitten trying to copy its mothers' powerful roars. The totem user found it a bit cute, but then again, she also found demons cute when they begged for mercy. Alice shrugged after catching the stick. It seemed like a reasonable plan. She hastily scrawled in the dirt. FIND DANIEL, BRING HERE.

Professor Elaine smiled, pleased with Johnny's studious nature, if only all the students shared the same drive. She climbed down from the ladder with one of her books in her arms. Placing it on the desk, she pointed to the entrance of the stairway that ran the lengths of the Library Tower.

"I believe on the second floor your classmates Bernice and Adam are sitting at one of the tables. I'm sure they would be glad to have you join them," she said cheerfully.

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As Lloyd flew towards them, Cinder smoothly avoided the attack, gliding gracefully with her purple wings outstretched. Meanwhile, on her back Laurel quickly strung her bow and loosed an arrow at Lloyd's rider Erynder.

"Woah!" he exclaimed "Look out Grayson!" No sooner had he spoken, Cinder released a ball of fire from her mouth directly at Lloyd.

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Daniel opened his eyes and found Ashley, Fiona, and Helena peering down at him. Ashley had a look of relief on her face, while Helena smiled at him, though looking a bit tired.

"Good thing Fiona saw you when she did," said Helena in her southern twang, "You was bleedin' all over the floor, wasn't sure you was gonna make it. Lucky for you I fancy myself a fine somatomancer" She dusted her hands off with a look of pride.

"Great job Helena" spoke Ashley calmly, she leaned over Daniel with a serious expression on her face "How did this happen?" she asked, "Who did this to you?" As Daniel sat up, he could see that everyone else was in the room as well: Basil, stood in the far corner watching silently; Caliope, sat at the desk covered with various candles; Harold, stood behind Ashley with his arms crossed, glaring at Daniel.

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"I don't think she had any further plans for us today" spoke Evelyn while closing her eyes briefly, "I remember sensing earlier that Daniel, and Johnny exited Apollon; I can no longer sense them on the island."

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The bolt of lightning that Damian fired into the bauble was also absorbed, now a few more bolts of lightning bounced around within the orb. His senses were also starting to pick up on the energy being emitted by the orb. It seemed to have a weak pulse, most likely due to the small amount of energy within the bauble. As he held the bauble he started to hear a gentle jiggling around him, various metal objects in the market began to vibrate, even his own belt buckle began to move slightly, as if it was charged.

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"Who did this to me? Uhhh..." Daniel didn't know what to say. He wondered if it was okay to tell them about the Omnivident. "I guess... Uhhh... Well, we might have some visitors soon. They aren't our friends. I don't think they know about this place, but if they find out, we might get killed." He glared back at Harold for a bit. After all the times he's been down here, that guy had never said a word to him. He looked at Ashley. "I have a plan," he said. "We can summon a creature from the ether to protect us, but we need to hurry and get the ingredients for the spell before they find us."

"Thank you." Johnathan said as he gave a wave and left for the second floor.

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Lloyd swiftly dodged the arrows, but he barely scraped the fire ball, and a couple of feathers were singed on the bottom of his left wing. Trying his best to ignore it he began to feel Grayson's aggravation and rage as he approached from the side and wildly swung his spiked tail directly at the wvyern's face.

Damian looked down at his belt buckle and laughed as he remarked, "What the hell am I doing?" He seemed to have charged every metal object in the vicinity. He felt he'd try again, see how much the bauble could take. He quickly raised his hand and fired another bolt at the bauble.