Lesson one.

[Aethie]

Aethie frowned. Maybe Aiden had a point - but still, school was so important to her, she couldn't stand people who made the things she loved seem like a big joke. She shrugged off the uncomfortable feeling Aiden's words had left with her, and realized he was staring at her. A slight blush colored her cheeks, and she coughed quietly. "Um...let's see you do it again," she said in a loud, falsely impassive voice.

[Xandar]

"'Scuse me, teach'r?" Xandar spoke up from the back of the room. "Ehm, I'd like to complain that I think we should now move on. Ev'rone in the class has done the spell at least to some exent, myan, so I think we should learn some'n else now. And don't tell me I don't have any patience either. I'm not a doctor, myan, if Ah had any petients 'd be sued." He chuckled at his own crappy joke for a minute, then resumed his vacant stare into nothingness.

[Shadow]

"No I believe everyone should perfect their spell, because I still see you blowing a few of the praying mantises..." He said gesturing to the jar of praying mantises.

[Xandar]

"Well, dude, Mah 'pinion 'ere, Ah think th't if we jes' practice 'em 'tween now'n when we next meet, then we should all have the spell down. Plus, we'd learn two spells this less'n, 'steada one. Thusly, we'd move at a faster pace, and we'd end up twice the wizard or witch in the same ammount of time. Simple theory here, myan."

[Aethie]

Aethie slammed her fist down on the desk. "Professor, I can't concentrate with this yahoo constantly making a mockery of this class!" She complained angrily. With a glare, she rounded on Xandar. "Look, just because you don't care about school doesn't mean you have to make it difficult for those of us who actually want to do well!" She yelled at him, and stalked from the classroom, fuming.

[Allyria]

Allyria entered the room just in time to see Aethie yell at Xandar and storm out furiously. "What a baby," Allyria sneered. She looked over all the students in the class. None of them looked even remotely interesting, and she glared at them all, refusing any friendly looks that came her way.

"God, if I had my way, I wouldn't even be here," she snapped, grabbing a mantis. "Engorgio!" The mantis swelled quickly. "There." she said in a bored tone of voice. "I've proved I can do this stupid spell, can I leave now?"

I need a smoke... she thought desperately, staring out the window.

[Safirah]

Safirah noted that nobody seemed to be paying attention (is that on purpose or are you guys REALLY blind?) to her and gratefully was about to step over to the desk, ready to grab a mantis, when Allyria suddenly appeared and nearly knocked her over.

"Watch it, gal!" she exclaimed, stepping out of the way just as she regained her balance. Suddenly calm, she grabbed one of the mantises, and with one fluid motion and a simple word, the mantis swelled.

Hmph.... that was easy... maybe too easy. she thought.

[Allyria]

"Watch it, gal!"

Allyria turned to face the girl who'd yelled at her. "Excuse me?" she said with an ugly look on her face. She advanced on the new girl. "I wouldn't tell me to watch anything if I was you - especially your pathetic magic skills." She laughed and turned away.

[Xandar]

Xandar stared down at Aethie. "Ah dun object," he started half-assedly, "teh the label what has been put forth t'werd masef bah yonder wenchin' person!" It was very difficult to understand exactly what he was saying. Twitterings of confusion went about between people in the vicinity. "Oy.... What I's sayin' is that I care about school, and I j't want to get on with it. W're movin' too slowly. I think we can go faster th'n the teacher's lett'n us. Ah'm jes givin' mah 'pinion. No sense bitchin' on about 't. I don' mean nuthin' bah that, Ah'm not call'n yeh a bitch, mostly mahsef. Ah mean, yeh stand there listnin', and Ah jes keep on blabbin like an butt. Ah s'pose....." It was at this point that she'd stopped paying attention to hem because he was being, in his own words, 'an butt'. He continued practicing the spell in silence.

[Safirah]

Safirah winced under Allyria's unfriendly gaze. Xandar's "colourful" language didn't help the 11-year-old's matters.

Yeah, go ahead and laugh. I don't care... she thought coldly as she replied with a calm sentence.

"It was only a suggestion, and a helpful one at that."

Safirah then turned away and grabbed a couple praying mantises.

Engorgio!

Engorgio!

Both swelled, one stopped just short of exploding.

Close call.

Safirah brushed a few locks of dark, curly hair out of her piercing green eyes.

Huh. Anybody could tell Allyria belonged in Grimcole, even if they didn't know her.

Safirah Engorgio!ed a few more praying mantises.

I'm defiant, she thought, but at least I behave most of the time... better keep myself in check before I hurt that girl, what with my hot temper.

This post has been edited by Safirah on Aug 6 2006, 02:16 PM