It Was Just a Simple Tune

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OOC: Its been a while since I started a new RP. And I've been dying to do a new RP with the Stooph, so. Um its basically in a world that magic is known and genereally accepted, but not everyone has it. There's two types, ambient and academic. Academic comes from the person, and can be used to do a wide variety of things. Basically you can think it there's a way to do it. Ambient magic on the other hand is the magic that is in things. Craft magic. You'll figure it out as we go. I hope. I should mention that I took the idea from Tamora Peirce's Circle of Magic Series. Anyways on with the show.
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Kaulyn looked out the bus window with a sigh. To the average person it looked as if he was staring out the window in an attempt to ignore the gross conversations his of peers. But to the magically trained eye you could see the magic working around his ears, that his magic was at work. Kaulyn suddenly spasmed into a impromptu air guitar solo. In truth he was using his magic to listen to his favorite songs without electronics. Kaulyn was a music mage, top of his mage class and a Junior at the local High School. The bus rolled to a stop in front of The Crossroads High School. Top school in the country, both for mage and non-mage students. The Crossroads taught both ambient and academic magic.

Kaul's ambient magic continued to play around his ears as he walked down the hallway, well, danced down the hallway. Non-mages looked at his dancing attempts in disgust, the few mages in the school who could see magic as that silver stream it appeared to be to mages just grinned. Kaul was so lost in his music he didn't see the blond girl who's mind was obviously elsewhere in his path.

They collided with a crash, Kaul's spell was cut off and he looked around at the splatter of books and papers on the floor. The girl brushed hair out of her eyes and looked at him sheepishly.

"Chalesa" Kaul breathed. Chalesa Bouroughssi stood in front of him with her hand in her hair. "I'm so sorry..." He began.

"Its alright I heard your music." She said as she knelt to pick up her things. Kaul knelt down to help, bewildered.

"You heard my music?" He asked as he handed her some papers. The blond girl nodded.

"Yeah, its one of my favorites." she said as she took the papers. Kaul was even more bewildered.

"You mean this one." He started to hum the opening lines, then let his magic take hold of the opening and play the real song. Chal tapped her foot to the beat.

"Yeah its such a good song." The song was a rather quick song that spun off of traditional tango's. Chal found herself rocking her hips back and forth, the beat sinking into her bones. She really liked this song.

Kaul looked as he saw a silver sheen of magic trickle its way up Chal's legs. He had cut his spell after the first few beats but apparently Chal had other ideas.

Chal looked up at Kaul and grinned. "Want to dance? We have time before class." Kaul looked at her and shrugged. What was the harm. He took her hand and placed his other on her hip. They began to follow the beat of Chal's song. It built and built until the two ended in a low dip at the end. The song ending as soon as Chal's feet stopped moving. Kaul watched the silver magic seep into the floor.

"I didn't know you were a dance mage." Kaul told her between gasps as they ended. He'd studied dance as part of his own magic so he knew a step or two and how to recognize magic.

"I'm not a mage." Chal said as Kaul lifted her back to her feet. "I can't do magic."

"But I saw it, and that song we heard was yours." Kaul said in confusion. Chal shook her head.

"No I think I'd know if I had magic Kaul. I'll see you in Drama." She said with a wave of her fingers.

Kaul looked after her for a moment before he turned to find his way to the cafeteria. Outside two small roses began to sprout from the ground in front of the school sign. The result of Chal's first spell.

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OOC Again:

For Stooph: Can you figure out the embedded secret in this opening post? I'll give you a hint, it has to do with my love life, or lack there of. *eyebrow wiggle*

For everyone else: I don't know who else frequents this board but feel free to jump in on this. The more the merrier. I'm done now I swear.

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OOC: Ok you guys are taking to long to reply. So I'm going to reply to myself.
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Kaulyn walked into the high vaulted Cafeteria. He loved this room. Most kids complain about their school food, but when your school cooks are chef mages
with credentials from the highest level of magical college, you can proudly say: "I like our school food."

"DUCK!" He heard one of the cooks yell and Kaulyn ducked his head with long practice as a large cast iron pot flew over his head. He loved this school.

He sat down next to a group of rather ungainly looking students. They all mostly smiled at him and said hello quite congenially. He took a seat next to a scribbling blond girl about his own age.

"Forget to do your physics, Alshena?" He asked the academic mage, who only nodded. Another girl sat herself on his other side, looking angrily at at group of non-mage jocks.

"Can I just kill the entire human race?" She growled, watching the boys with disgust.

"No matter how much I agree with you some days, I feel that the world would suffer to severely with the damage it would take to wipe them out." Kaulyn said absently, his mind on Chal.

Across from him, another Chalesa, Chalesa Sandsii to be exact, looked at the Wildmage who still glowered at the retreating jocks. "Saraha, you can't wipe out humans, or too many animals who rely on them for food would die." said the quick witted photography mage.

Saraha the Wildmage just looked at her friend in disgust, and went to buy breakfast.

Kaulyn barely heard the argument and the conversation that ensued as his friends, all mages of some sort, talked in the time before class. When the bell chimed for first block, Kaulyn walked off to his class absently.

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Chal Bouroghsii stared blankly at the board as her teacher explained some specific magical theory. It was expected of non-mages to understand the underlying workings of magic so that when they bought spells and potions in the real world they would understand how they worked, kind of like learning Chemistry.

"Now we discussed that there are two types of mages yesterday. Today we are going to delve into the specifics of those two magics." The teacher drew two crude stick figures on the board. "Now imagine this," he pointed to one of the stick figures, "is an academic mage. Academic mages take their power from temselves, and learn the majority of their power threw books and spells." He drew a big circle in the center of the stick figures "stomach" representing its magical core.

"Now ambient mages," he tapped the other stick figure, "take their power from the things they use, be it, thread, music, animals, plants, wood, metal," he drew a crude example of each of the things he described as he said them.

"Dance?" Chal asked, suddenly interested.

"Yes even dance. Now for every 1 ambient mage there are 4 academic mages. It may not seem like it here surrounded by magic, but trust me its rare. And certain types of ambient magics are less common than others. Dance, as Chalesa said, is one of the rarer types, along with Lightning, Music, and animal magic." The teacher turned away from the balckboard. "I've arranged for a slight demonstration." He opened the door and stepped out. Bewildered his students followed him.

He led them outside to the mage training fields, where mages adept in handling the forces of nature practiced their skills along with academic mages who specialized in warfare. A line of Junior and Senior mages stood waiting, including Chal noticed, Kaulyn.

"These students have agreed to take time out of their schedule to show you what their powers can do. Now why don't we go down the row and tell everyone our name and magic specialty?" The mage-students nodded, one by one they told their names and magics. Weather mage, Lightning mage, Smith mage, Wildmage, Thread Mage, Plant Mage, and Music Mage.

"Now what you have to realize class is that some magics aren't very visible. Photography mages, for example, can't show their power in mundane ways, but when you see them in their darkrooms, mixing chemicals and developing pictures without light, fixing exposed film and the like you see their true power. But first let us see what these students have to show us." One by one the mage-students gave a show of their powers. The Weather mage made the earth tremble and water flow around her head. The Plant mage made flowers bloom and wilt in the blink of an eye and made trees rise from their roots and come closer to him. The Lightning mage made spectacles of light and energy for all to see, striking specific places with tiny lightnings, and making lightning balls fly around the students heads. The Smith mage showed them all how he could raise the power of molten lava above the earth and ignite fires with his sight.

The Wildmage brought birds and wildlife to her so that people could pet them and the Thread mage showed her power by making peoples clothing move, lifting volunteers in the air and such. Finally it was Kaulyn's turn.

He stepped up and took a proper breath. The next thing everyone knew they were at a concert listening to their favorite band. they began to jump up and down screaming at Kaulyn as he sang favorite songs of theirs. Chal found her foot tapping to the beat, and before she knew it she was dancing to the beat, not out of place because others near her also joined in on the dancing.

The magic and music sped up and Chal felt herself drifting further and further from her body. Her legs and arms moved together and apart in an intricate dance she didn't know she knew. She felt the music swell and dip within her, some unknown feeling rising and dipping with it until...

"CHAL!" She heard and snapped her eyes open. She turned to see half of her class drop to the ground. Her eyes opened wider as Kaulyn walked over to her angrily.

"Now do you believe you have magic?" He asked, waving his arm wildly at the scene before them.

[Roleplaying Pirate Queen]

Jesabell was one of the ambeian mages found herself shocked. For some reason or another she had had this class with Chal and watched the scene unfold before her eyes. She was unmoved since she was a mage as well, but she was certainly stunned. Chal...A mage? She never in all her life would have guessed...
She pushed her medium brown hair aside to see the scene clearer and frowned at what had happened. A dance mage...That was rare; and she knew it all too well. She blinked once, then twice. A dance mage was just as rare, if not rarer than a writing mage like herself. She had never presented since she never had enough time to. She had overbooked her classes, like normal. Jesabell was....To say the least, very close to a mix between the two mages. She studied alot, just like an academic mage, and then she also could write wonderous words that could float in the air and comfort someone even moreso than a hug or two...Or become a weapon if need be and strike a person dead. The saying the pen is mighter than the sword was certainly true in her case. She could describe something on paper and it could magically come to life if she summoned it so. She couldn't believe what had happened but shook her head and watched the pair.
After a few moments she approached them. "I...I never knew..." she said a bit stunned. Most didn't know about her own power because it wasn't well known by the public aside from some of the mages; but she had never sensed that Chals was one. Never.

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Chal looked from one friend to another in shock. "Did," she gulped. "Did I do that?" She asked in fear. Kaul nodded. Chal's eyes filled with unshed tears. "I can't be a mage I can't. My parents had magic sniffers on me since I was little. They couldn't find anything. " She began to cry. Kaul took her into his arms and looked at the mass of students gathering around.

"What are you all looking at? Disperse yourselves!" His voice came out as a booming yell as his magic slipped into his voice. People climbed over each other in a mad scramble to escape. The only people who stayed were the mages who had been performing and those few who had been in the crowd. They gathered around the new mage. "It's alright Chal. It'll be fine. You know now and can be taught. Most often magic sniffers sniff for academic magic, not ambient. I'll help." Chal looked up at him.

"You will?" She asked in disbelief. Kaul nodded. Chal smiled ruefully and buried her head into his shoulder once more, murmuring thank yous into his shirt.

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((YES!!! Perfect RP to bring in Jaq!

I love all of Tamora's books, btw. *has read them all*))

Most students were in class right now at The Crossroads. Or at that demonstration slated to take place. However, not everyone had full time classes. There were some students--the ones with the more rare ambient magics--who had to take a good portion of the day off for meditation alone, to prevent the possibility of their magic going haywire. One such student was a Senior at The Crossroads and top of her class, an ambient mage with a very rare, unpredictable magic--a cross between lightning and glass magic. Alone each is powerful, yes, but combined in one being they became even more wild. It was even more dangerous when one realized how closely attuned to emotions lightning was, and in turn, the entire well of magic within her--and Jaqueln Wolffe was not one known for being able to keep her temper.

Like most children, Jaq had had magic sniffers on her when she was very young. As with all ambient mages, the sniffers detected nothing magical about her, which sorely disappointed her parents, who owned a rather large, well known business. It wouldn't have been so bad if she wasn't the twelfth in a line of twelve children, the ninth girl, and if her parents didn't seem to live in the sixteenth century. Her three brothers all went into the business, and her sisters (three of which turned out to be academic mages) all managed to make very advantageous marriages. No matter how her parents threatened or begged, Jaq always refused to marry the husband they had in mind for her--as said before, they seemed to live with their minds in medieval times, and had managed to find several like-minded, well-off families--she was someone who wanted to marry for love, like almost everyone in this day and age, not that she believed she'd ever find any.

In fact, Jaq was fourteen before she knew she had magic at all, and as with anything she did, it came out in a disastrous way. It was on her way home from school one day, when she was jumped by a group of three guys, whom she never did recognize. Whatever their plans had been with her, it never got far, because lightning-covered shards of glass were flying through the air around her, lightning jumping through her hair and pulsing from her eyes. As one might expect, her parents weren't happy with this development (not to mention the fact that they both disliked ambient magic) and imediately had her carted off to the Crossroads, where she more or less lived--her parents had all but disowned her.

Jaq sighed, shaking her head, her long, glossy black hair swaying with the movement, though she didn't open her eyes. Jaq, stop thinking about the past, that's no way to meditate, she berated herself, and slipped back into the familiar breathing pattern--count of seven inhale, hold for seven, exhale for seven, repeat. She had gone back into her meditative state, when she felt disturbances in the ambient magic around her. Ah, must be time for the demonstration, she thought, smiling grimly. She had been asked to present her power, but she had declined. It wasn't that she didn't have the control, but she didn't believe in parading her powers for non-mages to see. It wasn't like there was another Lightning/Glass mage in the area anyway.

But then something else entered the disturbance, something that caused other activity to stop. What the- Jaq wondered, her eyes snapping open to reveal deep, smoky blue orbs, golden sunbursts surrounding the pupils. She stood, brushing off the back of her tight black shirt and shorts, and off the back of the bronze skin of her legs. She could see the group of people who had gathered for the demonstration running away, well, all the non-mages at least. Of course, they leave messes for others to clean up, Jaq thought, wondering what on her they had done this time.

When Jaq got closer, however, she could sense a new magic, something newly emerged, it felt like. The senior's eyes narrowed slightly--she recognized some of the people in the group, but they mostly seemed to be juniors, and she couldn't recall names. "What happened?" Jaq asked, her soft voice carrying effortlessly through the air. It had a slightly smoky, sultry quality, that came naturally to her. She didn't really like her voice, though anyone who had the fortune to hear her sing knew how good it was with music. She didn't like to sing for others, though sometimes she was more or less forced to.

[Roleplaying Pirate Queen]

Jesabel looked over at the new comer and back to Chal and Kaul. She then slowly walked over to Jaq and spoke softly and quietly. "A new mage has emerged...A dance mage." she told her. "None of us saw it before...Except perhaps Kaul...But...Yeah, turns out Chal's a dance mage." she told her.
She looked back at the two and then at Jaq, hopng someone would say something other than just her. In her mind there wasn't anything else TO say.

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OOC: Yay New Poleplayer! Woot woot! And I love the books too.
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"Well we'll have to figure out how much power you have." Kaul told her, trying to ignore the crowd around him, Chal just nodded into his shirt. "Do any of you guys know a dance mage around here?" The minute the words left his mouth he knew the answer. There were no dance mages in New England, the closest dance mage was in New York. That only meant... "Nevermind," he said quickly. "I know the answer. This means as your discovering mage its my duty to teach you." Kaul sighed. Another thing he had to deal with. Not only did he have school, but he was taking classes at Crossroads U, and had plans that were going to be majorly upset by this. Oh well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, he thought. "Come on, we'll go see if we can find a free classroom to start in, after you eat something." He told Chal, she nodded suddenly hungry.