"What is this? The Matrix?" Mitsuki fumes. "What mysteries in this world would be worth my while? I was happy at home with my pikachu in my room reading manga and watching anime!" Mitsuki's voice begins to grow in volume and ferocity, "Then all of of sudden I'm pulled into this grassy no-where and stuck with you! You act all mystical and talk non-sense to me. Am I suppose to be impressed? Awed by your presence? By this offer for mysteries? I'm not Nougami Neuro! I don't hunger for the mysteries of the world! I just want my normal life back! I wanna go home!!!"
By this time Mitsuki is breathing heavily and tears of angry frustration stream openly down her cheeks. Pikachu is clutched tightly in her left fist and her right fist is clenched just as tightly at her side.
"Wait, wha?" Castalle seems confused. She didn't mean to work the girl up, and now she feels bad about it. At the same time, she hadn't even considered that Mitsuki wouldn't be interested in what she had to offer.
"Relax...calm down, it's gonna be fine." Castalle put a comforting shoulder around the girl, trying her best to console her. Pulling out a hankerchief, she wiped the tears from Mitsuki's face, trying to show that she actually cared about her. After that, the blonde girl put her hands on Mitsuki's shoulders and looked her dead in the eyes.
"I know this is a lot to take in, but I know you. More than you know you, probably. You don't like to talk with most people, because they don't understand how you think; how we think. I know you're heavy into anime, and I thought maybe that would make you be a bit more open to this...haven't you ever wondered what it would be like if you were part of that? How you'd act if you could bend electricity to your whims? Come on, you can't tell me you haven't thought of that."
Mitsuki isn't exactly sure what to say, but she has to say *something*, since Castalle's grip is keeping her from just running away.
(OOC: this quest really can't go anywhere if Mitsuki doesn't learn about magic. So you're going to have to play along sooner or later.)
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(OOC: Of course, but a frightened little girl that's confused and has been usurped from everything she knew would want to go home, right? Offers of solving mysteries sounds kinda unappealing opposed to seeking the power to take control of your life.)
"Control electricity like Misaka onee-sama?" Mitsuki asks brightening up like a firecracker and instantly calming down with such a lucrative offer. Mitsuki moves the pikachu back into cuddle position. She looks up at Castalle, "Really? Can I really be like her? You should have said so in the first place!"
Castalle just smiles and nods while Mitsuki's face lights up like a little girl who just got a pony for her birthday.
Castalle shrugs. "Sorry, force of habit I guess..." Whoever this "Julie" person is was probably cryptic as all get-out, if Castalle's strange way of doing things was any indication.
"But in a word, yes. You can control the winds, and electricity along with it. Normally there's supposed to be some buildup but I may as well just get rid of the pretenses: you're a witch."
The shock (pun not intended) of such a remark is certainly something that takes Mitsuki by surprise, but at the same time...Castalle's eyes are closed, a glowing yellow ball, about the size of a softball, is floating above her hand, as if guided by an invisible string.
"You and I are a lot alike. We have command over the skies, and all that exist in its domain. You're not going to be able to have this kind of control right out of the gate though...this kind of stuff requires practice and focus. I guess there's nothing else to do but get started."
Mitsuki is giddy as a schoolgirl (that pun was intended) and she can barely wait to start.
"There's actually a lot of different kinds of magic we have access to. Manipulating the winds and electrical currents is one thing, but there's plenty of other branches of casting we have at our disposal. There's Alteration, the ability to change how things look - something you seem like you might need..." Mitsuki blushes slightly, upon figuring out what Castalle is implying. "There's also Evocation and Abjuration, which are offensive and defensive magic, respectively. There may also be something with computers, but we should probably wait until later."
"What do you want to start with?"
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"Can we start with control and generation of electricity?" Mitsuki asks with Misaka Mikoto firmly in mind as she hugs the pikachu tightly while bouncing up and down as if for emphasis. Glittering excitement is written all over Mitsuki's face as her dream of meeting Misaka Mikoto or pikachu is instead overlayed with the offer of having the power itself.
'I've always wanted to be like Misaka onee-sama so much! And this weirdo is going to give me the chance to do it! Uwaa~ I certainly hope she isn't pulling me leg. I'll gauge her eyes out and break her arms and legs if she is!' (Mental face: :dance:) Mitsuki dawdles while basking in the offer to become like her idol.
"Well, I can't say I'm surprised, but you're not in the right...state of mind, I guess. In this state, with this little experience, the most you'd be able to do is call up a bit of a breeze. Don't worry though, there's a way to give you enough to go through all this stuff. Thing is, you gotta be in the right state of mind for it. Any emotion will work as long as you're putting your heart into it, but let's work on getting you Set Up first." With a knowing glance to the red marble, Castalle takes hold of Mitsuki's right wrist.
"First thing you'll need is a way to channel your magic - it's traditionally done with a staff, but it will take another form when you don't need it. What I need for you to do is close your eyes and relax, empty your mind and concentrate on what's ahead of you."
Complying with the blonde mage's instructions, Mitsuki focuses her energy, her entire being, on the task at hand. She can almost feel a glowing, pulsing mass of energy floating in front of her outstretched hand.
"That's good. Now tighten your focus and reach out. If I'm right about you, the magic in front of you will form itself into a charm for you, a key to unlock your magic. Create a form for it and claim it from the aether!"
Mitsuki's body is trembling, her breaths shallow and soft. She can feel a strange warmth in front of her; welcoming her, entrancing her, seducing her...she had to take it. There was no other option.
(OOC: The exact form of her staff's charm is up to you, but the simplest and most effective form would be somethign that she can either attach to her clothes (like a pin) or wear at all times. (like a necklace)
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As she shapes the magic in her hand to a smaller and more concentrated form, Mitsuki's trembling subsides as she finally materializes her charm, which brings her to her knees. Breathing a sigh of relief, she looks down into her palm to see a small pikachu-stamped gold medalion. "Now what?" Mitsuki asks Castalle as she raises her head to stare up at the blonde, "is this thing going to let me transform into a magical girl like Sailor Moon?"
'That was exhilarating! I'm seemingly really tired now, but the feeling of it was intense! I wonder what other things this blonde has up her sleeve? I'd have to at least kick her in the shins if she tells me I'm going to turn into the 10th Sailor Scout to help fight off the evils of the Negaverse though.' Mitsuki thinks to herself.
"Well...yes and no. When you call on the staff, there's a costume change that goes along with it but it's not like what you see in magical girl anime. What little transofrmation there is is near instantaneous, totally silent,, there's no command activation phrase, the costume looks a lot like a normal wardrobe, and given enough time you wont even need to use them. Trust me, just because you have magic doesn't mean all the tropes apply, and that's something you'll learn to appreciate." Helping Mitsuki up, Castalle looks at the pin and smiles.
"Well, that's half the battle. Now you'll want to call up your staff. Just relax, and focus yourself. Will it to change shape, I guess." Mitsuki's adrenaline is pumping full force, giving her at least enough strentgh to comply. Hopefully the staff would allow the girl some more energy, otherwise she'd really be in a bind.
(OOC: unlike the charm, the staff and clothes are determined by your character's elemental affinity - so there's not much she can do to change them.)
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Remembering that Fate Testarossa had an affinity for lightning, she tried her best to picture Bardiche for her staff. Sweat begins beading on her brow as she concentrates on the medallion in her hand. 'Staff mode?' she thinks to her medallion as magic begins to swirl around her.
What materializes in her hand isn't quite Bardiche, but is still a jet black staff however with a circular attachment at the end with a golden orb mystically suspended in the center of the circle. The staff is taller than Mitsuki by about a foot. "Sugoi," Mitsuki utters as she firmly plants the staff in the ground and leans on it to prevent herself from collapsing again.
(OOC: When I said they weren't alterable, it meant that their design was locked in by the fact that she was a wind mage. Although since she has access to alteration magic, she would be able to make those changes on her own time. For now though, bear with me.)
Pushing aside the near-prophetic images in her head, Mitsuki tries to calm her mind and focuses her mind once again, trying to recall the vivid sensation of magic tickling her mind.
Before she could process what was happening, arcane energy flooded the girl's body, sparks of electric euphoria consuming every fiber of her being, igniting the latent magic in her body, spreading to encompass her entire being.
When Mitsuki opened her eyes, she was in awe of what was now in her hands. A white-steel staff, about a foot taller than she was, with a green crystal at the top with a vaugely draconic figure adorning the glowing gem while holding it in place.
As for Mitsuki's new clothes...while it wasn't exactly like the barrier jacket of her daydreaming, it was a pale golden shirt with a soft collar. The shirt was very soft, almost silky, but was also kind of stretchy so it stuck to her body. Completing the ensemble was a navy-blue pleated skirt (about half an inch longer than her school skirt, she noted), black high-top sneakers and black knee-high stockings. It wasn't exactly her style, but the new costume was very mundane and she doubted anyone would give it a second thought.
"Wow...I gotta say, you make that look good. So now...anything you want to know, or should we jump into things?"
Mitsuki's mind is racing. She feels a newfound surge of energy, fatigue and discomfort dissappearing from her senses. It's almost like, for the first time, she feels truly alive.
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"I think I look like a neo-powerpuff girl" Mitsuki mutters after further inspecting herself. "Do you transform into something like this too, Castalle?"
Castalle simply smiles and nods. "So what would you like to start with?" asks Castalle.
"How about the beginning?" muses Mitsuki. "There have to be some basic rules that have to be laid down first so I don't blow us both to the moon, right? Or will it be more like Zero no Tsukaima where anything I try to cast makes an explosion anyway, so it doesn't matter?"
"The rules? Well, it's pretty intuitive as far as casting goes. We wind mages only have control over the branches of magic I outlined earlier: wind-based elemental magic, alteration, offensive and charm spells, and once you get really good there are some things you can do with computers." Upon noticing the difference between what Castalle said then and now, Mitsuki calls her out on it.
"Umm... I may have said something wrong before, but there's not a lot of shielding you can do with just wind and electricity. On the other hand there are plenty of charms and curses we can do, affecting people's luck and stuff like that."
Mitsuki almost feels like she should be taking notes, but she tries her best to commit things to memory.
"As for actually casting things, just focus your mind and will something to happen. If it's in your power to do so, the spell will fire off. Again, no need to shout out attack names, just focus and let your magic do the rest. If you get good enough at it it'll become second nature, just point and shoot." Mitsuki could barely contain the excitement. She could fire lightning bolts at anyone at the drop of a hat?
Talk about tempting.
"Stop daydreaming please. Can you at least promise that you will keep this whole thing our little secret? There's no telling what might happen if you blab to someone about this, the media would be all over you."
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"Who am I going to tell? We're freaking stuck in this middle-of-no-where!" Mitsuki cries. All the while Mitsuki attempts to craft a spell just to try out her new power. A little breeze rustles in their direction. Happy with a little breeze, she tries a little bit more breeze, but directed primarily at Castalle to see if she can blow her hair a bit.
"This is a dream, remember? I need you to promise you'll keep quiet in real life. There's no end to the trouble I'll have to deal with if you can't keep your trap shut." Castalle says, obviously a bit pissed.
Mitsuki's first gentle breeze calmed her nerves as the tall grass rustled under her command. Gaining more confidence, her second burst of wind does a good job of tousling Castalle's long hair, her skirt flapping in the breeze like a flag.
"I think that's enough of that...we don't need more fanservice here." Castalle's tone hasn't improved although you can tell she's not unhappy with mitsuki's work. "Anyway...electricity is a bit of a different animal; it'll bite back if you don't give it the proper respect." As if to prove the point, Castalle snapped her fingers as a roaring bolt of lightning slammed down to the ground just inches from where they were standing, leaving a small patch of blackened grass. Mitsuki probably freaked out at how close she was to being zapped, although Castalle was stoic as ever.
"Electricity is alive, and you have to summon it like any other living thing - channel energy from yourself into where you want the lightning to go, and whatever you do, don't lose your focus. Ready to try?"
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A bit startled by Castalle's behavior. Mitsuki concentrates on trying to make lightning, but makes a baby tornado maybe a foot in diameter and just as tall in the spot where she wanted lightning to strike. Mitsuki frowns and makes the twister go away. Puzzled, Mitsuki turns to Castalle, "can you explain to me how I'm suppose to call this lightning? You make it look a lot easier than it really is..."
After a moment's thought, "and if I'm suppose to keep quiet about this when I wake up... are you telling me that I'm sleeping soundly in my bed right now? And where are you in all of this? Sleeping in your bed, too? You still haven't really explained yourself."
"Well...not to be anticlimactic, but yeah. You're still asleep. This is all just a lucid dream. As for me..." Castalle pauses for a moment. "You know, I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing. If I had to hazard a guess, it would be that I'm astral projecting, but really I couldn't say anything for sure."
It's probably not Castalle's place to devine her role in the greater mysteries of the world. It definitely wasn't Mitsuki's. Besides, there was a smaller, much more important mystery to get to the bottom of.
"Hmm...well, I'm not sure exactly how to explain it, but I'll try. I guess you need to feel the magic, not just use it, but let it run through you - the brain transmits electrical impulses to the rest of your body, it's how you're able to move and breathe and stuff." It wasn't the best time for a biology lesson, but Mitsuki filed away the mention, just in case. "Try to picture yourself rerouting that electricity, bend it to your will. It's kinda surreal I guess, but once you figure out how it feels...you'll remember it forever."
Well on one side it seemed wholly unhelpful, but on the other hand Castalle did all she could to explain it. It was now up to the pre-teen trainee witch, and her faith in her abilities.
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"Ara?" was all Mitsuki could say to Castalle's explanation. Still puzzled, Mitsuki closes her eyes and tries again. 'Am I powering up a fireball like Ryu or Ken from Street Fighter? It sure feels like that... the way I can't seem to grasp this. But I must try hard, so I can be like Misaka onee-sama~'
With the thought of Misaka Mikoto, lightning comes from the heavens to rest neatly in a ball of crackling electricity above the green crystal on Mitsuki's staff. Amazed with this sudden appearance, Mitsuki loses her concentration and control of the lightning. "Oh shi-"
Lacking a guiding hand to keep the stuff in check, the electricity takes the quickest route possible to the ground - right through Mitsuki's outstretched arm. For a fraction of a millisecond, pain courses through her body, only to be repaced by a deadened numbness by the time she can process what happened.
It almost feels like her right arm was amputated, she has no sensation of feeling through it, and it's both interesting and freaky as hell at the same time. Castalle grits her teeth, obviously understanding what happened.
"Ouch...well, I can't say I didn't warn you, but that looks like it stung. try massaging it with your other hand, that'll help restore the feeling a bit quicker...but you almost had it! Just need to keep your focus while you're holding on to it. You wanna try again?"
As feeling slowly starts to return to Mitsuki's staff hand, she's a bit hesitant to continue that kind of spellcasting, not that anyone could blame her. On one hand, she knew exactly what would happen if she failed to control it again. On the other hand...she was so close. All she had to do was keep focus and she'd have figured it out.
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"That wasn't exactly what I had in mind..." grumbles Mitsuki surprised that her guts didn't fall out from the amount of electricity that just went coursing through her body. "What the hell kind of dream hurts so much? Am I going to feel like this when I wake up? I hope not..."
Mitsuki sits down and lays her staff across her lap, surprised she wasn't face down already. She continues to rub feeling back into her arm which hurts beyond any pain she'd ever felt before. "Ittaiyo." Mitsuki mutters. T-T
As she continued to massage her arm, the pain slowly subsided as feeling returned. Castalle offered her a nad up and gave her the staff back.
"You probably won't feel that bad when you wake up, but I'm not exactly sure - I never ran into a problem like that." Taking a step so she's behind Mitsuki, the elder witch continues.
"I don't think you're problem is power as much as it is maintained control. A ball of lightning is pretty easy to have go wrong, as you just saw. That much I do know firsthand. But if you try to project a single bolt...you may have better luck. Focus on your body, focus on whatever you want to have as a target, and then fill the space between with your power."
As if to help her with the "mechanics", so to speak, Castalle once again grasps the younger girl's wrist and holds it straight out, palm facing outward.
"You can do this...just keep concentrating on your goal, and the magic will do the rest..."
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"So much for being like Misaka onee-sama, she would have absorbed the electricity without even flinching...." Mitsuki muses.
Focusing on a spot a good 20 feet in front of them, Mitsuki concentrates once more to call the lightning forth attempting to use the advice Castalle had given her. 'Feel the magic and fill the space I want with it.' Mitsuki mentally repeats to herself. After a few moments of hard concentration, a group of several lightning bolts come down and strike the spot she had been concentrating on so hard. The force of the impact causes Mitsuki and Castalle's hair to be blown back with a good following wind.
"That was a bit more than I expected or wanted..." Mitsuki frowns a bit taken back by the amount of force she had called forth. "Gomen nasai."
"It's not easy, especially if you don't have the first clue of what to do. Don't worry, you'll be tossing around bolts that could go through the hole in Misaka's coin before you know it." Castalle seems quite chipper, and although Mitsuki isn't exactly impressed with herself, she did just summon a bolt of lightning out of nothing - and didn't kill herself with it.
"Anyway, the focus and concentration is kind of the key to any spellcasting. It will take a bit getting used to, but you definitely have the talent to get there.
So, what do you want to try next?"
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Mitsuki stares at Castalle for a moment and ponders. "I'm not sure. Since I can't be a lightning rod, that means I won't be able to stick to walls with metal girders or levitate with magnetism, but with this wind power, can something like that be achieved? Maybe I should be aiming more towards Temari's wind ninjutsu or Naruto's wind rasengan since my body doesn't seem to be very electricity friendly. I've always liked rasengan better than chidori anyway. Maybe because pikachu and Misaka onee-sama don't have any attacks like that. So I guess after all that babbling, I want to learn to channel and craft wind."
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Castalle seemed to keep up with Mitsuki's rambling, which was probably an impressive feat. Still she seemed to understand.
"Be that as it may, you do have to remember one giant detail: you have had access to magic for all of 30 minutes. It would be kinda stupid to expect you to be able to do much more than the very basic stuff. In fact you're making leaps and bounds over what I was able to do my first day. If you really want to excel at electrical attacks, both shooting and absorbing them, it'll just take some practice and dedication." The blond girl's pep talk sort of lifted mitsuki's spirits, and left her wanting more.
"Besides, you already showed that you can manipulate wind pretty well, there's really nothing more to do than that. I figure we should focus on the more specialized schools of magic here: Evocation, mentalism, alteration, and charms. Each kind of magic is somewhat different, but the basics are the same. Do you have a preference or should we just go through them one by one?"
While Mitsuki's mind is still on wind and electricity, part of her wants to see just how far she can take these newfound abilities of hers.
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"Evolution, meningitis, altercations and charms?" Mitsuki shoots up and eyebrow, "explain? Then maybe I can choose after we've gone over each one a time or two."
Mitsuki fights the urge to shout some Harry Potter jargon like 'expecto patronum' or something and then make the wind whip at Castalle's hair and skirt again. Mitsuki's attention then drifts to the ground around her. 'Now where'd that pikachu plushie go?' Mitsuki ponders while looking around, 'after all my transforming, staff materializing and shocking the living daylight out of me, I seemed to have lost track of him.'
By this time Mitsuki is breathing heavily and tears of angry frustration stream openly down her cheeks. Pikachu is clutched tightly in her left fist and her right fist is clenched just as tightly at her side.
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"Relax...calm down, it's gonna be fine." Castalle put a comforting shoulder around the girl, trying her best to console her. Pulling out a hankerchief, she wiped the tears from Mitsuki's face, trying to show that she actually cared about her. After that, the blonde girl put her hands on Mitsuki's shoulders and looked her dead in the eyes.
"I know this is a lot to take in, but I know you. More than you know you, probably. You don't like to talk with most people, because they don't understand how you think; how we think. I know you're heavy into anime, and I thought maybe that would make you be a bit more open to this...haven't you ever wondered what it would be like if you were part of that? How you'd act if you could bend electricity to your whims? Come on, you can't tell me you haven't thought of that."
Mitsuki isn't exactly sure what to say, but she has to say *something*, since Castalle's grip is keeping her from just running away.
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"Control electricity like Misaka onee-sama?" Mitsuki asks brightening up like a firecracker and instantly calming down with such a lucrative offer. Mitsuki moves the pikachu back into cuddle position. She looks up at Castalle, "Really? Can I really be like her? You should have said so in the first place!"
Castalle just smiles and nods while Mitsuki's face lights up like a little girl who just got a pony for her birthday.
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"But in a word, yes. You can control the winds, and electricity along with it. Normally there's supposed to be some buildup but I may as well just get rid of the pretenses: you're a witch."
The shock (pun not intended) of such a remark is certainly something that takes Mitsuki by surprise, but at the same time...Castalle's eyes are closed, a glowing yellow ball, about the size of a softball, is floating above her hand, as if guided by an invisible string.
"You and I are a lot alike. We have command over the skies, and all that exist in its domain. You're not going to be able to have this kind of control right out of the gate though...this kind of stuff requires practice and focus. I guess there's nothing else to do but get started."
Mitsuki is giddy as a schoolgirl (that pun was intended) and she can barely wait to start.
"There's actually a lot of different kinds of magic we have access to. Manipulating the winds and electrical currents is one thing, but there's plenty of other branches of casting we have at our disposal. There's Alteration, the ability to change how things look - something you seem like you might need..." Mitsuki blushes slightly, upon figuring out what Castalle is implying. "There's also Evocation and Abjuration, which are offensive and defensive magic, respectively. There may also be something with computers, but we should probably wait until later."
"What do you want to start with?"
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'I've always wanted to be like Misaka onee-sama so much! And this weirdo is going to give me the chance to do it! Uwaa~ I certainly hope she isn't pulling me leg. I'll gauge her eyes out and break her arms and legs if she is!' (Mental face: :dance:) Mitsuki dawdles while basking in the offer to become like her idol.
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"First thing you'll need is a way to channel your magic - it's traditionally done with a staff, but it will take another form when you don't need it. What I need for you to do is close your eyes and relax, empty your mind and concentrate on what's ahead of you."
Complying with the blonde mage's instructions, Mitsuki focuses her energy, her entire being, on the task at hand. She can almost feel a glowing, pulsing mass of energy floating in front of her outstretched hand.
"That's good. Now tighten your focus and reach out. If I'm right about you, the magic in front of you will form itself into a charm for you, a key to unlock your magic. Create a form for it and claim it from the aether!"
Mitsuki's body is trembling, her breaths shallow and soft. She can feel a strange warmth in front of her; welcoming her, entrancing her, seducing her...she had to take it. There was no other option.
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'That was exhilarating! I'm seemingly really tired now, but the feeling of it was intense! I wonder what other things this blonde has up her sleeve? I'd have to at least kick her in the shins if she tells me I'm going to turn into the 10th Sailor Scout to help fight off the evils of the Negaverse though.' Mitsuki thinks to herself.
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"Well, that's half the battle. Now you'll want to call up your staff. Just relax, and focus yourself. Will it to change shape, I guess." Mitsuki's adrenaline is pumping full force, giving her at least enough strentgh to comply. Hopefully the staff would allow the girl some more energy, otherwise she'd really be in a bind.
(OOC: unlike the charm, the staff and clothes are determined by your character's elemental affinity - so there's not much she can do to change them.)
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What materializes in her hand isn't quite Bardiche, but is still a jet black staff however with a circular attachment at the end with a golden orb mystically suspended in the center of the circle. The staff is taller than Mitsuki by about a foot. "Sugoi," Mitsuki utters as she firmly plants the staff in the ground and leans on it to prevent herself from collapsing again.
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Pushing aside the near-prophetic images in her head, Mitsuki tries to calm her mind and focuses her mind once again, trying to recall the vivid sensation of magic tickling her mind.
Before she could process what was happening, arcane energy flooded the girl's body, sparks of electric euphoria consuming every fiber of her being, igniting the latent magic in her body, spreading to encompass her entire being.
When Mitsuki opened her eyes, she was in awe of what was now in her hands. A white-steel staff, about a foot taller than she was, with a green crystal at the top with a vaugely draconic figure adorning the glowing gem while holding it in place.
As for Mitsuki's new clothes...while it wasn't exactly like the barrier jacket of her daydreaming, it was a pale golden shirt with a soft collar. The shirt was very soft, almost silky, but was also kind of stretchy so it stuck to her body. Completing the ensemble was a navy-blue pleated skirt (about half an inch longer than her school skirt, she noted), black high-top sneakers and black knee-high stockings. It wasn't exactly her style, but the new costume was very mundane and she doubted anyone would give it a second thought.
"Wow...I gotta say, you make that look good. So now...anything you want to know, or should we jump into things?"
Mitsuki's mind is racing. She feels a newfound surge of energy, fatigue and discomfort dissappearing from her senses. It's almost like, for the first time, she feels truly alive.
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Castalle simply smiles and nods. "So what would you like to start with?" asks Castalle.
"How about the beginning?" muses Mitsuki. "There have to be some basic rules that have to be laid down first so I don't blow us both to the moon, right? Or will it be more like Zero no Tsukaima where anything I try to cast makes an explosion anyway, so it doesn't matter?"
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"Umm... I may have said something wrong before, but there's not a lot of shielding you can do with just wind and electricity. On the other hand there are plenty of charms and curses we can do, affecting people's luck and stuff like that."
Mitsuki almost feels like she should be taking notes, but she tries her best to commit things to memory.
"As for actually casting things, just focus your mind and will something to happen. If it's in your power to do so, the spell will fire off. Again, no need to shout out attack names, just focus and let your magic do the rest. If you get good enough at it it'll become second nature, just point and shoot." Mitsuki could barely contain the excitement. She could fire lightning bolts at anyone at the drop of a hat?
Talk about tempting.
"Stop daydreaming please. Can you at least promise that you will keep this whole thing our little secret? There's no telling what might happen if you blab to someone about this, the media would be all over you."
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Mitsuki's first gentle breeze calmed her nerves as the tall grass rustled under her command. Gaining more confidence, her second burst of wind does a good job of tousling Castalle's long hair, her skirt flapping in the breeze like a flag.
"I think that's enough of that...we don't need more fanservice here." Castalle's tone hasn't improved although you can tell she's not unhappy with mitsuki's work. "Anyway...electricity is a bit of a different animal; it'll bite back if you don't give it the proper respect." As if to prove the point, Castalle snapped her fingers as a roaring bolt of lightning slammed down to the ground just inches from where they were standing, leaving a small patch of blackened grass. Mitsuki probably freaked out at how close she was to being zapped, although Castalle was stoic as ever.
"Electricity is alive, and you have to summon it like any other living thing - channel energy from yourself into where you want the lightning to go, and whatever you do, don't lose your focus. Ready to try?"
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After a moment's thought, "and if I'm suppose to keep quiet about this when I wake up... are you telling me that I'm sleeping soundly in my bed right now? And where are you in all of this? Sleeping in your bed, too? You still haven't really explained yourself."
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It's probably not Castalle's place to devine her role in the greater mysteries of the world. It definitely wasn't Mitsuki's. Besides, there was a smaller, much more important mystery to get to the bottom of.
"Hmm...well, I'm not sure exactly how to explain it, but I'll try. I guess you need to feel the magic, not just use it, but let it run through you - the brain transmits electrical impulses to the rest of your body, it's how you're able to move and breathe and stuff." It wasn't the best time for a biology lesson, but Mitsuki filed away the mention, just in case. "Try to picture yourself rerouting that electricity, bend it to your will. It's kinda surreal I guess, but once you figure out how it feels...you'll remember it forever."
Well on one side it seemed wholly unhelpful, but on the other hand Castalle did all she could to explain it. It was now up to the pre-teen trainee witch, and her faith in her abilities.
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With the thought of Misaka Mikoto, lightning comes from the heavens to rest neatly in a ball of crackling electricity above the green crystal on Mitsuki's staff. Amazed with this sudden appearance, Mitsuki loses her concentration and control of the lightning. "Oh shi-"
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It almost feels like her right arm was amputated, she has no sensation of feeling through it, and it's both interesting and freaky as hell at the same time. Castalle grits her teeth, obviously understanding what happened.
"Ouch...well, I can't say I didn't warn you, but that looks like it stung. try massaging it with your other hand, that'll help restore the feeling a bit quicker...but you almost had it! Just need to keep your focus while you're holding on to it. You wanna try again?"
As feeling slowly starts to return to Mitsuki's staff hand, she's a bit hesitant to continue that kind of spellcasting, not that anyone could blame her. On one hand, she knew exactly what would happen if she failed to control it again. On the other hand...she was so close. All she had to do was keep focus and she'd have figured it out.
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Mitsuki sits down and lays her staff across her lap, surprised she wasn't face down already. She continues to rub feeling back into her arm which hurts beyond any pain she'd ever felt before. "Ittaiyo." Mitsuki mutters. T-T
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"You probably won't feel that bad when you wake up, but I'm not exactly sure - I never ran into a problem like that." Taking a step so she's behind Mitsuki, the elder witch continues.
"I don't think you're problem is power as much as it is maintained control. A ball of lightning is pretty easy to have go wrong, as you just saw. That much I do know firsthand. But if you try to project a single bolt...you may have better luck. Focus on your body, focus on whatever you want to have as a target, and then fill the space between with your power."
As if to help her with the "mechanics", so to speak, Castalle once again grasps the younger girl's wrist and holds it straight out, palm facing outward.
"You can do this...just keep concentrating on your goal, and the magic will do the rest..."
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Focusing on a spot a good 20 feet in front of them, Mitsuki concentrates once more to call the lightning forth attempting to use the advice Castalle had given her. 'Feel the magic and fill the space I want with it.' Mitsuki mentally repeats to herself. After a few moments of hard concentration, a group of several lightning bolts come down and strike the spot she had been concentrating on so hard. The force of the impact causes Mitsuki and Castalle's hair to be blown back with a good following wind.
"That was a bit more than I expected or wanted..." Mitsuki frowns a bit taken back by the amount of force she had called forth. "Gomen nasai."
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"Anyway, the focus and concentration is kind of the key to any spellcasting. It will take a bit getting used to, but you definitely have the talent to get there.
So, what do you want to try next?"
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Castalle seemed to keep up with Mitsuki's rambling, which was probably an impressive feat. Still she seemed to understand.
"Be that as it may, you do have to remember one giant detail: you have had access to magic for all of 30 minutes. It would be kinda stupid to expect you to be able to do much more than the very basic stuff. In fact you're making leaps and bounds over what I was able to do my first day. If you really want to excel at electrical attacks, both shooting and absorbing them, it'll just take some practice and dedication." The blond girl's pep talk sort of lifted mitsuki's spirits, and left her wanting more.
"Besides, you already showed that you can manipulate wind pretty well, there's really nothing more to do than that. I figure we should focus on the more specialized schools of magic here: Evocation, mentalism, alteration, and charms. Each kind of magic is somewhat different, but the basics are the same. Do you have a preference or should we just go through them one by one?"
While Mitsuki's mind is still on wind and electricity, part of her wants to see just how far she can take these newfound abilities of hers.
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Mitsuki fights the urge to shout some Harry Potter jargon like 'expecto patronum' or something and then make the wind whip at Castalle's hair and skirt again. Mitsuki's attention then drifts to the ground around her. 'Now where'd that pikachu plushie go?' Mitsuki ponders while looking around, 'after all my transforming, staff materializing and shocking the living daylight out of me, I seemed to have lost track of him.'
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