School For Half Humans (REBOOT, IC)

[Nuridia]

Salma waved to John and hushed her voice. "Hey John, I was going to tell you something about Aurelia but it's probably not that big of a deal." 'Eric, do you think it's a big deal?" she asked. Meanwhile, Marie made sure her husband was comfortable and sleeping before heading back downstairs to Seth. "I'll be back in a minute my love, right now I have to go make sure our child will be alright." Marie told Raphael, squeezing his hand before leaving the room. "Yeah Seth, I needed to ask you something." Marie sat at a chair across from the young demon. "How strong is the spell on Aurelia right now, she seems to be doing pretty well but with everybody's emotions fired up I'm worried someone will slip." "You said one more soul will let you strengthen it right, well I see you've gotten about four more souls since then."
"I just want to make sure she'll be okay."

[Tomia]

John stood up quickly and nodded. He took a look at Asteria and walked outside the room with Salma and Eric closing the door behind him. Once he did he turned to them "What's up? Is Aurelia ok? Nothing's happened to her right?" John asked with concern in his voice. He wasn't sure if they were ready to tell people they were dating but John couldn't hide the concern in his voice.
Eric shook his head "Uh, no not really." He figured that's what Salma wanted him to say but it seemed important that Aurelia's mind could get messed up permanently.

[Nuridia]

"Yeah, she's totally fine." Salma assured him. "It's just that, her mental state isn't at its peak at the moment." "She had a spell done on her to block some scarring memories and if we say the wrong thing it might push her over." "I want to make sue that doesn't happen. so whatever you do please don't tell her about you and Seth's almost deal or call Falan a monster in front of her, it might trigger something in her brain and she'll never be the same." "It was a long time ago, but the memory's very dangerous and I don't know the full story but we gotta be super careful."

[New Cinoth]

Seth looked around, "To be honest that spell isn't very strong. I thought Eric would unwind it for sure. That boy has to be more careful about what he does." Seth nodded, "Indeed I have. I'm much more powerful now then what I used to be. I'm almost fully awake." He sighed, "I just need Aurelia's cooperation to redo the spell in a better format..... Speaking of that when can we get on that? I'll need time to fix her up and someplace private, without interruptions. If someone comes in they could completely screw up her mind."

[Tomia]

John listened to Salma and nodded weakly. John got scared when she said that her mind could be could be damaged. "Of course I won't say anything to her, I promise. I wasn't planning on telling her about what happened with Seth anyway. That wasn't exactly my finest moment. But I'll be as careful as I can around her. I couldn't take it if anything happened to her."
Eric shook his head guiltily "I'm sorry brother I should have been more careful around her. I wasn't thinking."

[Nuridia]

Salma comforted them both. "You guys didn't do anything, she's fine for the moment and all we can do is pray she stays that way." Meanwhile, Marie was talking with Seth. "We can ask her as soon as she comes out of the bathroom." "You guys can go to this library in Marseille, it's totally abandoned so it's completely quiet and nobody goes in or out." "I'll give you the address." As soon as Marie finished her sentence, Aurelia came out of the bathroom in a nightgown and over-robe, walking toward them. "Mom, Seth?" "How is everyone, what's going on?" she asked.

[Tomia]

John nodded "Ya I guess you're right Salma, I just don't want anything to happen to her. John saw Aurelia walk out of the bathroom and walked up to her. He stayed as calm as possible despite what he had just learned. He smiled and waved to her he wasn't sure what to say and was still worried about her but tried not to let it show.

[New Cinoth]

Seth nodded, " Alright... But if she says no there isn't much I can do. Memory is a very temperamental thing an it's hard enough to get it right with cooperation." Hmmm and abandoned library.... That might be interesting to know for later. "Thank you... But how will we explain this to Aurelia. She did it out of grief the first time, what will convince her to do it now?" When Aurelia stepped out he sighed, " Just talking about the party. But there is something your mother and I need to talk to you about." He nodded to Marie and whispered, "She'll probably be more at ease if you tell her. This is very delicate work." The things I do for this family.... How funny this must seem... Hopefully things will go well.

[Nuridia]

Marie stood up and put an arm around Aurelia. "Come darling, I need to talk to you alone." "John, I need to borrow my daughter for a bit." "Sure Mom, what's up?" the two head upstairs to the room where Raphael is lying down with Michael sitting by him. "Daddy!" Aurelia races to Raphael. "Are you okay Papa?" "Yes darling, just a little tired." "There's no need to fret." "A little tired Raph?" Marie asked. Michael added, "You passed the fuck out in the dining room!" "Okay so maybe I'm a lot tired." Raphael sighed. "But it's nothing big." "However, I'm placed on mandatory bedrest for the next few hours." "The doctor getting treated." Aurelia smiled. "You do need to take it a bit easier Dad." "Anyway Mom, anything you want to talk to me about?" "Yes dear, you know that little spell Seth did to calm you down?" "Yeah, I remember." "It's supposed to help you relax right?" "Yeah, well we're worried that you might be stressed again so we need to make the spell stronger." "Why, I'm fine." Aurelia insisted. Raphael spoke up. "After what almost went wrong last time?" "I'm worried something will go wrong soon if we don't take precautions, sweetheart." Marie insisted gently. "I don't want anything to happen to her and I know you don't either." Raphael was silent for a bit and then nodded. "You're right Mimi, better safe than sorry." "We just want to make sure you're going to be okay for good." "We don't want to lose you." Both parents each took one of Aurelia's hands. "And think about Asteria, if you get too stressed you can go crazy and hurt her." Aurelia looked pale. "I would never hurt my baby!" she whispered painfully. "We know love, but stress makes people do weird things." Aurelia looked horrified that stress could make her hurt her daughter and hated seeing her parents worry about her. After silence, she nodded. "Alright, I'll do it." "Whatever it takes to protect her and make sure you guys rest easy." Aurelia hugged her parents. "I love you guys." "We love you too darling." "Now let's go downstairs, it won't take long." Marie walked her daughter downstairs and nodded to Seth, silently letting him know that Aurelia had agreed. She handed him a slip of paper with the library's address on it and kissed her daughter's forehead. "Good luck love, I know you'll be alright." "I love you Mama." "I love you too butterfly."

[New Cinoth]

This is going to be incredibly painful isn't it.... I bet it will be.... The librarians were never know for their friendliness. Seth frowned, So why am I doing this? I guess it's just because we are friends... Sure... Friends screw with their friend's memory. Seth sighed heavily, while waiting, seeing no convenient way to reason it away. To pass the time he opened the portal and made sure everything was okay He nodded to Marie, "Alright let's get this show on the road." He motioned for Aurelia to step through first, "After you."

[Nuridia]

Before Aurelia stepped through, Marie talked to Seth because she saw he didn't look happy about it. "She'll remember us will she, the second time won't take away any other memories will it?" she asked so only he can hear. "We trust you, I'm just asking because I'm curious." Aurelia stepped through the portal while they were talking, ending up in a chair at the empty library.

[New Cinoth]

Seth shook his head, "No, she should be perfectly fine.... It's the librarians that I'm worried about. Seth grinned at her,"Remember: No distractions. Guard this portal like it was your own soul." He stepped through before she could reply. Now.... Don't screw this up or you'll have an angry angel breathing down your neck... And worse an angry mother. "Alright Aurelia, close your eyes and no peeking." He began to trace a large circle around her and draw in the runic symbols needed for the dark magic to work. "Just relax and it will be over quickly."

[Tomia]

After a while John had to know what was going on so he follows Marie and Aurelia upstairs. When he found Marie he looked around confused "Where is Aurelia? Is she okay?" He saw a portal open and wondered if she went through there. He looked around helplessly, wishing he could do something. "Wherever she is I want to be there with her, if something is wrong I need to help her."

[Nuridia]

Marie nodded and sat close enough to the portal but far enough that she didn't accidentally get sucked in. "Right, nobody's getting in this portal." Yulan and Mira, who had heard the whole thing nodded as well. "We want to help Aurelia too, we'll help Marie guard." "Yeah, we'll help." Marie smiled at the girls. "Thank you both, you're very kind." "Marie then turned to John. "Nobody's allowed through that portal, Seth's going to make Aurelia better and he needs absolutely no distractions." "We have to make sure nobody walks into this portal and disturbs them." She turned back to Yulan and Mira. "One of you please go tell my husband I'll be a while, I have to make sure this thing goes smoothly. "I'll go." Yulan got up and quietly went upstairs. Aurelia sighed in the library and calmed everything down until she was completely relaxed. "Okay, I'm relaxed." "Do what you have to do."

[Tomia]

John sighed he wanted to argue but didn't. He tried to seem more calm and confident than he felt. "Fine" He hated feeling so helpless. He knew there was nothing he could do so he changed into his golden retriever form and sat up against the wall silently, barely moving. His eyes were full of worry.
Eric followed John and heard Marie say what was happening. He saw John and felt bad for him. He knew he was probably worried but didn't think he should say anything. He seemed like he wanted to be alone.

[New Cinoth]

Seth nodded, "Alright." When he completed the runes five decrepit bird men appeared, "Why have we been summoned?" They asked him mentally. Seth frowned, " I need to fix a friend of mine and so I compelled you to be here." The lead librarian ruffled it's feathers, You be live you can command us?" Seth glared at the defiant demon, "I can and I will! You will obey me and strengthen the spell." At first there was stunned silence but then the librarians began to laugh, which sounded more like the dying gasps of a flock of birds. "We shall but you know the price." Seth nodded, "I am well aware of it." With that said the librarians circled Aurelia and began the spell...

Half an hour later they stopped, their work done. "And now our work is done.... We shall take our price." Seth nodded as a large portion of vitality was taken leaving him shaky and pale, "Alright Aurelia. It's done. You did well." Seth said as the librarians faded away. He leaned against a bookshelf. "Just head on back through. I'm right behind you." Seth had no actual intentions of moving for quite a while.

[Nuridia]

Aurelia stood up slowly and shook her hair. "Thanks Seth, I owe you one." "Hey dude, are you okay?" she asked with concern when he was leaning against a bookshelf. "You look like the life's been sucked out of you."

[New Cinoth]

And this is why people invented sacrifices.... So they wouldn't get their life sucked out by annoying demonic entities. "No problem. I'm glad it helped." Seth tried to give her a reassuring grin, "Yeah I'm just a little tired that's all. Standing around and waving your arms makes you a little tired. It's nothing to be concerned about." He waved his hand at her, "Just go on ahead and tell them everything is fine. I'm sure your mother is waiting for you back on the other side of that portal. I'll be along when I get my second wind."

[Nuridia]

Aurelia looked at him for a bit longer before realizing he wasn't going to tell her what was really wrong. "Alright, if you're sure." "If you're not back in an hour we're checking on you." Aurelia then turned and walked back through the portal. "Hey everyone." Marie hugged her. "Aurelia, I'm so glad!" "How do you feel?" "Perfectly fine Mom, maybe even a little better." "Seth, not so much." "He said he'd be right behind me but he was all pale when I saw him and he looked weak too." Mira looked worried. "He's okay though, right?" "That's what he insists on, saying he's just a bit tired." Yulan was in her room and Marie went upstairs after seeing Aurelia was alright. She went over to Raphael and sat on the bed next to him. "Darling, I'm so sorry." "I just had to make sure Aurelia was alright, I would've gotten here sooner." "Don't apologize for being a mother." "You were caring for our daughter as you always have done." "She's lucky to have a mother like you." "Not as lucky as she is to have a strong caring father like you." "We're both lucky to have you, and we want to keep you around so don't push yourself." "I won't love, please don't worry." Marie sighed and laid down next to her husband. "I'm going to worry, that's a wife's role."

[Tomia]

John sat in silence as he waited for Aurelia to return. He was really scared for her and didn't want anything to happen. He didn't like the idea of Seth messing with her memory. What if she doesn't remember us? What if she doesn't remember me? He pushed those thoughts from his mind. He hated feeling weak and refused to think about that Will will stop whining? She's going to be fine, I won't let anything happen to her.
When Aurelia walked through portal his mind flooded with relief. He ran towards her still in dog formed and jumped up and rested his front legs on her shoulders. He licked her cheek playfully and changed back to human form and hugged her. " Aurelia I'm glad you're back did everything go alright?"
Eric was glad to see Aurelia come back, seemingly alright. He could tell John had been nervous. He knew he must really care about Aurelia, he had never seen his brother act like this around someone before.

[Nuridia]

Aurelia laughed when John licked her cheek and then she leaned into his hug, hugging him back. "Hey John." "Everything was okay except Seth was all pale and weak looking." "He told me he was fine and insisted I go without him, but I don't buy that one bit." "I hope I didn't make you worry too much. she said to John. The hug was a bit awkward physically, at seven feet two inches tall she was significantly taller than the demigod, but hoped that didn't bother him too much. Especially since she liked to wear heels a lot and that added even more height.

[Tomia]

John nodded to Aurelia relief on his face "I'm glad nothing went wrong." Being so close to her he thought about how tall she was. John was pretty tall but Aurelia had about six or seven inches on him. It didn't really bother him though. But he didn't mind that much that she was taller than him. He shook his head "It was fine, I'm just glad you're safe and we can put this behind us." He frowned slightly when she told him about Seth "Maybe I should go check on him, make sure he's alright."

[New Cinoth]

Seth sighed. He was feeling like crap but he needed to get out of sight just in case a librarian did show up. He slowly climbed the bookshelf, using his wings to help propel him upwards. Seth laid down on the top of the bookshelf and blew and exhausted sigh, Come one... Any minute now I should start to feel better. Those damn librarians and their prices. Never again.... He slowly closed his eyes, feeling quiet tired. A little bit of sleep can't hurt. The portal wills till be here when I wake up so it should be all okay. He yawned and fell asleep.

[Nuridia]

Aurelia nodded. "We really should check to make sure he's okay." Mira stood up. "Let me go with you, I want to make sure he's alright." Salma was still upstairs, she was watching Asteria. "So much has happened today, and it's two hours before noon." "Your mom has some weird, wonderful awesome friends." "Boy, is this gonna be a wild ride." Salma stood up, her mother would probably ask if she'd chosen her ball gown yet. She kept it secret, nobody was supposed to know about her outfit until the ball."

[Sukai]

Kit had just closed the door behind her and step into the hallway and begain to explore the surrounding halls after walking for few minutes she decided to knock on a random door to see who'ed answer.