Allen grit his teeth, if not for the direness of the situation he might have let his temper get the better of him. "Fine." He turned to face the man. "But this is a temporary arrangement, got that. I still don't know enough about you or your plans to decide whether or not I want to be a part of them. So I'll stick with you until I figure I've paid you back for saving me here and then if I've had enough of your team I'm gone. And I want some answers as soon as we're safe or the deals off. Agreed?" Allen stuck out his hand for a handshake from the man as a sign that he agreed to Allen's terms.
"Can I come with you if I don't join your team?" Allen was somewhat pissed at the apparent ultimatum, and he let it show.
Allen stared in horror as the creatures attacked the students and staff alike. Watching these things injure the people around him only to have the wounded become more monsters, it was like a vision of Hell. One of the beasts attempted to attack him and he summoned his sword and bisected it. Only to watch the two halves become two separate, fully-functioning, monsters. As the creatures began closing in on Allen he used an explosion of light to push them back. Then turned and ran with Hell on his heels. He had to use his magic often to keep the monsters from overtaking him, but he eventually reached the room from which he felt the fading remnants of his werelight. Under normal circumstances he would've knocked, and he almost did now, but he didn't have time. He flung the door open with force, ran into the room, and slammed it behind him. "What are you doing here?," he said somewhat accusingly to the man in the white coat. He turned towards the door and held his sword at the ready, never facing away from it as he spoke. "Something's happening! There are monsters in the school! The hall's already full of them!" He did his best to retain his calm demeanor, despite his frightened state.
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Allen jumped as the bang erupted through the hall he was standing in, and his floating light shook from his reaction, and now he was sure that something was definitely wrong. His light concern quickly developed into more and he took off at a sprint towards the place where he had last seen Phisoxa and Shero. He reached the hall where they had separated and stopped to catch his breath. He regretted leaving them alone now. What if something happened to them? After a few seconds he went back to sprinting, this time towards the stairs they had walked towards. Once he had ascended the stairs he realized he had no idea where they had gone from where he was. He extinguished his magic light and closed his eyes, attempting to sense the light he had left with Shero. It would have gone out by now but if he got close enough he might be able to sense what was left of it. He opened his eyes and began to run, slower now, down the hall, hoping to detect the remaining essence of his magic. He came across Dr. Traken standing over the body of Noire, and would've stopped to speak with him, had he not felt the magical essence of his light. As it was he started sprinting again in the direction of his magic and what he hoped was Shero.
Allen summoned another, smaller, werelight as he walked through the dark halls and noticed he didn't need it once he got outside. It disturbed him that it was lighter outside than in the building, and being slightly worried about his new friends, he decided to go back inside and investigate. "I am definitely sleeping through my first few classes tomorrow." He thought as he rubbed his eyes.
Allen turned and began walking back towards his own dorm, he lived in the next building over and it would be about twenty minutes before he got back to his room, at least at the slow pace he walked.
Allen smiled slightly when she said she would see him tomorrow. "Okay, but before I go-" Allen extended a hand towards Shero and the werelight floated over and stopped above her head. "That way you don't have to walk back in the dark. It should go out in about ten minutes, that'll be enough time right?"
"I guess you're right." Allen sighed, he had hoped maybe he'd found a way to save his home. "How much farther are your rooms?"
"Still you don't think it's a little suspicious that-" Allen stopped short as the lights went out. "Weird," he remarked under his breath, then louder so that the girls could hear, "you ladies are lucky to have me along. Check this out." He closed his eyes and placed both hands over his heart, as he did he started to glow. Then he opened his eyes and extended his arms outward, the glow around his body concentrating into an orb of light in his hands that illuminated the area around them like a lantern. He lifted the light above his head where it hovered, it would now follow him wherever he went. "Ta-da." He gave a cheesy smile. "Now as I was saying don't you think it's a little suspicious that Eclipscion gave Mixt diplomatic immunity right after he killed someone?"
"That gives me an idea, actually," Allen said as he started to walk with her. "Maybe, the dark empire could be blamed for this. And then the school's fine. Hey, you two don't mind if I walk you to your rooms do you?"
"That guy we were talking to is literally getting away with murder. And he doesn't even care about the life he ended. To him the boy he killed was just an obstacle keeping him from getting better. He's dangerous." Allen turned back to Phisoxa. "And if he's walking free the PR nightmare just got a whole lot worse"
"I don't like that guy," Allen noted to Phisoxa as MIxt walked away. "Still at least I know why he did it." He sighed, then walked to Shero and extended a hand for her to shake. "Hello, I'm Allen Tor, you must be the friend Phisoxa was waiting for, Shero was it?"
Allen actually laughed at Mixt's response, and his anger quickly faded away so that he returned to his usual calm demeanor. "You know you're right about that at least. I would love to beat you into the ground and just leave you there suffering, for what you did, or more for your attitude about what you did, you deserve it. And trust me, I do have it in me to fight you, or did you forget what happened before you killed the boy?" Allen flashed a cocky smile. "But I'm not like you. I don't pick fights because I can. And I'm smart enough to see that there are better ways to solve things than violence. The legal system for example." This last comment was said with obvious sarcasm. He then turned to Phisoxa "We should go, it's really late and, frankly, I've had enough of this guy."
Mixt's responses, both to himself and to Phisoxa, as well as the thought of Jen dying, caused Allen's anger to intensify to the point where it was all he could do not to attack Mixt. "IN YOUR WAY! YOU KILLED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS IN YOUR WAY!" Allen got in Mixt's face as he shouted at him. "YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HIS NAME, YOU TOOK HIM OUT WITH NO EFFORT WHATSOEVER, HIS DEATH HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT YOU WERE DOING AT THE TIME, BUT YOU KILLED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS IN YOUR WAY!" Allen took a moment to compose himself. "It's not your job to stay alive. It's the job of you and every person who's ever born to do what they can to make the world better. And FYI, that does not include murdering innocent students."
Allen was pissed off by Mixt's comment about not knowing who the victim was, mostly by the truth in it, and he let it show a little in that he stepped closer to Mixt and postured himself somewhat threateningly. "Why does it matter if we didn't know him? somebody did. For all you know you could've taken away someone's whole world when you killed that boy," Allen thought about what it would be like if someone killed Jen. "But you don't even care do you?" His arm twitched as he resisted the urge to punch Mixt in the face. He remembered his curiosity though and was able to calm himself enough to ask " Why? Why did you kill that boy?"
Allen looked back at the bathroom where Phisoxa's friend was, then back at Phisoxa herself. At first he was unsure of what to do; Phisoxa's friend could very well be expecting her to be there when she came out, and he thought maybe he should wait for her and explain where Phisoxa went. This feeling was quickly overpowered, however, by a concern for Phisoxa's safety at the idea of her being alone alone at night with a murderer. He also realized this was his chance to ask Mixt about what happened and he quickly followed after the two "Shouldn't you be locked up?" Now that he was no longer alone with Phisoxa he went back to playing it cool.
Allen didn't like the idea of the academy closing either, he had spent his whole life moving around before coming to this school and he liked having a place he could actually think of as home. "I don't think they'll close it down. At least they shouldn't, one bad thing happening here doesn't necessarily mean it's too dangerous too keep open. But people who're in charge of things are usually idiots so who knows." He looked at the girls' bathroom. "Hey when's your friend coming out? It's getting late."
"That makes sense actually," Allen watched Juno as she walked by, "this is supposed to be one of Janina's best academies right? So it probably isn't going over well with anyone. Think about it," Allen stood up too, "a student at one of a nation's star academies - an academy which is given nothing but praise publicly- produces a murderer. Not only that, but this murderer is also one of the hardest working students at the academy. It's a PR nightmare; Mixt makes the academy look bad, and then because the academy looks bad so does Janina."
Seeing Phisoxa get upset caused Allen to forget his tough-guy act. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you." He was going to put his hand on her shoulder, but stopped as he remembered that they didn't even really know each other. "I know what you mean though, I spent the whole day doing some of my favorite things. But I just couldn't get it out of my head. Eventually I just decided 'screw it' and took a nap," he hesitated a moment, "I ended up having a nightmare about what happened." He put his head in his hands. "I just can't get my mind off of it. I even decided to sit down and talk with you because I knew you were there too. It just doesn't make any sense y'know."
