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Who: Lea and anyone
Where: Corastra Hall and possibly nearby
When: Mid-September
What: Panic at the Fresco! "Trouble in Corastra Hall! Just as you're passing by, a crowd of people come charging out of the building with screams and shouts aplenty. A fresco painting of a wolf has come alive, and is with great confusion attempting to eat people. It isn't succeeding, because it neither has a stomach nor much of a third dimension, but this can't be good. If you and your friends can deal with this, though, you might be heroes!"
Warnings: Violence against frescos, attempted but unsuccessful eating of people

Lea had seen a lot of weird stuff since arriving at the Magicademy, but this? This was new. Somehow though, he couldn't bring himself to be too surprised. After ghost dragons, overly aggressive plants, and random body switching, why not living, violent frescos?

Still, just because he wasn't especially surprised by this latest bit of weirdness didn't mean he was going to let it cause havoc. Dodging the last few stragglers trying to escape the crazed artwork, Lea ducked into the building and summoned his Keyblade, actually smiling a bit. Just like old times, in a good way. "Bad dog!", he called to attract the creature's attention. "No biscuit for you!"

It turned straight toward him and snarled, letting him see it edge-on, which was a super-weird effect. OK, that was going to take some getting used to. And it probably wouldn't hurt for him to have someone fighting beside him, if only to help keep track of the thing.

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Webby is nearby when she hears all the noise and panic - sounds like a fun time! She spots the wolf, and whips out her wand.

"Dogs like to play fetch, right?"

"Sometimes yeah," Lea said, dodging as the creature lunged at him. "Though somehow I don't think this guy is that friendly."

"Then it's still worth a try!"

Inhale...

"HERE BOY, FETCH!" With that, Webby threw her wand over the creature's head, hopefully into it's line of sight.

While the wand definitely flew within its line of sight, it seemed far less interested in the wand than the one who threw it, turning to growl at Webby. It stalked toward her, and Lea readied his Keyblade to strike if Webby tried to do something extremely inadvisable. "Well that didn't work," he said. "I'd go retrieve that wand if I were you."

Webby's eyes widened, but when she took a step back, she was grinning.

"Better idea!" It wasn't going to be a better idea. "I'll be the distraction! I know how to keep anyone's attention!"

No, that definitely wasn't a better idea. "You can be distracting with your wand," Lea said. "And be able to defend yourself."

The creature lunged at Webby and Lea struck, knocking it to one side and thoroughly grabbing its attention when his Keyblade impacted its flank. "Besides," he said, as the creature turned to him. "I wanna stop this thing without destroying it. Get it back into the fresco if we can."

Oh, you're no fun. "Fiiine..." She likes being bait! With a huff, she ducked and rolled to grab her wand.

"So we just corral it like a really rough horse?"

Neither is dying, kiddo.

"Kinda," Lea said. "Though if you know any spells for making stuff stick to other stuff, those'd be helpful too. We wanna try and get this thing stuck back to the wall."

In a flash of blue-white fire, Lunatic is summoned to Isa's hand.

"Do you have any plan for fighting this thing, or are you just going to improvise?"

Knowing Lea, Isa expected the second.

Lea shot Isa a quick grin before returning his attention fully to what they were fighting. "Improvising," he said. "I'm honestly not sure there is a way to plan for something like this, really."

Hmph, Isa was sure that they could probably come up with a rudimentary plan if they wanted to, but if they had to improvise, then they'd improvise.

In any case, it was time to see if Isa's training was paying off...

The fresco wolf lunged at Lea, attempting to catch him in its jaws, but it didn't have any better luck than it had had before trying to eat people as he jumped to one side. "At least one of us should try and keep on the side of it," he said. "It's so flat, that it's hard to see if you're facing it head-on."

Building on that...

"If we can keep it between us, we should be able to take it down relatively easily."

"Sounds good," Lea said.

As the creature twisted and tried to snap at Isa instead, Lea tried to get around to its opposite side, the part of it that had once connected with the wall. Though that gave him a bit of an idea. "Hey Isa, do you know any spells for sticking things?", he said, feinting at the creature with his Keyblade to try and draw a bit of its attention from his friend. "Like some kind of magic glue spell or something?"

The creature only manages to get a mouthful of Lunatic as Isa blocks the attack.

"Glue spell?"

He knocks the living painting away, giving himself a moment to think.

"I did learn about the magic they use in construction once, so that may work."

"Think that if we can get it close enough to the wall, you could try and use that to put it back where it belongs?", Lea said. He ducked the creature's flat tail as it it lashed through the air. The creature growled and swiped at Isa with a thin paw before rounding on Lea again when he gave one of its hind legs a solid strike with his Keyblade. "I'd rather not completely destroy this thing if we can avoid it. I mean yeah, it's a monster now, but somebody certainly put a lot of work into it when it was just art."

"We can try. It's a better idea than nothing."

Not that he's sure the spell he has in mind is supposed to be used on living things... but does this even count as living?

"Right," Lea said as he too was forced to block the creature's snapping jaws with his weapon, a task easier said than done; for having very little in the way of a third dimension, the creature was surprisingly strong. "In that case, I'll... ngh, try and get it lined up for you."

He wrenched his Keyblade free of the thin jaws, before dashing to a point near the remains of the fresco on the wall, waving his glowing weapon like a dog owner might wave a stick intended for a game of fetch. He whistled. "Here, boy! Got a big, tasty fresco bone with your name on it!"

Edited 2019-10-01 02:39 (UTC)

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Sorry for the super late reply. orz

no worries, life happens

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