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aquaevans · 7 years ago

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Chewie || DaniSam F2F

Who: Sam Evans, Dani Harper (@shiftingdani), Ari, Fiyero Where: Undique Stadium When: October 6, 2018 What: Dani and Sam train together as Socius’ for the first time General Notes: Minor violence from the usual training

Sam walked into Undique Stadium with Ari beside him. It was a training day with Dani, a first since they became Socius', and he was ready to see how they worked together. He already had seen her fighting once before at Pagan Pride, but the second he thought of that, Sam's thoughts began to stray towards the aftermath. Quickly shaking it off so he wouldn't get distracted by the memories, he began to do some stretching while he waited for her to arrive.

Dani wasn´t exactly thrilled about this whole fighting thing. She had been a fighter all her life, yes, but more in the sense of having to stand up for herself and surviving by getting by. Not actual surviving because her life was threatened on a daily basis. Still, she could have done way worse than being paired up with Sam, so she´d be fine. At least for today, so she made her way to Undique, waving at Sam when he came into view. "Hey," She offered him a smile before joining in with the stretching. "So...this whole Socius´ thing...pretty interesting. Have you thought about a word we could use yet?" She assumed that would probably be a thing they should settle first.

Sam was in the middle of cracking his knuckles when he saw Dani. He smiled and gave her a wave. "Hey." They had to get down to business so he nodded his head. "It is. It's a...big deal." He didn't even know how anyone else was taking it for the most part. Or who they had aside from Rachel. Sam had been wracking his brain trying to think of a word to use for them but didn't have an idea. "Well, one good thing about that is only we can use it. So it's not like it has to be secret, but it should also be something important to the both of us and how we remember not to just idly say it if we happen to touch the pendant." He was rambling now, out of nervousness likely. "So maybe something related to a movie?"

Dani nodded. She knew not everyone was taking this as well as them. Which was understandable considering with whom some people had gotten paired up with. She didn´t mind being with Sam, they were friends ( though she didn´t know what she´d done if she had been paired with Kitty ) but it wasn´t this easy for everyone. "Yeah, I agree. Something nerdy," She then chuckled as she stretched her legs. "How about something from Star Wars? We both like that. A lot.”

Sam thought about the different things they could use from Star Wars. There were so many good options and he wondered how silly it would be to just say a word in the midst of fighting for their lives. He didn't even want to consider that. "Yes, we do." He couldn't help himself and began an impression, "Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father." He then decided he had to get a little serious. "Well. Let's see what sounds good. Droid. Lightsaber. Leia. Solo. Skywalker. Vader. Chewbacca. Chewie." He chuckled imagining calling out Chewie and someone being so confused about why he was doing that. "Rey. BB8. Nah too many syllables for that one. It has to be something we can say quickly if needed."

Dani smiled at Sam´s impression, nodding. "Yeah, definitely the right choice for a word," She then chuckled. It would surely be sounding silly in the midst of a battle, but it would probably also ground them. Make sure they focused and pulled them out of a panic. "Oh I love Chewbacca!" She then nodded. "Or maybe Chewie, then. Since that´s shorter." Dani nodded. "Should we try that would first? Or like...how to we activate it? By saying it the first time while touching the pendant?"

Sam was glad they could come into agreement so quickly. Despite the fact neither of them were completely comfortable with having to prepare for battles, they both were able to figure this out together and come up with a way to get to the other if needed. "Yeah, I think so. Let's give it a shot." He put his hand on the pendant around his neck, remembering he had to use his right hand, the dominant one. In the movies, he always saw people closing their eyes when doing this and wondered if he had to do this or if it was just something his extra self (or the rper's extra self) considered. "On the count of three?" He asked to make sure she was ready.

Dani nodded, glad they had managed to get a word so quickly. Part of her still hoped they wouldn��t have to use it in the near future, but considering how life had been going lately she really expected this to come around sooner or later. "Yes." Dani then agreed as she took the pendent into her right hand and glanced down at it. "One...Two...Three..." She then counted. "Chewie."

Sam nodded in agreement and once she was done counting, he said, "Chewie." He looked down to see the pendant shine once they said the word and he knew it had worked. They were now bonded, at least through the pendants. "Alright." He looked over at Ari to make sure he was ready before looking back at Dani. "Ready to do this?"

Dani was still glancing down at the pendant, nodding as she noticed that it was shining. Alright, so first thing done. That was a good thing. Now they´d at least never be able to actually lose each other and as much as she hated the idea of getting into another fight soon she´d at least always knew where ONE of her friends was. "Yeah, let´s go,"

Sam rolled 1d7 = (7) = 7

Sam decided he would try to see how she did getting out of an enclosed space. He activated his magic circle and called out, "Whirlpool," watching as a wave of water flowed towards her before going around her.

Dani rolled 1d6 = (6) = 6

Dani had to admit that she had never actually watched Sam use his magic. Not consciously anyways. She knew his affinity though and was soon greeted with a wave of water that enclosed her. Luckily she didn´t mind getting wet. So Dani simply dropped to the floor and tried ducking away under the water, managing to not get wet in the process before she was back on her feet.

Sam rolled 1d7 = (7) = 7

Sam was impressed seeing how she got out of the whirlpool. His next spell he decided on was, Water whip and he swung it low so that it would knock her off her feet.

Dani rolled 1d6 = (4) = 4

Dani was ready for the next attack, though admittedly she didn´t expect it to be an actual whip ( made of water but nonetheless ) she tried to jump to avoid getting hit, but got caught with one foot and ended up stumbling to the floor. "Ugh." She complained as she got up to her feet, focusing on Sam. She could feel her own magic bubble up as she changed her appearance and shifted into him so she could confuse him as she launched forward to hit him with her fist.

Dani rolled 1d6 = (6) = 6

Sam rolled 1d7 = (3) = 3

Sam thought he was prepared for what her next move would be and then he suddenly saw himself running towards...himself? It took him a moment to react because he was looking on in confusion just long enough for her fist to meet his face. "Oh! Nice." He was seriously impressed, having never actually seen her shift before. It was freaky to see himself on another person, but an impressive move. But he couldn't stay down for long and called out, Water jet to blast a stream of water at her chest to move her further away from him.

Sam rolled 1d7 = (1) = 1

Dani rolled 1d6 = (5) = 5

Dani was glad her distraction seemed to be working. It would work well if they worked together. She could try and distract the enemy while he prepared an attack. Because as much as she enjoyed punching people she was aware that his spells were probably more effective. When she once again found herself attacked by a stream of water she ducked out of the way and was back to her feet within a second. She was keen on repeating her attack from before, focusing on turning into Santana this time before launching herself at him once more, foot first, to knock him off his feet.

Dani rolled 1d6 = (7) = 7

Sam rolled 1d7 = (2) = 2

Sam needed to focus less on how impressed he was and more on defending himself because Dani was seriously kicking his butt now that she was close enough. He was just preparing a spell when she turned into Santana and he found himself completely surprised. She had kicked his butt enough times so it caught him off guard and he found himself on the ground. "Dang, she'd be so pissed if she knew you did that and she wasn't here to see it." He said, groaning as he stood back up. Water rope he watched as the water rope formed and wrapped around her wrist before he snapped it to toss her across the room.

Sam rolled 1d7 = (4) = 4

Dani rolled 1d6 = (4) = 4

Dani grinned, giving him a nod. "She´d have enjoyed it though," She then told him before trying to dodge the rope made from water than was launched at her. She then told him before trying to dodge the rope made from water than was launched at her. She just managed to escape by launching past Sam and then decided to change her form once more. When Sam turned he´d be faced with Blaine´s puppy dog eyes and an arm wrapped around his waist that would, hopefully, have him thrown to the ground in judo like fashion.

Dani rolled 1d6 = (3) = 3

Sam rolled 2d7 = (4+5) = 9

Sam was just getting his bearings when he found himself face to face with Blaine. He just raised an eyebrow at her, really, did she think Blaine's gorgeous puppy dog eyes worked on him? Not as much as a certain other brown haired person. However, he didn't let the thought get to him as he called to Ari, "Ari, back!" He got out of Dani's hold just as Ari climbed on her back, using his claws to dig into her shoulders.

Dani rolled 1d6 = (2) = 2

Dani admittedly, had been waiting for him to bring in Ari, but she hadn´t expected it to be right there and then. Which was probably why it hurt to damn much. "OUCH!" Dani yelped as she tried to shake off the cat. "Alright, you wanna play with cats?" She then asked as she turned back into herself and then called to Fiyero for him to jump towards Sam and claw at his chest.

Dani rolled 1d6+1 = (1)+1 = 3

Sam rolled 1d7 = (1) = 1

Sam winced, realizing that Ari got her deep. But at least he knew he had a strong little companion when he needed, or remembered to bring the little fella. "Oh boy, ouch!" He winced when Fiyero managed to get him right in one of his pecs. He shook Fiyero off before picking Ari up. "Hey, Ari, surf's up." He called out, Water wave and pushed the water beneath Ari so he was riding the water towards Dani to land on her shoulder to distract her.

Sam rolled 2d7 = (4+3) = 7

Dani rolled 1d6+1 = (2)+1 = 3

To be quite honest, Dani was more distracted by the water than she was by the cat on her shoulder. She was hit and shook her head, trying to keep the water from getting into her eyes. „Damn it,“ she laughed as she removed Ari from her shoulder and instead called for Fiyero to Land on Sam‘s head.

Dani rolled 1d6+2 = (6)+2 = 8

Sam was a bit distracted when he heard his friend laugh, something he hadn't heard anyone do in a week. It felt refreshing, until he remembered where they were once the cat landed on his head. He winced when a claw got his cheek pretty good and he deposited Fiyero back on the floor. Rainstorm he sent a cloud of rain towards her.

Sam rolled 1d7 = (1) = 1

Dani rolled 1d6+1 = (1)+1 = 2

Dani honestly couldn’t quite help the chuckle that fell from her lips as she stood under the rain cloud that was barely getting her wet. “What was that?“ she asked with a laugh before she chose to go with one last shift, going for Ryder this time, as she launched herself at Sam to spear him to the floor.

Sam rolled 1d7 = (6) = 6

Aether, God, Sam thought to himself, he really needed to stop getting distracted when she shifted! But her shifting into Ryder made him stop for a second but then he remembered it wasn't actually him and he simply wrapped his arms around her when she came at him and rolled them so now she was the one being tackled. Of course, the one time he finally got to have Ryder again like this when it wasn't in a dream, it was actually Dani so he simply got up and raised an eyebrow. "Should we keep it up or do you think we trained enough for one day?"

Dani glanced up at him with a smile before she shifted back into herself and lifted herself up onto her ellbows. “I think we’re good,” She then nodded. “We work well together. I’m best at distracting people and you can sneak attack when they’re occupied with me. And if that doesn’t work I can still punch them in the face.”

Sam grinned and held out his hand to help her up if she wanted to. "Great! I think this is the beginning of a beautiful partnership." He said, glancing around to see the mess his water had made. He muttered a quick dry spell before looking back at her. "So how about we grab some lunch to celebrate our first training together as Socius'?"

Dani took his hand and let herself be pulled up to her feet. “Lunch sounds perfect,” She the agreed. “And i might need some plasters for where Ari sneak attacked me,” she chuckled.

Sam looked at her apologetically before touching his own cheek. "Yeah, Fiyero got me good too. We're in good company." he glanced over at Ari, who looked way too proud of himself. "Let's go get you patched up."

#f2f: dani #f2f: Chewie #nimtraining #p: ari #tw: violence

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gotmattitude · 6 years ago

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[ text ] I lost sight of everyone at the sanctuary. [ text ] I hope you´re safe!

[text] yeah, i’m safe. you?

[text] were you at the sanctuary the whole night?

#text: all #text: shiftingdani #shiftingdani: all #shiftingdani

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trickstersantana · 6 years ago

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[Para] SantanART Contest Duel

Who: Santana, @ellnaturae @shiftingdani Location: Park of Florence Farr School Time: 25 February 2019 Summary: Santana gets Free Art from artist Ell and Dani also monster discussions. Triggers/Notes: Violence, death, corpses, body horror

Santana called Elliott and Dani to hang out next to the park of Florence Farr School of Magical Performing Arts. Because it has Art at the end, wich obviously means it gives strenght to artist to do a better job. It was all well thought. "Well, well, artist. You are here to Battle. With your pencils because the pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is broken and the pen is very pointy. This is..." She makes an illusion of confettig and sounds effect of people cheering and clapping to reveal in floating neon lights. "SantanART CONTEST DUEL: Who is the better artist?" She dissiped the illusion. "So, are you guys ready?"

Dani wasn´t quite sure what exactly they were doing, but she enjoyed the opportunity to get out of her room and away from studying and if that meant she got to spend some time with her friends. What she hadn´t expected, however, was some sort of art duel. "Huh?" Dani couldn´t quite hide the smile on her face as she watched the confetti illusion fall. She was a good artist, but she was definitely a little out of practice. "Okay. But I do have a pretty cool sword," she pointed out with a laugh. "What are we drawing?"

Elliott arrives with his bag full of notebooks and art supplies, if he wasn't wrong Santana wanted him to draw something but he saw Dani was there too and then the confetti. He chuckles "An art competition? Sounds fun" he winks at Dani "What's the prize though?" he teases Santana.

Santana looks at Dani, very interested. "Oh, my my, a sword? Did you studied the blade when everyone was busy being heterosexual?" She joked. "Since when do you have a sword and why I haven't seen it?" Elliott mentioned prizes. "Aw, don't artist want to enjoy art for the art or something like that? What about the pleasure of victory?" She complained. "I have some useful items if you want them, thought. Potions, bear plushies who make you stronger, you know it." She comments. Dani already had 1 point for asking what they should draw instead of the prize. "Anyway. I'll show you an illusion of a woman I saw. I want a realistic portrait of her. I don't have any pictures and I can't share illusions over the internet. I want to find if someone knows her."

Dani put down her bag and pulled out a sketch pad and a couple of pens. "I haven´t had it for very long, St. Pierre gave it to me for apparently not killing anyone with the net gun," she joked and settled down, giving Elliott another smile. She wasn´t going to complain about getting a prize, though Dani really would enjoy spending time with her friends. "Any other special requests? Colored portrait? Charcoal?" It did seem like Santana was definitely up to something, but for now Dani was just going to let it go and focus on the drawing.

Elliott narrows his eyes, even though he isn't really upset, he is serious about what he is going to say "Hey, art is a job like any other, artists should be paid for their work" he says getting his sketchbook out of his bag "but I was joking anyway" he then realizes they are talking about a sword "wait what? really? we are not really fighting are we" he raises his eyebrow looking at Santana.

"Don´t worry. I won´t stab you with a pen." Dani comments with a grin, in case that wasn´t clear.

Elliott blinks and then chuckles "You would be wasting a very nice pen"

Santana says a "Mmmh..." somehow worried. Remembering certain conversations about LN slayers. With the collar on, Dani was basically a common, so, why not, right? "Be careful with what St. Pierre is doing. But, well, enjoy the sword!" Santana also aproved taking advange of whatever if you could. "I want it to be more recognizable than artistic, so, what you think would be better? I guess color would help." Santana also approved asking money for doing things, but not so much when she was the one paying for it. She made an illusion of a woman in front of them. She looked dead. A grotesque, frozen dead woman, with mottled feathers clinging to her. Her eyes are piercing blue, glaring angrily. Her body was transparent, you could see her veins through it. "Can you draw her alive?"

"Yeah...I´m not sure what exactly to make of it, the course I took with him was helpful though and I need a way to defend myself. And you guys," Dani nodded, she didn´t want to go into a detailed conversation now so instead picked out a couple of pens. "Depends on what kind of woman we´re looking at," she picked up a pen and then, for a moment and then waited for the illusion, eyebrows furrowing together. "What the...?" Dani glanced over at Elliott for a moment. "What I wouldn´t give for The Angelator now..." she muttered before looking at the illusion a little more, trying to remember every detail. "You mean...draw her how she´d look as if she was alive? Before she turned into...whatever the hell that is." It wasn´t really a question. Dani outlined the face first before glancing up at Santana. "Where did you see her?"

Elliott listens to Dani's explanation and wonders what St. Pierre is up to, he was glad Dani had something to protect herself anyway, but something about it felt suspicious. He doesn't have time to voice his worry when an illusion of a dead woman appears in front of them, he shares a look with Dani. "Where did you see this woman?" he exclaims too almost at the same time as her. He can't stop looking at the illusion, her piercing blue eyes without any life in them. She vaguely resemblence an immortui but there was something else there. He grabs a normal pen, and a notebook, maybe doing too much would take away from her being recognizable "Are you hoping to find her again?"

Santana laughs at Dani's hilarous joke of her, a normie who couldn't use her magic, protecting someone as fucking strong as her. And Elliott. But specially her. "Oh my, Dani, you're so fucking funny." She keeps laughing for a bit until she notices. "Oh wait, you were serious. Aw, that's adorable." She looked back at her own amazing illusion. "I don't know what the hell an Angelator is." She nods and shakes her head at Elliott asking her if she wants to find her, doubting."I want to know if someone knows her when she was alive. Me and Kittycat saw her at the last field mission. I think she is like the undead monsters we keep encountering. I mean, she is clearly undead, she said it herself." She says, non challant. Illusion still up. "But you know, they are all connected. Probably."

Dani doesn´t even roll her eyes. It´s Santana after all. Instead she laughs, poking her tongue out at the other for a moment. And she doesn´t even explain the Bones reference. Just thinks "Muggles" and looks back at the outline she´s drawn of the woman so far. There´s something...haunting about her eyes. Sometimes that makes her seem alive even though she´s clearly dead. Like she´s ready to stare down into their soul. "The dragon was like...hundreds of years old, maybe she is too?" She then asked, making sure to pay extra attention to the eyes as she keeps drawing before reaching for another pen. "Maybe we´ll find a picture of her in a book..."

Elliott stares at Santana for a while as she laughs, he isn't sure what is so funny, but is sort of contagious and he laughs a bit too. He looks down at the drawing a couple of times, but mostly observes the face of the woman trying to notice whatever detail would be important to represent her as she was. He nods at Dani's suggestion "Maybe that would be a good idea, compare her to old photographs too, look in book, a google search?" he asks making another line to mark where her eyes should be in the face "Are those feathers?" he asks pointing out at the illusion.

@Elliott 😈 Karin:

1d6

= (4) = 4

@Dani Harper 🐈44/44 Fiyero Lv.2:

1d6

= (3) = 3

Santana thinks about it. It made sense. Maybe this bitch was super mega old like the dragon. "Do you think those things were like, alive a super long time ago and now they are back? You are right. Maybe she is soooo old no one knows anything." She shrugs. "It's worth a try, thought. I was planning on putting your drawings on the aethernet and around campus to see if anyone knew anything about her." Santana nods and makes an illusion of a white bird with blue eyes. Matching her. "Yeah! She had feathers. And before we saw this fucking ugly bird." It was important to catch up. "It talked, so at first I though it was some kind of trickster. But she was clearly not, ha..." She laughs, bitterly, glancing at her own illusion of the bitch's corpse.

Dani picks up the blue pen to devote some time to the eyes. Something tells her she has to get them right, whether Santana would be using her drawing or not. This is weird. Somehow. But if it´s going to help stopping those monsters that are trying to kill them then she´s happy to help. Or well. Glad. Maybe happy is the wrong word. "That´s a good idea," she then nods. "Even if she´s old...maybe someone´s heard her story. Knows what kind of myth or legend connects to her,"

Elliott nods giving to his drawing some shadow for the shape of the face "Were there any clues about the dragon.. or the others...?" he asks curious, he then realizes what Santana says, she thought the woman was a trickster, that's something he never thought about before, when these creatures attacked, they all defended themselves, he did too, he remembers New Year and the enormous creature. He gets lost in thought, his pen stops. What were these creatures? He never stopped to think about it, he just reacted, and now it was too late for some of them. Who were they? he corrected himself "Do you think maybe we should draw all of them? Try to find out about... you know, we have seen many now" he looks up at Santana.

Santana thinks abou how cool a name is The Myth Killers when Dani speaks. "We found the bird in the cave. It says it was its home. You know, like the dragon had like, his place. It says it lived there a fucking ton of years, but you know, I assumed it was lying lies... the woman said...something about the life she sewed together." Wich agains, all this sewing metaphors connect to the angel thingie of stitching the world together. In the end it was all about knitting. "You can't kill what's already dead... That's what it says. And that's what all the big monsters had in common! We need a cool name for them. I accept suggestions." She illusions some little monsters in front of them. The first Samhain one, the one she didn't see but Blaine showed her an illusion of. The big thing attacking at New Years. Marley with a tittle of "Picture not avaiable. I didn't see it and everyone saw it differently." The dragon. And the undead woman. "Those are what I know of. "

"Who knows just HOW many are out there." Dani agrees with a nod as she picks up the first pen once more, doing some corrections around the eyes before turning her attention to the feathers. "We should form an investigative group and call it "The Knitting Circle", that way nobody will get suspicious about what we´re actually doing." She puts the pen aside and then smudges the edges of the feathers a little with her fingers. When Elliott speaks up however, Dani gives him a nod. "Yeah, maybe that´s a good idea. I´ve already done a drawing of the dragon the day after the whole encounter. I had a feeling it wasn´t over..."

Elliott frowns confused about those words, they seem like riddles, everything always had to be so vague and mysterious, almost like they were part of a bigger story who needed to be solve and someone could be hitting at it breaking the fourth wall, was this joke even worth it. Either way, he keeps thinking about it "But why do we need to be secreti-" he starts asking "oh yeah memory erasure..." he bites his lower lip "Nice" he looks over at Dani's notebook waiting to see her other drawing "Oh, there is another one" he suddenly remembers "Jules told me about it" he says moving the drawing of the woman aside for a second and on the next blank page he made a quick very simple drawing of a flying creature "though I didn't personally saw this one, but it was the one from the news, in new year, a second creature appeared in Time Squares" he shows the drawing to Santana, then he looks at the line up of illusions "Is that the "mom", why is she Marley?" he deduces by elimination "I didn't really see it very well either" he sighs "I mean it was sort of a blob with faces... kind of super fucked up and creepy."

Santana shrugs. "The investigate group can have many names, but I mean the monsters! What should we call them? The undead big monsters? Is just not catchy." She walks a bit to look how the drawings where going, while still maintaining the illusions. "My my, then you are going to try to draw all of them? Half Dani and half Elliott. It would be really useful. I doubt anyone took pictures, trying not to die and all that." So, the dragon was done already. Perfect. She thumbs up at Dani. "Oh no no, fuck secrets. I'm going to tell everyone about it. They can't erase my memory." She saw the flying creature thing. "Oh, true. There were other monsters at New Year. Added." Santana changed Marley to Shelby, and then to the blob. She remembers she is not supposed to super mock Ryder in case he returns she needs that friendship strong. She grins "I though it would be funny!"

"That and...well we already got strikes, if we get another poking our noses into things that aren´t supposed to be for us," Dani shrugs her shoulders. "I mean I don´t mind poking my nose into it, I just don´t want to get caught doing it. Or have my memory erased." She wipes her fingers on her jeans and puts her notebook down for a moment before pulling another one from her bag and handing it to Elliott. "It´s on the first pages. A close up and some full body sketches," she tells him.]

[THEN THEY KEEP DRAWING AND CHATTING BOOM DARK CURTAIN]

#ellnaturae #para: dani #para: elliott #shiftingdani #chara: elliott #chara: dani

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trickstersantana · 7 years ago

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[PARA] One Punch Woman

Who: Santana, Dani @shiftingdani Daisy and Fiyero Location: Undique Stadium Time: 10th August 2018 Summary: Santana and Dani fight for the first time Triggers/Notes: Violence

Santana arrived to Undique to a rented room for her and Dani. "I know you said you can only change your appearance, but honey, that can be so useful if you know how to use your imagination" She says pointing to her own head. "Let me show you, and be prepared." She says, going straight to the point without any small talk.

Dani isn´t exactly happy to be here, but she figured it couldn´t hurt to train a little. Well, train something other than punching people in the face. She wouldn´t put it past Santana to hurt her, this was what duels and training were about after all, but she doubted the other was about ready to actually kill her. So she nodded, tightening up her ponytail, knowing she´d change it in a minute anyway. "Alright. Teach me,"

@Santana 🐮: 1d6 = (5) = 5

@Dani: 1d6 = (6) = 6

Santana puts her arm up, like a punch, just to show Dani. "In illusion close-fight, I can make it look like there's way more arms" She says making two more arms appear from her elbow. "That way the enemy never knows which one he has to dodge, but you could do that without illusions, don't you? Like this" She says, going to punch Dani in the stomach.

Dani´s not going to lie, the arms are a little freaky, but she forces herself to concentrate and when she sees the real arm approach she moves to the side, catching Santana´s wrist, pulling her forward so she stumbles forward while she smacks her in the ribs with her free hand.

@Santana 🐮: 1d6 = (1) = 1

@Dani: 1d6 = (3) = 3

Santana didn't expect her getting hit. Close fights were never her strength. "Auch, alright that was a good one! You know how to fight you bitch! Without powers and all." She says preparing another illusion to confuse her. "How fast can you change? Faster than you can move?"

"Well this is all I had for 19 years," Dani replies with a shrug as she keeps her eyes on Santana. She´s definitely not hitting as hard as she can, but hard enough for Santana to feel it. She feels the magic bubble up under her skin and lurches forward, appearance having changed into that girl that lives in the room opposite her, complete with short, blonde hair and blue eyes. She moves, kicking to hit Santana in the back of her knees, trying to bring her down to her knees.

@Santana 🐮: 1d6 = (4) = 4

@Dani: 1d6 = (1) = 1

Santana falls to the ground. "Well, that's good time to practice." "You're fast at doing it, yeah. Have you though of, like, turning into a shorter person to dodge something attacking you to the head?" She says staning up, illusioning a baseball bat and winging it to Dani's head. It might be scary, but she won't hurt her head.

Dani, slightly caught off guard by the baseball bat draws up her hands and stumbles backwards, almost falling flat on her ass. "Woah." She´d always known Santana´s magic was impressive, but that was...well. MORE than impressive. "I can´t really do anything that makes me shorter or bigger." She then manages, going back into defense mode. "Like...I could make myself look like Elliott, but I´d still be my size, not his."

@Santana 🐮: 1d6= (5) = 5

@Dani: 1d6 = (3) = 3

Santana looks at her with doubt. "Are you sure? I heard you can't change volume, but if it's like a fatter, shorter person, or a thinner, taller person, it has to work, doesn't it?" She wasn't sure, of course. She waved back to Dani the baseball bat, to attack her again.

Dani managed to raise her arms again but this time was knocked flat onto her ass. She almost couldn´t supress a laugh. "That thing is terrifying." She then told Santana as she got up to her feet again. "I can change a little, yeah, but the volume still changes if i get taller or smaller. But a little works, yeah." She then told her

@Santana 🐮: 1d6= (4) = 4

@Dani: 1d6= (1) = 1

Santana raises her eyebrow. "Really? This little thing?" She says turning in into a sword. "Show me what you got, Cindy!" She says, going to strike Dani's shoulder with the tip of her illusory sword.

Honestly, it´s getting a little exhausting, but it´s also fun, Dani´s can´t deny that. She goes down onto one knee and rolls over, taking in a deep breath. "Yeah, the baseball bat´s a little more impressive. Reminds me of Harley Quinn," She laughs as she shifts back into her usual appearance and gets back to her feet quickly, a little out of breath.

@Santana 🐮: 1d6= (1) = 1

@Dani: 1d6= (5) = 5

Santana tries to illusion Harley Quinn to show off, trying to decide which one of her impersonations. "There was a shapeshifter here who fought with her powers, making her fits all big to fight"

Dani can´t help but laugh and suddenly she´s glad she´d agreed to do this. It´s the closest they´ve come to being actual friends, even if that includes beating each other up, and she´s enjoying it. She lurches forward again, momentarily shifting into Santana herself to throw her off before aiming to punch her right into the stomach.

@Santana 🐮 : 1d6= (2) = 2

@Dani: 1d6= (4) = 4

Santana is distracted by doing her own illusions when Dani hits her again. "What's so funny?" She ask about the laughing.

@Santana 🐮: 1d6+1= (2)+1 = 3

@Dani: 1d6= (4) = 4

"I was just chuckling about Harley Quinn," She then informed Santana with a smile.

Santana tried to say something, when Daisy appeared out of nowhere in front of her. 'Santanaaaaa, train with meee' she moos. "Oh my Fucking..." said Santana, totally distracted. "Look I just illusioned a cow, that's my power, haha!"

Dani couldn´t help but stare for a moment when a cow appeared all of a sudden. "Do your illusions usually speak with you?" She then chuckled, knowing what this was about. She just...hadn´t expected a cow. "You want to meet my familiar?" She then asked and before Santana could answer Fiyero had already appeared, stretching out. "Well hello, you." He nodded. "What are we on about today?" And it wasn´t long until Dani had explained what was going on and for once Fiyero seemed interested as he lunged forward in an attack with his claws out.

@Dani: 1d6+1= (3)+1 = 4

@Santana 🐮 : 1d6= (2) = 2

Santana looks to other side. "Only when I'm distracted" that wasn't a lie. She sighned. "Actually i hate familiars." She says as she suffers Fiyero and steps back. "Ugh! I just don't get why are they here!" She complains, while Daisy greet Fiyero with a happy 'Helloooo'.

Fiyero stretched again, giving the cow a look. It looked nice enough, but it wasn´t Ziggy. He liked Ziggy. Anyway. Dani shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe they´re here to tell us that we´ve done a good job and should get a coffee. Or some ice cream now." She then chuckled. "I´m pretty sure I´ll have a bunch of bruises in the morning."

@Santana 🐮 : 1d6= (5) = 5

@Dani: 1d6= (2) = 2

Santana illusioned some extra arms from Dani to make it look like she was hitting herself. "Why they have to be here for us? What a pitiful existence, to exist for another being. To die if they die. I find it seriously disturbing and I don't know why everyone seems ok with this fucked up shit." She says, not caring much for Dani's bruises. She got tons of them in every fight. "If you get hurt go to Avicenna."

Dani frowned at the extra arms and took a step back. "She doesn´t like you? That´s sad." meanwhile Fiyero was talking to Daisy and Dani nodded. "I mean´s he´s a bit of an ass sometimes, but he was there when things got hard. I´m fine, thanks. Just saying. Now do you want to get some ice cream or do I have to get two cones just for myself?"

@Santana 🐮: 1d6= (1) = 1

@Dani: 1d6= (3) = 3

Santana scratchs her head. "Who cares about the opinion of a cow?" Meanwhile, Daisy gets close to Santana to tell her 'I like you, Santana, do not be insecure about that. There is lot of people that like you'. Santana groans, going far away from the cow. "He was there for you, sure, every familiar is there to help you when you need it. Isn't that fucking weird? Why everyone just accepts weird things from the Aether like this? Even you, when you are supposed to be new to this and get surprised at the weird stuff, you just accept a talking cat who will be with you forever!" She says a little exasperated, not to Dani but about fucking Daisy who just keeps appearing out of nowhere in her fights.

Dani raises an eyebrow, relaxing a little. "Well it´s weird. But it´s one of the nicer weird things, you know? I´m more than happy to accept a cat that sometimes appears and talks to me as opposed to some weird people eating doors." she nods. "And thanks for training with me, by the way. It´s nice to learn how to use my powers. Now come on," She nods over her shoulder before turning to gather her things. "Let me buy you some ice cream as a thank you."

If there's something Santana dislikes more than losing, is a tie because the fight got cancelled. She still can't add Dani to her long list of losers "What's so nice about it?" But yeah, it could be worse. Daisy could secretly been planning to murder her. Maybe she is. She though. "Alright, alright, let's go for ice creams"(editado)//the end??

"It´s just nice for me, doesn´t have to be nice for everyone else. But your familiar seems sweet." She grins before falling in step next to Santana.

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Just a puzzle piece

Who: Dani Harper and Sam Evans ( @shiftingdani)

When: 1/24/2018, morning

Where: NYADA, a bus, Manhattan Branch of the LN Protection Committee, cafe

What: Dani and Sam elect to skip classes and hopefully get answers about Kurt.

General Notes: Just a Bloodline and an LN casually sneaking out of school to do what needs to be done. Brief passing mention at the end of Sam watching what he eats.

Dani had to admit that she didn´t really mind skipping classes. Sure, most of them had been interesting, but ever since hearing about Ellie she hadn´t felt like doing much and saving Kurt should really be their top priority. So when Sam told her that he was game with skipping at least the first few periods to sneak out to Manhattan she hadn´t hesitated. With her hair brown and her whole appearance rather discreet she snuck as far away from her student´s building as she could, waiting for Sam to meet her.

Sam really felt like having classes was pointless right now. He found that even as he tried to attend, all he could think about was the missing classmates and how the professors just seemed to be going about their day like it was normal. The only person he found himself thinking of besides Brett was Kurt. So while he probably shouldn't be encouraging Dani to skip classes, who was he to say no when he didn't even want to be there himself? Making up some excuse that he had some bad pizza the night before, he sent an e-mail out before heading to the student building where Dani was. Waving at the girl, he put his hands in his coat pocket to keep them warm from the cold. "Hey, ready to go?"

Dani knew she wouldn´t have been able to concentrate on her classes anyways, not with Ellie dead and so many of her classmates missing. She didn´t know many of them personally, apart from Kurt, but she had a feeling they were still somewhere out there and she couldn´t stand the thought that they were hoping for someone to come and rescue them, only to learn that nobody cared. When she found Sam approaching she pushed the hood back a little so she could see him. "Ready," She nodded. "And...thanks for coming with me." The truth was: She would have probably been able to sneak out looking like someone else, but that would have been illegal and while Dani didn´t care all that much about breaking the law she knew she wouldn´t be able to help Kurt, or the others, if she was in a cell.

Sam nodded politely and gave her a small smile. In truth, he felt guilty for even so much as trying to look happy. He just felt like anything that he did would be taken the wrong way and he liked Dani, he didn't want her to think badly of him. But this wasn't about him so he kept those insecurities to himself. "Of course, this is important and we need to find out what's going on." There were people out there who were depending on them to keep their voices heard and they couldn't let them down. No one was around to stop them at least and he led the way off campus. "Was there any place in particular you wanted to check?" He asked by way of getting a sense of direction.

Dani shuffled close to Sam, just to be sure, but there was nobody stopping them. It was strange, how this place had become like a prison to her, but as soon as she was with a witch it seemed like she could just walk out the door and never return. And maybe she would some day, maybe she´d have to use one of her friends to do it, but for now she´d focus on Kurt. "I´ve read about the LN protection committee, they have an office in downtown Manhattan," She explained as they walked. "Maybe we can have an insight on Kurt´s file. Or ask about him. I don´t know if they´ve got anything, but it´s worth a try," It was sure as hell better than sitting around.

Sam had thought about going to the committee, but he wasn't too sure how he'd be received, someone wondering why a Bloodline cared about an LN. But hopefully no one would ignore them and if anything, he could use his status to get answers. He hated the thought of doing so but like Santana once said, sometimes you had to use your privilege to get the answers you wanted. "I know where it is. They could have something we could find useful." There was never any harm in looking. If it helped Kurt or any of their missing classmates, then how could they not check? Finding the bus stop for downtown, they didn't have to wait long before the bus arrived.

Dani settled into the seat next to Sam silently. She would have been bothered to make conversation, but she was exhausted. Everything that had been happening during the last few days had drained the energy from her and she had to force herself to get out of bed. Maybe the search for Kurt was what kept her from going completely insane. And Marley. Marley helped too. She pushed the thought aside as she pulled the rope to get the bus to stop. "So..." She eventually speaks up, just to make conversation at all. "This whole AMS campaigning thing...what´s that all about?"

Sam was quiet on the bus for a moment, keeping an eye out for anyone who could look at them and recognize at least him as a witch. He wanted to protect Dani at all costs since he didn't even know what was happening. Her voice was a bit of a surprise but when she spoke, a feeling of guilt went through his stomach, thinking of the campaigning he should be doing but elected not to do. "Oh, witches and LN students can campaign to be representatives for each of their colleges. For example, one of the LN students can be a rep for Aequitas, a student from Florence Farr can represent their year, like that. They work with the other reps at their college to work towards making events, classes and changes for the better. So those who are running are preparing to give a speech this weekend so students can vote and decide if they want them to represent their college for the year."

Dani listened to his explanation as they got off the bus. Once they stood on the sidewalk she linked her arm with his, just to be save. She hadn´t been in Manhattan since hearing about Ellie´s death and while it was highly unlikely to run into any of her old friends she was still a little uneasy about it. "Oh, so it´s basically like running for class president, only bigger." She nodded, she had only seen a couple of posters around campus as she had walked around. "Is anyone we know campaigning?" She then wondered out loud, more to herself than for him to answer really.

Sam accepted her arm with his, keeping her close but making sure she had her own space so he wasn't bothering her. Nodding his head, Sam understood what she meant when she made the statement. "Yeah, although not everyone seems to be in the mood to campaign." he wrinkled his brow as he thought of the anon he had seen Finn answer, but was he going to campaign? "I saw something on Tumblr about Finn being nominated but I don't know if he's running. I know Quinn was planning on it, but I haven't seen anything from her on it now that I think of it." It seemed like everyone was more focused on the missing students than AMS. He was honestly curious why the AMS thought it was a good idea to run at the same time. He was almost losing himself in his thoughts so he looked at her. "I was going to begin my campaign for second year rep, but it didn't feel right to while so many people were missing. How could I speak for my school when so much was going on, you know?"

Dani glanced over at him, lips curving into a soft smile. "That´s a good, you know? Maybe they did it to distract people. Or maybe this is the time for people to show their true faces. Both the people who run and those who vote. If you´re willing to vote for someone who doesn´t care about missing students, no matter their heritage, then you´re a scumbag." Dani rounded the corner and the building they were looking for came in sight. It was strange, he had passed the building many times while living here, but she had never known what was inside.

Sam found he couldn't argue with her there. There was no telling what anyone said versus what they actually felt. And he was actually...kind of annoyed with the people he had seen campaigning, some of whom had said good things about their LN peers. "Couldn't have said it better myself," he told her honestly as they found the building. He had been here a couple times when his parents showed him where UMC branches were located in case he ever did need to come. But he never expected to need to do it like this. "Let's see what happens." He said, hoping they could find an answer somehow.

Dani offered him another smile, glad he seemed to be agreeing with her. She hadn´t known whether she´d get along with witches at all, especially after running into Quinn and also Hunter ( she was still bitter about his cookie betrayal ) but she had found some friends in witches. Tina, Sam, Rachel and Blaine had accepted her for who she was, even though she hadn´t been so sure herself, and she´d never forget that. "Alright," She nodded then, unlinking her arm from his and pushing open the door.

Sam walked inside and could see that it was a bit busy. People were walking quickly, some on their phones or looking at papers in their hands. There was a crowd of people, some who appeared to be LN based on the posters in their hands, and some officials trying to get them to calm down. They walked to the reception desk and Sam cleared his throat. "Yes, how can I help you?" the woman asked. "Hi." He said before clearing his throat, "My name is Sam and this is Dani. We were hoping to find out some information about a friend of ours who is missing."

Dani followed Sam inside, taking everything in. The people passing by, other´s who were on the phone, and somehow she could feel that the atmopsphere was tense. Which it should have been, given what had happened over the past couple of weeks. Dani ended up with a flyer in her hand and she nodded at the girl before coming to a stop next to Sam. "Yes, we´ve been worried about him. They´ve been cleaning out his room and they wouldn´t even tell us why." She glanced at the woman, putting on her best teary eyed face, which wasn´t all too hard considering how emotionally compromised she was.

Sam could see the woman was reluctant to say anything and Sam tried to look as sympathetic as possible. "Look, ma'am, I'm sure you have a lot on your plate with so many people missing. But we're really worried about him. For him to be gone this long, it's not right and he has a father." He hoped appealing to the family aspect would work. "Someone misses him and he deserves to have answers." The woman looked at him critically for a moment before sighing, "What's his name?" Sam was slightly surprised it had worked so easily, but at the same time, he also knew that any ounce of sympathy he could drum up for Kurt should be something that could work. "Kurt Elizabeth Hummel." Sam said.

Dani kept looking at the woman, a desperate look in her eyes. It might have been a bit much, but considering how many people probably came here every day, asking about missing people, she´d understand if the woman was swamped. Besides, desperate times called for desperate matters, right? Once the woman had typed a few things into her computer she nodded. "Yes. His file was updated on the 19th as we got permission to clear his room." She looked up. "I´m afraid that´s about everything I can tell you."

Sam would have loved to get more information, such as who had updated the file but he sighed. "Not even why you had permission?" He asked, but the look on her face was clear. She wasn't going to give them anything more. "Okay. Thank you for your time." He figured being polite was best, especially if he got fed up enough to come back and try again. Because at this point, it was hard to see whether they took this seriously.

Dani glanced back as the woman sighed, obviously affected by it all, "Wait." She told them, raising an eyebrow. "I can´t tell you who updated the file, that´s classified information, but if a room is cleared it´s either because the things are being moved, or because someone has been declared or assumed dead. Why, however, isn´t something I´m being told," She gave them another pitiful look and Dani nodded, "Thank you for your help," She managed as she turned to link her arm with Sam´s again. "Declared dead. Why would anyone do that?"

Sam was really glad the woman was moved enough to give them something, even if it wasn't very helpful but at least it gave them someplace to look. They at least had two possible courses of action so maybe this meant Kurt wasn't dead. "Yes, thank you." He said by way of being polite before holding onto Dani's arm carefully, keeping her close. Now he just felt even more protective. "I don't know, but to get rid of their things like that without knowing for sure? It's not right. And what are they doing with his things?" It just left him with a weird feeling inside. "I think we've done what we can do for now. We should head back before anyone notices we left." He didn't know who would notice, but at this point, he didn't trust anything.

Dani nodded at his words. "Either they´re trying to cover it all up or they´re declaring all the missing kids dead so they won´t have to go looking for them. But then wouldn´t they have done it to all the kids that were missing on campus?" Something in this equation didn´t make sense, but Dani couldn´t quite put her finger on it. "We´ll still tell the others," She then added as they pushed open the door and moved out onto the street. "Hey," she then stopped, "Wanna grab a coffee before we head back? I know a nice place just around the corner."

Sam thought that there was so much out of place and they honestly didn't have all of the answers. Even if they got answers, they were so little and led to nothing. Or at least nothing they could hold onto that was concrete. "Yeah, they would have. But something isn't right, we just have to keep looking." He nodded in agreement. "Of course. I'm meeting up with Elliott later, I'll let him know what we found." He wasn't in too much of a hurry to go back. Being on campus made him feel off so when she suggested coffee, he nodded. "I'd love to. Lead the way." He said, figuring a nice cup of coffee could help settle his nerves. For now at least.

Dani offered him a smile, nodding. Maybe, if they all worked together, they´d be able to pierce the puzzle together at some point. She just hoped Kurt would still be alive then. She was quick to shake off that thought as she lead Sam down the street and around a corner, towards a small French style café. She hadn´t been here in years, but it still felt like coming home. "Come on," She then smiled as she pushed open the door. "Oh, they also make some mean cupcakes and muffins here."

Sam was really hoping that this would all lead somewhere. Everyone who was missing deserved to come home. He could see the cafe and it looked really cute. When she mentioned cupcakes and muffins, he could feel the need to check his workout routine, but when he thought of it in the grand scheme of things, well, a cupcake was something that could comfort him for the moment. "Now you're talking." He said with a smile as they went inside.

#para: dani #para: Just a puzzle piece #savekurt #savekurt prompt

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