Yuukio At NRC: Prologue

A Brief Reunion

A Brief Reunion

Lilia was a nervous wreck throughout Orientation. Silver and Malleus were with him in the Mirror Chamber, and they weren't doing any better. While the only ones actually aware of their situation were the Diasomnia students and the teachers, the other house wardens and vices have clearly picked up on the unusual tension coming from the three students. Four, when Sebek stepped from his gate and was placed into Diasomnia and determinedly joined them on the side, eyes never leaving the last of the gates. One of which they were certain their missing family member was inside of.

Only the boy hadn't been in any of the gates and after the last gate vanished, they almost felt their hearts drop, and Lilia tried to feel out the youngest twin's location or feelings to determine his location or situation. And there was some annoyance and adrenaline. There had been short and weak shocks of pain that Lilia knew were only a fraction of whatever Yuukio was feeling.

Really. It was quite alarming Yuukio was clearly in a fight when he should have been in a gate. "I believe that's all for orientation." Crowley began- almost shattering the little family's hope- only for the Dark Mirror to speak up.

'There is one last student. Unfortunately, he is in a place the Black Carriage cannot access. Allow me to open a gate for him.' The Mirror said, clearly startling the Head Mage and causing a rush of whispers to fill the chamber as the gate appeared. They couldn't see or hear anything on the other side. But a few minutes later and a dire cat burst through the gate.

"You better not forget my fish!" The fire cat shouted. The cat backed away from the gate to make room for whoever was on the other side.

"What is a monster doing here?" Crowley demanded. The cat looked at him.

"I'm this student's familiar." The cat replied, head nodding in the gate's direction. "And my name is Grim! Don't forget it bird man!" The cat growled. Before Crowley could retort a rather large eel fish flew through the gate, causing the dire cat- Grim- to squeal in delight as he pounced on it and began to dig in with his sharp fangs. A few mermen freshmen back peddled away from the ravenous creature in alarm. A big surprise was when the Octavinelle house Warden and the two twins on either side of him also scurried away from the creature.

It was a minute later that a figure stepped through the gate. And Lilia's breath caught as he took in Yuukio for the first time in five years. The boy's snow-white hair had grown long, falling around his lower back. His eyes remained the same pale auroral color and his skin was just as fair as always, though he could tell the other had some scars from what he could see of the boy's neck. Yuukio was also shorter than Silver by a few inches, more reminiscent of Silver's height last year. He knows Yuukio is 17, but he doesn't look a day over 16. And it hurts, realizing how much of Yuukio's growth he has missed.

His robe was covered in rips and tears and the scent of blood was almost overwhelming for anyone with a heightened sense of smell and a predatorial disposition. Lilia could see blood running down a nasty gash in the boy's cheek. And in his hand was the... Decapitated head of a dire bear monster.

"What the underworld D.M!" The boy shouted at the mirror, startling everyone from their stupefied reverie. "Couldn't you have opened the gate before we got besieged upon by the damn bear?" The boy demanded, using a bloodied hand to push his bangs out of his face, leaving a red trail on his forehead with that same trail staining some of the white. The student looked unsettlingly predatory and savage. So much so that even some of the more predatory beast and Mer people shifted uncomfortably.

'How did you fair?' the mirror asked. It was rhetoric, of course, considering they could all see the bloody head in the boy's hand.

"I killed it." The implied 'duh' was heard by all of them as he held up the head.