Magical Theory 101 [Open]

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The scene was set in a tropical paradise as Negi finished his lecture on magic. There was a small area dedicated to the teaching with a chalkboard displaying Jack Rakan's Ridiculous Chart O'Power present as well.

"As such, magic power is channeled through the user and created into fire, darkness, ice, etc. Those who are beginning can take up a practice wand and use the chant Practi biginaru Ardescat as the first focus. When you learn to generate flames on a consistent basis, come talk to me for your next lesson."

Negi pushed his glasses up a little. "Those who need to test artifacts, or conversely create one please follow me to the fighting area. We'll continue the lesson. And as always, if you want to test a few spells, be my guest. Just keep the targets to the designated areas."

(ooc: mingle and learn with people, it's all good! You can make a thread or ask Negi directly about a spell or something.)

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[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Before, when Negi had initially started this up, she had jokingly decided to use this opportunity as a way of moving in on Mr. cute and red headed. But as she started to actually research this stuff, not to mention her recent talk with Rein, she was starting to see that magic was not only going to be a powerful ally, it would be a subject she needed to throw herself into, just as she did in the arena of ass kicking. That meant not only focusing for an ungodly amount of time, it meant shutting herself away from her usual creeping around the ship and practicing LATIN of all things, so the pronunciation worked out right.

As she had told Rein earlier, she was a New Yorker: she adapted. There was a card that was a barrier jacket in her pocket, one she intended to ask Mr. cutie with glasses about, but for now it was concentrating on that spell. She stared at the wand in her hand a moment, far from her initial embarrassment at first on having it, and said the chant in her head first.

Practi biginaru Ardescat. Practi biginaru Ardescat. PractibiginaruArdescat...

"Practi biginaru Ardescat!" She chanted, and to her joy, flames came from the wand. This was far better than yesterday, where in frustration she had accidentally set a pod bed on fire chanting it in her sleep, hand still in the wand.

"Hey Negs, check it out!" She said, grinning. She was in her uniform of course, only vaguely realizing how much she stood out. Whatever, she had work to accomplish.

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"Ooooh!" exclaimed Negi, clapping. "That's great!"

She had talent, and the effort to do something like this that was for certain. Negi knew he had a good student on his hands. "Your control is better than before," he noted. "Been trying it out on your own recently?"

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She nodded, not ready to congratulate herself. This was just a small step, however positive. There was still a lot more she had to do.

"What other choice did I have? I won't get better by trying it out just today. I've never even thought magic possible until a few weeks ago, so I have a lot to catch up on. I mean, you're a prodigy or whatever, but you didn't get there by sitting on your thumbs, right?"

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"Yeah I studied and practiced every day until I got it right," said Negi, nodding. "Try Ventus for your next one, swapping out Ardescat. It'll create wind."

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She thought as much: anything that came out that good needed a lot of practice. She had the scars herself to prove it. At his instruction though, she looked at want, closed her eyes and concentrated.

Practi biginaru ventus. Practi biginaru ventus. Practibiginaruventus

"Practi biginaru ventus." This wasn't as impressive, but a small air current passed over them.

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"Not bad," said Negi. "Try a better wand movement."

He flicked out his own wand and traced the line in slow motion, winding the wand about. "Practi biginaru Ventus," he intoned, and this time a stiffer wind blew. "The nice thing about it is that you can create a wind of any size, like the create flame. I can also teach Cura as well, which is a basic healing spell."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"The wand movement huh?" Well that was new. She didn't think that it would matter, but she figured better to try it his way. She closed her eyes and concentrated again, but this time thought of the way air might move. It sounded almost new agey, but made sense to think of it as a different element, all around them.

"Practi biginaru Ventus," she said, and a sharp air draft knocked her off her feet. Despite it knocking her wig askew, she adjusted it, grinning.

"Sweet."

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Negi nodded, grinning. She was a fast learner. Maybe he could... hmm...

"Let's try something," he said as he brought up a stack of cans to the front. "This is an attack spell, the most basic one there is. I'll get the sensorium to print off the spell itself, but it's called Magic Archer."

"The concept is pretty straight forward, but it can be used in many ways. For the purpose of the demonstration, I'll do this."

Aiming his wand, he swept it upwards and thrust it forward. "Practi Biginaru: Saggita Magica Una Lucis!"

A beam of condensed light fired out and slammed into the top can, knocking it into the air before landing back on the pile. "Magic Archer, Saggita Magica. It comes in many variants but the most basic is a single arrow of light. If you can master a single, you can start increasing it by prime number values: 3, 5, 7, 11, all the way up to 97 and exceeding that. Give it a shot."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Now this, she was certain she could do. There was a lot of magic she was sure would be difficult, how could it not be? It was all new. The moment Negi had mentioned something with an arrow though, she had the feeling she could get it right. An arrow essentially boiled down to accuracy, and she had a very long history of getting that down before she even had a fight.

So she closed her eyes and let her thoughts float away, including the one barking at her about common sense when it came to hitting something. This was all about making her mark, and she needed concentration. In her mind's eye, she saw the cans, and she imagined the impact it would need to make.

Ok.

She brought her hands down and thrust dead center, her eyes focused.

"Practi Biginaru: Saggiita Magica Dos Lucis!"

Two beams went straight to the center and impaled with such a force the other cans were knocked aside. Hit Girl never hit lightly unless it was necessary.

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

Quite legitimately concerned about the sensoriums, Lupin had spent entirely too long fretting nervously about the consequences of entering them, pacing and pondering. Eventually, however, only his conviction that he would sense any stress on his body, and his imaginings of what James or Sirius might say to see him cowering like this, impelled him to enter.

He did so with his eyes shut and his every sense attuned to any sign of excitability or unnatural energy in himself. When he felt nothing, he dared to open his eyes.

"Well. This is certainly impressive."

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When Lupin entered the sensoriums, Negi had looked up and waited for him to orient himself before jogging over. "Professor Lupin!" he called out happily to the man, waving. My those were some nice robes!

"I see you've met Rein-san," he added, noting the outfit. "And welcome to the sensoriums!"

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"So I did, and I'm beginning to wonder how an old man like me was chosen," Lupin said with evident amusement. "I seem to be a decade or so over the average age of this ship at best."

He looked around the sensorium again, attempting to detect any sign that it was a created image, an illusion, rather than reality. He could find none. Only his mental certainty that this was such an illusion prevented his total belief. "A most impressive place."

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"Experience runs true even in the older generation," remarked Negi. "I'm sure you could run circles around us in your own way."

Negi nodded, gesturing around where his students were working. "This is based on my Master's resort, a magically contained sphere of time-space. Granted it's not set to the same time index since it would be redundant, but I've magically saturated the air in the sensoriums to be of a much higher quality to aid in the ease of casting spells."

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"Concentrations such as that usually only damage Muggle technology, on my world." Curious, Lupin produced his omnicomm to observe the effects that this magical saturation had on it. Noting that it still functioned, he replaced it in a pocket with a mild shrug. "But then, we knew already that our magical techniques differed in that respect. I'm quite curious to see yours."

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Negi nodded. "Our magic has developed along in pace with the technology of Earth. Even though mages on a whole are a secret society, we do embrace the changes that come along and progress. Back home in Mahora Academy, they utilize computers and the electrical power lines to assist in generating a protective seal around the campus city to help with keeping the mage-city in Japan from really being completely exposed. Anything weird is usually chalked up to the phrase "It's Mahora: It's Weird"."

Negi grinned a little at the memories of the Festival. "We've got a startling amount of magic students, teachers and officials there since it's sitting on a Sacred Point, one of the twelve in the world. So it's a big campus city right in the middle of Japan."

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"Hogwarts was much like that, but accomplished entirely without technology." Lupin had no real idea his explanation was unnecessary. "Perhaps our magic has an advantage there; it is quite easily to make a building Unplottable, shielded to repel Muggles, and so forth. Of course, we rarely do so on entire cities... most all-wizard communities are not as large as one, more like towns and so forth."

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"We've got something similar to that, although it's more of a deterrent than an actual repelling system," remarked Negi, thinking of Stonehenge's gate to the magic world. "Usually, it just gives the person the sensation that they need to be somewhere else. But can usually be endured long enough if the person is extremely strong of will. It's often used as a privacy charm at best."

"Oh right, I forgot you wanted to see some of my magic right?" said Negi, smacking a fist into his hand in thought. "Let me set up some targets."

Gesturing, several images of opponents appeared before he dismissed them to the side before creating a dummy that swung lazily on a spring. "Usually I give a more direct demonstration in combat, but this is easier."

[fanservicesnegi.livejournal.com]

"...Remind me again why you're taking up teaching again? I thought you'd wanna relax from this kinda stuff! And I thought you only needed ONE partner! Are you gonna get more Pactios before we get sent home?!" Asuna still hadn't quite forgiven Negi for recent events but she'd never EVER shut him out of her life.

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"I promised I'd teach magic so I would," said Negi reasonably. "Rein's sending a couple of prospects over and I'd also like to prepare for them. Besides, you're the only one outside of Vi that can keep up with me that's under the age of 18."

He grinned a little. "I thought you missed our sparring matches."

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"...Don't talk like you're older than me, baka Negi!" grumbled Asuna, though her cheeks flushed a bit at seeing Negi's grin. "You might look 19 every now and then, but you're still the same 10-year-old kid who scared the hell outta me and Konoka on our way to school in 2-A."

Truthfully, she did miss their sparring matches - and, though she'd never admit it out loud, Negi had done a lot of growing up. Maybe not regarding birthdays quite yet, but in other ways he certainly had.

[hisfathersstaff.livejournal.com]

Negi simply grinned as he went about setting up the location. Not that it really mattered he could just will everything into existence. But it was the motion of doing so that mattered.

"Negi-sensei is very happy today," said a soft voice from the side as Chachamaru presented Asuna with a drink. "Did you do something with him to cheer him up lately?"

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"...Spent time with him a while back in the bathhouse." Asuna muttered while taking the drink without complaint. "He foolishly disguised himself to be older when I could've gotten him in just fine as he usually looked."

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"Negi-sensei is like that, if overly cautious," said Chachamaru with a cock of her head. Negi debated to ignore the pair as he focused on talking through Chachamaru, guiding the conversation. To anyone else, it would look like he was busy setting up a classroom, which he was.

"He just does not want you to worry too much, with his mother-figure being returned to the pods as well as the rest of the class. However, he still cares deeply for you. He does however wish you and Mindy-san would not fight as much as you did." added Chachamaru helpfully as she began to pour another drink.

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"...Hey, I would've been just fine with leaving that psycho b...that psycho alone if she'd just listened to me in the first place and let Negi go when I asked!" Asuna snapped, finishing off about 1/2 of her drink without even blinking.

"Plus, she had the nerve to call me a monkey, a hag...!" Just thinking about the harsh words thrown in her direction reminded Asuna of the Class Rep.

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Chachamaru blinked. "But Ayaka-inichou and Asuna-san call each other worse names, and get into fights. And yet you two are close friends as well." Chachamaru had a puzzled expression on her face. "Is it not true that opposites attract?"

Whoops. Well, what's done is done. And Asuna wouldn't hurt Chachamaru. No one really COULD.

Well maybe some could. Not everyone.