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Magical Theory 101 [Open]

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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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.

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."

"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?"

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!"

"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."

"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."

"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."

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."

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?"

"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."

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.

"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."

"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."

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."

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.

Negi whistled as he reconstructed the targets. "Two at once. That's quite good. And I think I've found your element thus far. Seems like you'd be good at the damage arrows for the most part such as Light, Darkness and Fire."

"Each one of these has the power of a charged magical punch, which is why it's usually thrown in big groups of arrows," said Negi. "Try moving up a little each time, and hit the mark. Accuracy is important for the time being, until I can teach you how to make them homing, and remote."

"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."

"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."

"We use much the same system, in fact." Lupin smiled at this congruence. "I suppose distractions such as that are the most sensible way anywhere."

Out of a sense of prudence more than anything, he drew his own wand, but held it by his side. Mr. Springfield seemed quite trustworthy, but Lupin knew he personally could always react in a way that he ought not to have, in which case he would want his wand to correct his own error.

Hit Girl waited until he had set everything up again. She stretched a little, and started down the line, reciting the spells and taking down the targets little by little, waiting for Negi to set them up, and then taking them down again. Negi likely hadn't realized it she was Mindy, and after that encounter with Asuna she was looking at something to work out her frustrations on.

Finally she ended up at "Undetriginta spiritus lucis. Sagitta Magica, Series Lucis: 29 spirits of light. Magic Archer, Barrage of 29 Light Arrows," taking down the last row again. She wiped her brow: this took more energy than she'd thought.

Nodding and glad they found common ground, Negi turned towards the lazily swinging target dummy. "One of our most basic attack spells is the Magic Archer spell, designed for impact, capture or damage. Here's a fairly basic example."

Holding up his hand, he decided to give the full incantation as magic swelled. "Rastel Raskil Magister! Undecim spiritus aeriales, vinculum facti inimicum captent. Sagitta Magica, Aer Capturae!"

“11 spirits of wind, become a bind and capture the enemy. Magic Archer, Binding Wind Arrow.” was what he said as he threw his hand foward, speeding blasts of wind arcing out and wrapping around the target, securing it in place. "Wind is usually meant to capture and immobilize," explained Negi. "Activation phrases in a sense turn on and off our magic for all intents and purposes."

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"I think that's your limit for now," said Negi as the last barrage of arrows threw cans everywhere. "I would take five and get something to eat as well."

He grinned at Hit Girl. "You're progressing faster than I expected. I'm very impressed at that. We'll get to more attack spells later, as well as an old favorite of mine: disarming."

Oh good. She wouldn't have liked to admit it, but she felt like she was about to keel over at the moment. As it was, she was starting to feel a little hungry. Sh had no idea how long they'd been here practicing.

She grinned back. "Hey, what can I say? When I have a dedicated teacher I get jazzed up about it. I look forward to the next part."

She stretched. "So what made you decide to become a mage anyway? Seems like a lot of work."

"My father," said Negi. He had been asked this question before and he always had an answer to it. "When I was little, I'd hear stories about my dad growing up. He was known as the Thousand Master, and was a hero in his own time. He'd travel the world, doing good deeds as a Ministral Magi, and as part of Ala Rubea the Crimson Wing of the AAA, they'd visit wartorn countries, and help people in aid."

He chuckled as he called his staff to himself with a silent incantation, and held it out, the well kept wooden staff gleaming in the tropical sun. "This is the staff he gave me, one night when I was about four. Told me to grow up happy and strong. Haven't quite managed the first part, but I did manage the second."

"After that, I went and graduated from the Meridiana Academy, at age 9. I was the youngest graduate, and was sent to Mahora Academy in Japan. It's where I met old friends, and began to learn about the things my dad left behind."

Hit Girl hadn't expected to hear something like that: if anything, with the way Negi acted, she would have figured that he was a mama's boy. But he not only hadn't mentioned his mom, his dad seemed like some far off character. She also hadn't realized that his strength had been brought about in part by his dad to begin with. There was a little similarity there.

What she'd also remembered, though, was that Rein said his mom had been podded again, and that he had grown up not being too happy. Of course she couldn't offer any encouraging words (that was Mindy's bag), but she could still talk with him about stuff, right?

"That's a pretty impressive staff," she said, examining it with her eyes. She didn't know how he might react if she touched it. "So you're a prodigy because of your dad huh? That's something we have in common: I'm what I am because of my dad. Have you ever found yours?"

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