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[soulsword]

Who; Illyana + OTA
What; Video post at Academy + Beach Shark
Where; Network, new beach, and Academy
When; Throughout the month of July, this is a catch all
Warnings;None.


A. [ V I D E O ]

[ The video feed opens to what some may recognize as the Academy that randomly appeared a while ago. It's not in the greatest condition as shown by the camera moving around. Whose moving the camera? Good question, because it eventually focuses to reveal Illyana floating in the air upside down with her legs folded one across the other.

It's a very normal way to address people. Don't question it. ]

So, I guess we've just got this place now, huh? Clean up crew that came in really could have done a slightly better job. [ No judgement though. Well, maybe some judgement, but that's Illyana: snarky and judgmental. A brief glimpse of her imps working to clean up some rubble can be seen in the background here and there. Followed by a very loud CRASH sound and Illyana snapping: ]

Hey! Be careful back there. [ Is she concerned they'll get hurt? No. Maybe She sighs and then returns to addressing the camera. ]

I was thinking maybe I could teach here. That's what it was used for before right? Not sure how many of you would have the talent, but it'd be something to do. [ And boy is she bored. ]

B. Night of the Shark

Illyana arrived at the beach in the afternoon wearing an actual bikini and giant sunglasses that looked like they belonged in the 80s. Try not to judge her too much, they were in style back when she went to beach parties with her friends. Imagine that, she thought to herself as she walked up to the shore. It felt like it was a different life that she was at a beach with all the other New Mutants. In a way it was, but that was more complicated than she wanted to spend time thinking about. Same could be said for the majority of her life both there and here now. Everything somehow got complicated when you thought about how you felt. Really had a way of killing the mood. Or at the very least for making the mood more sticky and twisty. Yup, that's exactly how she'd describe her weird feelings.

At least this place changed every now and then. That served as a way to at least attempt to find a distraction from weird things like remoistening about the past (she missed her friends) or thinking about the future (why did she want to see him right now?). The fact that the arrival of a beach just seemed to be making her sad was not lost on her as she wandered up and down the shore. She kept away from people as the sun began to set and barely paid any attention to anyone else around. This wasn't what people meant when they suggested she try to be more social. To add to the antisocial look she kept her sunglasses on even as the sun completely set.

That was when she noticed something out of the corner of her eyes that looked suspiciously like a fin.

"Well, well, well, what have we here?" A new project. That's what she'd found here. And so began her nighttime adventures with a landshark. Illyana can be found out at the beach at night sitting on a rock casting some sort of spell. Occasionally she can also be found...riding something. That's right, she's learned how to ride a landshark. Only a bit of it's body can be seen sticking out of the sand, mostly it ends up looking like she's just gliding on some sort of large rock. Gliding on it and having a stupid amount of fun. Not that she's going to admit to that part.

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[areasontohope]

[He was busy getting lunch cleaned up when he heard Illyana's voice come over his phone. And then he turned with a dishtowel in his hand. What was that about teaching? So Yuki sat down at the kitchen table and listened in.

Not about to question the position she's in, he has to admit he's curious.]

Do you know what sort of things they teach there?

[Or taught there?]

SHARKS SHARKS SHARKS

[monochromatically]

Mono was out, of course, doing his usual wandering around and figuring stuff out. Whatever stuff was, really. The boy tended to have a lot to learn about a lot of things, and he did so by experiencing things in this world around him. He’d actually started to kind of have fun at the beach after its arrival, which was definitely a win… But he didn’t quite make it off the shoreline that evening after a long day of fun before he saw someone familiar who was definitely doing something he’d never seen before.

… What was she doing???

Scrambling up a rock on the shore, he tilted his head one way and then another. Was that one of those new shark things??? He raised his arms to wave frantically at his friend. “Oii! Hey! Illyana!” He called out (as loudly as he ever did, which wasn’t loud at all) to get her attention so he could ask so many questions.

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[harrythelizard]

[Admittedly, Harry had opted to sit out on the whole 'save the magic academy' bit, if for no other reason than he wasn't sure how he felt about the whole 'magic academy' bit. Many people could learn a few spells, but it wasn't for everyone, and not just anyone should be trusted with wielding the fundamental powers of life, the universe, and everything.]

You're...going to reopen the place? Shouldn't we check it out first? Make sure there aren't dangerous and forbidden tomes of arcane knowledge just laying around for any amateur to get their hands on and summon up the next Big Nasty?

Night of the Shark

[asthecroweflies]

There was something supremely mundane about his realization as news of the newly discovered stretch of sand south of the city began to circulate around their usual clientele and the other business owners in the area: he'd never been to a beach. Well, he had, once or twice, been invited to a party down lake for a high school party, and Lake Michigan might have been large enough to actually produce some pretty impressive waves, but he'd never even actually swam in salt water, let alone enjoyed a beach party the likes of which frequented many a B-movie screen. Thus, they had remained staunchly locked in his memory has a place where MTV hosted spring break blowout shows and not the sort of place one would actually visit.

That meant, of course, that he was going to head down and see what all the fuss was about, for the sake of science and curiosity and not at all because he'd always wanted to visit a proper beach and his father had never taken him. He prepared for the journey, buying a pair of black and dark gray board shorts and a black tank top stating, in plain white letters, "Surely not EVERYBODY was kung-fu fighting", and a pair of sandals, as he was fairly sure they were necessary for beach-walking without falling. As he made his way out to the sands in his new outfit which did very little to hide the fact that he was scrawny and never ventured into the sun of he could avoid it, he found walking in sand was complicated no matter what footwear on was wearing, but taking off the sandals made all the shells uncomfortable on the bottoms of his feet, looking every bit the wandering tourist he'd decidedly attempted to avoid appearing.

He stopped to admire what was, in fact, a stunning sunset, his dark hair blowing in the breeze, when the sounds of laughter caught his attention. The way it echoed across the sands and in the hollows formed by coastal rocks made the source of mirth, and once he did, he simply stared. Illyana was always beautiful; there was even a feral sort of beauty in her demonic form, but seeing her astride a...moving rock clad in nothing but a white string bikini, her yellow hair streaming behind her, and laughing? All he could do is stare.