Re: Educate The Masses

[Nol]

Heading to the location he looked up before things seemed to be remotely normal as he headed down the side paths of the streets and area's people normally don't go down to get to places in town. And by what he could tell this place was a bit hidden, not to many people knew how to get there, or at least just avoided that place all together. Which was odd in and of itself but he didn't bother about that, really he just wanted to know where all these heartless have been sprouting from.

[Nol]

Entering a slightly wooded area of town he kept slightly more alert this time around, he was sure that this not so crowded area would be where they might end up attacking him. It was in that moment of alertness that a shadow formed near him, glancing he quickly looked at what as forming in front of him, it looked like a small dwarf of a human however twitching and all around weird.

[Nol]

It had beady eyes and looked like it wasn't even from this world, and really that could be questionable but as he placed down his bag he got into a mock stance, ready to fight this creature. Rolling up his sleeves he knew fighting this thing was normally difficult for him but he felt like he could do a bit more than he was naturally able to do against one, this resolve only being proven as he rushed towards the creature.

[Nol]

The creature itself seemed to be physically just a shadow-like manifestation however as it jumped up and struck at his left arm it hit like something that was very much real. Using his other arm to block the creature's hit he used his other arm to swing, driving his forearm into its small body and flinging it into a tree. Seeing that it was still up after that hit Nol stood ready to keep the pressure on as it began to get back up.

[Nol]

Closing the distance between him and the small imp he seemed to try and kick at it, only for it to evade his strike and go to the left, the feral like creature then seemed to shot some kind of small black beam of energy at him. This was something he really hadn't expected as he tried his best to shield his body from the blast, using his arms to protect himself as the force blew up in his face and made him fall to the ground seemingly injured.

[Nol]

However as the creature got closer, thinking it had defeated the teacher he got up right away, well, not really got up, more like counter attacked. Using his legs he wrapped them around the creatures neck, squeezing on it now he watched as it began thrashing around as he used his hands to bind the smaller creatures arms. Knowing it would be a matter of time before it would die like this as this hold would normally take down most humans he held on.

[Nol]

Soon twisting his body violently to the left this would in most cases nearly break someones neck, and for a small creature like this he didn't know if it would work or not but seeing it vanish away into black wisps he had to guess it did. "Ugh, I didn't know they shot off lasers too..." He said as his arms hurt a bit thanks to the blast hitting him. Getting up he hopped he wouldn't have to face more than one of those things later on as he went along with his small adventure.

[Nol]

Taking his bag along he rubbed his arms a bit, mostly to sooth the pain he went threw, but he would be okay all together. It was just a few bruises after all, but he would make sure to be even more careful later on if he ran into more or just different versions of those kinds of heartless. He had seen enough heartless in his time that he knew they came in different shapes and forms too, leaving him to guess most of the time at what they could possibly do and what not.

[Nol]

"At least that proves they are around here, still don't know why though." Thinking he wondered about what might be causing them, he knew heartless were produced by people when they had symptoms of dread, but he didn't know why there was a sudden burst in number from them. No one had died or anything, nor has anything majorly bad happened in a while but they have been cropping up more often than he liked.

[Nol]

Taking a moment to look around the path he was going down he seen that it went on for a while but didn't just go in random routes, just a singular route to one location. He found this pretty odd as it meant this lead to only one place and with only one entrance as he might guess, this made him wonder about a lot more than just where he was heading and about the area he was going too.

[Nol]

As he walked Nol nearly tripped over something while in thought, this surprised him greatly as he was supposed to be alert of course, especially in times where he could be jumped by more of those monster like creatures. But what he tripped over was a small book, it looked out of place in this forest like setting and even he old cover and warn out pages didn't scream that it was very old.

[Nol]

Picking it up it looked like an average composition book, the black and white king you write journal entries in and maybe the occasional short story. He should know as he had his students writing about any and everything, just to keep their minds sharp and so they wont fall asleep in class. But oddly enough that plan tends to get the opposite effect as it makes nearly everyone in his class pass out for a nap.

[Nol]

Nol decided to take the book with him, but he couldn't help but read what was inside, amazingly enough it had information on the heartless but with the hand writing of a child. Who ever was writing this made it like a journal but a sort of research journal too, but he didn't complain about the bad hand writing, it had some really in depth information on Heartless and other worlds as well.

[Nol]

The concept of other worlds was something he hadn't gotten yet, he hadn't studied quantum physics or even regular space time theory. But when the book described traveling between worlds on something called a 'gummi ship' he couldn't help but laugh at this. It was a mix between cute innocent charm and nearly deadly information about the creatures he's fought one on one.

[Nol]

Though the information in this small book seemed very very far fetched he chose to believe it, it was better than going into thing somewhat blind as he had been aside form the small amounts of information he had already known about the Heartless. However he did wonder who made this book, but as he flipped threw the pages to look for a name nothing was mentioned, not even another name besides the creatures and places this person visited.

[Nol]

Just as he was about to get relaxed he hear a rustle in the bushes almost all around him now, placing the book in his bag he looked around frantically. It seemed that he was surrounded, and when one...two...5 heartless came from the bushes he began to get a bit antsy at what to do. Getting into his mock stance once again he prepared to take the little imps down a peg.

[Nol]

Watching them jump all at once to attack him it left little room to really do much but try his best as he grabbed two form the air and flung them into a tree near by. The others latched onto him, clawing at him as he took one and slammed it into the ground, beginning to stomp on it violently as he plucked the others and threw them in random directions as well. The one he was stomping however didn't last very long as it varnished away into dark wisps soon enough.

[Nol]

Watching the other four get up he grabbed a large branch form the ground, raising it up he slammed it down onto one of the creatures heads. Using his foot to keep it from moving as he repeated this twice before it vanished away, though this left him partially open as one bit down on his leg causing him to wince in pain. Taking this moment to swat away one leaping at him with the branch, ultimately breaking it he jumped and landed strait down on the biting Heartless, making it flail around as he did it once more to make it vanish away.

[Nol]

Seeing that only two were left he was a little tired but he had trained enough to know when his limits were, waiting for them too attack he saw them both aim to scratch him with a leap. Stopping both of there attacks with his palm and griping their tiny hands he soon slammed them into a tree, holding them still as he brutally struck them again and again. Though it seemed out of place to be so viscous in his attack it was his fighting style and was surprisingly effective as they both vanished away but not with a sigh. "I should really lay down now..." He said as he felt really tired, working all day didn't help with this little ambush event.

[Nol]

Checking his body he seemed fairly alright, just a few cuts and scrapes as well as some light bruises dotted aorund his skin. He would really need to patch himself up with band aids now, and he was actually tempted to go and head deeper into the forest but he knew this was far enough, he didn't want to end up getting jumped again and ultimately hurt even more than he already has.

[Nol]

Taking out the small book he acquired not to long ago he wondered about who ever left this thing here and if they were alright. Especially so since he just got jumped in the same location he found the book, taking a moment to call out, "Hello? is anyone here?" He received no answered as he guessed, all he could hope for was the best, of course that sounded realy optimistic.

[Nol]

Dusting off his clothes he began heading back, but he marked where he left off at on this path by setting up a few small stones. He could head back her tomorrow maybe, that or when he didn't feel like he just got ruffed up by a couple of aggressive migits. Laughing to himself at his insight joke he headed out, simply enjoying the walk back but he made sure to keep his wits about him as he went along.

[Nol]

It was becoming later now, seeing that the sun was starting to set he could say he had been walking about and just searching around the outer limits of the city for about an hour now. He didn't find out much but he found the means to find out more things, of course this included way more information than he wanted about heartless. The kind that involved up close and personal "conversation" rather than seeing them from far away.

[Nol]

Heading back into town when it was around 6:00 now he could see only a few people traveling together, heading home or just heading to the sale they were having at the local shops. He was meaning to buy something other than a simple tub of ice-cream, but if he couldn't catch a sale or nothing caught his eye then he would just go home to rest, and really that was what he really needed.

[Nol]

Entering his house and dropping his bag on the floor he gave another deep sigh, he wasn't so young so actions like that wore on his body, especially after a 6 hour day of school and teaching students and not to mention another hour of grading papers. Right now he was looking forward to sleep but he took the book he found with him, wishing to learn about and examine a few things about other worlds and things of that nature.

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