The morning breaks, Milia is the first to get up fixing her hair in the mirror tidying up her red and white outfit.
she taps Geron on the chest with a shock of energy to wake him up as he shoots up from his deep slumber fully awake, ''aaah so it wasnt all a dream! thank you Milia! shocking as always.''
''the same joke every day....'' she hisses through gritted teeth while walking away from a laughing Geron.
she walks up to Dorna and presses on her forehead with her thumb covered in cold energy making Dorna slap Milia's thumb away but she misses.
hah! not today! Milia says mockingly, if we keepin' count you'd be behind by at least a hundred! Dorna yells at Milia waking up the surrounding students and workforce.
Milia walks up to Baro and wonders how she could wake him up, she paces around him and tries to lay her hand on his cheek and rubs it with her hand.
as she whispers wake up baro. near his ear.
Baro shoots awake and lets out a scream of agony as he covers his face and guards his torso with his legs.
Milia jumps back in shock as she looks at Baro.
Geron & Dorna walk up as they look at the shaking youngster in his cloak.
good job, ya made the poor lad damn near die of a heart attack. Dorna snarls at Milia
Milia goes closer to Baro as she lays her hand on his side and tells him he's not with that filthy woman anymore, he's safe.
Baro stops shaking and lifts his hood as he looks at a startled Milia and lowers his head in relief closing his eyes.
s-sorry...he mutters in a shaken state, i cant remember the last time i had a nice wake-up in my life.
Geron walks up and picks Baro up with 1 hand laughing, well you better get used to it! because we are not gonna be like that filthy wench!
now lets get off these grounds, Zimzo could be appearing any moment now to teleport in creation workers to rebuild our school!
as they walk away from the empty plaza everyone starts spreading out and gathering up resources from around the area.
Geron leaps into a field of rocks with a smile as he picks out rocks the size of large adults as if they're pebbles and tosses them onto a pile for the outer layer while students and other teachers add logs, meat, wood to the gathering point.
after a short while of collecting the piles start to get higher and higher.
Zimzo appears with 50 workers, as he walks forward looking around he is impressed, Well! i see that you've prepared the grounds for us well enough! and even some energy saving resources to boot!
im impressed by your efforts everyone! now lets see what we can do in 1 go.
Honi steps forward with a disgusted look on his face and demands to know what happened.
Dorna walks up to him explaining in a short version of the story, as his look goes from disgusted to disappointed, that fool Baronia!
i cant believe he would sacrif- Dorna flashes in front of him blade shaking on his throat ready to slice.
go ahead, finish that sentence, say it! she growls, Honi raises his hands up and hesitates as he wettens up his lips and trembles with his mouth open.
he looks around and sees everyone with displeased expressions staring at him.
a-a-alright i was out of line, i apologise everyone! he says closing his eyes and lowering his arms.
Dorna flips the sword on the side and smacks him on the side of the head with it. and dont you forget it! she yells with annoyance.
Baro witnesses all this happening and looks at Geron with surprise, Geron is frowning at Honi.
Before anyone else tragically dies, how about we get to fixing instead, hm? Zimzo exclaims sarcastically towards Honi.
Zimzo starts with rocks getting lifted in the air and reshaped into perfectly cut fine bricks.
Now! remember the basics everyone, rocks into bricks, stairs, foundation, wood into doors, window frames, bedframes and the sort. And before we work on the finer details lets get the outlines ready through the memory of the land.
Zimzo's eyes flash yellow as he sees the structures that were there before the destruction as orange outlines of the buildings. As he starts to place materials in place, the students shape their energy into a cement like liquid, gathering it in a large floating orb, where one student secures the integrity of the mixture to be the exact same per drop.
slowly the buildings foundations start shaping again in front of everyone's eyes as they bring more materials to keep the influx going, Geron gets fired up seeing the progress and tosses more rocks onto the pile he's been making.
Dorna slices through trees as one-by-one the forest thins out, Baro can't help but plant the seeds & nuts on the floor he finds to help nature return in places.
Dorna notices his efforts and raises an eyebrow as she approaches him sheathing her sword. ''you know you could also help add supplies to the piles rather than worry about whats going to grow here in a few years.''
He pays no mind to her words as he starts chanting under his breath ''Grow to high, coming from low'' the ground around Baro starts shaking a little as trees shoot up from the ground, darker & wider than the rest of the trees around, purple juicy fruit sprouts from some of them as hard looking dotted red fruits sprout from another.
''These trees are for food, the wood isn't great for building structures but it can make a flexible bow'' ''Did you just create life?'' she asks flabbergasted, staring at the species of fauna never seen by her before. ''It's a simple chant with some channeling of energy into the ground to basically speed up the growth process by forcing the surroundings to supply what the trees needs to sprout''
Dorna approaches a tree and rubs her hand up and down the bark, it felt rougher than any other tree but a little bit of effort already made the bark come off revealing a white stringy hard mass below it. she fiddles with the bark a little before Baro approaches.
''its kind of a mix-and-match nightmare combination of a few trees, the fruits are entirely unique though, after all the time spent in the forest among nature, i learned how to even heal more efficiently through repairing damaged flowers'' Baro says with a smile as he walks up next to Dorna
Milia sees the new trees and runs towards the duo standing near them as she yells ''WHAT ARE THOSE TREES?'' as Baro plucks a red spotted fruit and splits it open revealing a slightly less red soft inside with a bit of fluid in the middle. ''Try it!'' he says handing a half to both Milia & Dorna. They both inspect it in their own way ''it smells sweet'' Milia says excitedly as she bounces up and down. ''and you say this is edible, no downsides?'' Dorna asks puzzled as she pokes the inside some more.
''Nope!'' Baro says as he plucks another fruit and splits it open he drinks the water from the fruit before taking a big bite out of the inside. Following suit Milia excitedly digs in as Dorna hesitantly takes a humble bite. Both Dorna & Milia's eyes light up as they start devouring the fruit.
Baro grabs a few more fruits and starts handing halves out to the everyone. As Baro gets to Geron still throwing rocks and trees alike, Geron heartily greets him as he tosses 2 more rocks. ''How about a refreshing sweet treat Mr. Geron?'' Baro hands Geron the fruit as he after looking at it curiously takes a large chunk out and with his mouthful exclaims ''oooooh thats real sweet, boy! but no need to be so formal with me'' he finishes the fruit and says ''just call me Geron'' as he taps Baro's shoulder twice with a smile on his face he gets back to tossing whatever worthy materials he can find.
Baro walks into the workplace as he sees a lot of buildings erecting right before his eyes, Zimzo and everyone else is hard at work refining or assisting in the creation of the missing structures. As to not disturb them, Baro watches from a distance as slowly but surely every brick fell in place, every window carefully shaped, time passes as the area starts to look more and more familiar down to the last detail.
Once the workers are done, Baro, Dorna, Milia & Geron approach them with plenty of fruits from the trees Baro planted. After a short celebration Dorna retreats to her residence.
Milia shortly after does a final showing of gratitude to everyone that helped and retreats to her own chambers.
Geron sits and talks for a long time with Zimzo, as they share stories of Baronia's exploits and how strange it will be going forward with a new principal at the wheel thats so inexperienced.
Eventually Zimzo gets asked to join Honi as they plan to return to their own headquarters. Zimzo embraces Geron as they say their goodbyes and Geron also turns in for the night. Baro gets approached by a well dressed young woman in a black suit as she tells Baro to join her towards his chambers.
Baro struck in awe at first joins her towards the tower in the middle of the schoolgrounds, ''This is where you will be sleeping, there are multiple layers of security in place that i will get into if you wish tomorrow, right now its time for proper rest'' she says in friendly tone as she shows him a large chamber with a bed, desk + chair, balcony with a glass set of doors and white one way see through curtains. Baro takes it all in as he looks at the bed in burning desire.
''Go ahead, after all its yours from now on'' the woman smiles at Baro. ''Thank you for showing me, but what is your name?'' Baro shyly asks her. The woman giggles softly ''Definitely better mannered than Baronia, but you may call me Tali''
''Tali'' Baro repeats nodding ''alright Tali, im grateful for you showing me around but i'd like to get some high quality rest for the night if thats alright with you too'' Baro says. Tali covers her mouth as she begins to laugh ''of course you may! oh such politeness is very refreshing young Baro! i already like you''
Baro thanks Tali one last time as she leaves and he lets himself fall onto the bed head first into the pillow, before long Baro dozes off.