Alicorn: Our characters doing something they thought was impossible together.

A terrible storm was raging outside, so terrible that it knocked out the power in the castle. Doors closed and locked automatically, and floodlights blinked on to cast dim lights on the now eerily quiet rooms. Neither Allison nor Thais realized that the door to the training room was automated to slam shut and lock in the event of emergencies. It made sense, considering that was where all the weapons were. What they clearly didn’t account for was that anyone still in the training room would be locked in.

Allison suggested they just sit and wait it out, especially after a few attempts by both of them combined to open the door were complete failures. There was no way for Allison to short the door out, either, as it was all magnetic, not electrical. The windows were shatter-proof, and had locked, as well. There was seemingly no way out of the training room, and though the kitsune didn’t mind the idea of just patiently waiting out the storm, the werewolf was having none of it.

So she suggested that Allison try to manipulate the storm so that the emergency state of the castle would be lifted. Noting the look on the younger girl’s face when she glanced out the window, Thais quickly offered to use transference to try to take on the kitsune’s exhaustion and pain so she would have a better chance of standing up against the force of nature.

Allison didn’t think they could do it. She was a realist, always had been, and perhaps since discovering the supernatural she’d needed to start being more flexible in what she thought was attainable. However, she really did think this would be too much. Thais was enthusiastic, though, and the kitsune had learned to put her faith in the werewolf’s strength. Even if Thais was still a bit pessimistic about their odds, she was still at least being light-hearted about it.

Taking a few breaths in the way Jamie had taught her, she walked toward the window and tried to settle her eyes on the clouds. Seiko had been working with her a lot more over the past few months on storm conjuring and manipulation, but this was bigger than anything she’d dealt with before.

“You don’t have to stop it completely,” Thais reminded her in a surprisingly soft manner from the omega. “Just try to calm it down.”

Allison nodded, having said little to nothing while Thais had proposed the plan and she agreed to do it. Controlling the storm would be easier if she was outside, that way she could suck in the energy more and try to recycle it as she drained the storm and pushed it out. Being inside disconnected her from it, and with the windows shut, the dulled thunder didn’t even reverberate in her eardrums as pleasantly as it usually did. Placing one hand on the window, she tried to feel it as another clap cracked through the sky, and the building seemed to shake. Feeling the motion of the vibrations, she was able to gain a better feel for the storm.

Thais was close-by, ready to place a hand on the kitsune’s shoulder when it came time. Trying to focus on the storm, she pushed all the energy into the thunder claps, making the next ones so loud they were practically deafening. But as the clouds began to roll faster and the energy lessened, the lightning wasn’t quite as blinding and the rain began to let up. It felt like hours that Allison was standing there, but she knew in her mind that it couldn’t possibly be so. There were very few things she actually could process in her mind at that moment, actually, and she could feel her eyes beginning to droop and her hands started to slide down the window.

Quickly, the Frenchwoman reached her hands out to push Allison’s back into place and wrapped her hand around one of her wrists to get a more direct link to her pulse. When Allison looked over, feeling some of her exhaustion alleviate, she could see Thais’s body begin to slouch a little under the tiredness and strain. With one final push, the rain drops striking the window mellowed into soft pattering, and the sound of thunder could be heard only in the distance.