Magical Bestiary | Tuesday, period 2

[nuclear_snide]

"Equines," Bob said. "For some reason, there seem to be a lot of them about in various magical forms." Illusions of each appeared as he mentioned them. "The Black Horse, Pegasus, Hippocampus, each-uisge, yale, hippogriff, kelpie, nuckelavee, and of course, the unicorn."

He put on a look of long-suffering. "And what seems to have been forgotten in modern children's culture is that most of them want to kill you." He went over the history and characteristics of each. "Now, a practical demonstration." With a wave of his hand, the Danger Shop's classroom display made way for a twilit forest, a river running along one side. "They're all here, roaming about. Catch them, ride them, ignore them - but try not to die, even if it's only simulated."

Comments

Re: Try not to die!

[rebelseekspizza]

Honestly, it was entirely possible Dante was just making shit up. It wasn't like he particularly cared; he just had nothing with horses. Though a future AU version of him definitely wound up fighting a spectral one once, so maybe he should've been paying attention.

"Be pretty cool," he mused. "Motorcycle that can spit fire, maybe?"

Re: Try not to die!

[nuclear_snide]

"Don't motorcycles run on gasoline?" Bob asked (rhetorically, yes). "Why on earth would you want to add fire to one?"

Harry wasn't much of a comic book fan.

Re: Try not to die!

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante shrugged. "It'd look fucking cool."

He was a simple guy.

Re: Try not to die!

[nuclear_snide]

Bob snorted. "Until it exploded. Then you'd be too busy burning to appreciate it."

Re: Try not to die!

[rebelseekspizza]

"Eh," Dante said, "I could take it."

The really sad thing was that he totally could, and it was really a matter of time before he decided to pick a fight with something in Bob's class.

Maybe if he unleashed those hell hounds.

Re: Try not to die!

[nuclear_snide]

Bob gave him a look that was a little skeptical and very pained. "So could I; it doesn't mean I'm in a hurry to try. Besides, you wouldn't get very far on an exploded motorcycle."

Re: Try not to die!

[rebelseekspizza]

"Maybe if it explodes in the air," Dante mused.

Dante, not everyone had your way with gravity.

Re: Try not to die!

[nuclear_snide]

"Are you going to jump it, then explode it? Or just fire yourself from a cannon?" Bob asked, torn between incredulous and resigned.

Re: Try not to die!

[rebelseekspizza]

"The first one," Dante said, "The second one is just fucking stupid."

Have some standards, Bob.

Re: Try not to die!

[nuclear_snide]

"Of course. What was I thinking - the rest of it is so reasonable!" Bob sad facetiously.