Flying Free

**(We open up on Takumi, pulling an arrow back to fire at the target. Suddenly, there's a loud swish.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** *INCOMIIIIING!*

**Takumi Kaze:** What the- Gah!

**(He ducks as the Tyrfing flings over his head. Seliph chases after it.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** No! Wait! Get back here!

**(He grabs it, but all this does is send it flying, smacking its hilt into his nose.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** Ow!

**(Clutching his nose, he stumbles backward, accidentally stepping on a rubber ball. He falls onto his back, while the ball bounces straight into a beehive, splitting it open.)**

**(Takumi is left in stunned silence.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** Oh...oops?

**(The bees buzz around angrily.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** Uh...nice, stinging, angry, terrifying bees?

**(The bees divebomb them.)**

**Takumi Kaze:** RUUUUUUUN!

**(He grabs Seliph's arm and runs, the bees chasing after them.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** So, uh, sorry for causing that! I'm Seliph.

**Takumi Kaze:** Not forgiven. And if we're giving out names...Takumi.

**Seliph Sívrit:** Takumi? Taku...taku...I'll never remember that. How about I just call you Tik-Tak?

**Takumi Kaze:** *Tik-Tak*?!

**Seliph Sívrit:** Hey, it has a ring to it!

**Takumi Kaze:** It has a- No! No it does not!

**Seliph Sívrit:** But it's pretty clever! And that's saying something coming from me, because I don't even know how to pronounce sepefic!

**(Takumi facepalms. They make it into the school and slam the door shut on the bees.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** ...Well! That happened. Hey, does this make us friends?

**Takumi Kaze:** Wh-what?! Hell no!

**Seliph Sívrit:** Why not? Isn't "escaping a swarm of bees" something you can't do without becoming friends? I made my first friend ever that way!

**Takumi Kaze:** Okay, one, I have no idea what you mean by that, and two, escaping bees does not make you my friend. In fact, I seem to *dis*like you more.

**Seliph Sívrit:** But-

**Takumi Kaze:** Seliph, do me a favor and don't speak to me for the rest of the day.

**(He turns and disappears into the crowd of students. Seliph blinks, then tries to go after him, but quickly loses him in the crowd.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** W-wait! Tik-Tak! Come back! I want to be friends! I'm...lonely...

**(He sort of deflates in the middle of the crowd, nobody sparing him a glance.)**

**(Cut to the next day, at Mythology class.)**

**Professor Aesop:** This week, you will make a presentation on your mythological parent's importance to their mythology. This is a partner project.

**(Cue groans from most of the class. They begin pairing up, and eventually, only one person is left without a partner.)**

**Takumi Kaze:** Well, I guess I'm doing it solo. ...*\*sigh\* Again.*

**(Suddenly, someone sits next to him. It's...well, you can probably guess.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** Hi, Tik-Tak! We're partners now! Yippee!

**Takumi Kaze:** What the- I never said we were-!

**Seliph Sívrit:** Oh c'mon! Nobody wants to partner with me, nobody wants to partner with you, we're practically *made* for each other!

**(Takumi's head slams down on the table.)**

**Takumi Kaze:** Izanagi help me...

**(We see Elena and Sundarata looking at them.)**

**Elena Troy:** So how long do you think it will take until Takumi strangles him?

**Sundarata Devi:** I give a day, tops.

**Elena Troy:** Well, Seliph *is* technically right. They were made for each other, being some of the least liked students here.

**Sundarata Devi:** Not without good reason! One would forget where his hands were if they weren't attached to his body, the other is basically Sir Prickington the Third.

**Elena Troy:** Well, who knows. Seliph's nice but he's incompetant. Maybe Takumi can whip him into shape. That is if he doesn't explode first.

**(The camera cuts to Takumi's room where he's trying to work on the project while Seliph is being his usual goofy self.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** ...and then they suspended me! How was I supposed to know that that was dynamite in disguise? It was yellow, not red! Oh, wow, what's that?

**(He reaches to grab a light bulb. He touches it, then shrieks and jerks his hand away.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** OW! WHY DID THAT HURT SO MUCH?!

**Takumi Kaze:** It's a *lit light bulb*. What did you think was going to happen?

**Seliph Sívrit:** Wait, *that's* what they're called? Audun didn't tell me when I asked, he just sighed and called me an idiot. I get that response from a lot of people, actually.

**Takumi Kaze:** *Gee, I wonder why.*

**Seliph Sívrit:** Exactly! I mean, I want to know things, but whenever I ask about them, everyone just calls me a lost cause!

**Takumi Kaze:** Because that's what you are. They're just being brutally honest.

**Seliph Sívrit:** Hey, don't think you're more popular, Tik-Tak! 'Cause...well, you aren't.

**Takumi Kaze:** How would you know that?

**Seliph Sívrit:** Well, I *miiiiiight* listen in on conversations. And a lot of them feature at least one insult directed at either one of us! From what I can gather, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, and you're a prick, and one time there was a debate on which one of us was *worse*!

**Takumi Kaze:** ...thanks, Seliph. Definitely needed to know everyone hates me.

**Seliph Sívrit:** Hey, don't sweat it! We're in this together.

**(He hugs Takumi, who shoves him off as soon as possible.)**

**Takumi Kaze:** Do not touch me.

**(He stands up.)**

**Takumi Kaze:** I'm going to the library. Doing some research on your father, Siglud.

**Seliph Sívrit:** U-um...his name is Sigurd, actually.

**(Takumi ignores him and leaves the room. Seliph trails after him.)**

**(Cut to the library. Takumi is attempting to read while Seliph, on the ladder, tosses books down to the floor.)**

**Seliph Sívrit:** I didn't know Dad had so many books! It's like I'm there, fighting dragons and rescuing maidens alongside him!

**Takumi Kaze:** Uh-huh.

**Seliph Sívrit:** Y'know, I keep wondering why nobody knows about your dad. Isn't controlling the wind really important?

**Takumi Kaze:** It really isn't.

**Seliph Sívrit:** *\*confused\** Wait, you're a Royal, right? Why aren't you acting all, "Oh, yeah, I am the MOST IMPORTANT of the Mythos"?

**Takumi Kaze:** Look, even if you guys gave up your dumb little crusade and we all got our destinies, I'd probably have to end up stealing the bag of winds if I wanted to be the next Fuujin. Which I do. It might be the only way Dad would value me.