23 Chicken Run

Michael slowly rises from his seated position in the corner, his new spell, Hex, was already burnt into his mind, so all he needed to do now was pray that this worked... From what he remembered about the game, the spell should work in a way to enable this... Rather idiotic plan.

He walks to the barred windows and begins laughing like every anime villain he'd seen before. "Kukukukukukuku!" he does this for half a minute or so until he hears the panel behind him open. After a moment of silently psyching himself up, he turns slightly with a large sneer on his face.

"It's too late! I have already devised a means for my escape!" he spreads both of his arms out, "OBSERVE! MY TELEPORTATION! ZA WORLDO... HEX!" he shouts as the chubby middle-aged woman guarding his cell watched with a crooked brow.

At the end of his proclamation, however, Michael suddenly burst into smoke, obscuring both him and the window. This obviously causes Mrs Chevreuse to burst into action, fearing that this strange mage might've actually been able to teleport away. The fact he was able to use a magic without a wand already lent credence to his skill, but she was still very sceptical on whether or not this familiar would be able to use such powerful lost magic.

Drawing her wand, she opens the cell door and walks inside, intent on following the ambient magic produced by the spell to try and track the prisoner... Even if she was unable to stop his escape, at least she'd be able to provide information on where he was heading.

Strangely though, as soon as she entered she felt a foreboding feeling making itself known... With her hackles up, some movement from the smoke immediately catches her notice, the woman pointing her wand directly at it as it leaves the smoke...

A chicken...

How the fuck did a chicken get up-*Pop!*

As Mrs Chevreuse was questioning whether or not the chicken was real, it suddenly burst into another bout of smoke... And from it, Michael leapt out fist first! "CHICKEN PUNCH!" He screams, shocking the woman by the rather random and abrupt attack, making her unable to react in time as she's punched in the jaw.

Michael's badly performed Shoryuken actually manages to knock the middle-aged woman to the floor, her wand clattering off to the side as he barely recovers his balance... He feels pretty bad after punching what might be someone's grandma, but he didn't really have any other choice if he was going to escape.

Mrs Chevreuse look up at him with a pleading expression as if he was about to end her life... Considering what happened to Guiche, Michael found it hard to take it personally. He shakes his head and picks up her wand, tapping it a few times to see if it'd do anything.

Unfortunately, while he could feel a slight warmth from the stick, he didn't think he'd be able to actually do anything with it... He looks to the woman who was now slowly trying to exit the cell, but she freezes under his glare.

Michael releases a heavy sigh and rolls his shoulder, "Sorry about this." mutters as he walks behind the teacher and kicks her in the back of her head, hoping to knock her out with one strike... Which fails, leaving the groaning woman on the floor as she begs for forgiveness.

Michael hardens his heart though and strikes her again, and again, and again... Until finally, she's knocked unconscious... Yeah, she'd be incredibly sore when she wakes up, but he didn't think she'd be permanently harmed... Hopefully.

He positions her body in a way that she wouldn't choke on her tongue or something and then closes the cell door behind him as he leaves. He didn't think he'd be able to outrun this country's military, nor any mages it would send without a head start...

He takes a moment to examine the hallway he now found himself in, the place seems to be a dead end as far as reaching the top of the tower went. One side of the hallway lead to some stairs, while the other was simply a window overlooking the fields outside the academy.

Michael didn't think he was stealthy enough to sneak out of the academy's entrance, so that left him with another stupid idea... "Hmm, I'm going to be permanently stuck as a chicken at this rate..." he mutters as he readies himself to start sprinting...

Honestly, he wouldn't dare do this if his life wasn't already at risk, so, without a second thought, he sprints for the window, throwing himself out of it while casting, "Hex!".

He disappears in another puff of smoke, this time with his chicken form quickly falling from it and towards the grass-covered ground below. He quickly tries to flap his wings to alleviate his momentum somewhat, fortunately having enough experience from his previous transformation to do an 'adequate' job at it.

After three seconds pass, his body returns back to his human form, allowing him to drop the last couple meters or so.

*Thud!*

He lands on his backside and gives a muffled groan as pain shoots through his tailbone. He hadn't broken any bones, but he wouldn't be sitting comfortably for a bit... Michael quickly shakes his head of these thoughts though, looking around to see if anyone had noticed him...

Luckily, the road was basically empty at during the night, and whoever was supposed to be manning the stables was elsewhere... Without waiting another moment, Michael stands and sprints off towards the nearby forest, unsure of where he was heading, but knowing for sure it was better than the academy.