Hydra Dragon - unknown breed but with obvious features of both dragons and hydra; hide skin; four pawed legs; two large leathery flight capable wings with four internal fingers and a short wrist thumb; body is quite cat-like and flexible but also somewhat... padded; 10 heads with one being dominant (the red-yellow eyed) however each can pay close attention to their specific charge and knows how to do everything the main head can, notably each of these heads can filter out the noise or telepathic chatter around them and focus on a specific target easily

Art by Rachael/Shadhahvar from Nexus exchange/request 2006

Flight - his wings are very broad and shaped for lifting while flapping quite hard, and he will do that often enough, though he prefers to jump down to catch air rather than flap to gain it; he's strong enough to carry several humanoids or a dragon smaller than himself, but not for longer distances; he is modestly agile in the air but with that many heads he can tell what's going on around him and pick a central line to fly rather than zip around everywhere

Telepathy and Verbal Speech - His mind is pretty strong and he can communicate with ease to those around him, within 10 miles he can ping distant telepathic minds, and up close around 500 meters he can connect with non-telepathic people or dragons. His mental voice sounds just like his verbal one - clear, loud, slightly gruff and deep; he doesn't have to shout to get his point across but can do so to chilling effect if he chooses to have all of his heads speaking the same things... Each head does have a faintly different frequency or feel to the voice, and the choir instructor has begged him to join their afterschool group sessions for this reason

Mental Network Coordination - with ten heads to deal with, you'd think he would be a difficult communicator but he is remarkably good at multitasking and keeping everyone on a team involved properly; this power works best at ranges less than 300 meters, but if there are fewer to communicate with he can extend the range considerably (a team of 3, 6, or 10 behave differently and require different levels of attention); he can keep up a steady conversation with half a dozen individual minds if they are telepathic themselves, though increasing the quantity will also cause the other heads' energy to seep in. Note that he is not allowed to use this power during team events against other schools, they must keep it on the level and not 'cheating' and he understands this - besides, the kids gotta be on their own some day!

Sonic Control - The secret to his spooky voice is that he does control sound to an extent; he can narrowly focus each head's speech or sounds at their intended target, though he cannot do this constantly, and since the teams aren't always hooked up with headsets and receivers of their own, he handles games with it rather than electronics; this will wear him out so he can occasionally be heard outright shouting after a longer game or one which has gone into extra innings, he prefers to conserve his energy and not be distracted, barking out a few words and using his wings as signals when needed

Look At You, Doing The Thing +5 He has a great grasp on assessing what an individual can do or shies away from, and assigns them based on their value and potential. Sometimes this leads to a stage-fright incident but more often than not it allows a student to blossom and do new things even they might not have known they could achieve

Sportsball!! +4 If it has a ball or something like one, and it has more than one person to play with it (jokes aside) he knows the rules, he knows the methods, strats, stats, scores, and even quite a few of the players. He can tap a lot of varied sources for aid on the field, and keeps up on most sports purely for the enjoyment of it. His heads can all be talking about different ball sports to individuals at once, and only when there's a major clash of rule types would he have to pause to sort it out

Instructional Expertise +3 Above and beyond his genial approach to coaching, he simply knows how best to get a kid - or an adult - involved in their education. Even 'problem' students with poor grades experience a boost in morale, figuring out how to do the homework or hashing through their tough studies. He also isn't afraid to get a kid to sit down with one of the admin and be placed in another class if things are going badly for them. He believes there is no-harm-no-foul to admit that a tough class is too hard, after all there are big leagues and junior leagues, hobby levels and professionals, for a reason, and some things are just not 'for' everyone!

Fly And Chew Bubblegum +3 Quite adept at multitasking and enjoys the occasional moment when someone else realizes that half his heads are doing something other than 'what they think'

Statistical Wizardry +3 If he's among peers in the sports department, that means one thing - they get to talk shop and he talks a lot. He knows when things are going over the heads of onlookers and tries to keep his knowledge of RBI and TS% and ATS reigned in while in public but those after-hours sports-bar conversations can be filled with as many acronyms and abbreviations and raw numbers as they can handle

Cleans Up Well +1 He hasn't had to 'clean up' except once or twice, meaning 'not wearing his baseball caps and headsets', but that doesn't mean he won't treat an important meeting with some gravity. He owns the hydragon equivalent of a tux and ties, but also tends to keep himself clean and well-groomed overall anyway for those parental meetings or sessions with professional teams