Human, not human (actual rp)

[Ixidor92]

Ray let out a sigh and walked into the building. Several of the rooms had been occupied by different clubs, with signs hanging outside that listed their activities and what club was within.


"You should. Otherwise you'll just end up picking something at the last minute, and not something you actually wish to do. Whatever club you join, it should be something you want to participate in, not just something easy or what you're good at."


Ray was taking the two of them up the stairs as he spoke. It seemed easier to start from the top floor and work their way down than vice-versa.


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Sanz shook his head at the daughter of Bastet


"I would never dream to take something without proper compensation. And why do you instantly assume that I'll--"


Sanz mentally berated himself and shook his head


"We're just friends, I don't keep tabs on her 24-7."

 

[Twizinator]

Samuel looked to the dark one. Then to the white one. Then to the dark one again. "I....I don't know which one to choose....." he said forlornly. "Hey, wait..." he said, realization sparking in his eye, "I know! Since you've probably had it before, you choose the one YOU want for yourself, and I'll take the other one!" he suggested cheerfully.


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This change in demeanor was immediately noticed by Adrian, and frankly, it worried him. However, he realized asking point-blank about why she was behaving this way was pointless because he got the feeling it was time for a more serious conversation that would answer that question anyway. "I am not sure I follow you," he said as he sad down beside her. "What has been not the same? What is this 'it' that you want to speak about?"

 

[Cyrionessa]

Habibah raised an eyebrow at the being before her but consented in picking. "I prefer chocolate, so you should take the vanilla." She brought the chocolate one back to her lips and began to devour ice cream in the most cat-like way possible. Her eyes returned to the demi-god and she sighed. "If some people continue having designs on that girl, you might want to know where she is constantly."


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Isolde followed him up the stairs, shaking her head. "I really don't know what I'd enjoy doing. Honestly, I'm not used to working in large groups. The largest group I've ever worked with is my League of Legends team."


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Anya's smile disappeared and she looked away. "I think the human word is 'awkward;' we have been 'awkward' towards each other since the night of the full moon which was also the night of my renewal. You have been too busy to talk to lately about such things, though, which I do not blame you for. It is just something that worries me." She looked back to him, a myriad of different emotions in her eyes. "I want to act normally again, but I keep feeling conscious of everything I do around you. I keep wanting to attack you with hugs and call you 'my werebear' as I always have, but something stops me. I keep searching for a human term for such a thing but I'm coming up empty-handed."

 

[Ixidor92]

Sanz let out a sigh. Samuel was so distracted that he wasn't even able to get a word in edge-wise to the young man. Hopefully he could clarify what had happened the other day without too much trouble.


"How would I keep tabs on her? You're her roommate aren't you?"


Sanz put a hand up to his forehead, waiting for Samuel to finish what he was doing


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"League of Legends?"


Ray exited the stairwell at the fifth floor, moving down the hallway way a few quieter clubs were. All the brash ones had taken spots early, and were therefore on the lower floors.


"I know of that game, though I haven't played it."


He made a motion with his hand as he continued to speak


"Give it time, look around at what's here. I've seen just about every type of club imaginable over the last two years, and even if there isn't one you like, it's possible to start your own. You just need the people to do it. What's important is that you actually care about it, otherwise--"


Raziel froze and put a hand on Isolde's head


"Duck."


He forced her down as he knelt lower, just in time for a blur of a figure to fly over their heads and crash into a nearby wall. Seemingly unperturbed, Ray stood up just as a voice came from the dust.


"Raziel! Today is the day that you stop denying your true call!"


Out of the dust came a young man. He had a few scars here and there on his bare arms, and a big grin on his face. He was also over six feet tall.


"I've told you multiple times Yagr, I'm not re-joining the swim club. That was a one-time thing--"


Raziel swerve to the side as the man, apparently by the name of Yagr, tried to bear-hug him


"You were the best damn swimmer we had! Why would you le--"


Raziel muttered quickly to Isolde


"Don't go anywhere, I'll be right back."


In an instant, he was running back towards the stairwell, Yagr in hot pursuit. The leviathan leapt at the railing and slid down, instantly making it to the fourth floor and continuing to run down


"You think you can outrun me down stairs?!"


The man leapt strait off the railing, falling through the gap in the center of the stairs . . . only to see Raziel waving at him from the third floor.


"You sonnuva--"


A massive crash overtook the building, whereupon Ray made his way back of the stairs and grabbed Isolde's wrist


"That'll keep him for maybe five minutes, we have to go."

 

[Cyrionessa]

Isolde was already taking off as fast as her legs could carry her. She had gotten used to running up and down the hills leading to the nearby villages carrying messages for Master Roshin, so she could run pretty fast. "Lead the way. I don't feel like being decapitated by a flying being that seems to be intent on destructive means to get his way."

 

[Ixidor92]

"He's not inherently destructive, just blunt."


Ray made his way down two staircases and went into one of the classrooms, stopping for a moment to catch his breath


"He's a troll. Draug to be specific."


It took him a moment to realize that they'd ended up in a club room where not many people were. It seemed to be a literature club, and only a few students were interested right now.

 

[Cyrionessa]

"Well, I guess I'm going to be looking at the clubs on the fly." Isolde's eyes turned curious. "Why don't you want to be on the swim team?" Her eyes took in this club for a moment, quickly scanning every bit of information that she could. This could be a possibility. Her access to books had been stifled by the fact that she lived in a place where there were more ancient scrolls than actual books.

 

[Ixidor92]

(I just remembered Isolde has no idea he's a leviathan :3)


Raziel let out a breath and took a peek outside the door before walking down the hallway


"Tell me, would you join a club where the sole purpose is to walk? Because that's exactly what the swim club is to me. I grew up in the ocean, swimming is as natural as breathing to me. I joined it my first semester because I was good at it and I didn't really care . . . though now I have a constant reminder of that mistake."

 

[Cyrionessa]

"....sounds like if I joined some sort of Philosophy Club. After you live with monks, you have enough philosophy floating around in your head to last the rest of your life time." Isolde nodded understandingly. As she followed him, she kept an eye out for the offending party who nearly smashed her earlier.

 

[Ixidor92]

Ray stopped for a moment at Isolde's statement.


"You were raised by monks?"


It was not something he had expected from the young lady.


"That's different. Then again one of my closest friends is half-angel. He sets the bar for oddity way higher than normal."


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[Cyrionessa]

"I was abandoned on Earth because I was born very weak. My mother probably figured that I'd die." Isolde unconsciously narrowed her eyes and clenched her fists. "Master Roshin found me at the summit of the mountain below the temple that he protected. He knew full and well what I was but he took me in, raising me as his own daughter. The other monks became my 'fathers.' They got me internet access and a computer so that I could learn about the rest of the world. But after the assault on the temple..." A very dark look came over Isolde's face. "....none of that is relevant at the moment. I'm here and that's what matters."

 

[Twizinator]

Samuel watched Habibah intently for almost a minute, specifically staring at how she ate the ice cream. "You lap it with your tongue...How peculiar..." he muttered and turned his eyes to the vanilla cone he'd taken in his hand. He hesitantly attacked it with a quick swipe of the tip of his tongue, like a nervous puppy investigating new food. Suddenly his eyes lit up, amazed by the delicious new dessert he'd been so graciously gifted. "This is amaaaziiiiiiing~!" he squealed, licking the ice cream cone rhythmically and happily. He glanced again at Habibah. In truth, he liked cats. He'd met his fair share of strays while in London, and he felt a sense of kinship with his fellow homeless. He seemed to have some kind of animal affinity because he'd never met one that didn't warm up to him in no time. He sighed a little as he saw the irony of having the demon in his eye take the form of a wolf.

 

[Ixidor92]

"I . . . see."


Great job Raziel, bring up the painful memories in spades why don't you? He walked for a little while, thinking how to remove the heavy atmosphere. Gabriel always was able to lift everyone's spirits, what would he do? The first thing that hit Raziel was early on when they'd met. Gabriel had preached to him a 20-minute speech on the virtue of god giving to everyone . . . but perhaps that would have merit here?


"I haven't met him, but this 'Master Roshin' seems like he was a great father figure to you. You were lucky he found you."


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Sanz couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at Samuel's reaction. Pushing aside the imminent talk he needed to have, he let his curiosity get the better of him


"You've never had ice cream before?"

 

[Twizinator]

Samuel stopped licking and shook his head energetically, sending his hair flailing about as he did. "No, never! There was an ice cream parlor that served the neighborhood kids when I was growing up but they didn't give out freebies to 'filthy street urchins', or so they would always say." He spoke with such a casual air, like he was discussing the fair weather around them and not his frankly depressing childhood.


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Adrian tilted his head as his brow furrowed, showing that he was deep in thought. "I...see...I have been, you say, 'awkward'? I did not mean to. I am sorry." He paused for a moment before putting his hand to Anya's shoulder. "I am not sure I understand what you mean about being conscious of everything you do, but just be Anya, and it will all be good, yes? Or am I no longer 'your werebear'?" he added with a toying wink.

 

[Cyrionessa]

"Well..." Habibah actually felt some sort of stab of sympathy arc through her being. The feeling made her pause; what was wrong with her? She was feeling pity? Trying to dismiss the thought, she continued. "If you so wish it, I can get you this ice cream whenever you want. Come share company with the others and myself over some ice cream, perhaps?"


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"Master Roshin is the most powerful and kind being that I know." Isolde smiled in spite of the bad memories. "He was the one who taught me about the world. He was the one who protected me from the judgment of others. He even repelled my mother's attempts to take me away. The Master means everything to me."


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"Of course you're still my werebear!" Anya felt the hand on her shoulder and tensed for a moment. "But, the 'awkwardness' comes from what I....human says....feel...around you..." The dryad looked up at him innocently, confusion written in her eyes. "Whenever you are around me, I feel happy and wish to be close to you. Whenever you leave, I miss you and think about you each day till you come back. I don't understand this. I do not feel anything like this for anyone else, though I am close to many others. I keep looking for the human word for this but I find none."

 

[Twizinator]

One would have thought someone just offered Samuel three wishes, he was looking at Habibah with such reverence. "Really? As much as I want? Are you sure? Do you mean right now? Make some new friends? Really really really?!" He couldn't restrain himself and hugged Habibah. "Thank you thank you th-" he realized what he was doing and recoiled backwards, red in the face and arms in the air like it was a stick up. "Ah! Sorry!" he immediately apologized.


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For once the werebear was speechless, at least for the moment. No, she couldn't mean...


"I...er...I think you may be thinking over it. Er, overthinking it," he said. "We are good friends, yes? Of course you would feel that way. I feel the same of you, of course. But you really shouldn't worry. I don't like seeing you so bothered," he said with a gentle shake of her shoulder.

 

[Ixidor92]

Sanz's eyes involuntarily narrowed. Discrimination was something he hated, in all its forms. He shook away the look, that wasn't what he needed on his face right now.


"Um . . . Samuel, I need to talk to you."


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"I'd like to meet him someday . . ."


Ray wondered whether he should let a small tidbit of information for further into the year slide, but decided it would be fine to leave it. He was momentarily distracted by a fencing display going on outside the window


"I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you want to stay away from the more physical clubs?"


He was 90% certain he was right, but it seemed polite to ask

 

[Cyrionessa]

Anya bolted up and stood to look him in the eye. "This feeling goes beyond the concept of friendship! It hurts to see you leave here, knowing that I can't follow. I always imagine me being by your side forever and ever! Sometimes I catch myself wondering why you are special to me and also if I am special to you. But I have come across no word that explains why I think these things!"


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Habibah froze when Samuel hugged her. How long had it been since someone had done that? Many years, perhaps when she was a child. She saw his apologetic face and took a deep breath to calm down her suddenly racing heart. It had surprised her greatly and perhaps normally she would have back-handed him on the spot. But that small streak of sympathy made her exhale the breath and try to make light of it. "Y-you startled me but it's okay."


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Isolde shook her head emphatically. "Definitely not. I don't really enjoy physical activities or sports. I'm much better on a computer than anything else." With a sigh, she came to a realization. "There's no such thing as a gaming club is there?"

 

[Twizinator]

Samuel, glad that Habibah wasn't about to murder him in cold blood, turned to answer Sanz. "Talk? As in...right now?" he asked. "About what?"


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Adrian once again had to do a reality check to himself. No. She definitely wasn't feeling that. Right? No of course not. Get a grip, Borskov! Still, he had a sudden, spontaneous idea to test whether or not she felt the way he suspected she might.


"You say you want to unleash your attack of hugs, but you are stopped by something you do not understand, yes? So what if I..." he let his thought process trail off as he stepped forward and wrapped his arm around her, resting his chin on the base of her neck as he hugged. True, it was a little lopsided, but cut the man some slack. He only has one arm! "What do you feel now, Anya?" he asked calmly.

 

[Ixidor92]

Sanz was about to mention what had happened the other night, but was stopped when he realized it was probably not a good idea to bring up what had happened in the open like this. He would wait until he was able to talk to Samuel alone.


"Just--wondered what sort of club you might be joining. I was hoping for something physical, but not combat related."


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Raziel thought for a minute


"Not to my knowledge there isn't. I know there's a computer club, but they don't really game that much. Do you want to look anyway?"

 

[HilgenHoffer]

Gabriel was smiling gaily as he sauntered through the club booths. He wondered what he would do this semester?


It is worth noting that Gabriel did not follow the club culture in the same way as the rest of the school. Most students eventually settled in one club, and took their time mastering whatever it was that the club did. Gabriel, however, had been in a different club every semester. His very first semester, he had sung in the choir club. The president had told him that he had the voice of an angel, and they were all disheartened to see him leave the following semester when he joined the karate club. After winning the European welter-weight division championship, he decided to spend his next semester in Borskov's art club. He did not know it, but the headmaster actually submitted one of his works to Paris, where it was on display under the name "Anonymous." Last semester, he had been in the track club, where he had moved on to compete internationally.


Oh, but he didn't win that title.


That's right. He hadn't won. Rasha had won that. He smiled at the memory.


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Rasha sat behind the track club booth feeling rather entirely out of place. It was not her accent that caused her to sink into her chair, or her midnight black Kenyan skin. It wasn't her awkward height that put her ahead of the other lanky boys around her. What made her feel conspicuous was that she did not know anyone. She was only here because running was what had gotten her transfer in the first place. Well, running, and the good word of one new friend.


That's right. She had a friend. She sat up in her chair, her long neck craning over applicants' bowed heads as she scanned the crowd for a fair tuft of blond.

 

[Cyrionessa]

"Happy and comfortable and bubbly and many other things!" Anya automatically put her arms around him. "....but you've never done this before, Adrian. I was always hugging you, but you never seemed to want hug me. Wish you had done it more...." Her voice trailed off as she closed her eyes, a gigantic grin on her face.


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"Maybe you should check out the track team or swim team, Sanz." Habibah shook off her previous startled look and returned to the calm, collected cat that she always chose to be.


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"Wouldn't hurt I guess." Isolde sighed, her shoulders drooping with disappointment.

 

[Ixidor92]

Sanz thought about it for a second. Either one was a tempting option, though he remembered swimming was more difficult for him than it should have been. His right hand posed more trouble than he had initially thought.


"I think I'll go check out the track club. Samuel, do you want to come with? Or have you already chosen?"


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Ray noticed Isolde's crestfallen look as he started to make his way across the grounds again. As before, he was making a conscious effort to avoid the majority of the crowds


"Listen, even if the computer club isn't something you want to join, they can probably point you towards some of the other clubs that might interest you. If nothing else, you can found a game club, assuming there isn't one."

 

[Twizinator]

Samuel shrugged. "I haven't joined anything just yet, and it would be nice to join one with friends." He paused for a moment before remembering a couple details. "Well, technically I'm a member of the World Affairs Club, but we're free to be active in other clubs too...and I think Mr. Borksov may have added me to the Black Forest Exploration Society, even though I declined," he chuckled.


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"Well, you usually were beating me to the punch," he said with a laugh. "If you would like I think I can make this more common." He stood in silence for a little while, just hugging Anya, before he sighed and decided to speak again. "I may have the word you are looking for to describe how you are feeling, but it...well, it is not something that is casually brought up or said by someone about just anyone," he said seriously.

 

[Cyrionessa]

"I would like for you to make this more common." Anya didn't open her eyes as she spoke because she didn't want to exit from this beautiful feeling. ".....I think the word for the level of happiness that this causes is 'euphoria'." As if hearing his last words for the first time, her happy voice became an equally serious tone. "What is the word for this then?"


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Habibah's eyes narrow harshly at the mention of the "World Affairs Club." She knew very well that this was just Alex's official name for his club of cronies. So they were attempting to bring him into the fold? Perhaps it was time to keep a better eye on this guy.


"I haven't actually looked at the clubs yet." Habibah's face returned to its normal expressionless demeanor. "Perhaps I'll look into some of the ones that you people are looking at. Kerza wants me in the Journalism Club but writing just isn't my forte."


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Isolde thought for a moment. "P-probably would be best to join an e-established club first semester and get the feel of things..." The very idea of starting a club and probably heading a club terrified her in a way that words did not express.


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Aamor finished her tai chi forms and sighed. Maybe she should go with the others? But how many friends did she honestly have now? She hadn't spoken to many people in a long time. The only person that she had really spoken to on a regular basis was Raziel. Since the time he had asked her what had happened, he hadn't really brought it up again. She guessed that he was just giving her the right amount of time till she would tell him herself. It was also surprising that she hadn't seen him yet today. Perhaps the Headmaster had something for him to do? Even if his presence was....different....from the others, she did enjoy his company. Maybe later on today she'd see him.


She turned to the iPod and speaker set that she had laid on the forest floor. The clearing was circled in flat stone slabs with slits between each rock big enough for a small person to slip through. It was like having your own personal sound room, since the flat surfaces reflected sound back to her. For the first time since last year, she began to sing her old song. It was a mix of songs, everything from the musical Wicked to pop songs to even songs from the Frozen soundtrack. Unknown to her, however, the stones also magnified the music to greater volume so that you could actually hear her singing from campus....