Tension Rising - Main thread [Fight or Flight]

"Oh, it's not the size of a van. It's somewhere between one-half and two-thirds my height and about the same width as myself. Would that still be accepted by reception?" Zebediah said casually. Given his massive size for his age, that was saying something.
 
Zach shrugged at that, feeling another jolt of pain through one of his multiple cuts. He had been torn apart the day before, and it showed.


"I don't see why not... One of my amps was larger than that. Then again, you might have to explain to the teachers why you're getting such a huge block of metal delivered... I'll admit, I'm curious too." he said with a little smirk. He pulled out his pack of smokes and pulled one out, offering the pack to Zeb. He didn't know if he smoked or not, but it was better to be polite about it.


He brought his fingers up to the end of the cigarette, sparks jumping between them to light the end. He took a drag and blew the smoke off to the side.


"So I'm guessing you're staying here at the school?"


@The Out Of World
 
"Oh, I don't smoke, but thanks for the offer." Zebediah said, "But yes, I'm staying here at the school. I just need Wolfram for added security after the meta attack. How did you make the sparks? Is your power ignition?" He was curious as to just what this student was capable of.
 
Iren Winford


She noticed Nikolas wasn't as reassured as he probably wanted to be. Iren wasn't naive enough to think that the school was impenetrable or invincible. But she did have enough faith in her staff and students to know that they wouldn't be caught off guard again. "Nikolas, I wouldn't have a panic attack over Seth just yet... We know he's out there and will probably attack again given time. But in knowing this we can plan ahead of time even if he does bring assistance. I fully intend to protect this school and its students to the best of my ability." She reassured a more serious air about instead of the calm and comforting sort.


@Godman873


Morgan Winford


Morgan nodded in agreement. "They are capable of it, its just a matter of guidance and practice." She replied before taking a sip of her coffee signing softly afterwards. "Hm great as always." She smiled warmly feeling a bit of her stress fading off for the moment at


least.


@Alex Phalin


Sen Harper


Sen looked up as Jon approached her smiling slightly but noticed the other students sluggish movements. "No problem i figured you just forgot or something." She shrugged accepting the card and putting it in her wallet this time. "Thanks for bringing it back though." She tilted her head seeing him slump in his chair figuring he was probably just as tired as the other students who fought at the gym. He had fought right? she wasn't 100% sure but she hadn't seen everyone fighting in the gym either. She glanced at the crowd and nodded. "Yeah... helps when there's not much else to do. Plus its interesting to see how a large gathering of metas interact vs a mix of normal's and metas." She looked back to Jon. "Are you ok? you seem exhausted?"


@SkyGinge
 
Andrew smiled at her, watching her for a few long moments. It was nice to just sit in privacy and enjoy each other's company for once. He sipped at his coffee and smiled.


"I'm glad you like it." he said. After a few long moments he sighed a bit, thinking.


"I think we might want to implement some form of tighter security. I'm not sure how we would... But I think it would help keep the students safe. I have a few ideas, but it would take too much time and money to actually do them."


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Zach put the pack away and smiled a bit. "Electricity, actually. Electricity causes heat, so I just use it to my advantage. I never have to carry a lighter." he said with a small grin. "Wreaks hell on my guitars if I'm not careful, though." He held up his hand, causing sparks to dance and snap around his fingers.


"Only downside to it, is I feel every shock. I've been getting used to it over time, but if I have to attack someone with a couple million volts, I feel it too. Nearly killed myself yesterday, what with the knife fighting and having to use my power."


@The Out Of World @Shura
 
"That sounds both convenient and terrifying. That aside, I think I'll call you Big Boss from now on. I must get going, but I will consider the whole Pagan Metal thing. Have a good day, okay?" Zebediah walked off in what he believed to be the direction of the reception office of the Administrative building.


@Alex Phalin
 
"Oh, I did just forget," Jon chuckled, "Carelessness accompanies my clumsiness, sadly. "But there's no need to thank me. After all, I wasn't gonna deny you of $50 Dollars! I'm no thief, after all." He added a little aggresively, completely unaware of the irony that he was talking to an ex-thief. "But yeah, I had to take the call. Somebody back home." He smiled gently, and then leant forwards to eye over the crowd.


"It is interesting, isn't it," he said a little breathily, his interest clear in his warm tone of voice, "I mean, people in general. There's 7 billion people on this planet, and not a single one is identical. Isn't that just an amazing fact? Even if you travelled the entire globe, you'd still only get to appreciate a small part of nature's diversity." A lovable grin spread across his face as he stared off at them. "I find each and every person interesting. And the added eccentricity of most meta's is an added bonus. Provided, of course, they don't get too out of hand."


He turned back to her with a calmer, caring smile, and placed a hand on her shoulder. "You needn't worry about me, I'm fine, certainly much better off than a lot of people who fought yesterday." As if to countermine his point, his leg muscle suddenly offered up a painful spasm, which Jon repressed by jerking forwards very slightly and attempting to conceal a wince. He wondered once more if he should tell her how he almost knocked himself unconcious through exhaustion protecting her and the other boy.


@Shura
 
Morgan Winford


"Hm? What ideas do you have?" She asked before taking another sip of coffee. There were steps being taken to defend the school but defenses only went so far. There thousands of metas out there with a huge variety of powers with different levels of strengths. It was impossible to predict and protect against everything just on the staff and schools part alone.
 
Sen Harper


His small outburst about thievery caused Sen to throw any ideas of even mentioning her less than legal activities around him. It wasn't exactly something she went blabing about though, so far only Zach new about it and that was mostly because they had similar situations. So she stayed quiet for the most part and simply nodded.


She found his comment about the human race interesting she had always figured people were different and in away completely the same they live, breath, felt pain and died. Some to a lesser degree than others but it was something they all shared no matter what. Although she watched people she never considered them people, never thought past the immediate moment about their lives or families. It made stealing a lot harder to deal with if you thought about everyone's individually situation. People were just people. She nodded slightly to his question though. "Mhmm it is..."


She looked back to Jon as he put a hand on her, thankfully good, shoulder. She notice the twitches and movements which suggested something counter what he was telling her but just smiled softly regardless. "If you say so."





@SkyGinge
 
Andrew shrugged. "None that would be easily put in place. Barred windows and doors that come down in case of an emergency, that sort of thing. Decent ideas, but I'm afraid they'd end up doing more harm than good." he explained, obviously a little bothered by the fact that there wasn't much the school could do to protect the students.


"Anyways... That's enough work talk for now. What have you been up to lately aside from work?"
 

Ardghal sighed impatiently, his normally alert and sharp eyes drooping as he grew tired of the slow pace of the day. To make the day even more sluggish, classes had been cancelled following the announcement. Fionne enjoyed the attention people gave her so she perched herself atop of Ardghal's head where she could have the best view of the school and people around her. She would make a few passing comments to Ardghal like "That one looks stupid" or "Don't you think this is such a nice place?" to which Ardghal would nod slowly without actually listening. Fionne took notice of this and sighed with annoyance as she became quiet and reserved herself to looking around. Ardghal received his room number and ID card as well as all other necessary accessories to have free access to the school and pocketed them in his overstuffed leather satchel. He quickly went to his dorm where he unloaded his satchel hastily on his room's bed. A huge load of books, all over five hundred pages long and about either snakes or classical literature were piled on his bed's soft fabric. A few other memoirs and trinkets lay scattered about these books.


Shrugging, Ardghal walked out of his room without organizing anything, as he did not feel inclined to sort and order the large amount of books.


He walked out and promptly decided to stay around the common are as it had been the recommended place to go to when one does not have anything to do.


In the commons area, Ardghal stuck out like a sore thumb. Very few of the students had a power which was a natural part of their bodies nor did they carry around an exotic, venomous viper. A few students here and there attempted to strike up a conversation with Ardghal, their intents fueled by curiosity. Ardghal always turned the cold shoulder though, greeting them but cutting the conversation short and walking off until he sat down on a chair content with just observing the students.


He did notice the group from the cafeteria before conversing with each other, but Ardghal made no move to engage with conversation and simply observed, piecing together the conversation by both body language and the snippets of it he heard with his sensitive ears.

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Jon chuckled as he often did, and underneath it disguised a sigh as he withdrew his hand with a soft squeeze. She really was insistant on being vague and hading as much as she could from him. Frustrating as this was, this made her more interesting to Jon, as what little she said and revealed would feel so much more precious. I need a way to make her talk, he mused, hiding his deeper thinking under the guise of simply looking out to the crowds once more. At this point, there's absolutely no way of hiding that I'm in pain, and besides, it's less alienating to be honest anyway. he turned back to her, hesitated. I hope she doesn't take this weirdly. After all, it really was nothing personal.


"Actually, I'll admit, my entire body is aching," he began again, looking deep into her eyes to prove his honesty now, "I exhausted myself in the battle yesterday. I can freeze time, you see, so along with a tutor we were constantly freezing time in the battle yesterday and stepping in to help protect people from enemies they weren't aware of. And one of the main people I ended up protecting," a pause, "was you."


"It was later on, when you'd already been stabbed, and you were with some other guy, looked like a bit of a ruffian," Jon explained. "You were both considerably injured, and a load of that weird guy's clones were trying to prey on the pair of you. So I decided that I wasn't going to let the pair of you die, and so I made that my focus and protected you. It's all a little foggy to me, but I remember some kind of wall closing around you or something before I collapsed." he smiled wryly, and then turned to face the courtyard again. "So that's why I'm tired. More than tired, in fact. But honestly, it's nothing. I'll be over it in a couple of days. Whereas people like you, who fought without cheating like me, are facing medical notes, operations, check-ups, much more substancial pain. So really, don't worry about me." He smiled vacantly, wondering how she'd react to his revelation.


@Shura
 
Morgan Winford


"Jon suggested something similar... a lock down of sorts. Something tells me he already started it though." She smirked slightly. "I really hopes he recovers soon though..." She muttered knowing the technomancer was probably the worst off out of everyone in the attack. She shrugged slightly when Andrew asked finding it rather hard to answer "Eh you know... sleeping... sort of." She replied looking down at the hall full cup of coffee.


@Alex Phalin
 
Andrew raised an eyebrow at that. "Sleeping? We need to find you a hobby or something..." he teased lightly, finishing off his cup of coffee. He felt bad for the girl, she didn't really have anything to focus on besides work.


"Maybe music or something. You've been stressing yourself out way too much lately."


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Zach nodded and watched Zeb leave, sighing a bit. He took a long drag off his smoke and slowly stood, using the wall for support. The pain of standing was almost too much, and once he was up he had to take a few moments to recover. He sighed and looked around the courtyard, starting to wonder where Sen had gone. He wanted to check up on her since he helped her out the day before. She seemed to be doing alright, but he didn't want to just assume she'd be fine.


@Shura
 
Sen Harper


She wasn’t really sure how to reply at first as she stared at Jon her expression surprisingly neutral to say the least. He could stop time? She would ask how but given everyone at the school had powers it would have been a rather stupid question. She tried to think back to the fight and remember if she had seen him at all but only remembered glimpses or flashes in all of the chaos. There was nothing to really support or argue against his claims but given how many enemies there were and how fortune some people were to even make it out alive it was not a notion to simply dismiss. Plus if he could stop time she was happy he was on her side instead of the rogues.


“So you can stop time?” She spoke after a moment of silence curiosity reflecting her her eyes more than anything. "I don't remember a whole lot past grabbing any scrap of metal I could to form the wall. I guess its thank's to you I was able to get it up in time. Thank you" She replied sincerely. "And Zach not a roughen per say, just rough around the edges I guess.." She added shifting slightly to face him more. "Your power isn't really cheating ether, It's really interesting."


@SkyGinge
 
Morgan Winford


"You assume I have time for a hobby." Morgan chuckled. "I guess you could say reading is my hobby, seeing as I tend to do a lot of that after hours." She mused aloud, teasing him by this point. He had bugged her in the past to have a hobby, more so recently. Before she started working at the school she did read for fun and at some points drew though she found it more fun to make intricate patterns and pictures on a wall with shadows rather than use a normal canvas.
 
Dear Father, there have been some security issues here at Winford Academy these last few days. I feel that I would have less trouble if I had Wolfram for the rest of my tenure here. Please send it as soon as an opportunity is found. -With love, Your Son.


After sending his letter at the reception desk in the administrative building, Zebediah entered the common area where he found some other students relaxing and talking with each other. Zebediah felt a blast of cold air greet him as he walked inside. 'Dear lord, just how strong is the air conditioner here?!' he thought as he used his aura to create a field of warmth around himself.
 
"Again, no need to thank me," Jon smiled, turning back to her, pleasantly surprised with her reaction, "I was just doing my part in the battle the same as everybody else. But yeah, I can stop time. Or rather, create a micro-dimension-thingymajig in which time is stopped for everybody but me. It's really rather limited though, as that's pretty much it." He sighed vacantly, a faint smile still present on his face. "It's nice to know you find it interesting, but sadly it's more like one of those abilities that seems cool on paper, but in practicality isn't really that helpful."


A little quieter now. "It feels like cheating. When the rest of you are rushing around in the heat of battle, risking your lives, I'm not really in danger because as soon as I'm about to be stabbed, or shot, or whatever, I can just freeze everything up and walk out of the way." He stopped, not wanting to overload her with his internal discomfort. Instead he offered up a sad smile and continued. "That's why I admire the rest of you who fought in the battle. You were all really brave, and you deserve to feel like heroes."


@Shura
 
Having waited on a small couch for a few minutes, Zebediah's field finally changed the space around himself from a frigid hell to a perfectly toasty environment. "Ah, now this is much better." He fished around through his pocket for a moment and pulled out his favorite music player. "Now, just which music would suit this atmosphere?" He asked to no one in particular.
 
Sen Harper


"It sounds really cool" She smirked slightly. "I'm sure there's a lot you can do with it I mean... you were able to save people with out even being seen or put at risk of injury. I wish I could do it honestly." She replied thinking of the different way such an ability could be used for good and... well not so good. She looked off and brushed some of the hair from her face at the mention of being a hero. It wasn't a word she would use for her self. "I dono if I'd go as far as to say I'm a hero. I was just fighting to stay alive... not really to save anyone else. It's not like I saw there was a fight going on and jumped in to stop someone from getting hurt. You did that though." She said shifting her silvery gaze back to him.


"You could have just frozen time and walked out of the gym like nothing. Instead you used your power to help everyone else out and made it so fewer people were hurt. No one even saw you do it either so it's like anyone will know what you did unless you came right out and said it. Even then some people wouldn't believe it." She shrugged slightly "I would say your more like... a guardian angel." She smiled slightly finding the humbleness of Jon to be rather endearing. If it were anyone else with such a power they would be bragging about how great they were for saving people. Jon didn't seem the type to even come close to doing that, that'r probably what made her believe his claim of being an unseen savior.


@SkyGinge
 
Nikolas


Nikolas nodded a bit more reassured but still had a feeling that there were going to be problems down the road. Nikolas looked to Iren and gave a small smile. "Thank you madam, I appreciate the time you took to hear me out. If you have any further questions for me please contact me whenever." Iren was indeed powerful and he trusted that she knew what she was doing. Then after a moment of close consideration on Iren's words Nikolas teleported away once again with a goal of getting food.
 
Jon's eyebrow twitched thoughtfully as she spoke, and he adjusted his glasses whilst listening. She made a very good, and rather warming point, and had really thrown in a new perspective for him. He couldn't help but break into a grin when she called him a guardian angel, as it was pretty much exactly what he now remembered thinking in the midst of the action. He still felt a little like he could have done so much more, especially with his limited combat skills and unwillingness to hurt causing Madison to get stabbed in the leg when it could have been completely avoided. But she had pointed out what good he had done, and the antagonistic alternatives he could have elected to take, and that removed the guilt of his power somewhat.


What I do is just part of the system which is the battlefield, he realised, eyes glimmering. Which goes to show Kiara that not all systems are bad.


Jon grinned admiringly at Sen. She had made him feel warm and positive, almost too much so, and he was strangely unconfortable (in a more giddy way) with taking all the compliments. After all, in his mind, what he had done was nothing particularly special; he was only doing his part. "Thanks," he smiled, completely sincerely. "I really mean it, from the heart." He gently patted his heart with a large fist, eyes never leaving hers, as a sign of appreciation. She too had been humble and considerate (although Jon was unaware of his own humbleness), two positive traits to add to her already attractive shyness. Perhaps even unaware that he was thinking so, his cheeks went ever so slightly red, although it was impossible to tell the reason why from the outside. But the raw, warming feeling left him stranegly without words, and there was a short silence as he distantly looked at her.


Eager to change the subject away from compliments that he wasn't that good at accepting, he leant back once more, body still angled inadvertantly towards her, and brushed his hair out of the way. "I hope we don't get attacked again any time soon," he mused. He wasn't naive enough to think that they'd be suddenly completely safe, and he also could hazard many a guess as to why they would attack.


@Silent Justice (formerly JustAnotherRPer) (in reference)
 
Sen Harper


Sen couldn't help be return the smiled that spread across Jons face. The faint blush that crossed his cheeks indicated that he, like her, probably wasn't someone to accept comments very often so she could relate on that level. She nodded slightly when he thanked her not really seeing the big deal in simply letting someone know the truth. "No problem." She replied softly. Her smile fell slightly at the mention of another attack. She hadn't given it much thought, nor did she really want to. Not this soon at least. "I hope so too... the school is can't really stand an another tack so soon..."





@SkyGinge
 
"Yeah," Jon nodded, "Still, they're getting to work very quickly on repairs, and between all of our abilities we'll probably be back to normal before too long." It wasn't the most pleasent of topics to have changed to, and Jon quickly changed it, now no longer under the pressure of compliments. Which makes me think, there's probably some other activities that the school runs alongside education. Y'know, societies, clubs, groups, ect. I used to be part of a drama group in a nearby city back in England," he explained with a reminisive smile. "Quite a decent one, actually, professionally run. It'd be nice to get back into some acting some time." He couldn't help but thinking of his old drama-buddies, Lauren among them. When he'd been a little younger, he'd exercised his creativity by imagining them all playing characters in different circumstances. He'd later realised that actually he didn't need fantasy worlds to keep him entertained; the real world was enough.


Jon realised that he'd changed the subject back to hobbies and interests, something he'd attempted to bring up earlier at breakfast. Full circle, he smiled. He wondered if she'd respond any differently this time.


@Shura
 
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