Tension Rising - Main thread [Fight or Flight]

Glaedwyn, unsure what to do after having completely missed the anouncement, decided instead to follow the sound of voices. They were faint, but he clearly recognized them. He had spent the past three years with them, so he followed the voices of Morgan and Iren to where he was about 10 yards out. He saw three people he didn't recognize, one large and disgustingly muscular, the other and older, well dressed man with an air of power, and the last one a pink haired woman. Glaedwyn decided to simply walk over, as he had yet to have any luck with the indirect method. He walked right over to them and just stood there, clearly in, at the least, their peripheral vision.


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Sen Harper


Sen sighed as she waited by the elevator glancing back down the hall towards her dorm room in thought. She hadn't seen Teru since before all hell broke loose and was starting to worry if something happened to him. He was in the dorms when everything happened and she didn't see him in the infirmary so he had to have been safe, right? She was tempted to go back and knock on his door but wasn't sure it that was just going to bother him in case he was still sleeping.


Then again he could have gotten up early and already be down at breakfast. Which would have been odd since he knocked on her door the day before. She sighed softly not really knowing what to do. She glanced towards the hall Towards Zachs door wondering if he was awake but the ding of the elevator caught her attention. Social anxieties had her take none of the option and simply get in the elevator and head down to the breakfast hall.


Iren Winford


"Speak for your self..." Iren thought getting slightly annoyed with Kojiros talk of rouge attacks and wanting more. She couldn't blame his simple nature but it still ate at her that the event even happened. She didn't say anything though. She looked over as Glaedwyn approached the group and smiled slightly. She noticed a slight stiffness to his gate but given everything that had happened it was to be expected. "Good morning, Glaedwyn. how are you feeling?"


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Jon awoke to the screaming beeps of his alarm clock. With a weary moan, he slapped it off, and forced himself out of bed with a small wince. He had gone to bed early once again with his overwhelming fatigue, and imagined he would have slept long into the day had he not been awoken by the clock. His bones and body still felt ten times heavier than before, but it was still an improvement over yesterday, and he had become accustomed to the fatigue by this point. I just gotta hope they don't give us trigonometry or some crazy field marathon to do, other wise I'm an ex-man.


The overall mood on campus was tense and weary; Jon could feel it even from the shower. An almost ominous quietness about everything: students spoke in quiet tones; the corridors were filled with noises of distant mechanical creaks and other secretive sounds not heard in the previous two days' excitement. Even nature seemed to be honouring the tone; the weather was perfectly clear, without even a trace of whistling wind. Jon couldn't help but be reminded of his time bubbles. The quietness unnerved him, and acted as a subtle yet constant reminder of the previous day's events. He was no longer scarred by what he had seen, but if he forced them to mind, the images still haunted him. He shuddered, turning off the refreshing flow of water.


Yet life flows on. The school and everybody in it would have to continue onwards, and he would have to join them. After all, what other option did he have?


Jon dressed slowly, his every movement a little stiff and awkward. The clothes of the previous day were now drying somewhere after having to have been washed of blood. He put on a baggy, navy checkered long sleeve shirt and simple blue jeans. He couldn't help but notice his reflection in the mirror, and sighed, making a frantic attempt to adjust his hair. Was it just him, or were his eyes a little more solemn than normal. That was understandable of course, but he didn't like it.


What this school needs is somebody to cheer it up. And with years of training, I can be the perfect man for the job. He grinned effortlessly into the mirror. That was his mission now, to continue as normal, bright and cheery. I think this calls for some marmalade on toast. And with that, in spite of his tiredness, he swept towards to doorway and began to walk downstairs.
 
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Sen Harper


Getting to the cafeteria was slow going but Sen managed to get there with out tripping over her self of the crutches though her arms were already getting sore and tired from using them. It wasn't as easy as some other people made it look. She was tempted to just suffer through the pain since it was at least less frustrating than dealing with the crutches. Sen glanced around the mess hall noting the somber tone and hushed conversation, very different than the morning before. As much as she understood why the tension in the atmosphere she hoped it wouldn't stick around for long.


She made her way to the breakfast bar taking care not to catch her crutches on anyone or anything else, last the wanted was to land face first and deal with that additional pain. She managed to grab two pieces of toast and stuck with the usual butter despite there being a surprising amount of spreads. Most she'd never heard of or was sure of even trying.
 
Eager for breakfast, Jon didn't take too long to reach the dining hall. His legs were already aching by the tie he arrived, but his stomach force him onwards. The sight of the food gifted him a genuine grin, and he was momentarily glad that the food supplies hadn't been hit badly by the previous day's attack. Once again there was so much choice, and Jon immediately thought of grabbing as much as he could. However, his stomach, along with the rest of his body, was still aching and tired, and he thought it wise not to overload himself. So instead, he settled for the simple and satisfying meal of good old marmalade on toast. Not bothering with a tray, he grabbed a small plate, a couple of pieces of bread and the relevant spreads, and turned to find somewhere to sit.


Like he had expected, the breakfast hall was a lot quieter than the previous day and, bar the loud conversation of a group of students Jon thought would be classified as jocks, everybody looked tired and spoke quietly. He stood in the middle of the room and tried to catch sight of somebody he knew. If all else failed, he could always introduce himself to somebody new, as the previous days action had again robbed him of the opportunity to make further friends. But it wasn't too long before he spotted Sen.


The pair of them hadn't spoken since the morning of the first day, and it felt to Jon like a lot had changed in that fairly short period of time. She was on crutches now, which made his heart sink a little bit as he wondered just how badly some of the other students had been hit. Not once did he count himself lucky for escaping relatively unscathed; he was too busy worrying about the state of other students.


She doesn't know what I did for her, Jon noted, approaching her. In his action with Timestorm the previous day, Jon had quickly gone to the aid of Sen and a boy whom he didn't recognise when he realised they were both very injured and under attack from several clones. So injured they had been that they had began to fail to notice some of the approaching clones. So, until they made their defencive wall, Jon had taken it upon himself to use his time freezing abilities to ensure the clones didn't reach them. Such was the multitude of enemies however, that he had collapsed in exhaustion after they had made their wall, and after that he presumed Timestorm had taken him to safety.


He didn't feel in particularly entitled to praise, but he knew that without his work, the pair of them would have probably died. He decided immediately to refrain from telling her. After all, that was part of his curse; he had acted as an invisible guardian angel to the pair of them, and he would not be seen. And in his eyes, he had just been doing as everybody else would of, despite what Timestorm told him, he didn't want to nor felt like a hero.


"Hey!" He greeted, arriving alongside her with a cheery smile. His eyes though looked respectfully at her, and his happiness was suppressed enough as not to be annoying in the solemness. She was struggling with her crutches, and after failing to avert her injury, he felt entitled to help her out. "Do you need some help? I can carry something if you'd like."


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Sen Harper


Sen was fumbling with the plate she had figuring how she was going to to get to some kind of table when someone greeted her. She jumped slightly still feeling a bit skittish but relaxed when she noticed it was just another student. Jon, Jones, Jo- Something close to that. She smiled slightly in return glad to see someone who was in a slightly brighter mood.


She was about to be stubborn and say she could handle it but the toast was being a little rebel and tried to slide off the plate instead of staying there like it was supposed to. Perhaps it just didn't want to be eaten. "Uh yeah... Help would be great." She admitted softly. It was odd, having people trying to help her when she usually when completely unnoticed. Whether or not this new development was good or bad was left to be seen.


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Stephan


Stephan looked towards the new arrivals as he greeted them. "Hello there Mary! Hello, erm- what is your name?" Stephan looked towards the approaching student. Stephan turned back to the graduates to continue the conversation. "If you want to hit things I normally would have suggested a light practice against someone in the gym but as we have already mentioned the gym can't take much more at the moment." He knew no action was going to eat away at Kojiro but it would probably encourage him to help fix it if he wanted to punch things. "Though if you really want to punch things you could help them rebuild the gym." Stephan pointed to the building company already working on the gym as a few had been already staring at Kojiro in awe instead of doing the job they were hired to do.


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Glaedwyn smiled at Iren, who had more or less been the only grandmother he'd ever known, and shrugged. "I'm feeling alright, battered and bruised, but overall no worse for wear. Plus I woke up to two brand new sonic emitters, so I can see now, so who should I thank for that?" He looked at the other three with Iren and flashed a grin, somewhere between "nice to meet you" and "who the fuck are you?".


"Hi, I'm Glaedwyn."


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She jumped slightly upon hearing him, and Jon wondered for a moment if he was going to have to dive and catch her plate should she had dropped it. Thankfully, he hadn't surprised her that much, though Jon noticed something else in her eyes, perhaps confused. Maybe she's forgotten who I am? He chuckled underneath his breath. After all, he did have a very common name, and a lot had happened over the last few days. Whereas she had a very unique name, a name that he hadn't heard before. Sen. Sen, Sen, Sen. It was a nice name, he decided; simple, and breathy.


Her smile was nice too, the kind of weak smile that only reserved people gave. "What kind of help do you require, ma'am?" Jon grinned, jestfully bowing like a butler. Carefully, he removed the plate from her grip and held it steady in his other hand. "Is this to your satisfaction?" He pulled a deep, very posh stately British accent, and couldn't help but wonder if that were the stereotypical Brit in the eyes of many of the students. They were near an empty table, and so Jon walked over to it and nudged a chair out of the way with his foot for her to sit on.


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Madison

"Okay," Madison said to Mark. "Just making sure you were alright. You seemed pretty depressed... And my leg is feeling a lot better. The pain is almost gone." She said almost because there were still twinges of pain where she was stabbed, but not nearly as bad as before. She was glad Mark was doing okay.


Mary

"Hello Stephan. Nice to see you again. Hello Glaedwyn. I'm sure Iren has told you about me, the best student to graduate from this school." She smiled quite arrogantly. "If not, my name is Mary Sue." Just to show off her power in front of one of the students, she pulled out something random from her bag. A medium sized, hardcover book. Eh, I wasn't going to use it anyway. She threw it at a tree several nearby students were at, speeding it up a lot. It impaled itself into a tree, and stuck there.


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When Zebediah saw the educational projectile speeding in his general direction, his immediate response was to duck and instinctively begin heating the air around him to an insanely high temperature. The grass was instantaneously fried by this action and the air itself became stifling and uncomfortable. "You know what? Screw this, I'm going to get some breakfast." Upon that announcement, he walked off toward the first floor of the student dorm building.
 
kojiro

He was about to reply with helping out with construction, but was interrupted by Mary showing off her ability.


He spoke with a low nearly hushed smirk as Mary impaled a tree. The twitch to hit things after Mary had now twice broken something had now taken over. He flexed his shoulders.


"Ohhh now you've done it..."


Kojiro turned around and walked to where the tree was. After dislodging the book from the tree and crushing it into small confetti, he ripped with one arm the tree out of the ground.


He then threw it into the air above him, going far higher than a human throw. Not that humans typically threw trees, unless you were a Scot.


He then jumped up and met the tree as it fell down with gravity, grabbing it with his hand, throwing it back into the floor.


The tree staked into the ground and Kojiro came down shouting with a dropkick which obliterated it entirely into a splay of essentially sawdust and bark, the tree going out with a bang.


He grinned as he breathed out a sigh of relief, his tensions relieved. Walking back he spoke "I really needed to hit something, that did quite finely."


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Glaedwyn grinned and clapped at Kojiro's display of his powers. "Oh good, it exploded this time." He looked at Mary with a sarcastic smirk and a slightly dissatisfied shake of his head, then turned to Iren. "Seeing as we're showing off our powers and trying to best eachother, might I show mine?"


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Sen Harper


She couldn't help a small chuckle as John helped her out with a bit of an act to go with it. She made her way over to the table and sat in the offered seat setting the crutches aside. "Very much so, Thank you." She said once settled in the seat.


Iren Winford


"Ah I'm glad they got to you before you woke up. With everything going on I was worried they would get lost in the shuffle of everything." She nodded slightly. Her small smiled quickly turned int a frown as Mary decided to demonstrate her power on a tree some students were sitting under. She sighed heavily as some of the kids freaked out in response to the sudden book impaling its self on a tree.


"Mary... Might I advise trying to not spook the-" before she could finish Kojiro was off trying to one-up the other graduate student. An invisible wall was put up to surround the older student keeping the spray of wood chips from hitting any of the other students. She rubbed her temples for a brief moment before glaring over at Stephan it seemed he didn't exactly have the best methods when it came to raining in the youngsters. "They're no longer students here, therefor your responsibility. I would suggest advising restraint in the future." She warned already having enough on her plate with the current roster of students in her care. She looked over at Glaedwyn and shook her head knowing how Glaedwyn could be loud and/or destructive with his demonstrations. "How about later? When there aren't as many skittish students around?"


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Stephan


Stephan watched all the displays and frowned. "No more power displays, the school can't take much more." Stephan said already having a good idea what Glaedwyn's powers might be after he said 'sonic emitter'. He looked to Mary knowing her personality. "And no encouraging reckless power use." Mary certainly was the type to encourage showiness when it came to powers. He changed the subject to something a bit more peaceful. "Have you all eaten breakfast yet? Because I sure know I haven't." Stephan spoke trying to give school grounds a break.


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Jon took the seat opposite her, and began to messily spread the butter and marmalade on his toast. "No need to thank me," he smiled genially back at her, "I'm just doing what any well-meaning man would do." He wondered for a brief moment what to say next. He wasn't sure whether bringing up her leg and the previous day's action would do much good in terms of lifting spirits. In the end he couldn't resist. "I'm sorry about your leg," he smiled sadly. After all, it was partially his fault, or at least he saw it that way. "If you ever need any assistance throughout the day, you know where to find me!" He lay back and grinned, before topping off his spreading with a jovially 'Hmm!' and proceeding to shove the toast into his wide mouth.


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Zebediah carefully snuck through the arrangement of glorious breakfast foods, perfectly disguised by assuming the mentality of a plate of bacon and eggs. To become the perfect hunter, you must think like both the predator and prey. After a great deal of stalking, tracking, and concealing his scent with grits, Zebediah finally ambushed his quarry; a prime piece of toast coated with marmalade. Sadly, his hopes were obliterated when one of the students at the table that housed the toasty goodness plopped it into his mouth and devoured it. Zebediah let out a nearly inaudible sound, somewhere between a sigh and a scream of pain, and those nearby could practically hear his soul leaking out of his mouth.


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Glaedwyn sighed and smiled sadly. "Alright, I guess you'll have to wait. Maybe I can help clear the rubble of the gym, I see half of a ceiling that needs taking down." He grinned and then looked around, then back to Stephan. "No, I haven't eat-" Before he could finish his sentence, an energy bar impaled itself in the ground between his feet. He jumped slightly, before reaching down and pulling it out of the ground, wrapping and all, and nodded in the direction from which it seemed to come. "Well, here's my breakfast. Anyone want half? I can't eat it all, I won't sleep tonight."
 
Sen Harper


Sen wondered what it was he was putting on his toast figuring it was some kind of jam she just stuck to her buttered toast and started eating. His up beat personality was contagious to say the least as she started to feel more at ease despite the tension. She glanced down at her injured leg when it was mentioned and shrugged "It's not that bad, just hurts to walk really." She looked back to Jon with the same slight smile from before.


"I'll managed though, thanks for the offer I'll keep it in mind should I need it." She assured not really sure if she would really ask for help openly but the offer was still nice. She just watched as he downed the whole piece of toast in one bite and stared a moment before hearing something off to the side and looked over to see an distraught student. "Um... are you okay?"


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Kiara

In the morning, Kiara woke having forgotten where she was. She had slept with such depth and trust as she couldn't recall having done before. Lazily, she turned her head and looked at Teru, still dozing next to her. In sleep, he looked even more handsome which Kiara hadn't thought possible. She grinned as she eased herself from the twining of their limbs, but the motion woke Teru.


"Sorry," she said. "I didn't mean to wake you. I should, ah... go and find something else to wear and also get my stuff from the shower." Kiara leaned over on the bed and kissed his forehead. "I don't know about you, but I haven't eaten since breakfast yesterday, and I'm starving. Swing by my room on your way out and we can go together if you want?"


Kiara collected herself, pocketed her ID card and set her sunglasses over her sea-green eyes. She turned, opened the door and blew Teru a kiss as she exited to the hallway.


Teru

Teru awoke lightly to Kiara disentangling herself from their sleep. It didn't go beyond kissing that night, but he didn't mind.


Seeing as Teru was beginning to wake at the time anyhow he was easy to arise.


"Okay, I'll swing by your room after I've done then." He said as she was leaving.


Teru himself first noticed the mail through his door, not having noticed it before. It was all doting letters by various females and one male. Binning them all, he went to a different shower to quickly clean himself and brush his teeth.


Having done that, he put on a new change of clothes, though it was still black and similar to what he usually wore. Pocketing his keys and various other belongings, it was simple enough in all, though his mind was still trying to collect himself with all happened last night when they talked. Not that he regretted it though.


Having done cleaning and sorting himself out, Teru waited beside Kiara's door, feeling that he was quite hungry.


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Jon nodded in reply with a cheerful 'Mmph!' as he continued to chomp on his toast. Surprisingly this was the first time he'd been able to fully enjoy breakfast without being hurried, although under the current circumstances he wasn't really thinking that much about it. He knew her kind well enough to figure that she probably wouldn't ask for help at all, but at least that prepared her now for if he suddenly jumped in with assistance. Once again he wondered iwhethere he should tell her about how he helped her out, but before he even had time to brush the thought off, there came a peculiar gasp from nearby, such a surprising noise that Jon's toast nearly leapt from his mouth and he had to lurch forward to keep it from spilling in delicious crumbs all over the table.


Turn around to see the cause of the noise, he found the boy whom he had first befriended on the first day. "Oh, that's thingy-ma-watsit!" he exclaimed, realising as he finished that he still didn't know the boy's name. He was stood with a look of utter disappointment and perhaps despair written across his features. It was a bit of a far cry from the relatively quiet and reserved version of the boy he'd bumped into, ironically also when eating toast, and Jon wondered if he'd become inflicted with the school's general eccentricity. Sen had already enquired over his state, and seeing no need in repeating the question, Jon watched, bemused, waiting for an answer.


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<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.982b4539e8d8ad11e61d9c9fda35d85f.jpg" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="28884" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.982b4539e8d8ad11e61d9c9fda35d85f.jpg" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p> Kiara cleaned up and retrieved her things left behind in the shower. She was glad to see that no one had disturbed her clothes and that her father's Zippo was still in the pocket of the pants discarded on the bathroom floor.


With items in hand, and morning ablutions taken care of, Kiara returned to her room. She closed her door and looked sadly on the sterile furnishings within. The contrast with Teru's room was stark and she sighed at her inadequate, albeit temporary, home.


If only I could move in with him, she thought, but quickly discarded the notion. In any relationship, there had to be respect for space. If this were to work between the two of them, Kiara needed to make sure that Teru didn't feel suffocated by her; she knew well how that felt and it was why she impulsively kept everyone at such a distance.


Kiara withdrew a cigarette from the Pall Mall pack and lit it. She pushed aside the light-dampening curtain and opened her window. The destruction across campus had been significant, more so than she had realized but could more easily see from her fifth floor height.


The gymnasium wasn't a complete loss, but it would take a good bit of work to put back into useable condition. The administration building seemed to have taken a good amount of damage as well. The courtyard and other open spaces were scarred, scorched and otherwise contaminated with the results of the attack that had fallen on the academy.


Kiara viewed all of this with a wry grin as she continued to smoke her cigarette. Had the destruction been greater, it was possible that the academy would have been shut down – a mixed blessing for Kiara as that would have meant either a move to yet another school or the DA would have simply incarcerated her.


Jail now soured her mood more than it had before. With Teru in the picture, Kiara couldn't afford to screw up at school. As long as she graduated at the end of the term, she would avoid prison time which should have been enough incentive on its own. Now, Kiara had more reason to see her incarceration through to the end.


Kiara wondered what was taking Teru so long, so she ground out the cigarette on the sole of her shoe, closed both window and curtain and headed for her door.


She stifled a surprise when she opened the door and found him waiting for her. "So," she said as she exited to the hallway and closed her door, "come here often?"


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"I...You...That.....Damn. My name is Zebediah, but people have lately been calling me Zeb, Destroyer of Worlds for some reason. I may or may not have been high on Pentazemin yesterday. I'm still gathering information on that incident. I'm a bit shocked that you just....consumed that breakfast so unceremoniously. The breaking of the fast is a very important thing, you know."
 
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Sen just stared at the strange boy as he rambled not completely sure of his sanity. "uh.... right...." She muttered softly the only real thing she could say. Granted it wasn't everyday someone ate their toast all in one bite but it didn't exactly call for such a ramble. "Well then... Zeb... nice to meet you." She greeted before finishing the last bit of her toast.
 
I was right, Jon found himself chuckling. The man was clearly more erratic now, from the discordance in his speech, to the very matters of which he spoke. Still he finally had a name. Zebediah. It was a little long, and maybe would have suited him before, but now Jon wasn't sure. Is he sure he's still not high on Penta-stuff now? Taken aback a little by the sudden chaos, he took a wide-eyed glance over at Sen, as if to say 'I have no idea what's going on', and then turned back to Zeb.


"Sorry bud, I didn't realise some of us took breakfast quite so seriously," Jon chuckled with a perplexed smile. "I guess I'll just have to be careful to eat respectfully now, in case I call dwon the wrath of the toast God's."


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