Tension Rising - Main thread [Fight or Flight]

[Sir Raime]

Zebediah suddenly stood up in place and looked off to the West inexplicably. "If you'll excuse me, I must go now. I just remembered I left something unfinished in my drug-induced stupor." He then looked at the two and spoke in a voice that was deeper than before and frightening. "We will meet again." Without any more words spoken, he exited the mess hall and left for the dorms. As he entered the stairwell, he said to himself "Heh, I knew those ventriloquism classes would pay off."


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[Wrath Of Athena]

Mary

She smiled when Kojiro decimated the tree. That ought to scare a few students off. She was about to answer Glaedwyn's question with an enthusiastic yes, but was preempted by Iren. "It wasn't reckless!" Mary insisted in reply to Stephan. "I was just... Demonstrating, that's all. I didn't cause any serious damage. It's not like I destroyed a tree or something. Besides, what's wrong with showing the students how powerful they could become? I think that'll be a good motivator, having them think they could eventually become as good as me." She smiled when breakfast was mentioned. "Yeah, I could have some food." Sliding, especially when she did it for longer, often quite increased her appetite.


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[Shura]

Iren Winford


Iren took a deep breath before releasing it slowly to cool her aggravation. Her fuse was no normally this short. On any given day she had more patients than anyone on campus but stress was starting to get to her, fraying her nerves. She shook her head as the mention of breakfast and just shrugged. "I ate earlier today, but you all go on ahead." She said encouraging the rest to on on their way. Truth was she hasn't really eaten anything save for a few cups of coffee but she doubted she could keep down any food even if she did try to eat.

 

[King Of Imagination]

Glaedwyn opened the bar and broke it in half then handed a piece to Mary and the other to Kojiro. "Here, I'm not particularly hungry." He smiled and then shot a look at Mary. "You seem pretty arrogant. I'd love to see how well you could use your power with a searing migraine." He flashed a dark smile at her, contemplating it but knowing he'd get it trouble, so he just kept the smile on his face and walked off, his footsteps echoing loudly, because he wanted them to.


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[SkyGinge]

Shrugging off the strange encounter, Jon turned back to Sen and finished his mouthful. With a large hand, he wiped away the excess crumbs from his face. Altogether, he never quite came across as rude or disgusting in his messy eating, and his natural charm made it more of a comedic quirk than a problem. After all, he could have eaten cleanly had he wanted to.


"I'm glad not all of us are quite as mad as some meta's," he chuckled with a grin. Despite being a socialite, Jon had always prefered the company of quieter people like Sen. He decided to be friendly and change the subject away from Zebediah and the previous day's occurances. Similarly, he was aware that quietered people tended to not want to reveal a lot about their pasts, and he was doubtful that Sen would open up to him yet. So instead, he asked: "Changing the topic entirely, I was wondering if you had any interests, hobbies. Y'know, little interesting quirks that you could tell me about." He smiled warmly, genuinely interested despite the tactical thinking behind the conversation. After all, collecting information about people was facinating.


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[Wrath Of Athena]

Mary

"I'd love to see you use your power with a marble lodged in your skull" Mary said confidently. "You'd be down before you even got the chance to say 'oh shit'." She didn't like people who thought they were better than her, because they were all wrong. She was clearly the best person to graduate from this school. Whatever. "Let's go then, Kojo. We don't want to miss breakfast." She then began sliding towards the main building quickly, excited to eat.

 

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Teru

He smiled as she did a vocal jab at him.


"Only when there is someone in this room." He returned.


Teru began walking with her to the cafeteria. He realised that he hadn't seen Sen in a good while and wondered how they held up with the recent conflict. He hoped she wasn't dead, being his first friend at the school.


He heard his stomach grumble as they walked alongside each other to the cafeteria, nearly there. His stomach grumbled.


"I think I need something to eat." He chuckled loudly.


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Kojiro

He ate the energy bar in one chomp, the once familiar taste returning. He remembered gorging on them during more intense training sessions while at the academy.


"Really boss? If you don't wanna eat, you're the one missing out!"


He began striding to the cafeteria, his stomach growling for more food. It sounded more something like a large monster growling than a stomach.


Several students looked in awe or sheer fear as the tall large man walked by them. He looked as though there was muscle where there shouldn't be muscle and that his muscle had muscle of its own. His fingers probably had six packs of their own. He didn't mind his muscle mass though, it was what made him strong and durable, which he revelled every moment of having.


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Sen Harper


Sen just watched as Zeb ran off thinking him he was just completely nuts. She shook her head and shifted her attention back to John nodding in agreement to his mention of being mad. She blinked at his question not really sure what to reply with. She couldn't really come out say she spent most of her free time stealing, not exactly the best impression to leave. She shrugged slightly "Eh practicing my powers mostly... Not a whole lot to do at home so I just practice manipulating metal."

 

[Kharmin]

Kiara regarded Teru as they exited the dormitory and headed for the cafeteria. Sea-green eyes sparkled just for him over the top rims of her sunglasses as she glanced over them. She tried to keep her normal, stand-off-ish personality as they walked, but found it increasingly difficult to do with each step.


It wasn't so much that Kiara had an image to protect. Hell, she couldn't care less who thought what about her, present company excepted. Kiara still held her firm beliefs against the System and organized management of people's lives; it just so happened that having an aloof, condescending air helped her to stay well out of such order.


She knew that she could keep up her arguments against the world order and societal structure that continued to be ingrained in everything that people heard, saw, said and did. Unfortunately, in order to graduate Kiara knew that she would have to force herself to conform at some level and the thought of doing so soured her mood which probably accounted for the grumpy expression that everyone noticed about her.


"Don't eat it all," she muttered to Teru when he commented on his stomach's plight. "They have to feed the rest of the school, you know." Her tone was dismissive, but as she looked up to where Teru towered about her shorter stature her eyes glinted in their jest. Regardless of her mood, she knew that Teru would always be able to see through her farce – his access behind her self-erected walls allowed him at least that much.


"I hope that we have some classes together," Kiara said. "It would be good to have a friendly face to turn to when being surrounded by the rabble."


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[Elegy]

Ardghal stepped back reactively as he felt the intense vibrations of the speeding book course towards him. The book lodged itself into the tree, and this event was shortly followed by a mass of hulking muscle decimating said book and flinging said tree away. Ardghal did not think particularly much of the speeding book, the powers attributed to it were fairly limited. Vectors, kinetic energy manipulation, and force propulsion of some sorts instantly came into Ardghal's mind. The titan like man though, did stoke Ardghal's interest. He appeared to be a brawler that used a form of enhanced physique, and it reminded Ardghal of his days in the fight rings where he was matched against giant blocks of muscle in order to create an entertaining match. One hit, and Ardghal would be severely injured, but Ardghal's exceptional agility honed through years of intensive martial arts training complemented with the superb senses of a snake allowed Ardghal to weave through nearly any attack. Ardghal had a passing thought of what would happen if he challenged the man to a fight, but this was just a passing thought that he did not consider seriously. What was important now was to sate his hunger, as Ardghal had not eaten in five days, which was possible due to his snake like physiology. Fionne had eaten during the car ride, and Ardghal had made sure she was kept fed at all times as she became unbearably annoying with an empty stomach.


Reading Ardghal's subtle body language, Fionne now began to convey his thoughts towards Fox.


"It seems my pet here wants to go to breakfast and get away from this disturbance. I would love to stay, but I do have to look over this helpless guy, catch you later" said Fionne now that she knew that Fox could understand her. Ardghal then left quietly without so much as a word, waving a good bye to the group as he walked briskly away towards where the cafeteria was supposed to be.


Upon entering, Ardghal marveled at the size of the cafeteria. It's proportions were vastly larger than any room he had ever seen before. Ardghal did not let this wonder dwell in him long though, and he calmly walked around the cafeteria, exploring its intricacies. Ardghal picked up a plate and placidly went to a serving line where he requested two large slabs of boneless chicken. Picking one up between his thumb and index finger, Ardghal opened his mouth impossibly wide, and swallowed the food whole, gulping it down without a problem. He elicited a few strange stares here and there, but Ardghal was not bothered with them. With his sharp eyes that could discern and detect slight motions, Ardghal spotted Zebediah conversing with two people and began to walk towards him, but Zebediah rushed off before Ardghal was in reach to talk to him. Placing the other slab of meat on a plate, Ardghal sat near to Sen and Jon, eyeing his plate as he sat still as a statue, unintentionally hearing the conversation going on between the two but not caring as he did not have a conventional regard for social norms.


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Stephan


Stephan watched the interaction carefully already not too fond of Glaedwyn, he was letting his attitude be determined by the availability of his powers. "Well then it is settled, off to breakfast." Stephan walked to the cafeteria not planning on a huge meal but a big enough one to satisfy his hunger. He laughed quitely to himself as the other students looked at Kojiro, some envious some trying to figure out who he was. When he got closer he quickly grabbed a plate of bacon, eggs and hashbrowns. Exactly what he always tried to eat for breakfast since he was twenty.


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Teru

He chuckled internally to her mood, knowing he could see through the front she put up. It certainly explained why she behaved like that in the past.


She was probably dreading a form of conformity to them being able to go through the school together. Then again, he knew nothing was hitch free.


He looked with a raised eyebrow at her comment. "Don't worry, I'm sure they have enough to feed a nation." He said with regards to the kind of people they would have at this school (*cough*Kojiro*cough*)


He chuckled actually audibly this time at her last statement. "And so I don't have to deal with girls hitting on me like a boxer."


He noticed as they entered the cafeteria Sen sitting with someone, so after getting two meat sandwiches he walked close to where they were, assuming Kiara probably followed.


"Since when did you become a cripple? Well, jest aside, it's good to see you not in the newspaper obituary."


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Sen Harper


Sen glanced over as someone sat near them noticing his strange appearance but didn't stare. In a school of super powered teens there were a few who's powers were a little obvious. Her attention the familiar face which sat down at the table as well. "Well Hi to you as well." She replied with a slight smirk "I got caught up in the fight yesterday and ended up getting stabbed in the leg. Could have been worse though." She shrugged. "Glad to see your all in one piece, was starting to get worried when I didn't see you yesterday."

 

[Kharmin]

<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.145d2d099b01e1a254d1eaeb37396522.jpg" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="28894" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.145d2d099b01e1a254d1eaeb37396522.jpg" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p> Kiara pondered over Teru's concern about the other girls at school. It might be fun to watch, she thought as she considered her own, mild schadenfreude at Teru's expense. Kiara didn't necessarily feel threatened by the prospect of other girls vying for Teru's attention as his last words before she had fallen asleep had attested to his care for Kiara. Still, the term was early and a lot of things could go wrong, especially if Kiara clung to tightly to her salvation.


She trailed along side of Teru as they progressed along the cafeteria line and selected their breakfast. Kiara was thankful that the cafeteria hadn't sustained enough damage to prevent them from feeding the academy and she heaped a sizable portion onto her tray. She hadn't eaten in a day and was still recovering her strength and stamina after repelling Teru's dramatic assault during the tests yesterday.


Kiara followed as Teru crossed through the assorted chair and tables (arranged in a simple, plain order, much to Kiara's chagrin) and approached a student with crutches who seemed to be enjoying her breakfast with another tall, lanky fellow and a guy with ... snake?


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[Wrath Of Athena]

Mary

Mary reached the breakfast line, and grabbed some food. Eggs, a lot of bacon, and some hashbrowns. And then some extra bacon. She liked bacon. She got some extra, in case Kojiro wanted some more when he was done with his. She remembered how much he ate, and so she planned accordingly.


Madison

Madison jumped back in surprise when the book went flying her way, then backed away further when a giant muscle man ripped the tree out of the ground, and destroyed it. She had never seen anyone do things like that. "Wow..." This made the students' demonstrations yesterday look like nothing.

 

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Teru

Teru sat opposite her from the table, where Sen was next a fellow he had seen before a


He scratched the side of his face at her response of lack of his presence.


"Yeah well..."


He wasn't quite sure how to break something like this. He visibly eased as Kiara sat next to him.


"I was busy with Kiara."


He guessed that Sen could tie the loose ends, but wasn't sure.


"Well at least your leg seems to be healing fine. Cant have the first person I befriended at this school dead." He said.


He began nibbling on a ham sandwich, feeling his stomach relax with being fed.


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Sen Harper


Sen was glad that Teru was alright and unharmed. She glanced between the Teru and Ms. Rebel a seconds before starting to connect the dots. Her good mood soured a fairly bit at the knew more so related to past experiences with friends who had gotten into relationships. She couldn't really be mad directly at Taru, they were only friends for pretty much half a day. Still her mind and her emotions weren't always in sync with one another. "Really... you and Ms. Paranoid?" She asked with out much thought.

 

[Kharmin]

<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.30db1aecd3953808f71b5b82d485b2cf.jpg" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="28893" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.30db1aecd3953808f71b5b82d485b2cf.jpg" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p> Kiara sat next to Teru and ignored the conversation around them. Breakfast was easily more distracting and she made an effort not to eat too fast. She chewed and wrapped herself in her bubble of solitude which dared others to approach with their inane topics of conversation of which she was certain to have no interest.


As the day before, the breakfast held no real flavor or joy for Kiara. The academy certainly made a good attempt at their fare, and the speed at which it was consumed by the students led Kiara to believe that it must be more than palatable; however, the somber realization that this was only Day Two began to settle in and Kiara quickly lost her appetite.


She managed to eat more than half of what she had taken before she sat back and actively studied the small, odd group assembled at the table.


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Teru

He chuckled at her name for Kiara. He suspected her mind was probably not going quite the way it should, still trying to figure the logistics. He could see from an outside perspective how it may seem odd.


"It does make good conversation topics." He jested, addressing the criticism of the system he no more enjoyed than Kiara.


"But yes, Hotshot and Paranoid you could say." he spoke. Teru glanced to where Kiara was, who appeared to have taken an observational role.


"Or do you have other nicknames you prefer Kiara?" he said, the tone still in jest. If he wanted to be mean he could call her Brick wall, but that was probably a step too far.


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Kojiro

The pained sights of the cooking staff could be seen as Kojiro loaded an two entire trays with food. He somehow carried two trays without them falling to a table and wasted no time to gorge them down at high speed. He was by no means a clean eater, but Kojiro couldn't care less. He just wanted to eat.

 

[Kharmin]

<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.bc01f1cb218ba41964e9a0520b326d89.jpg" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="28900" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.bc01f1cb218ba41964e9a0520b326d89.jpg" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p> Kiara shrugged as she regarded Sen through her sunglasses. "I don't really see where it is any of her business," she said, "but hey, why don't we all just share our life stories and get all chummy."


She looked at Teru. "I've been called worse," she remarked with a calm demeanor. "Labels don't define me; I am my own person. And so are you."


Kiara passed a glance across the rest of the students at the table. "And so are you, too," she said. She jerked a thumb toward the administration building. "Don't let them force you into their mold. Be who you know you can be and let the world be damned."


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Sen Harper


Sens neutral expression be lied her own emotions which she kept in check least she make a scene in front of everyone. No, that was Ms. Rebels job. Seeking attention under the veils of some kind of grander cause. She glanced over to the brunet before rolling her eyes as she started preaching again angry darkening her eyes. The din of the growing crowed in the cafeteria didn't do much to ease her anxiety and storm of emotions laying just beneath Sens slight frown.


Overwhelmed was probably the closest word for what she was feeling but she she rather deal with her own issues away from the crowds. Sen simply shook her head and got up grabbing her crutches. "You can stop with the system and big brother bull shit. You already got your attention." She said tucking the crutches under her arms. "And before you go preaching about being judged and labeled. I would think twice before labeling the teachers and staff here. My self and about twenty other students would be dead right now if it wasn't for their intervention in yesterdays attack. And they show a hell of a lot more kindness and caring around here then I've seen parents give their own kids. So shut up already." She snapped anger seeping into her words. She turned and walked off as best as her injuries allowed not really wanting to stick around and talk to a close minded hypocrite.


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[Prizzy Kriyze]

Alec woke up, blinking violently to try to remember what had happened last time he was conscious. Being in a hospital bed started to slowly make sense to him. Hospital.. Why? Damaged nerves.. Why? Overloaded with energy... Why?... External power source... Why?...... Boosted by a spirit... EEK! He realized that his thoughts could probably be heard if she was still in his head. This is what made him jump both mentally and physically. Oh, sorry, I totally forgot about you. You still he- His thoughts were interrupted by a fuzzy ball headbutting him.


He was disoriented for half a moment, until he realized what it was. He spontaneously burst out in laughter, and started talking to his feathery little friend. "Pandora! Where'd you go? I lost you on that first day!" His pet kiwi had somehow gotten away from him on his first day, but seemed to have happily made it through the whole ordeal that happened yesterday. It wasn't exactly unusual that Pandora ran off, so Alec had learned not to be very worried. This Kiwi was something special anyway. He beat a cat who tried to eat him's ass once, which was interesting to watch. Alec sat up in his bed and put Pandora on his shoulder.


He felt a lot better, and tried lifting his right hand. It worked surprisingly well. He contracted each of his fingers individually and looked at them slightly disappointedly as they vibrated heavily. Eating anything with cutlery would be difficult like this. It was almost like having parkinson's disease.


He stood up and happily noticed that the rest of his body seemed to work quite well. His recuperation period seemed to have been shortened by his visitors aid. He tried taking a few steps, and noted that he wasn't fully in shape though. Running would probably lead to falling face first onto the ground. He took a few shaky steps towards Claire's body. He leaned against the wall next to it, and said Methinks you're about to wake up. You wanna return to your body so we can talk face to fa- In an almost scary fashion, the Kiwi on his shoulder pecked his ear just as he thought it. He looked at Pandora, and Pandora looked back at him with an expression that clearly stated "Food."


He raised an eyebrow at the bird, and then continued -I mean so we can go get something to eat.


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[GeneralZod]

Stephan


Stephan ate slowly so he could actually enjoy the taste of his food, unlike Kojiro who seemed to be a human vacuum. Now he understood why the Cafeteria ladies hated Kojiro. Thankfully though, Kojiro seemed distracted enough so that Stephan could slink away once he finished his food. Stephan needed to work on his speech to give to the students, it had been a very long time since he had to speak to a huge audience of people, it didn't bother him too much though, it was just speaking to a room full of students that bothered him a small bit, since they clearly were not going to listen to him. He could not understand why people like Dex decided to be a teacher.

 

[Kharmin]

<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.94a4d0aeb285d8bb62c0e7238a4ce40d.jpg" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="28901" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2014_09/Kiara.jpg.94a4d0aeb285d8bb62c0e7238a4ce40d.jpg" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p> Sen's words bounced off of Kiara's emotional walls without leaving any marks. Kiara had only spoken the truth; it was harder for some to open their eyes to reality such was the grip that society had on them.


It wasn't her job to release their minds. Kiara couldn't un-teach voluntary ignorance. There were many who preferred their place in the world and found anyone who railed against it a threat that jeopardized their self-conceived notion of normalcy. Kiara was far and beyond those constraints, but she wasn't the one to drag others kicking and screaming out of their dream world.


Kiara absently picked at her breakfast with her fork as Sen rebuked her for who she was. That was nothing new. Many before Sen had looked down on Kiara with disdain and attacked her for her beliefs. That only encouraged Kiara; people only got upset when you spoke the truth.


She waited for the girl to hobble off on her crutches before she allowed her fork to drop back onto her tray. "I wonder if she even considers that so many were threatened by the attack because they were assembled together in one, weakly defended place?" Kiara mused to no one in particular. "Certainly was convenient, an attack on the first full day when all of the students were gathered," she continued. "I wonder which corporation or government these so-called rogue metas worked for?"


Kiara pushed her tray forward and leaned her elbows casually on the table. "Any thoughts from the gallery," she asked, "or shall we keep condemning me?"


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Teru

Teru was taken aback by Sen's rebuke at Kiara. He personally chuckled at what Kiara said initially, thinking how she must be like that now to anyone that isn't him. Well he personally didn't mind it.


Still, he wondered what brought that on by Sen. "I concede I said to keep political talk to the dinner table, but that wasn't quite what I meant." speaking in a not quite so serious manner to Kiara. He honestly wasn't quite sure how to deal with the whole matter.


"Also I believe of more importance is the speech I hear is upcoming. Most likely addressing aforementioned attack. I won't make any criticism on the matter until I know more, seeing as I was holed up, sensibly, in a bunker during the whole affair."


He smiled at Kiara, thinking right now having people give her judgement wasn't the best idea right now and moved on the subject.


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