Tension Rising - Main thread [Fight or Flight]

Sen Harper


Sen jolted forward slightly as she was pat on the back caught off guard by the sudden contact. Smiled softly over to Jon who looked as winded as she a bit of a blush rising to the surface though it was difficult to tell from her already flush face."Eh, I dono about free running queen. I'm decent enough at it." she replied in her usual modest fashion.. "You pick up on stuff when you spend all your free time on the streets." She explained without thought. She turned her attention back to the rest of the class and sighed heavily "Any ideas as to how we're going catch them?" She asked looking back to Jon. "Everyone grouped up like this wont help..." she muttered crossing her arms.


@SkyGinge
 
Gray was standing among the finishers, his mask in his hand. He had a light sheen of sweat on his face, but that was about it. He wasn't breathing hard, nor did he look like he had expended any energy at all. When you spend all your time speeding around, your endurance tends to skyrocket.


There was a problem, though. His shirt was stained with mud, and his right arm was hanging limp at his side. Pain shot through his eyes every time he tried to move, but he still looked determined enough to go after the graduates.


@Shura @SkyGinge
 
Jon smiled a smile of subtler, more tender warmth at her slight blush. "Well, you certainly flew through things faster than 'The Byrd'," he grinned, not particularly planning on keeping his new self-imposed nickname beyond another joke or two. "And faster than most of the others too!" He nodded over at the course where numerous students were still tackling things at a far more pedestrian pace, others arriving panting from fresh completion. "It's alright to be proud: you did really well," he grinned protectively to her. Free time on the streets though, she says? Jon noted, with a curious raising of both eyebrows. I wonder what she meant. Maybe in time I'll find out.


Jon regarded her idea with a pensive scratch of the head. "Well, we'll all spread out once we're a little more recovered," he stated, a distant manic crowd chasing futilely after Mica catching his eye for a brief second. "The best thing to do would be to spread everybody else out in some kind of equal spacing formation. Each person could cover a square of ten metres or so. Then those left over could be sent to chase after the others. Wherever the chasee's end up, they'll never be far away from another student, and eventually we'll be able to grab 'em." He couldn't help but wish they were allowed to use their powers: it would certainly make it easier as he could just appear right in front of their face and grab them.


"But with that we need to get everybody to work together, which would need communication. What about you, any brighter plans?" he finished, glancing around their surroundings. That was when he first noticed him amongst the other resting finishers: Grayson standing oblivious and strangely not tired. His smile quickly disappeared and the same blank expression reformed in its place. So he had lost. He had imagined that would be the case, but concrete realisation crushed any last strands of hope he might have had. He felt his heart sink slightly, and remained there looking over at the other boy for a long moment.


@Shura


@Alex Phalin
 
Sen Harper


Her small smile grew a bit as his encouragement but she didn't see much of a reason to be proud. She wouldn't tell Jon that since he seemed the type to argue in favor of some skill she didn't see. "You did really well to. Stayed ahead of me for most of it." she smiled softly. "I wouldn't mind running another race like this another time with you." She offered before looking off to the rest of the field "Only thing I can think of is to have everyone scatter everywhere to limit where they can go" She suggested.


As she scanned the crowd she spotted Gray in the crowd but also noticed a change in his stance and how limp his arm was. The mud and grass stains suggested that he had taken a tumble at some point and since in realization what could have happened. "I think Grays's hurt?" She said looking back to Jon before pushing through the crowd of students to reach the speedster. "Gray, what happened?" She asked as she reached the boy.


@SkyGinge @Alex Phalin
 
Gray seemed to snap out of his daze, looking over at her. He forced a small smile, his eyes glazed with pain.


"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine. I fell from the top of the rope climb, I think I dislocated my shoulder." he explained. The pain was evident in his voice, though he was trying to hide it.


"So, how are we going to catch the graduates? One can teleport, and the other one makes illusions... This is going to be difficult." he said, not even thinking about his arm, even though it was causing him immense amounts of pain.


He noticed that Jon had been watching him and turned his attention to the boy.


"Tough course, huh?" he asked with a forced, pained laugh.


"I'll have to run it again later."


@SkyGinge @Shura
 
"Sure, that'd be great," he smiled, still glancing over at Gray a little. "Although I'd vote for a course with less quirks and without that damn rope climb section." Her observation about Gray enlightened him completely, and he was suddenly aware of the other boy's injury. He almost cursed under his breath as the pair rushed towards him. He had been so caught up in his little game that he'd completely missed it. But now any notion of competition had faded, replaced with genuine concern for the other boy's wellbeing.


He listened with eyebrows contorted in concern, and couldn't even return a smile to his last statement. He clearly really wanted to win that, Jon thought, to extents far greater than me. But he went too far. This is all so stupid. If I hadn't have felt that stupid annoyance towards him in the first place he probably wouldn't be hurt now. Guiltily, Jon decided he would definitely speak with and apologise to Gray when the challenge was completed. He felt like he owed the other boy something now, and maybe his honesty could fill the place of that consolation prize.


"Maybe a little later, yeah," he said hurriedly, "More importantly, your arm looks really bad. You shouldn't force your way through the course now. You need to see somebody about that. Please, for your sake."


@Shura


@Alex Phalin
 
Sen Harper


Sen nodded in agreement with Jon. There was being stubborn and then there was beings stupid. "Hey you should get your arm looked at. If you don't you can get hurt even worst" She spoke up concern clear in her voice. "Figure it this way the sooner you get it treated the sooner it will get better." She encouraged with a small smile. The last thing she wanted was fort Gray to try and go for another dive and end up hurting his other arm or making his dislocation worse.


@Alex Phalin @SkyGinge
 
Gray watched the two of them, zoning out for a short moment. He shook his head quickly, his arm dangling at his side.


"I'm sure I'll be fine... I mean, I've had worse." he explained with a little grin.


"I'm surprised you're showing this much concern, Jon." he looked at him with a knowing look in his eyes.


"I guess I could get it taken care of... You win by default." looking over at Jon he offered a small smile, though the look of defeat was evident.


He turned to look over at the school, sighing a bit under his breath.


"Good luck, you two. Try not to get yourselves hurt." he said with a resigned sigh, slowly trudging his way back towards the school. He hung his head a bit, trying to keep his breathing even as agony racked his arm with every step.


@SkyGinge @Shura
 
Jon felt his eyes narrowing at Gray's words. He had thought their acknowledgement of distaste was being kept respectfully mild, but in making an explicit comment he had breached that boundary. Jon continued to smile though, evident concern still rampant in his eyes even if now tarnished by a flicker of frustration. "Well, I'd have to be a heartless swine to not care for an injured student," he chuckled slightly.


And then bizarrely the other boy admitted his defeat. As Jon had expected, he'd wanted to persevere on simply for the sake of Sen. But he'd already won the challenge in Jon's eyes, as he'd succeeded in reaching the finish line first. So Jon refused to accept the victory: he had lost fair and square, but before he had time to explain that to the other boy, Gray was stumbling off out of the field.


"Man, we got way too competitive there," Jon explained vaguely, knowing that from Gray's tone Sen would easily have been able to pick out that he was planning to continue simply for their challenge. He watched the other boy disappear, and then turned back with a more worried smile to Sen. "I hope he's not too bad. Now I feel really bad for getting him so egged up."


@Alex Phalin


@Shura
 
Sen Harper


Sen blinked a few times confused as to what the exchange meant between Gray and Jon. You won? Won what? She figured there was some kind of rivalry going on between the three of them seemed to be something more that Sen was missong.


She watched as Gray started to walk off feeling a bit of sympathy pain for him. She looked to Jon as he spoke up, confirming the rivalry the two were having. Sen just rolled her eyes and smirked slightly to Jon "we all get caught in the competition. Don't blame yourself for an honest accident." She looked back to Gray "I'm going to make sure he gets to the infirmary okay." She said softly before start to catch up to the injured classmate.


@SkyGinge @Alex Phalin
 
Mica laughed maniacally as he ran straight for one of the boys with the girl he had shown the magic trick to. He flashed a big grin and made direct eye-contact as he placed his hands on his head and literally vaulted over him, continuing to run at a decently fast pace, keeping illusions of himself running all around the field. He had three of them left. Eventually one of the students was going to catch him, but he was going to make damn sure it was hard. He put up a picture of Nikolas just standing there and seeming to teleport around, mimicking the sound of him teleporting every time he moved the illusion.


@SkyGinge
 
Jon nodded and made to make after Sen, but then a surprisingly real Mica rushed towards his face and literally faulted over him. He ducked and dodged out of the way as a flood of students rushed past in pursuit. Unlike with the teleported, he would eventually be cornered, but he was trying his very hardest to avoid capture and doing so in his usual crazy manner. Being vaulted off also hardly helped his aching arms, and he massaged the muscles once more.


Still, his priority was now with helping Gray. He acknowledged what Sen said and could tell from her tone that wanted him to stop the excessive modesty. He couldn't help it though, and he still felt like it was directly his fault. She couldn't understand forte moment after all, the exact nature of their rivalry. Although Jon admitted even he himself wasn't sure.


Waking up a little, he chased after her and tagged along with supervising Gray.


@King Of Imagination @Shura @Alex Phalin
 
As Gray trudged along he sighed, clipping his mask to his belt. He used his other arm to try and steady his injured one, though it didn't help the surges of pain he kept getting with every step.


He jumped a bit when Sen followed, watching her for a moment.


"Decided to keep me company?" he teased with a little grin.


"Well... I appreciate it. It's weird, coming here and making friends. I've been alone most of my life. So if I end up being a little awkward around you two, I'm sorry."


@SkyGinge @Shura
 
Teru returned the kiss to Kiara. He had been worried that her pains would affect her on such a course. Turned out his fears were not baseless.


He was sure he could feel Kiara wincing from here as her body retaliated to the shock of landing. Teru watched worried as she went on....then did actually well.


What? Maybe adrenalin kicked in big time. Or something else. He wasn't quite sure what it was. In any case she looked in pain when she had done.


"There is no way you are doing anything else for the day at this rate. I can't make promises to you when you're dead can I?" Teru spoke to Kiara as he helped her from her rather pitiful physical state. Seating Kiara so she could recover, he went forward with the course which Nikolas was openly mocking him with.


He looked over the course. His martial arts gave him the lean, strong and flexible body he has. It was lacking in brute strength, but then the course didn't need that.


The main issue was catching the teacher. How could he do it quickly? He can't use his ability, not that shooting the teachers foot to stop them moving was a sensible move in the first place.


He dug in his pockets for any items in the eclectic mix he could actually use. There were his keys, his phone and...a small worn down pencil?


Setting his keys with Kiara, he took the pencil and phone. Who knows what he may use it for.


The course itself was of no major issue. As previously addressed, he was quite a fit man and didn't come across major obstacles. His first attempt to stop Nikolas though came at the tunnel.


With having hands free, he threw the pencil at the back of Nikolas' head to attempt to disorient and stop him. Or distract at the least.


Failing that, assuming he had his number for emergency reasons on his phone (who doesn't have their teachers number these days?). Later in the course with hands free, he would call him so to stop Nikolas doing anything involving upper body to answer the phone. With that, he could while distracting him attempt to get him then.


If that also fails though, then he would simply have to be conventional and chase him around the course. The success of that was not guaranteed though


@Godman873


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Being tired, it took Jon a little while to catch up to them. For a little while he simply walked a little way behind them listening in a little. He didn't want Gray to try anything again, like his petty nudging from before. He couldn't allow that, from the feeling he thought was a gut instinct. Still, he owed this man, and the least he could do was try some proper manners.


He drew level with them, offering them a cheery smile tinged with care. "Hopefully it's a case of double the company, double the fun then," Jon grinned to Gray, "It's the least I can do to apologise for things." By and large though, Jon planned to just quietly tag along. He had some things he wanted to think over, and was also content with just watching the other two talk, like a guardian angel once more.


@Shura


@Alex Phalin
 
Nikolas


Nikolas was keeping away from the students just fine, he was careful and did not teleport too far away to prevent exhaustion. After a teleport he felt something hit him against the back of his head, as it caught Nikolas off guard his instant response was to teleport away, an even further distance from the students. Quickly scanning the area he realized it was only a student that threw what seemed like a pencil at the back of his head. Nikolas frowned making a mental note to find the student who threw the pencil and have a chat with him about the definition of 'tag'.
 
Sen Harper


Sen smiled slightly to Gray as she got to his side, Jon a step behind. "No worries, it's what friends are for." She assured, before hearing his comment about being on his something good she could sympathize with. "Yeah... same here. It's weird being around a bunch of people but nice sometimes." She said with a soft smile as they made their way to the nearest clinic.


@SkyGinge @Alex Phalin
 
Mark smiled warmly at her. He felt a light flutter in his chest and grinned a bit, brushing his fingers in her hair for a moment.


"You know, this is the first time I've ever skipped class... What are we supposed to do?" he asked, his face a little red. He was at a loss for what to do, honestly. Plus, he only seemed to realize that he was currently shirtless and pulled away from her for a moment, looking embarrassed.


@Silent Justice
 
Madison smiled when Mark brushed his fingers through her hair. "Uh... I've never skipped class either... Maybe we could just hang out together?..." She said. "I mean isn't that what people do when they're..." She paused, struggling to think of the right word. "...Dating..." She said as she noticed that his shirt was absent, and her face turned red. "Mark... I think... I think you look pretty good with your shirt off..." She said awkwardly. It was true. Truth be told, she'd never actually seen a guy with his shirt off.


@Alex Phalin
 
Mark blushed a bit, heat radiating from his face. He looked like he was going to burst into flame again. "T-thanks... I've never been too proud of my looks, to be honest..." he said, stepping back from her just in case he did burst into flame.


He was at a loss, but figured that at the very least they could just hang out in his room. Together. Alone.


WHOOSH.


He suddenly went up, smiling awkwardly. After a few moments the flames subsided.


"Sorry..." he said quietly, moving to sit on his bed.


"Well, if you want, we could game some. Or I could teach you how to draw..."


@Silent Justice
 
Infirmary Sen, Gray and Jon(following along)

Gray offered a light laugh, wincing.


"Friends, huh? Interesting..." he said quietly, watching the ground. He felt an odd pull at his chest for a moment and sighed, looking over at the two of them as he walked.


"So... We're friends? I'm kinda new at this, so... Yeah, sorry."


"Having friends?" She asked softly realizing he had her beat in this aspect. She had some history with fiends, even if it wasn't exactly a great one, Sen shrugged slightly. "It's alright. people tend to be a mixed bag, some times you luck out and get good friends other times...." She trailed off and just shrugged again. "Your just better off not sticking around them. Either way... I thing we lucked out this time." She grinned


Gray smiled a bit and watched her, chuckling a bit.


"Yeah... I guess so." he said, though he wasn't that convinced. It didn't take them long to get to the clinic, and Gray paused for a moment before walking in. He shuddered a bit and sighed, before suddenly grabbing his arm and shoving his shoulder back into the socket with a sickening pop. He growled and shook his head, sighing.


"Nobody ever does that right. Now I just need some painkillers."


Sens eyes widen slightly as Gray popped his shoulder back into place before wincing. "I take it this isn't your first time with a dislocated shoulder then." She asked remembering how easily joints popped out of place once it was dislocated once. "Maybe you should get a brace... just in case...."


Gray growled a bit under his breath which soon turned to a chuckle as the pain subsided to a dull throb.


"This makes thirty five. Well, for this arm, anyways." he explained, rolling his arm back for a moment as he walked inside.


"I don't know if I need a brace. I should be fine..." he said, heading over to talk to one of the nurses about painkillers. She ushered him to take a seat and asked him to remove his shirt, which he did begrudgingly.


His shoulder was a nasty purple-black color, which caused the nurse to gasp quietly. Gray sighed, glancing over at Sen for a moment.


"This is normal... Should just be some mild internal bleeding."


"Thirty five...." Sen repeated under her breath in quiet disbelief. What on earth could he have been doing to dislocate his arm that many times? It was no wonder he had come our. Sen stood off to the side out of the way in a small nitch watching the nurse tend to Gray. She noticed the bruising but wasn't really surprised by it. She nodded slightly as Gray explained defaulting to an observant role as the nurse did her job.


Gray sighed a bit, looking at his shoulder. It had never bruised up this bad before... Of course, he couldn't just tell them that.


The nurse came back with painkillers and a brace, which Gray wasn't too happy about. He took the painkillers and sighed as the nurse put the metal brace on, causing him to hiss in pain.


"I hate wearing these things..." he groaned, looking over at Sen with a pained smile.


Sen watched as they braced his shoulder knowing he was probably going to try and take it off the minute they were out of there. She smiled slightly over to him as he looked over. "Yeah. Being in a cast for two moths drove me crazy." She chuckled softly. "it won't be too bad though."


Gray nodded with a small smirk.


"Yeah, I'm used to wearing this thing though." he said, standing. He struggled for a few moments before resigning with a sigh. As he turned to ask the nurse to help she turned to go help someone else.


"Damnit... Could I get some help?"


Sen saw Gray struggling slightly and moved to help him out. "Sure." She muttered helping him get his balance back. She took care in helping him get his shirt back on making sure to be careful around his shoulder. She stepped back with a slight smile. "All set. I have some pain killers left over from when I was stabbed in case you want to hold onto them." She offered since he would probably get more use out them.


"Thanks..."Gray said quietly, turning to leave. He made his way out into the hall with a small sigh, already fussing with his brace.


"It's alright, I hate taking painkillers if I don't need to. They mess with my head." he explained, looking over at her.


"Thanks again. I appreciate it."


Sen shrugged slightly "Ah, no worries then. I'll just hang onto them." she muttered softly as they left the infirmary. She could see him already fussing with his shoulder but didn't say anything. "I'm impressed you were able to finish the course with your arm that way... how did you dislocate your arm so many times?"


Gray paused for a moment, glancing over at her. Sighing quietly he shrugged, wincing a bit.


"Training. Well, mostly." he said with a sly little smile.


"It's not the worst of my injuries. I've broken my arms, my legs, my back, ruptured my lungs, broke my jaw... If I need to fight, a sore shoulder won't really stop me." he reassured her with a little grin. "I could go back out and finish the class without much issue."


Sen's eyes widen slightly at the number of injuries he had suffered. There was no way someone could have been hurt that many times in just a year. "That sounds kind of horrible..." she muttered, but didn't question it. She couldn't imagine going through training that tough or why any one would want to. The body could only take so much of a beating before some damage was permanent.


Gray chuckled a bit, smiling a bit.


"Oh, that wasn't the worst of it." he said, though he didn't explain what he meant.


"So... Back to class? Or should we not even bother? I'm guessing the class should be almost over by now anyways." he said, looking out of a nearby window.


"What do you think?"


Sen shrugged slightly "Class is most likely over by this point..." she said seeing in the distance that many students were sitting along the edge of field by this point. "Regardless of whether or not you've been through worse you should still let your shoulder heal." Sen pointed out. "I'm surprised they can even stay in place."


Gray sighed a bit, obviously disappointed in having to miss out. He stared out of the window, shrugging a bit.


"I guess I could use a break... Maybe I push myself too hard sometimes."


He looked over at her and smiled slightly.


"So, what do you want to do now?"


Sen nodded slightly. "Most done think over exertion exists. It has a strange way of creeping up on you." She teased before looking back to the window. "Everyone else is going to no doubt hit the showers and dining hall. We could always go to the training rooms and hang out there." She suggested not really wanting to spend much more time outside, for a change. A spark of memory came back and she turned to Gray. "I looked into different thickness of the wire you gave me yesterday and ordered a few thicker gauges." She smirked. "A lot better for defense and support. Plus I'll be interesting weaving it through with the other wire as well." She added a bit of excitement showing through once more.


He couldn't help but smile at her excitement.


"I'm impressed... You're already thinking ahead. That's good, the better prepared you are, the better the chances of surviving another attack." he said, turning to head down to the training rooms.


Spurred by her ingenuity he began to think of other possible weapon options, and his mind wandered back to some old drawings that he had done a few years prior. Maybe it was time to break those out again.


"I may need your help some time soon. I drew up some weapon designs, and I could use your proficiency with metal with some parts of it."


Sen smirked and nodded excited for when her package came in. She would have to find Mica later on and thank him again for the card. "Hm Weapon? I might be good at molding weapons but I'm not much of a weapon smith. Most I can really do is shape a rough dagger in a pinch or spikes. So I'm not really sure how much help I'll be."
@Alex Phalin @SkyGinge


Morgan Winford


Morgan watched as the students continued to give chance to the two Graduate students. The clock was starting to tick down to the last quarter of the challenge. Some had managed to get really close missing by mere inches. Still they had a good work effort. She noticed two student walking off and was about to stop them when she noticed one of them with a very badly injured shoulder and the same kid who had smacked his head on the balance beam. She shook her head hopping it wouldn't have happened but it did regardless.


She looked back to the field of exhausted students commending their efforts. The challenge was not ease nor was it impossible, most made it through the course well enough which made her happy. She kept an eye on the clock as the seconds passed glancing over to the field to see if anyone could pull off a last minute win.
 
Jon trudged along on tired legs, listening attentively to their conversation. He wore a tired smile, but hidden underneath his ever-present cheery mask, his mind was a whirr. He had lost whatever challenge they had, and done so fair and square. And undoubtedly Gray had proven himself more in most aspects, apart from maybe stubbornness. For goodness sake! he scolded himself, You need to stop thinking of everything in that way! He continued to feel bad for Gray as they trekked, but the further they went, the more annoyed he found himself at Gray.


Of course you know you're friends, he snarled internally, And even if you haven't had friends before you're certainly milking her attention now. They walked through the clinic doors and Gray promptly popped his arm back into place. He flinched slightly with the audible pop, and when it became apparent that they were going to be longer in the clinic than he'd first thought, he decided it was time to take his leave. After all, Gray wouldn't want me watching on in his moment of weakness, Jon considered. Rivals of some bizarre sort they may have became, but that didn't mean Jon wouldn't exemplify his usual politeness.


"I'll wait outside, I hope everything gets sorted out soon," Jon smiled calmly with a respectful nod to Gray. Leaving their presence with a cautious glance, he sat himself down on the bottom floor sofa, the same one where he and Sen had spoken extensively two days previously. He daren't not guess what was going on upstairs, where Gray was trying to manipulate the conversation next. But he knew that he still had his apology to make. The image of the silver haired boy staring at him, eyes all intrusive and knowing, scared him. Because he still didn't know what it was all about.


Soon the pair emerged, Gray begrudgingly wearing a cast for his arm, both of them so deep in conversation that they failed to notice him sat there. Leaping a little over-energetically to his feet, he dashed over to them. He couldn't remember ever being so insecure about something, and wanted to get his conversation with Gray out of the way as soon as possible. They rounded the corridor, and Jon caught them.


"Hey," he smiled, "You all sorted out now? Where were you planning on going next? Because if you've not got anything too important, is it alright if we have a word?" He angled the last question directly to Gray.


@Alex Phalin


@Shura
 
Sen Harper


Sen looked over to Jon as he caught up to them and spoke up his questioned focused more towards Jon. She wondered what Jon wanted to talk about before remembering him blaming himself for some kind if competition between the two of them. She refrained from shaking her head finding the whole thing fairly silly. If they wanted to talk maybe they could sort things out. "We're just going to head to the training hall." She smiled slightly "Since everywhere else is most likely going to be crowded."


@Alex Phalin @SkyGinge
 
"Well, I think you look amazing, Mark." Madison said as she felt Mark heat up. I hope this doesn't happen every time I compliment him. She covered her face when he lit up, waiting until the fire went out. "It's okay," She said, before following him to sit on his bed. "Drawing would be nice... I'm not very good at it, though..." She put an arm around Mark's shoulder. "I don't really care what we do. I'm fine with whatever."


@Alex Phalin
 
Nikolas


Nikolas watched as the final moment counted down as he still remained untouched. Perhaps it was too much for the students, after all illusions and teleporting is hard to deal with. When it finally ended Nikolas was out of breath but still untagged. He sighed looking over to Morgan. "Perhaps this was a bit too much for the students between Mica's illusions and my teleporting. At least it was good training for everyone involved though." Nikolas attempted to smile still a bit out of breath, at the end he got really careless an teleported too many times with a bigger distance.
 
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