Tension Rising - Main thread [Fight or Flight]

Alec's awakening stirred Claire's consciousness into activity. She did not sleep, per se, as she had no need to, her body was comatose and it's requirement for rest was being fulfilled. She instead wandered through a surreal and randomized dreamscape, where everything made sense in the moment, but looking back left one wondering at their own sanity. It would be too simple to call it a dream, those complicated and maddening ventures into the realm of whimsy and imagination. But, it was indescribably beautiful, bizarre, and bewildering all at once.


The stirring in Alec's mind brought Claire into focus, and she heard a string of thoughts all following each other, then he mentally jumped in surprise when he rightfully guessed that she could hear him. She was about to answer Alec's stream of queries, but his train of thought was interrupted by a flash of happy emotion, and she was steeped in the wake of it as they flowed over his mental plane. She decided to wait until he was finished greeting his pet, the source of this deluge of delight, and he asked her if she wanted to return to her body so they could continue to talk, and go get some breakfast.


To this, she silently laughed, "Of course, I think I should be just about awake by now." It was strange to talk about herself as another person, despite the contrary. "I'm going now, I'll be up in just a minute." Claire felt Alec fall away around her as she left his body, it felt chill out in the open after spending the overnight in someone else's mind. She quickly absorbed herself back into her own body, glad to feel the motion of her own fingers and toes, to be able to move in this plane of existence again. She sat up, looking across the aisle at Alec, being able to see him for the first time from the outside. A warm smile and, in her own, audible voice, "Hello, Alec, I'm Claire, pleased to finally meet you."


@Prizzy Kriyze
 
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"That's a pretty awesome ability!" Jon laughed in awe as she shifted so seamlessly between forms. That would certainly be helpful in many situations. When she asked the same question back to him, he realised that this would be the first time he'd actually outright tell anybody what his ability was. With a sad smile once more, he mused that he still hadn't got a way to show people his abilities. I hope she can cope with complex explanations, because I'm not sure that I can.


"My power, well, is a little less easy to explain as yours," he began with a quiet chuckle, "Essentially, I can freeze time, but it goes a little more complex than that, the frozen time world, or 'Time Bubble' as I call it, has its own scientific properties. There's no way I can actually show what's it's like to you at the moment, but I guess I could do this." With a deep breath, Jon felt inside for the ultimate calmness that he had felt before, and promptly froze time. Fox stood, suspended in silent statue form like the rest of the world, and Jon wondered what somebody with a worse set of morals would do in his position. Still smiling, he walked a couple of meters away from her, and promptly unfroze time. To her, it would look like he had simply teleported there, but he hoped she grasped what he had actually done.


@theunderwolf
 
Fox was awestruck. "Amazing!" She declared with a grin, 'You stopped time and walked a few steps right?! thats such a cool ability, man the stuff i could do with that... As she thought she shifted to her red fox form 9Since she was in the mood for her namesake forms today) and jumped down to the ground to here her tray lay. "These power are intense huh, I wonder what else there is?" She took a massive bite of sausage and gestured for Jon to come sit with her.


@SkyGinge
 
"Thanks, but at the moment I'm very limited in what I can do," Jon smiled, feeling joyfully awkward at taking a seat next to a talking fox. "For example, I can't actually do anything in a time bubble right now, which kinda sucks, but hopefully long term I'll learn how to improve and develop it further. That's why I'm here, anyway. What about you?" He felt like he was part of a Lewis Caroll novel, just casually sat their making conversation with a fox. It was hardly something he was used to, and he wasn't sure he liked it; he couldn't read and interpret animal reactions as well as human ones. She spoke of other powers, and he nodded along. "Aye, there's all kinds of intense powers here. Still, I'm kinda glad you understood my power, I'm not sure even I have that luxury yet."


@theunderwolf
 
Zebediah, who was now attempting to replicate Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' from atop the table, suddenly froze. 'Why do I feel as if I should start praying?' He scanned the cafeteria and noticed a particularly muscular individual (not that he was hard to notice) emitting a feeling of pure 'rape train' while gazing in the general direction of the silly and inefficient argument. Everybody there should simply be glad to see one another alive after the meta attack. He decided to move more in the direction of the courtyard until he found Jon and the girl who had been absconded by the guards on the day after orientation and away from the path of the The Wall. While he was en route to the two other students, one of them tranformed into a fox after Jon teleported around seemingly for the fun of it. He snuck up behind Jon and placed a single hand on his shoulder to fool him into thinking he was some omnipresent spectre that could find teleporters. "Hello again, Jon. Other person." He nodded to the girl in acknowledgement. "I believe that we should flee this general area and make our way to the dorms in order to be a bit more safe. I really don't feel comfortable with that mountain of muscle over there being on the same plane of elevation as myself. Hrm."


@SkyGinge


@theunderwolf
 
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"I know a good tree pack-mate Zeb, and we can probably talk in peace there until this speech thing happens." She said, Standing up and wolfing the rest of her breakfast down," She held out a hand for jon and answered, "Well I'm not exactly here by choice, some metas from the government grabbed me from my home forest and said some stuff about me "needing an education" and a "Proper guardian", which I didn't really get since i have silver-back whose kinda my designated dad even though I haven't seen him for a while. So I ended up being dragged here under armed guard and well 24 hours later, Here I am!"


@The Out Of World


@SkyGinge
 
Jon nearly jumped out of his skin at Zebediah's scare, and quickly whirled around to see who it was. He sighed, hoping that the boy's erraticism wasn't going to be permanent. He followed Zeb's indication to the giant mountain of muscle in the distant cafeteria, having not noticed him before. The size of his muscles were outstanding, almost scarily so, and he stood out like a sore, six-packed thumb even from their distance away. "It's alright, he probably won't hurt us," Jon said, raising his eyebrows at Fox, "besides, we don't need to run to our dorms. We're supposed to be out here for a speech, remember. Feel free to sit with us if you want."


Fox had gotten up though in spite of that, and was offering him a hand up. Well, I'm not gonna deny a peaceful walk out here, Jon conceded. Taking her offer, he climbed to his feet and began to follow after her. "I see," he stated to her story, "Seems like your background is a little bit more exciting than mine, ahah." He cast his mind back to his regular life in Britain, and wondered how simple it had been in contrast to many of the other students. "As you can tell, I'm from England originally, and that's about the limit of the excitement." He chuckled to himself, following her onwards.


@The Out Of World


@theunderwolf
 
"..." That was all Zebediah could say about on the girl's story. The government snatching up metas who were likely capable of fending for themselves and "educating" them. He was really starting to think the Kiara girl may have been completely correct. Were they even trying to search for the girl's designated parent or was this institution simply wishing to instill themselves as a series of parental figures for the sake of re-educating metas? "I...think I would like to try lying in one of those trees of yours. Hrm." He said with a rather pale face. This news was not exactly a welcome addition to his already stressful revelation from earlier.


@theunderwolf
 
Fox sighed and smiled, "Well I don't mind it that much," She said noticing that her story had killed the mood a little, I kind of like it here, and though I miss my daily hunts already its also nice to not have to spend most of the day foraging. And um Jon? Weird question. England's Across the ocean right, I've heard it mentioned a couple times but Never really go what makes it distinct from um we're in one of the Americas right?" She said this with complete sincerity as she gestured to them to follow her.


@The Out Of World
 
Mary

"You did? Cool. I fought one recently, but he got away. Teleporters are tricky bastards." They really were. She hated teleporters. Only ones that she was fighting, of course. She loved teleporters when they were on her side. "Fire ones can be tough too. How did you handle him? In your usual way, I suppose. Punching really hard, right? Or did you mix it up and kick him a couple times?" She chuckled at her slight teasing of him. She knew he could probably handle it. She hoped he wouldn't get mad about it though... Nah, that wouldn't happen.


@PicaPirate
 
She really lived for her power, Jon mused. Did I catch her day she was raised by wolves? It wouldn't surprise me anyhow. Apparently her geography was terrible, and Jon finally grasped just what a different life she had lead. It was certainly interesting, and once again Jon was glad at the opportunity to meet so many fresh and exciting faces.


The courtyard and general outsides of the school were cracked, darkened and laden with various debris, a stark reminder of the previous days battle. As Jon had been so solely focused on his work in the gym, he hadn't really seen much of the outside devastation, and so upon sight of the wider destruction, he stopped and simply took it in. He smiled sadly again, before continuing onwards behind Fox's lead. He wondered how far she was taking them.


"England is the other side of the ocean, yes," he chuckled, "And we are in a country called the USA, in the continent of North America, yes. I suppose some day I'll have to give you a proper geography lesson, if you want. That is, if you can find time amongst the excitement of dodging government officials!" He added with a playful grin.


@The Out Of World


@theunderwolf
 
"Dodging government officials, eh? That sounds like quite a sound strategy. This school snatches up children and forces them here with armed guards, yet they lack the resources to prevent a coordinated meta strike from getting past the front gates. This is all making me feel conflicted about this place. What bugs me most are the metas that raided the campus. Did they have any kind of motive? They certainly had intelligence or some kind of information on this school, because I certainly was not aware of this place's existence prior to my parents getting a letter recommending the school. We are in the middle of Futtbuck, Nowhere. I can't help but feel that the staff are keeping information from us. Have any students transferred from this school after the attack? Hrm. I guess it doesn't matter in the end. All this stress lately is making me crave a snack, like an energy bar or somethi-" His complaint was cut off by an Energenie Bar materializing atop his head. "...The fuck?"
 
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Iren Winford


Iren noticed most of the student gather in the courtyard and decided it was good enough, the microphone was hooked up to the school PA system regardless so even those who were not gathered in the court yard were able to hear it still. She took a deep breath formulating her speech to be as informative but not fear inducing. The long and short of it was more Rogues were starting to appear, and it was only going to get worse going further. She stepped onto the stage and the volume lowered to a quiet hush. Iren waited a moment before speaking.


“I’m sure you have all heard by now about what happened yesterday. To those who were caught in the attack from the rogue Metas, I apologize for not being able to stop this from happening. For those who don’t know Rogue Metas are those who use their abilities for nothing but senseless destruction and death. They are extremely dangerous and powerful because they tend to be older more experienced Metas. The number of Rogues have been growing at an alarming rate but normally stay to cities. It seems they have started targeting areas. Because of this a shift is being done in curriculum here. There will be more of a focus on training and teaching you how to defend yourself incase such an event happens again.”


Iren sighed looking over to Stephan before motioning for him to join her on stage. “This is Mr. Perrash, a colleague of mine who has dealt very closely with Rogue metas.”
 
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Stephan


Stephan nodded to Iren as he stepped up ready to talk to the students who clearly did not care enough. "Greetings, as you all know the school was attacked a day ago, it resulted in a destroyed gym, damaged admin building and several thousand injuries. In an effort to protect the school further previous graduates I have worked with are now present at the school. Even though they are here to protect you this does not mean you cannot ask them for advice or assistance with your powers, they were once students just like you, so do not fear. Training sessions will now become regular and all your teachers will do your best to help you but you must listen to them! Learning how to use your power can be essential to your life." Stephan stepped away from the stage not appreciating the opportunity to talk to school students.
 
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Alice woke to an announcement about the previous day's occurrences, but decided she would get a summary from someone else, so she closed her eyes again, covered her ears with her pillow and went back to sleep. This time, she didn't dream of Axel and Jacob, she dreamt of the man she killed. She saw many of the rogue Metas she had seen from over the years dressed in black, gathered around several coffins being lowered into the ground. She imagined Tox, being interrogated and imprisoned. She imagined the families of all the fallen students of Winford's, figuring out how to move on without their loved ones. Something is wrong with this way of going about, and she had to find out a better way.
 
'Fox laughed at hem both, "personally, I really don't care about this organization that calls themselves the government either way, they were just doing their jobs I won't fault them. And those metas were hunting others of their kind. Humans don't really get it but an animal knows how to find others of its breed and I figure metas are no different Anyway We're here!" Before them lay the biggest tree on campus, a mighty oak that looked hundreds of years old and had never stopped growing. it had massive branches streaching in all directions and it dwarfed the dorms beside it, "Lets climb quick if you can guys," Fox said, easily swinging up the first layer of branches, it sounds like they're making announcements and If we can get high enough up you two will probably get the gist."


@The Out Of World
 
Zebediah looked up at the glorious tree. It was a magnificent beast of wood and leaf, ages old and a monolith to the omnipresence and power of nature. That wooden bastard was gonna get climbed so hard. Without a word, Zebediah extended his aura to the ground around him and began to pull it upward, creating a hill that stretched up the side of the tree until he was halfway to the top in a small leafy sanctuary among the branches. "I'm not exactly a big fan of trees since my powers don't affect them and I'm allergic to one species of birch. Hrm. This really is nice as far as trees go though."


@theunderwolf


@SkyGinge
 
They arrived at the tree, and Jon chuckled a little sheepishly as he realised that they intended for him to climb it. It wasn't that he didn't think he had the strength to do it, rather he knew that with his self-induced knack of physical comedy he'd end up dangling precariously from some high up branch. Fox had an interesting and healthy point of view, and he was glad that she wasn't just freaking out like a lot of people were. With a large sigh, he began to slowly scale the tree.


Meanwhile, Zebediah was finally making sense, and Jon appreciated it. His worries were certainly well founded, and after his experience with Kiara earlier, Jon couldn't help but consider that point of view. What if there were further ulterior motives behind the running of the school? No, Jon refused to believe that. After everything they had been through, he felt like he could still stand by and trust the school.


"I suppose you'll get an answer to a lot of that when they make the announcement," Jon reminded him with a cheery smile as he clung to the trunk, and then bang on cue, the announcement began. Jon sighed again, realising he would have to up the pace in order to be able to see anything. His body was still very tired, and he wasn't sure climbing a large tree would do much to improve that, but nevertheless he continued upwards. He rolled his eyes lightheartedly as Zebediah whizzed past him on some kind of controlled hill, but Jon was adamant in climbing the tree traditionally. As he neared the top, he slipped, arms flailing around in cartoon character style, until he finally caught onto something. Smiling in relief, he hoisted himself up to a branch with a view of the announcement just as Stephan took to the stage.


Jon was pleased at developments; they made 100% sense in his opinion, and they would help to avert another potential disaster. That hopefully disproves this ridiculous government theory too, he thought. Government or not though, they would have to be prepared, and the school looked to be doing just that.


@The Out Of World


@theunderwolf


@Shura
 
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Iren Winford


Iren watched Stephan make his speech before sighing softly retaking the stand as he stepped back. She could see the uncertainty among the students, it was natural given the circumstances. "I understand that some of you are trouble by this news, It's not something that is easy to come to terms with. I also understand that some of you do not want to be here but I stress that this is possibly one of the safest places to be. Now that we know that Winford is a possible target there will be more deference, and restrictions as to students leaving the campus. I do however offer any students who wish to withdraw from the school the chance to do so. Arrangements will be made if needed." She offered. As much as Iren wanted to protect the students and keep them safe Winford wasn't a prison, nor was it a military boot camp. "Students who stay will have to work and study hard. This is no longer a mater of grades but rather survival." She added her tone taking a slightly harder edge to it. "As for the rest of the day classes are suspended until tomorrow." The principal concluded. She fully expected there to be students who wanted to leave and so had made preparations for it. She just hoped those who did leave would be lucky enough not to be caught up in the conflict and war that signs were pointing to.


(*Just a note. If your character does take this withdrawal offer they are out of the RP)
 
Teru

Having moved on outside finding the argument tedious and walking outside with Kiara, Teru rolled his eyes when he saw his car amongst other cars wrecked.


Typical.


He got his phone and rang his parents. Surprisngly one of them picked up, his mum in this case.


"Hello Susan."


"Hey sweetiieeee how are ya darling~"


"I need a new car. Some super villains broke it during during a raid on the school."


"Aww aint that nice, you're making friends!"


"I...what? Where you even listening?"


"Hmm what didya say~? Im kinda busy right now. If you want a car though we got a Pagani Huayra if ya waaaant."


"....Right. Yeah. sure. whatever. See ya I guess then."


"Byyyeeee~ give it an hour and it'll be there. Luckily we got a branch in the area that can deliver it just for my special dear~."


"...Okay. Bye."


He hung up on the phone and sighed. He wondered which day would be when his parents actually gave him full attention. The chances were slim seeing he never bore witness to that in the past.


He turned to Kiara and gave her a quick kiss, because simply for the hell of it and her expression would probably be priceless.


"So...I remember you saying you hated the school and all, but then I suppose its completely changed now. What are ya gonna do?"


@Kharmin
 
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Kojiro

The Kojiro heard about upcoming fights, the more he got excited. It was becoming increasingly difficult the more Iren spoke not to jump up and down in joy at the speech of experienced difficult Meta's to fight. He still said quietly to himself with l large grin:


"Boy is this gonna be real fucking fun...."


His body was feeling a pump just from sheer anticipation of the combat. He could feel his shoulders extend out, as though ready to take on a foe at any moment. At this rate to vent his need to fight was going to be hard to suppress. To Kojiro, the school was now a hotspot to beat the shit outta people, which was just perfect for him.


Hearing the sound of people like him giving advice though, he may have to direct them to other people He couldn't be bothered dealing with a even more stressful Iren because he told someone to solve bullying by punching them in the face or when they couldn't do something, do try hitting it harder.


If anyone wanted to spar with him though, he would be more than happy. After all with this anticipation, someone will need to set up the old doll Dex had set up which was nigh indestructible for something to hit, after he broke the first floor of the school. But in the meantime, hiting people who want to practice fighting with him was more than enough to keep his desires occupied.
 
Sen Harper


Sen sat back watches as the student muttered to one another and slowly disputed through out the rest of the campus. The principals words weighing heavily in her mind. they had been given the option to leave, go back to where they came from if they wanted no part in this new training curriculum but both older metas had made it quite clear. Things were going to go wrong, and in a very bad way. She would stay and train, after nearly dying once she fully intended to never get that close again.


Besides she was probably safest here in the school where there were others with powers to help her if needed. She smiled slightly remembering how well her and Zach worked. Her powers were versatile and there was no telling who else she could work with. She thought about Terus offer to train the first day and frowned slightly. With the offer to just up and leave there was a high chance Kiara was going to leave, good residence as far as she was concerned. But would Teru go as well. Of coarse he would. She shook her head, oh well just another friend lost to the trap of relationships, consuming their lives and souls. If they did leave she hoped Teru wouldn't die because of her paranoid antics.


Old residual feeling started to rise up but she pushed the back down shifting her mind set to something else. There was enough to worry about in terms of life. Surviving, that was the goal. What other did wasn't her concern, with some luck maybe she'd actually get to keep a friend.
 

Ardghal had felt ill in the air conditioned room of the cafeteria, so he had stepped out almost as soon as he seated himself at the table. He passed by the sizable group of three or four students that had come towards his direction, glancing at them passingly as he briskly walked away to the courtyard. The morning announcement was soon to be made, and Ardghal much preferred to wait under the warm sun.


Seating himself upon a bench, Ardghal calmly waited for the morning announcement to be held, passing his time by staring intently at an ant colony and its activities.


When the announcement began, Ardghal snapped to attention and closely memorized the speech and all of its details. From what he could analyze, the speech did not have any significance in his opinion. It was just a cautionary one that detailed the incident the day before Ardghal's arrival and urged students to stay wary while granting them an option to leave. Ardghal had already heard of this incident from other students, and from the damage done he could fairly accurately guess the rogue metas' power levels. A life of hardship and survival that the principal urged was something that Ardghal was already used to; living on one meal a day with three life or death fist fights in a ring against muscled terrors every single day was something that Ardghal had endured for years, so hardship was a word that had lost its impact

@Shura
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Fox reached the top of the tree first despite Zeb's flagrant cheating After taking a moment to breathe she ducked back down into the foliage, finding her small hammock and beat up canteen. She jumped into the hammock with a happy sound and looked down as Zeb arrived at the the top on his earth tower thing. "Sorry there's not another hammock guys," She said with some regret, 'I wasn't really expecting guests up here." She smiled and laid back enjoying the rustle of the leaves and listened quietly to the announcement. So i could leave. She thought. Then she looked down at Zeb and Jon. Nah. My place is here.


"You guys aren't gonna quit on me are you?" She asked cheerfully with a hint of nervousness.


@The Out Of World
 
Sang Jin-Yeong

She didn't get the intended response. In fact, she didn't get anything at all from the students at the courtyard (@The Out Of World @JustanotherRPer @whoever the heck was out there I don't really care any more.), and they just blew past her as if she wasn't there. She clenched her fists, and would have reared on them to cause some bodily harm upon them if she hadn't pulled herself back. It would give her great pleasure to unwind at her weekly visits to her doc. At this rate, she might just be taking up all of the sessions just verbally abusing the student populace. She never looked forwards to seeing the bitch's face so much, and she never looked forward to getting the fuck out of this school so much. Then again, she wasn't so much of a big news in the school, not especially to the students. Most didn't know about her tussle with the local...brutes and her subsequent suspension. At this point of time, it didn't seem like the students were going to respond much to her.


She supposed she should start looking for either of the Winfords, then. She didn't have to look far. In her internal strife of deciding between hammering home that she didn't really like soci...sociuh...soshuhlyzing...mixing around with people to her therapist or to hammer home the point of not fucking ignoring people to those dumbasses, the courtyard began to fill with students. Even with the noise of the crowd, Julian didn't feel the usual...activity of the students. She caught snatches of gossip and news from the passing students, but she needed to know it from the mouth of the one in charge.


She waited until Iren was done with her speech about the whole Rogue Meta and all that hat. What were these rogue meta things? Part of her was quizzical about the new term that registered in her head, and another part was trembling with euphoria. Something new to beat the shit out of. Especially since they messed up her school, she had a reason to beat them up. She was more excited on the prospect of being able to use her powers now, instead of simply restraining herself for lessons and doing dull stuff.


"Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah! I'm burnin' up! I'm gettin' real pumped for this! MISSUS IREN!" Julian shoved past the students ahead of her, making a beeline straight for the principal. "Yo, Missus Iren! Real darn sorry about my sardiness. Got a letter from my doc to excuse me for that." She took out a crumpled envelope from her pocket and showed it to Iren, a goofy grin on her face. "Uh..so I was hearin' about this Rogue Meta thing. Was they the ones that done messed our school? C'mon, Missus Iren, I'm gettin' real ecst...elastic...exstatic about this. Lay it to me what I missed so I know what to pay them back tenfold!"


@Shura
 
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