Tension Rising - Main thread [Fight or Flight]

Sen Harper


Sen felt something land on her head and blinked before reaching up and feeling something furry. "uh... okay then..." she muttered picking up the furry object and holding it out in front of her realizing it was a cat. "I don't suppose this is the cat you were referring to." she chuckled softly over to Gladewyn.


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Jon smiled a little sheepishly. He had the sneaking suspician that his explanation would go straight over the strong-man's head. "Well, my power's a little harder to describe than that, I'm afraid," he smiled with a flick of the eyebrows, gritting his teeth. Again, the easiest thing to do would have been an explanation, but he had a feeling that doing just that to Fox earlier was what had frustrated his muscles again. I wonder if he ever feels fatigue like this, with muscles like that. Jon had kept relatively fit and healthy back home, but he had never saw the need for excessive excircise, for whatever end goal. After all, it slotted into his motto of not caring about appearence much and allowing people to judge him from his personality.


"My power is the power to freeze time," Jon said simply, and hoped Kojiro wouldn't ask further questions. He wasn't sure if his tired mind could bare another Kiara-esque explanation. "Still, it'll be great having you around, and I guess I'll be able to sleep peacefuly now knowing any introder will get a fierce fist through the face." Jon grinned, changing the subject off of his power.


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Glaedwyn

Glaedwyn looked over to see a black cat in Sen's hands. He smiled wide and looked around, finally spotting the shadow of a man in a top hat where a tree shadow should be. "Mica, I know you're there, you forgot to change the shadow."


Introducing, the Nutty Magician; Mica!!!

"God damnit, always the shadow." He smiled and dispelled the illusion, walking over to Glaedwyn and seeing Tarot. "Tarot, what're you doing, jumping on this young lady's head? And when she's sitting next to such a fine gentleman, and Glaedwyn to boot," he said, gesturing to the man in the suit between her and Glaedwyn. He pulled out a card and held it up to her. "Can you tell me what card this is?"


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Kojiro

"Oh my, could do all sorts things while time is frozen. Like.....hit them a lot before they even know they are! Or....stealing food!"


His mind was clearly rather simpleminded, which added to the hilarity of him trying to think of viable scenarios.


"But yes. I'm here to protect this school by giving people a fist to the face! And if they aren't dead yet, another fist to the face!


Wait hang on, Stephan said not to kill them. Hmmm maybe just hit them not as hard? I dunno if I could do that though..."


He scratched the back of his head in thought on how to disable someone without killing them. To be fair with strength like his that would require quite some finesse to carry out, something he was desperately lacking.


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Sen Harper


A light pressure was applied on the girls head again as something else jumped on her head. "Wha?" She carefully tilted her head to look up seeing a black cat. "Well hello there..." She smiled slightly before setting the ginger cat down and petting his head. She looked up as gladewyn started speaking to someone and noticed some strange magician appear. Apparently this was the magician friend? She blinked as a card was held out to her and she stopped petting the cat. She looked from the magician to the card which red quite clearly. "Queen of Hearts." She replied.


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Fox was sure of many things. She loved venison. She was the fastest tree climber on campus and she was most definitely not mica. So when she was referred to as such by some strangely dressed man, she hissed and curled territory in sens lap.


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Jon smiled. He wondered for a brief moment whether or not to bother explaining the complex laws of the frozen time dimension, but then decided against it; he'd probably end up spending all day. If only it were as easy as that though, Jon mused sadly. It would make everything a lot more practical, and he'd actually be able to feel more useful. Still, he presumed that Timestorm would teach him it in time. He wondered where his tutor was. Probably off somewhere doing something important. After all, he does seem to be always serving some kind of higher purpose. He had never actually seen Timestorm amongst the other teachers, which was curious.


Still, back to the matter at hand. As he had suspected, Kojiro was rather dim. However, this didn't tempt Jon to manipulate him, or tease him, rather it was just as interesting and diverse a trait as Zebediah's apparent insanity. "Maybe," he suggested, playing along, "you should try to hit them in the legs. That way, you'd probably not kill them, but you'd also stop them from infiltrating the school and everything."


@PicaPirate
 
"Oh yeah! I'll break his legs, then he can't move! Maybe this time I won't rip them off or roll them to his chest though, I dunno."


He shrugged and looked around. He could hear the flourish of...Mica speaking.


Fan-fucking-tastic. If anyone liked to mess people with people it was Mica. Not only was he as mad as Dex, but also equally maddening to other people. He didn't care whether it was in simple jest most of the time, the guy was still irritating as he nearly always fell for his illusions.


Hell, from he remembered he never pulled the desk down when Dex challenged to, but made it look like he had. That really messed with his head. In comparison Kojiro simply jumped and ripped the furniture down, though the grip on the furniture was left forever marked by his hands and the legs needed replacing and the ceiling repaired from having them ripped out without thought where it was nailed to the ceiling.


"If you wanna ask more weird stuff like that, go ask Timecloud or whatever he's called. Nearly no one ever sees him, he just kinda appears when he needed coffee or some shit. Weirdo..."


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Jon winced slightly at the brutal turn in conversation. To be fair, he had started it, but he didn't really want to hear about limbs being ripped off and the like, especially after the previous day's events. He reminded himself to try and steer the topic off of violence next time he spoke to the muscle-mountain, but even if he tried, he had the feeling the man's one-track mind would kick in and find a way to talk about punching.


Jon followed the man's line of vision and turned to see an eccentricly dressed man in the middle of a magic trick. By the glint in Kojiro's eyes, it was obvious that the pair of them didn't exactly see eye to eye. Still, Jon was curious as ever as to how the magic trick would resolve. Making a mental note of the strong man's similar experience with the mysterious teacher (although clearly the aura of serenity Timestorm held had also gone over Kojiro's head), he smiled and nodded. "Well, if you've pardon my being easily entertained, I'm quite interested in seeing this magic trick. Nice to meet you though, don't go punching anything too hard!"


With a glancing smile, he turned and hobbled his way over to the bench. Standing up for his conversation with Kojiro had clearly had its toll on him, but he didn't want to garner up needless pity and so tried, unsuccessfully, to mask his woes. Quietly, he approached and leant unassumingly against the wall near the bench, watching over their shoulders. He winced slightly as he tried to make himself confortable, and straightened up, really wishing he wasn't so curious as to keep denying himself a sensible rest on a bench.


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Glaedwyn snickered, then looked at the cat, and immediately saw the issue.


"Wait a minute, that's not Tarot. Where-" he was cut off by Mica putting a hand to his mouth, a devious grin on his face as he looked up at Kojiro. He turned the card around and then back around in one quick fluid motion, this time with the card being the King of Spades. He intentionally left the corner of what appeared to be a second card showing behind it, and held it up again.


"Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that's not the Queen of Hearts."
 
Sen Harper


Sen winced as the ginger cat settled on her lap applying pressure to the stab wound. She shifted the cat slightly so it wasn't on the injury before looking back to the card. She quirks an eyebrow slightly "I'm sure... you have two cards back to back." She said know figuring there may or may not be more to the trick.


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Mica laughed and shrugged. "You got me." He pulls the card out from behind it and hands it to her. "It's a $50 visa, feel free to use how you will. Anyway, you figure out the trick yet?" Glaedwyn tried to talk through Mica's hand, but Mica just pushed him again. He laughed and gave the girl the card. "Look closer, see if you can figure it out.


@Shura
 
Sen Harper


Sen blinked a few times not expecting some kind of gift card. She looked over to Gladewyn who was trying to tal. He probably new the answer if he knew the man for a while. Sen flipped the card over expecting something to be wrong with it noticing that it felt much thinner than any normal plastic gift card which meant it was most likely a fake. "Not really sure how but I know this isn't a real gift card." She smirked slightly


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Mica smirked. "Clever, but unfortunately, wrong. That's an actual giftcard, believe it or not, and that is actually the King of Spades." He dispelled the illusion around his hand, where he was holding the Queen of Hearts. "I've been holding the Queen the whole time, you just couldn't see it." Mica took his hand off of Glaedwyn's mouth, who shot him a glare and mumbled, "He was holding my mouth closed because I could see it, as my optic nerves don't work, but my auditory nerves do work." Mica grinned, "Keep the gift card, for being such a good sport. Hell, go out to dinner with this one," he said, gesturing to Glaedwyn.


"Mica, shut up."


"What, she's quite the catch."


"We're not dating."


"Well why the hell not?"


"Let's see. She's probably not into me, we barely know eachother, and despite the fact that she's relatively attractive, I'm not into her either. Stop trying to set me up with people you dumbass, you know I'm asexual."


@Shura
 
Sen Harper


"Ah... well... thanks." she chuckled softly pocketing the card. She wasn't quite sure what to use if for but it still it was nice She looked between the two bickering males not really sure if they were serious or joking. Compliments wren't something usually directed at her unless there was some kind of snark or joke behind it. Still a tinge or red colored her cheeks at Gladewyns out burst. "O...kay then..." she muttered unsure how to really react.
 
Jon watched the rest of the magic trick with amusement, although having not been there at the start, he didn't quite understand the trick. Still, it was an interesting way to show of his ability, and once again Jon wished he had a more practical and enjoyable way of showing off his own skills. He smiled as Mica teased Glaedwyn, and also at the man's charitable act. He was also glad that Sen was on the receiving end of it; she was nice enough and the kind of person who, before being thrown into a school full of eccentric oddballs who didn't care what you were like, was largely ignored. The fact that she didn't quite know how to react to the compliment proved that point, and Jon couldn't help but mentally agree with what Glaedwyn had said; she was cute, especially now she was blushing. He almost envied how honest the other boy allowed himself to be, but he wasn't about to change himself for te sake of that aspiration.


"Very impressive," Jon stood forward with a polite nod and joined the conversation. "I presume there's a lot more practicality to that illusion ability other than just making cards?" he enquired politely.


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Fox was immensely curious about this 'gift card", as she had never encountered one before and when Sen seemed distracted, plucked it out of the girls pocket with her teeth, then (to make a quick getaway) Jumped onto Jon's shoulder.


Some gift, She thought,Tastes awful.


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@SkyGinge
 
Sen Harper


Sen felt something nudge her and looked to her side to see the cat stealing the gift card from her. "Hey! What the-" Before she could really do anything the cat hopped onto Jons shoulder. She crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow over to the boy. There was no real anger or irritation on her face just one of suspicious curiosity. "So... friend of yours?"
 
Mica grinned at the boy asking about practicality. "Oh, there are so many practical applications for the power, but what's the fun in that? For example, the Mica you're looking at now isn't actually me. I'm actually two feet to the left, disguised as a garbage can." With that, the illusion Mica faded, and the real Mica appeared, the trash can he was disguised as disappearing. "Ya know, the hardest part of that entire trick was not falling while I was reaching to give you the cards. My arms are long, but positioning the card properly so it matched with the illusion? Really difficult." He laughed


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Jon's eyes widened as ever in casual disbelief as the man unveiled his true identity as a nearby bin. "Well yes, you're very right," he grinned, "With a power like that it's not too hard to fit the two together also; that bin trick would work just as well on Destructo McEvil as it did on us." He laughed his calm, soft laugh as he imagined the freedom the illusion ability granted. So many ideas popped into his head, the things he could do. Things unlimited to him unlike his time freezing ability.


Suddenly a cat, one of two he hadn't quite noticed before, leaped forwards and snatched the card from Sen's pocket. Jon tried to suppress a laugh; animals never behaved quite as they were supposed to. Then to his surprise, it leaped straight at him and perched on his shoulder. He wasn't expecting it at all, and arms flailing, he nearly toppled owe backwards in surprise. Thankfully he steadied himself, but in the mean time he had provided them with a solid display of comedic floundering. Curse my clumsiness, he mused with a pained smile, extending an arm to gently stroke the offending cat. "Animals flock to me, apparently," he laughed in response to her. But she had a point. Why had it leaped to him specifically? You're a very intelligent cat, he thought as he stroked. Then suddenly it hit him, and he promptly stopped stroking her, going a little red. "Fox, that's you, isn't it?" he asked in a strained voice.


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The ginger tabby shifted to a small red fox in response and motioned to Jon as best she could that the gift card would be returned if the petting resumed. Things more trouble than it's worth any way. And someone needs to get the burrs out of my hair/fur. She reasoned


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Jon pulled an angry expression as she shifted, and reluctantly continued petting her. It was a very weird experience for him, stroking somebody whom he had held a conversation with maybe only an hour previously. Perched on him was another, living, breathing human being, and he felt a little awkward giving her such a tender notion. Still, he felt obliged to at least attempt to get the card back.


"Eheh, this is Fox," he explained with a sheepish grin. "Not as in a Fox, but y'know, her name's Fox. She's another student like us, and she can morph into animals. And apparently she's not above blackmailing for petting." He eyed her with mock disgust. "I'm not a petting machine, you know," he protested with a sigh. He gave Sen an expression that read 'Help!'


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Sen Harper


Sen blinked a few times wondering if what she saw really happened. The orange tabby that had been on Jons lap was suddenly a fox? Shape shifter? Sen thought a moment before just shaking her head. This was a school full of super powered students why the he hell not. "Ah well that makes much more sense." She chuckled softly "Though I would have to ask her to be more careful in where she lands next time." she warned gesturing to her injured leg, which was still hurting a fair bit. Sen contemplated maybe going to the clinic to get some pain killers or something to make things easier. She wasn't exactly looking forward to using crutches for much longer.


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"Aye, she'll understand you there," Jon nodded, finishing his petting with a quick tap. Reaching over, he picked her up with both hands and placed her down on the bench. "That's enough petting for you," he said, struggling not to be patronising to her because she was in animal form. "I wouldn't suggest stealing things like that in the future though, you might get feistier reception." Carefully, he removed the card from her grip, and rose to full height.


At that moment, Jon felt a sudden vibration in his pocket, and suddenly a loud tune ripped through the air. It started with a folk violin riff, slightly ethnic-y, and then went into electronic music mixed along with that, a very intricate and not very subtle piece of music. The card now forgotten, his hand shot into his pocket and he retrieved his phone. He frowned slightly at the caller's name. "Sorry guys, I have to take this," he said, and then promptly disappeared out into the school grounds, sub-consciously shoving the card into his pocket.
 
Fox shifted back into her brunette human form somewhat abashedly, "ummm," She said realizing all eyes were probably on her,"Sorry about your leg, I didn't mean to land where it was injured, if you want I could show you some ways to make it hurt less.. and if you don't mind me asking, whats stealing?"


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