RPG: The Academy of Mages

[~Shobu~]

Sorina left her class with the violin case in hand. She walked to the cafeteria alone. Come to think of it, she did many things alone. She had friends but no one that she was close to. She didn't mind the small soiltude. She could play without too many interruptions. Her room mate was hardly around so Sorina had easy access to privacy. Sorina stopped to consider her feelings about all of this. Maybe a little company wouldn't be too bad... She thought to herself and walked on.

The cafeteria was crowded at this time. She was always sure to stay out of people's way since she was small and there were only a few primary classes at lunch this hour. She made her way to a table and gingerly set down her violin case. As she waited for the lines to shorten she took out the iPod Vali bought for her last Christmas and listened to some old classical music. She cranked up the volume until it was as if there were an orchaestra in her head. Closing her eyes she let herself get lost in the instrumental choir.

Bing Bing looked to her watch. "Hey Kai, it's lunch time. I heard their serving something special as a welcome back sort of feast," she said with a wide grin on her face. If it was somethin good, she was going to get maybe one or two extra servings. Bing Bing's appetite was unmatched and she felt grateful for her high metabolism and large amount of energy. "Let's go and get ourselves some lunch, I'm straving." She didn't even wait for him to protest or agree making a bee-line toward the cafeteria.

[Hollow Ichigo]

"Amazing how people at this school can be so easyly manipulated. It's like butter when trying to convince then to join you. You slash once and their minds slowly slip away. After so long they have no other options. Join you are get left behind." Vincent shook his head and walked away from the freshmen. Thirty dollars in hand. To easy. At the same time it was disturbing that his first human contact of the new year was with a freshmen. Nevertheless he had tricked him into giving him his money. Just to be trained and protected. How amazingly ignorant can there freshmen be. He had no intentions of training the boy. Chance's were that he wouldn't even see the boy again in a long time. Anyway it went Vincent would be the winner. Most people were at lunch. They were alone with no one around. He won.

"So you believe that you have won....ay Vincent. I didn't think that someone like you would pick and lie to freshmen for personal gain......|Cough|....even though you are known to start trouble." John stood their down the stairs looking up at Vincent. His mind was an open cool when he spoke. Not trying to hide anything. Never caring about the consequences. In his mind he believed that he was free from rules when in truth he was a slave to them like John was.

How fickle his mind was. Complex yet so easy to read. Vincent had let go. John wondered if he let everything go. "So am i going to have to take the money back or are you going to give it back? Your move.....old friend?" John stood still. Watching and waiting. Trying to think of his first to last moves. Sweat dripping to the ground from the fiction of their rivalry. Make the first move. Make the first move. Make the first..........then their was a loud echoing Whip sound that covered the whole area. Then their was silence. Cold. Still. Silence. So quiet. So empty. So.....so....quiet.

[Seikyu Kiba]

OOC: Okay, let me try to catch up

Gage walked along the hallways to his next class...Gardening...yes gardening. He walked into his class room where his teacher greeted him with a bow, Gage bowed back but the rest of the class stared at him, shaking at his menacing look, he laughed in his head as he thought about what they could be thinking about him. Oh how he loved when people trembled at him, although he was very kind hearted. He decided he wanted to meet up with Caley, so when he sat down in his seat, he placed a seed on his desk. The seed sprouted into what looked to be a Speaking plant. He whispered slowly into it "Gage would like to know, if you would like to study...he isn't doing so well in Herbology." The seed slowly grew into the cracks of the ground, and started to look for Caley.

"Gage, please...no talking to your plants.." The teacher said with a glare, and continued to write on the board.

[Kyuubi Naruto]

"Her love of food.......I guess even though our lives may be changing before our eyes, some things tend to stay the same, don't they?" Kai thought. He shook his head, trying to get the thoughts of change out his mind, although it was obvious that they were their to stay. He didn't know exactly what'd he do if this place was to exit his life, but it was going to happen sooner or later, no running away from the inevitable.

Kai was forced to jog in order to keep up with the energetic Xiaozhi, but his pace didn't keep him from making conversation. "Huh? You said they were goin' to make a special feast for us, huh? What, are they adding hot sauce to the mystery meat?" He said, joking around, as the lunches at a high-class school like this were always top-notch.

"Its insane how you eat so much but still stay so slim........just not normal, if you ask me."

[KibasStalker]

Caley breathed in the deep scents and spices of her stew. She couldn't wait to dig into the delishous flavours, but before she could a knock came on the window. She glided over and looked out curiously. A look to the right and a look to the left brought no satisfaction, not even a look up answered her quizical face. She almost hit herself when she realized the answer was down. A flower had grown up the side of the dorm wall and had preceded to knock on her window.

Caley laughed at someones very unique way of getting her attention. She picked the flower and placed it in a glass bottle filled with water. As she turned back to her food it started to speak, totally suprising Caley.

"Gage would like to know, if you would like to study...he isn't doing so well in Herbology." the flower said. Caley couldn't contain herself and broke out in a fit of laughter. After a few minutes of getting control of herself she sent some magic into the flower and said, "Yes I will help Gage with his studies in herbology. But he better bring his study mind set, because I'm not gonna mess around. Meet me in the library after schools out."

Caley finished her message and then enjoyed her food. When she had cleaned her dishes in the small sink her room held she headed off to the Herbology lab for next period. This time she was wide awake.

[~Shobu~]

"Pfft, you're just jealous," she said with a grin. "I really don't know but I'm so hungry I could eat a shark and you know I resent eating anything carnivorous that might have been able to devour me." It was true, Bing Bing hated to eat anything that had sharp teeth, to put it in simple terms. She had a supersticious belief that if you ate a carnivorous animal then you'd be jinxed to be eaten by one later. She was strange like that.

Xiaozhi opened the doors to the cafeteria and pranced in, "You know what's not normal- how you can be so ridiculously attractive and not have a girlfriend." Bing Bing was very aware of how handsome her friend was and she was not one to hide behind a blush. She had a crush on him the first time she met him but she didn't know anymore. He was more like a brother to her now than anything. She never attempted to form a relationship with him and she never bothered to ask him when he liked her or not. It's extremely rare for her to think about that nowadays and when she does spare a thought, she ends up laughing at herself. She thought going out with Kai might feel like incest.

Sorina saw two familiar faces come in through the doors of the cafeteria that lead outside. The council members, Xiaozhi and Kai. Sorina h not spoken to Kai yet but Xiaozhi was the one to give Sorina a tour of the school when she transferred. Sorina always wanted to go over and say hello but they were merely acquaintances and she feared that they would not want to talk to someone considerably younger than them, though Xiaozhi was incredibly nice to her. She dragged her eyes to her violin case and sat in silence, still waiting for the lines to shorten.

[Seikyu Kiba]

As the class let out, Gage came out with random and pointless flowers all around him, I guess his gardening class went well, considering he made a design of a dog out of flowers. Gage walked down the halls some more, and went back down the stairs where Gage and Skyde met up. Next to the stairs sat his locker, he opened his locker and placed the design gently inside the locker...trying not to squish his master piece. As he was about to shut it, he felt a poke at his leg. It was his Speaking flower he sent to Caley, he bent down and poked it. It opened is mouth and said "Yes I will help Gage with his studies in herbology. But he better bring his study mind set, because I'm not gonna mess around. Meet me in the library after schools out."

Well she was very straight forward, he wondered what she ment by messing around, usually he was always studying different things. He gave a small smirk at the response and then picked the flower out of the ground. He then convertted the whole plant back into a seed. he placed the seed in his large trench coat, and proceeded to his next class..Herbology. He walked to his class and had a seat at a near by desk. The teacher greeted him with a bow, and in response he bowed back.

[Luzifer]

Some strange girl sat next to Wilhelm and he looked at her out of the corner of his eyes. Gave a casual, almost perfunctory, "hey" when she sat down but otherwise didn't speak to her. He didn't hold a vendetta against these people, his heart wouldn't let him hated the people themselves, but there was still a discomfort in being around people like them. "Love the sinner, hate the sin"? Close... only, rather than love it was more a non-hate.

[kingdomhearts_tom]

Will had spent the entire first morning of school watching the higher students pull pranks on the new kids. Usually he would have joined in but already he felt a dampener in the mood all around him.
After an univentful first period he took the time out to simply go and sit in the cafeteria and make sure his skills were still up to speed. He managed to waste a good amount of time just sat in the middle of the cafeteria sending magic to seperate parts of his body and causing them to speed up.
After what seemed like a week the cafeteria started to fill up. He waved at a few people and noticed many more.
After watching a group of fellow strength students eat dinner before setting off to the athletics track he stood up and decided to follow. As he reached the door he felt a pang of his old self come back for a moment and his famous prankster smirk unfolded over his features.
He grabbed a desert off of a table to his left to the complaints of it's owner. It only took less than a second before Will was gone and the pudding was flying through the air towards a group of older students.
Will smiled as he rounded the corner near the other end of the school, he just loved magic...

[Hollow Ichigo]

Their they stood. John and Vincent. To old friend deadlocked in a gaze that seemed itself as a way to confused the other. A towel wrapped around both their arms and a struggle between them. Pushing and pulling. One trying to free himself and one trying to force the other into submission. A struggle indeed.

"So you think that I had my guard down. Not knowing your power. Knowing the destructive power you hold?" John pulled back some but couldn't go far. Blood was slowly dripping from his arm. The towel was slowly cutting into it. If he didn't do something he would lord an arm.

"If you knew what I could do then why did you not dodge it. It was a slow attack that i use to catch my opponent off guard. I see it worked on you meaning that you are the same old John. Still weak." Vincent grinned and pulled hard. He smiled and but deeper into John's skin. More. More........ Give him more of a challenge. Or lose this arm.

John hissed in pain as his arm shook from pain. He looked at Vincent and lost all emotion. His eyes have off a purple aura. He used his free hand and formed a barrier in his palm. He them pushed it forward at Vincent. He let it loose but was stopped by the ringing of the bell. He let it in be watched Vincent withdraw. Vincent smiled before disappearing around a corner. John however lost his balance and leaned on the rail of the stairs. Blood covering his arm. John spit and cursed before heading toward the nurse.

[Ωmega]

Alice's eyes sparkled as the other student acknowledged her.
"Hey, my names Alice, whats yours?"

It was then that she noticed some flying pudding, she waved her finger a bit and allowed it to drop to the floor instead of at some poor saps head...come to think of it, it may have hit someone in her table. She quickly shrugged it off though. She turn backed over to Wil, smiled, grabbed her tray and sat on the opposite side of him.

"Sorry, its a bit of a pain to see things on the right side of me."

She gave him a sort of sheepish smile in hopes that her being half blind didnt bother him.

[Kyuubi Naruto]

"Are you trying to hit on me?" Kai asked Xiaozhi, partly serious and partly teasing her. "Well, you should know me more than anybody. I tend to wait until I find the 100% right person for me. Hopping from girl to girl, even though its a definite option for me, it's just......not my style, ya know?"

"Since you already know how sexy I am, I'm suprised that you haven't tried to get me yourself. Not that I'm trying to brag or anything, of course." Kai declared. This was something that really intrigued him, but he never truly took the time to ponder what she really thought of him, romantic-wise. Oh well, he figured.

Kai looked at the lunchroom, seeing the insanely long line ahead of him and Bing Bing. Although, seeing as he was not only a senior, but also a respected member of the council, he could skip through the line with absolutely no fuss....except, of course, freshman whom didn't know him. "So, you want to roll through with the routine?" He asked. As she was a Co-Council member of the Dorm of Strength, she could also skip through the line.

Kai tried his hardest to keep his position of power from going to his head, but he couldn't help but let a grin make its way onto his face.

[Inc0gnit0]

OOC: You big meany, you didn't even let me respond to your arguments. Also I noticed for a girl whose title is the shy one, you speak very assertively and claim to be firm among other things. Last thing is that there is no way that in any school that a student would have the power to administer punishment like you administered upon Derek. Since you keep talking about how this school resembles so closely a highschool I just can't see a student punishing another student. Even if she is a coucnil member she still is just a student and would therefore require proof to a higher authority.

BIC:FOOLS! ALL DAMN FOOLS! Derek sat in the gloom of his own room. Caley had just left his room and the paper she had left on his desk still sat there untouched. Stalin eh...There was no way that Derek was going to let that slide as easily as that. Caley had stormed out of his room quickly and Derek had no reason to run after her immediately. Instead he decided to confront her where he knew she'd have to eventually go, her next class. Derek didn't run after people, people ran into him for he planned it that way.

Unwrapping a stale sandwhich Derek started abesentmindly eating it away. A few minutes later Derek's sandwhich had completely disapeared and still his gave was unmoved. Caley's arguments hadn't touched him even slightly. Her arguments were shalllow and lacked true insight. They were superficial and were said by a mind that hardly grasped the bigger picture. She spoke of how the school respected and adored the council. How does she claim that? I'm not the only one to despise this group of student that claims supperiority over the rest of us.

Also the fact that she claims to hold more initiative and firmity then is seen makes no sense due to the fact that those qualities are quickly seen and picked out. It's not like you can hide initiative until you need it, that's just not how it works. Her claims that I am not necessary might be true. Maybe the school will continue to function without me, that is very possible. However, what if I can improve things. Is something that functions really at its peak? If something is simply functioning isn't it not my duty to perfect it?

As for her use of the USSR and its leaders to compare our situation, that was completely uncalled for and besides the point. Stalin's downfall came from his obvious psychological problems of excessive paranoia. As for comparing herself to Trotsky she better be careful. Trotsky was exiled and ran off to Mexico to save his hide where he was hunted down and killed. If being killed after being persued away from the school is the metaphore she wanted to portray then so be it, Derek was ready to grant her wishes.

The only thing Derek was forced to completely agree on was the fact that her being a thorn in his sides was just the beginning. This girl was obviously going to proove to be quite troublesome. However, even though her raw power was indeed higher then his if it wasn't trained the right way it mattered little. Derek had always trained hard in combat, he was sure it would give him the edge in the end. Derek slowly got up and walked out of his room in a smooth, robotic motion. He grabbed the piece of paper Caley had left on his way out and made his way to Caley's next class to intercept her. He knew she had herbology next and that Caley had the tendency to arrive early so they would be able to finish their little chat.

Derek arrived at Caley's herbology class abot t10 minutes before class and leaned against the wall next to the open door. In his right hand was the piece of paper held tightly in his clenched fist. Caley arrived slightly after and Derek made the first move and walked infront of her. "You're overstepping your authority miss Brookes." Then with a quick motion he pulled out his lighter and lit it. Then by modifying the oxygen levels in the air he controlled the flame so it reached the piece of paper he held in his other hand and burnt it. Derek couldn't actually create or control fire per say. Derek had always found fire's ellusive nature to be hard to manipulate. Instead he controlled the air when he needed to manipulate fire. It worked practically identically and very few people were powerful enough to notice the difference but there was definitely a big difference.

The paper with his punishment burnt quickly and when it had completely burnt he continued to speak. "I do not see why I should be punished, for I have done nothing wrong. I do not see why you accuse me, I have practically not used my magic since the beginning of classes. I doubt you have any proof against me as a result and even if you do it is probably circumstantial evidence and holds no weight against me. Also even if you did have proof you have no authority in administering me with a punishment. You would have to plead to the staff of the school and proove my guilt which I wish you luck in doing considering my obvious innosense."

Derek then put away his lighter before continuing his discussion which he would have liked to have done earlier when she was in his room. "Careful at comparing yourself to Trotsky, he did end up dead in some foreign country. As for everything else you said, I've heard it before. Many times before. Arrogance is earned miss Brookes, what have you done to earn yours?" Derek stood there, arms crossed, sensing the area around him for any elemental disturbances. Come on Caley proove to me you're worth the trouble, show me those thorns so that I can cover them under a cold sheet of ice.

[KibasStalker]

OOC: Yeah I truly enjoyed that post of yours Incognito. The last line is quite poetic. I guess I should change the shy one because of the way my character grew from my original idea. Thank you for noticing though and I'm sorry!! But agh I was in the middle of a completely different post...Oh well this new situation is much more fun. With the highschool thing you are right and I will explain, its good to have someone to keep you on your toes. Crap I forgot something, oh well if Incognito will allow after class I want Caley to have going back were the "Real" kid was and examined the spot. By the way when I say Herbology Lab I mean class is going to be in a greenhouse.


Caley didn't even flinch when Derek brought her aside. She was expecting it because from what she had seen Derek was predictable. Caley had perpously left the arugment open because Derek is so rapped in his own plans he overlooks certain things. She didn't mind when he burned her punishment, for her it had been meerly(sp) bait.

Caley thought about it over lunch and decided that her original punishment was actually to harsh and she had used her powerful postion to further a personal vendeta. Caley had instantly punished herself so she would not do it agian. She had also played with the idea of apoligizing to Derek, but with his recent actions she decided to let him think that he won.

Caley glanced at Derek's fake fire manipulation with slight interest. Even though she disliked Derek greatly she did find the different ways he used his abilities noteworthy. The fire didn't hold her attention long because a small vine had entangled itself around her hand.

"In my metaphor I was talking about their rise to power rather then what came after. Since I, Trostky have the power, the situation is completely different then the history of the original fight for power." Caley said clearly blocking the door. "On the question of your punishment," Caley continued, "You can appeal if you want, but I ruled over this case because you are my responsiblity as Council Member. Plus you have already made yourself a nusicance to the school dispilinary commity so they allowed me to run certain things involving you making trouble. I have seared the "fingerprint" if you will of your magic in my mind as well. The water near the hallway where the freshman was found had a very familuar feel. In fact it was your magic and since I'm more prone to believe a scared to death freshman then a power hungry Junior I gave ruling. As I said before you can appeal my decision, but its a long drawn out process."

Caley looked at the vine with affection and waved at Derek. Each and every plant in the greenhouse had been moving towards the pair. They seem to give off an unhappy air, almost as if they wanted to hurt Derek. Caley knew that she had the upper hand in the greenhouse. All the flowers felt negative energy from someone towards Caley and they wanted to hurt that person. They wanted to hurt the person that they loved so much and that always tried to take the best care of them.

"Are you sure you want to have some kind of showdown here, it seems a little unfair to me. I''m not even using magic right now." Caley said moving away from the blocked door. As Caley moved away from the dangerous conversation she said, "You are a talented student both with acidemics and magic. I respect that, and I know you could do some good things to the school. There is a fine line you ride and as far as I can see I walk the side for the people and you walk the side for yourself. Think real long and hard whether your doing the best for the school and its students. Because if I thought you would do a better job then me, I would step down. You Derek do not feel that you are equal to the people and there inlys(sp) your problem"

EDIT: Caley waited for a response.

EDIT2: I decided since all the other Council Members (minus Shobu & Kyuubi) are kinda of loners and what not there must be at least one other Council Member who is friendly and knows everybody...

[Luzifer]

OOC: Man...its hard coming up with decent posts for Adam without writing his thoughts...

The Skeleton continued to read the book, filing away the information that was contained within this text, which read The Sentient Singularity. "Skelly" ran the books data through its subroutines. It required direct intervention. The skeleton shuddered briefly as a larger consciousness enter it... The consciousness cited the book for removal and then departed.

The skeleton hopped off the book, which slammed shut as soon as it was off. The book then flew out the window.

With that task finished, the skeleton hopped off the table and walked over to one of the shelves and took the next book down. The skeleton didn't randomly pick books it was going straight in order, book by book, shelf by shelf. But what was worth remarking was that it was almost finished.

Wilhelm sighed a stood up with his food, which he had barely gotten the chance to touch. He shouldn't have even spoken, that was a mistake. "My name... is not your bloody business." he said harshly. His words scratches at even his own mind but he couldn't not say them. He felt so much... hatred, it burned within him so strongly that he couldn't be nice. "never talk to me again, you damn magic-user". He turned away from her and walked towards the trash can. But as he about to through it away he seized up.

whatamidoingwhyaminotdoingwhatioughtobedoingbutwha tisitthatioughtobedoingidontknowidontknowbutsometh ingabouthisjustfeelswrongthesepeopletheyhavepowert heycouldkillmeinasecondbutTHEYDONTSEEANYTHINGWRONG WITHTHATwhatthehelliswrongwiththemtheylackperspect ivebutamijustsayingthattoexcusetheiractionstheir.. .tendecytoignorethesocialproblemscausedbytheirvery existancetheydontwanttorealizethattheworldcannever begoodwhiletheyexisttheyarecreatinganimbalancebutw hatcanidoicantpreachforapreacheriamnotbutijustwish therewasSOMETHINGICOULDDObuttheirisnot

Suddenly his frustration broke. He threw the tray and the food at the wall with a loud, growling scream, and ran out the lunchroom before the echo had even begun to fade. He ran. That was all, there was no thought worth mentioning going through his mind, just streams of questions that possessed no answers, and statements that had become his axioms. No thought, just streams of ideology and faith...ribbons of hope and frustration that gently tied themselvse around his throat, choaking him. He burst out of the school building full speed and continued to run. The forest soon over took him, and he pushed through the brambles and thorns, uncaring as the teared at him. Was he being weak right now? Probably. Was this foolish? Definately. But it was better then doing nothing... or at least... it felt better then doing nothing.

His feet didn't stop their large strides until he made it to the wall that surrounded the school, some hours later and he collapsed against it. Pounding at it with his fists. He was trapped in here... trapped with these people, who were completely innocent of the sins they were committing. That was what made it worse. Not only were these people sinning, but they didn't know that they were. They were ignorant of it, but, he clutched gently at the dog collar around his thoat, but he could make them see. He could, he could do what he had done so long ago. Bend people to his will, twist their souls like little strings around, it was so easy. He could make them all realize what they were doing, but he'd have to use magic to do it. Was it truly preventing their sin if it was not a result of their free will? If it was just him, seducing them to his cause, preying on their craven animal lust?

Wilhelm pulled himself inward, sitting their gently at the base of the wall. No... he couldn't do that... he couldn't be that cruel, even to people who deserved it. He just couldn't bear the vacant eyed stares of people who had no thoughts in their mind but him. He had had enough of that. His family...he remembered. He couldn't control his power then, and he radiated majesty like a beacon. His parents had favored him so much. They had deprived his brothers and sisters every small kindess to give him the largest and his siblings had LOVED it. They wanted him... his elder sister had even tried to have sex with him one night... it was disturbing.

He had tried to repress as much of those memories as possible, but he still remember the eyes. Normally when you looked in a human eye you saw a burning glint, one that moved and shimmered delicately. But when his power gripped someone... that glint stopped moving... it was flat, lacking in even the barest vitality. Under his influence they had no life of their own, they need him to fill them with his (perceived) grandeur.

His family had been dead for years because of him... he wasn't going to kill anyone again.

[Nespa]

Binca left out a small sigh off relief when she saw the skeleton. It was strange to see someone collect information that way but it was also very smart. enemies woulden't know how he looked like and unimportant people would not bother him. forcing to look neutral and not nervous or frighted she aproached the skelleton and cleared her throat "adam i asume?". she did not wait for a answer but handed him the note "i wanted to thank you for taking me to the nurse and she told me to give you this since she can't really help me with my problem". She remaind standing adn waited to be either spoken to or dismissed.

[kingdomhearts_tom]

Will stood by the athletics track with a few strength students just talking about the days news. One of the younger kids pulled out a pack of cigerettes and offered them to the older students. Will took one only to drop it as a student burst out of a set of doors and ran full pelt towards the school boundaries(sp).
"Hey, how about we follow him and give him a scare or something?" asked the little smoking student.
Will shook his head slowly, 'give him a scare?' why did these kids have such a lack of imagination?
The kid started to jog after the mad runner but Will placed a hand on his shoulder,
"Don't go after him, that guys name is Wilhelm and hes..." Will struggled for words, "a respected student."
The little kid shrugged,
"I couldn't feel any magic around him at all."
Will let go of the kid and stepped back. Everyone knew Will as the happy go lucky kid, the happy prankster, someone to turn to when you needed cheering up. And although Will liked the odd prank... or two, he disliked picking on kids who couldn't fight back. He started to walk back to the main building and was hoping that the little kid didn't find Wilhelm...
It was then that a book hit him on his head...

Will

[Tetsanosuke]

OOC: I got a bit lost.. so this post will be simple. I'm not sure if 'lunch' is over but still, I'll just wing it. And yes KibaS, Your character's personality seemed to conflict with what it was stated. If she were indeed shy she wouldn't have poked her head between the 2 foot gap they had when they walked to class.

Just thought I'd point it out. >.>

BIC:

Lunch time.. Ouh how it couldn't be a time any better to rest one's thoughts. It signaled half the day and half the learning already finished. Skyde was sure that he'd eat enough, seeing how he brought himself to the front of the line from the beginning. Controlling space, although high in difficulty had it's way way ups. He got the simple lunch, a sandwich with various other little packaged goods. He had went out to a courtyard to eat, in the shadow of a nearby tree against a wall.

Though he had finished his lunch, he felt he'd like to rest a bit more, but alas classes were to start again and nothing would get in his way. He went to his next class avoiding the more crowded hallways for the lesser walked ones, quite simple.

The Craft Council Member had indeed enjoyed the first day of her MA class, and her first lunch period of the semester. Nothing much to say about it, other then she sat alone, or just with a table of constantly switching students.

[~Shobu~]

Bing Bing arched an eyebrow, giving Kai her blunt "you're not serious" look. It was time to change the subject. She knew the various girls that Kai had dated and disapproved of everyone of them. She hoped that her dislikes of them wasn't the reason Kai couldn't find someone, but the girls were as fake as faux diamonds. She could tell who they were past the sweet attitude and pretty faces. Bing Bing decided that Kai's immediate subject change was a good sign. He wasn't too serious. She took Kai's suggestion into consideration.

"I dunno... freshmen tend to overreact sometimes... I don't want trouble..." that's what her mind said but the smell of the special dish won her over. Her mind versus her stomach was a predictable match. "Aw screw that, let's go." She said and walked up to the lunch line, hearing the predicted complaints of the freshmen.

Sorina finally decided to stand and get her lunch before she didn't have any time to eat at all. She put up her iPod. took her violin case, and walked to the line. She got her lunch surprisingly fast but she didn't get anything much. A salad was enough for her today. Her appetite has been small since the beginning of summer.

She walked to a table where a girl she recognized as the student council member of Sorina's own dorm sat by herself. Sorina placed her case down at her feet and sat down, digging into her plain and dressingless salad. She suddenly thought about the entire reason she was eating so little. She had not had regular meals during the summer, which made her thinner than she already was.

"Sorina, you play as if you were some great prodigy or something, but you're not nearly as good as Clyde. You never will be."

Sorina has never felt competative toward anyone before but Clyde was a boy who would occassionally pick on her for being a cry baby. He provoked her to cry and he loved it. She knew he did, what with the victorious grin he always had on his face.

"Baby prodigy is an ironic name for a baby with no talent," Clyde had once said to her.

Sorina felt her eyes sting with oncoming tears. She quickly picked up her napkin and quickly dabbed her eyes. She didn't want to start crying on the first day of school.

[Seikyu Kiba]

OOC: Oh right it is lunch time....

Gage just finished eating in his Herbology class, he usually ate in that class to avoid people, the teacher didn't mind, for he never spoke a word to the teacher when he was working. He ate his turkey sandwich and then threw away the trash, then sat quietly waiting for the class to start.

OOC: Sorry for being so short.

[Hollow Ichigo]

John walked toward the nurse. Students whispering about his arm. Creeping eyes sat behind him. Those that knew him not saying a word only trying to build a path for him. Others acting like it was the end of the world.

A beautiful young girl from the Strength Dorm had used her power to form a medical stem around his arm. She followed him to the strength dorm nurses office she released her power and left. "Hello it's me Jonathan Price. Again. The first of many times. Hopefully not, but nice to see you again." John walked into the office and toke his seat. The nurse quickly came over and began to work on his arm. "Well John it's nice to see you again also. Now......tell me what happened. It seems that your bone in this left arm has been chipped and this large slash is all around your arm. Have you been fighting on the first day of school?" She shook her head and pressed down on his arm. He inhaled deeply and exhaled. His arm trembled. All he could do was thank her before she wrapped it and sent him on." Thanks" She nodded and continued with her routes. John made his way toward his next class. English literature.

[Inc0gnit0]

OOC: Sorry for the delay I had people at my place...but I hope this suits your standards.

Derek didn't flinch as she explained her reasoning oncerning her disciplinary decisions. "I don't care, we both know that even the strongest magic disapears after at most 2 hours. No matter how much you memorized that tingle of mine like you say there is no way you can proove it now. As a result, I doubt any student would be condemned for supositions and the testimony of a scared to death freshman that might have a vendetta against me."

Derek noticed the plants hostility at his expense. If there was another thing that Derek had a hard time manipulating it was plants and animals. In the nature dorm everyone needed a basis in herbology, zoology, plant and animal manipulation and other nature related magic. Academically Derek excelled however, in practice Derek always hit a snag. He attributed it to his way of manipulating nature. In order to manipulate something Derek had to overpower it. Most if not all nature dorm members learnt to work with the nature around them. To ask them for their help and in return they would help them back. Usually it was a form of cooperative nature that fueled this kind of nature magic.

Derek had a different approach. Derek had a different approach to a lot of things when you thought about it. Derek overpowered the nature's will. He stipped it of its freewill and manipulated it to its own liking. He stripped the middleman and acted as a pupeteer, guiding nature without its consent. As a result, everything was a lot harder because there was a lot more opposition this way. On top of having to use his magic to tell nature everything it would have to do he also had to start by controlling it fully so it wouldn't rebel. As a result nature tended to have a negative view of him. It was funny how the word got around about how he did things. Then to top it off the more he used his nature magic, the more nature became hostile to him and the more it became hard to use it in the first place. It was a vicious circle and Derek became forced to put more magic to control simple plants. He hated that kind of magic, it was way too close to controlling human beings and he didn't like it.

Derek noticed the nature's liking of Caley and he wasn't really surprised considering her reputation. Derek decided he had to show her how much he didn't fear the nature that hated him so much. You have to control uprisings, quelch opposition, show who'se boss when the time comes. Derek's eyes suddenly seemed to freeze. His irises stood out in his light blue, almost frozen stare. His cold gaze was locked with Caley's. The temperature all around the greenhouse suddenly dropped tremendously. A few seniors coming towards the greenhouse and inside the greenhouse were wondering what was going on.

Frost started covering the greenhouse completely. Ice started to stretch from Derek's feet in all four directions. The sudden cold front combined with the already present warmer front started to form low altitude storm clouds. As a result the sun hid itself behind the clouds and everything became suddenly a lot darker. Ice finally covered the greenhouse completely and the ground became extremely hard with permafrost. The plants hissed at the horrible change of temperature. A few of the students realized finally what was going on and didn't really know what to do. The teacher was still no there yet so the students just stayed out of it and tried to keep warm. Derek's breath was smooth and was obviously now visible.

Derek slowly removed his lighter from his pocket and lit it. "There is something I practiced really hard that I'd like to show you...I hate fire, I find it's a barbaric element. Uncontrollable, erratic, random." Derek then manipulated the oxygen and hydrogen so that a single ball of fire remained in his hand. Derek then put his lighter away as the fire crackled away in his hand. Derek then put his other hand over it and commenced his experiment. "By constantly bombarding the flame with water particles but stopping right before they hit the flame I am able to keep a small filament of water particle all around the flame. Then by instantly and suddenly dropping the temperature of the water to about negative 10 degrees I can freeze this water. The resulting lack of oxygen kills the fire immediately and what you are left with is actual frozen fire..."

The little ice sculpture that was left in his hand was incredibly beautiful. It was literally as if fire had stood still and frozen over. Derek stared at it with a serenity that was rare for him. His eyes of ice seeming to find peace in this feat of his. Derek then looked back up at Caley and his hard cold gaze returned. Then by closing his fist hard around the ice sculpture it shattered into fine dust which he let fall slowly to the ground. "Fire is so weak...without oxygen it is useless...always requiring the assistance of something else to survive."

Derek then looked around at his creation, a scenery of ice. He then continued to talk. "Yes in a greenhouse you definitely have an advantage due to my obvious hate for nature magic however, don't forget what hidrates your precious plants. A river that passes right over there supplies your plants with their vital water. Not only that but the waterfall not far from here that gives this river its flow leaves the area around here constantly humid. I am as much at an advantage here as you are. However, never forget that these plants of yours depend on the water around them and that could become a problem if I really felt like it."

Derek stared at Caley and couldn't help but respect the extent of her raw power however, she didn't understand and therefore was weak. She wasted her abilities in directly helping the little man. She couldn't see the bigger picture. It was as if she went to a poor country giving food to one famished person one by one. Instead what she should be doing is trying to rectify the bigger issue, the reason why these people have no food. She was a coward, too afraid to face the harsh reality that dealing with the actual problems was a hard and lengthy process that took much effort and sacrifice with little to no personal gratification. People who know better should be in charge, it just made sense.

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some men achieve greatness and others have greatness trust upon them. People are not equal. To believe such an infantile concept is naive hopeful thinking, nothing more. You said it yourself, you have a lot more raw power then me or any other nature dorm student. You are not equal to us in that respect. Also simply with your status of council member you are not equal to us. Humans by their very nature attempt to rise, attempt to gain power. Do not kid yourself, you are not equal, I am not equal, no one is equal. People grow and learn to be more then equal. People live and die to be more then equal. Equality is an illusion, a comparison point if you will. Equality is inexistant and in a world of inequality the smarter, better should obviously call the shots. It just makes sense, don't you think?"

EDIT: Actually fire simply needs a combustant or fuel. I said Oxygen which was an obvious error but I meant air. I also forgot to add that I manipulate hydrogen as well which is a very potent combustant. By controlling levels of hydrogen and oxygen you can create a floating ball of fire. See Hindenburg. I also tested this in lab lol.

[Ωmega]

Alice but hurt by the boys reaction to her.
'Wait....magic-user?'

Now she was mad. How could he treat her that way for using magic when he, himself was obviously the same? Otherwise, why'd he be at the school? She now had a new objective: find the boy and give him a piece of her mind.

The bell rang before she could even start her search. She sucked her teeth in frustration and kicked a nearby wall, then headed off for class.

Alice sat in class, her pissed off attitude showed clearly on her face. She looked out a nearby window and saw the boy from earlier sitting by the front of the shool. She suddenly stood up and left the classroom in a hurry, screaming to her teacher "EMERGANCY!" [sp?]

She ran until her lungs felt like they were on fire, and once he was in her reach, she kicked his leg as hard as she could.

"YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU......."

Her eyes were wide, her teeth were bare, her breath was harsh as was her voice. She immidetly stopped herself when she felt two, small burns under her blind eye, meaning two of the three "marks" has disappeared.

"Just breath....just breath....breath" she mumbled to herself as she tried to calm herself down.

[Luzifer]

OOC: Ingonito fire doesn't maintain itself soley upon oxygen. Fire is result of heat release by the breaking of more complex chemical bonds and the formation of simpler ones. Fire normally combines a fuel sources (such as the complex compound propane) with oxygen to form carbon dioxide. A fire can't survive on just oxygen because there is nothing for it to cause a chemical reaction with.

Also, Maru, Wilhelm ran to the wall around the school which, if my memory doesn't fail me, is 2 miles distant from the school

The skeleton didn't react to Bianca, continuing its reading in its usual way, but the pen and paper near the skeleton lifted off the table and the pen began to gently drag itself across the paper. After it had finished writing a short, clipped phrase, "My job", the paper ripped itself cleanly off of the notepad and floated gently into Bianca's hands. The pen and paper then gently returned to the place where they had been before.

Wilhelm looked at a nearby tree for no reason other than to give his eyes something to focus on. He needed a plan, but none was forthcoming. He wondered if, perhaps, if he managed to escape to the world outside these walls he might be able to convince the nations of the world to disband this place. But then realized that the only means that they could really use would be violence and he did not wish to see anyone die. It all came back to that simple fact, any solution he could posit would run into the wall of death. He fingered the dog collar around his next...even that one.

He had a weakness in his kindness. When he hurt someone it hurt him back, even yelling at that girl earlier had filled him with a sense of pain. A searing agony in his chest, just because he knew he was inflicting harm upon another, another who was completely innocent save by the sin of their birth and their unknowing actions. That action still hurt him, he'd probably angered her or something and then caused a big fuss... someone might be worried, but, even though he knew no one worried about him, that just caused more pain for him. He smirked, no one worried about him. Even his family, those people who had lusted just to walk in his presence now hated him, they feared him because of what he had did to them, and they tossed him off to the school to avoid having him in their house any longer.

He looked at the ground, why do my actions hurt me?.

"They are a failsafe built into you." said a voice from no where. It was strange in that the voice was...neutral. It was neither male nor female, neither loud nor soft, it both echoed endlessly and was clear, but gentle and forceful, it hurt his mind yet soothed his soul. It ached through him.

"Whose there?" he asked.

"No one is there. Only this one is there and it is in your mind not in the flesh"

"What?"

"You do not understand, but that is to be expected. Its a difficult concept to explain and this ones ways of explaining only serve to complicate things."

Wilhelm was confused as to why the creature kept referring to "this one" but suddenly came to realize that he was referring to himself, but in a way that avoided the first person. "Wait, why do you keep calling yourself "this one"?"

"Why? Simply put the term "I" doesn't apply to what this one is... this one has an I but that one is only the core, the center point around which the rest of this one swirls, but if you wish I could speak to you from the voice of that one and then it would be fitting to use the 'I'"

Wilhelm wasn't terribly sure that he understood what the voice was saying, but he nodded anyway, "So then who are you?"

"I am just a concerned student, you were despairing of your kindness and I, being one who despises ignorance in all its forms could not just leave that ignorance to continue."

"What do you mean?" Wilhelm asked incredulously

"I mean that there is a reason you are kind is as a failsafe. You are given kindess precisely because it will prevent the use of your power... or perhaps... it is because you are unable to use the power that you are given it. The causality aside the fact remains."

Wilhelm thought about it but he didn't quite understand all of it, "Be more clear."

"Figure it out for yourself, I won't give you all the answers..."

And with that the voice vanished.

[Hollow Ichigo]

Vincent sat in his class with a grin on his face. Being in a class of egotistical fools such as the ones in this class was something that he was used to. Listening to his talk about their dreams. Wanting to be able to have the type of power that those chosen by God hold. Always trying to be more then they were. Weak. Just more stepping stones for him to over come.

"Yo teach can i use the restroom? If you don't mind that is." Vincent needed a break from the class and swiftly left the room. He looked behind his shoulder and grinned before leaving. Down the stairs and threw a few doors and he was in the restroom. He did what he had to do. Then left and made his way back up the stairs. The long way. Looking for a way to calm and ease his mind from everything.