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nman Since: Mar, 2010
#226: Feb 8th 2016 at 4:36:58 PM

Infirmary

"Very helpful, thank you very much," Victoriana replied to Adam. "He had a picture of the girl he shot on his person, I don't think this was a simple mugging. Were you there when he shot the first girl, the one before Darian?"

svenorzokarkoff Since: Apr, 2013
#227: Feb 8th 2016 at 4:52:51 PM

Infirmary

Adam shook his head in reply. "I only heard the first shot...from the club room." He said. "The victim, will she be alright?"

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#228: Feb 8th 2016 at 5:12:32 PM

Infirmary

"She looked in bad condition, but alive, when the medics were taking her away," Victoriana said.

"Which club room?" she asked.

svenorzokarkoff Since: Apr, 2013
#229: Feb 8th 2016 at 8:31:20 PM

Infirmary

"Muyomi Club room." Adam elaborated, before turning to face the girl beside him. "Do you have anything...you want to add, Mireille?" he asked.

Sergey_Smirnov Trans Terminus Homo from Everywhere and Nowhere (With a german accent) Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
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#230: Feb 9th 2016 at 12:56:13 AM

Infirmary

Mireille looked up from under the covers "I... I only heard the shot, also from the Muyomi Club room, I ran down and created two Golems... but then I... I became scared and crawled under a car." She gulped "At some point I saw blood and then it seemed to be over, then I remember sleeping and being awakened by a Ban- Naoki I mean." She shook her head "Sorry I can't remember more." She paused "Will Darian - the girl who was shot - will she be alright? I only saw her bleeding while leaning against my Golem." The girl was visibly shaken by the experience, clearly this was the first time for her to be in danger of being shot and seeing a real fight with her own eyes.

edited 9th Feb '16 2:53:24 AM by Sergey_Smirnov

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
RagnaTheSaviour Since: Oct, 2011
#231: Feb 9th 2016 at 8:59:07 AM

Hallway

The masked figure moved like the wind. She saw Naoki's counter attack, jerking back to avoid the blow. However she didn't pull even one inch away. The girl made sure to stay close. But why?

The red ball barrage vanished into thin air before even getting close enough to do damage. Colorless King's full force charge stopped short, dispersing into formless psionic energy. This was due to Naoki's own power — not the assailant's.

If she was going to go for the kill, now was the time. She could move faster than Naoki could perceive even with his power active. The only thing she had to do was bring the knife down again. No, not even that, a simple snap of the neck could do it. She was physically stronger and more nimble than her opponent. Why didn’t she press forward?

Her hand shook. It kept shaking. What did she owe him? What did she owe this boy? Absolutely nothing. They were just targets… no, they weren’t. No matter how many times she repeated it in her mind, it was never true.

They were people with feelings, pasts, friends, connections, wants, needs, and fears. She was— she used to be like them.

It took everything she had to not cry. She pivoted on her heel. There was another choice. She had to run. Bolt down the hallway, leave this alone, and keep running. But that wouldn’t save anyone. Talking doesn’t save anyone. If talking didn’t save anyone, what would fighting do? It would insure the world kept going.

Her stomach twisted. The girl wanted to vomit. She’s familiar with the feeling. The idea was that it got easier as time went on. No, it never did. The plague mask came off, falling to the floor. The face of a teenage girl whose eyes were wet with tears. She didn’t say anything. Instead she pulled out another knife with a white gleam shining off the blade. Distorted images traced off her body as she passed by Naoki. Even within the midst of the field of Elyon Utopia, whatever this girl was doing wasn’t affected. The amount of time it took for her to close the distance between herself and Mary was less than half a second. Now, face to face, she brought her knife forward for a stab.

It was a sloppy motion fueled by pain, not by purpose. The attack wasn’t meant to kill, but to provoke.

Ambulance

“Not nice to wish death on someone, even if you think they’re deserving of it,” the same nurse reprimanded Darian while making sure the painkillers were doing their job.

Almost immediately after she sent the message, her phone vibrated with a reply.

  • Subject: re: send get-well sweets
  • To: Hamasaki, Darian
  • Message: got it. also still havin the meeting w/o u scrublord

Parking Lot

“You can call me as you like, but I’m Raphael. It’s nice to meet you,” he gave a courteous bow. “And I think you should be fine. No third parties know of the content in the envelope. Even if they did, they wouldn’t know what it meant,” Raphael said with a confident smile. “I believe that’s all. If you need me, I will be waiting at the front gate for a friend. It was nice chatting with you, Miss Georgia,” if allowed, he would bow again while kissing the back of Georgia’s hand. “Farewell,” and after that he walked on his way to the school entrance.

Infirmary

“It will take more than a gunshot to kill that woman,” Al chimed in as a way to comfort Mireille. “People are resilient. More than most give them credit for,” the doctor started leafing through a clipboard she lifted off her desk a second before walking to the center of the room. “And I would trust the medic’s talent regarding the victim. Muyomi has a good medical program, last I checked.” When it was mentioned the criminal had a picture of the victim, she furrowed her brow.

“Sounds like the victim had a relationship with the mugger. If he had two guns, then he was expecting some kind of resistance,” she grabbed a seat near the edge of Adam’s bed. “And that he DEFINITELY intended to end her life.” The man seemed to be either prepared or very paranoid. The two can go together. “And you mentioned some sort of enhanced speed, Adam? Can you go into more detail?”

Reina Point of View, Hallway

My phone vibrates. I look down at it then hear some girl screaming at me to move. And she grabbed my hand. “W-what?” I blink a few times. The strange ass fight kept going… none of my business. They could fight, I coul—

“Fuuuuck,” it was happening again. The world distorted a second time. I slam my eyes shut while gripping the helper girl’s hand tight. “Yeah, lead me out. I’m not going to be able to see,” even with my eyes closed the world turns red. I feel the familiar warmth of blood cascade down my face.

I reach another hand up.

Yep, eyes are… bleeding? Fitting. I guess?

edited 9th Feb '16 9:07:09 AM by RagnaTheSaviour

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Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#232: Feb 9th 2016 at 9:35:47 AM

Hallway

Mary momentarily cursed Naoki in her mind. This is exactly what she mean when she said their powers wouldn't protect them from everything. She'd have to ignore Ryou for the moment Because this girl, this was pissing her off. Mary didn't care who she was or why she was doing this, she had to be stopped.

Mary twisted to avoid the knife, but couldn't quite get out of the way. She was about to get stabbed but she had to do something else. As the blade entered her side she grabbed the girl's wrist headbutted her as hard as she could.

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svenorzokarkoff Since: Apr, 2013
#233: Feb 9th 2016 at 10:31:37 AM

Infirmary

Adam furrowed his brow in concentration. "It looked like an Esper ability." He began. "The mugger...would suddenly shoot forward in a blur. He used it to dodge or...attack by increasing the momentum of his strikes."

He turned to Mireille. "When the mugger hit your Golem...how much damage did he inflict?"

edited 9th Feb '16 10:32:18 AM by svenorzokarkoff

Sergey_Smirnov Trans Terminus Homo from Everywhere and Nowhere (With a german accent) Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
Trans Terminus Homo
#234: Feb 9th 2016 at 10:59:54 AM

Infirmary

Mireille shrugged "I can't really tell since I was under the car." She blushed a little embarassed "But I think he cracked the shield."

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
GyroZ The Troper Formerly Known as Amp from Freyden, Nevada Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: The vvillage twwo-wwheeled devvice
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#235: Feb 9th 2016 at 12:45:15 PM

Hallway

The fact that Elyon Utopia did not seem to be working properly only served to irritate Naoki more. Was there something wrong with his ability, or was this ridiculousness just a part of this girl's natural state? Whatever the answer was, he did not currently care enough to find out.

He also did not care enough to answer Ryou's question.

Instead, Naoki deemed the most efficient way to solve this issue would be to end Elyon Utopia and resume-

But the girl was past him now. Was she running? Was she planning on attempting to harm more innocents?

He would not let this stand. He disabled Elyon Utopia, causing his shoulder to burst open once again and bleed as the temporary arm he had somehow created disappeared completely. He rushed over to her, and where Mary was, and threw his good arm toward the no-longer-masked figure's neck, his hand outstretched to grip it savagely in an attempt to throw her to the ground.

G was here - 2/9/24
nman Since: Mar, 2010
#236: Feb 10th 2016 at 12:05:08 AM

Infirmary

"Hmm... an esper targeting a student at the school. Not a good sign at all," Victoriana said. "Or rather, someone who at least had esper-like abilities at the moment.... Al, you ever hear about something called Sangue Benedetto?"

She went over to Mireille's bed and gently touched her hand. "You did well, it's always good to see you helping out someone who's in trouble, but if there's ever a situation like this don't forget to call for the Disciplinary Committee. It doesn't matter what time it is, we can help - and we're used to getting hurt, so you won't have to risk your own health."

whizzerd Transcender of Gender from Scotland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Transcender of Gender
#237: Feb 10th 2016 at 10:17:05 AM

Ambulance

Darian wanted to reply to the text with some variation of 'kiss my ass', but her fingers were becoming too numb to type. The medical TLC finally kicking in. She stuck the phone back in her pocket before her coordination left her completely. She could try Reina again once she was at the hospital.

"Feh, not nice goin' 'n shooting folks either." Well, she couldn't blame a medic of all people for thinking that way. Darian still shot him a mock glare, undercut by her lethargic features. Her pain was trickling away, and exhaustion was quickly taking its place.

"Speakin' of, how long 'til this beauty heals up?" She gestured vaguely at her stomach wound, her other arm coming to rest over her eyes.

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Sergey_Smirnov Trans Terminus Homo from Everywhere and Nowhere (With a german accent) Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
Trans Terminus Homo
#238: Feb 10th 2016 at 11:21:44 AM

Infirmary

Mireille nodded from under the blanket "O-Okay I will." She slowly rose "Ugh, still not well... but I think I'm okay." Now sitting on the bed she continued "I promise I'll call next time."

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
RagnaTheSaviour Since: Oct, 2011
#239: Feb 11th 2016 at 6:25:15 AM

Hallway

Her mind had been jumbled. More so than before. Why did she just attack someone that had nothing to do with the mission? To die? Some convoluted suicide wish? This had to be corrected.

The world slowed. Mary's hands started moving just as the blade pierced her side. It was though everything was moving frame-by-frame. The attacker pulled her hand backin a smooth motion. The Vice President grasped at her side. She turned back to see Naoki closing the distance. That was easy to deal with. All she had to do was—

"Mmgh!"

The unmasked girl's eyes went wide. Bile built up in her throat. That brief pause was enough for Naoki to get the hold on her. What strength she had to stand left immediately with the sudden bout of illness. She went straight to the ground with a loud slam.

Infirmary

"Distributed by the Capello Famiglia, primary base of operations is Chikyuhime, grants abilities based on the person's nature. No adverse effects in body or in mind. The only reason it being illegal is because those who use it can't be tracked or monitored. Addiction is often because people want more power than anything," she shot off some information about Sangue Benedetto while looking over the clipboard. “The Disciplinary Committee can’t be everywhere at once. If someone makes the decision to act to stop a disaster, I don’t think anyone can really stop them.”

Ambulance → Hospital

"Give it a week or two," the medic gave a smile. "Also stop talking. Going to make it worse," he gave a light tap on Darian's shoulder. Seemed like he wanted to talk a bit more, but he had a job to do. Patient's health came first.

The ambulance picked up speed, maneuvering through the streets all the way to the hospital.

...

The hospital was a large building close to the center of Chikyuhime. It had at least fifteen floors not including the basement. There was a large loop in front of the building with cars of all make around. Some people were outside talking amongst themselves. You had adults holding a kid's hand as they desperately tried to get to the car so they could go home. Elsewhere you had a middle-aged man walking an elderly woman in a hospital gown or adults arguing with themselves. The ambulance came into a garage linked to the first floor emergency room.

The medics started moving Darian's stretcher with practiced precision. They moved through the automated doors and down the hallway. They made a few clean turns til Darian was transferred from the stretcher to the bed. From there Darian was given a hospital gown to slip into. The medics left the room shortly after.

Muyomi City, Code Burger

The city streets were the same as always. People walking about without purpose. Of course, the evening was closing out. People were heading home at around this hour. Though some stopped by to get something to eat. That’s why Code Burger was in the perfect place to steal from Kazuhira Burger since they’re close to each other.

The place itself was relatively empty with only a few usual customers stopping in to get a bite. Guess the desires of the old man who ran the place weren’t being fulfilled.

Meanwhile, Anatole had been catching up to Anushka on her way to go eat. “Excuse me,” she called out. “Do you mind if I join you?” it was a simple request. “I’d like to talk about some things over dinner. If you want to call this dinner,” she gave the burger place an eye and a wry smile.

Muyomi Gate Academy, Front Gate

After the talk with Georgia, Raphael had started waiting at the front gate for his new friend. It was a short meeting — but a pleasant one. Now all he had to do was wait for Mikael’s arrival.

edited 11th Feb '16 6:26:05 AM by RagnaTheSaviour

Nouct over the front from an east coast Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
over the front
#240: Feb 11th 2016 at 6:55:34 AM

Hallway

"Alright, then, let's go," Jessica said, gripping Reina's hand, walking as fast as she could away from the battle. As they walked through the hallway, she kept looking back in worry at the increasingly distant fight, "They'll be fine, right, they'll be fine, it's fine," Trying to reassure herself, Jessica kept walking onwards.


They had walked far enough that the sounds of battle had faded out into silence. She wasn't sure whether this was a good thing. She kept walking as fast as she could. The silence blanketed the hallway, and after a few more minutes of walking and looking at her companion and then looking forward and then back at the no longer visible Naoki and Mary, and then repeating it all over again, she couldn't stand the quiet.

She stopped and blurted out the first thing that came to mind. "Why did you suddenly run? You just ran off so fast, that . . ." Turning her head to face Reina, she added, "I mean, if you're okay with saying why?"

edited 11th Feb '16 7:13:20 AM by Nouct

Taco Since: Jan, 2001
#241: Feb 11th 2016 at 9:51:51 AM

"Yeah, sure." Anushka adjusted her haircut and flipped it over to an undercut. After that afternoon incident she'd sorta just faded into the background. Not up to it, basically. Code Burger was a safe haven. In any other case she'd tell Anatole to fuck off or whatever, but she had a pretty good idea of what she was going for. "What's up? You following up on the plans I told you about earlier?"

RagnaTheSaviour Since: Oct, 2011
#242: Feb 11th 2016 at 10:33:27 AM

Code Burger, Muyomi City

"That's the idea," Anatole nodded while opening up the door for Anushka. "I want to talk specifics. The more we sort out, the better," she let out a yawn. "Oh, excuse me," she placed a hand over her mouth while still waiting for Anushka to enter the building.

Reina's Point of View, Hallway

My mind was still spinning. The further away we got from the hallway, the faster my mind settled. "I..." I shake my head. "Everything turned red. The world changed. Everyone transformed into monsters. It hurt to have my eyes opened, it hurt to breathe..." I wipe my eyes. There wasn't a lot of blood. Looked more like I was wiping tears than wiping blood. "Hurt like hell. My head's still pounding," it was still hard just to keep my eyes open since I was leaking red. Not so much now. "I don't know why," I thought back on how stuff shirt was completely unchanged during that entire episode. "There was a monster looming over him. Appendages, fins, it was..."

Just thinking about it made me shiver. What was that? What was he? "I couldn't stay there. I had to run or else I felt like that thing was going to eat me," I sound completely nuts. I know I do. What I saw, smelled, heard, felt — those were only things I experienced and no one else.

  • "I'm fine now. I'm just going to go for a walk to clear my head."
  • "Can you keep taking me to the infirmary?
  • "Let me just rest for a little bit. Don't bother with the infirmary.
  • Custom

edited 11th Feb '16 10:34:18 AM by RagnaTheSaviour

maxyrama Since: Apr, 2011
#243: Feb 11th 2016 at 12:44:22 PM

Parking Lot

"O...kay." Georgia said as he went so far as to kiss her hand. Who even did that these days? It was a little weird... but nice at the same time. Good to know chivalry wasn't completely dead or whatever. "Right. I'll get this over to Hideki, then. See you around..." She sort of half-waved at him as he walked away, getting back on her skateboard to make for the exit

Hideki's Place

"Yo lazy ass! I'm here!" Georgia shouted as she rapped sharply on Hideki's apartment door. "Got your weird envelope from your weird friend. Promise I didn't look at it or anything, either..."

svenorzokarkoff Since: Apr, 2013
#244: Feb 11th 2016 at 1:26:12 PM

Infirmary

Adam gave a low whistle. "That's quite a drug." He remarked. "Is the granted ability...permanent?"

edited 11th Feb '16 1:26:22 PM by svenorzokarkoff

Taco Since: Jan, 2001
#245: Feb 11th 2016 at 1:31:17 PM

Code Burger

Anushka tromped into the room and got in line. She'd never seen the old Dine man in back not flipping burgers like his life depended on it. His young daughter in front still had that same messy and aggressive eyeshadow she'd always had. "Well, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna talk to my guy, I'm gonna find a dealer, and I'm gonna want in. Once I've got more people who like me than him, I'll knock over that dealer and take that part of the supply chain. I'll need bruisers to help me out, though."

She stepped forwards in line. "Yeah, I'll take the [Extreme] Double and fries." She looked over at her shoulder at Anatole. "Heads up. Don't bother engaging her, just order your damn food. Anyway. Ryou'd be a good fit if he can throw his weight around like he says. I also want that crazy girl, the one whose powers do random shit."

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#246: Feb 11th 2016 at 1:37:00 PM

Infirmary

"Nyet, it only lasts a couple of hours, but without any sort of side effects I imagine someone can keep using it if needed for extended periods of time," Victoriana said to Adam. "The attacker had a vial of what looked like it, when I was looking him over for anything dangerous or informative. The police have it now, hopefully they'll look into it further. But my gut is telling me that we have a case of a person without any magical or psychic powers with a grudge against a student, and then using this drug to give himself a power boost before going on a suicidal charge. Very troubling."

"I should just talk to you from now on, Al," she added to the Doctor. "You're much more well-informed than those girls from the Chikyuhime student council were. They were in our room just a while ago, telling us about tracking a shipment to this school, but could only tell us the basics about it."

"Can you keep taking me to the infirmary?"

Nouct over the front from an east coast Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
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#247: Feb 11th 2016 at 6:14:32 PM

Hallway

"Oh," There wasn't much she could say to that. With the hand that wasn't in a tight grip, she pulled out a tissue and gave it to Reina. "Here you go. It's not much but it might help with whatever's in your eyes. And if you see more monsters, I'll try to do my best to fend them off!" She said with a fist pump with the hand that was holding Reina's. "Oh, oops, sorry, hehe, got carried away."

Jessica quickly moved onto another topic, "Looks like we're nearly approaching the end of the building," she noted, looking at the doors labeled 'EXIT', "what do you wanna do now?"

"Can you keep taking me to the infirmary?"

edited 11th Feb '16 6:17:41 PM by Nouct

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#248: Feb 11th 2016 at 10:24:20 PM

Hallway

Mary stood there watching the girl. "Ryou" she said with a pained voice. "Go get the captian. Now. And the medics" that said she turned her attention to knife in her. There was blood dripping out of the wound but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. She was thankful for that.

She'd have to move quick. Mary removed her jacket and used colorless king to keep pressure one the wound so she wouldn't bleed out.

More importantly was Naoki. "Naoki, can you move? ...Actually don't. Hold still." Using another part of the King to tie the jacket around Naoki's stump as a makeshift bandage.

edited 12th Feb '16 8:48:10 PM by Azure

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whizzerd Transcender of Gender from Scotland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Transcender of Gender
#249: Feb 12th 2016 at 12:52:13 AM

>"Can you keep taking me to the infirmary?"

Hospital

I look like a damn granny. Feel like one too. Darian thought, grimacing down at her new threads. For the past while she'd been sat up in bed, clenching and unclenching her fists and feet. Slowly willing the numbness out of them.

She couldn't sleep, as much as she wanted (and needed) to. A night terror would just wake her up again, and she didn't trust herself to not react violently to it. Didn't want the doctors realising that a gunshot wound was the least of her problems.

To that end, staying here overnight wasn't an option. She slowly stood up, taking a minute to find her balance. The IV stand she was hooked up to helped a lot. She pulled it along with her as she shuffled out of the room and over to the nurse's station.

There was one on-call. Darian kept her eye out for any more as she flashed them a smile. "Hey there. Name's Hamasaki. It'll sound mighty impatient of me, since I just got in, but when could I be discharged? Wanna let my mother know when to pick me up, y'know? I hafta wait the week or two until I'm fully recovered, or..?"

edited 12th Feb '16 12:53:23 AM by whizzerd

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HeroicSociopath Mike Jones from Nebraska Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Noddin' my head like yeah
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#250: Feb 12th 2016 at 8:36:58 PM

Ryou simply nodded. He wanted to ask if she was okay, but the answer was pretty obvious. He had to get help, now. His footsteps echoed through the halls, and it was seconds before he reached the infirmary. He panted a bit, as he had sprinted the whole way.

"Naoki's hurt. Mary, too." Ryou said. "Really bad. Where's the captain?" Ryou asked Victoriana. He took out his cell and started to dial 911. He doubted the ambulance was still there, and they were going to need another one.


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