The little girl started tugging at Joe's shirt. "Hey," she said, holding up the sandwiches. "Eat!" Her face got a mix of stubbornness and conviction. She looked adorable.
I looked at the girl and took a sandwich. "Thank you very much, but you should probably get some rest." I said smiling. "I hope the girl's parents are alright, it's unfair to lose both parents at such a young age... But at the very least, she's alive." I thought as I began eating.
"I'm gonna help!" the girl said. "People are hurt." She dashed off, rushing down the street to a store and grabbing some food and drinks, putting them in a wagon the store owner had near the door, apologizing to someone who had the same idea as her. The store owner had foregone selling anything in favor of helping people. The girl ran back, hauling the wagon behind her, rushing up to Mikkish. "I have food!" she said, grabbing a snake cake and fruity water.
David sniffed around smelling the food, parts of his bare body now singed from where he'd been sleeping a moment ago. His ass literally smoking. David raised an eyebrow at Tam and then at Joe but his gaze finally settled on Rose. "New person." It's a hairless chimp! "No...its food." Junior let out a pleasurable groan. "Uhhhh, I love children." "Oh its not a chimp! Its a hairless child!" He blinked at Junior. "That was pretty creepy to. I might have to report you to the authorities for pedorphalio Junior." He beamed at the three. "Where is the dorm?"
I stood in front of the girl, blocking her view. "Dude, pants," I said. "Also, dorm blew up. Exploded. All gone. Bye bye." "PUPPY!" the girl said, hugging my leg, forgetting about Mikkish for the moment. "My puppy!" I reached down and pulled the girl up, softly kissing her forehead. "You need sleep," I said. The girl shook her head. "No!" she exclaimed. "There are people who are hurt." She looked so stubborn and cute and tired. "What's your name, kid?" I asked. "Rose!" the kid said. "My name is Rose." "Where are your parents?" I asked. The girl frowned for a bit, then looked at me, confused. "I don't remember," she said. "What do you remember?" I asked. "Green puppy picking up big rock!" Rose chirped. I had to admit, she was cute.
The girl walked ignoring the warnings of the people, she had an objective in mind, to retrieve the box. She calc the point where her room once existed and moved toward it. The crumbled building was surely hot, it had to be, it brought hell to earth hence it had to be hot by simple logic, getting close to it without the adequate protection was a madness. So, Hikaru knew that it was hot, hellish hot, however she knew it by the logic. Because her body felt nothing. She couldn't understand it, her body was simply ignoring the laws of physics, she was already in the middle of the debris, surrounded by smoke, her clothes may probably ignite at any point due to the extreme heat, still her body felt nothing, her skin wasn't burning, her throat wasn't drowning in smoke, it was as if the heat ignored her. She crouched, her knees touching the "logically hot rubble" but they didn't felt the heat. One arm, a second one, the first one again, and then in succession, the girl begun to excavate trough the crumbled building, taking the small pieces of debris that her strenght allowed to lift and throwing them away, never burning, heat had no meaning for her. She continued throwing piece after pieces, she couldn't recognize between the broken and charred elements which belonged to her room, yet she was sure she would recognize the box, it was something unique after all. The girl continued her task ignoring anything else, her act was mechanical and bizarre, at some point she just stopped thinking about the heat and focused on her task.
Despite being around 8:00 in the morning, the thick, humid air was hot and the sun was shining bright. Many students who attended the academy, most of whom had lost their dorm rooms, now stood in a crowd in front of the dorms. Before them was a podium that had been set up that day, several speakers, and a few professors. But most important of all was the dean, looking stressed as well as sympathetic. "Students of Merlinus Academy." He announced into the microphone "I am deeply sorry for your loss. I know many of you felt these dorms were your homes. My greatest apologies go to those who havelost loved ones in last nights incident. I can not imagine the pain it must be causing you." The dean paused for a moment, wiping his brow with a small white rag "Classes are cancelled until further notice. Also...we are unable to provide housing for all of you. Until we can arrange housing for our students, we suggest staying with friends or family. For those of you without either option...there are nearbyhomeless shelters available. Again, I am very sorry for such a tragedy to have happened on these school grounds." The dean finished, then walked away from the podium but was stopped by a professor and a journalist. "Well that sucks." Donny snorted cracking his knuckles. "How come we all gotta suffer cause an asshole blew up a couple students." "A couple?" Hugo said. "Over sixty people died." "Yeah, so?" Donny smirked. "Their dead. Cutting classes and locking down the school isn't going to bring them back." "The bomber obviously had been in the dorms. They might be a student even. They can't risk having the rest of the academy blown up." Morgan said as she stood beside Donny. "You honestly thing that guy could take us?" Donny winked at her. "I'd have him screaming in a few seconds." Hugo gave a loose smile. "Well you and Morgan...are....uh....um both pretty good ya know but the guy would probably cheat." Morgan didn't doubt Donny's abilities in any way, or her own. But even if they managed to hunt down and kill this assassin, what would be the cost? "Yeah, but he would probably have killed countless more students by the time we even catch him. This lockdown is necessary." Morgan told Donny, ignoring Hugo completely. He never said anything important anyway. "Does Ace have any clue who this guy is?" Hugo asked Morgan sighed, ready to answer Hugo in some snarky way, but realized...she didn't know the answer herself "Ya know..." Morgan thought about it "Ace hasn't mentioned anything about who he is, but he must have figured out something." Morgan turned to Donny "Has he said anything to you? Does he knowanything about who the sniper is?" "Nope." Donny said. "Ace has been focused more with the Religious crap but let that kid Joe stay at his place. I don't know what the fuck he's been thinking lately." "Well shit." Morgan huffed, looking at the ruins and lamenting the situation "Does that fucking Joe kid even drink? What does Ace see in him?" "Drinking isn't everything Morgan." Hugo gave a light nervous smile. "People can find common ground in things other then getting blasted, ya know." "Shut the fuck up, you know what I mean. Fucking..." Morgan said, forgetting Hugo's name for a moment "Herman...." "Um actually its Hu-" Donny cut him off by grabbing up the front of Hugo's collar. "Would you leave her alone you prick." He sighed throwing Hugo to the ground. "Last thing either of us wants to hear is your preachy ass." "HEY!" Donny jumped suddenly backwards into Morgan as suddenly once the blue haired boy who'd seemingly dropped out of thin air shouted into his ear. All three instantly recognizing him, the one who'd put Donny through a wall. "You can slander Ace and you can slander Joe!" David said shaking his finger. "But you will not slander this man's fine collar!" "Oh my god! Would you fuck off!" Morgan shouted, recognizing David as the retarded boy who ruined that Fraternity meeting. David face palmed "UP! Lord's name in vain! TWENTY HOLY MARY'S, NOW!" Morgan let out a sigh. This guy just wasn't going to get it. "Donny? Lets go. We aren't gonna accomplish anything sitting here getting yelled at by this asshole. We need to bring this issue up to Ace." David clapped his hands together following the three of them. "Hey Milky Morgan I gots a question!" Getting aggravated, Morgan ignored David and sped up her walking. "Okay audience, yep that's right YOU reading this. Here is the moment of truth." David said staring at nothing. "Dial 812-887-9956 if you want me to keep bothering them, vote now!" "No." Morgan said, looking over her shoulder at David "Fuck off and leave us alone." She said, as she started walking even faster. Donny pulled his fist once they left David in the dust. "I fucking hate that guy." "Yeah..." Morgan sighed "Come on, Ace's office is in the building just up this road." She said as she relaxed a little and slowed down a bit. "Half the people from that damn crew give me the creeps." Donny put his arm around Morgan pecking her on the cheek. "Oh come on." Hugo frowned. "We are all creepers at heart." Morgan ignored Hugo, as usual, while she walked in Donny's arm to Ace's building.
I awoke on a very comfortable bed and very soft sheets... silk...? I don't remember my bed sheets being made of something this soft... I sat up and looked around at my unfamiliar surroundings. It was a very nice bedroom... but... "...That's right..." I muttered as last night came back to me. The dorms getting blown up... all of those people dying... the ghosts attacking Jinx... I had passed out under the tree for a little while... but then Ace woke me up. I followed him here and he told me I could use his bed. I had been far too tired to argue and flopped down, immediately passing out. I felt guilt overcome me. "...Oh... I shouldn't have used his bed... I mean he must've been exhausted as well..." I mumbled as I got up, crossing my arms. "It was rather nice of him though... but... I can't do it again, I hope he wasn't uncomfortable due to my thoughtlessness..." I thought as I walked out of the bedroom.
I flipped through the newspaper, checking out local jobs and apartments while Rose was beating rocks with a stick. "I am the warrior princess!" she said, jabbing the stick around. "I can right wrongs and triumph over evil!" I couldn't help but chuckle at the girl as she paraded in her fantasy realm, and envied her at the same time. I needed to find her parents, though, or some other relatives. Right now, though, I needed to make some cash. I sighed as I glanced at my guitar. No amp. Nothing to get my music across. Doesn't mean I shouldn't try. I got off the bench, grabbing my guitar, and picked up Rose, walking into a park. Setting her at the playground, I stood in a field nearby and began to play.
My night was pretty crappy to be honest. I went to a nearby park to sleep. Benches were a crappy place out in the open so I would sleep in the covered slide. Once I woke up in the morning I gave a grumble and slid down looking around. Nobody had decided to take a stroll around the park. I wouldn't blame them with the explosion from last night. I make my way towards the school to see if I could spot anyone. Turns out the school was giving an announcement. ".....Well that isn't good. They had nowhere for us to go. No classes which meant no eating in the cafeteria more than likely either." I mumbled to myself before giving a big sigh. "I guess I'll just go off and think about what I should do." I walk back over towards the park and sit on one of the benches. I look over and notice Tam coming in with the little kid from last night. I believe he had saved her or something. It was a shame that she was forcibly homeless too if Tam had no place to go. I give a quick wave to Tam and watch to see what Rose would do.
I gave a nod to Rue, not breaking from my singing. Rose glanced at Rue, waved, and ran up to her. "Hi!" Rose said. "I'm Rose. Are you Tam's girlfriend?" I went bright red, and had to interrupt my song because I was laughing so hard.
I looks down to the girl and start laughing myself a bit. "No not at all. I went to school with him." I say leaning forward from my seat. "So Rose, my name is Rue though. It's nice to meet you." I say with a smile using my magic to bring an illusion of several butterflies flying around Rose and I. "You seem like a nice girl."
Rose looked at the butterflies in aw for a second, and then in disappointment. "They aren't real," she said, looking around. "They look like the pretty lights I can make... But I can't hear them." Rose frowned as she looked around, and grinned in a direction to her left. Several real butterflies flew towards and around herself and Rue. Rose smiled, and the butterflies left. She turned to Rue. "Tam says I'm a nice girl," she finally said. "I helped people who were hurt last night." Rose's face screwed up in concentration. "I don't remember much, though. I don't remember my mommy or daddy."
"Pretty lights huh? Sounds a little like what Joe does.....But like the pretty lights?.....So illusions? That's a bit odd." I look towards the butterflies that do come. I was a bit surprised seeing that they were real opposed to my illusion which I make dissapear. "Well then that's good that you helped people. You don't have to remember them yet. Just take your time and remember them whenever you can."
"Hey Hottie! Your sleeping on my toolbox." Jinx awoke with a start, and she turned slowly, as a dull pain flowed through her body. She looked up at the sexy boy in overalls and greasy tousled blonde hair, with a wrench,"Am I dead?" He shook his head,"No. But you are in my way. Can you move,doll." She sat up, pulling the tarp around her as she stepped out of the way. He moved past her grabbing the toolbox then gave her a flirtatious wink before heading back towards the old junky Camaro. Damn men who could take care of car's were hotties. She shook her head then dropped the tarp and grabbed the only thing left that was hers. She hoped on her bike and kicked up the handle. She eased it out of the garage then headed out onto the road heading to an old abandoned lake, where once upon a time, a boy lost his teddy bear. ------------------------------- After one quick stop to the grocery store for some cheap cleaning supplies and an upgrade on a mastercard debt, Jinx stood naked on the end of a dock, looking down at the freezing cold water with both anticipation and resistance. She suddenly rushed to the end and cannon-balled in. She came up for air quickly with a shiver and a chill already working on her limbs. The burn now pinching at her side was somewhat cool now. She moved to the dock and grabbed some soap then began to scrub, until her skin hurt. She then pulled out the leftover pins in her hair and began to scrub it to. When everything was back to normal, she jumped out and laid on the abandoned dock in her birthday suit, hoping to get dry quickly. She looked down at her reflection with a frown. Her blue eyes were shadowed as always but dark bruises were present on the sides of her nose and she had a deep gash that went through the left side of both of her lips. She sighed speaking to no one, as she pulled her legs up to her chin and listened to the birds chirping and the wind rush through the trees. "What am I going to do?"
Martyn who was not really around to see the explosion and had been sitting in the school not the dorms when the explosion happened he had just trapped himself in a bubble around himself in the library he was absolutely petrified and when he heard the explosions and the dust and rubble he couldn't sleep at all he had the worse night veven if he was trying to get comfy on a place having nightmares again.
~Roy and Theos~ Since Theos stayed nearby the rubble known as the dorms overnight, he awoke to the sound of the announcement made by the dean. Registering what was being explained all Theos could do is heavily sigh. Lazily lifting himself to a stand, he starts heading to the forest nearby the dorms. Roy kindly asked him to meet there if anything was told about where the students would live next. Roy thought his days sleeping outside were over...... Of course he had some survival skills thanks to his teacher. Which is something he wasn't so grateful for in the past. Last night was the least bit comfortable, no matter how many nights he slept outside it didn't get better. Sitting or rather laying on a considerably large tree-branch. Roy doubted the fact they would enforce class today, rather dismiss it entirely. Out all the days Theos had stayed on this island, he never truly went and traveled. Going from point A to B, in hopes of avoiding any trouble he may find or get himself into. Though that didn't work at all, between everything that's happened. Hell he was about to go tell his roommate that they no longer had a dorm to live in. If no family was nearby, they could have to resort to a homeless shelter. While Theos walked throughout the forest, he came to an abrupt stop. Scanning the area surrounding a massive tree, he saw the bark of several trees held scars from what looked to be claws. “Roy, you here?” Theos said with a raised voice. Looking over his shoulder and down, Roy spots Theos. Climbing down the tree he speaks. “Yea, did you find anything out?” By the time he finished his sentence, he was at ground. Theos was still staring at all the trees covered in bear-claw marks. “We don't have anywhere to go. They suggest friends, family or homeless shelter. Class isn't in session for today.” Right as Roy is about to respond, Theos speaks again. “What the fuck happened to all the trees? Did you do this?” A feint smirk entered Roy's expression. “Yes I did, gotta keep the claws sharp, ya know? So do you know anyone on the island? I sure as hell don't.” Theos chuckled while shaking his head. “Not anyone I knew prior to coming here. I would be asking strangers to help me. Hasn't stopped me before though.” Roy began taking a sort of sparring stance, speaking while doing so. “Since nothing else is consuming our time. Why not spar to keep our abilities in shape?” Theos quickly spun on a heel to face Roy, as well taking a sparring stance. “I never thought you would ask....”
I laugh a bit when Rose decides to give me a hug. She was too cute so I couldn't help but give her a quick hug back. I then cross my arms pretending to be thinking hard about Rose's question. "....Do I want to play with you? Over there? On the playground? Won't I get tired and sweaty?.....Why not? What do you wanna play Rose?"
Rose looked deep in thought, edging closer to Rue. "How about... TAG! You're it!" She gently tapped Rue's arm and ran off.
Laughes echoed as two little girls run in some sort of childish game in a very beautiful and big backyard covered in grass, flowers and even a miniature river. "Hey, hey, sis, I have this greaat idea!" exclaimed one little girl with a beautiful red hair. "What is it?, what is it?" asked the second one whose hair was of a pitch black color. The red haired girl pointed at the sky, pointed at the far circle that was pasted on it. Even if it wasn't the night, at certain hour of the afternoon the sky allowed us a vision of the white body in the sky. "We'll reach the moon!!!" exclaimed the red haired girl. "Seriously? How are we going to do that?" replied the other one. "Mmmm" the girl of the red haired pondered in silence, looking for an appropiate plan. "We'll going to build a giant ship and fly to the moon?" asked the black haired girl. "Noo!! that's too boring" replied the red haired one who produced a small piece of paper. "We'll fold one until it become thick enough to reach the moon!!!" exclaimed the red haired one. "That's incredible!!! How no one thought that before?" asked the black haired one. "Heheheh, that's because they weren't a genius like me" replied the red haired one. By this moment the sky was turning of an orange color, and the white moon was growing stronger with each second that passed. Both girls stared amazed at the event that unfolded in front of them. Their calm peaceful moment would had never stopped if they weren't had been interrupted by the voice of a woman. "Hikaru, Kiyomi, is already late, come enter, dinner will be ready in a few minutes" Both girls replied "Yeees, mom!" with a bored tone and sulking their faces. And then all became blurry, but this is not when the memory stops... it was just because the girl who was dreaming that scene suddenly woke up. Hikaru suddenly raised her body, it wasn't a nightmare but she was suddenly assaulted by a sound, helicopters were piercing the sky, all going to the same direction. Even by now more people were being rescued, only a very little number barely alive and in serious conditions, yet still they needed to be carried quickly to the hospital, thus the machines never stopped, it just happened that they became strong enough to stop the girl from her slumber. As her memory was severly cut in one point, her dreams were frequently related to her childhood. Folding a paper right?.... how ridiculous thought with a smile on her face. After a quick look she realized that she was in a hospital bed, her arm pierced by catheter. She remembered the events of the previous night. Oh right.. the box.... how long did I seek for it before fainting?.... how is that I'm not burned? thought while checking her body. She was probably found unconscious over the rubble and brought to this place after confirming she was alive. "Tch, I wasn't even in the explosion yet here I am, how ironic" A few minutes later a man arrived to her bed, by his appearance she gauged his age around 40 years. The man wasn't a doctor, more likely part of the professionals at the campus, they were still trying to determinate the number of students alive and their conditions. The man coughed a bit and spoke. "According to your classmates your name is Hikaru Kurosawa right? However, and forgive me for asking this in such way, but... Who are you?" The girl's eyes widened, why was that man asking her such obvious question... She was already confused. "Uuum.... Hikaru... you said it recently" replied the girl. "The point of my question is that, your name is not registered within the students. In other words, you technically doesn't belong to the campus, yet according to the few group that you hang with and who gave me your name, you are one of their classmates, a very freaky one they added. However.... " And then the man said the fact that cemented Hikaru's confusion and deepened it. "No one else knows about you, their replies are often around the line, that name doesn't ring a bell for me. Now, someone with a eccentric personality who had protagonized notorious events around the campus should have at least her name known right?" Hikaru could not reply, she stood there in complete silence. She wasn't a sociable one, but the fact that her name was only known by those close to her was weird. Surely someone else has to have heard her name at some point, and even if they didn't remember it, they would at least feel they've heard it before if someone mention it. Also after events such as the fight in the cafeteria she sould had become slightly famous between the students, such as David probably was. So the fact that no one aknowledged her existence was inmediatly bizarre.
Mikkish eyes opened to the sight of a couple trashy looking guys in their 20s. Being a deep sleeper, he would have kept on sleeping if one of them hadn't kneed him in the kidney. First big mistake. "Hey man, lets see what in your wallet." One said "Gimme your fuckin wallet." The other thug, shorter and chubby, stood back starting with a dumb expression. "Get the fuck away from me. You ain't gettin shit." Mikkish said, groggy and now irritated, aa he tried to get up. "Get the fuck away from me." The first said mockingly, in a fake high pitched voice, then pulling out a small switch blade and holding it to Mikkish' face. The thug, looking emaciated and average in height originally, then suddenly grew to 200 poinds of pure muscle and strength. The odds seemed to be in the thugs favor, but what so few people ever understood about Mikkish, was that he didn't care too much about things like "odds." Plus, he had seen too many switchblades and wife beater sporting thugs to be afraid of em. Before the first thug could say anything else, a fist shot into his gut, so hard he instantly began puking as he fell backwards on his ass. The short, chubby thug began running as soon as the first on got beat down. Mikkish wasn't surprised. Guys like these usually were total pussies. As the short thug was coming to the street, the grass in front of him caught fire, thanks to Mikkish, and the thug was so scared at this point, he curled in a little ball and put up a weak barrier around him. "I can't leave you alone for a day without you picking on some lower class men trying to make a living?" Asked a familiar voice from behind. Mikkish turned around quickly to see it was Will. He shook his head, having had about enough of Will, and looked ahead to see the school as the flames quickly died away. He then remembered what happened. The explosion, the burning dorms. He helped save a woman from dying, then helped a couple others escape the fire before the islands fire department showed up and took care of things, which is when Mikkish walked across the street exhausted and fell asleep on a bench. "No place to sleep tonight, eh? Maybe I can help with that." Will said, but Mikkish ignored him as he began walking towards the campus in front of the dorms, where masses of students began walking away from, as if there had been some announcement. "Hey I'm talking to you." Will's voice faded as Mikkish walked away. Not recognizing anyone in the crowd, however, he looked around elsewhere and noticed Rue and the dog boy in a park nearby, with a mysterious little girl who offered him food the night before. "Hey guys." Mikkish said as he walked up "So where did you guys sleep?" He asked, wondering if there was somewhere he could go.
Jinx stood in front of the town cemetery with a pale complexion and the feeling that she was going to make a very bad decision. She took a step forward her hand touching the bar as she looked at the "quiet" cemetery. Chatter of the highest quality was bubbling from the individual spectrum's that lay strewn across the vicinity. After her recent encounters with the undead she felt almost wary of this introduction. Seeming though that she had the day off, if nothing else she could get stronger in her magic. She pushed open the gate, her heels clicking against the concrete as she followed along the path. Her blue eyes faded to white as she tried to get into a proper mood. She ignored the insults and taunts that flowed through her mind like nails. She grit her teeth and raised her arms, her body swaying slight to the beat of a tune that played down the street at the strip club. She thought of Dalia, and twisted her body around to point leisurely towards a chipped and moss covered greystone, "Madeline Perkins. I summon your soul to walk amongst the wicked. Rise and tell me your story." She cracked her neck as the graveyard turned silent as the spectrum's watched her,"Andrew David. Wake up from your slumber and sing a song of death with me." She shook her hips, as she ran her hands through her hair,"Roger Lapetuire. Dig through the resistance of the earth, and give me the insight of your leftovers." She pointed behind her to one of the oldest looking gravestones. It was set with a cross and the name was almost completely worn,"Grace Tulsto. The roots hold strong with you. Break free of them, to stand tall with your brothers and sisters of this island." She paused, her hands out vertically to her sides as she clenched her fists as she began to mumble in ancient latin. Her form swayed, the earth beginning to groan and break apart as four decomposing bodies pulled their pliable corpses through the mud. She remained still, her black hair flowing over her face as the four corpses slowly came up to stand around her. She eyed each of them, with interest, before, snapping her hands back down and smirking,"Okay guys. Let's get to training."
“Morning.” Ace greeted once Joe stepped out of the door. The man was naked save for a towel wrapped around his waist and another he was using to dry his hair. Ace gave a wide grin as he watched Joe’s face turn another color. "Did you sleep well?" He asked. "You sort of just passed out when we got here."
"Oh good mor...ning..." I said, pausing as my mind processed the image. My face went completely red as I realized he was only in a towel. I covered my eyes quickly. "G-Gah! D-Don't stare!" I thought. "Y-Y-Y-Y-Yes, t-t-t-thank y-y-y-y-you very m-m-much! P-P-Please forgive m-m-my thoughtlessness! I-I-I-I didn't mean to t-t-t-take y-y-your b-b-bed! I-I-I promise it w-w-w-won't happen again!" I said, completely embarrassed, I wanted to get away, I turned and walked straight into a wall instead. "Ow..." I said, not uncovering my eyes.
