[Ryika & Lauren] Frowning at the look Lauren gave their classmate, Ryika squinted at Lauren before following Spike to the classroom. She took a seat right by the door. Lauren slid into the seat right behind her. “Now pick a word and write it on the paper in front of you. And do try to be serious, this word will be the most important thing to you this year, other than perhaps your life.” The teacher, Mr. Brindley, handed Ryika the slip of paper, on which she promptly wrote 'Bolt'. She spun around with the paper in her hand to show off to Lauren. "So... What word are you going to write?" "I don't know." "Well make sure it's something useful, unlike the word... 'bees'?" "I don't know what to write!" "Just write SOMETHING, no ideas at all?" *Remembers the guy told her to write Transmit* "Maybe?" *Embarrassed* "Hmm, well better hurry up before the monsters get ya. :) Because I'm running once I get my word." *sweat-drop* "Ugh I'm just gonna-" Lauren wrote "Transmit" down. [i]What can I even do with it? He made it sound like it'd be useful.[/i] "A guy told me to write Transmit but I don't know how useful that'd be." Ryika stroked her chin 'sagely' and said "You would... transmit things. Like people. Stuff. Monsters. Pretty nice." "Transmit stuff?" Lauren's paper disintegrated and caused a burning sensation on her thigh. "...T_T" "Well... I'm going to... 'Bolt' out of here now." Ryika's paper poofed, imprinting the word above her right ankle. "Follow me, if you want to live." [i]Is she serious? -_-[/i] Lauren stared back at Ryika. Ryika kicked her feet up on the desk and double-finger pistoled at Lauren, imagining two tiny bolts of electricity jumping from her fingers to Lauren. "To the track!" "KYAH~!" Lauren yelped and flinched as she was shocked. She glared at Ryika and then glanced at her chair, imagining it appearing a foot to the zappy girl's left. "FUEEEEEEEE~!" *Thud* Ryika fell backward onto her back. She rolled to the door in pain and crawled out, much to the confusion of Mr. Brindley. Ryika shouted back at Lauren "No really, come to the track! It'll be much safer!" Ryika imagined bolting to the track, increasing her speed to a level much higher than her norm. Desperate to keep her only friend at the school in sight, Lauren ran after the apparently insanely fit Olympian sprinter. "How... huff huff... is she so FAST?!" On her hands and knees catching her breath, Lauren watched as Ryika grew smaller and smaller. [i]But I'll still beat her there hehe[/i] Closing her eyes, Lauren pictured the track she passed entering the school and herself standing on it. When she opened her eyes, she was there, the cool air of the hall replaced by a gentle breeze and warm sunshine. Ryika continued along the path to the track, and not before long, the seals started to appear, with the monsters spawning from them afterwards. It was not long before the track was in sight, and much to her surprise, Lauren was already standing in the middle. Ryika smiled at her friend's success in using her word. *Trip* Missing the seal on the ground spawning a monster, Ryika fliped forward from catching her foot on the rising teeth of the monster. "Pwaaah~!" Ryika skids across the ground in front of Lauren. "..." "What took you so long?" Lauren inquired levelly, smirking slightly as she stood over the prone girl. "Rude." Ryika sat up and stared at the slowly rising monster. "Bolt!" Ryika used another meaning of the word, this time creating a crossbow bolt above, shooting into the monster. *Thunk* The bolt barely affected the monster, which only paused for a moment. A heavy, menacing growl alerted Lauren to the presence of a second monster coming from behind her. As it ran at her, Lauren Transmitted the monster a good twenty meters away. A distant *CRACK* resounded moment later as the monster chomped on thin air. Disoriented, it spun around looking for its prey before it focused back on Lauren. When it grew close, she sent it away again. This sad exchange continued for a while, with Lauren standing bored, arms crossed. “Can’t you shock them or something?” She asks, irritated. Lauren was so bored, she was trying out having the monster land on its head after being moved. Ryika huffed at Lauren’s challenge and stood up. The first monster was now approaching her, mouth wide open. “Gross.” She stepped back next to Lauren before creating three lightning bolts in rapid succession to strike the monster. Her word reduced the monster to a charred mass, along with the swath of track it was standing on. “See this is useful! A monster could have eaten you out of a wall if we didn’t come out here!” Ryika flaunted her handbook in front of Lauren. “It’s written in crayon.” Lauren ends up moving the monster 30 feet in the air. It makes a squishing sound as it bounces once. Ryika gasped as she saw Lauren move the creature up in the air. “Wow. Who suggested this word to you again?” Ryika shot off three crossbow bolts towards it as it fell. All missed by at least 20 feet. “Just some guy.” [i]That said I was pretty.[/i] *BLUSH* --- [Marcus] Marcus, in the process of throwing a monster as far as he could down the track, feels a weight hit him in the back of the head. “What the-” He turns around to see two more crossbow bolts coming at him. He turns back around and lifts up another monster corpse. [i]This one’ll go even farther![/i] *muted thuds* --- [Ryika and Lauren] “OH MY GOD, I THINK I HIT SOMETHING DOWN FIELD.” Ryika screamed, pointing toward a group of monster around a hulking beast lifting another monster up. Lauren holds her hand over her eyes as she peers down the track. “That’s an odd looking monster.” “My parents never wrote anything like that in the handbook…” Ryika mused. “It doesn’t look like it likes the other monsters though.” They watched as a white monster is flung into the air, faintly trailing blood. “Wow, I wonder why they’re fighting.” Ryika glanced around at the rest of the track. Several other students were around it, either running from monsters or combatting them. Even more were scrambling around the buildings of the school complex. Lauren glances at Ryika. [i]She’s going to suggest a really stupid reason, I just know it. Like a family feud or something.[/i] “What if like, they got into an argument about who got to eat which students, and they couldn’t agree on who got who” Ryika suggested. Lauren facepalms. [i]Why. Just, why.[/i] “Do you have a watch? This is only suppose to last 30 minutes. Not that many monsters are coming towards us instead of that… other monster there.” Ryika questioned while staring at Lauren’s wrists. “Do you [i]see[/i] a watch?” Lauren was still facepalming. “You might have a pocket watch. Is your face okay? You’re touching it often.” “It hurts.” [i]When I think about how dumb you are.[/i] “Oh… Do you need a hug?” Ryika moved up in front of Lauren. “Lauren glanced past her palm to look at Ryika. “No.” “Kay, feel better soon! Maybe we can go to a nurse later. :)” Ryika smiled brightly at her own suggestion. Lauren brings her remaining palm to her face. “...sure.”