[center][b]Summary:[/b] [i]DRAMA AT THE GUN RANGE :O[/i] (feat. some dude named Xanthus) A-Z convo hype. The Krashy train has no brakes.[/center] [i][u] - Ryuu - [/u][/i] Now, Ryuu had been having a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally fun time spamming the living sh-t out of the plasma bullets he just learned how to use. While the bullets themselves lacked that enormous power real bullets had right at the moment, he was getting somewhere. At least they went through the fairly weak targets he had been shooting like crazy. Red bullets that looked liked lasers soon began to at least hit a little closer to the target. Ryuu was shooting Han Solo style, meaning that he sort of had a freestyle shooting pose. Surprisingly enough, he had gotten one bullseye. Just ONE, though. He should not be getting cocky, or else he would forget that he needed to train to improve, not brag. So when someone began watching him, the otaku thought, [i]Oh sh-t.[/i] Ryuu felt like he needed to focus a little more. In fact, something about this guy made him feel nervous in general. First things first, he looked better than him. Second, he looked cool. And finally, he looked [i]better than him.[/i] For some reason, good-looking men seemed to have inflicted a trauma upon Ryuu Yamauchi, and he had every right to hate such handsome people. Or at least, that was what he thought. Then again, Tora used to have women swarming around him even in his own house, which the martial artist found creepy. Ryuu agreed with his adoptive brother's emotions. The less handsome you were, the less women would d-ck around you! The wise words of Santa Claus... One of his bullets hit a bullseye again. Ryuu partially had to thank himself for the fact that he did not need to reload. ... The otaku could not handle it anymore. He partially turned his head to show that he was aware of Xanthus' presence. Raising his eyebrow, the sunglasses-wearing student shot once more, hitting a pretty decent shot, before lowering his weapon. It was rude to talk to people with your back faced toward them, so he turned face-to-face with the dude in question. "...Uh... 'sup," Ryuu said. ... ... ... ... ...[i]Aaaaaaaaaaaand the conversation's over![/i] Ryuu angrily thought to himself. [i]Holy crap, that was fast.[/i] [i][u] - Carmen - [/i][/u] Carmen let Lily show her the ropes to loading and setting up to fire. She heard Lily shout an uncharacteristically authoritative command, and was now ready to fire. She didn't really know what to expect, but she decided to just roll with it and brought the gun up to firing position, taking off the safety. Tightly gripping the gun with both hands, she took aim at her target dummy, taking a predictably long time as with the bow and arrow. She fired. It was loud, even with the ear protection. She also hadn't been expecting the kickback nor the muzzle climb, and actually overshot the target, as she had been aiming for the head and not the torso. She looked around, and said quietly to herself, "let's hope nobody saw that," lining up for her second shot. Aiming for the torso this time and more prepared for the gun's response to being fired, she fired again, hitting the target square in the center. [i]That's better,[/i] she thought. She still had a good amount of her clip left, so she decided to open fire and see what some repeat shots were like. Emptying the rest of her clip quickly into the target, she was fairly successful, hitting the target each time but in a fairly wide range within said target. She didn't care. "...that was fun." And with that, she went to load another magazine. [u][i] - Lily - [/u][/i] She smiled watching Carmen's first reactions with the gun. She wished her own first experience had been so tame. It had been a lot more... stressful for her. She was a bad shot and being chased didn't help. No one had warned her about the kickback or any of that stuff. She assumed it would be easy. She sighed, watching Carmen more as she unloaded her clip in the dummies. Lily smiled and clapped her hands from the range master's station, silently cheering her new... friend on. [u][i] - Xanthus - [/u][/i] The purple haired demon smiled as he watched this man fire off bullet from.. well.. he didn't know where. He chuckled a bit. It was always so interesting seeing other people's powers. It'd been so long since he'd even used his. though, he supposed now he'd have to start training again. Though, had he ever trained in the first place? His expression grew sour as he thought of the angel guards that had been on top of him, pinning him to the ground in heaven. He was stupid for assuming he could have done anything. Though, he knew that if he'd been properly prepared, he could have done it. Xanthus' brow raised when the man turned to look at him and still continued to fire. He chuckled and teased, [b]"You know, it's dangerous to shoot without looking."[/b] He spoke, his voice dark and smooth. He tried his best to contain his laughter when the man simply replied, [b]"Uhh... 'Sup?"[/b] Xanthus shook his head and smiled at the man. [b]"Nothing much. I was just watching you. That's a pretty interesting power. Mind... explaining? I'm only curious."[/b] He asked, leaning against the post. [b]"I'm Xanthus by the way. It's nice to meet you, flying man."[/b] He greeted the man with a chuckle. [i][u] - Kathy - [/i][/u] “Um… No particular reason.” Kathy told him. Given the context she knew that even very gullible people would have difficulty believing her answer, but she didn’t quite feel like disclosing to reason to him just yet. Giving him a sheepish look, she shook her head slightly as an indication that she didn’t want to discuss it any further. Then listening to him continue with the dating inquiry, she let tried to feign annoyance, though the large smile on her face made it difficult to pull such a look off. “I can’t be the only one planning this out Crash. Your turn, same question. What movie would you want to watch?” Staring at the Bandicoot boxers in particular before Crash hastily put it away, she gave him a grin and teased, “Apparently you’re not as averse to being a Bandicoot WOOas you acted to be.” Deciding to give him a break she decided to stop there after adding one last thing to say. “And no need to apologize for that.” She thought, [i]‘I wasn’t the one troubled by that after all.’[/i] Kathy had a hand on her cheek in an attempt to cool it down as she walked over to where Crash was. Her embarrassment subsided a bit when she saw the bruises on him though. Making a thin frown, she attempted a quick poke on his side. “You weren’t supposed to let Crash get hurt, remember?” Taking the cream out of his hands, she placed some on her fingers and began to apply some of the cream onto his back. “… No problem…” She murmured, trying not to think too much as she gently brushed her fingers over the bruises. “L-Let me know if it hurts, okay..? And don’t you dare turn around..!” She added the last part rather hastily. Even though Crash had seen her blush quite a few times by now, she still didn’t want him to look at her while her face as glowing red. [i][u] - Crash - [/i][/u] Crash raised a questioning eyebrow at her, catching her sheepish look and shake of the head he didn’t push an further with his enquiry...though he was curios. He flushed with color as she tried to feign annoyance, he couldn’t take it seriously not with the large smile that spread across her face, it made a chuckle rumble through his chest. Though her comment made him adopt a sheepish look and rub the back of his neck awkwardly. “H-hey I wasn’t expecting you to plan everything!” He stuttered out. [i]Movie? When was the last time I sat still enough for one of those...[/i] “I can’t think of a specific movie but my 3 favourite categories are...Sci-fi, Thrillers and...” He trailed off, flushing with a fresh wave of color. “Romcoms” He murmured in a low voice before clearing his throat. “Would your choices fall into that?” He asked her. Crash flushed further attempting to scowl but failing miserably at it as his mouth was adamant it wanted to smile. “Shh, nobody needs to know that” He told her with a sheepish grin. Crash hadn’t been expecting her to poke him, so he didn’t avoid her jab instead as her finger made contact with his skin he quite comically recoiled away from her touch actually squeaking in surprise. “H-hey!” He exclaimed, his cheeks flushing further, he adopted a rather childish sulky expression twitching whenever her hands went near him. “I thought I wasn’t supposed to get ‘Crash hurt’ through accidents?” He grinned at her as she took the cream from his hands. “I bruise easily that’s what the problem is” He commented, flinching momentarily from the cold feel of the cream before relaxing as best as he could hearing her speak he turned his head ever so slightly towards her, instantly wanting to turn around because she had told him not to. “What why?” He couldn’t keep the playful tone out of his voice. [u][i] - Kathy -[/i][/u] "Romcoms?" Kathy repeated with a smile. Out of all the categories he had listed, for some reason that one actually seemed to suit him the most. She could easily imagine him watching and laughing at a romantic comedy, sitting comfortably in a living room with a bowl of popcorn on his lap. "I'd be good with any of those, except for thrillers." She admitted, "I'm actually worse with jump-scares and suspenseful type of things than actual horror." Then seeing Crash's attempt at a scowl, though the big smile on his face refused to fade away, she couldn't help but tease him again. "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone... For now." Inwardly she thought, [i]'Weakness number 2 has been noted.'[/i] After taking a poke (literally) at weakness number 1, she let out a laugh at the highly-expected but still amusing reaction. "Hmm, that's quite an impressive octave to reach. Especially for a guy." Kathy wasn't entirely sure she could get her voice as high as his when he squeaked. [i]'Probably not something he feels all that proud of,'[/i] She thought with a smile, [i]'But that's probably what's so interesting about it. Wow, and to think that until now I was always the one being teased. I seem to be on a roll this time.'[/i] Unfortunately, there were slight hints that her time as the one getting the laughs with the teasing was going to end soon. "No, don't you dare." Kathy warned him, feeling very much aware of the heat on her face as she rubbed the cool cream onto his bruises. "And you're not allowed to... Because." She finished lamely, not having a real legitimate excuse as to why he wasn't supposed to turn around. It was also hard to think of a creative reason when she was trying her best to keep her mind distracted. Finished applying the cream, she leaned back a bit to check and make sure she didn't miss any spots. "... Your back's bigger than I thought it was." She murmured, briefly running her fingers along his back between his shoulder blades. Catching herself, Kathy quickly cleared her throat and announced, "Done." She backed away from him with the cream still in her hand and turned around so he could get dressed again. [i][u] - Crash - [/i][/u] Crash lifted one of his shoulders a smidgen as if in a half shrug, a lopsided smile crossing his face, the left side of his lifting slightly higher than the right. "Yes Romcoms, especially the older ones" He admitted not entirely precise on how 'old' he meant, now he was thinking about it however his movie knowledge seemed to be seeing back to him. He tilted his head to the side thoughtfully her confession hadn't taken him entirely by surprise, his smile grew into a grin. "Hmm, yeah jump-scares aren't the best parts of thrillers..." He agreed. " For now?" He repeated attempting an unimpressed look this time, reaching up with a hand to pull the corners of his mouth down...not that, that worked either he gave up after a few seconds chuckling at his own expense. [i]Oh well, you didn't expect to escape that for long did you?[/i] Crash had considered taking that comment as a gracious compliment perhaps if it had come from someone else he'd have been better guarded against it instead his cheeks flushed a sheepish look crossing his expression as his response to her was to poke the tip of his tongue out at her childishly. "I'm sure you'd be able to rival it, if I tickled you" He voiced, obviously fishing for a reaction he wasn't about to start a battle he couldn't win but he was a little curious.Crash allowed the devious look to remain on his face as he peeked over his shoulder at her, even after her less than creative reasoning behind her objection. "I'm sorry, was that a dare?" He asked her, though he didn't completely turn around he did catch a quick glance of her flushed face before he turned his head away again his own cheeks flushing, he had just finished treating the last bruise on his abdomen. Crash had been trying to focus on other things whilst her fingers danced across his back, he wasn't doing very well his cheeks were emitting heat like a radiator though he had an amused grin on his face it faded back into a docile smile as he heard her murmur behind him. He swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat, his Adam's apple gliding as she briefly ran her fingers between his shoulder blades...he was pretty sure he didn't have any bruises there. "Hmm..." Crash hummed...almost instantly lifting a hand to his face covering it in embarrassment as he realized what he'd done. [i]W-what was that?! You were supposed to say a coherent word![/i] He cleared his throat, glancing over his shoulder at her as she announced she was done. "T-thanks" He stammered, reaching for his shirt he quickly pulled it back on, stepping towards her he gently reached out to poke both of her sides. "I'm decent" He grinned dancing around her to open his other bag. "You know...I think catching a movie could be possible on this island" He mused aloud. "It might not be the same here but it'd still be fun, I can guarantee it" He assured her with a smile, the bag in front of him was mainly occupied by odds and sods, CD's, a few photographs, a few different types of drumsticks, headphones, phone. "We don't have to do this by the way...If you don't want to" Crash piped up rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly and grinning sheepishly [i][u] - Ryuu - [/u][/i] [b]"You know, it's dangerous to shoot without looking,"[/b] said the man before Ryuu. The otaku felt like derping out as he thought dumbly, [i]wat.[/i] The otaku, however, saw this as a chance to get along with... presumably another student of Athalia Academy. After all, talking to strangers wasn't dangerous for him at all: especially when he had a power that could be utilized to create swords. He put a hand in his pocket as he greeted back, "Name's Ryuu. I use plasma powers; and that's just a very pretty summarization of what it actually is." Ryuu looked Xanthus from head-to-toe, not knowing if he would be taken for some gangster looking for the classic "lunch money," as he asked Xanthus, "You new around here? I'm pretty new- and..... I definitely decided to fly on purpose. Of course I wouldn't start flying around on accident, right? Yup." Meanwhile, Nikola woke up. [i][u] - Kathy - [/i][/u] “Should I take that as a challenge?” Kathy asked, laughing again. She briefly made one of her hands hover over his side, not quite touching his skin but close enough that the ‘threat’ was probably real enough. She had caught the slight peek he had made at her face. Feeling a tinge disgruntled, she poked at one of the bruises on his back. “… I said no looking.” Though she hadn't really expected to hear a reply from her murmur, for some reason his hum made her feel a bit nervous. [i]'Maybe I shouldn't have said that aloud..?'[/i] Kathy jumped up and quickly pushed his hands away when she was poked on both sides. "Haha- hey! Sneak attacks are against the rules." The blush on her face beginning to cool down she looked up at him and nodded. "Yeah, sounds like a date then." She smiled as she replied, then looked at the bag in front of them. Kathy ruffled his hair and began, "No procrastinating Crash Bandicoot. And it'll be faster with two people right?" Noticing the drumsticks in particular she commented, "Say, I don't think I've really seen you carry these around today. Is it just because we're at the beach and all?" [i][u] - Matt - [/i][/u] Matt aimed at the target's chest, focusing as hard as he could. He didn't really expect to hit it, after all, he never used a gun before. Just as he was about to shoot, he felt something touch his head. "Ack!" he exclaimed, surprised. He shot as he jumped, making his aim go all wrong. He missed by a mile. [i][u] - Andromeda - [/u][/i] "oh that sucks, how'd you get out?" she brought a hand up and was messing with the snakes. Andromeda frowned "i'm sorry Zivon, i can't really do much that's beach related, for everyone else's safety, so i can't really help you have fun" her hand dropped, landing on the book beside her "being scared all the time must be kinda sad" she said looking at him. [i][/u] - Xanthus - [/u][/i] Xanthus nodded his head in respect out of hearing the man's name. Ryuu. It was a nice name if a little... unusual? Then again, maybe Xanthus was just uncultured. Maybe his name was weird to them too. He watched with mild amusement as Ryuu looked him up and down and then asked if he was new. [b]"New to here? Yes. New to all of this? Fairly."[/b] He explained, laughing at the man's answer about his flight earlier. [b]"I kind of wish I could fly. I had a friend that could and she always left me in the dust."[/b] He continued, smiling warmly at his new friend. [b]"But plasma powers must be fun. I guess it a bit different from shadow control. I mean, I can't really... like... travel shadows but I can turn shadows into weapons, yanno? Similar to your power only Shadows are the materials I use."[/b] He explained, looking Ryuu up and down in the same manner that the male had done to him. [i][u] - Lily - [/u][/i] She turned when she heard something from Matt's end. He'd fired in a weird direction, no where near his target. [i]Something's wrong...[/i] [b]"Hold fire!"[/b] She shouted, her voice filling the entirety of the range. She flew out of the range master's station and bolted for Matt's station, completely missing the streak of purple hair in the station next over. [b]"Matt, are you okay?"[/b] She asked in a worried voice. She stopped when she saw the girl from before. [b]"Oh..."[/b] She mumbled and swallowed. She sighed and then bent down to get on level with the girl. Jealousy or not, what the girl had done was dangerous and needed to be taken care of. [b]"Hey. It's dangerous to do that to someone that's about to shoot. If he's got his safety off, you need to stay out of his station and watch from afar. Come on, come with me. I'll take you to a seat where you can watch him."[/b] She explained to the girl, hating every word. [i][u] - Margaret - [/u][/i] The girl flinched when she heard something loud come from the red light in front of her. Gun. A gun. Gun? She was unable to register the word "gun," even though she remembered it. Gun... It sounded familiar. Still, she had returned to the warmth. The red color was warm. She liked warm. Margaret stared at the color as if it she was a child staring at a new toy given to her. She felt glad to have been reunited with the warmth once more. Yet again, a loud noise echoed throughout the entire place, though it did not belong to a gun. It was a voice. Margaret blinked, not knowing what was going on. Suddenly, all of the "guns" stopped making the funny, loud noises. She turned around, wondering if something different was going to happen. Different. She just got here. She wanted things to remain the same for a while. Just for a little while. The girl turned again, finding a new red color near the one she had been with. She actually remembered the new red light! It was the one that separated her from the warmth. Margaret stared at the new color with her emotionless face, wondering if she was going to be torn away from the warmth again. The orange-haired girl blinked when she realized that the new color was talking to her. Or, so it seemed. Maybe she was right, actually. Margaret, however, did not understand what the color was saying. Did it hate her? Did she know she was defective? She softly squeezed herself onto the warmth near him, wondering what to say- or more importantly, [i]how[/i] to speak. [i][u] - Ryuu - [/u][/i] The otaku raised an eyebrow, a devilish grin on his face. Of course, he unintentionally looked pretty mean, though he himself was still unaware of it. Putting away his gun- loosely letting it hang out of his large pocket- the sharp-haired student nodded at Xanthus. "Good to hear that I'm not the only new dude, here." Ryuu grinned again, telling the fellow male, "Flying is pretty random for me. I guess you can say I enjoy it... At times. Yeah." Xanthus' powers actually took the otaku by surprise. Still, he was not as surprised as he would have been when he first came to the academy. Blinking at Xanthus for a brief second, the Yamauchi let out a huff of air, simply giving the shadow-user a smirk. "Never heard of anyone that could make [i]shadow[/i] gizmos. Sounds better than my conveniently bright powers." Ryuu laughed sarcastically at himself, taking note that his eyes were already weak to light. Just when he was about to introduce Xanthus to another part of his backstory, someone told the entire range to stop shooting. The sunglasses-wearing student himself was not firing any weapons right at the moment, and he did not really care about why everyone was told to stop shooting, either. He did, however, take interest when a red-haired beauty suddenly walked over to another red-haired dude and... an orange-haired woman. Ryuu did not recall seeing her before. [i]Wait a second,[/i] the Yamauchi said, putting up a hand beneath his chin, [i]there were some rumors about some orange thing roaming around the school supplies. They say that's the reason why the academy kept losing so much bread... Maybe the orange thing is that person?[/i] Ryuu thought over what he just thought before admitting it sounded like BS. "I wonder what's going on over there," the otaku said, looking over at Lily's direction, with his hands in his pockets. "Seems like one of them's causing a fuss?" [u][i] – Zivon – [/u][/i] Zivon nodded as she said being scared the whole time is sad…it does but what can you do about it? He sighed and scratched his head. ”Ran away fast, sad…yes but I have to learn with it… Fun, I guess I can cook for fun…” Zivon showed Andromeda the words again, he did like to cook so it didn’t bother that cooking could be the only fun thing that he could do at this island. [i][u] - Andromeda - [/u][/i] "oh really? my mom would never let me cook, you find it fun?" she smiled, "that's nice" Andromeda chuckled [i][u] - Matt - [/i][/u] Matt turned to see what caused his surprise to see the orange haired girl again. She had followed him. Before he could say anything Lily marched up to them. Lily gave the girl a talk about how it was dangerous to get near people while they were shooting. The girl didn't do anything except squeeze tighter. What was going on? "I don't think she understands English." Matt told Lily while he put his gun on safety. [i][u] - Andromeda - [/u][/i] "oh really? my mom would never let me cook, you find it fun?" she smiled, "that's nice" Andromeda realized she was running out of topics to talk about "if i tell you about my curse, will you tell me about yours? i really want to know, if you're willing to tell" she pulled the book up into her lap so her hands would have something to do. [i][u] - Oona - [/u][/i] Oona had sat on the beach for a long time after everyone left, it was really peaceful, hearing the waves slide across the sand. finally though she stood up and headed towards the dojos she had heard about. when she stepped through onto the lot and the buildings coalesced she stopped to listen. she couldn't hear anything from the building that reminded her of a library, from the others she heard the sounds of combat and the last one seemed relatively quiet, like all the action had just stopped, she decided to head to that one. she walked in, there were quite a few people in there, she glanced around and discovered it was a range of some kind, fire arms probably. Oona then saw a girl holding(?) a bow, she appeared to be made of plants, this interested her so she crossed to her, "Hello, My name's Oona, what's yours?" [u][i] - Zivon - [/u][/i] Zivon kept quiet a bit as she asked for his curse he didn’t want to say it but she did say that she will talk about her curse… a win win situation he guessed, Zivon sighed heavily and showed her again some words. “Death… touches things and turn dead… not human or animals… Can be destructive and hurt many people… Can’t control it well, fueled by fear. Can turn things back to normal though but only if I am calm…” Zivon then closed his eyes it felt awkward just telling Andromeda these things but it was better to show her the words then just keeping quiet. [u][i] - Garden - [/u][/i] While looking at the bow a white hair girl walked closed to her and introduced herself as Oona. She curtsied to her and gave a friendly smile. “Nice meeting you Lady Oona my name is Garden nice to meet you.” Garden said to her while holding the bow she then asked Lady Oona something. “You here for the training? I was hoping to get some training myself but I don’t know about this bow here… It quite an interesting object I have to say…” Garden inspected more of the bow; if she had some glue and some tools she could do wonders with this bow. [i][u] - Andromeda - [/u][/i] Andromeda was silent as he told her "my curse is death too" she closed her eyes and rubbed at them, before pushing her glasses back into place "i don't know what color my eyes are" she started "i assume you know who medusa is? almost everyone does, i'm her so many greats grand daughter" she looked away "i kill people with my gaze" she sighed and looked back up at him "you've got one up on me, i can't turn people back after they turn to stone, theiy're gone ... forever" she flipped the book open so she didn't have to look at him. [i][u] - Oona - [/u][/i] Oona, being a rich kid, wasn't even surprised when the girl called her 'lady'. she smiled at the girl and dipped her head slightly at the curtsey "it's nice to meet you too Garden" When the girl asked her about training she simply nodded, Oona chuckled slightly at the bow "would you like me to show you how to use it? i quite enjoy it, my parents would never let me around guns so i whined until they let me take archery lessons, it quite simple if you want to learn" [i][u] - Carmen - [/i][/u] Carmen had successfully loaded another magazine into her gun when suddenly Lily's still uncharacteristically authoritative voice rang out over the gun range. "Hold fire!" "Well what on Earth for?!" Carmen asked, not loud enough for really anyone else to hear. Looking over to her right, she saw Matt still being clung to by that girl. "...oh," she said, realizing the explanation. Soon Lily was down there, telling the girl the dangers of hugging a shooter. [i]I bet nobody's ever had to say that before,[/i] she thought to herself. [u][i] - Zivon - [/u][/i] Zivon felt again guilty for making Andromeda talking about her curse, it sounded rough and living a life like that… he would be insane already and maybe… ended his life… He shook his head thinking that though and showed her again some words. “Sorry, must be very hard… that burden… but you must be strong to live through that… a strong will.” Zivon looked away for a moment and sighed, she must be strong willed to live though that. “Common… we have a lot in common” He actually smiled at Andromeda but not unwillingly but for a while he smiled at her naturally. [u][i] - Garden - [/u][/i] Garden clapped her hands together and smiled happily. “Oh that would be wonderful of you Lady Oona thank you!” She curtsied to her again and looked at the bow. “Archery lessons… sounds fun, I could never do those sporty things due to I have to learn about economics and so much more “ Living life as a princess… is not much fun at all. [i][u] - Andromeda - [/u][/i] Andromeda chuckled a little when he called her strong "i'm a product of my raising, if you had to live with a witch you'd be strong willed too" she took a deep breath "sometimes i can ignore it, if i'm not paying attention sometimes i forget about it, and i'm happy" she smiled "it's been awhile since i've really had to worry about it" she cleared her throat "yeah, we have a lot in common" Andromeda looked him over "so ... do you want to ask about the snakes?" she giggles "everyone does, it's the first thing they notice" [i][u] - Oona - [/u][/i] Oona liked the way Garden reacted "come on" she lead her over to one of the ranges, taking the bow with her. hen Garden was beside her she lifted it up "first off you have to hold it like [url=http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/fro12lc16/files/2012/09/Archery1.gif ] this [/url]" she held the bow out for Garden "be very careful, hold the bow out at arm's length before you pull back the string, but don't tense up your arm, you wanna try?" [u][i] - Lily - [/u][/i] She closed her eyes and tried to keep her temper. Something about this girl set Lily off and she kind of wished it didn't. She wished she could just go back to be kind and naive. Maybe she could... pretend? She opened her eyes and looked up at Matt as he told her he didn't think she understood English. She nodded her head slowly and began to look at the little girl. She turned her head sideways, thinking a bit. [i]Maybe if I just...[/i] She took a deep breath and smiled at the girl. [b]"This won't hurt."[/b] She told her and then reached out her arm. She touched the girl for just a second and felt a large shock and pulled away. [b]"Ow!"[/b] She mumbled, holding onto her finger. Robotic? But she felt human. She had an energy. Robots didn't have energy... She looked up again at Matt and looked at the girl's hands as they clutched onto him. [b]"Come here..."[/b] She said softly and held out her arms to the small girl, trying to coax her into coming into Lily's arms. At least that way she'd have a more direct way to heal the girl... If she even could... [u][i] - Xanthus - [/u][/i] He turned when he heard her voice, his head shooting up like a deer caught in headlights. His eyes were wide. Not really full of worry, just a bit... surprised? Just from her voice it sounded like she'd changed. He felt his heart skip a beat when he saw her. She'd changed again. She looked older. Then again, so did he. He saw her walked over to two other students, one of them quite small. He had to wonder what was going on. He also had to wonder why he didn't just walk over there and grab her away and take her with him. He had a half mind to do so but... Something stopped him. He heard Ryuu say something, asking about what was going on over there. Xanthus turned to look at him and shrugged his shoulders. [b]"I'm not sure. I'm not even sure if we should try to find out. They don't really look like they needed to be crowded around. I guess we should just hang back here?"[/b] He asked, seeing it as the most reasonable thing to do. Plus, he was nervous again... [u][i] - Margaret - [/i][/u] The girl stared at the red color apparently looking at her. She then felt something touch her, though Margaret did not flinch at the thing. For it felt... warm. For a split second. She liked warm. Warm was red. Red meant warmth. The girl stared at the red color, then at the color she was clinging onto, before looking at the other color again. Margaret felt timid. Timid. She promised herself to remember timid. She felt timid by standing in front of the two colors. One felt warm. Two made her feel warm inside. She could not process why she felt warm. After staring at the different light for a little while, the girl looked back up at the red color she was currently holding onto, before looking back at the other red color. Perhaps she was not defective? Maybe she had a chance of being fixed... Margaret shivered, clinging onto Matt tightly one more time before loosening up. She weakly let go of the red color, immediately feeling cold again. The girl seemed extremely reluctant in approaching the red color. What would the color do if she approached it? Margaret... decided to take a step forward. She wobbled as she took another step. She stepped further once more. She stepped again. And again. The girl began to rub the new color, feeling warmth again. She hoped... she can stay with the warmth. She hoped the warmth would not leave her... [u][i] - Ryuu - [/i][/u] Ryuu had an eyebrow raised throughout watching the process of some girl walking into another girl's arms. "That was unusually amusing," he quietly admitted. The otaku looked back at Xanthus, shrugging as he agreed with the shadow manipulating student, "I mean like... sure, I guess. Whatever fits your preferences. I'm just watching some girl walking into another girl's arms with lots of amusement." [u][i] - Zivon - [/u][/i] Zivon shook his head and then again for how many times showed her some words. “I was curious but inclined to say anything about it, they look nice though” Zivon gave another natural but very small smile then his stomach growled… he didn’t eat anything since he got to the island. “Hungry..” He said oddly enough he got out of his mute shell. He patted his stomach and stood up, since he could speak normally again he tried but still ended up stuttering a lot. “I-I…a-m goi-ng to co…o-ok-k so-m…ethi-ng to ea-t… y-ou w-w…a-nt to joi-n?” [u][i] - Garden - [/u][/i] Garden walked with Lady Oona as they walked their way to the ranged. As Lady Oona explained how the first step thing was done she took a deep breath and positioned herself as she saw with Lady Oona. She then let out the deep breath and pulled the string she accidentally let of the string and weirdly the bow flew out of her hands and ended smacking her face. “Ack!!” She scremed as the bow smack her face hard causing her to fall on the floor. “Ow… I guess I am not good with these type of weird machinery…” She laughed a bit while she rubbed her face from the pain. [u][i] - Matt - [/i][/u] Lily thought for a moment, then reached out to grasp the girl. Just as Lily touched her, however, she jumped back for some reason. "Are you okay?" Matt asked, worried. What on earth was going on? He felt somewhat like this day had broke. Had literally broke, and was somehow not functioning as it was supposed to. Lily took a step back, and attempted to coax the girl off Matt. At first, nothing happened, but then the girl slowly let go of Matt and began to walk towards Lily. She walked wobbly. Somehow, this whole experience made Matt think of a baby. [i]A baby![/i] Matt thought. [i]She acts like a baby! She can't understand English, but can understand emotions. She holds onto me because doing so makes her feel safe![/i] --- [i]Ed: This post marks the end of an era. We are returning to on-Guild posting, so these huge posts and their summaries that I lovingly crafted with knowledge, humor and a touch of stupidity are resigned to history. It's been a good run, folks... *sniff*[/i]