[b][i]Trinidad Academy - One Week after the Start of Semester[/i][/b]

As part of the Director’s new rules, Students were ordered to get up at Five AM, where they were to eat breakfast (assuming they lived in the Dorms), pray (if they were religious), exercise (albeit however they wanted), read in the school library,  and at the end of the hour, sing the Philippine National Anthem if they were of Filipino Citizenship. Nevertheless, depending on how fast they ate breakfast and prayed, it was clear that the students had at least thirty minutes of free time, free time which can be used for other things, things such as discussing how exactly the semester would start...

[b]Jeim Izgawi[/b]

For in the first ten minutes of this ‘unofficial free hour’, one JeimSeu Igawzi would receive a whisper carried to his ears alone by the wind. 

“Jeim, Jeim… The Hammer have a mission for you. Two Senators from this nation’s Congress will come to inspect the Director’s changes to the Academy - Several of the more indolent students here will seek to ally with you and a few other people they believe are part of the Hammer. Their goal is to discredit the Director by allowing you and your folk to kill the Senators, then betray you and hand you over to the police. So pretend to go along with them, then ensure that [i]they[/i] are the ones who discredit themselves.”

A pause, as the whisper continued blowing into his ears, “We will have bigger fish to fry in the future...”

[@WindsOfFate]

[b]Nuru[/b]

Nuru appeared like a poor person, despite his sister’s connections getting him into the Academy. Thus, for the first week of his class, he’d be targeted by bullies, among them a gang led by one Virgil Vazquez, son of a Mestizo (Part-Native, Part-Spanish) family with a large amount of influence in the school. Virgil was one of those fair-skinned, brown-haired people who looked down on those with darker coloration, and despite Nuru being a better combatant than him in every way, the rich kid and his gang of fellow rich and influential Arms Masters would try and harass him every way that they could… Which was why the fact that they were missing was a cause for concern.

Then a flash of lightning which was clearly not his could be seen from a nearby window in the direction of the courtyard - His current location was in a lobby.

[@Renny]

[b]Cynthia, Pablo, and Vane[/b]

Cynthia directed a bolt of fire-transmuted-into-lightning at the Mestizo creep who had tried to make a pass at her with her Noble Arm, only to find it deflected by a round shield of steel like those used by Spanish Conquistadors.

“Hah!” the guy in question (Virgil, right?) said in triumph as his gang of thugs, each carrying their own ‘beautiful’ and ‘elegant’ Noble Arms, closed in on her in a circle, ”You’re going to regret refusing to go out with me, you rotten b***h! My shield is immune to physical force!”

A voice interrupted, “Technically true, your [i]shield[/i] is immune to physical force. But not the area around, over, and under it, you spoiled brat.”

The voice was from another student who was walking towards them, a brown-skinned, golden-eyed young man of sixteen years of age. This student continued, turning to Virgil’s second-in-command, a tall and heavily-built young man with large fists, “Arturo, your Noble Arm isn’t much better - Your brass knuckles look good, but their [i]real[/i] power is to prevent the steroids you take from killing you.”

He then looked around at the others and said, “I know what each Noble Arm of yours’ can do, and normally, I should just threaten to reveal that information to the other students… Along with your other secrets. But right now, I’m [i]pissed[/i].”

A thin smile, “Which is why I’m going to the Director with this.”

Virgil scrunched up his face in anger, shouting, “Not if we beat you up first - Lucrezia, get him!”

One of two female students in Virgil’s gang swung her Noble Arm - A whip - At Pablo, only for Cynthia to swat it aside with her spear, then send a spray of water Arturo’s way, knocking the other student back. Then she took advantage of everyone else’s surprise to grab Pablo’s wrist and begin running towards the school building -

Only to crash into yet another Student, a tall, black-haired young man who had ended up in their way. This young man? It was Vane Wilson himself, and he can see Virgil and his gang - Four rich kids who ran behind their leader, racing towards Cynthia and Pablo!

[@Not Fungus]