Kirah

The Mundane [Small-Town Teenage Superheroes]

Tessa Gray

Location: The woods
Interacting with: Group Two: Mal @McHaggis, Grant @Altered Tundra, Olivia @Symphoni, Alice @Undine, Petyr @Saltwater Thief, Everett @AcerRo

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Tessa heard Grant’s voice. It wasn’t loud, well it was, loud enough for hear anyway, but it was not that close to her. She heard more talking, Malcolm was talking to Grant. Tessa ran toward their voices.

“Hello.” Tessa screamed into the woods. Hoping they’d hear her, and if anyone else was nearby and was lost would too. She could dream.

She hoped Grant was okay. With his arm broken, or at least badly injured arm this was not a good place for him to be right now. Admittedly it wasn’t a good place for anyone, thanks to Jade. Tessa sighed, there had to be a logical reason for Jade’s freak out. What she said didn’t make any sense.

Once she was in sight of Grant, Malcolm and Dani... Dani was covered in blood holy shit she hopped that wasn’t her blood, but whose could it be?

“Jesus are you okay?” She asked looking between Dani and Malcolm, who looked like he was about to pass out, and had blood coming out of his nose. What had she missed? “Have you guys seen anyone else?”

The Mundane [Small-Town Teenage Superheroes]

Tessa Gray

Location: Wilcox Lodge -> The woods
Interacting with:

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It was a normal party, Tessa assumed anyway, she had been to so few. Janice had been invited to more, and most of the time Tessa was invited along because who invites one twin and not the other? But that had been ages ago, and they had all been kids and people weren’t murdered in the five minutes you weren’t looking.

Tessa wasn’t going to be drinking, she did sometimes, but if she went home after this and her mom had realized she wasn’t up in her room playing Zelda; she’d be dead meat if she smelled like booze when she got home. Usually the loud music from one of her games kept her mom from bothering her; Tessa prayed it’d work this time too.

What she wanted to do was get Mal by himself. Not next to one of his friends, especially not King. Who looked ill or something. Maybe he really did have the ability to sense emotions. That had to be a useless power. Tessa glanced at King to where he was sitting talking to a teacher on a log that had been dragged over for the simple purpose of making better seating.

When the teacher left Mal joined King again. Ugh She’d never be able to talk to him. Fine She’d just talk to him next to King, that was the dumbest thing she could do, but she needed Mal’s help. Rather, Grant needed Mal’s dad’s help, but it was all the same in a town this small.

King stood up and ran off? Tessa stared as he ran into the woods. That made no sense, where he and Mal fighting? Then Jade was yelling. Hell Tessa wasn’t even looking in the girl’s general direction, why was she going off about people looking at her? Wasn’t the point of the slut act?

The earth shook.

Not just a little either. It was an earth wrenching rippling of an earthquake. Jade needed to calm down.

Tessa was knocked off her feet. A fissure opened where she had just been standing. It cracked further open. “Jesus.” Jade was gonna kill someone if she didn’t cut it out. Tessa scrambled to her feet, getting farther away from the fissure. She had no desire to fall into that. Any composure she had retained cracked wide open, as wide as the fissure appeared in her panicked state. She turned on the ball of her foot and ran into the woods.

There were others running the same direction as her, but for the moment all Tessa cared about was getting away from the ground that was trying to eat her. Away.

Northwood Academy

@Feisty-Pants

<Snipped quote by Kirah>

But liking is so weird.

@Feisty-Pants

It's better than having everyone make a post.

Northwood Academy

You know I'm still here. Always.

I will have a Samantha/ Kata post up within the week. Might need you pretty lady for some help with it.

@kittyluna45

Of course. You know where to find me.

Northwood Academy

Hey look at that a plot post... Enjoy that.

Can I get a roll call? Like this post if you're still around. Thank you!

Edit: Those that have checked in
@Saltwater Thief
@kittyluna45
@Feisty-Pants
@McHaggis
@siaya dragalorn

Northwood Academy

Ash Marino

Ash grinned at Elizabeth. "That was the plan, among my group. After we listen to what the headmistress has to say."

Ash walked into the gym once again. The groups had gathered more tightly than usual. Everyone was nervous, and Ash completely understood why.

"Everyone I am sorry to report that for some reason we are unable to leave campus." Ash snorted what an understatement. "With this new development I understand that you are not going to want to stay in the gym, but I ask that all students do not go wandering off alone. Please stay in groups of at least two. I'd appreciate it if it were more though. This is for you own safety."

"Mind explaining what is going on?" An unidentified person said from the crowd. The headmistress looked a little dismayed, which considering how stone cold her face normally was probably meant she was about to faint.

"It is a long story I am afraid, but this school is no longer safe, for anyone."

"You've said that." Another unidentified voice said. "Mind elaborating?"

"I cannot explain it very well I am afraid. The easiest way to explain it is," She paused and took a breath, her eyes looking at the students briefly before she spoke again. "The school feeds on your abilities. Normally just the presence of the power is enough to keep the school in check, unfortunately that no longer seems to be the case."

There was a cacophonous reaction. Sure the school wasn't safe, they had all figured that out, but here the headmistress was telling them the school was literally eating them. Ash looked over at Jamie, fear pounding through her. They had to stop this, but how?

Northwood Academy

@Saltwater Thief No I've just been procrastinating making the next big plot post.... Sorry

I'll get it up soon... maybe in the next hour if I feel so inclined.

The Mundane [Small-Town Teenage Superheroes]

Location: Wilcox Lodge
Interacting with: Each other (Nina and Tessa), Austin @Wade Wilson, Ash @Undine

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Tessa took a few steps toward the fire that Everett had apparently built. It looked fairly awesome. “Okay this might not be awful.” She said outloud to Austin. She looked around for Mal, but didn’t see him immediately. She did see Nina though, sitting with Ashton, Tessa gave her a wave.

Nina leaned over to Ashton and seemed to say something before getting up and walking over to Tessa and Austin. ”Hey Austin, hey Tess. How are you doing?”

“I’m doing well.” Tessa was smiling, and had a bit of red spreading on her face.

”Hey, Ashy! I’m doing alright.” He nudged Tess with a smile, before disappearing into the crowds with a childish grin, whispering, ”Ninja vanish!”

“You wanna talk?” Tessa asked, nodding away from the rest of the masses.

Nina nodded. ”Yeah, sounds good. I know a spot in the woods that’s good for this sorta thing.” She turned and looked at Tess before heading towards the woods.

“Today has been weird hasn’t it.” Tessa said as they walked further into the woods.

”You’re telling me. You didn’t… see anything did you?” Nina sounded a bit worried for a moment.

“No I didn’t. Despite my gran’s best efforts.” Tessa shook her head remembering how loud her grandma had been playing the news.

”Oh thank god for that then… Sooo you and Austin huh? Saw you arrived together. You are going to tell me everything, now.” Nina stopped walking and turned to look at Tess, with what looked like curiosity written all over her face.

“Yeah Austin and me.” Tessa blushed again, and held her hands against her cheeks to cool the heat burning through them. “Well we’ve been friends for a while, since he moved here almost. Play video games and such together. Today I asked him to Simone’s and well... I don’t know it just kind of happened. I went to kiss his cheek and accidently kissed his lips and then we went back to my house and played Splatoon.” She gave a shrug. “He’s sweet and he doesn’t look at me like... Like I’m the lesser choice.”

Nina seemed to bounce a bit as Tessa talked and let out a small squeak. ”Oh my gosh I’m so happy for you! I’ll admit I haven’t really had the chance to talk to him, but he seems nice. And you look happy too, and very red. It’s kinda cute. I gotta ask though, does he… y’know… have some talent like we do now?”

“Yeah he does, he can run at super speeds. It’s not easy on him, but he finds it great.” Tessa grinned at Nina. Her face was hurting from all the smiling she had done in the last few days. All together it was more smiling than she had done in well over a year. It was nice.

”So he’s like Quicksilver. That’s pretty cool. I mean, it seems like almost everyone I’ve talked to in the last few days got something.”

“I think he’d prefer Barry Allen, the Flash, over Quicksilver. Yeah, it’s crazy. I don’t know if we’ll be able to keep it under wraps if everyone got a power. How hilarious is it though, small town Washington suddenly full of people with superpowers. I was going to say superheroes, but clearly not all with powers are heroes. It’s also a bit scary. We don’t know who has what. I mean we only know a handful of the people who were in the astronomy meeting had powers.” Tessa shook her head, her smile gone now, it had been replaced by a fearful look. “And to think someone could be using their powers to... kill.”

Nina’s smile disappeared as Tessa switched the subject, and she bit her lip. Her hand reached into a pocket, and she pulled out what looked to be a lighter and started flipping it over in her hands. ”I really hope not, because that would be just sick. We went through enough last time and… I can’t do it. Not again. I’ve been saying that pretty much all day. I mean, when I saw what happened to Rachel, I just froze up. I don’t even remember getting back to my house. Apparently Everett dragged me off and brought Petyr with. We’re kinda crashing here tonight since Otec is out of town… but he’ll be coming home once he hears about it, I’m sure.”

Tessa was nodding along as Nina spoke, until she got to the part about Everett, then she frowned. “You know my place is always open for you too.” Tessa couldn’t be sure Nina would take the offer, especially with how distant they had become... how distant she had been recently. “I can’t do it either to be honest. I wish I could just leave this damn town.” Tessa wrapped her arms around herself. She watched Nina flick the lighter, of course she would carry a lighter, she needed a source of fire. It made Tessa wish she had a more offensive power.

”I’ll keep that in mind. Bratr isn’t exactly happy to be here. Says Everett is a loose cannon, and… I might be inclined to agree. I just, don’t know anymore. Everything is so confusing Tess. Between yesterday and today it feels like the world keeps getting tossed upside down.” Nina leaned up against a tree a little and seemed to pause in thought. ”I was talking with Ash earlier and what I said then is still how I think now. Kinda wish we could go back to Sunday when everything made sense.”

Tessa nodded. “Me too.” How could she tell Nina about the conversation she had had with Everett, and who was she to judge people on being unstable, god knew she was well practiced at being unstable. Maybe she’d let her ‘me too’ hang in the air between them unplaced in what Tessa was agreeing with. She’d let Nina decide what she was agreeing with. “I’ll be honest. I’m scared.”

”Same here. But we can’t just up and leave this place, now can we?” Nina flipped the lighter more in her hand a bit and let out a sigh. ”At least we’re talking again, so that’s a good thing, right?”

“Best thing to come out of this mess.” Tessa smiled. “Sorry for being such an ass.”

”Hey, I understand. Too many reminders yeah? But I still need my bestie at times, so don’t do that again, okay?”

“Promise.” Tessa held out her pinky finger. Nina hooked her own pinky finger with Tessa and then shook it.

”Promise.” Tessa and Nina turned and started back toward the party.

The Mundane [Small-Town Teenage Superheroes]

Any other questions about living in an obnoxiously small town?

The Mundane [Small-Town Teenage Superheroes]

<Snipped quote by Kirah>

Is it free? Or do they have to pay? DO they even have that for a small town like Verona?

@Symphoni

Yeah the town I grew up in (which is considerably smaller than verona had to ship us two towns over for middle and high school. It is free too! \o/ (though very boring and now I'm thinking of where on the bus Tessa would sit. Verona would probably have five or six busses for the high school and two to three for the elementary. Though I see no sign of it the middle school is either split between the elementary and the high school or near the high school. That would at most have one bus because the middle school tends to be 2-3 grades. When I was going it was only two but shortly after I started high school they built a new middle school and put three grades into it. Given the size of verona, which honestly is bigger than the three towns that all funneled into the one high school combined, they may have more busses. We combined the three all into one bus system and that totalled about 15 busses. Three devoted to the town I specifically grew up in. Verona is a bit more packed in and better planned than the farming town I grew up in so I can see the system being more efficient.