kittyluna45

Northwood Academy

@kittyluna45 Collab for teacher bitch fight? :D

(Also, six posts in one day. Jesus.)

@McHaggis

Yup!

Northwood Academy

Well. It really is end times. Ash and Katalina are friends.

Northwood Academy

Katalina Hargraves and Ash Mareinos

In the Gym

Katalina tapped her foot agitatedly as she waited for Ms Standiford to start talking. This was just icing on the cake of one of the worst days ever. She hoped the first words out of the headmistresses mouth were: “The police are on their way and we’re shutting down the school.” If they weren't, she was definitely hitching a ride into town with the music teacher. She was tired of things getting swept under the rug, and she was sure she wasn’t the only one. She wished that Ben was sitting next to her, but he was with his sister and most of the rest of the theater class. As she looked over and waved, she noticed something was off. All the theater kids were whispering to one another, and looking a bit spooked.

Her attention was brought back to the front of the room as the Headmistress began speaking. Her heart dropped when she heard Arro was dead. They weren’t close, but they had been classmates. She frowned, and then, that was the moment everything toppled upside down.

“AMY!” Tears started pouring out of her eyes, as she lost control like the rest of the student population. Her anger and sadness caused the emergency sprinkler system to burst, showering all the students in the bleachers, causing them to get wet. However, Katalina was not focused on that at the moment as she heard one of her best friend’s voices for the last time.

“Kata, I’m sorry. I didn’t want you to find out this way. I wanted to tell you but everything is so wrong here. This place is bad. No one is safe here.”

“Please no... “ She whimpered out, knowing she was really only speaking to herself. However suddenly she was snapped back to the reality of the gym when she heard a distinctive crackling. Her eyes snapped to the front of the gym where there was a boy with lightning arching off of him. She realized what her actions had done and immediately started pulling water off of the students and the bleachers, making a little cloud of sorts in the gym. She realized she wasn’t alone in this endeavor, and not just from the plants. She looked over to her left and saw Ash. “What the fu… y’know this suddenly makes sense,” she said.

She looked over to see Ash streaming tears from her eyes as well, but more oddly, her skin had gone an odd shade of blue. Katalina withheld her questions for now, focusing on making the water find a safe place to be, that wasn’t in the gym with a dragon, a human spark plug, and panicking students. “Put it outside,” she said and nodded to Ash, who nodded back and helped move the water out of the building.

She looked over and saw that Drummond had rather checked out at the moment and looked back at Ash. “Thanks… …” However, there was one last thing that rang in her mind. Amy had one last thing to impart to Katalina. The lake. Nat’s body had been found in the lake. There was a connection. She knew she needed to find the connection. “So, what did she say to you?” She asked, looking at Ash.

For a second Ash was quiet and then she said, “To stop being such an ass.” She gave a bit of a smile to Katalina. “I’m sorry, we’re not so different are we.”

“Apology accepted. I gotta ask about the skin, but now isn’t the moment. Is Drumm-” Her thought was cut off as Jamie got up and bolted from the gym. “Well, that answers that. Do you happen to know what his skill set is?” She asked. She had the sudden urge to run over and ask Ben what his was, but again, now was not the moment.

“No, but he knows more than he lets on. I’ve got to follow him. We’ll talk more I promise.” Ash started climbing down the bleachers after Jamie.

“Wait. Give him a moment. He looked distressed, like he had a lot on his mind.” Ash paused in her pursuit. “Also… Did the theater teacher just punch Miss Standiford?” Katalina turned to see what was going on, since there was now a clamor from the students. Of course, it could be that there was still a dragon in the gym.

“Never mind, that isn’t the issue right now. I may need your help. You know your lake? There’s something about it, and this school. We’re going to need to figure out what it is,” Katalina said. It was a bit odd to her in that moment. Only an hour ago talking to Ash like this was not a thing that happened, but it was amazing what happened when you found out that the person who seemingly disliked you found more in common with you than a love for swimming.

Ash stared at Katalina confused at the words ‘your help’. Finally she seemed to be knocked out of the confusion. “We’ll get to the bottom of this whole thing. For her.” Her voice hardened and nearly cracked.

“For all of them. Nat, Arro and Amy were not the first, but hopefully, we can make them the last,” Katalina said, clutching her fist. She was determined to make that be true. Ash nodded and stepped back up besides Katalina just as Ms. Standiford started to try to call the students back into order, an order that was not going to happen soon.

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Will try to have a post up for Katalina later, will be on chat later if anyone is intersted in collabing.

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I make no apologies for the sap.

Northwood Academy

Stella Herbalem and Tobias Rivenridge

Gym: Shortly after all the Stuff went down

Stella was keeping close to Tobias in the gym as the Headmistress started talking. Stella pretty much already knew what was going, since she had been one of the students to find poor Arro. However, suddenly, something happened.

She wasn’t quite sure what had happened at first. Then suddenly, she heard all the plants screaming and could feel every single little movement. She was suddenly one with nature in a way that she had never been before. The plants around the gymnasium suddenly covered the windows, and darkened the gym.

She was suddenly snapped out of it as it started getting wet and she got a very puzzled look on her face, and then looked around the gymnasium. “Wh…” There were students on fire, a… dragon? Her puzzled look soon disappeared as knowledge entered her mind. She turned to look at Tobias and then paused as she looked at him.

What she saw was the person who had been comforting her only minutes before turning as white as a sheet. His eyes widened briefly as they looked at his feet- or rather the metal structure he sat on- then flicked over to her, dripping wet among the rest of the students. Horror visibly filled his countenance as he seemed to come to a realization, and as the air around them began to snap and crackle he was standing and shoving himself away from her. Stella was a bit confused for a moment, and then realized what that crackle meant. They had found seats near the edge of the bleachers closest to the door, which meant Tobias had gone no more than 2 steps before he was leaping off of them toward the floor. As soon as he landed, electricity began to arc and leap off of him in random directions. By some miracle none of them struck the now soaked bleachers, but there was no mistaking the shout that came from Tobias’ mouth as he wrestled with it.

Stella’s eyes went wide, and she focused. The plants suddenly burst through the windows, and started absorbing the water, lessing the shock factor. Now was not the time to play dumb. She look and realized that it wasn’t just her pulling the water away, there was another older student pulling the water into a cloud of sorts. ”Well that’s one less problem at the moment… no one is going to have their hair ruined… is right now the time for humor Stella? Really? There is a dragon, Tobias is a human Tesla Coil, and one of the teachers is yelling at the headmistress and Miss Standiford… oh… that Mrs. Wellington… No! Focus!” Stella focused the plants, which started going back outside and returning to their normal size. She then slumped over a moment and groaned. ”Ugh...I’ve never used them like that before…”

She looked at Tobias, trying to see if he was still sparking, and winced, still recoiling from the over usage of her powers.

As she looked, the sparking seemed to be affecting the area less, but at the same time there was more of it flashing around Tobias himself. His head rotated slowly, like he was looking for something, before finally settling on the gym doors that had been blown open by some student or another. The electricity condensed even more around him, until finally a great flash blinded her and anybody else in the area as a bolt of lightning erupted from Tobias’ hand, outstretched toward the open doors as a way to direct it outside of the gym and into the empty air. There was a bit of cussing at the flash. Finally, as the light show died away and Stella could see again, she found Tobias laying on his back, arm still extended as though he was waiting for a second bolt, and breathing heavily… but alive, and seemingly unharmed.

“Tobias!!” Stella bolted from the bleachers and dashed over to Tobias and dropped to his side. “Are you alright? I mean… besides the whole being a human conductor thing, are you alright?” She asked, concern written all over her face.

He didn’t answer, for a moment. It was some time before he even took his eyes off of whatever point he had focused on outside. When at last he looked at her, he exhaled significantly and leaned back on the ground, tension leaving his shoulders as she watched. “Yeah,” he said, “Yeah, I’m alright. Arm’s a little tingly, but I don’t shock myself when I do that, thankfully.” His eyes went wide again as he sat up partially, looking over her. “Oh God! please tell me I didn’t…!”

“No no no… you missed. Luckily. The water has been dissipated, so, no one here is that much at risk anymore, I guess. Well at least from being shocked, however, there is a dragon, and uh… I’m pretty sure the bleachers are broken beyond repair, and I kinda broke the windows, and may have caused some damage to some lovely plants, but you’re alright, and I’m alright and uh…” Stella was rambling, and she knew it. It was a coping mechanism.

Suddenly, her rambling was broken up by a bout of laughter. Tobias’ laughter, in fact, as he reclined onto the floor again. When he saw the confused look on Stella’s face, he pulled himself up and patted her on the shoulder. “Sorry, so sorry,” he apologized, “It’s just kinda funny to me. We were just talking about how this place seemed odd this morning, and then we find out about… well, all of this!” After a few more chuckles, he took a deep breath and calmed down again. “I suppose I owe you something of an explanation. Though, I’m not sure what else there is to explain after all of that.”

Stella blinked and let out a small chuckle. “Uh… well in case you couldn’t tell, my power has to deal with plants. Surprise,” she said and chuckled again. “But an explanation would be lovely, but maybe not right here and now… I think most of the student body is still wigging out here. Also, I’m not sure if staying at this school is the smartest move at this point,” she said and frowned a bit.

He paused and seemed to consider that. “You may be right,” he responded after some time, “This place being what it is, suddenly those deaths and missing persons are even scarier than they were before.”

“But at the same time,” he continued, “I’m not sure what other options we have. And personally? I’ve got some questions I’d like answered. Best move right now might be to sit tight and let the dust settle before any of us do something rash. I think I can say that not many blokes’ll be looking to tangle with me after that just now, though,” he said as he nodded his head toward the students staring at him bewilderingly, “So you’d probably be pretty safe sticking round me. If you wanted to, that is.”

Stella blushed deeply. “I should be the one saying that. Of course I want to stick around you! I’m not going to abandon you just because I found out that you can create your own power. I actually think it’s kinda cool. I mean...uh…” She blushed more, her face resembling a shade close to her hair. “Ugh I’m a dork… I don’t see why you’d want me to stick around,” she mumbled.

“Oh?” Tobias replied as he raised an eyebrow in what she could only assume was sarcasm, “How about this reason, then?” When she turned to look at him quizzically, he leaned in and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. Her face went redder still, and he took the chance to rub her head affectionately, with the static he produced by accident tousling it all the more. “Come on now,” he said, “No need to go beating yourself up. I like you just the way you are, Stella. Now come here,” he finished as he put his arms around her and invited her back toward his chest again.

Stella smiled and cuddled a bit close and closed her eyes. “And I like you just the way you are as well Tobias,” she said, wrapping her arms around him. She leaned up and gave him a kiss on the cheek in return. “Just in case you couldn’t tell,” she said and let out a small giggle. Sure, things were awful all around them, but in that moment, only really one thing mattered to Stella and that was knowing that she would be alright with Tobias.

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Sorry for double post, but @Saltwater Thief we should probably do another collab since Stella and Tobias are literally next to eachother.

Northwood Academy

Oh boy.

Also warning for everyone. If any of your characters has plant allergies, its going to suck.

Also its going to get wet.

Frontier – [ Full || Sci-Fi || Firefly-Inspired ]

JINXY'S WORST FEAR EVER!

That would actually be hilarious if that is what happened.

Frontier – [ Full || Sci-Fi || Firefly-Inspired ]

It won't matter much who goes with who for the first couple of posts so if anyone goes with anyone that'll be rad. My recommendation is to pick someone your character hasn't talked to yet, though!

On a somewhat related note, would you guys prefer to have important plot things and NPCs (in fights etc) controlled by me to have your characters react to in actual IC posts, or would you prefer to have me PM what'll happen so you can write it out yourselves?

@McHaggis

I'd prefer to be able to react to things myself, if that is alright. However, not sure what Jinxy will be able to react to since she will be cooped up in the ship.