Lady Seraphina

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

He wishes he could wear his gear all day, but...meh

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

I forgot such a pesky thing as a school uniform.

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@Prince of Seraphs, Oswald's actually in the Beacon uniform now.

Just wanted to point that out

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

My bad, I'll fix it.

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Sapphire Rode - Dormitories ==> Beacon Roofs

The thing that surprised Sapphire most was Shiro's complete lack of reaction to almost being impaled. It was pretty clear that he'd knew she'd seen the pill bottle. There was a certain look in his eye that worried her: desperation. It was pretty easy for her to judge people's characters and while Shiro may have been a huntsman in training aside from his destructive tendencies he was not a violent person. However desperation through anything Sapphire could ever learn about a person into chaos, back a desperate man into a corner and he could very well do anything to escape. While Sapphire herself was the one in the literal corner it was pretty clear that Shiro felt just as trapped by her knowledge of his medication.

He took a step towards her, then another his strips burned into existence over his fur. Sapphire had seen those before, in the ring. As far as she could tell they served no functional purpose but they signified one thing: Battle mode. The girl in blue became uncomfortably aware that Shiro's standard combat weapons were still strapped to his back from the morning's classes while hers with the exception of the anelaces, one of which was buried in the wall Sapphire's weapons where in the school weapons lockers.

He wouldn't attack her would her? She felt confident in that fact... then again they'd never been on the best of terms. Despite what she might have thought of him Sapphire's mind began computing scenarios lightning fast. Sapphire was a fairly adept hand to hand fighter. She could take most people without weapons, but then again Shiro was not most people. He was a faunus, he had superior strength and while she had faith that she could match or more than likely exceed his speed there didn't seem to be anywhere to run.

The look in his eyes was tortured and fierce, like he was battling with himself, or else he was having psychotic episode which those meds where meant to prevent. In her mind Sapphire planned. She'd kick him in the nuts and draw he remaining weapon. She'd strike his face with the handle which would sufficiently stun him to allow her to make her escape. The sword and shield on his back where not suited to this enclosed space. She's escape though the window, she'd already proved that the building was easily climbed and the uncoordinated Shiro would have difficulty following.

Before any of that became necessary however Shiro seemed to give up. His strips vanished and his ears flattened. He retrieved his pills and exited the bathroom without a word. Not wanting to tempt fate again Sapphire waited for him to leave before leaving the bathroom. Now knowing surely that she needed to talk to him about those pills, preferably in a public place, Sapphire decided to let the matter rest.

Her escape plan had given her an idea however. The roofs of the Beacon buildings were all connected for those that could climb decently, long as you weren't trying to get to Ozpin's office. She could get a birds eye view of wherever the music was coming from and likely make it back to Oswald faster.

She looked at the window for a moment before climbing over the sill and onto the outer wall. It was not the easiest climb in the world but Sapphire had done more difficult things. The dormatories where only three stories high and she'd started on the second level. Once she made it onto the roof everything became much simpler, from this position she was able to navigate onto taller buildings in the immediate vicinity without too much trouble. The tiles did not offer the best grip but Sapphire's boots had been designed to compensate for such things. She moved over the roofs like an experienced thief.

It wasn't long before she found the crowd that was moving towards the music. They were apparent even from several stories up. Sapphire circled round the to the building above the crowd. After several minutes of looking she finally spotted Oswald. Given he was wearing the same thing as everyone else it was difficult to pick him out. Luckily Sapphire remembered he'd been standing next to Diamond who even in uniform kept her trade mark hat. The black hat contrasted sharply with the surrounding hair colors.

Knowing her voice wouldn't travel to the ground or penetrate the music Sapphire instead sent him a text on her scroll.

To: Oswald Connolly
From: Sapphire Rode
Subject: Greetings

Body: Look up.

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And the results:

@Crimmy - An interesting story, a little off the beaten path but well conceived non the less. It carried I think most of the qualities a good story should have even if it was a little really weird.

@NarayanK - I did like your story, it was well thought out and nicely written however I did stipulate that I didn't want a classic fairy tale rewritten and though I am not personally well acquainted with the Japanese fairy tale your entree was based off you admitted yourself that it was.

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN - An enjoyable read, that being said it wasn't really a fairy tale. It was well written but it didn't follow the criteria of the prompt.

@KabenSaal - That does not even dignify a response however I feel I should impart to you two pieces of advice. Firstly I do not appreciate being mocked. Secondly and this doesn't just apply to the contests but it applies heavily too them, try to write something of substance. If you simply put in an entree because no one else has hoping to win on the off chance that no one else enters you are never going to get any credits. I guarantee that someone will always submit an entree that has at least a small amount of effort which will beat out no effort every time. This doesn't just apply to the contests but to RPing and in fact writing in general. People will respect you more as an RPer and as a writer if you make it clear that your writings means something too you rather than something to be tossed away at the first opportunity.

I'm sorry about that everyone, I guess I'm better at giving advice and criticism than I am compliments. For those of you that tried I really did enjoy your entrees even if I'm not altogether very good at nailing down exactly why. You all did a good and thorough job on them regardless of who gets the credits. On that note it's time to announce the winners. In second place winning a grand total of exactly One Credit is @NarayanK. And in first place for a spectacular prize of Two Credits is.... drum role please *sound of drums* *Thump thump thump thump* the Winner is @Crimmy. Congratulations everyone, whether you won or not you all did excellent jobs. I leave the Contests of Champions in the capable hands of Lugubrious.

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Sapphire Rode - Dorm Rooms

Sapphire took a picture of the prescription on the side of the bottle of pills with her scroll for future reference. This was important but she didn't think now was the best time to deal with it. The team was scattered across the campus, besides she rather wanted to have a private chat with Shiro before telling everyone else. There was always the small chance that she'd misread the facts. It was best she be armed with all the knowledge possible before committing to anything.

She may not have exactly liked Shiro, fact was she found him annoying, boisterous and not coordinated or focused enough to be hunter material but that didn't mean that she would take pleasure in humiliating him in front of the rest of the team which was more than likely how Shiro would respond to having this brought out into the open. No, Sapphire would deal with this later, for the moment she'd put the pill bottle back, return to the rest of the crowd, lend Oswald her spare pair of earplugs and see if they couldn't find out exactly what was causing that infernal music.

Sapphire heard a gasp and a thud sound behind her and before she could put either of those sounds together or register who it was that had gasped her mind registered one thing: Danger, Intruder. Quick as a lightning Sapphire dropped the pill bottle back in the sink and unsheathed one of the school's anelaces that she'd been using in place of Morpheus and Phobator and threw it hard towards the sound. At the last moment Sapphire realized who was standing at the door. It was took late to stop the weapon but she managed to change its course slightly. It lodged in the wall a few millimeters from Shiro's head. A could strands of his white fire severed and impaled along with it.

Not willing to admit fault or to bring up the pill bottle just yet Sapphire looked at the tiger faunus with disdain. "It's rude to sneak up on people, especially when they're armed." she said with her eyes narrowed. She'd dropped the pill bottle more or less where she'd found it and the threat on his life was likely enough to distract him from the fact that she'd been holding it. Shiro's mental state was not an issue that Sapphire was prepared to deal with here at this moment. While she would if it was necessary the azure haired girl much preferred to postpone that conversation for another time. After all at this moment there was work to do.

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Wow, this thing is still alive.

@Tearstone

Whoa... Everyone a ghost of the past graces us, show the proper respect.

Did you ever doubt we would survive?

Starfire

More or less, we're slowing down a bit but I think we're still moving steadily.

I'm still trying to decide if shooting the T-40s power distributors is going to make something bad happen or not.

And man is it harder to think up engineering jargon than I thought. I have renewed respect for the writers of Star Trek and will try to laugh less during the episode when La Forge has to replace the Enterprise's Flux Capacitor.

Legend of Zelda: A New Story

"I'm going to unhook Epona from the cart, can you go find Navi.

@Apollosarcher

Even if he suspects Link wouldn't be sure enough of Navi's identity to use her name in casual conversation.

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Aww, @Prince of Seraphs you suck for that! xD

Was not expecting Sapphire to do anything like that. This should be good.

@harinezumikouken

You left a pill bottle in the sink and made a big deal about wanting to return to hide it. What was I going to do not find it?

@Prince of Seraphs, should I assume Sapphire would return after the whole pill thing with the earplugs, or...?

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

Yeah she'll be back soon enough.

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@Guess Who

For the record spawn would be a closer approximation of Venom's relation to carnage. After he repossessed Eddie Brock in prison he left behind a single celled simbiote that evolved quickly into Carnage and possessed Brock's cell mate the serial killer Cletus Kasady.

Reminds me of this Gotta love me some Johnny Cash. I fucking love this video.

@harinezumikouken

Why doesn't Sapphire get theme music :(