The Psi

[Charizard04621]

OOC: Kuro, earth attracts electricity because of its relatively positive charge... It'll hurt, all right. No living creature is immune to the pain of electrical charge passing through its body. This isn't pokemon, I'd assume VP meant for this RPG's laws of nature to resemble somewhat those of Physics. ^_^;

[Kuro Espeon]

OOC: Yeah, umm....I was joking, Char..... lol. You know, since this is a pokemon board, I made a Pokemon referance... wasn't being serious at all! :p

[Asilynne]

~~~Aeryn McFallon, Electro-Psi~~~
Some who say Ive lost my mind...
Brother try and hope to find...



“Don’t worry. I’m here now. There’s nothing to worry about.”

I was stunned, literally in shock as my brother put his arms around me and said those words. I attacked my own brother, sure, I thought he was a ninja, but oh what a stupid fear that seems now. I felt his strength and comfort as he hugged me, but after a moment I also felt him become slightly limp and weakened, probably due to the electricity I shot at him a moment ago. Killed him... Those words ran through my head again and I squeezed him tightly, fearing for him and myself. How could I let myself get this way, so out of control. Im usually so collected, how could I let this happen? I hurt my own brother.

Frozen in the place I hide
Not afraid to paint my sky with
Some who say I’ve lost my mind
Brother try and hope to find

You were always so far away
I know that pain so don’t you run away
Like you used to do

Little sparks of electricity discharged from my fingertips. All the Im sorrys in the world wouldnt even come close to how I felt. This was one moment I wished I could cry. My body discharged electricity as my form of crying, but it didnt heal the soul. It just made me tired, emotionally and physically.
Suddenly he pulled away and looked in the direction my car had come from. Looking up with a throbbing head and shattered soul I saw a form coming towards me but I knew better than to attack. If it was a ninja I was too exhasted to do much of anything anyway, and at the moment I didnt care about my own safety. But fortunately it was someone who did.
“S-Selene?” I stuttered as my abused nerves shook my whole body. Too much time holding it in, too many things happening, my strength and my defenses were shot. I couldnt fight the feelings any longer.
So all I could do was listen to what she had to say. "Don't run away from us. Don't hide in a place where we can't follow. Be honest with us as well as yourself, for if you don't it'll only make your friends worry more.” I never thought of this before, I had always figured that if they saw how strong I was in times of crises they would take comfort in it and believe we could pull through. It never even occured to me that they know it wasnt what I was feeling. “This will pass...but it'll only get better if you let us help you. And we can't...if you slam the door in our faces and refuse to let us in. Please Aeryn, if you're trying to be strong for everyone then just stop it. First and foremost, before you can help us, you have to help yourself."
She was so right, no one had ever said that to me before. I was thinking for so long that I was helping people by keeping it all inside but I wasnt, because they cared about me, they saw I wasnt as strong as I tried to be and they worried when I wouldnt talk about it. How could I have been so stupid? How could I have believed everything was ok when it so obviously wasnt? Part of me still resisted, part of me wished Kailie would come out of her house now so I could get in my car and escape from the truth of how I felt.
But there was another part of me that was relieved, relieved that someone KNEW I had weaknesses, that someone knew and didnt mind, someone that was asking me whats wrong for once. Looking from my brother, who was now sitting on a branch of a tree that had sprouted suddenly and resting, to Selene, who was looking me right in the eyes, right in my soul, waiting for an answer, and I sighed deeply.

You were always so far away
I know that pain and I won’t run away
Like I used to do

Then I let it all out. The sparks flew from my fingertips as I crouched on the ground, sobbing without liquid tears as Selene put an arm around me. “Its everything! All this stress, the ninjas attacking! Who would want to kill us? What have we ever done to anyone but exist! Im just so afraid....” I said in a choking voice as my body shook uncontrollably. “Im afraid someone will hurt you all, Im afraid someone will hurt me, Im afraid something will happen and Ill be too weak to protect everyone I care about.....It would be my fault if that happened! Im too afraid to sleep so I charge myself up with electricity, but that only makes me buzz more and my mind wont stop working and I keep thinking of all these things that could go wrong tonight with everyone split up! We were attacked today! Whos to say they wont attack again!”
Selene listened through my sobs and patted me on the back. She let me ‘cry’ into the ground for a while until I calmed down a little, then her quiet sensible voice spoke up. “Whos to say they will?”
Sniffling a bit, the sounds of static crackling around me, I looked at her, the shaking subsiding. She went on. “Nothing has happened yet so its safe to say that theyll be waiting for daylight. And even should they attack tonight, theyll have to deal with an Electro-Psi with her friends the Neuro-Psi, Terra-Psi, Glacia-Psi, and Aqua-Psi. Do you honestly think theyll stand a chance? We ll do it together if anything happened, its not you by yourself. Stop thinking your all alone.”
“Make that two Terra-Psi’s.” A voice came from behind me. Looking around I saw Kailie had come out of her house, and was standing next to my car with her cat in her arms smiling. Standing up quickly I couldnt help but give a little laugh through my stress. I had felt so alone, when I had no reason to. I realised me trying to stay strong for everyone else was keeping them at a distance, and they wouldnt reject me for showing fear. If they did then they werent my friends to begin with. Feeling better for the first time since the attacks I looked around at my friends. “Thanks...” I said. I loved them all. Walking over to Teran I helped him up and into my car.

You were always so far away
I know the way so don’t you run away
Like you used to do
Like you used to do

“Lets go home guys....I think Im actually kind of sleepy.”
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^,-,^ Song (c) Alice in Chains-Brother

[Master Rudy]

And now a quick look into the typical life of Mr. Winters

Alex Winters
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“You see me now a veteran of a billion psychic wars. I’ve been living on the lands where the winds of limbo.....dammit!”

While the party was raging outside here I was in the garage trying to get my guitar tuned. As far as I was concerned you couldn’t have a party if you didn’t have me, my guitar and a little classic rock. Of course without someone else that knew the guitar and someone that knew the drums we’d all have to settle for acoustic versions but it sure as hell was better than nothing. “Oh well....might as well go back and not leave the others hanging.”

Upon leaving the garage however I saw exactly how little of a party was going on right now. The only one that was left was Guthrie. After one last quick look around to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks I said “What the hell kind of party is this Guthrie?! Where in the blue hell is everyone else?” Guthrie was currently sitting in a corner quietly and appeared to be meditating. Without moving or opening his eyes his reply was “Well had you been in here instead of trying to fix a badly off key guitar you would have known that Aeryn went to go pick up one of her friends. The others followed out of concern but everyone should be back shortly. Oh and you also got the words to that song wrong.” Hearing that from Guthrie caught me off guard. “Wait a second” I started to say. “You mean to tell me that the guitar is off key?”

My poor attempt at humor in the light of something a little more serious didn’t seem to strike him as funny considering that he went ahead and shot me a quick glare before shutting his eyes once again. With a chuckle I just continued on. “Come on Guth! You know I’m not serious. This party takes a back seat to the safety of the others. I just wish someone would have let me know so I coulda gone as well. In any event I know they’ll be ok if they watch each others backs. Besides I doubt the ninjas will be dumb enough to strike again so soon against an even larger group. Anyway no sense in sitting back and doing nothing. Let’s get this show on the road!” Before Guthrie could say anything I quickly grabbed a few Coronas and cracked them open. Setting them on the floor I shouted over my shoulder “I’ll be damned if this party is dull just because no one is here for the time being. We’ll have beer snakes swimming in my belly, off key music and one hell of a story to tell in the morning!” Not even waiting for an answer I rolled up a blunt, lit it up and got back to work on the guitar. This stoned drunk was going to make sure we all had a good time. In fact I figured it was time for some fun. Grabbing the phone I decided to call one of those naked cheerleaders......
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You’ve got to fight.....for your right.......TO PARRRRRRRR-TTTTYYYYYY!!!!!
Oh and 10 points if anyone guesses the group that performed the song Alex was singing (SINGING WRONG YOU STONED MORON!!!!!)while trying to tune his guitar ^_~

[VirtualPlay]

Alright, seems like now is a better time to move on, so let us go!

Shizo: Sorry if you had other plans, but I really need to get this moving and this is how I can see your character reacting ^^;

Mike - Aero
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"Um…" Sally said, looking at her feet. "Sure…I guess…thanks…" I looked at her and could tell that just as I had been trapped by my asking the question, so had she. Because of my stupid question, neither of us could really decline without the possibility of making the other feel bad in some way.

I quickly put on a face that I hoped resembled happiness or excitement. "Well, I'll just go home quickly and come back with my sleeping bag and stuff, that should give you time to get ready, right?" Sally simply nodded, barely looking up, and even through the shadows caused by her hair and the angle of the light, I could tell she was blushing quite hard. "Al-alright then, I'll be back soon." And I ducked out of her window and was flying home again, much faster than earlier.

Ten minutes later I was home, my skin cold because I had flown too fast to keep the air warm. I slipped into my window again, then quickly got ready for bed. I packed my sleeping bag up and gathered clothes for the next day, stuffing them into a small backpack. I then yelled to my (fortunately) still-awake parents that I was sleeping over at a friend's house again (which they said okay to, thankfully), and then was off again, ten minutes after I had gotten home. My black pajama pants fluttered in the wind a lot more than my jeans, but I really didn't care.

On my way back, which I took a little more slowly, I decided to once again practice what I had been testing recently. Carefully, I turned in the air and reached out to put my sleeping bag to the side of me, then let go of the backpack. Putting just a little more effort into it, I managed to keep it flying next to me, even though I wasn't holding it. By the time I had reached Sally's house again, it was a second nature to me to keep it flying.

I knocked on her window again, just to be polite. "Come in," she said quietly, and I dumped my sleeping bag in before climing in myself. Her room was now lit only by the light on her night-stand. She was sitting on her bed in her own pajamas, and I quickly looked down at my sleeping bag to try and hide my blush of embarrassment from her. I unrolled it and laid it down near her bed without really realizing what I did.

"Um, do you need a pillow?" Sally asked, and I looked up at her. She was holding one of her pillows in front of her, partially obscuring her face. I looked down and realized I hadn't thought to bring one. I nodded, feeling quite sheepish, and she held out the pillow for me. I took it and put it at the head of my sleeping bag, then lay down on it myself. Sally turned off her lamp, and the only light now came from the moon outside.

"Goodnight," I said, rolling over. Her pillow was really comfortable.

"Goodnight…" I heard Sally say. She might have said something else, but I was already asleep. I had a mostly blank night, but eventually my dreams came, and unfortunately they were affected by the previous day.

I was facing another ninja, but instead of wearing black he was completely clad in white. And what was even more different, he was using Psi powers. And no matter how I countered his moves, he kept coming back at me. I returned his water attack as a water spout, but he jumped right up after getting hit. His flames I turned into a flamethrower for myself, but even though his clothes got burned, somehow he healed himself completely after the fire died away.

Suddenly there was a huge pressure on my stomach, followed by a girl's scream. I woke up, yelling in surprise at both the pressure and the scream. It took me a couple seconds to remember I was at Sally's house. She was on her bed hugging her legs, her eyes wide in shock. Suddenly she seemed to come out of a small trance and started apologizing profusely, "Ohmygod! I'm so sorry Mike! I completely forgot you were there!"

"Sally!" I said, louder than I planned, but at least it stopped her from apologizing. "It-it was an accident, don't worry about it." She hugged her legs more tightly, looking down at her knees. "Listen, as long as I'm up, I'll go get changed and let you do the same, okay?" I didn't wait for an answer, though, because I had a feeling it would have been another quiet nod.

I grabbed my backpack and left her room, closing the door slightly more loudly than I would have liked. But at the moment I didn't care. At the moment I was having problems with Sally's sudden attitude change. She and I used to be good friends, and now it was like there was something wrong with me that she didn't like, something she was afraid of, even.

I went to the bathroom and started getting ready, still thinking of what could be wrong with Sally. It was like she was embarrassed to be around me. Like I was something she didn't want to be around. No, wait, that didn't make sense. As I finished putting on my clean, plain black T-shirt, I had an even stranger thought. Maybe…maybe it was the opposite of hating something about me. Maybe she…

Maybe she liked me.

My heart skipped a beat as I had that thought. What surprised me most was how much it fit. There was almost nothing that would have made her not like me, but it was entirely possible for her to like me more than before.

"I shouldn't get my mind onto one track…" I said aloud. Maybe she did like me, but I needed to not make that definite in my mind in case she didn't. We were still friends, and friends apologize to each other. I gathered up my clothes from last night and went and knocked on her door.

"Just a minute!" she called out, and I heard more shuffling inside. Sure enough, after a minute she opened her door, and she stood there dressed in another pair of jeans and shirt, her hair up in a looser braid than yesterday. It looked a little more messily done, in my opinion, possibly because she had hurried.

"Hey," I said, walking into her room, "I'm sorry I kind of exploded on you this morning. I was still kind of tired."

"It's okay," she said, looking at me. I wasn't a Neuro-Psi like her, but I could sense she was still feeling awkward at what I had done and said. I decided to leave before she exploded or something.

"Well, I guess I'll see you at three, then," I said, rolling my sleeping bag up.

"Huh? Oh yeah…" Sally said; she must have forgotten the meeting overnight. I only hoped nobody else did. I opened her window, feeling the fresh air blow over me. Suddenly remembering my letter, I summoned it to me on a gust of wind, then took off through the window towards my house again.

Of course, my house was boring, save talking to Trina online for a bit (who had fortunately remembered the meeting). But as there really wasn't anything else to do, I left the house early and had gotten to Mine's Field again by 2:30. What shocked me was I wasn't the first one there. Jason was there, with another guy I remembered to be Noah. With a jolt I realized Noah hadn't been at the meeting the previous day, and counting people in my memory, I realized I had counted wrong. Only fifteen of us had been there.

I greeted them when I came over; Jason looked like he hadn't slept at all since yesterday, while Noah had a pillow next to him, indicating he had probably slept on a bench or something. Eventually, as three drew nearer, everyone managed to show up, and this time I counted properly and saw sixteen of us.

"Well," I said once everyone had gathered; ignoring Jason's eyes on Whitney and Dax, and trying not to look at Sally, I continued, "I think we might have a problem here: according to the postmark, whoever sent these letters send them from this city right here." There were murmurs about this, and I added, "I also thought that it's possible, with this whole week being as it was…"

"…that whoever attacked us also caused this Psi-less epidemic?" Selene interrupted me. "That's what I thought too."

"Yeah, I'm thinking we should see if we can find any clues as to his — or her — whereabouts today." I finally looked at Sally for the first time since I had left her house, but only because I was looking between her and Selene. "If you two can help at all, it would be nice to possibly have you around to help sense possible disturbances. Though I don't know what they'd be like."

Sally gave another one of her short-and-silent nods, while Selene nodded a little more naturally and said, "Sure."

Suddenly, Jason spoke up, and it definitely sounded as if he had gotten zero sleep last night. "Hey, I think we should wait an hour or two to give some people the chance to tell parents or family or whatnot…" and he trailed off, slumping onto the grass. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Whitney move towards him.

I heard a murmur of dissent, some general chatting and yelling that had little to do with the situation on hand, finishing with a small din of agreement; we eventually compromised on meeting in an hour and a half, at 5. Most people were still just hovering, though a few people started to move off. I noticed Jason flop the rest of the way onto the grass, falling asleep. The hilarity of it was lost in our sudden determination to possibly face some guy who was trying to kill us.

But we never fully parted. As people were just leaving, the trees were suddenly filled with movement, and lots of it. In no time at all we were surrounded by a circle of even more ninjas; we were outnumbered by about three-to-one, give or take a couple ninjas. The difference was this time they were dressed all in white. I felt electricity crackle in the air as Aeryn, Trina, and Gav tensed up, and the wind around me also tensed as I looked at them.

"I'd have thought your boss would be smart enough to not try the same thing again," Nox said to them, rather calmly, "but it seems I was wrong." I felt the air loosen as he went to attack them, but then suddenly three ninjas moved and blocked his wind punch with Aero powers of their own.

"I'd say that's not the same thing again, Nox," Kailie said, and I felt the ground shake a little, possibly from her own fear. I could sense even more of the elements around me grow uneasy from everyone being on edge.

All of a sudden, two ninjas peeled forward at me, sending out streams of fire. On instinct I pushed wind forward, causing the flames to erupt into a burning firestorm, which caught their clothes. They quickly put out the fires, but it had given me an idea.

"Everyone! Combine your Psi powers with each other!" I yelled out, followed by, "Okay, that was definitely corny, but it should still work!" And sure enough, as three more ninjas — Terra-Psi by the looks of the ground moving under them — flew at where Dax and Whitney were, they both unleashed their Psi powers and suddenly a small cyclone appeared, sending the soaking ninjas flying.

That's when I realized: Jason was still unconscious! And if nothing that had already happened had woken him, nothing was going to. I was about to say something, but when I looked closer it seemed Whitney and Dax had already taken up the post of defending him. Instead I turned the other way, grouping up with Sarah to take on another group of ninjas with our firestorm.
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Jason collapsing was already worked out beforehand. Also, here is a table of elemental Psi combos; for same-type Psi combos, you'd just increase the power; and for Neuro-Psi, you can control others' Psi powers to a very low extent, or you can amplify other Psi powers. (For any term you don't understand, Wikipedia is your friend. Then again, you could also IM or PM me.)

TerraPyroAquaGlaciaAeroElectro
Terra---VolcanoMudslideAvalanceSandstormMeteor
PyroVolcano---CycloneAntipodeFirestormExplosion
AquaMudslideCyclone---SleetHurricaneThunderstorm
GlaciaAvalanceAntipodeSleet---SnowstormHailstorm
AeroSandstormFirestormHurricaneSnowstorm---Anticyclone
ElectroMeteorExplosionThunderstormHailstormAnticyc lone---

[Roy Karrde]

Jason Peterson

[I] He and I just sat there, silence, utter silence. There was nothing to do, nothing to say, except for the random question about the weather. The previous day’s events would not allow us to really talk. So we just sat there. It was around three o’clock when the sound of footsteps broke the silence. The air was still and then seemed to light up with emotion and ferocity as if a thunderstorm was springing up around us. Some one started singing loudly of some kind of weird rock song but she or maybe he sounded really off key.

Suddenly lightning sprang forth out of nowhere, Noah leaped up next to me and helped block the attack. “Damn, it’s another one of those ninjas, only this one’s electrical” I yelled digging my foot into the ground to get a better balance for a counter attack. I glanced at Noah and nodded before springing forward using the ground to quicken my pace and shorten the distance between our attacker and myself.

“Aeryn? What the hell were you doing? You were trying to kill us?” I asked in stunned surprise. Maybe this was just a mistake, it was dark out. “What are you, with the ninjas or something?” I asked my mind diving to the most irrational explanation possible.

“No, No I’m sorry, I thought…I thought I saw…” She stammered out just as stunned as we were, she quickly turned about with out completing the sentence and walked back. Sighing and realizing that we were not in any real danger I returned to Noah and slumped against the bench. Now if anyone else wouldn’t kill us until the meeting, everything would be good.

It was around three when everyone finally showed up, Mike began to drone on about the Psi epidemic and some other non-sense while I kept my eyes on Whitney. Her and Dax were just standing there looking like nothing had happened. The thoughts of the night before began to boil back up again. I had to find a way to keep my mind off of it. “Hey, I think we should wait an hour or two to give some people the chance to tell parents or family or what not” I snapped back into the conversation after listening to it for a bit.

I knew I looked like crap, last night I had gotten zero hours of sleep while everyone else probably slept comfortably. Sighing I took a guess that the meeting was over and that we would meet back here in a hour or so, that would give me so much time to sleep. Turning I began to walk back home to gather my stuff when I felt a hand on my shoulder. “Jason, about yesterday…” A voice began it was Whitney and she sounded abit choked up about the whole thing.

“Forget it” I shrugged her hand off still angry with the events of last night flashing through my head at warp speed.

“I didn’t mean to hurt you” She replied her voice even more softer now.

“You DIDN’T?” I exploded and spun around in a blind rage. “I thought our friendship meant more to you than that, how could you just run off to Dax’s house, I thought…you would at least consider coming to me” I yelled yet my voice became softer and more sad in tone as I reached the end of the sentence.

Whitney looked at me completely stunned. “How did you…know?” She asked looking to be on the verge of tears.

“I…” I began the full weight of sleeplessness now sagged down on my shoulders, as my voice became one of someone who felt helpless. “I sat outside of your house last night, I was scared to death that they may come back that they may…hurt you” I whispered dropping my head and looking down at the grass, tears began to run down my cheeks again.

“Jason…I-” She began but cut herself off either too shocked or confused on what to say.

I looked back up at her, I must have looked truly pathetic then my eyes were red, tears were coming down my cheek, and I looked like I hadn’t slept in a week. “I…have feelings for you Whitney, I like you I..” I slowly said about to say I love you but I think I got the message across and I didn’t want to go overboard yet at this moment, I could pretty much guess that not only had I gone overboard, I had fallen in the sea and was a million miles away from shore.

I turned and took a few steps and wiped the tears off of my cheeks. Whitney was still standing behind me stunned. Looking up at the sky I closed my eyes and knew that I most likely would not remember what I would do next since I was on the verge of falling asleep. In fact I had the feeling that when I did wake up after I took my nap, that I would forget all of this had happened. Taking the chance that I would forget about it, I spun around on my right foot, grabbed Whitney’s shoulders and leaned in and kissed her on the cheek. At the same time I closed my eyes willing all of the flowers that were in the ground around us to grow making the area around us look almost like a spring garden.

I could feel her cheeks begin to grow warm from blushing so I began to move away. At that moment dizziness began to overtake me. Using my powers after a whole night of worrying and no sleep really was a bad idea. My vision began to blur and I slumped down collapsing into the grass. I tried to will myself to get up but just couldn’t, sleep began to push on all corners of my mind and I welcomed it. Nice, clean, sleep.

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]

Whitney Fairtake
~ Aqua Psi - F ~

[color=royalblue]


Walking to the park with Dax, was a rather interesting process. She had thanked him on many occasions for letting her spend the night… and bothering him, and any other negative emotions he possibly might have felt by her staying there.
Of course, that entire night she had slept… taking about a half an hour to think before drifting off to dream. She couldn’t have wondered how she was blessed with such a great friend… he had said many things that she had never thought of to be true.
Thank you…
She had thought, watching as Dax had disappeared to his own room. It was weird… wearing his clothes, sleeping on the couch. Yeah, definitely wearing his clothes was rather awkward. Then of course, waking up late this morning to discover she had gone beyond oversleeping and Dax had fought off his sisters in the process. At least she could re-wear her own clothes… looking rather the same.
They walked side by side, and Dax seemed rather distant as if thinking some thing for a bit. Whitney studied the sidewalk… it was amazing how many cracks there were in the cement. Her mind was thinking about many things… but she forced them out of her mind for now. The day was rather pleasant. A nice breeze blew against her face and she actually managed to crack a smile. It was sunny out… no clouds… just beautiful blue sky. Perhaps today would be better… she had repented, hadn’t she? Sure it was to Dax… but maybe that wasn’t such a bad mood. Dax truly was… some thing else… to have listened to her.

It made Whitney wonder about him… what exactly did he do? They had hung out on occasion, and he had always been rather pleasant to be around. He tolerated her… at least that was what Whitney believed it to be. Tolerance. She appreciated it though… but of course, she never had thought about what perhaps Dax’s life was like. He had two sisters… she knew that, and she also knew that his parents were gone. Were they gone often? Of course, Dax probably hung out with Trina a lot, since… well Whitney wasn’t sure how she had suddenly jumped to that conclusion with a rather retort in her stomach to it. She instantly blushed at that fact.
“ What are you thinking?” Dax inquired, tilting his head to glance at her and she turned a shade of red about ten times over. “Not…that… it’s my business.. you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.” He added very quickly. Whitney wished for a moment she was a Neuro Psi, but she then quickly blinked a few times and smiled.
“Well actually… I was wondering if-” Whitney’s mind suddenly screamed, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
“-Ah nothing… oh look, the park!” Thank goodness for the park. Absolute relevant conversation change.

Upon arrival, Whitney’s smile soon faded and she looked at Jason and another person. She didn’t recall his name… did she ever? She just recognized his face, although she distinctively remembered he was not at last night’s meeting.
Jason looked horrible- and that was an understatement. It looked as if a train had hit him, and then reversed and hit him again into a lake, where he was attacked by fish, then caught in a tangled net, and dumped overboard onto shore.
Or some thing like that.
Whitney avoided eye contact with him as much as possible… and she glanced at Dax who seemed to be very focused on Mike for some reason. Mike was talking about plans… how they should do some searching for clues today and how the Ninja’s and the Psi epidemic were probably connected. Whitney suddenly felt as if she were standing between a shooting range. At least… a very invisible but very evident one. If that made sense… but she wasn’t thinking very clearly.

The sound of Jason’s voice made her jump as well. It sounded absolutely grotesque. He mentioned some thing about telling our families and then Mike’s meeting at five… but she wasn’t paying much attention. She was staring at Dax’s shoe, and was lost in thought. She must have really hurt Jason’s feelings with that argument last night… she was very evident of that now. She felt bad too… and she wished she hadn’t been so sarcastic to him. Or to anyone for that matter… she usually wasn’t like that, but as if late she had been.

People then began to disperse. “ Hey Dax… I’ll talk to you in a second.” Whitney wasn’t sure why she suddenly was planning things with Dax. Things were getting very sticky and strange. She approached Jason from behind and gently spoke to him, trying to turn him about with an apology. He quickly retorted for her to forget it. Whitney frowned, suddenly feeling a bit vulnerable and trapped at this point. She hadn’t meant to say such bad things.
“ I didn’t mean to hurt you-” She began, finding a bit of courage but Jason suddenly exploded.
“You DIDN’T? I thought our friendship meant more to you than that, how could you just run off to Dax’s house, I thought…you would at least consider coming to me!” His voice trailed off a bit… but there was obvious hurt. Whitney was absolutely shocked…
“Jason.. I-” She began, but she didn’t know what to say. He cared about her that much?

Everything else was a blur. Jason went on… confessing that he liked Whitney and then he had done some thing even more shocking. He kissed her. A gentle kiss upon the cheek… which sparked her to blush furiously (she seemed to be doing that a lot around males). However, it was obvious he hadn’t slept at all… and his energy completely left him. He summoned flowers from the ground to rise upwards as his body crumpled down to the grass, and he was out cold. It was beautiful… the flowers which now surrounded the both of them.
Whitney was still in shock. Some one… liked her? Who the hell would like her? Jason liked her? Her mind was going into a daze, to the point where she herself felt extremely dizzy.
But then… how did she feel? There were so many emotions running about… so many things to think about these days. Not just about Jason… but about…

“Guess what!” Whitney giggled lightly, tiptoeing across the edge of the fountain. The moon’s brilliant rays seemed to playfully dance upon her gentle figure, as she stood before him as the fountain spouted streams of water. The glimmer of the water… the glimmer of her hair… it was a perfect night.
“ I think… I might be… falling in love with you!” She said with a gentle yet cheerful voice, leaning downwards a bit to him. He gazed at her and she saw it in his eyes… that he was feeling the same thing as well. Her heart was pounding hard against her ribcage… and she found her breath seemed to vanish. Instantly it seemed, that they came together… their lips pressing ever so slightly. Such a sweet and soft kiss was almost unimaginable to Whitney, but here it was before her. Emotions swelled like the tide, rising about her. Water from the fountain top was no longer spraying into the fountain… but the water arched to the side of them, turning about so the water was swirling around their two figures. As soon as Whitney realized this, she smiled and the water fountain went back to normal.
“ I love you too.” He said gently, caressing her cheak. “ I’ll love you forever.”

“Whitney!” Dax ran over to her, shaking her shoulder gently and she quickly came to. “Look!” He pointed, and instantly they saw .. more Ninjas? But this time they were dressed in white. Nox attacked them first, but it seemed this time they were Psi’s as well. Dax and Whitney both looked to Mike, who said to combine their powers. Dax seemed ready for a fight and Whitney felt a twinge of confusion… her body definitely was filled with emotions. No wonder she was an Aqua Psi.
“ We’ve gotta protect Jason. Everyone else is too far away and … well, now occupied. Wanna join me, Mr. Pyro?” She said, quickly finding her wits. Dax gave one of his infamous and mysterious grins, with a nod.
They both in front of Jason, looking at about 8 or 9 Ninja’s in front of them. And that was JUST them, everyone else had their own to worry about. Dax’s eyes seemed to dance with fire, and Whitney stared at him for a moment as he instantly summoned a ball of fire to form before them. Whitney gave a nod and twirled her fingers about before her. Instantly water began to form… drawing up from the ground (it was easier to use already supplied water) so that it suddenly began to swirl around the fire. The fire and water began to react with each other… both Dax and Whitney using their powers to make both elements swirl about until suddenly a cyclone was formed.
“That’s neat.” Dax said absently, as they used their combined powers to summon the cyclone straight at the Ninja’s. It hit half of them dead-on… throwing them backwards a ways. The other half was protected by an Aero Psi, and one of them crackled with electricity as well. The ones that had been hit slowly rose up… they were hurt, but it was gonna take a little bit more than that.

“ We can take’m. Let’s make a bigger one.” Whitney said to Dax, feeling suddenly all her pent-up frustrations and confusion being thrusted at the Ninja’s. “A really big one.”

And it’s not good to have the sea take it’s frustrations out on you.

[pokemasterfrank]

OOC – Yars. (@Sarah) I’m writing from first person limited, so everything is from Teran’s perspective :o

Teran
I plopped into the back seats, my body at its limit. I needed rest. It wasn’t every day that a person could take a bolt of lightning and live to tell the tale. Glancing toward the front of the car, I saw Aeryn get into the driver’s seat and Kailie get into the passenger’s seat. On my back, I decided to bring my focus back to the ceiling.

I sighed. My body ached all over. If I was in the forest, I could have eventually found herbs to ease the pain. Then again, I wasn’t in the condition to be moving around anyway. The best thing to do was for me to go to sleep and let my body heal itself. I closed my eyes and let myself drift to sleep.

”Nice work today.”

I snapped back awake. A voice was in my mind. A voice that sounded like…

”Its Selene, by the way.”

“Listen, I’m not trying to hur…”

“Yes, I know. I’m a neuro Psi, remember? I can sense that you aren’t going harm her. Anyway, thanks for looking after Aeryn. I’m sure it means a lot to her.”

“No problem.”

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I wasn’t looking forward to this meeting. If it was anything like the last meeting, we were just going to talk about thing we already knew. It would be a waste of time.

“Sorry we’re late!” Alex waved to the rest of the group. “We had a hell of a party last night. A few people didn’t feel like drinking last night, so we had a few extra shares. Damn those snakes were good.”

When we reached the group, I sat down on the grass, enjoying the feel of being in nature once again. I focused on a blade of grass, asking it, urging it to grow. The blade grew in length and wrapped around my outstretched finger. I unwound the blade of grass and let it stand tall. I couldn’t help but grin at my ability to be easily amused.

Mike began to take lead, once again. Amazingly enough, he proved me wrong. We didn’t just talk about things we already knew. We were talking about ONE thing we didn’t know. If the person after us was indeed in our area, it would explain how he or she knew where we all were. I would even wager it was a neuro psi...or a rich norm, to be able to track us all.

I felt the rustling of the grass and the whispers of the trees in the forest. Something was moving. As some tried to descend from the branches of the trees, I quickly called out to them. The branches began to weave and tie the white-clothed ninjas. The ninjas remained unfazed and sent a burst of flames, burning away the branches.

The trees began to cry in pain, the fire slowly devouring their flesh. A tear fell from my eyes, I feeling their agony. I could not use my psi powers in this fight. I could not let anything be harmed for my sake. With that as my resolve, I bolted from the rest of the group and to the nearest ninja, fist in the air.

[Charizard04621]

Nox Silverwind, Aero ~

Damn, Nox thought. He should have known not to make assumptions. Pressure forced itself upon his mind, an intruding pressure, one that threatened revelation. Nox recognized this as a Neuro-psi attempting to break into his thoughts. “Not going to happen!” he shouted, a little louder than he would have liked. He felt himself instinctively form an air shield around his body as he battled the mental force. “You will not… find my weakness.” But at the very mention of weakness, Nox realized that he’d made a mistake. In thinking about the one secret he was trying to hide, he’d left it open to his enemy for an instant, which was more than enough.

It was not that he was unwilling to kill. The ninja would have known that much about everyone. But the injury that had resulted from Nox’s own fear, his stupidity, that they could now exploit. It went back years before when he’d decided to make his arms the channeling medium. He wasn’t used to summoning wind mentally, which he should have established from the very beginning. It was his longing to hold another sword that brought him down this path. His very own fault. Now he had half of the power he usually could muster. Well, at least he wouldn’t kill anyone today.

Nox tried to think of how he would not be completely useless in this fight – the ninja had demonstrated powers of their own – when he heard somebody shouting about combining powers. Combine… Yes! Nox saw the beauty of it all, realized how very useful it would be to combine powers of a different type. It would result in furious elements that their enemies had not been used to seeing. They would have to act quickly, however; surprise only lasted a few moments. Once the ninja understood what they were doing, they could mirror the maneuvers, turning their own strategy against them.

Spotting Kailie alone, Nox joined her. “They’re not the same as before, I admit, but they are far from invincible.”

Kailie initiated an earth attack close by the ninja, which Nox promptly raised above ground into a spiraling sandstorm. Several were thrown into the air, caught by the ferocity of the wind, but the initial gusts subsided and what was left was the vicious stinging earth, which spread out over a larger area and blinded many of their attackers.

Nox noticed that the person who had come up with this idea for combination – Mike – and a girl he remembered as Sarah, had raised the fury of fire nearby. The sandstorm was moving dangerously close to their area, which, Nox realized, would result in undesired cancellation. “Gah,” he muttered, “Control yourself…” He directed the wind back where it came from, away from the raging firestorm. Fortunately it listened, and the clash of elements didn’t happen. Not yet.

Still, Nox found himself asking the inevitable question: How long can this continue?

[Emotional Faun Chiko-sai]

Dax Lightner, Pyro-Psi
"The trick is to keep breathing"
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Dax had not been exactly sure whether his sisters were merely making fun attempts on his life or whether they were really trying to kill him when they woke him up in the mornings. This morning, he was dead certain they were at the very least trying to kill him. Smother him, maybe. Whatever it was, it was very cleverly veiled as sisterly affection.

Successfully managing to kick them out for the day (more like practically begging his neighbour to babysit, complete with bambi eyes and promises to compensate the favour by helping them on Bonfire Night), Dax booted up the computer and made sure Trina was alive and breathing, at least in a virtual sense. He had almost forgotten about the overnight addition to his household until he was halfway through making his breakfast. He burned it, accidentally, when he remembered.

It was awkward walking to the park. Dax had actually considered running (coward) to Trina's place and bringing her along as insurance, but his gut instinct told him that was definitely not a good idea. He was looking at the flowers in people's gardens and absently thinking of ways to distract homicidal ninjas with burning frangipani, and Whitney was looking at the sidewalk. But he was in the frame of mind where you try not to think of something but you think of it all the more because you're trying your best not to, sort of picking at a mental scab.

He never had knots in his stomach when he comforted Trina, though this as a given was usually after she'd failed to clear a level on some videogame and forgot to save. He never felt like that around her period. It was a completely different story with Whitney: last night he tread carefully, afraid to step on a mine. And yet he liked to be around her. He wanted to be there for her. There was also the nagging matter of Jason and the tiff he'd had with her. His admittedly blur mind was piecing things together, slowly, like his grandmother playing mahjong, constructing the perfect pung to land her winning combination. Not having cause to dwell on such feelings before, it was now taking its own sweet time to decipher the signs, obvious as they were. Slowly. but. surely, the thought came as they rounded the corner, deceptively childish, like love letters written in middle school. Jason likes Whitney. Whitney likes Jason. Maybe.

She was blushing. Okay, where did THAT come from?

He asked her, she fumbled the answer, they got to the park. Almost deliberately, his mind missed the entirely larger picture hinted at by the embarrassment. Dax could be a mutt sometimes. He was being a mutt now.

The group at Mine's Field had varying degrees of boredom etched on their faces. Some of them were clearly fed up, like Teran, who was making grass grow. Jason looked as if he hadn't slept the entire night, which turned out to be the case. Mike was faring pretty well as the unchallenged leader. Dax kept his stare on him while his brain fine-tuned his little theory. The theory had expanded to a possibility of his first love.

He hadn't thought of it as doomed from the start until he'd watched the pretty flowers sprout around the both of them. The large white daisies in one corner were not exactly frangipani, but for him it confirmed his theory that Jason liked Whitney, Whitney liked him back, and his first love was doomed from the start. White flowers stood for funerals.

There was a token tic lurking at the corner of his mouth when he went to shake Whitney from her daze. There were more ninjas about, this time in white. And they had spiffy Psi powers. That too.

When she looked at him the tic went away; if she wanted to protect Jason, he had to help her. Or die trying. He grinned, a criminal's grin. (the trick is to keep breathing) For once his fire came fast and true, ballooning up into a large sphere as quick as you please. Then her water rose out of the ground, possibly out of some underground pipe line; not enough time to think, concentrate on the fire. Concentrate. Don't think. If you think you'll get burnt.

It was a neat cyclone. It threw itself at the ninjas; one of the ninjas tried to run electricity up the wheels of water but was curtailed by the flames licking at his wrists. They would have to make a bigger one if they wanted a larger range and a deeper bite. They could. They did.

The bigger one wasted approximately three and a half ninjas, though one was a leftover from Kailie and Nox's sandstorm. Dax's fire nearly caught the wind and caused a blaze; the same could be said of a fellow Pyro-Psi, Sarah. The Aero-Terra duo were better than that, and directed their combo away. The wastage continued then, for a while.

With the battle field cleared they were uncertain what to do. After the exhilaration of blasting off fireball-cyclones at point-blank range Dax was beginning to feel the slight exhaustion he always got when he'd been working at his flames for a longer period than usual. The exhaustion was followed by a mild depression, something he'd never experienced before.

He shelved it and turned back to the comatose and the tender of the comatose.
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Note: Uhmmm, my trials are beginning this Thursday the 1st (isn't it great? students taking art get to kick off the exams! what FUN) and will last till the 12th of September, so if my posts are sporadic, a thousand apologies and please excuse me.
Note2: Blame post rhetorics on unrequited love on all those cantonese serials I've been watching.

[Asilynne]

WARNING: this is looking like its going to be VERY long LOL
~~~Aeryn McFallon, Electro-Psi~~~
Nature is a bitch sometimes...

Sleep. You can forget everything when your asleep, the problems of the world seem to disappear when your dreaming. And when you wake up, sweet amnesia greets you for at least 30 seconds. The problems of the day before seem so silly after a good nights sleep, and when I woke up the morning after the worst night of my life so far, the only thought on my mind was “Whats for breakfast?”
After looking around, seeing the walls of Alex’s guestroom around me instead of my own bedroom I remembered what had happened the night before. I remembered the initial attack, the broken window, the meeting, the stress. I remembered how I had attacked three innocents in my own fear, one of them being my brother. But night and sleep had dulled the edge of the pain inside me, and it seemed almost like a distant memory. I was much better now, thanks to my friends.
Sitting up, I felt something land on my stomach. Slightly confused for a moment I saw it was Sushi. Thats right, she was over here too. With a groan I realised I forgot to put away the sushi platter from last night. In everything that happened it had slipped my mind, which almost never happens when sushi is concerned. Picking up my kitty and rising from the bed I held her up to my face. “I bet you got a good meal last night. Was it good you little thief?” Laughing I set her down and watched as she darted straight for Alex’s kitchen. She had the uncanny ability to know exactly where the kitchen was in every house it seemed.
Wandering into the living room I saw Alex snoring on his couch and Guthrie resting on a chair. Kailie was in the kitchen tending to the cats, and Selene was making breakfast. “Good morning,” I said, wandering in with a yawn. I felt a little bit shy around them for some reason, though Id known them for a long time, they had never seen me like that before, and part of me wondered stupidly if they thought any less of me.

That fear was soon gone as they greeted me with good mornings. I yawned luxuriously and stretched my morning stretches, before I finally realised someone was missing. Looking up at my two friends with searching eyes I said, “Wheres Teran?” My heart leaping up as I feared the worst, I ran out of the kitchen before anyone could answer. Bursting out the door I trotted across the lawn, the dew cooling my bare feet and sending a slight shiver through me as I searched the area. Nothing. He ran away again... My heart sank as I thought these things. I didnt want to believe it, he was my brother, he said he was here for me. But my trust had been broken once, he said that once, but then he ran away. I guess I was a little afraid he would leave me again. You really are a coward...probably afraid of your own shadow too... I inwardly scolded myself. But at the moment I didnt care about keeping up appearances.

Just as I was about to go back inside and crawl into bed to sleep away my problems, a pinecone fell out of the tree in front of me. Then another, and another, curiously landing closer and closer to my feet. Looking up into the branches I saw feet dangling and a hand waving at me. Teran. A smile threatening to split my face I ran over to the tree, bare feet, pajamas and all, and began to climb it. He was pretty high up, but it was a game we played when we were little, making ourselves little tree houses and spending all day in them, until our parents made us come inside for dinner and wash up. I climbed nimbly up, avoiding the occasional twig that would catch my pajama pants, until I reached the limbs he was on. He had made himself a bed by closing some of the branches together, and coaxing the softest moss to grow there. If he had had his Psi powers when we were little, we probably would have wanted to sleep outside every night. It even looked comfortable to me.

It was quiet for a few moments, we were the same type of person in a way, neither of us found it easy to talk about our feelings. We sat in the tree for what seemed like forever, watching the sun rise over suburbia, a suburbia that no longer seemed safe and dull. Neither of us spoke but it was not an uncomfortable silence, just a thinking one, a peaceful one.
“Pine trees are the best for climbing.” Teran spoke up in a soft voice, and I looked to him curiously. “Their wood is soft, but they are sturdy. The branches, they grow straight out, when most trees branches curve upwards, so theyre easier to climb than others. You wont fall out of one very easily.”

Smiling, I nodded. I knew what he was saying. In a way he was talking about himself. His soft manner, though he was strong when he needed to be. His arms, like the branches, would never let me fall. His words made me feel better, because he found a way to tell me hed never run away again without even bringing it up. Looking at my hands in my lap I decided to joke around with him. “The only problem with one....is all the sap.” I said, winking at him and wiping the sticky tree sap on his arm. He laughed and threw a pinecone at me. It was just like old times.
“Come on,” He said, urging a branch to grow towards the ground and helping me down. “Lets go inside, Im pretty hungry.”

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Mine’s field. Here we all were again, perhaps a bit less shooken up than last time, but more pensive with wondering what we were going to do. Alex seemed the least bothered by anything, though I knew that inside he was as nervous as everyone else. But to him, everything in life was fun, nothing could crush his spirit. I was more curious than anything, splitting up as we had done yesterday to wait until today was a main thing that made me nervous. I wouldnt be able to stand another delay of making a descision, so as Mike began talking, I resolved to speak up this time if he didnt say something I wanted to hear.

The talk went decently, we actually had some clues as to who was attacking us. Whoever it was lived, or at least mailed the letters, in our very town. Our enemy was very close. No wonder they had swarmed all of us, they knew exactly where we were. It had been foolish for us to split up, I knew my gut instinct wasnt wrong.

While I was thinking the talk had ended, Mike had suggested we all go home and notify our parents that we would be gone for awhile. Though he had the makings of a good leader at heart, he was making follish rushed desicions. It seemed like his mind wasnt fully on the issue of the ninjas, which it HAD to be or some of us could get hurt. Well I wasnt going to keep quiet anymore. It would be on my consience if I sat back and did nothing. Striding up, past the dispersing groups of people I walked towards Mike, determined to give him a little advice on what we should be doing about this threat, when the threat came to us.

White Ninjas came out through the trees, surrounding our sadly unaware group. Everyone was too concerned with their own little things, their own little intricicies, that they let themselves be taken by surprise. I knew last night, I knew today, that whether we liked it or not our city had become a battle field, and those who are caught unawares die. The warrior that lied deep within both of my bloodlines, both Irish and Japanese, which had lain dormant my whole life, my whole wonderfully, sadly, protective life, was awakening out of need today. Cries of surprise from the group all around me were heard, but I was stone silent. Last night I felt the fear of the unknown, the fear of not knowing when the enemy would strike next. But I knew now, so there was no fear left.
“So glad to see you well......Over come and....completely silent now....” I sang low and lilting, my beautiful voice sounding dark and threatening at the same time. There was not a thought in my head but the song, and almost unconsiously my power rose up within me. Electricity crackled around, and gazing at one of the ninjas I saw that it was also mouthing the words to my song. Then I heard someone yell, “Theyre using Psi powers!” and I knew what the signifigance of that was. That ninja was a Neuro Psi, and since it was trying to read my thoughts all it could come up with was my song. It couldnt read me, since I was acting without thought. But all this came to me in a flicker of thought, that was soon gone and replaced with the Zen of No Thought as I sang louder.
“Not to pull your halooo downn......around your neck and tug you off your cloud....” Then I unleashed my power. The Neuro Psi’s in the ninja group were no threat to me at the moment, but the others were. Earth trembled beneath my feet and on instinct I leapt from the spot and took off running towards the group of them, tendrils of electricity outstretched. Unfortunately I ran headlong into a gust of wind which lifted me up and threw me high into the air. Thats about when the fear kicked in.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!” Against my will I let out a howl which was most definately NOT part of the song. I could guess that the Neuro Psi ninja was getting a mindful from me now. Suddenly I stopped, and for a brief second I was suspended, nearly weightless in air, before gravity took over and I started to plunge headfirst towards the ground. I knew I was going to die. I wasnt a Neuro Psi that could levitate or an Aero Psi that could summon a gust of wind to save me, I wasnt an Aqua Psi that could summon a cushion of water nor a Terra Psi that could reach out to the plants to save me. Everyone else seemed to be busy with their own problems, so I was going to die, die in the most stupid way possible. Bracing myself for the impact, I squeezed my eyes shut to block out the sight of the ground rushing up to meet me and waited for the crunch.
Then I felt a gust of wind billow around me, and my knees tapped the ground lightly. Opening my eyes I saw a hand outstretched, forming the wind. It was Nox, and he was grinning almost to himself as he said, “It works.”
Before I could say thank you another group of ninjas came forward. Not wasting any time I went to electricute them, but one of them used its Terra power and thrusted up a rock to block my power. “Aeryn!” Alex yelled out. “We need to combine our powers!”
“What is this, Captain Planet?!” I yelled back and then a cyclone erupted past me towards the ninjas in front of me. I watched it break away at the rock, raging with natures power and send the ninja flying. It just might work. Grinning stupidly to myself I looked over at Alex. “Ok lets do this!”
“Captain planet, hes the hero....” I sang to myself, trying not to laugh as I charged up with elecricity. Alex used the clouds above us and it began to snow, harder and harder. I sent a bolt of lightning up to the clouds and suddenly hail burst out of them, golfball sized hail that pounded into the ground with enough force to bury themselves. Nox and Kailie joined in, Nox using his power to blow the hard pieces of ice right at the ninjas, and Kailie urging the muddy ground to churn, causing the ninjas to be stuck in the ground. Selene also joined in the fray, and when she did everything seemed to be enhanced, and the pressure from the Neuro Psis on the other side seemed to lessen.

Soon the ninjas had all retreated, knowing they could not stand up against all of us. A few of us had injuries, ranging from lacerations to buises, dirty clothes and burns. Some of us were drenched to the bone, and some had injuries which you couldnt see on the outside. Exhausted and surveying the scene, I saw Teran lying bloody and bruised on the ground. My heart skipped a beat, I hadnt seen him through the whole battle. How did he get this beat up? Didnt he use his powers?
Running over I checked his injuries. He wasnt going to die, to my relief, but it didnt look like he was consious. Frustrated and pained I looked around for aid. “Can anyone please help!” I yelled. Mike, Alex and Nox came over, and Alex immediately picked him up and carried him to my car without me saying a word. Standing up I reguarded Mike. I had a feeling he would think I was being mean and angry but I had to say it. “Mike, we can NOT split up again. If the person who has hired these ninjas really does live in this City, they can pounce on us anytime. And we already know that they know where we live! So Im sure that if you werent preoccupied with your girlfriend--” I guestured over to Sally. “You would see that if we all split up and went back home to tell our parents what we were going to do that we would be putting them in danger! It was only luck that no one was home when we were all attacked the first time.”
He was quiet for a minute, mulling it over. Im sure he was slowly realising that some people had Norm parents and siblings, people that would not be able to defend themselves. I hoped he would see that alone each of us would probably have died trying to fight off that white ninja threat. When he looked up from the ground he looked at me curiously. “Well what do you propose we do then?”
I sighed and looked around. “Well first of all some of us are injured, some badly.” I tried to keep the pain off of my face, remembering Teran. “My mother is a doctor and she has supplies in her lab inside our house. My parents wont be home for two weeks so for now while we re-group we could use it as a sort of base. We re kinda well-to-do so theres plenty of space for everyone.” I was momentarily embarrassed because I didnt like flaunting my parents money around. “I just think we shouldnt split up. We re all being attacked, and if were attacked like that seprately...something bad could happen.” I finished lamely. I saw that everyone in our group of Psi 10s except for Alex and Teran were now gathered around listening. Not knowing what else to do, I shrugged. “So, everyone could come rest and heal up at my house..if you want to that is.” Feeling embarrassed again I started to walk towards my car before I remembered something. Turning around slightly I looked at Nox. “Hey.....thanks by the way.” I said, and with a million thoughts in my head I walked to my car and started it up. I hoped people would take my offer of a little refuge.

After all, there were safety in numbers.
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Wow ok finally done. Its a little lame towards the end though cause I was wanting to get it finished x.x Hope I did the fight scene ok ^-^() If everyone decides to come to Aeryns house to hole up they can get it barricaded and stuff...or whatever LOL
Songs:
1) (c)A Perfect Circle-The Noose
2)(c) Captain Planet LOL

[Charizard04621]

OOC: Asi, I hope you weren’t planning for Nox to have initiated the attack on Aeryn, lol ^_^;;; Oh yeah, btw, Nox is about to display one of his sword master’s “traditions”, heheh…

Nox Silverwind, Aero ~

Nox returned her thanks with a nod. She was alive. He was quite pleased, and yet, the irony of the situation was clear. He guessed perhaps that he was more gentle with others than he would otherwise be with himself, not the other way around. How else could he have sprained his wrist with the same maneuver?

He’d felt the rush of wind as the enemy Aero-Psi had thrown her into the air, realizing, with a skip of his heartbeat, that he was about to do what Nox had been attempting the night before… except he didn’t mean to catch her. She didn’t have the means to save herself, and since nobody else seemed to be paying attention, Nox took it upon himself to prevent her fall. It was a life, after all, and he could not let anyone die. Especially not if he had the power to stop it.

The battle itself had gone quite well. Nox had worried that the element of surprise would not last, that the ninja would turn their synergy against them – but that had not happened. Fools, all of them. Whoever was organizing these attacks still had much to improve upon.

A stabbing pain in his left wrist made him frown, but he regained his composure after his momentary weakness. Why did he allow that look to flicker across his face? There it was again. This time, Nox showed no sign of pain, but he knew now that he’d overdone it. Wanting to end the battle quickly, he’d used both hands to eliminate as many enemies as possible – which strained his left wrist too much, he realized too late. It would’ve been fine if he hadn’t made the stupid decision to channel power through his arms a long time ago, but he would have to deal with it now. Nox had probably fractured his wrist, an idiotic, inexperienced, unnecessary failure. He’d be left even more vulnerable now, as if his powers hadn’t been significantly weakened already. That Aero-Psi had stopped his first initial attack so easily, after all.

Pride hurting more than his arm, Nox turned to go home. He overheard the suggestion that the group should stick together. Not like this, he thought, brushing a finger subconsciously over his left arm to check for where it had broken. He needed to learn how to bandage better. If he’d done it tightly enough, this wouldn’t have happened. In fact, if he hadn’t made so many mistakes, it wouldn’t have happened. This called for punishment.

Nox cast a cursory glance at the others to make sure that none were looking his way. Satisfied, he turned his attention to himself, slicing his flesh with blades of wind. The blood that oozed out of his burning wounds made him snicker. “Fail again and there will be more,” he told himself.

[Master Rudy]

OOC-Hey Roy I'm not trying to be an ass but did you miss the fact that there was a major battle going on? There's no way Jason could have slept through that no matter how tired he was and I think if the ninjas saw that they would have seen him as a very easy target. Plus isn't the group going back to Aeryn's house?

*is rather confused right now*

Anyway I'm caught up on where everything is at for the most part. A post will need to wait however. I've been working so much I've barely had time to take a piss. Not for real on the piss part but I'm sure you all get the idea ^_~

[Roy Karrde]

The whole thing was that he was supposed to sleep through the battle, I think Mike's post makes mention to the point that he tried to wake Jason up and that he couldn't so he doubted that anything in the battle would have woke him up. As for the house thing, I'm just trying to go by what Bulba and I layed out before she left, which is that she brought Jason back to rest, he wakes up, crazyness insues, and then they leave to meet up with everyone else. Now of course she didn't see your post so if she wants to change it so that she brings Jason to Aeryn's house then I'm good with that. When she gets back I'm hoping to change some of it, such as dialogue and what not.

[Asilynne]

First of all someone needs to smack me lol I wrote this message before and posted it but deleted it because I forgot to log out of Rudys account ^-^() Anyway here it is:

Charizard: Yeah dont worry, you took it the way I meant it ^-~

Roy: Yeah you might want to do that. I know my post was very long so you might have skimmed it but you kinda missed this part:

sure that if you werent preoccupied with your girlfriend--” I guestured over to Sally. “You would see that if we all split up and went back home to tell our parents what we were going to do that we would be putting them in danger! It was only luck that no one was home when we were all attacked the first time.”
He was quiet for a minute, mulling it over. Im sure he was slowly realising that some people had Norm parents and siblings, people that would not be able to defend themselves. I hoped he would see that alone each of us would probably have died trying to fight off that white ninja threat.

Whitney has a million siblings and a dad, all of which are Norms except a younger sister (I never skim anyones post ^v~). I dont know how Kalahs doing her character but Im ALMOST sure she wouldnt want to put her family in any danger, especially since if the ninjas attacked her home and her family it would be her fault since they were after her. I dont know what Mikes plans are for the ninjas but I doubt they care about hurting innocent bystanders considering most of them attacked in broad daylight in suburbia.
So yeah, if you still want to have that weird little scene you could always have it in Aeryns basement, with Whitney saying to give them privacy. Then you can have some added tension if Dax accidently blurs his way in ^-~ Its awesome to have romantic scenes in RPGs but you shouldnt sacrifice plot for them :thumbs up:

[Roy Karrde]

Yeah that was the problem I had to skim your post while I almost finished writing my post and looking at all the notes that I took from my last convo with Kalah, anyway I'll save my post and take it off till she gets back on, but we should really stop going off topic and get back to the RPG.

[The_Missing_Link]

OOC: Sorry for not replying sooner. I just started college and I needed to settle down before I made any posts


Sarah
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Mike soon grouped with me and together, we created a widespread firestorm that blanketed a few ninjas.
"Thought you would be with Sally, considering you saw her last night," I said a little bitterly.
From the corner of my eye, I saw Mike stare at me but I refused to look back. I was still angry from last night, even though it really wasn't any of my business. I just went back to expelling fire and while some could block it and others fell, there were more to keep us working. As elemental Psi's, there were better trained than the norm ninjas but they weren't that much better by the way they retreated or fell unconscious. They also didn't know the meaning of teamwork as no one combined their attacks. That made them much easier to pick off and after a while, they all fled.

Everyone sustained battle scars, some worse than others. I sort of zoned out around that time but faintly heard that we would congregate at Aeryn's house. It was all fine with me but eventually, I would have to explain to my parents where I've been for the whole day.
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OOC: Yeah, it sucked. Writer's block and not having a lot to say can do that to you --;

[Charizard04621]

OOC: Aww, come on, guys, we can’t let this RPG die! It’s too good.

And yes, Nox is a freak =P

Nox Silverwind, Aero ~

More bandages. Nox sighed, knowing that he would have to go into the city to buy more soon. He would also have to withdraw money from the bank to do it. How idiotic of him to break his arm like that. Cuts he could handle – there were plenty of remedies in the forest – but restraining devices for fractured bones, that required manmade products, at least for Nox. He wasn’t exactly an expert healer; he didn’t injure himself a lot. That was when he made fewer mistakes.

Having finished binding his arm, Nox pulled his sleeve over it, though there really wasn’t much purpose. He’d had to put it into a sling, anyway, and from that it would be pretty obvious that he’d broken something. Most likely he would see the others before the cast disappeared. Shameful to have such a public display of injury. Of weakness.

Nox rose from the floor, walking over to the only appliance that showed in the bare kitchen: the refrigerator. Opening it, he considered his options. He hadn’t eaten much for breakfast, though this was an irrelevant point as he never ate well, anyway. It was his philosophy that he shouldn’t take pleasure in food; what had he done to deserve pampering?

Anything that Nox ate came from his garden. Well, it had originally been his mother’s garden; in fact, in a way, it still was. Without her close by, he wasn’t sure if the plants would grow the way that they did. Sure, she’d taught him how to grow things, but he hadn’t had the passion for it that she did; it was that passion that put the life into everything she touched. Nox had trouble finding a passion for anything. He guessed he just wasn’t the emotional type.

Nothing much remained in the refrigerator, but Nox didn’t mind. He picked out a carrot and a pitcher of soy bean milk (something his mother had also taught him to make, although she made it sweet with nice things like apples). Nox didn’t add anything to make it taste better; again, he saw no reason to treat himself. Besides, he didn’t have any apple trees nearby, and he certainly wasn’t going out to buy any.

Food was simply a matter of necessity, just like sleep and rest. Nox had gotten rid of every piece of furniture in the house; besides the telephone, the refrigerator, and a few kitchen apparati, he didn’t keep much. The only reason he slept on the upstairs floor was because it gave him a good view over the area; that, and he had sold all his curtains, so staying on the ground floor where anyone could see him did not seem appealing.

Nox wondered. He remembered that the girl he had helped – Aeryn, he believed – had invited the group to her house. Now, normally, Nox wouldn’t respond to such an invitation, but he hadn’t much to do. At this time he would usually be training outside, but due to his own stupidity he would have to deny himself that privilege for the moment. Now wasn’t the time for walks through the forest, either, so that left Nox the choice of either joining the others or staring into space. Neither seemed very productive, but at least if he went over to Aeryn’s it would involve some movement. Nox eyed his immobile left arm regretfully, but it was inevitable anyway; the others would find out sooner or later.

He walked over to the kitchen cabinet, pulling open the top drawer on the right side of the built-in storage area. Inside lay a few important documents – passport, identification, etc. – as well as some maps. He took the one that displayed his province, drew his finger across the lines until he found the circle that he’d labeled Aeryn, and then slipped the map back inside and closed the drawer.

Even if his arm was restricted in a sling, Nox was glad that his legs were intact and he could run. He prided himself in his speed, ever since that first day when he’d discovered his true potential. It was mainly because he’d thought himself to have failed to gain powers like his mother that he’d taken an interest in the art of wielding swords; at the age of seven, despite the stories his mother had told him, he had displayed no special abilities. Unwilling to resign to the hand of chance, Nox had searched for some other way to make use of himself.

An alley approached on his right; Nox had noted it on the map as a shortcut towards Aeryn’s. If he didn’t take it, he would have to run around an entire block of buildings to reach her house. A pointless waste of time.

It was a long, narrow alley, darkened by the shadows of the leaning rooftops ahead. This wasn’t a choice place to be, but Nox wasn’t too worried; he could take care of himself. Even if he couldn’t fight off an assailant, he could easily escape out of an attacker’s grasp. Nobody could catch him running.

Near the end of the passageway where the alley widened Nox noticed three obstructions. They were big, burly men, around Nox’s height, dressed shoddily and bearing daggers. One let out a tremendous guffaw as he approached, which set the others off laughing, too.

“Are you lost, little boy?” The ruffians, who were previously seated on various crates and other rubbish that lay scattered about, got to their feet and stood in his way. Fools. They didn’t know what they were getting into.

“Move,” Nox stated simply.

One of the rogues grabbed his left arm and clenched it tightly. “Give us your money, kid, or else,” he said, with a glint of malice in his eye, “We’ll be forced to hurt you.”

“If you do not get out of my way, I shall be the one that is forced to hurt you.”

This comment generated more laughs. The three began to wave their daggers ominously. Fine, then, they had made their choice.

Nox chose first to remove the man who held his broken arm, thrusting his air blades into his aggressor’s flesh. The rogue promptly released his grip and began to howl, backing away slightly from Nox and encouraging his cohorts to repay him for the blow.

One came from the right while the other struck from the left as Nox raised an air shield, which prevented them from getting any closer. He was sure he’d felt something slash at his left cheek, though, which undoubtedly had begun to bleed. Too slow… No matter.

Releasing the invisible barrier, Nox struck outwards in an arc, generating a sudden gust that threw his three attackers off their feet. With a wave of his right hand, they rose above the ground, much to their alarm. The ruffians began to kick and squeal for help, which disgusted Nox. Such cowardice. He wasn’t even going to injure them.

The rooftops of the alley rose at least six stories tall; it was probably an apartment complex, considering the placing of the windows and balconies. Because the roofs were slanted, Nox was convinced that no stairwell led up to them, which also meant that there was no easy way down. Placing the three men at the very top where they could cause the least trouble, Nox promptly walked out of the alley without looking back.

He swiped his right finger over his cheek; definitely bleeding. Now there would be no hiding anything. This annoyed Nox. Two failures in one day… He would have impaired his walking right then, but without the full functionality of both arms, he was forced to let it slide, for defensive purposes. He made up his mind to say as little as possible, should he be asked about his visible wounds.

It wasn’t long before Nox arrived at Aeryn’s door. He checked the cut on his cheek again, and to his disappointment, there was still blood. “Gah.” Well, he’d come this far. Nox knocked twice, then waited for someone to let him inside.

[Asilynne]

Now that Mikes back from the warm embrace of WoW LOL
*Pokes RPG*

I like this RPG so lets bring it back from the dead shall we? ^v~