Othergrounds: The IC Edition (Act 8: The Strangest Days have gone By)

"Now that you ssay that, I undersstand what you are getting to." He had the sense of smell most snakes did. Which combined his taste receptors and noes to create one of the most powerful senses on earth. While not quite as powerful as a bears, it was still easily enough to track things on the campground if he desired.

He flicked his long forked tongue out of his mouth and taste the air. The first thing he picked up in the general area was the smell of birds. A light chalky odor that feathers tended to have. He picked up some of his own smell too. As a large carnivore, he ate what he found. Which usually consisted of large rats or mice, rabbits in the outergrounds, birds, and fish on occasion. He didn't plan on eating the metahuman in front of him. This bird was a friend. Not food. That sounded like a quote from a movie actually. Something about how fish were friends an not food. Took place in the ocean with some clown fish as the main characters.

He couldn't remember.

He then picked up the mammilian odor that she had described. It wasn't particularly fain, but it was a very diluted smell. Obviously dissipating into the air. Within the next few hours he would have great difficulty finding it again. He momentarily thought back to the Tyrannosaurus Rex. If there was one thing he had remembered, it was his love for dinosaurs. He knew how well the T.Rex could smell. Somehwere along the lines of twenty-five to third miles. The olfactory nerves on the monster were things anyone would be envious of.

Dragonfly turned his head using his slightly elongated neck to Drake as he adressed him. Giving a toothless smile to him as he asked if he could just call him Dragon. "Ssure." Dragonfly said, smirking to himself as he said they should get going.

He flicked his tongue once again to get another taste of the smells in the air. He focused more on the other odors around. Drake's, blood, sweat, tears. Everything. It was dilluting out the target scent.

"I think it'ss that way." Draginfly said, motion to the general direction of where the scent seemed strongest. He didn't know how well Nicole could smell. All he knew was the he could well enough to give them a start. "Once we sstart moving, I will dissappear. But do not look for me. I will be following closse by."

(Wrote this on my phone. Dont judge me.)

Nicole nodded at Dragonfly, "It is, but you might want to let me sniff it out, it's a mammalian pheromone, and in a few hours it'll dissipate into nothing, and while it fades, it'll get muddied up by other animals, like squirrels or something. Tracking is one of the few skills I'm really good at." With this, she walked down the hallway and opened the door to the outside using her foot. Her hands didn't work, so her feet were now flexible enough to be almost as dexterous, although she still couldn't carry anything. She used her back to hold the door open while she slipped outside. Once there, she quickly checked over her wings for damaged plumage, adjusting one or two feathers to straighten them, and the promptly took off, hovering about five feet off the ground. "Come on, once I'm in the air you might have to run to keep up!" She said. When flying in a real hurry, Nicole could reach speeds up to 120 miles per hour, matching the flight speed of a Golden Eagle, the most formidable bird in existence. She would have to probably settle for soaring, though, because she was being followed. However, even then, she could go up to 28 miles per hour just doing that. She wasn't very strong, but she was lightning fast.

Johnny and Sylvia


Sylvia got herself out of the uncomfortable prison bed and dragged herself to the waterworks. With an annoyed as hell look on her face under those sunglasses of hers. She stared at the scene for a minute, before opening her mouth, letting out a flurry of aggression and swears, ¨For fuck's sake sugar tits. Have a shred of fucking dignity and get off him...¨ Johnny rolled his eyes up into his head. At both Sylvia and Carole. He didn't know who was worse. His cluster swearing sister, or the drama queen.

While Carole's arms were wrapped around his neck, with an annoyed look on his face, he spoke, ¨Can both of ya'll calm the hell down? If it was serious then Jake would have called out to us to warn us, Carole.¨ He was exasperated at this yelling. Though the only way to know for sure was to check... Johnny started to walk to the window to check out front.


Jake

Jake peered to the side nervously. He couldn't exactly believe that Claire was being this stupid in this time of crisis. The school was just attacked and they have the slightest clue if there's still any soldiers lingering around. If the yelling hadn't gave their perfect hiding spot away, then the giant electric bolt would certainly give them away. Fortunately, the real Jake was up in the window invisible, and the Jake currently talking to Claire is one of his illusion duplicates. There'd be no way of her knowing otherwise. The point was that Jake wasn't pleased with Claire's actions at the moment.

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"And turning invisible? Really?" She playfully pushed him in the chest and laughed "Now can I come in or what? I think I gave Carole a heart attack. Saw her peeking in the window, so I figured I'd scare the Hell outta her".

Jake said, "I'm not sure... Will you think out your actions and keep control of yourself?" In a stern tone of voice to let Claire know he was being serious. Now wasn't the time to be joking. Especially with his twin sister's fate being ambiguous. Once Johnny gave the word they were going to head to the hospital to look for her. Likely without Carole, nor Claire. Probably not Sylvia, either. If Johnny was here right now he'd leave Claire's ass outside and let the soldiers get her. Jake wasn't like that. "Yeah, come inside. Just don't make anymore noise or Johnathon will wring your neck." Immediately, the illusion of Jake shattered and the real Jake, (who was standing in the window watching) revealed himself under the veil of invisibility he had set for himself.



Drake

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"I think it'ss that way." Dragonfly said, motion to the general direction of where the scent seemed strongest. He didn't know how well Nicole could smell. All he knew was the he could well enough to give them a start. "Once we sstart moving, I will dissappear. But do not look for me. I will be following closse by."

"Yeah, wasn't planning on it, Dragon" Drake sarcastically says to Dragon, "I trust that you won't bite me in the ass once my back is turned--- Then again, if you do, you're in for a nasty shock." He spoke, referencing his lightning form. He really hoped that he wouldn't have to fight Dragon or any ally really. Drake was the "find the evil bad guy and kick their ass" kind of person. From what he could tell, his group wasn't going to betray him or cause him harm. As long as they don't, then Drake won't return any favors.

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"Come on, once I'm in the air you might have to run to keep up!"

This made Drake smirk a little bit. He knew that he had the potential to fly while in his lightning form. Except, whenever he tried he failed horribly and made an idiot of himself. He took Nicole's statement as a challenge. He felt like he could outrun bird girl even in the air. He followed behind Nicole out of the door into the hall. He felt like showing off the full extent of his abilities right now compared to the lizard man and bird girl. It was a prime time to stroke his ego. However, he didn't against so. At least until they find this pheromone person Nicole keeps talking about. If she turns out to be hostile then he'll kick his or her ass and copy his or her powers for himself. Though, that might cause a bit of animosity if they get the wrong idea about how his powers work.

As soon as Nicole had opened the door, Dragonfly camoufladged his skin to disappear. He clicked his claws on the floor to let them know he was still present.

"I trust you wont bite me in the ass once I turn my back." Drake said, a fair warning to Dragonfly. He didn't take it personally. In fact it would help keep his bad side in check. "Noted." He replied, smirkin to himself. He watched as Nicole exited the door and waited for them to follow. He was fast enough to keep up. At twelve feet long and six feet high, he packed some serious muscle to keep his large body running. He bent his body diagonally, allowing his tail to act as a counterbalance and stretched his legs. If he wasn't camoufladged, Drake would probably make the comment that he looked like a raptor. His ankles were very elongated compare to the normal human's, making up about a third of his entire leg, and were strong and springy. It he stood on his tip toes all the time he would possibly be around seven feet in height. His legs were very much like a bird's actually, except thicker and more muscled.

He hadn't actually clocked his sprint, but he guessed that he could get to around thirty miles per hour if he really wanted to. Of course, goig at this spead was tiring and made his camo almost null and void due to the fact that his skin couldn't copy his suroundings fast enough to be effective.

He breathed heavily through his noes for a moment, making an audible blowing sound with each breath. He looked to Nicole, who was now hovering a few feet of the ground outside. He cautiously stepped out into the open again, growling in pleasure as the sun washed over him and providing extra energy to his termal powered body. Light was heat and hey was good. He wa envious of people who lived on places like the equator. He would thrive in places like that.

"Lead on, Nicole."

Carole

Carole abruptly let go of Johnny as he began to walk away and blushed a hot pink color when she saw the fuss she had made. She continued to hyperventilate, however, and muttered over and over again "It's okay, it's okay. He's gonna take care of it. It's okay." She then sat down in one of the cells, where she got on her phone and tried to occupy herself by playing Angry Birds while Johnny took care of business.

Claire

"You little..." Claire stopped herself and smiled impishly, though inside she was blisteringly angry. jake had no right to lecture her about CENSORED. She had been shot; she had bled at the hands of these bastards, and she couldn't care less about them popping back up, because if they did, she would obliterate them. Nobody fucked with Claire Sparks and survived it. She walked up to the doors, and, Upon an experimental tug, realized that they were locked. Claire banged on the doors loudly and obnoxiously as she could until someone decided to open them.

"Alright, then, it's this way." Nicole said, before turning around in the air and flapping her wings about six times, before holding them at a slight V shape as she glided away. At twenty-eight miles per hour as a minimum, unhurried speed, She was just barely above the fastest recorded footspeed among humans, which was about one mile less. While she could fly slower, Nicole would have to constantly flap her wings to do so, and it was more tiring to go slow. When soaring, she actually used a lot less energy. She wouldn't be in any hurry, she would track down this scent with ease. She was going to leave it up to Dragonfly and Drake to see if they kept up. She had no doubt Dragonfly could match her speed, he appeared built for such running. Drake, she wasn't sure. While he was a master of electricity, Nicole was determined not to let him best her at everything. She was too competitive to be second place in all categories.

Johnny, Sylvia and Jake


Johnny was charging down the hallway looking for Jake when he heard the loud banging. He stopped for a moment to shake his head at the ridiculousness of what's going on. When he saw Jake at the window, he shouted, "What the hell, Jake?! What the hell is going on here?" Before resting his face into his palm. Jake turned to Johnny and immediately snapped his fingers. From Claire's perspective the window that was there before, slowly was replaced with the same grey bricks that made up the rest of the building. Until it was gone, poof. Nothing but bricks. There'd be nothing for Claire to see. It would be difficult for her to see because she's not even looking at the window. Jake used this opportunity to try and herd Johnny away from the window, lest he wants to piss her off even more.

"Shhh... Claire is out there acting like a d--- Jerk." Jake says, he almost let an insult slip.

Johnny narrowed his eyes, "God dammit. I got little miss drama queen bawling, and Sylvia trying to be a bad ass and start a fight with her. Ugh!" He put his hands on his sides and shook his head, slanting it downwards. "Jesus... I'll--- Wait..." Johnny quickly thought; why is Claire is rustled? "What the hell did you do?"

"I gave her a tongue lashing for yelling and shooting bolts of lightning." Jake told the truth and nothing but the truth.

"Well, god damn. I'm trying to keep us a secret and this moron is hell bent on trying to give us away! Why didn't you just let her in then bitch about it?! Or better yet; not even done anything and let her move along?!" Johnny was getting pissed off. Right now he was the leader of the group and wanted to keep anonymity at all costs. Especially if they're going to look for Gabriela

"Well, um..." Jake responded.

Sylvia felt ignored by everyone but Johnny. When he walked away Sylvia grabbed the iPod out of her hoodie pocket, and she floated a few feet off the ground. She was now riding the sound waves. She floated at high speeds where Johnny was likely to be. Once she found them she said, "Sup, fags." Before landing on the ground. Sylvia had heard mostly everything that he said, "How about we go down there and kick her ass?" She then started laughter.

Johnny bumped Sylvia on the back of the head because she was being stupid and her sunglasses almost came off. She quickly scrambled to put her sunglasses back on. "Jackass..." She muttered.

In the mean time Johnny came up with a plan for handling Claire, "Okay. I'm tired of this constant banging. Syl, go down there and let her in." Simple enough.

Sylvia frowned, "Why the fuck do I have to do it?" Before crossing her arms.

"Because you're the fastest OUT OF ALL OF US." Because of Sylvia sound distortion field, Johnny's volume was greatly increased. To the point where it hurt, Jake and Johnny covered their ears. "Jesus christ, get to it Syl before I go deaf." He pointed away. Sylvia started to shake her head as she took flight again. She quickly flew away from them very fast, but slow enough to control herself. She quickly arrived at the door. She sighed as the banging commenced and unlocked all the locks and open the door.

Johnny's plan didn't end here, "Now, let's get a move on..." Johnny started walking away.

"Wait, where are you--- we going?"

"We're going to do some scouting while they're occupied. I'm already tired of having this many noisy SOBS around..."

"You think they'll be okay with us just walking out on them?"

"They won't even know. Wink wink, nudge, nudge." Johnny winked, "Now do your magic tricks, please." At this moment, Jake raised his hand up in the air. The illusion that enshrouded the window (if it was still there). Shortly, they started moving and were gone out the backdoor of the Detention Center before anyone noticed.





Drake


"Harder the challenge. The bigger the reward." Drake smirked as he said to himself. It was the competitiveness that was subtly kicking in. The bird girl didn't look that fast (it looked a bit more like she was struggling than anything). His goal was to keep up with Nicole at all times, not exceed her. He knew he was fast from his basketball days, but not that fast. He immediately got into a position where he could run. Then out of nowhere he started sprinting off after Nicole.

Hearing Drake's comment, Nicole smirked in return. He was sprinting just to keep up with her, and she wasn't even trying to move in a hurry, she was trying to slow down so she didn't go too fast. "Well, okay, then, if you don't want me to go slower, then I'm going to soar instead!" With this, she stopped flapping her wings as frequently and simply opened them, gliding on air currents, and immediately she began to speed up. She didn't have to flap her wings to move quickly, and it was more relaxing to soar, as her wings were built for that purpose. Sniffing out the pheromones, she bent in one wing and, as though on a dime, made a fast turn to the left, although trying to stay above pathways regardless. They wouldn't be able to go over obstacles like buildings. Eventually, she came to what appeared to be the beginning of a forest, and then proceeded to fly in a circle, similar to a vulture, while waiting for everyone to catch up.

Claire and Carole

As soon as the doors were unlocked, Claire pushed herself into the room. Her hair was standing up with static electricity, an occurrence that happened every time Claire got mad, which was often; far too often. She nodded to Sylvia and then stalked across the room, looking all around.

"Where's Jake?!" she yelled "I'm gonna kick his ass!" She stormed up the stairs, crackling with static electricity, and began to spin in circles at the top of the steps, looking for him.

"I need a drink. Does anyone here have a fucking beer?" She yelled. Carole, meanwhile, had calmed down significantly. She was now browsing Gucci purses on her iPad with one hand and checking her makeup with a compact. Upon hearing Claire's arrival, Carole closed her compact loudly and wiped her eyes with a tissue.

"Here comes trouble." She muttered. Claire stuck her head into Carole's cell, and yelled "Where's Jake?" Carole rolled her eyes and ignored her.

"I asked you a question!" Claire roared.

"Calm down, hun'." Carole said, now disturbed "I dunno where he went!" Claire punched the side of the doorway, and continued on, peeking in cells every few steps to find Jake.


TJ

TJ was finishing his coke when he heard a roaring, crashing sound outside; the sound of thunder. He closed his eyes, irritated, and tossed the bottle into a nearby trashcan. It bounced around the rim a bit and fell straight in, making a plunking sound as it hit the bottom. TJ looked up to see a flash of light from across campus; a sure sign that Claire had not listened, as usual.

"Well, girls," he began "It's been fun, But it seems as if a friend of mine is in trouble, so I must be off. Have-" he hesitated a moment, looking around, and completed his sentence "A nice day".



Yes, A nice day it would have been had Hell not broken open last night. TJ calmly walked into the lounge, avoiding the body, and threw a portal through the window, where it opened on the ground. He went to walk back into the hallway, but stopped and turned to the blood-covered body. He hesitated a moment, and then walked over to it. The body was of a girl, though it was hard to tell, as a bullet had gone clean through the top of her skull and torn the crown of her head to shrapnel. The body was heckled with several gunshots as well as a dart or two, and judging by the mess the room was in, the girl had put up quite the fight. The top of the couch was also riddled with bullets, and a flatscreen television on the wall sparked ominously. He gingerly touched the top of the girl's head and brushed strands of crimson hair out of her face. Her eyes were wide open, and glassed over, as if they were two pearls contrived in the mouth of a rare Mediterranean clam. TJ shuddered, and put his middle and forefinger on the girl's open eyelids. A single, wispy tear fell from Tj's cheek and landed on her shoulder as he closed her eyes for the last time.

"Good night, sweet thing." He whispered to the dead woman "I'm sorry". The girl's eyes closed, and a ring fell off of her broken finger and fell to the ground. TJ bent over slowly, and picked up the ring. It was pure gold, with a LeVian chocolate diamond in the center, surrounded by vanilla diamonds. TJ pondered what to do for a moment, and decided to hold onto the ring. He kissed the girl's ring, and put it in his shirt pocket for safe keeping.

"I'll make sure you get a proper burial, my dear." he said, touching the corpse for the last time. "I promise, And when TJ Eckleburg makes a promise, he keeps it unto death". With that, he looked around the room one last time, and opened a portal under his feet. He fell into the portal and landed outside on his feet. Another tear rolled down TJ's cheek, and he began to walk towards the detention center".

After some time, Marie was able to reach the library. As it turned out, it was part of the dorms, along with what appeared to be a theater. She had vanished without anyone noticing, as she usually did. She seldom spoke, and when she did not, she was as quiet as a ghost. Once at the library, she immediately went to go look at encyclopedias, something nobody would ever expect from a young girl. However, she couldn't read fantasy or any true story. Actual stories had emotions in them, and Marie knew emotions were bad. Encyclopedias kept her calm, they were plain, predictable, and informative. She learned so many interesting things while reading them. She didn't think about anything she had seen that might disturb her. She was good at forgetting. She had to be, or people could get hurt.

Sylvia

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"Where's Jake?!" she yelled "I'm gonna kick his ass!" She stormed up the stairs, crackling with static electricity, and began to spin in circles at the top of the steps, looking for him.

"Woah, woah, woah there thunder thighs." Sylvia floated a few inches off the ground flying after Claire. She wasn't going to let some bitch from out of no where pummel Jake for no reason. Especially since she owes him her life. She flew up the stairs after Claire. Sylvia grabbed her iPod and turned on some dub step. Just in case she can't calm Claire down. As Claire checked every single cell, Sylvia loudly spoke, "Hey! Thunder tits. I'm not going to stand by and let you kick the fag that saved my life." She spoke in an assertive and threatening tone. Getting across that she wasn't going to stand for this. There was the bigger question of where Johnny and Jake where... "That cocksht!" She screamed, and put on an angry disposition. "They ditched me with these two!" It was obvious what happened, and she felt like a fool for falling for it. They could be anywhere now. Because of Jake's stupid little power allowed them to be disguised as anything and anyone. She knew where they would go; The Hospital to look for Gabe. If she just ran off after that last outburst then both Carole and Claire would without a doubt follow. However, if she uses the same clever techniques as Johnny, then she can buy herself some time to slip away.


"Oh... I think they're hiding in the warden's office or whatever it's called. Go fuck their shit up." Sylvia said with a smile.


Johnny and Jake


After a short amount of sprinting Jake and Johnny arrived at the armor plated hospital. Seemingly undetected. Jake asks, "Yo, is anyone nearby or inside, Johnny?" Johnny nodded and slanted his head downwards and focused. He tapped into emotion itself. It gave him insight on how many emotional presences (essentially, people) where around him and inside the hospital. There was no one around them. Inside the hospital was a different story, there was a large amount of emotional presences. Most of the students were immobile, barring a two people who were up and about. Which means that there's many people inside of here. There's a high chance of Gabriela being here. He stopped focusing and the presences disappeared from his senses.

"Yeah, bro. There's like a hundred people inside of there. No one out here... So far." Johnny answered with a bit of hesitation in his voice

"What do you want to do?" Jake asked, before dropping the illusion that granted him invisibility.

"Well, we ain't getting in there by normal means..." Johnny started stroking his chin looking up at the heavily armored building, "Christ... in a hand basket. If only we had Sylvia..." He now felt a little stupid leaving the only person who can fly behind.

"What do you want to do then...?" Jake asked, feeling the nervousness well up inside of him, "GABRIELA! GABE! WE'RE OUT HERE! CAN YOU HEAR ME!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. Before Johnny covered his mouth and got really annoyed.

"Are you an idiot?! Don't scream like that again!" Johnny snapped at Jake, "She probably can't hear you under all that metal..."

"I guess your right..." A tear ran down Jake's face.

"Follow me, we'll have to get Sylvia and see if she can fly up the building..."





Drake

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"Well, okay, then, if you don't want me to go slower, then I'm going to soar instead!"

Okay, you're goin' down, bird chick. Drake thought to himself. He can fly, with his electric form. It's... far from perfect to say the least. Right now the only thing he needed was flight. He stopped in his tracks and stretched both his arms straight out, and his legs shoulder width. He focused for a few moments and closed his eyes. A few seconds later his eyes opened to reveal that it was glowing brightly like electricity. All over his being, electricity danced. Quickly his arms and legs where enshrouded with electricity, making his true being a shadow. His chest followed. Before the rest of his body was completely enshrouded by electricity. Fortunately, his outfits were incorporated into his transformations. This was the gift he was blessed with, power embodiment. No Meta-human couldn't have their powers embodied by him, except for another power replicator. So, far the latter only occurred with Victoria. Drake smirked and screamed at the top of his lungs, "I am a thunder god!" Before he pointed his head upwards. It was a mystery how he even flies. In a minute he took flight upwards. It was far from perfect flight, he was shaking and swerving left and right. But, hell yes, Drake can fly. He aimed himself towards Nicole to try and keep up with her. Even though he looked silly, he had his eyes on the prize.



Lily


Lily woke up after everyone scattered off to do their own adventures. Wearing nothing but pink pajamas with Hello Kitty on them. She didn't have the band in her hair that made it a pony tail, so her purple hair was flowing. Last night... she was so tired, and right now for the same unexplained reasons she's still tired. She stumbled down the hallway out of her room like a zombie, and into the lunchroom she went. There was no one there other than the massive fellow that broke down the wall that helped them escape last night. She only stopped for a moment to say, "Yo, big boy." Before walking towards the buffet tables.

The lights flickered as Claire turned around and heard what Sylvia said. She spun on her heel, and her eyes lit up an unnatural blue.

"Look bitch," she spat at Sylvia "I've been locked up in this CENSORED three times and I know there's no fucking warden office in this building. Now tell me where they went before I hurt you!" The air was charged with an electric crackling, and tiny strands of lightning arced across Claire's fists, a show of strength. Carole silently got up and closed the door to her cell, making sure it was kept unlocked. She slunk down in her chair and went back to angry birds, trying not to make a sound.


TJ

Tj was about halfway to the detention center when he saw an interesting sight; two teenage boys appeared out of thin air next to the hospital. TJ looked over for a moment, wondering who they were, until it finally clicked that the only mutant on campus who could do that was Jake. He shrugged, and walked over to Johnny and Jake as they looked up at the hospital.

"Hey Johnny!" TJ yelled out as he walked over "Glad to see I'm not the only one alive! Did you happen to see Claire anywhere around here? I heard her shoot some lightning off".

Nicole just rolled her eyes and sped up even more, her own flight pattern looking as graceful as when an eagle or pelican was flying, "Looking a little shaky, there, Zeus! You might be a thunder-god, but you aren't a real bird! Leave the flying to the people built for it, you don't know the sky like I do." She said. As if to prove her point, she suddenly veered in a different direction, although still following the scent into the woods. She was able to fly lower, so that she barely grazed the top of the trees with her wingtips, without damaging them. Eventually, though, she suddenly picked up a strong concentration of pheromones, "Hey, it's down here! Okay, so you can keep up with me pretty good! Hope you know how to land in a heavily-wooded area, though, otherwise you're not going to enjoy this!" She said, before darting between two branches into the foliage below. She circled around a large tree trunk, and landed effortlessly on her feet, before cautiously stepping to one side and looking up at the sunlight as it filtered through the leaves. If this guy landed as good as he flew, she didn't want to be involved in a crash-landing.

Tom (Preferring to be called Riptide), although in appearance and behavior often big and brutish, had very good table-manners, evident in the way that he ate. He was far from a sloppy eater, and was actually quite neat. When addressed, he let what he was called slide, and simply said, "Morning," in acknowledgement. Other than this, he remained completely silent, eating the high-protein breakfast he had scrapped together from the available food. In truth, his meal looked like very little compared to someone his size, but this was because Riptide ate up to seven different times a day, having more than three meals spread throughout his waking hours, but with smaller portions. This prevented overindulging, but he still took in a lot more calories and nutrition compared to a normal person, although it was required in order to maintain his musculature. His meals were worked down to a science, every bite had some sort of value to it.

Jacob walked out of his room with his watch that he found again adjusted onto his wrist. He had slipped away from the others without them even realising. He walked over and looked up, and started, "okay guys, I'm ba-" before realising that they weren't there. He saw Nicole and Drake running, and flying, off in the distance. "Ah CRAP!" Frustrated that he had missed out, he stormed down the steps into the lunchroom. The only people there were a muscular guy and a girl in pink pajamas. It was a bit of a mix, really. "It looks like everyone else ran off on us, huh," he half mumbled to them as he walked over and sat down in one of the chairs.

"I really couldn't care less about what everyone else is doing, not everyone here likes being in a large group. I'm not here 'cause I was left behind, I'm here by choice." Riptide half-snapped at the new arrival, "I've been up since five in the morning, where have you been?" It was a pretty harsh way to react to someone who was probably talking to himself more than to everyone else, but he didn't care about what this guy's opinion was, and he was making that very clear, "Quit talking to yourself, nobody wants to hear it." He said simply, and went back to his meal. He wasn't trying to start a fight or anything, he just really wasn't the kind of person to enjoy angry muttering; it was distracting.

"Thankss for waiting on me." Dragonfly hissed, coming into the small clearing and dropping his comoufladge as he ran. As he came to a complete stop he stood with Nicole, and stood back up to his full height once again. "I ssaw you and Drake racing eachother. Made it difficult for me to keep up. Being earthbound and all." He blinked, swivling his head on his neck and looking around for 'Zeus' or whatever she called him. "Where iss he anyway?" He flicked his tongue, trying to track the lightning mutant. He grew uncomfortable, while he wasn't reacting horribly to the pheromones he wasn't attracted to them. He got that feeling that a person got when the knew they were in the wrong place. That little pressure on your chest.

He looked up and realized where he must've been. While he was no expert on flying, Drake was not as graceful as the birds he usually saw or hunted.
Now he would have to fly through an obstical course of trees and other foliage in order to land. He didn't want to be there for that, or Drake's cusion. So he began backing up to the tree line. He was tempted to clim a tree or something to avoid the ground all together, but thought better of it. What if he crashed into his tree?

He felt his predatory insticts kick in. He knew the target was in the general area. He could feel it. He began to hiss into a growl and turned around to dace where the scent was strongest to him. "I want sstart tracking. Do you want to wait for Drake or sstart tracking?"

Drake

ViperaUnion wrote:

"Looking a little shaky, there, Zeus! You might be a thunder-god, but you aren't a real bird! Leave the flying to the people built for it, you don't know the sky like I do."

Drake smiled again. While his flight pattern was sub-par at best, he was still in the air. When he was about to make a clever come back, he spontaneously dipped downwards. He was quite a bit off the ground, not a fatal fall, but it'd still be painful. So, he focused and flew upwards slightly. "Ha, practice makes perfect--- I'm made out of lightning... That comes from the sky, haha!" He spoke still shaky and the polar opposite of steady. Maybe he should stick to the ground, at least until he practices flight. Compared to before (which included lots of falling and screaming, followed by bouts of pain); he's doing much better. He "followed" the best he could.

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"Hey, it's down here! Okay, so you can keep up with me pretty good! Hope you know how to land in a heavily-wooded area, though, otherwise you're not going to enjoy this!"

When she said this the first thing that came to mind was the time he tried flying and dropped out of the air. It was one of the most painful of his life, but that pain was made in the name of progress. However, when Nicole dived into the woods like an eagle (which wasn't a too big of a surprise), Drake lost sight of her. "Craaaaaap..." He muttered. It was a result of his lack of flight experience, that he didn't know that he could hover in mid-air and stop. He was flowing straight into a tree. There was one choice in this situation; try landing like an airplane! While dodging the trees. He directed himself to the left of the tree he was about to collide head on into, however he didn't think out that decision. The next thing he knew, he was getting smacked in the face with many tree branches. Getting scratches, bruises and splinters all over his upper body. He put both arms ahead of his head in a X to shield himself from the damage. He was going down fast, so he was screaming in the most manly way possible. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....!" Before hitting a bush. He was covered in small wounds, it hurt like hell. It was nothing serious. He immediately reverted back into his human form and stood straight up. His shirt was shredded to pieces, and his jeans took a bit of damage too.

He started walking in a awkward way. While brushing off the wood, dirt, leaves and bugs off of him. He did find Nicole in a clearing. He looked at her blankly before saying, "That was... fun. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...." While he made himself look like a damn fool crashing into the bushes hitting at least a hundred trees, he succeeded in keeping up with Dragonfly and Nicole. They were in a wooded area of the school, likely the Out Grounds, which was on the map. Drake started stretching his limbs looking nonchalant as hell, "So where do we start?"




Sylvia

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"Look bitch," she spat at Sylvia "I've been locked up in this CENSORED three times and I know there's no fucking warden office in this building. Now tell me where they went before I hurt you!"

Sylvia was absolutely pissed off by Claire's rant. She gave her own response, "Who the flying fuck do you think you're talking to?!" Sylvia started off, reaching into her pocket and pulling out her iPod and immediately started playing bass-boasted dubstep. Afterwards she put the headphones that were around her neck on her ears. "I don't know what the fuck got into you, but just because I'm good looking, don't think I won't kick your ass up and down this shitfest! Now shimmer the hell down, because I ain't going to tell you shit."




She was getting herself upset as hell. At this point she knew that Claire and her would fight. All the girl can do is shoot electricity. She has the full power of sound itself on her side, and the ability to fly. If the girl had two halves of a brain then she would back down now. But, Sylvia needed to teach her. She quickly pressed both headphones on her ears and screamed, "Rockin' mother fuckas!". Then Sylvia activated the dubstep bomb, re-projecting the sound out of her headphones out of her body. The building shook and the volume of the blast could be heard from all over the school. The blast would knock Claire back at least ten feet and hurt her ears. Badly. If she didn't think fast then she would be cause in the blast.




Jake and Johnny

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"Hey Johnny!" TJ yelled out as he walked over "Glad to see I'm not the only one alive! Did you happen to see Claire anywhere around here? I heard her shoot some lightning off".

When TJ walked up, Johnny smirked fiendishly. "Aren't you the nonchalant one? Hehahahaha" He started laughing loudly, he found it a bit amusing that he appeared to take this as a causal meeting. In a causal situation. In a school that hasn't been attacked. He wasn't in the mood for idle talk.

Jake spoke, "Yeah... we saw Claire in the detention center, raising hell."

Johnny quickly interjected, "Yeah! And you need to go put her on a leash, before I bring down the mighty pimp hand of the Va-" That's when the sound of Sylvia's dubstep bomb could reach far out as the hospital. Everyone jumped, since the sound was so strange and unexpected. Until Johnny realized what was going on, "What the hell is that girl doing...?" It was his stupidity for leaving her there with Claire and Carole. Due to her wanna-be bad ass attitude, it was obvious that she was going to hit one of them. It was all apart of his plan to leave for a minute or two for Claire to defuse, then talk her down. Johnny didn't waste any time in running over to the Detention Center to calm things down before someone gets hurt.

Jake followed.




Lily and Victoria



"Good morning to you too." She replied to Tom. Lily just grabbed a plate and piled some eggs on top of it before walking over to a table. In the middle of her march she noticed another guy walk in who was with the other group.

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"It looks like everyone else ran off on us, huh," he half mumbled to them as he walked over and sat down in one of the chairs.

"Yeah. I don't know why they're off trying to have adventures in this place when we really need to find a way out of here." Lily nonchalantly replied to Jacob. She didn't really care that they left, she cared that they were putting their own personal pleasure over getting out of the school. "... Who know what could be in here..." She then walked over to Jacob's table. Sitting down, "Mind if I eat here?"

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"I really couldn't care less about what everyone else is doing, not everyone here likes being in a large group. I'm not here 'cause I was left behind, I'm here by choice." Riptide half-snapped at the new arrival, "I've been up since five in the morning, where have you been?"

"Quit talking to yourself, nobody wants to hear it."

Angsty teenager much? Lily had already assumed that she was the leader of the group. It was a good idea to keep everyone in a good mood. "Aren't you being a bit rough, big guy? He was just trying to start a conversation." She tried soothing Tom. "I mean. We all have to live with each other and see each other on a sort of daily basis--- What I'm saying is that I want us to at least try to get along."

Victoria walked into the cafeteria wearing a white and light red striped shirt and jeans. She was wondering where Drake went. It wasn't a surprise that he already left right now without telling anyone. He wasn't the type to sit tight and wait. Especially now of all times. "Does any of you know where my younger brother went? He's the muscle-y guy with the black hair" She asked.

Nicole shrugged, foregoing commenting on the crash-landing. She had known it would happen, anyway. "It's concentrated around this area, but I think it's coming from up a little bit off the ground. I think whoever we're tracking is hiding in one of-" She wasn't able to finish, because her eyes were suddenly fixed on a figure sitting on a tree branch higher up. This meta-human, as she had suspected, was covered in a fur pelt, and looked eerily like a sort of vampire bat, with a leaf-shaped nose, and two sharp, pointed fangs coming from her upper jaw. Although she could not determine that the stranger's eyes were amber, like everyone else, Nicole could still see the fiery glint in them that hinted at a strong will and spirited creature. Before she could say anything else, the stranger opened her mouth slightly, and a strange, yet foul odor filled the air, accompanied by an audible hiss. "Are you here to take me like the others, or are you with the school?" Although it was a threatening display, it was obvious it was more out of fear than anything else, although technically speaking, the stranger's appearance was scary enough already.


Tom just sneered, revealing the sharp, shark-like teeth that his mutations had given him, making the facial expression even more menacing and cold, "I don't get along with other people, everyone is better off staying out of my way, and not bothering to talk. You can talk to one another, but unless what you have to say is really important, then don't bother even trying to waste your breath on me. I keep my distance, you keep yours, and we'll get along just fine." With this, he stood up with his empty plate and brought it over to where you were supposed to put dirty dishes, leaving it for the eyes to retrieve. Just as he did this, Marie entered the lunchroom behind Victoria. Noticing this, Riptide immediately stopped baring his teeth. No threatening or arguing around other kids, that was his rule, and he wasn't going to break it. "I have not." Marie said, before walking past Victoria to go look for something to eat, carrying a large encyclopedia under one arm.

TJ


"Oh CENSORED..." TJ heard the explosion from across campus. It was so incredibly loud that his teeth chattered, and he followed Johnny until the detention center was in sight. He threw a portal at the building, where it landed on the ground at the side of the concrete building. He threw another at the ground, and fell through to the side of the detention center.

Claire and Carole

Claire was blown off her feet by the explosion, and her eardrums began to bleed. She screamed and shot off a massive blast of electricity, filling the air with a blast of thunder. The holes in the walls where the windows were before Sylvia blew them out all lit up white, and the roar of thunder deafened anything that wasn't already deafened. Claire crashed into the floor at the end of the hallway, semi-conscious, her vision blurred and her ears bleeding. Carole, who wasn't nearly as tough as Claire was unconscious. The roar had reverberated around the cell she was in and knocked her out as well as shattering her iPad. The sound had caused the cell door to vibrate, and the lock on the door fell, locking her in.

Well it seems that the only person to notice him so far has disappeared. Just his luck. John put his hands in his pockets and kept moving. His priority now was to get out. He decided to go look for a map of some sort. Now, where would a map of the place be kept. The library of course. He decided to go find the library. He eventually found a map, it turned out to be one of those really big diorama ones that he couldn't take with him. That problem could be easily remedied. He went to find a pencil. Since he was in a library, paper wouldn't be a problem.

Dragonfly reeled back, snarling in surprise as the new voice, and camoufladged himself out of habit. The person had caught him of guard. The pheromones in the air were messing with his senses. It blocked out most of the other scents in the air and limited him to hunting off of pure hunters instinct and where the pheromones were strongest. He mentally complimented his ability to predict the locations of prey items. He had predicted to himself that the target was close by not moments before. Of course he had not said so outloud, but if he knew, that's all that mattered.

He had great hearing. Several times greater than any human's. he swivled his head to find the source of the voice. Which was the girl in the trees. She had a fur coat, just as Nicole had suspected. But dhe looked somwhat similar to the occasional flying rodents he would hunt in the sewers... What were they called?... That's right. "Bats." He sai under his breath. Nicole seemed to have senses superior even to his. Which was impressive. She could potentially have hear him. He would have to ask her about her abilities later.

He dropped his disguise, and stared up at the girl. The source of the pheromones. She reminded him of himself around others- scared, uncomfortable, and oh so dangerously threatening. He tened to be dangerous when threatened. A cornered cobra will not settle with one bite. It would strike again, and again, and again until it felt that the job would be done and it's agressor would have no chance of survival. He shook his head. His bad side was beginning to put thoughts in his head.

"Nicole..." He began, looking at her with one of his eyes and watching the girl in the tree with the other. "Do you know who thiss iss? Becausse I haven't been out on the ssurface in a while."

Nicole shook her head slightly, "No, I don't know who this is." She replied, before looking up at the bat meta-human again, "It's okay, we're with the school. The attack is over." She said. It wasn't too hard to figure out that this stranger had been hiding for whatever had caused all those bullet holes. Almost immediately after saying this, the meta-human in the tree changed her behavior, "Oh, thank goodness! Has the headmaster figured out what happened? Oh, dear, so many people must be hurt right now, and what about the people who got dragged off?" Nicole frowned, "We're with the school, but we don't know exactly what happened. We smelled the pheromone trail." The stranger had just come down the tree when she heard this, "Well, neither do I, hopefully we ca figure it out, soon, though, who those people were."

Drake


So, this is the person we're looking for? Drake thought to himself as he slide his hands into his pocket. He was still in a bit of pain from the crash landing. He hadn't noticed that there was a cut above his right eye, bleeding slightly. Until it got into his eye. He responded by wiping it off, and putting his hand over the wound. In which case he kept himself focused on the figure, the only thing that Drake could say about her was that she looked like a vampire. Just in case, he kept his guard up at all times. He just needed a few seconds to turn his arm into electricity. The air filled with a horrid odor. He didn't know if it was a dead guy, the vampire chick or something else.

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accompanied by an audible hiss. "Are you here to take me like the others, or are you with the school?" Although it was a threatening display, it was obvious it was more out of fear than anything else, although technically speaking, the stranger's appearance was scary enough already.

While he was more or less there for security reasons; he listened to the exchange between Nicole and the bat girl. Giving Sandy a raptor gaze just to show that he didn't. He took the initiative with the best speech he could come up with for recruiting her (that was more or less their goal), "Hello there! I'm Drake D. Blackmore. You might have noticed me tumbling through the bushes like a jackass." He pointed over to where he came from. "We aren't taking anyone. Nor are we really with the school. I hate to state the obvious, but that place is abandoned except for the small group of... Survivors... I reckon that we have strengths in numbers here and we want you in our group. We aren't going to exploit ya', in no way. I just think we can help each other..." He looked at Nicole and, "... All of us. I know we can't make you join us. But, think about it. I can't speak for them--- I and my sister on the other hand are raised from birth to hold our word and be trustworthy to all people." Greatest recruitment speech ever.


Sylvia, Johnny and Jake


The bolt of lightning had hit Sylvia's right arm, immediately surging through the rest of her body. It knocked her conscious while giving her arm a major burn. She fell a few feet backwards with a loud thump. Johnny and Jake immediately went through the doors of the detention center, they didn't notice that TJ was even following behind them, nor that he was even there. Johnny was leading Jake when he ran up the stairs, he looked to his left and saw an unconscious Sylvia with a nasty burn on her shoulder, bleeding slightly. "No, Sylvia! For Christ's sake..." He ran over to her and picked her up.

Jake frowned and said, "What the hell do we do with her?!"

"We get the hell out of here." The Detention Center was a great hiding place until Claire the asshole of the year showed up and messed up that plan, "Do your magic. We're finding another place to hide."

Jake nodded. Several buzzing motes of light began to rise from the ground around them, each growing bigger and brighter with each passing moment - and within moments, each would explode in a truly blinding flash. They all exploded at once in a great flash. Once the flash was over all three of them were gone.

Lily and Victoria


Lily just shook her head. She wasn't in the mood to argue with the guy. If he wanted to be the anti-social one in the group then she was completely fine with that. They were just going to leave him out of her discussion. There was a sizable amount of people around them. Barring like four people, but she can fill them in later. Right now a very important conversation needed to take place. Lily stood straight up and addressed everyone, "Guys, we really need to have this conversation. We need to speak about our plans to get out of here..."

Victoria spoke, "I don't think everyone would want to leave here," She was being blunt. The school while abandoned and in a rather ugly state; it gave them plenty of resources. Enough to spread among the entire group for years to come. On top of that comes; Freedom. She knew that Drake wouldn't want to leave here without a good reason, "Think about it. We have so much here, resources, training and seclusion... With nothing apparently wrong with the place other this 'depressing' state."

At Drake's speech, Nicole rolled her eyes, Oh, goodness, does he ever stop with the grandiose speeches? She thought to herself. The stranger listened to the whole thing, and was quiet for a long pause. Eventually, though, she decided to speak, "Well, people call me Leafnose." She said, not bothering to say anything about the speech. Obviously, she was a bit put off by it, "Well, anyway, let's just go back and see what's happened?" She suggested.

Claire and TJ

Claire slowly rose from the floor, shaking slightly, her ears still ringing and her equilibrium thrown off. She looked around and saw the bright flash of light as Jake, Johnny, and Sylvia vanished from sight.

"Oh no you fuckin' don't!" Claire whispered, which sounded like a shout to her damaged ears. She twitched, and blue lightning arced across her body. She realized that this was a Jake trick, though, and her fists began to glow blue once more. She screamed in a combination of rage and agony, and began to randomly blast lightning around the hallway, hoping to hit the illusion and shatter it. TJ climbed in through the window just as the illusion happened, and rolled onto the floor as soon as the lightning started flying. He quickly threw a portal into one of the closed cells in the hallway and jumped through. He fell into the room and landed on top of the unconscious Carole, who awoke with a jump, her head spinning. She shouted and accidentally head-butted TJ, causing a red mark to appear on both of their foreheads.

"Hey sexy." TJ joked. He jumped as a lightning bolt hit the cell door, and Carole screamed, her ears still ringing.

"What's going on?" Carole moaned, rolling over onto her stomach "My ears..."

"There was a fight between Claire and some other girl. Think Johnny called her Sylvia. Anyways, Claire is going insane".

"What's new?" Carole said. TJ shrugged, and the two of them got up and back away from the door.