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

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Drake & Victoria

Drake's sparring song:

The?perator wrote:: "Letss begin..." He said

When Dragonfly said this Drake said, "The showdown begins, show me your moves, Dragon." Before Drake could react Dragonfly turned invisible. Why didn't I ask him to show me that trick? Drake thinks to himself as he just stands completely still. It didn't take him too long to figure out that he couldn't use his eyes to see Dragonfly. He'll have to use his hearing (unless somehow Dragonfly couldn't be heard either). For a moment he heard little to nothing. He stood there, looking around.

Having trouble there, Drake? Victoria sent a thought to Drake's mind. Before letting out a small giggle. She knew exactly where Dragonfly was, just that she wasn't going to interfere.

C'mon, Toria. Need to focus. Drake replied. He kept focusing, trying to detect Dragonfly the best way he could. While he concentrated on hearing, Drake felt a heavy strike against his left leg. Since he didn't expect it, he nearly dropped to the ground instantaneously. He did stop his drop with his left arm purely out of. If he was to not lose, he would have to stop doing nothing and take action. There was a feeling of embarrassment creeping towards him. However, Drake wasn't going to let that show--- He needed to keep up his competitive demeanor. He smirked and said, "My turn!" Before charging in to tackle Dragonfly. He would (try to) wrestle the lizard man to the ground. Drake wasn't sure where Dragonfly was, he was merely guessing his general direction from the angle he was hit in. He could easily miss and make an ass himself again.

Hunter

We can either split up and collect our respective objects, or we can work together to get them. I think it'd be troublesome dragging a mattress all the way out here.... Hunter thinks to himself. I will go with the latter option... It might be difficult locating a ladder due to the lack of human janitors. He grabs his sword by the hilt and pulls it out of the ground hard as possible. "I will lead the way." Hunter says to Bones. He looked up at Nicole and says, "You should not worry, we will get you down as soon as possible. I suggest that we take you to the hospital the moment you are down." If you can bear the sight of destruction and pestilence.

Hunter started walking towards the dorms, every step he took was light. Trying not to leave a foot print. I prefer what I'm doing now opposed to what I was. I'm actually... helping. He grasped his bag as he started going a bit faster. After a few minutes they were at the front door of the dorms. "I believe. We are here." He spoke in a lightly sarcastic manner, "We should either split up or stick together. If we do split up, I believe I'll get the mattress. The ladder is in the staff section--- That's somewhere near the theater. There should be a sign to the staff section."

In truth, Hunter wanted to get some food and drinks.

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Taylor

Taylor smiled bittersweetly and looked across the water, as if she were expecting to see Marissa rise out of the water in a wave of ice. That would be something she'd definitely do. Taylor, however, was prepared for the worst. If he sister were still alive, she would have found Taylor by now, unless she was incapacitated. Taylor expected her to be dead by now.

"Thank you," she began "This really means a lot to me. Shall we go find Johnny then?"

Claire

"Alright then, Blondie." Claire rose to her feet and took another drink from the sport bottle. She heard several someones walk into the training hall, and go into the sparring room. She looked over with curiosity in her eyes, and began to walk towards the sparring room door to see what was going on. What she saw looked like Godzilla wrestling with nothing, and she couldn't help but laugh, which would probably alert him to her presence.

"Yo, Lemontea." she laughed "Check this out".

(Sorry in advance for the small autohit)

Unfortunately, Drake nailed Dragonfly and caught him off guard. He dropped his camouflage momentarily as he went airborne momentarily with his back facing the ground and Drake on top of him. He snarled, snapping his jaws for a moment out of instinct before catching himself and stopping the animalistic action. He thought about what he could do to get Drake off him as they had just hit the ground by now. He curled his legs in, and kicked Drake forward with as much force as he could manage. He worried momentarily because of the fact that his claws might've punctured Drake's underbelly with the force of the kick he put in, but remembered that Drake would be fine in an hour or so if he got the healing powers.

While this transfered some of the energy of the fall to Drake and sent him off Dragonfly and presumably to the other side of the ring. If he landed right then he would be fine. The kick was more an instinctive reaction than anything else to get Drake off of him. On the other hand, Dragonfly was winded from being tackled like that. He wasn't built for it. He rolled over on his side, hissing in frustration before shaking his head and catching his breath. He looked to where Drake landed, and slammed his tail on the ground to act as a counter balance. His legs were extremely powerful and made great kicking weapons. While his arms were good too, they weren't as useful at this point in time. Time was his ally at the moment, and all he had to do was ebb away at Drake's patience until he came to him.

And if he didn't get up, he could pin Drake down and finish the fight. But he doubted this was the case. He may have only known Drake for a few days, but he did know that he was no quitter. Dragonfly growled once again, "Don't hold back. Give me everything you got. I'll be fine..." he said, trying to egg Drake on. This wasn't a bitter fight, this was training to get better. Each party should be trying to help the other even if they were on opposing sides. After all, they would be on the same one later.

Wouldn't they?

His eyes darted to the side as he noticed a new voice. Two girls who seemed to be laughing at Drake. He hissed to himself but decided to remain quiet. Drake could fight his own battles when it came to that. Dragonfly knew that saying anything could worsen the situation. He was pretty sure that Drake would change their opinions on his own anyway.

Drake & Victoria

The second Dragonfly's kick hit Drake in the belly, he was immediately sent back and let out a loud gasp as spit shot out of his mouth. He quickly landed on his knees, and grasped his belly as he panted slightly. Just to see the damage for himself he looked down in order to inspect. Dragonfly's claws had cut him slightly, as blood dripped down from his being. God damn that hurts.... He thinks to himself as he looked up at Dragonfly. What the hell was his problem? They were just doing a simple sparring and he had to hit too hard.

Drake, are you okay? That looked like it hurt. Victoria sends another thought to Drake worryingly.

I'll be fine. It's this overgrown gecko you're going have to worry about... Drake replies with his own thought.

Don't do anything stupid, please. It may have been an accident.... Ugh, just don't kill each other, I need you in one piece... Victoria replies. I'd also like it if you just killed the... Um, 'bad guys'

Right... Drake responds. Due to the healing factor of his lizard-man ability, the wounds stopped bleeding just as bad. Drake stood straight up and had a hostile demeanor towards Dragonfly. It looked like he was about to say something to the lizard-man, before Dragonfly spoke.

TheⓍperator wrote:: "Don't hold back. Give me everything you got. I'll be fine..." he said

Drake immediately stopped. He was holding back the whole time due to Victoria's orders, and the fact that he didn't want to cross the line. If this is all in the name of bettering each other then this isn't the time to hold back. They both have to give it their all. "Alright then, I'm going to play my ass off... Bring your A-game, Dragon!" Expecting to hear Victoria say something to him. She was silent. Since it was a subtle way of her saying that he was free reign--- As long as the death was kept to a minimum. This was all he needed. A half-smirk crept across his face as he charged straight at Dragonfly. Fist ready and aimed high. The second he was in range, he made one big hay-maker aimed towards Dragonfly's head. Hard as he could swing his scaly arm. The attack hits, then maybe Drake will stun the lizard man at least. If it was a success, Drake was going to unload several more punches at Dragonfly.

Drake didn't notice Claire and Lemontea since he was too focused.

Victoria

Victoria had noticed the girl who was looking into the sparring room. She hadn't seen the girl herself, but due to Drake's adventure (which he told his older sister all about) this could be one of the people he met. For a moment Victoria was happy that her brother seemingly can make friends out of anyone. Especially the weird looking people. They either haven't seen him act like an @ss or just stupid. Back to the subject, Victoria wanted to get her attention without interrupting the match. She could use her telepathy--- But, she'd prefer if only Drake knew about that. She would have been annoyed when Drake just so carelessly gave away her power to those two. Hopefully it'll just be limited to Jacob and Dragonfly. The only thing she could think of was waving her arm high up into the air, hoping to get her attention.

Lemontea

((I should note that Lemontea doesn't exactly have a sense of humor))

Claire had just got up and walked away. For a moment Lemontea was going to just leave. She however, felt like this was something that involved Claire's workout or something. She shrugged and slowly walked down the hallway with her bag of tools slung over her shoulder. Every step she took, she heard a bit more action going on. Maybe that was what Claire heard and went to go investigate. When she finally caught up with Claire, she was looking through the doors of the sparring rooms. She was laughing at something inside. Lemontea didn't have a clue what it'd be. She stuck to the side of the doors, and peaked around like she was a ninja. Using her skills she, quickly examined the room before she stopped peaking. What it looked like was two lizard monsters fighting in the sparring rings, while some overweight chick watched. This didn't seem relevant to her or her goals, she just shrugged.

"Is there anything you want me to do here?" Lemontea says in a apathetic tone, she was not the least bit amused by this, "Because, if not. I'll be on my way. Sorry, babe, I'm not good company." She was ready to leave.

Jake, Gabe & Johnny

Maxx Toron wrote:: "Thank you," she began "This really means a lot to me. Shall we go find Johnny then?"

Gabriela put her arms behind her head and smirks fiendishly, "Don't mention it, doll. He's probably somewhere dozing off. It'll be fair to warn ya' that he doesn't like to be woken up. So, don't get rustled if he starts acting like a d*ck, haha." Gabe speaks to Taylor in her usual cocky tone.

"Yeah.... Let's get moving." Jake lead the trio away from the woods and towards the hospital. The second they were through the door he was reminded of last night. Dead flies everywhere, the destruction around the hospital. Johnny wouldn't have gone too far, he probably would be somewhere like the commons room. He was in the very same place last time they saw each other last night. So, he decided to take a look there. The second they arrived he threw open the doors and saw Johnny sound asleep on the couch. Jake turns around and says, "Alright, who will do it?" Because he didn't want to piss off Johnny if he could avoid it.

"It's good, Jakey. I'll handle it..." Gabe says with a smirk on her face. She walked over to the couch that Johnny was sleeping on and kicked it hard as she could. Instantly waking up Johnny.

"What the hell?!" Johnny shouted as he looked around. To see both his younger siblings, and Taylor. He wasn't too pleased to be woken up, "What the hell do you c*cksuckers want? I just want to sleep away last night, jesus." He snaps at all of them.

"It's not what we want, oh brother---" Gabe puts her hands together and grins a mile wide, before pointing at Taylor, "--- It's what woman of the hour wants!"

"Yeah, Taylor. It's your favor, you tell him." Jake inserts, while he looks dead at Taylor.

Johnny got up and sat down on the side of the couch, before saying "Alright, alright... Guess I do owe you a big one for last night. Heh. It just looks like I'm the man of the month, now doesn't it?" Johnny was starting to go off subject, "Now, what dues do I owe you, oh lovely Taylor?"

Mr Allen J wrote:: "Alright then, I'm going to play my ass off... Bring your A-game, Dragon!"

"Oh f-" Dragonfly managed to say, before the scaly fist slammed into his jaw, throwing it off it's hinges and slinging a tooth clear out of it's socket. Dragonfly was sent backwards by the attack, but due to his foresight of using his tail as a counterbalance, he didn't stumble.

He momentarily looked back at his tooth as his head wheeled around on his neck from the force of the attack, and saw that parts of the root had come out with it, and it was covered in bright red tissue that had once been his gums. While he did not feel it to begin with, there was a rift where the tooth had been in his jaw where Drake had punched him, creating a small deformity in his skull. While it would heal in time, it there would be heavy scarring that wouldn't fade after shedding his skin. The tooth would grow back eventually. Like a crocodile, the tooth would grow back in the old one's place only a few days after the rift reformed.

Dragonfly's hands went up to cover his injury, when he felt his jaw and how it was crooked. He would fix it once he had an opening. It was no big problem. His jaw came out like this on command when he ate something larger than his own head. While he didn't have the capabilities to stretch like a snake, he still did have the ability to stretch a respectable distance. The only problem was that he couldn't bite properly when his jaw was crooked.

Regaining composure, he dropped back to the ground and took his hands away from his face to give himself a more stable center of balance, and once again span around to attempt to sweep Drake off his feet using his tail. If Drake was floored he could get some distance between himself and Drake to fix his jaw and formulate a new plan. Blood was dripping out of the rift in his jaw, which negated the camouflage to an extent due to the fact that Drake could track him based on where his blood trail led. So he would have to take the fight head on this time around.

Drake

Haha... Think I overdid it... Drake thought to himself cockily, as he looked back where Victoria was sitting. A forced, and incredibly cheesy smile crept on to his face as he looked (Which most may call a "Sh*t eating grin") back. Before he snapped back into focus and paid attention to Dragonfly. He hit pretty hard, which was worthy retribution for that kick he got. His belly still hurt, and it was bleeding. His healing factor was helping, but the pain was still there. This was perfect training, he needed to gain a resistance to pain and injury. Because that is the first step to bad assery. For what he did to Dragonfly, he knocked out the lizard-man's tooth with one punch. Though, Drake did feel bad about that. Unless Dragonfly had some way to grow new teeth, he would be without a tooth. However, he DID tell Drake not to hold back, and it appeared that neither of them weren't going to hold back. Drake narrowed his eyes and smirked, "Ah, I guess I could have eased up just a little...." He spoke in a low, soft, egotistical tone.

Drake noticed the blood dripping down from (what he believed to be) Dragonfly's jaw. Obviously giving away his position. It made this fight quite easier since he wouldn't have to rely on his enhanced hearing and smell now. He hadn't expected Dragonfly's tail swipe, so his leg was toppled. Except this time, seemingly on instinct, Drake stopped his fall. He quickly regained his composure and smirked, "Are we going to stop the invisibility crap now, Dragonfly?" He started chuckling lightly, "Because it just adds to the challenge... And you know what they say? Bigger the challenge, larger the greener."

Lily & Sylvia

"Um, if you're so determined to catch this traitor then why are we going to your room?" Lily asked, as she was being dragged (by her shoulder) along by Sylvia. Lily didn't want to anger Sylvia solely because that'd make her investigation difficult. Or so she felt that way. If there wasn't a traitor threat then she would have punched the loud mouthed girl by now.

"Because, if I'm going to whoop this motherf*cker's @ss... I'm going to need some sunglasses, and not be covered in fly sh*t." Sylvia says in a surprisingly calm manner, as she dragged Lily through the empty halls of the female side of the dorms. Eventually they came across a door with a silver name tag with "Sylvia Lana Bertoose" written on it. "We're here." Sylvia said cheerfully as she just barged into her own room, with Lily in hands. The second they were in, she let go of Lily and started floating a few inches off the ground. She started taking off her clothes, rather shamelessly, with Lily watching. The first thing to come off was her leather hoodie, revealing both the well-crafted bandages on her arm and her bra (which promptly came off).

Lily could only see Sylvia's back, and was very uncomfortable by the scene. While Sylvia wasn't paying attention, she turned around so she wouldn't see. She remained quiet as Sylvia changed her attire (without even taking a shower). Sylvia had put on the usual hoodie and shorts combo. This time she was wearing a dark brown hoodie, on the hood was cartoon-ish bear face, with oversized and goofy eyes. There were sharp, white triangles attached to the hood around her head, these were supposed to be teeth. On the sleeves of her hoodie was silly looking claws. All the zipper of her hoodie was a patch of lighter colored "bear fur", since Sylvia had her hoodie unzipped people couldn't notice. She wore baggy black sweat shorts, which once again barely covered her thighs, showing plenty of leg. She wore striped brown and black stockings, which went up past her knees. Over her stockings were tan colored Timberland boots. Sylvia wore aviator sunglasses and had her pink head phones around her neck. The second she was done dressing up, she threw her hood over her head and let out a sigh. As she looked at Lily, there was an awkward silence.

Lily was still uncomfortable from all of this. For a moment she wondered why she didn't just turn around and walk out now. "So..."
She mutters.

"Tell me what the hell you know." Sylvia calmly says again, putting her hand on her right hip and tilted her head in the same direction.

"Well..." Lily says while playing with her fingers, "I came into the room early morning just to see everything. Two people came in and asked questions... I told them I knew as much as they did and got dressed.... You should know the rest."

"F*ck yeah I do..." A half smirk crept across her face, "Do you think these f*ckers did it...?" She asks in a near excited tone.

"I don't--- But look, Sylvia. We shouldn't be jumping to conclusions just yet." Lily pleas, "We must be... subtle."

"Look, sister. Subtly sure as f*ck ain't my specialty. I just go in and start rockin' motherf*ckers and roll before they start b*tching. Just give me a f*ggot and I'll do my sh*t.... F*ck em' up real good." Sylvia started floating several feet in the air.

"Yeah... I guess that works..." Lily starts off, "... When you know who to fight. This could exactly what this @sshole wants to do, heh. Just get us pissed off at each other and blaming each other wildly--- While keeping attention off of him... or her." Lily spoke much more somber than before as she walked around the room in a small circle.

" I guess you're right, sister." Sylvia shrugs, before sitting down on top of her large wooden dresser, "That f*cker just wants to turn us into some f*cking reality show where those b*tches just make themselves look like real f*ckin' morons...." She looked up at the ceiling, "The cunt's making us into one big god d*mn joke. Hilari-f*cking-ous..." Right now Sylvia appeared to be the most calm and collected.

"Yeah, those shows sure are stupid..." Lily agrees with a smile, now she was trying to change the subject. "They're not reality though, they're fake. I don't watch them myself because, when the hell did people start watching TV for reality? If I wanted that I'd.... Heh"

"Those are stupid... You know purple hair; you aren't that bad..." Sylvia says to Lily.

Mission successful! Lily thinks to herself with a slight smile creeping on her face. "You're loud... But, not that bad yourself..." Lily started laughing, "... White hair."

((I really should stop d*cking around))

Bones

Back at the Dorms, Bones collected blankets and pillows from rooms that appeared to be abandoned, avoiding ones that seemed to still have occupants that were still alive. As she did so, she fleetingly wondered if this was sanitary, but then dismissed the thought. Her immune system had never failed to eliminate foreign pathogens before. As she went through this task, she was amazed at how much she could tell about someone based on the contents of their room, which depending on the powers, may or may not have been dangerous environments. When she finally gathered enough, she carried a ball of unwashed laundry that seemed far too large for someone her size. It didn't bother her, though, because her bones were rather dense, and anyone who saw would think she had super strength. That, or if they were just waking up (Highly unlikely) and were still groggy from sleep, they would think that it was a lumbering pillow monster. Regardless, with the supplies in tow, she began trying to leave so she could go back and set up a safer landing site for Nicole.

Tom & Marie

"-Okay, so what exactly are we going to do?" Tom asked. He and Marie had officially claimed the dorm's library as their turf. After the whole lunchroom discovery, they had returned there and began to discuss the new issues the destruction would cause. "We have to leave the school, somehow. With a limited supply of food, and nobody left to provide new shipments, we are literally like hamsters trapped in cages. We are bound to run out eventually, and you are currently the only person I have met who is aware of how to prepare meals properly." Marie said, in her usual, flat monotone. There was a flash of yellow worry in her eyes, though. "There is also the risk that we will be accused of doing something, as our presence at the crime scene would be viewed as suspicious. Even though we are innocent, who would believe either one of us?" Tom scowled, "You're right about that, I'm not going to say I haven't made enemies who would leap at the chance to make me a scapegoat. You're too young to be blamed, but you're so smart, and so different, people don't know what to think of you." Marie just blinked, "My behavior is macabre, Tom, for the most part, void of emotion, and any sort of betrayal of inner feelings. However, I hope that despite what both of us appear to be, people will not think so badly of us, that we would be blamed. Neither one of us are truly bad people, we have issues, and you yourself appear to be a victim of psychological and emotional abuse, based on an analysis of your behavior." Her eyes flashed pink, and then purple as she said this.

Tom sighed, and shook his head, partly out of frustration, because there was no denying Marie was right. "Okay, not going to say you're wrong, but I'd rather not talk about that sort of thing. We have worse problems to sort out right now. I don't think I need a child psychologist at the moment." Marie's eyes flashed pale purple again, and there was the faintest tug at the corners of her lips, as though she were amused. "Very well, then, I will not tease you. You have a good set of morals regarding children, as you surely would have harmed me for saying that, if I were older. That set aside, what would you suspect would be the motive of the culprit? I cannot expose myself to extreme emotion, which is why I need your assistance to balance out my thought process." Tom thought for a moment, "I would say to turn us against one another, although I don't think the initial event was needed to do that. Maybe to just egg on tensions already present."

Dragonfly dropped his camouflage, but backed up to the opposite side of the ring. While it could easily be seen as a cowardice act, it was. His flank was to Drake's side, and it could easily be seen that his jaw was crooked. Grabbing it near the front, with each of his fingers sliding in between the teeth, he twisted it in a very sickening position before bringing it back to it's original spot. He swiveled his jaw around in a chewing like manner, before turning his head to look at Drake. He twisted his head on his neck to emit a cracking sound. "Good shot." Dragonfly said, spitting out a little blood. "But now it'ss my turn."

He then burst off in a full on sprint at Drake, jumping about half way and screeching in an agressive, and bird like, manner. His tail was held slightly higher up, and his arms were outreach to grab Drake. His legs were also kicked out to land on Drake. It the same form of attack he used on both the dummy and Zizz. While he knew full well what this was capable of and how dangerous of a situation this was for Drake, he would hold back against his own words. This was meant to better one another and as Victoria said, they couldn't be killing each other. The attack was more of to start a new round or call a draw so he could teach Drake how to use a few of his own powers if he got them. In sparring, neither won the fight.

Taylor

Taylor blushed a bit when Johnny complimented her, but she wasn't going to go all love-crazy until she had her sister back. She noticed that her clothing was probably not the best for something like this, but she wasn't exactly going to go change into something more modest and waste time.

"Well, mon ami," Taylor began "Like you, I am not the only member of my family who goes to this school. My little sister Marissa also goes here, but since the raid I haven't seen her at all. I was planning on looking yesterday, but then I ended up looking for Gabe instead. So, I figured that you would return the favor for last night and help me find her."

Claire

This girl was starting to piss her off. Claire had hoped that Lemontea and her would become friends, but obviously this girl was more of a b*tch than Claire was. Claire just rolled her eyes, and, sport bottle in hand, walked past the sparring room and into another room, looking for punching bags or something of the like.

(Shitty posts are shitty, but at least this moves things along).

Hunter

The moment Hunter and Bones separated, he went for the ladder. He wondered why she didn't follow his suggestions. Then again, it worked towards his side goal of getting something to eat and drink. The moment Bones was out of sight, he walked towards the cafeteria. I do need to eat. Nicole doesn't seem to be on the slippery edge of death. Hunter thinks to himself as he walks. He slung his blood sword over his right shoulder. He wasn't afraid of a small cut, he's been cut thousands of times. One more wasn't going to make him look any worse. He stepped through the double doors of the cafeteria. Only to stop shocked. His blood sword dropped off his shoulder, making a loud clang as it landed on it's side.

Who... Who... would do such a thing? There is a wolf among the sheep. I--- I, don't know what to say... Hunter thinks to himself, confused and shocked. From what he could tell, this was the only constant source of food here. They would have to either prepare their own food, and find out where the food supplies are here. They would have to figure out something. Just not now. Hunter sighed and decided that he'll talk to Bones about this later. He bent over to pick up his blood sword and put it over his shoulder again. Before he turned around to leave, he peaked back at the destruction of the cafeteria. He only hoped that the Eyes could fix this in time before it becomes an issue.

Hunter had to think of where a ladder would be. The Eyes have made the need for ladders unnecessary. A convenience when this place was active, now it was nothing but detrimental. He shrugged as he took slow, light steps. He remembered something from his conversation with Bones.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "So, might as well introduce myself, people call me Bones, I designed the textiles for the costumes we used in school plays, before this whole invasion mess started.

School plays... I remember going to a few in my time here... Hm. There was a few... props. I'm certain they can be used as I saw people use them extensively... Unless that is their gift--- I am procrastinating again. I've seen a ladder in their props. I'll have to look. Hunter changed course straight to the theater. He made haste, since he was already behind due to this (annoying) detour. The moment he was in the theater, he looked around. It seemed chaotic as the rest of the school. Bullet holes everywhere, seats torn out of the ground, and burns. There was an Eye working on repairing the damage, but Hunter felt that it was going to be ages before the Eyes truly fix anything. He didn't waste any time taking in the environment, he went straight to the props room behind the theater stage. This room was immensely large (and damaged) with bland grey colored walls and floors. Obviously because this room wasn't made for people to stick around in. There was a wide variety of props, from fake trees, to chairs, to prop houses... to ladders.

Yes. Exactly what I need. Hunter dropped his blood sword on the ground, and walked over to several ladders all leaned up against the wall. Each of them were a different size (from uselessly small, to excessively large) and color (which didn't matter to Hunter). He immediately went to the ladder which he felt was high enough to reach Nicole. He let out a quiet sigh as he climbed up it, slowly and cautiously. Just to see if it'll be solid enough to climb on. He was halfway up the ladder, he didn't stop there. He had to make sure that it was stable enough, or he risks causing injury to his "Friends" (if they could be considered that). He kept climbing straight to the top, with nothing going wrong. Hunter climbed to the bottom and grabbed the ladder by both sides. He tried carrying it, but it was rather heavy for him. Since he wasn't the strongest out of everyone here, he had struggled attempting to get it out. Hunter wasn't going to give up that easily, he kept carrying the ladder through the schools all the way outside, to the tree that Nicole was trapped on. Before he did anything, he wanted to know where Bones was. "Nicole, you are one step closer to freedom." He called up to the Bird girl.

After Hunter was gone, someone came by and picked up his blood-sword and left without a trace.

Johnny, Gabe & Jake

Maxx Toron wrote:: "Well, mon ami," Taylor began "Like you, I am not the only member of my family who goes to this school. My little sister Marissa also goes here, but since the raid I haven't seen her at all. I was planning on looking yesterday, but then I ended up looking for Gabe instead. So, I figured that you would return the favor for last night and help me find her."

Johnny shrugged. He wasn't exactly in the mood to go around looking for someone else right now. But, he did owe Taylor a favor, and he didn't want to hear Jake and Gabe (who were slightly more moral than him) complain about his ruthlessness. Figured that he get this out of the way early in the day and he spends the rest of the day resting. He looked around and says, "Alright, alright, alright..." His displeasure was nearly blatant, "I'll help you."

Jake smiles, "Alright. We're still in, right Gabe?"

"Yeah. Got nothin' better to do until we decide to bust out of here." Gabe shrugs, "I just hope that you have an idea where this chick even is" She spoke in a very rude tone, "'Cause, I don't feel the need to go up and down this place, looking in thousand different places for this---" Gabe was calmly interrupted by Jake.

"Gabe, chill. We should do the best we can. Taylor did the best she could when it came to you." Jake tries to reason with his twin sister.

"Guess ya' right, Jakey. But, the best I can do here is help ya'll look 'round. Not very good at finding people... That's Johnny's job, eh?" Gabe shrugs again.

"That it is." Johnny smirks, "As long as the person is alive I can sense their emotional presence... Meaning I'll know their exact location." He went off subject again when he just remembered something, "Where is Sylvia?"

"Not a clue." Jake shrugs.

"Probably swearing like a goddamn brat, eh?" Gabe inserts meanly.

"Ah, screw it. If she gets into any trouble then she can handle it... Who would dare f*ck with the dubstep bomb? Ahahaha..." Johnny laughs it off. "But, yeah. Any clues will help, Taylor."

Lemontea

Lemontea shrugged. She may have rustled Claire with her question. Understandable since she wasn't the most social person here. She was bond to piss someone off. It didn't bother her really, in less than a few moments she disappeared again. Back into her special place.

Drake & Victoria

Drake saw Dragonfly's vicious offensive and he reacted accordingly. He jumped out of the way to his right. The one thing he wasn't going to do was take a hit like that head on. This was training, and it would helpful in live-combat that he learns to take attacks as well as dodge them. He had quite the plans on making his counter-attack, when...

How about you two call it a quits? You did quite a lot to each other... Victoria sent a thought to Drake's head. Making him stop his counter attack plans.

"Fine... I should start getting patched up anywhere." Drake unintentionally responds out loud instead of thinking. He ignores that and turns to Dragonfly, extending his hand. "Ha, that was a good match. But, lets just cut it here. I need to get patched up and get something to eat..." He looked down at his reptilian body. "... I could also go for a change of clothes. Heh. So, let's just, um---"

Victoria stood straight up and sent another thought to Drake (interrupting his response), We could talk a bit about Dragonfly.

Yeah. I want to see what he can do. I've seen him in action and I gotta say I'm impressed. Drake replies, before addressing Dragonfly again, "Ha, on second thought. I want to talk about you, Dragon." Drake leaned up against one of the posts of the sparring ring, "I gotta say; you're very interesting. Especially these powers of yours... Can you, uh, tell me exactly what you can do?"

"That'ss probably a good idea. Good dodge, by the way." Dragonfly complimented, Standing back up to his full height and wiggling his shoulders to get them out of their tense position. He raised a hand to cup his jaw to help stop the bleeding. He wasn't angry about it, it would return eventually. Plus, the scar made him look more interesting. He could say he got in in a fight and gave the opposition a nice bit to take home himself. He was glad the fight ended when it did, because he wasn't built for that kind of combat. Get in, kill, get out. He was made for quick and silent kills.

He saw movement out of the corner of his eyes, and saw Henry sitting against the far wall, watching him interact with Drake and his sister. Tearing his eyes away, he took Drake's hand and shook it. Signifying that the feelings were mutual on how good the match was. No pain, no gain, right? He lept over the ropes once again and back to the ground, and took a single step to make his way out when Drake asked about him. He turned back, looking to Drake, who was now leaning against the fence post. He was asking about what exactly he could do.

"That'ss hard to ssay." Dragonfly replied, going into thought for a moment. "I learn about new powerss every day. Although I would ssay that every power I have hass been derived from reptiless and even a few amphibianss." He raised one hand before speaking once again. "The palm of my hand hass several million tiny barbed hairs on in. They allow me to sstick to nearly any ssurface around and defy gravity by climbing on wallss. Kinda like Sspiderman. You what that comess from? Geckoss." He put his hand down before continuing, "My sskin has two featuress, the ability to change color extremely fasst and to an extremely realisstic degree. But it alsso hass the ability to abssorb.. what do we call it... Oxygen from the water. Just like a Chameleon, or a frog." He changed his skin several times, looking somewhat like a rainbow strobe light as he went through several of the basic color of the rainbow in around ten seconds as a visual aid. "I can even have my tail ripped off without ssuffering any long term effectss. It will regrow after a month or so. Didn't that happen to you often asss a child when you tried to catch lizardss?"

Drake & Victoria

Drake Music:

"Now that..." Drake smirked for a moment, "... Is intriguing." He crossed his arms with a wide smile on his face. He looked back at Victoria for a moment, before realizing that he was still in lizard-man form. He let out a quiet sigh and started to shift back into his normal form. His green skin faded back into it's pink textures, and his scales and keretin armor dissolved back into his body. Drake jolted as his transformation back into human form had completed. It wasn't that he hated his forms, he just felt more comfortable as a human. Like this was the mode that allowed him to talk face to face with people. He shrugged again, before thinking that he should focus on Dragonfly. From what Dragonfly told him, the lizardman has quite the abilities. Breathing underwater, Wallcrawling, Invisibility, among other things. Drake had known that Dragonfly was a powerful Meta-human from their fight with the Zizz. He just wasn't sure of Dragonfly's true power just yet. "Always thought you were strong, heh. I just haven't heard what you can really do yet... I mean from you, haha." Drake says rather smugly.

The pain from the kick he received crept in. While it wasn't the wisest choice, given that he could heal while he's a Lizardman--- It's simply that Drake had forgotten that Dragonfly mentioned he has a healing factor. Light blood dripped down from his belly, he was going to ignore it and try to move on. Right now he was done with all of this excising and sparring--- He just wants to change up and find something to do.

Victoria had gotten up from the bleachers and promptly made her way towards them. Every step was light, she had noticed that the girls had left. Which was strange since they just appeared, laughed and left. It wasn't worth imploring at the moment. She approached Dragonfly and Drake and leaned up against the sparring ring. She had been reading Drake's mind the whole time, making Drake her very own relay. Victoria still refused to read Dragonfly's mind without his consent. That would be a major breach of trust if he found out. It was going to come out eventually--- But, Victoria wanted to keep her own telepathy to herself and Drake. Merely to keep their own edge just in case. "That was some interesting training. Would have loved to join in but I'm tired from all that running we did earlier."

"Yeah." Drake starts off, keeping his friendly gaze on Dragonfly, "You gotta teach me these tricks sometime, Dragon." Seemingly ignoring Victoria.

"We should pick up our training tomorrow..." Victoria says before sending a thought to Drake, We should go check up on the others. Just to see how they're all holding up, you know.

I want to know if Nicole's okay specifically. Drake replies, "So, uh, Dragonfly. We decided that we're going to go check up on everyone...." Drake looks down at his body, he was wearing nothing but camo shorts and sneakers, "... After I put on something a bit heavier. Don't want any unnecessary transformations now do we?" Drake says in a joyful, happy tone. He didn't realize that he actually give a hint about Victoria's telepathy.

The Training Center

Claire had walked into another sparring room. This room was almost identical to the room that Drake, Victoria and Dragonfly were in at the moment. There were no punching bags, only the large sparring ring in the center of the room, and the bleachers surrounding it.

((Would have been helpful if you specifically said what kind of room she went into, Maxx. There's the training rooms, sparring rooms and the gym rooms--- Claire is in the sparring rooms part of the center))

The Library

((And for that matter, might as well describe the library too))

The library is a massive room deep in the dorms. There were two entrances into the room, each were on opposite sides. The library had Deep-sky-blue colored carpet, and slightly darker wallpaper with white stripes. The ceiling was painted white. The library room appeared as many would expect; rows and rows of massive bookshelves full of almost every kind of book (From informative, to fiction). The bookshelves were made out of deep-brown hardwood and were quite sturdy. These bookshelves were firmly bolted into the ground to prevent any injury and damage. The library was basically lined with these bookshelves. The library was two floors, and a massive foyer that went up to this second floor. The second floor could barely even be called a floor. There was a wide cat-walk looking down on the first floor, this cat-walk lead into several different rooms, full of even more bookshelves and chairs and tables. One could easily hide up here. There were little areas set up with tables and comfortable chairs so that people can sit down and enjoy a good read in here. There were a small amount of special Eyes set up in this room to maintain the room. They mostly clean up the Library and rearrange the books. Sometimes when students are noisy, these Eyes tell them to be silent. There were signs of fighting in here, books were littering the floor and there were darts all over the floor. There was also several bullet holes in the book shelves. Which the Eyes were working hard to repair.

((Describing rooms is fun))

Lily and Sylvia

"Oh yeah, what the hell were we talking about before...?" Sylvia ponders to herself, "Oh yeah; we were going to take down that f*ggot who f*cked up the cafeteria..." She said in a calm tone.

This obviously shattered Lily's plans of talking about something else and going about this search alone. She looked obviously displeased and said, "Yeah..." Lily looked away for a minute.

"You said you got an idea of the b*tch, right? Let's go..." Sylvia was about to say a whole manner of violent things, before she stopped herself. "... Investigate."

Lily sighed, putting her hand over her forehead, "Yeah, yeah. Let's just get a few things clear here first; don't say anything--- Let me do the talking. Second; don't try fighting or anything like that. And no doing anything without clearing it with me first. You listen to me at all times, got it?" Lily told her requests to Sylvia in a commanding tone.

Sylvia wasn't the type to listen to people and follow their rules. Unless they were Johnny. However, she was a person who'd put on a guise. She smiled and said in a convincing tone, "Sure... Lead the way, leader." She spoke in a near sarcastic manner, trying to hold in her flurry of swears and insults.

"Alright let's go." Lily says, she probably won't be able to get rid of Sylvia. She now has to endure it (and hope that Sylvia wasn't behind the sabotage). She got up and started walking out of the room, followed by a floating Sylvia. ((Meta-game here if that's okay)) Lily lead Sylvia into the library where she had a feeling someone would be. She was by the door and peaked in, she doesn't see anyone--- But, she heard two people having a discussion. It was hard to tell who, which is why Lily's going to find out... Herself.

"You think of those @ssholes did it?" Sylvia inserts, not even knowing anything about who she's talking about.

"No. But, you're going to stay here as I sort this out..." Lily half-walks through the door, "IF something goes wrong; then you move in. Then just stay here" She ordered Sylvia around like a leader. Lily started marching towards Marie and Tom.

"Jesus f*ck..." Sylvia shrugs to herself, she wasn't in any way planning to follow these orders. Since she can fly, she made no footsteps, no sound. Basically she can just sneak into anywhere if she's careful enough. Sylvia floated a foot off the ground and quickly dove behind a bookshelf. When she felt it was safe, she quickly floated up to the catwalk on the second floor. She immediately started crawling towards the pair until she had the ideal vantage point. For both observation and attack.

"Hi there." Lily greeted Marie and Tom as she approached them cautiously, "I just wanted to talk to you two, if that's okay." About what happened in there... She was trying not to reference what her true intentions are--- Even though if they were intelligent they could easily pick up on what she really wanted.

Tom & Marie

Marie and Tom both looked up at the same time, apparently having been reading a cookbook. It was clear they were already thinking about the cafeteria, and how a majority of the food was either ruined, or couldn't be eaten unless properly prepared. Set aside was another book that seemed to be for identifying edible plants. "Take a seat, then." Tom said, scowling slightly, although it was typically his normal expression, and it was clearly mixed with what seemed to be stress or anxiety. Marie looked up, her eyes flashing bright blue. Even though people couldn't tell much about her from appearances, her glowing, color-changing eyes, normally pale silver, indicated emotional states. Marie and Tom looked very different, but both of them had strange silver eyes that looked eerily similar. Tom was also the only one currently who seemed to be aware of what each color meant. It made sense, though, as he had spent of a majority of his time around Marie, who he felt obligated to watch, and could not muster the nerve to ask her to leave. Despite her monotone voice and sophisticated dialogue, Marie did possess things such as a sense of humor, and inner feelings. They were just not pronounced, and for the most part were intentionally suppressed, because her powers did terrible things, apparently.

"We were discussing how the situation has begun to deteriorate." Marie said, her words somewhat vague. It was clear after a moment of thinking, though, that she meant the school as a whole. With no food, people would starve, and there was no way to escape. Humans were also known to be their own worst enemy. People would aggressively begin to fight at the rate things were going. A tiny flicker of yellow flashed across Marie's irises, and although it remained the same, there was an almost unnerved quality to her face. Her posture also seemed tense. "We are trapped." She stated. Tom looked at her worriedly out of the corner of his eye, at this statement. He was for the most part cold towards people, but he did feel concerned about children. Even a weird little girl like Marie, who could sometimes be aggravating in her lack of expression, somehow wound up being the only person in the school so far that he had developed a soft spot for. He knew Marie and him both looked guilty of trashing the lunchroom, but he would probably hate himself if he let Marie get hurt. She was an odd kid who had her happiness (And other feelings) forcibly suppressed and stripped away. That wasn't already horrible enough? Why was it her fault? Did she look guilty to these people?

Taylor

Taylor frowned, not sure of exactly what Johnny wanted her to tell him about her. So, she figured she'd start with appearance and go from there.

"She looks like une petite version of me, with curlier hair and green eyes instead of blue. I don't remember what she was wearing, but I know she's wearing a diamant de chocolat like this." She showed Johnny the fancy ring she wore on her left ring finger, and then scrunched her face up in thought. "Personality-wise, she's..." Taylor stopped and quivered a bit. She was trying her hardest not to cry in front of Johnny, but as memories of her sister came flooding back, her eyes began to fill with crystal-clear tears which made them look almost fish-like.

"I'm not helping at all, am I?"

Mr Allen J wrote:: "Always thought you were strong, heh. I just haven't heard what you can really do yet... I mean from you, haha." Drake says rather smugly.

"I can do thingss I would regret, jusst like you could." Dragonfly replied, sighing for a moment before shaking his head to rid himself of the thoughts. He wasn't THAT much of a downer. At least not around other people. He noticed the blood Drake had coming from his stomach and felt a pang of guilt. He had kicked a bit too hard and his claws were a little bit too long. He silently scolded himself before continuing the conversation. He noticed that Victoria had not done too much in training. He was wondering what was keeping her from doing so. From what she had done earlier, he guessed that her powers were telepathic. From her appearance, she didn't look all that in shape, maybe that was it? But if so wouldn't she be trying just as hard if not harder than both of them?

He didn't know how she thought, but he didn't judge. He decided that if he didn't ask, then he'd be bothered by it for a long time to come. "Sso, Victoria, what exactly is your power? I'm curioss." He said, tilting his head to the side. He turned to Drake momentarily to hear what he had to say before nodding. "Yess, indeed. I need a new pair of pantss mysself." he said, looking down at his own body. Because he was reptilian on the outside, his bits weren't. They stayed at the bottom of the base of his tail just like a lizard's. He was quite happy about this as it saved him a good bit of embarrassment. "What about that girl you ssaved? Do you think sshe'ss okay?" he said, asking about Jia-Li. He didn't know who she was, or what had happened, but he did know that Drake had gone berserk when Zizz took her and that she was injured badly. He did not know exactly in what manner though as he was unconscious from shock almost as soon as Drake bursted.

Lily & Sylvia

The first thing Lily did when she was acknowledged was grab a chair by the top and dragged it over to her. She sat down a little bit away from the table. She didn't want to be direct with her investigation, lest she wants to give away her intentions. Then again she already given her plans away to Sylvia. Who was just as likely to be the traitor than anyone else--- Though, Lily does believe that while Sylvia is less than intelligent, she just thinks it's impossible for Sylvia to do such a thing (At least quietly). There were so many people here, and so many people with powerful abilities--- It would be difficult to pin down the actual traitor. She let out a quiet sigh and started addressing everything that Tom and Marie said. In a causal way, she needed to start off with small talk before getting to the big picture.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "We were discussing how the situation has begun to deteriorate." Marie said

Exactly. The situation has gone down hill since the fight last night. Lily had a feeling that it would only get much much worse here on in. Unless they leave this place behind. This wasn't unexpected however. This place was a teenaged paradise for a few hours. Something would pop up to flip that upside down. That something would be a great reason for them to leave, and it works. Lily spoke, except in a saddened tone, "Yeah... I don't know if you already know this, but some maniac attacked us last night... I don't know what happened after I left, but I think he's deal with. But, I think he killed Drake... It was just so much last night"

ViperaUnion wrote:: "We are trapped." She stated

Lily couldn't help but agree. Since they're trapped, a great remedy would be to get out of the trap. Lily knew that they would have to leave eventually and stop playing around. Now would be a great time to make up plans to leave. While she knew it'd be difficult--- It can't be impossible. They have free reign to the place. As far as she can tell, no one can stop them. "Yeah, we should really try to leave here, little girl. I should try rounding up the others and seeing if we can find a way out." At least leaving would be better than trying to track down some traitor.

Sylvia was still watching the conversation from above. She looked down with a faint amount of disappoint on her face. She thought that Lily was interrogating them, not having a nice cup of tea with them. However, she was going to keep to herself for now. When the time is right then she'll strike like an eagle.

Johnny, Gabe & Jake

Johnny frowned as he examined the ring, then went on a rant in his head, Hoo-f*cking rah. What you're essentially saying is that we're looking for someone who just looks like you, but have no idea where she could be? We're in a f*cking dome with a million hiding places--- NOT counting the trillion more places in the caverns below our feet. Ugh. While Johnny may have been too critical, this is what he thinks of Taylor's--- It is the price of owing a favor. While they have zero direction, he still will attempt to find her little sister... For at least five hours, then he's (And hopefully Jake and Gabe) giving up. He leaned forward on the sofa and said, "Alright, alright, alright." Before grabbing his hat off the table, and his Medical cane that was leaning up against another sofa. "We will do our best to find your sister, since we are the Valos family we can deliver you world class excellence..." He put his hat over his head and slanted it downwards to cover his eyes and most of his face from Taylor, "... Just keep in mind that there are some things are simply out of our control." He warned Taylor just in case the off chance that her sister could be dead or worse.

Jake shrugged and said, "I don't think she could be in the hospital. So we can cross this place off."

"Yeah, yeah, doll-face," Gabe starts off before crossing her arms and looking annoyed, "We covered this place from top to bottom after we killed that... thing. If she was in here we would have noticed." Though, doll-face... quite a few people were killed by Pestilence... Everyone on the first floor was eaten alive. It was a f*cking massacre. Tons a' people were hurt or killed on third and second floor... You don't see them because the Eyes were haulin' 'em into the morgue.. She pondered to herself, keeping the idea to herself as well. While she was quite cynical herself, she wasn't going to bog down the group.

Johnny closed his eyes, and focused for a moment. He started sensing emotional presences. So far he was picking up every single presence in the hospital. There were a few people in here, most were immobile. Implying that they were still injured from the attack. The only person he could identify was the still unconscious Jia-li. There was no point in doing this other than seeing if there was anyone moving. Johnny thought about where they could start or what they could do, "Well, Taylor, is there anywhere your sister hangs out? Because thinking about it; Me and Jake hid in the Detention Center because Sylvia got her @ss thrown into lockdown. I personally reckon that she could at least be in that area..." Johnny threw his suggestion across.

"I don't think we'll---" Gabe was just about to shoot down the idea, before getting a shoulder jab from Jake. She threw him an aggressive look, before saying something else, "Eh... It'll be a start."

Jake half smirks, "Yeah, it's a start. Maybe we can get Sylvia aboard, she's the only person in our group that can fly."

"I like that idea--- But, I don't know where she is." Johnny inserts, "We're better off trying to look around these parts ourselves." Johnny stood straight up, slinging his cane over his shoulder and says, "Let's just get started already!"

Drake & Victoria

TheⓍperator wrote:: "I can do thingss I would regret, jusst like you could." Dragonfly replied

For a brief moment Drake paused to think about this. He could do things to hurt people with all this power at his fingertips. Except he was raised to be better than that. Only he will use his powers for what he believed in. That was helping people, and fighting those who needed to be fought. Then Drake shrugged off the thought again. He wasn't about to go on a rant about his ideals now.

TheⓍperator wrote:: "Sso, Victoria, what exactly is your power? I'm curioss." He said

Drake turned his head to Victoria, since now she was taking the front and center scene. He was wondering for a moment that Dragonfly had forgotten what he said last night. Then again he hadn't exactly told him what Victoria's power was. Nor was he was going to. It was all on Victoria if she was going to tell him anything. He just continued looking at her with curiosity. Victoria had wondered what to say for a moment. She wasn't going to tell him that she can read minds or anything (Just to keep that edge). "Well..." She started off, "... I can copy powers from people. Like my brothers can." She left out how she does it, for two reasons. One is that Victoria doesn't understand them yet, and two, she doesn't want Dragonfly to know how.

"Ha, yeah. Hate to restate facts here but all children of Blackmore can copy powers." Drake says with a cheery smile, "... Just through different means." He then shrugged.

TheⓍperator wrote:: "What about that girl you ssaved? Do you think sshe'ss okay?"

"Jia-li..." Drake's cheery, near-arrogant demeanor quickly turned into a much more serious and worried state. He was still shaken up for last night and how easily he brushed with death. He wished he could have stopped the Zizz from doing what he did--- But, he can't save everyone. Or stop all bad things from happening... But, he was going to do everything that's within his power. If they were going to check up on anyone then they should see Jia-li first. She seemed pretty banged up after what happened last night--- But, the Eyes were doing whatever they could. Hopefully she'll be in stable enough condition to talk. He raised his head and delivered his verdict, "I don't know if she's okay or not... But, I'm--- We're going to find out right now." Drake wants to go off and talk to Jia-li in the hospital before he does anything.

"Sure. We can do that." Victoria says. It'll be great seeing that she's okay. It might help Drake quite a bit knowing that he saved a life. She thinks to herself. Withdrawing any mental communication.

"Let's get a move on, I don't want to waste anymore time here." Drake says before crawling in between the ropes of the sparring ring and climbing back on to the ground. He smirked and started walking out of the Training Hall to the Hospital. He was followed by Victoria and hopefully Dragonfly. It felt nice knowing that he could build friendships like this. Yesterday he was wary of the lizardman when they first met, now he regards him as a friend.

Tom & Marie

Tom, seemingly protective, scowled, "Her name is Marie, and mine is Tom, to clear things up." He said gruffly. He had noticed how the woman had called Marie a little girl, and not by her name. Not being addressed by his name always aggravated Tom, and because he officially considered Marie a person he couldn't simply abandon, he was upset when people didn't use her name, as well. He had just snapped, though, and he knew he should probably apologize. After a pause, he sighed, shaking his head, "Sorry, things just aren't going very well lately. I'm just freaked out right now, sorry if I snapped. It's just that when people don't use names, it aggravates me." Marie had been teaching Tom anger management, and how to express himself properly. She was probably the best teacher, her self-control was extraordinary.

Marie's eyes flashed a pale purple, "Well, the apology was a start." She said. She turned back to the woman. "I have been teaching him to control anger. But even someone such as me is left shaken by the recent turn of events. I myself must control emotions, for the sake of keeping my powers from going wild and running amok. But I digress." Even though she was using her typical monotone, her speech still remained effective if one listened. "What we were doing before you came here, was trying to see if we could find some alternative food source. The cafeteria no longer has eyes to maintain it, or prepare food. Much of the food is ruined, and whatever is left, many of us may not have the skill to prepare it. There is a ring of forest surrounding the school grounds before we reach the boundary. There is a possibility of scavenging food from there." Tom frowned, "Ultimately, though, we must find a way out of here. We don't know how long our supplies are going to last, and if they run out before everyone can get out of this place, well...things are bound to get ugly, really fast."

Willow & Nicole

Bones slowly began to haul the load of cushions from the Dorms, and back to where Nicole was stuck in her tree. The ladder was already present, but Hunter wasn't present. "Hey, Nicky, did you see Hunter come by here?" She called up. Nicole opened one of her eyes and nodded slowly, "Yeah, he came by, but then he went back, I think he's looking for you. I blacked out after that, though." She said. Bones nodded. "Well, let's get you out of that tree, first, then I'll go look for him." She set the pillows and sheets down, and then proceeded to climb up the ladder to help Nicole dislodge her wings. "Okay, now watch my feathers, don't break any of them." She warned, but eventually, they were both loose, with no damage, thankfully. "Okay, you might want to climb down now." Nicole said, and Bones did so. When it was safe, she opened her wings, and flew down to the pile of sheets, tumbling softly into them, but clenching her beak and closing her eyes, wincing when her broken leg touched down. Bones ran over and helped her up, supporting the side with the broken fibula.

"Okay, Hunter can wait, let's get you to the infirmary and have the eyes take a look at that leg." Bones said, before slowly leading Nicole away to receive medical attention.

Subject: The Traitor Rears It's Head Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:38 pm

Hunter and...

Hunter had returned to the dorms to look for Bones. He had no idea where she was, and he couldn't get Nicole down himself. As well as speak with her in private again. He didn't know who destroyed the cafeteria, nor was he going to attempt to find out. This was only the beginning, and this is exactly what the person(s) responsible wanted. They want conflict, and accusations. Violence breeds violence. It has this way since the beginning. There is absolutely no peaceful outcome from searching for answers. Hunter thinks to himself as he keeps a slow pace while he walked around. He was going deeper and deeper into the dorms. Hunter heard a noise, like footsteps and a door closing lightly in the hallway to the right of him--- He paused for a moment before turning down the hallway. He believed it was Bones. However, what he saw was far more interesting. It was a person, wearing an outfit that covered up all chances of identification--- Running away at breakneck speed the moment that he/she was noticed by Hunter. He saw quite a bit of the person from his brief glimpse. A bandanna over his/her mouth, tinted sunglasses and a black ski-mask that covered his/her face. He/She wore a heavy black hoodie, and jeans. With black sneakers and gloves. Every inch of this mysterious person was covered. It was nearly impossible to identify the person, it's race, gender and appearance was obscured. Hunter was no idiot--- He knew that the person had to be the person responsible for the lunchroom. He didn't chase off after the person however. There were more important matters at hand here... Under a nearby door, there was a puddle of dry blood.

No... Hunter thought to himself, The curiosity I feel now is immense... I don't know what I'll find behind this door... While there was a quiet voice in his head specifically telling him to just turn back and head back to Nicole--- That voice was suppressed, there was something wrong here and he's the first person to find out. He cautiously walked over to the door very slowly. Trying his best to avoid stepping in the dry blood. He grasped the doorknob, but stood there for a moment. He was preparing himself for what horror he was bound to see. He closed his eyes and turned the doorknob, throwing the door wide open.

Appropriate music:

Hunter let out a loud yell that could be heard throughout the dorms. It was... a corpse lying on the ground on his back, with a large bloody head gash. Worse of all; Hunter's blood sword (That he left in the theater) was rammed through his chest. He was dead for at least an hour now, Hunter's sword was not the cause of death--- It's merely an addition to implicate him in this heinous crime. His name was John Doe, an average looking male that had to be the same age as Hunter. There was very little remarkable about him (Other than the acute case of death). John Doe was one of the few people who arrived in the school with the group of students. Hunter was immediately rushed with shock, fear and regret. He dropped to his bottom, making his art tools drop off his shoulder. He let out a flurry of panicked gasps. While he has ended a life before (And that was not pretty), the brevity of all of this was all too surprising. While this occurred, he entered deep panicked thinking.

My god... This traitor--- this murderous fool... Who would be so sadistic to escalate such depraved actions like this... This has already started and already it's been brought too far. However would do such a thing should be beheaded before this goes any further. Hunter slowly collected himself, he noticed the sword impaled in John's chest. This only escalated Hunter's erratic state even further. This... murderer... was trying to scapegoat me for this--- The blood technique is my gift and my curse. No one else could even come close to emulating my skill. This is the real--- No! I left my blade in the theater when I was getting the ladder... If I hadn't come when I did; I surely would have been implicated for this... Hunter looked around extremely worried.

After a few minutes, Hunter had regained his composure. He stood straight up and looked away from the bloody mess that John was turned into. He needed to get the sword out of John's chest--- This was all a set up and it'd be hard convincing everyone of what he thinks happened when a key piece of evidence is lodged in his chest... He wasn't sure if that would be a good idea. He just wasn't sure what to do right now--- He wasn't thinking straight at all. All of this was too much, he just hobbled over to John Doe's corpse and grabbed his blood sword by the hilt. Hunter closed his eyes and thought to himself. I hate myself now because my art become a tool of murder... instead of a tool of Justice and Defense... A tear rolled down his cheek as he pulled the sword out of John Doe's chest. More tears came rolling down his face as the blood and other parts of John Doe were attached to his sword. I need to share news of this with someone... Bones. I do not believe she calls me a friend--- But, she's the closest I have now... Hunter turned around and stepped out of the door. Unaware of what was to come.

While he was in-shock, the Traitor returned and took cover behind the other side of the door. With a wooden-chair leg in hand, already prepared to knock Hunter out. The moment he stepped through the door, the Traitor swung the chair leg aimed at his forehead hard as possible. It knocked him back several feet (Nearly on top of John Doe) on his behind and stunned him. A wound on his forehead was opened, and blood was pouring out on to his eyes. Everything was blurry, his vision and whatever the hell was going on. Hunter tried to get up and fight back, he was too hurt by his aggressor. The Traitor had free reign to kill him right now. The Traitor stood over him with the chair leg in hand, raising it into the air--- Preparing the death blow against Hunter. However, the traitor noticed the Blood Sword on the ground, and dropped the chair leg. The Traitor grabbed the blood sword and ran off into nothingness before anyone noticed him. Leaving a stunned and confused Hunter behind.

Hunter was just sitting there on the ground. Incidentally, letting his clothes soak in John Doe's blood. His head hurt like hell, and he was stunned. It took him at least ten minutes to recover enough to get back to his feet. Everything was still blurry. Everything was going to hell, and Hunter couldn't think straight for best of him. He knelt forward, hands on his knees. His own blood that was dripping from his forehead had added to the pool of John Doe's nearly dry blood. There was no time to waste, he was going to come back after he gets help and give John a proper burial. He stumbled out of the room, trying his hardest not to fall over. Hunter's goal was the hospital. He could find Bones and everyone else after he gets checked out in the hospital. He started wandering the halls of the Dorm, the blood was dripped down on to the ground, leaving an eerie trail of blood. Anyone else would have passed out by now, Hunter's quick blood regeneration prevented that. He found his way to the lobby, then outside the dorms. Hunter has been to the hospital more times than anyone else in his run here. He can kind of remember where to go to the Hospital from here. Hopefully he won't get lost.

He saw two people in the distance that looked vaguely familiar (Bones & Nicole). He recognized the hoodie, but he couldn't be sure. Hunter didn't waste any time trying to figure it out, there were more important things going on here. He obviously looked like he was just attacked. He shouted at them, he was still stunned, he could barely even put a sentence together, "T-heres... a... I... was a-attacked!" He couldn't convey his usual speech, he would have to tell them what happened after he gets help and collects himself.

Drake, Victoria & Jia-li

Drake had lead Victoria and (hopefully) Dragonfly out of the training hall at his own pace. He walked with his hands behind his head and eyes pointed up at the sky. This dome that obviously confined them here was likely no joke. If anyone wants to leave, then they'll have to find a way around it. Drake himself was unsure of if he wanted to leave or not. He shrugged as he walked and decided to make small talk with his sister and Dragonfly. "Hey, I say that after we go check up on everyone and do everything we were talkin' about in there; we go out and find something fun to do."

Victoria was following behind Drake, and looked rather confused. What did Drake mean by fun? "... What are you planning Drake...?" She asks.

"Oh, nothing. I was thinking that we go check out these places I keep seeing on the map." Drake answers in a smug tone, before shrugging, "There's a park here. With a basketball court. I haven't gotten a chance to play in awhile. What do ya' say, Toria?"

"... You know I can't play basketball?" Victoria says extremely disinterested and shakes her head.

Drake smirks as he turned half his body back towards Victoria. He looked at her playfully for a few moments before speaking in an enthusiastic tone, "... You know? It's great exercise, it kept the weight off for me.... and you DID say that you were going lose weight, yeah?"

Victoria huffs in response to Drake. Not even saying a word.

"Hahahaha... All you have to do is learn, and you'll be like me in no time. Slim and buff! Ha!" Drake playfully says. That welling fear and concern over what happened last night was still inside of Drake. He was just trying his best to bury it in his mind in hopes of not being a downer for his small group of three. He didn't want to dwell too long on it either. Does time really heal? Or does it fade the memory? Drake thinks to himself as he pointed himself forward and looked up at the sky curiously, keeping his arms wrapped behind his head. Before shaking his head and lead his group to the Hospital. The very moment they were approaching the the front doors of the Hospital. Drake saw Johnny's group coming out at the same time as they were going in. He had met them last night after their battle against the Zizz. They seemed like a reasonable bunch. None of them spoke to each other. The "de-facto" leaders of their groups did exchange glances and words.

"Hey." Drake says to Johnny.

"Heh. Hey." Johnny responds.

Before they walked past each other on their own adventures. Drake walked into the hospital, followed by his two allies. The place was getting cleaned up since the fight in there last night. There were blood, debris and flies everywhere. The Eyes that worked in the Hospital were doing their work. Drake choose not to interrupt them and kept moving on. If he remembers what happened last night; Jia-li would be on the first or so floor. They marched through the halls of the hospital and saw Jia-li's patient room. In front of the door was a Doctor Eye, keeping watch and addressing anyone who got close. Drake approached the robot, Victoria stayed behind. "Hey, robit. We're looking to talk to Jia-li... Is she conscious?" Drake asks, hoping for the best to happen. The Eye turned towards him, and lights flickered as it talked.

"PATIENT: Jia-li, has gone through extensive surgery. She is in stable condition, it is heavily suggested that she remains in bed for ten weeks exactly." The Eye says in a generic, monotone, electronic voice.

Drake scratches the back of his neck, unsure of what to make of this. "... Can we go in and talk to her? We're kind of her friends and... That stuff." Drake asks, that anxiety and fear was growing inside of him.

"Yes. However, it is recommended that you be brief. She needs plenty of rest." The Eye responds, before hovering to the side of the door. "You have five minutes exactly. After they're up you will leave, or face future detainment at the Detention Center."

Even more appropriate music:

Ooooh I'm so scared right now, robot man--- Ball, whatever you are. Drake thought to himself as he nodded and entered the room, followed by Victoria. The first thing that Drake saw was a bandaged Jia-li. Her arm all the way up to shoulder was wrapped in a cast, and most of her lower body was covered in bandages. Jia-li was fully conscious, but staring into the TV that was across her room. The moment the door open and she heard foots, she turned her head towards her visitors and said, "H-hello." The weakness in her voice was obvious. These were the only people who visited her all day.

For a moment Drake didn't know what to say. Should he ask her if she's okay, or...? He stood there silent as he tried to say something--- Except stopping himself because he felt as if he'd say something stupid. Jia-li just reminded him

Victoria took the initiative however, "Jia-li are you okay?" She asked the disabled teen.

"Y-yeah..." Jia-li says before coughing slightly.

Drake let in a sigh and walked over to the chair that was on the corner of the room and grabbed it. Bringing it closer to Jia-li, before he sat down on it. "It's good to see that you've survived. I'd hate myself-" And I'm hating myself right now for getting taken out of that fight so easily "-If you hadn't..." Drake slanted his head downwards out of sorrow.

"I-t-it's okay, Drake...." Jia-li assures him. There was something that she was wondering about; how did she survive all of that? She was certain that she was dead when the Zizz captured her and crushed her shoulder. All she remembers was seeing a flash of light, and falling unconscious because of the pain her broken shoulder brought. Then much later she woke up in here all patched up. "C-can you tell me what happened last night?"

This made Drake feel slightly worst than before. He looked around and was about to tell her what happened when Victoria told the tale in her own words. "After... That guy grabbed you, Drake got furious and went thunder-mode, except much different. He disappeared in a blinding flash of lightning. I don't know what happened until I came here. He had killed the Zizz and some gargoyle guy who helped us fight him flew you to the hospital, I don't know his name. Then we met the people here...." Victoria peered at Drake, "... I don't trust them."

"The power I had... It was amazing." Drake nonchalantly inserts, "I don't know where it came from--- It was just pure luck... It's going to run out, trust me." He stood straight up and looked straight at Jia-li, "But, I will not let this happen to you again--- Or anyone. Who don't deserve it themselves at least."

Jia-li was pleasantly surprised at what happened to her. She felt extremely grateful for what Drake did for her, he threw his life on the line for her and got results. "T-thank you." Jia-li says, she wanted to say a bit more, but couldn't put together what to say, "I don't even know what to say, honestly...."

Drake smiled, that was all he needed to hear from Jia-li. A thank you. While he felt like sh*t for nearly failing, and at the same time coming in at the wrong time. That thank you from the person he wanted to hear it the most from was enough. "And I just want to say that there's no need to say thank you. That's just what I do; fight the bad guys and save the people who need it the most. I'm a friend, and that's simply what friends do. If you need anything, just call me." He spoke his little response speech kindly and rather pridefully. He was speaking from the bottom of his heart.

I could have said it better, but it was still sweet, Drake. Victoria quickly sent a thought to him.

Jia-li smiled at Drake's speech, "I w-will, Drake. I will."

Victoria inserts, "We should probably get a move on now. That robot said we can only be here for a few minutes."

"If that robot thing says anything; I'm throwing it out of the window." Drake threatens in a inappropriately calm and friendly tone. If it did say anything he was going to carry it to the top floor and throw it out the window.

Johnny, Jake & Gabe

Johnny's group arrived in the lobby of the Dormitory. They all formed a circle in the lobby and spoke to each other. Johnny slanted his head again to obscure his eyes from vision. He had a simple plan now, "Alright we're going to split up into two teams." He says. There was no point in all of them going around looking for this person. "I will go with Taylor... You two will go together and do ya' thang. Because we'll do much, much better if we split up and cover more ground" Johnny also knew that they want to get something to eat. Normally he would stick someone like Taylor with Jake or Gabe, but he got the feeling like she wouldn't go with any of them. "Both teams will search every single last major location in here. The library, the theater, the student longue... et cetera, et cetera... It's the best idea I have." Johnny shrugs.

Gabe crosses her arms and says, "Yeah, yeah. I guess me and Jakey will search that side of the school--- You know, the one with the theater, cafeteria and library."

Jake shrugs and says, "I'm fine with that. I'll do my best to find your sister, Taylor."

"Excellent. Make sure that you search with world class excellence." Johnny says to Jake and Gabe cockily. He noticed that there was a trail of blood leading from inside the dorm rooms all the way outside. The blood was fresh, and it was unnerving. It was the mystery of why the blood is there that frightened Johnny. He hoped that Taylor didn't want to implore on it--- Since, well, it's none of their business. He shrugged and grabbed the top of his hat tightly. He went into deep focus and tried to detect every single Emotional Presence in the dorms. There was around ten people, each in different parts of the dorms. In retrospect he should have done this the moment he came in--- But, using that ability didn't cross his mind until now. "There's at least ten people in here. I don't know their exact location, but, they're scattered throughout the dorms."

Before Jake and Gabe left, she noted something about the blood. Both of them have noticed the blood the moment they came into here. "This blood is fresh... I think something happened here." Gabe looked up at Johnny worried.

"Ehhhhh... Don't mind it. One of those morons poked each other and are bleedin' out." Johnny tried to assure Gabe, but he knew one thing would probably come close to it, "The two of ya' are pretty strong... I've seen you two in action--- Jake you can create virtually any illusion and, in turn, shield, and Gabe you are a beast in enclosed spaces like this. It's nothing to worry about." Johnny shrugs.

"Guess ya' right." Gabe crosses her arms behind her head, "Time's a wastin', Jake. We should probably get started."

"Yeah..." Jake responds. The two of them broke off from the group and started walking down their designated hallway. The first place they were going to "look" was the cafeteria and go get something to eat. Gabriela had the feeling if Taylor's sister wasn't in the hospital or hidden--- She wasn't going to be found in one piece.

Johnny stood there, "We should definitely get started to. Heh. I look forward to exploring your lineage...." Johnny said in a slightly arrogant tone--- Before realizing that he used the wrong words. "Wait, wait wait--- What I mean is I look forward to meeting your sister. Heh?" He looked and sounded slightly nervous.

Lily

ViperaUnion wrote:: Tom, seemingly protective, scowled, "Her name is Marie, and mine is Tom, to clear things up." He said gruffly.

Still rough around the edges, big guy? Lily thought to herself as she scratched behind her head. She didn't exactly talk to too many people here, so as a result she didn't know every single person's name here off the top of her head. "Sorry about that, Tom. Won't happen again." She made a mental note of their names.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Sorry, things just aren't going very well lately. I'm just freaked out right now, sorry if I snapped. It's just that when people don't use names, it aggravates me."

Hey, he apologized! He actually has a semblance of manners. Lily nodded her head and apologized once more, "Yeah, sorry about the name-thing, Bi--- Tom." She almost called Tom, "Big Guy" again. The last time she called him that, he started acting like a jerk. Though that may have been mostly Lily's fault. However, Tom should at least be used to names like that with his size and strength. He just screams "Big Guy"

ViperaUnion wrote:: "I have been teaching him to control anger. But even someone such as me is left shaken by the recent turn of events. I myself must control emotions, for the sake of keeping my powers from going wild and running amok. But I digress."

"Yeah. We're all on edge to say the least." For a moment, Lily was afraid of what Marie meant by "my powers going wild" That was rather unnerving. Especially in a situation like this where they're all trapped in a dome and one enclosed area. That curiosity grew larger and larger until she had to ask, "Marie... I don't know if this is something you don't like talking about; but what is your power...?" Lily was hoping that she didn't get the question reflected back at her. She was hoping that she could keep a power a secret just in case.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "What we were doing before you came here, was trying to see if we could find some alternative food source. The cafeteria no longer has eyes to maintain it, or prepare food. Much of the food is ruined, and whatever is left, many of us may not have the skill to prepare it. There is a ring of forest surrounding the school grounds before we reach the boundary. There is a possibility of scavenging food from there."

Lily thought for a moment. "I'm sure that those Eye-thingamabobs don't get cooked food from out of the blue... They must have a storage somewhere with uncooked food... I don't know." Lily was just spitting out the first thing that came to mind.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Ultimately, though, we must find a way out of here. We don't know how long our supplies are going to last, and if they run out before everyone can get out of this place, well...things are bound to get ugly, really fast."

"Are bound to get ugly?" For a moment, Lily questioned Tom's listening skills. That maniac that attacked the group and (seemingly) killed Drake, was the very advent of when things got really ugly. There was also the rivalries she could already sense in between the groups. "I agree. They brought us in here, ya' know? There has to be a door... Somewhere out in this place. We're going to find it. I know it."

Willow & Nicole

Bones frowned with worry, "Hunter?! That wound is bleeding really bad, we need to get that checked out, that could be a concussion!" Without hesitation, she used her free arm to reach out and grab him by the shoulder, to hold him steady, as he looked stunned. "Come on, this way." With this, she proceeded to lead the two meta-humans the rest of the way to the hospital. If Nicole could produce facial expressions, still, the slightly crooked-open beak and squinting solid eyelids must have been one of alarm. It was hard to translate a bird's facial expression into anything a human could read. After slowly entering the building, the eyes came in to tend to the injured.

Tom & Marie

Marie blinked, before answering, "Emotional form manifestation. Each form corresponds with different emotions, and has different abilities. Unfortunately, many of these are unstable, and I cannot control them. Much of the time, they take over, until I pass out from lack of energy to continue. Much of the time, I cannot recall anything I did while in these forms, although Terror, the manifestation of fear, sometimes permits me to see what I am doing, although I am helpless to stop it. This form appears to have a mind of its own." Her eyes flashed pale yellow at this, before flickering to blue.

Tom frowned, "Well, we should start looking, then, although I would think the people who built this place would try to hide the entrance so we couldn't get out. That, or if there's a gate or something, it's probably not very easy to open. A school built to contain meta-humans isn't going to have a simple steel gate. They're going to have some machine that cancels out powers, or something crazy like that."

Dragonfly followed along quietly, having nothing to say. When they began speaking about baseball and other sports, he scoffed slightly. "Ssoccer is better. I'd rather chew on my tail than watch baseball." He only said this because he had a difficult time not swerving away from a baseball coming at him at thirty miles an hour. Soccer was a much better sport for loosing weight, as it involved a great deal of running, which was THE way to loose weight. Muscle was heavier than fat, which is why most obese people actually got heavier by turning fat into muscle. His body twitched momentarily as he walked, before he shivered. He hated in when his bad side took over. He knew that some people have hundreds of different personalities that sometimes were nearly identical. He wondered if he was the same way and just retained some memories. He, mor often than not, had to spend a few minutes every morning remembering what happened the day before.

"At leasst you CAN gain weight." Dragonfly commented. He could not gain weight. His metabolism wouldn't allow it. It was so slow that it stayed in his body for a few weeks. He had eaten that rabbit in there, and it would be in his system until every single bit of it was digested. Even the bone. Of course, it would digest faster because of his arm, but his body wouldn't allow him to eat anything that would overfill his stomach. It kept him rather thin, almost unhealthily so. His belly stuck out more than usual due to the fact that he had eaten that morning. He noticed they were approaching an area with a high concentration of eyes. "Welp, that'ss not good. Going invissible now. I'll be following." He said rather quickly, his skin warping to match the environment. His jaw was no longer bleeding by now because of a healthy blood clot. It wouldn't blow his cover. As they walked, he took to the walls, climbing onto the ceiling to stay out of the eye's way.

He didn't want to get caught. He would be placed in a mental ward. The eyes knew he wasn't supposed to be out and about due to his mental condition. It was a risk for the other students who were little more than assassination targets for a hungry predator if he went sour. He would be locked up and put in a straight jacket or something. He didn't want that to happen to him. Not now. He had already mapped out a half assed escape plan through the sub basement. There were places even he didn't know about. Some doors that were locked led to hatches or other locked doors that he just hadn't taken the time to explore. He could always tinker around with them using his claws, but he had never really taken the time. But he didn't want to leave just yet. Not without either saying goodbye or bringing someone with him. Willingly, of course.

Taylor

Despite the gravity of the situation, Taylor couldn't help but laugh. She made a rather seductive face, and leaned up against the wall.

"We'll see about that first one when my sister is safe and sound." she mused before getting serious again "Last I saw her, I think she was heading towards one of the lounges. We might want to check there first". She looked down at the blood, and grimaced. Luckily, it wasn't heading towards the lounge, which made her a bit more comfortable, though she still feared for Marissa's life. She was only 13; she didn't deserve to have her life shortened due to something like this. Taylor's smile quickly began to deteriorate into a frown and she looked at the ground. She wasn't used to things like this, and when they happened she often freaked out.

"Johnny," she said hesitantly "do you think she's still alive? Would they have killed a little girl?" She knew the answer, but wanted to be sure in her convictions. Men like that weren't just comic book villains from morning cartoons. If they had found Marissa, they would probably have killed her or worse.

Hunter

Hunter was too stunned to really do anything right now. He really wanted to tell Bones about what happened, but he'd only be able to mutter some random gibberish. He was sort of confused right now. His ears were ringing, and he was dizzy. Those were the sure signs of a concussion. He was being helped into the Hospital by Bones. Blood was still dripping down from his forehead, his healing factor was slow alleviating this. He tried his best to stand up and not fall over. Especially since that'd leave him vulnerable to the traitor. This thought only fueled the flames. He had to tell Bones no matter what happened, "B-bo-bone... Th... someone is dead..." Hunter could only moan his statements, hopefully she'll understand the message he was trying to send. "A wo... wolf. Among us..." The moment the trio were through the doors, the Eyes quickly swarmed them like predators closing in on their kill. As far as Hunter was concerned, he was close to being dead. Their electronic voices clouding the room.

"What happened?"
"Come with me."
"We must examine you this instant."

It went on and on. They grabbed Nicole with their several mechanical arms and carried her off to a Hospital room ((Hopefully, willingly)). Hunter on the other hand, he grabbed on to Bones's arm tightly as he could (Which wasn't very tight) as the swam of Eyes had grabbed him tightly and tried their best to haul him away. He had to give Bones his message. If he gets killed this day, he will not let his warning go silent. "... Do n-not wwor.... worry about me, I... Am irreleva... ant... You... have to w-warn them...! There is a traitor among us...!" Hunter barely stuttered. He lessened his grip and was dragged off by the Eyes into the nearest medical room to be examined. He had already gave Bones his message and last request. Hunter prayed that she would carry it out above all else.

Drake and Victoria had seen all of this go down.

Drake & Victoria

Drake and Victoria had left Jia-li's room after their conversation. Drake was personally glad that Jia-li was still in one piece. They had to move on, however. The injured teen would be safe in the hands of the Eyes. "You stay safe." Drake says to Jia-li before he closes the door behind him. The pair stood silently as they figured out what to do next. He didn't exactly want to move on without Dragonfly. A half-smirk crept up on his face. "Yo, Dragonfly! I don't know where you are, but can you come meet us in the Dorm's lobby in like thirty minutes?!" Alright time to get all dressed up and everything. Drake thinks to himself as he starts walking. Victoria stayed behind, hoping that she could pick up Dragonfly's location using her telepathy. She put her right hand on the side of her head and focused for a moment. There were many people thinking in the hospital, and it was hard to sort them out. Especially for Victoria who has a weak form of Telepathy. She just gave up and opened her eyes. Before marching after Drake.

Think we can split up too? I want to find something... Victoria sends the thought to Drake. That something was another book to read in the library.

Sure. Let's try not to take too long. I want to get this over with. Drake puts his arms behind his head again and looked up at the ceiling. Trying to hide that anxiety deep inside of him by counting the lights overhead. He wasn't paying attention to anything but the lights. He was hoping that he was heading in the general direction of the Lobby of the Hospital. So, they can leave and head on their merry way. Drake however, wasn't paying attention to what was in front of him. There was a Doctor Eye hovering down the Hallway in the same direction as Drake was. What followed was obvious. He bumped into the Eye and the Eye responded by loudly buzzing. "Aw crap! Sorry." Drake quickly snapped back into reality and apologized to the Eye.

"Stand aside." If the Eyes were capable of such emotion, it would be feeling annoyance at this moment. The Eye moved around Drake and continued forward.

Real smooth. Victoria sends a thought to Drake with a chuckle. As they both started walking towards the Lobby.

Don't start. Drake replies. Feeling stupid.

The pair had heard a commotion in the lobby as they got close. It sounded like the electronic-voice of the horrible Eyes. Drake and Victoria looked at each other as they walked and nodded. In a silent agreement to go investigate. The two of them picked up their pace and their footsteps could be heard from a distance. The moment they were in the lobby, they were greeted with quite the sight. Eyes swarming Nicole, Bones and Hunter. Drake however, didn't recognize the latter Hunter. He said out to Nicole as she was carried off, "Nicole!? Are you okay?" He was unsure of the answer to his question. There was something that required immediately exploring. While it was a gross invasion of privacy... Victoria had read the thoughts of Hunter to properly make out what Hunter was saying. He was talking loudly, but neither of them could really hear him because of the Eyes and all the other noises that polluted the lobby. Hunter said something about a traitor. That, was something that interested Victoria greatly. It was far from a positive kind of interest. It was a mix of fear, anger, and curiosity. That Hunter fellow was bleeding pretty badly, perhaps this was the result of the traitor's tampering.

Drake... That guy was being hauled off... He said something about a traitor... Victoria sent the thought into Drake's head. She was worried.

Drake shook his head. Before he replied with his own thought. I keep telling myself that I don't want to believe it... If something like that's going on---- No, no, no. Before we even jump to conclusions. How about we ask? He sighed quietly.

Agreed. Victoria replies.

As quickly as the Eyes had swarmed Nicole, Bones and Hunter, they were gone. They hauled off the injured to their respective medical rooms, and immediately began examination. All of the Eyes in the lobby were all gone, leaving only Bones standing there as Drake and Victoria stared at her. Drake was the first to speak, "Yo. I know we didn't start off on the right foot...." He spoke in a serious and stern tone. He wasn't in the least bit. "... But, that doesn't matter right now. I want to know what the hell happened? What is this traitor that guy was talking about?"

Victoria once again let Drake do the talking. At this point, he was the face of the pair. However, she did do something. Yet another massive invasion of personal space, to be specific. Victoria took two steps back just to keep the focus on Drake. She closed her eyes and put her hand on the side of her head, while tilting her head downwards. She was reading Bone's mind. Trying to see if she was lying or not.

Johnny

Maxx Toron wrote:: "We'll see about that first one when my sister is safe and sound."

"Wait, what?" Johnny frowned for a moment as he thought about what Taylor could mean. Then it came to him. "Oh wait, yeah. Heheha." Ah, yeah. Sexual innuendos. I guess I hope to be exploring you... Inside and out. Hahahaha... Oh yeah, uh, if your sister is alright. Johnny kept his comments in his head. Instead keeping a stern, hardened and serious outlook on this. While he did find Taylor to be attractive, he choose to stay focused. He can take advantage of this later. He was a person who worked much better when focused on business.

Maxx Toron wrote:: "Last I saw her, I think she was heading towards one of the lounges. We might want to check there first."

"Excellent! At least we have a lead. My best guess is that she could be in the student longue." Johnny says loudly, enthusiastically and near-heroically (Which was kinda ironic, since he was the last person you'd expect to become a hero, and he's always finding himself as the hero). What he was hoping to find was Taylor's sister. What he was (truly) expecting to find was nothing, or at least a corpse. If they took everyone here, then if she wasn't in the Hospital or in safety; then she was likely not going to be found alright. He felt like a pessimist for even thinking like this--- But, he was never an optimist. Johnny was prepared if he didn't locate Gabe, or if she was found dead. Fortunately that never happened, and all the Valos were one big happy family. "... Let's just get a move on." Johnny says in a somber tone. Before he started walking towards the student lounges. Hoping for Taylor to at least get closure. As he walked, he put his hands into his pockets and tilted his head downwards.

Maxx Toron wrote:: "Johnny," she said hesitantly "do you think she's still alive? Would they have killed a little girl?"

This didn't exactly help Johnny. Since now he was torn between telling her what she needs to hear, or what she wants to hear. He was going to take a shot in the dark here and hope that Taylor appreciates his honesty. He spoke in a somber yet serious tone, "Honestly... Don't take this the wrong way, but you should at least be prepared for heart break." Johnny spoke.

Willow

Bones scowled, first at Drake's tone, and the fact that it felt like he was accusing her. "Look," She began, deeply upset and worried. Although her tone was angry, there was a wavering note in it that suggested she might burst into tears. "Two of my friends are hurt, and one of them could die because he was attacked by someone. I don't know." She pinched the bridge of the nose, and shook her head, before taking a few deep breaths and slowly letting them out. She had to compose herself, or she wouldn't make much sense. After a a moment, she directed her attention back at Drake, with a bit more focus. "I don't know what happened. I met up with Hunter earlier, and he was helping me get Nicky out of a tree. Her wings were all tangled up, and she couldn't get down on her own without getting hurt even worse. We were at the Dorms getting stuff to use. Hunter got the ladder, and I was gathering the cushions. We were going to use the ladder so we could get up and free her wings, and then she could land on the cushions to make the impact less painful on her leg. When I got there with the pillows, the ladder was already there, so I just thought Hunter went back. I was going to go look for 'em after I got Nicky to the hospital."

Her face was concerned, and it seemed she was trying not to have a meltdown of sorts, "We weren't very far from the hospital when Hunter ran up with that wound on his forehead. He said he was attacked, but I couldn't just drop everything right then and there and investigate. I had to get him and Nicky both to the Eyes. Nicky needed her leg fixed, and if I didn't get Hunter to the eyes, he might bleed to death, and there's a good chance he has a concussion, too." She looked in the direction where the two had been taken, "I believe 'em, though. That wound ain't self-inflicted. I would know the difference." Hunter would, of course, create self-inflected wounds, but she wouldn't expect those to be on the forehead. They would be somewhere where the blood would be easy to draw with, such as on the hand, or the arm. He had cut his hand to make the blood sword, but the strange thing was that the sword was nowhere to be found, and it seemed to maintain its form for a long time. She frowned, alarmed by this thought. Where was his sword?

This was why things sucked to be an insane reptile man.

Your brain was as messed up as your body.

And because your brain was messed up, you were a hazard to everyone and thing around you. Including yourself. He couldn't change back to visible, because then eyes would swarm him and ship him off. He couldn't show himself to show everyone that he was here. Hell, even Drake and Victoria had no idea where he was. He was a ghost. And he followed them to meet Nicole, who had a leg nearly as bad as Jai-Lee's shoulder. It broke his four chambered heart that he couldn't show his other friends that he was there.

But a traitor in their midst? With who? Could they be the ones summoning the monsters here? And who was it? He certainly hoped that no one thought it was him. If the turn of events led this way, he could always just disappear and escape into the ominous sub basement and figure it out from there. No one had the balls to go down there for fun unless they knew what they were doing. He would have plenty of ways to escape anything down there in the labyrinth of walls and rooms. He could set up some shed skin to look like him as decoys if he needed. He didn't worry too much about cleaning up down there, it wasn't like anyone would come down anyway. The fact that it was where he lived would probably set off red flags to anyone he told.

He felt even more like a ghost. A basement ghost to be exact.

Drake & Victoria

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Two of my friends are hurt, and one of them could die because he was attacked by someone. I don't know."

Drake still didn't exactly like Bones. There was just something about her that just... He didn't know. He wanted to think that there was something about her that he didn't like about her. It was probably her constant abrasive attitude, or that obvious feeling that she's hiding something that she didn't want the world to see. For now he wanted some answers. He did feel bad for Bones for a moment, she sounded extremely emotional. He didn't know if it was because of what happened to her friends, or if it was because of what he said. He quietly let out a light-growl. Before he put both of his hands into his pockets and focused on Bones. "Listen...." Drake totally forgot what Bones name was. God d*mn, I need a light... He thought to himself. He left his cigarettes back in his room in the dorms. Victoria would kill him anyway if she saw him smoke in a hospital. Drake really didn't know how to respond to this (Other than making himself look like a jerk by being sarcastic).

Like that old saying... "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Victoria just stood by and analyzed Bone's thoughts, so far she appeared to telling the truth.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "I don't know what happened. I met up with Hunter earlier, and he was helping me get Nicky out of a tree. Her wings were all tangled up, and she couldn't get down on her own without getting hurt even worse. We were at the Dorms getting stuff to use. Hunter got the ladder, and I was gathering the cushions. We were going to use the ladder so we could get up and free her wings, and then she could land on the cushions to make the impact less painful on her leg. When I got there with the pillows, the ladder was already there, so I just thought Hunter went back. I was going to go look for 'em after I got Nicky to the hospital."

"D*mn." Drake hissed. He didn't know that Nicole was trapped in a tree. He assumed that she was somewhere safe after the fight ended. He should have known better and got up and started looking for Nicole instead of playing around. Drake let out a quiet sigh and rolled his eyes up into his head. There was no point in beating himself up over it now. There were more important things to handle right now. Bones was talking a bit too much for his liking. He didn't want to know the small details like they were going to get cushions or whatever. He wants to know what Hunter was rambling on about. Drake couldn't help himself here when he asks her to be shorter with her speech. "Can you be a bit more concise? I don't want to he---"

Drake, let up. Victoria sent the thought to Drake. She knew what he was going to say, and it wasn't going to help anything. She's in distress.

Fine. Drake scratched the back of his neck. He looked around, breaking eye contact with Bones. For a moment he wondered where Dragonfly went. Right now would be a good time for the Lizard-man to make his appearance--- If he was still here that is. Drake shrugged, there was no sign that Dragonfly was even here. Which wasn't too much of an alien concept since he just seemed mysterious. "... Just... Never mind." Drake finished up his last statement.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "We weren't very far from the hospital when Hunter ran up with that wound on his forehead. He said he was attacked, but I couldn't just drop everything right then and there and investigate. I had to get him and Nicky both to the Eyes. Nicky needed her leg fixed, and if I didn't get Hunter to the eyes, he might bleed to death, and there's a good chance he has a concussion, too."

It's a good thing I wasn't telling you to drop everything and investigate. I was asking what the hell happened from your point of view... Drake monologues to himself again. He was getting the creeping feeling that Bones felt like he was accusing her of being the traitor. He just rolled his eyes up into his head and spoke. "It's all good. You did the right thing with helping them in here...." Drake started off, trailing off in the process. "It would have been stupid if you just left him there." Drake scratched the back of his neck again. If this Hunter kid said that he was attacked.... Then who attacked him? He thought to himself, which was unintentionally picked up by Victoria. She sent a thought of her own to him.

I don't know. It could have been ANYONE really... We don't know these people- around here -- Plus, we have these monsters running around. Victoria inserts a response of her own. She was more worried about the animosity among the group. this would bring more than anything. Again, if it was one of us... They probably want us to turn on each other.

I guess you're right... Drake responds again.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "I believe 'em, though. That wound ain't self-inflicted. I would know the difference."

"Alrighty then..." Drake sarcastically inserts. In what logic would someone beat themselves outside the head like that? Unless they were emo. He decided to keep this to himself again--- Hopefully Bones won't call him out for this. For a moment, he wondered if there was some sort of subtle hint in Bone's statement. There was nothing else for Drake to explore any further. So he knew that there was nothing else to do but ask Victoria for her expert opinion. Yo, Toria? Is there anything fishy about her story?

No. As far as I can tell everything she said is sound. Victoria responds. Before halting her examination of Bones mind. Unless she had some tricks: there was no way that Bones could possibly know that Victoria was reading her mind.

There was almost nothing else to say right now. Drake wanted answers now, and he knew he couldn't get them from Bones. He looked around the room, Hunter's blood had left a convenient trail outside. Hopefully it'll lead to where he was attacked. While it was insignificant, it was something. He let out a quiet grunt and did a head-gesture to Victoria, pointing outside the door. He spoke to Bones with one serious tone. "We're going to have a nice look around... That trail of blood should lead us somewhere." Drake pointed at the blood. He had no clue what Bones would do in the mean time. Nor did he actually care. "We'll be back here the moment we're done.... You should stay here and watch Nicole and 'Hunter'."

Drake marched out of the hospital lobby past Bones, once again followed by Victoria. Before he left he wanted to confirm if Dragonfly was here or not. "Yo, Dragon! Where are you!? It would nice if you showed up right now!" He was hoping that Dragonfly did reveal himself. Because of his enhanced senses that would make it easier for them to track anyone that could be a traitor. Plus, just in case they are pinned for anything, Victoria has a solid alibi for all three of them.

Drake and Victoria were unsure of what was going to happen now.

Lily

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Emotional form manifestation. Each form corresponds with different emotions, and has different abilities. Unfortunately, many of these are unstable, and I cannot control them. Much of the time, they take over, until I pass out from lack of energy to continue. Much of the time, I cannot recall anything I did while in these forms, although Terror, the manifestation of fear, sometimes permits me to see what I am doing, although I am helpless to stop it. This form appears to have a mind of its own."

Note to self: Don't piss off this little girl. Lily jokingly thinks to herself. She wasn't sure of what exactly these forms are, or what they do. Lily interpreted it as basically turning into the Hulk. Except Marie will transform if she feels any emotion. It was sad, not only will Marie not be able to enjoy life the way it was meant to be, because she has to suppress her emotions; if she feels even a silver of emotion then she'll transform and hurt people. "That's... unfortunate." Lily has no idea what to say. The one thing she wasn't going to do was let her own powers slip any time soon. Especially since she has the potential to turn anyone into a destructive force.

ViperaUnion wrote:: Tom frowned, "Well, we should start looking, then, although I would think the people who built this place would try to hide the entrance so we couldn't get out. That, or if there's a gate or something, it's probably not very easy to open. A school built to contain meta-humans isn't going to have a simple steel gate. They're going to have some machine that cancels out powers, or something crazy like that."

Lily shrugged. She didn't know what to say about this. Every door has a key, and every key... Was somewhere. If it wasn't destroyed or somewhere out of their hands, then that would be a miracle. Lily spoke like a mighty leader, "Well, first we need to find the door. Then we see if there's a key or anything--- We find that then we're out of here for good!" Lily smiled a bit, before turning into a frown. "But, none of us can do it alone, you know? We all have strengths and weaknesses that are covered by each other. If we all get together this will be fine." The only problem is that everyone will probably want to kill each other. I don't know of any conflict right now--- But, trust me on this. When egos clash, they will clash hard...

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