Frostbite
Paragons
Lorelai Kavanagh
Can you handle the cold?
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Post by Frostbite on Feb 4, 2008 5:43:31 GMT -5
Lorelai was still looking around for something to blast when she heard footsteps approach her. Turning her head she saw that it was Hardlight, and she tensed up a bit. She was going to control herself this time and worked to keep a calm face. As he asked her name, she nodded a bit, "Frostbite. But you can call me Lorelai if you want," she said, working to keep her normally nice demeanor. She knew she probably gave off a bad impression because she got angry so easily, but she couldn't help it, the previous day's events had left her more tense and easily angered than she thought.
Hearing that Hardlight was apologizing made her calm face soften a bit as she listened to him. She would forgive him; she was forgiving. She didn't think she held grudges, she let them go. She could easily see that he had some issues to work out, and she'd try to be his friend even if he didn't want it. It's just who she was. "It's okay, and I'm sorry as well. I'm more touchy than I thought and I lost control a bit too. I'd like to try and be friends if you want," she answered with a small smile.
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Hardlight
Acolytes
Kevin Leonard
Hey, Call Me Hardlight
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Post by Hardlight on Feb 4, 2008 9:06:28 GMT -5
"Really?" Kevin's eyes went a little bit wide and he tornt his head some to the side. "You want to be my friend? Like of rreal?" No one ever said that to him after he had had a fight with them and he almost didn't think she meant it because there were times when people would say it just to trick him and set him up for some other nasty mean joke. But she seemed sincerec and like she would be kind of fun to hang out with, and plus maybe her boyfriend would be there too.
"I didn't, um well, I didn't expect you to forgive me wow. Thank you, you're not just tricking me right? Cause that has been done to me before and I didn't want that to happen again, ever, it was sad and I felt like a fool." He confessed as he took a small step forward and his arms came up just a little to hug her but he didn't want to seem too excited about it just in case so he stopped and it was akward so he smiled, a little embarased.
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Frostbite
Paragons
Lorelai Kavanagh
Can you handle the cold?
Posts: 563
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Post by Frostbite on Feb 4, 2008 15:28:12 GMT -5
Lorelai smiled a little as it seemed Hardlight was surprised, but she nodded either way. "Yeah," she said, and nodded again, "Yes, for real." She wasn't kidding because she really didn't mind trying to be his friend, besides, she wanted to become friends with her team first and foremost. She knew that they'd be who she relied on first, she'd have their back and hopefully they'd have hers.
"I'm forgiving, so it works," she laughed a little, and then silenced as he spoke again, seriously and stepped toward her. She moved back a very minute amount since she wasn't expecting him to come close, but then stood there. "No, I'm not tricking you, I do want to be your friend," she said with a warmer smile. She saw that he raised his arms as if he were going to hug her and then put them back down. She returned his bashful smile and raised her arms a little. "Want a hug?" she asked with a bit of a goofy smile.
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Torri
Alpha Squadron
Torri Moore
young at heart and in mind
Posts: 317
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Post by Torri on Feb 4, 2008 16:49:31 GMT -5
Shimmer, looked up a little confused to Colossus as he mentioned that Mystique was another shapeshifter. She had thought she was the only one who could change her molecular structure to her wish. But to know there was another.....someone like her.... It didn't seem to matter that she was from the brotherhood. She was just....happy. "She's another shapeshifter? like me!?" she asked in a breathy voice, her eyes wide and suprised, willed with both wonderment and excitement.
She nodded a little at Colosss, now alot more eager to try and fufil her potential power. "Right, so um.....i dont get it, I can mimic people? what like, just as in looks? or like....actual strength and stuff?" she wondered, her brow furrowing a little. "I'm not to sure on what i can do, but, this sounds like fun!" she cheered, smiling a little more. All thoughts of fear faded from her mind as her focus ran on to her knew inspiration of shapeshifting. Until now, she could just become invisible or perhaps change colour, but, she could only remember twice where she had actually made a proper change.
Once being the time she realised how different she was, when she woke up from a terrible nightmare and saw her fathers face in the mirror, but, that could just have been her infantile mind playing tricks on her shortly after the death of her father, due to withdrawl symptoms and the fact that she was left alone with her regecting mother. But, she was beginning to wonder if had been her. Given, her hair had never been the same colour since. The only other time she could think of when she and jumper had tried to work on it together. As bad as it turned out...it did turn out....in a way.
"Sir....how....how difficult will it be?" she asked, a little more worried that she will turn out having another incident like she did with jumper, and the fear of not being able to turn back especially if she did the job wrong...well she didn't even want to think of what would happen.
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Post by Colossus on Feb 4, 2008 18:36:51 GMT -5
Things were beginning to settle down now and mostly everyone was getting into the practice. He was glad. He turned as Ian did a number on the concrete wall section and nodded his approval. He was going to run out of things for Ian to break. Or would he? He smiled wide and turned to Lorelai. "Hey Frostbite. I Have something else for you to try. I would like you to start using your own ability to generate cold and ice to form large blocks of Ice. And then shoot those blocks at Ian here so he can bust them up with his strength. Think you can handle that?"
Then turning to Ian as he finished with Lorelai. "So you think you can break up some large blocks of ice?" He grinned and winked. Rubbing his hands together. It would build their abilities and team work.
"Guardian, you did great for your first attempt and you may have over did it a bit so let your wings mend and come join Ian here. The two of you can work together in busting up Ice blocks to build your strength and endurance."
Now he moved back to Shimmer as she seemed to lighten up a bit and nodded. "Yes, Mystique is a shape changer as well. She has had years of practice mimicing people. Now I know you can change your color and turn invisible, but if you concentrate and practice I believe you can also learn to take the form of others. Perhaps even grow wings like Guardian and fly. It will be hard and a bit scary to see yourself looking like someone else, but remember, no matter what you can always change back. Just like when you turn invisible, and then turn visible. So for now try just changing your face and hair. Then we will work on yoru body and more." Smiling as she seemed to be more interested in exploring her power.
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Guardian
dead/inactive
Aleksey Nevski
There are worse things than burns
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Post by Guardian on Feb 4, 2008 22:25:53 GMT -5
Aleksey nodded at Colossus' orders and walked over to where Ian was standing. "Hello" he said to Ian as he offered his hand in greeting, "nice to see you again."
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Hardlight
Acolytes
Kevin Leonard
Hey, Call Me Hardlight
Posts: 297
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Post by Hardlight on Feb 5, 2008 10:40:06 GMT -5
"Uh, yeah I kinda do. I don't get too many of them you know, did your parents stop hugging you too?" Kevin asked as he moved over and embraed the new friend of his named Frostbite. She might turn out to be o-k afterall and besides, she was the 'cool' girl on the team with the 'hot' boyfriend. And that couldn't be too bad.
He had to go and apologize to Shimmer next, but Colossus was there and he was being a bittle lit unkind to him lately not understanding and all just like his father. 'Oh well,' thought Kevin 'you have heard it all before and from somebody who was supposed to love you unconditionaly and what else could he say to you anyway.'
Maybe the boys would be better to go and talk to because they looked like they would understand better, then he thought he could just wait and see if Colossus would leave but he decided he had to save the boys till last and he made up his mind to try to go over to Shimmer and Colossus. He didn't want to yet and hoped that Frostbite would hug him for just a moment more it had been a long time since he had had a hug.
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Frostbite
Paragons
Lorelai Kavanagh
Can you handle the cold?
Posts: 563
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Post by Frostbite on Feb 5, 2008 16:46:31 GMT -5
Lorelai sort of nodded in answer to his question; her parents were afraid to touch her after her body temperature went noticably lower when her powers emerged. She had always been a little below average as a child but when her powers came out she only got colder and her parents associated a cold body with the dead. When he moved closer she raised her arms higher and hugged him back. From feeling how he was hugging her, a kind of tightness to it, she could see that he needed it and tightened her hug a bit, flexing a wrist to gently pat his back.
After a moment more, she slowly let go and smiled at him. "Feel better?" she asked with a warm smile. She figured he needed to talk to people other than her, so she nodded to him and then looked to Colossus when he regarded her with a new task to accomplish. She felt sure that she could figure out a way to create an ice cube, and she couldn't help but let a mischevious smirk slide on her face when she heard that she was to chuck them at Ian who would use his abilities to break it.
"Okay," she said, still smirking as she looked to Ian and only grinned more. Taking a deep breath and exhaling, she imagined she was letting go of a bit of energy as she felt the air around her grow colder. Closing her eyes, she opened her hands and held them lowly in front of her, palms up. She remembered she could generate snow from her hands and focused. Snow came out of her hands in a flurry as she remembered how she once froze coffee thrown at her at the Christmas party that felt as if it were so long ago. The flurry of snow swirled above her hands as she focused her mind and envisioned a big block of ice.
Snow kept coming and coming and swirling around as it began to gather and form into a giant snowball. Opening her eyes, she saw it wasn't exactly a block, but it would do. She stared at it as she willed it to solidify, and within about 30 seconds it was a big, solid snowball of ice managing to hover over her hands. Looking to Ian, she smirked as she made as if she were about to throw it with two hands right at him. "Incoming!" she yelled, hurling it at him and laughing.
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Hardlight
Acolytes
Kevin Leonard
Hey, Call Me Hardlight
Posts: 297
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Post by Hardlight on Feb 6, 2008 8:14:48 GMT -5
"Well, I better say sorry to the rest of the team i guess." Hardlight said as he felt the hug ending and he walked over to Shimmer and Colossus saying "Excuse me, I hate to interupt your training but I just want to say that I'm sorry for that whole 'giant ball of light' thing that almost killed us, I guess I need to work on not getting so emotional and everything." He said and he shrugged.
"Can you forgive me, because I want to and need to use my powers for better stuff than that and also I don't want you to hate me, even if I am a little jealous of you, you know you are so lucky and I think we could maybe be the best team if we don't hate each other too much, I don't like being hated even though Ive become so used to it with my family. So I'm hoping to start fresh would you help me wipe away my mistake, can you forgive me?" Kevin asked not pleading but just asking in a way that it might be too late because he thought Shimmer could hate him most of all. He wasn't sure if she could tell how much she made him hurt inside when he looked at her because she was with the boy he liked from the very moment he ever saw him in the library. Why couldn't he have Riff~Raff for his own? It wasn't fair.
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Post by Emma Frost on Feb 7, 2008 12:03:29 GMT -5
Strolling back toward the mansion from beyond the hedge, Emma Frost with her young charge the turncoat Haven- a former student of hers- took in the Acolytes team practice from a far. Coming closer she made eye contact with the Team Leader Colossus.
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Post by Colossus on Feb 7, 2008 19:32:09 GMT -5
Colossus stood up tall as Emma approached. Seeing Haven trailing along with her he cleared his throat. She had been the one to run away from the Mansion and him as a Leader. Looking back to Emma he spoke lightly. "Good afternoon Ms. Frost. How are you doing today?" He asked being polite. Then taking a look as his students were practicing.
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Diesel
Acolytes
Ian Larks
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Post by Diesel on Feb 7, 2008 22:38:34 GMT -5
Ian pumped his fist in the air and grinned widely. "Alright! This is going to be radical!" he said as he went over in front of Lorelai's range. "Bring it on Pipsqueek!" Ian called with his fists pumped in the air. His adrenaline wasn't as high as it was before the little incident but he just decided to do his best to get this over with.
Ian held his fist up in the air, and waited for the first iceblock to come at him, when it hurtled at him he pulled his hand back and punched it easily, shards of ice flying all over the place. After the brick wall, these ice blocks were a breeze. This shouldn't be bad.
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Guardian
dead/inactive
Aleksey Nevski
There are worse things than burns
Posts: 116
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Post by Guardian on Feb 7, 2008 22:47:05 GMT -5
Aleksey witnessed Ian's powerful punch on the block of ice. He wanted to try something different though. He got ready for Frostbite's attack. "Alright, I'm ready" he said.
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Frostbite
Paragons
Lorelai Kavanagh
Can you handle the cold?
Posts: 563
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Post by Frostbite on Feb 8, 2008 5:39:32 GMT -5
Lorelai smirked as Ian easily broke her iceball, and made a playful face at him. Apparently that was too easy. Seeing also that the dragon boy had also been told to recieve her hurtling iceblocks as well, she was going to try making two at once. She quickly saw that this would take up her own store of energy, but this is what practice was for.
Holding out her hands separately from each other she tried to make two at once. If she could push herself and do it and get away with it, she would. With deep breaths, she calmed down and created snow again, letting it swirl around above her hands as they again began to build up and build up, becoming just as big as the first one if not just slightly bigger as she envisioned the shape in her mind. She kept concentrating and then felt more energy leave her as she felt the air around her grow colder and colder, working on both blocks that were forming to harden them, along with working with her mind to make them harder, more solid, and harder to break than before as they hovered over her hands.
She could feel it as energy leaving her as they finished forming themselves and then opened her eyes to find Ian and Guardian. With one hand, she aimed at Ian, and as she hurled it she willed it go faster to pose more of a challenge, and thankfully it did. Looking to the dragon boy, she made it as if she took the remaining iceblock in both her hands and threw it almost just as fast as the one she threw to Ian, even though she willed it go faster then. Now that she stopped moving for the moment, she was feeling the energy drain that had occurred from what she was doing and practicing, but she waited with another smirk to see how each would handle the more reinforced iceblocks thrown at them.
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Guardian
dead/inactive
Aleksey Nevski
There are worse things than burns
Posts: 116
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Post by Guardian on Feb 8, 2008 12:37:05 GMT -5
Aleksey saw the ice flying towards himself and Ian. Without hesitation he twisted his body around on one leg, and along with the spinning momentum, he wipped his tail around through the air and... WHACK! The ice went zooming in the air, over Lorelai's head and shattered against a tree behind her.
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