Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
Posts: 731
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Post by Aqua on Jan 24, 2008 12:57:36 GMT -5
Heather sniffed, swallowing the tear that desperately wanted to come out. Damn it Heather, stop crying. She shook her head. "It's OK," she said softly. "Today was just a really hard day." She looked over to Ian and Lorelai, seeing them together made her heart sink into her stomach. But she couldn't blame Lorelai or Ian for her failure. She kept avoiding them when Lorelai would "pop up out of nowhere" and try to get more alone time with Ian later. But it just wasn't possible with Lorelai always getting into the picture. She looked to Lian and winced.
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Hardlight
Acolytes
Kevin Leonard
Hey, Call Me Hardlight
Posts: 297
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Post by Hardlight on Jan 24, 2008 14:55:44 GMT -5
He saw Ripple and smiled and waved a little at her when he came in, but seeing the faces of everyone else and how they looked Kevin quickly decided this was not that kind of meeting. He had followed the directions that Shadowkat had told to him and come down to the underground hangar room expecting something about the battle that he and Ripple had missed as they tried to collect themselves on the side of the mansion.
Kevin didn't at all like a fight and was very relieved that he didn't have to engage in the battle. He was doing his best to help Ripple and D'mnchyld who had been blown up and gassed by that white haired girl. 'That white haired girl !?!' he thought as he caught sight of Haven when he scanned the room with his eyes 'Oh my god! What is -she- doing here !!! I hope we don't have a fight here, she is totally outnumbered!
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Post by Karma on Jan 24, 2008 15:13:48 GMT -5
Karma nodded slowly toward the wolf girl, furrowing her brow a little but keeping the smile etched onto her face. "Of course dear thats alright, as long as little Jenny doesnt get herself into mischief." she said calmly, petting the head of her little charge with a small wink toward her.
Looking at the wolf boy as he came over, Karma gave a small laugh, looking down to Jenny again she giggled softly, "Aren't you a popular girl Jenny." she teased
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Katana
Acolytes
Leah Okami
Posts: 258
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Post by Katana on Jan 24, 2008 17:48:11 GMT -5
Leah sat next to guardian and basked in the feelings that had been coursing through her body. The nightmare had washed away the pain in her heart. She always thought her loneliness led her to anger, she reflected on all those years and realized she had been wrong. She felt drunk on feelings, unlike before where she was always so cold like the bones that protruded from her body. An empty vessel, this school and the romantic feelings for guardian filled the void. She started second guessing herself, maybe she wasn't filling the void, but at that moment Guardian wrapped his tail around her. The names he asked about didn't register in her mind. "I don't know, sorry, I've only met Shadowkat and Ms. Frost. Why do you ask?"
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Fleet
Paragons
Kyle Nomis
Posts: 551
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Post by Fleet on Jan 24, 2008 18:29:06 GMT -5
Jumper just sat on the same crate and watched all the students. Shaking his head and eatign more pop corn. Who needed ot watch TV when there was so much goin gon here? He asked himself. The number of students was growing so the attention he used to have was diminishing. But that was ok with Jumper. Just made it easier to get away with things. He wasn't quite sure who everyone was, and for the most part people were breaking up into their little groups or avoiding people all together. He noticed though that the students weren't breaking up into their teams. This would be interesting indeed. So there Jumper sat with his cocky but now bored smile taking a long drink of water.
He noticed Haven was still here. The pain in the ass who helped the Brotherhood attack, and gassed him and Ripple. The same girl who planted the bombs in the mansion. And she was still here. he sighed and shook his head not understanding. As usual though he just turned his gave to somewhere else and blew her off. He didn't have to deal with her if he didn't want to. As long as she left him alone, he was fine.
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Post by Colossus on Jan 24, 2008 18:32:04 GMT -5
Colossus heard the question about his head count, and as he added the last few that just recently showed up he gave a big thumbs up. "All that are here are accounted for. We are just missing a couple students. D'mynchild, Clutch, and Sparkplug, I think." Looking around and double checking his list.
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D'mnchyld
New Mutants
Katie Lazaro
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that's why they call it 'The Present'!
Posts: 187
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Post by D'mnchyld on Jan 24, 2008 20:59:24 GMT -5
"I'm here!" came a voice from off in the darkness, well beyond the 'Blackbird', further still than some weird looking flying motorcycle-ish thing that said 'Avengers' on the side of it. Colossus' booming voice carried well in this huge room.
The slim gothy figure stepped just to the edge of the darkness, and a giggling could be heard on the floor behind her. It sounded, more accurately, as if there were several little 'things' playing roughly with each other in the darkness and fussing in some foreign language- then one of them giggled when k'8 spoke.
"Yeah, I've been here for a long time, before any of you got here. We, uh- well, I like to hang out here." she said
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Haven
Acolytes
Niki Sanchez
Posts: 316
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Post by Haven on Jan 24, 2008 21:47:37 GMT -5
She looked up at the sound of tears and saw Aqua. She smiled inwardly trying to contain the curl that might have slipped out at the corner of her lips. She couldn't smirk or smile at the girl openly, but she soooo wanted to.
'Aqua had been the last person who had antaginized me here at the school and I feel somehow better inside by hearing that 'special little pretty blondie' cry, is that so wrong?' she thought and tried to step away from Cyclops. She had at first walked near to him instead of wanting to stand by the other kids. Right now she wanted to run, but knew Beast was closeby out in the hallway. Since she'd been kept down in his Genetics-Lab since the end of the fight with her "Father's" other ''children'' the Brotherhood, Beast had been the one there to escort her to the hangar.
"This isn't happening." she murmured to herself trying to convince herself it was just some new training technique, and she was still under one of the many mental exercises she had been subjected to by Magnetos resident "trainer" Mastermind.
'I know- next I'm gonna see Sabretooth run in and I'll be expected to kill everyone here- what happens if I can't do it this time? More of the torture? I can't take this anymore...' she thought and reached up to wrap her fingers tightly into fists and hold them to her temples in an attempt to relieve the pain and stress in her mind.
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Diesel
Acolytes
Ian Larks
Posts: 492
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Post by Diesel on Jan 24, 2008 22:17:21 GMT -5
Ian smiled softly when Lorelai kissed his cheek. She was so damn sweet. He looked over at Aideen again and sighed. He liked the cold and introverted girl despite her numerous insults and claimed that she hated him. She could hate him all she wants but Ian couldn't even imagine what she must be feeling.
He saw Heather in tears and his brow furrowed in concern. What was wrong with her? Then again it had been a verying stressful day for everyone. It must have gotten to her when she heard that Wolverine and Nightcrawler are gone. Though he doubted it hit her the same way is hit Aideen. Ian followed Lorelai's gaze and saw her looking at the white haired girl that had helped Aideen stand and announced that she had planted bombs in the school. He honestly didn't know how he felt towards her. On one hand she tried to kill them all and got many injured and was probably responsible for the missing teachers. On the other hand she must have done something right because he hadn't missed the kind manner in which Spitfire treated her. There must be more to it then and he couldn't help but wonder what it was.
Ian had to smile though when he saw the cute short little blonde girl with the gigantic blue eyes. She was absolutely adorable and one couldn't help but smile when they looked at her. He continued rubbing Lorelai's back and watched the two teachers waiting for the meeting to start.
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Jenny
Alpha Squadron
Jenny Crachett
Boys are icky
Posts: 92
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Post by Jenny on Jan 24, 2008 23:05:45 GMT -5
Jenny wasn't a stupid kid. She knew something was wrong and no one was telling her! Honestly why did these grown ups all think she didn't know anything? She saw the distressed faces and despite Karma and the two doggy people's efforts, Jenny KNEW that there was something very, very wrong. She frowned and burrowed her face in Karma's neck, wanting her caretaker now. He little pudgy arms were wrapped loosely and firmly around Karma's neck.
"I'm not a stupid little baby," she grumbled into Karma's neck. "Everyone thinks I am. I KNOW that things arn't okay. Even flowers and trees know when somethings not right," she said and hugged herself to Karma. Jenny cuddled to Karma and refused to say anything else. She wanted everyone to be happy again.
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Post by BEAST on Jan 24, 2008 23:20:55 GMT -5
When Dr. Hank McCoy finished putting his notes away and filing them accordingly, he had escorted young Haven to the Hanger to participate in the meeting. Poor girl, he knew enough about the Brotherhood after all these years to know about their harsh methods of brainwashing their beliefs into the heads of lost and angry mutants, such as Haven.
The second he entered the room, he felt the sorrow everyone was feeling wash over him. Ah no indeed this would not go well. Hank stayed by the door to keep an eye on Haven and make sure she didn't make a run for it. This meeting would surely be a hard one.
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Post by Cyclops on Jan 24, 2008 23:35:30 GMT -5
"O.K everybody, settle down now. If I can have your attention for a few minutes!" Cyclops said as he placed a heavy hand on Haven's shoulder rather roughly. Then turning to Shadowkat he said "Kitty, would you get Beast? He's waiting for stragglers. In my rush to gather everybody I forgot Sparkplug has decided not to join us here and what's her name, Tempest had to jet back to London, yeah so please get Hank, thanks."
He turned back to the children, took a deep breath and looked at them all. Seeing Beast enter he said "Perfect timing old friend!" and began his talk.
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Frostbite
Paragons
Lorelai Kavanagh
Can you handle the cold?
Posts: 563
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Post by Frostbite on Jan 24, 2008 23:56:01 GMT -5
Lorelai smiled weakly at Ian as he smiled at her, but as she glanced around at everyone, she saw that Heather was crying, everyone else looked quite distraught, and the smile that was ther faded. Everyone was so sad, and she was too even though she had a reason to be happy, especially since she could feel her back continuing to be rubbed.
She ignored all extraneous thoughts as Cyclops sounded as if he were about to begin when he spoke and placed a hand on Haven's shoulders. When he spoke to an 'old friend', she turned to see that Beast had arrived as well, but she turned back to the headmaster to listen intently to what he had to say.
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Post by Cyclops on Jan 25, 2008 0:14:31 GMT -5
Turning back to the assembled group he found the tone of voice he was hoping for, not preachy- not weak, but uplifting and encouraging in an altogether dynamic sort of way.
He took a few steps closer as he began."Each one of you is unique," he said as he looked along the untidy jumble of children hoping to draw them in with his words. "Each one a person with amazing abilities and each with a heart and mind that was brave enough to have come this far in your lives and not back down."
"I myself have been at this life a long time, this life of battling evil and villainy in all of it's forms," he reached up to place a hand along the side of his neck and rub the sore out of an old injury "It feels like a thousand years more than a lifetime some days-" He confessed "and though I would like to tell you it gets easier. That would be a lie."
He dropped his hand down from his neck and took a pause looking for some signs of interest and understanding.
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Post by Ember on Jan 25, 2008 0:29:11 GMT -5
Aideen turned her head cowards Cyclops respectively but did not meet his eyes. She stared at him blankly almost as if she was staring right through him. She felt nothing but sorrow and guilt, and the more she looked at her peers and superiors, the more she known it became. She had never been like this before and in truth it would have scared her at one point to be this closed off and... well empty. She heard her Headmaster's words but they passed over her. She was well aware of the evil that existed, much more than they knew even before today. The only thing that changed today was that now Aideen was alone. Not truly alone since she still had Haven, but right now she felt so lost. Perhaps the fates were trying to tell her something. That she really was meant to live a life alone and for the most part friendless. Whenever she got close to someone, they were always taken away from her. Whenever she allowed herself to get close and feel.... happy, her happiness left as almost as soon as it came. First her parents, then James and now Logan and Nightcrawler. Someone in Aideen's position should be dissolving in tears by now. But no, she will try her last attempt at being brave as her Headmaster said.
Aideen was taught that crying is a weakness and to be brave is to have a strong exterior and show no weaknesses. And she won't cry, she refused to do that. To her knowledge her body was unable to produce the tears even if she wanted to. Aideen will be brave and listen to her Headmaster, who had been as kind and good to take her in as her Headmistress as, not that she deserved any of it now.
But still Cyclops was a great leader. And she would give his words with the respect he had earned them to have. She did listen to them without looking at anyone in particular, just staring off into space with a blank empty look in her eyes, waiting for him to continue.
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