Katana
Acolytes
Leah Okami
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Post by Katana on Mar 7, 2009 1:15:23 GMT -5
Katana was about halfway to the dining room to get StormHawk's pop, when she heard Sean calling from inside that he would get it. Momentarily annoyed she thought, Great time to be helpful, jerk. Can't you see I'm trying to get on my new team's good side. But almost immediately she thought better of it and instead as the cowboy came through the door she gave him a nice smile and said "thanks." Although they weren't friends he had been civil to her, which was more than she could say for most of her classmates.
Turning around Katana started to head back to her seat when Heather came into the room and passed her on her way to play yet another prank on StormHalk. Katana sighed at the water girl's foolish giggling and stupid prank of putting a cold pop can on the winged boy's neck. However, she had to admit she was slightly amused when the boy yelped out his thank you to Sean as a result of the can. She was so distracted by this that she did not notice that he had completely ignored her. Well, that and simultaneously Hardlight had run in and plopped himself in front of the couch, and that had made Katana tense up.
She had very little interaction with Hardlight as a rule, having made an enemy of him at the pizza party several months before. While she had forgiven him for putting her in a light bubble, and even realized that she sorta deserved it, she never got passed the feeling that he probably hated her. She was not sure how she would work on a team with him.
Having stopped to ponder this, she missed the chance to get her seat on the couch as Allure sat down between Ian and TuneUp, and StormHalk made no effort to save Katana's seat as she had asked. This annoyed her but was not unexpected. Still she bit her tongue as an acerbic voice in her head said, Asshole,nice job saving my seat. Laughing slightly under her breath she thought, I deserve a freaking medal for being so damn cool tonight.
Sighing she walked away from the couch and towards the kitchen, passing her former teammates Decay and FreezeFrame and intentionally trying to avoid making eye contact. As she reached the door to the kitchen she looked over her shoulder at the TV. She actually liked Walker Texas Ranger and now that the commercial was over wanted to know what was happening. It was then that she saw Alex had gotten up from his chair in the corner and was setting up a chess board.
"Hey, Alex, bet you can't beat me", she called out cheerily despite the fact that doing so would probably upset Ian again. freak him. It's a damn TV show, not something important. Katana always started chess games with Alex by betting him he couldn't beat her; the fact that he won most of the time didn't take any fun out of the trash talking.
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Chupacabra
New Mutants
Alejandro Rivera
And from my tortured shape No comfort, no escape
Posts: 104
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Post by Chupacabra on Mar 7, 2009 1:44:00 GMT -5
Alex jumped slightly and the voice yelling from across the room. It was a very distinct voice of a very distinct person. He smiled and shook his head lightly. Still all covered up he turned to see Leah heading over. He always enjoyed hanging out with her. Even though he knew what everyone said about her Alex still cherished her as a friend. For some reason he had a lot of patience and tolerance when it came to her. He turned the chess board around so that he had the black pieces and she would have the white pieces. As she sat down Alex made sure his sunglasses were on correctly so she wouldn't see that he was hurt.
"Hey Leah, hows it going? You ready to beat me today?"
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Katana
Acolytes
Leah Okami
Posts: 258
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Post by Katana on Mar 7, 2009 1:57:28 GMT -5
"yeah, I'm ready. I see you're wearing your shades. You turning rock star on us?," she said as she looked across the table and contemplated the board. Then she settled on her favorite opening, the Persian opening, and moved her King's Knight to F-3.
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Chupacabra
New Mutants
Alejandro Rivera
And from my tortured shape No comfort, no escape
Posts: 104
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Post by Chupacabra on Mar 7, 2009 2:04:26 GMT -5
Alex nervously laughed at the rock star comment and went along with it. He waited for her move and saw that she changed up her game a bit. Moving her knight preventing him from his usual opener. He thought for a moment and picked up his queens knight and moved it to c-6.
"Good opener there."
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Katana
Acolytes
Leah Okami
Posts: 258
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Post by Katana on Mar 7, 2009 2:10:14 GMT -5
Katana had felt good about the game at the start but things started to go downhill. After a trade of queens she lost one of her rooks and soon a bishop went down to join his fallen friends along with a whole slew of pawns that died in a great massacre that cleared much of the board. "I'll get you still, my pretty" Katana said laughing as she ferociously attacked Alex's knight with her remaining bishop and just hoped she had not overlooked anything.
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Chupacabra
New Mutants
Alejandro Rivera
And from my tortured shape No comfort, no escape
Posts: 104
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Post by Chupacabra on Mar 7, 2009 2:18:49 GMT -5
Alex laughed at her futile efforts to destroy his knight, Leah clearly not seeing that it left her wide open to a checkmate. She had her king all huddled up in the corner behind her three remaining pawns. No where to run or hide. All that was stopping him was her well placed bishop. Now that he had lured it out of the way he had his opening. He slid his rook down the board to E-1 and declared Checkmate. At this point he would usually hold out his right hand for a sportsman like handshake. But being that it was cast up Alex didn't know what to do. He held out his left hand hoping that Leah wouldn't find anything odd with his behavior.
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Katana
Acolytes
Leah Okami
Posts: 258
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Post by Katana on Mar 7, 2009 2:24:44 GMT -5
"Congrats champ," Leah said as Alex declared checkmate. "I'll get you next time...Now what's with the left hand and the shades? You get into fight or something?" Leah was not stupid and trying to hide having gotten beaten up was the only logical explanation for wearing shades inside, shaking with his left hand, and moving like somebody had cast part of his body in lead. "I have some ointment and other stuff in my room, I could get you."
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Chupacabra
New Mutants
Alejandro Rivera
And from my tortured shape No comfort, no escape
Posts: 104
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Post by Chupacabra on Mar 7, 2009 2:32:25 GMT -5
Alex's plan had back fired. He was getting his mind ready to come up with a clever lie but he know it would be of know use. She had had it right for the most part. He let his defenses down. Even though she is outspoken a bit there is always that kindness he finds in her. Alex sighed.
"Yea, something happened today. But I'd rather not discuss it here."
She was his friend and he saw no reason why he should keep what happened to him from her. She had been nothing but kind to him and never wanted to compromise that.
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Diesel
Acolytes
Ian Larks
Posts: 492
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Post by Diesel on Mar 7, 2009 2:35:41 GMT -5
Ian gave Veronika a crooked smile when she tried to comfort him. She was a cool chick, he liked her a lot. She was way gorgeous and one of the sweetest girls he had ever met. "Thanks babe, it ain't exactly the icing on my cake knowing I gotta deal with her," Ian said with a half smile at the pretty red head before turning his attention back to the show that just came on. "Alright people shut up its back," he said excitedly. No sooner had he said that did Katana call out to Chupacabra, making him miss the opening lines.
"Do you not freakING understand what SHUT UP means?" Ian yelled angrily. She was the only one who didn't understand the concept of not yelling while people were watching a show meant. This wasn't the best day for him, and he'll be damned to have his show ruined. "Shut the freak up. Just try and see what happens next time I hear your voice above a whisper while the show is on. In the mood I'm in today and you interrupting my show cause you got like the manners of a wild pig or something, I'm in no mood for playing or being patient," Ian spat and went back to his show, half steaming. After a day like that, any little thing could set him off. The TV show that was supposed to make him happy was only making him more pissed off.
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Katana
Acolytes
Leah Okami
Posts: 258
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Post by Katana on Mar 7, 2009 2:39:02 GMT -5
"I'm sorry, why don't we blow this joint and talk elsewhere. I'm pretty sure there is nobody in the cafeteria anymore. That and there should be some more pop in there." Katana was worried and also pissed. She knew her friend, like her, had problems with his team and with a lot of the other students, but she hadn't expected him to get beaten. After all, nobody had beaten her and she had a much worse rep with the other students then Alex did. Part of her wanted to just get him to tell her whoever it was so she could go beat the person down.
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Chupacabra
New Mutants
Alejandro Rivera
And from my tortured shape No comfort, no escape
Posts: 104
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Post by Chupacabra on Mar 7, 2009 2:43:44 GMT -5
Alex nodded and slowly got up. He saw the worry in his friends eyes and gave her a smile to try and show her everything was okay. He Limped his was to the exit and headed to the Cafeteria with Leah.
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Haven
Acolytes
Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Mar 7, 2009 3:29:34 GMT -5
Having been standing in the doorway for some time now watching the events and interactions, her arms folded across her chest she stepped then into the room. Walking up behind the couch she leaned down between her man and Veronika and kissed Diesel softly on his neck just below his ear. Not saying a word, but brushing her lips across his earlobe, nuzzling him for only a second to let him know she was there. Niki didn't like the show but she knew how jazzed up it got Ian so she indulged him, let him get excited so she could enjoy his excitement later.
Looking over to Allure, a fire smoldering there behind her eyes, Haven leaned to her ear next but she did not plant a kiss. Instead she left a threat whispered with such focused intent the words virtually pierced the flesh. "Touch him again skank and you'll draw back a bloody dripping stump." It was a simple enough statement, Niki half hoped she gave her a reason to carry out the threat, but she was only getting warmed up.
She smiled all pretty at the Paragon Princess batting her eyes at Veronika in a mockery of the little girls own silly behavior, all of thirteen maybe fourteen and thinking she was in charge. Haven saw how she wrapped people around her little finger, she'd known bitches like that all her life so it was easy to spot.
Knowing how much Ian hated his show interrupted and doing her level best to not ruin what was left of the episode, even though she was sure there would be one or two more to follow, she stepped over to the chess game that was wrapping up. Ignoring completely the boy with the sunglasses, she knew his name but didn't care to address him. In fact she didn't say a word to Katana either, but stood there towering above her and looking down.
She wanted to give her one chance to unfreak herself. Haven knew though that Leah was hardly capable of self control, so she figured she'd be ready for the inevitable and put her forcefield up. It was invisible so there was no indication it was there, and it gave her an empowered feeling that she could do anything. Making eye contact with the new Acolyte Niki placed a single finger to her lips to discretely make it clear she was to shut her filthy sewer. Having heard her just apologize to Chupacabra, Niki would make her apologize to Ian at the next commercial. She didn't care about manners really, but it had been a pretty rough day and she didn't want Diesel mad, not for anything.
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Post by StormHawk on Mar 7, 2009 20:41:20 GMT -5
((((OOC: Name is StormHawk
Gavin rolled his eyes at Katana again, shaking his head at her. It was a long day for everyone, and not the best one either. It really irked Gavin that he had to deal with Katana way more than he cared for and she had done nothing more than piss Ian and himself off further. Frankly, Gavin was glad he was on a chair because he half expected Ian to pick up the couch and throw it at her. His head hit the back of the chair and he stared at the TV intently trying to chill out.
"Well the blue shirt guy got punched but Trivette just kicked the guy with the long ass beard right in the head and look Chuck Norris kicks blue shirt guy," Gavin said in a low voice so Chase could hear and it wouldn't bug Ian. "Who wins then?" He tickled Heather's shoulder lightly and moved his arm around her so they could fit better. Though Gavin would probably never admit it out loud to anyone, except maybe Ian cause they were cool like that, he did kinda like Heather as more than just a gnome to tease and bother and a friend. He didn't want to ruin their friendship by it and all since he had a bad experience with dating a close friend, so he just sort of went with the flow and waited to see where things would go. He'd be cool either way with it.
Gavin leaned over to whisper to Heather, his eyes still glued to the show. "I'm betting Niki's gonna take Katana's head and slam it in the chess board next time she opens his mouth," he said with a snicker. He knew that Heather didn't care for her, but Gavin really liked Niki. He thought she was great, both the fact that her and Ian together were a lot of fun to hang out with and that she was such a bitch sometimes that he could only laugh along with her at how she acted toward others. That and she was this exotic kinda gorgeous that at time made Gavin think how much of a lucky bastard Ian was to get her for him. It was all cool for him though. He knew that next practice she'd be one of the first to keep Katana in line. As for him, Gavin will be sitting on the side snickering.
"OOOooOH! That's gotta hurt. That's what you happens when you try to punch a woman in front of Chuck Norris," he said with a laugh, nodding his head. "Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so fast that they actually grew younger," Gavin added with a big smile and laughed slightly.
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Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
Posts: 731
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Post by Aqua on Mar 7, 2009 21:14:12 GMT -5
Damn, Ian really changed a lot since LIMBO. Then again, a lot of people changed, she thought. All the screaming and other shit that was happening around her, made Heather kind of upset. Yes everything was way better over the past two months. But so many things within the school itself was effecting its students. Lorelai helped out Rumble out of all people, Ian and Haven were together (something what was known she frowned upon- but she and Ian were still cool), and now Katana and Lorelai had their teams switched. She couldn't really blame Gavin and Ian for being bummed about it, but the fact that Ian was officially pissed, made Heather think he was overreacting a bit.
Shaking the thoughts out of her head, she ignored Haven and focused on the show. As much as she thought it was ridiculous, it was always entertaining. She then giggled when she felt Gavin's touch on her shoulder, poking his side in defense. To get more comfortable, she was glad he brought his arm around her. It allowed her to get into the little nook and nestle her head on his chest and arm. She grabbed some more chips and enjoyed her snack. She then rolled her eyes at his comment about Katana. The girl was a poor soul and just needed a friend really. But Heather didn't like how dramatic she was about everything. Laughter then emerged from her soft red lips when she heard one of her favorite Chuck Norris jokes. "How about this one?" she then said while laying her legs a bit closer to Gavin's. "Chuck Norris doesn't do push ups, he does earth downs." It wasn't one of the best, but still funny none the less.
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Post by FreezeFrame on Mar 8, 2009 1:02:01 GMT -5
Chase was holding in a laugh as hard as he could, Gavin's joke was just freaking hilarious! He was thrashing around a bit and slapping Decay on the thighs from trying to hold in a laugh. His chocolate milk was almost gonna shoot out of his nose when he heard what Heather said and he stopped suddenly. Looking with a puzzled look on his face at Sky he slowly turned to stare at Aqua and in his best Borat voice said "Aqua tolda de funny joke-NAAAHT!!!"
"Is right? De joke she is a told is de funny joke-NAAHT!!! He does de push up-NAAHT!!" he went back to his regular voice and said "Man Heather you, you- well hey, what else is there to say? You're o.k. to look at, hell even almost hot but when you speak, man you ruin the whole illusion." He smiled weakly and sympathetically at her and felt almost bad for a half a second before saying "Why not just use your mouth to turn food into shit like God intended for ya huh? Leave the jokes to the funny could ya? You're killin me here.". She really had a talent for wrecking a joke.
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