UPstart
Acolytes
Carter Crossen
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Post by UPstart on Dec 3, 2009 10:00:09 GMT -5
It had taken Cross a little while to find his way back out to the courtyard. He made a couple wrong turns, but did manage to find a bathroom on his way. Finally walking out the front doors he stood on the step looking to the large courtyard. Sliding his bag from his shoulder and setting it to the side of the door. Cross did see a couple good spots to grind off of and to hit some good tricks on. A couple ledges to work off of and get a little height to do some good board tricks. Taking a look around once again to make sure no one was around, he stepped off and his board hit the ground rolling. In a light quick step he was on the board and coasting around the courtyard. Getting a feel for the ground.
Cross slowly skated around the statue in the middle. After taking 3 full laps around he rolled up to the main steps. It looked like he was going to run into them, but at the last second he kicked the board up in an Ollie, and landed just the front lip of the board on the step, just as quickly he kicked off the step into a fakie and was now rolling backward. He kicked up into another Ollie and did a 180 kick flip, while swinging himself around, to land on the board seamlessly facing forward again. Kicking the ground and picking up a little speed he headed toward the ledge to the right.
It was a nice night, and his hoodie suited him fine. he was alone and was in his element. He wasn't thinking of the school or the people here. None of that. Just on the next move. reaching the ledge he kicked the board up and hopped up onto the edge. He rode the ledge in a long rail slide. His balance was perfect. All that could be heard was the grinding of the board sliding along the edge, until he kicked off and landed, still rolling. It all happened so smoothly is was almost like he never left the ground. Rolling on he hit an ollie and kicked the board around. The board spun around 360 degrees and also rotated around completely before he landed back on it and continued skating. A perfect spinning 360 Kick flip. It took his a year of practice to get that move down.
Cross smiled to himself at the smooth transition of that move. Skating was where his confidence shined. Angling toward the front steps again he picked up some speed and hopped up on the edge of the step and slid the length of the steps in a smooth truck slide, kicking the board off the step and rolling the board around under his feet before landing. Cross was far from perfect, he was really Good, but he couldn't nail every trick. The landing was off, he hadn't landed quite square enough on the board and it slipped from under his feet. He was going down face first. Cross reached out with his hands to brace his fall. Knowing this would hurt his hands and his face if he hit to hard.
The hit never came. Under Cross' hands was a glowing energy disc. Holding him up easily. Cross sighed in relief and slowly the disc lifted him up to a standing position. Cross quickly looked around hoping no one had saw him fall, or saw him summon the energy disc. In a flash the disc was gone and he scooped up his board and was back riding it again like nothing happened. His cheeks were red from embarrassment. He tried to shrug it off and find his focus again. That disc had saved him some major pain again.
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-RAM-
New Mutants
Jaxon Chande
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Post by -RAM- on Dec 15, 2009 13:51:21 GMT -5
screeeeechhhh
A black bugatti veyron came to a loud, swift halt, the wheels screeching in protest because of the sudden loss of speed. The car stood out- black, glossy, sleek. The engine died out pretty quickly- but the male in the driver's seat was sure that the sound of the engine had quite possibly drowned out every other sound around. There was still music belowing from the stereo in the car- Nickelback; This Is How You Remind Me.
The car stood alone and handsome in the driveway to the place that Jaxon Chande already considered his own personal Haven. His conversation with Emma Frost'd boosted up the hope within him, which'd been lying pretty damn low. She'd said that he'd be a part of some... New Mutants thing, and his codename would be RAM? Hell Jax got a kick out of the goddamn name. Random Access Memory. Huh, atleast it fits. Jax smirked, catching a glimpse of himself in the rearview mirror. The dark, curtaining windows were rolled up- making it impossible for anyone to see what was inside this beautiful baby.
Jaxon's hand didn't leave the steering wheel. The feel of it in his arms was just too good to let go. Jax'd thought that driving this baby for two and a half weeks would've probably meant that he'd get bored of it- but if anything he'd just fallen more deeply in love with this beast. This car made Jax feel more at home than any other place had done lately. Jax didn't want to leave his baby in any stupid parking lot- there were too many loosers out there who were only too eager to get their filthy hands on a car this expensive and amazing. Jax could've easily afforded a motel every night- he'd taken out enough cash for that- but he couldn't risk getting this car stolen, this was the only thing that would get him to his destination fast enough. He was sure his father would've contacted all plane lines and made sure that he wouldn't be allowed to fly. So Jax'd spent the past two weeks, only getting around four to five hours of sleep in his car, renting rooms on hourly bases so he could get a shower once every two or three days (hey- a guy had to compromise some sh*t to survive), and stopping only for fifteen minutes, getting take aways which he'd eat on the hood of this beast.
He sunk back into the leather seat, turning the music down so it wouldn't be blasting out like it had been until now. moving one hand off the steering wheel to roll down his the shaded window by the driver's seat and poking his head out to call out to a dark haired guy he'd noticed skateboarding when he'd pulled in. "Dude!" Jaxon called out. His voice was loud, deep, although it sounded rougher than it should- maybe because he hadn't spoken much at all for the past fifteen hours. "Yeah you. With the skateboard!" he sighed, impatient. His fingers tapping to the tune that he was listening to. "Listen... can you tell me where I can park the car and find Emma Frost?"
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UPstart
Acolytes
Carter Crossen
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Post by UPstart on Dec 21, 2009 23:30:56 GMT -5
Cross had stopped coasting around the courtyard, jumping back in fright at the expensive looking car peeling into the driveway. He stood back for a minute, trying to get the courage to say something to this kid that couldn't be much older than him that just drove up in a car like that. Cross didn't know much about cars, but he could tell that this car had to be expensive and looked almost futuristic. It was almost funny, since the kid looked as grungy as he did, and yet he was driving something that had to be worth more than his whole house and everything he owned put together times two. "Um... uh...," he looked up at the kid nervously and then kicked the nose of the board into his hand.
"Well um," Cross tried again nervously, reaching up and rubbing the back of his neck, trying to convince himself not be nervous, that all the kid was asking was some direction. "She's uh... well um... she should be just inside," he offered and then tried to look up at the kid, stopping again and looking back down. Just by the car and how this guy acted like he didn't have a car in the world automatically made Cross think that he was just like those rich kids that went to his school and would pick on him for being poor and always getting secondhand clothes and items. He didn't want to start out like that again, so he tried to give this kid as little reason to pick on him as possible.
"Yea um... she's inside. She'll uh, probably meet you there and um." He used his toe to push some of the pebbles into the cracks. "Um I know there is a ga-garage... I think. B-but uh." Cross had to pause to get his stuttering under control as well as his nerves. "I-I um don't know where it is really..." He kept reminding himself to take deep breaths to not totally freeze up and look like more of a loser than he already did with those two cute girls earlier.
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Katana
Acolytes
Leah Okami
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Post by Katana on Dec 22, 2009 19:39:14 GMT -5
TOP OF THE LANDING
Alone at the top of the landing Katana had been listening to the silence of the night. She'd found that the very absence of sound here in the country had a sound to it. A sort of low murmur. She liked to sit up in there in a dark corner and listen to it. It helped that nobody ever seemed to come there at night so she could be alone. It felt safe and even familiar because it was so high up and out of the way.
When she'd left her gang in New York, she'd fled to a roof top. For a while it had seemed safe but eventually she was found. The truth was that she'd more belonged to the gang then in it. She'd arrived one cold night at the Port Authority bus terminal because there was nowhere else to go. Driven off by the cops she'd wound up in an even seedier terminal somewhere in Brooklyn. There wandering about at 3 am she'd met a boy. He'd offered her food, a blanket, and some security.
Only in the morning did she find out what she should have known, if she hadn't been foolishly naive. She now owed him and had to join his gang and pay rent. If she made good money one night he took it and she might be allowed to sleep at his place or at one of his friend's. Just as often she still wound up sleeping on the street. Fear and ignorance, not knowing where to go or how to survive on her own, had kept her there for some time.
When she'd left she was already shattered inside. Split into multiple people who were still somehow all her. There was the sweet innocent her of her early childhood, the abused child after her father went psychotic, and the jaded tough act persona that came out for flight or fight situations. Only she hadn't learned to discern between ordinary stresses and real threats. Everything had been escalated. Ms. Frost was helping her with it, but it was tough. She'd let down her guard a little with Chupacabra, but not really with anybody else. When Haven was nice to her, even protected her, she wanted to let her guard there too. To let the other girl in. To have a friend. To learn to be a people person. So she'd threatened Frostbite in the science lab. It didn't really work. She tried to talk to Ivy and Ricki even about something as dreadfully boring as French. And now she was tired. It was easier to scream and hit things.
So when some asshole with a fancy dick substitute of a car came up to the school blasting his crap music Katana was not ready to practice all the self restraint she'd been learning the last few days.
IN THE COURTYARD
Instead she went downstairs and threw open the front door, glared at the new boy, looking right past the other grungy new kid with the skateboard, and saying nothing walked outside ready to pick a fight she couldn't win.
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-RAM-
New Mutants
Jaxon Chande
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Post by -RAM- on Dec 23, 2009 16:37:20 GMT -5
Well that was freaking helpful wasn't it? Jax leaned back into his leather seat, sighing openly. "Right. That helped. Thanks dude." For nothing. Jax didn't have the patience to deal with stuttering idiots right now. He didn't really give two beeps about the guy to be honest- he just wanted to get this beast parked and get in the mansion to meet this Emma Frost lady. Jax rolled up his window, reversing and following another path which looked like it actually lead to somewhere. Although, while reversing he did catch sight of some chick who was freaking glaring at him. What the hell?
So far he'd seen a dude who looked like he'd probably piss himself out of fright any moment and another chick who just thought it was perfectly okay to glare at him? He was used to girls giving him upraising looks and checking him out from time to time... but the glare had to be a first. Huh, guess they take in mentally unstable peeps as well. While driving around, Jaxon'd managed to reach a place which looked a helluva lot like a garage. Huh, it was a garage. Jax came to a stop just outisde, his car sounding more peaceful this time, seeing he couldn't exactly speed around this place.
Jax got out of his bugatti veyron, stretching his back- leaving the door open and walking towards the garage to see if he could open it. A small machine caught his eye- and it didn't really take him very long to read through the security details and access the code needed to open the garage. Jax punched in the numbers and the door opened up, allowing him to drive his baby inside. The place was pretty empty- not much eye candy in there, but there were a few sexy cars and bikes. Sweet. Jax jogged back to his car, cramping in and driving in, parking the veyron carefully. He opened his boot, and got his massive camping back-pack out in which he could literally fit his whole world, and then pressed the button on his keys which caused the car to flash twice at him and then fall silent. The locks had gone down. His baby was more or less safe.
Jax walked out of the garage, shutting the doors behind him and started to walk the route he'd just driven on to get back to the enterance to the mansion. As he moved forwards, his eyes fell first on the stuttering guy and then the weirdo girl. "Do you always glare at people you don't know? Or is that some defensive mode that clicks on when you see guys who look good?" Jax raised an eyebrow, not really bothering to look at the girl as he passed her. "Huh, and you- skaterboy, think you could take me to Emma Frost? I manage to find the garage- but the mansion's pretty damn big, and I don't have no Hogwarts map sh*t that shows me whose where in this mansion."
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Katana
Acolytes
Leah Okami
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Post by Katana on Dec 25, 2009 21:07:35 GMT -5
More like an entitled jackass...Way to make an entrance, first wake up all the little kids blaring your sh*t music, then insult him, she thought indignantly. " So self righteous was she in her indignation that at the moment she completely forgot the myriad times she had awoken the Alphas by blasting punk rock out her windows in the middle of the night. This wasn't really about them. She didn't even know if they'd been asleep, much less roused. But the fancy car ticked her off. The casual air of superiority this kid exuded ticked her off more. So she almost shot off her mouth, thinking but just stopping herself from saying, Your penis really so small you got to mask it with that overpriced piece of junk?
She would have said it, but then she thought of her new team, the Acolytes. Haven was being nice to her. Ricki and Ivy had seemed friendly. If she got into a roaring fight with the new boy, whatever team he was on, they wouldn't be happy with her. So she bit her tongue, a little. Her reply was caustic but not outright hostile. "Your music was very loud. We have small children here, it's late, and..." She trailed off leaving unspoken the reproachful, And you should have thought about that. "I'll take you to Ms. Frost.," she continued instead, yet she couldn't stop herself from adding, "but try to be more considerate," despite the fact that it was exactly the kind of mouthing off that could get her into trouble.
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UPstart
Acolytes
Carter Crossen
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Post by UPstart on Dec 31, 2009 18:15:33 GMT -5
Cross swallowed a bit and looked away from the guy that just drove up, whom he also assumed was new. He kept remembering the teasing and tormenting that came from those jocks and metalheads at school or outside of school whenever Cross was unlucky enough to run into them. He tried to ignore them best as he could, since being naturally shy made him horrible at confrontation and had him avoid it as much as possible. In the situation now, he found himself doing the exact same thing, avoiding the guy's eye, though he did look at the girl curiously. At first it seemed like there was history between her and the guy, since he didn't know many people who just came outside to glare at someone unless they knew them, but he did remember Ms. Emma Frost warning him that there were all different types of people here.
After making a fool of himself inside with those two cute girls, Cross thought it best to just keep his mouth shut this time and let the girl that seemed to know what to do and where to go to do the talking. Not that he needed to hope for it, she just went ahead and did it anyways. At least now he wouldn't make more of an idiot of himself and could just stay quiet. The one thing that he had learned was that it was better to let people think you're stupid than to open your mouth and prove it. "She would know better than me where to go," Cross muttered in a quiet voice, eyes focused on the floor. He was at a total loss what to say, and felt kind of stupid around both of them. At least one person was helping the new guy out.
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