A New Tattoo to Start the Day

[Lymited~Ink]

Kat hummed happily to herself as she sat atop one of the tables in the cafeteria, legs crossed with her tattoo equipment next to her and a piece of paper in front of her. Her head tilted from side to side as she hummed and glanced at the little piece of paper for reference on her newest tattoo.

Her inspiration came from the night before when she was watching tv with her teammates in Sky's room. They had been watching the Justice League and Kat had seen Black Canary kicking some major butt with her sonic scream. It had made Kat giggle, and after she thought about it, she wanted to have the power too, so when she woke up she thought of an idea for a tattoo that would suit her purpose, and it was the little drawing she had come up with that would do the job.

There were a couple other people on the other side of the cafeteria looking at her weirdly as she hummed her made up song and worked the tattoo onto the pale white skin of her ankle. She could feel the needle on her skin over and over as she replicated a sharper version of the picture, although it was more of a numbed tickling sensation on her skin. That was one reason why she had so many tattoos, because not only was it fun to put them on, it felt fun too.

She paused for a moment to look over at the weird normal kids who were watching her as if she had two heads. Kat chuckled to herself quietly before sticking her tongue out at them and turning back to her ankle. How fun it'll be ta be like Black Canary wit me sonic scream. I'll blow everythin' away and knock out people's hearin'. Like they need it anyway, she thought to herself, chuckling again and humming.

[D'mnchyld]

Well, she's got her own cool style. Sorta like mine, but different. How come we never really hung out? k'8 thought looking over at the only other goth in the school. Never late to start I guess. I mean look at her, love the pale skin and the body art is wild. Should I? she wondered about going and seeing what she was putting on herself, she knew it had some kind of effect on her powers and that she could add more if she wanted to, but she hadn't actually watched her do it and it was just too cool to pass up.

Who'm I kiddin? O' course I wanna check this out She thought as she got up and headed over to the table where the Paragon sat atop. "Hey, Kat." she said softly to not startle her. The last thing she wanted to do was mess her up. Never having had a tattoo k'8 wondered how painful they were and how it compared to cutting herself. "Can I watch ya?" She said as she sat down and made herself at home.

Looking over all the different inks and gear she had arrayed on the table the clever and sharp D'mnchyld saw it was all kept with quite a bit of love and care. Kat absolutely respected her tattoo equipment, of that there was no doubt, and it only made k'8 think even more highly of her. "Oh so this is what you're doing?" The sketch of what she was inking on her ankle drew her attention and she picked it up to look more closely. "Is that a music note? You want to give yourself singing powers?"

[Lymited~Ink]

Kat paused from her tattoo and looked up quietly at k'8. Her blue eyes looked wide as she sat up for a moment to shake her head. "Nay, not a singin' power. I be wantin' to mimic Black Canary's sonic scream. And methought, how do one make a picture o' a sonic scream?" she said, looking off into space for a moment before she glanced at the picture. "I found out I din't know, so I came up with this instead, see, but it'll work like a little screamin' charm. Savvy?" she said with a nod at k'8 before she leaned back in the slightest. Kat thought she seemed a bit eager to know about her newest tattoo and quick to speak. More forthcoming than she would've thought to expect.

"I be halfway done with this, mind ye puttin' it back down? Ye can still see it that way too," she said as she waited for her point of reference to be straightened out again. Precision was something Kat aimed for in her tattoos, and she hated making even the slightest mistake, even if it wasn't noticeable to anyone else, it was noticeable to her and it put a black spot on the record she kept for herself.

She adjusted herself slightly once the paper was back down in front of her before she picked up the needle again to continue. She bent low over her ankle, her hair falling down to one side that wasn't in her way and continued drawing on her skin. Normally if she was tattooing herself, she would be pretty quiet in concentration, but since k'8 seemed extremely interested, she thought she had to carry on some sort of conversation, even if it was half-assed on her part. "So, what brought yer multicolored haired self to the cafeteria? The food and kitchen be over there," she said, sounding more quiet and slightly muffled. Everyone seemed to skip the cafeteria and go straight to the kitchen, so she thought she'd start with that.

[D'mnchyld]

"Oh, yeah I'm not that good of a cook. Anyways I am trying to stay away from sharp things, so knives and stuff are out, but the food from the dispenser is kinda cool. Plus I can get whatever really, and I was feeling like a grilled cheese with a thick slice of tomato in there, like my old Auntie used to make." She put the paper back where it had been and smoothed her hand over it.

"Sorry, yea- I like a reference to work offa when I do my stuff too. It's looking good, does it hurt? I mean I'd like one, but now I really can't, cause that's like a whole lotta blood and well my power's kinda- you know." She shrugged and watched a second more before she started to get comfortable.

The beginning of the conversation was sort of a struggle, she hadn't really ever hung out with Kat and it was kinda weird to her why not. "Hey, how come we never hung out before? I mean we gotta have some more stuff in common than the look right? You came here to be alone, so did I. I was sittin over that end when you came in." She pointed down away from the others that were hanging together. "And we're both like artists and stuff, so I just had to see what you were up to. Oh, lookit that it's bleedin good."

K'8 was missing cutting now, for the first time in a long time. Seeing the blood as it raise up on the pale inked flesh of her fellow goth artist made her want to see her own blood again. It was weird the draw it had on her. The only problem was her power, and the chaos it brought. Little demons could be such a handful and she had been taking way better care of herself, eating and exercising right as Kitty had her doing alongside Heather for months now, so she knew her blood would be good and potent. There was no telling how long those guys would stick around if she bled a little.

[TuneUP]

"Katie girl!" Sean called as he half ran into the cafeteria with a big smile on his face, papers in hand as he went right over the Kate. "Ms. Frost said yes! We can go get 'em!" He was so excited that he carefully stood her up so he could hug her, partially in excitement, and the other half in thanks, since if it hadn't been for her, he wouldn't have any papers to show Ms. Frost and have come completely unprepared as to where they could have gone.

"Ms. Frost said we can go and pick them out today! Not just today really, but right now!" Sean said as he held her slightly away from him to beam at her in excitement. "She said I can bring you along, and Pete can take us, and I can bring Jenny along too! We gotta leave now though, so if we split up we can each go and get them! Jenny is havin' some breakfast by the hedge and Pete is workin'-" It was then that he noticed that Kate had company. He stopped his rambling and took his hat off to be polite, slightly embarrassed at his lack of manners.

"Oh pardon me, I didn't notice you sittin' there. It's Kat right? I'm real sorry to come bargin' in on your conversation, it's real rude of me," he said in his most apologetic voice. Sean looked at Kate with a sheepish smile, feeling really bad about just coming in and bothering them. It seemed his excitement blinded him from looking around to see if he was intruding.

[Lymited~Ink]

One of Kat's eyes twitched slightly as another hyper happy person came in and startled her, almost making her mess up her tattoo by a millimeter. She stopped what she was doing and sat up to look at the boy standing near k'8. They were introduced....what was the cowboy's name? "Uh, 'tis alright..Woody," she said, looking at the both of them wearily. Both of them seemed to be way too hyper and way too happy to be around her, especially when she was working on something as important as her tattoo. Apparently they were going to go somewhere to pick something, and they were going to head out soon.

Oh, ye gods, I be thankin' ye for the silence should they leave. They be way too weird for me, Kat thought as her eye twitched slightly again as she looked between the two. The whole barrage of questions she'd been about to answer to humor k'8 looked well forgotten now that her boyfriend had come in. Her lips pursed together slightly as she wondered if she should say something to the happy couple or if she should just go back to her tattoo. "Erm, ye can go get what?" she asked, looking slightly afraid as if she might not want to know. Finishing her tattoo could wait, especially when the loud creepily cheery distractions were gone.

[D'mnchyld]

"Oh Sean!" k'8 had thrown her arms around him and hugged him tight. She loved him so much and loved how much of a gentleman he was. It made her practically beam when he took pause to say hi to Kat without her having to introduce him and he was about the only thing that could draw her attention away from the thoughts of the blood. "Wow! Really? That's so great, I'll go get her and you can find him."

She was about to turn and run off, but she stayed her feet in place. "Oh" anxiously bouncing in place with a grin she turned back to Kat. "Get some animals for the stables. A cat to keep the mice away and a dog to help protect the horses and sound an alarm with his barks if something gets in there, right Sean?" K'8 wasn't sure she said all that the animals would be tasked with but she was pretty sure she was close. Sean was the expert and he'd been so excited that it was infectious.

"So I was hoping you woulda asked Ms. Frost earlier because I saw on the website the place is only open till 1. I'm not sure how long it'll take us to get there but we better get a move on huh?" She kissed him on the cheek. "Meet you guys out front?" she asked him and then turned to Kat with a little wave. "Good luck with your tat Kat *tehee* that rhymed. Sean, she's doin something to give her a sonic scream like Banshee and Siryn"

She knew that Sean would get that reference since they all had to study X-History and know who was who and what they'd done. It made sense since they were important to the way the world was now and if young mutants didn't know about mutants of the past then where would they be in the years to come. She wasn't sure how much of a comic book fan he was or if he knew who Black Canary might be.

[TuneUP]

Sean waved at Kate as she left before looking back at Kat with a smile. He could tell from the look on her face that she wasn't all that comfortable, and he did feel bad about barging in on them. "I apologize again for interruptin' ya'll. An' I'm real sorry I didn't get a chance to meet ya sooner," he said with a slight smile, putting his hat back on his head. He really did want to talk to her a little more, if only to watch the cool tattoos she was putting on. "The design of the tattoo looks real nice, I can't wait to see it later. All the best of luck to ya." Tipping his hat to her, Sean turned and walked out of the cafeteria, looking back to smile at her.

He felt like he was a bit rude to be leaving so soon, but they needed to get going, and fast. He went right down to the gym to get Colossus, just as excited to tell him the news as he was when he told his Katie girl. Sean did wonder what Ms. Frost said about that other girl that could talk to animals. That sounded like something that he himself would love to do, and it would be dead useful in this case. He'd need to meet her and ask her all sorts of questions when they came back with the animals, and even more so when they came back with the horses. There was a big grin on Sean's face as he could only think of what they would find at the animal rescue.