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 Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:15 pm
Whew, thank god we got some new content. I thought we were going under for sure for a minute there.
When Zander fell asleep, it was the same old dream it always was, he was riding in the back seat of a car, looking at two people. One was a man who kinda looked like him, but with black hair and a full-stubble beard. The other was a brown-haired woman wearing clothes that hadn't been in style since the '80s. The man said something to the woman and she laughed. Zander couldn't hear or read lips, but somehow he knew it was about him. Then came the part he hated: a stampede of lemmings filled the road ahead. The man, obviously caught off guard, spun the wheel and went over the nearby guardrail. Then Zander got that feeling in the pit of his gut as though he was on a very fast elevator. Then can the worst part: a caucophany on the senses. A loud crash, screaming, coughing, crying, the smell of death, gas fumes and burning. The sight of the man, who went flying through the window, the woman still in the burning heap of scrap that was once a car. Then the part Zander hated, the door next to him flew off and pain shot through him arm... his RIGHT arm... the last thing he remembered was rolling on the ground down a hill and seeing glimpses of an explosion where the car once was, blacking out before reaching the bottom of the chasm...
He woke up with a start, his Master was looking over him. Clearly while in this room, Flea didn't need that disguise.
"The dream again, Zander?" he asked, a look of concern on his face.
"Yeah... it's still not that clear." he said, worry stretching his face for the first time since he got to the school.
"Did you see them?" Flea asked, curious.
"No, just the man's outline and the woman's hair, as usual." he got up, then looked over at Flea. "What time is it?"
"I suppose it's about..." Flea looked up at the clock, "4:45."
"Jeez, I just can't get much sleep around here." Zander said, walking out.
"Where are you going?" Flea asked.
"To the cafeteria to see if they have any root beer." Zander responded wearily, "something tells me I'm gonna need the caffeine." And with that, he walked out.
"Some times you worry me, my student." Flea reflected as he donned his disguise and walked off for Princenemy's nearly-rebuilt office... there was something he had to discuss with Princeton, and knew after yesterday, he wouldn't want anything to do with Flea Dijon for a while.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:01 pm
Violet stirred, then, finally giving up, she pushed her head up off the table. She couldn't go to sleep again, every time she closed her eyes, she saw Axi being shoved unceremoniously into the van by the Groom Lake special forces squad or whatever they were. She pushed her chair away from the table and looked at her cellphone... 4:45... there was no way she was getting back to sleep, so she might as well fulfill one of her other needs to survive, she thought as her stomach growled at her.
She headed towards the cafeteria, and she saw a boy, the same one that had come into the library with Ms. Conception, his metal arm shining in the moonlight that flowed in through the windows. "Umm... hi..." she said, breaking the silence.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:57 pm
Conall sat on top of the building, legs and arms crossed, glaring at the moon. It was full, a silver quarter in the sky. Conall sat transfixed, moving less than a rock. The night was clear and perpetually black, and yet Conall could smell morning coming. He could smell far in the distance morning creatures rise and working and struggling to survive. Conall sighed and stood up, casting one last glare at the full moon.
-"Accalia... Ralph..."
Conall jumped quietly into his dormroom, bored. Conall grabbed a pipe and began smoking.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:51 pm
"Hiya." Zander said, having barely touched his root beer. He regained his usual domeanor fairly fast. "I think I saw you in the library before... when that stinkbomb went off." then he sorta zoned out and looked at the clock. "Kinda early to be awake, isn't it?"
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:27 pm
"Yeah, things like that happen a lot around here, don't they?" she asked when the boy mentioned the stinkbomb incident. "I had a bad dream, couldn't get back to sleep..." she said, then quickly changed the subject. "Then I got hungry, so I'm heading to the cafeteria to see if I can get something from the vending machines. So what are you doing up?" she asked.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:36 pm
Amara thrashed in her sleep yelling at the top of her lungs "GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!" In a fit of rage, she unsheathed her katana and sliced the door in half and even part of the wall she used so much force. When she finally opened he eyes she saw the door and wall and fell to the ground. She gathered her knees to her chest and shook violently as she cried silently. through her blurred vision she looked at her katana's hilt, blood still staining it.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:06 pm
Conall heard screaming and rushed through the school. He eventually came across a girl and a cut-up wall.
-"Are you o-"
Conall did a double take and looked at the girl. It was Amara.
-"Oh. It's you. Nevermind then."
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:22 pm
She looked up at Conell with tears streaming down her pale cheeks.
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:20 am
Conall saw the tears and sighed. He muttered something under his breath about being too nice and walked up to Amara.
-"What's wrong?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:38 pm
"Just thought I'd see what kind of drinks the school had. I can't go more than a week without some good 'ol root beer." Zander said as he got up. He went over to the vending machine and came within an inch of swearing darkly enough to offend a sailor. No root beer, of course. But they had Dr. Pepper! Why do vending machines ALWAYS carry that foul synthesized, fake-tasting b*****d drink and never root beer? he thought to himself. "Well, they don't." he said with a sigh as he sat down and goodnaturedly slammed his skull into the table in frustration. Upon seeing Violet's shocked expression, he realized that probably wasn't a wise thing to do in someone else's presence. "Sorry 'bout that." he said, attempting non-chalance. Then he realized they didn't even know each other's names! "I'm Zander." he said with a slight smile.
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:57 pm
"Zander, huh? Like from Buffy the Vampire Slayer? He was one of my favorites, him and Willow. I'm Violet, by the way." Violet said, smiling a bit as she went over to the vending machines to check what kind of snacks they had. She bought a bag of chips and a bag of Skittles. "It's kinda the same way with me and fruity candy, especially sour stuff, I used to eat entire bags of Warheads in one sitting." she said as she took a seat next to Zander. "In fact, there was this one time that me and my friend Axi..." she started, then suddenly stopped, a tear forming in her eye. She turned away from Zander, opened the bag of Skittles and poured a few into her hand, then popped them all into her mouth at the same time, secretly wiping the tear away before she brought her hand back down.
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:01 pm
Lucifer Moloch Conall saw the tears and sighed. He muttered something under his breath about being too nice and walked up to Amara. -" What's wrong?" She couldnt help it. She clung to him and cried into his shoulder. Her words were muffled but somewhat easy to make out. "My dream..my brother...raping me...again." she burst into sobs that echoed through the hall.
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:26 pm
Conall was slightly taken aback when she clung to him. Conall gingerly put one arm around Amara's waist and the other on the back of her head. When he heard what Amara said, Conall sighed.
-"Come on, it's alright now... that was in the past... it'll never happen again... I promise you..."
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:53 pm
She looked up at him. "i was only 14. he was 17. he took me when i was only 9! he haunts me every night! i dont know what to do....im...im helpless!" With that she sobbed into his shoulder again, trembling like a small tree in a strong wind.
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:30 pm
Conall resisted the urge to say something very rude and mean.
-"Listen, that was the past. This is the present. You can obviously take care of yourself now. Trust me, if he ever tried to hurt you again, you could stop him. And if somehow you couldn't, I would."
Conall held her close, making himself a large blanket. He could feel her fragility, and showed her his strength. Without words, he told her that if she ever needed anything, no matter what it was, he wouldn't try to do it, but do it, no matter the cost.
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