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As soon as the EMT's arrived, the nurse went over to Josh to try to calm him down. It was clear that none of the people in the room were faking injured for attention, and everyone had been stressed out by whatever had happened in this science room. She immidiately tried to get him to come with her to guidance office to talk things over.

The teachers had all been called to the office for a quick staff meeting, and as soon as they began to trickle out an announcement came over the intercom, "We would like to thank you all for your cooperation during this stressful time. We will be having half-hour classes today so that teachers may give you your homework, and then you will be dismissed for the remainder of the week. If any of you would like to talk to someone about what happened this morning, the guidance counselors will be here all day. When you return on monday, we will have proffessional counselors here for you all day in the Library. Please have a good, restful, relaxing, weekend."

A team of EMT's split and went to work efficiently on Cait and Jay while they waited for a second crew to arrive. Cait, who was still starting to come around, was dazed and confused by all of the attention and the bright lights they insisted on shining in her eyes. They took her shirt back from Penelope and gave the jacket back to Lindsay. They all knew Cait was a narcoleptic, she was practically on first-name basis with all of the EMT's on Delmor because she was so prone to falling down and hurting herself. Because Cait was not completely concious, and a minor, the moved her onto a gurney and took her out to the ambulance just as Crew number two arrived to pack the unconcious Jay up. After asking a few students what had happened to her, they put a neck brace on her just in case she had a neck injury, but it was very clear she did have a head injury. She was also transported to the hospital.

Then they got to Rowena, now sobbing in a corner of the room. One of the EMT's examined her and looked at what was now a palm sized boil on the side of her face. The pain was excruciating. The EMT called his buddies over to look, and they all decided that she should go to the hospital to have it drained. They could give her pain killers and antibiotics intravenously in the emergency room, and she would be better in no time.

And with that, the start of the entire problem was packed up neatly into ambulances, and taken to the local hospital.

No one thought to reprimand Attommos... He did things like this all the time.

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By then, Austin was fairly certain that he was one of the only uninjured members of the classroom. It was awkward, really. Before long, Oual was gone and everything was sort of calming down. Even the excitement of classes only being a half hour (and the next couple of days off) was minor compared to all this, though. He was just about ready to leave, but the emergency teams were in Austin’s way. He looked around the room, catching sight of a large, black dart shooting from the roof. He almost shouted that the robbers were back, but seconds later, a decent looking girl in tight black leather was there, posing and knocking.

“Sexy, but uh… kind of strange,” Austin said. He was ready to walk towards the door, but another girl, Lindsay, beat him to it. Austin saw that this was Marianna. He believed she was his age, but he’d never come to know her well. Many pre-judgments of her tended to hold him back, “Uh, hey," he said to the girls, even though Lindsay was walking away already. "It’s been a little weird today, huh?”

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Whoa! Okay! Austin thought, jumping back a bit. I don’t care who you are, dripping blood is NOT cool! “Uh,” he laughed a bit, backing off from the girl. It seemed his pre-assumptions were right, although she was even more outgoing than he expected. “I - uh - have a test today,” he lied. “Really don’t want to miss it. Teacher won’t give extra time either, so I have to use each second of that thirty minute period.”

It finally hit Austin. This girl didn’t smell in top shape either. It didn’t seem like a stretch to say she was drunk. She wasn’t the type he’d ‘hit the town with’ anyways. Although, beneath it all, she was not bad looking. He erased the thought from his mind and turned slowly away.

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"I -uh - yeah, I'll do that, thanks," Austin muttered, looking to and from the girl, raising his eyebrows, still backing off a bit. Any blood I've got on my shoulder is from you! He thought, almost angrily. It was really just weird, though.

Austin stole a glance to the EMTs. They were paying him no attention. Neither was Rowena, he noted. The girl looked considerably less hot with a boil, and Austinf, for some reason, was not as interested in talking to her. And so he looked towards Lindsay to see if she, at least, would have noticed his awkward position.

Lindsay fully ignored Austin's glances and suffered through the short class periods. She was tired, had a headache, and, although in the face of crises earlier she had suppressed it, she was feeling a bit guilty for not doing something with the thieves. She resolved to go practice up on her electrical techniques after school, if only for a release, instead of sleep. She knew nothing she could've done that morning would have given her the chance to take on the thieves, but... well, the stress was doing its work on her nerves. She really needed a release, mostly emotional, from that morning in a way that only practice could give her... practicing was the one time she could be both in a secluded location and perfectly free with her abilities. No heroics, just work... mindless work at that, just to hone her abilities and moves.

Wait, I usually practiced at the old radio station before, working with the electrical equipment as a gauge of what I was doing... but on my last two visits, it's been locked up tight. I've got to find somewhere perfectly secluded to practice where I can't cause a scene... Lindsay thought, before thinking of the only other place where she knew not many people frequented: Adohi Forest. No one would be there, thanks to those superstitions... Little did Lindsay know that there was more than mist, trees, and animals within the forest...

However, at that moment, Lindsay was tiredly rejoicing at the lack of homework... Study, study, study, and... wow, study. I guess the teachers know that they're not gonna end up getting a lick of homework if they assign any after a day like today... even if we have like a week to do it...

Lindsay walked out to her car, threw her bag inside, and started it with a satisfying rumble. She turned up her Salutations Tuesday CD and drove toward the main road, wondering if she really wanted to practice in the forest... or practice at all. Deciding against it, she turned not towards the forest, but instead towards Grand Apple Arbor.

Mariana frowned. It looked like everyone was either leaving or tending to the wounded. "Looks like the party's over," she announced to nobody in particular. She gathered what few belongings she deigned to actually have in class and stepped out into the hallway.

It wasn't too far to her locker. People were slowly milling around, so she pushed her way through. Some people knew well enough to make way, but she did bump a few shoulders. Along the way, she hollered out to a few friends and strangers. She finally got to her locker and banged on the upper rim. It popped open.

She turned her head to the side, catching sight of one of her classmates. "Can y'beLIEVE all this chaos goin' on today?" she bellowed, not expecting any answer in particular. With one hand, she clamped onto the edge of her locker door; with the other, she rest her elbow on her neighbor's shoulder and pushed her hand through her hair. "FIRST we hear there're bleedin' robbers in the school, an' the next thing ye know there's all this drama and fists are flyin'. Some day, huh?"

As soon as the word "new" popped out of his mouth, her eyes brightened. "Izzat so! Well, I haven't heard of you, either. And I know EVERYbody, so I can't be havin' that! The folks 'round here call me Bloody Mary," she proclaimed emphatically. She leaned in and put one hand to her mouth, as if preventing an unknown eavesdropper from lipreading before finally lowering her voice. She added saucily, "an' me an' my boys kinda run things around here." She straightened out and patted him on the back. "I just GOTTA show ye around town now. But first..." She banged on his locker, causing it to spring open. "You'd better double-check yer locker. The suits around here get all paranoid when somethin' goes down around here. It's better than even money that they'll do 'raaaaaandom' locker sweeps pretty soon, an' they'll take everythin' seriously."

She turned to her own locker and started cleaning shop. As her nimble hands picked through the rubble, various oddities were brought to light: a couple switchblades, a few unmarked tupperware containers, at least half a pound of well-bloodied bandages, several bits of money, and a few odd files. After shoving most of it in her pack, she drew a photograph of a slightly balding man from what appeared to be a dossier. "This dude here? He's the VeeP. If you see him comin' down the hall, you'd best stash your stuff."

Mariana's face looked a bit angry for a bit, but then a wicked grin spread across her face. "Hah! Well, Andersson, looks like you got a bit of a mouth on ya. You got moxy, kid!" She gave him a playful punch on the arm. "Gimme a sec."

She whipped out one of her switchblades and took it to the photo. She diligently chopped the guy's head off his shoulders and worked her way around it until it fell off. She reached back in her mouth, took out a piece of gum, and attached the vice principal's head to a raunchy, barely-tame photo on her locker door. "There, that'll give 'em somethin' to look at." She put the remainder of her photo in her knapsack and folded up the knife. "So, let's get goin', shall we? There's a lot o' town to see before closin' time!" She smirked at the boy and elbowed her locker shut.