Welcome to Gaia! ::

▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫ ▪ ▫

"Got a secret
Can you keep it?
Swear this one you'll save
Better lock it, in your pocket
Taking this one to the grave"

L had been enjoying her small breakfast consisting of one ripe apple. Sure, her relationships with her friends was a little rocky. Mitsukai had still been off the edge, and it was a little frightening- L worried for the sanity of her once-best friend. Mitsukai had drifted so far, L didn't know what to call her anymore. But then again, maybe it was L who drifted. While Mitsukai plunged into the deep end, the thin ice around L had crocked and split to a point where her very weight was unstable. It separated from the iceberg it had previously been bound too, and she found herself drifting off away from her friends.

Mitsukai. Joseph. Nikky. Adam. Cadence. Daina. Mick.

Joseph was a whole other story. While she had been enjoying her simple breakfast, it was all because of the lengthy conversation Joseph and her were sharing. They were talking. Laughing. Just being themselves like they hadn't gotten a chance to be in a long time. And then as soon as the drama unfolded, Joseph zipped away from her without so much of a goodbye.

Nikky .. L wasn't even sure what had happened there. A large brick wall of uncomfortable silences and things unsaid lingered between them. If they stood in the same room, sparks crackled like lightening from the tension. If L looked at her, she found her blood boiling with pure rage, and she thoguht of new and creative ways to destroy things. She found herself getting mad more and more frequently. More and more easier. Taking longer and longer to calm herself down. And each time she got steamed up, her thoughts got more and more morbid. It got to a point where she was scared of herself.

Adam varied. He was her brother and they both loved each other. But they weren't as close as they used to be. Now he was off with Daina, a relationship in which she still wasn't sure of what to call it. Were they dating? Just friends? It was sad that she didn't know. And all his new friends. He sits with Cory's group now. they seem to have fun at that table. L considered sitting there once or twice, just to escape the s**t form her side of the fence. Instead of getting up and leaving before Adam awoke, she could have at least once decent conversation with him. And maybe even making some better friends.

Cadence, Mick, and Daina. She didn't really know any of them. She spoke to Cadence and Daina maybe twice in the whole time she's been at this school, and only during lunch. She only remembered Mick's name because she was once friends with the shapeshifter's ex-boyfriend, Vincent, and had met the couple at a party.

How pathetic. She barely had any friends, and the ones she did have she barely saw anymore, or even talked to them for that matter. L shook her head as she threw the barely-nibbled-on-apple in the garbage can and left the lunchroom. First period was about to start and she needed to get her mind off some things. She pulled out her cellphone and scanned through the photos, trying to remember some memories of her friends she had forgotten. none really came to mind. Except Nikky's birthday party, but that was a fresh memory. It was the perfect ending to the first day. They had all gone out to see .. What was it? Drag Me To Hell. Yeah, Mitsukai had gotten the whole theater just for their group. They had gone all out for their best friend. L remembered one of her presents for the birthday girl- a shirt in which Nikky could create any design with her mind, and it would keep the print visible to everyone until she changed it. It was very hard to find, but she had thoguht it was worth it. The best part of that night was probably when they all went out for ice cream. It ha been a long time since they had all gathered in one place.

She walked through the halls with a smile playing on her face. Memories always helped her, even when her troubled mind persisted. She slid her phone into her pocket before brushing The bangs out of her eyes- big mistake. Once she looked in front of her, she saw Nikky and Joseph at the end of the hall. Her blood boiled thick, hot and furious. She was tired of being ignored. Done with having shitty friends and barely anyone to count on. She ducked into the nearby girl's bathroom, which by now was cleared since the bell had rung. She stared into the mirror at her reflection for a minute or two, studying herself.

She wanted a change. A better L. Someone who would man up and stop crying in the shower. Stop crying herself to sleep. Stop crying period. She didn't need heartbreak, she didn't need anyone. She was stronger than this. In her frustration, she lifted up her fist and slammed it into the glass of the bathroom mirror, right where the reflection of her face was. The grass cracked and split, pieces tumbling down onto the counter. She looked at the reflection, breathing heavily. The mirror was almost intact, except for the hole where her face should be. She didn't need a reflection to tell her who she was. She would decide form now on. She grabbed some toilet paper out of the stall and wiped up her hand, stopping the bleeding of her knuckles. She then tossed the bloodied tissues into the garbage can, and did something she had never imagined she would do. She took her beautiful Top hat, hand made by her grandparents, and lifted it off her head. After one last look at it, she tossed it in the can where it landed perfectly on top of the bloody towels, the tip sticking out of the almost-full garbage can.

When she walked into her first period class, Advanced Power Control, she immediately found a random person to partner up with, hiding the fact that she was late. "Partners?" The girl turned and looked at her for a second. "I guess so .. Your name is L, right?"

"No. It's Riah."

"If I show you then I know you
Won't tell what I said
Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead"

|Adam|Sire|Listing|

Adam's notebook was out and he pulled out his favorite black pen, quickly scribbling down the problems on the board and answering them only moments after. Chemistry was his favorite class because he was good at it. He enjoyed science, Especially Chemistry because most of the things they did was either involving food or blowing something up. Who could resist that? When he found out The assignment of the day he laughed to himself internally. It was almost ironic. M&M's as the experiment. Not that he was complaining, although Daina might since he planned on stealing and eating every single upside down piece of candy. He would fight her to the death for it. Speaking of Daina, she had just responded to his question, and he grinned wickedly at her answer. "Exactly the same? Well that's good, that means I have less competition. I just have to be a little more handsome than usual.""

|Adam|Sire|Listing|

Adam was glad he at least got a laugh out of her. No matter how confident he seemed, he still got insecure at times. Not that he would ever admit that to anyone. He was too prideful to admit he was scared of rejection. Especially from Daina. But he also knew that he would never get her if he didn't try, and that he might as well do it when he had the chance. He closed up his notebook and cleared a little area for the supplies while she went to get them. When she returned he shook his head at her. "No way. I will fight you to the death over those things, you are not going to get away with half." He glanced over the worksheet before lifting up the bag of m&m's. He tossed it in his hand as if he was weighing it. "Well, I guess it's only fair to give you half. How about this: I'll split it 50/50 with you, if you'll go to the dance with me."

|Adam|Sire|Listing|

Adam had forgotten about her powers of regeneration. Damn. Cheater. He had his hopes up on getting all the candies, but now saw that he would lose in the end. Her wide smile pulled his out of his thoughts as she accepted the deal, and insulted him at the same time. He rolled his eyes. "Somebody's not very patient." She took the bag of delicious m&m's out of his hands and he watched as she counted them up carefully. His face hurt, and it took him a second to realize he was still smiling, just as she was. Adam straightened out his face and rubbed his jaw, though a ghost of a smile was still there. He glanced over the assignment before speaking again. "Let's shake some candy. Got all of them on the plate?" He held up the second plate for her, so she could cover the first one when she finished counting.

________


Cadence going invisible was weird enough, getting a kiss on the check outta no where, well that was just freaky. Cory didn't mind all that much, his friends were cheering him up. It was nice to be able to rely on them. He never really had problems finding friends before. He easily fitted in Mitsukai's old ground when he lived near her. He got along with others even better at his school in London. Though, once he arrived at Genius he was having plenty of problems gathering friends. Though, in the end he found himself with a group of friends he could truly get along with; Cadence, Archimedes, and Adam. Plus, they'd help him attack Thorne. Then maybe he could work on getting Mitsukai back.

“Well, I think that kiss gave me plenty of luck for the day, so with that I'll be off.” Cory said and smiled at the two. He walked towards his first period class, but what surprised when he saw Nikol calling him. “Aren't you supposed to be getting ready for school about now?” Cory asked answering the phone.

“Cory, I got bad news.”
“You don't say.”
“Hana has cancer.”
“Oh.”

There wasn't much to say after that. Pheebe, Nikol, and him never liked Hana. Yet, she was Mitsukai's sister. That meant that Mitsukai had to be devastated. Cory needed to see Mitsukai, so he headed towards her dorm. He didn't care if Thorne was there or if he had to kick Mitsukai's door down, he had to make sure she was alright.

“So, how long has she known?”
“She's known for a year, I only found out this morning.”

If Hana had kept this from Mitsukai, he'd have to have a word with her. Though, if it was anyone's grand scheme, it'd be the mother's. Cory would talk to her. Then again, there was no way Mitsukai would keep something like this away from her friends. Mitsukai would have called Nikol or Pheebe and cry her eyes out. She would probably never even came back to Genius after she found out.

“So, who told you?” It seemed like the appropriate question. If Mitsukai told her, that it was alright. Mitsukai would have known that her own sister had cancer. That meant her sister wasn't as much of a b***h as he had presumed.

“The great vine, Hana collapsed yesterday. Her mother called me this morning to pick Mitsukai up from the airport, Mitsukai just found out this morning. They obviously have been keeping this to themselves. Mitsukai just left for the airport.”

Of course they hadn't told Mitsukai until the last minute. Still, she was on her way towards Georgia. He needed to get home. He needed to make sure Mitsukai was okay.

“Okay, well I guess I'll head toward the airport also.” Cory said and changed direction towards the student parking lot. This was getting slightly aggravating. Cory never liked changing his direction over and over again. Not to mention the news he just heard. How could Hana have cancer? She looked so healthy.

“Actually your mother called me to. She told me to tell you that your not allowed in Georgia ales there is a funeral. You need your education and she doesn't need you bending backwards for Mitsukai. I assume if you check your email you'll receive a similar message from her.”

Cory changed direction again. How could this all be happening? How could Hana have cancer, of all people. “Look, I gotta go. I'll call you tonight, 'kay?” Cory said and hung up once she said bye.

Cory quickly walked to his first period class room, only a little bit late. He sat down on the desk and checked his email on his phone, with showed a message from his mother with a similar message that Nikol had called to deliver. They didn't want him there, but they wanted him to know. He'd obviously have to talk to Hana to, let her know he doesn't hate her. She even joked about having him as a brother in law when him and Mitsukai were together. Now she had cancer. His mom's letter had all the details, ones either Nikol hadn't known or hadn't had the heart to tell him. Details of Hana skipping chemo. Details of her chances with her cancer, which were slim to none. Poor Mitsukai, if he could only comfort her.

Ellie listened to the teacher blabber on in her Power Control Beginners class. It was incredibly annoying since Ellie had already known all of these things. She just rolled her eyes at the pointless information and tried not to be crude. Ellie decided it'd be far more intresting to make a comic of some sort, so she leaned back in her chair and started to draw.

“The in order to be in control....” The teacher blabbered on. This teacher seriously had an annoying voice. Though, she quickly stopped talking when she noticed Ellie leaning back in her chair on two legs looking like a total bad a**, so she could glare at Ellie. It was as if she was trying to make Ellie sit right. Though, it'd be far more entertaining to piss the teacher off. Therefore, Ellie huffed and flipped her hair, as if saying 'get on with it'. She had to bite her lip in order to hold back laughter at the teachers reaction. “Excuse me Juliette, do you have somewhere better to be?” Ellie couldn't help but to smirk. She looked at the teacher and shrugged. The teacher glared at her more. She wasn't in the mood for showoffs, obviously.

"Okay since you obviously don't need the class, how do you stay in control when using your powers?”

Ellie rolled her eyes and answered. “Seriously, I hope these kids aren't that bad with controlling their powers to the point where they don't know that answer..”

Ellie stalled and looked at the students surrounding her. They looked at her in awe that she was already being a smart a** on her first day. First year students were pathetic. “You obviously have to be completely determined and straight forward. For example, when you wanna transport to another place you have to imagine the place exactly, everything about it. Then you'd have to be determined to move every atom in your body to that location.” Ellie said, feeling totally bad a**. She bit down hard on her lip to stop herself from cracking up at the teacher.

“Whats your power Juliette?”

“Go to sleep and you'll find out.”

Ellie then went back to her drawing as the teacher chattered on. She was drawing an stick figure image of a certain Asian and a lot blood coming out from the Asian, emphases on the blood. The drawing was fairly entertaining. Before she knew it, the bell rung.

“Juliette come here.” Ellie continued to throw everything in her bag then walked towards the desk.

“yea teach?”

“I will not have you interrupting my class being a show off! There actually are students who didn't know that answer. Just because you're slightly better than Beginner doesn't mean you have to act like that. Because of your rudeness, you will be stuck with detention this afternoon, right after school ends.”

Ellie nodded at the teacher and walked out. Detection YAY! Not that it really mattered. Ellie quickly rushed off to her next class.

This class may have been slightly better than her previous class, yet it was still incredibly boring. Ellie kept herself distracted by finishing her drawing of Mitsukai. When the bell finally rung she balled it up and threw it in the waste basket, making a perfect shot. She then skipped off towards lunch.

Kyuubi walked to lunch. He ate quickly, he was supposed to go to his dimension soon. He looked at the clock, make that really soon. He opened a portal after he put away his tray and stepped through it making sure no one followed him. He didn't need visitors here. He walked to the Throne room, he hated it there. It was bland and empty. He had t be there so he sat down and prepared for the work he had to do. It was brought to him. He stared at the stack of papers. It seemed larger than usual, rumors must be starting to spread.

Most of the papers were asking if Satori had caused the fire a few days ago. He ignored those for now. The others were normal matters. About food imports, the creatures around there. He sighed at the boredom. He finished the simple matters. He went out for a short walk. He knew lunch will be close to over back at school. It was okay they knew he would go back late. He was glad no one cared that much about it. He walked around the outside of the castle, looking at the gardens. He preferred the school strangely. Most people would love to live in a castle and be a king or queen or someone royal. It was fun at times but usually it was work. Someone needed to keep order.

Kyuubi walked back into the throne room to finish his work. He answered the rumors the same way, no he didn't it was an accident that occurred from someone training their powers. He sighed again. He knew he should go back to school soon. He talked to head guard and asked if Satori was seen anywhere. "No sir" the guard told him. He nodded. He hoped satori stayed away for a while. He didn't want to deal with him or anyone like him. He opened a portal and went back t the school.

Today was going to be a long day.

It was already bad enough with Thorne coming back. Thorne needed to stop thinking he could come around and screw with Mitsukai's emotions. He had already turned her into a living corpse, what now? Sure, there was a 25% chance of things turning around for the better. However, Joesph was focusing on the other 75%. That percent would have had Joesph punching Thorne in his jaw. Who gives a crap if he could regenerate and explode? Joesph could make a earthquake and bury him underground. That would make him happy, but Mitsukai miserable. He seriously needed to stop plotting Thorne's murder.

Though, that didn't compare to the new problem that came around.

Hana was in the hospital. Who knew what for, since Mitsukai hadn't texted Joesph back and told him. Usually Mitsukai texted him with every detail of the problem. However, Mitsukai had remained silent. In fact, she hadn't texted him since the very first text she sent just after first period started. He needed to know what was wrong. Honestly, he wanted to go to Georgia.

Joesph sighed, if Mitsukai was gone a long time Joesph was going to turn things around for Thorne. Twist the truth and say she left because she couldn't face him. Obviously Thorne had given up on banging on her door, for whatever reason that was. He could tell Thorne horrible things that Mitsukai 'said'. It would get rid of him, maybe even send him packing to where ever he was in the first place. Then Joesph could help Mitsukai come back as herself. It was the one thing she needed, to be back to giggling / happy Mitsukai.

RINGGGGGGG

The loud ring of the bell drew Joesph's thoughts back to the present. He quickly gathered his stuff and headed towards lunch. Maybe he'd get a text from Kai during lunch. As long as he heard from her soon everything would be alright. He just needed to know things were alright, so he could fix them.

Joesph walked into the loud cafeteria and walked right up to the very familiar first year. “Hey you.” Joesph said to Juliette. She turned around and smiled at him. “Hey yourself.” She said with a smirk. They both then grabbed their food. “So, where we sitting?” Juliette asked in total confidence. It was rare to find a first year that was completely sure of herself, but she seemed to be that.

Joesph quickly led Juliette towards his usual table. She sat down in Mitsukai's normal spot, looking as if she totally belongs with a group of fourth years. “So, tell me about yourself.” Joesph asked Juliette. He figured it'd be a distracting topic. He didn't want to keep thinking about Mitsukai and her not texting him. Honestly, he stressed about her far to much.

“Hmm, where to begin.” Juliette started and then launched into the story of her life. He was hoping Juliette talked enough to clear his mind.