Gato Community College. (game thread)

[Knife-28]

Jarrah groggily rolled over in bed when he heard the knock on the door, and silently cursed the denial of 5 more minutes of precious sleep. For a few moments his gaze rested on the ceiling before the sharp crack of a gunshot drove all sense of tiredness from his limbs and caused him to all but fall out of his bed. A bloodcurdling scream drove him to his feet and out into the main room.

"Somebody please tell me that I'm still asleep and this is just some fucked up dream."

 

[figment of mind]

"OHKA!!", Mirabelle shouted after hearing her name called by her friend. She had seen Ohka at the front of the group when it all started breaking down but now everything was just too disorganized to know where she was. Thankfully, she soon popped out of the crowd, running up to them.

She didn't know what to think about what had just happened. She had been too caught up in taking it all in and making sense of it. Still, at least Ohka was ok enough to run...she was terrified that since Ohka was so close to the front, that she had been hit too or something like that.

Sierra was the first to address Ohka, pulling the girl in and hugging her, talking to her in a calm, comforting voice. To be honest, Mirabelle didn't expect that...but she did say that she cared about Ohka so it stood to reason that she would try to comfort her. After she said that, Mirabelle decided to chip in, saying, "I'm glad to see your ok, Ohka. I got scared when i heard you calling out, i had thought that you had been hurt too..."

 

[Athol]

Alicia

Alicia raised a hand from where she was sitting, and waved as Mira left. After staring at Kaylee's message for a bit, she handed the phone back. "Well it sucks you didn't get a say in the matter, but at least it looks good." She said with a smile. "And you do raise a good point...what's collage if I don't do a thing or two that my parents disapprove of?" Her smile was a bit more 'predatory' and there was definitely a mischievous look in her eyes.

All that vanished when she heard an anguished scream from outside. Leaping to her feet, she rushed to the window, but couldn't see anything from where they were. "That did NOT sound good." She said with a nervous edge to her voice, before she dashed back to her room, emerging moments later fully dressed.

[hr]

Isaac

"Someone... has just passed...it isn't safe right now..."

Isaac swallowed hard when he heard the scream. What the fuck is going on... He thought. Japan is supposed to be a 'safe' country.

"Somebody please tell me that I'm still asleep and this is just some fucked up dream."

Looking a Jarrah, he could only grimace. "I wish I could my friend, I really wish I could." He paced nervously for a moment or two before going back to his room. Getting dressed, he pulled on a pair of sweat pants and a plain shirt, as opposed to one of his usual tailored suits. Digging into another bag he pulled a small composite case, with Saudi diplomatic courier seals around the edge, from the bottom. Taking the case he walked into the kitchen, and grabbed a paring knife, using it to cut the seals. That done, he popped the latch, and opened the case to reveal a Browning Hi-Power pistol, 2 empty magazines, and a box of 100 9mm bullets. Opening the box of ammo, he loaded both magazines, before sliding one into the pistol; he then chambered a round before ejecting the magazine, and feeding another round into it. That done, he sliding the 13 round magazine back into the pistol once more, giving him 14 rounds in total.

 

[DotSlash]

Kaylee just gave Alicia a smirk in response, seeming to like the look in the girl's eyes. That smirk dropped instantly as the bloodcurdling scream was heard. Looking back, the mute gritted her teeth a bit. [color=990099] So that wasn't a drill then...? Damn smart of me not to have joined that police group, that could've been me dying out there... [/color] Though as she saw Alicia head to her room to get dressed, she did the same, emerging from her room a bit after Alicia. She gave the girl a single nod before heading outside the dorm room and toward the direction she'd heard the scream from. In her front pocket, she had her lucky switchblade on hand. It might not do much here, but it was better than nothing...

 

[mcpop9]

Ohka was shaking hard as she burieid her face against sierra, not knowing how to handle this. she was too afraid to cry, but all of it shattered once more when people began screaming, glints of light being seen from the mountain in the distance and bullets raining down into the massive crowd that was gathering now. all around them, people were being hit, those that tried to defend themselves went the way of the blind girl, their magical abilities going haywire and even causing collateral damage to other students standing near them as they died.

A round hit the ground near ohka's feet and this caused the girl to jump, grabbing both mirabelle and Sierra's arms, needing to get them out of there. Her abilities manifested themselves and neither Sierra or Mirabelle had a choice as they were pulled along behind ohka, towards the nearest doorway into the female dorms, them being in sight of Kaylee now.
[hr]

Rose looked around at the people around her, closing her eyes as more and more screaming started. "People are passing left and right out there... we cannot leave the room... it isn't safe." the girl said, her being confirmed by the PA with the gym teacher's voice coming over it.
"ATTENTION ALL STUDENT, RETURN TO YOUR DORM ROOMS AT ONCE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!" Shouted the PA systems.

 

[figment of mind]

Mirabelle let herself be pulled into cover by Ohka, figuring that it was not worth it to resist as Ohka was obviously trying to protect her. Still, she looked around as she was dragged away, trying to take in and observe what was happening and the effects of these bullets.

It seemed that the bullets were only affecting the people who were using their powers, whether to protect or escape. The ones who weren't using said power seemed alright...save for being shot in some cases. From that, she began to guess that the bullets themselves were made to somehow counter paranormal abilities only, to blast through any defense that their abilities could give, so hopefully they wouldn't affect beings like her who had no paranormal abilities...then again, a bullet would affect them anyways. It was only a theory...but it seemed to be the case as far as she could see.

They got to the girls dorms safely, without anyone being hit as far as she knew. She saw Kaylee, and shouted out, "We're ok! Just don't go out there! Someone is firing some sort of anti-paranormal bullets from the mountain!"

"ATTENTION ALL STUDENT, RETURN TO YOUR DORM ROOMS AT ONCE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

"Um...i suggest that we listen to what they said."

 

[DotSlash]

Skidding to a stop as she noticed both, Kaylee raised an eyebrow. [color=990099] ...Anti-paranormal bullets? Well, shit. [/color] She nodded silently toward Mirabelle before noticing Ohka and the fearful state the girl was in, the added screams of others being mauled by the bullets only causing her to bite her lower lip, an annoyed expression on the mute's face. She hadn't gotten outside yet luckily...

Once the PA announcement came on, she sighed and typed out a message for the others, already turning around. [color=990099]

 "Right... Let's get back."

[/color]

 

[mcpop9]

Now inside, ohka walked over to the walls, slowly sliding down it until she was sitting ont he floor, starting to rock back and forth slowly. "Please be a dream... please be a dream... please be a dream..." she kept begging to herself, the girl clearly disturbed by what she had seen happen. "please wake me up.... somebody please wake me up... i wanna wake up..." she said to them, trying to ignore reality.

 

[figment of mind]

Mirabelle watched as her friend started trying to willingly lose her grip on reality. She had never seen someone in such a state, so she had no clue on what to do...still, she had to try something.

She walked up to Ohka and kneeled down, saying in as much as a comforting way that she could, "Ohka...well...i'm sorry but it isn't. I know it seems like too much to take in, that it's painful to accept but your just hurting yourself by ignoring it. This did happen, and it happened quickly, without warning...but your safe now, and i highly doubt that the school and those who were close with...that woman will take this lying down. They'll come up with defenses against it, and ways to neutralize any other hidden tricks they have in store. We'll come up with those ways and stop something like this from happening again. No one is just going to sit back and take this; from what i can tell, no one ever has. We'll find a way to stop such an attack from happening again, and soon after, put an end to such actions indefinitely, so don't retreat from reality now. It will get better, or else we'll make it get better."

She looked at the clearly panicked girl for a moment more before looking at the others, mouthing the question, 'Did i do that right?', hoping that she didn't screw that up somehow.

 

[DotSlash]

Kaylee looked back, stopping momentarily as she noticed Mirabelle trying to console Ohka, who seemed to be beside herself. Once the mechanical girl looked toward her, she gave her a nod in response. She wasn't good with that sort of situation, but what Mirabelle had said sounded good enough to her. However, other things were running through Kaylee's mind as she turned back around and continued walking toward the dorm room. Those that looked at her would notice there seemed to be a murderous glint in the mute's half-lidded eyes.

 

[Athol]

Alicia returned Kaylee's nod, as the mute girl left. She debated with herself as to wither or not she should go as well, when the gun fire erupted. Pacing back and forth, wisps of smoke began to curl off her body as she debated with herself some more. She finally made up her mind, and was about to leave the dorm when the PA boomed.

"ATTENTION ALL STUDENT, RETURN TO YOUR DORM ROOMS AT ONCE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

Moments later Ohka, Mira, Sierra, and Kaylee returned, with Ohka on the edge of a full blown panic attack. As Mira tried talking to the freaking Ohka, Alicia sat down beside her and slowly wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "It's okay, just breathe." She said softly, holding Ohka close. "You're safe now...deep breaths...you're going to be okay." Looking to Kaylee and Mira, she mouthed a question that'd been on her mind since that first horrible scream. [small]WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?[/small]

 

[DotSlash]

Kaylee silently handed Alicia her phone with a message typed up. [color=990099]

 "People are shooting the school up with anti-paranormal bullets. ...I didn't see what happened personally, but those screams and how Ohka's taking it means it can't possibly be pretty or clean out there. Either way, it looks like we hopped in just when a gang war broke out. Lucky us, huh?"

[/color] The mute's expression was completely neutral as she sat down by the wall of her room, seeming to be deep in thought.

 

[mcpop9]

"She can't be dead.. akasumi can't be dead..." she said, still freaking out as she was still in shock, letting Alicia hug her. Ohka then turned to her, the light in her eyes beginning to fade as Alicia could see reality starting come crashing down on her. "She's dead... Akasumi... my friend... the one you fought... she's dead..." she said and broke down, strength coming out of her limbs as she began to break down and cry, leaning in and bawling into Alicia's shoulder.

 

[Athol]

Alicia
[color=990099]

 "People are shooting the school up with anti-paranormal bullets. ...I didn't see what happened personally, but those screams and how Ohka's taking it means it can't possibly be pretty or clean out there. Either way, it looks like we hopped in just when a gang war broke out. Lucky us, huh?"

[/color]

Alicia's free hand was shaking as she tossed the phone back to Kaylee. How...how could people do something like that? She thought. Sure she'd been shocked to find out that the 'monsters' from the fairy tales existed, but then she met a few...even before coming to Gato...and realized that they were just trying to go about their lives like everyone else...

"She can't be dead.. Akasumi can't be dead...She's dead... Akasumi... my friend... the one you fought... she's dead..."

It felt like she'd just been punched in the gut. Alicia'd talked with Akasumi a few times during the previous week, and she seemed like such a nice person...and now she was gone. "Oh God...Ohka I'm so sorry..." She said tears welling in her eyes as the other girl started to cry. Pulling Ohka in so she could wrap her other arm around her as well, Alicia held on tight as her friend let it all out; but though tears were streaming down Alicia's face as well there was no sadness in her eyes, just pure, visceral rage.

 

[Sithmorack]

Jack felt a powerful disturbance as he heard a rather loud bang go off throughout the school. He couldn't tell exactly where it came from but it was powerful and precise. If he had been concentrating he might have picked up more on what actually happened, but at the moment all he could tell was a very precise and accurate energy was used for an attack. Because only a few moments later he heard a large scream and felt a being's energy fade.

It was soon followed by more loud bangs and quite a few beings energy fading.

Tuning out the others in the room he began to focus on the residual energy left behind from the attacks. He couldn't get focus on it though with everyone talking.

"ATTENTION ALL STUDENT, RETURN TO YOUR DORM ROOMS AT ONCE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

"It appears we shall be staying here for awhile" Jack said while going over to his room's door. He turned back to the group before saying "if you need me i'll be in my room, do tell me if anything interesting happens."

Without waiting for a response, Jack entered his room and and closed his door. Upon reaching the center of the room he quickly went into a kneeling position. He began concentrating on the individual energy of most beings on the campus. He specifically focused on a group of beings walking away from the school.

He noticed they were all powerful but one in particular was rather strange. It was like nothing was there... he would compare it to a black hole. It seems unnatural and all consuming yet not really there at the same time. Even that wasn't quite it... but he couldn't come up with the exact simile for it. The more he focused on it, the more he noticed pain racking his body. Jack began focusing on the other members. He noticed they were all human and simply used magic. Except for the void being of course.

That's when he focused on the residual energy from the attack. It appeared that it wasn't an energy attack like he thought it was. There were bullets that appeared to be deadly against the students. He still couldn't pick up too much since it had faded. But he was able to trace it, it took a moment but he eventually traced it to a specific being. He wasn't in the group but rather further away on the mountain.

Jack couldn't pick up anything to specific on the being because of the range. All he could really discern was that said being was moving from their position...

 

[Outcast107]

Tomas didn't know how to handle all of this coming up all of a sudden. First with the panic going on the outside and then finding out from Rose that someone died. Now he hearing gun shots? He thought this school was suppose to be safe. Pacing a bit as he was in deep thought. 'Who could be attacking a school like this? Either someone well equip or very powerful if the school on this high of alert.' He didn't pay attention to the others at the moment as they were talking or doing their own thing.

He then stop and look at Issac and see he was holding a gun. "pfft...Do you really think that could stop whoever attacking us?" he said as he continue before he could answer. "Who ever is attacking the school has enough magic to put this school in a panic or have well equip with whatever to do harm. I hate to see what they are using if someone died right now..."

 

[Lunar Templar]

Sierra didn't really know what to say to calm Ohka after she started having her break down so she just sat next to her, draping a still concealed wing over her, she moved it when Alicia showed up to embrace the trembling half elf, and did get to read the message Kaylee typed. "It looks more like some kind of anti-magic enchantment, if it was just ammo specially designed to punch through magic defenses I doubt it would have been as brutal as it was." Sierra finally said, before pondering on it a bit more "I have a couple ideas on what it did but ether way, if, or rather when these sub human animals return, 'magic' is off the table for defending your self."

 

[Athol]

Alicia

"I have a couple ideas on what it did but either way, if, or rather when these sub human animals return, 'magic' is off the table for defending yourself."

"Good." She muttered darkly. "When I kill one of these fuckers I want to do it with my bare hands." Visions of shadowy figures screaming in pain as she snapped their limbs, flailing helplessly against her rigid arms as she choked the life out of them; drowning in their own blood after she crushed their torso.

[hr]

Isaac

"Pfft...Do you really think that could stop whoever attacking us? Whoever is attacking the school has enough magic to put this school in a panic or have well equipped with whatever to do harm. I hate to see what they are using if someone died right now..."

Isaac stared at the pistol for a moment. "You're probably right," He said after a moment. "But at least this might give me a chance...sure I could amp up my muscles and be strong enough to crush a car with my hands, but if faced with someone who knows how to fight? The best I could manage would be to lose slowly...if I'm lucky."

 

[Outcast107]

"Which is why you play smart and not use brute force." Though Tomas knew he made the same mistake a few days ago during training. Sighing he try to not sound as smug or as mean as he might be coming off. "If you use your brain you would know that attacking something head on or with just pure muscle shouldn't be your way. It can work, but what you should focus on is confusion and outsmarting your foes."

Tomas said as he look at the others, hoping they were listening as well. "Spy on them if you can, change into one and backstab their friends while they aren't paying attention. Or at least provide detail of their movements friends who can get the drop on them."

 

[DotSlash]

Kaylee kept silent as she took the phone back. Like Alicia, the only thing in Kaylee's eyes was rage. She already had an idea of what she would plan to do to get back at whoever shot the school up... but it might take a while. Regardless, she continued to think, taking note of what Sierra had said before, smiling. [color=990099] Perfect... I wouldn't want it any other way. [/color]