Before the Storm

[nerdswillrule]

Xena was slowly walking into the courtyard, she was looking for a group of kids. She had herd a rumor that they were planing a raid and she wanted to get herself known in the school.
Soon enough she found them.
"H..hi is this the place...." Xena lowered voice "the raid?"

[Fiona]

Fiona sauntered through the courtyard cheerfully, keeping a happy bounce in her step and humming a song to herself. She had never had the chance to look around the courtyard more. The grass was perfectly cut and a bright healthy green. Several of the students were scatterred about, some sitting around on the grass talking to their friends, others walking out to leave the school and go to their dorms. She noticed a larger group of kids standing in the courtyard talking to each other, seemingly handing out pamphlets. Fiona cocked her head at this, curious as to what was going on.

Maybe a party is happening? Fiona thought to herself, and then began skipping towards them. A party would be a perfect way for her to meet more of the students attending the school!

"Hey! What's going on!" Fiona shouted and waved to them cheerfully as she skipped up to them. "Heyy is that a party voucher or something? Can I have one?"

Fiona took the pamphlet from one of the boys there, smiled at him and then turned away and scanned over the paper quickly.

Wow... What is this, a raid? Hmmm interesting!

[Iƪƪia]

Ailyth half-skipped half-ran through the Academy doors and into the courtyard. Her final class had gone a little over and she wasn't happy about being late. I mean, getting out of school late was bad enough, but today! Today was when the... Thing was going down! Whatever the thing was...

She stopped in the middle of the yard, and spun in a circle. None of them looked like they had made that ad. That is, not until she got to a large group by the back wall. That looked promising, so Ailyth ran towards them immediately, forcing her way past the others in the group until she got to the two who appeared to be in charge.

"Hi! This is about the mission thing, right? The one in the ad?" Despite her breathlessness, she couldn't help but shout amidst her excitement.

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[ωΘĿƒ]

Even though Illia was supposed to do all the talking, still, Z felt like he should be a part of it. He was leading the raid, right? He had done this before, right? It was only natural that he should welcome everyone, and it was also natural that he should reel in that girl that had just tried to skip out on the raid.

Without needing to think further on this, Z bolted out to the newcomers, his natural light, easy demeanor working well for him as he smiled at them.

"Hey! Welcome guys. Yep, this is our little group," He paused to look back at the meager amount of people, and was just in time to turn around before his smile fell. "....um, and we're going to do what's advertised." Once again, he looked around. He was making sure no one was listening this time though. "Er, we specialize in enlisting the special kinds of kids here, if you know what I mean. Anyone human here?"

It seemed like a stupid question, considering he could already tell that they weren't. But, he had to make sure. Better safe than singed, right? With a little look towards the girl that was leaving, he called out again.

"Hey, aren't you game? We brought doughnuts!"

As promised, he revealed a jumbo box of doughnuts form the gym bag slung so uneventfully around his shoulder. A little something for the raid, he had reasoned, not to mention the doughnuts. They reeled in the hesitant ones... He amazed himself at how smart he was sometimes![/size]

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Le Cyll trotted up, not quite enthusiastically, but with a hint of mild interest that clearly escaped his otherwise bleak, blank expression. He hadn't gotten close enough yet so that the others could see him, and he had decided not to, considering he was not sure of the validity of this advertisement. A strange "special student" event? How interesting... but he was always cautious. How did he know it would not be a trap set by that Ailyth? She had not exactly liked their last encounter, and neither had the beautiful atrocity known as Seth. Both women were unfortunate enough to know him too closely, and both he was suspicious of. He did not yet know the extent of their hatred of him, and he was not willing to find out so foolishly.

If this was a trap, then he would find it in this innocent enough invitation to interest. If it wasn't, then why not tag along? He could indeed use a little fun, after all the hideously monotonous classes and tests he had to endure while here. It was hardly worth the effort getting up in the morning...

[nerdswillrule]

Xena froze, oh **** would she need to lose her skin! She started to worry, but then put it out of her mind, no she would not need too. "So when is this thing gonna start?" Despite the thought of breaking the rules she was excited!

[amber989]

More and more students started gathering. She's afraid that it will attract more attention but that doesn't matter, right? She could just teleport away. Looking at the students, all of them are all mythological creatures. It's her first time seeing this many gathered in a spot. Usually, they're all scattered mixed with humans.

Z pulled out a doughnut box. The reward is doughnuts? Mizore felt ill. What kind of doughnuts is it? She only eats those brand name ones. Regular doughnuts made her sick. She covered her mouth and just avoid looking at the doughnuts. Sometimes she wished that these won't make her wanting to throw up. She's like a loser.

[Iƪƪia]

Slowly, Seth sauntered through the courtyard, not bothering to offer any of the students even a passing glance. It wasn't worth it, anyway. All that she was doing at the moment was looking for whoever posted that ad she'd skimmed over. She didn't care to help them. She didn't care to offer any sort of service, and she wasn't planning on doing so. All she wanted to do was ease her growing boredom.

As she neared the end of the yard, she noticed a large group of students. Her target, naturally. Standing apart from them was the dog she had met at the lake. Staring at him for a moment, she indifferently shifted her attention toward the group and walked closer. Once she was close enough to be seen, she leaned back on her heels and simply waited for someone to explain what was this plan that they all seemed so excited about.

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Z smiled at the one answer he got. Well, at least someone was paying attention to him...

"We start when that girl," He pointed to Illia "Explains to us what's happening."

As if to prove his point, he raised his voice. "Aren't we, Illia?"

That's right... He really didn't know what Illia had in mind for a time schedule. It was already getting late now, and to him, that was the perfect time to do this. They should get going, now, if they wanted to make it in time for the seclusion of darkness.

Bad things were always better done at dark, he always said.

Thinking quickly, he rushed over to Illia, shoving the box of doughnuts into the girl who had asked him the question's hands as he did so.

"Um, the fresh blood's getting antsy. What would you say to getting this thing rolling along?"

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Catching sight of the water horse, Le Cyll could not help but let out a muffled growl, biting in its contempt. Oh how fun it was to hate again, but he knew now that this was no trap. If it was, both Ailytyh and Seth would be nowhere around, but here they both were, together.

But... if they had somehow met and planned this...?

The sound of a loud, obnoxious voice cut through his important thoughts, and he looked up to see the strange fire dragon formerly wielding the box of pastries call out to him before talking again with his chimera friend. Safe. That is the conclusion he had come to. The presence of all these others were proof.

Or were they? Le Cyll would not quite say he was paranoid - far from it - but he did have a wary sense of new surroundings. These people were definitely new to him, so although he did eventually decide to approach, he did so with caution. His first reaction was to immerse himself in the crowd so that no one could pick him out individually. Arms crossed, face ever passive, he stared at the two who seemed to be in command, strumming his fingers impatiently on the side of his arm.

When would the fun start...?
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[Iƪƪia]

Illia nodded slowly at Z's concern. It was about time they got this thing underway. She looked around at the group surrounding them. Not a bad turnout. But how many of them would really stay? Only one way to find out.

She pushed herself away from the wall and went to stand in the middle of the group, taking one more glance around at the other students, making sure they were all listening and no one else was.

"You might have heard about it," She began dramatically, "About the insane things Crane's been doing? Sicking trolls and vampires on the students.... Well, we want to know why."

Here she stopped momentarily to glance back at Z with a slight nod.

"We have a right to know. We all have a right to know. So we are going to find out. We're going to break into the teacher's lounge. We're going on a raid--"

The chimera stopped short as one of the group loudly echoed her last word. Annoyed, she turned her head to find the source of the noise. It seemed as though a young, dark-haired girl was the culprit. Giving her a stiff nod, Illia quickly glanced around to make sure that no one else had heard.

"Anyway... Yes, a raid. And we'll need to get it started soon. So, are we all on the same page, here?"

She scanned the group once more, half-expecting to see everyone just turn and leave. Or at least give her a completely dumbfounded look.

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Seth listened to the chimera's words with an expressionless look on her face. A raid. Sounded entertaining, to say the least. She couldn't care less about what the administration was up to. Whether the guy was "good" or "evil" made no difference to Seth, so she wasn't concerned in the least. However, the ride to these answers that the chimera seemed to desire so badly might be worth a look.

With a sigh, she looked around at the group. Everyone was familiar in one way or another. She had already taken down most of their names in her journal. Her boredom growing, she let her eyes rest upon the dog. However, he didn't inhabit her thoughts. Rather, she was wondering about the amount of time they'd be spending here. They had the plan, so it was time to go through with it.[/blockquote][/blockquote]

[Elle]

Elle couldn't help but look surprised at Illia's words. A raid? In the teacher's lounge?! She wanted to know what was going on as well, but breaking into the teacher's loung? Did she really want to know bad enough to risk getting expelled?

No, of courses she didn't. However, she was still going to go through with them anyway. It was a flaw. She needed to feel accepted. She needed to feel useful. It didn't matter how she felt. Illia and the others were going to do this raid, so she would have to go along with them.

[areyna]

Nami came across and Ad a while back something about a raid which sounded exciting wanting to join but not alone. She was headed towards the court yard with anticipation her pace slightly faster. Areon and Skyler dragged behind her. She convinced both of them to come and was proud with her accomplishment. Skyler was abit confused with the whole thing but none the less he came through interest. Couriosity always getting the best og him to her advantage. Areon was a challenged. He always needs a reason to join anything he finds meaningless and after an explaination with some begging and "please" he finally gave in.

"Come on you two hurry up!" she nagged. "Shadow you can sight see later!"

Skyler gave an apologetic smile Areon purposly dragging his feet. Nami spotted a whole crowd of students infront of her. Ah! Are we late? She told Skyler to move ahead while she grabbed Areon's hand pulling him along. He didn't bother to fight back with her. What's the point he's here already. As she neared she noticed a girl saying something but they missed it. Darn. Hope that wasn't to important.

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Le Cyll did not bother focusing too much on the chimera. She was obviously going to give one of those long speeches meant to persuade him in some way about why he was going to be doing what he was doing.

But he needed no persuasion. He knew exactly what he was doing, and why he was here. School authority had no hold on him. He was here because he knew how to differentiate between the types of people in this world. He knew the boring ones from the ones that commanded the aspects of interesting moments in life. This chimera was one of the interesting ones. She was a valuable asset to have just in that she could be a constant source of amusement and occupation. He needed nothing more at this point, besides the occasional food, so he would indeed do whatever this chimera asked.
As long as she led him to entertainment in the end. Then, the pleasure of conducting this event would be all his.
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[Fiona]

Fiona had turned up for the raid, curious as to what this was all about. She didn't understand why the students would be so suspicious of a teacher, so seemingly angry and upset with him. She wondered what could have happened to cause such concern amongst them all, and that's why she was here.

For once Fiona was meekly in the back of the group, hiding somewhat behind everyone, feeling very unsure of this gathering to be appropriate or not for her. She listened attentively to the words of the girl in front of them all, who she believed to be the leader of the operations, telling them more about everything. The girl mentioned more about the teacher, and Fiona gasped a little in response to what she was saying.

Why on earth would a teacher put them in front of trolls and vampires like that?! How dangerous... Even as a new girl to the school, she felt inclined to find out more about what was happening. It truly disturbed her how a teacher could do such reckless things to his students.

Fiona looked around and studied more of the group around her. She could notice Seth, Elle, and that boy she saw before in her History class, near the front of them all. She wanted to jump around and wave at them spastically as she always does, but decided to lay low for the moment.

She still felt very out of place here.

[amber989]

Homework, homework, and more homework. She was tired of all of it. She regretted enrolling in this school. If she stayed home-schooled she wouldn't have to suffer this much. Well, if these homework helped her magical skills, it's okay but all of them are worthless human homework!

Getting frustrated, she quickly finished up and laid on her bed. Something is missing. She ignored it and continued to take a nap and then it came to her. The raid! Quickly dressing up, she fell from the window and used the wind to carry her. Just in time, she dropped down from the air. Thank God they just started explaining things that she understood. Well, she could relax now. She could use this as her training... and it's interesting and fun!

[Iƪƪia]

As soon as Ailyth heard that the plan was a raid, she was having a rather difficult time controlling her enthusiasm. Grinning wildly, she was rocking back and forth on her heels, eager to get the mission underway. She couldn't wait any longer; she wanted to bust into the teacher's lounge and act all ninja-assassin on them.

As she was going through a list of famous movie quotes she could use, out of the corner of her eye she noticed three more people join them. Looking up, she recognized Skyler and his antisocial brother.

"Hey! What's up?" She waved to him as she trotted over, smiling. Suddenly realizing that she had been shouting this entire time, she forced herself to lower her voice to a whisper, "It's a raid! Isn't this awesome?!"

Clasping her hands together, she looked up at the two in charge, wondering if they were going to say anything else or if they were just gonna get this raid started already. It was then Ailyth noticed that someone else had joined their group.

Her smile faded immediately as she starred daggers at the Kludde. He was going to help with the raid? Who's to say he wasn't just planning on trying to kill them all? Thinking this, Ailyth looked around at the rest of the group. No, they could take him easily. He must be here to help then. Still, she'd keep her eye on him.

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