On the platform: Meet the new characters

[utopiamods]

Rakuen is warm in the noon sun, not humid enough to be uncomfortable but bright enough to make the transition from train to platform momentarily disorienting. The group greeting you is rather large, but also rather uneven - on one side, ten students in black and green; on the other, six in red and white. Whilst the green group are all fairly average, all teenagers other than the tiny, frail woman leading them, the red group are a tad more varied. One of their girls is tiny, the size of a small child, and her wings are beating patterns in the warm air. At the other side of the group, a warlike man looms over his comrades.

When they notice the arrivals, one out of each group steps forward. A young man wearing shades steps forward first.

"Excuse me." A second boy, a few years older and more serious looking steps forward from the red group. He explains that they're all prefects of Rakuen, from the two battle schools on the island. Fortitude - the boy in the sunglasses and the others dressed in green - and Conquest. They all arrived just like you did, weeks or months before this.

"I know you have many questions but first please come to the person who calls your name."

He looks down on his list to double check "For Conquest, Nanami Kiryuu, Hukaru Hitachiin, Madotsuki and Aria."

"If I call your name," the green-clad boy had stepped forward again, "it means you're with Fortitude, a.k.a the slightly more awesome school. Brittany Pierce, Jules de Ferrier, Izumi and Furiae."

Comments

Conquest

[swordofzero]

[moorecowbell]

Nanami is dressed in a cute gold sundress for the moment, and she holds her bag tightly.

"Excuse me," she says. "But while Conquest is by far an appropriate name for any house of someone of the Kiryuu family and since I'm in it OBVIOUSLY the best house, I did NOT sign up for this!"

She folds her arms and huffs. "I'm quite done with swords and fighting over stupid things that don't matter! I demand to know where my..."

She pauses. Brother? ... sister? Brother, no, that person had to be a brother, even if that brother was a she. Were they a she?

"Where my brother is!"

Fortitude

[fracturedsoul]

[ wow sorry for the delay ]

[brittspierce]

Britt steps out of the train and looks around her with wide eyes. She's not scared, she's not wondering how she could here or how it could be possible. She's actually quite happy and excited. Looking around again she's kind of glad that she's not in her cheerleader uniform. She would stick out quite a bit...not that that had even been a problem for her before.

When her name is called she bounds up to the boy with a huge grin on her face. No she's not excited at all. What on earth would give you that impression.

"Fortitude? It already sounds awesome."

A pause just for more looking around, "I had a dream like this once. Where a train took me somewhere magical...except in my dream there were unicorns Is this place magic?"

[fracturedsoul]

Dirk raises his eyebrows at the girl's reaction. That's certainly a new one.

"Not really. The fighting each other with removable soul weapons shit sure seems like magic, but it's actually predicated on some super-advanced virtual reality computer software. Sorry to disappoint."

[brittspierce]

Well, that would be because you've never had anyone quite like Brittany around here before. Aren't you glad you do now?

And she's just going to stare at you, her mouth open ever so slightly. Sorry, she didn't understand a word that you just said you're going to have to keep things simple if you want to get through to Britt. But you'll learn that pretty quickly. "Right...so it seems like magic but it's not magic? Okay, I can go with that...so what happens now?"

[straightupzorra]

Santana had been walking around making sure that the Prefects did their job. Well, it used to be her job but someone had to take over after they were gone. It's then, after she checks up on Dirk and sees if he has any food for her (which may be the real reason she's checking up on him), that she sees Brittany.

Or, to be more precise, she hears him. The comment about Fortitude has her turning her head, it's such a familiar voice and one she wants to hear more of, even if she's spouting pride for the opposing school. But it's the comment about dreams and magic that really has her.

"Brittany!" It's within that moment that Santana pulls Brittany into her arms and hugs her hard, "You're here again. In Fortitude?"

[swordofzero]

Why did Suzaku always get the angry ones. The ones who demanded to be sent back and never listened. "None of us signed up for this, your brother may be here, he may come later or perhaps not. If you give me his name I can check."

[brittspierce]

Brittany's just trying to take all of this in. If it's not magic then what is it? It has to be magic...well, that's how she's going to think of it anyway because magic is awesome. All that technical stuff is just going over her head so her immediate reaction is just to ignore it and daydream a little instead.

Then she hears a very, very familiar voice and before she knows it she's being pulled into a hug. She laughs a little and wraps her arms back around Santana in a close hug, "S! You're here too? This day just got even better!"

A pause, "Again? Have I been here before? I don't remember that...maybe my memory's just getting worse. And yeah, Fortitude!"

[straightupzorra]

Santana knew that Brittany wouldn't remember being here, 99 times out of 100 people don't, and Britt wasn't going to be any different. The only bad part is that this time she's in Fortitude instead of Conquest. But then again, Santana could just bring her into the Prefect dorms, it's not like anyone could punish her for it.

She doesn't let go just yet, "I've been here for a long time, B. You probably saw me earlier but I haven't seen you in months. Don't worry about not remembering being here before," she frowns a bit, "I'm in Conquest, we're in opposite schools."

[fracturedsoul]

Hey, it's better than all the people who scream and demand to be sent home right off the bat.

"Right now is what we call a rest day. There's no fighting or harem ownership bullshit for today. You get to spend the next twenty-four hours becoming acquainted with the city and the Exaclan game rules. Once we lead you back to Fortitude, there'll be a tour."

[moorecowbell]

"I..."

She bites her lip. She can't remember his name, or his face, or... anything, really. But no one else must know that.

"You wouldn't be worthy to know his name. Tch. And what do you mean, no one signed up? Do these people simply kidnap students from other, more superior boarding schools then?"

[brittspierce]

That's true! But don't hold your breath you might still get that from one of the others arriving today.

Rest day, she like the sound of that already. She nods her head a few times as he speaks. Mhmm, she totally understands all of that, "Oh, so this is like a game? That's cool I like games and I'm good at them too...sometimes. What game is it like because I am not good at Monopoly or Scrabble. Hungry Hippos on the other hand I'm amazing at."

What? Don't look at her like that...

[brittspierce]

No, she definitely doesn't remember...but if you told her she'd been here before Santana then she's probably going to believe you. Because you would never lie to her about something like this. And Britt was definitely willing to do anything to see her friend! B and S could never be separated for too long.

"Yeah, I did see you earlier! We are at Senior Prom and my dinosaur theme was the best ever." Britt keeps her arms wrapped around Santana too and that's probably a good thing because you're going to see a pout if you pull away. "We're in opposite schools? But...how did that happen? I don't want to be in a different school from you."

[fracturedsoul]

"It's like Hungry Hungry Hippos," Dirk begins, "If the hippos are the ones playing the game and everyone else is those little marble things they're supposed to snatch up. And also instead of eating the goods, they pull weapons out of 'em and duel like this is some trippy 90's anime series."

So not like Hungry Hungry Hippos at all.

He gestures to her schoolbag. "You got yourself a manual, and I recommend getting acquainted with it by tomorrow."

[straightupzorra]

It's funny that you think Santana would ever want to pull away, "Senior Prom? That hasn't happened for me yet. I'm sure your dinosaur theme was awesome though. Who did we go with?" Santana smiles lightly at the thought of going to prom with Brittany but she can't bring herself to outright ask if they went together.

"It doesn't matter what school you're in, you can stay with me in the prefect dorms, no one will give you any shit over it, and if they do you let me know and I'll set the record straight," she leans in conspiratorially, "I'm kind of in charge around here."

[mean_one]

Hikaru marches up to Suzaku, grabbing his shirt. His slightly rough voice cracks as he demands, "Where is Kaoru! What did you do with Kaoru!"


[[ooc: I am so not sorry. Feel free to smack Hikaru, or knock him back, or whatever. He's just very upset.]]

[bloodbrother]

"Hey! Slow down there!" Sam said as he grabbed Hikaru by the back of his collar and his back belt loop. He lifted him about six inches off the ground without seeming to care.

[mean_one]

Hikaru flails, trying to hit Sam, or Suzaku- it really didn't matter. "Let me go! Give me back Kaoru!"

[bloodbrother]

He pulled him back a few feet. He weathered the assault, and put him back on the ground. "Listen. No one here on this platform did anything with anyone. Calm down. Who is Kaoru?"

Re: Fortitude

[love_debased]

Furiae waits politely for the prefects to finish their little introduction before approaching, trying to remain calm through all of this. Even though there were people... attacking the prefects on the other side. Um.

She stepped timidly up to the boy who seemed to be in charge for the moment, wringing her hands a little. "Excuse me, but I believe there's been some kind of mistake..."

Notably, her arms are unusually long, which might have something to do with the white feathers running all down her forearms. Also, she has a tail. A weird segmented tail that looks kind of insect-like, poking out under her white dress.

[mean_one]

Hikaru tried knocking Sam off of him. He calmed enough to not try to attack either of the two again- for now at least. "Kaoru is my brother!"

[bloodbrother]

He let Kaoru try, but didn't even shift backwards the slightest amount. "Yeah, I'm here without my brother, too. For a couple of months, even. We're all stuck in the same situation you are."

[mean_one]

Hikaru kept trying to get Sam off of him. "You don't get it! I've never been away from him! There's no way just one of us would get dragged here!"

[bloodbrother]

His voice got a little sharper. "And I'd be dead if it weren't for mine. Getting pissed off won't change anything." Sam was going to hang onto his shirt like he was a child throwing a tantrum. At least until he stopped trying to punch him.