Round 3 [new characters]

[utopiamods]

You're falling, and you can't remember why. It's a sickening feeling that makes your insides lurch; the darkness and the vertigo combine, and all you can think of is a story you heard once, somewhere.

- I remember now. It's a simple story that everyone knows. A legend of a Princess, the Demon Lord who kidnapped her, and the Knight who fought to save her.

The Demon Lord had kidnapped the Princess countless times, but every time the Knight bested his challenges and rescued the Princess.

No matter what tricks and ploys the Demon Lord used, the Knight would always triumph in the end. This was because--

The world tilts on its axis one last time, and the dream slips from your mind as easily as it arrived. A new voice intrudes on your sleep.

"Next stop: Academy Main Entrance. This tramline terminates here; all change. Next stop: Academy Main Entrance. All change."

The sound of thunder and pounding rain jolts you the rest of the way awake. Your nausea settles, slowly. The last of the dream fades.

"We have arrived at Utopia. Repeat, we have arrived at Utopia Academy. Could all passengers please leave the tram, as it is terminating here."

The tram pulls to a stop outside the academy station, and anyone onboard is ushered off and directed through the rain -- sans umbrella -- to the front lobby of the school. You can't miss it; there are signs up pointing toward the main entrance, reading "New student orientation" in big, bright letters. If anyone should care to move off the path, try exploring somewhere else, a teacher will conveniently appear to shoo them back toward the lobby, assuring them that "all your questions will be answered inside".

The lobby is big and spacious, looking more like a university or perhaps a fancy international hotel than a high school. The lights are all off; the large flat screens set into the walls are dark. A few staff members are standing around; they approach the new arrivals to take you to your dorms, assuring you that the round announcement will happen tomorrow.

((OOC: The staff will not answer any questions about what's going on; if asked, they will refer the new students to the Exaclan manuals that are included in their briefcases. Students don't have to follow the staff to their dorms; they can wander about the school if they like. In the rain.))

Comments

[myblueskies]

[Romeo looks out at the endless black clouds] I don't think the rain will ever stop, sir! I have umberellas! [He is quite enthusiastic about umberellas, Miss Sora told him what they were, he had never seen them before!

He moved to the door with another smile.] I better go see if theres anyone else who needs help!

[gingabishounen]

[really cheery, that one]

You sure you'll be all right?

[ninjasloveme]

[he'd offer to help, but Mikoto should be getting back at some point and he can't just disappear on her. BROTHERLY RESPONSIBILITIES ARE SRS. Talking to Takuto also takes precedent.

So, another nod. AND A SMALL SMILE. gosh.]

Thank you for your hard work.

[myblueskies]

[The small smile gets a huge smile in return as Romeo turns at the doorway. Though there's a look of awkwardness, he's not actually used to being thanked for anything.]

Well it's all dark and wet, we didn't want people getting scared! See you later mister Gara, mister Takuto! [Another smile and he dissapears out of the door bounding down the stairs happily not actually bothering to use the umberella's as he runds back to the lobby]

[gingabishounen]

[looks at the remaining empty beds to pick one, and incidentally chooses the one beside Sugata's without realizing it. plopping down on the bed]

So... this is an academy for... fighting? I didn't really get why...

[ninjasloveme]

No one has been able to answer that yet. [it's just a suggestion, one of his many ideas, and it's said absently, as he closes the door and goes back to his own bed.]

We are expected to fight, but they seal our natural abilities. The system is unfair, as though we are meant to fight against it, rather than each other, but...

[gingabishounen]

. . . so . . . there are people here with powers or something?

[ninjasloveme]

[... another nod.]

[gingabishounen]

Right. And no one knows who's behind this.

[ninjasloveme]

If we did, we could have done something by now.

[gingabishounen]

Yeah, I figured as much... there's a lot of people here.

[ninjasloveme]

Some disappear, more arrive. There are more than forty 'students'. [resumes folding his uniform]

[gingabishounen]

That's kind of a lot, for a kidnapping.

[ninjasloveme]

[yep, it is. :|

fold fold fold.]

[gingabishounen]

[...awkwardddd]