Courtyard (South)

[Scytheress]

Scytheress was quite pleased to discover the new boy's name but she was even more annoyed at the fact he was about to take away her fighting partner... well one of them. Scythe was about to retaliate when she heard Dante's answering voice and grinned, smiling even as she side-stepped the bullet coming towards her.

What happened now to Pander wasn't really her problem, introductions were over and her general curiosity sated, but Dante's well fare was another matter. Yes, Scytheress wanted to kill Dante with an undying passion, but she also loved him the same so Dr. Raven's little attack was no good to her. The Fox beat her wings down, sending out ripping shockwaves on either side of Dante at inward diagonals so that the forces would cross over the bullets fired at his back and then let the debris and after-shock from the attack fall and block Raven's lunge.

Scytheress jumped clear of Pander and Dante so not as to be mixed up in their current feud and made her way to the side to have a clear shot of the good doctor.

"Hey now, no one hurts Sir Dante but me."

Scytheress held her smirk in place, glad that this party was finally gettin' goin'. Hopefully it would keep its momentum as there was one very powerful piece on the board that could end all her violent fun. Solumone. That one infernal wretch could knock them out of the sport with a mere thought, and Scythe had a sneaking suspicion that man planned to do just that. If he did.... maybe she could pay him to let them fight. Pay him with what she wasn't sure of, most payment from a girl like Scy came in forms of flesh but she was unsure the 'humble merchant' would accept such payment. Though gold..gold and jewels the Fox had a surplus of hoarded away in untold regions of the world, maybe Solumone could take that. No, he liked rarities for his efforts. Oh well, if it came to that, Scytheress would offer something in return for his compliance.  

[Ceron]

The talk further off had become pretty much inexistent to Solumone by now, at least while he had someone to talk to about such rarely found topics of conversation. He laughed audibly toward his insults of the publicly recognized scientific community. He gave dismissive waves and shook his head. "Oh yes yes...but I must disagree with you. Extreme? Not by any means. Why, I have isolated the fundamentally beneficial aspects of CD 12-H by acting upon several of my own theories and personal experiences. In fact, I would be more then happy to share notes with you, perhaps even we can discuss the...ethics...of it all." he snickered for a moment. It was a good time indeed...upon until the bullet which had been fired -just- grazed his left glove and passed by the good doctor. Then came the scuffling and the fighting and well...everything. The bullets were not a problem, Scytheress so kindly made those nasty things go away. But that would not stop Solumone from putting his foot...well, his cane down. The end of it struck against the ground, the gem once more emitting its bright glow.

And no sooner had this happened would its affects be felt. First, Dante's swinging blade, which would impact well...nothing. It would be like hitting a heavy wall, though not one which the sword could cut. Blood shed would not happen in Solumone's presence. And, at the same time this brief barrier of sorts was raised, then came another pulse. It was not unlike the one directed to Scytheress moments before. Only this was on a much larger scale, and began between Dante and Pander, the center point of this free-for-all. They would all be hit simultaneously by the wave, and all sent back to fall. Solumone was only smiling though...as always. "A man once told me...those who cannot change are doomed to vanish. I agree, though I must add...those who cannot learn are doomed to face the same fate." he wasn't exactly speaking to any of them, but he did speak aloud so that he would be heard. Maybe he was hinting at something?  

[TESparky]

He heard the blade swinging up at him and could feel it's air front coming. His lean body moved on instinct, pulling him down and to the left. He watched as the air front from Dante's blade skimmed over his face, slicing off a few stray hairs that hadn't accelerated with his body movement.

With the amount his body went over, he fell but continued to move left, landing in a backwards summersault and rolling up onto his feet, facing Dante. Only this time he saw the stone wall.

The pulse hit him, tossing him back a few feet. His head rang and his vission blurred slightly. He stood up, somewhat dizzy, and sheathed his rapier. After a few steps backwards he bumped back first into a wall and leaned there, trying to get his body back to normal.

The dizzyness passed but his vision was still blurring and the ringing in his head turned to a headache. His closed his eyes and opened up all of his higher sences of feeling, hearing, etc. With these he could sence the others in the courtyard better than he would have been able to see them.

His headache seemed so distant but soon his body would begin to shut itself down with prolonged use of these higher sences. He could already feel it starting. If this didn't finish soon he would die by Dante, Scytheress, Raven, Solumone or possibly his own body's degredation. Any of those ways accounting, he would have to work fast if he fought.

With his back to the wall, he slid his hand back to the hilt of his rapier. Drawing it smoothly out of it's sheath again he smiled. He wasn't going to attack but he wouldn't stay defenceless.

Someone please explain what happened with that wall and the pulse.  

[Dante Tony Redgrave]

Dante slammed into the way head on, his shoulder almost shattering as he hit the wall of solid force. He gritted his teeth, listening to Solumone with an irritated scowl as he poked at the energy a few times with his sword, looking eye-to eye with Pander. Dante suddenly sparked, grinning as Solumone's words left his mind. he spoke in a rather passive voice, almost hauntingly calm as he closed his eyes slightly. "Old man... I don't know what it is exactly you want...but there are four souls here ready to engage in battle... and ready to tear eachother asunder. We don't have time for your games and antics. This fight does not concer you. Can you please take your things and leave this place for the time being, as to not be caught in the crossfire...?" Dante's grip on his sword suddenly grew tighter as he was readied for anything, his gaze locked back on Pander as the kid drew his sword.  

[Wrath_of_Chryon]

"Always fight first ask questions later eh Dante?..."

The voice came from a tree above and behind Dante, giving Chryos a wonderful view of all of the action below. He'd been hanging around for a while, a wide grin now formed on his face. Solumone's words almost making him laugh.

"Old b*****d, I bet he doesn't even know how right he is..."

At that exact point time seemed to freeze for Chryos, as another flood of memory from his first life came crashing down on his mind. Violent scenes of battle, a lost love, and his own death at the hands of his father and the army that he was a part of. The only one standing ready beside him, his best friend, who suffered the same fate.

As it passed time resumed again and without missing a beat Chryos hopped down from his perch, his eyes cold and shining, his hands setting in front of his chest in waiting incase something else started.  

[The Verse]

When Raven's bullets were knocked out of their path by the onrush of wind, Dr. Raven growled and spun on her quickly, aiming to make her world into one of pain and bloodshed quite quickly, raising gun and sword to her..And then Solumone spoke. Raven chuckles softly as the force halts the battle quickly, and Dr. Raven quickly spins Untruth and pushes it into his lab coat. He lifts his katana and rests it on his shoulder, listening to the man speak and then he chuckles, quite loudly infact. He spins the katana a bit and the right leg 'holster' for his katana shoots out once more and he tosses it down, letting the snaps for it snap it quickly into place and hold it there. "They say in any battle, the only true victor is the person who does not fight. While I say that is bullshit, I'm bored of you." he says, turning to Dante and grinning, then turns and sticks his hands in his labcoat and spins on his heel a bit, turning to Solumone and walking over, smiling softly as he does and adjusting his glasses on his shoulder as he moves. He chuckles softly and shrugs as he passes by him and stops.

He turns to him and chuckles. "You make a bit of a point. I admit extreme isn't the word. I meant that using 12-H on that variety of mutation was a waste of the material and resources to monitor the growth. It was too fast and predictable to garner proper date from it, though I will admit, watching a five foot experiment grow from a dish was quite amusing." he says quickly, looking up at the sky a bit. "Hm. Perhaps after you feel these..People sufficently calmed down, we can go somewhere a bit less crowded and discuss these things, perhaps? I have some new notes about my recently developed psycho-scrambler drug, BPN #1, that we could go over and you could possibly help me pick some of the flaws out. It has the odd effect of sometimes instilling violent rages instead of an utter mind blanking, and I have not the faintest clue why." he continues, ignoring the additional person's approach into the Courtyard. He turns his head and watches the groud idly and somewhat boredly.  

[zero-jt]

zero slowly steps thougth the courtyard. he stumbles and slides through the yard. blood slowly pours out of his missing flank, showing a trail all the way back to asuka labs. ive lost....almost four pints now.....can i make it to te hospitial....

zeros vision blurs as he looks up to the night sky and he falls hard to the cold ground. "GAH!!" he says in reaction to the hard fall and then the sting from the dirt as it enters his wound. " i have to stay alive......i have to make everything right still...." he moves his right hand and draws and arrow pointing to the hospital " all i can do is pray someone....can get me there......" he says as he passes out  

[HeartofSnowe]

Snowe gently entered the courtyard his flowing white locks pulled back into a ponytail that hung low on his head. His hair barely rose above the ground even in this form. A black feather was stuck in the base of the ponytail just where it began.

Soft gentle eyes scanned over the entire courtyard. He was alone, everyone else just about was at the star competition watching their friends or themselves take the test to gain higher status at the school. He was gone that week and missed the deadline but didnt really mind he was not much of a fighter, but he did want higher status and knew he would have to wait till the next one.

The sleeves of his robe covered his hands where extremely large for his thin arm. Taking a seat next to the water fountain he slowly hummed to himself, which sounded horrible cause he was not a singer.

Leaning back gently on the edge of the fountain he tossed his arm over his eyes to sheild them from the sun as he stared blankly up at the sky. He looked ravishing.

 

[merger]

the boy walks over to a tree and sits in it's shade and pulls out a small cage with a little mouse in it Hey Arjuna how are you doin' the boy smiles and takes the little mouse out of it's cage and lets it scamper around on the ground around him. then the boy begins to doze off Yawn... Time for a nice sleep Arjuna... the little mouse looks at the boy then runs and climbs back into its cage and the boy slides the door closed. then he picks up the cage and sets it on his lap and falls asleep.  

[Scytheress]

The blast wave from Solumone hit Scytheress from behind and knocked her legs from under her. She fell with a soft squeek almost on her bum and winced. Oh Solumone would pay for that one... Scytheress pushed herself back to her feet and smoothed out the back of her red skirt as she fixed Solumone with a rather complacent look, but her eyes told an entire other story; of malice and revenge. She was about to launch an attack of one form or another when suddenly all these random people showed up! Scytheress just kind of turned her head to Snowe and Chryos just wondering why they chose here amidst these raging souls to come and relax, even if one of the new comers happened to be bleeding out the wazoo. Scytheress let out a soft laugh that began to grow as this latest fellow joined with the...mouse? She brought her hand to her head to ruffle her unkempt bangs but then as the little creature scampered through the grass near her she suddenly fell to all fours, her red tail snapping about behind her before she pounced on the little rodent, aiming to ensnare it between her fingers and hold it captive till she decided to eat it.

((I prolly missed a lot of things in this post >< But with all these new people popping up I got really confused >

[merger]

wakes up from the blast wave's concousion and flips into the tree he was leaning againseWHAT THE HELL!!!! Can't a guy get any sleep around here!! By the gods, how i hate that! hears squeaking from the mouse's cage your right Arjuna i should have known that i might get waken up if i slept here because i saw them fighting over there but i felt to tired to get to the dorm but hey hindsight's 20/20 he smiles at the mouse in its cage Don't worry i won't stop untill we get to the dorm okay he drops out of the tree and then starts to run towards the dorm rooms  

[vanna-angel-of-elements]

Walks into the courtyard and looked over at the skybridge going straight across the center of it all. She sprouted her wings and flew onto the rail on the side of the bridge, She said to herself 'wow...this place is huge" smiles "it is a lot eaiser to see everything from here"  

[Ceron]

[Yeah, I know this post is way late but I dun care! I get busy to people! XP]

Solumone stared at Dante for a few moments...just stared at him. Even though he was smiling, the silence he gave was almost like an indication of imminate death. But no...no death this day, or ever, for that was not the type of man he was! Instead... "Very well then." he nodded, turned toward the side, and would begin to walk off as if it was all fine and dandy. But, he stopped, turning his attention to the slayer once again. "Ah, but do me a favor...well both you and Dr. Vanzer...do try not to harm one another too seriously as I hate reason to associate with both of you still and...hmm?" Raven seemed ready to depart too, what luck! "Ah, well, that does solve that problem doesn't it? Very well then, let us be off Dr. vanzer and leave them to their own amusement. For I indeed would like to continue this discussion we have begun." twirling the cane in his right hand, he was off, expecting that Raven would follow.

It was quite well timed even, as another soul had entered shortly after Solumone was near gone. He was a stranger though, to both the school and to the people. He wore a black, leather jacket with a silvery white fur around the collar. He left the jacket open, which exposed the darker, brownish skin of his chest. Behind him, the hilt of a sword protruding from behind his jacket could be seen, sheathed in a scabbard that was under the jacket of course. His hair was quite untamed, spiking in various direction, hanging loosely, a few strands even over his right eye. He came upon the closest person to him who he felt might be worth talking to, the same woman leaping for the mouse. He grabbed her red tail as she leaped, pulling on it, which would keep her just shy of the mouse.

"Hey, I'm looking for someone." his grip on her tail was deliberately too hard, as was the way he pulled. "And as much fun as all of this looks..." he dropped the tail, and had Scytheress let it drop to the ground, he'd step on it after taking another step closer. "I would appreciate it if you all drop the coy little playing and tell me what I wanna know. I'm not really in the mood today." he seemed dead serious, by the glare in his dark eyes. He wasn't specifically talking to Scy, but mostly he expected her to answer, as she was the closest.

 

[Scytheress]

Scytheress had had her claws poised to strike when she was suddenly yanked back. She let out a loud hiss as she swung from her tail in the new man's very tight grip. Scythe was getting ready to twist so she could some how slash at the offending hand only he released his hold first and let her fall flat on her face. Scy was about to pulls herself up but yet again the man had it covered, digging his heel into her tail on the ground.

Normally her tail was not a weak point for her, yes it was a bit more senitive but what angered her more now was the tiny bits of dirt that were being ground into her delicate fur. Scytheress propped her self on her left arm and bent her legs to her right so she could look up clearly at the one who had her pinned to the grass. Her first thought was 'Damn, another hot guy at Ria.' but there was something about his demeanour that unsettled the Fox. Scy dug her claws into the ground as her tail was further pressed on.

"Well mister, try introducing yourself first and asking a coherent question. Everyone is lookin' for someone, maybe you should give a name or descirption. Or is your vocabulary as bad as your manners?"

Scytheress smirked regardless of the amount of energy she could feel within the man. She was never one to be intimidated, not even by death or gods or divine creatures. But being a Fox also made her more curious in the person this guy was looking for, so in an odd way she had every intention to help him out.  

[TESparky]

His head whipped over, looking at the man on Scythresses tail. He twitched, his eyes still closed. He had never been one to watch as any women felt pain or was in danger, even if they could handle it them selves.

He turned his head back to Dante slowly, his midn racing a million miles a minute. He would pass out shortly if he didn't drop his use of his higher senses. With Solumone walking out with Dr. Vanzer he would recieve no more good luck from either of their possible help.

He sighed, sheathing his rapier at his hip. He bowwed his head slightly, his higher senses blurring as he fell forward. He first landed on his knees, struggling not to fall over infront of others. He finally submitted to his body after what felt like hours of pain which in reality had only been seconds. He collapsed to the ground, everything fading away slowly.

A low moan escaped his lips as he tried to speak coherently.

Get... off... her... tail... now...

His last word faded as he past out from the pain. Blood slowly seeped out from the corners of his mouth as his body began to shut down.