Rukia Kurosaki

Garnet sighed and tossed the sewing kit she'd been handed into the air, tapping her foot each time she caught it. An unhappy-looking Rouge approached. "Do you know where Aster went?" he asked. Garn caught the kit one last time and gave a shrug. "Dunno. He gave me this and ran out somewhere in a hurry," she answered, watching him disappear with a frown. She wondered how those two knew each other, and gave up trying to figure out the map of student-relations, shuffling back to her still-empty dorm. Guess I don't 'ave a roommate, then... Heaving a slow sigh, she flopped on her bed and tugged the safety pins out of her jeans, folding them up and tossing them in the small washing machine along with her blood-stained shirt. Her green scarf was left on the pillow of her still-made bed as she showered the dirt and blood from her hair and skin. Half an hour later, feeling refreshed and less exhausted, Garnet switched her clean clothes to the dryer and threw on a red tanktop and shorts in place of her towel. Retying the emerald green scarf around her neck, she grabbed a bag of potato chips from her backpack, heading out to the darkened training hall. There wasn't a soul around when Garnet arrived at the expansive hall of practice rooms, and she had to try five doors before finding an open one in the form of a lightning chamber. She was disappointed that it was an element in which she was practiced, but decided to give it a go anyway. Unsure of how the facility worked, the orange-haired student dropped all thoughts of the day's events and her past, instead focusing on summoning her mana and mustering as much lightning as she could. After two minutes of silent focus, a crackling ball of light appeared near the wall, sending out sharp jolts of energy in every direction. Raising a hand, Garnet fixed her yellow eyes on the human-sized mass of lightning and mana, willing it to scatter. Within seconds the room was bathed in blinding yellow light that singed the walls and blackened the ceiling. Finding herself sitting on the floor of the ruined chamber, Garnet blinked and coughed, studying the remnants of the spell. "That was more effective than usual..." She wondered if there was something in the hall that heightened mana's power, or if it was just the level of focus that she'd been unable to utilize in her past fights. Either way, maybe I c'n try water now...

DCW's Puzzler~

Oi, Anon! 'He who hesitates is lost,' right? So go for it already! - In support, your Captain~

((Trying to wait for sempai to post, but I'm getting antsy xP So I'll respond to some older posts i guess... And Stein sounds like a worthy opponent **)) Garnet looked down at the pins in her jeans, then back at Aster, whose eyes were oddly bright. "Uh, yeah, guess we could use a sewing kit..." She stayed quiet as the Council President appeared, following the others in the walk back to the grounds. Suppressing a chuckle at Johannes' sudden turn to respectful silence, she glanced at Devin, who'd been relatively still and quiet for since the spirit's defeat and Johannes' prank. Dropping her grudge, she cracked her fingers and poked him hard on the forehead. "Hey, you okay? They wanna know why ya were so rough with Syra. An' now she seems ta hate ya fer callin' 'er filth, so ya got another enemy... Are ya that sheltered from people?" Garnet crossed her arms and frowned at the boy, adding, "If ya want a clean record, ya better speak up."

Even better. xP

Question or no question? xP Question, please~ Fullmetal Alchemist or Brotherhood~?

Poirot :V Duh~

*saves, but doesn't save Taylor* xP

Ran~ :V

Then write ** I shall read it~~

Well I like it :V

So, I'm not as good as you xP I didn't draw Syra either~

Nice xP Now you've drawn everyone but Misaki, Devin, and Garnet. So I consider it pretty awesome xP +1 again :V

Johannes sighed, having just lost his excuse that he'd have stepped in to save everyone. The prez wasn't easy to please, so he was glad the situation had worked out and he hadn't been scolded for his messing with Garnet. "Well, good job, V Prez, Aster." He smiled and returned his attention to Misaki, still hoping to get a phone numbed out of the situation. Garnet was too weird for his taste, but if Misaki brushed him off he'd talk to Syra. Garnet glared at the prankster and stood up, shaking her head at Aster's greeting. "Ya did plenty," she argued, grinning. "That was a great move, increasin' yer mana with the wind spell. I'd ask ya ta teach me, but wind's outta my range." She gave the buy a friendly punch on the shoulder, adding, "Ya saved Syra too, so I guess you've gotta be alright, huh?" After laughing to herself at his somewhat nervous face, she took a couple of safety pins from her pocket, using them to pin the gaping hole in her pant leg. "Maybe I'll start a trend or somethin' with these," she joked before falling on her face again, this time Devin being tripped where he stood as well. "The hell!?" Johannes smirked and looked the other way, thinking at least these newbies were fun to mess with. Well, he wasn't about to prank Prez... or his apparent bud, Aster. But the others could be amusing. Glad he'd found a new group of freshman to tease, he wondered what he could do to impress Misaki and Syra now that there was nothing to fight and no one to save. Ah well, maybe next time.

Garnet stood and cracked her fingers, scrubbing some dirt from her cheek. "The hell? It's gone?" She looked at the empty space where the Spirit had been, cursing it under her breath. "I hope the headmaster gives it what it deserves..." With a sigh, she glanced down at the long scratch on her leg, frowning at the blood getting on her torn jeans. "Great, I've only got one more pair..." The orange-headed girl gave Rouge and Aster a respectful nod, mumbling, "Good job," before turning to Devin and Syra. "I'm glad she's okay, but ya coulda been more careful." she grumbled at the short, bespectacled boy. "I think ya broke 'er wrist. And she ain't filth, either... Thanks, though." The last two words were spat as begrudingly as they could be.Her frown still in place, she stared at a gap in the tree branches where a silver-haired boy was standing and watching with a look of disappointment. "Oi, you! Whattaya think you're doin'?" Johannes smiled and entered the clearing, the spark of amusement back in his eyes. A hopeless romantic and shameless flirt, he sidled up to Misaki and gave her a wink, proffering a flower he'd plucked from a bush nearby. "I'm Johannes Weiss. Nice to meet you." Garnet glared after the crimson-eyed trickster as he looked Devin up and down, deciding he was someone interesting. "So you're young Mister Song, huh? I heard you were into Earth style magic too~" Garnet, tired of his ignorance of her question, snapped, "Why were ya standin' there like a creep while the rest of us were fightin' that thing?" Johannes' lips fell into a frown, and he held a hand out to her, fingers splayed. "Johannes. But you can call me Loki. I was observing like that glasses-wearing shortie." As the girl rolled her eyes and took the hand, he smirked, and a vine snaked to them and wrapped around her leg, tripping her. Chuckling quietly, he added, "I'm the trickster king of this place, no creep. All about illusion, misdirection, and pranks." The boy played with the end of his silver ponytail, watching Aster and Rouge for a moment before turning back to Misaki. "So, what's your name, miss?"

*high five*

Ice-sensei himself xP + 1 for his chilly expression. You should do one of everyone too. With your epic style, it would be amazing~

My mortal enemies :V Fear meeee~

((Lucky me, I get to start over after my computer crashed mid-fight scene... _ _ I'll try to keep it as close to the original idea as possible. ) A spirit, huh? Something's off... I don't think my earth power will work here. I'll let the newbies take care of V-Prez for a while, and if they need help maybe I'll step in with something worth interrupting with. Johannes crossed his arms and leaned against a tree just outside the heat-zone, making sure he could see the action through a gap in the branches before him. Hope they win. They're pretty interesting kids. "A distraction? I'm pretty great at those," Garnet boasted, remembering her days as 'bait' in her gang back home. Before she discovered her power and really started training to protect, she'd taken advantage of being the only young girl in her circles, and took jobs luring and distracting enemies through feigned kindness and innocence. She'd later learned how to use power as a means of distraction, studying a little illusion 'magic' to learn about misdirection. "If this thing killed Dei and Sakila, it ain't gonna last long with us, so ya better have a plan, Red." Taking a loose fighting stance, she mumbled to herself for a moment. "It absorbs or consumes mana, huh? Lucky I learned suppression then. Just use pure human strength an' keep it away from Rouge... Let's hope it's got physical form." Letting out a breath, Garnet used a trick she'd learned through practice to seal her mana path from the inside. She could easily break the seal by summoning either lightning or flame, but in this case she didn't think they'd be of use unless it rained and she could pull true lightning from the sky. Running at the Spirit, Garnet leapt up and threw a haymaker at what she figured was its face, using its hands/claws as stepping stones to avoid the counterstrike. To her surprise and satisfaction, the hit connected, and the girl grinned. "So, you can't do anythin' but scratch at the physical body, an' I can do the same ta you? Looks like it ain't yer lucky day." After getting in one more good punch, she hopped down to dodge a sweeping arm and jumped back, standing next to Aster. "Want me ta seal ya so you can fight without gettin' yer mana messed with? Looks like we can touch it with blunt force" she asked. As she waited for an answer, the girl poked his forehead, letting a small thread of mana flow into him. "If you wanna seal it, jus' tell that bit to hide the rest kinda an' it'll protect it." With another grin she looked at Misaki, who'd approached from the school area. "Heya. We got a Spirit thinks 'e can get away with murder, Misaki. Wanna help distract 'im so Red can take care of it?" She touched the girl's cheek, transferring the same amount of mana to her as she had to Aster. "With this ya can supress yer magic if ya wanna try takin' this thing on with force. If ya wanna try magic, be careful not to let the spirit tap inta the source, 'kay?" With that she turned back to face the monster, cracking her knuckles. "Now, where were we?" Barely dodging a clawed swipe that grazed her calf, Garnet rushed to the side and threw herself at the creature's body, pummeling it with a rapid series of punches. Kicking at its legs with her scratched leg, she shouted, "You're gonna pay for what ya did!" As she tried to avoid the thing's counter-attack, the short-haired fighter glanced back at the others, where a third student was now standing and summoning a large amount of fire. "Wait, Syra, that ain't a good idea!" she shouted. Moments later, the creature was flying at the girl. "Crap!" She grabbed hold of the Spirit's left arm, digging into it with her nails and swinging herself over onto its back. Just before Syra and the Spirit clashed, she reached around and put the beast in a chokehold, tugging back as hard as she could. "Get it while it's distracted you guys!" she yelled over the screeching coming from her enemy. Garnet kept her hold, trying not to get thrown off by the thrashing Spirit, and added, "First dibs on the rodeo~" ((xD I dunno why I did that. but I was bored and that sounded fun. This is how L starts a fight. So Syra, the spirit's coming at you since your mana's out, Aster and Misaki, I don't like controlling other people's characters without permission, so I'll let you choose whether to use magic or suppress it. I mentioned the trick earlier, it seals it and makes it appear as though it isn't there, so you'd have to fight with your bodies. Thanks for the fun scene guys~ And Rouge, good luck. ))

*saves, but ditches the Taylor Swift pics*

Araide Tomoaki, of course xP

Laugh loudly and walk away. xD Or run, depending on the intensity of the creeper vibe. Or maybe just stare and ask if meds were missed this day. What would you do if I demanded your advice on something you don't understand? xP

Greek, most definitely xPP Rice or Potatoes?